News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-01-20

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and promises an attack on the presi-
dents character later in the session.
DR.. Walter r. Amesbury OF Hyde
Park and Milford, Mass, was taken
10 the state prison at Charlestown to
begin life sentence for the murder
Of his wife.
Mulai Mohammed, brother of the
sultan and at one time pretender TO
the Moroccan throne, is dead. There
are rumors that Mulai Mohammed
was poisoned.
Secretary of State Root and Am
bassador Bryce Of Great Britain
signed treaty for the settlement of
International differences between the
United States and Canada.
The bodies of nearly a hundred
men employed in the orange and
lemon stores were taken from the
ruins at Messina in an advanced stage
OF putrefaction.
Rev. John H. Carmichael, pastor
of three Methodist churches in and
near Adair, Mich. confessed slayer
of Gideon Browning, "a neighbor,
whom he slew with Ratchet and Gre
mated in Rattle Run church, commit
ted suicide at Carthage, Ills.
Wednesday, Jan. 13.
Frank b. Brandegee of New Lon
don will succeed himself as the jun
ior United States senator, from Con-
necticut for the full term of six
years.
Again there was terrific explo-
sion lin the mines of the Lick Branch
colliery, near Bluefield, w. Va.
and more than one hundred lives
were lost 1t was in these same
mines two weeks ago that fifty miners
were killed by a similar explosion.
Carrying out the recent decree Of
Governor Magoon, the Cuban con-
gress met for the purpose of effect
ing permanent organization and ap-
proving the election of it's members.
Fred p. Signor of Oakland, Cal,
charged with forging the signature of
James Murray, a millionaire, was
indicted on eight counts. The amount
involved in all aggregates about
$3.50, 900.
Carl Ahrendt, a well known actor,
died at Greenville, Miss. of pneu-
monia. Ahrendt once represented
the United States as consul to Berlin.
Amid the ruins of Messina villages
of huts are springing up. One of
these villages includes not less than
5000 huts, extending for a distance
of two miles.
The Turkish government accepts
the Austro- Hungarian offer of e.
500 900 Turkish $50, 800, OO0) in
demnity for the annexation of Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina, thus removing
every possibility of war.
Fire practically destroyed the /
Peekskill, N. Y, Military academy, |
causing a loss of SIS 900
Federal Judge Albert B Ander-
son of indianapolis will preside at the |
re-trial of the case against the Stand
ard Oil company, in which Judge
Lands imposed fine of $29 ,240,-
900.
The Chinese Reform association,
having quarters in New York, re-
ceived a cable dispatch from Hong
Kong, confirming the. statement that
the late emperor of China had met
death by poison as the result of a
plot.
Thursday, Jan. IA.
Cardenio F. King, former financial
agent and broker, was sentenced at
Boston to serve a term of not less
than ten and not more than fourteen
years in the state prison, having been
convicted on the charges of larceny,
embezzlement and securing money On
false pretenses.
The foot and mouth disease in
cattle has been eradicated in New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Michigan.
The bill to prohibit the sale of all
liquors in Tennessee af-
ter July l, 1909, passed the lower !
house of the Tennessee general as
sembly.
President Roosevelt rode ninety !
eight miles on horseback and when
he dismounted at the White House |
uOOG, seventeen hours dIJeI having
departed therefrom, he did not show I
any marked signs of WEAKNESS.
Professor Abbott L. Lowell was ]
formally elected president of Har- {
ward university to succeed President t
Eliot, whose resignation will become t
in May.
Friday, Jan. IS.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, who S
was in command of the Russian c
fleet in May, 1905, when it was prac- '
-ically anihilated by the Japanese in t
he battle OF the Sea of Japan, died
1t St. Petersburg of neuralgia of the v
heart.
United States army transport a
Sheridan, while 400 miles from
was in constant communi- q
,ation with the islands by wirelss. S
Benjamin f. Shively of South r
Bend was nominated United States
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