Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-19
The WEEKS NEWS
Wednesday, July 10.

WEDNESDAY, July 10.
The coroner's Jury in the case Of
Alice Khan, who was murderer ut
New York on June s, returned YER
dict to the effect that the murder was
committed by some person or persons
unknown. They recommended that
Burton w. Gibson, the lawyer, be heId
for examination by the grand jury, anu
he was held in $4,000 bail.
The gunboat Bancroft has been
transferred to the treasury department
and her name will be stricken from the
naval list.
Judge Henry Melvin of Oakland, Cal,
was unanimously elected grand exalted
ruler of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
TRYING to assist three other persons
who had become entangled in the COILS
of a live electric wire, Mrs. Lizzie Doll
dis, aged 81. stepped on the wire anu
| was instantly killed at Fall RIVER
Mass.
A wild stampede occurred during
the performance Of Pawnee Bilis VITA
West show at Bayonne, n. j., when
wind storm blew down 10 Of the tents
/ The report Of the trustee committee
of the Mutual Life Insurance company
appointed to nominate new poard OF
trustees to be voted for at the annual
meeting Of the company disclosed the
fact that Henry II. Rogers and Will
lam Rockefeller had withdrawn from
further connection with the committee'
The British steamer Tronto, the larg-
est tramp steamship ever in the port OK
BOSTON. has arrived from Calcutta on
her maiden voyage. She Is 4'D leet
long. so feet beam, q feet depth to
hold.
Count De La Naulx, in the course or
his first ascent in his new balloon, eStah-
ished a dlrigible record by remaining
eight hours in the air over the Bois de
Bouogne, Paris.
Friends Of Alfred Belt, the South
African flnuncer who died July l6, est'-
mate that he left IL fortune OF between
SIPS, OOO. 900 and Sl50oOO,oO0.
Russian revolutionists are trying
again 10 import arms by way Of Swe-
den and Fir,and. The Swedish au-
thorities have seized 10000 rifles that
, had been destined for Finnish town
Tuesday. July ~.
, The selectmen Of Adams, Mass.
have issued an order that all dogs ~
restrained or muzzled. This actor
. followed the recent killing of two dog
, who were found to be suffering from
o rabies.
The lower branch Of the Georgia leg
stature passed the so-called child labo
bill. This measure already has the ap
n prevail of u majority of the upper house
l. Sam Berger. the California heavy
= weight, gave Jack O'Brien the harueS
/ six.round battle Of his career Whel
n the fight ended both men were covered
IS with blood and the referees shirt wa
crimson from his efforts to separat
" the men. There was no decision.
Two more cases of smallpox hav
N been discovered among the steera
n passengers of the steamer Cymrlc,
IS Boston. from Liverpool.
$. Cruiser Columbia has sailed 70
l. Boston with 300 marines on board.
-, whom 1G5 are suffering from maiari
~ contracted at Panama.
-. John Streub, IL years old, who's
"a body was found hidden under bough
at near the Rising woods, Great Barrln'
n ton. Mass. was murdered. Medic
"a Examiner Beebe performed an autop'
I'd and found two fractures, one at II
- ton of the skull and one at the base.
II, A platform was adopted by the LII
90 coin Republican club at a meeting
m Concord, n. H.. and was later accept'
by Winston Churchill Of Cornish. wi
has been named as candidate Tor go
ernor Of New Hampshire.
Alfred Belt, the South African fina
cier. died at London. He had been
poor health for some time. He WI
born in 1855 at Hamburg.
he Charles d. Brown, rear commodo
on Of the Boston Yacht club, suffered
49, stroke of apoplexy while the fleet W
rs on the way to Cape Porpoise and di
ks in a short time.
ISIS Monday, July IS.
red District Attorney Moran has brok
sd his silence regarding the Massacl
w. sets Democratic guberna torial MOI
nd. nation, and in lengthy statement
md nounces that he Is a candidate FOR pal
Sc standard bearer In the coming STA
p's campaign.
an The London Times, describing the'
Tor struction Of a Zulu impi in the Mo-
'nu valley, says the loyal levies so thorou'
ire ly completed the work OF the 1ral
SIS, vaal men that they did not let even
hey wounded Zulu escape.
ara General Kozlov Of the headquart
ing staff was murdered in park at fel
ats, hof. The murderer has been arrest
anu but not identified.
,sts The livery stable of Gibbs x vince
tha Mt White River Junction, w., v
1av burned, Ia horses and 40 hogs peri
is Ing in the flames.
ton. Patrick McQuade, so years old, is
rick dor arrest at Boston, charged W it'll On
Ing the death Of Walter Ewing 2sye
old. The men are said to have had
DISPUTE at street corner.
eld, Carefully covered with boughs
OF hemlock, the body of John Streub
iie' years old, Of HousatOnic, Mass,
avn found under tree in the woods n
drs that village, and the circumstances
race the opinion of the medical exami'
ellie point strongly to foul play.