News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-09-02
Rev. Donald S. Mackay, D. d., LII d.,

| He was born in Glasgow in 1868.
AS precaution to avoid the posi-
hility Of the Introduction of buboni,
| plague, 200 steerage passengers ABOARD
| the Romantic We're detained for an eX
| animation at the Boston quarantine sta
| ton.
A revolution Is in full swing in thu
western and southern parts OF Persia
The government offices are falling into
the hands of the insurgents every
| where.
The recent census gives the tota
population Of the Panama canal zone
MS 50,003, 6S63 being Americans.
The court martial of member OF
the French military ambulance corps
Camille Marquet, who was charged
with attempting to .blackmail Presi'
dent Roosevelt, resulted in his being
sentenced to six days Imprisonment.
Margaret DAILY VOkes, aged 80, died
at Lynnfeld, Mass, after long illness,
Of tuberculosis She was prominent as
cOmedienne.
The year of grace granted to for
eigners in Great Britain under the new
patent act has expired
Governor Fort issued proclama-
ton to the people of New Jersey
threatening to send troops into At
lantic City to enforce the state liquor
laws unless the people of Atlantic City
observe the law,
The Boston finance commission al
leges that Henry w. Hubbard, while
under pay from the city as an expert
III appraising land values appraised
his own land damages at $4,000,
when the property cost him but $15,O25.
Saturday, Aug. 29.
DR.. H. G. Harry, on trial at Sulphur,
Okla, for the alleged murder of Dan
iel Durgin, was found guilty of assault
and battery and fined $f00. 1t was al
legged that Harry placed Durgin III an
operating chair and with a mallet and
knife almost several the mans head
from his body.
A food in the Cimmarron river fol
lowing a cloudburst, washed away
number of dwellings at Folsom, n. NJ.
Fifteen persons were drowned.
Andrew +. Leatherbee, lumber
dealer for the past half century in Bos-
ton. has made an assignment. His
liz blities are roughly estimated at
100000
Heraclio Mendoza, mayor Of Cayey,
Cuba, is under arrest, charged with ar
SON 1t is alleged that Il recent fire in
which many buildings We're destroyed
was caused by Mendoza.
The American Atlantic battleship
fleet. under command of Rear Admiral
Sperry, anchored in Port Philip bay.
off Melbourne. after an uneventful
voyage from Sydney.
The Dutch government has opened
pour parlers to ascertain what diplo-
matte or other assistance Italy will rem
der her in connection with the dispute
with Venezuela.
The pOStOfiice department has pro
mulgated an order forbidding political
activity in the federal service.
The new milk standard continues to
be a bone of contention between the |
milk producers and the inspectors Of |
the Massachusetts state board Of |
health.
Charged with the murder Of William
E. Annis. Captain Hams and his |
brother, Thornton J. Hams, were re- |
manded without bail to the Queens |
~ Y, jail to await the action |
1f special grand jury.
Sunday, Aug. 80.
The Boston finance commission, |
which has spent several months prob
ng the city's financial condition, re-
ports that Boston bears the whole of |
he expense of the administration Of |
lffairs in Suffolk county and that the
cost of such administHa ton is grossly |
excessive.
The battleslip Montana was given
mother unofficial standardization trial
,ver the Rockland Me.) course. Six
cen runs We're made, the best mile be-
ne at the rate of little better than
Wenty-one knots.
A real Blue Sunday came to At
antic City, \. J. Persons familiar
With the history of the resort have been
Inclined to doubt the possibility of such
thing, but every one of the 220 sd
Oons and hotel bars were closed.
Because his wife did not have his |
upper ready when he reached home,
ameS A. Tefft of Westerly, r. l., a
tevedOre, discharged shotgun at her
t close range, killing her instantly.
General Alexander 2. Stewart, one |
the last two SURVIVING lieutenant
eneralS of the Confederate army. died !
t his home at Biloxi, Miss, aged 81. ]
Fire in the centre of the commercial | :
istrict of New Orleans swept over por
onS of three blocks, causing a loss of
yer S1.OO0,0O0.
Monday. Aug. 81.
All the Persian provinces are in
ate of anarchy and the country is on
he eve Of a civil war .
Budd Goodwin of the New York Ath- ! ,
tic club won the annual Marathon
winning race from the Battery to
oney Island. a distance of thirteen
lies. His time was 40
President Roosevelt received at Saga
ore Hill the men who placed tho /
Dlors of This nation over those of all | c
bar.c Of tho n1x-r17,fp on mos II, 7 ap6nr, | I