News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
NEWS OF TIVE week
Tuesday. Oct. 10.


Ing, INCORPORATING and automobiling,
Iackrabbit chasing and golf are few
of the diversions in which President
Taft is expected to indulge in the
course OF his four days rest at his
Srother's big ranch at Gregory, Tex.
Town Treasurer John B. Lombard
Of birmingham, Mass, was formally
placed under arrest after making a
clean breast of his connection with
forged notes Of the town. Charles S.
Cummings and Edward A. Mead,
Boston bankers, were also taken into
custody.
The selection of minister to China
will probably be deferred until the re-
turn of President Taft to Washing
ton.
Starting from Juvisy, Count De Lam
bert flew to Paris, distance Of about
thirteen miles, in his aeroplane,
passed several hundred feet above the
Eiffel Tower, and then returned to
Juvisy.
Deaths invasion of the ranks of
war veterans caused As 912 names to
be dropped from the pension rolls of
the United States last year.
The numerous cotton mills of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing company at
Manchester, N. H., shut down until
Oct. %. About ~, 900 persons are
affected.
Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Specific charges of forgery were
made against John e. Lombard,
former treasurer of the town of Franz
lngham, Mass. at bedside arraign-
ment. He was held in $40, 900.
Miss Amelia st. Jean, the 19-year-
old Woonsocket girl, who left the
home of her aunt, Mrs. Eva Lam
Dreux, in Fall River, on Aug. 8, went
directly to the office of Frank l.. Hill,
the herb and skin doctor, where she
was killed that afternoon, according
to an official report made by the po-
lice.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook will again
lead an expedition in person to re-
cover the records which he says he
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter
of William j Bryan, announces that
her two small children will be educat-
ed in Germany and not in American
schools.
After being out on strike since
Jan. Is, 1900 employees of E. V. Con-
nett & Co. s two hat factories at New
ark and Orange, N. j., went back to
work.
The report that the United States
Is arming vessels in the Great Lakes is
not believed by the Dominion govern
ment.
Professor Cesare Lombroso, one of
the worlds foremost criminologists
and probably the foremost psycholo-
gist OF Europe, died at Turin.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
allowed an appeal in the cases grow
ing out of alleged grating in connec-
ton with the building of the state
capitol.
The situation at the University of
Maine, where the students are up in
remains unsettled.
The controversy over the long dis
lance balloon speed record took a
new turn when it was discovered that
John Wise, in a voyage in 1859,
sailed from st. Louis to Henderson,
N. Y, 1850 miles in an air line, in
10 hours, making fraction over 60
miles an hour.
Thursday, Oct. Fl.
The city of Springfield was enjoined
from selling $500 900 additional bonds
for the building of municipal struc-
lures, in the Massachusetts supreme
court, on the ground of alleged ex-
travagance.
A check for 81 900, 900 was the gift
Mrs. F. w. Hoff presented her
daughter, Elaine w. Hoff, following
her marriage at Paris to Everard La
bouchere. The Hoffs formerly lived
in Detroit.
The coinage of the new Lincoln
cents has reached the total of 70, 000,-
900.
Henry Farman covered AZ miles and |
1884 yards in hour, 80 minutes, |
16 As seconds in an aeroplane at |
Blackpool, Eng.
The jury before which Mrs. Fran
ces Work Burke-Roche Batonyi |
brought suit for divorce from Aurel |
Batonyi, the Austrian horseman, re-
turned verdict in favor of Mrs.
Batonyi. The verdict will have to be
confirmed by judge before a decree
will be granted.
That the United States government |
has been Systematically cheated out of
hundreds of thousands of dollars by |
large importers in league with dis
honest customs officers was shown at
New York city at the trial of cheese
President Taft had a touch of ranch
life when he rode cow pony to a
roundup of 1900 head of cattle on the
Rincon section of his brothers ranch
In Texas.
The verdict into the death of Will
liam 1. Buchanan, who died suddenly
in London, was to the effect that
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