News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-30

NlOlC Threatening lNlltlc hNllA-tll'ii
money from Morgan, Rockefeller, Car
negie, Marshall Field, J. o. Armour and
others, arrested at ChicagO-'ieneral
A. L. Rockwell of Boston dies suddenly
at New Haven-Chicago grand jury
sharply clitciSeS the conduct of IRE
spOnsibe organizations in the recent
strikes Anthracite mines closed for
10 days and 10000 men and boys idle
Mayor elect Mcclellan and Con.
troller Grout sworn in at New York
RECOMMENDATION that Brooklyn
bridge be rebuilt at a cost Of $5,500,000
boston custom officials and mer.
chants intimate that the cause of the
uptu"n at the custom house is due TO
New York's envy of Boston's business
More trouble with his creditors in
store for Dowie-PreSentat of
Wagner's ''ParsifaP' in New York
huge Chicago "bliud" beggar
sees Il silver quarter too quickly and
is fined 500 in court-Captain Drey-
fus case to be heard once more, this
time by a civil tribunal; believed he
will be restored to military rank
Japan's naval and military forces ready
to start at a moments notice.
SATURDAY, DEC. 20.
W. l. Buchanan, United States min
lister to republic of Panama, presents
his credentials to provisional govern
ment--Another name added to death
list resulting from wreck OIL Baltimore
and OHIO railroad at Dawson, Pa, max
ing total number G5-BrOoding over
inability to purchase Christmas gifts
for his three motherless children,
Joseph Phillips, Il Holowvilh, n. Y,
farmer, murders the children and
hangs himself-Joseph j. McCarty,
formerly city comptroller of st. Paul,
agreed upon as successor of Henry A.
Castle in office of auditor of postOflice
department-Whil hunting in the
woods at Weston, Mass, Albert Schaller.
JS, was accidentally shot by his own
gun; his condition rehabilitation
Mcdonald, colored heavyweight pugil-
tst, shot and killed by w. II. Atkins
another negro, at San Francisco
'0N'HuOi = ~ tl y, lOI 1IitI new I13ldIlU
agent for the Midland Oil company of
Minneapolis, with offices in Boston,
wanted on the charge of larceny of
nearly $4,000 from his employers
Severe earthquake shock lasting about
eight secondsSoccurs at Los Angeles
Cal-SeEatof Hanna, taken i'll several
days ago in New York, able to be
about
SUNDAY, DEC, 81.
Clyde line steamer KiOWa run down
and sunk in Boston harbor by fruit
steamer Admiral Dewey; crew of the
lost vessel all rescued scow
General Poe sunk in Broad sound, Bos.
ton harbor, and three men drowned
Granville w. Garth, president of Me-
chanics' National bank OF New York. on
his way to Galveston for health, COM
mits suicide by throwing himself from
steamship Denver--Horse attached to
a coupe wanders off a RostOn pier and
both are at bottom of harbor---.--Col4
Onel Meade OF marine corps is retired
BOSTON afshing schooner Allen H.
uOilCo iNo|S wv vi ItI ulHI Ill tue
storm; Captain Bandura refuses to be
rescued by vOlunteers--Twenty
killed and 80 injured in "a collision on
Pete Marquette railroad near East
Paris, Mich--New York to have office
building IS stories, 615 feet high
Presidents wife cnterains 500 little
children at the White House and en-
joys herself greatly--CoRd and
motorman battle with Italians in car
at Fall River---Providence police
threatened by aniunknoWn writer with
a repetition OF the Baltimore and Ohio
wreck horror---New Haven infant dies
of the effects OF rum and Wine said to
nave been given it by its parents; an
other child found suffering from
similar cIuse-OliverA A. Schosser. for
merly of Chicopee, Mass, mysteriously
disappears from Greenville, S. c.
Prospective brides in Chicago victims
of anonymous letter writer-Baron
HayaSEi, japanese minister to the court
of st. names, says Japan will be
| obliged to go to war unless Russia
modities the position taken up in her
| last note"
MONDAY, DEC. 2S.
Boston police raid cheap lodging
houses and gather in 60 hoboes in
search for crooks--GlOuceSter schoon-
ca Independence wreck on Newfound-
| land shOre-AoIey distributed among
| Fall River street railway men by A.
| G. notwithstanding Root de-
| clines to take management of the Re
publican calnpaigp-DiSSens exist
in Tammany over the distribution of
atronage-NIinister Bowen sails from
New York for Venezuela after years
absence-W. Z. Cody purchases Wild
West shows from the heirs of Nate
Saulsbury-Fred AID Max Craven,
brothers, drowned in river at Lymans-
vile, r. 1.-Two persons severely in
jured by gas tank explosion Mt War
rem, X. l.-White man and two negro
women accused Of many New York rob-
beries-Amesbury, Mass, police to be
armed with guns, besides reyolvers-
Diplomatic delays obviate warlike
move by Colombia for weeks to come
Lady Montague baked in her we'd
ding plans by Minnesota laws-Franl1
Rn1 SLOW killed i'm an alpVo tor q cci6 on, 4