News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-14
News OF The week
Tuesday, April 6.

lacks OF wallace Spencer, dis
charged farmland, William Lynes OF
New Canaan, Conn, crushed Spen
GERS skull with pitchfork, killing
him instantly.
The illness Of Governor Lilley from
nervous exhaustion has assumed a
serious aspect and his condition is a
matter of much uneasiness.
A letter signed BLACK Hand So
ciety," and threatening death unless
he leaves town by Easter Sunday, was
received and turned over to the po-
lice by Rev. Vincent Buckoveokas,
rector of st. Casimir's Lithuanian
Catholic church, Worcester, Mass
April was the time set by the
house of representatives for final
vote on the Payne tariff bill.
Many valuable dogs have been
killed by person in the swell resi-
Dental section of Worcester, Mass.
Town elections in Lee, Hinsdae
and West Stockbridge, Mass. result
ed in a reversal from last years no.
license majority to a vote for wet"
regime.
Wednesday, April 7.
A street car run by means of gaso-
lene engine similar to that used in
high powered automobiles is one of the
traction novelties promised to New
Workers shortly.
The war department has ordered
that there will be no more great gun
practice at Fort Revere, Hull, Mass. ,,
owing to complaints of damage and
annoyance from citizens of the town.
st. Louis went Republican after
eight years of Democratic rule.
Theodore Roosevelt and King Vic
tor Emmanuel met on the Italian bat
tleship Re Umberto in Messina har
Dor. The king expressed the graft
tude of himself and the Italian people
for the generous assistance of the
American people to the earthquake
sufferers.
Charles w. Culkin, chief clerk OF
the New York court of special session,
against whom charges of neglect of
duty, making false statements under
oath before the grand jury and breach
of trust in the handling of public
moneys, were pending, has resigned.
Thursday, April 8.
Cipriano Castro, the former presi-
dent of Venezuela, has taken up his
residence at Fort du France, Marti-
nique. He very unwillingly went
ashore, owing to the British govern
ment's refusal to permit him to dis
embark at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Tea and coffee were placed on the
free list in the Payne tariff bill.
The deadlock over the choice of a
president of the Burlington, VT.
board of aldermen was broken on the
52Sth ballot and G. P. Dion was elect
ed as presiding officer of the body.
M. Iswolsky, the Russian foreign
minister, has rendered his resignation
and is awaiting the decision of the
emperor.
1t is said that the machinery of the
French submarine Gree recently was
tempered with, with the object of
causing disaster.
Advances of 21s to 81 cents oc-
Cured in what prices at Chicago. A
high point for May was reached at
$1.25A.
Mrs. Anna Doduick, wanted in
two children, and Michael Piechau,
said to have deserted his family so
that he might accompany Mrs. Di
Quick, were arrested at Compton,
r. l.
That boy who still had ten months
of two years sentence to serve in
the Massachusetts reformatory might
be present at the funeral of his broth
er, Governor Draper granted par
don twenty minutes after application
had been made.
The vacancy in the office of treas
urer and receiver general was filled
by the Massachusetts legislature by
the election of State Senator Elmer
A. Stevens of Somerville.
Friday, April 9.
An elephant in the Yankee Robin
son circus at Des Moines ran amuck
and, Selling his keeper, hurled him
high into the air and then trampled
him to death.
hn annual profit of "a percent was
admitted as the harvest reaped by
Standal Oil, huge gain which the
so-called trust declares it is neither
called on to apologize for or explain.
The efforts of the American govern
ment to keep former President Cas-
tro out of Venezuela and away from
the nearby mainland and islands are
being crowned with success.
The Nicaraguan mutilation of Off
cial dispatches to this government and
continued grave conditions in Central
America are under earnest considera-
ton by the Washington government.
Nine. Helena Modjeska, the Polish
tragedienne and one of the most fam
Gus actresses of the American stage,
died at her island home at Bay City,
Cal, at the age of 65.
1t has developed that 250 mich cows
infected with tuberculosis have been