News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-05-16

were boating ut Turner's Fails, Mass.
their boat was caught in an eddy and
carried over the falls, and all three mel
were drowned.
Donate Pennela, an italian, fatally
stabbed Antonio Agnello, 80 years old
at New Bedford, Mass. The murder
occurred in crowded street. but little
is known as to what led up to the crime
Mount VAsuvlus is in eruption
Thick vapors and sand are being ex-
PEELED and the electrical phenomenon
continues, but the situation is not grave,
Thursday, May 10.
Joseph Letter, who carried on a spec
tacular corner" in wheat eight years
ago, has been suspended from mem
bership on the Chicago Board Of Trade
Charged with having embezzled up
wards of 100000 from his employers,
Edwin S. Greenfield, head clerk and
trusted representative of the banking
and brokerage firm of Harrison Snyder
& Co., Philadelphia, was held in $4,000
bail.
Senator German of Maryland is criti'
cally i'll at his home in Washington. He
is suffering from a complication of all
ments, with no promise of his recovery.
The reichStag passed bill taxing
automobiles, according to their horse
power, from 2 to 10 marks per horse
power.
Reports from the Gloucester fishing
fleet. which has returned to New Eng
land waters from a cruise as far south
as Cape Henry in pursuit of mackerel,
indicate that the senasOn has been a
practical failure.
The board of overseers of Harvard
college, by vote of 10 to 9, authorized
the playing of football at Harvard next
season.
John c. Maloney was pronounced
guilty of manslaughter by jury in the
supreme court at Rockland Me-, after
a weeks trial. His victim was Mrs.
Annie Bishop. his fathers sister-in-law
and housekeeper.
Civil prosecution Of the so-called drug
trust has been begun by fhe United
States government in the circuit court
for Indiana.
Charged with the murder Of his wife,
Catherine. in a fit of Jealous rage. at
their home Patrick j. Grinham of Bos-
ton was held for a hearing on May %,
without bail.
The strike of longshoremen on the
Great Lakes has been settled. The
men go back on the basis of last sea-
sons wages, pending another confer
ence. The strike involved 10000 men.
Wednesday, May 9.
The agreement entered into in New
York between the anthracite coal opera
tors and the sub-scale committee was
formally ratified by convention OF
miners.
Although there are few surface in
iications of the fact an earnest duel
IS in progress between the police and
.errorists aud revolutionists who are
.hronging to st. Petersburg alert for
any opportunity to strike Emperor
Nicholas or other marked men.
By the upsetting of their canoe in the
Penobscot river near Oldtown, Me-,
Harry F. Semen and William b. Rus
sell were drowned, and William b.
Ramsden was barely saved.
Inc property OF the hOchia1G, Co~S-
and Owls Head street rail
way was sold at sheriff's sale at Rock
and, Me-, to Michael SerettO Of Boston,
20 satisfy a claim Of ST, 1872 for unpaid
services in the construction of the road.
The upper house of the Newfound-
and legislature unanimously passed
he foreign fishing vessels bill. The
measure had already passed the lower
house.
Mary Connors, aged 80, was struck
md instantly killed at Hartford by an
Her neck was broken and
Ter face mutilated.
With the increasing severity Of the
equations surrounding the bread
ine' at San Francisco. General Greedy
las hopes of soon eliminating from the
elief lists large percentage of the
,eople who are now receiving free food
upplies.
Vesuvius is again showing consider
BILE activity. A dense column of smoke
$ rising from the crater and spreading
ike an umbrella, accompanied by loud
and electrical discharges.
The result of the suspension of min
ng in the anthracite regions is reflected
n the April statement of production,
which shows that 4SS,2O3 tons of coal
we're produced, compared with 5,27S,041
ons, :n-Appil last year.
Tuesday, May 8.
Subcommittee representing the an
hracite mine workers and operators
f eastern Pennsylvania have agreed |
0 continue the award of the strike COM
mission for another three years and |
be men will return to work as soon as |
All miners who have not |
violence against persons or |
roperty will be re-employed.
The 125 weavers of fancy cloth in |
be Lancaster mills, Clinton, Mass, |
Tho have been on strike for three |
7eeks, returned to work practically I'M
er the conditions prevailing at the
me of the strike.
Misappropriation of $972.35 Of the |
OWNS funds is charged against John
arr, member of the Rockport (Mass)
7ater commission who recently re-