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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
Sergt. Instructor Finds National Guard
Well Equipped.

RUTLAND, April 80. - Charles
Steele, sergeant instructor of the state
has returned to his home here after
q month s tour Of inspection of the
companies of the Vermont National
Guard. Sergt. Steele stated that the
entire regiment is in excellent condi-
tion for immediate service and that
everywhere the man had expressed
Willingness to respond if called upon
for active duty.
He said all the companies were re-
cruiting up to their full quota Of 81
men each and in Company B of St
Albans there were % men on the wait
ing list.
He said Company A of Rutland and
Company B are the best companies in
the state, with Company NJ of Burling-
ton and Company II of Montpelier close
seconds. In Springfield and Montpelier
the riot call was tested and in both
places in less than II minutes the en-
tire company was in the armory.
One company at Burlington is not re-
cruited up to its full quota, contain
ing at present only about 40 men. This
company is being reorganized from
among the students in the University
of Vermont and it is expected it will
| be up to the standard in about two
weeks. Company E of Bellows Falls i,
another weak company, having not
| quite 40 men.
Sergt. Steele stated that every com
| pany is well provided with uniforms
guns and field equipment. In Ben
nington a company as yet unnamed i
being organized by Capt. J. B. Han
non, who has at present about go mem
bers signed.
A troop of regimental mounte,
scouts, consisting of p mounted meI
Will be formed from Norwich uni
versity in case of active service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
MEXICAN PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Forty Eight, Led by a Yaqui Indian,
Go 20 Yards Through Tunnel.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, April 3O-For-
ty-eight Mexican prisoners in the army
detention camp at Fort Rosecrans IS.
capped Tuesday night by digging a tun-
mel under fences and barbed wire en-
tanglements distance Of 20 yards.
At noon Yesterday only IA Of them had
been recaptured
It is expected that many Of the fu-
gitives viii find their way across the
line into Lower California in spite of
the patrol of American troops at the
principal points The dash for free
dom was led and directed by pure
blood Yaqui Indian who is a mining
engineer and he Is among those re
captured.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
Hope That Some of the En-
tOmbed Miners at EccIes
Mine Are Living
THE RESCUE MEN
DESCENDED SHAFT
Crowd Made a Rush to See the First
Bodies, Hoping for identification,
But Wore Hold Back by officers and
Guards. ........
ECCLES, w. Va, April 80.

ECCLES, w. Va, April 80
After "a hours of exhausting effort
Chief Henry and party of West
Virginia mine inspectors early today
reached the bottom of shaft No. of
the New River Galleries Co., where
us miners were buried by an explo-
sion last Tuesday. They found little
gas and no jam in the tunnels and ex-
pressed the belief that conditions were
such that some of the entombed miners
may bc still alive.
j. w. Paul, chief engineer Of the
Pittsburg station of the bureau of
Mines descended the shaft early in the
forenoon in company with government
rescue men. They had proceeded only
a short distance from the bottom when
they found six bodies huddled togcth-
er and so badly burned that identi-
fcation was impossible.
Penetrating further into the gal
leries they located other bodies. Soon
afterwards the first bodies were hoist
ed out and placed in temporary
morgue.
The crowd made rush for the
bodies in the hope of identifying
them, but was held back by deput,
shcriffs and guards.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
COURT AWARDED
$4,000 DAMAGES
Heavy Verdict Given to Man Who Re
ceived Electric Shock Over a
Telephone.

ENETER, n. H., April 50. - Dam
ages of $4,000 were awarded by the
court today to John \. McAdam, 4
street railway superintendent, IN his
suit for negligence against the New
England Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, from whose instruments he re
ceived u severe shock two years ago.
\ telephone wire became crossed on
a trolley wire and in tcIephoning from
Hampton Beach on July IL, 1911, Mr..
McAdam received a shock that dis
abled him for a year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
FELL INTO QUARRY HOLE.
Charles Leonard of Graniteville Seri-
ousIy Injured.

BARRE. April 30.-Charles Leon
ard. 81, is at the City hospital in a
serious condition as the result Of in
iuries received at the Pirie quarry in
Graniteville Both legs are broken
and the physicians fear internal in
juries.
Leonard was operating a grout car
when he unconciously took a step back
ward and was precipitated into the
quarry hole. He fell 40 feet and work
men who rushed to his aid expected
to find him dead.
Though suffering much pain Leon
ard retained conciousness and directed
preparations for his removal to the
hospital.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
HAVE RELATIVES
IN MEXICO CITY
John L. Lawton and Mrs. W. E. Bar
Der Have Received No Tidings
Them for Three Months.

About three months have elapsed since
information has come to Brattleboro rela-
tves from George w. Lawton and family
aud the family of the late Frank Lawton,
all of Mexico City, and much anxiety is
felt concerning them, in view Of the mob
spirit which is abroad in that city as
result of the trouble between the United
States and Mexico. Anxiety is somewhat
relieved, however, by the latest dispatches,
which are to the effect that the American
consul is assured by the Brazilian minister
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
CITY RETURNS TO
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
This System, However, Is Subordinate to the Mar
tiaI Law in Vera Ctuz Reports of Fighting at
Tampco and Warships Held in Readiness to Go
There at Once
VERA CRUZ, April 30.

under the laws
OF
who
The distributed
Continued fighting that batlesps
n o was
loaded with that all lack
from
through
There evidences the
within
reaping the harvest of trade from the invasion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
LEYDEN, MASS.
Made Attempt at Suicide.

Irving Watson, a well-known farmer.
attempted to commit suicide Wednes-
day by cutting his throat with ra-
zor lie rose carly IN the morning aud
went out into the kitchen, where his
wife found him later with bie throat
cut. L took several stitches to cloae
the wound. His recovery is expected.
There is no apparent reason for the
act.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30

the right Of action is preserved by
proceeding as claimant in a suit
which was decided at the last term
of court, that of Hall against STRAIT
ton, trustee. To this the defendant
demurred and in consequence the case
does not 90 to the jury II. G. and
+. +. Barber for the plaintiff; a. p.
Carpenter and Chase & Chase for the
defendant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
AT THE CENTRE CHURCH.

Thursday, April go TO ) p. NJ.
Sewing meeting Of the women Of the
parish with Mrs George NJ. Clay,
Green street \ large attendance IS de-
cired, TO work or aprons fer sale IN
May.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
ON SERIOUS CHARGE.
North Walpole Boys Alleged to Have
Tempered with Block Signal

CHARLESTOWN, ~ H., April 80.
John Keefe, 10, and Cyrus Conway,
Is. of North Walpole, were arrested
here yesterday on charge of tamper
ing with the block signal system at
this station, and are being detained
pending arrival of railroad officials
from Massachusetts. The names of two
other young men who escaped were
disclosed by those under arrest.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
LILLIAN NoRDICA SINKING.
famous American gorrano Net Ex-
pected to Recover.

BATAVIA, Java, April 30-Lillian
Nordica. who arrived here i'll nearly a
month ago, has had a relapse and is
sinking. The doctors give up all hope
of her recovery. She had engaged
passage for Genoa where her husband.
George " Young of New York, had
expected to meet her.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
AT MASONIC TEMPLE.

Thursday night, April 50, annual
communication of officers of Brattle-
boro lodge, No. 102. Business: Pre-
eentation Of reports and election of Of
tcer5.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
AMERIcANs HAVE NOT BoMBARpEp MANzANILLo

House ~
investigation disclosed that eonfagrati
it.
Referring to the Manzanilo
there II ~ - ooN
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
FIRE IN CONCORD, N IL
ons cf Small Dcrnlitor,es cf 81 Esul 5
School Burned

CONCORD, n. H., April 30.-An
early morning fire at st. Paul's school
ruined the interior of Fiske house, one
of the smaller dormitories today. The
masters and boys occupying the house
saved their personal belongings. The
damage Is estimated at approzima tely
* nn0
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Gomez Charged with Assault with In
tenb to Kill

WILLIALSTOVN, Vt April So
Ricardo Gomez, who, the police say, has
confessed having shot Emilio Fernan-
dez last Saturday night, waived exam
nation today when arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Warren Crafts of
this place, charged with assault with
intent to kill He was bound over
without bail to await action of the
grand jury, a special session Of which
viii be called II june.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
THE WEATHER.

Fair Tonight and Friday; Light
North Winds.
WASHINGTON. April SO. - The
weather forecast: Fair tonight except
rain or snow in east of Maine. Fri
day fair. Light north winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-30
CAMBRIDGEPORT.

The w. c. 7. U. will meet Thursday
afternoon. May Z at > so O'Clock at the
chapel
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
EARL MOSELEY MAY
JUMP To FEDERALS
Red Sox SpitbalI Finger Re-
fuses to Sign at Salary Of
fered Him.

BOSTON, Feb. Earl Moseley, the
young spitball twirler from Youngs-
town, Ohio, may jump the Red Sox
for a fine berth with the Indianapolis
Federal League club. He has declined
to sign a 1914 contract, asking for n
much larger sum than Bill Carrigan
cares to pay him. The outlaws have
come across with the money he wants,
and it is thought here that he will
take it
'Moseley might make good with
experience" says Vice President John
I. Taylor, but he's got TO show us
first before he collects the big money.
From what we saw of him last year
he lacks control is weak at the bat.
and a poor fielder, and needs a lot
of polish. / guess we'll worry along
without him, II he cares to jump"
Jimmy McAleer got Moseley for the
Red SoX. He was brought here in the
middle of last season just after pitch
ing a no-hit-no-run game in the Cen
trail League. He failed to make much
of an impression here.
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
HELP FAIRGROUNDS
BY BASEBALL TAX
Such Is Plan of New York As
SembIyman Who Asks Five
Per Cent Payment.

NEW YORK, Feb "A ) per cent
tax on the gross receipts Of the home
games Of the Giants. Yankees, and
Dodgers is arranged for in a bill which
will be introduced at Albany tonight OF
tomorrow by Assemblyman Mark Gold
berg, of the Eighteenth district. Mr.
Goldberg. Democrat, who Is serving his
eighth year in the legislature. declares
that his sole aim IS to provide funds
for the extension of the public play
grounds movement.
Mr.. Goldbergs bill provides for the
appointment by the governor of a
state baseball commission of three
members. with no salaries.
OF the per cent of the baseball clubs
gross receipts the commission would de-
vote ? per cent for expenses and salary
Of secretary. The remainder of the
sum paid by the baseball clubs would
be turned over to the Fairgrounds COM
mission or those in charge of recreation
In the district from which the revenue
was derived.
In explaining his bill, Mr.. Goldberg
said last night: 1T is SO difficult to
get money from the city that taxation
of the baseball clubs seemed the most
reasonable method in which to acquire
needed money for the maintenance of
Fairgrounds for children in the greater
city. The money under my bill will
come from a source that can well af-
ford il.
THE power to grant licenses will be
vested in the state baseball commission
and also the right to revoke them.
There will be provisions made for pen
alties against those guilty of sham. A
commission such as | advocate would
end speculation during worlds series
games and make 1t possible for the
fans TO get tickets at reasonable
prices.
AT the present time it may be diff
cult for club owners TO realize that
this bill is a just one. but when new
stands and other improvements, which
/ understand are not paid for, are
cleared Of Indebtedness, the per cent
asked will not be missed.
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
FEDERALS
ARE RAW BUSHERS
Connie Mack Thinks Cy Fakenberg Only Real Capture Made
So Far by the Outlaw Leaguers-Naps viii, Still
Be American League Contender

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 2.-ConnIe
Mack, shrewd leader of the worlds
champions, has a poor opinion of the
Federal League battle line, and doesn't
hesitate to say so.
"The Federal League" says the
Sphinx OF the diamond, hasn't obtained
one valuable player. except possibly
Falkenberg, of the Maps. All the others
are players about whom there was much
doubt on their ability to retain their
positions. They are men likely to 90
any minute.
II was much amused when read in
the papers about the line-ups OF the
various teams in the Federal. They put
especial stress on the players the Chi
cago and Baltimore teams have dug up.
1 looked in the list, and, were / bet
ting man, l would like to wager that
neither the Chicago nor Baltimore team
could finish one, two, three In either the
American Association or International
League. AS for. the others. they are no
better than the rawest bush teams.
"The Federals call themselves a
major league, but just wait until the
The Washington times., 1914-02-02

For a while during the holidays Joe
acted as store detective in a depart
ment store on the Avenue, but he didn't
take to this work very heartily and so
quit at the first opportunity.
Right now Joe is in training to be-
come a teacher of the polite art of
tangoing. He thinks there is a great
future in this sprightly dance and that,
II he has to retire from the diamond.
he may become a renowned instructor
evening he may be seen at the Arcade,
picking UP pointers on the Argentine
craze.
Because he has to work to live, Jim
Shaw is clothing merchant Down at
kautman's on the Avenue many of the
best young men of the city are buying
clothes from a smiling, cheerful lad
without knowing that they are talking
with a possible Walter Johnson of the
future. Shaw, perhaps the most prom
ising youngster on the Climbers staff.
is a sensible lad who refuses to loaf.
He has a perfectly good reason, too.
You see he wakes fat unless he keeps
hustling all the time.
This work isn't so very hard" says
Jim, but 1t serves to keep me oc-
cupled. 1t may make my training a bit
easier. too. I've put on about ten or
fifteen pounds already since the season
ended. If I didn't do something like
this, I'd become hogfat. 1 don't see
this loafing around, and, after living in
Pittsburgh, it's a relief to be living in
clean city like Washington"
When Chick Gandil made up his mind
TO winter in the Capital he made a wise
move. The big first baseman always
spent his off-seasons IN the damp hol-
lows around Shreveport. La. reporting
to his team filled with aches and pains.
ii
West Baden. Ind, in three weeks. the
big swatsman is enjoying far better
health than he has in years, and he
lays it all to his living in Washington.
What does Chick do? Well. II you
happen to stray into Frank Sherman's
billiard parlor. on New York avenue,
that big, deep-chested. sQuare-shoul-
dered chap with the brown eyes who
The Washington times., 1914-02-02

sets 'em up for you-yes. he's Chick.
And don't rile him. A fellow with those
terrific shoulders and that mutton-like
hand Is a dangerous customer when
riled.
''Fateem" Foster, who hides his funny
little grin down on Fifth street, is just
living in the Capital. living, that's all.
And he's having a great time just doing
that.
work? What. me work? Not a
chance" exclaims the watch charm
third baseman. ''All / do in the day
Is sleep, eat, visit around. examine the
rare works of art at the Congressional
Library and walking up and down F
street. eat some more. shoot little
pool. bowl a string or two, look at
Cutie Morgan rolling IN a regular
league. make little visits to some
friends over in Georgetown and then
sleep some more. Oh manage to pass
my days"
Foster allows that Chicago MAJ be a
great place to hail from, az he does.
but Washington beats 1t all hollow as
a residential city. That's why he's here.
f. "Dorf' Ainsmith, the mighty-mus-
cled young backstop, is a belated resi-
dent of the Capital. Finding himself
acting as principal escort to Mrs. Aim
smith he figured out that Washington
was a far better place than San An
tonic, Tex. So he came. Tho Ainsmiths
are living at the Dewey. habitat of the
veteran players OF the ball team.
Now that I'm married man. I'm so
busy" smiles Eddie. when I'm not
keeping in shape at the Y. NJ. c. A.
I'm escorting Mrs. Ainsmith somewhere
or other. I've seen more of Washing
ton within the last two weeks than ever
before. I've played here three years,
too. My job now is chief escort to Mrs.
Ainsmith. Good-by, I'll see you again. -
Mique Martin, the safe and sane
trainer. is really a Washingtonian now,
though he does sleep over in Cherry
dale, Va You'll bump into him almost
any. day on F street or the Avenue
You see MiQue is chief bottle washer
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
BINGLES AMI BUNTS
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

year in ten-round circles: but there &
also the chance, unless the proper tii
Is handed them In advance, that IN,
sktt viii be a dancing act, with only
flourish of gloves on the side-and no
on the side OF the tawbone or the neck
GIBBONS, however, has improved n
this respect, and Packy, once keyed uT
to the job. can go to It with any ons
now in the ring. So II expected form
develops this pair should put througl
the neatest outbreak lamped in som'
time.
Dartmouth isn't to play Carlisle again
And in some ways it's hard to blams
her. Dartmouth. barring Penn, wa
the : big Eastern eleven willing tC
take q shot at the Indians last year
and ye il was the Indian game tha
dumped dartmouth from a champion
ship Claim.
The Indians are the most popular car
on the market with the general low
browed public, but the most unpopula;
with elevens who yearn to establish
strong claim to any champlonshii
status
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
No Other City Provides Homes
for So Many of Its Own
Players.
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

Ever stop to think of Washington s
winter colony of its own big leaguers:
Well, it has one, q real one, too.
OF course, you all know that Clark
Griffith sits on a throne in the new
noble young athletes every day. That's
a part of his job. A real manager is
always on the job.
But Washington is leading the coun-
try in providing a home for its own
diamond heroes. 1t is doubtful IL any
city in the country harbors so many OF
it's own players as the Capital When
a home product finds a job on his own
big league team anywhere in the land
there is always a Clamor from the sport
writers, who marvel at the thing.
What do these boys do to pass away
their time here? Oh, many things. Nc
two work alike during the off season,
though they are all busy.
Making their homes in the Capital
this winter are Clark Griffith, Chick
Gandil, Eddie Foster. Joe Engel. Johnny
Mumford. Eddie Ainsmtth, Jim Shaw,
Mique Martin and Jack Ryan. SIX of
this bunch are active players. -Four
We're on last years team. Then there
Is Tomasso Hughes, who has proba bly,
played his last game in q Washington
uniform. He, too. is a resident OF the
Capital.
What do they do? Oh, different
things.
My Poy Choe'' Engel, largely be-
cause Of absence of orders to the con-
trary. does little or nothing. He's only
kid, anyway, though a mighty big
one and growing bigger every week
The Washington times., 1914-02-02
KAHLER LEAPS TO FEDS
TO ESCAPE NAP JEERS

said Kahler. I'm one way don't blame
the fans, for have not been winner
But IL those same fans had known thai
l exerted every ounce Of strength anc
used every bit of skin / had every tfIns
1 pitched ball, think they woulS
have treated me a little different.
'It was not my fault that / wai
sent in to pitch I simply obeyed or,
ders and did the best I could. Whet
I was beaten or knocked out Of the box
Il had to take more abuse than any
pitcher who ever performed in CIeve
land.
There were afternoons when. II
had had less nerve. would have beer
driven from the mound by the action
of the fans. I have seen as many a.
5000 fans rise from their seats and ven
their displeasure when I was sent n
to pitch on big days One day last sea,
son when was sent in against the
Athletics before huge crowd. 4
seemed to me that practically ever,
person in the park was my enemy.
'I pitched under the most discourag
ing conditions in Cleveland practically
all the time I was with the Nap club
but always tried my best and nobody
felt worse than when the team lost
The Washington times., 1914-02-02

fans have a chance to see their teams
and hear the howl. After all, Il Is the
public that is going to decide the fate
of baseball, and don't think for !
minute you can dupe a fan. He won'i
need any aid - telling the difference
between a major and minor league
team.
''FaIkenberg, who. It seems. has left
Cleveland. has always been known az
an anarchist I read the interview "
which he said Shat he jumped because
Somers paid him a minor league salary
last year and raised II only s93S 8
week this year
This pitcher has been in and out o.
the major leagues q number Of years
and last season was the only time he
ever had real good year
II know that he received an adeduats
salary last season. and that the raise
offered him this season was many more
times than $9.SS a week In fact, his
salary was increased almost 50 per cent
Nobody can accuse Charles Somers
of being parsimonious. He always pays
good salaries to the Cleveland PLAYERS
Somers was a fan before he was a base
ball owner, and nobody knowing him
will believe this outrageous attach
Falkenberg made on him"