Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-31


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HARDEST. said to be dying in Havana
death of Mrs. Mary Russell Brad
ford at Cambridge, Mass, at the age Of
JOG years months and Is days
Timber lands burned over in South Da-
kota,
TUESDAY. AUG. %.
Men of the Tenth Pennsylvania well
coined at Pittsburg; in speech Pres
ident McKirsey said the Philippines
were as much ours as the Louisiana pur-
chase or Texas or Alaska-Ccnsorsh
in the Philippines continues; native feel
ing against Us in Manila is growing
stronger---Lord Vincent WINS the $1,000
Charter Oak trot at HarttOrd---Trans-
vaal government will make no further
concessions to Great Britain-Effort
to form a new republic between Brazil
and Bolivia Paper stock importers
demand lower rates from New York TO
Holyokc-The battleship Alabama
leaves Cramps yard for her builders
trial-Two wards of the Massa chusetts
state board Of charity confess to burg
larry and incendiarism in Hadley--
Nine men killed and several .nJJIed by
collapse of steel ar'nes in Ihicago---
Nelson G. Green of New York visits
Fall River Mass, and invites mill
men to send a committee to New
York to negotiate affairs and stand
ing If me United Cotton company
Two =, ore cases of smallpox dis
covered n -toston--Many applicants
for the Forty sixth United States vol
unteers on the first Gay Of recruiting in
Boston-National cotton mill COM
blne, with a capital of Sl500 0o0 pro-
posod--Fire in a convent al Sparki,l
\. y. results in -FOUR deaths, and 20 are
intured--National Carriage company
of Stamford, Conn, manufacturing du-
tomobiles, attached by creditors
Scheme to connect Tennessee coal fields
with the coast, for which charter was
obtained years ago is being revived
now-Western railroad officials take
q sanguine view of the future. and say
that the grain crop will be sufficient to
keep earnings up-ColOradO Fuel and
Iron company to increase its capital to
s25.0000 900 for Improvement purpose
and the cultivation of the Chinese and
Japanese trade-lt is said that another
offer for Fall River cotton mills viii be
made as part of the amalSamation
OF all New England mills, apart from
the plan of national ombine--GenoTal
Davis cables that food is Porto RiCo'S
greatest need-No compact get made
with Canada as to Alaskan boundary
Captain Evans says the Dewey pa
rade at New York will be strictly a
naval affair--Senator Stewart wants
the United States TO withdraw from
the Paris exposition because Of the
Dreyfus trials Xposures-Jouausto or
ders commission to take deposition Of
Colonel Du Patty De Clam; varied tes-
timony of experts in handwriting; one
testifies that bOrdereau was written by
Esterhazy. who ascribed it to Dreyfus
at the first court martial-Kruger
said to have ordered shells for Pretoria
forts-F'renCh senate to be called to
try Deroulede and other conspirators
dominican revolutionists gaining;
government officials are joining revolu-
tionists-SiXteen men killed by the
breaking OF a cable by which they were
going down into mine at st. Etienne,
France-Hopeso of peace in the Trans
vaal endangered by the raad's refusal
to cancel the dynamite monopoly.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30.
Rioting breaks out anew in Cleveland
Great Britain eniarges Milnel 5 de-
mands against the ransvaal-Prop-
osition to suspend hostilities refused by
Santo Domingo utionists-Presi-
dent Mckinley given a rousing reception
at East Liverpool O---Choynsk de-
feats Jimmy Ryan in a 20-round bout at
Dubuque. Ia--Idolita wins tho 500
400 trotting race at Dubuque-Fred-
erick Eastwood, accused of murder at
Middlebury, VI. held for the grand
jury-Shamrock meets with a mis-
hap: gets stuck in the mud after leaving
Erie basin--More than a dozen New
Hampshire towns have "Old Home
Week" celebrations--Li chance Of
agreement on Alaskan boundary dis
pute until after fall elections in Canada
--Battleship Alabama shows over Il
knots on her builders trial
Colonel Cordier. the late Colonel Henry's
assistant. tells Rennes court martial
how the bordereau was secured. and how
his conviction of Dreyfus' guilt was
changed. n strong witness for the pris-
Oner, MERCER anu Roget Try To Itl ute
his statements; eX-Minister de Frey
cinet on the stard-PortO Rico fund in
Boston passes the 1922 600 mark-Three
Belgians arrive at Boston to inspect the
park system. the subway and other
points of interest--WindoW glass trust
misunderstanding war on east
bound freight rates begun in Chicago
-Great tunnel through the Cumber-
land mountains opened-Rumors of
more war between the sugar trust and
lis mpettors-Durham coal mines
in Georgia bought by a Chattanooga
capitalists at Gastonia n.
c.. planning to build a $1,000, 600 cotton
duck mill-Sir Thomas Upton said to
have been offered 500 O00 TO change sham
rocks name-Statstics of the New
| York state bureau of labor show less
| than / percent of labor unemployed
Large yield of apples in Canada threat
| ems the expected increase in exports to
Europe from the United States---Fal
| River cotton manufacturers and bank
men informed as TO plans of United
| Cotton company, and will appoint a COM
| mittee to go to New York and further
| Investigate the matter ---- General
Wheeler to command Funstons brigade