The Barre Daily Times from Barre, Vermont • 1

THE BARM IE DAI TIMES PRICE, TWO CENTS. VOL. XXII NO. 235. BARRE, VERMONT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1918.

GERMAN EBERT SPIRI Turbulent Scenes of Tuesday, in Which George Ledebour, Leader of the Independent Socialists, Made a Bitter Attack on Ebert, Caused the Resignation of the Whole Government, Says a Report to Paris. MOBS OPEN THE PRISONS AT DANZIG, WEST PRUSSIA Street Fighting Is Reported, Along with Other Serious Disorders Ebert Has Been at the Head of the Government Since Nov. 13 Executive Committee Soldiers and Workmen's Council of Berlin Will Quit. Paris, Dec. 19.

The German, government headed by Friedrich Ebert has resigned as a result of events on Tuesday, according to a dispatch received at Zurich from Stuttgart, says The Journal's correspondent there. Friedrich Kbert, who was named as minister of the interior in the cabinet of Prince Maximilian of Baden on Nor. 3 and became imperial chancellor on Nov. 8, took command of the situation in Berlin following the revolutionary uprising there. On Nov.

13 it was announced that lie had bveome premier and had chosen his cabinet, naming Hugo llaase, Philipp Neheidemann, Wilhelm Dittman. Herr T.andbcrg and Richard Barth as the secretaries in charge of the department created by the revolutionary government. The central congress of the delegate from soldiers' and workmen's councils met at Berlin on Monday. The first session resulted in scenes, in which there were many personal encounters. On Tuesday turbulent scenes continued, George Ledebour, a leader of the Independent Socialists, making a bitter attack on Premier Ebert.

DANZIG THE SCENE OF SERIOUS RIOTS Civil and Military Prisons Have Been Opened and Inmates Set at Liberty. Zurich, Dec. 19 (Ilavas). Serious disorders have broken out at Danzig, West Prussia, according to dispatches received here. Civil and military prisons have bees opened and the inmates set at liberty, it is said, and street fighting is reported.

SOLDIERS' COMMITTEE IS URGED TO RESIGN Will Be Succeeded, It Is Said, By Soldiers' Committee Elected By German General Assembly. Basle, Dec. 19 (Havas). The executive committee of the soldiers' and workmen's council of Berlin and its suburbs intends to resign according to messages received from the German capital. It is said that it will be replaced by an' executive committee elected by the general assembly and the soldiers' and workmen's councils of the empire.

to elecFpeesident. Conference of Representatives of All the States Called Dec 29. Copenhagen, Wednesday, Dec. 18. The German government has decided to convoke a conference of representatives of all the states of the former empire on Dec.

29 to elect a president of the German republic, according to a Berlin report. This step is said to have been taken in order to avoid fresh outbreaks. To Greet Wilson Christmas Day. London, Dec. 19.

King George, it was announced to-day, has canceled the arrangement which provided that he should go to Sandringham palace for Christmas, and he will remain in London instead to welcome President Wilson. WILL EXHUME BODY. Of Miss Grieda Weichman, Alleged Victim of Piper. Mns-kegon, Dec. The body of Miss Frieda Weichman of Chicago, because of Whose death Milo H.

Piper, local insurance man, is held on a murder charge, will be removed from Oak-wood cemetery here and an autopsy performed. This was announced to-day by Harry Jackson, assistant prosecuting attorney. Medical experts will try, Jackson said, to establish positively the cause of death. The body of the girl, whom Piper is accused of slaying after an automobile honeymoon, was first discovered in a lonely grave beside the railway track between here and Grand Rapids. ROYALTIES HAVE INFLUENZA.

Charles of Austria and Four of His Children III Copenhagen, Wednesday, Dec. 18 Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary and four of his children are suffering from influenza, according to a telegram from Vienna. The former emperor has a very high fever. IS FACING A NEW MINISTRY OF DISO HAS A BAD CHILL. Former Emperor of Germany Calls in Specialist.

Amerongen, Holland, Wednesday, Dec 18 (by the Associated Press). Former Emperor William has been confined to his bed since Sunday with a severe chill. His indisposition has brought about a renewal of his old heart trouble, necessitating the calling in of a specialist, a professor from Utrecht, to assist the local doctor. The constant worry of the last five weeks and his virtual imprisonment in Count Bentinck's castle have changed William Hohenzollern's appearance considerably. Instead of the ruddy complexion he wore, his face has become ashen, his hair and moustache gray, and his features deeply lined.

Since he has lain abed with his illness his face has remained unshaven and the seventy-two hours' growth of beard seems to have added ten years to his- age. The ex-emperor's favorite adjutant, Captain Sigurd Von Ilsemann, also is ill, and the former empress has become her husband's almost sole attendant. No strangers are permitted to enter the castls grounds under any pretext, while all arrivals in the village are being closely watched. ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. National Security League Put Under Fire To-day.

Washington, D. Dec. 19. Investigation of the National Security league of New York, with respect to its alleged reflection during the last campaign upon the loyalty of members of Congress, was begun to-day by a special Howe committee, headed by Representative Johnson of Kentucky. Officers of the league appeared for examination, bringing with them many of the league's papers and records.

Colonel Charles E. Lydeckcr, president of the league, was questioned by Chairman Johnson as to whether the league had taken a partisan or political stand or interefered with the election of any officials. "The aim of the league since its organization and its only aim," Colonel Ly-deeker said, "has been to win the war. I can tay with all sincerity that there has never been any digression from this aim. The league has made every effort to keep entirely out of politics.

Its hands are clean." Asked by the chairman if any members of the league had entered the political field, Colonel Lydeckcr said that as the membership extended over the entire country, it would be impossible to keep in close contact with all, but that as far as he knew every member had followed the desire of the league in that respect. J. B. EASTMAN NAMED BY PRESIDENT WILSON To Succeed George W. Anderson as a Member of Interstate Commerce Commission.

Washington, D. Dec. 19. Joseph B. Eastman of Massachusetts has been chosen by President Wilson to succeed George W.

Anderson as a member of the interstate commerce commission. Instructions to send in the nomination reached the White House to-day by wireless. Mr. Anderson recently was appointed federal court judge at Boston. Mr.

Eastman is a member of the Massachusetts public service commission. Although a Republican in politics, he was appointed by former Governor Walsh, Democrat. BECKER ON STAND. To Tell of Financial Side of German Propaganda. Washington, D.

Dec. 19. Alfred i Becker, deputy attorney general of New I York, appeared to-day before the Senate judiciary sub-committee investigating 1 beer and German propaganda. Hearing of his testimony was expected to occu py all 01 to-day session and a portion of to-morrow. Attorney General Becker investigated j.

expenditures of German agents in this ...4... l. 1 A. .1, tumm aim uv nun urui'SH 10 Lne rec- onls of all the banks through which the propagandists transferred their financial affairs from 1914 to 191L RESIG AMERICAN WOMEN DID FINE WORK IN WAR Mrs. Astor Tells How They Fed Soldiers, Cooked for Them, Danced with Them, Washed Dishes and Scrubbed Floors.

New York, Dec. 19. How American women in France helped to lighten the care of American soldiers, feeding them with sweets, cooking for them, dancing with them, and also washing dishes and scrubbing floors, was told to-day by Mrs, Vincent Astor. After eighteen months' service in canteen and welfare work, while her husband was serving with the overseas naval forces, Mrs. Astor has just returned from Bordeaux, where she wag in charge of a division of Y.

M. A. women. One of her fellow workers was Mrs. Henry Russell, formerly Ethel Borden Uarriman, who was married in France.

"American women have filled such an enormous place in' the war that it would be difficult to imagine now what would have been done without their help," she said. "The thousands of women who got to the other side gave themselves up completely to working for the soldiers, both the sick and the well, and they never spared themselves. They worked all day, and ofen danced long hours in the evening, sometimes with a hundred partners. "The soldiers showed the most complete courtesy to every American woman, making it intensely pleasant to be doing things for them. Every few nights we gave a dance.

There were usually about twenty American women, and they would have to divide their time among several hundred men. Once we had eight women and two thousand sailors. "In the cafeteria we began by serving about fifty men a day, and soon it was thousands. They all wanted eggs, doughnuts, and ice cream. We had a canteen which means strictly a tobacco and candy store, where the men bought at cost; and three nights a week we gave pictures and entertainments.

"When the conveys of wounded first commenced arriving at Bordeaux the stretchers bearing the wounded men would be put out on the station platform and we Would go among them distributing coffee and cigarettes. Later this work was taken over by the Red Cross. "Mrs. Henry Russell "and I were near St Mihiel when the Americans made their drive last September, and we appealed so hard that they sent us up to the front for emergency work. We went past the captured German lines up to within two miles of the actual fighting, and helped distribute candy and cigar ettes to the '6th marines when they were relieved.

They came out of the battle laughing and happy, and with no more looks of wear and tear than if they had been in a football game." ESTIIONIA PLACED UNDER THE ALLIES Premier of the New Republic Did So Be-caase of the Menace of Bolshevik Troops. London, Dec. 18. The Esthonian provisional government controlling the territory covered by the former Russian Baltic province of Ksthonia has placed the republic "under the common protection of the eutente powers pending the decision of the peace conference." The Esthonisn premier announced this action in a telegram which reached London to-night, in which he called attention to the difficulty the Esthonian troops were experiencing in withstanding the bolsheviki, who are attacking the territory of the republic from the east. AMERICAN WAS SLAIN.

Because He Went Outside Barbed Wire of German Prison. Copenhagen, Wednesday, Dec 18 (by the Associated Press). The killing of Lieutenant Coheny, an American airman, in the German prison camp at Stralsund on Dec. 5, is reported by three British officers who have arrived here. The.

American lieutenant, the officers say, went outside the barbed wire for a moment and the German guards fired three times at him. Lieutenant Coheny was killed by a bullet through the chest. A British officer was seriously wounded by the shots. The guards refused to allow Coheny's comrades to remove his body. MAY MARCH TOWARD GERMANY.

Bolshevikists in Russia Said to Be Raising an Army. London, Dec. 19 (British wireless service). Reports that the Russian bolshe-vists have raised an army of three million men are discredited by special correspondence to the Daily Chronicle. It is said that the most reliable information puts the number of bolshevist troops at alKut 180,000, scattered over most of the former Russian empire.

It is pointed out, however, that an effort probably will be made to increase this torce for the purpose of marching westward toward Germany, where the bolshe-vista have carried on an extensive propaganda campaign for the last year. HOG ISLAND UNDER FIRE. Investigation of the Construction of the Shipyard. Washington, D. Dec.

19. Investigation of the construction of the Hog island shipyard was resumed to-day by the Senate commerce committee, with Charles Piez, general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation, and Charles M. Schwab, until recently director-general, as the principal witnesses. Mr. Pies testified that the total expenditures to date amounted to about $58,000,000 and that the American International Shipbuilding corporation, which has the contract for building the plant.

has not been paid anything. Most of the work, lie said, was done by sub-con tractors. RISIS: NED; GROWING GREENSLIT ADMITS FIRING But Denies That He Shot with Intent to Kill the Intruder TELLS OF FIGHTING WITH OSCAR HEATH Defense Started Its Testimony in Manslaughter Case To-day Paris, Dec, 19. Premier Clemeneeao and Colonel E. M.

House visited President 'Wilson this morning at his Paris residence. The French premier and the president were engaged for more than an hour in an intimate discussion. Colonel Honse also conferred with the president during the morning. The president ha been invited to visit London at Christmas time, but he probably will not accept, as he has planned to dine Christmas day with the American troops in the field. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy will ariive here to-day.

The city i hung with flags and general holiday has been declared. Rain was falling this morning, but there was promise of the weather improving. The newspapers hail the Ifing as "a man of honor, who has been a real leader of his country, both on and off the battlefield." STRIKE OF 15,000 AT SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Movement Was Instituted By a New Organization and Is Sympathetic with Strike at Erie, Pa.

Schenectady, N. Y-, Dec. 19. Organised workers of the General Electric company's big plant here began an orderly walkout promptly at 10 a. ra.

to-day. Their leaders estimated that approximately 15,000 if the 23.000 men and women employed la the plant were affected. The walkout was ordered by leaders of the Electrical Manufacturing Industry Labor federation, a comparatively new organization whose, membership comprises General Electric workers in Schenectady, Lynn and Pittsfield, Erie, and Fort Wayne, Ind. It was a sympathetic walkout occasioned by a strike of federation members at Erie. Virtually all of the General Electric plants have been engaged for many months on war contracts.

STILL WORKING AT LYNN. An Effort Is Being Made to Adjnst the Difficulties. Lynn. Dec. 19.

Work in the Lynn factories of the General Electric company continued to-day notwithstanding the announcement from the Schenectady and Pitts field plants that a general strike had been authorized by union representatives as a protest against the discharge of thirty men in Erie, Pa. Leaders of the eleven thousand employes here said they were trying to bring about a settlement of the controversy, nnd thought it unlikely that any sympathetic walkout would be undertaken unless further instructions were received from Schenectady. MORE TROOPS COMING. Identification Made of the Soldiers Now on the Ocean. Washington, D.

Dec. home on the transport George Washington, which sailed from France Dec. 15, the war department announced to-day, are 139th field artillery; batteries and and headquarters company of the 137th field artillery; 35 officers of the 138th field artillery and p. number of casuals. Casuals also are returning on the steamers Saxonia, which sailed Dec.

14; Moccasin, which sailed Dec. 15, and Here-dia, Cartoga, Sixaola and Bellatrix, Dec. 10. On all seven ships there are about 4,000 officers and men. "SILK" CL0UGHLIN DYING.

Well Known Baseball Umpire Has Doable Pneumonia. Boston, Dec.v 19. Francis Olonglhin, American league umpire, is dangerously ill with double pneumonia at his home here. The last rites of the church have been administered. Since the close of the baseball season, he has been connected with the department of justice and recently was assigned to the Boston district.

CAME FROM GIBRALTAR. The Transport Black Arrow Brought 123 American Army Men. New York, Dec. 19. The United States army transport Black Arrow arrived here this morning from Gibraltar carrying eight American officers and 115 men.

The vessel was formerly the German steamship Black Hawk. WAR WORKERS GO ABROAD. Sixty-Seven Left Boston To-iay to Begin Service. Boston, Dec. 19.

Sixty-seven war workers, who expect to be assigned to duty with the American army, sailed today for Liverpool aboard the White Star liner Canopic. The party included one woman and 36 men enrolled ythe Knights of Columbus and 31 Y. M. C. A.

workers who arrived last night from New York. CONFERRED WITH CLEMENCEAU President Wilson Was Closeted with French Premier More Than an Hour COL. HOUSE ALSO WAS CALLER TO-DAY King Victor of Italy Will Be Received Later in the Day The respondent himself, George Green-slit, was the first witness put on the stand for the defense in Washington county court to-day in the case of State yg. Greenslit, charged with manslaughter in the death of Oscar Heath at Warren, who was shot on Oct. 24 and who died on Oct.

29. The respondent admitted shooting on the night mentioned but denied that he shot to kill. He also related incidents of the encounter with the man after the latter had started to run away from Greenslit's place. Grc-cnslit's story agreed in the main with that told by Deputy Sheriff Lawson and John Mobus, who was the last witness for the state. He told of the shooting much as Deputy Lawson had related it and then explained what took place at the hole in the wall.

He testified that the intruder struck him first, and that he was defending himself when he hit Heath. He also said that Heath did not appear to be hurt at that time. He showed the jury where, on the blueprint, the fight took place, and where the man was during the shooting. He said that Heath begged him not to complain to the authorities against Heath's stealing wood, and he explained the argument that took plane relative to the vegetables being stolen from the farm. There ensued a strife between the state and J.

Ward Carver, attorney for the respondent, over the introduction of testimony showing that a fight took place after the shooting, the state claiming that the fight had no bearing on the case, that the respondent was charged with manslaughter and that the shooting took place before Greenslit knew who the man was. Mr. Csrver was able to get before the jury, under exceptions, many of the details of the fight and then proceeded, under exceptions, to get the reputation of Heath before the jury upon statement from Mr. Greenslit that Heath had drawn a gun on John Mobus, one Long, and other men in Warren. A lengthy argument ensued relative to whether the fact that stuff had been stolen from the cellar should be admitted, as well ss many other details relative to the reputation of Heath.

The state rested its case this morning. Deputy Sheriff DL Lawson, who, with State's Attorney Davis, investigated the case, told the jury that he went to Wsr-rcn Oct. 25, the day following the shooting of Heath, and that he saw Heath for about half an hour, during which time Heath told him many things connected with the case. Then the deputy sheriff went to the Tierney mill, where he talked with Greenslit. who made no attempt to cover up anything connected with the affair.

Deputy Lawson testified that Greenslit told him that someone had been to his house getting wood and that when a person came a second time he (Greenslit) went outdoors and met the man at the corner of the house. He ordered the man to stop but the man ran and Greenslit shot at him and later shot again. Then Greenslit ran across the field and clinched with the man in a hole in the wall. It was not till then, Greenslit said, that he knew at whom he had shot. The witness said that Greenslit did not know that he had hit the man until the next morning when a neighbor came to the house and told him that Heath had been shot.

On a blueprint made by Mr. Morse, Deputy Lawson showed to the jury the relative positions of Heath and Greenslit as they were explained to him by Greenslit the day following the shooting. These positions included a beet patch, the road snd the hole in the wall where the fist fight occurred after the shooting. He then described the condition of the revolver as it was told to him by Greenslit's son in the presence of Greenslit. To this Greenslit's attorney objected, but the court overruled the respondent objection and admitted the testimony.

The reason for a fifth cartridge being in the weapon was explained by the boy, who said that he had cleaned the weapon the day before Ihe shooting without his father's knowledge and had placed the fifth cartridge in the cylinder without his father's knowing it. Deputy Lawson also told of the fight which took place after the shooting, which was quite a lively encounter, ac cording to the story told the deputy by Greenslit. Earlier yesterday afternoon Dr. J. R.

Campbell completed his testimony for the state. He told of infection developing from the wound in the abdomen and admitted that moving about might have produced more infection than if the man had kept quiet. He said that Heath's house was not a sweet-smelling place. Dr. W.

R. Harkness, who attended Heath whilo the latter was in Montpelier, testified to meeting the parties who were bringing Heath to Montpelier on Oct. 27, the Sunday following the shooting. He met them near Aiiddlesex and he found Heath very low. He gsve the man some thine to stimulate heart action.

Heath was then hurried to Heaton hospital and there his wounds were dressed again Ther had been well cared for; but Heath did not respond to the stimulant and died at 3:30 o'clock Sunday atternoon of Ren eral peritonitis. When asked for the cause of this Dr. Harkness ascribed it to the wound. Dr. Harkness also testified that he was present at the autopsy and he testified that the bullet entered the body over the right hip and passed into the abdominal cavity through the muscles and into the peritoneum but did not injure the intestines.

He said that peritonitis developed from the inflammation of the peritoneum and that caused death. On cross-examination Dr. Harkness agreed that the moving of the man might have increased the infection, but he thought that under the conditions the riehfe thing was to remove the patient to the hospital. Dr. Whitney testified to much that Dr.

Harkness had described about the autopsy. DOLLARS COME FAST FOR THE RED CROSS Barre's Drive to Aid Worthy Organization Is Meeting with Very Hearty Response. Barre had a heart and a dollar for the Red Cross to-day. The climax to the big drive for Christmas memberships will not be reached until to-night, when the canvassers abroad all day with cards report at the patriotic headquarters in the Church street school building, but the reception given the solicitors on every hand was evidence enough of the community's high regard for the Red Cross. Every ward had its own canvassing organization and before night every street and byway will have been covered by the workers.

At the assembly hall, Spaulding school, last evening those who participated in the house-to-house effort to-day came together to receive instructions. Supplies were distributed and several inspirational speeches fixed the enthusiasm at the right pitch. Every person who gave a dollar today, thereby enrolling as a member of the Red Cross until Christmas, 1919, received a Red Cross home service flag, a Red Cross button and ten Red Cross Christmas seals. A circular accompanying the gift explained that seals are not being sold this year, as the tuberculosis campaign, previously financed in part by the sale of seals, has been merged with the other work of the national Red Cross. Toward mid-afternoon people seen on the streets who did not display the membership badge were much in the minority.

Apart from the hoUse-to-house canvass, which was conducted in a most efficient manner, was an aggressive drive in the mercantile district. These two phases, with the stoneshed canvass initiated two days ago under the direction of Chairman F. W. Bancroft of the industrial committee, are expected to carry Barre well up to its quota and possibly beyond. Service banners indicating that a business or industrial establishment has a 100 per cent membership record among its employes are available at headquarters and several of tbee honor flags have been won already.

When the final returns for the stoneshed canvass are reported Friday night, it is expected that many granite manufacturing plants will have earned the banner. One of the important factors in convincing the public that Red Cross membership is still vital to the welfare of the organization is the return of home boys from battleship, camp and cantonment. Without a single exception these youngsters are driving home the lesson of service and mercy they have learned to associate with the Red Cross and other organizations. Sgt. Edward Carroll, back from Camp MeCMlan, has this to say: "I can speak from experience in applauding the splendid work of the Red Cros.

With the Y. M. C. K. of C.

and other organisations it has contributed many comforts and necessities which the soldiers would have missed had it not been for these agencies. If you are anxious about the care and comfort of our men at home and overseas support them to the limit." Barclay Bros, reported this afternoon that their plant was 100 per cent strong for the Red Cross, with a total list of 75 names. BACK FROM OVERSEAS. Private Charles R. White Didn't Get Into Fighting But He Saw Celebration.

First to arrive home among many Barre boys due from France, now that the horrible Hun has been nobbled, is Private Charles R. White, late of the 76th division, who dropped into town vesterday and gave his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. White of Newton street, a big surprise by walking into the hwuse unannounced.

Young White is not ne of the local boys who got into the thick of the fighting, but he got to France some time before the armistice was signed and saw a good deal of military life. Ho is in fine fettle and brings back with him only one regret. He wishes that destiny had given him one good wallop at the Hun. Private White arrived on the Kroon-land, which docked at Hoboken, N. last week.

On the same boat was Sgt. James Gibson of Barre, who carries battle scars won at V'esle and in the Ar-gonne. The latter is expected home daily. Soldiers of the 76th were ordered to Camp Devens, where the division, or what remained of it, was demobilized yesterday and the men discharged from service. Private White enlisted more than a year ago while employed in Bridgeport, Conn.

He went overseas late in the spring and, as a member of Headquarters company of the 76th wts assigned to the escort of Major-General He was in Paris Nov. 11 and his is a vivid description of how the French capital went wild over news that the armistice had been signed. More than 100,000 soldiers figured in the celebration. Frequently during his travels, Private White encountered Barre boys, among them being Private Edward Du-prey, whom he left in excellent health. Another son of Mr.

and Mrs. White, Sgt. Richard R. White, was, on his way to Siberia with a hospital unit when the armistice news was flashed. The boat was four days out and the captain kept her headed for France.

Sgt. White is supposed to be on his way home. IS WRITING HOME. So Relatives of Private Moses Cerasoli Thinks He Is Getting Well. Private Moses Cerasoli, mentioned in to-day's casualty list as being among the slightly wounded, is convalescent, according to a war department bulletin received by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Moses Cerasoli, of II Quarry street. The nature of the young man's injuries is not known, although he has been writing regularly and his relatives assume that his condition has not been serious. Private Cerasoli is a veteran of the old 1st Vermont infantry and has been overseas for more than a year. He saw much active service in A company of the 102d machine gun battalion.

DIED ON SAME DAY AS MOTHER. Bandmaster Ralph Norton Dawes Was Victim of Troop Train Wreck. John G. Norton of Moutpelier has received word of the death of his nephew, Ralph Norton Dawes, who was killed in the wreck of a troop train in Farnee on Dec. 5, the same day on which the young man's mother died "in Boston of pneumonia.

Mr. Dawes was bandmaster of the 104th infantry and has been in France for some time, having received the croix de guerre. Ho was 30 years of age and was a native of Springfield, Mass. BODY ON BED; GAS JET OPEN. Bert Sanders Committed Sui cide at His'oom on No.

Kaf Street PERHAPS 'PRESSED It1 A I XTTTTT'Tri yy iv xj x-iinL He Was JJranite Polisher and jrmerly Lived in Montpelier Temporary aberration, believed to have been induced by the fact that his wife left him yesterday, is ascribed as the cause of the suicide of Bert Sanders, a granite polisher, who died in the night from gas asphyxiation. Harry Holmes, who occupies two rooms in the flat leased by the Sanders family in the G. Toniasi building, 351-357 North Main street, found the body this morning soon after 6 o'clock when he went into Sanders'' room to arouse him. Police headquarters was notified and Officer David Henderson went to the building to investigate. He called Dr.

O. G. Stickney, the local health officer, who pronounced it a case of Biii-cide. The body was removed to the undertaking establishment of A. W.

Badger Co. Over the telephone this forenoon Dr. C. F. Dalton, secretary of the state board of health, was told of the circumstances surrounding the man's death.

From his office in Burlington the secretary advised Health Officer Stickney that the case did not seem to need an autopsy. The police say that Sanders' wife left him, yesterday. Acquaintances of the man say that he seemed to be low-spirited last niht. lie was seen on North Main street around 9:30 o'clock, but is believed to have gone to his apartment soon after that. The flat is on the third floor of the building and the room occupied by Mr.

Holmes as his sleeping quarters is only a few feet from the room where Sanders slept his last sleep. The roomer heard nothing unusual during the night and when he awoke this morning his first thought was to' arouse Sanders that he might get his breakfast before work time. Before he entered the sleeping room of Sanders, Mr. Htrimes detected the odor of gas, but he did not suspect anything untoward until he opened the door. Gas was flowing freely from two jets.

In the bed was there as if asleep. Before retiring he had completely removed his outer clothing and folded it across the back of a chair. After assuring himself that the man was past first aid, Holme went to the telephone and told police headquarters of what had taken place. Sanders was born in East Montpelier, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Sanders, the date of his birth being July 16, 1869. He lived in East Montpelier until 21 years of age, when he went to Montpelier. He had spent some time in other places and residence in Barre had covered the last eight months. He leaves a brother. The funeral will be held at the G.

To-masi block Saturday afternoon, and interment will be in Green Mount cemetery in Montpelier, HAD INSTRUCTIVE CONFERENCE. Winooski Valley Superintendents' Association in Barre. The Winooski Valley Superintendents' association held a meeting with Supt C. H. White of the Barre schools yesterday, and one of the features of the meeting was an addrew by State Commissioner of Education M.

B. Hillegas, who told the ninmhura nhnnt. the hill now before the U. S. Senate for a department of educa tion in the canine ana carrying an annual appropriation of $100,000,000 to be Hiof-i)iaiijrI imnntr the states according to the number of teachers employed, pro- appropriation dollar for dollar.

teranoa nroved verv intenestinir and instructive. It was held at the SpaoMing building and was attended by Knt TT W. Red of Richmond, the president of the association, Martin Chaffee of Waterbury, S. C. Hutchinson of Montpelner and U.

J. fseager or Barre Town, in addition to those already mentioned. B0NAZZI BONAZZI EXPLAIN Say Their Fonda in the First National Bank of Montpelier Not Attached. Bonazzi A Bonazzi of Montpelier state, in relation to the suit brought against them by the Gopher Granite Co, that their funds in the First National bank of Montpelier have not been attached and they add that the work ordered by the Gopher company was not shipped becauao they were notified by a delegation from the stonecutters' lmion that the Gopher firm was on the cutters' unfair list. They state that they informed the Gopher firm the work would be shipped when thing had been fixed up with the union, and the next they knew they were sued.

CHANGES IN CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Cameron C. Gale Placed in Charge at Swanton. St. Albans, Dec 19.

The following changes have been made in the customs district in Vermont: Winncld W. Stiles has been promoted from deputy collector and inspector to deputy collector and inspector in class 2, stationed at Al-burg; Deputy Collector and Inspector Cameron C. Gale, who has been on duty at Island Pond and Quebec, has been transferred and appointed deputy collector in charge at Swanton, vice T. M. To-bin, deceased.

TO RESUME WORK. Striking Cotton Operatives at Manchester, England. Manchester, England, Wednesday, Dee. 18. The striking cotton operatives here held a mass meeting to-day and decided to return to work at once.

They accepted the terms of an agreement by which they will receive an increase of about thirty per ecnt over their present wags. N0RTHFIELD VETERAN. Wnislow L. Blanchard, Aged 81, Died Yesterday. Northfleld, Doe.

19. Winslow L. Elan-chard, aged 81, a veteran of Co. 13th. Vermont infantry, died yesterday..