Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, May H..


A fall Of rock and Goa in the Prospect
Colllery at Midvalc, Pa, killed four
mine workers and injured three others.
Little apparent Roadway has been
made toward solving the mystery Of the
fourteen deaths thus far discovered on
the farm of Mrs. Belle Guinness near
La Porte. Ind.
Nine hundred stone cutters went on
strike at Quincy, Mass. in conse-
quence Of the refusal Of the bers
Of the Manufacturers association TO en-
dOrse the closed shop.
Allen Gard. governor Of Lanao, is
dead, the result Of bolo wounds in
nicted by Moros. I.anao is a province
OF the island 81 Mindanao.
The positions Of three secretaries
publishing. district missionary and
financial--whose salaries aggregate
$4,000, were abolished by the Amer
lean Tract society.
The United states senate passed
without amendment the house bill re-
storing the motto I'm God We Trust"
on coins Of the United States.
The Rhode Island senate killed the
bill increasing the salaries Of justices
OF the supreme and superior courts.
The receiver of the National Bank Of
North America. New York. which was
the first Of the G.. W. Morse banks to
close its doors, announces a 25 percent
dividend for depositors.
Friday. May IS.
thu npJnrri,~r ,r, ooo-zs
ton statistics showed that the total
property loss in rho United States for
1907 was just short Of $500, 600. 600. The
insurance loss on the Chelsea. Mass.
fire Of April - was ~sS.S45.s7o.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent target
practice ut Magdalena bay.
A decree OF absolute divorce in favor
n FRITZ Schen, the actress. was grant
cd at New York. She was married to
Baron Won Radelchen in 1909.
Thirty dead and 200 injured Is a CON
servative estimate Of the fatalities
caused by a tornado which swept
through northwest Louisiana.
Disaster overlook Wilbur and Or
vile Wright. who have made success
ful fights with their ~scroplane at Kill
Devil Hill. North Carolina. for. after
the greatest fight ever made with a
similar machine, the aeroplane was
wrecked.
The cornerstone of the new $500. ONo
naval Y. NJ. c. A. building. given by
John y. Rockefeller. was laid at Nor
folk.
BY tho death Of Mrs. Sarah G.. Bur
bank. the city Of Fitchburg. Mass. will
shortly come into the possession Of =
trust fund Of $4,000 for the erection
and maintenance Of hospital.
Jacob Levitsky and Abraham VOL
nitz. the ragmen who were charged
with arson in connection with the Chel-
sea, Mass, ERE Of April IL, were re-
leased, no probable cause being found
against them.
The Democrats Of Minnesota formal.
~ endorsed Governor johnson as a
presidential candidate and at the same
time. by a vote Of ITO to 1865, refused TO
dtclare in favor Bryan as a second
choice.
Saturday, May t6.
Identification was made OF the piece
Of jaw bone taken from the ruins OF the
Guinness farmhouse as a portion Of
Mrs. Belle Guinness skull.
The Socialists in natiora convention
nominated Eugene V. Debs for presi
dent and Benjamin Hanford for vice
president.
Hugo Cuhornen died at Winsted
Conn. from hydrophobia. The nature
Of his illness was not known until an
autopsy had been held.
The efforts of the students Of Swarth.
more college to induce the faculty to re-
consider its action in aha ndoninG inter
collegiate football contests have proved
futile.
Rear Admiral Sperry has assumed
command Of the strongest force of drst-
class fighting ships assembled in the
history Of the nation.
AS a result Of recent naval disasters
the British admiralty has issued orders
suspending all night maneuvers by
naval vessels until further notice.
The first conferences of the governors
Of the states Of the American Union has
ended, but time is needed TO reveal the
epoch which the president and the gov
ernors believe has been begun.
The right of President Roosevelt
summary to dismiss a negro soldier OF
the Twenty-Fifth infantry for alleged
participation in the riot at Brownsville
Tex. was sustained in the L nited States
district court at New York.
Two Italians, Ferdinando di RibassC
and Giuseppe A. Xeccoio. charged with
murder, pleaded guilty at Cambridge
Mass, Of murder in the second degree
hi Ribasso killed his wife, while Zee
colo killed a hoy.
Sunday, May II.
King Manuel's attachment for the
young daughter OF a lady in waiting Ia
Queen Amelie threatens TO disrupt The
matrimonial plans which are being
made for him by P~ortugal's roya
matrhmakcrs.
An outbreak of cholera has compelled
the withdra wal Of nearly all the white
troops with General Willcock's FIRST
column in India into the cholera ca MP
Advices from the now naval hospita