Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-12-17

FRIDAY, Dec. 8, 1904.
Mis-. Cassie l.. Chadwick in a cell
in the Tombs in New York, unable
to secure $4,000 bail; she makes a
lengthy statement, attributing her
troubles to the Newton suit and the
run on the Oberlin bank.
Mrs. Rogers told that Vermont leg
islature will not interfere; date for
hanging Is Friday, Feb. 3, 1868.
Jury for the trial Of Nan Patter-
son completed and Asst. Dist Atty.
Rand opens for the prosecution, laying
especial stress upon the part j. Nor
gan Smith is alleged TO have played
in buying the revolver with which
Young WAS shot.
City of Rome ablaze with illumina'
tions in honor of the jubilee OF the
immaculate geneept;on.
Grant Rogers. prohibition candidate
for governor of Maine In rOo, In
dicted by U, S. grand jury on charge
Of sending defamatory letter TO Boston
firm OF liquor dealers.
Some congressman fatty deny tnat
he presidents massage was the canse
of the stump in stocks; rebate section
has strong popular support.
Japanese heavily damage Russian
ships at Port arthur; Peresviet and
Pobieda sunk: battering the Pallada.
At least 12 miners killed In an en-
plosion in Washington.
Syveton, the French deputy who
struck Gen. Andre, found dead in his
apartments; friends refuse to think 1t
suicide.
James Jeffrey Roche appointed to
the u. s. consulship al Genoa, ltaly.
Eagle degree team Of Middletown,
Conn, charged with assault by initiate
found not guilty.
Massachusetts state board OF har'
Dor and land commiss OneEs hears ar
guments for and against the state
dry dock undertaking.
SATURDAY. Dec. 10, 1904.
-Four men rounded up in Boston In
connection with recent $4,000 dia'
mond robbery.
Death Of Capt. Joseph w. Collins,
chairman of the Massachusetts state
fisheries and game commission.
Receivers named for the Neafie H.
Levy Shipbuilding company of Phi'a'
delphia.
Policeman william McClougfrey
shoots himself at Lowell Mass.
Two little English children, tagged
like freight, arrive at Boston on Sax
onia and sent to destination, Lowell.
| Locomotive smashes into trolley car
filled with young people near Portland
Me-; all hurt, several seriously.
Bill for commission to examine con-
dition of Mrs. Rogers passed by Yer,
mont house and killed by senate.
Fire losses in the United States and
Canada in the first II months OF 1904
were 1892 ,94l 100.
Six bank burglars captured near Yet
ter, Iowa, through the refusal OF q
little yellow dog to leave the hay
stack in which they had concealed
themselves.
Fearful fighting in the assault on
Port Arthur of Nov. &c, q and %;
ferocity of assailants only equalled by
desperate bravery of the garrison.
Cruiser Pallada on fire and sterr
sunk: the armOred cruiser Bayar
burning, and the transport Amur sunk
the largest destruction worked by tht
Jap guns at Port Arthur.
Prelihainary evidence of the state
gone over in the Nan Patterson muf
der trial without developing anything
materially different from that submit
ted at the mis.trial.
Schooner William Churchill, from
Boston to Wilmington, N. C., Nov.
with eight men, probably lost In hurrl
cane.
Mrs. Howard Could sued for $500
for a portrait of herself which she OF
dered and will not accept.
MONDAY. Dec. 12, 1soE
Four OF crew of fishing schooner Fis
Hawk drowned of Cape Cod, five otl
ers rowed l8 miles and reached PFC
vincetown, half-frozen; vessel safe
rode over treaSherOus bars.
Three Boston schooners long ovel
due given UP as lost with 70 lives /
November hurricane.
Census bureau reports more boy
born than girls in this country.
St Petersburg In riot over demol
stration OF social democrats In oppos
ton to the war and In demand OF
popular assembly.
Jsps opened heavy fire on Russia
position at Mukden; Russians use
searchlights and repelled advance; sti
battering shipa at Port Arthur.
, Philippe Bmna.Varilla says sea,lev'
, canal at Panama Is not only possibl
but must ultimately be built; lock pla
: sufficient till traffic reaches 4OOOO,Ot
{ tons.
3 Miss Daisy Letter to wed the earl I
t Suffolk and Berkshire.
Z Lumber contractor shot at Leblanc
= Me-. in dispute over a boundary lin'
: John Goodwin arrested.
{ Captain of American steamer pr
! tests against reckless target practi
of British vessels off Plymouth.
Letter written by DR.. Thach
Graves, who died under the accusatit
of numbering Mrs. J. b. Barnaby
. Providence, found in cell at Denver.
! House of North Att!eboro, Mas
clergyman robbed while he was preac
: ing.
e TUESDAY, Dec. 49, ~.
U Two indictments found against MI