Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-24
TILE WEEKS NEWS.
TIIITRSDAY. AEG. IL.

with an excursion and piCnic--Chicag
beef packers announce another advance
or beef and give warning Of others to
fOllow-The Cramps ask for more time
for completing Russian warships, owing
to scarcity of iron and steel---Four
boys arrested in Cleveland for blowing
up street cars; minister and church choir
singer oycotted--Strikingm miners who
made trouble at the Carterville Glls)
mine arrested by United States deputy
marshals-City government of Chat
tanooga passes restrictive measures
against the street railway out Of SYM
pathy with the striking motormen, and
grants franchise to rival to parallel its
tracks--Insurgents driven back from
Angeles and lose 200 men; American loss
two killed IL wounded---Factorie for
manufacture of naval clothing to be es-
tabished at New York and Mare island
navy yards-General Davis reports
that deaths at Porto Rico will reach
fully 1000: many dying from privation
and injurieS--Peary relief steamer
Diana reported from Labrador; all on
board well-Kingston papers compli-
ment American promptitude in relief
methods-Battalion of Halifax troops
ordered TO the West Indies I'm November
- Cape assembly urges President
Kruger to accept Chamberiain's propo-
sition--British emergency force Of
10000 ready to start for the Transvaal;
Beers delay increases the tension
Rennes court-martial hears official re-
port of Dreyfus' suffering on Devils
island; Colonel Henry's widow testfies
General Rogets evidence against Drey-
fus; pathetic scenes in the courtroom.
FRIDAY, AUG. is.
Arthur w. Porter, the bicyclist, seri-
ously injured at observation-disclosures
Arctic expedition arrives at island of
Tromsoe. Norway. having completed
successfully explorations in Franz Josef
Land-Thousand Of acres of timber
land in New York state swept by fierce
forest fires-Scores injured by an ex-
plosion of giant powder in a tool house
in New York city--Jiminez leaves Ha-
vana; his expedition said to have
been captured - West Indian hurri-
cane returns to the American coast
Bostons tax rate for 1899 is 1910 a re-
duction of so cents from last years rate
Six hundred destitute prospectors
from Kotzebue sound leave st. Michaels
for Motorman guilty of Grim
maj CdItltSSIltSS. anu street TdlIWHX
company very negligent. is verdict of
coroner's jury on trolley car disaster at
Pecks millpond, Conn, Aug. Order
issued for organization of 10 more in
fantry eiments-Estimated loss by
hurricane in Porto Rico $4,000 900. cpl
demic feared--Brothe of Aruinaldo.
minister of war in native government,
allowed to leave Manila with much
treasure-Pope Leo strongly disap-
proves French Catholics attitude to-
ward Dire yfus-Labori's condition sat-
isfactory. and he should appear in court
room next Wednesday.
SATURDAY. AUG. 49,
General Jiminez arrested at Cienfuegos
g he was about to leave for San Do
mingo-kid Mccoy knocked out in one
round by Jack ----Bostor
emergency hospital closes on account of
lack of funds--Bradstreet's reports
trade situation gathering strength as
| summer wanes-Coroner's jury finds
that Francy. the pugilist, was pun
melled to death by McConnell-T Test I'll
| mony to effect that children are terribly
| abused in a Connecticut country home
| Cup challenger Shamrock arrives in
| New York harbOr--DediCatio of the
| Holy Ghost and U.s. temple at shiloh
| Me-Diver suffocated near Tacoma
! through accident to air pump-State
| sanitarium for consumptves to be es-
! tablished in Illinois--Distillery trust
raises Sc 900 900 for the purchase of rival
| plants-Consolida effected of %
| leading window glass manufacturers
Congress to be asked to maintain
and ornament Confederate mound at
| ChiCag system soon TO
be in operation in Cleveland in compe-
| tition with street cars Stockholders
of failed Sioux City bank will resist pa y
ment of an assessment upon their hold
ings-Reports from western road;
show the passenger traffic to be greater
than during the worlds fair--Phila-
delphia merchants suggest an interna-
| tional currency in the shape of a gold
coin: Assistant Secretary Vanderlr
doubts its ticability-Parr's bank
in London robbed OF Russian bond.
worth $40 000--Cabe rates between
South Africa and England to be re.
: duced--DepOsitors in Villa Marie bank
not likely to get more than 80 percen'
Howard Blackburn of Gloucester
Mass. arrives in the Bristol channel ir
his three-ton boat. the Great Western
THE far east again looking to thi!
country for its supply of oil, the petro'
| leum wells on the Caspian sea having
given out.
SUNDAY, AUG 20.
Part of the Boston reformatory fol
boys on Rainsford island burned; 10 o
the inmates scaped--Henry h. Quinb!
of Lakeport, n. H. announces his can
didacy for the United States senate
| Speaker Reed will send his resignation
from congress to the governor of Main
within a very few days--Governo
| General Brooke orders release of Gen
eral Jiminez-Howard Blackburn safe
ly crosses the Atlantic in S0-foot cutter
General Ludlow wants Havana I,
educate $4,000 children who are now
without chooling-Booker 7. Wash
ington denounced at Afro-AmericaI
| council in Chicago--Brtish govern
ment argees to withdrawal Of eXtradi
ton proceedings against Mrs. Perot---
Emperor Williams canal bills defeateI
in the Prussian diet-Death Of Genera
Thomas A. Davies-Colonel Bryan re
peats that he never said silver must b,
put in the ckground--Larges
whisky house in North Carolina seizeC
-Droueht and forest fires cause i'm
mense damage in western New York.
Sprague mansion at CanonChet, r. l.
opened to the pubic-Altgeld and Ston
at odds over the question of fusion
Secretary Root appoints a central com
mittee on Porto Rico relief---Fall Rive
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