News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-06-03


and a officer in the Southern army dur
ing the Civil war, died at Vicksburg,
Miss. He was born Sept. %, 1888.
The threatened strike of carmen on
the Missouri Pacific and Iron Noun
tain railroads has begun. Twelve thou
sand men walked out.
A fine of $4,000, the maximum
amount, will be imposed upon George
f. Terry, the proprietor Of the Water
vile NIe.) mail order publishing house,
who was convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government of postage.
The Russian battleship Peter the
Great ran on the rocks in the Gulf of
Finland, but was relocated without as
Sistance.
Forest King, the $4,000 show horse,
which had taken prizes at many horse
shows. was shot, having dislocated
shoulder by fall.
President Roosevelt signed and the
navy department forwarded to Cap
tains Richard Wainwright and Seaton
Schroeder of the Atlantic fleet commits
SiOns' as acting rear admirals.
Many women and children fleeing
from the Island of Samos have reached
Smyrna. They represent the revolu-
ton in Samos to be most critical.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad company filed Il $300,0O0,0OO
mortgage at burlington, Ia, covering
all its property.
Saturday, May 80.
Adolphe SteinAei, noted painter,
and his wife's mother, Nine. Japy, were
strangled to death in the artists home
at Paris by robbers.
Just ten minutes, officially, before the
hands of the big clock in the chambers
of the two houses of congress pointed
to the hour of midnight Saturday, the
first session of the SiXtieth congress
came to a close.
King GuStave of Sweden and the
queen arrived at Berlin. The royal visi-
tors were greeted enthusiastically by
the German people.
The holdup and robbery of passen-
ger train at Great Falls, Mont, was
the work of three boys. A fourth
youth admits having assisted in plan
ming the holdup.
The bodies of Thomas and Grace
Ball of Brockton, Mass, and 8 years
old. respectively, missing since Dec. >,
when they were taken away by their
demented mother, were found buried
in the woods off Oak street. Decompo-
sition was so far advanced that it is
to give the exact cause of
death.
SO far as the situation regarding the |
two Moroccan sultans is concerned, |
France intends to await developments.
Sunday, May 81.
A Turkish Warship with a commits |
sioner aboard which was dispatched to |
the Island of Samos on the receipt of the |
news of the revolt there, has arrived |
there. The porte considers the revolt |
at an end.
Unfamiliar with the turns of the |
boulevard which runs from Lowell to
Tyngsborough, Mass, the car of Bar
1ey Oldfield, the automobile racer,
overturned and Mrs. Oldfield was badly |
injured
Allentown, Pa, was thrown into a
state of excitement by what is believed r
% have been a severe earthquake shock.
An entire family, consisting of Will
am E. Eldleman, his wife and their
wo children, of West Pensauken, ~ j.,
were drowned by the eapsizing of
'owbOat.
EX-President Grover Cleveland, who
las been confined to the Lakewood, n.
J., hotel two months with an attack of
Rheumatic govt and acute Indigestion,
eft for his home in Princeton.
Fletcher A. SutherlaAA chief of the
Everett, Mass. fire department, who cut
lis throat in an endeavor to commit sui
ide, died as Il result of his injuries.
Mrs. Alma RuOff, aged 80 years, wife
# a Providence candy and tobacco mer-
hant, took her own life and that of her
5months-old infant daughter by in
Ealing gas.
The gift of an additional 100000 to
he Rockefeller institute at New York
S announced. The gift makes a total
f $4,50O,0O0 given to the institute by
Monday, June I.
An electric car colided with an auto
Mobile at a crossing in South Somerset,
lass, killing Mrs. Pauline lindsey,
ged %, one of the occupants of the |
Stricken with an attack of epilepsy
S he was assisting in the decoration of
soldiers monument in cemetery.
ames B. Simpson, aged 76, city messen-
er of Medford, Mass, died at his home
Frederick L. Woods, an 1S-year-old
eronaut, who was giving an exhibition
Hillside Park, near Passaic n. j.,
ropped 1000 feet into the Passaic river,
here he was drowned. {,
The sailing yacht Lille, with party
eleven men aboard, struck on the
,cks off Marblehead, Mass, and sank. s
he men aboard were rescued by the
unch Beth. 6
Senator Hemenway authorized the | .
atement that no variation will be | 9
ade from Vice President Fairbanks ! ,
resent position regarding the presiden- $
al nomination. 8