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The St. Mary banner., 1920-07-03

~0HtlCSANDS VI
II ,eps had gathered in the
streets Of Philadelphia where
congress was assembled, for
In was known that the final
n vote on the Declaration OF
ludependence would be taken
ay. Since the hour of the as
~ Of congress the old bellman
N Liberty Bell in independence
lind been In the steeple. He had
\ bis little grandson at the door
IN him the word when the an
uesent should be made. AS hour
hour passed by and no announce
Il ume the old man shook his head
MD sadly, "They will never do
tienly q shout came up from be-
md there stood the little blue
Id clapping his hands for joy
houting, "Ring, grandfather,
M Old grandsire swung the big
hcpe and the Liberty Bell,
tng 100 times, sent its braZen
throughout the land proclaiming
be United Colonies were and Of
uught to be free and inedepend-
iad there was q tumult Of re-
N ln the city.
Mh effect Is the first Fourth of
Y y many an American schoolboy
IN taught It. It reads well and
ID Z thrill In 1t. But 1t has one
pfsult-it isn't true. AS a matter
q there wasn't any real Fourth
~ Celebration" at all In 1776.
couldn't be, for the reason that
Ncaration Of Independence was
unuing operation that lasted
much the whole summer Of
"a. Incidentally, its culmina-
w July 2, instead of July q.
va, It was not until 1777 that
sxas fixed upon as "the day we
And 1t was in 1777 In
paia that the first Fourth of
asbnuon was held.
= the history of the Declara-
! dependence straight, we must
la the fact that the American
m vas not begun for the
Int Of independence. The
/. coionists began with the idea
| me right guaranteed them
Y sanen by Magma Charta, the
nsnts, and their own charters.
VI separation and independ-
= ~ afterthought and an out
= me hostilities faced by the
z Lexington and Concord.
!. s,aoric !. declaration of the citi-
q. aecalenburg county, North
y May, IT'S, was one of the
aaaiiestations of the trend of
ynlon. In January of 177e,
alne's pamphlet Common
.ppeared and gave the move
u snendous impetus. June Z,
uard Henry Lee, under in.
~. nom Virginia, presented to
'ai congress his famous
which reads:
anat these United Colo
Sfsa 80 Of right ought to be. free
~ s00ent 4 states; that they are
llOm all allegiance to the
~ 0sn, and that all political
between them and the
s,,a Sleat Britain is and ought
a''y dissolved;
~ - expedient forthwith TO
s 49,. s enectual measures for
pan Of confederation he
49,. - Transmitted to the res
~ me ules for their considera-
- was the Declaration
- In a nutshell. June
ssat unto a committee of
- lder the resolution. For
the Delegates
The St. Mary banner., 1920-07-03
Common sense is none too common.

INDIGESTION produces disagreeable and
sometimes alarming symptoms. Wright 8
Indian Vegetable Pills stimulate the diges-
tive processes to function naturally.-Adv.
The St. Mary banner., 1920-07-03

The worlds standard remedy for these
disorders, will often ward off these dis
ssses and strengthen the body against
a.r.her attacks. Three sizes, all druggisss-
E>ok for the name Gold Medal on every bon
and accept no imitation
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
VOMAN IN AUTOMOBILE
PARTY VAS SHOT
Mrs. Maude Moss, Wife of Capt. Leroy
H. Moss of Camp Grant, the Vic
tim-Shooting Took Place
as Machine Passed
Group of Sol
diers.

Rockport, ILL.,, June l6.--Five sol
'diers OF Camp Grant, near here, were
sought in connection with the shoot
ing to death early to-day of Mrs.
Maude Lucille Moss. wife of Captain
Leroy II. Moss, camp utilities officer.
Some of the men were believed TO
have been surrounded.
Captain Moss and his wife and four
friends were on an automobile ride
when the shooting took place. "A the
machine was passing a small group Of
soldiers a sharp report was heard, but
the motorists supposed it was due to
the mistitting of the motor Some dis
tance further on the machine struck a
rough spot in the road and Mrs. Moss,
who had been asleep in the back seat,
wedged between Mr.. aud Mrs. William
V. McCreight, slumped forward and il
only when her friends. believing her
still asleep. sought to assist her that
y was discovered she had been wound
ed. She died short time after reach
ing the base hospital at the camp.
A roll call of every unit was imme-
diatelv ordered and search begun for
the men unaccounted for. Captain
Moss said he believed the shooting was
accidental
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
EXPECT TO STRIKE MONDAY
At the General Electric Co. Plant al
Lynn, Mass.

Lynn, Mass, June l6.-The plant OF
the General Electric company here will
close tonight until next Monday. OF.
fcials said that the fact that Saturday
will be the employees annual field day
and that tomorrow is a state holiday
led TO the decision.
Labor leaders said to-day that pres.
ent indications pointed to a strike OF
various unions at the plant on Monday
The several craft unions have been
voting on the question of a walk out
20 enforce demands, and an affirmative
action has been taken in a number Of
cases, although no date has been an.
nounced.
General Manager r. II. Rice. in re-
plying to the demands as presented by
Q union committee yesterday, refused
20 consider a revision of the wage
scale at this time; refused TO abolish OF
modify a timing system to which some
Of the workers have objected; refused
reinstatement without loss Of bonus
or privileges Of winders who struck in
protest against the system. although
allowing them to apply for work a.
new employees: and 10 a demand for a
Joint committee Of three representa-
fives each Of employees and Of the com
pany. said a committee of four on each
eide was acceptable TO the company.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
Fourteen Buildings Were
Burned and. Total Loss
Is 100000
AID SUMMONED
FROM OTHER PLACES
The Fire, Which Was the
Worst in City's History,
Ragged Three Hours

Rockland, Me-, June l6.-Fourteen
buildings, including a garage that CON
tanned 200 automobiles We're destroyed
early to-day by fire in the business
district that caused loss estimated at
S600,000 Four families were made
homeless and eleven firms lost their
business places.
The buildings destroyed were the
Willoughby block, valued at $4,000;
Central garage, 100000; Berry block,
S35, 900, and Glover block, $4,000, and
on Main street, and 10 frame buildings
valued at $4,000. The loss of the au
tomobiles, many of which were tour
lists ears, that had been stored over
night. is estimated at S250,000, and
that to business concerns at $ll5,-
900.
The fire, which was the worst in the
history of the city, lasted for three
hours and was not controlled until as
sistance had been given by firemen
from Thomaston, Camden and Rock
port. No one was injured although sev.
eral persons narrowly escaped being
struck by falling walls.
The fire started in the garage and
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings
and then to the street on which the
frame buildings were located.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
PUBLIC, l,ooo-LEGGED BUG
Declared Judge Wendell Phillips Stat
ford TO Boston University Seniors.

Boston, june l6-P President l.enuel
II. Murlin conferred 40s degrees IN tie
various departments OF Boston unlyer
sity at commencement to,day In Inc
with the university's policy Of half a
century. no honorary degrees were
awarded
In an grafton on Liberty and Law,
Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford OF
the supreme court OF appeals OF the
District Of Columbia considered the
danger to a democracy of control by a
minority better organized than the
majority. The public at present. he
said. il very much like the clumsy
thousand legged hug. while the union
or trust Is very much like the agile
flea. One is organized. the other Is not.
He urged that the situation demands
strong. fearless and clear headed men.
who will be called when the crisis be
comes acute enough.
"Thc right Of the individual ends
where the right Of the community be
gins" he continued. ~But who Is TO de
eide where one ends and the other be
gins! The individual or the communi-
tyf A money trust or the community J
A labor trust OF the community The
questions would seem 20 answer them
selves Yet Mr.. GomPers says that the
community cannot decide that question
or. II il docs. he aud his followers viii
overrule the decision ii II goes against
them. The truth i. We find ourselves
again ~ one ~ those tight places
where somebody has got to give mp;
where = new adjustment must be made
between liberty ard the law All J can
say now that adjustment must be
made IN the interest Of the whole pco-
pie and rhoi Il any individual uT any
class. and the people Themselves must
decide. That. 7 believe. is the 4 y & of
the labor question.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16

Byron N. Pettibone of Ben
nington Alleged to Have
Confessed Killing Wife
PUT UNDER ARREST
AFTER LONG GRILLING
Mrs. Eva Pettibone Died
on the Night of April 6
and Poison Was Found

Bennington, June l6.-Byron N
Pettibone was charged to-day with the
murder of his wife, Mrs. Eva Fart
Pettibone, by poisoning on the night
OF April g. His formal arrest fol
lowed long interrogation in the
course OF which, States Attorney Col.
lins NJ Graves said, Pettibone admit
ted having placed poison in dose OF
salts which he gave to his wife.
Pettibone, an undertaker's assistant
33 years of age, recently bought a
house, and he said that financial trou-
bles inc connection with payment for
1t worried him and caused him TO seek
his wife's death. He denied a sug
gestion that he had become enamonred
of another woman, and the authorities
after investigation, said they felt GER
tain the young woman, with whom his
name had been connected, had no
knowledge of the poisoning.
The confession attributed 70 Petit
bone related that he mixed three doses
of salts at his home on the night OF
April 8, one of which he gave to a
roomer in the house, one TO his wife
and another for himself.
Poison was placed only in the dose
for Mrs. Pettibone. She was taken
violently i'll and died half an hour
later. When a physician refused TO
sign a death certificate an autopsy
was performed and the presence Of
poison was discovered.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEMS
FAILURE is BLAMED
Engineer Archie ]. Card of Colliding
Train Declares the Signal Indi-
Gated Clear Track on Bos-
ton & Albany r. r.

Worcester. Mass, June l6.--Failure
of the block signals to function prop
erIy was the cause of the rear-end col
lision on the Boston & Albany railroad
last night, according to a statement
made to-day by Engineer Archie ].
Card of Cambridge, who is confined in
Worcester City hospital suffering from
burns on the face and neck and an in
jury to his foot. The IL injured in the
hospital were all reported improved to-
day None was dangerously hurt.
Engineer Card said: II left the
Union station on time three minutes
behind the express and at tower 26
the block signal was set for me to 60
one more block. slowed down and at
the next block the signal was set for
me TO 20 one more block At the next
block the signal was for me to 90
ahead, that the road was clear 10 Mil
burn Junction. I released my brakes
and was going at the rate of 25 miles
an hour when / saw the danger signal
on the track a half mile away.
81 attempted to set my brakes. but
they would not work, owing 10 the
fact that ] had just released them and
they did not have sufficient time 20 re-
charge In a few seconds | was upop
the rear end of the express train, and
after that everything else was a blank,
II believe that the wreck was caused
by the crowbar that was picked mp by
the wheels of one Of the coaches on the
express train, which evidently became
tangled with the electrical apparatus
on the track and caused foreign cur
rent. which prevented the block signals
from working properly.
II am positive that the signals were
not set against me, as I watched each
block and proceeded slowly into each
block until I got the clear signal and
then released my brakes"
How the crow bar got on the tracks
is being investigated by railroad de-
tectives. II is thought that some sec
tion hand thoughtlessly threw the bar
on the road i'm such a way that. il was
picked up by the wheels of the express.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
TO SEEK COAL SUPPLY
FOR NEH ENGLAND
Governors Of New England States Or
Their Representatives Will Join
In Conference In Boston 10
That End.

Boston. June l6-Thr governors n
the New England states. or their repre-
seutatives. will join in a conference
with the interstate commerce ccInmis-
sion at Washington tomorrow 90 coi-
slider means of assuring a Goa. -upplN
10 this section 81 the country next win
ter. Gov. Coolidge. who callci the euu-
ference. said in his invitation ihat
both presert conditions and the pro>-
pects were serious The question oi
placing IN embargo on shipments q
coal abroad viii ~ considered y =
understood
Henry r. Long. secretary ~ the goN
error. said to-day that he bad assur-
arce from the governors ~ every New
England state that they would b. pres
suf a. would seud their ieufenant gov
ernors iu addition to fuel oou-rrfa-
tioa commissioner james q >torrou.
fusl admiuistrat,f for NeW England. -
rev Cd Washinzion and l.leui eus ut-
fseteruor Claiming II. Con arranged
20 leave today a. Got Cooiidge's rep
resentstiye.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
MURDER At TAUNTON
AND THEN SUICIDE
Police Say Finley P. Jack Killed Mrs
Annie Dunn and Then Turned
Weapon on Himself.

Tauntg1. Mass, June l6.--tinley P
Jack, aged 80, is dead, and Mrs. Annie
Dunn, -. j. AZ Morton hospital and
not expected to live. the result of a
double shooting at the home Of Mrs.
Dunn. la6 High street, this forenoon.
The pelice say Jack shot the woman
his boarding mistress, and turned the
revolver on himself. dying instantly.
Jealousy is stated to be the probable
cause, IL being known that Jack had
several times proposed marriage 20 her
He was gas litter, and the Dunn
woman lived. with her sister. Mrs. John
Fleming, at the High street house. let
ting rooms. Mrs. Fleming's llyesr-old
son. William. saw the shooting. The
police have been informed there was a
quarrel at the Dunn house last night
and that Jack bought the revolver this
morning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
tMEADS SAYS HE SHOT
IN DEFENSE OF SELF
Admits That He Had Been
Drinking and Claims a
Party of Students Took a
Quart Bottle of Whiskey
Away from Him - Col
lege Authorities Tell a
Different Version.

Hanover. n. H., June l6.--Henry Z
Maroney of West Medford, Mass,
senior at Dartmouth college, was shot
and killed during quarrel at his
rooms in the Theta Delta Chi fraterni
ty house early to-day by Robert 7
Meads Of La Grange, Illinois, a junior
Meads, after being arrested on Bos
ton bound train between Canaan ant
Franklin, admitted the shooting, SAID
he had been drinking. and claimed he
fred in self-defense He wired his ia
ther. A. H. Meads Of Chicago, to come
here and defend him.
Stories of the trouble differ. The col
leqe authorities say it grew out of a
call on Meads early this morning by a
group of three students, including Ma
roney. who had been sitting up review
ing studies in preparation for an exam
ination to-day. They entered Meads
room at Massachusetts hall, found that
he resented the intrusion, and with.
drew, Meads firing several shots to
drive them off, according to their story
TO the officers.
The men say they thought the shoot
ing was ''movie. stuff and that they
laughed and went out.
Subsequently, Meads pursued Marc
ney, they said, entered his room at the
fraternity house and, after quarrel
fred. killing him almost instantly.
Meads fed.
Accompanied by Erwin T. Weis OF
Hull, Ala, fellow Junior, Meads said
that later he walked to Mascoma and
there boarded the train for Boston
Weis returning to Hanover, where he
was detained as witness. Meads was
caught on the train by Deputy Sheriff
Claude NJ. Murray of Franklin, to whom
he surrendered an automatic pistol.
Meads, in the county jail at Franklin
told the sheriff that a party of stu
dents went to his room early this
morning to obtain liquor. He had
bottle of whiskey, he said, when the
men sprang on him and took the bottle
away. He said he went after it, found
Maroney in his room, qusrreled and, in
self-defense, fired.
President Ernest NJ. Hopkins stated
that he was certain that Maroney had
not been drinking, and that all his in.
vestigations convinced him that the
dead man had not touched intoxicating
liquors since his return to college last
fall
Msroney was % years of age, grad
uate of Medford high school, with the
class of 1918, and the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James f. Maroney. Meads, a
youth of % years, sevred with the ma.
val aviation service at Pensacola dur.
ing the war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
MINOR COLLISIONS
Between Motor Vehicles Reported 70
Vermont 0fficial

Reports Of more automobile aeci'
dents reached the secretary OF state :
Office this morning. These include a
collision between tkf automobile oi
Carl Long Of Waitsficld and the car OF
II. r. Daniels Of Warren on the road
between Granville and Warren. II the
Daniels car had stopped a little sooner
there would have been plenty oi room,
accordiug to the report Mr. Long
state. his machine was close 20 tAe
hank Little damage vas done
n. 4. lbcv uf East Montpelier reports
slirh, accident. D. Carues Vt North
Montpelier reports backing into shed
and doing little damage % his car. H.
: Clark and sor 81 Orange report thai
the plankinc on 4 bridge broke, letting
their ,ar down enough 50 that damage
ocfrlrrci tp it
The OPERATOR iioen-e ~ W Menard
a. II AIbaus has been revoked hx the
serretarr of state for period ot one
..ar. hesauee ~ was convicted Oi in
foOirafior while running his automobile
81 - Aiiuus
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO.
So. Burlington 6-Yesr-old May Have
Fractured Skull

Burlington. June l6.-States Attor-
ney Allen Martin and Sheriff =. H, Al
len are investigating the case in which
Cecile Iazilon, six year old daughter II
Mr. and Mrs. August lszilon Of s.
Dorset street, South Burlington, was
struck and severely injured by an au-
tomobilr carrying two travelling sales
men yesterday afternoon. The girl re
ceived = hard blow on the head and
nav have sustained q fracture Of the
skull. besides other injuries
The travelling man reported the case
to the police and remained in the city
last night 70 determine the extent %
the ehiid's injuries.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
RUFUS E. BROWN DEAD.
Former Attorney-General of Vermont
Died in Burlington.

Burlington. June l6 ~ Rufus +.
Brown, attorney general for Vermont
from 1912 to 1914, and one OF the
best known attorneys in Vermont, died
late last night, after long period of
i'll health and acute illness of five
weeks.
Rufus T. Brown, well known and
prominent lawyer, one of the best jury
advocates in this county and state, died
late last night after an illness of five
weeks following long period OF i'll
health.
Rufus Everson Brown was born in
Dickinson. n. Y, Dec. 3, 1854, the son
OF John T. and Margaret A. tDllen-
deck Brown. After course in the pub
lie school he entered the Amsterdam.
n y, academy, from which he was
graduated in 1876. He taugh school and
worked on farm until he was % years
old. He then entered the office OF Wales
& Taft in Burlington to study law and
three years later in September, 1880,
he was admitted to the bar. For 10
years before opening practice he was
engaged in farming.
He began the practice of law in Bur
lington in 1891 and in the succeeding
years won an enviable reputation in the
trial Of jury cases in Chittenden eoiIn-
ty and throughout the state.
In politics Mr.. Brown was.a Republi-
can. He was elected grand juror of Bur
lington in April, 1892, and reelected in
1898 He served as city attorney from
1902 until 1904 He was elected states
attorney of Chittenden county in 1894
and served until 1900, being the only
holder Of that office to serve three CON
seeutive terms Of two years each, In
1900 he was senator from Chittenden
county
He is survived by wife and one
son, Ralph r. Brown, and one daugh-
ter, Mildred l. Brown.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
HARDING SEEKS,QUIET
PLACE FOR THINKING
Will Spend Two Weeks Or More on
A vacation-He Wishes to Be
Near a Golf Course.

Washington, ID. c., June l6.-With
no fixed engagements or political con-
ferences slated for to-day. Senator
Harding, the Republican presidential
nominee, hoped to make rapid progress
in cleaning up an accumulation of mail
and senatorial work in preparation for
his departure from Washington within
few days for vacation of two weeks
OF more.
The Republican nominee has not yet
determined where he will spend his
rest period, but since he plans to de-
vote part of his time to his speech Of
acceptance he intends TO select a quiet
place.
In making a selection he will be sure
that there is a convenient golf course.
Many requests TO speak have reached
the senator from all parts of the coun.
try but for the present, at least. he will
decline all such invitations
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-16
DULUTHS ORGY OF
BLOOD CONCLUDED
Minnesota Troops Patroled Streets of
City, Where Three Negro Circus
Hands Were Lynched Because
of Alleged Attack on
White Girl.

Duluth, Mimi, June l6.-Virtually
normal conditions, prevailed to-day on
the Duluth business streets over which
a mob of 5000 persons surged last
night, sweeping the police from power
and seizing and lynching three negroes
held in connection with an attack on
l7-year white girl
When two companies of Minnesota
national guardsmen reached here early
to-day from st. Paul, they found only
damaged police station and Uttered
streets as evidence of the mob's activi-
ty The guardsmen went into temper
airy camp, prepared to patrol the
streets, if necessary.
Last nights lynchings were accom-
plished after the city's police force
had been oyerpowered by bricks and
streams from fire hose in an attack on
police headquarters For two hours the
mob ruled, relinquishing its power only
after the negroes had been lynched
Six negroes had been arrested by
the police in connection with the attack
on the girl, which took place at cir
Gus ground Monday night. The negroes
were attached to the circus as rousta
bouts. The mob held trial declared
three of the negroes guilty and sc-
quilted the other three, who were still
in the hands of the police to-day.
The three convicted" negroes were
hanged within block and a half of
the police station, the mob hooting
down pleas Of two priests that the law
be permitted to take its course. 1t took
three starts to hang the first negro, as
the rope broke twice.
Injuries suffered by eight policemen
and newspaper man in the brick
fight and fire hose attack on the police
station were said to-day to be trivial
The negroes hanged were Isaac Me
Chic. Elmer jackson and Nate Green,
all about % years old They were
lynched in the order named at ll;30
o'clock p. m. All professed their inno-
cence.
A report was received here early to-
day from Virginia, MINI, that 10 ne
groes were being rushed in automobiles
to st. Paul, guarded by deputy sheritfs,
to be placed in the county jail for pro-
lection. A score of automobiles carry
ing members of last nights mob had
been reported on the way to Virginia
from Duluth in an effort to seize other
employees of the circus.