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The Bicycle Relay Race.

Messrs. Simmons and Loop, advance
agents for the Troy Press bicycle relay
race, arrived home Friday shortly before
o'clock, having completed the circuit
from Troy to Rutland and return. The
course measures 2O4 5-S miles over the
route taken.
They made all the necessary advance ar
rangements aCd now only the measuring
out of the distances and setting up the
markers is to be done.
The wheelmen in Vermont are taking
much interest in the race and the con-
testants will have quite an ovation while
on their way through the State. Rutland
and Manchester wheelmen are already
making arrangements to meet and escort
them. The wheelmen in Arlington will
also be prepared for them, and Walling-
ford will send quite delegation toward
Rutland to meet them. Bennington
wheelmen will probably do honor to the
occasion, the first one of the kind ever
started by a newspaper.
Inc route through mere Will DC from
North Bennington by the main road, up
North street to the Putnam corner and
out through West Main street and over
the stone road. Arrangements have
been made for making known in advance
the time that the relay will pass through
here.
The complete list of managers in Yer
mont is II. d. Cleaveland, iRutland 10
Manchester; J. NJ. Marbury and b. Il.
Mattison of Manchester, Manchester
to. Bloomington: J. Elmer Ayres, Ben
nington to Potter Hill, and Captain Bond
OF Troy from Potter Hill to Press Office.
In several places sandy spots will be
covered 10y riders on tandem wheels to
make the required time. The complete
list of riders will be selected by the man
ayers early next week. Over some por-
lions of the route, where the roads are
bad or where there is heavy grade, the
five-mile relays will be covered by sever.
al riders and signs will be placed show
ing where the changes will be made.
The riders along the Eastern route are
enthusiastic over the race and are taking
much interest in the time to be made.
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A Warning to MiIkmen.

Milkman Blackham of Stamford, Conn.
is in Jail on the charge of manslapghter.
Stamford a. short time ago had an cpl
demic of typhoid fever-iOO cases, of
which q resulted in death-and it is
claimed that 1t was due to infected milk
sold by Blackham. The specific charge
on which he has been arrested is that of
manslaughter, in that he caused the
death OF John f. King, one of the VIC
tins, by selling milk containing the spe-
cific poison, or germs of typhoid.
The epidemic was clearly traced to the
infection of the milk sold by Blackham.
The bacilli of typhoid was found in the
milk and also IN the water of well on
his premises. He admitted that had
been accustomed to wash his milk cans
with this water, and it may be that he al
so adulterated the milk with it. 1t was
shallow well, and the surface of the wa
ter was only little below the surface of
the ground around it. 1t was plain
enough that sewage from a receptacle
within a few feet of this well had been
going into it, and the receptacle was
within few feet of group of dirty hab-
itations in which there had recently been
one or more cases of typhoid. 1t is said
it was admitted by the milkman chat he
regarded the well water as too foul to be
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Serious Accident.

Roland Mathers, son of HAL Mathers,
young man about 20 years old, en-
ployed in the carding room at the mill of
II. E. Bradford e Co., met with an acct
dent Monday afternoon, that will prob
ably cause him the loss of his left arm.
By some way the arm was caught by the
machinery and drawn into it, and several
minutes elapsed before it could be re-
leased, some of the machinery having to
be taken apart first. The arm was terri
bly, torn from the wrist, every muscle and
artery being pulled apart or torn open.
He was brought to the Jtfice of DR.. Rog-
ers, who with DR.. Chisholm, dressed the
wounded arm. They have but little
hopes of being able to save it. DR.. Rog-
ers reports this morning that Mathers is
doing as well as could be expected.
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Rev. Louis Mcdonald, one of the old
est graduates of Middlebury College
and probably the oldest Episcopal clergy
man in the State. died at the BrattlebOro
retreat Sunday. His body was taken to
Middlebury yesterday for burial. He was
born in Mddlebury in 1902, served as
deacon in Rutland in 1926, and became
rector of Trinity church, Shelburne, in
1892 He was committed to the retreat
in 1874 where he has since remained and
where he was one of the oldest patients.
He has been supported from the diocesan
fund for aged and infrm clergy for many
years.
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Financially Embarrassed.

j. S. Lindley for some years well
known contractor and builder here, is fl
nancially embarrassed and the prospects
are that he will eventually go into bank
ruptcy. An attachment in favor of Chas.
Morse, for many years an employee, was
served Friday last. The amount claimed
by Mr.. Morse is $500. Up to this morn
ing no other attachment had been served,
although it has been currently reported
that there are others that were ready to
be served but were being held Off. His
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ANOTHER ACCIDENT.

At North Bennington last evening, as
Frank Carr was driving his colt from the
yard of J.. o. Bangs, with boy in the
tTo-wheeled dog-cart with him, the $50
train from Troy came up, which fright
ened the horse, and,he was not able to
manage it, 1t ran before the train and
all were capsized, Mr. Carr being taken
up unconscious and badly bruised. The
boy, Mark McGovern, ten or eleven years
old, was quite severely bruised the horse
injured, teeth knocked out and other
wise battered, so that it will be some
time before it can recover. The boy was
senseless for some time and was taken
home in dazed condition, but it is
thought will soon be about. The acct
dent occurred at the first crossing above
the depot.
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used for drinking, although he though 1t
was good enough to be used for washing
his milk cans.
1t isn't at all likely that this milkman
is guilty of anything more than ignor.
ance and carelessness and lack of regard
for cleanliness, but he will not have suf-
fered in vain if the attention of milkmen
generally and of the public is directed to
the sanitary principles and laws which
he violated and which so many other per-
sons ignorantly and carelessly disregard.
Burlington News.
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Notice to Churches andI Societies.

Hereafter patrons of the BANNER job
Office will receive notices in the locals,
proper, free as heretofore, All Others
will be charged ten &c ats line in the
business notices. This rule applies to
Obituary Resolutions of Societies or
Lodges, and to all entertainments o.
whatever name or nature where there is
a fee asked for admittance, and the OBJ
ject is to make money, whether adver-
tised in the name of an organization,
committee or individual. ~
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Work Wanted,

Any intelligent man or woman seeking
employment and ambitious to make
from $40 to $50 monthly, can secure the
same by addressing Globe Bible Publish
inc Co.. 723 Chestnut street, Phila., Pa.
No capital required. nor stamp for reply.
Young man or woman wishing to earn a
few hundred dollars in the next two
months preferred. Alto"
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Dc Watch the date opposite yoT
name on this paper. 1t ShOloS that yOor
subscription is credited on our books TO
hat date. little date is not changed with
in a fen days from the time a remittance Is
made, notify the publishers.
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Bicycle Stolen.

A Victor Bicycle, high frame, flyer,
1894 pattern, metal rims, No. $1,000,
Taken from front piazza of residence on
Pleasant street, Sunday night, June 10th.
Liberal reward will be paid for any in
formation that will lead to its recovery.
II. D. Fillmore, Bennington, vt. 43t2*
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A furnished house. containing eight
rooms, pleasantly located on principal
street, a gentleman and wife or very
small family preferred Rent might be
offset with board. Party applying
must be of good moral character, apply
ct the BANNER Office. 3Stt"
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wnnt Your stove stored2

J. Ed. Walbrdge viii come and get
your stove and store it until you are
ready to have it set up, and then return
it to You all BACKED up in nice shape.
Bennington has long needed something
of this kiud. Your money back if not
satisfied,
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employees who were at work on various
houses in the village stopped work Sat-
urday night, but the men in the mill and
the masons on F. o. Graves house are
yet at work.
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Notice,

The stockholders of the Bennington and Rut
land Railway Company are hereby notified that
the annual meeting of said company and the cleo
ton of directors and other officers OF said com
pany necessary to be elected by the stockholders
will be held and made at the First National Bank
Of North Bennington on the first Tuesday end
day) of July a. b. 1895, at II o'clock i'll the fore
noon. 900
Dated at Bennington, VI, June ith, 1895.
1918 G.. W. IIANMAN. Clerk.
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Came into the enclosure of the sub
scribers Ton the DR.. Clark farm), a yearl-
ing heifer The owner is requested 10
prove property, pay charges and take her
away. MISSES CLARK.
Bennington, June 18th, 1895,
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BENNINGTON BANNER.

Single copies of the Banner, In
Wrappers for Mailing If Desired
TWO Gents.
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NOTICE.

INCONSISTENCIES OITIE.
Estate of JOHN II. DAVIS.
The undersigned, having Decn appointed by the
Hon Probate Court for the District of Bennington,
Commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands all persons against the estate
of John H. Davis late of Bennington, in
said district deceased and all claims exhibited IN
offset thereto hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at the
residence of henry Thompson in Bennington,
on the 18th day of Nov. next, from until
p. NJ, of said day, and that six months
from the 2Sth day of May. A d. 1895, is the
time limited by said Court for said creditors to
prcsen; their claims to for examination and al
lowance,
Dated at Bennington. this Sd day of June,
A. D. 1895 -
HENRY STAFFORD.
HENRY G.. THOMPSON.
80 Commissioners,
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Two nice, cozy tenements, designed
for man and wife or small families. APP
ply to S. Ii. lockwood, 230 Union street.
42tf#
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SPECIAL BUSINESS LOCALS.

ng@Ladies' Bicycle for sale. Used
but part of last season, as good as new.
Will be sold cheap. Jennie L. Herring
ton, corner of Main and Depot streets.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
" Estate Of JOEL c. STAFFORD.
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District Of Ben
nington. COMM SSIONERS, to receive, examine
aud adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Joel c. Stafford, late of
Stamford. in said district deceased. and all
claims exhibited in offset thereto. hereby give
notice that we will meet for the purposes afore-
said lat the Town Clerks office in Stamford,On the
2g-h day of Aug. and Goth day of November,
next fiOm o'clock p. m until ! o'clock p. M
each Of said days. aud that six months from the
2Oth day Of MAY, A D.. 1895, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present their
cleims 10 us for examination and allowance.
a. D., 1895.
OBED HALL,
S. w. WEBSTER,
Al ommissiOners.
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Notice,

The stockholders of the Bennington and elias
tenDury Company are hereby notified that the
annual meeting OF said company and the election
of directors and other officers of said company
necessary to be elected by the stockholders, will
be held and MADE at George W. Harman's office
in Bennington, Vermont, on the first Tuesday
end day. Of July, a, D., 1895, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon.
Dated at Bennington, Vt. June 18th, 1895
3lt3 q. W HARMAN, Clerk.
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For Sale,

A house and four building lots. Bar
gain, for cash Apply to John c. Clark,
3Ol Grove street. 9m3*
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Wood For Sale.
EStraY.

Few cords of summer wood, dry, foI
sale cheap. Inquire at Pottery. 42t4*
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~B1Preserve a copy of the Supplement
for future reference. Ten cents.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11
water Electric Conductor.

Mr.. Edison's inventive faculty
often runs in fanciful grooves.
Some time ago he evolved an
elaborate scheme for the electrical
defense of fort. He contended
that half the ordinary complement
of guns could DO dispensed With
and in their stead he would install
a powerful dynamo. The current
from this machine wonld be con-
Quoted by wires to the nozzles OF
hose, carrying heavy stream OF
water under high pressure. These
would be placed on the ramparts
and as the enemy approached the
jet would be turned on. As wa ter
is q good conductor, the stream
would be heavily charged with
electricity of fatal power and every
map within its radius would be
killed. An Auburn ex--alierman
has Just escaped what might have
been unpleasant consequences from
seeking to experiment in the same
field of electrical conduction. He
was wetting down his lawn with
the garden hose when he became
suddenly possessed with a desire to
''shoot" at the trolly wire, and he
would have done it but for the
timely arrival of the lineman, who
advised him not to. He has since
been consulting electrical author;--
ties on the subject, and, although
theresis no certainty that person
Ewho throws wafer, on an electrical
trolly wire will get shock, the
alderman has, come to the con-
clusion that he will not try it.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11
They Cry for Protection

London Trnth, commenting upon
the engagement between the Dnke
of Marlborough and Miss Wander
bilt:
"British mammas and their
daughters win soon he clamoring
for protection if all the. prizes In
the marriage market are to fall to
the Americanldamsels. The mania
for title inherent in the Anglo
Saxon it is vain to contend against.
But the matter, is somewhat serious
to the United States That country
must be great loser through ths
accumulation of it's wealth crossing
the ocean. and the United States
will do we'll to manufacture the
coveted titles Mt home for It is q
wooden nutmeg that is easily
bought. The existence of titles, it
is true, is not in accordance With
the simplicity of republican insti-
tutions, but in view Of the heavy
drain, this might be overlooked
and the parents of any girl might
he allowed to buy her a title, say
for 100000 pounds. The public
treasury would thus be filled with
dollars and the girl would remain
at home. There would be still the
difficulty of inding husbands in
the home market, for the Ameri-
cans are as strongly opposed to be-
coming rich through their ladies as
the British noblemen are in favor
of this mode of enrichment. "
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

The immense Frog Tank dam on
which work is now being energet-
ically pushed under the superin-
tendendency of R. r Coleman, i.is
q center Of greater activity at pres
ent than ever before. Nearly 200
men are at work, and it is said
preparatory work will be complet-
ed ty the first of the year. On its
inauguration one of the gra ldes'
water storage enterprises IN the
west will be given Arizona, while
the productive area il will reclaim
will be ia a;alculable ana serve also
as an argument for similar waite,
storage propositions elsewhere il
the territory. j Journal-Miner.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

3
It is said by persons who have
extensive information that Senator
Sherman is worth somewhere about
fifty million dollars, and that he
controls more bank stock than any
living man. Whether this is true
we cannot say, but it is well known
that he is among the wealthy mon
of the world. The crime of 1873
probably hurt him less than any
other living man.. Mr.. Hooper of
the House, and Knox Of the Treas
ury Department. are said not to
have been injured This trio of
patriots should be remembered.
The Bank of England has had Mr..
Sherman's picture in its gallery for
some years, and recently Mr..
Cleveland's reposes by it's side.
Great is gold, greta is greed.-Sil-
yer Knight.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

1t takes live men to make a
town Dead men are only fit to
inhabit old cemetalies, says the
Las Vegas Optic, Ii they are
really, decidedly dead, all over,
they should be tenderly laid away
in 9 tomb. If they are dead to
enterprise and spirit. outside the
narrow lines of their own seltis b
interest and yet persist in walking
around moving their calloused
heart and conscience where bust
ness is wanted to push and throb
with vigor, they are only like the
drone bees--in the way, until they
are stung to death and dragged out
side the hive of legitimate industry
T velve really live men are worth
more to town generally than a
round thousand of such useless ma
terial that lies around like rubbish
in a stream that is aching and
foaming to run factories and mills.
Live men bless and dead men curse
town.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

The dowager empress of China
has had q romantic history. She
was an extremely beautiful girl,
che daughter of poor rarents who
lived in the suburbs of Canton.
When the family was starving, she,
knowing her commercial value
persuaded her parents to sell her
as slave. She was purchased by
a renowned general, who, delighted
with her beauty. disposition and
general cleverness, adopted and
educated her as his daughter
When, later, the general was sum
.moned to Pekin, he could think Of
no finer gift to offer his sovereign
Il al his daughter. The emperor
|foand herjso charming that he, made
her his wife. When her husband
died, in 1888, this slave-empress
became regent. the present em
peror being only Z years old. She
found Chine crippled by debt and
torn by internal rebellions, yet five
years ago, when she handed over
the governing power to her son
peace and prosperity reigned
throughout the vast empire.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

~ +.
Owing to the fact that the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company has
already commenced to divert travel
to It's roate via Nev Orleans, says
the, Albuquerque Citizen. .of the
Goth nlt,,tbe sSapte Eea Company
will within enn month from this
date be,reads, to put ON asfAst linn
tad express train from Ghifaagn to
iLos Angeles sThsfiraiue viii, make
the run.oin three days, i hltshse thereby
shortening the present tipe two
days. - .rss i3i=. Sl.-rs
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

Il, OF $500 bank presidents we
know of but two who are not gold
monometallists. While the heads
OF moneyed institutions, capitalists,
bond and mortgage holders are so
unanimously in favor of having
gold only as legal tender the pro
ducers of all the wealth should
fully understand that their In
terests and prosperity cannot be
safely intrusted to the keeping of
those who are concentrating in a
few hands the enormous wealth of
this great country. If this condi-
ton of things does not wake up
farmers, miners, manufacturers,
mechanics and wage earners and
bring them in body to the polls
to assert their rights and secure
their prosperity they deserve to be
aved.-Cincinnati Inquirer.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11
A bachelor editor of an exchange

A bachelor editor of an exchange
weeps thusly: Backward, turn
backward, oh time, in thy fight
feed me on Cruel again just for to
night. I am so weary Of sole-
leather steak, petri6sd doughnut
vulcenized cake; oysters that sieeE
in the watery bath, butter as strone
as Gollah or Gath; weary of paying
for what I can't eat. chewing uE
rubber and calling it meat. Back
wara, turn backward, for weary ]
am! Give me q whack at my
grAndmother's jam; let me drink
milk that has never been SKINNED;
let me eat butter whose hair has
been trimmed, let me once more
have an old fashioned pie and then
I'll be willing to curl up and die
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

I What do the goldites mean Wit n
they say the governments, must re-
tire The 'greenbaeksiands go ont OF
the 'bxnking businesssal They mean
chat che United States shall get
out IL the governing businsss,F and
surrender the sovereign power to
coin money and regulate the value
hereof to the national banks, and
pay the national banks interest on
the money which The national banks
loan to the publis at such interest
as avarrice may dictate. Silver
Knight. e s.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11


:. The common objection among
-womankind TO letting their age be
knownyis not shared by the ladies
of JAPAN who actually. display
their, number of years in the ar
rangenent of their hair. Girls
from 9 to l5 wear their hair inter
laced with red Grape in a semi
circle around the head, the fore
head being left free with curl on
each side. From the age of 10 tc
80 the hair is dressed very high on
the forehead and gathered up a'
the back in the shape of a butter
fly or fan, with twistings of silver
cord and perhaps decoration o.
colored balls. Beyond the mile
stone of 80 a woman twists hel
hair around 9 shell pin placed hor-
izontally at the back of the head
Quite, differently again, widow
arranges her coiffure, initiated are
able to tell at a glance whether she
wishes to marry again or not.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

Prospector. With his cattle fat,
his ranges covered with magni6-
cent pasturage, the cattlemen will
enter the winter With an easy mind,
knowing that when the spring
opens he can get good round
prices for all the cattle he possesses.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11


When the wife of the late Sir
Bartle Frere had to meet him at
the railway station, she took With
her ser 1ant who had never seen
his master. you must go and
look for Sir Bartle," she ordered i.
"But," answered the -plused
servant, show shall / know him ~
"Oh," said Lady Frere, '.look fora
tall gentleman helping somebody.
The description was sufficient for
the quick-witted+ man. He vent
and found Sir Bartle Frere helping
an old lady out OF ! a railway car :
riage. and knew him at once BY
the description.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11

A few days ago an item appear
ed in the Courier telling OF the
finding of silver ore near the sub
urbs of PRESCOTT valued at 600
ounces of silver per ton. George
Merwin showed the reporter a
piece Of the ro.k, visited the place
where it was picked up, saw more
of the ore scattered around and
evidences that that an ancient
smelter had been on the spot, as
Stag was scattered here and there.
Saturday Thos. Simmons went
with Mr.. Merwin to the place and
Simmons states that he camped on
the spot 81 years ago and that
then he saw ruins of an ancient
smelter on the ground and no resi-
dent of this section knew of the
origin of the smelter.-Courier.
Mesa free press., 1895-10-11
A New York woman Wh

A New York woman who was
bitten by q dog worried herself 70
death over . fear Of hydrophobia.
This is not At ail unususE Fear
iis, potent agent In producing
nervous diseases nearly akinsto the
dread malady. Several persons
bitten by the same dog from fear
of whose bite this woman died are
alive and well.