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The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
REMOVE WOMAN, 80
AS FIRE THREATENS

WESTMINSTER, Vt, July 20
The extensive farm buildings of
Wallace F. Ranney three miles
south of this village were burned
yesterday afternoon with loss of
from $4,000 to $4,000. The fire
started in the barn when a boy
tried to light the acetylene gas,
with which all the buildings were
equipped. An explosion threw
flames into the hay.
A valuable jersey bull was burn
ed. The horses were taken out with
difficulty The dwelling was saved
by wet blankets. Mr.. Ranneys
mother, SO years old, and i'll was
carried from the house.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
FIVE PERSONS HURT
AS TRAIN OVERTURNS

ALBANY, Ca, July 2O-ElghJ
passengers were Injured, some ser
iously, today when five coaches OF
southern railway limited train,
en- route from Chicago to Jackson
Vile overturned on the Central
Georgia Line between Smithsville
and Leesburgh near here.
The injured were brought here
on the first three coaches of the
train which we're not damaged.
The wreck was attributed to bro
ken rail.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
WOMAN INSTANTLY
KILLED BY TRAIN

LEWISTON, Me-, July 20
Mrs. w. f. Knowlton of Farming
ton was instantly killed when an
East bound passenger train in
which she and her husband and
daughter were riding on Maine
Central railroad crossing in this
city today. The daughter was ser
iously hurt and the husband bruis-
ed
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
TAKE CENSUS OF TRUCKS
TO TRANSPORT MA

BOSTON, July 20 Plans
the transportation of mail
means of trucks in the event
rail strike assumes wider prOpt
tions are nearing complete
Every postmaster in this sect
has been notified to take an i
mediate census Of the govcrnme
truck in his territory, Mr.. +;
rington said.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
PROPOSE CREATION OF
CLAIMS COMMISSI(

" WASHINGTON, July 20
alton of an "enemy proper
claims commission of six memb,
to adiudicate and take from G,
many property claims Of Americ
citizens against Germany growi
out of the war was proposed in
hill TODAY bv Senator Underwo
Democrat, Alabama.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20

ing with an insane man who tried
to hurl himself out of a window.
All of the firefghters had been
ordered away from the window.
Suddenly with a yell, a man burst
at the police and ran into the
building. Firemen pulled the man
from the position on the window
ledge. The man, surgeons said,
had been made temporarily insane
from the excitement.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
AUTO INSPECTOR TO
HAVE SPECIAL CAPS

MONTPELIER, July 2O-Motor-
lists may hereafter identity the
State automobile inspectors by uni
from caps which arrived today.
The caps are maze of dark green
cloth in military model, with
black visor and the words "Motor
Inspector" and Vermont above the
visor.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
FIND CHARGES AGAINST
COLLIER UNFOUNDED

" WASHINGTON, july 20-The
state dept. announced today that
investigation of Charges against
commissioner Collier to the Brazil
ian Centennial Exposition had dis
closed no evidence of dishonesty
and moral turpitude." Mr.. Collier
has been directed to return to Rio
de Janeiro and take part in the
Exposition.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
FARMER AFTER COWS
is SURPRIZED BY
QUARTET OF CHINKS

North Troy, July 20-It
was learned today that when
Chas. p. Hunt a few days ago,
farmer about a mile from
the village, went out to get
his COWS, four cinnamon sud
denly jumped up and ran for
the woods, thus escaping. 1t
is supposed they were lying in
wait, expecting to meet an au-
to at night and be carried
somewhere southward
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
VICE PRESIDENT SONS
GO TO PLYMOUTH. W

NORTHAMPTON, July 20
John and Calvin Coolidge Jr. sons
of Vice President Coolidge, who
have been spending a week in
their old home in Massasoit St.,
left this morning for Plymouth,
VT, where they will spend a part
of the summer Oh the farm of their
nlandfather Col Iohn Cnnlidpn
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
POLICEMEN GUARD
BUFFALO STREET CARS

BUF + ALU, n. 7. July ZU-Po-
licemen armed with riot guns and
ordered to shoot to kill guarded
street cars which started out from
the car barns here today. Strikers
and their sympathizers are in an
ugly mood, police officials say.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20

executive came here today as the
result of letter from Mayor
Chamberlain OF Concord request
ing that protection be afforded
workers there.
CONCORD, N, H., July 20
Governor Albert O. Brown, had
under advisement today the re-
quest of Henry f. Chamberlain
for state troops for use in keeping
order among railroad workers and
strikers here.
The mayors request for action
followed the act of five masked
men in driving 50 Boston and
Maine workers from their Sleep
ing quarters late Tuesday night.
Persons close to the governor
said that it seemed hardly pro-
able that the troops would be cal
led out. A marshall and six pat
rolmen of the Manchester police
force were here to assist the Con-
cord police. There was no evil
dencc of violence here this morn
ing. The police said today that
they knew the identity of two of
the masked men who participated
in Tuesdays nights disturbance.
The publicity committee of thd
Boston and Maine strikers declar1
ed the disturbance was. entirely
foreign to its members"
WORCESTER, July Rioting
and violence in the railroad yards
in Worcester developed to such 4
magnitude during the night that
extra police guards were detailed
to the various railroad property
here. The trouble started whei
four mon employed to take thd
places Of men on strike were at |
tackled by seven men in the Cam
bridge street yards
Trouble started at the Bostor
and Maine wards shortly afte
supper time when a gang of strike
sympathizers showered stones OF
those working in the yard. A pol
ice guard dispersed the band. Ex
ira police guards will be ordered
on duty tonight.
CHICAGO, July 20-Immcdiat
prospect for peace in the railroa,I
strike today settled to a test o
strength. Union officials RENAME,
firm in their demand that full sen
iO1,it1- ~ htc ba ra..tOrad IN I bn on
600 Shopmen now on strike. Raj
road heads were equally.fiIm tha
seniority right of men now at Wor
be recognized. There was no ind
cation of weakening on eithc
side. Two hundred and forty seN
en- trains are about to be cancelld
due to the coal strikc situatio
said reports from railway cente
in the west, Reports were that I'll
strike is being felt by the iron an
steel industry and that coal mind
in West Virginia are without co
cars and that portion of the fru
crop on the Pacific coast is enda
gered by lack of transportion.
Trains on the Boston and Main
railroad were somewhat delayd
today. The north bound New Yol
train due at 4 A. NJ. did not arri]
until nearly 730 A. NJ. and II
southbound mail train due at 7.
was half an hour late this mornin
The strike was said to be respo
Sible for the DELAYS.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
RETAIL PRICE OF
FOOD INCREASES

WASHINGTON, July 20-Re-
tail costs of food to the average
family in the United States in
creased one per cent from May Is
to June Is according to report
today by the bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Dept. of Labor.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
SAYS WOMAN BEATEN
AND THEN STRANGLED

BOSTON, July 2O-Mrs. Alice J.
Jones whose body was found last
night in a lodging house on Tre-
mont street was beaten and then
stranglcd to death four days ago
medical examiner LeaIy said to-
day.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
ORDER TROOPS TO
DUTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

RALEIGH, N. c. July 20-Gov.
Harrison To-Day ordered state
troops to Rocky Mount and Aber-
deem for duty in connection with
the railway shopmen's strike.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
Battled To Save
Denented Man
Rushed Into SrnOuldering
Ruins While Temporar-
lily Insane
(By the Associated Press)

NEW YORK, July 2O-Whie thousands Of tons OF
smouderng paper and rubber goods still gloWed dull red
spite Of 100000 gallons of water poured 1t the last
is hours lost their lives in the ruins of the
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. July 20
With rifles and 100 rounds of am
munitiOn each, 45 members of the
for Buffalo for duty on the trolley
strike there.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
Drastic Move Follows Rout
of B. and Nj. Shopworkers
BY Masked Men
(BY the Associated Pressl'

Brown today ordered out National guarsmen for duty at
Concord The governors action followed conference with
Adutant General Howard Of the National guard The chief
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
WISCONSIN MILK BILL is
UPHELD BY COURT

MADISON, Wis, July 20-The
constitutionalitv O. the milk law
was upheld today in decision of
the state supreme court.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20

Trains on the Boston and Mail
railroad were somewhat delayC
today. The north bound New Yol
train due at a A. NJ. did not arri,
until nearly 730 A. NJ. and II
southbound mail train due at ~
was half an hour late this mornin
The strike was said to be respo|
sible for the DELAYS.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
PREDICTS END OF RAIL STRIKE IN TWO WEEKS

A Newspaper Covering
the Entire Northeast Sec
ton of Vermont State
Every Working Day.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20
The Weather

Generally fair tonight
and Friday except pos
sibly showers near the
coast. Moderate winds.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-20

executive came here today as the
result of letter from Mayor
Chamberlain OF Concord request
ing that protection be afforded
workers there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
WHAT BECOMES OF BUTT0Nsg
America Supplies Them to Over so
Countries and Colonies.

America has not been able, perhaps,
to clothe the destitute of the whole civ
ilized world, but it is doing a very large
part in keeping such garments as they
have on the people. Our button manu-
featuring business has grown to inn
mense proportions since the outbreak
of the war in Europe. Before that, ac-
cOrding to the Trade Record of the Ma
tional City bank, Germany and Austria
had a goodly share of the business. In
the year before the war we turned out
only S20,000,000 worth of buttons, but
in 1919 our product of practically TO-
000,0O0,000 buttons was valued at
500. 100000 when it reached the con
sumner. We supply buttons to over so
countries and colonies Thirty millions
is invested in the industry, the employees
in which receive $4,000, 900 a year in
wages. Though we have 557 button
factories, the japanese sold to us 5,000,-
600 gross of pearl buttons last year,
they having gone heavily into the indus
try which the Mckinley tariff was 50
largely instrumental in developing for
us.
What becomes of all the buttons?
Save the relatively small proportion
which are cloth-covered, buttons do not
wear out. But they are not indestruct-
ible, as every patron of a laundry knows
Billions are carefully boarded in mo-
theirs familiar button box, but this does
not account for the immense number
manufactured. When you think about
it, what becomes of the buttons? is a
question to put beside what becomes of
the pins? 1t is unanswerable-Pitt
burgh Gazette Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Jade Difficult to Secure

1t is easy to understand the fascina-
ton of Jade and it is of interest to
know how the world s very limited sup
ply is obtained. Manufacturers assert
that fine Jade has become difficult to
obtain, and the demand for it has in
creased to such an extent that dealers
are bidding actively for all that comes
into the market When one realizes
that Jade has been quarried for almost
countless ages, it is not surprising the
supply is decreasing.
Siberia and the interior of China are
almost UNEMPLOYED Some very fine spe-
cimens of dark green Jade have recently
come from Siberia from the vicinity of
Albert graphite mine, near Lake Bakal.
The costliest variety of Jade is emer-
aid green and it must be of solid color
In quality it is of a greasy and translu-
cent hister when polished. There is a
great deal of the green and white Jade.
but that variety does not bring so high
price Strings OF Jade beads range in
price from so to $4,000 and more. ac-
cording to color and quality Through a
celebrated old dealer in Jade at Picking
a dinner service has recently been or
dercd to cost 100000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Sporting Notes.

The Chicago Cubs are now only six
games behind the Giants in the National
league race as result of Brooklyn's two
consecutive victories over the Worlds
champions. The Cubs have only a sIen-
der chance to cop the pennant with the
Chants hitting anything like their usua!
stride, but a real slump like the Giants
had in midseason would put a different
face on the matter.
The Yankees are away to a twO-and
0ne-hah game lead oyer the Browns
The Yankees are winnin~ steadily. b.
they are the most giraffe team in the
American league and may start downhilI
anytime. No team can touch them at
their best or fail to beat them at their
worst. The Browns are still on tn
road and can be denended on to PICKUP
when they get on their own grounds.
The White Sox seem to he making 3
comeback at the expense of the Tigers
Yesterday Red Fahcr let the slugginc
Cobbmcn down with six hits and ON
lone tallv The white Sov gathered ?
hts for 10 runs off three Detroit twirl
ers.
Walter Hagen. British open gol
CHAMPION. PLAYED wonderful golf owe
the Oxford Club golf course Yesterday
beating the previous record for the
course by six strokes. He made Go.
Peter Mannir~. wonder trotter. went
the fastest mile ever trotted in New
England the other dav in a trial aga!ns'
time at ReadvilIe The time was 1893.
breaking the track record made hy Pete
Manning year ago nv a quarter of 3
second. The last half of the mile was
done in close to % seconds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
PERMANENT CLOSE
OF AM. CONSULATE
British Government Offended at Activity
of American officials to
Get Shipping

LONDON, Sept. ASSOCIATED Press
The closing of the American consulate
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, following can
collation. of the consular exequaturs by
the British government, is apparently
for an indefinite period. The consulate,
it is learned, has been closed since
Tuesday. Fred G. Slater, the consul,
has been ordered to Corunna, Spain. and
Russell Nj. Brooks, vice consul, to Ores
den.
The action of the British government
is said to have been taken on the ground
that the two consular officials were I'M
duly active in soliciting business for the
vessels of the United States.
The British government six weeks ago
advised the American government it had
proof of abuse by Consul Slater and
Vice Consul Brooks of their positions
and that it would defer action for a
month or two as the American govern
ment was conducting its own negotia-
tions and might decide to remove the
official itself.
The American governments reply
was that it did not consider any Of the
allegations substantiated The British
government, according TO officials, felt
then that it would have no alternative
but to enforce its decision.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
RAIN KILLS THE BIRDS.
Great Mortality Among the Birds This
Season.

pItStt AIJIlditty +AhAOilS the DAFhS lH1S
Season.
New England ornithologists report
great mortality among the birds this sum-
mer. Unusually heavy rains have
drowned hedglings and starved their IA
theirs and mothers to death by the thous-
ands. From a single tall chimney at one
town in Maine two wheelbarrow loads of
dead swallows were taken. They died of
starvation, say the bird experts. Swal-
lows, the same authorities declare, fly
with their mouths open and feed on the
insects with which the summer air
abounds. The heavy rains this season
have driven the insects to the ground.
The food supply of the swallows has
thus been cut off, and great numbers of
the birds have died of exhaustion in the
chimneys in which they nest.
But swallows are not the only birds
that suffer from the rains. Those that
nest on the ground or in low bushes
along the banks of streams have been
severely affected. Nests with eggs in them
have been swept away in flooded mea-
dOws. Young birds were drowned where
they were Matched. In western Maine,
in Massachusetts. Rhode Island and
Connecticut wrens, swamp sparrows,
song sparrows and red winged blackbirds
are known to have persisted by the hum
dreds. Uuquestionably the mortality
has been greater than the reported cases.
Some of the birds, those that raise only
one brood in a year have been holding
unseaSOnably early conventions prepare
tory to giving up the job for the year
and going back south weeks in advance
of the usual time for migration. Some
have already gone and are reported in
Virginia on their way south long before
they were due. On the other hand.
birds that raise two families every sea-
son are still holding the fort against the
rain, doing their tuneful best to make
the jocund summer mornings as melo-
dious as possible under the depressing
circumstances.
Not only in New England, whence the
first official mortality reports have come,
hut wherever this summers rainfall has
been abnormal, the losses of bird life
have been heavy York Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
The Candidate.

I thought | was model man.
Built on a good and decent plan,
Without a doubtful, chcckered past
To make tine public stand agast,
| didn't know ! was so tough,
My ways uncouth, my manners gTuff
But this. tits whispered. many state,
Since l became a candidatei
Ny neighbors used to call ne kind
If | had faults, my flaws We're blind.
They spoke about my CHEEKY way
OF greeting them from day to day.
But recently their very glance
Is cast at me in doubt, askanee.
! find their love is not so great
Since / became a candidate!
But gOssips' tongues are all a-wag,
Their conversation doesn't lag;
They nod and wink and point at me,
And criticise me full and free.
They pry into my public life
For something that will start strife
IN looked upon by some with hate,
Since / became a candidate
I've never gone to wild extremes,
Nor been mixed up in grating schemes
! never stole a dollar yet,
Nor had to pay gambling debt.
/ try to be a decent man,
And do what little good | can,
But, @, the stories folks create
Since l became a candidate
E. A. Briuinstool, in Los Angelic
Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
CHILEAN FRUIT.
Success in Establishing Sound Trade
FOreSeeu

FOreSeen.
A little more than year ago two ex-
perimental shipments of fruit were dis
patched from Chile to New York in the
expectation that an important trade
might be developed, based primarily on
the opposition of the seasons north and
south of the equator, which enables Chile
to ship freshly picked fruits in midwin-
ter and early spring The first consign-
ment is reported to have met with graft
flying success, but the second resulted in
failure, due apparently to the packing
Since then the Chilean government has
carefully investigated the possibilities
and requirements of the New York mar
ket, and fresh attempts have been made
under government patronage and encouF-
agement to develop the trade The
steamship Essequibo of the Pacific Steam
Navigation company, which passed
through the canal on February 10, car
ried Chilean fruit valued in Chile at
100000 pesos and estimated to be worth
like amount in dollars landed in New
York. This included grapes, peaches,
cherries, plums, etc, all carefully packed
and inspected by a government expert
before shipment.
The results, as nearly as can be ascer-
tanned on the isthmus at this time, were
entirely satisfactory.
The full development of this trade may
have to await the assignment of specially
constructed steamships. Those now
available were not designed to carry fruit
and are not as well adapted to that ser
vice as they might be. In any case the
trade will be seasonal and confined to the
late winter and early spring but it may.
nevertheless, assume important proper
tions.-Panama Canal Record.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
GOVERNMENT NOT
REGULATING COAL
State Fuel Office Notified
That Soft Coal Emer-
gency Is Over
MUNICIPAL WOOD
YARDS ADVISED
Action Under Law of 1919 May Prevent
PrOfiteering In Wood - Local Dealers
Should Be Asked for Supplies of
Anthracite Coal.

Should Be Asked for Supplies of
Anthracite Coal
MONTPELIER, Sept. Prank
Robinson, who is in charge of the state
fuel office here, has received advice from
Washington to the effect that emer-
gency coal regulations will not be en-
forced until further notice
Mr.. Robinson said. THE system of
providing emergency coal for manufac-
turers and others has been suspended
on account of the increase in the sup
ply of bituminOus coal. The emergency
coal available did not include anthracite
and therefore the applications for such
have not been hOnOred. Manufacturers
and other desiring coal should at once
take action to procure such through
their local dealers or through the
agencies through which they have pre-
viously obtained their coal"
According to latest reports, there is
no increase in anthracite and strin-
gency for the winter becomes more
acute every day. Mr.. Jones has put out
recommended lions to local fuel commit
tees to the effect that they should place
the matter of holding a public meeting
of fuel consumers for the purpose of
considering local fuel shortage. Also
he has issued local fuel committees a
copy of a fuel law enacted in Vermont
in 1919, No. 10J, which provides that
towns and cities may purchase of wood
lots and the establishment of municipal
wood yards. towns and cities will be able
to control the local price of wood.