News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-06
NEWS OF THE week
Tuesday, Sept. 20.

La. marshes, which are streWn with
the dead bodies Of animals and human
beings as a result of the recent hurri-
sane.
Terrified by Black Hand stories,
1000 children stampeded in Polish
parochial school in Jersey City when
fireworks were set off in the street be-
low, and fourteen were crushed, one
so seriously that death will probably
result.
When President Taft disappeared
down the shaft Of the Leonard copper
mine at Butte, Mont, he won the
presidential record for the farthest
under ground.
The ram Katahdin, from which so
war, is to be used as a target for
Uncle Sans battleships.
Many Fall River, Mass. cotton
manufacturers are in favor of cur
tailment for limited period, if all
the mills in New England accept the
proposition, owing to the present high
price of cotton.
Wednesday, Sept. 90.
Nineteen hundred schools through
out Porto Rico opened with about
100, 900 enrollments, 10 percent in
crease.
Twenty-one thousand punches of
bananas, the entire cargo of the
steamship Saramaca, from Dutch
Guiana, were taken out to sea and
shoveled overheard by order of the
New York health department.
President Taft announced that he
would urge on congress the necessity
of authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to issue $40, 200, 900 bonds for
the completion of irrigation projects.
The French Episcopate issued a
pastoral letter warning Catholic par
ents in France that the teaching in
the public schools jeopardizes the
faith of their children.
One of the most elaborate pageants
ever witnessed in New York passed
before the ENJOYS of twenty-one ma
tons participating in the Hudson Full
ton celebration.
A petition for the absolute pardon
of two of the five Cinnamon sentenced
to be electrocuted for participation in
the murder of several fellow coun-
trymen at Boston was filed with Gov
ernor Draper.
Harry Whitney of New Haven, the
big game hunter, believes that DR..
Frederick A. Cook found the Pole
and that Peary did the same. In ex-
pressing this belief Whitney said that
he knows no reason for doubling Cook |
more than Peary.
Thursday, Sept. 80.
President Taft reached the Pacific
coast. beginning his visit to the Alas
ka- Yukon Pacific exposition.
Wilbur Wright circled the great
statue of Liberty at the entrance of |
New York harbor in his aeroplane. |
while two huge dirigibles fell in |
gloriously to earth.
The personal representatives of the
emperors of Germany and Japan, the
representatives of twenty
five nations and the special delegates
of twenty-eig sat doyn to a great
banquet as the official guests of the
Fulton celebration commits
sion.
The breaking of every existing
American record for automobile rae
Ing on the open road and an accident
which cost the life of one man and
serious injuries to another, marked
the running of the Long Island auto
mobile derby, a stock car sweep
stakes.
During a fit of anger brought on by
his failure to get an answer to a tele-
phone call, Constantine Brunn, aged
49, well-to-do farmer of Wood
stock, Conn. shot and killed his sis
ter, probably fatally wounded his
brother and then committed suicide.
Madrid celebrated the success of the
Spanish arms in Africa, which were
crowned by the occupation of Mount
Guruga, the Moorish stronghold
DR.. Frederick A. Cook received
rom the New York Herald a check
or s25, 900 in payment for his story
If his trip to the Pole.
The arbitration undertaken by the
Swedish government to settle the dis
Dute between the Employers union
Ind the Confederation of Labor has
allied.
Prominent Vermonters attended the
uneral of former Governor Charles ].
Bell, held at his<home in Walden, VT.
Friday, Oct. 4.
The secretary of war authorized the
ssue of 20, 900 of short army rations
o the cyclone sufferers III Terrebonne
parish, La.
Reports from wardens and others
amiliar with the Maine woods indi-
ate that conditions are more favor
bile for good hunting than for some
ears.
The Democratic convention for the
ity of New York nominated a ticket
leaded by William ]. Gaynor. Tam
many had its own way at the con-
ention.
Twenty-Five thousand men of arms
marched past the massed representa-