Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. AUG. 3.

DemoCrats--Insane man shoots ard
seriously wounds Brockton. Mass,
oficer-Crisis impending in Havti--
New York veterinary surgeon contends
that bovine tuberculosis is not commune
cable to human race--Huntington in
terests said to be at work to meet the
competition expected from the Burling-
ton and Union Pacific routes--Agent
in charge of the government expert
mental tea garden in South Carolina
claims that tea growing is entirely
feasible - Parade of conscripts in
Barcelona dispersed by police--Eight
hundred recruits sail for Manila on
transport ndiana--Hospita ship Re-
lief, from Philippines, at San Francisco
Secretary Root calls on General
Miles, causing the gossips to talk
DISCRIMINATION of Havana police de-
partment shows Cubans their unfltness
for ernment-Natives Of Malta
want home rule-No cabinet formed
yet in Belgium--Famine threatened in
Central India--Ruskin denies that he
knew of the establishment Of the colony,
which has just failed until six months
after its establishment
FRIDAY, AUG. 4.
Government can discover no evidence
Of the erection Of monuments along the
Alaskan boundary In 1S33-MessenEor
boys strike at Providence comes to an
cnd---Good opening in Japan for Amer
lean manufacturers of cotton Tpinning
achincry--Emperor Williams Me-
teor wins for third time in the regatta
at Cowes--Ex-Se Secretary Alger over
joyed with his reception in Detroit
John w. and Joseph +. Seery held at
Dedham, Mass, for the grand jury on a
charge of matrcide--Quincy and Bos-
ton street railway stops use Of storage
battery in compliance with a court order
Southern Epworth leaguers propos-
ing to draw the color line-Nearly $500
employees in anthracite mines near
Wilkesbarre strike-Bycott at Clevo-
land on the wane and more people rid
ing in the cars--Large window glass
plants projected to oppose the recently
organized trust-J'rgent requirements
for iron cause the rising tendency to con-
| tinue nabated--Federal Steel COM
pany buys large tract of coke land and
organizes railroad to connect its field
with the Baltimore and Ohio--Brooke
! appoints courts in all Cuban provinces
United States military barracks at
Dyea destroyed by fire--Canada said
/ to have conceded to United States in 1893
23ia miles of territory in the disputed
| region--Shamrock starts for America
Lieutenant Boissman appointed aide
| de-camp to the czar-Oficial Messen-
ger of st. Petersburg states that the ear
| is satisfied with the results of the peace
| conference.
| SATURDAY. AUG. 5.
! Major Rowell of Lowell Mass. prom
| inent in state and local politics, died on
a train near Everett, Mass--Over ST.
| 900 600 damage caused by Florida cy-
| clone; 200 families homeless; many yes
| sells wrecked--Two of HeureauX' S
| slayers were confidential, agents of Jim
| inez, but the Ia tier denies knowledge of
| plot against former-Little danger now
| felt of any spread of yellow fever in
! Hampton or thOebus-Seriousc charges
| against the management of the juvenile
reformatory on Randall's island. n.
Over 81. 600 enormously paid Sioux
| Indians under allotment act--The non
| arrival home # the Samoan ommission
| causing apprehension of new complica
| tions--Burns Pierce of Boston breaks
| four bicycle records at Philadelphia
| Advance Of from 10 to 90 percent on
| various grades of carpets announced as
! operative Aug. 15---Report that YaQui
| Indians have entrapped large body Of
| Mexican troops instruction seems TO
| be groWinS-ManufaC of tele-
| phones and electrical apparatus talk of
| forming a 81 900. 600 combine to rival the
Bell company--ltalian diplomat says
| all those lynched at Tallulah were Italian
| subjects-Franco- American treaty en-
| dangered by opposition of French farm
| ers--Heir of the Duke of York called
Prince David-State department re-
ports show large increase in the
American colony in Japan the past year
- parliamentary conference
adopts motion in favor of immunity of
private property at sea.
SUNDAY, AUG. 6.
Resumption of issue of gold certifi-
Gates ordered by Secretary Cage
Warship likely to be sent to Port au
Prince to protect American interests
Wonderful progress of the work on the
new temple being erected by Evaugelist
Sanford at Durham, Me--Adventists
at Springfield believe the Lord is coming
this year-Harry Elkes wins 25-mile
motor paced bicycle race at Woodside
park. Philadephia--Wh defeats
| w are III tle i-oHS iSidhu
tennis tournament--Sloop Defender
easily beats Vigilant and Navahoe of
Newport-The Transvaal agrees tc
; holding a joint inquiry--Success OF
wireless biography in England nava
neuvers--Improveme to be made
in the Kennebec river-Jockey Sloar
and Boxer Palmer arrive in New Yorl
from MISUNDERSTANDING boycott
broken--Admiral Dewey arrives al
Naples--No basis for report of an al
the United States-Richard Croker
complains of being bounded by the news
apers--Claimant for Goele. millioh!
appears from Colorado - Mrs. Ida
Flagler, wife of the standard Oil nag
nate, judicially declared insane--To
bacco company organized &c night tn,
: trust.
. MONDAY. AUG. 8.
Trolley car falls 65 feet from a trestl,
, into a pond al Stratford, Conn; about 3,
people killed-Steamer gang planl
) gave way at Mt. Desert ferry, Me. anc
90 excursionists rowned--Yaqui In
, dams prepared for long war--Msl
Jewett and the Baker family reach New
! York in safety-A British flag hauled
down by Irish Americans of Boston OF
: a steamer they had hred--Coney Isl
) and policeman held on charge of at
tempting to rob a man--Five persons
n injured at a tenement house fire in New