Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-05-04

Representative Hearst OF new 1oIk III
troduced in the House Monday bill for
an additional appropriation of S2'5OO'OOO
for relief OF people In San Francisco.
The May day demonstrations in Paris
failed before the enormous force Of troops
concentrated in that city. There were
several collisions between police and
strikers. and many Of the latter were
wounded. One thousand persons were ar
rested.
A New York syndicate has offered $780,
00O, 900 to rebuild San Francisco. Tempo
rary structures are being erected by BUSH
ness men and banking was resumed on a
limited scale Tuesday. The citizens COM
mittee decided to accept all offers OF aid
from foreign countries.
Detachments of federal troops while
scouting in the Garidara valley, on the
island of Samar, encountered several
bands of Puljanes. In the engagements
that followed many Puljanes were killed
and their supplies destroyed There were
no casualties among the troops
The forgery Of 500, 900 worth OF inn
provement bonds of Woods county Ohio,
and the mysterious disappearance Of Ar
thur l. Rich, a prominent broker, has
just become known. 1t is believed Rich
is now on his way to Honduras. He
eluded pursuers by jumping from the win
dow Of a Pullman car at Dayton. o.
Fred A. Clark, IS years old, somnam-
bulist walked in his sleep through a
fourth story window and was found dead
on the ground below by his widow at
Springfield. Mass. Wednesday He fell
40 feet, fracUuring several ribs one of
which punctured his lungs. He was an
engineer on the Boston & Albany railroad.
He leaves a widow and a child seven
months old.
Fire caused $4,000 loss at Haverhill.
1 IA
block cpoteintDg six stores, post Office and
the rooms of GraflCh ~ pic lodge. The
principal losers are w. II. Page &c Sol.
the Haverhill Drug company, NJ. II. RAN
dali. postmaster and dealer in hardware.
and Grafton lodge. The Woodsville fire
department rendered effective aid in pre-
venting the spread OF the flames The
loss Is partly covered by insurance.
Charles II. Cole, formerly president of
the Globe National bank of Boston. was
released Monday night from the Franklin
county jail in Greenfield, where he served
sentence of II days less than six years.
for the transportation of the bank
funds. The recent approval by the Pres
ident of an amendment to an act OF Con-
gress passed two years ago increasing
time allowed for good conduct, enabled
Mr.. Cole to obtain his release eight
months before the expiration of his sem
tence under the old law
In a drunken row on Rollstone street
in Fitchburg Monday night John Pussila.
p, received several stabs in his left side
which caused death. There were also
several bad wounds on his body. He was
unconscious when taken to the police
station and lived only three minutes after
his arrival there Matti Ruokonen. who
was arrested charged with stabbing Pus-
sila, had three wounds on his head Emil
Pananen' who was held as a witness.
mad been stabbed twice in the back, and
one OF the wounds may be serious.
Eleven persons were shot at Mt. Carmel
Pa, Monday by a force OF the state con-
stabulary, commanded by Lieut. C. p
Stone. Four of the injured are thought
to be MORALLY wounded, including one
boy 10 years old. The sheriff at Mt.
carmel had asked for assistance as for
eign miners were stoning non-union men
at the Sayre colliery. The constables
were returning from a hotel, where thew
mad obtained dinner with difficulty. when
they were surrounded by crowd of 3OOo
people. They attempted to dispense the
crowd, but a volley of stones fell upon
them and they claim that they fired in
self defense.
The Olympic games at Athens closed
tuesday with the Marathon race a re-
production of the classic event in which
the winner was crowned with a laurel
wreath. The winner of the great contest
was william Sherring of Hamilton, Ont
VINO easily led n field OF rs starters. being
seven minutes ahead of Swonberg, the
Swedish representative, while w. q Franz
OF the lrish-American Athletic club OF New
YORK was third. When the last Olymnic
games were held in Athens a native az
greece won the Marathon race. In the trad,
ana held events the American representa-
yves easily excelled. winning a total of 75n
points WINE England, including its coll
possessions had Sa
greece 27h. Sweden 26 and the Other
european countries smaller numbers
Sherring has competed in races In tbis
country the past nine years. He won the
annual Hamilton Herald race at Hamiie
ION, ont, in 1899 and was second TO car
terys She worlds record holder, at Boston
in 1900 He had been in Greece az ,,.Ha
six months trimming Tor AZ - ~ Po9'