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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-05
STATE PAYING
MORE MONEY
Figures Compiled by State
Auditor Show Big Increase
In Expenses
LARGE PAYMENTS
FOR DETECTIVES

Cost on This Account Has Risen from
S651 for a Year to S34,706 for Nine
Months Through the Attorney Gen
erals Office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-05
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT
Insertion; ~ subsequent insertion
Cash In Advance. Minimum Charge 20
To Rent

TO Scycu-room house. Apply
at 81 Green st. Tel. OK. 46tf
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
TENEMENT HOUSE
FIRE IN NIGHT
Whole Platoon of Police QuelIed Great
Excitement But no One
Was Hurt.

Il United Press Leased Wire Service. /
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Fight'ng
their way through clouds of smoke to
save screaming women in dread oil
death by fire, whole platoon of po.
licemen aided to quell great excite.
ment in five story Columbus avenue
tenement here early today and, de.
spite the panic, not soul was hurt
The blaze was believed to have been
caused by an incendiary.
Nearly a dozen women were carried
screaming down fire escapes while
the smoke poured out of the building
in clouds and one policeman scaled
the wall to the third story to save
Mrs. Louise Williams, an invalid, who
was in frenzy, at window. Anoth-
er policeman, struggling through
smoke on the fourth floor, stumbled
over a PROSTATE and unconscious won.
an and carried her to the street.
When the flames were checked, ii
was found the damage was small and
that neither tenant or policeman
had received any injury of note.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
UNCLE JOE HEARS
BUZZING OF BEE
May be Candidate for Congress- Again
Where He Served Fifty
Years.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON Feb. g. "Uncle
Joe" Cannon has bee buzzin round
Its a political bee, his friends in con
gress Iaarned TODAY which may sting
him into candidacy for congress
again. The former speaker is lonely
in Danville, he says, and may con,
clude to run for the house again If
some of the youngsters back home
don't get busy and try to lick the
democrat now holding down the sea,
from the Danville district which,
Uncle joe occupied for nearly hall
century.
Il am not exactly unhappy" said
"Uncle Joe" Il would rather be il
Danville than wearing a path in
Washington pavements. But | would
rather be back hare in the halls where
served nearly fifty years; would
be happier here
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
HANS SCHMIDT
rs FOUND GUILTY
VIII be Sentenced on Next Wednes-
day to Death in Electric
Chair.


UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. 1
NEW YORK, Feb 6. - Hans
Schmidt, priest murderer of Anna
Aumueller, will appear in court for
probably the last time next Wsdnes-
day. Then he will hear from the lips
OF Justice Davis the words which will
send him to the electric chair, where
his crime of Staying and then dismem,
bering thu body of the pretty domes-
tic of st. Boniface's rechory must be
expiated.
Having laughed at the verdict OF
the jury which rejected the plea OF
insanity entered by his attorneys and
found him guilty of murder in the
first degree, Schmidt slept soundly in
his cell last night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
SLIGHT HOPES FOR
HER RECOVERY
Woman Who Took HicFioride 81 Mers
curry When in Danger OF
Arrest.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
EVANSTON. ILL.,, Feb. 6.-Mrs. Mar.
cis. K. Flint of Moline, H., who swal-
lowed bnchlortde Of mercury when E.
]. Riedy sought her arrest on a psace
warrant, showed no Improvement at
the Evanston hospital today and Dr..
Thomas A. Carter said he had only
slight hopes for her recovery.
The newly discovered antidote fcr
mercury victims usad successfully by
DR.. Carter in the case OF a Moody
Bible Institute student is being used
in an effort to save the woman's life.
She expressed indifferencs today
when told that she might not recover.
The police say they learned from
Riedy that he met Mrs. Flint in a
moving picture thsatre and took her
to places Of amusement but that he
never intended to marry her. She
threatened his life, he said
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
REGULATION OF
STOCK EXCHANGE
Owen Bill Denies Use of Mails
and Telegraph Unless
j s Rules Are Complied
With.
SHORT SALES UPHELD
Governor Noble Says the Law Would
Have Injurious Effect and
Gives Reasons for
Belief.

[United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-That the
prohibition, by law, of short" sales
would injuriously affect the stock
market, was declared today by H. G. S.
Noble, one of the governors of the New
York stock exchange. in the senate
banking committees hearing on the
Owen bill denying stock exchanges
the use of the mail, telephone and
telegraph unless they comply with a
number of restrictions.
Noble pointed out that on occasions
when "over-enthusiastic" persons or
perhaps persons wishing to manipu-
late the price of a stock higher, were
bidding the price up, siales, short" by
those thinking the price was going
too high. acted as a check on what
might otherwise become wild specula-
ton.
When the price was being forced
down through unloading, the persons
who had sold short were forced to
come in and buy their shares for de-
livery, completing their transactions
and at the same time aiding in pre-
venting what might otherwise be a
panic in that security.
According to Senator Owen, author
OF the bill Tor the regulation OF stock
exchanges, the officers of the New
York exchange themselves, have fur
I1lished the best reasons for the en-,
actmenf of the proposed law Owen,
at the white house this afternoon said
that in his opinion the bill now pend
ing will be passed by congress and
signed by President Wilson.
Officials of the stock exchange in
admitting wash sales to maintain
stability in certain stocks. show the
necessity for curbing their own or
ganization," said Senator Owen. mo
person who has read the testimony
brought out at our hearings can dis
pute the fact that the stock exchange
is maintaining an agency through
which the unscrnpulous can act to
defraud the American people.
I'VE propose to pass a law which
will provide that before broker can
sell any stock in any corporation there
must be made public complete state
ment of the tangible assets of that
corporation and just what proper
tion of its stocks and bonds has been
distributed to protect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
THREE MEN
IN A BOAT
Their Skiff Crushed in Ice and
They Went to the Bottom
of the Lake During
the Night.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Weeping hys-
terically and half frozen, two wom-
en-, imprisoned for seven hours on a
lonely crib two miles out in the lake
while their three male companions
battled vainly for life In an open
boat. we're rescued early today ana
after being questioned at detsctive
headquarters were sent to their
homes. A fire boat fought its way
through the ice foes and took off the
women, who at first gave fictitious
names. Later they said they were
Mrs. May Smith, 35 1850 South Ar
tesian avenue, and Mary Wade, 24,
same address, and admitted they
spent all yesterday at tins crib. Fire
boats, tugs and other smaller craft
that kept up the search all night, had
found NO trace today OF tina boat in
which the three men attempted to
make their way back to the crib last
night. The men drowned were Will
liam f. Cennell, Jr., keep'r OF the
crib. Lefty Wilson. his assistant
and Stephen j. varaey, commission
merchant.
The two women accompanied Cam
nell and Varley to the crib two miles
off Lawrence avenue, eaHdy yester-
day. Cannell and varley rowed back
to shore at SIX p. M, to get some pro-
visions and pick UP Wilson and start
ed back through perilous ice foes.
Half way to the crib, the little boat
was imprisoned by the drifting ice.
Two girls in fashionable apartment
house saw tlleir danger. They called
the police, the Evanston life saving
station and finally a priest and asked
him to say prayers for the men fight.
ing for their lives.
! Thousands OF north shore residents
crowded the beach and shouted words
of encouragement while row boats
/ attempted vainly TO push their way
Through the DRIFT ing ice. Darkness
| settled over the lake and the cries
lbecams fainter. Searchlights began
sweeping the lake, the life savers
rope-loaded gun was brought into
play, wthile bitter blizzard swept the
lake shore Not until early today was
the search giNsn up.
Life savers believe the little boat
was crushed between drifting foes
| and went to the bottom two hours be
fore mdtmight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Sticks to His Innocence.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
ii Gle fEsss @AssD, Glfio, sseb. o.---An at
night grill by the police had faileo
today to shake the story OF innocence
told by Norman Stanley, Wheeling.
w. Va. former night watohman at the
new city hall here, charged with com
paicdty in the murder OF Robert e.
Mercer, Pittsburgh. Stanley waived
extradition rights when arrested i,i
West Virginia and arrived here in
custody last night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Unset.
tied tonight with probably snow and
colder with cold wave, Saturday fair
and colder. Moderate to brisk north.
erly winds.
For Illinois: Snow tonight and
probably Saturday. Much colder, will,
cold wave. Brisk to high northerly
winds.
For Iowa: Unsettled tonight with
probably snow east portion, Saturday
fair. Colder tonight with cold wave
south and east portion. Colder east
portion Saturday. Moderate to brisk
northerly winds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Weather Conditions.

The advancing western depression
is central near st. Louis this morning
and Its progress has caused snow in
the north and rain in the south from
the mountains to the central valleys.
The area of high pressure which Is
following from the British northwest,
is causing low temperature from the
mountains to the Missouri river,
where the temperature is below zero
this morning, reaching AZ below at
Havre and 4 below at Omaha, these
conditions indicating snow, with a
cold wave for this section tonight.
followed by fair colder weather Sat
urday. with the temperature falling to
zero or lower
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Bad Wreck Averteu.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. |
JoHNsToWN. Pa, Feb. 6.--only
the fact that train No. I, mercantile
express, New York to Pittsburgh. had
made an express stop at the Johns
town station and was Just gathering
speed when it crashed into wrecked
freight train few yards west of the
famous stone bridge, prevented dis
astrous crash early today. The en-,
CINE and two express cars were de-
rallied and the locomotive was badly
damaged, but no one was injured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
GUNMAN GOT
TWO POLICE
Murdered First One in Cold
Blood and Shot Second
While the Crowd Was
Pursuing Him.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.Shot by an
east side gunman in a new outbreaks
whac1h eliminated In an attempted
lynching, Policeman Edward Murtha
died early today in Holy Family hos
pital, in Brooklyn, and James OCon>
nor, q fireman. has bullet In his
abdomen to which he may succumb. \
Giuseppe Arino, the slayer, waa
loafing ON Murtha's S beat when the,
policeman told him to move on. He
only grunted defiance but when Muir
tha put his hands on him he pulled
a pistol and shos the blue coat througl.
the chest. Staggering with his moi
tai wound Murtha lunged forward,
blew his whistle and fell, while Arino
! dart,d up the street. In an instant
a score of bystanders with Policemen
Griffin and studkle and O'Connor til
the lead, took up the chase. After
running a FLOCK, A1ino turned, fireo
and O'Connor fell, shot through the
stomach.
BY this time Stuckle, revolver in
hand, was close on thu slayer. Ardno
turned and again his pistol cracked,
but the bullet went wild and blow,
from Stuckle's pistol brought him
down. He fought like demon but
was soon beaten into subjection anG
then the two policemen battled with
a mob which y5lled lynch him. ane
would not be denied. Finally night
sticks cleared the way when the gun
man was rushed to jail after the gun
man had been identified by his VIC
tins. Further police raids on haunts.
Of gunmen last night w5re a feature
Of the war to stamp out the killers
in Manhattan. Many weapons were
confscated. the largest collection i'm
the home of Joseph Graco, ON the
upper east side. In his rooms, dssec-
tives found a stiletto with an eight
inch blade, one revolver, two rifles
and 150 cartridges OF assorted sizes,
Scores Of stilettos, black jacks. sawed
off shot guns and rifles havs been
gathered in raids on the haunt.s OF
gunrnen and black handlers in the last
few days.
The way New York jurors are
backing up the war on gun men was
demonstrated ;n Judge Muaaueen's
court, whsre in half an hour Car1nine
Idcenziata was acquitted OF killing
Luigi Gordano, a black hand man.
I-icenziata swore Gordano demanded
money with threats and that he shot
him down when the black hand man
put a hand in his pocket to pull his
gun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Battle in Chinese Joint.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. l
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb g.
Woo Mon Tong, Chinese laundryman,
was probably fatally shot and three
other Cinnamon We're slashed with
knives at Moy Chong's home early
today. Three white m-n imperson-
ated policemen, to raid Moy's hcme
and gambling house. When the sup
posed officers demanded $50 to let
the Cinnamon go. a gun and knife
battle resulted. Edward Harris is
being held by the police.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
RODE BUCKING AVALANCHE
AND WENT TO HIS DEATH

after digging his way out of the
snow,
The two men were on the Conant
trail when the snowslide struck,
carrying them down mountainside.
Hickman was delighted and shouted
suggestion that they '.rids her, it's
great sport
Hickman was shouting and laugh
ing like a school boy as the ava
lanch swept him down, said Fitz-
meier. "IIe seemed to regard the ex-
perience as a lark When | went un-
der, he was about fifteen feet ahead
OF me, balancing himself on one leg. =
Hickman's death is the fourth re-
sulting from ayalanches in this vicin-
ity this week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
DIG UP $4,000 IN GOLD
HIDDEN FROM WILD INDIANS

Hodgeman county today. The firsr
find was reported yesterday of $500.
Both treasures were of gold bullion.
cached by Colorado gold man in 1853
during an lndian massacre. Accord
ing to repcrts 100000 was buried
then in the neighborhool Of Jettmore.
These ara the first finEs, despite
efforts to locate the treasrr9 siplce
1876. An inrusl Of geld seekers as
in that year. is feared at Jettmore
and ranchers are guarding their land
night aud day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Recruiting coxey,s Army.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Feb. g.
General Coxey's" plan for second
march of the unemployed on Washing
ton, took" here. Charles Kelley.
organizer for Coxey today announced
that eight companies Of 100 men each,
and one company composed of the
same number of women will join in
the great trek Miss Pearl Vogel
organized the women.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
He spurned Her.

United Press Leased Wire Service i
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb. 6."He
spurned me and ! shot him and then
myself"
From the hospital Get on which she
was dying, this was the only expla-
nation today of Miss Grace McQuaid,
%, for firing a bullet into the body
of J. G. Adler, her sweetheart, of six
Years, at her home Just after mid
night. Adler cannot recover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Dying in Hospital.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Cinton T,
Van viiet, treasurer of the Goodyear
Rubber company is dying in the
Flushing hospital today. Van vlie-
has undergone two operations for
appendicitis and his left leg was am
putated after the second operation
when he became paralyzed from hard
endng OF this arteries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Shot bx Officer.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO, Feb. Walter Cousins,
%, was shot and fatally wounded to
day by Special Officer Shislds OF the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
who told the police he caught Cousins
and a man who gave his name as
Walter ohlerichs stealing journals
from freight cars. Ohlerichs was ar
rested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
SOMETHING ROSE UP
IN HER MIND
Woman Seized Revolver and Killed
Hcr Husband While He
Slept.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
MIcKEESPORT, Pa, Feb. 6.-Mrs
Oliver Weigle, under guard at the
McKeesport hospital, was being care
fully nursed today in the hope that
she would overcome her hysteria and
give to the police coherent story OF
the death of her husband who was
found yesterday in the weigle apart
ment in local boarding house, with
bullet in his right temple.
After Mrs. Weigle had told a logical
and accepted story of suicide she is
said to have suddenly broken down
and confessed that she murdered
Weigle, saying she didn't know why,
except that something rose up. Ii
her mind that made her get revolver
and kill him as he slept.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
OF for South America.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Feb. 6-Fnal ar
rangements for the largest CONNER
cfal expedition to South America that
has ever left this port ars being
made here today by fifty members OF
the Illinois Manufacturers association
who sall tomorrow on the Iamport
and Holt liner Vauban.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
QUINCY HAS
BIG BLAZE
Laundry Destroyed and Three
Hundred Girls We're Res
cued by Police and
Firemen.

UNITED Press Leased Wiro Sev 8
QUINCY, Ill. Feb. 6.-Three/ : !
dred girls were rescued by the dc
work of police and firemen fire
that DESTROYED the Quincy = " in
the heart of the business lstrict
here today with 100000 loss. The
three hundred are thrown out of EN-.
ployment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
CLOSING IN
ON TAMP|C0
Desperate Battle at Oil Port is
Expected to be Waged
Before Night
fall.
BARRIcADE IN STREETS
Villa Is Marching on Torreon and
Exterminating Bandits on
His Way TO tho
Capital.
[By a United Press staff correspond
ant

[By a United Press staff corresponds
ent.l
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6.-The rebels
were closing in on Tampico today.
according to the latest information
received here and desperate battle
in the heart Of the oil port was con-
sidered possibility before nightfall.
The federals had barricaded the main
streets in the business section and
were prepared for stubborn resistance.
Four American warships, under
command of Rear Admiral Fletcher.
jare standing off Tampico, ready to
take care of Americans foreigners
and any, Mexican refugees who may
care to leave the besieged town.
The war office gave out report
that the rebels have lost seventy
men. No estimate Of the federal
casualties were made. All during the
night, wounded federals were brought
into Tampico from LaPuerta, SUI
burb to the north of the oil port.
where hard fighting went on all day.
Tampico is an isolated place, with
the gull on one side, a river on an
other and otherwise bounded by
tswamps. The only approach is the
causway. over which the railroad
crosses the swamps, The rebels are
1 fighting to obtain possession of this.
/ They are much better equipped with
ARTILLERY than when they attacked
Tampico before The fall OF the town
might tie up the entire railroad traf-
| f1c of Mexico If the constitutionalists
choose to cut off the oil supply
General Banquet, war minister and
Huerta's closest adviser, today told
the United Press the lifting of the
embargo could not make the rebels
any better off than they were before.
with the aid of vicious American
porting arms across the border for
several months" Banquet said, "and
President Wilson's order that they
may now do so qnenly will enable
the rebels to get no more arms and
ammunition than they have been get
ting"
Huerta is receiving many messages
by post and telegraph congratulating
him on his attitude toward the Unit
led States since President Wilson's
proclamation. Criminal plans OF
American capitalists must be stopped
wired Governor Boltran, of the state
of Mexico. "The very interests that
President Wilson is fighting in Amer
lean politics, must be fought by Pres
Iident Huerta."
Four American newspapers, anti
Wilson in their policies, have notified
Huerta they will take advantage of
his offer to finance and protect ten
One correspondent
lis here from newspaper bitterly an
tagonistic to President Wilson with a
letter from Henry Lane Wilson, eX-
ambassador, asking for an interview.
Huerta is said to have agreed to the
interview in the belief that what he
may say against President Wilson will
be used to embarrass him in the
United States.
Il
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Kancher Thought it Was Great
Sport But Has Not Been
Seen Since.

'onl.ed Press Leased Wire Service
..,,,, 1Ack'soN. Wyo., Feb. e.-That
1aa, niny HIichnan, rancher OF the
w,'. sascn Lake, district, was killedi
,. .aae actually trying to ride an ava.
,oss s''e was the word brought here
H. oy james FItzmeier Fitzmeier
- s1 was buried but escaped alive,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Jury Report Next tuesday.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO. Feb. 6.Reports from.
the federal grand jury which has been
Investigating loans made federal Off
cars by Sol Lewdnsofn, missing bank
er and bondsunan and their alleged
connection with the escape of Jack
Johnson, negro fighter, expected to
be made next Tuesday. The grand
jury compl -ted its probe after hearing
Frederick w. Lawrence, city editor
of morning newspaper testify as to
the contents OF what purported to be
a cablegram from Johnson in which
this negro was said to have charged
that he paid $20,00O to man who
represented that he could make it
easy for him to leave the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
WINTER HAS ARRIVED
FOR SIX WEEKS STAY.

drifting badly. Topeka reported ali
TRAINS from the west forty minutes to
an hour late. Larned reported a hlfz-
zard, the first Of the winter and the
worst In decade, sweeping westrn
Kanses. Cattle losses will be enor-
nous IL 1t continues. Telephone SER
vice throughout the state is crippled.
1t Struck Minnesota.
DULUTH, MINI, Feb. 61The bliz-
zard sweeping the middle west, struck
hers this morning and several inches
of snow already cover the ground.
The temperature cropped several de-
grees and zero weather is predicted
for tonight.
Rather Low Marks.
DENVER, Feb. 6.-Minimum unoffi.
ciaa temperatures In Colorado during
the night reported today were: Fort
Collins, 2 below; Englewood, 20 be-
low; Hdgewater, 1S below; Giobevihle,
16 below.
The mercury rose slowly here dur
ing the morning, going to two above
at IL o'clock.
Still Falling.
OMAHA, Feb. 6.-The : mercury
continues to fall and at 12 o'clock it
was six below in Omaha with pros
poets of ten below before the day is
over.
Chadron, Neb., reported the coldest
weather, with "a below.
Scots Bluff, Neb., reported 20;
Long Pine, Is; Akron, Sidney and
Bridgeport, 90, Valentine, Neb.. is.
and O'Neill, Neb., 16.
There was much suffering among
the poor in Omaha. More than 700
men we're in the bread line at the
Salvation Army this morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
Second Find in Kansas Where
Vast Sum is Reported to
Have Been Buried.

TUnited Press Leased Wire service.l
HARMED, Kans., Feb. ga second
treasure of gold estimated to be
worth $4,000 was reported found in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-06
The Advance on Torreon.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Feb C.
Bermijillo, forty miles north of Tor
reon, where the northern outposts Of
the federal garrison of Torreon have
been stationed for weeks, has been
occupied by the Mexican constitution
alists, according to dispatches reach