News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-27
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday,, Nav 10,

Oscar l.. Nelson John j. Kill!an and
George f. Gilmore were given life SEN
fences for the murder of Druggist
Charles Il. Bushee Of Someryile, Mass.
Tammany Hall will be represented
at the Democratic national convention
at Denver by delegation go strong.
Alton b. Parker, the presidential
candidate for the Democratic party in
1904, was admitted to practice before
the supreme court of the United States.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed against the Leech-
burg Banking company Of Leechburg,
Pa, large private banking institution.
c. f. Patterson was appointed re-
ceiver for Carothers & Co., one Of the
largest brokerage firms in Pittsburg
Autopsies on seven unidentified bod
les eXhumed from Mrs. Belle Gun.
ness private burial ground We're com
pleted at La Porte, Ind, and they re-
vealed the fact that one of the seven
was female.
Hope for schooner J. II. Chaffee.
which sailed from Perth Amboy, n. J.,
for Boston April 0 with five men on
board has been abandoned.
Steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, which
sailed from New York for CherbOurg
and Bremen, carried $3.50 600 in gold
The health of Former President Gro
YER Cleveland has improved to such an
extent that his doctors have entrusted
the care of Cleveland wholly to his fam
lily.
Mae C. Wood, testifying in her suit
for absolute divorce from United States
Senator Thomas c. Platt, asserted that
she was secretly married to Plat on
Nov. 0, 1901.
Wednesday, May 20.
Former President Grover Cleveland
shows steady Improvement. according
to- statement issued for Mrs. Cleve-
land.
A verdict in favor Of Professor
Philippe B. MarcO., recently Of Har-
ward university. was brought in by
jury in the $4,000 breach of promise
suit brought against him by Miss Annie
Manley, a Boston negress.
Rioting became serious in the street
railway strike at Cleveland. A 4-year-
old girl was run over and had her head
severed by a car operated by an mex
perienced motOrman. The motOrman
would have been lynched had he not
turned on full speed and escaped.
Arrested on complaints alleging that
during the past two years he had de-
frauded New England farmers out of
the proceeds from the sale of 100000
worth of apples, Walter Mills was
locked up at New York.
A family estrangement eliminated
in the murder of George E. Sterry,
New York millionaire drug exporter, by
his son, George E. Sterry, Jr., and the
suicide of the latter. The determina-
ton of the father to remarry led to the
tragedy.
High government officials at Wash
ington are alleged to have conspired to
obtain possession of love letters said
to have been written by Senator Thorn
as G. Plat to Mae C. Wood.
Congress passed the bill appropriate
ing $1,500,00O for participation by the
United States in the international expo
sition to be held in Toxic in 1912.
John A. Martinson, a granite manu-
facturer, was killed by the fall of der
rick in his quarry at Barre, VT.
England has withdrawn the con-
sular eXquatur of John H. Shirley. the
consular representative of the United
States at CharlOttetown, F. f. |.
King Edward will spend week
shortly with the Emperor and Empress
of Russia.
Thursday, May 81.
In the failure of William A. StetsOn.
the Boston leather merchant, and of
the three corporations which he CON
trolled, liabilities of over $S,0O0,OOO are
involved.
Coroner Mack of La Porte. Ind, rem
dered a verdict that Mrs. Belle Guinness
came to her death through felonious
homicide and that the perpetrator
thereof is unknown.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill directing the restoration of the
motto "In God We Trust" ordered by
him stricken from gold coins.
Secretary Humphrey of the National
Hughes league declares that New
York's governor will have 1876 votes on
the first ballot in the national conven-
ton.
The Fall River Textile council voted |
to accept the reduction of nearly IS per-
cent in wages called for by the averag-
ing margin between the cost of cotton |
and the selling price of cloth.
After lying hidden in small closet at |
the Yale Divinity school for years, a |
lot of manuscript sermons of Presidents |
Daggett and Clapp of Yale, delivered |
between 1741 and 1760, have been |
brought to light.
The conclusions of the special com |
nittee which has been investigating |
he charges of Representative Liley of
that members of the house
lad been improperly influenced in CON
lection with submarine torpedo boat
egislation that Lilley had violated his
obligation as a member, and acted in I;
lad faith and in contempt, were sus-
aimed by the house.
The fate that physicians at the Pas
eur institute had predicted came to
William III. Marsh of Brooklyn, when |