The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-09-23
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIani


somewhat understood, but is of good
quality and color
The Boston schooner Mayffower Is
not acceptable to the trustees of the
North Atlantic fishermans trophy as
an entrant for the international races
on Halifax, N. s., next month
]. Thomas Gettigan of Revere,
Mass, was arrested under a grand
jury indictment charging him with
. soliciting two men to murder his
uncle, Clinton W. Richardson, of Re-
we're.
The Reconnaissance Franchise,
bronze medal, has been awarded by
the French government to DR.. Harriet
A Rice, a negro woman of Newport,
r. l., for her services in French hos
pitfalls during the war.
The air service in Washington has
sent a letter to Maj. Edwin B. Lyon,
chief of the service of the first army
corps area, offering $12,425 to assist
the project OF providing Boston with
an airdrome.
James E Turbull of Providence,
a store holdup on Jan. l, 1917, escaped !
from the Rhode Island state prison.
The escape was discovered soon after |
and Warden Linscott and deputies |
started in pursuit.
Approximately $4,000 represents
the earnings of the Boston schooner
Mayfower during the last six weeks
in disposing of a catch of 100000
pounds of cod from the banks off the
Gulf of ST. Lawrence.
The towns of Maine voted con-
trary to the cities on the rejection of
the constitutional amendment to pay
a bonus to veterans of the Spanish
war. The cities favored it by 7O5,
while in the towns it was lost by 1850.
In a report submitted to Gov Cox,
the state department of labor and in
dustries expresses the opinion that
is steadily diminish
Ing, and that within a few months
industrial conditions in Massachu-
sets will again be normal.
While Samuel Boeniger, so, of War;
rem, R l., was opening a catsup bot-fI
tie at his dinner table, the container
exploded into a hundred pieces. A {
bit of glass was driven {
into Mr.. Boeniger's throat and he died
= few hours later. c
Among the 5000 or more letters
seeking information as to permits for |
the making of homemade wines or >
non intoxicating fruit juices" were q
those of at least a dozen clergymen, 7
the internal revenue bureau at Hart
lord, Conn, announced.
BY agreement of counsel, the $780,
BOO Islander suit brought by former
Speaker Joseph E. Warner against 1t.
Governor Alvan T. Fuller, scheduled
10 begin at Taunton, Mass, Sept Is,
was postponed to Oct. 10, when it
nay be tried in New Bedford.
Union milk drivers and creamery
workers, by a vote of 342 to 229, ac-
,epted the compromise reduction of p
2 week in their wages, and all dan n
,er of an interruption in the handling a
nd delivery of milk to the residents CT
# Boston and vicinity is now averted. r
Women voters of the Mass. Repub- E
lean state committee for the first time y
n history took part in regular meet n
ng, as fully accredited, with full vot- tt
ng power, and the result was epochal
rom more than one point of view. e
Let there be light" apeared to be Al
heir motto 81
Secrecy surrounds the mysterious n
of a tube containing a al
uantity of radium which was being in
Ised at City Hospital Worcester, So
dass., in the treatment Of a cancer
ase. The tube and its contents, was q
ralued at $4,000. Less than an ounce ~
# active radium is in use today and v
Is value is in the millions. m
Joseph Bodreau, So, a French W
emaciated, exhausted and y
II as a result of hunger, dependency
md his walk from Montreal to Boston d.
n an unsuccessful search for work, ca
at Urban ]. Ledoux's 'Ho- n,
ell Jobless," 81 Howard ST.. and was N
emoved to the City Hospital OF
The textile manufacturers of Fall to
river are not a party to a plan re- "a
ported to be under discussion by -,
,hode Island textile manufacturers for az
20 per cent reduction in wages OF fc
'peratives, to be effective the latter CT
art Of November, according to the =
statement Of a local mill man. 80
Wooden plugs used in the hull of
he German submarine U-111, in
tead Of iron rivets, caused the un-
Iersea boat to sink June II, while =,
,eing towed to Lynnhaven, accord pl
ng to testimony offered in the
navy yard before a naval -
,oard of inquiry trying to fix respon- N
Utility for the accident. 81
Engineers Of the General Electric -
laboratory. Pittsheld, for al
he first time in the history of science y
,ontrolled 100000 volts of electricity. 81
MI ,-or+,ra ,n.,rdfn1 20 Ganaral ] 81