News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-11-04
the WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, oct. 27.

safe, although slightly reduced, ma.
jority.
All fish records for the port of Boston
were broken when fifty-fve fishermen
brought In a grand total of 1,719,400
pounds of fish.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Egg-o-See company, organized as
the Battle Creek Food company.
A score of guests at the Littleton
house, the only hotel in the village of
Littleton, Mass, were driven from
their beds by fire. The loss is $4,000
Copious rains eXtinguished forest
fires in many parts Of New England
and checked others for the time being
The rainfall WAS general and the
parched forests were thoroughly
drenched.
Judge Runnolls ordered the discharge
of Miss Inez L. Philbrick and George
O. Smith. who had been charged with
murder at Nashua, n. H.
The merchants of Panama assert that
their business has been seriously af-
fected because of the competition of the
InIlttl suites Npiillili'Hdi NO
Oct. 81 is the fiftieth anniversary of
the birth of President Roosevelt Con-
gratulations from the presidents
friends all over the world poured in.
Members of labor unions can be re-
strained by injunction from imposing
fines on other members for the sole
purpose of compelling workmen to
obey orders to 90 on strike. Such is
the gist of decision handed down by
the Massachusetts supreme court.
Fire which started in the New Era
house, Salisbury Beach, Mass. swept
along the beach. destroying over 100
cottages Conservative estimates place
the probable loss It upwards Of $4,000
Wednesday, Oct. %.
The report of Receiver Griffin Of the
Peoples bank at Portsmouth. Va.
shows a shortage in the accounts Of
Cashier Butt of $540,SS4.
President butcher Of the National
Association of Audubon Societies de
clared that Americans We're robbing
posterity in permitting an annual crop
loss of $S00000,000, due to destruction
of insect-eating birds.
An investigation Of the fire which de
stroyed more than a hundred summer
cottages and several small boarding
houses at Salisbury, Mass. indicated
that the blaze was of incendfary origin.
Official dispatches from the sections
visited by the typhoon and resultant
I,o+
ince, p. t.. recently, place the death roll
at 500.
Mrs Lillian NJ. N. Stevens Of Port
land, Me-, was unanimously reelected
president of the National WOmens
Christian Temperance union.
The death of Cardinal Matthew at
London and of Cardinal Salvador Casa
mas Pages at Barcelona brings the va
cancies in the sacred college to fourteen.
The recent pour parlers in European
capitals appear to have brought the idea
of an international congress for the set
tlement of the Balkan problems appre-
Gladly nearer realization.
Prince Henry Of Prussia spent sew
eral hours in the air as the guest of
Count Zeppelin, who made an ascension
in his remodelled airship.
The Spanish debt of $500. $50, award
ed to certain citizens of this country I'M
der a treaty of Feb, II. 1894, with
Spain, has been finally liquidated
Spain has been paying annual interest
on the amount since the treaty.
Thursday, Octs 20
Soldiers of Tennessee, under the per-
sonal direction of Governor Patterson,
have secured evidence of the most |
nature against the murderers
Of CAPTAIN Rankin. The total number
of arrests of alleged night riders is |
The fourteenth national Bulgarian as
sembly was convened for its autumn |
session. The speech from the throne |
was eminently pacific in character. |
Emperor Ferdinand defended the re-
cent course of his government
Leroy D. Noyes of West Boylston.
Mass, aged %, who confessed that he
was possessed of a mania for setting
Tres, was ordered committed to an in
'dHe dSy luIl
Benjamin E. Gaines, 80 years old, and
Miss Harriet NJ. Wing, aged 20, died
rom bullet wounds at Greenfield,
Mass. Gaines IS supposed to have done
he shooting. The motive is not known.
After an Imprisonment of eleven
months and five days, Nicholas Tschai-
,ovsky, the Russian revolutionist, was
eleased on $500 bail, pending trial.
Suffragette disturbances have driven
he British government to the unusual
curse of temporarily closing the
trangers and ladies' galleries in the
ouse of commons.
A Russian patrol cruiser seized two
more raiding Japanese sealing schoon-
rs on the Russian sealing grounds in
he north Pacific.
That the Atlantic feet was sent to
apan at the request of the emperor to
verawe his subjects was the state
lent made by United States Senator
DiXon in a public address.
Friday, Oct. 80.
Application for a joint receivership
Or the Hudson River Electric Power
opI eoro,, o+for Eipdrod' cpp. |