Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-03

The American Base Ball association Will
have but eight clubs next season.
The Austrian government has decided to
take part officially in the Chicago worlds
fair.
1t 10 eftimated that 40, 900 persons at Ber-
lin have been attacked with influenza since
November /.
According to official estimates hundred
million pods of grain will be needed IN hus-
bia from abroad.
The epidemic of influenza, which has
caused so much suffering in Berlin of late, Is
increasing in severity.
Sunday afternoon two shocks OF earth
quake, lasting about five seconds each, were
felt at Seattle, Wash.
Judge Bugbeo Of Alaska, accused OF inc
briefly and immortality, has been asked by
the president to resign.
Count Tolstoi and his daughters are or
ganizing kitchens in the famine afflicted
districts OF Russia to feed the starving.
Official returns show that since June l,
DO, 900 Russian Jews have been forwarded
through German ports to North and South
America.
John White, late business manager OF the
San Francisco Call, confesses that he has
stolen $50, 900, most of which no sank in
LOrse racing anu bpeCuNhtlou
Thirty suits of clothes, valued at $50
each, and smngged across the line by Mon
treal tailor to his American customers, were
seized at Troy few days ago.
Sunday night Charlie Vine of New Bos-
ton, Tex, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Dave Morgan, threw his body in the river,
mounted Morgan's horse and escaped
A terrible explosion occurred at Black
burn Eng, 80 miles from Manchester
Monday. Three stores were blown to atoms
aud number of persons were killed and in
tured.
Gov. Russell of Massachusetts last week
issued a proclamation promulgating the
amendments to the State constitution,
abolishing the poll tax a prerequisite for
voting
Nelson Decker, the wellknown actor, who
on Wednesday at the Edwin Forest Home,
Philadelphia, made an attempt to take his
life by cutting his throat, died Tuesday
morning.
Smallpox is again epidemic in Guatemala
and Honduras. The suffering, owing to the
scarcity of provisions in the interior, is in
tense The state is unable, financially, to aid
the people.
The leading English holders of Virginia
londs are bitterly opposed to the proposed
plan OF funding the State debt, arranged by
the State debt commission and the Olcott
commissioners.
The Chinese government has decreed that
the printing and publishing Of anti foreign
placards is capital offence and las or
dered those already convicted Of this olFense
TO DO beheaded.
Archduke Henry of Austria died Mon
day of Inflammation of the lungs. lie was
born in Milan In 1928. Baroness Waldeck,
morganatc wife of the archduke, died Sun
day OF the same disease.
at New Orleans the main building, a
frame structure used as a library and sew
cral other buildings belonging to the
Straight University for colored people wa:
burned Monday, causing n loss of $780,
900
1t is stated that the Russian government
is about to prohibit expectation of horses
from Russia In some quarters this i,
looked upon as additional evidence that
Russia is preparing for hostilitles in the near
future.
Lee 1eflin, one Of the two men arrested
in Alexandria, Fnrquhar county, Va,
chareed with me murder Of tho Hines fam
lily rear Caverton on the 9th inst, ha,
admitted thai he had committed the horri-
bic crime.
The protectory building connected witt
the convent Of tho Sisters of Mercy al
Balmyiile, N y, was burned Tuesday
morning. There were 240 children sleeping
in the building, but all were got out safely.
Loss $40, 900.
All danger from an apprehended water
famine IN New y ork in consequence OF pro
tracted drought is thou 5ht 10 be avertJC
by the recent copious ran. The nqueduc
Is now discnsrslng an average of $40, 0OC
ga ions OF water daily.
1t is said that the late Lord Lytton was
SPiriiu0hst, that he believed he had com
munlcatiOns with JoOn OF Arc, Balzaca anC
Napoleon, and that no complained that h
was always batflsd in trying to have acces
to the spirit Of his father.
The latest dispatches from Rio Grnnde d
Sui state that the authorities obstinatel,
refuse 10 comply with orders from Rio Jan
ei!o instructiug them to reinstate the for
me" officials OF state and a conflict with tn
federal authorities is probable.
The report Of Professor Mendenhall, chic
Of the United States geodetIc aud coas
survey, shows that tle Indiana boundar
mo Is one mile east OF its proper place a
Inc northern extremity OF tho State an
onl' is entitled to nearly 100 square mile
OF Indiana territory.
Fire in the block owned by r. E. Parke
and the hsirs Of j. y. Buflum Mt Lynn
Mas, Saturday night, caused a loss
FSO, 600, SO 600 OF which is covered by in
surance The fire lasted nearly II hour
and was the most stubborn that the Ign
department. has vet encountered.
j. II. Stein, editor OF the Whitson Ad
vance, was shot and killed at Meanwhile
Ore, Sunday night by c. c. Coos, raj
road section boss. Cook then blew his ov
bron1 out. The men were friends aud wer
walking along the road together wnen Coo
in supposed fit Of insanity drew a revolve
and shot Stein.
BY a secret agreement with France TUT
key has coded Cape Sheik Shab in the Pei
sian gulf to France. The capo affords eas
possibilities fer the development of gree
military and naval advantages, Turkey
said to have taken this step because Of u
uneasness felt by tho sultan at England
action In continuing the occupation OF Egg
IN spite OF tho protests OF France and Iu
kew Indirectly aPslnst such 81