Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-12
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, Dec. 8.

brought In a verdict of not guilty.
Ryan was discharged from custody.
Mayor Burchell of GlAce Bay, \. S.,
was arrested on the charge of embez-
cling $4,000 from the Dominion Coal
company.
Miss Cora T.. Fay. aged 81. who was
found dead in the hallway Of her home
at Worcester, Mass. was murdered.
She had been assaulted and stranglcd.
Henry o. Hnvemeyer. president Of
the American Sugar Refining company,
died at his country home at Commack,
l.. l., Of heart failure, following an at
tack Of acute Indigestion.
That the country already is beginning
to recover from the severe shock re
ceived in the recent panic is the opin-
Ion Of Il. II. Hartman, as expressed in
an interview.
Expert law makers in the depart.
ment OF justice are hard at work upon
the draft Of II bill that will incorporate
the views of the president outlined in
his message regarding the regulation Of
corporations
King Oscar of Sweden, who is nearly
SO years of age. is In such ill.health
that he has been compelled 10 hand over
the reins OF government TO Crown
Prince GuAtave, who was formally APP
pointed regent.
Friday, Dec. g.
John A. Steele. n mailman Just re.
leased from ali insane asylum. rushed
into the executive chamber of the Mas.
sachuSetts state house and in q furious
attempt to wreak vengeance for fancipd
wrongs on anybody he happened 70
meet, shot Dennis p. Driscoll and Ed.
ward Cohen, two Of the most proml.
nent labor leaders in the state. Neither
has much Of q chance for recovery.
President Roosevelt has instructed
General Funston to dispatch sufii.
Gent force of regulars 10 Goldfcld,
New, TO control the situation there.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood. the actress.
committed suicide by shooting in her
room at the Hotel Stafford. Balti-
more The only motive ascribcd fop
the suicide is fear of an attack of ncr.
vols prostratiou.
Plans for a projected theatre. to be
built Of steel and granite and to cost
about $500 900, have been filed with the
Boston building commissioner
Eugene Y. DAILY has been named
temporary receiver Of the Excelsior
Fire Insurance company Of New York
Following the lead of New York. Bnf.
fnlo and Rochester. Syracuse police of.
| ficials have notified managers of local
| theatres that hereafter no Sunday per
formances will he allowed.
The National Bank of Commerce. rhe
second financial institution in import.
ance in Kansas City has suspended.
after steady run Of six weeks.
A receiver has been appointed FOR
the Chelsea Mich Savings bank.
which was closed as result Of the
financial troubles of State. Treasurer
Glazier, who was its president.
BY a vote of % to 10, the Jim Grow"
Measure, providing for separate Goa ches
and waiting rooms for races. was
passed by the Oklahoma house.
Saturday, Dec. Z.
That not less than 400 miners We're
killed by an explosion Of black damp in
mines Nos. 6 and s of the Consolidated
Coal company Of Baltimore at Monon-
gah, W. Va, is now conceded by those
who take the most hopeful and CON
servative view Of the disaster.
James b. Hammond. head OF the
Hammond Typewriter company. left
the private sanitarium where he has
been for some time, a Shoriff's jury
having declared him sane
The crew Of the German steamer
Milos arrived at Brest and told thrill
Ing tale Of their escape from the burn
ing vessel at sea.
Edward Cohen, president Of the
Massachusetts branch of the American
Federation Of Labor. died AT Boston as
the result Of the bullets from the re-
volver Of John A. Steele.
The Fort Pitt National bank, one Of
the Oldest financial institutions of Pitts
burg, failed to open for business by or
der of the comptroller of the currency.
Secretary Of War Taft and the mem
bers of his party embarked at Ham
burg on the steamer President Grant for
New York.
The secretary Of the treasury has ac-
cepted bids for the Panama canal bonds
to the amount of So. 600, 600 The aver
age price of all the bids accepted is l03.
The British turbine torpedo boat de
stroyer Tartar has beaten all records
for her class by steaminC 35.o12 knots
an hour against the tide.
Sunday, Dec. 8.
The House of Providence. Roman
Catholic orphan asylum for boys near
Syracuse. \. V, was burned to the
ground. involving n property loss of
1925. 600. The 1872 inmates escaped
without injury
In New England about 10000 hands
are affected at the present time by the
general policy Of curtalment, The
general sentiment seems to be that in
dustrial activity will be more apparent
after the close Of the year,
New York treated its millions of resi-
dents and tens Of thousands Of week
end visitors to the novelty Of thor
oughly "hlue" Sunday, the first in the
history OF the metropolis
One Of Van Dykes great master
pieces. "The Erection OF the Cross has
been stolen from the Church Of Notre
Dame at COurtral, Belgium.
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