Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-03
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Many Fires do a Great Deal of Damage
The Dark Side of collaborating
Notes from all Parts of the Globe
Pithily Presented.

Hanlan and Teemer will row for purse
at East Liverpool Ont, October J.
Secretary Blaine has promised to go to
Wisconsin early next month and make
several speeches in behalf of tho republican
ticket
At Kankakee. H. Nelson lowered the
worlds stallion record Friday time 2:ll ),
Fauntna lowered the two-year-old record
in 2:23t.
Mary Fitzmu' ice of Danielsonviile,
Conn. Conn, committo1 suicide Friday
morning by taking dose of rough on rats.
Dependency was the cause
y German woman arrested at Cannes had
in her possession a number of Topographic
cal charts OF a fortress and plans of
other defences OF the town.
Irving NJ. White of Peterboro, n. H.,
Monday forenoon fell from a moving
machine in a field and his head caught in
the wheel, breaking his neck.
Rev. b. Fay Mills of Providence, r. L.,
c'osed a ten days series OF gospel meetings
at St. Johnsbury Monday. A deep religious
interest has been manifested. Mr.. Mills
goes from there to Chicago.
At the meeting the Rutland First Uni
versaist church Tuesday evening it
was unanimously voted to call Rov.
I. Is. Lyon OF DanNeI9i Md99'i 10 Ihe va
cant pastorate.
John A. Woodward, cashier in the Office
of the Boston city treasurer, and who in
| October, 1890 after defaulting to the
amount of $50. 900. fe1 the city, Is now en-
gagged in business in Buoros Ayres.
| Threatened strike of miners in Illinois,
| Ind, and Missouri has been averted by the
president of the Vermillion & Wilmington
! 70 ba nd
demanded by tho miners.
| At the Charles Bank gymnasium at Bos-
| ton on the 2jth J. b. Connolly of
! the fremont Athletic club Of this city
| lowered the worlds amateur record, a feet
! 81 inches, for hop, step and jump. He made
| A feet 10f inches.
On the 21th snow fell on Mount " Wash
ington during the day and the next morning
| there were six inches and the temperature
went down to Is degrees. The entire
White Mountain range down as low as
| jacobs ladder is white with snow
While the young king Of Serva, accom-
panied by his father, eN-King Milan,
was returning from drive Monday.
u cartridge was exploded beneath his
carriage. The authorities allege that the
explosion was purely accidental. As far as
can he learned no one was injured.
At Taunton, Mass. the mill owned by
! A. 7. Pierce at Norton, used for the
manufacture OF cotton cloth. burned
early Friday morning. Loss, so, 600.
| About l31 hands We're employed The in
surance is about $40. 900, The mill was
built in 1910. and was one Of the first cot
ton mills IN Massachusetts.
The executors Of the late Samuel J.
! Tideu have appealed from the decision of
Judge Beach OF the Supreme Court,
holding the Tilden trust clause for
the establishment Of library in
this city invalid. The case will now go to
the general term of the Supreme Court
| This is the second trial OF the case
Cen Abram Duryea died at 9:4j O'Clock
Saturday morning at his New York resi-
dence in West l2Gth street. He had
been i'll for some time past with par
alysis and it was not believed he would
recover. lie served throughout the war Of
the rebellion and founded he corps known
as the Duryea zouavcs
At Wmchendon, Mass, Edward Tryan
aged Is. and George Barnard aged 20, were
instantly killed Friday night by taking
hold of an electric light guy wire which was
in contact with an incand eScent circuit on
Pond street Word was telephoned to the
station, where the current was shut OF SO
the men could be released Both belonged
in Granville Corners Mass, and We're ON
ployed in the Conversatory shop.
Polish journals assert that during
the recent manWuvres OF the Rus
sian army Mt koyno the kranostaw
bridge collapsed and 400 soldiers, belonging
to the Pultaun regiment which was cross
ing the bridge at the time OF the accident
I tI, ;,,t, n uata 7,I al
The papers state that among those who lost
their lives was Gen. Bardowsky. There
has been no official confirmation of this re-
port
Fowler Brothers packing house at the
Chicago stock yards was damaged 10y fire
Sunday morning to the amountof 5000 600.
The flames spread to the cooling room ad-
Joining and commenced burning the car
casses Of the hogs hanging there. In the
room were $3.50 hogs freezing and they
burned like Gil. The plant was insured
for 81, 50O,O 600, The Lloyd company OF
Manchester, Eng, had four policies of $40,
800 each.
In the Washington County Court Tuesday
Georgs Jarvis was sentenced to 20 years
at hard labor in tne States prison at Wind
sor, for committing rape ON the person ol
Fannie Hastings, aged To- on the 4Sth oi
| last August in Barre; and William Jenkins
was sentenced to three years and six month,
at hard labor in the same institution for as
sault with intent to commit rape on the per
son of an 11-year-old girl at Barre during
the early part of the past summer.
The Russian government has masset
~, 600 troops on the Armenian frontier
The Turks are expecting an at
tack and are rapidly supplying the Kurd'
with arms ana ammunition, and making
other preparations to resist the Russian
forces Russia is also increasing the from
, tier guards on the boundaries Of Austria
Turkey and Persia. The alleged obisc
of this Increase is TO provide for the NOR,
effective suppression OF smuggling,
disastrous fire, causing loss O
! $3.50. 600 broke out Tuesday night il
the building owned by Warren Springer
| at No. III Canal street, Chicago and burn
e cd fiercely for hours. The entire building
Q with its contents will be total loss A
70 / 80 p. m. the south wall of the budins
fell buryng engine company No. II beneatl
the ruins. Tho liremen were taken out on