Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05

The TWO largest buildings in New York !
stand upon Decent insurance policies and
5-and-lO-cent stores.
Naval observatory time will he flash
cd hereafter along the cost and out to
sea by wireless station.
A French inventor has placed rub
her roller in "A cigarette paper holder
to push out single sheet at time.
Natural gas forced through mains rs
miles long will be available for Industrial
Los Angeles, January l. 1913.
\ bill providing that all public in
situations in Indiana, including all in
situations in any way supported by taxa
ton. shall burn only coal mined by
eight-hour labor. probably VIII be intro
duced at the 1913 session Of the Legs
lature.
The United States district attorney at
Washington has Quashed indictments
against the American Ice company and
officials of that concern. This is part OF
the agreement reached by the company
whereby certain contracts will he abro-
gated and other changes made in its
methods OF doing business.
| The London special saws rnschevous
reports cabled TO England concerning
| impending failure of American and
Canadian crops are being treated with
scorn on the London Corn Exchange.
The whole British grain trade. on CON
| DO;
in the United States and Canada
The directors of the port o. Boston
| have engaged Edwin J. Clnpp to inves-
tlgate and report on the traffic situation
Of Boston. Mr.. Clapp is an authority on
foreign traffic conditions. His two books
The Navisable Rhine and THE Port
of Hamburg are recognized as standard
| authority
Senator Penrose Will issue an impor-
tant statement within week regarding
the 1904 campaign contributions. Political
skeletons will be a big feature Of the i'm
pending presidential campaign. Senator
| Penrose says: II have n case as clean
as hounds tooth am going to call
every bluff they make. and my state
ment will startle the country"
President Brown of New York Central,
who has just returned from Alaska. says:
Il do not see much possibility for rail-
road construction IN Alaska, owing to
conservation policy of tho government.
The governments policy does not allow
the development OF mines and forests or
utilization of water power except on
terms so unreasonable that capital can
mot take the risk. The government Is
Indicating the place TO eternal solitude
and sitting all Industry"
Mexico advices are that the revolu-
ton IN that country is much more SER
ious than at first supposed. Constitu-
tional guarantees have been suspend
ed in the state OF Morelos. which Is
within q few hours ride of Mexico
, city Ixtapan, 60 miles from Mexico
city. was captured last week by rebels
and 200 captives massacred. Fully
+ c 900 rebels are in arms in Toluca dis
trict Train service TO Ticuman and
districts near has been suspended.
Hamburg dispatches state that biz
. struggle for the German petroleum mar
, ket has recently been carried through its
a first stage The fight Is between the
, decentralization Petroleum company
, owned by Standard OIL. and the German
Petroleum Selling company. The fight is
for the German market, which consumes
between sl7.coo0o0 and $50, onO on Of petroe
, UNI yearly,
The desrabllty of establishing WON.
y ems cooperative farms in the United
Kingdom has been seriously considered
9 and should the present plans mature
the rrst experimental colony will bC
:, located on farm OF 22S acres IN Sus
sex.
Rurials Of persons dying in dest.tut,
circumstances are to he conducted d
rectly by the city OF Cleveland in tn,
ncar future without the services OF out
side undertakers, If plans now being con
, sidered by Public Safety Director Stag
|. are adopted. Collins are to be mad
with prison labor, and graves will h
dug by The prisoners in a section of tn
Highland Park cemetery.
. One Of the greatest benefits accruin.
to the members of the lnternationa
r I1yrographical union Is the conservation
d OF health which Is being made obligator-
e upon all employers. The battle by thi
+ organization against tuberculosis ha
. resulted in the increase OF almost eigh
= wears In the average life of the members
: In 1000 the average ago at death was AZ
wears and In 1911 was 49is years TIL
balance in the old age pension FUN
T. June /, 1912, was $3.50
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