Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-04-09
THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, April 2.

Thursday, April 2.
Counsel for Mrs. Alfred G.. Wander.
bit, formerly Miss Elsie French, filed
suit against her husband. Alfred G..
Vanderbilt in the supreme court at
New York. FOR absolute divorce
The spirit of uncertainty and Of I'm.
rest still prevails in Port au Prince.
The minister to Hayti shows consider
able alarm concerning the action the
Haytien government may take against
the refugees now asylumned in the
French legation.
The new battlcship Idaho was placed
in commission by the government ut
League Island, though nearly half Of
the crew Of 1872 men assigned for duty
on the vessel were absent because of an
epidemic ~ mumps at the navy yard
Cardenio r. King. formerly finan-
cial agent at Boston. was declared
bankrupt. The wherea bouts Of King
are unknown.
The Fail River. Mass. Weavers' IN.
/ Ion, the largest textile union in the
country. voted 10 withdraw from the
/ q,
The weavers object TO n per capita tax
of 10 cents after May I.
! ConvctS serving sentences at hard
labor in the penitentiary az Culebra. in
| the Panama canal zone, are TO be set to
work on highway construction
/ Tho New Bedford. Mass, Sninncrs
voted by small margin to accept the
wage cut FOR tine present
Friday. April 3.
During a high wind the ice went out
Of burlington, VI. harhor and the lam
! upset tho lighthouse at the end Of the
Burlington breakwater
Tho Joseph Banigsn rubber factory
a. Providence will be closed indefinite.
~ and IN the future the goods will hn
manufactured at Woonsocket, RI
Ry sharp reduction in storage
rates, announced by the North German
Lloyd Steamship company, it is ex-
pected that another rate war between
the transatlantic lines will be precipi.
tatod.
BY the explosion of a bomb In hall
way of an Italian tenement house I
New York three men wore injured and
the walls. ceilings and foorincs Of the
house wrecked.
During night maneuvers in the Eng.
fish channel the cruiser Berwick ran
down the torpedo boat destroyer TIGER
and severa men were drowned The
Tiger was cut in half and speedily sank.
Rear Admiral Evans has begun
treatment al the Psso Robes. Cal. no,
springs for rheumatism and stomach
trouble.
Carrying total Of s1l.50s SOC. the
Agricultural appropriation biz was
passed by the house of Representatives
A murder WAS uncovered In field
near Flushing, L. L. when the body Of
an unidentified Ita Ian was found liter
ely cut TO pieces.
The expulsion of Gussoni & Co. cot
ton brokers and exporters. from the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange was an
nounced publicly on the floor of the ex
change
The doors Of the Broadway Saving,
bank of Toledo were closed because OF
o run on if by depositors
The Indiana Republican state con
vention instructed the thirty state dele
gates 10 the national convention at Chi
cago to vote and 10 work for Fairbanks
nomination for the pre- idency.
Saturday. April 4
Andrew Carnegie will add $4,000, 00t
to the fund o. the Carnegie Foundation
TO include as pension heneficiarieS eli
gibe professors Of state universities.
Guilty OF murder was the verdict Re
turned by rhe Jury at Providence in th
case Of Earl V. Jacques. charged witt
r. the murder of Miss Mary Eddy. il
Greenvile, X. l.. on Jan. 3
For President Of the United States
Thomas r. Watson Of Georgia. for vic
president. Samuel Williams of Indiana
, The foregoing ticket was nominated b.
the Peoples party convention afte
two stormy sessions
, George Hackeuschmidt Quit In hi
match with Frank Gotch for the catch
as-catch-can wrestling mpionship o
the world, giving the title to the low
, man by default after a struggle !astiuI
over two hours
baby Is born in New York ever.
g four minutes This is the record tina
! has been made in the five boroughs 70
the first three months Of 1908.
D Fines We're imposed upon twent
wealthy umbermer Of Toledo foun
guilty Of conspiracy in restraint o
, trade ranging from $500 to $1,000.
, The president has directed that sur
x day work in the departments at Wast
+. ington be restricted to that which is O
@ an emergency character or abso.utel
9 necessary TO the public interest and We
fare
= The New York. New Haven an
Hartford Railroad company has decide
o that the existing scale of wages Sha
d continue and that the pece-work rui
= will not he enforced
James j. Roche. the American consl
at Berne. died after long lines,
Roche will be better remembered as a
Irish American poet of distinction tina
as diplomat.
Sunday, April S.
Harry Rothenberger, aged 10, wh
II was arrested at Philadelphia. charge
n with larceny. declares that hc was aide
II md a hnttoI II, no Of obi ,ai y l..