Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-16

Charles H. Allen, republican candidate
for governor of Massachusetts,, is suffering
from tonsilitis.
The Brotherhood and tho Order of Rail
road conductors have been consolidated.
Sunday nights frost destroyed $3.50, 900
worth of grapes in Chautauqua county, N. y.
Farmers in the Northwest are willing to
take 46 cents a bushel for what wheat they
have in shocks.
Emerson & Co. Of Rutland are to furnish
5000 monument to be placed over Christie
Warden's grave.
The executive committee of the National
Republican league is called to meet ut New
York, November -.
President Harrison seems to be in no
hurry to G,l the vacancies on the inter-S 10
commerce commission.
The Venezuelan government has eXiled
President Rojos, on the ground that he was
u disturber OF the peace
BY the explosion of q locomotive boiler
at st. Paul yesterday, 10 workmen were
injured, two probably fatally.
Amateur hunters are having no trouble
finding deer in the Adrondacks this season;
the animals are unusually tame.
Peter Redpath has sisniiod his intention
Z,
treal with 800, 900 library building
The Presbyterian synod OF Minnesota has
adopted resolutions protesting against the
opening of the worlds fair on Sunday.
The rainy weather Of the past few weeks
will cause the farmers of the Northwest to
suffer losses on wheat aggreg gateing in the
millions.
1t is Mr.. Biaines intention to return to
W r Nat 1 b.
at once resume the duties of the state de-
Iartment.
Chicago has to have public library
building which will Accommodate 500, 900
volumes. The cost of the structure will be
| 81, 150, 600.
The great strike Of lumbermcn at Ottawa
has collapsed, crowds OF men returned TO
work yesterday The men are working on
the old terms.
The famine in the Volga valley has caused
widespread sickness among the inhabtaut is.
Thousands of peasants are prostrated 10y
typhoid fever
Theodore G. Weeks of Stoneham, Mass.
a broker and speculator, has gone into in
solvency with liabilities Of about $2JJ, 22J
and no assets
1t is believed John Howard Parnen vii
cOHltSl iOT lue seat III iSOTk
City left vacant by the death Of Charles
Stewart Parnell.
At a meeting of the Michigan Farmers
alliance at Lansing the other day a resolu-
tion was unanimously adopted endorsing the
Ocala platform.
Joe Coe, the negro who assaulted littl,
Lizzie Yates at Omaha, Neb.. was taken Out
of Jail early Saturday morning aud lynched
by an angry mob.
A bill is to be presented ir the French
Chamber Of Deputies granting amnesty tt
political offenders, including the exilec
princes and NJ. Rochefort.
Jay Gould refused TO attend the meeting
of the Western Traffic association or to SEM
a representative, thus destroying the organ
ization's power for the time
According to the latest interview will
President Harrison, a man from Tennessee
or Georgia will ill the vacancy in the inter
State commerce commission.
The worlds bicycle record of 4:49J fo
two miles, was broken Saturday by }. F
Taylor, Harvard man, on Hampden park
Springfield, Mass, in 4:4S 10
Samuel j. b. Brun OF San Jose, late il
structor Of French at Cornell university
has been appointed instructor Of French u
the Leland Stanford, jr., university
At public meeting ut Brussels, the bur
gomaster said that he was authorized to de
ny the report that treaty had been con
Guided between Germany and Belgium.
Joseph W. Narimore of Sing Sing, n. y.
u senior at Wesleyan university, has mys
teriously disappeared. lie left the colleg
September 80 and has not been seen since
Secretary Foster viii make his frs
speech in the Ohio campaign a Findn
October %. He will also speak at Toled
and Cleveland and possibly at other places
Next Tuesday, if the weather is favor
able, Sunol, Pslo Alto, STEAMBOAT, Ario
and Bell Bird will go against thoir record
ON the kite-shapcl track at Stockton, Cal
The louisiana State Lottery company ha
established II branch Office IN Montreal, an
: will use the Canadian mails for the purpos
denied it by the United States postal regu
lations.
/ Mr. ana Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley and Mr.,
/ Tenant, mother of Mrs. Stau.ey, starte
for Australia, Mr.. Stanley was still lam
, as the result OF his recent accident in Swit
! zorland.
Three million dollars additional gold
/ about to be shipped to Now y ork from Eu
| rope. Total gold tow on the way, SO, 3S1
| 900; total gold movement up to date, SO
JU0 900.
Two weeks ago a son OF Mr.. Mills
r Coebrook, n. H., aged seven years, sucIle
- "A beech nut into his wndpipe. lie did NJ
cough it up, lost strength rapidly, and die
yesterday.
David Dudley Field, the eminent juris
has given a tract Of 5S acres, known as IL
= Ice Gorge, for public park for Stocl
= bridge, Mass, where he and his brother
were born.
All tho saleswomsn and cash girls
!, John Wanamaker's store are obliged
= wear black. This is a new rule and IL
. employees consider it an encroachment c
their personal liberty.
}. A disguised driver and an unknown hor
# | created a sensation in Philadelphia raciu
j. circles Tuesday. by running away from th
@ field in tho 2:30 pacing race at Point Breez
n \ protest was entered.
Q The lottery democrats have gained a vi,
4 tory in Louisiana. At meeting of Il
J. State central committee Tuesday the lotter
men secured majority of the committee