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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
BURGLARS IN AUTO
Blow Bank Safe and Get Away With
$4,000


Pittsburg, July 23.-Cracksmen in
swift travelling autos continue to ter
rorize Pittsburg, another big job be-
ing added to the long list early this
morning. Gun play and daring rob
berries within a stones throw of the
East End police headquarters netted
the auto hand more than $4,000 in
cash after they had wrecked the big
safe in the Offices of Bauer Brothers,
bakers and damaged the fourstory
building with nitrOglycerine
The manner in which the robbery
was committed leads the police TO
believe that two members of the gang
had secreted themselves about the big
plant in the night There We're only
TWO men in the machine that stopped
in front of the bakery on the Pennsyl
vania Avenue side shortly after mid
night.
They had hardly alighted and been
challenged Is Charles Baird. the night
Waterman, than an explosion came
that wrecked the safe and smashed
windows in the front OF the building
At the same instant Baird faced two
reyolyers held by the men who had
come in the auto. Two other men
carrying wads of banknotes and wrap
ped coin then emerged from the OIL
res, one Of them crying:
"Souped that too much. Bill"
shut up," growled one of the
others, still covering the terrified
Waterman
Tossing the money into the tonneau
the four men leaped into the machine
As il was driven away couple OF
shots were fired at the feet of the
Waterman to brighten him.
The robbers had but five minutes
start of police automobiles and motor
cyclemen but il was enough.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Pub'r
BENNINGTON, VT, JULY 25, 1911.

Jersey City turned down the com
mission form of government a few
days ago by substantial majority
and in spite of the fact that Governor
Wilson of New Jersey strongly urged
the voters of the city to accept it, A
commission form of government may
be good and often has proved so but
1t is also open to a good deal of dang
er if it does go wrong. Short terms
of office and provision for recall in
all city charters would, we believe, in
the long run do more to improve the
government of cities than the com
mission system
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25

Directly following the wholesale
at North Adams Saturday
comes the shooting of boy at Chess
hire Monday by another boy. The
cause is about the same in both
cases-the reckless and unregulated
sale of firearms to people who ought
not to have them. The firearms
dealers are tremendously wealthy and
pay big deyidends and a few retail
dealers undoubtedly make a moderate
profit. The public and the innocent
families of the victims are the only
sufferers. Who cares? The follow
ing is an opinion on the subject from
the St Adams Messenger:
The mad performance OF the Syrian
that shot and killed two persons and
wounded six more on a North Adams
street car. Is another reminder that
the sale OF deadly weapons should be
put under as much surveillance and
safeguarding as the sale OF poisons.
This man was armed with a ten.shot
automatic revolver and Is a lunatic.
Nobody knows how may persons in
every crowd are mentally irresponsi-
BILE al times. or how many OF them are
carrying pistols 1t is not matter
that the law can regulate by mere
fiat, OF course. but an aroused real
ization that self.preseryation may be
involved IN its enforcement. will 20
far toward making such law effect
i've
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
WHY WOMEN SUFFER
Many Bennington Women are Learn.
ing the Cure.

Many Bennington Women are Learn
Ing the Cure.
Women often suffer. not knowing
the cause
Baokache. headache. dizziness. ner
vousness.
Irregular urinary passages, weak
ness languor-
Each seeming torture OF itself
Together tell of weakened Kidneys.
Strike at the root-get to the cause
Quickly give the help the kidneys
need.
i No remedy endorsed like Doan's
Kidney pills.
4 Recommended by thousands
Endorsed at home
Here's convincing proof from n
Bennington citizen
Mrs Oscar Ketchum. III Pleasant
St. Bennington. Vt. says: II use
Doan's Kidney Pills occasionally and
consider them unequaled In curing
kidney trouble. They act as n tonic
TO the system and promptly remove
any symptom Of kidney complaint
that might have. always recon.
mend Doan's Kidney Pills when !
hear anyone complaining of kidney
trouble
For sale by all dealers Price SO
cents Foster Milhnrn Co. Bunalo.
New York. sole agents for the united
States
Remember the name-Doan's- and
take no other.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
EveryMan
Needs a Vacation and
Every Man then Needs
His WATCH

If you have ever gone into
the country and wancered off
for a long jaunt after breakfast,
you remember how you were
late for dinner because you had
no watch with you.
The Silultion is embarrlss-
ing and discomf r,irg. Per
haps you had a wa tch, but il
stopped or ran irregularly.
n aking Kings just as incon.
venient for you as if you hal
no watch at all.
Therefore. it would undoubt-
ed y he advisable before LEAF
ins for your recreation trip to
submit, your watch to the in
spec ion OF our expert He
is paid to tell on honestly just
what ails il.
We have built W reputa-
ton by honesty and accommo-
dation. II y ur watch is &C
curaie you will take pleasure
il tie thought that you have
with YOU a relia le watch If
it is impaired in any way we
will correct it at a very mod
crate cost.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
YOUNG sLklNs. BEAR SLAYER
ate Senator'S Son Back from Alaska
with Three Skins.

Seattle Wash. July 25.-Richard
Elkins. son Of the late Senator Elkins
OF West Virginia. and Baron II. Won
Bergen. his friend. arrived on the
Alameda OF the Alaska Steamship
Line from the north today, after n
biggamc hunt OF several weeks on
Kodiak Island. Young Elkins brought
back as trophies of his marksman-
shin the skins of three immense ko-
dlak bears. the most dangerous OF
wild game hunted In Alaska
II never had taste for big gamc
hunting until became inoculated
through the publicity given the big
game hunting and exploration stunts
of the Duke of the Ahruszi and his
close association with our lemily
through newspaper stories. laughed
Elkins IN telling OF The hunt y
Thought I would try my hand at It,
and / am coming back next season
for more
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
Estate Of Clavton S Mltison

STATE OF VERMONT, The Honor.
l1nistriut nf Bennington. 81 able pnilmip
Cnuft iur the District aforesaid
10 AN persons interested in iAu estate OF
CLAYTON - MAttisfu late ui ShIftafttr,
,u said District. dvOuuqni. GREETING
WHEREAS. aid Court has assigned the sth
DAY of Autust next. for examining and al
lowing tho account ui hnrhel \. Mnt'i
SON. Admim attiN. ul the estate uf
.nh dcrrhs,si. aud fur d,sirt
uf the r'.idup uf said ustuip Co
tito lawful claimants uf the siue. anl uniprsl
that puhliu nuilup thvu'ui lc uiNen tonil pprsm-
Interested in said usinic hN Publishing thi.
nnipf thrtt wuuke successfully pfp, iuus 10 the
dav a.siuucii. in the bennington Evening Han
ner. y newspaper published ai bennington boz
said District.
TilEWEfORE YOU arr hephy notified tuap.
pnar nd the Probate OnCe iu bennington In
tald District. ON the day assigned Them anil
their, in Unntgai the allowance ~ sAil account
m yuu see cause aud 60 establish yuuf right 81.
heirs. ieHatcss aud lawful claimants tn said
residue.
GRACE n. HOLT.reslsier.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
Do No, Fool Yourself

into the belief that things will always
be as they are now Everything
changes aud the wise man will pro.
vide against the day Of his need and
hy economy and thrift advance his
chance. life insurance Is the main
chance Of the average man National
Life ins 20. Of VI tMutuaD Earle
8 Kinsley General Agent. Mead Build
Ing. Rutland, VI
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25

The town of Highgate was few
days ago presented with beautiful
soldiers monument by Col. H. b.
Meigs Of Baltimore who is a native Of
1lghgate The monument is a mem
orial not only TO the soldiers of the
Civil war but to those of the Reyolut-
ion, the war Of 1912, the Mexican war
and the war with Spain also. A
memorial to the services of the pa
triots is one of the finest services to
the public that can be rendered 1t
SENS rather strange that Bennington
with all its remarkable history and all
the men of note II has produced is
still without a soldiers monument
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
POSTAL CLERKS PROMOTED
Increases in Salaries VIII Approx
mate 100000 a Year.

Washington, July 25.-Postmaster-
General Hitchcock today ordered pro-
motions for postoiiice clerks and city
letter carriers which carry increases
in salaries approximating $2.0OO.00O a
year Orders were also issued for
promotions in the railway service
which will total $4,000 year.
These increases are in addition to
the increases for rural mail carriers.
totalling Si.000.OOO a year which be.
came effective July l.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-25
"HumP" GROWING POPULAR
More Than 325 People Have Climbed
Mountain This Season.

Waterbury. July 2i-The large
party which went from this place last
week to Cancels Hump returned at
different times. the last one coming
down on Saturday This was the
largest single party that ever stayed
on the mountain over night Thus
early In the season over S25 people
have assembled. The camp facilities
there are very good.
Two small parties from Montpelier
were on the mountain during the
week and two others from Waterbury.
Saturday more people went mp for a
stay of one night or longer
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
BIG HURRICANE
AT CHARLESTON
Fatal Storm Devastates South
Carolina City.
ESTIMATE 81 ,OOO, ,OgO DAMAGE
Damage Done to Rice lndustry-Fer-
tiIizer Mills Suffer Greatly-Wind
Reaches Velocity of 94 Miles an
Hour-BloWs in Eight-Foot Tide.

Charleston, S. C.-For more than
thirty-six hours this city was ravaged
by storm which rivaled in fury that
of 1885 A hurricane unroofed houses.
felled trees, chimneys, and other high
structures, broke wires in all direc-
tions, and whipped up the waters of
the harbor so that great damage was
done by a high tide to homes and
shipping.
The identified dead are w. H. Smith
Columbia, drowned under falling
wharf; Cutter, motorman, drowned;
Ida Robinson, crushed by roof; Rosa
Robinson, crushed by roof; Alonzo j.
Coburn, engineer, killed by flying tim
ber; Eva Myers drowned; Tom Dooly,
drowned.
The property loss is very large, es-
Inmates ranging all the way from ST.
100000 to S2,500,0O0. Telegraph and
telephone service was completely de-
moralized and the electric light and
power system was put out Of commits
sion. Masses of wreckage cover the
streets, and the business of the city
was paraly2ed.
The wind reached a velocity of "a
miles an hour with the result that
scores of houses have been wrecked.
Shipping has suffered greatly, many
large schooners having been blown
ashore.
The lower sections of the city were
entirely inundated for the period of
IS hours, caused by the high tide
blown in by the wind.
Great damage is feared for the
rice and Sea Island cotton industries.
The fertilizer mills were also damaged
badly. All of the mills lost their
smokestacks, water towers, heads of
houses, and some of their roofing.
The waterfront has suffered as it
has not done since the cyclone of 1885,
when great havoc was done. A half
dozen wharves have been knocked
away.
The trestle adjoining the Mount
Pleasant ferry wharf was blown down,
killing J. NJ. Smith of Columbia, and
Motorman Cutter of the Consolidated
Electric Co. of Charleston. A J. Co.
burn, southern railway engineer,
was killed by roof flying across the
railroad yard and hitting him in the
back. The others among the dead
are almost all negroes whose names
are Enobtainable.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
Latest Dispatches Ground Down
For Hasty Consumption.
WHOLE WORLD CLEANED
THE Four Corners of the Earth and
the Seven Seas Are Made to
Yield a Tribute of Inter-
esting News.
Washington

Ex-senator Nelson w. Aldrich, OF
Rhode Island, has leased for term OF
years the residence of Hennen Jen-
nings in Washington, and will occupy
1t early next winter.
Nearly fifty resolutions for investi-
ffigations still are pending before the
House Committee on Rules.
Postmaster General Hitchcock deslg-
mated fifty more post Offices of the
first-class as postal savings deposl-
tories.
Thomas D. Edwards, American con-
sui at Juarez, Mexico, telegrapned to
the State Department that 13 Ameri-
cans who had been arrested for vlolat'
ins state laws had been released un'
der bond.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01

- RGANIZED labor's ideal OF a
a short workday changes with
q u varying conditions. At one time
it was customary to work II or
more hours per day, but as civilization
advanced the working day has been
steadily reduced.
In reducing the hours of labor the
unions have been chiefly instrumental,
as they have in various trades estab-
lished a sNorter workday and then fol-
lowed it up by legislation wherever
they have been strong enough.
Though eight hours" may be the
objective which organized labor now
seeks to accomplish. it does not fol-
low that eight hours is ideal, or that
1t will be the goal Of the future. The
short-hour movement rests funda-
mently upon necessity.
"The constant improvement in ma
chinery and consequent displacement
Of labor, together with the further dis
placement of labor by the tendency
toward consolidation in all lines of in
dustry, must ultimately compel us to
choose between three things: First,
we may shorten the hours of labor to
distribute opportunity for employment,
or, second. we may tax property to
support the idle, or, third, we may
have revolution"
This mastery and unaswerable sum-
ming up Of the underlying causes Of
the short-hour movement was by a
statesman, no less than the late
Thomas B. Reed
1t follows that as long as machinery
and methods continue SO to improve
that less and less hours are required
for productive labor, the ideal work
ing day will be shorter and shorter.
Labor does not expect to live with
out work-it complains that there are
too many who live without work, and
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
General

Friends asked that the body of r
NJ. Gulick, rich theatrical man 0:
Pittsburg, be disinterred in Green
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
In a special charge to the Mon
mouth County Grand Jury, at Free
hold, n. j., Justice Voorhees, held that
the Councilmen. in repeating the ordi
nance prohibiting certain classes OF
Sunday amusements at Long BrancI.
were equally guilty with the proprie
tors of the park in which these
amusements took place.
The Beef Trust again raised the
price of fresh meat and intimated il
would so still higher.
Depreciation in eight leading stocks
since July 22 amounted to $3O0,0OO,
900.
Twenty-nine men were saved from
drowning off the New Jersey coast
between Normandie-by-the-Se ana
Seabright when the fishing boat Gus
tan was driven on the sands.
Residents of the Second Ward of
old Long Island City have demanded
the destruction of pack of stray dogs
which have bitten many children.
party composed mostly of citizens,
in five automobiles, raided the eXclu-
sive Hewlett Club at Hewlett, l.. L.,
in the driving rain at l a. m. The
names of several men found in the
club were taken and they were told
they would be summoned to court.
Roulette wheels and other gambling
paraphernalia were found in the club.
The house of +. NJ. Dichter of Dun
kirk was struck by lightning. The
bolt came down the chimney, tore the
plaster in the parlor occupied by eight
persons and passed out the front door
without injuring anyone.
The year book of the North Ameri-
can Y. NJ. c. A. shows 536,037 mem
bers, gain of 39,446.
Pursuit of the negro who carried
away the son of an Oklahoma farmer,
living near Colbert, was abandoned ;
the child was recovered; it was feared
the negro would have been burned by
q mob had he been CAPTURED
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
Sporting

C. X. G. Billings famous trotter
Uhlan covered mile on Goshen
half-mile track in 2:03 3-4, making
worlds record.
Ty Cobb will take up minstrelsy DUR
ing the winter, joining Lew DOCK
stader's show for ten weeks after the
ba seball season.
Miss Gabrielle Girard of New Brigh-
ton. s. l., arrived on the French liner
Espagne She made record Tor
mountain climbing, being the fourth
woman to ascend and descend Dent
Blanche, a peak nearly $4,000 feet
high near Champery, in Switzerland.
Pitcher Dode Criss, famed as one
of the greatest pinch hitters the game
has produced, has been sold by the
st. Louis BROWNS to the Louisville
Club of the American Association
On the occasion of the golden jubl-
lee of Cardinal Gibbons in October, he
is to be presented with rosary Of
nuggets of gold in the rough mined in
Alaska and fashioned into chain OF
rosary beads by a miner.
James r. Keene of New York was
removed from the Berkeley Hotel,
London, to the Nursing Home in Dev-
onshire Terrace, Bayswater.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
Labor Day Beginning

Terence V. Powderly, the man who
was largely instrumental in organizing
the Knights of Labor nearly forty
years ago, tells the Washington cor
respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle of
the first Labor day. In 1881 there
was parade of 10000 labor men in
New York city. and one of the officials
said to another on the reviewing
stand: well, Jack, this is Labor day,
all right. isn't it?" The remark at
tracted attention and reservation
setting aside the first Monday in Sep
tember for celebration of labor's
progress was Introduced In the New
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
FOREIGN

1t was expected that Marquis Salon
il would be intrusted with the forma-
ton of Japanese Cabinet in success
sion to that of Count Katsura, re-
signed
The maximum terms which France
will offer to Germany to settle Moroc-
can disputes will be submitted to the
full cabinet; meantime they are held
in complete secrecy.
Venezuela is recruiting everywhere,
and everybody in the state of Falcon
capable of bearing arms is taking to
the mountains.
Wor was resumed on the British
railways, though some men held out,
owing to the companies attempting to
deprive the striers of their seniority
in favor of the men who did not go on
strie.
c. E. Holway, the American, won a
quater mile race at Sydney, n. S. W.,
defeating Trembatl by three yards.
Time, so As seconds.
The Pope received in audience the
Cardinal Archbishop of Rio de janet
70, and bestowed the apostolic bene-
diction on the churches in South
America.
The Lusitania, day late, sailed
from Liverpool with the Campania' s
passengers as well as her own
A revolutionary plot implicS sting
former President Davila was discov.
cred in Honduras.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
SAYS eEATTIE CONFESSED.
81 Wish | Hadn't Done It," Witness
Declares Defendant Admitted.

Chesterfield Court House, Va
Showing intense emotion, Paul d.
Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie,
Jr., who is on trial here for the muir
der of his wife, declared on the wit
ness stand that the defendant told him
twenty-four hours after the murder
that he was sorry 'he had done it," a
circumstance relating to the crime
that the witness hitherto had sup
pressed.
Il wish to God had not done it! I
would give a million dollars if | could
undo it! But, anyway, she never
loved NE! She only married me for
my money! I'd like to know how
those detectives found out that there
was a No cartridge used in that
gun"
This is what Paul Beattie swore
Henry Clay Beattie said to him.
An hour before this those in court
had been deeply impressed by the tes-
timony of Mrs. r. V. Owen, mother of
the dead woman, as to the unhappi-
ness of her daughter due to her hus-
bands dissipation.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
SAMUEL GOMPERS.

York legislature. While 1t was pend
ing Oregon passed a law establishing
the holiday, the first state in the
Union to do this. New York was the
second. Later states to the number
of thirty-three passed similar laws,
and in 1894 the day was recognized
by the national government and is
now observed wherever it has juris-
diction. The language of the govern
ment resolution was to the effect that
on that day employers and employees
should get together to discuss their
general welfare. That result has not
been generally observable as yet, but
perhaps we shall work up to 1t eventu
ally.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
Labor's Changing Ideal

| 1t would like to make the hours short
enough so that all will have to work.
1t notes that banking and profess
siona men work five hours or less,
and hopes to reach the same ideal
some time.
To provide work for the idle affects
the supply of and demand for labor
and favorably affects wages-as all
short-hour trades well know-but the
desire of the worker to have some
time for recreation and amusement
stimulates the demand for shorter
hours.
AS our wage-earners become better
educated they become more deter
mined to have more Of the benefit of
labor-saving machinery.
They desire more leisure that their
industrial life may be prolonged
They desire their fellow-men to be
employed.
They desire good wages and realize
that to preserve them their fellow
men must be employed.
The late George E. Mcneil, called
the father of the eight-hour move
ment, said Eight hours for work,
eight hours for rest, eight hours for
what we will"
This seems like an equitable divis-
ion as long as eight hours is the OBJ
jective, but as invention follows inven-
ton, it is likely the figures will have
TO be revised.
The ideal short hour workday is the
shortest day possible that will give
good wages. and give the largest meas
ure Of freedom. recreation and enjoy
ment to the worker, enabling him to
support his family, educate his chill
dren, and lay aside something for the
rainy day.
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
Personal

President Taft reached Beverly,
Mass, and began his first vacation OF
any length since last spring.
Thomas A. Edison reached Aix-les-
Baips on his motor tour, expressing
delight at the vast vineyard industry
of Burgundy.
President Taft left Washington for
Rochester, where he addressed the G.
A. R.; then went to Beverly for three
weeks rest before starting on forty
day Western tour.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01
KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF.
Father Murders Three Little Ones,
Then Takes Cyanide.

South Thomaston, Me.-Grief over
the death of his wife led Edward Ben.
nett, a graduate of Oxford university,
England, who had been a resident of
this town for the last six years, to
murder his three children and then
take his own life Two of the chill.
dren were killed by the use of chloro.
form and the third by cyanide of pot.
assium and chloroform.
To make his own death certain
Bennett went to the waters edge and
there took a dose of cyanide of potas.
sium and jumped in. His body was
found 200 feet off shore when the tide
receded
His murdered children are Edward
aged six; Barbara, aged four, and
Nancy, aged two.