Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-12
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

Ayrs, East Prussia, June 5.-Five infan-
trymen have died from heat prostration.
ana ~ are Ill as a result Of exhaustion
during the manoeuvres Of the troops.
Paris. June 5.-The literary grand nrizo
of $1,000 was awarded to-day bv the
French Academy to Roman ROLAND. tho
playwright, novelist and historical writer
President Raymond Poincaire, q member
Of the academy, was present.
San Francisco, June 5.-Tom Dunn. the
Chinese aviator, who sailed for Shaghai
yesterday, announced before his departure
that he was to establish a military avia-
tors school for the new republic. lie took
with him a b~iplane, a flying boat and a
military tractor.
Liverpool. June 1.-The building of the
territorial army service corps here was
partly burned to-day and the police suspect
the fire was started by suffragettes. The
blaze apparently was incendiary, but no
s~uffragette literature was left about the
place.
London, June 5.-The Fildes portrait OF
King Edward in his coronation robes,
loaned to the Royal Academy by Qu.cl
Alexandra, has been withdrawn for fear
that the suffragettes may attempt to dam
age it.
Topeka. Kans.. June 5.-Nineteen thou
sand men from outside the state are need
ed at once to harvest the Kansas wheat
crop, according to a statement issued to-
day by w. l.. O'Brion, State labor com
missioner and director of the state free
employment bureau.
Washington. June Ex-senator Bristow
tn-H1N introduced "a I,fn f., V.Ittiv, t1.
secretary of the treasury to inform the
Senate what value the public health
service has discovered in the so-called
tuberculosis cures it has Investigated.
Detroit, June TEN thousand long.
shoremen and dredgmen, employed alona
the Great Lakes, hereafter viii receive
as much pay for eight hours work a.
they have been getting for l. hours. ac-
cordinS to an agreement reached to.
night between representatives. of the
Workmen and their employers.
New York, June 5.-George Oxx, bust
ness manager of the Police Gazette, and
Adolph Chudoba, another employe, were
arrested to-day on warrants charging
grand larceny in the second degree. Rich
ard Is. Fox. publisher of the Police Ca
zette. alleged that a shortage Of $50. 500 to
5000, extending over a period Of years,
had been found on the books.
Lincoln, Neb., June 5.-Nal keyser, for
merly connected with the University of
Nebraska department of entomology and
now interested in a large orchard in Otoe
county, Neb., to-day reported to the State
Horticultural society that 17-year-locust
were overrunning orchards near Nebraska
City and Wyoming. The State cntomolo-
gist's department will take measures to
kill the locusts.
Worcester. Mass, June 5.-Josoph NJ.
Coldwell, who was in charge Of the strike
at the plant of the Draper company at
Hopedale, was found guilty to-day of ut
tering menaces and threatening speeches
and sentenced to three months in the
house of correction. Coldwell was the
candidate for treasurer on the socialist
State ticket in 1911.
Buc, France, June 1.-The French air
man Auguste Bernard and a passenger
were killed to-day while flying at the
aerodrome here. The aeroplane. Will
at a considerable altitude, suddenly
plunged violently to the earth and was
shattered. The cause of the accident is
unknown.
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vicir,tv to-da,. Tho,. ,ruaI
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Derisa ono at pio Nor.tn an ,no T..
the outskirts of this city. Many lonely
farms also v.ara raided and thoi, no.
~cunants ~nresumah1v killed .arriod of
nv tbe Noors
Edinburgh. Scotland luna The
strike Threatened nv 4nno ~sbinhu1lors
which was recrn+lv avorah1v yo+.d an
has been avotted for at least ono v.oal
las q result of a conferonc. hotu.ar ~.
men and enulovers Anotbar me.,i,,
Will be held at the end If this nort,d
to consider the nronos,rons mad n,
~ov,ners
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