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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Motor Truck Kills Woman.

Quincy, Jan. 2.-Mrs. Agnes Melon
nell, a widow, so years of age, was run
over by a motor truck and fatally in
iured shortly after 6 O'Clock this even
ing. The woman, who lived alone in
Town Hill street, was standing at the
corner of South Central and Newport
avenues, in the Wollaston district,
where she had been working, waiting
to take a car, when a 50-horse power
truck, belonging to Henry L. Kincalde
& Co., approached at a moderate speed.
When the truck was almost opposite
the woman she stepped from the side
walk directly in the path of the ma
chine.
The driver, John Russell, attempted
to avoid striking her, but Mrs. Melon
nell was struck by the mud guard and
thrown under one of the front wheels,
which passed over her body, crushing
her ribs. Russell summoned a police
man and the woman was taken to the
Quincy Hospital, where she died at 8
o'clock.
Russell gave himself up Immediately
and was released on his own recogniz-
ance. After the woman's death he was
arrested and released in $4,000 bonds.
He will be arraigned in the District
court tomorrow morning.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
FOR A MAXIMUM AUTO SPEED

The attempt to make the highways
safe for pedestrians under an elastic
speed rate for automobiles has proved a
failure. SO much is admitted by the
Highway Commission in its report to
the governor. The theory of the pres
ent law that proper and reasonable
speed may be four miles in some places
and forty in others, has proved more
than once to lead to disaster. The
commission says that accidents are in
creasing in the State in much greater
ratio than automobiles. 1t urges an
absolute twenty-fve-mile maximum
speed limit fixed by law as a great
safeguard not only to the public, but to
the motorists as well. 1t declares no
sane driver would care to go much
faster.
The commission properly puts the
burden of proving otherwise on the
racers. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
ARKANSAS FROZEN SOLID.
PARCEL BUSINESS CONTINUES
TO JUMP.

Parcel post business in Boston is
steadily increasing. The volume of busl-
ness done yesterday exceeded that done
Thursday, as did hat of Thursday ex-
coed that of the first day. There were
Is, 026 packages handled the first day.
Nearly 20, 900 packages were handled
yesterday. The plans of Postmaster
Mansfield were adequate for the first
days rush of business, but he expects
to enlarge the force and equipment
shortly in order to take care of the in
crease.
The first large consignment of pack
ages from points outside of New Eng
land for Boston was received yesterday.
The packages average about eight
pounds. Their size approaches closely
on the average the maximum permitted.
All kinds of packages have been re-
ceived. An ven larger assortment of
articles has been mailed for shipment.
Large delivery wagons and automo-
mobile vans were kept in a rush yester-
day making deliveries from the railroad
stations to the central p%ostoffice and
to the large distributing stations. The
street railway cars used to transport
mail handled a good percentage of the
business and delivered to the suburban
stations large numbers of packages.
The hardest position in the service
has turned out to be that of receiving
clerk. This man has to take a hun
dred different kinds of packages and
without an instant's delay weigh them,
measure them, examine and pass on
them. He also has to sell stamps, tell
people how to use the parcels post, fix
the insurance and do enough more
different things to put his head in a
whirl.
The next hardest task and one re-
curing a great deal of figuring is that
of the manager, in this case Postmaster
Mansfield, who has to be ready tC
handle a large volume of business with,
out any adequate information on which
to judge its size and to get it u of the
way for the next days business. -Bos,
ton Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Boy slides to Death by Auto.

Marriott Hacker, 10 years old, son of
Henry M. Hacker of 239 Lynfeld street,
Lynn, was killed by an automobile while
sliding down, a hill from his yard to
the street yesterday. The boy slid
across the sidewalk into the street d.
rectly in the path of a touring car
owned and driven by Philip NJ. Blood of
10 Portland street, Lynn.
Blood was driving at a moderate rate
of speed. After he ran over the boy
the car stopped within 10 feet. Blood
took the boy in the machine to the
Lynn Hospital, where he was pro-
nounced dead. The autoist then went
to police headquarters and after a con-
versation with Deputy Chief Bartlett
was held in $1,000 bail on a charge of
manslaughter. Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
STATE NEWS.

According to the biennial report of the
State board of health, just issued, ten
persons over 100 years old have died in
the State in the last ten years. They are
Hannah Hadoway, Rupert, 101; Charles
Prentiss, Thetford, 100; Joseph Deberne,
Greensboro, 100; j. B. Wood. Weston,
no; j. P. Brown, Ludlow, 100; Mary
Conway, st. Johnsbury, 105; Betsy Fos-
ter. Sutton. 100; Ruth A. Smith. Putneyy
106; Mary Tillotson, Orange, 1902; Char
lotte johnson, Colchester, I01.
John Logan, tried unnecessarily early
Sunday morning to save his mother in
law. Mrs. Martha Calvin of Rutland,
bedridden with a fractured leg and
physically robust, from burnig TO death.
Following the explosion Of a lamp at
2:90 O'Clock, Mrs. Calvin, nearly 80 years,
was enveloped in flames. The son.in-
law, sleeping downstairs, heard a
piercing cry. of fright. He hurried to the
room Of Mrs. Calvin. The broken lamp
had saturated the bed clothing with oil
and the WI nan was visible only through
many curling tongues of fire. Log n,
risking his own life, attempted to lift
the woman from the bed. In fright she
clasped the sides Of the bed and Logan
was unable to move her. Nearly
smothered and with hands and face
burned Logan assisted the only other
occupant of the house, his small son,
from the burning building. a few
minutes later the frame structure fell in
a shower of sparks, and the body of the
aged woman was buried in its ruins.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

Chicago, Jan. 3.-Four automobile
bandits in a spectacular robbery smashed
in a jewelers. window here today and
escaped with a tray of diamonds after a
running revolver fight with police.
The thieves stole a car from in front
of a downtown business building late in
afternoon, halted in front of a Clark
street jewelry store, beat in the show
windows with bricks, seized a tray of
rings and leaped into their stolen auto
mobile. Policeman Charles Hanson ran
up, but at that moment a handsomely
dressed woman shrieked and threw her
self into his arms. Hanson could not
draw his pistol and the men in the auto
mobile sped away as two other police
men opened fire OIL them. The woman
who had appeared to faint, recovered as
soon as the men escaped.
The bandits car was stopped later by
Policeman Charles Sticken in a traffic
jam a few blocks from the scene of
the robbery. Sticken arrested the
chauffeur for speeding and standing on
the running board told him to take the
party to a police station. The chauf-
feur pretended to obey but later turned
into a side street. Sticken protested
and received a stab wound over the
left eye, a blow on the back of the
head and a shot in the leg and was
hurled from the car.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
ARSON AS A BUSINESS.

To discover what share of RESPONSE
bility rest upcn the fire insurance COM
panies for the burning of property in
New York city as a business done at a
large profit, the fire department,
through agents, took out policies for
various sums on property of no value.
On articles worth IL cents they were
able to get $4,000 of insurance. On two
chairs, "a c%uspidor and a gas heater
worth in all So. Al insurance companies
issued $50, 500 of insurance. In the
form of 1876 different policies on prop
erty worth, all told, 1896, the fire
department was able to obtain no less
than 1923, 800 of insurance.
Estimates as to the proportion of
arson causes of New York fires run as
high as 40 per cent. The New York
fire department thinks a very conserva-
tive percentage is rs per cent. The
purpose of this incendiarism-deliber
ately burning up New York, as the fire
commissioner expresses it, at the rate
VI riNt 'N' a Aag - " Sth hASAANJ'
This money is obtained from insurance
companies that have issued policies on
property of less value than the face of
the policy or, in numerous cases of no
value at all. AS Fire Commissioner
Johnson says;
The fact that stands out is this: Up
ward of 1875 p~olicies were issued by fire
insurance companies doing business in
this city to applicants whom they did
not know on property which they took
no trouble to inspect.
The great ease with which policies are
obtained bears directly upon the ques-
ton of arson. The insurance companies
themselves, because of their failure to
make proper inspection and because of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Little Boy L caps Over a Mad
Bull,

Cincinnati, Dec. &c. Gerald Hop
kins, nine, this afternoon performed a
feat that would make the toreadors of
old Spain and Mexico jealous.
A wild bull which had broken loose
from it's stall in a stable in the neigh
borhood caused a reign of terror in
Mount Auburn, Avondale and Walnut
Hills, the fashionable suburbs of Gin
c%innati.
The Hopkins lad got directly in the
path of the maddened animal. People
held their breath and watched the
frightened youth. Taking a quick step
the lad jumped clear over the head
of the bull and played leap frog
slipping over the animals back and
running into a house before the bull
could turn around.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
TO SAVE THE CHILDREN.

The children's bureau is but one leaf
from the Progressive book. 1t is of
highest importance, since if conserva-
ton of humans is to reach any effective
ness it must begin with the children.
The babies saved have vastly more be-
fore them. And the young women who
are sent abroad in the land this week to
begin the campaign for the babies are
the same kind of menace to the consti-
tuition as other Progressive instrument
t~alities.
These young women will do work for
the children's bureau, which begins with
1913, and the bureau proposes to base
it's work of saving babies on a knowl-
edge of what it is that kills the little
ones. According to the statistician of
the bureau, DR.. c. l.. Wilbur, 300, 900
children under one year of age die in
the United States every year, or one
out of every eight. This is against a
percentage of 68 in New leland.
The investigation will help the nation
to answer the great question-"Why?"
which is imbedded in these facts.
The bureau proposes to get the in
formation through a personal investiga-
ton by its field workers. The investi-
cation will include rich and poor. The
investigators have 10 way of enforcing
W They expect to appeal to the
mother instincts to help them in this
nationwide crusade. They will gather
information as to the health of the
parents, the housing conditions, the
milk supply, the manner of feeding, the
general care of the baby and the
economic situation of the family.
A tabulation of these returns, with
comparisons between the districts, will
help show the conditions that xii
babies. Boston journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

294. the smallest number in twenty
four years.
But while the pension figures have
reached the lowest mark in two de-
cades, the amount expended for pen
sions this year, owing to the General
Service bill passed last spring, will be
the largest in the history of this
country. Last year the Government
paid out about S155, 900, 600; for this
year the appropriation is $164, 500, 900,
and Secretary Fisher asks 500, 500, 900
more for 1914.
1t is more than forty-seven years
since the close of the civil war. Prob
ably no soldier or sailor who served
ninety days is now less than sixty-two
or is barred by reason of age from
receiving the minimum pension of $l3
a month. In those forty-seven years
the Government has disbursed for pen
sions 81, 286, O22, 719. 65, and of the
800, 294 pensioners on the rolls last
June, nearly 40 per cent. were widows
and dependents, the best possible
answer to politicians who for campaign
purposes pretend that the Government
has treated the veterans in a niggardly
amer New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
PIureins Auto Carried Three
Down.

Toledo, Ohio, Jan. AT least three
unidentified passengers We're in a tour
ing car that early today ran at high
speed through the guard chains on the
dock at the foot of Madison avenue and
plunged through the ice into the Mau-
NEE river and were drowned. 1t is be-
lieved the automobile and occupants
came from Michigan. Divers have been
employed to recover the car and the
bodies. A night Waterman was the
only witness to the accident and he says
he say three persons in the car, but
there may have been more in the We
hicle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Struck by Automobile and Skull
ractured

Lynn, Jan. 6.-Ethel Pritchard, 26.
years old, of AZ Blossom street, is at
the Lynn Hospital suffering from a bad
fracture of the skull as the result of
being struck by the automobile of
Angus Beckman, a wealthy Lynn shoe
manufacturer, while crossing Sea street
about $50 tonight.
The young woman was taken to the
hospital in the car that struck her,
after which Beckman was taken into
custody by the Lynn police and later
released on $1,000 bail.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Automobile Killings are on the
Increase

New York, Jan. 3.-According to the
report of the naval Highways Protec-
tive society made public today, automo-
biles were responsible for 22l deaths in
Greater New York during the past
year, as against l42 deaths in 1911.
The report also shows that 532 persons,
go of whom were children were killed
in street accidents in the city in 1912.
OF the children killed, 103 were run
over by automobiles; 3S We're struck by
street cars and 50 We're run oven by
wagons. The report shows that the
great majority of automobile accidents
We're due to reckless driving.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
A DANGEROUS MEASURE.

Housesbill No. 1872, introduced by Mr..
Howley of Burlington, and providing for
in%nkeepers' licences to sell liquor in
where the sentiment is against
the saloon, is a dangerous measure and
ought not to pass. 1t is a direct slap at
the temperance element in the State
which, as the record shows, is strong
enough to shut the saloon entirely from
all save about twenty-eight towns. Mr..
Howley's bill involves a peril which
should not, and which we believe will
not, be thrust upon the more than two
hundred towns which vote mo" every
spring. Its enactment into law should
be a clear case of playing with fire, and
many a somebody would get burned, to
say nothing of the o%utraging of a pub
lie sentiment in favor of sobriety-a
sentiment which cannot be gainsaid and
which, we opine, would be emphatically
in evidence in case a reference was
v~ouchsafed by tie saloons at Mont
pelier.
The state owes it to the towns which
vote mo" to let them have their own
way and not interfere with their efforts
at sobriety by granting an inkeepers'
license-the local results of which could
be easily figured out by the poorest
mathematician. : Ludlow Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

For the sake of their own credit own
ers of automobiles who appreciate the
consideration that is due to others, and
there can be no doubt that such owners
form the majority, should join with the
general public in demanding that the
reckless minority be made to pay a Sc
we're penalty, not only after life has
been sacrificed but when they are found
driving in such a way as to put life in
peril. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

The new parcels post has brought
with it a revision of the postage rules
in regard to sending packages by mail.
AS a result, all over the country
thousands of packages ere being held
because the new postal rules are not
complied with. Packages, with few
exceptions, require parcels post stamps
and will not &c with other stamps. All
packages must also be marked with the
sender's name and address.
The safest way until the new pro-
visions are learned is to take a package
directly to the Office and make sure you
are sending it right. Bennington Ban
ner.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
STORM SWEEPS THE COAST.
The Hurricane Causes Great
Havoc Over Wide Section of
Atlantic.

New YORK, al 3.-Ihe flrst severe
storm of the new year and the most de-
structive one of the season swept along
the Atlantic coast today, carrying
great property loss in its wake. Stimuli
%taneously came reports that storms of
equal violence were occurring in por-
tons of the South and middle West and
along a part of the Pacific coast. Wire
communication in all sections of the
country was crippled. At times during
the day as few as five out of the scores
of wires were working between this city
and Chicago, and all wires south of At
lanta were Frustrated. Damage caused
to shipping on sea, lake and harbor can
only be estimated tonight. While the
storm was heavy and general, only one
death had been reported up to a late
hour, that of a Brooklyn mar blown
from a scaffold.
In this city rain early today was fol-
lowed by a gale that increased in VIC
lence to a maximum velocity of so miles
an hour. When this had abated a slight
snow fall set in. Reports from upstate
and from suburban points in New Jer-
sey and Long Island told of suffering
and damage caused by the blow.
The hurricane-like storm dashed up
high waves from Sandy Hook to the
rivers entering New York harbor, sink
ing tugs and barges and driving other
craft into perilous positions on shore.
Collisions in the harbor were frequent.
Ferry service net interference. From
capsized small craft scores of persons
were rescued. On many vessels exposed
to the worst of the blow, the crews
donned life p%reservers and dashed them
selves fast.
Sandy Hook was attacked by the
hardest storm in years. Immense raves
broke over the government dock, fore
ing the army steamers General Merch
and Ordinance to steam away and lay to
half a mile outside. At one time the
barometer at the life saving station fell
to 28. so, the lowest in six years. SIEVE
raj steamships outward bound anchored
in Sandy Hook bay. To night the wine
still blew heavily but was shifting.
The gale swept the Hudson valley, un.
roofing buildings and a freight car anc
causing a washout along a stretch OF
the New York Central railroads east.
bound track near Garrison, N. Y. Only
one track can be used until tomorrow.
In Brooklyn, William Maher, a painter
was blown from a scaffold and killeC
and three small children were injured by
boards and fire escape ladders blown
from buildings.
An unidentified mar was blown into
Newark Bay from a train crossing {
drawbridge and no trace of him wa,
found by searchers. William Tim
norman, a Brooklyn manufacturer
was blown overheard while fishing
from a pier at Coney Island. He wa!
rescued. A man was lifted by tn,
wind from an elevated station plat
form in Brooklyn and struck on hi
head on the car tracks and was dan
gerously injured. Another citizen wa
blown under a trolley car and lost
leg.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
BILLIONS FOR PENSIONS.

Since June 80, 1902, when there were
999, 446 pensioners, the largest number
on the Government rolls, there has
been a steady decline. At the end of
the last fiscal year, according to Sec
Fishers annual report there were
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH..
Rev. John Evans Bold. rector.

Rev. John Evans Bold, rector.
Sunday s a. m, Holy Communion (2d
4th and 9th Sundays.
Sunday l0:45 IA. m. Morning Prayer
and Sermon with Holy Communion Cst
and 81 Sunday-)
Sunday 1880 p. M. Evening Prayer.
Friday 1870 p. M. Evening Prayer.
Meetings of Woman's Auxiliary ana
Aid Societies first Thursday 3 p. m.
Meetings Of Girls Friendly Society
second and fourth Wednesdays : p. m.
Sunday School after morning service.
Rectory No. 119 Main street.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
CORNWALL.

A little snow would be quite ac-
ceptable justnow, but the heavy thunder
on Friday is said, by the old people, Il
indicate an open winter.
Schools in town commenced on Mon
day last.
Miss Dorothy Battles, who teaches on
Munger a%treet, spent the holidays at
home.
There appears to be much sickness in
town. Mrs. Arthur Parkill is on the
sick list, Walt err Atwood is under the
weather, and Mrs. Frank Parker is
under the doctors care.
George Blood and Darwin Battles
have gone to Windsor, Vt, where they
expect a position in the iron works.
Fred Shorkey returned on Monday to
his work in Pittsfeld, Mass, after spend
ing the holidays at his fathers, Joseph
S%hOrkey's,
j. l.. Douglas lost a work horse this
week.
Schools in town commenced the win
ter term Monday.
Miss Agnes Shorkey, a nurse in Mark
Teton sanitarium, is at her fathers,
Joseph Shorkey's,
Neil Sumner returned Saturday to
Bristol after spending the week at A. w.
Stevens.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Church " otes.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Rev. A. A. Lancaster, Pastor.

Morning worship, 1915. Sermon by the
Rev. H. G. Herring, D, D., of New York
city. DR.. Herring enjoys a nationwide
at 12 O'Clock. Glasses for all. The COM
mittee on nominations will report at the
session of the school. The Young Peo-
pies society meets in the vestry at 6 40
p. m Topic. Become a Christian.
Why Not?" Ref, Math. 4:17-25. Union
service, : 80 p. m. The different church.
es will unite in this service under the
auspices of the missionary societies of
the local churches. DR.. Herring of New
York will make the address. All are
invited,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Woman Sues Auto Owner for
$4,000.

Sarah Bernhardt of Roxbury filed a
suit for $40, 900 for personal injuries
against Thomas H. Richardson in the
superior court yesterday. She alleges
his automobile ran on to the sidewalk
and struck her at Warren and Rock
land streets, Roxbury, Oct 81. Her
attorney is Solomon Lewenberg. -Bos-
ton Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
Motor Car Kills Horse in Crash.

While Wilfred Lambert of Peabody
was driving home from Boston along
the Lynn turnpike in Revere last night,
a heavy automobile express truck
crashed into his outfit. His horse was
killed and the wagon smashed into.
kindling wood.