Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07
General Summary.
John J. Ingalls, has been reelected United
States Senator from Kansas

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States Senator from Kansas.
\ party of insurgent Arabs attacked
caravan near IIedjax recently and killed coo
persons.
OF the sixty thousand students in this
country and Canada twenty-five thousand
are said to be professed Christians.
There are rumors that the Brooklyn
Prcsbytery, which meets next Monday, will
be called on to discipline Mr.. Talmage.
A. Lowden Snowden, now postmaster of
Philadelphia, has been rendered and accept
ed the position Of director of the mint, in
place Of the late DR.. Linderman.
J. W. Brown, wealthy farmer near
Indianapolis, was chlOrolormcd and his head
split open Wednesday night, and his wife
also seriously cut in the head and face. bv
two murderers, who escaped.
The oyster schooner Adamantine, bound
from Potomac River to Baltimore, was found
sunk in the bay. Captain Horace Baker, of
Philadelphia was fuurd lashed to the top
mast, and the bodies Of nine men, compos-
ing the crew, were found lashed to the deck,
which was several feet under water
A Fort Robinson despatch SAYS the remov-
al of :he Indian widows and orphans to Red
Cloud led to dreadful scenes. Wild Hogs
wife was found armed with piece of scissors
and a fork, both sharpened. 1t was dis
covered that she had endeayored to kill one
of her children. Some believe Wild Hogs
wounds were inflicted By his wife and not
by himself.
A jury in Milton, Pennsylvania, brought in
verdict Died from drinking too much
whiskey." The deceased must haye been a
very poor man. 1t only takes but an or
binary man to die of "inebricty," while if
he is tolerablY well of it is alcoholism"
If the departed had been one of the first
citizens of Milton that town would have gone
to his funeral and would have been "mute,
inglOrlOus Milton on his little habits of tip
plIng.
\ disgraceful scene occurred at funeral
at Jersey City the other day. As the pro-
cession was moving slowly through the
street commotion was noticed in one of
the carriages. crowd gathered, and it was
found that two wcm9n who occupied the
vehicle were engaging in fight. One Ofthe
contestants had already pulled off the others
bonnet, had scratched her face terribly, and
was rapidly depriving her OF her hair.
Women are admitted this wear for tie first
time to all the examinations and degrees of
the University of London without exception
on precisely the same terms as men. At the
Winter matriculation of nearly 600 candi-
dates eleven were young ladies. One lady
presented herself at the examination for the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. These are the
first twelve ladies who have been admitted to
the regular examinations OF any English
University.
An idea of the magnitude of tine counter
feiting business may be formed from the re-
markable statement of the engraver Ulrich,
before one of the United States Commission
ers the other day. In the course of year
he and his associates printed counterfeits
amounting TO three hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars, many of them on banks in New
York. The strangest part of his story, how
ever, is that the gang to which be belonged
was sustained by a capitalist whose name he
declined to disclose.
The directors of the Glasgow Bink,
Stronach and Potter, convicted of fraud,
theft and embezz,ement, have been sentenc
cd to eighteen months Imprisonment. Five
other directors, convicted OF uttering false
abstracts of balance sheets, were sentenced
J to eight months Imprisonment. The SEN
tencc created considerable surprise on ac-
count of its leniency. The presiding judge
said they considered the circumstances that
the prisoners had not falsifed the account
for their personal benefit, but in a mistaken
idea that it was for the public good.
The Louisville Almshouse was burned
Friday, nearly all of the $40 inmates escap-
ing. James Ridley. an imbecile, was fatal
ly burned. Fred. Meyer broke his neck,
Henry kehler perished in the flames,
Thomas Dixon was killed by fall, Nathan
Caldwell was seriously hurt, and Mrs.
johnson probably fatally burned. The
scene was horrible in the extreme, and the
small loss of life attending it is marvellous.
Nearly all the inmates were invalids. imbe-
Giles and cripples. Loss $4,000.
Thirty tramps have been arrested in Penn
syyana for attempting to wreck passen-
ger train.
\ tornado at Tuka, Miss, the other day,
killed seven persons and destroyed foul
houses and a church.
4 boiler explosion at Secor, ILL.,, killed |
four persons, the bodies being literally torn
into fragments and thrown distance OF 200 |
feet.
Colonel Sulliyant, formerly the largest |
landowner in Illinois, died suddenly on the |
steamer James Guthrie, at OwensborO, Ky. |
At the time of his death he wncd 10 900 |
acres of land.
The store OF NJ. Wittikinc was burned, at |
leary. Georgia, Wednesday. Wittikine was
burned to a crisp. There was pistol in his
hand and his skull was crushed. There is
no clue.
Marshal Wharton, of Louisiana, continues
making arrests in the various parishes of the
parties against whom true bills were found
by the United States Grand Jury for viola
ton of the election laws. Over one hundred
have already been arrested.
1t is now said that j. W. Barron. the
cashier of the Dexter (Nlaine) Savings
Bank who was supposed to have been mur-
dered by burglars, and for whose family
considerable sum OF money was subscribed
by the banks and business men OF the coun-
try, committed suicide Experts say that
the position in which Mr.. Barron was found
in the vaults handcutlsi and gagged. with
the double doors of the vault locked upon
him, could have been caused by himself.
The cause would naturally be supposed to
be deficiency in his aecouts. or misap-
plicatiOn of the funds of the bank. Whether
this is the case or not cannot now be definite