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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
FAVOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
American Federation Of Labor Con-
vention Passes Several Resolutions.
Wants to Stop War Expenditures.

Toronto, Ont, Nov. 14.-The con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor went on record yesterday as
favoring woman suffrage, an eight
hour day for postoffice clerks, legis-
lation for better protection of actors
and actresses from the "extortion
and corrupt business methods" of So
called theatrical employment agen-
cies, postal savings bank act, deep
waterway projects, a continuation of
the fight against tuberculosis, grant
ing American citizenship to the peo-
pie of Porto Rico and the construc-
ton of a 26-foot channel through the
great lakes from Buffalo to Duluth,
and from Buffalo to Chicago.
Resolutions looking to the estab-
lishment of a national defence fund
by the federation to assist unions in
distress were voted down after a
spirited debate
On the ground that employment
agencies are used as strike-breaking
organizations, the federation will at
tempt to have national legislation
enacted for their regulation.
A resolution urging the executive
council to do all in its power ito stop
the mad expenditure of public money
for war purposes" stirred up lively
division of sentiment, and it was re-
ferred back to committees.
The executive council was author
lied to make recommendations to the
President of the United States re-
specting appointments to judicial po-
sitions.
The afternoon was devoted to vari-
Gus committee meetings.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
CUTTERS REFUSE TO WORK.
Mortified Stone Sheds Have Slight
Difficulty With WOrkmen.

Mortified, Nov. 1.-THE Mortified
Branch of the Granite Cutters Union
recently voted not to work in sheds
where bumpers" are used during the
winter months. A bumper might be
described as small size surfacing
machine. The objection to its use is
that it raises quantities of dust. Sew
eral branches have already taken this
action and the use of the machine dis
continued during the winter.
A claim was made that certain men
were discharged Immediately follow
ing their refusal to use the machine.
A call for meeting was issued and
at 1880 this forenoon the cutters
quit work to attend the meeting. The
matter will probably be adjusted by
arbitration. A majority of the cut
tiers resumed work after dinner. No
claim is made that strike was in
augurated. The cutters will call a
meeting at such time as seems expe-
dent to discuss question.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
L. M. HAYS APPOINTED.
Receives Official Notice as Superior
Of the Census.

Burlington, Nov. Hills official
appointment as supervisor of the GEN.
sus for Vermont was received Sat-
urday by Lynn M. Hays, of this city.
Mr.. Hays has already conducted a
mass of correspondence, pending his
formal appointment, and he has re-
ceiyed basketful of applications for
enumerators. s., ~
He is at present head of an adver-
Using firm of this city. Prior to that
he was editor of the Essex Junction
Syndicate, which publishes a number
of newspapers at Essex Junction Be-
fore coming to Vermont he was en-
gagged in reportorial work on the Bos-
ton Globe. He was a member of the
Vermont commission which had
charge of the celebration of the dis
covery of Lake Champlain last sum
mer, being secretary of that organi-
cation and publicity agent.
His appointment was decided upon
several months ago when an agree
ment was reached by the Vermont
delegation in Congress He is gen
orally considered capable man fol
the place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
NORTHFIELD.

A sociable was given by the ladies'
of the Methodist church last even
ing which was largely attended. Fol-
lowing supper an excellent musical
and literary program was given.
The members of the Universalist So
ciety gave Rev. and Mrs. G. w. For
tier :house warming" last evening
by calling in body on the clergyman
and his wife, spending the evening
with them.
A social dance will take place in
the Armory this evening under the
direction of Miss Lois Giffin. A social
dance will also be held in Cross hall
at the Falls. Tomorrow evening a
Turner" dance will be held in Dewey
Hall.
Eugene Davis returned to Boston
last evening and Herbert Davis to
New York, both having been guests of
their mother, Mrs. Antoine Miller, for
the past week. Herbert Davis returns
to the warship Nebraska, where he is
serving out the term of his naval en-
listment.
William Legier is making collec-
tions for r. L. Britain in the village
electric department.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
POST OFFICE SAFE ROBBED
Concord Visited By Burglars Who
Dynamited the Post Office Safe and
ESCAPED With Boot

st. Johnsbury, Nov. 1.-THE post
office in the village of Concord was
entered and the safe dynamited at an
early hour this morning, the robbers
escaping with their booty, the exact
amount of which has not been deter
mined at this time. There have been
two other robberies in town during
the past three weeks, the grist-mill
first and then the railroad station;
aud it is thought that this mornings
bold attempt was by the same parties.
The post office is located in the
Hubbard block, three-story building
containing stores on the ground floor,
tenements and two halls upstairs.
Tenants in the building were awak-
ened between midnight and one o'clock
by nose underneath, but no particu-
lar attention was paid to it, except
by one man, who lives just over the
post Office. He looked out of the win
dow and saw two men crossing the
bridge nearby. However, even then
he did not suspect robbery and paid
no further attention to the matter
This morning, when the postmis-
tress, Miss Edith Brooks, went to
open the office for business, she dis
covered that it had been broken into
and that the safe had been blown open
The stove and the stovepipe had been
knocked down by the explosion, and
the glass in some of the mail boxes
had been smashed, while debris was
scattered about the room. She is not
able to state definitely the amount of
the loss; but she knows that the rob-
bers got away with all the loose
change and the loose stamps in the
safe, together with some of her own
personal belongings, including two
bankbooks. The robbers overlooked
package containing $340 in stamps.
States Attorney George Hunt, of Is
land Pond, arrived this afternoon and
commenced an investigation of the
premises, while post office inspec-
tor is expected to arrive in short
time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18

Of the road at that time was s292,274.
The total cost of construction and
equipment was $21S,O00 and the
amount of capital stock authorized
and issued is 100000, while the out
standing bonds amount to $4,000.
The operating expenses per mile Of
road are comparatively small, only
two in the State having smaller ex-
pense, but with funded debt of $751;
900 per mile and a small income the
road has not been q success. The
items of income run about like this:
From passengers, 81 S2O6S; freight,
$9,7S5.74; mail, $6747; express, $667.-
SO; total of 1S,931.52, which mis-
cellaneous items bring up to $19,974,-
10; but the operating expenses eat up
80 per cent of this income, which
leaves little to be applied in the pay
ment of interest or dividends, so the
road has run behind from year to
year.
A majority of the stockholders live
in Vermont, but the larger part of the
stock is owned outside the State. The
advisability of extending the road to
Morrisville has long been understood
but it has not seemed feasible, but
with the taking of power from the
municipal plent there the first step
will be made toward closer con-
nection.
One of the great needs of the State
today is better transportation facili-
ties, and with the abundance of water
power, which can be readily convert
ed into electric power, the electric
road seems destined to meet that
ned The Lamoille valley is a rich
and fertile country, with some well
developed manufacturing interests
and appears to afford a promising
field for furthe development of this
means of transportation. To extend
the Mount Mansfield line to Norris
Vile would be so pleasing to the peo-
pie of that section and those who have
occasion to travel through it that they
would be disposed to give it all the
business they could turn that way.
The prospect of increased business is
so good and the increased cost of OPP
Grafton would be so slight that it ap-
pears as if such an extension might
convert a deficit into surplus and
make the line one of the good paying
pieces of railroad property in the
State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
TICKET AGENT PROMOTED.
Burlington Man to Be Succeeded by
Former Montpelier Employee.

Burlington, Nov. I'm. G. Murphy,
for years a railroad ticket agent, first
at Montpelier and later at White
River Junction, has been appointed
ticket agent at the Burlington station
to succeed H. r. Taylor. The change
will be made at once.
Mr.. Taylor has been ticket clerk
since June 1908, when he succeeded
Frank L. Roberts, who was appointed
travelling passenger agent by the Rut-
land road. Mr.. Taylor will be trans
ferred to another point on the line not
yet decided upon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
Compliment for S. S. Ballard.

The Groton Times remarks that
Sunshine Ballard is the name the
Waterbury Record gives S. 8. Ballard,
the general agent of the National
Life Insurance Company, of Montpe-
lier. The term conveys one of the
prominent characteristics of Mr.. Bal
lard whose hearty handclasp, genial
smile and happy manner is so well
known by Vermonters in general
The Record dominates Mr.. Ballard
for Representative from Montpelier in
the Legislature of 1910. The SUCCESS
ton is good one and Mr.. Ballard
would make an excellent record in
the Legislature. 1t is such broad
minded, clear-headed, energetic work.
ers who will bring about construc-
tive work in that body, and it's time
every town was looking for its best
men,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
DEFENCE OPENS CASE
Case of Robert Eddy, on Trial For
Murder, Brings In Evidence to Show
Miss johnson Died OF Paralysis.

Rutland, Nov. 1.-THE two most
important points of the prosecution
which connect Robert Eddy with the
murder of Miss Mary Johnson were
met by the defense this afternoon af-
ter Judge 2. s. Stanton had denied a
motion of aquittal made by the coun-
sci for the respondent on the grounds
that the State, had not submitted
sufficient evidence to warrant giving
the case to the jury.
The defense put witnesses on the
stand that swore that the burrs
found on the clothing of both Eddy
and the murdered woman grew in
many parts of the town and we're es-
pecially abundant about the house
where Eddy made his home.
w. P. Cary, proprietor of the gen.
eral store in Wallingford, testified
that he had sold Miss Johnson provi-
sions many times, which were carried
away in paper bags similar to the
one found in the rear of her home.
The bag which was submitted as an
exhibit by the State, contained bread
crumbs and particles of butter and
the prosecution held that it was the
same bag in which Eddy's sister had
given him lunch on the night of
the crime.
Mrs. Lillian Smith, of Vergennes,
niece of the murdered woman, tes-
titled that all of Miss Johnson's
brothers and sisters, with one excep-
ton, had died of paralysis. 1t is now
expected that the arguments will be
reached by Saturday morning.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT.
Brattleboro Farm Hand in Jail In De.
fauIt Of Bail.

Brattleboro, Nov. 11.-Barney Ma
gee, farmland. was arrested this
afternoon at the home of County Fish
and Game Commissioner Roswell L.
Frost by Deputy Sheriff Chauncey l.
Knapp on a suit brought by Francis
H. Morse for $1,000 for trespass and
assault committed on May 4. In de-
fault of bail he was committed to the
town lookup at Newfane until to-
morrow.
Magee was arraigned in the Mum
icipal Court here a short time ago
and fined $50 and costs for breach of
the peace in committing an assault.
He was taken to Newfane and after
wards transferred to Rutland, but
was released on payment of his fine.
The present suit attaches the body OF
Magee and is returnable at, the April
term of the Windham County Court.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
WOMAN INHALED GAS
Mrs. Hattie Wiltfanch BOrdO, Wife Of
Employee of Traction Company,
Found Dead With Three Months
Old Child in Her Arms, BY Son Re.
turning From School.

Burlington, Nov. 12.-Hattie Wilt
fanch SO years old, wife of Frank
Bordo, motorman for the Traction
Company here, committed suicide by
inhaling gas from stove late this
afternoon and her three months old
son is also dead. The woman went to
the kitchen, shut the door and sat in
a rocker near the stove holding the
child, and turned on the gas. She had
left a note to her husband saying
she would cause him no more trou-
BILE.
Her son, 10 years old, came home
from school with his playmates and
found the bodies still warm, but all
efforts of the physicians failed to re-
suscitate them. Her husband was no.
titled on his car.
The suicide was probably caused by
dependency and poor health. She
was a native of South Hero, and sew
eral brothers, one sister, son 10
years old and a daughter eight years
old survive her.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
STORY WAS FALSE.
Report Stated That Burlington PeO-
pie Were Killed in Accident.


Burlington, Nov. PA sensational
despatch from Chicago printed in an
afternoon New York newspaper Mon
day to the effect that T. A. Cosgriff,
of Cheyenne, Wyo., and his brother,
James E. Cosgriff, of Salt Lake City,
Utah, former Burlingtonians, had
been drowned in an auto accident
proves to be without foundation.
Developments at Chicago confirmed
the theory that Max Cohen, a cigar
dealer and Miss Shapiro, both of Chi
cago, were the real victims.
The despatch gave the names of the
two Messrs. Gosgriff, Mrs. E. c. Fife,
of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Eugenia R.
Miller, of Fresno, Cal, and the chauf-
feur, c. Douglass.
The party were hurrying to the
Union station in an automobile to
catch a train. Because the chauffeur
failed to return to the garage and an
automobile had plunged into the riv-
er at point where the Cosgriff ma
chine would pass the rumor gained
currency that they had persisted, and
this story was telegraphed to New
York
Friends of Messrs. Gosgriff in Bur-
lington upon reading the despatch
FASTENED to investigate the story by
wiring to Utah. No message has yet
been received in reply, but it can
safely be said that the Cosgriffs are
safe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
BIC DEAL INVOLVED

Judge Hall in Windham County Court
Called Upon to Decide Cross Suit
Brought Against Jamaica Lumber
Company and II. A. McLean-Much
Real Estate and Other Property
Enjoined.
Brattleboro, Nov. 1.-THE hearing
before Judge Alfred A. Hall, of st.
Adams, as Chancellor in the cross
suits of II. A. Mclean VS.. Jamaica
Lumber Company, and Jamaica Lum-
Der Company vs.. II. A. Mclean was
concluded this afternoon after
three days session, Judge Hall re-
serving judgment The hearing Is to
determine whether or not the Jamaica
Lumber Company be subrogated and
whether OF not the injunction res
training the Lumber Company or Nc
Lean from disposing of certain real
estate, be dissolved.
The case has been pending in the
Chancery Courts for two years, and
directly involves the lighting system
of the town of Jamaica In 1906, Nc
Lean sold sawmill, electric light
ing plant and some timber land to
the Windham County Light and Lum-
! Der Company, a Massachusetts corpo-
ration. In March, 1907, the Windham
County Lumber Company sold the
standing timber to the Jamaica Lum-
Der Company under written con-
tract, by which the latter agreed to
pay Mclean certain mortgages am
ounting to $500, covered by three
notes.
When the third note became due,
the Jamaica Company failed payment
and meanwhile, Mclean purchased
from the Windham Company the saw
mill, electric light plant, and land,
subject to the Jamaica Lumber Com
pany's timber rights. Mclean fore
closed the mortgage on the Jamaica
Company and enjoined them from cut
ting more timber.
| lie COipduy pdlu Tie duOuuI VI
the last note to the court. Mclean
took the money, discharged the mort
gage and placed the deeds on record.
The Jamaica Company brought a
cross suit against Mclean and the
Windham Company, setting up that
the amount of the timber price per
1000 feet agreed upon was not equal
to the amount of money! paid on the
mortgages.
In their petition they asked they be
subrogated the rights of Mclean and
the Windham Company under Nc
Leans mortgage, that Mclean and
the Windham Company be enjoined
from transferring or in any way
changing their title to the property.
pending the action. The injunction
granted has since remained in force.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
MEET IN RANDOLPH.
District Meeting of /. o. 0. f. to Be
Held in That Village Next Tues


Programs have been issued for the
annual meeting of District No. Z, l.
o. o. F., to be held with Randolph
Lodge, at Randolph, Tuesday, No
vember 10Th. The district deputy is
o. p. Green and the lodges in dis
trict No. are the following: Yer
mont, No. 2, Montpelier; Valley, 16,
Waitsfield; Mortified, 10, Mortified;
Hiawatha, 20, Barrel Randolph, 4S,
Randolph; Cabot, 40, Cabot; Mentor,
81, Waterbury; Arcadia, SO, Plain
field; Gill, 81, East Barre; Mt. Pleas
ant, so, Warren; Williamstown, ga,
Williamstown; Washington, rs, Wash
ington.
The reception committee are W. H.
Pelton, P. J. Blanchard, F. A. Sails
bury, and c. s. Booth, and the pro-
gram is as follows:
Meeting opened at 1880 by Ran
dolph Lodge. Address of welcome,
D. H. Morse; response, D. b. Howe;
exemplification of first degree, Yer
mont Lodge, No. 2; criticisms by
Grand Master; exemplification of
second degree, Hiawatha Lodge, No.
20; banquet; reports of lodges; ex-
emplification of secret work, grand
officers; remarks, grand officers and
others; closing exercises, Randolph
Lodge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
WEST BERLIN.

The school closed Friday for the
Thanksgiving vacation.
Byron Black, an old-time resident
in town, died Friday morning.
We are to have a ticket and freight
office after December l.
The sister of Mrs. e. A. Glines,
who was badly hurt by stepping off
the platform at the station back
wards was taken to her home in
Barre Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid cleared $119 at the
chicken pie supper and sale. They
received $1s from the handkerchief
sale.
Il. L. Glinn and Andrew Norton
are putting a new fence around the
cemetery.
The men at Davis shed went on
strike Friday at 10 a. M; also al
Prera's shed.
Miss Helen Glines is stopping a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
ADJuDeED IN CONTEMPT.
Deputy Sheriff in Essex County Dis
charged Jury without Consulting
Judge Taylor, and Grand Mixup Is
the Result-Could Not Agree on n
Verdict.


Island Pond, Nov. 12.--Deputy
Sheriff Isaac Beemis and the members
of the jury in the case of II. A. Allen
administrators, VS.. Thomas II. Van
Dyck, are held in contempt of court
by Judge William H. Taylor, who is
presiding at the present term of the
Essex County Court.
The mixup is the result of pecu-
liar situation brought about by De-
putty Sheriff Beemis, when he dis
charged the jurymen, on Tuesday
night, after they had been in consul
tation for several hours on the case
and been unable reach
The case was given to them on Tues
day evening just before the adjourn
ment of the court, and at about 9
o'clock they came in and reported to
Judge Taylor that they could not
agree, but he sent them back. At
about midnight they informed Deputy
Bemis that they had not agreed and
that there was no possibility OF 1t,
whereupon he discharged them and
allowed them to go to their residen-
ces.
When Judge Taylor came in the
morning to receive their report, he
found no one, and an investigation
of the affair disclosed the true con-
dition of things. He thereupon held
the jury and Deputy Sheriff in con-
tempt, but it is generally supposed
that the action against the jurymen
has been dropped, as they were dis
charged formally by Judge Taylor
after they had been gathered again
Deputy Bemis' case will be consid-
cred by the Supreme Court.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
MRS. JAMES BUZZELL DEAD.
Expired mt Mortified After Five
Weeks Illness.

Mortified. Nov 14.-Many friends
were grieved Friday at the death of
Mrs. James Buzzell which took place
following an illness of five weeks
with empyemia, or suppurative pleu-
risy. Funeral services will be con-
Quoted at the home this afternoon,
followed by interment in Elmwood
cemetery. Mrs. Buzzell is survived by
her husband, one son, daughter and
brother. She had lived many years
in Mortified and was possessed of
many friends. Her church affiliation
was with the Methodist Episcopal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
FINED FOR KILLING FAwN.
East Rupert Man Found Guilty But
Appeals to County Court

Judge E. H. Holden this afternoon fin
ed Oliver Danforth. of East Rupert
500 and costs of $11.90 for killing
spotted fawn during the open deer
season. The hide of the fawn killed
was exhibited in court as evidence,
by County Warden Harry Chase, who
prosecuted the case. Danforth ad-
mitted shooting the fawn but main
tanned that the animal was not spot
ted in such manner as came under
the provision of the statute and ap-
pealed to the County Court and fur
nished bonds of $780,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
ST. JOHNSBURY PASTOR RESIGNS
Rev. J. A. Thompson VIII Sever Con-
nectiOn With St Andrews EpiscO-
pal Church In December.

st. Johnsbury, Nov. Alt was an
nounced today in st. Andrews Epis-
copal church that the resignation of
the rector, Rev. ]. A. Thompson, had
been placed in the hands of the Sc
nior warden and the bishop of the d.
Geese, to take effect on December LIST.
This announcement was made by the
Rev. E. p. Lee, who supplies the
missions at Lyndon and who ex-
changed with Rev. Mr.. Thompson on
Sunday.
Mr.. Thompson came to st. Johns
bury five years ago from Ashland, N.
H., and has supplied frequently in
Lyndon and Claremont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
EVIDENCE ALL FINISHED.
Case Against Robert Eddy for Murder
of Mary j. johnson VIII Probably
Go to the Jury Next Monday After
noon-Arguments of Attorneys Be-


gun.
Rutland, Nov. 12.-All of the evil
dence in the murder case of Robert
Eddy, in which the respondent is
charged with killing Miss Mary Jane
Johnson, is with the jury and this af-
ternoon States Attorney J. c. Jones
completed the opening argument for
the prosecution He reviewed the evil
dence, claiming that the State had
proved that the respondent was drunk
on the night of the crime that he had
made threats about what he would do
to Miss Johnson before IL o'clock that
night and that he was seen prowling
about her house shortly after 10
o'clock. He also dealt at length on
the fact that burdock burs were found
on both the clothing of Eddy and the
murdered woman, this weed growing
about her home.
Attorney w. H. Botsford will make
the opening argument for the res
pendent this morning and Attorney
F. l.. Fish will close for the defense.
Attorney General J. G. Sargent will
close for the State. 1t is expected that
the case will go to the jury next Mon
day afternoon.