Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-06-13
NEWS TOLD in BRIEF.

before leaving for Denver or on the way.
NEWS TOLD in BRIEF.
The Columbia University graduating
class numbered 427.
The old English convic, ship Success
is due in New York July /.
Iienry l.. Wilson the American ambas-
sador, thinks that the backbone of the
Mexican revolution is broken.
TO carry out "city beautiful" projects.
70 cities in the United States have plans
calling for slOo,cooNV expenditures.
The Titanic investigation by the Senate
cost $500. j. Bruce Ismay was allowed
sj3 for mileage and witness fees.
After having spent more than two years
In dry dock, the battleship Kentucky has
been put IN commission at Norfolk.
The Standard Oil company of New
from sl5O00.0oO to $50. 600.
The old Joss house of New Works
Chinatown is to be torn down and a
meeting hall will he erected on its site.
While cleaning a fish at Philadelphia,
Howard f. Busby found diamond ring
valued at $3.50 securely caught In the
IIlls.
The will OF the late Francis +. Furral
of New York leaves 100000 to Columbia
University for the construction of dormi-
tories.
The bureau of insular affairs has just
completed the selection OF over 100 Ameri-
can teachers for service in the Philippine
islands.
Peter Marajitch has had such trouble
in trying to fnd wife that he has asked
the Servian Parliament to look for one
for him.
Sarah Bernhardt has accomplished the
feat OF going TO London, giving n per-
Torrance and returning to Paris the same
day
| The country along Long Island sound
| is suffering from an invasion of measur-
Inc worms and the residents are exertng
every effort - save their trees.
| Later returns indicate that Senator
Kenyon's majority over Lafayette Young
for the republican nomination for United
States senator III Iowa will he more than
20 000
| Dogs are so scarce in Philadelphia that
the research department of the Uni
versity Of PENNSYLVANIA Is having diff
hculty in securing CANNES for vivlsec-
ton purposes.
| Experiments In wireless telephony are
in progress at Toulon, France. where the
"Marseillaise" is said to have been clear
~ transmitted for a distance Of 40
miles.
Governor Foss OF Massachusetts will
build in Boston a family hotel that Will
| have loo apartments. theatre, garage and
restaurant. and will be the largest of its
kind in New England.
| The Portuguese government has decided
To sell the private property of the former
royal house to liquidate the total of &c.
100000 advanced by the government To the
royal family.
The salary of Charles u. Iilles. secre.
tary to the President. reduced from $3.50
to 81, 0Oo by the House. has been restored
to the original amount by the Senate.
At Rastatt. Germany. Staff Surgeon
Rruenng, who on May l of this yeai
shot and killed Lieutenant Springer in
revolver duel. was sentenced to two years
imprisonment.
Mrs Francis NJ. Arnold, mother of Dor
othv Arnold has returned to New Yorl
from town In the Black Forest OF Ger
many. She was dressed in deep mourning
and was very nervous,
Lepers employed In the produce garden
Of the leper hospital at Kameyana, Japan
who receive pocket money of half a cen
a day instead of wages have struck for
cent a day allowance.
stephen r. Puck. son of the late Charlie.
W Buck. who founded and amassed
fortune through the Buck Stove n Rang
company, has been adjudged insane AT st
Louis and taken to a santarium.
President Taft has spent his $4,000 an
nual allowance for travelling expenses
and has appealed to Congress for NOR
money He claims that when Roosevelt
went out of office ar &"O over-draft ex
listed, which he has been unable to max