News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-22
NEWS OF THE week
Tuesday, Seut. IA.


Robert S. Lovett was elected to sue
coed Il. H. Hartman as the head of
the executive committee of the Union
Pacific railroad.
John w. Castles, president Of the
Union Trust company Of New York,
a director of other well known COR
porations and prominent in club and
social life, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
The entire plant Of the Fall River
Iron Works, controlled by M. G. ID.
Borden of New York, was shut down,
following strike of the weavers,
throwing 5000 operatives out of work.
From Captain Bartlett to the sail
ors on Pearys ship, the Roosevelt,
everyone believes he has a grew
ance, of which Herbert Bridgman,
secretary of the Peary Arctic club,
declares to be imaginary.
That the retail price of butter of the
best quality will soon rise to so cents
a pound is the expectation of Bos-
ton dealers.
After being idle three weeks, 220O
employees of the York mill Of Saco,
Me-, thrown out of employment by
the strike of $50 weavers, returned to
work at the old rate Of wages.
John H. Kennedy was held in $4,000
bail for the grand jury on a charge
of shooting Policeman Vernon S.
Brown of Waterfowl, Mass.
The Swedish government has inter-
vened to settle the dispute between
the Employers union and the Con-
federation of Labor.
The vote on the proposed new
charter of Auburn, Me-. which would
leave practically all the affairs of the
city in the hands of four aldermen and
a mayor to be elected at large, was
against the change.
Wednesday, Sept. IS.
81 am the only white man who has
am prepared to prove it," This state
ment was made by Commander Peary
in reply to question on the Peary-
Cook controversy.
Following the collapse of tannery
owned by the American Hide and
Leather company at Lowell, Mass.
in which three men were injured, the
ruins caught fire, causing loss of
about $3.50 900.
The congress of Haiti has author
lied a loan of $40, 900 gold.
One officer and five enlisted men
of the navy are to be contaminated
as the result of the capsizing of the
naval tug Nezinscot of Halibut Point,
Mass when four men lost their
lives.
Face to face with 1000 representa-
tive men of Boston, President Taft
stood in Mechanics hall, Boston, at
the beginning of a IS 900 mile tour
of the country which will carry him
through two thirds of the states of
the union.
A government expedition to Otum-
ba, Mex, has uncovered a buried
city of great antiquity. The remains
indicate that the city was built and
occupied in the time of the Toltecs.
Mrs. Anthony j. Drexel of Phila-
delphia denies that her daughter, Miss
Margarita A. Drexel, is engaged to
Prince Christopher, son of the king of
Greece.
Two of the German branches of the
Standard Oil company are engaged in
a price war with the German wing of
the Austro-H Hungarian Petroleum COM
pany.
Thursday, Sept. 16.
1t is reported that Commander
Peary and Captain Bartlett have al
ready settled on an expedition to the
South Pole.
Mrs. Julia Trip and her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Jacob Silvers, died at Chi
cago as the result of pistol and knife
duel between the two women in Mrs.
Trips apartments in a fashionable
residence district.
General Porforio Diaz, president of
Mexico, celebrated his 10th birth
day. He has occupied the chief
magistracy of the republic for thirty
two years.
For swearing falsely to the age of
his sweetheart to get marriage Ii
cense, William Moore was sentenced
at Ellicott City, Md, to four years in
the penitentiary.
Free Sunday" for so many years
the hope deferred of Jack Tar" in
the United States navy, is about to
become a reality.
Insect pests have made a record
during the past year in Maine, both
in numbers and in the extent of their
ravages.
So widespread has interest in
pellagra become that Surgeon General
Wyman has decided to issue weekly
bulletin dealing exclusively with the
developments of that disease.
President Taft granted Secretary
Ballinger's request for authority to
dismiss L. r. CLAWS from the service
of the government "for unjustly i'm
peaching the official integrity of his
superior officer"
After traversing Massachusetts and
New York, President Taft skirted the