News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-01-20

thoritIes regard the case as one o.
Wholesale poisoning,
The public utilities are gradually
being EXTENDED at Me3sina and the
illumination of the city also is Inn
proving.
The brain of Rev. John II. Car
michael, who killed Gideon Browning
IN the Battle Run, Mich. church and
committed suicide, was examined by
four physicians, who found unmls-
takeable evidence of insanity.
Saturday, Jan. 10.
j. +, B. Rinehart, former cashier
and vice president of the Farmers
and Drovers National bank of
| Waynesburg, Pa, which institution
failed for so 900, 900, was found
guilty of wrecking the bank and was
sentenced to serve fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
Several earthquakes have occurred
recently in various parts of South
Africa.
Venezuela and the United States
have agreed to the bases of settle
ment of the disputes between them
and protocol is being drawn up.
Benjamin w. Kilburn, one of the
pioneers in the art of stereoscopic
photography and the largest manu-
facturer of such pictures in the world,
died at Littleton, N. H., aged 81.
For the year ending Oct 81 last,
the number of aliens arriving in this
country was 655 ,263, while departing
aliens in the same period numbered
7O1 1888.
After reviewing the evidence for
twenty-five hours and taking fifteen
ballots before all agreed the jury in
the trial of Thornton J. Hams
found the prisoner not guilty as
principal with his brother, Peter G.
Hams, Jr., in the killing of William
e. Annis.
Second Vice President White of the
Canadian Pacific Railway says all
records for the emigration of Ameri
can farmers to the Canadian north
west will be broken the coming
spring.
Shaft Khan, a Persian prince in
Russian service, committed suicide
at st. Petersburg because he had
been relieved of the command of the
Fifteenth Dragons.
A general strike of hatmakers, that
may involve some 25, 900 workers,
was begun in the hat manufacturing
centres of the country upon deci
sion by the Associated Hat Manufac
turers to discontinue the use of the
union label.
Sunday, Jan. II.
The open shop" and a fight to the
finish was the action decided upon
by the Hat Manufacturers association
at a meeting held to discuss the hat
ters' strike.
Mrs. Florence M. MaybriclI, whose
release from an English prison five
years ago was due to the efforts OF
American women, declares that she
is deyoting her life work to prison
reform.
Sven Hedin. the explorer, arrived |
at Stockholm and was given an ova-
ton, King Gustave conferred upon
him the Grand Cross of the Northern
Star.
President Roosevelt sent special !
message to the house with his veto |
Of the bill providing for the construc-
ton of a dam across James river, in
Stone county, Missouri, the purpose |
Of the dam being to get water to
create electric power.
Ten Cinnamon were found in a
baggage car at Montreal bound for
Albany.
The French customs statistics of
IMPORTS and exports in 1908 show a
Of $26, 400 900 and $64, 800,
100 respectively.
Clara Morris, the actress, who has
oeen i'll for a long time, is in a seri-
Jus condition. She is at her home in
fonkers, N. Y.
Loaded with lumber and materials
to construct 500 houses to
helter the homeless in stricken Mes
ina, steamer Eva sailed from the
navy yard dock for Italy.
Monday, Jan. 10.
For the second time within three
ears, the Trull hospital. a private
Institution at Biddeford, Me-. was
destroyed by fire, the fifteen patients
eing removed to places of safety
arely in time to save their lives The
otal loss is estimated at SAT 900.
In a driving snowstorm off the
.ong Island shore schooner Swallow $
f st. Johns and her crew paid the /
oil of the sea so often demanded of c
hose who ply their trade there.
A puff of fame shot up from the c
ear of the most extensive automobile a
forage and repair plant in Boston and v
ne-half hour later $50 automobiles, {
alued at $3.50 900, were a mass of f
lngled steel and iron. S
The British steamer Fidra was f
rocked off Amrun and is total loss. | n
he Fidra carried a crew of eighteen, n
nd most of them persisted. ii
For the first time since the earth v