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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
MAN TRAPPED IN TREETOP.
Held Prisoner in Cold Three Hours
Freed by Firemen.

YONKERS, n. Y, Dee. 13. - After
being held prisoner for three hours IN
the branches of tree IS feet from the
ground where he was pinned by an
other tree falling against it, Pierre
Barat, proprietor of the French Inn in
Grassy Sprain road, was rescued at Q
o clock last night in a state of collapse
from exposure and pain. His right foot
was badly crushed. Policemen, fremen,
ambulance surgeons and nelghbors
worked two hours before they could
free him.
Barat climbed a tree in his yard to
watch workmen whom he had engaged
to cut down another tree. When that
tree toppled over it fell against the
one he had chosen for his lookout and
pinned his foot in crotch formed by a
limb and the trunk. Barat could not
bulge. He screamed with pain as the
workmen tried to move the fallen tree
Telephone calls were sent to a police
station and nearby firehouse, but it
was nearly an hour before the police
and fremen arrived. The firemen ran ur
an extension ladder and stimulants were
carried to Barat. Blankets and robes
from automobiles were wrapped around
the victim to protect him from the cold
Darkness fell and the rescue party
worked by the firemen s flares.
They did not dare to chop down the
second tree, for Barat was % feet from
the ground. Finally they brought jack
screws. One was placed against the
butt of the tree and fireman climbed
the ladder. He used another jackscrew
to push the fallen tree away from the
second one and Barat was freed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
PERSONAL.

Henry Miller of Dummerston is crit
ieally i'll in his home.
R. w. Taber began work this morn
ing in the News store during the holi-
days.
B. G. Harris, who is employed in
Greenfield, spent the weekend in town
with Mrs. Harris.
Mrs. Mary Foss and daughter. Miss
Ruth Foss, returned last night from a
few days stay in Boston.
Mrs d. p Dewitt has returned from
visit of several days in Boston with
her mother, Mrs. Macomber.
Miss Elizabeth Robinson of West
Chesterfield is spending few days in
town with her aunt, Mrs. w. H. Cray
Miss Elizabeth Doyle is expected to
return tonight from New York, where
she has been several days on business.
Mrs Alice Hawthorne of Boston and
Mrs. Robert Miller of Northampton,
Mass, were weekend guests of Mrs. II.
L. Bascom.
Guy johnson came Saturday from
Barre, where he is attending Goddard
seminary, to spend the vacation at his
home on Elliot street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh II. Hackley of
| South Deerfeld, Mass, were guests
Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. L. w. Haw-
| ley and attended the Chapman-Alexan-
| der services.
Mrs. Martin Austin has returned from
| Oswego, n. Y, where she was called by
| the critical illness of her sister, Mrs
Howard Spencer, whose condition re-
mains about the same.
/
Clinton Pratt, electrician, went tc
| New London, n. H., today to take
charge of the work of installing elec
tric lights in that town, in which work
several men are employed.
Mrs H. E. Dubois and son of Spring
| field, Mass, were guests of Rev. anc
Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman at the Brooks
house over Sunday. Mr.. Dubois is {
sister of Rev. DR.. Chapman
Raymond. Fifeld and Lewis Burdit'
both of Putney, were visitors in towr
yesterday in the home of Willis Tut
tie and 6. W. Brooks and attended the
ChapmanAlexander meetings.
Mrs. Julia Cochran of Troy, \. Y, i
in town at the home of E. j. Taylor o.
Belmont avenue, called here by thu
death of her brother, J. II. Stebbins o.
Townshend which occurred in the Me
mortal hospital last evening.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
THE MAN WHO PLAYS
AT GOSPEL SERVICES
Henry BarracIough, Pianist for Evan
gelists Chapman and Alexander, Is
Composer PC Well

Henry Barracluogh the pianist of the
Chapman-Alexander party, was born in
one OF the old-fashioned singe-story houses
of rural England in the early nineties. His
father was a school teacher and capable
musician, and at a very early age the gift
of music manifested itself in the son. He
made his first public appearance as a
pianist when about seven years old. School
work, however, interrupted musical stud
les, but he still continued to practice the
works of Beethoven and Haydn, his favor
tie composers, and developed the talent
given to him of sight reading and accom-
panying singers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
SIXTEEN PLAYERS MET
DEATH BY FOOTBALL
THE PAST SEASON.

= Football claimed sixteen lives
!. during the 1915 season.
Not a single death was record
r ed in any game in which the
= players We're known to be train
!. ed physically as well as mental
!. ~ for severe test.
i. In most of the cases those who
= lost their lives were members of
= high school, semi-pro. and prairie
= elevens, where there is little or
= no system of physical training.
= In this years toll four players
= were fifteen years of age or I'M
= der, one being only eleven years
= old. -Four of them were only
= seventeen years old, while the
= others ranged to twenty-one
= years. Only three had college
= affiliations, and in one Of these
= cases it was said that an unnec-
= essary tackle killed the player.
=
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
Peck Pittsburah's New Leader.

r. D. Peck, Jr., of Lockhaven, Pa,
has been made captain of the 1916 Pitt
football team. Peck is a junior in the
school of economics, and next year viii
be his fourth as regular on the blue
and gold eleven.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13

ALNhh
took part in the meet in Chicago last
July, was at Provo, Utah, not Chicago,
as noted on his entry blank.
The board of managers ruled that
Richards must give back the medals
he won in the July meet. Competing
for the Illinois A. c., he took first place
in the fifty-six pound weight event,
second in the high jump and third in
the discus and javelin throws. Rich.
ards was formerly a student at Brig.
ham Young university, but is now al
Cornell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13
RICHARDS TO RETURN MEDALS
A. A. U. Officials State Olympic Cham
pion Has No Right to Gifts.

Alvah Richards who gained inter
national fame by winning the high
jump at the 1912 Olympic games, re
Gently was declared ineligible to com
pete in meets of the Central District
A. A. Q. His legal residence, when he
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-13

A French electrician has invented a
telephone which is entirely concealed
within the limits of a flower vase.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
NOTED PERSONS DIE.

San FranciscO.-Most Rev. Patrick
William Riordan. archbishop of the
archdiocese of San Francisco of the
Roman church, died here Sunday from
pneumonia.
New YOrk.-Miss Grace H. Dodge,
widely known as a phflanthropist and
prominent for years as leader In
charitable and educational work, died
here Sunday.
Troy, NJ Y.-COlonel Arthur Near
thur. grand master of the grand en-
campment, Knights Templar of the
United States. died suddenly of apo
plexy Sunday at his home here. He
was GA years old
Niagara Falls, N. Views was re-
ceived here of the death at Daytona,
Fla, Of Charles M. Hall, president Of
the Aluminium Company Of America.
He was accredited as one Of the great
est of Americas chemists.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
PROHIBITION BAD SAYS TAFT.
EXPIRES. Calls Plan Dangerous and
Says It Can't Be Enforced.

Gays u Sdu DC GuiosSco.
National prohibition is a
dangerous proposition" said former
President William H. Taft, speaking
before the bar association Of Boston
at it's seventeenth triennial banquet
Monday night.
st would revolutionize the national
government. 1t would put on the
shoulders of the government the duty
of sweeping the doorsteps of every
home in the land. If national prohibit
ton legislation is passed local govern
ment would be destroyed. And ii you
destroy local government you destroy
one of the things that go to make for
a healthy condition Of the national
government.
National prohibition is nonenforce-
able; 1t is a confession on the part of
state governments of inability to con-
troll and regulate their own especial
business and Quay; If the matter were
placed under fedora lcontrol it would
result in creation of a machinery of
government officials large enough to
nominate any president and would
offer too great an opportunity to per
sons seeking to perpetuate their pow
err in Washington
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
FIERCE BATTLE IN THE AIR
British Make Sortie-Daring Attack
on German Naval Base Feature of
Christmas Hostiiities.

LOndOn.-Assisted by light cruisers,
destroyers and submarines, seven
British airmen. plotting seaplanes,
made daring attack Christmas day
on the German naval base of Cuxha
ven, at the mouth of the Elbe. Six of
the airmen returned safely, but the
seventh, Commander Hewlett, it is
feared. has been lost. as his machine
was found off Helgoland wrecked.
What damage was done by the
bombs thrown by the attacking party
could not be ascertained, but the Ger
man report of the affair says that the
raid was fruit ess.
The enterprise of the British navy
in thus attempting to dig out" the
German fleet brought about battle
between the most modern of war ma
chimes The British squadron, includ
ing the light cruisers Arethusa and
Undaunted. which have been engaged
In previous exploits on the German
coast, was attacked by Zeppelins, aero
planes and submarines.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01

So long as perpetual motion is an
unknown quantity, every going bust.
ness requires an engineer as well as
a conductor. However nicely the ma
chinery may be adjusted, there is no
momentum unless the vitalizing ele-
ment of power is applied. The COM
petenet engineer knows when to turn
on the steam, and how to regulate it.
The amateur is likely to stop the
works or wreck the establishment at
any time.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Declaring that less on the bill
boards means more in the package"
the Southern California Retail Gro
has adopted resolution earnestly sup
porting the proposed removal of all
billboards.
San Francisco.-A Hindu mystic
named Louis Vavara blew himself up,
wounded Swami and three disciples
and wrecked the temple in which they
were worshiping by exploding a bomb
at the afternoon service Sunday All
the injured will recover.
Charles J. Kelly and Charles Poole
were arrested recently by the police
at Portland on a charge of making
and passing counterfeit silver dollars
The men were arrested in a riverside
shack, where, according to the police
a complete counterfeiting outfit was
seized.
Owing to constitutional provision
requiring state printers to have had
10 years experience in the printers
art the state printing board of Oregon
rescinded their action of several days
ago in appointing M w. Plimpton
state printer and appointed Arthur
Lawrence of Portland
Clarence w. Wiley has resigned as
manager of the Admiral line of steam
ships. operating between Puget Sound
and San Francisco and Puget Sound
and Alaska, affective Jan. /. Mr..
Wiley will be succeeded by r. J. Ring
wood, traffic manager of the Admiral
line at San Francisco.
In a little basement shop at San
Francisco Bernard Goldsmith. a cob
bier, had treasured for five years an
urn containing the ashes of his wife
Sarah. At Christmas time the old man
would place the urn on a bench in
front of his seat and on Christmas day
he would decorate it with a wreath
He did it last week and then poisoned
himself.
A decision that has big possibilities
insofar as it may be cited as prece-
dent by other states, was handed down
in the Circuit court Of Lane county,
Oregon, just recently. The opinion
was to the effect that the Sunday clos
ing law Of Oregon is invalid and that
grocery stores and all other places of
business where merchandise is sold at
retail may keep open on Sunday.
Dancing was reinstated to grace in
| San Francisco the other night, when
the police commission, in executive
session, voted to permit 1t in five
downtown cafes and announced that
more permits may be granted in the
near future. Dancing where liquor is
sold has been tabooed for more than
a year, and the board partially re-
versed itself in making it's decision.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHEREDEOvER THE GLOBE
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

The Australian battle cruiser Aus
tralia came into the port of Valpa-
raise, Chile, Dec. 26.
Queen Helena of Italy gave birth to
q daughter Saturday. Both mother
and child are doing well.
District Attorney Charles s. Whit
man of New York city took the oath
of office as governor of New York
Dec. 26.
Import taxes collected at the Chi
cago BORT in 1914 were $9,170,686, or
$1,s56,952 less than during the previ-
GUS year
Arrangements have been made to
hold an international socialist peace
conference In London Jan. l, at which
each neutral country will be repre-
scented by four delegates.
Notices announcing the resumption
of full time in all departments were
posted Monday in the shoe factories
of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Seven thousand employees get work.
Fire that burned for five hours in
Savannah's business section. Dec. rs.
caused loss estimated at 100000
Marcus & Co.'s department store was
destroyed and another store was dam
aged
Admiral Dewey was n years old
Saturday. Secretary Daniels, his aides
and members of the general naval
board called on the admiral at his
home and found him in good spirits
and health.
The members of the Russian imper
ial family. who have been as Moscow
for several days. departed Sunday, thu
emperor setting out for the battle
front and the Empress Alexandr,
leaving for TsarskOe with their sol
and two daughters.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
WHEAT RECORD PRICE
FEBRUARY DELIVERY eLUESTEM
SOLD AT $1.32 PER BUSHEl
AT PORTLAND, ORE.
CLUB WHEAT SOLD $l.30A BU.
vious Sales Record-Exportation
Of Wheat and Flour to Europe
on Large Scale.

Portland, Ore.-Monday saw the pre-
vious record prices which have pre-
vailed on the Portland wheat ex-
change during the last few weeks sur
passed when 5000 bushels of bluestem
wheat for February delivery sold at
$1.32 per bushel, and 5000 bushels of
February club sold at $1.30. The price
paid for February bluestem was three
cents above the last previous sales
record.
Bids for other grades of futures
were from one-half to a cent higher
than last Saturday, as were also the
bids on spot Russian, red fife and
club. Expectation of wheat and flour
to Europe continues on a large scale
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
SPORTING ITEMS

Football and baseball are the only
self-supporting branches Of athletics
at Princeton.
President Gilmore says the Federal
league has cost 100000. He is in
favor of peace.
Washington State college and the
University of Montana will not meet
on the gridiron next fall.
If Mike Lynch is awarded an UNI
piring job in the Northwestern league
next year it will not be his first stab
at the job
Justice Barlow S. Weeks, chairman
of the A. A. U. legislative committee,
has just ruled that the students of the
colleges and universities are entitled
to transfer their registration to an ath-
letic club between June l and Oct /
each year.
Yale university has a new football
amphitheater called the Bowl" that
is unusual in many respects. Unlike
any of the previous structures of the
kind in this country, the seat slabs
are placed directly upon the earth, in
stead of being supported above ground
on beams and columns. 1t is built on
level plan from which the earth was
excavated to a depth Of ~ feet in the
center, and used to form around the
playing field an oval-shaped embank-
ment about q feet high. The Bowl
occupies field of rs acres. The out
side dimensions are 750x950 feet;
those of the playing tield, 300x50O feet.
Its dimensions are far larger than
those of either the Coliseum at Rome
or the ancient amphitheater at Pom
peii, which the Bowl most closely re.
sembles. The structure can accommo.
date $1,000 persons, who reach their
seats through 80 tunnels. 1t will be
used exclusively for football games
The cost was over 100000.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
Uruguay Plans Railways.

Washington bill providing for
the purchase by the government of
Uruguay of the Panama Transconti-
mental Railroad company's concession
was passed last Wednesday by the
general assembly of Uruguay, accord
ing to a cable to the state department
from Montevedio. The line to be CON
structed in Uruguay will be part of a
railroad extending through a number
of other countries.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
AUTOMOBILE NEW TO WARFARE
Armored Motor Car Proves Extremely
Useful.

Useful.
Although an engine new to warfare,
the armored motor car has proved ex-
and scouting duty Fast, silent and
mobile, it covers vast amount of
ground on the splendid roads that
crisscross the field of war in western
Europe. Most of the cars are incased
in light frame Of tough steel plate
that ranges in thickness from three
sixteenths of an inch to a quarter of
an inch, and that is impervious to rifle
and machine gun fire. All the vulner-
able parts of the motor such as the
radiator and steering gear, and in
some of the newest cars the wheels,
are protected by the steel covering.
The wheels, both wood and wire, are
said to withstand the toughest sort of
usage. Accidents to the tires are
much less common than any one
would expect. The cars carry light
armament-one or two machine guns
so mounted that they can be swung
through complete circle-and large
supply of ammunition. The crew,
which may number from four to eight
or more men, are armed with rifles
and revolvers. Some of the cars have
a steel superstructure that rises from
the chassis frame high enough to en-
able the crew to stand upright, and
that is capped with domed roof, from
which bullets andshrapnel usually fly
off at sharp angle without even dent
ing the steel.-Youths Companion.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
New List of Contraband.

Great Britain has notified the
United States government that new
list of absolute and conditional contra
band has been issued. The previous
list of conditional contraband is main
tanned, but sulphur and glycerin are
transferred to the list of absolute con-
traband.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01

A woman came into a photograph
er's studio the other day and said to
do you take children's photos?"
the proprietor:
Yes, certainly, madam
How much do you charger"
give dollars a Dozen"
WELL said the woman, sorrow
fully, 81 shall have to see you again.
I've only got eleven"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01

do you act toward your wife as
you did before you married herr"
Exactly. | remember just how I
used tn acr when l first fell in love
with her. used to hang over the
fence in front oil her house and gaze
at her shadow on the curtain, AFRAID
to go in. And l act just the same
way now when l go home late. Elk
change.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
Rockefeller Committee to Report.

New York-The general education
board, founded by John d. Rockefeller
to promote education within the
United States, without distinction Of
race, sex or creed" and now equipped
with funds for that purpose amounting
to nearly $34.0O0,000, will on January
l issue the first comprehensive report
covering it's IL years activity
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01

Comparative quiet prevails in the
western theater of war.
Emperor Nicholas again is with the
Russian army at the front.
| The British raid on the German
coast with aeroplanes has apparently
netted small results.
Russia officially has denied the re-
port that she has coded half of the
island of Sakholin to Japan.
| The Austrians in Galicia, the Rus.
sian general staff aserts, have been
driven back in the neighborhood of
Tarnow.
With the return to Paris January Z
of the ministry of war from Bordeaux
all branches of the French govern
ment again will have their headquar.
tiers in Paris.
Notwithstanding the fact that a re-
cent official statement announced that
the Germans had ceased their attacks
on the Bzura river in Russian Poland,
latest advices from Berlin indicate
that they still are advancing in that
region.
Italy has ordered the cruiser Cal
abria, at Beirut, Syria, to render any
necessary aid to the American cruiser
North Carolina, should there be fur
Their demonstration against the de-
parture of Europeans from Turkish
territory.
A Petrograd dispatch by way of Lon
don says that all the important passes
on the Carpathians are again in Rus
sian hands.
The Russians also report the cap
ture of more than 10000 prisoners, to
which reference was made in previous
announcements.
The British government, through the
naval and military authorities, appar
emily fearing raid over British towns
by German airships, has issued a
warning to take to cover should the
sound of firing be heard.
In the eastern arena the official re
ports indicate a similar condition sc
far as progress by either side is con
cerned. Petrograd reports, however
that between the Filica river and the
upper Vistula the Germans are now
on the defensive.
A violent storm has temperate,
stopped important military operation.
along most of the battle front in Bel
GUM and France. In this territor!
the positions of the opposing force!
remain virtually the same as the.
have been for weeks past.
The United States government hal
made strong representations to Grea
Britain, insisting upon an early i'm
provement in the treatment of Amer
lean commerce by the British fleet. 4
long note has been forwarded to tn,
British foreign secretary through Am
bassador Page, covering the relations
between the United States and Grea
Britain as affected by the British ma
val policy, which is considered high
ly objectionable" by the American
government.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01

To think slightingly of your daily
labor and to treat it as a makeshift is
no mark of superiority. 1t indicates a
narrow view of life
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
Bomb Kills EIGHT.

100 were wounded In the town of Sox-
haczew, Russian Poland, Monday by
bombs thrown down from five German
aerOplanes
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
General keIIy-kenny Dead.

London.-General Sir Thomas Kelly
Kenny formerly adjutant general of
the British forces, is dead. His home
was at Doolough Lodge, in County
Claire, where he had lived since his
retirement in 1""-
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-01
PROCRESSOF THEWAR

Avlonia, Albania, has been COM
pletely occupied by Italian forces.
In North Poland, according to the
official German statement, east of the
Vistula the situation remains un-
changed.
From Berlin comes an official re.
port on authority of the German ad
miralty of a raid by British warships
on the German coast.
Petrograd reports continued fight.
ing on December % between the lower
courses of the Vistula and the Pilica
and violent engagements in the re-
gion bordering on the Pilica. Like
wise there has been severe fighting
with the Austrians along the lower
courses of the Mira, where the Rus
SLAMS claim to have taken more thar
1000 prisoners.