Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-05-21
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY, MAY IA.

SId DNNhNh oiiu OeillOS Sltboilf hO-
torious forgers, arrested in Newark, N.
J-Fall River, Mass, will not be al
lowed to borrow 5000, 900 for sewers
Opening of the New Hampshire Phil
harmonic associations music festival at
Manchester, N. H-People of Brattle-
boro, VT, trying to induce Rudyard Kip
ling to remain in that town-Sentcnces
of Hammond and his companions COM
muted to i've years Imprisonment
Emperor William may challenge for
the Americas cup-Germain See, the
eminent French medical writer, dead
Lowell (Mass.) minister makes state
rent that there are 1000 immoral women
In that city-A Connecticut deputy
internal revenue collector committed
for contempt - Dedication of the
Gleason public library at Carlisle, Mass
Five girls thrown from a tramway
car, and two injured, at East Walpole,
Mass-Malden (Mass.) mass meeting
accepted provisions of the proposed new
city charter-Tramp with the jimjams
hanged himself in Portland (Me) Jail
New York racing law again upheld
I'm the courts-M. f. Dwyer bought the
colt Ben Elder for $4,000 - Roger
Common appointed captain and mana
ger of the st. Louis ball club
Ice blockade off Newfoundland con-
tinues-Russia and Japan will manage
Korean affairs conjointly-British
mission reported looted by Chinese
FRIDAY, MAY Is.
William II. Daley and William T. Reid,
two Cambridge (Mass.) boys, confess to
81 ting scores of fires in Cambridge,
Bonneville. Brighton and other places
Methodist Bishops Bowman and Fos-
ter retired for being 'non-effective"-
There will be a legal fight over the es-
T. tie of Cohen, who was murdered at
Bolton, Mass-Battleship Oregon said
4, have exceeded speed of the Massa-
chusetts-Tailors' deadlock at Provi-
dence evidently shattered-Complaints
against Providence butterine factory TO
be quashed-Asa Lyman of Providence
died in carbohydrates Or. - city
council voted 10000 for o municipal
electric lighting plant-Five colored
tramps captured q freight train at New
London, Conn, and exchanged shots
with train hands-North Carolina Re-
publicans endorse Mckinley - Wyo-
ming Republican delegates are for Ale"
Kinley - Colorado Republicans en-
corse Teller's course on silver - Ha-
bana journal urges declaration of war
ty Spain against the United States
Rhode Island legislature passed a BIZ
cycle baggage bill-Rev. S. r. Fuller
Of Maiden, Mass. suspended for two
years from the Episcopal ministry
Gift Of 800, 900 to Wellesley college to be
expended for a memorial chapel
Pody, supposed to be that of Kate West,
found on beach at Manchcster-by-the-
Sea, Mass-Banker Francis L. Higgin.
son of Boston granted a decree of di-
vorce nisi against his wife-Arthur A.
Bradley of Haverhill, Mass. who killed
Richard Ingraham in a prize fight, fined
&200-Twenty-two convicts In the Con-
necticut state prison petitioned for par
dons-Spinners' strike threatened at
Lewiston, Me-Clarence Murphy ar
rested at Durham. Conn. for murder of
his mother--Good roads convention at
Concord, n. H., closed with a banquet
Northern Pacific receivers formally dis
charged-Massachusetts bonds were
largely oversubscribed in London
Boston is promised opera in French.
italian and German next year-Great
Britain will hold China responsible for
Russian aggression at Che-Foo-Two
bishops dropped by the Methodist con-
ference at Clcveland-Orin II. Green
leaf. for many years president of the
Uolyoke Paper died in Spring
field. Mass-General Weyler says he
is willing to employ in the Spanish army
all rebels who surrender voluntarily
Edward Friend, a tobacco man, who
failed recently, committed suicide in
New York-Governor w. Y. Atkin-
son of Georgia in Boston for the purpose
of interesting Boston bankers in Georgia
Observation-Disclosures of ~Easpipes
believed to be the cause of the large
volume of gas that gathers in the man
holes in Boston streets.
SATURDAY, MAY 16.
Hundreds of houses destroyed and
more than 100 persons killed by a lorna
do at Sherman, Tex-James S. Clark
son says McKinley's nomination is i'm
possible-Commissioner Of Pensions
Lochren appointed district Judge of
Minnesota. Dominic Murphy appointed
commissioner of pensions-The ma
tional senate, 81 to 30, decided not to seat
Colonel Dupont of Delaware-Noted
race mare Nightingale dropped dead at
Louisville-Two Touring mills at Mer-
Ger, Pa, burned-Spain threatens to
abrogate treaty with United States
Peppcrell n Laconia mills officials, in
Biddeford, Me, r~escinded their order for
a cutdown-New York photographic
artists won their fight against their en-
ployers-Serious loss OF treasury gold
causes concern in the administration
Sudden death of Surgeon General
Il. j. Forster, NJ. D., of Boston
Harvard freshmen defeated Yale fresh
men In debate-Conditional Gift Of
800. 900 to the University of Pennsyl-
Sania-Indiana supreme court sus-
tains the apportionment act of 1855
General trade throughout the country
remains quiet-Poison said to have
been found in the stomach of young
Vinal, Belfast. Me-Marner Miller is
for Marion first, Mckinley as second
choice-General Osborne does not ex-
pect Mckinley to break silence before
the st. Louis convention-North Caro-
lima Republicans endorsed Mckinley
ind adopted n straddle platform
Allison comes out squarely against
the free coinage of silver
Wellesley college to have a new chapel
SUNDAY, MAY II.
All but two prisoners in Newport (Ky.)
GAIL escaped--Theatrical Manager
Henry &c. Abbey critically sick-Mayor
of Lynn, Mass, criticised for not enforce
dng the Sunday laws-Methodist Epis-
copal conference in Cleveland took eight
ballots, but failed to elect a bishop
ISen Brush and Lady Incz run a dead
heat at Louisville-Forest fires burned
over 300 acres of woodland in Sharon.
Mass-Coal barons to again raise the
price Of coal-Germans are warned
against emigration to America---W. II.
Daley and William I. Reid, the self-con-