Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-06-01

Ten women to one man went to the New
York dog show.
The potato crop on Long Island is being
ruined by the potato bug.
| A crop failure throughout Illinois is fear
ed, owing to continuous rains.
Pittsburg, Penn, has hired boys to pull
up the dandeliOns which are killing the
grass in its parks.
The richest ladies in America are said to
be Miss CatharIne Wolfe, of New York city,
and Mrs. William Gammsll, only child of
the late Robert Ii. Ives. of Providence.
The Queen has granted three needy Misses
Deioe. lineal descendants of the author Of
Robinson Crusoe," pensions Of 1875 per
annum each.
A pious hen crawlcd into a Methodist
church in Jefferson City. Sunday week, and
laid an egg in the contribution box.
1t is estimated that within the past fl
teen years from thirty to fifty thousand
square miles Of American timber forest
have been destroyed by fire.
Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania,
has issued warrants for the execution OF
eight Molly Mcguire murderers. in addition
to four issued a week ago.
A woman in Perry, Ohio, who was gath
ering vegetable oysters for dinner. found
upon one OF the roots Il gold ring. which
was lost III years ago.
Annie Walker, a disreputablc eOlored
woman. was standing at her doorway, in
New York, when an unknown white man
stepped on her foot, She pushed him of,
when he turned and stabbed her, probably
fatally.
Earnest Lee Claain, of IIOpkinton. Mass.
an Exeter, n. H.. schoolboy, was drowned
while bathing, on Monday.
Patrick Murphy, 60 years old, fell into
pond in Thompsonville, Conn, on Wednes-
day night. Being drunk and getting stuck
in the mud, he was drowned in three feet Of
water.
Professor Barton, of the College of New
York. who recently committed suicide, was
the fifth of his family to die by his own hand.
His grandfather shot himself. and his father
and two brothers took their own lives.
Max Mareizek, they say, has made up an
English opera troupe for California. with
Miss Cary and Miss Kellogg and other
American singers. among them the bari
tone, William Green, who has been singing
in Italy for nino years.
An American reporter is going to Europe.
1t was he who wrote of shipwreck at sea,
Thus fifty weary souls went and bit the
DUST" and of a fire in an icc-house, So
10000 pounds of ice were reduced to ashes"
Rev. II. Victor MacdOna. the English
clergyman and dog iancier, attended Ply
mouth church Sunday. lie and Mr.. Beccher
had a conversation after the sermon. each
congratulating the other upon his being
one of a family of seven brothers, all OF
whom were clergymen.
The San Francisco Chronicle cOrrects the
story set atl1at by the Bulletin concerning
the cost of the residences OF the million
aires. Stanford, Hopkins and CrOcker. That
of Mr.. CrOcker, it says, cost about SiOO.
900, instead OF s.. 500 900; Hopkins's $500,
600, and Stanford's SI50,000.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to finish
the Douglas Monument has passed both
Houses of the Legislature of Illinois and
no doubt has become a law by the approval
Of the Governor. 1.-The had lived to this day
he would now be in the sixty-ffth year of
his age, his birthday being April %, 1913.
Four boys, aged from II to Is, residing
in Gray, Me, were precipitated into the
pond by the bottom falling out of an old
lat-b -bottOmed boat in which they were
sailing. One named Verrill. who could
swim, got the others upon the wreck and
pushed it ashore, but exhausted his strength
so that he le' - in deep water and was
drowned.
The discCyerer ul lie Eelus of Milo. Col.
Voutier. has died at llyeres. When mid
shipman in ITO French navy in 1921 he
landed on the lsIaAd It Milo. and noticed
a peasant digging in the ruins of an old
chapel. The peasant had unearthed part
of statue in a bad state OF preservation.
and as it was useless to him. was beginning
to cover it up again. NJ. Noutier, however.
at once saw the value of the discovery and
bribed the man to excayate the figure CON-
pletely.