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The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Woman Alleged Slayer.

Osyka, Miss. June I1.-Mrs. ". c.
Dickey, aged thirty-five, a prominent So
ciety woman OF Osyka, was arrested to-
day in connection with the death OF her
husband, who died under mysterious cir
cumstances. The autopsy revealed poison
in the victims stomach. Dickey's will
revealed an estrangement between him
and his wife, as he left all his estate
to his mother, bequeathing his wife
only 81.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
The big Hat in Germany.

Berlin correspondence London Standard.
A man has Inserted the following ad-
advertisement in a Halle newspaper:
''Required-House in the neighborhood
of Halle, size, rent. situation, length Of
lease no object, provided the door is
large enough 70 admit my wife's new
hat When wearing It she cannot get
through the door Of my present residence
and is, therefore, obliged TO stay with my
friend Fritz"
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
JulIa NInrlore Better.

Toronto, Ontario, June u.-Julia Mar
lowe. who was taken I'll at the Queens
Hotel yesterday afternoon, was reported
somewhat better to-day, but will not be
able TO resume her stage work for some
time. Her physicians pronounce her all
ment nervous prostration, due TO over
work.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
The march OF clvtIl.atIOn.

From the ProEidencs Journal.
The beautiful scenery by the banks of
the busy Blackstone. in the glades OF
the darksome Douglas woods, along the
cliffs above cool Chaubunagungamaug
and through the wales Of the curving
Quinebaug and Quaboag, viii not recog-
nize itself at the end Of the seasons
steam shoYellng.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Ker RInr for : Rride.

Prom the Pail Mall Gasetts
At marriage service at Cheltenham
parish church Il was found the bride
groom had forgotten the ring. At the
suggestion OF the clergyman, the key
Of the church door. which had ring at
the end. was eommandeered and the
ceremony was comple1
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Case for n Choice.

George, before We were married you
used to bring me flowers nearly every
day"
We'll, I can bring you flowers to-day,
for that matter, but II do I'll have 20
cut out that new asparagus"
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Uncle Pennywise saysi

to work on the days the team plays At
home.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
BIG FINES IMPOSED.

$4,000, Coal Company $4,000.
Toledo. Ohio. June HIN the United
States District Court to-day, announce
ment was made Of $4,000 me upon the
Hooking Valley Railroad Company, and
fine Of $4,000 upon the Sunday Creek
Coal Company. Columbus. Ohio. for
violation Of the Hepburn law relative to
rebating.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
A GOOD MEMORY.

A GOOD MEMORY.
remember. remember
That fiat where I was born;
Where bill collectors came around
From the hrst peep OF the morn.
The landlord was funny man.
He used 70 want his pay,
And 50 when was three months old
We had to move away.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
often Happens.

IAN the world loves a lover"
That may be; but sometimes the girl
does not
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
The ola sauabbIe.

II might have married a millionaire
declared Everywoman. zone OF my
schoolmates is now one"
And several Of your schoolmates are
working right in this town for ten g
week" retorted Everyman, while one
OF them is in jail. I guess in marrying
chap getting 1850 a year your average
is fairly good"
And then Everyday set up a howl
and they had to stop quarreling and 60
attend to him.
June in History.
June ., 1544-As per his custom, Henry
VIII takes a June bride
June 2 I6ls-Izaak Walton tells a hsh
story that nobody VIII believe.
The Modest Violet.
Let US consider now the modest violet
It is really modest and shrinking. Yet
It is well advertised because every poet
on earth acts as its press agent. In
an age when everybody wants publicity,
the modest violet is certainly in luck.
Two Crops.
April showers bring June flowers;
Yes, indeed.
Nor do they, by the way,
Slight the weed.
No RestrIetions..
These are great days for kids"
LAS to how in PARTICULAR
My father used to lick me for read
ing Observation-Disclosures stories, but have
to take my boy personally to the moving
picture shows TO see burglars burgle and
cowboys cavort."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Why Parker7

The World recognizes in Judge Par
ker an eminent citizen and Democrat,
but it disapproves most emphatically of
the Tammany enterprise, Endorsed by
the committee of arrangements to make
him temporary chairman of the Balti-
more convention.
If the boss-ridden organization in
Fourteenth street did not have a posi-
tive genius for laundering and for mis-
chief, this movement could not have
started. The present disposition of in
telligent Democrats is to avoid unneces-
sary friction, and to take no action that
will be needlessly offensive to any
element of the party.
No important issues hang upon the
craftsmanship. The work of no steam
roller is to be safeguarded. In addi-
ton to sound principles and approved
ability only one thing should be re-
CURED of the presiding officer, and that
is complete separation from the unhappy
division of the past.
Every State in the Union has such a
man. If New York is to be honored in
this way it might present a score of
candidates whose selection would revive
no bitterness and reopen no old con-
troversies. Tammany lacks sense and
sagacity, as usual, or it would perceive
at once the improperly of its sugges-
ton.
With much difficulty a Thomas F.
Ryan, lawyer, was chosen as temper
airy chairman of the Republican con-
vention at Chicago. What good rea-
son can be urged for comforting the
same distinction upon another Thomas
F. Ryan, lawyer, at the Baltimore con-
vention.
If it is Tammany's purpose to test
the sentiments of Democrats in this
respect, WIS hope that the delegates
will accept the issue at once and by a
decisive vote show that it still is pos
sible for the representatives of an
American political party to meet in
convention and proceed to business
without boss. New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Lowell Autoist Get. Six Months

A six months sentence and fine of
5000 was imposed on James H. Horsfall,
a wealthy young business man of Lowell,
for reckless driving of an automobile
and running away after damaging prop
erty, by Judge Mclaughlin in the
superior criminal court, East Cam
bridge. yesterday. A stay of the SEN
tence to allow the case to go to the
supreme court was granted.
At Wilmington, on Nov. IL, 1911, it
was claimed, Hosfall, with party of
friends going from Boston to Lowell,
ran into the car of Albert H. Zepp,
killing the latter aunt. Mrs. Ruth Kit
ridge and badly damaging the automo-
mobile Horsfall was indicted on five
counts that included manslaughter,
reckless operation of an automobile,
operating an automobile while intoxi-
Gated, and running away after damage
to property and to persons.
He was tried on the manslaughter
charge last January and the jury dis
agreed. In March he was found guilty
of the charge of reckless driving, run
ming away after damage to persons and
property, and not guilty on the charge
of drunkenness. Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Roosevelt Put Forth by q New
PARTY

'"Thou shalt not steal" is the first
plan in Mr.. Roosevelt's platform set
forth in his speech accepting the nomi-
nation for President of the Progressive
party organized by the seeding Re-
publican delegates. He repudiates the
nomination of Taft and brands him as
"a man who inspired and profited by
fraud - the nominee of a fraudulent
convention whose actions are not bind
ing on any other honest citizens. He
renounces the Republican party and the
Republican name, taking the leader
ship of the Progressive" party, COM
posed, he conceives, by those who are
''heirs in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
when he refused longer to be bound by
the shackles of the past and faced the
new issues in the spirit that the times
demanded"
Mr.. Roosevelt makes his appeal to
Southerners as well as Northerners,
West as well as East. He calls for the
square DEAL" for the abolition of
special privilege; setting forth his idea
that the ''people have right to rule
themselves" and to use the Govern
ment so far as possible as an instru-
ment for obtaining not merely political
but industrial justice" He casts aside
the old issues. There is no word of the
tariff or trusts or the high cost of liv-
ing. He deals with moral principles,
not political or industrial issues. He
speaks in generalities, promising to
apply these moral principles to the
solution of our problems.
Calling for a mass convention later to
nominate himself or some other Pro-
gressive, he seeks to sound sentiment
and determine the strength of the
movement-what it will attract from
both the old parties. This is the most
formidable bolt in a generation, for
Mr.. Roosevelt carried with him large
proportion of the delegates. They
represent big Republican States, the
heart of the Republican party.
Whether the new organization will gain
in strength and prove really formidable
will depend largely on what the Demo-
Gratis do in Baltimore. If they nomi-
nate progressive candidate on a pro-
gressive platform, there will be no need
of a third party to represent progressive
principles. i Baltimore Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Why Revive Old Controversies7

1t is unfortunate that in its initial
action the committee on arrangements,
by the selection of Alton B. Parker
for temporary chairman of the Demo
cratic National convention, has injected
an element of bitterness into meeting
which it was hoped would be as har-
monious as that at Chicago has been
discordant.
Yet it is difficult to see how the
Progressives of the convention, the
followers of Bryan and Wilson ct al. I,
can fail to fight the naming of Parker
to the last ditch. He is a good man,
an able judge, a pleasant gentleman,
but it remains true that however
great may be his strength in the Ma
tional Committee he is representa-
tive of an element which constitutes
not more than 20 per cent. of the
masses of the Democratic party. He
is a conservative in party which by
its traditions and principles should be
radical. He is looked upon as repre-
sentative of the classes in a party
which is nothing if it is not of the
people. 1t is good thing to have such
men in party; they serve as usefu
brake upon the radicalism that might
otherwise prove always impractical and
inefficient, but it is illogical that they
should control the party, very illog-
cal that they should sound the keynote
of campaign.
The unfortunate thing about Judge
Parkers selection, beyond the fact
that he does not truly represent the
sentiment of the Democratic masses
is that it will be credited to influences
not visible to the naked eye. 1t will
be held that he was selected in order t
put restraints upon the convention
action in order to curb the free flow Of
progressive opinion. Rightly or wrong
ly, it will be accounted an affront t.
the Progressives who have dominated
the party since 1896. 1t will arous,
old bitternesses and revive old con
troversies. This is surely unwise ant
unnecessary. -Baltimore Sun, June 81
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919.

The New York World of Thursday,
June q, has several very strong articles
against the Wall street and ''Tammany
corruptionists"
Colonel Roosevelt is fighting the same
combination. So are the Democratic
leaders or candidates, Messrs. Bryan,
Wilson, and several others, it being now
understood that Champ Clark has COM
bined with the "Ryan-Murphy" crowd.
When the contest at Baltimore is
over the people, as whole, who simply
want honest government, and intend to
have it, will be able to tell what is the
proper thing for them to do.
One thing is certain, they are not
going to be sold out to any party who
has proved itself unworthy to be sup
ported.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
MAN DEAD, ONE DYING
Autos in Collision In Erie, Pa, -
One Car Turns Turtle on
the Trackz

Erie, Pa, June DIN an automobile
collision tonight John Macdonald, aged
26, was killed; Harrison Reed, aged 35,
son of c. M. Reed, was fatally hurt,
and two young women, Miss Mary Gal
loway and Miss Blanche Dawley, were
seriously hurt. The accident occurred
within mile of where Mr.. and Mrs. T.
A. Snider of Cincinnati were killed Mon
day, when their automobile was struck
by train.
Reed was driving the machine at high
speed, it is said, when he tried to pass
the machine of Mrs. Thora Strong Rom
aids, daughter of Charles H. Strong,
capitalist, and wife of Reginald Rom
aids of New York. The hubs of the two
cars struck and Reeds car caught in the
street car track, turning turtle. Mrs.
Ronalds escaped, but the four in Reed 5
machine were thrown out. Macdonald
died in few minutes. 1t is said Reed
will die and the condition of both women
is considered critical.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Burns to Death Under Automo-
bile.

Hemstead, N. Y, June 20.-Three
persons are dead as the result of the
collision of touring car and a runa-
bout at road intersection on the Long
Island motor parkway, early today.
The machines were demolished, and
Albert Baumgartner of Hemstead,
driver of the touring car, was pinned
beneath the wreck and burned to death
before the eyes of his helpless COM
panions. Tonight Alfred F. Mainland
and Frank Vandewater of Hemstead
died in the Nassau County Hospital
from injuries.
Four other persons who were injured
will likely recover. They are Benjamin
MollineauX of Hamstead, Lewis p.
Stone and Paul Stone, his son of Free
port, and DR.. Ray McCombs of Hemp
stead. The elder Mr.. Stone is father
of Fred Stone the actor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Cork Leg Takes Him on Joy Ride.

Many yarn has been spun about ar
tificial limbs, but when a cork leg was
offered as a defence for operations of an
automobile while the driver was under
the influence of liquor officers in the
Maiden court Friday sat up and took
notice.
Joseph Gagnon, liquor dealer of
Manchester, N. H., was the defendant.
Policeman testified that he was making
a violent and determined assault on a
stone wall with the auto when taken
into custody. Gagnon admitted that
he had taken few drops on the day in
question, but declared that new cork
leg had interfered seriously with his
operation of the machine in an efficient
manner, as the leg persisted in getting
in the way and playing havoc with
mechanism.
Judge Bruce, however, couldn't see it
that way, and he fined Gagnon $500 for
driving the machine while under the.
influence of liquor and S. for intoxica-
ton. Gagnon appealed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
MlDDLEBURY LOCALS.

Mrs. c. H. Malleson of East Orange.
N. j., and daughter, Mrs. Edward C.
Phillip of Brooklyn, are staying with
Mrs. w. E. Howard. Mrs. Malleson is
the daughter of w. T. Webb, former
rector of st. Stephens church.
Mrs. Clinton Smith of Washington,
D. c., former resident of Middlebury,
is registered at The Addison. She was
accompanied by her son, Harold Smith.
Michael j. Kenny, who has been en-
ployed at the local marble mill for the
past five years, is moving with his
family to Rutland, where he has secured
position with the Green Mountain
Marble Co.
A large number of friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Cobb gave them a
pleasant surprise party at their home
on the Cornwall road Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb recently returned
home from their wedding tour.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Dangerous Situation.

The worst thing about the Roose-
welt bolt is that it may breed a feel
ing in the minds of some of the dele
gates at Baltimore that the Demo-
cratic party can nominate any old
candidate and win.
If that feeling should gain strength.
it may lead to fatal laundering. The
Republican party today is demoralized,
discordant, disrupted. But Heaven
only knows what it will be on election
day. Even if Taft should be nominated
at Chicago that we think, is the
worst the Republicans can do from the
standpoint of success absolute victory
will not be assured the Democratic
candidate unless he is an able and pro-
gressive man
1t is easy to underestimate the
strength of Roosevelt, even running
on a third ticket. Consider the show
ing he made in the primaries, with
the organizations, the greater part of
the bosses and the Administration
against him Consider the tremen-
dous progressive sentiment in the
States of the West and Middle West,
where Taft ran third when Roosevelt
and La Toilette were both against
him and where the so-called conserva-
tives in the Democratic primaries were
not in the running at all baltimore
Sun Iuna u
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Why the Republicans Hold on to
the Southern DeIeaates.

There is usually a movement in Re-
publican National Conventions to reduce
the representation from the Southern
States, and the effort always fails. 1t
has failed again, as far as the rules
committee of the Chicago convention is
concerned. The proposition was to
have one delegate for each Congress-
man and in addition one for each 10, 900
Republican votes. This would do away
with the delegates-at-large and greatly
increase the relative strength of the
Republican States in the conventions.
The reason why the plan to reduce the
relative strength of the South in the
convention has failed in the past is that
the Southern delegates, many of them
negroes, are and have long been an
asset of the administration, and the
administration, largely by the votes of
the Southern delegates, usually controls
the convention.
1t is irksome to the Republican States
of the North and West that the South
ern Republicans should have so large a
part in nominating candidates to whose
election they can contribute no cleo
toral votes. When the Texas and
Louisiana delegations to the Chicago
convention left home, their party was
almost unrepresented in their respective
States. The whole party had gone to
Chicago. In this present convention
the Southern delegations hold the bal
ance of power and without them Presi.
dent Taft would manfestly stand nc
chance of the nomination. 1t is easy tc
see. therefore, why Mr.. Taft's friends
should desire to retain the Southerners
Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Courses Open to Roosevelt.

If they refuse to compromise on any
other candidate or take part in a cor
rupt convention, the Roosevelt dele
gates can openly bolt, leaving the Re-
publican party as the silver Republi-
cans did in the convention of 1896 that
nominated Mckinley. Senators Teller.
Dubois and the representatives of half
dozen States left the party never to
return.
They can remain in the convention,
but refuse to take part in the proceed
ings after certain time, as the gold
Democrats, led by Governor Flower of
New York, did in the Chicago conven-
ton of 1896 that nominated Bryan.
That was passive resistance.
The progressives can organize a new
party and call a national convention
later to nominate Roosevelt as the gold
Democrats nominated Palmer and
Buckner in 1896.
The progressives can hold to their
contention that they constitute the rea
Republican party, repudiate the actions
of the machine politicians who packed
the convention, add to their number the
contesting delegates who were thrown
out and, with more than the $40 dele.
gates who constitute majority, nomi-
nate Roosevelt as the choice of q
majority of the regularly and honestly
elected delegates to the Republican
| National Convention. -Exchanpe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28

ate in Baltimore. They have seen a
great party in possession of the Gov
eminent for the better part of half a
century, almost destroyed by reckless
politicians drunk with power. They
have seen the big machine NOW down
the opposition, run rough shod over
honesty, justice and rights. They have
seen it shove through the Republican
ranks like Juggernaut.
Democrats want none of it. The
formation of powerful machine is a
temptation to the wrongful use of
power. The "steam roller" is danger
Gus to those who operate it, as well as
those against whom it is directed. The
one thing Democrats have to fear is
combination that will crush out oppo-
sition and override those who are en-
titled to voice in the party councils.
The steam roller" runs on its way,
blind and deaf, the acme of power with
out intelligence. 1t has no place in q
Democratic convention, and if started
in Baltimore is destined to be wrecked
or to wreck the party hopes. The
first rumble of its wheels will alarm
Democrats who believe in fair play and
be the signal for a united effort tt
overturn the monster, and when it is
overturned the crew may be founc
crushed under the huge machine. -
Baltimore Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Two Men Penned to Fence by
Auto

Webster, June 81. Struck by tour
ing car which jammed them against
fence this evening. John Kurdalf and
William F. Toniewicz are not expected
to recover.
The machine is owned by Michael r.
Joy of Putnam, Ct, and was driven by
George Smithy of Putnam, an employee
of the Joy garage. Smithy was driv-
ing down Lake street hill and at South
Main street the automobile skidded.
The rear end of it swung on to the
sidewalk, breaking a stone post and
crashing into fence in front of the
residence of John II. Conway.
The two injured men were taken to
the j. Kimball Hospital at Putnam.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-06-28
Auto Mishap Kills Woman.

Sacco, Me-. June %. Mrs. L. M. c.
Hill of Roxbury, Mass, was killed in an
automobile accident to day while riding
from Massachusetts toward Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony w. Strauss of
Cambridge, with whom she was travel
ing, were thrown from the automobile.
Mrs. Strauss sustained broken armi
Mr.. Strauss was not injured. The steer.
ing gear failed to work properly and
the machine left the road and ran into
a field. Mrs. Hill was thrown out and
struck tree, fracturing her skull.