News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-03-30


the Phllippines-Chicago importers
urged to organize to fight European
discrimination against our exports
Commerce Commissioner Prouty be-
lieves the Northern Securities decision
will not result in breaking up any more
binations-Cuban crops large,
with excellent market-French cler-
icals obstruct education bill in cham
Der Of deputies-Queen Alexandra en-
joys innocent dinner at the Alexandra
Trust-Two men sentenced to three
years Imprisonment in France for per-
jury in the Fair will case-New evil
dence to show that traders by abusing
Hereros were the chief causes of rising
in German Southwest Africa-French
public minister attorney generaD holds
that Colombia has no case against the
canal company or the liquidators.
SATURDAY, MARCH 20.
Russians said to be in large force
south of the Yalu; battle expected soon
Wallace II. Ham of Boston pleads
guilty 10 II counts against him charg-
ing thefts from American Surety COM
pany and ST. Luke's convalescent home;
sentence deferred-House judiciary
committee recommends impeachment
of Judge Swayne of Florida-Britt
defeats Young Corbett" in lightweight
fight for mpionship-State board
of arbitration settles Lynn shoe strike,
both sides making CONCESSIONS
Dartmouth men begin raising money to
rebuild Dartmouth hall-Seventeen
candidates for vacant supervisorship of
Boston schools-Sing1e fare by trolley
between Boston and Worcester to be
advanced April Fire at Presque
Isle, Me-, causes loss OF $4,000
Space allotted to Russia at st. Louis
is awarded to HOlland-Forty fac
tories at Grand Rapids, Mich, forced to
close owing to f1oods-Several hun
dred beef-luggers and butchers at
Chicago Union stockyards on strike
Samuel GOmpers declares economic and
social conditions in Porto Rico deplor-
able-Northern Securities interests
making plans for settlement of all diff
ferences-Census bureau estimate of
the amount of last year cotton ginned
10,399.55S bales-Severe storm in the
west; many houses unroofed; several
people injured; heaviest snowstorm of
winter in North Dakota-Reform
scheme in Macedonia soon will be in
full observation-disclosures reduces army
to one battalion and the navy is offered
for sale.
SUNDAY, MARCH 81.
General Mistchenko reports Skin
mish between patrols at PAX Chieng;
one japanese officer, a soldier and a
horse killed; Kuropatkin reaches Muk-
den; MakaroG goes out from Port
Arthur on reconnOissance-Fra A.
Brown Of Roslindale, Mass, a scenic
artist, kills his wife and commits sui
cide-Dan DAILY, member of the
famous DAILY family of actors, dies
from hemorrhage at New York-Bill
for the better protection of the person
of the President of the United States
and of amba ssadors and ministers of
foreign states reported by the senate
committee on udiciary-Actress Rose
John T. Sullivan denied by Montana
court-Stones fail to derail train near
WOllaston, MIass-Nine suits of Lon
dOn-made clothes seized in the hold of
the steamer Georgian at Boston
Daniel j. Sully, at meeting of his
creditors, makes formal charge of
treachery against Edwin Hawley and
Frank H. Ray who, he says were his
partners in cotton operations-M
Mein of Indiana supplies the house
with an estimate of the cost of the re-
cent pension ruling, showing the annual
cost Of its application to be in excess
of $14,O00,0 00-Great damage done by
floods in Michigan and the middle west.
MONDAY, MARCH %.
Another attempt made by japanese to
block the entrance to Port Arthur and
bottle up the Russian fleet by sinking
four tireships in entrance to harbOr,
which were conveyed by eight torpedo
boats discovered by Russian torpedo
boats and sunk by guns of forts and
Russian ships lying in outer harbor,
which opened terrific fire; japanese sail
away, leaving harbor still clear-Par-
ker Dexter, IL years old, mysteriously
and fatally shot in his home at Ran
dolph, Mass, while everyone, except
his brother Harris, IA, was absent from
house, shooting done by a stranger,
who suddenly appeared at house
While George Collins is being hanged in
Missouri jury finds William Rudolph
guilty of participation in same murder
DR.. d. G. Hendricks, whose son has
been subject of contest in Boston
courts, arrested and discharged at Ches
ter, VT, on charge of riotous conduct
Show at Globe theatre, Boston.
brought to a sudden termination by the
trough house" of Phillips Andover
students-Mayor DAILY calls for more
home rule in Cambridge, Mass
Bridges and small mills carried away
and railroad traffic impeded by spring
freshets in northern Vermont and New
Hampshire.