Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-01
WORLD ITEMS

A prisoner paid a police court fine
at Salem, Mass, last week with 6
bogus $40 bill and got away. with it
Statisticians figure that the pre-
war dollar has got back to the value
of IL cents when spent for the neces
sites of life.
Because of i'll health, President
d'Ameida of Portugal will offer his
resignation to the congress which as.
sembles this month
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Dorr OF
Richmond, Mass, are the opposing
Democrat and Republican candidates
for town treasurer.
A posthumous decoration for Maj
Henry L. Higginson of Boston has
been presented to Mrs. Higginson by
the French government.
The sewers of Butte, Mont, were
found choked last week with mash
prune seeds, rice, barley, raisins, corr
and cherry pits and it required sew
eral hours to flush them.
Four new $1,000 Consolidated Pow
er company bonds, readily negotiable
kicked around the corridor of the Bos-
ton city hall for an hour Wednesday
until picked up by a deputy.
Two men attacked John Doherty
messenger of the s. M. Halves COM
pany of Charlestown, Mass, stove
manufacturers, robbed him of a $2575
payroll and made their escape.
The Wesleyan University $4,000
600 additional endowment drive,
started two years ago, has been over
subscribed. The income from the
fund will be used for substantial in
creases in salaries.
The contract covering the propos-
ed lease and purchase of government
nitrate and water power projects at
Muscle Shoals, Ala, was signed by
Henry Ford last week and returned
to Washington.
The college of cardinals will con-
vene in Rome Thursday of this. week
to elect successor to the late Pope
Benedict. It is thought doubtful if
the American cardinals can reach
Rome before the 7th.
The steel roof of the Knickerbocker
theater at Washington collapsed Sat-
urday night while an entertainment
was in progress, killing 112 people
outright and injuring 200 more, many
of whom it is thought will died from
the injuries.
A Middlesex county, Massachusetts,
jury found Clarence w. Loud not
guilty of the murder of Officer James
Preston after three hours, delibera-
ton Thursday. The trial held the
close attention of New England peo-
pie for weeks.
1t is reported that Sir James Craig,
premier of North Ireland and Pres
ident Michael Collins of the Irish Free
State, have reached an amicable un-
derstanding over most of the points
of difference between the two sec
tons.
A. Barton Hepburn, author, banker
and benefactor of Middlebury coll
lege, died in New York Wednesday
from injuries received by being
struck by an auto bus. He is surviv-
ed by widow, who was Miss Emily
III. Eaton of Montpelier.
The Interstate Manufacturing
company of Greene, Me-, was award
the Maine Central Railroad company.
were destroyed by a fire which start
ed from a spark from "a passing loco
motive. an
Means for discovering upon hatch
ing the sex of chicks, formerly un-
known for six to eight weeks, has
been found by inheritance tests at
the Storrs experiment station at the
Connecticut Agricultural co lie q 6,
which will begin distributing March
/, chicks of a known sex.
Nellie BLY,, a newspaper woman,
who made spectacular trip around
the world in 80 days 80 years ago, is
dead, aged Sc. Her maiden name was
Elizabeth Cochran and she was the
widow of Robert /. Seaman, wealthy
Chicago manufacturer.
A steeplejack in Chicago was
atop of a 150-foot chimney
in Chicago recently. While putting
the finishing touches on the chimney
the hosting rope broke and left him
without any means to get down. Life
guns finally shot him -hoisting rope.
He was almost frozen when he de-
scended.
Harold D. Wilson, who as prohibi-
ion enforcement officer of Massachu-
sets caused the Quincy House to be
.aided some weeks ago during BAN
Iuet being rendered to Gov. Cox and
,ther state officers, and has also pull
ID off other sensational stunts, has
,een removed by Commissioner Blair
Is. "temperamentally unfit" for the