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The Prescott daily news., 1915-03-30
GOVERNOR ONLY PAR
 DONS ONE YESTERDAY

Gov. Hays has pardoned R. l.. liar ris, who was convicted in the Munici- pal Court of Little Rock March 24, of petit larceny, and fined $10 and costs, which means about ninty days on the county farm. The pardon was recommended by the Prosecuting At torney Dunaway and Municipal Judge Isgrig. on account of the mans fam fly of a wife and four children who are wholly dependent upon him for support.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-03-30
REPORT COLLECTION
 ON PANAMA EXHIBIT

Little Rock, March 3O--State Bank Commissioner Davis reports the collection of about $12O0 on the fund for the Panama Pacific Exposition exhibit and the Labor Commissioner reports the collection of about $250 from the corporations.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-03-30
This-and Five Cents.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose five cents to Foley & Co.,. Chicago, Ill.,, writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in eturn a trial package containing Fol" ey's Honey and Tar Compound, for oughs, colds, and crop, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-03-30

I have several buyers for places ranging from 40 to 300 acres. If you have land to sell, see or write me at once.-Leslie Green, Prescott, Arkan- sas. Advt. If.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
ATTEMPT TO KILL.
Aged Bennington Man in Jail Under
a Serious Charge.

BENNINGTON, April 23 = George
Barney, 73, for the last 12 years an in
mate of the town farm, has been taken
to jail charged with attempting to kill
Mrs Harriet Haynes, a young woman
employed at the American house
where the town s poor have been quar-
tered since the buildings were burned
at the town farm in July, 1913.
Mrs. Haynes has cut on the right
side of her neck.
The alleged assault took place in the
kitchen of the building and there were
several eye witnesses. According to the
testimony of Mrs. Haynes and three
other persons who were in the room at
the time, Barney and the young
woman were both at work at the kitch-
en- table Barney was pairing potatoes
with a butcher knife.
Barney has been held for the grand
jury under 81 900 bonds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
ROOSEVELT STILL
UNDER CROSS FIRE
On the Witness Stand for the Fourth
Consecutive Day-Admitted
Certain Allegations.

SYRACUSE, y. T., A pril % - Col
oneI Theodore Roosevelt underwent a
fire of cross-examination from William
NJ. Wins in the Barnes Roosevelt libel
trial before Justice Andrews in the
supreme court here yesterday and came
out of it feeling "bullv' lit was a
mild ordeal for the colonel and it did
not seem to affect his spirits in the
least; IN fact, it allowed him to get be-
fore the jury representations to the ef-
feet that had never been dominated bv
a political boss and that he had gone
on record many times as an exponent
of what he called the ''ruIe Of right
eousness on politics
Mr.. WINS attempted to show by va
riOus allegations that, while the col
'onel had set himself up as an exponent
of honesty in government and a hateg
of bosses and machines, he had willing
ly taken nominations for Office from
bosses as bad as he pictured William
Barnes to be; that he had tried to
evade paying his taxes; that he tram
Piled on the state constitution bv run
ming for governor when he was inaliri-
bic and that he hobnobbed with ma
chine politicians whenever it suited his
purpose to do so. The colonel freely
admitted some of the allegations made.
but contended that he had acted in the
cause of righteousness.
! The sensation of the day was the
production by Mr. Barnes s counsel of
a long letter which Bemuel Z. Ouigg
wrote to Colonel Roosevelt in 1898
| when the colonel was seeking the cub
ernatorial nomination. The letter bar
| ed the methods by which nominations
were made by Republican bosses, and
showed how Thomas c. Platt, the
easy boss held the Republican, ma
chine of the state in hand. 1t also let
new light in upon the fight made bv
the then Governor Frank Black to get
the gubernatOrial nomination for him.
self. but was prevented by Platt.
Mr.. Twins apparently hoped to take
the Roosevelt forces off their feet with
the letter, as it seemed to show that
the colonel was dickering with Quiga
for the nomination and was willing to
accept it from a boss greater in his
time than Barnes. But John M. Bow.
ers, counsel for Mr.. Roosevelt. produc
ed the colonel s answer to the letter
and it mt the NEGOTIATIONS in a some
what different light. The colonel
ibluntly told Ouigg that he wanted il
made clear that no effort had beer
made to exact pledges from him an6
that there had been no bargaining fol
the nomination.
The ss-examination was continuel
today, the exPresident being on th,
stand for the fourth consecutive dav
During the cross-examination TODAY
Col. Roosevelt said he had regarde,
Barnes as sort of JekvI and Mr.
Hyde, who like other politicians has hi
good sides and his bad sides. - TIL
colonel pictured himself as mission
ary to politicians.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
ALLEGED PLOT TO
ABDUCTHARRY THAW
New York Police Take Precautions to
Prevent Flight of the Prisoner
to Virginia.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Sheriff Griffen-
hagen said today that he had taken every
precaution to frustrate an alleged plot TO
spirit Harry X. Thaw out of New York
state, which came to light last night in
Norfolk, Va.
Without accusing Thaw or any of his
intimates with participation in the plan
the authorities said they had reason to be
lieve that plans had been made to take
Thaw from the guards while he was on
his way to court, place him in an automo-
bile and hurry him to the first train for
Virginia.
According to the sheriff, the plan was
first revealed by letter written to Assis-
tant District Attorney Groehl of New
York by man in Norfolk,
This represented that the writer had
been approached with proposition to alb
duct Thaw, but negotiations fell through
because the agent refused to advance a
payment Of $50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
BIG AUCTION OF
HOLSTEIN CATTLE
Largest Sale in East Being Held in
Bellows Fails - About 10 Head
Housed in Monster Tent.
Especial to The Reformer.}
BELLOWS FALLS. Anril

hElIl4OASN F-AL-N, April
The accommodations for transients in
this town were taxed to their capacity
last night because there began Yesterday
morning at 10 O'Clock III the Armory the
largest sale Of Holstein cattle ever held in
eastern United States. The sale viii CON
tinue through today 1t is being conduct
ed by the Eastern Breeders association
and before Col. b. V Kelley of Syracuse
finishes his work as auctioneer probably
close to 40 cattle will have been sold
Naturally the sale has attracted many
breeders from every part of the eastern
section Of this country. Cot beds were
placed in the parlors Of the Hotel Wind
ham and every room was occupied. The
Hotel Rockingham was filed and in order
| to find accommodations a canvass of the
town was made and the cattlemen have
been sent to these houses. The work of
making the canvass was done by H C.
johnson and Wilfred Bodine, under the
| direction of the chamber of commerce.
| Bidding at the auction was brisk yester-
| day and this morning it started off well,
and before night it is thought that some
fancy prices will be paid for some of the
cattle. The Holstens are housed in a big
tent, 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, locat-
ed on the lot in the rear of the Armory
and are auctioned in the basement of the
| Armory building
| The visitors were entertained last even
ing in the drill shed of the Armory. w
G. Belknap, chairman of the committee on
agriculture of the chamber of commerce,
lpresided. Among the speakers were DR..
j. II. Blodgett, vice president of the cham
Der, Senator n. l.. Divoll of this town,
Senator A a. Dunklee of Vernon, and
Prof Thomas Bradlee Of Burlington, head
of the agricultural extension service of the
University of Vermont Selections were
rendered by quartet consisting of Harry
lC Elliott, George p Lowell, Paul Thayer
and Herbert I. Kelley, with Mrs G. P
Lowell as accompanist
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
POLAND A PICTURE
OF DESOLATION
Thousands of Peasants Homeless and
Living in Holes in the Ground
Planting No Crops.

BERLIN, April 90 - 4 picture of
absolute desolation with fully $500
houses destroyed, thousands of peasants
homeless and living in holes in the
ground and absolute cessation of any
kind of work that shall provide for
small harvest is drawn in the re-
ports now reaching here from Russian
Poland
The retreating Russians, fleeing be
fore the German advance, appear &c
have treated their own territory quite
as severely as East Prussia earlier and
to have left it a wilderness in which
disease is apt to appear at any mo
ment.
The peasants, or those who still re
main, show utter Indifference to THEN
condition and are making not the
slightest effort to reconstruct or to
plant crops of any kind The majority
of those of military age are away il
armies or dead, and the old and young
left behind seem unconscious OF what
the results of their inactivity are
likely to be. Three-fourths of POLAND
has been swept by war and the dam
age is estimated at 100000, 600.
The thousands too shiftless or too un
certain of the future to reconstruc-
their houses scooped out burrows il
the ground in which they now live.
Only in isolated instances whert
priests have been able to exert in
tluence have they made any move t,
safeguard themselves against the fu
ture.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
Bellows FallsCompany Will
Make Shells to Go to
Russia
OTHER VERMONT
PLANTS GET SHARE
Ammunition Company in swanton s15,-
600, Burlington Firm S175, ,000-Ver-
mont Farm Machine Co. Hiring Help
and Working Day and Night.
Especial to The Reformer.)
BELLOWS FALLS. April


Details of the $4,000 900 war contract
awarded some time ago to the Canadian
Car 4 Foundry company by the Imperial
Russian government for the manufacture
Of 100000 shrapnel and howitzer shells
at an average cost of S17.S3 each, became
known Wednesday for the first time and
it is now learned that the Vermont Farm
Machine company of this place has Sc
cured a sub-contraet amounting to $3.50
600 from the Canadian company At the
present time time the farm machine com
pany is advertising for first-class help and
the plant is working day and night. 1t
was known that the work came as a result
of the war, but few if any Of the workmen
knew Just where the contract came from
OF for what government it was being done.
Already sub-eonhaets have been let to
81 American steel and powder concerns in
all parts of the United States These con
tracts approximate 81 ,724 400, and four
other contracts for 1otal value of $780,
1t4.3330 are under negotiations. The Ca
madam Car & FoundrN company will take
care of the remaining portion OF the SS3,-
DO,0OO contract. amd Uniting to S31 ,172 ;
600, III its own plant IN the Dominion
Besides the contract taken by the Yer
mont Farm Machine company, two other
Vermont plants get a slice of the work,
the Robin Hood Ammunition company of
Swanton having been given sub-contract
for $4,000, and the Horatio Hickok
company Of Burlingtons one for S175OOO.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
PRESIDENT THOMAS
WILL BE SPEAKER
Head of Middlebury College to Address
Board of Trade at Annual Meet
ing Monday Evening.

At the annual meeting of the Brat
tleboro board of trade, which is to be
held in Festival hall Monday night
April &c, at 8 clock, President J. NJ.
Thomas of Middleburx college viii de-
liver an address. Dr. Thomas will be
in New York Sunday evening, and has
consented to stop over here on his way
home.
The officials having the matter in
charge tried to get him for some other
evening, realizing that Monday night
was busy one for many, but found it
impossible, owing to other engage
ments
The meeting will be called to order
promptly at O'Clock. 1t is expected
that the business part of the meeting
will be short, so that plenty of time can
be given DR.. Thomas
Every member is urged to be present
to learn what has been done in the
past, what is planned for the future,
and to hear one of Vermont 5 foremost
speakers. At the close a buffet luncheon
will be served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
Judge Hendrick Announces
Decision on Petition of
Prisoners Attorneys
QUESTION OF SANITY
WILL BE DECIDED
Friends Rushed to Congratulate Harry
1T will Be Good News for My
Mother He Told Newspapermen-
Guards Take Unusual Precautions.

NEW YORK, April 23.-The question
of the sanity of Harry X Thaw will be
determined by jury Supreme Court jus
down today, granted the application for
trial made by Thaw's attorneys on writ
of habeas corpus.
Thaw was in court when Justice Hen
drick announced his opinion. His friends
rushed to congratulate him.
1t Will be good news to my mother,'
he told newspaper men. THAT is all
want to say for publication
The question Justice Hendrick had to
decide was whether the court had power
to grant the petition He held that he
did have such power and decided to exer-
else it. He pointed out in the decision
that the jury was called in "to aid the
court by their advice and that the find
ing Of the jury would not be binding
if the court We're satisfied that it were not
in accordance with evidence and justice
the court could disregard the jury's YER
diet
There was no announcement as to when
pated that it would be advanced on the
calendar TO an early date.
The disclosure today of plot to effect
Ihaws S escape was characterized by Thaw
as too silly to discuss
Nevertheless, unusual precautions were
taken to guard Thaw when he was taken
from the Tombs to the courthouse.
On previous appearances Thaw had been
allowed comparative liberty when inside
the court room.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
ANGLO-DUTCH SEA
TRADE is STOPPED
All Passenger and Freight Service Be
tween the Two Countries Abandon
ed for the Present.

LONDON, April 23. - An official
british statement issued at Amsterdam
announces that all shipping and pas
Senger service between Holland and
the United Kingdom has been stopped
No ships are to leave the British
Isles for Holland after today and
none are TO leave Holland for the Brit
ish Isles. 1t is admitted that the Brit
ish government had hoped for the
resumption Of 4 limited cargo and
passenger service with special arrange
ments for the mails. This service was
to make a stop at Sehereningen, the
port Of The Hague Today s an
nouncement, however, SAYS the Anglo
Dutch mail service has been stopped
until further notice.
The suspension of freight and pas
senger service between Holland anG
the United Kingdom may be the result
Of the sinking, supposedly by a Ger
man submarine. of the Dutch steamship
Katwiik en- April Is as She lay at an
chor off the North Hinder lightship, 81
miles from Ostend, waiting for pI-
lot. The Katwijk was bound for Rot
terdam from Baltimore.
The incident has stirred MP the
greatest Indignation in Holland. At
the time it was suggested that Ger
many was seeking to scare the Dutch
from carrying goods to England. The
GOV eminent addressed a sharp note to
Berlin demanding an apology and full
compensation for the loss. The Ger
man government began an inquiry and
promised that Holland S demands
would be satisfied if it proved that
the Katwijk was sunk by a German
submarine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23

She church, saying that the net increase
in membership had been more than IS
EoC
Montpelier Sen11nals,
Rev. J. W. Hatch. D. D.. princibai
Of Montpelier seminary. made finan-
eial report of that institution in which
he showed that at the close of the fis-
cal year July l, 1911, all bills had been
paid and there was a balance in the
bank of $4,000. as against a deficit OF
S5-4O0 year before. Up TO April /
there was an excess of assets over La
bilities for the year of $3,902, and the
school expects to close the year with a
balance. During the year 81 900 has
been paid on the debt of $4,000 and
$4,000 has come to the endowment
fund
He spoke of the plan being prepared
for new buildings and of the campaign
Tor a fund of 100000 for new build
ings and endowment fund, and then
said that last year the conference by
rising vote pledged about $2,400 to the
seminary and to date $1.33S had been
paid in The school will graduate 50
in June and needs 100 new students
this fall as so more could have been
tdktu 1oE tdSiiS ttt pldcl1CdliS ltO uiolc
exDense this year.
Rev. Walter R. Davenport of Spring
field moved the congratulations of the
conference, endorsement of the man
agement and a request. if it met with
the approval of DR.. Hatch, that he be
transferred from the East Maine con-
ference to the Vermont conference.
This DR. Hatch said he preferred
should not be done. and that portion
of the motion was dropped. A debate
on the matter of the failure TO provide
the amount pledged for the seminary
was preeipitated and was postponed to
clock Dr. c. s Nutter Of Bos-
ton. a former member of the Vermont
conference, was introduced and Rev.
D. w Howell of Buffalo, \. Y, pre-
sented briefly some facts concerning
the deaconess work. He said that there
are now 175 young women training for
the work as against only so year
ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
ASSAULT
ON DARDANELLES
-Four British WarShps Entered Straits Yesterday
and Bombarded Turkish Forts IN Negotiations
Renewed Between Italy and Austria Germans
Unable to ReCapture Hill go

The assault on the Dardanelles has been
renewed, although it is not apparent
whether the allied forces are ready to be-
gin the expected general attack
-Four British warships entered the straits
Yesterday and bombarded the Turkish
forts which were subjected also to indirect
fire across the peninsula from the Gulf OF
Saros
The result of the fighting has not been
disclosed. The bombardment of the Turk
ish forts at Smyrna also is believed to
have been resumed
There is nothing to indicate, however,
that any move has been made toward an
attack by the forces landed from the Gulf
of Saros, such as is expected to accompany
the next effort on a large scale to win the
Dardanelles
\ long conference between the Italian for
eigu minister and the Austrian ambassa-
dor at Rome is accepted as a sign that ne
gotiations are still under way between Aus
tria and Italy.
1t was reported yesterday that Italy had
sent an ultimatum to Austria.
An official report from British headquar-
ters says the Germans Were persistent in
their efforts to win back Hill 60, the po-
sition near Ypres which the British cap
tured recently. 1t is said the British yes
terday held the entire crest of the hill and
that the German assaults had ceased.
A Petrograd despatch says Russian avia.
tors inflicted considerable damage on the
German positions.
Bombs were dropped on Plock and
Mlawa, Russian Poland.
Several German boats on the Vistula
were struck and German trenches were
damaged
The capture of nearly one-half mile
of German trenches near st. Mihiel
the southern extremity of the German
wedge which the French have been at
tempting to force back, is announced
today in an official communication
from Paris.
Spirited fighting in Belgium is re.
ported and admission is made that the
Germans compelled the allies to retire
from positions near Ypres.
An attack by the Russian Black seG
fleet on the Turkish coast near the
Russian border is said in Petrograd tC
have resulted in the decentralization oil
the Turkish forces in that locality
Considerable damage was done t,
Turkish vessels laden with supplies anc
Turkish barracks and q number o.
Turkish vessels laden with supplies ano
ammunition were sunk.
Opinion was expressed by an Italian
statesman that Italy's S participation il
the war at present was unlikely
Austria would use every effort t,
avoid giving Italy reasonable ground
for war and would seek to place Ital,
in the position Of the aggressor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
WILL MAKE FOR PEACE.
United States Ready to Help Belig-
erents End the War.


WASHINGTON, April 23.-Comment
on President wilson neutrality
speech before the Associated Press in
New York Tuesday, published in Eu-
rope and cabled here, is being noted
with interest by his closest friends,
who said President Wilson Is principal
idea was to show that the United
States stands ready to help either side
or both to recover after the war as
well as during peace negotiations and
that the president believes the United
States viii have frequent opportunity
to show that it is the real friend of all
the belligerents. Many interpretations
that the president has given up hope
that the United States win make peace
is declared to be entirely without
foundation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23

had made more changes in the district
this year in the ranks of the itineran-
cy than in any other year of his su-
perintendency. He also reported many
after-conference readjustments, men
tioning in particular Rev. Stead Thorn
ton, a young local preacher in Mont
gomery. Thornton and his wife and
two little children came from Eng
land against the wishes and the will Of
the German Kaiser, escaping in the
dense fog of St. George s channel sew
eral German submarines that were
waiting to intercept their steamer and
send her to the bottom.
An interesting development took
place in Westford, the church accept
ing generous proposition to federate
with the Congregational church. The
latter, being strong numerically and
financially and having fine church
edifee and a good parsonage, offered
the use of the church and parsonage
and TO pay $500 toward the support of
resident Methodist preacher. The
little Methodist church there had been
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23

DALLAS, Texas, April 23.-At least
eight persons We're drowned, heavy prop
erty damage caused, telegraph and tele-
phone communication interrupted, and
railroad schedules disarranged by wash
outs, as the result today Of a rain, electri-
cal and wind storm which was general
over nearly ali of Texas and the eastern
portion Of Oklahoma, and which contin-
ued early today in some localities.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
AT THE CENTRE CHURCH

Friday, p. m.-Regular meeting of
the prudential committee in the chap
el; 7.30 p. m.-Devotional service of
the church in the chapel.
Saturday, a. m.-Meeting of the
Boy Scouts at the new railroad station
site to go for a hike
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
TRAWLER TORPEDoED.
Two Members of Crew Drowned-Sev-
en- Survivors Reach Grimsbv.

GRIMSBY, Eng, April %, LAO p. m.
The Grimsby trawler, ST. Lawrence.
was torpedoed and sunk in the North
sea yesterday by a German submarine.
Two members of the crew were killed.
Seven survivors were brought here to-
day by a trawler, whose skipper re-
ports the submarine fired on his yes
sci while they were saving the crew
of the St. Lawrence.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
C0MPL BY
BISHOP COOKE
Says Vermont Methodist Conference Is in Fair Way
to Become One of Strongest in Denomination
Montpelier Seminary to Raise Fund for Improve
mentS and Endowment

The morning address of Bishop Rich
ard J. Cooke today had to do with the
temptations of ministers, basing his
talk on extracts from the Epistles of
St. Paul. 1t was noticeable that there
was a much larger attendance at the
opening service than yesterday.
Bishop Cooke said that the greatest
temptations of ministers come at the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
Conference Note.

A prominent feature of the Metho-
dist conference viii be a program by
the music and eloeution departments of
Montpelier seminary, in the Methodist
church tonight at $50 clock. Princi-
pal j. w. Hatch will give an address.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23

Because of the war Canada Is al
ready in need of drugs and chem
icals. Scarcity of olive oil has led to
the use of American cottonseed oil as
la substitute