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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-03

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
made an allowance of $40 for SINH
lar purpose. 1t is hoped that many
of the improvement associations and
the wealthy inhabitants VIII follow
this example. Usually the people
who attend such entertainment are
the ones that need it least. By going
to the public school such men are
able to reach 100 per cent of the
pupils and especially those who need
it most. II two or three such courses
could be brought into the community
and the schools each winter it would
do a great deal toward educating the
rising generation along the line OF
nature study and would also create a
sentiment and love that would pre-
vent the determination OF our song
sters. the cruelty to animals and the
ruthless destruction of the beauties
of Nature about us.
Roads
Ii is significant that Bennington
County has two of its leading citizens
scheduled for the Good Roads Con-
gress that is being held at Atlantic
City. Mr.. j. c. Colgate has been APP
pointed as a delegate, and Mr.. ]. b
Wilbur is in attendance. Both these
men are directors OF the Bennington
County Vermont Improvement Asso-
citation.
The following is clipping that will
be of interest TO all those who are
looking for good roads.
"A stone national highway from
New York to San Francisco, to be
completed by Jan. |. 1915, in time for
the Panama Exposition, is the dream
of the automobile fraternity
The plan provides for the setting
aside OF l per cent of its gross re-
ceipts for one year by every au;omo-
bile and sundry manufacturing con-
Germ which participates The amount
is TO be paid either in three yearly
installments of 1-3 of per cent each
or FIVE y ariy installments OF Is 10
per cent each. No deviation is to be
made from this plan
Already practically every lndiarap-
oils manufacturer has signified his IN
tention of acceding to the arrange
ment. and at a recent dinner in In
dianapolis better than 100000 was
assured in % minutes.
Owing to her larger output. Detroit
promises to outdc Indianapolis. The
city by the lake has begin activities
and larger additions to the purse are
sure to be forthcoming.
An appropriation of SO, 100000 will
provide $4,000 for each mile of the
roadway to be spent for materials
which will be delivered on the ground
GU: of the general fund.
The road proper is to be con 5truct-
ed by the counties through which It
passes, under direction of War De
partment engineers. The course OF
the roadway will be determined by a
national commission oe experts
simultaneously with activities in
Detroit and Indianapolis. work will DE
carried on among the manufacturers
in Cleveland, Buffalo. New York and
other important motor car centres
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-03
ANOTHER EXPLOSION VICTIM
Fireman Joseph Delaney Of the De-
stroyer Wake is Dead.

Newport, Oct 3.-Fireman Joseph
Delaney Of the destroyer Wake. died
this morning as the result of burns
received in the explosion on Tuesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-03

the past four or five years, and has
many friends here. She received
many gifts of china, cut glass and sill
yer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
lnsurgent Convention In Session at
Minneapolis to Make Protest
Against Increased
Rates.
! OFFICIALS ARE scoRET
Predicted That the Meeting VIII Re-
suit In a Demand for
Complete lnvestI-
CATION,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Feb. 23.-At
the opening session of the insurgent
Woodmen convention here today, to
oppose the new rates adopted by the
head council, administration dele
gates were practically all elected
from the floor OF the convention. John
Sullivan, Kansas City and John Har-
ris, Chicago, acknowledged administra-
tion leaders, protested against the re-
quest OF the chairman that they with
draw, but they were hooted down ana
finally left the hall.
John L. Sundean, Minneapolis, In
surgent leader, bitterly attacked the
head council officers, charging them
openly with being insincere. He urgeo
that the insurgents carry their fight
against the new rates into the courts
but suggested that first a committee
be sent to the head council in an effort
to have them modify their action OF
last January.
1t was discovered at the morning
session today that the convention had
not been legally organized. but this
was accomplished this afternoon. The
convention has formed the National
Woodmen's Assembly to carry on their
fight against rates. Severe castigation
of the head officers OF the order was
made on the convention floor today
and many delegates predicted that the
meeting would result In demand for
a complete investigation of the affairs
OF the order.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
SISTER CANDDE
FOUND GUILTY
swIndIed Dealers In Precious Stones
Out Of Millions In Her
Eagerness.

PARIS, Feb. 23-Sister Candide, a
nun who swindled dealers in precious
stones out Of millions, was found guilty
of fraud and sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment. The sentence
was suspended, however, in view OF
the fact that this was her first offense
In her anxiety to obtain funds for
the different charities which she in
augurated, Sister Candide procured an
immense amount of jewels, telling the
owners she intended to sell them on
commission. She did not return the
purchase price When arrested 1t was
said that her liabilities were nearly So
100000.
When Sister Candide's schemes col
lapsed eighteen E.onths ago, DR.. Leon
Petit, who had been associated with
her in the work Of building tuber-
culosis hospital, committed suicide.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Joe kctchel Died Today as Result Of
Operation Following Boxing Bout
Of Last Sun
day.
INVESTIGATION STARTED
PugIIlst Fell uconseIous at tho End
Of tho Fifth Round and In
quest Has Boon
Ordered.

WAUKBGAN, ILL.,. Feb. 2s.--Joe
Ketchel. the pugilist who dropped un-
conscious at the end OF five round
bout, with Bill Walters at the nayai
training station here last Sunday, dieo
in the station hospital today. Walters
Is being held pending an inquest and
investigation.
Captain William Pullman, command
ant OF the station. has placed Walters
under arrest and appointed commits
sion Of three officers to investigate the
charge that Ketchel died of injuries
received during the bout in the sta
ton gym. 1t was stated that the arrest
Of Walters Is matter Of form, de.
manded by the regulations.
Ketchel is said to have suffered q
hemorrhage after a boxing match at
Appelton, Wis, two weeks ago, when
he was badly punished by his oppo.
nent. An operation was performed on
Ketchel at the station hospital Wednes-
day to remove blood clot at the base
of the brain. He failed to rally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Government Report on Condi-
tions Among the Workers
in the Cotton
Mills.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-As sordid
and tragic tale of the poverty of
labor as was ever told in govern
ment publication, was unfolded today
IN the report on the standard of liv-
ing among southern cotton mill work
ers, made public by the bureau of Ia
Dor Government investigators select
ed twenty-one typical southern cotton
mill families and studied their income
and expenditures in detail for the
year 1908. In almost every case these
conditions were found.
The father and two or three Of the
oioer children work In the mill, yet
.ne total annual income OF the family
pread-winners often less than $1,000
year.
The account at the company store
running steadily above the family in.
come.
at the end OF the year debt, which
20 met by an appeal to a loan shark
10 meet the added demand of IN
serest and principal for the debt an,
oIher child is sent to work and SO on
Until the family has sent all its chill
oren into the MILL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
. ICIEI Z I z. s
{
j. P. Morgan, Having Scared
Congress, Will Merge
Two Big Con
Germs.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Feb 23,-Ang
over the announcement Of the merger
of the Manhattan and Bankers Trust
companies in New York, and the inti-
nation that this was the forerunner or
a general merger of those two Morgan
controlled financial institutions with
the big Guaranty Trust Co., opponents
of the money trust declared today
they will force real investigation"
by congress. They insist that the merg-
er shows that the great financial inter
ests are satisfied with the action Of
the house caucus in delegating the
money trust investigation to the reg
ular house committee instead of to a
special committee.
According to Representative Norris,
Republican, Nebraska), the republican
and democratic progressives OF the
house plan to combine and thus force
the adoption of the Henry resolution
turned down by the democratic eau
Gus.
~The real representatives of the
people will make fight for a rea,
investigation, said Norris today
@once more, Wall street, with threar
and inducement has invaded the CAPT
tol and warded off the justice demand
ed by the people. Once more the grim,
time-worn spectre of financial panic
has been dragged from its Wall street
Icloset and with the Wall street inter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Homeopathic Suit.

UNITED Press Leased WIRE Service. ]
SPRINGFIELD, H., Feb. 23.-The
Illinois supreme court this morning
reversed and remanded the University
OF Illinois case, in which w. E. Nei-
berger. president of the state home
opathic society, sought to restrain
James Mccullough, auditor, E. E.
Mitchell, treasurer, and the board of
trustees of the university from using
the appropriation Of 100000 for the
school OF medicine. The suit attack
ed the onstitutionality Of the act and
was brought in the Sangamon county
circuit court where Judge Creighton
ruled against Dr. Neiberger, dismiss
ing the bill for want OF equity and he
appealed to the supreme court.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
~ LIN i Southern Labor

I'm other industries" says the re-
port, the father may feel that he
can never hope for anything more
for himself, but he can at least plan
and struggle for better life for his
children. Here the mill demands the
children as well as the fathers.
The so-called normal family
father, with a wife and children de-
pendent upon him for supports not
found among the 81 typical families
studied. Large families are the rule,
the average Of those studied being S.5
members, including bcarders. The
average number of wage earners was
SO.
Corn bread, biscuit. pork and cof-
fee form large part OF the diet.
Pork means fat pork, salted, contain
ing very little lean. Nowhere Is any
expenditure noted for alcoholic liquors.
"Over 81 per cent of all operatives
live in company-owned houses. 1t is
common occurrence to find the
mother and small children, evidently
insuficiently warmed, huddled about
a small fire in one of the rooms.
Measles, malarial fevers. typhoid.
pneumonia, skin diseases and tuber-
culosis are prevalent, That the peo-
ple are not healthy is shown by the
fact that every family studied was
Obliged either to employ doctor or
buy medicines. The people prescribe
for their own ills and are burdened
with patent medicines and cure-alls. "
The report shows that the prisoners
in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta
are better fed than the majority of
cotton mill families.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Greatest Bank in
Country is Formed

ests pulling the strings has dangled its
democrats of this house.
Fearful of the awful powers Of Wall
street, terrified at the threat Of pos
eible financial panic before election
and shuddering at the prospects OF
closing the purse-strings of those who
cough up campaign funds, the demo
cratic leaders sought the shelter OF
the secret caucus. There they batter
ed down the sixty-six democrats who
were convinced Of the necessity OF
real investigation OF the concentration
lof the money power and brought forth
a resolution-a sop to tho demands
OF the people for justice from the
greatest trust of all-proposing that
the banking and currency committee
investigate the indefinite, elusive
thing they called financial condi-
tions.
Up in Wall street, the big money
interests lay back and laughed at the
representatives Of the people. And
within week, j. Pierpont Morgan, the
czar of Wall street, in fine irony, rec
jognized the attitude OF congress when
he quietly merged two of his money
subsidiaries, the Bankers Trust Co..
and the Manhattan Trust Co., into a
single gigantic corporation, controll-
ing nearly s20o,0oo,ooO of depositors
money. Then he let It be known that
soon the two greatest financial insti,
tutlons of the street-this new Bank
ers' Trust company and the Guaranty
Trust company will be merged This
makes 1t quite plain that the demo-
cratic caucus action was satisfactory
to Wall street
Now is the time for the real repre-
lsentatives of the people in the house
to get together and make real fight
for 2 thorough probe of the money
trust
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
CHINK AVIATOR
FELL ON JAW
VIII Recover From Accident and Try
to XIII Himself at Some
Other Time


UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. Ply
sicians who examined Tom Gum, the
Chinese aviator, announced today
that broken jaw and severe bruises
constitute the injuries he sustained
yesterday when his aeroplane fell $50
feet at the aviation meet here
Gunn's engine went wrong while
he was making fight and the ma
chine rocked and pitched alarmingly.
The Chinese, however, tried to plane
to earth, but his rudder struck a
fence and he was thrown from the
seat and buried in the wreckage of his
aeroplane. He was unconscious when
picked up but recovered conscious
ness an hour later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
oxslIe Acid Thought to Have Been
Mixed With the MIX Used
at the Infants
Hospital
INVESTIGATION MADE
detectives Are Working on Theory
That Some Maniac is Re-
sponsibIe for the
Deaths.

limited Press Leased Wire Service !
NEW YORK. Feb. 23-Until the
report Of the chemist examining the
contents OF the stomachs OF eight
babies, who died under mysterious cir
cumstances in the Brooklyn Nursery
and Infants Hospital, Is complete,
the authorities will take no further
steps today in the matter. While CON
vinced that the eight infants who have
died there since Sunday were Joison-
ed, and that OK tic acid mixed with
the milk was the cause. the fat that
meningitis might possibly have been
the actual cause, resulted In orders
being given for the chemical ,sxamina,
ton.
Coroner's Physician Wuest insisted
today that there was no question brit
that poison caused the deaths. He
pointed out that ii 1t had been men,
ingitis every child in the home and
the hospital would have been i'll,
whereas those killed and those still
III were inmates of the same depart
ment.
While at first the detectives who
are working on the case were inclin-
clined to believe that some person
with homicidal mania had tried to
kill all the children in the hospital,
they were inclined today to believe
that II It Is finally proved that oxalic
acid caused the deaths. 1t got into the
nilknhy accident and through care.
lessness on the part OF some of the
employees Of the institution.
A woman employe who was ques.
toned, told the detectives that she
purchased oxalic acid on Saturday and
that she made solution with it, part
Of which was used by her to clean the
operating table in the hospital. The
hospital and nursery of the institu.
ton are separate buildings. There
are one hundred infants in the nursery
bu. none of them have been i'll.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
MYes. 4 kilIad Herr

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
OLEAN, N. Y, Feb. 23.-.'Yes, I
killed her. She tried to freeze me out
and threw a knife at me and beat her
to death with a hammer"
This was the statement OF William
Lundy, 10, who Is under arrest charg,
ed with the murder of his daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Thomas ]. Lundy. Lundy,
Sr. had been living with his son, ana
1t is alleged that for some time his
actions have indicated an unsouno
mind. The woman was killed with a
hammer, a knife thrust through her
throat and the body thrown into a
closet where 1t was found by her hus-
band
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Oklahoma Democrats up All Night
Arguing About Clark, Wilson
and Marshall
Prospects.
COMPROMISE AT 4 A. M
Finally Split Up Delegation With Ten
Votes Each for Two
Of ths candI.
datsA

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb. "a
With dawn beginning to break on one
of the hottest fights ever seen in
Oklahoma, the democratic state con.
vention was still deadlocked early
this morning on the question as to
whether the st"te's delegates to the
national convention should be pledged
to Governor Wilson OF New Jersey or
Champ Clark Of Missouri. All ef-
forts to compromise on split delega-
ton had failed. The 100 uninstructed
delegates from the county conventions
still hold the balance OF power and
swung first one way and then the
other In such manner that neither
Clark nor Wilson could gain any ap-
preciable advantage.
At o'clock this morning Governor
Cruce was called on for speech and
in an attempt to bring the convention
to some decision advanced the name
Of Governor Marshall of Indiana. He
pleaded that the convention end the
fight as between Wilson and Clark
and indorse the Indiana executive,
declaring any one of the three men
could be elected. Governor Cruces
speech was cheered for fifteen ain-
utes.
The fight throughout the convention,
which assembled yesterday afternoon,
has been spectacular. Judge Thomas
Doyle, an avowed Harmon supporter,
was chosen temporary chairman. In
the preliminary skirmishes the Har-
mon and Clark forces combined, but
with the pledged Wilson delegates
the uninstructed delegation still held
the balance of power and prevented
any headway being made.
alfalfa Bill" Murray, floor leader
for the Wilson forces, worked tireless-
|ly throughout the night endeavoring
to muster a majority vote. Judge r.
Williams, leading the Clark-Harmon
faction, however, managed to keep
just enough of the uninstructed dele
gates in line to maintain the dead
lock.
It is believed Robert Galbreath will
be named national committeeman.
He is not committed on the president
ial Issue and his hackers secured the
adoption Of rule that the national
committeeman selection be brought up
before the presidential preference
question.
The Oklahoma democratic state con-
vention early today adopted the re-
lport Of Alfalfa Bill Murray, the Will
son floor leader, pledging ten of the
states delegates to the national con-
vention at Baltimore for Wilson and
ten for Champ Clark. The amend
ment to the compromise resolution
providing for the endorsement of
Clark was lost by a vote of 314 to
2s9. The convention then adjourned
until 10 o'clock this morning.
1t was not until four o'clock this
morning that the compromise was ac-
cepted. The Wilson men were at
that time controlling the convention
iby nominal majority of 80 votes, but
forced the compromise in fear that
the tables would be suddenly turned
again.
The fight on the selection of ma.
tional committeeman was taken up
when the convention reconvened at 10
o'clock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
USED TO Pl
POOL WITT :h0sEs
Papausky Claims He Once Was Pal
Of the Old Time Kings Of
Ancient Egypt and
india.
POLISH GIRLS
Fortyscs Them Bought Love Tokens
Which Were to Mako Their
sweethearsa Moro
Ardent.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.-With at least
forty pretty young Polish girls In at
tendance n Judge Landis' court in
the federal building, the trial of
George A. Papausky, banker-magician
and revealer of the new laws Of
Moses, was begun today. All the
girls have been summoned as witness
es to tell Of their purchases from the
Regent of the Prince of Darkness"
of Love Tokens" and charms to
make their sweethearts love them
more.
At the opening Of the trial two
books named by Papausky as the
sixth and seventh books OF Moses
were placed In evidence, along with
a volume entitled Moses magical
tricks Of witchcraft, word for word
according to the Holy Manuscript of
Moses"
According to information that
reached District Attorney Wilkerson
today, Papuasky has consistently
told his followers that he has received
all his powers of magic, his secret
formulas for happiness, power and
riches and his talismans from Moses.
Papausky 1t is charged mystifed
thousands of his more ignorant Pol
ish countrymen by declaring that he
had lived in other ages and had gath
erred all the wisdom and secrets of
/ rulers of Egypt and India Papausky,
| it is also said, justified the exorbitant
charges he made for his books and
/ his formulas by declaring tha. he has
had to live his life hundred times
over to gather the information that
he is selling for a pittance.
The Mystery of Mysteries" pur-
ports to lay bare the secret Of acuuir-
ing riches, which, Papausky says has
been withheld by the rich from the
poor for centuries The powers of the
book, he says in a preface, are un-
limited and miracles of any description
can be performed by those "who have
eaten the bread containing the bless
ed corn" This corn is called the bless-
ed grain and Is taken from the craw of
rooster after he has crowed thrice
before the dawn. Papausky has the
corn and the bread for sale.
The government will call a number
| OF Poles who purchased from Papaus.
ky his "Oil of Invisibility," as witness
es to prove the fraud charge. One of
these, according to the prosecutors,
paid SIS for enough of the blessed oil
to take bath in. He was promised
that until the charm wore off he would
be invisible. He went courting and de.
nounced Papausky as fraud when
/ he found that his sweetheart's parents
who objected to him could see him and
kicked him out Of the house. Another
witness who believes in Papausky's
miracles told the prosecutor that he
used the "Oil of TnvisibiIity" and was
afterward run down and hurt by a
teamster at street crossing. The
teamster said he did not See the man
"T know you didn't" replied the
Pole, for have bathed in the oil OF
tinvisibility.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
slaughter In ThIbet.

tUnited Press Leased Wire Service,
SHANGHAI, Feb. 23.-Wholesale
slaughter Of Thibetans was reported
here today. The Chinese troops, it
was said, fearful that the contemplat-
ed return OF the grand lama would
precipitate general uprising against
Chinese rule, massacred all of the
Thibetans near the frontier. Reprisals
are expected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Miners Endorse BiII.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Feb. 23.-Rep-
resentative Berger's old age pension
bill, recently introduced in the house,
was today endorsed by the Illinois
Mine Workers, when the legislative
committee was instructed to urge
Illinois congressman to support the
measure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Nav Close up shon

GLASGOW, Feb 23.-The steel
manufacturers at Glasgow today post
ed notices that all work would be sus-
pended in their plants in the event
of a coal strike 10000 men are en-
ployed in the local plants.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
Decayed Eggs.

CHICAGO, Feb. 23.--Attorneys for
Armour and Company today entered
plea of not guilty before Judge Ian
dis In the federal court to the charge
of violating the pure food and drugs
act in shipping decayed eggs" from
It's Chicago plant to Seattle, Washing
ton, to be sold there.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23
10000 Advocates

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. J
LONDON, Feb. 23-Ien thousand
ardent advocates of woman's suf-
frage will pack royal Albert hall to-
night for the formal opening of their
winter campaign. LloydGeorge, chan
cellor of the exchequer, will be the
chief speaker and the women have as
sured him that there would be no
rough house at the meeting.