Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-05-24
The WEEKS NEWS
"Wednesday, May "a.

ExtortlOnate charges 10 the city OF
San Francisco for automobile hire dur.
| ing the first two weeks following the
IRE may develop into a huge scandal
before the finance committee finishes
auditing the accounts.
The demurrer Of the Burlington rail-
way. denying the jurisdiction of the
government In export freight rates,
was oterruled in the United States cir.
cult court ut Kansas City.
A school for the instruction Of officers
and enlisted men in the use Of the sub.
marine torpedo boats is to he estab-
lished at the naval torpedo station at
Newport. X. J.
Judge Berry announces that the in.
guest into the death Of Mrs. Jennie p.
Chase. who ~ under suspicious cir
cumstunces at her home in Swampscott.
Mass, showed that tho woman came 70
her death by her own hand
Fourteen students at Phillips Ando.
yer academy were expelled from the
school as result of the invest ga ton
which has been made by the faculty
into the ducking of Proprietor stewart
of tho Andover inn.
William j. Bryan WAS endorsed for
president by the Democratic judicial
ern Ohio
The Waterbury, Comm Master
Builders association threw down the
gauntlet 10 the striking huiIdin trades
nnons by passing resolutions declaring
that the association Will hereafter in
sSt upon open shops
Tom Jackson. n negro, who had been
arrested for holding M and rohbing A
white hoy Of 81. was lvnched q Rlanch.
ard. La.
The legal contest instituted 10 pre-
vent the union of the Cumberland Pres
hyterian church with the Presbyterian
church has been decided IN favor of the
unionists.
Political action by labor mon was
unanimously endorsed by tho delegates
al the convention Of the American Fed.
GRAFTON of Musicians.
Tuesday. May 20.
Affirmation by the supreme court Of
The sentence in the case of Senator Bur
ton deprlyes Kansas Of one Of her rep
rcsentativeS in the senate and sends
Burton 10 jail for six months. as well
as subiecting him TO a fine of $500 and
disqualifyiny him from again holding
public Office
1t is rumored that General StoessAl,
who com msnded Port Arthur. and Roar
Admiral NeboGatoff, who commanded
Il squadron and who surrenhed dur
ing the naval battle with the japanese.
have been condemned to death.
According TO tho police listing Just
Boston has l95 446 ma 10 resi-
dents over 20 years Of ago. This shows
a gain of hut 500 over last years list
ing.
More than 500 United States ma
rines will confront Liberal leaders, on
the Isthmus Of Panama in case they
attempt to promote riots and revolution
AZ the time Of the election in Panama
on June 20.
Mr.. Meyer, the American amhassa-
dor 10 Russia, in cab'egram to the
state Department. confirmed the news
Of the assassination of William r.
toum. Russia.
Nahum ,Iereuero : dead from ab-
dominal bullet wounds received during
a quarrel among railroad work men at
Belfast Me. Tho authorities have
been unable 70 learn who shot Jere.
ncrio.
The detailed estimates for all ex-
)enses incident TO tho construction ~
he Panama canal for the fiscal year
'ndinG June 30 1O7. aggregate SoGS4S..
Isl
Crown Prince Frederick William Of |
Germany will attend tho German
American races off Marhlehead Mass. |
William Il. Schwartz, a member Of |
he Indianapolis bar. was arrested on |
I charge of counterfetnC Schwartz |
onfessed and surrendered the dies he
Ised in making the spurious coin.
Monday. May Fl.
Upon the weight which Judges Sher-
nan and Sheldon will attach 70 the |
.hange of testimony of Medical Ex-
lminer Harris. one Of the governments
thief experts at the trial, ana 10 the per
ected photograph of q stickpin the life
" Charles l.. Tucker. convicted of the
murder Of Mabel Page. j. now believed
q hang.
Mrs George Eastman. wife of farm
" living near Rucksport. Me. was in
family killed by lightning during a
leavy thunderstorm. A 3.year-old
hid, who was sitting N the mothers
az AT the time, was not injured.
Traffic on the Rutland railroad at
ergenneS. VI. was held up for many
'ours by n freight wreck Seventeen
ars of freight We're derailed by
'roken wheel and ~ were broken.
In the eyes of the court party the
russian parliament is already dead. the
My question not solved being how aud
when 10 arrange decent burial. The
elisf is that the crown will dissolve the
armament, promulgatp narrow cleo
oral law and order new elections. which
viii result in ;he return of it, own parti-
ans.
Robert Hogan, n member Of he crew
f the fishing schooner Admiral Dewey,