News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-28


Making the fastest time ever re-
corded by sailing vessel on trip
around Cape Horn, from Seattle to the
Atlantic coast--104 days-the clipper
ship Ersline NJ. Phelps arrived at
Norfolk.
President Taft defends the lock type
of canal as adopted in the Panama
work in an article which appears in
McClure's magazine for May.
Record breaking consignments of
900. 900 Holsters were landed at Bos-
ton.
With several hundred guests waiting
at a New York church for the coming
OF Miss Kitty Maher and Charles l..
was postponed, as the prospective
bride had changed her mind.
Saturday, April pa.
Theodore Roosevelt reached the
Kapiti hunting grounds and spent mis-
first night in Africa under canvas.
A series of violent earth shocks oc
Cured throughout the whole OF Portu-
gal. No material damage was done,
although the ground rose and fell in
wavelike motions.
Governor Wilson of Kentucky
granted pardons to former Governor
w. S. Taylor and former Secretary
OF State Charles Finley, both refugees
in Indiana, charged with completely
in the murder of William Goebel in
1900.
An indefinite leave of absence has
been granted to Robert Watchorn,
commissioner of immigration at New
York, and he will not return to his
post.
President Taft has ordered that I'M
classified laborers in the civil service
may be assigned incidentally to
classified work, reversing the order
by President Roosevelt on March 30,
1905.
Indictments were returned at Mer-
GER, Pa, against James F. Boyle and
his wife in connection with the abduc-
ton of Willie Whitla of Sharon, Pa.
The armored cruisers Montana and
North Carolina are on their way to
Asiatic Turkey, under orders to pro-
coed as swiftly as possible.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution elected Mrs. Matthew T.
Scott of Illinois to be president gen.
eral.
Cipriano Castro arrived in Paris
and continued his abuse and denuncia-
ton OF the United States.
Monday. April &c.
The Yildiz garrison at CONSTANT
nople surrendered to the Constitution
alist forces. The whole of the troops
protecting the palace gave their form
al and unconditional surrender.
Naiza Bey is now in command of the
garrison. Sultan Abdul Hamid has
been permitted to remain Thin the
walls of the Yildiz Kiosk.
Fifty or more Irishmen and alians
were involved in a fiercr ra 0riot at
New York and order was not re-
stored until an Italian saloon and an
Italian grocery store had been
wrecked.
For the first time in ten years, war;
ships of Japan entered Pacific coast
port of the United States when the
cruisers Soya and Aso steamed into
San Pedro.
After a brief hunting expedition at
Kapiti Plains, Theodore Aoosevelt and
his party broke camp and started for
the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease, on the
Athi river.
Society families of New York, Vir-
ginia and Great Britain were united by
the marriage at New York of Miss
Norah Langhorne, the youngest
daughter of Chiswell d. Langhorne
Of Albemarle county, Va, to Paul
Phipps of England.
Five thousand dollars is offered by
Arthur E. Boas of New York, thread !
for information leading /
10 the recovery of his 13-year- old /
Adele, who has strangely
Thousands of dollars in counterfeit !
both of the United States
md Italy, were seized by the police
md secret service agents at New Ro-
,helle, N. Y, Four arrests were
made.
Sunday, April 25.
The situation in Asiatic Turkey is
me of extreme gravity. The latest
estimates of the number killed in the
yillayet of Adana reaches approx
nately rs 900, and thousands have
,een done to death in the towns of
,ther districts.
A number of villages in Portugal
ave been wiped out by earthquake.
ialvaterre and Stefano were badly
Thirty nine bodies have
cen taken from the ruins and 120
ersons are missing. Hundreds weBe
ljured.
The famous old st. Louis Cathedral
t New Orleans was shaken by an ex-
losion believed to have resulted from
bomb placed in a tower of the build
lg.
A bicycle marathon race, so-called,
)r professional riders at the full dis
ince, &c miles, 1856 yards, near New