Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-23
GENERAL NEWS.


bill into congress providing for public
building to be erected at Richford as deten.
ton quarters for Chinese immigrants. The
bill carries an appropriation Of $4,000.
Bethany storer the American ambassador
TO Austria Hungary, is to retire Immediately
from his post and Charles s. Francis OF Troy,
n. V, a former minister to Greece, has been
named as his successor, by the president.
No reason is given for Mr.. Storer's retire
men,, but IL is known that there has been
some friction with the administration, which
neither Mr.. Root nor others conversant with
the condition of affairs will discuss.
The post Office appropriation bill was re-
ported to the house at Washington, Monday.
1t provides for an expenditure Of $19l,373
s4s for the fiscal year 1907, or s913,221 less
than the modified estimates Of the post office
department This amount exceeds the appro-
priation for 1906 by s10,351,755. An ap.
preparation of s2s,2o0,000 for the pay Of
rural free delivery carriers is recommended.
This is $3,0s0, 900 more than the appropria'
ton for the current year
Jed p Clark, so, of Milton, until within
few years prominent in the business and
political life of the state. died Friday. He
was the son of Joseph Clark, one Of the
pioneer railroad men of the state and promi'
nent in the early history of the Central Yer
mont railroad Mr.. Clark was, for a time,
associated with the management OF the Cen
trail Vermont He was a state senator from
Chittenden county in 1862. In 1872 he was
an alternate from the third congressional dis.
trict to the republican national convention.
and in 1884 he was an alternate at large to
the republican national convention.
John Most the anarchist, widely known as
Herr Most died at Cincinnati Saturday of
eryspeas. He was the most radical Of an
archists and established the newspaper Der
Freiheit in which he advocated the use of
dynamite against capitalists, and other SINH.
lar measures. Herr Most was a conspirator
in Russia convicted of treason in Austria
often imprisoned in Germany for political
offenses, and once for ''blasphemy' and in
England sentenced to Imprisonment for JUS
tifying in an anarchistic paper the killing OF
Gar Alexander II. He was treated with
great cruelty in German prisons in his youth.
He was about 60 years old.
1t is authoritatively announced at New
York that John d. Rockefeller has forwarded
to the American board of commissioners for
foreign missions of the Congregational church
a check for $3.50 completing his gift Of
500, 600 promised some time ago When
the gift was first announced there was
ed by Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN.. It
appears that Mr.. Rockefeller had only sent
$55, 200 when the tainted money" discus
sion was begun. The commissioners, how
ever, authorized the expenditure of 100000
on the strength of Mr.. Rockefeller's offer,
and he has now completed the sum.
A project is under way for direct cleo.
trical railway line from Rutland through the
mountains to Woodstock and Bethel, connect.
ing at the latter place with the Central Yer.
mont to Montpelier. Local capitalists to
some extent are interested in the project,
which, though admitted of unusually heavy
expense, is believed to be practicable and of
sufficient Importance to pay fair interest
upon the investment Application for char
ter will be made this spring, The PROPOSE
ton is to introduce freight service along
the route for the benefit of farmers, who
would thus be enabled to send their produce
to market cheaper.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree was returned against John Schidlof
ski by a jury in the Middlesex county SUI
perior court at Cambridge, Mass, Saturday
The man, who is Russian, 30 years of age,
with a residence in Brockton, was accused Of
having killed his wife on July IL, 1905, be-
cause she did not possess as much money as
he expected when he married her about one
year ago. The murder was most atrocious.
The woman's mutilated body was found on
the Arlington golf club links at Belmont by
workmen on July 10. As soon as it was
identified, search was made for the husband.
1t was found that he had taken train for
the west. He was arrested at La Junta,
COL, after sensational pursuit by police.
Officers who made the arrest testified at the
trial that the man confessed to having killed
his wife because she had deceived him with
reference to her money. She was much old
er than he. Schidlofski, who took the stand
in his own defense, claimed that he and his
wife had quarreed after they had gone to
Belmont, but stated that he had no recol-
lection of having killed her. The defense set
up 'transitory frenzy as partly the cause
Of the crime, and asked for a second degree
verdict. Death by electrocution is the PEN
atty for first degree murder in Massachu-
l