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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07

! NJ. II. Moody, secretary and treasurer
OF the Vermont Guernsey Breeders asso
citation, is sending out to each member
a notice OF the meeting in Burlington or
Jan. IL. The program is as follows; p
m, meet at the Van Ness house; 6:30
banquet in main diningroom; 1880, bus
mess session; 8, illustrated lecture OH
Guernseys, by Charles L. Hill of Wis
| consin, president of the American Guern-
sey Cattle club. The wives of all mem.
bers are especially invited to attend and
each member may bring as many guests
as he wishes. In fact all interested in
dairying will be welcome at the meet.
ing and banquet. All intending to be
present should notify the secretary, Mark
II. Moody, as early as possible. This
will be held during the meetings of the
Vermont Dairymen's association in Bur
lington. Mr. Moody is an enthusiast
about Guernseys, and has some nice reg
istered stock at his Winnisquam farm.
The funeral of Edgar johnson was
held from his late home Tuesday after
noon, Rev. W. Il. Douglass officiating.
The bearers were Emerson johnson and
Henry Marshall of this town, Fred jew
EFT of Bolton and Ernest Backus of
North Fayston. Others from out OF
town were Mr.. and Mrs. John Mackie of
Montpelier, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Faunce
of North Fayston, Mr.. and Mrs. Newell
Demas, Mr.. and Mrs. John Backus and
Charles Backus of Stowe.
At the annual meeting of the adies'
union held in the social room of the Con-
church Tuesday the follow
ing officers were elected President, Mrs.
G. S. Bidwell; vice presidents, Mrs. Il. X.
Demeritt, and Mrs. A. II. Smith; sec
rotary, Mrs. Nellie Chase; treasurer, Mrs
James Fife; heads Of the working com
Mrs. Z. Il. Campbell. Mrs w D.
Clark; second division Mrs. w. II. r.
Perry and Mrs. William Gilbert.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. /. Torrey have moved
into the home of Mrs. Louisa Watts.
Mrs. Watts will board with them.
Royal. the young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Atkins, is quite i'll with bron.
ahitis.
Representative II. f. Hill and B. r.
Demeritt, representative from Duxburs !
went to Montpelier yesterday to take
their seats in the Vermont legislature. |
4 number from here attended the open
ng of that body, among them Richard |
Demeritt, representative from Water
lury for the past two years.
Judge +. w. Huntley was in Barre
md Montpelier yesterday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07

Claude /. Morse was in Montpelier
Tuesday, where he attended the bar a.
sociation meeting and banquet.
Miss Ethel Adams has gone to Mont
pelier, where she has position rs stc
nographer for the reyiscrs OF bills dur
ing the legislature.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl w. Peterson Of Bur
lington returned home Sunday, after
spending New Years with Mr. and Mr.
CLYDE VI. Cohrin.
George Kelly was in Burlington last
week, where he visited his sister. Eliza
beth, at the Mary Fletcher hospital.
Miss Cramton returned Monday night
from Enosburg Falls and has resumed
her work at the Norwich university Il.
brary.
Professor and Mrs Arthur W. Pcach
returned Tuesday from Brattleboro.
where they spent the holiday vacation.
Miss Grace Cheney Of Washington. who
has been visiting Mr. and Mrs Leon G..
Smith, returned 60 her home yesterday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
NORTHFIELD
Funeral of Mrs. Louise B. Wright Held
at Uniyersalist Church.

The funeral OF Mrs Louise b. Wright
was held Monday morning at IL o'clock
from the Uniyersalist church, the pastor,
Rev. Clinton Scott, officiating. The re-
mains were taken 10 Barre for interment.
The deceased is survived by one son,
Francis B. Wells, also by grandson and
five step children. Among those in town
20 attend the funeral were Mrs. +. G..
Rowland and Miss Lucy Wells Of Barre,
Mrs Glenn McAllister Of WilIiamstown,
Paul Wells OF Roxbury and Mrs. Ban
croft of Montpelier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
WILLIAMSBURG.

Our christmas club" will be open for
membership any day this week. Call at
the bank and join for 1915. Barre Saw
ings Bank 4 Trust Co.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
WATERBURY
W. L. corliss Struck By Falling Tree
and Had Collarbone Broken.

w. i. Corliss while chopping on his
farm ON Ward hill in South Duxbury
felled tree in such way that he was
struck by the same, breaking his collar
bone. DR.. James Haylett of Moretown
was called, who fixed him up for the
night. Yesterday morning he was
brought to the office of DIR. G. S. Bid.
well for treatment. II viii probably be
six weeks before Mr.. Corliss is able 20
work
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07

Er~rasr So rnz1 rHr Is 80
an Csisa Nanssg ~~uE aan iL
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
EAST CABOT

Remember the musical rally n the
hall, Cabot Monday evening. Jan ID.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
PLAINFIELD.

The w. c. T. u. will meet with Mrs.
Comstock Friday afternoon at o'clock
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-07
Food Query Department
Conducted by
Prof. Lewis B. Allyn
of Wesfeld Mass.
"The Pure Food Town"

Editor and will receive reply by mail
through
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
ALL IN A MIDDLE
Kansas and Uncle Sam in Row
Over a Bridge.
Junction City Structure Brings
Up Legal Questions.
STATE HAS NO MONEY ANYWAY
Attorney General Sees No
Funds Available Now.
Doesn't Permit
Internal Improvements.
STATE HAS NO MONEY ANYWAY

Kansas and the federal government
are in a big mix-up concerning the
erection of a new army bridge near
Junction City. S. NJ. Brewster, attor-
ney general, has notified Governor
Capper that the state cannot construct
new bridge under the constitutional
provision against internal improve
ments. All of which means that Kan
sas may be forced to repudiate her
contract and raise a dozen puzzling
and complicated legal questions.
Just what action the govern nment
will take in it's effort to compel the
state to enforce it's contract, is a mat
ter of uncertainty. 1t is also a matter
of doubt as TO the action which the
federal departments might pursue.
From a dozen angles there are embar-
RAISING questions which must be de-
cided before the dispute concerning
the building of the bridge is decided.
1t is not alone the question of a bridge
across the Republican river, but a
question of the states rights under
its own constitution.
No Money Available.
So far as immediate erection of a
bridge by the state is concerned, it is
entirely out of the question. There
isn't a dollar available for such an
Improvement and no money is pro-
vided for the future. Yet there is no
denying that in 1867 the state made a
contract with the government which
provided for the upkeep of the bridge.
The letter to the governor, however, re-
pudiates the contract. 1t sets forth the
fact that the state constitution does no per
init of inrnal improvmentst by the state.
All of which is very well.
But
There is a question as to whether the
government can maintain suit against
the state of Kansas to compel her to recog-
nize her contract Further, can the state
observe her contract to do something that
the constitution prohibits?
Assuming that the government might
build the bridge and deduct the money
from the first claim due the state Would
the state of Kansas have recourse in such
n matter? Could the state maintain
claim against the government? Also, what
might be her argument concerning the
of her own contract? There are
ali manner of legal possibilities in the case
and the next move is clearly up to the
oovernmoDt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
One Man Held Says He Is Off
Ger in Kaiser's Army.
TO BLOW UP MUNITIONS SHIPS
Lieutenant COnfesses After an
AH-Night GriIling.
Others Involved in Conspiracy
To Be Taken by Officers.

New York, Oct. 25.-Robert Fay
and his brother-in-law, Walter l..
Scholz, who were arrested yesterday
while testing explosives near Grant
wood, N. j., We're arraigned today be-
fore a justice of the peace at Wee
hawken, N. J., on charges of conspir-
acy and held without bail for exam
ination tomorrow.
The arraignment disclosed the fact
that third man, Paul Daeche, had
been arrested early today at his home
in Jersey City, after New York and
New Jersey police had searched the
house. Daeche was arraigned with
Fay and SchoIz, and held without bail.
Seize Important Witness.
Detectives said they expected Daeche
to prove a valuable witness, as he had
already given them much important
information Daeche said he was "a
years old, that he came to this coun-
try from Germany in 1912 and was a
tective George Barnitz of the New
York Central office squad made the
affidavit upon which the three men
were held on charges of conspiracy
Announcement was made at police
headquarters here today by Commits
sioner Woods that Fay, after an all
night grilling, had made a confession.
For more than twelve hours, it was
said, Fay stuck to his original story
that he was not connected with the
morning, according to the commits
sioner, he broke down and admitted
that he was a lieutenant in the Ger
man army and came to this country
two or three months ago for the spec
ific purpose of experimenting with a
machine containing high explosive.
This machine. the commissioner said,
contained works like clock and was
to be attached to the propeller or rud-
der of a ship.
To Disable Ships.
The machine was so constructed, he
said, that the stirring of the water
would cause rod connecting with one
of the cogs to release a spring, result
ing in an explosion which would dis
able the ship and force her to enter
the nearest harbor. This was for the
purpose of delaying shipments of
munitions to the allies, it, was said.
Only ships carrying war munitions
were to be thus disabled, according to
Fay's statement. A number of detec-
tives left headquarters in automobiles
early today, and it was said that sew
eral arrests would be made today of
men who were cognizant of Fay's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
0. K. ON Gas RAISE
State Commercial Clubs May
Approve New Move.
Meeting in Topeka to Talk
over Kansas Situation.

The consumers side of the gas
question will be discussed Wednesday
noon at a meeting of the state and ma
tional legislative committees of the
Comm club which will be held
in the club rooms. At this meetings
it is planned to draft resolutions to
the state public utilities commission
asking them to make certain conces-
sions to the Kansas Natural company
Just what the resolutions will call
for is not certain but on good author
ity it can be said that there is great
deal of sentiment in favor of all al
lowing the producing company to IN
crease the rates so that a sufficient
supply of gas can be furnished the
consumers.
When this action is taken an effort
will be made to get the other CONNER
cial clubs in the eastern cities to fall
in line and make similar demands to
the public utilities commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
TO CAPTURE COMMERCE
United states Plans Trade Campaign
of World Wide Scope.

Washington, Oct. 25.-What the de-
partment of commerce will do to cap
ture world markets for the United
Ssates, if congress approves Secretary
Redfield's plans, are outlined in a
statement by DIR. E. E. Pratt, chief of
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, in discussing the depart
ment's estimates of expenditures for
the next fiscal year.
A trade campaign, world wide in
scope, is planned. American mer-
chants and manufacturers are to be
aided in taking advantage of the un-
usual opportunities now confronting
them and in preparing for the contest
for trade supremacy, which is expect
ed to come after the war.
Big increases in the appropriation
for the bureau are to be asked as part
of Secretary Redfield's general pro-
gram for commercial preparedness
Features of the plan include reorgani-
zation of the staff in Washington and
an increase to about twice it's present
size of the foreign commercial service
and extensive Investigations of COM
mercia1 conditions abroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
FIRED ON
Mexican Bandits Attack u. S.
Infantry Camp.
Outlaws Escape More Than
Thousand Men on Trail.

Brownsville, Tex. Oct. 25.-Bandits
VINO attacked an entrenched United
States infantry camp within six miles
OF brownsville early yesterday eve
n1ng, escaped capture by more than a
thousand troops, rangers and deputies
VINO started in pursuit of them in half
an hour after the fight. Daylight re-
vealed that there were possibly thirty
or forty men in two attacking parties
which attempted to ambush the SOL
diers.
Civil officers said today they be-
Heved some members of these bands
were MeXicans from Brownsville. All
roads entering Brownsville were
guarded during the night by both
civil and military details, in the be-
lief that some of the bandits would
try to hide in this city. Today's re-
ports showed no indication that any
of the bandits tried to cross the Rio
Grande into Mexico last night Some
of them, however, seem to have gone
north eleven miles after the attack
into the Fresnos district, a tract of
land covered with brush so thickly
that it has afforded almost perfect
cover for bandits throughout the en-
tire period of the raids. So far as
known. no bandits were killed or
wounded.
Private Herman E. Moore of the
Fourth infantry of French Lick
Springs, Ind, who was wounded in the
abdomen and the arm, was not ex-
pected today to live. No other soldiers
were hit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
F|ENDISH TORTURE
Eye Witness Tells of Turkish
Armenian Atrocities.
Bishop ShOd With Red Hot
Shoes by Blacksmith.
800 KILLED AT ONE Time
Women Were Tied to Ok Carts
to Convert Them.
Girls Distributed as ChatteIS
Among the Officials.

London, Oct. ga long account
by an eyewitness of Armenian afro
cities is telegraphed by the Reuter- cor
respondent with the DardanelleS fleet.
The statement is from an official
source, the correspondent explaining
that it was given to the British staff by
an Armenian serving in the Turkish
army who was taken prisoner. This
account begins at Erzerum. the prin-
cipal city of Turkish Armenia, last
March. 1t covers travels about various
parts of Armenia and gives details of
various atrocities along familiar lines
with shoes of red hot iron by village
and how men of Tokat were tied to-
one hundred at a time to the marshy
districts for massacre.
The account describes how women
were tied to the tails of OK carts and
exposed to hunger and rough weather
until they accepted conversion to Islam
or death, how mothers were bayOn-
cited before the eyes of their children,
and how Armenian girls were diStrib-
uted as chattels among civil and mill
tary officials. The prisoner says as
a soldier he himself was compelled to
assist in many massacres. His account
closes as follows:
There is reason to believe German
advisers of the Turks have urged the
undesirability of allowing a large alien,
and presumably unfriendly population
to inhabit forts which lie open to Rus
sian attack
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
Die IN FIRE TRAP
Four Girls and One Man Known
to Have PeriShed.
Women Workers Jump Into
Street; Eight Badly Hurt.

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 25.-Four girls
and one man employed in the factory
of the Union Paper Box company, on
the North side, are known to be dead,
eight girls are badly injured and d
number of others are missing, as re-
suit of a fire which this afternoon
started in the feed store of James
Brown & Co. and spread to the fac
tory.
Firemen searching the ruins of the
building recovered the bodies and re-
inforced by the entire city department
continued their search in the dense
smok.
Joseph L. Bash, employed as sales
man by stove company on the second
floor of the building, saw the flames
shooting up the elevator shaft. He
ran to a window and gave the alarm
He noticed a number of girls from the
box factory leaning out of an upper
window. One after the other, he low
cred them to the ground until eight
were safe.
A ]. Seagle, another stove salesman,
did the same thing at another window
and aided a. number to safety, while
Henry Scraieder of Cleveland drove a
wagon to the rear of the building and
cought others as they jumped. Other
girls sprang into the street, and eight
of them were taken to q hospital bad
ly hurt.
Henry T. Schafer, manager of the
box factory, said that twenty-six girls
and six men weer at work when the
fire broke out The bodies recovered
were so badly burned as to be un-
recognizable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
RAIL PLOT IS Barred
Evidence in Writing Identified by
Mellen in New Haven Case.

New York, Oct. 25.-Evidence in
writing of the purpose of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road to harass its chief rival in the
early nineties, the New York and New
England railroad, was placed before
the jury today at the trial of the elev-
en- directors of the road, past and
present, who are accused of trying to
monopolize the transportation traffic
of New England. The evidence con-
sisted of memorandum purporting to
have ben written by William E. Bar
nett, executive secretary of the New
Haven in 1892, suggesting ways in
which the service of one of the New
England roads connections with New
York might be curtailed.
Although the memorandum was un-
signed, it was identified by Charles s.
Mellen, who continued his testimony
today, as being in Barnetts hand
writing.
Barnett is named as a co-conspira-
tor of the defendants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
WILSON TO QUIT:
RumOr That TOpekan May Be
Asked to Resign.
Federal Land Officer Said To Be
Under Probe.

That A. P. Tone Wilson, receiver for
the government land office in Topeka,
sto be asked to resign, is contained
in a rumor in political circles. Acts of
the Topeka man are said to have been
under recent investigation by the gov
ernment and because of the federal
probe, it is claimed that Wilson's
resignation may be requested.
According to the report in Topeka,
several representatives of federal de-
partments in Washington have recent
1y visited Topeka in connection with
complaints regarding Wilson One of
the charges against Wilson, it is claim
ed, is the fact that he was recently
arrested on a charge of being intoxi-
Gated. 1t is claimed that several fed
eral officials have suggested to Will
son thath resign, but the land office
official refused to quit. To friends,
Wilson is said to have stated that he
would not leave the service.
Wilson was appointed on recon-
mendation of Senator William H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
KODAK VIEWS TAKEN
FOR men IN TRENCHES

London, Oct. 25.-Snap shots for
the men in the trenches is the pur-
pose of a new organization-The
Home League-now operating in
England.
Thousands of amateur phOtogra-
pliers go daily with their kodaks
and cameras to the homes of the
''TOmmies" to snap the home folks.
The pictures are turned over to
the Y. NJ. c. A., where already f5,-
900 soldiers have written to ask for
a "snap'' of kiddieS, mother or wife.
Sometimes in the smaller cities
and villages these amateurs set up
free galleries" in their various
gardens and tell the relatives of SOL
diers to come and be snapped.
Within ten days the "snap" is in the
trenches.
The league, according to advices,
will soon extend its activities to
Canada, Australia and New Zea-
land, where pictures of the colonial
''TOmmies'' may be taken and sent
to the various fronts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
18TH CLEAR DAY
Longest Period of AIl-Sunshine Since
November IA, 1914.

Today is the thirteenth consecutive
clear day in Topeka, making the long
est period of fair weather since the
middle of last November. The outlook
is for slightly cooler weather tonight
The forecast calls for fair weather to
night and Tuesday; cooler with prob
able frost tonight.
This is extraordinary weather, even
for Kansas says Observer Flora, land
every clear warm day is worth mil
lion dollars to the farmers. 1t is just
what is needed for the next years
wheat crop and for finishing threshing
this years crop"
The mercury went up to 81 degrees
Sunday afternoon. and with the exceP-
tion of the wind and dust it was an
ideal day The lowest temper; ure
last night was A degrees, making the
average II degrees above normal
The highest temperature ever re-
corded on this date was SIS degrees, in
1891 TIL lowest was % degrees. in
1887.
The Tlaw river this morning showed
d. stake of rs feet
Temperatures averaged only , de-
grees above normal today. The wind
blew at the rate of l. miles an hour
from the northwest. Following are
hourly temperature readings for to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
WAR NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR THE RUSHED READER

Venice was twice attacked last
night by aeroplanes from which
bombs, some of which were in
diary, We're thrown, it was Of
ficially announced in Rome.
An incendiary bomb fell in
front of the ducal palace, on the
piazzetta of ST. Marks but did no
damage, and another bomb
crushed the sculptured ceiling of
the Church Degli Scalzi. There
We're no casualties, it is declared.
Paris reports a successful at
tack on salient in the Champagne
region, where an important posi-
ton known as La Courtine,"
extending 1900 yards with an av-
erage depth of 250 yards, was
captured.
French troops following up
their reported success in routing
the Bulgarians in engagements on
Friday and Saturday are threat
ening StrumitSa, according to Sa-
loniki advices. The Bulgarians
are reported to have lost heavily
in the fighting.
Paris dispatches from Athens
reflect a more hopeful tone in
entente quarters regarding the sit
uation in Serbia. 1t is declared
that, according to Nish advices,
the Teutonic offensive along the
entire northern front has been
brought to a standstiu and that
the Bulgarian forward movement
also has been checked.
Berlin declares that Austro-
German troops have made fur
ther advances in --erbia, notably
the new force which had crossed
the Danube near the Rumanian
border. The Bulgarians also have
made progress near the central
point of the Serbo-Bulgarian
frontier, it is claimed.
Admission that the Bulgarians
have taken Uskup, as announced
in an official statement yesterday,
from Sofia, is contained in a COM
munication from the Nish war Of
flee received today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
French Troops Beat OF Bull
garS in Southern Serbia.
Report Denies Steel Has Been
Severed at VeleS.
SERBS IN OFFENSIVE SMASH
of Machine Guns and
Equipment Claimed.
Italian Drive Fails to Force
Austrian Front.

London, Oct. 25.-French troops are
working up the railroad line from Sa-
loniki and, beating off Bulgarian
forces in southern Serbia, have Sc
cured possession of the line as far as
Negotin, about fifty miles southeast of
Uskup, it is said in a dispatch from
Gradek, Serbia, under Saturdays date.
1t is denied in the Gradek advices that
Bulgarian attack on that place having
been defeated.
Further north, according to the lat
est claims by the invaders of Serbian
territory, Uskup is in Bulgarian hands.
together with long section of the
railroad to the north. For the Austro-
German forces heading southwark
steady, if slow. advances are claimed.
The latest official statement from
Nish shows offensive movements on
the part of the Serbians in efforts TO
check the Teutonic progress. Capture
of machine guns and equipment in two
engagements is reported.
The new Italian offensive has not re-
suited in permanent breaches in the
Austrian defensive line, the current
official statement of the Vienna war
office claims Almost without excep-
tion the recapture is asserted of such
positions along the lines as the Italians
had taken. Hostile possession of a few
outpost trenches in the southern sec
tor is admitted. Especially severe
fighting at the Tolmino and Gorizia
bridge heads is reported.
Important successes for the French
on the west front are claimed by Paris.
French Rout Bulgarians.
London, Oct 25.=French troops
on Saturday on the front of Gradek-
(Cnnffntad on Paua