Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-03

elected superintendent OF MarDlehead
schools-New men at Kelly & CO.'S
morocco factory at Lynn, Mass, as
saulted by strikers-Boys of the Bos-
ton District Messenger company strike
and leave work; messages della ed--
Mrs. Kate Chase Spraguc died at Edge
wood, y. C---Tupper Lake village,
New York, destroyed by fire; loss about
$3.50. 000-I1x Amba ssador Eustice de-
MES that he has any Dreyfus case pa
pers--First bale Of cotton brings $4,000
at auction in New York exchange
Miss Eliza Sanford, pensioner of the
Revolution, died at Montclair, n. j
Klondike cleanup will yield 500, 900, 900
boston men placed in control at the
annual meeting Of the Winchester-ave
nue. electric road in New Haven
Primary receipts Of grain and western
railroad earnings show that farmers are
generally sending old craps at present
prces--Nebraska regiment lands at
san FrancsCo-Insurge attempt
vainly to recapture Calamba--F'irst
national bank about to be established
in Hawaii--North Dakota, Wyoming
and Idaho regiments start from Manila
for home--New missionary stations to
be established in Caroline and Ladrone
Islands by the American board--Gen-
eral Miles denies that he has prepared
a statement of war department contro-
vcrsy for Secretary Root-Sir Julian
Pauncefote made a peer-Women
brigands captured in Italy-Ncw scale
Of wages for Grand Trunk engineers and
firemen--Canadian house OF commons
adopts resolutions supporting British
policy toward Transvaal-Contro-
versy in Church Of England over the
use Of incense and lights in church
service ended by decision recommend
ing their discontinuance.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. 2.
Reports of South and Central Ameri-
can alliance against United States ex-
cite derision in Washington-Two
children killed and another perhaps
fatally injured by falling rock, while
playing under a ledge in Montpelier, Vt
An automobile runs 31a miles in six
I minutes in Newport, r. Body Of
Eugene Takahpuer who killed Edith
Morell, found in the ruins of the barn he
+ burned--PriCes of western lumber to
be raised 81 per thousand--Death OF
Colonel Hawkins of Tenth Pennsyl-
vania regiment on his way home from
Manila--Glencairn III beats the Amer
| lean boat Constance in the third race in
the series for the Scawanhaka CUP
Meteor beats Britannia in the race for
the queens cup in regatta Of the Royal
/ Yacht quadrOn--Gloucester vessel
owners will sell their fish on the open
market hereafter - Auburn (Me)
military officers found guilty of
| carrying liquors into the armory-
| Seventeen horses burned to death at
/ Dorchester. Mass; loss. s40O0-Ad-
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sizes proffered by the state of Vermont
and the city of ntpelier-Cotton
| duck trust ummated-Pulp mill
| at CadYville n. Y, burned: loss S25 900
Strike Of New York boiler makers
| and iron shipbuilders-Mo re-
quest to inspect minutes of grand jury
denied--Italian officials think four of
the Talluah men lynched were Italian
/ citizens--Western dry goods dealers
report large and increasing volume Of
| business--Old white woman. charged
with wtchcraft. murdered by Indian
squaws--Charter granted to window
glass trust and options on western plants
taken--Gunboat Dolphin collides with
ferryboat New York badly damaging
the latter-New York policeman who
robbed n dead body sent to Sing Sing
prison for four years-Street cars coll
Tide in Cleveland: no one injured: boy
colt extends to department stores
Three Cinnamon ordered to he deported
by United States commissioner at New
port. Vt-Buyers for 90 western COM
hination stores reach New York TO pur-
chase s10o0.OoO worth of goods--Con-
troller Coer planning to reduce New
York's expenses 81 GOO 900 next year:
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