Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-21

pointed superintendent Of elections by
the GOVERNOR. +. Mcdonald, aged
80, cut his throat in Providence-O. ID.
Talbot of Boston, Is years, accidentally
killed near Grand isle, Canada--Rivcr
steamer, Northampton, burned in Nor
folk--Postoffic safe in East Moriches,
J.. L., blown open and 5000 of valuablcs
secured-James Dumping, a Phila-
delphia inventor, killed in New York
while showing workmen how to operate
n dumping carl. II. Bidwell, quar-
termaster of an auxiliary cruiser. ar
rested in Mobile on a charge of robbiny
the mails--South Dakota Farmers re-
joicing over wonderful yield of wheat
this year, said to he the greatest in the
history of the state
MONDAY JULY is.
Emily Hunt, Al years. burned to death
In Boston while asleep on sofa
Thomas Hurle, New Haven tailor,
ended pains in the head by asphyxiation
John Reshi killed in Fitchburg by
board used by John Patpola, who was
arrested-At Pennington, Ia, two
men killed in a saloon row. one of the
| victims being a spectator-Two labor
ers on the St. Louis and Oklahoma rail
way murdered near the Sac and Fox
| agency In Oklahoma after being paid
off--N. f. Allen of Riverside, Cal,
| robbed and killed in Pima Ariz-
| Wisconsin River Pulp and Paper com
pany's mill in Stevensport, Wis. de-
stroyed by fire at loss of between $780,
| 600 and 5000, 000---The counties in
northern Texas swept by a terrific hail
! and wind storm, two persons being
! killed and great damage done to the
| grain and cotton crops-Dispatch from
| Porto Rico says $50 cases of ammunition
exploded, killing IA persons and wound
| ing many others-Wiliam Scott, %
years old. drowned at East Dedham.
! Mass-Three-s tenement block in
Leominster, Mass nearly destroyed by
/ fire--Sarah Cole of Washington. Ind,
colored, murdered by her divorced hus-
band after he had made several at
tempts on the lives of his four children;
he killed himself-Fre destroyed the
sash and door factory of Segelke- X ehl-
haus company and the lumber yards of
the John Paul Lumber company in La
. crosse, Wis--Conference of coal min
! ers at Cardiff failed to reach any agree
ment, and the Welsh coal miners strike
continues-Seventeen miners who left
Dawson City June 2S arrived in Seattle
bringing with them gold dust and drafts
estimated at $500 ,O00-Four young men
drowned off Milwaukee by the capsizing
of sailboat
TUESDAY, JULY 49,
Notary public and two women ar
rested in Providence on charge OF
violating the pension laws in various
Toll NIrN 7
son. killed by falling from a staging
John Thomas injured fatally at Riley,
Me- by q log--Fire in Wellington. Me-,
caused a loss of about s7000-Judgment
by default against zola, and set tence of
years Imprisonment and $500 1ne i'm
roscd--Hurrcane in Behring sea
caused the loss of several vessels
Chicago engineer wounded mortally in
park by n negro. supposed to be a
maniac-Christian scientists held not
to be medical practitioners by a Rhode
Island court--Arthur Beals. professor
of philosophy in the university of Wash
ington. killed by falling through a
hatch on a steamer in Seattle--John
Blanchard terribly injured by Boston
ocomotive--Frederick Beals, aged TO-
drowned in Sharon. Mass. while fishing
White farmer his wife and infant
murdered in Cypress, Tex, by negro
who escaped-Jasper Simpson killed
two deputy marshals near Renton, ! ri
Loss OF $3.50, 900 by a conhagra ,ior
; in Sunderland, Eng--Box containing
about $500. in the custody of the adj
jutant Mt Fort Adams, Newport, stolen
ard three soldiers arrested as suspect:
Two men under arrest at Fort War
rem, Boston, for existing under false
, representations as to marriage-Mrs
, Berger of Boston poisoned herself
Trolley men growing disconnected II
Brooklyn and another big strike may
take place before long-Arvilla Heath
dcmented, badly 'Lrt by an engine ii
, lewiston Prince of Wales broke hi:
! knee cap.
} WEDNESDAY, JULY 20.
George Taylor OF Brewer drowned il
/ Bangor by walking off a wharf
I Cottlieb Stirlin, 80 years old, farme
l of Guilford. Ct, after throwing ava,
\ two bank books representing more thar
$1,000, attempted to commit suicide b,
jumping into the river in New York
Two city laborers in New York KILLED
2 by gas in "A manhole--Chnese murder
1 er in Oakland, Cal, exploded magazine
when exposed to arrest, killing himsel
4 and six others and wrecking a powde
Il factory and several dwellings-Fifty
two soldiers at Camp Alger made IL
by hash that had been cooked in
copper vessel-Patrick Owen, 81 year
= old, killed himself in Boston-Fire de
stroyed a large quantity of lumber an
small dwellings that sheltered 40 fam
. lilies in Newport, Ky-Canton, Me.
u factory of the Portland Canning com
Chinese junk with a cargo of liquor wa
. burned at Taku and IS persons wer
burned to death or drowned-Col
:. lapse of a himsy structure of brick Il
: Charlestown, Mass, one man benz
=. killed and a woman having her skul
fractured--Feared that love-sick Ere
: r. Turney of Fairfield, Conn. has com
:, mitted suicide-Strike of 60 machinist
in Hoes press works in New York for
= minimum scale and the abolition O
!, piece work-Powers grain elevate
In Belgrade, Mont, burned at loss O
$50, OO0--Fire destroyed a building oc
cupied by hat Ipakers in Danbury, Con
Much damage done by lightning /
= various parts of New England, in Me-
Hampshire and Vermont especially
- Bull broke loose in navy yard a Charles
II town from steamer and nearly kille
a Pa, mine
named Enterline killed his wife an
committed suicide after trying to mur