News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-30
THE WEEKS NEWS
TUESDAY. DEC. %.

OIpDAiB DEC.
Olney presidential boom gets a boost
at dinner of Democratic leaders at Bos-
ton--1wo assaults in Boston public
garden by holdup men, who used slung-
shots-Ba Battalion ire Chief Coleman
killed il blaze at New York--DipIo-
matte pressure being brought to bear
upOH Colombia ly European powers to
prevent war between tLat country and
United Sta tcs--Re voIvers of men,
bers Of Boston police depart nent found
unfit for use, owing TO improper kind
of oil being usGs-.-HeSt offices in New
York evidently going 10 district lead
ers--Steanship Amur strikes reef
at Port Simpson and is disabled
Christian party, Chattanooga, issues
call for national convention---Rail-
road wreck at Godfrey, Kas.; nine
killed and 20 njured-Alexande
Haff, New York postal superintendent,
charged with robbing mails, commits
suicide-EX-S Senator Chandler says
Spanish claims commission was influ-
enced in its decisions by President Nc
kmley's view of Weyler's policy
Japan's reply to Russia handed to
Baron de Rosen-Conhicts at Che
mulpo between japanese and Koreans
Consul Skinner cordially received in
the Abyssinian capital-Canada pro-
poses TO annex Newfoundland and to
purchase reenland-Col0mbia sol
diers land on Island of Pines, which is
i'll Panama territoT-Japanese pro-
tectorate over KoreG a suggested basis
of peace in far east,
! W WEDNESDAY. DEC. %.
Colombia warned by diplomats that
she need not rely on The Hague tri-
bupal for adjustment of Panama mat
ter-Receiver appointed for Windham
County National bank of Danieson,
Conn-Walter Carley and Andrew
Gallagher, fishermen, drowned off
SwampScott, Mass-Six thousand min
ers out in Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia because of cut of 10 cents a ton
in wageS-GovernOr of AleAandretta,
Syria, formally apologies for indigni-
ties suffered by United States Consul
Davis-Frank II. Rurness pleads
guilty of murder at New York and
coolly confesSes to killing four men
Boston board of police to present four
medals for bravery to members OF po-
lice departmeGt--Firs union label
funeral since strike held in Chicago;
strikers reject hitration-Chairman
of Maine game commission holds that
farmers may kill deer to protect crops
Attorney general of Rhode Island
finds no proper evidence of bribery in
Garvin's report--Governor Taft going
to Toxic to see the miIado-%No cab
met meetings to be held during the holt
day Observation-Disclosures seeks to
avoid brGSh-attarms With Colombia
CONGRESSMAN MCClellan's resignation in
the hands of Governor Odell---Presi-
dent receives from Manila charges
against Commissioner Legarda--Sec-
rotary Shaw notifies customs officers
that the Cuban reciprocity plan is in
effect on Dec. 2S-Cnban senate dis
cusses in secret the loan law--Ruling
on bonus will suspcI many purchases
under Irish land law--Cuban govern
ment accepts the American suggestions
as to the Isle of Pines--Pope Plus is
sues order warming Christian Demo
Gratis not to take art in italian politics
-Unprecedented number of Scandi-
navians have left the United States for
the holidays Of France
and Britain at Toxic believed to have
made peace III far east still possible.
THURSDAY, DEC. "a.
Sixty three persons killed in wreck
of passenger train near Connellsville,
Pa; ghouls rob dead and injured
assengers-Sharon, Mass, has it's
l2th incendiary Massachusetts
Democrats to ask Democrats of other
New England states to boom Olney for
presidential miratiOn--ColOnel w
w. Castle, examiner of machinery at
Boston custom house, suspended
Frank d. Perry, an official of the Wor-
cester and Southbrdge, Mass, Street
Railway company, files one Of the larg
est petitions in bankruptcy ever pre-
scented in MasSa ChusettS; liabilities of
nearly 81, )O0,000-Death of Rear Adj
miral Edwin White, Z. S. N--British
ship Olive Bank long overdue, arrives
dismasted at San FrlnciSco--NeW
Hampshire license commissioners de-
cline to pass upon Goodelrs Antrim
blacklist--Argu ncnt against the
theory that the jewellers of the Arctic
region are of preglacial origin-The
south anxious for action on the canal
-LadrOnes loot the treasury at BosO-
bose, LuzO1-GovGrnor Taft pardons
several Filipino prisoners-Hanna
definitely declines to serve as national
hairman--PhiIippln bond issue of
$7,250,0O0 necessary for friar lands
Agreement in the friar land sale signed;
takes effect in six months-Lawrence
o. Murray of Chicago appointed as
Sistant secretary Of commerce and labor
Paris bakers strike assumes Sc
rious prOpOrtiOns-Cuha expects phe-
nomenal sugar crop next year-Japan
said to have rejected fundamental
points in Russias reply--pope re
ceives cardinals and high preates and
seasons greetings are exchanged
Morales lands a strong force at Monte
Christi San TbOminUD and 1ofnots,