News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-06-09
news OF THE week
Tuesday, June 1.

cd their Harvard rivals in both the
varsity and freshmen events for eight
Dared crews.
President O'Connell of the Interna-
uonal Machinists' union called a gen.
eral, strike of all the machinists en-
ployed in the repair shops Of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad system.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposi-
ton Is open. President Taft pressed
the button which set the machinery in
motion, using for the purpose key
formed of Alaska nuggets.
At Zephyr, Tex, thirty to forty
persons were killed by tornado.
The bubonic plague is reported from
various points in southern China.
George Hidden, aged SO, the oldest
active fire engine driver in New
Hampshire, was killed instantly by
falling under the wheels of his heavy
exercise cart at Nashua. N. H.
Wednesday, June 2.
DR.. Haldane Cleminson of Chicago,
whose wife was found dead in bed,
supposedly from chloroform poison
ing, was formally held for murder.
Lieutenant General Arthur MacAr
thur, the ranking officer of the army,
was placed on the retired list by
operation of law on account of age,
and the grade of lieutenant general
ceased to exist in the army.
Cash wheat again established new
high record at st. Louis, No. red
reaching $1.62.
George Baglin, vice president of the
United Copper company, was taken to
New York prison, there to remain
by order of Judge Lacombe of the
United States district court until the
missing books of the company are pro-
duced.
Five motor cars, competing for a
$4,000 trophy, started from New York
on a 1000 mile endurance run to
Seattle.
A bullet from policeman's revolver
ended the life of Richard Walsh Of
Chelsea, Mass. aged 20.
Taking advantage of the recently
enacted law which permits deer to be
killed that are injuring crops, Alden
Miller OF Savoy, Mass, shot doe
in his garden.
The colony of Newfoundland ran
behind $3.50, 900 in it's finances during
the past year, according to a state
ment submitted to the legislature.
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Closed for eighteen months, the
American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany will reopen its plant at Cam
bridge, o., June Fl and employ 1000
men.
Alois Joeger of Chicago, who in
1874-75 was valet to the archduke of
Austria, at gainesville, o.. recognized |
the Johann Salvador of that city as the |
lost archduke.
Strychnine was found in the stom-
ach of Mrs. Eugenia T. Bennett of
Los Angeles, Cal. and her husband, |
a real estate dealer, is held for eX- |
animation.
One policeman shot and probably
fatally injured, nearly 100 persons /
bruised and battered either by police
men or strike sympathizers, and cars
wrecked and then burned, is the re-
suit of an attempt on the part of the
Rapid Transit company
to operate their cars by imported
breakers.
The bill to provide for better pro-
lection for the system of stamping
beef was passed to be engrossed in the
house.
Dealing with wide range of sub
ects, former Judge Henry S. Dewey
opened his case at Boston in his own
behalf in an effort to obtain damages
o the amount of $76, 900, 900 from Of
icials of the Good Government asso-
,iation, who, he claimed, libeled him
n mayoralty campaign.
George Sutton won the worlds
title at 1871 balk line {
billiards from George Slosson.
All traffic on the lines of the Pitts
held, Mass, Street Railway company
was tied up completely following a
strike of the conductors and motor [
men.
An interesting phase of discussion !
If rabies at Washington was the fact
hat the disease is frequently contract 1
I'd from the bites of skunks, wolves
and other wild animals. I
Friday, June q.
The customs receipts for the port
If Boston in the month of May, ST. t
1854 5S1. "a, were the largest in any
single month in the history of the
port.
King James, owned by s. G. Hid !
eth, winner of the Metropolitan ]
added to his laurels by win
hing the Brooklyn handicap.
William w. McAlpin, the tobacco 1
was seriously injured by |
alling from a moving car which he
lad attempted to board at New York.
An unidentified man was found '
ranging from limb of tree on the {
outskirts of Dover, NJ. He had ]
;1193. ~ in his pocket.
After some of them had spent twenty l
years of their life in the leper settle s
nent on the island of Molokai. Ha- {