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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14
BRATTLEBoRo WOMEN OFFICERS.
Three Chosen to Positions III the
Daughts of 1912.

MONTPELIER, Oct. 14.-With the
annual meeting of the United States
Daughters of 1912, held Wednesday, the
three days session of Vermont S pa
triotic societies came to an end.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. Arthur E. Isham Of
Burlington; vicepresident, Mrs. John
A. Mead of Rutland; second vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. G. w. Howard of Shoreham:
third vieepresident, Mrs. +. \. Leavrn-
worth OF Castieton; recording secretary,
Mrs. j. NJ. Skeels of Isle La Motto;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Wilbur
Brown of Montpelier; bulletin secre-
tary, Mrs. Harris Il. Watkins of Bur
hngton; treasurer, Mrs. f. II. Proutv
of Montpelier; registrar, Della NJ. Sher-
man of Brattleboro; historian, Mrs.
A. Davis of Rutland; chaplain, Mrs.
Charles IL. Reade of South Hero; audi
tor, Mrs. {. A. Gale of Montpelier.
Councillors for three years: Mrs. O..
ID. Scribner of Montpelier, Mrs George
). Dowley of Brattleboro; for two
years, Mrs. c. b. Lamson of Brattle-
boro, Mrs. Charles S. Duke of North
field; one year, Mrs. Henry G. Root of
Bennington, Ella w. Bailey of None
7elier; committee for soldiers monu-
ment for state house grounds, Mrs
Clayton North of Shoreham, Mrs. John
A. Mead of Rutland, Mrs. W. L. Was
son of Waterbury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14

run ont and until a new shipment ar
rIyes there will he no more work done.
All the Hnemen have left Wilmington,
some of them going to Ware, Mass.
where the power company is putting 10
another line, and others to their homes
or other Jobs. Most of those assigned
to Ware declined TO report there and
left the employ of the concern. The
line in Wilmington was to have been
finished and the current turned on by
October /, but from the present out.
look 1t is likely to be well toward the
end of the coming month before "a
hour service is available.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14
BITTEN BY SHARK.
Hanscom Died After His Mangled Lee
Was Amputated.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Oct. Il.
The first of the tragedies from sharks
along the Florida east coast which all
but ruined the summer for number
of the northern bathing resorts. oc-
Cured when j. J.. Hanscom died in a
hospital at Fort Pierce from injuries
sustained when he was attacked bv n
shark at Sewell' S point, near Palm
Beach.
Hanscom was assisting some fish
ermen hauling in fishing net from
the ocean, when they were surprised
to find a large shark entangled in the
meshes Of the net. Hanscom is said
to have jumped into the net and at
tempted to grapple with the sea mon
ster III an effort to take it captive
alive. In some manner the Shark
seized Hanscom 5 right leg during the
struggle, severely mangling the mem
Der. The lacerated leg was amputated
but Hanscom died short time after
ward from loss of blood.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14
POWER co. SHIFTS MEN.
Work on Wilmington-Readsb Trans
mission Line Stopped.

Work on the transmission line from
Readsboro to Wilmington has been
stopped on account of lack of mate
rial. The cross arms for the poles have
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
THE CATsPAW, IN FIVE PARTS
Kien- Edison Feature to Be Shown at
Park Sunday Night.

The Klien-Edison feature. The Cats
paw, an enchanting tale of double iden-
tity, founded on the novel by William
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-14

Hamilton Osborne, will be shown at
Island park tomorrow evening. 1t is
in five parts. A comedy, Look Out Be
low, also will be shown and Leitsingcr s
orchestra will play.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1916-01-28

THE suggestion to take elections out OF poll
tics may have been prompted by news from
Memphis
TT BEGINS to loook like the Baltimore plat
form is to go down in history as another
scrap Of paper"
THE President is just as sure that his policies
are RIGHT as he is that he is the best execu-
tive who ever occupied the chair
WHY not trust the Democrts,' asks Mr. BRY-
w AN in The Commoner. The Good Book
says: "Put not your trust in the ungodly."
DOB INCERSOLL once spoke on the states.
II manship that relies on the 0sublimity OF
syntax." WOODROW probably never heard OF it.
TT WILL not be called conscription when
L the people will be forced to elect Repub-
lican President, this year. Just an act OF sell
defense.
THAT miner in the Ducktown Basin who voted
for WOODROW and decrease in the cost
of living is due to develop set of wisdom
teeth, this year.
GAYS the Banner: 1T is said COL BRYAN is
y trying to induce Speaker CLARK to bury the
hatchet. The proposition would doubtless be
agreeable, if the Speaker is permitted to select
the burial place"
THERE was some comment among the miners
L as to why the presence of the high sheriff
was necessary when there was not the slightest
indication of trouble.
THE Presidents desire to open his campaign
L in the South is probably due to the fact
that it swallows anything and everything Demo
cratic without regard to facts and fgures
THE UNDERWOOD tariff law has been thorough
l ly vindicated," says the Louisville Post.
Yes; most any man out of work or one trying to
support his family on small salary can tell
you how thoroughly.
HEADLINE says Congress Is Bewildered.
IL Did you ever know of an overwhelmingly
Democratic body in any other condition when
called upon to frame legislation in a sane and
satisfactory manner!
CENATOR SIMMONS is congratulating his
~ party on the fact that the new income tax
law will put 100000 more men under it. The
Houston Post says it will put that many more
in the Republican party. Let 'em come
WYE MADE the statement, nearly two years
w ago, that Memphis was so rotten, po-
liticaly, that the man in the moon holds his
nose while passing over it. The buck was
passed. but it has never been handed back.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1916-01-28
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

IF the President is to make any headway IN
L his housekeeping, he ought to start with MS
KITCHIN.
AS AN all-around knocker American pros
"A perity, the Democratic party IS entitled 10
the whole loaf.
GET ready to pay double your present income
" tax. Democracy comes high, and it also
needs the money
TIM HILL says the next Republican candidate
j will be born in the convention. No matter;
Whoever he is, he's winner.
INSTEAD of reducing the high cost OF living,
L Democracy seems to have only been suc-
cessful in reducing the country's revenue.
THE way BEN W. HOOPER put the gaff to Gov
RYE is calling forth many howls from
Democratic organs. Truth hurts, doesn't it?
WHENEVER you hear Democrats proposing
w anything of non-partisan nature, rest
assured they have made plans to hog the whole
thing.
T UKE LEA letteth not his right hand know
IL what his left hand doeth. His paper is
asking for passes while he is to indict the roads
for issuing them.
MANY interesting things are being said, just
INl now, by Democratic politicians about the
alleged prosperity of this country. Trouble is
none of them can be verified.
A CARTOON in the Clobe-Democrat portrays
n Mr.. BRYAN as small boy and about to
the tail of dog representing the Presidents
boom. Very likely to happen.
GERMANY is on deck with new proposal re-
" garding the Lusitania affair. That's moth
ing; WOODROW makes new ones every day, but
they don't seem to amount to much.
THAT report of the Secretary of Commerce
showing that the reduction in revenue un-
der the UNDERWOOD tariff to be $lO6,OOO,OOO,
ought to convince lot of people.
HAVING cut Missouri off his visiting list on
LII his proposed junketing trip, he needn't be
surprised if it cuts him off in the electoral col
lege. And such thing is highly probable.
THEY are now talking of retiring the green
L backs. So far as our ability to get hold OF
them is concerned, they have been cvinced
retiring" disposition that has been positively
embarrassing at times,
THE Chattanooga Times finds balm in the
thought that CRUMp has not yet been con-
victed Of graft There are worse forms OF cor
ruption than mere graft and we would suggest
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1916-01-28

NIcADOO About Nothing" is the way Wash
NI ing folk are referring to the Secretarys
annual report.
IF THE tariff fosters trusts, isn't it more than
offset by by the paupers that free trade has
already created?
THE strenuous efforts to find something to OH
set that one-term proposition is causing
overwork all along the line.
DEMOCRATS are grabbing at any straw that
II will show that it isn't the tariff, but the
people will not be fooled-again.
WHEN Iowans remember ALLISON and DOLL
w YER and then think of CUMNINs, they
must be tempted to do something desperate.
TT IS too bad that the wicked Republicans are
L sitting still, saying nothing and just letting
the Democrats dig their own political graves.
ONE reason why Democracy wants the tariff
~ taken out of politics is that it will either
have to return to it or bankrupt the country.
TT Mr.. BRYAN N should decide to trail the
/ President on his swing around the circle,
shell on the Wabash won't be circumstance
THE stopping OF bale OF cotton on Tue hiSh
/ seas causes more commotion in Congress
than the taking of dozen American lives in
Mexico.
A GEORGIA manufacturer arguing for tariff
"A protection wos one of the things that en-
liyened Washington, last week. And ne was In
earnest, too!
A WARNING to get out of Mexico, whether
"A thew can or not, seems to be this Admin
istration's highest idea of protection to Amerl-
can citizens.
uOW the national banks are loving JOHN
Ill SHELTON WILLIAMS! He is just part OF
the bene6cent Democratic Administration we
are now enjoying.
CHOULD the President decide to repeat that
- indianapolis speech in the South, ne will
probably find more people ready to believe HIM
than he did north of the Ohio.
IF THE tariff is such sorry thing, why didn't
L Repubcan Administrations have to resort
to war and income taxes and other forms OF oP,,
pression in order to raise sufficient revenue and
to spare?
CENATOR GORE say the Democratic party be-
- leves in taxing wealth, not want. 1t has
already taxed wealth TO such an extent that
want has nothing left but its own grim, gaunt
misery. Ii is a record that party will surely
have to answer for at the polls
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
COURIER FOR VILLA
IS SLIPPERY AS EEL

He then reached Villa, held con-
ference with the bandit leader and re-
turned here. Department agents made
raid on his residence here several
weeks ago, but he escaped and again
crossed the border. Part of his pa
pers are now in possession of United
States agents.
Close watch is being kept on several
Americans suspected of attempting to
aid Villa.
Andres Garcia, CarranZista inSpec-
tor-consul general, declared today that
the defacto government had heard OF
the proposed raid, but had taken no
steps to prevent it.
A volley of shots late yesterday
from the Mexican side Of the river be-
low FL Paso stirred the city. During
the firing, three unarmed natives
splashed across the stream into the
arms Of Company G., Fifth Ohio, on pa
troll duty When turned over to the
immigration authorities they said they
had been captured In Chihuahua City
by villa, but deserted at the first op-
portunity As they reached the river.
the Carranza patrols opened fire,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
Continued on page -
Are You Registered?

For the next few days the
most important question to
be asked the citizens of Keo-
kuk will be, "Are you regis
tered?"
Yesterday was the first of
these registration days.
There are two more days this
week, today and Saturday.
The polls are open from 8 a.
m. until 9 p. m.
After this week there will
be but one more day on which
to register. This is Novem-
ber 4. Unless you are reg
istered on one Of these four
days, you will not be privi-
legged to vote at the Novem-
ber election.
Never since the days of
Lincoln were more import
ant questions to be decided
than at the coming election.
Every loyal, patriotic Ameri-
can citizen should go to the
polls on that day and exer-
else the right of his fran
chise. He will have a voice
in the election of the next
president of the United
States, the next governor Of
Iowa, the next congressman
of this district and the in
coming public officials of
Lee county.
Every voter is required to
register this year. A failure
to do so on one Of the four
/ days provided for this pur-
pose means you will be de-
MED the right to vote on No
vember z.
Verify, the meanest and
most despised man in any
community is the stay-at-
home on election day. Will
you be one Of them? IF not,
register.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
French Troops Prepare to Taxa
Last Important Position
Now Held by the
Enemy.
|BOMBARDED ALL NIGHE
france Announces Further PEoQresA
But Germany Says All
Attacks Were
Repulsed.

LUndted Press Leased wire Service
PARIS, Oct. 7.-French troops be-
gan closing in upon Fort Vaux, the
last important position held by the
Germans northeast Of Verdun, In
heavy attacks last night
The war Office today announced fun
ther progress west and south Of VauH
and the capture of 100 prisoners.
The Germans kept up lively bonn
bardment throughout the nignS
around Fort Douaumont and the
Chenois woods. recaptured by tho
French in Mondays offensive.
On the Solnme front the lu1l con-
tfnued. French artillery exploded an
ammunition depot near Ablaincourt-
Completely RepuIsed.
BERLIN, (via wireless to Sayville.
L. ~ Oct 27.-"French troops attack
ed our positions east of Fort Douau-
mont at noon yesterday, but were
completely ycpulsed under heavy
LOSSES" the war office announced this
afternoon.
"The artillery fighting on the east
bank Of the Meuse between Pepper
Ridge and the Woevre, was very vio-
lent yesterday.
ION the Somme front. besides =
strong artillery fire north Of the
river, there were only accommodating
engagements. On the south bank.
our efficient fire was directed against
hostile trenches on the sectors OF
Fresnes, Mazancourt and Chaulnes
and held down a French attack which,
was in preparation"
Raided German Trenches. :
LONDON, Oct. 27.-GeTman artfl-
lery was active during a rain storm
last night. North of the Ancre. Britt
ish troops successfully raided Ger.
man trenches, General Haig reported
this afternoon. 4
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
Promises to Consider Request
That He Be Candidate
For President.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27.-General
oarranza is expected to formally an
lounce mis- candidacy for the presi-
aency, following a great demonstra-
uon in his behalf that lasted until an
early hour today.
crowds of tEe first chiefs admirers
paraded the streets of the capitf3
With banners and lanterns shouting:
Long live Carranza." Late in the
evening several professions united in
great parade to the palace where
spokesmen pledged Carranza their
support and loyalty and asked him to
accept the candidacy.
am not worthy Of such high
nonors," said the first chief. in a
orief speech, but will give due
consideration to your wishes. In the
event that l decide to be candidate
ana If the popular vote carries me
INTO this high Office, will stand for
me peoples rights with the same
-eaiousness that has always marked
my actions as first chief"
General Obregon, minister of war.
LOOK occasion at a meeting Of the
constitutionalist liberal party to de-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
CARRANZA DEMONSTRATION
PLEASES FIRST CHIEF

clare absurd and untrue" reports OF
had feeling between him and General
Gonzales.
I'VE are both human" said Obre-
gon. Eve both have aspirations. but
we are able to hold our personal
passions in subsection to our sense
of duty to the triumph u the con-
stitutional cause"
General Gonzales responded by EN-
bracing Obregon, while the audi
ence cheered.
Will Not Leave.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Reports that
Carranza intends to leave Mexico
CITY were fatty denied today by Juan
~ Burns, Mexican consul general
here. who made public the following
telegram which had just been re-
ceived from Carranza:
"Mexico City, Oct. 27.-(2:35 a. MI
Absolutely false that the bandit
villa. is besiesing Chihuahua City or
that Zapata is threatening the tran
ouflity of Mexico City. Felix D1az
was defeated in recent sklrmlshes
with our troops. He is now fleeing
with a few followers to Guatamala:
7 shau remain in Mexico City until
the constitutional convention con-
vanes at Queratero. All military
onarat;ons have been successful and
general conditions are lmpro'ins
daily. (SigncD V. Carranza
Burns said the constitutional con-
yention will convene at QueretafO on
November u.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
PLOT EXISTS
TO FORCE WAR
Secretary Of War Baker
Charges Conspiracy to
Bring About
Conflict.
WARNING IS SOUNDED
Villas Bandit Army is Paid With Sill.
yer, FurnIshed by 6aeLers
on This Side Of tho
Border.
WARNING IS SOUNDED

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.-Secretary
of War Baker announced today that
he may have another statement to
make later on his charge that q
plot exists to produce armed conflict
between the United States and Mexi-
CO.
Administration officials said Bakers
statement was intended as q warning
to the Mexican government and qua
rantee of the American government 8
good faith. The administration ex-
poets the Carranza government to
take final measures for the suppress
sion of the Mexican banditry
Secretary Baker returned today
from Martinsburg, w. Va, where he
spoke last night. The belief Of other
administration leaders as well as
Bakers own, was expressed in the
startling statement of last night. The
administration by making public its
knowledge Of danger seriously
threatening the relations between this
government and the Carranza govern
ment, expects Caranza fully to realize
this governments unselfish purpose
and in consequence hopes for more
active cooperation between the mill
tary forces Of the two countries for
common action against the Mexican
bandits.
There is reason to believe that should
the Carranza government ignore the
opportunity presented and fail to
bring about better condition in Mex
leo. the American government will
seriously consider independent action
toward that end.
Bakers statement is also expected
to have an important effect in check
ing the reported conspiracy on the
American eide of the border. While
mo definite statement could be OBJ
,, tanned today. the impression was given
that these conspirators are Mexican
cientiticos Of the Diaz regime and
their egents who have headquarters In
several large eastern cities and In
border towns.
The financing OF the Villistas and
other bandits is being done by the
leaders in the east, through agents
along the border in Mexico. Attention
was first called to the possibility Of
the plot by the paying of the bandits
in silver which Is scarce In Mexico,
even the government lacking it.
For weeks the war department has
been working upon reports received
from the interior OF Mexico by army
officers, agents of state and justice de-
partments and the secret service. The
source of supply of the silver was
traced to the American side OF the
border, it is now said.
Ohicials declare Bakers character
ization enemies Of the administration
policy towards Mexico does not i'm
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
NOT GAGGED ON
GERMAN ISSUE
Colonel Roosevelt Denies He
Had Been Asked to Put
the Soft Pedal on His
Speeches.
THIS Is HIS BIRTHDAY
Hit All Hyphens Hard at Chicago and
viii Make Five More
Hot Campaign
Speeches.
IBy J. P. Yoder. United Press Staff


IBy J. P. Yoder. United Press Staff
- Correspondent
CHICAGO, OCT. ~. Answering
published reports that he was to be
gagged into pussy-tooting ON the
German issue. and that as resuk>
q coldness had arisen between him
self and the powers behind the
Hughes campaign. Colonel Roosevea,
today announced he would make
probably five moro speeches IN the
interests of the republican pres&
Dental candidate.
Besidee Baltimore. the colonel w1r
speak at Cooper Union In New YorR
City probably next Friday evening
and at Toledo and Cleveland earlier
in the week.
The Baltimore speech is set for
next Saturday evening. He speaks
in Brooklyn tomorrow night.
The colonel denied the reports OF
friction in the following statement
to the United Press:
TITS all nonsense. am in abso
lutte agreement with the managers Oh
the campaign with Mr.. Hert. MT
Wilcox and Mr.. Perkins. The Quee
ton here was whether all that I've
said should be IN the evening or the
afternoon. The three gentlemen
named asked me only to state my In
terest and deepest convictions as
strongly as desired am In entire
harmony with them. The only ques-
ton 1 had 70 decide yesterday was
whether / could meet desires OF
chairman and national committeeman
of Ohio and speak in Cleveland ana
Toledo. After getting in touch with
r
have been able to do so.
~ have also accepted the kind Of
fer of Mr.. Wannamaker to speak at
Cooper Union next Friday. shall
sneak at Baltimore Saturday Of next
week. ..-..
The Wheeling, w. Va. speech
which had been only tentatively set.
has been called off.
The .c6lonel's party left here this
morning at S:25 over the New YORK
Central and will reach New YORK at
8 O'Clock tomorrow. By the time 1t
arrives there the trip will have IN
cluded speaking through fourteen
states and $500 miles Of travel.
Although the colonel has insisted
he will adhere rigidly to his plan not
to make any real speeches along the
-
Indiana. and Ohio, have his promise
for platform appearances" and per-
haps very brief talks and handshak-
ing at all regular train stops. Elk
hart was to be the first Of these to-
day.
Today is the coloners birthday.
He is fifty-eight, and says he Is as
replete with Roosevelt ginger and
pep as of old. And he looks it to-
day. And he looked it yesterday
when at the reception here every
body said he had more vigorous and
enthusiastic than President Wilson.
He hit all hyphens hard and spoke on
women suffrage and American1sm
before 1000 women who packed the
Auditorium In the evening he even
went stronger against professional
Germans and any citizens VINO are OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27
Goes Back and Forth in Spite
of Watch by Department
of Justice Men.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
Ell PASO, Texas, Oct. 2I.-Repre-
sentatives of the staff of the state de-
partment on the border claim to have
no knowledge of a plot of Mexican
revolutionists to raid American expe-
dictionary force in Mexico while U. 3
military forces say they have been pre-
pared for such an eventuallty for
months.
For weeks agents Of the department
of justice have been on the alert for
Manuel Ocdoa, former Vilhsta gener-
al. who is known to have crossed the
Rio Grande river below here with pa
pers for villa With two others, he was
captured by a Carranzista river patrol,
but by ruse escaped. killing two OF
his captorS.