News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-03-21
THE WEEKS NEWS
Monday, March 10.


burg, Mass, has been suspended be-
cause he is named AS correspondent in a
divorce suit
Dennis Donovan, eXmember of the
Boston police force, has been selected
for city marshal by the victorious
Democrats ut Augusta, Me.
United States Steel is to build plant
in Canada, according 10 Toronto
trade journal.
Three trainmen were killed and sew
eral injured in a collision Of freight
trains at Hudson, n. ii.
New York Life officials are securing
the whole world to secure proxies for
the coming election. Members of the
board of trustees are to reimburse the
company for the money spent in po-
litical contributions.
Mrs. Terrence McGovern objected to
her husbands attention to a pretty
actress. She waded into the Terrible
Terry" pulled his hair, cuffed him and
took him home.
The Adobe (Col) wreck was due to an
operator falling asleep after working
long hours. The death list totals %
Rev. Frederick e. Hamilton, recently
elected president of Tufts college, an
nounces that he has decided to accept
the position.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree was returned against John
Schidlofski by jury at Cambridge,
Mass. He was accused of having
killed his wife because she did not
have as much money as he expected she
did when he married her.
Sunday, March 1S.
Annie DeBryunion, aged 20, one of
two women who were nearly suffocated
in a fire which damaged Hotel Mar
lave at Boston, died as result
During a minstrel show in the Wo-
burn (Mass) auditorium a fire was dis
covered in the rear Of the stage but
through the efforts of six young men
who continued an act panic was
averted and the audience of nearly 1000
people gained the street few minutes
before the building was wrapped in
flames.
Lie StlIhS VI lub CUdl llliUSlS ul Itlu-
bridge, Canada, has caused so much
uneasiness among the citizens that the
northwest mounted police has been
placed in control of the town and mar
tial law prevails.
John b. Lewis has rung the church
bell of the First Parish Onitarian)
church at bingham, Mass, every Sun
day for 80 years with seven exceptions.
Former President Grover Cleveland
spent his Goth birthday in Florida,
where he will probably remain month
longer on account of poor health.
Vice Admiral Chouknin has rejected |
the appeal of Lieutenant Schmidt to set |
aside the verdict of death passed upon
him by a court martial for his part in |
the mutiny at Sebastopol, but has con-
ceded him the privilege of being shot |
instead of hanged.
Saturday. March ~.
Thirty-fve persons were crushed or |
burned to death in head-end collision |
Of two passenger trains near Adobe, |
Col, and nearly score of the victims |
were incinerated beyond Identification |
by a fire that destroyed the wrecked |
coaches. More than a score were in
jured, but all of these will probably re-
cover.
The last hope of Charles L. Tucker,
the condemned murderer of Miss Mabel |
Page of Weston, in the courts. has gone.
Justice Harlan of the United States SUI
Dreme court has denied the writ of error
applied for in behalf of Tucker by the
alters counsel.
General Manager Jones of the Cen
raj Vermont Railroad company has is
sued a statement saying that there is
not the slightest danger of a strike of
he railroad employees or of serious diff
,ulties of any nature.
Richard Andrews, negro, was
hanged at Washington, Ca, for crIm-
nally assaulting a 5-year-old girl.
Andrew Hamilton's statement before
he legislative investigating committee
1t Albany will not interfere with the
suits which the New York Life InSur-
nee company proposes to bring against
him.
The railway naturalization bill
passed the japanese house of repre-
entatives by vote of 243 to 100.
An airship company, having as its
lefnite object to construct and expert
nent with war craft, has been formed
It Berlin.
A movement has been instituted by
President James of the University of
illinois for the appointment of an edu-
'ational commission for study of the
ocial, intellectual and Industrial sit
lation in China, with a view to the re-
generation of the Chimes empire.
Friday, March is.
The alleged plot to assassinate Rev.
Dr.. Charles Parkhurst, the noted New
FORK divine and reformer, was all a
loax, according to a confession made
" Lawrence Rogers, the man who told
he story upon which the investigation