Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-01-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

barns and other buildings in York county,
Pa.
An English syndicate with capital of
| $3.50, 600, 600 is said to be trying to secure
control of Boston's gas supply.
The car Saturday granted an audience to
Judge Lambert Tree, the United States min
| lister, who presented his credentials.
The Manitoba railroad proposes to put its
| conductors under $1,000 bonds, which will
| he forfeited i'll case crookedness is discover
ed.
Thirty two persons havedied of diphtheria
| in the east Pennsylvania valley near Read
ing in a fortnight. Many schools have been
closed
Congressman Springer intends to intro
duce a constitutional amendment empower
! ing Congress to make uniform law of mar
riage and divorce.
The schooner William Jones, which was
seized by Haytian man-ofwar but released,
has reached Boston. Her captain received
| $40. 600 indemnity.
The weather is SO warm and pleasant that
n steamboat excursion took place on the st.
| Lawrence river Saturday between Kingston
and Cape Vincent.
Two Pittsburg and Western railroad
freight trains collided on a sharp curve II
miles east of Youngstown, O.. Saturday
night, fatally injuring d. McHenry and
Thomas Jenkins, engineers of the trains and
Henry Noise, fireman.
Thieves have stolen $4,000 worth of brass
and iron from the railroads at Minneapolis.
They raised car trucks with iackscrews and
removed the brass blocks from the ends of
the aXles. -Four men have been arrested.
Two hundred and eighteen witnesses from
all parts of Virginia have been summoned
to appear before the United States grand
jury at Parkersburg to give evidence re
garding alleged illegal voting ut the recent
election.
At the recent conference at New York,
between the Northern and Southern COM
mttees of the general assemblies of the Pres
| byteran church, the sentiment was strongly
in tavor Of cooperation although the South
ern committee opposed organic union.
The Edison general electric light company
has been incorporated in Essex county, y. j.,
with capital stock of Fl2, 600. coo.
Prof Gefiken, who has been held in Gus
tody on.the charge OF being responsible for
the publication of the diary of the late En-
perOr Frederick. has been released, the prose
ton having been abandoned.
Big cut by steamer from Halifax to Bos
ton is announced The Boston. Halifax and
Prince Edwards island line advertises pas
sage to Boston for 81. This cut j. to meet
the competition of the Canada Atlantic
lines.
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rhnac river at Lowell, Mas. lie narrowly
ESCAPED being drowned and reached shore
exhausted.
NJ Godne,- the ou+qoinc, county. cIorl,
,ent bullat through hi. brain nj Ashland
Wis Monday. he was about about &}0Oo
short in his accounts
4 large mass Of rock fell. Friday night.
from a precipice above Horseshoe falls.
Niagara Falls, and Saturday night another
mass broke away. The effect on the contour
Of the falls is quite marked, the change. being
from an angle to the original horseshoe
shape.
The interest has been defauitcd by and a
receiver appointed for the st. Louis and
Chicago railway.
Prince Henry of Battanborg. has been an
pointed governor Of the Isle of Whit. vice
Ni>count Evo,s'ey deceased.
Tho New. York cIerpvmeu' committee an
the Washington inaugural centennial nd
yises religious exercises to be held in nil
churches April 9, in recognition of The cen
tenuial
The most shocking murder has occurred
St Pierre \. F. where two bows entered q
man house and killed him, mutilatng the
body horribly.
The crew of Dublin university has chal
Irnced Yale to race in England this snriuo
Nela sentiment il in favor accepting.
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mic occurred uao,. seattle u r Nond,,
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threw the bomb lynched. The story is no
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