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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
TIMELY FARM HINTS
BY COUNTY AGENT
A. w. Sweeton Makes Worth While
Suggestions-Now is Time to Cut
Bushes and Kill Weeds.

Now in the lull after having is the
time to cut the bushes and weeds
along the farms and roadsides Wild
cherries and scrub apples are just the
places where the brown tails and tent
eaterpillars like to breed and then
come out in the spring and infest our
orchards and desirable trees Don t
wait for the town to come and cut the
bushes along the road Cut them now
and burn them up and there Will not
only be great saving in the number
Of insects to fight but the improved
appearance Will add much to the value
Of the farm.
Ii you are trying alfalfa this sum
mer the quicker it is in now the bet
ter chance it will have to get well
started and better prepared to stand
our winter. A good dry piece Of
ground should have been selected. 1t
should have been manured and lined.
Northern grown seed should have been
used and it should be inoculate,l and
put on ut the rate of 80 pounds per
acre of test seed
If the weeds get ahead of YOU In
the corn or potatoes get them out now
They rob the crop of large quantities
Of plantfood and moisture just at the
time when the plant needs them most,
and one weed saved from going to
seed Will save fifty from coming up
next spring.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
RUTLAND MAN CAPTAIN.
B. S. Hyland to Lead Vermont Nation
al Guard Rifle Team.

RUTLAND, Aug. Capt. b. S. IIv-
land of Company A, Vermont National
guard, has been detailed by Adiutant
General Lee :. Tillotson of st. Albans
to head the rifle team of Is men which
viii represent the Vermont national
guard at the national shoot at Camp
Perry, o., commencing August ..
The team viii be selected at the
close of rifle practice by the regiment
at the state encampment at WinooSki
this month. To be eligible a man must
have been enlisted one year and must
have done at least - per cent of mill
tary duty. In addition to the National
guard infantry members the following
men at Norwich university arc eligible:
Capt. G. /. Smallman, Signal corps,
Lieuts. +. i. White and +. l.. Munsell
and Sergt. r. b. Sleeper. First cavalry
The Vermont team will consist of
y shooters, coach, spotter, three al
ternates and 4 team captain. The eHoi-
bic men viii practice on the govern
ment range ut Fort Ethan Allen from
August l3 to August 10.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
WILSON VICTIM
OF PICKPOCKETS
Mexican Ambassador Relieved of Wal
let Containing Money and Valua-
BILE Papers at New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Henry Lane
Wilson, United States ambassador to
Mexico, was the victim of piekpockets
who secured wallet containing sos
together with valuable papers and of
fetal memoranda while the ambassador
was escorting two women friends to a
train mt the Pennsylvania station yes
terday. There is no intimation that
the work was that of anyone trying to
seek secret papers in the ambassa-
dor : possession, and Mr.. Wilson stated
this morning that the stolen wallet
contained no official documents.
Ambassador Wilson arrived in New
York from Washington yesterday at
ternoon and after luncheon started for
the train with two women of his ac-
quaintauce. \ large crowd pressed
around the gates and scrambled for
the train and not until after bidding
his friends goodbye did Mr.. Wilson
discoved his loss.
The matter was brought to the at
tention OF headquarters detectives this
morning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
C. V. MEN IN BOSTON.
Visit Believed to Pertain to Resumption
of Southern New England Work.

BOSTON, Aug Significance is at
tached to a visit here yesterday of J.
+. Dalrymple, vice president Of the
Grand Trunk railway, who arrived in
his private ear, Muskoka, = following,
as he did, the arrival here of George
G.. Jones, vice president and general
manager of the Central Vermont, and
II. Il. Stafford, chief engineer of the
Grand Trunk. Mr.. Jones and Mr.. SAT-
ford came here from White River June
tion III the private car Niagara. =
Several days previously it became
known that a contractor had been ask
ed by the Grand Trunk to proceed with
building the proposed Southern New
England railway, between Palmer and
Blackstone. Vice Pres. Murdock said
that the contractor had agreed to pro
ceed with the work, provided some
settlement is made for damages.
The Palmer Blackstone branch is ap-
proximatelv IS miles long, and it is
estimated that it will require about Is
months to complete it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
KICKED A CHILD
IN FIT OF ANGER
Igust Mirimok Fined S5 and Costs
Apple Thrown by Mary Masajada
Went Through His Window.

Little Mary Masajada, daughter Of
Clemens Masajada of Elliot street, was
throwing small apples last evening
shortly after O'Clock when oneof
them went thrugh an open window and
angered Igust Mirimok. Mirimok rush
ed out in the street, struck the child
ana kicked her in the back, the little
girl falling in the gutter.
Men started for Mirimok, but the
child s father reached him first and
opened two long cuts on his head, which
bled profusely. Someone hurriedly sum
moned Police Chief George Wilson and
he arrested Mirimok, who was covered
with blood and claimed that the wounds
on his head had been made by a stone
thrown through the window by the
child he had assaulted. The chief was
satisfied how thu wounds had been
made and obtained the names of nu-
merous witnesses to the assault
Mirimok this morning pleaded guilty
in municipal court and was ordered to
pay fine Of So and costs Of 1892 He
managed to settle.
The child and Mrs. Lena Fountain.
who saw the assault. were witnesses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
Powers Not Pressing United
States for Action in
Mexico
HOUSE ASKED TO
DROP INQUIRY
Ambassador Wilson'S Views Are
Known to be at Variance With
Those of the President = Contradic-
tory Reports.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. - Develop
yesterday were confined TO efforts on
the part of the administration to pre-
vent unnecessary agitation over the
the revolution. So far rs the United
States is informed. both the federals
and constitutionalists are complying
with the desire of the American gov
ernment for the protection of foreign
ers and their property, and there Is a
hopeful feeling manifest in official cir
cles that efforts Of influential Mexi-
cans to bring about peace may be sue
cessful.
In the meantime President Wilson
and his advisers are opposed to any at
tempt to force the American govern
ment into any hasty declaration of pol
icy. Secretary Bryan promptly denied
yesterday story that European GOV
arnments are pressing the United
States to action. On the authority OF
the President himself. it is known that
the only documents from foreign pow
ers to the United States on the subject
in recent months were those trans
mitted when the diplomatic representa-
tives in Mexico City recently gave Il
description of conditions in the re
public to their home governments
with the request that the information
be conveyed to the United States. The
President has told inquirers within the
last q hours that in no case was
there any suggestion or intimation of
action desired, but merely a recital of
conditions.
To prevent any aggravation of the
situation, which in the view of oiii-
cials at Washington is slowly adjust
ing itself, the administration, it be
came known, does not look favorahIv
on the proposal to have Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson appear before the
House committee on foreighn affairs.
Administration officials did not think
it compatible with the public interest
| to have Ambassador Wilson appear be
fore the Senate committee on foreign
relations, not because they hesitated in
any way to submit the reports he had
made, but because the feeling is grow
| ing among them that he is a factor i'm
| promoting objectionable discussion in
Mexico. The ambassador is known to
| hold views at variance with those of
/ the President and Secretary Bryan.
and it is said on good authority that
information is in possession of the
state department contradicting in many
essentials the reports of Ambassador
| Wilson,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
A Railroads Good Intentions.
Barre Times. J

Further evidence Of the Boston 6
Maine railroad : intention to improve
the service on its branch lines and
subsidiaries in northern New England
is given in the announcement that q
new passenger train between Brattle-
boro and New York city will be added,
the train to be known as the Connec-
ticut River Special. The service is to
be started from BrattlebOro instead of
Greenfield, Mass, as most of similar
service starts, thus giving Brattleboro
considerable prestige as a railroad ter
minus as well as affording increased ac-
cOmmodation to the travelling public
in that vicinity. This change was
brought about in part through the
efforts of the board of trade at Brattle
boro, which has been working for some
time to secure better railroad service to
New York city, and the compliance of
the Boston & Maine with the request
is an earnest of the road s good inten-
tions toward town which promises
to become one of the best feeders on it's
northern lines.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
EmplOye in Department of
Justice Held at New
Orleans
MARKED BILLS
FOUND ON PERSON
Told Former Governor of Mexican
State That $500 Would Prevent His
Arrest-Two Others Involved in the
Alleged Attempt to Blackmail.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. "A sensa-
tion has been caused in Latin American
revolutionary and government circles
by the arrest here last night of G..
Raymond Matthews, special agent of
the United States department of JUS
tice; j. l.. Mott, his assistant, and Er-
nesto Fernandez Arteaga, representa-
tive here of the Mexican constitution
alist party, on charges of blackmail.
The arrests resulted from an appeal
to the local police by Emmanuel Cars
tillo Brito, former governor of the
Mexican state of Campeehe, who stated
that he had been approached by one
of the three with copy of telegram
purporting to come from Washington
and bearing the signature of Attorney
General McReynolds, ordering Brito 5
arrest Brto says he was Informed
that $500 would extricate him from the
situation. He at once notified detectives,
then took supply of marked bills and
met one of the blackmailers last night.
The arrest of the three followed and
the police say that $500 in marked
bills were found on Matthews 5 per
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
ALLEN RESIGNS
AS MAIL CARRIER
Missed But Two Trips a Year in 151l9
Years-West Chesterfield to Dunn
merston Station.

w. b. Allen, who lives on the West
Chesterfield side of the river and has
carried the mail from West Chester
field to Dummerston station since Dee
3, 1897, handed in his resignation July
10. His successor has not been APP
pointed. During his l512 years of ser
vice he has missed crossing the river
an average Of only two trips year
This is an exceptional record when the
hliZZards and other severe weather con
ditions are taken into consideration.
Formerly Mr.. Allen had to make
only one trip each day, but two trips
are required at the present time. On.
Feb. $, 1908, he lost valuable horse,
harness and sleigh in the river while
making one Of his trips. He crossed
safely in the morning, but at night
the lee gave way and the horse was
drowned
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
GUNBOAT TO
LAGUAIRA
Protection for American In
terests i'm Venezuelan
Waters
DIPLOMATIC POSTS TO
BE FILLED AT ONCE
So That United States viii Be in Po-
sition to Keep Watch of Former
prise at His Return from Exile.

WASHINGTON. Aug. News Of
the appearance ii Venezuela Of ex-
President Cipriano Castro after his
five years of exile, created something
of a sensation at the state department
yesterday. For the past five years
the department has been keeping Cas-
tro under surveillance to prevent him
from returning to Venezuela, which
country has been enjoying a period Of
dnwontcd prosperity and quiet since
his retirement. Department officials
still supposed the exile was living
quietly in the Canary islands until q
cablegram came yesterday announcing
his re-entrance INTO the country Of his
birth nj the head OF an armed force,
while various uprisings in his hehealf
were reported from different points in
Venezuela He was said to be mt
Coro.
From the legation at Caracas the
state department at Washington was
Informed OF upfisings in the state OF
| Tachira, at Coro and Masuro. Tele-
graphic communication between the
| capital and the disturbed points was
interrupted, hut the Venezuelan for
cign office claimed that the revolu-
tionists had been defeated by state
troops at all points. The president
had been granted dictatorial powers.
| it was said, and men were being i'm
/ pressed for military service
| The United States government is
represented i'm Venezuela at present
/ only hy n legation clerk, Richard j.
/ Riggs. Minister Northcott has resigned
and quilted his post, and Secretary
/ Gallery Is now in Washington attach
! ed to the Latin American bureau. 1t
was announced that a secretary would
he rushed to Caracas Immediately, to
be followed by a regularly accredited
minister aS soon as one could he ap-
pointed and confirmed.
The state department at Washing
/ ton yesterday called upon the navy de
partment for a warship to look after
! American interests in Venezuelan
waters. ana the gunboat Des Moines.
now at Brunswick, Ga, was ordered
to make the cruise. 1t is calculated
that the gunboat can make the run to
! Lagnaira, the nearest point to Caracas,
in about six days.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
FULL FUSION TICKET
NOW IN NOMINATION
John P Mitchell Named for Mayor of
New York With Whitman
as District Attorney

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Republcans,
Progressives and independents, as rep
resented by fusion committee of 107
members, agreed yesterday upon John
Purroy Mitchell, collector of customs of
the port of New York, as candidate
for mayor. The Democratic candidate
has not yet been named, but Mayor
Gavnor is understood to be . candidate
for denomination.
The agreement of the fusionists was
not reached until after an all-night
struggle, during which the committee
took nine ballots, on the first of which
Mitchell led by slight margins over
Dist Atty Charles s. Whitman and
Borough President George McAneny Of
Manhattan. On the final vote Mitchell
received 45 votes and Whitman 49, the
McAnenv forces breaking up and diyid-
ing their forces between the two
leaders. The nomination of Mitchell
aftcrward was made unanimous. Whit
man was renominated for district at
torney; McAneny for president of
the board of aldermen and w. A. Prem
dergast for controller.
Mitchell, elected president of the board
of aldermen on the Democratic ticket
at the last election, was recently APP
pointed by President Wilson as collee-
tor of customs at this port The pre-
ference which the President then show
ed toward him was put forward by
his admirers as indicating that the
President would favor him in an anti
Tammanv fight. The platform adopted
by the fusion committee has municipal
economy as its conversion Other is
sues are ''home rule, with revision
of the city charter police reform ami
social program which includes public
health, reduction of food costs by the
establishment of terminal markets in
each borough. establishment of a muni-
cipal department Of recfeation, limita-
tion of the heights of new buildings and
the extension OF trade and vocational
training in the public schools.
Since the fusionists have no legal
standing as party the candidates will
be officially placed in nomination by
petition. The judiciary ticket and the
| rest of the county ticket viii be named
by an executive committee which viii
meet next Tuesday.
Mr. Mitchell said that he had no in
tcntion of resigning as collector OF the
| port to run on the fusion ticket. ii
elected. he said he probably woul'
| keep his present office until the enc
| of the year to enable him to carry
out changes in methods and orgamza
| ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
President of New Republic
Sends Ultimatum to
City of FuchOw
FIGHTING BETWEEN
TRIBESMEN AT Annoy
Results in Interference by Japanese
Authorities at WI Sung
Bombarded by Warships in Har-
Dor.

AMOY, China, Aug. 2-The city of
Flu Chow must reseind its recent reso-
luton to secede from the Chinese Re
public with 10 days or an army from
Peking viii be sent to invade the
province of Fo Kien. according to ma
tive reports, which declare that Pro
yisional President Yuan Shi Kai has
sent an ultimatum to this effect
A serious situation has been brought
about in Annoy by continued clan fight
ing between semi Mongolian Tungan
tribesmen nd FOrmosans The japanese
authorities here interfered and caused
the arrest of the Tungan leader In
retaliation the tribesmen took a num-
ber of soldiers prisoners and declare
they will hold them as hostages for the
safety of their leader. A japanese
warship is LYING off the disaffeeted
district
According to a despatch from Shang-
hal the WI Sung forts, which are in
the hands of rebels, were bombarded
at daybreak by Chinese warships com
manded by Admiral Tseng The dam
age was slight. Two cruisers opened
fire at a range of five miles and the
forts replied.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
Campaign Expenses.
bellows Falls Times.)

AbcIlONS ais lines.
Col. Mulhall who has been enlipht
ening congress and the country on the
political methods of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers testified
before the Senate committee the other
day that in his opinion Kittredge Has
klns of Brattleboro was beaten for a
reelection as congressman from the
second Vermont district because ''he
did not leave Washington long enough
TO look after his fences In his own
district. If there was one congress
man who stayed in Washington and at
tended to his duties as a legislator, in
stead of devoting a good part of his
time to politics, he merits the good
opinion of his constituency. The
charge thats Mulhall makes that 5000
of the assocition 5 money went to Has
kins to help defray campaign expenses
rs not serious. The ideal condition, OF
course, would be where every public
servant paid ali his own campaign ex-
penses, receiving aid from no one. He
could then act Independent of all in
fluences. However, as long as party
organization exists that is pretty
difficult thing to do.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02

TENERIFFE. Canary Island, Aug. >.
of the family of Gen. Clip
riano Castro. former president Of Ven
ezuela, professed surprise at the news
published here regarding the ex-dicta-
tor 5 invasion of Venezuela, and de-
clared emphatically that Castro was at
present in Germany. However, it is
generally believed here that the ex-
president has completed all his plans
for bringing about Venezuelan revolu-
tion and it is even rumored that he is
being aided by certain European
power.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
HOOSAC TUNNEL ROAD
NOW STANDARD GAUGE
Transformation Completed Today-Ex
pected that Broad Gauge Trains
Will Run Early Next Week

The work Of standardizing the gauge
Of the lloosac Tunnel & Wilmington
railway has been completed and all that
remains to complete the Transformation
from a narrow gauge IS to change the
sidings and switches along the road
1t is expected that this work will he
completed today ana that broad gauge
trains viii run the entire length Of the
road by the first of next week
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
TO HEAD STEAMER LINES.
T. E. Byrnes to Have Charge of New
Haven's Water Craft.

BOSTON, Aug. 2-Timothy T.
Byrnes, former vice president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, will be head of the steamship
lines now maintained by that company.
The steamship service of the New Ha-
ven is to be entirely reorganized and
the department will be administered as
independently of the road as possible,
the plan being to have it operated like
the Boston & Maine railroad, a subsidi-
ary of the New Haven.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
FUNERAL OF MRS. CLUNE.
Services in Roman Catholic Church by
Rev. Father B. w. Mcmahon.

The funeral of Mrs. Patrick Clune
Of East Putney was held this morning
at $50 o'clock in st. Michael 5 Roman
Catholic church, Rev. Father Bernard
w. Mcmahon conducting the service.
The burial took place in the Roman
Catholic cemetery. The bearers were
Maurice, John and Thomas Welch,
cousins of Mrs Clune, and John, Dan
iel and Martin Murphy, nephews.
Among those from out of town who
attended were Mrs. James Blake Of
Bellows Falls, Daniel Murphy of Bos-
ton and Mrs Anna Callahan and two
daughters of Ashuelot, n. H. The
floral tributes were many and beauti-
full
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
WESTON ARRIVES
AT MINNEAPOLIS
Aged Pedestrian Concludes His 1900
Mile Hike from New York
City Today.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. .. -
Amid roaring cannon, changing bells
and footing whistles Edward Payson
Weston completed his tramp of more
than 800 miles from New York city
today. BY changing his plans after
leaving the metropolis the aged pedes-
trian added 100 miles TO the original
schedule, and walked total of l,5l6
miles. He started from New York
June >.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
NEW YORK TRAIN
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
VIII Leave Brattleboro a. m, Reach
ing New York 12.10-Return 5.02,
Reaching Here 1918.

The Boston & Maine railroad an
nounces today the official schedule for
the Connecticut River Special, the
train that will run between Brattleboro
and New York, beginning Monday,
Aug. II. It is as follows:
Northbound,it it viii leave New York
3.02 p. m. arriving at Springfield SO
p. m, at Greenfield 9.24 =. m, and at
Brattleboro 1918 =. IN.
Returning, it Will leave Brattleboro
Z a. m, arriving at Greenfield 7.4S a.
M, at Springfield SIS a. m, and at
New York 12.l0, noon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02

CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. . =
The mobilization of the government
troops in this city was completed last
night and an expedition is expected to
leave the capital at any moment to
encounter the revolutionary invaders
It is believed that its first objective
point will be the state of Falcon Of
which Coro, the capital, is reported to
have fallen into the hands of Cen
Castro s adherents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
INSURANCE MEN ELECT.
Closing Session of National Conven-
TIM in Burlington Yesterday.

BURLINGTON, Aug. 2.-The closing
session of the National Insurance
Commissioners convention was held
yesterday afternoon James r. Young
of North Carolina was elected presi-
dent; Willard Done, of Utah, and John
Sherman Darst, of West Virginia,
vice-president; and +. II. McMaster,
of South Carolina, secretary and treas
urer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02

District Attorney Whitman was rec
ognized in Brattlehoro yesterday nj
ternoon, and today efforts have been
made here anl in New York to locate
him with view TO asecrtaiI.'ag wheth
er he will @ecept the fusion nomina-
tion for district attorney anI, II aGt,
whether he VII run epcrdentlE for
mayor, against Mitchell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-02
HIS 10TH BIRTHDAY.
Robert r. Lincoln Celebrates the Event
In Manchester. VT

MANCHESTER. VT. Aug 2-Robert
T. Lincoln entertained a number of
friends and relatives at dinner last
evening at Hilldene on the occasion of
his 10th birthday. The guests included
Horace g. Young and George II. Thach-
er of Albany and Robert NJ. Janney of
Philadelphia. Mr.. Lincoln at 70 is hale
and hearty and plays his round of golf
each afternoon.