News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-07


marine and fisheries, nine officials
have been dismissed from the serviot
at various points in New Brunswich
On the ground that they had accepted
money to which they had no right.
Georgia has abolished the trathc in
whites as well as blacks, SO, instead
of selling its 1900 prisoners, it will
work them on the public roads here
after.
1t is admitted that the willy Crazy
Snake has eluded his pursuers. He
controls his own destines so long as
he chooses to remain hidden.
Because he refused to pay his first
wife's alimony to the amount of $1,000,
Roland H. Perry, sculptor and
painter, was committed to a New
York Jail for a six months term.
Delegates from all parts of Mexico
expressed to President Diaz their 10y
atty to his administration and re-
Quested him not to give up the presi-
Dental Office at the close of his pres
ent term.
Saturday, April 3.
Charles w. Eliot, retiring president
of Harvard university, has definitely
and finally decided that he cannot ac-
cept the tender of the ambassadorship
to Great Britain.
The appearance of scarlet fever
among the enlisted men of the battle
ship Missouri has resulted in the plac-
ing of a quarantine upon the ship at
Boston.
Vincenzo Geraci was arrested at
Chicago in the office of DR.. Peter Cut
rera, from whom the Italian had de-
manded $4,000 on pain of death.
The Seventy fourth Maine legis-
lature adjourned finally after a ses-
sion of thirteen weeks.
For the fourth time within a year
an attempt was made to burn the
Coolidge block, a $25 900 building in
the Milford, Mass. business district.
A murder mystery was apparently
cleared when Dionysius Spiropolous,
a Greek, 20 years old, was arrested
for the murder of Miss Annie Mullins
in Arlington, Mass, on the night of
March 27, 1908, and Peter Delory, Is
years old, was held as an accessory.
Ora c. Morningstar is the new
worlds champion at 1872 balk line
billiards, having won the honor in
the international tournament at New
York.
Sunday, April a.
Leading his only rival by wheels
length, Eddy Root of Boston won the
six-day bicycle race at Atlanta from
Bobby Walthour of Atlanta. He COW
cred 995 miles and two laps.
Jarius Clark, for many years high
sheriff of Hampshire county, Mass.
dropped dead on the street at North
ampton, Mass. of heart disease.
The much despised eel grass, found
in nearly part of the New England
coast, has at last found use in the
of insulating paper.
Mrs. Fannie Friedman died at New
York at the age of 112 years. 1t was
her boast that she never had a doctor |
in her life.
To boys and carelessly thrown Gig |
aret stub is generally credited a fire |
which destroyed property in South |
Fort Worth, Tex, valued at 50, 000,-
900, caused the death of one man and |
rendered 300 families homeless.
The general opinion is held in Cara
cas- that Cipriano Castro will take up
his residence in Trinidad and await |
The most favorable opportunity to start |
4 revolution.
Indications are that diplomatic re-
ations between this country and Nj
are nearing crisis.
Monday, April 5.
Vice Admiral Pasoual Cervera, who
commanded the Spanish fleet in the
'attle of Santiago, Cuba, died at
Puerto Real, Spain.
Henri st. Yves of France won the
treat international Marathon derby for
runners at New York.
)orando Pietri was second, John J.
Hayes third and Matthew Maloney
ourth.
The apparent failure of the seal
;atch in the Gulf of ST. Lawrence is
eported by the sealing steamer Har-
aw
The report of the special committee
,ppointed by the National Civil Ser
ice Reform league to investigate the
natter of political activity on the part
f federal officers says that the charg-
S to a great extent are sustained.
Declaring his innocence of the
barge of numbering Annie Mullins
year ago, Dioisios Spiropoulos and
is companion and accuser, Peter De-
prey, were bound over at Cambridge,
lass, without bail for a hearing on
.pril 10.
Services were held in st. Georges
reek Orthodox church, Manchester,
!. H., for the first time in three
'eeks, but only after a large number
disturbers, composing a dissenting
lction of the church, had beeen eject
d by the police.
King Edward will be godfather to
lie son of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Yard, who was born on March "a