Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-20

cruiser Marblehead to look after Amer
lean interests on the coast Of Salvador
and Guatemala, and is endeavoring to
stop the hostilities between the two
countries.
f. w. Sentell Of Brooklyn. one of the
| passengers injured in the railroad wreck
in Salisbury, England. July l. died Sat
urday evening. His wife. son and two
| daughters were killed outright in the ac-
cident in which he was injured
Samuel Young, sc. and Theodore Horne.
| 81, patients in the ward for nervous peo-
pie in the Philadelphia hospital. who
were not on friendly terms. engaged in
| a pillow fight Saturday. Young was
knocked down and in falling his head
struck one Of the iron cots and he died
instantly.
Five armed and masked men over
powered and bound the night Waterman
| and another employee of the street rail-
road company in Kennebunkport, Maine.
| Monday took several hundred dollars
| from the unlocked safe, and escaped I'M
molested. The Waterman was severely
injured by blow on the head from re-
volver butt.
A despatch which comes via Mexico
| City states that Salvador has been VIC
| torious in the war with Guatemala and
| that $500 men were killed In the latest
| battle. President Roosevelt has inter-
| ceded to bring peace between the two
couHtIleS. commissioners OF salvador and
| Guatemala will meet on the cruiser
Marblehead to negotiate their differences.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the noted emo
tional actress, was married Friday night
| in Portsmouth n. H., to William L.
| Payne. Mr.. Payne is an actor, but to
| fortune and fame unknown. His age is
! 30. In the marriage license the brides
name was given as Caroline L. Dudley,
| her age 33, and this as her first marriage
| Her maiden name was Caroline Dudley
/ and she was formerly the wife of Leslie
Carter, a wealthy Chicago man. Her age
| is 80.
The body of John strube. H. son OF
| Elmer Strube of Hosatonic, Mass was
| found concealed in the woods near that
place Sunday. The boy had been murder
| ed and the body carefully hidden under
| large boughs. His skull was crushed
evidently from blows with a stone. His
father, who admits having logged the
lad repeatedly, is undeE close examination.
| A playmate, who had gone to Connecticut
was also under suspicion, but he proved
/ an alibi.
Horace Wild. newcomer in the field
| OF aeronautics, made a successful fight
| in his airship over the sl1y-scrapers of
! Chicago Sunday. He made two stops to
arrange his steering gear and had several
| narrow escapes. Before alghting he
missed by about 80 feet a steeple with a
point like an icepick, and at another time
| the lower part of the ship caught In a
| cornice of high building and the op-
| orator was entangled in the ropes, bales
and frame work Of the car.
! The number of pounds of canned beef
| exported last month was 2,977979. as
| compared with 6,310,553 in June a wear
| ago, falling of Of more than 5000 900
pounds. Expectations of hams also fell
| on more than 5000, 900 pounds. salted
| and picked pork 100000 pounds, and
lard nearly 5000, 900 pounds. The change
Is supposed to have been due in large part
10 the packing house exposures. There
was an increase, however. of $500. 600
pounds in the expectation of fresh beef
Frank Gestner, workman EMPLOYED at
the Windsor plaster mills at New
Brighton, s. l., was run through a
| crusher Friday night and his body was
ground to bits. Eight OF Gestner's fellow
Workmen were arrested charged with
causing their companions death They
I said that as a joke they tied him while
asleep and that when the machine started
Unexpectedly the mans body was pulled
through the crnsher. The police do not
accept the prisoners explanation of Gest-
ner's death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Leverly and three
younger children were murdered In their
nome near Barber Junction. N. C., early
Saturday morning by unknown persons
|
the bed containing the bodies of Mr.. ana
MRS. Leverly. The two older daughters
VINO were sleeping upstairs. were awak
| ened In time to eXtinguish the flames and
| save the house from destruction. The
ROBBERS evidently killed their victims with
CLUBS Mr. Leverly was a wealthy mer
chant and farmer.
A recommendation that the rates on
All classes OF fire risks throughout New
england which have proved Improbable
IN the past be advanced 25 per cent. was
unanimously adopted at the midsummer
meeting OF the New England Insurance.
exchange at Boston Saturday This adj
vance however, does not affect the rates
on these risks in the congested areas which
nave already been increased by 20 cents
on the 500. Exactly what classes are
anected Chairman Boutel declines to state.
rms step is in line with the general pol
ICY OF the exchange enforcing a general
increase In the rates of at least 25 per
cent throughout New England to recoup
the insurance companies to some extent
from their San Francisco losses. The
recent 2O-cent advance in rates in con-
migration areas has now been applied TO
all cities and towns adversely reported
upon by the executive committee OF the
exchange with the exception of Rhode
Island and New Hampshire