Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-03

tion of 6,3S4
pear tree Is in bloom on n lawn in
Hackensack. N. ].
The appeal Of the Camorrists convicted
at Viterbo will come up at Rome Decem-
Der 2.
Hail storms have destroyed large areas
Of orange trees at Valencia, Spain.
Oscar Hammersten proposes to erect
a 100000 opera house in Pittsburg.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher has ar
rived at Honolulu after tour of the
Hawaiian islands.
The "seasck STEP is the newest New
port dance. 1t is slow one and nothing
more than a combination Of dips.
The 1,114.9s9 aliens. including immi-
grants as we'll as aliens, arriving in this
country during the last IA months,
brought s4s.7l2697. The Immigrants car
ried $685. $50.
An aeroplane race of 4svo miles from
England to India. to he covered in -
days, is being considered by several ma
tive princes of India md the Royal Geo
graphical society.
Mrs. Annie Wilson, wife of Upton VIII
son. Washington laborer, will sue the
latter for divorce, alleging that he rep
resented himself to be an Indian, where
as ne is a negro.
Mario Bontempi. monk in a monas.
terry at Lanciano, Italy, has abandoned
The monastic life to exploit a rifle which
he has invented and which he says will
fire $50 shots a minute.
| In New York. I. Waldo Story, the sculp-
tor admitted that he had married Miss
Bessie Abbot, the prima donna of Robin
Hood
Lieut. Henry II. Arnold. army aviator,
has been ordered to make experiments in
directing artillery fire from aeroplanes.
| The estate of John Arbuckle, head of
| the great coffee firm of Arbuckle Bros.
of Brooklyn. has been appraised at $780,
100000
| The Chilean government will send two
of its officers to study at the United
States coast artillery school at Fort Mon
roe, Va.
| Thomas +. Ryan has given $4,000 to
embellish the interior OF the new Con-
federate Memorial Institute at Richmond,
Va.
| The Rev DR.. T. c. Eiselen of the Car
ret Biblical institute at Chicago has trans
lated love letters on a baked brick 1000
Years old found at Babylon.
4 receiver has been asked for the
Bankers Life association and Bankers
Life company of Des Moines with $4,000.
1000 assets. They are assessment compan-
lies.
Census figures show that only 3S.4 per
cent Of Greater New York's foreign born
white population has been naturalized and
is therefore legally qualified to vote.
For the first time in the history of the
college Yale started it's 2l2th year with a
rule that every member OF the college
must live on the campus under strict fac
ulty oversight.
, Harvard Is in receipt of $4,000 from
, the members of the Straus family of New
York for a memorial to their parents, Mr.
/ and Mrs. Isidor straus, lost on the Titan
5 lie.
ct,ff - dny ctr trrc
3 experimenting with quilted jackets II
. which thousands Of pins are embedded
points outward. They afford protection
e and make the wearers dangerous t
handle.
p The New York executors Of the estat
e OF William James Sutherland of Londol
4 have filed an accounting showing that h
y had American securities OF a par value o
e 81, 100000, the market value OF which |
r only s76207.
Premier Robin OF Manitoba stated a
Winnipeg that Premier Borden ha
: pledged himself to provide funds for tn
immediate construction Of one or tw
dreadnoughts which will be placed at tn
disposal OF the British admiralty,
The Prussian government announce
v that q reduction of the duty on mea
u Ia out of the question.
President MaderO OF Mexico has gran
Is ed amnesty to the followers of Pascui
. Orozco, the rebel leader.
: A seventh son Of a seventh son ha
e been born to Mr.. and Mrs. David Geige
OF Braddock, Pa.
Joseph Venrossen. aged H. Is dead
J. Merrill, Wis. from injuries on the hea
y received while playing football.
l. Potash deposits recently found at Coll
e field, Nevada. are believed to be
enormous value. and will be thorough
'e mined.
10 Refusing to take an anaesthetic Nich
- las Tursen calmly watched surgeons am
utate his mangled leg in a Long Islar
City hospital.
~ Mount Wrangell, the most wide
N known of the smoking volcanoes
"a Alaska. again Is In eruption
>" The Bavarian railways have placed
-, ban on kissing on trains. platforms or Il
premises of the compa nies.
q. The sessions of the arbitral tribunal
the permanent court of arbitration at r
Hague will begin October 2s