Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22

umnS vi uoWS W00N, 81
year.
car--Three young men drowned H.
Moromus, Conn, by the overturning OF
a rowboat in squall-Archbisho
Deal of the Philippines hopes the ISL
ands will not remain Spanish that q
strong western power should intervene
annexatiorists have a majority of II In
the national assembly-Secretary Lon.
to urge that the enlisted force of the
navy be increased to 20. 900 men and $50
boys-Dridgeport detective arrives al
Middleboro to take back the remains of
the murdered girl supposed to be Gract
Perkins; another Observation-Disclosures
States commissioners in Porto Rice
found the Spanish commissioners dis
posed to act promptly and in good faith
and EXPECT to see the island under thc
American flag within three weeks
Lucchcni, the assassin of the Austrian
empress, said to have belonged to
gang OF anarchists who went from
Europe to the United States two years
ago, and who had for their object ~,
Assassination of the crowned head
Chevalier ProskitZ, acting chief consul
OF Austria Hungary in Chicago. lost his
life in Fort Wayne, Ind, being ground
under the wheels of a train-Report
OF financial panic in San Domingo con-
firmed by political refugees-Treasury
receipts declining and customs receipts
improving National banks rapidly alb
sorblns the new percent bonds
Spaips peace commissioners said to be
very able men-Conductor and q few
passengers on a train in Iowa robbed by
three men--Sickness among the troops
Of General Lawton's command in San
tiago increasing. nearly one-sixth of his
force being on the sick list, although the
number of deaths is not great-French
officers in Havana took exceptions to a
play in which Dreyfus was portrayed as
Elnocent and were elected.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 20.
Two hundred thousand dollar fire in
shington-Havana correspondent
OF London paper reports the island on
the verge of anarchy owing to the con
dition Of the insurgents, through the
neglect" of the United States to send
alphabetically 600 lasters on strike
in Brockton-Crowd Of sympathizers
stoned 4 car and the police in Haverhill
where the street railway employees are
on strike against bond requirement
House and barn of A. M. Cook Of
North Deering, Me-, consumed-James
/ Francis of Fall River drowned nea.
/ Taunton--Thomas Holden fell from g
/ fishing steamer in Boothbay Harbor.
I Me, and was drowned-Insane MAJ
/ with a revolver threatened to kill Cor
nelius Vanderbilt in New York IL tbs
millionaire gave him a chance-Con-
/ fagration in Defuniak, Fla. caused a
/ loss of 500 Oo0--A-The sawmill and lum-
Der ward of Hunt. Deemer G. Co, of
| Williamsport, Pa, burned at loss OF
$4,000, the blaze being of incendiary
orlsin--Seven deaths from yellow
fever out Of a total of 1O9 cases in Mis-
sissippi--G. A. Thomas of Turner.
Falls. Mass. killed by a train-Mc-
Dougalls flour mill and other ware
houses in London destroyed by fire. the
damage being estimated at 900
! DR.. Clauss, ~ years of age, killed him
! self in New York-Two colored troop
ers arrested in New York for shootin.
| in a saloon-Hurricane swept south
ern Spain, many persons being killed
and q great many houses being de
stroyed-Robert Doom arrested IL
| Cleveland for attempting to burn
building owned by the Y. NJ. c. A. s,
that it might be replaced by new on,
Escaped prisoner kept 100 men a
bay in the woods In Middletown, n. Y.
and avoided capture-Churchvil w
Va, maniac killed his father, brothe
and himself.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 81.
Twenty fishermen drowned in tn
Baltic sea-Fishing schooner Fannie +
of Lynn lost. and one of the crew
drowned-Five workmen hurt. tw,
fatally. by the breaking of staging il
Providence-Boston child killed by
brewery wagon-Window glass work
in Woodbury. N. j., burned by an in
cendary au loss Of S22, OOO-Isaa
FitZ killed his brother-n-law near Yale
Ok, in quarrel over hogs-Andre,
Eassagne of Williamsburg. N. Y
strangled and his savings of $500 stole
boston boy of burned fatally b.
matches-Five members of a Massa
chusetts regiment branded as liars an
deserters, having left the camp in Mid
dletown, Pa, on spree--One of tri
Of burglars caught trying to rob the post
office in Woodmont, Conn-Expositio
building in Tacoma burned-S. L. Gil
more of Lewiston lineman, shocked t
death by electric current-ExSe Senate
Sherman ill-Chicago musician kille
his wife and himself-Wisconsin su
preme court upholds the law forbidden
the printing of a candidates name in tw
columns on the official ballot and prat
tically knocks out fusion in the futuI
--Quartermasters resent the charge
against their efficiency and will try
show that much trouble was made b
the numerous changes in orders withou
notification TO the quartermasters dc
: partment-Surgeon Major Milo
! Ward, who was in charge of the divisio
hospital at Chickamauga, says man
of the sick starved to death; that ever
man had intestinal troubles, because tn
water was not tit for dog to drink
Eight persons cremated and eight In
jured fatally during an elevator fire
Toledo--Secretary of the Lasters unic
attempts to pour oil on the trouble
waters at Brockton and Is turned dowr
&c shops affected and the strikers stan
= firm-Sergeant of Missouri voluntee
arrested for enforcing a separate coat
law on an electric In Lexington, Ky
Near Augusta, Ok, Rev. Mr.. Broodli
- Methodist preacher fatally injured b
the father of the girl with whom he trie
to elope-Leader of Sioux Falls societ
n and business man wounded MORALLY /
y "a fire captain with whose wife he WI
n found Observation-Disclosures in Ste'
n benville, o., killed by an ex-convict 4
y refusing To give him a drink-Color;