Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-01-24


Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has selected
as her personal secretary Miss Helen
Bones. Of Cleveland.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr.. set aside
$4,000. 900 to found chain Of rescue
homes for white slaves.
In 1912 just l,O66,S45 passengers
landed at the port of New York from
europe.
The mercury dropped to 372 de
grees below zero at Moorhead, Mimi,
the cold being so intense that the
clock in the weather bureau stopped
The Republican majority in the
Massa 'husetts Legislature selected
John w. Weeks as their candidate for
united States Senator.
In the first fifteen days o; the par.
cells post service in Chicago, 1,417.773
Packages we're handled at a cost of
$500.
Governor Sulzer of New York sign.
ed the Fitzgerald bill making it a pris-
on offense for a person to drive an
auto while intoxicated.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel decided that Edward F. Myths,
who libelled King George of England,
must be deported.
Captain Hugh Rodman was ap-
pointed by the Navy Dnnartment to
organize ilotilla of tugs at both ends
of the Panama Canal
Payment of pensioners by monty
checks is provided in bill introduced
in the House by Representative Bates
of Pennsylvania.
A serious break in the Ohio River
leyee at Lawrenceburg, Ind, flooded a
large part of the lower end of the
town. The inhabitants were called
out by bells and factory whistles.
1t was brought out before the Clapp
committee that John D. Archbold
knew, three years before the first
batch was made public, that Hearst
had the stolen lo+-~~"
A request for $4,000 for secret serv-
ice operatives, to protect President
elect Wilson, was made upon Congress
by Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh.
Twelve students of the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College believed to
be infected with scarlet fever have
been isolated and fifty more have left
for their homes, fearing a quarantine.
Charles H. Hyde, ex-City Chamber
lain of New York, protege and former
law partner of Mayor Gaynor, who
was convicted and sentenced Off brib-
cry was disbarred by the Appellate
Division.
DR.. 7. S, c. Lowe, who gained fame
during the civil war by making a bal
loon ascension to take observations
for the army of the Potomac, died in
Pasadena, Cal. He also invented the
first machine for making artificial
ice.
billie Burke" 2.03, the famous
trottirg horse. will be shipped on the
Minnetonka next Saturday to ST.
Petersburgh to the stables of the
Russian Ambassador to the United
States. who is said to have paid $50,
600 for the horse.
Izzy Stein, CHIEF, fre-setter for the
New York arson Trust" confessed to
Assistant District-Attorney Weller
that he had hand in causing 800
fires yielded profit to the trust from
lenient insurance companies of $780,
600.
Nathaniel Green, a negro, was con-
victed of assault on white woman in
Washington and sentenced to death.
Green pleaded guilty to escape the
death penalty. But the district attor-
ney refused to accept the plea and
proved his case.
The Governor pardoned Brandt, the
former Schiff valet, in the interest of
justice and on condition that he keep
off the stage and lead an honest life.
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota
agreed to give Brandt new start in
life.