Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-27

were stricken while on the isthmus but
were sent to Porto Rico TO recuperate
Finding that they were not 1oing Wen
there they were sent North, the Column
bia being FIVE days on the way during
which time many showed marked signs
of improvement.
Four trainmen and 16 passengers were
killed Sunday night in collision OF a
freight train and a mail train on the
Seaboard Air line tracks near Hamlet,
NJ c. The wreck was due to the failure
Of the passenger train to receive orders
at Rockingham.
The Car of Russia issued an imperial
ukase Saturday afternoon, dissolving
parliament and fixing the time for the
convocation Of the newly elected assem-
bly, ON March 5, 1907. A second ukase
placed St Petersburg and a large part of
the province of Keiff under minor form of
martial law, as it was feared that armed
uprisings would follow the dissolution of
parliament.
Daniel Berger was killed and Charles
Williams was fatally injured by fall
in the Methodist church at North Ad-
ans Tuesday. The men, who were paint
ers were at work on the ceiling, when
the stage gave way. They fell 60 feet
across pews in the church and their skulls
were fractured. Berger leaves a widow
and seven children and Williams has a
wife and two children.
Alfred Dreyfus, wearing the fun uni
| form Of his rank, and in the presence of
distinguished military assemblage at
| Paris received the cross OF chevalier OF
the Legion of Honor on Saturday. The
| ceremony. which occurred in the court
| yard of the military school, was rendered
doubly impressive by being held on the
very spot where the buttons and gold
lace were stripped off his uniform and his
sword broken II years ago.
Hundreds of people have searched in
, Belchertown. Mass, for some trace Of
winzola Mabel Gooden. daughter of Post
| master Goodell of Dwight little VIII
lage in that town. She left home to go
rowing on n pond July 6. The rowboat
| which she is supposed to have used was
found floating on the pond. The oars
had not been used but the paddle in II
was wet. The pond has been dynamited
and dragged and a diver has been en-
ployed.
DR.. Edward II. Place, house physician
at the City hospital in Boston, is Sc
riously III from blood poisoning, the re-
suit of being bitten by child patient in
ia diphtheria war. The child was
oho,,iS-g to death, and Dr. Place, by in
snrtina, a ,,The in the child's throat, saved
its Hfe. AS the physician was withdraw
ing the tube the chm sliced SEE, one Oh MS
fingers in its teeth. ne So .ini.,' ~
quickly cauterized. but BIZ w po'So'i'''e
resulted
A treaty Of peace between Guatem, -"
Salvador and Honduras was signed Fri
day on board the United States cruiser
Marblehead on the high seas off San
Jose, Guatemala. There was an earnest
discussion and some difficulty in reaching
mutually acceptable conditions. The
Mexican minister, Senior Gamboa. was
active in assisting in bringing about an
agreement. Tine peace commissioners
adopted resolutions thanking the presi-
dents OF the United States and Mexico
for their intervention.
The commission which was appointed
to inquire into the surrender OF Port
Arthur to the Japanese during the recent
war has filed its report. The commission
proposes that Gen. Stoessel who was in
command during the siege of Port Arthur.
be sentenced to death and that Gen. Fock,
who was a member of Stoessels stan, and
urged his chief to surrender. be con-
demned to 20 years confinement in the
galleys. 1t is not believed that either
sentence will ever be enforced.
Alfred Belt, the South African diamond
king. who died in London last week
left $40 00O, 900 in requests OF a public
nature, the largest amount, Sc. 000, 00G
to be used in establishing the Cape-t to-
Cairo railroad and telegraph project
Many institutions in South Africa are
remembered. The University OF Johan-
nesburg will receive $1,000, 900. and a
similar sum is bequeathed for educationa
and charitable purposes in Rhodesia anC
other territories within the field of the
British South Africa company.
The surf claimed four victims within
an hour at Atlantic City. ". j.. last Sat
urday. All met death under sensational
circumstances. a father lost his life IL
n vain attempt to save his drowninE
daughter; a young man drowned after
friedd nearly lost his life In a heroic en-
deavor - rescue him, and a middl,
aged visitor was fatally stricken will
hemorrhage while bathing. The dead are
Robert l.. Thomas. 40, Of Camden, and
and his daughter. Helen, 10: c. w
Sharpless. 2s. OF Jenkintown. Pa. Waite
N. Whitlock, 81 of Richmond. Va.
Twelve or more people were killed IL
South birmingham, Mass, Monday whel
n three-story brick and cement building
in the business centre of the town whicl
was being fitted for the post office, col
lapsed. More than a score of workmei
went down in the wreck. Hundreds o
people heard the crash and some hat
narrow escapes from the flying debris
, The soldiers of the Ninth regiment, win
were in state camp a short distanc
away were called to aid in preserving
order Henry l.. Sawyer. a hardwar
Z merchant, met horrible death He wa
: imprisoned in the ruins with his neci
} beneath a big steam pipe. He signalle'
> to the rescuers at different times for fou
I | OF five hours but the pipe sank slowl,
: and finally decapitated him.