News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-04-08
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, March 81.

Comm Baptist association heard
charges Of conduct unbecoming a min
lister preferred against Rev. Frank G.
Brown. The hand of fellowship was
withdrawn and Browns certificate of
ordination surrendered.
Numerous arrests were made of Off
GERS at Port Au Prince suspected of
completely in the latest conspiracy.
Charges Of serious nature against
Clifford PinchOt, chief of the forestry
bureau, were made in congress during
the consideration of the agricultural
appropriation bill.
Charges against President Bermal of
the borough of Queens, city of New
York, have been filed with Governor
Hughes by taxpayers of Queens bor-
ough, The petition asks for Bermal's
removal.
AS a result of being struck by
Whitehead torpedo, fired from one of
her own tubes, the torpedo boat Blake
ley, which has been engaged in target
practice off Pensacola Fla, has large
Jagged hole just below her waterine on
her port side.
After an electric current of 1900
volts had been shot through his body,
Chester Gillette. the murderer of his
sweetheart, Grace Brown, was officially
declared dead. Gillette made a CON
fession of his crime to his spiritual adj
visers.
The Preachers Aid society of the
New England Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church has increased
the treasurer's bond to $4,000.
Emperor William says that there has
never been any change in his attitude
towards Mr. Hill and expresses his cor
dial willingness to welcome Mr.. ELL to
Berlin as United States ambassador.
Wednesday, April I.
Two hundred and fifty thousand picks
dropped from the hands of as many BIZ
luminous coal miners of the United
States, not to be used again until wage
settlement has been reached.
Isaac L. Rice, president of the Elec-
trio Boat company, made a sweeping
denial of the charges preferred by Rep.
resentative Lilley, denOuncing several
of the -statements as malicious lies
With the stroke of midnight. Great
Britain's volunteer army became a
thing of the past after an existence of
forty years, and a territorial army
reigns in its stead
General orders were issued from the
office of the Maine adiutant general dis
banding company II. First regiment,
of ROckland. for the good of the service.
The correspondence between Amer
lea and Venezuela respecting pending
American claims against the latter
country was submitted to the senate
and is almost certain to create a pro
found impression.
The Republican caucuses all over
Massachusetts resulted in the election
of an overwhelming majority of men
who are claimed for Taft.
The Cienfuegos, Cuba, local council
voted unanimously to annul the con
tract for an aqueduct awarded to Hugh
T. Reilly, involving the sum of So
100000
Judge Holt has sustained the de-
murrer interposed in the interest of
Charles w. Morse in the Involuntary
bankruptcy petition filed against him
at New York.
Lee De Forest conducted the final
test of his wireless telephone system
on Eiffel tower at Paris. Messages
were exchanged with the government
wireless stations throughout France
Thursday, April 2.
Counsel for Mrs. Alfred G. Wander |
bilt, formerly Miss Elsie French, filed
suit against her husband Alfred G. |
Vanderbilt, in the supreme court at |
New York, for absolute divorce. |
The spirit of uncertainty and of I'M
rest still prevails in Port au Prince.
The minister to Hayti shows consider
a BILE alarm concerning the action the
government may take against
the refugees now asylumned in the
French legation.
The new battleship Idaho was placed
in commission by the government at
League Island, though nearly half of
the crew of 732 men assigned for duty
on the vessel were absent because of an
epidemic of mumps at the navy yard.
Alexander Dixon, a carpenter on the
United States collier Abarenda, was
acquitted of the murder of Chief Off.
cer Weichert. A jury brought in a ver-
dict of self-defense.
Cardenio f. King, formerly finan-
cial agent at Boston, was declared
bankrupt. The whereabou of King
are unknown.
The Fall River, Mass, Weavers' I'M
ION, the largest textile union in the
voted to withdraw from the
United Textile Workers of America.
The weavers object to per capita tax
If Is cents after May /.
Convicts serving sentences at hard
abor in the penitentiary at Culebra, in
he Panama canal zone, are to be set to
work on highway construction.
The New Bedford, Mass, spinners
Toted by a small margin to accept the
wage cut for the present.
Friday, April 8.
During high wind the ice went out
# Burlington, Vt, harbor and the jam
lpset the lighthouse at the end of the
Burlington breakwater.