News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-20
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, May IL.

Wright brothers, OrVlle anC NllDur,
of Dayton, o., made their mQSt sue
cessful flight in their airship and prac-
tically demonstrated that aerial navi-
CATION by the use of an engine is an ac-
complished fact.
The parcels post system was con-
demned by nearly every speaker at the
annual convention at Boston of the
National Association of Retail Grocers
of the United States.
Junk shops in Chelsea, Mass, in
whose district the conha grafton started
that wiped out a. third of the city on
April -, must go, according to vote
of the Chelsea board Of aldermen.
At least eight persons were killed and
scores of others injured in series of
tornadOes in northwestern Oklahoma.
The British house of commons passed
the second reading of the Irish univer-
sity bill by vote of 344 to 81. The
minority consisted of Irish unionists
and on-c0nformist radicals.
The cornerstone of the proposed
home for the international Union of
American Republics was laid at Wash.
ington. During the ceremony the flag
of each of the tWenty-one countries
represented was hauled aloft.
The marriage of Prince Helie de
Sagan and Nine. Gould will take place
as soon as the prince has embraced the
Protestant faith.
Schooner Penobscot went on the
rocks on Two Bush island off the coast
of Maine and became a total loss. Cap
tain Pendleton and the five men COM
posing the crew We're rescued.
Wednesday, May 10.
Practically the whole population of
the village of Belleghem, Belgium, set
upon and killed a man who was caught
in the act of bufglarizing the famous
Chapel of the Virgin.
William Montgomery, cashier of the
Allegheny National bank of Pittsburg,
charged with the enlightenment OF
$3.50, 900, was surrendered by his bonds
men.
Twelve persons are known to have
been killed and a score injured by tor
nado which swept over eastern Ne
braSka
Seven mine workers We're instantly
killed and more than a dozen injured
in an explosion in Il colliery at Wyo-
ming, Pa.
The senate committee on finance
voted to report the bill already passed
by the house providing for the perma-
nent restoration of the words I'm God
We Trust" to gold and silver coins.
Acting Governor Draper of NIassa-
chusetts vetoed bills to increase the
salaries of the justices of the supreme
judicial and the superior courts and the
bill to pay sheriffs who are masters of
houses of correction $4,000 additional TO
their salaries.
The body of Miss Alice G. Loud re-
fined young woman of Boston, was
found drowned in the harbor. She was
to have been married June l to Rev.
Hiram Vrooman of Providence.
The senate passed the postoffice ap-
preparation bill, carrying amounts ag-
gregating $229O27,3G7.
The assignment of the firm of Nicker-
son, Simmons & Buss, stock brokers,
Boston, was followed by a petition in
bankruptcy by an attorney for the credi-
tors.
John =. Swasey of Canton was nomi-
mated on the first ballot. for congress
man at the Second Maine congressional
district convention to succeed Con
gresham Littlefield, whose resignation
will take effect in September next.
Thursday, May IA.
Bishop Ignatius Horstmann, d. d.,
of Cleveland, died from exhaustion,
caused by overwork and heart failure
The end came suddenly and uneX-
pectedly.
A fall of rock and coal in the Prospect
colliery at Midvale, Pa, killed four
mine workers and injured three others.
Little apparent Roadway has been
made toward solving the mystery of the
fourteen deaths thus far discovered on
the farm of Mrs. Belle Guinness near
La Porte, Ind.
The attempt made by prisoners to
break out of the government Jail at
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, after making a
breach in the wall with a bomb, was |
the prisoners were shot to death.
Nine hundred stone cutters went on
strike at Quincy, Mass, in conse-
quence of the refusal of the members |
of the Manufacturers association to en-
dorse the closed shop.
Allen Gard, governor of Lanao, is |
dead, the result of bolo wounds in |
flicted by Moros. Lanao- is province |
of the island of Mindanao.
The positions of three secretaries
publishing, district missionary and |
financial-whose salaries aggregate |
$4,000, were abolished by the Amer
lean Tract society.
The United States senate passed |
without amendment the house bill re-
storing the motto "In God We Trust"
on coins of the United States.
The Rhode Island senate killed the
bill Increasing the salaries of justices |
OF the supreme and superior courts.
The receiver of the National Bank of !
North America, New York, which was
the first of the C. w. Morse banks to