Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-11-16
WORLD NEWS NOTES

WORLD NEWS NOTES
The war Of 1912 ended 1Os years
ago.. yet the United States paid last
year $12,145 on its pension account.
| Marshal Foch will be the recip-
lent of the first honorary degree
ever conferred by Boston university.
The total net debt Of the Dominion
of Canada on October 81 was $685.
| 262, 902, and increase of about $751;
100000 for the year.
Joseph B. Cullen and Sadie A. Call
were married at Franklin, N. H., last
week. The bride is a sister of the
| groom's divorced wife.
I, Father John A. Zahm, the priest
| who accompanied Theodore Roose-
welt on his South American exploring
expedition, is dead in Munich, aged
! 60.
The New York state assembly cleo
| ted last week consist of SO republic
cans, 81 democrats, socialist and
one independent. The democrats
gained % seats and the socialists lost
! two.
| Albert Siegal of New York has be-
gun action against Jack Dempsey,
worlds champion pugilist, for $780,
900 for alienation Of Mrs. Siegal's
affection.
| Mrs. Angie L. Mccullough of
Brockton, Mass, who was married
at ID, has been given her freedom
and allowed to resume her. maiden
name at "a.
/ Labor leaders occupied the pulpits
| of 25 churches in and near Boston
Sunday, and preached workingmen's
sermons on Religious Ideals in In
! dustrial Relations"
| The motor vehicle department of
the state of Connecticut have issued
a ruling denying the use of public
thoroughfares to trucks of more than
IL IL tons capacity.
Elbridge c.. Short, cashier of the
Calais, Me-, national bank was COM
mitted to Jail Saturday in default of
$4,000 bail, charged with embezzle
ment of the banks funds.
] Daniel Maloney of Dover, N. i
| aged 10, was accidentally shot and
killed by a playmate Friday. The
boys had 22-calibre rife and were
cunning in a field near their home.
Twelve United States senators have
petitioned the garment workers Of
! New York to postpone the strike
called for Monday for two weeks.
Over $4,000 employees are involved.
Shoe manufactures of New York
state and the middle West are plan
ming for the production of mems high
grade shoes to retail to the spring
trade at from $3.50 to $500 per pair.
Report Friday from Aroostook
county, Maine, state snow an average
| of foot in depth and roads badly
blocked by drifts. Malone, N. Y, rex
ports the most snow seen in early
November for many years.
Frederick j. Duvost of Portland
Me-, took 20 strychnine tablets and
friend they didn't seem to work.
He was rushed to hospital and his
life saved.
As a parade of war veteran halt
ed in front of the Portland, Me-, City
sands of spectators stood silent for
the throng from east to west.
George L. Oles was elected mayor
of Youngstown, o., Tuesday, running
arraigning the police and favoring
jitneys. His election will be con,
tested, as he, had pledged to give his
salary to charity.
The population of Sweden number
ed 5,903,762 persons in January this
year, according to official figures just
now published. The increase during
! 1920 was 56,725. Mortality for the
fiscal year 1929 per thousand, the
lowest in the world.
| Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler of
! New York was elected president-gen-
| eral of the United Daughters of the
| Confederacy at the ST. Louis conven-
ton last week. She is the first north
father was colonel of a Florida reg
iment.
Ali railroad operating east of the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers will Immediately post
notices of a ten per cent reduction
in wages About 100000 men are
affected. At the end of 80 days if
the men do not accept the matter will
go to the Railroad Labor Board for
adjudication.
The Swedish Academy Friday
awarded the 1921, $4,000 Nobel prize
in literature to Anatole France, noted
French author. Nobel was the in
ventor of dynamite and at his death
left'a trust fund of 100000 to pro-
vide yearly prizes for the best in
physics, chemistry, medicine, litera-
ture and peace.
Stone Mountain.