Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-24
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Many Fires do Great Deal of Damage
The Dark Side OF Life-Intercsting
Notes from all Parts OF the Globe
Pithily Presented.

BY a panic in st. Stanislnus Roman
| Catholic church Sunday, some 26 children
were injured several seriously.
The British consul at Zanzibar reports
that from $4,000 to 100. 900 weapons are
imported into Africa each year.
Mayor Grants letter accepting the Tam
many Hall nomination in the coming may
orally contest in New York was given oHt
! Tuesday afternoon.
The St. Louis. Alton and Springfield rail
way company was put INTO the hands Of a
receiver Tuesday. The total Indebtedness
Of the road IS about 81 ,0O0, 600.
Henry Kron of Blairsville. Ind, after
quarrelling with his wife Sunday shot her
| in the presence of his three children and
then blew the top Of his head off with a
/ pistol.
As the train, in which the czar was
| travelling on the way to st. Petersburg,
from hunting trip IN Poland, was passing
| Grodno, a shot was fired at the train from
the railway station there.
The original package houses at Yankton,
S. D., have been re-opened on the
strength of the recent Kansas decisions.
| The city officials viii probably pass an o"di-
nance licensing such houses.
Tho schooner RolericI McRae, which left
! Little Glance Bay in July last, for Halifax,
| r. s, with cargo Of slack coal, has not
since been reported and nothing has been
heard of the fate Of her crew.
The officials Of both the Adams and
| nited States Express companies deny mo.H
| positively that there was any truth in the re
! port Of negotiations on foot to effect con
solidation Of the two companies.
| According to the Japan Mail, a native Of
| the province of Bzen has Just been divorced
from his 3jth wife, and is about TO marry
! his 36lh. The much married Benedict's
! quarrosome sister Is said to be the cause of
these many ruptures.
There is no truth in the reports that have
been circulated that the North German
| Lloyd steamship company and other com
panioi engaged in the transatlantic trade
are discussing proposition looking to a
reduction IN passenger rates.
| 1t is reported thai the United States
Express company has issued peremptory
orders to all of its agents not TO receve
money tickets OF lists Of drawings from the
| Louisiana LoJ,ery company o.. IL any wary
to assist in the transaction of lottery busl-
ness.
Lucy Hale of Lansing Michigan,
ha, been granted a pension as the
| daughter OF Nathaniel Wallace. Il
private Of the ith regiment, New York
volunteers during the revolutionary war.
She Will rcciYe $50 per month from Sept
25, 1890.
| Michael Nhapnahan was killed at Rut-
| land saturday while at work on the
| Rutland and Washington railroad two miles
south Of Poultney station He was a well
! known rack man and mad worked on the
/ poutney X Granville section Tor the last
- years.
The nr,; consignment Of Canadian eggs
/ reached the London market Tuesday in eX-
! celleut conlldluon. They Will bear com
! parisou with Normandy egg Several cases
| found buyer al 10 shilllnBs per hundred.
! The top Price Tor the best eggs ON the mar
| ket wa" ] sLlilngs.
Nuout 3 o'clock Friday morning a gang
o. ronLers were detected NJ work on a SAT-
| a. Ohio city. the citizens turned ont to
capture the,s Il battle ensued during which
three men were killed and others wounded.
/ The robbers made their escape, lsavlng one
OF their number dead.
An euidrn!c OF malignant dv,entrv is
ra.!n., M rortion, o( sussex county. y. !.
IN lu. Villa uf Hamburg, with a popula-
ZION of BOO. ih.r- have been - cases. 70 of
tarm proNh5 NAL une-tourth OF the
/ population OF Monroe Corners mas been
down With a mH.aIy and u number oi
deaths have cc1ufr'd
y. ] Palmer u Co., contractors for
building the Two smhoats, Concord and
Bennington, have notified the navy depart
rl,at that the first named vessel is ready
for q tllGI "trip. Tho contract called for the
completion OF these vessels IN May, lSo9',
The contractors are under 4 penalty OF $500
ppr day ioi every day y delay IN their com