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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — While  showing  a  group 
of  visiting  engineers  about  a  transformer 
station  of  the  Malden  Electric  Company 
at  Everett,  Mass.,  October  24,  John  H. 
Grimmons  of  Somerville,  an  electrical  en¬ 
gineer  employed  by  the  company  was 
killed  by  electricity  in  a  manner  electrical 
experts  present  were  unable  to  explain. 
Grimmons  pointed  to  a  high  power  switch, 
his  finger  being  at  least  three  inches  from 
the  metal.  He  suddenly  collapsed  and 
died.  Thirty  power  experts  from  all 
parts  of  New  England  were  among  the 
visitors. 
Mrs.  Hannah  Bly,  55,  and  Mrs.  Sarah 
Gallery,  50,  both  of  Shrewsbury,  N.  J., 
were  killed  October  24  on  the  State  High¬ 
way  between  Shrewsbury  and  Eatontown, 
while  on  their  way  to  a  church  party  at 
Eatontown.  The  automobile  that  killed 
them  was  driven  by  Andrew  R.  Santo  of 
Red  Bank,  the  police  said. 
The  Russian  Socialist  Federated  Soviet 
Republic,  through  Charles  Recht,  110 
West  Fortieth  Street,  New  York,  brought 
suit  Oct.  25  in  the  United  States  Dis¬ 
trict  Court  for  an  accounting  and  possible 
recovery  of  $1,000,000  from  the  National 
City  Bank.  This  sum,  according  to  Mr. 
Recht,  was  deposited  pursuant  to  an 
agreement  between  the  Soviet  and 
Jacques  Roberto  Cibrario,  an  erstwhile 
agent,  by  which  the  latter  was  to  buy 
materials  for  motion  picture  production 
and  propaganda  in  Russia.  It  is  alleged 
about  $900,000  was  paid  in  violation  of 
this  agreement.  Four  indictments  against 
Cibrario  for  the  larceny  of  $136,000  from 
this  same  deposit  were  dismissed  two 
years  ago. 
Four  engine  companies,  two  fire  trucks, 
a  ivater  tower,  chiefs  of  twro  battalions 
and  a  deputy  chief  mailed  a  stranger’s 
letter  for  him  October  27  after  he  had 
thrown  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  into 
confusion  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour.  The 
stranger  placed  the  letter  on  the  fire 
alarm  box  at  Thirtieth  Street  and  Fifth 
Avenue,  pulled  the  handle  and  strolled 
away.  In  a  moment  the  wail  of  sirens 
cleared  the  avenue  and  engines,  trucks 
and  fire  chiefs  came  charging  up  the 
street.  The  fire-fighters  could  find  no 
fire.  Then  the  letter  perched  on  the 
alarm  box  told  the  story.  One  of  the 
firemen  mailed  the  letter. 
The  American  submarine  0-5,  sunk  in 
a  collision  with  the  steamer  Abangarez 
at  the  entrance  to  the  Panama  Canal  on 
October  28,  was  raised  the  following  day. 
Chief  Electrician’s  Mate  Lawrence  Brown 
and  Torpedoman  Henry  Breault  were 
rescued  alive  from  the  hulk  and  taken  to 
the  Colon  Hospital.  No  trace  was  found 
of  three  other  missing  men.  Brown  and 
Breault  may  recover. 
October  29,  at  the  corner  of  Third 
Avenue  and  137th  Street,  New  York,  at 
five  in  the  evening,  a  policeman  saw  two 
young  men  blackjack  Frederick  Vander- 
voort,  a  superintendent  for  the  Sheffield 
Farms  Dairy  Company,  point  revolvers 
at  Frederick  Wein,  also  a  company  em¬ 
ployee,  and  escape  in  an  automobile  with 
a  tin  cash  box  containing  $11,265.  There 
was  a  large  crowd  on  the  busy  thorough¬ 
fare,  but  the  robbers  escaped. 
Two  men  selling  gold  mine  stock  in 
Elizabeth.  N.  J.,  with  an  old  fashioned 
gold  brick  as  a  sample  were  ordered  to 
leave  town  October  30  by  A.  J.  David, 
prosecutor  of  Union  county.  It  is  said 
the  two  men  have  sold  about  $50,000 
worth  of  gold  brick  stock  to  barbers, 
tailors  and  bootblacks.  It  became  known 
that  a  tailor  had  invested  $1,060  of  his 
savings  in  the  mining  company,  the  men 
said  they  owned.  The  stock  salesmen 
were  said  to  be  brothers,  who  had  their 
Elizabeth  office  in  a  boarding  house. 
Their  mine  was  represented  to  be  near 
Salt  Lake  City. 
Beginning  November  1  the  new  amend¬ 
ment  to  the  New  York  City  sanitary  code 
requiring  that  all  food  handlers  must 
obtain  health  certificates  became  effective. 
Dr.  Fx-ank  J.  Monaghan,  Health  Commis¬ 
sioner,  said  that  violations  of  the  new 
ruling  would  be  punished  with  immediate 
prosecution. 
Fire,  believed  to  have  originated  in  a 
chemical  laboratory,  destroyed  the  Sara¬ 
toga,  N.  Y.,  High  School  October  27,  with 
a  loss  estimated  at  $100,060,  which  in¬ 
cludes  destruction  of  records  and  text¬ 
books.  The  566  students  will  be  quartered 
in  other  buildings  until  the  completion 
of  a  new  high  school,  now  under  con¬ 
struction,  in  September,  1924. 
The  country  home  of  Eliphalet  N.  Pot¬ 
ter,  New  York  broker,  at  Mount  Ivisco, 
N.  Y.,  was  destroyed  with  its  contents  by 
fire  October  2S,  at  a  loss  of  $175,666  to 
$206,660. 
WASHINGTON.  — Tentative  approval 
of  plans  to  expend  $1,560,066  in  per¬ 
manent  improvements  at  the  Ellis  Island 
Immigration  Station  followed  a  confer¬ 
ence  October  24  between  Henry  H.  Cur¬ 
ran,  Immigration  Commissioner  at  New 
Y'ork;  W.  W.  Husband,  Comnnissioner- 
General  of  Immigration,  and  Director  of 
the  Budget  Lord.  If  further  study  of  the 
proposal  justifies,  Congress  will  be  asked 
to  provide  the  necessary  funds  in  an  early 
appropriation  bill.  The  expenditure  would 
provide  additional  sleeping  quarters  and 
recreation  grounds  and  modernize  the 
plumbing.  Substantial  improvements  in 
conditions  at  Ellis  Island  have  been  urged 
by  successive  Commissioners  of  Immigra¬ 
tion,  but  the  question  was  brought  to  a 
head  in  the  minds  of  the  public  by  the 
report  made  to  his  Government  by  Sir 
Auckland  Geddes,  the  British  Ambassa¬ 
dor.  While  on  the  whole  favorable,  the 
report  denounced  tlie  crowding  and  un¬ 
cleanliness  which  the  Ambassador  found 
prevalent  and  made  twelve  specific  sug¬ 
gestions  to  improve  the  situation. 
Two  Pottawatomie  Indians,  one  113 
years  old  and  the  other  three  years 
younger,  arrived  at  Washington  October 
29  from  their  home  at  Mayette,  Ivan.,  and 
through  an  interpreter  placed  claims  in 
behalf  of  their  tribe  before  Secretary 
Work  of  the  Interior  Department  for 
lands  along  Lake  Michigan  in  Chicago 
valued  at  $55,666,006.  The  Indians, 
Nunnemskuk  and  Skineqay,  said  that 
until  removed  by  the  Government  from 
the  land  in  1833  the  tribe’s  title  never 
had  been  questioned.  They  said  the  land 
was  given  to  the  tenant  Indians  by  a 
treaty  signed  by  Gen.  Anthony  Wayne  at 
Greenville,  Ill.,  in  1787  and  confirmed  by 
a  treaty  in  1816. 
Administration  plans  for  reorganization 
of  the  Government  departments  in  Wash¬ 
ington  to  coordinate  the  Federal  branches 
and  practically  to  eliminate  duplication  of 
work  will  be  submitted  to  the  next  Con¬ 
gress  early  in  the  session.  Official  an¬ 
nouncement  was  made  by  the  White 
House  October  36  that  the  President  had 
agreed  with  Cabinet  members  upon  the 
general  outline  of  the  plan  drawn  by  a 
joint  Congressional  committee  and  sub¬ 
mitted  to  President  Harding  early  last 
Bpring.  Under  the  proposal  there  will 
be  ten  executive  departments.  The  War 
and  Navy  departments  will  be  joined  into 
a  single  establishment,  and  tlipre  will  be 
a  new  Department  of  Public  Welfare. 
Prohibition  enforcement  is  to  be  trans¬ 
ferred  from  the  Treasury  to  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Justice,  and  other  great  bureaus 
are  to  be  uprooted  and  transplanted.  An¬ 
nouncement  of  agreement  on  the  plans 
submitted  for  reorganization  came  as  a 
surprise.  President  Harding  and  his 
Cabinet  had  considered  them  for  months 
without  decision.  President  Coolidge.  it 
was  stated,  is  ready  to  put  them  forward. 
A  conference  of  the  Cabinet  with  Walter 
Brown,  chairman  of  the  joint  Congres¬ 
sional  committee,  will  be  called  ^oon  and 
a  final  report  made. 
Documents  purporting  to  show  that  E. 
L.  Morse,  Republican  politician  of  Mis¬ 
souri,  who  was  paymaster  of  the  Lowden 
pi-esidential  campaign  fund  in  that  State 
in  1920,  cleaned  up  $93,066  in  the  sale 
of  his  home  at  Excelsior  Springs,  Mo.,  as 
a  site  for  a  tuberculosis  hospital,  although 
the  place  was  rejected  by  a  special  board 
on  hospital  sites  were  submitted  October 
30  to  the  special  Senate  committee  in¬ 
vestigating  the  charges  of  wasteland  mis¬ 
management  by  the  Veterans’  Bureau. 
An  original  lease  for  the  property  was 
rushed  through  on  March  3,  1921,  by 
Ewing  Laporte,  Assistant  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury.  Major-Gen.  John  F. 
O’Ryan  of  New  York,  who  is  conducting 
the  case  for  the  Senate  committee,  read 
into  the  record  a  telegram  from  Brig.- 
Gen.  Sawyer  dated  July  1,  1922,  as  presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Hospitalization  Board,  in 
which  he  condemned  the  selection  of  Ex¬ 
celsior  'Springs  as  a  site  for  a  hospital 
and  urged  an  adjustment  with  Morse  to 
compensate  him  for  any  losses  to  date. 
A  resolution  passed  by  the  Federal  Board 
on  the  Hospitalization  of  Disabled  Vet¬ 
erans  also  was  read  into  the  record.  The 
board  advised  that  the  project  be 
abandoned  and  no  further  funds  be  ex¬ 
pended  except  to  meet  any  obligation  of 
the  Government  under  the  proposed  lease. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Nov.  3-10 — New  York  Apple  Show, 
Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York  City. 
Nov.  3-16 — -Pacific  International  Live 
Stock  Exposition,  Portland,  Ore.  Sec.- 
Gen.  Mgr.,  O.  M.  Plummer,  210-211  N. 
W.  Bank  Bldg.,  Portland,  Ore. 
*Nov.  6-9— American  Pomological  So¬ 
ciety,  annual  meeting,  New  York  City. 
Nov.  7-Feb.  24 — Short  Winter  courses 
in  floriculture  and  ornamental  horticul- 
ture,  New  York  State  College  of  Agri¬ 
culture,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  20-  21 — New  York  State  Farm 
Bureau  Federation,  annual  meeting, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  17-24— American  Royal  Live 
Stock  Show,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Nov.  20-24 — Annual  farm  exhibit, 
Monmouth  County  Board  of  Agriculture, 
Beach  Casino,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 
Nov.  24 — Annual  Meeting,  Monmouth 
County  Board  of  Agriculture,  Beach 
Casino,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 
Nov.  27-Dec.  1 — Poultry  Show,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  1-8 — 'International  Live  Stock  Ex¬ 
position,  Chicago,  Ill. 
Dec.  4-6 — New  Jersey  State  Horticul¬ 
tural  Society,  annual  meeting  and  ex¬ 
hibit.  Haddon  Hall  Hotel,  Atlantic  Citv, 
N.  J. 
Dee.  13-15 — Fifth  annual  poultry  show, 
North  Bergen  County  Poultry  Associa¬ 
tion  of  New  Jersey.  Odd  Fellows  Hall, 
Westwood,  N.  .T.  F.  T.  Barnes,  secre¬ 
tary,  Westwood,  N.  J. 
Jan.  1-12,  1924— Virginia  Breeders’ 
and  Fanciers’  Association,  Inc.,  seven¬ 
teenth  annual  show,  Richmond,  Va.  Sec¬ 
retary,  J.  D.  Halliban,  2914  East  Broad 
St.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jan.  15-18 — New  York  State  Horti- 
cultural  Society,  annual  meeting,  Roches¬ 
ter,  N.  Y. 
Feb.  20-22  —  Eastern  meeting  New 
York  State  Horticultural  Society,  Pough¬ 
keepsie,  N.  Y.  Roy  P.  McPherson,  secre¬ 
tary,  Le  Boy,  N.  Y. 
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