Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-28
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY, JULY 81.

roint, L. l., thrown OUT of work by "A
fre-Senator Prltchard of North Car
DINA nearly drowned in crossing a swol
| len stream in that state, being obliged
| to abandon his horse-Six families
made homeless and two fremen nearly
choked at q fire in Hoboken, N. J-El-
| mer Bewley of Lewiston drowned while
fshlng-Again planning u revolution
in william Ross and son
burned to death at q fire IN a sawmill
in st. Noise. Que-At Heron bay four
Indians arrested for eight murders
| First of big series of strikes ordered
! by the United Brotherhood of Cloak
makers in New York to enforce the pay
| ment of union wages--Ccballos & Co
! of New York awarded the contract to
carry Toral and his men back to Spain
Mob killed a murderer in the Jail
| in Westville Miss, and set fire to that
| institution Milburn- Bass
wagon factory in Chattanooga burned
Explosion of a lamp in Scituate,
| Mass. caused the loss of stable and
contIlts, worth s3100--Charles Sew
erence Of Gill, Mass, aged 40, Killed him
! self--Charles Simpson drowned him
self in Lawrence-Frank Wines of
Jersey City stabbed his wife fatally in
! New York and wounded a son who tried
to save his mother-John Seymour Of
Charlestown. aged rs. burned to death
by falling with lamp-Frank Bald
win and George McGuinncss of Grove
ton, n. H., drowned while bathing
New Holland, o., nearly wiped out by
nre--Two men killed at a railroad
crossing in Haverdegrace, Md--Fire-
bug in Brockton burned a stable and
three storehouses for grain, the aggrc-
gate loss being $50, 900.
FRIDAY, JULY %.
Michael Campbell killed in Brookfeld.
Mass, by an engine-Louis Allen, 10
years, fatally wounded John Betscha,
who discovered him in the act Of rob-
bling a till in Bridgeport market
Four prostrations in Boston from the
heat-Philadelph boy of 9 shocked
to death by an electric wire-Factory
of the Plymouth Rubber company Of
Stoughton, Mass, burned at a loss of
SIX, 000-W. d. Magruder, travelling
salesman in New York billed by jump
ing from a roof-Boston woman ar
rested for trying to kill maiden who
had alienated the affections of the as
sailants husband--Fire did sos. 900
damage at the Atlantic White Lead
company's storehouse in Brooklyn
Crazy servant in Hartford set fire to
the house of a former employer--Ten
thousand dollar fire in New London
Sergeant Molloy shot himself at Fort
Slocum. n. Y-Conductor Fitzgerald
killed in collision at Mackamp. Me
T. II. Lander of Clinton, Mass, killed
near Rumford Junction. Me-, while
asleep on the track-Engineer of a
train held up by masked men in Texas
wounded fatally robbers getting no
booty-Two men assassinated in Bar
louisville, Ky-Leaders of the Phil
lipine insurgents troubled with swelled
heads, and a clash with the Americans
deemed probable-Fifteen buildings in
Coou<<sville, Mich, burned--State-
ment made that the United States will
keen Porto Rico-Havana desires
peace, according to a private secretary
to one of Bancos government-Brit-
ism steamer Newfoundland captured in
trying to run the blockade at Cienfuegos
SATURDAY. JULY go.
]. II. Donnelly, a clerk in the New
Haven postoifice. arrested for stealing
from letters-Defic!t of $50. 900 in the
| accounts OF Il lOdH dSSoCldllOl III NIL
waukee, which has $3.50, 900 of liabilities
and $4,000 of assets-Tornado at
Minot. n. D., demolished Il buildings
and injured several persons-Three
men killed and a hotel destroyed by the
bursting of "A locomotive in Dutch Flat
Cal-Eli Blake killed by an electric in
Hampton. n. ational
church in Medfied damaged $25OO by
lightning-F. l.. Smith. aged SO,
drowned himself in Elmwood a suburb
of Providence-Cronin Shea, aged 49,
, killed by locomotive in Willimantic,
Conn-Twenty-seven breweries in Chi
.. cago affected by deal TO secure control
of them-Contract awarded Holyoke
concern for stamped envelopes an
nulled by the postmaster general, and
; the court appealed to for redress
Hartford man killed by brick dropping
upon his head in New York-Chares
. Smith of Boston arrested in New York
, on a charge of stealing jewelry worth
$1,000 from the sister of his sweetheart
Charles Hart drowned by falling
from a schooner in Ellsworth. Me-
! Nashua man named Reed killed by rob-
beers In Tlacotapam, Santa CRUZ
american named Riegel killed while at
: tempting to ascend Mount Blanc with
out a gude-Russia dropped the idea
of spending 30 1000. 900 roubles on her navy
Curtis Jackson of Wilmington
; wounded the supposed paramour of his
wife, killed the latter and blew out his
brains-Bodies of five infants found
in a lot in Boston, and the police think
wholesale murder ommtted-Cienera
Aguinaldo, head of the Philippine In
surgents, affected by bad attack OF
swelled head, and said to be unwilling
> to subordinate his authority to that OF
, Admiral Dewey-Propositio to es-
tablish uniform postal rate between
the United States and Great Britain
that shall not be greater than the loca
rate in either country being discussed
SUNDAY, JULY "a.
Six fires started in Brockton, only tw,
3 amounting to anything-Hotel in Gal
weston burned at a loss of 5000 600
Chicago banker, serving a long sen
tence for rascality, married in Jail t
his stenographer, upon whom he spen
: most of the stolen money, II was al
, legged at his tral-Two Lewiston mel
: assaulted by colored porters during
e quarrel, a razor and brick being use
y as weapons-Oarsman Ten Eyck 0
: Worcester won the amateur champion
. ship in Philadelphia against three com
petitors-W. 7. Tale ahsconding sec
rotary of an investment association
. In Belleville. Ills, gave himself up afte
( seven months absence--Nationalc con
vention Of radical populists not to b
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