Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-07-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Louisville City National bank closed
its doors Monday afternoon.
The Union bank and Greeley National
bank Of Greeley, Col, closed down Wede
| nesdoy.
George c. Perkins has been appointed
senator by the governor OF California to
succeed Leland Stanford.
Thirty or forty buildings in the business
part Of Paulding, o., were burned Sunday.
Loss, 500, 000 to 1900, 0U0.
Severe wind storms are reported from
Dover aud Laconia, n. H., doing great
damage to crops, trees aud buildings.
Since January l nearly 200 National
banks have closed their doors, against less
than 80 in the same period last year.
DR.. Meyer, tho alleged wholesale poisoner,
was arragnsd before Judge Cowing Thurs4
day morning. lie entered a plea Of not
guilty.
semi-ofIicial confirmation is given of the
report that 100 senators. deputies and Jour-
nasts are implicated In the Italian bank
scandals.
Bridget Mullen died at Colipsville. Mass.s
Sunday, aged 101 years. She leaves hus<
band and a number of children and grand.
children.
The st. Louis Journal Of Agriculture
| calculates that there will be a deficiency in
the worlds crop OF wheat this year OF 100,e
900, 900 bushels.
Two persons were killed and three in
jured by the fall of the wall of a Now
York tenement. IL was caused by pre-
mature blast
Tne president went fishing Saturday with
Col. Lamont and DR.. Bryant, meeting with
good luck. lie has begun his special mess
sage to Congress.
Assistant Surgeon Young CT thu Marine
hospital, stationed at Naples, Italy, cables
that cholera continues there, averaging
three cases daily.
The Canadian Pacific Railway company
has notified so of its employees that theif
services are no longer wanted. Retrench.
ment is given as the cause.
The Plainvisw, Neb., State bank was
robbed Sunday night of about $4,000 in
| cash, in consequence the bank did not open
its doors Monday morning.
The Tacoma National bank one OF the
strongest in the Northwest, has suspended.
This bank has been assisting other banks in
the city for the past six months.
Carmilc Robert aged 2S years, a shoa
cutter, hanged himself on tree in How
lands Grove at Zylonite, Mass, Monday
noon. No cause for the deed is known.
The Galveston News publishes carefully
prepared reports which show that corn and
cotton crops in Te1ss promise to be very
poor. Dry weather is the chief cause.
The ConnellsvIlle, Ind, Citizens bank. Of
which ex- United States Treasurer Huston
is the head, failed to open it's doors Monday
morning owing to the financial stingenoy
William h. Morton, the well-known thee
atrical manager and husband OF Lilly Post.
the comic opera singer, was taken TO tho
Bloomingdale insane asylum Wednesday
night.
Charles Miller of Msttoon, H., a letter
carrier, Tuesday the 18th shot and fatally
wounded Miss May Mack, because she had
discarded him, and then drowned himself
in poud.
Cholera Is rampant among the poorer
classes in Moscow. There are no cases thus
far in st. Petersburg, in Polodia aud
other infected districts the death rats haG
not lesssned.
"a hour bicycle race between French
and English record breakers was completed
in London Saturday. F. w. Shoraud won
by covering 42S mileI and 440 yards beat
ing the record.
Tho Merchants National bank Of Greae
Falls, Montana, closed Monday. Ths
directors state that all dspostors will bs
paid in full The bank held $73 900 OF
public funds.
Alfred Elliott, night watchmau at ANA.
den's Turpentne factory, Penacook, N. H.,
fell five stories down the elevator well We'd
nesday night and was killed. The body
was terribly manglad.
Frank Waller OF Indiana, handicap 30
seconds, won the % mile road rae. at D.lls
Isle Mich, Saturday afternoon in one
hour, seven minutes aud IL seconds beating
the best previous record
The family of john EWart of Lawrence,
Mass, that OF his son and another family.
in all about 10 persons, we're poisoned FRI
day by eating raspberriss that had been
sprayed with paris green, All are now ouf
Of danger.