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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-14

New shipment of midsummer styles
in mems fine straw hats just received
at A. NJ Waldrop & Co.
We received a big lot of new white
and fancy parasols today; priced 81 to
81. Sam B. Wilson.
Cool nightshirts and pajamas in a
large assortment OF patterns at A. NJ.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-14
FASHION FOIBIES AND FANClES
BY Maude Griffin.

New York, June 14.-lf there is one
color that stands out more prominently
than all the rest in the seasons scheme
of harmony, it is green. And 1t is the
brightest, cheeriest, clearest green you
ever saw. They call 1t rube. Country
lassies may rebel, but they wear 1t
charmingly, for their city sisters have
no such compilations to go with such
color as have they; so, perhaps they
have the better of the matter after all.
There are almost too many green's
to enumerate. Emerald, parrot, salad
and apple play second fiddle to rube,
and they are all pretty. 1t is the shade
par excellence for parasols, and the
parasol is to femininity what the neck
tie is to the eternal masculine, an es-
cape valve for primitive and carefully
repressed warnings toward the bar
barrie. But they are most attractive
these green parasols. A majority OF
them are plain, depending upon Color
quality of silk and smart though severe
sticks for their individuality There
are good looking plain green parasols
too, with borderings bands OF black
velvet or with a border design EN-
broidered in black chenille. Some
times this border is above a narrow
edge OF black velvet; sometimes the
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-14

He is our friend who loves more
than admires us. Charming.
Williams news., 1911-05-27

A. w. GREEN, head of the na- tion's foremost biscuit manufactur- ing company, who recently made a tour of the southwest, says: "Some day the Arizona country will become one of the worlds greatest agricultural districts. The climate is unsurpassed. With the vegetation which water will bring to it, it will be a garden of Eden"
Williams news., 1911-05-27
COME TO THE MOUNTAINS

This is the season of the year when the dwellers in central and southern Arizona-at least those who can afford it-hie themselves to the coast resorts of California to spend the summer. 1t is of course a pleasure to make a trip to the beaches during the hot weather that comes to our neighbors in the south, but SO far as real rest is con- cerned the mountains of northern Arizona will provide more than could possibly be obtained at the ocean resorts.
 In the vicinity of Williams there are many delightful camping places. A vacation spent amid the umbra- geous shades of Bill Williams noun tain would be an ideal one. Here one can camp beneath the pines, inhale the balsam-laden air and drink from the streams that flow direct from the snow-covered sum- mits. An outing in these wilds will be found to be far more invig. orating than one spent at the sea- side. Freed from the restraint and conventionalties that naturally hedges one in at the beach resorts a summer spent here would bring back health to the invalid, strength hope and courage to the over worked business man, and seasor of unalloyed pleasure to the chil dren.
 Hundreds of thousands of dollar are taken from Arizona each yea to meet the expenses of those wh' go to outside resorts. The cost o a summer vacation spent in tn mountains of Coconino county vii be trifling and the money kept il circulation within the territory.
 In the section adjacent to Will jams there are ideal places for
 season's rest and recuperation, ant THE NEWS can assure our southerl neighbors that the experience of
 summer here will be so gratifyin that eyer after, in contemplating
 trip during the heated term, thei thoughts will fondly turn towar the health-giving resorts of Bil Williams mountains.
Williams news., 1911-05-27

AN exchange says: "Good roads ameliorate the condition of the farmer. promote social intercourse, encourage school attendance and relieve farm life from monotony." No doubt of it. Good roads in Coconino county would help won derfully in the development of it's resources, and no investment could contribute so materially to the prosperity of this section than money expended for the building of good roads and keeping them in thorough condition.
Williams news., 1911-05-27
ARMLESS MAN IS A
 CRACK RIFLE SHOT

WAPAKoNETA, O., May 15.-Pos- sessing only the stump of an arm on the left, side and no arm at all on the right side and using his teeth to pull the trigger, Al Wine miller is conceded to be one of the most amazing shots in Ohio, if not in the United States, statement that will be attested by all who have entered into competition with him, either in shooting at clay pigeons, live birds or bulls-eye target. So far as is known there IS no living man handicapped as he is who has made such record, and not for the purpose of revenue or exhibition, but purely for the love of a sport that he has followed from boyhood. He would rather win match with no stakes at all than forego the pleasure of competitisn. His winnings since the first of Jan uary have been two quarters of beef, one beef hide and one dollar in cash.
 What makes Winemiller's per formance all the more extraordi- nary is the fact that he did not lose his right arm until 15 months ago. His left hand was caught in the cogs of a traction engine and crushed into pulp in 1893, and an amputation above the wrist became necessary. Up to that time he had been an enthusiastic hunter, always scorning a shotgun and employing rife exclusively, even in shooting small game.
 He has a woderful eye for range, and with his old one-shot rifle and black powder charges, instead of the metallic cartridge that he uses now, he made some wonderful scores. His accuracy of aim con- tinued even after bis hand had been crushed and removed. This acci- dent did not interfere with his love of his chosen sport any longer than it took the stump to heal and ito enable him to devise strap hold which he used in lieu of hand.
 ARM GONE, KEEPS ON SHOOTING.
 In January, 1910, Winemiller's right arm was caught in a four-inch
 belt running from bolt cutter in
 the shop of the Wupek Wheel com pany. He was drawn up to the
 line shaft and whirled around until his arm was smashed and mangled
 close up to the shoulder socket.
 The surgeons took it off entirely.
 Winemiller made a. marvellous
 recovery, and as soon as he was
 able to be about he began devising means to enable him to keep on
 shooting. He bought 22 repeating Rem , ington and had a hole bored in the
 trigger. Through this he fastened , wire and covered the free end o it with a leather bit which he coulc take in his mouth. This device wal made under his direction by a gun smith. and then he went off into , the woods where no one would se' 3 him so that he could practice anC carry out the plan he had in view Wapakoneta is 60 miles north o
 Dayton, in the gas and coal region . and almost everybody within '. radius of 40 miles knows the arm less marksman and is proud of hi
Williams news., 1911-05-27

skill and courage in continuing in a sport after being crippled in g. manner that would have disceur- aged 90 men cut of 100.
 When Winemiller is ready to go into action he selects stump of a fallen log, wiggles out of his coat, shakes the box of cartridges out of specially prepared pocket, rs- moves the lid with his teeth and dumps the cartridges on the ground. Then-and always to the amaze ment of a veteran marksman-he places his Remington at rest, with the muzzle pointing upward, hold ing it in position with a leathern thong strapped to the stump of his left arm, leans over and presses the spring of the magazine with his teeth, causing the receptacle to open. With his mouth he drops in the cartridges. The magazine IS snapped into place by pressing the top against a tree stump, and the armless shooter, again employing his teeth, puts on the cartridge box | lid and returns the box to the pocket in his coat. Then he lifts
 the stock of the rifle to his armless socket and draws a bead at the ob' feet at which he intends to shoot.
 The thong is in the form of loop. lfastened to the barrel, and is slipped
 over the headless stump, holding
 the gun rigidly in position.
 PRESSES LIPS, GUN IS FIRED.
 Those who see this exemplitica- ton of necessity being the mother
 of invention are somewhat per-
 plexed to know how Winemiller
 will pull the trigger with his teeth
 and avoid defecting or raising the
 muzzle of the rife. He has made
 provision for this by having the
 breech mechanism so delicately ad- justed that the trigger is what
 might be called a superlative hair
 trigger. By contracting his lips he
 is able to draw the taut wire just
 the merest fraction of an inch with
 out the slightest movement of his
 head. The cartridge is exploded
 and the bullet is driven to its
 target.
 The armless marksman has such
 steady nerve that he can stand perfectly motionless for one minute 1 and hold his rifle in position with out showing a tremor.
 I Notwithstanding his great aff1ic , tion Winemiller is cheerful, cour ageous and as eager to enter tht lists against all corners as he wa' . when he had two arms. He has { clear, piercing eye, a square jaw ano } laughing, kindly expression. 5 He can leap ditches and climl 5 fences with his gun strapped to th l stump of his left arm with as mucl
 agility as any man of his age, ant : he can outrun most of them. H g wants to practice now for clay pig ] con shooting, so that he may ente f contests at county fairs.
 ] Winemiller has great horror o s being regarded as freak, and unde . no circumstance could he be in 0 duced to display his markmanshi e for pay. He is one of the mos d highly respected citizens in th '. community, and IS proud of tn if fact that he has had the patienc and perseverance to bring his shoot '' ing up to the present state of pel a lection by the invention of th r. strap and using his teeth to pu s the hair trigger.-N. Y. World.
Williams news., 1911-05-27

High class tailoring done at home at Williams Tailoring Co., $1S.OO to $42.00.
Williams news., 1911-05-27

Continued on page SI ]
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
STEPHENSON HAD MONEY.
A Witness Says That's Why His Cam
paign Was So Expensive

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. o. Because
Senator Isaac Stephenson was reputed
to be worth $30,000000, some Of his
political workers thought they ought to
be paid for. their time, and that was the
reason it cost the senator so much to
obtain his nomination at the primaries
in l00S, according to testimony before
the senatorial investigating committee
Wednesday, W. r. Knell of Milwaukee
county testified that as Stephenson's
campaign manager in the county he ex-
pended Sll 800.
"Why did you have to spend so much
money in one countyq" asked Senator
Hepburn, the chairman.
Because the other candidates were
spending a lot We felt we had to meet
them
"If Senator Stephenson had been a
poor man, his workers might have cam
paigned for him for nothing But as be
was said to be worth s30,000,000, it was
thought only right that those who
worked for him should be paid
Robert j. Shields of Superior, who
was said by witnesses to have worked
as an employe OF Edward Hines, the
lumberman, in Stephenson's behalf, de-
MED on the stand having taken any part
corruptly in the distribution Of money to
legislators.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
CONTRACT FOR CONCORD.
New England Granite Works Land Guar
antee Trust Co.'s Job in New York.

Concord, NJ H., Oct. 27. The contract
for the granite in the Guarantee Trust
company's new building in New York
City has been awarded to the New Eng
land Granite works here. The announce
ment of the local company's success was
received with pleasure, as the conpeti-
tion for the contract was keen. The
work on the contract will be started rs
soon as the det9S1ed plans are received.
Supt. McLaren announces that all the
granite will come from Concord and that
all the finishing of it will be done here.
The receipt of the contract means q
boom in the granite industry during the
winter, as it win afford constant work
for 275 quarrymen and cutters for a
period of six months. This, coupled with
the fact that the Swenson Granite COM
pany has secured contracts sufficient to
keep all its men employed until March
!, indicates an unusually busy winter IN
the trade, with the consequent great
benefit to Concord as a whole.
The a&ard OF the contract also indi-
Gates boom in Concord granite as with
the Bakers Trust company building,
which the company is Just completing,
and the Guarantee, the two largest trust
company buildings in the country will
have been fashioned from that material,
and the two, with the building of the
Germania Life Insurance company, viii
give New York City the three most nota-
bic structures erected within the last
two and one-half years.
The New England company has also
received the contract for the granite to
be used in the addition to the residence
OF Morton +. Plant at East Point, Conn.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
ACCUSED OF ROBBERY.
Joseph Weiss, Aged 80, Held in Boston
Case To-Day.

Boston, Oct 27.--Joseph Weiss, aged
30, toy peddler, who lives at LAG Essex
steet. New York City, was arrested ~
Inspector Michael Shields of headquar-
ters Yesterday afternoon on charge OF
breaking and entering the jewelry store
of Philip Rubin, 1923 fremont street,
February IL last, and was held in $1,000
bail by Judge Sanderson in superior
court
A side door of the store was forced
open. the back of the safe was ont and
the intruders got away with jewelry
and silverware valued at $1,000.
Last May Inspector Michael II. Cro-
min had man named Max Schumacher
arrested in New York City ON charge of
being implicated in the break. Sehmuck
Ter offered an alibi, but Gov Dix signed
requisition papers and the man was
brought. here The district attorney
later put his case on file.
Weiss used to leave his wares in the
iewelry store. Rubin charges he de-
tected him examining. door in the
back ROOM Later he shipped samples
from the store to New York City, but
the addresses that he mentioned III New
York were fictitious.
Wednesday evening Il was learned
Weiss was in this city expecting ship
ment of goods and the arrest occurred
when he was on his way TO get the
property.
He denied stealing the iewelry he had,
which included 26 diamond rings OF a
cheap grade and silverware. Weiss
says that he is innocent of the Rubin
burglary.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
HAD NARROW ESCAPES.
Three Young Women In a Fire in Boston
Last Night.

Boston, Oct. 27.-Three young women
employed in the cloakmaking establish
ment of Mayor kelman at 2S Chauncy
street had narrow escape from death
shortly after 6 o'clock last evening, when
the rooms in which they worked were
suddenly filed with smoke from a fire
under the stairway.
Anna Rosenzwig Of IA Spring street
West End. Lena Bookman Of II Nc
Lean court West End, and Becky Got
tlieb were just finishing their days
work. In the rooms was also Abraham
keIman, son of the proprietor
The girls ran to the front windows
and screamed to people in the street
that they We're about to Jump.
A passer-hy sent in an alarm from
box "A and the prompt arrival of fire
apparatus seemed to reassure the girls
Chief Mullen shouted to them to stay
and Capt Dolan of ladder company II
had the ladder raised to the top floor
after ladderman Magoon cut an electric
wire
Without waiting for this, however
Capt. Riley of engine 4 and ladderman
Thomas Toomey OF ladder s ran up the
stairway and led the girls down to
safety. Capt. Riley wore the emergency
mask recently adopted by the fire de-
partment, this being the first occasion
upon which it has been used, and it
proved perfectly successful
J. w. Broad Of the firm Of Broad &
Glidden. on the fourth floor, escaped by
the ladder.
The fire was quickly extinguished and
the damage is estimated at $780, The
cause could not be determined.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
HADN'T REFUSED MARRIAGE.
Said Defendant In Breach of Promise
Suit in Rutland Court.

Rutland Oct. 27.-The Rutland coun-
ty court room was crowded with people,
mostly women, yesterday, who wished to
hear the testimony at the second days
session OF the trial of the breach of
promise suit brought by Miss Lucy b.
Roberts of Hampton n. Y, a school
teacher, against William Buckln Of Sud
bury, a member of one Of the foremost
families there, to recover $4,000 for an
alleged broken heart. The young wom-
an completely lost her composlfre yes
terday under severe cross examination
by Attorney +. L. Fish of Yergennes.
She frequently wiped away tears or
blushed deeply under questions put to
her
Her last letter to the defendant, writ
ten June L 1911, was taken Up by the
lawyer rs was an interview she had with
Mr. Bucklin Il little later She admit
ted that she had been to see a lawyer
before writing the letter hut denied that
she had any suit or any definite plan
OF procedure against him in mind when
she said: II pity you. The worst is
yet to come"
The defendants sister, Miss Adeline
Bucklin Of Sudbury, testified that Miss
Roberts had told her that there was an
agreement between the plaintiff and the
defendant whereby each might with
draw from the marriage contract il il
were thought hest.
The defendants side Of the case was
reached yesterday afternoon He denied
refusing to marry the plaintiff. The
plaintiff brought forth the information
that $4,000 had passed through bis
hands during the last three years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
CRASH AT WEST BERLIN
TIED UP THE TRACK
Engine S57 One Central Vermont Was
Considerably Damaged by Buc.s-
ing Its Nose Into Stand
ing Freight Train.

Engine 337 crashed into the rear Of a
standing train, hauled By engine 800.
on the Central Vermont railroad at Riy.
Ierton, or West Berlin, last evening and
made so much litter than the track
was blocked for several hours. One car
was thrown at right angles to the track,
and fire broke out in the wreekage pre-.
sumably from the stove in the caboose,
The Mortified fremen brought hand
engine, and extinguished the blaze. En-
gine 3ST was considerably damaged in
the encounter.
A statement was made by a railroad
man that the collision was due to short
tagging of the following train, il being
asserted that q tlagman was sent back
from the standing train but that the
distance Of his travel was not sufficient
TO stop the 337 engine in time to pre-
vent its bueking into the rear of 1895
train.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
IN
THE LAKE
Mrs. Emma S. lSham Of Morris
vile Commits Suicide
ESCAP ES FROM SANITARlUM
BY Climbing Out of Window in the Night
and Goes to Lake and Jumps In
No Mental Trouble Was
Suspected.
ESCAP PES FROM SANITARlUM

Burlington, Oct 27--Mrs, Emma s.
Isham Of Morrisyille, a widow, aged As
years, was drowned in Lake Champlain
this morning, having committed suicide.
Mrs. lsham came to local sanitarium
Tuesday for treatment for nervousness.
No mental trouble was suspected. She
retired last night at o'clock and at |
this morning climbed out of a window
onto the piazza roof and dropped twelve
feet TO the ground. Attred in short
night dress and bed comforter, she
walked to the wharf and jumped in.
Her body was found this morning by an
employe in the lumber yard. Attens-
ants at the sanitarium discovered that
the woman was missing a few minutes
after her disappearance, but their scurch
was unrewarded, owing to the darkness.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
LOST ONE HAND.
William Nichols, Stone Cutter, Got II
Caught in Shafting.

William Nichols Of Beekley hill. 4
stonecutter employed by Jones Brothers
plant, was severely injured this fore
noon, when his left hand became caught
in shafting which he was repairing.
Before the man could release his hand
several fingers were badly manned and
not until other workmen had stopped
the machinery did the danger of losing
the entire arm pass,
B. W Hooker & Co.'S ambulance was
summoned and the injured man was
taken to the City hospital. Examina-
tion here revealed badly crushed hand
and physicians deemed it wise to am
putate the member just above the wrist,
Nichols stood the operation well, and
this afternoon he is resting comfort
ably with small probability Of any
further bad developments following. He
will be confined to the hospital for some
time as result of the accident.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
FEARED STARVATION.
So He Committed Suicide by Hanging
From Gas Jet.

Boston, Oct. 27--Nils Fisher Thersk-
ten, aged 60, blacksmith, committed
suicide yesterday afternoon in vacant
tenement on the same floor in the house
ut 81 Shawmut avenue, where he had
lived several years. A prospective ten
ant who went to the house to inspect
the suite found the body hanging from
q wall gas Jet. Patrolman Mark Kilroy
Of the Lagrange street division cut the
body down and it was taken to the
City hospital, where it was discovered
that Therskten was dead.
Mary Schwencke, the landlady, said
she had seen Therskten walking through
the hallway several times lately with a
piece of twine in his hand, and although
he was watched he slipped out to the
bathroom of the vacant suite without
being interrupted.
In the room beside his body, Patrol
man Kilroy found note that supplied
that motive for his act. 1t was ad-
dressed to his wife. He described the
persistent and fruitless struggle of a
man who had grown old to get position
He feared hunger and starvation and
wrote to his wife that she would get
along better without him. His wt1e dbi
not know of Therskten's death for some
hours after it occurred.
Therskten left son, who is waiter
in Boston hotel This son has helped
him. The present Mrs Therskten is his
stepmother.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-27
SENATOR sEAvER's FUNERAL.
Was Held From His Late Home in viii
jamestown Yesterday.

Williamstown, Oct. 27.--The funeral
of State Senator L. M. Seaver was held
from his late residence yesterday after
noon at 2 o'clock, Rev. d. II. Strong
Of Milton, former pastor Of the Con-
eregatioual church here, being the Off
chatting clergyman. There was large
attendance of relatives and friends,
many coming from neighboring towns
and cities; and included in the number
were former associates of Mr.. Seaver in
the state legislature, including his fell
low senator, Harry Daniels, of East
Montpelier and Clark A. Plumley of
the Vermont House. Mr.. Seaver's daugh-
ter. Mrs. Walter Simonds of Durango,
Col, with her husband, was, also pres
ent. Mrs. Nellie L. Braley of Buning-
ton sang at the service.
The floral tributes were most beauti-
full. the casket being surrounded with
set pieces and bouquets. The bearers
were Elwin Clogston, Erwin Martin, Al
bert Goodrich, Joshua Bailey, Henry
Poole and Russell Jeffords Interment
was in the family lot in the village
cemetery.