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...Almon Brooks, the "well known physician of this city," as the Chicago correspondent to the N. Y. Times calls him, certainly exposes himself to the accusation of great folly, when he proposes to bring a "criminal suit for $50,000 against the professors in charge of the chemical laboratory at Harvard University for injuries received in the laboratory by his son." To undertake to make a crime out of an accident is certainly not wisdom. Dr. Brooks should remember that this experiment, in which his son was so unfortunate, has been tried for years by large classes without any serious...
...Vermont Senate yesterday passed a bill commuting the death sentence of Almon L. Meaker to imprisonment for life...