Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-11-20

CATION and consulate and the CLYDE
steamship agency. The situation other
wise is unchanged. Allis quiet at this
time but a new attack is expected al
any moment.
Edgar j. Wrisley, a. employed at the
union station in Northampton, was killed
instantly on Saturday. His attention was
attracted by n runaway horse and he did
not see the train backing down the track.
He was knocked down and eight cars
passed over him, mangling the body hor-
ribly' Mr.. Wrisley had lived in North
ampton many years but came from Yer
mont. He is survived by a wife, two
sons and two daughters.
The mail steamer which has just re-
turned to st. Johns, N. F., from Labrador
brings no news of the expedition to ex-
plore the interior of Labrador, headed by
Leondias Hubbard, jr, of New York, as
sistant editor of Outing which started
from Rigolet Labrador, Aug. l. All the
settlers believe the party persisted. A
tribe of Montagnais Indians which has
been trapping in the Inferior recently Wis
tied the coast and said they saw nothing
of the Hubbard expedition, though the
Indians went $50 miles inland.
Rev. Father Joseph Cirrigione an Ital-
ian rector of the Church of the Immac-
ulate Conception at Williamsburg, New
York city, who it was feared had been
carried off by agents of n secret Italian
society. was found wandering on the
streets Monday. The priest said he was
overpowered by men near his home and
taken to a cellar near the water front.
He was bound, held in captivity two days,
robbed and finally released only a few
minutes before found. His valuables.
which he had when he left home, were
missing.
Since the departure of Maj-Gen. Wood
from Manila for Jolo the Moros in the
neighborhood of Lake Lanao have be-
come very ugly and menacing Saturday
the guard over a boat near Mariabou
were taken. Three members of the 2Sth
infantry We're killed and one was seri-
ousy wounded The Moros were beat
en- off. Gen. Wood, who left for Jolo
Monday, took a number of troops from
Lanao with him, leaving Capt. Henry
a. Barber of the 2Sth infantry in com
mand Gable communication with Jolo is
interrupted.
The south side of the city of Chicago,
a district comprising so miles of area,
was left without transit accommodation
Friday, every employee of the two big
surface transportation companies going
on a strike. Scenes of disorder occurred
during the day, mobs attacking a few
employees who Ventured out upon cars.
1t is estimated that 800, 900 passengers
were compelled to find other means of
transportation to and from their homes.
A large delegation of police were in the
troubled territory, but could do but little
against the tremendous crowds of strike
sympathizers.
Eugene A. Edison, a barber. called on
his divorced wife in Nashua, n. H., Sat
urday, and after vainly entreating her
to live with him again, shot her, the bull
let entering the abdomen near the left
side Mrs. Edison attempted to rush down
stairs but he followed her and from the
top of the stairway fired again. the bull
let striking her in the back and passing
through the open doorway and he re-
turned to her room, where he shot him
self through the head. He died without
recovering consciousness Mrs. Edison
was taken to the hospital where she
now lies in a dangerous condition.
The Russian military reoccupation of
Mukden, Manchuria, has caused such ten
sion and has aroused such an aggressive
attitude on the part of China that the
continued dispatch OF troops to the far
East is now said to be directed against
China, in spite of the pacific turn of the
Russo Japanese dispute. Troops totaling
$50, 900 were ordered to the far East when
hostilities appeared imminent, and they
are being continually drafted from the
rounding provinces. With the troops al
ready in the far East. this will give Rus
STA an overwhelming force with which to
overawe China.
Lydia A. Freeman, Al, wife of Peter
A. Freeman, was shot and killed Monday
evening at Middlefeld, Mass, a small
station on the Boston & Albany railroad
Clifford J. Thibedor, a soldier from Fort
Ethan Allen who was on a furlough of
ten days, arrived at the home of the
Freemans, intimate friends, for a visit
of two days. He was explaining the
mechanism of shot gun to the Freeman
boys, IL and years old, when his thumb
slipped, struck the hammer, and caused
the gun to explode. The charge struck
Mrs. Freeman, who was few feet away,
in the left breast. She started towards a
sink saying, I'm all on fire." and fell
dead Thibedor was not arrested as an
investigation showed that the shooting
was accidental.
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