Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-02-27
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM AL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interesting Notes From all Parts of tho
Globe Pithiiv Presented-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of tho OYil-
Ienniun.

The Brazilian Assembly hns adopted the
proposed constitution.
The president has approved the act grant
ing pension TO Gen. n. p. Banks.
Washington's birthday was appropriately
obs rived in many Of the large cities Of the
country.
The first triennal council of the women of
Unitel = ttss is baing helu in Washington
this week
Page, DEM, has been elected to Congress
from the second district Of Rhode Island by
5000 majority.
Houses have been swept away and q
n lumber of persons drowned by floods near
Los Angeles, Cal.
An official decree published Monday
suppresses all the republican clubs in the
kingdom of Portugal.
Gen. W. &. Veazey, commander in chief
of the &. A. r., isreported threatened with
pneumonia in Wash ngt IN.
The elections in the Argentine Republic
passed off quietly. The result shows that
the government has gained several seats
Nearly the entire business part of the
town of Medina, Ohio, was burned Tues
! day morning. Loss 800, 900, insurance
$50, 600.
The House committee on invalid pensions
has reported bill granting pension of
$4,000 per annum to the widow of the
late Admiral Porter
BY an explosion in a Nova Scotia mine
Saturday afternoon III persons were killed.
| Whole families We're wiped out and great
! desntutiou must follow.
! TT Btnslcours market at Montreal was
burned Tuesday. 1t was one of the lar
| get markets on the c Mi. ent and u his
torlcal land mark The loss lvy.
General Da Fonseca, vino was chosen pro-
vislonal president of Brazil at the time of
the overthrow of tue empire, has been
formally elected president of the republic.
Two negroes killed storekeeper at
Fraziers, Georgia, because he resisted their
attempts at robbery. a mob hung the
negroes to trees and ridded them with bull
| lets
A train crashed into the rear of another
train in the tunnel on the new York Central
road in New York city Friday morning.
The cars took fire and SIX employees were
| burned to death.
James Dougherty, the insane admirer of
Mary Anderson, who shot and killed Or.
Lloyd in the Flatbush asylum, was sentcnc-
ed Tuesday by Judge Bartlett OF Brook
lyu, y. y, to Imprisonment for life in sing
Sing prison.
\ bloody tragedy was enacted Friday
at L-sh, Nob., in the family OF vii
liam McCubbin, wealthy stock man, the
husband blowing rs wfes brains ont,
shooting his hired man, Frank lob, and
cutting hi> own throat. Tho crime was the
result ot jealousy.
GOV. Hill of New York having daclnet
to honor 4 requi-iliun OF Gov. BuIlel Y of
Connecticut on the ground tLat the latter !.
not tie le5Hi governor of his State Gov.
Bullney writes a caustic letter in reply
allulnc to GOV. Hills domains as para
disc for criminals.
Heavy rains caused the Ohio river tl
overflow It's bauis Friday and Saturday an-
much d9tNage was done to towns in Ohl,
and West Nrgiuia. Riverside, a suburb oi
Parker, our., v. Va, wa, wiped out Of eN
isteuco. \ flood IN Arizona at the sam,
time did damage TO the extent OF ! p, ,UOJ
WAh, Sir. james Mal.gan and vii,
of WoburI Mass, We're in Bo-to!
Monday afternoon. their two year OF,
SON got hold of loaded shot gun, whicl
had been c.,relo,sy left within his reach Is
his II year old brother, who had just return
Cd from bunting, ani ft was discharged
blowing out the little fellows brains.
\ arg} meter passed over the town o
Madison, Me, at 10 Monday mornin,
ana burs; with a loud report, scattorin.
pieces III All direction. Houses We're shaker
as If 10y an earthquake and the peop
awakened We're surprised by the sight o
flashes of waat appeared to be lightning
followed by long heavy rolls of thunder,
, 9iye of tla = tuan who " ara iulpI s1i,a,1 il