Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-10

York Tuesday morning. DR.. Chetwood
gives as the cause of death heart failure
and general debility.
La grippe is on the increase in New York.
There was an increase in the death rate
Tuesday. 25j being the total. There are
said to be at least 400, 900 in the city suffer
ing from the disease. 1t Is on the decline
in Boston,
Mary Donnely, the nurse who was stab
bed 10y Eva Hamilton at Atlantic City last
summer, has brought suit against Eva
Hamilton and Robert Ray Hamilton for
$40, 900 damages alleged to have been in
CURED by reason of the assault.
The Rev. Ebenezer Dodge d. D., LII.
D., president of the Madison university,
died at Hamilton, n y, carly Sunday
morning of peritonitis, after an illness of
less than three days. DR.. Dodge was born
in Salem, Mass. on April %, 1889.
District Attorney Fellows of New York
said Monday thnt he believed it would be
waste of public money to try any more OF
the "boodle cases. as an acquittal or at least
disagreement, would certainly result in
every case. He will not go on with the
trial.
John Jay Knox, president Of the National
Bank of the Republic of New York city,
has prepared bill which will be introduced
in Congress within the next few days, a
principal object OF which is to provide for
/ the use of silver bullion as a basis for the
National bank circulation
James E. Holbrook, a justice of the peace
and wealthy farmer living near Peter
boro, Ontario, starved and beat his aged
wife and left her to die from exposure. He
even refused to bnry her body until he
learned that otherwise it would be turned
over to medical college.
Senator David NJ. Clough of Minnesota is
charged by Dr. John A. Moore of Mnneap-
oils with the seduction of the latter's young
wife, and is made the defendant in n dam
age suit for $50, 900. Senator Clough pro-
nounces the suit an 'infamous blackmailing
| scheme.n
The public debt was decreased 50, 1913, 003
during December The total debt and in
terest is 81, 6l0, 500, 053. 81. The total cash
in the treasury available for the reduction
of the debt is 1927, 021, ,0OO07. The total
cash in the treasury as shown by the treas
urers' general account is 1913, 766, 911.30.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
overruled the defendants exceptions in the
case of George w. Babcork against the Old
Colony railroad. Babcock was a brakeman
on the defendants road and was injured by
a pile of sleepers left too near the track.
The verdict for Babcock is $40, 900.
James Slogan and wife of New York
drank heavily New Years evening
and the neighbors heard frequent scufiles
between them. Thursday foul odor was
noticed in the Slogan apartments and upon
investigation the woman found dead
her skull crushed in. Slogan has disap
peared.
One Of the large thousand barrel stills of
the naphtha works at the Standard Solar
refinery at Lima, Ohio, exploded Monday
afternoon with terrific force that was felt
all over the city. The oil Immediately
caught fire, causing great excitement. Nine
persons We're bruised and burned, but are
not thought to be seriously injured.
Edward Church, II year old boy livin z
with his father near Huntington, W. Va.
is charged with poisoning the entire family
by putting trough on rats in their bread.
One little girl is dead and four others Of the
family are believed to be dying. The young
murderer confessed his crime to friend and
then fed. He has not yet been apprehended,
Governor Goodell of Now Hampshire
has granted a second respite, until March
Z, to James Palmer of Portsmouth,
who was to be hanged January TO-
for the murder of Henry r. Whitehouse.
Pamers counsel will apply to the Supreme
Court for a new trial newly discovered
evidence affecting the eligibility of a juror
in the late trial
The steamer Britannia, New York for
Liverpool ran in the Brigantine Czarowitz
in the Irish on the night of January ?.
The afterpart of the Brigantine was cut
away and she filed rapidly and sank. The
weather was bitter cold but the Britannia :
crew succeeded in saving all hands from the
} Czarowitz except the captain who was
drowned.
Tho mutilated remains of DR.. Cronin
, still repo,e in the black coffin in the disma
vault Of Calvary cemetery in Chicago
. awaiting the day when they will D(
? given final interment. No date has yet
: been decided upon for this event, but Il
will probably take place early in the spring
There will be a demonstration on the occas-
p sion that will probably exceed in magni
r tude the great outpouring on the day OF
3 the funeral and delegations Of prominence
: from the leading cities of the country vii
participate in the proceedings
Mrs Myria Knitien the wife of a prom
$ nent dentist in Trenton, n. j., was founC
t smothered in bed Friday morning and hel
q cousin, Miss Emma Purcell, was found in
sensible ON the floor DR.. KnifTen was away
Z at the time and although it is claimed tina
+ the work was done by burglars, suspicion
: was directed toward him. Monday morn
ing he attempted suicide by taking
a dose Of aconite which, however
+ was so large that it acted as an emet
: and had no effect. lie gashed hi
: wrists and throat with razor but tn
= wounds are not serious. He said he tried t.
: kill himself because he was discouraged a
- tho strong tide of public feeling against him
. At Villa Lerdo, Mexico, while bull tigh
=. was in progress, the Plaza fell. About 10,
;, 600 persons were crowded in the building
9 and while all were applauding and stamping
= feet, one side of the Plaza suddenly gav
way, precipitating the unfortunate occu
pants to the ground for distance of iron
" 10 TO 20 feet. In their desperation man,
. fights occurred among the men, and man,
were stripped of every stitch of clothing
- Crowds on the opposite side of tho build
10 lug became panic stricken and fell, an
tramped on one another in their attempt
l. to reach the street The scene was one o
ii awful confusion, intensified by the tramp
o ing of the helDlpsS and the cries of nqn nm