Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-29
CONDEMNED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Four men fell 200 feet down shaft in
the Eureka mine in Bessemer township,
Michigan, Sunday and were killed.
The democrats of the fifth Massachusetts,
district to-day renominated Moses L.
Stevens of North Andover for Congress.
a despatch from Shanghai says that Vel
low river has again overlowed its banks
aud caused great devastation, II towns be-
ing inundated
Mrs. Ira BGbb, an old lady, living alone
in Alexandria, y. H., was found dead In
her cellar Tuesday. She hal evidently
been dead two or three days.
Col. W. p Canaiv, ox-sergeaut at arms
of the United S,ato5 Senate committed sui
eide at his rooms in Washington Tuesday
by shooting himself through the head.
At the third congressional district demo
cratic convention, held at Worcester, Mass,
Thursday, late Senator John r. Thayer was
nominated for Congress by acclamation and
Hon. Charles Haggerty of South Bridge was
named presidential elector.
Ex.Judge George F. Comstock died III
Rochester, n. y, Tuesday, aged 81
years. lie was elected Judge of the Court
of Appeals in 1865. As member of the
constitutional convention of 1868, Mr.. Com
stock drafted the Judiciary article OF the
New York constitution.
Three small children, Charles Brown and
George and John Bogarg, were choked to
death in Bordeutown, y. j., Tuesday at
tho residence of William Bogart, by the
mother OF Charles Brown, the absenc, of the
noSefts The woman gave herself up to
tle police. She is thought to bs insane.
a despatch to the Neue Freie Presse from
Belgrade says that il. Simoyice, promi-
nent progress member Of the ServiNn Cham
ber OF Deputies has been murdered at Krai-
,ve. Tuo mayor Of that town has been ar
rested on suspicion of Icing implicated in
the murder.
Frederick Hayes OF Charlton, Mass, was
attacked by two mon while walking in the
Italian quarter Of New York city early Sat
urday morning, and robbed of gold
watcn and chain. William Williams, one
OF the ASSISTANTS, was arrested and held to
answer. Hayes was sent to the house OF
detention.
The trouble between tbs granite cutters
and employees at Portland, Me. has been
adjusted and Tuesday for the first time for
seyeru. months some OF the granite cutters
went to work. Two of the largest concerns
havo agreed that bills shall expire March /,
! 1875, aud their employees went in to-day on
the same basis as were adopted at Barre and
| Quincy.
! During storm Saturday night, light.
ning entered farm house in Bethlehem,
/ Conn, owned by l.. p. Judd John Ryden
aud Justice Rylunder, two Swele farm
hands, wAo were sitting in the kitchen We're
struck and burned, Ryden cannot recover.
The bolt went down lin conductor and
passed through window.
H. Ii. Trested, G6 years o.d, a wholesale
dealer in toys and novelties at Jersey City,
compit;ed suicide in tho international
Hotel, New York, Saturday, blowing hl
| brains out with revolver. He left letter
stating that he was charged with a heinous
| crime by little girl that he was innocent
and the charge had broken his heart
Charles f. smith, 81 years of age, Of the
j, s. Jaques Shuttle company, shot himself
! through the head with fatal results Monde =
/ at his residence in Moore street, Lowell,
/ Mass. The cause was despondency on ac
count of i'll health. lie leaves wife anC
one daughter, Mrs. L. +. Cobb OF Win
throp Me He was member Of the FRS
Baptist church and OF tho Masonic and Ode
Follows fraternities.
The body OF the man killed on the Con
soidated road between Mamaronock an,
| New Rochelle, Conn, last Wednesday night
has been identified as that Of Henry d
Autcu, a wealthy New York man Severa
| months ago Anton became insane and wa
committed to u private retreat. Last Tues
day he escaped from an attendant auC
nothing was heard OF him until his bod
was Identified by relatives.
Richard Powell, colorei, aged 80, wa
arrested Sunday BY the Somervila, Mass.
police, OF the charge Of having murdered
negro named George ". Brown, abou
three years ago Two colored women
Edna Wallace and Martha Miller, married
were alec tnilen into custody on suspicion o
being accessory to the crime The murder
was discovered 10y acciieHt, the body Of tn
victim having been dug up Saturday in tn,
cellar o. house in Dane court, Somey
vile.
w hile WogAmen were e3cayat!ng for
sewer TO cross the old covered railway o
tho west mill of the Waterbury, Conn
Brass Company, Saturday morning, thi
discovered the badly decoInposed body Of al
uuknown man. The body was held by tn,
dirt forming a breakw water. The head, fee
and hands were entirely gone, and there i
no clue 10 the identity OF the body, but i
Is supposed to be that Of jeremiah Flynn
aged 90 years, who Wills temporarily in
sane, myster!ously disappeared from hi
home one year ago.