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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
APPALLING LOSSES.
Italians Attacking Gorilla Suffer Ter
ribly, Berlin Hears.

BERLIN, Dec. l. by Sayville wire
less,-Appalling losses fer the Italians
on the lscnzo arc reported from the
front. SAYS the Over Seas News agency.
The Italians apparently have decided
to take Gorilla without regard for
their immense sacrifices. General opin-
ion Is that the fury of the battle has
not reached its highest pitch All po-
sitions are firmly held by the Austro-
hungarian forces, although some of
them have been nearly destroyed.
Each night the Austrians and Hun
garians repair damages inflicted du-
ring the day, Notwithstanding the
heavy artillery fire and infantry at
tacks.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
DEATH FOLLOWED
APOPLECTIC SHOCK
Mrs Mary P. Hodgkins in Unusually
Good Health Up to Last Night
Widow of Martin o. Hodgkins.

Mrs. Mary P. Hodgkins. 76. died
suddenly last night in her home, 100
South Main street. She had been in
unusually good health and death fol-
lowed a stroke of apopleXv.
Mrs. Hodgkins was born in Fitzwil-
liam n H., Oct 90, 1899, a daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Simonds.
She had lived in Brattleboro practi-
caIly all her life. Her husband. Mar
tin o. Hodgkins, died number of
years ago.
Mrs. Hodgkins leaves two daughters,
Mrs. Belle A. Harper, wife of Rev.
James P. Harper of Franklin, n. H.,
and Miss Minnie B. Hodgkins, who
made her home with her mother, and
one son, George L. Hodgkins of Brat
tlcboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
FILM CENSOR cENsURED AGAIN.
Producers Must Have Little Vice
With Their Virtue -

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. l. - On q
charge of being incurably romantic :
J. Louis Breitinger, head of the Penn.
sylvania board of moving picture cen
sors, will be brought to court and com
PEELED to defend himself. The plaintiff
is the Franklin Film corporation, which
was refused a clean bin of health for
a linn called "Virtue. One of the five
reels was virtually ordered out.
Some of the scenes in the film are
admitted to be realistic, but the pro-
dncers insist that they cannot have
virtue triumph without showing few
obstacles
This will not be Mr. Breitinper :
first appearance in court, as he was
called there to defend himself in the
case of Geraldine Farrar S Carmen.
which was considered too vivid for
Philadelphia
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
GROCER AMIDON
MAKES ASSIGNMENT
A. w. J. Wilkins in Charge -Liabili-
ties Over ,OOO-Second Grocery
Concern in Month.

Raymond H. Amidon, doing a grocery
business in Crosby block on Main street
alnder name Of r. H Amdon & Co, made
an assignment yesterday afternoon for
the benefit of his creditors to 4. w. J.
Wilkins, who is now in possession OF
the store. The stock is advertised for
sale,
No schedule of liabilities and assets
has been filed, but it is understood that
the liabilities aggregate over $4,000
and the assets much less. Over one-half
of the liabilities are due two creditors,
it is understood. Mr. Amidon had been
in business about II years. The worl X
of taking inventory is now in progress.
This is the second grocery concern to
assign within a month, the other hay
ing been ]. F. Allen & Son
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
Withdrawal of fAustrian Min
listers of Interior, Com
merce and Finance
IMPORTANT CHANGE
IN CENTRAL POWERS
Heretofore Cabinets Have Remained
Virtually Intact, Although Coalition
Governments Have Been Formed in
Britain and France.


AMSTERDAM. Dec /. Via London
Reports that several members OF the Aus
trian cabinet have resigned are confirmed
by an autograph lett,t from Emperor.
Francis Joseph, published in the Vienna
newspaper The Emperor has accepted
the resignation of the ministers Of the IN
terror, commerce and finance Acceptance
OF these designations is qualified with the
proviso that the services OF the retiring
ministers are to be held available it ge-
quired
This is the most important change
which has been made in any Of the cahi-
nets Of the central powers during the war
These cabinets hitherto have remained vir-
tually intact. although coalition govern
ments have been formed in England and
France and there have been number ~
Withdrawals from the Russian cabinet
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01

WILMINGTON. Del Dec. l. - Thir-
ty-one men were killed instantly II
blown to atoms-and seven were in
jured when 5000 pounds of black pow
der exploded in a packing house in the
upper Haeley yard of the f. l. du
Pont de Nemours company. near here,
about 1.3o clock yesterday afternoon.
Company officials have been able to
assign no cause for the blast, the worst
in the history of the company. but it
was at once recalled that a few days
ago posters were found tackled on the
trees and fences about the plant warn
ing all Germans working there to@leaye
before January l.
With fear that the warnings meant
danger to the plant and those working
there. the guards at once were re-
| doubled and secret service men who
have been watching the plant increased
their vigilance. IT is thought possible,
! however, that the cause of the blast
was not from exterior sources, but
might have been the result of some
earelesSness in handling the powder.
Following the explosion detachment
of guards from the Carney's Point, y
J., mills of the powder company were
rushed across the Delaware river for
duty at the Brandywine plants. The
chain of mills is under a double guard.
Nothing but a hole in the ground
marks the spot where the packing
house stood. II was a small frame
building, IS feet by 90, where % men
were employed packing powder in wood
en- boxes, each box containing 20
pounds. The building was divided into
six small rooms. The men had been
working since clock in the morning
and would have been through in an
hour and half longer.
Just before the explosion a car carry
ling several thousand pounds of powder
was trundled along narrow railroad
track to the door of the house, drawn
by two horses. It is thought possible
that powder spilled from the car
trickled down onto the rails and was
ignited by the passage of the wheels,
but not much credence is given TO this
Explanation of the tragedy, and there
is no one left who was in the house to
tell just what happened
There was a flash and deep roar
and over the spot where the house had
stood a great cloud of dust and smoke
swirled and then lifted up until one
could see the vacancy that was left
4
or Of the men who had worked there
| only scattered fragments of wood and
! in the trees near by ghastly bits OF
} what had been human bodies.
The giant jar of the blast stunned
every one near by for some time and
then cries of fear and anguish rose
above the stiffness
Men were found blinded and uncon
scious near the buildings where they
, had worked, others had arms or legs
torn from them, and most of those who
were so injured are not expected by the
5 physicians to live. But of the mer
/ who had worked in the packing plant
A there was not enough left to identify
; them.
r For a quarter Of mile the trees hat
q caught the flying fragments until mer
7 with baskets went about gathering
t them for burial In creek nearby
r an arm was found floating
e The only body of those who were il
$ the building that has been identified
= was that of Allen A. Parker of Port
land Me-, the foreman. His trunk wa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
TO ENCOURAGE PLANS
FOR RIFLE PRACTICE
Congress to Be Asked for Appropria-
tions to Promote Rifle Training
Among Citizens.

WASHINGTON, Dec. /. - The eX-
ecutivc committee of the National Rifle
Association of America will ask Con
gress for national charter and annual
appropriation of $3.50 and the secre-
tary of war win ask for $4,000 for the
national board of promotion of rifle
practice to promote rifle training among
citizens.
War department officials having su-
pervision OF rifle practice will endeayor
to have Congress provide for a com
mission and funds looking to the adop-
tion of national policy of rifle range
construction throughout the country
similar to the plan of the United States
Municipal Rifle club in Illinois.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
STATES
DOMINATE AFFAIRS
Rumania Will Deliver Utimatum to Austria as Soon
as Entente Allies Concentrate 100000 Men
Greece's Refusal to Limit Military Effectiveness
Cause of Concern

LONDON, Dec. l. - The Balkan
states continue to dominate both the
military and diplomatic situation in
Europe. Rumania S attitude apparent
y is causing the central powers un-
'asiness, while Greece 5 refusal to linn
It her military effectiveness as request
cd By the entente powers of equal con
rcrn to those powers.
Rumania is said to be only awaiting
the presence in the Balkans of the pre-
ponderant entente military force be
fore despatching an ultimatum to Aus
tria and Germany.
Military critics, according to des-
patches reaching London, express dis
satisfaction with conditions in the Bal
kans, predicting both military and dip
Iomatie difficulties ahead despite the
campaign Of Field Marshal Won Mack
cnseu.
The capture Of $1,000 Serbians by the
Bulgarians when they took Prisrend. the
fall Of which was reported yesterday, is
announced by Berlin today. \ Bulgarian
statement places the number of prisoners
at between 10000 and 1900 together
with much war material
According to the Sofia war Office Bulga-
1an troops are operating successfully
against the allied troops in southern Ser
hia The left bank of the Cerna is re
ported cleared of the Anglo-French forces.
who are declared to have been thrown
back several miles.
Mining and aeroplane operations con
tinuc ON the Franco-Begian front, both
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
Taken at 40 High Street, Elevation 333
Feet, for November.

Maximum temperature, 6S (1st) !;
minimum temperature, Is {lSth); mean
temperature 81; mean maximum tenn
perature. 45 |; mean minimum temper
ature, $50; mean temperature was over
three degrees warmer than in Novem-
ber. 1914; maximum barometer,
3o.52 1sth) minimum barometer,
1926 Q9th); mean barometer, 1895;
clear days, 8; partly cloudy, 20; cloudy
,; prevailing wind, north snowfall,
10; precipitation, 3.36; precipitation
this month last year, 800; precipitation
to Dec /, 1915, 3S.06; precipitation to
Dec l. 1914, 31.70; excess this year,
$50: thunder, 10Th. F. r. Vaughan,
observer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
SCHOOL TEACHER FOUND.
Miss Mcclure in Exhausted Condition
With Wound in Her Throat

: BROCKTON, Mass, Dee. |. = Miss
Maude E. Mcclure, a Boston school
teacher for whom a search had been
made since her disappearance yester-
dav, was found at a farmhouse near
here TODAY in an exhausted condition
and with long knife wound in her
throat. She was unable to talk. but
from notes on scraps of paper in her
possession the police stated that the
wound was self-inficted. Physicians
attending Miss Mcclure said she prob
ably would recover.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
In Odd Fellows Hall

Special meeting of Canton Palestine to-
night at T.30. Inspection by Col. Duncan
Full dress uniform
Thursday, Dee ,, 40 p m-Regular
meeting Oasis Encampment
ENempIidcation of the Golden Rule de-
gree. Nomination of officers.
There will be an Odd Fellows and Re
bekahs' social in |. o. O. f. hall Friday
evening, Dec ;, with dancing, cards and
refreshments 80 cents couple; extra
ladies and children 10 cents
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
PASSENGERS ROBBED.
Money and Valuables Lost by Two Per
sons While They Were Asleep.

CHICAGO, Dec. l. - Two passengers
lost valuables and money early today
when a man who boarded the train at
st. Paul or Minneapolis last night
rifled their berths while they were
asleep. Reports that the train had been
held up were discredited by the railroad
headquarters here.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
AUTOMOBILE VICTIM.
Frank P. wilkins of Manchester. N. H.
Died Today in Lawrence.

LAWRENCE, Mass, Dec l. = Frank
2. Wilkins, 65, Of Manchester, y H.,
who was injured by an automobile at
Andover last night, died ii hospital
here today. Edward s. Conwell of
Salem, y. H., owner of the car. will be
given a hearing on Thursday in con
nection with police investigation Of
the accident
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01

PARIS, Dee. 1.-The French official
report on the progress of hostilities
given out this afternoon says that the
French artillery has been energetically
engaged along the river Somme. There
have also been certain attacks on Ger
man aeroplanes in which the French
were successful. Otherwise there is
nothing to report.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01

ROME, Dec. 1.-The real object of
Emperor William 5 visit to Vienna
was to put stop to efforts Austria is
making through Madrid with the Vat
lean to obtain a separate peace with
the quadruple entente, says the Tri-
bune. Vienna and Berlin disagree on
the question of peace. Berlin desires
to treat separately with each of the al
lies, so as to break up the quadruple
entente and then to crush England,
but Vienna desires a real and lasting
peace to end the tension which rapid
lv is becoming too great for Austria to
bear.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01

More than 90 per cent Of the refining
and smelling Of Dresses and scrap metals
in the United States Is carried on in the
territory east Of the Mississippi and north
Of the Ohio river
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
CAPTURE SERBIANS.
$4,000 Said to Have Been Captured
When Prisrend Fell.

BERLIN, Dec, /, via London.-Armv
headquarters announced today that
with the capture of Prisrend. western
Serbia, $4,000 Serbians were made
prisoners.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
THE WEATHER.
Increasing Cloudiness, Followed by
Rain or Snow Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, December /. = The
weather forecast: Increasing cIoudiness
followed By rain or snow late, tonight
or Thursday. Warmer in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont tonight. Moderate
variable winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01

Berlin and the Paris war office reporting
successes at various points.
LONDON, Dec. 1.-Rumania will dc
liver an ultimatum to Austria as soon
as the entente allies concentrate 500,-
600 men in the Balkans, it is reported
in Bucharest, says a Central News des-
patch from that city
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
MOTHER WILLING
AL | 0 " NATURE
CORRECT BLUNDER
CHILD BORN IN CHICAGO HOS
PiTAL DEFORMED nv BODY
AND MIND, WILL BE ALLOWED
TO DIE-DocToR DEFENDS HIS
POSITION.

CHICAGO, Nov 17-Mrs. Anna Boil
linger today told the story Of her
consent to let her six-day-old baby
boy, deformed in body and mind, die
rather than live a life barren and
useless"
The mother agreed with DR.. j. H.
Haiselden, chief of a hospital staff,
to sacrifice the child when a simple
operation would assure it's life. If
the infant lives Haiselden believes it
would be mental and perhaps a
morl defective. Therefore, with the
consent of the child's parents, he de-
clined to perform the operation. It's
death is expected within forty-eight
hours.
The mother is at the German-Amer-
ican hospital.
at is not heartless of me-" Mrs.
Rollinger said. 81 love the little de-
formed one as I love my three other
healthy children, but the doctor told
me that it perhaps would be an i'm
becile and criminal Left to itself it
Has lO JHdHCG W live. COloCllISu
to let nature take it's course No
one need think me an unnatural
mother. This baby, if allowed to
live, would be a burden to itself. It's
life would be barren and useless.
It is one of natures blunders. I am
willing for nature to correct its error
by my baby's death. | am satisfied
that | am doing right"
Haiselden said he was prepared to
face bitter criticism and to defend
his course. 81 have no doubt that I
shall be called murderer" he said
"but the infants death is a question
between me and my conscience. The
baby was born last Friday, after the
mother became seriously i'll with ty-
phoid."
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
MAY ABOLISH OFFICE OF
COMPTOLLER CURRENCY
Recommendation to That Ef-
feet Is Made to the Federal
Reserve Board.

WASHINGTON. Nov 17--The fed
eral reserve board had before it today
recommendation of d its advisory
council that the office Of comptroller
of the currency. which has direct SUI
perVision over the operation Of all ma
tional banks, be abolished coun-
ter proposal provides that member
banks, including national banks here
after be examined exclusively by the
boards examiners.
The action Of the council, which is
said to have been based upon the
ground that the comptroller's office
had been made unnecessary by the
establishment of the reserve system.
and that there would be duplication of
work since examinations of national
banks one of the principal functions
Of the comptrollers office, may be CON
Quoted by reserve board agents at the
reduest Of a reserve bank
The proposal concerning the comp
troIler's office was one of several
made by the council in response to
request from the board for sugges-
tions as to legislation to be urged up
on congress at the opening session.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
EDWARDS CANNOT ATTEND
WelI-knoWn Railroad Official
Unable to Be Here Tonight.

Secretary Weatherly of the Board
of Trade, yesterday received the fol-
lowing telegram from ]. l.. Edwards,
who was expected to be among the
guests atthe dollar dinner tonight. Mr..
Edwards is one of the high officials
of the Southern railway:
Have tried all day to reach you by
long distance phone to express my
sincere disappointment and regret at
inability to be with you all Thursday
evening, especially so as several of
our other officers who had expected
to be with you have been called away
by important business engagements in
other sections. ! had hoped until to-
day / could arrange it but find it i'm
practicable to be absent from the
office Thursday. We hope that with
renewal of operations Of Yaryan plant
and with resumption Of normal condi-
tions generally Brunswick will thrive
and grow as never before and to this
end we pledge you our full co-opera-
tion and assistance in every possible
way j. l.. EDWARDS"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
4 FULL REPORT
Of THE AFFAIR
NOW AWAITED
President Wilson Is Looking for
Penfield's Report on the
Sinking.
MUCH DATA IS DESIRED
United States Ambassador at
Vienna Can, However, Scarce
Iy Send Information in Less
Than a Week.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Detailed
information concerning the sinking of
the Italian liner Ancona was awaited
today by administration officials from
the Austrian government through Am
bassador Penfield at Vienna.
The ambassador has instructions to
obtain data supplementary to the Aus
trian admiralty statement concerning
the attack, which has been submitted
to Secretary Lansing by the Austrian
embassy here. This statement said
that an Austrian submarine sank the
Ancona, and claimed that ample time
had been given for the escape of the
passengers and crew
Instructions to Ambassador Penfield
to make formal inquiry had been
withheld until the Austrian govern
ment officially assumed responsibility
for the action of the submarine. 1t
had been reported that the subma-
rine flew a German flag.
Ambassador Penfield's report prob
able will not be received for a week
owing to difficulties of cable communi-
cation between the United States and
Austria He has been aswed to in
quire if the Ancona was warned and
how long the liner was shelled. Other
questions cover time given passengers
to escape, activities of the submarine
while they were leaving the vessel
and w11etKef any remained on board
when the torpedo was fired.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
FIRST CASE In FROM
ONE OF NEW COUNTIES
Referee Crovatt Gets Bankrupt
Case From Wheeler County.

While two or three cases have been
filed since change was made in the
district Referee Crovatt yesterday
received his first papers from one of
the new counties added to his district,
when the schedules of the Alamo
Hardware company were forwarded to
him from the United States district
court in Savannah. The case is from
Wheeler county, the first to be re-
ceived since that county was placed
in Referee Crovatt's district.
Quite an array of prominent Geor-
gia attorneys are interested in the
case and will DE in the city to attend
the first meeting of the creditors.
Among them are Adams & Adams, of
Savannah, attorneys for the bank
rupts, and Rosser, Slaton G Phillips,
of Atlanta, representing various cred
itors.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
ONLY MATTER OF HOURS.
PRETTY TRIBUTE PAID
BY LOCAL NEGROES TO
THEIR DEAD CHIEFTAIN

THE Sad Event That Brings Us
Together'-Dr c. F. Hoskins
Song-"Face to Face"-Choir.
''Dr. Washington-My Opinion of
Him Based on Thirty Years of Per
sonal Friendship"-W. H. Clark.
Song-"Nearer My God to Thee"
''Dr. Washington-His Ideals and
His Work"-E d. Whitehead.
Song-"We Shall Gather at the
River"
Volunteer expressions by a large
number of friends.
Song-"Safe in the Arms of Jesus"
Closing prayer-Rev. Sapp.
DoXology.
Benediction-Rev. John Williams.
The following message of condo
lence was read by w. H. Clark and
agreed upon by standing vote:
"The negro citizens of Brunswick
Ga, gathered in grief and sorrow, to
pay a tribute of respect to our hon
ored dead, realize that in the deaf
of DR.. Booker T Washington. the
race has lost its greatest man, the ma
tion one of its best citizens and the
South most potent factor in its pros
perity. We extend to his loved ones
coincidence and sympathy and will
ever praT Gods blessing on Tuskegee
and the race"
A resolution was then passed that
copies Of the foregoing be sent to his
widow and to Tuskegee Institute.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-18
RUSSIANS SUSPICIOUS
OF KING CONSTANTINE
Petrograd Newspaper Thinks
Greece Will Attack the
Allied Forces.

PETROGRAD (via Londom, Nov.
17.-Analyzing the conduct of King
Constantine of Greece the Novoe
Vremya arrives at the conclusion that
his friendly neutrality" is nothing
more than open preparation for "a
future attack on the allied forces
landed at Salonika.
The war correspondent of the Novoe
Vremya warns the Russian people
against jubilation over recent success.
es on the eastern front and says they
still are confronted by a strong enemy
whose superb techinacl equipment is
far from being crushed
THE enemy assigns maximum
gun to every ten men" the CORES
spondent says, "and his artillery is
abundantly supplied with ammuni-
ton"