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Hundreds Are in Dire Peril on Snowbound Trains
NEAR ZERO FORECAST HERE
U. S. Vessel Spurned Surrender Order
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Death and the
most intense suffering known in
years stalked through the middle
West today in the wake of a driving
blizzard that paralyzed transporta
tion and cut hundreds of cities and
towns off from the outside world.
The vast railroad systems of the
middle West are in the worst tangle
in history, and hundreds of passen
gers in suowbound trains are in dire
peril. The fate of many of these
trains, with their passengers, proba
bly will not be known for hours or
maybe days. Reilef parties have been
sent in search of these traing whetre
possible. 2
Reporte of towns where fuel and
food famines are imminént came
pouring into Chicago todday from all
sections of the Mississippi valley.
Temperatureg ranging from zero to
neg.rly 40 degres below are reported
from various points. i
‘ln Chicago four persons are known
to be dead as a result of the storms.}
Illinois, Jowa, Indiana, Kansas,
Oklahoma and other Mississippi Val-‘
ley States are buried under heavy“
snow and swept by bitter winds. Zero |
temperature is reported from all sec
tions of the Middle West.
All transcontinental railroads tra
versing the Middle West are either
entirely blocked by snow or forced to
operate trains under almost impossi
ble conditions. Movement of fuel is
almost entirely suspended, and wide
spread suffering has resulted.
Train Traffic Hampered.
In the southern section of the Mis
sissippi Valley unprecedented snow
and cold is being experienced. New
Orleans, Houston, Memphis, Louis
ville, Chattanooga and other Southern
cities rerort a serious situation as the
result of the storm. Traffic on South
ern railroads also is hampered by the
storm, and a fuel famine is immi
nent in some sections. I
Army training camps in various
sections of the South and Middle West
are being hard hit by the storm, and
in many plages training maneuvers
_have been abandoned.
Chicago, the metropolis of the Mid
\dle West, is virtually cut off from the
outside world today. More than twen
ty inches of snow, the result of the
severe storm of Sunday and the later
one which began yesterday, blocks
Streets, car lines and railroads.
The city has been put on coal ra
tions in a desperate effort to avert a
serious fuel famine. Delivery of milk
throughout the city is impossible.
War Work at Standstill.
Officials and employees of the Chi
cago surface lines are making a des
perate fight to keep the lines open.
All elevated trains are running on
slower schedules. %
In the munitions factoy section of
East Chicago, Hammend and. Gary,
Ind., work on war contracts is virtual
ly at a standstill. Towns there also
are in danger of a food and fuel tam-‘
ine because of the blocking of the
railtoads. It is estimated that 20,000 |
men in steel plants and munitions
factories in that district are idle to
day because of inability of the plants
to operate,
The entire State of Illinois is snow
bound, and temperatures of below
zero are reported in practically all
parts of the State. In Chicago the
temperature stood at 8 below zero
early toéay, and a further drop was |
predicted. Outlying points reported
10 degrees below and lower.
13 Indian Boys Die in
Fire at Dwiggt School
(By International News Service.)
M&“‘{OGEE,' OKLA. Jan. 12.—
Thirteen little Indian boys, all ex
cept two of them ranging in age
from 8 to 11 years, met death this
morning in a fire which destroyed
the boys’ dormitory at the Dwight
indian School, near Marble City,
about forty-five miles southeast of
here. I
Six other students and a teacher
were injured in jumping from win
dows on the second floor. .
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Canceling Machine
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And Mail Piles Up!
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| ONTGOMERY, ALA, Jan
M 12, — The Montgomery
postoffice is demoralized
as a result of the cold wave and §
storm.
The canceling machine has been g
out of operation since early Fri
t) day afternoon because of the fail- é
5 ure of the electric current to op- ¢
erate. As a result stacks of mail §
'{ were piled up this morning unde- ¢
l livered. Most Friday' afternoon |
and Friday night trains were late %‘
and this mail may not be dis
tributed for twenty-four hours. §
The three Montgomery newspa
pers were without power to operae
tuntil 11 o'clock this morning.
Telephone and telegraph wires are
being rapidly repaired. No deaths
are reported from the cold wave |
lin this immediate vicinity. 3
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2 Brothers En Route
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To Bury Another Die
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In Electrified Pool
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WEST POINT, GA., Jan. 12.—
John and Abesco Roughlin,
brothers, were instantly killed J
late Friday at Shawmut, Ala.,
when they stepped into a puddle
of water which had just been
charged by a fallen electric wire
carrying 55,000 volts. The men
had gone to an undertaker's at
Shawmut to make arrangements
for the buriai of their father, J.
T. Roughton, who had died a few
hours before.
J. T. Roughton has two sons at
the point of death with pneumo
nia. Ot is though that they can
not live through the night.
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2 Brigadier Generals
Religeved From Duty
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan, 12,—Two
brigadier generals of the national
army have been honorably discharged
by direction of the President for
physical disqualifications, the War
Department announced this after
noon. They are Brigadier General
David F. Foster, of the Sixty-sixth
Infantry brigade, Camp l.ogan, Texas,
and Brigadier General Cecil C.
Vaughan, of the Fifty-eighth Infantry
brigade, Camp McClellan, Anniston,
Alabama. :
General Foster was appointed from
Illinois and has served forty years in
the Illinois National Guard. General
V.av:!ghan was appointed from Vir
ginia,
Church’s D ‘
urch's Day e
The command that six days
are for labor and one for
rest and worship takes into
account fully our physical
and spiritual needs. Man
can not work hard for many
days without needing his
spiritual vision cleared in
order that he may go brave.-
ly ahead at his work in the
right way and with the ut
most courage.
Sunday comes to give us
physical rest and spiritusal
stimulation, and the Chur:h s
does both for us. Sunday is
therefore the day of the $
Church, and in attending her
services you are fulfilling
two obligations, one to
yourself and one to the
Church. There is uplift and
spiritual exhilaration in both.
Render to the Church tomor
row what is her due. You
will find the programs which
you may enjoy a few pages
over in the *“Go To Crurch
Sunday” columns. Read
them now and make your
plans to go.
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With the coal supply at its lowest
ebb and the prediction made that the
official thermometer would reach zero
during the night, Atlanta Saturday
faced the worst winter weather pre
dicament in its history. And the very
worst part of it was that there was
little, if any, relief in sight. Hun
dreds of priority coal cards were be-
Ing issued at the emergency bureau
at City Hall, but there was not much
prospect of them all being filled be
fore night, and intense suffering was
believed certain.
{ The State Council of Defense was
preparing at a conference at the
State Capitol, which was attended by
Governor Dorsey, State Fuel Admin-
Istrator Hardman and other officials,
a statement on its findings a ht‘ln
vestigation ‘of the fuel situation,
which closed Friday evening.
Mayor Candler ordered the sale of
1,200 tons of coal stored for the use
of the city’s schools and made prep
arations to see that it really reached
the neediest people by appointing a
committee of distribution for each
ward, consisting of the Alderman and
Councilmen. !
Auditorium Opened.
The Mayor also provided a refuge
for the shivering by throwing open
the Auditorium, which will be kept
open all night and kept comfortably
he.ated. Saveral chuiches also an-!
nounced that they would keep “open
house” for people who have no fuel.
There was some coal at the yards
in the city, but no way of getting it‘
delivered, and draymen had jumped
prices out of sight. The streets were
In wretched shape and wagons were
making slow progress. Water left
from thee severe storm of Friday nlght‘
had frozen and scores of smaller
drays deserted their usual haunts.
As for early fuel relief, the extra de
mand brought on by the sudden ex
treme cold carried added complica
tions to the situation. It had been
brought out at the Capitol fuel probe
that there was a real shortage at the
mines, a congestion in transportation{
and a general situation which pre- |
vented dealers being supplied unless
the Federal administration will give
Atlanta a priority order at the mines.
Full Control Suggested.
Possibly the best hope of relief
Saturday was in the plan of Henry
B. Kennedy, local fuel adminlstrator,i
to place all coa] in the city under the
control of the admiristration. Un
der this plan every consumer will
'be required to get a permit from the
emergency bureau at the City Hall
before his order will be filled.
This will not apply to the peddlers
and to persons who buy coal in bas
ket lots or in the 25 and 50-cent sacks.
At a conferer.ce between Mr. Kennedy
and representative business men at
the Chamber of Commerce Friday
night it was decided that the peddler
was absolutely necessary for the poor
people and that priority orders in
these cases would work a hardship
on the masses.
Mr, Kennedy Saturday ordered
each coal dealer tc have a repre
sentative at the emergency bureau
to form a clearing house for the dis
tribution of coai ealled for under the!
priority orders. The delivery of all
orders through this clearing house
instead of directly through the yards
is expe%ted to facilitate the distribu
tion cohsiderably.
The plan wags decided on Friday
night at a conference between Mr.
Kennedy and W. H, White, Jr., presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
and coal dealers of the city. They
hoped it would reduce the suffering
to a minimum.
Delivery Is Problem.
The coal men reported that there
was sufficient coal on local yards to
supply the immediate demands, but
that the delive‘ry of the masg of or-
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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918
1,200 Tons School
Coal Will Be Sold
At Rate of $6 a Ton
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! Coal in the bins of the Atlanta city schools will be sold to resi
‘dents of the wards at 30 cents the hundred pounds, or 15 cents
for fifty pounds, it was announced Saturday, the distribution to
begin at once. No deliveries will be made, the limit will be one
hundred pounds to a customer, and the sale will continue until the
coal is exausted or.the situation relieved. The schools have on
band about 1,200 tons of coal.
Mayor Candler took charge of the situation Saturday by call
ing a special meeting of the City Couneil, which voted him authori
ty to sell the coal stored in the school buildings. The alderman
and two councilmen from each ward were made committees to take
charge of the school sales in their respective wards.
The sale of coal probably means the schools will net be opened
Monday, or even later, until a new supply of coal can be received.
The close of the schools, if _positively decided upon, will be an
nounced Sunday morning.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—“The
people of the United States are en
titled to feel secure!”
That was the message Secretary of
War Baker today delivered to the
Senate military affairs committee. It
was his reply to the pu)lic declara
tion of the members of the commit
tee that “he is spreading a false
sense of security by optimistic state
ments of war preparations.”
Mr. Baker again today clashed
leth the members of the committee,
Throughout his testimony and cross
ex: mination he said that all “hu
manly possible’” had been done to
arm the forces and make them com
fortable.
Charges that commanding officers
’have made inaccurate statements
were made by the Secretary of War.
[He was plainly aroused by a report
received this morning by the com
mittee of a shortage of blouses at
:}Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio.
’ Baker Orders Report.
The Secretary of War immediately
ordered a report by telegraph from
the commanding officer.
“We have very definite testimony
which you seem to contradict,” com
mented Senator Hitchcock.
Secretary Baker, explaining the re
organization of the War Department,
declared that the organization up to
January 1, 1917, was “impossible” in
that it laid a mas of detail on the
Secretary of War.
At the present time, Secretary Ba
ker said, the ordnance quartermas
ter’'s department are being co-ordi
nated under the power of the war
council. |
“Do the functions of the war coun
cil duplicate those of the general
staff?” asked Senator Chamberlain. |
Functions of Boards. |
“I think not; the general staff ad- |
vises on technical military matters, |
the war council deals with the needs !
of the army in the field,” answered
Secretary Baker.
“Do you think General Crozier's
department and General Sharpe's de
partment are up to standard?” asked
McKellar. |
“Their work has been of a very
high standard,” answered Secretary
Baker. i
Secretary Baker said the present
organization of the ordnance depart
ment has been greatly improved since
April 1.
Senator Weeks asked Baker why
1,200 machine guns, now held by the
War Department, had not been dis
tributed. The Secretary replied that
they were being distributed now,
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(By International News Service.)
PETROGRAD, Jan. 12.—Hostile
comment is directed against Presi
‘dent Wilson’'s war aims here today
by the newspaper Pravda. The
'Pravdu is the official organ of the
'L’olshevik Government. |
‘ ROME, Jan. 12.—1 t was reported
\today, but without official confirma
‘tion, that the Pope has called the at
tention of the German and Austrian
Emperors to the principles laid down
by President Wilson through the
nuncios at Munich and Vienna, and |
this action was taken, it was explain
ed, to insure serious consideration of
the terms.
Bolshevik Envoy
olshevik Envoys
(By International News Service.)
STOCKHOLM, an. 12.—The Bol
shevik envoys at Brest-Litovek will
stand upon the peace terms previ
ously announced, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen this after
noon. CGermany is expected to pre
sent new terms.
FFollowing the decision to renew the
pariey at Brest-Litovsk, both the
Russian and German delegates went
into separate caucuses to discuss the
new trend the negotiations are tak
ing.
German officers on the eastern
front have issued orders against fra
ternization, evidently fearing the in
fluence of the Bolsheviki upon the
German soldiers.
Military Peace Terms
Planned for Russia
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12.—Germany
has prepared terms for a separate
peace with Russia along “miiitaristic
lines,” according to information re
ceived today from a reliable source.
These terms, it is understood, are
to replace the conditiohs for a general
peace announcea at Brest-Litovsk by
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—“ Never!"
This was the grim, laconic fe
sponse flashed by radio from the
American steamer J. L. Luckenbach,
when, after a four-hour battle with
a German submarine, she was urged
by a United States destroyer, speed
ing to her rescue, not to surrender.
And she did not. Although nine of
the 225 shots fired by the U-boat
found their mark, the Luckenbach
battled on until the arrival of the
destroyer, which esco-‘ed her to a
convuy end to safety.
Tne detailed account of the battle,
Qctober 19, was made public hy the
Na#y‘bepartmt today.
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Huns Bink U, 8. Ship;
Watch Crew Perish
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 12.—Another ex
ample of the callousness of German
submarine crews came to light to
day. It was stated that a British
merchant ship of 4,000 tons was sunk |
in the Mediterranean January 7, and
that the submarine stood by and!
watched the crew struggle in thei
water without offering any assistance, }
Seventeen perished before a French
ship came upon the scene.
Grocers Alleged to .
‘Have Overcharged
The first case made under the new
food regulation fixing Irish potato
prices at 3 1-2 cents a pound and for-‘
bidding their sale by measure was
that docketed Saturday against Mr.j
and Mrs. M, Nissenbaum, who conduct
a grocery at No. 182 East Georgia
avenue.
W. C. Puckett, city investigator,
went to the store to buy potatoes. In
stead of being weighed, they were
measured in a peck measure. Mr.
Puckett demanded that they be
weighed, and the scales showed only
twelve pounds instead of the fifteen
pounds required in a Government
peck, making the rate about 4 cents
a pound. Mr. Puckett had a case
entered against the Nissenbaums,
The Nissenbaums were bound over
by Recorder Johnson to await trial in
the City Court on charges of cheating
and swindling,
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Bill Aims to Draf
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—Subjects
of sll entente nations and aliens of
any nationality who have resided in
the United States .for more than two
years would be drafted into the milis
tary service if of draft age under an
amendment to the selective service
act introduced by Representative
Tague, of Massachusetts,
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Would Fix Prices of
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Life's Necessities
(By International News Service.) I
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Estab
lishment of a commission “to estab
lish and regulate the maximum price
which shall be paid for the common
necessities of life” is authorized in
a biil introduced in Congress by Rep
resentative Fuller, of Massachusetts
TWO DEAD IN BLIZZARD. ’
SOUTH BEND, IND., Jan. 12—
Two are dead here as the result of
the blizzar which struck the city
during the night, leaving South Bend
under twenty-four inches of snowl
and léowering the temperature to 19
degrees befow zero at & o'clock this
morning.
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DeKalb Confiscates
Carlead of Coal That
Stood ldle on Siding
DeKalb County officials at De
catur Saturday confiscated a car
load of coal which stood idle on
the siding at Belt Junction and
were distributing it in small lots
among consumers who had faced
a night of extreme suffering.
This stringent action was taken
by County Commissioner R. J.
Freeman, Sheriff’J. A. McCurdy
and County Warden W. 8. Mc-
Curdy, who say they found fifty
cars of coal standing on the Belt
Junction siding. ¢
They immediately took over
enough of the fuel to relieve suf
fering among prisoners in the De-
Kaib County jail, after which
they began to distribute the re
maindes to consumers who called
with baskets, buckets and carts.
Dr. W. 8. Ansley, county fuel
administrator, approved of the
action regarding coal for prison
ers, but believed the public had
been relleved earlier in the day
when a car from the Atlantic fce
and Coal Corporation ‘had been
distributed in lots of 500 pounds
to each person. Mr. Freeman,
hcwever, contended that this car
did not meet the demand.
The number of the car from
which the coal was taken was
record and the owner will be
raimbursed. Records are bem':
kept by the officials, and coal
being distributed to t{xole who
are unable to pay for i e
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AT HAVANA,
FIRST—Six furlongs; Brown Prince
111 (Cummins), 2, even, 1 to 2, won;
King of Scarlets 88 (Lunsford), % to 2,
2, even, second; Thesieres 111 (Hill),
6,2, even, third. Time, 1:21. DT,
Nickell, Loulse Green, Dainty Mint,
Frasculo also ran,
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Carranza Seeking
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Treaty With Japan
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12,—The Car
ranza Government in Mexico is anx
fous to negotiate a preferential treaty
with Japan. A commission now is
on its way to Toklo for that pur
pose.
The mission headed by former Con
sul General Burns of New York, and
including General Buche, chief of
staff under President Porfirio Diaz;
Senor Frago, Mexican Consul Gener
’al to Japan, and four others, now are
en route -n a Japanese steamer, |
~ State Department officlals said to
idx‘._v they had complete knowledge of
the Mexican mission,
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Grocers Allowed to
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Deliver on Sunday
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‘ Numerous grocerymen called The
’Georgian Saturday to say that be
cause of the weather they were get
ting far behind on their deliveries,
and suggested that this newspaper
find out if it would be possible te
obtain permission to make belated de
liveries of groceries Sunday morning.
The matter was proposed to Mayor
Candler, who sald that he gladly
would grant such permission if the
grocers would take up the situation
with him and make formal request ot
him.
Little Girl Burned
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By Scalding Water
Mabel Sears, 6, of No. 111 Jefferson
street, was taken back to her home
Saturday afternoon after being treat
ed at the Grady Hospital for burns:
received from scalding water at her
home eariier in the day.
The child was painfully but not
dangerously scalded.
CAPPER OFFERS REWARDS. ’
TOPEKA, KANS., Jan. 12.—Gov
ernor Capper today placed a price of
S3OO upon the head of each person
arrested and conv.cted of participa
tion in the murder of Army Bankl
employees at Camp Funston last
night.
FINAL EDITION
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WONAN 13
FZEN 10
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f Forecast: Fair Saturday might '}
and Sunday; temperature near §
zero Sunday morning; Sufl_*_‘ 3
afternoon not so cold. o
E Temperatures: 6a. m., 5;'.?
' m., 7; 10 a. m,, 9; 12 noon, 10; 1§
{ p. m., 10; 2 p. m,, 10, -'&;: :
i Sunrise, 6:44; sunset, 4:49., = ¢
| The coldest woather of the wmmf-'
6 degrees at sunrise Saturday m@‘
| ing—brought death and intense d&*
sering to Atlanta. »“%
Mrs. M. J. C. Calceran, an ‘agéd
flower woman, who ran a small shép
at No. 29 Kelly street, was h?(.
dead in her little home, evidently
having expired while trying to mh
a fire of bits of wood in a uny stuve
’in the living room. ’"'
Hundreds of persons storm 3 ‘
priority coal bureau at City fira
desperate attempt to get fuel. tHOES.
Kennedy could give them the plignily
cards, but little hope of getting them
filled, for the delivery problem was
at its worst. The Proctor Company
had 500 tons early in the mornlfl;,
but had no way of delivering a‘!jfl’n‘
scales had broken down so it wa# be-"
ing measured out in baskets. ' =
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Little Relief in Sight. -
There is little relief from the
spell in sight. The sun came out
bright and clear Saturday m \q‘
but' gave little warmth. The ‘Wiible
country is experiencing the .\‘ u
cold wave in years, if not in thg“ if
ord of the weather bureau. Q
The entire South is ice-bound and
telegraph and railroad companies re
experiencing the greatest of dis “"
The Western Union, following Ftigy
night's gale, had only four A :u,
working out of Atlanta = Saturday
morning. "
At sunrise the official mark sag B
degrees above zero. At 9 o'clock &
was 7—almost no warmer, A 24-mile
breeze from the West put' an edg §
the chill, too. \\’
Wind and Cold Here. . AL, 5
Saturday morning was one of the
coldest in Atlanta’'s weather hlltmi"s%
It followed a wild night. On .the.
heels of a savage rainstorm ,5
afternoon the wind picked up o .of
the Southwest until it was whi [
off signs and smashing windows and
turning pedestrians wrongside it
the rate of 60 miles an hour—gettin i
into the edge of the hurricane elass,
This savage gait was achievul P,
7:30 o'clock, and maintained so: ne
time, but finally moderated a 9
All through the night, howevat, e
wind bit and tore at the shutters,| na
whipped the leafless trees into visible:
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Aged Woman Found:~
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The first death in Atlanta fromsthe
severe cold was reported 8&i w
morning, when Mrs. M. J. C, Cals"
ceran, 70 years old and a resid \i .
the city for fifty years, was "‘\‘g“
dead in her home at No. 29 ‘Wel ;
street. The body was discovered By
Policeman Asa Dodd, who went to
the little home following reportg ;*_‘" ;
neighbors that they had seen no Hght
and no smoke at the aged woman's
cottage since Friday evening. ‘The
policeman broke down the door and
found Mrs. Calceran’s frozen b@f\ 3
the floor beside a tiny stove. e
A nephew, F. O. Watts, whao !
one of several houses owned by
Calceran, at No. 368 Woody i,
nue, told the police that he 9
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