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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
EXPECT TAFT JULY
Summer White House Being Placed
in Condition

Beverly April l5.-It is given out
here on good authority that President
William H. Taft will not come to the
summer White House at Burgess
Point, Beverly Cove, before July 1.
1t is understood that Capt Butt, the
presidents aid, has secured rooms
at the summer home of II. o. Wood
bury at Beverly Cove from July
until the early part of October. Capt
Butt stopped at the Woodbury. cot
tage last season.
At the adjournment of the board
of trade for the summer season its
quarters will be turned over to the
president and his Office force.
II is expected that Mrs. Taft with
her sister, Mrs. Moore will arrive at
the summer White House about June
IS.
The grounds are being put in con
dtion and necessary repairs to the
house made. It was planned to build
an addition, but that has not been
found necessary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
PROF AeAsslzs WILL
Harvard Benefits in Several DiHeren,
Ways

Newport. r. l., April l5.-Harvard
university fares handsomely by the
will OF Prof Alexander Agassiz which
has been filed for probate here.
He gives 100000 for the general
use of the Harvard museumof compar
alive zoology and 100000 to this
museum to publish memoirs bearing
upon the scientific expeditions of the
u. S. fish commission steamers Alba
tross In 1891 and Blake from 1877 TO
1880. the tropical Pacific expedition
OF iS99-l900 and the eastern expedi.
ton In l904-05. He gives Harvard
all of HIS scientific equipment which
he had collected during his frequent
expeditions.
The museum win also receive sl2.-
600 more az the death OF John Sulli
van and John Conner, servants who
are to have the use OF the fund dur.
ing their lives twenty-five thous-
and dollars Is given the city Of New.
port for the benefit of the teaching
OF manual training and scientific
branches, and $4,000 more upon the
death OF Thomas z. MARYLAND. a ser.
want who has the use OF II during
his life.
To the library OF the Lawrence
scientific school Is given Prof. Agas.
siz books on mathematics. chemistry
and physics. To the American acad.
envy OF arts and sciences and the
National academy OF sciences In
Washington ne gave $4,000 each.
To Elizabeth II. Clarke. his secre
tary he gave $4,000. and In addition
an annuity OF $4,000 for life. To all
servants In his employ for 10 year,
he gave $1,000 and to those who hat
been In his employ for lesser time
$500. Thomas u. MARYLAND OF New
port. his engineer, he gave an add
tional beQuest Of $4,000
lie gave $500 each TO his daught
ers-in-law. Marie Dallas Scott Agas
siz and Mary Simpkins Agassiz. an,
$4,000 each to two granddaughters
children OF Rudolphe Agassiz.
The rest OF his estate he divides In
to three parts for the use for life o
each OF his sons. Macmillan. Georg
and Rudolphe Louis, who are ais
made executors and trustees. Upol
their death the estate is TO 20 4
their heirs. though he has provides
that II the issue shall become extlno
on any OF these three parties, II shal
90 to Harvard college.
The viii was made Sept II, 1905
and was witnessed by George A.
Flagg. Walter c. Smith and W. Il
Draper In a codicil Prof. Agassi
says that II was his intention "a "a
as possible TO pay of as many OF III
provisions of the will as he could 4
his life and the executors are IN
structed 20 deduct from the bequest
anything which they shall find upo'
his books.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
FRAUDS IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Road Said to Have Lost Hundreds Of
Thousands on Repair Work.

Chicago. ILL.,. April 16.-Detectives
in the employ of the Illinois Central
railroad for the last two months are
said to have disclosed a conspiracy
by which the company has lost sever
al hundred thosuand dollars in re-
pair work 1t is learned that an in
yestigation has been in progress for
some time by detective agency,
headed by w. ]. Burns, the man who
investigated the San Francisco fraud
cases. In what manner the fraud was
committed Is not known, but 1t is be-
lieved to have been by means OF
fraudulent bills, which were permit
ted to go through the auditing de
partment, either purpogely or through
carelessness.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
PLAYED IN NORTHERN LEAGUE
Men From Vermont Who Made Good
in Fast Company

Few people not seeing the famous
games played in the Northern League
of three years ago realize the stan
dard Of the players on the different
teams and will accordingly be some
what surprised to hear that at least
p of their number are now playing
in the big leagues and in the fastest
company in the country. The league
included FIVE teams and one of the
fastest mines in 1t was the Montpel-
ier-Barre aggregation, which won the
pennant one year. The league broke
up three years ago, every other one
of the charter members falling out
with the exception of the local team,
which then disbanded. with a clean
slate, and its best men and the best
men of the league were quickly COB
bled up by the scouts of the major
leagues.
A few of the players who are now
making good among the big baseball
men of America are: Reulbach who
has led the pitchers of the National
League for three years and who for
merly played with the Montpelier
Barre representatives; Collins, who
played with Plattsburg team and who
ran Cobb such fight for batting
honors in the Philadelphia Americans
last season, Coombs the star pitcher
Of the Philadelphia Americans who
was formerly a local player Shean
of Rutland, who is apt to be appoint
ed captain of the Boston Nationals;
Grout of the Philadelphia Nationals,
named by many as the leading third
baseman in the country, and Cree and
| Engle, two outfielders, from Burling-
ton and Ottawa respectively both
now with the New York Americans
and supposed to head the list in their
class outside of Detroit. These are
some of the men who played in this
city and state three years ago, and 1t
is small wonder that after being
brought up or such high class play
ing that the fans refuse to support
local talent.
OF the men who played on the
Montpelier-Barre team six are now
playing in the big leagues. They
are Tilton, Coombs, Leroy, Grout
Flynn and Reulbach A number Of
the other players on the teams are
in other leagues and with hardly an
exception they are all on the da
mond yet. Some of the men of this
league may be remembered by theil
assumed names, as for instance
Reulbach played under the name O
Sheldon, Cree under the name o.
Dundee. Engle called himself RAY
and Tilton was known as Smith. TIL,
following is a list of Northern League
players now playing among the ma
jors, what team they played with II
the local league and what uniforms
they are wearing now:
Americars-Cree Burlington, lie
roy Barre-Montpelier, New York
Collins. Burlington, Gardner, Bur
lington, Mcconnell. Rutland. Boston
Coombs, Barre Montpelier. Collins
Plattsburg. Philadelphia; Tilton, Bar
re-Montpelier, Cleveland.
National-Martell Rutland. Shean
Rutland, Burwick Rutland. Flynn
Barre Montpelier, Pittsburg; Reul
bach Barre-Montpelier. Chicago: Cas-
Teton Rutland; Cincinnati; Scanlai
Plattsburg, Pattee. Burlington
Brooklyn; Grout Montpelier
Ward Burlington. Deming Burlington
Philadelphia Montpelier Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
THERE is NO ONE WHO DOES

not spend something on bad habits
or uselosS Injuries. and who could
not spare some trifling contribution
to provide against the calamitous eff
ects OF his death upon his dependents
or Of the infirmities OF his old age.
6lst year. National Life Insurance
Company. Montpelier Vt (Mutual)
Earle S. Klnsley, Agent. Rutland. VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
NEW srAnLE

Livery. fccd and Exchange. Competent men
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Our chef ,ssS Cold Medal Vlour o-p
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18

AFTER NIGHT JOURNEY
Gas Bag Was Torn and the Aercnauts
Were Probably Dead Before
They Fell to
Earth.

BERLIN, April tS.-The balloon De-
lltzch, belonging to tie Bitterfeld Aero
Club was struck by lightning during a
violent storm Sunday morning. The
four occupants were killed The exact
circumstances of the castrophe can
never be known, for the only evidence
are the wrecked lalloon and the sha-
tered bodies of the men who met their
fate unseen, without the possibility of
human help.
1t was calm, clear evening when
the Delltzch rose in the air at Bit
terfeld and the occupants were en-
thusiastic over the perfect conditions
for night trip. Herr Luft, Bitter
field merchant and an experienced
amateur balloonist and pilot Luesch.
enring, an expert aeronaut, We're well
qualified to balance any lack of exper-
ience on the part OF their compan-
ions, who wero twa Leipsig merchants
A moonlight night OF rare beauty
and calmness followed the fine even.
ing, and nobody foresaw the fierce
storm, which gathered with extraor.
binary suddenness later.
Early Sunday morning resident OF
Reichensachsen, about s4>,y miles
from Bltterfeld heard among peals
OF thunder one crash so loud that he
believed lighting had struck house
but not hearing anything iurtser lilSs
ly to support this belief went to sleer
again.
Going out after daylight he was as
tonfshed to find wrecked balloon
and four distorted bodies of men ly
ing in this garden. The bag of the bal
loon was ripped and tattered in ar
amazing fashion. 1t has hanging in {
tree through the boughs of which the
men had evidently fallen. The smash
ed car of the balloon was nearby
i From the condition of the bodies
and the deep depression in the grounc
4 it was evident that they had faller
/ from a great height.It is also be
came apparent upon examination tha
i the disaster was dus to lightins
/ striking the balloon. Whether it alst
killed the occupants is not certain.
( but there were sufficient indications
4 to encourage the belief that they were
spared the terrible experience Of fal
4 ling to death.
I Herr Lueschenring was engaged tt
steer the Parseval airship on the pas
/ senger route from Munich to Oberam
mergau, which will be inauguratet
/ shortly
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
GEORGIA FEUD
PROVES FATAL
Two Dead, One Dying and Two Others
Seriously Injured in Sunday
Night Battle.

LYONS, GA, April 1S.-Two men
are dead, one is dying and two other
are desperately wounded as the result
of a fierce battle in the streets os this
city early last night.
The fight was the termination of a
bitter feud of many years standing
between the families OF A. S. Collins
and Marion Lewis. business and poll
tical rivals,
While Collins and his son were
walking along the main street it is
alleged that they were suddenly made
the targets of pistol bullets at the
hands of Marion Lewis and two
friends
At first fire the elder Collins was
dropped, badly wounded. Drawing
his pistol, he opened fire on his as
sailants, shooting Marion Lewis. In
the battle that followed both Collins
and his son We're killed. being riddled
with bullets, while Marion Lewis was
fatally injured and his two friends
were hurt Their condition is consid-
cred serious.
When the firing stopped spectators
who had been afraid to move dur
ing the battle rushed to the aid of the
injured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
ALL PASSENGERS
WE'RE RESCUED
Goodness OF fthe Ships Officers Pre-
vented Panic When the Min
nehaha Struck Bishops
Rock
THE SHIP IS SINKING
Shock Came Early in Morning and
the Passengers Were Jolted
Out of Their
Rerths.

LONDON. April, 1S-The liner Min
nehaha grounded in fog at Bishops
Rock, near Landsend at o'clock this
morning and is rapidly sinking and
cannot be saved
Sixty frantic passengers were res
cued.
The liner struck the reef with ter
rible force. The shock was so great
that the passengers were thrown from
their berths. Most of the women
We're hysterical and the men showed
but little more composure.
Captain Layland and the officers
went among them giving assurance
that the boat was in no danger. The
officers were SO cool that the passen-
gers returned their state rooms
Within two hours the ias. of the
passengers had been landed, Bishops
Rock, where the steamer struck has
long been stunned by nayigators.
Lost in the fog the Miunehaha was
out of her course when she struck the
rock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
TWAIN's S DAUGHTER
rs WITH HIM
Invalid is cheered by the Arrival of
Mrs. GabriIowi,soh from
Europe.

DANBURY, Conn, April 1S.-Samu-
ell L. Clemens mark Twain), who is
suffering from heart trouble that made
him an invalid while he was travelling
from Bermuda to New York city last
week, was cheered greatly Sunday by
the arrival of his daughter Mrs. Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, at Stormfeld, the
Clemens country place at Redding.
Mrs. Gabrilowitsch, who before her
marriage to the musician was Clara
Clemens, went to Europe last fall
shortly after the death of her sister,
Miss Jean Clemens. There was no
change in MIR. Clemens condition to.
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
SIX KILLED IN
SOUTHERN WRECK
Company States That No Passengers
Are in the List of Those
Dead.

JACKSON, Miss, April lS,-Six per-
sons were killed and many injured in
an Illinois Central wreck. The train
rolled into the ditch and toppled over.
Officials of the railroad made out a
statement today declaring the train
had been derailed by robbers.
They say an investigation has
shown that the fish plates had been
removed from the rails for several
yards at the point where the engine
plunged over the embankment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
THE WEATHER.
(Until Z p. m. Tuesday,

(Until p. M tuesday,
For Keokuk and vicinity: Partly
cloudy, with freezing temperature to-
night; Tuesday fair
For Illinois: Partly cloudy, with
snow furries north portion; frost or
freezing temperature tonight; Tuesday
partly cloudy.
For Iowa: Partly cloudy tonight,
with f,eezlng temperature; Tuesday
fair, with warmer west portion.
For Missouri; Fair tonight and
Tuesday; killing frost tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
CARTER GUILTY
AFTER 18 YEARS
Supreme Court Also Gives Government
Rinht to Recover
100000.

WASHINGTON, April lS-After a
lapse of eighteen years. Oberlin NJ
Carter, formerly captain Of the United
States engineer corps. was today for
mally adiudged guilty by the supreme
court OF tie United States for partici-
pating in the notorious Havana harbor
scandal.
The supreme court also granted the
government the right TO recover $40G,-
600 from Carter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
ALDRICH WILL
NOT BE CANDIDATE
Under No Circumstances will He be a
Candidate for Reelection
as Senator.

PROVIDENCE. R. l., April 1S.-Un-
der no circumstances will Senator Aid
ridh again be a candidate for re-elec-
ton
This positive statement was made
todey by General Bouyton, known as
the republican boss Of the state. He
gives the poor state Of Aldrich's
health as the cause of the retire,
ment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
Weather Conditions.

With the pressure continuing high
on the New England coast the storm
of Friday and Saturday has moved
slowly, being central in Ohio this
morning, and Tire field of high pres
sure following covers the northern
mountain region.
Conditions indicate partly cloudy
weather, with freezing temperature
for this section tonight followed by
fair cool weather Tuesday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
nine POUCHES OF
VALUABLE MAIL
Two Men Held up Western Train at
Midnight and Escape With
Registered Mail
Matter
UNCoUPLED THE ENGINE
Wild Locomotive Was Thrown into
Ditch Before it Crashed in
to an oncomne
Train.

BENICIA, Cal, April 1S.-The
Francisco over the Southern Pacific
railway for the east at 8 o'clock Sat
day night, was held up by two mask
ed men at Sprig, two miles east OF
here, at 1880 o'clock Sunday morn
ing and robbed of nine pouches of
registered mail.
The train carried no express mat
ter Four Of the pouches have been
recovered, but the robbers rifed the
others and now are hiding in the hills
and canyons between Martinez and
Oakland. Sheriff's posses from two
spectors on horses and in automobiles
are engaged in the man hunt. The
robbers We're we'll armed and a battle
is anticipated
The passengers on the train were
not disturbed and several of them did
not learn of the robbery until the
morning After getting the mail sacks
( the robbers cut the engine loose from
the train and sent it wild, throttle
open, down the main track to the
east
In the direct path of the engine was
section of passenger train No. 5,
west bound, heavily loaded. But for
the presence of mind of telegraph
operator at Sui Sun, a serious collis-
! ion would have taken place. The en-
4 gine was thrown into a ditch in the
nick of time.
/ The robbery was plotted and execut-
ed in daring spectacular fashion. Be-
! fore the fast mail arrived at Benicia,
4 two men who had left Oakland on
another train, two hours earlier, and
had left their train on the Port
/ Costa Ferry. climbed, unobserved, on
! the rear end of the fast mails locomo-
/ tive.
The train had gone less than five
miles from Benicia when the stow
aways crawled over the oil tank of
the heads of the engineer and fire.
man, ordering them to stop the en-
/ gine and get off
we are not going to hurt you, /"
said one of the robbers. "All we want
is the treasure box"
The engineer and fireman quickly
1 complied. Then the robbers went to
the mail car, which was in charge of
Herbert j. Black, and, under threat
of blowing it up with dynamite, com
OplIp6 him nppn
Throw out the registered mail
pouches ordered the robbers Black
started to toss out the newspaper
sacks, but the robbers detected the
ruse at once They threatened to kill
the clerk unless he gave them the
registered mail and Black complied
The engine crew then was forced to
carry the nine sacks to the engine
The engine and mail car were then
uncoupled from the coaches. filled
with sleeping passengers. and run
down the track two miles. Here the
mail pouches were thrown out. the
engine uncoupled and its throttle
pushed wide open.
In the meantime the robbers were
making their escape across San Pablo
Bay. into which the Sacramento river
empties. The news of the robbery
had gone UP and down the line and
i posses were quickly formed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
DYNAMITERS AFTER
THE NEW HOTEL
Non-Union Labor and Mormon Capital
is Attacked the Second
Time.

SALT LAKE CITY. April 1S.-A
structural steel dome of the new I'm
ion Hotel costing two million, under
construction here, was wrecked today
by dynamiters
This is the second time the build
ing has been dynamited. The Nor
mon church is a heavy stocltholder in
the hotel Non,union labor is build
ing the hotel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
ship Not Total Wreck.

NEW YORK, April ls.-Cablegrams
received at the New York Office OF
the Atlantic Transport Co., today say
that the hole in the hold of the Min
nehah is not large enough to lisable
the ship permanently and unless the
nigh seas food the hold and do furth
er damage the boat will be hoated at
high tide.
The officers say the vessel was pro-
ceeding at slow speed on account OF
the fog.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
Papke Joins Jeff.

ROWARDEMMAN, Ca-., April 49,
Jim Jeffries realizes that he is not go
ing to any Sunday school picnic on
July A. He has asked Papke to work
with him and indicates he knows what
he is going up against. Papke will ar
rive in camp tomorrow. AS soon as
Jeff heard that Papke was in San
Francisco, he called him up over the
telephone and invited him to join his
.cannp
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
DESTROYED ALL
FOREIGN BUILDINGS
Riotins Chinese Burn the Foreign
DEVILS Houses But Have Not
Shed Any Blood SO
JOINED IN TOO
Six Thousand Drilled Men Protected
Property for Time But Then
Joined in the Ex-
citement.

SHANGHAI, April 1s.-Forty refu-
gees from Chang Sha have arrived at
Hankow They report that all the
foreign buildings at Chang Sha have
been destroyed by the rioters. The
British consulate and the customs
house have been abandoned. The city
is blazing in many places.
The Chinese officials at Chang Sha
On Thursday issued proclamation
that they were unable to protect the
lives and property of the foreigners,
and thereupon, all foreigners made
haste to leave the city.
The governor of Hu Nan province,
Wou Tchung Stu, and his son, were
killed and several other government
officials fed. Six thousand foreigners
and drilled soldiers are stationed at
Chang Sha and few of these protect
ed the governors house for q time,
but soon all joined the rioters.
The riots began April IS, when the
famine sufferers looted the rice shops.
A captain of police was wounded while
trying to restore order. but thousands
crowded around him and his assistants
and he was obliged to fee to the va
men
The rioters followed him there and
beseiged the place al night. The fol-
| lowing day the disturbances became
anti-foreign, that being a strong anti
1 foreign province. The China Inland
mission and the Norwegian and Catho-
I! lie missions were burned. The other
missions we're destroyed April is. TIE
missionaries attached to the American
4 Episcopalian Missionary alliance, the
1 United Evangelical church and the
4 Wesleyan and Yale missions, number
/ ing forty one in all, took refuge in
boats. They left all their effects. The
destruction of all foreign property, in
Guiding the japanese consulate and
/! the British warehouses, followed. The
/ fate of the Standard Oil company's
newly-erected tanks is unknown.
i The British consul detained two
steamers for the refugees. who includ-
I ed several Japanese, and took them to
Hankow.
New Troops Supplied.
1 PEKIN, April 1S.-The traitorous
soldiers who joined with the rioters
at Chang Sha and permitted the burn
ing of all the foreign buildings in the
city have been supplanted by other
troops russ ed to the scene from near
by cities If these troops remain 10y
al the government believes the worst
OF the uprising is over.
Three missionaries lost their lives
while trying to escape in a skiff.
Ring Leaders Executed.
LONDON, April 1S.--The ringlead
ers of the riot at Hang 10. have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
Mail Clerks Killed.

CHICAGO, April 1s.-A statement
issued today from the Illinois Central
road, states that three train men had
been either killed or fatally injured in
a wreck at Jackson,
Tie wreck occurred five miles north
of Jackson at 1890 this morning. No
passengers were killed or injured. The
dead reported are mail clerks living in
Mississippi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
Frost Feared in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, III, April 1S.-llli-
nois was visited by heavy snowstorm
Sunday The weather was very cold,
but the slight frost reported was not
damaging. If the weather is clear a
heavy frost is expected that may do
great damage to early vegetables and
TO budding fruits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-18
Q. a. r. in Session.

WASHINGTON. April 1S The an
nual convention of tse natiopal organ,
ization Of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution opened with the usual
row this morning over the appoint
ment Of committees by the president
general