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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
LIED HAT TO FIND
IT COVERED A CORPSE

Appleton. Wis, Aug. 24.-Standing erect
and with shovel in his uplifted hands
the body of Leo Alesch was dug out Of
cave-in and n gravel pit near here yes
terday. George Miller. n farmer. while
driving past the pit. saw SLOUGH hat on
top of the gravel He picked 1t up and
discovered that it rested on a mans
head. Alosch had been dead several hours
when his body was found, The pit was
about : feet deep and all hut an inch
of the victims head was buried under
tho caVe-in.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26

the race was In danger Of suffering
ainilar fatos, because Of the many
ruts and holes In the track.
Schiller, Keene's mechanicien, sus-
tanned n slight fracture of the skuli,
but did not realize tho extent of tic
injury. thinking he had only n slight
cut. Kccne received cash In the
side of hts neck and several cuts
about the head, but he Is not serious
Iy hurt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
BROKE BOTH FEMURS.
Most Unusual Accident Happened
When MINIS Hand slipped.

fonkers n. Y, Aug. 2A--In a most
unnsua accident here to-day Frederk
Stackholm, 10 years old, an engineer in
the employ of the Otis Elevator com
pany' broke the femurs OF both legs.
He was leaning on q table when his
hand slipped, ana the sudden tension Of
tn" muscles Of the hips and thighs as
they jumped antpn,sitNsllyl to bring the
body into halanca. snapped both bones.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
SUICIDE SEEKER" MAY
DIE FROM LOOPING LOOP

Waukesha. Wis. Aug 24-Rurt VIII
liams. billed on Park vaudeville circuits
as the suicide seeker" was probably ia
tally injured while doing his act NJ Wan
kesha beach Yesterday. Williams leaps
the gap on roller skates turning back
ward somersault into the lake. lie turn
ed the somersault too quick and struck
his head on the chute sustaining frac-
ture OF the skull. Rendered unconscious
by the blow he narrowly escaped drown
ing. but was rescued by spectators on
the pier
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
GAVE HER LIFE FOR SON

Escanaba, Mich, Aug p After run
ming several blocks In the darkness to
get aid for her son who had been scalded
In tho explosion of boiler tube In a
stnve mill Mrs, Louis Courtright
on the porch of the doctors
house last night when she gasped out her
mission. She had been III FOR some time
and died within few minutes. The
doctor FASTENED TO the aid Of the son
who has O good chance to recover
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
ROOSEVELT PELTS MISSING
Trophies Of African Hunt Fail "a
Reach Warrington.

Washington. Aug. q Where arc those
African pelts Col. Roosevelt sent TO the
Smithsonian institution here? They have
been chronicled as arriving in New York,
and the Smithsonian officials have beer
expecting them here daily ever since.
Now they fear there was soma error I'm
the announcement of their having reach
ed New York.
The skins OF the animals shot Nv col.
Roosevelt will he mounted and placed
in the new national museum when they
get here. but in the meantime the eff
forts of those interested are being de
voted 10 tracing the shipment.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26
INVALID LOpD FOUND
KILLED BY GUNSHOT

London. Aug 2,.-Lord Eliot. the eldest
son of the Earl OF 81. Germans was
found dead to-day Mt Port Eliot, the fam
lily residence HIS death had resulted
from gunshot, hut whether by acct
dent or design Ia not known.
Lord Eliot who was nm officer in the
Coldstream guards, was recently inval-
ided home from Khartoum.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-26

Suffered day and might the torment
or itching piles. Nothing helped me
until used Doan's Ointment II cured
me permanently John r. Gar
rett Mayor 0irard- Ala
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
SKIN CURED ROUGH SKIN.
Old Way of Dosing the Stomach
Abandoned by Specialists.

Suppose you scratch your hand
do you dose the stomach to cure the
wound? Don't you wash and cleanse
it instead, and thus let the skin cure
itself?
1t is the same with Eczema and
other skin diseases. To accomplish
this cure the best medicine is Oil
of Wintergreen Compound, and this
must be used in liquid form. The
liquid penetrates to the inner skin
and kills the germs while soothing
the healthy tissue
This oil OF wntergreen compound
known as ID. d. ID. Prescription has
only been sold at $1.o0 a bottle. But
on a special offer We have now ar
ranged with ID. d. d. Laboratories
for trial bottle at 25c 1t will stop
the itch instantly. and We hope you
will try it on our assurance.
Eowditch. Webster 6, Co. Augusta;
Spaulding's Drug store, Hallowell;
Jackson Bros, Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16

would not probably be disposed or Tor
four or five years by the supreme
Court of the United States 1t quoted
Shipp as saying. But the people
would not submit to this, and do
not wonder at it,
Chief Justice Fuller in pronounclng
Shipp guilty said tina this reference
to people" was Significant Tor he
was candidate for reelection ana
had been told that his saving the
prisoner from the first attempt to
mob him would cost him his place.
and he had answered that he wished
the mob had got him before he did
The court held that Gibson must
have believed a mob would attack the
Jail the night Johnson was lynched,
hut although he was in charge of the
Jail more than two hours before its
arrival. he made no effort to summon
assistance to rcpel the attack. The
testimony OF Mrs. Baker, a white
prisoner. to the effect that Gibson told
her before the mob arrived that it was
coming and for her to go to her cell,
was referred to.
Williams and Nolan participated in
the lynching, the court held upon the
strength of direct testimony to that
effect. Statements made by Padgett
and Mayes were held as evidence of
their guilt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
BElFAST.
Banquet to City National Bank En-
ployes by Pres. Snow.

Belfast, Me-, Nov. 15.-sSpeciala.-A
pleasant feature of the opening of the
new City National Bank was the banquet
given at O'Clock Saturday evening by
President and Mrs William B. Swan to
the officials and employees of the bank,
at their residence on High street. The
directors and ladies were seated at a
crescent shaped table laid in the dining
ROOM II covers being laid. At this table
were President and Mrs. Swan, Cashier
and Mrs Clement w. Wescott, Thomas
w. Pitcher, Charles p. Hazeltine, Hon.
and Mrs. r. F. Dunton, Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
mer A. Sherman, ,-nr. and Mrs. Selwyn
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Walden, Mr.. and Mrs. Asa A. Howes
and Henry Mariner. At small table
laid in an adjoining room were Wilbur
Blodgett teller; and the bookkeepers,
Miss Alberta Farnham, Marion Perry,
Ida Spencer and Stenographer Miss Fer
rim.
C. NJ. Thayer of Swanvilla and Walter
Tvombley of Monroe returned today from
Northern Maine woods and brought with
them a good display of game. Mr.. Thayer
shot one deer and an S00-pound moose
and Mr.. Twombley two bears.
EX-Sheriff Samuel G. Norton and Mrs.
Hattie E. Murphy were married at the
Congregational parsonage Saturday af-
terroon by Rev. David l.. Wilson. Mr..
and Mrs. Norton will reside on the Nor
ton farm on the Perkins road, few
miles from this city.
Mrs. H. E. Macdonald has returned
from a visit with friends in Waterville
and Fairfield. While in the latter place
she was the guest of Mrs. William Simp-
son and attended the 10th anniversary of
the Merrymeetins Chapter, o. E. S. N
Waterville she was the guest of Mrs.
Fred Hartman and attended the meeting
of the Kennebec Federation of Woman s
Clubs held at Oakland
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16

At Havana-H Havana. s; Detroit, Am, A..
"a FOOTBALL NOTES.

AS the result of a conference between
Manager Thomas Otis of the Bowdoln
football team and the Tufts manage
ment Chairman Rabbit Of the Central
Board has been asked to name as the
officials for the game to be played in
Portland Saturday, Harry Dadnum of
Dartmouth for umpire, Carl Marshall
OF Harvard for referee, Burleigh OF
Harvard for field judge and Morse of
Dartmouth for lead linesman. 1t is not
known If these four men VIII be avail
able, but they are very satisfactory to
the management of both teams and eV-
cry effort will be made to secure them.
A group of Bowdoin football rlen got
together Sunday evening and selected
the following as their ideal All-Maine
team: Erwin, Colby, left end; Ray Of
Maine, left tackle; Newman, Bowdoin,
left guard: Hamilton, Colby, center;
Hastings, Bowdoin, right guard; Cros-
by, Bowdoin, right tackle; Hurley,
Bowdon, right end; WEIGH, Colby,
quarterback; Frank Smith, Bowdoin,
left halfback; Goode, Colby, or Parker,
Maine, right halfback; Kern, Bcwdoin,
fullback.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
GAVE LIFE TO EDUCATION.
Thomas Moore Was Prominent in New
York Schools for Years.

Thomas Moore. who had devoted more
more than half a century to the advance
n1ent of education in YonkerS, n. Y, and
in New York. is dead at his home in that
city, in his seventy-tirst year. TO the
last, his interest in his educational work,
as principal of a public school in Man
haitian, was as keen as it ever had been.
His death from heart failure was sudden.
Mr. Moore came from a family of well
'-~ov-n educators, and was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Moore of London.
r1ngland Soon after his birth the family
removed to New York, where his father
became a teacher in the public schools;
Al an early age young Moore displayed
an ATTITUDE for study. and after leaving
the public schools and graduating from
the College of the City of New York he
was made a teacher in public school.
At the solicitation of John w. Mason.
he went to Yonkers in 1863 and founded
the John W. Mason Free School the
fret ruhlic school in Yonkers. He re-
NAMED as principal there until the early
eighties, when he resigned to devote. his
time to study and travel abroad. Upon
his return to this country he was en-
ployed by the city of New York, his work
consisting chiefly of organizing new
schools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
D. A. r. WOMEN TO RESCUE.
Granddaughter of Officer in Washing
toms Army Provided For.

New York. Nov ia faded little
gentlewoman. daughter of one of the Old
New York merchants, granddaughter OF
an under officer in Washinstons army, Is
sitting in her little farmhouse outside
Valley Stream, l.. l., today, giving thanks
to Providence.
this. The little old lady is Miss Georgia
MIA Ellington, and after youth spent
in comparative luxury, middle age
gradually declining in, prosperity 70 a
point where she was about to be eVicted
from her tiny farm, wealthy women OF a
New York chapter of the D. A. II:
have come to the front and she IS now "
assured enough aid to support her II
Miss Ellington is well known in Valley
Stream for her pride and her solitary and
unusual mode of life.
She is an active woman of IS, pottering
around among her chickens and pigeons
and among the glass beds and trelllses
where she raises Strawberries. cfocuSes
and a variety of flowers and vegetables
which she sells.
Her Revolutionary grandfather's dis
charge papers from Washinstons army
are in the New York State Military, ar
chives. And her claims are accepted by
all the neighboring chapters of the ID. A
MY father who was tea merchant,
often told us about his father. we nave
his principal recollections jotted down own
in a letter he wrote just 10 years alter
my grandfathers birth.
His name was Elias Ellington. lie en-
listed with the Continentals as common
soldier in the regiment of Colonel Living
stOn of Red Hook, at the hrst of the
war. He served nearly to the end OF the
war; was at Quebec under Montgomery
and took part in the storminS of stony
Point. Soon after that he was captured
while leading a foraging party as ser
gsant and sent to the British prison IN
the sugar house
"TTor our early years all of us had
everything we wanted. We attended
were prought up IN. as we then used TO
put 1.-THE Church of the Annunclatlon
in Prince street.
Church life played a far greater part
in family life than now Then no one
went to the theater, which was Thought
immoral There was the life Of the nom
and fitting around 1t the lie OF the
church community.
My father. l am afraid. was not i
very good merchant About lSof the 1ril
went into bankruptcy and all my father $
money and most of my mothers went
with it. In 1912 we sold our house in
Dominicl street, which is still one of the
nice streets of New York, and removed
to our farm near Elmira.
well, we have farmcd it since in diff
ferent places. Fifteen years after we
had to earn our living at dressmaking.
and so on. | have managed to make a
living down here, largely through the
loan Of this piece of property.
And when this began to go from me L
hardly knew what to do.
But, thank Heaven, that whole mat
ter is remedicd now. And thanks TO
these ladies, | am now without anxiety
once more
The names of these friends of Miss
Bilinton are not known. 1t is said, how
ever, that they are d. A. r. women OF
wealth and high position in New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16

the majority of them are down in the
mine in ali probability dead We are
ldoing everything possible to handle
the proposition, but it is too big for
Ius."
| DR.. Howe, in charge of the relief
work said the need Of food, clothing
and money is great and that the citl-
zens hope the people of Chicago and
other places will assist in relieving the
situation. Before anything else. we
will need food and lots of it, said DR..
Howe. Those poor women and chill
dren will begin to face hunger very
soon and then the situation will be ter
ribIe. Even now there is but little
food in town. The only hotel here has
run short and the stores have been
sold out.
Then the question of clothes for
women and children may turn out to
| be a big one. When you realize that
there are 1000 orphans in the town,
then the magnitude of the situation
can be seen. They will need clothes
and need them badly.
THE knights of Pythias Lodge, the
most important organization in town,
had membership of Is last week.
Today there are only six members.
The rest are in the Inflated mine,
either dead or dying"
President Lewis of the Mine Work
ers, has advised the local union that
$4,000, the contribution of the national
body, will Immediately be placed at the
disposal of the widows and orphans of
the mine victims.
Mrs. Fanny Buck, wife Of J. P.
Buck chief clerk of the mine, has Or
ganized the women of the little town
into society to extend relief and com =
fort to those needing it. A party of
nurses from Chicago who arrived last
night, today turned into comforters of
the families probably bereft. Through
out the little hamlet were scattered
cottages in various stages of COM
pletion. Families of some of the men
entOmbed are living in small houses
still needing glass for all the windows.
1t seems likely that many of the cot
tages never will be finished. Under
takers from nearby towns have been
notified to be in readiness, it is said,
for the removal of the numerous
bodies. President Earring, of the Chi
cago Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway
will share the burial expenses of the
more needy families at least, and of
fers of aid have come from the more
prosperous inhabitants of Cherry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16

New York, Nov 15.-Whle the legal
machinery of the government moves
slowly. the air of uncertainty winch
surrounds the so-called sugar FRAUD
cases is interpreted by those VINO nave
followed the progress of corporation III
vestigation in this country to Iore-
shadow an inquiry which may rank
with the insurance upheaval OF l9oo.
Boston and Philadelphia were
brought within the scope Of the lnVes
tigation today with the report 'hat 1he
government would probably attempt 10
obtain back duties due on sugar III
those cities, while the investigation
went on in New York with repeated
rumors OF reaching the "men hlSher
up"
William Loeb, Jr., collector OF me
port, was inclined to be reticent, put he
repeated that it was through the de-
termination and influence of Theodore
Roosevelt that the investigation ana
prosecution of the sugar frauds was
undertaken. According to Mr.. Loep ne
talked over the matter with Mr.. Roose-
welt thoroughly before he Qoeb) loon
charge of the customs house here ana
consequently he had a we'll defined pol
lev mapped out when he assumed Vi :
flee.
With the denial from washington
today by James B. Reynolds, former
assistant secretary of the treasury
that lie in any opposed the investlga'
ton while in Office came the announce
ment in New York by Richard Parr
through whose statements Mr.. Key
nolds' actions and motives were placed
open to criticism. that he had been
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
Probe Going Deeper and
Deeper Into Sugar Trust.

misouoted and mistind erstood.
James F. Bendernagel, former gem
eral superintendent of the American
Sugar Refining Co. in WILLIAMSBURG,
will plead tomorrow in the Cnlted
States district court in New YORK. he
gave bail Immediately after his arrest
last Friday. His trial, together with
others included in blanket lndlct-
ment will begin on Nov ~. Befder'
nagel is charged with defraudng the
government by means of false welSn.s'
Declines in stocks Of the American gu
gar Refining Co, the great corporation
under fire, were recorded today as tie
investigation proceeded This same COLI
panv not long ago paid back to the gov
eminent more than 100000 as recon-
pense for short weights. While later IL
settled out of court a suit by the Penn
sylvania Sugar Refining Co., small r.
val which it put out of business Inns
settlement is now undergoing final ADJUST
ment. and it was upon the strength OF
evidence produced at the trial that the
government brought an antitrust SUIT
only to he checked by ruling on the
statute of limitations.
lnaSmuch as everybody, VI ~ Siod' "
majority as to make this statement sub
stantially correct, is a consumer OF sugar
the public has followed the progress OF
| the case with more than passing inter-
est There is an added feature IN the
situation in that the city New YORK
| has pending against the company suit
charging that the corporation surreptl-
ticusly took wat, IN great quaiei'ie9
| from the city mains.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
WOLF AT DOORS.
Two Hundred Grief Stricken Widows
and 1000 Orphans Face Hunger.

Cherry, Ills, Nov. 15.-An official roll
call of the widows and orphans to
whom charity is to be extended was
started tonight. The work was diff
cult because of the confusion and the
hysterical condition of the bereaved
women. Some Of the women, with
three or four small children Juggling
at their skirts, roamed over the fields
all day crying out piteously the names
of brothers or husbands or sons.
Many when questioned for data for
the roll call were so incoherent as to
be unable to tell who they We're or for
whom they were searching.
The charity work is in charge of
Duncan Mcdonald, president of Dis
trict No. II, United Mine Workers
Edwin Persy, secretary and treasurer
of the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca; F. p Bicknell, director of the Red
Cross, and Prof. Graham Taylor of the
state mine investigating commission.
Roughly estimated, Mr. Mcdonald said
there would be 1000 orphans and 200
widows. All of these have no pro-
visions for the future Each death the
State Miners Union will pay $3.50. In
=
contribute for general distribution
$4,000 and the National Union will give
a like amount
Almost tWo-thirds OF the men leave
Widows said Mr.. Mcdonald Each
of these widows has from three to five
children. | know one woman who has
nine children, all under II years old
She has not money enough to pay for
weeks provisions.
In month from now the distress
of these families will be pitiable. What
ever the public has to give should be
offered now. 50 we can plan ahead to
take care of these poor people for the
winter"
While many of the bereaved ones
are hysterical. others are displaying
stOcial heroiSm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-16
TENTH K. OF p. DISTRICT
Holds Annual Convention at Bruins.
wIck-large Attendance.

Brunswick. Ne Nov. 15.-(SpeciaD-
The annual convention of the 10th dis
uict of knights of Pythias, held with
Fort George Lodge this evening was
Very largely attended by members of
the order from Richmond. Bowdoinham,
Bath. Freeport and Yarmouth. The
convention was opened by Harraseeket
Lodge of Yarmouth. after which Chan
cellor Commander Samuel B. Furnish
of Fort George Lodge gave an address
of welcome. The rank of Page was
conferred by Wesvustogo Lodge OF
Yarmouth The passing from the First
to Second rank was in charge of Ken
nabec Lodge OF Bowdoinham. After the
comforting of the rank of Esquire bv
Arcadia Lodge of Bath. Kennebec
Lodge again occupied the chairs and
the lodge passed from the Second to
Third rank. The. Knight rank vas put
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Gompers' Face
Shows Anxiety.

Toronto, Ont, Nov. 15.-Just as the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor was about to adjourn for
the day, a telegram was received from
Washington announcing that the stay
asked for by the attorney for Presl-
dent Gompers, Vice President Mitchell
and Secretary Morrison in the pro-
ceedings against them for contempt
of court, had been denied by the court
of appeals of the District of Columbia.
President Gompers was plainly sur
prsed and as he read the message to
the convention the delegates sat in
silence as though dazed by the courts
action.
THAT means that the resources of
the lawyers have been exhausted.
doesn't it," asked one of the delegates.
The Chair is not in position to
state" replied President Gompers
Mr.. Gompers announced to the con-
vention last week that his attorneys
anticipated no difficulty in obtaining a
stay, and as he read the message
stating The mandate goes down Sat
urday morning." his face and those
of his fellow officers betrayed the
dIlNltlS ullUtI WHICH they were ltDoT-
ing.
A telegram signed by the three de-
PENDANTS was at once dispatched IL
their counsel in Washington, asking
when it would be necessary for then.
10 put in an appearance to avoid for
feiting their bail bonds, which amount
to $4,000, and stating that they would
like to remain in Toronto until the
close of the convention Saturday even
ing.
Il am not certain whether under the
laws of the District of Columbia we
can appeal or not said Mr. Gompers
after adjournment. But if we do go,
the convention must stay here and
carry on it's proceedings in a dignified
and orderly manner"
We'll charter train and all go
down with you" volunteered one of the
delegates. And even the seceders will
join YOU added J. j. Reid, president
of the seeding faction of the Electri-
cal Workers.
The suggestion that the convention be
adjourned to Washington in the event of
the departure of Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison was taken seriously by many
of the delegates, who discussed the mat
ter at the headquarters tonight and it
was said that a resolution to that effect
might be prepared.
Pending the receipt of a reply from
Washington the executive council held a
long session tonight at which plans for
meeting the situation which confronts the
three labor leaders were discussed.
Many of the delegates have expressed
disapproval of the plan suggested by the
Central Labor Union of Philadelphia that
tWo-Weeks general strike be ordered as
protest against the contempt impris-
nnmenlS