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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
ENG IN THE ROGERS
CASE.

Representatives hall was filled to
its full capacity on Tuesday evening
to hear the arguments for and against
the Communication of the death sentence
of Mary M. Rogers to life imprison-
ment. The hearing was given before
the joint judiciary committees of the
Senate and House. Senator Lord,
Representative Fits, chairmen of the
judiciary committees, presided.
Daniel Guiltinan of Bennington,
Mrs. Rogers counsel, began the argu-
ment for communication. He argued
from the standpoint of degeneracy.
Mrs. Rogers was q woman of low
mental calibre and knew not the con-
sequences of her own acts. She was
born in poverty and bred in ignorance.
The deed was committed in the sha-
dow of two electric lights near a fire.
quented street. He produced the mole
in her W handwriting which
| Mrs. Rogers pinned to a tree purport-
ing to be signed by Mr.. Rogers and
stating that he had committed suicide,
She nigh. as we'll have owned that
| she perpetrated tie deed. Frequently
during the trial, Mrs. Rogers asked
her attorneys If the testimony being
| given was for or against her when it
was plainly evident that nobody could
misconstrue the meaning; even the
| %o,t;,ooa- &c Aho honl xur;tinn aUnarko
called forth the question to her attor-
neys. rs that for or against me ?''
He thought it would be a crime for
the State to take her life in return for
the life that she had taken.
o. NJ. Barber of Bennington, spoke
against the Communication. He failed
to see why the State should show any
clemency to Mrs. Rogers on the plea
of ~degeneracy. Although degenerate
she might have been, she concocted
a note before the murder and used a
handwriting which does not resemble
her own in other word she simulated
her husbands handwriting. With a
boy about seventeen years old as an
accomplish, she got Mr.. Rogers near a
brook and told him they had a new
trick and questioned his ability to ex-
tricate his hands from a knot which
they could tie. They tied his hands
in front of him and he extricated
them then they tiedihis hands behind
his back and he again released them
The third time he was not successful
and, while struggling, Mrs. Rogers
placed to his nose a handkerchief sat.
uIated with chlornform. After he
was dead they rolled him into the
brook. The crime WAS committed on
account of an i~nfatuation for one
Morris Knapp and to procure 5000
INSURANCE money on her husband E
life. Mr.. Barber showed the won.
derful elaboration of the crime and
the planning TO refute the claim OF
degeneracy. The case had all the
elements of poisoning in deliberation
and preparation. Mr.. Barber showed
that since 1915 there had beeu twenty
one instances in which The Legisla.
ture had been asked to commute death
sentences; in fourteen cases it had
been done and in even it had been re.
fused.
The question of the abolition OF
capital punishment was then taken
up. j. H. Senter spoke in favor OF
the bill with considerable vigor. He
opposed capital punishment on the
ground that it was not necessary fol
the protection of society
Mr.. Hapgood of Peru spoke in favor
&c eLo Iii
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
ESTATE OF MARY l. HOLT.
STATE OF VERMONT.

DIsTKICT OF WAsHINGION, s. $.
In Probate Court, held In MONTPELIER. In. and for
said District, on the Z d day of No. \. ID. 1904.
Nelson l. S%auborn, Admiuistrator. with the will
annexed, of the est8t OF MARY l.. HOLT, late OF
Marsliell, in -aid District, deceased, pre-
sents his administration account tor examination
aud allowance and makes application for a decree of
ceas d.
Whereupon it Is or, red by said Court. that
said account and said application be referred
to a session thereof, to be held at the Pro-
bate Office in said Montpelier,o on the 10th day ofNoy.
A. ID. 1904, for hearing and decision thereon:
And, it is further ordered that notice hereof he given
to all persons interested, by publication OF the same
three weeks successfully in the WATCH
MAN STATE AND JOURNAL "A newspaper published at
Montpelier, in this State, previous to said time APP
pointed for hear ing, that they may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, If any they may
have, why said account should not be allowed, and
such decree made.
BY the Court. Attest.
4i-l6 HIRAM CARLETON. Judge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
GREENSBORO

George Fowler and Bert'Willey re-
turned from Fletcher with a fine buck
last week and their many friends who
sampled the venison wish them the
luckiest kind of good luck whenever
they sc hunting in the future.
Mr.. Hcaley broke camp the first of
the week and returned to Boston. His
sister, who has been at the Caspian
Lake HOUSE for several months, accom-
panied him to Boston.
Messrs. Fletcher and Briggs have
finished work at ii e church and gone
to New York State, where they have
a job for the winter.
John Garvin is repairing his house.
Newton q Hill are doing the work.
Rev. X. J. Barton returned home
last Thursday. Mrs. Barton remained
at Salisbury to Jare for her sister.
EAST ELMORE.
States Attorney M. G. Morse and
wife of Hardwick visited his father
B. f. Morse on Sunday.
Miss Alma Carpenter was home on
Sunday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
EAST CABOT.

Mrs. w. A. Hsnscome ard son, liar
ley, visited relatives in Lisbon, N. H.,
a few days last week.
Guy Cassidy shot a deer IN Saturday
nesr Foster pond, Peacham. 1t
weighed 200 pounds.
Mr.. anu Mrs. Nelson Gate visited
Mrs. Martha Odekirk in West Dan
vile on Sunday.
s.. B Chandler and wife were in
Plainfeld on Mondav and Tuesday of
last week visiting friends.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
HOLD UP IN BURLINGTON

Burlington, Nov. 2.-Oharles D.
Vincent. a shoe dealer in this city,
was held up and robbed of $50 at IL
O'Clock last night on the lower road,
a short distance from the Winooski
river bridge He refused to hold up
his hands and a struggle ensued. He
was somewhat injured and robbed.
He told his story to Officer Bergeron
at Winooski who later arrested
Thomas Burke, a private in the 10th
cavalry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
Alton Lawton of IHardwick was at

Alton Lawton of sHsrdwick was at
home on Sunday.
Presiding Elder 9. S. Nutter of st.
Adams preached here Sunday and adj
ministered the sacrament of the Lords
supper.
Jake Simmons and wife finished
work for Mr.. Duane last week Mon
dav and have moved to Pottersville to
work in the mill there.
SODOM
william Daley is thought to be a
very little better.
Mrs. CORA King. who has had ton
%silitis, is better.
The little son of Mrs T. J. Taylor,
is i'll with tonsilitIs.
Myron Daley tenement. just south
of the bridge, is occupied by Peter
Billadeaux, who moved i'll last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard DALEY cele-
brated the tenth anniversary of their
marriage last Thursday by a reception.
NEwBURY
Mrs Mills of Vest Topshsm is visit
ing her daughter, Miss Eta Norton,
for q few days.
Mrs. Humphrey has returned from
Montpelier, where she has been car
ing for her sick daughter.
Il son of Abner Avery is visiting
here for a short time.
Miss Emily Bailey entertained
about twenty five of her young friends
at a Halloween party Monday night
AS a consequence there was not so
much mischief done by the boys out
side, as usual.
An important meeting will be held
at Chadwick hall on Wednesday even
ing to promote the project of electric
lights and a system of water works
in the village.
EAST WARREN.
Mrs. A. J. McGlahin of Randolph,
is visiting her children in this place.
Paul Norton is moving into one of
| Amasa Fuller's houses.
Miss Mary Gleason is visiting at
| her brothers. in Bellows Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Hill are spend
ing a few weeks in st. Louis.
Miss Norma Greenwood is visiting
her sister in Burlington.
Miss Laura Outhbert is visiting in
Bethel.
Miss Blanche Tousley has returned
to New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
LEGISL,ATTT NOTES.

What has become of all those prom
ises of retrenohment? Has a needless
commission been Topped Off Has a
useless luxury been curtsiled 1t
seems as though the reduction of State
expenses, were quite as important as
passing a caucus law and as though
the party were infrm in it's conception
Of party duty unless decided retrenoh-
ment takes place. Ludlow Tribune.
John U. Sherburne, Jr., son of J..
O. Sherburne, Representative from
Pomfret, was the only Vermont boy
to win a Cecil Rhodes scholarship.
He sailed for Liverpool on the steam
| ship Ivernia on September 81 with
thirty-five young men from various
| sections of the United States. These
scholarships %entitle the possessor to
81, 800 a year for three years. Mr..
Sherburne was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Vermont.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Pierce
Of Fairlee to prohibit the firing Of
bullets across Lake Morey has more to
it than may appear on the face of it.
The numerous oottagers and campers
who visit that handsome sheet of
water every season are frequently in
peril by reason of careless shooting
and it IS from this indiscriminate use
of the rife that the Lake Morey peo-
pie want protection.
The farmers in the Legislature hav-
ing so largely voted to spend $50, 00C
for an agricultural hall, it will now
be interesting to note the attitude
they take as to other appropriation
and salary bills now under considera-
tion.
Straight plurality in the election
of Representatives has gained I'LL
GUS adherents since Mr.. Pape's bill
was reported adversely, but whether
it will have friends enough to see il
through is a trifle uncertain. The
small towns have designs on it and
nay force a compromise.
When one member jumps up witt
nine bills in his hands, and another
with seven, there's something doing
II looks as though evergreen trees
less than six inches at the base would
have to be, like trout under six in.
ohes, thrown back"
Senator Fish hasn't forgotten the
interests of the school children in the
whirl Of fish and game legislation
He proposes to protect their health al
far as possible and give them a physi
cal body to back up the mind.
All engineers must o climb on tt
the water wagon according to the pro
visions of Senator Hawley's bill pre-
sented Monday afternoon. The pen
atty for INVESTIGATION of an enginee.
while on duty is more than 80 an
costs. This is a mighty good idea
Anybody on a train believes in tenn
perance when it comes to the man a
the throttle.
At the end of Tuesdays session O
the House 400 bills had beer intro
duced. This is exactly the same mum
Der Of bills introduced during the ses
sion of 1902 lasting into December.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
Legal Notices.
ESTATE OF MARTHA c. PAIGE

In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the 27th day of Oct Der, A. ID.
1904.
Tnons J. Deavitt Administrator of the estate OF
MARTHA G. PAIGE, late of Montpelier in said
District, deceased. presents his administration ac-
count for examination and allowance, ana makes
application for IA decree OF distribution and par
tition of the estate Of said deceased.
Mhereupon tits ordered by said Court, that said ac-
count ana said application he referred to a session
thereof, to be held at the Probate Office In said
Montpelier, on the 10Th day of Nov. A. ID. 1904,
for hearing and decision thereon; And, IL is further
ordered that notice hereof be given TO all persons In
tercstCd, by publication OF the same three weeks sue
cessively in the VERMONT WATcHMAN AND sTATE
JOURNAL, a newspaper published at Montpelier
In this State, previous TO sad lime APP
time and place, and show cause. If any they may
have, why said account should not he allowed
and such decree made.
By the Court. Attest.
44-46 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
uL OIn L IrDN ~ III AAII A ~

ESTATE OF LUCY JANE BRADSHAW.
The undersigned having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the District OF Washington
Commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against the estate
Of LUCY JANE BRADSHAW, late of Mont
peiier, in said District, deceased; and all claims eN-
hiblted In offset thereto. hereby give notice that we
will meet for tho purposes aforesaid. at the office of
Fred L. Laird, in the City OF Montpelier, In
said District, ON the 10Th day OF November, and oath
day Of %ecember next, from | O'Clock p NJ.
until I o'clock p. NJ. each of said days, and
that six months from the Path day OF August,
A. ID 1904, is the time limited by said CourI Tor
said creditors to present. theii claims to us tor eX-
animation and allowancc.
Dated at Montpelier, this 2lst day of October,
A. d., 1904.
FRED l. LAIRD, Commits
ass j. w LELAND, sioners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
QUIET LONG SHAKHE.

st. Petersburg, Nov. Cen. SAX
haroff reports that the night passed
quietly along the Shakhe. Yesterday
there were a few indecisive lombard
ments and outpost actions.
Rome, Nov. Dispatches from
M%anchuria state that the Russians
lost 2, 1000 men and four guns in the
fighting on Monday last, Japanese at
right and centre continue the envelop-
ment movement. Dispatches also
state that the japanese have captured
forts fifteen and sixteen at Port Ar
thur.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
II BIG BEAR.

Editor Daily Journal II wouId like
to see Representative Hapgood of Preu
meet in the woods and study the
co%untanance Of a bear shot by G..
Senior and Will West of Warren. and
brought into the village today. The
bear weighed $3.50 POUNDS after being
bled-measured 3 feet IL inches in
length and IA inches around the for.
ward paw and 10 inches around the
forearm.
Warren.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
ESTATE OF MARY LYMAN.
STATE OF VERMONT,
nIaTuICT or W a q

DIbIHIUI OF W~AbHINuIUN, Z O.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier. In and for
said District, on the LIST day of November, A. ID. 1904,
testament OF MARY LYMAN, late of Montpelier,
ter, In said District, deceased, being presented
that all persons concerned therein be notified TO APP
pear At a session of said Court to be held at the Pro
Nov. A. ID. 1904, and show cause. II any they may have
against the probate of said instrument tor which
purpose II IL further ordered that notice OF this order
be published three weeks successfully In the Yer
MONT WATCHMAN AND STATE J~oURNAL,a newspa-
per printed at Montpelier, In this State, previous to
said time appointed FOR hearing.
by the Court. Attest,
4A-<6 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
ESTATE OF JAMES MONROE GOULD.
STATE OF VERMONT,
DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, IS.

DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, In and for
said District. on the 2nd day of November,
A. D., 1904.
Christopher G. Put am. executor OF the last will
and testament of JAMES MONROE GOULD, late
OF Worcester, In said District, deceased, presents his
administration account tor examination and allow
ance, and makes application for a decree OF distri-
button and part itOn Of the estate Of said deceased.
Whereupon, 1t is ordered by said Court that said
a session thereof. to be held at the
Probate Office. in said Montpelier, on the
10th day of Nov. A. ID. 1904, for hearing and de-
cision thereon; and It is further ordered, that
notice hereofb be given 10 all persons Interested by
publication of the same three weeks successfully In.
the VERMoNT WATCHMAN AND STATR JOURNAL,
a newspaper published at Montpelier, I'm this State,
they may appear ut said time ana place, and
show cause, If any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed, aud such decree made.
By the Court Attest.
44-46 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
HORSE 70 YER MEN,


A full set of best polished horse
power rods for 81. so, fully warranted.
f. o. B., Williamstown Machine
Shop.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
SOUTH RYEGATE.

The gentleman from Ryegate OBJ
iects to the statement in che South
Ryegate items of last week, to the
effect hat he is sending no papers to
his constituents, as his predecessors
have been wont to do. Perhaps it is
only fair to Mr. Manchester for the
Journal to saw that be holds this
Offices receipt for a goodly number of
Watchmans and Journals, to go to
Ryegate, and he is sending other
papers to his constituents. If none, or
few, go TO the South Ryegate office
that is an inadvertence-and II he
proposes to rectify at once to assure
all his constituents OF his good will
aud disposition to use them well.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03

DR.. H. G.. Beekman, who has been
spending three weeks in town., the
guest of Hon. and Mrs. W. b. Wall,
left here on Monday for Boston. Mrs.
Beekman will remain with her par
ants here for some little time.
Frank A. Burridge, formerly of
Braintree and more recently of Ran
dolph, has gone to Boston to live,
having secured employment with the
Boston Elevated Railway. He is a
conductor On the division of the roads
surface lines running to South Bos
ton.
w. H. Gladding moved to this town
on Friday from Barre. He has
bought a house on Prospect street but
intends going to Southern Pines, s.
O., for the winter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
GREAT CITY BOWED IN GRIEF

sweeping order of the mayor yester-
day shut the doors of 16 more. These
last are the leading theaters in the
business section of the city-The
Studebaker, Grand Opera house, Nc
Vicker's, La Sale, Garrick, Illinois
and the Powers. The last two are
owned and controlled by Powers and
Davis, the managers of the Inflated
Iroquois. Other theaters closed are
the Bush Temple, Calumet, Cleveland,
Great Northern, Haymarket, Hopkins,
Peoples institute, Trocadora and Col
umbus. The total number of theaters
closed last night was 16.
1t was found that the asbestos cur
tain of the Iroquois burned. The
managers had meeting and agreed
to make all the improvements re-
CURED.
There was a hasty rush of theatrical
managers to the mayors Office in an eff
fort to secure a withdrawal or at
least postponement of the order, but
their reception was exceedingly frosty.
The discovery that the asbestos cur
tain in the Iroquois burned, lead to the
decision that asbestos curtains should
not be relied upon in the future. In
order to open again the theaters must
comply with these conditions: Steel
roll curtains, wide exits, no combusti-
bles of any kind in the house furnish
ings, fire rooted, no calcium or spot"
lights to be used on the stage, sky
lights above the stage provided with
automatic lids to permit the egress of
smoke, fire and gas, separate starways,
each exit having its own stairs leading
to the street. The A"ditorium is the
only theater left open. 1t has steel
roll curtain and this, the mayor says,
is the 0nly one that affords absolute
protection against fire.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
TWO HUNDRED VICTIMS OF FIRE
LAID TO REST.
WORK BEGINS EARLY
Long Lines of Carriages Repeat Story
of the Disaster-Thousand Stand
Awed in Streets While the Corteses
Pass-Mourners JostIe One An
other by Newly Made Graves.

Chicago, Jan. Another page in
the story of the lroquois theater dis
aster was turned yesterday when
more than 200 of the victims were laid
to rest. In every part OF the city the
tragedy was told again by the long
lines of carriages led by hearses and
Catafalques that passed down the ST.
lent streets to the cemeteries past
knots of awed and Borrowing people.
There were few houses to which the
message was not brought in this way
There was hardly single half mile of
territory that was not reached by the
funeral corteges and there was grief
even in those homes which were not
directly touched.
AS one funeral procession after an
other passed through the streets the
numbers OF the Borrowing at the GENE
ter.es increased. A few hundre
from one freshly made grave there
was another and short distance
away still another that told the mourn
ers at one funeral Ithat others were
bereaved.
The work of burning the dead began
early in the mortng and lasted until
late in the eveni5. Every undertaken
in the city had 81 the orders that he
could handle AM returned from one
cemetery onlyko start for another.
Sometimes tb homes of several of
the dead weregrouped in few blocks
and in one irstance a glance down a
single stree revealed the black car
riages for hlf dozen funerals that
had throw, an entire nieighborhood in
Mourning Where hearses could not
be furnised they were improvised
from cher kinds of vehicles and
mournSs who could not get cabs rode
in car ages. In every cemetery in
the Bty last night mounds Of fresh
earutold the end of families broken
andAltogether destroyed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
4 EATER HARRoR IN NEW YORK
PREVENTED BY PROMPT WORK

New York. Jan. 3.--The cry o. fire"
as raised at matinee in the Thalia
3heater on the Bowery. 1t caused
panic, but the rush of the audience was
stopped by heroic measures adopted
by the police and employees, Clubs and
fists met. The police and employees of
the theater rushed the crowd, literally
lifted the leaders and forced them into
seats. The attack of the police from
the front was as sudden as had been
the fire alarm and served in a moment
to quiet the crowd and avert what
could not have failed to have been a
stampede.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
CHICAGO THEATERS ALL CLOSED
FOR REPAIRS.
STEEL CURTAINS ORDERED
Discovery That Asbestos Curtain II
the lroquois Burned Leads to De
termination That These Are MOI
Protection Against Fire-ManaseY
Meet and Agree on improvement

Chicago. Jan. 3.--Last night ery
theater in Chicago except the Alto
rum was dark and the door"ere
locked. Not one will be openo the
public until the managers ha com
piled in the fullest manner IN the
every section of the ordinans regu-
lating the playhouses.
The order compelling Itheaters
to close was issued yesteay aiter-
noon by Mayor Harrison er con,
ference with Cooperate Counsei
Tolman who assured tb mayor tnae
ample legal power ext LOT nis
action.
Seventeen theaters 10 museums
were closed Friday snt ana 1ne
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
Double and Triple
Funerals - Whole
Families Buried
Public Funeral and
a Monument for
Unknown Dead
TEN UNIDENTIFIED.

Latest Bulletin-Chicago, Jan. g.
The total number of unidentified
dead has bsen reduced to TO- Two
more, Mrs. Francis Leach of this city
and Mrs. Nellie Skaruta of New York,
were the last two co be recognized. OF
the ten bodies, eight are burned so as
to be unacceptable, save by marks
on scraps of clothing and by the teeth.
OF the other two, a young woman and
a boy of eight, the features are unmar-
red and could readily be recognized.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07

At Chicago, her brain weakened
from bordering over the Iroquois fire,
Mrs. Mary Hopkins seized her two
children, threw them violently under a
bed and securing an axe commenced
breaking up the stove. which stood in
the room The crazed woman's fran
tic shrieks Of fire, they are burning.
save my children. attracted the atten-
ton Of policemen who arrested her
and rescred the children.