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

SeluIlltu To WOFk'
The first two men to be arrested on
suspicion of having set the big fire OF
April II at Chelsea, Mass, are Jacob
Lewtzky and Abraham WolnitZ. The
bail in Lewitzky's case was fixed at
$4,000 and Wolnitz was required to
furnish $4,000.
William Montgomery, cashier of the
Allegheny National bank of pittsburS,
is charged by National Bank Examiner
Folds with the embezzlement OF
$3.50
William p. Flewelling, deputy sur
veyor general of New Brunswick, who
committed suicide, lefta letter confess
ing a shortage of $4,000 in his ac-
counts,
There was some opposition to in
structons in favor of Bryan for presi-
Dental candidate, although such in
structions were adopted finally by the
Massachusetts state Democratic con
venton.
After ten days discussion. considera-
ton of the sundry civil appropriation
bill was completed by the house. 1t
carries a total appropriation of SlOG,-
9G6.369.
Eight thousand bluejackets and ma
rines--the largest armed force the
American navy has ever put ashore in
time of peace or war-marched through
the streets of San Francisco in the
most notable parade the city has ever
known.
The Utah Republican convention
cheered a resolution declaring Presi-
dent Roosevelt the first choice for the
presidential nomination and Tat for
second choice.
Saturday, May 9.
The explosion of a kitchen gas stove
in the tenement of John Wilson at st.
JohnSbury, VT, set fire to the interior
and caused the death of Mrs. John Will
son, 40 years old; Miss Mary Lee, her
sister, IS: Sarah Wilson, her daughter,
3; and John Wilson. her son. 2years old.
A resolution urging the federal ap-
preparation of $15O,0OO0OO for national
roads and waterways as a means of re-
lief to the unemployed was passed by
the national convention of the unem-
ployed at New York.
BY vote of POI to I, the bill1epeal-
ing the Irish coercion act Of 1887 passed
its second reading in the British house
of commons.
One more body has been added to the
death roll of the Bella Guinness farm
near La Porte, Ind, making total of
ten corpses and skeletons eXhumed in
the yard. besides the four bodies found
in the ruins OF the burned farmhouse.
The Euclid Avenue Trust company of
Cleveland has made an assignment 1t
is understood that the deposits amount
to between $1,2OO,O00 and 81, 100000.
a million and a quarter dollars is the
loss on fire which swept over two
blocks of business property at Atlanta.
The combined Atlantic and Pacific
fleets of battleships, armored cruisers
torpedo boat destroyers and auXiiaries
were reviewed in San Francisco harbor
by Secretary of the Navy Metcalf.
Henri Rochelle, the French promoter
of financial institutions and mining en-
terpriseS, who was arrested on a charge
of sWindling on an enormous scale, has
been released in $4,000 bail.
Sunday, May 10.
The Mohmand tribesmenare still Civ
ing the British authorities trouble Two
brigades of British and Indian forces
will proceed with punitive measures
and will take the field against the Mob
mandS.
Isaac Williams of New York, aged 81,
formerly a cotton broker but more re-
Gently connected with bonding com
pany, committed suicide few hours be-
fore he was to have been married
Nicholas Wallace, a farmland was
convicted for the murder of Andrew
Higgins, a Baileyville, Me-, farmer,
aged 20, and was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment i'll the Maine state prison.
Caught by a big wave as they were
crossing the bar mile and a half off
Plum island, at the mouth of the Merri-
mack river, nine men who were on
pleasure cruise in a naphtha launch
were capsized and five of the men were
drowned.
Alfonso w. Davis, aged a., slashed
his throat with piece of window glass
at a hospital for the insane at Provi-
dence and died two hours later.
Private Thomas Mollory of troop d
cavalry, who was exonerated for shoot
ing Private Patrick Rynne a convict,
while attempting to make his escape
from Fort Ethan Allen, has been made
sergeant.
Monday, May II.
The burning of schooner Gascogne of
Fecamp, MID, makes a total of ten YES
sells lost from the French fishing fleet
since the beginning of the present sea-
son.
Governor Hanly of Indiana says that
what the Methodists of the present day
need is intensity; that they are not as
spiritual as in years gone by.
A frightful epidemic of exanthe-
matus typhoid is raging in the Kiev
prison. More than 200 deaths so far
have occurred and practically all of the
inmates are infected.