News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-05-16
THE WEEKS NEWS
Friday, MAY II.

~ hiihoi oNN'uNht w MAJ lhN
day, the Russian parliament was in
augurated. Emperor Nicholas, sur
rounded by courtiers and all the POM
and panoply of power, delivered the
speech from the throne to the members
>of the two houses.
City Treasurer James b. Felker OF
Newburyport, Mass, was arrested anG
at session of the municipal court
hastily held. was remanded in default OF
bonds of $4,000 to the county Jail
charged with shortage in his accounts
Revolutionary movements or election
troubles in Panama which in any way
interfere with work on the canal zone
States in support of the Panama gov
eminent. Such is the tenor of instruc-
tions sent to Governor Magoon.
William Golding, a noted Maine
guide, was drowned in Boyden's lake
by the upsetting of his canoe.
A suit case containing $4,000 worth
of bonds, stocks and other securities,
many of which are said to be negotia-
BILE, was stolen from the High Street
Free Baptist church, Lynn, Mass,
where the Massachusetts Association of
Free Baptist Churches has been hold
ing its annual convention.
A step toward former civic conditions
was made at San Francisco when por-
ton of the United States marines We're
sent back to their ships and stations
The proposal of the United Mine
Workers of Illinois to hold a joint con-
ference with the coal operators of Hi
nois has been accepted by the latter.
Saturday, May IL.
Professor Petrie, the Psychologist
has discovered the remains of the tenn
pie of Onais at Tel-el Yahudich 0he
mound Of the jew, IS miles north of
Cairo, and has brought to light evil
dences of the presence of the Hyksos
kings fhe Shepherd kings in the Delta.
Abe Attel of San Francisco and Kid
Herman of Chicago fought 20-round
draw at Los Angeles. The fight was
fast throughout.
The investigation by the Suffolk
county Boston) grand jury of alleged
bribery in the legislature will be con-
tinued at the June sitting of the grand
jury.
The demands of the carmen en-
ployed by the Boston and Northern and
Old Colony Street Railway companies
for fiat rate scale of % cents an hour
and nine-hour day have been refused
The United States government Sc
cured an unconditional surrender of the
so-called paper trust" in the United
States circuit court at st. Paul.
Investigations which followed the
mysterious death of Charles L. Spier,
confidential agent for H. H. Rogers,
who died from a bullet wound at his
Staten Island home, disclosed the fact
that financial affairs We're more involved
than was thought.
The hope of the establishment of
friendly relations between the car and
the Russian parliament has been fur
Their strengthened by an audience
granted by Emperor Nicholas at Peter
hof to President Mouromtseff of the
lower house.
The worlds record high run, 1Sinch
balk, two in, was broken by Willie
Hoppe, who set the new mark at BOT.
The freight handlers of the Boston
and Maine Railroad company, en-
ployed at the Boston freight sheds and
wharves, have been granted an increase
in wages.
Sunday, May 10.
Senator Tillman charges the preSi-
dent with breaking agreements made
with Democrats on the rate bill.
District Attorney Moran has decided
that he will put over until July the fur
Their examination of the alleged bribery
in the Massachusetts legislature.
Three men were hurt in railroad
freight wreck at Whitman, Mass. The
engine and three cars were piled up.
Yale defeated Princeton in track
meet, IS 3-4 to 25 IA points.
Wilhelm Meyer was arrested on the
charge of murder of his aunt in Ger
many on his arrival at New York.
Robert II. l. Goddard was nominated |
for United States senator by Rhode ISL
and Democrats and Independents.
The sultan has yielded to the demands |
Of Great Britain on the Tabah boundary. |
Driven ON lee shore by severe south.
west winds, the New York barkentine |
Hattie G. Dixon, bound for Boston |
from Baltimore with coal, is a total |
wreck off Edgartown, Mass. The cap |
tain and crew reached shore in safety. !
With 1000 tons of Chinese firecrack- |
ers, torpedoes and joss-sticks beneath |
her matches, steamer Yeddo arrived at |
Boston after completing in safety 49, |
)O0-mile voyage from Japan and China. |
The value Of the Yeddo's cargo is near
" 100000.
A meeting over which John A. Dowie |
presided at Zion City was broken up |
Dy number of followers of Overseer !
Voliva, assisted by several outsiders,
md before the crowd dispersed gen.
sBal fight ensued.
Monday, May ~.
An area of wood and bog land seven
miles in length and about six miles
vide has been swept in the towns of |
Carver and Plymouth, Mass, by fire.
Many hundreds of cords of cut wood,
lcres of cranberry boys and standing