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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-19
FOR RENT--Rooms

SEWING MACHINES for rent, or sale; repaired. K D. Mclean, End & Franklin.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
FUNERAL OF MRS. McRAE.
Was Held Yesterday Afternoon From
Home of Her Sister.

Funeral services for Mrs. Kenneth
McRae of Port Arthur, Ont, who passed
away Friday while in Barre for a visit
with her sister, Mrs. George Stewart
were held at the Stewart home, 10 War
rem street, Monday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Rev Edgar Grassland, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, was the
officiating clergyman and those who act
ed as bearers were: James B. Stewart,
George C. Stewart, Alfred Milne, Charles
Leslie and George r. Blacke. Miss Isa-
belle McHardy sang Lead, Kindly
Light" and Abide With Me-" the ac-
compartments being played by Mrs.
James V. Laing
Interment was made in Hope cemetery.
Among those who came from distance
to attend the funeral were Mr.. McRae
and daughter, Jessie, of Port Arthur, and
a brother of the deceased, who recently
to Canada. after having been
wounded while fighting in France.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21

BY LIGHTNING
Barns in West Berlin and
Moretown Destroyed
Last Evening
DAMAGE BY THE
STORM IN BARRE
Trees Blown Down and
Wires Down-Bennett Mill
Twice Ablaze, but Saved

Moretown, Aug. 2l.-Neighbors and
others rallying in the assistance of Bur
ton Ward, who lives on farm two miles
from the village, probably were instru-
mental in saving the set of farm build
ings from destruction last night when
lightning struck a COW barn on the
place. The barn was totally destroyed,
a loss of $4,000 being entailed, but not
before the farmer and his son had re-
leased every head of cattle excepting a
calf from the burning buildings. A small
quantity of hay was consumed and the
barn burned rapidly Near at hand is
the horse barn and other buildings on
the place are not far distant. Much
was done to keep the fire from spread
ing and the most valuable buildings
were saved by dint of hard work. The
farm is occupied by Walter Berno. The
cow barn was large structure of its
kind and considerable outlay of money
will be necessary to replace it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
DEARTH OF DOCTORS AHEAD.
Defense Committee Would Exempt Med.
ical Students from Draft.

New York, Aug. 2l.-That the count "
will be stripped of medical students and
few doctors will be admitted to practice
within the next few years, unless some
plan to exempt them from operations of
the selective draft is promptly arranged
was the substance of statement issued
by Mayor Mitchel's committee of ma
tional defense yesterday.
Reports received by the committee
from about two-thirds of the medical
schools of the country show that of TO-
3s5 students 5000 are subject 20 the
draft and 35 per cent of that number
have already been called
In Cornell university every one of the
50 medical students in the three upper
classes is of draft age, the statement
said. Seventeen have already been called
and l3 others hold serial numbers which
viii take them before local boards within
week. The university authorities be-
lieve the second. draft will take "a more
At New York university and Bellevue
Medical college 81 of the 322 students
subject TO draft are already in the serv-
ice, and additional men are being sun
moned at the rate Of four or five daily.
In the College Of Physicians and 'Sd'
geons pos men are subject TO d.a't
Eighty-one have been called and 40 are
in line for early examination
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
REJECTED MEN HAVE SECOND TEST
Rutland Surgeons Pronounce 10 of Them
Physically Fit.

Rutland, Aug. 2l.--Nineteen men who
were rejected by the surgeons of the To-
cal exemption board during the exam
ination of the first group of 300 men for
the conscript army were recalled for an
other test yesterday and of IA who un.
der went a second examination under
the revised regulations ten were accepted
as physically fit for army service. In the
600 men, the examination of which was
completed Saturday night. the board
found "a physically qualified who did not
make claim for exemption. Their names
have been certified to the attorney gen.
eral. Among them is Mortimer r. Proc
tor, son of the late Gov Fletcher D.
Proctor.
The exemption board has just begun
the work of passing on the claims for
exemption of large number of men
physically fit who are not included in
the list of "a.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
H. c. Comings, Collector of Customs, to
Hear Their Claims for Exemption.

st. Adams, Aug. 2l.--The following
extract from an executive order dated
July 2s relative to the exemption of
employees of the government subject to
military service: .In the case of per-
son in the departmental service stationed
outside the District of Columbia the af-
fidavit of the official having direct su-
pervision of the applicant will be for
warded for approval or disapproval to
the official to be designated by the secre-
tary of the department who has iuris-
diction or control of the area in which
the applicant is stationed at the time un-
less the affidavit is originally made by
such official" Under the provisions of
this order the official designated by the
secretary Of the treasury to act for the
state of Vermont is the Hon. H. G. Com.
ings, collector of customs at st. Adams.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
HIGHER RATES
ON VAR PROFITS
Senate Also Favors Increase of Taxes on
Millionaires' In
rnmes

Washington, Aug. 2l.-Wide- spread
sentiment in the Senate in favor of add
ing to the total of the war tax bill by
imposing higher rates on war profits and
income sur taxes received new impetus
yesterday with the opening of the third
week of debate.
Speeches advocating such increases
were made by Senators johnson of Cali
fornia, Hollis of New Hampshire, and
Jones of New Mexico. To-day Senator
La Toilette is expected to make his ad
dress in favor of levying virtually all
war taxes upon incomes and war profits.
Senator King is preparing substitute
bill providing much higher rates on these
sources.
No action was taken by the Senate
during the day and little progress was
made in the bill After Senator La
Follette's speech, however, it is planned
to proceed with actual consideration of
the income and war profits section. Lead
ers have telegraphed all absentees to be
present to-day though they do not ex-
pect final action on the two principal
disputes before Wednesday, nor passage
of the bill before next week.
In advocating greater federal levies on
war profits and hnllionaires' incomes,
Senator johnson said that American
youth had been conscripted and that
swollen fortunes coined from the blood
of the nation" also should be drafted
He recommended that the government
take so per cent of war proftsas Great
Britain does-and half of millionaires'
incomes.
Senator Hollis, supporting the La Fol.
lette- Gore Thomas minority report of the
finance committee for higher rates on in
comes and profits, also advocated taking
so to 90 per cent of war profits, but
expressed the opinion that the Senate |
could not now be induced to levy more
than so per cent. The present bill is |
designed to assess about 20 per cent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21

plugs on the mill connection and then
sent some of his men TO the scene to in
vestigate the damage. Fire had com
municatcd 10 the roof, but bucket bri-
gade was formed, and the blaze extin-
guished after some of the boarding had
been burned. Employees of II, G. Ben
nett were active in the work of saving
the mill, and their efforts were not with.
out hazard, as piles of sawdust and wet
lumber seemed surcharged with eiectrici.
ty. Some of the workers were momen-
tarily stunned by contact with conduc-
tors OF this kind. Early this morning
A. D. Young, who lives on the Mont
pelier road, discerned flames in the mill
and notified people here in the city. The
fire was quickly extinguished.
Around o'clock in the afternoon,
gave vent to its freakish predi-
lections by invading the home of George
Stone, who lives across the street from
Jones Bros plant. Members of the fam
lily, seated at the table, were stunned
by heavy crash Recovering, they
started to investigate and noted that
bolt of lightning, having entered the
house, had torn up section of flooring
in the second story, smashed dishes in
4 cupboard and brought death to a kit
ten lying on the floor in front of the
kitchen door. The actual damage was
trivial.
The afternoon storm, with its obligato
of hail, had it's way with hill streets
here in Barre, and the damages in some
Instances were not light. At night water
Hooded North Main street, and just
south of Depot square the street was
for time. Barre has seldom
uttered triple bombardment by thun-
Ter and lightning within a period of II
lours.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
GRAND ARMY IN
ITS SHORTEST PARADE
Marched with Brave Steps Through Bos.
ton Streets To-day-Many in
Automobiles.

Boston, Aug 2l.-Several thousand
aged men in blue, survivors of the army
which fought for the union more than
half century ago, marched with brave
step through Boston streets to-day. The
route, passing the State House and City
hall, was the shortest ever selected for
the annual parade of national encamp'
ment or the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. Many veterans rode in automobiles
The parade was reviewed by Governor
Mccall and Mayor Curley.
About 5000 blue-coated, gray.haired
men were in line to-day, as compared
with $4,000 who formed the parade at
the last reunion held in this city.
Boston, Aug 2l.--Thousands of vet.
Grams of the Civil war and their families,
here to attend the 5lst annual encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, were officially welcomed to the city
last night by Governor Mccall and May
or Curley, Other speakers were former
Governor John L. Bates, Commander-in-
Chief w. j. Patterson of Pittsburg and
Department Commander Daniel f. Denny
of Massachusetts,.
The meeting was the second formal
gathering of the encampment yesterday.
The credentials committee of the G. A. r.
met at national headquarters. Encamp-
ment badges were distributed and the
various state delegations settled down
to enjoy themselves or lay plans for the
parade to-day.
A conspicuous figure among the Union
soldiers yesterday was a man in Confed
crate gray-Major Frank NJ. Barrows,
now in the government service at Wash
ington, but formerly of the Culpepper
Minute Men. Major Burrows, hale and
hearty at rs years, was apparently the
,nly Confederate soldier at the encamp-
nent. He expressed the opinion that the
Confederate veterans should hold meet
ng at Boston.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
NEW ROUTE FOR TRAINS.
Rutland Railroad to Use Grand Trunk
Track Into Montreal

Burlington, Aug. 2l.-An important
change in the routing of the Rutland
railroad trains into the city of Montreal
will go into effect October | of the pres.
ent year, according to an announcement
made Sunday from the office of f. T.
Grant, general passenger agent of the
Rutland road The trains, which will
be through" the same as at present,
will go to and fom the Bonaventure
station instead of to and from the Wind
sor station, passing over the Grand
Trunk lines instead of over the Canadian
Pacific compsny's tracks into the Cana
dian city.
Although the tracksge change is Of
considerable Importance in the railroad
circles, it will not affect the travelling
public, other than that the officials figure
a decided improvement will be made in
the maintenance of a dependable sched.
ule into Montreal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
SESSION OF GRAND
JURY Is ORDERED
Speedy Action in Case of Jennie Hem
mingway, Found Murdered Last
Week.

st Albans, Aug 2l.--As the result OF
States Attorney w r. McFeeters' con-
ference yesterday afternoon with Judge
Zed S. Stanton of Roxbllry, who is to be
the presiding Judge at the September
term of the Franklin county court, in re-
gard TO the adyisability Of summoning a
special grand jury, before the opening of
the regular court term, to consider the
case in connection with the death of IA.
year-old Jennie Hemingway, the grand
Jury will be summoned on Aug "a.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
STOLEN LIVERY RIG RECOVERED
Horse and Carriage Hired in Keene Found
at Newfane Inn.

Brattleboro, Aug. 2l.-Sheriff Clifford
+. Mann of this town yesterday identi-
fed carriage which had been at the
Newfane inn, Newfane, since Thursday
as the property Of Liveryman Fred Minis
of Keene. \. H. The rig was driven here
and Mr.. Minis called for it yesterday
afternoon. A man who said be was A.
B. Bancroft of Rutland. drove to the
inn and next morning hired VI. Benson
10 take him by automobile to Brandon.
Al Brandon be hired = car owner to
take him % Burlington At each place
he dodred the owner 0f the hired con.
veyanos Hs vas last heard from At st.
Albans, where be boarded a train.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
FUNERAL AT ST. MoNIcA'S CHURCH
Services for Mrs ]. Edward McNulty
Held This Morning.

Private funeral services were held this
forenoon for Mrs. J. Edward MeNulty Of
Maple avenue, whose death in Waterbury
Saturday forenoon followed long Pc
riod Of declining health. The funeral
took place in St Monicais church, only a
few intimate friends and immediate rels-
tives attending. The parish priest, Rev
p N. McKenna. was the officiating
clergyman. Those who acted as bearers
arc. Michael Kickhan. John GavaEhan
Patrick J. Dunleavey, Z. }. Owens. John
Hartigan and John 5. Muriey Inter
ment was made in the Catholic cemetery
on BecSlcy street.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
FOUR KILLED, TWO INJURED
Three Explosions Occur in Powder Mills
Near Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug 2l-Three explo.
sions occurred yesterday at the King
Mills Powder company's plant at Kings
Minis, o.
Later It was announced that four men
had been killed and two injured. 1t was
also stated that four tons of blasting
powder had let go in one of the small
buildings and the force of this explosion
caused the powder in two other buildings
to explode. II was stated that an inves-
tigation was in progress and that if the
management could not satisfy itself as
to the cause of the explosion it was the
intention to ask the government to con
duct an investigation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
HEADQUARTERS co.
TO REMAIN At FORT
Twenty-Three officers and Thirteen Hun
dred Men to Join the a6th
Division.

Burlington, Aug. 2l.--A swarm of rel
atives of the boys of the lst regiment
of infantry, Vermont National Guard, ar
rived to day at the state reservation to
bid farewell TO the 1900 enlisted men
and % officers of the regiment, who have
been ordered to join the 26th division OF
the United States army. The 26th divi.
sion will be composed OF National Guard
troops, who will probably be recruited
from New England, and it is expected
that they may soon see active service.
The officers who will join the 26th divi.
sion were selected yesterday, but the
enlisted men have not been chosen, al
though their names will probably be an
nounced to-day. Although the point
where the 26th army division will mo-
bilize has not been given out, it is un.
derstood that it is Hampton Plains,
Westfield, Mass.
The transfer OF 1900 men and 90 Off
GERS will leave the Vermont regiment
with nucleus of 80 officers and 700
men, including the Headquarters COM
pany, on which TO start recruiting for a
regiment, which under the new war
strength viii require 5000 men.
The Yermonters, it is understood, will
be placed in the ammunition train and
gun sections of the new army
division. Major Jerold M. Ashley of this
city viii be the ranking officer of the am
munition train, to which have been as
signed Captains Charles Z. Pell of ST.
Adams, II. NJ Howe of Northfeld, Rich
ard T. Corey of Newport, John L. Shan
ley of Winooski and William n. Hudson
Of this city. The other officers who have
been ordered to join the new army di
vision are: First Lientenants Joseph A.
Evarts, Chester G. Thomas, q. A. Mel
son, c. L. Malaney, II. j. Homeister, G.
J. LePsge, Roy d. Miner, and Second
Lieutenants j. B. Wood, w. NJ. Tenney,
T. J. Brickley, w. H. Morrill,, A. S. Mac
Donald. E. H. Newton, G. A. Pellett, E. |
Lang, A. H. Catozzi.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
VILLAGE DESTROYED.
confagration in New Hampshire Started
By Electric Storm.

Wolfeboro, n. H., Aug. 2l.-Lightning
caused confagration which practically
wiped out the village Of Snowville, about
Is miles northeast of this town, last
| night and this morning. The loss is be.
lieved to be about 100000. Communica,
tion was cut off, and only the barest
details of the catastrophe COULD be OBJ.
tanned up to an early hour this morn
ing.
An electrical storm of unusual severity
broke over the region about Snowville
and North Conway about ii o'clock.
Lightning struck several buildings in
Snowville, starting fires which not only
destroyed those structures, but spread
to neighboring ones, until almost the
whole village was ablaze.
Among the buildings struck were the
town hall and the residence of Everett
White, both of which were burned to
the ground The fire also reached lum-
Der which was piled near some of the
burning buildings, destroying consider
able quantity.
BY | O'Clock this morning it was
learned that the fire was under con-
troll. Torrential rains which followed
the lightning aided materially in ex-
tinguishing the flames. Help was sum
moned from North Conway in the early
stages of the fire. but due to the almost
impossible condition of the roads, it did
not arrive in time to do any good.
Several isolated cases of farm build
ings being struck by lightning and
burned were reported, but none of them
could be verified owing to the impossi
bility of getting telephone connections.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
paralxsis Victim in claremont.

Clsremont. \. H. Aug 2l.-The first
death resulting from iufsntile paralysis
occurred when Charles G. Young, a clerk
at the sullivan Machinery shop passed
away after q few days illness at the
Rowell home on Oak street. Mr.. Young
has been a resident here for the past
three months. coming from North Pom
fret. Vt His frequent visits 10 his home
IN Vermont are believed 10 Be the source
from which he contracted the disease.
His body was taken 30 bis home in Pom
fret for burial in the Hswittville Gene
fsrv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
THUNDER STORMS DO
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
Shade Trees Blown Down, Damaging the
Lighting and Telephone Wires
Bennett Mill Set Afire.

Two periods of violent thunder anc
sharp lightning, accompanied by torren.
tial rains, came at the close of day yes.
terday, and while the storms seemed CEN
tral over Barre, the damage done by
lightning, wind and hail was not confined
to these environs alone, as was indi,
Gated by reports which came in from
outlying towns last night and this fore
noon. A storm lacking none of the vio-
lence which marked the disastrous show
er of the morning, when buildings on
Thomas street owned by Mrs. Josephine
Robertson We're struck by lightning and
destroyed, visited Barre late in the after
noon, only to be succeeded by more
furious downpour between and
o'clock in the evening.
Storms to the south and east of the
city seemed to effect a junction in the
afternoon, and the fury of hail shower
spent its energies on Barre for nearly
a half hour Lightning, however, got in
its most mischievous work in the even
ing, when the electrical display was ac-
centuated by sharper peals of thunder.
Power and lighting lines of the NJ. & B.
and the lightning wrought havoc with
the service of the Vermont Tel. & Tel.
Co. In neither instance was the damage
paralyzing, and most of the breakdowns
had been repaired this forenoon.
The wind was responsible for much
of the trouble encountered by the light
ing company. At the corner of Maple
avenue and Summer streets, tree fell
across the street, carrying with it cross
lines of the telephone and lighting com
panies alike. Still cunning for shade
trees, the wind bowled over a somewhat
towering maple in front of the Sacred
Heart convent on Summer street. Wires
came down with the foliage and the blow
in that locality, with Others, plunged
the city in darkness. Manager C. F. Mil |
lar of the lighting company had a gang
Of linemen ready to repair the damage, |
and they worked busily until $50 o'clock |
this morning, only to return to the task |
at dsybreak. On upper Washington
street lighting wire fell across the
trolley wire, bringing both within easy
reach from the ground. Naturally the
langer TO pedestrians picking their way
home in a darkness relieved only by
binding flashes Of lightning was very
acute, but no cases Of eleetrocution were
reported. This morning the lighting
companies officials were grstihed TO learn
hat their power wires were intact and
he rsvages of the storm, therefore, did
not enforce idleness upon hundreds of
granite workers in the sheds to-day.
on the telephone lines were
lue in some instances to the burning
nat of fuses and were quickly repaired
Down on the Montpelier road. light
ling appears to have entered the Ben
lett saw-mill on the wires. Supt- Riley
burgess Of Jones Bros plant saw fire
vorking its vsy through the mill and L
.otifed Manager Millar, who pulled the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
TRYING
TO REACH TRIEST
Battle on Italian Front is Characterized
as Most Bitter By the
Austrians.

London, Aug 2l.--A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from Co
penhagen says that according to reports
received from Austria the battle now
raging on the Isonzo front of the Aus
tro- Italian theatre is characterized as the
most violent ever fought there. The ad-
vices add that it is believed by the Aus
trians and Germans the Italians are
making an attempt to break through to
Triest>
A colossal number of new guns have
been brought into the fight for which
the Italians had been preparing for
weeks. Sunday Italian aviators dropped
proclamations over the Austrian lines
saying that the bombardment would be
continued for many hours.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
NEW CASE AT WATERBURY
Ford Shattuck, 10 Years Old, Has Severe
Case of Poliomyelitis.

Waterbury. Aug. 2l-Ford Shattuek,
the lSyesr-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
E. Shattuck, who is manager of the old
Henry farm. has severe case of polio
myelitis. The family live about one-hslf
mile outside the village limits, where
they were visited yesterday by DR. Tay-
lor Of Burlington and DR.. Amoss Of New
York, who pronounced il q severe case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
RUSSIANS IN RESISTANCE
Offer Stubborn Front on Russian Ruma.
nian Line.

Petrograd, via London, Aug. 2l-The
Austro-German forces are making vigor-
GUS attacks on the southern Rumsnian
front. The war Office announcement TO-
day says that stubborn resistance is be-
ing offered by the Russians and Rums.
mans, who, however, were forced back at
several points. On the Caucasian front,
where the Russians recently took the Of
fensive, further large advance has been
made, series Of villages being captured.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-21
SIX KILLED ON
CONN. r. r. CROSSING
Nine -Year-Old Girl Only Survivor of Au-
tomobile Party Struck By
Locomotive.

Saybrook Junction, Conn, Aug. 2l.-
Louise w. Weyel of New Haven, nine
years old, is the only survivor of seven
persons who were in an automobile
struck by an engine on the railroad cross
ing here at midnight. She is in hospital
in New London. The dead, all of New
Haven, were Robert n. Rohloff and Gus
tave weyel, his wife and three chill
dren.