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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
VERMONT BREVITIES.

Albert c. Brooks of Swantcn has filed
a petition in bankruptcy giving liabilities
of $353.5s and assets of 500.
Title Ballard, son of Samuel Ballard Of
West Rutland, was struck by an automo-
bile Sunda" while riding bicycle and suf-
fered fractured shoulder blade
While on a fishing trip at Clarendon
Springs Saturday James Brown Of Rut-
land caught his foot in a tree stump
and stumbled, throwing his left knee out
of Joint and tearing off the ligaments.
r w. Morris and Seeley b. FaheY, two
University of Wisconsin students, who
are hiking through New England, stop
ped in Montpelier the other day.
Several Barre churches are to unite
this summer in out-of-door services Sun
day evenings. Nearly all of the Protest
ant churches have decided to discontinue
Sunday evening services TO unite in a
religious program in City park.
| Giuseppe Corti of Barre Is suffering
from painful injuries received when an
automobile in which he was riding went
over a 25-foot emhankment near Wood
bury the other day. Other occupants OF
| the car were unhurt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
Is So Recognized at Internal
Peace Farley at Tor
reOn.
VILLA SUBORDINATE
Elections Last Sunday an At
tempt to Wash Out One
Stain with Another,
He Declares.

Torreon. Mex. July Gen. V Car
rama has been recognized as first chief
of the constitutlonalist revolution and
General Francisco Villa is subordinate 70
him This confirmation of the relative
positions of Carranza and Villa was re-
garded as the most important step taken
a the internal peace parley here intended
to reunite the Villa and Carranza fac
tions
In settling this point, the question
of supplying the division of the north,
which Villa commands, with coal and
ammunition probably will find an auto
matte solution. While General Villa
owes Carranza absolute subordination,
Carranza on the other hand, is obliged
to meet the wants of the villa troops
The conference is ended so far as vital
points are concerned. The statement
was made to-day that the results OF
the meetings were satisfactory. Gen
eral Villa said to-day
81 hope that the outcome of tho con-
ference will be beneficial to Mexico and
that the patriotic motives will cause the
compact to he kept"
Villa had little to say on the elections
held last Sunday, in the territory con
| troled by Huerta except that it was q
| matter of secondary Importance or al
attempt to wash out one stain with an
other.
| Most Il the constitutional army viii
he concentrated near Chihuahua city
until the advance on Mexico City is re-
| sUmed.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
BRADSTREET'S WEEKLY
VERMONT TRADE REPORT

Bradstreets Burlington office reports in
summarizing trade conditions for the first
half of the present year that manufacture
ing interests are reasonably well employ
ed and have been but among some lines
"A less volume of business has been done
than for the same period of a year ago.
With the retail merchants June trade has
made up in part for the losses in volume
experienced during the months Of April
and May, the merchants reports. however
are uneven, some firms report the six
months business little below normal
while others state their trade has been all
that could have been expected. The bust
ness done by the automobile dealers In
the State shows an increase. Summer
hotels and summer resort places are be-
ing well patronized and the season bids
fair TO give larger volume of business
than year ago. An improvement among
| the machine manufacturing interests Is
reported during the past month. There
| Is a. good demand at the organ manufac-
| turing plants. Garment manufacturers
| report a fair trade. some of them show
an increase in the volume of business done.
| The demand for furniture during the last
| six months has been light although the
| first four months showed large sales
Veneer manufa cturers report less
amount of orders and labor at some of
these plants is not fully employed
| Among the granite manufacturers the
output is reported as fairly good although
some of the plants would like more or
ders. Granite shipments in the rough
have been as large as usual and the quar-
ries report n good amount of business
ahead, AS a whole, more business was
done in the first four months in the mon
umentaD line, proportionally, than for thu
last two months. Marble manufa cturers
! report the monumental trade fair but q
good demand for stone for building pur-
poses Lumber Is not moving as we'll as
1t did during the earlier part of the yea,
although the amount of building work in
progress and in prospect in the State Is
fully as large as usual, In some places
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
GREEN Nln1,NrAIN ellie

The fourth annual meeting of the Green
Mountain club will be held at the Hotel
Berwick, Rutland, Saturday, July IS, at
II go a. m. After the meeting there will
be two excursions, one party going TO
Bird mountain and another party to XII
lington peak. Both parties will return In
time for the evening trains. Those who
plan to attend the meeting will facilitate
arrangements by notifying Willis NJ. Ross,
secretary of the killinEton section, which
of the two excursions they desire to join,
and whether they will take supper at the
Berwick hotel that evening. The follow
ing amendments to the constitution of the
Green Mountain club will be acted upon
at the business meeting: That the eX-
preston six Vice Presidents in Article
" of the constitution he amended to
read Vice Presidents" that the follow
| ing section be added to Article Ill; Hon
| orary membership in the Green Mountain
club may be conferred by vote of the
club at its annual meeting: that Section
| ! of Article IN. he amended to read:
| "Out Of door clubs in colleges, schools,
churches and the Y. NJ. c. a may be-
| come affiliated with the Green Mountain
club The dues for such affiliated organ
| izations shah be at least 81.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
APPROPRIATIONS CUT
DEFEATED IN SENATE

Washington. July Powerful cham
pions went to the defense Of industrial
relations commission in the Senate to-
day and after an all day debate defeated.
&c TO 10, an appropriations committee
amendment to cut down to $4,000 the
100000 provided for the commission by
the House in the sundry civil bill. Chair
man Martin of the committee declared no
results had been accomplished to warrant
further expenditures, by Senators Borah,
Stone, Kenyon, Cummns and Works in
sisted that the commissions investiga
tons were all important. The West Nir-
ginia. Michigan and Colorado strikes
We're cited as evidence.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
CHRISTIANS MAY
BE BURIED IN
JEWISH GROUNDS

Detroit, Mich, July THE central con-
ference of American rabbits at the closing
session here to-day authorized the APP
pontment Of a committee which will en-
deavor to harmonic the civil law of the
States with the Mosaic law relating to
marriage and divorce. The discussion of
the subject made it plain that the or
ganization would not countenance n vio-
laton Of the civil law even where 1t
conficted with the Mosaic law.
1t also was decided by the conference
that Christians may be buried I'm Jewish
cemeteries if there is no sectarian serv-
Ice at the grave and no Christian sym
bols on the monument.
Virtually all of the last session was
taken up with discussion of reports on
ritual and ecclesiastical practice
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AGREEMENT IN
CONTEST OF WILL

Montpelier. July Judge l.. p. Slack
of ST Johnsbury here for chancery cases
will sign an agreement reached in Jessie
Law Ingram against Alice B. Paige, Will
liam H. Harrison, executor of the James
Ingram estate, and others, in accordance
with the prayer of the orator that she
should receive one third of her husband s
half of certain quarry land valued at
$4,000. Mr. Ingram was at one time a
leading granite dealer in Barre He
willcd his wife and daughter 81 each
when he died and his wife contested on
property in Vermont decided prior TO his
death The case in different forms has
been in the courts many years and has
attracted wide interest.
Judge Slack has granted so a week
alimony to Elizabeth Clark Mulch who
has sued James Mulch. her husband, for
divorce on the grounds of intolerable
severity and refusal to support Mr..
Mulch was formerly mayor of Barre.
She asks for the custody of five children,
the oldest eight and the youngest II
| months
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
WOO]CUTTER MOOTE SHOT
Famous Axe-WieIdcr of Springfield
Worstcd In Fight with
Officers.

Springfield, July 7.-Edward Moote. who
a few years ago won not only state but
national fame as a woodchopper, under
the patronage Of the late Maxwell
Evarts of Windsor, is in the Springfield
hospital with bullet wounds in his left
arm and shoulder, a the result of mix
up between Moote's son, Charles, and
the officers Of the law. after the latter
made, it is alleged, threat to harm
&c. l.. Douglass. who operates a stage
between F'elchville and Green Bush
According to the story told the wood
choppers son had an alteration sun
day morning at Perkinsville with the
stage proprietor during which. it is
claimed, the younger Moote not only
used abusive language but threatened in
the near future to get even with Doug
lass. 1t is said that MoOte went so far
as to threaten the life Of Douglass
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
SUFFRAGETTES THROW
PAPER AT ROYAL PAIR

Edinburgh July 6.-The suffragettes
took advantage of the visit here to-day
Of King George and Queen Mary to pre-
pare the usual suffraeettc demonstration,
in which the bombardmcnt of the royal
couple with suffragcttc literature was
the feature.
Two women obtained possession of a
balcony and as the royal carriage passed
they threw down upon it a lot of suf-
fraEette appeals. Then two detectives
seized them
The King. looking up, saw the women
struggling in the arms of the officers.
They We're removed to the police sta
ton.
The women gave the names of Lock
and Owen. Among their missiles was a
paper ball containing message TIC
show King George that women are being
prosecuted for defending their freedom. v
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
FLORA OF EARLY WORLD
Fossil Trees and Plants of Millions of
Years Ago Found in South Caro-
lima and Georgia Indicate an
almost Tropical Climate.

BY count of the annual rings in the
California. it has been ascertsined that
nearly 5000 years, or the major portion
of recorded human history, has passed
across the stage since that tree was a
seeding. But, long as this period seems
when gagged by human achievement, il
is a fraction of time almost too small
to be measured when compared with the
remote geologic age during which certain
of the ancestors of the California giant
tree were living along our Atlantic coast
The ancient vegetation which grew in
So.Ith Carolina and Georgia during Upper
Cretaceous and Eocene time-or as geo.
| logists state at least several million
years ago-has been made the subject
of an exhaustive investigation by Edward
| WILDER Berry, report on which has
lust been published by the United states
| Geological survey as Professional Paper
S. The earlier of these fossil floras,. that
| of the Upper Cretaceous, embraces near
| " one hundred species of wholly eX-
tinct plants and as the majority of them
are believed to have been trees or shrubs
1t is Interesting to compare them with
| the vegetation nDN llNiHb az Wv SN''N
| area.
! In addition to the sequoia or big tree
now confined to the Pacific coast there
were three kinds of araucaras or Nor
folk Island pines, which at the present
time live only In South America and
Australia; a pine with the leaves In clus-
ters of three as in the living pitch pine,
and a number of cypress-like trees which
were once widely spread over the world
but are now extinct There was also a
fan palm with very large leaves, which
was perhaps the remote ancestor of the
palmetto Among the deciduous trees
there were wax berries (Myrica) of two
kinds. walnuts, many willows With long,
narrow leaves, oaks of the type of the
living black oak fig trees of many kinds,
and several magnolias. Among the
smaller trees or shrubs there were soap
berries (Sapindus), bttersweet sumac
llaurels, and cinnamons nearest to forms
now confined to the Old World and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
Plague of GrasshOppers.

Brattleboro, July 7.--Grasshoppers in
large quantities have infested certain
sections OF this county go that planted
and sown crops have been practically de-
stroyed and In some sections the hay
crop two-thirds eaten up. Townshend
and Newfane seem to be injured the most
in the West River valley. In Townshend
the pests have been confined mostly to
the three or four farms on the west
side OF the West river which are TO some
extent isolated. The West river train
In coming through this section gathers
thick mass of these insects in front OF
lit, and regular drove Is sent into each
station through the infested districts.
East Putney and Westminster are also
badly infested
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
IMPORTS OF
MANUFACTURES
INCREASE $50

Washington, July 7.--Foreign manufac
turers sent into the United States during
the first months of the new tariff system
lust eight SIS per cent. more of their FIN
shed product than theY lid under the old
This was pointed to tonight by Secre-
tary Redneld as ample demonstration
that there was no ground for the fears
of American factory owners that they
would be driven from business by the
democratic tariff.
lmportations of foodstuffs showed Il
large per centage of increase in the eight
months, which ended with May, while
foodstuff exports fell off substantially.
There was a relatively small reduction in
the amount of completed manufactures
eX G", ed ,o,., ,.o.... =, .v,,o.,. ,o,
the eight months Of sl45, 703 $40, more than
sl2S,O0OO was In foodstuffs and manu-
| faGtures for further use in manufactur-
| ing. The increase Of lmportations Of food
stuffs was s5G.75O, 437
Total imports for the eight months were
Ny's, 6j6Oil compared with S,8} ,5l9 B5
| for the same period last year. Free mer'
| chandlse for the two periods was, re-
spectlyely, SSOo.2li,OSs and 1858, OLD, 49,
| Total exports were s1,64O 1857, 305 against
S,7s6,O7O,9i5.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
PROOF OF SUPERIORITY,

II wish" sighed Freddie plaintivey,
Il wish | were Billy Smith"
why, Freddie" said his astonished
mother. BILLY Smith has none OF ths
nice things YOU have He doesn't get
any pocket money, and he isn't as big
as YOU and he's not nearly so strong.
His father never buys him presents
Or"
IL know all about that, mamma, said
Freddie, "but---'
"And think what nice books YOU have
And YOU never have to go ont in tho
cold and wet to carry papers and
Il know" srumbled Freddie annoyed
by his mothers strange lack o: under-
standing. But Billy kin vlgsIe mf
ears!"-Tha Dalineator.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09

Of Our Husbands Manufacturing COM
pany, Lyndon, VT, purchasers of large
quantities Of cans testified regarding
prices. lie said that in April, 1909, he sign
ed a two-year contract with the American
Car company for virtually his entire sup
ply of cans at price to be adjusted ac-
cording to fluctuations in the value of tin
plate at the time Of delivery In every
instance but one, he said the delivery wa $
higher than the price named in the con-
tract. The exception occurred Just before
the contract expired. when he obtained
one shipment at the igure named in the
contract as the basic price.
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2,4.s, 4andw.9.

three kinds of eucalyptus, the living rep
resentatives Of which are now native
to Australia. The remote ancestors OF
the persimmon We're also present, as we'll
as number Of other kinds that are
without vernacular names.
From the careful study Of this ancient
flora which has been preserved in fossil
form in the rocks, IL has been possible
to draw certain tentative though appar-
emily reasonable conclusions as to the
conditions which prevailed in South Caro-
/ lima and Georgia when it was growing.
These indicate that shallow seas extend
ed inland over 100 miles from the present
Atlantic coast. that there was a consi-
derable elevation and relief OF the Pied
mont area to the west, that the river
gradients were high and the streams
numerous and more or less torrential
in character; and that there vera
iswamps along the lower courses OF tho
streams.
The fossil plants indicate that there
was a mild though rot a strictly tropi-
cal climate, without marked seasonal
changes-in fact there Is no evidence
that frost occurred The rainfall vas
abundant, as shown by the general char
acter of the flora, as we'll as by certain
features observed on some of the leaves
and known as the dripping points"
The later or Eocene flora has been
found only In the State of Georgia and
is relatively small, as II numbers only II
species.
All the species represent northward
migrants along the Eocene seacoast from
Equatorial America. They include West
Indian palms, plants of the wonderful
manGrove swamps that skirt the tidal
shores In the Tropics Of both her-
spheres. and remains OF the golden fern
whose present-day descendants lead a
gregarious existence in the coastal
swamps of the torrid zone. All these
Focene plants are types of the Florida
keys Antllean Islands, and Central
American shores and clearly indicate that
in middle Eocene time the climate q
Georgia was much warmer than it vas
either during the Upper Cretaceous
epoch or at present
Professional Paper 81 is technical
descrlption of the fossil plants OF tina
area and the geologic ages treated. 4
copy can be obtained free upon apph-
cation to the Director of the Geologi c al
Survey, Washington, d. c.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
RANSOM DELAYED,
PRISONER EXECUTED

Vera Cruz, July delay in the pay
ment of a ransom Of one million pesos
has resulted in the execution by Zapa-
tistas of Juan Velasco, the manager of
a cotton manufacturing concern, who
was taken prisoner near Atlixco, State
of Puebla, according to Nelasco's brother
who left Vera Cruz Yesterday for the
purpose OF obtaining his release. but re-
turned tonight from his unsuccessful
mission.
The prisoner Velasco was compelled TO
send to the officials of the company in
Puebla the demand for the ransom and
Velascos brother started out Immediately
to aid him. He proceeded as far as
Apizaco. near Puehla, where he was
going to get in touch with the Zapatis-
tas when he was informed that the cap
tive had already been killed
When he related the story to his aged
mother and sister. they tainted, The
circumstances of the case have been
placed on record at the French consulate,
with the claim that Velasco was a
Frenchman, not a Spaniard, as was re-
viously thought.
New Bedford. Mass, July Juan Vel
tsco, who was executed by Zapatistas
near AtliXco, Mexico, to-day was owner
| and manager of tie Spanish Cotto I
| Manufacturing company at Puehla and a
sugar plantation of 2000O acres there. Ac-
| cording to John L. Furnars of this city,
| Veascos agent in this country, VINO
| sought the good offices of the United
States government in his behalf to-day
Velasco was rated as several. times a mil
lionare,
Recent advices, Furnans said were tina,
the Zapatistas had demanded a ransor'
Of 100000 pesos for Velasco's release
threatening torture if the money was not
forthcoming.
| Washington, July Am appeal for tho
protection of Juan Velasco came to tn,
| state department to-day through TN
Massachusetts, delegation in the House
but the department delayed action to as
certain whether the man is an American
citizen. Nelasco is believed to be Mex
lean. in which case all the government
can do Is to make an appeal for fair treat
ment for him in the name of humanity, i
any means can he found OF addressin,
Zapata, the leader who is said to haV'
held the man for ransom
Heretofore It has not been found posi-
BILE to do this owing to the fact that tn
state department has no consular ofhcer
In the part of the Mexican republic wher
the Hapatistas are operating
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Bethel Camp Meeting.

Randolph July The time for holding
the annual camp meeting of the Advent
Christian at Bethel has been fixed as
August q to September |.
Among the preachers expected 10 hs
present and preach at the camp meetin (
are the following: The Rev. A. n. Page Of
Waterbury, the Rev Clark Duvall Of
Newbury, the Rev. l.. +. Baker Of Hole
land, the Rev. II. S. Weeks Of Brattle-
boro, and the Rev. Edwin Joy Of News
port The camp meeting is one of the old
fashioned kind and is run on the
primitive fashion Of such meetings in tho
earlier times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09

The killing of song bird by Finessy
70 considered one Of the most aggravat-
ing on the list Finessy Is n student at
one OF Nermont's higher educational in
stltutions and Is not excusable on the
ground of ignorance not only of the State
law. but the nationwide movement to
protect song and insectivorous birds. He
represented to the warden that he was
a crack shot on his college rife team.
Vermont wardens are instructed TO
show no respect of persons in enforcing
the laws, but to treat all, rich and poor
and high and low, alike.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-09
VERMONT NOTES.
Heavy Fines for Breaking Fish and
Game Laws.

Those who have been breaking the fish
and game laws have found that it has
been costly amusement The fines i'm
posed on takers of short trout deer, etc,
total over sl,Ooo. State Commissioner John
w. Titcomb reports the following fines
and costs imposed by the courts during
June;
Alexander Blake, Burlington, set line,
costs $500; William A. Strong, Lincoln.
short trou. fine $50, costs S3,25; Melvin
Stone. Salisbury, deer killing, fine $50,
costs sS John Finessy, Shelburne, killing
song bird. fine SIS, costs STA; Webster
wilkins Dandy. short trout. fine s25,
costs 81; William Wilkins, Dandy, short
trout fine s25, costs 81; l.. c. Smith Hard
wick, short trout fine s35, costs $50; S.
r. Harvey, Highgate short bass, fine $40
costs s5li: Milo Grenier Highgate, short
bass fine SIS, costs $3.50, Ray Laduke
Eden, killing young wild ducks, fine $50
costs 1855; Scott Slayton, Eden. killing
young wild ducks. fine $50, costs $3.50; w
ID. Barnard. Derby. short trout, fine $l5
costs 500; w. II. Stevens. Derby, short
trout, fine SIS costs s50i; Carl Fox, Pitts
ford short trout, fine SO, costs Ali
! Henry Moultrop, East Haven, shor'
trout, fine s275, costs $3.50; Joseph Dea
ton, Groveton, n. H., short trout fine
si53 A, Larow, East Roxbury, deer Kill
ing, fine sloA costs s29. The total hne'
amounted to ,o7S and costs s7o.53
The above items make an aggregate o
slliS,53, The amount Is somewhat lar
ger because OF the fact th2s I'm som'
cases the costs have not been reported
The Larow deer killing case as well al
that of Melvin Stane have been pending
| for some months, owing to eXtenuatinI
circumstances. Stone paid but SIS. tn
remainder of the fine being held owe
| him.
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ST. ALBANS DISTRICT
CAMP MEETING SPEAKERS

St Adams. July THE Rev. w b.
Dukeshire, superintendent Of st. Adams
district. is soon TO announce the strongest
program of speakers and services ever
arranged for the Riverside camp meeting
August II to %. Among the speakers Will
he: DIR. F. Watson Hannah, professor of
practical theology in Drew Theological
Seminary; DR.. John Lowe Fort of New
York; DR. ]. w. Hatch, principal Of Mont
pelier Seminary; DIR. W. S. Bovard OF
New York. secretary of the Methodist
brotherhood: DIR. Milton B. Pratt Ct
TrnV \. Y.