Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-16
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Many Fires do r. Great Deal of Damage
The Dark ide of Life-Interesting
Notes from all Parts of the Globe
Pithily Presented.

lHe peuuJe DdoseI oil Jlo III
dividual pension bills dSj) on the calendar.
O'Donovan Rosa, recently convicted of
criminal libel, at New York has boen fined
800.
In railroad accident at Clayton, No,
Monday two men were killed and one fatal
ly injured.
Maury 81 Sons paint works and the At
lantic starch works at Brooklyn, were burned
Friday. Loss $3.50, 900, fully insured
The city council of Murshalltown, Iowa.
has decided to levy a license of $50 month
ON dealers IN original packages in that city.
The national convention Of the order of
railway conductors began at Rochester, n.
! H., yesterday. About 250 delegates were
present.
| The Massachusetts, House Monday, 127 to
| 70, adopted resolutions requesting police Of
ficials to strictly enforce the present law
against public bars.
At the annual meeting of the Hotel Mems
Mutual Benefit association held at Boston
yesterday James II. Breslin OF New FORK
was elected president.
The Louisiana Lottery company has
doubled its offer TO the State and now Of
ters 81 ,OOO 600 per annum for the privileges
| of maintaining a lottery.
The Massachusetts Senate Tuesday after
noon by a vote of 10 to 10 passed tho amend
ment to the constitution abolishing the poll
tax as a prerequisite to voting.
The boiler of locomotive exploded at
Shamolin, Pa, Monday morning. The on
gneer and fireman were instantly kill ed and
the conductor probably fatallyin njured.
Mrs. Vandergrift has been found guilty at
| Bordentown n. j., Of admins terins croton
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secure the insurance money on his life.
c. s. Fessenden, who pleaded guilty Mon
day to ombezzling $1,000 from O. II. q W.
\. Buckley, insurance agents, was at bos-
ton, Tuesday sentenced to five years in
States prison.
Samuel Bowen's house and barn. with
contents, were destroyed by fire at Bethel,
Vt. the ith. Loss Sl200: insured for $500
in the New England Insurance company OF
Rutland. Cause unknown
Lieut.. z. B. Weeks, quartermastor at the
United States army post at st. Antonio,
Texas. committed suicide Sunday might 10y
blowing out his brains with revolver
Dependency is alleged to he the cause.
George y. Ives of Salem, cx-asslstant dis.
trict attorney, was at Newburypoyt. Mass
Monday sentenced TO SIX years and siy
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bezzlement; two days solitary confinement.
The 31th national convcntion of the An.
cent Order OF iiibernjans opened IN Hart
ford, Conn, Monday. The informal open
Ing was at high mass at st. Joseph
cathedral. About 200 delegates attended
Eighteen monuments and head stones il
Woodlawu cemetery in Keene, y. H., wcr,
damaged by unknown parties Saturday
night. Two monuments and two heac
stones costing several hundred dollars wer.
ruined.
The annual meeting of the Connection
River Valley Medical association was helC
at the Commercial House. Tuesday,
May 6. There a good attendance
of members, and very Interesting paper:
were read.
Monday morning the annual session of tn,
Supreme Lodge of the Now England Order
of Protection opened with large attend
ance at Boston. Among the officers elected
was supreme guide; J.. &. Burnham oil Bur
lington, Vt,
The final arguments were made in tn
hearing on the State home and school man
agcment at Providence, Il. l., Monday
The legislative committee will present ii
finding at the May session of the Genera
Assembly.
Hon. Edward Oliver Wolcott, Unite
States senator of Colorado and Mrs. France
Metcalf Dass, daughter of the late Jane
Metcalf, were married at Buffalo, " y.
Wednesday in st. Pauls cathedral b,
Bishop Cox.
The work of removing the dabris fror
the ruins of the Tongue Point asylum re
veals only the charred remains of a fe,
bodies and Identification is impossible. Tn
safe has been taken outtand most of the re
cords found intact
The reception to Henry NJ. Stanley in til
Guild Hall, London was an enthusiast
affair the guests numbered 1000. The lor
mayor presented to the explorer a gol
Q cas;et containing an address from the cor
2 poration Of London.
t An explosion occurred at the Bay Stat
furnace, Fort Henry, n. V, Monday morn
4 ing which threw hot cinders upon the ice
l house OF Scott n Cheeney, containing 20, 90
5 tons, and set the ice-house on fire total
destroying it. The property was insured
: The dwelling occupied by a farme
named Wynn at Cambelford, Ont, wa
!, burned Monday morning. William Wynn
= 13, and his grandmother, Mrs. Soule, 81
were burned to DEATH The woman wa
: helpless and the boy lost his life in trying T.
save her.
!, One engineer two firemen and two brake
= men were killed by a collision of two freigh
!, trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia. an
Georgia railroad, at tunnel four mile
from Chattanooga, Tenn, Monday morning
The accident was caused by mlsundei
q standing of running orders.
!: Near Fairfield, Ohio on the 7th Cia MAJ
n att shot and killed Herrick Ashton, an
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