Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
An snti.tipplng bin was defeated in

An anti-tipping bill was defeated In
the Pennsylvania House.
Lake Superior is still filed with ice
foes which preclude any possibility OF
an early opening for navigation.
President Wilson gave the manu-
script OF the speech which he read to
Congress to Mrs. Wilson.
Another demonstration Of striking
silk workers in Paterson resulted in
the arrest OF Ga men and women.
Oregon farmers are asking for a few
car-lots of wives. One lot of 200 has
started West.
The Union League Club, of Brook.
Ign, republican, has dropped politics
and will be merely a social club.
Lenox, Mass, citizens voted to
abolish kerosene lamps on the city
streets and install electric lihts.
Edward NJ. Porter, 1913, won the De
Forest prize medal competition at
Yale.
Solitary confinement and prison
stripes have been abolished in In.
diana.
Governor Sulzer sent a message to
the Legislature urging a direct nomi
nations law.
Charles D. Nader, of Brooklyn, was
excused from jury duty in a black
hand case when he explained that his
wife was afraid to have him serve.
The Wheeling, w. Va, school board
ordered all mirrors removed from the
high school because the girls spent too
much time before them.
A gray timber wolf escaped from a
crate on railroad station in Boston
and took refuge under building. He
was recaptured.
Joseph Goldberg, of Baltimore, was
given the choice of six months in Jail
or seat on the water wagon. He pre-
TERED to go to Jail.
A boiler containing 1000 gallons Of
ammonia exploded in the Moore Ice
Works, Pensacola, Fla, and four men
we're killed.
Nathaniel II. Baldwin, aged 90, died
in Montclair, N. j.. He cast his first
vote for William Henry Harrison, in
1910.
The New England Telephone Com
oany is being sued for $4,000 by a
firm whose name was left out of the
directory.
President Wilson decided not to in
:erfere with CALIFORNIA; efforts to pass
a law preventing Japanese owning
and in that State.
Paterson will hold a special election
10 determine whether or not the COM
mission form of government shall be
adopted.
The Julian Hotel and several ad-
joining buildings in Dubuque, Iowa,
were destroyed by fire. The total loss
Is 100000
Representative Bartholdt of Mis-
souri, introduced bill in the House,
Washington, providing for re-estabish'
ment of the army canteen.
Elwood S. Brown, physical director
at Manila, declares baseball has done
more to civilize Filipinos than any.
thing else.
Senator Bacon introduced bill pro.
viding for the lease by the Govern
ment of houses for American ambas
sailors and ministers, and the erection
of embassy buildings later.
The Pennsylvania House passed
finally the pension bill appropriating
$1,5O0,000 for payment of State pen
sions to veterans of the Civil War.
President Wilson let it be under
stood that the United States would
not recognize the Huerta Government
until it had solved the problem of
peace.
Mayor Zimmerman of Carbonate,
Colo, hurried to the home of a con-
stituent and minded the baby for her
while she voted He was reelected by
a majority of one.
Lieutenant Richard Morrow, of the
Philadelphia Fire Department, was
denoted to hoseman because he was
unable to check fire in his own
engine house.
The Rev. Marion Caps, of Fort
Smith, Ark, recently convicted OF
burning two of his children to death
in an oil soaked bed, was sentenced
to be hanged on May 30.
A funeral procession of skiffs passed
through the streets of Columbus, KY,
behind the boat bearing the body of
the Rev. G. R. Flowers. The process
sion moved to the home of friend Of
the deceased on hill in the higher
part of the towr, where funeral SER