News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-02-26
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, Feb. 10.

The New York State Bankers asso
citation put itself on record as tune
quivocally disappearing" the provisions
of the Aldrlch financial bill now pend
ing in the United States senate.
A third Indictment, alleging per
Jury by G. w. Morse during an exa1ki
nation before the grand jury, was
found by the special grand jury shorI
time after Morse had pleaded not guilty
to charge of grand larceny.
Declarations of support to the candi
dacy Of Governor Hughes for president
of the United States and prophecies OF
his ultimate election to that office were
made by speakers at the notification
OF Stewart l.. WoOdford of his selection
as president of the Hughes League OF
the United States.
Rear Admiral Philibert reports that
the bursting of steam pipe on board
the French cruiser Descartes, off Casa
blanca, resulted in the death of three
men and the injury of three others.
Speaker Cannon's presidential boom
received marked impetus in congress
when Mr.. Boutell, his colleague from
Illinois, brought the subject to the fore
as the climax of a half hours speech.
Gertrude b. Williams, white wo-
man, shot and killed her negro hus-
band, Pearley T. Williams at Hartford.
Her defense will be self-defenSe.
Wednesday, Feb. 10.
The mystery of the disappearance of
Mrs. Maude Woodbury., wife of Her
bert Woodbury., a wealthy livery stable
keeper and real estate owner of Fox
croft, Me-, was solved when her dead
body was found hanging by a cord to a
doorEnob in an empty room at the top
of the fourth story lodging house which
her husband owned.
Resolutions adopted by the Illinois
state central committee endorse Speak
er Cannon for president of the United
States.
Lewis S. Cox, an insurance broker
of Philadelphia, is charged with forg-
ing check for $4,000 on the Quaker
town pa National bank.
King Leopold of Belgium has con-
ferred upon Cardinal Gibbons the grand
cross of the Royal Order of the Crown.
General Tung Fuh Slang, the leader
of the Boxers in the uprising in China
in 1900, is dead. He was regarded at
one time as the abest and most power
full of the Chinese generals.
The Iowa supreme court upheld the
constitutionality of the Des Moines
nlon of r1r0ioipo1 oovarpDnapt INV ,o,,
mission in every particular.
Thursday, FEB. 20.
Herbert Woodbury. of Foxcroft, Me-,
was formally arrested on the charge of
murder His wife's lifeless form was
found hanging by cord to the knob
Of door in an attic room at their for.
mer home, the Exchange hotel
William Jones and his wife were
found guilty of having Kidnapped Lii
liam Wulff, II years Old from her home
in Chicago. Jones was sentenced to
thirty years and his wife to twenty five
years in the Illinois penitentiary
A petition for the impeachment o.
Judge Whitley of the United States court
of China, signed by citizens of the
United States living at Shanghai, was
introduced in congress.
Patrick Kervin of st. Clair township.
Pa, died at the age of 40 years, 9
months and II days Kervin was ma
ties of old age.
1t is the intention of the house COM
mittee on appropriations to lop off
from $25,0OO,00O to $3O,OOO,OOO from
this years total estimate Of SIS, 443, 900
for Notifications.
A $4,000 diamond robbery in broad
daylight, in the heart of New Orleans.
with hundreds of persons passing at |
the time, was perpetrated at the jewelry |
esta blishment of NJ. Waldborn.
The Continental Trust company of |
has filed bill of foreclosure |
against the Seaboard Air Line railroad |
and its allied interests.
Secretary Cortelyou sent to the sem
ate report showing that BOG national |
banks were placed in charge of receiv-
ers between Jan. l, 1893, and Jan. 81.
1908. The aggregate capital of these
banks was S4S, 736,520.
A new baseball league, known as the
Atlantic association, was formed at
Boston, seven New England cities be-
ng represented.
Information from unofficial and in
lividual sources evidencing the agrees
'iveness of Japan in Manchuria has
been accommodating at Washington.
Friday, Feb. ri.
Lieutenant General Stoessel was con-
lemned to death by military court for
he surrender Of Port Arthur to the jap
nese. The court recommended that
he death sentence upon Stoessel be
ommuted to ten years Imprisonment in
fortress and that he be excluded from
he service.
A fire which started with a mys-
erious explosion and necessitated the
emoval of many prisoners from their
uarters In the Massachusetts reforma-
DRY at Concord caused damage of
10000 to the laundry building. /
George Dixon, carpenter on the +,
american collier Abaronda, killed |
Walter Weichert, chief officer Of the
ollier, on board the vessel Dixon
truck Weichert with an axe and de-