Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
NEWS NOTES.

Nine men were killed Friday by the col
lapse of wing of the Hotel Bixby at
Long Beach, Calf. About 100 men went
down in the ruins but n large part of
them were not severely hurt.
Herbert Bradley wealthy flour ex-
porter, was killed by a pet buck deer
Saturday night on his estate near Mont
clair, n. ]. The body was found Sunday
morning covered with blood The deer's
horns tore open an artery in Mr.. Brad
ley's hip.
Prince Albert of Flanders nephew Of
King Leopold of Belgium, has been OFF,
cially declared successor to the king as
sovereign of the Congo independent state
This ends the controversy over the DO
litical status of the independent state
in the event that Belgium does not annex
It,
Mrs. Russell Sage has announced that
she will give away the great bulk of the
fortune of $50, 900, 900 left her by her late
husband to worthy individuals who are
unfortunate and too proud to beg Those
kind to the dead financier will be remem-
hered, but churches generally will re-
ceive nothing.
Philip Conroy, 16, of Lancaster, NJ H.,
is supposed 10 have persisted in the
woods during the storm of Sunday night.
He was hunting when he became sepa-
posed that he lost his way in the forest
large searching party has failed to find
any trace of him.
Two aeronauts who started from Milan.
Italy, one day recently. landed safely at
AiX-les- Baines, covering a distance of 175
miles in three hours. They passed di-
rectly over Mount Blanc and at one time
reached an elevation of 20500 feet
Owing to the rarefed atmosphere they
were compelled to resort to their supply
of oxygen to keep alive.
The boldest and most successful train
robbery which the revolutlonists ever
carried out in Russia took place a few
days ago at Rogew, Poland. At the signal
of bugle call 100 men charged upon the
railroad employees who were changing an
engine. The revolutionists killed the
guards and gendarmes, shattered the mail
car with bombs, and singing Socialist
songs marched away with their booty,
which amounted to S65O,OOO.
The Chicago Tribune says a gigantic
theatrical combination is being formed
to control $50 theatres of the United
States, and that the following interests
are slated to go into it: Klaw & Erlanger.
Daniel Frohman, Charles Frohman, Ara
Hayman, Nixon e Zimmerman, Rich &
Harris, Orpheum circuit, The Tribune
says the properties TO be controlled by
the corporation exceed $50 600, 900 in value.
The story is declared untrue by some of
the firms named.
John Tracy 49, of Mount Vernon, N.
Y, a student in Phillips -Andover acad-
envy, was fatally shot by his schoolmate
chum, Charles r. Riggs, II, of Emporia,
Kansas, in the latter's room at Andover,
Mass, Saturday. They were examining
a revolver owned by. Riggs when IL was
discharged. The bullet struck Tracy In
the mouth and he died almost Instantly
Riggs was arrested and placed under
$1,000 bonds, although it is believed the
shooting was accidental
OF the 1866 passengers in an immigrant
train which crashed into a freighc train
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near
Woodville, Ind. Monday AZ were killed
outright or burned to death in the fire
which broke out Immediately, sS were
injured, some seriously, and 80 escaped
unhurt. The passengers were Russian
Jews Servians and Poles. Forty-hve
bodies were consumed in the flames or
so badly burned THAI they could not be
recognized The disaster was caused by
a blunder Of some employe of the com
pany. One report is that the engineer
of the freight train had not been Informed
that the passenger train was running in
two sections; the other is that the first
section Of the passenger train carried no
lights or signals of any kind indicating
that a second section was close behind.