News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-27
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Belgium, sixty persons were'killed and
100 injured. The catastrophe appears
TO have been due to defective switch
Herbert &iriggs, aged II, shot and
killed his chum, John n. Qualters, 20
years old, at Athol, Mass, while they
Were playing burglar.
The Atlantic League Baseball asso-
citation voted to disband. The average
attendance at games had been less than
80.
Mae c. Wood, whose suit for an abso-
lutte divorce from United States Sena-
tor Plat has been on trial at New York
for several days, was committed to
prison after Justice .O'Gorman had dis
missed the complaint in her suit and
ordered her Held in $1,000 bail on a
charge of perjury.
a new bridge under construction on
the New Haven railroad at Bay Ches-
ter was wrecked by dynamiters.
After Sept. 1 it will be IL felony to con-
duet a bucketshop in New York state.
Governor Hughes signed the bill
amending the penal code to that effect.
Burglars made Il successful raid on
the Van Buren,, Me-, postotfice secur-
ing postage stamps said to be worth
$1,000 and 5000 in money.
Saturday, May %.
G. H. Curtiss made a fight of 800
yards, 1917 feet, in Baldwin's aero
plane, White Wing, ut Hammondsport.
N. Y. This flight is the worlds record
for first attempt.
In returning seven true bills against
Ray Lamphere, the La Pcrte, Ind,
county grand jury also indicted Mrs.
Belle Guinness for the murder Of An
drew Helgelein of Mansfield, S. ID.
Attorney General Jackson's applica-
ton for permission to begin suits to an
null the charters of the Western Union
and the Postal Telegraph companies
was denied in the New York supreme
court.
Governor Sparks of Nevada died
from an affection of the heart Sparks
was a millionaire mine owner and cat
tie raiser and was past 10 when elected
to office.
EX-POliceman George H. Brown of
Portland, Me-. was found guilty of
breaking, entering and larceny while in
the performance of his duties.
Legislative problems presented to the
present congress for solution, but I'M
answered, so far outnumber the actual
results" that they may afford justitica-
tinp of tbo cborra that tbo Irnsapt has
been "dO-nothing" session.
Twenty peasants who took part in
recent agrarian disorders We're hanged
at KhersiOn. Russia. The resort to the
death penalty for agrarian outrages is a
new departure.
Henry NJ. Rogers, trustee in bank
ruptcy of the estate of j. O. Shaw of
Boston, who is now in an insane hos
pital, is trying to find out what be-
came of $4,000 which was at one time
in Shaw's possession.
Sunday, May "a.
The American car in the New York
to-Paris automobile race is again in the
lead, arriving at Nix DISK, Russia, about
100 miles from VRdivostok.
Every railroad in oklahoma quit OPP
Grating as a result of heavy rains and
cloudbursts in various parts of the
state.
Ernest Terwilger of Newark, O.,
killed his 1S-year-old wife and their un-
born child by choking the woman dur
ing a quarrel. He is under close guard
to prevent a lynching.
Captain Mandacus and twenty-one
of the crew of the Greek
steamer Cyclades were obliged to aban-
don the vessel in sinking condition off
the Bahamas. The Cyclades finally
foundered.
Two buildings at Athol. Mass, in
which We're five stores and number of
tenements, were burned. Many occu-
pants were asleep when the fire was
at midnight and had to get
out hurriedly.
Three persons were instantly killed,
five others fatally injured and forty five
seriously hurt in a collision between
trolley cars near Chestnut Hill, a Phil
adelphia suburb.
A mammoth airship, on its trial trip
at Berkeley, Cal. rose 300 feet from
earth, burst and dropped to the ground
with its crew of sixteen men, every one |
Of whom was injured.
Returning to the neighborhoOd from |
which he had fed after killing Miss |
Nina E. Doane by shooting at Brooklyn |
because she had rejected him, Lipman
kessler committed suicide by shooting. |
Monday, May rs.
In the Elkhorn and POcahontas, w. |
Va, coal fields more than 1000 miners |
who have been idle owing to slack bust
less resumed work.
Rev. Joseph f. Lubeley, aged SO, pas
or of st. Joseph's Catholic church, |
Salisbury, Mo, was stabbed twice with
| pOcketknife and perhaps fatally in
ured in church by Joseph Schuett, a
armer, who is believed to have become
lemented.
Boyd Putnam, leading man for the
lillian Russell company, died at Irving
on, n. Y. from Bright's disease, which
developed during nervous breakdown.
The American government is closely
the Congo developments.
'assive support is being given to Great
Britain