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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
KILLED WIFE TO WE'D
GIRL HE WRONGED
Comery, Under Arrest at Manchester.
Breaks Down and Makes a
Confession.

MANCHESTER, n. H., Jan. &. =
Terrified BY the significance of chem
ical analysis showing that his wife had
died from strychnine poisoning. Oscar
y. Comery, under arrest on suspicion
for more than Il week. broke down to
day and confessed that he had murder
ed her 50 that he might be free to mar
~ the Ii year-old girl he had wronged.
Comery ) confession. made TO Chief
Of Police Michael j. Healy only a short
time after he had in court reiterated
his denial OF guilt, came rs 4 climax 10
the action OF the investigating author
tiles in proving that Mrs. Comery had
been poisoned, in finding where the
drug had been purchased by Comery,
and in securing q number ef letters
written by Comery TO Miss Enice
Campbell
The details of the confession are
guarded by Chief Healv, but it Is
known that the police theory of Com
cry 5 actions. including his association
with the Campbell girl, has been veri-
fed absolutely. The authorities expect
now to cNhume the body OF Comery s
4monthsold ehild which died three
months ago, 20 permit Of an examina-
ton OF its organs. Poisoning is sus-
peetcd IN this ease also.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
RUSSIANS CAPTURE
A TURKISH CORPS
one Of the Armies Operating in the
Caucasus Meets with Complete
Disaster

LONDON Jan. 6.-Two OF the three
Turkish columns which last week IN
yaded the Russian Caucasus have met
with disaster, and those not killed or
captured are i'm dsorderlv retreat. pur-
sued By the Russians
The column which took Ardahan two
days ago ha, been driven ont. Of that
a-la7--s444,.,rsiirg- o fh, PetIograd of
fetal dispatches. and is almost sur
rounded by the Russians, Who hold the
main roads
Another column, which crossed the
| frantier near Sari-kamysh on the road
ito kars, has suffered au even worse
! defeat, one of the two ;rmv corps
which composed it being captured
\ Reuter- telegram from retFograd
SAYS:
Accounts received here of tUc Turk
/ ish defeat at Sari-Kamysh say that the
i Turks displayed great bravery when
their position was seriously threatened
and made frequent desperate bayonet
/ ISorties. When they were compelled to
Ivacate they made valiant but futile cf.
forts to cover their retreat by rear
guard action, even the wounded con
tinuing to fire from the ground when
they were struck down.
According to 9 telegram from Tifhs
the persistence with which the Turks
iprcssed their attack in the Sarl- Kan
vsh district was due to their pur
pose to enable their troops in the Arda
han region to retire without heavy
losses. Their operations were conduct
Cd under tremendous difficulties They
lacked proper equipment and had M
transport trains. Everything had Il
be carried on the backs Of soldiers O
Of civilians Communicated for tht
purpose. Most Of the trophies of wa
Ieaptured by the Russians were of Ger
man make.
Northward of Kars the Turkisl
force at Ardahcn is also thrcatene,
with disaster. The enemy in their dis
orderly flight has been almost sur
rounded BY the Russians, who hold tn
main roads. The Turks arc franticall
: striving to find an outlet, but have t
face passes deep in snow.
The Russians have attacked Ardaha
on two sides, their artillery playing
| prominent part.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06

choked by tens Of thousands. For 80 min
ntes policemen struggled with the crowds.
Elevated trains and surface cars were
packed to oterhowing all oyer the city.
Sixty persons We're taken in an uncon-
scious condition from the scene OF the fire
to Flower hospital.
Ventilation gratings were taken up
from the sidewalks around 5Oth and 59th
street stations and many were removed IN
this way.
Emergency calls to hospitals brought 70
the spot every ambulance in Manhattan.
As fast as the unconscious victims were
removed from the tube they were laid on
the sidewalk, carried to nearby stores
and offices and given first aid treatment
by the firemen and physicians
So great was the demand upon the fire
lighting forces OF the city to aid in Inc
work of revNing the unconscious that
hurry calls were sent by telephone to
Brooklyn for aid from fremen there.
Transportation tie-ups resulting from
the fire spread 10 the Bronx and 70
Brooklyn and tens of thousands Of per
sons struggled at elevated, railway and
subway stations in these borouobs in am
effort to reach Manhattan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
FIGHT WITH FISTS
FOR AN AEROPLANE
Russians Win Bout with Germans Be
tween Trenches = Propeller Kills
German Airman.

PETROGRAD, Jan. 6. ~ A curious
aviation incident happened a while ago
between the German and Russian
trenches in Poland, which were only
Il few hundred yards apart A Rus
sian aviator having completed recon,
Nuisance over the German posi-
tions was returning, and, apparently
feeling fairly safe after having got
past the artillery positions, came down
preparatory to landing behind his own
lines. He was promptly fired at by
the Germans, who put three bullets
through the benzine tank. This nceessi-
tated planning down, and the aviator
landed about half way between the op,
posing trenches
The Germans did not continue shoot
ing, but thinking the prize secured,
rushed ont empty handed to bring in
the machine. The Russians did the
same thing, and Il hearty bout Of fisti-
cuffs took place between the two lines
for possession OF the prisoner and aero
lplane. The Russians finally saved the
man and ran off with the aeroplane,
but were then fired upon from the Ger
man trenches
| On the following day the Russians
cot even by bringing down German
acroplane behind their lines The Ger
| mans carry besides the ordinary tank a
supplementary one, which can he turn
ed on either to prolon4 thc voyage or
to save themselves ii the first tank is
damaged. On this occasion Il Russian
bullet severed some Of the essential
connecting parts and the German avia-
tor was compelled to plane down.
He landed good way of in a field
and pmckily repaired his connections
before the Russians could come up, and
started the propeller. Ii struck him on
the head killing him instautaneously,
while the officer who usually accom-
panics the German aviators was
thrown up. When the Russians ran M
they caught the officer with all his
| notes and captured the machine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
HINSDALE. N. I'll.

Miss Elizabeth Ryan of I.ualow. Vt.
has visited Hinsdale friends recently.
Glen Higgins had the good 4ortune
to catch three pike one day recently
which totaled in weight q pounds.
representative o. c. Robertson wea,
to Concord Tuesday to be present II
the opening of the legislature Wednes
day.
As the result of an alteration sun
day, four Polanders were taken befor,
Judge Pierce of Winchester By Officer.
Packard and Spaulding and each was
hned s. and costs, amounting in al
to approximately $50.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
MONTPELIER. Ian. 6.


By the conclusive vote of 20 to IL the
Vermont State Bar association at the
opening session of the 3Tth annual meet
ing yesterday afternoon IN the Wash
ington county court room. adopted reso-
luton which endorsed an opinion on the
judiciary situation presented by the presi-
dent OF the association, eX-Chicf Justice
Of the Supreme Court John w. Roweil,
which will be submitted 10 the legislature
which opened today. The opinion and
resolution were read to the association by
w b. G. Sticllnev and only one member,
Alexander Dunnett of St Johnsbury,
voiced an objection against its adoption
Preceding the opinion, Mr.. Stiel1ney eX-
planned that it was at the request of GER
tain individuals and not the associatlon as
am organization, that President Rowell eN-
pressed his views upon the subject of the
election of the supreme court as affected
by the amendment of the constitution.
The opinion in brief is as follows. That
the supreme conFt should be organized as
| a body continually and elected every two
years. one court to succeed the preceding
one instantly, but that the constitutional
amendment enacted at the 1912 session
left a period between the expiration OF
the term of Office of the members of the
court and the time when the legislature
Icould convene to select members to sue
Iceed in office. Thus two statutes are act
ling directly opposite in idea. but solu
ton IS offered, namely, for the legislature
as soon as possible after it eonvenes tc
Ieleet the members of the judiciary TO act
for the next two years, thus again estab
Fishing the continuity of the court, as is
the intention of the statutes.
Alexander Dunnett, in opposing thC
ladoption of the resolution, stated that II
his opinion the association should keel
Tout of politics and doubted the power o
the legislature to remove an incumbent
from constitutionary office As a clos
ing argument Mr.. Dunnett suggested tha
the present legislature elect members 0
the supreme court to succeed the presen
members when their terms OF office ex
pre-, two years from the first of last De
eember
Former Attorney General John Sargen
OF Ludlow favored leaving the matte
with the legislature, expressing the desir
TO see ii handled rightly and iudiciously
| 1t was his idea that the resolution shon
not carry any endorsement of the opinio
of the president John H. Senter spol1
II -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
Stanley Wilson of Chelsea
Did Not Make a Contest
in the House Today
BAR ASSOCIATION
ADOPTS RESOLUTION
Is of Opinion That Legislature May
Elect Judges for the Next Two Years
Charles w Gates VIII Be Inaugu-
rated Governor Tomorrow.
Special to The Reformer.y



MONTPELIER, Jan. 6.
The % annual biennial session of the
general assembly Of the state convened
few minutes after 10 clock this
morning in the state house. Secretary
of State Guy w. Bailey presided in the
house and Lieut. Gov +. T. Howe Of
Bennington in the senate.
In the house the expected contest for
the spcakership between John ). Weeks
of Middlehurv and Stanley c. Wilson
Of Chelsea failed to materiaiize ana
Mr.. Weeks was elected over his Dem
ocratie opponent, Rev. j. w Miller OF
Bethel, by Il vote Of 2I5 to -.
In accepting the election Mr. Weeks
spoke briefly, urging the house to be
economical, but not miserly, and asking
the members TO do the necessary work
in the shortest time possible
Rev. John II. Wells OF Watcrville
was elected chaplain ever Rev. \. w.
Ford of Windsor by vote of l32 TO
81 There was some discussion over
this and Representative NJ. j. Hapeood
of Peru made bis first appearance of
the session.
Harry \. Black OF Newport was elect
ed clerk of the house with his assist
ANTS Julius A. Wilcox of Ludlow and
Roswell NJ Austin Of ST. Albans
Guy w. Page Of Burlington was
elected secretary Of the senate with W.
&C. Taft OF Waltham as his assistant.
Senator Max l.. Powell of Buling-
ton was elected president pro tempore
Of the senate.
Both houses adjourned a few minutes
before l. q clock. The afternoon ses-
sion will be devoted to considering tho
work of the Joint committee appointed
to eanvass the vote for State officers.
The Nindham county delegation had
runtogether this morning at
clock III which the entire p Nom
bcrs Of the delegation and the two sen
ators were present. J. II. Ware OF
Townshend presided at the meeting
which was in the nature of ..get ae
quaintcd affair. Representative Ware
and Senator y. l.. Divon of Rocking
ham spoke briefly and Mr.. Ware was
elected permanent chairman Of the del
cgation 50 FAR as il known the Wind
ham county delegation was the first K
get tegether.
The inauguration of Charles ". Gate'
as governor viii take place tomorrow
Coz. Fletcher viii deliver his Valedic
tory and Gov. Gates will make hi:
Recommendation to the legislature
4
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
VETERAN EDITOR DEAD.
John Kellogg Connected with Pitch
burg Sentinel II Years.

FIFCHBURG. Mass, Jan. 6. ~ An
management of the death last night at
pinekurst, North Carolina, of John
Kellogg, one of the founders Of
the Fitchburg Sentinel and editor
OF that paper II years, was contained
IN q telegram received here today.
Death was due to briehts disease and
complications
Mr. Kellogg was born Mt Amherst
90 years ago and was graduated from
Amherst college in 1869. -Four years
later he established the Sentinel in this
city and had been editor of the paper
ever since
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
Scores Were Badly Bruised
and Others Were Over
come by the Smoke
FIRST REPORTS
WERE EXAGGERATED
There Was Only One Fatality, AL
though 200 Persons Were Rushed to
the Hospitals Traffic viii Be Tied
Up 4 Long Time

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-New York
subway was visited by fire and panic
today which sent some 200 persons tc
hospitals, caused the death of one
woman and demoralized the transpor.
tation of the city.
The fire was due to an electrical ex-
plosion in the conduit between 50th
and 59th street stations
Noise, flames and smoke terrified the
passengers Of two downtown trains
that were stalled and in efforts to es
cape, scores were badly bruised and
others overcome by smoke.
The subway service it was said later
may be tied up several days
II this proves true it viii mean
that more than n million persons q
day carried by the subway will be Iii
verted to surface and elevated systems
1t was at first thought that there
had been terrible catastrophe. The
entire fire department and all the am
balances in the city, together with the
pulmotor squad, were rushed to the
scene
Smoke was pouring out of the sub
way manhoes and entrances
1t turned out that while the police
and firemen had more than they could
do 70 bring out the unconscious that
the early reports had been exaggerat
ed.
It was more than three hours before
the last passenger was rescued, anc
during that time a continual process
sion Of ambulances and automobile.
We're removing the injured to the hos
pitals
The accident is described by the po
lice as the worst in the history OF th,
subway
The authorities seriously considcrct
Jbluwing mp the streets to let fresh Nil
into the tube.
Fire Chief Kenlon said that when hi:
men entered the two trains they fount
Irnany passengers sitting in their seat.
unconscious and others lying in tn,
laislcs The floors were stre~n witt
hats and torn clothing. Others wcr,
found lying on the ground beside th'
tracks. Practically every window ol
the cars were broken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06

| NEW YORK, Jan. G.. More than 100
persons were overcome by smoke cut by
glass. bruised and otherwise injured in a
/ fire aboard train in the subway In the
| panic and confusion which ensued police
| headquarters issued a report that II per
| sons lost their lives, but tins later proved
to be unfounded and only one death Is
recorded The entire fire fighting force
| Of Manhattan, evcry ambulance and every
Ennlmotor that could be found were
drought to the scene. The fact that
scores OF persons were unconscious led to
Exaggerated reports Later Police Com
missioner Woods and Fire Chief Kenon
lannounced that so far as they knew there
were no fatalities. \ surgeon attached to
the hospital reported that one injured
died in an ambulance on the way to the
hospital
At II o'clock hundreds OF half suffocat-
ed passengers were being rescued from the
lsubway stations and preparations were
being made to dynamite the streets
At that time it was reported that over
loo bodies had been taken out and some
estimates placed the number of dead as
high as 200 These reports were sent
broadcast throughout the city and were
Itelegranhed to newspaper offices all over
the country, creating intense excitement
until the real facts OF the accident became
known somewhat later.
The scene of the accident was between
5Oth and J9th streets For the first time
in the history Of the fire department a
special alarm called out the firemen and
battalions without apparatus When it
was believed that hundreds were i'm
Iprisoned in the tube Inspector Eagan OF
the bureau OF combustibles sent for a
! large amount Of dynamite to be used in
tripping up the street.
Some OF the hundreds Of passenger.
vedged in cars in the tube where the fir,
/ Istarted said it began with an explosion
n and the train came almost immediately t,
E a standstill.
= All on board the train made a frantic
! rush for the end ears. Through the opel
: doors there poured stream of men an,
! women The tie-up started at s o'clocl
this morning the busiest Of the rush hours
! An hour and d half later a slow expres
= service started. Three alarms were turne
- IN; eight ambhlances were sent to tn
scene and more were called for.
= From the trains stalled between station
= firemen emerged bearing unconscious Vi,
tins. Every available fire man that eoul
= be spared was called upon to help
|. Fire Commissioner Adamson. who a!
snmed personal charge, sent men seurry
ing throughout the city with orders /
n bring every available pulmotor to til
le scene.
IN Congestions never before seen prevailo
of At every subway station. At Brool,ly
bridge the Manhattan terminal WI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
EXHIBIT CANCELLED.
Made in America Not Popular Slo-
gan with the Manufacturers

PITTSBURG, Jan. 8. - The ssmade
IN America = exhibit to have been held
In Carnegie institution here has been
cancelled by the Art society of Pitts
burg, ITS sponsor. because Americans
feared TO advertise the fact that their
wares were made in the United S+a+es
The small number of articles presented
Tor exhibition caused the society to
seek the reason and brought from one
ma anpfi0turer the statement that he did
not want the fact spread abroad that
hIs goods We're not made in Europe
Other manufacturers are said to have
taken the same view.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
HlNSDALE NOW HAS
POLICE JUSTICE
Attorney e. j. Temple Appointed by
Governor Felker-Appointmen Came
Unsought viii Reauce Cost.
Especial to The Refoymer.
HINSDAI,F,. n II IAN

Attorney +. J. Temple has been ap
pointed police Justice ty Governor
Felker, but has not yet taken tie oath
of office. This appointment came to
Mr.. Temple without amy solicitation,
in fact he was not aware that any
movement was on foot 10 secure his APP
pointment until he had received IT,
The office OF police Justice in this
town was abolished by the present gov.
ernor two years ago, when {. \. Keyou
held the position, and an loeal cases
have since been tried before Judge
Pierce Of Winchester which has added
considerably TO the costs Of tue eases.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
CASE IS CONTINUED.
Biazio Falzone VIII Face Charge on
January IL

MAIDEN. Mass, Jan. G. - Biazio
Falzone pleaded not guilty in the dis
trict court today TO the charge of
numbering Maurice A. Albertson.
whose body was found buried under n
shack nj Wakefield Dee -. At the
request of counsel the ease was con
tinued for hearing to Jan. II. when
lgnazio Morelli, also charged with muir
der, and Luigi Grassadonio. charged
with being an accessory, viii also APP
pear. FalZone was committed without
bail.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
Russians Report ROut of the
Turks in Addition to De-
feat of Austrians
ROUMANIA EXPECTED
TO JOIN THE ALLIES
Germany Handicapped by Weather in
the Campaign in Poland France
Apparently Making Progress i'll the
Invasion of Alsace

Invasion of Alsace.
Against two OF the three nations She
is fighting Russia has scored heavily
10 the victory over Austria last week
is added, according to the reports from
rctrograd the rout of two of the three
Turkish columns which invaded Rus
sian Caucasus.
The latest reports from the Russian
military authorities are that the de
feat OF the Turks was complete and
that one Turkish army corps was an
initiated
In the campaign against the Ger
mans no definite results are reported.
The Germans are handicapped by bad
weather in the advance toward War
saw.
In the Austrian province of Bukow-
ina the Russians, according to Petro-
grad dispatches, are meeting with
little resistance. Friendly relations
have been established between the Rus
sian soldiers and the frontier guards OF
Boumania, which adioins Bukowina.
and it is believed in Petro2rad that
Roumania will enter the war.
In the west the deadlock continues
France is apparently making progress
in the invasion Of Alsace. but elsewhere
little activity is reported except for
encounters between comparatively
small numbers OF mon.
4 German trench nearly half mile
long in the Areonnc region was blown
up by tho allies. according to today s
oheial statement from Paris. The
French then made an infantry attack
aud captured half the--t rv'rrrttT.s----r7vTrHl
this charge grandson OF the Italian
patriot Garibaldi was killed.
The recent death in action of anoth
or grandson was said in Rome to have
reawakcncd the war spirit in Italy
Aside from fighting in the Argonnt
activity is limited chiefly to Upper Al
sacc, where the Germans seem to hay,
checked the French advance. The on
ly claim made in the French statement
is that the ground won has been held
The loss of one position to the German:
is admitted.
The Berlin war office states that tn,
French are homharding town to tn,
rear Of the German line ana seem indit
ferent t. the killing of their own country
men and to the destruction OF the Frcncl
homes The capture of several treuche
from the allies is reported.
Fighting continues along the mai,
lines west Of Warsaw, but dcspatche
from Pcuograd and Berlin agree tina
there have been no important develop
mcnts recently
Today's official communication says
few Russian positions were captured
The garrison. which has been defendin
the Galicion fortress of Przemysl undo
siege 10y the Russians many weeks, a
tempted another sortie. OF the FOR,
which made the attack il IS said at Petr
grad that not one man scaaincd the 10
trcss, every member Of the party ben
either killed, wounded on captured.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
HOTEL KEEPER BANKRUPT.
Proprietor of the Nottingham Files Pc
tition in Insolvency.

BOSTON, Jan. 6. = Francis Howe.
proprietor OF the Hotel Nottingham in
Copley square, filed petition in bank
ruptey today. He gave his liabilities
.h T4o,o09 and his assets as $1,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
AT THE CENTRE CHURCH.

Friday, Jan. ;, at 80 p. m = An
nual meeting Of the church in the
chapel. The matter of incorporation
will be discussed. All departments of
of the church work will be reported
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
THE WEATHER.
Rain or Snow Late Tonight or Thurs.
day. Warmer Tonight.

WASHINGTON, JAN 6. - Weather
forecast; Rain or snow late tonight or
Thursday. Warmer tonight in interior.
Moderate south winds
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Charles Wal
ter, an attorney of Toronto, Canada.
announced today upon returning to
New York from England aboard the
steamship Minnehaha, that 43 German
spies had been arrested among the
Canadian contingent of troops which
sailed to England last fall. Mr.. Wal
ter said he had been largely instrumen-
tai in identifying the prisoners and in
causing the arrests
All the men, he said, had enlisted in
Canada. One of the 43. according to
his announcement, was killed by mem
bers of the company in which he en-
listed when the charge was made that
he was a German spy. The other ~,
according to Mr.. Walter. were locked
up. What was done with them after
wards he said he did not know.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-06
Chas. Walter, Attorney from
Toronto, Tells Startling
Story i'm New York
TRIED TO ENLIST
WITH CANADIANS

One Man Was Killed by the Members
of His company-others Locked Up
and Final Disposition of Them Is
Not Known
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