News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-05-12
NEWS or THE week
Tuesday, May a.

and forgery, forestaled the arrival a
eXtradition warrant by obtaining {
writ OF habeas corpus.
The Aeronautical Society of Grea
Britain conferred on Wilbur and Or
vile Wright, the aeroplanists Of
Dayton, o., its first gold medal.
Representatives Of American mis-
sion work in Turkish territory are well
pleased at the selection of Oscar S.
Straus as ambassador to Turkey.
That the commodities clause" OF
the interstate commerce act of 1906 is
constitutional was in effect declared
by the supreme court of the United
States.
During the past few months rabies
has been more widespread in New
York state than ever before. Quaran-
tines covering fifty-six towns, ten
cities and four villages are in effect.
Theodore Roosevelt bagged one
more lion at Wami. This gives him a
total of three lions and one lioness on
the expedition.
Wednesday, May 5.
Louis Chevrolet of the Buick team
drove an exhibition mile in So seconds
with 30-horsepower car at the Mont
gomery, Ala. automobile meet.
Walter Wellman will this summer
renew his efforts to reach the North
Pole by means of a dirigible balloon
or airship.
The jury which had under consid-
GRAFTON the case of Chester S. Jordan,
charged with numbering his wife,
Honora, at Boston, and dismembering
her body, returned verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree.
A hitherto unknown subterranean
lake broke out in Indiana and sub
merged highway to depth of
twenty feet. The lake is full OF eye
less fish,
With sporadic rioting undated, the
strike of 1900 bakers on the New York
East Side and in Harlem continues,
apparently with no hope of a settle
ment.
A list of persons killed by automo-
biles in New York city the past twelve
months contains seventy seven names.
There are 900 dead in Adana
province as a result of the massacres,
and 35, 900 homeless and penniless
refugees are wandering in the vilayet
The Japanese sealing schooner Kali
sen, with thirty men, was seized off
Alaska for violation of the sealing
laws.
Inquiry into the cause of disable
ment of the scout cruiser Salem re-
vealed the fact that the dropping of
bolt in the port turbine of the craft
was due to carelessness OF a work 4
man.
Thursday, May 6.
The Missouri senate adopted a reso-
luton submitting to the people state
wide prohibition constitutional amend
ment.
May wheat advanced to 1.29R,
new nigh record price, on the Chicago !
board OF trade.
A letter from the widow of clergy
man at Harm says: I'VE have nothing |
to eat or wear. We are living Oh grass
like animals"
In an alteration at Hardwick,
Mass. William Goodspeed, pros
porous farmer, was fatally stabbed. A |
Polish farm laborer, John Gyrastis,
was arrested, charged with the stab !
ping.
1t is said that Chancellor Won Bue- |
ow intends to resign unless the finan-
,ial reform plans of the German gov |
eminent are adopted. |
The will of the late George H. Nor
ill of Norwood, Mass, the pioneer |
nix manufacturer, shows the estate
o be valued at So 500, 900. The prop |,
,rty is distributed entirely among the |
amily of the deceased.
The disappearance of the whaling
schooner Carrie ID. Knowles, which |
eft Provincetown, Mass, in Janu-
Lry, 1904, never even to be reported,
md considered one of the mysteries of
he sea, has been cleared up by a dis
latch stating that the entire crew of
ourteen men have been prisoners in
Venezuelan prison, their vessel hav-
ng been seized while in distress.
A committee was appointed at Bos-
on to inaugurate a campaign in the
interest of Cape Cod watering places
Boston marketmen report a Short
ge of so, 900 cases of eggs this year,
yer the same period for 1908.
A hot wave, accompanied by several
restrictions, struck the middle west,
4 contrast with the snow that pre-
allied during the first two days of the
lonth.
Friday, May z.
James Boyle, charged with kidnap-
ing Billy Whitla at Sharon. Pa. 4,
as convicted after a trial lasting but
few hours. No defense was made.
Rev. Stephen R. Trowbridge, a
Missionary, estimates the number OF
rmenians killed in the province OF
dana since the outbreak of the anti
hristian rioting at %, 900.
The Missouri senate passed the
ouse bill forbidding cigaret smoking