Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-09-13

for September IA to consider the dis.
turbed condition of the country and
measures for ending the i~ntolerable
situation.
At Sledice. Russian Poland, q massa.
ere OF police and soldiers began. Im-
mediately after the troops attacked the
Jews. The soldiers attacked civilians.
Christians or Jews, robbing and murs
dertng them without discrimination.
Hundreds of persons were killed OK
wounded. Three streets were deyas.
tated.
Clarence X. Foster, president of tho
Peoples Gas Light and Coke company
OF Chicago, n prominent In club
circles, committed suicide at his home
by cutting his throat with a razor
Foster is believed to have been insane.
Saturday, Sept. q.
"A revolution Is in progress at Mogs.
dor, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco
The insurgent tribes are attacking tbs
town.
Forgeries for more than a quarter Of
OF a million dollars by Frank X. Nipple,
the suicide president of the defunci
Real Estate Trust company, have becy
discovered by Receiver Ea rle.
All peace o%vertures in Cuba are
blocked by the refusal Of Pine Guerra.
the lnsurgent leader in Pinar del Rio
province. to enter Into any arrange
inent for nh armiStlce.
Nincenzo Triscolo. an italian. %
years old. was given a sentence at New
York Of five years in state prison for
writing threatening black hand LET.
tiers.
suffering Is very great" says Mr.,
Hicks, American minister TO Chile. in a
dispatch received by the state depart.
nent urging the people Of the United
States to Tend a helping hand for the
relief Of the distress caused by the
recent earthquake.
While Melvin Rand Of Bethel. Me,
Il years old, was returning from q
hunting trip with two companions, he
was accidentally shot and killed.
Mrs. David f. Sharretts, a cashier in
the office Of the war department az
Washington, shot and killed herself at
q Boston hospital over the body of her
husband, who had died only FIVE min.
utes before at the institution. Her act
is attributed to an excited mental con.
dition.
The executive committee of III,
Southern Cotton association has fixed
10 cents as the minimum price for
which cotton should be sold this season
Friday, Sept. 7.
In full view of 1000 spectators at ,
fair. Jerry Turner, an inexpe
b~alioonist, was instantly killed
by falling 200 feet at Oskaloosa, Kan.
Steamer Milwaukee colilded witt
steamer Nelson Mills In the st. Clai,
river and the Mills went to the bottom
at once. Two lives were lost.
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Hart, a para
lytic. go years old, was killed by rats
in her home in Elizabeth. n. ]. Rats
had attacked the helpless woman al
sat in a chair, possibly asleep.
Deer are multiplying so fast in Con.
necticut that the game commissioners
Ire receiving notices of claims for
damages from farmers by the whole.
Congressman Gillett was nominated
'or governor by the California Repub.
state convention on the first bal.
receiving 591h votes, to 1881 fol
Governor Pardee.
George J. Foster WAS elected MAYO,
Il Dover. y. H.. 10 fill the vacancy
by the death of Mayor Pinkham
The impression Is somewhat deep.
'ooted at Washington that i%mmediatel,
lfter the November elections the Re,
publican leaders. at the request OF
Roosevelt, will attempt ia
gree on some reasonable plan" fol-
legislation.
The navy department has decided Il
concentrate all the battleships in the
on the home stations and to re-
those on the Asiatic station with
rmored cruisers.
thursday, Sept. 8.
At Lewiston, Ne, Speaker Cannon
assa!ied President Gompers Of
American Federation Of Labor,
whom he charged with seeking ia
blacklist" his opponents in politics
t Bath. Me. Secretary of War Taft
was introduced as the ~''probabl,
nccessor Of Roosevelt" declared tha,
roosevelt and his policy will he the
Sue in the next campaign. He is fol-
riff revision at the proper time.
The educational system in England
inferior TO that of many other coun.
lies. In the opinion of Chairman Stor
w OF the Boston school committee
no has just returned from a European
'lp.
The Moorish authorities will inter-
oSe no objection TO the removal ia
merica Of Paul O. Stensland, presi.
pnt Of the Milwaukee Avenue State
ank of Chicago.
A. monument to mark the restipa
lace of Jonathan G.. Hunton, wh1
as governor Of Maine in 1880, was
dictated at Readheld, Me, with APP
exercises.
William j. Bryan returned to his
ONE at Lincoln. Neb.. and was wei.
med with every evidence Of approval
Id satisfaction.
Carl Smith, a professional aeronant,
in a balloon from the Mains
ate fair grounds at Lewiston and
hen over 100 feet In the air the trapezs
M hroka and tho man fell IN the