Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-07-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Cashier Frank c. Foster is under arrest
on tho charge of embezziing $40 600 from
tie Buffalo Ice company.
The whole Roumauian frontier is closed
to traffic with Russia on account Of the
cholera in that country.
1t is said that there is q big possibility OF
tho Canadian Pacific Railroad company
buying up the Spring Hill mines
At Biddeford, Me-, tho first district dem
ocratic convention nominated Hou. Darius
| II. Ingrahsm OF Portland for Congress.
| Thomas and Joseph I.apoint, seven and
nine years Old were drowned in the Ken
nebec river near Augusta, Me-, sunday af-
ternoon while bathing
| 4 despatch from Baku saws that 50, COO
| of the 100, 900 inhabitants have left the
| city, carrying the infection Of cholera
throughout the Empire.
The steamer Milton has foundered. Some
of tho passengers and crew have been landed
at Singapore. 1t is not known how many
/ lives have been lost.
Ex-president Cleveland and wife have en-
gagged rooms at the Mirror Lake House.
Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks, from
August to Augut 10.
The Paris Figaro says the police have dis
covered an anarchist plot to blow up the
Bourse and o.her public buildings. Two of
| the couspirstors have been arrested.
Patrick Moriarty, aged 80, of Pawtucket,
r. l., attempted to board freight Thurs
day morning and fell under the wheels and
his left arm and side We're terribly crushed
The employees OF the Merden Horse Rail
road company went on n strike to compel
the company to reinstato driver John f.
| Arandy, who was discharged two weeks
ago.
At Fall River Mass, Edward Paulst, n
| Frcnchman, aged 10 years, who was arrest
ed Saturday night for drunkenness was found
dead in his cell at O'Clock Sunday morn
ing.
Sir Charles Smith, British ambassador to
Morocco, regarding whose whereabouts
some anxiety has been felt, arrived at
Tangers Friday on board the British war
ship Amphior.
The report Of the Raum investigating 2
committee will have no special standing be-
fore the House until the committee on rules
reports another resolution setting aside a
day for its consideration.
At Great Burlington, Mass, Mrs. Sarah
Wooster, coored, was arrested late Satur-
day for the murder of a five mouths old
illegitimate child by smothering. The de-
fendaut bears bad reputation.
\ despatch from Berlin says that the sale
of the St. Petersburg Gazette has been pro
hibited by the Russian minister Of the inter
ior, owing to its publishing true accounts OF
tine cholera epidemic, and denying the
official versions.
, Walter A. Griffin, president OF the
Olympian Athletic club OF New Haven,
, Conn, and Mrs Hosea Van Blockland have
oloped. Both parties are married and
, leave children behind them. Griffin s wife
I Is in pennass condition.
Patrick Fahey, marine, aged 80 years
was drowned near Sandy Beach, Mass,
Sunday. He went in bathing and when L'
was in the water waist deep, he called ou
9 and fell fat on his face Before assistance
arrived he had drowned.
! Charles Palmer, a veteran OF the late war
} was found dead in bed at Monson, Mass
Sunday morning from combination o
/ heart disease aud poor rum He had beer
q haying FOR farmer, but was paid off Wed
Q nesday and had been dissipating ever since
At Manchester, y. H., Charles D. Ma
l goon, aged Sc committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head He was assisting
his wife about tho housework, and found
boarder's revolver with which lie shot him
self. Dependency from i'll health was tn
cause.
The steamer II. f. Dimock, which col
= lided with and sunk the stoam yacht Alya
4, sustained serious injuries to her own bow
> Her bow plates were broken in and dente,
: Oh both sides some distance Gbove the waite
> line. In one place a hole was made clea
through hsr bow.
a Tuesday night J. H. Wynnc, living nea
+ Burns, Tenn, killed. his wifa with an axe
a mortully wounded his step-daughter, an
/. then tried unsuc cesstully to kill himself. II
was arrested and On the way TO Jail wa
n tekon from the officers by mob au
# hanged.
J. At Wilmington, Del, the workmen en-
l. ployed on the new Shields library buldin
o notified the contractor that they would Nc
l. handle any Carnegie iron ON the structure
The structural iron mad been ordered lrol
3 the Carnegie mills, but the contractors WI
1T now make arrangements to procure ire
o. from Trenton.