Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.

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NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.
China is facing treasury deficit o
$l2oOoo.0OO.
Secretary OF the Treasury Macveag.
predicts that ultimately all the world vii
have free trade
The New York Bible society dis
tributed 10000 Bibles in that city dur
ing March.
Associate Justice Charles Z. Hughes oi
the United States Supreme Court is &
years old. He is the youngest member
on the bench.
The triple alliance between Germany
Austria Hungary and Italy has been re.
newed for another term of years.
Excavation on the Panama canal for
March was 2,S3co3 cubic yards. agains,
2,643.41O cubic yards in February.
were s72 bullfghts in Spain, 10 bull
fighters were killed, 16S injured and
5.61S horses and 4.394 bulls killed
Pennsylvania anthracite coal production
for 1911 was 900,l.A1 tons. which exceeds
previous high record made in 1907 by about
5000 900 tons
New York city has turned over to
the College of the City of New York
for a stadium a tract of land on Am =
sterdam avenue, from 136th to l4sth
streets.
Nine thousand Chicago carpenters
who struck April have returned to
work, having won a wage increase of
from 60 to IS cents an hour.
The federal government will begin
suit to annul the grant Of about $780,
600 acres OF oil lands in California to
the Southern Pacific, worth hundreds
OF millions.
The Goodyear Tire e. Rubber COM
pany has declared 100 per cent stock
dividend The capital stock will be
increased from 100000 to $4,000
900.
Prince Albert of Monaco is in Cas-
per. Wyo. travelling incognito and in
speeding oil fields in which he is said
to have more than $4,000 900 invested
Harry Atwood has asked the navy
department to send a scout cruiser or
torpedo boat destroyer to accompany
him on his proposed flight across the
Atlantic next summer.
An official Investigation of the MUIR
der of Premier Stolypin of Russia
confirms the universal opinion that
the assassination was engineered by
the secret political police
Mrs Laura NJ. Spidell, suing her hus-
band for divorce In Boston. stood on the
witness stand clad in shoes. stockings, a
wrapper and an overcoat. She COM
planned that her husband had taken all
her clothing.
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State penitentiary at Fort Collins. was
permitted to go unguarded to Denver to
make a personal plea for clemency to the
State parole board
Agents of the department of Justice are
investigating the possibility that control
by the Bell Telephone company Of a ma
Jority Interest In the Western Union Tele-
graph company may mean monopoly
Germany has 10000, 900 government
obligations coming iua July | and II
is proposed to extend them as snort
term notes. the bulk being extended to
1916.
The North German Lloyd line has
awarded contract for $4,000 ton
transatlantic liner. which means a
ship of 1900 tons larger than the
Olympic and Titantic.
The Blue Hill meteorological observa-
tory becomes possession of Harvard
University through the will of Abbott
Lawrence Rotch Of Milton, who also
leaves $4,000 In trust for the mainte-
nance Of the observatory.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety of New York has inaugurated
thorough retrenchment policy which Is
expected to save $25O.OOO to $500, 900
annually. Slicing of agents commits
sions is said to be contemplated.
Joseph Sellwood Of Duluth, an au-
lhority on iron ores. told the House
steel investigating committee In
Washington that the Lake Superior
pre- region contains l,4O0, OOO,O 900 tons
of available ore. of which about $780,
300, 900 tons, excluding Hin ore lease
pres. are controlled by the steel cor
DOration. Another expert testified
that vast beds still remained undis-
covered.
A London cable says that many new
capital issues are being prepared
The Grand Trunk railway is arrang-
ing for a loan OF 1850, 900 four per
cent, debentures at 3S1a, Saskatoon
city is Issuing f229,72s four and one
half stock at 90. 1t Is understood that
about 100000 Belgian treasury bills
have been placed on basis Of about
hree and three fourth per cent
Bankers have been asked to submit
lenders on a Moscow city loan of
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