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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
lnEKE WA3RKECES6
President Roosevelt and Ad-
visers Reach This Decision.
TINE ELAPSED BETWEEN SESSIONS
Appointment of General Wood and
other Army officers Are Consider
ed to he Recess Appointments
and denominations Sent In.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - President
Roosevelt has sent to the senate the
nomination of General Leonard Wood
to be major general of the army and
thu nomination of 167 other arbiy Off
GERS whose promotion is dependent on
that of General Wood.
Accompanying these nominations
were those Of about twenty-five civilian
aBpOintees, including that Of DR. w
II. Crum TO be collector of the port Of
Charleston, s. c., and some others
whom the president nominated in the
last recess.
These appointments are considered
by the president and his advisers to be
recess appointments. The question OF
their status has been discussed thor.
oughly by the president with the best
lawyers connected with the administra
ton in congress The conclusion has
been reached that between the time Of
the falling of President Pro Tempore
Frye's gavel siGnifying the conclusion
of the extraordinary session and the
calling to order of the senate in the reg
ular session of congress an appreciable
lapse of time occurred.
While the nom a ions are dated to
take effect from time the commits
sions were first issued on the recess ap-
pointments it is the general opinion Of
members of the senate that the noml-
nees will retain their old rank until
the nominations are confirmed despite
the fact that all Of the officers affect
ed have been serving for nearly three
months under the advanced rank and
pay to which they will be entitled
when confirmed. On this theory Gen
eral Wood will cease to serve as major
general and will resume his rank Of
brigadier general and hold it until he
is confirmed in the higher rank. When
he is confirmed. however, he will receive
a commission dated Aug. 8, and his ad-
vanced pay will take effect from that
time.
The senate committee on military af-
fairs resumed its hearing in the Wood
case. with Commander Lucien Young
of the navy on the stand.
Commander Young was subpPnaed
by the military affairs committee at the
request of Major Estes G. Rathbone,
who had furnished to the committee a
list OF questions which he desired to
have addressed TO the witness. Much
testimony was brought out in relation
to the charge that General Wood after
assuming the duties Of governor gen
eral of Cuba employed detectives not
connected with the army to shadow GER
tain army officers for the purpose Of re-
| porting their actions to him.
Notice has been given by the commit
tee to Senators Hanna and Teller. who
made the protests against the confrma-
ton Of General Wood to be major gen
eral, that they must have all Of their
witnesses here before Dec. l6 when II
is expected the investigation will be
| closed
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

There is no need to tell readers of
the Banner that Christmas is APP
preaching. That fact shows for itself
all over the paper, and the most inter-
esting stories are to be found in the
advertising department. We do not
have to ask people to read these var
ious announcements now for all are
doing it as a matter of interest, as
a matter of dollars and cents, as a
matter of course. Th9 more famlier
you are with the advertising columns
the better enabled you will be to buy
goods to the advantage of yourself
and your pocket book.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
A COLOMBIAN ARM
Cruiser to Reconnoiter F
Rumored Advances.
HAY ATTACH FROM CART,CEyA.
Commander of the Cruiser Atlanta
VIII NsHtch Coast For signs of
Hostility ON Part of Govern
ment at BOEOTa.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - The dis
pntch of the cruiser Atlanta to the gulf
OF Darien is Of great Importance and
interest in connection with the TImor
from Colon Of the departure of Colon
bian soldiers for the isthmus of Pana-
ma. This Is about $50 miles east Of
Colon, and the cruise In those waters
will enable her commander to keep in
close touch with developments in the
Colombian situation originating in and
about the vicinity of Cartagena, from
which place, II Is rumored, the soldiers
are to march on the isthmus.
Naval officials decline TO say whether
the dispatch OF the Atlanta TO the gulf
of Darien is the result of any intima-
tons Of warlike operations on the part
OF Colombia They content themselves
with expressing the opinion that 1t will
be impossible for Colombian troops to
march overland to Colon or Panama
because of the lmpassibillty Of the
country to be traversed. Nevertheless
the departure Of the vessel is regarded
as significant as indicating the inten-
ton of the officials of the United States
to be on the alert.
To the COlOmbians in Washington the
reports from Colon produced mysti-
flying effect They will not say wheth-
err they believe the rumors or not.
! Perhaps II is so. do not know"
said one Of them as he shrugged his
shoulders. The Colombians believe
there are 5000 or more soldiers at
Cartagena and at the various points
along the seacoast available for such
purpose as that stated in the dis
patch from Colon should the govern
ment desire TO use them.
Regarding the report that Colonel
Torres. one OF the Colombian officers,
had been paid 5000 in gold TO embark
his troops on board the Royal Mail
steamer Orinoco and be transferred to
Savanilla, General Reyes said that the
acts Of Colonel Torres in accepting the
money was now under inquiry in Car
tagena by OticialS Of his government to
bS followed BY a court martial OF that
officer in the event that the reports as
to Colonel Torres were found substan'
tiated to their satisfaction.
General Reyes is still awaiting fur
Their instructions from his government
pending any further move in cOnnec'
ton with his mission here.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
zEIGLER DENIES ALL
Millionaire Under Charge OF
Bribery on the Stand.
"TOONUCH RED PEPPER" SAYS ODELI
Accused said Emphatic ny That He.
Did Not Commit Any Crime,
Nor Was He IL Fugitive
From Justice.

ALBANY, n. Y, Dec. S.-Wil.lam
Zeigler, the New York millionaire who
is charged with bribery in the state OF
Missouri, appeared In person before
Governor 0dell here in the proceedings
to induce the governor to surrender
him to the authorities of that state to
stand trial
Zeigler IL charged with supplying
$4,000 which was used to bride legis
lators of Missouri to prevent the re-
peal of a law prohibiting the sale OF
alum baking powders.
He was represented by Delaney
NicOll, former district attorney OF New
York; John NJ. Bowers. Edward Lau
terbach, John NJ. Lindsay and William
J. Underwood. The application was
pressed by f. C. Grove, attorney gen.
eral of Missouri, md Judge Thomas
b. Harvey of St Louis.
A bard fight was made to force the
Missouri officials 10 show the exact
dates when Mr. Zelgle. was in Mis-
souri,.
Mr.. Zeigler denied emphatically that
he had committed any bribery or that
he was fugitive from justice and de-
clared that the whole proceeding was
malicious act OF oppression, inspired
chiefly by his personal enemies These
enemies he named as Evelyn s. Bald
win, whom, he says, he acharged
for failure to carry out 70 iully the
Zeigler-Baldwin arctic e& dition: Pat,
terson Balm. whose enr ~, he says,
grew out OF anhalum } tosecutions in
Missouri, and u. A. Udell, with whom
he had controversy through Zeigler's
attempt to secu;% control of the Provi-
dent Chemical works in St Louis.
Upon The question Of being a fugitive
from justice, he declared that he had
since the dates alleged been three times
openly in the state of Missouri upon
personal business, whose exact nature
he set forth in his statement
ZeigeFs counsel then called a long
series Of witnesses, including Mr.. Zeig-
lers private secretary and business
associates, to cover almost every day
in March, 1901, all Of them tending to
show that Zeigler was not out of the
state or city Of New York on the days
in question.
The hearing was interpreted with
spicy tits between counsel, and once
Governor Odell cautioned Mr. Bowers
against the use Of 80 much red pep.
per"
At the close Governor OGell said he
would give the Missouri people two
weeks in which to submit briefs and
Zeigle"s counsel two weeks after that
| in which IN ansvver thap,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

BUTLER, Pa. Dec. S.-There We're
three deaths from typhoid fever dur
ing the night. \ number of new cases
have been reported The total number
of fever cases SO far reported is 1,1S6
and the total of deaths SO. The COM
mittee said that 1t was prepared for a
struggle of from six weeks to three
months. A fund of 100000. it was es-
timated, would be necessary. The fe-
yer now seems TO be near its height
More than a hundred nurses are in
Butler, and they are working night and
day in hospitals and private residences
attending the fever patients.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Woman Miser KiIIed by Trnin.

MOUNT VERNON. y. Y, Dec. s.
\ woman. evidently a miser, who had
more than a thousand dollars in gold
and bank notes concealed in bags hung
about her neck and under her skirts,
was struck and killed instantly by the
Pittsfeld express at the Mount Yer
non station of the New York and Har-
lem railroad. The woman, who was
poorly dressed, had evidently been in
New York shopping and had come to
West Mount Vernon on trolley car.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
LAWYER Archibald of Man hester is

Lawyer Archibald of Man hester is
not afraid to tell joke even if he him
self is the victim. In court the other
day Judge Watson asked him relative
to a case in which Mr. Archibald's
name appeared on the docket as coun-
sci. 81 can't say" replied Mr. Archi-
bald, "inasmuch as my clients fin
ances have so much improved that he
has been able to engage another law
YER" Even the Judge smiled.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
women Did 81. PETERS Act,

HASTINGS. colo, Dec 8. - Eleven
wives of striking coal miners here at
tackled Marshals Hightower and Way
bright while the officers were razing
some shanties on the Victor Fuel com
pany's property in the Italian quarter.
Marie Vanelli struck Hightower on the
head with a butchers cleaver, nearly
cutting off an ear Other women gave
Waybright a severe beating. The wO-
men were arrested.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
AN ARMY OF THREE THOUSAND.
Report From Colon That Isthmus IL
to BE Attacked.

Report FROM COiOn Ihht lsthmua -
to BE Attacked.
COLON. Dec S.-A rumor is in circu-
lation here to the effect that 5000 SOL
oilers have left Cartagena for the pur-
pose Of invading the isthmus, but de-
tails are unknown. The report proba-
bly, had its source in Port Limon, Costa
Rica, where it was brought by steamer
from CartagenA.
The only possible means of approach
ing Panama is by narrow and difficult
mountain passes through the Indian
country. The United States cruiser At
lanta is now Off the Indian coast
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie today landed company Of ma
rines, Who have established camp at
Empire Station, near Culebra cut. The
battleship Maine is coallng near Bocas
del TorO.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

BALTIMORE, Dec SIN the United
States district court. in the case of Co
lumbus Ellsworth Upton and Thomas
W, McGregor, on trial for conspiracy to
defraud the government on mail pouch
contracts, Judge Morris overruled the
prayer of attorneys for the defense
TO take the case from the jury ON the
ground that the government had failed
TO prove prima facie case against the
apcuSpd
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Utah strike Situation.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. S.-Another
conference was held between Governor
Wells and representatives of the strik-
ing coal miners in an endeavor to reach
basis Of agreement for a settlement
OF the strike, but after several hours OF
discussion the conference broke up
without result. Attorneys Elder and
Fowler, representing the miners. told
the governor that If the state troops
were withdrawn all the camps would
be completely unionized within three
weeks
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Rieh crnnI. stnrre. Hlm.elf.

DERBY, Conn, Dec. S.-Possessed Of
$4,000, all in money Eugene Crofutt,
sixty-two years old, a recluse of Hunt
ington, has died here. The old man had
been failing for several years from not
eating sufficient food, and a month ago
after fainting fit his condition became
serious. The dying mans plea was that
buying food was waste of money and
that he could not afford It,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

People criticise a newspaper who
would be ashamed to have their best
friend look into their woodshed.
Don't you think that if your work was
spread out to be critically examined
and found fault with by every body as
the EDITORS is, there would be as
many weak points visible as there are
in the average newspaper.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

ROSENDALE, y. Y, Dec S.-The
Roman Catholic Church of st. Peters
at this place has been destroyed by
fire The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Father Lenez, the pastor of the church,
was overcome by smoke and narrowly
escaped with his life while attempting
to save the sacred vessels which were
afterward saved by his assistant, Fa-
Their Cummings.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Bi.hop IngIe Dead Mt Hankoyv.

CUMBERLAND, Md. Dec. S.-A ca
BILE message from Hankow, China, an
nounces the death of Bishop James Ad-
olson Ingle of the Protestant Episcopal
church of fever, thirty-six years old.
Bishop 1ngle was graduated In 1888
from the University of Virginia.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Murder with stove Wood.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec. s.
Oscar Letheredge killed Oscar Smith,
his brother-in-law, here, crushing the
boys skull with a stick of stove wood.
and probably fatally wounded J. L.
Smith, another brother-in-law, because
the boys tried to eject Letheredge from
their fathers home, where Letheredge
had forced an entrance to see his di
vorCed wife.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
ME-. curtln,. sudden penth.

BELLEFONTE. Pa. Dec. s, = Mrs.
Catherine l. Curtin, widow of Andrew
G. Curtin, Pennsylvania war gov
ernor and who served as a representa-
tive In the Forty seventh. Forty-eighth
and Forty ninth congresses, died sud
denly here of apOplexy, aged eighty
four years. Mrs. Curtin was stricken
while eating luncheon and died with
in an hour.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

AT recent meeting of Montpelier
woman's club ballet was called for
on some grave question of state
There we're thirteen ladies present and
in examining the ballet box it was
found that twenty-five votes we're cast
Now the question that is agitating the
club members is who 1t was that voted
only once.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

A fool and his money are parted
just as easily nowadays as of old.
These we'll known citizens of Barre
invested $4,000 in stock in a western
gold mine and are now looking for the
hole where their money was sunk.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

We have no apologies to offer or
promises to make in this paper. If the
people like it we'll enough to support
it, it will continue. If they don't we
shall not run it for fun or glory.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
civic Elections nj Portland

PORTLAND, Me, Dec. S.-James p
Baxter (Repl was elected mayor of
this city over Darius II. Ingraham
Dem). The vote for mayor was: Bax-
ter Rep). APO; Ingraham DEM,
3.l41; Fox (Soc), 25S: Perry Pro.), $50,
Baxter carried seven of the nine wards.
The council will stand twenty-one Re
publicans to six Democrats.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

Spend your Christmas money with
your home merchants and it is bound
to profit you directly or indirectly.
What you send out of town will be a
long time coming back.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Publisher

You can almost hear Uncle Ied
Stanton keep still since it was an
nounced that in all probability Glenn
ent would be candidate for governor
next year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
Five Years Sentence For Fraud.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 8.-Harry J..
Hoover pleaded guilty to making false
entries and fraudulent issue of GER
tificate as cashier Of the Peoples Ma
tional bank Of Newark, o., in the Unit
ed States court here. lie was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

WASHINGTON, Dec 8. Mayor
Elect George B. Mcclellan of Greater
New York was given complimentary
dinner last night by the Democratic
delegates in the house of representa-
tives from New York city and state.
Hon. John Sharp Williams, the Demo
cratic leader in the house, was guest
of honor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
spencer,. A.ire Ebhlnr Away.

LONDON, Dec. S.-A bulletin issued
late last nigM says that Mr.. Herbert
Spencer is snll alive, but that he 4
very feeble ahd his condition is mos
serious. II IS eesred the end Il near.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
! SPE Al TERr6hs 5 FORCE SAT-
- -TA
NAOVEOK'S
Commencing Tues. Nov.24
Ending Sat. Dec. 5.

Great reduction in prices will prevail all through our
store and special Forcing prices will be made in Ladies'
Cloak Suit Skirt and Millinery Department where shall
make all effort possible close every suit and coat in
these departments in order make them in rush. We
have stripped off all profits and sacrificed of the
cost too We shall offer IL and II dollar tailored suits at
$698 Is and 10 dollar suits at $685. 10 and II so coaks
at 1885, others at $498 100 and l5O reduction trimmed
hats Same proportional ready to-wear hats Don't
delay at you certainly need of these gar
ments just when cold weather starting See circulars
for full particulars and prices.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. S.-James NJ.
Edge, ala James Kane, has been ar
restedG by local detectives charged
with ing large sum of money,
saIo bout 100000, from the
E bank Of Paterson, N. j.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08
NOTICE.

vmeeting OF the stockholders of
htional Bank Of Bennington, VI,
Ut the banking rooms on Tuesday,
lat 10 o'clock a. m for the pur-
Ing board of directors for the
l.. A. GRAY ES, Cashier.
b, vt, Dec. s, 1908. :
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

'ORS: President, N. @,
G. Turner, w. H. Hagen.
k once: 80 Wall St.,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-08

/ market for local secIcyNes.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-18
GOSSIP OF CITY CAMPAIGN
HsnningS Opponent in Last Campaign viii
Vote for Him This Time.
ALSO FAVORs REELECTION or MooREs
Ernest Mertens Declares hat Good
CitiEenshiD should Re the Guild
ing Spirit in the Pend
ing Campaign.

81 am for Frank e. Moores for mayor and
for A. H. Hennings for treasurer" remarked
Ernest Mertens In a crowd of democrats
Thursday night. and / defy any man to
question my democracy"
Mr.. Mertens' stand In this campaign is
OF special interest because three years ago
he was on the democratic ticket as the
candidate for city treasurer against Mr..
Hennings.
II am for Hennings," continued Mr.. Mer-
tens. because / know that he has made a
FIRST class city of1cial and every citizen
who wants good government should sup
port him for a second term, regardless Of
party ties. II l had been elected three
years ago and had made az good a record
as Mr.. Hennings has made / would now be
expecting, from the citizens Of omaha al
endorsement OF my work.
AS for Frank Moores, I will say that
he has made a good mayor-a better mayor
than Ed Howell would make. l was OPP
posed to Howell for the nomination for
the reason that / did not consider him a
gocd mar for the once, and he Is no bet
ter now than he was before the democratic
convention. In a city election l am not
going to vote for any man simply because
he Is a democrat, but / am going to make
my selections on the broad ground OF good
citizenship. don't think any democrat
who is familiar with affairs inside the party
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-18
Tilted SUIToR is REAL MAD
Hans JurgenH, Charged with Arson,
Says AccuEer's Daughter Was
to BE His wife.

Hans Jurgens confessed 10 a Jury in
Judge Estelle's court yesterday that he
had counted on Mrs. Elizabeth Rains
daughter for his wife and that when he
discovered she was married to Charles Day
he grew pretty mad about It and declined
to play In Mrs. RAINS bayfield, any longer.
Jurgens is being tried on a charge OF
arson and the complaining witness is Mrs.
Rains. whose barn near Briggs Station was
burned In September, shortly after Jurgens
declared himself and left the premises.
The evidence has been that Jurgens grew
very angry over his defeat in love and that
he left The barn on the Rains place a very
short time before flames were discovered.
The smoke was first seen issuing from the
northeast quarter Of the barn and Jurgens,
when placed on the stand, testified that he
had not been near that part Of the building,
had carried no matches that day and ac-
quired none after he got there. His only
material admission was that when he saw
Day, an operator at Briggs, driving on
the Rains farm and was told by Mrs. Rains
that they had been married nearly a year.
he told her the girl had been promised him
Ind that Day had better keep out Of his sec
tion Of the universe or he would "do things
to him" Also, that he would put up no
more hay for Mrs. Rains on shares. bur
take his reaper and go home.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-18
IN GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT
r.. w. Tells of Progress
of the Work in Various
states.

r. W. Richardson. secretary OF the Ma
tional Good Roads association, is at home
for a few days, and will leave early next
week, returning in time TO cast a vote at
the city election. Since leaving Omaha Mr..
Richardson has attended meetings in a num-
Der of states in the interests OF good roads
At Little Rock he organized the Arkansas
Good Roads association with several hun
bred delegates. At the present session OF
the legislature an attempt will be made to
pass a bill based on the Massachusetts, idea
Of state assistance TO local communities in
the construction of highways. At the meet
ing Of the Missouri association at Spring
field delegates were elected to the national
convention to be held at st. Louis next year.
Mr.. Richardson attended the low eonven-
ton, which was held this week at Des
Moines upon the call Of Governor Cumimns.
at which a state association was formed
which has a membership Of $50 to 400.