Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-01-18
NEWS TOLD I'm BRIEF

During 1911 Galveston exported o.
ls6Sso feet OF lumber. an increase of
7.Ht9.lSs feet over 1910.
The expenses of receivership and re-
organization OF the Metropolitan street
railway system of New York will
amount 20 about $l.500oHO.
In the packers trial n Chicago Judge
Carpenter has granted government per-
mission to examine the books of Morris
Co. Out of court.
On the prospective strike of English
coal miners the price of coal has been
advanced 10 to ST cents ton by the
London coal exchange
4 jury at New York has awarded
John S. Jones. railroad promoter. and
| others, s6c' l5a in suit against George J.
Gould, for having been frozen ont OF
the Little Kanawha syndicate.
4 bin has been offered in the House
permitting national banks TO loan for
not over Il months in any one case.
funds not to exceed % per cent of The
total capital and surplus of any bank.
4 cot on picking machine. invented by
Professor Defoach of the Georgia agri-
| cultural experiment station has picked
Gan pounds of seed cotton an hour under
ordinary field conditions
A new overland wireless record has
been made. Messages We're sent last
week from the navy yard at Norfolk
to Mare island yard. San Francisco, a
distance Of 300 miles.
Governor Carroll of Iowa proposes
to save to agriculture 100000 acres of
land. valued al s3O,O00.oo0. by narrow
ins country roads from CT to 10 feet
Texas was visited Friday ny the
coolest weather in 20 years with tenn
peratures as low as 10 below. Snow
fell at Galveston for the FIRST time In
10 years.
| The Pacific fleet Is NJ Hawaii and VIII
remain there until she situation in China
|
| improves.
Friends Of Speaker Clark are active in
trying to capture the Kansas delegation
| TO the Baltimore convention.
Portland. Ore. will dredgc "A 3o-foo.
channel to the sea in order to accommo-
date ships from the Panama canal.
Governors Wilson and Harmon will
have headquarters at the same hotel In
Baltimore during the democratic national
convention.
Representative Donahue of Pennsyl'
vania has introduced a bill In the House
providing that after January l. 1914. rail-
roads shall use only vestibuled steel cars
in interstate traffic.
A Paris story intimates that Rober'
Bacon has a leaning toward journalism
and may some day purchase a newspaper
Announcement of the candidacy Of Sen
ator Cummins OF Iowa for the republican
presidential nomination is rumored.
FRANK n. Mtneey ueclaTeS MS HNe
newspapers will support Roosevelt for tn
presidency.
Governor Foss II being doomed In New
York for the presidential nomination
On account Of the outbreak Of spina
meningitis in Texas the National Associa
ton OF Ice Cream Manufacturers ha
: changed Its meeting place from Dala
! to Chicago for January II to 90
. George II. Rimbach and Henri.
Goodwin. proprietors OF the Crawfor'
house. have nled a petition In bank
ruptey with total liabilities Of ss6,2e
and assets OF $1,000.
. bill will be introduced in tn
+ Massachusetts, Legislature for q tunne
r from Haymarket square to Chelse
I square to contain two sets OF rails,
roadway for vehicles and walk for pa
, sons on foot. the ccIt to he appor