Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-04-02

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!. The French chamber OF deputie
passed the government bill for tn
suppression Of all forms OF teachin,
by the religious orders, and also pro
vides Tor the entire suppression o
such orders.
Aged Dedhsm. (Mass.) man elope,
and weds widow.
Timothy G. DAILY of Revere, Mass
brother Of Dan DAILY. dies. making tn,
fifth death in family within min,
: weeks.
w. ]. Bryan says the election thi.
fall is not for president, but for {
supreme court.
U. 8. Senator Burton of Kansa.
found guilty of accepting pay from
Rialto company in st. Louis court
ana appeuls at onoo.
Hon. j. H. Manley of Maine an
nounces his retirement from candida
cy for gubernatorial nomination on
account Of ill.health.
| Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff dies in
New York.
| Congressman Gillett of Massachu.
setts stirs up Southern senators by
his speech on race question.
George Chatterley qualities as exam.
iner OF machinery for the port of
Boston, and T. H. Taggart is trans.
ferred to the wool division from Phila.
delphia.
Chicago men put up $4,000 for the
Republican convention and the com.
mittee announces that a compromise
has been reached.
WEDNESDAY, March 30. 1904.
Kuropatkin sends report to Czar
from Mishtchenko Of serious engage.
ment near Chong.u, in which the Rus.
SLAMS retreated in good order, with a
loss of three killed, Is wounded; Japa.
nese loss unknown, but is said to have
been heavy.
Wallace H. Ham of Boston, sen.
fenced to Is or 20 years in state
prison.
Alarm caused In Berlin by a report
that the kaiser's throat trouble had
broken out again.
Autopsy performed this morning on
the bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
A. Brown, killed In the double TRACE.
dy at Roslindals, Mass, Saturday
morning; police gather more informa-
ton to controvert the story told by
Willis H. Wilson of the shooting of
mother and stepYather.
Child's lies nearly send five Chicago
men to gallows.
in Canada seize" by 7UGftf UGniffsd States States
government.
House committee ON naval affairs
recommends retirement as a warrant
officer of George F. Phillips, totally
disabled, and member of the crew of
the. Merrimac.
nurto,A ~. IIarrisnn. husband nf the
well-known authoress, dead.
Members Of the Panama canal COM
mission sail for Colon on tour of in.
spection, which will probably last
two months.
Sec. Hitchcock, in response to a
resolution, estimates that it will cost
but $5.400,0OO year to put the pen.
sion ruling Of Commissioner Ware in
to effect.
U. s. Senator Burton asks for ar
rest Of judgment in addition to de-
manding new trial.
THURSDAY, March 81, 1904.
Death Of Miss Laura Shuman of Rox-
bury, Mass, as the result of a run.
away accident.
Russians at Newchwang apologize
and rehoist the American flag which
had been pulled down; Japanese ad-
vance reaches the Pakchon river.
Congressman McNary makes an ur-
gent appeal in congress for the full
appropriation for Boston harbor, $780,
600, appropriation having been cut to
$350O00.
Lady Mimic, wife of governor gen.
eral of Canada, while skating fell and
broke her leg in two places.
Congregational church and dwelling,
both landmarks, destroyed by fire at
Wareham, Mass.
Stepson, daughter and domestic
bring suits against East Dedham's
aged bridegroom "for services rem
dered.'
Boston negroes memorialize congress
against the disenfranchisement Of col
ored men in the south.
Mr.. Bryan ordered to his seat at
the Bennett will hearing in New Haven.
being engaged in wordy war with
JuIige Stoddard, counsel for the widow.
Funeral Of Parker Dexter, boy slain
mysterlously at Randolph. Mass.
Hetty Green may win in the litiga.
ton over $l105 taxes which an insur-
ance company paid for her by mistake.
Factory Of the Nerby silver plate
cutlery company almost totally de-
stroyed by fire at Shelton, Conn; loss
$4,000.
French cabinet secure, according to
test vote in chamber of deputies.
Bartlett Of Georgia refers to the tar
ring and feathering at Marion, Mass,
in a reply to structures on the south
by Gillett of Massachusetts,.
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