Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-11-19

son has been born to Mr. aud Mrs.
John Jacob Aston, jr.
Influenza is raging with virulencs III 'he
department of Dordoyne, France.
1t seems to be generally felt that further
outbreaks will occur in China In the SPRING
Attempts to produce rain by the explosion
OF dynamite proved successful IN Madras,
India
The number Of miners on a strike at has
de Calais, France, have already reached
10, 800
Boston's democratic city committee Mon
day night renominated Hon. Nathan Mat
thews, jr., for mayor.
William w. Lyman, the inventor of the
first air tight fruit jar put on the market,
died at Meriden, Conn, Sunday morning
The recent gales In England have done
great damage to telegraph and telephone
wires. The London Paris telephone Is dis
abled
The president accompanied by ex-senator
Sewell Of New Jersey. has gone to Bengies
Nd, on a hunting trip, He will be absent
two or three days
Two negroes were found hanging in trees
in the vicinity OF Gay Hill. Texas, Tuesday
morning, having been lynched by mob.
The cause OF the act is not known.
The sensation of the session of the Knights
of Labor convention at Toledo Friday
was the discovery of shortage of over
ST., 900 in Treasurer Turner's accounts.
The Academy of Music in New York was
packed with prominent 1rishmcn Sunday
evening when Chauncay NJ. Depew deliver
ed an eulogy on Charles Stewart Parnell.
At Spokane Falls, Wash, four masked
men entered a jewelry store Thursday and,
covering the clerks with revover5, took "a
watches and 500 from the safe and escaped.
Influenza is raging in Posen, Germany.
Many deaths have already been reported.
Influenza has also appeared in the northern
suburbs of Berlin and already the cases are
numerous.
A tornado in the province of Santa Fe,
Argentine, has caused great destruction OF
property and loss OF life. The town OF
Arroyo Seco was destroyed, 40 people being
killed. and 80 wounded
Chief Justi,- bingham of the Supreme
Court OF the District OF Columbia has ven
dered a decision that it is unlawful to solici;
or receive money for political purposes il
government buildings.
Mrs Gretchen Lenzenhager and her II
formers saloon in Chicago Friday morn
ing Both had been choked to death by rob
bers, who ransacked the house.
The seventh annual exhibition of the ma
tional horse show OF America opened al
Madison Square Garden, New York, Mon
day morning. The entries are divided int
IL classes, and all told there are 1866 en-
tries.
The constitu tionality OF the anti ttery
law, so FAR as it prohibits publishers from
sending through the mails newspaper
containing lottery advertisements, is belpl
argued before the United States Supreme
Court
The fires on the Duluth, Mimi, coal dock
which have already done 800, 900 damage
took 2 fresh start Friday morning. Tn
docks of the Northwestern Fuel compan,
caught fire and the loss cannot be less thai
$3.50 600
Edward Z. and Newell II. Willard, ivy
negroes claiming residences at Brattleboro
who attempted to assault Mrs. Alceste Coo
and her daughter near Saratoga Springs OF
the night Of August II, have been sen
fenced to five years in Dannemora and fineC
$1,000 each
The international peace congress Fri
day adopted resolution in favor Of partia
military disarmament, the creation of al
international tribunal OF arbitration and tn
establishment al Berne of a permanent in
ternatioual peace congress
Walter Mace OF Clntonville, New York
has discovered = silver and gold mine a
Chesterfield, Essex county, New York
sample of the ore was sent to Boulder, Col
where it assayed 1913 ounces Of silver an
six ounces gold to the ton. 1t is wort
$500 per ton.
Madam Bartholdi, mother of the well
known sculptor and designer, died in Franc
few days ago at the age of ninety years
She stood for the model of Bartholdl's statu
of Liberty Enlightening the World, "whic
now occupies prominent position in tn
harbor of New York.
District Attorney elect Jeremiah Squr,
has brought an action against the CortlanC
n. y, Democrat for libel, placing damag,
at $40, 900. During the recent campag
the Democrat charged Squires, who WI
the republican candidate, with misappropr
ating funds belonging to q certain estate.