Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-31
NEWS OFTllE WEEK



reported by Boston deSlets Quincy' |
Ntassl total valuation is 2,G, 69s ,Uio, and |
the tax rate tl5 so---Certifcote holder. |
of the Order of the Solid Rock will recelv,
~ per cent of their money ey-An attempt |
will he made to have the Yale Harvard /,
football match played on the Waltham |
Mass bicycle pare e--There was riot
at GNtertoh, Pa, over tbe laying of car
tracks Two citizens were killed and
others were badly injured Tut
tie. vice D, p,esidenJ of the New Haven rnil
road was elected president Of the Boston
and Maine R1ilroud company, to cntcl
on his duties Oct. 11---United States Cor
sui Bowman is coming to this country
with an important letter to President
Cleveland on the attitude ot China toward
this country under the Gcary law The
maritime proviuces were swept uy n de-
structive hurricane. Great dam age was
done to shipping along NoyG Scotia's coast
THE 2Tth annual camp meeting of the
St Iohnsbury district Muthodists opened
at the grove at Lynd donville, Vt under the
leadership of Presiding Elder Hamilton
Mrs. Fred Lelauds kof Chester Depot,
Vt. fell through SCI ,tie into u cellar,
striking on her head AID shoulders. Her
recovery is doubtful George Woodnan,
lodged in Exeter a. Ii Jail, having been
held in s2nl for the ttl # of the money
drawer and ;25 nt theI IkiugIton O.. H.
dcpot--The body OF Frederick V. Siblcy
of North Brooklield, Mass, was found in
Lashway pond, Eust Breohlield. He is
believed to have committed suicide
Miss Margaret Twombly of Rochester,,
while in the passenger station at Ports
mouth. \. H.. was taken violently insane
a Syracuse inventor is to testify in
Actor Curtis case. lie claims TO have
witnessed the tra gedy and to have been
shot at by the nurderer-Plimmer out
pointed Dixon in n four-rcund bout at
New York-IIon. John J. Bell of Exc
ter, y H.. is doad--There are indica-
tions that President Cleveland and family
will leave Gray Gables next week--A
man suffering with rabies bit two
women at Stoneham. Me.
Thursday. Aug. "a
The business part Of White Plains, Ga.
was destroyed by iire--Dr Chaumontet
was lost in a crevasse of a glacier in Tyrol
-lerre Haute Uud.) sw.tchmen struck
against being paid with checks-Ths
gaspipe layers strike at Boston is ended,
the strikers having given in-Tufts
college has established a medical school
for both sexes in Boston-One man was
killed and two fatally hurt by Il boiler ex-
plosion at Bushnell, Mich The Massa-
chusetts state board of trade passed reso-
lutions demanding the immediate repeal
of the Sherman act TIE Peoria, Decatur
and Evansville and the Chicago and Ohio
River Railroad companies have consoli-
dated-The Bolivian government has
ordered the monasteries sold and the pro-
cd r
Division Superintendent Sanborn, Road
master Bryant and Detective Bailey of the
Consolidated road were sentenced to one
month in Jail for riotOlls assault at Abing-
ton, Ma>s-Wailace x sons, brass manu-
facturers OF Ansonia. Conn, have sus-
pended----lienry Stall, Il Boston drug
giSt, % years OF age, has married Miss
Hattie Madison, who is one of the ''l49?'
company. She is cons idered quite beauty
The senate refused to seat Lee Mantle
appointed a senator by the governor of
Montana, by nve majority ye,terday-
Edward Savage, out of work and starving
stole IA horse at Lowell, Mass. and got
caught-The McColom institute alumni
celebrated the 43d anniver,ery of the
school at Mt V, ruon, n. H-Israel
Lcavitt, who sta ID Warren Spaulding
at Harmony, is under arreSt-Governor
Boise was renolniuated by iowa Dem
ocrats-The Gutter Valkvrie has left
Cowes for New ork S1r
Friua,. Aug. 80.
This years tax rate at Portland, Me, is
$50 ~ per $1,000, or 81 higher than last
years rate--A year old daughter of
Bernard Schurer of New Haven dieo from
the effects of falling into a tub of boiling
water--A drunken riot occurred among
Italian laborers OH the Lowell Lawrence
and liaverhill railroad, IA mile above
Haycrhill Mass Several shots were fired
but no one was injured During the past
week there have been nine cases Of
! diphtheria in the Chase Home for Chill
| dren at Portsmouth, y. H., and one little
| girl died. The spread of tie disease was
| due to a foui cesspool-A SauCus
| tMass) servant girl threw vitrol in the
| face of young man who she says be-
trayed and refused TO marry her
| Charges of burals too near the surface in
! Holy Cross cemetery, Maiden, Mass, have
been substantiated -- Another Chinese
underground railway" scheme was un-
earthed in Vermont Two men We're ar
rested-St. Mary's Episcopal church
ediice at Barnstablc, Mass, was con-
secrated--Eugineers are to make tests at
the reservoir which burst at Portland,
! Me--The Auburn iMe) Gazette has sus-
pended blcation--Colouel j. W. Locke
! of Wakefield, Mass, died suddenly
We'll, Drcyfus g. Co of Boston expect
to pay all creditors in full--The Colum-
bia, intended to be the fastest yacht ahoat,
was launched at Philadelphia - The
cruiser Marblahead is to receive her colors
from the old town about Christmas time
There were four wrecks on the Allan