Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-29

Clarendon Thursday night was buried
afternoon at Clarendon with
tut being identified. Local authorities
made every effort to ascertain the mans
lame and connections but without avail.
rhe Rev Walter r. Curtis officiated at
The grave.
NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.
President Farrell of the Steel corpora
lion says that his day Is IA hours
After June /. parcel post packages can !
be exchanged with Japan without limit |
on the value.
London cable says Helen Keller has
been summoned to Madrid to treat the |
deaf and dumb son of King Alfonso
Recently established municipal markets
in Los Angeles have reduced the prices |
of vegetables 70 per cent. in two weeks.
French inventor has produced a nose
attachment for the tcierHonc which 1t Is
claimed enhances the dlstinctness Of the
voice.
Business men in South America. espe-
cialy in the Argentine republic, expect
big boom AS a result the tariff reGuc
lions in the United states.
James j. Hill claims that it cost the
government reclamation service double
what 1t cost private enterprises to reclaim
desert land.
The Bulgarian minister Of finance, now
in Paris in connection with the Balkan
settlement, says that the Balkan states
will ask for indemnity of s4ooooO,0O.
Applications have been received from
about 1850 banks for the 600 which
Secretary McAdoo is preparing to distri-
butte among government depositaries
The city of New York has decided not
to buy the Astor house but has taken
easement for 100000 to burrow under the
southern half for one of the new sub
WAYS The northern half is left
Officials of the three largest express
companies in the United States estimate
a reduction of between % per cent. and
80 per cent. in their small package busi-
ness during the first quarter of this year
as result of the parcel post
Count Szechenyi who married Gladys
Vanderbilt, Is said to have lost more than
"a. go, coo of his wifes fortune. He has
been a victim Of mining swindle in
which he lost huge sums on BUDAPEST
and Vienna bourses.
The Grand Trunks estimated loss
caused by idleness of machinery and men
on the uncompleted Southern New Eng
land branch. deterioration of materials,
roadbed, and other items. is $4,000 to
$50 600 per week, or 81 100000 in aggregate.
1t is estimated that % per cent. of the
silk looms in the country are out of COM
mission on account of the Paterson
strike OF 5000 looms in operation, at
| least $1,000 are working on crepes and
| piece dyed goods, so that 60 per cent. of
the country's silk looms are idle.
Clarence H. Howard, president of the
Commonwealth Steel company. ST. Louis,
| is unmasked by a kiss while dancing
| dressed as woman around a May pole at
a school festival.
| Orville Kimpston. 81 years old of Ma
lone, was so large when he died that a
coffin built by him so that no trust"
would profit by it had to be discarded.
He had painted the casket red. white and
blue.
| James 4. Baker, under arrest in Kan
sas City, Mo, for theft, declares that.
posing as a woman, he taught school for
n year in Idaho, and later still posing
as woman married lawyer in Los An
geles Cal
Mary Smak, pretty domestic, went to
a candy store in Bethlehem, Pa, and
| called UP her sweetheart in CLEVELAND
and talked to him for IS minutes at 81 a
minute When presented with the oil
she tainted. She earns $3.50 a week.
In an effort to reduce the great amount
of mail sent postage due, Posmaster-Gen
eral Burleson has ordered test of th'
100000 sets of scales used in the service
The department believes many persons
are misinformed of the correct weight o
packages and letters by inaccurate scales
Catskill mountain water to Obtain
which New York city spent $4,000 go
will not be needed in Manhattan for II
years. according to statement by waite
Commissioner Thompson.
Stainless stairways are being installed
in new schools in Spokane and are Civ
ing satisfaction. The stairs simply ar
built with a medium incline and fla
surface, eliminating steps. Not only ar
they hailed as an agency to proven
breaking down the health of the chill
dren, but they are considered much bet
ter In crises such as panics.
As result of refusal of the Suprem
Court to grant a review In the Mine Hi
railroad case, it is estimated that NOR
than 81, COZ, 900 collected under corporation
tax will have to be returned to corpora
tons throughout the United states
2 Court held that a corporation leasing 1t
property and deriving its only incom
from that lease, and investing money
not doing business" within meaning @
corporation tax law and is therefore nc
I subject to tax,
STATE FAIR COMMISSION.