Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25
THE " LEk'S NEWS.
THURSDAY, JAN, 1S.

meeting at Boston adopts resolutions
expressing sympathy with the Beers
Selm NJ. Rugbee convicted of murder
b. second dergee by jury at Woodstock,
Vt--Witness positively Identifies Mol
ineux as the man who hired a letter box
under the name OF Barnet--Professor
Mary Emma Woolley of Wellesley col
lege elected president of Mount Holyoke
college--Lifeboat of the wrecked
steamer Helgoland picked up in st.
Mary's bay--The Hale resolution
toned down and adopted by the senate
Attorney General Knowlton Of Mas
sachusetts recommends abolition OF the
death penalty--Americnn Federation
of Railroad Employees disbands--Pro-
fessor Morris OF Boston university ac-
cepts call to Lynn Common church
-Four men injured by the exploding of a
dynamite cartridge at Quincy, Mass
Delaware Democrats do not want Bryan
to speak there--Pennsylvan railroad
raises wages of all it's yard men nearly
10 percent---Capilalists planning to
build q 20-story hotel on the Brunswick
site in New York---Statistics show that
rane sugar production has doubled, and
beet sugar intupled-Contracto
McDonald's bid of s35 900 900 for building
New York rapid transit tunnel accepted
Prices of carbolic acid advanced 100
and quinne 20 percent on account Of the
South African war-The secretary of
war appoints a board in Manila to study
tropical diseases--Report that the
Philippine correspondence may show
that Aguinaldo was never friendly to the
United States--Amcrican now hold
Batangas province; preparing to enter
Iaguna and Tayabas, effective work in
northern Luzon.
FRIDAY, JAN. 10.
British Smelling Boer trenches and adj
vance toward relief Of Ladysmth actu-
ally bG,un--Represent Sherman
of New York decides not to accept secre-
taryship of the national senate-Al-
legged alliance is denied by both Quay
and Senator Clark---Anthracite coal
miners around Scranton may strike
Fire in mule room of No Boot cotton
mills, Lowell. causes loss of Sl0,00O--
The Pine Tree State club inaugurates
the moveme mt for an odd Home Week"
in Maine--Desperate band of cons pra-
tors and lawbreakers run down in Oneida
county, n. Y--Le wis G.. Ledyard nom
mated for commodore Of the New York
Yacht club--Baltimore may have an
American association baseball team
1 with McGraw and Robinson at its head
Rhode Island birds beat Boston birds
| in a. cooking main near Lynn-Diph-
I liberia and scarlet fever cases in the
Lowell school at Boston--W f.
Duryea. who has lived FIVE months with
q broken neck. now dying in a New York
hospital - North Carolina tobacco
growers to boycott the tobacco trust
/ Pickpocket who has operated in a Bos-
ton church captured-Police appoint
ments made by Mayor Chase of Haver-
hill tabled by the aldermen-Carm elo
Brigandi held for murder of Edward
Graham at Boston-Proposed lease of
the Fitchburg road may be abandoned I;
the Boston and Albany deal in danger
Statue of Daniel Webster unveiled
in Washington; Grafton by Senator
Lodge-Two men killed and three in
1ured in an elevator accident in New
York city-Despondenc the cause Of
the suicide of Henry T. Andrews of
Salem---Case of Charles II. Cole, for
mer president of the Globe Nat;ona1
bank of Boston. continued until Feb. !
at the request of the government
from sippi--Louisville practi-
cally declines Carnegie's offer Of 1925 OOt
for a library-Sir Thomas j. Linton
applies for membership in the Chicago
board OF trade-Organizat OF a tele-
phone company in Tennessee to COM
pete with the Bell in the south.
SATURDAY, JAN 90
Martin Bergen, who achieved con-
siderable reputation as catcher for the
Boston baseball team. killed his wife
and two children by striking them in the
head with an axe at his home in North
Brookfeld. Mass; then took his own life
by cutting his throat with razor; was
undoubtedly insane-British troop.
steadily advancing in Natal: big battle
acknowledgements has not vet
finished in the Molineux case--Bryan
arrives in Washington and confers with
other Democratic leaders---Broad de-
feats Bernstein in a 25-round bout In
New York-Ovation to Mrs. Jefferson
Davis at banquet of Confederate Vet
eran camp of New York-Rev. G. e
Preston, who disappeared from a Fail
, River steamer, is located in Albany and
, arrested-Ciovernme not likely tc
, spend money on Cottage City harbor-
: Captain May, pay director OF tho
Charlestown navy yard, retired
Fred A. Deering of Waltham arrested in
Poston. charged with nonsupport OF
his wife--Gcorge Aldridge of New Yorl
a candidate for secretary of nationa
} senate--Cullom of Illinois will vote II
favor of seating Quay-Hundret
thousand dollar fire at the Barnum cir
Gus winter quarters at Bridgeport. Conr
Diver inspects the wreck of thu
steamer Helgoland. but sees no bodie:
Resolutions calling for information
regarding the Transvaal representative.
, in this country amended and adopted by
} national senate; pension appropriation
: bill amended and passed by the hous'
C. l. Stewart found guilty at Prov
denCe of uttering false check for $40
900,
SUNDAY. JAN. 81
Butler reports that General Clery @
: Warrens force was in action all da
Saturday; Beers driven from ridge t
D ridge; casualties small. about 100 wound
re- ed coming in; killed not yet known
y. jeremiah Long. G., killed in row a
: Boston, Thomas Biscati held for tn
! deed-Report in Fail River that
dividend Of 81, 100000 will be issued t
Border City mill stockholders-Mile'
the English champion, defeats Stockto
at court tennis at TuXedo--Colont
| coleop in dict ed for murder at Frankfort