Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-01
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY, AUG. %.


pondency--Resident of Jersey CITY
killed by taking inject powder in mis-
take for salts--Explorer Stanley
writes against an Anglo American al
Nance, saying that there is no necessity
for it-Chinese and Japanese mer-
chants discovered defrauding the gov
eminent Of British Columbia out of thou
sands Of dollars by double set Of in
voices-Financial trouble the cause Of
the self-destruction by shooting of r.
Z. Chamberlain of Auburn, Me--Strike
Of 1000 miners In the province of Cindad
Real Spain-Farmer his wife and
child killed at a crossing near Peters
burg, Va---Two soldiers cut to pieces
by falling from a car near Westbury,
l.. strike Of quarrymen in Portland,
Conn, settled by the strikers giving in
Andrew Fay of Lowell, aged %,
drowned in Old Orchard, Mc-Charles
Gowen of Fitzwilliam, N. H.. killed by
lightning - Great deal of damage
wrought by a hurricane in Syracuse-
Santiago's schools to reopen Sept. 10, but
sectarianism removed and salaries low
ered-Because she was hungry and ILL
treated by a dissolute husband, Kate
Mangan of New York, IS years old, de-
libcrately planned and executed a double
infanticde and followed 1t almost i'm
mediately by suicide-Edward Carey.
aged So, killed by train in Springfield
Three hundred miners reported lost
by the flooding Of a mine IN Silecia--
Man killed in jumping from an electric
car in Pittsburg after IL had been struck
| by lightning---Ohio Democrats in state
convention reaffirm the Chicago plat
! form and declare for the nomination of
| Bryan for president in 190O--New COM
bination ladder truck ard chemical in
/ Boston runs into an electric light pole
on the way to fire; the driver is rem
dered unconscious, the horses crash into
o plate glass window and bring up in q
store without much injury-Captain
| William A. Andrews sails from Atlantic
| City in a 13-foot boat to cross the ocean
FRIDAY. AUG. &c.
Rose BcTnhdr1t Of Chicago thrust the
end of 4 parasol into the skull Of her
rival. Title Wolff. and killed her
Italian lake orders n Watson yacht
built to mako trial spins with the Irish
IShamrock--poSsel, an alleged German
swindler, who tried to defraud a lifC
insurance company, out Of $4,000. com
mits suicide In Paris---Ten barns II
Snficld, Conn. lcve!led by a sever,
wind-Atrs. Dfvelin, aged TO- burned e
death in Seneca Falls, y Y Stable
and FIVE horses burned in Brockton-
Eighteen flremen injured at n fire II
Boston by an explosion Of hot air
James Ready, Sc years old, bcheadeC
near Hartford 10y trn'n--Five mel
arrested IN Brooklyn for stealing so,
600 worth OF feed wire from the trollc,
roads in that city--Arthur Robinson
Belvdnre, n. Y, lawyer. shot himse'
Franklin Leonard of Bridgewater
Mass, aged 6S. drowned himself Will
temporarily Observation-Disclosures corr
canning factory in North Burnham, Me
/ burned at q loss OF 500 000--Rcductiol
! Of 10 percent in wages OF machinists
PAINTERS and carpenters in the factorie
in Slatersvile, II. Jeremiah O'Brien
n brakeman. killed in North Walpola
y. H., while coupling cars-Icecrear
prepared with lemon extract purchase
from travelling salesman caused tn
death of three persons in Middlctowr
n. y, and made n score Of others sic
seven demijohns of Kerosene used /
I an attempt to burn a New York hous
D occupied by II families.
SATC RDAT. AUG. ~
t Benefits mine in Danville, Ills, prac
. tically ruined by fire. and some Of tn
: Miners burned fatally-Myra Child!
: Framineham brakeman, Killed in Dos
. ton while uncoupling cars--W l
futile, aged "a, killed by train in Con
cord-Taunton boy Of II drowned Will
Misunderstanding establishment, stab
u ard 10 horses burned in Baltimore
Margaret McDermott OF Tiverton. r.
@ and Mrs. McCue o: St. Johnsbury, VI
Il victims Of oil stove explosions
: Marloe, aged 70, hanged himself I
S Acushnet Mass--Chicago man wound
5 ed his wife mortally through accider
she said before death--Saybrooke Ills
=. Jockey killed by striking a tree aft,
Y being unhorsed-Ex-S Secretary Shci
Y man denounced the man responsible fc
!. the sufferings OF the soldiers during an
y after the war-Butfalo man killed h
!, father with an axe for breaking the arr
" of the murdercr's mother-One ma
n killed, two hurt fatally and others /!
q jured by the explosion of boiler
d Eugene, Ore--James Weston wounde
a mortally near Plymouth, Mass. by h
h nephew, who fired to save his aunt fro
i q beating-Fire in a bunker on the or,
u son in the Brooklyn navy yard-Bo'
4 ton child crushed to death by an IL
;. wagon--SiX persons injured by an G,
= plosion of fireworks In Minneapolis
h Girl killed in Cuba, \. Y, by the acc
s. dental discharge Of shotgun with whic
!" a youth was playing--Philadelp
: with S54 attacked in freight car
- which he was stealing a ride from Jers,
It City, stabbed and robbed-Color,
= pedler stoned to death in the camp
IF Chickamauga park because New Yol
sergeant had been knocked under ira
by negro and injured fatally--Beva
to Bros furniture factory in Paters,
e. guttcd-Louisvile boy scalded to dea
v by falling into kettle of soap-Turk,
rs orders 100 900, 900 Mauser cartridges.
IL SUNDAY, AUG. 2S.
h President Mckinley left Washingt
m for a brief vacation-Five perso
IN killed, four of them of one family, al
lc others injured at a crossing in Bon
5: vile, Mass-Austran heiress dies
g starvation and a broken heart in NJ
~ York cty-Camp on Montauk Poi
81 to be broken up--Man who killed Ca
m tain Watson of Plymouth acquitted
s. Rib of a Boston policeman broken du
" Ing n row--FairfaX. VT, visited by
" fire that caused $4,000 loss-Over
h. arrests made during the past year
H. the secret service department, 523 bel
at for coming moncy-Sentor Plat te
Vs. Governor Black Of New York that t
10 Republican candidate for governor W
al be Colonel Roosevclt-Berlin WON
s. killed herself because she received
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