Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-07
.'HE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. JUNE so.

md mechanical colleges this year
President deeply concerned over tho act
of the senate appropriations committee
In rejecting the item for the Canadian
commisslon---Popc greatly affected az
the course OF the war-----Ringleaders of
The attack on Russians ut Andiian,
Turkestan. publicly hanged-Common
seamen to receive the thanks of the
congress for hcroism in Cuban waters,
the first time in the history of that body
such action was proposed and taken
Sharkey defeated Rubin in Coney ISL
and in legs than three minutes. and
challenged all Of the heavyweiEhts 20 n
nattlc for the Championships min
crs on strike in Pennsylvanla-1. G.
Perley Of Auburn. Me, Killed by falling
from n bridge over which he was pro-
polling bicvcle--Patrick Higgins
said 70 he the oldest man In Pennsyl-
Nania, died in Scranton. aged III years
Fire did 500, Ooo damage TO the stock
of tho Ansona Brass and Copper COM
pdny. New York---Terrible distress Of
the poor in Madrid--Anna Dewitt OF
Brooklyn injured fatally in a collision
while riding in rtsmouth---Spanish
consul ut Kingston Jam, says he re-
ceived a dispatch from Santiago that the
Brooklyn had been sunk and Commodore
Schley and 81 seamen killed--Locomo-
tive Of a passenger train jumped the
track near Burlington. Mo, and the mail.
baggage. smoking and chair cars fol-
lowed, rolling down an embankment n
score ~ passengers being hurt. several
of them eriuusly--Dcat from con-
sumption Of q man implicated in the
mountaineering during the anarchistic
riots in Chicago.
FRIDAY, JULY I.
Henry Williams. an alleged outrnger,
lynrhcd by mob, which overpoworcd
the jailer in Macon. Mo---Little son Of
II. j. Parker Of Marhchead. Mass. suf-
located by n fire which destroyed the
fathers carpenter shOp--Mary Bou-
LANCER, 16 years injured fatally in
weave room in Springvale. Me--Mrs
Vail OF Goshen, Conn, and James Brad
shaw injured fatally at crossing in
Torringt Murray. aged TO-
killed in the Springfield armory by get
ting caught In shaft-Two unknown
men killed w "A locomotive near Pitts
field Mass----Son of County Register
lN'llutI hilitN ny q III w OOuS-
VILE, y. H~---John Schmidt, arrested in
Hudson n. V, pleads guilty to one muir
der and accuses his wife of killing the
father OF his victim in 1889 so that she
could marry the acoused-James Arm
strong and son drowned in Philadelphia
while bathing In the river-Two work.
men and two sailors of n lghtship sup
posed to have been drowned while on
the way from New Bedford to the vessel
| with large pump-SiX men arrested
in Lake City. S. c.. for completely in the
killing of the postmaster last February
State central committees of the
| Democratic, Populist and silver Repub-
| lican parties in Wyoming agreed upon
fusion for the state and congressional
clection-Terrifc thunder and hail
storms. with cloudbursts, in Hungary
property and crops to the value of 40,
100000 francs having been damaged or
destroyed and many persons and in
Vulnerable animals been killed -
Edward Bender. who in April last tried
to murder his wife, then shot and killed
n man who tried to save her committed
suicide in his cell in New York.
SATURDAY, JULY ..
Roanoke hotel in Roanoke, Va, burned
at a loss of 500, 000-Assignmcnt oi
Seymour Paper company Of Windsor
I Locks. Conn, announced, with liabilities
of $50. 000--Nine negroes drowned II
Plaquemine. La, by the upsetting of Q
skiff--Mailing clerk in the Boston
postofiice arrested for theft ohm Fin
Negan. a labor leader in Chicago, haC
his skull fractured by n member of tn,
Stonecutteys' unlon-Alexander Perry
years old, drowned in the river IL
waterville, Me-Two miners killeC
and five badly hurt BY the fall of eartl
in a mine In Iron Mountain, Mich
Peoples party summons issued for tn
national convention at Cincinnati. eSpt
Figures for May show that our ex
PORTS of manufactured articles continu
to largely exceed the imports-Th,
czarina of Russia said to have shown
signs of poisoning from arsenic admin
istered in coffee-Chicago papers dit
not appear today owing to strike o
stereotypers for 81 a day of seven hour
and other concessions--Vincc
Rosano, bride OF q week killed Ia New
ark by former sutton who committed
suicide by leapng from a fourth-stor
D windov.
, SUNDAY, JULY 3.
Bin presented in the senate for vic
: admiral - Son of Daniel McDaVi'
' drowned in quarry pool in Augusta
r Me-Chief Page Halstead of the hous
/; of representatives nearly killed by
4 fall from bicycle--Scarcity of binde
) twine-Lynn shoemaker attacked b.
), a highwayman and robbed of $+2--On
: of the buildings of the Hazard Powde
/: company in Hazardville, Conn, blow
. up--Standard Oil company secure
5 control of every plant in Montreal
= Fire damaged storage sheds in Bosto
y and the old frigate Minnesota tc the ex
! tent OF Sis, 900 - Manufacturers O
!: patent medicines raised the prices abou
!. : percent on account of the revt nue hi
: Carl Holtond, 16 years old, killed &C
!, ,identally by companion In BrooktielC
. lass, with a revolver supposed to L
impty--Steamer Endsleigh reache
Boston with damaged bows after col
lsion off Cape Sable with an unknow
bark in fog--Reduction in wages
II New Bedford shoe factory--Eleve
deaths in New York from the heat
C. Il. Hines OF Concord said to have de
|; parted with money belonging to an II
o surance company---Boston woma
!; burned fatally by the explosion of a
:, oil stove-W. II. McGregor of Allstoi