Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-01-23

FRIDAY, Jan. is, 1904
Death of ex-Gov. Bushnell of Ohio
Strange manner of reconciliation be.
tween husband and wife In q Somer.
vile, Mass, hospital. husband died
shortly afterward.
Boston man hurt in trolley car acci-
dent in Brooklyn.
Washington diplomats in state OF
nervous tension over far eastern ques-
tion; Cassni angry over his own blum.
ders and American sympathy with
Japan.
Preliminary session of Panama con.
stitutional convention held at isthmian
capital; promulgation in 10 days.
Capt. David +. Whittier, alderman
elect, who has been missing from Ha-
verhill, Mass, since Dec. 15, seen in
New York, and is to enlist in regular
army.
London dispatch from Seoul says ma
tive press Is melting Koreans to kill
all foreigners: U. S. Minister Allen has
ordered American women ana children
to remain indoors.
SATURDAY, Jan. IS, 1904.
President Eliot of Harvard calls la
Dor unions and democracy America s
two chief dangers; he can foresee no
settlement of labor trouble except by
shedding of blood"
william H. Hourin Of Roxbury,
Mass, drives his wife and daughter
from home and tries unsuccessfully to
kill himself.
Schooner Albert Pharo goes ashore
near Portsmouth, N. H., harbor, but
is floated later.
EX-Congressman Glover OF Missouri
again arrested in Cripple Creek, hav.
ing deliberately broken his parole.
Boston-owned schooner, Rebecca A.
Taulane, abandoned at sea.
Worcester, Mass, continentals re-
dedicate their hail.
Defence scores point in the Ma
chen trials; eX-First Assistant Post
mast General Perry S. Heath on the
stand. -.
Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland is-
sue statement thanking all for sympa-
thy expressed because of their daugh.
ter's death.
Gen. Fred w. wellington of Worces-
ter, Mass, retires as commissary gem
eral of the NJ. V. M. and Gen. F. b.
Carpenter of Boston succeeds him.
Edward X. Lands, noted Philadel-
phia chemist, shoots and kills his wife
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William O'Brien of Salem caught in
shafting and killed in factory at Lynn,
Mass.
Majestic theatre in New York has
O. double experience with an audience
In a state of excitement closely bor-
dering on panic.
Hanna says he has sent out 1000
personal letters denying he is canli.
date for the presidency; it's now
closed incident; call will be issued in
few days.
First formal session of the Panama
constitutional convention.
Lord Charles Beresford suffering
from concussion of the brain as a re-
suit of hunting accident.
Body of ex-Gov. Bushnell in Spring
field, O.. for the funeral Monday.
Heavily.laien street car In Detroit
run down by train and "a persons
are injured, seven badly.
MONDAY, Jan. 1s, 1904.
Morse building at Sharon, Mass, de-
stroyed by unknown incendiary.
News receIyed of the death at Biar-
Mother of Capt. Hobson dies in Boul-
der. Col.
Admiral Keppel father OF the Brit
ish navy, dead.
Gen. Deschamps forced to take re-
fuge in U. s. consulate on government
troops capturing Porto Plata.
Boat in Mammoth cave, containing
IS persons including Boston woman,
sunk in eight feet of water and occu-
pants have narrow escape.
Cars recent utterances check war
talk in Russia.
Ohio river never before was SO long
frozen over.
With 33 theatres and 20 churches
closed Chicago has its dullest Sunday
of years.
Miss Annie M. Lawrence of Worces-
ter, Mass. charged with stealing $1,000
from her employer.
Perry Heath says strong Hanna SEN
timent exists.
Pursuers of William j. Reid now
think he has reached the Adirondack
region, where opportunities for con-
cealment are many.
Blondin's counsel says wife MUIR
derer's confession has removed any
hope of pardon for him.
Despondent because of business
troubles. Harry S. Twambley commits
suicide by taking potassium cyanide at
Me.
Search of the wreck of the Brainerd
made for the bodies of her six miss
ing men.
TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 1904.
Ex-City Treasurer Glincs Of Haver-
hill, Mass, indicted by grand jury at
Salem on 55 counts for embezzlement;
city may lose heavily as result of
thefts
Secretary Moody asks Kittery navy
yard authorities for estimate OF cost
of rebuilding the frigate Constitution |
in order that he may ask congress for
an appropriation.
Crew of schooner Emelia saves three |
fishermen from drowning off Race |
Point; pilot boat sinks fisherman off |
Maine coast.
Nearly 80 drowned and 1T9 buildings |
destroyed by bursting of reservoir
at Bloemfontein, Orange river colony. !
Opening of the annual convention Of !
The Soldiers Idle Time.
Military life is necessarily made up
argely of loafing. You cannot keep