News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-21

pletng a jury, the trial of Patrick
CALHOUN, president Of the United Rail
roads, has reached the testimony taxi
ing stage at san Francisco,
Adyices from German East Africa
state that sixty deaths from plague
have occurred in the Manuza district
Ed Sharpe, negro, who claimed
TO be 1913 years old, died at Cedar
Springs, S. G,
A revision of the Philippine tariff so
as to permit as much revenue as pos
sible, while extending efficient protec-
tion to the islands induFtries, was
recommended in a message to con-
gress from President Taft
Miss Christina Palmieri, an Italian,
aged 20, was married at Providence to
Camille Desisto, 81 years old, who,
on March 8 last, shot her in the back
during fit of jealousy.
Marines gathered in force at Con-
stantinople and seized and conveyed to
the palace Arif Bey, commander of
the battleship Assar-I-Tewfik, men,
Der of the committee of union and
progress, and lynched him.
Saturday, ApriI~17.
Manufacturing plants in various
New England cities and towns were
shut down on account of the high
water in their wheelpits, and several
thousand employees had day of en-
forced idleness.
The long litigation between the state
of Texas and the Waters Pierce Oil
company has ended in favor of the
state. Officials of the company will
pay the fine and accruing penalties,
which total nearly 50, 900 900.
Mrs. Joseph Sager, wife of ply
stefan of Celina, o., became an in
mate of a workhouse, pleading guilty
to the charge of torturing her 10-year-
old adopted daughter with a red-hot
poker.
The Russo Bulgarian settlement
was signed at St. Petersburg stimuli
taneously with the signing OF the
Turko- Bulgarian agreement at Con-
stantinople.
.Only one man in all the history of
speculation ever operated a wheat
corner and played out the game to
final success" said Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson. That was Joseph of
Old"
Harvey w. Scott, editor of the
Portland Oregonian, has been offered
the post of ambassador to Mexico.
Walter Mills, who was known to the
farmers of Maine and New Hampshire
as the Apple King of New England"
was found guilty of using the mails in
a scheme to defraud.
Miss Katherine Roosevelt, Boston's
best known bachelor girl and one of
the most daring horsewomen in the
country, was married to j. Stanley
Reeves of Philadelphia.
A massacre of Armenians has taken
place at Adna, Asiatic Turkey. Sol
diers are joining in the pillage of the
town. The fatalities are said to be
The 355 East Side bakeries in New
York have reduced the size of the
loaves of white bread from pound to
and fourteen ounces.
Sunday, AprI19.
Patriots day at Lowell, Mass. was
marked by the unwilling of monu-
ment to Charles A. Taylor, the first
soldier to fall in defense of the Union
in 1861.
Having advertised for generous
for the rebuilding of the
First Congregational church, burned
at Wakefield, Mass. five weeks ago,
the total of $23, 300 was raised at two
open meetings.
France is beginning to feel the eff |
feet of the prevailing high price of |
wheat in the United States.
G. w. Poole, one of the best
known horsemen in the country, COM
mitted suicide at the Santa Anita, |
CAL, track.
The solemn ceremonies in the beati- /
tication of Joan of Arc were carried |
out in ST. Peters at Rome.
The Harvard varsity crew defeated |
4 weaker and less expert crew from
Columbia on the Charles river by six
'ull lengths in a race of a mile and
seven eighths.
The Turco- Bulgarian negotiations
lave been concluded. A protocol
signed by representatives of the two
provides for the recognition
~ the porte of the independence of
Bulgaria.
Monday, April 10.
Rt. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson,
vicar general of the archdiocese of
Boston, has been created as auxiliary |
bishop of Boston by Pope Plus X.
Operating noiselessly and without
eaving any trail, burglars forced an
ntrance to the Wilton, N. H., post
ffice and got away with $1,000 in {
lamps.
Street fighting has been going on at
ldana, Turkey, for three days and L
t least 1000 persons have been killed. {
Fire in the Empire building, New t
1ork, entrapped 125 girls working on f
ne of the upper floors. All were I
escued, however, the elevator boy Z
q the building running the car re-
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