Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-08-04

Mr.. Gladstone's eye is improving, and he
is allowed to use it briefly for reading pur-
poses. His general health is good.
The president has issued proclamation
omn anding all persons in Wyoming to
keep the peace and cease opposition to the
law.
AT Tangier great excitement and alarm
has been created by the report that the in
surgents are advancing on the city with
the purpose or attacking the sultan's troops.
Secretary Lovejoy says that the Carnegie
mills Will take no part in the prosecution
OF the anarchists now under arrest there
except in tho case of Bergman, and lie would
be pushed to the limit
A petition has been flied against the re-
turn OF the Right Honorable Arthur James
Balfour as NJ. F., for tho cast division of
Manchester on the ground that bribery was
resorted to in tho elections.
United States District Judge Beatty has
fixed the bail for the - miners from Wal
lace, Idaho, and the 16 from Wardner who
are now in Jail charged with contempt Of
the Federal Court at $1,000 each.
Fire Saturday night in the Bradford
block, North Adams, Mass, caused "a loss to
the occupants Of $50, 900; on the building
owned by Mrs. .. NJ. Whipple $l5C00.
The insurance of the occupants was S21 .QO0;
tho building was fully insured
The four conspirators, sAiinrof, PopoF.
Gheorghieif and karagulotf, who, with II
Others were implicated in a plot against the
lives of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and
his prime minister Stamb1lofT, were exc
cuted Wednesday morning
Four deaths from cholera have occurred
III W drsaw, Russia Ihe disease has also
appeared at Accs, where three deaths were
reported on Sunday. OF 731 deaths in
Moscow during the past week nearly one
hals were due to intestinal complaints
The Vienna correspondent of the London
News says it is reported that the foreign
representatives at sofia unsuccessfullv inter
coded in bahalf of the conspira1ors who
were executed on Wednesday. Vienna and
Borlln papers uphold the necessity Of the
executions.
Jhe Russian government has decreed that
i'll future all soluiers of the empire must
use handkerchieis heretofore not one SOL
der out of thousand had INDUCED in this
luxury-and that all the handkerchlefs must
contain pictures cmbiematic OF a soldier
life, both in battle ana in time OF peace
There is a great dcarth of laborers in
southern Minnesota, South Dakota and
North Dakota, and tue farmers are much
alarmed at the prospect of being unable to
harvest their immense crop. Conservative
estimates place the number Of laborers
needed within the next month at 10, 900
The Congregationalist church ut Edrar
town, Mass, celebrated its 31Oth annlver-
sary Wednesday afternoon anu evening
The church was founded in 1G43 by the
Rev Thomas May hew, who YVES. its first
pastor and the owner Of Martha's Vineyard,
the Elizabeth Islands and Nantucket.
a terrific hail and wind storm visited the
section Of the country near Northileld. |
Minn., ednesday, causing loses TO the !
crops anI property estimated ut $500, OO0. |
The hail stones were of immense size and
covered the ground to a depth of six inches. |
Ten thousand panes of glass were broken.
and the roofs of small buildings battered in.
a circular, couched in eX rene language. |
has been Issued, announcing that IA meeting |
Will be held III the East End London, on
Saturday next TO deuouuce the circular
SAYS, the brutal murder of American work
lnSmen of Carnegie, the millionaire, who /,
now enjoying himself on an estate in SCOT
land from which the tenants have been
evicted.
Those who participated in the disgrace
tul scenes at Homestead after the surrender
OF the flnkertons July Z, will be prosecuted |
for assault, high robbery larceny, pocket
picking and other crimes and misdemeanors.
The iufOrmatious Will be made in a few
days and the persons arrested. Among
them are several women who were particu-
larly active and aggressive at the time the
men ran the gauntlet.