News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-01-13
THE WEEK 5 NEWS
Tuesday, Dec. s.


congress by unanimous vote. The
sum of $500 900 was granted almost
Immediately after the reception in
both houses of a message from TIE
president calling attention to the
pressing need for aid for the strick-
en- people of sister nation.
The $29 900 600 fine case of the
Standard Oil company will not be re-
viewed by the supreme court of the
United States.
The seven Pittsburg councilmen ac-
cused of accepting brides and con-
spring to secure brides and the two
former bankers accused of giving
brides were indicted by grand jury.
Rev. Fiiomena Siani, assistant
priest at st. Rocco's Roman Catholic
church, Newark, N. j., and Julia
Tesla, II years old, eloped and were
married at New York.
A third attempt to free Harry K.
Thaw from the Matteawan asylum for
the criminal insane has begun in the
supreme court at White Plains,
N. Y.
Hearings OF the governments dis
solution suit against the Union Pacific
railroad were reopened at New York
before Examiner Williams.
Wednesday, Jan. g..
The reports from Messina that
typhoid fever has broken out there
has filed the Italian authorities with
alarm and apprehension. 1t is
realized that unless proper sanitary
precautions are taken at once, the
disease may spread far outside the
ruined districts.
What is declared by provincial ex-
perts to be the richest gold bearing
area in the maritime provinces has
just been discovered by prospectors
in Guysboro county, N. S.
Plans have been outlined by the bu
reau of construction of the United
States navy for battleship of 25, 900
tons, designed to carry eight 14-inch
guns.
President Roosevelt has withdrawn
from the senate his nomination of
Robert Watchorn as commissioner of
immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y
Negotiations have just been con-
cluded between the governments of
the United States, Colombia and
Panama, whereby all matters in con-
troversy between them are settled.
The total amount of subscriptions
20 rn1inf Tpnniun6
through the American National Red
Cross is over $500 900.
At meeting of the direct
ors of the New York Central and Hud-
son River railroad the senior vice
president of the road, William c.
Brown, was elected president to sue
coed William H. Newman.
Thursday, Jan. z.
President Roosevelt informed the
senate that he gave his approval to
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company by the United
States Steel Corporation and that he
had instructed Attorney General Bona
parte not to respond to the senate in
quiry as to the reason for his failure
to prosecute the steel company.
Steamer Bayern, the American re-
lief ship, flying the Red Cross en-
blem, sailed from Rome for Messina.
The steamer, with its great cargo of
supplies, will be able to take care of
thousands of sufferers.
John F. wager was appointed re-
ceiver for the Metropolitan Surety
company of New York. 1t is alleged
that the company's capital is impaired
to the amount of S145, 900.
Chief Howard of the bureau of
entomology in the department of agri-
culture asked congress for $500, 900
with which to fight the gypsy moth of
New England.
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich,
since the retirement of Admiral Evans
the ranking rear admiral on the active
list, was placed on the retired list
under the age limit.
Friday, Jan. 8.
A most impressive funeral ceremony |
was witnessed near Messina when !
Rarrigo, in the cemetery |
of Maregosso, blessed a grave one |
hundred feet wide and thirty feet |
deep containing 1900 bodies. The
dead were piled one on top of the 9TH
err, and the remains covered with
quicklime.
F. b. Signore, real estate pro-
moter and mining broker of Oakland,
CAL, was arrested on complaint
sworn to by James H. Murray, a
multi millionaire banker and mining
man, charging Signore with forgeries
aggregating nearly 81, 900 ,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jay Gould
gave a dinner and dance at New York
Tor their debutante daughter, Miss
Marjorie Gould. The estimated cost
Of the function is 500, 900.
BY direction of President Roosevelt
secret service men Swallowed Senator
of South Carolina, on The
.heory that possibly he was inter
ested in an Oregon 'land grab and
he result of that investigation is
low before the senate.
Mrs. NJ. F. Erb, widow of Cap
ain J. CLAYTON Erb, who was well ,