Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-03-22
ceded him the privilege Of being sho,
instead of hanged.
Saturooy, March ~.

lnStedu OF ndnge0
Saturday. March ~.
Thrty-five persons were crushed or
burned TO death in head end collision
OF two passenger trains near Adobe.
Col, and nearly score Of the victims
were moderated beyond Identification
by fire that destroyed the wrecked
coaches More than score wnro in.
jured, but all OF these will probably re-.
cover.
The last hope Of Charles l.. Tucker
the condemned murderer Of Miss MahcI
Page Of Weston. in the courts. has gone
Justice Harlan Of the United States su.
preme court has denied the writ of error
applied for in behalf Of Tucker by the
latter's counsel.
General Manager Jones OF the Con.
trail Vermont Railroad company has is.
sued statement saying that there il
not the slightest danger of n strike of
the railroad employees or OF serious d fiji
culties Of any nature.
Richard Andrews. negro, was
hanged at Washington, Ca, for Grim.
inaliy assaulting a 5-year-old girl
The railway naturalization bill
passed the japanese house Of repro.
sentatives by a vote Of 2i3 TO 100
Andrew Hamilton's statement before
the legislative Investigating committee
at Albany will not interfere with the
suits which the New York Life Tnsur-
ance company proposes to bring against
him.
An arship company, having as its
definite object to construct and eyneri-
ment with war craft. has been formed
at Berlin.
A movement has bean Instituted bv
President james Of the University or
Illinois for the appointment Of m ed,l.
cational commission for study Of tho
social, intellectual and industrial SIT
uation in China. with a view TO he re.
generation of the Chimes empire.
Friday, March IS.
The alleged plot to assassinate Rev.
DR. Charles Parkhurst. the noted New
York divine and reformer. was all
hoax. according to a confession made
by Lawrence Rogers, the man who told
the story upon which the investigation
w8s based
A resolution offered in the Republi-
can county committee Of New York
county calling upon Senators Platt and
Depew 10 resign their seats ia tho Unit
ed States senate was defeated hy the
adoption Of motion to lay it on tho
table.
Governor Mcdonald Of Colorado -.
"a fvs hnI1
wick 10 Maiden. Mass. for the alleged
kidnapping Of the Sullv children The
| stories Of the children induced Melon.
old TO violate presidents.
According TO the new writ for abso-
lutte divorce. il is announced. Countess
Anna Castellane who was Miss Gould,
will settle q large sum on Count POM
| if divorced, and will make him rich for
| the rest Of his life.
Ruth F.. Houdlette, -. a Radcliffe
senior died suddenly at her home a.
| Cambridge, Mass, Of wood alcohol
poison. She drank the liquid while in Il
state bordering on nervous prostration,
the result of over study.
The Howe IL Stets0n company. dry
goods dealers. New Haven. have gone
into the hands OF temporary receiver.
IL Is understood that the FIRMS liabili-
ties are about 5000 900.
After having been helpless for hours
through the breaking Of her rudder
stock in tremendous seas, steamer X on
gin Luise. New York for Italian ports.
with 300 passengers and crew Of 100,
! arrived At Halifax for repairs
thursday. March IS.
A tale of terrible shlpWreck and SUI
| fering was brought TO Boston by tho
steamship Bostonan. from MancheStcr.
Eng She had on board Il survivors
and the body of Captain O Hagan Of the
Phoenix line steamship British kim
which foundered last sunday while on
a voyage from New York to Antwerp.
Twenty-eght Of the crew We're
drowned.
General Wood denies that there was
any wanton killing Of MoroS AT Mount
uajo and says a considera bic number
Of women and children were killed IN
tue fight because they were actually n
the works when assaulted, that Moro
women wore trousers ana that children
were used as shields.
All the real estate Of the Lakoviile
Wooden company at West Rutland,
Mass, was sold at mortgacee's sale 10
j. o. Sibey for 30,730. The assessed
valuation is $4,000.
Following 4 discussion Of n demaud
for an increase in pay, 100 weavers at
the Hadlev Mass mills We're con
fronted with notice closing the wcay-
ing room Of the mills.
Seventeen patients at the Trull hos
pital Riddeford. Me. We're removed
from their beds during a fire which de
stroyed n portion of the building. Sur
geons completed sn operation upon 4
female patient while the tiromen were
at work upon the floor above
Mrs. John \. Dowie denies that
there has been any arrangement he
tween herself and the leader of Xiou-
lists. Her separation from her hu>-
band. she says. is due entirely TO his
impaired health and TO no domestic
troubles.
Alton E. Parker, the former presi.
Dental candidate, says that he is sataiS-
hed that Mr. Roosevelt will ask for the
pCninatiDu or the Rppul,l ipau Marty far