Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-05-17

friendly relations between the car and
the Russian parliament has been FUR
Their strengthened by an audience
granted BY Emperor Nicholas AT Peter
hof 10 President Mouromtscr OF the
lower house.
The worlds record high run. 1s-nch
halk. two ia. was broken by Wine
Hoppe, who set the new mark at 3O7.
The freight handlers OF the Boston
and Maine Railroad company. eIn.
ployed at tho Boston freight sheds and
whsrve~. have been granted an increase
in wages.
Sunday, May 10.
senator lilmaH charges the presi.
dent with breaking agreements made
with Democrats on the rate bill
District Attorney Moran has decided
that he will put over until .iuly the fur.
thor examination of the alleged bribery
in the Massachusetts legislature
Three men were hurt in a railroad
freight wreck AZ Whitman. Mass The
engine and three cars were piled M.
Yale defeated Princeton in track
meet, - "a 20 - IA points.
With 1000 tons of chinese tirecracli.
erS torpedoeS and josS.sticlis beneath
her matches. steamer Yoddo arrived at
Boston after completing in safety 49,
V0O-miIe voyage from lapan and China.
The value of The ieGdO's cargo is near
~ S20or.UuN
Wilhelm Meyer was arrested on the
charge of murder Of his aunt in Ger
many on his arrival At New York
Robert II. |. Goddard was nominated
for United States senator by Rhode Isl
and Democrats and independents
The sultan his Yielded TO the demands
of Great Britain on the IA bah boundarv.
Driven on lee shore by severe south
west winds. the New York barkentine
Hattie g. Dixon. bound for Boston
from Baltimore with coal. is a total
wreck off Edgartovn. Mass. The cap
tain and crew reached shore in safety.
A meeting over which John A. Dow %
presided at Zion city was broken up
by n numhe Of followers If Overseer
NolIva assisted 10y several outsiders.
and before the crowd dispersed a gen
eral tight ensured
Monday. May ~.
An area Of wood and bog land seven
miles in length and about six miles
wide has been swept in the towns OF
Carver and Plymouth. Mass. by fire.
Many hundreds of cords Of cut wood
acres OF cranberry Dogs and standing
timber, and number OF summer cot.
tageS have been burned
The town authorities Of Province.
town. Mass, have withdra wn their op-
position 10 baseball playing in that
town OF sunday by The blueiackets OF
the North American feet when the
ships of tina command rendezvous
there during the summer.
In a fire that destroyed the ros dencp
OF Marcus \. Woodward at Clifton, P,
two children. Margaret, 81 months. and
Marcus : months old. were burned to A
, crisp.
The police ar 1'ifis discovered an IN
foreground storehouse containing 80
loaded bombs
Work has generally begun AT prac-
tically all Of the anthracite collieria>.
All of the imported men have been
shipped away.
While Almcda Relmore, q ged %. Dan
ieI Shea, 81. and Eugene Rordeau. - -.
were boating at Turner's Falls. Mas.
their boat was caught in an eddy and
carried over tho falls, and all three men
We're drowned.
Donate Pennella, an Italian. fatally
stabbed Antonio Agnello, 30 years old.
at New Bedford, Mass. The murder
occurred I'm crowded street. hut Int, q
| is known as 10 what led MP 10 the crime.
Mount NeSuv.uS = ~ eruption.
/ Thick vapo"S and sand are beng oX-
PEELED and the electrical phenomeuon
continues. but the situation Is not grave
90 hurs day. May TO-
Joseph Letter. who carried on spec
tacular corner IL wheat eight years
| ago. has been suspended from mem
hcr>hip on The chicago Board Of Trade.
| Charged with having embezzlcd up
wards of Sl0uUo0 from his emp oy"r>.
! Edwin = Greenfield head clerk and
! tru> ed representative Of the bank ~
and brokerage firm of Harrison Snyder
! ~ ' u, ] uiititl l'i q w a. i'lu II gu
/ bail.
Senator German of Maryland q crit
/ Cally i'll at his home In Washington. III
! j. suffering from a complication Of
ments. with no promise Of his recovery
The reichStag passed bill taXitS
/ automobiles. according 10 their hor>r-
| power. from to 10 marks per horse
| power
Reports from tho Gloucester fishing
fleet. which has returned to New Eng
and waters from a cruise as far south
AS Cape Henry IN pursuit Of macEerei.
| indicate that the senason has been a
/ practical failure.
The board Of overSeers 81 Harvard
college. by vote Of ID to 9, authorized
the playing Of football at Harvard next
season.
John C. Maionoy was pronounced
guilty OF msnslaughter by jury IN the
| supreme court at Rockland Me. after
weeks trial His victim was Mrs.