News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-03-11
The WEEKS NEWS
TUESDAY,, March 3,

oent Roosevelt by his own statement,
is responsible for the row" over criti'
clsms Of battleships' construction.
Steamship and emigration companies
are now turningttheir attention to In
dia, emigration from Japan having
been cut off.
DR.. L. G. Verrill of Dover, n. H., was
held without bail on the charge of hav-
ing caused the death of Mrs. Artie Mil
Ter of Newcastle by an unlawful opera
ton.
Chief of Police Shippy of Chicago,
attacked in his home by Lazarus Aver
buch, a Russian student and supposed
anarchist, shot and killed the latter. but
not until his assailant had stabbed the
chief in the arm. had shot and seriously
wounded a son of the chief, and had
wounded James Foley, member of the
police department..
Judge Cardena of the federal court of
Ersenada, Lower California, has de-
MED the petition for release from Gus
tody of w. +. Walker. wanted in New
Britain, Conn, for alleged embezzle-
ment.
Wednesday, March a.
Secretary StrauS of the bureau of
commerce and labor issued drastic Or
ders for a roundup of anarchists and
alien criminals now in this country.
The order directs the commissioners
and inspectors of immigration to con-
fer with the police of their respective
cities in an endeavor to rid the country
of the undesirable element who come
under the provisions of the deporta ton
law.
Venezuela again has declined to arbi-
trate the questions of controversy which
have been pending for some time be-
tween the Castro administration and
the American government.
Sergeant r. j. Maggie. aged 30. and
Lieutenant o. E. Boynton, aged 81, Off
GERS of the Boston police department,
who live side by side, both dropped
dead of heart failure within a few
hours of each other.
Officer George Fl. Brown Of the Port
land NIe.) police department made a
confession. it is claimed, in which. it is
said, he admits having stolen from
fifteen stores.
The charge that the railroads of the
country carrying mails had robbed the
people out of S7O.OOO.OOO was made in
congress by Mr.. Lloyd (Mo.). who de-
clsred that the system of weighing has
been fraudulent.
Twelve hundred employees OF the
Hochelaga and the Ste Anne's cotton
mills at Montreal have gone on strike.
The Liberal government of New
Brunswick, which has been continued
In Office under one form or another for
twenty-five years, was overthrow in
the general elections held throughout
the province.
Giuseppe Ala, the slayer of Father
Heinrichs at Denver, was declared
absolutely sane in a report submitted by
four experts in mental diseases.
Thursday, March S.
Penned in narrow Railways. jammed
up against schoolhOuse doors that open
ed inward, between 100 and 10 chill
dren in North Colinwood, O., were
killed by fire and smoke or beneath the
grinding heels of their panic-stricken
mates. The fire resulted from defec-
tive furnace in the basement All Of the
victims We're between the ages of 6
md IA years.
United States Senator Redfield Proc
tor of Vermont died at his apartments
1T Washington after short illness fol- |
lowing an attack of grip. The senator
was II years old.
Policemen in Providence, as we'll as in |
Pawtuck ct, Woonsocket, Central Falls |
and Newport, r. l., have begun an |
of all the unemployed.
Ohio Republicans nominated candi-
ties for state officers and delegates-at- |
aIge to the national convention, who
n ere instructed to vote for Taft until |
ne Is nominated"
The customs receipts at Havana for
February amounted to only 81 ,6O4, 730.
The International Paper company
las issued orders to board up the win
lows Of its pulp mill at South Gardiner,
Ne. The mill has been running for
DO IT eighteen years.
The scout cruiser Chester, which has
ust finished her trials off the Rockland
Me- course has made a worlds record
or any naval vessel above 1900 tons
displacement.
Vivian Phillips, aged 10 years, was
hot and killed by Harry Mounier, aged
z, who afterward shot himself fatally
t Worcester, Mass. Jealousy is be-
ievsd to have been the motive for the
hooting..
BY vote Of twenty-one to seventeen,
be New York board of education de-
Gated the proposal to reintroduce cor
oral punishment in the public schools
( the city.
The locomotive engineers, firemen,
onductors and trainmen on the Bos-
On and Maine railroad system are pre-
airing TO vote ON the question of &C.
epting a percent wage reduction for
Dur months.
Friday, March 6.
The body of Lazarus Averbuch, the
Dung Russian Jew who tried to take
he life of Chief of Police Shippy OF
hicago, was buried in the potter's
cid