Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-01

shattered an East Side tenement at
New York and with the crumbling walls
IA persons went down to death. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown
The successor to the late Senator T..
w. Pettus Of Alabama will be former
Governor johnson.
Three traipmen were killed and three
injured when Il special train struck
the rear of a freight ira in standing un.
der bridge at Campelo, Mass.
The condition of affairs in Central
America is considered TO he very crit.
cal and II is believed that the various
states are nearly on the verge of a war.
James Reed a negro, was lynched
at Crsheld, Md. for killing John II.
Daugherty, policeman.
Shereeiian troops attacked villages
belonging to the KamaSs tribe, in whose
territory bandit Raisui holds Caid
MacLean prisoner burned and looted
the villages, killing many Of the inhabi-
tants and taking large numbe OF pris-
operS.
On Cayuga lake. y. Y. steamer From.
tenac was burned to the waters edge
with the cost of eight lives and the Sc.
rious injury Of other passengers.
Fire originating on the nth floor of
the Memphis Cold Storage company's
building at Memphis caused one fire
mans death, the injury TO two others
and destroyed property worth 100000.
Mrs Lucinda VI. Morton, So years
old. widow Of Oliver p. Morton 1ndi.
ana's war governor, died at her home
in Indianapolis.
Tuesday, July 80.
The West India line steamer Orinoco
which went ashore off Cape Sable, will
be total loss. She has been absn.
doned and her cargo of sugar, molassei
and rum cannot be saved.
Negotiations between Great Britain
and Russia have resulted in an agree
ment amcaby adjusting all differences
on the Indian frontier and in Persia
Father Levont MartgooSSian the
Armenian priest whose name has been
associated with the Hunchskist So
ciety. was arrested at New York. fol-
lowing the investigation tue police
have been making into the assassina-
ton of Hovannes Tavshaniian, a veal
thy Armenian rug merchant.
That it is impossible for him under
present conditions to favor the presi.
dental candidacy Of Secretary of Wal
Taft is the statement Of Senator For.
aker in 4 letter given out at Cincinnati.
Eighteen are dead and at least IS
are seriously injured as the result of a
fire in a tenement house at New York.
All of the occupants of the house were
italians. There is no clue to the origin
Of the fire.
Exports from Germany to the Unit
ed States for the last fiscal year
reached a total of Sl61 963 ,95s, an in
crease Of S21 900, 900 over the last fiscal
year.
President Roosevelt has informally
approved the report of the board which
investigated the disaster on the bat
tleship Georgia.
Fifteen soldiers implicated in the re-
cent political plot against President
Alfaro Of Ecuador were executed at
Guay aqul.
Frank F. Rozzle. police commission
er Of Kansas city, was summary re-
moved by order Of Governor Folk
Robert Milne. aged 40. an electric
iinernan. was killed by a powerful cur
rent while repairing wires Fat Paw
tucket. r. |.
Charles II. Meyer, president Of the
Western Federation Of Miners and CO.
defendant with William d. Haywood
acquitted of the murder of Steunen-
berg. was ordered released on S25.
bail by Judge Wood, who presided at
the Haywood trial.
Wedne sday, July 81.
II is expected that total of 5000
troops will be in Belfast within few
days to suppress disorders arising
from strike of dock laborers.
The Berlin police declare that they
have a good clue and expect shortly
to arrest the ripper" fiend who in the
last few months has slain 80 little
girls and ha. thrown Berlin into tu-
mutt of terror.
The consolidation Of 10 coal mines
and washery is believed to be step
toward the ultimate consolidation Of all
the mines along the Illinois Central
railway southwark from East ST. Louis,
Ills.
The candidacy OF William II. Taft
for the Republican nomination for
president was endorsed by the Ohio Re-
publican state committee by vote OF
II TO G.
A letter from Caid MacLaln states
that Raisul. who holds him prisoner,
threatens 70 put him to death unless
the sultau'S troops are withdrawn
from the Elkmes territory.
The Independence factions that
united in the campaign under the name
Of the Natonalists appear to have won
the general election held throughout
the Philippine islands.
Five well-ti'led icehouses Mt Sharon,
Mass, belonging to the Boston Ice
company. were destroyed by fire, with
loss Of $50 600
The United States Steel corporations
total net earnings for the spring quar-
ter were S45.507,7O5.
Two women were Stran gled 10 death
at New York Detectives have been
unable TO find any traces of the muir
derer. They believe that both crimes
were committed by the same person. as
both bodies we've mutiluted in the same
manner