Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-26

sanitary works.
! At Budapest Jan Kubelik. the violinist.
has changed his name to Janos Polgar.
The latter means citizen.
! Germany Is sending three electrical en-
g1neers to the United States TO learn how
to improve telephones.
| The Argentine republic has signed the
international convention for the suppress
sion of the opium traffic.
! Four torpedoes valued at 1850 each,
we're lost during the recent naval target
1 practice off Norfolk.
! Just outside Paris Aviator Legagneux
broke the altitude record In a monopiane
| ascension Of 3 1-2 miles.
DR.. William Il. Hudson, superintendent
| Of the Washington bathing beach. favors
| tights for women bathers.
| A Milan paper prints the details Of a
| medically authenticated case Of woman
81 years old cutting two teeth.
On behalf Of King George, Prince Ar.
thur of Connaught invested the Emperor
Of Japan with the insignia Of the Garter.
A military train struck a COW near IA
catecas. Mexico, derailing the engine and
eight cars. and killing II soldiers and In
Turing 40.
| Mrs. Grant, widow Of General Frederick
u. Grant, has purchased a house in WASH
ington and will make her winter home
there.
! When the Panama canal is completed
the total amount Of cement used will have
| been two billion two hundred million
pounds at a cost Of $6.5Oo,OOO.
! The British army manoeuvres were sud-
denly abandoned. with no explanation.
out a general impression that they have
| been a mudde.
| Mexico has extended the period for the
free entry of American corn to Decem-
Der 80, due to the practical failure Of its
| cwn corn crop.
! The Grand Trunk will inaugurate a
steamship service between New York and
I Providence on May /, next.
The consumption Of beer In the United
states since 1870 has increased 100 per
cent, against a 800 per cent. increase in
population.
Brownlee s. Purdy, Pittsburg locomotive
| engineer. who married Flora F.. McMur-
ray, a wealthy Pittsburg heiress names
| nine correspondents in suit for divorce
he has brought against her.
The Pope has conferred the order OF
knight Of ST. Gregory upon Joseph Frey
Of New York. who is president of the Ger
man Catholic Central Verein.
Rome says that the Pope is expected
to create five new cardinals at the
November consstory. including an
American and possibly South Amer
lean.
| Judge Pike at Portsmouth. N. H., gave
time for further study to an applicant
for citizenship who had never heard OF
George Washington or Governor Bass.
| After maintaining absolute silence nj
Sacramento. Cal, for two years. Charles
| Carson, sentenced to death Friday. re-
mained silent when informed he had been
/, | reprieved until November S.
At the mobilization of the Atlantic
; | fleet in the North river. New York
next month. l7 ships of all classes with
. of
take part.
The New Equitable Life building In
New York will be plain business struc.
ture in the shape of the letter H
without a tower. 1t will require 5000
tons Of steel.
: Although there were only l.ll9,O96, OK
eggs in cold storage at this time las,
year. there are now 1.173. 1913 800, an in.
crease of some 100000.
One man was killed and three ser
iously injured when a breechblock wa.
blown out on the battleship King Ed
, ward VII. cruising off the west coast OF
Scotland.
: investment George Moore of London
novelist and author of Modern Paint
; Ing" replied: I'm 80 years time Their,
will be no art"
, Motion pictures as part of religious
rvice for the regular army soldiers
Fort Mcpherson Atlanta. will be con
tinued during the winter months. havin,
proved very popular during the sum
l mer.
a An order reducing the size OF United
D States currency and national bank note
i by one-third and completely revolutioniz
0 Ing their designs will be issued by Score
Il tary MacVeagh within a few weeks.
Robert o. Bailey, assistant secretar,
OF the treasury, says that banks and de
" lpartment stores will undoubtedly adop
y the governments money-wa shing machine
n Government laundries will be In full
}. operation by January l.
IL
Postma ster-General Hitchcock Is pre-
:. pairing to establish a limited free servic
n at postoffices of the second and third
u class Experiments will effect deliveries +
II nearly 100000 people now Obliged to cal
for their mail.
l. President Taft's friends at republican