Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-06-06

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General Summary.
Two hun ired school children decorated
the graves at Gettysburg.
The British Pacific squadron has been
ordered TO assemble on the coast Of Chill and
Peru.
The Jefferson Medical College, Philadel-
phia, has sent out upon the land ,26j
doctors.
kcntuoky papers are almost unit for a
constitutional convention and a whipping,
post law.
\ Georgian dug up friend to recover a
pocket book ne had dropped into the grave
while lowering the coffin.
The Darien Canal Congress has closed its
labors in Paris and decided on the Panama
Limon by route
A severe tornado or cyclone visited some
sections cf Missouri Thursday, unroofing
houses and destroying great deal of pro-
perty.
The Washington Hotel at IIagerstown,
Md. was burned early Thursday morning :;
eight persons arc supposed to have perishei
in the flames, ard thrty-iye were injured.
In Sumatra, playful elephants and tigers
upset the telegraph poles, and monkeys
break the wires hy taking gymnastic cxer
ciscS on them.
The daughter Of a hotel-kceper at Della
ware, o., rubbed red pepper in the eyes of a
boarder as nc Sa: at dinner, because he
winked at her.
A boy named MOZART, aged six years, died
at Elizabeth, n. j., Wednesday, from kicks
Inflicted during quarrel with 4 playmate.
lIiil>toncs nine inches in circumference
fell Mt Nincennes, lad. Monday. A farmers
child vas killed and another crippled by the
hailstune-.
Tne twenty fifth annual session OF the
| right worthy grand lodge Of good templars
Is in session at Cincinnati. A wonderful
growth Of TIE order is reported.
While boring the artesian well at Crane,
Bread 4 Co.'S coffin factory, Cincinnati, at
depth of $50 feet vein Of gas ignited
and damaged the plating works to the ez
tent of $4,000.
4 Walla Walla dispatch says some In
dians belonging to Sheep Eaters tribe raid
ed South Fork, Salmon river, Idaho, four
Hugh johnson and PASCAL Dawson, were
killed
A severe naval engagement has recently
been fought on the coast of Peru, between
a Peruvian ironclad and two Chiian wooden
war vessels. 1t is reported that all the YES
sells were sunk and that the loss of life was
very heavy.
Joseph Cook addressed the refugee freed
men at Topeka, Kansas, the other day, ad-
vised them to locate in small colonies, and
gave them good advice accompanied by one
hundred dollars.
While several men were engaged in
building sewer at Buffalo, n. y, Satur-
day, the embanKment gave away, burying
labnrer named Frederick kreiner, and
when extracted in about twenty minutes he
was dead.
At Leavenworth, Kan, Friday, band of
masked men entered the house OF a mau
named Murray, who WAS accused of the
murder of Mrs. Costello, on the 2Sth inst,
took him tn tree about hall mile from
his house, and hanged him.
Ia 4 race at B,lmont Park, Phihdclphia.
On Friday, to beat Goldsmith Maids time of
2;ll "n the same track, Hopeful trottcd
three mile IN 222l, 2:lI and 2.l7 IL The
fist nall mile in the third heat was made in
Los II, the fastest on record.
Near W inche-tcr, Va, Tuesday, quarrel
arose about ditch, between John Lewis
and his son and John Lampk ms and his two
sons. farmers, when Llmpkins's = eldest son
was shot and killed, and the youngest son
and father received severe injuries. Young
Lewis was fatally injured with a pick.
The latest aiviccs from Randazz1 report
that craters have formed on two slopes OF
Mount Etna and double eruption Is pro-
cecding. The Aureilc and CLntania road is
blJcked. Considerable damage has been
done. Fresh craters have opened cndanger-
Ing Blanca villa, Randazz, and Castglione.
Clouds Of ashes oyerhang Piedmonte, which
Is in almost total darkness.
The goyernor-general Of the Dominion and
the princess are not, aS was expected, to pass
the summer at Halifax, nor Is the duke Of
Edinburgh this year to take command of the
North American fleet. The ,ice-regal party
will probably return to Ottawa in time for
the celebration of Dominion day. July /,
after which it is likely they will make a
short visit, incOgnito. to the United States.
4 company Of mourrers who had assem-
bled at Il house in Little Valley, n. Y. to |
attend the funeral Of child, were sum
marily dismissed by lightning. One
streak of lightning struck Mrs j. B. |
Munger, tearing of both shoes. She was
rendered insensible by the shock, and was
supposed for Il time to he dead, but was not |
dangerously hurt. The a)or in the centre
OF the room was torn up, and two dog in |
the cellar were killed outright.
eish; weeks been busily at work at Phla- ,
delrhia making the balloons with which he
is to experiment all the summer preparatory
to making the trip across the ocean by bal
loon in 1850. The centennial Of the Mon
golfor iirc-balloon is yet four years in the
future, but long before that time the Amer
lean Aeronautic Society. which IL behind
the Professor in the scheme, hopes to sec !
the problem ul transatlantic aerial nayigi
tion thoroughly solved.
The excitement in the Boston wool mark
ct continues unabatcd, the sales OF last
week amounting to 4 ,O00, 900 pounds. The
transactions are largely in California wool
medium, unwa~hed Kentucky and Missouri,
and uuwashcd and unmerchIntahe ilccces
and super and extra pulled woods. The
maj ke. Is almost bare OF washed leeces
The manufacturers take hold freely. with
also more or less speculative inquiry, and
new wool from different points disappears
about - lat "a received.
The Mechanics Bank, Of Montreal, has
suspended payment, owing to the refusal of
Mplson'S Bank tn extend further ace1mmo-
Jarinus It, liabilities are S626 600. As
sets, 1892 600 Ex,c-s of liabilities over
aasctg, S29l 900. Gov. G. j Brydscs, uf
the nud .on B,v Company i President OF the
bank This the second time the institution
has failed within three years. Ga the
former occasion. Alexander Nelson was the
mana ger. und MIR McrzcS has heen hi
successor 10 the close Of the bark. The
failure will not affect the other banks.
except 81 Tar as they hold notes OF
the dciunct concern. Liquila lation will take
place.
The explosion ul the powder magazine Of
The American Powder t"mpiny. near Chi
clgn, Sunday morning May 25, was remark
able in several particulars 1t was struck by
lightning, aud although it contained 80 ,0OO
pounds oi gunpowder, nearly all of which
was Gcstroycd, people living less than three
block distant neither ~iw the hI-h, heard
the sound nor lclt the shock Several kegs
OF powder were hurled jOO icet and deposit
ed unharmCd. They were wooden kca-.
thus showing them superior to the metallic
in ,such emergencies Within n radius If
thrc, quarters ni II mile was an aggregate Of
over half million Hounds Ct powder stored
IN different magazines, ard none ut them
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