St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.
The samar Massacre.

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Among the arrivals at Victoria, B. c.,
Nov. 10 on the steamer Empress OF China
from the Orient was Lieut.. F. ?. Alvson,
who is on his way home from Manila.
Speaking of the massacre of the members
of the Ninth Infantry at Samar, he said
the natives had grown to like the colored
troops, who had been stationed there,
and when the Ninth arrived it was
thought by the American troops that the
same friendly feeling would be shown to
them, and the guard was not as strictly
kept as it otherwise would have been.
Just after daybreak the natives with
bolos, who had been engaged to cut
underbrush, began coming into camp.
Then the massacre began. The last
underbrush man killed the sentry, the
church bell rang, the soldiers were at
breakfast below the floor that held their
arms. The insurgents split, half of them
going upstairs and the other half to the
mess room to kill the unarmed soldiers,
overwhelming them by force of numbers.
Capt. Connell apparently was walked
up in his quarters by the attackers pour
ing in. He was alone, so he jumped from
the window down among his guards,
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was struck down by many bolos almost
! as soon as he reached the ground. Not
, satisfied with killing him, the assassins
, hacked his body into inch bits, severing
the head upon which they piled paper
and sticks of wood. setting them on fire,
to render the face unrecognizable. The
= body, however, was identified by Lieut..
Drouilard's detachment, which came
down from Basey. The bodies of Lieut..
. Bumpus and the doctor were found upon
a bridge leading up to the quarters over
little stream. The Lieutenant had
. a bolo cut horizontally across the fore
= head, almost severing the top the head,
and a deep cash down each side of the
face. The doctors body was not so bad
} ly mutllated.
s Separated from their weapons, most
f OF the rank and file fought like heroes,
with table knives, ST ones, clubs, and such
rude weapons as chance threw in their
way. 1t was a bitter fate that betell
4 those who closed with the Americans
before they had received their death
E wounds. Some of the native dead were
n buried by their own crew before they
fed, but Col. De Russy ordered 100 more
to be thrown into trench. A rife in the
J, hands of the first sergeant ofthe company
II rendered terrible account. The sergeant
5 who is now in the Tocablan Hospital
J. killed the taithless president who led The
attack. With six men be fought his way tt
d the headquarters building to see if they
g could rescue or pick up a stricken com
!, rade. Despite the mad rushes Of the saw
i ages that surrounded them, they were ablt
). to secure the post colors. Then they cu
r their way back to the beach, where an
y other little knot of comrades were deten
d ding the barotos and their wounded com
d panions.
Lieut.. AIvson says there are 1000
n troops in Samar. He says there have beef
II a number olflibustering expeditions fitted
|, out in Singapore and Hong Kong, most
n ly by Germans, which in some cases hav
d succeeded in landing their contrabanC
e arms and ammunition, but many cap
it lures have been made by the gunboats.
'e Liabilities of go, 1926, II469.
The directors of the Pan. American ex
IL position company and a number OF cred
u itors conferred Thursday afternoon ant
u listened to the reading of the fnaucia
y report OF the company as prepared b,
81 the auditor. The report shows the tota
10 liabilities of the company at the presen
'e time to be So 1926, ia 60 net, assumin;
that the assets of STAG 454. Is are col
n lectable at face. The company owes TO
at operating expenses and on construction
s. work $577, 945 rs, which item is, 0
). course. embodied in the figure Of tota
N liabilities. A result shown by the repOr
re is the total cost to the exposition com
IL pany of the exposition. The cost accord
ne ing to the report, was SIS, $50, 1857 &c
a The total receipts from admission ate
n May LIST were So, 467 ,O66 So and the It
ceipts from concessions were 81 oil 500
ly TO- The balance due to first mortgag
ne bondholders is $174,979 and to secon
3h mortgage bondholders 100000, bot
of which are included in the liabilities a
ill given above,
lg Success of Free Delivery.
oi Superintendent Machin, of the rurs
IL free delivery service, feels assured tina
q the pay of rural carriers will be increase
d by congress from $500 to 5000. RurS
NJ free delivery has many staunCh supper
~ ers in congress, because many congress
L. men have found that the service has wo
III them more votes than any other thin
us they have been able to do for their d
tricts. The post office department ha
in paid great deal otattention to its ruri
X free delivery service during the past yea
ny and has found that the farmer no.
to writes ten letters month in place
is two he wrote before the establishment
the service. Not only has it increase
T. the correspondence OF the farmer, but
ed has enabled bin to keep in touch wit
of the outside world by becoming a regul;
ng reader of newspapers, magazines, go
1d eminent publications, and everythr
that tends to make the working of
Ice farm easier and more profitable. TT
r popularity of rural free delivery is show
ed by the fact that there is hardly sing
10. instance where the service has proved u
'of satisfactory or been discontinued.
"a, A New Naval Suggestion.
!, ia Paymaster General A. S. Kenney,
II" the navy, recommends in his annual I
port that the officers pay corps shall
pit regularly assigned to duty as a part
So the fighting force on shipboard. He su
he gests that the pay officers on board a sh
rd should have charge OF the powder di
e2- sion under the ordnance officer or sol
I'LL section of it when divided, in which t
personnel of the mess organization shou
ich be stationed at quarters. He said Il