Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-04


wounded mortally for refusing to give
money to his cousin whom he had helped
often-Stories of starvation from the
Ashcroft trail to the Klondike--Two
girls swept overheard by the boom of
sailboat in Toms River N. j., and
drownsd-Mrs. f. II. Cobel lost both
feet in trying to board n moving train
in Montclair, N. J---Party to be or
organized in Canada which will include
nll kinds of reformers and aim to be n
swaying power-Six highwaymen ex-
ecuted In OaIaca, Mex, for murder and
robbery
MONDAY, AUG. 1.
Paul whitromb and Roswell Griswod
Is and 20 years respectively, drowned
near Great harrington, Mass7-Alleged
that the secretary Of the Young Mem
Christian association in Fort Wrangle
Alaska, loaded the stock of his grocery
on a schooner and disappeared after in
ducing the owners of the vessel to &c
ashore on an island to hunt--Georg,
PEPPER, rs years of age. drowned in Bos-
ton harbor by failing from a yacht
Directors of the Electrolytic Marine
Salts company issue n statement to the
stockholders, saying they are convinced
now that the scheme was fraud
Plate glass insurance compact Dissolved
and a war in rates looked for-Pat-
rick Joyce of Lynn shot while attempt
ing to evade arrest on a warrant
Five persons drowned at a picnic ir
Chicago by n collision of rowboats--
Ten young people injured seriously by
the overturning Of an omnibus in Chi
cago-House and barn In Attleborc
destroyed by fires started by lightning
Fire starting In feed store caused
a loss OF 5000. 900 in Escanabia, Mich
Three persons severely hurt In a col
lision Of electrics in Spencer. Mass
Carlist newspapers in Spain suspended
W, o. Woodbury. of Cambridge
drowned in a successful attempt to res
cue bather near Hull, Mass-Jo-
soph Kaller killed Feter Meyer in Scran
ton during a quarrel about the shooting
of pigeons.
TUESDAY, AUG. 2.
w. II. Marston. a New York broker
cut his throat-Four boys drowned In
Paducah, Ky, as the result Of one get
ting beyond his depth while bathing
Three persons killed and many injured
during fire In Chicago hotel-Death
in Columbus, o.. Of one of the Sells
brothers, circus proprietors--New
foundland fishermen to be formed into
naval reserve for EnCland--Joseph
Banigan OF Providence left sl45, 900 to
charities-Lewis' strawboard mill In
Beaver Falls, ~. T., burned at O loss OF
$50, 00O--Burgiar caught In the station
in East Weare, N. H., by the agent
whom he cut severely with a razor If
trying TO get away-Two men killed
and four or Ave injured in collision o..
trains in Atlanta--A private in an i'm
mune regiment in New Orleans shot
MORALLY by Il sentry while trying to
sneak into camp---E. II. Merritt sur
rendered himself to the Newton. Mass,
police for burglary and enlargement
in Brooklyn-Pawtucke policeman
made violently insane by the heat-G,
C. Hammond shot himself dead in Paw
tucket--Srght snowfall in Nebraska
Fatal wreck of a Southern Pacific
paytrsin in Benson, Cal--Copious rain
in Nebraska saves what Is left of the
corn crop-Report that Hawaii will
pay Japan $500, 900 for excluding immi-
BTdntS--fTdlflS HTe
of bushels of wheat in Rush county,
Kas-Hotel Berwyn, Chicago burned
and three perS6ns killed and IL injured
-DiamondvMe coal mines in Wyomine
sold and town to be built there-Two
New York miuing :. companies safely
reach st. Michaels aft6r a voyage around
Cape Horh--New York merchants re-
tain Joseph II. Choate In their test case
against the express ompanies-Paw-
tucket merchant came to life after being
pronounced a corpse-Socialists make
things lively at the convention of the
American Federation OF Labor in Spring
field-Clean sweep by the Alabama
Democrats. s.ss
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3.
Big strike of miners in the Pittsbure
district impending owing to failure to
comply with the Chicago agreement as
to wages-Young woman in Boston
made unsuccessful effort to end do
nestle misery with poison--Five mer
burned in q coliery in Plymouth, Pa.
one of them fataliy--Combine Of anti
| Republican elements In Nebraska re-
newed, the Populsts getting all of tho
| nominations but one--Thousands OF
WIOuSnt NY a otoiH III IL
| Sullivan county, N. y. one church
| burned-Patrick Davis, a farmland II
Dracut, Mass, nearly killed Patricl
| Eagan for interfering in an attempted
assault upon a woman-Flora Dona
hue. dissipated resident OF Lynn. i'm
prisoned for six months for menacinf
the life Of a daughter ~ years Of age
Possibility Of contest over the will o.
Millionaire Banigan OF Providence
friends Of the widow asserting that sh,
will not be able to live on the annuity o.
| S15. 000---Gertrude Hall, a social out
cast, suffocated herself with gas In New
| York--Loss of $1,000 by fire In Kenne
bunkport. Me-One killed and thre,
hurt at petroleum fire la Dunkirk
France-Lincoln. r. l.. laborer browne,
while bathing-Edward Chalk Of Paw
tucket, 40 years. jumped from bridg,
and drowned-Two children killed b,
electrics in idgeport-Shocking as
sault with an axe upon two women ant
girl In their home In Baltimore b.
somebody unknown--Big reception I,
Hobson in Atlanta-Steamer at New
York reports passing rs bodies of tn
Burgogne's passengers-Domest IL
Bangor swallowed poison with fata
effect.