Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-11
GENERAL SUMMARY.


seems imminent.
-Four hundred Nihilists were arrested at
KiefT on the night of the 26th of June.
G.oT,a Richardson. aged G.. while mark
ing at a target range at Mcdford. Mass. Sat
ur.lay. was accidrntly shot dead by his
nephew, Horace Richardson.
To despatch asking Courtney if he and
fIanlan would row at New London for
a purse of $1,000. Courtney replied :
Can't speak for IIanlan. hut for my
self-No."
Miss Jessie Dunbar aged 81, was walking
in the street nj Naltawan. y. Y. Saturday,
when some boys hchind her threw fire
cracker under her skiris, and her clothing
took fire She was burned in a horrible
manner, and died in few hours.
VIM Blake and wife near Floyd's Cor
ners. Oneida county. y. Y, are charged
with heating an adopted girl aged -, 10
death because she did not hoe potatoes while
they were absent The child was buried.
hut the nciGhbors had the body dis!ntcrred.
Al Murri- I-inu,l near T.,nts... y. J.. ou
the 18th. as an excursion boat was approach
ing the wharf, hundreds of people on the
Island rushed tnwardit. The wharf sudden
" gave way, and seventy-fve persons were
thrown into the river. Several were taken
out injured Mrs. Andrew Johnson, her
little son, AMI Il little girl named Miller,
were drowned and the bodies were recover
ed II is feared that others were not re-
covered
At Canandaigua \. y, on Wednesday
night. John New became lncenscd at his wlic
and attacked her with an axe, Telling her Ia
the earth and killing her instantly. lie then
took a razor and severed his jugular dying
in a few minutes. The cause of the crime
has not been aSccrllned.
The fourth WAS celebrated at Atlanta, Ga,
hy procession of cN-toniedcrate soldiers,
reading the declaration of independence by
Ex-Governor Walls. and an address by Father
Ryan, the poet priest. After the speaking
there was an old fashioned 4th of July har
hecuc.
An Indian was arrested at Fort Saskatch-
evan, near EdmastOn, Canada, recently,
for numbering and eating bis wife and four
children. The mounted police found the
bones and sculls which had been boiled and
the flesh taken of, the skulls mashed and
brains extracted.
The records of the pension bureau up 10
the Both of June show that Is, $50 arrears of
pension eases, representing -, ,2oO, az, have
already been paid or are ready for payment.
Upwards Of 1900 cases were settled in June
The commissioner expects that nearly all
who are entitled will he paid oil by October
first
Mrs. Henry Anderson of Wiliilmsbursh,
\. y. with one ycar-uld baby IN her arms,
attempted to light a fine with kerosene The
can exploded and both mother and child
were envclopcd with burning oil. Her son,
aged six, who was sitting hy AN open win
dow, gave shrek, lcapcd out and fell Ia
the sidewalk below. Mis-. Anderson and the
infant died shortly after. The hoy, who
not recover
Mark Byron. n young man "i 23, II
fugitive from Russia, came 10 this country
recently and settled At Lionvillc Chester Co,
Pa. lie proposed marriage tu a Young lady,
Mary Stnr, who refused him nn Friday
he forced his way into an empty schooI
house drew "a portrait of Miss Slinr on the
blackboard beside portrait of himself un
derncatl he wo,c Me love her She ne
love me" On another part of the black
board he wrote M. Byron, artist, born III
Russia Dee 9G, lslG. Death in I. :. July
,, 1872" lie then blew his llains out with
"a revolver. lli- dead body was found in the
school room.
While making an excavation at Ta"hkuni'
Falls, near Trumanshurs. y. y. a prtrlied
body was discovered eighteen inches hcluw
the surface in nearly horizontal position
II was well preserved, and evidently the bod,
of male Al the first glance it apprarr,
to bc that OF "A human being, hut closer in
spcction showed that the feet were roun,
and clawcd like panlhcr's The dimrn
sions were six feet three inches long. cigh