Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-04

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streets and more substantial and more come
ly buildings, so that, very slowly rising
from It's iGhrs, the city is improving in ap-
pcarancc. But il ID most striking thing
that the government spending Its pitlanre Of
money on quarrels with Greece, allow the
''PuIic" building TO remain in ruins as the
fire left il few years ago, and hires rooms
for lis government oi,ica@ VI. p. Z.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The public debt statement shows a de-
crease OF the public debt during January, of
:. ,Ss2, 1911.
1t is stated that Mr.. Sothcrn leaves all his
property, including land in New J Ork: TO his
sister, Mr.. Cowdn.
The British House of Commons has been
sitting continuously since Monday morning
The Irish Home Rulers are making desper-
ate oifOr. 20 defeat the coercion bill.
Charles Dcvlin, a wcii-known New York
city contractor, died Feb of pneumonia, at
the age Of 67 years lie was contractor
for the laying of Central park and was the
principal sewer contractor for the city. lie
vas enc of the bondsmcn for Tweed and also
for Harry uene,.
\ citizen Of Nashua, y. H., maintained
and provided with all the comforts of life
an orphan girl for nearly eight years, and
when few days since her uncle died worth
$50, 900 it was found that he had willei
so, $50 10 foreign and domestic missions and
the balance to his poor niece,
At Decatur, ILL.,, Tuesday, John A. Horu-
stein attempted to kill his young wife, stab
bnr Init g., bor ,,nt,nhinr har
with kettle. lIr then shot himself twice
in the head and afterward seized common
wood .aw and hacked away at his throat un-
iii he bled 10 death. lie was 81 years old
and his wife 10 years old.
Christian X. Ross says he believes that the
founding reported in the custody of the Tus-
carora Indians in Ontario is not his son
Charlie Ross.
A despatch isam Paris says twelve fishing
Smarks have been wrecked at Sshles
D'Olonne, in the Bay OF Bisoay, and 46 men
drowned
King Kalakaua of Hawaii and suite, en-
route TO the Eastern States and Europe, ar
rived in San Francisco on Saturday.
Clara Louise Kellogg has signed contrac,
to sing twenty nights in Paris, after her Rus
sian engagement. for S12, 1000.
An eccentric old lady in Montreal named
Haley, living alone, with a cat, was found
dead in her apartment on Monday, with the
dead body of the cat lying underneath her.
By the derailment of one passenger and
twelve freight cars at Gibsonville, n. c..
Sunday night, Conductor fIalsey and Fire
man Harding were killed, but the passen-
gers escaped injury
Two bodies were taken from graves in a
Richmond Va cemetery Friday, one being
removed, while the other was left beside the
grave with card, on which was written,
RAISED from the dead"
There was terrific snow storm at Vie
toria, i. c., Saturday, with high wind
Traffic was suspended, and the snow piled In
great drifts in the streets. In the country
districts the snow is three feet on level.
Mon lay morning a train on the Rome,
WATERFOWL ard Oydcnsburg road was
thrown from the track near Woodward's
station. The engine, baggage car and q
passenger coach were piled up. Engineer
Patrick Mcclure and Fireman Thomas Nc
Graw were seriously hurt.
The petition of Mrs Kate Chase Sprague
and Gov. Sprague's cross bill-in which he
charges her with adultery and other miscon-
duct-will come up for hearing at the next
term of the Supreme Court for Washington
county, X. l., which begins the third Mon
day in February
\ Paris paper publishes the following as
the Chileans' conditions of peace The sur
render of the allied fleet and the payment of
an indemnity of $50, 900, 900, whereof Peru
shall assume SEQ, 100000 and Bolivia Sl0,-
000, 900 Chile to occupy Callao and work the
guano deposits and copper and saltpetre
mines until the full payment of indemnity
is made.
At piqua, Ohio, Saturday evening Dr.
Washington F. lIarburg. dentist, member
of the city council, shot his wife dead with a
revolver, and instantly killed himself with n
shotgun. He had had a wordy quarrel with
his wife, after which he took his two sons
and l3cked them up in his office several
blocks distant. lie then returned and COM
mitted the double tragedy ill the presence of
his four year-old daughter.
The annual report of the Chicago Board of
Health shows that there We're 10, 462 deaths
in that city during 1880, out of a population
of SOB, 29S. This makes the death rate per
1000 20.19. The returns from cthe- leading
cities as far &C obtaiuable, give the death rate
in New York per 1000 at 2647; Brooklyn,
1856 Boston, e3.53 Philadelphia, "a 81.
In the case of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and St Louis Railroad agains. the Columbus,
Chicago and Indiana Central Railroads JUS
tice Harlan of the United States Supreme
Court issued an order allowing S2S5, lea. IS
for counsel fees and other legal expenses
The order is against the first named road
and includes in one item $3.50, 900 as coun-
sci fees, which is distributed among fifteen
law firms
The piece Of land which the Canadian gov
ernmenl p.Gposcs 10 give the Canada Pacific
syndicate is larger than the whole cultivated
area of England, 1000, 900 acres larger than
the whole cultivated area Of the Dominion of
Canada, more than twice as large as the i'm
proved area of our New England States, and
twice as large as the improved acreage of
either New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hi
nOis, Indiana or Iowa
Some tins since Information was received
at Montreal that u man named Joseph Nous
settle, who was native of Laprairie. near
that city had died unmarried in Moussette-
vile in Missouri, where he left millions Of
property in mills, lands and money TO his
heirs. \ meeting was held in Montreal,
Saturday, attended by forty persons claim
ing relationship with the deceased. :nd steps
were taken TO send Il delegate 10 Missouri in
quest Of the property
A despatch from Bradford, Pa, says that
a party of citizens from kInsua went to see
well torpedoed Forty quartz of nitro
glycerluc were pui III a barrel to be thawed
by steam. 1t exploded, shivered the engine
house and derrick to splinters tore Andrew
Laster, the engineer, to pieces, killed by a
missile j. o. Gushing, one of the spectators
viewing the scene from distance, and hurl-
ed fragments that struck and seriously injur-
ed three men.