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TELLER LOOTS BANK Birmingham, Ala., Institution Touched for Big Sum. RESERVE FUND REDUCED Paying Teller Chisholm Swiped the Cash for Speculation Purposes. Two Bucket Shop Men Arrested as Accessories. Within a few hours Monday, Alexander R. Chisolm, paying teller of the First National Bank at Birmingham, Ala., was arrested charged with the j embezzlement of $97,000 of the Dane's funds, given a preliminary hearing be- j fore United States Commissioner R. ! B. Watts, put under bonds of $50,000 j and, failing to make it, he was placed i in the custody of the United States officials at once of the hotels in the city. During the afternoon W> L. Sims and C. M. Hayes, manager and assistant manager of one of the chief stock and cotton brokerage houses in the city, were arrested charged with aiding and abetting the embez- i zlement of national bank funds. They j were also given a preliminary hearing j and Sims' bond was fixed at $50,000 j and Hayes' at $10,000. Both made J bonds and were liberated. The shortage was discovered while j Chisholm was on his annual vacation. J The bank keeps a large reserve fund j ? v.or,a or,/* if xvac frnrvt this that I Oil XiClllU, CI 11 VI xv " WW * the amount was taken. There was no j % regular time for counting the cash j in the reserve fund, which accounts j for the fact that the shortage was j not discovered sooner. W. P. G. Harding, president of the J bank, made a statement to the effect j that the bank would not lose the whofci amount, and that it would not i * affect the institution. The bank has j a capital of $1,000,000 and a surplus > of $400,000. When Chisholm was arrested $3,000 was taken from his suit case. He was bonded by one of the large bond companies for $30,000. The difference between these amounts and the shortage has already been taken from the univided profits account of the bank and charged to profit and loss. J Young Chisholm was one of the ! most popular young men socially and personaly in Birmingham. He comes from one of the best families in the south and numbered his friends by the hundreds. It is said that practically all of the money embezzled by Chisholm has been used in speculation in cotton futures and that his losses have extended over a period of several months. Two warrants were issued against Chisholm, one against Sims, one against Hays, and one against P. G. ??v^.;+v, tt-V,1 co orvor-afoc nn ov^hancp *31111111. nuv ttlOV immediately in the rear of the bank. The first warrant, in which Chisholm and Smith are named, alleges that Chisholm aided, abetted, procured and incited by Smith, did willfuly embezzle various sums of the bank's funds. The method of proceedure was a simple oue, Smith merely went to the teller's window, drawing a check for whatecer amount might have been 1 agreed upon, and in exchange for the worthless check Chisholm would pass over the money. \ According to the warrant the amounts secured, with the dates, were J as foUows: ' May 19, $3,000; May 22, $3,000; May ' 28, $5,000; May 29, $2,500; May 30, $30,000; May 3G, $15,000; July 2, $10,000; July 3, $3,000; total, $71,500. The second warrant make the j ' same charges with the names of Sims I and Hays substituted for that of j Smith. The sum paid to these par- j 5 ties, according to the warrant, were j " as follows; May 17, $5,000; May 31, $8,000; | j June 1, $5,000; June 19, $5,000; June j 19, $5,000; June 23, $5,000; June 26, J f f5,000; total, $38,000. (Smith, Sims and Hays have no tunds in the bank to cover the checks, ^ it is alleged. "ASK ME NO QUESTIONS." I Man Returns Home After Thirty-One Years With Bulfling Purse. After an unexplained absence of 31 years, Professor Charles H. Frye, for- ^ mer superintendent of the Chicago Normal school, has returned home. a One of his first acts upon arrival at t his home was to hand a roll of crisp one hundred dollar bills, totaling $5,000. over to his wife, with the remark, i 1 "Ask me no questions." o CAN SUBMIT AMENDMENTS " A* November Election in Georgia, Says Attorney General Hart. ^ Attorney General Hart of Georgia has delivered an opinion which has C important bearing upon several legislative matters. The attorney general holds that amendments to the state constitution v can be voted upon at the congres- C sional election in November, that be- ^ ing a "general election" within the b meaning of the constitution of Geor- 0 Sia. a 1 . . V I WAGES AND HOURS ! Both Show Improvement, the First j Higher and the Latter Shorter. Food, However, Much Costlier. i A report was issued by the bureau of labor at Washington, Monday, of an | investigation into wages and hours i of labor in 1905 in the principal manj ufactwring industries of the United | States. The report gives the average j wages and the hours of labor and | the number of employees in ideutij cal establishments in both 1904 and | 1905. While the figures presented are not exhaustive for the United States, j ! thp r^nort savs: j "It is believed they are fairly r^| resentative of the industries investij gated." Continuing the report says: | "The results of this investigation ! I show that in 1905 the average wages I per hour in the principal manufaci turing and mechanical industries of the country were 1.6 per cent higher than in 1904; that the average hours of labor per week remained the same as in 1904, and that 6.3 per cent more persons were employed in the establishments investigated. As there was no reduction in the average hours of labor per week, the average weekly earnings per employee were 1.6 per cent higher than in 1904. "As there was an increase in the number of employees as well as in tiie weeKiy earnings per euuyiu^cc, there was a considerable increase in the weekly earnings of all employees, or, in other words, in the amount of the weekly pay roll. This increase was S per cent in the establishments investigated. "When the figures of this article relating to wages and hours of labor and those of the succeeding article relating to retail prices of food are brought together, it is seen that the retail prices of food, due weight being given to the quantity and cost of the different commodities, consumed were 6 per cent higher in 1905 than in 1904. As the average wages per hour increased more than the retail prices of food, the purchasing power of both hourly and weekly wages was 1 per cent higher than in 1904, or, expressed in other words, one hour's wages in 1905 would purchase 1 per cent more food than one hour's wages in 1904. "The average wages per hour In 1905 were 18.9 per cent higher than the average for the ten years period from 1890 to 1899, inclusive. The number of employees was 33.6 per cent greater and the average hours of labor perfweek were 4.1 per cent lower. The average earnings per w-eek in 1905 were 14 per cent higher than the average earnings per week during the ten years from 1890 to 3899. The aggregate weely earnings of all employees, that is the total amount of the pay rolls, were 52.3 per cent higher in 1905 than the average during the ten years period namea. "The retail price of principal arti- , cles of food, weighted according to , family consumption of various articles, < was 12.4 per cent higher in 1905 than was the average price for the ten i years from 1890 to 1899. Compared with the average for the same ten ] years' period the purchasing power . of an hour's wages in 1905 was 5.8 per cent greater and of a week's wages 1.4 per, cent greater, the in- ] crease in purchasing power or week- j ly wages being less than the increase | in purchasing of hourly wages be- , cause of the reduction of the hours < of labor during the period." i WOMAN'S-SANITY QUESTIONED. 1 President's Nemesis Given Three j Days to Leave Oyster Bay. \ Lunacy proceedings were instituted j it Oyster Bay Monday against Miss i \sil Esac, or Elizabeth Case (name ] spelled backward), who created a j iisturbance during the church servce attended by President Roosevelt < Sunday* Should Miss Case remain i vithin the jurisdiction of Nassau < county officers three days she will t >e arraigned for commitment as an \ nsane persoi. , 7 WAGE SCALE AGREED UPON. I Miners and Operators Each Made I Some Concessions. The joint convention pf coal miners md operators of district .No. 19, Unit- ' >d Mine Workers of America, in ses- 1 ] lion at Knoxville, Tenn., agreed upon ^ l wage scale effective September 1, \ o continue for one year. Both sides uade concessions. The new scale is t n effect a restoration of the schedule * if wages of 1903, which is practically j ,n increase of seven and one-half per :ent for miners and day laborers. ( iVIFE SLAYS SEPTAUGENARIAN. L >ld Man of Seventy Attacked Spouse L Wi\h Butcher Knife. John Donohue, a wealthy farmer, ras shot and killed at his home near a loyville, Kansas, Monday night by his E rtfe, whom he had attacked with a v utcher knife. Donohue was 70 years tl Id. Mrs. Donohue has not yet been a rrested. ^ SHOOTING OF JAPS Will Not Call for Apology by United States. TECHNICALLY BURGLARS \ Further Details of Slaying Five Seai Raiders in the Fribiloff Islands Received at the State Department in Washington. Further details cf the killing of five Japanese raiders in the Pribiloff Islands Is contained in a dispatch to a New York paper dated Dutch Harbor, Alaska, July 26, via Seward, Alaska, August 7, which says: Five Japanese were shot and killed and twelve taken prisoners on the Island of St. Paul of the Pribiloff group, by order of the agent of the department of commerce and labor, on July 17. as the result of a raid by four Japanese schooners on th? seal rookeries. Traders were discovered lying near northeast point,' St. Paul, by nativa lookouts of the North American commercial company, which leases the seal privilege from the government. Word was telephoned from the patrol station near the rookerj', for which the raiders were aiming, and Special Lempke, of the department of commerce, on duty in the Pribiloff Islands, arrived on the spot as the Japanese reached shore. He ordered the boac crew to surrender, which they did. On climbing the promontory at the end of the cape overlooking one ot the large rookeries a schooner was seen close in shore. Locking straight down over the cliff, th9 patrols saw a dozen or more Japs skinning a number of seals, which had been slaughtered. The raiders refused to surrender when Lempke reached the scene, and fried to make off with their booty in small boats, several of which were drawn up on shore. The agent then ordered his guard of natives to open fire. The Japanese offered no resistance, being without firearms. Three of the raiders fell dead on the beach, a fourth was seen to be thrown overboard from one of the boats that escaped, and a fifth body drifted ashore later in another boat , The Japs had killed over 200 seals, many of them cows. Those who os caperl carried away about 100 skins. A Washington special says: Acting ( Secretary of State Bacon has sent to Ambassador Wright at Tokio, Japan, the substance of the above dis- ] patch received by the department of ( commerce and labor from Solicitor Sims at Sitka, Alaska. In sending the ; dispatch the acting secretary states that it is forwarded for the purpose 1 of giving information such as this j government has of a regrettable incl- { dent, news <?f which may reach Japan , In distorted form. There is no intention of offering an apology or any ] further regret than is contained in ! . this dispatch, as the state depart- i j ment regards the Japanese fishermen ! j as poachers if they were within the < Hiron*-mil? limit and tb? <iisnntr?h from Mr. STms emphasizes this fact. ( [t is stated that American fishermen j In New Foundland waters, if within fhe three-mile limit, would be subject- ^ ?d to arrest by the authorities and I j would have no redress, sa they J would be poachers the same as the ^ Japanese who were killed. | ] iSeals are recognized as property t by iutemational law, and the Jap- a mese killed stand as burglars shot In the act of stealing according to t prominent authorities on international ^ aw. No International incident can c esult from the shooting, it is said j, it the state department. ' T The government of the United j States wilt take no further active <ntafest in the matter of the killing j )f the Japan poachers, save that the welve prisoners ? msut be tried by j Jnited States authorities and accord- c ng lo the United States laws. BULLET ENDS SEA COW'S LIFE. New York Aquarium Loses Manatee ^ Secured in Florida. The New York Aquarium's $3,00o sea cow, or manate, died from blood 8 poisoning, caused by a bullet some Q Floridan fired into her hack some ? dme ago before she was purchased ^ )y the aquarium at Miami a Three doctors nerformed an ODera :ion oil the cow. She was inanaclea | ^ ind nearly a foot under the outer j ^ lide the doctors found a 38-caliber bul-1 ^ et. As she was on exhibition not quite J ^ iight days, the sea cow cost the city * )f New York $375 a day. U % .ONGSWORTHS HAVE RETURNED. .and at New York and Proceed at ? Once to Oyster Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth rrived at New York Saturday from w w lurope on the steamer St. Paul. They ^ rere met at the quarantine station by j tie naval yacht Sylph, and proceeded h; t oncq to Oyster Bay to visit Presi 01 ent Roosevelt. ^ / ? ! USHER OUSTED WOMAN Who Has Persistently Annoyed President Roosevelt and Family at Services in Oyster Bay. Miss Asi L. Esac, who is summering in Oyster Bay, N.j Y., for the purpose of interviewing the president or Mrs. Kooi, It on what she declares is "a matiei of- life and death," created a scene daring the service in Christ's Episcopal Church Sunday. Miss Esac, or Miss Case, as her name is supposed to be, has attended every church service the president has attended since his arrival in July. She has climbed Sagamore Hill od foot several times, only to be turned away by the secret service men. She presented herself early at the church and took a seat directly behind the pew usually occupied by the Roosevelt family. When Usher James Duffy requested her to relinquish this seat, she refused. Duffy forcibly removed her to the rear of the church, and Miss Esac says he tore her gown ; in so doing. For this act, she later j applied for a warrant for Duffy, but was refused. In the rear of the church Miss Elsac refused to sit dowi#. A secret service agent stood beside her and during the service she made no less than a dozen attempts to get past him. As the president was leaving the church three secret service men surrounded Miss Esac, bdt she shouted: "Mr. President, Mr. President, President Roosevelt, won't you speak to me a moment?" The president turned his head as he passed, but did not pause. Miss Esac says her watch chain was broken in this scrimmage with the secret Bervice men and her watch fell to the floor. The president was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Quentin, and Representative and Mrs. Longworth. Miss Esac has stated to acquaintances she has made while in Oyster Bay that she wps to have been married in the White House at the time Miss Alice Roosevelt became M!rs. Longworth; that she was to have married a high government official, and that it was this wrong she seeks to redress. When the president's carriage had departed, Miss Esac was allowed to go. It was then she sought a warrant for Duffy. She says she will stay in Oyster Bay until she accomplishes her purpose. GIRL SAW FATHER KILLED. South Carolina Man Fights Duel With Daughter's Illicit Lover. A Greenville, S. C., special says: Cowering in a corner of her bedroom ! Miss Nannie Drake Saturday night saw her father, Thomas F. Drake, fight a duel to the death with her plover, Allen Emerson. After the exchange of several shot3 Drake fell dead with a bullet through his heart almost at the feet of his daughter and her lover, Emerson, staggered out of the room suffering from a severe but not fatal wound. When persons who had been attracted by the shots arrived they found the girl in hysterics over the :orpse of her father and crying that >he was guilty of his death. Drake, who is a wealthy planter, aeard a noise in his daughter's room ifter midnight. Thinking there was possibly a burglar in the house, he :ook his pistol and went to the room. Dn entering he saw his daughter and Smerson under circumstances which caused him instantly to begin shootng. Emerson sprang for his pistol, which was on the table, and Returned the ire. The outraged father fired four shots >ut fonly one took effect, the bulet striking Emerson in the thigh. Afer being wounded Emerson fired the ihot that killed Drake. After Emerson killed Drake he left he house and went to Anderson, vhere he surrendered. When the cirsumstances under which Drake was dlled became known, there was so uuch indignation expressed against j Smerson that he was hurried to the ' ni~ -Joii t/-w nrovont nnsslhla rit;t:u>ino jau iu v*" ynching. Emerson is a cousin of Miss Drake. ( t is reported that the girl, over- ' ome by shame and remorse, has fled. { CURSES ON DEAD CASHIER. )epositors of Broken Bank Vent Their | Rage At Coroner's Inquest. At Chicago Saturday, police were ummonecl to keep order at the in- ( uest into the cause of the deatn of j ( 'rank Kowalski, teller of the Milwau- j ee Avenue State bank, who suicided I * t his home. t The teeling of some of the deposi- 2 ars in the defunct bank was so great j. lat the dead teller was cursed as his ody lay in the parlor of his home, 'he wreath on the door of the homo ras torn down and its flowers scat- * jred by angry men. $ HERING THE BIG FORGER. tensland Was Not the Sole Wrecker C of Big Chicago Bank. All theories that Paul 0. 'Stensland as the sole forger of the $1,000,000 ^ orth of crooked notes in the looted * hicago bank have been smashed. At a sast three other men are believed to ave been engaged in the production t I bogus signatures. The big forger, awever. is Cashier Hering. ^ - - , * /"? ' / . / * . V -_ ' ! A KICK BY GOMPERS I ^ . Denounces Employment of Chinese on Canal Work. I LABOR LEADER WRATHY Secretary Taft Must Approve All Contracts, Thus Forestalling Labor Sharks Who Would Prey Upon Celestials. j Samuel Gompers, president of the | American Federation of Labor, has issued a statement regarding the action of the isthmian canal commission, deciding to work Chinese laborers on the canal. The statement is as folI lows: "It seems that those in charge of J the Panama canal construction have regard for neither law nor principles. First, in the most extraordinary manner the eight-hour law is annulled in the greatest public work ever undertaken by the government, under the pretense that conditions there are different. than in the United States. It must appeal to the veriest tyro that if eight hours' work is regarded as sufficient in the comparatively temperate zone of the United States, certainly ten, eleven and even more hours of labor a day in the pestilential and miasmatic atmosphere of the Panama zone are not only improper, but outrageous and brutal. "The existing law excludes Chinese laborers and coolies from the United States or any of its possessions. Th9 Panama canal zone is an American possession, and it is as much a violation of the law to bring Chinese coolies there as it is in other portions of our country. "Some time ago, in an interview I had with Chairman Shonts. I protested against the employment of Chinese coolies in the Panama canal construction. He emphatically stated that It was not the intention then to employ Chinese coolies, and they would not be employed under his administration." A Washington special says: Care will be taken by the United States government to pj^vent contractors from doing injustice to the Chinese laborers employed for work on the Panama canal. The specifications advertising for proposals to supply 2,500 Chinese to the canal commission, will stipulate that the secretary of, 1 war shall have the privilege of passing on contracts which labor agents make with the Chinese who are to be sent to the isthmus. This provision will make it possible for; Secretary Taft to prevent discrimination against the coolies by the unscrupulous contractors. Under this arrangement the United States will : know exactly what the Chinese are ' paid by the labor agents and the 1 Chinese government will be able to afford its subjects protection on the 5 isthmus because of the ease with 1 which this government will be able 4 to regulate the relations between the < Chines laborers and the contractors. 1 Many contractors are seeking to 1 supply the first 2,500 Chinese for the 1 canal work. Until the specifications 1 for the contracts are published, con- t tractors will not be able to give anv i idea as to the wage they must have for Chinese laborers on the canal 1 zone. Some labor agents believe that t with the many restrictions the canal ? commission purposes placing upon t contractors it will not be possible to t supply the Chinamen at less than I $1 a day. Other agents are of the t opinion that the coolies can be supplied for 50 or 60 cents a day, with * a fair margin of profit to the cojx- 19 tractors. ^ Tr? famolno Woflf Tnrilans ?1*A PTJ1 t ployed under long time contracts at I prices ranging from 25 cents a day a and rations, which cost only a few 1 cents to 50 cents a day. o Restrictions and safeguards thrown P about these laborers, however, are n rery slight, as compared with the re- s 3trictions the United States will place * apon the Chinese to be employed for * canal work. * P HOPE FOR BANK VICTIMS. Depositors of Wrecked Institution at Chicago May Be Reimbursed. Theodore Stensland, vice president )f the suspended Milwaukee Avenue State Bank at Chicago, and son of ;he missing president of that insti- T C ution, has come to the rescue of the !2,000 depositors, by announcing that *r le would, with full authority, turn 01 >ver to Rece'iver Fetzer all the real n< ? estate and personal property or his ather. The son places a valuation of ?* 1600,000 on this collateral. si ni THE POPULATION OF PANAMA. C Janal Authorities Take Census anir I Estimate Inhabitants at 22,137. B; According to a census just taken ly the isthmian canal authorities the >opulation of the zone is 22,137. As he inhabitants of the zone are con- w tantly moving it was impossible to co numerate all of them and it is esimated that the number missed i3 >robably about 5,000, bringing the ^ otal up to 27,137. se be . ' ffi FOR PURE BALLOT LAW. Georgia State Senate Votes Over* whelmingly and Measure is Ready for Governor's Signature. ?? The pure election bill which amends > the present statute preventing illegal voting by additional stringent pro-* visions in regard to hiring workers . in campaigns and the buying of votes was passed by the Georgia senate Wednesday morning by a vote of 27 to 1. flie bill will become a law as soon as it is assigned-by the governor. Sundry other bills were passed, ^ among them the adoption of the > Jamestown exposition appropriation +uss UaII -Will % mcaouic ctiiu i cjj 'aui.115 tuc xiaii miu _ for state tax assessors on the table for reconsideration. Senator Wheatley made a speech in advocacy of the substitute meas- i"; nre, which he fathers for the Boykin anti-bucket shop bill. Relative to his .2 bill as againt that of A2r. Boykin^ of the house, Senator Kheatley said: tl "I am infavor of abolishing bucket ^ shops, bus we can never eliminate gambiing in this state. Gambling will % continue," he said. "The Boykin bill -M doesn't put that out of business, bat Vj my substitute does away wit hbuckei-^ shops. Hedging through exchanges M will go on. If gambling is 'done,. ijS wish it done here, and not- In Neer '?S York. The Boykin bill states that''2 orders may be sent by wire and maiV;-^ ed to places out of the state. If done'!^ here we can look after speculation ^ by the officials of the Southern vCot>;^| ton Association. They are our trusta$| ed officials. The secretary of thatJg concern has been found guilty, amli? it nay be the ruin of the 'Southern* Cotton Association. My bill allows gitimate exchanges." x SCRAP IN THE LEGISLATURE. ]|| Solon and a Solicitor Enliven Pro^F cedings in the Georgia House. .J The proceedings of the Georgiall house of representatives were enUv?:Jj| pned for a few minutes Wednesdajplf morning by a mix-up on the flobrls between Kon. T. R. "Whitley, member?!! of the house from Douglas count&lr and Hon. Charles D. Hill, sohcitos>l| general of the Atlanta circuit B6tj?M gentlemen have reminders'of the enU counter, Dr. Whitley being the pos*S sessor a small bump on his heam9 caused by a blow from Mr. Hillvfl walking stick, and Mt. Hill carrying^ upon his forehead a long reddish^ bruise resulting from contact wit$?a one of the chairs as he wavered m^|9 der a blow from the Douglas county^ member. No blood was spilled, aniM the combatants were soon separate It appears that Mr. Bill was walfc>j| ing along the space in the rear the hall, when he met Dr. Whltte^S; and that Whitley greeted him wit?nfl some ordinary" salutation, to whic&m< Hill promptly responded that he d&Jfe aot care to speak with Mm. Whithg^ ; replied "all right" Those near sitfftS? that Mr. Hill added something 'You would have voted for that toill|i: [? there had been any money in it|| tor you." To this Dr. Whitley replied^ 'You are a liar," and Mr. Hill once struck Dr. Whitley over tlw^ lead with a stick, raising a smattijg Dump. Dr. Whitley responded with a ill Dlow on the neck, which staggeredjS Hr. Hill, but he at once returned^ o the attack with additional blowa||j rom his walking cane. Immediately after the difficulty, A Representative Flynt of Spalding ii^Jgg roduced a resolution asking for thet.Sj ippointment of a committee to invesk l lga$? the matter and report as t?||" vneiner euner gentleman naa oeejj &| ruilty of contempt of the rules otM' he house. The cause leading up to the fightlS nay be stated to be the discussiop^| rhich has recently been had In th?v|. : Louse over the proposition to pajr^ he Mattingly bonds. The firm of Bl-^j I. and C. D. Hill, along with other .ttorneys, represented the petitlonei*^r tolding the bonds. Dr. Whitley was jjfl ne of th9 members, who opposed tb^-p* ayment of the bonds, and In a speech ^ nade Tuesday on the subject madsT^a ome allusTbn of the fact that he/-fi / as tired of the lobbyists for the btll j|| langing around the legislature. IfrS ' ras to this statement that Mr. resumably took offense. MORE AMERICANS KILLED. % ulajanes Engage Uncle Sam'* Sot ' diers in Hand to Hand Fight A Manila special says: First >n ant John F. James and two prt-JjM ates of the eighth infantry with^a cntract Surgeon Calvin Snyder and*."J? tternal Revenue Collector Williams. ' Ja : Illinois, were killed Friday after- M 3on in a hand to hand fight with^*||| force of Pulajanes at Julita, Island ' jM ' Leyte. The detachment, which con- ^ stPd of ten men, was greatly out .imbered, but made a gallant fight. JNLY ONE BULLET EFFECTIVE. j|| ad Aim of Dobbins Saved Lives of Wife and Baby. At Jennings, La., Drew Dobbins, hile despondent, took a revolver, ija training three cai?ridges, fired the Js st bulet at his wife and missed,'^9 en deliberately aimed the second irjj his baby, bu? again missed, and /|l nt the third bullet into his owifcijaj idy, dying in a few seconds.