Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-08

queen Of Denmark seriously ill
spanish soldiers in Cuba camoring for
heir money, many not having been paid
or Is months and fully realizing how
hopeless their case is If they return
lone, there to await q day of payment
Forest afire near Plymouth, Mass
Mrs. Bates arrested in Norwell,
Mass, on a charge of killing her dnugh-
ter, aged II years, in 1897, because Of
ealousy-A ccording to advices from
The Philippines, General Rios governor
Of the Fisayas islands, arresting and
shooting suspected persons, including
prominent natives of Manila--Cellu-
loid factory and other buildings in New
ark succumbed to namcs--Lightning
burned several buildings in New Hamr-
shire and Maine. and killed man on
mountain in Vermont--Three boys
drowned in Buffalo while bathing, auG
two men lost in the rapids by the up
setting of their rowboat--Ind.ana prl-
vate broke his back by diving in shallow
water in Jacksonville--Bu in
Terrc Haute unroofed by wind--Dam-
age of $500 caused by fire in Oakland,
Me-John Hcnnessy of Bangor. aged
%, was fatally injured by being struck
by a freight train.
TUESDAY, SEPT I.
Engineer and fireman of a locomotive
injured in McGraw, n. Y, BY jumping
after running into an open switch
C. +. Baker of Meriden, N. H., killed BY
train near Charlemont. Mass.
Prospectors in the Copper river valley
living on supplies furnished by the gov
ernment-Conventio of factory in
spectors in Boston--Houre in Machias-
port, Me, torn to pieces by lightning
bolt, and a woman and child burned
badly in East Machias--Chaplain Nc
Intyre of the Oregon to be courtmar-
tailed for talking too freely-Span
iards interfering with the distribution Of
food intended for suffering Cubans---'
Residences unroofcd, stacks and barns
torn down and many buildings demo!-
ished by storm in st. Joseph, Mo-
Official Gazette of Spain publishes Il
royal decree appointing the president ot
the French republic a knight of the
golden fleece-Bathing pavilion In
Revere, Mass. belonging to the state
burned at loss of $50 oOO--Bride lost
her footing in the Austrian Alps and was
hlIiCu, olli htl lGSD1llu tilItW HIllicGit
after her--Peruvian congress sane
toned the suspension of the writ OF
habeas corpus as the result of disturb
ances--Fireman and brakeman killed
and engineer scalded in a wreck of a
Washington freight trG!n--Bostor
steamer with 200 of the Ninth Massa-
chusetts regiment, most of them sick,
ran ashore at Point Judith during a
fog; mon taken to Newport on n lighter
-IIXpress crashes into u heavily laden
trolley car at Cohoes, n. Y. 1S were
killed and n number Of the injured ar
not expected to lve-M dd,c- of the
road Porulats meet in national con
vcntion at Cincinnati; Ignatius Donnclly
denounccs General Whe eler and Senate;
Butler, ard recommends a reorganiza-
ton of the Populst party--Kansas
City Star gives the text of three more
official kilograms, which it claims
proves Miles was Skaters commander
Hollands young queen formally en-
throned.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. T.
Th!rty-fve cutters in Douglas shoe
factory in Brockton on strike because OF
dislike of a new foreman-James
White, tramp, killed in Fitchburg by
q comotive--Bernard Tracey, Cur
tisvillc, Mass. farmer, gored to dealt
by bull-Arrest of three rascals ir
Boston for q series of thefts from bust.
ness houros- man, arrested or
American soil 10y Canadian officer or
charge of stealint, $4,000, rescued al
the nluzzlc of a revoi>er by an Ameri-
can oGiciol---Wfe Of u Russian prince
comes to this country for evidence thai
her husband committed bigamy-Lo.
well boy of II billed between cars or
his way to school-Strike of Greek
carders in a Lowell fectory-Fifteei
persons hurt, some fatally. in q col
lislon of passenger trains near Taunton
Isaac Allen, aged g., killed himself
in barn in North Att!eboro, Mass
Body OF a telegraph operator found In
Memphis railroad yard with the head
severed-Turks set fire to Gambia, ir
honors and emolumcnts bestowed upor
christians by the British admnistra or:
-ETidse under construction near Corn
wall, Ont, gives way and about 40 work
men killed or rowned----Republican
carry Vermont by a reduced majority
and Democrats make legislative gains
Army officers who have reached
AlSor tell him the inside of the Santiagt
campaign, and tell him the causes for
criticism to be the failure of transpor-
tation, lack of experience of volunteer
staff officers, ignorance of volunteer reg
mental officers, ard lack of generalshil
Fifteen persons were more or less
injured by collision between trains al
Whittenton Junction near Taunton
| through the failure of an engineer &c
note the signal light properly-No vel.
low fever in Santiago and very littl,
| typhoid fever, calentura or dysentery
and General Wood believes he will b;
able u ward uff the usual September
epidemic--Consul McCook, at Dawson
City, reports that no one should go to tho
| Klondike gold fields with less than 5000
and two years supplies; output of golt
has been greatly exaggerated-Pop
ulists in Cincinnati nominate Wharton
Barker of Pennsylvania for president
IND Ignatius Donnely of Minnesota fol
! vice president An unknown schooner
probably a fishing vessel, lost, with all or
board, Off Prince Edward island.
SIDE TRACKED.
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