The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25

volunteers by Oct. 1, as demanded by | the allies.
 In a collision between a passenger and a freight train near NikOlsk, six teen persons were killed and eighteen
 injured, among them a few Japanese.
 The collision was said to have been caused by bands of partisans who have been engaged in sporadic hOstilities in that part of Russia.
 The allies have warned Greece that an advance on COnstantinOple by her troops will not be tolerated, it was au- thoritatively stated today. No ground exists, however, it is added, for believ- ing Greece contemplates such advance, which would bring her into conflict with the allied army of occupation.
 GENERAL
 Three men were killed and several seriously injured when a drying ma chine burst in the plant of the Stand ard Silk Dyeing Company at Patterson, IN. J.
 Joseph Peters paid a fine of $50 after conviction in municipal court at Detroit for stealing 10 cents from a newsbOy. When arrested, police tes- tified, Peters had $99 in his pockets.
 Earl Webch, 20, died at Columbus, Ohio, of a fractured skull sustained when knocked to the floor in a box ing match with Harold Myers, who is held by the police. Both are of COlum- bus, and were engaged in a friendly bout
 Official announcement of the ap- pointment of Bishop NJ. J. Curley of St. Augustine, Fla, as archbishop of Baltimore, succeeding the late Arch bishop Cardinal Gibbons, has been re- ceived by Catholic officials at Wash ingtOn.
 The fact that people are not eating so much candy now as they did during the war was one of the reasons as- cribed for the failure of the Boston Confectionery Company, which filed a petition in bankruptcy at Boston, with liabilities of more than $S00,000. The company's assets were listed as $660,- S65.
 Where the new Pacific highway crosses the Canadian border at Blaine, Wash, a gateway is being erected to commemorate 100 years without forti- fications or armies along the 5000 miles of International boundary. h. scribed over the doOrways are the legends, "Open for 100 Years" and May These Doors Never Be Closed"
 Three Colorado young men are among the POS candidates for appoint ment as second lieutenants in the army who qualified as a result of last April's examination, it was announced by the war department. Those cOm- missioned from Colorado are: Harry Meyer, Denver, engineer corps; John Harry, Boulder, in field artillery, and Creswell G. BIakeney, Denver, in field artillery.
 Walter BuntOn, a 27-year-Old metal worker in the employ of the New York Blower Company at Laporte, Ind, mOdeStly admits that he is about to become a millionaire and that he ex- poets eventually to join the multimil- Iionaire ranks. BuntOn has invented a process for hardening copper for which he declares the United States Steel Corporation is to pay him $1,- 100000 and a royalty of 2 cents a pound as long as the patent exists.
 Drinkers of nOn-intoxicating liquor in Wisconsin must stand far enough away from the bar to be unable to place their foot on the rail or to set their glasses on the counter in order to keep from the law, according to an Opin- ion of J. E. Messerschmidt, assistant attorney general.
 Lyle A. Turner, official of a Des Moines, Iowa, rug company, was ar rested after he had tried to sell a rug valued at $3,O00 for $15O. He is said to have admitted to the police that he shipped several rugs from the stock of the company by wktoh he is em- ployed to himself at Chicago, and planned to sell them to help finance B vacation.
 A 6-year-Old child gathered flowers in a neighbours yard in Chicago, and, the blossoms back to her own yard, tried to plant them. As the re- suit of dispute over the punishment of the child, which followed, her Mrs. Anna Gaugner, g, is dead, and her mother, Mrs. Mar garet Gaugner, is seriously injured. l The grandmother vinterceded to save the child from a spanking, and the | fell down a flight of stairs dur. ng the struggle.