Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-20
Worlds News

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT II. Asquith,
former British premier, has acceptt
the offer of an earldom Newspaper
reports of Mr., Asquith's acceptance
of promotion to the peerage were con.
confirmed recently The passing Of
Mr.. Asquith to the upper house with
the title Of Earl of oxford terminates
the anomalous situation which arose
at the last general election when the
leader Of the liberals failed to obtain
a seat in the house of commons. Ac.
ceptance of peerage which Mr., AS.
quith SO many times has refused IN
the past may almost certainly be
taken as meaning that the active
leadership Of the liberal party passes
to Lloyd George.
SAN FRANClSCO-The late Presi.
dent Wilson, on January %, 1915, en-.
gagged in the first transcontinental
telephone conversation, when at the
White House he talked with President
-'ib'lN VI INC uilliI lSAppol
ton at San Francisco. That was ten
years ago. Dr.. Alexander Graham
Bell on that date also talked from
New York to Thomas A. Watson, then
in San Francisco. At that time lass
than forty years had elapsed since DR..
Bell, working in his studio on the in.
ventiOn that developed into the tele.
phone, spoke the first word ever
transmitted over wire. Mr.. Watson,
who in 1915 stood on the Pacific Coast
and again listened to DR.. Bell speak.
Ing from the Atlantic Coast, was tae
same man who had heard that fist
word transmitted. Alexander Graham
Bell has since died, but Mr.. Watson is
still alive. The development and OK.
pansiOn of telephone facilities has
during the last ten years been even
more rapid throughout the country
than it was in the earlier periods. =,
NOME, Alaska.-Joseph Sale, SIS
years old, pioneer miner of Kourga.
rok on the Kougarok River, 60 miles
northeast Of here, was found dead in
his cabin recently by James Carrigan
Carrigan said that Sale was dressed
fer work and was not i'll when last
seen alive. Corrigan declared he be.
lieved Sale was slain. Sale is sur
yiyed by two children in Brooklyn
FLORENCE, Italy.-The Malone
says that the Italian Grand Lodge of
Free Masons has decided upon the
dissolution Of Italian Free Masonry
without waiting for the approval of
the bill in secret societies recently
presented by Premier Mussolni The
newspaper adds that it is understood
only Domiaio Torrigiani, the grand
master, will retain his post in order
to keep in contact with foreign free
masonry and also act as representa-.
tive Of the Italian order at the inter.
national Masonic Council in Paris.
VICTORIA, B. C.-Francis Ker.
made, curator of the provincial mu. |
scum here, declines any longer to he
custodian Of Miss Ursus Remodel, |
the little white bear which has at.
tracted wide continental interest NJ |
B, Jackson, chairman of the game con-
servatiCn board, has assumed charge |
of the bear. The board will not en-
terrain the proposal of the transfer
of Ursus Kermodei to the Eastern
states The New York Zoo authori. |
ties have sought the bear ever since
the animal was captured.
CLEVELAND, deposition from
office was determined as a suitable |
sentence for the Right Reverend vii
liam Montgomery Brown, retired bish-
op of Arkansas, by the Protestant |
Episcopal Church board of review re.
Gently, after Bishop Brown had spo-
ken in defense of his beliefs. The |
, penalty carried with its affirmation
of the trial last May when Bishop
Brown was convicted of heresy. The |
sentence cannot be put into effect I'M
til approved by the house of bishops,
which meets in New Orleans next au-
tumn.