Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interesting Notes From all Parts of tho
Globe Pithl,y Prcscnted-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of tho Mil
lepnfuu.

The president Friday signed the COM
missions of the nine new circuit judges.
San Salvador's Congress has refused to
ratfy the reciprocity treaty with the L nited
States
Patrick Milloy OF Pittsburg fatally shot
his wife Friday morning and then Killed
imself
A telegram from Venezuela says that
Congress is dissolved. Complete quiet is
maintained at Caracas
j. 2. Whelau of Montreal has instituted
action for $40, 900 damage for false arrest
against exPremier Mercier
a despatch from Rio Janeiro states that
there were 40 deaths from yellow fever
there during the last fortnight.
1t is stated that tho national treasury of
Portugal is empty and that bankruptcy of
the country is almost an official fact.
Schneider, the murderer of servant girls,
was executed at Vienna Thurs lay. He
was gibbeted after the Austrian method.
Arthur Thomas, the wei known writer of
operas, committed suicide in London Mon
day by throwing himself before train.
There is open hostility between the clcri-
icGl and liberal elements in Chill. Presi-
dent Mont has decided to 20 with the liber
ais
Negotiations between the United States
minister and the Spanish government, re-
garding copyright, have been satisfactorily
concluded.
The New York Senate has concurred in
the Assembly amendment to the world S
fair bill, providing for the closing OF the
state exhibit on Sunday.
4 dispatch from Granada, Spain, says the
Marquis of Coraselico was found shot dead
in his room Monday. The motive for the
assassination is not known.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has de-
clared the assembly, senatorial and con-
gressional apportionment made by the last
| Legislature unconstitutional.
| The boiler of the East Jordan. Mich,
lumber mills blew up Monday morning,
instantly killing six persons and injuring
some 20 others, four OF whom Will die.
Tho papal brief appointing DR.. Vaughan,
at present bishop of Sanford, archbishop OF
Nestminister, to succeed the late Cardinal
Manning, is expected within few days.
The first execution that has occurred in
Switzerland since 1853 took place Friday
at Lucerne. The culprit was an ltaliau
who murdered u woman. He was executed
by the guilotiue.
Senior I. Montt, the Chiliau minister, ar
rived at Concord, n. H. Tuesday after
noon on visit to the Now England tates,
for the purpose of obtaining information
upon industrial matters.
Sunday night the bark Sylvan Macdou-
gall, from Barhadoss for St John, \. b.
was driven ashore at trinity Ledge, off The
coast OF Yarmouth, in tho Bay Of Fuudy
and five of the crew were drowned,
The will of Rov. Epaminopdas j. Pierre
of Monmouth, N. j., leaves an estate o.
$500, 600 to Lincoln university OF OxOrd
Chester county, Pa, for the purpose of edu
eating colorei young men for tue ministry
The Abei carne tin-piate works in Mon
mouth, England, have been closed. At tn
Abertllery works the operatives have ra
ceived months notice of the close Of con
7 tracts. Three thousand hands will thus b
thrown out OF employment
There is general feeling of uneasiness
almost amounting; toapanic, in Russian iian
cial circles, as q result OF the GuenZber
failure 1t is admitted that the failure wa
caused directly by the anti Semitic an,
antl-foresn policy of the clar.