Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-09-25

The pope's health is said to be better than
for a long time
Ira Berry Of Portland, Maine's leading
Mason, died Sunday.
Emancipation day was celebrated Tues
day at various points in the West
1t has been found impossible to build the
proposed observatory on Mount Blanc.
Cal McCarty whipped Tommy Warren in
. rounds at New Orleans Tuesday.
Ex-Congres,man W. l.. Scott Of Erie,
Pa, died suddenly Saturday evening.
Phenomenal strikes of petroleum are re-
ported in Fresno county, California.
The national republican convention will
be held during the month of May next.
Two balloonists were probably fatally In
jured at the Connecticut State fair at Mer-
den.
The English government has officially
recognized the provisional government of
Chill.
Gen. J. f. Knapp of New York died at
sea last week while on his way home from
Europe
The London and Westminster bank in
London has been robbed of over a million
dollars
\ st. Petersburg journal wants to bury
the hatchot and make friends of Russia aud
Englanl
Part Of the vertebrae and three teeth of
an elephant have been found near Ga es-
burg, III.
The ith biennial Unitarian conference
was held at Saratoga from Monday to
Thursday
Gov. Albeit of New Jersey will go to
Ohio next month to take the stump for
Campbell.
The bank of Lyons, Kan, supposed to be
one of the strongest institutions III the State,
has assigned.
Senior Guirola, the retiring Salvadoran
minister, paid his farewell respects to the
PRESIDENT Tuesday.
y cablegram from Admiral Belknap an
nouuced the arrival of the Charleston at
Yokohama Monday.
rrinceton's freshman class is the largest
that ever entered that institution and will
number at least 325.
The firm of :. n White &, Co., for years
one of the most prominent on tie New y ork
stock exchange has failed.
The National league maguates at the
meeting in New York decided to make no
overtures to the association.
The rumored combination of the Canadian
Pacific 500 with the Great Northwestern
systems is officially denied
Mamaroneck a. ~ Monday celebrated
the 2OOth anniversary of the purchase of
tue town site from the Indians.
The body of n young woman, supposed to
be that of the suicide of September 10, has
been found below Niagara Falls.
a burglar attempted to gain admission to
! the Blaine mansion at augusta, Me, Tues
day night, but was frightened away.
\ man named Anderson was killed Fri
day in Woodland, Aroostic county, Maine,
by lightning while al work in field.
Or. {. a. Briggs returned from Europe
Monday and will himself take churge of his
trial for heresy which will begin October ..
William and Edward Walmsley, twins,
aged . years, were drowned in the Passaic
river at Paterson Sunday evening while bath
ing.
1t is rumored in Ottawa that the Cana
dian government is about to replace the en-
barge on logs shipped to points in the United
States.
the 10Th annual session of the national
council of the order of United American
mechanics was opened al Troy, y. y,
| TUESDAY
While passing from one room to another
with baby in her arms Mrs Frank McCor-
mick Of Homer tripped and fell breaking
her neck.
The Columbia Chemical works on jay
street Brooklyn, y. y, were burned We'd
nesdny morning, causing a loss OF over
SlC0, OOO.
At Ameria, Spain the bodies of 1881
victims of the Hoods have been buried
Many houses, undermined by the floods.
continue to fall.
Because a fortune teller had swindled
Mrs. Liudhorst of 81. Louis out Of her many
years savings, $1,000, she jumped into the
Missouri river.
Chief Arthur Of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers looks about 60 years Old
is about five feet six inches tall and weighs
about 100 pounds.
Col. Frederick \. Conkling, brother of
the late Roscoe Conkliug, died at New York
Friday OF cancer OF the stomach. lie
was 20 years old.
Miss Ida Hewitt, beautiful, accomplish
ed and under 90 years OF age. " runs train
on the Cairo and kanawha railroad from
Clarksburg, W, Va.
At st. Louis Henry Altmeer shot Henry
Olegis wednesday night and then killed
himself The men quarreled and Altmeier
was crazed with whiskey
The suspicion that lives were lost in
the burning Of the Old New York Advertiser
building was verified Thursday by the find
ing Of two charred bodies.
The whole press of Paris condemns En-
peror Ni!lians's recent speech at Erfurt. in
which it was reported he alluded to Napoleon
| as the ''corsican paryenu.n
J. II. Pollard, aged %, general secretary
Of the Greenfield, Mass, Y NJ. G. \. was
drowned in the Connecticut river while
bathing Thursday afternoon.
The hearing in the famous Searles will
case opened at Salem, Mass. Tuesday. L.
+. Searles testified that he married Mrs.
Hopkins for both love and money.
Col. II. Clay King who shot down David
II, Poston on the streets OF Nashville on the
10th of November last has been senten ced
to be hanged OH November g.
A case of trichinosis resulting In tue death
of Anna hofenforat an 1S year old
IIoboken girl, will cause a rigid inspection Of
the butchers shops in that city.
A sscond trial of Gal Nool for tha rnur