News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-04-29
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, April Fl.

serving a sentence for the larceny Of
$214,000, died at the Massachusetts
state prison.
Two trains collided at Braybrook
Junction, Australia, and forty-One per-
sons were killed and sixty injured.
Henry Chadwick, aged 49, who took
30 prominent part in the development
of baseball that he was called the 'fa-
Their" of it, died of pneumonia at his
home in Brooklyn.
The thirteenth body was taken from
the ruins Of the Chelsea, Mass, fire.
r. z, Morrisey of the Mercury A. c.,
New York city, won the twelfth annual
renewal of the Boston Athletic assoca-
ton Marathon road race. covering the
twenty-five miles from Ashland to Bos-
ton in 2:25:43 10.
A japanese squadron will proceed to
southern Chinese waters, ostensibly
for friendly visit, but, it is believed,
in reality to impress the Chinese and
check the anti-Japanese boycott.
The threatened trouble between
Italy and Turkey apparently has ended
and for the present at least there will
be no demonstration by italian war
ships in Turkish waters.
Wednesday, April %.
While the thought seems too inhu-
man to be considered, it is the opinion
of the state and Chelsea, Mass, police
that the origin of the fire which swept
the city practically from the map will
be traced to an incendiary.
Ferdinand Warner, member of the
house of delegates of st. Louis, was
convicted of bribery and sentenced to
serve two years in the penitentiary.
Miss Edith e. Marshall, prominent
figure in rescue work in the slums of
great cities, died at Waverly, Mass.
Benedict Shanahan who was taken
into custody by the Arlington, Mass,
police under suspicion of knowing
something of the murder of Annie Null
Inns, was released after examination by
the police.
The saloon forces were generally sue
cessful in forty or more towns and vii
lagos of Illinois which voted on the local
option question.
All Canadian Pacific trains have been
held UP in the Rocky mountains by re-
markable slides of snow. The snow
carried with it immense quantities of
ice, rock, earth and gravel.
A sentence of life Imprisonment in
the state prison was imposed on Juan
Robens, who was convicted of the MUIR
der of J. e. Dickinson, a Smyrna Mills,
Me-, farmer.
AS a result Of a dogbite received six
weeks ago Irene McQuirk of South
bridge, Mass, aged years, is dead
Hydrophobia developed.
After only two days liberty, follow
ing thirteen years Imprisonment for
bank robberies, Max Shinborn is again
in Jail on a charge of larceny of 5000
at Boston.
Thursday, April %.
President Roosevelt signed the en-
ployers' liability bill upon receiving an
opinion from Attorney General Bona.
parte that the measure was constitu-
tional.
Postmaster General Meyers resi- |
dence is still being watched by the
Washington police for fear anarchists
might attempt to wreak vengeance be
cause of the suppression of an incen.
diary paper.
The Swedish Courier, the most infiu.
entail Swedish Republican daily in the
country, is out for Governor Johnson
for the Democratic presidential nomi- |
nation.
Photographs taken during the start |
of the conf1agration at Chelsea, Mass, |
were exhibited at the hearing which is
being conducted by the state police, |
and furnished evidence which points to |
incendiarism.
A quarantine of the Massachusetts |
state prison has been declared, owing
to the number of cases of diphtheria
which have appeared among the pris-
oners.
A verdict of guilty of the charge of |
using the mails in scheme to defraud |
out of goods sold on credit |
was returned at Boston against Will
lam 1. Alkon, HarrisA. Alkon, Thomas
Scottran and Henry Barish.
President Roosevelt will veto the
naval appropriation bill should the
senate as did the house, fail to make
any appropriation for the two battle
ships which are authorized in that
measure.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman died
at his official residence in London.
The cause of death is officially given
as heart failure. He was born on Sept.
7. 1886, at Stratoathro, Scotland.
Census takers unearthed a settle.
ment in Wolcott, Conn, on road only
a half-mile long, which contains thir
teen grangers who are past the three
score and some past the four score
mark, their ages aggregating 996 years.
Members of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce went on record as opposed
to the merger of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and Boston and
Maine railroads.
Friday, April "a.
The Havana city council has APP
proved the proposition for the paving
and sewering of Havana. The cost
will be $4,000, 900.
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