News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-04-15

embodied IN Il short message sent ny
President Roosevelt to the Capitol.
The "open shop" policy will be ad-
hered to by vessel owners in the opera
ton of boats upon the Great Lakes this
season.
After an exciting race of over 1887
miles, the Teutonic of the White Star
line outstripped the Caronia of the
Cunard line by one hour and twenty
six minutes.
The boom Of Judge Gray Of Delaware
for the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton was launched in Pennsylvania by
the organization of the George Gray
! League" at Philadelphia
Saturday, April II.
Massachusetts delegates to the Re
publican national convention to be held
in Chicago will 20 unpledged, although
at the Republican state convention
they were given plenty of evidence that
the state is largely in favor of the nomi-
nation of William II. Taft.
! Rev. Joseph A. Graham, rector of the
Roman Catholic church of the Blessed
Sacrament at Albany, shot himself in
the heart dying almost instantly
Struck by a flying log which sudden
! ly jumped from chute in the portable
sawmill of William Bishop at Enfield,
Mass, Bishop and Miss Wilhelmina
Weston, aged II, were instantly killed.
! Nineteen Doukhobors, nine women
and ten men, were sentenced to six
months in prison for parading the
| streets at Fort William, Ont, unclothed.
Fire, evidently incendiary, burned
| two three-story three tenement houses
owned by George A. Flagg at Boylston,
| Mass, and threatened several others,
which were saved by apparatus from
Clinton and Worcester
The South Dakota railroad commits
sioners ordered reductions in freight
rates in western South Dakota, rang
ing from 10 to 43 percent.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the North Carolina Cotton
| Manufacturers association it was rec
commended that all1outhern mills shut
down sixty days.
President ROosevelt's desire that the
| building of four battleships shall be au-
thorized by congress during its present
| session may result in the sending of
special message urging that action.
William A. Kroll an employee of the
| bindery of the government printing Of
flee, has been suspended for alleged
pernicious political activity.
| The scout cruiser Birmingham was
| formally accepted for the government
| by Admiral Swift, commandment of the
Charlestown navy yard, and Captain
Peters.
Sunday, April IL.
| A northwest gale famed an lnS1gnltl-
cant fire in pile of rags into vast con-
| fagration at Chelsea, Mass, complete
| ly obliteratin one-half the city, de-
stroying five hundred dwelling houses
and public buildings, drove fifteen
| hundred families from their habitations
and rendered ten thousand people
| homeless. All the banks, more than
| three-quarters of the churches, fully
| half of the business section and nearly
all the schoolhouses were wiped out
The loss is about $7,50000O.
Charles E. Hughes was endorsed as
New York's candidate for president at
| the Republican state convention and
| the four delegates-at-large, with their
alternates, were instructed to use all
| honora BILE means to bring about his NOM
| ination.
Cornelius Carey, aged A, trimmer
| for the Maiden, Mass, Electric Light
company, was trimming a light when he
| received a shock that caused his death.
BY a vote of more than to l, the
strike of the quarryworkers in the vi
| cinity of Barre VT, came to an end and
the 5000 men who have been affected
will return to work.
Should President RoOsevelt's present
desires be realized, he will spend the
| first year after his retirement from Of
fee in travel outside the United States.
Lumber operators from the head of
| the ST. John river say that conditions
are all that could be desired.
Steamer Grand Lake of the ST Johns
| sealing feet was shut up in the jaws
| of two great ice foes until her sides
gave way, anu even DtI tnSlHts Nclc
crushed. Her crew of pa men escaped.
Monday, April 10.
Robert Downs, is years old. died at
WATERFOWL, Conn. from the effects of
knife wound in the neck inflicted by
William Mclaughlin, aged 40, with
whom he had trivial dispute.
Following his unexpected defeat by
| A. c. Sherr in the Marshall. w. Va,
county primary, William II. Hearne
gave out letter Withdrawing from the
contest for the Republican gubernatorial
| nomination.
The partisans of Premier Maura of
| Portugal are using President Roose-
velt's anti-anarchist message as IN argu
ment in favor Of the new government
bill imposing severe penalties against
anarchists.
Lieutenant Charles A. L. Totten, u. =.
A., retired, and former Yale professor,
died at his home at Milford. Conn. Tot
|. ten was very widely known because Of
! mathematical deductions upon which
he based prophetical interpretations Of
the Scriptures.