Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20

postmaster general. has concluded his
service with the government to take
| up the work Of managing the Taft presi-
dental campaign In the south and east.
Governor Guild, fresh from his trip
in the west. whore he was doomed for
| vice president while with the Taft par
| ty. said that he would not refuse the
nomination, but he made it perfectly
| clear that he was not a candidate.
Five hundred or moro American
| school teachers will visit England,
! Scotland. ireland and the continent OF
Europe next autumn for inspection OF
| schools and methods Of teaching in
vogue there.
A pearl necklace and pin Of ex-
t%raordinary beauty. valued at $50. 900,
have been stolen from the dressing room
| of Countess Won Wartensieben at Der.
lin.
The lin Crow" law went into effect
on street cars and railways alike in
Oklahoma. All railroads have arranged
| their depots and cars to comply with
the law.
The arnlOred cruiser North Carolina,
during her third speed test run, main.
| tanned an average speed of o.. As knots,
or AZ of a knot in excess Of contract
speed requirements.
Senator Clay Of Georgia is III with an
attack Of acute indigestion at Washing.
ton. He is seriously i'll. although not in
immediate danger.
Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Tho New York State Bankers asso-
cia1iOn put itself OH record as ''une-
quivocally disapproving' the provisions
of the Aldrich financial bill now pend-
ing in the United States senate.
A third Indictment, alleging per
jury by &. w. Morse during an exami-
nation before the grand jury. was
found by the special grand jury q short
time after Morse had pleaded not guilty
To 4 charge of grand larceny.
Declarations OF support to the candi-
dacy Of Governor Hughes for president
Of the United states and prophecies Of
his ultimate election to that office We're
made by speakers a. the notification
of Stewart l.. Woodford of his selection
as president OF the Hughes League Of
the United States.
Rear Admiral philibrrt reports that
the bursting Of a steam pipe on board
the French cruiser DcScarteS, off Casa
blanca. resulted In the death Of three
men and the injury of three others.
a strike Of AL the carmcn and in
spcctors of the Bangor and Aroostook
railroau has gone into effect. there
being aboug 10 on strike.
The alarmist reports of the possibili-
ties Of hoSulities between Russia and
Turkey. which have perneated all
strata Of Russian society. have now as
sumed the proportions of a veritable
war scare.
The rivers IN Pittsburg and its sub
their banks and except for the cleaning
up the food is over.
Captain Van Setback. who command
ed the steamboat General Slocum
wher i. was burned and 1000 lives were
lost, will begin his sentence Of ten years
next Tuesday.
Gertrude Il. Williams. a white wo-
man. shot and killed her negro hus-
band. Pearlcy 7. Williams at Hartford.
Her defense will be self-defense.
The senate, after nearly five hours
debate on the nomination Of Lieutenant
COlonci Wotherspoon to be brigadler
general, voted to confirm.
Wednesday, Feb. 10.
The mystery of the disappearance OF
Mrs. Maude Woodbury., wife of Her.
bert Woodbury., a wealthy livery stable
keeper and real estate owner OF Fox
croft, Ne. was solved when her dead
body WAS found hanging by a core to a
of the fourth story lodging house which
her husband owned.
Resolutions adopted by the Illinois
state central committee endorse Speak
err Cannon for president of the United
States.
Lewis S. Cox, an insurance broker
Of Philadelphia. is charged with forg.
ing a check for $4,000 on the Quaker,
Town pa National bank. r..
King Leopold Of Belgium has con
ferred upon Cardinal Gibbons the grand
cross of the Royal Order of the Crown
General Tung Fuh Slang, the leader
of the Boxers in the uprising in China
in 1900, is dead. He was regarded a
one time as the ablest and most power
full Of the Chinese generals.
The Iowa supreme court upheld the
constitutionality of the Des Moines
plan of municipal government by com
mission in every particular.
Chester Gillette must die in the cleo
trio chair for the murder Of his sweet
heart. Grace Brown, in a lonely part OF
Big Moose lake in the AdirOndacks
The New York court of appeals sus
tanned the Judgment Of conviction ol
murder in the first degree.
A mirage of a bic clearness
lasting for an hour, reflected the lower
bay of Boston harbor 10 hundreds OF
people along the Boston water front.
Speaker Cannon's presidential boon
received marked impetus in congress
when Mr.. Boutell, his colleague frou
Illinois. brought the subject t O the for,
as the climax of a half hours speech.
Beech Harcis was indicted at Jack
son. ny, IN a charge Of wilfully nj
derine his father.