Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-22


john Y. McKane was found guilty
of conspiring to violate election laws
House further debated the Bland segnor-
age bill--Rev. John H. Chandler died of
! cholera in India-John Wansmaker is
thought to have violated the alien CON
tract law-General Jubal A. Early was
seriously injured by fall in Lynchburg,
| Na-An anarchist was killed by an ex-
plosion at Greenwich, Eng.
Saturday. Feb. II.
A German farmer living near Toledo
lost $4,000 by the gold brick swindle-A
committee for the promotion of inter
national bi-metallism has be en- formed in
| Boston--The French chamber of depu-
ties is discussing the proposition to raise
the duty on wheat--A receiver was APP
pointed in the United States circuit court
for the New England Printing Telegraph
| company - Negotiations between the
United States and Great Britain over
the sealing regulations in Behring
sea are about pleted-- The
gold reserve is now sl05, 600, 00O--The
tripartite control of Samoa is said to be
unsatisfactory weavers struck for
increased pay in New York-The mis-
sons of Hawaii were greatly injured by
the revolution--A train was dtched by
robbers and looted at Roscoe
Cal-The death of Lobengula, King
of the Matabeles, is confirmed -
Farrand, Williams & Co., drug
gists, Detroit, were burned out
Rev. Robert &. Williams died at Amherst,
Mass--Schooner Edwin |. Morrison was
lost, with her crew of eight men, off
Provincetown, Mass-Abner ID. Thorne,
the Paris Hill (Me.) burglar, was indicted
|
England cars and engines in East Hart
ford have been released from attachment
--Gloucester (Mass) schooner Edward
p. Boynton is ashore at st. Mary's,
n. F-The Lewiston and Auburn
(Me.l street railroad was bought by
Wakefield (Mass.) syndicate -
President Dole declares no insult was in
tended in his letter to Minister Willis and
he has nothing to retract - May
Brooklyn, the actress. killed herself in San
Francisco-A Southern Pacific railroad
train was ditched by robbers near Los
Angeles and four men shot--Gecrge
Trefetheu, prominent citizen of Peak s
island Me, dropped dead at his home.
. He was a wholesale fish dealer-Aynslev
, Cook, wel-known English barytone
singer, died at Liverpool from bronchitis
-Advices from Rio de Janeiro say that
Admiral da Gamas sailors have captured
the stores of guns and ammunition at
| Fort Armacao attach ment for S201 :.
500 has been made against the Raub To-
connective works in favor of John L.
White-Philadelp and Erie directors
reelected the old officers and declared
cash dividend of per cent, the first
| since 1892.
Sunday, Feb. IS.
{ Copeland 4 Co. s jewelry shop at North
, Attleboro, Mass. was burneS-Proprie
: tors of the Bath (Me.) iron works have
called upon the sheriff for an investiga
, ton of the recent fire--Porgy steamers
seized i'll Buzzards bay several years age
are not to be confscated Lord Dun
, raven will probably challenge again fol
the America cup in '95--Senator Morgan
believes that this administration may yet
favor Hawaiian annexation-The Pol
lard Breckenridge trial has been set fol-
March Sit is believed that the presi
dent will nominate another New Yorl
man to the supreme bench-Bill Ny,
= had an attack of heart failure at Niagara
: | Nothing definite is yet known
t about the senate sugar schedule-B. +
. Campbell, supposed to have committee
4 suicide in Portland, Me, returned to hi
l home in Philadelphia Quarter-iu- the
6 slot gas meters are to be introduced il
f tenement houses in New York this weel
, Mary f. Lease claims to be Mason
T ! and announces her intention to organic
e lodges for her sex-There is no prospec
! of settlement of the strike Of the sill
/ ribbon weavers in New York "A gan,
t of counterfeiters was captured in Altoona
: Pa-Seven men were drowned by
e steamship collision in Bristol channel
e The French minister has been recalle
= from Portugal.
Y Monday, Feb. 10.
Il The New York, New Haven and Hart
a ford railroad is replacing the woodel
a bridges on its line through Connection
i with iron ones-John Urban, aged 81
d an inmate of the Waterbury Conn aims
y house. while walking on railroad track
It was struck and killed by a train
o Elijah Paul, Fannie Locke and Sara
/ Morris of Lincoln, N. H., are under al
: rest in connection with the Lincoln tral
- edy. They were refused bail
n Diphtheria has broken out again in tn
!. family of NJ. ID. Murphy at Windsor
II Conn. They have previously lost fou
II children by 1.-THE new Masonic tempt
d in Camden, Me-, was dedicated by Amt
Y lodge. The building cost sc, 900 Amt
Y lodge was organized in 1sOl--It is b,
- lieved the government will soon bias
e. out Sarah's and Southwest ledges
n at the approach to New Lor
} don Comm harbor, and that lgh
W will he established on Black ledge
W At Democratic caucus in Auburn, Me
z V. Y. Buck was nominated for mayor
a. The Hatch Cutlery company of Middle
'r town. Conn, will remove TO Taunton
b Mass-Rev. NJ w. Welsh of Haverhil
lie Mass, an exBaptist .,inister, died, age
l. So, of old age-AuIS,t f. Moore wa
ID nominated for mayor of Ellsworth Me
IS by the Peoples party-Nehemia
4 II. Higgins was renominated Il
mayor by the Democrats-Wil
lam b. Toucey, one OF the oldest bus
ness men of Stamford, Conn, died thel
r at the age of s3-Sherman p Fitch.
p years of age, fell dead at his supper tab
As at Wilton, Conn, of heart disease
" Eight OF the strikers have returned t
=, work for the Bridgeport Comm Tractio
l., company, and number of other
'e will apply--Mrs Ellen Ross WI
had II