News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-06

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New York to serve sixteen years in
state prison on plea Of guilty to a
charge of kidnapping.
Robert Bachman of Alliance, Pa,
who killed 5-year-old Irene M. Smith,
his niece, during religious frenzy, was
formally charged with murder.
The first day Of May Is notable this
year for the fact that for the first time
in many years there is no strike on in
Boston in any of the many trades and
no prospect of any labor disturbance.
While exploring the Monterosa
glacier in Switzerland party Of guides
discovered in an ice crevasse the body
Of a guIde named Maghi, who fell into
crevasse in 1887. The body was well
preserved.
Name MISUNDERSTANDING to the Re-
publican national convention will go
Chicago without instructions to vote for
any Of the presidential candidates.
The convention, however, adopted a
resolution favoring Taft.
Saturday, May 2.
William A. Stetson, the William A..
Stetson company, leather dealers, the
Ford Morocco company and the Boston
Chrome Leather company, all of Bos-
ton, have each been petitioned into in
voluntary bankruptcy. The total liza
bilities are said to reach 100000.
The Knott & Pope company boot and
shoe manufacturers of Boston and Hud-
son, Mass, has assigned. The firm
owes $390,000.
Morgan d. Magee, president of the
First National bank of Manasquam, n.
j., killed himself by shooting.
Julian Bakk, the Jewish millionaire
publisher of The Rech, hanged himself
in his home at st. Petersburg.
After an eighteen months expedition
in search of the source Of the OrinOcO
river, DR.. Hamilton Rice of Boston re-
turned home from north Brazil.
The trustees of the Troy conference
academy, the Methodist college pre-
paratory institute at Poultney, VT, will
replace the dormitory recently de-
stroyed by fire with two dormitories,
one for boys and one for girls.
A jury at Trenton gave a verdict of
$4,000 to Alex H. G. Maidment, whose
right leg was crippled and his automo-
bile wrecked by a New York Central
train.
Linking the island of Manhattan with
practically continuous connection with
all points on Long Island, the last sec
ton of the InterborOugh Rapid Transit
company's subway system was formal
ly opened.
James III. Wallick, a former actor and
owner of the play THE Bandit King"
committed suicide at Middetown, n.
Y, by shooting.
Sunday, May 8.
There were 14S deaths due to inhaling
gas in Massachusetts last
year, according to the annual report of
the gas and electric light commission.
Antipolo, in the province of Moreng,
p. l., was destroyed by fire, caused by
lightning. Antipolo has $500 inhab-
itants.
Governor Guild of Massachusetts,
who has been seriouslyssN for some
weeks past, has so far recovered that
he is able to be down staiSs.
The British difficulty with the Mob
mands seemed on the eve Of settlement
when a new danger threatened in an
attempt made by large Afghan force
to seize the blockhouses in Khyber
Pass. The attacks were repulsed.
An early morning fire in tenement
in a thickly populated section of Brook
Ign caused the death Of six persons and
the serious injury of four others.
Six families lost their homes by the
burning of three tenement houses at
Great Darlington. Mass. The fire is be-
ieved to be of incendiary origin.
At least twelve persons lost their
ives in a fire which destroyed the New
Aveline hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind. The
hotel register was consumed by the fire
md there is no accurate means of de-
ermining who is missing.
After an unbroken sleep for eighty |
i've days, Mrs. Beulah Hawkins, pa
lent in the county hospital at Los
Angeles, CAL, awoke and asked for |
rink Of milk. She was able to stand |
md had full control Of all her faculties,
weak.
Monday, May a.
The fact that Senator Money of Mis-
issippi passed through life for thirty
i've years with a dislocated neck and |
lid not know it became known when
Honey began to take treatment for neu-
algia.
Word reaches Germany from Toxic
o the effect that Brazil desires huge
influx Of Japanese.
By saving off bars Of their cells and
limbing through skylight, George
rogers and James L. Franklin escaped
rom the Newburyport, Mass, Jail,
where they had been hold on charges
f breaking and entering and larceny.
A campaign to abolish racing in
louisiana will be launched before the
tate legislature.
The condition of former President
irover Cleveland, who is said by his
physicians to be suffering from acute
continues to show daily
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