Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11

Atwood, II years, killed at a crossing in
Wethersfield, Conn, and his sister in
jured fatally-Six buildings in Jack
sonvllle, Ills, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sawmill in Marion destroyed.
MONDAY. AUG. 8.
Two Boston workmen burned severely
In pit by an explosion Of gas-Con-
cord hotel in Old Orchard Me-, burned |
by an nccndiary-Plant of the Robin
son Basket company of Painesvile o.,
consumed at a loss of 800, 000-Mlchael
Foley Of Chelsea killed by jumping from
an electric--Bather named Collins,
aged II, drowned in Pickford, Vt
Woman and four children Crowned in
Portsmouth by the wrecking Of a row.
boat in collision with a bridge-Move-
ment to curtail the production of print |
cloth aba ndoned by Fall River manu-
facturers-Death Of Colonel Brodheatl, |
who kept Missouri in the t'nion--Two !
electrics go through bridge in Whites |
boro, N. Y, and a woman Killed |
Robberies on Long Island continuing to |
an alarming eXtent-Etta Saunders of |
Dover hanged herself because of jeal- |
ousy-Third officer of an ocean liner
arrested In New York while trying to
cash coupons worth 5000 and believed to |
have been stolen-Turkey repudiates
all responsibility for losses sustained by
American subjects during the Armenian
nassacrcs-Commss of internal
revenue decided that deeds to cemetery
lots which convey only the right to burial
therein, to erect monuments, etc. do not
require revenue stamp under the new
law-Potomac recovered $4,000 from
the Infanta Maria Teresa, which was
driven ashore at the time Admiral Ger
vera attempted to escape from Santiago
---Newports exclusive set gives wild
west show with all its accompa nments
of Indians and cowboys-Montauk
Point, L. l., condemned as camping
ground for soldiers-Rev. Dr. Bates of
Boston says that a renewed pentecost
will be the saving OF church and nation
Attorneys Of the Electroytic Marine
Salts company engaged in settling ac-
counts against the enterprise and ad-
justing claims-All London stirred over
the challenge for a race for the Amer
ca's cup.
TUESDAY. AUG. 9.
John Stahl and Antoine Trates drowned
| in Edgartown, Mass, by the capsizing
| Of their boat--Two laborers killed and
other persons injured by the dcrailment
| of train near Cass Lake MINI
Boston woman burned fatally by the
| explosion of an oil stove--Breaking Of
a pin in an automatic switch wrecked
q mail train at Concord Junction, Mass.
causing the death of two engineers and
a fireman and inJuring eight other per-
sons-Chicago burglar caught robbing
a house in Boston-Maine Central rail-
road freight house in Fairfield. Me- de-
| stroyed by fire, together with three
| freight cars. and a Neutrality-suspicious.
teen persons burned By a naphtha fire
in Russia-John Evans killed his wife
in West Newton. Pa, and made an I'M
successful attempt at suicide-Stiletto
used during a fight in New York, and
one OF the combatants injured perhaps
fatally-Sylvia Green, daughter of
rich but eccentric Hetty Green. severely
injured at Bellows Falls, VT. by her
| horse running away--Mrs. Orr accused
| OF hiring a negro to murder her husband
at Clarendon, Ark, and a lynching
feared--Bangor mother being unable
| to provide for son, he deliberately breaks
windows to secure home in the reform
ator,-Eight violent deaths and one
man fatally injured in Chicago Sunday
John Driscoll aged 35, threw him
self before a locomotive in Providence.
and terribly mangied-George Web
stcr killed his brother in a drunken
quarrel in West Stockbridge, Mass. and
committed suicide----Man and a woman
killed In Massachusetts, by lightning-
Jessie Quigley. aged As, cut her throat
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 20 persons
drowned In Lisbon by the swampihg Of
small boats--Three women stranglcd
by robbers in Russia--Colored fiend
lynched in Carmel, Ga, for attempting
to ravish a child----Confagrat de-
stroyed the best part OF Bismarck, n. D
-Postoffice in Fort Monroe, Va.
robbed Of $4,000 worth of stamps and $50
in cash-William Garopo killed Joseph
Posasco on a fishing vessel in Boston
Antoine Delucea shot Salvatore Reuti In
Boston in a quarrel over a woman.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. 10.
James Capara killed in Bridgeport in
a quarrel over q pail of beer-Pat-
rick Welsh killed in Stamford. Conn,
by his horse running away-F. H,
Cheesman shot Henry Brooke of Oak
land dead and wounded two women,
with one Of whom he was in love
Mining season on the Klondke closed
until winter, and $25 900 idle men in
Dawson-Negro of bad reputation in
Ripley, Tenn, attempted an assault,
was caught. confessed and was executed
Colombian government prevented by
agitators from complying with Italys
demands-Confagra in Skaguay
Alaska-Monument to Francis Scott
Key, author Of the Star Spangled
Banner" unveiled in Frederick, Md
DIR. Hatch of Ossipee, N H., to be
hanged in q year for poisoning his wife
Boston fire did 900 damage
Clergymen of Buffalo unite in calling a
meeting to protest against the Corbett-
Mccoy fight--Roosevelt' name men
toned for candidate for governor OF
New York at meeting of general com
mittee of Republicans of county of New
Dole to be left in charge of Hawaii fol
the present--Governor Briggs OF
North Dakota dead-Stringent in
spection' orders sent to General Shaftel
relative to embarkaton of troops al
Santiago In order to prevent the impor
tation Of yellow fever--Tannery ir
Stroudsburg. Pa, burned al loss OF
$50, Witnesses in the Bran cast
released and rearrested to appear ir
another case against the convicted mar
-spanlards attack American troop!
at Manila, but are repulsed-Plans fol
the three new battleships may bt
changed-Expres money package:
must have revenue stamp affixed Il