News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-08-21


the necessity for temporary layof"
William e. Douglas, former as
sistant teller of the Guarantee Trust
and Safe Deposit company of PhiladeI-
phia, was arrested at Boston. He is
charged with embezZling $4,000 from
that institution previous TO May l, last,
on which day he resigned
Revere Beach and Lynn railroad in
creased its passenger traffic last year by
more than million-Storm leaves
gulf coast, coming northeast; water
subsiding at Mobile-Mr. Bryan sup
ports the steel strike, but says the bal
lot is a better weapon-Death of f.
A. Mexican. the defaulting bank cash.
fer of Nashua, n. H-Expensns re-
duced in the Philippines as the result Of
Corbin's visit-Nicaragua, Venezuela
and Ecuador said to be involved in an
attempt to overthrow Columbia.
SUNDAY, AUG. IS.
Steel strikers gaining; Milwaukee and
Wheeling men vote to join them; trouble
feared at Monessen and the Carnegie
plants.--Steam train and trolley car
in collision in New York; two persons
killed and % injured-Pilot boat
James Gordon Bennett cut in two by
the German steamer Alcne off Scotland
lightship, and four men drowned
AerOnautS fall with a balloon into tile
ocean after an ascent at Salisbury
Beach, Mass, and are rescued after
being in the water half an hour
New York Office of Swift & Co. robbed
of sum estimated from $4,000 to $780,
600 10y trusted emplOye-Yacht owned
by Whitney syndicate wins cup pre-
scented by King Edward to Royal Nova
Scotia yacht squadron Mrs Mary
Cook, found at Lynn, Mass, home in
dying condition, accuses her husband of
throwing her down Floods
about Mobile Ala, COnsti-
tuition beats Columbia by IS seconds
Death of Stamboul, the speedy stallion.
MONDAY, AUG. 10.
That President Shaffer the head of
the great steel strike, is breaking down
is the startling bit of news from Pitts
burg. He spent the greater part Of
yesterday in bed too i'll to see anyone,
Mrs. Shaffer guarding him from in
trusiOn. His friends fear that pro-
longcd strike will mean a serious break
ing down on his part. From pttSDurg
also comes the announcement that The
trust has scored point having Success
fully landed trainload of nOn-unonists
10, at 4, "a =,
proposed to start The Carnegie mills,
where there has been some trouble,
have started with full crews--A force
of ECuadOrean troops is ready to in
wade Columbia, and a battle is immi-
nent near Paste, just beyond the Co
lombian frontier, and about $50 miles
northeast of QuitO-The internation-
al bicycle race from Paris to Brest and
return, distance of $50 miles, was won
by Garin, who covered the entire course
in ~ hours aud II minutes-The
steamer Islander of the Canadian Pa
cific Alaskan line struck an iceberg and
sank Immediately Sixty-fve lives
were lost--The International Asso-
citation of Textile Workers and the
American Federation of Textile Work
ers met at New York. and indorsed the
action of the Fall River operatives in
resisting proposed reduction of wages
SMALLPOX outbreak i'll Boston; four
cases at detention house --Alabama'
Democratic managers plan to count
in" the constitution-Injec of
rabbits brains helping case of lock-
jaw at st. LouiS--CitizenS' union like
ly to support Seth Low for mayor of
New Receipts of wheat at Chi
cagO show large excess over Il week ago
Sixty seven lives lost in the wreck
of the steamship Islander, of DorgInss
Island, AlaSka-The Mark Lane tx
press estimates the worlds wheat or p
of exporting countries at l,339, eco DW
bushelS--Fall River mill situation s
strained, and the Cotton Manufactures
association may dissolve in consrCEc GO
Senator Plat says the New lo'k
vice crusade is "a flash in the pan and
that the evidence obtained amounts t.
nothing.
TUESDAY, AUG. 20.
Half of the men of the Pennsylvania
works of the National Tube company
joined the steel strikers, about 600 in
number. The rest are expected to come
out, as are also the FTankstOWn men,
GOO in number, making 1900 in all. The
Monnessen mills were started again by
strike breakers from the south. Two
mills of the Painter plant were also
started, and another large mill at the
Clark property was also operated for
the first time. There is a great fight
on for control of the Duquesne mills of
the Carnegie company, both sides claim
ig control-The mad struggle for life
when the Alaskan steamship Islander
went down recalls the awful wreck of
the La Bourgne, off the Newfoundland
coast, some years ago. There was the
same frantic fight for positions in the
boats on the part of passengers, though
| in this latter disaster the officers and
crew stood TO their posts noblv. Sixty
! four lives were lost
EDEN MILLS.
". l.. Bennett is visiting in Stowe.
Mrs. Clara Wheelock has returned from
Hyde Park.
: P T. DEMO and family have returned to
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