Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-03


instantly killed and the others badly butnot |
fatally injured.
The New York Electric Light com
pa MES intend to sue the city for dam
ages sustained by the cutting of their wires.
The total amount demanded will be about |
50, 600, 900, part of which is for damages to
property and part for loss of business.
States Attorney Longenecker of Chi |
cago said Saturday that he had Sc
cured considerable evidence against four
or five other men suspected of completely in
the Cronn murder conspiracy, and he
might, before long, take steps to have them
indicted and brought to trial.
A rrible tragedy took place in Mitchell
County, N. c., II miles from Bakersvlle.
In drunken row on Christmas day three
menwere killed. On Friday, Munroe Gar
land, u brother of one of the murdered men.
rode up to the crowd in the same place and
fired into them, killing and wounding II.
Anna c. Jones, the 17-year old daughter Of
the Rev Sam Jones, the evangelist has eloped
with William H. Graham, stenographer,
and the pair were married. The Rev. Mr..
Jones and his wife strongly opposed the
match on account of the girls youth
The New York Engineering News
says that the total addition of railway
during the year 1889 is 5000 miles, the
smallest construction recorded in any one
year since 1880, when the total increase was
only 1888 miles.
An extensive scheme involving the con-
struct ion of railroads in South America
connecting with steamship lines to various
points in the United States, is reported
from Richmond, Va. The company's capi-
tai is to be 800, 900, 600. and Capt II. c.
Parsons of Virginia is at the head OF it.
Mrs Della Parnell, mother of Charles Stew
art Parnell, states that she has received only
one quarter of the $4,000 reported to have
been presented to her, and that when all her
Obligations are met there will be but Il
small margin left for future necessities.
AT meeting of the st. Paul winter car
nval directors it was decided to build no ice
palace this winter. They were forced to
this step by the unreasonable weather. The
carnival of last year was abandoned for the
same reason, and it is said no further at
tempts will be made here in the future to
build palaces of ice.
At a meeting Friday morning of repre-
sentatives of Worcester, Lowell, Springfield
and Hartford base ball interests, it
voted that the New England league, COM
posed of eight clubs, be formed, and the
| SeCISiuTy was iuSlTuClGu W upply lOl tHc
reservation under the national agreement.
Bradstreet's reports ,719 failures in
the United States for the year 1889,
assets so, 500, 169 This is the larg-
est number of failures and greater lia-
biities than for any year in the past five.
The increase i'll number of failures over
1888 is 1872, increase in liabilities $50, III, =
OPS, increase in assets sS, j99, ,S5S.
Miss Sarah n. Nichols, n wel-known
society lady OF Lowell disappeared Christ
mas night, leaving in her room a note say
ing: "Forgive and forget Sunday noon
her body was found frozen i'll the Merrimac
river near Lawrence. She resided in Bel
! videre and was recently swindcd out of
$1,000 by one Charles Metcalf This caused
dependency and led to her suicide.
Counsel for James Palmer, the New
Hampshire man convicted of the murder
of Henry I. Whitehouse and whose eX-
ecuton is set for January 10, have made
a joint application to the governor
and council Tor a reprieve until February l..
The applications are based on the affidavit
of Sheriff Chase OF Seabrook, who states
that the foreman of the jury who tried
Palmer told him he made up his mind that
Palmer was guilty the moment he set eyes
him.
Otto Leuth, Il years old, was convicted
Friday in Cleveland, o., of murder in the
first degree. Last May Maggie Thompson,
7 years old, disappeared while ON her way
home from school. a month later her body
was found under the house af Otto Leuth'
father, six or eight doors from the home OF
the Thompson family. Young Leuth was
arrested, and confessed that he had enticed
the child into an upper room of his home
when his parents were away. He assault
ed and then killed her with a hammer.
The Senate committee on relations with
Canada met in New York Monday morning.
Fritz J. Babson for II years collector OF
the port of Gloucester, believed that re-
taliationwas the only remedy for the fish
cries troubles. Erastus Wiman advocated
the union of Canada and the United States
whereupon he was taken in hand by Senator
Pugh of the committee, who showed tina
by commercial union tins country would re
celve no benefit, while Canada would have
market of d5, 900, 900 people opened to her
and the United States a market of 5000
900.
At firemen's exhibition in Havana, a
two-story wooden building had been erect
ed, which was TO be set on fire. After tn,
torch had been applied and the firemen ha,
taken their places in different parts of tn,
l burning structure. ii was discovered tina
the water supply prepared for the occasion
had been tampered with by some miscreant
Not having sufficient water with which t.
Q fight the flames, the firemen had to cscap
from the building as quickly as possible
some being compelled to throw themselve
/ from the roof, and 22 of them were in
iured, three SO seriously that they canno
recover.
Simon Spohn, aged 60 years, poorly cla
and hungry looking, carrying n battered ii
pail, stopped to pick coal along the Readn
} railroad Thursday, when train cam
| along and cut off both his leg,
e. and he died a few hours later. II
c lived in the attic of one of his houses
1 a scantily furnished apartment, with poo
bed. u small stove, and a tin spittoon cover
ing rat hole. All the coal he needed h
I gathered along the railroad, and yet his res
a estate and personal property are wort
h about $40, 600 This money will go to hi
f aged sister as he had no family
John Hoos of Harlem ILL.,, was found /