Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-17
General sum mary.

A kerosene lamp explosion near Bushkill
Pa, resulted in the burning to death of Mrs
John Alderman.
At Toledo, Ohio, W. A. Duryea shot his
wife and then killed himself, Friday, on ac-
count of jealousy.
Careful estimates place the number of
freight cars on the various lines between
Chicago and New York that were biockaded
during the recent storm at Is 900.
Marcus Kronberg, New York ewcller,
made an assignment on Saturday, with liza
bilities of $4,000 and assets about $50
900. The creditors are mostly in Eastern
cities and Europe.
Peter lle.dick. who failed for over a mil
lion dollars about year ago, disappeared
from Williamsport, Pa, ten days ago, since
which time nothing has been heard of him.
Ii IL believed, outside of his circle OF friends,
that he left on account of requisition from
the Governor of New York for his arrest.
The House has passed n resolution giving
the widow of the late Representative
Schecher the salary he would have drawn
Tor the remainder OF this Congress. and re-
commencing that the next Congress give the
estate full salary for the next Congress, to
which he was also elected Mr. Schleicher
WIS poor.
Obituary Antoine Augustin Preault, the
eminent French sculptor, aged S0.-Ilorace
K. Sueeter, OF Worcester, Mass, widely
known as the author of the 'Streeter system
of voice building aged 51.-Rev. j. 0.
Skinner (UniversalisD of Waterville, Me-,
aged 63. lie was at one time associate
editor of the Christian Depository, Montpe-
licr
The largest amount OF mall ever carried on
one train in this country came into Cleveland
from Rochester, N. Y, after the recent snow
blockade was broken. Nine of the fifteen
cars on the train, all of them heavy with
snow and ice, were postal cars, and they
carried sixty tons of matter, represented by
200 packages of letters and $40 sacks of
papers.
At Albany. Monday, over thousand men
came over from the opposite side of the river
and interfered with party Of men cutting
ice, inducing them to stop work. They
then went on and did the same thing with
other laborers, until at last the police were
sent for and three of the leaders were ar
rested and committed. The strikers want
cd Sl.5O per day instead Of dollar.
William Ii. Vanderbilt was driving two fast
trotting horses on Central avenue in sleigh,
Monday, and colided with another sleigh
driven by Patrick Sheehy, liquor dealer,
completely wrecking the latter's vehicle and
throwing out five occupants, one of whom,
Mrs. Herman, was seriously injured, having
been struck by one of Vanierbilt's horses.
Vanderbilt was unhurt
Grave charges have been preferred against |
John n. Stearns, of Brook lyn, aged 50 years,
who is the Superintendent of the Noble |
street Presbyterian Sunday and Miss |
Lilly Penny, teacher in his Sunday-school |
and his private Secretary. The evidence
produced is of the most damaging character,
and is admitted by Stearns, who has gone to
Florida. The scandal causes a great sensa-
ton, as few men we're better known in
Brooklyn than Stesrns. lie was one of the |
pillars Of the Presbyterian church, and a
prominent member of the National Temper
ance Organization.
Madame Andersons walk netted her eight
thousand dollars.
j. Thomas yose. of Boston, has been
chosen president Of the Concord Railroad, in
place OF the late Gov. Stearns.
James II. Prentice, owner of two large
hat factories in Brooklyn, has failed Tor
S2OO,OO0 The factories were closed and
700 employees discharged.
Suicides Walter Pegg, of Grenville,
). C., unrequited love; morphine Charles
Douglass, of New Haven, CT. 4. dependency
through blindness drowned in bath tub.
Virginia is preparing to present claim
- and Mn -
eighty years interest, for moneys advanced to
aid in the original building of the Federal
capitol.
An English company is credited with the
intention OF deiying Scripture by restoring
Sodom and GOmorrah, whose wicked ;nhabi-
tants birthstone made such short work with
in Lots time.
Four carloads of silk-worm eggs, in tran
SIT from China to France, have arrived at
New York. Each carload is valued ut
S4OO,OOO, making the contents of the four
cars worth 81 100000.
The giant powder works of Bandmann,
Nelson Co, situated about half mile
of Golden Gate Park. Col. blew
up Tuesday, and three white men and a
'hinaman were killed. The WORKS were
the neighbOrhOOd were wrecked.
While the ratio.of capital and undivided
profits to liabilities in the banks OF Great
Britain from which reports are received is
only % '-lOO per cent, the ratio Of the cap
tai reserve fund and undivided profits of the
National banks of the United States to their
liabilities is 81 13-l0O per cent.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
ne Slst call fer the redemption of Five ,
twenty bonds OF 1865. cOCsols of 1865. The :
all is for SO, 900 900, of which So ,0OO,- 7
'Ol are coupon, and IS 100000 are regis {
cred bonds, principal and interest to be {
'aid at the Treasury on and after the 18th e
II April, interest to cease on that day. '
Tho failure is announced of Willard Car
enter, OF Evansville, Ind. For forty years q
e was considered one of the wealthiest men
Indiana, his possessions being estimated
from one to two million dollars He owns
nenormous amount OF real estate and two
ears ago he endowed a free college, to be
allied Willard College" with property
'orth from S350000 to $500 900. t
cable despatch announces the death of Il
rincc William Frederick Henry, of the
etherlands, brother of King William. He +,
as born at SOestdyk, June 10, 1920. lie al
AS. at the time Of his death. Lieutenant "
dmiral of the Holland navy Lieutenant y
the kind in the Grand Duchy of Luxem- is
Durg. lie was married May l9, 1858, to a
le Princess Amelia, daughter of the Duke n
Sa1c-W eimar-Eisenach. =,
The imports at New York in December IN
ere about 500 600 600, against about 800 il
in har
e total foreign imports of tina. port for pi
rs up to 1903, ls6 ,S67, against $780, st
Is sos for 1877. The exports last year "
IN New York, were the largest in its his th
~, and were nearly sixty millions in ex- nj
IS of the imports. This indicates an ex-
IS Of exports oyer imports of about S275,- pS
U 900 Onthe trade of the whole country. =,
The surrender Of the city of Candahar to III
e British Is the most important capture oil
ey have thus far made in the Afghan war Ia
10 place is in the southern part of the ~
leer's dominion, and until 1874 it was the VI
pltal of the country. No resistance was ~,
cred to Gen. Stewards column. which, ,al
fact, has had simply promenade from W.
, time it entered the country through the 40
Ian pass. As soon as Cabul is reached fir
I
ICY will most likely begin. an
The highest salary ever paid in Boston was "a,
It OF j. Wiley Edmands. who, at the time W.
his death. was receiving $4,000 per mi
mum as treasurer of the Pacific Mills. esr
c highest salary paid to bank president its
Boston at present is 10000. the highest ne,
a cashier is So, 500. The range Of salaries
dry goods statesmen is from S. 900 to lar
90 year A few women, the heads of day
'artments in the dress or suit-making no
,inesS, receive about 81 900 per year. ah'
st salaries have been much reduced since are
advent OF the hard times. ny
he whole number of arrests made by the froi
ice of New York city during the last tim
rter was Il SAB. The proportion was Tor
re men to one woman. and the chief of Inc
&c was intoxicatiOn. Two Turks and ten ihu
namen were among those arrested also reg
ictors, 80 brokers. 81 lawyers, clergy u' "
l, L. bar-tenders | clairyOyant | inycn-