Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Cambridge, Mass, has restricted bicycle
riding in its streets to eight miles an hour
-Hoodlums attacked Dorchester
(Mass) house and dangerously wounded
the owners son-- Mrs Hattie NJ Russell
of Brockton, Mass, was arrested on a
charge of attempted blackmail-Dr.
Charles c. Pierce OF Dover, n H.,
committed suicide-Expert American
forgers are working the London banks
Emperor William is crippled as
an equestrian hy boil - Senator
Irby, while in Columbia, S. c., on
his return home from Washington created
alarm by his pitiable drunken plight
The Canton 0lls) Opera house was
burned and scores were injured in the
panic and by the fire--Sr Alexander r.
! Gait, the eminent Canadian, is dead
The first race for the Americas cup is to
be sailed Oct. 5 -- The Pennsylvania
Democratic state convention nom
mated candidates for state treasurer
and judge of the supreme court
| The revolt in Brazil is preading-The
| French miners strike is spreading-Five
| persons escaped from Jail at Litchheld Ky
Several cases of diphtheria are re-
ported at Newton, Mass-Tohn Mezard
OF Swampscott, Mass, dropped dead from
his MISUNDERSTANDING on foreign exhibits
at the Worlds fair has been cancelled
Five persons were suffocated in a fire
in the Whitechapel district, London
An aged woman was burned to death at
Gowanstown, Ont. Foul play is suspected
The cancellation of the Wisconsin
CentraPs lease to the Northern Pacific is
opposed-The yellow fever is likely to
prevail at Brunswick, Ga, until frost
stamps il out-George Dennison of Bos-
ton is accused Of disappearing property
sold to Mrs, c. d. Robinson of Cambridge.
Thursday, Sept e1.
Great forest fires are raging in Mime
sota--The strike at Avon, Mass, is set
tled-Burglars robbed the depot at
Walpole Centre, Mass Owingsville,
Ky, was almost destroyed by fire-The
Victoria (B. ca sealer Maud s was seized
by RussiH-Tne steamer Saskatchewan
was burned on Lake Manitoba-Social-
lists are trying to get more French miners
to strike-Foxboro (Mass.) schools are
closed on account Of scarlet fever-R
ceivers have been appointed tor the Lom-
bard Investment company-The Rocky
Mountain Dime and Dollar bank, Denver,
has resumed-Fire on La Escondo Ha-
cienda, Topic, Mex, caused a loss of $500 900
There are evidences Of fraud in the fail
A racial conflict may result from the
repression of CZechs in observation-disclosures
gents threaten to reduce Rio .Ianeiro to
ruins if it is not surrendered to them
Silver men Of the southwest met at
Albuquerque n. NJ, and demanded free
coinage-A prairie fire fatally burned
the wife and child and $l400 belonging to
a Cherokee boomer-A wholesale con-
spiracy to burn buildings and collect the
insurance was discovered in Chicago-A
warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Nelson a. Morkill of Boston charging
him with the enlightenment of 81, 900
Jackson county (O) mines have been
compelled to close because the railroads
have not relieved them Of their coal
George w. Aulron, formerly of Moncton,
n. b., made his third attempt at Boston
to end his life and failed The Staples
brothers Of Limerick Me- were robbed
Of $500 by burglars - United States
Treasurer Morgan makes a hopeful state
ment respecting the financial situation
- 4 Virginia mob WAS batfled in an
effort to lynch negro. The militia killed
five men and wounded as mauy more.
Friday, Sept. 22.
French miners have consented to arbi-
tration-Another revolution is threat
ened in Hayti-The political situation in
Argentine is alarming-Glasgow gran
aries are choked with American wheat
The Leeds (Eng) central market was
burned; loss 300, 900 Cochran, the bull
ion thief waived examination and went 10
jail-ln an accident on the Baltimore
and Ohio at Ravenna, o., one man was
killed-The basket factory at North
ampton, Mass. is closed for the first time
in 40 years-The board of arbitration is
to give hearing in regard to the strike at
Lynn, Mass-Span has declared u quar-
antine against Hamburg, Hull, Eng, and
Jersey City-At the meeting of the Mas
: sachusetts executive council Hon. T. j.
{ Flynn was confirmed fire marshall
The Guens maneuvers would seem To
show that large armies must be operated
in the field in small sections
The Chicago southbound express train
was held up at Centralia, Ills. After
battle, i'll which the engineer and fire
man were both injured and one robber
fatally shot, the outlaws withdrew
The case against President Potter of the
\ Maverick bank has been dropped. The
court instructed the jury to return a yer.
r dict of not guilty. The prisoner was dis
/ cbarged-Steamer Palentino brought tC
5 Boston three wrecked survivors of the
schooner Windermere, rescued after nine
I days of horrible sufferings - Person:
\ \ connected with the Trefethen tra
. were made i'll through eating frozer
pudding. One juror was so sick
d that temporary recess was ordered
Rev. James Boyd Brady of Newark
is to be pastor of the Peoples church OF
Boston-John Kelley was drowned in
: Wyatt's pit, Somerville, Mass-Investi
CATION is being made into the alleged
, grave robbery by students at Middlebury
- Vt--Rev. Dclbert q. Dounocker, superin,
. tendent of schools at Sandwich, Mass.
y was arrested for felonious assault--Fan
ME Wilcox won the $500 trot at Nara
u. gansett park-Nicola Sulla accidentally
shot and killed Francesa Rossa at Water
:, bury, Conn--Alanson :. Whitcomb OF
, Keene, y. H., was robbed of 5000
. The new tariff bill may be completed by
Nov. 10 - paper on the rela
lions of the Roman Catholic
church to the poor prepared by Charles
| f. Donnelly of Boston WAS read before