News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-06-17
THEW WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, June 9.

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sian tribesmen.
Charles p. Corlett, prominent archi-
lect and head of the Corlett Engineer
ing company of Cleveland, killed his
wife and then ended his own life. The
tragedy Is said to have been the result
of jealousy.
The New Cliff hotel one of the IA
nous summer resorts of Newport, r. l.,
was destroyed by fire.
A fine of $4,000 was paid by George
F. Terry, the Waterville. Me-. mail or
der house proprietor, for conspiracy TO
defraud the government of postage on
second-class mail matter.
The British passenger steamer Pow
An, running between Hong Kong, Can
ton and Maco. struck on rock off
Lantao island and is a total wreck
Eighty natives were lost.
In the United States court at Toledo
the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
went into the hands of a receiver. The
petition, on behalf of the American Car
Wheel company, alleges an indebted
ness of S2S,000,0OO.
The Lisbon police have discovered
and frustrated big plot to blow up
with bombs the members of the royal
family at religious feast which is to
be held on June Is.
Antonio Pennotti fired six shots at
his wife and then put a bullet through
his own head and died almost instant
ly at his home at Boston. The woman
will recover.
Governor Hughes sent to the eX-
traordinary session of the New York
legislature a special message recon-
mending for consideration 1.-The enact
ment of suitable legislation for the
prevention of race track gambling"
Wednesday, June 10.
When the steamer Balasques locked
at Rio de Janeiro, Joseph w. Swan, a
wealthy real estate owner of Everett.
Mass, was arrested on the charge Of
kidnapping his 5-year-old son. The
boy was with him.
The coming Panama elections are
giving the American administration
much concern because of the eX-
pressed declaration of both political
factions to resort to force in the event
of failure at the polls.
Mrs. Tersilla Pinotti died at Boston
of wounds inflicted by her husband,
who killed himself after shooting her.
japanese troops had twenty-six en-
gagements with the Koreans from
June 3 to June 7, resulting in the kill
ing of 113 Koreans.
About seven thousand persons have
been driven from their homes in North
Topeka by the flood in the Kaw river.
The river is now falling.
Mulai Hafid, the insurgent Sultan of
Morocco, with his entire suite and an
army of $4,000 men, entered Fee with
great pomp.
A remarkable marine race of 10000
miles between three ships from Port
land, Or, to Queenstown was won by
the British ship Clackmannanshire,
which rea ched Queenstown in 1877 days
King Edward VII and Emperor
Nicholas exchanged royal visits Oh
board the Polar Star in the bay of Reval
The meeting may have a far-reaching
effect in the world policies of the flu
ture.
A consolidation of the piano manu-
featuring firms of William Knabe a.
Co. of Baltimore, Chickering & Sons of
Boston and the Foster Armstrong
company of Rochester has been eff.
fected.
Thursday, June H.
The United Society of Christian En-
societies and about $4,000 members
during the past year, making net en-
rollment of 7O,4O4 societies.
District Attorney John B. Moran of .
Suffolk county, Mass, is afflicted with
tuberculosis and will be obliged to |
leave Boston at once for the Adiron- |
dacks for an indefinite period.
The United States Brewers associa- |
ton pledged itself to the abolition of the |
immoral saloon and to the cause of |
temperance in the use of intoxicants.
General Clement A. Evans was
elected commander-in-chief of the |
United Confederate Veterans.
JO1lu the UllHlUS eHSl- |
neer, who has announced himself a
candidate for the Republican vice presi-
dental nomination, was registered as |
voter at Gloucester, Mass
Isaac B. Rich, Boston's veteran the
atrical manager, died after a two
months illness of diabetes. He had /
amassed a considerable fortune. He
was born I'm North Bucksport Me-, in
1928.
Convicted of stealing an old straw
hat and a screwdriver from a church
at Easton, Pa, Edward Whelan was
sentenced to serve ten years in the pen
itentiary.
Despondent, presumably because of
their arrest on a statutory charge,
George A. Gorton, a well-to-do farmer,
and Mrs. Edith A. Bowe of Essex,
Mass, committed suicide by taking
Oliver II. p. Belmont, the world-fa-
nous whip, society man and banker,
died at his home at Hampstead. L. /.
He was born in New York in 1851.
Friday, June IL.
The railroad regulation bill was