Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-01-04

oner for six months by bandits in
| bulgaria. Is planning to return to
Turkey as n special missionary.
Former Vice President cNi p. Nor
ton has given his pew in Grace Episco-
pal Church. New York. to tho church
corporation to be forever free rev
! The will of Mrs Naomi punconb
Ring, the wealthicst woman in Noun.
Vernon, n. Y. disinherits her husband
and leaves her estate of $1,000 600 to
various relatives
| Immigrants into the Dominion of Can.
ada this year Will probably total i0o.oOo.
81 whom 10000 to 10000 are from the
| nited States
Southern New England railway Grand
| Trunk is planning Z. big freight ward and
modern coal-handing plant at Fields
point near Providence.
All the IS cotton mills Of +. - g. n
Knight Co. in Rhode Island. Connecticut
ana Massachusetts will 60 on full time
next Tuesday. The mills have been run
ming 4s hours a week for % weeks
| \ movement has been started by demo-
cratic members of the wavs and means
| committee for an investigation as TO how
experts of the tariff board obtained their
Information on wool ana wooden costs.
Mrs. Mabel Herbert t'rner. author
OF THE journal of a Neglected Wife,"
is to be married in New York to I.ath-
rop Colgate Harper, q we'll. Known
| bibliophile.
Seven acres of Coney Island. former
ly occupied by Dreamland will he
turned into n park. one million dol
lars has been appropriated for pur-
chase of site.
| There is no menace to the countrNs
prosperity except hesitation" James
j. Hill Is quoted ms saying. There is
nothing serious In the air to disturb
anyone's confidence"
supreme Court Justice Davis of New
York has appointed Marshall s. Marden
as referee To take testimony in the second
| hearing of the divorce suit ~ Upton Sin
| clair against his wife
In speech at Buffalo before the Amer
| lean Historical association and tn. Amer
! lean Political Science association Cover
nor Baldwin Of Connecticut said the peo-
pie are growing impatient of the growing
| Of E
! fairs.
The journal of Commerce says the idea
| has recently been conceived for IA union
! railway station in the heart OF New Yorl;
| city to be constructed ana used Jointly by
roads at present barred by the North
river from entrance ana having terminals
on the jersey shore.
Federal prosecution Of shoe manu-
facturers is possible if the reported
increase in price is made. Omcials of
the attorney generals office have ad-
mitted they are keeping in close touch
with the situation
Eighteen hundred retail druggi SIS
-
the removal Of telephone pay stations
in drug stores. provided the New ioriI
Telephone company reduces the drug
gists' commission ON receipts from 90
to 10 per cent.
Congressman Underwood states that
the new steel tariff schedule. propos-
ing reductions of from 80 per cent 10
iO per cent. on iron and steel pro-
ducts. will probably he passed by the
House democrats few days after It's
Introduction.
| Summonses have been ISSUED by
federal authorities on three officials OF
railway unions whose men are on Il
strike on Hartman lines to appear
to-day This l.. believed to be opening
of the first prosecution of labor
union under the sherman law.
The treasury department has ruled tina
wood pulp or paper made from Woo
from Indian lands of Ontario must il
future pay duty because Of the Canadian
regulation prohibiting the expectation o
wood cut from these lands for the manu-
facture Of wood pulp. THIS reduces cana
dian importations considerably.
Lloyd-George. chancellor of the British
excheauer. estimates the national incom
OF England at tlnr.OOODo, whicl
amounts TO I20o a year for every family
Showing the inequltable distribution, how
ever. he states that one-third OF that In
come il received and spent by &o.oo0 per
sons or LOO part of the population
The director of the mint estimates tn
gold production OF the world for 1911 a
Si66, 600 600, the greatest in history.
| amounts TO an increase OF $4,000 900 owe
1910 and more than s2oo0oO,000 over tn
OUTPUT Of u years ago. The output q
the TransvaaI was $1,000 oOO greater thai
in 1910 and for all the Africa gain wa
SIG coo,o0O.
THE MIND-READER.
lie gave n marvellous performance ii
-. the Myrtle Room at the Waldorf-hy
: phen. Astoria-could tell bllndfolded wha
card YOU drew from the pack coul
hold you by the hand and open
, book TO the very passage YOU were think
o ing Of. and could find rings and pin