Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Hasty Glance at Occurrences In Every
Direction.


Small pox has broken out in ST. John, |
n. f.
Rain interfered somewhat with the cee |
bration of Springhed's, Mass, $50 ami |
versary, Wednesday.
The annual meet of the league OF Amer
lean wheelmen begins in Boston to-day |
and continues three days
The commencement exercises Of COlum-
bia college law school took place Wednes-
day night, with 100 graduates.
Mrs. Riel, widow Of Louis Riel, died at
her home in St Vital, Man, on Monday
after Il lingering Illness of two months.
John King, negro and his grandson,
were burned to death while asleep in Il
cabin loft in Jefferson county, Ky, Tues
day.
The New York Herald declares that its
interview with James q. Blaine on the
/ fishery question was genuine and accu-
rate.
II. p. Ray, the defaulting teller of the
branch bank of Montreal at StratfOrd,
Ont, has been arrested at San Francisco,
! Cal He stole $4,000.
The village of Runkels, Wis, was to-
tally destroyed by fire Monday night.
Many settlers barely escaped with their
lives. Loss SO 900.
At the I'D annual meeting of the Amer
lean tract society of Boston, X. +. Cum
.
NJ Cutter resigned.
A Chattanooga despatch says Two
victims of the terrible explosion at the
Soddy mines have died and the third, Su
perintendent Lloyd, is dying.
A house Of ill-fame near Rhnelander
Wis, was burned together with four in
mates Tuesday. The fifth escaped alive
but is 50 badly burned that his life Is de-
SPARED of.
The household furniture and other per
sonal effects of Ferdinand Ward were sold
at auction Wednesday. Many pictures
and other articles were sold at Iidiculously
small prices.
A decision has been filed in the famous
McCiraw- Fisk will case decreelng legacies
OF Jennie McGraw Fisk to Cornell univer-
sty, of 81 800, 900, for library purposes, in
all respects valid.
A fire which broke out in San Francisco,
destroyed a furniture factory owned by
krager x Geist and a number Of dwelling
houses. Loss, S75 900. About 80 families
were made homeless.
Judge David Davis, at Bloomington
. H., is still suffering intensely from the
carbuncle on his shoulder His physician
!, says it has passed the point of danger, but
4 it will be Il month before he can get out.
r d. j. CAVITY, ex-city clerk, and Y. A
: CAVITY, eX-city recorder, of East st. Louis
+ are now on trial at Bellville, H., charged
WIN Une ullSdppIOpIldlloIl VI lhe Guy
3. funds and the robbing OF the safe in the
A treasures office.
l a sensation has been created at Auden
= ried, eight miles south of Wilkesbarre
i Pa, by the announcement that Rose Hop
X kins, the highly accomplished daughter o
, Richard Hopkins, general superintendent
u of the Audenried coal company, eloped
: with a common Italian laborer.
! Several of the steamship companies
s being encouraged by the increased bust
- ness in ocean freights, are cOntemplatin!
an advance in the charges for carryin!
certain kinds of goods.
! The buildings and stables of the Phil
- Best brewing company ut Plttsburg
burned early this morning. Thrice
horses were roasted alive. a number G
4. employees, who were sleeping in Best
/ building barely escaped Loss, Sl2, 900.
at y $l,00OOOO fire occurred in Chicag
t, early Wednesday morning, the pripcipt
of losers being Belford, Clarke x Co, tn
As large bookbindery OF Donohue * Heunt
.e berry, and Van Antwerp, Bragg Il Co
as publishers.
III a waterspout struck the residence {
AS Whitaker, near Arlington, Va, Monda
d, evening, destroying the house and drown
a his jawbone broken by falling timber
pc Two horses and three mules were drown
h ed. The body Of the young lady WI
he found half a mile below the house
he The Buffalo Commercial Advertis,
h says Letters received in this city fro
ay Buffalo women now in Paris, and WI
ne have personally seen the young wont
ol whose name has been mentioned as thu
OF the intended wife of President Clev
land, report that the mortified girl pos
lively declares that she is not going to mi
rv Mr. Cleveland ~