Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
Worlds News


Gently notified the Preparations Com.
mission that the Ruhr and other evac.
uations required by the Dawes plan
have been completed.
SANTA RoSALIA, Cal.-Augustus
Pedrotti, rancher living three miles
from here, was gored to death by
bull on his ranch recently. Pedrotti
and his wife had gone into the field to
lengthen the bulls rope. The bull
broke away and charged them. Mrs,
Pedrotti escaped to nearby fence,
but the bull caught and gored Pedrot-
Il before he could reach safety.
BoSToN.-A centenary OF unusual
interest occurring this year Is that of
the appointment OF John Singleton
Copley to be encouragement in the
British government, followed three
years later by his elevation, with the
title OF Lord Lyndhurst to the lord
chancellorship-the only lord chancel-
lor born in America. Copley's father
was u successful portrait painter of
Boston, Mass, who settled in Eng
land, where Copley was reared and
educated. The future chancellor's
mother was the daughter of Richard
Clark, Boston merchant, to whom
was consigned the famous cargo of
tea which was pitched into Boston
harbor by citizens disguised at Mo
hawk Indians.
DAWSON, Y. THE rare occur
renee of an unmolested moose attack
ing a man was the experience of Chris
Olsen, hunter and trapper of Indian
River. when bull moose charged him
furiously from the concealment of
green timber. Olsen took a flying
shot, hitting the moose in the head,
but the next instant the moose hurled
him to the ground, goring him badly.
At the moment when Olsen thought
he would have succumbed, the moose
keeled over and Olsen scrambled to
his feet.
LOS ANGELES, Cal - The Lady
bug, the ageold friend Of little chill.
dren, is credited with having success.
fully exterminated the mealy bug cit,
rus pest in Southern California, &C.
cording to entomologists who say the
disease is well under control.
LONDON.-Six hundred punches of
black Hamburg grapes, some Of them
yielding more than two pounds each,
have just been cut from the great vine
at Hampton Court Palace. This
grape vine, like Ephraim Bulls orig
inal Concord vine which still flourish
es in the Massachusetts, town, is one
of the most famous in the world. 1t
is more than century and half old,
having been planted in the reign of
King George II, and its enormous
yield is matter of great interest in
England. The vine requires constant
pruning, else it would exhaust itself
in bearing more grapes than it would
be able to nourish. The sale of this
vines enormous yield provides a tidy
sum for charity, as the grapes fetch
S1.50 a pound.
WINNIPEG.-From August / to Oc-
tober 20, inclusive, there were 27,475
cars of wheat loaded by the Canadian
Pacific Railway on the prairies, as
we'll as $3.50 cars Of other grains,
making grand total of 33,764 cars.
OTTAWA.-The number of tele-
phones increased in Canada from
944,O29 in 1929 to 1.O09,2OS in 1928, &C.
cording to report of the Bureau of
Statistics, says the G. P. R. News
letter. This works out at an average
of 11.03 telephones to every 100 OF
population. British Columbia is the
most extensive user of telephones,
followed by Ontario, Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island.
LONDON.-With the American lin
vasion" of London in full swing, the
manager of big Oxford Street store
has estimated that the visitors from
over the Atlantic were spending more
than 100000 week nthe English
capital. The oldest purchase of the
season seems to have been in the shop
OF an optician. An American, after
some hesitation and fitting, selected
a monocle and ribbon for half a gui.
nea, When he made his choice he
said he wanted half dozen OF them,
and explained that he had four boys
and a girl at home in Chicago, who