Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-02-15

burg miners convention to declare his
reelection.
Minot St Clair Francis. who es.
capped from prison at Bridgewater,
Mass, was sentenced 10 the Maine
state prison for 16 years on postoilice
burglary conviction
Sales NJ the Chicago automobile
show will exceed S7,OOo,OOo.
A Rraintree. Mass, policeman al
leges that negroes were imported from
Boston TO assault him.
Saturday, Fob. 10.
Union carpenters Of Chicago have
secured al increase Of wages agcrrpat.
ing more than x1.OOo.OOo year.
through three year agreement with
the Carpenters and Builders assoca.
ton.
Paul l.. Dunbar. the poet Of the negro
race. died at his home at Dayton, o. of
consumption. He was born in Dayton
in 1872.
Governor Cummns of Iowa an
uounces that he will he n candidatcthis
year for the Republican nomination for
governor
Julian G. stone Of Wcstford. VI.
placed a revolver at each Sidc Of his
head, firing them simultaneously.
Death was Instantaneous. Dospond.
| oncy@ due TO il-health. is believed tc
| have been the cause of the suicide.
Fire broke out in Littleton. W. Va.
an oil town, and nearly every business
! house was destroyed. one hundred
houses werc burned and 80 families
are homeless, numbering nearly COG
persons.
The Barrett bill, providing for so2re.
cation, according TO race. in street cars
and other public convcyances, has
| passed the Virginia house
Advicos from Tumaco. Colombia 70
port that the natives there are terror
stricken on account Of repeated earth
quakcs which have already destroyed
| four small villages.
Friday. Feb. 9.
The house passed the Hepburn rail
way rate bill by a vote of 346 to I.
An attempt to pass an order through
| the Boston common council providu.
| for a referendum on the question OF
municipal ownership OF gas companies
failed
AZ Rickmer's ship yard at Rremer
Haven there was launched the biggest
sailing ship in the world. The Length
of the craft is 43S feet, her breadth il
~ feet and she is of 5000 tons burden
The bill for continuation of war
taxes passed the japanese house OF
representatives by vote of 3D. to To-
Tho Chicago city council has passed
the ordinance directing the gas com
panies of the city to furnish ras 10
consumers Mt s. cents per 1000 feet.
According to a report of state Treas
urer Read of Rhode Island. the states
valuation is S41I,311.G5s bringing a
fax Of SSIo272,
King Alfonso's engagement to prin-
cess Ena Of Rattenherg is officially an
nounced, Th" marriage will be cclc.
brated on June .
John A. Mccall. former president ~
the New York Life Insurance com
pany. seriously i'll at Lakewood, y. i.
The lower branch of the Massachu-
sets legislature adopted a resolve call
ing for the appointment of commits
sion to investigate The alleged discrimi-
nation by landlords against would-be
tenants having children,
Al IA meeting of the trustees of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor,
Seattle was unanimously decided upon
as the place of the next general con-
vention in 1907.
thursday, Feb. 8.
Mariner w Merrill, an apostle Of this
Mormon church, died at Richmond.
Utah. aged "a. At the time of his
death he had seven living wives. He
leaves - sons and daughters, 40
grandchildren and several great grand
children.
Lake Chanplain is frozen over for the
first time this winter, and the icemen
are sure that all danger of the failure
of this years ice crop is averted.
Strong efforts continue TO be made
in behalf of the Castelane family 70
bring about the abandonment of the di-
. vorce suit begun by the Countess Boui
, de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould.
but up to the present the desired result
has not been achieved,
DIR. Ferrer. Cuban minister to Paris
. has purchased a collar of pearls rs
Cuba's wedding gift to Miss Alice
Roosevelt
A gift Of 100000 to Columbia uni
i. yersity was given as the result OF the
. uniyerstys action in ahoishinC foot
ball by Mrs. Maria II. Williamson OF
New York to endow chair for in
structon in the origin and development
Of civilization.
Twenty leading anarchists were ar
y rested in a police raid on meeting OF
Il circle of revolutionists at ST. Peters
. burg. A quantity of bombs, dynamite
and anarchstic literature WAS seized.
Mrs. Mabel Coleman and Frank
Stanley, charged with the larceny OF
$4,000 worth of gold mining stocks
were released after an examination in
& New York police court
The quarantine of the naval appTel-
=, tees at the training station at Coaster :
=, Harbor, X. l.. which had been in force
> for six weeks On account OF spinal
meningitis, has ceased
The British bark Dunbrlttou toun0'
cred Off May island. Scotland. The
crew were saved and landed at Der