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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
Henry
Jonas
Allen
Saturday, May 2,
Franklin Stockwell

struck the second joint of the little /
finger of his left hand, leaving 4 mark |
which shows today.
Mr.. Allen served as private, cor
poral, sergeant and company cOmissary
sergeant. He undoubtedly would have
received a commission If he had re-
manned with his company, but toward
the close OF his active service he was
assigned TO duties at headquarters. He
was mustered out in Brattleboro. May
30 1868. BY a fall ON the ice while
/ handling beef supplies he sustained
| badly broken wrist and came home on
| furlough. He left his personal eff
| fects in Virginia. expecting 70 return
| for them. but received orders 70 eX-
tend his furlou9h and received his
| honorable discharge here.
Mr. Allen was once taken prisoner.
| but only for few minutes. While
| in camp before Petersburg he and
others went out between the picket
lines to cut kindlings and after all
the others had returned a rebel came
no behind him and informed him that
he was q prisoner. Mr.. Allen expressed
his pleasure in having an opportunity
TO meet the boys on the other side.
but while on the way to the Confeder-
ate lines he took advantage of an OPP
, portunity to strike the rebel under the
: ear. knoc king him down. - guess
we II right about face, said Mr.. Al
, len. picking up his gun, and he delIV-
cred his crstwhile captor TO the Union
: forces.
! | In the decade following the close Of
+ the Civil war Mr.. Allen lived in ia
maica and Worcester. Mass, servin.
h four years, at two different periods OF
: the police force of Worcester. He Join
, cd George II. Ward post in Worceste
Il in 1868. He engaged some years il
- farming in jamaica and West Town
,. shend, coming from the latter place
Il to Brattieboro l3 years ago. lie droV
"a a team for i. 4. Taylor when he frs
r. came here. but in the last few year
n has worked at the carpenter trade
# which he learned before he vert t.
# war.
i Mr.. Allen married in Worcester Eel
! !. 1869. Miss \ Louise Merrill, an
= in all of the Is wears since then Mr..
p Allen has been his faithful helpmee
x The officiating clergyman at thei
Wedding was Rev pr. George l.. Gov
x who died Il year ago in Gleus Fall
cs n. Y DR.. Cow later was pastor of I'll
rf First Baptist church in Bratticboi
,ri and was father of Rev. DIR. John
h Cow. who became pastor of the san
ru I, church. Mr.. and Mrs. Allen have thr'
ic children. Anna. wife of Charles
m Deane of West Townshend; John
q, Allen of South Newfanc, and Dorr \
d: Allen. who keeps house in the san
on house with his parents.
lst Mr.. Allen is deeply devoted to Il
liv interests of the Grand Army. He W
m commander of Scott post in Jamai
en- wears ago and filed the same posIti
"a in Scdgwick post l9os-l9o9. He
cv adiutant of the post at the prese
time Mrs Allen is a past preside
AL OF the Woman : Relief corps. Mr..
me len has been member of the Gran
in many years. aud for two years fill
rae the position of master OF the War
zen boro Grange. He has a brother a
Dat sister in Jamaica. Edison :. Allen a
ird Miranda H.. widow of Marshall VIII
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

Tor league clubs. Heretofore between
Nav u and August 20 no big league
manager was permitted to retain more
than - PLAYERS. Because OF TINS year
invasion by the Federal league the
triumvirate decided to let the owners
employ as many men as they pleased
rather than take chances OF having the
discards desert to the outlaws.
George Briekley of Twin State
league fame has been dropped by the
Athletics. Even though there Is no
ban this year on the number OF play
ers a major league club may carry ana
even though Connie Mack was once
quoted as saying that '>George' Will
! make a hitter he has been let out.
He made one home run here last season
/ that is well remembered, but hitting IN
/ the Twin State and the American
league are two different propositions
Eddie Bolin, one of the most sensa-
tional middlcweight wrestlers ever
brought to Boston, will make his I'M
! tial appearance here on Thursday night
at the Grand Opera house when he
will undertake the rather difficult TASK
of throwing both Crackerjack Butler
and Jim Polious, each inside OF an
hour. This will be the final bout o1
the season at the Grand. George '
Tuohey will probably make his appear
ance as a referee if his leg permits
! Boston journal.
Walter johnson pitched more com
plete games than any other American
league pitcher last season. He .laste'
: through % games and was knocked on
of the box onlyonee. Jim Scott Of. tn
White Sox pitched 70 complete game
George Baumgardner of ST. Louis q
Vean Gregg aud Fred Faulknberg o
T Cleveland %, George Dauss and Jca
Dubuc of Detroit q, and Ray Collin
+ of the Red Sox and Ray Mitchell Q
t st. Louis 20.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
MUTT AND JEFF IN PANAMA.
Inimitable Character Creations Win
Come to Auditorium Monday.


The new version of Bud Fisher 5
inimitabIe character creations, Mutt
and Jeff, shows the popular idols at
Panama, lending aid to the big Panama
canal project The production is en-
tirely new excep: the title. The book
is upon new an original lines and Is
the work of Q Ean Davis and Bud
Fisher. The musical score Is the work
of Leo Edwards, with lyrics by d. b.
Cobb. \ massive scenic production
shows Jacksonville. Fla, where the
heros have as usual been flattened
at the race tracks. They take an ocean
sail to Panama and through the famous
canal aud up the Pacific coast, where
the play ends on the midway of the
Panama exposition ut San Francisco.
There 5 genuine Mutt aud Jeff fun
every foot of the trip. The most sen
sational mechanical effects ever shown
in musical comedy production occurs
when a full rugged steamship passes
| through the canal and is seen steaniug
/ out into the Pacific oceau. The scene
! depicts the midway at the exposition
when Mutt and JEFF capture a prize OF
10000 E'bueks by assisting III tbs
arrest Of a pair Of foreign spies VIII
have stolen the plans for the defense
of the canal zone BY the United State.
i government.
/ Gus Hill has gone the limit in giving
the play gorgeous production iron
every standpoint. The usual big beau
4 tv chorus is much in evidence Will
! an arrav of wonderful costumes. Nut
and jeff in Panama will fill an engage
ment at the Auditorium next Monday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

First on the list alphabetically in
the roster of Sedgwick post, No. $, G.
A. R.. Of Brattieboro stands the name
of Henry J. Allen, a veteran of -
battles, who served nearly three years
in Company G, Ilth Vermont Nolun-
teers.
MIR. Allen today is a man OF erect
figure. active physically, alert mental
ly, and when you receive his cordial
greeting in his pleasant Canal street
home, it is difficult for one OF the pres
ent generation to realize that he Is one
of the men who went through the
trials. the privs'ions and the dangers
of bivouac and battle half century
ago.
Henry Jonas Allen was born in
INindham. VT March -. 1871, = son OF
Jonas w. and Hannah (Smith) Alien
and lived there until he was II. when
/ he went with his parents to Jamaica
! lie attended the schools and grew Il
manhood in the latter town, and work
/ Ell on q farm and az carpenter JuSl
prior to the outbreak of the Civil war
| He enlisted August IL, 1862, IN ia
maica, spent about two weeks witt
other recruits in Bellows Falls, an'
was then mustered into the service o
his country on the old camp ground
in Brattlcboro. During the first j
| months Of its service the llth Vernon
regiment was assigned to duty IN tn
defense Of Washington. The com
panies We're recruited from 100 to -
men. and the regiment was Gale
heavy artillery. While stationed q
Fort Slocum in the defense of Wasi
ington Mr.. Allen was STRIFE ken |it
typhoid fever, and at one time IN
death was hourly expected. He wa
asked to make his final requests I'm
the doctor in attendance told him h
had but one chance in 100 to nv
II IL take that chance, them san
Young Corporal Allen, and he w
good at his word. eventually recoNe
ing, and being with the regiment wh'
ii went to the trout in the spring {
tSGl. Beginning with lis baptism
| fire at SpottsvIvania, the nth 1cg
& meut fought all down through the -
II lev of the Potomac, being ON many
bloody battlefield, including Cold II"
:, Dor, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher
9 Hill, Opequou aud Petersburg.
When Gen. Sheridan made his h
toric ride from . Winchester, 20 NIL
: away and arrived on the field
- Cedar Creek he rode 50 close to YOU
Allen that the latter could have tout
IL ed him. Mr.. Allen recalls that VIII
5 sheridan rode mp aud by his magnet
presence changed the demoralizcd &C
h ditions so that apparent defeat
O turned into victory he shoute
..Never mind. boys, we Will sleep
L. the same ground where We slep !;
IN night. - The prophecy became litera
vo true. and Mr.. Allen and his comp'
IONS, after the Confederates had be
he driven back, slept in their tents IN
lie actly the same location where I'll
IL had been the night before.
Three times at Cedar Creek Mr.,
,r. len was hit by bullets, but he ca
.or out of the battle without serious
no jury. The first bullet clipped off SC
Of of his hair, the second cut his can't
strap in two and went through his (
sleeve close to his heart. and the tn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
SuOrtinG Notes.

Vernon. the former Amherst college
pitcher, has signed with the Brooklyn
Feds.
If the Rcd Sox don t look out they
will hand where the Braves are-iu the
cellar.
An unusually large number Of young
pitchers arc getting away well this
spring.
syracuse beat Dartmouth and
PENNSYLVANIA trimmed Princeton yes
terday.
shawkey. one of Mack 5 kid pitch
ers. is out of the game with dislo-
Gated thumb.
doe Keller at Concord, \. H.,
last night took less than half an
| hour to beat Fowler of Indiana i'll two
straight falls.
Jimmy Lavender bamboozled the
! Reds into a trap the other day, lie
| let them walk to first and Archer nail
ed them ut second.
John Collins of the White Sox, for
mer Springfield player, is hitting tol
| $50 to date this season. Maybe the
pitchers have not got his groove yet
! Maybe he has none.
That Chicago Federal club that wa
due to cause such havoc in the baby
league is in triple tie for fifth place
while ST. Louis romps along comfort
ably in first place.
1t looks as if Eddie Bolin had take
some contract to undertake to throw
Butler and Polious in an hour. Still
Eddie knows them both and shoul
know what he can do.
n
the Harvard first crew have been re
egated to the second as the result o
! the race at Annapolis Saturday.
According to Treasurer Walter War
the Brooklyn Federals will be the higl
est paid team in baseball this year. 5
far the cost is close to 100000, an
two expensive pitchers will be slgne
soon.
Stallings has made a shift in h
; lineup and Maranvillc is in third pla'
in the batting order, with Murray,
r new outfielder, hitting in the clcant
position and Connolly leading o
j Griffith has been benchcd.
I Johnny Bosk, the Fitchburg boy WI
: pitched for Brattleboro 4 part of o.
" season and who this spring received i
second trial with the Utica club of t
New York State league, has been l
leased by Manager O'Neill.
Jack Fish, captain aud catcher of
e ton hail. who caught for keene la
% season, has announced that lie Il
( signed with the Baltimore Feds a
IT will join that team after college clos
10 Fish 5 parents are well TO 10.
u. Jack Coombs is down IL Tex
~ looking over athletes and g for II,
er the iron man he used TO he. He 50
III he will try to join the Athletics !;
in May but his appearance now d'
not indicate that he will do any pit
.. ing this season.
8, Douglas Bomeisler. one of the fl
rs best ends Yale ever had had one f
he crushed in Brooklyn Saturday and N
be permanently injured. He was p
,r. tecting a young woman friend from
, trolley car that had jumped the tr;
as it neared them and his foot '
crushed against a pillar.
Oil The national commission has reset
cd the former roster limit rule for
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
Penn Rnwinn Squad Cut.

Coach Vivian Nickalls has made the
final cut in the Penn varsity and
freshman rowing squad prior to tax
Ing the men, out on the river. and out
Of the list of more than 200 men who
first reported only ninety remain.
Coach Nickalls will divide this squad
Into five varsity and the same number
Of freshman Fights. thus leaving ten
men to act as substitutes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
National League.

National League Games Today.
New York at Boston.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Pittsburg at Chicago.
St. Louis at Cincinnati.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
Sporting NelUs
STANDING OF CLUBS.
American League.

American League Games Today.
Boston at New York.
Washington at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Detroit.
Cleveland at st. Louis
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
Eaton Heads WESLEYAN easketbaIIer.

Arthur G. Eaton of Westfield. Mass,
has been reelected captain of the Wes-
leyan college basketball team for the
next year.
Eaton has played three years at for.
ward and has twice been chosen q
member OF the All New England FIVE.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
Central Vermont RY.
Corrected to January 4, 1914.
Trains Leave Brattleboro.

Trains Leave Brattleboro.
100 a. In. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
100 a. IN. Except Sunday. For New
London.
900 a. IN. Except Sunday, For New
York.
9.25 a. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
1910 a. IN. Except Sunday. For New
London.
400 p. IN. Except Sunday. For New
London and New York via
the Norwich Line Steamers
900 p. m. Except Sunday. Local fol-
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

Miss Catherine Delham of philadelphia
has not missed Sunday At SUNDAY
school for the last 10 years
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

II, Tinker, Chicago; 2. knabe, Baltimore;
3, Stoval Kansas City.l
jumpers and did much to bring other
big leaguers into the new circuit.
Knabe and Tinker both gave up good
berths in organized baseball to cast
their lot with Gilmore, and their teams
will probably fight it out for the pen
mint
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
YESTERDAYS GAMES.

American League.
At WashingtOn:
Washington, II .
Boston,
B5ehling and Henry; Foster, Zeiser
and. Thomas, Nunamaker.
At Philadelphia:
Philadelphia, /
New York, )
Bender, Brown, Plank and Schang;
Schultz and Sweeney.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

Arcadia ILL.,. not only has woman
MAYOR, hut all the other atiicea ~ i'll
portance are filed by women,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
THE FEDERAL LEAGUE FIGHT.

Winning Teams,
The Federal league has made great
inroads on the ranks of organized base
ball and, if the ability of the various
managers is any criterion, should have
some mighty fine bali games during
| the season.
! Stovall. former manager of the st.
! Louis Browns, was one of the pioneer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

There are 81 900 more white women
in the south than there are Of colored Of
both sexes
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

The Berlin Moments bank is said to he
the only one in the world run for ami
by women exclusively.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

Chicago 5 city government in 1911
will cost more than $25,000,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28
ALLEN FLORIST
Professional Cards

DR. HENEY TUCKER. Residence ~ Grove
ST., telephone, 2jS. ONCE Leonard block.
Hours, $50 to ., aud 7 to 8. Telephone,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

q. II. hLDRICH, M. ID. Hours 1880 to
$50, to :. Office phone 1851; house l63 2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-28

DIR. Q. G. WHEELER, Osteopathlc Physician
10 Crosby block Office hours: 10 to II a
m, to y. IN. Other hours by appoint
ment. Telephone connections. Spruce ST
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
one APPLICATION
FOR COTTON loan
First Comes From Alebamal and Will
Be Acted Upon at Washington
During Week.

Washington, Dec. 26.-The first
loan application of the $135,O0O,00O
cotton loan fund was received today
by the local committee of bankers in
charge of the furd from Alabama. Be-
cause not all of the $100,000,0O0 OF
class A subscription have been receiv-
ed the committee will not act on the
application until next week
Subscriptions to class A certificates
were received today from Baltimore
and Kansas City. These subscrlp-
lions totaled about $4,5O0,oO0 and
brought the grand total to date up to
approximately $95,000.000.
/ The committee has been advised
that signed subscriptions for $2,50o'-
600 are in transit from San Fran
cisco. Minneapolis and Richmond. Be-
fore the fund can be completed Louis
Vile and Pittsburgh will have to be
heard from
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
MOVIE Theatres
START REAL SCRAP
Opponents Of Sunday Pic
lures Lodge Complaint
With Judge Grace.

Circuit Judge A. p. Grace last even
ing instructed Constable Clint Green
to notify the managers of the moving
picture theatres that TO operate on
Sunday would be in Violation of the
law; that complaint had been made
to him, and that it would be his duty
to call the law violation to the atten-
ticn of the grand jury, which will be
reconvened on February /.
And you can tell them" said Judge
Grace, that if they are indicted and
convicted, 81 will not be the amount
cf the fine imposed. The minimum
fine, fixed by law. is greater than
that
Judge Grace called on the consta-
bic to notify the movie managers be
cause Sheriff Williams was out OF
the city, having gone to Mississippi
to at get a negro charged with muir
der, and the chief deputy sheriff could
not be communicated with just at tlfe
moment.
After Constable Green had notified
the theatre managers, the announce
ment was made by them that the
houses would be operated this after
noon, no admission foe to be charged
and that the action had been decided
upon after consulting attorneys at
law.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
London First Learns Of Dis
aster at Festubert Through
Berlin War Office.
FRENCH BATTER
PATHWAY TO METZ
Vow SbslIing Outer Forts, Having
Occupied Ont skirt, If iSiach Ter
man Attempts to Halt Progress OF
Miles Toward Newport Fail.

London. Fec. &c. With the passing
Ev he British censor Of the German
official settlement from Berlin claim
ing that 5000 dead among the Brit
ish and Indian contneents mad been
! # en- the field after a battle at t'es-
tubcrt, near Bcthune, London learned
tonight FIR the first time Of such
disaster 10 the British troops. The
German settlement follows
"1he success Of the battle with the
British and Indian contingents near
Festubert can better be judged today.
Nineteen officers and 81 men were
taken prisoners, while II machine
guns, = mine throWers and other war
material were captured. The enemy
left more than 5000 dead on the field.
The English asked for a cessation or
hostilities TO bury the daed. Our
losses were comparatively small
No official statement covering this
engagement has been issued by the
French war 'ffice or by the official
press bureau here. The dispatch is
rpssed by the censor without COM
ment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
lila CHASING CARRANZIsT AS,
httle Now Taking Place at Eban0,
Americans Going Back.

Washington, Dec. 26:-GenerA
Rlla's forces are driving the troops
Carranza into Tampico and Vera
fN.
Dispatches to the state department.
bow that General Villa defeated the
Rrranza troops at Velasco and forced
hem to Ebano, in San Luis Potosi,
there battle is now going on. The
eneral outlook is, according to the
for "a retreat Of the Car
Rnza troops in Tampico.
From Vera Cruz comes the news
Pat a combined Villa-Zapata army IS
nrsuing the Carranza army toward
Pc suburbs of Vera Cruz.
Mail advices to the department
rom Ensenada. Lower California, say
hat the anti-American feeling there
las disappeared, and that Americans
RE returning to that town. The state
apartment however says:
THE department does not advise
americans to return to Mexico anC
nose who do so go there on theil
kWn responsibility"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
Blizzard GRIPS
Entire COUNTRY
Temperature Drops to 81
Below in Vermont-Below
Zero in Many States.

Washington, Dec. 26.-From Omaha
to the Atlantic coast zero weather
prevailed today, in the wake Of a
cold wave which originated in Mani
toba. Telegraph and telephone com
panies reported many cold weather
breaks due to the concentration Of
the wires.
Railroad trains were delayed by
the extreme cold in many sections.
The lowest temperature was re-
ported from Barre, Vermont, where
the thermometers registered SO de-
grees below zero. This is said to be
the coolest weather ever experienced
there
New York reported degrees below,
while at Ogdensburg it was 30 below.
Temperatures sat other points were:
At Mortified, VT. 20 below; Albany,
N. Y, 16 below; Hartford, Conn, 4
below; Peoria, H., 10 below; Charles
City, Iowa, "a below; Lacrosse, Wis,
IA below; st. Paul, Mimi, % below.
Warmer weather is promised for to-
morrow everywhere east of the Mis-
sissippi
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
DANIELS SENDS
SHIPS TO 7R|POL|
Reports Provoke N " a l
Head to Act in Behalf
.= of Americans.

Washington, Dec. 26.-Secretary
Daniels today ordered the cruisers
Tennessee and North Carolina to
take care of American lives and
property which are threatened in
Triroli and Syria, forty miles north OF
Beirut, where the two cruisers now
are. Secretary Daniels said today
that he had nothing except press re-
ports on which to act.
81 have, however" he said, asked
the commanders of these vessels to
cooperate with Ambassador Mcrgen-
thcu at Constantinople. Under the
naval regulations they have much dis
erection, but they have been instruct
ed, nevertheless, to exercise the ut
most care in their actions but always
with view to the protection OF
Americans and American interests
Secretary Daniels has asked Cap
tain Onion of the North Carolina and
! Captain Decker of the Tennessee to
report the exact facts. He has sent
them substantially the press reports
of today. indicating trouble lat Trip
eli. At that town the Turks are said
to have attacked crowd of refugees,
British, French and American, who
were leaving Syria. 1t was also stat
ed in the dispatchs that a "Warshlp''
threatened tc lombard Tripoli and the
warship protected the refugee ship
and escorted it to Dedegatch, north
CT the Dardanelles in Turkey.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-27
GERMANIC ALLIES
SUFFER severely
German Casualty Lists Show
100000 Dead, 100000 Miss
ing and 100000 Hurt.

Copenhagen. Dec. 26.-The German
casualty lists No 101 TO 10S contained
the names of 35,5S4 killed. wounded
and missing officers and men bring
ing total Prussian losses up to 1885,,
202.
These are to be added so Saxon, 50
Wurtemburg and Bavarian, and 1873
navy lists. The Bavarian losses are
so heavy that it is calculated fully
half their army is out of action.
The German losses to date, includ-
ing those not yet published, may. be
set down as about 100000 dead, 400
600 missing and 100000 wounded,
making total of 100000.
About $4,000 officers have been
killed and $4,000 wounded, but only
1000 officers are in the lists of miss
ing.
According to information from
Vienna, the AustroH Hungarian casu-
alties are calculated at about 1,500,-
900 in officers and men killed, wound
ed and missing. This would bring tho
total casualties OF the Germanic al
lies to 100000.