Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

cine AlHSN9i Inc SirHcE an lcpD rG ana
! fnnk immediately SiXty-fivc lives
were lost The international Assoc
| citation Of Textile Workers and the
American Federation of Textile Work
ors met NJ Now York. and indulsod The
action Of tho Faii River opera ives in
resisting proposed reduction Of WAGES
Smallpox outbreak in Boston; four
cases al detention house Alnbnmn's
| Democratic managers plan TO count
| in" the constitutional Injection of
rabbits brains helping a case Of lock-
! Jaw at St. Louis Citizens union like
| ~ to support Scth Low fog mayor If
/ New York Receipts Of wheat ~ Chi
cago show large excess over a week 40
&C., Sixty-seven lives lost in the wreck
! OF the steamship Islander. of Douglass
| island. Alaska-'rlr Mark Lane EN-
press estimates the worlds wheat or p
Of exporting countries ut 1890, O00O 00
| bushels Fan River mill situation :
strained and the Cotton Manufacturers
association may dissolve in Consequence
-- Senator Plat says the New Yorl;
vice crusade is "A fash in fhe pan" and
that the evidence obtained amounts to
nothing.
TUESDAY. AUG. 20.
Half OF the mon of the Pennsylvania
works Of the National Tube company
Joined the steel strikers. about 500 in
number. The rest are expected TO come
out. as are also the Frank StOvn men,
GOO in number. making 1900 in all. The
MonncsScn mills were started again hy
strike breakers from the south. Two
mills of the Painter plant were also
started. and another large mill at the
Clark property was also operated for
the first time. There is n great fight
on for control Of the Duquesnc mills Of
the Carnegie company, both sides claim.
IL control--The mad struggle for lifG
when the Alaskan steamship Islander
went down recalls the awful wreck Of
the La Bourgne, off the Newfoundland
coast. some years ago. There was the
same frantic fight for positions in the
boats on the part Of passengers. though
in This latter disaster the officers and
crow stood 10 their posts nObly. sixty
four lives were lost---There is new
complication 10 the Schley-S ampsor
controversy in that counsel for the for.
!
Rear Admiral Howson as a member OF
he court. because Of alleged derocatory
statements concerning Admiral Schley
Entire island of Cuba has only Ave
asses of yeior BELIEF that
William z. Ridgeiy Will succeed Comp
tollrr Dawes President Mckinley
makes AZ army end navy appointments
- Machine guns shown by expar nent
to be far more effective than rifles
Governor II. +. WhiInarsh of Benguet
province, Philippines, tenders his res =
nation Minister Silva of Colombia
tells Secretary Hay that American in
reference is not necessary on the 18TH
uls- Congress may he asked 70 COM
ploto the base and approaches Of Bar
thodrS Liberty and turn Bedlow's isl
ana over 10 the war apartment
Boer camp surprised near Middleburg
E by South African constabulary R
C.. Lehman sewers his connection with
the London Evening News--Au,tria
moves for commercial combination
against the United States.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. q.
The stcet trust started the last lila
; mill of the Clark plant, and claim that
they viii soon start the Star Tin mills
, and increase the force OF the Lindsay
&o McCutcheon mills. At Wellsvlle the
trust claims it lacks hut six men OF
having full force. The ticup Of the
Pennsylvania and Continental tube
, plants in Pitt>burg was made complete,
1900 men gojug out. The leaders OF
the strike claim that the Lower Union
, Carnegie mill in Pittsburs is badly
/ crippled. and that the effort to start the
, Moncssen mill has proved failure
For nearly II hours. Pierce City, No,
Town Of 5000 people, WIS in the hands
of mob of armed whites. who drove
every negro from IT'S precincts. Three
t were killed -Three officers of rank in
- the New York police force were ar
raigncd on the charge of neglectini
their duty in falling TO suppress vice
All are connected with the Tenderloik
precinct. They are: Edward F. Glen
non. wardman; Sergeant Shells, ant
Wardman Dwycr. Ilennen is held is
$4,000, and thu, others in $1,000 each f0
n hearng-'rhe forst rainstorrn TO
many years occurred az Adams. Mass,
causing the loss of one life and prop
erty damage OF thousands of dollars
The water ovcrfowed the banks of III,
HooSac river, and overturned NUMBER
of houses along The banks-Death OF
/ Senior Nicuna, Chilean minister Of the
/ United StatcS--ArCtic ship Algerine
roScucS III" Kite from dangerous po-
sitiou- Indianapolis Street Railway
, company finds women conductors a
faiur" Five bodies recovered from
the ruins of Philadelphia oil tire; money
v loss SJuO.uuo to ) 900 O0O-CubanS
said TO be ia no hurry for republic. but
. want trade concessions from United
' States car will attend French army
, min"uverS AT Rheims-Shan 81 IS
: peaceful and famine reports have been
exaggerated American locomotives
: win contest with English machines in
!, Jamalha Conditions ID South Africa
show improvement. and there is re-
, ncWpd hope of tho ending OF the war
: Officers of steamer direct from
B, Colon say iSthmian reports are eNaS-
gcratel 10 the point of tunruth-New
Shiphuilding companies being organized
. TO take advantage of bonus offered for
y establishing plants at Halifax.