News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-05-12

| battleship Mississippi, does not object
to the portrait OF Jefferson Davis upon
the silver service which the war YES
sci is to receive from the state Of
Mississippi.
Hammond Lamont, aged As, editor
OF The Nation, died at New York af-
ter an operation which proved more
serious than expected.
"A statue Of Poet Henry w. Long
fellow was unveiled and dedicated at
Washington.
The situation in. Central America
appears to be getting more complicat-
ed every day, judging from the news
that comes slowly into Panama.
Saturday, May 8.
William A. White, one of the jurors
in the Chester S. Jordan trial at Cam
bridge, Mass. became violently in
sane. A new trial for Jordan will be
asked on the ground that one of the
jurors who convicted him was luna
tic.
One thousand rounds of rifle ammu-
milton were confiscated at Baku just
as they were about to be shipped to
Persian ports.
Allegations by George c. Dion that
Mayor Brown of Lowell, Mass, had
offered payment to him for services
rendered during the last mayoralty
campaign were made during hearing
on charges preferred by Brown against
the Lowell police board.
The Rhode Island general assembly
of 1909 brought it's labors to a close
after a session lasting seventy-one
days.
Amherst college conferred the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws on Baron
Kogoro Takahira, the ambassador OF
Japan.
Cipriano Castro, the deposed presi-
dent of Venezuela, has arrived at
Santander, Spain.
The White House was thronged by
one of the most fashionable gatherings
of the season to inaugurate a series
of garden parties by Mrs. Taft. .
Secretary of the Navy Meyer says
that he will take cognizance of re-
marks made by Rear Admiral Mel
Vile, in which the officer made a saw
age attack on the recently adopted re-
forms in the navy.
Alleged by her accuser to be a
witch, Mrs. Laupaule ORDER was tried
at Butler, Pa, on technical charge
of disorderly conduct, was convicted
and sentenced to pay fine of So and
serve ten days in Jail.
A mandatory in Turin has built
for several Americans an automobile
which will be presented by them to
Pope Plus. 1t will be elegantly
equipped.
Sunday, May 9.
An injunction has been issued by
Associate Justice Spear of the Maine
supreme judicial court, restraining the
Waterville Trust company from re-
ceiving deposits pending an investiga-
ton.
A petition was presented to the |
United States circuit court of appeals |
at New York asking that Charles w.
Morse, the convicted banker now in |
the Tombs, be admitted to bail pend
ing a decision on his appeal.
Conditions are rather favorable for |
he French government in it's contro-
Versy with the postal employees and it
IS not likely that strike will be de-
,lared for the present.
A procession marched through the
principal streets of STEAMBOAT after the
girding of the sword upon Mehnled V.
This ceremony corresponds to that of
The shah of Persia has signed two
one announcing the re-
sumption OF the constitution and the
other granting political amnesty.
In gruelling race Henri ST. Yves
Of France took the measure of twelve
sturdy competitors in an international
Marathon held at New York and
'omped home a winner by five sixths
If mile.
A balloon trip over the Atlantic from
Boston to Europe is planned by Henry
4. Clayton after sixteen years OF
study of the direction and velocity OF
Wind currents.
Imprisoned by a fall of top rock for
hirty-six hours, Thomas Buscavage
md John Masters, miners employed
It Pottsville, Pa, were rescued I'm.
injured by big force of workmen.
Monday, May 10.
Mrs. Boyle, formerly Helen Anna
lcDermott of Chicago, was convicted
n a charge of aiding, assisting and
betting in the abduction of Willie
Vhitla of Sharon, Pa.
The 200 union carpenters and 70
MON plumbers who have been out on
trike at Haverhill, Mass, returned
} work, their demands having been
greed to.
Judge William L. Penfield, former
: solicitor of the department of state
nd an authority on international law
led at Washington.
The nomination of Theodore Roose-
cit for mayor of New York city is
roposed by Stewart L. Woodford, the