Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-08

VIM. c. Smith, rs. a prominent resi-
dent of South Royalton. died suddenly
while at work in the woods Monday.
There was a big roundup of liquor
dealers in Bennington last week. Eleven
of them pleaded guilty and paid fines and
costs of $50 each.
The four-year-old son of II. w Souse
of Fairfield shot himself fatally in the
head last Friday with a revolver, which
he found in his fathers desk. The child
lived only half and hour after the acci-
dent.
A carload of 70 Rambouilett Spanish
merino sheep were shipped from Middle
bury Saturday. by a well known firm.
to Durham, Natal, South Africa, for
breeding purposes. They were registered
sheep of the highest breeding.
The battleship Oregon is now in the
government dry dock at the Puget Sound
navy yard for permanent repairs to her
keel, which was severely strained when
she ran on the rocks in Chinese waters
several months ago.
The recent slaughter of our troops in
the island of Samar has been quickly fol-
lowed by the story of force of 40 Fill
pinos repulsed by only 10 American
soldiers, with a loss to the natives of
more than one man for each of the
american Lighters.
George Johnsons steam mill in Sears
burg was totally destroyed by fire the
night of Oct. 80. The loss is about $500
with $500 insurance. This mill was run
by E. ]. Corkins of Jacksonville for a
number of years but was sold to Geo.
j. Bond and George c. Johnson about a
year ago.
Eight children, accompanied by their
parents, reached the Chicago Pasteur
institute last Saturday after a 1900 mile
race for life from Colorado Springs, Colo
The children were from four to nine
years old, and had been bitten by a mad
dog. They were promptly given the
Pasteur treatment, and the doctor in
charge said they would recover.
While a party of Italians employed in
the granite works at Mortified were
out hunting Sunday morning, one of
their number, Henry Broggi, Al, was ac-
cidently killed by the discharge of a shot
gun, the heavy charge entering his side
just above the heart. Another member
of the party was showing how he had
shot squirrel when the trigger caught,
and the gun went off. Broggi formerly
lived in Barre and owned a house there.
The Barre Times publishes a paragraph
about the butter business in the town of
Ryegate, which shows that the four
creameries in that town have made and
sold S93,S52 pounds of butter during the
past year, and it is believed that the pro-
duct of the large farmers which still
make and market their own butter will
swell this amount to 100000. This at an
average of 20 cents a pound would make
100000 from this industry. Ryegate
claims to be the banner butter town of
its size in the state.
The positive announcement is made that
Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambas-
sador to the United States, who landed
in New York last Saturday, brought
with him the draft of new treaty, alb
brogating, the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and
leaving the way clear for the construc-
ton of the Nicuraguan canal by and
under the control of the United States
The new treaty is said to be entirely sat
isfactory to the Salisbury ministry and
it is believed that 1t has been so drawn
as to avoid the objections on the part OF
the United States Senate which killed a
similar treaty at the last session.