Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
H WEEKS NEWS
Thursday. Feb, 10,

decided to pardon II the sailors impris.
oned for the fleet .nutiny in April, 1906.
Six persons arc believed to have been
killed by the explosion Of o mixer in the
starch factory Of c.. 8. Tanner at Provi-
dence. The building was wrecked by
the explosion
Congressman Allen Of the First
Maine district announced that he
would accept another nomination for
reelection to congress. If it should be
given him.
A movement of national scope 10
nominate Judge George Gray for the
presidency has been launched at Scran.
ton. Pa.
President Charles L. White Of Colby
college has been chosen associate c..
responding secretary of the American
Baptist Home Mission society of New
York.
A mass meeting Of the citizens of
Wellesley. Mass. called by the select
men. was held TO protest against the
service rendered by the Boston and Al
hany railroad.
The five Fass3maQuoddy indians
who secured Sll.072 from Massachu.
sets coast towns and cities in rewards
on bogus seal tails were given sentences
ranging from two to twelve months In
prison at Salem. Mass.
Friday, Feb. ~.
II has been learned that a bomb was
found under the landing stage where
King Carlos landed on the day Of the as
~sassination. IT had failed to explode he.
cause Of defect in the fuse.
On representations by a banking firm
Of Boston. tho Chica go. Cincinnati and
Louisville Railroad company has been
placed in the hands OF a receiver.
An advance OF r cents a barre in the
price of Ohio and Indiana crude oil was
made by the Standard OIL company.
The Italian Prince De Formosa has
been expelled from France by a decree
signed by Premier ~Clemenceau.
The congress of Nicaragua has rati-
fed all the treaties and conventions en-
tered into by the Central American
peace congress held recently in Wash.
ington.
The boa d Of directors OF the Trades
League OF Philadelphia placed them
selves on record as opposed to the pas.
sage Of the Aldrich currency bill.
IT is stated that w. II. Ridgely, the
comptroller OF the currency. has decided
to accept the presidency Of tho reor-
ganized National Bank Of Commerce Of
Kansas 0ty.
The National Consolidated Oil com
pany, a million dollar concern. with out
standing bonds of 5000, 600. han been
placed in the hands Of a receiver.
The Republican congressional com
mittee Of the Twenty-First Illinois dis
trlct adopted resolutions endorsing the
candidacy Of Joseph G.. Cannon for
president.
Saturday.. Feb. IS.
The great American feet Of sixteen
battieships. under the command of Rear
Admiral Evans. passed Valparaiso and
continued on its voyage nOrthward for
Nallao. Peru. the next stopping place.
The will of Mrs. Rylands. widow Of
John Rylands Of the famous Manches-
fer. Eng. cotton firm. b%equeaths So.
26J.0OC II various charities.
The American ship Emily Reed. 113
days out from New Castle. y. S. w,
for Portland, with coal. went ashore on
the Oregon coast md broke in two.
Ten eamen were lost. while six were
saved.
Woman Sufr3giStS who were mr.
rested when they attempted to make a
dcmOnstra ton in the British house Of
~ ., ~ ~ = vrr~ e.. Iail fN~ N n,-,S& 6 z;-
weeks rather than give sureties for
their good beha vior.
Charles Hastings, an American mine
owner. was roboed at Paris Of q pocket
book containing $4,000 by an English
p~ickpocket.
The constitutional amendment de-
signed to disfranchise the negro voters
OF the state was passed by the Mary
land senate.
Tyler. Tex, was swept by a disas.
trous tornado. The storm swept over
the main residence quarter Of the city,
leaving a Trail Of devastation and kill.
ing four persons.
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den.
WI was ihSIihttSt d L Lhc tht ''h-
vention to vote as a unit for William J.
Bryan as the Democratic nominee for
president.
The political situation in Portugal Is
improving daily. All danger OF a revo-
luton appears to have been removed
from the horizon.
Sunday, Feb. 16.
Charles w. Morse, financier and pro-
moter Of many large combinations, was
arrested in his stateroOm when the
steamer EtI1Iria reached New York
quarantine to answer to two indict-
ments charging him with grand larceny,
involving the sum Of $1,000
Despite Official assurances that har-
mony has been re-established between
Austria and Russia, the situation arts.
Ing from the question Of railway con
cessions in the Balkans has not lost its
tension.
Declaring that war between the
United States and Japan was too hell.
ish" to be thought of, Baron Takahira
the new japanese ambassador to Wash,
Ington, said that the japanese people
know absolutely nothing of a break in
the cordial relations between the ma,
tons.
The navy department has been Off