Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-09-26


Testimony brought out in the Schley
court was decidedly adverse to Rear
Admiral Schley, and tending to sustain
the alterations of the navy department
that he did not use due diligence in pro-
cecdng from Cienfucgos to Santiago,
and that blockade of Santiago was not
as efficient as it ought to have been--
MANY thousands saw Cresccus beat Tho
Abbot in the $4,000 race at Rcadvillc,
The gate receipts go TO charity, Thomas
Lawson supplying the purse Towns,
the Australian, who won the worlds
sculling championship from Gnudaur
defeated By sullivan and Pearce--
Thomas O'Lnughlin of Everett instant
Thomas OI.aughlin of Everett. Mass,
killed by q train. and his two com
Admiral Sampson will leave the
Charlestown navy yard this week
never to return as commnndani; ne VIII
live in Washington-Po Policeman brings
a deserving marine to Boston from
ritchburg. but his charge gets away.
though both his hands were shacklod -
--C1nyelsnd Grover, aged JIG. found
Guilty of arson at Portland, Me: penalty
is life imprisonment--Dr RiN"y Sa'd
that Mrs. Mckinley was feeling better;
after a short drive he said he did not
feel so confident. that her grief is crush
ing her-Onc soldier killed and two
wounded in an attempt to capture n
crazy trooper at Fort Meade, ). ID.
TUESDAY. SEPT. 81
The trial of Czolgosz, charged with
the murder Of President Mckinley. has
begun at Buffalo. \ jury was So
cured and five witnesses heard, in
GLIDING Drs. Gaylord, Myntor and
Mann. Czolgosz's plea of guilty was
not accepted by the court. An interest
ing bit of evidence was the testimony
of DR.. Mynter giving as the reason
why the bullet was not found at the
autopsy the fact that the family OBJ
jected to further cutting OF the body
Hanna. in an interview, says he Will
warmly support Roosevelt If President
McKinley's policies are carried out
There are now 20 patients al the
smallpox hospital at Observation-Disclosures
steal $1,000 from a Philadelphia railway
office--U United States court rules that
no advance wages can be- paid TO sailors
-Leprosy being eradicated by the
gradual extinction of natives in Hawaii
One man killed and Is injured on a
runaway freight train in Colorado >
Porto Rican school board sends % boys
to this country for instruction Extra
session of Colorado legislature to be
called to pass Il stringent revenue law
TO reach oratiOns-Strong move
to establish department OF commerce
-General Corbin fav0rs imm grafton
of japanese in the PhilippineS--Com
mandcr Helner in the Schley court tcS
titles that the Texas was in great dan
ger during the battle of Santiago
Queen Marie Henriette Of Belgium Ill
British battleship Implacable dis
abled Duke and Duchess Of York en-
tertalled by Canadian lumbermen--
Harry De Wiudt will again try to cross
Boring straits--Chinese everywhere
to be asked to contribute toward in.
demnity to allles---Berlin regards re-
cent Boer activity as sharp reply TO
Kitchener; London fears further Dor
rowing may be necessary.
WEDNESDAY,. SEPT. -.
Leon =. Czolgosz was found guilty. Of
murder in the first degree in shooting
President Mckinley Sept. G. The trial
consumed hours and % minutes. The
defense called no witnesses. The OK
pcrtS reported that CzolgOsz was sane.
Judge Lewis spoke about % minutes
for the defense, his principal plea being
that if any doubt existed in { " minds Of
the jury as TO the sanity Of - prisoner,
he should be given the lUll benefit of
the doubt District Attorney Penney
summed up for the prosecution in about
Il minutes. The Judges charge was
brief. The jury was out about - min.
Hardly had the good news cir
culated about Fall River that NJ. c. u.
Borden, owner of the Iron Works mills,
had advanced his operatives wages d
percent when George \. Chase, treas
urer of the Bourne mills. a Rhode Island
corporation, employ ing GOO hands,
posted a notice Of similar import
Report from BALDWIN polar expedition
shows all favorable as TO the FIRST stage
Reports of increased intoxtcation
following anticanteen law denied by
-Anti-Tammany ticket re-
garded as generally satisfactory. all
parties being represented Strong
union against regular Republicans in
Pennsylvania s ST, Louis police thing
they have an acconplicc of Czolgosz
Kiowa Indians have a war dance in
honor of President Rooscyelt-rwo
antitrust statutes in Nebraska pro
no,mced titutional-Odell's adj
miuiStration reduced New York 5 direct
tax nearly $4,000, 0U0-P residC nj
Roosevelt will attend Yale bi-centennial
Troops sent 10 Somerville, Tex, to
uuel a race riot Emma Goldman set
free in Chicago Old Colony railroad
stockholders re-elect their directors by
unanimous vote Publishers OF
premium" periodicals protest new
postal Notifications made IN
duty on sugar machinery going to Cuba
--rremier of Ontario makes plans to
assist Immigration to pos rpone
conversion Of currency for two years
Wcyler finds defects in Spanish
fortrcsses and diSinisSeS governors---
int" of lhr rGItive Spanish children.
Little Miss Beacon street
Sat in the window seat
ipf hal al