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with a bilious attack for a couple Of
weeks, but is improving.
FAIRS and excursions have greatly in
creased the passenger traffic on the
Lebanon Springs railroad. EN
THE City band is furnishing the music
at the Manchester fair which opens to-
day and continues three days.
FRED THOMAS has been suffering for g
few days from a severe attack of illness
and at one time his condition was con
sidered quite critical.
CURTIS D. SWEET, who recently sold
out his meat market to F. S. Perry, has
repurchased an interest and the firm will
be known hereafter as Sweet & Perry.
REMEMBER the 'Dazzler'' at the Opera
House, Thursday evening. The Free
Press says it was so good comedy thai
the company repeated the performance
MISSES LIZZIE THEBARGE and Annie
Gallipo are spending few days in New
York visiting sister of the former
They will also visit in Providence, R. l.
THE Rev. W. W. Foster, jr.. and wife
were in town last week. On Wednesday
evening, at Senator Gibson's reception
Mr.. Foster had an opportunity of meet
ing many of his friends in town.
On Monday the Misses Richardson
went to Troy, n. Y, Miss Richardson tC
resume her school, and her sister for a
short visit, during the rector's absence
in Burlington, this week.
ENos ADAMS has begun the work OF
painting his brick block on South street.
This is one of the oldest brick buildings
in the village, having been erected by
Mr.. Adams in 1S49, and this will be the
first time it has been painted.
MISS EssA MOORE of Pittsburgh, N.
Y, who has been visiting her brother,
Frank Moore, on Depot street, has gone
to Cam bridge, N. Y, to teach in the
High school at that place. Miss Moore
is graduate of the Normal school at
Plattsburgh, N. Y.
The first accident in years in the Hoo
sac Tunnel occurred Saturday night.
One freight train crashed into another
and two men were killed. Others were
injured and one died the next day. The
disaster was due to the giving of wrong
signal at the west end of the tunnel, and
the responsibility therefor lies between
the operators at the two entrances. APP
parently the man at the west end changed
the disc from red to white without hav-
ing received word that the first train had
passed out of the tunnel; and apparent
ly also the same thing might easily have
happened in the case of two passenger
trains or passenger and a freight.
Where the best system of signals is de-
pendent upon human agency for its oper-
alton, a slip or failure is always liable to
happen. The Tribune remarks: ga
thorough Investigation of the cause of
this accident is in order, and the question
whether automatic signals should not be
employed at the tunnel is one for the
company and the Railroad Commission
ers to consider with care"
THE situation here shows that Prohi.
bition does prohibit where public senti-
ment backs the officers elected to enforce
our liquor law. Following the seizures
of Thursday and Friday the sellers of
the ardent were notified Saturday that
all selling must cease or they would be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
In some cases seizures were followed by
return to selling almost as soon as the
officers were out of sight. The events of
the day before Saturday had scared the
saloon men considerably, and the order,
which was general, was observed and
since o'clock Saturday evening every
thing has been closed. 1t is announced
that in the future every seller will lave
to stand the consequences himself, and
that second Offenses may be looked for
in the future. A Troy exchange is au-
thority for saying that the "liquor bust
ness in Bennington has not been in such
demoralized condition in years as it is
now" and 1T is equally as certain that
those who signed the law and order plat
form at the Mass Temperance meeting,
Sunday evening, comprising our most
substantial citizens and business men,
mean business. q
THE Steamship miranda" which
left New York July 18th, carrying DR..
Cooks Arctic expedition, came in con-
tact with an iceberg off the coast of
Greenland, July 18th. August 9th, the
steamer struck a sunken rock outside
the harbor of Holstenborg, Iceland, and
a large hole was stove in her bottom I'M
der water. The steamer was gotten back
port $50 miles away, safely, where it
was abandoned. A relief party set out
from Sukkor Tophan to Holstenborg,
140 miles distant, with five Esguimaux,
in an open sail boat. for assistance. Sew
eral American fishing vessels were re-
ported to be in that neighborhood. The
journey was made in five days under
very stormy conditions. Couriers in the
native kayaks were sent north and south
along the coast The schooner Rigel,
by chance, was met with. Captain Dix
on generously responded to the Iappeal
of the explorers and returned to Sukkor
Tophan with the Miranda's party. Cap
tain Farrell of the Miranda arranged with
Captain Dixon that his company should
pay $4,000 for carrying the passengers
home, this being fair recompense for
the loss of the schooner's crew in aban-
doning her fishing trip. The crew and of
ticers were transferred at daylight on
August 23d to the Rigel, and the Miriam
da was left to her fate. Ninety-one per-
sons were crowded into the cabin and
hold of the schooner, which was of 107
tons burden, and ninety-nine feet long.
Two meals day were allowed to all
All arrived at North Sidney, G. B., Sep
TENDER 5th, and all were well. Captain
Dixon the owner and commander of the
schooner Rigel, is nephew of Maj. L.
S. Frost of this village. He was on his
way to the fishing bank off the coast of
Iceland, where he was to fish for halibut
On the return from one of his last trips,
Captain Dixon brought $4,000 pounds
of dried halibut with him.
THERE is merchant in this village
who is Republican of the most agrees
sive kind. He never lost chance to as
,art bic Do0,Il;oo.z:.., 1905. =. IL 1t