Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


troyed by lire - Louis Kossuth, the !
Hungarian patriot, is failing rapidly -
A complete Reorganization Of the finances
pf India will he necessary--The second |
lrial Of Sutherland, McKane's lieutenant,
was begun in Brooklyn--Boston has but |
little money to be used this year in CON
structing new sidewalks - James F.. |
Trask of Peabody, Mass, who was muir
derously assaulted is in critical condi- !
tion-A man was arrested in New York |
with bombs enough in his possession to |
blow up block--Russia is said to have
made the treaty with Germany to dampen
the eagerness of France--Paterson (N. |
j. silk weevers refused to accept the
manufacturers schedule and went out on
strike--The wrecking steamer Orion has
started for the wreck of the Kearsarge
- The president will not sign the
Bland bill, but he mny allow It to become
law without his signaturc-W. F..
Wiley Of Rochester, n. H., was murder
ously assaulted and is in precarious con
dition--The Lynn (fsss) city council
refuses to submit new draft of the city
charter to the present legislature--The
Bddeford (Me.) election almost resulted
in riot in two wards Repu blicans
carried every ward---A Camden On. j.
boy was burned at the stake by compan-
ions while playing lndians'--The Re
publican candidate for mayor OF Bangor,
Me, failed Of a majority by "a votes and
another election must be held--Horace
Nichols. a wealthy banker of Bridgeport,
Conn, died from the results of a fall
The senate voted not TO investigate
charges of sugar stock speculation on the
part of senators -Rcpresentative Blan-
chard of Louisiana took his sest in the
senate--Quiet is reported on the Mos
quito coast--Lawyers in the Pollard
Breckenridge case came to blows -- Penn
Bylvania iron works are starting up after
long idleness - Rigorous immigration
regulations IRE being enforced in Homo
lulu-A new Spanish ministry has been
formed - The German-R Russian treaty
was passed to a second reading by the
misunderstanding August Frank, the
poet, is dead.
Wednesday, March "a.
Customs receipts are steadily declining
Costa Rican rebels were routed by
General Iglesias -There have been paid
out in sugar bouuties s9, 296, s06--The
story about Canadian filibusterers going
to Hawaii is laughed at-Cresscy A.
Thompson became insane at her boarding
house ut Lynn, Mass Charles Emerson
of Weston, Mass, reports that his safe
was robbed of s350-Gladstoue has COM
| pleted his translation of Horaces odes
into English verse-An engineer and
| fireman were killed in n collision on the
Boston and Maine at Capelton, Que
Arthur l.. Reese, an electrician. was in
stantly killed at Baltimore by an electric
shock--Boston aldermen will make
tour Of inspection of the trades schools Of
the country--The long overdue steamer
Briscoe was lowed into st. Johns, y. f.
Her fuel and provisions were all ex-
hausted--The deputy collector Of Toledo
was arrested, charged with cmbezzlng
funds from the Defiance CO., savings
bank-Brooklyn's board of aldermen
voted to raise the Irish flag over the city
hall The mayor may veto the order
The London chamber of commerce wants
the international monetary conference
reassembled to deal with silvcr--Tufts
college is to build an addition to
its Barnum museum - A fire bug
has made his appearance in Walt
ham, Mass - John Mccarthy of
South birmingham, Mass, while insane,
tried TO burn his own house - The
Worcester (Mass.) school committee Sc
lectel new school superintendent,
thus closing a fight of 90 years
against the present incum bcnt---James
+. Bailey, an aged farmer at Sharon,
\. H.. was murderously assaulted and
robbed by three men--I.ord Rose berry
explains his position on home rule
Walter Wellman's north polar expedition
left New York today--The house of
commons, by 147 to 145, passed Labou-
chere s amendment to the address in reply
to the queens speech recommending the
abolition of the veto power of the lords.
Thursdny, March 10.
Subscriptions to the Boston relief fund
amount to 800, l56--riobbers secured
$1,000 from the railroad station at Wood
wark O. John T. Ford, manager of
the theater where Lincoln was assassi-
mated, IL dead--There are public be.
quests amounting to $33, 900 contained in
the will of the late Hon. Rufus s. Frost
The Drawbaugh Telephone company
declares that it is in the field to compete
with the Bell ompany--New Jersey
Republicans have accepted the courts
proposition for the proper presentation OF
the senatorial case--The Turkish all.
thorities have convicted II Kurds who
assaulted Miss Melton, an American
missionary--Queenstow and Milford.
haven both want to become the port OF
call for the proposed Canadian Pacific
mail line to Austraia--.John Brecht q
farmer living near Ravenua, Neb, sho
his wife fatally and then killed himsel
THE directors of the Lowell Mass
Y. NJ G. a. elected r. II. Jone. O
Cleveland, o., general secretary, to sue
coed c. p Harlow, resigned
Ex-Teller Thatcher of the Brooklin,
(Mass) National bank was arrested b.
United States officers. and held in $500
for his appearance March 3l-Mrs Rhy
lend of Attleboro Mass, whose HUSBAND
enlisted under the name Of White, cal
gel no pen sion-A colored pastor IA
Milford, Conn, has sued a female mem
Der Of his church for slander--Ex-Gov
eruor William L. Russell is announced a
the orator at the Yale law school com
mencement - Lawrence Mass alder
men voted against the creation of a liquo
license commission girl who claim 9,
to have been decoyed from Rochester an,
kept in a roadhouse near Attleboro, Mass
escaped and sought protection of the au
thorties--A drunken man at Man