Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-10
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
The Spread of the Great Epidemic-The
Dark Side ofLife-Interesting of Notes
From All Parts of the Globe
Pithily Presented.

1t is reported that Ru ssia has ordered in
France ], 800, 900 repeating rifles.
There are 1000 cases of influenza in Lon
don, Ont The disease is spreading.
A disastrous snow slide at Sierra City,
Cal, occurred Friday. Eight were killed.
Influenza prevails to such an extent in
Munich that it is necessary to close the
schools.
A letter containing 800, 900 has been
stolen in transportation between Vienna
and Pesth.
Ex- United States Senator Lapham died
at 5 o clock Wednesday morning at Roches
ter. y. y.
Commander William Starr Dana Of the
United States navy died in Paris January 2
of pneumonia.
The proposed imperial cable from Ber-
muda to Halifax will be completed by the
middle of June.
Ira Hathaway, while despondent, banged
himself to an attic beam i'll East Taunton,
Mass, Monday afternoon.
No lives were lost by the stranding of the
steamer Persia on the island of Corsica
The vessel is still aground.
Congressman Scott's Pennsylvania col
liery suspended operations last week throw
ing 1000 miners out Of employment
The statistics of the mortality in the city
of Vienna during the last week show an in
crease of so per cent over the normal rate.
The influenza is very bad among the
miners at Dortmond, Germany, and the
coal output is in consequence much re-
duced.
Friday night the order against gamblers
went into effect in Chicago and open gam
bling, for the present at least, has ceased
there
The epidemic fails somewhat as to the
number of victims in Vienna, but it is more
virulent. In Prague and Dresden it is in
creasing.
Chicago is to have the finest Masonic
temple in the world. 1t is to be erected
in the very near future and will cost
50, 500, 600.
Hon. George H. Boxer, exminister to
Turkey and Russia, died at his residence in
Philadelphia January after an illness Of
eight weeks.
Barnwel, S. c. is quiet. The citizens of
Blackvlle and Bamberg who helped to pro-
tect the town have gone home There is no
cause for alarm.
The mortality in New York city CON
tinues to increase the number of deaths for
the "a hours ending at noon Wednesday is
800, the highest yet.
The time of the Senate Wednesday was
taken up with discussion on political NOR
ality and the Dudley letter between Senators
Edmunds and Voorhees,.
Thomas Williams, a bricklayer of Mon
treal, attempted to cut his wife's throat
with razor Friday and failed He then
cut his own throat and died instantly.
Stephen Laplant, an aged Frenchman at
Haverhill, n. H., while drunk Saturday,
hammered his two grandchildren to death
and attacked his daughter in-law
The influenza is spreading in the provin-
ceS of Germany, business is partially sus-
pended and in many places the school
houses have been converted into hospitals.
james l.. Schoetz, representing attorney
of Clay county, Maine, shot and killed
John Layton W Wednesday night. The cause
of the murder is a mystery. Schoetz surren-
dered
De Lucca, convicted of manslaughter in
killing Edward Cunningham at Milton,
Mass, November 81, was Friday sentence.
to 10 years in the State prison, one day
solitary.
The influenza is spreading throughout
Holland. The Dutch Railway company has
been obliged to restrict the transportation
of freight owing to the crippled condition
OF its staff OF employees.
Fire Wednesday completely destroyed the
Western Union Telegraph building at St
Louis, and also burned out three other firms
Several employees of the telegraph Office
narrowly escaped; loss 800, 900.
The fifth span of the iron bridge beine
built between Holyoke and South Hadley
Falls, Mass, was blown down Friday
and Maurice Driscoll, workman, wal
killed, and two others injured.
Willis Gaylord, for years heavy mani
pulator of railroad securities, and organize
of railroad corporations, committed suicide
on the night of January 2 in cell in the
County prison at Philadelphia
Thomas A. Jones, employed in the tool
room of the navy yard at Washington, ha
been dismissed because it was learned tina
he assisted John Wilkes Booth to escap
after the assassination OF Lin ncoln.
Mrs. Lizzie Brennan, under indictmen
for murder in poisoning her son Thomas las
summer at Holyoke, Mass, for his life in
surance died at the county Jail in Spring
field Friday night from Brights disease.
Congressman Mofiitt, of the Plattsburgl
district, is backing Hon H. G.. Burleigh il
his efforts to have the government erect
monument on the site of old Fort Ticon
deroga. He has introduced a bill for tina
purpose
Lizzie Cunningham and Mary Fallon wen
to sleep in the formers bedroom in Nev
York city. Monday Nary was foun
dead and Lizzie was dying from the effect
of gas which in some way had been turne
on but was unlighted.
There is a great exodus of negroes fror
North Carolina, most Of the number goin
to Georgia. 1t is calculated that III, 900 NJ
groes left the State in December and it
probable that the number that will go tn
month will be much larger.
President j. NJ. Thurston of the republ
can league of the United States, has calle
the third annual convention of the league t
be held at Nashville, March 4, 1890 Abou
1000 delegates from the various Stat
leagues are expected to attend.
The body of Mrs c. A. Tobin was foun
in rickety old tenement house at Der
yer, Col. Tuesday. The features WEI
beaten to pulp and the teeth broken, som