News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-08-11


II bank at White Bear. Mimi. Robert
Pohl, the robber, and Edward Larkin
were killed and several others wound
ed.
Victor ID. Bremen, the designer OF
the new penny, says that he is going
to demand an explanation of the de-
clsion to remove his initials from the
coin.
Andrew Issard, Is years old, ne
gro, tied the 6-year-old daughter OF
Annie Ash to a tree at Boylston, N.
s., and beat her brains out with two
large sticks and a rock.
The Payne Aldrich tariff bill, which
has been debated for nearly hVe
months, became a law by President
Taft's signature and congress ad-
journed sine die.
Saturday, Aug. 7.
Around the work of installing the
new boilers in the battleship Maine
there will be effected a series OF re-
pairs which will amount nearly to
general rebuilding. For this purpose
almost $500, 900 is available.
Lord Kitchener has been appointed
to succeed the Duke of Connaught as
inspector general of the Mediterra-
mean forces.
The porte has sent note to Greece
demanding a formal declaration by
that country of non-interference in
Cretan affairs.
The Chinese government has signed
a contract with a New York company
for the installation of a complete tele-
phone system in Pekin.
Judge William H. Mann was nomi-
mated for governor of Virginia by the
Democrats.
The Carlist leaders will hold
meeting shortly at French frontier
town to decide upon their attitude, in
view of the recent events in Spain.
japan notified the powers of her in
tention to proceed Immediately with
the reconstruction and improvement of
the Antung- Mukden railroad without
the consent of China.
A drastic prohibition bill now
awaits the signature of Alabamas pro-
hibition governor to become law.
The bill forbids the sale of drinks con-
tanning more than l II percent of alco-
hol.
Twenty-Five firemen were dragged
out unconscious and othree othrs re-
ceived serious injuries in the course of
forty minute blaze which destroyed
1000 mems hats and did other dam
age in a New York shop.
The Spaniards are said to have lost
500 men killed and 1900 wounded in
the last three days fighting with the
Moorish tribesmen.
Sunday, Aug. 8.
Eight lives were the Sunday toll in
boating and swimming accidents in
New England One of the victims had
been elected cashier of bank at Wal
doboro, Me. only last week.
Advices from Labrador report the
failure OF the fisheries off that coast,
owing to the ice blockade.
The strike movement in Sweden has
almost the entire country in its grip.
Stockholm is suffering from lack of
food A serious complication is the
mutiny of two Swedish regiments.
A plunge over a bank of rock sew
enty-five feet high into the Connecti-
cut river of an automobile in which
George Van Dyke of Lancaster, N.
H., and his chauffeur, Frederick B.
Hodgdon, were riding, resulted fatal
ly for the two men at Turner's Falls,
Mass.
There is anxious uncertainty in sew
eral of the principal coal mining CEN
tiers of Nova Scotia, as to whether
they will be involved in the expansion
of the United Mine Workers strike.
The sum of $53 ,428 for missionary
work was raised by Rev. A. B. Sim1-
son at the annual offering of the
Christian Missionary Alliance at Old
Orchard, Me.
Charles f. Willard, novice at fy-
ing, made five successful flights in an
aeroplane over Hampstead Plain, near
Mineola, l.. |.
Monday, Aug. 9.
The search for Joseph Pascal, the
slayer of Charles Perkins, ended when
his body, with a bullet wound in the
head, was found in pasture near the
scene of the crime in South Walden,
vt. he having committed suicide.
President Taft has decided that he
will not make any appointments to the
bench of the customs court provided
for in the new tariff bill. Congress
failed to make an appropriation for the
judges or any other officials.
The acute stage reached in the dis
pute between Turkey and Greece over /
Crete is causing anxiety in the Euro
pean capitals, but Europe will see
that no mischevious effects result
therefrom.
Bids for the Jeffries johnson fight
for the heavyweight championship are
expected to be made in numbers with
in the coming ten days.
Brigadier General Edwin B. At