News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
News or The week
Tuesday, AUG. "a.

Forest fires are spreading in Idaho,
doing immense damage. 1t is esti-
mated that 1, 500, 900 feet of lumber
will be destroyed.
What was expected to prove ban
ner apple crop in the Annapolis, N.
s., valley will not come up to the
forecasts of the early summer.
The first distinct arraignment of the
executive and legislative branches Of
the municipal government of Boston
during the present administration was
made in a report issued by the finance
commission.
Torpedo boat destroyer Flusser, in
her contractors preliminary trial,
scored BLOB knots an hour, her con-
tract requirements contemplating but
2S knots.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York announced that he will be can
didate for reelection this fall, run
ping independently.
Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City officially
refused to receive a notice from At
torney General Wilson ordering him
to close Atlantic City saloons on Sun
day.
Following night of murderous as
saults, bloodshed, death and carnage,
came day of holdups, pounded
heads and fractured skulls at the
Pressed Steel Car works at Schoen-
Vile, Pa.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the American
aviator, lowered the speed record for
the French aviation course, which
measures is miles, to Sm.,
35 2-5s.
Wednesday, Aug. rs.
Mrs. Mary Hennigan, one of the
oldest women in New England, died
at her home in Boston at the age of
105 years. She was native of Ire
land.
By the sultan's special order the
prisoners captured at the defeat of
Ell Roghi, Morocco, have been bar
barously tortured.
The decomposed body of George
Kent, 60 years old, a farmer of
Townsend, VT. , was found at the bot
tom of a deep and unfrequented ra-
vine near the Kent home. Foul play
is suspected.
The strikers have lost their fight
against the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany, whose plant is in operation with
over 1000 men at work.
Steamer Colombia and steamer
Schdesien collided at the entrance to
Montevideo harbor The Colombia
sank almost Immediately. Between
$50 and 200 persons were killed or
drowned.
Methods for the manufacture of de-
natured alcohol will be taught by the
bureau of chemistry of the department
of agriculture to enable farmers to
use the waste products of their farms.
Rear Admiral Swinburne, who holds
a longer record for sea service than
any of his contemporaries, was trans
ferred to the retired list.
William S. Wade, a negro, ran
.amuck on the principal business street
of Monroe, La, and finally fell dead
with bullet through his heart, but
not before Twenty-Five men had been
wounded. Wade's body was publicly
burned.
Edward H. Hartman, returning
home sick and weak, declared that
there would be no increase in divi-
dends of the Southern or Union Pa
cific, and that any surplus would be
used for the upbuilding of the west.
Thursday, Aug. &c.
Charles H. Bennett, secretary of
Rhode Island and prominent in poll
tics therel died at a sanitarium.
An increase of 2 cents is to be made
in the near future in the fee for the
registration of letters and mail
packages.
Louis Paulhan, the plucky French
aviator, broke the worlds record in a
wonderful aeroplane flight of 2 hours,
So minutes and "a seconds in the race
meet at Rheims.
New York was startled by a fake
report which originated from some
unknown scource that Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt had been shot at the Grand
Union hotel.
Walter L. Ramsdell, mayor of Lynn,
Mass. in 1896 and 1897, died of ILL
ness brought on, it is claimed, through
his failure to successfully re-enter
politics.
Hamburg Belle, the Kentucky mare,
broke the worlds trotting race record
by going the first heat in 2:O1 Ia. |
She went the second heat in 2:01 3-4,
thus establishing an average of 2:01 |
1-5 for two heats.
During the sub-calibre practice of |
coast artillery off Newport, r. l., a
three pound shell fired from one of |
the guns on Fort Wetherell struck |
the steamer General Richard Arnold, |
which was planting targets.
General Marina, commander of the |
Spanish forces in Morocco, decided |
to commence the advance at once.
Sarah Bernhard, the French act |
ress, is suing the Press Publishing
company, publishers of the New York
World, for 500, 900 damages.
The Haitien government gave no.
tice of its intention to raise a tenn
porary loan of $500, 900 in gold. To