Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-07
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
Summary of the News from all Parts oi
this Earth of ours.

! Friday
BY a fire at Danbury Conn. early Sun
day morning five large blocks valued at
$500, 900 were destroyed
Mrs, Col Coppnger, Secretary Blaine's
eldest daughter, died at her fathers resi-
dence in Washington at o'clock Sunday
morning.
Mrs. John j. Coppnger, the oldest daugh-
ter of Secretary Blaine, is lying critically
ill with brain trouble at her residence in
Washington. Grave apprehensions are felt
regarding her illness.
.Jacop Adell of Fairmount, Ind, poured
kerosene over his clothes, set fire to them and
roasted himself alive TO expiate his sins.
| He has recently shown indications of being
crazy on religious matters.
Burglars entered President Harrison's
house at Indianapolis Thursday evening.
The house is occupied dy H. s. Frazer, but
much of the presidents property is still in
the house The stolen articles are valued at
$1,000.
Friday night Leauder Anderson of Sioux
City, Iowa, shot and killed Anna Carlson,
aged 16. and Immediately committed sui
eide by shooting through the head. He had
prosecuted the girl with attentions for
several months.
The trip of the president and cabinet to
New York TO attend the centenary of the
organization of the Supreme Court of the
United States was abandoned on &C.
count of the Affections in the families of
Secretaries Blaine and Tracy.
The Lake George Yacht club will next
week begin the erection of clubhouse on
the shore of Basin bay. 1t will be one of
the finest club-houses i'll the country. The
building will combine Queen Anne and
Spanish American architecture.
The Goff- Fleming contest in West Vir-
ginia was decided at noon Tuesday in favor
of Fleming, the vote standing 40 for GoH to
43 for Fleming. Carr, the union labor SEN
ator, voted with tine democrats The repub-
licans accept the situation gracefully.
Miss Bisland, VINO has made the circum-
navigation of the globe in the interest of
the Cosmopolitan magazine, having left New
York the same day as Nellie Bly,, hut going
the reverse way to that lady, arrived
Thursday morning of last week on the
steamship Bothnia.
The Grande Igne Baptist mission and
church on the Richeeu river in Canada,
near Rouses Point, burned down Fri
day. The mission was founded about 30
years ago by Nine Feller and NJ. Roussy,
and the society had prospered The value
OF lhe properly WAS about N'ViV"'
Floods are prevailing in tina West. Wa
ter is knee deep in the city OF Portland, Or
egon Throughout Oregon and in sections
of adjoining States, traffic is suspended and
communication cut off. Peopie are fleeing
from their homes, and g1,.-, damage to
property has beel caused by the thaw
About noon Tuesday two men entered tho
iewelrv store of l. Leonard ct Char
| tot, Ia,
clerk who was alone at the time. Then
they siezed a number of watches and various
ART icle, of ewelry which they placed in a
bag and escaped There is no clue to thein
identity. The stolen property is valued at
, $500.
Tha heorine, in tho N,ro,,i.J or,nsor
co,tast ccse foT +bo liori,nrrt- t-,overnoruh;,,
,vos concluded in +ha Ohio senate last weak
anal a,,rsor the ronublicar ,vos o,etad ~,
- strictly nortlv, vote The renuhlicnr ,oom-
bers 6Ied - rrmbor If ,rote.ts ,goirst the
narner of rroca,jir, mud the rorci,,.,on
, was a+tandad with Storm, scopos Isn,,,son
,,o,,s noti,a ,bo caya ,,o,Id Ina cor,iod ~, thn
STnro,,,o Court
, w.. o.;.,a , .l- .,..s. eu,.,.
- train crossino the bridge ot BRIDGE Iunctior
a III Monday nicht vera n,ecinitated into
q tbe river lv tba b,,ao,,i,,, of - eron Tha
tiTpOlnn VII in in hp "a
| were buried under the engine in EIGHT feet
: of water and the enoineer yyos ninned in the
cob with his head inst ahova tha water
! Efforts were ,node all night to oct hin, ont
a but without surcass AND deo+h finally, an
sunI
i Tho Troy Tiro.s ,,,,,,,isbos +bo fo,lo,yin,
r. N1oe p;.o - d,..,, ,'1a,s Ma. s,
l. ferred with tho b,nnuet committees Of tho
T. Troy Republican club Thursday. and pre-
V scnted for nspection a beautiful portrait.
cut in bas-relief in Vermont statuarv mar
bic, Of President Lincoln, with the view OF
exhibiting the portrait on the occasion O;
a the banquet February II. The portrait
shows excellent merit.
There vora two disastrous firos in Roe+or
> Sunday Tbo frat oco,,,red sbortI,, OTTO,
> midright yrbar Gro broLo out in ON T,nlio,
dyellinr house ~, Youth s+reet Ni,o nar
!. son. yrra hnrnad 10 dontb +braa otra,.s fo.
> tally ,uiurod and civ nova soriousI,, bu,,t
nurino tho tba sn,onoor tho ,,,,a+ Soar
i building a eva-st,,,,, p,o,,hIe strnctr,o cor