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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
MURDERED
MANS BODY
IN TRUNK
Pushcart Men Left 1t on the
Curb and Asked Boy
to Watch 1t
NEW YORK'S LATEST
TRUNK MYSTERY
Victims Body Identified as
That Of John Kramenz,
Russian Pole

New York, Dec. 30.-A murder mys-
tery that may rival the barrel murder
of wears ago was brought to the atten-
ton of the police yesterday afternoon,
when a boy notified them that for hall
nm hour he watched trunk which two
men had unloaded from pushcart and
left in Pitt street gutter.
When the trunk was opened at a po-
lice station. there was a warm body IN.
side. which was identified as that OF John
Kramenk, Russian Pole and former
coal miner.
A handkerchief was used as a gag. A
petticoat was wrapped about his head.
The police say the may was drugged TO
death.
Two men at the ahndle of fruit
vendors pushcart toiled up from the
East river little before noon yesterday,
turned into Pitt street, and on the cor
ner of Delaney street, in front OF
barber shop, drew up with their burden
at the curbstone. A word or two was
exchanged between the two men, one OF
whom was tall and rather well dressed
and the other short, stocky and shabby.
The two men exchanged half dozen
words. The taller produced coin from
his pocket and handed it to the other
man, who then helped his employer lift
a new trunk from the cart to the side
walk. The short man made off with his
cart. and the tall man standing by the
trunk on the curbstone stood looking
around him.
"Ah." said the stranger to Morris Fem
stein, the 166- year-old boy who was in
charge of the candy stand in front OF
AZ Pitt street, will you keep your eye
on this trunk few mnutes2'
Morris consented. The tall man went
away. Half an hour passed and no one
returned for the trunk. An hour later
a crowd had begun to gather, looking
curiously at the bright tin of the trunk,
securely corded with clothes line. When
Patrolmen Kenney and Stroihan OF the
Union Market police station came up, a
knife was produced to cut the cord, and
an axe was brought, to knock off the
cover of the trunk.
This done, and the police were occu-
pied with trunk mystery with clues
slighter than in any previous case, but
the trail of crime much warmer. The
body of murdered man was found in
side the trunk, doubled up, his legs and
neck bound with clothes line similar to
that on the outside of the trunk. His
face was covered with blue bandanna
handkerchief, which offers one of the few
slight clues in the case.
Within an hour and a half after the
two men came with the pushcart from
the direction of the East river, every re-
serve patrolman of the Clinton street
station was out looking for trunks ex.
posed for sale similar to the murder
trunk and for pushcart of the sort
Morris Feinstein was able to describe
The police made a photograph of tn,
dead man in the trunk. Coroner Holtz
hauser's physician, DIR. Edward I. Ray
was prepared to make an examination
to determine the caue of death. Deputy
Police Commissioner Dougherty himsel
was on the case directing six detectives
from headquarters in the work of trail
ing the men who came with the push
cart
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
THE FINEST LAXATIVE
IN 5000 YEARS
Pure Castor Oil, Tasteless
Tasteless in the True Sense-Not Fla
vored or Altered-The Smell and
Taste Removed.

For 5000 years castor oil has been the
worlds best laxative, but until now an
offensive, sickening taste has limited its
use.
For 5000 years chemists have tried to
remove the taste.
Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil is just
what the name means--a pure, clear, re-
fined oil without any taste. 1T is new
discovery of Spencer Kellogg & Sons OF
Buffalo, large refners of vegetable oils.
Anybody can disguise the taste OF cas-
tor oil by mixing it with alcohol, winter
green, peppermint or other flavors, but
it remained for the Kelloggs to keep the
oil pure and make it tastelesss Kellogg 8
Tasteless Castor Oil works even better
than the old, evil dose, without pain
or gripping. Children take it easily.
Sold now in all drug stores. 25c and
soc. Ask for Kellogg's Tasteless Castor
Oil and look for the trade mark on
the label-a green castor leaf, bearing
the kellogg signature. Made only by
Spencer kellogg & Sons. Inc, Buffalo,
n. Y, refiners OF vegetable oils.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
LONG BASEBALL SCHEDULE.
Arranged for the University of Vermont
Team, Including Yale and Harvard.

The University of Vermont's 1914
baseball schedule, which was published
this week, contains 80 games. Inc
southern trip will be made during the
Easter vacation so that nine games OF
the SO can be disposed of in tins man
ner. The trip will give the team ample
preparation for the home games and IN
cludes a stay of five days in Washing
ton, ID. G. The game with Georgetown
in Burlington is on Founders day, while
St Lawrence and the Massachusetts, Ag-
gies come during Junior week. Manhat-
tan is on Memorial day and the Dart
mouth. Williams, Chinese university and
alumni games will be played at com
mencement time. The games to be
PLAYED on days when there is college
work are therefore only 10. Vermont
is also fortunate in securing games with
Yale and Harvard at a time OF year
when the team should be at its best.
There is a wealth of material on hand,
including a number of old men. Among
these are Captain Berry, Malcolm, May
forth. Maiden, Gallagher, Fraser, Lyons,
Linnehan and Fitzpatrick. The old men
will have to hustle, however, to keep
their positions against a host of new
men who come here with a knowledge
of the game. Everyone viii be given
show, and practice win probably be-
gin about Feb. s.
The schedule is as follows:
March Trinity at Durham, n. G.
March 27-North Carolina A. and NJ.
at Raleigh. n. c.
March University of North Caro-
lima at Chapel Hill, n. G.
March 30 Washington and Lee at
Lexington, Va.
March 3l-University of Virginia at
Charlottesville, Va.
April l-Georgetown at Washington.
April 2--Mt. st. Mary's at Emmits-
burg, Md.
April Washington Americans at
| Washington.
April 4-Catholic university at Wash
ington.
April 24-Colby at Burlington.
| April 25-Colby at Burlington.
April 29-Syracuse university at Bur-
! lington.
May l--Georgetown at Burlington.
May Penn. State at Burlington.
May dartmouth at Hanover.
N1dN O-~uiuuitbulY az AIiudAEbuigs
May l4-Amherst at Amherst.
| May l5-Harvard at Cambridge,
/ May l6-Tufts at Burlington.
May 2l-St. Lawrence university at
Burlington.
May % Mass. Aggies at Burlington
| May 266-Colgate at Hamilton.
| May 27-Cornell at Ithaca.
May 3d. Manhattan at Burlington.
! June colgate at Burlington.
| June 4-Holy Cross at Worcester.
June 5-Mass. Aggies at Amherst.
! June 6-Yale at New Haven.
June Middlebury at Burlington.
June 20-Dartmouth at Burlington.
June 22-Williams at Willamstown.
June 23-Chinese University of Ha-
wall at Burlington.
June24-Alumni.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
HOLD BIG STICK
OVER THE BANKS
Intimation That Those Failing to Enter
the New System Shall Cease to
Be Reserve Agents.

Washington. d. c., Dec 30.--Another
long list of Geographic applications for
membership in the new banking system
were received at the treasury depart
ment Yesterday. 1t was announced that,
while the number of actual applications
now in is upward of 500, a large number
in addition have signifed their intention
to join.
Moreover intimations are given that
the organization committee viii make
use of that provision in the new law
which gives it club over banks failing
to signify acceptance in sixty days.
This provision says that "any national
bank failing to signify its acceptance
of the terms of this act within the sixty
DAYS aforesaid should cease to act as a
reserve agent upon thirty days notice,
TO be given within the discretion of the
said organization committee or OF the
federal reserve board"
This gives the organization committee
complete power to direct that bank
cease to be a reserve agent. 1t was in
tended as a club over the banks that did
not accept the terms of the new act.
While nothing official has been given out
to show that the committee VIII use It's
authority, intimations in reliable quar-
tiers are that it viii do 40
Some of the banks are raising the
question whether authorization by the
stockholders or by the directors alone is
requisite to apply for membership in
the system.
The organization committee is plan
ming on the organization of a temporary
force of employees. 1t is also studying
the subject of where to establish its
offices and the offices of the reserve
board. Several parts of the treasury
building are under consideration. The
plan likely to be adopted is to shift all
the offices on the second floor OF the
treasury building between the offices OF
the secretary of the treasury and the
controller of the currency and put the
headquarters of the new banking system
in the space thus cleared. In this way,
these headquarters will adjoin those OF
Secretary McAdoo and the controller.
Secretary McAdoo was not allowed by
his physician to resume work yester-
day, but he viii be at his office to-
day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
GERMANY SORE
ON u. S. TARIFF
Refuses "Most Favored Nation" Treat
ment of American Steel and
Other Products.

Berlin, Dec. 30.--Germany yesterday
refused the request of the United States
government for the "most favored ma
ton" treatment of American steel, urb-
Der shoes. etc, but it was limited that
she was willing to bargain for this con-
eession if the United States would make
an equivalent offer in return for it.
The reply of Germany to the United
states points out various features or
the American tariff law--nameiy, the in
spection OF the books of manufacturers
and the administrative regulations
which Germany would like 70 see
changed.
Commercial circles here express the
opinion that the German-American tar
ifr negotiations win be extremely. ditfi-
cult without some such method of bar
gaining.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
SMALL LOAN LAW FAILS.
Governor Glynn Finds 1t Does Not Check
Business of "Sharks.n

Albany, n. Y, Dec. 30.--The small
loans law passed at the last regular
session of the legislature is inadequate,
Governor Glynn believes, so he intends
to seek some remedy for relieving the
victims of loan sharks. "The man earn
ing small wages and patronizing these
loan sharks" the governor said, has
too long been victimized and swindled.
Some Of the most prominent men and
women of the state have appealed to
me to stop this practice and | am go
ing to do it. This law, however, falls
short of accomplishing this result" Ae-
eording to the governor, the law, which
eliminated the Imprisonment penalty for
usurious rates of interest, has eneour-
aged money lenders to continue in bust
ness.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
100000 JEWS IN WORLD.
Europe Has the Most, with o,eso,175
While There Are 2,ie4,o6l in America.

London, Dec. According to the
Jewish year book, which is just out, the
number of Jews in the world now ex-
ceeds $4,000, 600, distributed as follows:
Europe, 0,950,l75; Asia, 4S4,359;
Africa, 404 ,s36; America, 2,l04,06l; Aus
tralasia. l9,4l5; total, l3052,S46.
Previous estimates had been consid-
erably below the actual figures, owing
to the adoption of the 1897 Russian cen
sus figures, which estimated the Jews in
Russia as 5.2l5,S05, while the latest Rus
sian census returns show there are
6.604.4l5. The vast exodus of Jews in
recent times from the cars dominions
has been more than offset by the inter-
nal growth of Russian Jewry.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
TANGO INTENSELY DANGEROUS.
A French Bishop Declares 1t Great Dis
solvent of Morality.

Bar-Le-Due, France, Dec. 30.-The
bishop of Verdun yesterday issued
pastoral letter forbidding the dancing
of the tango in his diocese. He says
the tango is intensely dangerous and one
of the greatest dissolvents of the NOR
alitv of France. and he appeals to all
Christian families to exclude it from
their homes. A special request was ad-
dressed to all the clergy in the diocese
TO call the attention of their congrega-
tons to the bishops letter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
NO STANDARD RATE SCALE.
Impossible for the Country, Declares
Meyer.

Minneapolis, MINI, Dec. S0.-A uni
form rate scale for all railroads in this
country is not practically possible
thing. nor is it necessarily desirable
thing, Balthasar H. Meyer of the inter
state commerce commission said yester-
day. in an address to the twenty-sixth
annual meeting of the American Eco
monte association. Government owner
shin was referred to by Mr.. Meyer as
the possible final outcome of increasing
government regulation. Even that, he
said would not put an end to rate prob
lens.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
TINKER SIGNS WITH FEDERALS.
National League Star Lost to Brooklyn,
to Which He Was Sold.

Chicago, Dec, 3O.--The final papers by
which Joe Tinker and Mordecai Brown,
for years National league ball stars, cast
their lot with the Federal league, were
signed yesterday. The players salaries
are guaranteed by a bonding company,
regardless of the fate of the league.
Tinker is preparing his lineup and
has sent telegraph messages to half a
dozen big league players.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
MURDERER STANDS SIEGE.
Rokowski Barbados Himself in a De
serted Cabin.

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec 30.-nodging from
tree to tree and firing as he ran, Harry
Rokowski, who Sunday night shot and
killed Constable Martin Windt and
probably fatally wounded two other
persons at West Homestead suburb,
held a posse of 200 deputy sheriffs and
citizens at bay on the hills above Monon-
gahela valley during the early hours
of yesterday.
The shots We're returned, but Rokow-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
He Has Recovered.

Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 30.-Bishop Col
Inns Denny of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, was reported yesterday
to have entirely recovered from the ef-
fects of dose of poison he swallowed
by mistake last Tuesday, at his home in
Richmond. Va.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
Fatal Explosion.

Bicknell. Ind, Dec 30.-Three men
were killed and four injured yesterday
at the Indian Greek mine, four miles
south of here, when gas explosion oe-
CURED. The dead are Emery Williams,
Robert Cotton aud an unidentified man.
The four injured are buried in the mine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
CURED OF CANCER.
DR.. Jacob Says Radium Accomplished
the Miracle.

New York, Dec. 30.--Dr. Abraham ia
cobb, ex-president of the American Med
ieal association and an authority on
women's and children's diseases, was
cured of cancer by radium. He made
the announcement at meeting of the
Eastern Medical society recently held
in Buffalo and the facts are reported in
the current issue of the New York Med
ical Journal.
DR.. jacob said that seven years ago
an epithelioma appeared upon his nose
and for two years it gave him a great
deal of worry. He was subjected to
radium treatment and prompt cure
resulted. This was accomplished by
three applications, one of three minutes,
one of four minutes and one OF seven
minutes, at short intervals.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
Riot at Shelton.

shelton. Conn, Dec. 3O-Two police
officers and a special guard were injured
in riot yesterday at the Sidney Blum
enthal company's silk mill here, where a
strike in the weave shop has been in
progress for several weeks
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
NO STRIKE BY TELEGRAPHERs.
Indications Point to an Adjustment or
the Frisco Railroad.

st. Louis, Dec 80. There viii be no
strike of telegraphers on the Frisco rail-
road, according to present indications
The strike committee will meet the re-
ceivers again to-day. The road in con-
ference yesterday agreed to wage in
crease, but not to the fifteen per cent.
asked.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
q: I O O d
Medicine

That originated in famous doc
tors successful prescription, that
is made from the purest and best
ingredients, that has a record OF
relief and benefit believed to be
unequaIled the world over--such
Is HOODS SARSAPARlLLA.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
John Ritty Dead.

DAYTON. o., Dec. 3O--John Ritty,
aged 65, who is credited with inventing
the cash register, died yesterday at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Cooper,
here.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
BRIEF FILED IN CONTEMPT CASE
In Gompers' Defence in the Bucks Stove
Co. Action.

Washington, Dec. 3O.-on the strength
of a brief filed with the supreme court
yesterday will depend whether OF not
Samuel Gompers will go to jail for con-
tempt in the Bucks Stove company case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
PUT OUT IN NINTH.
George Radell Knocked Out by Jess
willard.

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 30.-Jess Will
lard of Kansas knocked out George Ra.
dell of South Africa in the ninth round
of a 20-round bout here last night.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
TO BUY HAMPDEN ROAD.
Directors of Boston & Maine Vote to
Purchase.

Boston, Dec. 30.-Directors of the
Boston & Maine railroad voted yester-
day to purchase the Hampden railroad,
the terms to be approved by the public
service commission.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-30
ARTIST KILLS HERSELF.
Mollie Chatfeld Uses Steel Paper Cut
ter

New York. Dee. 30.-Mollie Chatfeld,
an artist, was found dead in her attic
Yesterday afternoon with a steel paper
cutter driven through her heart. Appar-
emily it was a case of suicide.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10

the end rooms, and nobody wanted to
build chimneys all in row down
through the house and set up sep
arate stoves wherever 1t was found
necessary. That objection, however.
does not hold against the small steam
or hot-water heating plants that are
now so common and the furnace
man has added so much to his knowl-
edge that he can compete on equal
footing in a house of eight or nine
rooms. and he can outwit the others
when it comes TO heating smaller
houses.
Hot-air furnaces are the most SAM
tary and the most economical for
small houses, in regard both to first
cost and to subsequent attendance.
because any woman can manage a
hot air furnace when the men folks
are away, and the coal bill is little
of any greater than 1t is for the more
expensive hat water heaters. and it is
less when measured up against
steam. When you have a big house
to heat. 1t will stand you well in
hand to study the different systems.
and hear what the advocates of each
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10
COVERED YARD
SAVES MANURE
in Addition 1t Affords Exercise
and HealthfuI Environment
for Animals.

Professor Roberts. formerly of Cor
nell. was d strong advocate of coy
cred barn yards for the conservation
of manure This system is advocated
by Professor Frazier of the Iniver.
sity of Illinois Covered barn yards
are sheds with good roofs with or
without sides, and large enough to al
low the cattle to move about freely
The bottom is-puddled clay or cement
The manure removed from the barn
is spread about and sufficient bed
ding distributed over the surface 10
insure cleanliness
The animals tramp the accumUlat-
ing manure into a compact mass and
keep it moist by their liquid eXcre-
ment. This assures an excellent ma
nure with but slight losses of plant
food In addition it affords exercise
and a healthful environment for the
animals in severe weather The plan
has been tried by many dairy men,
and is generally considered satisfac-
tory 1t is said that the cows keep
cleaner than when stabbed and the
milking barn is more sanitary
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10
DEPTH OF SOIL
TO ADD NITRATES
Roots of Plant Penetrate Far In
to the Ground in Search of
Necessary Food.

by II. r. FIsHBURN. Assistant Chem
isl. Idaho Experiment StaliouD
When We speak OF soil and soil prob
lens we are supposed usually TO take
into ac; cunt about the first foot or less
For most crops it sufiices to say
that alfalfa adds nitrates to the soil
since most crops feed only on about
he first foot
For the deep-rooted crops this will
not hold true. From analysis OF sew
eral alfalfa tracts it was found that
the FIRST foot CT soil was much richer
in nitrates. hut to depth of six feet
much poorer on an average. In 9th
er words. alfalfa land is usually rich
in nitrates in the first foot and poor
in nitrates below the first foot, while
land in other crops may be just the
reverse.
The deep roots of the alfalfa plant
penetrate far into the soil in search
OF food. while the nitrogen bacteria
accompanying the plant are working
in the top soil In this way the nj
trates are more concentrated in the
top soil for the use of succeeding
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10

set irregularly on slender stems. the
spreading stems lending just the right
degree of looseness necessary to
tastefully arranged bouquet
During the second summer the
plants were not watered but a heavy
loose mulch of dead leaves and lawn
clippings was kept around the roots 10
retain moisture from early rainfalls.
and in the fall the bed was allowed
to drift full OF leaves. where they re-
NAMED until spring those which had
become rotted being left around the
roots during the summer.
Perennial plants treated this way
will bloom earlier and longer than
when allowed to dry up during the
hot DAYS The most important thing
to remember in caring for perennials
is to mulch heavily, that the dry heat
of late summer may not sap the vi
tally OF the plants and cause them to
winter kill
My border OF Baby-Breath began
blooming late in May and continued
through the summer. the cut flowers
lasting a long time They not only
furnished unlimited quantities OF bios
SONS for bouquets, but helped with
their profusion of white to tone down
the more brilliant perennials, ant
made a pleasingly irregular border for
the taller ones behind them
The plants are extremely hardy,
having remained in unprotected Dor
ders for five years, not one having
been winter killed. They have grown
larger clumps each year. consequently
producing more blooms
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10

And this fresh air is absolutely free;
it does not cost a dollar You Just
hitch a supply pipe to the great air
reservoir outdoors. and draw on it all
winter long But | want to give you
just a word OF caution here.
Once in great while nature has
constructed a furnace man on the
wrong plan, and if you happen to
know this particular individual he
may advise you TO put a cold.air
register in the front hall, and draw
the daily supply from this contaminat.
ed source. have known men sane
enough to keep out of the asylum for
a great many years who would risk
their reputation and freedom by ad
voCating just such nonsense. | do not
know OF any punishment to fiji such
a crime
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-10
Fertilizer From the Herd.

An important consideration that is
too often overlooked is the economi-
cal utilization of manure produced by
swine Dry-lot feeding in summer is
often associated with a heavy waste
OF manure on account of the large
part of the manure that is leached or
blown away when deposited in bare
lots Feeding on pastures or in cult
waited fields will do much to Cbviate
this loss, since large proportion OF
the drcppings and urine will then be
deposited in the field where the fer
llizing constituents may be utilized.