News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-21
NEWS OF THE week
Tuesday, April 10.

bldlS pQlCb VI inc HIe WHICH Cost SlA
human lives, rendered ten families
destitute, and swept away property
worth about $3.50, 900 in the business
centre of LenoX, Mass.
President Taft instructed Director
North OF the census bureau to disre-
gard party lines in securing suitable
men for places under the new census
act.
Mount Etna is not in eruption, al
though reports to that effect have been
current.
The expected birth of an heir to the
throne of Holland has given rise to
anxiety on the part of the whole popu-
lation.
bullet fired into his head during
church row caused the death of Nell
son Morgan, senior deacon of the Oh
ney Street Negro Baptist church,
Providence.
The trip from Philadelphia to Ports
mouth, N. H., was made by the
three masted schooner Eagle Wing in
fifty-six hours.
which for ninety years reposed in the
Jesuit order, was transferred to an
advisory board of laymen.
When the steamer Romantic made
Boston from Naples government Off
Gals detained four stowaways and
over 100 passengers, who will be ex-
amined as BLACK Hand" suspects.
Wednesday, April IA. (
Scout cruisers Chester and Salem
completed twenty-four hour full
speed test in which the Chester came
out the victor. The Birmingham was
forced to drop out Of the race because
of a arrangement of machinery.
An earthquake sufficiently heavy to
cause houses to shake occurred at
Westfield and Welsford, N. B.
The troops of the garrison made
violent demonstration before the par
lament building at Constantinople
against the committee of union and
progress and the government. Seven
teen persons were killed and the pres
ent ministry was overthrow.
Al Kaufman, who has aspirations to
the heavyweight fistic championship
honors, defeated by points Tony Ross
in a round bout at New York.
Fire, which broke out in the Palmer
building, four story brick structure
devoted to manufacturing interests,
was the starting point of a $500, 900
conflagration in Rochester, N. Y
Hundreds of persons are homeless.
Bishop Thoburn was presented with
a handsome home at Meadville, Pa.
purchased by 100 friends in the Meth
odist Episcopal church.
Thirteen jurors will hear the evil
dence in the case of Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads,
charged with offering a bride to
former San Francisco supervisor.
Counsel for Peter G. Hams, Jr.,
decided to rely solely on insanity as a
defense in the trial of Hams for the
murder of William E. Annis.
That Mrs. Ida B. Kline of Portland,
Me- died as a result of pistol shot
fired by her husband, Samuel, and
that he then shot and killed himself |
was the conclusion reached by a cor
oner's jury.
Thursday, April IS.
Frank Gotch of Iowa retained the
worlds wrestling championship by de- |
feating Yussif Mahmout of Bulgaria in |
falls in a fast and furious |
match at Chicago. The Bulgarian was |
a child in the hands of the American. |
President Taft's summer capital" |
will be at Woodbury. Point, Beverly,
Mass.
Wheat for May delivery sold on the
Chicago board of trade at 129 per
bushel.
Society women of Washington de-
voted part of day to clearing up the
stray bits of paper in the streets that
are eyesores to the residents with
proper civic pride.
AS result of charges of violation
Of the internal revenue law, formal in
structions were issued to seize the
Carroll Springs Distilling company's
plant, one of the largest registered
grain distilleries in Maryland.
Former Deputy City Comptroller
John Andrews of Atlantic City was
sentenced to six years in prison for
stealing s24, 900 of the city's funds.
Mail delivery by automobile-the
irst experiment of the kind to be
adopted by the postoffice department,
las begun in New York.
General Marion c.. Butler, former
United States senator, and one of the
Confederate cavalry generals, died at
s. C.
Ex-City Treasurer John A. Glines
II Haverhill, Mass. who has served
III but five weeks of five-year term
or embezzlement, was granted par
lon by Governor Draper.
A vacancy in the Office of chaplain
n the navy will be filled by the ap-
ointment of a minister of the Metho-
list Episcopal church.
Friday, April IS.
Acting on instructions United States
evenue officers seized the plant and
took of the Carroll Springs Distillery
ompany at Baltimore and made six