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Kot Wholly Unpardonable.
The pretty girl from Gotham had
returned from a walk.
"The boys out here are decidedly
free in their manners," she said. "I
passed a group of them on a corner a
little while ago, and one of them said,
loud enough for me to hear: 'Gee, she's
* good looker, isn't she!' "
"That was awfully impolite," observed
her wild Westetn cousin, "and
I don't wonder it offended you."
"XT 4*- A 4- mA Htlfr T
J.C UiUU L vacuu i-UV, 1^ U t X
thought it was?er?extremely unceremonious."?Chicago
Tribune.
PAINFUL
Suggestions How to
Suffe
"While no woman is entirely free from
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be the plan of nature that women
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of the whole female organCy
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St* V
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English Shopkeepers.
The upper class in England is sinking;
the middle is rising rapidly, and
those who belong *to the former keep
hops in assumed names, while those
who belong to the latter endeavor to
conceal that they themselves are connected
with trade. The conversation
if both, however, betrays that they
are shopkeepers.?London Truth.
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BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA
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Vase Like Eaw Beet?Thought She Would
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hoped for. (Signed) Mrs. Rose Ether, 291
Eckford St., Brooklyn, N. Y."
A Moorish Fondues*.
The Moors are very fond of newmade
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such an extent that it was necessary
to pass a law forbidding the making
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All the stale bread used to be thrown
away, but now it has to be eaten, as it
is against the law of the Moor to waste
food.
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W. L. DOUGLAS, ' Brockton, Mass. '
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"C?antln( Hit Ohlcktm."
Editor Ley, of the Florida Christian
Advocate, announces editorially that
he has six liens which during the coming
three years will hatch 20,346 chick,
ens. half of which will die prematurely.
the other half he will broil and eat
and at the beginning of the fourth year
he will have 25,345 laying hens and
pullets. From these, lie says, lie will
have an income of $13,391 a year.
Being a preacher, we don't blame him
for reaching out for all the chickens
he can get.?Punta Gorda (Fla.) Herald.
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in Best Understands a Woman's Ills.
A Missed Fortune.
Early in the sixties a foreign inventor
offered the secret of a new explosive
that he had discovered to the British
Government. He asked for it an insignificant
price, something like ?600.
After he had been kept waiting three
months, and had made repeated appli- j
cations for a decision, he was informed '
that his offer was declined with thanks, j
as ueuner me vv ar umce uor uie r?oaru i
of Trade saw anything in the inven- j
tion. The foreigner was a Swede, by j
name Alfred Nobel. His invention was
dynamite. My friend has only too good
cause to remember the incident, for
Nobel had offered him a half share in
the profits if he would finance him to i
the extent of 500 kroner. Unfortunate- |
ly for him, my friend was young, and j
still cherished illusions in regard to the i
wisdom of Governments and their officials,
and the consequence was that
when he learned the views of the British
experts he also declined the offer.,
with thanks. But for his simple faith
he would to-day be a millionaire.?Loadon
Truth.
Essence of Thrills.
A curious individual nas recently
taken trouble to dissect the works of
an author of sensational dramas, and
h r\ fin/lc* flio f if PAAiiii?AC< fVtA oa a a n n
uc uauo mat u icjuiica IUC a.- :
tion o? eighteen widows, sixteen sons
and two daughters of persons executed,
eighty orphans of the male and 112 1
of the female sex, sixty blind persons
and ten feigning blinclness, twenty-two
fraticides, eight paricides, 143 foundlings,
1G2 lost and 116 kidnaped children,
124 children exchanged or foisted,
212 false wills, 216 stolen pocketbooks,
198 duels with swords, 16S with pistols,
two with sabres, eight with knives
and ten with axes; fort^-three tires, 123
murders with weapons and 136 with
poison,'forty-five drownings, twenty-six
guilty and sixty-two innocent galley
convicts, eighty freed and thirty-six
escaped prisoners, 115 burglaries, 206
distraints, seventy-nine lunatics, twenty-eight
feigning lunatics, 113 false
marriages and forty-one bigamies.
Who will say after this that the drama
is deteriorating??Toronto Mail an<l
Empire.
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When the Back Aches and Bladder
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For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HKEE BANKER SHOD
Frank G. Bigelow. President of Fir
National, Confessed Defaulter.
LOSES $1,500,000 SPECULATIN
.
Arrested at HI* Home on Cliarje <
Embezzlement and Later Keleasc
on Twonty-tiTe Thousand Dollar
Bail ? Henry G. Go!l, Assist*!
Cashier, His Tool.
Milwaukee, Wis.?Frank G. Bigelov
President of the First National Ban!
and last year President of the Arne
ican Bankers' Association, is a eor
fessed defaulter to the extent of aboi
$1,300,000.
He was arrested charged with tL
embezzlement of over $100,000 of tL
bank's funds aud released in $23,OC
bail to appear before the next Federc
Grand Jury. A warrant was also t
have been issued for Henry G. Gol
one of the assistant cashiers.
The First National Bank will weathe
the storm. Leading business me
signed and issued a statement announi
ing that they would subscribe a tot?
of $1,635,000 to make good the shori
age.
In anticipation of a run. Chicag
; came to the aid of local institution
! (JO A/\A
j Wi til ??-,WV,UW 111 UUtlCUVJJ, vuu VJ
which was in the First National Ban:
before the news of the defalcation b(
came known.
Speculated In Wheat.
It appears that Sir. Bigelow has bee:
speculating in wheat for weeks. H
had made some investments that ha
swept away his private fortune, an
had turned to the bank's funds in th
hope of recuperating his losses by deal
in wheat. His son, Gordon Bigelow
was a member of Tracy & Co., broker
on the Chicago Board, and it is sai<
that his father's investments wer
largely made through him.
When the bank's fuud3 were to b
used Mr. Bigelow, according to th
directors, effected a combination wit
some bookkeepers and the assistan
cashier, Henry G. Goll. He took th
bank's surplus and charged up th
I money taken to Chicago corresponden
banks, but the other night, while work
ing on the books, a bookkepeer not i:
the deal, discovered an incorrect entrj
He notified Charles F. Pfister, of th
Pfiister & Vogel Company, one of th
directors of the bank, and a meeting o
the directors was called, when step
were taken to prevent a collapse.
Bigelow was asked to explain, am
made a full confession. Chicago bank
were notified, and the bank official
provided means for meeting the rui
which was certain. Before the publi
knew of the shortage $1,000,000 reache*
here; then, when the run was in fu!
swing,,heavily guarded automobile
brought from the railway stations an
other million sent by Chicago to pre
vent a panic.
It looked as though the alarm woui<
spread to other banks, but so carefull;
had the First National prepared for th<
event, that the fears were largely al
layed. There was something of ;
jam at the doors, but the police kep
the crowd orderly.
Glass cutters chipped a hole in a bij
plate glass front window of the bank
and deposits were received in full viev
of the crowd on the streets.
The full amount appropriated by Mr
Bigelow was $1,500,000, but he ha:
made restitution in the shape of rea
estate and securities sufficient to reduci
the amount to $1,300,000. The Boan
of Directors decided to meet the issui
in a straightforward manner, and for
mulated a pledge, -which was imme-li
ately signed by members of the board
whose aggregate wealth will probably
approximate $25,000,000, to more thai
make good the shortage.
The capital stock of the bank is $1,
500,000, and the undivided surplui
amounts to $1,200,000. The persona
guarantee of the directors more thai
covers the defalcation, and with th<
surplus and undivided profits which thi
bank carries over and above its capital
it is announced that the institution i:
more solid that it was before the de
falcation became known. Charles F
Pfister heads the guarantee list witJ
$000,000.
TRAIN BURIED IN TUNNEL.
Four Killed in Wreck on the Unio:
Pacific West of Cheyenne, Wyo.
Cheyenne. Wyo.?The engineer an<
fireman, a bra.keman and an unkuowi
tramp were killed in a wreck at Edso!
Tunnel, on the Union Pacific, about 10
miles west of Cheyenne, when the wes
approach of the tunnel caved in an<
buried a portion of the train utide
thousands of tons of earth and rock
The rest of the train left the track
completely choking the long tunnel.
Relief traius, with wrecking outfits
steam shovels and hundreds of labor
ers, were hurried to the scene fron
Rawlins and Laramie.
EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND.
People Badly Scared. But Little Dan
age so Far Reported.
London. England.?An earthquake
lasting several seconds and occasionini
much alarm, was felt about 2 o'cloci
in the morning throughout Derbyshir
and Yorkshire and in adjacent districts
There was trifling damage to wall
and roofs in some places, and movabl
articles were severely shaken, but noth
ing serious is yet reported.
FRENCH NAVAL PLANS STOLEN
Rooms of the Director of Constructioi
at Toulon Ransacked.
Paris. France.?The rooms oeeupiei
by the Director of Naval Coastructio;
at Toulon were ransacked.
The Journal states that valuables am
money were not touched, but that doc
uments and plans were carried ofif.
Cossacks- Wound Many.
Cossacks wounded many childrer
women and men in breaking up a fesi
val in Cauc.'isio.
Sporting Brevities.
For $300,300 the Boston Natiouc
League Club was sold to Frank \
Dunn.
The Debonnet won the Prince c
Monaco's Cup at the Monaco moto
boat races.
ForLy thousand persons saw the opei
ing National League champioushi
frnmn o f tho Pnln fJl-niUld. in WlliC
the Giants defeated Boston by 10 to
Philip J. Dwyer is named as the pu
chaser of the controlling interest i
the Queens County Jockey Club, hit]
erto held by three sisters of the lal
Thomas D. Reilly.
y TEXAS LEGISLATOR SHOT j|
John M. Pinckney and Two Other?.
St Killed in Street Riot ^
Prohibitionists and Their Opposers Clajh
Q | Arcer uecenc Jbiecuoiia ui ncuiy I j.
_ stead, Texas.
H.
of L
Hempstead, Texas.?At a mass meel11
ing called to petition the Governor to
send Rangers to enforce the local op1
tion law, J. N. Brown, a leading lawyer
and stanch anti-Prohibitionist, ber?
gan shooting. Many other persons fob
c? lowed suit, and three men were killed, ^
r* one man was fatally injured and two *
i- others were severely wounded. The
it dead are: J. N. Brown. Congressman k
John M. Tinckney and Tom Pinckney, u
brother of the Congressman. j,
John Mills, a leading Prohibitionist,
ie was also shot. "Doc" Tompkins, pri- ^
i0 vate secretary to Congressman Pinck- g
ney. and Polling Brown, son of J. N.
Brown, were severely wounded.
There wore many armed men in 1 he
'? streets at night, but it was not belie% ed
there would be any more trouble. t
ir The Governor sent Rangers and a o
n special train from Houston with sur- c
:- geons to attended the wounded. There
il has been bitter feeling here for several t
t- years over the Prohibition question, ^
and the recent election, when the "an- c
0 tis" failed to gain the victory they had t]
s expected, added to it. The whole coun- 0
f try has been divided into factions as a 0
I; result. j
Houston, Texas.?The Adjutant-Gen- c
eral left Austin shortly before midnight
for Hempstead on a special train ..
with half a dozen Rangers. At Manor
the local military company was picked
q up. Troops arrived at Hempstead p
e early in the morning. The town wa?
d quiet, but the feeling was tensa,
d ?
0
Mr. Pinckney'ii Career. p
r> Representative John McPherson f3
s Pinckney (Democrat) was born in l(
d. Grimes County, Texas, on May 4. 1845, j?
e and educated in the public schools. *He
served for four years in the Civil c
q War with the Fourth Texas Regiment, P
e Hood's Texas Brigade. J
h For ten years he was District Attor- J!
t ney for the Twenty-third Judicial Dis- f!
e trict of Texas, and three years as
e County Judge of Waller County. Cl
1 In November, 1903, he was elected c
to Congress to fill the vacancy caused 0
n by the resignation of T. H. Ball.
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e SERVANTS SHOT IN KITCHEN. u
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Woman Dead, Man Dying. e
1 Philadelphia. Pa. ? Miss Tillie Slay fl
s Forney, daughter of the late Colonel ^
s John W. Forney, publisher and editor, a
a discovered her two servants, one dead. a
c the other fatally wounded, in the 0
I kitchen of the Forney mansion the s
I other night. The butler. Samuel n
s Barnes, or Smith, colored, thirty years v
- old, sat at a table, his head leaning ou v
- his hand. Margaret Toner, white, fifty t;
years old, cook in the family for twen- j
i ty years, was lying on a settee. Both 'a
7 were shot in the head, and a revolver v
e with two exploded cartridestin it lay j,
- on the floor. n
i An, empty whisky flask in the negro's f,
t pocket and a pitcher and glasses in ?
which there had been beer indicate that ?
I the servants had been drinking heav- e
. ily. The butler died three hours after ^
r being found. ? s,
Miss Forney was the only other per- c
' son in the house, and neither she nor ^
s the neighbors heard the shots. The u
I police could not explain the tragedy. ^
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I CIGARETTE SMOKERS FINED. ?
n
. Many Arrests Reported in Indiana? ?
One Victim Will Appeal. J
{ Indianapolis, Ind. ? Local officers j o
* throughout the State, acting uuaer instructions
from police boards, began
~ the enforcement of the anti-cigarette
? law, and a large number of arrests ^
were reported?not of dealers, but of j.
persons found coking cigarettes or
having cigarette paper in their posses- ?
sion. In every case the person arrest- -y
g ed was fined where trial was held.
John E. Lewis, a well-known citizen, '
r was fined $25 and will appeal the case. j.
1 SERIOUS FIRE ON CAPE COD. a
a
Five Hundred Acres Burned OverChange
of Wind Saves Hamlet. o
a Hyannis, Mass.?More than 500 acres ?
of forest, meadow and pasture land v
were burned'over by a fire that broke rj
I out at noon in the brush near the West t
i Barnstable road, two miles west of this 0
i village. No buildings were destroyed,
0 although at one time many were threat- t
t ened. At Happy Hollow, a settlement p
1 of colored people, household effects had ?
r been hastily removed to a place of | jj
safety, when a siiirt In tue wind saveu f
the liamlet. ^
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?. RUSSIAN OFFICER SHY $30,000. t
v
1 Gambles Away Funds For War Sun- a
plies and Flees Country. t
g
St. Petersburg, Russia.?An oficer a
named Kasperoff, belonging to the a
i- Commissariat Department of the War
Office, and who had large sums at his
disposal, to purchase supplies for the
S Army, has defaulted, to the amount of t
5 $30,000 and lied abroad. He had lost f
? money in gambling. t
e t
i- Woodruff Again Marries. y
s Former Lieutenant-Governor Wood- r
e ruff, of New York State, married Miss s
l* Isabel MoiTison at the bride's home in i
New York City. [
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For Zemstvo Governments.
u Plans for the extension of zensivo
governments to Siberia and Finland <
have been inaugurated by the Czar.
a
Earthquake's Awful Record.
2 An official estimate of the loss of life ,
in the recent earthquake in India j
places the number at not over 15,000. (
Yield of Wheat Heavy. \
i, The yield of wheat, oats and barley i
i- on the Pacific coast will be the heaviest
for several years, says F?radstreets. <
News of the Toiiers.
p Warwick furnice employes, at Pofts'
town. Pa., will receive a 10 per cent. |
increase in wages.
A A AA ATvinlArae P +V>n fn^o
;\UUUL 1W ClUJ/lVJ CO \Ji. me IUUW ^v,
partment of the Longmoad Iron Company,
of Consiohocken, Pa., went on 1
* strike for 10 per cent, increase in
P wages.
The Boston Pilot says: "The Fall
FUver strike iai ended. In its way it
r* was as heroic as the defense of Port
u Arthur, and if its methods were less 1
dramatic and sanguinary its principles
:e and motives were nnore humanitarian
and noble." ~ *
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I
ILL JKU III TURMOIL
Wholesale Anarchy and Disruption
Feared by Government.
'OSSIBLE REBELLION OF ARMY
rlboral Hope For a Constitution Lien In
Ultimate Defeat of the Czar by Japan
?Arrests Made on All Sides? Poland
and Other Province! Are Heavily
Policed.
St. Petersburg, Russia? Not only the
uture of the war in the Far East, but
be fate of the whole program of in?rnal
reform to which Emperor Nichols
stands committed seemed to lay
pon the issue of the sea battle besveen
Rojestvensky and Togo. The
Government undoubtedly would be
reatly strengthen^!, at least for the
loment. by a victory decisive enough
j change the war situation.
The Liberals have been impatient at
lie delay and suspicious ol! every move
f the Government. They have been
onvinced that if victory comes to the
ureaucracy, 10 wmcu iu*? icaniaion
of reforms has been consigned by
tie Emperor, will be able, despite the
lamor throughout the country, to keep
tie execution of these reforms in their
wn hands, which, of course, in their
pinion, would mean their eventnal
issipation in a labyrinth of endless
ommissions.
Practically the interior administraion
has been conducted through a poce
regime. Already there has been
verywiierc evidences of return to Von
'lehve methods. Domiciliary visits
nd arrests by scores and hundreds are
eported in every part of the empire,
nd meetings of air classes of the peole
have been forbidden and broken up
y the police under the direction of the
>cal government. Even zemstvo
leetings in Vladimir, Elizabethpol,
>rel, Tiflis and Livadia have been
losed. Of course the' Government
roperly argued that it could not fold
:s arms and see the flames of revoluion
fanned by agitators, but it was noiceable
that such spokesmen of reacion
as Prince Mestchersky, editor of
lie Grashdanin, have again boldly prolaimed
the doctrine of repression,
haracterizing the Constitutionalists
nd "Intelligentsia" as lunatics. "Rusia
has suddenly become.a vast lunatic
sylum." says the Grashdanin, "and
nless mad people are locked up and
laced out of harm's way there is no
redicting where all this idiocy will
nd."
In the meantime the Easter holidays
nd May Day were awaited with exreme
anxiety both by the authorities
nd the public. The Social Democrats
nd Revolutionaires have planned demnstrations
on an extensive scale. They
eemed to have plenty of funds, furished
both from abroad and by
realthy sympathizers in Russia. The
rildest stories of plans for blowing up
lie members of the imperial family,
linisiers and palaces and of pillage
nd murder of the nobility and the
wealthy have been current, especially
i aristocratic drawing ropms, and
lany society people, thoroughly
rightened, have made preparations to
o abroad.
Large reinforcements of troops, and
specially of Cossacks, have been
rought to St. Petersburg. Arrests and
earches of the lodgings of suspects
ontinue. but even General Trepoff, albough
he has been taking every measre
of precaution, did not seem to
now exactly what to expect That
e anticipated trouble and bloodshed
as apparent from the fact that he had
otlfied all manufacturers to guard
gainst incendiarism, and through
ouse porters had warned every family
hat women and children must remain
ff the streets.
Polish Cities In State of Siege.
Although disorders more or less serious
ave been anticipated everywhere,
oland and the Baltic provinces probbly
are the storm centres. General
laximovitch, Governor-General of
Varsaw, has just returned to his post
fter a conference here, clothed with
Imost dictatorial powers. All the PoistL
cities have been in a state of minor
iege, but the Governor-General was
uthorized to declare martial law, and
mple troops have been furnished.
There were many disquieting reports
f disaffection of troops, and the names
f regiments, even in the Imperial
Juards, were given as having been
von over to '"the cause of liberty."
?h-e military authorities, however, said
here was no question of the loyalty
f the troops and that orders would be
beyed. They admitted, however, that
he revolutionaries have pushed their
iropaganda among the soldiers with
MmoatnAss Sneeial regulations
lave been instituted to keep the army
ree from contamination, and these
lave been enforced in individual cases,
>oth of officers and men, who have
teen found to be in communication
nth revolutionaries. Such cases, the
uthorities declared, have been deected,
particularly among Jews, and
evereiy punished, but the authorities
re confident that no uuits have been
.ffected.
Some Troop* Ready to Mntlnjr.
Independent investigation seemed to
)ear out the official contention, except
is to the Caucasus, where, according
:o private advices just received, the
roops were badly fed, and were 011 the
rwge of mutiny and ready to join the
evolutionaries. These advices reprelented
that the situation bordered on
inarchy. with the revolutionaries in
>ractical control.
WOMAN DIED OF FRIGHT.
scared by a Mississippi Cyclone Which
Tin mazed a Town.
Mobile. Ala.?News was received here
hat considerable damage was done by
i cyclone wbicb struck tbe neighborlood
of Newton. Miss., and caused the
leath from fright of Mrs. J. J. Nicholson.
When the storm broke she fell
inconscious in her yard ;.nd never
recovered.
Five? buildings, six stores, and nujier)us
burus and fences were destroyed.
Personal Gossip. '
Giacomo Caponi, dean of the foreign
correspondents at Paris, has just retired.
He served the Tvibuna, of
Rome, there for many years.
The Lokal Anzciger says that the
Czarowitz has been in. ana tuai u
specialist in children's diseases was
summoned to attend him at TsarskoeSelo.
Archbishop Mesmer, of Milwaukee.
Wis., has had to ask police protection
against the importunities of beggars,
following an article in a local newspaper
telling of his liberality as a
giver.
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JOSEPH JEFFERSON DIES
Noted Actor Passe3 Away in Hij
, Florida Home.
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Illness of Some Days Had Trefaced tli.il ;
End?His Family at tbe
Bedside.
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West Palm Beach, Fla.?Joseph Jefferson
died at 6.15 o'clock at night, at
his home, The Reefs, Palm Beach, of
pneumonia. At his bedside with the
medical attendants were his wife; two
of his sons, Charles B. and Frank; his
granddaughters, Marion Jefferson and
Mrs. C. Sympns, and his faithful old
servant, Carl Kettler.
He expressed a desire to see the
ocean during his last few moments, and
wanted to be left to die as peacefully
as he had lived while at The Reef.'The
parting with his family was calm and
resigned.
The body was taken from Palm
Beach on a special train to Buzzard's
Bay, Mass., accompanied by the members
of the family who were here.
Since his last sinking spell, after a
rally on Thursday morning, which was
followed by an apparent Improvement
until Friday, the family had been waiting
for the end. Mr. Jefferson's condition
on Saturday night grew steadily
worse, and the family, who had retired',
were summoned. The patient's condition
continued to grow worse all
through the day, and the brief bulletins
from the bedside contained no
words of encouragement.
The sickness was contracted, it is believed,
while on a recent visit to Mr.
Jefferson's son, Charles B. Jefferson,
at "Hope Sound, a few miles above
Palm Beach, where the actor went to
meet ex-President Cleveland. It is
believed that from a slight Indiscretion
in'eating there he suffered an attack
of indigestion.
Sir. Jefferson'* Career.
Joseph Jefferson was of the fourth
generation of the Jefferson family of
actors. The first o* the family whose
name is recorded in the theatrical
annals of Great Britain was Thomas
Jefferson, who was born In 1728 and
died in 1807. He was an actor of more
than respectable repute in the time of
Garrick.
The second of the Jeffersons, Joseph,
a son of Thomas, born in 1774, crossed
the Atlantic Ocean in 1795, and for
nearly twoscore years thereafter was
one of the best liked actors in this
country. With the famous old Chestnut
Street Theatre, in Philadelphia,
his name is inseparably connected.
This Joseph Jefferson was a comedian
of versatile cowers. He had many
children. Thomas, his eldest son, was
an actor, who died in his young manhood;
John, another son, also an actor,
died young; Euphemia. who became an
actress, married William Anderson,
and was the mother of Mrs. G. C. Germon
and Mrs. Judah, and the grandmother
of Effie Germon; Elizabeth was
an actress of distinction. The other
children of the first Joseph Jefferson
did not take to the stage, except Joseph,
his second son, who was born in
1S04. He married Mrs. Thomas Burke.
He was a country manager, often in
hard luck, and an actor of respectable
attainments. His son Joseph, born
February 20,1829, in Philadelphia, was
the Jefferson of our own era, the great
Rip Van Winkle.
His Childhood and Youth.
Young Joseph, besides having a theatrical
ancestry from whom he mig^t
ha%re been expected to inherit the dramatic
gift, was trained to the footlfgbts
almost from his infancy. The celebrated
"Jim Crow" Rice employed him
in his darky song and dance when the
child was only four years old. He was
carried on the stage In a large bag,
from which he emerged in the guise
of a little colored person, the very
counterpart of the grown-up Jim Crow,
whose singing and dancing he Imitated
to perfection. In 1837 he took part in
a broadsword combat, a la Master
Crummies, on the stage of the Franklin
Theatre,! in New York, where his
parents were then engaged. During
the nest twelve years the family were i
strolling actors, traveling in the West
and South. Joseph passed about tkres
months at school in all his boyhood.
He suffered many hardships and privations,
but he mastered his art.
Mr. Jefferson acted Rip Van Winkle,
the part he made famous, throughout
the United States. For many years he
needed no other piece. The public could
not seem to get enough of the humor
and pathos of Rip. His two long engagements
at Booth's Theatre are siill
remembered. In 18G0 Jefferson bought
a house with ample grounds, beautifully
situated in the Saddle River district
of Bergen County, N. J., near tUe ;
namlet of Hohokus. This place, -vvliicu
he greatly beautified and improved until
it became a model country residence,
he sold in 1.888. In 1869. also, he
bought bis Louisiana plantation, of
which so much has been said in print.
His summer house on the shore of
Buzzard's Bay, called Crow's Nest, was
built later, and, with the furniture anl
art works it contained, cost $300,000.
It was burned April 1, 1893. but th?>
builders were soon set to work upon a
new house on the same site.
In his leisure hcurs he found plenty
of pleasant occupation away from tbe
theatre. He was a painter of quite
unusual skill for an amateur, and an
expert fisherman, too.
Mr. Jefferson had, by his two wives,
eight children. His eldest con, Charl33
Burke Jefferson, has been an actor,
and was for a time a prosparous theatrical
manager. Other cons are
Thomas anl Jcseph Warren Jefferson
both actors.
MASSACRED BY TIBETANS.
Chinese Commissioner and His Retinue
: J Aa TT^ Qlnin
ouiu r?j iiu> c jjccu viaiu.
Lordon. England.?Correspondents at
Shanghai give an unconfirmed Chinese
report to the effect that Fen-Chuen,
the Am'oan (imperial Jommissioner to
Tibet) and his whole retinue have been
massacred by Tibetans at Eatang.
Jap Ships Off Manila.
Three supposedly Japanese warshiparrived
off Manila Bay. P. I.
Education Brevities.
Andrew Carnegie gave Pomona College,
at Claremont, Cal., ?40,000 for a
library.
Professor F. K. Sanders, of the The*
ologieal Department in lale University,
resigned.
Andrew Carnegie offered $30,000 tc
Drake University, at Des Moines, la.
for a library.
Beloit. Knox, Grinneil and Coloradc
Colleges and Washburn University
asked Andrew Carnegie for $1,000,0(X
each.
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EQUITABLE UNDER FIDE ;
Policy Holder Brines Suit Against
the Big Insurance Company.
WANTS SHARE OF THE SURPLUS
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Colonel J. Wilcox Urown Throdjli Hli
A'torneya Allege* Illegal Retention
on the Fart of Hi? OfHcer* of the So?
ciety of Fanda Ilijlitfully Belonjinc
to tlie Follcy HoMor*.
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New York City.-A suit asking for
the appointment of a receiver for the
$80,000,000 surplus of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society was begun in
the United States Circuit Court here
by Colonel J. Wilec:: Brown, of Mary
land, on behalf of himself and all other
policy holders who may be simularly I
situated. The action is based on the
broad allegation that the complainant
and other policy holders have never
shared in th? surplus to the extent to
which they were entitled by law and
by their contracts' with the Equitable, \
but that instead tin? surplus has been,
accumulated and is In fact used for the
ulterior purposes of 1110 group of men
who control the organization.
Representing Colonel Brown are Dos
Tassos Bros., and Brittle & Marshal!, of '
this city, and Josc-pLt DoI'\ Junkin. of
Philadelphia, Pa. George Gordon Bat- ;
tie, of Battle & Marshall, expiaiued the
purpose of the suit r.s follows:
"This is an ordin.-y policy holders'
suit. The plaintiff. Colonel J. Wilcor l
Brown, a citizen of Maryland, consulted
us last autumn concerning his policy
in the Equitable Society. He bad a
policy for $25,000. taken out in 1867,
changed as to terms in 1872. Heiiad |
elected to have his share in the surplus
of the society applied in reduction of
premiums. In the earlier stages of his
connection with the society these reductions
had been very considerable, '
but, although the business of the society
enormously increased, there was no /.material
further reduction in the prem?
in mo. On onnllnoflnit fn flio enniofv ha *
VU U]y|/llVUltVU tuv WVV4V, V.J ?v II
had been told the usual story that all \|
of this was due to a lowering of profits ||
op investments caused by the fact that 1]
rates of interest in later days were
much lower than in IStiT. ,
'"We were obliged to advise Mr.
Brown when he first consulted us that I
we saw no basis for a suit. There was \
no prooffcthen in our possession that
the portion of the surplus properly a'pplicable
to diminishing his premiums
was misappropriated by-^he society.
IJlejpil Ketcntiun Altered.
"Recent events, however, have shown
clearly that the huge surplus accumulated
by the society is not legally retained
from the policy holders, nor
lawfully used by if. The affairs of the
society are in considerable confusion,
and the vast fund collected together
by the methods which the society has
employed is now claimed as the property
of tile society and its stockholders.
The old charter of the society providing
that the company shali be a mutual
company and that a^l of the profits
'shall be" apportioned equitably among.
the policy holders, except a dividend of
seveu per cent, to the stocklmlders, is
now attempted to be swept aside by
the present claims of the stockholders
of the society.
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TV VJ JUUI\; iuuc?vtv ClUfMVU *****
Brown, in the light of these facts, that
he and all other policj holders have K
just and clear right to this fund- The "t,
continued subtractions from their equl- \
table shares in the surplus have been
withdrawn from that share, not for
legitimate insurance business, but for
an ulterior purpose. Tlii3 purpose '
plainly now appears to have been to
build up a great fund, beyond any possible
needs of the society, to which the
society and its stockholders could subsequently
lay claim. The claim has
now been made. This claim has- takes
the present case out of all past prece- _
dents in which the company has figured '
as honestly accumulating jttij*. surplus
for the purpose of conducting; a, legitimate
insurance business.
"The present situation & further differentiated
from past suits -by the fact ?
that there appears to have been a
further object of this accumulation in
the holding of this great fund by the "**
stockholders and officers elected by(
them as free assets for speculation
schemes in which they were personally,
interested. It has been publicly, 1
claimed by one of the officers of the
society mai immemorial preueuem ua?
pstablished Iiis right to have an interest
both as seller and buyer fn securities
sold to the society. A chr.llenge of this
sort has never been- proposed to ireveral
hundred thousand people in the United
States without findiug some one to take
it up. It is the intenticu of this suit; '
among other things, brought on behalf
of one, and all others wishing to Join
him, to test this Immemorial precedent-""'
and ascertain whether l>: is in accord
with the precedents which govenj
courts of equity and Grand Juries."
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CnrEF KILLED IX FIRE.
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Old Ridley Store. i:i Grand Street, New;
York City. Destroyed.
New York City.?What was left of
the old Ridley store building on the
south side of Grand street and the
west Side or urcuaru street went up
in a lire alarm blaze which began about
3 o'clock at night.
In ihe building were tbe offices of
the east s-ide branch of the Van Norden
Trust Company, and tbe fire broke otrfc^
on the second floor, just oVef them.
Acting Battalion Chief W. J. Wieland
fell from a ladder and sustained injuries
from which ho di?d later.
English Arrest a Russian.
A Russian calling himself Vladimir
Ar.torvitcb. but carrying a passport
made out in another name, has been arrested
on the fortified island of Brani,
and was arraigned at Singapore, Straits
Settlements, on the charge of being on
Government property without author*
u?. ne is ueweveu 10 ue a syy. i
Minister Aspiroz Buried.
The funeral of the late Ambassador
-\spiroz took place at Mexico City,
Mexico. i
Murder at Breakfast.
E!i Rogers was shot by a Frenchman,
whose name has not been learned, at
the Standish farm in ihe town of
Greene. Mo. Tft?} murderer then killed
himself with the same revolver. The
men were employed by H. L. Keyser,
and wore at breakfast with the other
employes of the farm.
ru'Jl) ivuu on cam;.
.iatgs containing $2,000,000 carried ia
in tlic vio'v of depositors clicked tno
run on the First National BauU of Miljvaukce,
Wis.