Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-27

| ~ years OF quiet--MelkelJOhn frlends
actively urging that he succeed Sec
rotary Alger-Dynamite bomb shat
tiers roof Of Consolidated Railway barn
| at ACCOMPLISHMENTS Defender race
unfinished. owing to an accident to the
| latter yacht--Shoe manufacturers at
Nashua, ~ H. complain OF n scarcity
OF help in their factories---Eight thou
sand delegates present at the Epworth
league convention at Indianapolis
| Reports from various western states
| Indicate exceptional prosperity through
| out the entire section--Assignee Of the
| Derryfield, n. H., Savings bank of Man
chester, N. H.. notifies depositors OF a
| 15-percent dividend-Salem and Bev-
! erly, Mass. shoe manufacturers getting
ready to make their own shoe cases, on
| account OF the recent advance made
upon them-Missouri legal depart
ment holds that the ousted insurance
companies must pay the $1,000 fine even
| IL they do not continue in business in the
state-Dewey home fund amounts to
$14.771-Elihu Roots name promi
| nently mentioned as a successor to AL
eer-Governor Pingree OF Michigan
! vigorously attacks the president for
forcing Algcr out of the cabinet
Queen Victoria's eyesight insno danger
canadian parliament throws out the
redistribution bill-Report that the
Lakes of Killarney have been bought by
Belfast tobacco manufacturer for
1926, 0OO-Interesting but improbable
rumor that all European sovereigns are
to meet at Paris mex: year-Cecil
Rhodes says that there Is not the slight
est chance of war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal-Prince
Herbert Bismarck said TO be a candidate
for German embassy in London when
Il vacancy occurs-Explosion on board
the British torpedo boat destroyer Bull
finch on the Solent kills seven and in
, lure. II men-Buriing Of the Western
Electric Cable company's plant at Wool
witch, Eng, causes a loss Of 81 .250 900
SUNDAY, JULY %.
Sir Charles Upper says the course OF
the United States on the Alaskan
boundary dispute was unjustifiable--
Peace conference committee accepted
the arbitration scheme IN it's completed
, form-M. d. Whitman again wins the
tennis championship Of New Work state
-Elihu Root offered and accepts the
office Of secretary Of war--Brooklyn
. trolley car ditched and IL policemen in
, jured-Tim Kearns Of New York
, whips Jack Dwyer of Boston In a glove
D fight at Brooklyn-Two alleged muir
dereds from Binghamton, n. Y, ar
rested in Springfield, Mass-Evan-
gelist Sanford says God has told him
10 resume the work of construction OK
l Shiloh Temple-Captain Dickens to
; succeed Captain Taylor as commander
of the battleship Indiana--bryan
counses support of the Democratic cam
didate in Kentucky-Fire causes $780,
900 damage In a Chicago block---Nel-
s son Croteau returns to Holyoke. Mass,
from the Klondike, and tells of the
=, death of eight eastern men in the land
, Of cold and scurvy-United States in
dustria commission finds that pros
I perity has narrowed its field OF action.
) MONDAY, JULY "a.
i; Treasury receipts for July likely to
=; reach s47 900. OoO--Masked men rob a
y woman in her home in Webster, Mass
Nantucket. Mass, Methodist church
begins celebration of its centennial an
niversary-Boston freight handler.
. vote to ask for an increase OF pay
New labor party started in New York
city-Cornerstone for new Jewish
synagogue in Haverhll, Mass--Incen-
( diary fire causes loss of 100000 If
s Phoenix City. Ala-Death of Rev
d Dennis c. Moran of Adams, Mass
Y Charles Robinson commits suicide in a
r hotel in Concord, ~ HIT cost more
d than $40. 900. 900 to run Boston lastt year
& Death OF Rev. Thomas j. Sawyer
d. D.. formerly dean of Tufts college
n President Hadley will be inaugurated a,
l.. Yale Oct. 1s-Traveling United States
e court on its tour of the Yukon
- Whites still searching for negroes neal
n cambridge. Ga-Fire destroys 1.
n buildings at Forest City. Pa; loss
= $50 0Oo-Ten thousand pieces of prin
= cloth sold at Providence Al 2A cents
Nez Perez Indians may again attack
h graders on he Northern Pacific
S Illinois Steel company giving preference
u to English speaking workingmen-
: Smelter trust to have more competition
L from independent concerns-Thre,
5 hundred postal telegraph messenger
n boys strike in New York-Explosior
in mine near brownsville. Pa. kills
: three men and entombs 70-Yacht Co
y lumba hauled out to be cleaned ant
II have her new steel mast stepped-Re
o ceiver asked for to wind up the affair
of the New York National Building anc
Loan company-Governor Roosevelt
- investigating alleged violation of 10
" hour law by New York street railwa,
=" companies
IL TUESDAY. JULY rs.
Wreckage from the Portland found or
Nantasket beach-Great Britain anx
ious for a settlement Of the Alaskan
boundary OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Talbot of the Sixth Massachusetts APP
;, pointed captain Of volunteers
Twenty-one alleged IT, road dyna.
,,e miters discharged in Brooklyn court
:, Franco American reciprocity treat,
- signed at Washington-Death O
y Lloyd Tevis formerly president Of thu
-" Wells-F Fargo Express company-Gen
% eral Otis not to be disturbed by tn,
- Observation-Disclosures Dewey accepts in
vitation Of New York to be the city'
" guest on arrival home-Locomotive
give way to electric motors on trains
:. between Cohasset and Brantree, Mass,
~ on the Consolidated road-Activt
> steps taken to abolish gambling anc
> other evils at Narragansett Pier
- Unknown man found hanging in n sheC
in Royalston, MasS-Robert barrow o.
North Adams Mass, commits suicid
- Recent large expenditures for re
% pairs on equipment on western railroads
make their physical condition the hes
W ever known--Plan to operate the larg
'e est and best breweries In the countr,
- under one management said to he undel
'a NAV In Nav YOrk-Cieneral Wheele