Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-12-27
The WEEKS NEWS
Ttursdsy, Dec. 20.

Thursday, Dec. 20.
With the idea of discourag ing the
"Black Hand" and kindred organiza-
tions in New York. the police arrest ed
IA italians on charges Of carrying con.
cenled weapons.
Charged with conspirlng 10 counter.
felt the 100 pesos note of the Colum bia
republic, Simon Boelm and Samuel
Otera werc arrested ut New York by
secret service men.
Resolutions asserting belief in the
Innocence Of Albert 7. Patrick. con.
vlcted of the murder Of William NJ.
Rice. were adopted by the Medico. Legal
society nj It's annual election and din.
ner al New York.
One Of the worst accidents in recent
history Of She Mississippi river oc.
CURED when the steamer W. r. Scovel
was destroyed by an explosion. Tha
list Of dead may reach 20.
George A. Marden. soldier. orator,
editor, former state treasurer. and for
several years assistant treasurer Of tn
United States in charge Of The sub
treasury at Boston, died al his home at
Lowell. Mass.
Niarcsto retrovsky. Russian army
officer who arrived at san Francisco
on Tho steamer Nippon. has been denied
a landing on the charge Of being an
anarchist
Providence cotton goods manufacture
crs report tina: they arc unable to got
sufficient quantities of the right kind
Of raw material 10 meet the demands
which the market Is making upon them
for their products.
No change in the general result OF
the New Hampshire state election was
disclosed by the recount Of votes for
governor which has Just been finished
The guhernatorial contest will there
fore. come before The legislature for
settlement.
Friday, Dec. ~.
Cardinal Gotti. project of the prora-
randa, submitted TO the pope the up.
pontruent OF Rev. a. Guertin to be Dish.
op Of Manchester, y. n. The appoint
meat was ratified.
The Public Franchise league has
sent 4 communication to the mayo" Of
3ostos. demanding that he petition the
state highway commission to thorough
~ Investigate the charges and service
OF the New England Telegraph ana
Telephone company.
Life confinement in an asylum for
the criminal insane was the sentence
passed upon Sark!s Choolg!un Of Wa
tnrtown. Mass, who killed his father
10y blow from a crovbar.
Albert r. Patrick has been saved by
Governor Higgins from further peril
Of the death chair. in whose shadow
he has stood for nearly five years. con.
victed of the murder of William NJ.
Rice. the aged New York millionaire,
by committing the death sentence to i'm
prisonhent for life.
After having been found critically
Ill in lonely farmhouse in Exeter. X.
J.. without warmth. food or medicine.
Thomas Peckham and Thomas Hazard.
both over so years of age. died from
exposure.
The New York. New Haven and Hart.
ford Rnilrosd company has secured
ownership Of about 1850 miles Of single
trackage trolley lines iu Connecticut
and Rhode Island from which the
gross earnings year are upward OF
SlG,OOO,OOO.
Judge Aldrich announces that he will
not stand as candidate for United
states senator In New Hampshire.
SATURDAY, Dec. 20.
The will Of the late ex-United States
Senator Brown. Who was shot and
killed by Mrs Bradley in Washington,
disclaims the paternity of Mrs. Brad
loy's children and cuts them off abso.
lutely.
Wrangel, on the southeastern coast
Of Alaska, has been placed in telc
graphic communication with the outside
world for the first time.
The French governments new re
ligious measure was received with en-
thusiasm in the chamber of deputies
and passed with the majority of 4l3
against 16G.
In Observance OF the sixth ami
versary Of his death the memorial
statue Of former Governor Roger VOL
colt was put in place at the Massnchu
sets state house.
About 500 900. or double the amount
originally sought. has been pledged for
Ia monument to the late Joseph Jeffer.
son Mt New York.
The Cotton Manufacturers associa,
ton notified the Lowell (Mass.) Textile
Council that it declined to grant q > per,
cent increase in addition to the ; per.
cent advance that has Just gone into
effect
A mob broke down the door OF the
Annapolis. Nd, Jail. took ont Henry
Davis, the negro who criminally as.
snu'ted Mrs. John Reid. and lynched
him. Davis confessed his guilt before
being killed.
Matthew f.. O'Brien. candidate TO,
governor of Connecticut on the ProhibL
ton ticket last fall, has again been re
fused admission to the bar by the Fair
field County Bar association.
Leroy Butler Of Stamford, Conn.
who has twice been tried for murder
in the first degree, the Jury disagree
ing in each case, has been liberated
fpnn tho pOupfv toll ~, his nu., rn,ox