News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-06-01
THE WEEKS NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY "a.

sian consul Ut OueIOO, SldtllS IudL the
Japs made ii land attack Oh Port Ar
thur aud that in dong SO they lost 49,
900 meH killed and WOuHQtd Russian
loss is placed at 5000 men: ultimate
t4tcULAe Of lighting not stated; report,
however, laChS c0ntlmar4On; explosion
Oh board uattieslip CroI at Cronstadt
ana 10 stONers silica; attributed to
traitors, as was the previous accident
TO TIE yessel-Joln ii. Thompson,
well known shipping man, and r. ?.
Foster, manager of the Royal Bank Of
Canada, drowned by capsiZing of their
boat in Lake OrOmoctO, n. B-Strik-
ing freight handlers threaten to tie up
New Haven road-Suicide at Warren,
Mass. of n. Il. Moore, prominent con-
tractor-Methodist ministers appoint
committee to see governor Of Massa-
chusets in relation to Sunday enter
Notwithstanding expected to
take hand i'll the shipyard strike at
Quincy, Mass, to hurry work on bat
tleships-First experiments with
wireless telegraph on the Pacific coast
WEDNESDAY, MAY %.
RumOrs of assault by Japanese on
Port Arthur defenses come from
source usually to ne discredited; latest
rumor modities the casualties to $4,000
killed or wounded; not confirmed in
any quarter-Frank Hayden and
George Dart, alleged ''yeggmen,"
plead guilty at Salem, Mass, to II
counts Of burglary-While attempting
to board electric train at Berkeley,
Cal, Professor Spinello, instructor in
French and Italian at University of
California, was thrown under wheels
and kilIed-Schedule filed by Sully
& Co. at New York show firm liabili-
ties of S3,5GS,93 and assets of $4,119,-
627-Prisoners arrested in raids on
New York pOolrooms discharged when
arraigned in CONTINUATION SENEGAL,
20, Florida SENEGAL, 49, sisters, drowned
at Southbridge, Mass, by capsizing of
boat-Bill permitting first-class hotels
to sell liquor between II o'clock and
midnight killed in Massachusetts legis-
lature-Fire at Newport, Ark, destroys
property valued at 500, 0OO-Former
Bank Treasurer Goggin of Nashua on
trial at Manchester, n. H-President
Roosevelt visits Groton, Mass, to at
tend the prize-day eXercises-New
York police make special arrange
ments to protect automobilists-
Some important problems in connection
with labor and the Panama canal not
yet settled-Interstate commerce COM
mission renews coal inquiry in New
York-BraZil closes the Amazon to
Peruvian imports of guns and ammuni-
tion-Sultan's son-in-law and other
high Turkish officials arrested and ban
ished.
THURSDAY, MAY 20.
Resumption of japanese activity in
Dictated in latest dispatches; Kuroki
advances several columns westward,
but retains main army in vicinity of
Flung Wang Chang; Japanese scouts in
small force also seen northeast of Muk-
demo chance of the freight
handlers in the Boston sheds of the
New York. Hew Haven and Hartford
railroad declaring strike in sympathy
with New York men who are out
farm of Thomas w. Lawson at Read
vile, Mass, Trotting park brought
SO, $780, or an average price of $4S6.33
Prank Hayden, one of the robbers
who committed many depredations in
eastern Massachusetts, sentenced at
Salem, Mass, to not less than 20 nor
more than 80 years in state prison;
George P. Dart, another of gang, given
from IA to 20 years-Ten miners suf-
located by gas and sulphur fumes from
a small locomotive in the workings of
Summit Branch Coal company at Will
Jamestown, Pa-AnOther brutal as
sault, similar to two previous ones at
New Haven, in which an unknown
young woman was assaulted in dark
street by man supposed to be a ne
gro-Bert Leonard and Joseph Ma
tale, each about Is years old, probably
drowned in Boston harbor during a
sCuall-All the business houses of any
Importance, large number of private
residences, principal hotel and pas
senger depot at Yazoo City. Miss. de-
stroyed by tire-Jury in case of James |
N. Tyner and Harrison ]. Barrett, |
tried on charges of conspiracy in con- |
nection with duties as law officers for |
the postOffice department, returns YER
dict of not guilty-Herbert Burgess.
H. and Harry Stoddard, 10, drowned |
at Waltham, Mass, while canOeing-
Governor Bates intimates that if Mas |
sachusetts supreme court decision has |
let down the Sunday bars he will act |
to restore Cornerstone of new |
Universalist church at Amesbury |
Mass, laid with Masonic ceremonies
X FRIDAY, MAY 81.
If report Of capture of Kin Chou by
Japanese turns out to be true, it will |
mark an important step in movement
toward Port Arthur; Kin Chou COM
mands narrow isthmus north of Port |
Arthur and it's loss would be an i'm
portant breach in outer line of Russian
DEMONSTRATIONS appoints Com
mander S. w. B. Diehl to succeed Cap
tain S. G. Lemly as judge advocate gen
eral of navy, when latter's term expires
June 3-Five masked burglars break
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