Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-03

The Senate Monday voted on the
charges brought against Judge Charles
Swayne United States district judge for
the northern district Of Florida, under
Impeachment proceedings Judge Swayne
was acquitted Of all the charges. There
was not even a majority for conviction on
any of the charges, although 1t would
have required a two-thirds vote to con-
Wet All the New England senators voted
for acquittal on each charge.
Eleven persons were killed and up
wards of SO others injured, some fatally
by the collapse OF the flooring OF the Fleet
street African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church in Brooklyn Monday night OF
those killed eight were women, two men
and a child The building was an old
ramshackle frame structure, erected 60
years ago in the heart OF the colored
section of Brooklyn. in Fleet street. near
Myrtle avenue.
Fire involving five millions of dollars loss
in property swept the river front at New
Orleans Sunday night and wiped out the
great freight terminal of the Illinois
Central known as the Stuyvesant docks
Nearly dozen squares of modern
wharves and freight Sheds two great
elevators. hundreds of loaded cars and
vast quantities OF freight including 20. 900
bales of cotton. were destroyed, together
with large number of small residences
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shot and killed himself in the crowded
balcony at the Chicago opera house Sat
urday afternoon during a vaudeville per-
Torrance. The incident occurred during
the singing of a pathetic song picturing
scenes in a country farmhouse. The man
had listened attentvely and had applaud
ed. At the third encore he stood up
hesitated a moment, and then. quickly
drawing a revolver, fired the bullet pass
ing through his head.
The general allusion to the ruler of
Russia the "czar' is, strictly speak,
ing. incorrect. His official title is "em-
peror and autocrat." Gar is the old
Russian word for lord" or prince" and
was abandoned by Peter the Great on
his triumphal return from Poltava, his
GROWING victory over Charles XII of
Sweden. Since then the Russian monarch
has been officially entitled emperor" and
at the congress OF Vienna in 1915 his right
to the imperial term was admitted by the
Powers. with the proviso that, though he
was emperor, he had no precedence over
the kings of western Europe.
Paterson, n. J., has a case which seems
in some respects like the Jennie Boschlt-
ter outrage of two years ago. Ten men
have been arrested. charged with being
concerned in the death of a young woman
VINO was lured to hut on the mountain,
where. after being filled with LIQUOR and
assaulted, she was turned into the bitter
cold only partly dressed. When the frozen
body was found one hand clutched the
lock of a mans hair evidently torn from
his head in a desperate struggle. Some
OF the prisoners claim that the woman
went to the hut Of her own accord and
that she wandered away while drunk.
Edward Barrows, 81. was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Miss Otte-
line $. Alderman in Lexington. Mass.
early Sunday morning. Miss Alderman
who is about so years old. lives with her
mother and maiden sister She was
reading when the light was suddenly ex-
unguished. She could distinguish the
outlines OF man and she commanded
MIN to leave. When he moved toward
the bed she seized gun which was near
by and fired it, The charge of bird shot
struck Barrows in the abdomen and he
sank TO the floor. He claims that he was
intoxicated and that he entered the house
thinking that it was his boarding place
Later-The mans name is given as Baro
HIS wound is not fatal and he will be held
on the charge of burglary