Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-04
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY APRIL q.

General Macarthur holds part of Ca
lumps. after n hot days work; Fill
pipos resisting fercely. aided by heat.
!uAgle and strQig entertainments; Law
ton a Amgat and Norzagaray-Harr
r. Adams nominated to the Boston po-
lice board-Work on the new cup de-
fender progressing rapidly; she promises
to be "a ster boat than her predecessors
Senator Frye. of Maine makes not
able address at New York banquet, held
to do him honor for his services in pro-
curing harbor improvements for that
city-Soldiers of the Second United
States infantry join in the Confederate
Memorial day exercises at Savannah;
bluejackets and marines take part at
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Raleigh arrives
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. papers abuse
Mckinley and Brooke. comparing them
to Canovas and Weyler-Sidney
Thompson of Spruce Head. Me-, arrested
by United States authorities on the
charge of passing altered bils-Chief
Bonner OF the New York fire department
observation-disclosures of the weavers'
strike at Natick. r. l.; River Point,
Tarriffville and Dodgeville (Mass) strik-
ers reported observation-disclosures
ton troubled now over the publication
:
miral Kautz; Germans not inclined to
be much agitated, however-Bishop
Walters. in an address before the New
Jersey A. NJ. E. Zion conference, says
America is on the verge of a racial war
George w. Pierce arrasned in Au-
burn. Me, OH charge of attempt to kill:
will be examined as to his sanity
Everett (Mass) odd Fellows have a
mammoth celebration OF the soth ami
versary of the order--Men of Irish
birth in Boston lead an anti-imperalist
meeting and decide upon a campaign
of agitation.
FRIDAY, APRIL
! Equestrian statue to General Grant
unveiled at Philadelphia: President Nc
I Kinley. General Miles. Secretary Long
and Captain Coghlan among the digni-
taries present; General Wheeler pays
grand tribute to General Grant a Pitts
burg-Apparent victory of striking
quarrymen at Cape Ann; Italians evacu-
ate the c2--1ncorporation Of the
Amalgama ted'Copper company at Tren
ton, with capitalization of s75. 00o. 000----
Colonel Fusion swims river again and
leads in a battle with the insurgents,
the result of which was the capture OF
Apalit with slight loss--Porto Rican
customs laws to be tested. as 1t is
claimed that the island is a part of the
United States, and hence trade between
this country and the island must be free
DIR. w Seward Webb presents a war
medal to each OF the Vermont volunteers
In the Spanish war--Lieutenant Com
mander Day Of the New Haven division.
Connecticut naval reserves, files charges
against Lieutenant Won LoeseCke of
Lynn, Mass, in connection with ration
ing the men on board the Minnesota
Banquet and reception to be given its
soldiers and sailors In the late war by
the city OF Everett, Mass--Death of
DR.. Alexander II. Clapp. editorial sec
rotary Of the Congregational Home Mis-
sionary Kirksville. Mo. swept
by a cyclone; reported that more than
so people were killed and almost 1000 in
jured. while 400 buildings were demol-
ished-Three people killed, several
others injured and many buildings blown
to pieces by a tornado at Onawa. la
Unitarians of Winchester Mass, install
their new pastor and dedicate their new
edifice--Death OF Gustave Johnson S
boy in Maiden, Mass, leads to the belief
that the child and two others were
poisoned--rPresident to call $4,000 vol
unteers to man fortitications and west
ern country which is now almost de-
fenseless against possible Indian up