Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-05-01
THE WEEK'SNE
THURSDAY, APRIL "a.

Coal barge sunk or Highland light |
by collision with steamer Spartan; crew
saved---Seventy-ave acres Of wood
and burned over near Athol, Mass
Striking dye workers at Paterson, N. |
j., resort to force and compel complete
suspension Of business in their trade
Massachusetts governors council
refuses to commute death sentence Of
John b. Cassels who killed Mrs. Lane ut
East Longmeadow-Queen Wilhel-
nina shows slight improvement
New road connecting Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire beaches to be
opened for public use on May 10
Members Of the general court from
southeastern Massachusetts, resolve to
oppose the menhaden bill--Great
damage in Nebraska by n wind storm
Ira Gillespey tells Of Goebel plot;
says Taylor took no part-The st.
Louis fair airship contest for 500, 900
will be over figure eight course.
Orders to be sent to General Chaffee to
push campaign in Mindanao--Cap.
tain Clark declines to 60 to King Ed
wards coronation and Admiral Wat.
son Is appointed-Arab rebellion in
Yemen is spreading-German new
tariff may bar American apples
Chinese rebels seize river banks below
neutrality-suspicious. orders a quaran-
tine against the Philippines-Cana-
dian Pacific railway plans extensive
irrigation work--Bocas del Toro again
in possession Of Colombian government
Recent casualty list from South
Africa shows that fighting continues
steamship Deutschland off the
Scilly islands with her rudder broken
RUSSIAN minister Of education 'e-
signs because the car opposes bis re-
form bill.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25.
Attorney General Knox orders dis
trict attorneys to institute proceedings
against beef trust; says preliminary
investigation has convinced him that
great combination is acting in restraint
Of trade-James Crosby Of Bangor,
Me, and his daughter, aged {. drowned
by upsetting Of a canoe--Numerous
robberies and assaults reported at Bos-
ton-Archbishop Corrigan seriously
sick with pneumonia At New York
Chaplain Frederick G. Brown, u. s.
N, resigns his commission to accept
pastorate Of Church Of Our Father,
Buffalo-Officals Of the New Haven
road deny absolutely the statement that
that road Is to be absorbed by the
Pennsylvania-New York's reciprocal
interstate subpoena law puzzles
Ohio Republican convention to meet Mt
Cleveland May 27-2S-Plan for q ST.
10000 dry dock at the Brooklyn navy
yard-Move started in New York to
promote education Of Hebrews---Fall
River steamboat Pilgrim goes ashore,
but no damage results-Lawrcnce
Mass, strikers claim that less than SO
looms are working--Sose Nagle of
Providence found guilty Of murder in
the first degree-More quiet In Pater-
son; but no general attempt to resume
business-Filipdno Judge sentences
presldente Of Tayabas to fine and i'm.
prisonment for sedition-Conferenc
on Chinese exclusion bill makes little
progress, but there is no doubt that
friends Of the bill will win--,Japan
and Russia said to expect war-Spain
will order several new battlcshlps-
Queen Wilhelminas temperature a gain
hgh-Chinese going to Johannesburg
under contract-Pope receives 10000
pilgrims and seems to he in perfect
health-Hicks-B Beach gives millers
hope that new taxes may be modified
Danish landsthlng passes second
reading on the islands treaty--Cape t.
Cairo railway survey from the south
: reaches the Zambesi- Situation IL
Venezuela again critical; government
troops routed by rebels.
SATURDAY. APRIL 2s.
. A Geneva bank said to have los
> 81, 900 900 by wild speculation-Bos
1 ton woman says DR.. Cronin's murder
err Is living In Boston-Members O
congress are inclined to ridicule fea
that English ships in Morgan merge
l. will fly the American fag-Belief Il
New Haven that Vanderbilt interest
p are acquiring stock Of the Consolidat
y ed road--Miss Susan Trumbull Q
Worcester, 10 years old, to marry
= Germantown, Pa. )doctor-Exeter alum
nj enthusiastic over prospect of rails
=. ing half a million for the school
= President wants isthmian canal legis
lation at this session Of congress-
;: Senator Carmack assails Gen. Fur
ston with vigor--Worcester baseba
: club threatens St. Louis Nations
league club with suit to force n
turn of Smoot-Vandals overtur
and break many gravestones in GENE
y terry at South Nashua. N. H.-Statu
h OF Commodore Perkins unveiled {
= Concord, N. H.--Representative Coci
q ran makes an antitrust speech, On
y attacks the senate-Charles w. Wi
a son held for grand jury at Portlan
u u Me-, on charge of having murdered h
r wife-Minority in congress will |
If allowed a voice in investigating owl
ership of Cuban sugar crop.
r SUNDAY. APRIL %.
: Theft OF more than 100 horse
cleared up by the arrest Of Grin Aylel
bury at Somervllle, Mass-Gener.
Chaffee 10 be held responsible for til
le barbarities In the Philipplnes---Vasss
# defeats Wellesley in the first debat
between women's colleges-Frenc
ID automobile goes 10 miles over Lon
Island roads in 2h, 52m-Lieutcnal
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