Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10


of the strike on the United Railways in
San Francisco Tuesday. Many were shot
in a battle between the mob and strike
breakers. One man is dead and several
are in a serious condition.
An important treaty is being prepared
between France and Japan, guaranteeing
their respective interests and the status
quo in the Far East. This is regarded as
another triumph for British diplomacy,
aimed at the isolation Of Germany.
The Irish bill was introduced in the
house OF Commons and passed its first
reading Tuesday. II provides for an ad-
ministrative council. mainly elective, con-
trolling eight government departments,
but not the police. The Irish party with
held judgment on the measure, which is
regarded as distinctly conservative
After attempting to hold up two trolley
conductors in West Philadelphia early
Tuesday and fearing he had killed a
policeman at whom he had shot in at
tempting to escape. Harold s Jones, 10.
shot and killed himself on the street. A
companion, c. Fl. Gedds, IS, was arrested
ter at his home. Jones belonged to a
good family.
The British steamer Naomi King Is
under guard in the harbor OF San Diego,
Cal, while the rioting which took place
at sea between 921 Chinese passengers
and 2l2 Russian passengers, all in the
steerage, is being investigated. Fourteen
persons are known to have been badly
wounded, and two sailors who escaped
from the steamer and swan ashore claim
that Is Chinese were killed during the riot
and their bodies cast into the sea.
Walter c. Davis, a carpenter. in a Mt
Of insanity in San Francisco Tuesday.
shot and killed a family Of six persons
with whom he lived on Pierre street
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. O. r. Bush
and son, w. 5. Bard a carpenter NJ. +.
Ninron. surveyor, and Mrs. Lillian ID.
Crothers The Bush family conducted a
boarding house. Davis killed all while
they were in bed. He fancied the people
in the house had formed n plot to kill
him. He was overpowered by crowd
attracted by the shots.
The trial Of Meyer Haywood Petit
bone and Orchard, the four Idaho men
charged with the murder Of the late
Gov. Frank Steunenberg, began yesterday
i'm Boise, Idaho. The arrest OF these
men has caused widespread discussion
in the ranks Of labor, Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone being prominently connec-
ted with the western federation of miners.
The commonwealth claims that the
Steunenberg crime was but one in a long
series of murders and outrages COM
mitted under plans of the mining fed
Grafton.
The body of little Horace Marvin, 4.
son of DR.. II. n. Marvin. whose myster
ious disappearance from the Bay Meadow
farm, near Dover, Del, had bafiled solu-
tion since March 4, was found lying in a
marshy piece of land about half a mile
from the Marvin farm Saturday by
Ollie Pleasanton, a farmer. Pleasanton,
who lives on a farm adjoining the Mar
wins, came upon the child's body while
out cunning The child lay face down
ward in patch of meadow grass. There
was not a mark upon the little boys
body indicating foul play. 1t was in a
good state of preservation, suggesting
that II had been frozen.
Ernest w. Huffcut, A., formerly dear
of the law school of Cornell university
and legal adviser to Gov. Hughes, COM
mitted suicide Friday night on the Hud-
son river boat c. w. Morse He boarded
the boat at Albany and was assigned 2
| stateroom. He shot himself on the upper
deck some time during the night, the
| body being found I'm the morning behind a
pile of chairs. On his body was an en-
velope addressed to the coroner of New
! York and in this was letter to the coro-
ner also one TO Huffcuts sister. He was
one of Gov. Hughes's closest friends anC
succeeded the governor as a professor II
| Cornell. No cause for suicide is known
but he was Undoubtedly suffering from
| overwork