Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
NEWS NOTES.

Atty.-Gen. Hadley Of Missouri has be-
gun suits in the supreme court at Jeffer-
son city to dissolve the merger Of the
Gould railroads ana subsidiary COM
panies
Gen. Pavlon, Russian military procur-
ator, was shot dead in ST. Petersburg
Wednesday by an assassin, who killed a
policeman and wounded a boy before
being captured.
DIR. +. NJ. Ponds house on South Main
street in Rutland was burned early Thurs
day morning. The loss exceeds $1,000
The property was well insured A large
oil painting by Herman Carodi OF Rome
valued at $4,000, and priceless heirlooms,
were destroyed. The inmates OF the
house had barely time to escape.
The coroners jury at Washington which
has been investigating the railroad acct
dent on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Terra Gotta, in which over so people were
killed. has held eight persons to await
the action Of the grand jury w. NJ. put-
row. telegraph operator, is held to be di-
rectly responsible, with seven trainmen
responsible in a lesser degree.
The shah of Persia died Tuesday. He
was SO years old and had been on the
throne 10 years. He was enlightened
monarch and one OF the richest potentates
in the world, his personal estate being
estimated at 500 .000, 900, with jewels val
ued al 500 900 600 more He had visited
Europe several times. He has been sue
ceeded by his eldest son, who is 35 years
old.
Henry F. Burnham OF Manchester, the
present United States senator from New
Hampshire will be reelected. In the
caucus Of the Republican members OF the
legislature Wednesday night 273 votes
We're cast, making 1877 necessary for a
choice. Mr. Burnham had 1914, Congress
man +. ID. Currier Of Canaan 81, George
D. I.4ir pf NJ
Of Bow IA, scattering {.
Joseph Blanchette Of Gonstown went to
Riverside. y. H., Wednesday, and after
some conversation with his wife. drew a
revolver and shot her in the head, killing
her instantly. He then fired a bullet into
his own head, nhicting n wound which
caused death. The couple had not lived
together the last three years, as the wife
and older children are said to have OBJ
jcctcd TO Blanchette's dissolute habits.
The couple leave II children.
\ terrible disaster took place in the
Jones x Laughlin steel works in Pitts
burg Wednesday night, when gas which
had collected at the base of the furnaces
exploded, throwing tons OF molten metal
around the furnaces for n space of 40
feet. of the 40 men working at the fur
naces, II We're killed and four so badly
burned that they will die, and Is to 90 who
are missing are supposed to have been
consumed in the molten metal.
Manager Frank S Peer made an in
teresting report at the second annual
meeting Of the New England Farm Stock
company held in Greenfield Wednesday.
The company has 5000 sheep leased to
farmers in Western Massachusetts and
Southern Vermont and New Hampshire
The company has established a sheep
ranch of $50 acres in Leyden, where it
bought three abandoned farms. A pro-
fessional Scotch shepherd with trained
dogs is in charge. The Leyden ranch has
shown profits OF $500 10 $4,000 on 700 ewes
and lambs. A second ranch Of 1900 acres
has been leased in Chester, VT The
company will buy 5000 more Oregon ewes
this year, making a total of IL 900 sheep
which it will own. These officers were
elected: President John Sheldon; vice
president, A. d. Flower; secretary and
treasurer, H. H. Flower; manager, Frank
S. Peer; directors, Frank Gerrett, F. o.
Wells. f. S. Peer, j. NJ. Woodard, A. D.
| Flower, John Sheldon and c, II. Keith.