News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-13

Confessing that he had made ant
passed counterfeit money, William b
Pettus, a former school teacher, was
sentenced at Cincinnati to thirty
months in Leavenworth, Kas.
prison.
Chandler Hale of Maine, son of Sen
ator Hale, has been selected as third
assistant secretary Of state.
The total value Of the fisheries OF
Massachusetts for the year ending
Dec. 81, 1908, was 7,095, 290, &C
cording to report issued by the CELL
sus bureau.
Saturday, Oct. g.
Seventeen men were killed and ten
severely injured in collision between
freight and construction train at
Topeka, Kas.
A meteor weighing 200 pounds
dropped on the farm of w. P. Nick
erson at Walpole, Mass. burying it
self nearly eight feet in the soil OF
the field in which it fell.
Six of the great foreign men % war
three British armored cruisers and
three French battleships-left New
York, leaving behind a substantial
number of their men.
William r. Hearst announced that
he would accept an Independent nomi-
nation for mayor of New York.
The Panama canal commission has
submitted to the secretary of war an
estimate of appropriations aggregat-
ing $4S, 063, 524 for work on the canal
during the fiscal year beginning July
l, 1910.
William j. Hackett of North Wey-
mouth, Mass, made an suspicious
start in the long distance running
game by winning a Marathon road
race from Boston to Brockton in
Oh. 37m. 26 lbs.
For the first time in American his
tory, an aeroplane owned by the
air at College Park, Md, circled over
the farms that nestle in the valley and
sailed back obediently to its starting
point to rise again.
NJ. Stone, 16 years old, the Lynn,
Mass, police lodge charges of a
number of burglaries extending over
two months, and for which she was
arrested.
Naphtali H. Imbar, Hebrew poet
and Zionist leader, who died at New
York after sudden attack of paraly-
sis, will be buried in grave which
he bought many years ago in ex-
change for a fourteen line poem in
classic Hebrew.
Sunday, Oct. 10.
Attaining a speed of 81. S5 knots an
hour, the torpedo boat destroyer Reid
had a four hour run, completing her
tests Of speed and coal and water con-
and clinching her claim to
the title of fastest of American naval
vessels.
Captain Roald Amundsen, the Dan
ish explorer, who is about to start on
a Polar expedition, will endeavor to
make Polar bears draw his sledges.
The Staying of two Methuen,
Mass. policemen a year ago is still
the same deep mystery despite the
story that "a dying man" had revealed
the secret of how the two officers
were killed.
Life Imprisonment was the sentence
imposed at Guysboro, N. s., Oh An
drew j. Azard, 13year- negro,
who was found guilty of atrociously
Mazzie A. Ash, a crippled
little negro girl.
An object of loving attention by the
fourteen cats which were her only
companions in life, the body of Miss
Mary ]. Johnson, CT years old, was
found in her lonely home at Walling-
ford, VT, in circumstances indicat-
ing murder.
The youngest and smallest student
which ever matriculated at Harvard
entered the college as a
special student in the person of Will
liam j. Sidis of Brookline, Mass. IL
years old.
Urged by Rev. A. B. Simpson, a
crowd in the Gospel Tabernacle, New
York, pledged a total of SAG, 772 for
the annual missionary Offering"
Monday, Oct. H..
Charles R. Cranes sudden recall to
as he was at the point of
sailing from San Francisco to assume
his duties as minister of the United
States to China was occasioned by de-
velopments involving the question of
Cranes fitness for that post.
The popular idea that the American
Indians are decreasing in number is
dissipated by official figures showing
that today there are 300, 900 red men
in the United States.
Copies of circulars issued in North
China have been received in Japan,
after having, been spread broadcast
Chinese of the lower classes.
The circulars contain infiammatory
against the japanese and
call for an absolute boycott.
Cholera threatens to become seri-
Ously epidemic at Seoul. The authori-
ties are taking every precaution, but
the disease has spread rapidly.
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