Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-31
Monday, Oct. 20.

and nearly - persons were badly in
jured as result, 10 Of the number re.
ceiving serious injuries which may
MAIN them for life, if not resulting N
several fatalities.
The feeling AMONG New York bank.
ing authorities is that united action
and wise counsels have already accom-.
plished much in providing solution
for the financial problem
Schooner Thomas $. Cromwell mr..
rived at Boston with her flag at hall
mast her captain and two Of the crew
having been lost by drowning.
While conducting his campaign rs
Republican candidate for representa-.
tive Carleton r. Sanford dropped dead
Of heart disease at Berkeley, Mass.
Mayor Fitzgerald Of Boston has is
sued an order to stop all payments 10
the Atlas Construction company on the
S51 800 contract which the company
has with the city OF Boston for build
ing a dividing wall between the gov
eminent and city property at Deer isl.
and.
Twenty-Five freight cars were de
rallied and many of them piled up in
heap at otter River. Mass. , The nc.
cident was caused by the breaking If a
wheel
John Wilkes. negro. robbed tive
small boys al Byron, Ga, Of - cents.
When Marshal johnson made an Of.
fort to arrest him the negro attempted
10 shoot the officer and the latter was
lynched.
The balloon Pen Franklin" having
gas capaciy Of 80 OOo cubic feet
landed az Eclshertown, Mass. after a
successful "trip from Philadelphia.
Professor Samuel A. King. 70 years old,
was the pilot Of the balloon.
Tuesday, Oct. 20.
General Maximofsky, director Of III.
department of prisons Of the Russian
ministry Of the interior. was shot and
killed ut st. Petersburg by n woman.
He was the highest responsible Official
connected with the Russian prisons
Speaker Cannon's official campo IN
for the presidential! nomination was
! started at n meeting Of Illinois Repub-
| lican congressman Mt Chicago.
The worst of the financial crisis a
New York is over and matters are set
ding down to comparatively normal
conditions.
Cann.halis;n has been resorted to by
! the Eskimos in the UnCava Bay dis
tlict and on the shores of Hudson
strait, according to Rev. Mr. Stewart,
an Anglican missionary to the Ungavl
| BAY Eskimos.
r. u. Greene and ]. r. Gaynor con.
tractors, who We're convicted of de-
frauding the government out Of a large
sum of money. We're denied rehear-
Ing by the United States circuit court
of appeals,
William ]. Payne Of Richmond
while on his way from Washington 10
New York city. was robbed on train
Of leather grip containing $4,000 N
bonds and stock certificates.
Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, was
arrested at New York on a charge of
criminal assault
District Attorney Morsns office has
ordered mol pressed the indictments
against the New England Telephone
| and Telegraph company in regard "a
placing persons at work on the request
OF office holders.
Walter r. Gillette. former vice presi.
dent Of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, was sentenced to prison fol
six months for perjury.
Wedne sday, Oct. 80.
The break in the price Of wheat
brought large European orders TO CHI.
cago for immediate shipment
steamer SaXona sailed from Boston
for Liverpool with 10000 barrels Of ar
pies, the record shipment Of apples &C
Europe on any one steamer.
The enormous influence which
American products are eXertng n
building up a credit balance abroad has
been the most signal development OF
the financial situation.
That q balloon has reached height
OF 1850 feet and there recorded Il
temperature Of III degrees below zero.
Fahrenheit was one Of the statements
of Prof, ssor Kotrh of the Blue Hill oh.
fervatory. Boston.
Governor stokes Of New Jersey has
signed the hill providing for popu-
lar express on in the selection Of Unit
ed states senators.
Or. George +. Gordon, who has pene-
tratod the Alaskan wilderness for 2OOO
miles on the Mrs. G. G. Harrison expo
ditlon, reports the discovery Of smal
tribe OF ahoriGrpS hitherto unknown to
tthnoogiStS.
A committee VAS organized at Mad
ison. Wis. 10 promote the candle acy
Of Senator Lsfo.icttc for the Repuhi-
can nomination for president
The French submarine boat Lutin,
which sank with all hands at Bizerta
in October, 1906 sunk for the second
time in roulon hArbor. No lives were
lost
Macmillan Harden, editor Of DE
Zukunft, was acquitted IN the suit
brought against him for defamation Of
character by General Count Won
Moltke, formerly military governor Of
Berlin
A horde Of yegCmen, second story
work erS, sneak thieves and hold-up
men are ut work in Boston and the
surrounding section.
rs OPERATORS RETURN.