Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-26

the absorption Of Korea by causing the
Korean cabinet TO force the emperor to
ahdicate in favor OF the crown prince.
There was a fatal explosion last Satur-
day In a colliery at Toyocka Japan. 1t is
reported that nearly an Of the 47O miner;
in the pit at the time were killed.
The Federal grand jury for the West
Tennessee district has handed up an in
diCtment containing 1924 counts, each
count separate Indictment in itself, all
aimed at the Standard Oil company.
Returns Of deaths from the plague in
India show the appalling total OF .O60. O67
for the six months ending June 80. The
monthly total is at present decreasing.
however, the death roll for June being
placed at 90, 064
Judge Hunt, in the federal court in He
lena, Mont, has decided that one tele-
phone company may not withhold the
use OF its lines from another. and the
decision il likely 10 be regarded as a
precedent throughout the country.
Major Eugene Coffin, paymaster Of the
United States army in the Philippines
suffered amputaton Of his left arm last
week on account OF blood poisoning con-
tracted in handling money. and his death
followed on Tuesday OF this week
All the steamship lines are doing a rec
ord business in travel To Europe. the lin
ers being sold out into August and the to-
tai Of passengers IN the first half Of this
year being 43.1O2 more than during the
first six months Of last year The great
est increase is in third class
Allen Wilson, known as rug" the
famous football quarterback who PLAYED
two years on the Williams college team.
was crushed To- death Tuesday at Ober-
lin. Ohio, under a welding car on the
Cleveland and southern electric line.
where he was working with welding
gang.
\ monument To Oliver p Morton. In
dianas war governor, erected at a cost
Of 10000, was unveiled AT indianapolis
Tuesday. The unveilinE was done by the
hand Of Coy. Martins grandson. oliver
Perry Morton of Hartford Conn Four
thousand civil war veterans participated
in the exercises.
y Copenhagen despatch says that grief
stricken by receipt of notification that
her services would not be required after
the end Of the month Mrs. Nielsen,
huusekeeper for prominent landowner
Of Jutland, hanged three Of her employ
er's children three Of her own and then
killed herself by hanging.
The outcome Of libel suit brought by
the Lever Bros. soap manufacturers,
against the London Daily Mail and Even
ing News. owned by Alfred Harmsworth.
now Lord Northclffe, was the withdrawal
of the plea of justification by the defen-
dant, and the agreement to pay the $685.
600 demanded. This is said to he the
largest damages ever paid for libel in
John Wanamaker's stables at Lynden-
hurst, his country place in the suburbs
Of Philadelphia, were burned last Satur-
day evening. causing loss of $3.50 600
His country house there was burned last
February, when the loss was estimated
at $2o0O.000. Three horses were burned
saturday, with carriages, harness, coach
mems equipments, and most valuable of
all, bronZes, statuarN and costly china,
saved from the February fire.
Giovanni Pellettei, and his brother, Gut
seppe, escaped convicts from Italy and
leaders in America OF the Malta society,
are being closely guarded a Ellis Island.
New York, where they were taken after
their arrest for sending black hand letters
to an Italian resident of New York, de-
handing $1,000 on penalty of death. The
prisoners will be deported to Italy, where
they are wanted by the Project of Police
at Palermo, Sicily. They will be the first
Malta members ever deported from this
country.
The twenty-three prominent members
of the lumber trust the brick combine
and bridge trust, at Toledo, Ohio, who
We're sentenced TO six months in the
workhouse. and nine others to pay a fine
Of $1,000 each for admitted violations of
the Ohio antitrust law. have prepared to
carry the contest to the higher courts.
Because the workhouse was for the time
being quarantined on account of SMALLPOX
there, the execution of sentence was de-
ferred ten days. The guilty men are all
wealthy and prominent in the CONNER
cial and social life of the golden rule
city
The government has taken a new de-
parture in beginning an investigation of
the thread trust which has raised the
price of spool thread lately and is about
to do ii again, practically doubling the
price But the thread trust is a British
affair, and this Is the first instance where
and order has been issued by a depart
ment at Washington to investigate a
trust formed and controlled outside this
country. The order is said to specify an
investigation of the American Thread
company, but the English Sewing Cotton
company controls the American Thread
company and the Coats company an
other British concern, controls the English
Sewing Cotton company.
From thirty to forty persons we're
killed and about one hundred We're in
iured last Saturday when a Pere Mar
quette excursion train of eleven coaches
from Ionia, carrying the employees of the
companys shops there on their annual
excursion to Detroit, colided with
west-bound freight two miles east of
Salem Mich There were eight hundred
DqrsOns crowded into tha alavan cooobas