News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-11-22
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can army. But when each Filipino
has to be run down and caught in
dividually it makes hard work for our
soldiers.
Justice Barrett, who was elected to
the New York supreme court on the
Tammany ticket, announces that he
did not contribute or eXpend, direct
" or indirectly, by himself or through
any other persons, any money in aid
of his election. This looks as if the
Mazet inquiry had not been made al
together In vain.
Three valuable lodes of gold have
been found in the vicinity of Osmara,
Egypt. IT. seems strange that in a
country of such great antiquity as
Egypt this gold should have escaped
for thousands of years the eyes of
mankind. This discovery at this late
day only goes to show that mineral
wealth is not confined to the coun-
tries, butts to be found in the most un-
expected places.
1t is pointed out by one of the
Stock Exchange circulars that the
listed copper stocks, when at their
highest prices last spring, were selling
in the market for the enormous total
of $42O,O0O,000. At present prices
they show shrinkage OF at least
$40, 100000. This does not mean
shrinkage of actual values. 1t
shows the healthful tendency to get
away from fictitious values, and is a
pointer of healthfuI prosperity.
If is true that the United States
has agreed to take the island of Tu-
tula and leave Great Britain and
Germany to divide the rest of the
Samoan group, or to settle their diff
terences by swapping, it is probably
a wise solution of our end of the prob
lem. On the island or Tutuila is our
naval station of Page Page. Our
possession of this station constituted
our only tangible reason for being in
terested in Samoa at all. We bought
Pago Page fairly and paid cash for
it, years ago.
Middlebury college, in anticipation
of the observance of its centennial
next summer, is investigating its
own history. The records show that
of the 1882 who have gone out from
her halls 1916 have attained to posi-
tions of high honor and trust. OF
these there are 81 presidents of col
leges, 90 professors in colleges and
theological seminaries, $40 clergy
men, 80 missionaries, 90 physicians,
367 lawyers, so judges, Is members
of Congress and nine Governors Of
states and territories. Of the mis-
sionaries, Al have been home and 80
have been foreign missionaries.
Russia is now showing her hand
without reserve on the continent,
says a despatch from Yokohama.
Listuang peninsula, which Japan
was forced to cede back to China, is
now Russian territory. Its govern
ment is administered by the COM
mandant of the Russian naval and
military forces under order from the
minister of the treasury at st. Peters
burg. Port Arthur is the seat of the
government. A Russian diplomatic
agent and a financial commissioner
are appointed and judicial proceed
ure of the reign of Alexander II is en-
forced throughout the whole terri
tory.
The Providence Journal believes
that Mckinley is assured of four
years more in the White House be-
cause of "the seemingly ineradicable
fooishness of his heterogeneous op-
position" Later in it's discussion
the Journal asks this poser =" With
the Republicans working for 1.-THE
open doors in China, for sound mon
ey and for the maintenance of the
national honor, what inducement is
there for thinking men to vote for
demagogues who attack the supreme
court, threaten the stability of the
currency, snee r at the army andna w,
and recommend surrender to treach-
GUS Filipinobe reel?"
Counsel for Admiral Dewey and his
officers and men have asked the
court of claims to find that the
amount of bounty money due them
is $3S0,900. The decision of the
court will establish precedent which
will affect the amount of bounty to
he distributed among the officers and
men of the North Atlantic fleet, which
destroyed the squadron of Admiral
Cervera. II the finding of the court
is in accordance with the request the
Admirals share of the bounty will be
$19,194. Attorneys base their case
upon the claim that the defeated
Spanish force was superior to the
American squadron. 1t is not con-
tended that the enemy's feet was
superior, but that, taking into con-
sideration the guns at Corregidor, Ell
Fraile and other forts at the entrance
of the bay and those at Manila and
Cavite, which fired upon the Ameri-
can ships continuously, the enemy's
force was superior.
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1t will not be surprise to any who are at
all familiar with the good qualities Of Cham.
berlaiD 3 Cough Remedy, to know that people
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