The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 30, 1907, Image 2
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THE SHEPHERDESS.
The moon. a slim young shepherdess,
Lets down the cloudy bars.
And in the purple fields of night,
Leads forth her flock of stars.
p ?Minnie Irving, in Life.
P? THE
RICH HAN'S
tys ANSWER. ^
"You see." said the blackmailer decidedly,
"I have you in my power."
The rich man shifted uneasily in
his seat, so that his face was thrown
into deeper shadow, but he made no
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"Yes," continued the blackmailer,
"it just amounts to this. You come
here, as if you had never seen the
place before, figuring as Mr. Robert
W. Harrison, the great American millionaire;
you buy Irvingstone park,
and think you're, a country gentle.s
man, and your girl comes over from
her Paris school and appears as Miss
Harrison, of the park, the great
American millionaire's daughter."
~\Yho says I am not a millionaire?"
interposed the rich man. His face
was still "in the shade.
"Oh, no. Mr?or?Harrison! Xo
one says you are not that. I took
care to make sure of that before 1
^ came here."
"Then what do you want?"
"Merely a, little share of your property,
Mr. Bob Wilde."
He who was known as Robert Harrison
started violently: for a moment
his face came into the bright glare
of the reading lamp on his study
table, and there was on it a look of
unmitigated astonishment.
"You know that!" he cried. Then
in another voice: "Well, what of it?
I took, Harrison for business purrnsps.
and it is lesrallv my own now."
"Well," pursued the blackmailer
In smooth tones, helping himself
from a box of cigars on the table as
he spoke, "call it business purposes
if you like. For the present we can
drop Mr. Bob Wilde, but"?drawing
his chair nearer and speaking in an
impressive whisper?"what about
that robbery in the bank at Carber,ton,
on November 15, some thirty
years ago?"
"You know that, too? You know
?that?"
, "I know you are the man who absconded
with ?300 of the bank funds
that night, and that it's not too late
now 10 tell the whole story to the
police, or for you to be arrested for
it."
"Don't?don't be hard on me,"
pleaded the rich man in a faltering
voice.
"Hard on you!"?with a confident
laugh?"I like that. Now, I look
upon you as my little bank, and I
intend you to help me."
"And if I refuse?"
' "Then good-by to Mr. Robert Harrison,
qf the park, and enter Mr. Bob
Wilde, the bank thief."
"Have you no mercy?" pleaded Mr.
Harrison pathetically. "Who are you?
How did you find all this out? I
have never seen you before."
"You'd have seen me dozens of
times before if you had kept your
eyes open. You see, I work at Williams',
the saddler's, in the Highstreet,
Carberton. I've been there a
good many years now, slaving away
at a miserable ?2 a week; but, naturally,
I've always been on the lookout
for something better. Well, in the
attic at the top of the house there's
? lr?t nf nlrt hnyes: been there aood
ness knows how many years. I soon
found keys to fit, and after going
through a lot of mugty old clothes
and books, I came dli a bundle of
ancient letters from old Williams'
, brother in America. Well, of course,'
I sat down to read them.''
"Of course,'' murmured the millionaire
faintly.
"In the very first letter I opened I
read, 'I do believe I saw Bob Wilde,
who robbed the Carberton bank, in
the streets here last week.' Further
on, in another letter?but here, I
needn't tell you how I ferreted it alt
out; but in the end I made out that
Bob Wildb and Robert Harrison are
the same person, and you've owned
it now."
^ "Well, if I give you ?500 "
The man burst into a loud, rough
laugh, which he instantly smothered.
"Five hundred!" he said scornfully,
"I want five thousand."
"Impossible."
"Oh, is it? Just think it over, Bob,
my friend. What about your daugh?
ter?"
"Ah!" burst from behind Robert
Harrison's hands, in a sudden groan.
"Ah! I thought that would rouse
you. Here's Miss Molly, you see, engaged
to the son of Sir John Brandon.
What about that engagement
if I go and tell Sir John who Mr.
Robert Harrison is?"
"Enough!" cried the millionaire.
"Enough! I give in. But I can't
give you the money now. Come to
morrow nignt, or, stay?i ve a dinner
party to-morrow?say the night
after."
"No, I won't. I'll say to-morrow, it
suits me better."
II.
People were always willing to come
to one of Mr. Robert Harrison's dinners.
This evening's party had been
no exception to the rule. No one
was anxious to shorten the evening,
but at last one or two prepared to
say good-by.
"I want to beg you all to stay a
little longer," said the host. "I have
a little surprise, a?a?kind of entertainment.
Will you all follow
me?"
They all trooped after htm to the
millionaire's study. Folding dootscovered
on the study side by thick
curtains, separated the room from
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another, and opposite them chairs
had been placed.
Smiling rather oddly, the host disappeared
into the study, and carefully
drew the curtains together behind
him.
Then the door into the study from
the outside was heard to open, and a
! man's voice said jauntily, "Well,
Bob! Here I am, you see. Now
then, where's the tin?"
Was that Robert Harrison's voice
that answered in a cringing, wheedling
manner. "Certainly. Mr. Gregson?
of course?only, won't you reconsider
it? Do?do let me off." whined
the rich man's voice, and the other
took up the strain mockingly, "Let
you off? Oh, yes, I'll let you off?
when I'm done with you. Pay up or
take the consequen-es."
"Is your mind quite made up?"
Mr. Harrison seemed to be walking
j about the room as he said this.
! "Quite, you thief, you miserable
I ??i rr.nnn tmi toll
lUUUfl. f a? 111c: ~./vv/v Vf* jl m a
the whole neighborhood that you are
the man who robbed the Carberton
bank thirty years ago."'
j "Then tell them now!" rang out
j in the millionaire's deepest tones as
j he dashed the curtains back, revealj
ing "all the neighborhood" in various
j attitudes of astonishment.
! The blackmailer stood holding to
! the back of his chair, the picture of
! bewildered rage.
j "It's just this!" panted the blackj
mailer. "He's a thief! He left CarI
berton thirty years ago! "
I "Quite true," said Mr. Harrison
smoothly, taking up the tale. "I left
Carberton thirty years ago?ran
away, in fact. At the same ?300 of
the bank money disappeared. I did
not know it at the time. I heard of
it more than a year afterward. The
fellow clerk who was t.h? thief knew
himself to be dying of consumption,
and he wrote to nie and confessed
what he had done and how he had
always allowed me to be blamed for
the theft. The money had been
gambled away almost at Once. He
told me to show the letter, if I must,
after he was dead, but bagged me, if
I could, to be generous for the sake
of the young wife he was leaving. I
destroyed the letter and simply adopted
the name of Harrison. I had run
away simply because I was tired of
my life in the bank and longed for
wider fields. This is my story. I
j can only ask you to believe it; I canj
not prove it."
"But I can!" said a voice from
the background.
All turned in astonishment. It was
Mrs. Cartwright. Deadly pale, and
trembling very much, she stood fac
! ing them all. "The thief," she said
j slowly, "was my first husband, James
j Trevor!"
"Mrs. Trevor! Is it possible? And
I did not recognize you!" ? ?
"I did not recognize you, Robert,
I you have changed so much, or I
should npt have kept the secret as I
f have done. It has weighed on my
j mind all these years; but you had
(disappeared, and I. thought it could
j not matter. Beford^James died he
wrote out a full confession and signed
it before witnesses. 'If ever Robert
is in trouble for want of it you can
produce it then,' he told me. I have
kept it ever since. Forgive me?
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Every one began shaking hands at
this point, except, to the general surprise,
Sir John Brandon. He stood
immovable all this time, with his eyes
fixed on the features of Robert Harrison,
and an unreadable, somewhat
puzzled expression on his own face.
Albert Gregson, still holding to the
back of a chair, had been almost forgotten,
but he had one more card
left.
t "Sir John!" he cried in a high,
sharp voice. "Sir John Brandon!
You don't know who this man is
whose daughter your son is going to
marry. You don't know, I say!
Why, you knew him well as a boy.*?
he's just Bob Wilde, the son of your
father's keeper!"
The rich man turned and faced
"the proudest man in the country"
with a smile that lit up his plain,
strong face.
"Master John?" he said softiy.
"Old Bob! " shouted Sir John, dash
ing at mm ana uvei uinuiig iwu
chairs. "It is! It is! My dear, dear
old Bob!"?he was shaking both
hands at once now?"to think I never
knew you all this time! Oh, Bob!
How often I've wondered about you!
The times we had when we were
boys!?and you never told your oldest
friend! Here, where's that blackmailing
scoundrel Gregson? I'm a
magistrate. I'll deal with him! "
"Why, he's gone!" said a chorus of
voices.
And he had, never to be heard of
again!?London Answers.
His Identifying Mark.
| Viscount Tumour, the Ear! of
Winterton's son, was being interviewed
in New York about clothes.
On this subjecst, however, the young
man refused to talk.
"You," he said, "are the sixth reporter
to talk clothes to me to-day.
! 1 think you reporters are too perI
sistent. You give me no rest. You
j remind me of a friend of mine- at
j Oxford who used to like to drink a
I mus: of ale at the Mitre. He was al
j ways very particular about having
! liis own mug.
4*At the Mitre, one evening, he said
I to the barmaid:
i " 'A mug of Bass, Nellie: and be
; careful to draw it in my own pewter,
j Make no mistake.'
" 'No fear of malting a mistake
i about your pewter, sir/ the barmaid
j answered, 'I can tell it with ease.'
j " 'How so?' my friend asked.
" 'By the handle,' said the bar*
| maid. 'It's always warm.' "?Wash*
I ington Star.
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Requisition Turned Down.
Governor Ansel has refused lo honor
Governor Terrell's requisition for William
P. Lovette, who is being held
at Bamberg upon charges made by
the daughter of Superintendent J. P.
Dillard of the Greensboro Cotton Mills.
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Newberry College Commencement.
The commencement exercises of
Newberry college will begin with the
baccaluareate sermon by Rev. Dr. G.
Armand Miller of New York city Sunday,
June 9, and extend through the
12th. An excellent program has been
arranged for the exercises, a large
number of distinguished speakers having
accepted the invitation to deliver
addresses 011 that occasion.
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Eoard Upholds Faculty.
The board of visitors of the South
Carolina Military Academy, in star
chamber session at Charleston, upheld
the faculty in the matter of expulsion
of .several cadets from the citadel
some wekes ago. An attempt to have
the action of the faculty rescinded
was made by parents of the discharged
cadets, who were all of prominent families.
An attempt was also made to
have the board discipline Professors
Bond and Moore for publishing articles
commending the discharge of the
men in the alumijJ journal. This petition
was not considered.
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Big Dock Ready for Inspection.
The big granite dry dock of the
Charleston navy* yard will be officially
inspected in a few,days and probably
accepted by the navy department.*
The dock was built at a cost
of about $1,240,000.
The last stone was laid on March
16, 1907. The dock measures 60S feet
long, 154 wide and 42 feet in depth.
It will float a ship larger than any
battleship now in the navy. The
dock will not be ready to receive a
vessel until the quay wall and caisson
are built and fitted which will be
within a year.
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Mayor Wins Rate Fight.
Mayor Rhett of Charleston won his
fight against the Atlantic CoasJ Line
for a reduction of the passenger fare
to and return from Richmond for the
confederate reunion. Recently when
the rates were announced, Mayor
Rhett, who had been giving close attention
to the discriminations practiced
by the roads against Charleston,
discovered that the quoted rate for
Charleston showed an excess of $1.4u
over the mileage and he took the matter
up with the officials.
After a few days the mayor was
informed by President Emerson thai
a mistake had occurred in the Charleston
rate and it should be $9.35, which
still was 45 cents in excess, according
to the mayor's figures, and upon
further protest the railroads reduced
the fare further, quoting a rate of
$8.20. Charleston sent a good delegation
to Richmond.
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Former Bank Teller Arrested.
Herbert Ruff, Jr., former teller of
the Bank of Ridgeway, was arrested
in Columbia a few days ago by a local
detective.
May i, 1906, young Ruff resigned his
position in the Bank of Ridgeway, of
which his father was president, and
left for parts unknown. Subsequent to
his departure it was discovered that
his accounts were short to the extent
of from $20,000 to $25,000. It was
stated at the time that his father
would make good the larger portion
of the defalcation and the directors
of the bank the remainder.
The young man had beeif'engaged in
the brokerage business outside of his
regular position in the bank, and it
was stated that his losses had arisen
in bucket shop transactions.
After some months young Ruff wa.\
seen in Columbia, dnd at other places
in the state, but as it was understood
that his alleged defalcation had been
made good, there was no attempt to
I prosecute him. However, one man who
claims he lost money by the alleged
defalcation had the warrant for Ruff's
arrest sworn out, and his arrest followed.
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Magistrate Acquitted of Murder.
At Beaufort William T. Wiggin, a
magistrate, was declared not guilty
of the murder of William Bennett, a
negro, on the night after the conflagration
in the city last January.
Wiggin had been supplied with a
rifle and ammunition by the captain
in command of the troops called out
for the protection of property after
the fire. He made the statement that
the negro had advanced upon him,
despite challenges and seized the
muzzle of the rifle. Wiggin wrested
it free and as the negro stooped as
if to seize some stone or stick with
j which to continue the attack-, fired,
j killing Bennett instantly. The prosecution
undertook to -show that the neZ
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unnecessary.
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Negro Car Porter an Assassin.
After being arrested at the baseball 1
park at Carlisle by Constable Clarence
C. Cist, brother of President Wm
H. Gist of the Bank of Carlisle, foi
disorderly conduct, Arthur Davis, col- i
ored, a Pullman porter, waylaid and I
shot and instantly killed the former
near the Seaboard Air Line depot.
At a preliminary trial Davis wat
released on bail. He got his pistol
waited for Gist to pass on his way
home in company with a friend. Davis
shot Gist dead, the ball passing
through his body. Gist and his friend
both shot five times at Davis, but j
missed. Gist died in thirty minutes.
Excitement ran high for a time and '
iaee trouble was threatened, but the '
counsel of cooler head prevailed.
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Scandinavians Are Coming.
Commissioner of Immigration Watson
has been noi/fed that a party of 1
Scandinavians will arrive about June 1
7 and be colonized in Edgefield and
Aiken counties. The families are com- *
ing from the northwest, where they 1
settled after coming over from the (
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Scandinavian peninsular, but were dis- *
satisfied with their location. These 1
are the first families of a general
movement to that section.
About two weeks ago a prominent 1
Swedish colonizer secured options on
about 8,U00 acres of land in the two 1
counties. He proposes to cut this (
property up into 20-acre farms. He (
will leave for Europe about the last (
of June and expects to bring enough (
people back with him to take up the *
entire tract. The class of families he (
is bringing all buy their own homes. *
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CRUSHERS' ASSOCIATION J
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Of Georgia to Meet at Atlantic Beach, j
Fla., in Annual Convention.
Hon. J. A. Aycock, president of (
the Georgia urusners Association, j
will, from his home in Carrollton, Ga., (
in a few days, issue a call for this j
association to meet in annual convention
at Atlantic Beach, Fla., on,June .
24 and 25.
It has been the custom of this association
to meet each year at Lithia
Springs, Ga., but this year the delegates
listened to the call of the waves
and voted for the Atlantic ocean re- 1
sort.
During the year which is drawing
to a close, great progress has been (
made in the association, and this will 1
be shown in the annual reports of J
the officers at this meeting. 1
An especially strong feature which 1
is proposed for the meeting will be 1
an address by Dr. George Brown of
Atlanta, president of the Anti-Tuberculosis
League of America, in which *
he will go into details concerning his 1
recent investigations whereby he has (
prpved the efficacy of cotton seed oil
over cod liver oil as an emulsion to
be used in the treatment of consumption.
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Another will be an article by Hon.
J. L. Benton of Monticello, Ga., formerly
secretary of this association, 1
but who is now in Europe as a Unit- <
ed States government expert on cotton 1
seed oil and its by-products, who will j
write an interesting article on his invesigations
in that country for this <
southern product. <
It is expected that he will deal es- ;
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pecially with tne iact tnat me r reneii <
chamber of deputing has decided to
suspend the bill, which puts a prohibitive
tariff on this commodity, because
it competes with olive oil, a French
product.
This year the association will have,
as its guest, the president of the Interstate
Cotton Seed Crushers' Association,
who is L. A. Ransom of Atlajjta,
who was elected to . this honor at the
annual meeting of the association at
Jamestown. 1
The convention will be in session
for two days, during which the Georgia
rules will be made to conform to
those being adopted by the Interstate
Association. Large delegations of cotton
seed oil manufacturers from Atlanta,
Columbus, Macon, Augusta, Savannah,
Athens, Albany, Rome, Way- 1
cross and LaGrange will be in attendance
upon this meeting. There are105
oil mills in Georgia and each
of these is to be represented at this .
meeting.
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tramps favor foraker.
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"National Convention" of HoboesJ In- }
dorse Him for the Presidency. t
Speeches laudatory of President t
Roosevelt and Senator LaFolleLe, and j
an endorsement of Senator Foraker, J
nr/asidencv. were '
as a canaiua.it' ..
feature of the "National Convention (
of Tramps," held in Chippewa Falls, <
Wis., Thursday. At the close of the
convention, the police ordered tne
"delegates" from the city.
Ex-Senator Patton Dead.
Former United State? Senator John
Patton of Michigan died at his home
in Grand Rapids Friday of typhoid
fever.
Tobacco Barred to Youths.
The Wisconsin legislature Monday
passed a bill prohibiting the use of
tobacco by boys under ]G years of
age. *
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FOR TARIFF F.EFORM
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Association of Manufacturers
Goes on Record.
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WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION
Only Twenty Per Cent of Members
in Favor of "Standing Pat."
Batch of Strong Resolutions
Passed at Closing.
The National Association of Manufacturers
of the United States went
sn record at their closing session in
\Tew York Wednesday as in favor of
i revision of the tariff at the earliest
opportunity, and the negotiation of
nore reciprocal treaties. I
A lively debate preceded the vote,
svhich was upon the acceptance of the
report of the committee on tariff and
reciprocity. The committee based its
recommendations on a poll of the 3,>00
members of the association. Of j
.he total number replying 55 per cent j
ieclared for immediate revision, while j
>0 per cent expressed a "hands off" J
sentiment.
An effort to table the report was j
lefeated, and it was adopted as reported.
The mass of resolutions adopted by j
;he associatioi at the wind-up included
indorsement of the open shop, inlustrial
education, the improvement
:f the consular service, commendation
)f the national river and harbor congress,
urging the president to withlraw
approval of the new German
;realy until testimony can De obtainid
regarding the effects upon domesic
labor and industry likely to follow
iie customs administrative changes,
md opposition to all illegal combinar
:ions, either of capital or labor.
This last resolution was given, add?d
force by the convention's declared
mention to raise $1,500,000 to carry
>ut a campaign of education, concernng
dictatorial combinations.^
Of this campaign of education, Presdent
VanCleave, following the closing
session, said:
"We shall endeavor to assist in
educating the public in industrial
ighteousness. We shall be just as
*eady to oppose unlawful acts by combinations
of labor. We believe in injinations
of. law. We believe in inlustrial
liberty and we are opposed
;o all forms of individual oppression.
\nd, if anybody undertakes to compel
any one to submit to such oppression,
we shall endeavor to assist
the party so assailed."
The association re-elected James W.
fanCleave of St. Louis, president, and
?. H. Stillman of New York treas*
irer. The convention closed Wednesiay
night with a banquet.
WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS.
^ails Were Drawn and Flyer Tumbled
'from High Trestle,
Train No. 20, one of the Southern
Pacific coast line train, was wrecked
it West Glendale, ten miles north of
Los Angeles, at 12:30 Wednesday
morning.
The wreck was the deliberate work
3f train wreckers. One man was killed
and twenty-two injured, three probibly
fatally. In acomplishing the
wreck of the train, a devilish ingenul:y
had been exercised. At a point on
i trestle over the Arroyo Seco, the
ish plates and bolts of two connectng
rails had been removed, and in
;he apertures, where the bolts were
;akeh, strands of heavy wire were fas:ened
at the end of each raiY.
It whs evident that some person had
lidden on a hillside close to the tres:le,
had pulled the wire as the train
ipproached and spread the rails outward
toward the edge of the trestle.'.
Yellow Jack Appears in Cuba.
A report from Havana is to the
effect that one yellow fever patient
)f the province of Matanzas, was received
in the Havana hospital Tuesiay.
the first case reported. from that
:ity for several months.
ROADS FAIL TO AGREE.
Trackage Deal Between Southern and
Seaboard Called Off.
It is reported authoritatively t?at I
he negoiiations which have been on
Detween the Seaboard Air Line and
he Southern railway, in reference to
.he granting of trackage rights over
;ke Southern's line from Macon to
Atlanta to the Seaboard have been j
:erminated, without an agreement.
It is understood that the inability
)f the Seaboard to accept the terms
>ffered by the Southern was the
:ause.
ROAD'S FREIGHT RATES REDUCED
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The A., B. & A. Transferred to Class |
C by Commission.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad is ordered by the Georgia
railroad commission transferred
from mass D, vvhiph is the lowest im-1
der the commission's classification tc
class C, which involves a reduction 01
approximately 10 per cent in the maximum
rates of freight which it is al
lowed to charge.
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MRsT M'KiNLEY NO MORE.
Grim Reaper Claims Wife of Martyr
President at Canton Home?Apoplexy
Cause of Death.
At Canton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon,
Mrs. McKinley, wife cf ihfc martyred
president, passed from earth, as the
result of a stroke of apoplexy. The
transition from life to death was so ?
peaceful and gradual that ft was with
difficulty that the vigilant- physicians
and attendants noted when dissolution
came.
There was no struggle, no pain,
Mrs. McKinley never knew of the
efforts made for days to prolong her
life, nor of the solicitous hope against
hope of her sister and other relatives
and friends for her recovery.
Mrs. McKinley's last words were for
death. An attendant said: "Mrs. McKinley
would say, 'Why should I lin*
ger?' 'Please God, if it is Thy will.
why defer it?' She would say also,.
'He is gone now, and life is dark to- . '
me.' Other kindred expressions would
aiso fall from her lips.''
At the McKinley home wnen death.'
came, there were present Secretary ?
Cortelvou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barberf
Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther
Day, Justice and Mrs. William R. Day?
Drs. Portmann and Rixey and the .
nurses.,
"Mrs. McKinley lasted hours longer
than we expected," said the secretary.
"Her vitality was wonderful," said Dr.
Portmann. . -. >It
was by Secretary Cortelvou that
the announcement of the demise- was
given to the public. While little hope
was entertained in Washington -for t|
her recovery, the news of the death of
Mrs. McKinley caused, profound sorrow
in the national capitol, where she
so long made her home while her "
husband was a member of congress, .{$.
and later president. President Roose- " >
velt learned of her death shortly af- ^
ter 2 o'clock, when he received a telegram
from Secretary Cortelyou, who ,^|j
has been in Canton since Mrs. McKinley
was yflrst stricken. He immedl- i
ately announced that he would attend
the funeral.
There were expressions of regret - -?|f
from many officials whose, duties
brought them in contact with the ^
whitn house, and from all attaches of jf*
the executive mansion, many o'f whom. jgjf
served there during the McKiniey administration.
All paid the highest tribv V;^|
ute to the memory to the late president's
widow.
The body of Mrs- McKiniey''will bet
placed in the cault in West Lawn '
ceme'tery which holds the remains of
her husband until the completion of t
the new mausoleum on Monument " %
Hill, when both caskets will be trans- ''JH
ferred to receptacles in tnat tomb. )
Mrs. McKiniey's life of almost sixty
years has been more familiar, to the
nation by the fact that more tham
half of. it was a period of invalidism. '?$0,
Through all this, however, she showed
a firm and unwavering belief in.
the career of her husband, and
her cheering words, in spite of personal
afflictions, encouraged him when J
there was darkness at hand.
She Relieved that, his star of de&slffi
tiny would never set until he . had be- : . ^
come president, and for more than a.3tb|
quarter of a century cherished thai
belief until her 'hopes were realized;
After President McKinleyV
she expressed ^'desire to join him and ||jj|
prayed daily that she might join him..
Lately, however, she frequently told
friends,-she desired to live until the
completion of the McKiniey
leum, which is the gift of the nation,and
which is to be dedicated on.Mom
ument Hill, September 30, next.
MILLIONAIRES 'GIVE BONO.
Six Money Kings Indicted on Bribery. *y;
Charges at San F>ancisco.
The grand jury at San Francisco
Saturday afternoon indicted six mi^
lionalres on charges of bribery and.attempted
bribery and returned additional
indictments against Ruef and Mayor
Schmitz. v_
Judge Coffey fixed bail at $1,000 on each
of 126 counts contained in the j
twenty-eight indictments. Ail the accused
furnished bail. . \ v
The grand jury adjourned until June- .J#10,
when investigation of alleged brib- : {
ery by officials of the Home Tele-*
phone company and by other peFsons ' -V '
will be resumed.' .
1 ; ' * 0.
BED SLATS VIGOROUSLY APPLIEDA^
Would Do More Good Than Sunday
Closing, Says Chicago Mayor? J
"Bed slats applied to unruly boys .;i;U
will do more than Sunday closing X^'^sbC)
form in Chicago," says Mayor BusSet; W;!
of Chicago, "and most of the peopdff^^f
do not want Sunday closing."
This was the mayor's answer to the^7>f
aoiosrfltinn of the Sunday Closing?./;..,:/^
UV*V0^?
League. Tfie mayor said he wouhT y
order the saloons closed on Sunday *8?
if he was commanded by the supreme
court to do so, but not otherwise.
OFFICERS OF SEED CRUSHERS. j
Ransom Elected President and' Pai^-py'
ish Secretary-Treasurer.
L. A. Ransom of Atlanta was elected
president of the Cctton Seed Crush-hy ,
era' Association at the closing session ? j
at Jamestown Thursday. ric-nrv J, - % J
Parish of Memphis was elected se^'u 1
retary-treasurer. Jlemoership was oe- : I
stowed upon Joe N\ Carpenter of '/j
Natchez; Dr. W. H. Wiiey and Major J