Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interestina Notes From all Parts of the
Globe Pithiiy Presented-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of the Mill
lehnium.

Gov. Boies of Iowa is dangerously Ill with
la grippe.
King George OF Greece, who has been i'll
| with smallpox, has recovered.
| a telegram from Guatemala says that a
| revolution is inevitable in that republic.
During quarrel over game OF cards in
| Clinton county, Ga, Saturday, eight men
were killed
Influenza is still prev alent throughout
, Great Britain and the number of cases is
| daily growing larger.
Roswell 7. Flower was inaugurated gov
| ernor of New York in the Assembly cham
| ber at Albany Friday.
| n 40 per cent dividend in favor of the
| Maverick National a k Boston will be paid
| by the comptroller OF the currency.
The New York murderers Mcllvaine and
Irezza have been resentenced to eectrocu-
| tion during the second week in February
l.. N II. Poulin, the Nashua, n H., jew
| eler missing since Saturday and thou hit to
| be insane, has committed suicide at Hoosick,
N. y.
The majority Of the WEIGH colliers are
| Idle. Both employers and employees refuse
them.
The milkmen of New Bedford, Mass, made
an attempt 10 raise the prica of milk to
| seven cents but their customers broke the
combination.
Prince Won Michaeo, a crank who is
nally in love with Jay Gculd's daughter
Helen, and hes been prosecuting her with
attentions has been deci arej insane.
\ ira in ftp Iofn
caso, Non lay morning caused panic
among the 100 guests two of whom were
suifocated and six injured, one fatally.
Advices from papang, capital of the State
| Of that name on the Malay peninsula, show
: that the rising among The natives which be-
gan in that state on Dec. "a last has be-
, come general
John Dietel. n fat man who has been on
exhibition during the week at a museum
died at Cincinnati Friday morning OF
grip. He weighed go pounds and was a
native of Ph.ladolpua
Thursday moruing young couple who
had Registered at IL Flushing. West Virgin
IN, hotel as j. q. Coventry aud wife of
= Iippecanoe, were found dead in bed, each
having committed suicide by taking poison
| a despatch from st. Petersburg says that
| y
tween Minsk and Smpionsk an express train
| ran into the rear of a train carrying troops.
/ Several persons We're killed and 100 injured
| Advice, from Japan state that word has
| been received a. Singapore that the Indian
| steamer Enterprise with a crew OF e men.
! foundered of Port Blair and Aman islends
| November = aud only six men were saved.
! In Springfield, Kan. Tuesday a sheriff
and three deputies we're killed by squad of
| men who were in ambush. The killing Was
{ the result of the famous Stevens county
! feud which began in 1883 and has continued
since.
/ AT n wedding feast at Ne terdon, y. Y.
! a practical j'ker mixed with the food a
! poisonous substance which no supposed to be
/ elsom salts. Thirty persons were poisoned
Two are alreadj dead and others are critic
alij Ill.
Robert Millcan of Woodbury., Tenn.
whie intoXicniol, broke down the door OF
AIRS. John Pend.etUn's house and a tempted
to strEe her with fence rail when the
woman seized a shotgun aud fired a charge
| through his head.
During the year 1891 there were coined
| at the Philadelphia mint over 90 600, 600
! pieces, with vauatson of over ;Sl3. 900. o.
6JO. Owing to the dscontinuance Of the
coinage Of the silver dollar after July /, the
total Is not as great so that OF last year.
The international congress which is in
session at Magapur, capital of the central
provinces of India, has adopted resolution
declaring 1t necessary thai there shall be es-
tabnshed Legislature in India to which
the Indian people shall elect representa-
tlyes.
Gov. Hills farewell banquet was held in
Albany Thursday night. The democratic
State officers and few others We're present
Gov. Hill made a speech in which he extoll-
| ed the virtues of the democratic party and
! said 1T was hard to part from his tried and
true comrades. Gov. eject Flower in a
speech called Hill the grentest leader the
democracy ever had.
While Mrs Norman Thompson, a Young
coorsd woman of Stamford, Conn. was
coming out of lawyers office where she
had been insttutlng proceedings for a di.
vorce, she was met by her husband and
fatally shot. Thompson then attempted to
blow out his brains, but only succeeded in
nfllcting two scalp wounds.
Ralph II. Warren has returned to his
home in New York. He cannot give an ac-
count of his wonderings since leaving the
homo OF his chum, George Frazer OF Wash
ington. Warren was the captain of Prince.
ton team in the Thanksgiving day foot
bail game with Yale and received an in iury
which. 1t Is thought, affected his mind