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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19

ancy of life at the time of the acct
dent was 23.S years.
The plaintiff s wife eorroborated
what her husband had testified to re-
|gardlng sleeplessness and hemorrhages
lat the nose and said that at times he
was out of his head
The plaintiff rested at lI.30 0 clock.
ana by the consent of Mr. Ryder he
was examined by DR. George r. Ander-
son and DR.. Harry p Greene of Brat
tleboro for the defense, that they might
be ready to testify when court recon
vened at I.30 0 clock.
Dr. Anderson was called after dinner
and was examined at length He testi
ned tina ryder was Suffering from hard
enlng Of the arteries, in no way due to
me accident, and he thought RYDER was
able to do work such as he was doing
before he was injured, which was run,
nng bench saw.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
PLAINTIFF RESTS IN RYDER CASE
Continued from Page L.

ney 5 held conferences with the court,
and finally the case went along.
Dir. Edward R. Lynch of Brattleboro
was the last witness of the day. He
testified to having attended Ryder at
the time of the accident and to having
been present when DR.. Walter Wciser of
Springfield, Mass, operated on Rvder.
He illustrated to the jury, using RYDER
IN his demonstration, Just what the OPP
Grafton was and how it was performed.
and he testified that Ryder's condition
was becoming worse and would continue
to do so and that the plaintiff never
would be able to resume manual labor
Or. Lynch S testimony laid the founda-
tion for claim for future damages.
This forenoon c. l.. Wyman of Brat
tleboro, who was foreman at the last
block factory when Mr.. RYDER was hurt.
testified that up to the time of the acct
dent the plaintiff was a robust man and
a steady worker.
DR.. FL. +. White of Brattleboro testi-
ned that he had treated Mr.. Ryder from
time to time since the accident and that
the plaintiff had loose piece of bone
| IN his skull as the result of the injury.
lie said Mr.. Ryder s injury was perma-
nent, that his earning. capacity was de
stroyed and that he never. would re-
cover
Sanford A. Daniels of Brattleboro
quoted from the insurance mortality
tables to the effect that Ryder s expect
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
Motion Picture Attractions.

Today the Empire presents Violet Mer-
sereau IN Little Miss Nobody. Bluebird
production in five acts. also a Metro
Drew comedy Tomorrow Mabel Italia
fero IN a Magdalene of the Hills, a Metro
feature in five acts, and Ben Wilson in
The Voice On the Wire are the attrac-
tons
Today the Princess theatre presents
Virginia Pearson in the V. l.. S. f. fea-
ture, Thou Art the Man. also the last
chapter of The Secret Kingdom, featur-
my Charles Richman and Dorothy Kel-
~ Tomorrow Marguerite Ellington will
be seen in the Paramount feature. The
Inner Shrine, also Bray cartoon com
ledy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
WAR DEFICIENCY
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Appropriates S4,830,OOO and Authorizes
Contracts to the Total Amount
of $2,314,OOO,

WASHINGTON, Sept 10. - The
81 ,0O0,OOO,000 war deficiency bill. carry
ing huge appropriations for the army.
Notifications and shipping board, passed
the house yesterday by a unanimous vote
The bill, the largest supply measure in
the country's history, now goes to the
senate, where prompt action is expected
1t directly appropriates 81 100000 900 and
authorizes contracts for $2,3l4 ,OOO, 900
additional. The big items include: Ship
lping board, $685., 100000, cash as part of
the boards construction program limited
to an aggregate of Sl,749,0OO 900; fortified
tions, 81, 495 100000 appropriated, and
contracts authorized for 1878 900, 900
more; naval emergency fund, 100000
600; construction of additional torpedo
boat destroyers, 1925 100000 to start
$35O,000, 900 program.
transportation of the army and its
supplies, S350,000000; army subsistence,
IYl75,000,000; quartermaster supplies,
500, 100000 clothing and camp euui-
page, S3500OO,000; horses, $4,000 900;
barracks and quarters, $49,000,000 med
zeal department, Sl00,000,0OO; engineer
department, $l05,000,000; ordnance stores
ammunition, S39, 100000; small arm tar
get practise, $4,000, 600; ordnance stores
and supplies, $70,000,0O0; automatic ma
chine rifles, $220000000 and sis. ZOO, 900
more authorized; armored motorcars
Sl6,750,000 and S5,000,000 more author
/ lied.
| Aviation, S35 100000; naval ordnance
and ordnance stores, Sl2, 446.4S ammu-
milton for vessels, $40,000,000 and Sl5.-
100000 more authorized; batteries and
lOuttitS for vessels $50 600 600 and
IS2S 100000 additional authorized; reserve
ordnance supplies, SAT 100000 cash and
ST. 100000 more authorized.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
Sporting Neus
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
American League.
American League Games Today.

Detroit AT Boston (doubleheader) J.
Cleveland at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
st. Louis at Washington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
ON 1.-THE FIRE STEP
When Smoke is Something More Than
a Smoke

when 'oiHohc 10 oolueCIuuS MOTE Indn
a Smoke.
To bite off the tender end of your
favorite kind of cigar and then set
tie down into nice easy chair to enjoy
it after dinner-that S one thing.
To light cigarette when you re sit
ting on the fre-step in a front-line
trench wondering if your next expedi-
tion "oyer the top into No Man s
Land may be the last-that S another
thing.
A smoke is whole lot more than a
smoke when a soldier really needs it.
And it isn't exactly trench etiquette to
be asking your mate for a cigarette
too often. 1t helps heaps when there are
plenty to go round for all.
Stop and think about the fellows at
the front next time you reach into your
humidor for one of "your kind - To
bacco for the soldiers may easily slip
your mind because it S so easy for YOU
to have yours at home. But it s a big
enough item of warfare to get the at
tention of the United States and French
governments and the Red Cross.
They are all cooperating with The
sReformer to make it easy for YOU to
do your part in sending on smokes to
the boys over there. Twenty five cents
will start well-stocked Tobacco Kit
on the way and in it will be a return
postal bearing your name so the recipient
may let you know he received the Gift
How many return postal cards have
you checked up to your credit? They II
make you feel almost as good as the to.
bacco will make some soldier feel. And
a nice collection of such cards will be
great LATTER war souvenirs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
AYRSHIRE CLUB OFFICERS.
&C. NJ Winslow of Brandon Again Head
Of Vermont Club

MONTPELIER, Sept I9.-The annual
meeting OF the Vermont Ayrshire club was
held yesterday at the home of Mrs Fan
ny b. A. Erhardt in Berlin with about IS
members present. The old officers were
reelected, G. NJ Winslow OF Brandon,
president; and CLYDE n Smith of Bran
don, secretary and treasurer
". X. Schenck Of Ontario, one of the
best known breeders and importers, W L.
Birmingham, associate editor of Ford
DaiIyman of Fort Atkinson, Wis. and
Mr. Winslow We're the principal speakers
w {. Mckee, the breeder of Jean Ar.
mour, the famous Ayrshire COW. now lG
years old, was present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
RIOTING IN PHILADELPHIA
Ponceman Killed and Republican Politi,
cal Workers Wounded.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l9.4 riot to-
gay IN the 9Th ward Of this city. in which
Two factions Of the Republican party are
bitterly lighting for control, resulted in
the Killing of a policeman and the wound.
ing of several political workers George
Epp{, policeman, was shot dead and
James A. Casey, city official and lead
er OF one Of the factions, was injured and
sent to hospital. Primary elections are
oeing held throughout Pennsy lvania to-
day for local officers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
B. & M. TO SPEND s365,ooo.
S214,000 Will Go to Improve the East
Deerfield Yards.

BOSTON, Sept. 10. - James H. Hus-
It's. receiver for the Boston & Maine
railroad, was granted authority by Fed
eral Judge Morton to expend 1906. 900
for necessary improvements on the
fitchburg road, leased line. OF this
amount $4,000 is for improvements at
the East Deerfield yards near Greenfield
made necessary for the added work
thrown on the yards by the military can
Torment at Aver. The entire expendi-
ture will be borne by the Fitchburg
road, whose directorssapprove it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
Sporting Notes.

Paul Wachtel who pitched for the
Brattleboro Twin State league team
Throughout the season of 1911, appeared
as a boxman for Brooklyn Tuesday. 90
ing into the second game against st
Louis after Cheney had been chased from
the mound. He joined the Dodgers the
prev ious day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
National League.

National League Games Today.
Boston at Pittsburg (double-header)
Brooklyn at St. Louis.
New York at Chicago.
No other games scheduled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-19
N ational Lea cue.

bOSluH u
Pttsburg 3 .
Rudolph and Tragesser; Cooper and
w. Smith. First game.)
Boston 6 q
Pittsburg 0 0
Nehf aud Tragesser, Meyers; Pom
der, Grimes and Schmidt (Second
game.)
st. Louis, 6
Brooklyn q q
Doak and Snyder; Pfeffer and Krue-
ger. (First game.)
st. Louis 10 IA .
Brooklyn - ,
Doak and Gonzales; Cheney, Waehtel
and NJ. Wheat. Second game.)
New York G a
Chicago O o >
Benton and McCarty; Carter, Hendrix
and Dilhoefer.
! Cincinnati q
! Philadelphia q
Toney and Smith; Rixey and KILL
: fer.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
GILLIGAN JURY IS NEARING COMPLETION Ten Selected When Court Recesses Early This
 Afternoon.

Hartford, June 19.-Four places in the jury box were to be filled when the trial of Mrs. Amy E.. Archer-Gil- ligan. who had home for elderly people, for murder. was resumed to- day. Indications were that the need- ed jurors will be obtained without exhaustinG the panel of 100 talesmen. If this is accomplished quickly Mrs. Gilligan will be called upon to plead to the indictment during the day.
 Henry F.. Hart. of Southington, chosen as juror No. 2 yesterday. was excused by Judge Green on tho ground of physical condition. One additional juror had been se- lected up till noon, making the num- Der eight.
 The eighth man was Albert C.. Grtswold of Wethersfield an insurance man and son of Frederick A. Gris- wold, also an insurance agent chosen yesterday. Albert Griswold was tho twenty-second talesman examined to- day. Of the panel 72 have now been called.
 Questioning of counsel today fol- lowed closely that of yesterday. Mrs. Gilligan took much interest in tho proceeding. She looked at the tales- men attentively and talked with MT. Holden, her senior counsel. When court recessed at o'clock two more Jurors had been accepted. Timothy c. Tiffany, farmer, of Hart land, and George Lyman, retired farmer of Manchester.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
DISORDER IN DUBLIN !

Sim Feiners Tear Down Recruiting
 Bulletins-Two Arrested TOT Setting
 Fire to Post t-Onace.
 Dublin. June 19.-Several demon strations were held late last night in connection with the return of the re- leased Sim Feiners. Two men climbed the walls of the ruined post-offlce building on which they tied the Sinn F'ein flags. The crowds sang sinn Fein songs and tore down recruiting posters. !.
 The police did not interfere until about ? o'clock this morning, when two demonstrators were arrested charged with breaking in tho post office and setting ire to timbers. The police later dispersed several march, ing bands.
 ; The provisional enelcutive of the Sim Fein has decided to demand passports for three of it's members to proceed to the United States for the purpose of opposing the objects of Irish party mission there.
 No previous word has been received that an Irish mission was to come to the United States.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19

Copenhagen, via London, June 10. The revolt of the Poles in the Aus trian Parliament is described by the Vienna correspondent of the vossiche Zeitung as having produced a crisis in which tho position not only of Pre- mier Clam Martinic but also of Count Czernin. the foreign minister. is threatened.
 A majority of the German papers treat the news with the greatest re- serve. and the government organs in Vienna hold out hopes that the crisis may be overcome by granting a few ministerial posts to Polish and other parliamentarians. The Cissiche Zea- tung correspondent, however, points out that the detection of the Poles is suff1cient to turn the scales against the government since the rest of the Slav bloc already is in opposition. The Poles indicated their intentions to vote against the budget, being. the dfst parliamentary group in any bellige- rent country. aside from handful Of socialists, In refusing to vote . war credit.
 The insistence of Premier Clan- Maritime on Saturday that the Poles should show their colors is described as due to the initiative of Count Czern- in. @s
 The Polish aspirations aim at prac- tically an independent Kingdom open- ly on an antiGerma basis and have evoked marked displeaAure In Ger many.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
BEATEN FOR GIVING TIP ON MISS CRUGER
 
Young Woman Jumps From Window to Escape Attack by Strange
 Men, She Tells Police.

New York. June 1s.-A woman giving the name of Miss Consuelo La Rue was found early today in q vacant lot suffering from injuries by & fan from an open window. She said shc had jumped from her room to escape two man who had attacked her because shc gave information which led to the discovery of the body of Ruth Cruger.
 The men called her Ho the door of her apartment. the woman said. on the pretext of having a telegram to deliver. One of them. she added. grabbed her by tho throat and said: "You are not going to tell anything more"
 Police officers who discovered the injured woman searched her room but found no trace of visitors or . struggle other than an overturned chair and g broken window.
 Among other details of the Cruger case developed today was the finding of dsrlk grey chauffeur's uniform buried in the tunnel that hid the m, rdered girrs body.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
GERMAN GRAIN CROPS BURN
 UP UNDER LONG HEAT WAVE
Prospects for Harvest in Vii cinity of Berlin Reported Bad By Neutral Reaching Copenhagen.

Copenhagen, via London, June 19. Throughout Germany. according to reports here. all valuable, grain crops are burning up as they did In 1915 in an unprecedented heat wave. 4 prolonged drought has not been broken since early in May.
 Berlin on Sunday experienced the hottest June IT on record in the 70 years experience of the weather bu- reau. Tropical temperatures were also reported everywhere west of the Oder river. News reports of horse races and other sporting events feat ure s'the terrinlc abnormal scorching'' heat. Many horses were scratched on the opening day of the Hamburg Derby week because the track. Marshy Corner Moore, was baked too hard for safety.
 The weather bureau states that the prospects for rain or lower temper atures are very slight. The effect of the drought on, grain crops around Berlin whore only eight millimeters of rain have fallen since May l. is described by a neutral who arrived here Friday as almost . catastrophe.
 The Sunday sermon writer in the Berlin Kreux Zeitung. who recently induiged in g most startling blending of religion and politics, declared on Sunday that the drought was sent as punishment for the sins of tho peo- pie for listening to the editors of newspapers and asked how long it would be before this divine chastise- ment would bring the people to q sense of the iniquities.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
HINT OF IMMEDIATE DRAFT
 IS WORD FROM THE CAPITOL

in the Connecticut National Guard has been active in various parts of the state and many volunteers have been obtained. but not nearly the number that Is needed before the militia is called away to the training camps some time next month. It is be- lieved here that the summons to the lieutenant governor means that Gov ernor Holcomb is about to exercise his authority and draft men immedi- ately to round out all the units of the state troops.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19

Bridgeport. June 19.-A telegram received by Lieut.. Gov. Wilson today summoning him to Hartford this af- ternoon to meet with the State Coun- ell of Defense to take action to com- plete Connecticuts quota Of soldiers was interpreted here as the first move in preparation for state draft to fill units of the Connecticut Ma tional Guard, that still are below war strength.
 Recruiting for voluntary enlistment
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
TRY TO SCARE oFF4l German Propasanda D11c5ye
 Trainine Cannp.

Fort Sheridan. H.. Juno 1s.@ man propaganda has entered thaa ficers reserve training corps her1 the opinion of officers of tho re lar army who are acting as inst tors, and orders have been e& that every effort should be made ascertain the source of base1ess a ports concerning the risks takels men who go to the front in Fras
 There has been q deternineda fort" said Major Cavenaugh, spread baseless reports that S5 average life of a man in the tr11 is three days. have no doubt emanats from German source
 Company commanders have instructed to show the sttidAdt cers that the reports are entireaX true and to place tho tAHk
 them. s sss,S:sSssS
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
ANT1-DRAFTERs ACTIvE AGAIN.
Not Conscription Ldterature Disfrlbut
 ed Hero Last Night.

Further proof that distributors of reasonable, and anti-draft literatufa are still busy in the city. although not as actively as on two previous occasions, when the city was flooded with circulars, was brought to the at tention of the police last night when watchmen at the Stanley Rule and Level Company.s plant telephoned to headquarters there had been liter- ature scattered about in that locality. It was also reported that no per- sons had boon noted in the vicinity acting suspiciously. The literature Is much tho same as that distributed In wholesale quantities on former occa- sions.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
says so, GOO Were Hanged

Zurich, via Paris, June 19.-The Polish deputy Dasxinslxi declared in the Vienna Reichsrath that more than 30. 900 Poles have bsen haneed by sor- ing to Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung, which prints special details of the sittings of the Reichsrath on the 14th and 18th. Deputy Strubiny also described the abominable treatment accorded political suspects whereupon the Pan- Germanist deputy Heine shouted: ''They haven't used the rope enough: all of them ought to have been hanged sg.
 At these words all of the Siavs and Poles rushed on Heine and the presi- dent was obliged to suspend the aft. ting in the midst of great uproar.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
PRISONERS TO WORK FARM.

Twenty Inmates Of New Haven In-
 stitution Garden Brigade.
 Ansonia, June 19.-Twenty inmates of the New Havensrounty jail were to be taken today to the farm of P. B. Clark company in Milford, to help in the work there. The prisoners will be in charge of an armed guard This is being done as a sort of experiment in this county. For some years the inElates of Litchfield county jail have been employed in working the roads and doing other wodk. l.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
FOOD SPECULATORS GOUGE
 FORTUNES OUT OF PUBLIC
CHILDREN SHATTERED MENTALLY AND BODILY
Brutal Treatment of German Capt0rs Reduces Them to
 Physical Wrecks.

Behind tho British Lines in France, June l (Correspondence of the Asso- c4ahed Press). French children found in the villages of northern France evacuated by the Germans un- der the pressure of the British and French advance present picture of the savagery of modern warfare as characteristic as the Sommo forest, shattered and broken by months of shell fire.
 Many of these children are orphans without home or relatives. Many have been grtevously wounded. Most of them suffer from 8 peculiar species of shell-shock which anlicts them gen. erally with . sort of tremor not unlike St. Vitus dance.
 They have had life and death, hor- TOTS human and inhumane revealed to them in gnises 90 terrible that they never will be quite normal again. All are underfed and frail from oonnne- ment in cellars. Cut of suddenly from relatives and friends perhaps two years ago they have continued to. live within a few hundred yards of the front lines listening always to the thud of shells and the crash of e1- plosivea until their idea of Heaven ia d QAaS0 6u4S W V6Ty tQUk06.ss
 The condition of peasant men and women who have bean living under the shadow of the invader through these long months and years has been bad enough. but the condition of the half-starved. wounded. mentally de- ranged little children has been far worse. All the children were collect cd and shepherded by the hrst Entente troops into the newly occupied areas. Everything that can be done to cure and care for them Is now being done, constituting one of the most important immediate tasks of the French and British.
 One French organization has . hos pital with four hundred child patients all under IF years, most of them wounded. Some have lost legs or arms, others their sight, others are suffering from brain fsver or. .a DuG- sling anAa1niA under which they rap-' idly waste away.
 '"They are victims of the ruthless ness of modern warfare" said the head of the hospital, "a French woman wearing the uniform of the French Red Cross There is no better argu- ment against war than to sec these mutilated little victims who will never play or enjoy life as other children do."
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
BOSTON MAN DECORATED.

Boston. June 19.-France has dec orated c. S. Stewart Forbes, member of prominent Boston family, with the Croix de Guerre for distinguished bravery in the bringing out wounded under fire in the western Europe battle front. News of the award of the war cross was contained in g message from Elliott Norton. director of the Harjes-Norton Ambulance sections, made public today. MT. Forbes joined the American Red Cross ambulance service a year ago.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
PROPELLER KILLS AVIATOR.

New York, June 19.--William K. Carruthers, Sergeant in the First Aviation Corps of the United States Army and undergoing instruction at the Mineola Field. died yesterday aft ernoon as the result of injuries which he had received by falling against the whirling propeller of an airplane in which he was about to make a flight
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
CUBAN REBELS IN NEW YORK

New York, June 19.-F1ve Cubans said to have been implicated in the recent uprising and who had taken refuge in Hayti reached here today on a Dutch ship in custody of Ameri- can officers.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
TO RDcE1vE RUSSIANS.
State Departments Plans Welcome tr
 Mission From New Republic.

Washington. June 19.-High ohi- cials of the state department formed a reception committee to meet the Russian mission today. The mission Is equipped with full powers of ne- gotiatfon and will act in a capacity similar to the American mission now in Petrograd.
 The mission has kept in touch with the home situation by telegraph wire and cable and will be able to pro- ceed at once to business with this government
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19

It is believed that Robert c. Vance, Yale '1S, son of Mrs. R. J. Vance Of 159 Maple street, Is one of the am bulance contingent mentioned in tho above despatch. He sailed on June 9 from New York.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
DYNAMlTERS SHOOT GUARD
Private Wounded in Fight With Two 
 Prowlers Intent on Blowing Up
 Railroad Tunnel in Montana.

Missoula, Mont, June 119.-Priyate I. E. Haines, guard was shot in the foot last night in a fight with two supposed dynamiters who attemptted to force their way into a railroad tunnel.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-19
GEN. EDWARDS AT NEW HAVEN.

GEN. EDWARDS AT NEW HAVEN.
 Boston. Juno 1s.-Brig. Gen. Ed wards. commander of the department : of the northeast went to New Haven today to assist in the dedication of the new armory of the Yale artillery corps.