Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-18
THE WORLD In BRIEF.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Interesting Notes From all Parts OF the
Globe Pithily Presentcd-Many Dark
Deeds Give no Indication of tho a.il-
leunium.

A full ice crop Will be harvested all along
the Hudson.
Recent rains have improved the crop pros
poets in northern India.
1t is now asserted that Cara, the Mexi-
can revolutionist, is in Cuba
Millionaire John w. Mackay has sold at
Denver a mine for So W, OOO.
The wheat crop in Tennessee has been
badly injured by the late freeze.
An anarchist plot of huge dimensions is
said to have been discovered in Berlin.
According to advices from Egypt civil
war is raging in khartoum and vicinity.
Twelve more inspectors were discharged
from the New York customs house Satur-
day.
Six members of family in Belvidere,
| N j., have died Of scarlet fever within a
week.
Three hundred and fifty nihilists recently
arrested at Warsaw have been sent to 81
IBERIA.
In consequence of the financial crisis Por-
tugal will not take part in the worlds fair
at Chicago.
A move has been made at Chicago to
attack the constitutoutity of the Mckinley
customs sdministrativi act.
A plague of smallpox and typhus fevor is
raging IN the eastern llstrict OF Mexico and
many deaths have occurred.
The city council of Chicago has decided
that buildings hereafter to be erected shall
not exceed 100 feet in height.
The Japanese Parliament has voted half
million dollars to enable Japan to take part
in the worlds fair at Chicago.
King Memlet of Abyssinia has declared
war against tho state OF Tgre, and has re-
fused to receive its ambassador.
Maytown, in Lancaster county, Pa. is
terribly scourged with diphtnsrIa, 80 new
cases having developed in two days.
The recovery Of the Empress Augusta
Victoria Of Germany progresses SO slowly
as to give ground, Of apprehension.
st. Petersburg despatch announces the
death of DR.. Wiiholm JunAer the well
known African traveller and naturalist
An epidemic OF typhus fever is causin z
considerable alarm in New Yor, city.
Sixty nine cases were reported Friday.
James X Stratton, -invictet OF having
rouued street letter boxes III Denver, Col
has been sentenced TO . years in tue peni
/, tentiary.
Eight thousand London coal porters have
goue on strike in consequence of a dispute
2 with one firm regarding the wages to b,
paid its employees.
At a banquet of the Daughters OF Re
bekah at III Dorado about ~ persons wer
poisoned by drinking coffee. None OF til,
$ cases w.il prove fatal.
The report that Emperor William hac
announced that It was probable that h
1 would visit tue worlds far to bc b I'D il
A Chicago, is without foundation.
: Henry Carrina,or, azri So OF Roxburv
. Mass, whie carrying lighted lamp yes
4 teraav morning fell in tit, his cothlul
Y caught fire and ne was burned to DEATH
5 Daniel Cheseboro was suot aud Instantly
% by George EGlhhourne, near Stonlngton
q Conn, Monday night, while lie was trying t.
: qlell tignt between katubourRe and hi
S wife.
VIII Lavender, a colorad man, who at
tempted to assault a white girl at Roanoke
Va, Monday night, was taken from the OF
Is fcers Friday morning aud hanged to .
tree
n \ conflict has occurred near Landsberg
If clo,s to the frontier, on Russian territory
a between Russian g"n armes and some eml
n grants. Three EN- grants were killed and /
d were wounded
d The steamship Nicaragua, which struci
l. on u rock at Punta Remedies, III the Pacific
Is early last December. is now total los,
l. She was on her maldsn trip from New Yol
e when she met with the Disaster.
l. A large carpet mill belonging to job
md James Dobson at the fail, of Schuvkii
a suburb OF PhilsIelphla, burned Monday
Loss. $l5O, 900 The 25O hands at work /
the mill escaped, only u fow beng slight
burned.
Recent heavy SHOWS in southern Idah
D. have caused the de.truction OF thousands {
u cattle and the prospect OF saviag those +,
H. manning il almost hopeless. The preser
ls winter has never bsen equaliei in seyer.t
h i'll Idaho.