Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-06

sels-Lcague season nearing the end;
Boston and Baltimore coming down the
stretch under n hard drive and making
pretty race for championship honorr
champions slightly in tho lead, but re
suit is by no means assurcd--Sawyc
woolcn mills corporation of Dover and
e. ~. e ]. Sawyer Of New York make
an ignmcnt-William Reerdon OF
South Boston drank carbol!c acid un-
knowingly and died in great agony
In SPITE OF efforts to check disease, yell
low fever situation in Jackson, Miss,
becomes manufacturers party
If men assasslnate another party out to
collect damages for murder Eight
thousand people present at a peace
jubilee in MISUNDERSTANDING
man held up by three negroes and
robbed-Captaln John NJ. Life of the
Seventh Ohio volunteers filed suit
against Rose Lee Burch, daughter of
Lieutenant Burch Of the same regi-
ment, for $1,000, chorging false and ma
!icious lbcl---Monthly statement OF the
public debt shows an Increase for the
month Of S54, COS, 4S8-Arrangc mcnts
being made to bring to this country for
lntermcnt the bodies of all the soldiers
of the American army who died in Cuba,
Porto Rico or the Philippines, congress
having made an appropriation of $780,
900 for this purpose-The Richard Hill
of Thomaston, Me-, cut to the waters
edge by Fall River steamer during n
fog--Tcn horses burned in a stable
fire in Taunton--Rev. Mr.. Perrin and
wife Of Boston nearly killed by illumin
ating Eas---Paris dispatch says peace
commission may break up without ac-
completing anything, as Sagasta has
ordered Spanish commissioners not to
yield on question Of Philppines-.Rcv
j. w. Shoemaker, pastor OF the First
NJ. j.. church at Scottsboro, Ala. and
president of the Tri-Statc Normal uni
vcrsity of that place, md his son arrest
ed on the charge of mailing letters with
postage stamps that had been cancelled
TUESDAY, OCT. L.
William Pagan, a ball player, at
tempted to kill his wife in Camden, N.
j., during a drunken delirlum--Box
containing money and securities amount
| ing to $4,000 stolen from the woodshcd
OF an aged resident OF Stevens Point
Wis-Deaf and dumb boy killed by ar
electric In Newport-H. j. McDermott,
| 20 years, drank poison In New Haven
| Wheat crop of 1898 figured at 1922,
ISL 900 bushels against CTS, 900, 900 in 1891,
! largest previous crop-Window Gle Gamer
In Boston killed by q fall-Miners'
strike in Ohio settled in favor of the
workmen-Melrose Mass, wants to
become a city-G. W. Rook, an en-
| gineer. killed in Bath by falling into the
hold Of his steamer-John Green Of
Hudson, N. H., broke his spine by fall
Number OF persons burned out in
Wisconsin estimated at 1O0o-More
troops going to Porto Rico-Henry
George declines the New York silvcritcs'
nomination for governor-Boston tea
store robbed of $1,000 worth OF silver
ware during alterations-Bath iror
works awarded the contract to build one
Of the monitors, of which four were
awarded-Lenox girl kisses Chauncey
NJ. Depew at fair in that place
Chaplain Mcintyre Of the Oregon says
he was mentally irresponsible for his at
tack on Sampson ard Evans-War-
rants issued in Philadelphia for the ar
rest Of Senator Quay and three others,
on the charge of conspiracy to unlaw-
fully use tho states money--Probable
murder OF Cyrus George of Ledyard,
Conn, a negro, on the road from Mystic
| Spanish commissioners seemingly
| unllinching in their no-surrender atti-
| tude respecting the Phi!ippin ,s--Ohio
soldier died OF a covered artery by the
slipping OF a knife he was sharpening on
la wheel In Mlddletown. Pa-Mrs
Clotier of s.. SEVERN. Que, cut the
throat5 of her four children during an
attacl; of insanity.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5.
Richard Dickerson. &C years. killed
Blanche Winship, a divorced woman, in
Cleveland for not requiting his affec-
tons. and committed sulcidc-Annie
Stevenson drowned in Portlard-Ed-
ward Conway OF Lewiston injured fatallj
by a locomotive in Braintree, Mass
Spanish ministry surprised, It Is said
at the alleged demands put forth by the
American commissioners for the cessior
of all the hlippines-General Wheel
or tcstifles before tho war investigation
board, In the main in favor of Shafte:
and Algor-Merritt presents his anc
Dcwey's views on the Philippines TO The
American commissioners; Genera
Saenz, Spanish commissioner, says Eu
ropes troubles begin when peace treaty
Is signed--Four masted Sarah e. Pal
mer wrecked on South Carolina coast
and Captain Whittier Of Somerville
Mass, Mate Briggs of Taunton and sis
other men drowned--Fourteen OF tn
crew OF the Edith M. McGinHes. VIII,
strayed in fog. picked up on the bank
yellow fever situation in Mckee
growing worse-George ]. Gould Wi
have to pay New York s132, 900 tax @
bequcst of 900 to him by his ia
ther--Mlchael Brown killed in Gar
diner. Me, by falling through a scuttl,
Brooklyn girl took poison becaus,
her mother would not let her go to
theatre with a young man-Fearei
that Labrador steamer is lost with 81
persons-Ira Hall. aged SO. killed a
punishable, Mass, by being thrown from
wagcn-J. B. Connors of Evansville
Ind, killed his wife and her paramou
Three men suffocated in a well II
Somerset, Kan. after an explosion o.
dynamite in the bottom-Spain t
maintain its war tax.