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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-10-04
We Buy Fleece Wool
Write for prices
CARROLL S. PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt

Carl | Cabana left town last Thurs
day to join his wife in Buffalo, where
they will visit relatives.
Mrs. Frank Hayden returned to
her home in Lewiston Me-, this
week Wednesday after visit with
relatives and friends here.
T. r. Lynch, No. Derring, Maine
says that during the winter and
spring of 1911 he was afflicted with
a cough and tried many remedies
with no relief until he purchased a
bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound. He says that relief came
quickly after taking it and has had
no return of the cough since" For
sale by John W. Thurston. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-10-04
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS
FOR RHEUMATISM KIDNEYS AND BLADDER


When Joe Latham went to d'wood
Two year ago-yes tree,
Dat N. 6. c. Insurance man
Said, Joe come speak wit me-
But Toe he didn't say word;
He close heem face, jes so.
He say no word at all, at all |;
Not yes, sometime not no.
Twas one beeg strain on Joe LaFlam
TO shut keep up so much
An listen to de talk, talk, talk,
Bout insure hees life an such
But Joe, he wait, an wait, an wait,
II listen all de same,
Bimeby he take paper-so-
An sign heem Joe Latham"
De man go 'way-I say to Joe,
what for you sign, an why"
Den Zoe LaFlam, he say to me,
For mon, should go die"
"Ha Hal."-one fool" laugh at heem
Insurance man got Joe
He talk heem out of bees COOL cash
Hal Hal" jes so, jes so.'
But one day in de early spring,
A tree fall on hees head.
We pick heem up-Sacre Mon Dieul
Poor Joe-he was sure dead.
write to dat dare N. E. c. homme,
An by gar-Sacre DAM
Tree hundred dollar came mex week
To Mrs. Joe LaF1am.
New England Casualty Co.
Paid up Capital, 81, 100000
4Liberty So.
Boston Mass,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-10-04
For Sale

Twenty-Five cords 16 inch hard
block wood.
EUGENE BUCK, East Charleston.
Phone, 1912.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
NEWPORT WOMEN TURN CATHOLICS
Mrs. E: c. Post and Mrs. David King Recent Con verts; Others Expected to Follow.

Newport, Feb. 22-Nrs. Edward c. Post, who was Miss Emile Thorn King, and Mrs. David King, who was Ella Rives. two prominent members of the society colony of Newport are among the recent converts to the Catholic faith from the Episcopal church.
 Their conversions. according to what can be learned today, occurred last Summer at St. Mary's Catholic church here, which is in charge of Rev. Will liam B. Meenan. who was a guest at the dinner given by Countess An nie Leary in New York in honor of Cardinal Farley, Countess Leary is a Summer parishioner of St. Mary's church.
 Report last night has it there are several other prominent women in the inner circles of Newport society who will soon adopt the Catholic faith.
 St. Mary's church includes among it's members Mrs. Reginald C. Wander bilt Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Mrs. C. NJ. Oelrichs, Mrs. Peter D. Martin, Mary Lehr, Mrs James J. Coogan. Mrs Paul A. Andrews, Mrs. NBrock- hoist Cutting, Mrs. Leonard NJ. Thon> as Mrs. Cameron McRae Winslow. Mrs. Frederick P. Garrettson, Mrs Delaney Astor Kane, Mrs. H. O. Have meyer. Jr., and Mrs Lewis e. Jones.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
Gale Sweeps Over Gotham With Velocity Of 90 Miles
 An Hour, Today
SIGNS AND LANDMARKS
 SWEPT INTO STREET
Traffic ParaIyzGd, Trains Late And Wires Are Down
 In State
Especial from United Press3

New York, Feb. 22.-All records for high winds in the local weather bureau were shattered, today, when a gale swept across the city attaining a maximum velocity of 96 miles an hour. Scores of p'ateglass windows were shattered in the business section and many mammoth electric signs. landmarks of the city, along Broad way, were swept into the street. All though many persons were bruised and cut by being hit with flying glass and pieces of demolished signs, no one was killed
 A six thousand pound electric sign was torn from a building at 42nd street and Broadway and fell into the roadway just missing a crowded eIec- tric car. Another big sign was blown into the middle of Columbu Circle:
 Reports from upstate say that the rain of last night has turned to snow and all trains are hours late. Traffic generally is paralyzed and several cities are absolutely cut off from com . 1nunicatfon with the outside, tele- graph and telephone wires being down.
 One result of the wind, and a rain fall that accompanied it, was col lision on the Brooklyn Bridge between a Smith street trolley car and re- pair car in which a dozen passengers were bruised and cut by flying glass and traffic interrupted for an hour in the early rush.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22

of white Slavers'' who subSist on the earnings of the unfortunate women in the ''Tenderloin'', she defied them and was told that she would be slashed when the man known Dominica Cesare pointed her out on the street and Lagno entered her apartments on Bank street and ripped her cheek open with a knife. Lagno afterw"rd ran down the street and was captured by Patrolman Bray, who pursued him to Water street.
 When first arraigned Lagno stoutly protested his innocence both to his counsel, Attorney Frederick B. Fa1lon, ! and in the city court He was bound over to the criminal superior court under bonds of $10,O00 and was ar. raigned in the superior court yester- day.
 Attorney FaIIon- had not received the slightest intimation that his client had changed his mind and decided to make a clean breast of it. He was questioning Lagno to bring out testi- mony in the latter's own behalf when Lagno suddenly refused to answer the questions the way his attorney put them and declared that he wanted to make confession and complete state ment.
 Lagno's statement as commenced in court and continued in private before the prosecuting officials was sensa- tional in the extreme. He declared that he was forced in fear of hls life to act as tool and assassin for an organized gang of white slavers, the gang which he pointed out to the police. He said that he was dragged from his home on Lexington avenue and forced in fear of his life to slash the Hermann woman, being promised immunity and pay on the one hand if he turned the trick, and heinz told that he himself would be mur- dered if he failed.
 He furthermore declared that he had been forced to act for this gang for several years and that it's nnerz bers have operated in ( lumber Of Cities between Bridgeport and New York.
 Lagno declared that Dominica Cesare was the ring leader and chief of the gang. His statement was af- terward borne out by the identifica~ tion made by the Hermann woman who immediately recognized Cesare as the man who had pointed her out on the street to Lagno and remarked, That is the woman
 A rumor was current this morning that some of the accused men were willing to turn evidence against the others, if promised immunity them selves. The prosecuting authorities and police are delighted at the raid and the consequent cleaning out Of the vermin who infest the Red Light district
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
MUCH WORK FOR
 COLLECTOR COONEY
Expected to Collect Tax Levied This Year and $5O,OOO on Lists of Other Years.

Tax Collector B. F. Cooney has his work laid out for him by the board of Apportionment, this year. He is ex- pected to collect not only the entire taxes levied upon the list of 1911, but also $25, ,00O from the First district and $25,OO from the Second district, in back taxes.
 The board of Apportionment's pre- liminary rate of 15.S mills, fixed yes terday, is five-tenths of a mill / eat CT than the estimate of the city audi tor. MT. Keating's recommendations ca led for a rate of "A mills in the First district, and 7.9 mills in the Sec ond district.
 Re-adjustment of the lists of the dis trict by a committee of officials re- suited in a number of alterations of the various items as charged between the two districts. But the cuts rec commended by MT. Heating were not followed in all instances.
 It Is part of the task of the city au- ditor to prepare for the board of ap- portionment a yearly report with es- inmates based upon the acquisitions of tor always takes into consideration the fact that there will be taxes left unpaid. It has been his custom to estimate as the revenue from taxation Experience of the past shows that this is a reasonably accurate method, for the delinquentS of the fiscal year are made up in the payments of those in arrears on former years together with the interest charges on the over due taxes.
 The board of Apportionment how ever, has adopted as part of their pre- Iiminary estimate two items of $25,- 900 each, one for each district, rev. enue from back taxes. He is also expected to co lect under their esfi- mate, all the taxes on the list of 1911
 MT. Cooney should appreciate this unusual mark of confidence from the tax levyfng body.
 The action taken by the board of ApPortionment re- tive to the three mills rebate to residents of the First district only was upon the mo ion of Commissioned Hincks.
 The motion is an eX pression of opin- ion, in effect, from the board of Alp portionment, and it is forwarded on their motion, to the Common Coun- cil for it's consideration. The resolu- ton follows
 Resolved, That the keeping of the records and checks of the First dis trict only taxpayers who are entitled to a rebate of three mills on the list of 1910 under the ruling of the then city attorney should in our opinion be kept in the office of the tax collector irrespective of who the incumbent may be.
 And be it further resolved that d copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Common Council for it's considera- tioo-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
MAYOR HOLDS UP ORDER ON
 RENT CHECKS

Mayor Wilson has not yet signed the resolution adopted by the board of aldermen at it's meeting Monday evening, which practically restored to the board of Charities the prerogative they had always exercised, of super vising the payment of rents for the poor.
 One of the first measures introduce ed at the instance of the new ad- ministration was one taking from the Doard of Charities this power, and vesting it in the city auditor. When it was found that the city auditor could not legally draw. these cheeks, the work was thrust upon the office of the city clerk.
 Under the old system, checks for rent were paid out by the Charities clerk from an appropriation set aside each month by the Charities board, upon request of Superintendent Jos eph Brennan. who would name the necessary amount There are between 13O and 145 cases receiving rent from the city.
 Under the new system the Charities applicants have to get a rent bill from their landlord. This Is passed Clerk O'Neil has to make out dupII- cates. These are then sent to the Finance committee of the Common Council to be approved. When this sent to the city clerk who has to make out 145 checks. Then these have to be entered four separate times by the city auditor, involving an extra ordinary amount of needless work all around without one penny's saving to the city or the slightest increase in efficiency.
 The first time that the new sys- tenn was tried, 1t created something of an uproar in City Hall on account of the amount of work involved and the resolution in the council to abol- ish 1t followed.
 Although the impression gained ground that the mayor wished to have the old system restored, it appears from recent developments that he was not in sympathy with the resolution a it appeared on Monday evening. He has held up the resolution without his sigma ture although he has approved all the other actions of the council at its meeting Monday evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
EVERYTHING ON CALENDAR.
Thunder, Lightning, Rain, Hail, Sleet and BIinding SnownstorTn Swoop
 Down on Boston.

Boston, Feb. 22.-Thunder and lightning. rain, hail. sIeet and a blind ing snowstorm Of 30 minutes dura- ton about 10 o'clock, today, followed by 40 mile gale that was in turn succeeded by an hours calm, during which the skies cleared and the sun forced the thermometer up from 32 to 3S degrees, was Boston's freak weather between midnight and day light this morning.
 Shortly after midnight a doy5npour was succeeded by fal' of bAilston es that hurt when they hit. Dozens of the wild pigeons that roost by the thousands in church cupolas and tow CTS and sheltered hooks of skyscrap- CTS and residences all over Boston proper were killed or maimed sby the frozen raindrops- About o'clock the hail stopped and Boston and towns and cities in the metropolitan district were treated to a terrific lightning thunderstorm which did considerable damage in outlying sections.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
200 EX-C0NVICTS RUN TAXICABS
 IN NEW YORK
They Have Licenses Whiet Gan Aid Them In Commit ting Crime, The Police
 Say

New York, Feb 22.-There are probably 200 licensed chaufeurs, ev- cry one of whom has a criminal rec ord, operating taxicabs and other types of motor vehicles in the City Of New York today. This is the sub stance of a statement made at Police Headquarters yesterday by one of the highest ranking officers in the de partment, who said that 200 was 9 very conservative estimate.
 In an investigation of the murder of AdoIph Stern, the clerk who wa, shot by thieves who had robbed ths Jacob1 JeWelry store at Thirteenth street and sixth avenue, the polic.- found no less than twenty Hcensefi chauHeurs who had been in Stat, prison.
 That the taxicab, as a means of getaway has made the detection East River National Bank messeng- CTS in which the thieves got away with $25,000 in cash, and the Stern murder case, more difficult than ever before is the opinion of every man in the Police Department, as well as Of the heads of the various private de tective agencies EThe last report of William J. Burns to the American Bankers Association. referring to the automobile as means of escape, says that it has rendered the detection of crime so difficult as to furnish sub ject worthy of the most careful con sideration.
 Within the last three weeks the DO lice of New York have been called upon to run down the men responsi- ble for three of the most daring hold ups in the history of this city. The first was the case in which several highwaymen held up Beckerman, the paymaster, and after robbing him of nearly $1,000 in cash escaped in an automobile of the touring car type. The second was the East River Ma tional Bank case. in which the booty was $25, 900, and the third the hold ing up of George W. HoFth, the John street jeweler,. who was beaten and then robbed of diamonds worth S1o.- 000, after which the highwayman- according to MT. North, jumped into taxicab and speeded away.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
TAFT AGAINST GOVERNMENT
 OWNERSHIP OF TELEGRAPHS
Sends Message Of 5O,OOO Words To COngress--AdvoCates Doubling Rates
 On Periodicals

ministration, stating he heartily con- CUTS with the recommendation of Hitchock and the postal commission to boost the newspaper and magazine mail rates.
 The commission, which held many public hearings and dug deep in pos tai records, says it costs about , 1-2 cents a pound to carry newspapers and magazines. It says this mail em- braces two-thirds of all mail matter, but furnishes only five percent of pos tai revenues.
 Taft and the commission declare against discriminatin between news papers and agazines in raising rates and also against charging extra for bulky ads in magazines. The flat rate of two cents a pound. to be made with plenty of notice in advance, is unani- mously agreed upon as a solution, with the balance of cost Of carrying as a subsidy in the interest of pub lie education
 zines by freight instead of mail, to decrease costs, is recommended. Con tinuance of free country circula ton for small country newspapers also is recommended.
 The commission expresses the belief that the railroads are charging the government exorbitant rates for car rying the mails and urges a Federal investigation.
 CThe text of the Presidents message will be found on page two of today's issue0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
Especial from United Press.)


 Washington, Feb. 2Z-President Taft is "agin" government ownership of telegraphs, the pet project of Postmas- ter General Hitchcock. Today, the President aired his views the mat ter in a special message to Congress, submitting the report of the postal commission approving it's recommen- dation that rates on newspapers and magazines be doubled, from one to two cents a pound.
 Doubling of the second class mail rate against publishers means from S7, ,OO0, GOO to $1O,00O,OOO annually. But the increased rates would still be about. only one-third of the cost of handling. The message, with the com missions report. is a hefty little pack age of about 5O,OOO words-one of the bulkiest message jobs Taft has done. In lambasting government owner ship, Taft says:
 T cannot agree with the recommen- dation (Hitchcock's), that the tele- graph lines be made a part of the post office system. I believe the true principle is that private ownerchip should carry on such public utilities under due regulation of rates rather than that the government itself should conduct them. I do not think it in accordance with the best public policy thus greatly to increase the body of public servants"
 Taft takes out the sting however, by fulsome praise of Hitchcock's ad-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
WHITE THREATENS TO TELL COURT INSIDE
 TAX SCANDAL STORY
If Union Typewriter Company Sues Veteran Member of Board of Relief Will Testify According to What
 He Knows Took Place

original signed report, and the Union Typewriter Co. was left in the lurch-
 T. F. White, the veteran of the board of relief has served notice up on Mayor Wilson that if the figures of the board of relief are brought in to court, he will disclose the entire circumstances surrounding the un- usual procedure of the making over of the report of the board as at first made out.
 He signed the report under protest, it is understood, and warned Mayor Wilson that if any question was made of the work of the board, he would not shield the mayor of his legal friends who prevailed upon him to have the supplementary lowances made to certain factories and to have the less favored factories cut off without help.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
Will Swear SChiff Lawyer Promised Mild Sentence
 On Admitting Guilt
WITNESS AT PROBE
 OF CONSPIRACY CHARGE
GeTaTd'S Decision Setting Aside 3O Years Sentence Not
 Filed Till Tomorrow
Especial from United Press.) )

New York, Feb 22-When Justice Gerard's decision setting aside the sentence of 30 years imprisonment imposed on Foulke E. Brandt the former Schiff valet, is filed, tomor- row, thus making it effective, his at torneys, Robert M. Moore and Mira beau L. Towne, will move for his dis charge in their custody to await the decision of the appeal to be taken from the decision sustaining the writ of habeas corpus.
 It was stated, today. that District Attorney Whitman will not oppose this action and, also, if Justice Ger will move to set aside the indictments remaining against Brandt, on the ground that he has been sufficiently punished.
 The Gerard decision was withheld until after the end of the court day, yesterday, for the benefit of Cover nor Dix. Today being a legal holi- day, it cannot be filed, and thus be- come effective until tomorrow.
 Meanwhile, the strongest pressure is being brought to bear on Governor with a pardon. This is because some of those interested in the Brandt case fear the Gerard decision may be up set and want the governor to act. As soon as the decision is entered, Dix's power to pardon ends because then Brandt is presumably an innocent IT an, simply resting under tnd1ctmen and awaiting trial.
 Governor Dix conferred with his special commissioner, Former Judge Richard L. Hand. today, regarding the latter's investigation and discussed with him the latest demand made on behalf of Schiff, Mrs. Schiff and their attorney, Howard S. Cans. that they be permitted to tell their story under oath.
 District Attorney Whitman has pre- pared injunction papers and will file them at once if Dix decides to let either Cans or Schiff talk. He told Hand plainly, on Tuesday, that he eX- pected indictments against both men for conspiracy and that, if they are allowed to testify publicly it will be because it is intended to make them immune from prosecution.
 The grand jury investigation of the conspiracy charge will be resumed, to- morrow, when Brandt will be a wit ness. He will tell the complete story of the negotiations which ended in his pleading guilty to first degree burglary. He will swear positively that Cans called on him in his cell and told him that if he admitted his guilt he would get a mild sentence of about a year and that, when he was he wound be given money and a ticket back to his home in Sweden. Brandt will probably be the last witness called by the grand jury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22

That the Union Typewriter Go. plans to take to the courts the re- fuSal of the board of relief to stick to its original figures in granting the plant a reduction of $32, ,722, became generally known today.
 The company was assessed at $382,- 694 on the list of 1911- This was jump of SS8,314 over the assessment of last year. The company appealed from the assessment, and the board of relief in it's original report, as pre- scented to Mayor Wilson, recommend ed d deduction of $32,722.
 Later, when the second report of the board of relief was made out, several other big manufactories were granted still greater relief than in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO.'S
 MEN INDICTED
Concern Regarded AS Trust, Having a Monopoly on
 This Business
ENTERED INTO CONSPIRACY
 TO RESTRAIN COMPETITION
Indictments for President Patterson and 29 Other
 Officials
Especial from United Press.)


 Cincinnati, Feb. 22-President John H. Patterson, of the National Cash Register Co.,, at Dayton, O., and other officials of the company, were indict- ed here. today, by the Federal Grand Jury
 It is alleged that the cash register concern is trust, having a monopoly on the register business.
 It is charged that the defendants entered into conspiracy in 1902 to restrain competition. The charges are practically the same as those brought in a civil suit against the cash reg ister company in Cincinnati, Dec. I, through Attorney General Wicker sham. That suit asked United states District Judge HolIister to restrain the corporation from continuing a A fine Of s5.OoO and a prison sen- vided under the indictments.
 Twenty-nine other officials, em- ployes and former employees of the cash register company, were indicted with Patterson.
 The government charges against some of the defendants, District At torney McPherson says, include the bribery of employees of competitors and transportation, telegraph and teIe- phone companies. These alleged of lenses, he says. have been going on for twenty years but the government 3 indictments, consisting of three counts, are based on operations in the past three years.
 The company it is further charged by McPherson, cut prices and formed mythical companies to take out their registers. Suits were threatened and begun to harass other companies he alleges, and further he says em- plOyes of rival corpora tions were hir- ed to inJure those firms while efforts were made to ruin their credit
 It is charged the. National Cash Reg ister Co. by it's Elethods, has either driven out or bought all but five oth- cs"t register companies
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-22
DELEGATEs DEIAYFD.

Oklahoma City, Feb 22.-BecauSe Of the severe storm which swept Okla homa, yesterday. many delegates to the Democratic State Convention, scheduled for today, were very late in arriving.
 Trains carrying delegates from a half dozen counties were stalled in vention will not be called to order un- til late this afternoon. It may pos sibly have to be postponed until to- morrow.
 The lines between the Clark and Wilson factions were tightly drawn today. Both sides were still claiming a majority of the delegates.