Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-02-09
Crimes and Casualties of the Week.

The woole1--niii and clearinghouse o: c. {
Allrich y Sen. 1t Grady. Mass. was burned
Monday morning Loss SIS 900; insured for
Sl5,409-Tae house Of Henry Mcclellan, 10
Washington township, Erie County. Ohio. "a,
burned Monday morning Ae himself persisted
in The flames He va. 70 years Of sge-The
stelmc, Moses Taylor, arrived At San Francisco,
brings news Of a heavy earthquake st PsuAh,
Hawaiian Islands. IN. d, aud me vol-atb XII
ealca vas in active operation. The United
Sales frisste Glerriere, having On beard the
remains Of tie late Gen. Robert Andersen, a.
rived in Hampton Roads at noon Sunday. and
passed on up 20 Nor.olk.-Clrstiin Lean
shot anI killed himself Sunday, at his gife's
grave in a cemetery at san Francisco. - The
large sls-uili owned b. Messrs. Abbott d Hol-,
near Concord y II was burned Sunday. Loss,
50 900 Insurance, S2.O00-The body OF
c. A. Carr, Alderman Of Newport. who has been
missing for several weeks, was found on The shore
near that city Sunday asternoon.-Altert 4.
Sogcr5, for many years responsible CLERK in
the Western Union Telegraph ofi;e il Boston,
las sbsoJadei with over 5000 OF the C0mpi-
uy's money son Of Col. Alexander cf
Washington, sgei IS, was drowned on Weinet-
day, by ie'lias through tho ice while skating
-- Charles Billig Of the Humboldt Mills. in
Nevada, attempted TO murder Miss Sheldon,
because she refused TO marry him. He fret two
sh5ts a; her from revolver, but Intellectually.
and then shot himself through the head The
man Slough who, in a ct OF rage caused by
drink All jealousy, b7u,lliy stabbed aoi killed
Lis wife al Richmond, Ky, was lyncael On Fri
dsy aight--Ihe treasurer q Santa Cruz
County, Ca, vas seized sni bound in ais office
or Sunday, b. armed sni masked men. who
deosuped with $4,000 in gold. The Mia-
ma, Osio. powder mills blew up, killing several
pe-sons.---A rejected lover at B'zrah. Coma
killed bic insmorata ami attempted suicide -
TO young ladies', named Mary and Ra,e Dlly.
while crossing the Ohio River At Cincinnati, on
Sunday night, broze through the weakened ice.
within few feet Of the shore. and we're drown
si-At Providence, R. l.. Mrs. Phebe Ann
wood slipped On the ice IN her yard, Saturday
last. and died, soon after the fall, of conclusion
of the brain.---Oa sunday an explosion Of gss
occurred IN cuvert al Ninth aud Coates-sis g,
Philadelphia, causing great alarm in the neigh
bo-hood, and damaging the street in several
! places. "A large dselling-house aud stable
/ belonging 70 James J. Merriman, Brunswick,
/ Ne. were burned Saturday morning; loss,
/ 81 GOO; insured for sb5ut 81. 900 --Arrests
isst week, /, 400 in New YORK City; msrrisges,
/ 1871; births, 452; deaths, 57i; loss from 81
! 6res, S54 $40, insurance, SIPS, $50; fees from
! - icenses, SZS9 so; situations procured at the
Free Labor Bureau, 59S. dutch Heinrich, a
notorious sneak thief, WAS arrested for bond rob
berry on Saturday a schoo-house in Green
VILE, Conn, vas burned yesterday morning.
Messrs. Abbott q Hollis ssE-nill a. Concord,
n. Il . was destroyed by fire Ssturday.-Geo.
B AXE, OF Esst Pepperell, Mass, eyed nineteen
years accidentally shot himself dead on Thur
/ day-Tne schooner Vests, from New York,
for Galveston, has been wrecked nesr Spanish
Key, Ahacoa.---Iisryey Jones planins mill,
in Cincinnati. was burned on Thursday mig ht
Loss SIG Geo. WIN Freemsn, a dyer il
Waterford, r. l., was scaldei to death in VA
OF no, dye. on Monday.-The wsrerooms d
Bcuchsrd s Sortie, in Quebec, and Thompson
book store, were burned on Thursdsy nigh;
Loss So, O00-At Christian, Del, Ch.rle
Shoemaker fell through the Joe while skating. OF
T4ursdsy, and vas drowned. - Mrs. Mar
Hacketi, aged tEenty-ive, committed suicido II
Philadelphis, Friday. She leaves one child
Edward Noonsu, aged thrty-two years, Wa
killed on the Boston and Albany Railroad OF
Thursday night - Christian Lean shot sn'
killed himself on Thursday, at his wife's grAv
IN Looe Mountain Cemetery, near San Franci,
co.. Lorenzo 4. Phelps shot himself through
/ the head aud body, in San Francisco, On Thurs
day, while insane Richard Garrison, sho
. John Dooi 10 Salt Like City. Monday night
! inflic,ing mortal wound. A woman wss tn
cause.-At masquerade ball il Salt Lake
{ Monday night, row occurred and the polio
were beaten OF, bat returned with shot gun
snd stopped the performance The buildInl
G Of the Monitor Press Company, Newcastle
Penn WAS destroyed Sunday, with the contents
lozs, 600 to $4,000; insurance, 5,00C
, Samuel White, colored. was hanged j
r Charleston, S C. Monday, for the murder
W. B. Fiiea, last summer. The sentence
Whites sccomplice vas committed by Gov
n Scott to imprisonment for life when under Ii
gsl,oWs.