Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-29
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. SEPT. %.

aged 90 shot himself dead in Brooklyn
owing to Ill health--Home Market club
OF Massachusetts opposes free trade with
Canada-Eighty persons drowned Ivy
n food in Herscra, Spain--Esthcr Webb
OF Germantown, Pa, thrown from a car
rage in Guilford, n H.. and killed.
Bridgeport murder mystery being rapid
ly solved; body identified as Emma
Gills of Southington, and crime traced
to Stratford her admrer, Walter c.
Foster, and another young man ar
rested-Church at Auderried, Pa,
SLOWLY sinking into coal minc--Ten
thousand dollar breach of promise suit
in Providence settled by marriage of
the parties-Patrick Ford of Shell
bIna, Mo-, who was a horscshoer in San
tiago, suffocated in Boston hotel.
FRIDAY. SEPT. 90.
Frederick Moore killed in Providence
by an electric carr. T.. Caswcll. as
sfstant purser of the Fail River line
accused of embezzling sl029---D. o.
Taylor of Auburn, VT, arrested in Bos-
ton for windlng-Thirty-si of the
crew Of a French vessel went down when
it foundered--Mrs. McDougal of Bos-
ton. 81 years old. killed by an electric
Two men killed in Pittsburg by the
explosion of a bomb while reproducing
the battle of Manla-James ONeill
killed Ella Wilson of Brooklyn. widow,
and hmself--Two men mangled in
Glenmont, n. Y, by an explosion Of
dynamite--Doherty kiln in Rockland,
Me, was destroyed by fire at q loss of
;iOOO-Colored longshoreman killed in
Galveston by a policeman in an attack
the emperor Of China resigned his power
to the dowager empress, who has or
dered the ministers to deliver to her their
official reports--Presdent Mckinley
decides that the troops not needed for
active duty in the various islands shall
be cared for in clean, we'll policcd bar
racks in home cities--Anarchstic slay-
or of Empress of Austria will be con-
fined in prison and not allowed to utter
word-Wiliam Shanahan under ar
rest in Providence, charged with stab
bling William Lowery Of Chelsea
/ Two Boston men drowned while fish
ing-More than 20 men come from
Dawson City to iSeattle, all glad to reach
fzation--Ctarkes burg w. Va, man
druggcd and killed to prevent him from
attending a trial as a witness-Seven-
teen cars telesroped in Bordertown, n.
J---Dover, Del, woman dead at the
age OF 1876.
SATURDAY, SEPT. "a.
Trouble caused Ralph Blake OF Easton,
N. Y, to take poison-E. H. Hanks,
money order clerk in the postofflce in
Augusta, Me-, arrested Cor embezzling
Sl343--Man killed and another injured
fatally in train wreck in Wisconsin,
The body Of Dorothy NJ. Triggs of Bos-
ton. 20 years Of age, n summer boarder
In Southport, Me, was found floating in
the watcr-Twelve hundred miners
| on strike in Bridgeport. O-Boston
child killed by escaping gas-Thirty
buildings In Panama burned-Loss
OF s15O0OO,O 900 by fire in Edgemont S.
D-Castillo Republican leader in
Spain. received letter dated at London
threatening that he will be the next vic
| tim of the archists-General Law
ton reports 1902 on his sick list in San
tiago. 10 new cases, 15S returned to duty
Tho Bank of Spain declines to lend
the government any more money until
November without guarantees--Mt.
Nesuvius in q terrible eruption: eight
craters at work. and two rivers of molten
lava pouring out-Arrest of two young
men of Southington. Conn, in connec-
ton with the Yellow Mil pond mystery:
police have strong evidence that one of
them paid expenses OF operation on Miss
Emma Gill--Blacks frias Dis assert
they have proof that Roosevelt is in
eligible for the New York governorshlp.
as he swore he was resident Of Wash
ington, D. c.. early in the year-Eleven
miners killed in Pennsylvania by an ex-
plosion-"Buifalo Bill" very sick in
Kansas City--Governor of Ohio and
Indiana say they will not allow the
Corbett Mccoy fight in their states
/ Engineer and brakeman killed in Lima,
O-Dcath penalty to be inflicted on a
Richmond negro for rape on two girls
La Crosse Wis. man killed n wom-
an, her child and himself on an island.
SUNDAY, SEPT. %.
Fire in a fve-story building in Boston
caused damage of s25, 000-Secretar
Alger shifts the responsibility for errors
upon officers in the camps-Lockland.
O., man, while insane. shot his partner
and brotherinlaw in the office of their
| paper factory-Foreman OF a farm in
South Sudbury, Mass, shot himself dead
aged 70, cut his throat because of de-
pondency-Chicago policeman killed
by a burglar whom he caught ransack-
Ing n house-Bridges swept away,
roads destroyed and crops ruined by a
! cloudburst in Indana-Carnegi COM
pany to make big guns in Homestead,
/ Pa-Police assert that arrest of DR..
Nancy Guiford is all that is needed to
! clear up the Bridgeport murder--War
inquiry board rganized-Safe of the
| Bethel, Me, bank blown open. but moth
ing stolen-Ohicers who won distinc-
ton in Santiago promoted to brigadiers
by order Of the resdent--Dplomati
ties between Italy and Colombia severed
| J. A. Lynch. q Boston butcher drank
muriatic acid--Fire in Clinton. Mass,
at a loss of $40, 000-Captain of yacht
killed in Sansalito. Cal, by thieves who
| had plundered the ockers---Lightning
strikes a house in Concord, y. H., and
| tears 1t nearly to pieces-Millstone N.
j., constable accused of burglary
Wagon pole pierced Chicago physician
who was riding on an electric car
Brooklyn man killed by a caven-
New York woman stole $4,000 worth of
diamonds and 5000 in cash--Man's
head, with marks of violence, found
floating in the bay in Mariners harbor
l.. I-Virginia negro killed a consta-
ble---Mrs. John Dunn. 70 years, killed
by falling downstairs in Great Barring
ton, Mass-Carence Anderson auffo-
Gated while connecting a service pipe
with a gas main in Fall River.
MONT SEPT. &c.
| over 40 anarc. &c suspects arrested
! In Vienna-Goyernor of Tennessee very