Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


inces.
Throughout Russia Saturday, there were
reported 60j3 new cases OF cholera aud 1862 |
deaths.
Nearly 1000 houses, including the gov
ernment buildings, have been burned in Bo- /,
rissey, Russia
The cholera scourge rnges with unchecked |
virulence throughout Persia. Countless
corpses lie everywhere unburied
At New York Tomaso Lombardy, a n
Italian, eight months old, died Sunday of
small pox in q crowded tenement.
AT Athens, Ca, four children OF farmer
named Wilson, living in Madison county,
died from the effects Of being bitten by a
rattlesnake.
The congregation of the Propaganda has
requested the French government to protest
| to Great Britain against the closing Of
Catholic schools in Manitoba.
The French Congress of the Work
ing Mems Socialist Revolution society
adopted resolution to send to American
miners an address of sympathy.
| The steamer FL Caao British from
Granada, Bolivia, brings the nows that the
| city is in the hands OF the revolutionists and
that the political refugees are flying from
the city.
| The prospects of moro internal strike in
the ranks of the Amelg gamated association in
the near future was dispeled Sunday, at
meeting OF the roughers in the Iittsburg
| district.
| There were 5JUJ new cases of cholera re.
ported throughout Russia Tuesday, and
2600 deaths This is decrease of 1901
new and 10 deaths, compared with
Mondays figures.
The election in New Castle resulted in the
return Of John Morley, chief secretary of
Ireland. lie received r. 933; his opponent,
Mr.. Rali liberal unionst H. 24i Nor
ley's majority 1889.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, on being asked
by Boston journal representative if he
was a candidate for the senatorship left va
cant by the retirement of Hon. Henry L
Dawes, replied that he was.
The Porte's investigation into the burn
ing of the house OF American Missionary
| Bartlett at Bourdoux, Asia Minor shows it
was due to the carelessness of an American
servant and not to the fanaticism of the ma
| tves,
a mail carrier from Crockettsville, Ky,
brings news that j. 5. Hamilton, United
States deputy marshal, WAS fatally shot
from ambush, Monday, near Crockettsvlle
probably by moonshiners, against whom he
| was very active.
Five foreign attachments were issued on
| Wednesday against the supreme sitting of
the order of the Iron Hail. These attach
ments are for $1,000 each, and are issued
upon the petition OF five members whose
certificates nave maturel
II. II. Mburn, cerll in the employ of
the Field-TLnyer Manu- acturing company,
- Bedford street, Boston, is missing, with
$4,000 of the firms money. Milburn is &c
years old and, has been employed by the
firm only about four months.
The Hamburg Dispatch says 172 new
cases and SO deaths from the cholera were
reported there Thursday. Nine hundred
immigrants about to sail for New York
have abandoned the voyage. All fairs and
public dancing assemblies are prohibited
Emperor William has had presen nted to
him exhaustive reports on the progress of the
cholera and the measures taken to combat
it. He devotes several hours daily to study
ing the epidemic and has ordered that vigor-
Gus measures be taken to ensure the safety
OF the troops.
At Lake Pleasant, Mass, the 10Th an
ual cnmpmeeting of Spirtualsts closed
tlye weeks session Sunday with an attend
ance of about 1000 people. The morning
address given by Alfred Free OF Tur-
ner s, als, the afternoon address by j. Frank
Baxter of Boston.
\. j. Price of New York, Street &
Smiths bookkeeper, who is charged with
the embezzlcment of $50, 900 and is report
ed to have wife living in Africa, was
married three years ago in Middletown,
Conn, to Louise Neale society belle Of
thnt city, who has since lived with him in
J New York.
At Worcester. Mass, the local branch of
the Iron Hall has filed a bill in equity
> asking that receiver be appointed, and
the Superior Court has issued an in junction
restraining the loca, officers from paying
out the funds unt til the case has been heard.
lujunctiuus are also served on the local
banks which hold the society's money.
There is local membership of about $50,
and there is about $4,000 in the treasury.
At Great Falls, y. H., an lS-year old
French girl named Mary Ducette jumped
5 into the canal opposite her boarding house.
She wns probably insane. \ pile of music
was thrown on the ban, OF the canal aud
one sheet bore writing which said that she
loved Frenchman, but felt that life WAS
not worth living, IA he married man.
| The body was recovered III half au hour
, after life was extinct.
The committee on unions OF the Goth ma
tonal encampment of the q. a. r., has de-
{ cided TO group all the reunions together on
the White lot, south OF the White House.
g Around the elipse will be stationed head
quarter tents for each corps, for tho navy,
A eX-prisoners OF war and other organizations.
e In tho rear of these tents will be others for
each brigade Ill the corps. There will be
large tents for the reunions of corps,