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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
NEW POSTMASTERS FOR
HARTFORD AND BEAVER DAM

President Wilson sent to the Sen
ate last Monday the nominations OF
Ernest z. Birkhead' for postmaster
az Hartford, and Ohio Dexter, for
postmaster at Beaver Dam. These are
both excellent gentlemen, who are
thoroughly competent for the posi-
lions they sought and obtained on
the recommendation of Congressman
Hon. Ben Johnson, who it will be re-
membered, was here a short time
since looking over the field with the
view of selecting a successor to the
present incumbents at Hartford and
Beaver Dam.
Mr.. Birkhead's appointment was
decided upon after practically all of
the applicants for the Hartford office
had agreed upon and signed a petit
ton to Mr.. Johnson requesting his
q appointment.
While the retiring postmasters
have made good officials, one thing
is assured, the patrons of these Of
fees will have efficient, painstaking
and accommodating service from the
new appointees.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
STATE BOARD ABROGATTS
STANDARD POLICY FORM

Frankfort, KY, July S.-The
Workmen's Compensation Board and
the Workmen's Compensation Ser
vice Bureau, of New York, rate
making organizations for most Of
the industrial liability insurance
companies, have failed to agree on
rate for Kentucky under the COM
pensation law, and Robert T. Cald-
we'll. chairman of the board. said to-
night that he had received a tele-
gram from the bureau, saying that
while it will not agree to the make
up of the rate, and its companies
will not accept the terms proposed
by the State board, the companies
will be left to their own discretion
in regard to doing business in Ken
lucky. In view of this situation Mr..
Caldwell said the rule requiring a
standard form of policy will be alb
rogated.
Nine companies already are quail
fled for doing business in Kentucky,
three mutual, three stock and three
reciprocal, and Mr.. Caldwell said
under the rate proposed by the State
board many industries will be able
to insure at no advance over present
rates.
The rate for State is found by
taking a standard of 100 per cent.
and adding to it a differential ac-
cording to the aggregate amount of
benefits paid under the law of the
State and an expense charge accord
ing to whatever additional cost is
entailed in getting the business. 1t
was on this last item that the board
and the bureau disagreed.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Mazatlan. Mexico, July 8 (by ra-
dio to San Diego, Cal.)-Yaqui In
dians, taking advantage of the with
drawal of Mexican troops from
Southern Sonora, are reported here
to have crossed the YaQui river and
invaded lands of American ranchers
and the Richardson Construction
Company. devastating all property
except company headquarters at Es-
peraza, where a Mexican garrison is
maintained.
The only Americans left in the
Yaqui Valley are J. Z. Lowder, F. c.
Hetchel, Leon Anthony, Fred S. Re
man, Gus Seighman, H. Bruss, Kari
Feister and a man named Pedecour-
co.
There is much suffering here on
account of lack of food.
The navy collier Nanshan is ex-
pected to leave La Paz on Tuesday
with tifty-four refugees from Quay
mas and La Paz.
The poems at La Paz are reported
suffering all the rigors of famine.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
DYING BY SCORE FROM
INFANTILE PARALYSIS

New York, July S.-The infantile
paralysis epidemic continues its hor-
rid drive through the greater city
and into the suburbs. For. the day
ending at o'clock this morning.
there were eighty-seven new cases,
sixty of which were in Brooklyn,
thirteen in Manhattan. eight in Sta
ten Island. three In the Bronx and
three In Queens. Forty-four cases
were reported in twenty of the sixty
upstate" counties. To date there
have been 797 cases. and 1876 deaths
in the Greater city.
All movies" and all public Ii
braries are closed to children abso-
lutely. No gatherings in public
parks are permitted. Sunday School
and church services for children are
barred by the health officers and the
board is considering the immediate
quarantining in their homes of all
children two weeks. -
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
WILL ACCEPT PROPOSAL
OF FIRST CHIEFS NOTE
Formal Reply to Carranza's Offer
for Direct Negotiations to
Settle Differences.

Washington, July S.-A note for
mally accepting General Carranza'
proposal that differences between
the United States and the de factc
government of Mexico be settled by
direct negotiations has been handed
TO Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican
Ambassador designate.
Secretary Lansing took draft OF
the note to to-day's cabinet meeting
rand had it delivered promptly after
the cabinet adjourned.
The text of the note, addressed to
Mr.. Arredondo, follows:
"Sir: | have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your conf
munication of July 4, 1916, in which
you transcribe q note addressed to
me by the Secretary of Foreign Re-
lations of your government, and to
request, that; you will transmit to
him the following reply:
"Mr. Secretary:
81 have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your courteous note
transmitted to me by Senior Are
dondo on the 4th instant, in which
you refer to my notes of June 20
and June %, and to assure you of
the sincere qualification of my gov
eminent at the frank statement of
the difficulties which have unfortu-
nately arisen in our relations along
the international boundary, and the
unreserved expression of the desire
of your government to reach an adj
justment of these difiicuities on
broad and amicable basis. The same
spirit of friendship and of solicitude
for the continuance of cordial rela-
tons between our two countries in
spires my Government, which equal
ly desires an immediate solution of
the matters of difference which have
long veXed both governments.
1T is especially pleasing to my
Government that the de facto gov
eminent of Mexico is disposed to
give quick as well as practical con-
sideration in a spirit of concord to
the existing conditions. Recipro-
eating the same desire, the Govern
ment of the United States is pre-
pared Immediately to exchange views
as to practical plan to- remove fl
nally and prevent recurrence of
the difficulties which have been the
source of the controversy.
Accept, Mr.. Secretary, the renew
ed assurances of my highest consid-
Grafton.
81 am, sir, yours very sincerely,
ROBERT LANSING"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
GREENSBORO PROBE OF
POLICE CHIEF CLOSES

greensboro, KY, July S.-The
two-day investigation by the Police
Committee of the City Council of
the charges preferred against Chief
of Police Bell by Patrolman w. H.
Robbins ended this afternoon. Rob-
bins charged that the chief Interior
ed with his duties.
Counsel for Robbins at the con-
clusion of the hearing, made no re-
quest that Chief Bell be removed
from the force. but said that GER
tain conditions existing in Owens
boro should be remedied.
Chief Bell refuted practically ev-
cry charge made by Robbins. He
admitted. however, that he had in
structed the police not to assist the
SheriT's department in the securing
OF witnesses for the grand jury, and
said that lie had threatened to give
any officer who violated his orders
a ten-days' lay off. He explained
his order by saying that the Sheriff's
Office had refused to allow the police
officers t. convey prisoners to Green
dale.
Mayor Hickman. who presided at
the hearing, said that his eyes had
been opened on vice conditions in
the city of greensboro and that he
would eradicate the existing evils.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

the operation of grating was fully
explained to him, and it was made
known also that he was rendering
a service to a soldier comrade and
to science. He did not hesitate, but
gave his full assent.
Thereupon the operation began,
and now after some weeks the two
soldiers lie there on their backs, the
right thigh of Rousselot against the
left thigh of Tillete, bound together
with the same surgical bandages so
as to prevent the slightest shifting
of the operated parts until the phe-
nomena of transferring one leg to
the other is accomplished. Z
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
German Casualties 5000. 900.

London, July 9 t7:20 D. m.)-
German casualties from the begin
ming of the war to the end of June.
as compared from official German
lists, are given as 3,012.637 In an
Official statement made public here
to-day. The announcement states:
These figures include all German
nationalities. They do not include
naval casualties or casualties Of col
onial troops. They are not an esti-
mate made by British authorities,
but merely casualties announced in
German lists"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
CHILD AFLOAT IN RIVER
NOT HURT BY ADVENTURE

La Crosse, Wis, July S.-Michael
Sweeney was working near the banks
of the Mississippi in field when he
saw an infant floating down the
river. He jumped in boat, rowed
out, and picked up the baby. The
child's face had been held above wa
ter by its thick dresses and it was
none the worse for the wetting. 1t
turned out to be 'Michael's grand
daughter, Mary Sweeney.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Arizona organized militia, returned
to camp here after walking nearly
40 miles while on outpost duty. The
private, a recent recruit, was placed
on guard at the International lin
with instructions to walk to the east
until he met the sentry he was to re-
lieve.
In some manner Dockery missed
the sentry. He kept walking until
finally at night he met patrol on
guard is miles east of the camp.
"Dockery certainly obeyed instruc-
tions," an officer remarked, "but it
is a good thing he met that patrol
or he probably would have walked
to Ell Paso."
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
REMARKABLE OPERATION
PERFORMED IN PARIS
Part of Leg Transferred From
One Man to Another
Man.

Paris, June 2S.-One of the most
remarkable surgical .operaa ons on
record is now being performed at
the Grand Palais, the massive build
ing usually used for the annual sa-
lon, but now transformed into a
vast hospital. Here two soldiers lie
side by side, bound together like
Siamese twins, while large portion
of the leg of one of them is being
slowly transferred into the leg of
the other one. Noted surgeons are
gathered about watching the slow
development which they regard as
marvellous both from the surgical
standpoint as we'll as from the senti-
mental, in which one soldier is calm
ly giving day by day part of his body
to fellow soldier.
The two men lie on their backs
on large operating table in one of
the halls of the hospital They lie
in opposite directions, the head of
one near the feet of the other, like
the figures on playing cards. They
are among the most seriously
wounded of the younger class of SOL
diers, one 26 and the other 23 years
old. The younger, Rousselot, was
wounded in the leg at the battle Of
Morhange in the early days of the
war. He was taken a prisoner to
Germany. where the surgeons say
he did not receive intelligent atten-
ton. Brought back here last Sep
TENDER. 1t was necessary to perform
a second operation to lengthen his
leg fourteen centimeters (about five
and one-half inches). But after the
extension was performed there was
still lack of bony matter between
the two portions of the broken phe-
muir.
The other soldier. Tillete, an ar
tilleryman, was seriously wounded
in the leg two months ago in the
desperate fight over Fort Douamont.
In field operation his leg was am
putated above the knee. Later It
was found that a second operation
was necessary In order to shorten
the leg by some centimeters.
II was at this point that the sur
geons concluded that the soldier
who needed the shortened leg could
give up this portion to the soldier
who needed the longer leg. Tillete
was consulted by the chief surgeon;
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
Rats Poison Cistern.

We gave notice a week or so since
of the poisoning of the Hammond
family, near Cadiz. by rats having
carried paris green into the cistern
on their feet and then dying in the
water. We have just learned that
the cistern on the farm of Mr.. Geo.
Murray, north of Cadiz, has been
probably similarly infected. At any
rate, several rats have been recover
ed from the cistern after the family
had been rather mysterfously sick
for some weeks. Cisterns should be
cleaned and made rat proof. Mr..
Murray thinks that "sheep dip" may
have gotten into the water.-GCadiz
Record.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
MILITARY TRAINING IN
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

New York, July S.-The National
Educational Association went on
record here to-day as asserting to
military training in schools, provid-
ing that military ends should not
be permitted to pervert the educa-
tional purposes and practices of the
school,"
This is a change of attitude. Last
year the convention came out fiat
footedly against such training.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

ice. Since he has been President
he has done his best to arouse Con-
gress and the country to the true
state of affairs. Preparing for war
is necessarily a rather slow process.
We are coming around all right, but
not yet ready by long shot.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
Why Endure Summer Colds?

II isn't necessary to have a stuffed
head, running nose. To cough your
head on as 1t were. All you need do
is to use DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey.
The soothing and healing balsams
open the clogged air passages md in
short time you get relief and start
on the road to recovery. Your nose
stops running, you cough less and
you know you are getting rpetter.
Get bottle, use as directed. Keep
what is left as cough and cold
Observation-Disclosures.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
British steamer Taken.

Berlin, July7 (by wireless to Say
ville) The British steamship Pen
dennis, 2,l2S tons gross, with a car
go of timber from Gothenburg. for
Hull, has been captured by a Ger
man warship of the Norwegian
Coast and brought to a German port.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

The Republican party has nomi-
mated a man for President who had
not in the last half dozen years op-
ened his mouth on any vital ques-
ton in which the American people
are concerned. Great pressure was
brought to bear upon him both be-
fore and during the Republican Ma
tional Convention to get him to de-
clare himself on some of the fore
most public questions, but all to no
avail except his asseveration that he
believed in "undiluted American
ISM" to which every good American
can subscribe. If he stands for any
thing better than President Wilson'S
record, he has yet to speak out.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
Ten Pages This Week.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Prpsident-Wood Wilson.
For Vice Pres't.-T. II. Marshall.
For congregation. Ben Johnson.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

when girl is disappointed in
marrying her ideal, It is mean of her
TO marry some other girls.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
Soldier Follows Orders. {"

Douglas, Ariz.. July S.-Adam
Doekery. a priv'te in Company b.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Those who talk so glibly of war.
insisting that the United States
should go right into 1t at the drop of
a hat, dc not stop to think Of the
unpreparedness Of this country for
such an undertaking. This. how
ever, has lately been shown in such
a way that everybody ought to un-
derstand It. President Wilson in
herited large volume of unprepar-
edness from his predecessors in Of
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Many a man who marries money
is never seen IN public with II.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Many members of the Progressive
party who four years ago turned
from the Republican party because
of its rottenness and domination by
bosses with special axes to grind, are
refusing to swap their Progressive
birthright for a mess of pottage and
follow their erstwhile leader
(Roosevelt) back into the camp of
their former party refuge. Theirs
was a stand for principle and they
are holding fast. Some will vote for
Wilson as coming nearest their ideas
of true Americanism and freedom,
and some will wait longer for a vim
dication of what they deem their
rights. before voting again.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Some thoughtless people are won't
to say that President Wilson has
waited too long" before any DEM
onstrative action in the Mexican
matter. Who is able to say this
with any power of reason in his
soul? Who is rash enough to set
the exact time We should wait be-
fore hurting thousands of our fine
American manhood into the vortex
of a war that no man can measure
the slaughter, the misery or the ex-
tent of II? Only those who know not
what war really means are the ones
who are going into Mysteries because
American blood has not been spilled
in Mexico. II is very serious mat
ter-this war question.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

President Wilson has declared
time and again that he cared naught
for his own political fortunes so
long as he was able to put into eX-
'cution the will of the people. rs
lecially has he emphasized this
anent the Mexican trouble. And by
people he says he does not mean
any faction or bunch of men WHO
might be benefited financially or 9th
eTwise personally by any action Ia
kea, but the whole mass of citizen
ship, from the humblest to the high
est, every one of whom, as an Amer.
lean citizen, is due consideration in
the matter. No President was ever
50 severely tried with national ques-
tions as is Mr.. Wilson these days.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

Keeping peace with MeXico-or
her chief, CarranZa-is like a COM
munity trying to keep peace with a
noted outlaw or braggadocio who
has committed numerous crimes,
smoothed the matter over in some
way and is still in the attitude of
committing other outrages any min
ute. There can be little or no con-
fidence placed in what Carrana says,
from a national viewpoint. We must
take his asseverations with allow
ances and still keep watch on the
Mexican border. The Mexican prob
lem, like the poor, we have always
with US. This is vexing situation,
but we must make the best of it.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12

The Progressive party was
launched as a protest against and
rebuke of the alleged stolen nomi-
nation of w. H. Taft and to set forth
certain political principles to which
the originators-Col. Roosevelt in
the lead-pledged themselves. 1t is
an insult to the honor and intelli-
gence of the Progressives, even
though their leader has deserted
them, to say that they will go back
10 the Republican party whose rot
tenness and infamous convention
methods compelled them to leave it.
The true Progressives are standing
by their faith and principles. They
have not forgotten what was done
to them in 1912 nor who did it.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-29
81 OLSON GARDNER

Washington, May 2e.-Choosing a
president in the United States serves
to remind US that the constitution
was kicked over Immediately after it
, was formed. The constitutional
way of choosing the president never
has been followed. It was all right
on paper, but it didn't work
In theory the way the president Of
the United States is elected reads
something like the way a pope is
chosen. In the latter case the car
dinals get together in a building
whose windows and doors are sealed
up and stay there until they can agree
who is the best man for pope. That
was somewhat the idea in the minds
Of our constitution builders-the re-
spected fathers" so often quoted
when they created the electoral col
lege to choose a president of these
United States.
The only difference is that the
electors" as they were called, were
ordered to meet in their respective
states" instead Of in a central place,
as the college of cardinals does.
The constitution carefully pro-
Vided against a choice of a president
by the people. The people were liable
to hasty judgment and might make
mistakes. Barriers must be placed in
the way to permit sober second
thought, and also permit conserVa-
tive property interests to make their
influence felt.
So the fathers provided that each
state should appoint electors in such
manner as the legislatures thereon
should deem fit. The number of
electors, it was provided, should be
the same number as the total repre-
sentation in house and senate Of the
particular state. The fathers intend
ed that the legislatures of the several
states should choose the electors in
each state, thus making the choice
of president fall upon men twice re-
moved from the votes of the cOOl-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-29
WE GIVE CONSTITUTION SWIFT KICK EVERY
TIME WE ELECT PRESIDENT

short time, but with the growth of
political parties it became customary
for the electors to announce them
selves in favor of some candidate, so
that in voting for the electOr the
legislature found itself voting for a
particular candidate. The next step
was to compel the legislature TO let
the people vote directly for electors.
This made the electors mere figure
heads, as they now are, the people
voting, in effect, an instruction to
the electors to vote for a certain can
didate.
The next step-WhiCh will come no
doubt in few years-WiH be for the
people to abolish the electoral COL
Iege and vote directly for president
and vice president, expressing not
only first, but second and third
choice votes-direct preferential
voting.
A considerable step toward this has
beentthe passage Of presidential pri-
mary laws in many of the states.
These laws permit the voters to ex-
press their preference as to what
man in the party they would like to
have chosen at the convention of
their party.
The elections in November theO-
retically do not decide who is to be
president. All that is knOwn-offi-
Cially-is that a number of electors
have been chosen, who are supposed
to be favorable to certain candidates
Practically, of course, it is known
that a certain candidate has enough
Of these electoral votes to make him
the winner This candidate is not
officially chosen president, however,
until the vote of the electoral college
is canvassed in the United States
senate four months after the cleo
ton curing the short session Of con-
gress which begins in Decen,be
If no candidate has a majority, the
house of representatives ballots to
choose a president from the three
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-02-18
INFANT SWEPT UNDER
. CANE KNIVES UNFRAMED
Child Being Carried To Giant
~. Crusher Is Rescued

Travelling down Il cane hume with
the sugar stalks, a Japanese baby act
ually passed unscathed through the first
set of big kni> IS at Wainaku mill. on
the Island of Hawaii, last Monday, and
was discovered and rescued by a mill
emPloye. Discovery came just at the
right time for the, small bundle of
humanity was moving rapidly with the
came into the maws of the giant crush.
er which further mangles the stalks
before they passes into the first mill
rollers.
The baby, child of one of the Jap
anese families employed on the rIanta-
tton, had strayed from home and elm.
bed up to the .Aume which carries the
stripped cane stalks on their final trip
into the mill. Unnoticed, it had top.
pied into the swiftly running stream
and was swept quickly into the fash.
ing, faying knives and in a manner
which no one could explain except by
declaring it the working of a miracle
had run that gauntlet unframed.
The mill hand stationed at that point
to watch for debris saw the baby and
quickly drew il from The water. The
mother, meantime, missed her offspring
aud divining it's possible fate, soon ap,
peared, frantic with fcG =. She found
several mill employees gathered ronnd
the infant trying to quiet its cries.