Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Happenings and Doings in all Parts of the
Country.

Affairs in Peru are waxing hot Car
ceres yesterday stormed the palace in
Lima.
1t was reported at Lynn last evening,
that the laSterS at the keene Bros fac
tory had been ordered out by the lasters'
union.
The Republican convention last night
mayor of Boston.
Courts adjourned, places of business
were closed part of yesterday, and bells
were tolled in Boston in memory of Vice
President Hendricks.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Fitzgerald
of Elmira, y. Y, charged with grave rob
bling, returned a verdict of guilty.
There has been much firing between
black and white miners at the BREWER
coal mines III Macon, Mo-, but without
serious injury Four men have been
killed.
All was deserted at the White House
yesterday. No visitors were admitted,
and all Washington city flags were hung
at half mast for the late Nice-President.
Frank Sawyer of Derby has bought the
stage route between DERBY and Newport,
which he formerly owned.
A Ftchburgh despatch says II receiver
has been appointed for the Everett iron
company. 1t is expected that the compa-
ny's embarrassment will be only tempo
rary. 1t has assets of 81 ,OOO, 900 and la
bilities of 100000.
Two men are i'll at Galveston, Texas,
with yellow fever. The cases are mild.
and the physicians have no fears that the
disease Will spread.
| William H. West, the minstrel, has ap-
piled in Chicago for II divorce from Fay
rempleton, the actress. Miss Templeton
deserted him six weeks after their mar
riage.
The board of aldermen of New York
city have set apart $500 from the Barth-
oldi statue appropriation of 5000, to be
devoted to the purchase of IA portrait OF
Gen. Grant.
House C, an annex of the Alton eleva-
tor in Chicago, was burned yesterday
morning with 10000 bushels of wheat.
Loss on grain $4,000 and on building $l5,-
600.
Anna Archer, Il prepossessing brunette
of twenty years, has been arrested for
burning Il school house near ParkerSDurg,
West Va. 1t is alleged that Miss Archer
was jealous of the young lady who taught
in the school
At Monterey, Mexico, 10000 spectators
witnessed the opening of the bull nights
Sunday afternoon. The animals were eX
} ceedingly fierce and furnished fine sport:
A boy IA years old killed the tiercest Of
e. the bulls.
Owing to general business depression in
the print cloth market, the Quequechon
I mills in Boston is unable to meet Its obi
! cations
| A terrific explosion took place in the
, chemical laboratory at TUFTS college
! yesterday several large sealed tubes full
of poisonous alkalol1 bursting, and blow
= ing the furnace to atoms.
. The Farmers National congress, met
yesterday at indianapolis in annual session
is notable one, being composed OF I
number of the largest and wealthies
planters and farmers of the country
Yesterday afternoon two freight trains
: collded near Washington, Pa, on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Two mel
r were killed and nearly every man on boil
~ trains seriously hurt.
=. Viewers at the woollen mill of James
Legg in Worcester, are out on a strike
l. because OF Il notice of n fine of II IL cent
re per hour for sewing in" necessary OF
II their work
e \ nolle PROSE- was entered yesterday II
! the case of Mrs. Lucy a. Schietfelln, VIII
* of a we'll known New York druggist, WIT
,r was charged with bigamy.