Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-02
THE WORLD IN BRIEF
OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Many Fires do Great Deal of Damage
The Dark ide of Life-Interesting
Notes from all Parts of the Globe
Pithily Presented.

Me-, Monday will reach over $40, 900; in
surance, $25, 600.
The president sent to the House Tuesday
n message vetong the bill for the erection
of public building at Dallas Texas.
The Adirondack fish hatchery is to distri
butte before long $50, 900 brook trout,
1000, 600 lake trout and 1000,00 fresh
fish.
A German company has been founded at
Bremen in connection with the Standard
Oil company. 1t has a capital of 8, 900, 900
marks
The sculling race for the championship of
the world between Peter Kemp and Neil
Matterson on the Paramatta river Friday,
was won by Kemp.
syndicate headed by the credit Foncier
has guaranteed capital of -, 000 000 francs
for the construction of a system of metro
poltGn railways in Paris
John j. O'Brien, the noted republican
leader in the 9Th Assembly district, New
York died Sunday at Coney Island, where
he mas been i'll for some time.
f. d Walker, editor of the, e,Cosmopolitan
is missing. He was last heard from at
Weldon, n. c., where he was sojourning
for the benefit Of his health.
The Massachusetts House Wednesday,
by vote of a to 20, passed the constitu
tonai amendment aboishng the poll tax
as IA prerequisite to voting
The President has granted respite of four
weeks in the cases of Benjamin Hawkins
and Louis Williams. under sentence of death
in Washington, d. G., from May next for
murder.
Richard Snitke of Rochester, Mimi,
Tuesday night shot and killed his only
child, boy of three, and then committed
suicide. Domestic and financial trouble was
the cause.
japanese advices report that Rev. 7. a.
Lange, belonging to the Methodist mission
OF Canada, has been stabbed to death in his
residence in Toxic by burglars.
Early on the morning of the 9th a fire
was discovered in the Unicorn silk works at
Catasauqua. Penn Three persons We're
killed and 30 injured, some fatally.
While the two children Of Mrs Knapp of
Colorado Springs, Col, aged and 5, were
playing in the nursery, the former secured
pistol and shot and killed his baby brother.
BY the burning--of her dwelling al Belle
vile, Ont, on the night of the "a Jane
Arthurs was burned to death and her hus-
band fatally burned on the arms and head.
By an accident on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road near Staunton, Va. Monday
Miss Myrtle Knox was killed and several
other members OF a theatrical troupe severe
ly injured.
President Harrison sent his first veto to
the House Saturday. He returned without
his approval the bill 'To authorize the city
of Ogden, Utah, to assume increased in
debtedncss.
Schedules of the assignment of the firm
of Louis, FRANKIE x Co. of New York. filed
Tuesday, show liabilities of $l,O3S, 46S;
nominal assets, 81, 192, 9l1; actual assets,
81 ,0Si ,33j.
The Massachusetts House Friday ordered
the third reading of the bill authoring the
Boston and Maine railroad 90 guarantee the
bonds of the ST. Johnsburv and Lake Cnam.
plain railroad.
Fire Tuesday night al McIndoes VT, de-
stroyed the house and barn owned by George
Van Dyke and occupied by Phio Van Dyke.
The greater part of the contents were saved.
Loss $4,000 insured.
The grand jury has handed in indictments
against Joseph Pulitzer. John H. Cockrell.
Julius Chambers and James f. Graham. of
the New York World, for criminal libel,
instituted by Judge Hilton.
The grand jury has dismissed the three
complaints for libel made 10y Peter Mitchell
and Deputy Commissioner of Public Work
Bernard F. Martin against Editor +. l..
Godkin OF the Evening Post
| The Garfield memorial statute at Cleve
land was placed in position Saturday. 1t
| is without Il flaw. II came from Florence
| Italy, and is of IN arble 10 feet high. The
dedication will take place on Decoration day.
Robert Nirtel, house in Milwaukee, Wis,
was burned Monday. Mrs Nttel Jumped
| from second story window with a child in
her arms. Both were badly injured Two
other children Were seriously burned one
of whom will die.
| The New York Senate has recalled from
! the Assembly the SaXton ballot reform bill
and again passed it, changing it SO as to
agree with the amended Saxton bill which
was agreed recently by the governor, Mr.
| SaXton and others.
Deputy Sheriff Davis of Essex county, n
j., has skipped and there is an apparent
shortage of SO, 600 in the accounts OF the
sheriff's office Davis is lieutenant colonel
of the first regiment and very prominent
| in politics and social life
A Coptic clerk who was an employe of
Emin Bey while Etnln was at Wadlai, has
made "A sworn deposition before Mason Bey
was solely due to the discovery of Emiu S
plan to surrender his province to the Mahdi.
The steamer II. Is. Plant of the st. John 5
river line was burned Tuesday morning at
Beresford Landing, l0S miles south of
Jacksonville. Three lives We're lost all
were colored. There were many narrow
escapes The boat was valued at SiS, 900.
Charles w. Pierce, superintendent of lamps
of the Brush Electric Light company, charged
with manslaughter in causing the death of
Henry Harris on Eighth avenue, Novem-
ber 80 last was Tuesday found not guilty
by jury in the Court of General Sessions
at New York.
Judge Wallace of the United States Cir
cult Court has issued a writ of habeas corpus
for kenmer, who was to have been execut-
ed at Auburn, n. Y, this week returnable
at Canandaigua June II, which stays tn,
execution. The ground ON which the writ
is issued is that the act under which the
execution was to take place is in violation
of the constitution.
Advices from Samoa received state that