Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-13

The Russian douma has voted down the
measure providing for the abolition Of
the death penalty.
Wages were advanced five per cent
Monday in cotton mills in about 80 cities
and towns in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. About $4,000 operatives are bene-
fitted.
Lieut.. Gen. II. C. Corbin, who recently
returned from the Philippines, where he
was in command, recommends that the
military force in the islands be reduced
to 5000 men.
The fishing schooner Stanley, from
Rama, Newfoundland, was struck by
lightning and completely wrecked on the
banks few days ago. In her disabled
condition she was swept upon the rocks
and destroyed. Not one of the crew of
16 escaped.
The body of George Goodale, As, a fish
dealer, was found Monday in the small
house in which he lived alone in the West
hin section in Middletown, Conn. His
head had been split open with an AK or
some blunt instrument and there were
deep cuts over his eyes. Goodale re-
Gently received 800 on the sale of a house
and robbery may have been the motive
Of his slayer
The Dewey dry dock will arrive at
Manila this week. Its destination will
be the naval station at Olongapo. 40 miles
north of Manila, where it will furnish
docking facilities for the largest ships of
the American navy. The Dewey has
been towed about 1000 miles. The
journey has covered a period of nearly
six months, the start having been made
December 20 from Solomon island, Mary
land.
EX-United States Senator James K.
Jones of Arkansas, who was chairman of
the Democratic national committee when
William j. Bryan made his campaign for
the presidency in 1896 and 1900, has re-
ceived letter from Mr. Bryan, in which
he announces that he will accept the
nomination for President for the third
time II ii is rendered him. The letter was
dated at Stockholm June is. Congress-
man Hearst Of New York announced in
San Francisco Saturday that he was not
candidate for the presidency.
Roy Knabenshue. owner and driver of
several airships, took Mrs Knabenshue
York Sunday. After showing her the
points of interest in five or six counties
and enjoying a luncheon while sailing
along at an altitude of nearly two miles
above sea level, they came down in a
back yard in Flushing and returned to the
city in an automobile. II was Mrs. Knab-
enshue's first journey through the air,
but she enjoyed it and said 1t beat auto
MODELLING "all to pieces"
A despatch from Tacoma says: "a new
island has risen above the sea near Bor-
oslov island, Alaska, which was thrown
up by a similar eruption about 100 years
ago. The infant island presents a super
fetal area of several acres, and with Boro-
SLOW and another smaller island, which
rose from the depths in 1882, forms the
the points of a small triangle about 20
miles west of Unalasixa." Fishermen
were unable to approach the island be-
cause the waters surrounding IL were so
hot. The Alaska peninsula and its land
extension, the Aleutian chain of islands,
lie in a volcanic belt, and occasional
eruptions occur throughout the length OF
the peninsula and the archipelago.
One OF the most terrible confessions
thar ever fell on mortal ears was made
Friday by Henry Scott, executed in Will
N c., for horrible crime COM
mitted last October. Scott had the con-
fession read as he stood on the scaffold |
IT related how in a drunken frenzy he
killed Capt. E. r. Rumrill Of Maine and
then sought out the three remaining |
officers and killed them, casting their |
bodies into the sea; that he slew the |
negro seaman Coakley, whose body was |
left on the deck OF the ship, and he inn |
plicated Arthur Adams and Robert Saw |
yer, his fellow seamen, now under sem
tence OF death for the same crime to re- |
pay them for betraying him. He claimed |
that harsh treatment led him to commit |
the murders.