Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

uHI 10 pldllt 'dtHiiH trees Hi dlO0R It's
lines for timher-t:rip and smallpox
ravaging Enxland-Jelfries and r'itz
simmons agree on terms for a champion
ship 3 Miss Alice Roosevelt ar
rivps at Groton. Mass. her brother
continues 10 improvc-"Billy" West,
noteu minstrel. dies as result of opera.
tiOn for cancer-Sheriff Icars1n's
deputies mako more seizures at Port
land. Mc--R% rigands snid to have re-
ccivod the ransom for Miss Stone at laet
Supposed extensive coal bed dis
covered on II farm in town Of Auburn,
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TUESDAY, FEB. Is.
After an unprecedented stretch of
clear weather. New England was
h~lanketed with over a foot of wet snow
and swept by a northeast gale. Ira tic
was greatly iinpeded and telephone and
telegraph wires so badly damaged that
II number of principal news points were
almost entirely cut OF from commune.
cation with the outside world-Thc
senate ratified the treaty with Denmark
for the ceSSion Of the islands of ST.
Thomas. st. John and ST. Croix. COM
I'EiIiS Wv W W. li'- " u
as the Danish West Indies and LYNN
just east of Porto Rico. to the United
States for a consideration Of $5.UOO.-
0o0-Tho unexpected happened in the
house when the bill to repeal the war
revenue taxes was passed unan-
%inouslv without a word Of debate.
This action wal the outcome Of Il chal.
lengc thrown down by Mr.. Richardson.
the minority leader--Tour men held Ut
Boston in bonds Of $500 each, charged
with being ,plicated in %larcenies from
Boston and taine freight sheds-Con-
gregational ministers at Boston vote 10
pass no resolutions at this time against
beer drinking in students gatherings a.
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology-Robert Manning, secretary
and librarian Of the Massachusetts
Horticultural =. oiety, 1tcd suddenly at
Salem. Mass--J:urglars open and rob
safe of street railway coppaay at
Northampton, Mass-Civil service
reform league issues appeal against vet
Grams preference bill-Condition OF
President Roosevelt's son and other
patents at Groton pronounced favorable
Professor Hillyer of Atlanta sal
negroes in the south have better fa:iIis
ties for education than the whites
Mrs. Gait reelected president of tn
Woman's Suffrage assocarion--Unite
States now has n good number Of cea-
ing stations VOL observation-disclosures
of procedure in British house Of orr
mons moving slowly---Spain denies
that Fernando Pc has been leased H.
r ann krrAnA~
negotiations checked by scarlet fever
in Sheng'S household BRITISH ship
builders seq he folly OF giving so much
advertising to the "cnte Yankee
Two thousand people said to have per-
ished a~ suit of the Shamaka (Rus-
: siaI earthuuake-Boers think Spanish
wal controv rsy MAJ have produced
change O feeling in UPnited States asst,
change Of f. ling ia United States us +"
Great Britain and are more hopeful OF
mediation.
WEDNESDAY. FEB. 10.
4 dispatch from Constantinople an
: nounces that Miss Ellen NJ. Stone has
been released by the brigands who have
r held her captive since Sept. 3 last and
has been handed over in good health To
j., the drcgoman of the American Legal
ton. The dispatch adds that the FEY
I erend Tsilka'' has been arrested oh the
charge Of completely in the kidnapping
/ of Miss Stone-Massachusetts houSr
i, passes Il hill requiring separate officers
=, fer state ana national banks. also pre-
hibit> institutions doing business in
, same ottice-Captain Gviggs and
Second Mate LannitL OF b~arkentinc
, Arlington OF Boston die during a voyage
! 10 South Authenticated steamer
= t,recian breaks III two-Old Gencrai
to- Lowell house at Weymouth, Mass.
:, burned--I Dor men seeking control o.
1 the city Of Hartford-Vast conceS
- sions to Canadian mining syndicate in
+. the Klondike-Move in Kentucky to
! tax cash surrender values of insurs nee
o policies-Great Kellogg sanitarium.
@ Battle Greek. Mich, burned: loss, $500
: Uo0-NorthweStern university accepts
Il Professor Pearson'S resignatlOn-
g Death of Charles l.. Tiffany. senior
: member of he dwelling firm of Tiffany
/. 4 Co-EISecrptary Gage to be Of.
Il fcred presidency of United states
n Trust New York--Chinese
% exclusion bill amended to make its pro-
= visions more libcral--WOmeu before
V committee of congress pleading for right
II If suffrage-W. G. Whitney thinks
suggesting him for the presidency is
almost absurd"-Mr. Burleson Of
O Texas declares the president has
5 changed his lows on the trust question
# - British PEOPLE learning the value o'
-accination-Rev. Newman Hall, T.
Il p. died AT London-De Windt eH
is rlition reported at Yakutsk, eastern
" iLrris-Mr. Whitehouss Of Newport
Il il. l.. starts for the upper Niie--WelSl
lie rolony in Patagonia seeks t~ranspoita
y ton to ia nada-SantoS- Dumont ma!
Is make his next airship experiment in
V. Paris-Spanish senate passes bill max
r. ing certain customs payable in gold
v Austrian warships land biueiaekets a
(; TrieSt 10 protect the h-.70or--Dc
L. plornhle state of affairs revealed Al
Mafekiug concentration cs mps---Ger
man budget committee demands main
- tenance of a regiment al Shanghai
Ia SPANS foreign miaister declares he i.
If surprised NY reports relative tn inter
20 vcntiou Russia gives SOS Otto FOR Ie