Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-01-31
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, Jan. "a.


in n precarious condition for nearly a
month
The 200 japanese immigrants who ar.
rived at San Francisco on the steamer
Alameda. aud whose landing was not
allowed by the immigration commits
tloner, were permitted to land on in
structions from Washington.
Henry Bell. a negro, was, lynched at
Greenwood, Miss. the home Of Govern
e. Vardaman. The negro Lad assaulted
u woman of that place.
number of United States secret
service officers raided houses in Somer-
Vile Lynn East Boston and Roxbury,
Mass. in connection with the efforts of
the government authorities to suppress
lotteries.
The resignation Of Theodore T.
Shouts as chairman Of the sthmian
canal commission is announced. Shonts
was elected as president of the Inter
Borough Metropolitan company. which
controls the Rapid Transit and many
surface lines in New York.
The United States senate accepted
the proposition Of the house Of repre-
scntatlves to increase the salaries of
senators. meInbers~Ind territorial del
egates.
The president has finally dismissed
The incident connected with the refusal
Of Governor Swettenham OF aid from
Admiral Davis. as is shown in letter,
made public by the state department.
President Roosevet's message in
support of ship subsidy was received
AMI read BY both houses OF congress-
The riveT and harbor appropriations
bill. which was reported TO congress
ny the committee on rivers and harbors.
carries m appropriation aggregating
$S3.466.13s.
Friday, Jan. rs.
Senator Russell \, Alger died sudden
~ at Washington from heart failure.
Alger was born in Medina county, O.. in
1886
Andrew Carnegie is to have his name
pcrpetuated in Chicago by university
bearing his name.
The Pennsylvania railroad MANAGE
ment has decided to change the age limit
gt which men may enter the employ of
the company from 30 10 40 years
Samuel B. Terry. paying teller at the
United States sub-treasury, New York.
and Edgar +. Lee, the assistant paying
teller, handed their resgnations to As.
sistant Treasure Fish at the latter
request and they were AZ ones accepted.
A bill TO tax bachelors was introduced;
In the Indiana legislature. The money
raised would be devoted to the school
fund.
The Empress Dowager Of China is
sending 90 or more Chinese girls 10 this
country for educa tional purposes. They
will receive the,- teaching Mt some of
the Boston schools or womens col
leges
The Spanish cabinet has resigned as
result of dissentions between the
liberals and the radicals over the law of
associations.
Milo LOOMS. aged 81, and who
served in the Connecticut legislature
during the Civil war was struck by a
freight train in the Manchester Comb
yards and killed.
Saturday. Jan. &c.
Andrew G.. Blair, one OF the best
known public men in Canada. died sud
denly of heart failure.
The German government has won a
definite victory in the general elections
held foY a new reichstag.
f. A. Stirling has been appointed
forester of the Pennsylvania railroad
7 Will No ~ for -
lean railroad.
The Omaha courts have decided that
works of art by famous painters. in
Guiding Van Dyke. Rubens and Wander
Nerff. are indecent and that reproduc-
ons OF them cannot be sold in Omaha
stores.
Two men We're killed. many cars Of
potatoes smashed, two locomotives bad
ly wrecked. and freight house partly
demolished by the collision of a fast
special freight with a shifting engine at
PresQue Isle. Me.
The New York board of estimate and
npportiOnment voted in favor Of a four
track subway loop To connect the Man
haitian terminals Of the Brooklyn and
w lllldHSDuTS DTlupes. II Will Cost tue
city $5,245, 900.
Edward S. Fowler, the appraiser of
merchandise at the port of New York,
has suspended upon charges benjamin
j. Levy, an examiner of glass and
manufactured leather AT the public
stores.
In battle between Mexican troops
and Yaqui Indians in Sonora. Mex,
the Meycans defeated the Yaqus after
hard fight in which heavy losses We're
inflicted on the Indians. The Mexicans
lost % killed.
A commission appointed by the gov
eminent of Cuba has reported to the
effect that DR.. Matias Duque probably
has discovered a cure FOR leprosy.
Sunday, Jan. 1T.
George A. Burnham, Jr., who was
convicted of grand larceny from the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance com.
pany, OF which he was counsel and a
vice president and sentenced TO two
years imprisonment, has been taken to
Sing Sing.
Enrique Mosa, the bandit, who for