Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Tuesday. JAN 3o
The car has an attack OIL lnnuenza--
The Tayerwether VIII contest was re-
sumed in New YORK ne khedlve dis
claims any intention OF onenolng England
THE injunction against the security
Trust bank of Nashua, N. H., has been
dissolved--l ale adopted temporary rules
to cover eligibility TO athietic teams
Burglars entered store at south Ber-
wick. Me-, aud got sloo worth OF goods
Water taken from the Merrimac river
at Haverhill, Mass, is supposed to be
posonous-Miss Carrie f. Small &C
cepted the position as principal of the
Woodward seminary at Quincy, Mass
Crowds assent led III Paris to see Vail
liant executed, but the affair did not come
ofi-Professor Thomson denies that he
contemplates leaving the general electric
company -President futile of the Boston
and Maine says that reported changes in
the offices of the road are merely rumors
The petition of the knights of Labor
for an injunction to restrain Secre-
tary Carlisle from issuing bonds was
presented to the supreme court
Wellman Osborne's shoe factory and the
West Lynn hotel at Lynn, Mass, were
destroyed by fire; loss, 800, 000-The
Gloucester Mass agent of the American
Express company was arrested for embez-
zlement-The safe of the Pacific iron
works at bridgeport Conn, was robbed
of diamonds valued at between $4,000 and
f2500-1mportant testimony for the gov
crnment was given at the Prawda
murder trial at Portland, Me-
The jury disagreed in the case of Ernest
Bush, charged with stealing diamonds
from a West Warren (NIass) hotel
The Gloucester (Mass) schooner Robert
j. Edwards is thought to have gone down
j. B. Reynolds shoe factory at Brock
ton, Mass, was practically destroyed by
fire - The fishing schooner Aber-
deem was wrecked near Gloucester.
Mass. All the crew were saved -
General Nanigat was arrested on the
eve of sailing from Kingston, jam
Portions of the Bell telephone patents ex
pire today--The A. p. A. makes de-
mands on both political parties in Kansas
City - Secretary Carlisle's conference
with New York bankers is not considered
a success.
wednesday, Jan. 81.
Colonel Frank W. Roberts OF Bidde-
ford, Me-, was appointed to the consul
ship at Nogeles, Mex. - Rev. A. j..
Wheeler of Boston was elected secretary
of the New! Hampshire Law and Order
league-Mrs. Stephen Davis died at Ok
ford, Mass, the result OF an assault COM
united by two men - The indica-
tons are that the fight between
he warning houses of the Rhode Island
legislature will be hot and short-The
bill to repeal federal elections law will
pass the senate next Tuesday-It is re-
ported that Lord Dunraven may again
hallenge for the Americas cup in '95-
The Lehigh Valley railroad transferred its
New England coal business to \. Y, n.
~. and 1.-THE Nova Scotia Legislative
council voted against the adjustment of
hat body-A syndicate is to build an
Underground rapid transit system in New
ork-The murderer of John Marshall
was executed at Victoria, b. c.
The Genesee hotel, Syracuse, was burned
The Boston relief fund now amounts
TO more than s1+,000-Au engine house
was burned at Forestville, Conn-l[an-
as Populists are opposed to the proposed
ssue of bonds-An injunction to re-
strain Secretary Carlisle from issuing
bonds was refused Howard b.
f1odgate was arrested at Boston
or embeZzilng from the Grand
Trunk railroad-Bulgaria conspirators,
who sought the life of Prince Ferdinand,
we're sentenced to Jail-A collision oc-
cured between TWO electric cars at Brlgh-
on (Boston), the two motormen being in
ured-Joh j. Henry & Co.. commits
Pion dealers III boots and shoes, Boston,
made an asslgnment--Nete rans of the
North and South Atlantic block
hding squadrons are to have a
|eunion at Boston - 1t is re-
ported that offers for $3.50, OO0, 900
worth of the new bonds have been made
o Secretary Carlisle-Governor Brown
pf Rhode Island, in his inaugural, advo-
lated change from the majority to the
'lurality form of state government
he Sugar trust won its suit with the gov
-rnment at Philadelphia, the decision
irtually holding that such combinations
Fre legal.
Thursday, Feb. 1.
lhere was $4,000 fire at Norwich,
onn, The car continues to improve
The hotel and town hall at New Hart
ord' Conn, We're burned--A receiver
or the Colorado Midland road may be