Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-22
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interesting Notes From all Parts OF the
Globe Pithiiv Presented-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of the MIL
lenntum.

Gov. Hale Of New Hampshire was
buried at keene Monday
Gen Alger denies the report that he has
been offered the war portfolio.
The cost of the German army for this
year is estimated at $50, ,919, 133.
John t. Redmond says that Parnell must
be avon ,ed. lie dsfios Gladstone.
Tauiidc Hall, the actress, has married her
Manager, George Is. Mcclellan.
The te ephone will he heard by the
Commissioner of Patents this months.
New Jersey republican clubs declared for
Blaine, and cheered his name for ten min
utes.
OWN! to the severity Of tho storm the
the coal trake at Cardiff Eng, is para
USED.
The new mint in Philadelphia is to be
located under the shadow of Independence
hall.
Dor shooting season opened Thursday in
Canada. Crowds OF hunters are going into
the woods.
Florida has big thing on her hands in
tine way Of petrilied elephant, recently un
eai ted near jasper.
The Harvard seniors have voted TO wear
the cup and gown on class day, instead of
the usua dress suit.
Mir. Balfour denies that he has been offer
the leadership OF the couser vative party in
the House OF Commons
The wife of the late William Henty Smith,
the leader in the House of Commons, will be
elevated to the peerage.
Nancy Hanks, who stands next to Maud
S. with record of 2:U9 has been sold to J.
Malcolm Forbes of Boston
A revisory committee in Portugal has
doubled the customs duties on iron goods
and all kinds of machinery.
The board of control Of the worlds fair
are tired of Mayor Hand, and Ben Butter
worth and want them removed.
Salmon are multiplying rapidly in the
Hudson river Pickerel are driving all the
trout out of the Adirondack lakes
The Gretna, Neb. State bank is closed. Its
vice president has decamped with some Of
its funds and the bank is wrecked,
By the explosion of locomotive near
Pottsville, Pa, last evening an engineer
fireman and brakeman were killed.
A despatch from Paris to the London
Times estimates that only , per cent of the
Russian loan has been allotted to Russia
The French Senate committee is still di-
The result OF it's deliberations III doubt.
The new Mexican tariff law which goes
into effect November ii is meeting with
strong opposition in many parts Of tue re-
public.
Dwight L. Moody is to 60 abroad in
Novem Der and may visit India. If he goes
there he will start upon an evangeilstic
campaign.
The Cherokee commission are negotiating
with the Otoes, Pawnees, Poncas and Os-
ages in Indian Territory for the purchase of
their lands.
Three attaches Of the Chicago Inter Ocean
and all engineer we're instantly killed in a
railroad accident Thursday while riding on
a locomotive.
Miss Frances L. Willard proposes raising
u fund by which to attach a professor of
total abstinence to the new American uni
versity in W Washington.
William Rowley, u millionaire, was caught
by revenue atlicers running an appejack dis
tillery without license. He claims he did
not know it was wrong.
! Tue socialistic labor party OF Massachu-
setts has challenged Gov. Russell to joint
debate OF political Issues with its candidate,
Mir. Harry ". Robinson.
/ \ tin plate munufactory is about to be
started IN San Franc SEQ, but the proprietor,
( instead of getting his tin from Wales will
, import it from australia.
Hon. Charles II. Allen, republican candi-
date for governor OF Massachusetts, has
again been taken i'll, and his present engage
ments have been cancelled.
Rumors of another attempt to found d
republic in the Sandwich islands. The queen
is unpopular, and the natives arc the ones
mo,t anxious for republic.
Seventeen men have been arrested al
Lakeview, Ore, charged with participating
in the recent robbery of the stage running
between that place and Lnkvile.
Representative Crisp of Georgia expresse,
himself as very confident that lie is the man
who will fill the speakers chair at the mex
session OF the national Legislature.
The body of the missing Northampton
Mass, college student Laura +. Prebrey,
was found in Paradise pond Friday after
noon, she having committee suicide.
The board OF education in New York city
estimate the expenses of public schools a
S4, G21 S32. 80, Tor the year of which teach
ers' salaries amounted to 50, l49, 1874.
The Russian government estimates -ha
1853, 600, 600 rubles will be required to NEE
the necessities arising from the famine il
various parts Of the Russian empire
brother A!dreas Ii ler the first ant
oldest Benedictine monk in the UuiteC
State, was buried in the monastery bury
ing grounds at Latrobe, Pa, Friday.
y New York physician has just died from
the results Of coffee iutoxcatiou. He hat
been accustomed to drink from three to II v,
quarts a day, made US strong as lye,
Italian government receiving vigorous
protests from the bishops, who are forbid
den by II recent law to leave their diocese
without permission from the government.
The government rainfall expedition Il
San Diego, Texas, has been prevented from
proceeding with the experiments by I'M
favorable weather during the past TIVE
weeks
The small United States arsenal at Har
per's Ferry in which John Brown was cap