Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-04-02
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FRIDAY. March rs, 1904
London paper gets report that Jap
anese succeeded in sinking seven mer
chant ships In desired positions" II
harbor mouth at Port Arthur; Russis
breads Japanese landing on west ol
Liaotung gulf, neutral territory.
President Roosevelt to decline all
speaking invitations this year and
will not visit st. Louis fair on opening
day.
Mrs. Ruperta May Whittier Of HavD
erhill, Mass. sues her missing hus
band for divorce.
Disappearance OF Everett Abbott of
the American marine transportation
company Of Boston said to be due to
mental arrangement
Heavy storm OF wind and rain does
extensive damage south of Chicago.
unrooflng many buildings, injuring
many and killing three men at In.
diana Harbor.
Brakeman William A. Mandigo of
Boston loses right arm at Fitchburg.
G. H. N. Johnson Of Bridgeport,
Conn, accidentally knocked into har.
Dor, swims 100 yards and remains an
hour In Icy water before rescued.
Mr.. Wyndham gives figures In house
of commons, showing satisfactory op.
GRAFTON of the Irish land act.
Sir Edwin Arnold. author of "The
Light of Asia," dead In London.
Dublin exposition meetings breaks
up in disorder. Its radical members ad.
vocating purely national enterprise.
Capt. Parker J. Hall, who sails his
100.ton schooner Angler alone, leaves
Nantucket, where he has ben frozen
in since November.
Southern manufacturers protest
against eight-hour law before commit
tee at Washington.
Carol d. Piper arrested at Wolf
boro, N. H., on embezzlement charge;
his father, ex.cashier OF the bank, de-
clared by physicians to be legally in
sane.
SATURDAY, March 26, 1904.
Russian troops about Anju are re-
ported to be pillaglng the country and
the natives are fleeing to the south in
terror; armies face each other at the
Anju river; Chinese empress dowager
vetoes scheme of the Chinese generals
to conclude alliance with Japan.
House committe on judiciary recon-
mends the impeachment of Judge
Charles Swayne Of the u. s.. district
court Of northern Florida.
Harriman's objections to the North
a receivership.
Sundry civil appropriation bill in
congress contains many items of in
terest to Boston and New England.
City department unions of the coun.
try to organize national at conven-
tion to be held in Springfield, April Is.
One arrest made ana Two mUre or.
dered by Coroner Goldenkranz Of New
York In connection with the death of
Charlotte Tucker Of Boston.
Cruiser Denver leaves for New Eng
land to make her second official speed
trial.
Mrs. Richard R. Bowles badly hurt
in runaway accident at Weymouth,
Mass. 90"
Senator Platt heads the Tioga coun-
ty delegation to the New York Repub-
lican convention, which delegation has
been instructed for Roosevelt
Enormous importations of sugar at
New Orleans.
John Grady saves life Of his boss at
Worcester, Mass, and then murderous-
ly assaults him.
Gardner X Lewis of Sharon. Mass,
on arson charge.
Committee on judiciary, after a Sc
ries of spirited hearings. authorizes a
favorable report on the Hepburn-Dolli-
yer "original package" bill.
MONDAY, March %, 1904.
The Japanese made second inef-
fectual attempt to bottle up the Rus
sian fleet in Port Arthur; two Japan
ese torpedo boats and one Russian de-
stroyer reported damaged and four
Japanese steamers lost; Gen. Kuro-
patkin arrives at Moukden.
First meeting will be held April 4 |
to vote on the selection Of a coadjutor
bishop of the Boston archdiocese.
Saratoga man murderously assaults |
wife and sets fire to her bed; woman
and child die.
City Marshal James Fogerty of Dov-
cr, N. H., dies suddenly.
George Blanchard of Tyngsboro |
drowned and Chester Queen barely res
cued in first canoe accident Of season
at Lowell, Mass.
Lawyer H. u. Rustedt of Richford. |
VT, swept into river and drowned |
while watching ice break up; bath
house carried away at Springfield;
damage at other New England points.
Half of Indiana under water, several |
lives lost and property loss is enor-
nous.
BY the emperor's invitation, Anlbas-
sador Meyer dimes with William on
board the imperial yacht at Naples.
Gloucester sailor supposed to have
been drowned while attempting to |
board vessel.
Five buildings destroyed in $4,000 |
fire at Chester, vt.
Cry of fire starts fearful panic dur
Ing services in Italian church at New |
Haven.