News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-13
NEWS
Tuesday, May 5.

Juragua CUBA Iron company has been
put down by the rural guard. Ener-
getic measures were adopted and the
loyal miners are now working under
the protection of the police.
One of the mail cars of postal train
from Boston for New York was set on
fire by the explosion of lamp while
the train was running through Sharon,
Mass, and was burned with all its con-
tents. In the car was a large quantity
of package mail.
Charles b. Sias, for fourteen years
member of the Boston bar, was dis
barred on petition of the Bar associa-
ton. Sias is alleged to have delivered
$500 to influence corruptly two inspec-
tors to testify falsely.
William p. Flewelling, deputy minis
ter of crown lands in the New Bruins
wick government, shot and killed him
self just as an expert accountant was
about to begin an examination of his
books.
Six italian steamship lines announce
a further reduction of S6 in steerage
rates from New York to Austria Hun
garian ports.
During a storm off the coast of Ore
gon steamer Minnie Kellon became wa
terlogged and unmanageabe. Eleven
of the crew We're drowned.
A new automatic pitching machine
has been formally accepted by the Har-
ward varsity baseball team. 1t is OPP
Grated with compressed air, and can
pitch both curve and straight balls.
Wednesday May 6.
Mrs. Jane Dowie and her son have
filed suit to set aside the will Of the late
John Alexander Dowie appointing John
A. Lewis his successor.
Released but few months ago from
an-iasane asylum, Miss Christina Bau
shot and probably fatally injured Louis
NoveauX, hotel clerk, on the main
thOroughfare of Montpelier, VT, and
then killed herself. NoveauX had never
seen Miss Bau before. =
A bill was passed to be engrossed in
the Massachusetts senate, by which the
state board of health is given the power
to seize and destroy any milk which it
deems dangerous to public health.
The Atlantic battleship fleet sailed
from Santa Cruz, Cal, for San Fran
cisco, with Rear Admiral Evans in
command, closely followed by the tor
pedo boat flotila.
Richard Croker denies the reports
that he is going to New York to com
noco tho tin II
The bodies of five persons, all of
them having been murdered, were
found in the yard of the home of Mrs.
Bella Guinness, who, with three of her
children, was burned to death on the
night of April % at Laporte, Ind
The condition of former President
Grover Cleveland, who is suffering
from acute Indigestion, continues to
show improvement.
The New Jersey Republican state
convention to select delegates to attend
the national convention at Chicago
named delegation that is unrestricted
and voted down resolutions endorsing
the candidacy of Taft for president.
DR.. Amos T. Baker, acting superin-
tendent of the Matteawan state hos
pital. alleges that Harry X. Thaw is in
sane. Baker has had Thaw under
observation during his confinement in
Matteawan.
Thursday, May 7.
Into the harbor of San Francisco the
Atlantic battleship feet steamed in re-
view of a multitude unnumbered.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who is suffering from an acute attack
of Indigestion, is now getting along
nicely and is gaining rapidly.
BY the overwhelming vote of 167 to
46, the house of representatives again
went on record against the reestablish-
ment of the canteen in national soldiers
homes
Connecticut Republicans named a
delegation of fourteen to the Chicago
convention. Ten of the delegation are
instructed to vote and actively work
for Taft.
Democrats of Ohio nominated Judson
Harmon for governor and endorsed
Bryan for president
Harry Orchard, the murderer of eX-
Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, has
been granted reprieve to July by
Governor GoOding. The board of par
dons meets July 1.
Two men were arrested, charged
with being responsible in part for the
great confagration at Chelsea, Mass,
on April IL. The two men under ar
rest are Jacob Lewitsky, % years old,
and Abraham Wolnitz, aged 30. Both
are charged with arson.
An arrangement has been made by
the British and Canadian governments
for the exclusion from Canada of Hindu
emigrants from India.
Manuel, the boy King of Portugal
took the oath of allegiance to his people
and was proclaimed the ruler of the ma
ton.
A possible solution of the Guinness
farm mystery. which was deepened
when four additional bodies were found
in the barnyard, near Laporte, Ind, de-
veloped when evidence tending TO
show that the nine dismembered
corpses unearthed had been shipped to
Laporte. probably from Chicago, came