Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-09-05
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, Aug. 20.

ADOPTED resolutions deprecating any
agitation which might tend to cause NJ
Feeling between the United States and
Japan.
Tntchell Cleghorn and Robert Will
Ems, each Is years old, were suffo.
Gated in sand bank at Holderness,
n. II.
Payment In cash Of dividends on the
preferred stock of the Erie Railroad
company has been deferred for 10
years lT the board Of directors of that
company.
The Universal Society Of the White
Cross Of Geneva was organized at Gen
eva. Its purpose Is the unifying of the
efforts OF all countries to combat tuber-
culosls, cancer, epldemics of infectious
diseases and social evils. such as alco-
hoism, etc.
Three women and physician who
was driving an automobile near Canaan
diagua, y. T.. were instantly killed in
q collision between the machine and a
trolley car
Deliberate, cold blooded murder, for
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OF money, committed by boy. is the
story of the killing Of Milkman Hugh ].
Kane of Ludlow. Mass. The identity
of the boy is still unknown.
Friday, Aug. 80.
The great Quebec bridge in process Of
construction. collapsed, and now the
vast mass Of steel work lies in o tangled
wreck across the st. Lawrence channel.
A careful estimate places the loss Of
life ut Sd The accident was so ter
rlble in its effectiveness in viping out
the lives of the men employed that moth
ing is known as to the cause of the dis
aster.
Thirteen cottages, three barns and
q number of smaller buildings at the
Iledding camp grounds, Exeter. y. r.,
were burned and five other cottages
were damaged. The loss Is 5000.
DR.. Harry II. Stackpole Of Dover, y.
H., who was arrested following the
identification Of the body of Miss Kath-
crime Ryan, who died at the doctors
house as the result of an alleged illegal
operation, was remanded to jail without
bail to await a continued hearing on
Sept II.
After travelling more than 80 miles.
two Stevens balloons which assembled
at North Adams, Mass. came to earth
gently, one landing in Somers, Conn,
and the other landing in Indian Or
chard, Mass. The voyage of both bal
looms was uneventful.
Schooner Violette went down in the
English channel. and 10 men on board
Of her were drowned.
From Aug. - up TO date there have
been nine cases Of plague at San Fran
cisco and SIX deaths.
Saturday, Aug. 8.
Most Rev. John j. Williams. arch
bishop Of the Boston diocese, dean of
the hierarchy Of the Roman Catholic
church In America and for a generation
or more the spirited head Of that faith
IN New England. died a Boston.
Richard Mansfield. one OF the best
known actors in this country. died at
New London, Conn.,, of disease of the
liver, aggravated by complications.
Fifteen persons were killed and about
90 injured In head on collision between
electric cars at sharp curve near
Charleston. Ills.
The United States naval academy
team won the national trophy in the
national rife match at Camp Perry, o.
Schooner S. 3. Hudson Of Bridgeport
Conn. lumberladen. from Musquodo-
bolt y. s.. for New York. was COM
pletely destroyed by Are off Little Hope,
n. s.
George A. Long. who committed sui
eide at Atlantic, Ia, after the death Of
one Of pair Of favOr!te horses. left
beQuest Of $4,000 to keep the other
horse IN comfort as long as it lived,
Ominous rumbings are coming from
Mt Vesuvius and smoke is issuing
from the crater. The inhabitants OF
the villages surrounding the volcano are
in a state OF great alarm.
Mary Connolly, the woman Ratlies,"
pleaded guilty AT Springfield Mass. to
burglary on two counts. She was
sound over to the grand jury under
bonds Of $4,000.
Sunday, Sept. I.
Mira All Asghar Khan, Persian
premier and minister of the interior,
was shot and instantly killed as he was
leaving the national council. Two sol
oilers were killed at the same time and
an assemblyman was shot.
Oscar Handler. the German balloon
list, and II. II. Arnold, a newspaper
man, landed in Colchester, Conn, after
l25-mlle balloon trip from North
Adams, Mass.
In half the Moorish empire civil war
seems imminent. The new sultan,
Mulai Hafig, is reported to be march
ing against Fez at the head Of a large
army.
The automobile race at Bresc!a,
Italy, for the Florio cup was won by an
Italian. Minola. The contest was
marred by several accidents, in one Of
which Baron De Martno was killed.
Alton Is. Parker of New York de-
clares he has no desire ever again to
hold public Office, and that in this re-
spect his views have not changed
since his defeat for the presidency in
1904,
An automobile containing Mr.. and
Mrs. Sumner r. Holander Of Boston
ran down and killed Dorothy Otis, aged