Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-04

watches while in leather belt strapped
about his waist were about $4,000 worth of
diamonds. United States Commissioner
Soields held Coloma in $4,000 bail for exam
nation.
The new railroad bridge at Ausable
Chasm nears completion. The work of
finishing the road from Ausable Chasm to
Keeseville will be begun as soon as the frost
is out. The depot will be completed about
May /.
The Farmers Review SAYS: Outside ofKan-
sas the report of our wheat crop correspond
ents relative to winter wheat are very dis
couraging We summarize the reports of
correspondents relative to the condition as
follows: Illinois, 70 Indiana, IS: Ohio,
SO; Missouri, 81; Kentucky, 81; Kansas,
92; Wisconsin, 72, and Michigan, g. per
cent.
John S. Farlow Of Newton, Mass. who
died suddenly at his home Monday, aged IS
years, was native of Boston and had been
prominent in railroad circles most of his
life, and at the time of his death was pres.
dent of the Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Sandusky railroad, and director in the
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain and Rome
Watertown and Ogdensburg roads
Secretary Proctor Tuesday sent to
the Senate at Washington a communica-
ton enclosing an extract from the report of
the ordnance board on the recent tests made
at Sandy Hook with a new method of firing
shells containing high explosives of nitro
glycerine The board is of the opinion that
the explosive matter contained in the shells
is liable to become dangerous through
| evaporation or by lying in store, and for
this reason its use in military service would
be forbidden and recommends that for the
present no further tests be given the shells.
The lowlands of Mississippi and
Arkansas seemed to be doomed The
levees are continually breaking and
the floods are practically beyond
control. The work on the crevasse at
Arkansas City has been suspended which
means devastation for that section. The
negroes in the cotton lands are panic stricl-
Ell. Live stock will be drowned by thou
sands as no provision has been made for re
moving them and the government boats
patrolling the banks can do no more than
rescue human lives.
Count Pelianofi. Russian minister of
public instruction, has refused to receive
the petition recently prepared by the
students at the uni>crity, asking for a
| reduction of the entral fees the unre-
s'lcted admission of Jews and the equality
of male and female students. Three
! hundred excited university students
assembled Wednesday intending to march
to the University OF Public Instruction
but the police intervening arrested 115 OF
tlam. Three hundred students of the
| archaeological institute and many pupils OF
the school of foresty and the academy OF
medicine have been arrested for taking part
| i,,t tl,., tt1t tsf
the disturbance both the university and
school OF Technology have been closed
| The Senate committee on Indian
| affairs Thursday Authorized Chairman
Dawes to report his bill 10 anent
the allotment -iu-severaity act. The
bill provides that in addition to the
| land required to be allotted under the origi
nal act 50 acres shall he allotted to any mar.
ried Indian woman or woman living in
married life under the laws or customs o
the tribe The bill further provides thai
whenever any allottee cannot personally
and with benefit to himself occupy or i'm
prove his allotment it may be leased under
regulations prescribed by the secretary o
the interior for term not exceeding three
years for farming or grazing, or 10 year.
for mining purposes.
The Shanghai Mercury gives the fol
| lowing account from native paper
of great cloud burst near Nan
king, of which the mere announce
ment was sent by cable at the time: On tho
,th of this moon, in the Yangtze river, neal
Marking, at about 10 O'Clock m, whei
the weather was bright, there was suddenly
heard a rus hing noise as OF the water, wher
two large. black clouds appeared. and they
soon enyeioped everything like "A thick fog
The two black clouds appeared to be fight
ing, at the sight of which the waters were
much disturbed and the river was full OF
| large waves. The two huge clouds
eventually reached a place called Tsit l.
Chow, when they burst asunder. making 4
very loud report. During the disturbanc,
many boats were destroyed and over lot
people were drowned, and more than 1t
were picked up i'll an eXhaused condition 10y
the Chinese Life-freserving association
Those who lost their lives were buried 10y
the authorities. \ long strip of the rive
| bank also caved in