Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-07


of Wisconsin ordered the withdrawal
of militia from Oshkosh. and local
force will guard the mills---John j.
Plurkett. an attendant on the insane at
Manhattan state hospital. New York,
has gone crazy ard is confined in Belle
Nue--Joseph Stern. aged 80 a chiropo-
dist OF New York. trc5s. to kill himself
in cell by cutting his wrist--Mine
operators and employees of Alabama
agreed in a scale of wages, an advance
of 2}a cents, and strike averted.
MONDAY. JULY 4.
Lawrence Riley, II years, drowned in
Lyndcnville, VT. while bathing
Michael HorriSan, 3S years, killed by
train in Wyoming, Mass----Icehouses in
Gloucester destroyed by fire at loss OF
15,0O0- William Blast, driver of an en-
press wagon killed in Newark by the
explosion of box containing go giant
orpedoes--Girls employed in o hand
kerchcf factory in New York struck
because the thread they bought was ad-
Narccd--Two women arrested in New
York for passing spurious coln----Ex-
Mayor +. II. Darcy OF Salem. ore. and
Lawyers S. r. Richardson and John A.
Carson under arrest for tamperlng with
election returns-Boys who wear their
hair banged are not allowed to graduate
from the schools of Mannheim. Lancas-
ter county, Pa---MarCaret Mccarthy
OF Philadelphia given Ave years for kill
ing her husband with a lighted lamp
New York dealers and jobbers talk
Ing Of start distllery to fight the
whisky trust--Four men who arrived
In Philadelphia from Kingston Jam.
suspected as Spanish spies, deported
from New York--Former chief Of po-
lice Of West Ha2leton. Pa, in custody as
a member of gang accused Of looting
freight cars
TUESDAY. JULY 3.
G. w. Avery of Alton. y. H.. drowned
in Lake Winnipisaukc---Fir in Nc
Pherson. Kan, destroyed the First Ma
tional bank building at a loss of s75.-
OVo-EX-Senator PETER accepts the pro-
hibitionlsts nomination for governor of
kansas-Gustave Ellis son. II years
old, drowned in Pennington, Me
Ber; Bickford Of Fitchburg made sight
less by the discharge Of small cannon
William Rollins of Whitinsville.
Mass, to lose both arms on account of
the bursting OF n cannon--BerCer Bor-
sanson. 80 years, killed by lightning
Whi!c setting at a window in Provi-
dencc--Thrce firemen injured 10y fall.
inS from "A roof in Walthanl-Two
Lawrence boys drowned while bathing
e. w. Minhler, paymaster's clerk at
Newport torpedo station, committed
suicide on account of worry---Twc
rrlvates killed instantly IN Key West
white n salute was being fired, by the
premature discharge of cannon
Steamer Surf city, while on trip from,
Salem Willows, Mass. struck by a
squall and sunk with 20 or 30 persons. il
is thought---Four persons killed and
| 100 injured by the fall Of n bridge in
| Shelby. o., during q ceremony of mar.
riage---From a dozen to 90 lives lost
| by lorna do in Hampton Beach, y. II
WEDNESDAY,. JCLY6
Fire in Laconia. y. H., caused a loss
| aggregatng $4,000 - Wages of tbs
| Northern Pacific Railroad company
employees ncreased--Passenge on a
| train in Colorado relieved of $500 by
rcbbcrs-ConHagra in Bath. which
was caused by a firecracker. caused Z
loss of 500. coc---Henry Landrum killed
by the city marshal in Hulls. Ills. Will,
resisting arrest with revolver
Seventy-fve adults and children taker
from sinking schooner a few mile.
out rom Postor-Three murders. a
probably fatal shooting and n death h,
burning form part OF tho record To-
the ith In st. Louis-Theater in Electr;
park Norway, Me. hurned-Dor.
/ Nelson. years old. burned fatally 1,
oucester--Gaetan Saint Glo,iceste
groc9r, drowned himself because of EN-
! ressmcnt--Jamcs McGulan ru,
over and killed by a car in Redstone
\. H--C. \. Low. aged "a killed il
! Derry y. H., by the discharge Of hi
gun as he was stepping over a wall
George and Alden Meredith of Provi
dence. aged and II. respectively
drowned while bathing-Petcr Phil
lips killed in an engine works in Provi
dence by being dragged about a shaft
ing Michael Barry of Boston sho
AT feekskill' y. y, while trying T.
separate two men who were fightlng-
nohn r. Waters arrested in San Fran
cisco for alleged embezzlement from
Boston instalment house three year
sgo--Dunsair, Cal, almost swept GU
of existence by hame-Brig r. L. T. O
'Lunenburg, n. S.. sunk 30 miles east O
Nantucket by a German steamer
Coast from New Orleans to Mobile de
clared free from yellow fever by the au
thorities-Senator Hoar advocates tn
annexation of Hawaii, but opposes
general policy of territorial acquisitio
by coEquest--Bosto merchants wan
a chance to bid on contracts for furnish
ing supplies TO the army---Madrd ed
itors suppressed accounts of Cervera
surrender because OF disbclief--An
other Carlist attempt TO incite revC
luton in Spain-Ncw England leagu
OF baseball disbands owing to poor re
turns--The Standard oil company
warehouse in Calais, Me-. eontainin
from 300 to 400 barrels of oil. caught fl
and was destroyed-Seven of the Mas
sachusetts soldiers killed in the attac
on Santiago-Haytians have seize
Navassa island. owned by American
and abandoned at the outbreak of III
war.