Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-27
WEEKS NEWS
Thursday, Feb. go.

| Robinson of Massachusetts, stricken with
apoplexy and critically siok-Boston
| and Maine mail train collided with
freight train at Hinsdale, Mass-John
w. Edwards of Leyden, Moss, arrested
| for threatening to shoot Rev. Charles p.
Ketchem-5ervices in memory of 1871
fishermen lost during the past year held
at Gloucester, Mass--National Republi-
can league convention to be held in Mil
waukee Aug. rs, rs and 27-Thirty-one
| liquor dealers summoned into court at
Manchester, N. H-Diphtheria epidemic
at Haverhill, Mnss-Murderc Martin
Dalton of Providence applies for new
| trial-Edward A. Parsons Of Prospect,
| Conn, indicted for murder - Cap
tnin Jamison Of the St. Paul ex-
ouerated by the steamship Inspectors
Tax on saloons In Ohio increasod--The
l6l pictures in the King collection sold for
s272, 705--Japan decides that Russia Is
not so formidable as was fearcd--Re-
publicuns made their usual sweep in Phila-
delphia--Efforts OF Canada to effect q
compromise with Manitoba futile-Post-
office department. trying to cleanse the
mails Of Objectionable literature--South-
ern Pacific railroad has incurred the hos
tility Of the Trnnoontinental Passenger
association - President Cleveland will
announce soon his attitude in the coming
presidential campaign.
Friday, Feb. 81.
Angus Gilbert was hanged at Boston
for the murder Of Alice Sterling-The
monitor Monadnock put in com M ssion--
Union railway station destroyed by fire
ut Providence-Miss Clara Barton re-
ports that free admission to the Red Cross
society to enter Armenia has been granted
and asks for funds-Incendiary attempt
upon the Allston school at Cambridge.
Mass - Death OF General Douglass
Frazar of Somcrvllle, Mass - Rope
broke at st. Louis and murderer had
to be hanged over again - Great
strike OF garment workers ut Chicago
Terrible explosion of dynamite in Africa.
One hundred persons killed-Strike in
Haverhill, Mass, grows more doubtful
dry by day-A chapel for lunatics dedi-
Gated in Northampton, Mass-Harvard
faculty vote to reduce the course to three
years-Clergymc of Concord, Mass,
decide to fight the liquor trafllc-Lang
don w. Moore. the ex burglar, denies Adj
. ans story that he Is plotting crime again
-Poriire's comet approaching the earth
Native chiefs deserted Italians in Abys.
sinia-Cold weather in Vermont I'M
equaled-Child:cn' home near Della
ware, o., burned-It will cost $3.50 000
to repair the battleship Tcxas-Reduced
grain rate from ST. Paul to New York
, will remain in effeot-Oppositio of the
Socialists to the kaiser becoming more
, oticeable-Platt intends to rush the
, greater New York bill as speedily as pos
3 siblc-Bob Cook Of Yale crew fame to
; be business manager of the New York
II Il
d. B. Hagar, and sister Of the late Gov
ernor Rice, died at Salem, Mass-E. G.
Benedict thinks that neither President
Cleveland nor any other Democrat can be
elected in MISUNDERSTANDING soon
may have all or nearly all OF the gold Of
fered for the recently issued government
bonds - The Democrats of Lewiston,
Me-, nominated Frank A. Morcy as can-
didate for mayor - At Bangor, Me-,
Flavius o. Beal was nominated by the Re-
pubicans as their candidate formayor-
At the Republican mayoralty caucus at
! Saco, Me-, Edmund Garland was nomi-
mated for mayor by reclamation. The
Democrats nominated Samuel l.. Lord for
mayor-John Il. Millais, bart, was
elected president Of the British Royal
!. Academy, In succession to the late Lord
J. leighton. He was born mt Southampton,
. Eng, 1929
C Saturday, Feb. 22.
Death Of Governor Robinson expected
at any moment - Defaulter Foster of
Concord n. H., arraigncd on two counts
A; of embezzement and pleads not guilty
= French senate capitulates before
S chamber of deputies--Ex-U United States
Consul Waller released from Mines prison
- Now England Armenian relief
committee voted to forward more funds
> to Clara Barton--Bradstreet' reports nc
' radical Improvement in general trade
J. Ex-United States District Clerk Camp
!, bell Of Nashville killed by his SON
!. William II. Feeiy, brakeman on the Prov
!; idence division of New Haven road, killed
Boston Italian bit off finger of fellow,
countryman-Strliing mlllmen at Bid
Ieford, Me-, advised to return to work.
. Treasury gold reserve intact for the first
!; time since Sept. 7, lS05--Yale faculty
). said to be slightly opposed to the Henley
h regatta schcme-Chancellor Won Hohen
lobe surprised enemies, by eulogizing ex
u Chancellor Bsmaycll-British govern
4 ment approves the course pursued by
i. British South African company--Neth
+: erlands Railway company must pay
Vs. 600, 100 at least for the damage done by
l. the dynamite explosion near Johannes
;; burg--Fredcrc II. Coudert thinks thai
} President Cleveland might consent, under
. certain conditions, to become candidate
for third term-Rev. f. w, Polly
eA principal of st. Johns college at Q'Ap
pelle, Can, and pastor Of St. Andrew.
i; Episcopal church, resigned, and will &C
Is cept the Roman Catholic faith-Mar
3. tinez Campos, late captain general o
10 Cuba, declined the membership Offered
. him in the Spanish supreme military coun
= cil-The ice business on the Kennebe,
- - river received a setback, as work ON stacks
:. in process Of construction has been discon
IS tinued-Schooner Eben II. King raI
ashore on Canal fat, off Vineyard Haven
Mass, where she now lies-Untet
States Marshal Campbell placed Postmas
ter H. l.. Paquette of West Rumncy
B; N. H., under arrest for alleged connection
s. with lottsry--Executive COMMITTEES o
c; the International League of Press club
s. decided to hold the next convention a
H. Buffalo on July 20-Plans for torped,
ar boats Nos. 8 and z, being constructed a
IS tho Herreshoff works, changed, and thre
10 feet added to the length Of each boat, max
Ia ing their entire length 175 feet--Olive
/; Becker, 30 years Of age, instantly killed
"a and his father, aged So, fatally injured a
q, q Boston Run colliery, Ashland, Pa.
i, Sunday. Fob. 28.
.; Death Of ex-Go, eraor George d. Robin
:; son OF sachusetts---Suicide of ex
~ Congressman Hnrtcr OF Ohio-Olney'
a. e. boom for PRESIDENT launched by Demo
er orats ut Boston - Defaulter Foster @