Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-23
the president, A. p. Putnam, d. D., of

owned fine farm and had the reputation
of being wealthy and misorly. 1t is thought |
about $4,000 was secured by the murderers,
who have SO far escaped detection.
The wife and daughter of President G..
Stanley Hall of Clarke university were
found dead in their bed at Worcester, Oh the
morning of the 10th accidentally suffocated
by illuminating gas that had escaped during
the night. President Hall was ont of town.
Medical aid was promptly summoned but
availed nothing. The cause was defective
gas burner The daughter was about eight
years Of age.
Susq uehana, Pennsylvania, and vi
cinity was Tuesday visited by one of
the most severe rain storms in its history.
The rain fell in torrents from O'Clock p.
m. Monday till 10 O'Clock Tuesday. The
Richmond shoe manufactory was torn to
pieces and drifted down to the Susquehana.
Easements were flooded, roads cut up and
lawns and gardens destroyed. Railway
tracks were submerged and suburban
bridges carried away. The loss will be
large.
The canal boat, Mira G. Myers, from
Benson Landing to Troy, laden with 100
tons of melting ice for Cooper ~ Co., now
has been tied up at Fort Edward for week
on account of canal break. The captain
of the boat says it has risen in the water
four inches since the tie up by reason of the
melting of the cargo Each inch, he says,
represents four tons of ice; consequently,
that already foots up nearly % tons OF ice.
Evidently some of the ice men are not so
happy as they We're in mid winter.
Eight thousand people saw an exciting
finish to the six day, eight hour, bicycle
race, between Jack Prince, champion, and
Sergeant Ned Reading, tine soldier
racer, at Omaha, Nebraska. Saturday night.
All the week the men have been even on the
last mile. Under Il tremendous squirt Prince
passed Reading and won by few feet.
The total distance covered was trifle over
I 1t miles A wager of $1,000 a side and
the entire gate receipts go to the winner.
George Francis Train arrived in New
York Sunday morning on his return to
Tacoma, aboard the Etruria. He was met
at quarantine by party Of friends on the
tug +. ". Devoc. aud transferred to the
city, where he takes a special train for
Tacoma. He is in the best OF health Mr..
Train said he had made circuit Of the globe
to New Eorl; city in 60 days and expect
cd to reach the end of his journey, Tacoma,
in G5 days, thus breaking all records.
A heavy land slide occurred about one
ilIlc hol 1h Va OlI bOubldss, ~ - aLouu .
O'Clock Tuesday night, and wild freight
IN charge OF Cohductor Maioney, approach
ing the scene OF danger, was unable to avert
'le c"easropne, ahu the engine Auiron-
uack, lolo"ed oy SIX cars, leiu the track,
and were piled in a promscuous mass
around the engine and across the track. No
one jumped, and with the exception of Fire
man Howe, no one was injured.
The will of the late Mrs NJ NJ
Kellogg OF New York city, giving
her entire estate, amounting, 1t Is thought,
to about S20O 100, to trustees, to be used in
building public library at Montpelier, t.,
aud chapel and monumental gateway III
Green Mount cemetery IN that place, VIII
De contested preilli'!h'Iy nearing III tne
surrogate once mere was pe8uh several
! DAYS ago he helrs VIII ehueaVor 10 prove
that MRS. heilosg at the time she made
her Will was not sane
Inc new extension of the Maine
! Central railroad to be built tins
summer from the mountain division
of connection with the Upper Coos
railroad at North Stratford, will pass
through the following towns; Jefferson
and Lancaster, Gulldha!l Maidstone and
| Brunswick, VI, and Strattord, y. ii. The
extension will connect wirh the line of the
Maine central at point about one ana one
half miles south of Hazen's junction.
T, p. Littleiield of Jcssup, Ga., found
his wife and J. NJ Mccall county sur
veyor OF Wane county, in coinpvomiS-
| ing position on Tuesday night and shot
his wife Just over the left eye, kill
ing her instantly. He then shot Nc
! Call four times. Mccall died at 220 a. IN.
Mccall was about % years old with large
family and the family stand high in the
estimation of the community. Mr. Little
field is about the same age. His wife was
about 45 years of age They came from
Massachusetts, and have been living in
Jessup for 20 years.
The schooner Jessie l.. Beck. from Toledo
for KINGSTON. with lumber. was capsiIed of
Nine Mile Point Sunday afternoon during a
heavy storm and all hands are supposed tc
have been drowned. The crew consisted of
CaptainThomas Mackie. Mate Joseph Nlackie.
Seaman W Macliie. Cook Mary Mackie
sister of the above. James Davidson and
William Muller of Wolf Island. and Frank
Georpe of King,ton Most OF tho crew
were married aud leave large families. The
Beck was owned by Beck a Boty of King