Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-11
News Notes.
Dom Pedro is not seriously sick.

New York Police Captain James Keeley
died Friday, 43 years old.
The French government will help replant
the vineyards with cuttings from Amerit an
vines.
The wife of DR.. j. p. Dunlap was killed
by West Shore train at Syracuse, n. Y,
yesterday.
The Virginia coupon tax cases will not nc
heard in the United States Supreme court for
three years.
The Beurivage flats at Chicago has been
damaged $40, 600 by fire, with individual
losses of $4,000.
About so DOC. 900, interest and dividends,
will be disbursed in New York city during
the coming month
The contest for the speakership of the New
jersey legislature is brisk and bitter, with
MIR. Stoney leading.
The body of girl found in creek At FL
mira, Sunday, was not that of Miss Gaskell
OF Watk.'., as she has appeared alive.
Lieuts. HARDER and Schuetze passed
through Omsk in tue government of Akmol-
linsk, Siberia, Sunday, escortng the re-
mains of Commander Delong and his COM
rades.
John Teemer, the oarsman, has accepted
challenge by p. II. Conley, of Portland, Me-,
to row three, four or five mile race, for
$500 to $1,000, at Pullman or the Point of
Pines;
A broken rail on The Omaha and Repub-
lican Valley railroad, near Valparaiso, sent
an entire train, except the en- inc, down a
five foot cmbankment. Five persons were
seriously injured.
The beautiful new Park theatre, Mt Ccve-
land, built to be fire proof, was burned Sat
urday morning. 1t is said the fire originated
On the stage from a lamp explosion The
loss is perhaps $2O0,0 00, partly insured.
Geo IL. Adams's Humpty Dumpty com
pany loses from $4,000 to $4,000 worth of
properties.
The ST. Nicholas hotel building at 81.
Louis owned by the Connecticut Mutual life
insurance company was burned late Friday
night. The building was occupied by Chas
E. Lewis, dealer in undeltakcrs' goods G.
o. Barker, manufacturer of picture frames !;
Julius Morrissse, hardware. Lewis's loss is
about $4,000.
The woodwork shop of the Whitney wagon
| works, part of the roof OF the salt water le.
s(rvoir, owned by the State, and the factory
of the Crandall Type Writer company at
| Syracuse were burned Friday night Loss
| SAC, 900.
The old buildings Of the Onondaga pottery,
| at Geddes, N. Y, and their contents were
urned Saturday morning. The loss is about
| $1,000 E NJ. Klock's lumber sheds and
stock were also burned. Loss $4,000.
Henry Bell died at Philadelphia Friday
from INJURIES received Christmas night. He
was found in the street near his residence
with his skull crushed. He could not cx-
plain how he received the injuries.
! Aaron Phipps of Greenwich, Mass was burn
ed to death carly Thursday morning. Mr.
Phipps was widower, 60 years old, who had
kept house alone for 20 years. His home on
the plains was found TO be on fire ny the
neighbors at 5 n. M, and was burned 10 the
ground when they arrived. The charred
body was found covered by the ruins IA the
cellar.
Several cabins have been swept away and
four men killed by another snow slide at the
Virginlus mine IN Colorado, and two men
have been killed at Brooklyn Gulch. Two
men arc missing from San Juan.
l.. A. Beall, a travelling salesman from
Atlanta was shot Thursday night at Chpley,
Ga, by X. S. Lynn, an Englishman. Lynn
attempted to escape but was arrested in the
mountains.
James b. Ruem, aged 80, died Friday at
Cory Pa, from the efTeci Of blow on the
head with II base bGll club, inflicted in an al
tercation in barropm on New Years day
Cope Sharp, the last of the four men
charged with stealing Louisville cilys money
while employed in The back tax collector.
office, has been scutenced to three years i'm.
prisonmcnt.
| The Higbee-V Vaughan mock marriage case,
which grew out of the Fiatbush Methodist
sociable where dozen young people went
through nuptlal ceremony in order t.
amusc themselves was decided against Miss
Highly, who claimed that her part of the cere.
mony was gone through with IN good faith.
The judge held that the marriage ceremony
was not legal
The government has been defeated in lhC
New Orleans lottery suit. Postmaster Mer-
chant, by direction of the postmaster gener
al, refused to deliver letters addressed TO the
New Orleans National bank on the ground
that they were intended for The lottery com
pany which had been denied the use of The
mails. Judge Pardee of the United States
circuit court decides in favor of the bank, dc
erecting that it was entitled to the full aut
free use of the mails.
Maj. A. p. Williams, who commanded til,
Florida everglades expedition, says the ex
pedllion has established the fact that the
everglades from Lake OkCechobee TO Capt
Sable are worthless for any purpose Of cul
tlvation; that they contain no large tracts
of land above water; that they can not be
successfully drained, and that the establish
ment and maintenance Of a telegraph lin,
along the route trayersed would be impOss
bic. The everglades, and especially tn,
northern glades, are vast swamp, ire
claimable aud useless for any purpose Tn,
only cultivable portions Of the southerp pen
insula lie on the Atlantic and Gulf coast
with this vast mOrass between them