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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-14
BROOKFIELD.

Mrs. Perley Reyes is convalescine
after three weeks illness.
The members of the G.. A. r. and
W. r. c., enjoyed sugar sociable with
Mrs. Clifford Thursday.
Miss Cora B. Rumney is at home
after spending the winter in Ran
dolph.
At this writing Mrs. George WILDER
is very ill with measles and pneu.
monia.
r. II. Simmons lost his horse last
week.
Mrs. John Benham cleared $300
in year from 100 hens.
Fred Fisk, Clarence Frink and For.
it's Abbott are enjoying a vacation
from college in Burlington.
Albert Sargent went to Woodsvillt
n. H., last week to spend several day:
with his son Ernest Sargent.
Earl Simmons has bought of Ire
Carpenter the farm on Bear Hill
known as the w. II. Clark farm. He
expects to move there soon.
Henry Grout is boarding with M
w, Haggett.
Mrs. George WILDER died Sunday
afternoon. The funeral was held from
her late home Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Olive Stone is spending few
weeks with friends in Royalton.
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newspapers, magazines, catalogues or
books of any kind with paper covers.
They can be left at the home of Mrs.
NJ. f. Wells. When sold the proceeds
will be used to purchase new books.
Charles Crane has been i'll with
grip and is slowly convalescing.
Mrs. Maud Morse Lyford went to
Mary Fletcher Hospital last Thursday
for treatment.
Mrs. Millicent Mcintyre has return
ed from the millinery market.
w. II. Smith has been repairing the
barn on the JANET Kimball place
which he recently purchased.
Prof. Gilmore has returned from
Underhill and resumed his duties In
the High School.
Joseph Tilton died at his home last
week Monday after several weeks i'll
ness. For several years he had lived
alone, being of a quiet nature and
1unassuming ways. Funeral services
were held at his home Wednesday
Rev. w. r. Sparhawk officiating. He
leaves relatives in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Nellie Wells has returned tC
her home after several months stay
with her daughter in Swanton.
Archie Stone has returned to Iras-
burg to resume his duties as teacher
in graded school
Floyd Freeman returned from Hart
ford Ct, last Wednesday, in pooi
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hoyt were
called to Greensboro Thursday tc
attend the funeral of Mrs. L. S. Col
Inns.
James Walbridge of Randolph was
in town last week to attend the fun
eral of Mrs. Nancy Walbridge.
Rev. F. E. Currier was called t.
Walden last week to attend the fun.
eral of Rev. Mr.. Thurston.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Southwick, Mr.
and Mrs. J. NJ. Southwick, Mrs. Chas
Scribner, S. j. Norris, Harry Morse
4 DR.. M. ID. Warren and Mrs. Smitl
were visitors in Montpelier Wednes
day. Some of the men attended thu
road commissioners meeting.
w. J. Berry and Mrs. Nettie Perry
were business visitors in Montpelie
last Tuesday.
Mrs. NJ. M. Whitney is i'll with hear
trouble.
Miss Leda Stevens spent her vaca
ton with her sister Mrs. l.. w. Bur
bank.
Miss Earlene McConachie spent
few days in Barre with relatives las
week.
| John Crane has been confined to hi
bed with. grip. Mrs. Crane has i'm
proved so as to be around the house
Asa Mack received 80 post card
on his SD birthday, April 5th, 25 o
them coming from Barre.
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en- by the court, to the best Of their
ability
s. Hollister Jackson, in closing for
the defense. said in part: The first
without an answer. There has been
absolutely no motive found in sew
eral months of patient search and
deliberation. Mrs. Mascot and her
husband were fine people and lived
happily together. The home life of
that little family was of the bright
est The mind Is queer thing
which we cannot see and oftentimes
cannot control. We who have sound
mental equipments should thank God
for it. This crime, done by a human
being who did not know what he
was doing and did not know what lie
had done till told about 1t later, was
an example of what weak mind
may do.
Going on, Mr.. Jackson touched on
! the incidents of the birth and early
life of the respondent. He spoke OF
the incessant headaches with which
James Mikales had been afflicted In
closing he asked for Just verdict
as warranted by the evidence and
within the law as it would be laid
down by the court.
Judge Taylor charged the jury with
a clearcut, concise exposition of the
law covering every phase of the case
Murder i'll the first and second de-
grees and manslaughter were defined
The law relating to insanity was ex-
planned as bearing on the case. TIL.
different verdicts which they might
! tender were discussed and the Law
leading up to them was brought out
They might find the respondent
guilty of either degree of murder, o.
manslaughter, or not guilty or nc
guilty by reason of insanity. If thu
verdict were not guilty it woult
mean the release of the respondent
If not guilty by reason of insanity, h,
would be taken care of by the State
The jury filed out Of the court room
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estlte of Ezra Y. Mears.

The Undersigned, having been APP
pointed by the Honorable Probate
Court for the District of Washington,
Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands
of all persons against the estate of
Ezra ~ Mears, late of Marshfie'd, in
said District, deceased, and all Claims
exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby
give notice that we will meet for the
purpose aforesaid, at the Town
Clerks office, in the Town of Marsh
field, in said District, on the 9TH day
of May and 3rd day of October next,
from one o'clock p. m. to four o'clock
p. M, on each of said days AMI that
six months from the 4th day OF April
A. d. 1910, Is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present
their claims to us for examination
and allowance.
Dated at Marshfield this Sth day OF
April. A. d., 1910.
ORIN H. SMITH,
EDWIN A. THOMAS,
$3.50 Commissioners.
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CORINTH.

Mr. and Mrs. Bonney of Concord
\. H., arrived April Attn.
Mrs. Sarah Ladd is at the home OF
her son Allen I,add.
Arthur Wilson spent Sunday with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Wilson.
Charles W. Heath died Tuesday
morning, April ~. He had been fee
bic for a long time. He is survived
by his wife. who was Miss Abbie Car
penter before marriage. and two
daughters. Mrs. Susan Dickinson, who
has cared for him, and Mrs. Della
Gayle of Boston. Mass.
School at CoOkeyilie is expected to
commence April 18th with the same
teachers as last term, George Kimball
and Miss Grace Fisher.
Mrs. Frank Lackey had an opera
ton for appendicitis at her home Sat
urady and is reported improving.
Rev. Perkins and Otis Page are
working for A. Jacobs making i'm
proyements on his house known as the
J. r. Comstoi place.
Josiah Wiegins AND Charles Blake
are at worl; for Mrs. C. G. Sargent re-
pairing her house piazza.
John c. Hastings is improving the
Grenville Powers house previous to
moving his family and Mr.. and Mrs
Powers there.
r. L. Smith and family have re.
turned to their place here
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An advertisement in the Watchman
will bring results
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PINCHOT SATISFIED
Former Chief Forester Smiles Broad
Iy After Conference With Roose-

VtihNf i'hthNH
ly After Conference With Roose-
welt.
Porto Maurizio, Italy, April H.
After spending another day with Mr..
Roosevelt, the afternoon being occu-
pied in another long tramp into the
mountains, Clifford Pinchot left for
Zurich tonight, seemingly in a happy
state of mind He still declined to
make any statement with reference
to the result of his conference with
the ex-President, but his beaming
countenance was eloquent as words.
"Will you say whether you are sat
isfied with the result of your visit?"
was asked
my face should be sufficient res
ponse," replied Mr.. Pinchot, smiling
broadly.
Mr.. Roosevelt evidently is not great
! ly exercised over the conclusions
which may be drawn in the United
States from the announcement made
today that he had accepted an invita-
ticn from the former chief forester
to address the National Conservation
Congress this summer, following on
the heels Of Mr.. Pinchot's two days
visit
MY actions are frequently misun-
derstood," he said, speaking OF this
matter this evening. Mr.. Roosevelt
explained that very naturally his in
terest in the conservation movement
had in no wise been dampened by the
trouble in the department. He said
he would have attended the congress
regardless of what happened during
his absene, and that in his address
he would not necessarily speak OF
the past but of the future.
The police investigation shows that
the man who last night was found
proving about the villa with let
ter in his pocked addressed to Mr.
Roosevelt, asking for position as
a valet, is harmless vagabond, hav-
ing no connection with the anarchists.
An advertisement in the Watchn.ap
urin bripu ract,14o
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CABOT,

Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Rogers went to
Boston Last week to purchase goods.
Miss Jennie Barrett and her broth
er of Lyndon have been visiting o. F.
Barrett and other Relatives.
Miss Emma Laird lis spending her
vacation with Mrs. M. F, Wells.
Anyone interested in replenishing
the library at the Congregational
church can assist by giving their old
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-14
SLAMS MAYOR BURKE.
Editor Joseph Anlds of the Burling.
ton News Calls Him sour Hall
Cooked Mayor

Burlington, April 11.-Editor JOS
eph Aulds of the Daily News, to-
night while commenting on the re-
cent incident of the suspension Of
Officer Christopher Miles, said: "The
police force is in a state of demoral-
ization by the action of our half
cooked Mayor" Mr.. Aulds charged
Mayor Burke with playing politics.
Mayor Burke, once the under study
of Theodore Roosevelt has forsake n
his first love and is now playing sec.
ond fiddle to William J. Gaynor, he
ga id
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-14
CONDEMNS MERGER
Senator Lafollette Attacks Admins
tratiOn Railroad Bill Bitterly.

Washington, ID. c., April 12.-lnci-
dental to the consideration of the adj
ministration bill, the merger of the
Boston and Maine railroad with the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, through the railroad hold
ing law enacted by the Massachusetts
Legislature in 1909, was discussed at
length today in the Senate.
The principal speech, attacking
the consolidation in unstinted lam
guage, was made by Senator I.afol-
lette Brief responses by Senators
Lodge and Gallinger were made at
the close of the Wisconsin SENATOR
speech. Both New England Senator'S
defended the merger and the law un-
der which it was made.
Mr.. Lafollette traced the consolida-
ton from the beginning but gave es-
pecia attention to the Massachusetts
legislation under which the combin-
alton was made effective.
1t was practically charged by the
speaker that this enactment had been
consummated as the result Of the die
tation of President Mellen of the New
| Haven road, who, he intimated, rep
resented the Morgan-Rockefeller in
terests. He undertook to show that
the federal merger suit, which had
been instituted during the Roosevelt
} administration had been dismissed at
the dictation of Attorney General
Wickersham, under the Taft admins
tration, for the inadequate reason
that the Massachusetts Legislature
had passed the holding bill under
which the consolidation was effect
ed.
Mr.. Lafolettes evident purpose
was to contrast the Taft administra-
ton with the Roosevelt administra-
ton to the disadvantage OF the form
er. His criticism of Attorney General
Wickersham was especially strin.
gent
1t was toward the close of hi;
speech that La Toilette made his
sharpest reference to Mr.. Wicker.
sham
Rising to his tiptoe, he exclaimed:
"Mr. President, is this the wis
legislation embodying no sudden i'm
pulse but natural views expressed il
party council,' which the attorne!
general, in his recent speech at Chi
cago said is pressed for enactment
Is it for legislation sucn as this tina
the attorney general commands al
who would not read out of the Re
publican party to get IN llne?"
Mr. Lodge was the first to spea
in reply.
In the first place he declared, tn
New Haven read and the Boston an
Maine were not competing lines, an
he asserted that the necessity for tn
consolidation had been found in tn
poor financial condition of the latte
iroad.
In defense of Governor Draper, MI
Lodge said
81 desire TO bear testimony to tn
fact that no more honorable, high
minded, and more public spirite
man ever held office than he. nor
there in the United States today an
man less subject to dlctatlon. n
railroad president ever went int
Governor Diapers office and under
took to dictate what he should do"
Lester II. Greene. He will remain
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TOWN CORRESPONDENCE
News Of the Day As Presented by the
Journals Corps of Special Cor
respondents, Being Mostly
Items Of Interest.
MORTOMN.

G. S. Knapp of Montpelier was in
town recently.
Mortimer Kerrin was taken to the
Heaton hospital, Montpelier Thurs
day for treatment.
Mrs. j. G.. Henson of Montpelier
spent Sunday in town.
George Grout of Waterbury has pur-
chased the farm of Harvey Hersey on
South Hill.
j. Il. Flanagan and daughter Irene
were in Montpelier recently.
Mrs. George Farnham was in Wat
erbury Wednesday,.
Mrs. Frank Goodrowe is visiting her
son, Joseph Farnham at Colbyville.
Frank Howes was in Montpelier
Saturday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-14
CHANGE OF BUSINESS.
W. Z. Poole Sells Drug Store to L. E..
Rivers OF This City.

William Z. Poole, the State street
druggist, has sold his business to l..
c. Rivers OF this city, who has been
working in Burlington for the past
two years. Mr.. Rivers is a Montpel-
Ter man and well known locally. He
is a druggist of considerable exper-
fence.
Mr.. Poole has been in the dru,;
business in this city for years and
bought the store he now runs from
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-14

Lester II. Greene. He will remain
in charge for the present, the de-
tails Of the sale not having been at
tended to as yet. Mr.. Poole has made
no plans for the immediate future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-31

over 1000 miles in search Of a derelict.
reported in the path OF vessels off the
Georgia coast. about 200 miles. failed to
find any trace Of the derelict or Of any
vessel that could give any information
regarding il. She returned to Savannah
early last week.
Orders and Instructions to officers in
the revenue cutter service have been is
sued as follows:
First Lieut.. l.. T. Cutter. granted
twenty-seven days leave. commencing
July %.
Second Lieut.. T. A. Stanley. granted
thirty days extension of leave.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers L. j.
Ker, granted thirty days leave, COM
mencing August 1.
Captain of Engineers Willis Pedrick.
ordered to the WisSahtckon for temporary
duty during the absence OF First Lieuten-
ant of Engineers A. ]. Howison, on leave.
First Lieutenant of Engineers A. j.
Howison, granted sixty days leave, to
commence upon the reporting for duty on
the Wissahickon Of Captain Of Engineers
Pedrick.
Capt. ]. L. Sill. granted thirty days ex-
tension Of leave.
Second Lieutenant Of Engineers r. B.
Adams, granted seven days leave, COM
mencing August 8.
Senior Capt F. H. Newcomb, granted
twenty days leave, commencing August 2.
Resignation Of First Lieut.. E. E. Mead
accepted. to take effect July u, 1910.
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MYERS MARK STANDS
TEST FOR 20 YEARS

NEW YORK, July 3O.-No running
record on the books at the present time
mas been the target of so many attacks
as the mark of 2:13 for the 1000 wards
made by the late Lon Myers, twenty-nina
years ago, and apparently the record ia
as safe today as it was the day after
Myers had established it. In the ,op,.
string of years which have since eitted
by many good man has tried To dunli-
cate the feat, and, needless to state. ALI
have failed. In fact every man wbo ~
all worked himself into the front rank OF
middle distance running tried for the old
record, and, while several did well. the
majority were away off.
One of the best attempts stands 10 tho
credit of Charles Fitzpatrick. who in the
fall of 1895 did two minutes and fourteen
seconds at Travers Island and he ran
himself almost to death. Those around
Travers Island at the time were of the
opinion that, of all the middle distance
men, Fitzpatrick was the most promising
to tumble this supposedly invincible feat.
He had speed and could stay the Journey
so with the hope that he would do the
trick the race was put on specially with a
limited handicap so that he could be well
extended at every stage of the race. Kill
patrick ran splendidly, doing the half
seen Myers do his record, shook their
heads and said the gait was too slow, az
they said Myers did better than 1:J1
when he made the record. Seemingly
they had the correct dope. for Fitzpatrick
failed. though he ran himself clean out
to the last ounce Recently Melvin Shop
pard made a good attempt at the games
of the Pastime A. c. by running second
to a handicap man who did a fraction
slower than the record.
But while numerous bids are adver-
tised for the 1,O00-mile honor il is
singular that none of the cracks ever ad-
vertised to take q fall out of the record
of 1902 4-5 seconds for the three-quarters
of a mile, 1920 yards, made by Tommy
Conneff in 1895. 1t is easy to account
for the neglect, for this is the best rec
ord on the book. and the one above all
the others against which the tiptoppers
Of the present would cut but a very poor
figure. Any one Of the men who would
aspire to emulate Conner at this par
ticular distance can go to the best track
in his neighborhood and try to run the
sort Of race he did. He was leading
at the half mile in 1:59. and every stride
after that he drew away from Fitzpatrick,
his aggressive opponent, and won by
about twenty-five yards. Previous 10 that
day the record was 1907, and Fitzpatrick
beat this by a fraction. This three-quar-
tiers OF mile record is the one that
should remain longest on the books.
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REDUCTION IS POSTPONED.
Cut in Freight Rates on California
Lemons.

An order has been issued by the inter-
state commerce commission extending the
effective date of the commissions order
in the California lemon case from Sep
TENDER 1 to November 1. The order pro-
vides that the rate on lemons from Cali
fornia points to eastern destinations shall
not exceed 81 hundred pounds, it having
been held by the commission that the
present rate Of S1.15 a hundred pounds
was unreasonable.
The case was brought originally by the
Arlington Heights Fruit Exchange of Los
Angeles, against the Southern Pacific
Company and other transcontinental car
riers. The difference in the freight rates
between the existing rates and those or
dered by the commission amounts to
many thousands Of dollars annually to
the Pacific coast growers The commits
sion suspended it's order because a re-
straining order had been sought from the
courts by the carriers. Pending definite
determination of the courts order the
commission felt it desirable to postpone
its directions.
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DREDGING PORT CHANNEL.
Waterway at New York to Have
Depth of Forty Feet.

Col. Roessler. Corps of Engineers. has
reported to the War Department that
the Ambrose channel, the big seven-and-
one-half-mile entrance to the port of
New York, will be completely dredged be-
-ore the end of next July. Four dredges
have been working for 22,216 hours dur
ing the year, removing 9,246, 401 cubic
yards of material. When all the work is
done the channel will be 1000 feet wide.
with uniform depth of forty feet, and
two dredges will be required permanent
ly to keep it in condition. Five wrecks
have been raised at a cost of $43, 135
These included the steamship Daghestan,
which went down in the fairway between
the Ambrose channel lightship and the
entrance to the Ambrose channel in 1908;
the schooner Daylight, wrecked off Coney
Island; the Panama liner Finance, sent
to the bottom of the main ship channel
by the White Star liner George.
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REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

Capt. Worth G. Ross, captain COM
n,apdant of the revenue cutter service.
who has for the past two weeks been
on all inspection tour among the vessels
and stations of the service in northern
waters, is expected TO return TO Ills OF
fee early in the present week
Capt. Frank w. Newcombe, inspector
and superintendent of construction for
the life-savirg service; Capt K. .. Crlsp'
commanding the cutter Seminole, of the
Wilmington, y. c., station, ana FIRST
Lieutenant of Engineers A. J. Howison
in charge Of the customs cutter WlSsa-
hicken at Philadelphia, were visitors 10
ITO department in the past week
Lieut.. Frederick Billiard. a'd to the cap
tain commandment OF the service at TINS
Ity who IS spending his vacation at the
White Sulphur Spr ngs, Va, Is expected
10 return TO duty during this week
The repa rs to the cutter Seminole,
which have been In progress at the New
port N-ws shipyard for the past two or
three weeks will, Il IS expected, be COM
pseted this week and the vessel will re-
-Inie service or her stat or at Whining
zen. " C. The engines and boilers of the
ship are receiving a thorough overhauling
and the ship has been locked and had her
huh repa' red, scraped and painted. When
ready for service again she viii be in
thorough order for efficient work.
The practice cruiser Itasea, which sail
ed from Hampton roads in the early part
OF Jure with the classes Of cadets aboard
from the school Of instruction at Arun-
del Cove Nd, for months cruise in
F,urouean waters, has completed the
cruise and is on her way home again.
July - she sailed from Ponte Deigada,
azore Islands. her last port Of call in
foreign waters, and is expected to ar
rive al New London, Conn, August 8.
The revenue cutter Apache. which last
week cleaned and overhauled boilers at
the surface station at Arunde! Cove,
near Baltimore, has returned 10 Balti-
more and taken UP her quarters at
Chase's wharf. preparatory TO sailing on
"A cruise on the bay. She will come to
this city during the boat races next
month, to patrol the course.
The cutter Yamacraw, after a cruise OF
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INCREASE IN BONDED DEBT.
Bond Issue Approved by NJ, K. and
T, Stockholders,

PARSONS, Kan, July 3O.-Stockholders
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road met here today to approve and au-
thorize an increase in the bonded indebt-
edness of the company not to exceed
S12J, 900, 900 outstanding at any one time
bonds to bear interest at 5 per cent from
April l this year. The bonds are to be
issued at such times and for such pur
poses as the directors shall determine.
The stockholders present were Joseph
NJ Bryson, ST. Louis; c. Halle, ST. Louis;
c. y. Whitehead, New York; F. John
son. ST Louis; E. B. Stevens, Parsons,
and f.. A. Malone, Kankakee, Ill.
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JEWELRY THIEVES DARING.
Escaped With Their Loot Through
Brilliantly Lighted Alley.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. July 3O.-A daring
robbery, which was committed last night
almost within sight of the crowds passing
on Vine street, was reported to the police
today by Richter & Phillips, wholesale
jewellers, 9Th and Vine streets. The rob-
bers had selected several thousand dol
lars worth of loot, packed it up. lowered
it by a rope into brilliantly lighted al
ley. climbed down ladder made of trunk
straps, and escaped. leaving as clues u
mans handkerchief bearing the initial
~" a womans handkerchief with the
initial 3d." a much-smoked pipe and a
footprint in the dust on the transom.
The burglars took only solid silver and
solid gold articles. The firms loss will
amount to thousands of dollars, but an
estimate cannot be made until an inven-
tory Of the storeroOm is taken.