News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-06

| ton, resigned their connection with
the hospital, owing to disagreement
over the retention of Miss Augusta C.
Robertson as matron.
Speaking at the Alaska Yukon Pa
cifc exposition President Taft an
nounced that he would urge IL his
coming message to congress the en-
actment OF ship subsidy law.
Saturday, Oct. 2.
Massachusetts Republicans renomi-
mated Governor Draper and the re-
mainder of the present state officials
by reclamation.
Upon the expiration of his ten years
sentence in the Massachusetts state
prison for the embeZzlement OF $50, =
900, William G. Vanderlip, rs years
old, left that institution free man.
About Cape Cod a great school OF
whales, numbering many hundreds,
disported, the great black bodies ly-
ing lazily on the surface of the water
like inanimate logs, disappearing FOR
a time, and then reappearing and
blowing.
The public debt of the United States
is So, GAS, COZ ,S46. The available cash
balance in the treasury is $94 ,206,
III.
Robert Person, aduitor for the in
terror department, has rendered his
resignation.
New York gave Commander Peary a
hearty welcome. From the bridge OF
the Roosevelt Peary was the most
prominent feature of the sixty mile
Hudson Fulton naval parade from
New York to Newburg.
Unequivocally asserting that a
monopoly now is in process of forma-
ton, whose object is to obtain pos
session of the water power sites of
the country, Clifford Pinchot, chief of
the bureau of forestry, declared that
remedial legislation must be enacted
at once if this great natural resource
is to be preserved to the people.
A Spanish force accommodating was
amblshed by Moors and met with a
serious reverse. General Vicario,
three other officers and fourteen men
were killed and 1872 men were wound
ed.
Sunday, Oct. 8.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook acquiesced
in the proposal that the University
of Copenhagen be asked to waive it's
claim to a prior examination of his
records, SD that scientific bodies in this
county may be enabled to review his |
data.
Eight men were killed and three
perhaps fatally injured in an explo-
sion of gas in the shaft of coal mine |
at Roslyn, Wash.
The Hudson Fulton celebration, af-
ter week of pageantry in New York,
moved UP the Hudson.
Henry st. Yves, the French long
distance runner, collapsed in a race
at Montreal. Physicians declare that's
his heart is affected and that he prob !
ably will be unable to run again.
Twenty six Greeks were quaran-
tined in "a Greek lodging house at |
Mass. because one of |
their number was found to have been |
with virulent case of small |
pox for five days.
Lieutenant o. w. Baird, a recruit
ing officer in the United States army, |
suicide at North Adams,
Mass. by taking poison. He left
lote closing with the words: Here !
goes misspent life. May God for
give me-"
A bulldog went mad at Wakefield,
Mass, attacking several persons,
wo of whom were bitten by the dog.
Other persons received scratches, but
10 bites, from the animal.
Boston Common probably never saw
| more extraordinary feat than when,
or twelve solid hours former Judge
Henry P. Dewey talked upon the
theocratic form of government. Hav-
ng announced that he would be the
theocratic candidate" for governor
his fall, Dewey decided upon this
means of presenting his case to the
public.
Monday, Oct. a.
Professor Whitney, chief of the
'ureau of soils in the department of
says that the soils of
Jew England are producing consid- I
rably heavier yields than the soils
# the Mississippi river states.
President Taft preached a sermon ]
t the cornerstone laying of the First |
Jniversalist church in East Port l
and, Ore.
Employees of the Interborough Rapid |
transit company of New York will {
eceived $25, 200 as a token of the |
ompany's gratitude for their eff i
lent work in handling the crowds of
he Hudson Fulton celebration. t
General Nistchenko, former gov !
rnor-general of Tiflis, has applied |
D the czar for a pardon for q. private s
older who was sentenced to death I
Or an attempt to kill the general.
The recent resistance of the Moors
nd the Spanish losses have convinced :
no Cnanieh oOvarnropuf +bo+ A. --. L