Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-12-14
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY, DEC. 7.


Quincy and Boston Street railway com
pany at quincy, Mass, partially de-
stroyed by fire. and several cars burned
.--G. a. X. national encampment fixed
from Aug. 2S to Sept. Pope Leo con-
fined to his bed by a sudden cold
Even sick American soldiers fought in
defense OF Vigan; every man able to
stand handled a rihe--Republican
house caucus approves OF the financial
bill, and debate will probably begin
Monday--Minister and wife shot and
badly wounded by burglar at Racine,
Wis--New England cotton mills fol-
lowing example Of Borden advance in
wages all along the line--Mr. and Mrs.
Charles e. Williams of Brewer, Me-,
nearly lost their lives in a folding bed
steamer Lampasas reaches Boston
with hole in her starboard side, the
result of collision with the Pollock
Rip ightship-Negro burned at the
stake at Maysvile. Ky--Committee
appointed to arrange sliding scale of
wages at Fall River-New England to-
bacco growers pleased with presidents
suggestion to abolish tariffs on prod
ucts from Porto Rico-Secretary Hay,
in his report. recommends several in
creases in salaries, and suggests student
interpreters at foreign COURTS ena-
tor Lodges bill. asking the president
for information concerning the cession
of Galapagos islands, passed by senate
For the first time since Canada be-
came a confederation the tariff will not
be an issue in elections
FRIDAY, DEC. 8.
One woman killed and 81 persons
manned at a fire in a hosiery mill at
Reading, Penn; screens were nailed in
windows. and doors were kept locked
Recorder Golf rebukes lawyers Osborne
and Weeks for their methods in con-
Quoting the MOlineuX trial---James L.
Reed. champion checker player of the
world, dies al Pittsburg-Cubans eX-
cite other Cubans in Tampa, Fla. by
inoendiary speeches advising the use of
force and dynamite to drive the Amer
leans out of Cuba--William Davis and
Annie Hubert, alleged counterfeters,
brought to Boston from Oklahoma
William j. Young indicted for murder
of Benjamin +. Coolbroth at Randolph
Mass, Sept believed that Butler is
now ready to attack Beers in Natal, and
that Methuen is also ready to move at
the Modder; gigantic work to recon-
struct the bridge, and now it is weak;
British warned to prepare for dsillu-
sionment---Sevent year old Ellen
Barrett of New Haven, scolded for GO
ing to dance, commits suicide-Moses
and Robert Rankin nearly killed at San
ford, Me-, by crazy horse-PoWder
works at Summertown, Pa, wrecked;
three men killed and two others badly
injured-Expected that Aguinaldo is
working south, and that hc will next be
heard from in Cavite province, his home
where the instruction began Major
Batcheller and battalion of the
Twenty fourth marching from Bayom-
bong to Apart. on the extreme north
coast of Luzon-Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation of
Labor, seriously hurt by a fall
from his bicycle in washington
Associated charities of Boston offer to
cooperate with clergymen and others
to prevent imposition and to help worthy
people-Southern hosiery trust soon to
be organized at tanooga-Oilcloth
factory at Norwood, Mass, burned: loss,
SIS, O00--Man who went after William
f. Miller claims to have captured him
p A. 3. Widener to build home for
crippled children at a cost of 81. 900 900
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Huntington sub
| scribe $50. eco for the endowment fund of
| Tuskegee nstitute--Order signed per-
hitting trust companies to grant re-
ceivers certificates for SIS, 900 for Har-
per's-OppOsition to adoption of a
/ sliding scale has developed at Fall River
| among operatives, who want standard
| price list fixed first-Many treaties to
! be considered by congress; among the
most important is the reciprocity ar
! rangement with France.
SATURDAY, DEC. 9.
Beers dash across Methuens line of
communication. but are driven off; IA
British Wounded 400 police captured by
the Beers near Molteno: Beers in front
of Methuen at Spytfontein; on both
tanks and near his side-American
Wooden company announces an advance
in wages of 10 percent in all it's mills
throughout New England, to begin Jan.
] Independent concerns follow--lncen-
diary fires and general reign of terror
in the town of Montville Me---Special
order adopted by the house for con-
sideraton of the currency bill-Geor-
gia senate kills the Willngham prohibit
ton bill-Mazet committee adjourned
sine die, because Mr.. Moss proposed tc
call Senator Platt to the stand to tes-
tify-Kentucky election commissioners
/ find the Republicans elected but charge
frauds, and Goebel people will make a
contest-Eight carloads Of Canadian
hay intended for horses of British troops
in South Africa condemned at Boston
San Francisco chamber of commerce
protests the treaty with jamaica
New York and English capitalists ex-
pending 800, 900 in opening slate quarries
in Tenness ae---EXtensive system OF
electric railroads for northern Colorado
planned by two companies Just incor
porated at Denver-Lieutenant Led
yard killed in the Negros uprising.
SUNDAY. DEC. 10.
Scores of miners killed by an explos
ion in Carbonate. Wash-Gang o
wreckers make a raid on a disabled
schooner at Port Clyde. Me-EXpres:
companies and banks at war over wa
revenue tax--Trappist monastery tC
be built at Midway Mass--Mami'
Melando remains faithful to Molineux
trial of the case will last into next yea
William T. Merrill of the Erie system
chosen first vice president of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford com
pany-Alderman Finn of Lewiston
Me, has his nose broken in a football