News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-08-11
NEWS OF The week
Tuesday, AUG. 8.

p. Clarity, a Boston wool broker, was
sentenced to two years in state prison.
Directors of the National League of
Baseball clubs chose John Heydler OF
Cincinnati president Of the league.
The naval collier Nero was success
fully floated from the rocks off Ben
tons Reef, where she had been since
July 2.
Tariff legislation has been delayed
Egain by the hide and leather ques-
ton and as a result the conferees have
been called together once more.
Miss Mabel Boardman of Washing
ton received a gold crown, present
from the Italian government, for her
services in behalf of the Italian earth
quake sufferers.
Jack Johnson has covered Jim JEFF
fries forfeit of $4,000 for a match for
the worlds heavyweight champion
ship.
Boston's metropolitan district is
threatened with a decided shortage in
the milk supply or else an advance in
prices.
During the fiscal year ending June
80 last there was a decrease of $5,-
290, 773 in whisky tax receipts.
The internal situation in Spain
seems to be improving, but several of
the smaller cities are reported to be
in the hands Of the revolutionists and
many of the villages have proclaimed
the district a republic.
Wednesday, Aug. q.
Theodore Roosevelt and his son,
Kermit, were the guests of honor at
public banquet given at Nairobi, East
Africa.
New York garment workers demand
the restoration Of 20 percent wage
cut made in 1907. The strikers num-
Der in all more Tan 20 900.
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed
at Portland, Me. ;, for G. w. Davis,
e. j. Lawrence and H. M. Soule, in
dividually and as members of certain
firms. The liabilities as individuals
aggregate 81, 000,0 900.
Lynn, Mass, is to have a finance
commission which will delve into the
city's affairs as far back as it's perse-
verance lasts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Richmond, pro-
prietor of a hotel at Cambridge,
Mass. was held without bail for the
grand jury on the charge of numbering
Stewart McTavish.
One hundred men were discharged
from the Boston navy yard.
The will of the late Don Carlos, the
pretender to the throne of Spain,
leaves to the pope works of art and
money to total of 50 900 900.
G. A. Kimball, cashier of the Citi-
zens' Bank of Southern Pines, N. c.,
confessed the embezzlement of the
institutions funds.
The city of Barcelona is quiet, but
the populace demands the liberation
of the prisoners taken during the
fighting. Troops still patrol the
streets, but otherwise life is almost
normal.
Thursday, Aug. 5.
The states alienists in the Thaw
case have sworn without exception
that Harry K. Thaw is still insane and
would be a menace to the community
If released from the asylum at Mat
teawan.
The celebration of the first settle
,ment of Gloucester, Mass. 2S6 years
ago was brought to a close by the pro-
duction, by cast of 1000 players, of
"The Canterbury Pilgrims" pageant
most artistically conceived and bril-
liantly staged.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of
the bureau of chemistry, department
of agriculture, has had conferred up
on him by the president of France the
cross of Knight of the Legion of
Honor.
The battleships of the North At
lantic fleet, which have been prac-
Using in Cape Cod bay for the past
month, steamed away for Hampton
Roads.
Woodman Clifford and M. P. Hodg-
don captured a big man eating shark
ten feet long and weighing half ton
off Monhegan, Me.
A monument to Count Zeppelin was
unveiled near Oppenheim to mark the
spot where Zeppelin landed in his air
ship during his flight from Lake Con-
stance to Mayance.
James A. Flaherty of Philadelphia
was elected supreme knight of the ma
tional body of Knights of Columbus.
The Spanish government issued an
official announcement saying that
the crisis in Spain is now at an end
and that the country is tranquil from
the Bay of Biscay to the Mediter-
ranean.
Stirred by the murder of Charles
Perkins, prosperous farmer of
Hardwick, VT, by Joseph Pascal, a
neighbor, a large posse of farmers
searched for the latter in the woods.
A public beheading took place in
the boulevard fronting the Sante
prison in Paris. The victim was one
Buchemin, aged %, a butcher, who
brutally murdered his mother.
Friday, Aug. 6.