News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-02-26

| udcH OF W, IL. IuIt Tor the presidency
Thirteen persons were hurt, three Of
them seriously, by the derailment of a
tast-runnlng trolley car at Northboro,
Mass.
Senator Asbury C. Latlmer Of South
Carolina died at Washington.
The American battleships, looking
clean, trim and powerful, came to an
Choir at Callao, Peru. Callao was in
holiday array, wishing to show that
Peruvian hospitality was second to
none in South America.
Saturday, Feb. 22.
Mrs. William +. Burden, aged %,
daughter of o. ii. p. Belmont, and So
ciety favorite in New York, Newport
and Washington, was found dead in bed
| inNher home at New York. Death, the
! coroner decided, was accidental and due
to gas poisoning.
| James A. Deane murdered Mrs.
Charles Mckay with an axe at hec home
| at West Forks, Me-. and then commit
| ted suicide by cutting his throat. Deane
was % years old. Mrs. Mckay was 20.
The record of the recent target prac-
tice at Magdalena bay shows that the
Maryland made two worlds records
with the 3-inch and 6-nch guns.
Dispatches from Lisbon dwell upon
| rumorS in circulation there of a palace
| and barracks plot to establish a mill
tary dictatorship. revival of Franco
ISM and increased revolutionary agi-
tat!on.
Crosby S. Moves. editor of the Wash.
ington Evening Star, died at Pasadena,
Cal. where he had been i'll for some
time. He was SO years of age and sixty
years of his life was spent in the news
paper business.
w. j. Bryan was unanimously en-
dorsed for president at the Oklahoma
Democratic state convention.
The ST Petersburg police arrested a
band that started out to murder Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch and J. G.
Chtchegovitoff, the minister of justice.
Everywhere in Lima may be seen
the blueiackets of the American fleet
Hundreds of the men were given shore
leave and they went up to the capital
from Callao.
r. ]. Coolidge of Boston, formerly
United States minister to France, was
elected president of the Massachusetts ,
Taft league.
Sunday, Feb. 20.
Father Leo Heinrchs was shot and |
killed by Alic GIUSEPPE, an avowed an
archist and priest-hater, while the |
priest was administering the sacra-
ment at mass in st. Eliza beth's Roman
Catholic church at Denver.
The executive committee of the re-
organized Republican party of Texas |
went on record as favOrng Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks as presidential NOM
inee.
Steamer Beta was totally wrecked off
Turks Island The crew and passen-
gers were rescued and part of the cargo
will probably be saved.
The Australian government has sent
a letter to President Roosevelt inviting
the fleet to visit the chief Australian
ports. in the hope that ''such visit
would mark new era in the history Of
this part of the world"
The attempt made at Belfast to
launch the Rotterdam, the "a 110-ton
steamer of the Holland American line,
proved a failure. The launching has
been postponed for fortnight.
A wagOnoad of merrymakers was
run down at a West Nyack On. " cross
ing by passenger express train. Four
of the party were instantly killed, two
died while being removed to hospital
and the other three are in a serious con-
dltiOn.
Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, u
S. A., retired, dropped dead at Wash
ngton of heart disease. He entered the
army from Massachusetts in 1855 and
was "a years Old.
Charles Martone was probably fatal
" shot at Waterbury, Conn. by man
who lay in wait for him at his home.
Antonio Farno is under arrest in con-
lection with the shooting.
Monday, Feb. "a.
Steps for the formation of a new ma
Iional political party were taken at
conference of the independence League
1t Chicago.
DR.. Leon G. Merrill of Rochester. N.
L.. was arrested, charged with having
,aused the death. by an Illegal opera
ion. of Mrs. Arty Miller of Ports
mouth. \. II.
The Maine state board of health has
,een notified Of an epidemic of small
'ox in Albert county. n B., which, it
$ asserted threatens Boston and in
Iustrial centres.
BY leap of 100 feet, John Evenson
Z Duluth established new American
ecord for ski jumping.
While making desperate effort to
scape capture, Frank ldes. known as
Jerseys Jesse James, was shot down
nd killed in the streets at Newark, n.
:, by Policeman Weber
A note Of warning that the rapid
rowth of our national greatness is
fading TO an unwise dscounting of the
nture and developing habit of ex-
'avagance was sounded in speech at
lew York by Justice Brewer of the
'nited States supreme court.
The police of Brooklyn have sent out
rcular letters descriptive of Henry s.