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New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
BREAKS QUARANTINE; FINED.
Man Brings Family to Meriden De-
 spite Official Embargo.

Meriden, Aug. 17.-For violating a local health rule which was made to assist the officers in protecting the community against infantile paraly- sis, Joseph Shilvanovitch, a new fac tory worker here, was fined $50 and costs today.
 The man had certificates for his children from the United States health bureau to the effect that there was no case of the disease in the immediate vicinity of the house from which the family came in New York, and that the children were in good health. These certificates were of no value here. Mrs. Shilvanovitch came with the children Monday. and Tuesday, and each time was turned back at the railroad station. Yester- day the family were found here. As the children had been brought in the quarantine against New York chil- dren had been broken.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
SHOOTS NEIGHbORS
 AND ENDS OWN LIFE
Italian Thought to Have Been
 Driven Insane by Heat

North Adams, Mass, Aug. 17-Aft- CT shooting three persons while tenn porari!N dc1hnged last nigEt, CutG:p C(2ntODe, tW enty-one, of 73 West Main street, North Adams. shot him. self thl ough the head ard died about three nours later. None of the other three, all neighbors, is seriously in jured. The shooting took place at 78 West Main street and in tC" yard "f the house and adjoining tenementS. It happened as near as the time can he fixed at about 6:45 o'clock, and was entirely without warning of any kind. IIanitOne came to North Adams from Italy, March 23, and made his hope with hl5 uncle, Thomas MaGEa, at IS West Main street, since thaL :ne. ite had been employed regularly in the Arnold print works until last Friday, when he gave up his employment there, saying that some If bis fellow employs 2 had been annoying him per slstently. Since Friday ne had lone no work, but nothing about his man ner or conduct led his relatives to sus- pect ;hdt anything was wrong with him mentally.
 He arrived at the house yesterday aft ernoon about 5:3 0o'clock, after haV- ing beer out since noOntinie, and com oialned of the heat. He drnrk a glass of beer and then went to his room, Wisich was on the second floor oF 'he house and after locking the door, seated himself by an open window. He remained there for some time play ing a coTnet that he had brought from Italy and singing songs in his native tongue. About 6:45 he SIC "enlN thrust his head out of the open win dow and began shooting d rnv"lver he lad ln his hand. A number of neigh bors were seated in the yards of their homes near by, and Cianflone directed lis weapon toward them. Frank Scavo, who lived near by. was in the
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

I hope my assailant will not lose his position. I was rescued by my fellow passengers"
 The prince said he went ashore at Honolulu from the Tenyo Maru and was stopped by customs in spector, who said that Japanese were not allowed ashore until their papers had been examined
 He refused to listen to my ex- planation of who I was, turned a deaf ear to my declaration that I had pa pers to establish my identity and suddenly attacked me with his fists of which he made good use I was wedged in between two women and could not defend myself for fear of hurting them"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

the apparatus to his cottage, ana some of the machinery was kept for a while in the house in East Ninth street, where the alleged still has been Installed. When the equipment final ly was moved to Staten Island, the heavy presses were set up on the ground floor and the garret was all tered so as to provide a dark room for the development of photographic plates. Another room was set aside tor the engraving and etching work, and still another as an eleCtrotyping and finishing and drying room.
 The intention of the cOnspirators, according to the secret agents was to take impressions of both sides of the bills and then to paste them together after inserting pieces of silk and hair to give them the appearance of being genuine.
 These impressions, etchings and plates, seized by the raiders along with heavier articles. machinery, and bills, will be used as evidence in the prosecution of the band. The al- legged cOunterfeiters were later taken to Brooklyn. They will be arraigned in the Federal district court today.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
THANKS, MAHIDOL SONGKLA
Brother of King of Siam, Handled Roughly, Promises Not to Declare War on United States.

San Francisco, Aug. 17.-Prince MahidOl Songkla, brother of the King of Siam, who is here today from the far east, was mistaken for a Japanese at Honolulu and roughly handled, he said, by United States customs off, cer. Minister Karavoongse, of Siam, who came here from Washington to meet the prince, declared he would take the matter up through the state department.
 "But don't be disturbed" the prince said when the minister expressed his indignation. "We will not declare war over this. It was a mistake, and
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

Naval rockies to the number of D. $50 are now embarked on the train ing cruise planned by navy officers to do for the naval service what Platts- burg and the other training camps are doing for the army-that is, to fit men of character and ability to take their places in the line of na- tional defense if needed. The ships assigned and the cities from which they have gathered their men are the Kearsarge, from Portland Me-, and Boston; the Virginia, from Bos- ton, Newport and Providence; the Maine, the New Jersey and the Ken
 lucky, from New Haven, Albany. New
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
'CRPTHfh VICTOR BLUE

Captain Victor Blue, United States navy, just appointed to command the batleship Texas (after serving as chief of the bureau of navigation, with the temporary rank of rear ad- miraI), has had a distinguished career. Tn the Spanish-American war Captain Blue, then lieutenant, won promotion and fame by landing at Santiago, Cuba and travelling seventy-two miles around the city to ascertain that Ger vera's ships were actually in San tiago harbor. He ran the risk of cap ture and execution as spy. Since then Captain Blue has held various important commands.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

rested, and so were Antonio Barcatt, Luigi's brother; Salvatore Giodano and Antonio GiodanO, also brothers. ard Antonio Matranga and William Frazza. All of them were accused of being counterfeiters and were locked up.
 Another squad of secret service 11en had, in the meanwhile, gone to the house in East Ninth street. where they arrested Giovanni Glenchi and Leo Battaglia. These two men were turned over to Internal Revenue Col lector L. c. Mutt, who had them locked up on charges of violating the internal revenue laws.
 Secret service men said after the raid at Grant City that the counter feltlng conspiracy was one of the most far reaching that had been brought to the attention of the government in years. The alleged purpose of the band was to manufacture United States treasury notes and $1, s2 and $5 silver certificates, and then to de- stroy the apparatus before the bills were circulated
 To Sell at 35 Cents On Dollar.
 Monteforti, who seemed well SUD-
 
 government agents of being the man who arranged for the purchase Of the euuipmen and for it's installation in the Grant City cottage. The plan as learned by the secret service men was for the Italians to dispose of the $1,000,000 worth of counterfeit bills to twenty middlemen at the rate of 35 cents on the dollar. The latter were to dispose of the spurious money at 50 cents on the dollar
 Hmm ediately after learning of the alleged conspiracy through under ground channels, Chief Flynn pre- rared to trap the so-called cOnspira- tors. Secret service agents were brought to New York city and Staten Island from Washington, Cincinnati, Scranton and Washington, and were detailed to shadow the suspects.
 The detectives learned all the de- tails Of the purchase of the money making apparatus, which cost at least s2,O00. Monteforti, the secret aeents asserted, was extremely cau- ticus in his arrangements for moving
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

York, Brooklyn, Newark, Scranton and Buffalo; the Rhode Island from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit; the Louisiana, from Bal hmore; the Illinois and the Louislana rom Norfolk, Richmond, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis. Milwaukee, Des Moines, St Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, Dallas and Washington, and the Alabama, from Charleston, New Orleans and Hous ton. Among the naval recruits are many young men of promine,x,e. Among those on the Maine is Junius s. Morgan, son of the financier, seen here preparing his kit.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
WITNESS AFTER WITNESS
 NEW BRITAIN
Such Evidence Our Readers Ca
 Dispute.


 As we take up the Herald weel week we are struck by the hel unmistakab ble way in which wit after witness speaks out as DOwnie does here. If these pd were strangers living miles awayI might take little notice of them. they are not They are our neighH living among us. Their word isl easily proven to admit of any dd They speak out in the hope that | experience may be a guide to oth Mrs A. Downie, 443 Church st1 New Britain, says: 'I have Doan'S Kidney Pills for backache whenever I have felt worn-out they have certainly done good VI giving almost instant relief. l req mend Doan's Kidney Pills becauA know of their merits"
 Price soc. at all dealers. D' simply ask for a kidney remedy-1 Doan's Kidney Pills-the same Mrs. Downie had. Foster -Milburn Props, Buffalo, N. x.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

yard preparing to use @ hose| spril hle the ground. He attemptd go into the house to escape the Jade of bullets coming from T Eone's revolver, and as he place l right hand on the door jamb Il went th' ough it and imbe1ded itsd the building. rMs. Neal Johnson, other reighbor, was shos in the| ard Joseph Aserino, who is ali neighhor, was shot in the sh6lI No one of the three last named| seriously hurt.
 RcIOads Weapon.
 CiannOne then reloaded his revd and after firing several ir'Ire s turned the weapon upon hlmselfI sent a bullet through his brain the right side, causing him to f;tI the floor. There was great excited in the neighborh ood, which is thl settled, and a hurry call was sen1 tho nolice. Patrolmen Patrick w and Sidney Houran responded, after breaking down the door of (l 1one's room found him ly1ng 1ns1 rle on the floor with the 32-eal five-chamber revolver by dis sideI but one of the chambers in the r1 yer had been discharged, and she1 eleven other cartridges were f1 about the room, which would indl that the dead man had fired fouzl shots in all E
 His uncle, Thomas Mazza and O S who had known him we'll, are at as tc account for his strange act Th9 lice are certain that the deed ma the same person that was reportes q acting suspiciously about Eagle sA yesterday afternoon. A telephones was sent to the police about 2 o'd to the effect that man who anss Cianfone's description exactly acting queerly near the home ofE sanh Crocker. It was said Lhatn man had picture of sacred feet nailed to a tree and was end bring to carve a likeness of it on tree trunk with jack knife, and that he was tampering with som the hydrants along the sidewalk. W an officer arrived at the scene, ever, the man has disappeared. from descriptions given of him, police are certain that 1t was Hone.
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11

other SC that my thick gray socks bulged over the uppers. Stlll no sign of anything on the road. The motor I have gone home.
 My toilet complete. l took up the barrow and began my Journeys to and from the quarry, a hundred yards off. l remember an old scout in Rhodesia who had done many queer things in his day, once telling me that the SC cret of playing part was to think yourself into 1t. You could never keep 1t up, he said unless you could man age to convince yourself that yon were it.
 So shut off all other thoughts and switched them on the road mending.
 thought of the little white cottage as my home. recalled the years l had spent herding on Leithen Water I made m! mind dwell lovingly on sleep in n box bed and bottle ot cheap whisky. Still nothing appeared on that long white road.
 Now and then sheep wandered off the heather to stare at me. A heron hopped down to a pool in the stream and started to fish, taking no more no tice of me than if I had been mile stone. On l went trundling my loads of stone with the heavy step of the professional.
 Soon I grew warm, and the dust on my face changed into solid and abid Ing grit I was already counting the hours till evening should put limit to MT. Turnbull's monotonous toll.
 Suddenly crisp voice spoke from the road, and, looking up. I saw lit tie two seated car and d round faced young man in a bowler hat.
 Are you Alexander Turnbunf" he asked. "I am the new county road surveyor. You live at Blackhopefoot and have charge of the section from Laidlawbyres to the Riggs? Good! A fair bit of road, Turnbull, and no' badly engineered. A little soft about a mile off, and the edges want cleaning See you look after that Good morn ing. You'll know me the next time you see me"
 Clearly my getup was good enough for the dreaded surveyor.
 I went on with my work, and as the morning grew toward noon I was cheered by a little traffic. A bakers
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The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11
"Good God = the murderer

"Good God the murderer h. choked.
 Just SD. And there'll be a second murder, my dear, if you don't do as bid you. Give me that coat of yours That cap too."
 He did as he was bid, for he was blind with terror. Over my dirty smart driving coat, which buttoned high at the top and thereby hid the deficiencies of my collar.
 l stuck the cap on my head and add ed his gloves to my getup, The dusty roadman in a minute was transformed into one of the neatest motorists in Scotland. On Mir. Launcelot Browns head 1 clapped TurnbulIs unspeakable hat and told him to keep it there.
 Then with some difficulty turned the car. My plan was to go back the road he had come, for the watchers, having seen it before, would let it pass unremarked.
 Now, my child" l said, "sit quite still and be a good boy. 1 mean you no harm. I'm only borrowing your car for an hour or two. But If you play me any tricks, and, above all, if you open your mouth as sure as there's a God above me I'll wiring your neckl Savez?"
 I enjoyed that evenings ride. We ran eight miles down the valley, through village or two, and I could not help noticing several strange look. ing folk lounging by the roadside.
 These were the watchers who would have had much to say to me if l had come in other garb or company. As it was, they looked incuriously on. One touched his cap in salute, and I re sponded graciously.
 As the dark fell I turned up a side glen which, as 1 remembered from the map, led into an unfrequented corner of the hills. Soon the villages were left behind, then the farms and then even the wayside cottages. Presently we came to a lonely moor, where the night was blackening the sunset gleam and I obligingly reversed the car and restored to Mir. Launcelot Brown his belongings.
 "A thousand thanks" said. "There' more use in you than thought. Now. be of and find the police"
 As sat on the hillside watching tEe tail light dwindle reflected on the va rious kinds of crime I had now sam pied. Contrary to general belief, [ was not murderer, but had become an unholy liar, shameless imposto and highwayman with marked taste for expensive motorcars.
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11
CHAPTER VIII. Tho Bald Arche 0 O. gist's Adventure.

SPENT the night on shelf of the
 hillside in the lee of powder
 where the heather grew long and
 soft. It was q cold business, for I had neither coat nor waistcoat Those were in Mir Turnburs keepinc as was Scudder's little book, my watch and. worst of all my pipe and tobacco pouch. Only my money accompanied me in my belt and about half n pound of ginger biscuits in my trouser pocket
 supped off half those biscuits and by worming myself deep into the heather got some kind of warmth.
 My spirits had risen, and I was be ginning to enjoy this crazy game "f hide and seek. So far 1 had been mi. raculously lucky. The milkman, the literary innkceper, Sir Harry, the road man and the idiotic I.ancie were all pieces of undeserved good fortune.
 Somehow the first success gave me a feeling that I was going to pull the thing through.
 My chief trouble was that l was des- perately hungry. l lay and tortured myself-for the ginger biscuits merely emphasized the aching void-with the memory of all the good food I had thought so little of in London. There were Paddock's crisp sausages and fragrant shavings of bacon and shape ly pOached eggs-how often had turned up my nose at them!
 There were the outlets they did at the club, and particular ham that stood on the cold table. for which my soul lusted. My thoughts lowered over all varieties of mortal edibles, and finally settled on Il porterhouse steak and quart of bitter with Welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopeless. ly for these dainties l fell asleep.
 woke very cold and stiff about an hour after dawn.
 It took me little while to remera. Der where I was, for had been yer, weary and had slept heavily. saw first the pale blue sky through a net
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11

of heather, then Il big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blackberry bush.
 l raised myself on my arms and looked down into the valley. and that one look set me lacing up my boots in mad haste. For there were men below, not more than quarter of q mile off, spaced out on the hillside like fan, and beating the heather. Lancie had not been slow in looking for his re
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11

scars. 1 got my boots and trouser legs all white from the dust of the road and hitched up my trousers, tying them with string below the knee.
 Then l set to work on my face. With q handful of dust 1 made a watermark round my neck-the place where MT. Trummles Sunday ablutions might be expected to stop. l rubbed good deal of dirt also into the sunburn of my cheeks < roadman's eyes would. no doubt. be little intiamed. so l con, trived tp get some dust in both of mine, and by dint of vigorous rubbing produced :. bIeary effect.
 The sandwiches Sir Harry had given me had gone off with my coat. but the roadman'S lunch tied in red hand kerchief. was at my disposal
 ate with great relish several of the thick slabs of scone and cheese and drank little of the cold tea. In the handkerchief was u local paper tied with string and addressed to MT Turnbull-obviously meant to sOlace his midday leisure. l did up the bun dle again and put the paper conspicu ously beside it.
 My boots did not satisfy me, but by dint of kicking among the stone I re- duced them to the granite-like surface which characterizes a roadman's foot gear. Then l bit and scraped my fin ger nails till the edges were all crack ed and uneven. The men was match ed against would miss no detail
 1 broke one of the boot laces and re tied 1t in a clumsy knot and loosed the
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11

SPENT the night on q shelf of the hillside in the lee of powder where the heather grew long and
The Ozark spectator., 1916-08-11

Journeys to and From the Quarry.
 such as plowmen wear-and revealed q neck as brown as any tinker's. l rolled up my sleeves, and there was a forearm that might have been black ssmith's--sunburnt and rough with old
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-16

IM N a little stone cottage in RuthweI1
n Scotland, in 1910 the Rev. Henry
n Duncan established the first saw
ings bank which was organized
and operated on the recognized savings
bank principle which is: that from the
deposits received the bank should, by
judiciouS investment earn enough to
pay the expenses Of management, pay
interest to the depositors and establish
ia guaranty fund to protect them from
losses incident 10 all business.
DR.. Duncan was by no means the
first to see the need Of safe deposit
DRY for the savings of the people, for
several others as high minded, but not
so practical, had heretofore attempted
Ito establish savings banks, but in their
zeal To rake the proposition attractive,
combined features that smacked Of
charity, and therefore failed as bust
ness ventures. AS early as 1898 the
"Wendover Bank" was instituted by
the Rev. Joseph Smith, who with two
rich Practitioners agreed to receive
sums on deposit and repay the same at
Christmas with a bonus of one-third
the amount deposited. 1t was in sub
stance like our modern christmas
Club" Priscilla Wakefield in 1899 or
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-16
The Colder Hemisphere.

DR.. George c. Simpson of the Indian
meteorological service at Simla. in In
dia, who asserted that the southern
hemisphere is much colder than the
northern. gives in the Scientific Amer
lean the reasons on which he bases his
opinion. The air is warmed not by the
rays of the sun. which simply pass
through it, but by the earth, which alb
serbs the rays. Now. in the northern
hemisphere there is much land to absorb
the energy of the sun and to give heat
to the air. In the southern hemisphere
there is much less land. and all the
land within the antarctic circle is per-
manently covered with ice, which forms
virtually perfect reflector and which
sends back into space most of the solar
energy that falls upon it. Five mill
lion square miles of the earth's surface
in the southern hemisphere reflect into
space large part of the energy re-
ceived from the sun-a fact that in it
self is enough to account for a consid-
cradle difference in temperature.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-16
Tricked the Colonel.

Some Irishmen are nothing If not
ingenious. Here is good story told
of one, a terrible scamp serving in
South Africa under Colonel Hamilton
Browne. On discharge he asked for
a character and was given one by the
colonel so bad as should ordinarily
have barred him from employment for,
ever.
Some time later the colonel met him,
a most prosperous man and about to
embark for the mother country.
But" said the colonel, chow was it
that people, reading such a character
as l gave you should have been so
taken in?"
Read it." the scamp replied. "Never
a one of them read it and for a very
good reason. as not one of them could
read word of English. 1t was the
lion and the unicorn fighting for the
crown on the top of the official paper
that did the trick, and that's what
wanted when / troubled you for a
character. So long, colonel. There's
the all for the shore bell ringing.
Good luck, and many thanks, as it's
through you I'm in for high old
time"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-16
FIRST SAVINGS BANK ORGANIZED
IN STONE COTTAGE IN SCOTLAND
Idea Was Not Long In Crossing Atlantic and Taking Roo
In Our Virgin SOl-TOday Thrift Institutions
Prove the Backbone Of Our Country

Philadelphia. The plans for the Boston
bank must have been well matured
for in December Of 1916 the "Proyident
Institution for Savings in the Town OF
Boston" was chartered, being the first
public act of legislation in the world
which recognized the beneficial charac-
ter of the savings bank. nhis bank in
five years had deposits of 100000 and
paid one per cent. quarterly.
Following the letter received from
his English correspondent, Mr.. Eddy
and group of public spirited men be-
can an agitation that eliminated in the
Bank for Savings, now located at
Fourth Avenue and Twenty second
Street, New York, a hundred-million-
dollar bank In the meantime, Phila-
delphia had been busy, and organized
the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society.
which opened its doors on Monday,
December 2, 1916, being the first bank
of its kind to open for business on the
Western Continent
In spite of this early beginning, the
savings bank, as a mutual institution
has remained a New England institu-
ton. in that this type Of bank has
never become financial factor in the
West and South, there being less than