Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-06-15
TIE WEEKS NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 3.

loss, $3.50, 000--Zola to write a novel on
the Dreyfus affair--Murderer at
Princeton, Mo-, said to have been
hanged while under the influence OF
morphine-T. II. Wason, submaster
Of Boston school, probably fatally
hurt by being struck by train
Degree of LII. d. conferred on Governor
Roosevelt and Carl Schurz by Columbia
college-Aktempt made to blow up a
house at Rockport, Mass. by dynamite;
cause said to be the strike-The oldest
fraternal benefit organization in New
Hampshire to go into the hands Of re-
ceiver-The Credit Mems association
declares in favor Of modern methods in
obtaining mercantile reports-Btll
passed by the Michigan legislature as
sesses tax of cents a ton on iron ore and
of from Lis to y a cent pound on cop
per ore. and percent on gross earnings
Of telephone, telegraph and express COM
panies-Speni sh officer lynched in San
Antonio, Cuba-No arrangements
made for Dewey to visit the west--No
modification OF civil service order ex-
pected; report that President Proctor Of
the commission will resign-Presden
Schurman of the Philippine commission
will soon start on visit % the southern
Philippine islands and will sail for
America in July; Halls brigade enters
Taytay without opposition, leaving a
garrison at Morong-Death of the
Nun of Kenmare "-Report that France
will eXtradite Esterhazy; rumor and de-
NAL that Zurlinden is to be removed
Alaskan boundary dispute said to be
practically settled. mainly by the efforts
of Joseph Cha mberlain-Kruge said
to have refused all concessions to settle
Transvaal matter, and London officials
holding consultation on the matter.
FRIDAY. JUNE Q.
Lewis Castor, the alleged wife MUIR
derer, surrendered to the police of
Keene, N. H-Allegcd dishonest prac-
tees Of Standard Oil company exposed
| by former mploye-Alleged plot of
irreconcila BILE Cubans to apply the torch
II independence Is not granted
Twenty-eig men reported killed by a
/ landslide in Arkansas-Bail in the
| Molineux case fixed at s5000--H. Var
don wins the open golf championship OF
| Great Britain-Terry McGovern whips
| Billy Barrett in glove fight in New
York-The Clark kidnappers arraigned
| in New York city and held in $4,000
each for trial--Nermont to give Ad
miral Dewey a rousing welcome when hi
returns to his old home in Montpelier
| Wire trust contracts for the four larges
| steamers ever built on fresh water
Mines owned by Boston interests Al
| Lea dvlle being developed at cost OF
| 500. o00-Prompt action in fighting
! fruit pests likely to save the New Hamp-
shire apple crop-Ntw Haven line
steamer C. H. Northam ashore as result
of a collision-Thirty-f insurance
companies doing business in Kentucky
indicted under the antitrust law-Sar
Francisco capitalists will build a hote
costing 900 upon the site of the
Baldwin House-French naval officers
attempt to prevent a Gloucester fisher.
man from securing bait in Newfound
land-The biscuit trust, comprising
the Pacific coast bakeries, collapses be
cause there are no buyers for its stool
Bristol Home company. chartered
to buy property in Bristol. Va, by Bos
ton and Philadelphia interests-Bil
allowing the consolidation Of Michigan
| mining companies vetoed by the COVER
nor and fails of passage afterward-
Federal Judge in issuing injunction
against the Denver city council makes
ference with a legislative body by
United States court--The Boston sail
from Manila for San Francisco-Ore
gon volunteers at Manila sail for hom
United States Minister Storer arrive
at San Sebastian and starts for Madrit
One of the largest caves known dis
covered In New Zealand--Englan
generally inclines to regard the Trans
oil Ton A
reached in London as to Alaska
boundary which needs only president
approval to be bnding--Dupuy tell
visiting delegation that Zurlinden vii
remain a s governor OF Paris.
} SATURDAY, JUNE 10.
; James ]. Jeffries champion pugilist o
the world by knocking out Fitzsimmon
in the 18th round of contest-Mrs
Alice Mazzeo ends her life at Rosto
with a revolver-Fall River has sew
eral new cases of smallpox
Decision that Palmer, who kille
his wife at Providence, is insane
: Steam frigate Lancaster arrives a
; the Charlestown navy yard-All tn
stamp agencies in Boston are TO be dis
continued on July Mrs. Mary Rus
; sell Bradford of Boston observes he
| y
: Sub-master WATSON of the Brimme
school OF Boston. who was hurt by a
engine-Refusal of Boston printing
Ink Arm. the largest in the country. t
enter trust upsets calculations of tn
4 promoters-A combination of rye dis
s tillers being forned-Governor Roose
D welt approves the new civil service rule
. Another Cuban arrested for forgn
army certificates-NO enlistment {
q volunteers ordered, but the regula
Z army being recruited to Its full strengt
4 President appoints a commission
l. determine the most feasible route for
q canal across the isthmus of Panam
Colonel Picquart Professionally RI
. leased from custody-Twenty-o or
q cases and seven deaths from the plagr
!: at Xandria-United States may /
o called upon to mediate in the Transva'
. dispute-Dominion government give
notice that the iron bounties Will /
abolished in l905--Counsel Scrugl
confident that Venezuela wall win
q the arbitration court at Paris-Tf
b Infanta Isabella may leave the pala'
J. as the result of the dispute with II
: Queen Regent Of Spain.
I SUNDAY. JUNE II.
- The new cup defender Columbia SUI