Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-22
THE WEEKS NEWS
Wednesday, Nov. 81.


endorsed the political policy of Presi
dent Gonpers during the last cam
pagn and urged continuance of &C.
tvity ito organize as an Independent
political force"
Mrs. Wilhelmina Eckhardt. a Ger
man midwife. 60 years of age, was ar
rested at New York and locked up with
out bail on a charge of malpractlc 1t
Is said that the bodies of II infants
have been burned in a cookstove at the
Eckhafdt home.
The sentiment in Cuban Industrial
and financial circles in favor of the es-
Enlistment Of strong American pro-
tectorate over the island is crystalizlng.
To the death list of the wreck I'd
steamship Dix eight names have been
added, making total Of 30 known dead
as result of the collision in Puget
sound.
Seven trackmen in a gang Of 10, en-
gagged in removing slide on Il railroad.
were killed as the result of a landslide
near Bluefield, W. Va.
Norway intends to propose that the
powers. including Russia. shall guar
antee the neutrality Of Norwegian ter
ritory. Germany is favorably disposed
to this idea.
Senator Morgan Of Alabama proposes
platform of an ant-negro plank to this
effect: "Resoived That the Demo
cratic party Of the United States is. and
has always been, white mans party"
Mrs. Amanths Jungbluth filed suit
at Louisville for divorce from her hus.
band, Carl Jungbluth, secretary of the
Continental Tobacco company. She
asks for 100000 alimony.
Leading poultry dealers Of Boston
deny that there is a shortage Of turkeys
for Thanksgiving and Christmas, as re-
ported from New York.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany was found guilty by jury of ac-
cepting rebates amounting to $4,000
from the New York Central railroad.
Tuesday, Nov. 20.
The manufacturers of Fall River sent
word to the Textile Council that they
will grant an advance of > percent in
the wages of the mill operators. This
IS in reply to the demand of the council
for an increase Of 10 percent.
Rev. Algernon s. Crapsey D. D.. of
St. Andrews Episcopal church, Roch-
ester, is condemned to suspension from
the church as result of the decision
&C. the Protestant Episcopal court Of re-
view. which sustained the charge Of
heresy.
Tom Cooper, the bicyclist and auto
nobiist, was Instantly killed in an au
tomobile accident in Central park, New
York.
A world wide peace, substantial and
enduring, made possible by closer com
mercal and friendly relations between
nations, was the keynote Of speech
delivered at Kansas City by Secretary
cf State Root.
Secretary Taft has directed that fur
Their discharges of the men of the three
negro companies of the Twenty fifth
infantry, OH account Of the shooting a
Brownsville. Tex, be suspended, pend
ing further orders.
Municipal ownership of gas ana cleo
trio lighting companies was favored at
the meeting of the Boston board OF
aldermen.
Forty-two lives We're lost in a disaS
ter off Alki point, Wash, when The lit
tile steamer Dix was run down by the
steamer Jeanie There We're 70 per
sons ca the Dix when she went down,
Mrs. Sarah a. Hcughton of New
Bedford, Mass. was found guilty OF
criminal malpractice in connection
with the death Of Mrs. Ellen Tart and
was sentenced to 5ia years in the wo-
mems prison in Sherburne.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit com,
pany has decided on an increase of >
percent in the wages of its 1900 motor
men and conductors.
Anarchist Lagana, who stabbed and
killed Professor Giovanni RcsSl at Ma
pies, has been arrested. Lagana shows
no signs of repentance.
Because of his accommodating business
interests, Thomas +, l;yan announces
that he has resigned from the board
Of directors of Il number Of railroad and
Industrial corporations.
Monday, Nov. 10.
A bomb was exploded near the high
altar in st. Peters at Rome. The edifce
was crowded and an indescribahie
scene of confusion followed the eNpto
sion. There We're no fatalities. There
is no trace of the man who perpetrated
the outrage.
The systematic search for Mlnot St
Clair Francis, who escaped from the
Maine state prison, has come 10 an end.
Francis succeeded in breaking through
the Gordon of armed mon who Were
supposed 10 have surrounded him.
The final adjudication of the estate
OF the late Mgr. Cremin, rector of St
Augustine's Roman Catholic church.
bridgeport Conn. shows that the estate
Is now worth. after the payment Of al
claims, S377l57.
The body OF Mrs Annie c. Smith
aged 20, who wandered fron her home
at Peabody, Mass. on Nov, and fo'
whom an extended search WAS made
was found in an open field ahont three
quarters of mile from her home
Death was due TO exhaustion,
President Roosevelt end his party
sailed from Colon for Ponce, p. L., g;
board the hattleyhlp on, s!ann.
Messages from po,Hts IN Mississippi