News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-02-24


| New York, but no radical changes are
llkely-Considerab damage done in
upper New York by the bursting of a
| big water main-CenSus bureau gath
ering statistics of special classes of
Notwithstanding Taft declares
no Americans are in the slave trade in
the philippineS-GO sues
Western Express company, which is
charged with doing a liquor business
British ship Lake Michigan in col
lsion with the barque Matterhorn-
Smallpox on the battleship Maine,
which is in quarantine at Guantanamo
Senator Wark of Fredericton, n. B.,
celebrates the Tooth anniversary of his
birth.
SUNDAY, FEB. 81.
No general engagement of japanese
and Russian armies in the far east has
yet taken place, although an encounter
in Korean territory Feb. 10 is reported
in which Russian accommodating
party of COSSacks took several Japan
csc prisoners; mobilization of troops
rapidly proceeding, however, and the
prediction is repeated in st. Peters
burg advices that decisive battle will
soon be Waged near the Yalu river
Entire crew of abandoned bark Carl
Gustaf brought to Boston by steamer
Queenswood-Every drug store in
Boston undergOes a searching eXami-
nation by policemen with regard to the
presence and sale of liquOr-Dart-
mouth students lost heavily in burning
of Dartmouth hall-Price of -four in
Boston going up-Millionaire Hecker
of Detroit selected for Panama COM
mission-POrto Rican assembly e.
mandS either statehood or independence
Admiral Fremantle savagely criti-
clses AleXieff's conduct of operations in
the far east--Russian, German and
French ambassadors leave Great Brit
ain on visits home, which are declare
without significance-Wife of Post
master General Payne robbed of $1,000
in jewelry and $3.50 in cash-Ex
cashier of Equitable National bank of
New York city arrested on charge of
raising a stock ertificate-Charles
Bieakle company wooden corporation.
killed by fly wheel of engine in the mill
at Hyde Park, Mass-Baltimor tOask
legislative authority to borrow $1,000
OOO for lmprovementS-Ch Chicago grand
jury finds five indictments in Iroouois
theatre fire case and exonerates Mayor
Harrison-Insurgent Albanians are
beaten in North Albania battle, losing
800 men; Turks also lost heavily
Archbishop Farley's arrival in Rome
revives talk of another American car
dinal-Baron Rogniat, French sub,
scriber to the shipbuilding trust wants
tc fight duel with Charles NJ. Schwab.
MONDAY, FEB. %.
Gables still absolutely silent with re.
gard to the progress of war, but there
are vague rumors of land fighting; st
petersburg correspondent of Paris edi
ton of New York Herald talks of
Russian respulse on the Yalu river with
a loss of 2500 lives; these rumors are
unconfirmed; tens of thousands of jap
anese advancing by forced marched
from various parts of Korea on the Yalu
Powder mills at Wayne, N. j., blown
up by a spark, killing three men
Perry S. Heath resigns as secretary of
the Republican national committee
Mexican sugar trust, formed about
year ago, goes into quidation-Iowa
supreme court rules that a tramp has
some rights on a train--Goyerno
Odell preparing to make a hot fight for
party control in New York-War de.
partment anxious over revival of oppo
Bition to General Leonard Wood-As
sistant secretary of state will investi
gate conditions in San Domingo
President of Honduras, fearing muir
der, proclaims dictatorship-M issis
sippi senate, exclusively Democratic
adopts Hanna resoutions-Henrv
Watterson comedies Kentucky to Bryan
and Hearst forces-C California Re.
publicans may endorse U. S. Grant, Jr..
for the vice presidency-W Wheat rises
to $107 a bushel in Chicago. and
Armour clears S30O,OOO-Batb Me
people anxious for DR.. ]. f. Smith. who
is missing-Congress may make an
early adjournment possibly rising by !
April 15-Fire in an insane asylum
near Racine, Wis; all the patients res |
cued--LorenZo Crosby. a Mormon |
elder, shoots and kills himself at Kansas |
City Seventeen Democratic senators |
are counted on to vote for canal treaty |
Explosion Of carload Of dynamite in