Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

annual report OI tne AtCnlSOn SyS-
TEN shows year Of remarkable pros
perity.
Death of Lamont G.. Burnham, for
mer coal and shipping merchant OF
Boston.
Atty.-Gen. Davies nominated for jus
tice OF New York supreme court.
Insurgents attempt to board Pan
ANA train and are put TO flight by
American guards.
SATURDAY, Sept. 27, 1902.
Price of soft coal in Boston ad-
vanced $3.50 a ton.
Five men in the diplomatic service
abroad transferred
Crisis at the isthmus is over and
marines will not be sent.
Ten thousand people see the closing
events Of the Rochester fair.
Commander w. r. Low to command
the training ship Enterprise.
F. c. Gulick son of the missionary,
found dead from gas poisoning.
Quincy's city scavenger acquitted
by jury of maintaining nuisance.
Gen. Funston blames abolition of
canteon for increased vice in the army.
Secretary Moody may recommend
addition of 5000 enlisted men to navy.
Secretary Shaw offers to buy bonds,
but Wall street says his price is too
low
Ex-superintendent of police in Min.
neapolis on trial, charged with eXtOr-
tion.
Thousands of men leaving the an
thracite region for bituminous coal
fields.
Capt. Phineas A. Nickerson is max.
ing last trip in command Of steamship
Grecian.
Herbert L. Jenkins surrenders in
Michigan, saying he stole from Bos-
ton merchant.
Salem, Mass, woman says she was
a prisoner five days of an Armenian
barber and his wife.
Philippine commission declares Phil.
!ppine insurrection is over, and pres
ident orders census.
MONDAY Sept. 20.
Port works at Salina Cruz, Mex,
damaged by tidal wave, storm and
earthquake.
Lady Algernon Gorion-Lennox
charms the women who see her de-
bark from the Celtic by her style in
dress.
The new battleship Louisiana is to
be the mightiest fighting craft in the
world.
Several American jockeys and other
sporting men may be expelled from
France.
Leyland liner Hanoverian to go TO
Dominion line and carry steerage pas,
sengers.
Secretary Roots annual report is to
urge restoration of the canteen.
One hundredth birthday of Lenau,
Turnverein.
A negro murderer burned at the
stake in Corinth, Miss.
State police take no stock in letters
demanding ransom for Wilbur Clark.
Col. Pope departs for Washington
to confer with navy department on
Panama situation.
Leather factory owned by the trust
destroyed by fire in Woburn, Mass.
Gable communication with the Phil
tppines is promised for July 4, 1908.
TUESDAY, Sept. 80, 1902.
Englishman suggests plan for CO.
operative society to procure English
coal at cost.
Public meeting of prominent citi-
zens of Pittsfield, Mass, appoints
committee to aid city government in
providing coal for schools and poor.
Haverhill Gas company shuts off
street lights on account of short coal
supply.
A band of negro ghouls, who had
robbed nearly 100 graves, caught in
Indianapolis.
Carload of Cinnamon leave Boston
for the Orient.
Milk Producers union directors and
Boston milk contractors agree on
prices; milk at retail to be eight cents
a quart.
Andrew Freeman out of baseball
sells New York club to Brush.
Secretary Root to retire from the
cabinet next spring.
Secretary Moody puts the pruning
knife into estimates of the navy bur-
eau chiefs.
Twelve hundred public schools
opened in the island of Porto Rico,
with total attendance of $4,000.
Cunarder Saxonia sails for Liver
pool from Boston with so saloon, 65
second cabin and 154 third class pas
esngers.
WEDNESDAY,
Some 5000 structural iron workers
at Chicago are on strike, and allied
branches are expected to go out.
Estimates for rural free delivery for
coming fiscal year foot up $12,6S5 800:
Worthington c. Ford appointed chief
of manuscripts at library of congress.
Business men and attorneys of Bos.
ton discussing the coal situation;
probability of public sentiment being
aroused and mass meetings called.
Lynn city council to consider estab-
lishment Of municipal coal yard.
No Blockade at Port de Paix.