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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
A STRIKE BREAKER
HAS BEEN INDICTED
Lewis Harris Charged With Murder in
The Second Degree in Killing
Michael ]. Cunningham,

Boston, May 11.The grand jury to-
day indicted for murder in the second
degree Lewis Harris, strike breaker
VAC is charged with killing Michael J.,
Cunningham, who died recently from the
eliects Of pistol bullet fred from d
building in South Boston.
The jury also indicted for murder IN
the first degree Anthony DeSimone, a
young Italian charged with shooting
Leonardo Gaetano, his sisters employer,
because he ruined her.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
BRAKEMAN STRUCK BY ENGINE.
Injuries Received by Burlington Man
May Prove Fatal.

White River Junction, May 1t.--Bar-
net Wool Of Burlington, brakeman, was
struck BY switch engine in the local
yards At about . o'clock Thursday even
ing and It is thought that his injuries
are 80 serious that he cannot recover.
He was taken to his home in Burlinton
yesterday morning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
coyERNoR APPOINTS WOMAN.
Mrs. T. F. Hazen, Of st. Johnsbury, to
Visit State Institutions.

Rutland, May IA Under an aet pass
ed by the last legislature providing for
the appointment of a woman to serve
with the governor lieutenant governor,
and speaker Of the house as board TO
visit state institutions, Gov r. d. Proc.
tor has named Mrs T u Hazen, Of 81.
Johnsburys for the position.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
TRAIN FELL
FIFTY FEET
TWOpersOnS KiIIedand Fifteen
We're Injured
TEN OF THEM SERIOUSLY
Combination Passenger and Freight
Train On Marrow Guage Track at
Fle1ningsbury, Ky.--DrOps Be-
cause Of Rotten Timbers.

Flemingsburg. KY May 1.-Two
people were killed. ten were seriously
aid five slightly injured when narrow
gauge combination passenger and freight
train went through q fifty foot treatle
oyer the Fleming creek yesterday. The
wreck was caused by the collapse Of
rotten timbers The cars and the en-
gine were piled into the creek. OF the
l7 persons On the train not one escaped
Injury.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
DEATH STOPS REUNION.
Plans For Birthday Party Turned Into
Those For Funeral.

Brattleboro, May 1i.--CharIes Harris
well known farmer of West BrattIe-
boro, was stricken with a shock last
night and died yesterday afternoon. He
would have been 90 years ord tomorrow
an preparations were being made by
his children and grandchildren to ccle-
brate the event by family reunion at
The homestead, where he has lived for
over 90 years.
The anniversary win now be turned
into funeral
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
SIZE m pLAY.
Miss Joanna Parks of Barre Made =
Hit Last Night.

Miss Joanna Parks Of this city, q
student in Boston university, took The
leading part in Che annual college play
last evening. The Boston Globe said
today of her part in the play. Miss
Fearless and Company as follows.
"The leading part, that Of Miss Mar.
garet Henley, Boston heiress, was
taken by Miss Joanna r. Parks Of
Barre. VT. She made nit" Miss
Parks was also member Of the COM
mittee in charge Of Che play.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
IS AFTER HIS WAGON.
L. ]. Bolster Gets Track Of Vehicle Taken
From His Premises.

Levi j. Bolster is hard on the track
Of the person who has got his -Burling
ton RATHER wagon. The wagon, which
was made by the Strong Hardware com
pany Of Burlington, was taken away
from Mr.. Bolster's premises some time
ago, and the owner has just got track
Of it. The place where il u kept Is known
and the person who took il away is
given warming TO take It back where it
came from if wishing to save trouble
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
WIFE DIDN'T RESPOND.
Then DR.. C. S. Bidwell Discovered She
Was Dead.

Waterbury, May 11.--Mrs. G. S. Bid
weIl, wife of DR. BidweIl, died suddenly
yesterday morning while in bed. DR..
Bidwell spoke to her and when he re-
ceived no response he discovered that
she was dead.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-11
STORY DIscREDITED.
Tbev Do Not Believe Meyer Chapter
at Miners Headquarters.

Denyer NAV iii The story that
chsyIas II Mover, president of the West.
arr M Fndefation Of Miners, served a term
g. the Joliet penitegtiary for burglary,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

cy to fall earthward, due to the law of
gravitation. All this is promised on
the strength Of the performances Of
his miniature engine, or model, which
10 six feet long and powerful enough
to take his little daughter on trips upon
a monorail line constructed around
his private estate In New Brompton,
Kent. 1t has also carried easily q man
weighing lao pounds.
This engine, which the inventor calls
the Ryroscope locomotive, was recently
put through a performance before the
Royal society, and the members Of
that learned body were convinced that
It would ultimately work q revolution
in the railway world. The principle Of
the invention is simply that which en-
ables the common top to maintain its
equilibrium when in rapid motion, de-
spite all temptations to fall In
one end Of the gyroscope locomotive is
the gyratory apparatus, consisting of
two dywheels, rotated In opposite d.
rections by electricity. These flywheels
keep the engine perfectly balanced on
its one rail. Electricity or other motive
power may be used In moving the en-
CINE along the rail and thus dragging
a train OF cars.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Milk Pals Of Paper.

For years and years London's milk
supply has been blamed by medical
and health officers for a great deal OF
infant mortality, but very soon-in fact,
almost immediately-th dairy compa.
MES are to deliver milk at the doors OF
houses in paper paiks, which are said
to be absolutely proof against germs OF
air and water.
These milk pals, made from wood
pulp. can Of course be used only once,
They will he cheaper than metal pals,
pitchers and glass bottles. For n
reason. all the labor Of cleaning and
sterAizing will be saved.
These pals are a very simple con.
trivance. twelve times lighter than the
ordinary milk can, and are Of very
strong manufacture, finished off after
being rendered waterproof by being
sterilized In n furnace heated up to SOC
degrees +.
Every pail has a close fitting Hanged
cover, which can be quickly adjusted,
and. when fixed. effectuaEy seals the
milk from any outside influence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
QUARRYlNG GLACIER ICE.
New Industry Established In the A..
pine Mountains.

new Established In the A..
pine Mountains.
In Switzerland since the Introduction
Of electric railways a new and some.
what strange industry has been estab.
lished In the Alpine districts-namely,
the quarrying of glacier ice for dis
tribution in the large cities, says Sci
entiic America. Certain of the Swiss
communes. or districts, have been able
to grant concessions of their glaciers
for this purpose, and considerable sums
have been expended in constructing
Ice slide or troughs, in which the
blocks Of ice, many Of them being of
large size, blasted out Of the glacier.
are transported to the vicinity Of the
stations for conveyance in carefully
refrigerated vans or cars to Lyons and
other large cities remote from the
Alps.
The method of blasting with black
powder SO rs to avoid the discoloration
and soiling of the ice and the ability
displayed by the engineers in erecting
slides and in providing sufficient fric-
ton by means Of curves to avoid ex-
cessive speed in the downward jour.
ney Of the ice blocks show consider
able ingenuity and skill.
Glacier ice. which is perfectly pure
and transparent and which has many
qualities which are greatly a%ppreciat.
eli by the consumers, commands a
higher value than that of the usual kind
obtained from the lakes and ponds.
A singular feature in connection witk
the preparation of the ice for the mar.
ket is that It has been found necessary
to store it for some days in special
warehouses built like our WI ice
houses. those with double walls with
sawdust between them. in order to re-
move n coating of frosted or nontrans-
parent ice that tends to form on the
surface OF the block as 1t leaves the
glacier.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
IMPROVED WAGON JACK.
Device intended to Be Permanently
Attached to Vehicle.

An improved vehicle jack has recent.
ly been invented. which is of a type
adapted to be fastened to and form
a permanent attachment for a vehicle.
The jack is so mounted that it can
easily be brought into operative posi-
ton and carried to imperative position
with little work en- the part of the
operator.
In the accompanying engraving the
jack is shown at A. 1t will be OBJ
served that it comprises two legs
hinged to the axle of the vehicle. The
method Of Ringing these legs to the
axle is shown in Fig. 8. A collar OBJ
is secured to the axle, and this is pro-
vided with an undercut slot. Each leg
ca is tournaled on n transverse bolt
In a yoke Co. The latter is formed
with a pin CD adapted to enter the
slot in the collar OBJ. The head Of this
pin (D) engages the undercut portion
Of the slot.
When the jack is not in use, the legs
are folded up against the axle, to which
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
n. PoCAHoNTAs.
Her Visit to England and the Effect
Il Produced.

Her Visit to England and the Effect
Il Produced.
Pocahontas vas born in the year
1895. Her father, Powhatan, was the
lord and ruler Of thirty tribes or clans
OF savages inhabiting that vast domain
which was then called Virginia, after
the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth. His
friendship was dearly sought for by the
white men and considered essential to
the life and success of the colony. Like
most red men, he distrusted the whites
and their designs. .
In England Pocahontas was treated
with all the honor shown to royalty.
Her grace and charm e to have
won all hearts, and she was at her
ease with the best in the land. She
was presented at Queen Anne'e court,
attended a ball given by the bishop Of
London and visited the Globe theater
to see S~hakespeare's Tempest" In
fact, she took on the garb and accesso-
ries OF civilization with that easy grace
which belongs to the truly great and
was as much at home in court as in
her own western solitudes. But in
wardly she seems to have pinned for
her own free, open life of the forest,
and when she was about to return on
the good ship George she sickened and
at Gravesend, having lived long
enough, as one commentator has said,
to unite two hemispheres, two races,
two civilizations. William Ordway
Partridge in Circle Magazine.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07

II WRIGHT AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT.
aeroplane. 1t Is self lifting and self
pfopelling, the power being supplied
by a gasoline motor. There are two
propellers, n lifting up, the other
driving forward, and the vessel Ia guild
Cd by q rudder. 1t may be manipulate
ed 40 accurately as to sail In any de-
sired direction, either with or against
the wind. The person who steers lies
prone upon his face. Gasoline enough
b last two hours may be carried, and
q weight of 1000 pounds, including
that Of he irship, motor md operator,
may be sustained.
Orvllle and Wilbur Wright are In the
1eighborhood Of forty and are sons
Of a bishop In the United Brethren
church. They were In the bicycle bust.
e at the time the bicycle wal a
era and have been experimenting
with flying machines since about 1900.
They early determined upon the aero
0lane as giving the best chance Of sue
eessful flight and In 1908 succeeded In
making a machine which would fly.
Since then their efforts have been
given to improving their machine and
overcoming practical difficulties. The
first fight lasted only fifty-nine Sec
Dnds, but during II the aeroplane nd
vanced o distance Of $50 feet against a
twenty mile an hour wind. The next
year the brothers accomplished for the
arst time the feat Of describing a cir
Gle. BY the latter part Of 1904 they
had succeeded in flying as long dis
tances as four miles at n time. Most
Of the experiments were made over
meadows G their home ut Dayton.
They kept their aerial operations as
much In the dark, SO to speak. as posi-
BILE In order to protect their discoveries
md inventions from appropriation by
others and often made their flights ut
night. In the latter part OF 1905 a
hight Of twenty-five miles was made at
\ rate of nearly forty miles an hour.
The accompanying picture from a
photograph reproduced In the Scientific
American gives a general idea of the
Wright aeroplane. Heretofore the
brothers have been very secretive
about their invention and have avoid
ed publicity as much as possible. Now
that their work has been crowned with
success and the stamp of approval has
been placed upon 1t by a powerful Eu-
r0pean government and with their
anancial future assured by the action
this government has taken there ia rea-
ron to expect from the courageous and
pessistent inventors greater freedom
of utterance in respect to their ideas
and ant1cipati0ns.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
ROOSEvELT-LONC.
"Naturs Fakir" Controversy Between
stamford Author and President.

"Naturs Fakir" Controversy Between
Stamford Author and President.
A good many people had never heard
Of the Rev. DR.. William J. Long Of
Stamford. Conn, before President
Roosevelt in a recent magazine article
called in question some statements the
former made In his books about ami
mails. Now the authors name is a
household word. his works are among
the books in special demand ut the
libraries. and incidentally the contro-
versy the presidents criticisms pro-
voked has added considerably to the
gayety Of the nations. One Of the
Long stories which caused Mr.. Roose-
welt to put the Stamford author In the
mature fakir' class related to the feat
OF n wolf which, according to Or. Long,
killed a caribou by biting him through
the chest to the heart. This story was
brought to the attention Of no less dis
tinguished a body than the cabinet q
short time ago, when President Roose-
welt read to his councillors IN affidavit
OF a Sioux Indian produced by DR..
Long to prove his assertion about
the wolf. In connection with the afl.
davit was an editorial paragraph which
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Odd Clock For Motorman

A large electric clock about three
feet In diameter has been fixed at the
departure end Of Piccadilly station of
the P~iccadtlly tube. London. The dial
Is divided into twelve sections of one
minute each. with only one hand. Its
object. says the Railway News. ia to
show the motorman how long it is
since b preceding train left the sta
ton. As 0 as a train leaves the sta.
tion the clock starts recording the time
MI continues until the next train
','mes in. Immediately that leaves the
single hand goes back to the starting
point and begins afresh.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Great Electricity STORAGE Station.

Lake Rusio, in the Grisons. is now
the scene Of the most powerful elec-
tricity generating and distribution sta.
tons in Europe II not In the world.
1t has been obtained by turning the
steam Of the Peschlaveno, In the Pos.
chiavo valley, at its exit from the lake
OF the same name. through a great con
duit three miles long to a reservoir
1.2aO feet above the level Of the central
station and therefore giving the high
est known fall.
From the reservoir Ave enormous
sets of pipes secured to the sheer rock
conduct the water to the generating
station, whence $4,000 horsepower OF
electricity is distributed about the
shores Of Lakes Como and Magg1ore
and high pressure as far as the great
plain OF Milan.-London Globe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Age Told by Pulse Beats.

1t is said 10y great authorities that
the age and sex Of a person can be as
certained by the rate Of the pulse
alone. Babies Mt birth have a pulse
beat of 100 times a minute in case
OF a girl and $50 times in the ease Of
boys. At the age Of four or Eve the
pulse beats will have fallen respective
~ to no and 100. Maidens and youths
pulses average 95 and 80. Mature
men and women average 80 and Is.
Elderly men and women have an av-
eraRe OF 60 and so. An old woman's
pulse rarely if ever sinks below 80,
but among old men Il pulse beat below
80 Is quite common.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Liver Of Old VioIins.

Strange indeed are the "lives'' of the
old Italian v~iolins, says George Leh.
man. For years or decades they either
repose in the amateurs velvet lined
cases or sing with their own peculiar
Incompatible sweetness to m%ultitudes
OF admirine listeners, adored by their
fortunate ~possessors, coveted by all
whose love Of their fascinating quail.
ties is far greater than their material
means. And then. when 1t is least
expected, some Strad or Guarnerius,
known the world over, is tenderly
placed in the hands of a new master
or mistress and a new chapter in the
history of its long life is begun.-New
York World.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
C~aIcutta's "Juneie ViHaoes,"

The houses, or huts, rather, that form
the majority Of Calcutta's dwelling and
working places are low and mean and
crazy to a degree. This vast congeries
of dwellings that stretched itself along
the Hooghly bank scarce deserves the
name of town except for its supreme
commercial and political importance
and its great population. 1t is not a
town, this city Of huts, except in the
central African sense. 1t is a series of
jungle villages spread out and plaster
ed on the river bank with a trowel.-
Calcutta Englishman.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
A HISTORIC HIGHWAY.
o Colonel zsre Kept His Contract
to Mark the Road,

NV
to Mark the Road.
1t is said that the beginning of one
part of a historic road may be traced
to the following incident: In early
days, before the public conveyance by
stage between the east and west, travel
was generally by horseback. Judge
Brown, senator for Kentucky, reached
Wheeling OF the way to the capital wet
ana tired. He was a guest of Colonel
Ebenezer Zane. an early settler at
Wheeling. Standing before the fire in
Zane's comfortable cabin, he remark
ed, Zane, if you will have a road
way marked from here to Limeston
N1aysville), I will have congress grant
you a section of land at the crossing
OF the Muskingum, Hooking and Scioto
rivers" Zane fulfilled the contract,
and congress made the grant.
May II, 1896, congress granted to
Ebenezer Zane three tracts of land,
one square mile, one on the Muskin.
gum, n on the Hooking and one on
the Scioto river, in the state Of Ohio,
Tor the purpose Of building ferries on
the road from Wheeling, w. Va, to
Limeston, which road was to be opened
by the president of the United States.
These grants were confirySAd to Zane
M patented Feb. IA, 1900. On April
3, 1902, congress made the same al
lowance to Isaac Zane, his heirs or as
signs, located in the Northwest Terri
tory, now the state of Ohio. Zane made
good use of his grants. He located the
town of GAINESVILLE on the Muskingum,
the town of Fairfield on the Hook
Ing and ChillicOthe on the Scioto. The
story u n that when Judge Brown
passed over the road" he found it
well marked by-blazed trees. - Ex-
change.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Hardening Drills.

Hardening an ordinary drill in sui.
phuric acid makes an edge that will
cut tempered steel or facilitate cutting
hard rock. says Compressed Air. The
acid should be poured into a hat bot
toned vessel to a depth of about one.
eighth Of an inch. The point of the
drill is heated to a dull cherry red and
dipped In the acid to that depth. This
makes the point extremely hard. while
the remainder remains soft. If the
point breaks reharden, but with a lit
tie less acid in the vessel. After hard
ening a drill In this manner wipe of
the acid. II any remains on the point
Of the drill, before 1t attacks the metal
and destroys the cutting edge.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
VEHICLE JACK.

they are secured by means Of hooks. "a
shown in Fig. .. In the operation o;
the jack the legs are detached from III,
hooks and swung literally on the PIN.
o. as a pivot. after which they ara
dropped downward, turning on the
bolts In the yokes Co. TO lift the We
hicle wheels. it is only necessary to
back the vehicle, when the wheels will.
be raised by the legs. A patent on this
Improved vehicle jack has recently
been secured by Anthony Gordon of
Sourisford, Arthur Municipality, Mani
tOba, Canada.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
THE LATEST. MARVEL.
The Gyroseope Locomotive, Which
Runs on a Single Rail or Cable.

A train that will spin along on a sin
gle rail or even on a wire cable up hill
and down, across ravines and rivers,
around curves, performing miracles of
mechanical engineering, is what Is
promised by Louis Brennan, G. B., of
the Royal Society of London, inventor
of the Brennan torpedo and other de-
vices that are now in extensive use. He
promises that trains shall at high
speed, as much as 125 to $50 miles per
hour. and that the cars shall be hotels
on wheels, from fifteen to twenty feet
wide, permitting Of much more con-
venient arrangement than even in the
case of cars run on two rails, according
to the present system. He promises
that the engines and cars Of such
trains shall maintain their balance on
the single rail or cable perfectly de-
spite differences Of load and the tenden-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
vENTILATOR IN POSITION,

vania inventor and is shown in the &C.
campaigning illustration. This VENT.
lator was designed to admit the en-.
trance of any amount Of fresh air, but
at the same time to prevent the air
from flowing In in gusts. When e
window Is raised. the wind blows di-
rectly into the room. This Is impossi.
BILE with this ventilatOr, the front serv-
Ing as a shield. All air must come
down through the open top, any force
which it may have being broken be-
fore 1t reaches the room. The VENT.
lator is supported on hooks on the out
side OF the window frame. the amount
Of ventilation being regulated by rails
ing and lowering the window the dis
lance desired.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
DRAINAGE Of Savanna.

According to government surveys
and estimates there are at least 10000
GOO acres Of land which can be drained
and made tit for farming at a cost Of
abou x an acre. This would increase
the value OF the drainage districts more
than $'.U0.oO.OW and would add to
the crop values Of this great nation
many millions annually. 1t Is impossi-
BILE to treat OF the subject Of the drain
age OF the wet and overlooked lands of
the United States except to discuss It
In millions and billions Of dollars.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
Making . Feast For Him.

making . Feast For Him.
The modern prodigal had just re-
turned from a far country. He had
been eating husks when he couldn't
get free lunches and had an appetite
that any millionaire would have given
a ten dollar bill to possess.
His father, looking up from his
paper, saw him alight from the car
and said, by gum, there's Bill"
His mother ran to meet him, kissed
him q couple of times and went
through his pockets to see II he had
been doing any good for himself.
After he had said Hello" all around,
his brother, who had stayed at home
all the time and fed off the old man,
sided up to his father and said, "Pop,
shall we kill the fatted calf"
mot much" said the old man de-
hberately. shifting his tobacco to the
other cheek. Hardly. But you might
send Mary Ann down to the store for
a couple Of boxes OF breakfast food"