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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
DRIVER CRUSHED BY WAGON
Daniel colwell Fell from Seat and
Was Badly Hurt.

A serious accident occurred Wed.
nesday afternoon shortly after o..
clock on the road between Pownal
Center and Bennington near the Ed.
ward Armstrong home.
Daniel Colwell who was driving n
team for Frank Davis. fell from \
load OF gravel. the front wheels pass.
ing over his chest and the rear
wheels over his abdomen. Colwell
was seriously and perhaps fatally In.
iured. lie was crushed terribly. one
lung being nearly destroyed.
Mr.. Colwell was driving large
load Of gravel for use on the road
which Road Commissioner Davis is
repairing. His seat was insecurity
fastened and the shifting Of the gray.
81 pushed Il on the front OF the wa.
gon. lie fell In front Of the load and
both wheels passed over him.
Mike billiard who was driving a
second team. found Mr. Colwell and
he was carried to the home Of Ed.
ward Armstrong and Dr Potter was
summoned.
Elisha HAYES caught the team
which had started to run away at =
short distance from the scene or tho
accident
Mr. Colwell IL about 20 years old
and unmarried The most serious IN.
iuries are to his lungs and back.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16

passing of the mi estones in her life
by inviting a number OF the older
women residents of the village to an
informal reception at which acquain-
tances are more closely cemented and
recollections OF incidents that hap
pened many years ago are recalled.
An unusual Importance is attached
to the observance this afternoon for
the reason that the hostess arrives
within one decade Of the century age.
And the occasion Is particularly
happy one for the reason that Mrs.
Bates, although she has passed many
years beyond the allotted span of hui
man life, is today the possessor Of
every mental and physical faculty
and thus In a position to thoroughly
enjoy the meeting with her long time
friends Mrs Bates Is as active as
many women OF 80 years and Is a IA
miliar figure on the business streets
of the village. She visits the differ
ent places OF business whenever oc-
casion demands and her memory is
still unimpared.
She was born at Andover. n. H.,
September l6. 1920, the daughter Of
Josiah and Hannah Roberts Scribner
She came to Bennington In 1928 and
has ever since resided In town. July
II. 1913. she was married TO William
Bates. anative Of Cummlngton. Mass.
who died In this village January &c.
1893.
There were four children. william
Franklin. born on August Z. 1876. who
died in Bennington October 2S. 1868,
and three now living. Elizabeth NJ.
Torn July .. 1874. now the wife OF
Augustus II. Barrett OF Pasadena, Cal
Edward Louis. born January %. 1859.
and Robert Parker. born July 10, 1861
now practicing law In Chicago.
Mrs Bates united with the First
Baptist church OF Bennington on Sep
tember 81. 1889 and Is probably the
Oldest member OF that society. She
was a member OF the first choir or
gauized In the church and OF which
William Bates and lemuel Grover
had charge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
NORTH ADAMS WON
FIRST GAME OF
THE SERIES
Contest Marked by Fast Field
ing and Hard Hitting
S ERRORS FOR BENNINGTON
Ragged Work by Huckeberry lnfield
Largely Responsible for Tunnel
Diggers' Victory

North Adams defeated Bennington
in the first of a series of three games
at North Adams yesterday, to 3.
1t was a free-hitting game, with the
fastest kind of fielding, which furnish
ed plenty of sport. Most of the err
rors were on hard chances. North
Adams scored once in the first on
Carolans single, his steal and Burns
hard rap to center that Ryan let get
by him. The game was sailed away
in the fourth. Mcdonald opened with
a double to left center Carolan sac
rificed but Daily slipped up on the
play and Mcdonald was safe on third
with Carolan on first Ostrich drew
a pass and Mcdonald scored on
wild pitch. Ostrich and Carolan
worked the double steal, Mahoney
muffing Burringtons perfect throw.
Cobb singled, Burns hunted safely
and Hess singled to right but a fast
double play closed the inning. The
last two runs for North Adams came
in the eighth. Mcdonald opened
with a scratch hit down the third
base line On his steal Mahcney had
the ball yards ahead of him, but drop
ped Il. Carolan tried to sacrifice, but
Bosk got the ball so quickly that he
ran down Mcdonald. who was hesitat.
ing on the line. Ostrich and Carolan
worked the hit and run. Carolan max
ing third. Ostrich stole and then
Cobb drove in two runs with long
triple to left center. He was caught
at the plate on Mahoney's fast assist
off Burns. Hess hit one at Finnegan
that could not be handled in time,
but Harrington could not bring him
| in.
DAILY opened Bennington's fifth
with a double to right center, Finne-
gan singled to the same quarter and
they worked the double steal. Hess
throw being very high and Burns.
who was backing up, getting 1t. With
lnglis out Burns fumbled Bosk's
grounder and Mahoney singled to left
scoring Finnegan. burlington singled
TO center for his third hit. scoring
Bosk. When Sullivan hit to Burns
that PLAYER and Vance got Mahoney
at third. Ryan fouled out. Three
fast double plays by North Adams
cut off other chances to score, as well
as the sensational fielding OF Carolan
at first. who twice saved runs and
errors by taking balls in one hand
while at full reach. The hitting Of
Burlington. Carolan. Cobb and Daily
featured. The second game of the
series will be played at North Adams
tomorrow afternoon and the third at
Bennington Sunday. The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
STANOPATTERS IN
ILLINOIS LOSE
At PRIMARIES
Congressman BOutell Defeated
by Progressive
INDEPENDENT HAD BIG VOTE
Chairman Foss Of Naval Affairs Com
mittee May Lose in 10th
District

Chicago, Sept. 16.-The nomination
of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon for re-
election to Congress and the neck-and
neck race that Congressman George
Il. Foss is running with his progress
slve opponents, as indicated in early
returns. were features of yesterday
primaries in Illinois.
Early returns indicated the nomin-
alton of Lee O'Neil Browne for re-
election to the state House Of Repre-
sentatives and also that of h. g..
Shurtlef, republican speaker of the
House. against whom a determined
factional fight was waged. Browne
was recently acquitted Of a charge of
having bribed a state representative
to vote for William Lorimer for
United States senator.
Early returns also indicated the
nomination of Ira G Copley by the re-
publicans Of the 18th congressional
district over George W. Conn. Jr.
This. however, is not conceded by
friends of Conn. who claim the dis
trict by about 300 as against Copley' S
cain Of 1000 plurality. The fight in
this district has been one OF the fer
cest in the state Conn is said to have
been backed by the stand-patters,
while his opponent declared himself
q progressive.
The defent Of II. S. Boutell, for
many years in Congress, by F. II. F.
1 Gansbergen, who announced himself
as a progressive. caused little sur.
prise. The regular republican organ
/ izatlon refused TO indorse Boutell on
, the ground that his record as a
( "standpatter" would insure democra
( tic success If he were nominated
Gqnsbergen ran about 1000 ahead OF
! him. AS indicating the sentiment OF
/ the district. Arthur West. also a pro
/ gressive. but running almost alone
polled more than 1000 votes
The closeness OF the fight in the
10Th district was a surprise to most
students OF the campaign While Mr.
Foss. who is chairman Of the com
mittee on naval affairs. has always
voted with the regulars at Washing
ton, he said In his campaign speeches
that several months ago he informed
Mr. Cannon that he felt free to re
serve his Judgment as TO how he
should vote in the next speakershiT
contest. G.. p Engelhard campaign
ed on an unmistakable progressive
platform and attacked the present
congressman on his record on the tar
IN and as a supporter OF Cannon
Forty.three precincts out Of 147 II
the district gave Fngelhard 100.
against 10il for Mr.. Foss.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
DEMOCRATS NAME
PRINCETON HEAD
FOR GOVERNOR
Woodrow Wilson Nominated in
New Jersey
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY
Platform Places Responsibility for
High Cost of Living Upon
Republicans

Trenton. n. j.. Sept 16.-The New
Jersey Democratic state convention
yesterday nominated DR.. Woodrow
Wilson, president of Princeton uni
versity for the office of governor of
the state.
DIR. Wilson's nomination was
brought about largely through the in
1uence of former United States Sena-
tor James Smith, Jr., of Essex county,
who is undisputed Democratic leader
of the state and Robert Davis. leader
of the Hudson Democracy, who for
the first time in many years acted in
harmony with Senator Smith. Be
sides this support, DR.. Wilson had
with him a number of independent
Democrats who believed that by his
standing rs an educator he would
make an unusually strong candidate
Or Wilson was nominated on the
first ballot. and received forty more
votes than were necessary to nomi
nate him. Frank S, Katzenbach Jr
the Democratic candidate three years
ago, but who was not candidate TO-
dav. received nearly 400 votes in the
convention.
The platform adopted was in line
with the Democratic platform of three
years ago, except that II was more
specific in advocacy OF reform meas
ures. including the comforting Of rate
making power upon the present pub
/ lie utilities commission
Il charges the Republican party
/ through unfair tariff laws. with re
sponsibilty for the high cost Of liv
ing now burdening the people," anC
/ demands AN intelligent revision
downward. Of the present tariff in the
I interest Of all the people"
II also demands the enactment o.
federal corrupt practices act, and {
constitutional amendment proYidinl
for the election Of United States sen
ators bv nopular vote.
DR.. Wilson, after his nomination
came before the convention accepted
the nomination and made an address
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
BEFORE SPECIAL MASTER
SALISBURY Land Case Being Trie
TODAY Before Chancellor

SALISBURY Land Case Being Tried
Today Before Chancellor
The case of Truman Elwpr VS. Olin
Stockwell. both of SALISBURY. was
given hearing today before Special
Master r. A Lawrence OF Rutland In
the Municipal court room
i X. Batchelder and Charles A.
Maurer appeared for Mr.. Elwell. Hol.
den & Healy being retained by Mr..
Stockwell.
The DISPUTE is over two acres OF
land decided to Stockwell by Elwell.
The deed through an error conveys TO
Stockwell land which each agrees was
not the lind which was intended to
be conveyed. The present dispute is
now as to what land was intended to
be conveyed. Evidence Is still being
taken. the case not having been con,
cluded
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
AN OLD COIN
Penny Found by Paul Jewett More
Than a Century Old

Paul Jewett OF this village has In
his possession an English penny bear
ing the date i1i9. On one side OF
the copper coin Is a head represent.
ing King George II during whose
reign the penny was coined. on the
reverse side Is the figure OF Britannia.
Young Jewett found the penny while
at play.
Il Is regarded as a somewhat slnvu.
lar coincidence that the date on the
penny Is the same year IN which Gov.
Benning Wentworth Of New Hamn-
shire granted the township OF Ben.
nlngton
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
Bennington

Two.base hits. Mcdonald. Burning.
ton. DAILY; three.base hit. Cobb; stol.
en- bases, Carolan ., Ostrich .. Sulli-
van. Ryan. Daily. Flnnegan. Inglls;
sacrifice hits, Carolan. Sullivan. DAILY;
first base on balls. of Harrington.
Prlndle: on Bosk. Ostrich. Carolan;
struck out. by Harrington ., by Bosk
G. double plays. ostrich to Vance to
ostrich: Mcdonald TO Vance: Vance
to Carolan: Daily to Mahoney to Sui
Ivan: Finnegan TO Mahoney TO Sulll-
van. Umpire. W. ]. Mackey.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
OLDEST RESIDENT
OBSERVES GOTH
ANNIVERSARY
Mrs Melissa Bates Held Re-
CeptiOn This Afternoon
HAS LIVED HERE SINCE 1928
Retains Every Faculty and Is Re
markabe Instance Of Physical
Preservation

Bennington's Oldest living res
dent, Mrs. Melissa Roberts
Scribner Bates, is observing
her Goth birthday anniversary this af-
ternoon at the home of her son,
Judge Edward L. Bates on Silver st.
1t has been Mrs Bates custom for a
number Of years past to recognize the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
THE LAST BASEBALL GAME
Bennington viii Play North Adams
At Tudor Park Sunday Afternoon

The last baseball game Of the year
IN Bennington will be PLAYED az IN.
dor park Sunday afternoon when the
Tunnel Dlggers and the Huckleherry
bows viii meet for the final combat
In the season OF 1910. The most.
league series has not so far proved
To be a success financially. but the
boys are hoping that the game In
North Adams tomorrow and at Tudor
park Sunday win give returns enough
to pay them for their time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
eATTENKILL VALLEY FAIR
Society Has Big Plans for Gathering
az Manchester Center

The annual fair OF the Battenkill
Valley Industrial society will be held
M Manchester Center September 20,
q and %. The management has put
forth every effort to make this the
banner fair in the history OF the or
ganization. The races are well filled
and the outlook is unusually promis.
ing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
THE BENEFIT DANCE
To BE Held at Foresters' Hall To.
night for Baseball Association

The benefit dance to assist the
Bennington Baseball association to
wipe out the small debt occasioned by
bad weather on the dates of the final
games will be held at Foresters' hall
this evening. The tickets have been
on sale by the directors during the
past two DAYS and there should be a
good attendance
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
Want Old Age Because One Else Banks Their Wages During
LIBRARY THEATRE
TONIGHT
DON'T MISS IHE
Best Amateur Night YET
II CONTESTANTS

FRED lombard in his clog dane
ing and singing act.
WILLIAM GREENE in his dane
ing act
PROF. w. DOWNS in his won
derful Cornet solo-don miss ii
MASON and JOHNSON-2 round
sparring match. And others.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-16
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next "a Hours.
For Eastern New York and western
Vermont fair tonight and Saturday.
Light frost in north portion tonight.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES

Nailed to an improvised cross, with
a big spike driven through his hands,
with crown of thorns pressed down
upon his head, George Rabish, mine
official at Avella, Pa, hung for two
hours while crown of foreigners who
worked in the mine danced and sang
about him. He died later from his in
juries.
Solomon Davis, sixty years old, was
killed. and Florice J. Tougaw, William
Bolk Jr and Spott Dessey, all of Vim
cennes, Ind, and Jack Sullivan, OF
Bicknell, Ind, were injured when Tou-
gaw's automobile turned turtle over an
embankment.
Sent out on a swaying jib-boom to
furl the flying jib in squat, three
members of the crew of the British
schooner Arthur NJ Gibson fell into
the sea off the coast of New Foundland
and were drowned.
Eighteen of night force of twenty
five machine men employed in the
mine of the Youghiogheny and Ohio
Coal company, near Amsterdam, o.,
are dead as a result of an explosion in
the mine.
What is supposed to be either a
suicide or hunting accident was re-.
vealed east of Hammond, Ind, when
the body Of an unidentified man was
found in the Grand Calumet river.
While piking cedar logs upon the
"bull" chain at theWachsmuth Lumber
company's plant at Bayfield,, Wis, Au-
gust Lobenan, seventeen years old. fell
into the slip and was drowned.
At Florence, Wis, Fred LangenDerg,
cheese maker, committed suicide by
stabbing himself in the neck with a
penknife. The motive is supposed to
have been dependency.
An automobile plunge from culvert
in Chickamauga park in Tennessee,
caused the death of Arthur Garrett
and the severe injury of James P.
Byrne
Three persons lost their lives and
half dozen others are believed to
have persisted in fire which de-
stroyed the Hotel Tomah at Cincinnati
Philip Berry, aged forty-three years,
shot his twenty-four-year-old wife and
himself at Bloomington, I'll. Recently
the couple quarreled and separated
Joseph Denusse, seventy-six years of
age, a Chicago rabbi, was accidentally
asphyxiated in his home by gas es-
Gaping from a stove.
Mrs. jerry Mirner and five children
were burned to death when their cot
tage at Bonca Neb., was destroyed.
Forty-three miners were killed by an
explosion in colliery at Mulga, Ala.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
SPORTING AFF...IRS.

Champion Jack Johnson will not
lack support when he enters the ring
on July to defend his title against
James j. Jeffries, for arrangements
have been completed by the king
pins of the colored districts to run a
special train from Chicago to the fight.
Zbyszko, the Pole, will meet Dr.. Roll
Ter or Seattle, as originally matched in
q wrestling contest. The match will
be to finish and will. take place. on
April 20 at the Coliseum.
Fred l.. Cameron Of Amherst, N. S.,
won the annual Marathon run of the
Boston Athletic association from Ash
land to Boston. He made the twenty
five miles in 2:2S: So 3-5.
Jeffries will visit Frisco on May 2
to attend the ceremonies of seeing
Promoters Richard and Gleason de
post 100000 more of the SOL 900 purse
for the July battle.
Billy Papke, the Illinois thunderbolt,
has joined the Jeffries training camp
at Ben Lomand, Cal, to prepare for
his fight with Joe Thomas.
Chicago women are giving a series
of mixed games to provide revenue for
special prizes for the whist congress
at Chicago in May.
Zbyszbo beat Yankee Rogers in two
straight falls at Wilkesbarre. The
time of the falls was $500 and 1900
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
MkaA I..aI,. DEAD;
NATION IN SORROW
In His Demise America Loses
Its Foremost HunlOrist.

Samuel l.. Clemens Mark Twain)
Americas foremost humorist, died at
his home in Reddirg, Conn. A public
funeral was held at New York and the
remains were inferred at Elmira, N.
Y. Mr.. Twatn's death is deeply
mourned Ey the entire nation. Presi-
dent Taft, fcr--cr c9.dent Roosevelt
and other C.s crsons paid
tribute to bis III
Mr.. Clemens W ee;y-four years
old. The bIeakGoy- which brought
on the end is attributed to disheart-
eminent following the death of his in
valid daughter Jean. The death of his
friends, f. Fl. Rogers, w. M Laffan,
and r. W. Glider. also affected him.
With Mr.. Clemens when he passed
away were his daughter, Clara; her
husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch Albert
Bigelow Paine, his secretary, DR.. Rob-
ert H. Halsey, and the nurses. Late
in the afternoon his personal physi-
clan, DR.. Edward Quaintard, arrived
from New Work and joined the group
at the bedside, and remained until the
anger or QeaIn came.
Mr. Clemens had only recently ar
rived from Bermuda, where he mad
gone in search of health On the way
up from Bermuda he said to Albert
Bigelow Paine, who had been his con-
slant companion in illness:
'This is bad job; we'll never pull
through with ii"
On shore once more, and longing for
the serenity of the New England hills,
he took heart, and said to those VINO
sorrowfully noted his enfeeblement:
Give me a breath of Redding air
once more and this will pass" But
it did not pass, and, tired of body and
weary of spirit, the old warrior against
shams and snobs finally said family
to his nurses:
why do you fight to keep me alive
Two days of life are as good to me as
four"
Mr.. Paine said that Mark Twain
had put his affairs in perfect order and
that he died we'll off, though by no
means a rich man. He leaves con-
siderable number of unfinished manu-
scripts in all stages of completion and
of all characters, many of them begun
years ago and put aside as unsatis-
factory. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch will aid
Mr.. Paine in the final decision as to
| what use shall be made of these.
Though an American born, native
of Missouri, Mark Twain belonged to
all lands. He had travelled in all lands
and lived in most of them. He had
more Temperament homes than any
other man of his day.
Mark Twain's writing life began in
his pilot days and continued up to his
| death-half century of devotion to
the art of making people happy. For
several years he was simply a hard
| working newspaper reporter and spe-
| cial correspondent, searching for gold
| in Nevada and California between jobs
at journalism, which grubstaked him
| for prospecting. But he found his
purest and most paying streak of ore
when in 1867 he wrote ''The Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County" That
story picked up in a mining camp, was
his first promising literary prospect.
/ He had struck the mother lode.
Printer, pilot, reporter, humorist,
novelist, philosopher-he is safely en-
, balmed to enduring fame.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
a Brilliant Judue.

Steady Baker was at one time mayor
of Folkestone. England. Once a boy
was brought before him for stealing.
gooseberries. and Steady. aware of the
Importance of the case. turned over
the pages of the alphabetically arrang-
ed Burns Justice" for precedent.
Failing to find one, be turned to the
culprit MY lad" said he. its lucky
for you that you were not brought here
for stealing goose instead of for steal
ing gooseberries. There is statute
against stealing geese, but l can't find
anything about gooseberries in all
Burn. so let the prisoner be discharg
ed, for / suppose it is no offense.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
Three DIE IN A WRECK
Express Train Crashes into a
Construction Car.

Three men were killed and eight
fatally injured in a collision on the
Big Four railway. A train OF express
cars On the way from st. Louis to
Indianapolis struck a defective switch
and smashed the car of an interlock-
ing switch construction crew on a
siding at Sandford Ind.
The dead are: Engineer R. E. Ely,
Mattoon, Ill.,, H. Driscoll, L. B. Don
nelly.
The probably fatally injured: Con-
ductor H. L. Shipman, Indianapolis;
Samuel Moffett, Dallas Springate;
Charles E. Jones, Harry Clark, Fred
Riley, Harry Gullett, and T. D. Grit
fifth.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
SEND TROOPS TO SANTA CLARA
Government Is Said to Have Pur-
chased Newspapers Silence.

In consequence of the negro agita-
ton in the island OF Cuba, 500 troops,
including seventy-five rura.es, have
embarked for Santa Clara The
secretary of government says the
despatch of the troops was not due
to any agitation, but was according to
the governments policy to impress
the people with it's power.
There are no fresh reports of a
negro uprising, but there is every evil
dence that the government has pur-
chased the silence of the newspapers
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY is OUT
Was Organized in May, 1909, Backed
by Anti-SociaIists.

The entire Australian ministry,
headed by Alfred Deakin, has resigned.
In the elections of April Ii the gov
eminent was defeated by the labor
vote. The Deakin ministry was organ
lied in May, 1909, backed by anti
Socialistic interests.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
The Way Down.

They had been making hay while
the sun shone. and when they had
finished high haystack the farmers
boy shouted from the top. Say. mis-
ter. how am goin' to get DOWN.
The farmer considered the problem
and finally solved it:
"Oh. jest shet yer eyes an walk
round a bit!" -Everyb