Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-13
TIE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.


Marriott, who assaulted DeFreycnet |
has been sent tOa lunatiC asylum.
a project is on foot TO erect Il monu- |
ment to Gen. Mcclellan in Washington.
Wages in the Colcbrook- Dale iron works |
at Reading Pa, were reduced yesterday
ten per cent.
X. NJ Pomcroy, u wealthy and prom
ineut resident of Boston, died last night
aged 70 years
/ \ Chicago policeman received Il bullet
in his left lung last night from revolver
/ fired by drunken shoemaker.
/ While Horace Began and Fred Shorey
were engaged yesterday in sinking II well
near South Berwick, y. H., the well caved
| in and Began was buried.
The National Grange of the Patrons of
| llusbandry held their nineteenth annual
session in Boston yesterday
The plant of the Palmer wire mill at
Palmer, Mo, which cost Sl30,0O0 was sold
at auction yesterday, for $4,000.
At Pittsburg, DR.. l.. c. Hall, aged %
years, has been found guilty of causing
the death of Lena Stuebenrdch by NAL
practice.
The last spike in the Canadian Pacific
railway was Driven near Farewell, b. c.,
at 9:g3 Saturday morning by Hon. Don
aid smith
Mr. Gladstone is confident that tb Lib
era vote in tue next Parliament will e.i
coed that of the Tories and Parnellites
combined.
The Grant Monument association has
arranged to canvass New York city for
subscriptions to their fund.
The nailer's officials are considering The
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing a cO-Operat'V We
factory in Pttsburg for the manufacture
of steel nails.
The following is the visible supply of
grain as compiled by the New York pro-
duce exchange Wheat As, 191 ,693 bushels;
corn, 5,t36,926 bushels.
A walking match Of $500 miles for a
purse of 5000 and gate receipts, has been
arranged between Weston and O'Leary to
begin Dec. I.
Insurance Commissioner pilSbuTy of
the Granite State Ere Insurance com
panv of Portsmouth, y. H., Celtities that
the capital stock of 100000 has all been
paid in.
Mahone's newspaper, the old Richmond
Whig, has gone INTO the hands of a re-
ceiver, and this fact is taken as a sure
sign that the boss has retired from poll
ties
England has asked satisfaction of Spain
for damage done to property OF British
subjects by natives of the Caroline
Islands.
The first section of the government
cable between Naushon. near Woods
Holl, to Martha's Vineyard, which is to be
continued to Nantucket, was successfully
laid Monday in presence of General
Hazen.
The president has appointed Leverett
Saltonstal collector of customs at Boston,
in place of Roland WOrthngton, remov
ed. Me- Saltonstall is a graduate of Har-
ward and Il lawyer by profession.
A young girl in Portsmouth, \. H.,
named Lizzie Richardson, member OF
the salvation army, was taken seriously
i'll and requested leave to 90 to hospital
J he captain refused, bnt the ( i left and
entered the hospital. Indignation against
the army is great.
DR.. VIM. Benjamin Carpente", Lii. d.,
+. X. :, an eminent psychologist, died
Tuesday in London from the effects %
: burns caused by upsetting Il Imp while
taking avapor bath lor rheuma' SIN.
Editor Stead of the Pm Mall Gazette
has been sentenced to prison for two
months. The woman Jarrett was Seu-
fenced for SIX moEths.
One murder, one attempted murder and
scrious b"awls, Occur ing IN quick sue
cession in Rochester, \, H., have accused
people there to organize with Il view to
,, suppressing liquor selling and the letting
OF buildings for that purpose.
The largest bond ever given in the New
port, X. l., probal" Court was given yes
terday by the guardian OF Aired Smith
recently stricken with apOpleXy, who was
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5 REQUIRED 10 give holl - ol - Uuo'IOo' ne
t''h'e II estimated al S@'oJoooo'
The thrtG-niuth annual Convention OF
the Theta Delta Chi f'aternIv vii, br
I held at the " windsor hotel, New GorE CITY.
on Wednesday,, hufSuaN an" ffIHH\'
NoNelnhcr !Hth' III u ana -Gth, l,N'' Dec
gates 'ron Hlteii OF me le'b''h% Amer =
c''a coI'eEtS "''' DE present
\ large three story hotel at Lawrence
= Junction, Tenn, was burned SUNDAY
80
| morn'ue. lWehlE' our Pc sons We're so
nearly suJocateu that lhey couid hard'y
| be aroused, Al escaped noWe'e but
/ mGst 90 them III h'sht coming Loss
E E3o,ooo
T. The SUIT OF the owner Oh the American
snip "Ciarissa u: carver against the
owner Of the Blu,sh steamer 'Olam0r-
ganshirc Tor me loss OF ine former by
. COLLISION WIN the Glamo"Gansh'
. near klobe several months ago, mas been
f decided by the EhSlsh court at oKoha-
c ma W laNol o' wy Pldtn n1 nco iHe uail-