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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES.
Brakeman Killed at AthoI.

William w. O'Doherety, 80. a brakeman
on west-bound freight train on the Bos-
ton & Maine road, was instantly killed
Sunday while coupling cars in the
freight-yard in Athol. O'Doherty slip
ped and fell under the moving train. His
head was severed from the body, the left
arm was cut off at the elbow and the
right hand crushed. O Doherty leaves
widow and three children in Maynard.
Milan Thayer, So, of South Deerfield,
while temporarily insane Monday night,
drove his wife from the house, and he
covered Deputy James Bridges, who was
sent to quiet him, with a repeating rife.
Bridges talked quietly to him. however
and after a time Moore asked the officer
to take the gun and cartridges.
Patrick Kennedy, Sc, was instantly
killed Saturday evening at tine grade
crossing near the railway station in
Shelburne Falls by being struck by the
last east-bound passenger train for the
day. The fagman warned him of tine
approaching train. telling him that he
he would not have time to get across.
Disregarding the advice, he took chances.
He was employed as a laborer around
the cutlery shops. a widow and seven
children survive him.
A conference was held at Millers Falls
Tuesday between the selectmen of Mon
tague and Erving and e. Thomas, the
promoter of the proposed Orange, Erv-
ing and Mortified street railway, relative
to crossing Millers river to get into Mil
lers Falls. The people have said emphat-
ically that they wished to have the COM
pany build its own bridge near the lower
or White bridge. The company desires
to come over the upper bridge already
built. 1t claims that building a new
bridge would subject the company to an
expense of about s25, 900 that can be
avoided. The selectmen took the ques-
ton under consideration.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
cAMBRIDoEPoRT.

The Sunday school elected the following
delegates to the Sunday school convention
at Bellows Falls next week. Mrs. Abbie
A. Wyman, Mrs. Amy b. Weaver, Mrs.
Eva NJ. Cushing, Mrs. Hammond.
Delegates to the Windham Conference
of Congregational churches, held at West
minister. were elected last Sunday as fol-
lows: Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Hastings, Mrs.
Flora Moar. Charles Walker Miss Oma
Harwood. Mrs. Eva Gushing and Mrs
Frank Davis We're delegates from the
Christian Endeavor society.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
For Over so Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used
for over 60 years by millions of mothers for
their children while 6eebhI d Win perfect sue
allays all pain; cures wind collie and is the
best remedy for darrhea. 1t will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Sold by
bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow' IS
soothing Syrup" and take no other kind.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09

Fourteen persons were killed and near
ly a score were injured in fire in a
five-story tenement building i'm Attorney
street, New York, early Sunday morn
ing. Most of those who perished were
women and children. The men of the
families were asleep on the roof and es-
capped to adjoining buildings. The prop
erty loss was not large. The large num-
Der of casualties was due to the fact
that alterations were being made in the
building so that the fire escapes mad
been removed
BY decision handed down in the SUI
preme court at Concord n. H., Tuesday
the law, enacted by the legislature of
1893, and prohibiting the use of trading
stamps, is declared unconstitutional and
void.
Il am perfectly willing that the press
should say for me that the death rate in
any community from typhoid fever, so
far as the disease is caused by infected
drinking water, may be wiped out by the
scientific use of copper as a germicide,"
said DR.. George T. Moore of the depart
ment of agriculture recently.
The authorities at Enfield, n. H., were
notified Sunday that as the result of
quarrel between Isaac Sanborn and Ev-
erett Il. Marrs during the night Sanborn
was shot through the stomach and will
probably die.
North Adams, manufacturers of cotton
goods, has made an assignment. The
financial difficulties of the concern are at
tributed to an unfavorable cotton market
and to lack of capital. No official state
ment of the liabilities has been made,
but it is understood they amount to sew
eral hundred thousand dollars. The com
pany is bonded for 100000 and has 500
looms engaged in the manufacture of
dress goods. When running in full the
plant employs about 600 operatives, but
about two-thirds of the machinery has
been idle for some time. 1t is the inten-
ton of the assignee to continue the OPP
Grafton of the mills, and as soon as af-
fairs are Strengthened out it is expected
the company will be reorganized
Mrs Minnie Mckenzie, in a sudden fit
! of insanity Sunday, tried to kill ner nus
| band at her home. 12l Falcon street.
| East Boston. shot and fatally wounded
| Patrolman Alfred NJ. Sturdivant, and,
barricading herself i'm the front room of
| her tenement for more than five hours.
| stood off a squad of 10 policemen. She
was finally captured by the use of ger
micide injected through holes In the bar
! ricaded door. When overcome by the
fumes she was found to be armed with
| two large revolVers and had a large
amount of ammunition. During the bar
ricade she fired more than 80 shots, many
going wild into the crowd of 5000 people
which had gathered about the house.
Mrs. Mckenzie is the mther of three
| children. the youngest an infant daugh-
ter. The police say that her insanity
was first manifested in an attempt to
drown the infant in wash tub. Her
! husband interfered and the shooting fol-
lowed. She is woman of powerful
frame and is about "a years old. She
| has been taken to the asylum in Wor-
cester.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
IN OUR OWN STATE.
Heavy Electrical storm in AndOver.

F1GdNy GiNStllSdl OtOIUl w AnuONSIs
The heaviest electric storm ever known
in Andover struck the section of the
town known as Peaseviile and vicinity
about O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
There was a terrific downpour of rain
and hail, some of the hailstones meas
uring between one and two inches in
circumference. 1t was very dark during
the storm, and in less than an hour
streams which were not over six inches
deep were flowing in torrents. AT the
Lovejoy place Arden Pinney received an
electric shock, and one of his horses was
affected. Mr.. Pinney recovered con-
seriousness during the night. A tree was
shattered near the schoolhouse, and
within a mile of O. a. Pease's on the
road toward Weston eight telephone poles
were struck. At Mr.. Peases house the
lightning played around the water pipe,
making explosions like pistol shots. Mrs.
Giddings, the housekeeper, and Mr.
Peases little boy, who were in the kitch-
en-, were stunned. Edward Parker lost
two calves by the lightning. The roads
are badly damaged
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
Bennington Guards Against Smallpox.

The town of Bennington is thoroughly
alarmed over the situation in North
Adams, Mass, where there are no less
than sixty cases of smallpox and fifteen
cases of diphtheria. Thus far there have
been three deaths. The epidemic has been
raging for the past two weeks and is
spreading in spite of the most strenuous
efforts of the authorities.
Bennington being a neighboring town,
the town fathers have seen fit to take
radical measures to guard against the
disease and orders have been given to
arrest any resident of North Adams
found in Bennington and send such per-
son back to Massachusetts. This pract-
cally places the town of North Adams
under quarantine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09

Their gentle action and good effect on
the system really make them a perfect
little pill. They please those who use
them. Carter's Little Liver Pills may
we'll be termed Perfection"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
WILMINGTON.
May Take Water Supply from Haystack.
G. w. PIERCE, Pres.

May Take Water Supply from Haystack.
The special village meeting held on
Tuesday evening was well attended and
the prevailing feeling was that some de-
cided action must be taken in the matter
of securing better protection from fire.
y committee of five, consisting of Moses
Newton. j. II. Kidder. NJ. f. Lyman,
NJ A. Brown and +. e Wheeler was
elected to investigate and to report at a
future meeting. on Wednesday the COM
mttee went to Haystack to look the
ground over very carefully. They report
very favorably as to the supply of water
that can be obtained from the springs
near the large spring, the location of
which is known to everyone who has
visited the mountain.
The village trustees were also instructed
to take measures in the matter of setting
the fire pump. Our recent disastrous fire
has been an object lesson. and it is to be
hoped that the interest will continue until
we have proper water supply
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09

What is the price OF Dobbin's Electric
soap?"
ten"
why, that's the price OF common
brown soap. Send me a box. I can't
afford to buy any other soap after this"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Revolver Proved Fatal Toy.

Adam Stalnack accidentally shot and
killed Mrs. MATHS Bonick at Stratford,
Conn, while visiting Mrs. Bonicks fam
lily Saturday. Stalnack picked up one of
Mrs. Bonick's small boys and pro-
ceeded to amuse him by shooting off his
3S-calibre revolver lie snot several
times in the air, and Mrs Bonick, at
tracted by the unusual noise, went to the
back yard and found Stalnack holding
her son on his left arm, while in his
right hand was a smoking, ugly-lookng
weapon. She implored the man 20 seek
some other means of amusement for ner
son, and he replied by shooting another
time in the air. Then Mrs Bonick APP
preached him and attempted to prevent
him from shooting again by taking hold
of his arm. Stalnack resisted her in a
friendly manner. but in the scufile the
revolver was discharged, the bullet en-
tering Mrs. Bonick's head on the left
side. She died in the Bridgeport hos
pital. Stalnack is held without bail on
the charge of manslaughter
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09

Deans Rheumatic Pills absolutely cure
and neuralgia. Vegetable. safe.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03

vic diseases have no idea that their
trouble is due to catarrh. The majority
of the people think that catarrh is a dis
ease confined to the head alone.
This is not true. Catarrh is liable to
attack any organ of the body; throat,
bronchial tubes, lungs, stomach, kid
neys and especially the pelvic organs.
Many a woman has made this dis
covery after long siege of useless treat
ment. She has made the discovery that
her disease is catarrh, and that Peruna
can be relied upon to cure catarrh
wherever located.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to Or. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will
bepleased to give you his valuable ad'
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus
Ohio.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
SOAKED IN COFFEE
Until Too Stiff to Bend Over.

when drank coffee often had sick
headaches, nervousness and biliousness
much Of the time but about 2 years
ago l went to visit a friend and got
IN the habit of drinking Postum.
Il have never touched coffee since
and the result has been that l have
been entirely cured of all my stomach
and nervous trouble.
My mother was just the same way,
we all drink Postum now and have
never had any coffee in the house for
years and we~are all we'll.
A neighbor of mine, a great coffee
drinker, was troubled with pains in her
side for years and was en- invalid. She
was not able to do her work and could
not even mend clothes or do anything
at all where she would have to bend
forward. If she tried to do a little
hard work she would get such pains
that she would have to lie down for
The rest Of the day.
persuaded her at last to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did so and she has used
Postum ever since; the result has
been that she can now do her work,
can sit for whole day and mend AMI
can sew on the machine and she never
leels the least bit of pain in her side
ID fact she has got well and it shows
coffee was the cause Of the whole
trouble.
i could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been cured
Dy quitting coffee and using Posture
n its place" Name given by Postum
20, Battle Greek, Mica.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
3tIle book, ''The Road to Wellville."
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03

exhibits is a complete government
mint for the manufacture of coin, but
at st. Louis Uncle Sam is making in
stead OF coin gold souvenir medals,
but the process is the same as if the
product was legal tender While Uncle
Sam has a monopoly on the money.
making business len guards the priv
ilege jealously and does not risk the
precious dies, which put their inn
prints upon dimes, dollars and eagles,
to leave their place of keeping.
Besides mo1ern coming press.
from which drops a bright medal at
every click, is a screw press built in
1895 and used at that time to stamp
small coins. There is also a hammer
120 years old and small pair of bal
snces formerly used in the Philadel-
phia mint. Comparing these with the
improvements made in the last 100
years reveals how much easier it is
now for Uncle ISam to replenish his
treasury than it was when he was
young in the business.
All of the machines used in the
plant are driven by independent direct
current motors. the power for which
is transformed from $50 volts to 22O.
The gas for all heating operations,
such as annealing, melting, etc., is
manufactured by an independent plant
situated outside the building, and so
arranged that it can be controlled in
the exhibit. These machines were de-
signed and built especially for this
purpose.
First of the series of devices COM
posing the plant is a furnace which
supplies heat of 1000 degrees F. for
the melting of metal alloys. Here the
metal is cast into ingots and washed
in dilute solution of sulphuric acid
to free the surface from copper oxide
The ingots are then run through the
rolling mill and reduced in thickness
from one-half an inch to eighty-fi ye
thousandths of an inch. This mill is
operated by a so horse power motor
After rolling the strips are heated
in the annealing furnace to soften
them for the cutter.
Processes used in the making of
paper money are altogether different,
for it is here that the printer and not
the machinist and founder serves a
usefulness. In another section of the
big Government building at the
worlds fair there is a fully-equipped
bank note printing plant.
In the Palace of Transportation may
be seen a full size section of the great
tunnel which runs from Jersey City
under the Hudson river, under New
York city at Thirty-fourth street, and
under the East river to Long Island, a
distance of eight miles. 1t illustrates
the tremendous work and millions of
dollars expended upon one of the
greatest engineering works of modern
times. A great laboratory for testing
the power, efficiency and economy Of
locomotives is also in this building
Locomotives Will be under full steam
and full speed in this laboratory, the
greatest show Of locomotive testing
ever conceived and costing a quarter
Of a million dollars.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03

toned the largest pipe organ ever man
ufaetured, with 145 stops and pipes
five feet in diameter and 80 feet long;
four acres covered with agricultural
machinery; the largest natatorium on
earth; ten acres of roses; ten acres of
live game; the largest engines ever
built; floral clock covering a quar-
ter Of an acre of ground, and of which
the minute hand weighs over a ton.
Such items but give the general idea
of the entire fair 1t is all big, it is
all beautiful, it is all interesting.
The exposition management is not
boasting of the pike They wish
the visiting public to remember the fair
by what might be termed its legitimate
portion, it's wealth of educational eX-
hibits, and yet, who would say that the
shows along the "Pike" are not edu-
catiOnal in their way On it are viii
lagos of every sort, and amusement
features of every description. Five
million square feet Of entertainment.
Among outdoor shows, that are not to
be confounded with those of the pike, -
may be mentioned the reproduction of
the City of Jerusalem and the forty
acres of FilipinOs.
Among the most interesting of the
many features of the fair are the vari-
Gus government exhibits housed in the
Government building which is 800
feet long by 250 feet wide. Every
function of the government is exem-
plifed in this building. Among these
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03

surpasses all others in beauty, so, also,
does it in size. One thousand two hum
dred and forty acres, literally covered
with the treasures, the productions, the
curiosities of tic world, tell the story
of the fair in a sentence. No one vis-
itOr will ever see it all, though he
spent the full time the exposition is
open at the task. An exposition which
cost $50,000,000 before its gates were
opened to the public; an exposition
to which 50 nations from all cor
ners of the world have sent their
best for the people of the world
to look upon; an exposition two miles
long and one mile wide; an exposition
that is twice the size of any other to
which the public were invited; an eX-
position that is larger than the three
previous large American eXpositiOns
combined Such is the exposition
with which St Louis celebrates the
centennial of the Louisiana purchase.
But the men responsible for the ex-
position do not wish that it should at
tract by its size alone. They have
builded for beauty, as we'll as for big
ness, and who can stand in the center
of the great panorama without being
aroused to a pitch of enthusiasm by
the beauty that surrounds him? 1t is
the beauty, rather than the size of the
fair, that first appeals to him.
Another thing that appeals to the
American. the man who loves his coun-
try, is The sentiment the exposition
stands for 1t is sentiment that is
fully exemplified in the imposing he
roic statues of the states that stand on
either side of Festival hall. These
statues typify, not the states OF the
east, but these of the west, the states
carved out of the Louisiana territory,
the states that stretch from the gulf
to the Canadian border, from the Mis-
sissippi to Puget sound; states that
have within a century of time been
builded out of the wilderness. 1t is
for-these the exposition has been build
ed; it is these again that have made
the exposition possible. The lesson
they teach is written deep in the his
tory of the nation.
To attempt an itemized description
CT the wonders this exposition has
brought to the doors of the people of
the central west is impossible in the
space of a newspaper article. Twelve
thousand car loads of exhibits found
space within the great palaces. 1t is
almost impossible to realize what such
a statement means until one has gone
from building to building, from ex-
hibit to exhibit. Nor is the space in
the building wasted Every niche is
filled with soT1ething of interest, and
the demand was for almost double the
amount at the disposal of the author
tiles. Some idea of this may be had
from the statement that the breakfast
food manufacturers alone asked for
more space than would have filled all
the Agricultural building, covering 10
acres Of ground, and with four miles
of aisles.
To pick even the more interesting ex-
hibits is almost an impossibility,
though among them might be men
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
Beauty, Size and sentinent
Of the Worlds Fair
1t is Larger and More Beautiful Than Any other
Exposition EYef Given

When President Roosevelt touched
the electric key at the white house in
Washington, which set in motion the
machinery of the worlds fair at ST.
Louis, he not only opened to the
world the greatest display of the arts
OF peace the world has ever known, but
he gave to the nation a fit climax of a
century of growth of that vast territory
west of the Mississippi-the Louisiana
territory.
When, at the swing of lever, 10000
gallons of water per minute was re-
leased to flow over the beautiful cas-
cades in front of Festival hall. there
was completed the most beautiful ex-
position picture the world has ever
seen, a Picture that will live in the
mind of every visitor to the great fair.
Chicago had its Court of Honor. its
stately palaces set against a back
ground of the blue waters of Lake
Michigan; Buffalo had its wonderful
illumination, its dusk of evening
Frightening into day again as the
countless thousands of twinkling
lights brought back the effect of the
rising sun, but these pictures, beautiful
as they were, have been surpassed by
the glory of the cascades, the foaming
waterway, rushing downward from the
colonnades surrounding Festival hall,
to the great lagoons, with their myriad
colors, inters Getting the wonderfully
beautiful grounds in all directions.
Just as this newest of expositions
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
Most Of the Ailments Peculiar to the
Female Sex are Due to Catarrh
Of the Pelvic Organs.

Peruna has cured thousands of eases
of female weakness. As a rule, how
ever, before Peruna is resorted tOseveral
other remedies have been tried in vain.
A great many Of. the patients have taken
local treatment, submitted themselves
to surgical operations, and taken all
sorts of doctors stuff, without any
result.
The reason of so many failures is the
fact that diseases peculiar to the female
sex are not common
Female Trouble ly recognized as be-
Not Hee"Gnsze" cet"rnh ing caused by ca
as Ca1arrn. tarrh. These orgaEs
are lined by mucous membranes. Any
mucous membrane is subject to catarrh.
Catarrh of one organ is exactly the
same as catarrh of any other organ.
What viii cure catarrh of the head will
also cure catarrh of the pelvic organs.
Peruna cures these cases simply because
it cures the catarrh.
Most of the women afflicted with pei.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03

sex are not common
ly recognized as be-
ing caused by ca
tarrh. These OrgaEs
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
"vitches'' Have No Monopoly.

The fun pOked at Russian names is
rather provincial. Many English proper
names must seem quite as odd and mirth-
provoking to the Russians as theirs 90
TO us. No Russian would write "Chol-
mondeley" and pronounced it "Chumley," :"
or 'Beauchamp" and call it "Beechem. -
And what would a Russian of cultivation
say to the Virginia family ''Enroughty, -
who pronounce it Darby ?''-Mexican
Herald
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
What Did She Want2

Mrs Newhwed-I want to get some
salad
Dealer-Yes, ma'am. How many
heads?
"Oh, goodness! l thought you took
the heads Off just want plain chicken
salad. philadelphia Ledger.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
Fame in Sight

Il am going to introduce a bin"
said the newly elected member of the
Legislature, that will make me ia
NOUS"
What is it?' queried his friend.
1T is a BILL" explained the new
member, Ito compel each cigarette
smoker to consume his own smoke. -.
Chicago Daily News
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
Trifing Difference.

I'm a little in doubt" said the doc
tor. Your trouble is either one of two
things"
What are they?" asked the patient.
Appendicitis or the stomach ache.
However, We can settle that"
"How?"
by cutting you open, of course. -
Chicago Post.
The Bourbon news., 1904-05-03
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