Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-12
NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.

Lloyd's rates on Wilson's election
are now practically prohrbitive.
The Iowa corn crop promises to be
the greatest in the history of the
State.
Chauncey NJ Depew, in London.
says: The Vermont election makes it
look like Wilson,"
Automobile fatalities IN streets of
New York city have increased almost
100 per cent. in eight months of this
year
The war department has received news
of another large break in the Panama
canal at the Culebra cut, the amount of
| drift being over 10000 tons of earth
| American capital invested in Brazil has
increased 4,527 per cent. since 1870 while
total increase in all foreign capital dur
Ing the interval was Asa per cent.
1t has been definitely agreed that
Governor Wilson will invade at least
| paign.
A London special says that England
expects to export gol1 soon as the
American demand Is becoming insist
| ent.
Sir William Van Horn has been
elected president of Grand Falls Pow
err company. which will establish NJ
Grand Falls. n. b.. paper and pulp
mill to cost s7,5OO,OoO.
Acting Chairman McAdoo of the demo-
cratic national committee announces
that democrats will begin September 10
to publish sources of campaign contri-
buttons.
| method Of hurrying trees to their Pc
Rod of fruiting has been discovered at
government hot houses at Washington.
The new method, which IS called 'incarch-
ing" condenses eight years OF natural
growth into two.
| A Paris cabo states that Paris Is enjoy
ing the greatest countrywide, all embrac-
ing boom in years. The general public is in
the market with a vengeance. The ad-
vance In prices began in coal shares and
Is now spreading to stocks OF all classes.
Since January l. American railroads
| have ordered 10000 tons of rails. 153-
7g1 cars and 1880 locomotives. Equip
| ment orders call for consumption of
4335,0OO tons of steel.
More than 70 per cent. of available
natural gas In Oklahoma has been used
up and there are indications that some
Of the large gas companies now pipina,
gas out of the State will be short this
winter.
Health officers at the New York quar-
antine station have been ordered to
make a close inspection of all vessels
from southern Italy and Sicily because
of an outbreak OF cholera in the Island
of Sardinia.
Banker David r. Forgen OF Chicago
says: within the last few weeks
there has been further shifting of
investments by the banks, and demand
for money for mercantile sources has
enlarged to such an extent as to force
many banking institutions TO convert
securities into cash. This Is altogether
a healthful condition of affairs"
Kansas republican leaders contemplate
movement to Wilson In order to wrec,
possible Roosevelt success under Governor
Stubbs The upheaval would result II
80 900 republican votes for Wilson.
New York Dock Commissioner Tomkins
speaking before the Atlantic deeper
waterways convention. said: New Yorl
is the greatest but least progressive o.
all the seaports of the world"
All motor boat records of speed were
smashed off Huntington. l.. l.. when ;
20 foot hydroplane called Tech, Jr., owned
lby Col. T. Coleman Du Pont, covered &
nautical mile or knot. in minute II l.
seconds. which figures at the rate q
GOT knots or $50 statute miles per hour
or close to a mile minute, The boa
IL fltted with an eight-cylinder Sterlint
motor. OF 100 horsepower.
President Ripley OF the Atchsion says
Az
mand for labor exceeds the supply
Effects of 1907 panic are entirely dissipated
Railroads may prove inadequate for NOV
ing of the big crop not so much becaus
of car shortage but rather because o
insufficient terminal facilities and storag
capacity"
Director Roberts Of the mint says
1T In a humiliating record for us ant
convincing proof of the inferiorit,
/ OF our reserve system that the Banl
of England, carrying reserve OF onl,
/ s15. OOO. 900 for all the bank credits o
England. was able to furnish relief Il
the United states Gin the panic o.
1900 which held reserve of ove'
$500, OoO, 900 in government vaults. an'
more than that scattered In Its banks
This is the superiority of consolidat
ed banking reserve over a government
reserve which belongs to nobody II
lparticular plus banking reserves
(which the banks dare not use."