Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-27
THE WEEKS NEWS
THURSDAY. EER. 90.

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The president files his memora uda ON
the appeal of Admiral Schley from the
finding of the court Of inquiry. He ad.
vises that the matter be dropped: that
President Mckinley was right in recon-
mending the promotion of both Sampson
and Schley. giving the former extra
Numbers; that whatever Admira SciIlev
may have done weeks before the battle
was condoncd by the navy depart
ment: that the battle OF Santiago, in
which he finds Admiral Sampson was
only technically present was "A captain :
battle; that Schley conduct there, save
In making of the now famous loop, was
creditablc. The president especially
commends the courage and ability Of
Licutcnant-C Commander Wainwright
Thomas keefc. Everett. Mass, 30
licemnn. perhaps fatally shot by I'M
known man, who escapes Report that
missionaries Stone and Tsilka were re-
leased pronounced untrue-Fire alarm
and police service ruined by ire IT
Salem, Mass--Policy players arrested
ut Lynn, Mass, pay fines aggregating
Ohio train wreck Offer of 500, 900 for
q library for Paterson, y. J--Boy
buried alive by the Chilkoot Indians in
Alaska--Succcssfu experiments with
anti-toxin for consumption-Isa of
Santa Catalonia sinking into the Pa
citic ocean-Govcrnor Dole of Hawaii
says he has received no request for his
.t,
good progress on the Mckinley
memorial fund-Ncw fine cotton goods
mill to be built at Fall River hy the
Davis orporation---Fire insurance
companies have agreed to advance IA tes
materially in large cities-New labor
committee of civic federation considers
measures to check industrial dis
turbances--Largc band of insurgents
surrenders in Batangas.
FRIDAY, FEB. 81.
A ticrd, battle was fought between
the troops and the rioters in the suburb
of Barcelona known as SanO. The
artillery was brought into action and
rakcd street after street. The rioters
engaged the batteries mt close range.
but We're finally driven off 1t is re-
ported that 800 persons were killed and
wounded on both sides---Nera and
Charles l.ouen. aged 3 and 4. persisted in
fire which destroyed Rose Petit or
phanage Mt Worcester MaSs-Valet
Jones tells how he killed Millionaire
Rice at the instigation of Lawyer Pat
rick--Secretary Long to resign, now
that Schley case is disposed of-Only
S206, 900 needed to complete the ST., OOO.-
600 fund for the new Harvard medical
school-Man charged with shooting
an Everett, Mass, patrolman, held in
$1,000; companion of the prisoner held
in same amOunt-Big cotton mill
burned at Corsicana, Sheehan
Democracy maturing plans to fight
Tammany-Dady may be forced out
of Republican politics in New York
Justice Gray of the supreme court
stricken with paraly Suggestion
that ex-Speaker Reed would be n good
candidate for Governor of New York
Serious mine trouble feared in Colorado
as result Of putting Japanese and &c
grOeS in places of white miners-Gov-
ernor Taft pleads for barracks in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. generals sign an
urgent plea for justice from the United
States-Senator Patterson scores the
philippine commission and the sedtion
laws--United States addresses China
and Russia, entering protest against
exclusive privileges in Manchuria-
Pope enters upon the 18th year of his
pOntificate--trench surgeons regard
chloroform as the safest anaesthetfc--
Detachment of Scots Greys, a crack
dragon regimant, cut up by Beers at
Klipdam.
SATURDAY. FEB. 81.
1t is thought 20 lives were lost in the
Park Avenue hotel, New York, fire this
morning; that building and the list
regiment armory burned Snow. rain
and sleet cause great discomfort in
New York and New Jersey Little
sauted and robbed his father, and aids
in his apture-Leyland liner Phil.
adelphia disabled at sea and it IS
thought the Neckar is bringing her to
HallfaX--Legal struggle for a 4-year.
old boy. Henry Newton of Greenfield.
Mass. results in the child being handed
over to Deputy Sheriff Smead If
the brigands have broken faith, United
States will deal hereafter only with
Turkey and Bulgaria, and will exact
that the brigands shall be eXterlninGtod
regardless of cost or effort Mrs.
Honora Mccarthy observes 1l2th
birthday at Salisbury, Nt-Gcorgc
w. Clarke, charged with larceny in
Lynn. disappears from Pittsburg Just
as Governor Stone had hOnored
rcquq sition papers from Massacnu-
setts-Thcodore Roosevelt, Jr., on his
way to Washington.
SUNDAY. FEB. %.
Nineteen lives were sacrificed in the
blaze which destroyed the list arm
DRY and then ruined the upper part of
the Park Avenue hotel, New York.
Lives were sacrificed, Chief Croker
and other officials say, because the
hotel structure. which WAS said to be
tireproof was without the ordinary
methods OF escape, which the law de-
mands. There were no IRE escapes, no
fire hose, not even bucket of water,
Chief Croker said-Terry McGovern
and Dave sullivan settle the question
of superiority. McGovern won in the
18th round, after a fierce batte--For
the first time within the walls of the
United States senate one senator
struck another and a fist fight of half a
minute followed before the aStonishcd