Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-20

and West Virginia oil lands---M. d.
Whitman Of Boston wins the Canadian
tennis championshp-Sec Long
to urge construction Of a big stone dock
at Brooklyn navy yard--Persisten at
tempts at incendiarism in Brockton,
Mass-Handcar wrecked by obstruc-
ton on Consolidated road near Holyoke,
Mass; one man badly injured-"The
men behind the guns royalty entertained
by the city of Portland, Me-Admiral
Dewey files claim for bounty growing out
OF the battle of Manila bay--Negroes
shot down by striking miners in an Ala
bama camp--Ex- Senator Wilson says
the Pacific coast states will go Republi-
can in the coming national election
MONDAY. JULY H.
Strike of Brooklyn motormen and
conductors begun company ran many
cars during the day. but stopped early
in the evening--Andrews. the lone
navigator, picked up in an exhausted
state 700 miles from the coast of Ire
annd--Mayor Harrison of Chicago de-
clares himself loyal to Bryan-Rud-
yard Kiplirs bitten in thumb by dog
Large number killed by explosion in
mine at Kyushu. Japan-North At
lantic squadron arrives al Boothbay. Me
New treaty between the United
States and Japan goes into effect today
-Oren r. SWEET. treasurer of Free
port Steamboat company of Maine is
missing-UniversitX athletic Dm-
mission decides that no objection to
Burke and Quinlan Of the American
team will hold-Body of Worcester's
missing ex-city treasurer found In a
pasture in West Rutland. Mass-EX
portations of American -four for fiscal
year 1899 over $4,000, 900 barrels--Cor-
ner stone laid for new German Lu-
theran church in Holyoke. Mass
Rumor that several envelope plants are
TO be consolida ted-Burglar captured
in store in Manchester, n. H--CiTc
federation Of Chicago compiling data on
trust problem in readiness for coming
conference on combinations.
TUESDAY. Jt'LY1s
Strike situation at Brooklyn remains
unchanged athletes seem TO
have a good prospect of winning their
games in Notwithstanding Dyer of
Rhode Island offers reward for arrest of
pugilists or glove fight promoters
Hope of securing modus vivendi in
Alaskan dispute abandoned by the ad-
ministration-Young man killed by his
rival in Tylerville Conn--Mayor Har-
rison declines to deliver address of well
come at national Democratic committee
meeting in Chicago-George NJ. Pull
man admits that he is bringing divorce
proceedings against his wife---Train-
ing ship Enterprise arrives at New York
Promoters of the new national base
ball league confident of success-On
steamer sunk in Halifax harbor af-
ter catching fire and blowing TIP
Nymphs' fountain at Chicago ruined by
vandals-Railroad tonnage immense.
and promises 10 so continue--Striking
Fall River. Mass. mill firemen to test
the license law-EIenry Gardner of
Brantree Mass. dies of self-intlicted
wounds--Governor Dyer to prevent
prize fighting in Rhode Island--Un-
rest, but no strike. among Lehigh VAL
ley railroad men-Gold output from
Klondike this season probably 500 O00,
000-Harry Cornish denies purchasing
poison from Chemist Swayne-Elec-
trio cars collide at South Dighton. Mass;
one person seriously hurt-Employe
of the Cleveland Consolidated Street
railway strike again-A large blast
furnace to he erected at Knoxville by
northern .nterests-Senator Chandler
said to have filed formal complaint
against Brewer with the president
Anxiety at Lynn over the possibilities
of protracted tabor trouble among the
morocco tanners-Pennsylva rail-
road shuts out striking freight handlers,
and stops night work at New York piers
-Englishmen buy $4,000 900 worth of
oil land in Ohio and Indiana. and will
compete with Russia-Suprem court
Of Colorado rules that the eight-hour
oil 1T
itutional-Attorney General OF
Kansas prosecuting the Western Union
Telegraph company for many violations
of lava collision on the New Haven
road results in telescoping locomotives
and wrecking baggage cars; no one
iniured-All officers commissions in
new army have been given out
Philippine correspondents protest to
General Otis against the suppression
and alteration of their dispatches
Two hundred men wanted to serve in
the Philippines on small gunboats.
which are to be armed with rapid fire
guns--Canadian maritime statistics
show a decline in shipping the past year.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10.
Treasury receipts and expenditures
both running high--Fighting in Sa-
moa: three chiefs arrested; Chief Jus
tice Chambers resignation sent in
Twenty-Five firemen injured. Ave pos
sibly fatally, at fire in Milwaukee,
Sixty-five houses burned and over 100
families rendered homeless in suburb
of Quebec city-OrganizatiOn OF BIZ
cycle trust on new lines--Work on the
Holy Ghost and Us Shiloh Temple in
Durham, Me-, ashier
Valentine of Perth Amboy. n. j., SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiary
Sanford Spinning company and
yarn mills of Fall River, Mass, trans
ferred to an English syndicate--Pic-
mic of Boston union, COCA. A. F. L.,
marred by many free ights--Fall
River mill firemens strike is gradually
dying out-Cutter Shamrock easily
outsails the Britannia in their first race
Municipal ownership of Detroits
street railways believed to have received
its final quietus-Professor Wheeler OF
Cornell accepts the presidency OF
the University OF California
Iorato Alger writer of boys story
books, died at Natick Mass---SiXty-
five thousand persons who were affected
by the Boston sewer tax to get their
money back-Three trainmen killed at
Haverhll, O-Thousands of prospec-
tors returning from Kotzebue sound
Joseph A. Hough, who killed Harry
Chadwick at Chester, Conn. will recover
ri To-