The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, September 16, 1908, Image 2
AUGUSTA SWEPT BY
FLOOD, LIVES LOST
Dam Collapses and Streets Are
Under Six Feet of Water.
CROP DAMAGE IS IMMENSE
Scores of Lives Have Been Lost in
Georgia and the Carolinas?Five
Feet of Water in Augusta's Chief
Street?City in Darkness.
Atlanta, Ga.?The Goods in the
Carolinas and Georgia culminated in
the breaking of the big dam. six miles
from Augusta, which diverts the
water from the Savannah River into
the canal at that point. The great
flood of water let loose soon found its
way into the city, and from Fifteenth
street to the eastern boundary Augusta
is under from six to twelve feet
of water.
The big bridge across the Savannah
ruver weui uuwii in uie rusu ui
waters, and the dam at the lock
seven miles above the city collapsed,
adding to the flood.
The Nixon warehouses, containing
thousands of hales of cotton, caught
fire. The city is in darkness and
boats are being used in the streets.
All wires are down.
There were three deaths caused
by the flood in Augusta. The damage
to the city and immediate surroundings,
it is estimated, will reach half
a million dollars.
The Union Station is in ten feet of
water, and in the residence district
in Green street the water is six feet
deep and slowly rising. The Sacred
Heart Church is in six feet of water. 1
The Southern and the Georgia Rail- ;
ways have been unable to move any
trains over their regular lines. All
traffic was detoured by way of Nash- (
vine. Trains are irom twenty-tour to (
thirty-six hours late.
A dispatch from Camden, S. C., ,
reports two lives lost and nineteen j
missing as the result of the washing
away of the steel bridge over the
Wateree River at that place.
FLGOD LOSS MILLIONS. 1
All Records Broken In South Carolina ,
?Five Known Dead. (
Columbia. S. C.?Reports received *
from all sections of the State indicate 1
that the present flood is the most 1
damaging ever recorded in South 1
Carolina. The flooded area covers
practically the entire State, and at ]
many points the rivers are from two s
to six feet higher than ever known, *
not excepting the great floods of 1
1842, 1S86 and 1903. The railroads (
are operating few trains, and no ef- ?
fort is made to maintain schedules.
Manv rilarps in tho Sfnto aro 1
lated. More ihan a dozen toll and
public bridges crossing the large riv- '
ers have been swept away, and at
least two steel railroad bridges have
gone down. Many of the dams along 3
the rivers, erected for the protection j
of the fertile bottom lands, have been ,
swept away, and the large corn crops |
along the different streams are a to- (
tal loss. The total loss of life thus t
far reported is five.
It is impossible to estimate the
damage to the farming interests
throughout the State, but it will run j
into the millions. It is estimated that (
the damage to the cotton crop alone ;
is ten times greater than the total
loss of property resulting from the
great flood of 1903 in this section.
A dispatch from Anderson says
that the storm damage in Anderson '
County will amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and no train
service is expected for the next ten i
days. (
A dispatch from Camden says the j
crops along the rivers and creeks in i
that section are a total loss, and un- c
told damage has been done to the f
corn and cotton crops on the uplands. \
Five persons were drowned when the t
toll brif*ge across the Wateree River
went down?George Rabon and his q
son and three negro women.
The floods are heaviest in Western .
South Carolina and Eastern Georgia. ^
Property loss is enormous, and the
railroads are among the principal suf- c
ferers through trestles and bridges 1
being washed away, washouts along q
miles of tracks and cave-ins which
have buried the tracks in places under
hundreds of tons of earth.
A. O. BROWN & CO. SUSPEND.
New York City Firm Could Not Get 1
Stock to Cover Obligations.
New York City.?A. O. Brown &
Co., of No. 30 Broad street, the bro-1 (
kers whose enormous dealings in 1
REPORTS 371,089 Iv
Warner's Figures Show Large I
ance of I
Washington, D. C.?An increase
of 371.0S9 pensions issued, with a
saving of $1,343,066 out of the reduced
appropriations for the maintenance
of the bureau during 1905'08,
covering Commissioner of Pensions
Warner's administration, as l
against the period of l901-'04, is an- !
nounced in a compilation of figures :
given out at the Interior Department. :
1 ixc iiguita aii; wimtu num vuuiuiusioner
Warner's report, which will be i
issued shortly. Statement follows: ]
From 1901 to 1904, inclusive, ;
there were issued 516,251 certificates 1
of pension. From 1905 to 1908, inBig
Hay Crop West.
There is a big crop in the West and
a good deal of old hay not yet sent j
to market, but in the Eastern States
the new crop is undoubtedly a little (
short, and farmers will have a small- .
er surplus for shipment and for sale ,
to local markets.
To Consider Convict Lenses.
Atlanta, Ga.?Governor Hoke Smith
ordered an extra session of the Georgia
Legislature. The convict lease <
system is the matter to be consid- i
ered.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Naval authorities discusscd a plan
to paint warships a darker color.
Turkey recalled its ambassadors at
Berlin and Vienna and its minister
at Belgrade.
The Dutch at Curacao stoned a
Brazilian schooner taking Venezuelan i
trnrvrlci tn TVi 11PTT1 St ad.
Australia granted permission to the ;
American sailors to land at Sydney
bearing arms, but without ammuni- <
tion.
A break of about $3 a bale in October
cotton caused a bull panic on
the Cotton Exchange, New York City.
1,300,000 shares on the Stock Exchange
became a subject of investigation
by the Exchange, suspended
and D. W. Noel has been made assignee.
Wall Street was inclined to regard
the suspension as a "bear" failure,
brought about by inability to cover
shorts.
At the height of the boom markets
nf cpvpral vears aeo. A. O. Brown &
Co. did an enormous business, said
to have been larger than any other
brokerage house at one time. The
firm had offices in Buffalo, Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Erie, Utica and
Toronto and Paterscn, N. J. It was
organized in 1902, the members being
A. O. Brown, G. Lee Stout, E. F.
Buchanan, Samuel C. Brown and W.
Rhea Whitman.
EARLE "AFFINITY" BEATER.
Charge of Choking Soul Mate Lands
Him in Cell at Monroe, N. Y.
Monroe, X. Y.?Charged with having
"choked and beaten his wife with
his fist," Ferdinand Pir.ney Earle,
who only a year ago sent his first
wife to her home in Franca so he
might marry his "affinity," Julia
Kuttner, was arrested in his home
here and locked in a cell in the county
.iail in Goshen. It was alleged
Earle had attacked his wife many
times in the last three months, and
that the young woman bad "suffered
many indignities" at his hands.
The arrest of Earle caused a trepon;itfnn
hprp. ns it ca.me
exactly a year after the first news of
the "harmonious agreement" between
Earle and his first wife to part.
WORKMEN KILLED UNDER WALL
Collapse of Chelsea (Mass.) Structure
Buries Many Laborers.
Chelsea, Mass.?A thirty-foot brick
wall, which was being put up for a
building in Chelsea Square, on the
site of one burned in the fire last
April, collapsed and buried a score
of workmen. Five bodies were removed
from the ruins, all but one of
which were identified.
Those known to be dead are: Meyer
Arlwok, Ferri Sarto and Francisco
Gouelifa, of Boston, and M. Zackler,
Df New York. The unidentified body
Is apparently that of a Russian, about
twenty years old. Fifteen men were
Injured.
THIRTY KILLED IN A MINE.
Fire Destroys a Hoisting Shaft and
Air Shaft in Oklahoma.
McAlester, Okla.?More than thirty
niners were suffocated in Hailey-Ola
Doal Mine No. 1, near Haileyville,
'ourteen miles east of McAlester,
vhen fire destroyed the hoisting shaft
ind air shaft and cut off air from the
nen below.
Twenty-five dead bodies were renoved
from the mine, following a
;uccessful three hours' battle with the
lames. Explorations in the channels
evealed that none of the men met
ieath by burning, but that all were
suffocated.
IVOMAN MOB LEADER A SUICIDE.
Takes Poison When Arrested For
Murder in Springfield Riots.
Springfield, 111.?Kate Howard,
nob leader and rioter, with a police
'ecord and conspicuous for years
ibout the streets of Springfield be:ause
of her 35 0 pounds of avoirlupois,
committed suicide shortly afer
being taken into custody on an
ndictment voted by the special Grand
Fury charging her with murder.
Poison swallowed at her home just
>efore accompanying an officer to the
:ounty jail caused death before the
voman was put behind the bars.
SALOONS OUT OF BUSINESS.
Prohibition Laws in Several States
Affect Liquor Traffic.
Washington, D. C.?The internal
evenue collected in July was $22,)29,316,
$2,899,50S less than in
ruly, 1907. A decrease was $216,149
n the receipts from the retail liquor
lealers' special tax, indicating that
>646 retail liquor dealers went out of
msiness in July, because of prohibiten
legislation in the various States.
[*o Make Spars For Kaiser.
Hoquiam, Wash.?Chris. Endersen
k Sons, sparmakers, of this place,
lave closed a deal with the Emperor
>f Germany whereby they are to sup)ly
spars for the royal yacht.
Co Found Esperanto Institute.
Dresden.?The Esperanto Congress
)assed a resolution to found a teach;rs'
federation and also an interna:ional
Esperanto institute, which
>hali draw up rules by which the
lew language may be kept pure.
Roosevelt Speaks to Farmers.
President Roosevelt spoke at Jorlanville,
N. Y., in praise of farmers'
.vives and on uplifting farmers.
iORE PENSIONERS.
ncrease--Saving in MaintenBurcau.
:lusive, there were issued, not including
202,577 increases under the act
Df April 19, 1908, made by directions
to pension agents, 887,340. This
makes an increase of 371,089.
From 1901 to 1904, inclusive,
there was paid as pensions $554,888,977,
and from 1905 to 190S, inclusive,
$571,391,648, an increase of
$16,502,671.
While the appropriations for the
maintenance of the bureau have been
reduced each year since 1904, there
has been saved and covered into the
Treasury as unexpended of such appropriations
that year $1,343,666.
Spring Colts Scarce.
Frederick Wagner, president of the
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll Horse Company,
New York City, remarked that
In going 200 miles recently through
one of the best horse breeding sections
of New York State he did not
see enough spring colts in the pastures
to fill the stalls of the company's
coach horse department.
Wade Ellis Appointed.
Wade Ellis, Attorney-General of
Ohio, accepted the position of assistant
to Attorney-General Bonanarte.
recently held by Milton D. Purdy.
The Field of Labor.
A now union of carpenters has been
Conned at Virgues, Porto Rico.
The Waterville (Me.) textile workers
have applied for a charter from
tne unuea Textile woiKers.
The Scotch Shipbuilding Employers'
Federation and the men's union
are arranging for a joint agreement,
and the men's union has appointed
seven well-known representatives to
draft a constitution.
The Governor of Porto Rico has
recommended to the Legislature a
law creating a labor bureau on the
island.
THE RACE 1
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?Cartoon I
SECRETLY MURDERED
Zia Bey, ex-Head of Turkish Secret Po
The System of Espionage-Euad
Adherent of Young Turk
London.?Zia Bey, the former head
of Turkey's Secret Police, who is a
refugee in London, in an interview
said:
"I am glad to be here, and it is
not possible that I will ever return to
Turkey. You must remember that
at the bidding of my superiors I have
been the means of ruining Ministers,
officers and Government officials, and
170 Turks, many of them members of
the most honorable families, disappeared
during my term of office.
"It mattered not who were the
persons to be removed, the orders
from the Yildiz Kiosk were implicitly
obeyed. To be denounced by the secret
police was sufficient to ruin any
one. Can you wonder that Turkey
has seen the last of me?
"The Porte as an administrative
machine ceased to exist twenty-five
years ago; since then all the power
has been centred in the Yildiz Kiosk.
I do not blame the Sultan entirely,
nor the Chamberlains entirely. Their
power rested in a sort of working
agreement, which enabled them to
manipulate the resources of the empire
in their own interests. Izzet
Pasha, the Sultan's secretary, is reputed
to have saved $7,500,000,
which he has invested in the United
States. The Sultan himself has at
least $15,000,000 invested In Europe,
this amount being his percentage on
bribes from contractors for war
stores and army and navy supplies.
"I often reflected that this could
not go on forever, but the end came
quicker than most of us expected."
Zia Bey explained the difficulties
he had in making his escape from
Turkey. The Sultan, he said, warned
him to flee, and he had to shoot a
man dead who tried to prevent his
embarkation despite the disguise he
had adopted.
Constantinople.?Euad Pasha, one
of the most brilliant Turkish officers
in the Russo-Turkey war, who was
exiled for being identified with the
PRUSSIA TO GRANT WOMEN
Forced by Modern Conditions to Pre
Co-Education in Universities--E
Begin at Six Years and L(
Berlin.?German homes and Ger- 1
man newspapers have been far more
occupied during the end of the week ;
with the Prussian Government's de- <
cree granting higher education to !
women than by discussions on Ger- :
man and British naval armaments or <
the meeting of the two sovereigns. 1
The granting of educational opportu- i
nicies for girls and women equal to
those of men is regarded as marking ]
! a deep change in German life, where, i
more than in the Western States, <
I women have been considered as the i
keepers of the home and the workers <
in minor industries. s
The introductory paragraphs of the s
decree of the Ministry of Education,
which has been approved by the Em!
peror, recite the reasons for the
change in the system. Modern life,
says the decree, develops an increasing
disinclination 011 the part of men
of the upper classes to marry, and
more girls in the upper and middle
classes are prevented from becoming
wives and mothers. It is desirable,
j therefore, that the surplus of young
| women should have a chance of pre|
paring themselves for professional
j callings, and that they should be
' trained in the higher mental functions.
According to the scheme, girls are
to be educated in all studies embraced
in a specially arranged curriculum;
beginning at a minimum age of six
years. At the end of the seventh
school year the pupils will begin to
differentiate in their studies, those
preparing for advanced instruction
Harvard Has $20,000,000 In- {
vested?Income of $945,170.
Cambridge, Mass. ? According to
the report of the Harvard College 1
treasurer, the investment funds of <
the college amount to $1 9,977,911, '
and the annual income is $945,176. 1
General investments aggregate
$17,344,229. Over $5,000,000 are I
j invested in railroad bonds, over $1,- <
! 000.000 in railroad stock. $2,000,000 :
In. real estate and $1,500,000 in trac- 1
tion bonds. Besides, over $2,500,000 '
are invested in sundry bonds and $1,- i
173,000 in mortgages and notes. '
Prominent People.
Fairfax L. Cartwright. the British
minister at Munich, has been appoint- \
ed ambassador at Vienna. '
Eighty-eight thoroughbred race- <
horses belonging to James R. Keene <
nnrl .lamps B. Hacsrin were shinned
to South America. !
Osman Na Xizami Pasha has been i
i appointed Minister of War of Turkey,
i to succeed Redjeb Pasha, who died
suddenly of apoplexy.
Governor Magoon, of Cuba, predicts
that no trouble of any sort will (
follow the evacuation of Cuba by
American troops next winter.
ISSUE.
^ OF EMi d'JMSi MY I
A ,/ IN THE.YEAR! |gg
fo fikt6miK, num Bm
MmKamr m
_ | ^.ignored. B
i^Nohii?ii^cll,i4,??i! Mil
>y Macauley, in the New York World.
170 FOR THE SULTAN |
lice, Explains Methods of Camarilla- !:
I Pasha, a Field Marsha] and
s, Tells of His Escapes. i
Young Turk Party in 1902, but who >
was recently restored to his rank as
Field Marshal and returned to Con- j
stantinople, tells an interesting story i
of his exile and imprisonment at j J
Brussa. He says that before his de- j
portation his life was attempted fourteen
times, his struggle against the !
infamous palace rule involving him j |
in dangers of all kinds.
"When they failed to murder me," j (
he said, "by secret means I was de- '
ported without trial or warning, and j ]
even while imprisoned the systematic 1
precautions did not cease. j '
"It is the fashion to say that the I (
sovereign is ignorant of the fearful j (
crimes committed in his name, but |
His Majesty must have sheaves of re- , j
ports in my handwriting reciting the 1
mysteries of the camarilla for years !
past. Every Ottoman functionary ; 1
was compelled, whether he liked it j 3
or not, to be an accomplice to a great- j !
er or lesser degree in the wholesale j '
robbery which has made Turkey a !
byword. Comparatively honest men j 1
were drawn into the meshes, and j '
once there it was impossible to resist | :
rowing in the same boat. To refuse j
meant to become the object of perse- '
cution and to pay dearly for one's j J
temerity in the end. !
"I ask you whether the mere grant- ! J
ing of a Constitution at the sword's |
point is sufficient to blot out the .
memory of the sufferings of thou- I
sands like myself, who have under- f
gone far worse physical and mental |
tortures than I have. If the Sultan j
henceforth sets his face against the !abuses
he formerly fathered he has j
nothing to fear, but he must be
warned that the slightest symptom of
tampering with the nation's rights i
and liberties will be the signal for j
his downfall. That he has for so j
long a time been unmolested Is large- j
ly the fault of one or two European !
Powers, whose Interest lay in main- j
taining Turkey's weakness as a pow- :
er. We now look chiefly to Great .
Britain and France to foster our lib- !
erties." i
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All FAN I TA liril
tUUUAHUN tUUAL IU IVltn.
pare Them For Earning a Living-Ziaborate
Courses of Study to | (
:ad Up to Matriculation.
having special courses laid out for j
them, such as Latin. After two j
years they will again be arranged in g
Jivisions, classical or modern higher | t
study respectively. Then after four t
years' work they will, under normal i
conditions, be admitted to examina- r
Lions for matriculation to the univer- ! [
sides. > t
Up to this time their education will I r
have been carried on in separate j t
schools, but in the university co-edu- j i
cation will begin under conditions s
similar to those governing men stu- i
ients. Those who at the end of the ' f
seventh school year do not elect to (
specialize for a university course may I j
continue tne orainary courses uniu g
:hey reach the age of sixteen, after ! ^
vhich they may leave school or take ! ,
:wo years in modern languages, mu- J j
sic or domestic accomplishments, or ;
:hey may take four years' special 1
;raining as teachers. , *
This scheme has been under dis- '
mssion and preparation for a year. I
rhere has been an agitation for equal j
privileges for the sexes since the early i
jighties, and most of the other Ger- I
nan States have already granted ! <1
:hem. I f
Frau Helene Lange, the noted edu- ! ?
:ationalist, has been a leading advo- j t
:ate of this intellectual emancipa- ;
:ion. Professor Adolf Harnack,sof ji
.he University of Berlin, said that j a
ivomen now have equal rights with j I
nen to enter all the technical schools, : I
ivith the exception of the art acade- \ c
nioe aTirf that this nrnh ihitinn is like- i 1
y soon to be removed. I e
I I
Spain Has Used False
Coii? i?c* Fifteen Years, j ^
Madrid, Spai.v?The Government |
cv-ill sustain a heavy loss as a result i
if the decision to retire from circu- I g
ation $200,000 worth of counterfeit j
five peseta coins.
These coins have been in circula- |
Jon for the past fifteen years, and t
they have been practically accepted j (
\s legal tender from the people. The j j
snly return the Government will get j \
will be from the sale of the ingots j a
into which the coins will soon be I
melted. ?
1
Feminine Notes.
While a successful surgical operation
was being performed on Mrs.
PI ^ ? 1, ~ /.(non-.r.V.ln
i nomas ueueii, tuu tsiuaiiianip *jc3ric
was stopped three hours in mii- /
jcean.
Jane Addams, Dr. Cornelia De Bey
and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whoso r
terms on the Chicago School Board
have expired, have not been reappointed.
2
Before she left for Cowes with the \
King the other day Queen Alexandra
caused it to be made known that the
sheath gown will not be tolerated at
her court.
i
LONE BiDIIUS 7 SMS
Compels Passengers in Yellowstone
Park to Give Up Property.
Tourists Robbed of $8000 in Money
and Jewels Near Old Faithful
Inn in WyomingYellowstone
Park, Wyo. ? United
States cavalry and a squad of Government
scouts went in pursuit of a
lone bandit who held up and robbed
seven stages in Yellowstone National
Park, robbing the passengers of jewelry,
cash and drafts of a total value
of $8000.
Some of the passengers who were
robbed are from New York. The
fact that tourists in the park are not
allowed to carry weapons made it impossible
to offer resistance.
The coaches left Old Faithful Inn
at intervals of a few minutes and
were held up one after the other as
fast as they came in sight of a bend
in the road where the bandit was invisible
from either direction. At the
point of a rifle he lined up the pas
sengers, ana after taking tneir money
and valuables allowed them to enter
the stage and resume the journey.
The bandit, who was masked and
wore overalls, is described as being
about fifty-five years of age, and
weighing only 140 pounds.
After holding up the seventh coach
the man disappeared into the hills,
and it was afterward found that he
had made his escape on a horse belonging
to the transportation company.
All haste was made back to Old
Faithful Inn to give the alarm. The
soldiers encamped at the Thumb station
were notified, and a messenger
was sent to the camp on the West
Gallatin River at the west boundary
of the park.
JEROME GUILTLESS.
District Attorney Showed Neither Incapacity
Nor Indifference.
Albany, N. Y.?Governor Hughes
made public the report and conclusions
of Richard L. Hand on the
charges preferred against District
Attorney Jerome, of New York, by
the minority stockholders of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company.
Judge Hand finds that not one of the
charges is proved, but that all are
Jisproved upon the evidence submitted
to him by forty witnesses in
support of sixteen of the charges, ten
having been withdrawn.
"My conclusion upon the whole
case," says Judge Hand, "is that the
respondent (Mr. Jerome) has been
3hown to have discharged the onerdus
duties of his office with zeal and
ibility, having the public good as his
motive, and that no incapacity, indifference
or neglect of duty has been
shown in any case."
BOY FIGHTS TO DROWN SELF.
Knocks a Man Down to Perish With
Companions in Quicksands.
Fayetteville, 111. ? "If they are '
lead I might as well die. They've
nacle my life worth living. I'm going
ifter them, anyhow."
With these words George Scheineicli,
eighteen years old, sprang into
;he quicksands of Silver Creek, near
fayetteville, and was sucked to his
leath while trying to drag the bodies
)f Chris Eisenhauer, seventeen years j
)ld, and August Eisenhauer, twenty
rears old, brothers, from the mud.
rhe three bodies, with the hands of j
Scheinleich entangled in the hair of
he other two boys, were recovered |
hree hours later.
The boys were warned against the ;
luicksands, but all three of the i
souths were strong swimmers and
aughed at the fears of their com ades.
AIJiUl MAI If.ft.15JU j<
)/Iicers Reported to Have Pledged
$100,000 For Hains Defense.
Long Island City, L. I.?It was re)orted
that the officers of the United
States array were raising a huge fund J
o be applied to the defense of Cap- j
ain Peter C. Hains, Jr., and his
>rother, Thornton Jenkins Hains. !
iow held for the murder of William j
S. Annis. Further, it was asserted .
hat $100,000 had already been i
)ledg?d *and that $1,000,000 would j
>e forthcoming, if necessary, al- j
hough it is not beiieveu tnat any i
uch sura will be needed.
Within the last three days officers I
>f various forts have called upon I
Jeneral Peter Hains, father of the j
irisoners, and assured him that the j
irmy men are deeply in sympathy j
vith his sons and are eager to aid in j
jotting them out of their predicanent.
IOSQUITOES DRIVE A MAX MAD. !
!
Jitcs Bring on Delusions, But Doctors j
Say He Will Recover.
Philadelphia.?Harassed by mos- |
[uitoes all summer, Harry Kempher, j
oreman of the testing plant of the j
Southern Pipe Line Company's pipes j
""" 171^,1,, Otnnn finnllv hrnfce down
ica.i uuujijivuv,, __
inder the strain of constantly strikng
at the insects as they lit on him,
ind he was sent to his home in
Lancaster suffering from delusions,
vempher imagines that he is the offi- j
ial mosquito destroyer and swings !
lis arms about, annihilating with
ach swing large armies of insects,
ie will recover, his doctors say.
t DEAD AS BULL WRECKS TRAIN.
southern Pacific Cars Ditched and l
Piled Up in a Heap.
Eugene, Ore.?Four persons were
:illed near here when the Cottage
Jrove local train of the Southern
'acific struck a bull on the track and
^as piled up in the ditch. The dead
re John Nichols, Portland, engineer;
''rank Polter, Portland, fireman; Ray
Jwartz, Junction City, Ore., and C -o.
Jailey, Eugene, Ore.
KILLED IN THE ALPS.
Lclress and Violinist Fall From Precipice?The
Former Dead.
Innsbruck, Austria.?As Leontine i
vUJIlci.II, (l x uiian awncoo, auu ?. .
. violinist, were ascending the Gerlos j
>eak, they fell over a precipice. The
ictress was killed. Posselt was s^'erely
injured.
German Ambassador Dead.
Baron Speck von Steruburg, Ciarnan
Ambassador to Washington, D.
3 died at HeidftJbere. Germany*
(113,009 STOLEN FROM J
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f Assorting Teller G. W. Fitzgerald
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HUGE SUM VANISHED IN 1907
[ Suspicion Aroused by Fitzgerald's Attempt
to Negotiate $1000 Hill
and Speculation in Eggs?Others
Are Implicated.
Chicago, 111.?The mystery of the
i theft of $173,000 from the United
| States Sub-Treasury a year and a
j half ago, one of the largest losses the
. Government has ever suffered in this
manner, is believed to have been
J solved by the arrest of George W.
I Fitzgerald. Others are believed to
have been implicated in the crime
: which for mouths completely baffled
I Government Secrct Servics men.
! Fitzgerald was an assorting tensr!
under Assistant United States Treas1
urer William Eoldenwreck. SuspicI
ion at the time of the theft, February
! 20, 1907, rested on him, but so plaus;
ible was his story and so intense his
i apparent interest in discovering the
[ l-eal culprit, that interest ceased to
centre in him. Much work was done
; on the theory that the crime had baen
j perpetrated by a colored man.
Meanwhile Fitzgerald was discharged
from the Government employ
for culpable negligence in allowing
such a theft to be consummated under
his very eyes. The money stolen had
been used and was tied in packages,
some having been marked for destruction
at Washington. Any of the
bills would readily have passed anywhere
except for their large denominations.
None of the bills was under
$500, and some were of the $1000
and $5000 denominations, the $1000
i ones predominating.
j The theft created a sensation
I throughout the country, and Congress
at the last session was asked
I and refused to release Assistant
I Treasurer Boldenwreck from liability,
| although it was promised that Con:
gress would again consider the mat!
ter at its next session.
Meanwhile Herbert F. Young, a
I former Chicago newspaper reporter
1 and now head of a secret service
j agency, became interested, at first
S without official connection with the
| case, but later as the agent of Mr.
| Boldenwreck. Mr. Young's attention
[ was redirected to Fitzgerald. The
j latter, upon his discharge from the
Sub-Treasury, stated that his whole
fortune consisted of $600 in cash and
a stock certificate for $1000. His
wife had a $700 interest in the estate
of her mother, which was valued at
about $4000 and was in litigation.
Fitzgerald, however, according to Mr.
Young, embarked in speculation on a
sacle not consistent with the size of
his reputed means.
There was no ostentation in Fitz|
gerald's life. The lavish display
j which detectives usually look for in
tracing stolen funds, was absent.
| Fitzgerald bought eggs for speculai
tion and stored them. In July, 1907,
he inaugurated an egg deal which ultimately,
it is said, involved an expenditure
of $7000, and the following
March a similar deal involved him,
according to Mr. Young, to the extent
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t ui iuuiueuLctii^, me luruier
teller had become the possessor, in
his wife's name, of a brick house valued
at $8500 in Rogers Park, a suburb
of Chicago. Mr. Young declared
that this purchase was made in a
roundabout way, passing through
several hands, ahd finally into those
of Mrs. Fitzgerald for a consideration
of $1.
Under detective surveillance ever
since the robbery, suspicion was directed
more strongly than ever to him
last month when Fitzgerald is said to
ua.ve unereu a, ^iuuu um lur tu
Colonel Harry C. Gano, superintendent
of A. Booth & Co., a leading
mercantile establishment. The money
stolen from the Sub-Treasury was in
thousand dollar bills. It was stolen
from the cage in which Fitzgerald
was employed. Fitzgerald's salary
had been only $1800 a year.
Colonel Gano notified Sub-Treasurer
Boldenwerck of the alleged offer,
and the latter engaged the detective
agency to investigate. The evidence
against Fitzgerald is circumstantial
mainly, and the strongest part of it
is submitted by a man whose word,
while trustworthy, is not corroborated
clearly. Fitzgerald defies the authorities
to bring into court evidenco
competent to convict him.
The trial, it is intimated, involved
others not only in helping dispose of
the money alleged to have been stolen.
but in the very act of extracting
it irom ine iieasury vaults. it imu ;
not been intended to arrest Fitzger- i
aid at this time, but it was found j
that those under suspicion had ob- j
tained an inkling of developments,
and it was decided to act quickly.
GAG AGED COUPLE FOR $13.
Rose Writhes For Ilours Before He
Releases His Wife.
Ithaca, X. Y.?Breaking into the
residence of William Rose, on the
Ellis Hollow road, near this city,
three masked men bound and gagged
the old couple, ransacked the house
and made away with $13, all the cash
thoy had.
Mrs. Rose was overcome by suffocation
and exhaustion and her husband
writhed for three hours in an t
endeavor to release himself from the i
ropes that bound him and rescue his
wife. Just as she was nearly dead he
broke the cord and released her.
MISS PARSONS SHOT DEAD.
Danchter of New York Railroad President
Ends Her Life in Paris.
Paris.?Following closely on the
death of her fiancee. Miss Winifred
Parsons, daughter of the late Charles
Parsons, president of the Rome. Watertown
and Ogdensbtirg Railroad,
was found dead in her apartments.
There was a bullet wound in the
side of her head and at her sirl? lay
a revolver. She had been dead more
than an hour when a maid came .'pea
her body.
Notes of the Diamond.
Hans Lobert. of Cincinnati, is a
pretty good imitation of Hans Wag- i
ner.
The Boston Club has loaned pitcher
"Cy" Young III. to the Jersey City
Club.
Substitute infielders Merlcle and
Herzog have rejoined the New York
team.
"When I first came into basabal^'*
jays Fred Clarke, "we used to consider
10,000 a bi? crowd. Now wo
have 20,000 crowds, and I expect to
see 50,000 crowds sosie day when the !
itapda are. big enough to,'Hold them.".
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assists one in overcoming
habitual constipation/
permanently. To get its;
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SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS-504p~BOTTU.;
Deserving a Reward.
"Well, young man," said good St. *
Peter, "what was your occupation
down on earth?"
"I was a chauffeur," responded the
new arrival.
"Ran people down, I suppose?"
"Never ran over a chicken."
"Violate the speed laws?"
"Not once." .
"Well, young man, you are indeed
an exception. As long as you ran an
auto with a record like that I am going
to let you play an autoharp. Just
step right in."?Chicago News. > . '
Dividing Line at Cape Hatteras.
Cape Hatteras is the t^ue dividing
line between the North and the
South. North of it'thervj Is not a
trace of the palmetto and other forma
of vegetation, which, sub-tropical in
character, cease there also.
Mason and Dixon's line is an imaginary
sort of a thing in the North,
but Hatteras is the outer mark of the
real dividing line, and it affords a
fine opportunity for study.?Forest
and Stream.
Cheap Charity. Mother
Alphonsa, the daughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, devotes her
life to those afflicted with cancer. It
is to her that New York owes Its admirable
Hawthorne Cancer Home.
At a recent meeting in aid of the
home Mother Alphonsa spoke of
charity?a subject whereupon, surely,
no one could speak with more authority.
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She said that too many people
went in for cheap charity, that too
many resembled a certain railroad
president. A
manager came to this president
and began: J
"Old John Faithful's health has
been broken down. He had to leave
last week. After his long service, I
think, sir, we ought to do i5omething
for him, don't you? He's very poor." '
"How long has John been with
us?" asked the president.
"For.ty-seven years, sir."
"He always did his duty?"
"He never missed a day, sir."
"And now he's broken down completely,
eh?"
"The chances are he'll never leave
his bed," said the manager.
"The poor fellow," said the president.
"We certainly must do something
for him."
He turned to his secretary.
"Perkins," he said,* "make out
John Faithful a pass for life."?
Washington Star.
Where Women Can't Get a Drink.
"Cumbyrland, In your good State l
of Maryland, is about the only town _
in the United States where they will
not furnish a lady with a glass or
beer, wine or intoxicating spirit of
any kind," said G. J. Brooks, of Philadelphia.
"It makes no difference whether
the lady is alone or duly accompanied
by her husband?she simply can
not get any liquid refreshment. I
was at one of the leading hotels in
Cumberland last week with my wife,
and ordered two bottles of beer,
thinking to have her consume one of
them, but when I ordered the waiter
to fill two glasses he politely told me
that the Keating license bill prohibited
ladies from being served with
drinks of that character." ? Baltimore
American.
FRIENDLY TIP
Restored Hope and Confidence.
After several years of indigestion
and its attendant evil influence on the
mind, it is not very surprising that
one Dually loses faith in things generally.
A N. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter. She says:
"Three years ago I suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left me
in a most miserable condition. For
over two years I suffered from nervousness,
weak heart, shortness of
breath, could not sleep, etc.
"Aly appetite was ravenous but l
felt starved all the time. I had
plenty of food but it did not nourisa
me because of intestinal Indigestion.
Medical treatment did not seem to
help, 1 got discouraged, stopped medi(.tee
and did not care much whether
I lived or died.
"One day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee and use Postum. I had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friends I began to use both and soon
became very fond of them.
"It wasn't long ueiore i got some
strength, felt a decided change in my
system, hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely 1 got better. I
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and I ha70
better health now than before the attack
of peritonitis.
"My husband and I are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum." "There's
a Reason."
Name given by Pot^tum Co., Battla
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road ta
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine* true, and fuU of human
interest.