Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-02-13
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interesting Notes From all Parts of the
Globe Pithily Presented-nIany Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of the Mil
lenniun.

w. Ii. Claggett has been elected senator
from Idaho. He Will contest the seat of
senator-elect Dubois.
j. n. Mccullough, first vice president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, led Sunday
morning at Allegheny City.
| Ex- Chief Justice Marcus Morton of the
Massachusetts, Supreme Court died at Law
renee Tuesday evening of heart failure,
Richard Hasey of Baxter Springs, Kan,
shot his wife Monday and then shot him
self. She will recover, but Halsey died
within an hour.
a Partisan banker who had secured many
deposltors by the promise of high rate of
interest, has skipped leaving about 1000,
600 francs to make good deposits of 90 00O,
! 900 francs
Flood, fire and famine are making sad
work in northern China Over 1000 per
! sons are known to have perished and the
suffering among the poor people is some
! thing terrible.
Miss Mile Crayton, on the day appoint
ed for her marriage 20 Charles Bardw Of
Austin, Texas, was drugged, and, with the
acquiescence OF her parents, forced to marry
one Rlakely, rejected suitor.
Charles Mowry, farmer, who had forged
Il small order and was arrested aud placed
in jail at Columbus, Md, while being taken
out for trial Monday tried to escape where
upon Sheriff Smith fatally shot him.
The three miners who were hemmed in
and supposed to be drowned in No. 3 col
licry of the Susquehanna Coal company at
West Nanticoke Pa, last week were
rescued Monday morning i'll a nearly ex
haustel condition.
King Humbert of Italy offered Signor
Crispl title of nobility Monday. He
Il, /, h.
ters of the new cabinet Monday. The
Senate and Chamber of Deputies VIII meet
again on Saturday
The president has approved the act max
ing an apportionment of representatives in
Congress among the several States under
the 1lth census; also the act making aupro-
priatiOn for tie enlargement Of the military
post nj Pattshurgh ~ L.
Western railroad employees will organize
for the purpose ol fighting what is known as
granger legi7lation,H = which by making
war on tie railroads, it is SAID, has so re-
duced their earnings as to necesstate tho
cutting down Of wages and the laying oif
of employees.
Chicago barber named Jesse Osborn
Sunday night shot and dangerously Wolnd.
ed Miss Blanche Clement, a miliner Os-
born then shot himself fatally. The couple
nat been engaged hut quurcllod. Osborn
WAS under tho influence OF liquor when ho
committed the act
james Reduuth of New York, the famous
Irish nationalist, journalist and lecturer,
and vice president of the ant poverty So
cety, who was run down by Fourth
avenue horse car opposite the postofice one
day last week, died tuesday morning at
St luke's hospital from the effects of his
iures.
At the hearing in Portsmouth, y. H.,
Monday in the case Of Mrs Lucy u.
Reed, who is charged with completely in
the murder Of her husband Elbridge G..
Reed, at North Salem, on the night of Jan
uary -, Mrs. Rccl wa, committed to
ial without bail to await tine action OF the
April term Of court.
From Chicago comes the report that the
whi>tey trust offered government gauger
50. coo 10 blow up with dynamite the dis
tllery Of II. H. fShufeldt who has not en-.
tered the combination. The success of the
plot meant the death of 80 men working
in the place. Secretary c. J. Gibson of the
trust has been arrested.
Mrs. Hannah {. Wnitmore was burned
to death Monday in Wethersf,d Conn. She
retired at o'clock, and at / 30 o'clock
the house was found to be full of smoke by
I Lut OlntI lHIlltteS. lHNtHll1ullOn UIScONtrtl
Mrs. Whitmore's room TO be on fire The
lady was found badly burned and dead
The accident is supposed to have been due
TO an overturned lamp.
At Kansas City Mrs. Ernest Steinhart,
her o-year-old daughter, niece , a med
kntie Lewis and Emma Nichols. n coioreI
servant, were poisoned Friday afternoon by
eating cakes in which had been placed "A
large amount of arsenic, Katie Lewis and
the servant may die. Her father Is sus-
+ pected of committing the deed to prevent
the family from taking her with them to
Texas.
. Miss Grace Gridey of Amboy, Illinois,
has Just awakened from most re
a markable and prolonged trance. As the
result of religious excitement she went in a
1 cosmatose condition nearly n year ago and
continued in that state up to the present
time, taking no food during all that time
. except little in liquid form, She has now
regained the use OF her muscles and is in a
n far way to recovery. She says she was
conscious all the while, but was unable Ia
make the fact known to her friends She
repeats conversations which occurred in her
hearing during her trance
5 The Cunard steamship Umbria brought
to New York last week 430 pounds of dog
, flesh which cost the owner nearly S51 u
n pound. The canine is tho champion st.
f Bernard Sir Bedivere, recently purchased
f in Cheshire, England, by L. b. Sears Of
,; Melrose, Mass. The price paid for him
i was $l?, 800. Sir Bedivere is three year,
f old, stands about "a inches high and weighs
- 23O pounds. In color he is orange, with
J. white markings and dense black shadngs
- lie is gentle and atfectionate, and is gifted
with the characteristic Intelligence of the
Is St. Bernard.
} An almost successful attempt at sui
:. eide was made at Niagara Falls
h Thursday night at Main street saloor
known as the "Bellen - Wilfred Grey, {
married man, lamp inspector for the Brush
J. Light company, 10 said to nave become in
b fatuated with the proprletor's wife, and