Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-12-21

Tibet has started a movement for in |
dependence by driving out the Chinese |
imperial troops
Premier Asqulth told delegation of SUI
fragists that votes for women would be
u disastrous mistake.
Ottawa says 2S1,S9s immigrants entered
! rnnada during the first eight months
! Of the current fiscal year
The United states government sold in
| sea for $685..
The historic desk on which Nine.
! Jumel wrote her love letters to Aaron
Burr has been found in New York.
The Indians of the United States num-
Der $4,000 as compared with 10000 in
1900 and 243nr in 1880
Senator Hitchcock has introduced n bill
requiring all passenger vessels to carry
two wireless operators.
London nov hears that Prince Arthur
81 tonnauEht VIII he appointed ViCcroy
of India instead Of viceroy OF Ireland.
st. Petersburg says tho Russian secret
police Is to be thoroughly reorganized
as result of the murder of NJ. Stolypin.
The German 1872 budget proposes en-
penditures of l2,TD,Oo); increase. S., 900, =
COO
The tariff boards report on the cotton
industry will 70 to the President after the
Christmas holidays
Bids will be taken at Washington jan
uary for two battle ships requiring
about 1900 tons Of plates.
The Puget sound salmon pack for 1911
established a new record, 1,G25.cO cases,
VALUED at sS.l25.ooo.
Senator smoot of Utah is preparing a
wool revision bill based on amount of
washed wool in the raw product.
Franz Lehar has made $4,000. from his
operas in the past decade. including s.,
. 10000 from The Merry Widow"
A meteor three feet in diameter fell al
I.ucedale, Miss, and caused much excite
ment among the negroes
The State insane hospital at Morri.
Plains. n. j., with accommodations FOL
lG00 patients. is housing $3.50.
| John Texas.
tured rattlesnake five feet long with ;
horn an.inch long on its head.
President Gunnison of. 81. Lawrenc
university announces that the 10000
endowment fund for the" university
e complete. '''
Jack Johnson. negro pugilist. has can
= celled all his engagements in Englan
, and gone to Paris. He is said to b
s financially embarrassed.
V The Rev DR.. T. Calvin NcClelland ha
n resigned as pastor of the Brooklyn Men
!, orial Presbyterian Church to become
/. lawyer.
= Governor Tener of Pennsylvania ha
II asked the State police to suppress NOV
J. ing pictures Of alleged Italian atrocitit
l. in the war In Tripoli.
l. United States is the largest indlvidu
producer of lead in the world. with
j. total of 2227 out of the worlds outpl
" OF l,21l All short tong.
It At the army aviation camp at Atlant
IS Ge. Lieut.. Henry N. Arnold demonstra
z ed that flight in rain storm ls pc
l. sible.
i Elmer +. Johnson, who IS years az
IT defaulted as receiver of the federal lar
n office at Del Notre, Colo has surrender'
It at Omaha,
SO Boston says the United Shoe Machi
lc cry Shoe company will submit to Il
T. department of justice and agree to di
D. solve the alleged trust
n United states inspectors in the lsc
st year to June 80 last examined more thi
is 5o"n.Nn animals and condemned 1905
ly as unfit for food consumption.
Italy has appropriated s25,OOo,Oo0 to car
on the war with Turkey until the end
=. 1911 with this appropriation spent, 4
war will have cost Italy 100000
- The Canadian Pacific railway Is to raj
s45, OOo.o 600 for terminal Improvement, al
" for building hotels along its lines fro
80 the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Capt Daniel Delehanty, T. S n, I
~ tired veteran of the Spanish War. h
II, been black -balled by the Military Ord
:, of the Loyal Legion.
The directors of the San Francisco g
position have decided to erect n memoir
tower $50 feet high at cost of $4,000
re 1t will be 3l6 feet higher than the Elf
st tower,
n Miss Mary lands made face at a
en- other girl in factory at York, Pa. d
a locating her jaw and giving surgeon
ty Job in getting it back into place
ny DIR. William Furness of Wellington
ed Pa. saws ne has educated two Afric
he chimpanzees to such a point that tn
de can talk and have remarkable reasoni
n. powers.
new prison for women 10 house I
500 female prisoners in various fedel
err prisons throughout the country Is bel
1. built at Fort Leavenworth. Kans.
FOR
,as The British government is to make
he experiment of transmitting night lett,
n, within the United Kingdom on the Unit