Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-01-25
CONDENSED NEWS.

| Sunday.
The United States cruiser Atlanta sailed
| Sunday to join Admiral Luce's squadron at
layti
The New Mexico Legislature has memoir
allied Congress for the admission of that
| territory.
The class of Yale 80, has broken the
record for high stand by securing 1O4 hon
orary appointments.
Thomas A. Stevens, who announced his
intention of penetrating Africa in search Of
Stanley, has started for Zanzibar.
The annual banquet of the New England
! Alumni association Of Williams college win
be given at the Parker House, Boston, Jan
uary %.
A small mutiny broke out Friday on the
schooner Water Lily Off Portsmouth i'll
which the captain was accidentally shot in
the hand.
Gov Shuman, who for nearly 30 years has
been connected with the Chicago Evening
journal, Friday retired from the editorshp
on account of i'll health.
Mrs. Fletcher has been sentenced TO inn
prisonment for life in the Kings county pen
itentiary for the murder in August last at
| Rocky Hill Of Maria Jones, a colored girl
Umpire Gatfney Friday accepted the terms
| of the American association for next season.
1t is understood his salary is $500. But
one umpire remains to be signed.
Strikers ut Origny. France. are rioting
| They have fired one factory and seriously
damaged others Soldiers have been sent to
suppress the rioters.
G. Roscnbaun. .icyyellcr Of - John street.
New York, claims $1,000 worth Of diamond.
were stolen from his hug in the office of the
Rockville, Conn, house Thursday night
The body Of an unknown woman was
found Friday floating in East river with
white cotton handkerchief fastened acroS,
the mouth. The police believe she was
gagged and murdered.
young woman and man from Lyons
were found dead in room in the hotel at
Monte Carlo Friday. In a letter to a friend
they said they had suffered losses at the
gaming tables and intended to commit sui
eide together
Mr. r. B. Hayes says he is not candidate
for the cabinet and does not expect an ap.
pointmeut.
The Gladstonian candidate won by 1,O7l
majority in Govan, where the Liberal vote
increased one-third and the Tory vote was
slightly decreased.
Wilson Keane, a St. Louis cripple, who
sold newspapers, died, leaving over $23, 600,
though he and his people had lived in abject
poverty.
Plans have been started TO raise an endow.
ment fund for johns hopkins university. the
institution not receiving any dividends from
its Baltimore and Ohio stock,
When the body Of n woman named Pc.
lade, buried sixteen years ago, was exhumed
near Winnipeg it was found to have become
al
alknli water.
The house agreed TO the Springer "omni.
bus bill' as a substitute for the senate bill for
the admission of South Dakota.
A father, son and daughter were lynched
at Tiptonvile, Tenn. They had murdered
the sons mother-in-law.
Sixty girls, feather workers in the employ
of Stem &, Heilbrun Now York, struck be-
cause the firm would not adopt the union
scale of prices. a few hours later the firm
notified them that it would comply with
their demands, and the strikers viii accord
ingly resume work to-day.
The comptroller Of the currency authorized
the Thomaslon National bank, Thomaston,
Conn. 10 begin business with a capital OF
$4,000.
Russia will build three large mon Of war
during this year.
MIR. John Bright has suffered another re-
lapse. lie had been improving lamously
lately.
Emperor William has dismissed all the
French cooks and servants connected with
the royal palace, and filled their places with
Germans.
The annual boat race between Oxford and
Cambridge universities is appointed toI
March 30.
Butler Banks, OF Newbelry county, S. c.,
was mysteriously shot and dangerously
wounded some time ago. Upon recovery he
learned that James G. Banks mot relatiye)
did the shooting. He won't cunning for hi.
assailant, dangerously wounded him and
fed. Friends Of the second Banks went tc
the home Of the first Banks at night and
burned all his farm houses, leaving Ais family
destitute
Trenton, y. j., has romance. A cir
who used to sell peanuts on the street, snd
was known Us "Carkey.' disappeared somt
years ago and has recently been discovered
by a Trentoniau as the wife of a Colorado
millionaire.
Ii Is said that the appeal from Vcna2uel
to the United States to protect Balna Point
at the mouth of the Orinoco, from Britt.
, usurpatlon, is apt to be disregardcd uy Tn
United States. 1t is alleged that tine non
payment OF certain indennitics awarded T.
American steamship owners against the Won
. ezuelan government has something to do witt
, the present aspect of affairs.
The disagrs emeuts which have existed fo
week past between Brooklyn street ca
companies and their employees have beei
, amicahly adjusted, thus avoiding the threat
ened tie up
Charles Smith, assemblyman from tn
Eighth New York district, who was alloge
I to have resorted to illegal means to procur
votes during Tho recent election, was not in
dicted by the grand jury.
The Monongahela and the Vnndalia, Il
United States war ycssels, have been MIR
riedly ordered to Samoa 1t is said that I'm
situation there is becoming hourly more seri
Gus.
Editor William Sac6ett, OF The Jersey cit,
! Sunday Morning News, VINO was sued b,
Thomas Potter recently FOR libel, has hcel
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