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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
EAST ARLINGTON.

Mr. Whittlesey from Williams col.
lege occupied the pulpit in the Congre.
gational church last Sunday in the alb
sence of the pastor, Rev G. A. Fur.
ness who is out of town for few days.
George Andrew and Ralph Gaul
have gone by team TO Wardsboro
where they are to stay a few days TO
hunt the nimble deer. Mr. Andrew left
|. +. Dean as night Waterman in his
place at the cheese factory, while Leon
Stone takes Mr'Gaul's place as clerk
at Stakeholder Il Dunton's.
Mrs Pollard of Hartford, Conn. =,
has been here to visit her sister, Mrs
Seth Warner and other relatives, es-
pecially Johnson Whitman who isvery
poorly. Mrs Pollard is matron in the
capitol at Hartford. She returned to
her home on Monday, accompanied
by her niece, Mrs G. A. Field and Mas
ter Paul Field. G A. Field has gone
to Rutland TO visit his mother, Mrs A.
c. Field.
Mrs Allen Nutting arrived hereMon-
day night. Mrs Nutting is stopping
for the present with her parents, M
and Mrs w. A. Andrew, until the ar
rival of Mr. Nutting about the first of
November, and their household goods
from Syracuse. They are to occupy
rooms in n. G. Hard's house. Miss
Agnes Rudd has removedher llinery
goods TO room in the second story
of NJ. o. Schutt's house.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
M'cUE MURDER TRIAL.
Medical Examination Indicates Shot
at Close Range.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, oct. &c
DIR. Venable at the McCue trial here
testified that the wound on the back
of Mrs. McCue's head might have been
made by contact with the bathtub, but
the one on the ear he thought to have
been made with some blunt instru.
ment. The gunshot wound in the
breast was an inch long and badly
powder marked, indicating very close
range 1t was of such character
that death would be practically instan-
taneous The wad from the shell had
lodged against the spinal column. He
gave Ii as his opinion that the wound
could not have been inflicted with Mrs.
McCue in the position in which she
was found and said he did not believe
she could have stepped into the tub
after having been shot as he did not
think more than half dozen heart
beats followed after the shot entered
the breast
On the day following the shooting he
discovered finger marks on Mrs. Nc
Cues throat made, In his opinion, by
left hand; also a broken finger nail
on one hand. The defendant did not
touch the dead body of his wife to the
knowledge Of the witness.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
All Halloween Festival.

On October 3lst "AllHalloween Fes.
tival" will be held at Albany and will
be gala day commencing at 8 a. N.
and continuing all day, ending with a
grand illuminated street parade in the
evening. Queen Titania will be crown
ed in the morning with Prince and
and Princess Charming, maids of hon.
or, court ladies and couriers, etc. In
all over 800 young ladies participat.
ing, funny costumes, decorated floats
and automobile parades in afternoon.
Coronation ceremonies will take place
on the capitol steps. The day will be
one grand moving spectacle which all
should witness.
The Boston and Maine railroad will
have tickets on sale at North Adams
and stations west to Albany and re-
turn good going Oct. 3lst and return
ing after masked parade in evening
and a. m. trains of Nov. LIST at the low
rate of l.20 from Hoosick Falls.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
NORTH HOOSICK, N, Y.

Mrs John Marsh is on the sick list
Chas Hathaway is making extensive
repairs on the hote.
Jake Eldridge and daughter spent
Monday with his brother.
Several from here attended the con.
vention at Valley Falls Wednesday.
Ami Surdam has resumed work with
| Stephen & Thompson after 3 months
illness.
There was large crowd at thedance
held in Hathaway's hotel Friday eve-
ming Oct Il.
Mr. and Mrs Sherwood Haswell and
Mrs James Guidou have returned from
the st Louis Fair.
Miss Lucy Haswell, who has been
spending a few days at her brother
Charles, has returned.
a man, name unknown, was found
dead near the Electric Light Co.'S dam
in Hoosick Falls, Saturday.
Mrs Cherboneau and son, Lester,
are visiting her sister, Mrs George
Washington OF Walloomsac.
VIM McCart, who has been to the
hospital for several weeks on account
Of a broken leg, has returned home
Mrs Frank Eldred and daughter,
Frances, have been visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs Frank Buck for several days.
VIM Haswell, who has been spend
ing several days with relatives in
North Hooslck and Hoosick Falls, re-
turned home Sunday.
Edward Spaulding and VIM Spauld-
ing, who have been to Greenwich for
several days repairing the mill OF
Stephen Il Thompson have returned
home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
STANDARD OIL DENIES.
Great Corporation Repudiates Any
Political Combinations.


NEW YORK, Oct 26.-S. @. Dodd,
counsel for the Standard OIL company,
has authorized the following state
ment:
I'm view of the many false and mis-
leading statements from various
sources, the directors of the Standard
Oil company deem II advisable to state
to the company's shareholders and the
public that neither now nor at any
time has the Standard Oil company or
any of its constituent companies hcen
interested in any business not directly
related with and necessary to the pc
troleum trade.
1T would be almost impossible to
designate In this denial the different
classes of business with which ire
sponsibe parties have coupled the
Standard Oil company name, bun it
may not be amiss to specify copper,
steel, banks railroads and gas (other
than natural gas as being most promi
nently mentioned. With none of these
affairs has the Standard Oil company
members of the Standard Oil company
have been and are interested as in
dividuals in various enterprises, but
this is entirely outside of the business
of the Standard Oil company, which is
oil alone, unaffected by other inter
ests in which its stockholders may in
vest.
Neither is il true that the Standard
Oil company, Mr. John ID. Rockefeller
or any officer of the Standard Oil com
pany has taken part in securing the
nomination OF any of the candidates
for Office, as is so positively stated.
Furthermore, it is entirely untrue that
there is any standard Oil party"
banded together for speculation in
stocks as is so commonly charged The
name of Standard Oil company is fire.
quentIy used by designing persons in
the manipulation of the stock markets,
but its use Is unwarranted.
THE Standard OIL company departs
from its usual custom in making this
denial for the reason that the state
ments being made at this time by news j.,
papers, magazines and sensational pub
lie speakers appear to be unusually
mendacious and may to a great extent
mislead the public"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26.-The Pa.
cific mail steamer China has sailed for
Honolulu and the orient with 415 pas
sengers, including l45 Japanese, a
number of whom are returning home TO
enter the army. More japanese are to
go on the next steamer. Prince Aziz
Rassan, nephew of the sultan of
Turkey and by marriage a cousin of
the khedive of Egypt, is passenger.
Commander c. c. Calkins, United
States navy, and Commander n. Sar-
gent, United States navy, are sailing
TO the far east to join the Asiatic
squadron.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
Negro Porter Shot Conductor.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 26,-P. A
Atwood, passenger conductor EN-
ployed by the ST. Louis, Iron Mountain
killed near Farrell Station, fifteen miles
east of Little Rock, by Houston Hoo
ker, negro porter. The tragedy &C.
CURED on the Pine Bluff Little Rock
accommodation train. Hooker's alleged
grievance against Conductor Atwood
was that the latter slapped him in the
face after reprimanding on the ground
that he had been inattentive to passen-
gers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
skull Of Mastodon Found.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 26-Work.
men tearing down bluff on the Mis-
souri, river front at Lydia street I'm.
covered the skull of a mastodon with
tusks seven feet long. 1t is not known
BLUM. as work was discontinued, to be
resumed carefully with view to saw
ing the skeleton. Portions of another
mastodon's skeleton were found in the
same clay bank four years ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.


Briefly for Busy Readers.
Joseph T. O'Brien is in Troy today
with friends.
Mr. and Mrs Homer +. Rudd and
Miss Agnes Potter returned this morn
ing.
Irving S. Finn of New York who
has been visiting John Daley has re
tIrned home.
Geo A. Knapp of Rensselaer, has
b en- spending few days at the home
of Fred w. Spear.
Branch No. 3 of st Msry's guild
VIII meet with Mrs Il. A. Bradford at
the parish house, Thursday, from 3 to
3 p. m. Special work.
The district meeting of the Encamp-
ments comprising the Bennington and
Rutland counties will be- held here
about the middle of November. 1t is
intended to make it the banner meeting
OF the district.
Harold L. Morehouse of Baxter
street has resigned his position as
bookkeeper at the Killington National
bank. Mr. Morehouse will leave next
week for Bennington to begin his du
ties as head accountant and'cashier OF
the H. G.. White Manufacturing COM
pany Rutland Herald.
Assistant secretary of the navy
Chas II. Darling arrived home this
morning on a short visit Tomorrow
he will 90 to Montpelier and in the
evening will deliver an address before
the Vermont Historical society. Mrs
Darling and the family who have been
spending the summer here will return
with INN Sunday.
The Fortnightly club will hold its
next session Saturday, October 20, at
which time Miss Grace q. Niles will
give an illustrated nature talk. Miss
Niles has for years been making a
study of the swamps and marshes OF
New England and very attractive
book, bog Trotting after Orchids, "
of which she is the author, has recent
ly been published.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
Mrs. W. Z. TOnrY Dead.

BALTIMORE, Oct 26.--Mrs. William
P. Tonry, the only daughter of Mrs.
Mary K. Surratt, who was involved in
the Lincoln assassination, died here
after years of illness. When her moth
er was arrested Mrs. Tonry, then Miss
Surratt, gave all her time to efforts to
save her. After her mothers death
Miss Surratt married Tonry.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-26
steamer Mns.nchunetts Stranded.

NASSAU. n. p, Oct, 26.-The At
lantic Transport line steamer Massa-
chusetts, from Cardiff for New Or
leans, is stranded off Abaco, Babams
islands. She Is resting easy.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

Who wants seed potatoes? Early
Rose, Peerless or Triumph. See
Louis Kowalski. ll-7-l2-6
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

Frank W. Boss and family now
occupy the Nelson cottage, opposite
side entrance TO the Catholic
church.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

your province to render verdicts,
but unde- the evidence in this case,
yours is a most remarkable verdict.
The persons composing the jury in
the Withers case are discharged, as
l no longer desire your services. -
The above is the first instance on
record in Jefferson county. and
perhaps one of the first in the State,
in which a jury has been discharg-
ed from further service by a court
on account of disapproVal of the
verdict rendered.
The action of Judge Bryant in
administering this singing re-
buze to the jury i'll the Withers
case and discharging them from
further attendance upon the court,
has been the occasion of much
comment here.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07
JUDGE BRYANT
REBUKED JURY.
Verdict in the Withers Case Did hot Sui!
Him and Jury Was Discharged for
Balance of the Term.

Beaumont, Tex, Dec. 3.-A SEN
sation was sprung il the court room
OF the United States District court
this morning when Judge David E.
Bryant discharged the jury in the
case of J. P. Withers, who was
yesterday acquitted i'll every count
of the charges Of violating the
United States banking laws, which
had been preferred against him. In
dischargi;g the jury Judge Bryant
said:
Gentlemen Of the jury, It is
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

Nasonic-Rio Crande Lodge. No. 81. meets the
1st and srd Tuesdays IN each month.
BENZ. Kow4LSKI. w. 81.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

4 Knights of Pythias-Brownsvi,ie lodge. No.
$50. meets lst and 5rd Wednesdays IN each
month. BENZ KowALsEI. {. c.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07
Notice.

The regular annual meeting OF
the Stockholders of the Merchants
National Bank OF Brownsville. Tex
as. will be held at its banking house
on Tuesday, January 10thv 1904,
at ) p. III. for the election 7. Direc-
tors and the transaction of such
other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
]. @. FERNANDO, Cashier.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07

Will Hanson, United States mar
shall for the Southern District Of
Texas. arrived in the city fist of
the week to attend federal court
| He has just returned from Wash
ington, where he went to take
federal prisoner. Mr.. Hanson is
stopping with W. B. Bates.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07
LODGE DIRECTORY.

Nasonic-Rio Crande Lodge. No. 81. meets the
1st and 5rd Tuesdays in each month
BENZ. Kow4LsKI. W. 81.
BIZ Cas-. secy.
knights Of Honor-No. $50. meets End and 9Th
Tuesdays in each month.
DIFF. cosIBE. Dictator.
F.E. srA3eE. Reporter.
4 Knights of Pythias-Brownsyilie Lodge. No.
$50. meets lst and 5rd Wednesdays IN each
month. BENJ KowALsSI. {. {
A.w. Wood. K Of R s 5.
Red Men-Aztec Tribe. No. I95. meets every
Friday night
Ew. DIcKEy. (. Off.
woodinen Of the world-Acacia Camp. No
go. meets 2nd and 4th Thursdays in each month.
{. H. THoR.', c. c.
FEE. srARcK. Clerk
Frontier Camp. No. 1922. w. o. w.-ineets Ist
and SD Thursdays of each month.
BE. HINELEY. c. c.
E. \. McCARY. Clerk
a. o. L. w.-Progress No. IS, meets every
other Monday night.
= T. CDOa' M W
CHAs. II. MORE. SEC.
LADIES LODGES.
Eastern Star-Hope Chapter. No. pa. meets
lst and 5rd Fridays Of each ~ nth.
MRS {. Il. KowALsKI. ". II.
ANNAJ. kennedy. Sec.
WoodInen Circlc-Orange Grove. No. 55S. meets
Jst and 5rd Saturdays in each month.
Mrs. BENJ. KowALsEcI. Guard.
Miss MARY EGLY. Clerk.
Degree OF Honor. A. o. [. W.--CoTa RutledEe
Lodge, meets alternate Mondays.
Mrs CORA RUTLEDGE. {. Of II.
las. T. DENTON. sec.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07
Millinery Display.

Misses Ferrell s Abbott. of Cor
pus, have on display an up-to-date
line of ladies hats at the Miller no
tel sample room. Will be here
until Saturday.
Miss GRACE BEYNON.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-12-07
THE WEATHER.

Brownsville, Tex. Dec. ?. 1901
Tonight and Thursday fair; frost Thurs
day morning; light to fresh variable
winds. CLINE.
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Notice.

will be in the city a few days.
and am now ready to put your
pianos in hrst-class condition. Or
ders left Al Putegnat's Drug Store
will receive prompt attention.
Pitt. JoHN B. NIASo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
we had other students who. could never

We had other students who. could never learn"
 .sIt. must have been then. that Hay became acquainted with Lincolnr' said l.
 .'Yes, although suppose Lincoln must have known Hays father and may have known him as boy. Lincoln was great friend to Milton Hay, and he was frequently in our .ofiice. When Lincoln was elected President he made John Hay one of his secretaries. and he then began that diplomatic training which Is so valuable to him today.
 The English Mission.
 Did you have anything to do with the appointment of Colonel Hay as min ister to Englandf"
 T have always had a high opinion of Hays diplomatic ability" replied Sena. tor Cullom, "and when Mckinley was elected I wrote letter, without solicita- tion on the part of Hay or any one else. advising the President to give Hay the mission to England. He got the ap- pointment. but cannot say that my let- ter was the cause of that. When John Sherman had left the State Department and Secretary Day was about to be ele- vated to the Supreme Court I again wrote Mckinley, advising him to call John Hay home and make him Secretary of State. In my letter I put forth his peculiar fitness for the position. saying that he could handle the foreign powers better than any other man living and could fill the place as we'll as one man in the country. Mckinley was then both Hay and Whitelaw Reid. There were many influences at work but Hay was chosen. and don't think that Mckinley regretted Il"
 Uncle Sam and Cuba.
 The conversation here took foreign turn and asked the senator whether h. was satisfied as to what had been done as to Cuba. He replied:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
A Tortoise Fight.

T iisten." said the farmer leaning on his hoe.
 From the next field there came a sound of rapping, a sound as of sharp knocks on a door.
 What is it?" said the city man.
 "A tortoise fight" the farmer an- swered. wen go and see it."
 They made their way toward the rap ping sound. and in a little while they came upon two box tortoises that were fighting hard.
 The creatures fought in a strange way. They made at one another with their hands protruded, but. at the mo- ment of collision, each tried to use his front flap for shield. and the result of this prudence was that not the heads. but only the shells of the tortoises hurtied together. There was a bang. Then the fighters backed off and pre- pared for another round
 The two men watched them till the spectacle became wearisome. Then they returned to the potato patch.
 Male tortoises will fight like that for hours at a time," the farmer said They never get hurt, They go for one another fiercely but at the last mo- ment their hearts fail them. and their heads shoot back into their shells"
 Bang, bang. bang" came from the field.
 "AlI afternoon" said the farmer they'll keep that up. and neither oi them will get scratch" How to Rest on n Mountain Top. In the thin, cold air of the mountain top the young man panted little
 My heart is Auttering." he said. "l don't feel badly. though I feel light and clean and gay. This air is like champagne"
 What rot" said the old mountaineer "what. you are only $500 feet above the sea here. This is no altitude. This Is about the same as being in a cellar" The youth drowned. Then he said What is the greatest height you have ever climbed tor' ''Over 1s.o00 feet" answered the mountaineer.
 "well, 1t felt dull. It seemed to me that was ready to keel over in doze all the time. I was so weak and lazy that to step over rock six inches high seemed a task insuperably difficult.
 'T breathed hard, very hard, and If I sat down to rest, my legs went to sleep instantly. There is, you know only one way to rest at great alti- tude. You stand with your legs stretched wide apart; you plant your snow-ax upright in front of you; you fold your hands on the axhandle. and you lean your forehead on your hands A few minutes rest in this strange atti- tude restores your breath, quiets your heart-in a word, makes a new man of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
DUMPING RAILS INTO CANADA
An Illustration of One of the workings q
 the Tariff System. Springfield, Mass, Republican

Springfield. Mass. Republican
 It is in the columns of the senior Res publican organ of New York that announce
 ment is made of the sale of so.ooo tons of
 steel rails by the United States Steel Cor
 poration to the Canadian Pacific Railroad---
 Eat the regular export price, which Is gen.
 erlly believed to be between s1s and s21
 a ton" The price demanded by the truse
 of a home railroad is s2s. which 1t is en-
 abled to impose by reason of a customs du-
 ty on steel rails of s7.s4 ton That tariff
 just about measures the difference between
 the price charged outside railroad and
 the home market price To tax a home fn-
 dustry s7.s4 ton. or third more than
 competing foreign industry. by virtue Of the
 tariff. is what nowadays passes under the
 name of protection to home industry IF
 this duty were swept away. the monopoly
 fangs of the steel trust would be pulled outs
 1t could charge home railroads only about
 what 1t is charging foreign. and it can af-
 ford to make rails at s2o a ton for home
 roads. as we'll as for foreign roads.
 Our Canadian neighbors should enjoy such
 a situation. and they say they would were
 it not for the fact that they have capital
 invested in steel rail industry. and are
 without assurance that the United States steel trusts would continue to sell at the low prices after they had destroyed ths Canadian industry. And so they have put into effect an "anti dumping measure. which will apply to this particular export of steel rails This measure provides that a dutiable article imported and sold in can- ada at 0 price lower thu that which prevails in the market of the exporting country shall pay an additional duty not more than half ths regular duty and not less than the dif- ference between the regular and the dump ing" price of the aRticle In question. For example. suppose the regular Can adian duty on steel rails is s5 ton. and that the price paid by the Canadian Pa cifis rod for these rails is SEQ. Then the
 extra duty will be s2.5o. and the total cns- Aoms tax on this importation would be sT.50 a ton. bringing the price of the rails to the Canadian Pacific up to s27.50 ton. or nearly what the American roads have to pay. Thus. under the present anti- dumping act of the Canadian government the Canadian Pacific will lose to that government all the advantage over Ameri- can railroads which an American steel trust would give to 1t.
 Provided of course. the Canadian govern ment can enforce its new law. That may seem an easy matter. but when nobody out side of the steel corporation this side of the line can know exactly what the dun ping price is in e particular case, how ar. the customs authorities of Canada to be sure that they know? Anyhow. some in- terest will be felt in the United States in the operation of this anti-dumping sxrangs- menL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11

Hay was when he entered my office in Springfield to study law. He had been to school at the Academy in Springfield and had then gone east to Brown Uni- versity, where he graduated. Our firm was that of Hay & Cullom. and John came into the ofice largely on account of my partner. his Uncle Milton Hay This was just before the war when John was eighteen or nineteen years old"
 What kind of law student was he, senator?' asked.
 He was very bright" said Senator Cullom. "He had not been in the of flee six weeks before he could tell him what we wanted in the way of papers and he would go off and draw them up. He could draw up a bill In chancery. and in fact almost any kind of a paper