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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05
WAIVED EXAMINATION.
Xavier Barber Was Taken to st. Al.
bans Jail Tuesday.

East Fairfield March 2.-Xavier Bar
Der who shot and dangerously wounded
Cortis Wells at Bakersfield, Saturday
night, was arraigned before Justice w. III.
Smalley IN East Fairfield this afternoon,
charged with assault with intent to kin
When asked to plead he waived examine
ton and was placed under $40 900 bonds fer
appearance at the April term of court.
states Attorney Chase of East Fair
held appeared for the State and Fred S.
Tupper for the respondent. Barber will
be taken to the county Jail at St. Aibans
on Tuesday.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05
ACCIDENT ON THE 8. AND |.
A Passenger Train Narrowly Escapes . s.
rious Wreck.

AS a result OF tho sudden freshet of the
last two or three days the train due here
at II o'clock at noon all but met with an
accident Moarisy which narrowly es-
capped proving fatal AS It was about ono
half mile east of Jericho tho engineer
James Campbell, felt the driving wh)els
sinking under him and Immediately OPEN
ed the throttle wide and dashed ahead.
The train consisted OF milk car, baggage
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05

car, and passenger coach, and the latter
Jumped the track and sitS down the 20
toot embankment dragging the rear truol,
tne baggage cur with 1t. The baggage car
was pulled on the track and the train ar
rived mere two hours and 45 minutes late.
Ihe cause of the accident was a bad
noio unoer the track which had been made
by the water but over which there was a
slight crust of earth. giving very deceit.
iul appearance. The hole was about 10 feet
deep and % feet long and it Is very for
tunate that no one was hurt
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05
The w. G. r. u. will furnish dinner for
Tho ,otorr tn,,,n ranonlinn day

The w. c. r. U. will furnish dinner for
the voters town meeting day.
Town meeting Tuesday was well attend
ed Notwithstanding the storm. Among
e,pser business done, 1t was voted to fin
q ,he basement of the town hall, en-
n 1t, etc Voted to use the basement
IS Iolley hall for the fire department,
"a ed to use 10 per cent of the highway
- on the sidewalks in the village. Voted
- TX of 1856 cents on the grand list of 1896
y ted to pay the taxes to the town treas
~ If. Voted $50 for Memorial day--G. p.
lby received word Tuesday that his
other Asa Colby in Warren was found
. nd In bed Tuesday morning.-The storm
!, at ragged here all day Tuesday and Tues
s ~ night was the severest of the season.
A. l.. Cain Is in the Queen City this week
on business.-The party who started the
story that gold had been found In Bristol
must have drawn somewhat on his imagi-
nation.-George w. Sneedon and Seraph
c. Prime were married Tuesday evening
at the residence of Mrs. John Callahan, on
West street. Both are we'll known here
The bride is a teacher in the graded
school-T'he w G. T. u. took in about N7
Tuesday furnishing dinners to the voters.
George Cole and wife have moved into
Mrs. Norton's house on East street.-John
Whitney and wife have moved into the
Bristol and Danforth house on Garfield
street.-Two prominent citizens of Bristol
induged in n little scrap on the street
Monday. A bloody nose and a scratched
face was the result.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05
WHITING.

Miss Minnie Taylor, who has been sick
with consumption two years, is now con-
fined to her bed.-There are a few cases of
measles in town. Miss Tulma Chamber
lin and Allie Matot are among the sick
ones.-Mr Peter Blodgett spent Sunday In
town. He has rented his house to Mr..
Fred Brown, who will take possession
April l. Mr. Blodgett will move to Forest
Dale.-An entertainment will be given at
the hall on Friday next by the young peo-
pie of Mrs. II. Cooks school at Leices-
ter Junction.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05

Moderator, w. c. Doane clerk and treas
urer George u. Monteith; selectmen, o.
n. Wilson, B. T. Oher and c. N. Earring
ton; overseer of poor, s. D. Whiting: first
constable. w. @. Jones'; second, A. d.
Robbins; listers. 8. ID. Whiting H. A.
Mudgett. and v. A. Patch; superintend-
ents Poor Farm association, o. H. Wilson.
o. B. Landon and N. A. Waterman;
trustee of public money. I. L. Pearl; audi
tors. 0. B. Landon, N. A. Waterman and
II. M. Maxtield; fence viewers. II. A.
Waterman, w. G. Doane and George w.
Continued on the Cd pase.)
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-05

Mrs. NJ c. Gage closed successful
years work of school at Barnumtown last
Friday. At the c.ose her pupils presented
their appreciation and esteem.-Charfes s.
Meader. our new merchant, took posses
sion OF the store at the Ridge March O.
C. j. Kingsley. our former merchant, will
move to Salisbury this week.-Walter
Young Of South Starksboro has taken pos
session OF the farm formerly owned by
Meader brothers.-Mr. David Da.ton Is the
father of fine boy, born February 10.
NEW HAVEN.
The programme for the farmers insti-
tute last Thursday and Friday was altered
somewhat to accommodate the convention
of the Addison county Y. p. s. c. e.,
CONTINUED on 9th page)
The record-union., 1896-03-24

greater the wrong, and the more rea-
son why greater care should be exer-
cised in the publication of personal
items. No newspaper has any right to
trifie with the reputation of any citizen
or by careleSSneSS or reckleSSneSS to in
jure his good name and fame or buSi-
ness. And the reporter of a newspaper
has no more right to collect the stories
on the street, or even to gather informa-
tion from policemen or magistrates, out
of court, about a citizen, and to his
detriment, and publish such stories and
information and facts in a newspaper,
than has person not connected with
a newspaper to whisper from ear to ear
the gossip and scandal of the street If
true, such publication or such speak
ing may be privileged, but if false the
newspaper, as well as the citizen, must
be responsible to anyone who is wronged
and damaged thereby.
1T is indignity enough for an honest
man to be arrested and put in prison for
an offense of which he is innocent, and
for which indignity times he has no
redress, without being further subjected
to the wrong and outrage of a false pub
| lication of the circumstances of such
/ an arrest and Imprisonment, looking
toward his guilt without remedy. And
no sophistry of reasoning, and no ex-
cuse of the demand of the public for
news, or of the popularity and magni-
ktTde of newspaper work, can avail to
alter the law, except, perhaps by posi-
tive statute, which is doubtful, SO as to
leave party thus injured without any
recompense for q wrong, which can even
now, as the law stands, never be ade-
quately compensated to one who loves
his reputation better than money"
/ The court found that the publication
was made without express malice or
malice in fact. In the absence of such
malice, plaintiff would not be entitled
! to punitive damages, but he has not
been awarded any. Malice in law still
remained, and the publication being in
disputably libel per Sc, he was entitled
to recover compensatory damages
! (Childers VS.. Mercury Co., 105 Cal. 2S4.) }
1t cannot be said that the award OF
$500 was excessive for that purpose. In
Wilson VS.. Fitch, supra, this court
without other showing than that here
made, upheld an award of $500 as
compensatory damages.
The Judgment and order appealed
from are affirmed. HENSHAW, ].
We concur: Temple, j., Mcfarland, j.
The record-union., 1896-03-24
GILMAN Wins His SUIT.
The Supreme Court Sustains Judge
Catlin'S Decision.
Our Evening Contemporary Must Pay
C. Fl. Gilman Five Hundred
Dollars Damages.

AS announced in the Record Union
on Saturday last, the Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision of Judge Cat
lin, of the Superior Court of this county,
in the case of c. H. Gilman against the
proprietors of the Evening Bee" Gill
man sued the Bee for libel, and Judge
Catlin decided the case in favor of the
plaintiff, awarding him $500 as COM
pensatory damages. The decision of the
Supreme Court is as follows:
Charles H. Gilman, plaintiff and re-
spondent, VS.. c. K. McClatchy ct al,
defendants and ppellants.-Appeals
from the judgment and from the order
denying a new trial.
Plaintiffs action was for damages
resulting from a libel of and concern
ing him, published by defendants in
their newspaper, the Evening Bee
Defendants admitted the publication
and their responsibility therefor, but
denied that it was libelous AS an
affirmative defense in justification they
pleaded that the publication was true.
In mitigation of damages they further
averred their belief in It's truth and
that the publication was made only
after due and careful inquiry which
SdllSl10Q lueIn VI the IIulH VI Tie Illdl-
ters in the publication contained.
The libel was a publication of what
purported to be the narrative of one
Stella Truitt of the circumstance of a
rape committed upon her by Gilman
(the planting while she was employed
as a servant in his house. Mrs.
Truitt," so began the account, 'has
every appearance of an honest woman,
and as she told her story tears rolled
down her cheeks"
The findings of the court, all sus-
tained by the evidence, may be quoted
at length, as they contain a sufficient
recital of all facts necessary to this
consideration:
'.First-The publication set out in the
complaint was false, defamatory, ma
licious and unprivileged.
'.Second-The averment in the de-
fendants' first answer by way of de-
fense. that said publication was and is
true, was and is untrue.
'"Third-The ayerments in defend
ants second answer by way of defense
that the facts contained and related in
The record-union., 1896-03-24

read: .sI've decided to do it at last.
When ycu get this I'll be at the bottom
of the river"
That addressed to the Coroner was
brief. 1t read: please give me a de-
cent burial.
When the woman left the office a tele-
phone message was sent to the police
station stating that a woman had
threatened to commit suicide, and that
she had gone out Second street toward
the bridge There was no officer there
at the time except Sergeant Plunkett,
but Alex. Robinson, steward of the Re-
ceiving Hospital, FASTENED to the
bridge. On reaching the top of the in
cline he saw a woman near the center
Of the bridge leaning over the railing,
with a foot on one of the boards along
the outer part of the foct-bridge.
Robinson climbed over the fence from
the roadway, and stepping up alongside
the woman remarked that the river
looked very pretty.
YES, I would like to jump into it, .
responded the woman.
You don't mean you would like tc
commit suicide?" suggested Robinson
"Oh, no, no! I don't mean thatr
the woman quickly replied, and hel
manner indicated that she thought she
had already said too much.
/ Robinson was satisfied that the
woman was the one who had left the
notes at the telegraph office, and he de-
termined on engaging her attention un-
til someone should come along whom
he might get to assist him in taking hel
away in case she made any resistance
In a few minutes a man came along
hurriedly, accompanied by boy. II
was the woman's husband and the mes
senger boy who carried her note to him
He seemed greatly surprised and asked
what was the trouble. His wife made
some reply that was not overheard
and then the husband thanked Mr.
Robinson for his timely action and he
and his wife returned uptown.
(Since the above was put in type il
was learned that the womans name
| is ROhn1
The record-union., 1896-03-24
SHE STILL LIVES.
A Woman Prevented From jumping
Into the River.

A woman, whose name was not ascer-
tanned, last evening came very near
adding another to the list of those who
had ended their lives by 1eaping into
the river. She undoubtedly would have
done so had she not been followed and
prevented from carrying out her rash
purpose.
Shortly after o'clock she entered an
office and left two notes announcing
her intention of committing suicide.
one was addressed to her husband and
the other to Coroner Clark. She en-
ployed a messenger boy to deliver them,
and he took both to her husband
The note addressed to her husband
The record-union., 1896-03-24
BIDS FOR COUNTY SUPPLIES

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
bids will be received and opened by the
Board of Supervisors of Sacramento
County, at their office on / street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, Sacra-
mento City, California, on MONDAY,
April 6, 1896, at o'clock p. M, for fur
nishing the county officers of Sacramento
County for the ensuing year with blank
books and miscellaneous stationery ac-
cording to the list of same on file in the
County Clerks office, said board reserving
the right to reject any and all bids.
(SeaD Attest: VIM. B. HAMILTON,
rnr23-1Ot Clerk of said Board
The record-union., 1896-03-24
Advance In oak Park Lots.

On April 1st we will raise the prices,
as we claimed we would do right along,
and if you want a square, upright bar
gain in that new subdivision, you had
better call and get your pick immedi-
ately. Small payment down, balance
en- easy installments. Not on April I'd
but on April 1st. Wiseman, All ]
street, or w. H. Collins, Oak Park.
The record-union., 1896-03-24
NEW FIRM.

BERT MARTIN AND WILL H.
Young are now ready to receive the pat
ronage of all their friends who wish to
be served with first-clasS meats of all
kinds Place of business northwest corner
Twelfth and o streets. Give the boys
trial
The record-union., 1896-03-24

DELINQUENT SALE NoTICE.-GOLDEN
Sand Placer Mining Company. Location of prine-
pal place of business. san FRANCISCO, California
Location of works, Tolman Mining District, Sacra-
mento County, California.
Notice-There delinquent upon the following
described stock, on account of assessment No. l.
levied on the 18th day of February 1885, the several
amounts set opposite the names of the respective
llil.ra f.AlIlA IlAan.s
The record-union., 1896-03-24

Munyon's Remedies, 15c Castoria.
25c; AIlcock's plastars, 10c Drug De-
partment &c. c. c." Grangers' build
ing, Tenth and K streets.
The record-union., 1896-03-24

If you DON'T think cigarettes, IN TACT,
any form of tobacco-using, hurts you,
watch the cigarette smoker who has in
dulged the habit for some time See now
his hands trembIe; the anxious look on
his face tells of irregular heartbeat; his
nervousness betrays itself in a dozen
ways. If you are cigarette smoker, you
are never feeling quite at ease unless you
are putting a sinking little nerve-wrecker.
Don't you want release?
Don't you want just a few months with
a pure sweet breath, improved hedIth,
vigorous manhood?
See what No-To-Bac has done for others
will do for you:
CURED IN LESS THAN A WEEK.
Oakland, Cal, No. 1921 Market St,
August 20 1895.
The record-union., 1896-03-24
A1AurnA r., Inua ,ooe

ALAMEDA, Cal, January Z, 1896.
2063 Encnal avenue.
DR.. A t. SANDEN-Dear Sir: have suffered
from Lumbago and Sciatica for thirty years
have been laid up different times and used many
remedies without benefit. After all else had failed
/ got your Electric Belt two months ago and it has
cured me. cannot praise it too highly. for know
that 1t will do all you recommend. You use
my Yours truly, HUGH FRASER,
Ex-Royal Deputy for State of California, Ocder of
Scottish ClanS
The record-union., 1896-03-24
DR.. Sanden's
Electric Belt

Recognized and adopted by pro
gressive physicians everywhere as
the most simple and effective ap-
pliance for the cure of weakness
an1 disease. It cures when all
else fails.
The record-union., 1896-03-24
aTnissned.


And in accordance with law and an order of the
Board of Directors made on the 18th day of Febru-
ary, 1896, so many shares of eacn parcel of such
stock as may be necessary will be sold at n1hlic
auction at the office of the company basement Of
Nevada Block, No. 3O3 Montgomery street san
Francisco California, ON TU ESDAY the 7th dav ~
April 1896 at the hour of O'Clock o. M of said
day to pay said delinquent assessment thereon
together with costs of advertising and expenseS ~
the sale. JAS. f. DAMON. Secretary
Office: Basement of Nevada Block No s3 Mont
gomlery street, san Ianclsco. Cal mF23-15t
The record-union., 1896-03-24
SACRAMENTO BANK.

THE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN
the city, corner Fifth and streets, Sac
ramento. Guaranteed capital, $500, 900:
paid up capital gold coin S400, 600; re-
serve fund, S50.000 term and ordinary de-
posits, SO, 438, ,09S; loans on real estate
January l, 1896, $2,906, $50 Term and
ordinary deposits received. Dividends
paid in January and July. Money loaned
upon real estate only Information fur
nished upon application to
w. p. COLEMAN, President.
Ed r Hamilton Cashier
The record-union., 1896-03-24
Tho Worst Roped Man Is the Cigarette
Smoker-Robbed or Health and
Manhood, His most Pre-
cfous Possession.

"Say, where d'you
get that coffin nail,
Chimney"
"Oh, / caught It
on the fly from de
guy on de corner" !"
And the two little
b Dot b lacks-God
bless 'em, they
didn't know any
batter-sat on the
curb and smoked
the cigarette out of
sight.
We often wonder
when we see and
near such things
how the other half
OF the wor d lives,
especially when SO
many spend their
money, and, worst
of all, their vital
ity. in smoking
cigarettes.
The record-union., 1896-03-24
sANDEN ELECTRIC CO.,

632 Market street. San Francisco, opposite Palace
Hotel. 0fice hours, to g; evenings, to $50
sundays, 10 to /.
Portland (Oregon) office. 255 Washington street
The record-union., 1896-03-24

SEND THE WEEKLY UNION TO YOUR
friends in the East
The record-union., 1896-03-24
It Will Cure You,

Put it on when you go to bed at night and wear
1t till you get up in the morning, and it keeps
your system soaked with electricity all the time
and that is new life to your nerves. Il brings
health.
Read the book, ''Three Glasses of Men, about
DIR. SANDEN'S ELECTRIC BELT and its cures,
fraa
The record-union., 1896-03-24
EDW. J. DOUNELLAN.

You need not take our word for it, nor
do we sell No-To-Bac on the recommends
tion of others. Simply buy from your own
druggist, under absolute guarantee, and
you run no risk Get our booklet, Don't
Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away"
written guarantee of cure and free sample,
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New
York
The record-union., 1896-03-24

Sterling Remedy Co:
I bought a box of No-To-Bac three
weeks ago, from your agents here-Kirk-
land & Trowbridge-and it cured me in
less than one week, since which time |
have recommended it to several others,
and have induced at least half a dozen to
begin the treatment all of whom say it
is helping them.
l weighed 155 pounds when I begun the
treatment and now | weigh 163-a gain of
s pounds within three weeks. / am "a
chewing tobacco since l was II years of
age, smoking on ali average for the last
five years of about % cigarettes a day.
Yours reSDecfflIIV
The record-union., 1896-03-24
PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.

PEUPLEE SANINHS BANh
Sacramento, Cal.
Paid nm CanifaI 225, 500
Surplus $4,000
INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY
on term and ordinary deposits Money
loaned on real estate only. Address all
communications: PEOPLES Savings Bank,
Sacramento VIM. BECKMAN, Prest.
George w Lorenz, Secretary.
The record-union., 1896-03-24

CROCKER-W0OL NATIONAL BANK,
Croclxer Building, Market and Post
Streets. San Francisco.
PAID Up CAPITAL. Sl0OO,00O. SURPLUS, $563,O35
DIRECTORS:
President VIM. II. CROCKER
ASC-I IOSluellt W -. DANO W ~
Cashier ..................... w. KILN +,
CHARLES F. CROCkERmHY j. CROCKER
w q. SCOTT h. POND
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
LET Us BE CRUSHED NOW.

To those eastern papers which are
now SO prodigal of condemnation over
Kansas course in the recent election,
no reply should be given.
Kansas, with the habit of being in
the band wagon at the proper moment,
simply jumped out. The jump was in
oppOrtune. Kansas recognizes this
fact-confeSses it with bowed head and
due humility. SO crushed indeed is the
fair domain of sunfowers that she will
not even irritate her teasers with an en-
treaty, protest of excuse. he greatest
genius possible is IN being crushed. alb
solutely, completely, tseJOtally crushed
in the hour of defeat. II bring sympa-
thy. To offer excuse, 10 plunder the
wreath of victory by pleading for fur
ther time, or vowing future vengeance,
makes a miserable sort OF failure. II
is glorious TO be glorious in defeat-that
is crushed. humble and silent.
IL may be that those eastern papers
which are low so yaiiantly upbraidng
Kansas for her action last election day
may find some litTle palliation after all
They would of course sneeringly refuse
any excise from Kansas herself They
may ind it for themselves. They may
find eventually that Kansas has fought
an exceptionally fne battle under the
circumstances. and that the greatest
honor may sometimes fail to the regi -.
ment which bring back the fewest men.
Ii may develop after some thought that
the Republican party in Kansas has
been where the fight has been ihickest;
where every maneuyer has had to be
taken with great care; where there was
fine bayonet work and not much chance
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
sovEREIGN,s soPHIsTRY.

II Mr. Sovereign is not careful he will
belle his name. In rafting around in
the shoes of 7. V. POwderly he seems
to assume that he is the sovereign in
fact, as we'll as in name, over what re-
mains of the once powerful Knights OF
Labor. He takes it upon himself to
say for the order that 1.-The time is ct
hand in which the workmen will not be
slaves, but head masters" Slaves to
whom. and head masters Of what? Does
Mr.. Sovereign include only the mem
bership of his order in his reference TO
slaves: If not. where would he draw
reach out beyond the mechanic and the
day laborer on the street, the butcher,
the baker or the faithful family physi-
clan: If 'workmen" embraces all who
work, Mr.. Sovereign certainly has a
liberal layout of slaves under the pres
ent regime, but when the time for re-
versing the order arrives there is great
danger that he will have an excess OF
head masters. There is no double con-
struction to be put upon his words. If
we are SO divided every man must be
slave or a master 1t does seem un-
fair, and it has never been our idea Of
justice that one man should lord it over
one hundred. but since the day of such
unequal division of rights IS so nearly
past there need be little further anxiety
about il. But under his new order it
will be different. Reduced to pro-
blem: If one man can tyrannize over
4 hundred. and reduce them TO the bas-
est form of human slavery, what will
the hundred 'head masters" do with
the poor devil who is TO do menial ser
vice for them under Grand Master Sow
ereign's new order of things? A hum
dred tyrants will surely cogitate more
cruelties than one could ever think of,
and, such cruelties augmented and null
tiplied by 100, and the poor serfs power
of endurance being reduced in the same
inverse ratio, how long would the sup
ply of slaves" hold out. Sovereign
may have it all figured out. but the or
binary calculator on these labor pro-
blems, and labor reforms will give ii
up as a school boys "hard sum-"
With due respect TO the rights Of labor
and laboring people, such talk is the
cheapest kind Of rot. Ii is simply the
frcthing Of fool. and in striking con-
trast TO The humane and well consid-
cred declarations of his predecessor.
There are neither masters nor slaves in
this country, save in the sense that
every man. in certain capacity, is the
servant of hisSellow. Whether he has
his Labor, his talent or his goods 10 dis
pose of. he is the arbiter and the owner
of such goods, Yet. in providing such
labor or goods, he performs a Kind OF
service 10 the one who buys IL Society
i concrete whole. All men are mu-
tually dependent and yet independent
10 the extent that each supplies the
wants of his fellow men. The one
commodity which nobody needs just
now IS the incendiary talk Of such lead
ers as this man Sovereign.