News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-04-05

was Robert Z. Lees military rank
during the civil war higher than
Grants?
Lee had the full rank Of general:
Grant, during the latter part Of the
war, that of lieutenant general, the
highest rank at that time in the United
States army.
Please give details as to when and
under whose administration the United
States paid money indemnity for the
killing of some Italians somewhere in
the south.
Six Italians were tried in New Or
leans on charge of numbering the
chief of police. The jury failed to agree
on the case Of three of them and the
citizens, believing bribery had been re-
sorted to, broke into the New Orleans
Jail in March, 1891, and lynched all the
Italians who had been detained in con-
nectiOn with the murder. Most Of them
were naturalized, but some still owed
allegiance to the Italian government.
The United States, through the state
department and President Harrison,
expressed it's regret, but disavowed all
responsibility for the crime, claiming it
was matter entirely under the con-
troll of the state of Louisiana. The Ital-
ian government demanded national
apology, the payment of an indemnity
and the punishment of the lynchers.
The United States government refused
to comply, whereupon the italian min
lister withdrew from Washington. War
talk began to fill the air, and in order
to show it's good will the United States
finally agreed to pay $4,000 to the
families of the Italians who had been
lynched,
~
Abraham Lincoln seemed to have
faith in prayer, and how was it that
he never joined church?
During the war friend asked Lin
coin why he never joined the church,
and he replied, ''If there were such a
church whose sole article of faith and
rule of life was Hear, o Israel; the
Lord our God is one Lord; and thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart and with all thy soul and
with all thy mind and with all thy
strength. Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself | would join it
before night" The quotation is from
Mark xii, 20, 80, 81.
Did w. J. Bryan, while secretary of
state, enact a law or regulation by
which five years or any other period of
years must eIapse after the naturaIi-
cation before a foreign born citizen
can travel abroad as a riehtfuI Amer
lean citizen? Can a secretary of state
make such law?
The state department has. no knowl-
edge of any ruling similar to that re-
ferred to. 1t is believed, however, that
what the inquirer refers to is the sec
ond paragraph of section IL. of the act
of June 30, 1906, which reads as fol-
lows:
If any alien who shall have secured a
certificate of citizenship under the prov-
sions of this act shall, within five years
after the issuance of such certificate, re-
turn to the country of his nativity or go
to any other foreign country, and take
permanent residence therein, it shall be
considered prima facie evidence of a lack
of intention on the part of such alien to
become permanent citizen of the United
States at the time of filing his application
for citizenship, and, in the absence of
countervailng evidence it shall be suffi-
cent in the proper proceeding to author
ize the cancellation of his certificate of
citizenship as fraudulent, and the diplo-
matte and consular officers of the United
States in foreign countries shall from time
to time, through the department of state,
Geo. s.l, o,.tr1 nf OF wi a
names of those within their respective
jurisdictions who have taken permanent
residence in the country of their nativity, |
or in any other foreign country, and such
statements duly certified, shall be admis- ,
sible in evidence in all courts in proceed /,
ings to cancel certificates of citizenship.
Please tell me just what constitutes
a boycott.
Boycotting is name given to an or |
ganized system of social and CONNER |
cial ostracism. Landlords, tenants or |
other persons who are subjected to |
boycotting find it difficult or impossible !,
to get any one to work for them, to |
supply them with the necessaries of |
life or to associate with them in any |
way. 1t took its name from Captain |
James Boycott, Mayo Qreland) land |
agent, against whom it was first put in |.
force
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In a dispute claim the law of Ohio |
prohibits marriage between whites and ,
negroes. Am right?
No. Ohio is one of the twenty-five |
states permitting such marriages.
| understand that colt from a jack |
and a mare is a mule colt. saw |
in a newspaper an account of hinny |
mule owned by a man at Quincy be- |
ina the mother of two colts. O What |
are these two colts called? (2) Where !
does the mule originally come from2 |
% The offspring of a mare and |
a male donkey is called mule. and |
mules are usually sterile. The off |
spring of a jenny donkey and stall
lion is called a hinny, and the female |
hinny sometimes foals, the colt being |
called a mule, which it generally re- |
sembles very closely. ~ The mule was |
known TO the ancient Greeks and used |