News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-06
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, April %.


sage of March %.
Three-cent street car fares on all
lines operating within the city of Cleve-
land have become a possibility.
William L. Mcguire, aged 80, died as
the result of injuries sustained by being
gored by bull at Riverpoint, r. l.
The corpse Of Mrs. Sarah Brennan,
with the skull crushed in, was found
tightly packed in large trunk at her
home at Brownsville, n. Y.
The 1908 ,wage scale for the more
than 5000 union contemporaries and
joiners of Boston and vicinity has been
settled.
A seat on the New York Stock Ey-
change sold for $70,00G.
An epidemic of measles, which has
reached serious proportions, threatens
to close the schools and public places
of Wakefield, Mass.
Recent disturbances in Guatemala.
made manifest by the attempt on the
life of President Cabrera, are regarded
at Washington as likely to interfere
with the peace mission to the five Cen
trail American republics.
Wednesday, April 20.
The general talk about congress is to
the effect that the presidents message
will not cause any change to be made
in the tentative program to adjourn
this session in about three weeks.
Two large trolley cars collided head
on while running about forty-tiyG miles
an hour near Ypsilanti, Mich. Nine
men were killed and about thirty men
and women injured, some Of them seri-
ously.
The New Jersey Democratic state
convention to select delegates to the ma
tional convention at Denver selected a
delegation that is uninstructed, except
as to voting under the unit rule. A
resolution to instruct the delegation in
favor of Bryan was voted down.
Dispatches were read in the Persian
parliament stating that the Kurds
around Urumiah, town of Persian Ar
menia, had pillaged thirty-siX villages
and massacred two thousand people.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Schwerin,
attached to the torpedo destroyer flo
tilla on the recent trip from Hampton
Roads to Magdalena bay. was found
guilty of charges against him and SEN
fenced to dismissal from the navy.
The nomination of Joab N. Patterson
to be pension agent at Concord, n. H.,
was confirmed by the senate.
The Chinese board of war has drawn
up a scheme to strengthen the navy
by the formation of three new squad
rons, each consisting of one battleship
and several cruisers.
FRITZ Scheff the actress, is entitled
to a decree of absolute divorce from
Baron Won Bardelben, according to a
report which has just been made at New
York by Referee Wise.
Thursday. April 80.
The Pennsylvania Republican state
convention endorsed Senator KNOX for
the presidency.
Acting Governor Draper sent to the
Massachusetts, legislature a veto of
the bill to increase the salary of the
secretary Of the licensing board of Bos-
ton.
A bill which passed the Massachu-
sets senate provides that a married
man cannot assign his wages without
the consent of his wife.
The Vermont delegation to the Re-
publican national convention will not
be bound by instructions in favor of
candidates.
The marriage of Prince Tsakeda
and Princess Masako. eldest daughter
Of the Emperor of Japan, was sol
emnized at Toxic. The prince is 20 |
years old and the princess is 10.
DR.. Morgan Dix, rector Of Trinity |
parish, New York, since 1862, died, fol- |
lowing a brief illness. He was 81 |
years of age.
Police Commissioner O'Meara of !
Boston assigned seventy-seven new pa
trolmen to duty.
President Tuttle of the Boston and |
Maine railroad informed the employees |
hat there would not be any reduction |
Of wages on the road for this season.
Public requests aggregating $4,000 |
are provided for in the will of Charles
a. Newhall of Lynn, Mass, who died
asst week.
The Connecticut Democratic repre-
;entation will go to Denver without be-
ng bound by instructions in favor of
inv presidential candidate.
A coroner's jury at Easton, Pa, rem
Tered a verdict, charging Robert
Brakeman with the murder Of Irene
u. Smith, aged 8, who was offered as
acrifice by her parents and uncle, men,
,ers of a fanatic religious sect.
The joint scale committee Of the
miners and operators of the Kanawha
Ield reached an agreement The scale
f 1906 continues in effect. Eight
thousand miners will continue work.
The New Bedford, Mass, high school
von the annual interselblastic drill at
Boston. Fourteen schools competed.
Friday, May 1.
Cruiser Matsushima of the japanese
raining squadron was sunk by an ex-
Iosion of the stock magazine off the
islands. The death list has
OF been ascertained, but according to
est reports about 200 are dead. Can |