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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03

"Who is that man who has been sit
ting behind the bar day after day.
inquired the stranger IA Crimson Gulch.
THAT'S Sugecoach Charley. He's
in peculiar predlcament He went to
town last week nm got his teeth fixed.
Then he come here an. bein broke,
ran up a 4 u ON the stren'th Of his
81 worth Of gold hllln' Charley won't
submit to hayin' the nuggets pried out
an the proprietor won't let him git
away with the collateral, an there YOU
are."-Washlngton star
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03

'Have you explained the germ sys-
tenn TO your childreny Everything
should be ON % practical basis these
days"
NO. replied the old fashioned cltl-
zen. IL seems Inconsistent to tell EN-
not to believe In fairies and then Try
to get 'cm To believe in ml.robes."-
Plttsburg Post
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03

The optlmist was rccltlng some OF
the numerous articles In his creed.
Finally he came 10 the end "Oh,
there is one more, after all" be said.
ION the days when reflect how lit
tie | really amount to cheer myself
by remembering how much expect Of
others"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03
Learn the Automobile Business.

we viii qualify on for 90 vi positions Our
gfauuales can piss state examination Money
best practical school in this section. Now Is
the time TO enroll. Write today for Cata-
loaueb. Sterling Garage and Practical Auto
mobile school, 3i5 CLIFTON st., Schenectady
Ne" fork' 4tGf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03

81 understand that hclrcss Jobblns
married was rather old. What was
her agcg'
81 guess as Ear as Jobblns was con.
cerncd u was heritage Baltimore
Amnrlnnn
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03
Hart Trouble

"Faint heart never won fair lady"
"Faint heart has no business to try
TO win nnythlnr faint heart ought to
see doctor New York Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-03
CUBA TO SEE CHAMPIONS
Athletics, Headed by Frank Bancroft
to Play Winter Series

Cincinnati, Nov. 9.-Business Man.
ager Frank C. Bancroft Of the Gin.
cinnati Nationals has been engaged
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
WASHINGTON
ny TELEGRAPH

Capt. Joseph F. Ship. former Ten
nessee sheriff and Deputies Luther
Williams and Nick Nolan, who have
been in the District Jail for con.
tempt of the Supreme Court were re-
leased
Miss Rachel Flora Wheeler. daugh.
tiers, of Representative Wheeler, OF
Pennsylvania, was married to Joseph
A. Farley, of Rochester.
The Army Appropriation Bill az
completed by the Senate committee
carries sos, 900.
The destroyer Lamson has been
delivered to the government by her
contractors.
An amended organic act for Porto
Rico was submitted to the President
The gunboat Paduch reported to
the Navy Department that the schoon-
er George A. McFadden of Bath
Me-. was wrecked OF Cape Hatteras
Thursday.
President Taft has determined to
press to a conclusion the suit against
the merger of the Union and South
ern Pacific Railroad Companies.
The Brazilian battleship Minas
Geraes will escort the cruiser North
Carolina, bearing the body of the
late Ambassador Nabuco, to Brazil.
If the ratio of immigration for the
first six months of the fiscal year
1910 is kept up the total for the year
will exceed that for 1909.
Representative Aiken. OF South
Carolina, wants the capital of the
United States to be dry territory.
DR.. Wiley gave the House sub
committee a demonstration to show
fresh eggs can be told from the cold
storage variety.
The Senate received the Postal
Bill, which is an administra-
ton measure, and referred it to COM
mittee.
Plans for the new Washington
City Postofice have been approved.
The structure is to cost about $780,
900.
The American University has juset
received a cash gift, of $4,000 from
Miss Sarah NJ. Billings, of Wellsboro,
Pa, for the opening fund.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
/ HUNDRED MEN
ARE KILLED IN NINE
Colorado is the Scene Of the
Latest Mining Disaster.
IHE MEMS BODIES ARE TORN 70 BITS.
Disastrous Accident In Tunnel OF
The Colorado Fuel And Iron Com
pany. Near Trinidad-C Cause OF
Explosion Is A Mystery, As The
Mem All Use Safety Lamps Men
From Neighboring Mines Are Hur-
riedly Sent To Assist In The Res
cue Work.

Primero. Col. Especially More than
hundred men are believed to have
been killed by terrific explosion in
the Primero mine Of the Colorado
Fael and Iron Company at 4.So p.
M.
Eight bodies have been recovered
and rescue parties are making des-
perate efforts to reach the interior
workings cut on from the outside
by the caving OF the main shaft.
Three men were killed at the
mouth Of the mine slope by the force
Of the explosion and their bodies
blown to bits.
Both fans with which the mine
10 equipped were shattered and it
was impossible to enter the mine
until they were repaired at 7.S0 p.
M.
AS soon as the fans were repaired
General Superindent j. 3. Thompson
and rescue party entered by the
main airshaft. but were unable to
reach the main shaft which is COM
plete2y blocked The party returned
to the surface after securing i've
bodies which were badly burned.
A party equipped with oxygen
helmets replaced this party. the
workings were reached through the
aiFRhafk and are now being searched
for more bodies.
Miners were rushed to Primeoro
from Trinidad. Segundo. Starkville,
E0Dris and Cokeville and are laboring
fEanticaily to clear the main shaft,
relieving each other every few min
utes. It Is impossible to determine
how tar the main shaft has caved and
" may be days before the shaft is
cleared and the total death list
known.
There is little hope that any of
the men in the mine are alive. The
company clerk reports that 10 safety
lamps are missing. and it is sure that
that number of men are entombed.
Many Of the miners, however, say
That $50 men are missing.
Most of the victims are Slavs and
Hungarians. Pit Boss Wilhelm is
known to be among the missing. The
camp Is scene of indescribable hor-
r0g tonight While eevry able bodied
man Is taking his turn with pick and
shovel to clear the shaft, weeping
women and children, kept OF by
ropes, have gathered about the shaft,
weeping and calling wildly upon their
loved ones who have not been found
Experts from all the coal camps
OF the State have gathered to assist
Superintendent Thompson
Members of the first rescue party
say that the effect of the explosion
underground is indescribable. The
bodies recovered were horrible burn
er and unrecognized. One body was
impaled on broken timber.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
DESTRUCTION SPREADS.
Buildings Collapsing And Part OF
City In Darkness.

Paris Especially A story OF the
details of the greatest flood that has
swept Paris in years would simply
be a repetition of what has gone
before The city presents a wierd
spectacle, the soldiers. sailors. fire-
men and police hastily constructing
temporary walls by the light OF
campfires and torches in an endeav-
or to keep out the invading floods,
while pickets patrol these sections
of the city which are plunged in
darkness by the bursting of the gas
mains and the stoppage OF the cleo
trio lighting plants.
The situation in the Palace de
l'Opera is grave. The entire terri
tory has been roped off as being I'M
safe. It is stated also that, the new
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Building is in danger of collapse.
President Fallieres and Premier
BRAND drove in automobiles to the
flooded suburbs where distress is
greatest speaking words of comfort
to the homeless and encouraging the
soldiers and others engaged in sal
wage and rescue work. On their re-
turn they said that everything hui
manly possibly was being done to
aid the stricken and prevent further
ravages bv the food.
Charitable organizations are CO.
operating with the authorities in
throwing open their buildings and
succoring refugees. Several con-
vents and number of public build
ings have been equipped with mill
tary cots and bedding and transform
ed into hospitals. The Red Cross is
performing splendid service in dis
tributing food and clothing.
Nevertheless numerous pitiful in
stances are cited of women and chill
dren who had refused to leave their
homes in the submerged districts
shrieking from their windows for
bread.
The number of refugees arriving
here is enormous, Chareaton alone
sending in $4,000 who have come
there from Calais and other afflicted
points.
Many thrilling rescues are record
ed. The family of NJ Barthou, for
mer minister OF public works, whose
home in the Avenue d'Antin is sur
rounded, were taken out on the
backs of soldiers and rescued in
boats. A large number of schools
are closed because of the lack of heat,
and the municipality is con5idering
the advisability of closing, all of
them.
Practically all Of the flooded SUI
burban towns above and below Paris
are without light and several of them
without water. Their Inhabitants are
hastily leaving.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
THE STRICKEN CITY.

The inundation covers about
nine square miles. or one-quarter
Of the city.
Great chasms are opening in
some of the most important
boulevards, caused by the burst
ing sewers and rushing waters
underneath the city.
The Palace Of the Legion Of
Honor and other important pub
lie buildings evacuated.
Residents compelled to move
from streets along which houses
are in danger of collapsing.
Fifty girls rescued from sec
ond story of a flooded convent.
All railway traffic in city stop
ped. Owners Of cabs and taxi
autos charging fabulous prices.
Thousands of homeless people
from flooded districts outside
Paris and prices OF food rapidly
advancing.
All American students and
tourists in Paris are reported
safe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
BaIlain ExpIains His offer.

Washington. D. C. Especially John
A. Ballain. of Seattle. Wash, was in
troduced to the President by Senator
Jones. of Washington, and briefly ex-
planned the proposition ma lie by him
few days ago to the Senate Com
mittee on Territories to pay royal
ty OF so cents per ton for the coal to
be taken from the government lands
in Alaska. The President only com
mented that he hoped that Congress-
would some day make provision for
getting at the immense store of coal
in that faraway territory
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
shoots wife And Her Mother.

Chicago eciaD. Charles
Barnes, an actor, shot his wife in
the mouth and through the wrist and
her mother Mrs. M. Servoss, in the
chest at a hotel here. Neither is
thought to be fatally injured. The
shooting was the outcome of the
separation of Barnes and his wife,
who has been living with her mother.
1t is said Barnes concealed himself
in the women's room and opened fire
when they entered. He escaped aft
er the shooting.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
BATTLEsHIPs PowERLEss.
Their Day Has Passed, Says G. B
Harmon, Aeronaut.

Pasadena, CAL Especially - Cliff
ford B. Harmon, New York aero
naut. said in lecture before the
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce that
the day Of the battleship had passed.
No nation, he said. would dare to
send a fleet of these to our shores
on hostile mission with SO many
masters of the air ready to meet
it.
1T has already been demonstra-
ted" said Mr.. Harmon, that one
balloon or aeroplane can carry
enough explosives to annihilate any
feet in the world, while the warships
would be powerless to protect them
selves. The aeroplane has not yet
reached its full stage of efficiency
but now it insures the safety of our
coast, against hostile invasion"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
WOMAN BEATS BURGLAR.
knocks Him Out And Then Takes
Him To Police Station.

New York Especial A bantam
burglar was no match for Mrs. Glare
Lindenauer, welterweight, in a
rough-and-tumble fight in her apart
ments, where she found him packing
up the silverware.
Mrs. Lindenauer returned from a
shopping tour, and landed strong
right on the little mans jaw before
she took on her hat. A few more
well-directed punches. and her query,
Got enough?'' brought the ready
response, You bot" With a firm
hold on his coat collar she led the
culprit to the nearest police station.
In court the judge said she de-
served Carnegie medal, and held
the man, who said he was Isidore
Rothman, 20 years old, in $4,000
bail for trial.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
"Chauffeur's Arm" Now.

Albany. N. Y. Especially DIR. VIII
liam S. Thomas. of New York, read
a paper on "The Chauffeur's Frac-
ture'' at the meeting of the State
Medical Society here. He declared it
an occupational disease caused by
the slipping of the crank handle of
an automobile. If the handle strikes
the chauffeur's arm it causes a frac-
ture which DR.. Thomas found to be
of a peculiar character. He told
of several cases where chauffeurs with
dangerous fractures from being
struck by crank handle have driven
their machines for miles after the
accident without knowing that they
were badly hurt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
BIBLES TO GO UP NOW.
Increase Due To Leather And Paper
Tariff.

Chicago Especially The price Of
Bibles viii go up on March /. ac-
eording 70 an announcement by a
large Bible publishing house, which
has branches in Cincinnati, Kansas
City and San Francisco.
The cause for the advance is the
enforcement OF the new tariff on
imported leather and paper.
Bibles are now about 20 per
cent. higher than they have ever been
before, Z said a member Of the firm.
The materials for the best Bibles
have gone up so high in price on ac-
count of the tariff that we cannot
afford to sell our output at prices
now 1isted.v
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
lever shuts Up $1,000 Mem.

Newport. r. I. Especially ~ More
than twenty-three hundred naval
apprentices will be shut up at the
naval training station for the next
Eve days on account of scarlet fever
quarantine regulations. Only one
case Of the disease has appeared
thus far. but having in mind the cpl
bemic of last year. when three cases
proved fatal. the authorities have
taken prompt repressive measures.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
Children End Lives For Love.

Des Moines, Iowa (SpecisD Be
cause of parental opposition to their
marriage on account of their youth
Vernon Barr. aged 16 years, and
Lima Ammer, aged IA years, killed
themselves. They were found near
Monroe, clasped in each others
arms. sitting upright in young Barr's
buggy, in which they were riding
home from a dance. On the girls
lap rested q cup partly filled with
strychnine and water. Both had
drunk Of this.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04

Portsmouth. N. H, Especially One
man was shot and. killed and two
others seriously wounded in dar-
ing break for liberty from the naval
prison at the navy yard here.
The dead man is Raymond F.
Sporting. In Indianapolis. Ind. aged
"a years, a marine private who was
serving two-year sentence.
The wounded men are Harry Nc
Garvey, a coal passer. serving SEN
tence of years and III months. shot
through the right elbow and Albert
]. Montgomery, coal RAISER, under
year and six months sentence,
shot through the left leg and right
arm.
The three men were in q party of
five, under marine guard, who had
just left the naval prison after the
dinner hour to work about the yard.
Sporting, Montgomery and McGarvey
made a break for liberty and man
aged to get to floating stage, where
there were several boats used by
maynard workrnen.
The sounding of the jail-break
signal on the fire-alarm whistle
brought every 6 card to his post.
Nevertheless, the fleeing trio, by
lodging around various buildings,
managed to reach the banks of the
Piscataqua River and jump into a
skin.
Guards followed fast and the fugi-
tives had gotten only few hundred
feet out into the stream when the
pursuers. their demands for surren-
der disregarded, opened fire with riot
guns, which are sawed on repeating
shotguns loaded with buckshot.
Sperling almost Immediately fell
into the bottom of the boat with a
bullet lodged over his heart. A mo-
ment later McGarvev fell shot in the
breast, and another bullet went
through one of Montgomery's arms.
The boat drifted heplessly with its
wounded crew for sometime before
guards could put out and tow it
back.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
PEOPLE OF PARIS IN
DESPAIR OVER RUIN
Nine Square Miles Of the City
Under Water.
CHASMS in. the MANY BOULEvARDS.
Seine Has Stopped Rising and
Tributaries Going Down.
PUBLIC SERVICES BADLY CRIPPLED.

Bursting Sewers Cause Streets To
Sink And Buildings To Collapse
Broken Gas Mains Plunge Parts
OF City Into Darlkness-C Converts
And Public Buildings Converted
Into Asylums And Hospitals For
The Sick And Weird
Night Scenes In The French Cap
ital-Women Crying For Bread
From Windows.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04

Cincinnati. o. Especially Bound
and gagged. the body of Mrs. Alice
Van Zandt, burned to a crisp. was
found lying on top Of the gas stove
in herAkitchen. The woman had met
her death while her three young
children were playing, unconscious
of the tragedy. in the adjoining
room.
Jesse A. Van Zandt. the murder
ed woman's husband, is being held
as q witness by the police. The man
admits that he quarreled with his
wife all Friday night and up to the
time he left the house next morn
ing. an hour, he claims. before the
discovery of the murder.
According to the coroner. Mrs. Van
Zandt was first choked into uncon-
seriousness, then bound and gagged
with strips torn from lace curtain
and placed across the stove, with
her head In the flames of the burn
er. The horror of the crime is i'm
creased by the coroner's statement
that the woman must have recovered
consciousness before death. When
found all the clothes had been burn
ed or the body and the flesh char
red to cinders.
The police discovered that Van
Zandt had been paying marked at
tention to young girl for sometime.
The father of this girl had protest.
ed strongly against his daughters
conduct, and had finally brought her
before police magistrate, who or
dered her committed to the House OF
Refuge. On her fathers recon-
mendation, however, she was sent
instead to a convent.
Burned To A Crisp.
The crime was discovered when a
neighbor smelled smoke and sum
moned the fire department. The
body was burned almost to crisp,
only remnants of the clothing stick
ing to it.
The police claim that the clothing
had been saturated with kerosene. A
proof of this was found in two empty
fruit jars which had contained coal
oil and in an oil-stained fiat iron.
Because nd cutlery was heard, the
police believe that the woman was
taken unawares and choked into UNI
consciousness with the curtain.
Mrs. Clara Garner, the neighbor
who gave the alarm, told the police
that when the smoke had subsidized
sufficiently for her to enter the kitch-
en-, she found the rear door locked.
The front door, she said, was open.
When Van zandt, who had been
summoned home by his eight-year-
old son, arrived, he was asked:
when did you see your wife
last?"
The question was repeated to him
several times before he answered:
II saw her, at 10 o'clock. When
/ left she was going to prepare dim
ner. What has happened?"
He refused to answer further ques-
tions and was locked up.
The Van Zandts came here from
the East. One neighbor to whom
Mrs. Van Zandt had confded her
troubles said that Mrs. Van Zandt
was preparing to leave her husband.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
Women Organize.

Washington. D. c. Especially "A
meat boycott was launched in the
District of Columbia when the Wom-
ems Anti-Food Trust League was or
ganized at the home Of Mrs. John
B. Henderson, wife of former Sena-
tor Henderson, of Missouri, who was
elected its president. All the wom-
en- clubs in the district. and wor,~-
generally, will be asked to join in
the movement.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
CHICAGO HAS 4
Big GRAFT SCANDAL
Eleven Officials Indicted BY the
Grand Jury,
AMOUNT INVOLVED IS OVER $4,000
Paul Redieske, Resigned Deputy
Commissioner or Public Works;
Michael McGovern. A Wealthy
Contractor. And Nine City On
cials Charged with Conspiracy To
Defrnud City In Connection With
Tunnel Construction.

Chicago Especially Paul Redies-
Ike. resigned deputy commissioner Of
public works: Michael H. McGovern.
a wealthy contractor. who has had
many big city contracts. and nine
city ofAcials and employees OF Nc
Govern. were indicted by the grand
jury The men are charged with
$254.00 according to the sum men
toned In the true bill.
The indictment on this charge
came as a complete surprise. as It
was believed the alleged frauds in
called "shale rock scandal.
The men indicted besides Redies-
Ike and McGovern are: Otto Niehoff,
gutl, former superintendent for Nc
Govern: George Moore, foreman
for McGovern; Ralph Bonnell. re-
C. Parks, assistant city engineer:
Govern: Richard Burke, John Nc.
Nichols and Joseph Maher, city in
spectors in the engineers department.
DID NOT Fiji Contract.
The indicted men are specifically
accused Of conspiring to defraud the
city by laying only one-sixth of the
concrete and brick work called for
in the contract for the construction
of the Lawrence Avenue tunnel.
The Merriam Commission, which
has been investigating municipal ex-
penditures, brought out the fact that
the city had been charged about $45,-'
600 for the cutting out of shaie rock
in section D.. of the tunnel. The
"shale rock proved to be only hard
clay. Evidence concerning the al
legged $25O,0O0 fraud upon which
the indictment was based were not
brought out by the commission.
In the indictment the men are
charged with trying to obtain nine
warrants for payment of $25 1000
by the city of Chicago. The last
payment on the quarter-million dol
lar contract for the Lawrence Ave-
nue. tunnel or sewer was made by
the city on July 10, 1909.
The witnesses upon whose testi-
mony the men are believed to have
been indicted were: John J. Han
berg, commissioner of public works;
John Ericsson, city engineer; E. j.
Miller, voucher clerk in the city con-
troller's Office, and five employees of
McGovern's.
Redieske Unconditional.
Redieske displayed little emotion
when he was told he had been indict-
ed, and shortly after furnished the
$4,000 bail required of him. Nc
Govern was also held in 100000
bonds. while the others were placed
in $4,000 each McGovern announc-
ed that he would furnish the bonds
tomorrow.
The following statement was made,
by Redieske:
ssThe only thing that / can say is
that no report of any Irregularities
of shortage of material in the con-
struction of the sewer was ever made
to me. I had reports that the work
was progressing very favorably; in
fact, the city engineer reported to
me that the job was one of the fin
est pieces of sewer-building he had
ever seen"
Mayor Busse refused to make any
statement when he was told of the
indictments having been returned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
CHILDREN KILL THEMSELVES.
Boy 10 And Girl IA Take Strychnine
Y Because They Couldn't Marry.

Des Moines, Iowa Especially Be
cause OF parental opposition to their
marriage on account of their youth,
Vernon Barr, aged 16, and Lima
Animer. aged IA, killed themselves.
| They were found near Monroe,
clasped in each Others arms. sitting
upright in young Barr's buggy, in
which they we're riding home from
a dance. On the girls lap rested a
cup partly filed with sstrychnine and
water The horse proceeded on his
way and stopped at the gate of the
girls home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
Three Drowned From Launcb

Memphis. Tenn. Especially.
Floating helplessIy in a disabled gas
oline launch. three men were drown
ed when the launch was run down
BY the towboat Enterprise or Hope
held Point. Charles S. Auferoth. n
fourth occupant of the launch, saved
himself by seixing the gunwaie of a
heavy laden coal barge, which the
Enterprise was towing.