Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-29
NEWS TOLD TN BRIEF

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concerning the alleged cancer cure dis
covery Of Or. CASTOR Odn.
Official figures show that five-sixths
of the Panama canal had been com
pleted August /.
On the English railways during 1911
only one passenger was killed on an
average of every N,70oOo0 journeys
King George has conferred The Order
of the Garter on the new Emperor or
Japan.
Heavy rains continue in England.
Seventeen days in August have been
wet. Crops have been ruined
President Taft has been invited to at
tend the 18th anniversary of the found
ing of Mount Holyoke College October g.
Wilbur Glen Voliva has issued orders
that open work stockings and low neck
gowns must be tabooed in Zion city
San Francisco is to have a municipal
opera house, the first of It's kind 10 this
country, as part Of it's new 100000 civic
center.
Directors of the Suez canal deny any
contemplated rate war because of the
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the Panama canal
A French inventor has perfected an
apparatus which enables a person cloth
cd in ordinary attire to walk under
water
| In 1910 there were in United states %.
1864 males of militia age, compared
with 1s,1s21o2 in 1900.
| a new shorthand record has been
made by New York supreme court re-
porter at rate Of 21s words a minute.
| The stock of Tiffany & Co. is worth
$500 a share according to valuation
fixed for the stock in settling the es-
tate of Mrs. Rehccca =. Reed.
| President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard
denies the New York World interview
| in which hc was quoted as critcising
/ Roosevelt and Jane adams.
| Ex-Governor Douglass Of Massachus-
cts denies that he is a candidate for
the United States Senate. and states
| he rot 70,
good.
Five new steamships. totalling APP
proximately 10000 tons. will be added to
the fleet of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet company during the next year
and "A half.
The Cunard line has inaugurated or
the Lusitania a daily wireless newspaper
of 10 pages. Hitherto transatlantic
news service has consisted of bulletins
only.
The negro vote in States In which race
Is not disfranchised numbers 10, l03 Ir
j. of these States margin separating re-
| publican and democratic votes Is so small
that negro es hold the balance of power.
Rapid transit lines in London for the
six months to June 20 carried a tota
! of 900 passengers with a gross In
come of e2,of6,7 1872.
| The cranberry crop this season is esti-
mated ct i7ool1 barrels of which 800. IN
barrels will come from Cape Cod. Thi:
estimate is 2i.o00 barrels more than las,
year.
Immigration to Canada from the Uni
ted States for the first three months
of the fiscal year totalled 53,3iS, com
pared with 1882 for the correspondent.
period year ago
The port of Galveston is experiencing
the greatest rush of grain shipments ir
its history. European dealers In the last
two weeks have ordered 100000 bushels
| of wheat from Texas
The Japanese building at the Panama
Pacific exposition will cost $1,000, 600. vii
occLpy four acres with It's grounds and
will be permanent gift to the people
of the United States.
The estates Of f. II. Hartman. Johr
Jacob Astor, lsador Straus, Benjamin
Gugeenheim and Edwin Hawley will re-
suit In the collection of n 100000 in
heritance tax by New York State.
The Use OF arsenic in the United State
Iis increasing. More than 100000 pound
lwere imported last year and the United
States production was 3,l32 tons, or more
than double the quantity of preceding
year. arsenic Is largely n by-product o
smelling operations. and the output Il
by far the largest ever recorded in tn
United States
Baron Hengelmuller Austrian am
bassador to the United states, con
firms the report that when he sail!
for Europe Thursday 1t will be t.
take leave OF tho diplomatic service.
Minor C. Keith, vice president or TIT
United Fruit company and presiden
of the International Railways compan,
OF Central America, states that hi
railroad has acquired possession o
the entire railroad system of Contra
America and plans to spend S40,00O.00'
to connect various links into one unit
AT Lloyds the chances of Wilson
being elected president are considered