News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-06-10
THEY WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday. June 2,

Elmer, aged 3@ years Edward Wilson,
farmer of Shelburne, n. H., was held
without bail for the superior court
Former United States Senator James
X. Jones Of Arkansas died at Washing
ton Of heart failure after an illness of a
few hours aged 60. y
Eugene Jepson, aged so, leading man
in vaudeville sketch at Keith's the
atre, Cleveland, dropped dead of heart
disease in his dressing room when an
alarm of fire sounded.
Celt, a 3-year-old colt bearing the
colors of James X. Keene easily won
the twenty-second running of the 500
600 Brooklyn handicap.
The Cunard liner Mauretania broke
the record over the long course from
Queenstown to New York, covering the
distance in four days, twenty hours
and fifteen minutes, with an average
speed of PASS knots.
The supreme court of Montana dis
solved an injunction issued by district
court restraining the Montana Fedora
ton of Labor and others from interfer-
ing with the business of wholesale
fruit firm.
Wednesday, June 8.
Governor Chamberlain Dem.) is the
choice of the people of Oregon for the
United States senatorship to succeed
Charles w. Fulton Rep.), and Repub-
lican legislature was chosen to elect
him.
Political headquarters for Joseph G..
Cannon were opened in the Auditorium
hotel, Chicago.
CASTOR P. Philip. civil engineer and
clubman, was acquitted of the murder
of Frank Macaboy, a cab driver, by a
jury Washington.
John Hays Hammons has decided
to enter the contest for the nomination
Of vice president on the Republican
ticket
A cut of 81 ton in bar steel has gone
into effect, but will affect only manu-
facturers' stock
A balloon driven by Captain Bum
baugh and Charles Leichiter, which
left Quincy, Ills. landed near Clear
Lake, S. d., covering over 500 miles in
eleven hours.
Snowfalls in the northern portions of
the province marked the opening of the
month of June in New Brunswick.
The twenty second wedding ami
versary Of former President and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland was quietly cele-
brated at their home at Princeton, n. ].
Faunstino Ablen, who once assumed
the title of pope of the Island of Leyte.
p. l., was hanged al the prison of Bill
bid. He was found guilty of several
murders. |
Sir Redvers Butler, who commanded
the English army at the time the Boer
war broke out. died at London. He
was 60 years old.
Thursday, June q.
Acting Governor Draper of Massa-
chusetts sent to the executive council
the names of five men as nominees for
the newly-created Chelsea board of con-
troll, which is to take up the problems
of governing and rebuilding the city.
President Underwood of the Erie |
railroad has issued instructions to |
place all the locomotive and car shops !
on a ten-hour-a-day basis.
Iowa Republicans nominated Will |
lam B. Allison for reelection to the |
United States senate.
Mulai Hafid, the usurping Sultan of
Morocco, has confiscated the wives of
General Bagdani and his brother.
Mrs. Mary Dorman and her three
children were found dead at their home
at Chicago, having been asphyxiated
by gas escaping from a stove.
MILFORD A. Bailey, a promoter, was
found guilty at Worcester, Mass, on
forgery and was sentenced to serve two
years in the house of correction. He
appealed and was released on $4,000
bonds.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
resignation of Jackson Smith, member
of the isthmian canal commission.
Emergency measures for the relief
of hundreds of pupils in New York
schools who have been found to be suf-
fering from lack of food have been
adopted by the committee of East Side
school board members
Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland,
and John d. Rockefeller met at larry
town, n. Y, and spent several minutes
chatting on general subjects
A number of influential British wo-
men have started an organized move
ment to oppose the granting of suf-
frage to women.
Friday, June 5.
In collision of electric cars at Ken
Me-, Miss Sarah E. Corliss,
aged 80, received injuries which re-
suited in her death and five other per-
sons were hurt, some of them severely.
Mae O'Reilly, whom julius G. Truel-
son, Jr., in confession" to the Texas
declared was murdered on
the Guinness farm at La Porte, Ind, is
alive and well at Saratoga, n. Y.
Eight non-commissiOned officers of
the German guard artillery regiment
were sentenced to terms of imprison-
ment varying from two weeks to fifteen
months for the maltreatment of sub
ordinates.
At the convention of the Information
al Association of Police Chiefs a reso-
luton was adopted declaring that po-
icemen are entitled TO more respect |