News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-20

through northwest Louisiana.
Disaster overlook Wilbur and Or
vile Wright, who have made success
full flights with their aeISplane at Kill
Devil Hill, North Carolina, Tor, after
the greatest flight ever made with a
similar machine, the aeroplane was
wrecked.
The cornerstone of the new 100000
naval Y. NJ. c. A. building, given by
John ID. Rockefeller, was laid at Nor
folk.
BY the death of Mrs. Sarah G. Bur
bank, the city of Fitchburg, Mass, will
shortly come into the possession Of a
trust fund of $4,000 for the erection
and maintenance of a hospital.
Jacob Levitsky and Abraham VOL
nitZ, the ragmen who We're charged
with arson in connection with the Chel-
sea, Mass, fire of April -, were re-
leased no probable cause being found
against them.
The Democrats Of Minnesota formal
ly endorsed Governor Johnson as a
presidential candidate and at the same
time, by vote of 772 to 1G6, refused to
dtclare in favor Bryan as a second
choice.
Saturday, May 16.
Identification was made of the piece
of jawbone taken from the ruins of the
Guinness farmhouse as Il portion of
Mrs. Belle Guinness skull.
The Socialists in national convention
nominated Eugene " Debs for preSi-
dent and Benjamin Hanford for vice
president.
Hugo Cuhornen died at Winsted,
Conn, from hydrophobia. The nature
of his illness was not known until an
autopsy had been held.
The efforts of the students of Swarth-
more college to induce the faculty to re-
consider it's action in abandoning inter-
collegiate football contests have proved
futile.
Rear Admiral Sperry has assumed
command Of the strongest force of first
class fighting ships assembled in the
history of the nation.
As result of recent naval disasters
the British admiralty has issued orders
suspending all night maneuvers by
naval vessels until further notice.
The first conference of the governors
of the states of the American Union has
ended. but time is needed to reveal the
epoch which the president and the gov
errors believe has been begun.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss negro soldier of
the Twenty-Fifth infantry for alleged
participation in the riot at BROWNSVILLE,
Tex, was sustained in the United States
district court at New York.
Two Italians, Ferdinando di Ribasso
and Giuseppe A. Zeccolo, charged with
murder, pleaded guilty at Cambridge,
Mass. of murder in the second degree.
Di Ribasso killed his wife, while Zee
colo killed a boy.
Sunday, May II.
Peter Bourgade, 63 years old, arch
bishop of Santa Fe, died at Chicago OF
heart disease.
King Manuel's attachment for the
young daughter of lady-in-waiting to
Queen Amelie threatens to disrupt the
matrimonial plans which are being
made for him by Portugars royal
matchmaker.
An outbreak of cholera has compelled
the withdrawal of nearly all the white
troops with General Willcock's first
column in India into the cholera camp.
Advices from the new naval hospital
= Il bn non tic
ing report regarding the results of
treating tuberculosis by the use of mer-
curry.
The La Porte, Ind, county council
appropriated $4,000 for the use of Off
GERS in endeavoring to solve the mys-
terry surrounding the murders commit
ted on the farm of Mrs. Belle Guinness.
United States Senator Burrows of
Michigan has been selected to be tenn
pOrary chairman of the national Repub-
lican convention, which meets in Chi
cagO June 16.
Although it was believed William II.
Sharpe of Laconia, n. H., had died some
time ago and the body was buried in
the Sharpe family lot on March 26, the
read body of Sharpe has just been found
floating in the Winnepesaukee river at
Laconia.
There is a growing movement in IA
vor of urging the name of Governor
Guild of Massachusetts as the New |
England candidate for second place on |
the Republican national ticket.
Monday, May 18.
General Nigy, commander of the
French forces in Algeria, reports that |
he occupied Boudenib, the stronghold |
of Malai Hassen, after vigorously she'll |
ing the Arabs.
The recent warning to intending emf |
grants, issued by the Hungarian gov
eminent, that the economic situation in |
America had not shown sufficient i'm
provement to give prospect of obtain
ing work, failed to check the outflow
from that country.
Henry Farman, the English aero
naut says, with reference to his chal-
lenge to the Wright brothers, the Amer
lean aeronauts, that. he will provide |
$4,000 for the match and more if re-
quired.
Harry X. Thaw plea for his release