Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-05-17
TIE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. MAY 10.

ton all are for Bryan, many for silver
at 16 to |, and some for Williams for
second plaCe---British forces halt at
smaldeel to repair the railway to that
point Roberts arresting farmers and
burning farmhouses where arms are
found----Roosevclt calls on the presi-
dent; he refuses to be interviewed and
says II anybody publishes an interview
purporting to be with him he will re-
pudate it---Death of Abraham Persons
CT Williamstown, Mass, who claimed to
be the hardest headed negro in the state
flames W. McCloskey, formerly of
Boston, hangs himeelf at Providence
/ Shin Sierra Nevada wrecked on the Aus
ITALIAN coast and 90 believed to have
persisted ---Crisis in Spanish affairs;
whole country rebelling against the min
stry's taxation roposals---Death at
Coston of Past Grand Chancellor Charles
G.. Egerton of the knights of Pythias---
Lord Salisbury says there is no hope for
home rule for Ireland---Rpar Admiral
O'Neil says there Is nothing really new
IN the soft nosed she'll that the matter
! really amounts to a victory for the gun
in the long struggle with armor and that
the victory is probably for good Cot
ton crop Of 1900 will be considerably
stronger than last ye1r---DiCk O'Brten
wins his bout with Dick Moore in five
rounds a Lynn---Tanncr beaten in the
Illinois convention, but his friends name
/ the candidate for governor, a son of the
famous war governor, Dick Yates
Few cars run in st Louis those guard
ed by mounted police, armed with sa-
hers and revolvors. mob charged; many
injured and several arrests made. com,
lidnv abandoned attempt to run cars
after dark--Rumor at AcCra WEST
/ Africa, that kumaesi has fallen and
/ that three more tribes have Joined the
/ insurgents.
FRIDAY, NAY II
Bryan and ToWrp nominated for pres
ident and vice president respectively bv
Populists at Sioux Fails, s D-Runor
comes from Washington that France has
been authorized by Kruger to say he will
quit and recognize England as suzera in
If the TransVaal is permitted to exist
Young woman killed in st. Louis as re-
suit of strike----Bourke Cochran favors
! the repeal of the 18th amendment
Question Of admitting women to quarter
~ conference discussed by Methodists n t
Chicago--H Hundred and sixteen dis
A.
---Rarker and Donncllv nominated by
/ Middle of-the- Readers a Cincinnati
Gates. Lambert and Elwood resign
"a officials of tho American Steel and
Wire company. but remain a directors;
new officers elected--Andrew Carnegie
in London expresses hopeful outlook for
iron and steel market-SnoW and ice in
various parts of New England-Ex-
animation of the skull Of Abra ham Par
sons the celebrated Williamstown
Mass. bunter. shows il to have been Of
extraordinary thickness H
Korr. a vaudeville actor. attempts sui
eide at Boston because his wife would not
live with him.
SATURDAY. MAYA
John 7 Heating Of Chicago reelected
national president Of the a. O. H
Carter Harrison NAV run for governor
Of Dlinois---Strikeo of copper miners in
the Houghton. Mich. district-Strik
orc at 81 Louis less violent; a few cars
! running: one more tatality--Metho-
dists vote TO discontinue subsidies 10
napers row published al a loss--Mrs
craven and Others indicted for perjury
in connection with the Fair will CASTE
/ Nayor Van Wyck approves request
for an appropria ton to keep the Dewey
arch in repair for six months--Flax-
seed market said to have been cornered
bv two Chicago companies. who expect
ia make a profit Of IS, coo, 000-Cotton
,.oro expert tells southern sninpers tha =