News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-06-09

former Alderman George II. BATHS
was sentenced to serve three years
all having been convicted of the lar
ceny Of money from the city.
Earth shocks, accompanied by sub
terranean rumblings, continue daily
in the Ribatejo district, Portugual.
Saturday, June 5.
Charged with manslaughter in caus-
ing the death of 20-year-old Richard
d. Walsh, Policeman Herbert j.
Bradley was arraigned at Chelsea
Mass, and was ordered held in $1,000
for hearing.
The strike of the employees of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company
which began one week ago, has end
ed. The men agreed to accept %
cents an hour and were granted other
concessions.
Both sides are apparently entirely
satisfied with the strike conditions in
the shops along the line of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
Fourteen Italians suspected of coun-
terfeiting were arrested in New York
saloon after a fight in which bottles
and glasses flew freely.
The largest piece of stone ever
quarried in Vermont-a block of gran
ite containing 161 200 cubic feet-has
been blasted out at Barre. The great
block is worth a little more than
$500 900.
A sentence of not less than seven
years nor more than twenty years in
prison was imposed upon William
Darragh, chauffeur, whose automo-
bile ran down and killed Ingvaard
Trimble at New York.
Harry K. Thaw must remain in the
state asylum for the criminal insane
at Matteawan under decision rem
dered by the appellate division of the
supreme court in Brooklyn.
Albert T. Patrick's application for
writ of habeas corpus releasing him
from Sing Sing prison, where he is
under life sentence for the murder of
William M. Rice, was denied by the
appellate division of the supreme
court in Brooklyn.
Steamer Iron Age, 226 feet long,
burned to the waters edge ten miles
southeast of Bar Point in Lake Erie.
Sunday, June 6.
Richard G.. Maclaurin was inaugu-
rated as president of the Massachu-
tte Tn o. nohnn1noy
Anticipating the arrival Of a con-
stable and the landlord armed with a
writ of ejectment for non payment OF
rent, Walter F. Towns, as, and his
sister, Anna |. Towns, 50, grimly
executed a death pact at Boston.
Colonel Alexander K. Mcclure,
prothonotary of the supreme and su-
perior courts of Pennsylvania, and for
many years a prominent figure i'll
politics and journalism, died at Wall
ingford, Pa, aged 81 years.
Louisiana Petite, LowelPs sleep
ing sickness" girl, died after lying on
her bed practically unconscious for
days.
"a Premier Deakin of Australia has for
mally offered to the imperial govern
ment a Dreadnought, or correspond
ing addition to the navy.
King Alfonso Of Spain underwent
another slight operation on his nose
by specialist, which has proved very
w. r. Hutchinson, for two years
president of Arcadia university, Hall
AK, has resigned and will assume an
active Baptist pastorate.
John j. Flanagan made a new
worlds record with the 16-pound
hammer thrown from 7-foot circle, |
lurling the hammer ia feet, 33s in
hes.
Joseph T. Duhamel, archbishop of !
ottawa, died of heart failure. He was
8 years of age.
Monday, June 7.
An appeal for cooperation in the
fort to prevent the spread of tuber-
ulosis in Ireland was made at New
,ork by the wife of the lord lieuten-
mt of Ireland.
During the current fiscal year the
ational banks of the country have re-
eived in individual deposits 81 1885,
60, 1884, which is more than 81 ,000,-
90, 500 in excess of the entire out
landing money supply of the United
tates.
The Cape Cod canal is developing
lto reality, with the arrival from
Iaine of some of the granite to be
sed in its construction.
1t is evident that conditions every
here in Asia Minor are far from set
led.
John Murphy, who weighs 200
ounds, became violently insane while
ngaged at his regular occupation of
illing pigs at the North Packing and
revision company at Somerville,
lass, and in his mad lust for blood
illed five men and drove the work.
len from the seven floors of the
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The departure of Rear Admiral Har-
er's squadron from Toxic for Manila
7as delayed, owing to the discovery
f thefts aboard the Galveston and the {
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