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BRIBE MONEY Traced t? a Prominent Bnsiness Man in Pittebarg by Jury. LARGE SUMS WERE GIVEN To Buy Up the City Officials for all Sorts of Favors.?Climax in the Graft Scandals, Ix>ng Promised, Comes With Dlsclwurc of IMgROHt Deal of Whole Corruption System. The climax promised In the Pittsburg graft exposure came as promised late Wednesday with the presentment by the grand jury in which is recommended the indictment of Prank N. HofTs'ot, president of the Pressed Steel Car Company, one of the most prominent business men in the country. Simultaneously in the open court came a plea of Emil Winter, president <of the Worklngman's Savings and Trust Company, that he had no defense to make to the charge that he gave a $20,000 bribe to Former Couuctlinnn Morris Einstein. Tlv> following in abbreviated form are some of the mlost startling findings in the grand jury'tr presentment made pt'blic Thursday night. 1. That Frank N. HoiTstot, president of I he Pressed Steel Car company and president of the German National Hank of Allegheny and prominently identified with other banks, jwid to Charles Stewart, a former select councilman, the sum of $0 2,500. 2. That the money was a bribe usyd in influencing the votes of councilmen to pass an ordinance naming three banks in which HoiTstot was Interested as official depositories of fit A rltv'a millUAtio 3. That the arrangement for the paymtcnt of the money to Stewart was made in the spring of 1908 and that the late James W. Friend at that time an oflVcial of the Pressed Steel Car Company, was an associate In thi> transact ton. 4. That the original plan which Friend had was to obtain the services of William A. Blakeley, who was then a practicing attorney, but who is now the district attorney in charge of tlvi^ graft prosecutions, as a stake-holder of the bribe money until the ordinance.trad passed. 5. That Attorney Blakeley declined to act in the capacity named and warned all partFs of the criminality of the proposition and of their liability to prosecution if It went further. 1 6. That subsequent to tMr. Blake- 1 ley's refusal. Friend and Hoffstot ( completed an arrangement with Stew- ' art whereby H-offstot would i>ay or 1 cause to be paid to Stewart the sum ' named?$52,500. 7 That the transaction was arrang- * ed to be made in New York city and ( took place there in June, 1908, in ' order, if possible, to avoid criminal 1 -liability in Allegheny county. 6. That Hoffstot did also solicit c and secure from oh? JaHnes N. Young, c cashier of the Seoond National bank ' of Pittsburg, the sum of $21,000 1 to be paid Stewart to insure the so- * lection of the Seoond National as Ono of the favored city depositories. 9. That Stewart did demand from the now deceased friend, who was j ftctine as aeent for the Second Nn tk>nal bank, a bribe for Stewart's vote In favor of the bank ordinances. 10. That in accordance with the findings, it be recommended that in- T clictmcntB charging conspiracy and \ bribery be returned. ( The banks named as ultimate f principals to profit by the bribe al- a leged to have been paid by Hoffstot g to Stewart are: c Ttw? Farmers' Deposit National i bank, the Second National bank of f Pittsburg, and the German National ' bank of Allegheny. In additoiu to 1 these three, the Columbia National < Dank of Pittsburg, the German Na- J tional bank of Allegheny and the 1 Workingmnn'H Savings and Trust i Company of Alle<heny wv-re named as city depositories in the ordinance passed July 9; t908, ovdr the Mayor's veto. i The plea of nollo contendere by President Kmil Winter of the WorkInginan's Savings and Trust com pany was no less a sensation than the report of the grand Jury. He j was charged with the payment of ' $20,000 in bribe to Morris Kinstoin, a former select councilman. When Wint -r appeared in court, Judge 8. Frazer, who is presiding in the graft cases, asked to be excused from hearing the plea. Judge Fiasor explained that on account of bis long and intimate friendship with Winter he wished to have nothing to do with the case. Winter was then taken before Judges Thomas D. Carnivan and J. M. Swearengen and entered the formal plea. Sentance was postponed. Frank H. Hoffstot. as president of the Pressed Steel Oar Company, one of the largest industries of its kind In the country, recently figured prominently in the public eye while a strike wan on At his plant in McKees Hocks. Just before President Winter's appearance in Judge Frazer's court, James Andernon, th?> general bookkeeper of the Workingman's Savings RACE TRACK SWINDLE ORIGIN AL, SPECTACULAR, CONFIDKNCE GAME. One Man Runooed Out of Nearly Five Thousand Dollars by the Sharpers Who Escaped. At Jacksonville, Fla.. Simon Jacabson of Tarboro. N. C., reported to the police Thursday that he hud beec swindled out of $4,300 in a fake horse race in St. Augustine last week, showing that Henry Wagne-, nf New York, who lost $10,000 in a similar manner, was not the only victim of one of the most famous original and spectacular confidence games ever re- i corded. I Jacobson practically retold the story of Wagener, only varying in the manner In whioh he was lured into the game. He said he met the .< swindlers on the smoker of a pull- ( man car one night several weeks ago. The men represented themselves to be race horse men and asked about accomodations on the ! Florida tracks. One thin.r 'et to 1 another until Jacobsan consented to ? go to St. Augustine and act as stakeholder for the other men. The victim stated that the money ' given him to hold amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars and :is J his expenses were paid he only ' thought it just to give the gamb- 1 lers security, placing in the same satchel with the other money, his $4,300. WTien the race finally came off with the speculators making lavish bets on the result. A jockey fell off one of the horses apparently dead and with blood stained clothes. Just then a ge'oial fusilade of revolver shots rang out and when Jacobson's acquaintances appeared shouting that he had better run for hig life, he was glad to turn the heavy satchel over to them. The swindle-r's parting words were: "We"' meet in Washington." It appears that the swindlers had fixed up a complete racing plant in St. Augustine, the magnitude of which settled all inquiries as to their financial standing. Many persons are thought to have been flqeced without ever making a complaint. Mil. KOSS SWORN' IN. Lead to Speakers Desk by His Broilier, a Republican. The democrats of the house indulged in a noisy demonstration on Thursday when Representative Foss. if Illinois, a repnblican, escorted his brother, Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts, a democrat, to the speakers 1 leak to take the oath of office. The 1 lew 'Massachusetts mem'ber succeeds r ;he late (Mr. Loveriag. a republican, rhe republicans remained quietly in 6 heir seats as the democrats arose c mi masse, applauding and cheering on f he front row of the sneakers gal- *' ery. A sweet faced old lady, joined K n the applause, she was the mother p if the two brothers, who were the entre of attraction. N'ever before 1 lave brothors of opposite political f aith been mombeirs of the house at r he same time. w WATCHMAN ASSASSINATED P * A lis Head Almost Blown Off by Ijoad (.1 of Shot. v Assassinated while making his a ounds, William M. Holland, night t vatchman at the Atlanta Ice and 1 Joal company plant, was found dead ? >arly Friday morning, with his head ilnuoijt blown off by a heavy load of ^ hot. Holland had pulled the boxes n his three o'clock round and when ^ 10 further calls came In the tele- ^ ;raph signal company made an In- { .estigution and it was found the .vires had been cut. There is no due to the murderer. About a year t igo Holland was fired on by un- f known parties while making his ( rounds at the same plant. x * Hat 1 *in Causes Explosion. I A hat pin was Indirectly the cause , of the perhaps dying condition of ] Miss Annie Oliver in Massac county, Illinois. R. 11. Austin, a farmer, had , loft a number of fulminating caps at | hit house and Miss Oliver, who is a . neighbor, was curiously picking at , one of them with a hat pin, when it exploded, probably fatally wounding , her. * | . j The Texas Way. Polowing his sensational escape < from jail. Frank Rates was lynched ( by hanging in the jail at Centervllle, l Texas, last week. Dolly Rates, his Ron llfiie olan ...? - * .?? nvi Mllg up, Dili was OI1I ! dtown before life was extinct. .The s two Rates were ringleaders In the jail delivery. The were both wound- . ed as was also Jailer St. John. All < of the jail breakers were recaptured. 1 Young Hates was revived. * Hank and Trust company at Allegheny, had also pleaded nollo contendre to a charge of falsifying the layoks of th-e bank in connection with < the payment of $20,000 to Einstein. i The pleas of Winter and Anderson i came opportunely, for the district attorney said that otherwise they were to have been indicted Thursday. % *"*,$ * t ' . . ? m THAT MAN FOSS _ i His Coining Eagerly Leaked For by tbe Congressmen. , i RECALLS NOTED SPEECH < Made by Cusbnuui, the "Funny Man" of the Housp. from Washington, Who Said He Wanted to See Fow, ( and Ridiculed Him and Other Re- ' form Republicans. In his letter to The State McGhee says scarcely any member's coming i to the house of representatives in 1 recent times has been looked forward to with more Interest than the coming of Eub> ne N. Foss. the Demjcrat who overturned the hide-bound Republican district in Massachusetts. The advent of Fobs 1b much talked ibout and the speculation as to the ligniflcance of his election ^oes ' Readily on. * 1 It is inte resting in connection with It to recall a speech made in the 1 house of representatives on June 2*5, 1 1906, by the late Francis W. Cush- ' man, a representative from Wash- 1 ington, and one of the most bril- ' iant members of the house while b.-* ( was here. Cushman was the "funny ' man" of the house also, and always ' when he arose to speak there wxre ( is many members in their seats as ' XJUld be there, as well as clotse atention in the galleries. Speaking of Canadian reciprocity ' ind of the reciprocity convention \ niiicn naa just ueen held Cushmun 1 wild. "One of the prime miovers?I ? might say, one of the major pro- { jhets?of the late national reclpro- 1 jity convention was one Eugene N. ( Poss, a free trade theorist from Boson, and a tariff agitator by pro'ession. It has never been my pleasire to meet that man Fobs, but I i lave a growing and an almost unsonquerable desire to see him. He nust lie wonderfully and fearfully made." , The brilliant and sntirlc Cushma* t lied two years ago; else ho would | lave been now able to gratify his j losire. That is unless something f dse had overtaken him as has over- ( aken several othor stand-pat Repub- 8 icans to whom in the same speech . 10 paid glowing tributes. For if . Bushman had lived he would have f ieen other alarming things besides c hie coming to congress of this "won- s lerfully and fearfully made" Foss. a Rotable among the strange happen- ^ ngs is with respect to Senator Cumulns of Iowa. In that speech Cuph- ,, nan further said: j. "And who were the men that at- ? ended this so-called 'reciprocity t onvention?' Nearly all of them were ree traders. Some few of them had onned a protection coat in order to ain admittance underneath that :uia*; but underneath the coat? 1 own next to his hide?was a free rade shirt. In that gathering the cc 11 mi?is utiK'a a congenial atmosphere and felt that their Net u fere planted on familiar ground. a "Chief among them was Gov. Al- c ert it. Cummins of Iowa, the most -y rominent political orphan that ^ Liueric.i has produced in a genera- g Ion. n "Dear Old Iowa?the common- e ,oalth that gave me birth, an.l h round whose groves and orchards t( he gentle landscapes are clustered si he richest and happiest memories ji f my life," etc. ci "And what great names has Iowa si liven to the world and to fame? e 'heir names are lesion: ci "There is William B. Allison, who or nvore than forty years has helped o guide and guard the destines of he American republic. ^ "There is William Peters Hepburn, j, he ck arest-minded statesman and a he greatest debater upon this floor (j ?f the greatest parliamentary body j j >n earth. j, "There is Jonathan P. Dolliver, a j, >atrlot and an orator, whose fame a las reached two continents." He c mentioned also John P. Lacy and Leslie M. Shaw. "And legions more of heroic names coming trooping to my mind j today like the doves to the ulnrfna' ?namos that Iowa has Riven to the r vorld and to fame. "And th* n?and then, there Is ' Cummins! Ye Rods. I never expect " to live to see the day when the ' great State that bore mo would elect 1 a Republican governor, the back door of whose executive chain bet opened directly into a Demcratlc free trade convention. . ' Poor Cushman! Rut he was 1 spared the humilaiton of seeing this ' *ame Cummins succeed hij revere 1 ' Allison in the United State senate 1 Allison ilied in time to pro '?nt bis >wn di feat, for Cummins was sure- ' ly headed this way - the groat stand- ( pat giant, Col. "Pete" Hepburn, defeated by a Democrat;John F. Lacy, laid low by a Cummins follower; Leslie M. Shaw, retired to private t life; Jonathan I'. Dollvh r join the t Cummins forces to prevent his own defeat by the coming storm; aud, 1 alas, this man Fobs converting a 14,000 Republican majority Into a i 6,000 Democratic majority. Ij And, perhapB, if he had Uvod, he t k BL a CASH TO HACK COOK. Has Pledged Over $100,000 to Help the Explorer. On the authority of Capt. B. F. Osbon, one of the most active supI portors of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tl e explorer It was announced in New York, last week, that about $175,|)0<J. had been guaranteed toward a fund to help Dr. Cook prove his claim to dlsoovery of the North Pole. "A promlnient Western man." Capt. Osbon said, "had pledged $100,000 of this sum and Eastern friends of the txplorer the rema'n nwr. Aiucn more wou'd be forth coming it "eeded," he declared. ^ ,... Osbon said that he was ic correspondence with the explorer, but he would not indicate where letters to Dr. Gook were addressed. The captain stated, however, that he e.cepcted the doctor home by the latter part of the present month. * PLAGUE OF ISLANDERS. Islands Being Depopulated by Tuberculosis. Declaring the sixty per cent, of the natives of Unalaska and St. CJeorge and St. Paul Islands, in the Aleutian group, are suffering from tuberculosis, Surgeon Simpson, of the revenue cutter Manning, reporting under date of Oct. 12, 1909, says that the disease exists in all forms, ind that there are only a few chilJren who do not show some evilence of the disease. He adds, howjver, that many of them improved luring the sumine* of 1909 under treatment. Efforts, are being made o intsruct the natives in checking the llseaso. If the natives of St. Paul lad an abundance of water, which low has to be hauled some distance n wagons, according to Dr. Simpion, they would keefr their houses tloaner and the danger of the spread )f infection would be greatly les^en*d. KIND OF (X)\V TO HAVE. Produces Nearly Thirty Pounds of Butter a Week. . The world's record for milk and nitter production was smashed retent ly by a cow belonging to Eugene .ainunion, living near Solsville, N. i. in a thirty day tost in which I iairy sharps from the Cornell Agricultural college had charge of the ininuil, she made a record of 80 lounda of milk a day and 29,27 >ounds of butter a week. She not. >nly broke the world's reoord for a ow of under throe years of age but he raised the world's r? cord ^or nv cow which had been 27.06 pounds f butter in seven days. Rock hart le Kol No. 101,544 is the poetic ame of the extremely practical cowfarmer Lamuuion has been offered 2,500 for his animal but refuses look at that amount. SKNI?S 1,1 VK ADDK118. 'o the CJirl Who Could Not Reciprocate His Rove. Two wriggling adders, each measrlng nearly 24 inches long, were in paper box which Mieael Hasselbar onfided to Miss Alice Stuart, of New 'ork, with a request to give it to er chum, Rosie Cabana, whi had purnod his advances. Inquisititlve lembers of Miss Stuart's family liftd the cover of the l>ox, which she ad taken home after a vain attempt ) find Miss Cabana. One of the nakes crawled partly out, but was tunned hack and the box and its ontents was rushed to the police tation, where the snakes were killd. Hasselhar was arrested on a harpe of disorderly conduct. Old Couple Seeks Divorce. P. R. Alverson. aped 94 years, is he defendant in divorce proceedings astituted by Mrs. Luck Alverson pod 68 years, in the Seventeenth istrict court. They were married in 880 and their domestic life, accordup to the allepations of the petition, lad been extremely peaceful until , few months ago. The plaintiff harges cruelty. One Year for Niplit Kider. The jury in the case of Roone iush, charged with taking part in a aid upon Rycusburg, Ky., on the light of Feb. 3. 1908. found a verliot of guilty and fixed the penalty it one year in the penitentiary Thirty ither persons are under indictment in the same charge. Mouse Solved Buttling Problem. A tin mouse, with a thread tied to ts leR, solved the problem of getting in electric wire through a 197-foot tipe in the Vinery building in Nor'olk, Va.. last week. Tape was tied o the thread and the wire tradn. dechanics had been trying to get the vire through the bent pipe for sev>ral days. * f t ? > .Many Mules Hum. Sixty-three mules belonging to o the Westmoreland Coal Company vere burned to death in a (Ire deroying the company's stables at >lttsburg. Pa., Sunday afternoon. wight have seen more before this rear is out. It is thought so in .Vashington, anyway. Charlotte, N. 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