Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-12-14
WORLD NEWS N)fEs

The floating debt Of Germany at the
end Of November was 226,50O, OOO, 900
marks.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed against the Bap-
fist temple in New York city.
officers unbalanced mind.
The Cunard line is to build six; new
oilbearing steamships for weekly ser
vice between New York, Liverpool
and Southampton.
Henry G. Macdonald, aged sc, as
sistant supreme secretary of the
knights of Columbus, died at New
Haven, Conn.,, Friday.
Miss Agnes McPhail of Ceylon,
Ont, was elected to the Dominion par
lament last Tuesday. She will be
the first woman member.
The longshore carpenters of Port
land, Me-, have accepted a wage cut
of from so to 70 cents an hour and
overtime pay of $1.O5 an hour instead
of 81 80.
A new national forest is to be es-
tablished in northwestern Pennsylva-
MIA, a tract of 412,O0O acres having
been approved for purchase by feder-
al authorities.
Representative Henry d. Flood Of
! Virginia, for % years member OF
| Congress. died Thursday. He was
chairman of the foreign affairs com
mittee at the outbreak of the world
war.
| The French Chamber of Deputies
| has provided for the expenditure OF
| 100 100000 francs in 1922, of 334,
100000 in 1923, of 19O,000,OO0 in 1924
and II 100000 in 1915 for rural con
struction.
Frank Mcneil, a Caribou, Me-, bust
to manslaughter in causing the deatl
of boy who was struck by his au
| tomobile, was fined $4,000 and costs
| amounting to $500.
! The Lake submarine S-48 sank of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, Thursday nigh
| and was submerged for IL hours be
| tanks succeeded in raising one end o.
the craft to the surface.
According to the census report jus
issued, New Bedford, Mass, has thu
highest percentage of illiterac.
among the cities of the United
States of over 100000 inhabitants
Spokane, WASH, has the lowest.
The government of Switzerland pay
an out-of-work benefit of six francs
day to such citizens as comply witt
the requirements, but by crossing int
Germany the recipient can exchang
his six francs for $50 marks, OF
! which he can live in the best style.
Several farewell letters have beer
received by friends of Lieut.. Col
Whittlesey, commander of the clos
battalion" who committed suicide b.
leaping from a Havana-bound boa
on Nov. 26. They sustain the theor.
of "battle shock" as the cause of tn
! Sir Arthur Pearson founder o
Pearson's weekly, is dead as the re
suit of an accident at his home il
London. While in his bath he slipped
striking his head against faucet
Stunned, he fell into the water an,
was drowned before help could reacl
him.
In reply to Senator Watson
charges Of wholesale hanging o
4 American soldiers in France withou
trial, the records have been made pub
lie showing only IL executions amonl
the expeditionary force in France
eight negroes, two white men and on
Indian.
A somewhat novel way of making
easy money was revealed in Bostol
Friday when Joseph Seigal who has
shoe repairing concern, gave $4,000 t
two unknown men for tin box con
tanning lot of tin discs, which tn
buyer had been led to believe wer
| gold coins.
Government expenses for vacations
training of World war veterans in
creased by $2,000,000 between SEP
TENDER and November. On Sept.
there were 82,738 men receiving train
ing at an expense 6f $10,325, of
while on Nov. 1 they numbered 81
sos and the expense totaled $12,736
631. :.
Revised returns from Canada's ger
eral election last Tuesday have re
duced the liberal party's seats fror
100 to 118 with combined oppositio
of lit. With a liberal elected speak
er the chamber will be a tie. TIL
conservative party is in third place
having fewer members than the newl
formed progressive party.