Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-07-07
friars' lands in Philippines TO be car
ricd on by late Mgr. Guidrs secretary,
Father O'Connor.

Father OCOnnOr.
TUESDAY. JULY s.
Poor life preservcrs. imperfect life
boat apparatus and lack Of discipline
among crew contributed largely 10 linz
mensity of ca catastrophe on board Danish
steamer Norge, which struck rock OF
the Scottish Goa st and went down with
nearly 100 souls---That Judge Parker
Of New York will be nominated for
president on second ballot Is the claim
confidently put forward by his follow
ers; several new delegations declare
for him, including Pennsylvania, and
he stands far ahead Of any other candi-
date--Circumstance rendering IT inn
possible at Point of Pines, Revere,
Mass. TO pull off widely advertised
head-on collision between two locomo-
tives caused rietin which 10000 per-
sons took part: the two locomotives
were left wreck, several booths de-
stroyed and many automatic machines
and devices smashed--Sloop yacht
Little Iihody, owned by G.. r. Tilling-
hast of Rhode Island Yacht club of
Providence, finished first in brooklyn
Yacht clubs 33O-rnile ocean race from
New York to Msrblehead. Mass. win
ming the 100 guinea cup offered by Sir
Thomas Lipton-Evelyn Hiss, IA,
and Molls Kane. 49, drowned by over
turning of canoe al Lawrence, Mass:
Seymour J. Leighton drowned in at
tempt to rescue them--Hsrold Cur
rier. 90 and Frank Menter, IS, 6rowned
ut Manchester. n. H.. by overturning
OF canoe--Train bound from Chicago
TO St Louis ditched In Illinois; 20
killed and 80 injured, among the VIC
tins being Democratic national dele
gates-Steam yacht Oneida, which
took Grover Cleveland to Buzza rds Bay,
goes ashore in Narragansett bay, but
is pulled off MISUNDERSTANDING,
Mass. police dispense 500 roisterers,
clubbing many. one youth in hospital
with cracked skull---North Adams.
Mass. man sued for $40 for disturbing
setting hen--.Iapanese squadron sinks
Russian battleshtp and a destroyer off
Port Arthur; Japs lose Ia men killed
and three wounded; no land engage
ments rcported--The Patriot. Viola
May and Albertina. ashore off Chatham,
Mass. Will proba bly, all prove total
losses--Freisht trains smash head
on near Rochester. N. u-Dr. Theo.
dore Herzl. founder OF Zionist move.
ment, dies in Switzerland.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6,
In struggle for Democratic nomina-
ton for president. which has been q
free-for-all contest. the prospect is that
Alton B. Parker of New York, the candi-
date of the conservative forces, will
win handily--Thomas f. Watson of
Georgia nominated for president by
Populist convention and Thomas III.
Tibbles of Nebraska for vice president;
platform reafflrms Omaha platform of
| 1892 survivors OIL steam-
ship Norge disaster rescued by steam
trawIer and brought to Aberdeen: num-
Der of missing is now G31-Three
lives lost during FIRE which DESTROYED
grain elevator and three freight houses
Of the Boston and Maine Railroad com
pany at Boston; property loss will
reach $1,000, 000-Two Yale students.
w. II. Goodwin and X. W. Armstrong.
drowned at East Northfield. Mass.
| while bathing-Safc in office of
Spra CUE Bros Ice company at Quincy,
Mass. blown open and $500 taken--
President Scott of the Lewis and Clark
exposition resigns--Genera Cronje
married a st Louis TO widow of q Boer
soldier twenty-five killed in wreck
on Wabash road; belief that someone
opened switch--Chicago Tribune esti-
mates that victims of the Fourth in the
country number 25 dead and 1884 in
jured transa citing his pub
lie business at Oyster Bay-G. w.
Beavers ordered taken to Washington,
to stand trial on postal fraud-Judce.
Beekman Winthrop snaugurated gov
ernor Of Porto Rico; Governor HUM
bids farewell-The Kaiser Wilhelm,
ii makes new hourly record of 243o
knots Raisuli. she Moroccan bandit
threatening Tangier; ioots three via.
ages-Ralfour aetures closure. the ac-
ton being attended by unprecedented
disorder--Czar orders new governor
general OF Finland to push policy %
ssiflcation--Critical period in laho r
trouble at Sydney. c. B.: fear strik @
may extend to collieries Report tina >
French oppose shore treaty and arc
troubling Newfoundland fishermen.
British cruiser goes to investigate.