Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-12-20
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, Dec. 10.


Former United States Senator Ar
thur Brown Of Utah, who was shot at
Washington by Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley
Of Salt Lake City, Is dead. Mrs. Brad.
ley's attorneys will set up the defense
that she was justified under the "un-
written law" in shooting Brown
THE right to strike for any cause OF
NO cause Is clearly and fully sustained
by authority. Even conspiracy to
strike, followed by legal damage, is not
unlawful If $rmed to better labor con.
didons" This is an extract from the
decision of Judge Sanborn Of the Unit
ed States district court at Madison
wis.
Rev. George 9. Cox, rector Of Calvary
Episcopal church of Cincinnati, was &C.
quilted Of the charge OF heresy by the
standing committee Of the Episcopal
diocese of Ohio.
Judge Frazer handed down his de-
clsion In the famous Hartte divorce
case, declaring the petition Of Angus
tus Hartje, the millionaire paper manu-
| facturer for n divorce from his wife
inconclusive.
Matthew r. killlan. member of the
| Jury which broke the will OF Uriah II.
Croker, a wealthy lawyer Of Boston,
was convicted Of receiving bride
while serving on the panel.
Cardinal Merry del Val. the papal
secretary Of state, is preparing vigor-
ously worded protest against the ac-
ton Of the French government in
searching the archives OF the nuncia-
ture at Paris.
Friday. Dec. -.
smplifed spelling received final
Qulstus in congress by the adoption
Of a resolution favoring the return to
the old standard of photography.
The lifeless bodies Of Rev. c. S.
Quinn, BIZ years old, Roman Cath
ole priest and Miss Bridget Kilcy, %
years old, were found In a room at
boarding house at New York. The
room was filed with gas.
Clifford Hooe, the negro coachman
convicted for perjury in connection
with a deposition made by him before
the Hartje divorce trial. was sentenced
10 pay fine Of $50 and costs Of the
| court trial and to imprisonment Of six
years III the Denitentlay
w. o. Cutler, train dispatcher, was
arraigned ON a charge Of manslaughter
in connection with the train wreck at
Vergennes, VT. in which three persons
were burned to death. He was held
| In bonds Of $500.
Fines aggregating S16S0OO imposed
upon the American Sugar Refining
company and the Brooklyn Cooperage
/ company in connection with accepting
rebates on sugar shipments We're paid.
In consequence Of smallpox out
break in New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia. the United States health au-
thorities have issued stringent regula-
tons to inspectors of passengers on
trains from over the border.
The governors council granted a full
pardon to Ephrinm Gilman, who has
been for 43 years in the Maine state
prison serving life sentence for the
murder of Mrs. Harriet r. Swan.
One result of the uncompromlsing
attitude assumed by the Vatican in the
conflict with the French government
seems to he that the clergy will lose its
pensions, $4,000 of which have been
granted and gazetted since the begin.
ming Of this year.
Saturday, Dec. IS.
Tho New Bedford Textile Council
voted at a meeting to accept. under pro-
test. the ~ percent wage advance Of
fered by the New Bedford cotton mill
owners. The operatives had demanded
m advance of 10 percent.
The Mexican government has taken
control of all important railroad lines in
the republic.
The German Society of Wireless
Telegraphy has succeeded in holding
wireless telephone communication be-
tween Berlin and Nauen. "a miles away.
The secretary Of war has ordered
the trial by court martial Of Major
Penrose and Captain Macklin Of the
Twenty-flfth infantry for conduct to
the prejudice of good order and disci-
pine" in failing in their duty in pre-
venting and suppresslng the riot at
Brownsville, Tex. last August
jeremiah Curtin, aged &C. died at
Bristol, VT. He was proficient in 70
langua ges. excelling as a linguist, it Is
said, any other living man.
The house of representatives voted to
increase the salaries of the vice presi.
dent the speaker Of the house and
members Of the presidents cabinet, but
refused to make the order for memb ers
of either house Of congress.
John G. Lehnemann, charged with
aiding in the illegal landing Of ~ Chi
nese at Providence on the schooner
Frolic, entered a plea Of nolo con-
tendre and was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment and fined $50.
Battleship Kansas, built by the New
York Shipbuilding company of Cam.
den, n j., slightly exceeded her con-
tract speed Of IS knots an hour in her
four hours trial run off the Maine
coast, attaining an average speed Of
1S,O96 knots.
During the open season on big game
In Maine 10 human lives were lost by
the use Of firearms. the overturning Of
canoe or exposure.
Sunday. Dec. 10.
Thousands Of demonstrators friendly
to France and of anti-Vatican tenden.
cies gathered In the piazza adjoining