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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-05
A GOOD BEGINNING.
What the Brattleboro Trust Company
Has Done Since Its Organization.

The Brattleboro Trust company has
issued an interesting statement show
ing its condition at the close of bust.
ness June 90. The growth of total
deposits since the organization of the
company is indicated by the following
figures: Feb. l, $56,6l5.33; March /,
500, 797. "a; April l, $94993.55; May l,
S127 sos. 65; June /, $144, s6l,22; June
30. $156,O34.76. Following is a state
ment of the assets and liabilities on
the date mentioned:
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-05
Resources.
htSOulCeo'
al estate in Vt. S 67.41O.OO

Loans ON real estate in WIS 67,4IO.UU
Loans on real estate else
Loans on personal security. 77456.7S
Loans on savings bank
books ...........'.'.' o'o'''A1
Loans on mortgage collat-
o eia On other collateral. $4,000
1 1oams 20 towns ,,.,,... 14,194.O9
G G;t,i bonds " ,,........ 2O,5OO.OO
Furniture, fixtures and vault 14,ooo'oV
OaS no U4 u'p'''' ...... 25,OO5.36
Caa3 =, ronlt - 11,291.21
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-05
Rand Concert Program.

The First Regiment band will give
its next concert on the common We'd
nesday evening. Program;
Invocation to Battle-Rienzi. Wagner
0vartnre-William Tell. ...... Rosslm
Selaction-The Spring Chicken. earle
Descriptive-A Hunting Scene :.
l'o''i Bucalossi
(By request.)
Finale-The Star Spangled Banner
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-05
Stimulation without Irritation.

That is the watchword That is what
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does.
Cleanses and stimulates the bowels with
out irritation in any form.
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THANKS FROM CHINA.
Young Emperor Assumes Indemnity
Is Already RENTED.

OYSTER BAY, June 20.-Preceding the
Presidents luncheon at Sycamore Hill yes
terday, the PERSONAL thanks of the EN-
peror of China for the remission by the
United States of the greater part OF the
Chinese indemnity were conveyed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt by Sir Chentung LANG
Cheng, the Chinese minister. The cable
dispatch from the Chinese foreign Office to
the legation at Washington commanding
the thanks to be expressed to the President
was as follows:
"Waiwu Tu to the Chinese Minister,
Picking, June "a, 1907.-Your telegraphlc
report on the remission of the indemnity
having been laid before the emperor you
are commanded to convey to the President
of the United States his majesty's warm
thanks for this noble exhibition of his
friendship toward China, which Is deeply
and greatly appreciated he having alone
taken the lead in a matter of International
Justice"
The Chinese minister. upon leaving Saga
more Hill. where he was a guest of the
President at luncheon yesterday, expressed
his hearty appreciation Of the opportunity
afforded him to carry out his emperor's
command before leaving the United States
for China. Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng
said he expected to sail for Picking next
Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
CRITICISMS BY ARMY OFFICERS.
Aggrieved Civilians Must Resort to
the Usual Civil Remedies.

Inspector General Darlington. it is I'M
derstood. has gone to the Philippines in
pursuit Of some particular line of investi-
cation. Therefore, the inquiry regarding
Col. Ayres. 14th Cavalry, in connection
with comments on army justice, has been
turned over to Col. Galbraith acting in
spector general. who is now In Chicago.
In connection with the general subject Of
newspaper criticisms by army officers upon
persons and methods, the attention Of the
War Department was recently attracted I'M
officially to the case of Maj. Augustus o.
Blocksom, inspector generals department.
stationed In st. Louis. who is reported to
have severely criticised Senator Foraker
as an outcome of the Brownsville investi-
cation. It has been found. however. that
the army regulations take no cognizance of
utterances of an army officer directed
against persons not connected with the
military service. The regulations do re-
quire an officer to be called to an account
for criticisms or aspersions upon his fellow
officers, or upon the military establishment
but If a civilian feels agrieved by something
said by an army officer In his personal
capacity he is limited. 1t Is declared, to the
usual civil remedies.
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AQUATICs AT JAMESTOWN.
Preparations for the Big Swimming
CHAMPIONSHIPS.

NORFOLK. Va. June 29-The junior
and senior national swimming and water
polo championships. to be held in the
Grand basin, Smith harbor. Discovery
Landing. between the government piers.
Jamestown exposition. July %, 20 and ~.
1907, will no doubt be the greatest SWIM
ming and water polo contest ever held in
this country. or. in fact. any country. for
there will be in competition on those three
days the most famous swimmers in all the
world. The conditions of this widely
known body of water. Grand BASIN" are
the best. The basin Is LEGO feet long and
200 feet wide, with a depth of seventeen
feet. and is kept filed with running water
direct from Hampton roads.
There will be teams and members from
all the large athletic clubs in the United
States, including those of New York and
Chicago. These two cities alone have clubs
worth going many miles to see, as there is
a bitter rivalry between them, and when
ever these clubs have teams entered there
is a hard fight for the prizes and honors.
Following are the events:
Junior championship events-Fifty yards,
100 yards, 800 yards. 40 yards $50 yards,
one mile, back stroke go yards), breast
stroke go yards). fancy diving, plunge for
distance.
Senior championships-Fifty yards. 100
yards, 900 yards. 440 yards. $50 yards, one
mile, plunge for distance. back stroke 600
yards), breast stroke GOO yards), fancy
diving. relay GOO yards). four men.
Water polo-Championship.
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the information furnished by Holmes to
Peckham was to be communicated to some
other person with view Of having such
person buy or sell cotton before the day
when the cotton crop report was to be pub
lished.
y Rights Of the Defendant
As to the right Of Holmes to commune
cate the alleged information the defense
asked that the jury be instructed that there
Is no evidence to show that Holmes was
not at liberty to communicate with per-
sons outside the department for such use
as he or such other persons might think
proper any information In relation to the
cotton crop acquired by him otherwise
than by his having access to or knowledge
OF the reports sent to the bureau Of sta
tistics, and that there is no evidence to
show that he did not have the right to
speculate in cotton on his own account
alone. or in connection with other per-
sons not employed in the Department Of
Agriculture providing he gave no informa-
ton except such as was derived from
sources open to the public generally and
expressed no opinion except that based
upon such public information.
The last three prayers ask that the gov
eminent be required to designate by what
regulation or rule 1t became the duty of
Holmes to keep secret the information COM
ing to him in his official capacity. whether
by one Of the written orders Of his chief
or by what was testified to as general
understanding Of silence.
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KILLED BY JEALOUS su1ToR.
Chicago Widow Dragged From Her
Bed and Murdered.

CHICAGO. June D.-Dragged from her
bed by a Jealous sutton. Mrs. Mary Moles-
worth. a widow. was-shot and killed late
last night at her home. 62iS Normal ave-
nue.. Cecil Gibson, the murderer. then
turned his revolver on Thomas Jones. a
boarder in the house, and wounded him
probably fatally.
The killing was done In the presence Of
the woman's nine-year-old son. who pleaded
with Gibson to spare her life
Mrs. Wordsworth, who was thirty-four
years old, was shot twice in the head.
Death was instantaneous. She conducted a
boarding house, and Gibson took his meals
there, although he slept elsewhere. He
was insanely jealous of the attention she
paid Jones. and frequently threatened her.
Gibson was arrested. From all that the
police could learn, Gibson had been court
ing Mrs. Wordsworth for several years.
seeking her consent to marry him. He is
said to have been encouraged at the begin
ming, but later Jones seemed to supplant
him.
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shall be compelled to comply Herewith.
The result of this legislation must be. II
further extension be not granted. that the
using the bridge and its approach within
the limits specified In the act. and thus
compelled to construct the underground
system. There would be no advantage &C
cruing to the government from this: On
the contrary It will leave matters In the air
for considerably longer period than Will
probably be the case should the extension
asked for be granted. Under the acts the
trolley company must be compelled to com
ply with the requirements but 1t L. difficult
to see how compliance may be enforced
except by prohibiting the passage of the
trolley cars over the line until the under
ground system has been established.
''The second point involved. admitting
that no further extension is granted,
must be answered to the effect that the
Congress, in charge of the Secretary OF
War through the chief of engineers.
and the approach thereto from the north
is in the same position under the laws
of Columbia under the War Department
Therefore, If, after the termination or
the 3Oth day of June, the Washington
Alexandria and Mt. Vernon Railway
ground system 1t becomes the duty of
the officers having charge of the bridge
and. of the approach to prevent further
traffic over them by the trolley company
Summary Of Case.
"To sum up the case, 1 would give it
as the opinion of this Office that it Is
within the power of the Secretary of
War to grant further extension to the
trolley company of the time within which
they must construct their underground
trolley system; and that the first oxten-
sion granted by the Secretary of War did
not operate to preclude his granting a
" ncin f,.r Sc I,a
opinion that if the extension now asked
for be not granted. it will be the duty Of
the Secretary of War to cause the Washing
ton, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon Railway
Company to be prevented from the use of
the northern approach to the new highway
bridge and of that bridge.
1T is recommended that. should the Secre-
tary of War decide to grant the extension
asked for, 1t be done on the condition that
the Washington, Alexandria and Mt Ver-
non Railway Company enter into an under
taking as setfOrth in the accompanying
draft of instrument and execute the bond
therein called for
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ovERcHARGEs ALLEGED.
Interstate Commerce Commission Re-
ceives Applications for Reparation.

The interstate commerce commission Is In
receipt Of many applications for reparation
on account of overcharges by southern
railroads on lumber shipments during the
past four years. Four years ago the COM
mission decided that the increase of cents
per hundredweight on lumber shipments
was unreasonable and ordered the roads to
desist from continuing the extra charge.
The roads. however. appealed the case, and
after 1t had been decided In favor Of the
shippers by the Supreme Court of the
United States the shippers again presented
their claims to the commission and repara-
ton for the illegal charge will be made.
1t Is estimated at the Office of the COM
mission that about $50 applications for
PREPARATION have been made and that they
will aggregate in amount about s., 600 OOO.
1t Is estimated that If all the persons wlre
paid the excessive charge make application
for reparatfon the aggregate will be in
creased to about $4,000 600.
There Is some difference Of opinion az to
the time when application for reparation
can be made. Today Is regarded as the
limit of time by some and the 2Sth of Au-
gust Is the date fixed by others. the exact
time probably to be determined by the
commission. Because Of the delay in filing
applications it Is believed many of the
claimants for reparations are under the
impression that August % is the limit of
time
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PRAYERS FOR DEFENSE
Criminal Court Meets to Hear
Holmes Attorneys.
RESULT EXPECTED MONDAY
All Concerned Anxious to Reach Con-
clusion of Trial.
MAY END BEFORE THURSDAY
Justice Stafford Holds Saturday ses-
sion in Order to Expedite
the Proceedings.
MAY END BEFORE THURSDAY

Justice Stafford held a session of about
two hours in Criminal Court No. l today
for the presentation of prayers for instruc-
lions TO the jury on behalf of the defense
in the trial of Edwin s. Holmes. jr., former
associate statistician of the Department of
Agriculture, who is being tried for alleged
conspiracy in connection with cotton leak
scandals.
Seventeen prayers were submitted to the
court by Attorneys A S. Worthington and
w. f. Lester for Holmes, to most of which
the government counsel objected Argu-
ments We're made at some length on the
sixth prayer, in which the defense asked
the court to instruct the jury that no pre-
sumption should be drawn against the de-
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SUIT FOR CALUMNY.
Climax Reached in Munich Trial.
Herr Bebel in Court

MUNICH, Bavaria, June 29.-The suit for
calumny brought by DR.. Peters, the Afri-
can explorer. against the Muenchener Post,
reached a climax of interest yesterday
through the confronting of DR.. Peters with
Herr Bebel, the socialist leader in the
reichstag, who for eleven years had re-
called the reichstag internationally with ref
erences to the explorers so-called atrocities.
Today DR.. Peters claimed that Herr Bebel,
being also an energetic gentleman, would
have acted in precisely the same way as he
had done in Africa.
Herr Bebel having admitted in the reich
stag that the famous Tucker Letter was a
hoax, DR.. Peters and his lawyer bes ought
Herr Bebel to name the man who deceived
him. but the witness firmly refused, having
pledged himself to secrecy.
Herr Bebel created a sensation in the
court room by reading passage from DR..
! Peters book describing his punishment of a
negro servant, who had stolen a guinea
! hen. He first gave him an emetic to get
| back the stolen hen so far possible; Sec
ondly gave the servant twenty-five strokes
! with whip. and. third, caused him to be
| placed in chains all day. Herr Bebel add
| ed that this was "a monstrous, barbarous
| most base action
| Thereupon DR.. Peters sprang up excitedIy
but Herr Bebel proceeded with his testi-
| mony.
| Eugene Wolff. a writer testified % having
| travelled over all Africa without finding
| cruel measures necessary. He never had tt
| fire shot.
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How to Exercise the
Bowels

q ~ OUR Intestines are lined inside with
millions Of suckers. that draw the
III N Nutrition FROM food as 1t passes
80 them. But IL the food passes too
slowly, It decays before 1t gets
through. Then the little suckers draw Poison from
1t Instead of Nutrition. This Poison makes a Gas
that Injuries your system more than the food should
have nourIshed 1t.
The usual remedy for this delayed passage
tcaued Constipation is to take a Gg dose Of Cas-
tor Oil
us merely makes slippery the passage for un-
loading the current cargo.
1t does not help the Cause of delay tribe. u
does slacken the Bowel-Muscles. and weakens them
for their next task.
Another remedy is to take a strong "Physic.. -
like Salts. CaIomei. Jalap. Phosphate of Sodium.
Aperient Water. any of these mixed
What does the ..PhysIe' dor
1t merely nushesout the Bowels with waste Of
Digestive Juice. set flowing into the Iutestines
through the tiny suckers.
Cascarets the only safe medicine for the
bowels.
They do not waste any precious fluid o: the Bow
els. as 'Physics'' do.
They do not relax the Intestines by greasing
them inside Ike Castor OIL or Gycerine.
They simply stimulate the Bowel Muscles to do
their work naturally. comfortably. and nutritiousy
They are put up in thin, fat. ound-cornered En-
amel boxes. they can be carried In a mans
vest pocket. or in a woman's purse. all the time,
without bulk trouble
The time to take Cascaret is not only when you
are Sick. but when you first suspect you need one
Price Toe boz.
Be very careful to get the genuine made only by
the Sterling Remedy Company. and never sold in
bulk. Every tablet stamped "CCC." All druggists
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Ordered by the Commissioners.

Ordered by the Commissioners.
The Commissioners have issued the fol-
lowing orders:
That the order of the Commissioners,
dated June 8, 1907, removing Alfred f.
Harmer, attendant at public convenience
station No. I, is hereby amended, In SO far
as it relates to the removal Of Harmer as
follows
That Alfred F. Harmer, attendant at
public convenience station No. I. is hereby
removed. to take effect from and after
June g. 1907. since which date he has not
performed any of the duties Of the posi-
ton.
That the resignation of Louis J. Barr.
assistant steam engineer in the water de-
partment be accepted. to take effect from
and after June 80 1907: and that Edward
McGinn be appointed assistant steam engi-
neer at 1878 per annum. vice Barr. resign
ed. to take effect on and after July l. 1907.
That the following changes be made in
the personnel of the surface division, to
take effect on and after July l. 1907: e. G..
Emack. assistant engineer at $3.50 per
diem. to be assistant engineer at 81 800 per
annum; L. G. Bouscaren. craftsman at
$3.50 per diem. to be rodman at $500 per
annum: c. F. Walters. chairman at 50 %
per diem. to be chairman at $3.50 per an
mum; F. w. Hart. craftsman at 81 $50 per
annum. to be craftsman at s. per diem: w.
NJ. Barton, assistant inspector of streets
at S1.20O per annum. to be craftsman at
81 $50 per. annum. vice Hart; w. w. Cur
tiss transitman at 81 $50 per annum. to be
assistant inspector of streets at $1,000 per
annum vice Barton: A. S. Fennell. rod
man at 81 per diem. to be transitman at
81 $50 per annum, vice Curtiss; A. G. Sim
clair to be clerk at $500 per annum, vice
Hazard. transferred to the sewer division
w p. Darwin. assistant engineer at IS per
diem, to be assistant engineer at So per
diem. and w. w. Reynolds. skilled laborer
at $3.50 per diem, to be skilled laborer at
So per diem.
That one wagon be purchased for the
use of the superintendent of repairs. in
connection with the work of repairs to pub
lie school buildings. said wagon being nee
essary to carry into effect the appropria-
ton for repairs and improvements to
school buildings and grounds 1907. at a
cost Of ST. -. chargeable to said appropria-
ton.
That two catch basins be constructed on
Rhode Island avenue Immediately east OF
the east sidewalk line of 1st street north
west at an estimated cost Of $3.50. chearge-
able to the appropriation for main and pipe
sewers, 1907.
That Webster street between 14th and
10th streets be graded at an estimated cost
of So, 800 chargeable to the appropriation
for grading streets. alleys and roads, 1907.
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CAPT. BEEHLER's RETIREMENT.
Claims It Under Forty Years Service
Clause.

Capt. w. H. H. Beehler. commandant of
the naval station at Key West, Fla, has
applied for retirement under the forty-year
service clause. Capt. Beehler was born in
Baltimore and appointed midshipman in
the navy in 1854. During the civil war he
was a member Of the Baltimore Home
Guards He served on various ships and
stations following his graduation from the
Naval Academy. and In the war with Spain
participated in the Cuban campaign. In
August. 1893. he was assigned to the Office
OF naval intelligence. whence he was sent
as naval sattache to the United States en-
bassies at Berlin. Rome and Vienna. He
was executive officer OF the Montgomery
just before the outbreak Of the war with
Spain.
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MORE CHARGES FILED.
Facts Submitted Regarding the Al
legged Watch Trust.

Representatives Of the Independent watch
manufacturers of the country have laid be-
fore the Department Of Justice additional
facts in their contention that the alleged
watch trust is operating in violation Of the
Sherman antitrust laws. The Department
of Justics. after a careful examination, had
practically come to the conclusion that the
alleged watch trust could not be success
fully prosecuted in the courts Whether
the additional facts laid before 1t by an Off
Ger of the Dueber company of Canton,
Ohio will cause any change in plans can
not now be stated.
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VICTORIA. B. c.. June 29.-Four new
steamers fifty feet longer than those in
Mrs. Hanna No. 2 to Wed.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. June 29.-Cieveland's
400 has become accustomed to d.
vorces and quick marriages that its men,
beers were not surprised yesterday when
they heard that Daisy Gordon Hanna, d.
vorced wife OF Dan X. Hanna. would soon
marry Franklin Pelton of New York Since
her divorce society people have been wont
to associate her name with those of Pelton
and Roy York. young broker of New
York. York formerly was In business In
Cleveland and It was reported he would
marry Mrs. Dan r. Hanna No. before she
became the wife of Walter Des Maud. an
Englishman. She Is now at Mamaroneck.
Westchester county, N. Y.
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Argument on Sixth Prayer.

ana WHO nave so Tar successfully eSaOcQ
extradition proceedings.
Argument on Sixth Prayer.
Counsel for Holmes pointed out to the
court that if either Peckham or Haas had
been summoned either or both of them
could not have been compelled to testify
and should they have been brought to this
jurisdiction they would have been arrested
and held to answer the indictment.
Justice Stafford announced that he would
pass on the prayers of both sides next
Monday, to which time the jury was ex-
cused yesterday.
The first two prayers the defense ask
for an acquittal, respectively, on the first
and second counts of the Indictment. The
presumption of innocence always allowed
the defendant. his former excellent repu-
tation for honesty and integrity in the com
munity and the defendants right under
the law to have a charge proved beyond a
reasonable doubt are set out in the next
three instructions.
The sixth player deals with the failure of
the defendant to produce as witnesses
Moses Haas and Frederick Peckham.
Failure to Produce Mr.. Price.
A similar instruction is asked in refer
ence to the failure to produce Theodore
II. Price. the New York cotton broker,
! as witness for the defense. The eighth
| prayer seeks an acauittal because in the
| spring with Moses Haas and Frederick
! Peckham and with no other person. There
| is no competent evidence in the case
! tending to show that the defendant con-
| spired with Haas, il Is claimed. and I'M
| less the jury Is satisfied beyond a rea-
J sonable doubt that Holmes conspircd with
/ Peckham. as charged in the indictment
\ before the date of the alleged meeting
| of August Z. 1904. between Holmes. Peck
| ham and Van Ripper. testified to by the
latter. they should find verdict of not
guilty.
| Even should the jury be satisfied of this
| they must also be satisfied that by that
| conspiracy Holmes agreed to disclose to
| Peckham information acquired by Holmes
| while performing his duties associate
| statistician Of the Department of Agricul-
! ture from reports relating to the cotton
/ fed by the evidence that. prior to the date
| of the alleged first meeting. It had been
! agreed between Holmes and Peckham tina