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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
MATTERS IN cHANcERY.
Authority Given to Settle Ryle- McCor-
mick tigation-Receiver for Barre
White Granite Company.

petition to give the receiver power
to litigate, compromise or dispose OF
any claims outstanding against the es-
tate was granted in the ease of Jennie
l.. Ryie VS., administrative, Jennie J..
Ryle and Nj. II. Ryle VS.. Ryle MeCor-
mick company of Montpelier. which was
heard in chancery court at Montpelier
yesterday. The original amount con
cerned in the case was Slls324 The
defendants were not represented.
1t was decreed by the court that re-
eeiver should be appointed in the case
of the Barre White Granite company,
the parties interested to agree on the
appointee. The case was brought ON
foreclosure proceedings by the Granite
Savings Bank & Trust company. The
title of the case is Granite Savings Bank
& Trust company vs.. John Trow, III. A.
Phelps, Donald Smith, George Straiton.
Fayette T. Cutler, Jones Bros. and Barre
White Granite company. After the mat
ter had been argued in behalf of several
OF the parties, it was decided best for
all concerned to have the receiver APP
pointed.
A suit for alleged slander brought by
Lavina Halsall against Mrs. Beatrice
Royce and A. l.. Ball, J.. B. Royce and
ID. ID. Royce. trustees. was entered in
court. the plaintiff suing for $1,000 The
plaintiff is Barre woman. The suit
brought by D. w. Cooley of Waterbury
against the Eastern Estate Tale com
pany of Rochester for $4,000 damages
is to recover balance alleged to be due
for construction of narrow gauge rail
road to the company's mines.
Vineenzo Cubria of Northfield was
brought into court on the charge of
stabbing his brother Dan. and was
placed under bail of $1,000. He did not
produce bondsman and was recon-
mitted to county jail until his case
comes up for trial perhaps later on dur
ing the present term.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
WARRANT is ISSUED.
In Connection With woman's Death at
Norway, Me.

Norway. Me-, April IA warrant
for an arrest in connection with the
death of Mrs Ethel NJ. Cummings, who
was shot at the home of her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. William Adams, at Al
bany. on Tuesday, was issued at South
Paris yesterday but the authorities de-
clined to give any intimation as to the
identity of the person named in it.
w. o. rockingham, high sheriff of Ok
ford county, said that he did not know
when an arrest would be made.
The warrant was based on the devel-
opments os the inquest held Wednesday
bv Coroner A. F. Bassett of Norway.
The Jury called by the coroner reported
that Mrs. Cummings came to her death
at the hands of an unidentified person,
Coroner Bassett went to the Adams
home and took impressions of the hands
of the dead woman. These win be COM
pared with the hand prints on the bar
rel of the shotgun found near the body,
and from which the shot which killed
her is believed to have been fired.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
STOLE $4,000 TO GET START.
Young Leroy S. Kicker of Cambridge,
Mass, Received Leniency.

Boston, April l7.Leniency because Of
the prisoners youth and the favorable
impression he had made during his trial
was shown to Leroy S. Kicker of Cam.
bridge, found guilty three weeks ago OF
the larceny of between $1,000 and S4 900
The Young man came up for sentence
yesterday before Judge Callahan.
TO give Kicker an opportunity to get
another start in life, Judge Callahan con-
tinued his case and deferred sentence
until next October, telling him that ii
went out into the world determined to
be square the public would soon forget
the disgrace he had brought upon him
self.
John r Bagley of Needham, code
fendant with Kicker, did not fare so
well. Judge Callahan imposed on him
a sentence Of from three to five years in
state prison after declaring that the
prisoner, who is AZ years old, had had
his chance to be honest and apparently
had chosen to be dishonest.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
Miss Edna Earle Dropped
Coal in Inflammable
Material
| AFTER BEING ,NssAssED
| NOT TO ,.os nE STUFF
A Chester Woman's Burns
Proved Fatal on
Thursday

Chester Depot, April IL. Miss Edna
Earle, aged "a, died yesterday Of burns
received at her home Wednesday night.
Monday one of her brothers, after hav-
ing been experimenting with an iniiam-
mable material to be used for engineer
ing, put the material in box BY the
kitchen stove to dry, warning the fam
lily not to 60 near it. Wednesday night
while everyone was at supper, Miss
Earle started to replenish the fire. A
coal dropped into the box and the ma
terial exploded, setting fire to the young
woman's clothing and also to the house.
Her mother, Mrs. Marion Earle. and
the rest OF the family, rushed to the
kitchen when they heard the screams.
They were unable to enter because Of
the flames, but the mother broke a win
dow, and through it Miss Earle was tax
en- out All Of the family. seven in
number, were more or less burned about
their hands and faces in putting out the
flames in the young woman's clothing.
The house was badly damaged.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Fl. l.. Barber of Henniker, n. H.. ar
| rived in the city last evening to pass sew
eral days at the home of his daughter
Mrs. H. w. Quimby, of Academy street
Among the people in the city to-day
to attend the funeral of Edward Gormar
were Robert Montgomery of Montpelier
Miss Florence Curley of st. Albans ant
Arthur Draper of st. Albans.
Il. 4. Freeman. who has been spend.
ing several DAYS in the city on business
connected with real estate interests
went yesterday to st. Johnsbury for a
short stay before returning to his home
in East Boston,
Little Mary Hohan, daughter of Alder.
man John r. Hoban and Mrs. Hoban OF
% Liberty stret was taken to the City
hospital this afternoon in the Perry &
Noonan ambulance. Recently the child
recovered from an attack of ehicken-pox
and now she will undergo an operation
for appendicitis.
The Social dozen. a social organization
composed of young men, rendered a
dance in honor of the Italian Fancy
Work club in the Knights of Columbus
hall last evening. There were about 40
couples present. The Italian Symphony
orchestra furnished music for the dane
ing. Preceding the dancing program
of musical and literary numbers was
carried through. Antonio Fasola and Jo-
seph Merlo acted as floor managers and
also comprised the committee in charge
of the dance.
The Inauguration of the 1914 baseball
season in Barre on Saturday has been
deferred until April 25. Goddard sem
mary and the Barre Athletic club were
scheduled to open the season on the sem
mary campus but the game was formal
ly postponed on account of the poor con-
ditions under which the game would
have to be played. Manager Ford of
the seminary team announced to-day an
other acquisition to the spring schedule.
On Monday, May 4. the Goddard team
will 90 to Middlebury Arrangements
have been completed for two games in
that place. The MiddIebury high school
and Middlebury college teams will be
played on the same day. Goddard has
not played Middlebury college for sew.
eral years and great stress viii be laid
on that game. The selection of David
son and Hoernle is quite likely for the
battery on that day. With the addition
of these players the 2ame should prove
a very interesting affair. On the day
following, May 5, the Goddard team
plays Burlington high school at Bur
lington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
PRESIDENT WILSON
WILL REFUSE 1T
All Idea of Recalling Fleet
on Way to Tampico Is
Abandoned - Secretary
Bryan Hopeful Of Settle
ment

Washington, D. c., April 17.-Huerta
has parleyed again. He demands that
his salute of the United States flag be
returned gun for gun simultaneously.
This the president is practically certain
not to accept. This latest hitch at the
nth hour when the officials here expect
ed the situation was as good as closed up
was disclosed in the dispatches from
Charge O'Shaughnessy. President Will
son discussed this with the cabinet and
administration officials said privately
that Huerta's counter proposition would
not be accepted. This development has
confirmed the fears of those officials who
expected Huerta would equivoeate again.
Any intention of recalling any of the
ships of the fleet now bound to Tampico
has been abandoned and those close to
the administration expect to see the
presidents demand for an unqualified
apology backed up. Officials here are
ready to acknowledge Huerta's salute
Of 21 guns after he has finished with
return salute, such as is prescribed in
naval custom as a precedent, but to re-
turn the salute gun for gun they said
would make the apology valueless.
Dispatches sent to O'Shaughnessy are
said by some members of the cabinet to
contain President Wilson's refusal to
agree to the Huerta proposition.
Washington, d. G., April l7.-Secre-
tary Bryan, before presenting the latest
Mexican dispatches to President Wilson
to-day, said the negotiations were en-
couraging but unfinished. White House
officials said that some details remained
to be arranged but that they did not re-
late to the heart of the matter.
The officials learned that Rear Ad-
miral Mayo's demand was for salute
(which will be returned by this vessel. !"
This is pointed out as clearing up all
questions relating to an acknowledge
ment Of Huerta's promised apology.
Charge O'Shaughnessy's dispatches
dealt with some questions of detail and
did not close up the incident. Officials,
however, said that settlement was not
endangered.
President Wilson changed his plans TO
60 to West Virginia tonight and will
go tomorrow. Orders for assembling
the regiment of marines at San Diego
for the Mexican service has been coun-
termanded.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd G. Russell. who
we're married in this city April 5. re,
| turned this morning from 10 days
tour through New York and Massachus.
etts. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell will make
their home at 20 South Main street The
latter is to resume her duties in the Of
fees of Boutwell,, Milne & Varnum to-
morrow,
Bennett Julian of Pleasant street re-
turned yesterday from Portland, Me-
where he was called to attend the fu-
neral of his brother-in.Iaw, Thomas
Watts, former resident of Barre. who
died last week Mr.. Julian was accom-
panied to Portland by his son, NJ i.
Julian, who will return to Barre Mon
day.
Jesse c. DeBrune of al Park street.
formerly Barre street superintendent,
has gone to Burlington. where he has a
position with the James eastman Con.
tracing company, which has offices in
Burlington and Boston. Mr. DeBrune
will have charge OF the eompany's con-
tract work in and around Burlington.
His family will remain in Barre for the
present.
Barre people win be interested to
learn of the wedding in Roxbury yes
terday of Miss Emily Rena Bond, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Wilson A. Averill to Harry
White 1ilden. The bride has been en-
ployed as a clerk in the office of Tax
Commissioner Charles A, Plumley of
Northfeld for some time and the groom
is member of the firm OF G. A. Til
den & Son, who conduct a general mer-
chandise establishment in Roxbury viii
lage. Mr.. Tilden is a graduate of God
dard seminary and while there he dis
tinguished himself in interscholastic cir
cles as a baseball player. After a short
wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Tilden will
make their home in RoXbury.
A crowd of interested listeners in
Howland hall last evening heard Miss
Anna A. Maley of New York speak on
''The Glass Struggle in America" Her
lecture was the second of a series which
are to be given at intervals during the
spring and summer months by the Barre
Socialist local Miss Maley was intro
duced by Gilbert Phillips. The speaker
is a graduate of the University of Min
nesota and the Rand School of Social
Science in New York, and together with
native faculty for giving clear ex-
preston to her thoughts, this prepara-
tion has made her one of the best in
formed lecturers in the propaganda. In
her address last night she discussed what
she termed the class conflict in Amer
lea and then drew a pen picture of con-
ditions under Socialism, hkening the
body polite TO well regulated house
hold with its various departments. Miss
Maley speaks in Graniteville tonight
and leaves tomorrow for her home in
New York.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17

ing papers, commenting with satisfac,
tion on the conclusion of the Tampico
incident, continue to criticise President
Wilson's policy. The Daily Telegraph
says:
1T seems plain that Huerta's face is
thoroughly well saved, and a very con-
siderable strengthening is given to his
position in the eyes of his country men,
He will call the acknowledgement of his
salute in measure of recognition and
il the Mexicans regard it in that light
it matters little what Washington may
say about it.
"The truth is that the policy of pick
ing and choosing among the competing
desperadoes in Mexico can only be exer-
cised safely on the old principle of recog-
nizing the one who is uppermost. If a
statesmap's moral sense revolted at do
ing that. his only wise course would be
to leave the whole situation severely
alone"
The Graphic says:
sThe bargain has a double advan-
age-satisfaction to President Wilson
and the saving of President Huerta's
face If the incident has had the effect
of convincing Mexicans that there is q
limit to patience and pacificism, even of
President Wilson and Secretary of State
Bryan, it will go far to assure the pa
cific solution of all pending questions
between the United States and Mexico" )"
The Daily Graphic, describing the
Tampico offense as "a trumpery affair
as compared with the murder of Ben
ton. asks what President Wilson pro-
poses to do in the Benton case;
The Post says: 'It Is moral victory
for the United States, which will leave
Huerta just where he was, President
Wilson's policy is not quite intelligihle
to observers outside the United States.
1t is policy not of non.intervention-
but rather of intervention without the
trouble and expense of using force. But
for the Monroe doctrine, it is probable
that several European governments
would cooperate to secure the re-estab
lishment of order and the protection OF
their interests in Mexico"
''President Wilson," adds The Post,
lis clear headed and courageous man,
and will doubtless find way out OF
the difficulty. In the meantime it seems
as if Mexico must settle down TO its
civil war;"
The Daily Mail says:
President Wilson's display OF the
mailed fist seems likely to attain its OBJ
iect President Wilson has scored dis
tinct success by his vigorous diplomacy.
"The world will now hope that he win
show equal firmness in enforcing upon
the constitutionalists that respect for
the American flag which he required
from Huerta.s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Sprague brennan, who has been spend
ing the Easter holidays at his home on
| Washington street, returned this morn
| ing to Dartmouth college, Hanover, n. H
Mr. and Mrs. William B. German of
Bethlehem, Pa. arrived in the city yes
terday, having been called here by the
death OF the formers father, Edward
German. of Cliff street. Among Others
who were in the city to-day for the flu
neral were Misses Annie and Florence
Curley of st. Albans, Mrs. julie w. Nor
rll of st. Albans Bay and Benjamin
Flood of Boston, nephew of Mrs. Cor
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kane of Laurel
street arrived in the city last evening
from Boston, where the latter recently
landed from the Allen liner, Hesperion,
which sailed from Glasgow April A. Mrs.
Kane has been passing the greater part
of the winter at her former home in
Aberdeen, Scot On the same boat came
James Gray, who returned to Barre this
morning, after an extended soiourn in
Scotland.
There was something of a ftlrore in
teaming circles this forenoon, when a
farmer from the uplands drove down
through North Main street behind a
horse and bull, hitched together to
pung. The horse and its archaic com
panion- in-harness got along famously
until the outfit reached hard shedding on
the pavement. At that iuncture, most
of the heavy pulling seemed to deyolvc
on the bovine brother. designated by the
driver as the nigh 'un." While the bull
strove magnificently TO urge the pung
over the tagging, the horse regarded his
efforts with a demure air and continued
to hang back. To crowd of curious
bystanders along the curb, the driver ex-
planned that the bull. mild hammered
individual. by the way, was often hooked
up with the horse in cases of emer-
gency.
Dana Bruce of AZ Eastern avenue.
stonecutter, will be incapacated from
duty for several weeks as the result of
painful injury which he received while
working at the F. c. Glysson shed at the
south-end yesterday The young man
was employed at the banker, when
flying fragment of steel from a bullset
which nearby cutter was using struck
him on the little finger of the left hand.
The mishap occurred just as Bruce WAS
raising his hand to his eve and if the
digit had not intercepted the steel the
fragment in all probability would
have penetrated the eyeball As
it was, a sharp piece of steel an inch
in length and nearly a quarter in
width passed through the finger, graz
ing the bone. and inflicting a superficial
cut on the next finger. DIR. F. Y. z.
Archambault, who dressed the injury.
said the finger will be preserved intact,
once the danger of infection passes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
GRANTED FOURTEEN DIVORCES.
Judge Waterman Announced Decisions
in Franklin County Court.

st. Adams, April l7.-Judge Water.
man of Brattleboro presiding at the spring
term Of Franklin county court, yester-
day announced the granting of Ia di-
| vorce cases as follows: Frank Il. Lum-
bra VS.. Catherine Lumbra, bill granted
for adultery and desertion; Bertha Sam
son Stafford VS.. Ernest Stafford, bill grant
ed for intoerable severity; Reva Chaffee
Carr VS.. James S. Carr, bill granted for
desertion, aud. custody Of four minor
Ploof Mills VS.. Arthur Mills, intolerahle
severity; Abbie Robtoy Fife vs.. Samuel
Fife, bill granted for intoierable sever
Ii ity, and custody of minor children de-
creed to petitioner; Emma +. Vincent
vs.. Homer G. Vincent, bill granted for
refusal to support and neglect, and the
custody Of the minor children decreed to
petitioner, household effects in petition
er's possession decreed to her; Mamie A..
Briggs vs.. Bert II. Briggs, continued; I;
Maurice II. Rice VS.. Cora Il. Stoughton
Rice, marriage annuled, according to the
prayer Of the petition; Virginia L. Sher-
idan VS.. John Sheridan, bill granted for
ntolera Bile severity: Virginia Tatro vs..
Alfred @. Tatro, bill granted for descr-
ton; Hildred Lavella Kittell vs.. Albert
q. Kittell, bill granted for neglect and
refusal to support, custody of minor
children decroed to petitioner and ali
mony according TO stipulation on file;
Margaret r. Barney VS.. James z. Bar
ney, bill granted for neglect and refusal
to support; r. D. Fairbanks VS.. Nancy
McAully Fairbanks, bill granted for will
full desertion; Jennie Shepard VS.. Fred
Shepard, bill granted for intolerable Sc
verify, custody of minor child decreed
to petitioner; Albert Peters vs. Jessie M.
Peters, bill granted for wilfnl desertion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
PRAISE READINESS OF
u. S. NAVY ARM
Secretary Daniels Spoke in High Terms
of the Recent Illustration. Navy
Now Has a Waiting List.

New York, April l7.-With Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy, as the
guest of honor, the navy league of the
United States held its ninth annual ban
quet last night and heard speakers laud
the preparedness of the navy for imme-
date action as shown by the prompt
departure of powerful squadron for
Mexican waters at the call of the Wash
ington authorities.
"There is nothing the matter with our
navy" he said "There is nothing the
matter with Duh splendid person
mel; there is a great deal the mat
ter with the public viewpoint; there
is a great deal the matter with the lack
of information on the part of great
portion of our citizens as to the navy.
"It is my firm belief that no definite
program of naval construction by that
mean program that win not be in
jeopardy every time Congress assemblies
can be laid down until an overwhelm-
ing majority of our people become
friends of the navy and give somewhat
more than passive support to the
navy's proper development
The navy now has its full quota and
for the first time it has waiting list,
the secretary said.
Speaking of his recent order abolish
ing the wine mess, the secretary said:
with singular lack of logic, critics
who see fit to represent me as a foe to
discipline on one hand twist this into
case of discipline run mad on the
other. Far greater questions than that
or discipline lie back of this.
"The wreck of great battleship"
said the secretary, "the loss of a eriti-
cal battle and the honor of the country
may easily hinge upon one of many in
the varied and complex duties which
these great masses of intricate machin-
ery. called battleships have created /"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
DIDN'T WANT TO DIE.
Stephen Martin Decided When He Felt
the Necktie Choking Him.

Burlington, April IL. Stephen Martin.
the man who figured in a sensational
attempt to escape from Deputy Sheriff
Todd Wednesday afternoon when he was
being led from the courthouse to the
Jail and who was captured by Joseph
Agel after lively sprint, was started
for state prison in Windsor yesterday
morning, where he is to serve not less
than two or more than three years for
breaking jail some months ago. Mar
I tin, however. before he departed, tried
another way to get out of serving his
prison sentence which WAS an attempt
at suicide by hanging. He was diseov
cred in time and cut down. 1t was not
long before he was AS well as ever as
the choking process had not gone very
far
When Martin was put back in his cell
after his dash for liberty it was thought
he had been thoroughly subdued. but it
was not long before d commotion was
heard coming from the cell and those
who hurried to the door saw Martin
hanging from the end of cord, the
other end being fastened to the top bunk
in the cell, The choking process was GO
ing on as he had arranged it but he was
not enjoying the sensation in the least.
Judging from his cries and frantic efforts
TO get loose. As soon as the ialor was
summoned the man was cut down. lie
was revived in short order, although he
was black in the face from the chok
ing he received. This last experience
made Martin penitent and he gave the
officers no further trouble. In default
of rope to hang himself with he had
used his necktie and when he found that
he was really hanging he became scared
and made fuss which resulted in his
rescue He was taken to Windsor by
Deputy Sheriff Lord.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
CALLED TO GRANITEvILLE.
Rev. James McNeill of Winhan, N. H.,
Rev. D. Salmond, Moderator.

HaYerhill, Mass, April l7.-Rev James
McNeill of Winham. n. H., il was an
nounced at the meeting of the Newsbury-
port presbytery at the First Presby
terian church yesterday, had accepted a
call to church at Graniteville, Vt.
Rev. Duncan Salmond of Barre, Vt,
was elected moderator for the next six
months with Rev. James NJ. Smith of
Manchester, n H., clerk. 1t was voted
to hold the next meeting in October at
Antrim. \. H. Rev Richard Lange of
Lawrence was chosen to represent the
presbytery at the general session.
Mrs. L. d. II. Stryker and Miss Jose
phine Petrie of New York City were
speakers at the meeting of the Women's
society.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-17
CONTEST POSSESSION OF CHILD.
Parents Do Not Mind the Separation
From Each Cher.

Burlington, April 1.-THE divorce
suit OF vedlyna Richeleau VS.. Edward +.
RicIieleau was uncontested in Chitten-
den county court yesterday except on
the point OF possession OF the three year
old child of the couple. On that issue
the family Of Mr.. Rieheleau--common
known as Eddie Richie are making a
stand. Richie is now in the Philippines
and the divorce Is sought on the ground
of desertion. This hearing has not
been completed since Judge Fish asked
Mrs. Riehleau's attorney. u. A. Ashland,
to bring in witnesses to tell the court
about the kind OF bringing up the moth
er could give the child.