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Milford chronicle., 1919-04-11
PLOWED TUB MILL ROAD

Levy Courtman Woodruff has had
the State road leading from Milford
to Frederica plowed from the negro
cemetery north to the Tub Mill The
last Of this work was done Friday of
last week, following which the heavy
rains made the roads impossible. The
farmers residing along that road were
kept busy Saturday ana Sunday pull
ing automobiles out of the mire.
Milford chronicle., 1919-04-11
KINGS DAUGHTERS MEETING

The Faithful Circle of Kings Daugh-
ters of Milford will hold special
meeting Wednesday evening, April 16,
at the residence of Miss May Foulk,
on North Street, at Z p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1919-04-11

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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

will drop it. Will you give it?
Yes or no?"
Mr.. Sage read the letter, and,
handing it back to Norcross, said
that he had a gentleman waiting
for him in his private office and
that in d few minutes he would be
able to give the matter his attention.
Norcross, however, intimatcd that
his business was Of an urgent ma
ture, and said:
Then you decline my PROPOSE
ton? Will you give it to me? Yes
or no?"
Sage said that he must have two
or three minutes in which to get
rid Of the waiting gentleman, and
just at this point in the controversy
William r. Laidlaw, an employe Of
Bloodgood g. Co., who had just
called in connection with some
brokerage business, entered the Of
flee. Seeing Sage and Norcross in
intimate conversation, he turned to
wait in an anteroom until Sage
should be disengagcd. But Mr.. Sage,
according to the late Joseph H.
Choate, developed sudden ahFec-
tion for tho same William r. Laid
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

law, and, without addressing him,
took him by the left hand and then
with both hands, as if to shake
hands with him, but lmperceptibly
he drew Laidlaw around between
him and Norcrcss.
As he did this, he said to Nor
cross: If you cannot trust NE, how
can you expect me to trust you?"
A terrible explosion followed. Nor
cross was instantly killed. Laidlaw
was thrown to the floor on top Of.
Russell Sage Laidaw was very
badly injured Sage also was in
jured. The Offices at II Broadway
were ruined.
William r. Laidlaw sued Russell
Sage for damages to the extent of
$43, 104.25 for the injuries which he
claimed were due to Mr.. Sage's use
of him as a shield. The case was
tried four times. The trial was
prosecuted for Laidlaw by the late
Joseph II. Choate, whose cross-ex-
animation of Russell Sage is famous.
This cross-cxamnation, which is
thoroughly analysed in Francis l..
Wellman's fascinating book. "The
Art Of Cross Examination" finally
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

when the city was filled with unoc-
cupled men and women, but the day
was generally quiet, merely bearing
a suspicion Of the storm that was
going to break on the following
evening. In the afternoon several
thousand lumber showers and other
strikers assembled in a spot on the
outskirts of the city called the
prairie, where mass meeting was
addressed by Socialist orators. Their
invocations to-day have the sound
OF bromide. Verify there is nothing
new under the sun, even Socialist
oratory.
Quit the Knights Of Labor" one
with silver tongue harangued per
suasively. "They will never do you
any good. Anarchy is the only way
for the workingmen to break the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Dynar1iter Who Tried to Blow Up Russell SAGE

T% He case Of the unidentified
man who blew himself to
n pieces in an attempt to
destroy A. Mitchell Pal
mer, the Attorney General of the
United States, recalls the case Of
Henry W. Norcross, who also de-
stroyed himself in an attempt to
kill Russell Sage in 1891.
On the fourth Of December. 1891.
Henry w. Norcrosa, a stranger to
MIR. Sage, came to Russell Sages
New York Office and sent in a mes
sage that he must see the financier
on important business He stated
that he had letter from John D.
Rockefeller, which introduced him
10 Mr.. Sage. Mr.. Sage left his pri-
vate office, and when he had gone
into the outer offices of his estab-
lishment to meet Norcross the lat
ter handed him a letter, which
said:
This carpet bag I hold in my
hand contains ten pounds Of dyna-
mite, and if ! drop this bag on tho
hoor 1t will destroy this building in
ruins and kill every human boinx
In II. demand 9i.2oo.o0o or I
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

for better hours and higher pay. In
1886, just as much as to-day, there
was an ignorant foreign element in
America that spoke for the better
part brokenly and distortedly the
language of the nation it had adopt
ed. Exactly as at present, a num-
her of illogical enthusiasts, obsessed
with radical ideals, were mingled
with the foreign population, edify-
ing it with lectures and inAamma-
tory conversation. The strike of
Chicago labor was an occasion which
they were only too ready to seize to
besmirch the labor unions with
dangerously farcical call to arms, to
rush in unlimited and generally un-
wanted as impromptu William Tells
Ct right and freedom"
They began to rush on May 3,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

lost Laidlaw his case. Mr.. Choate
examined Sage minutciy with
view to showing that Sage was
not badly injured, although he
claimed that he had received forty
seven wounds, and that be was not
injured because Laidlaw was used
as a go-betwcen. NJ Choata pro
duced much amusement for the
courtroom. He harped upon Mr..
Sage's well known efforts at pre-
serving his money by buying as lit
tie as possible as cheaply as possi-
ble.' For instance:
Mr.. Choate: "Were your glasses
hurt by that explosion which i'll
tlicted forty-seven wounds on your
chest?'
Mr.. Sage: 81 do not umem-
ber.'
Mr.. Choate: "You certainly
would remember if you had to buy
new pair"
Wellman says: 'If the witness
answered this question, his answer
was lost in the laughter which the
court officer could not instantly
check"
Mr.. Choate had the jury examine
the clothes which Sage brought
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

first speaker, and radical editor Of a
''Zeitung," did not earn any partic-
uIar need of enthusiasm. A. r.
Parsons, an equal enthusiast for the
new emancipation, Jared only a
little better.
Then it was the turn of Sam
Fielding. For infammatory utter
ance and ibellous diction he was
easily the winner. He called on the
blind goddess of Revolution; he
called on his companions to arm and
assert their rights. He called SO
loud that officers of the waiting
squad of police decided it was time
To call halt to the procedure. Re-
serves reinforced those already on
cuty until some two hundred police
men advanced into the crowd.
The Challenge
In the name of the State Of Ill
nois, I order you to dispersei"
shouted the officer in charge.
For answer sputtering arc Of
light cut the darkness Of the square,
followed by a violent detonation.
Some one had thrown the much
talkedof bomb, thrown it with
tiendish accuracy. 1t landed be-
tween the first and second ranks Of
the bluecoats. 1t left twenty-niae
mangled officers on the ground.
To tie eternal credit of the Chi
cago police force, the men. after
suffering casualties which might
easily have shaken a company of in
fantry. held their ground. drew
their revolvers and fred into the
dark mass Of agitators in front of
them. TIE latter quickly proved
that F.elding's exhortation for then.
to arm themselves was quite unnec-
essary. They returned the fire
orlskly and with effect, and then the
police charged. Clubbing their
empty revolvers or using their
nightstlcks, they drove straight for.
ward. Their compact mass took eff.
feet Those who resisted droprsc
beneath their blows and the crow.
broke. leaving their wounded in tn.
deserted square.
The Haymarket riot was over
Two dead policemen and fcrtl
wounded attested the benehcent ru;,
OF UtopiT and law and order stil
remained CT top il Chicago.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

the strikers at the employees, and
suddenly the mob surged forward.
The Mccormick men retreated into
the factory yard under a hail of
missiles and succeeded in closing the
gates. The mob diverted itself by
beating one Mccormick straggler
almost to death until patrol wagons
arrived, when the crowd turned on
the police. The locust clubs fell
heavily and the strikers fell back,
finally dispensing. Thus the day
closed on May 8 with merely a
minor disturbance and few bro
midic words by an impromptu
leader.
But the next NIGHT IN editor at a
New York telegraph desk was
stirred sufficiently to write the fol
lowing headline:
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to court to show that they were
badly torn from the effects of the
explosion. He was uncertain as to
whether the holes in the coat and
trousers We're due to moths or dyna-
mite. On the pretext of examining
Mr.. Sage's memory, Mr.. Choate
demonstrated the number Of COM
panies which Mr.. Sage owned and
the number of which he was d di-
rector, IN order that the jury might
see that he was a very rich man.
He brought out that Mr.. Sage owned
twenty-seven companies, and Mr..
Sage S lawyers could not object, be-
cause Mr.. Choate vigorously main
tained that he was testing the ex-
tent Of Mr.. Sage's injuries by trying
out his memory.
Mr.. Choate: "You then held
some Missouri Pacific collateral
trust bonds?"
NJ. Sage: YES"
"How many?"
"Cannot say"
Cant you tell within a limit
of ten to one thousand?"
"No."
mo, within one hundred to two
hundrdd?"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

with various managers to appear N
vaudeville in Paris and elsewhere On
the Continent Bit there was on.
thing she hadn't counted on. and that
was falling IN love, which sometimes
dlsarranges the best laid plans It
disarranged hers Miss Janis sudden
ly found herself deeply enanrored
Of the whole american army, and she
proved as faithful and true a sweet
heart as any army could ask Her
managers sought her out in Paris
whenever she happened TO go Up and
wanted to know, What about your
contracts with u.s."
"My contracts with you" said Miss
Janis, "are dated from the day my
last bean is gone and not before"
That day came all too soon. and
saw Miss Janis up in London max
ing arrangements for part-time ap-
| pearances, so that she could con-
tinue with the army entertainment
After about four months in London
she found she had earned sufficient
to carry her through while longer
So she took the first boat back to
France.
Miss Janis's mother was with her
throughout the entire trip. We've
never been separated a day in cur
lives, you know" she smiled. Mother
wasn't bored single bit. When she
wasn't looking after Elsie and pro.
tecting her from adoring admirers
she was mothering sick and wounded
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
NO"
SIS 1t because you have too lit.
tie memory or too many bonds?"

tie memory or too many bonds?"
The Court of Appeals finally re-
versed judgment which Laidlaw
received for $4,000, on the ground
that the examination was an
abuse OF cross-examination into
which, through their zeal, even emf
nent counsel are sometimes led"
An interesting point in the mat
ter of Russell Sage's reaction to
the explosion:
Mr.. Choate: Were you not
very excited?"
Mr.. Sage: Il was thoughtful.
was self-poised. I did not believe
his dynamite would do much dam
age, or that he would sacrifice
himself"
Mr.. Choate: "Never heard of q
man killing himself?"
Mr.. Sage: Not in that wav."
We have another proof that mer
do kill themselves in that wav ir
the case of the plot against the life
OF A. Mitchell Palmer. although
nothing to prove that, in the present
instance, the killing was not shee,
accident.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

tangle of ten-cent lodging houses
and cheap drinking places in the
middle of a thickly populated dis
trict made up principally Of Boheri-
ans, Germans and Poles. On the
night of May energetic Socialists
determined to hold a mass meeting
in this rather unprepossessing
neighborhood.
1t did not bear the earmarks of a
very interesting evening. The police,
warned probably by the previous
day, we're expecting trouble, and a
couple Of patrol wagons stood invit-
ingly near the empty cart which
the leaders were planning to use as
pulpit of freedom. The crowd was
quiet and orderly and drifted about
the square almost listlessly. The
burning words Of August Spies, the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
soldiers IN the hospitals and rest

soldiers IN the hospitals and rest
camps.
Now that so many Of fer A. E. r.
friends are hack in New York Miss
Janis thinks It would he an oppor-
tune time 20 have g. grand reun,nn.
She IS planning to send ont cards
for an @at home" at the Hippo
drome some Sunday night very soon,
perhaps next week The cards will
read something ike this: ~Elze's
on the job again Please re port Sun
day night-Hippodrome. Full equip
ment"
1T viii he wonderful TO get EN-
all IN a bunch and hear EN- sing
again." she sighed "If you'd ever
heard them; six or seven hundred
strong, you'd never forget it in YOUR
whole life,'
Miss Janis is tired But she is
Of the opinion that's merelyra a tenn
porary mental depression After
months and months of playing under
the most highly stimulating coadi-
tions, to homcsick, wiIling-to-he-
amused doughboys, playing 10 blaze
Broadway, she thinks, is something
Of an anti-climax.
What are you going to DO now"
we asked.
She snuggled more comfortably
into the pillows on the divan and
grinned.
"Nothin'."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
By John Marquard

T SOME of our exuitant revo-
z lutionists who see the crude
solecisms of present society
crumbling into chaos and ready
to give way to new Utopia indulge
their memories in a sufficient num-
Der Of backward revolutions they
may come to the conclusion that the
Modern Era Of Bombing isn't such
q glorious era, after all.
They don't have to go back any
further than May 4, 1885, to find
there is nothing new under the sun,
even bloody anarchy directed and
led by foreign-born zealots. 1t was
another generation Of broad-minded
liberals who made the Haymarket in
Chicago run with the blood Of inno-
cent men.
They were made Of sterner stuff
then and threw their bombs by
hand, instead Of sending them by
mail. Their methods were refresh
'asly open. They stood up and
lo0ght the police, and, incidentally,
caused more damage in loss Of life
than any Of the latter-day theorists.
But one distressing fact remains
or reassurng, II you don't happen
- A L revolutionist) The CHICAGO
Fl,t dd not get anywhere. It failed
" reach first base" just as com
p.ele!y al the Seattle Soviet. II ia
hard to draw anything except one
eonclueion, namely, that the bearers
Z" me flaming monochrome banner
VIA nave N do lot better than thev
ere doing II they are going to start
theoretical millennium On any
piece of ground that flies the Amer.
scan flag.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
elsie Janis, Idol of the A. E. F., Is Home Again

which ought to prove lively enough
reading. This much, however, she
tells without hesitation:
at was the happiest time of my
Life, and I wouldn't have taken five
million dollars for it. I am as glad
as anybody that the war is over, but
I'm sorry my part couldn't have
lasted longer. It was a good war
every fellow I know who
was in it says that. It's only the
people who vocalized about it who
called it horrible" She hesitated.
But if it aoas horrible, it was won-
derfully horrible"
However, if size wouldn't talk of
the horrors, there were other things
the decoration pinned to her
blouse, for instance, which she dis
played proudly. "They used to cali
me captain" she said, "but now I'm
a Lieutenant general" The insignia,
consisting Of three silver stars and
the silver decoration Of the flying
squadron, had been presented to her
the night before by members of the
Oath Aero Squadron at the Aero
Club dinner, at which Miss Janis
and her mother, the only women
present, were the guests Of honor.
1t seems she was sort Of godmother
to the cath, having arrived at Toul
the same day as the famous SQUAD
ron. Lieutenant General Janis is
now it's honorary commanding off,
Ger.
Miss Janis gave no interviews,
there were no official stories about
her and, so far as she knows, no
pictures sent home during her year
and three months on the other side.
But stories have come to our ears,
ess-though quite unmys-
teriously-and no official sanction
was needed to brand them as true:
they carried their own conviction.
More than that, Miss Janis denies
none Of them. There is one that
everybody heard-about how she
came riding into an improvised
theatre IN a railway repair shop on
the cowcatcher of a locomotive.
That's about what happened, the
principal participant in the esca-
pade admits. And she did give a
private show for General Pershing
at headquarters at Chaumont: she
did go broke while she was in
England and had to play for
few months to paying audiences in
order to continue to entertain the
audiences that couldn't pay. Also, it
is true that she is the only woman to
have been given the white pass, is
sued by the British High Command,
permitting her to enter the front
line zone. That was arranged by
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
DYNAMITE AND BLOOD
Wholesale Murder in the
Streets of Chicago
POLICEMEN SLAUGHTERED
Anarchist Savages Hurl Bombs
Into Their Ranks

Chicago had met it's first expert
ence of practical anarchy. The city
and the country stood stunned at
the sudden outbreak Of brutality
and violence.
1t happened at the old Haymarket
in the city, and hence the name of
the Hayznarket riot. Leading off
this area, capable Of holding fifteen
or twenty thousand persons, was a
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Bv Christine A. Valleau

THERE'S only one person, SO
far as we know. who doesn't
b. think Elsie Janis is a hero
iae. and that's Elsie herself.
She eot so much fun out of her sew
er.sen months active service with
The 4. T. T. that the whole advent
tire. TO her, seems not particularly
heroic. "Nhat is there" she wants
to know, IN singing few songs
and doing an occasional hand
spring.
And if you didn't happen to know
.ha. Miss Janis had been taking
pretty close chances with shelfre,
that her spirit and energy had done
more than anything else to sustain
what they call army morale" you
wouldn't be able to prove anything
at all about her bravery. For that
is one thing she refuses to talk about
her contact with danger. But, of
course, you do know, for you've
heard about her from every dough-
boy you ever talked to; and the uni
versal Judgment that she's "a dead
game sport is the last word. Her
opinion doesn't matter.
1t only matters that she's home
again and that New York has
grasped her hand in prideful, eager
welcome and has given her three
rousing cheers. So many celebra-
tions were being given in her honor
last week that she came into the
city for few days from her home
in Phillips Manor to be able to at
tend them more conveniently. We
sought her out at the Algonquin
Hotel, where she was staying with
her mother.
She hasn't changed bit. The
small, vivid face, bright eyes-per-
haps brighter than ever-the quick
srile-who could forget them? She
was curling her hair and apologized
while she finished the JOB, explaining
that she was to be Mr.. Dillingham; 5
guest at the Globe Theatre that
evening, where General Organ was
to speak. Then she settled herself
comfortably on the divan.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Hip-P ocL,et Bom bs

Results proved that the crowd
was not critical. They did not even
debate whether a bomb in the hip
pocket was more useful as weapon
or as a ticket ITO the next world.
Turbulent, excited by that illogical
and contagious thing that psycholo-
gists call mob spirit, they started of
for the Mccormick Reaper Works,
about half a mile away, where a
number of non-strikers were work.
ing: Vile epithets were flung by
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
I There's q Book Coming

Miss Janis has colorful story to
pour forth, and that is what we
wanted much to listen to; but it is to
be reserved. it seems, for future tell
ing, few months hence, when the
comedienne makes her debut as an
author. In other words, she is writ
ing a book about her experiences,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

A estn1inster County court
"A before Judge Lush recently,
an action to recover Sc l5s
for fried eggs supplied at breakfast
was brought by Faulkner's Hotels
against Frederick Thorold Dickson.
The defendant set up a counter claim
for not receiving proper notice to
leave, says "The London Times"
Mr.. Sharp, for the plaintiffs, said
that the defendant was a barrister
who had been employed in a govern
ment department, and had stayed at
Faulkner's Hotel in Villiers Street,
Charing Cross, from May 27 last
year as a daily guest until January
II. There were two tariffs-one
at 5s Cd. for bed and plain break
fast, and the other at IS for bed and
breakfast on anything one liked. The
defendant took the 5s Sd tariff.
While the manager was absent
through illness for six weeks a
waiter for some reason put fried
egg each morning before defendant,
who ate it without question. When
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

chains of slavery in which they are
bound by the capitalists. With re-
volver in one hand and your knife
in the other and bombs in your
pockets, march on to revolution and
freedom."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Law and Eggs

the manager returned the defendant
was asked to pay a reasonable sum
for all the eggs he had eaten, and he
refused Correspondence followed in
which the defendant wrote, Regard
ing the conversation about the egg
wish to settle in q reasonable man.
ner. / did not order it, but it was
welcome to me because I work Iong
hours every day in & government
office" (Laughter.) He also wrote
Re fried egg. Please inform your
employers that I regard the sum 8
outrageous. ! did not order the egg.
and am under no legal obligation
to pay"
Judge Lush said that the supply
ing of the egg went on for a con-
siderable time before the defendant
was spoken to, and he might there
fore have considered he was justified
In accepting it as part of the meal.
The defendant, on the other hand.
could not succeed in his counter
claim, and therefore both claim and
counter claim would be dismissed.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
A Regular Strike

" all started the way Socialist
"'unie always ntarts----with "a ner-
ises'g legal, sincere and probably
sss'nmsss strike Of organizsd labor
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

only one person, SO
3 far as we know. who doesn't
b. think Elsie Janis is a hero
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-04
EAST BROOKFIELD

NJ S. Wheatley was in Barre and
Montpelier last Tuesday on business.
Marjorie Poor, Irene Davis and Anita
Dutton, students of Goddard seminary,
are at their homes for a weeks vacation.
9. X. Sprague was in Barre on bust
ness last Tuesday.
Miss Eva Grout is working for Mrs,
g. X, Sprague.
George Panton was in Randolph
Wednesday on business.
Lewis Haywood is to work for Henry
Hyde the coming season, and moved his
family TO the Hyde tenement April /,
Robert Trask commenced work last
Tuesday for +. f. Richardson.
Eben Lewis has sold his farm, stock
and tools to Walter Carpenter, who has
rented the farm for the past year. All
are glad that Mr.. Carpenter is to remain
in the neighborhood.
The sugar social last Saturday even
ing was not very largely attended, but
those present enjoyed a fine program,
especially the talk by Prof. Badger of
the Brookfed high school and the music
by Rev Place and daughter of East Ran
doIph
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Mudgett last Wednesday. Mrs. 7. w,
Martin is caring for mother and son.