Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-23
The WEEKS NEWS
wednesday,. Auq %.

The loss Of life at Valparaiso by the
earthquake OF Thursday, Aug. Is, prob.
ably will not be short of 5000, while the
property destroyed is estimated at
S1O0,000,000 and possibly is far in ex.
cess Of that sum. Order Is being main.
tanned with the utmost severity by the
military, police and armed citizens
patrols, who are empowered to shoot
looters on the spot.
Francis Il. Conway, a clerk in the
Back Bay postal station, Boston. was
arrested after a desperate chase on d
charge of stealing letters containing
money.
The United States will not permit the
government in Cuba to be overturned.
Should the instruction assume formid.
able proportions troops will be sent to
the Island to assist the government In
Quelling it.
The presidential boom Of Joseph &.
Cannon for 1908 was given an enthu-
siastic endorsement by the Illinois
state Republican convention. The con.
vention unanimously endorsed Scna-
tor Cullorn.
All of the cotton mills at Adams,
Mass, have advanced wages : per-
cent during the past two weeks.
The negro federal troops have been
ordered out Of Texas, owing to the re.
cent trouble with whites at Browns.
willie. Fort Brown is to be abandoned,
Ex-Governor Douglas authorizes TIE
statement that he will neither deny nor
affirm the report that he is willing to
become the Democratic candidate for
governor of Massachusetts.
Reports from all sections of this
country and Canada show that the ap.
pie crop this year will be greatly in ev.
cess Of any recent year and of an excep.
t~ionally fine quality.
There is no truth in the report that
a steamship has brought to Lima. Peru.
a report that the earthquake wiped
out the Island Of Juan Fernandez.
BY a vote of 1898 to $40. the Illinois
Democratic state convention placed
upon the table the request OF W. J.
Bryan for the resignation of Roger sui
Ivan from the national committee. but
declared Bryan to he the one and only
man capable Of leading the Democratic
party to victory in 1908.
Tuesday, Aug 81.
The earthquakes in Chile have
ceased, the resultant fires are out ANA
the authorities and people of the two
cities, Valparaiso and Santiago, are
taking organized steps to relieve suf-
fxnf,r 80. -. a.. go, .L .-l t..-
the dead.
specifications for bids to furnish Chi
ncSe labor for the construction of the
Panama canal have been issued by the
iSthmian canal commission. The basis
for bidding is for $500 coolies.
The Santa Fe railroad has voluntarily
granted its 1000 telegraph operators an
increase Of wages. averaging about -
a month TO each man, effective at once.
by a head-on collision between a coal
train and a wOrkmen's train one man
was killed, two others severely injured
and eight others shaken. bruised and
cut at Etna, Me.
Senator Levitt. president of the
failed Bank Of Yarmouth, y. s., and
one Of the most prominent men in the
province. was arrested on a charge Of
making false and deceptive returns con-
corning the banks condition.
A "campaigr document" issued by
President Roosevelt in the form of a
letter written by him to Congressman
Watson Of Indiana, Is made public.
The Letter urges the country to make
no change in the present congress and
says: I'VE stand unsquivocally for a
protective tariff"
After a trial of n year Of oil fuel on
the torpedo boat wine it has been rec
commended that she be fitted to burn
coal instead of petroleum
Last weeks statistics show that IS
officials were murdered and 43 We're
wounded in Russia proper.
Sixteen men condemned for partici-
patton in the mutiny on Aug. | We're
executed at Cronstadt Among the
number were two students and an army
surgeon.
Floods in Arizona and southern parts
Of California have completely tied up
the tra%ns-cOntinental lines of the Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific.
Monday, Aug 20.
There is a great confusion of state
ments as to the magnitude of the diSaS.
ter in Valparaiso caused by an earth.