Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-12

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Japan is arranging to issue loans of
| SZlo'oOO'OO TO pay expenses of the war
| The Senate. 10y unanimous vote. ordered
| tuesday an investigation OF matters per-
| tanning to the Panama Canal commission
and the Panama Railroad company.
a six-story storage building on Worm
wood street. South Boston, occupied by
the Hallet 4 Davis Piano company was
burned Tuesday, causing a loss of $780,
| 900.
| The ST. Petersburg Novoe Vremya is
printing series of articles I'm defense of
! Premier White which are attracting much
attention and are assumed to be inspired
| by the premier himself The most import
ant statement made is that White has
| taken definite resolution to retire as
soon as the national assembly meets
Elliot Matthewson. II. son of DIR. and
| Mrs. Charles c. Matthewson, was mys-
teriously shot in the groin at Plymouth.
n. H., Friday while playing with two
other boys and died soon after No
weapon could be found and the boys say
| that the shot came from a distance The
| authorities are investigating the affair.
The supreme court OF New York issued
| an order Tuesday that II. II. Rogers show
cause why he should not answer questions
| asked him by the oil Investigation being
Gals In their effort to show that the
Standard oil company, of New Jersey.
controls the Standard, of Indiana the
Republic and Waters-Pierce companies.
While the battleships commanded by
Admiral Evans We're proceeding to sea
| from New York Sunday the Kearsarge
| and Kentucky went aground. The Ala
bama and Illinois were following. and
the Alabama struck the Kentucky n
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| collision. The two grounded vessels after
| wards fioated. The Kentucky was ordered
to return to port, and the remainder of
the squadron proceeded to sea.
Charles Pierce, 60, an inmate of thu
town farm at South Amherst Mass, was
killed by bull last week Thursday. He
was trying to drive the bull from the
barnyard into the barn when he was at
tackled by the animal and trampled so
badly that before Town Warden Elmer
Smith could render assistance he was
MORALLY hurt. He died after his removal
to the house. The bull is two-year-old
Iolstein, and only recently attacked an
other inmate Of the farm.
The Russian rebellion continues in the
Baltic provinces. The government reports
successes, but an eyewitness declares that
in most Of Courland the rebels are SUI
preme. Hardly one of the famous feudaI
art have been destroyed Bands of peas
ants roam the countryside committing
acts of vandalism. In the southeast dis
orders continue. Open warfare is said to
be under way at Tihis. The troops have
used artillery on attacking mobs.
Choosing death rather than dishonor
and clasping her 1S-months old son to her
breast, Mrs. Alfred O'clock, wife of
wealthy young farmer near Amber, Pa.
is believed to have fled from her home
and, closely pursued by band of Poland
ers, to have leaped into the Wissahickon
creek. The woman's body has been re-
covered and the stream is now being
dragged for the body of the child. one
Polander has been arrested and the Off
GERS are securing the country for the
others.
L. w. Prior 45, one of the best known
financial men in Cleveland, Ohio, and a
member of the stock brokerage firm of
Dennison, Prior & Co, shot and killed him
self In his room at the Hollenden hotel I'm
that city Tuesday He fired three shots
from revolver and two of the bullets
passed through his head. He was alone
at the time He was president of the
Cleveland stock exchange, a member of
the exchanges in New York and Chicago
and OF the Chicago board of trade. Large
stock transactions which are said to have
involved his firm to the extent of $500 900,
was the cause of his act. He leaves two
children.