News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-04-08

Tiger was cut in half and speedily sank.
Rear Admiral Evans has begun
treatment at the Paso Robes, Cal, hot
springs for rheumatism and stomach
| trouble.
Carrying total of $11 ,50S,S06, the
agricultural appropriation bill was
passed by the house of representatives.
| A murder was uncovered in field
near Flushing, l.. L., when the body of
an unidentified Italian was found liter
ally cut to pieces.
| The expulsion of Gussoni e Co., cot
ton brokers and exporters, from the
| New Orleans Cotton Exchange was an
| nounced publicly on the floor Of the eX-
| change.
The doors of the Broadway Savings
| bank of Toledo were closed because Of
Il run on it by depositors
The lndi9na Republican state CON
veution instructed the thirty state dele
gates to the national convention at Chi
cago to vote and to work for Fairbanks
nomination for the presidency.
Saturday, April 4.
Andrew Carnegie will add $5000,000
to the fund of the Carnegie Foundation,
to include as pension beneficiaries eli
gible professors of state universities.
Guilty of murder was the verdict re-
turned by the jury at Providence in the
case of Earl V. Jacques, charged with
the murder of Miss Mary Eddy, in
Greenville, r. L., on Jan. 3.
For President of the United States,
Thomas L. Watson of Georgia; for vice
president. Samuel Williams of Indiana.
The foregoing ticket was nominated by
the Peoples party convention after
two stormy sessions.
George Hackenschmidt quit in his
match with Frank Gotch for the catch
as-catch-can wrestling championship Of
the world, giving the title to the Iowa
man by default after a struggle lasting
over two hours.
A baby is born in New York every
four minutes. This is the record that
has been made in the five boroughs for
the first three months of 1908.
Fines We're imposed upon twenty
wealthy lumbermen of Toledo found
guilty of conspiracy in restraint of
trade ranging from $500 to $1,000.
The president has directed that Sun
day work in the departments at Wash
ington be restricted to that which is of
an emergency character or absolutely
necessary to the public interest and wei
fare.
The New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company has decided
that the existing scale of wages Shall
continue and that the piece-work rule
will not be enforced.
James j. Roche. the American consul
at Berne, died after long illness.
Roche will be better remembered as an
Irish-Amercan poet of distinction than
as a diplomat.
Sunday, April 5.
Harry Rothenberger. aged 10, who
was arrested at Philadelphia, charged
with larceny, declares that he was aided
and allotted in number of rObberieS
by four policemen.
Governor Hughes has definitely de-
cined to indicate his preference as to
the big four delegates-at-large to the
Republican national convention.
f. S. Royster a business man of Nor
folk, who has been touring the Orient
and who was passenger on the steam
ship Mongolia, was robbed, after land
ing at San Francisco, of $4,000.
An attempt to blow up the Univer- |
salist church at Bath, Me-, was pre-
vented by the timely discovery of the |
organist. Gas escaping from a discon- |
nected pipe and a lighted lamp placed |
so as to cause fire and resulting eX- |
plosion, were the means employed in |
the attempt to wreck the edifice.
Arrests of suspected conspirators
continue at Port au Prince, though it is
to say how many persons i
have actually been placed behind pris-
on bars during the past few weeks.
Supporters of George Gray of Della
ware for the Democratic nomination for ;,
president have established headquar-
tiers i'll Washington.
The resignation of Sir Henry Camp |
bell Zimmerman, the British prime
was officially announced at
London. According to the court cir
,ular he resigned on the urgent recon-
mendation of his medical advisers.
Monday, April 6.
The Russian government is consider
ng the issuance of a statement formal
y recognizing ChinaS sovereignty in
insofar as is consistent |
with the purely administrative rights
If Russia in the railroad zone.
Salfatara, a semi-extinct volcano near
Pozzuoi, Italy, has opened a new era
er $50 feet from the ancient one. 1t is
uniting a voluminous column of sui
,hurous gases.
Advices from Seoul say that insur- ,
rents are showing increased activity in
he neighborhood Of Seoul.
The elections at Lisbon were fol- ,
owed by serious rioting, which was only
tut down by most vigorous action on
he part of the police and the troops.
dany of the rioters were killed or
wounded.
Taking advantage of the cut in steer $
&c rates from New York and Boston a
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