Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-09

were injured. The car was smashed
10 kindling wood and the tracks were
torn up for hundred feet.
Rojestvensky Pleads Guilty.
In a manly effort to save, the sur
vjving members of his staff and the
officers who, he believed, surrendered
the gunboat Kedovi on account OF
their affection for their wounded
commander and their desire to save
his life, Admiral Rojestvensky Thurs
day pleaded guilty before a court
martial. In a shortsspeech to the
court the admiral declared that he
took al the blame on his own shoul-
ders and asked that he alone be pun
ished TO the fullest extent of the law,
virtually an appeal for condemnation
and death, which is the penalty for
hauling down the st. Andrews cross
to hostile vessel.
President Delivers Fonrth of July Grafton
Surrounded by his neighbors in the
open air with the echo of children's
voices singing the nations songs in
his ears, President Roosevelt deliver
ed a Fourth of July Grafton to his
townspeople at Oyster Bay. Mr..
Roosevelt drove to the grove with
Secretary Loco and Girard Beekham
the latter an old friend and
neighoor. The speech was immedi-
ately preceded by the singing Of ''The
Scar Spangled Banner" in which the
president joined and when the ad-
dress was finished the president join
ed the crowd in singing America. He
shook hands with those on the plat
form and then entered his carriage
and returned direct to Sycamore Hill.
The exercises occupied just one hour.
2s Americans Rilled in England.
Driving at a mad pace oyer the
London Southwestern railway, the
American Line express, carrying IS
of the steamer New York's passen-
gsrs from Plymouth to London,
plunged from the track after passing
the station at Salisbury, England,
early Monday morning and mangled
! to death in lis wreckage %, passengers
who sailed from Nav YORK June 23
and four of the trainmen.s Besides
those to whom death came speedily a
dozen persons were Injured, and se+nfe
of them seriously. The train, w1t h
makes nile minute, was running
very fast and swaying from side to
side. Just as it passed the platform
of the Salisbury station, it was seen
lsap from tue track, the engine
taking the lead, followed by three
other cars. The engine crashed into
anot2er train on siding, then
against the framework. OF bridge
over which it was about TO pass, then
rebounded into another engine " hich
it destroyed. One car shot over the
engine, landing against the bridge
and killing almost every passenger
within. The others followed. 1t was
the most terrible railway accident il
Great Britain for years.
Congress Ended Business Done.
The first session of the 56th Con.
gresss closed at 10 o'clock Saturday
night. President Roosevelt left al
once for his home at Sycamore Hill
where he will pass the summer with
his family. No extra session of Con
gress is anticipated, as the work hal
been well cleaned up. The session
has been very eventful one. Among
measures OF Importance passed are
the following: The Hepburn railroad
rate regulation bill, the pure food bill
the meat inspection bill, the denature {
} alcohol bill, reorganization of The
consular service, immigration. bill
decided to build canal of the loci
: type at Panama and appropriated
. $32, 900, 900 for the present years " OF /
on it, bill authorizing construction @
biggest battleship afoat, doubled ap
preparation for militia, admitted Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory as new
state named Oklahoma, employers
liability act, bill to preserve Niagar;
Falls from destruction by powe.
concerns. The session appropriated
about 5000, 100000 in all. The bill pro
viding for new tariff with tine Phil
ippines and the -Santo DOMINICAN
treaty, which the president favored
failed of passage in the senate.