News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-12-05
THE. WEEKS NEWS
MONDAY, Dec. 3.

The passage Of the appropriation
bills auu as little oth,r genera Ieg4sla'
,lon as possible Such in brief is the
forecast for the short session of the
FlftyNlnt session Of congress which
begun at noon today.
The transferrence of the administra-
lion of New Chwang by the japanese
20 China, has been completed. New
Chwang has been administered by Jap
an since the close of the Russo-Jap,
Gnese war.
Max I;uderman of Maiden, Mass, 20
years Of age, was arrested on the
charge of having set fire to the Maiden
CITY Lumber company's yards on the
night of Nov. s, when $4,000 damage
was done.
The consent of Postmaster General
Cortelyouf has been received to the
establishment of a Sunday postal de-
livery at Maiden, Mass, under the con-
tlitions that persons receiving their
mail shall pay 10 cents for the accom-
mediation.
All the section men along the entire
line of the Dominion Atlantic railroad
are out on strike to enforce demand
for IN increase in wages.
Lauded as a diplomat who tempered
statecraft with the golden rule, the late
John Hay was honored by the Jewish
people of Philadelphia when hand
some memorial window to him was I'M
yelled a tKeneseth Israel temple.
The car shortage throughout the
United States will be investigated by
the interstate commerce commission.
Sunday, Dec. 2.
Disaster fell to the passengers of a
train near Nergennes, VT, when a
heavily loaded gravel train, moving |
swiftly on Il down grade, crashed into |
it from the rear. Five passengers were
either killed outright or burned to death |
in the flames which quickly broke out |
in the wreckage.
The annual report of the graduate
treasurer of Harvard athletics for the
year 1906 shows a profit from all
sources Of $27,S16.12.
Mrs. Marie De Carlo, who was shot
at Williamsville, Conn, after quarrel
with Alexander Tdeschie, who had
been living at her house, died as re-
suit of her wounds.
There has come formal split in the
Polish Socialistic party in Russia. The
two divisions are now engaged in tight
ing each other with energy.
By a decree to be issued soon under
specific authority of the President of
The United States, the seats of all
members of the second series of the
Cuban congress elected in 1905 will be
declared vacant
Joseph Corsono, a farmer Of Wood
bridge Conn.,, was found lying in a
pool of blood in the street with four
inch cash in his scalp, his skull frac-
tured and a cut in the back. The police
are looking for Joseph Presta, who u
alleged to have been Corsono's assai!-
ant.
George Waterhouse, 65 years of age,
a veteran of the Civil war, was burned
to death in fire which totally destroyed
his house at Brattleboro, vt.
No., Saturday, Dec. I.
Scores of kilograms and letters have
been received by President Roosevelt,
commencing his course in dismisslng
without honor the members of the three
companies of the TWenty-ffth infantry.
Abraham Reuf and Chief of Police
Oman of San Francisco were Jointly i
indicted by the grand jury on a charge
of conspiracy in connection with the
alleged protection of a house of i'll 1
fame. I
The commissioners of the District Of ,
Columbia have revoked the licenses of
1S of the "a employment agencies in
Washington. The agents were charged
with securing girls for immoral pur- {
poses: e
The public ownership commission of /
the National Civic Federation is un-
derstood to be unanimously opposed to j
public ownership on the grounds that |
It is unscentific, wasteful and morally |
undesirable.
Leander Beal, one of the best known
men engaged in the wholesale clothing .
trade, died suddenly Of heart disease !,
while negotiating for family lot in a
Boston cemetery.
Mrs. Bertha Magersuppe of Dan d.
bury, Conn, who was acquitted two =,
ago on the charge of murder y.
ing her infant on the ground that she ,
was insane, was released from the
state asylum for the insane, having re-
covered her reason.
Mayor Thurston of Cambridge, !,
Mass, has filed a demand in the state
court for a recount of the
votes cast in the Democratic primaries .
by which his opponent was given the
by plurality Of one vote.
Friday, Nov. 80. o
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway company and recog- I
nized as one of the foremost men in
the development of the southern states.
and six other persons were killed in a
collision between two fast
trains near Lynchburg, Va. i
The explosion of a reburite factory
hear Amen, Germany, resulted in the =
deaths of 40 persons. Many others