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SIGNED BY GOVERN OR
House Bill, Effective January T. Relates to
Grade Crossings

Montpelier, Nov. l7-Gov. Proctor
signed yesterday House bill 1872 relat
ing to grade crossings, which wa:
passed Friday by the Senate.
Toe provisions OF the act follow
The selectmen of town within which
public Highway crosses or is cross
ed by a railroad, may bring their petit
tion in writing to the board of rail
road commissioners alleging that pub.
lie safety requires an alteration in
such crossing, its approaches, the
method Of crossing, the closing of the
public crossing and the substituting
of another therefor, not at grade OIL
the removal of distractions to the
sight OF such crossing and praying
that the same be ordered.
Commissioners will order a hearing
10 the matter and shall determine what
alterations If any shall be made APP
portioning the expense between the
property holders OF land adjoining the
public highway, grant damages 10
land owners whose property must be
taken, etc. The commissioners shall
order percentage of the whole ex'
pense of alteration including land
damages to be paid by the state, a
percentage to be paid by the town in
which such public crossing or highway
is located, and the expense to be paid
by the corporation owning or opera
ting the road.
When railroad corporation fails
to remove in any one year the cross
ing required to be removed by the
provisions of the act, such crossing
not so removed shall be added to the
number required to be removed the
follow ing year.
The act shall not apply to str
railway corporations. The act takes
effect, January l, 1907.
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LIKE GRANDPARENTS CLOCK.
Fred g. hutehin'' Watch Stopped at the Instant
When he Passed Away.

There is a strange incident reported
in connection with the death OF Fred
G. Huichins, who was fatally burt at
Hooslck Falls Tuesday morning. I'm.
mediately after the accident the Injured
man was taken to one OF the hotels. Ii
was remarked by those who helped 10
care FOR Mr. Hutchins that his watch
was apparently not damaged when its
owner was rolled between the freight
cars and the stone wall.
The landlord took charge OF the
time piece and placed ii In the hotel
safe. Mr. Hutchins died at 10 minutes
after 2 o'clock on the afternoon Of the
accident and later when the watch was
taken from the safe it was found that
the hands had stopped running at PIG
p m.
The watch was In perfect condition.
Had it been wound as usual the night
before it would not have been likely to
have stopped at that honr ard even
had the winding been omitted the watch
should have continued to run to a
much later hour.
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NO OFFICERS
MIGHT RESULT
II Legislature Fails to Canvass
the Votes.
THIS WEEK LAST CHANCE
Probability That Adjournment
Will Be Taken Over Thanks
giving.

Montpelier, Nov is.-lf the bill In
troeuced last Friday by Mr. Darling OF
Chelsea from the judiciary committee
goes through and becomes law this
wesk twill obvlate the necessity OF the
legislature dlsposing OF the bills now
before II relating 10 the reorganization
OF the judiciary before IL adjourns for
the Thanksgiving recess. This bill 81
Mr. Darling provides that the general
assembly may by joint resolution post.
pone the election Of judges OF the su.
preme court and other State officers
until such time during the session as
the legislature may tx by joint resolu-
ton. In other words, the judges hold
over until their successors are elected.
II this bill does not pass, the reor-
ganIzation OF the courts must be dis.
posed OF one way or another this week,
aud a Joint assembly must be held to
elect judges OF the supreme court, as
the term Of Office OF these judges ex-
pires December /, next, before the leg
islature will reconvene after the
Thanksgiving recess.
The bill OF Mr. Darling does not In
clude county officers. The joint COM
mittee TO canvass votes for county Of
dcers must complete its work this week
and Joint assembly must be held TO
declare the result, otherwise on Deem
Der l, during the Thanksgiving recess,
the state would have no sheriffs, dep
uty sherifis, states attorneys, assis-
taut judges OF county court, judges Of
probate Or justices OF the peace. II
this committee makes blank report
on the vote for states attorney OF Ben
nington county, the assistant judges
OF that county, with the advice and
consent OF the presiding judge at the
last term OF county court In that coun-
ty, will appoint states attorney to
ill the vacancy
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BISHOP MlCHAUD ILL.
Hss Seen Delayed Ia His Work and Nay Ash
Tor An Assistant.

Tho Boston Herald for Sunday con-
tanned tho following dispatch from
Burlington which will be OF interest "
Bennington people;-
The condition OF the RI Rev. John
s. Nlohaud, bishop OF the Roman Cath
Ollie diocese OF Burlington, which In
cludcs the entire state OF Vermont, II
such as To cause the clergy Of the
diocese and his many ilends grave an.
xo,y. For several years his health
has been poor and no has been oblig.
ed 10 take frequent vacations from
active work.
II IL known tha' he has been 10 Mon.
treal several times for an operation
on his throat, the exact nature OF
which has not been dlyulgcd. Ho has
also had several attacks OF acute indi.
gcsllon, the last one occurring about
two months ago while on q visitation
In 81 JohnsLury. That attack was SO
.eyere that he remained 10 q hospital
there for several weeks, after which he
was bro ight home To this city aud
taken tie next day 10 the Fanny Allen
hospital, where he now Is. He Is able
to walk around the grounds OF that n.
slitutlon but is making only slow pro
grcss toward rccc very
The clergy OF the diocese we're 10
have met 10 this city Nov. ! for the
purpose Of offering mass for Bishop
Mlchaud's predecessor, the RI Rev.
Louis DeGoesbriand, and IL vas un-
derstood that a number Of important
official changes In the diocese we're To
be- made OF that time. But Bishop
" chaud was not able 10 be present
and the mass was not said Neither
have the appointments been made a.
yet, although there have for some
time been number OF vacancies In
several parishes In the state, notably
Rutland, oue OF the most important In
the diocese
IL would surprise no one II applIca.
ton we're soon made for the appoint.
meut OF . coadjutor bishop 10 relieve
Bishop Michaud Of the many details
Of the diocese and enable the yacan.
cies TO be filed. Bishop Michaud
was himself made coadjutor April 4,
1892 and became bishop on the death
Of Bishop DeGoesbrland seven years
later.
Bishop Michaud was born In Bur.
lington and will be 90 years OF age on
the oath OF the present month
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STORM IN
THE SOUTH
Winona PartlyDemolished by
Small Cyclone.
FIVE DEAD, GREAT LOSS
Mississippi, Arkansasand Tennessee
Communications Halted by
PROSTATE Wires.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Nov. ~. - Tole'
graphic and telephone communlca.
lions received from points IN Mlssls.
slppl, Arkansas aud Tennessee Tor n
distance OF many hundred miles report
that territory 20 have suffered great
damage from a destructive rain and
wind storm.
Five persons have persisted. and
there has been immense loss In prop.
crty aud crops. Railroad traffic from
Memphis Is dcmoralIzed by numerous
washouts, and many trains have been
annuled.
From the reports so far received the
greatest damage occurred In the cen.
trail and delta regions Of Mississippi
At Wlnona, Miss. the Catholic, the
Christian and the negro Methodist
churches aud the IIcsty brick yard
were demolished ana many buildings
unroofed and damaged. Among the
largest buildings damaged at this
place are the postoiiice, the opera
house. the oil mill. the compress. the
warehouse OF the Jackson Mercantile
company aud the residence OF y. j.
Dunkston. Besides these. twenty
smaller buildings were partly de-
stroyed.
Telegraphic communication is pros
trated.
or those buildings not destroyed. the
compress was probably the most Sc
verely damaged. The roof Of this
building was torn on by the wind,
which at times reached almost tornado
velocity. falling on the home OF +. ].
Dunkston 80 yards away. The wind
storm was preceded and followed by
heavy rains, causing serious washouts
along the route OF the Illinois Central
railroad and damaging crops.
At Mathlson. Miss. serious damage
IL reported 10 have occurred. A wo-
man was killed by n falling building.
At Tohula n falling tree striking n
small frame building caused II TO be
set afire. burning a woman and a child
TO death.
At Nonconnah creek. n few miles
from Memphis. railroad trestle fell
under the weight Of a switch engine,
the engine plunglng into the swollen
stream. carrying with it Engineer c.
V. Peterson and Fireman A. Il. Richie,
who were drowned.
West Point. Columbus and Mahln
Miss. are reported TO have suffered sc
rious damage, but as these points are
cut or from communication II Is i'm
possible TO verify the report.
At Indanola, Miss, the entire buSl-
ness section is threatened with de-
struction by fire which started dur
ing the night.
At Jackson, Tenn, the waters are
higher than ever before known in this
section. and the three railroads enter
ing there are tied up by washouts.
The Illinois Central track at Frog
more. Just south of here, Is washed
out and the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St Louis is cut Off east and west
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All day Saturday and Sunday par
ties OF men were searching the rough
country on aud around Carpenter hill
for Ellsworth Benjamin, generally
known rs "Dime." A week ago Sun
day Benjamin took his gun and black
and white hound aud left home on 4
fox hunt. He did not return Sunday
or Monday, but his absence caused no
anxiety as his wife believed that he
was stopping with friends somewhere
on the other side OF the mountain.
Tuesday night, however, the hound,
tootsore and thoroughly exhausted
limped home and Mrs Benjamin began
TO fear that some accident had befallen
her husband. Day after day passed
and still Benjamin did, not return and
on Saturday application for assistance
10 the search TO- the missing man was
made TO the selectmen. Up 10 this
morning no trace had been discovered
and Benjamin's friends are losing
hope OF again seeing him alive.
Should he have met with an accident
that disabled him 1t would have been
impossible for him TO have survived
through the weather that prevailed
last week.
Benjamin has wife and two chill
dreu, the Youngest A baby but a few
weeks old, and has been living recent.
ly 10 the small house near the Moses
Wilson farm. He Is 81 years OF age.
Nearly a dozen men from the neigh
borhood began searching for The miss
ing man this morning and shortly be-
lore noon one OF the men employed by
John Robinson found Benjamin's gun
lying in a wood road on Mr. Robin.
sons farm. The stock was broken of
but the cartridges we're still In both
barrels. The gun had not been dis
charged since Benjam took 1t from
his home on the morning OF November
IL.
AS soon as the gun was found the
searchers began hunting 10 II direct
ious from the spot where tn weapon
lay but no traces OF the man could be
found. There we're no indications OF a
struggle in the vicinity and nothing TO
show how or why the gun had been
broken.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
CHERISHED ELM OF P0WNAL.
Church and Towpspeopi, Aroused Over
Ruthless Work OF Road.

The elm tree on the corner OF the
Methodist church property, in Pownal,
over which there has already been con-
siderable controversy, was cut down
some time between II and 4 O'Clock
Thursday night in the thick OF the
binding snow storm.
Although the official board had
agreed, with but one dissenting vote.
to sell the tree, no agreement had been
made with the road, and the time taken
to remove the tree is thought by most
people to indicate that the road does
not intend to settle at all.
Several other trees on Church street,
two or three OF which we're on the
Methodist parsonage lot, we're also re.
moved last night. The trees were not
only cut down, but teams we're hitched
to them and they were removed bodily
from the premises.
The people of the church are aroused
to the highest pitch of indignation by
the work OF the company, or men UNI
doubtedly in their employ.
Aside from its intrinsic and orna.
mental value, this tree had peculiar
sentimental value in the eyes of the
church people, which was more than
anything else responsible for the
spirited controversy over its sale to the
road, 1t was planted by one of the
founders of the church, John Mason,
who gave largely to the support
of the church, of which his
son, Arson Mason, is today an in6u-
ential member. According to Samuel
Wright, who helped Mr. Mason set out
the tree, 1t had been put in its place
about 81 years ago.
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ed to his holiness Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
]. McCloskey of Philadelphia and Paul
S. King of New York, who noticed that
the pope was pale and lahored under
some emotion. After this reception
the pope proceeded to the hall of the
consistory, where he received about
200 other persons. including twenty.
FIVE students of South American col
lege, to whom he delivered short AL
dress. None of these persons knew
anything of the explosion.
A report had been spread abroad
that the pope intended to visit st. Pc
ter's yesterday to pray before the tomb
where the outrage was committed,
which drew an exceptionally large
crowd. to the basllica. This rumor was
unfounded, for only Cardinal Rampolla
entered with the procession.
This bomb explosion makes the third
anarchist outrage in Italy in four days,
the other two being the murder of Pro
fessor Rossl in Naples on Saturday
and the explosion of bomb in front
of the Cafe Aragno in this city on Nov.
IA. The attempt at st. Peters has
caused deep seated and universal hor-
ror and Indignation on account of the
locality selected by the miscreants, and
the resentment of the people is very
great.
st. Peters is the greatest basillca in
Christendom. 1t took $50 years in the
building and stands today result of
the efforts of forty three popes and the
genius of Michael Angelo, Bramante
and Rafael. The commission of such
an outrage in such place has called
forth unlimited condemnation on all
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
AN ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT
Son Of Postmaster Graves Found Out the
Thing Was Loaded.

William, the five year old son OF Mr.
and Mrs C. M. Graves, badly burned
his fingers yesterday while playing
with an electric light. The little fellow
bad climbed up on sink and by means
OF the short chain used to turn on and
of a wall lamp created a short circuit
The boy at once gave vigorous notice
Of the trouble he was in and Mr. Graves
hurried up stairs to the scene Of the
trouble.
The child was still standing on the
sink, his body rigil because OF the
electricity thai was passing through
him and his fingers clasped about the
lamp. Mr. Graves released his fingers
one at a time and took the boy down
from the sink. Outside of the burns n
the fingers the child sustained no in.
jury.
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But Mighty Hard To Live According Other People Propose
cry Man Finds Easy To Make Set For Other People But Nigh
BENNINGTON TO TROY
Prob'bl, Outcome Of Electric Railway Com.
blnallon.

Prob,bl, Outcome Of Electric Railway Com
blnallon.
The'Troy Record OF Friday contain
ed the following;
"rhe Consolidated Electric Railway
company which really Is the New Yorl
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company, Is reported 10 have purchas
cd the Bennington y Iloosac Valley
Electric railway. The transfer OF stock
Is said 20 be Ia progress.
"There was meeting OF officers OF
the Consolidated company and Presl-
dent Greene Of the Bennington & Hoo.
sac Valley In lloosick Falls on Tues.
day, the officers OF the former company
coming from willIamsto an 10y Rutomo
bile. After private conference the
Consolidated oflela nj Mr Greene
made an Inspection OF the Bennington
& Aoosae Valley road as far as IL l.
completed, going over the line In n
trolley car, aud from the point where
the tracks terminate the inspection was
con'lnutd by automobile TO tho city
line OF Troy.
"The road il finished TO North Hoos-
lex and the Bennington q Hoosac Val
ley has the right OF way privilege from
property owners and towns for the re.
mainder Of the road 20 Troy. The
Consolidated company Is 20 complete
the road from North Hoosick 10 this
city aud on reaching the city line here
Is 70 come Ia over the tracks OF the
United Traction company, arrange
ment having been made for that with
the United Traction company.
"The route through Toy will be- over
the Sixth avenue branch Of the United
Traction company's road. permission
10 build which has been asked for from
the common council. Il is possible, Il
Is said, that there may be change OF
route decided upon 10y the Consolida-
ted company and that the BcnningtoB
& Hoosac Valley may enter the city 10y
way Of the Stone road, and that the
tracks OF the United Traction company
from sycawsy may be used instead OF
those from the North Fad.
(Which ever route OF entrance e.
Troy is decided upon IL Is stated with
authority that the Bennington y Hoos
&C Valley will be completed by its new
control neat spring and that trolley
service between Troy and Benniug.
20 will be opened early next season
1.-THE Consolidated company is nos
building from Williamstown 10 Ben.
nington and has franchises for exten
sions to several places 10 New York
Massachusetts and Vermont, the ultlm
ate purpose being a system which will
serve very exclusive and well popu
lated territory, Troy teing principal
point Of communication.
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INDEPENDENCE, Kan, Nov. 49,
John O'Brlen of Lima, o., general man
ager Of the Ohio Oil company, died in
Nowsta, I. T., during the night of heart
disease Mr.. O'Brlen had been in In
dian Territory looking after oil prop
critics. He retired in his usual health
In little while he called for doctor
but soon passed into stupor and did
not regain consciousness. lie was
general manager of the Standard Oil
company's business here until Daniel
O'Day's death, when he succeeded Mr.
O'Day in Ohio. He was forty-twc
years old,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
ORDER WAS VOID
Railroad Commission PowsrIsss to Compel
New Station.

Montpelier, Nov. II Supreme
court adjourned for the term today
after rendering opinions in eighteen
cases. During the term thirty-four
decisions have been rendered and sew
eral cases disposed OF.
In an opinion by Judge w. w.
Miles the order of the board of rail
road commissioners to compel the Rut.
land Railroad Co. to erect and main
tain q station at Bartonsville in the
own of Rockingham, before June,
1907, was declared null and void, the
court declaring the.board had no
authority to issue such an order.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
Heard Grace Browns Death Cries.

HERKIMER, N. Y, Nov. 19.-The
trial of Chester Gillette on charge of
having murdered his sweetheart, Grace
Brown, at Big Moose lake was conv
tinued here this morning. The address
of the county prosecutor served great
ly to increase the interest in the case,
He created a sensation in the court
room by declaring that he will put on
the stand a witness who heard the
death cries of Grace Brown.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
blizzard Hits Colorado.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Nov. ia severe
blizzard is raging all through this dis
trict. The Colorado and Southern rail
road reports the storm extending into
the Panhandle of Texas. The Santa Fe
reports a blizzard along its line as far
as Kingsley, Kan. In northern New
Mexico the blizzard is especially Sc
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
rroup visit. Bryan at Lincoln.

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 19.-Alexander
Troup of New Haven, Conn, who was
prominent at the recent meeting of the
New England Democratic Progressive
league at Boston, ut which Democratic
presidential possibilities were discuss
ed, arrived in Lincoln yesterday to talk
matters over with w. J. Bryan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
Dime BENJAMIN
FOUND DEAD
November Il Tie Went Hunt.
ing and Disappeared.
GONE MORE THANAWEEK
Thought That he May Have Injured
Himself and Persisted in the
Woods.

At $50 this afternoon 4 telephone
message from the south part OF ihs
town reports that "Dlme" Benjamin's
dead body had been found on Albert
$. Peaks place. The cause OF death
was not apparent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
BOY BADLY HURT

Lee Mcclure Exploded Illuminating Cap that
He Found.
Lee, the l5.year-old son of p. j.
Mcclure OF Gage street, was badly in.
jured Sunday while fooling with full
minating cap With four other boys
he went down the line ofthe new rail
road and found the cap and brought
it home.
Boy like, he tried it with lighted
match and it exploded badly mutila'
ting his left hand. He was taken to
Troy Sunday night and it was expect
ed that the thumb and one finger
would have TO be amputated.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19

Doau's ReguIets cure constipation,
tone the stomach, stimulate the liver,
promote digestion and appetite and
easy passages of the bowels, Ask
your druggist for them. % cents a
box,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money IL IL fails 10 cure, E.W
GROVES signature is on each box. 25c
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
Notice

Whereas my wife, Stella M. Becker,
has left my bed and board without just
cause or provocation, | do hereby. for
bid all persons harboring her or trust
ing her on my account as | shall pay
no bills OF her contracting after this
date.
VIM Becker
South SALISBURY, VT, Nov. II, 1906
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-19
Weather

Fair, cooler tonight and Tuesday.
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-08-25
HER HEALTH DESTROYED
BY PELVIC CATARRH.
( "Pe-ru-na has prolonged my
life and made new woman OF
me. "--Mrs. O. d. Robinson.
E7,e,J tpoman III iwcyita Is interested
ui This H'cyP,,i'S E,rbft ;e,iee.

Mrs. o. d. Robinson, 48 st. Felix ST.,
Brooklyn, n. Y, writes:
"Ihave taken Peruna and II did mo
more good than all my two years
treatment by special physicians.
III can really say that feel like
another person. No more swollen feet
and limbs. No more bloating of the
abdomen. No more shortness of breath.
No more stiff and sore joints. You
have no idea what your treatment has
done for me. 1t has prolonged my life
and made new woman of me.
go, such q blessing have received
through your kindness, Doctor, and
the assistance of the medicine which
you so kindly prescribed.
81 am able to work since began your
treatment, but before was not able to
help myself, much less do any work.
All praise is due to DR.. Hartman and
his treatment"
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-08-25
Half the City Destroyed.

New York, Aug. VESSEL,
Duvall & Co. today received from
their branch in Valparaiso the fol-
lowing cablegram which had been
delayed in transmittion: "About
one.half of the city of Valparaiso
is destroyed and the balance dam
aged. Our Offices are apparently
quite safe. More than 1000 killed
or injured, populace camping out.
Our steamers safe.
A cable despatch received from
Valparaiso by the way of Lima,
Peru, to w. R. Grace & Co, OF
this city, today, read as follows:
"The city (Valparalso) is almost
annihilated. Fires are still raging