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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
CAR STRUCK BUILDING.
Slight Damage Done on Granite Street
TODAY.

Shortly after IL O'Clock this forenoon,
trucks of two cars of freight train
Jumped the rails of the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad in clearing the
transfer just below Granite street pitch
ing the body of the first car from its
rear trucks and sending it against a
building occupied by the Brackett, Shaw
& Lunt gasoline engine company, caus-
ing damage to some extent. The side
of the building was stripped of its tin
sheeting and woodwork for a space of
several feet. and the roof of the box
car, leaving its trucks, was slightly
damaged. Traffic over the Wells River
branch was tied up for brief period
until the cars We're replaced on the
irons early this afternoon.
The crew that manned the shifter
making the transfer from the Central
tracks was in charge of Conductor
Brown. The train was moving at only
a moderate rate of speed, and it was
said by the railroad employees that the
cars jumped the irons when they struck
a rail joint, and then frog close by.
When the cars left the rails the tracks
were slightly spread. The first car was
entirely separated from its rear trucks,
while the front trucks of the second car,
jumping the tracks remained
intact with its car body.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
BARRE LIQUOR CASES
IN COUNTY COURT
One Trial On Today and Several Re-
spondents Pleaded Guilty To
Selling

In Washington county court thus
morning the case Of State vs.. Josephine
Locasso OF Barre, charged with Illegal
sale of liquor, was taken up. This is
one of the contested cases growing out
of the recent investigation in this city.
The jury was drawn yesterday after
noon, it being as follows: 4. d. Barton,
East Montpelier; II. j. Bullock, Marsh
field; Harry G. Carr, Middesex; Clar-
ence NJ Chandler, Worcester; Lee Dan
iels, Woodbury.; G. B. J. Edwards.
Northfeld a. H. Graves, Duxbury; G,
Long, Warren; t. y. Nelson. Fayston;
B. 4. Sherman, Duxbury; C. G. Sleeper,
Moretown; d. w. Wilbur, Calais.
The state concluded its case this fore
noon. the witnesses being Charles II.
Chamberlain, John Moran. Deputy Sher-
iT II, j. Slayton and Deputy George l..
Morris, after which the respondent went
on the stand Chamberlain testified
that he had purchased whiskey at the
Locasso house on six occasions.
Several other respondents in Barre liq-
uor cases have pleaded guilty, the names
being Pauline Ceresoli, Teresa CannoDi-
ca, Emma Scampini, Manuel Villa, Mary
John Bossi. Jennie Rzzi,
Mrs. Lastra Labrana, Lazarine Berini.
They pleaded guilty to one otfense, and
sentences will be pronounced later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
CLAIMED MAN AS UNCLE.
In Addition, John o'Sullivan Gave Other
Strange Indications.

A few minutes past midnight this
morning, young man appeared at thf
home of Alderman Michael keef9a
Foster street and went throuG AZ
ries of performances that .>sNN shed
the tenants of the house ~ ~ were
moved to call for assis. ,vw Alderman
keefe was at the eouRil chambers in
city hall and he was notified of affairs
at home by telephone. The fifth ward
member in turn advised police headquar-
ters and Officer John Dineen was sent
to Foster street to take the man in
custody.
John 0'Sullivan, six months over from
the Emerald isle, is said to be the name
of the young man who worried the
Keefe family so early in the morning.
Mr. OSullvan had just returned fronf
Northfield, it was stated this forenoon,
and soon after leaving the station he
steered for MIR. keefe's house. He had
known the family since coming to Amer
lea. Todsy it was stated that O'Sul-
livan had acted queerly ever since his
acquaintances in Barre had known him.
The things which made Alderman
keefe's folks nervous when he was
around were enough to make anybody
worry it was said. Last night he seemed
to be lahoring under the delusion that
every other man he met must be his
uncle Let alone this peculiar hallucina-
tion he also believed himself to be a
which some say indicated in
sanity, since ii is not known that he
ever tapped a sole or sewed patch in
his life. People who have met O'Sul-
Ivan say he is about twenty-one year
old. According to his own statement he
has an aunt in Medford, Mass, and a
sister in Quebec.
Owing to the temporary absence of
Overseer W. +. Shepard from the city
today, disposition of O'Sullivan's case
was turned over to the aldermanic char
ty committee. City Physician DIR. J, w.
Stewart was notified of the mans con-
lition and he was instructed to examine
him as to his sanity. 1t is thought
probable that O'Suliyan will be taken
10 the state hospital in Waterbury for
The man made no resist
ince when Officer Dneen took him to
police headquarters, where he passed the
hight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
POVERTY AND DISEASE
DROVE HIM TO SUICIDE
Louis Stewart, Aged 70, of Burlington
Swallowed Carbolic Acid Last Even
ing-Had Long Been Despondent.

Burlington, April 2.--Despondency, re-
sulting from an incurable disease, caused
Louis Stewart, aged 73, to commit sui
eide last evening by swallowing an ounce
of carbolic acid. He died 80 minutes
later, without regaining consciousness.
Stewart, who was formerly employed
by the city, was in Strengthened circum-
stances and had been suffering for the
past three or four months with cancer
in the mouth. He had twice been op-
Grated on at hospital without any per-
manent relief and the knowledge that he
had only few weeks more to live and
the excruciating pain finally drove him
to take his life.
During the day he had taken a more
and more despondeht air, and last even
ing when his wife and l2-year-old daugh-
ter were in the other room of their tiny
apartments in a block on Mechanics
street. he seized a vial of carbolc acid
and drank il all.
His daughter and wife heard a noise in
the room and. running in, foud him lying
in bed unconscious. DIR. F. F. Murray.
who had been attending Mr. Stewart,
was hurriedly called hut reached there
too late to do E7ach toward saving the
mans life and he died without regaining
Mr.. Stewart was an old resident Of the
CITY and. besides his wife and Young
daughter, leaves another daughter who
lives in ShelhuFne
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
COLE PLACED IN JAIL.
Lyndonville Man Arrested In Connection
With Wife's Death.

st. Johnsbury, april 2.-Willis c. Cole
i a drug clerk in the employ of f. +
| Dwinell OF LyndonYille, was brought
here Yesterday afternoon and lodged il
Caledonia county Jail to await the out
come of the autopsy on the body of his
wife, Charlotte Grove Cole. at Lyndon
Vile late Friday night. Cole was ar.
rested at Wentworth, n. H., immediate
lily after Mrs. Coles funeral on Monday
Afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole were married sew
eral years ago and separated. About
two weeks ago Mrs. Cole, who was a
nurse, returned TO Lyndonvile and again
began to live with her husband at the
Pleasant View house. Things were not
harmonious and il was plain that the
couple frequently quarrellci. Thursday
evening it was evident that a quarrel
had occurred. Mrs. Nsgel. wife of the
proprietor, invited Mrs. Cole to 90 to
a moving picture show. Afterwards
Mrs Cole went to bed and did not ap
pear Friday morning, Mr.. Cole saying
that she was too i'll to be up.
She did not get up during the day.
Shortly after noon telephone call came
for her and the hotel clerk, Mr.. Mears
went up to summon her TO the phone.
But she was too i'll to come down. About
2:30 another call came and Mrs. Cole
told Mr. Mears a second time that she
could not possibly get up. As he turned
to leave the room she exclaimed, 'My
God. what shall 30. VIII says | must
leave this house before 6 o'clock or he
will leave" That was the last time
she was seen alive, her husband find
ing her dead at o'clock.
Health Officer J. w. Copeland believes
that she met death by strychnine pois
onng, 1t is said that she had threat
ened to take her life on other occasions
owing to the unpleasantness between
herself and husband.
DR.. B, Fl. Stone and DR.. Whitney Of
left last night for Went
worth and in connection with New
Hampshire authorities will exhume the
body and perform an autopsy. 1t is
expected that Coles hearing will be held
Wednesday, April Q.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
OHIO RIVER SUBSIDING
AT CINCINNATI
After Remaining Stationary for "a
Hours, the River Began to Lower
This Morning.

Cincinnati, April 2.-After remaining
Istationary for twenty-four hours, the
Ohio river began falling here to-day, and
the indications are that it will continue
TO fall slowly and that the end OF the flood
is in sight.
Columbus. Ohio, April All that
human effort could accomplish yesterday
failed to penetrate the part OF the debris
piled in the west side where it is believed
many Of the bodies of persons missing
since the flood of March % finally will
be recovered. As matters stood last night,
however, eight more bodies had passed
through the morgues, running the total
OF dead in that section up to III. In ad-
dition to this number was the Body of
James NJ. kearnel, a merchant, who was
drowned several months ago and which.
cast up by the flood was found lodged in
tree when the waters had receded.
The property damage in Columbus,
like the death toll, is confined principally
to the west side, the business and manu-
featuring districts having gone almost
unscathed.
When the state relief committee APP
pointed by Governor Cox meets here to-
day, he will present for its consideration
a plan which he has devised by which
the general committee can get better
knowledge of existing conditions Gov
ernor Cox proposes to visit the larger
cities of the state which have suffered the
greatest loss from floods. These include
Columbus, Dayton. Hamilton GAINESVILLE,
and other places.
At all places visited the local relief
will be consulted and it is
believed that proper apportionment can
be made after each place has been in
vestigated.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
Modern Greece Never Saw
Such Imposing Ger
enony
AS THAT MARKING
GEORGES FUNERAL
King Constantine and Other
Members of the Royal
House Participated

Athens, April 2..-Such an imposing
ceremony as today marked the burial
of King George OF Greece was never be-
fore witnessed in modern Athens. Roy
al princes and princesses of Greece and
missions representing the courts OF EG-
rope and states of the western hemi
sphere joined with deputations from Eu-
ropean Turkey, the Islands of the
Egean sea and Asia Minor. each in
distinctive dress, in procession OF
great length Soldiers and the clergy
rivalled each other in numbers, all the
branches of the army and of the church
being represented.
Heading the procession was the coffin,
borne on g,p carriage, followed by
King Constantine and other members OF
the royal family. A prominent lea
ture was the holy standard of the
Greeks, which never before had left It's
resting place in the church, which was
specially erected for il.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
DAYTON NEEDS AID.
May Call on the Government for Tenn.
porary Loan.

! Dayton, Ohio, April 2.-"Dayton is
! facing one of the gravest problems that
any city of the world ever faced, and
we want the world to know we need
money and food for our stricken peo-
ple," said John H. Patterson, president
of the relief ommittee, last night after
he returned from tour OF sections of
Dayton that were swept by the flood
last week.
In speaking of tentative plan to ask
the federal government for loan of
from S20,000,000 to S40,000,000. to be
used in reconstruction work, MIR. Pat
terson said:
AT meeting of bankers and Off
cials of the building associations this
evening, it was decided to make an ap-
peal for federal aid. The banks and
building associations have 100000 900
worth of assets which they will put up
as collateral. 1t may be deemed adj.
visable to ask the government to give
us some financial assistance We feel
that the disaster is an emergency which
would justify extraordinary action on
the part of Congress-
1t was estimated that the property
lost in Montgomery county would reach
at least SI50,0OO,000.
Although several carloads of provi-
sions were received yesterday, officials
in charge of relief work stated that the
food situation was a matter of grave
concern.
I'VE must have rations for more than
100000 people for an indefinite period,
Mr.. Patterson declared.
FouE bodies were taken from the de-
bris by workmen, bringing the total
number of bodies recovered up to l29.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
Montenegrins Said to Be
Encompassing Scu-
tari
2 OTHER STRONGHOLDS
ARE NOW TOTTERING
Turkish Reverses Continue
Before the Invading
Armies
- ~~~~

Vienna, Austria, April 2.-The Monte
negrin army besieging the fortress OF
Scutari has captured five forts defend
ing Tarabosch and the fall of two 9th
ers is hourly expected, according to a
despatch from Cettinji to local news
paper. The correspondent says that
Scutari is burning in several places.
Cettnje, April Montenegro has an
swered the latest demand of the powers
regarding the withdrawal Of civilians
from Scutari by stating that army head :
quarters have refused for military 1ea-
sons to permit the transmission to the
commandant of the beleagured town of
cipher despatch from his government
The Montenegrin government, however,
has offered to submit to headquarters
request for the transmission OF a
message in plain language.
In reply to the powers previous note,
Montenegro expresses regret that it is
unable to defer their wishes to cease
hostilities at Scutari and in the terri
tories allotted by the powers to Al
bania.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
SALEM, MASS,
THEATRE BURNS
Also Other Property--Loss in Last
Nights Fire Was SIa5,ooo-The
Audience Had Just Left
Theatre Building.

Salem. Mass, April "a loss of SIPS,
600 was caused on Theatre row, Essex
street, by fire last night that threat
ened the whole district Games Witch
theatre, owned by Stanton brothers, and
j. L. Lougee company, furniture deal.
ers. were the heaviest losers. Help was
called from Peabody, Marblehead Bev-
erly and Lynn.
After the flames seemed well under
control, they broke out with renewed
fury, completing the destruction of the
Packard building, owned by the Lougee
company They carried heavy stock
i of house furnishings, the loss on which
is estimated at between $4,000 and
$4,000. The building, which was also
wrecked, was valued at $4,000.
The flames started in the Office of the
Witch theatre from some unknown
cause. The place had been closed for
two hours. Several persons in the EN-
pire theatre near by left upon hearing
the apparatus outside, but there was no
disorder. The loss to Stanton brothers,
owners of the Witch theatre structure,
is placed at $4,000.
w. N. Buck, millinery, Edward Be
neault barber, the Boston coffee house,
G. S. Bingham, proprietor, and George
w. Fuller, crockery, sustained smaller
losses, chiefly through smoke and water.
A high wind threatened the surround
ing property, consisting largely of
wooden blocks, for a wide area. With
help quickly called from surrounding
cities, the firemen kept the flames from
spreading further.
When the flames burst out for the Sec
ond time in the Packard block, the fire.
men feared for the safety of the Crom-
bic street church, but the brick walls
and slate roof held back the fire.
One fireman was slightly cut by fall
ing glass.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
GAP IN THE LEvEE.
But Little Apprehension Is Felt at Cairo
ILL.,, Over That.

Cairo, Ill.,, April 2.--Word came short.
ly before six O'Clock last night that a
gap had gone out in the Big -Four levee
IN the drainage district to the north. The
opening is about l5 feet long. The sec
tion has an area of about 1000 acres and
has many big manufacturing, mail order
and lumber distributing plants. The ter
ritory was flooded last year with a loss
Of about 100000. The loss this year
will be $l,000,000 it is said, and the
greatest portion OF this will fall on the
industrial plants.
Cairo feels no alarm from this par
ticular break but what the day may
bring is another story The Ohio is ris-
ing slowly and the levee protecting the
city is endangered,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
CLEANING UP SOCIAL cEsspooL.
Judge Waterman in Chittenden County
Court Helps by Sentences.

Burlington, April Judge f. H. Wat.
erman in county court yesterday sent
enced Mary Rose Collette to serve not
less than two nor more than three years
at hard labor in Windsor. The woman
had pleaded guilty to charge of adul-
terv having been arrested at Essex juno.
tion, where she was living with Sergeant
Gus Lindsey, a coored soldier OF Fort
Ethan Allen.
The Collette woman entered her plea
OF guilty some weeks ago, and at that
time was placed in the hands of the pro-
baton officer pending sentence. In the
meantime the probation officer inyesti-
gated her case and made his report yes.
terday to the court. States Attorney T.
f. Hopkins recommended that the wom-
an be placed on probation because OF her
aged parents. hut in view of the report
by the probation officer and other
features of the case the court was in
clined not TO extend leniency.
In pronouncing sentence Judge Water
mag said that it became the duty of the
court TO ~id the government officials and
local authorities in cleaning up the con-
ditions that exist in the vicinity of Fort
Ethan Allen. Ehe case OF the Collette
woman, said the court, was of a partic-
ularly vicious nature, and, as is usual In
such cases, the worst suffeding falls on
persons instead of the parties
directly concerned.
Lindsey, who also pleaded guilty to
an adultery charge some time ago was
given heavy fine, which was paid.
Charles Mason entered plea OF guilty
TO charge OF shooting his revolver at
the Franklin resort while passing on a
street car and was sentenced to serve not
less than nine months nor more than
one year in the county Jail.
Jacob Spencer. charged with illegal
selling at resort noar the post, pleaded
not guilty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
HoNoRED THEIR MEMBER.
Clan Gordon and Condors Attended John
McLennon's Funeral.

A large delegation from Clan Gordon
No. u, o. S. c., marched to l57 North
Seminary street yesterday afternoon to
attend the funeral services of John Me
Lennon, one OF the oldest clansmen in
the city in point of membership, whose
death occurred Monday following a three
months illness. Members of the Amer
lean Order Of Condors. to which the de-
ceased belonged, were also in the dele
CATION from Clan Gordon. Rev. Duncan
Salmond. pastor OF the First Presby
terian church. ofiieiated at the house
and the Clan Gordon committal service
was used at the grave. The bearers
were as follows: Alex. Coutts. William
Emslie. John Anderson, Robert lnglis,
James Elrick and Alexander Angus. Nu-
merous floral tributes came from wide
circle of friends. The mterment took
place in Hope cemetery.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
DIED AT MONTPELIER.
Mrs. Lorette E. Richardson, Aged "a,
and Native of Waitsfeld.

Mrs. Lorette +. Richardson died al
the home of her son, Walter r. Richard.
son, on College street in Montpelier
Tuesday night. after an illness with
cancer OF the throat
She was born in Waitsfield on May %
ls40. the daughter of Benjamin and
Arathusa Joslyn Reed. and she had re-
sided in Waitsfeld all her life till 10
years ago. when she moved to Mont
pelier to live with her son. Besides the
son, she leaves one brother. Leslie Reed
of Los Angeles, Calf.
An early prayer service will be held
at the house in Montpelier Friday
morning at 7;45 O'Clock. and the funeral
will be held at the home Of II. NJ. Bush
nell in Waitsfield Friday afternoon at
o'clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
When Great Warehouse in
Louisville Collapsed
from the Flood
CREST OF THE FLOOD
HAS PASSED THE CITY
Water Is Two Feet Deep in
Some Parts Of Pa
ducah, KY.

Louisville, Ky, April 2.The large
warehouse OF the Rugby Distllery com
pany in the western end of the city
which was weakened by the flood, col
lapsed late last night, releasing to the
river about 5000 barrels of whiskey
which was valued at S250,000.
The threatened collapse of other
weakened buildings was the only source
of anxiety to-day as the crest of the
flood has passed Louisville. Points lower
down the river continued to-day to ex-
perience rising water.
AT Paducah the water was two feet
deep in some sections. while at Wick
life, where 5000 refugees from Hickman,
Cairo and Columbus were gathered for
shelter, the situation is becoming acute.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
MccoMBS MAY ACCEPT
Offer of Appointment as Ambassador
to Paris.

Washington, ID. C., April 2.-William
F. McCombs, chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee, is reported on
apparently trustworthy authority to
have advised President Wilson that he
would accept the post of ambassador
to France. Neither confirmation nor de-
nial OF the persistent report was OBJ
tainable at the White House last night.
Friends of Mr.. McCombs. however. were
inclined to believe the statement.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
CUT INTO PROFITS.
Express Companies Are Hard Hit by
Parcel Post.

Washington, D. c., April 2-Express
companies of the country have been hit
hard by the operation OF the new parcel
post system. according to statements
submitted to the interstate commerce
commission yesterday by counsel for the
companies in their final arguments
against the reduction in express rates
proposed by the commission. II was de-
clared that the companies have suffered
loss approximating 25 per cent. in
small package business, a loss which
amounts to about six per cent. OF the
gross revenue of the companies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
DROWNING NOT CAUSE
OF FISK'S DEATH
Revealed by Autopsy, but Body Was So
Badly Decomposed That Cause Could
Not Be Ascertained.

st. Johnsbury. April 2.Dr. B. H.
Stone and DIR, Whitney of Burlington
performed an autopsy on the body OF
Samuel Fisk at McIndoes yesterday and
found that death was not caused by
drowning. Owing to the decomposition
OF the body it was impossible to deter
mine the cause of death. No further atli-
cial investigation viii be made, although
the mystery Of Fisk's disappearance and
death has not been cleared
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
PROPOSE MARKED INCREASE.
In Delaware & Hudson Appraisal In Yer
mont.

The Vermont state board Of appeal
on railroad appraisal resumed its scs-
sion at the State House in Montpelier
this morning and took up the Delaware
& Hudson River railroad. which has two
branches partly in Vermont. those
branches being the Rensselaer, & Sara
toga railroad and the Rutland & White
hall railroad. The Cushman appra sal
on the two roads Was ~ .9G6lgg0. and
the state proposes TO increase the aP-
praisal to 5.327l col.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
LAKE CHAMPLAIN
LASHED BY STORM
Swift Northwest Wind Kicked Up Great
Waves Which Did Damage on
Burlington's Lake Front

Burlington. April "A northwest
wind of velocity of 40 miles an hour
to-day combed the high water badly and
damaged the wharves along the lake
front, small boats, lumber piles, boat
houses. etc. The steamer Tieonderoga
was obliged to remain at Plattsburg
all day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
REFUSED TO RESIGN.
George H. Kendall Accused of Attempted
Extortion.

Albany. y. y. April Accused BY
George II. Kendall. president Of the New
York Bank Note company. OF attempted
cxtortion. senator Stephen J. Stillwell
of New York yesterday refused 70 re-
sign at the suggestion Of Governor sui
zer. and demanded thorough investigs-
tion Of the charges BY the senate. The
senate ordered that the inquiry b. made
at the earliest possible moment.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-02
St. JOhnsbury Academy HOnors.

st. Johnsbury. April 2.-The senior
class honors at st. Johnsbury academy
are a. follows: Miss Merle Chandler
vaiedictorian; Harlan Tolman. saluta-
torian; Noel Noyes and George Hinmau.
commencement speakers.