Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. SEPT. Is.


aged Ga, cut his throat and jumped over
board in a vain attempt to end his exist
ehcc through marital trouble Captain
Wiley and two others drowned in Beau
fort while sailing to the wreck Of the
Bartlett of Thomaston, Me--Norman
Bigelow of Groton, Mass, II years old,
drowned while canoeing--E. A. Ho-
bart, acting station and express agent
in Byfleld, Mass, disappears, leaving
accounts in a tangle it Is alleged
George Mills of Milwaukee crushed to
death in a collision of freight trains In
Freeport, 1ll--Newport News woman
burned to death after lighted lamp had
been hurled at her by another woman
INDIAN village in Washington de-
stroyed by fire-Two young murderers
sawed their way from a Jail in Logan,
w. Va-Chef Of Albany fire depart
ment caught under falling walls, and
had a leg broken-Spanish parliament
prorogued, and peace protocol signed by
the uueen-Englishma found in a
railway station near Havana with a
trunkful of revolvers. whics the author
tiles seized-Sons of Veterans encamp-
ment to be held next year in Detroit
Henry Lester of Norfolk and r. S. Dixon
of Chicago and Arthur Mclaughlin of
Newark drowned while bathirg-As-
sassin of the Austrian empress wrote to
the president of the Swiss confederation.
asking to be tried at Lucerne, where
capial punishment is in force.
FRIDAY, SEPT 49,
Rough rider killed by an electric car
in Chicago-Kansas City book binder,
after taking poison for four days. killed
h,y l. Il.
arm--Fire in Wheeling caused a loss
of 50000---Suicide of Maria Green
| halge of Lawrence. aged IS, by drowning
while insane-Ohio volunteers took
| forcble possession Of a train of sleepers
from which it was sought to dislodge
them in Columbus--Staten Island in.
weston killed while trying dynamite
! gun-W K. Bruce Of Springfield aged
! II, killed while hunting-Boundary
dispute between Chill and Argentina to
| be submitted TO the arbitration of Queen
! Victoria-Boston bark. Lapland, worth
$4,000 on her way home from the west
coast of Africa, wrecked on the island
of st. Vincent during the hurricane that
swept over the Windward islands
White man riddled by "a mob of Viz
ginians for trying to outrage a young
woman-Five 4-story buildings of the
Cudhay Packing company burned in
South Omaha-Women victimized on.
of $4,000 by a goldmakng sharp in
Chicago-Four miners in critical
condition because of an explosion in n
mine near Scranton-Clerk of a real
estate agent in Wiikesbarre, Pa, gagged
and safe robbed of $500
SATURDAY, SEPT. Il.
Henry Miller of Somerville, Mass,
aged II, drowned by the capsizing of d
rowboat-Maine icehouses almost bare
of stock-One bricklayer killed and
three injured in New York by the break
Ing of a scaffold--W. Il. Stickney of
Chicopee, Mass, killed himself in Anr
Harbor, Mich-Members OF band
vice president of the Miners union and
Al strikers arrested in Monongahela, Pa
for riotng-Combineo of gas and gaso-
line stove manufacturers contemplated
Mrs. stephen Atwood. nearly 81
years. nearly killed by an assailant in
Watertown, N. Y, supposed to be farm
hand-Nine of a Gloucester fishins
vessels crew killed or drowned in "A col
lision with a Boston steamer in Vine
yard sound-Anthony Mayfield, col
ored, was hanged in Sussex, Va, for tn,
murder of his wife, and Robert Harris
with whom he had u difficulty about al
alleged indignity to the woman, shootini
5 both--Coal dealers in Frankfort Ky.
indicted for combining to regulate prce
, Two summer cottages on Baker
island, near Salem, burned-Sawmillj
boiler burst in Alabama and killed fou
and hurt the same number-Italian ar
rested in Geneva on suspicion of beinl
/, an accomplish of the assassin of Empires
D Elizabeth-George +. Cheney, banke
!. of Crete. Neb., walked into the elevate
: shaft of a Omaha hotel and killed by tn
4 fall-Phladelph policeman shot tire
y times by a drunken man, into whom h
sent four bullets in an effort TO overcom
!; him after a murderous attack upon
4 woman-Ofiicial of the Corean kin
5 confesses to a share in a plot to poisol
:, his ruler-Five horses burned in fir
!, In Braintree, Mass-Reserv street ca
!. barns of the Montreal Street Railwa,
!. company caught fire, and 6S cars burne
8 One greenhouse, part of another,
n barn and two boiler houses destroyed Il
% New Bedford-Gas selling at so cert
,. a thousand feet in Trenton on accoun
!. of war between companies.
Z SUNDAY, SEPT. Is.
s United States peace commissioner
l. sailed for Paris-Leader of the Philip
!; pine insurgents alleged to have receive
financial backing-Bay state monu
ment on Antietam battlefield dedicate
bingham, Mass, child of 8 browne
by falling from wharf-Stock in Bos
ton grain store damaged $4,000 by fiji
G Loss of 100000 by the destruction
& warehouse in delphia-DestruC
|; ton of the Spanish fleets in Manila an
o Santiago cost about $3.50, 000-Can
!; bridgeport, Mass, girl of killed by a
:, Ice wagon--John Shore, Fall Rive
2 laborer hanged himself--Death of tn
=. Rev. John Hall, leading Presbyterian
5: New York, at his birthplace in Irean
q Two prisoners killed by a fire in II
- lookup in Stafford Springs Conn
General Wheeler renominated as a cor
gresham. and likely to have an unoI
posed election--Case of yellow fever
IS New Orleana---Governme paid 81 AS
70 900 for the use of the American line
is eamships--Serious drought in Ems
E. lard, and scarcity of water becomir
u general-Mayor of Santa Cruz, MeS
~ denounced this country in speech al
n lauded Spain--George Hamilton mo
lie tally wounded William Cook of Sheep
l. head Bay, l.. l., during quarrel abol
r family Enthusiastically boy of
p committed 10 burglaries in three yea
- Burglars gagged railroad watchma
N in Milestone, N. j., and blew open Il
A. safe in the station without getting an,
es thing--Brooklyn boy of ~ killed !