News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-07-28
NEWS OF THE week
Tuesday, July 20.

brille."
Mrs. John j. Armour, wife of a
Philadelphia broker, died as a result
pf burns received in the explosion of
h bottle of hair tonic.
That Francis j. Heney, special
counsel of the department of justice,
received from the government last
rear 1923 600 for which he performed
no service, was admitted in congress.
Don Jaime will be proclaimed pre-
tender nine days after the funeral of
Don Carlos.
A contest to prove the validity of
the present regulations for automo-
biles will be made by the Automobile
Legal association.
A new worlds record for rifle shoot
Ing was made at the Wakeeld Mass,
range by Passed Midshipman Denny,
U. S. N, who scored 334 out of a
possible $50.
Orville Wright made two very sue
cessful fights in the Wright aeroplane
at Forty Myer, Va.
The little shah of Persia is patheti-
cally unhappy and would willingly
exchange his honors for his mothers
lap.
Wednesday, July 81.
Mayor George H. Brown of Lowell,
Mass, the former policeman who is
now the chief executive of that city,
Is a tentative candidate for the Re-
publican gubernatorial nomination in
1911, according to his own statement.
The Maya Indians in the province of
Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula,
ambushed the infantry at Ocum, killing
six troopers and mortally wounding
seven others.
The tariff bill has been hoisted
above the chickering's of congressional
conferees and transferred bodily from
the Capitol to the White House.
Turkish troops were ambushed by
Havavein tribesmen in the villayet of
Mossul. Forty of the Turks were
killed.
The Clemenceau cabinet fell sud
denly under dramatic circumstances
at the conclusion of a violent debate
over the naval scandals.
Colonel Roosevelt, whose party is
hunting on the south shore Of Lake
Naivasha from the ranch of Captain
Attenborough, has remained at the
camp writing a book.
A new record for aviation was es-
tablished by Orville Wright at Fort
Myer by a spectacular flight of S0%
minutes duration. The longest previ-
GUS flight in the United States was "A
minutes.
The rupture between Bolivia and
the Argentine republic is complete,
diplomatic relations having been
broken off.
The strike at the Standard Steel
Car company plant at Butler, Pa,
was terminated through the efforts of
the local Catholic priest, who was
granted partial concessions in behalf
of the men.
Thursday, July %.
The prosecutors of her son are criti-
cized and insanity experts scored in
twenty-page booklet which Mrs.
Mary G. Traw, mother of Harry K.
Thaw, has written.
The White House dinner and con-
ference, at which tariff conferees and
the presidents close advisers were
brought together in the effort to set
tie differences regarding the tariff bill,
ended with the disputes over raw ma
terials no nearer adjustment.
The governing committee of the
New York stock exchange adopted a
resolution forbidding further dealings
in unlisted securities on the floor of
the exchange after April 1, 1910.
In two short flights in the Wright
aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va, Orville
Wright attained an average velocity
of 541a miles an hour.
The moral influence of the United
States, Brazil and Chile will be ex-
erted to prevent any clash of arms be-
tween the republics of Argentina and
Bolivia.
William F. Willoughby, at present
secretary of state of Porto Rico, has
heen nominated assistant director of
the census bureau, at a salary Of
$4,000.
A torpedo shot from the tube of the
submarine Viper rammed a boat load
ed with young women and their es-
corts off Provincetown, Mass, throw
ing the occupants into a state of
panic.
The Mobile, Ala, police commits
sioners established a curfew law for
negroes. Hereafter all the blacks
must be at home or in bed at 10 p. m.
The Connecticut senate rejected the
employers liability bill.
Miss Eliza Warren, an actress and
head of a Cleveland school of elocu-
ton and acting, probably was fatally
stabbed by her sister, Mrs. Mary
Sutton, who was temporarily insane.
While a fight of the packing room
employees for a new standard scale of
wages is concentrated upon four
Lynn, Mass, factories, a general
strike in the shoe industry of that city
will be considered, it is said.
President Taft's trip through the