The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-24
NEWS AND NOTES,
The Homestead strike cost the State
of PENNSYLVANIA S434, $780,

The Homestead strike cost the State
of Pennsylvania S494, $3.50.
in the town of Fairhaven during
1892, there were fifty seven births, forty
two deaths and twenty marriages.
Miss Aggie Williamson of New
Haven, recently completed bed-quilt
with 4,032 pieces.
-Woodstock paid $107 for sheep killed
by dogs, and received SS0.34 from the
town liquor agency. 1t paid S2,606.7S
for the support of its poor. and $4,000
for the maintenance of its highways.
Michael Hynes has bought the Pad
dock iron foundry and machiae shop, at
st. Johnsbury, together with four shares
in the water power, for $1,000. He has
offered the village his shares in the water
power for 81 900 share.
"A bad case of cruelty to animals is
reported rom Salisbury. Two residents
of that town were teaming, when one of
the horses refused TO draw. 1t was
thereupon pounded till it died. The
Humane Society has taken the case for
consideration.
Hon. C. b. Eddy of Bellows Falls, at
one time the leading criminal lawyer of
the State, who, some six months ago,
went to the insane asylum, at Brattle-
boro, for treatment, being at that time
mildly insane and nervous wreck, has
returned home much improved.
Plans of the Military Post near Es-
sex Junction, as prepared by Capt Geo.
E. Pond, have been approved by the
Quartermaster General, as have also the
plans and estimates for sewers, roads
water works for the same. Specitica-
lions are being rapidly prepared and the
work will be advertised at an early date,
so that active operations can be com
menced as quickly as the season will per-
nit.
Miss Lucinda Haskell Hayden, whose
death occurred at Hayden's in Windsor,
Conn, recently at the age of 81 years,
died in the house where she was born.
Whe she was years old she saw her
great grandfather, Nathaniel Hayden.
then "a, who, when 4 years old, had
climbed the knees of his grandfather,
Daniel Hayden, who was born in Con-
necticut in 1910.
The mortality among railway en-
ployes is something frightful, and the
demand for corrective measures is i'm
perative. Last year, for instance, there
were 1890 employees of railroad compan-
les killed and 20, 40 wounded. For four
years the figures are 9,153 killed SS,7l2
wounded. Gen. Hawley, in dis ussing
this matter in connection with the labor
bill to compel the use of automatic coup
lers, in the Senate the other day said /:
"They say they cannot agree as to what
should be done, and inasmuch as people
cannot agree about what TO do il is bet
ter to do nothing. There | differ with
them again. | would, as a part of this
great government, imperatively com
mand all railroad companies engaged in
int state traffic to do something in this
line within two years. l do not know
what, but know they can do something.
/ know that the present insufferable
barbarous, stupid and murderous condi-
ton of things is not a necessity in the
face OF the illimitable ingenuity of Amer
lean mechanics and American inventors
There are certain improvements and il
they amount to the saving of five OF
eight thousand lives or wounds year
they are worth trying, and then mex
year do something better. am not a
all troubled about interfering with othe
peoples business. This is the business
of the whole country; it is the business
of the thing called government.