News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-01-31
THE. WE. {. K 5 NEWS
Monoay, Jan. 20.

DR.. Henry r. Searles was held in
$1,000 bail at Scranton, Pa. on a charge
of bigamy, preferred by Mrs. Sadie a.
II. Searles Of " orcester, Mass.
Charles Louis Tucker, convicted of
the murder of Mabel Page, was sen
fenced at Cambridge. Mass, to die by
the passage Of electricity through his
body during the week beginning June
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Poultney Bgelow has staked $1,000
with the Louisville Courier-JOurnal to
be forfeited if his charges concerning
the work of the government at Panama
can be disproved.
Seven buildings connected with the
United States training station at New
port, r. l., were destroyed by fire, caus-
ing an estimated loss of 100000. The
buildings destroyed were the detention
building, machine shop, paint shop,
paymaster's storehouSe. carpenters
shop and two small storehouses.
The business section of Moodus,
Conn, was destroyed by fire. The loss
will be about $4,000 The fire is be-
lieved to have been started by thieves.
A dynamite bomb. hurled through a
second story window of the house OF
Paul Mosczynicki at Worcester, Mass,
exploded and tore away the rear part
of the house, blowing out the floors and
rear wall Twenty people were asleep
In the house. but no one was injured.
Mrs. Frank W. Shattuck, aged 40,
wife of the pastor of the Advent Chris
tan church of Whitman, Mass, was
burned to death in the parsonage
through the overturning of a lamp. Her
husband was conducting a service at
the time scarcely 200 feet away.
Dependency and anxiety are be-
heved to have been the causes of the
suicide by poison of Town Treasurer
Fred c. Brown of Cheshire, Mass.
With a tire of a rear wheel gone be-
fore the 10th mile, running on the bare
rim at top speed, Clifford carp in 90
horse power automobile, broke the
worlds record for 100 miles, making the
distance in 1:15:4O %.
Japan's actual outlay for the war;
from the beginning Of hostilities to
their end in September last. was, for the
army, $685. 100000, and for the navy
$90,000,000.
Sunday, Jan. 2S.
Colonel Mann, editor of Town Topics,
was arrested and held in $4,000 bail
on a charge of perjury growing out OF
his testimony in the recent criminal
In nc aouincf Norman
Hapgood, editor of Golfers Weekly.
Captain Van Schaick, master of the
Inflated excursion steamer General
Slocum, in the burning of which more
than 1000 lives were lost, was found
guilty of neglect contributing to the
disaster and sentenced to 10 years i'm
prisonment.
New grouping of the European pow
ers was forecasted in a toast of the
car to the German emperor as my
brother and very dear friend"
Edward f. Cole was found guilty of
murder for the killing of John +.
Sleeves by jury at Portland, Me.
William Van Reypen, Jr., son of the
rear admiral, committed suicide in New
York.
Castro replies to the joint note of the
diplomatic corps that any of them
may get Xaigny's treatment.
Two magnificent services are being
made in. Providence for Alice Roose-
yelt's wedding presents. One is Of sill
Yer, 80 pieces, to cost $4,000, and another
Is of silver and gold, for state occa-
lions, to cost 500 a plate.
4 Contractor John McCord Of New
York was arrested after the fall of
steel Orders which killed one man and
injured six.
n Election results show a mighty
change in England. The Liberals claim
$40 seats. including all but Unionist.
Home rule is said to be actually in
sfght. ..sa~,s~
Saturday, Jan. At.
That he draws $4,000 annually from
the Clover Leaf route was an admis-
sion made by Chairman Shonts of the
isthmian canal commission, which
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