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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
PiTTsFlELD OPENS SEASON
"Electrics" Won First Home Game
With Big Crowd on the Grounds

Pittsfeld played its first baseball
game at home yesterday before a
crowd that filled every seat in the
grand stand and on the bleachers and
cramped the field to such an extent
that there was hardly room enough
for the players. Pittsheld won the
game by score of to 2. Incident
ally Bit Finnegan, curley haired
Bill from Stockbridge, who has played
the short field for the Bennington
team for three seasons, was the star
Of the game. Ffnnegan, hit for two
bases in the second inning and drove
in the first run scored by the Pitts
field team on its home grounds. In
the eighth, with a runner on third Fin
negan hit safely TO center. He was
also credited with "a sacrifice fly,
which gave him an active participa-
ton in three of the five runs scored
by his team. He accepted his two
chances in the field without an error.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
TO REOPEN GIRLS SCHOOL
Bishop Hopkins Hall at Rock Point
viii Receive Pupils

Burlington, April 24.-Bishop Hop
kins Hall, the girls school at Rock
Point, which has not been in opera
ton for several years, while an en-
dowment of 100000 was being rails
ed, is to be reopened In September
next, under the principalship Of Miss
Ellen Seton Ogden was for 10 years
Mawr. Miss Ogden was for 10 years
on the staff of st. Agnes school at
Albany, N, Y, and is now at Miss
Porter's school at Pennington, CT.
She has secured q staff of experienced
teachers to assist her.
The building has been modernized
and greatly improved. New plumb
ing and electric lighting have been in
stalled. The spacious grounds at Rock
Point. $50 acres, with the bishops res
idence, afford ample opportunities for
outdoor exercise and sports. An ath-
letic field for hockey and basketball
is being prepared.
1t is intended 10 make this a first
class school In every respect, while
the endowment enables the trustees
TO keep the fees within reasonable
limits. The charges for tuition and
board for the college preparatory and
the general courses will be $500.
There are several scholarships of 500
each available for Vermont girls.
There will also be a preparatory de-
partment for younger pupils. of about
II years of age. Information may be
obtained on application to the prin-
cipal or to the bishop, Ri. Rev. A. G.
A. Hail. at Rock Point.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
BRYAN GOES TO CALIFORNIA
Secretary Of State viii Help Draw
Land Bill Within Treaty Bounds

Washinton, April 24,-After an
hours conference at the White House
last night, President Wilson directed
Secretary of State Bryan to proceed
at once 10 Sacramento to cooperate
with Governor johnson and the mem
bers of the California legislature in
framing law regarding the owner
ship OF land by aliens that will not
conflict with the treaty obligations of
the United States, particularly with
Japan.
81 am going in the hope that we
may be able to find the best solution
of the difficulty" said Secretary Bry-
an. 81 feel sure that they in Cali
fornia will enter upon the work with
the same spirit of cooperation as the
President and / do. ! am hopeful, in
deed that We will be able to arrive at
the wisest solution"
Yesterday the President telegraph.
ed Governor Johnson and the presid-
ing officers of the two branches of the
California legislature explaining that
II was difficult to handle the situation
by telegraph and asked If 1t would be
agreeable to have the secretary of
state confer in person with the Cali
fornia authorities. Both houses and
the governor promptly replied that the
proposal was agreeable to them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES
University Of Vermont Students OBJ
ject to Faculty Senate's RULINGS.


ject to Faculty Senate's Rulings.
Burlington, April 23.-At the meet
ing of the faculty senate of the Uni
yersity of Vermont Tuesday evening
all recommendation of the student
council were voted down. The chief
of these were that Junior week. be
held April 81, 2S and 20, and that on
these days seniors and juniors be re-
leased from classes. Both recommen
dations had met with favor by the
faculty committee which met with
the student council, but were prompt
ly voted down by the Senate on the
ground that it had voted last year
to confine Junior week" to the last
three days of what ever week it was
held in. The senate further voted
that no student could attend a dance
out of town without permission from
his dean.
Tuesday night at 10 o'clock mem
bers OF the senior and junior classes
met and decided to call mass meet
ing today. The students met at 10
o'clock In the gymnasium. Boomer,
Jordan. Nelson, st. Johns, Owens and
Farnham spoke. Jordan presented
the student council side of the ques-
ton and Nelson, who had conferred
with Deans Hill and Votey. the SEN
ate's side. The feeling of all the
students seemed to be that late facul.
ty rulings had met with too much
disfavor and dissatisfaction, and that
in the present instance too little rec
ognition had been given the council.
1t was voted that all student ac-
tivities, except classes be stopped at
once until further action by the SEN
ate and that otherwise no student at
tend the Middlebury game Saturday.
The editor of the Cynic, manager of
the Wig and Buskin society. captain
of the track team, manager of smok
ers, etc, resigned on the spot. The
senior honor society. The Boulder,
has already disbanded. The follow.
ing resolution was passed:
I'VE, the students OF u. v. NJ, do
protest against the lack of considera-
ton given the suggestions of the stu
dent committee and We hereby re-
solve that the student committee be
empowered TO voice the protest to
the faculty"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
BRYAN GIVES WHY
OF THAT GRAPE
JUICE DINNER
Secretary and His Wife Have
Never Served Liquor
EXPLAINED TO HIS GUESTS
Announcement Was Applauded and
Everybody Had an Enjoyable
Evening.

Washington, April 25.-Comment
upon the substitution of unfermented
grape juice for the wine usually serv-
ed on such occasions at dinner CIV
en- to diplomats Monday night by Sec
rotary and Mrs. Bryan in honor of EN-
bassador Bryce caused the secretary
to issue statement yesterday, ex-
planning the incident. In it Mr.. Bry-
an made public for the first time the
fact that the question of how the
"teetotaler" customs of his home
would be received in official society
was discussed with President Wilson
before he accepted the portfolio of
state.
The statement follows: I'VE did
not intend to mainly, by mentioning
it, the Importance of the nonuse of
wine at the dinner given to Embassa-
dor Bryce Monday night, but as the
papers have made some inaccurate
references to the matter, the facts
might as well be known.
This was the first dinner which
We have given to members of the di-
plomatic corps and therefore the first
time when we came into conflict with
the social custom of serving wine at
dinner. The seven other embassa-
doris then in the city and their ladies'
were invited TO meet ambassador and
Mrs. Bryce, and as all the gentlemen
guests present were from foreign
countries, | thought it proper to ex-
plain to them the reason for our fall
ing to conform to what seems to have
been customary in this matter.
Believing that the issue should be
met frankly in the beginning, told
them, when We sat down to the table,
that Mrs. Bryan and l had been teeto-
talers from our youth, as we're our
parents before us, and had never serv
ed liquor at our table; that when the
president was kind enough to tender
the portfolio of state, | asked him
whether our failure to serve wine
would be any embarrassment to the
administration and that he generously
left the matter to our discretion
Il suggested that thought It unfair
TO assume that those coming to us
from abroad would Judge us harshly
or be unwilling to tolerate the main
tenance OF a traditional custom, and
expressed the hope that sur friend
ship would be made so apparent to
them and our hospitality so cordial
that they would overlook this weak
ness in us, if they regarded it as a
weakness. My remarks were applaud
ed by the company and we never
spent a more enjoyable evening. That
is all there is to the matter, and we
can consider the incident closed and
the custom established SO far as we
are concerned.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
VIII. NICHOLS JUST
MISSED DEATH BY
ELECTROCUT|0N
Badly Burned BY Fall Upon
Switchboard
AT HoOSICK FALLS PLANT
Stepladder Slipped and Threw Him
Upon Highly Charged
Apparatus.

Chief Electrician William H. Mic
hols of the Twin State Gas and Elec-
trio company had narrow escape
from death while at work in the COM
pany's power house at Hoosick Falls
Thursday. He escaped electrocution
by a narrow margin but was severity
burned about the face and hand. one
arm was injured and he received
severe shock.
Mr.. Nichols was at worl. testing
some of the apparatus and at the time
of the accident was standing on a
high step ladder. The step ladder
slipped and he was thrown directly
upon the big switch board. The con-
tact of the mans body with the APP
paratus of the switch board created an
arc of electric flame which scorched
his face and one hand came in con-
tact with the charged portion OF the
board in such a manner as to cause
deep burns.
AS the step ladder slipped Mr.. Mic
hols realized his danger and threw
his body backward from the switch
board as far as possible and to his
presence of mind he undoubtedly
owes his life. The current passing
through the switchboard carries a
voltage of 1900 and only 1900. volts
are used in the electrocution OF MUIR
derers.
AS he fell to the floor he struck
squarely upon one elbow and the
arm is badly injured, how badly can
not be determined at the present
time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
NOT REPRESENTED
New Hampshire Had No One at Rail.
road Conference

Boston, April 24.-Uniform railroad
legislation was discussed with the
Massachusetts legislative committee
on railroads yesterday by representa-
tives of all the New England states,
except New Hampshire, the delegates
constituting the New England confer
ence on transportation, recently ap-
pointed by the governor of the sever
al states.
The meeting which was private was
called by Governor Baldwin of Con
necticut, chairman of the governors
conference. After a session of two
hours. the following statement was is
sued:
"A temporary organization of the
conference was effected through the
selection Of Percival w. Clement of
Vermont as chairman, and Francis L.
Bowles of Massachusetts, as secre-
tary."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
FERRYBoAT GOES OVER DAM
Three Women Drowned When Troy
Pilot Lost His Way In the Foo.

Troy. n. Y, April 24.-Gertie Breen
Nellie Mcguire, and Mary Ahearn,
each aged 80. living on Green Island
and employed in collar factories here,
were drowned at o'clock this morn
ing when the steam ferryboat Am
brose went over the State Dam at In
gals Avenue.
The boat capsized. A fog on the
river confused the pilot. and his
compass was defective. Four men
passengers and the pilot and owner,
William b. Curley. were rescued from
an island in the centre of the Hudson.
l.5O0 feet below the dam.
Three feet of water is running over
the crest of the dam, and the ferry
boat is fast upside down at a point a
few feet below the State structure.
The bodies of the victims have not
been recovered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE
Close Game Between Episcopal and
Congregational Team.

The second game in the Sunday
school league series was played yes
terday at the Playground. The
Episcopal team defeated the Congre-
gational team by the score OF 81. The
game was well played and interest
ing. Full nine innings were played in
one hour and a half.
The batteries for the Episcopal
team were Moses and Lyons; for the
Congregational team Crawford and
Clark.
This afternoon the teams will prac.
tice al the Playground at 400 o.
clock. Tomorrow the MethodIsts
play the Congregational team at $50
and Monday the Episcopal and Bap-
list teams meet for their first game
The regular weekly meeting OF Boy
Scouts viii be held at the Y. NJ c. A.
this evening at 200 O'Clock.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
TORTURED ON THE eALLows
Murderer Struggles Eighteen Min
utes-Rope Too Long.

Uniontown. Penn. April 24.-John
Harris, a negro condemned to death,
was placed on the scaffold in the coun
ty Jail this morning but when the
trap was sprung the rope was three
feet too long. The negro fell to the
ground. With the rope around his
neck he landed on his knees. where
he remained motionless for several
minutes.
Il was thought the drop had brok-
en- his neck until he started to rise.
Then the Sheriff and his deputies
jumped to the Scaffold and pulled
Harris up by the rope until his feet
we're dangling. The condemned man
struggled for eighteen minutes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
NURSE GRAHAM ADVISER
Comfort POWDER
o.. FOR ANY SKIN SORENESS

Ida NJ. Graham. Trained Nurse,
Grand Rapids. Mich. says. 4 never
used any powder liked as well in
every way as Comfort Powder for
healing all skin soreness. I am never
without il and one family where
nursed used 20 buy Il By the half doz-
On boxes at a time. After once using
il in a family they never viii use any
other powder"
Comfort Powder is a skin healing
wonder. Be sure you get the genuine
with signature Of z. S. Cykes on box.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
MISS BORDEN FOUND
Reported Kidnapping Only Auto Ride
With Friends

New York, April 24.-Miss Pomona
Borden is back at the New Jersey
sanitarium, from which she was kid
mapped" late yesterday. According to
the sanitarium authorities she return
ed last night after dining with friends
in Newark. There is no mystery
about it," said a nurse at the hospital
Miss Borden simply took a sudden
notion to take an automobile ride with
friends. That's all"
Counsel for Gail Borden. multi-mil-
lionaire, father of the girl. explained
today that 1t was probably nothing
more than a lark on the part of Miss
Borden which caused her unceremo-
Nous departure from the sanitarium
yesterday. She had not been COM
mitted to the institution, but had gone
there on the advice Of a physician to
recuperate from a near break down.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
RALEIGH NEWS BURNED OUT
Home Of Secretary Daniels Paper De
stroyed with 100000 Loss.

Raleigh. n. C.. April 24.-The plant
OF The News and Observer. owned
by Josephus Daniels. Secretary Of the
Navy, was destroyed by fire this az
ternoon-
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
When the shifts were changing, at s
O'Clock. and the big building was al
most deserted, the blaze started in
the composing room Six linotypes,
the stereOtyping outfit. the presses.
and the records Of the paper were de-
stroyed- The loss Is $1,000 not ful
y insured.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
AN ADVERTISING CARNIVAL
Merchants INVITED to Meet With
Board of Trade Tonight

There will be an important meeting
of the board of directors, entertain
ment and mercantile committee, of
the Bennington Board of Trade this
evening at s o'clock at the Office of
the secretary, L. S. Harris, to see
what action the board of trade will
take in regard to having carnival
and advertising week, sometime in
June, along the same lines that have
been dopted with much success in
other pplaces. A full attendance is re-
quested and the merchants of the
town that are interested are invited
to meet with the board at that time
for conferences.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
PoPE's DOCTORS FIRM
Pontiff Unable to Receive American
Pilurims Now In Rome

Rome, April 24.-Mgr. Kennedy. rec
tor of the American College, gave q
dinner in honor of the Right Rev
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Toledo
Ohio, who is in charge of an Ameri
can pilgrimage to Rome.
Bishop Schrembs has made every Ell
fort to obtain a papal audience fol-
the Americans, but in vain, as the
physicians attending the Pope alb
solutely refuse to relax in any way
the restrictions imposed upon the
Pontiff.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
M'MANIeAL TO GO FREE
Dynamiter to Receive Immunity for
Turning States Evidence.


Mos Angeles. April 24.-Ortie e. Nc
Manigal, the confessed dynamiter
and chief witness against the McNa-
mara brothers. who has been pris-
oner here since April 1911, will be re-
leased within 80 days according to at
taches of the district attorneys Office
McManigal himself said today that he
had no information regarding pros
pective liberty and maintained that
when he turned States evidence
against the Mcnamara dynamite
crew he did so to ease his conscience
and not for any consideration Of i'm
munity.
McManigal, 1t is understood, will
be given his liberty without restric-
ton and he will make his way promp
tly to some place where he will be un
known to start life over again"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
BASEBALL sUNTs

Johnny" Hickey Of Troy. who has
played with every team in the -Four
City league. leads OF for the Water
bury club. He got one nit in the
opening Eastern association game yes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
Standing Of the Clubs

Games today: Brooklyn at Boston,
Philadelphia at New York, Cincinnati
at St Louis, Chicago at Pittsburg.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
POLICEMAN TO SING SING
Thomas r. Robinson Sentenced to
Six to Ten Years for Grating.

New York, April 25.-Former Po-
liceman Thomas F. Robinson was to-
day sentenced to to 10 years in the
state prison at Sing Sing following a
conviction of completely in the graft
ing that has been charged against
the New York police force. A stay
of a week was granted to give Robin
son an opportunity to file an applica-
ton for a new trial.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
THIRrNTpRgE MORE BODIES
Total ReeoVerles at FinIeyvlne Now
Number 50.

Monongahela City. Pa. April %
Thirty-three more bodies were recov
cred up to noon today from the mine
Of the MonOngaheia River Consolidat-
ed Coal and Coke company at Finley
Vile. This makes a total Of 50 bod
les brOuht from the mine since the
disaster.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
Results Of Thursdays Games on Ma
tional and American Diamonds

American League
Boston 6, Washington 3.
st. Louis 3, Chicago /.
Cleveland 5, Detroit 3.
Philadelphia 4, New York l.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for this section for the
Next ~ Hours.
For eastern New York and western
Vermont generally fair tonight and
Saturday. Not quite so warm Satur-
day.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
Standing Of the Clubs

Games today: Boston at Washing
ton, ST. Louis at Chicago, Cleveland
at Detroit. New York at Philadelphia.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
Privilege of Being Responsible Obligations After they
terday and also accepted three chan'
es in left field.

terday and also accepted three chanc-
es in left field.
Word comes from the Eastern asso-
citation to the effect that Patsy Keefe
of Williamstown has been released by
the New London club along with four
other players whose work did not
quite suit the management.
Shack, who twirled for North
Adams team last summer, is going
good with the Newark club of the In
ternational league. In a recent game,
he succeeded another pitcher after
the latter had been pounded hard,
and allowed only two hits for the
last FIVE innings of the contest.
Manager Zeller of the Pittsfeld base
ball team has purchased "Chick"
Evans from the Kansas City club of
the American association and Evans
Joined the Pittsfeld team today. He
was formerly with the Boston Nation
ais and also with the Hartford club
of the Connecticut league. While with
record by pitching no hit, no run, no
man reaching first base and no ball
being hit out of the diamond. Evans
pitched for PittSfield several years
ago under the management of ICY"
Ferry.
The directors of the Brattleboro
Baseball association, which is mem
Der of the Twin-State league, has
closed contract with E. l.. Breckin-
ridge, coach of United States Naval
academy baseball team at Annapolis,
to manage the local team the coming
season. Mr.. Breckenridge coached at
Amherst several years before going to
Annapolis, and is well known as
baseball coach and athletic authority.
Two years ago he managed the pen
nant winning team for Brattleboro in
the Twin State league. He will begin
at once to secure young players for
the team and will come to Brattle-
boro in June to arrange for the sea-
son which commences the last of June
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-25
National League

New York Z. Philadelphia 1.
Cincinnati 10, st. Louis 3.
Boston /, Brooklyn 0 (12 innings)
Arizona republican., 1913-06-26
CHOSEN ID PROSECUTE
 FRISCO CASES
Progressive Named by Will son to Take Up Actions Which His Attorney Gen craI Would Have De lavcd Indefinitely
ASSOCIATED PRESS rfsrArcHI


 NASHI\GToN. June 25.-Prcsidcnt Wilson recommended today to Attor- nev General McReynolds the names of Francis J. HeneE Matt ]. Sullivan. Thomas Hayden and others for ap- pointment Us special prosecutors of the Caminctti- Diggs white slave cases and the Western Fuel company GUS toms cases No final selections We're made The whole subject was de- ferred on account of the congested engagement list of the president. Prac- ticallX every moment of his time from early morning until late at night Was occupied in conferences on currency and departmental matters IL is eN- pected the attorney general and the president will confer early tomorrow. however. and settle finally on two and possibly three men to conduct the prosecution of the cases.
 NJ further comment was forthcOm- ing from the White House or the de- partment of justice on the statement of former United States Attorney John [. McNab. whose resignation was ac- cepted yesterday by the president
 Clayton Herrington, d special agent of the department of justice at San Francisco. who sent President Wilson telegrams on sunday night appealing for the removal from office of Attor- ney General McReynolds. his official superior. because of the circumstan- ces of the resignation of United States Attorney McNab. was suspended with out pay tonight by A. Bruce Bielasld chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice.
 This action. it is said, is to give Harrington an opportunity to explain his telegram. If the explanation is not satisfactory. the officials declare the special agent will probably be sum mariIy dealt with.
 Harrington is a former judge and is in charge of the governments bu- reau of investigation at San Fran cisco He helped District Attorney McNab prepare the Diggs- -Caminetti
 (Continued oil Page Six)
Arizona republican., 1913-06-26
BLEASE SCORNS AID
 FOR NA TTONAL GUARD

gested that upon this being brought to his attention I supposed he would desire to comply with the law and continue to receive federal aid In response l received another sharply Worded communication reiterating his previous position and practically stating that South Carolina did not wish any federal aid and would not do those things necessary to secure it The latest letter received by me from the governor which is self-eX- planatory and seems to close the matter follows:
 June 24. 1913 Honorable Lindley M. Garrison, Sec retary of War, Washington, D. C.
 DEAR SIR-I am in receipt of your letter of June 13, in which you state: After careful consideration of your communication my letter of June ID I am forced to the conclu- sion that you leave the war depart ment no other course to pursue but
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