Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-12-28
WORLD NEWS NOTES

| Concord, N. H., has an antl-alr-
craft regiment with S1OO,OOt
equipment, which can detect planes
two miles high.
Securities valued at $4,000 and
500 in cash was stolen by buglars,
who early Friday broke into the
] Union National bank at Mount Wolf,
Pa.
DR.. George T. Harding, Of Marion.
| o., father Of President Harding, to-
day received a check for 500 from
the White House, his sons usual
| Christmas gift.
The Old Colony Club of Plymouth
Mass, which is one of the oldest
social organizations in the United.
| States celebrated its 152nd anniver-
sary Thursday evening.
Joseph Barbara was arrested at
Beverly, Mass, for passing $50 coun-
| terfeit bills made by the simple pro-
cess of pasting the figures "2O" ovel
the 's5" of genuine bills.
Postmaster Charles E. Cook of
Uxbridge, Mass, has been reappoint-
ed for the fifth time. He was ap-
pointed by President Cleveland in
1894 and has served continuously
since.
Shut out of the American market
by the Fordney emergency tariff,
New Brunswick potatoes are finding
a Cuban market. The price holds
around 1878 barrel in the Cuban
market.
Twenty-four women and three chill
dren were among the hundreds who,
awoke Wednesday in the municipal
lodging house Of New York city to
which the homeless were driven by
the bitter cold.
The result of the recount of votes
in the Boston mayoralty election did
affect the result. Mayor-elect Cur
ley gained 10 votes and Murphy, the
contestant, 176. The total vote re-
counted totaled 146,023.
. Henry Watterson, probably Amer
ica's best, known journalist and for
; years editor of the Louisville Cour-
rier-Journal, died at Jacksonville,
Fla, after a brief illness Thurs
day. Mr.. Watterson was born in
Henry Ford's application to reduce
carrier charges 20 per cent on the
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroad
has been denied by the Interstate
commerce commission, as it would dis
rupt the rate relationship and prove
Of more disadvantage than good.
The multilated body of Tessie Ku-
charski, five years old, who had been
missing from her home at the Bell
\ more hotel, operated by her mother
at New Brunswick, N. j., was found
packed Friday in suitcase in clo-
set at the Hotel Albany nearby.
Healey's, for years one of the best
known restaurants in New York
night life is soon to be closed, q
victim of prohibition. Thomas J.
Healey, the proprietor, has sold the
establishment to several Chinese, who
will convert it into a chop suey en-
porium.
The gates Of Ellis Island, New
: York, swung open late Friday free
ing more than 1000 aliens, detained
under the immigration quota law, SO
that they might spend Christmas with
friends and relatives in the land
of promise. They will be at liberty
for 80 days.
The strike of 400 longshoremen at
Portland, Me-, has necessitated div
erting steamships bound to that port tc
} other cities. Strikers decline tc
confer with citizens committee re-
a solution of the dispute between the
: men and their employers.
George Rogers, alias George Lewis
convicted of conspiracy in connection
|; with the 81 100000 Toledo, O., postal
robbery last February pleaded guilty
,, to charge of robbery in connectic
,, with the case and was sentenced te
!, serve 81 years in the federal peniten,
: ti9rV aft T,p9VQOwOrth Kan
, Dist Atty Charles H. Wright OF
t Springfield, Mass, intimates that he
is out to bring to justice the mer
who have made vast sums of money
.. through illegal traffic in liquor Fe-
7 deral authorities will cooperate with
the district attorney in ferreting out
! the members of the so-called booze
ring.
{ While Staten Island, N. Y, pas
t senger train travelled at rs miles ar
t hour Friday jeremiah Driscoll, the
a locomotive fireman, dove from the en-
: of William Alexander, a schoolboy
who had been struck by the engine
lpilot and thrown into Is feet Of
water.
The Dali Erieam Qrish parlia
ment9 voted Thursday to put of
until Jan. the decision of accept
ing or rejecting the peace prefer Of
England providing for an Irish Free
State with status analogous to Can
ada. The bitter ends for uncondi
tional Irish freedom seems to be in Z
minority.
Rev. DR.. George L. Perrin, widely
known Universalist clergyman, dice
: at Boston Thursday night. For thu
past few years he has managed tho
Franklin Square Hotel, which h
founded to carry out his philanthro
pic ideas. Here some 900 working
girls and women found real home
DR.. Perrin is survived by widow ane
five children.
Elton H. Scott died suddenly at hi.