Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-02-16
Crimes and Casualties of the Week

Avery, the New Jersey murderer, is said TO
b.ve Avery poor chance Of escape from punish
ment.-A severe storm devastated the cou, Of
Ireland.-The steamer Electra Was sunk in
the English Channel and IS persons droFnsi.--
Five cars were thrown from the track On the T.
Iinois Central Railroad on Friday. Conluctr
Charles Blanchard was found dead unler the
rreck.-A reward Of $500 is offered f5r tee
apprehension of Baker and Hslpin, the c5nluc
tor and engineer Of the freight train which r,a
into passenger train near Altoa last Welnas-
dsy.-At St. Paul, MINI, on Sun1Ay, R35s-,
Brittou Vas shot dead BY Louis Brcderick-
Smith & Covert's morocco factory, on Arch
street, Albany, was damaged $4,000 BY Ere.
Monday. -Thirty-tWO citizsns Of Los Angeles.
indicted for murder in the snti-Chinese r.0,s.
have pleaded no. guiity.-One Of Killer
Akius' hosiery mills, at Sand Lake, nesr Tr1y.
New York, was burned Monday. Loss, $780,
oo0. n,rtiallv insured Louis Stout lclI5r
81, WAS shot and killed in Warren, r. l., 90
TUESDAY night, by George Arnold lcollreiI.
While irving to enter Arnold's house, from which
he had been ejected-suudsy night, Henry
Hawkins, bookkeeper. shot Augustus E,s.eia.
in st. Louis, inacting probably : fatal v5ll.
-J.mes Thornton, Of Ashton, r / ae Tues
dsv evening, with his team got int The ears.
and the nan and horse were drowned Gin,
MARROW, the JamestoWn brewer, convcisl .f t-s
murder Of William BGeEmaa, a. Msys7lc, g.
Y. was sentenced to be hanged On the -'h
March ne1t.-Ths National Hotel, the Taylor
House. and Oil Exchange, the branch ,tHsss
the Western Union Telegraph Company, a-I
two or three saloons, in Oil City, Penn. e.-s
burned Saturday,. Loss $4,000 psrti=.7 o.
cured IN the case Of Phillips sni 81. l1
.ysins, the Grand Tower Trsnsp0ris-1l s-
Manufacturing Company, tried At the J1.-.
Ststes Circuit Court in Springfield, IT., Fa-.
dict for 500, 900 was given after the jury -t.
deliberSted five minutes.-A passenger -rs.r
On the Rockford. Rock Island AID s.. IONS
Railroad, near Alton. Welnesla7 morning. 7as
/ run into by freight train and took -l6, eng
pAstengers are known 10 have rsen burnt
| death; thirteen others were injured the blaze
is laid 10 the conductor Of the freight ire 49,
Arch Embry Was shot auI killed 81 Gala Re-.
| Pope Co. Ark, by two young men named lsur
sew. The brother and father 0. Arch Lu.rr-
murdered at Little Rcck, attacked IA Oh gent
nan named Tucker. charging bin Fi'h lt,--
the cause Of the killing. join h.uup- tl
proprietor Of tenement house in SeT f...
Eas killet during sn alteration with tle wife -:
one Of his ;enauts.-Tho Psymesysr ~ PIE
Delaware, L.ckasanns sul Western Ra'-al
decamped with SO. OO9Of the Company ;l-
a Coroaer's Jury az Scranton gave - --..i
verdict in the colhery explosion csse -A .ss--
fol and bloody outbreak has taken Place BE-
smalI town in the Argentine States ---.rea
persons were injured by railway sc,il=1. near
I Jefferson City, M0.-A locomotive rllr- -z-
ul1sion in Wisconsin killed one msu All fatal
tc.ldei another-A dishonest oiicisl he's been
discovered in the Third ACtii0r's office, New
York.-James z Gar1ner az New ilr-. died
early on Saturday, from the effects lt ca. CO.
I form, inhaled TO aIisy pain atherile Lrs-
dy, aged 20, VAS drowned on SATURDAY 10 the
/ East River. of the W0rslOlse, BlacSve-.'t j.
and. W. ConSlins shoe store, Brooklyn
Was robbed Of $3.50 worth OF stock on Saturday
night--Msry Rooney, age t.. diei IN Belle
vue Hospital. Sunday, from injuries received
from her clothes taking dre--Csthsrne VII
ton, age 80, EGs dangerously burned on Ss-ur-
| day by the explosion Of . csu Of kerosene which
che was using to kindie fre-Peier Qlil,
notorious clearinghouse thief, 0f Brooklyn who
w.s sentenced On Saturday TO the psnitentAry
/ for four and half yesrs, escaped from the prs
on-van.-An 1tfray occurred 81 the Haroecs
stores in, Brooklyn, on Saturday, between John
Small and sailor, during which SmAi's ear
WAS bitten of.-Hiliebrande, the celebrated
outlaw, VAS recently lynehed in Miss0uri--A
shocking scene 81 the late railroad sccide1t near
Alton, H.. IS related bya passenger, who says
that one man, name unknown, was csught DO
the tirbsrs Of the car By one fll- only, bu, 81
efforts 10 release MIN were unavailug At bis
own request 81 axe was sent for il order On cut
bis foot of, but before the axe arrived the dtue5
reached him and he wss burned 20 death. ---
John GilraY was arrsigusd Monday, on a charge
Of completely in the Panorn0 murder. AMI
PLEADED not guilty. He viii be tr.ei next week.
John C5ughln, late Of Bos,11, YVES instantly
killed, and b. B. hughes badly injured, by The
premature explosion Of 5 bias, a. san tran1.sc1,
Februsry l2-Dieirich' grocery, with the
tenemeLts above II, on Prince Street, Brcoklyr,
we're burned Monday night The inmates 5sre-
y escaped. A tenement house, on Christie
street, Brooklyn, containing d. zen families.
was ired b. kerosene Monday night. but VS.
discovered in season TO proven. great caismity.
John Russell and Wn. Marshall, ,F0 New
York highEaymen, have been arrested. identified
and fully convicted To- trial