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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
CHICAGO LICENSE
FIGHT F IS BITTER |; R
Plan to Raise Saloon Fee to $1,000
to Provide More Police, Is
T.: -. in Balance.
Journal Special Service,

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, March 5.---The plan to raise
the saloon license to $1,000 for thespur-
pose of providing an increased and
rehabilitated police force, adequate to
cope. with the crime Of the city, is up
to the common council tonight. The
indications are that it will be the most
fought On the floor Of the }city's legis-
lative body. s... - MN
The last day. Of the campaign in
support Of the higher hcenset ordinance
was marked by a redoubled appeal by
churches and civic societies in favor Of
the crime remedy advocated by the
leading representatives Of the people
in municipal affairs, by the judges and
grand luries and by a majority of pub
With thirty four aldermen pledged
outright to vote for the 81 900 measure,
the high-license leaders are confident
Of victory. With thirty members in
favor Of low fee or compromise,
the saloon interests will strive to block
the popular movement and, if possible,
commit the body to little or no increase
in the revenue from dramshops.
Five aldermen are counted in the
depends the outcome. If two or more
Of them decide to throw their lot with
the high-license advocates, the ST. 900
fee and adequate police protection will
be assured. If four or all Of them
elect to stand with the low-license peo-
ple,, the movement is lost, and the OPP
portunity to increase and reorganize
the police force this year will have
passed. & sea@s.
The saloon interests made desperate
efforts during last week to counterfeit
the popular cry for more saloon rev.
enue. Extraordinary pressure was
brought to bear on every alderman
whom it was thought possible to win
over from the high-license group. All
kinds of promises, from political sup.
port to considerations more tangible
were made as the reward of Joining
the saloon following. The efforts made
to convert wavering aldermen to the
strenuous on the part of the leaders OF
| that movement So
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
.PRELATE SCORES
MODERN DRAMAS
Archbishop Glennon Is Likewise
Caustio in Dealing with
Public Appetite.
Journal Special Service.

journal Special Service.
st. Louis, March 5.-Archbishop
Glennon, following on the visit here OF
Sarah Bernhardt, who portrayed Camille
and Sappho and appeared in other
French ,s plays, yesterday made q severe
attack :: on the modern drama, and the
public whose appetite for the immoral
ment. He said:
10 go night after night to the thea
ter is mark of decadence. You avoid
the cancer hospital and the pesthouse,
While night by night you rush madly
to see the sad procession of moral lep-
ers exposed amid the plandits Of multi
tudes; the cancerous groWths, the dead
ly vices that destroy the souls Of men.
Roue and demi-mondaine are de-
! depraylty and women 8 shamelessness
are held forth as the expressions OF
genius and fit means Of entertaining a
Christian people. sI
You say, even still there is genius
back Of it all. Yes, perhaps, but 1T is
only the genius that gilds the tomb;
the phosphorus that accompanies the
last stage OF putrefaction.
: 1t always had been a difficult and
delicate task to bring the various meth
DDS Of amusement and recreation within
law. Indeed, amusements always ap.
pear to be more popular in proportion
to- their deviation from the strict code
Of morals, while those who think they
have a mission to criticize or oppose
them apparently only advocate them
and gain neither gratitude nor results.
And yet I don t think that the &C
tor or author is primarily to blame for
what is admittedly the low condition
Of popular literature and the present.
day drama. If the people did not pur-
and vulgar plays, they would not have
such presented. We get what we want.
1t is the old law Of supply and de.
mand.' .1.s-es s--.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
WHITE PLAGUE TAKES
SON AT FATHERS SIDE,

4, Chicago, March 5.-John Brady, 80
years old, who lived in Boston, died
here today in railway depot, while
awaiting an ambulance which was to
take him to hospital. In company
with his father, Brady, who was suffer
ing with consumption, had spent the
winter in California. He was on his
way home and became so much worse
when he reached Chicago that his
hospital. He died while his father sat
by his side, believing him asleep. The
young man had been dead half an hour
when the ambulance arrived.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
35,03l RURAL MAIL
ROUTES In OPERATION

Washington, March 5.-The opera
lions of the rural free delivery service
up to March l, 1906, are shown in a
statement issued today by Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Degraw. Up
to that time 52,227 petitions had been
received and referred. Of these, 1878
we, acted upon adversely ,, The mum
35,031, leaving 3,424 petitions still
pending, of which 294 have been as
signed for establishment.
In connection with these figures the
statement is made that notwithstanding
the development Of the service there is
an unexpended balance on hand to the
credit Of new establishments Of $685.
JOG from the appropriation Of $780,
696 which became available July l,
1908
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
GOMPERS CALLS
COAL CONFERENCE
Executive Council Of American;
Federation Of Labor
Summoned.

Washington, March 81. President
Samuel Gompers Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has called meeting
of the executive council in this city
March Ia. The matters to be discussed
have not been disclosed, but the fact
that John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, who
is member of the council, will be pres
emit, lends color to the belief that the
coal situation will be considered. Pres
ident Gompers has gone to Philadelphia
and New York on matters connected
with the organization.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
WAR ON FEVER MOSQUITO
New Orleans Offers Reward for First
Stegomia, Dead or Alive.

Journal Special Service.
New Orleans, March 5-Five dollars
reward for the capture, dead or alive Of
the first stegomia mosquito found lurk-
ing with felonious intent, within the
confines Of the city has been offered
by the board of health. To the second
person bringing a specimen of the in
sect which is held responsible for the
yellow fever epidemics, the board will
quitoes, tits alleged, hibernate in warm
corners of the houses during the win
ter and in the spring will renew their
pernicious activity. Hence the board
wants to learn If any really are alive
in. the city and to take means to eradi-
cate all those remaining before the
breeding season begins.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
INJURED IN EXPLOSION
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Mason City, Iowa, March By q
premature explosion Of dynamite at the
Mason City clay works last evening,
N. G.. Thorn, an employee, was fatally
injured. His spine was broken and
several ribs were crushed by flying de-
bris that buried him. He had gone
into the pit to arrange the wires con-
nected with discharging. battery when
a fellow-workman mistook an order
and fred the blast.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
FIRE AT .DES MONIES
DESTROYS 0PERAHOUSE

Des Moines, March Sire Of I'M
known origin destroyed the grand
operahouse and did $4,000 damage to
the Observatory building early today.
The total loss will aggregate $4,000,
partially covered by insurance. The
effects of an opera company billed for
three nights stand were destroyed
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

That Pickwick Rye is the standard
of whiskey excellence is proved by the
fact that many WHISTLES are claimed
to be "as good as Pickwick. y Don t
you believe it, one taste will show
you the difference. ,s@
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

Women with pale, colorless faces,
who feel weak and discouraged, will
receive both mental and bodily vigor,
by using Carter's Iron Pills, which are.
made for the blood, nerves and COM
plexion
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

Those unhappy persons who suffer
from nervousness and dyspepsia should
use tCarter's Little Nerve Pills, which
are made expressly for sleep lessA nerv-i
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

Sour stomach, indigestion, belching,
gas, fulness after eating relieved by
Kodol for Dyspepsia. Sweetens the
breath, aids digestion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

Low Rates to the West and Southwest
via Chicago Great Western Railway.
Tickets on sale Feb.S Is to April q,
inclusive; 1890 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego; $22.50 to Salt Lake
City; $34 to Mexico City. Equally low
nation, apply to r. III. Heard, q. A,
Nicollet avenue and Fifth street.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
$25 to the Pacific Coast Via the 500
E'-g t5s@fs paci6c Tine PEE 4

The best of service via the tsTrue
Scenic Route through the Canadian
Rocky mountains. Tickets on sale every
day. For further informatio0 and tick
cts inquire at ticket office, 10 Third
street S.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
SPEYER QUITS MUTUAL.

New ork, March $. James speyer
OF Speyer & Co. bankers, announced to-
day that he has resigned from the board
Of trustees of the Mutual Life Insurance
scouana Eass.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
Blood | un1ors

Commonly cause pimples. boils. hives, eczema
or salt ,rheum. or some other form of erup-
ton; but sometimes they exist in the system.
indicated by feelings of weakness, languor.
loss Of appetite. or general debility. without
causing any breaking out.
Hoods Sarsaparilla expels them, renovates,
strengthens and tones the whole system.
This is the testimony Of thousands annually.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

it's plans and return to China by way
of the Suez canal, the chances are that
it will again traverse the United States
on it's return trip.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
Hoods SarsapariIIa

ID peculiar to itself. Accept no substitute,
but insist on having Hood s and get it today.
LIQUID or tablets. 100 Doses One Dollars
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05

oath Annual Reduced Price Sale.
The Great. Plymouth Clothing House.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
James J. HIPS Guests.

b.
Tho the visitors from the orient did
not formally enter. Minneapolis until
today, their special passed thru here
fact that orders to make a place for
the train in the union. station yards
were issued Saturday, the commission.
sers were carried thru to st. Paul, where
they arrived at $3.50 and were driven
to the Aberdeen at once.
: At Towner, N. D., Prince Tai
and his party became the personal
guests Of James j. Hill Of the Great
Northern railway. His private car met
train was made up. Sixteen Of the
party boarded the special, while the
rest remained on the fast mail and
passed thru Minneapolis at 1910 last
night, en- route to Chicago.
Louis w. Hill, vice president, and c..
p. Stone. general passenger agent Of the
Great Northern, received the distin-
guished guests and watched over their
comfort on the trip down The Fl e. car
compliment which greatly pleased the
guests from the celestial empire. The
run from Devils Lake, 400 miles, was
made in the record breaking time of
little over five hours. Prince Tsai
watched the speed Indicator closely,
and when the train reached the speed
Of sixty miles an hour, turned to his
secretary and remarked in Chinese,
s Very smooth; mile a minute. - 4.
70 See Other Cities.
Arrived at the Aberdeen the orientals
readily took up the routine of occi-
dental hotel life, and during their en-
tire stay made no requests for any
service or privilege different from that
regularly provided to all guests. Their
personal needs were attended to by
If the present plans are carried out
the commissioners will return to the
Aberdeen for supper tonight. At 8:4O
pm. they will leave for Chicago. They
will arrive at 6 am. tomorrow and
spend the entire day there, paying spe-
cial attention to the University Of Chi
cage.
Ann Arbor, where they will inspect the
University of Michigan. On the morn
| ing of March s they will visit Niagara
Falls and the afternoon of the same
| day will be spent at Cornell university
Here the party will separate, three com
| missioners going to Washington for ar
unofficial visit and the remainder; te
New Y ork for three days stay. While
| in New Y ork the commissioners will
be the guests Of committee which in
cludes Seth Low and j. p. Morgan
among its members s@s III
After spending about two weeks ii
! the United States the party will sal
for Europe. Tho the party may change
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
vows OF the Townand Village Briefly
Told for. HusS Readers.

vows OF the Townand Village Briefly
Told for. HusS Readers,
John Finlanof loosick Falls visited
his brother Vim Fnlan last week,
Mr. and Mrs Samuel Sweet and son
John of Shushan have been the guests
OF their aunt, Mrs VIM Bahan of
Maple street
Andrews and Swift who have been
building the 40 X 30 foot barn for
Harry Willougby are now raising the
roof and remodeling a building for n
Noveck
Albert Cummings who was arrested
Monday by Officer Russell on charge
OF intoxication had a hearing in mum
cipAl court this morning and his case
was continued until Saturday.
Joseph Legrand who was arrested
this forenoon by Deputy Sheriff John
Nash had a hearing in municipal
court this noon and was convicted OF
a first Otlense of INVESTIGATION and will
rest ten days in jail
"The Beauty Doctor" one of the
most successful comic operas OF the
season. will appear at the opera house
tomorrow evening. The production
provides some unusually catchy music
Is we'll staged and should provide a
pleasing evenings entertainment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
MANCHESTER CENTER.

Mr. aud Mrs Herbert Shaw spent san
day in Arlington.
Mrs John Convey is in at her home
in the south part OF the town.
Mrs + NJ Andrew who has been Wis
itng in North Adams has returned.
r Williams has rented the house re
Gently vacated by John Stckwell Jr
George Reynolds is moving to Her
bert Benson 5 tenement on River street.
Misses Cora and Maude Fisher OF
Bennington were in town over Sunday.
Raymond Marsden who has been
visiting his brother has returned To
Yale.
Mrs Helen snyder of Dorset was in
town Saturday to attend the OAR
meeting.
Mrs Flora Covey paid an Official Wis
it to the OES chapter in Rutland Fri
day evening.
The base ball team of Black River
academy, Ludlow, viii play the Burr
and Burton team Wednesday on the
fair ground.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
GRISWOLD
Sport Music Art Stationery
Books
NOTICE.

Commencing May lst, the Benuing.
ton Steam Laundry will he conducted
under the management OF Mr.. A. a.
Wright who will also continue the
management of the Wright Laundry.
The purpose OF this consolidation Is
te reduce operating expenses.
Mr. J. f. Camp will remain with the
North street plant.
We are prepared to do the finest
laundry work ever done in this section.
Let us prove it to you
The Wright LaundrieS
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
HANG FATHER GAPON
Russian Revolutionists Exc
cute Priest Leader.
He CONFESSED HIS IREACHERY,
81. Petersburg Report Says lie Has
Disappeared, but May Re Ia the
Hands of Holy synod For
Life imprisonment.

LONDON April 24,-An exraordina-
ry story from Russia asserts that Fa
Their Gapon was hanged secretly by
four reyolutionists who overheard him
admit that he was spying Oh his for
mer revolutionary colleagues in behalf
Of the Russian police.
1t is stated that Father Gapon's
death was brought about through his
attempt to have a revolutionary friend
turn spy
down as traitor considered him too
contemplate to put to death but plan
ned to kidnap and force from him a
signed confession which II was in
tended should be published
His efforts. however. to make others
turn spies sealed his fate. Before exc
cutting him, however il was deter
mined to get evidence against him that
would satisfy the laboring classes OF
his peaching
He was accordingly invited 10 Il villa
in The country. where a conversation
that took place was overheard by -four
laborers who We're members Of the
revolutionary party and who We're con
cealed IN an adjoining room. Gapon
was told that he would be exposed and
that the fact that he was a spy would
be published
Il should deny it," Gapon replied.
,sNn npa ,vnutJ hnliaVa IL
II must call witness said the
other.
Gapon laughed. saying, What wit
nesses can you CALI"
Then door was flung open, and Ga
pom was confronted by four men who,
he realized were not only witnesses.
but Judges and executioners as well.
The men, Infatuated by what they had
heard. grabbed him and hanged the
unfrocked priest and former leader 10
a chandelier in the sitting room.
/ A St Petersburg dispatch says that
there Is no clew to the whereabouts of
Father Gapon. whose mysterious dis
appearance was announced some days
/ ago
| Friends Of Father Gapon claim to
have information that the ex-priest has
fallen not into the hands OF the revolu-
tionists. but into those of the holy
synod. which condemned him for for
sakins the prieStly orders TO indefinite
Imprisonment IN one of the many
gloomy monastcries used by the church
as prisons. Tile most famous of these
IS the monastery of Solovietz. on an
island in White lake, in the far north,
where the Metropolitan Phillip was
imprisoned and killed in the sixteenth
century.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
ARLINGTON.

Miss Anna Broughton of Salem is
visiting at Albert Burk's.
Miss Enid Lakin returned to Castle
ton normal school Monday
Mr. ana Mrs &c Woodwork were
in Troy and Albany the past week.
Mrs Mary Cullinan is in Bennington
for few days at Frank Edgerton's
Mrs James Mcintyre and Mrs Nc.
MINI Of Dandy were in town Saturday.
Mrs VIM Fuller of Schenectady is
visiting her sister Mrs Edward Gull.
nan on Main street
Miss Pauline Batchelder who has
been spending the winter in Beaufort,
N. c., returned home Friday evening
Mrs Batchelder stopped for few days
at Easton, Pa.
The Masonic lodge held its lnstala.
ton Friday evening to the members
and invited friends. Charles Garfield
acted as installing officer Refresh.
ments were served aud pleasant even
ing enjoyed
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
NORTH BENNINGTON.
ID WhIle LIS two dne AMOS.

II G White has two fine antos.
Frank Ripley is i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs Herbert Davis spent Sunday in
Salem
Miss Conway visited friends in Cam
den, n y over Sunday.
The Misses Fisher we're in Manches
ter Center over Sunday.
Gen McCullough's residence is re-
ceiying fresh coat OF paint.
Miss Antoinette Thompson is the
guest Of MIR aud Mrs II F Lamb.
Ed Phillips of Manchester Depot
spent Sunday with G d Phillips,
Mrs Amos Johnson has been very
i'll for several days with pneumonia.
Mrs a $ Hathaway is improving
slowly from severe attack OF pneumo
MIA.
Harry Chase has returned from
Florida where he has been employed
during the winter.
Mr. Em Oh OF North Adams has been
10 town for a few days surveying for
the new water system
l. J Bryant is getting the cellar
ready for the new house which he will
erect this spdng on the lot adjacent TO
his own residence on Hawks avenue
Andrew Mat hews Will move May LIST
into the house ON Main street soon O
be vacated by DR. J 3 Woodruff who
will occupy his new residence on
Church street.
Mr. and Mrs IL Sheldon Of London
derry who have been guests at W +
Simonds for several weeks returned
home Monday. They will spend lew
days in Ar ingtOu en- route.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24

The annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Vermont NEOP is in session
in Burlington today, A large atten
dance from the subordinate lodges is
expected. Those from here who will
be present are Mr. and Mrs II S Mars
den, James II ShufeIt, f E Vail, Ed
ward Lemily and possibly others.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24
GriSWOId'S Sale

of the McGmk stock opened up lively
Saturday night, and is to continue this
week unless earlier disposed of
A few prices viii convince you that
real bargains are being offered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24

Mrs A J Holden, whose parents re-
side in San Francisco anu from whom
nothing was heard until Monday, lin
ally succumbed to the strain upon her
and was Frustrated yesterday about
an hour before the message was re-
ceived announcing their safety Mrs
Holden Is much better today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-24

The funeral of the late Arthur La.
Febre, who was killed by a trolley
car at Walloomsac Sunday night was
held from the church of the Sacred
Heart Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.
The young mans right name was La
Febre but he has always gone by the
name of his stepfather and been known
as Arthur Mulligan.
Included in the destruction of the
Vermont Marble company's plant in
San Francisco last week were twenty
houses occupied by employees of the
company. Eighteen out of the so EN-
ployed there are Vermonters. The
manager of the plant was wired to
Sunday to look out for the entire force
at The expense of the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11
FOR SALE
Country Property
we Sell the EARTH
BASSETT e. SMITH,
CORCORAN
CORCORAN
CORCORAN


Reader, there is more activity and
first-class improvements going on in
and around Corcoran this season than
any community on the coast. A new
colony from foundation up; railroad
junction, about 80 trains each day; every
train stops here; largest creamery in
the state going to be erected; also cam
ming factory, telephone and water sys-
tenn in; electric system being installed,
hotel running, bank and school house
soon ready; thousands of acres being
planted to alfalfa; vines and trees; ac-
tivity on every side; fine flowing ar
teSian wells in all directions
BUT, LISTENi
Just one mile west from the town plot
we are placing on the market $40 acres
in 40-acre tracts; prices from $45 to $50
per acre in blocks Of 40 acres, or we
will sell you from 5 to 20 acres, but at
larger figures, on the Main avenue
which in town is the business street
On this section there is a fine large
flowing artesian well. with abundance
of natural gas for lighting and cooking
You can get. flowing .artesian wells
anywhere. There are but sixteen 40
acre tracts on the section. Five of
these are already gone, only, eleven
left, and we have hardly started In yet
We are going up Tuesday night. Won't
you join us? r. r. ticket round trip
but $10.50. See BASSETT,
With BASSETT Sc SMITH,
2021h s. Broadway.