Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-14
THE WEEKS NEWS


Many forgeries have been discovered
in land frauds In Oregon.
A Maine law court holds that malt
extract Is an Intoxicating liquor"
The merger Of the Amory company
and the Manchester mills with the
Amoskeag company has been COM
pleted.
One man was fatally burned and six
others injured In the boiler room Of the
Edison power plant, New York.
A Stamford, Conn. Episcopal curatc
has been removed for socialist ten
denotes. He said any man with s25.otW
| salary was "a thief"
Speaker Cannon will prevent tho
passage Of a ship subsidy bill during
the present session.
Midshipman Meriwether was sen.
fenced to ono years confinement to the
limits Of the naval academy and to he
publicly reprImandetl by the secretary
Of the navy as the result Of his fight
with Midshipmnn Branch, causing the
latters death.
An increase in wages Of all employees
of the Rutland railroad will go into Of
feet Jan. !.
The Penobscot river Is closed TO navi.
CATION from Bangor to point below
Hampden. eight miles further down.
Redfeld Proctor, senator from Yer
mont. is reconsidering his announced
purpose to retire from the senate AT the
expiration Of the present adnnistra-
ton.
| rhr 81 IA a al
by Boatswaln Sweeney. limped into
Newport. Il. l.. under one boiler and
several sails after a terrific battle with
a north Atlantic hurricane. during
which she sprung aleak and was kept
afloat, after her pumps choked. through
hand bailng by her entire crew.
Beginning on Jan. !. 10000 operatives
employed by the American WOODEN
company will have their wages adj
vanccd 10 percent. The increase will
become effective in all the 30 plants OF
the corporation. which arc located in
seven states.
The Democrats were victorious in
Boston. the municipal election resulting
In the success Of the party mayoralty
candidate. John r. Fitzgerald in ii
fisld of four candidates
Tuesday. Dec. ~.
The lighthouse tender Azalea arrived
al New Bedford. Mass. with the crew
OF the South Shoals lghtship ~. who
were taken OF their vessel. on which
they were in peril two days. just as she
sank. The rescue was made in the
teeth of a high sea and fearful gale
Just ia time. The rescued crew are
frostbitten.
The sultan has accepted the scheme
! for the financial control Of Macedonia
as embodied in the last collective note
f Of the powers.
The right Of the American Tobacco
| company TO refuse to sell to email re-
tsilers was sustained by a decision rem
dered by Justice Marean In the SUI
preme court In Brooklyn.
! A decision was rendered at Paris ID
the divorce proceedings between Nine
RejGne. the noted singer, and her hlis.
band, NJ. Porel. manager Of the vaude.
vile theatre. the decree Of separation
being awarded to Porel.
The situation in Russia is exceeding
ly ominous. Public opinion is prac.
tically unanimous that the government
has entered upon the fatal path Of re-
= action and that Whites ministry must
= fall Reaction and revolution con
= trout each other in a death struggle
= Mrs. John Thomason and her five
: children. ranging in age from months
I TO 8 years. were burned to death in q
: tive-story apartment house at New
York.
Edward Atkinson. the economist
prblicist and statistican. died AZ Ros
9 ton from an attack NJ acute Indigestion
t He was in his 10Th year.
Oscar Stebbins. IS years old OF
bingham. Mass. was shot and kilI'd
10y Chief Of Police Tower. from who's,
custody Stebbins made his escape
Stehbins had been arrested at The II.
- quest of his wife for raising disturb
auce.
!. Monday, Dec. II.
= Another crisis is at hand in Russia
involving tho indefinite prolorg; ion oi
the strike, the probabie immediate pre-
Vipitation Of general strike through
out the empire and a possible lima
struggle between the government ana
= the proletariat.
For the fiscal year 1908 the total re
l. ceipts Of the postottce department
c were $l52, 82G.5S5. and total cXrendi
lures $167. 1871 800. leaving deficit OF
> $14,572.5S4.
Baroness Won Suttner OF Austria was
N adjudged the winner Of the Nobel peace
~ prize. The baroness for many years
has been prominent in int'rnatlona
:. movements looking 10 the peace of Tho
:. world.
A IRE in the Cairaca ,Spa!l arstna
O. destroyed two torpedo boats whicl
t. were under repair and caused othrl
damage TO great extent. one man was
n, killed.
te Following the seizure ~ German
desertsr at a Brazilian fishing port h!
u the crew of the German Warship Fan
~ Their, Brazilian cruisers have been or
dered to sail for Rio Grande do SUI
where the German boat is now. I" ne
mand the return Of the prisoner +" IRA
t. Gillian soil
81 The Chinese gov eminent IL not !" IN,
for murdered missionaries
II, j. r. Morgan ia held responsible" 10
a. the debts Of the Cincinnati, Hamlitoi