News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-08-25
NEWS or The WEEK
Tuesday, Aug. II.

war craft was on It's way TO ASSIST the
Invading army of the Red.
General Marina, the commander OF
the Spanish forces that are about to
advance against the Moors, promises
to lead his men to victory.
Diseased clans dug by campers on
Governors island in Boston harbor
caused the death of one woman and
the serious illness of more than a
dozen persons.
Allen Newton, aged "a, of Helena.
Mont, drew No. in the Spokane
Reservation.
The provisional administrative COM
mittee, to which the administration OF
the island OF Crete was entrusted
when the Cretan cabinet resigned,
took the oath of allegiance to the king
and kingdom of Greece.
Unusual heat, officially recorded as
high as ITO degrees, caused nearly
dozen deaths. numerous prostrations
and much damage to crops in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma.
When women spectators in stocks
who traded with Mrs. A. e. MacKen-
zie, who conducted a brokerage Of
flee at Boston, called at the office
they found a notice posted on the door
to the effect that Mrs. Mackenzie had
assigned.
Wednesday, Aug 10.
Mrs. Sutton's theory of murder adj
vanced by her in explanation OF the
death of her son, Lieutenant James
Sutton, was repudiated by the deci-
sion of the naval court of inquiry.
Madarlal Dhinagri, the Indian stu
dent who shot and killed Lieutenant
Colonel Sir William H. Curzon- Will
ley and DR.. Canvas Laloaca, was
hanged at London.
What is considered the last card OF
the Swedish strikers, an attempt to
get the railroad men to join their
movement, failed when a majority of
the railroaders voted against the
strike.
Woman suffrage was endorsed by
the New Jersey Federation of Labor
at it's convention.
Lisbon newspapers insist that King
Manuels coming visit to England is
connected with his betrothal to Prin-
cess Alexandra, daughter of the Duke
of Fife.
Rev. Frank w. Sandford, leader OF
the Holy Ghost and Us society at
Shiloh, Me-, has returned in the
yacht yCoronet, after an absence from
this country of three years.
Fabian Fall of Boston, 81 years old,
a prominent student at Harvard, killed
himself by shooting.
Thursday, Aug. 10.
Discovery of a tunnel at the west
ern Pennsylvania penitentiary frustrat-
ed what would have been a wholesale
escape of prisoners.
Archie Fourier of Old Town, Me-. &,
indicted for attempted train wrecking,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
ten years in the state prison.
Bob Douglas, from the stable of
Alonzo Mcdonald, won the $40, 0O0
Empire State stake for 2:12 trotters
at the Fort Erie race track.
BY requiring letter carriers to
double up" their routes during the
vacation season instead of employing
substitutes, Postmaster General
Hitchcock expects to save the govern
ment not less than $3.50, 200.
Harry TX. Thaw has resumed the
monotonous routine of the Matteawan
asylum life.
The spread of the San Jose scale
is creating alarm among the fruit
growers of Vermont, who fear that
their crops may suffer serious dam
age.
General Booth has postponed his
proposed American and Canadian
tour set for this fall because his eyes
are seriously affected.
The first bill passed by the new Co.
iombian congress has restored the lib
erty of the press, which was restrict
ed during the regime of President
Reyes.
Spectators ON the New York curb
market figure that John D. Rookie
Teller is $79, 75e. 1924 richer than he
was two years ago, and by no effort
of his own, because of the rise in
Standard Oil stock.
Charley Taft, the presidents young
est son, ran into tree with his auto
mobile at Beverly, Mass, and mar
rowly escaped serious injury. The
top of the machine which he was driy-
ing was wrecked and the front axle
sprung.
Friday, Aug. 20.
The war game which has been con-
Quoted in southeastern Massachusetts,
has ended, but whether Boston, which
was the objective point of the invad
ing army, was really captured theoret-
ically or whether the Massachusetts
troops succeeded in repulsing the at
tack of the Reds and blocking the
path to Boston, is matter for the
umpires to settle.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the
aviators, brought suit against the
Aeronautical society, alleging that the
Herring Curtiss aeroplane, which the
society recently purchased. is a vio-
Iation of their patents.