Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
GENERAL SUMMARY.


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james Wormlcy the hotel proprietor Of
Washington. died in Boston Saturday.
At Edgchcld, :. c., twelve stores were
burned at loss of SlOO,OOO. IT is alleged
the fire was inccndiary
Willie Webster. II bOOtblack of St
Louis, aged fifteen years, arrested Satur-
day in st. Louis. says he was one of the
party of six boys who started the lumber
conllagration in Cleveland.
Adiutant General Drum in his annual
report states that the reports Of the officers
detailed to inspect the militia cnCamp-
mcnts are generally favorable rs to the
condition of the militia of the States and
evidence great zeal on line party of the
officers. He endorses the bill presented
by Gen SlOcum at tia" last session Of
Congress n, u measure calculated to
further develop and improve the cllici-
enCy of the militia.
The slguiar spectacle of woman on
trial for the murder of her father has just
been concluded in Franklin county. GcOr-
giu. Two months ago Leila burgess and
her sister were preparing To go to church,
Being hurried up by their father, Leila
ran back to the house to iiN her bangs
Her father attempted to ChaSti~c her,
WhcreupOn She took up an AK, which was
lying near by, and split his skull open.
She was sentenced to the pcnitcntiary for
life
James VI Seymour of New York has
sued Pierre Lorlllard for SjO.OOO damages.
charging the latter with having represent
ed the steam yacht Radha purchased of
him by Mr.. seymour to be in sound and
seaWOrthN condition. when it is alleged
she proved lcakN and unscaWorthy The
Radha had to be repaired ON her arrival in
Newport, where She was purchased, and is
said to have been kept atoat only by the
constant use of steam pumps.
Mr.. Vanderbilt said Friday night; 81
know nothing about the details of the
management of the New York Ccntral
but the old road will not be behind its
rivals, young or old, The rates to the West
may be any figure that other lines choose
to make them There has got To he fur
Their liquidation; Erie is bankrupt, and
Mr.. King cannot save it. Pennsylvania
must cut down its dividends, and Balti
more and Ohio has spent all its money
building telegraph lines. | guess both OF
them will have to issue bonds or do some
thing else, Everybody has lost money.
feel the depreciation, and ON some of the
rich men it is telling pretty hard. | AN
not doing anything in the stock market.
The Chicago TimcS says the Democrat,
of that city organized what they style {
vigilance committee. 1t is composed OF
determined men who are resolved that M
intimidation or violence shall rule at the
Chicago polls ut least there shall be none
done by Republicans, and their orders art
to provoke no fight themselves nor to in
dulge in any as long as the contest il
merely wOrdy, but if any bulldOzing is at
tempted by negro or OtherdeputY marshal,
to resist il. and if any Democrat is shot t,
see to it that the shooter at once suffer
the same fate. If the feeling keeps grow
ing in intensity there will be serious
trouble in Chicago on election day.
Particulars of the accident ON the Bos
/ ton a. Albany railroad, near kinderhOOk
~ v, Friday night. show that it wa
caused by train WreCkerS, who had place.
rails and SleepcrS on the track and CAREFUL,
wedged them in position \ man living
near by discovered the distractions jus
before the train approached. 1eendeavOr
ed to stop the train by tying Il red hand
kerchief over his lantern, but the Lantern
Went out. He tried in vain to stop tn,
engine by shouting. The locomotlve turn
ed completely over, the express car jump
ed oyer it, and the baggage and smOkin!
on the track. The engineerwas killed ant
the tireman's recovery is doubtful
AT Il o'clock Friday evening the middle
span of the bridge across the East FOrl
river, on the Cincinnati Eastern Marrow
/ Gauge railway, gave way as the Manches
ter express train was passing over 1t. Tn
! bridge is fifty feet above the water Thu
engine, baggage car and the first cOacl
We're hurled into the water beneath
while the rear car remained on the sOunC
portion of the bridge. FOrty-tive persons
were on the train at the time, and man!
made miraculous escapes, several leapin!
to the stream below. Four persons wer
either killed or fatally injured. Tn
bridge was being repaired but was con
sidered safe, as several heavily LOADED
freight trains had passed over it a shor
time before the accident. The other pas
sengers aboard the train We're nearly al
in the rear car. Had this coach tollowe,
the first section the loss of life would haV
been appalling. Most of those injured
We're section hands.