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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
Change Schmidt to Smith.

Naturalized German shopkeepers in
London are taking unusual precautions
against possible boycotts. The follow
ing notice posted on bakery in Soho
is being copied by other dealers: +
1.-TWO hundred and fifty dollars re
ward will be given to any charitable
institution upon the discovery by any
person of adulteration in the bread sold
in this establishment.
God bless our king and country. The
proprietor of this business wishes TO
inform the public that he is natural
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
WILLIAMS HITS EN- HARD.
Outfelder For ST. Louis Browns Likes
to Swat Ball.

Take a look at Gus Williams of the
st. Louis Browns. He is the sort OF
batter the fans like to see step to the
plate. for when he hits he hits hard.
and the bali goes a long distance If he
lands on it. Gus specializes in extra
base hits. Bunting does not interest
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
GUS WILLIAMS.

him very much. He wants to see how
far the ball will go. and he swings at
it with all his might. Once he gets to
first Williams has an ambition to CON
tinue moving, and he is one of the ten
best base stealers in the American
league.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

SIR HERBERT BEERBoHM TREE, ENGLISH
ACTOR, NOW WAR POLICEMAN.
lied British subject of many years
standing and his loyalty is equal to
that of any of his most gracious maj
estys subjects. whom he treats and
respects as man to man."
One German baker in south London
whose name was Schmidt" promptly
changed it to Smith
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
National League Games Today

Boston at New York.
Brooklyn At Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at Pittsburg.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

FRENCH REsERv1sr SAYING GooDBY.
es there were sallies of humor in the
dialects of the various English, Irish
and Scotch counties. The cockney was
there with quips about Uncle BILL
and every Irishman who went into the
firing line wished he had money to buy
a little Irish horse so that he might
take a slap at the uhlans.'
''As for the cavalry. the officers de-
clare, their charges against the Ger
mans were superb. They charged as
berserks might have done. They gave
the uhlans the surprise of their lives"
Heroes Of Gumbinnen.
The St Petersburg Novoe Vremya
publishes an account of what it terms
the memorable charge of the Russian
horse guards at Gumbinnen in the re-
cent fighting, in which the Russians
were victorious. 1t says:
The Germans held Il position in n
small village from which they were
pouring a murderous fire on the Rus
sian troops. Cavalry was ordered to
silence the guns. The first squadron
rode straight ut the battery, which, fir
ing point blank, moved down the Rus
sian ranks. frightfully annihilating the
! squadron. The second squadron fol-
| lowed fast and would have shared
! the same fate except that at the crit
! ical moment a third squadron rushed
on to the enemy from the flank, sa-
/ bered the gunners, and routed the
whole German force"
Carnage at Altkirch.
A private. Jean Martin. invalided
home, tells lie Matin how the French
took Altkirch, in Lower Alsace. He
says:
after whole days of maneuvering
we came near Atkirch, commanded by
a ridge of the Vosges. We advanced
our regiment, being in the center, and
our artillery was blazing away.
when we reached the top we saw
at our feet slope covered with cult.
waited fields. At the foot of the decliv-
ity were station and town. What a
descent that was in skirmiShinS order
among the potatoes and beetsi What
music accompanied us. Bullets whis
Ting from all sides! Grand Dieux
What whiStling that was
I'VE continued to advance under &
hail of bullets. Then charge sounded
The whole brigade dashed forward
with bayonets fixed The enemy aban
doned their positions and retired. Thai
evening we slept ut Altkirch, my com
pany being III the cemetery"
Dramatic Farewells.
Something of the pity Of wars part
lngs of families was brought home tt
New York with the sailing of thu
French Line steamship France 70
Havre with 200 French and Swiss re
Seryists and a handful of French arm,
officers on their way to the front from
: Youth America. The pier echoed wit
the wild abandon of Latin enthusiasm
and grief. Women chung to the neck
of husbands and brothers leaving 70
the homeland to fight against the Gen
: mans. Children stood clinging ut thei
: knees. staring daZedly about. while fl
L Their ana mother alternately caugl
them up. pressing them tasathei
breasts. Elsewhere Young men, uninul
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES, WHO TOOK
PLACE OF WOUNDED FLAG BEARER.
ly live in history, charged the German
battery, bayonetting all the German
gunners. Their losses, it is said, ex-
ceeded those of the light brigade ut
Balaclava. OF a battalion only 100
men, it Is reported, returned unscathed
Their bravery. however, was power
less against the German advance.
which crept foot by foot through the
outskirts of Charleroi to the very heart
of the town.
There in the narrow streets the chr
mage was indescribable. \ French IN
fantryman told me that the roads be-
came so damned with dead that the
killed remained standing upright where
they had been shot, supported by their
dead comrades"
Outside an inn was to be seen the
dead figure of German officer with
his head bowed over basin and soan
lather dry upon his face, where he had
been shot in the act of washing.
There was another who lay across a
table, while a cup of coffee which he
had been in the act of raising to his lips
at the moment when death found him
lay broken on the ground.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

South Africa IS annual buchu leaf out
put is valued at 100000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
National League.
American League Games Today.

New York at Boston 1.-TWO games
Philadelphia at Washington.
Detroit at st. Louis
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

Wisdom has an uphill fight against
the blissfulness of ignorance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
YESTERDAYS GAMES.
American League.

It1HVVh dHH LdFp, OIIW, JUHHoUH
and Ainsmith.
At St. Louis, called Sth, darkness:
Detroit, 9 Is
St. Louis. q 9
Dubuc, Main and Stanage; Lever
enz, Mitchell, Baumgardncr and Agnew.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

At Boston:
Boston New York, rain
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01
Hurricane of Iron. "

traveller arriving at Paris from
Charlcroi was witness of part of the
fighting at that place. He said:
II was at Foreux, fifteen miles from
Erquelines. This region is covered
with a thick growth of trees. From
where | was stationed | could see the
passing for hours of column after col
umn of German infantry. They were
Subiected to a yeritabIe hurricane of
Iron from the French artillery. and
they Went down by the dozen Never
ihel ,ss more came forward to take the
places of the slain
Prince Dies Hero.
Berlin newspapers are filled with
stories of how prominent German off
GERS fell on the battlehelds. How
Prince Frederic William of Lippe dice
In the lighting before Liege is describ
cd i'm dispatch received from the
headquarters of the German army
The princes infantry regiment wa.
surrounded by the Bclgians under tht
walls of Ticge. and he was struck by
two bullets while standing among hi,
men. The bullets took effect in tn
princes neck. and rs he fell he cried
grasping the regimental standard
Save the flag"
Wounded soldiers arriving at Frank
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-01

T%ACH days dispatches from Eu-
rope bring stories of bravery
~ on the battlefield and calm
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
GEN. HUERTA LEAVES MEXICO
Goes on Board German Cruiser Dres-
den, Which VIII Take Him
to jamaica.

Puerto Mexico, July 22.-Victoriano
Huerta has left Mexican soil, probably
never to return. After open signs Of
mutiny which led to the arrest of two
officers for attempting to excite the
soldiers to assassinate him, the ex-
dictator listened to the fearful en-
treaties of his wife and friends and
went on board the German cruiser
Dresden.
Standing amidst group to whom he
was bidding farewell, the ex-president
granted the first real interview he has
given out since he left Mexico City. He
hurled shafts of sarcasm at Wilson
and Bryan, and predicted that there
would be chaos in Mexico for while,
but that the ultimate preservation of
the country's autonomy would be &C
complished without the Intervention of
the United States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
AFTER BIG .SWINDLERS
GOVERNMENT WILL PROSECUTE
SEVERAL COMPANIES.
Worthless Tracts Along the BIO
Grande, Title to Which is in Dis
pute, Sold to Investors.

Washington, July 21.-Several COM
panies and corporations that have
been fraudulently selling lands along
the Rio Grande are soon to be prose
cuted by the federal department of
justice. The lands are practically
worthless and title to them is in dis
pute between Mexico and this coun-
try
The operators are said to have
made millions out of the fraud. A spe-
cial investigation of the matter was
made by W. w. Follett, consulting en-
gineer Of the international boundary
commission, Gen. Arson Mills, chair
man. which is seeking to settle by
agreement the claims of the two gov
ernments to lands created by changes
in the course of the river. His report
to the commission shows that the
fraud was extensive. More than one
thousand Of the claims secured by in
by the commission.
The operators in these sand lots OBJ
tanned some color Of title to the prop
erty, presumably from Mexican claim
ants, before the commission had de-
cided to which country the land be-
longed. Through enticing literature
and by other means the spectators
unloaded the land at cheap prices to
reckless investors on representation
that they were fertile and well wa
tered. Investigation by Mr.. Follett
developed that much of the lands SO
sold were non-productive, even though
the title to them could have been sus-
tanned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES

Springfield, ILL.,, July 21.-Jealcus be-
cause his wife left him a few months
after they were married, Charles
Jerdes, aged twenty-four years, farm
er of Edinburg, Is miles southeast of
Springfield, began murderous assault
that did not end until he had killed his
wife, Mrs. Hela Jerdes. aged eighteen
years. probably fatally injured his
mother-in-law Mrs. Frank Gardner.
and turned the gun upon himself. in
fl1cting mortal wounds.
San Francisco, July 2O.-C Ceremonies
In connection with ground-breaking
for Oklahoma's building were on the
program at the Panama-Pacific expo
sition. Mrs. Fred Sutton of Okla
homa City, commissioner to tho expo
sition, will turn the first spadeful of
earth.
Savannah, Ca, July 18.-The first
bale of Georgia's 1914 cotton crop, and
the earliest ever received in the his
tory of the local cotton exchange. ar
rived here. 1t was grown at Donald
sonville in Decatur county, and is be-
lieved to be the first cotton baled east
of the Mississippi
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
CHARTER FOR MOsINEE BANK
kuoIt Approves Ruling of State Ref
cree Board Much Against
His Will.

Madison.-Against his better judg.
ment, but complying with the ruling
of the referee board that the state
banking department has no discretion
in the matter, Commissioner of Bank.
ing A. e. Kuolt has approved articles
of Incorporation for the Farmers State
bank of Mosinee, Marathon county.
Commissioner Kuolt first denied the
charter on the ground that the village
was already adequately supplied with
banking facilities and that certain pro-
moters of the new bank have business
records which warranted him in going
slow in approving their application.
The board of review decided that the
law is unconstitutional. The commits
sioner declared that the board is not
court, and it should have upheld his
decision on the showing of facts made
by him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
JUDGE REID GIVES DECISION Ing
FAVOR OF IMPROVEMENT
COMPANY.
WAS IN COURT SINCE 1905
City viii Appeal the case-Litisation
involved Rights and Privi-
Ieges to DeIIs Dam Of
Eau Claire.

Eau Claire-By the decision hand,
ed down by Judge A. H. Reid of Wau-
sau, before whom the case was tried
here last February, the city of Eau
Claire is the loser in the famous Dells
dam case, while the Dells Improve
ment company and the Dells Paper e.
Pulp Co. of this city are victors. The
city will appeal.
The litigation, which had been hang.
ing fire in the courts since 1906, in.
volved rights and privileges to the
Dells dam in this city, which was built
by the city in 1877 and leased to the,
plaintiffs for term of ninety-nine
years for the consideration of 81 per
year.
The city assailed the ninety-nine
year contract, holding it invalid, con-
tending among other things that such
a contract was in abuse of discretion-
airy power of the city and contrary to
public policy, and that the city had
no power to make such q contract
The court. denied these contentious.
The city also contended that the
Dells people had violated certain pro-
visions of the contract and hence had
forfeited their rights, giving the city
right to seize the dam; but the court
ruled that although such violations
had occurred, that the city had waived
its forfeiture rights by certain acts of
its common. council, since the contract
was entered into. 1t is said 5000 to-
10000 horsepower is developed by the
dam.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
RAISE
COMMERCE COMMISSIONERS ARE
READY TO ISSUE THEIR
RATE DECISION.
SOME BALM FOR RAILROADS
Ruling Authorizes Increases In Class
Freights That Will Give Them $751;
100000 More a Year-Economies
Are Demanded.

Washington, July 21.-The decision
Of the inter ate commerce board In
the five per cent rate increase case Is
both favorable and unfavorable to the
railroads. The ruling, which was COM
pleted at meeting Of the commits
sion, is virtually ready for issuance,
though few changes may be made.
A measurable increase in class rates
is granted.
No increases whatever are allowed
on commodities.
No fiat five per cent increase is
granted on any commodity or upon
any class rate.
To that extent the decision will be
sweepingly unfavorable to the car
riers.
Increases in class rates amounting
to $15,000,000 annually are authorized.
To that extent the decision will be
favorable to the roads.
Economies which will save the east
ern lines probably $25,0O0,000 year
are insisted upon by the commission.
The financial Encouragement OF
many Of the lines will be cited as a
reason why efficiency and economy
must take the place of added revenue
from rates,
Extravaganza and waste in the pur-
chase of supplies are condemned by
the commissioners,
The roads are rebuked by the COM
mission for an attempt to create a
public sentiment in favor Of an in
crease.
Any increase, the commissioners
will say, higher than that allowed in
the forthcoming order would fall upon
the consumer and the consumer will
be warned against any dealer who
charges more for his goods by reason
of the decision
These in general are the big and i'm
portant phases of the commissions re-
port as printed. But few if any
changes will be made before it is given
out. An increase possibly may be al
lowed on two commodities, but hardly
upon more
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
MOB RAZES 8 MINES
STRIKERS AND NoN-UNIoN MEN
WAGE LONG BATTLE.
Union Miners Use Dynamite and Fire
to Destroy structures-ProPerty
Loss is $25Cyooo.

Fort Smith. Ark, July z0.-Union
miners and sympathfzers numbering
several hundred destroyed nearly ev-
erythfng at the three mines OF NAM
moth Vein Coal company, at Pralrle
Greek. % miles east Of here, and en-
gagged a force of non-union employees
in a battle that waged from SIX O'CLOCK
until noon on Friday. Dynamite ana
fire were used to destroy the struc-
lures. The loss is $3.50, 600.
The most remarkable incident IN
connection with the clash, the result
of a strike of union employees, is that
no one was killed, and that only four
persons were injured. The battle
came to an end when the employees ex-
hausted their supply of ammunition.
The unionists claim their forces num-
bered between two and four hundred,
while the non-unfonists allege they
were attacked by fully 1900 men.
While the latter say that they had out
from sixty to one hundred men, the
union forces declared they numbered
200.
The first attack was made on mine
No. 1, where a tipple and smaller
buildings were burned. Then an at
tack was made on mine No, 8, where
tippIe and company houses were set
af1re and the machinery and mouth OF
the mine shaft dynamited.
The attacking force next moved to
mine No. 4, the only plant that was
guarded and operating. The employees
were lodged behind barricade, while
the attacking force took refuge in the
timbers and rocks on the edge of
ridges in nearby hills. The long dis
lance at which the fight was waged
prevented any fatalities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
CAN'T REACH ARCTIC PARTY
Steamer Kit Gives Up Attempt to Res
cue Explorer Stefansson and
His Companions.

Nome, Alaska, July 21.-The pre-
dfcament Of the remnant Of Explorer
Stefansson's party, who have been
marooned on ice-locked Wrangall
island since the laundering Of the Kar-
lux, is growing more perilous. accord
ing to the officers Of the steamer Kit.
which has arrived here from the
Arctic. The Kit is a powerful ice
breaker yet she was unable to get
within one hundred miles Of Wrangall
island
The Kit forced her way through
Behring strait and brought up at Icy
Cape May q. For the next IA days
she tried every opening lead to reach
WrangaIl island. but finally gave up
the attempt Her master, veteran
whaler, reports the ice conditions in
the Arctic the worst ever known.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
NEW SOUTH AFRICAN PARTY
General Hertzog Points Danger in Gen.
trail imperial Parliament-Critl-
cizes Botha.

Cape Town, July 21.-General Hert-
zog has definitely launched the new
national party, the formation of which
was decided on last January at the Or
ange Free State provisional congress.
In the course of speech, General
Hertzog criticized General Botha's i'm
perial policy, insisting that in many of
its recent actions the government had
been dictated to by capitalists. While
he recognizes the British empire in
the abstract, he insists there was Sc
rious danger in the idea of a central
parliament for Great Britain and the
dominions, the latter being thereby
reduced to the position of a crown
colony.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
INSPECT FISH HATCHERIEs
Wisconsin State Commission Re.
Elects Old Officers While on
Annual Tour.

Madison.-The members of>the state
fisheries commission have returned
from their annual trip of inspection Of
state fish hatcheries located in differ
ent parts of the state They were ac-
companied on the trip by Governor
McGovern and Secretary of State Don"
aid, but the former left the party at
Ashland before the tour was finished.
While on the trip the commission re,
elected its old officers for the ensuing
year, as follows: President, Jabe Al
ford, Madison; vice president, A. L.
Sanborn, Oshkosh; secretary, Dean E.
A. Birge of the state university.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
Gonzalez starts an Uprising.

Vera Cruz, July 21-Two unofficial
kilograms received here say Fernan-
DEE Gonzalez with $500 federal sol
diers has started an uprising in Mex
leo City and sent word to Emiliano
Zapata that he will aid him in taking
possession of the government Zapata
is reported to have notified the au-
thorities of the small towns around
the capital that he will begin hostlli-
ties Immediately Unless they surren-
der. Gonzalez returned to Mexico
about month and a half ago under
he amnesty offered by Huerta to all
participants in the previous rebellion
who would come back and fight the
Carranza forces.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
FRAUD IS ALLEGED
RELATIONS OF RAILROADS AND
COAL OPERATIONS IN ILL
NoIs Barred.
REPORT OF COMMERCE BODY
New York Central and the O'Gara
and Saline Coal Companies Especial
Iy Involved in the Sensational Dis
closures.

Washington, July 22.-One OF the
most sensational reports issued in
long time by the interstate commerce
commission has just been made to
congress. It concerns the relations OF
railroads with coal operations general
Iy in Illinois and especially those OF
the New York Central with the O'Gara
Coal company.
The report covers a gingant1c
scheme of alleged fraud, rebates, dis
criminatory practices and special
privileges.
The men most deeply involved are:
w. 0. Brown, former president OF
the New York Central system.
Charles P. Hewitt, brother-in-laW OF
w. o. Brown.
S. w. McCune, an agent employed
by Brown.
John Cartensen, vice-president of
the New York Central.
r. M. Huddleston, general auditor OF
the New York Central lines west OF
Buffalo.
The report finds that these officials
promoted the O'Gara Coal company
and the Saline Coal company for the
purpose of protecting the future fuel
supply of the New York Central sys-
tenn and of securing additional tom
mage.
According to the findings of the COM
mission, the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern, part of the New York Cen
q
bate of 100000. The New York Cen
trail solicited business for the O'Gara
company; paid it more for coal than
1T was getting from any other con-
Germ, protected its contracts; loaned
it nearly five hundred thousand dol
Oars; extended it's credit without Sc
curity or interest, and gave it other
preferences more technical but just
as advantageous.
When Mr.. Brown started out to ac-
quire the coal land in question. he
chose as his agent S. w. -McCune,
whom he had known for nearly TWEEN
ty-f1ve years." says the report, "and in
whom he had such explicit confidence
that he declined to require surety
bond Of him, saying that he would be
personally responsible for the prop
erty In his care To assist McCune,
Mr.. Brown appointed Charles P. Hew-
lit, his brother-in-law.
"The record shows that he at once
became tool in the hands of McCune,
with whom he agreed to divide his
commission in return for certain serv-
ices by McCune, the nature OF which
Hewitt was unable to explain and
which McCune did not explain.
"The record does not show that Mr..
Brown had any knowledge of the ir-
Irregularities in the purchase Of these
properties"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
STORM HITS KENTUCKY CITY
Henderson Almost Wiped Out by Ter
rifle Tornado-Many Buildings
Demolished.

Henderson, KY, July 2O.-The dawn
Of day after night Of intense dark
ness revealed to Henderson the extent
of the damage by the tornado that
struck the city. Buildings demolished
or partly wrecked, net of twisted
wires, telegraph poles lying across the
streets and trees twisted up and hurled
PROSTATE made scene of desolation
and havoc. When the three-story
building of the Crane Furniture COM
pany was blown down it crushed the
home of William Suell, a contractor,
adjoining, killing Mrs. Suell and her
fourteen-year-old nephew.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-07-24
TRAGEDY IN LOS ANGELES
Contractor Kills Beautiful Georgia
Woman and Then Puts Bullet
In His Own Brain.

Los Angeles; CAL, July 22-While
her five-year-old son frantically called
for help, Mrs. Edna Skies, the beauti-
full young wife of President Skies of
the First National bank of Norcross,
Ca, was shot and killed at her tenn
porary home here by Charles H. Haag.
a Los Angeles builder and contractor.
Haag then sent bullet through his
own brain and fell dead across the
body of his victim.
A mad infatuation on the part of
Haag for Mrs. Skies is said to have
been the cause of the tragedy. He had
only recently been divorced.