Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-04-07
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Notes From all Parts Of the
Globe Pithily Presented-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication Of the Mil
lennfum.


The foot and mouth disease has ceased TO
spread in Great Britain.
The Standard Oil company will increase
its capital stock from S5, 600, 600 to $1,000,
00O
The revenue of the British'government for
the fiscal year ended Thursday was e9S,-
576,6
The cigarette bill, applying to boys under
10 years Of age, has passed the Rhode
Island House.
A large paper mill in Dunbar, Scotland,
was burned Saturday causing loss of
about e100, 900.
By the collapse Of floor in the barracks
at Folk, Fradce, IL soldiers were seriously
and AZ severely wounded.
The report is confirmed that Ravachol,
the imprisoned Parisan anarchist leader,
has made a full confession.
Police and others connected with the ar
rest of Ravachol, the Paris dynamiter have
received threatening letters
Women suffragists will probably have
represen tatives at the constitutional con-
vention of New York State.
1t has been raining heavily in North Do
kota and northern Minnesota and great
damage to wheat is reported
Advices from Santos, Brazil, under date
of March II, say 100 to 200 yellow fever
victims die in that city daily.
An eruption OF Mount Vesuvius is dread
ed. The flow OF lava is reddsr than usual
and other signs indicate danger.
Another fire broke out Saturday in Man
dalay. The three previous fires have caused
damages to the amount OF 81, O00 900.
The winter pork packing in the West to
March is reported at z, 76l, 900 hogs, de-
crease Of Alp, 900 compared with last year.
Representative H. Nj. Doughtery of Ohio
has been exonerated OF the charge that he
received $1,000 to vote for Senator Sher-
man.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed
joint resolution in favor of electing United
States senators by a direct vote OF the peo-
pie.
Reports from the American agents in the
famine stricken provinces Of Russia contra
dict the statements that the peasants are In
no further need Of assistance.
1t Is officially announced that Prince AL
fred, duke of EdInburgb, is suffering at
Darmstadt from inhamma on of the intes-
tines. His condition is rous
At Buenos Ayres the p.A~s hare arrested
number of members OF the radical party
and several army and police officers for
plotting against the government.
Several hundred French Canadian families
left Montreal to take up homes in the
Northwest. Hundreds of French Canadians
are leaving this province every day.
Hill tribes, raiding on the frontier OF In
dia, surprised party of hands working for
an English tea planter and massacred 3S
coolies, besides capturing Others
Senator George f. Hoar of MASSACHUSETTS,
declines to be u delegate to the Minneapolis
republican convention, owing TO an affection
OF the eyes, from which he is suffering.
The cyclone at Nelson, Neb., did great
damage. Ten residences were totally de-
| stroyed, a dozen partially wrecked and five
persons severely injured in the cyclone.
DR.. William II. Ruddici of South Boston
32d degree Mason and Adventist, has be,
come Roman Catholic and resigned from
nine Masonic bodies of which he was a mem
ber.
Charles A. Wright, who has been on trial
at Elizabethtown, n. Y, was found guilty
of the murder of Mrs. Taylor and sentence ed
to be eiectrocuted in the week commencing
May Ii.
The report published in American papers
| that a settlement has been effected In the
| matter of the New Orleans lynchiug indem-
nifty is premature. Negotiations are still
pending.
The Peruvian legation at London denies
the reports regarding a revolt in Peru. The
| officials say that there is no revolt nor any
| sign of one, and the country Is every " here
tranquil.
| Further outbreaks by scattered bands Of
Cara revolutionists are reported from near
Ringold, Texas, and it is likely that govern
ment troops will he ordered back to patrol
| the Rio Grande
| The democratic State convention of Wis
consin has selected Cleveland delegates to
the Chicago convention. They are head
ed by William f. Villas. This ends the Hill
movement in Wisconsin.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres SAWS:
| "The leaders in the plot to overthrow the
| government have been arrested. There is
no disorder here. Telegraph wires to the
provinces have been cut.
Unprecedentedly heavy floods are prevail
| ing in New South Wales. The rivers have
| overfowed their banks swseping away
| houses and destroying crops. Several per-
! sons have been drowned,
Margaret Mathsr has begun legal pro-
ceedings at Chicago for divorce from her
husband, Emil Haberkorn on the ground
Of desertion. Haberkorn is now leader of
an orchestra in Pittsburg.
Joseph Little of Findlay, o., attacked his
divorced wife and two daughters with a
hatchet and butcher knife Wednesday the
Both and cut and bruised them in such hor
rible manner that all three may die.
The 18th semi annual convention of the
Massachusetts Woman's Christian union
was held at Amherst Tuesday with $50
delegates present. In the evening Mrs.
Livermore and Lady Henry Somerset
spoke.
The house partly occupied by L. L. Kip
pie and family at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
burned Friday morning and Mrs. Kip,
Pile and six year old daughter perished in
the fire. They wore found clasped in each
others arms.
L. j.. Lacey, comptroller of currency,
has filed suit against the stookholders of the
National bank OF Red Cloud, Neb., for $37,
600, as a deficiency assessment. This bank
was closed by the State banking board some
months ago.
Saturday night burglars entered the train
agent depot at Omaha