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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
MONTPELIER.

The STOW storm Of last Thursday
night and Friday morning made bad
work with the telephone and electric
wires in this section. The weight of
snow broke some of the wires and
others saying so that the electric wires
came in contact with the telephone
wires charging them with electricity
so that some of the phones were burn.
ed out, and several who attempted to
use the telephones received shocks al
together unpleasant.
The case of State VS. Mildred Brews-
ter has been continued until Nov. 22d
for the reason that the medical eX-
perts who have examined her for in
sanity were unable to de here this
week and the jurors who were recent
summoned were notified not to appear
until that date.
A petition is being circulated for
signers petit oning Gov. Circuit to par
don Clint Towne now confined at the
work house at Rutland for violation of
the prohibitory liquor law and MAN.
tanning nuisance in the dive known
as the Soldiers Home. Mr.. ToWne
ran the ranch for months defying the
officers and the law. AT last he was
convicted and sentenced to the work
house for three months and to pay. a
fine of $3.50. If he works out his sep
tence in full it will not atone for the
suffering he caused and the money ut
cost the state to convict him.
Last week some person left at the
post office in this city package adj
dressed Heaton Hospital, Montpelier,
vt. which was delivered at the hospl-
tai by the mail carrier. When the
Matron came to open the package she
was very much surprised to find chat
it contained large amount of bank
bills. She Immediately retied the
package and went directly to the pres
ident of the board Of directors, Mr.
Taplin, and delivered the same to
him Upon investigation it was
foul d to contain $40. The money
was done up il piece of brown paper
and tied with a piece OF wrapping
Irvine without any mark except the
address to denote from where it came.
Whoever the generous donor is, he or
she may rest assured they will have
the sincere and hearty thanks of all
officially connected with the hospital
and the prayers of the unfortunate
poor for whose benefit it will be eX-
pended, We doubt not in the last
day the donor will hear the Father
say "Inasmuch as We have done it UNI
to one of the least of these my breth
rem We have done it unto me. Come
up higher"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19

the month, Of the political, the
economic, and literary happenings
which are of va1ue to intelligent
men and women. The Editors
progress of the World" tells suc-
cinct1y an illustrated story of the
month. The "Leading Articles"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
WASHINGTON.

Rev. Alvin Smith returned from his
western trip last week.
Miss L. A. Calef is visiting in Provi-
dence.
Russell Calef of Goddard Seminary
spent Sunday in town.
Geo. Downing has sold his farm to
Dan. Stanley, possession to be given on
April list. Chas. Stanley, a brother of
Dan, will move to II place.
A town meeting is to be held on the
23d inst. for the purpose of raising
another appropriation for highways.
Ransom Dickey of Bethel was in
town last week. ...u
O. H. Dickey is very i'll, and his
daughter is expected from Chicago to
care for him.
Glen Bigelow and wife have return.
ed from a ten days visit in Providence.
Mr. and Mrs. d. NJ. Flint visited
their daughter, Mrs. j. B Edgerton of
Newton Center, Mass, taking advan-
tage of the excursion.
Diphtheria has been in our midst
taking for its victims Ira Smith son of
Edgar Smith, and Daisy Bradbury
daughter of d. r. Bradbury. their
deaths occurring on the 9th and Sth inst.
respectively. There are no new cs ses.
Oney Cheynowe tn of Waits River is
in the employ of A. L. Patterson.
The auction for the sale of personal
property be- longing to Geo. Downing is
to be held the 22d; c. F. Smith, auc-
tlOneer.
Joshua Walker is building fish mar
ket on the grounds of Aaron Richard
SON
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19

Dover, n. T., Nov. 13.-Joseph E.
Kelley will not be hanged. THIS is the
decision of the justices. His crime has
been adjudged by the court to come
within the definition of murder in the.
second degree, and he has been accord
inEly sentenced to state prison for 80
years. This is equivalent to a sentence
to prison for life, as there is no life term
in New Hampshire jurisprudence. 1t
means that Kelley has been adjudged
to be insane. He is utterly incapaDle,
in the judges mind of deliberately pre-
meditating murder with malice afore-
thought and executing the plan with the
judgment and control of a sane man.
AT Fridays session of the court, there
was resumption of the expert and
medical testimony, all of it being cumu-
lative in favor of the theory of insanity,
Counsel announced that there would be
no arguments, and there was a short
recess. At 10 o'clock Chief Justice Car
penter resumed his seat and as soon as;
the Sheriff had raped for order he arose
and said: The court finds that the
prisoner is guilty of murder in the sec
ord degree"
Solicitor Mason then moved that SEN
tence be pronounced. Clerk Durgin
arose and Kelley was requested to stand.
The clerk then read the order of the
court as follows:
The court having considered the Of
Tense to which you have pleaded guilty,
orders that you be sentenced to serve a
term of 80 years at hard labor in the
state prison and pay the costs of the
prOsecutiOn "
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
STRAFFORD.

Brent and Fred Jorden are on the
sick list.
David Payne has had another shock
Mrs. D. G. Hyde is on the gain.
Dana Wright has gone to West Leb-
anon, n. H., for a job. His wife re-
mains at her fathers for the present.
Frank Porter has the milk route driv-
en- by Wilbur Grant the past year.
Fred Noyes has bought Dana X.
Whites old place in No. 0, and moves
there in the spring.
Brent Jorden has moved to the Will
Carpenter place.
H. L. Bragg takes the tenement in
the Taylor house vacated by Jorden.
School at the pond closed on Satur-
day, Nov. 18th. Those who had no
absent marks were Jennie, Julia and
Ray Hutchins, Louisa O'Honory, Jesse
Messer and Leslie p Wood. Absent
two days each Mylon Messer and James
Doyle. Those on the roll of honor are
James Doyle, Mylon Messer, O'Honory
Messer, Ray Hutchins, Leslie Wood,
John Doyle and Jennie Iutchins
KATHERINE M. ROWELL, teacher.
The Opinion and Boston Evening Record
,,y,a Snb ha
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
HIS AIlI Is EIGll.
James II. Sovereign Is In the Race For
he Presidency.

James r. Sovereign Is In the Race For
ihe Presidency.
LOUSY lie, Nov. 15.-The Courier Jour-
nal this morning, under the capt on
"Sovereign's Vaulting Amb' tion," says:
The great secret is out at last.J. r. Sow
ereign the retiring general master work
man of the Knights of Labor, res Led
his position in order that he might push
his candidacy for president of the Unit
ed S'ates in 1900. 1t was exclusively
mentioned in yesterday morning Cou-
rer Journal that Mr.. Sovereign would be
assigned to the position of field work
err
Being free now from the responsible
ties Of general master workman and hav-
ing none of the former difficulties to con-
tend with. Mr.. Sovereign has a clear field
before nlm and delegates to the general
assembly openly acknowledged last night
that Mr.. Sovereign is an avowed cahdi-
date for the presidency of the United
States, when Mr.. McKinley's term eX-
rires, and the movement of making him
field worker is the initial step of the
general assembly OF the knights of Labor
to launch MIR. Sovereign's boom.
While it is said that Mr.. Sovereign and
the Hen. w. j. Bryan are on the friend
Hest terms, the supporters of Mr.. Sow
ereign says he will make every effort to
land the prize which Mr.. Bryan seeks to
secure. He spends all his spare time
disseminating his views and the general
agitation OF the principles which the
knights of Labor advocate.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
Rebuked bv the Head Coach

New Haven, Nov. 17.-At the close -
the secret practice of the Yale team yes
terday Head Coach Butterworth gath
cred the players of the varsity eleven
about him, first the backs and later the
line men, and for 10 minutes admins
tered to each group a severe lecture.
lie took the men to task for not win
ming the Harvard game, which, he said.
could have been done and ought to have
beer done. He closed with an urgent
plea to win the Princeton game Of Sat
urday.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
villains Light Punishment.

Boston, Nov. 17.-James w. Townsend
was sentenced to not more than 20 years
Or less than eight years in state prison
by Judge Wardwell in the Middiesex su-
perior criminal court at East Cam
bridge yesterday. Townsend, who is
only "a years old, was convicted of having
cruelty assaulted an 11-year-old girl
named Celia Peterson May 20 in a vacant
building in North Cambridge.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19

Chicago, Nov. Led Fink, 20 years
old, gayly waved at his sweetheart a
hand containing bottle of carbolic acid.
"Hurrah, I'm off" he shouted, and he
drained the bottle of its contents Fink
stood opposite the home of Miss Minnie
Petersen. She sat by her parlor window
watching her youthful lover, with whom
she had quarreled. She saw him raise
the bottle to his lips and heard his adieu.
Then she saw him swallow the poison
and fall. Then she rushed across the
street and knelt until the ambulance
came. Fink was taken to the hospital.
where he died an hour afterward The
trouble that led to the tragic denoue-
ment started in a lovers quarrel Satur-
day night at a party. Failing to effect
complete reconciliation Fink ended
his life.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-11-19
TOPSHAM.

Rev. j. b. Crawford delivered tenn
perance lecture in the r. p. church
Monday evening, but on account of the
rain the attendance was small
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis of Manchester
~. H., are in town attending the auc
ton of Matilda Coruth, mother OF
Mrs. Lewis.
The auction of Mrs. Matilda Coruth
on Tuesday was largely attended and
the property sold welE5 NDGEG q
Mr.. O. d. Wiley and family are
moving this week to the place recently
purchased in this village.
Our village school, taught by M. G..
Kezer closed on Saturday last, and
a successful term.
Rev. Puri, native of India, will
preach in the r. P. church next Sab
bath at II O'Clock a. IN.
E. S. Green started his hay press this
week.
G. A. Dickerman has returned to
Wells River.
Ed. Green of Derry, N. H., is in town
for the winter.
Walter Hood has been at work the
past week for Horace Braun of New
bury.
Merritt & Dickerman are painting
the buildings of A. H. Kicker at Grot-
on.
The cream club will hold their an
nual dance at the hall Wednesday eve,
Nov. oath. This will be the social
dance of the season; come and bring
your friends.
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A Worcester Sensation.

Worcester, Mass, Nov. 16.-Rosaline
White, woman about 40 years CT age,
was shot by John Bell alias John La
belle, aged 80 years. who was at one
time her paramount, Tuesday evening,
and is at the hospital in critical con-
ditiOn. Both are Italians
The woman was walking along the
street with d woman named Mary
Labords, when LabeIle walked across
the road and, addressing few words to
her, aimed the revolver and shot her
through the right shoulder. She
screamed and started to run, going about
rs yards, when she turned into a house,
where she fell to the floor. Labelle ran
off in an opposite direction and escaped.
The woman was taken to the city hos
pital, where it was found that the ball
had passed through her right lung and
had almost come out near her right
breast. An incision was made and the
bullet extracted. Mrs. White is in
precariOus condition.
She came to this city about two years
ago with three children and began liV-
ing with Labelle. Last February her
husband traced her to this city. He
had his wife and Labele arrested, and
Labelle was sentenced to Jail for 10
months, the woman being allowed to
go on promise that she would live with
her husband which she did.
The advocate., 1897-05-05

and defeat the ticket, and therefore
they must fight shy Of the word so as
entEsp the voter in their tolls. The
Topeka Mail and Breeze distinctly
admitted what i charge when it said:
awe have straddled and backed and
filed until IL is hard to explain our.
selves" And the Hutchinson NeIOS,
In seeking the moral Of the election,
said: "In campaigns before this we
have lodged and compromised. We
have at times out.HeTOded HerOd and
out-Popped the Pops. We have resO.
luted for free silver, passed bad mort
gage legislation, and instead of trying
to lead the people into the narrow
paths Of right and honor, have urged
them to 90 wherever they pleased, pro-
vided they took us with them. This
year we made a sharp turn. We sd-
mitted that on the money question we
had been guilty Of demagOgy. We had
been wobbly on the money question,
and unfortunately this was a money
year. When the Kansas Republican
wagon turned and joined the National
procession, 1t had to move 80 fast and
get such twist on the running gear
that lot of Republicans fell out. It
was hard to make votes by telling the
people that we had been wrong and
were now all right. It was hard to
hold our fellows when we admitted
that six years sgo we were as foolish as
the POpulists are now"
A KANSAS FARMER.
The advocate., 1897-05-05
VOC as They PrOmlged, or ResIgn.

EDITOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT as some
Of the Representatives elected by Popu-
list votes at the last election failed to
vote in accordance with their pledges
for fear that the dear corporations would
not play any more il a maximum freight
bill was passed, make the following
suggestion: Let every Populist conven-
tion held this summer notify their Senator
and Representative to be present. After
the convention is called to order have
them 90 before il and answer the follow
ing question: ere Governor Leedy calls
an extra session Of the Legislature, will
you vote for maximum freight bil,P
II any refuse to do so, demand their
resignation ct once. l am glad to say
that Linn county's Senator and Repre-
sentative we're all right. We can make
Kansas too hot for Populist boodlers,
and by the eternal we must do it. Let
them vote as they promised, or resign.
Yours for honesty in politics,
Ed BLAIR,
Sec'y Linn County Central Committee.
Cadmus, Kas.
The advocate., 1897-05-05

Tam O'Shanter's ride through the mid
night wind with the horrible hobgoblins
pursuing him was only bad dream, or
nightmare, which anybody is liable to ex-
perjence as the result of Over-eating or an
attack Of biliousness or indigestion. To
avoid such disagreeable experiences one or
two Of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should
be taken after too hearty meal and the
action OF she stomach will thereby be
quickene0 and the meal promptly digeSted.
The advocate., 1897-05-05

All that is beautiful and lovely In woman,
finds It's climax in motherhood. How often
we find among our American women that
longing for the prattling voice, the idol Of
their waiting hearts. 1t is natural in
stinct, this yearning Of the heart for Off
spring; yet the wife hesitGtes to talk with
the family physician on this delicate sub.
ject A. good way to do is to send for y
copy Of the "People's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser" In plain English, great
1,OOS page, illustrated family doctor book,
wherein all such delicate subjects are fully
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1.cent stamps to
cover cost of mailing only, sent to Worlds
Dlspensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
N. Y, will bring free copy. Formerly
sold at $l.5O.
The advocate., 1897-05-05
HAmOng the Ozarks.D

"The Land Of Big Red Apples" is an at
tractive and interesting book, handsomely
illustrated with views Of south Missouri
scenery, including the famous Olden fruit
farm Of 5000 acres In Howell county. It
pertains to fruit raising In that great fruit
belt Of America, the southern slope Of the
Ozarks, and will prove Of great value, not
only to fruit-growers, but to every farmer
and homeseeker looking for a farm and a
home. Mailed free. Address,
j. e. LOCKWOOD, Kansas City, Mo-
The advocate., 1897-05-05
StOD-Over Privilege AZ washington.

A ten day stop-over at Washington, DC,
is now granted on all through tickets be-
tween the East and West, via Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. Stop-over will also be
granted on the return journey made on
round trip tickets, within the final limit Of
such tickets, but not exceeding ten days.
Passengers will deposit their tickets with
the ticket agent at B. & o. railroad sta
tion In Washington, who will retain them
until the journey is to be resumed, when
they will be made good for continuous
passage to destination by extension
or exchange. This arrangement win
doubtless be greatly appreciated by the
travelling public because II will permit the
holders Of through tickets to make q brief
visit to the National capital without addl-
tional outlay for railroad fare.
The advocate., 1897-05-05
In tho Lead.

II you are going TO Kansas City, Chicago,
St. Louis or other Eastern cities, tho
Union Pacific offers the best service and
the fastest time. Don't purchase your
tickets until you have consulted our time
card, or made inquiry regarding rates and
through car service.
r. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent.
]. G. FULTON, Depot Agent, Topeka, Kas
The advocate., 1897-05-05
Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards.

WAV"V IIVOA 41lWHU AUWuU KIdyIHB VHEUBs
Send 10 cents In stamps 10 John Sebas-
tian, General Passenger Agent O., r. I. b
p. railway, Chicago, for the sllckest pack
of playing cards you ever handled, and on
receipt Of such remittance for one or more
packs they will be sent you postpaid.
Orders containing 90 cents In stamps or
postal note for same amount will secure
Eve packs by express, charges paid.
The advocate., 1897-05-05
Sample copies Of the ADVOCATE will be
mailed free to any address.
SANTA FE ROUTE.

The Home ROad-Flfty'ROur Hours to Cali
iOFnlR.
Limited leaves Topeka Thursdays and
Sundays, II ;88 a. m. Vestibuled Pullman
palace sleepers and buffet smoking and
dining cars.
California express leaves daily, ABS p.
m. Pullman palace and tourist sleepers.
For additional information call at pas
senger depot, foot Of Fifth street (tele-
phone 6S9), or on Cromwell & JefFers, in
postOftiCe, North Topeka telephone 564).
w. @. GARvEY, Agent.
w. J, BLACK, G. P. A., Topeka.
The advocate., 1897-05-05
Correspondence.

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-It is difficult
for a person to keep tab Of the trend of
politics and the direction of parties In
this age unless he keeps his eyes wide
open and is ever on the alert to the
changes being brought about, Their
course has been so variable and incOn-
sistent that the voter can scarcely keep
track even of his own party from one
campaign to another. There is the old
Democracy, for example, turned en-.
tirely about between the meeting and
the close of the last Chicago National
Convention. Before that, 1t had be-
come the mere agent and instrument
of the money power, doing It's bidding
and obeying its behests, Issuing bonds
at It's call, demonetizing silver at It's
demand, deCreeing the abolition Of the
greenback at It's dictstion, and declsr.
ing for the unlimited reign and rule of
the old wildcat State banks "as a con.
summation deVOutly to be wished"
But it emerged from that convention
Tegenerated and reiuVensted, a young
giant, and stTode forth the image and
form of unsdultersted Jeffersonian and
Jacksonisn Democracy, emsnCipsted
from the domination of corporate
wealth and organized combines and
trusts--in a word, the Obedlent servant
of the masses of mankind for whom
the Government was founded and
whose interests 1t was intended to pro.
mote. Bryan struck the keynote when
he declared, during the campaign,
''thst this Government was designed to
be good place for ordinary men and
the common people rather than soft
thing for few gentlemen bent on
making money, am against the
shsrpers who work the government fer
private gain. / stand for all who suf-
fer from mOnopoliea and trusts against
the few who profit by them. This
campaign is run by the combined infu.
ence of wealth against the unprotected
interests of the common people, and as
such is a contest of might against
right" Jefferson and Jackson spent
their lives inculcsting such tenets and
enforced them in their administra-
tlOns. The Chicago Convention freed
the old party from the influences that
had demoTalized and debauched it for
a quarter of century, took it out from
under the capitslistic domination of
Wall street and delivered it into the
hands Of It's original and proper own.
ers and proprietoTs-the struggling
masses who have ever been the foun-
dstion and stay Of the party. And |
thus 1t is fighting the same battle over
again that has been fought three times
before in the history of our Govern.
ment-hrst, in the election Of Mr.. JEFF |
fersOn in 1900; second, In the re. election
of President Jackson In 1892; and
third, In the election Of Lincoln and |
delivery of the country from the domi.
nation Of the plutocrscy of the slave
power. And it is singular how these
successive epochs Of regeneration have
occurred at periods of about thirty
years, the lifetime Of ansVersge gener.
stion of men.
Turning to the Republican party,
one untutored in politics finds it still