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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the TOwh and Village Told
Briefly for EusY Readsfs.

News OF the TOwh and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.
Fred stickles spent Sunday witt
his family here.
A meeting of the base ball team will,
be held this evening at Forester's hall
at 8 O'Clock.
Judge Carney is confined to the
house by illness. Mrs Carney, who is
i'll, is reported slightly better today.
Allen M. Barrett has finished work
for the Evening Banner. He is sue
ceeded as local reporter by Leon Farm.
ham Of this village
Rev Louis Cote spoke on "a Slip
From Darkness to Light" to a large
congregation at the Baptist church
Sunday morning.
Monday and Tuesday evenings, the
secretary of the Baptist state conven-
ton, Rev w. A. Dawson, will speak
in the Baptist chapel.
James II. White Of this village and
Miss Wardell, of North Ben
nington were married last week at
White Greek. They are keeping house
at his home on Valentine St.
Miss Winifred Potter entertai ned
about fifteen of her young friends at
her home ON Grove st Saturday eve
ming. Games were played and choice
refreshments served. All report a
very pleasant time.
Charles A. Stanton died at the
Soldiers Home Sunday night, aged 65
years. He was a member of the 2nd
Massachusetts cavalry. The body
will be taken to West Leyden, Mass.
tomorrow for burial.
Under Southern Skies" Miss
Lettie Blair Parker's enormously
successful play continues to be greet
ed by large houses wherever it is pre-
scented. The Boston success has been
duplicated in Buffalo. The attraction
will appear in this city on April 30.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
Fire and Collision mt Hobolsen.

NEW YORK, March 2S--A spectacu-
lar fire which lighted up the Hudson
river occurred last night in Hoboken.
While the flames were raging there
was a collision between two loaded
trolley cars ascending the long inclined
railroad trestle rising from the ferry
to Jersey City Heights. The collision
was directly due to the fire, as the mo-
tormen were running blindly through
the dense smoke Several passengers
were hurt. The fire started in the cleo
trio supply department of the Lacka-
wanna railroad, just north of the yards
in Hoboken; loss, $4,000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
Estate of Caroline e. Hall,
TEL. NO. lo.6

Notice of Settlement and Application for Distri
button.
OTATE OF VERMONT, At a session
y District of Bennington, IS, Of the Probate
Court. holden at the Probate ONCE. In Benning.
ton, in said District, on the 25th day Of
March. A. ID. 1901. b,u
Present, John V. Carney, Judge.
henry I. Cushman administrator de bOnis
non with the will annexed OF the estae OF Caro-
line L. Hall, late Of Bennington, in said
district, deceased, presents his administra-
ton account for examination and allowance,
and makes application for a decree OF dis
uibutiOn and partition Of the estate OF said
deceased.
whereupon, 1t is ordered by said Court that
said account and said application be referred to
session thereOftO be held at the Probate once
aforesaid, on the 18th day of April A. ID. 1904
for hearing and decision thereon; And It Is
further ordered, that notice thereof be given
to all parties interested by publication Of the
same three weeks successfully In the Benning-
ton Evening Banner "a newspaper published al
Bennington, previous TO said time appointed for
hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place, and show cause, II any theymay have,
why said account should not be allowed, and
such decree made. NJ u Et.t
A record whereof is ordered to be made.
Attest, JOHN v. CARNEY, Judge.
A true copy of the original record.
T9w3 Attest J0HH V. CARNEY, Judge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28

Corrected to October II, 1908. Trains leave
Bennington daily, except Sunday. unless
otherwise noted.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
Ice carrIed Lawyer ont to peath.

RICHFoRD, Vt, March 2S,-While
standing on the bank OF the Missis-
quot river watching the breaking up of
the ice H. e, Rustedt, a prominent
Franklin county lawyer, was carried
out into the rushing waters and drown
ed. Two other men who were with
him on the same ice cake managed to
leap ashore. Hundreds of people, pow
erless to aid, saw the unfortunate man
so to his death in the swltlfng waters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
RUTLAND RAILROAD.

Corrected to October II, 1908. Trains leave
Bennington daily, except Sunday, unless
otherwise noted.
GOING SOUTH,
lao a m-Express daily for Troy, Albany
and New York
z:4O Passenger for Troy, Albany and
New York
I2i9O p m-Man for Troy, Albany, New York
and West.
$40 " Flyer for Troy, Albany and New
York.
5iO5 - Express for Troy and Albany.
TAO Passenger daily for Troy and Al
bany.
GOING NORTH
I9iIS m-Expross daily for Rutland, Burllng-
ton, Montreal, Ogdensburg and
West. Pullman sleeping cars to
Montreal and Ottawa.
Sis 4" Passenger daily for Rutland aAd
Burlington.
2.3O D m-Flyer for Rutland Burlington, Mon
treal and Ogdensburg. Pullman
parlor car to Montreal
0ilO p D--Local Passenger for Rutland, Bur
lingtou and intermediate stations
Trains from Rutland arrive at Bennington
Troy arrive at 1245, s:45 and 0 80 a. M, 800,
4 :35 and AS pm.
CHATHAM DIVISION.
$40 m-Passenger for Chatham and New
$3.50 q m-Passeng4r for Chatham.
Trains arrive from Chatham at ll05 a. m. and
CA. NIMMo, Gen. Passenger Agt.
GEO. Jarvis, Vice President and
Rutland. VT, General Manager
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
ohnII May Renirn.

NEW YORK, March %. = Governor
odell, 1t is asserted by the Herald's AL
bany correspondent, has informed his
most intimate friends that II is his in
tention to resign from the governor
ship, probably In September, 90 that
he may be free to devote himself en-
tirely to the management Of the Re
publican state and national campaigns
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-28
At The Corner Market.

Our special cash prices for this
week. Shoulder roasts of beef lOcts 10.
Shoulder steak 10cts ID. Prime rib
roasts l2cts lb. Home pork and sau-
sage all the week. A. c. Sweet.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23

The past month a number OF
single and saw mills have been
bought by Japanese in the Puget
Sound region. Recently they
have bought two in Skagit county
and a considerable area of tim
-ber,land. The fear is expressed
that ultimately this business will
all drift into, the hands of the
little,brown men. Nothing but
Jap labor is employed by the
Jap owners for the very obvious
reason that ii is much cheaper.
Japanese, while in many re-
spects superior to the Chinese,
are after all a menace to white
labor, knocking it out, because
they live cheaper than the white
man and will work for lower
wages. 1t appears that the own
ers of mills are worked up over
the natter 1t follows quite
naturally that if the Japanese
operate their plants at less ex-
pense that they can and will sell
their products cheaper.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23
Last weeks issues 81. the w
prosperity always.

- - h - p.
Last weeks issues of the We
natchee Republic was late in
coming to our table bnt it was q
record breaking issue when it
/; did come. Thirty-six pages and
q beautiful coVerwithg a Seattle
I scene for the front, looking
down First avenuep that busy
: thoroughfare of the western
metropolis, under the title "The
Mouth of the Orient" all printed
on a good quality of book paper.
The Republic fairly outdid itself
,ing getting out this mamoth pa
per. .sItswould be a 4creoit to a
town of fifty thousand inhabi-
tants and will prove a good ad-
vertisement for the town and
valley, and above all it illus
trates the enterprise and liberal
ity of the Wenatchee business
houses, for without their help 1t
would not be possible for the
Republic to get out this great
tissue.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23

One OF the largest potato growers in
Michigan advocates washing potatoes
for long keeping. He says he washes
his potatoes and has never lost one by
rot after he has put them away in the
cellar. As soon as they are dug they
are hauled 10 suitable rack where the
hose is turned on them and they are
washed. thoroughly, 100 bushels being
washed in ten minutes. They are al,
lowed TO dry and then packed in crates.
The cleaner the tubers are when put
away, the better they keep.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1904

The Echo wishes to all it's
friends and readers a merry
Christmas. For a day, at least,
let us put aside the work:a day
trou les. For get t h a t
life is SCARED with troubles and
marred with cares. Forget the
evil and remember only the good,
Put rancor and hatred out of our
hearts, and if we remember our
, enemies at all, let, US think of
them with Christ like compass
sion, as only erring human be-
ings.
Let this day of all days be a
day of peace, and "let not the
xsun go down on your wrath.
fOn this day of days, when we
seek our repose let us lie down
to peaceful slumbers in truth
Eand in fact, with only the re-
elections of the good there is in
life. -,
There is no better or more ra-
tional way of spending the day
than in social intercourse with
friends and acquaintance.
Time out of mind it has been
the. custom to @bestow gifts on
our friends that make glad the
: heart of him that gives as well
as him that receives.
TO our friends and our enc
mics, if we have any, to all the
world, we give on this Christmas
day our good will and our good
. wishes for their happiness and
y prosperity always.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23
Notice Of PubI,cation--Timber Land


WaterviIle, Wash :, Dec. H. 1904
Notice Is hereby gwen that IN compliance
with the provisions OF the act of Congress of
June 3, 1873. entitled An Act for the sale of lin
her LANDS in the states OF California, Oregon,
Nevada and Washington territory. AZ extended
to all public land states by of August g. 1892,
Perry W Eddy
OF Minneapolis, county OF Hennepin. state
OF Minnesota. has this day filed in this
ONCE his sworn statement No 524 for the
purchase OF the wei of section No 80, in
township No 20 y, range No 10 f. w M
And will offer proof 10 show that the
land sought is more valuable for its timber
or stone Than for agricultural purposes and
10 establish his claim Ia said land before
A. N. CorbiD. U S Commissioner, at his office al
Wenatchee Wash. on Thursday, the Cd DAY OF
March, 10 &.
He names az witnesses: William Gridley,
John Stopple. James A. Grant, Frank SHIRLEY,
all of Chiwaukum. Wash.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above descr bed lands are requested to file
their claims in this ONCE on or before said End
-ay OF March, 1875
NJ u. MALLOY, Register.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23

Senator Stewart of Nevada
has introduced a bill in the SEN
ate raising the presidents salary
to S1e0,e00 year, vice presi
dent;antf Speaker of the house
100000 and senators and repre-
sentatives $40. 900. The bill to
take effect in 1909.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-12-23

Last Friday evening n school house
on Port Columbia bar, near Brewster,
was burned and Miss Mary Short was
charged with setting fire TO it. She
was arrested and her bond fixed at $500.
Failing to give it she was taken TO Wa
tcrvilic and put in Jail.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Rescuer's Blow Kills a Woman.

New York. -Erysipelas resulting
from blow in the face has caused the
death of Mrs. Christina Gessman, who
was rescued from the ill-fated General
Slocum. The blow was struck by a
fireman who rescued the woman from
drowning. Mrs. Gessman jumped
from the hurricane deck Of the Slo-
cum. She was seen struggling in the
water by fireman, who leaped to the
rescue. He was caught by the drown
ing woman, who choked him with a
death grip so tenacious that he was
finally compelled to render her uncon-
scious with blow Of his fist. He then
swan with her to shore. She was hur-
rfed to a hospital, but slight cut
caused by the fireman s fist developed
erysipalas and caused the woman s
death.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
New Enterprises.

Jackson, Miss, July 1.-The follow
lowing new enterprises have given no.
tice Of their intention of incorporat-
ing:
Bayou State Trust Company, Green
Vile, capital $4,000.
Merchants and Farmers Bank,
Pickens, capital $4,000.
Tate County Telephone Company,
senatobia, capital $1,000.
Planters Compress and Bonded
Warehouse Company, West Point,
capital $4,000.
Mississippi Cracker Company, Hat
tiesburg, capital $4,000.
Charters have been granted to the
following:
Bear Brothers Company, Laurel,
capital, $4,000.
Farmers Gin and Seed Company,
Bellwood, Washington county; capital
$500.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Insane Beauty is jailed.

jefferson, Ind.-Mrs. Anna Penning-
ton is again in Jail waiting commit
met to the insane asylum, this being
the fifth time, her last release having
occurred January Il, afg.so,
Mrs. Pennington has had roman
tic story which has been often told.
1t includes three marriages, first to
William FL Pennington, Jr., then to
Matthew Kelly, and later to William
II. Pennington, ST., father Of her for
mer husband. Among the other Incl
dents Of her life was the murder, dur
ing one Of her mad spells of her little
child, to which she had been much at
tached. The beautiful maniac as
she used to, be called, Y now only
about 80 years old. uf
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS MATTERS
Brief Chronicle Of All Important Happenings
After the Whitecappers.

Detective Hoyt, who has been EN-.
ployed by Governor Vardaman to run
down the white cappers has now got.
ten his evidence in shape, and it is an.
nounced that some startling revela.
lions will be made when the grand
jury meets at Brookhaven. Hoyt, took
the negro, Lewis Jones, from the city
Jail and carried his secretly to the Ed
wards House, where he was met by
several prominent citizens Of Lincoln
county. A stenographer was on hand,
and Jones was told to tell his story
from start to finish without sparing
anybody or hiding anything. Jones
was kept there for several hours, going
over his connection with the lawbreak-
ers who have been giving so much
trouble in Lincoln county. One Of the
most important developments from his
story, is that labor agents were large
ly responsible for many of the white
cap outrages, and that Jones was en-
ployed by these agents to distribute
warning notes and post warnings on
the premises Of the negroes. The OBJ
Ject being to terrorize the negroes into
leaving the community, when the labor
agents would show up and offer them
a place to go where they were prom
ised freedom from whitecapism. Jones
statement was reduced to writing and
is voluminous document.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
For New Episcopal College.

jackson, Holly Springs and Meri-
dian have entered the lists for the
new Episcopal College, which is to be
located somewhere in the State by the
Diocese of Mississippi. THE College
will go to the city offering the greatest
inducement. Bishop Bratton, of the
Diocese Of Mississippi, has the matter
in charge, and at the proper time will
call for bids from the several towns
wanting the College.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Will Marry American Heiress.

Vienna.-The notorious Count Helm
rich Edmund Potocki, who for years
has been at odds with the authorities
and has kept all Of the courts Of Wen
na busy, has once more been arrested,
this time for obtaining money under
false pretenses. The Count met his
accusers in court and did not try to
deny that he was guilty as charged,
but said that if he were allowed to
go he would in the near future be able
to pay up all of his debts, as he has
hi seyes on rich American heiress,
whom he expects to marry within the
next six months. q 80 1t'9sf 4
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Oyster Mems to Disband.

The Oystermen IS Protective Asso-
citation has voted to disband. Peter
C. OFT has been appointed to wind up
it's affairs. The assets Of the associa-
ton will be prorated among the forty
two members who were in good stand
ing at the end Of June. At one time
last year the organization claimed 700
lemberS,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
THE NEGRO POPULATION.
Interesting Statistics in Census Blu
reau Bulletin.

Washington. The census bureau
has issued the final bulletin on the
negro population OF The United States
The number of negroes in the Unit
ed States, including the entire area
covered by the twelfth census (conti-
mental United States) Alaska and Ha-
wall and Porto Rico, is 900, 531, per-
haps a larger number than is found
in any other country outside Of Afri-
ca
The report indicates that between
III and Is per cent Of the negro pop
Fulation has, or is believed by the emu
merators to have some degree Of
white blood. The center Of the negro
population is in DeKalb county, Ala
bama, about four miles from the wes-
tern boundary of Georgia, having
moved thence. from Dinwiddle coun-
ty, Virginia. Almost 80 per cent Of
the negroes in continental United
States and three-tenths Of chem are in
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama.
Negroes constitute about one-fif-
teenth of the city population and
about one-seventh Of the country pop
ulation Of continental United States.
There was an increase among the ne
groes Of 1,345,318, or Is per cent in
continental United States, but the
rate Of increase declined steadily
throughout the nineteenth century.
The negroes, unlike the Indians and
the natives whites, have a slight ex-
cess Of females. Illiteracy among
them is about seven times greater than
the whites. There are $685., 1897 ne
groes in The United States engaged in
gainful occupations. Their death rate
approximates 30 per cent, while that
of whites under the same calculation
is II per cent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Frightful Loss of fe.

st. Petersburg. There is consider
able rejoicing oyer the news from the
theater Of war. From the headquar-
tiers at Mukden came the positive
statement that none Of the
big warships sustained any damage
in the recent attack on Port Arthur.
Also came the report that the Japan
csc sustained loss of of one thousand
men in a land fight before Port Ar
thur. Another report says General
Mistchenko dealt the japanese ad-
vance a severe blow by recapturing
the Dalny pass.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Over Three Inches Of Rain.

The heaviest rainfall in many moons
fell at Fayette Saturday afternoon
and evening between 4 and Z o'clock,
the government gauge registering B.
4 inches. The rain was general through
out this section, and reports are COM
ing in from all sections Of the coun-
to TO the effect that crops are very
much injured by the exceedingly hard
rain The cotton crop has suffered
eyen more severely than corn.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
NOT READY
FOR PEACE
ENGLAND HAS HEARD NOTHING
= OF MEDIATION.
NEWS CREATE SURPRISE
Visit of King Edward to Emperor Will
liam Brings out Fact That Inquiries
Are Made From Washington as to
Eficacy of Good Offices of America.

Washington. - While the officials
here are satisfied from their private
advices that the recent visit Of King
Edward to his nephew, Emperor Will
liam, was not brought about by pur-
pose to initiate movement toward
the restoration of peace between Rus
STA and Japan, there is reason to be-
heve that there is some very careful
and discreet inquiries as to the oppor-
tunities for some such overturcs at
this time have emanated from Wash
ington. 1t may be stated that the re-
suit has been to disclose the fact that
neither of the belligerent powers is yet
in a humor to sue for peace, nor even
to entertain overtures from any third
power on that subject.
The state, department will continue
to maintain the friendly position it
has so far held toward both Russia
and Japan, standing ready to mediate
and extend it's good Offices to the full
est whenever the belligerents indicate
their Willingness to accept them. 1t
can not be said that the situation is
sensiblyt changed from what it was a
month ago, -,save the fact that there
Is more optimistic feeling in official
quarters that there will soon be an
opening for diplomacy to exercise it's
peaceful methods in the Far Eastern
struggle.
The British papers say that the
from Washington that steps were be-
ieved to have been taken locking to
mediation between Russia and Japan
creates great surprise. The British
government not only has taken no
part in such measures, but apparently
Is ignorant that they are in progress.
Official opinion from Premier Bal
four down, is that the time is not yet
ripe for any offer of mediation; but to
quote person in Mr.. Balfour's conf
dence, "Great Britain has kept the
door open for any such contingency. It
Is not likely that this government
would be acceptable in the role of ar
bitrator, but it would at the right time
use all its influence to urge the bellig-
erents to- accept the offer from a suit
able mediator There seems to be no
reason for thinking that the govern
nent would not FIJI that role suitably,
but Russian opinion IS always a rather
unknown factor"
From the higher official sources and
from the japanese legation comes the
positive statement that nothing has
resulted from the interviews between
King Edward and Emperor William
at Kiel, that in any way was connect
ed with the Russo-Japanese war.
There seems to be no doubt that res
ponsible ministers seriously warned
King Edward that he must not ini-
tiate any step in that direction with
his imperial nephew
The japanese legation, it appears,
made discreet inquiries as to whether
or not this advice was carried out, and
it was stated that there was every rea-
son to believe that the war was not
discussed at Kiel, except in the most
conversational and informal way.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
National Guard Fund.

Adjutant General Fridge has re-
ceived a letter fror Assistant Adult
ant General Gi1foy of the War De-
partment, advising him that the share
of the National Guard fund allotted
to Mississippi under the Dick bill is
$19,477.20. This fund becomes avail
able for use by the Mississippi Nation
al Guard on July l. Hon. Walter Wea-
yer, Of Columbus will have charge Of
the disbursement of the fund.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Vandals Continue Their Work.

st. Louis. 1t is learned that an at
tempt has been made to wreck the
great organ, the largest in the world,
in Festival hall at the Worlds Fair,
cutting the secondary bellows. This
will not affect the working Of the or
gan, which can be operated with the
primary bellows. AS a result of
this attempt at vandalism, the compa-
ny that is building the organ, which
is only partly finished, will hereafter
exclude from the stage all except those
employed in the construction Of the
instrument.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
More Help is Cut Off.

Philadelphia The working force
Of the Pennsylvania Railroads oper-
ating department has been decreased
IL per cent, and all other departments
have undergone a 5 per cent reduc-
ton. A statement to this effect was
officially made at the company's gen.
eral Offices. It was announced that
the reduction will be enforced through
the entire system, both east and west of
Pittsburg. This affects more than 3d.
900 men, and it is the greatest cut
made in years.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-07
Pressing Port Arthur.

Chefoo. 1t has been learned here
that big battle was fought on land
near Port Arthur on June 26 and June
~. The Japanese were successful and
on the morning of the 28th they occu-
pied certain heights within ten miles
of Port Arthur. The first japanese d.
vision, fresh from Japan, were en-
gagged. The Japanese losses have not
been learned, but the Russians are
said to have suffered very heavily.