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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
MRS. CODY FREE.
The Judge Snspends Judg-
ment in Her Case.

Albany, N. Y, March 10.-Judge
Gregory announced at O'Clock. this
afternoon, that he had decided to sus-
pend sentence in the case of Margaret
Z. Cody, who was found guilty of
Matchmaking the Gould heirs, by the
jury here yesterday. In announcing his
decision, he said: Mrs Cody, the evil
dence has convinced me that you are
guilty beyond question, yet I feel hat
in view of the jury's unanimous recon-
mendation to mercy, and the popular
sentiment which favors 1t, / am
justified IN following their suggestion
and suspsnding sentence In your case
You are free to go on your own recog-
nizance."
1t is understood that the jury's rec
OmmendatiOn was on account OF the
prisoners age and for no other eaeon.
Miss Helen Gould has made no effort
to influence the courts decision one
way or the other. Asked if she had
anything to say before sentences was
passed, Mrs. Cody answered, I am in
nocent, sir" She left at 10 o'clock to-
night for Denver, Col, where her
daughter lives
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
ACCEPT INVITATION.
Wet. u. Will Attopd Quarter Centennial
Of Temperance Crusaders.

The w. G. r. U. held a tea meeting
yesterday afternoon and evening at the
home Of Mrs. John sutton, ON Lake
street. An invitation from the Tenn
perance Crusaders to attend their 25th
anniversary in Grace u. IT, Church.
March u, was accepted. Mrs. o. f.
Bailey and Mrs. A. II. Harrington of
Leicester read papers on timely topics
Of interest TO the union. Master NIL
ton Mcdonald entertained with songs
and readings. After lunch, Louis Co
mez played several guitar selections.
Miss Lulu Eddy also entertained with
violin selections. Seven new members
were admitted.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
so. ATLANTIC SQUADRON,
Rear Admiral Howison Ordered to Be In
Read ness to lake Command.

Boston, March 10.-Orders have been
received at the Charlestown navy yard
detaching Rear Admiral Henry Howl
son, the commandant, and ordering him
to report at Washington and hold him
self in readiness TO take command of
the south Atlantic squadron. The or
ders for detachment take effect next
Wednesday Admiral Howison has
been at the navy yard since May g.
1897, when he relieved Rear Admiral
Joseph N. Miller
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
IN BAY STATE.
Mrs. Ames on Labor Before
the Industrial Commission.

washington, March 10-The indus
trial commission had before it today
Mrs. Fanny B. Ames who has been for
seven years a factory inspector in Bos-
ton.
She said there were but few children
under ID now employed in the factories
OF Massachusetts. The children were
not overworlSed. She said she had stud
led the conditions prevailing in Europe
and was satisfied that the interests OF
children in Massachusetts were much
better provided for than in any foreign
country. In European countries the
ages of children were lower, hours long
er and sanitary conditions poorer. In
Massachusetts the health conditions
have greatly improved during the past
~ years, and there was now no reason
for complaint.
She did not think that the employ
llrent Of women and claAdren in factor
les was conducive to immortality, and
expressed the opinion that their en-
ployment in factories was more desir-
able for children than employment in
the department stores, because the fac
tories teach useful trades.
EtSNefunS 10 the question OF the
character Of factory employees, Mrs.
Ames said she thought 1t ungenerous in
men TO assume that women in factories
and stores are immoral.
They are, she said, generally excep-
tionally moral and most of them will be
found supporting dependent members
of their own families. They are not al
ways pleasant in manner but they are
wirtuous These women, she said, have
a hard lot in life, but they bear it
bravely. Mrs. Ames expressed the opin-
ion that machinery had not decreased
the chances for hand labor, but that it
had changed it. She also said that there
had not been any great spread of So
cialism but that the laboring people ac-
cepted present considerations. Speaking
of sweat-shops, the conditions that for
merly prevailed have disappeared from
Boston.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
CITY TREASURER ENJolNED.
He Cannot Pay the 1898 Boston Alder
manic Carriage Hire Bills.

Boston, March 10-Judge Morton
granted an injunction in the supreme
court this mirning restraining the city
treasurer of Boston from paying the
balance of the 1898 aldermanic hack
bills which involves a sum Of about $l0.-
900. The hack bills for the year amount
ed IN round numbers to $780, 900 and bills
have been paid footing up TO about
$4,000, There are about $4,000 worth Of
these bills which have been approved
and the rest are yet to be acted upon.
1t is these last two items which the in
ilInctton affects.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
VIOLATED PROBATION.

Thomas Cosgrove. who was released
from the Concord reformatory last No
vember, was arrested last night by OFF,
GERS Spencer and Rogers, for violation
of his probation conditions from the
reformatOry. He figured in an assault
on Officer Condy in East Worcester sew
eral weeks ago, and has been arrested
for drunkenness once. He win be sent
back today.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11

E. H. Vaughan who has engineered
the Kettle brook cases from the first.
stated frankly that the petitioners were
not satisfied. and that the award
should have been exactly twice the
amount found
The estimate Of the mill owners was
about $2250,O0O while the city Of Wor-
cester set the damages by the diversion
of the waters at between $125, 900 and
$200O00
Blackmer & Vaughan. who were orig
inally retained by the mill owners,
brought into counsel Frank p. Could
ing, Esq, and they, with Henry w.
King, who represented the Kent inter-
ests. have conducted the fight for the
petitioners, while city Solicitor Arthur
P. Rugg has been supported by such
brilliant talent as Senator George F.
Hoar and Col. w. S b. Hopkins.
Aside from the award the commits
sioneFs have decided. first of all, that
the town Of Leicester has no water
supply of its own, as exclusively an
nounced in The Spy Of last summer.
The commissioners find that the Lei
eester water supply district, so called.
has never made valid taking In thu
town OF Paxton, and that by being a
continued user OF water from it's springs
and wells, 1T has been trespasser
against the mill OWNERS
Another ruling of the commission ia
that a substantial part Of Kettle brook.
which was the subject of much heated
| controversy, flows into Kents reser-
voir naturally, and is therefore a part
Of the water taken by the city.
Another important ruling OF the COM
mission is that the city Of Worcester is
entitled to no deduction from the award
or credit for the water IL returns to
the Blackstone through the purihca-
ton works at Quinsigamond
The commission sought to ascertain
the actual condition of the property as
it was in 1895, and how much the water
power had been and how much It might
be proftably and practically develop
ed
In passing upon this question the
commission considered the amount Of
horse power lost and it's value in rela-
ton to each property, as the most inn
portant element. The property was also
examined in its entirety, the location,
capacity, adaptability conditions, the
water in the reservoirs at the time of
the taking, and all other factors relat-
ing to each property, in order to de-
termine how much less the property
was fairly worth in the market after
taking all this into account.
The award in full is as follows:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
POISON THR oueH MAILS.
Handwriting Experts to Have Chance In
an Attempted Maine Murder Case.

Handwriting Experts to Have Chance In
an Attempted Maine Murder Case.
Lewiston. Me, March 10.-A prelimi-
nary hearing was held today in the
ease of George w. Pierce, charged with
the attempted murder of Judge A. D.
Cornish of the Lewiston municipal
court. in April last, by sending to his
house a package Of sugar intermixed
with arsenic. The name Cornish" was
written upon the bag, the state claims,
in the handwriting of Pierce. Since
being in Jail, Pierce has written a pa
thetic letter to Judge Cornish, asking
his forgiveness and announcing his in
tention of living a better life, which
letter was offered at today's hearing.
Pierce was held in $4,000 for the grand
jury.
This afternoon, in the Auburn police
court, on charge Of attempting to MUIR
der City Marshal Leel Of Lewiston with
poisoned whisky, he was held in the
same sum.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
THE EUROPEAN STATION.
For the Present itWiIl Not be Re-sstab-
Iished by the Navy Department.

Washington, March 10,-Inquiry at
navy department today developed the
fact that it is not the present intention
to re-establish the European station,
although the need Of such a station is
acknowledged by naval officers. 1t is
said that there should be squadron
in the Mediterranean, while so many
vessels of the United States are going
through that sea and the Suez canal
to Manila. but it is claimed that the
department has not ships nor men to
man ships cut Of commission for the
European station.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
SMITH WINS FIGHT.

san Francisco March 1O.-Billy La
vigne brother of Kid Lavigne, jumped
into the ring in the 18th round Of the
Smith-Lavigne fight, tonight, and Ref
cree Mcdonald was forced to give the
decision TO Smith.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
Name Of Petitioner.

Il. D. Thayer ct al,
E. D. Thayer ct al,
X. d. Thayer ct al,
Town of Leicester,
George Mann ct al,
George Mann ct al,
George Mann ct al,
George Mann ct al,
Leicester Water Power Company,
A. w. Darling, lessee,
A. w Darling ct al, lessees,
p. D. Thayer, owner,
f. ID. Thayer. owner,
n. ID. Thayer, owner,
Newton Darling,
Eli Collier,
Waity M. Olney ct al,
Waity NJ Olney ct al,
Waity NJ. Olney ct al,
Anjeanette K Smith.
Charming Smith, lessee,
+. j. Thayer Jr.,
Albert W. Darling,
Elizabeth A. Butler
II. w. King, trustee,
William j. Hogg, ct al,
Albert Curtis,
Curtis Manufacturing Company.
Hopevllle Manufacturing ComuanV.
William j. Hogg,
George A. Stevens,
Wor & Sub ST Tly Co,
Anna L. Morse ct al,
William Harrington,
j II. Mason & Co,
Cords mills,
Charles r. Aldrich.
Sutton Manufacturing Company,
Saunders cotton mills
Fisher Manufacturing company.
William III. Whitman
Paul Within Manufacturing Compan
RiVerdale Wooden Company.
Calumet Wooden Company,
Calumet Wooden Company,
Lawrence FebinB Company
Blackstone Manufacturing Compan
hari r. Mason Land Company.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
KIPLING WAS TOLD
The Sad News of His Daughters Death
Broken TO Him.

New. York, March 10.--Mr. Kipling is
night. Unable to keep Mr.. Kipling in
ignorance Of his favorite Josephine's
death, the news was broken to him to-
night by DR.. Durham. The blow was
a heavy one, but the father bore up
bravely.
How long was she i'll % he asked.
He was then told as much as the at
tendants thought wise. Tears stood
In the poets eyes, and he murmured
half to himself, half aloud, Poor little
joe" 1t was this he always called
the little one.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
MUST HOLD PAPERS.
Creditors of j. M. slgafas in HaverhlI At
tach the Property.

Chicago, March 10.--J NJ Sigafus'
valise, containing 100000 worth of
bonds and certificates of deposit, which
terward recovered by the police, is in
the hands of the Wells, Fargo Express
Company. 1t was to have been for
warded to Sigafus, who is now in Cali
fornia, but United States Marshal Os-
borne has served the express company
with notice to hold the papers until
further orders from the federal court.
This is due to the fact that creditors of
Sigafus, in Haverhill, Mass, who hold
a Judgment for S325000 against him,
have notified their attorneys to attach
the property,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
SUCCEEDS DR.. TALMAGE.

Rev. Or. Sunderland Resumes Charge of
the First Presbyterian Church.
Washington, March 10-Rev. Dr. By
ron Sunderland has been appointed pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church,
to succeed the Rev. DIR. 7. Dewitt Tai
mage. DR.. Sunderland already has
served the church 45 years, and since
his resignation last June, when DIR.
Talmage took charge, has been the pas
tor emeritus. He will now resume full
pastoral charge, and his congregation
infNits that he shall again become pas
tor TO remain as such the rest of his
life. DR.. Talmage, accompanied by his
wife, left here today for q two weeks
VISIT to Old Point Comfort, Va, and
st. Augustine, Fla.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
GEN. MILES ACCEPTS.
He wal Be Guest of Boston Merchants
Club March q

Boston. March 10.-The long talked
of visit of Maj Gen. Nelson A. Miles
to this city is now assured. He will be
here on March 81, when a dinner will
be given him by the Boston Merchants
Club at the Algonquin Club.
Before the dinner which is TO take
place at o'clock, the Algonquin Club
will give reception to Gen. Miles, to
which many officers stationed near
Boston will be invited. During his stay
in this city, he will be the guest Of Ad-
jutant General Dalton, probably at the
Somerset Hotel. He has also accepted
an invitation TO dine with Gov. VOL
colt. on Wednesday the general win
visit Fitchburg his old home where a
public reception will be given him by
| the CITY fathers
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
WEATHER RFpne 7

Washington, March 10. 49, Forecast for
Saturday: New England: Increasing
cloudiness;. probably snow or rain; brisk
easterly winds.
Eastern. New York: Increasing cloudl-
ness; probably rain; brisk easterly winds
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
THE MANHATTAN

The Electric Thrd-Rail System Definitely
Adopted on the Elevated.
New York, March 10-The Manhattan
Railroad Company has definitely adopt
ed the electric thrd-rail system for the
operating equipment of the elevated
road.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-11
HONORABLE DISMISSAL.
Action of Boston Warren Avenue Baptist
Church Toward Rev Mr.. Dixon.

Boston, March 10.-The Warren Ave-
nue. Baptist Church tonight granted
upon request, letters of honorable dis
nissai 10 Rev. DR.. Dixon. This ao-
ton makes the late pastor a blameless
one before any church to which he may
see fit to present his letter. His son is
also granted letter Of dismissal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10
The wre,chsd Poor In Cuba.

Stephen E. Barton, chairman of the CEN
trial relief committee at New York, has re-
ceived a letter from Red Cross Agent
Warner at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, in part as
follows: "The work of cleaning the dirty
cities goes on rapidly. We are filling from
$50 to 400 doctors prescriptions daily. l
discovered recently on the outskirts of this
city some of the worst cases of restitution
and misery that l have yet witnessed in
Cuba. Two great buildings, that had been
used for drying sheds, were filled with re-
concentrates who were too wretched to live
and too poor to die in comfort. fed every
one of them and will continue to do so un-
til some way is found to keep them alive.
l don't know what is to become of these
people but death from starvation when we
leave for there is literally no work for
them. The great herds of cattle that once
supported this entire town are things of the
past. Gen. SCHNEIDER has informed me that
he was receiving 30 carloads of food for
relief work here, and that he would begin
distributing it at once"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10

Senator Proctor and family are now in
Cuba on a pleasure trip, and word comes
from Washington that the Senator is plan.
ming trip to the Philippines in the near
future.
The Ayrshire Breeders association meet
ing was held in New York last week, when
l.. S. Drew of Burlington was chosen pres
ident and G. H. Winslow of Brandon sec
rotary and editor.
G. H. Weeks, II, who died at Lyndon
vile Saturday, was postmaster there under
President johnson and under President
Cleveland. He was a delegate to the
Democratic national convention of 1868
and 1872.
Work has been resumed at the Vershire
copper mines that were known and were
at one time famous as the ely mines ~
They are now operated by Garretson,
Smith & Ogden of New York city. Z. L.
Smith of New York city is the general
manager.
State Senator Griffith of Dandy has re-
Gently returned from trip to Cuba. While
there he bought 5000 acres of fine timber
land at 81 an acre. The timber includes
valuable growths of rosewood and mahog-
any, and when marketed will yield hand
some profit on the investment
st. Johnsbury academy has received a
gift of $4,000 from an unknown friend,
who suggested in the letter ACCOMPANYING
the gift that half the money be used to
strengthen the working plant of the insti-
tuition and the balance for any purpose
that would best advance the interests of
the institution.
The late Cuban senator and ex-United
States consul in Cuba, Paul Brooks. who
died in Rutland few weeks ago, week
after his wife's death, was supposed to be
in INDECENT circumstances. 1t is now re-
ported that he had life insurance policies
amounting to 100000. He also left a
will, which has been filed for probate.
A doe, which was probably killed by one of
the sleepers over the Bennington and Rut-
land railroad, was brought to Rutland Mon
day. The deer was discovered lying beside
the track between Wallingford and Claren
don by the engineer on the train which
leaves Rutland at 6.25 o'clock. The railroad
officials at Rutland shipped the deer to
John W. Titcomb of st. Johnsbury, state
fish and game commissioner. The doe was
not mutilated, but was bruised on the head
and side. She weighed 10 pounds.
Edgar Watkins of Sharon lost a large
roll OF bills containing $500 from his coat
pocket few days ago. He had started
for White River Junction to deposit it, but
made several stops in the village before 90
ing to the depot, one being at Manley's
hotel. He did not miss the money until
about half way to the depot. In the mean
time Mr.. Manley, seeing roll of newspa-
per on the Office floor kicked it one side.
but noticing string tied around it picked
1t up and discovered its value.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10
Heavy Loss to Railroads
Train Swept Away by an Avalanche
and Three Men Killed.

In Colorado from Snow BIockades---
Train swept Away by an Avalanche
and Three Men Killed.
1t has been many years since the Colora-
/ do railroads have had to contend with such
| conditions as those now prevailing in the
mountain regions. The loss to the rail-
roads in that state is estimated at $25, 900
day. One thousand men have been SHOW
cling snow for several days. Over 500
miles Of road in the mountains have been
at times shut off from communication with
| the main lines Storm bound passengers
are fed and cared for by the railroad COM
| panies. On the mountains thousands of
cattle are freezing and starving to death
and nothing can be done to save them.
A snowside on the main line of the Den
yer q Rio Grande railroad nine miles east
| of Glenwood Springs overwhelmed a work
train, killing three men and injurng sew
eral others Thursday. The avalanche shot
| down the mountain side of the canon of
the Grand river on the western slope of
Colorado, and carried the entire main crew
and working gang, 33 men in all, into the
bottom of the abyss
The engine, caboose and cars were car
ried down before the slide, and all the
shovelers who were scattered along the
track at work were swept before the
mighty. weight Trees, rocks and large
blocks of ice which had formed on the side
of the mountain during the winter added
to the weight of the avalanche. The cliffs
rise at the side of the railway track 100 or
200 feet, while the side of the noun
tain at the point where the accident occur
red rises 2OOO feet almost perpendicularly.
The slide was about 200 feet in width, but
thousands of tons of ice and snow blocked
the railway and made it impossible for
trains to pass until a road could be shovel
ed through the obstruction.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Death of Col. James A. Sexton

Commander-In-Chie Of the Grand Ar
my of the RepubIic---Hls Excellent
Record as a soldier.
Col. James A. Sexton, comm ander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic,
died early Sunday morning in the Garfield
hospital in Washington. He had been very
i'll for some days with pneumonia. He was
born in Chicago Jan. 3, 1874. He enlisted
as a private in the 10Th Illinois, April 10,
1851, and after three months service re-
enlisted in the 9th Illinois volunteers, be-
ing commissioned LIST lieutenant. He was
subsequently transferred to the I'D Illinois
and was made captain. He served il Ran
some's brigade, McArthur's division of the
18th army corps, army of the Tennessee,
and participated in nearly all its campaigns,
sieges and battles. He was commander of
the regiment in the battles of Columbia,
Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin and
Nashville, and throughout the Nashville
campaign. In 1865 he was assigned to du-
ty on the staff of Maj Gen. A. B. Smith,
commander of the 10Th army corps, and
remained with Smith until the close of the
war, being honorably discharged in August,
1865. AT the capture of the fort at Mo
bile, Ala, April 8, 1865, Col. Sexton had
his letU leg broken DelOW JHe huee ny a
piece of she'll He was also slightly wound
ed at the battle of Franklin, and painfully
wounded at the battle of Nashville. He
remained in Alabama for two years after
the war, working a plantation which he
had bought near Montgomery.
He returned to Chicago in 1867 and en-
tered into business, founding the firm of j..
A. &. 7. S. Sexton. He was appointed
postmaster of Chicago by President Harri-
son in 1889 and was retained by President
Cleveland until he resigned, Jan. |, 1895.
Col Sexton was an active worker in the
Grand Army of the Republic, the military
order of the Loyal Legion and other army
societies. He was past commander of the
department of Illinois, Grand Army of the
Republic, and had been presidential cleo
tor, park commissioner and colonel in the
Illinois national guard. At the last meet
ing of the Grand Army of the Republic he
was elected commander-in-ch and held
this position at the time of his death, as
well as that of member of the board of
commissioners, appointed by the President
to investigate the conduct of the Spanish
war
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10
A Sad Case at North PownaI.

The people of North Pownal have been
enraged over the disclosures made by a
poor German girl who was secured to work
in one of the leading families and who was
soon after led astray by a son in the family,
one who travels in the first society. About
four weeks ago the conductor on Fitch
burg train bound for Troy noticed a young
woman who was crying. She told in
broken English how she went to Pownal,
what happened to her while there, and her
condition. The young man had her put on
the train, started her for Troy, had given
her little money, and she had got to look
out for herself after reaching there. She
did not know what to do. A well-known
lawyer of Troy was on the train, and to
him the conductor told the story. The
lawyer saw that the girl received proper
treatment. A few days ago a boy was
born and the father found himself compell-
ed to pay for keeping the mother in hos
pltal In Troy until she is able to leave, to
pay the expenses of the nurse as long as
needed, to pay the mother 50 per week,
and to provide for the child during its mi
nority