News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-13
NEWS OF THE week
Tuesday. Oct. s.

whose decks the hoarse cheers of thu
sailors were borne up to him in hi
elevated seat, Wilbur Wright flew
for twenty miles. ten miles up the
Hudson river and ten miles back, re.
naming in the air for thigty- three
minutes and thirty three seconds.
The Stark Count, o., Ministerial
Federation expelled Rev. A. w. Hig-
by for fighting the cause of the 'drys'
in recent county saloon election.
Both the new American dread
thoughts of 26, 900 tons displacement,
for which the contracts were recent
ly awarded, are to be equipped with
Parsons turbine engines.
After doing a stock brokerage bust
ness amounting to nearly half mill
lion dollars year, Arthur. b. Seder-
quest and John E. Barry of Boston
were arrested on warrant charging
them jointly with the larceny OF
SIG, 200.
After making one of the longest
jumps of his trip and travelling for
twenty five hours through Oregon and
the northern half of California, Presi-
dent Taft arrived Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Captain Bernier of the Canadian
steamer Arctic made public letter
written to him by DR.. Frederick a.
Cook on May 20, in which Cook says:
my large store of supplies and my
station was used for barter with ma
greed"
Fully TOO inmates of the state
institutions were committed Illegally,
according to decision handed down
by the supreme court of Vermont,
which holds that the law under which
commitments were made was defect
i've.
Colonel Poliakoff, a high official
of the Russian military council, has
been arrested in connection with ir
regularities amounting to more than
1000, 900.
Henry White, the American am
bassador to France, has obtained a
leave OF absence and will sail Nov. 3
for the United States, not to return
to Paris.
Wilbur Wright says that until
motors are perfected we shall have no
perfect aeroplane. The science of
flying now depends upon the motor.
Thirty lives are known to have been
lost in an explosion that entombed
more than fifty men in a mine at
Nananimo. B. c.
Mohammed Ali Mira, eX-shah of
Persia, who has been exiled to Rus
STA, arrived at Odessa, where he will
permanently reside.
Six hundred men broke bread at a
feast in New York spread in honor of
the officers of the British squadron
which came to the Hudson Fulton
celebration.
Grace e. Chapman pleaded guilty
to a charge of bigamy in court at
Kansas City, admitting she had mar
ried six men and had never obtained
divorce from any of them.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, A. B.,
LII. B., LII. D., was formally in
augurated as president of Harvard
university, the official ceremonies
taking place in the college yard in
front of University hall.
Thursday, Oct. 7.
Edgar w. Mix, the American bal
loonist, after a remarkable and dra-
matte struggle against winds and rain
storms, carried off first honors in the
international balloon race for the Cor
don Bennett cup by sailing from Eur
ich to the heart of the forest north of
Warsaw, ia Russian Poland.
The Rhode Island Democratic state
convention nominated Olney Arnold
of Providence for governor.
Thousands of Italians paraded
through New York streets to the Bat
terry, where they unveiled statue of
Giovanni De Verrazano, whom his
torians describe as the first transAt-
lantic voyager to arrive in New York
harbor.
A large viaduct over the New York
Central tracks at Buffalo was wrecked
by dynamite. This is the fifth out
rage of the kind in Buffalo and the
fourth within year.
William r. Hearst was nominated
for the mayoralty of New York at
mass meeting of 1000 of his admir-
ers.
The torpedo boat destroyer Reid, in
her Standardization test, made her
fastest mile at the rate of "a. 548 knots
an hour.
Carlo Giro, the second of the two
burglars who shot and killed Mrs. Ed
ward Staber in her home in Brooklyn,
was found guilty of murder. Frank
Sohliemann, his partner, was SINH
larly convicted. Both will go to the
electric chair.
The formal decree of Mrs. RATHER
inc c. Gould, granting her a separa-
ton from Howard Gould, awards
Mrs. Gould $4,000 a month permanent
alimony and 1888 costs.
Friday, Oct. 8.
Because no jury can be secured in
Nantucket county, Mass, to return
"a conviction in linuOr cases a nova