Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-26

o complication of diseases incident 10
old age. The veteran fnancer would
have celebrated his Goth birthday on
Aug. T.
Summonses which had been issued
to number Of Chelsea (Mass) citi.
zens to appear before the grand jury
in connection with an investigation Of
the alleged aldermanic bribery were
recalled two hours after they had
been received. No explanation was
given for the action
Saturday, July ~.
A treaty Of peace between Guate-
mala Salvador and Honduras has been
signed on board the United States
cruiser Marblehead, on the high seas.
AS an electric car was rounding
curve at West Fitchburg. Mass. It left
the track and crashed into q trolley
pole. Many Of the passengers were
shaken MP considerably, but only three
were injured seriously. All will re-
cover.
The grand lodge of Elks authorized
the expenditure Of funds in legal at
tempt TO cnjoin negro lodges from US
ing Elk emblems
David W. Rintels Of Boston, sales
man for wholesale drug company,
committed suicide at a Providence
| hotel. He took morphine and turned
on the gas.
Brigadier General Edmund Rice
died at his home at Wakefield. Mass.
| Of heart disease. He was "a years old
and was born at Cambridge, Mass.
Walter NJ Wilson, pawnbroker.
well known years ago as n promoter OF
athletic meets. was killed in an auto
mobile accident at Buffalo.
The German government has de-
cided to enforce new and more strin-
gent inspection laws in the case Of
American packed products, beginning
Sept IL.
Brunswick, Me. experienced what Is
generally believed to have been a local
earthquake shock. The vibration was
slight and no damage was done.
Friday, July 20.
The United Typothetae Of America
has fatty declined to confer with off,
Gals of the International Typograph-
ical union in regard to the strike for An
eight-hour day and the closed shop.
Close political friends Of National
Chairman Taggsrt say he will not ask
n reelection to the Democratic COM
mittee, and that the campaign which he
inaugurated will be aba ndoned
During the Elks' parade at Denver
the marchers were showered with now
ers and snow balls, several carloads Of
snow having been brought from the
Continental divide to show the diver.
sity of the Colorado climate.
Mrs. Louis Cohen, 33 years old. and
her 5-year-old son, Benjamin, lost their
lives in fire which nearly destroyed "A
tenement house at Maiden, Mass.
, The selectmen Of Great Darlington,
Mass have offered reward Of $3.50
for information leading to the arrest Of
the murderer Of John Streub, II years
, old. whose body was found in tn,
woods near Housatonic.
While preparing for a stereopticon
lecture at Greenwood, Ind, 20 ga Hon
: tank OF gas exploded. instantly killing
Rev. d. l. Lewis, proprietor Of the en-
tertainment. and his assistant, George
McNeeuus.
A result of an explosion in the
! Dixon mine at Huger, W. Va. five
! miners are dead and two were fatally
injured Their bodies were crushed to
a pulp.
Thursday, July i9.
Lawrence Fairfield, 81 years Old.
telegraph operator on the Boston and
Maine railroad at South Berwick, Me,
was found dead in a switch shanty. A
bullet wound in the back Of the head
leads to the belief that he had been
murdered by tramps.
, The Lancaster inn. Lancaster, Mass.
was burned late at night and its guests
were forced to fee hulrledly from their
rooms. The loss is $4,000.
The armistice between Salvador and
Honduras on the enc side and Guate-
mala OH the other has begun. A treaty
Of peace Is to be discussed in neutral
waters on board the United States
cruiser Marblehead.
Mrs. Abraham Rabinowitz Of Hart
1 ford, aged %, gave her 2-year- child
= dose of carbolic acid and then took a
fatal draught herself The woman
= died and the baby cannot recover.
t Family troubles are said to be respou-
l. sble for the tragedy.
Il Lady Curzon of Kedleston (who was
i Mary Letter Of Chicago), wife Of the
former vlceroy Of india. who had been
u i'll for some days, died at London. She
Il was born In Chicago in 1870.
q As a result of his examination Of the
+ wounds which caused the death Of John
!. Streub. II years old, whose body was
= found in the woods near Housatonic
" Mass. Medical Examiner Beebe thinks
that the boy was killed by stone
4 thrown from behind when he was run
. ming to escape a pursuer.
7 Judge Putnam of the United States
d circuit court handed down a decision
at Boston In the 100000 suit of tl4
q. Bay State Gas company Of Delaware
= against Henry II. Rogers. The de-
d cision is against Rogers.
d Eleven new cases Of smallpox Al
Colon are reported to the Washington
p Office of the canal com mission BY Gov
a ernor Magoon.
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