News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-01-22

! the presidency were adopted at n mas
| meeting hel under the auspices Of the
league at New York
Edwin ID. Scott, cashier Of the PEG.
| pies National bank OF Frankllnville
\. J. which was closed by federal
! bank examiner. was committed to hos
| pital IJr the insane.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
vas filed Ivy Frank i. Hawks, a Boston
zeal estate broker, The total liabilities
are $4iO, i3S.7S and the assets $40
Saturday, Jan. 10.
Arthur Il. Smith. alias William Foley
who shot and killed Patrolman join
T. Lynch at Boston, was held for the
| grand jury on a charge of murder il
the first degree.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada has
gone into liquidation and the Bankers
association will take charge of the as
sets
President Roosevelt will permit the
troops to remain in Nevada for such
reasonable length Of time as will give
the legislature opportunity to organize
a force to perform the police functions
Of the state.
Three sailors of the cruiser st. Louis
died at Vallejo Cal, from drinking
wood alcohol Two other sailors are
blind from the same cause and five
Others may never again be fit for active
service.
The announcement is made at the
Charlestown navy yard that the wages
of considerable number of the govern
ment employees have been raised
Four girls were killed, ten seriously
injured and score or more slightly
hurt at fire in the Imperial Knitting
company's mill at Scranton, Pa.
Secretary Metcalf has declined to in
terfere with the playing of baseball on
Sunday at the League Island navy yard.
The American Insurance company,
which has done business in Boston for
fifty years, has gone into the hands Of
receiver.
Surgeon General RiXey of the navy
asked the house committee on naval af-
fairs to recommend an appropriation
Of $1,500,000 for the construction and
equipment of a navy hospital ship.
Every electric lighting and power
company in New York city will be SUBJ
iected to an investigation by the pub
Tic service commission.
The Haytian government has de-
clared the ports of Gonaives and st.
Marc. which are occupied by insurgents.
to be blockaded, and it declares that
preparations are being made to bonn.
bard them.
Sunday, Jan. 10.
Officers of the steamer Mont erey de.
clare that on Jan. II a peculiar white
powder like -four fell from the skies in
the Gulf of Mexico. 1t was not vol
canic dust, there being no grit in the
composition.
While Il festival was in progress at
DragOsh. Macedonia. Il large band of
Greeks suddenly swOOped down upon
the villagers and, after driving them
into their houses. set fire to the build
ings and burned them to dea tn.
Fire damaged two buildings of the
colony for the feeble minded and cpl
leptics at Marshall. Mo-. to the amount
of $4,000 and imperilled 175 patients.
There is much suffering because of |
the unusual heat wave throughout Vic |
toria, Australia. Thrty-two deaths |
have been recorded from sunstroke dur |
ing the past few days.
Earl Jacques, 80 years old, confessed |
that he killed and robbed Miss Mary
Eddy at Greenville, II. l., while she was |
on her way home from work in the |
wooden mills there.
Charles Emory Smith, editor of the |
Philadelphia Press. former minister to |
Russia and eN-pOstmaster general, died |
suddenly from heart trouble He was |
born at Mansfield, Conn. 6j years ago. |
John II. Walsh was found guilty of |
wrecking the Chicago National bank. |
The federal jury that had spent two
months hearing the mass of testimony |
thirty hours in agreeing on
verdict
verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree was brought in by the
jury in the case of Alfred Mahan.
charged with the murder of his 4-year-
old niece. Ethel Mahan, at North Ben
ningtOn, Vt.
Monday, Jan. 20.
After having been entOmbed forty
six days, 1000 feet below the surface in
the Alpha s6lft of the Giroux mine at
Ely, New, A. ID. Bailey, p J. Brown
and Fred Mcdonald were rescued. At
40 time did they suffer greatly.
The usual ceremony of blessing the
waters by the Car of Russia took place
IN the lake in the palace park at
rsarskoe-Selo instead of at the waters | !,
If the Neva.
George II. H. Mercer. a cotton bro
ler, prominent in Providence social
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