The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 12, 1905, Image 5
TOOK A PILE.
A Missing Money Clerk in the
i
[Express Company's Office.
ACCra I) OF TBI FT.
One Hundred and One Thousand Dollars ,
Consigned to a Cincinnati Bark is i
Believed to Have Been Stolen
bv Edward G. Cunliffe. J
Who Is Missing.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., I
says the startling discovery was made
late Tuesday of last week that the (
Adams Express company has been vie \
timized to the extent of 1100,000. sup i
posedly through the peculation of an \
employe. The following < tticlal state- ;
ment of the p.tTair is given the Asscol j
atea i'ress ror publication.
"At 4.15 p(.ro., Monday, Oct. W. a
bank of Pittsburg, Pa., delivered to
tbe Adams Express company at their
( flice at 610 Wood Street, Pittsburg,
a package of currenoy containing
100,000. Of this amount 180,000 was
In $100 bills. $10 000 In $50 bills and
the remaining $100,000 in $5, $10 and
20 bills. The $100 and $50 bills, is
sue of the Farmers' Deposit National
bank of Pittsburg and the Hank of
Pittsburg, N. A., were in the main,
entirely new; some had been slightly
used. The $5; $10 and $20 bills were
old currency. The package containing
this large sum of money was consigned
to a bank In Cincinnati, O ilo.
"This package was received and receipted
lor by Eiward George Cun
liiTe, who was then acting in the place
or tbe regular mcney clerk, who was
111.
"CunlliTe left the otllce at the usual
time Monday evening and Tuesday
morning when he failed to r?port for
duty a hurried examination was made
of his department and it was learned
that about 81,000 of funds entrusted
to bis care were missing. General
Agent Aimer, of the Adams Express
company immediately called In detec
tives aud placed the matter In their
hands. Later developments brought
to light the fact that in addition to
the $1,000 missing, the bank package
containing the 8100,000 had not been
received at the money forwarding office
at Union station this city.
"Inquiries made at his residence,
No. 314 Lucerne street, West Ead,
Pittsburg, showed that CuohtTie arrived
borne at the customary time
, Tuesday evening, and. after changing
his clot hes bade his fumily good bye,
saying to bis wife that ho was going
out for the evening and nothing further
has been beard from him. " A war
rant has been issuul charging Cunliffe
with larceny.
g
v/Au^in ?t ijw.ni.
P. B. Bellamy, colored has b>en ar- *!
rested and lodged In jail for the alleged
promiscuous burnings on the j
plantations ef Jas. II. Daniel, near .
Millen, Ga. Ilia arrest has been kept f
very quiet in order to catch the woke ,
man who is sa.d to have assisted hira .
in the turnings, but it is now understood
that this party has skipped to j
Cuba. The public will remember ,
that for four or live years past as regularly
as the Christmas holidays rolled
around the community was astounded
by a big tire on Mr. Daniel's plan- *
tation. ODce it was a large barn and
\ contents At another time it whs a
I gin house and^many bales ootton, *
t.ten the dwelling and outhouses and ^
afc-lastth? stables and fifteen or twpn- *
tv bead of mules and horses in all entailing
the loss of the immense 1
amount of almost fifty thousand
dollars. *iHijully
lor ltiflo. f
Broad us Westmoreland, the 8 year rl
old son of J. F. Westmoreland, who Ii
, lives in ine western pare or u&ir.:ey, i:
J was toe victim on Saturday afternoon
j of a very ur> isual and perhaps fatal
aooinenc. Siscev Westmoreland, a t
/. '-"ger brother of the boy, was In the i!
of shooting a chicken with a 22 is
s Toe bullet from the gun pass vi
, I /through the leg of the c ilcken and y
1 //iking Nome substance on the ground
* ipposedly a rockvglanced and struck n
ihr little boy, "Who was at play some t<
distance away. The ball enterf d tbe vn
j o est of the little fellow arid ranged c<
^upward. Phjslcians, who were sum- tl
7ioned, found it impossible to locate it
fie ball and extricate it. The boy y
h said to be retting well, but as to k
/whether or not he will recover it is yi
r Impossible to say. Broadus is about 01
/eight years of age, while Staoy is rr
aU ut eighteen. fi
m . Haven Her Child.
; V
| j, A dispatch ffom Columbia says s(
/ I pasfei gers on Wednesday's midday
i 1 /Glunbia, Newberry and Laurens CJ
fc A. train tell a thrilling story of a little ,?
tlbiic'H miracuh us escape from death J!
V'd of a n other's heroic intervention. a,
l'hii*' the train was speeding between ^
little Mountain and Obapin, a 6 year
d boy, whose name could not be
rned, was standing upon a car seat
nn open window iffben the rapidly oj
J^ng train lurched around a curve 0I
1 juried the little fellow headlong Hl
7*ttgh the window. The mother,
^Ibcupied the seat behind, reached
lover the intervening seat and
Aht the boy's ankle just as It was la
R> pear log over the sill. Capt. J. ul
Kind of Columbia, who was sitting P(
Bite, quickly rendered aid and ft
Ked the women In rescuing the hi
A FtMILY AFsrtlK.
An Interesting Chaptet t> Insmance
Policy WolcursHow
Some of the Old Line Insurance
Are Worked for the Bent fit of
Certain Faiutlte*.
James I If/.en Hyde, James W.
Alexander, John A. MoCail, Grorgr
VV. Peikii s, R'c) a?d A. McCiudy,
Robert II. McCuidy. The New
York Ami ricnn editorially says these
ire a fjw of the insurance grafters
*ho sht uld he tried on criminal char
?cs. Commenting on the inv'stlgalion
now going on in New A^nk of
the iosurance companies' the Niw
Yo'k American sajs: "Wo hope acrl
Qclleve that all the pei pie i f the UolLed
S! at.es are reading day by day the
reports of the investigation of the
methods of the life insurance com
panirs now in progress. The brazen
'.onfcurious of grafting, looting aud
p- cubtion made by the heads of thesb
50mponies aro so apparent lo ever
ihe casual reader t hat there seetm
ittle nerd to call attention to them
Lf any man holding a policy in the
Equitable, the New York Life or the
Vlutual Life does not discover frcm
ihe testimony of the ctllcials of those
;ompanics that he has been sold a gold
jrick, or butchered to make a holiday
'nr ^ h r. fn /?# f ! ?? V...
u* fLio iauLiiiico ui uiu men i 1)0
riust ba more than blind?he must be
nsane.
Now, mark, these men who have
Deen taking the money painfully scrap
id together by hard working people
io furnish a fund for the support of
ihelr wives and children after-death
ire eminently "respectable." They live
n beautiful houses In Morristown,
Liong Branch, Newport or other
iharraing spots. They are members
>f the "best" society, but for all that
ihey have done things that demends
nvestlgation by a Grand Jury.
Of all the crimes which New York
ras known there Is none so heartless
ind so cruel as that of which McOall
ind McCurdy are confessedly guilty.
Lt Is high time that what they have
lone should be looked at in its proper
Ight as a crime?a crime to be punshed
by a penitentiary sertence?and
lot as a mere matter of corporation
Inance.
The money paid Into the insurance
sompanles is not, in the main, that of
loh men. We hear now and again of
>eople who hold policies for *500 000
?r more. Tiiey are the exception.
L\ie great volume of the Insurance
irSSets of something more than a bll
Ion dollars Is marl? nn nf nnlliUMa r>t
? ?r w. rv??v*wu v?
12,000 or less. These policies reprtent
the painful savings of hard workni{
men, savlnKS on which they can
iope to realize nothing, savings laid
ip to save their wives and their boys
uid wrirls from privation if death
hould take 'tne wag' -earner away.
Could there be any mors sacred
unci! Could there beany trust rc)osed
hi a man that shou'd be quite
o faithfully admiDisterec V
And yet this is what the heads of
wo life insurance companies did with
ihese funds:
THE NEW YOllK LIKE
ohn A. McCaii, president $100,000
Jar win P. Kinsley, son In-law,
second vice-president 40,000
ohn C McCall, secretary, sou 14 uoo
iallard McCall, son 10,000
tmbrose McCall, brother 9,000
0. E. MoC&ll, brother 10,000
Valter Fitzpaun k, b'ot.heiin-law
7,000
'rank Dolsn, ' r> h? r -n av 7 500
Chert McCi^vt, son l i m . 0,000
Tnore aio also an 1. <* t ten other
olatlves of President McCaii who hold
nlnor places tnat pay them from
1,200 to $2,000 a year each.
THE MUTUAL LIFE. i
Resident Richard Richard A. McJurdy
$150,000
iobt. II. MoCurdy, son, general
manager, salary 30,000
t,bert II. McCurdy, Keneral
manager, com missions 100 000
j. A. Thebaurd, son-in-law,
commissions 147 nnn
!. A, Gillette, cousin, connected with
i'exas agency; coin missions 70,800
Jills J. Moore, brother-in-law 12,000
Stuyvesent Pilot, cousin to
brother-in-law 15,000
The story of boys of nineteen to
wentyone being paid out of the famy
loot salaries of $10,000 to $20,000
i too familiar to recount here. Hut
rhat of the man who earns $1,600 a
ear and pays the rascally parasites?
You, wno may read tills editorial,
lay have an insurance policy, taken
i) keep your wife or ycur child from
rant if you should die. Does it not
ompel you to scrape and save to meet
he yearly premium? Don't you once
i a wiiile lie awake wondering how
ou are going to got the money to
eep it up. An 1 now, when you find
our money, and that of a bast of
ther people like you, Is being used to
lalntaln useless (tlic!als, all of one
imily, In luxury, don't you think
oat it Is time to aot?time to put
jme or these rich aud respectfully
kjundelH in Jill?
What more contemptible lot of rasils
has the world ever known than
3e men who send agents to gather In
le money of people of slender means
id then use It for their own profit?
I the criminal law Is unable to reach
iese smooth scoundels, new laws
lould be made to send these men to
le penitentiary. The mere matter
! restitution is nothing. They are
imlnals and should be punished as
ioh.
Mutinous Htokera.
Thirty-three firemen on the White
n line steamer Oceanlo were arrested
poo the arrival of the vessel at Liver)0\j
charged with ovmbinlog to reise
to obey the masters command,
?ve been sentenced to seven days lmrisonment
DUE TO CLERICAL EK0R8.
The I'ei'n't' pf Dorchester IIato Faith
in lhotr Tri'Miirer.
A dispatch from St. Georges to Tin
Srale says the recent suspenHlon by
Gov. Ileyward of Couuty Treasure!
Whetsell and his refusal to reiustate
Mr. Whftsell comes to the people o'
Dorchester county like a clap of thun
ner lr? m a cloudless sky. With very
few tjc ptiocs If any, the people o1
the county believe that Mr. Whetsell
is an honest man and that he has been
guilty of no criminating conduct during
his incumbency as treasurer of tin
county, but on the contrary, t ey fee
sKtbtifd tl at if there is any error ii
tils i fflce it is dua entirely to clerical
mistakes.
Y< w correspondent asked Mr. Whet
sell Friday for a statement, but Mr.
Whetsell said that until a complete
and Impart al < x vnlnatiori of his books
and accouu s was had ho did not cap
to make any statement for pubilca
tion, for he.fe.lt that his comolert
Hear and t > prove that this as.-,oiti<Is
correct, and that his action.*
ar charpcterized bv honesty throughout,
he put up the alleged shortage io
ui ?r that his constit m-.nts might not
evt n run the chance of losing a penny.
mr. wnetseu did say, however, thai
the alleged shortage arises from atinu
al settlements previous to four yean
ago, which annual settlements were
made by the then corptroller general
for whom the present comptroller
general was auditing clerk and mad<
the settlements himself and pronouo
ed the same all right at the tlnu
Mr. Whetsell's frlendi look upon lh*
recent occurrences as very unjust to
Mr. Whetsell but Mr. Whetsell being
a modest man, does not himself use
such harsh expressions. Top consm
bus of opinion here is that Mr. Whetsell
will obtain complete vindication
of the whole matter as soon as an 1m
partial Investigation as to the condl
tlon of his offics Is he'd.
W ill Noi lit) Done.
Since the Issuance of the order by
the p jstx dice department that all rural
rout mail boxes should he numbered
not later than September 30,
considerable dissatisfaction has arisen
among many of the smaller cities of
the country who have discovered the
great injustice It would bring to them
and the undue advantage it would
give all mall order houses. Adver
Using matter and circulars c uld b?
sent out by these bouses without
knowing the names of their patrons,
simply by addressing their circular
letters to all numbers from one to 130
and they would then feel safe in
thinking that cyery patron of a rur
ai free delivery would receive their
prlutcd matter.
Frcnoli tViir Balloons,
The huge Ltbiudy dirigible balloon,
construct* d under the patronage of
the war * illat Tou'an, France, has
UQij(13 its first. K.ncir?>kisfill !?<-. nt.
%4t ui)v .'i i u n n;ii
80trio chief engineers and a party of
Mllcers, who made an extensive neon
naisiance of tne military defences from
Troul to Nancy, near the German
frontier. The distance covered wa?
about thirty miles at a rate of twenty
el^iit miles per hour. The clli;ers
made Inspections of the forts and took
p:iOto?raptiH c f them, thus establish
lng tlio merits of dirigible bailout for
war purpw8ts
I>? be.
Former Ja p vneso Foreign Minister
Okiim*, referring to the sudden ex
pansiou (,f Japan's finance, said that
when the withdrawal of the troops Is
completed she will find herself confronted
with a debt of $1,250,000,000
the annual interest oa which alone,
roughly speaklDg, whl be $75,000.00u
or nearly twice the revenue of tne
oouoty ten >ears ago. The per
capita rate of taxation before Gie wai
war $2. Now it is $0. The per en pi
ta share in the national debt before
the war was $0 It is now $25
1*11V Tie Ho.
Churches will sin# and sing ''Rescue
the Perishing," bu? when a member,
young or old, makes a misstep and
goes wrong, there is very little attempt
to rescue The tendency is to
pusn them deeper down, rattier than
rescue them. This is especially true
in regard to girls or women. They
sing "rescue" but act "puthdown."
In the case of men it is a little better,
unless his failure is in his business.
T.ien instead of praying for him they
all prey on him.
A Kite Crop.
The census bureau has Issued a bulletin
showing the production and distribution
of the cotton of the Uniteo
States available between September
1,1904 and September 1 1905, to be
11 .1 r, ndil W*1A* r\a A. I- - . - - --
ji -i, -xvu, u ot uuiua. ui blllH &UQOUQU Ml
pur cent wan exported, 30 per cent
wan used In domestic c msumptlon,
leaving a surpus of 9 p^r cmt. The
domestic consumption includes 30,776
bales destroyed by fire.
IIi? F mini Hi cure.
The Savannah News says they may
put TecumBeh Sherman In the Hall of
Fame, but the fact remains that his
fame rests on two things: that he
said "War is hell", and illustrated his
meaning perftcilyon his march to the
sea. Asa part of the seoond reason the
most prominent was his burning of
Columbia. How curious it is that any
body wants to perpetuate that sort of
fame.
About Itigbc.
The New York Sun says that the
best way to inolpcate business, moral
ity in the insuranoe business, would
be to put some of the leading men in
it in Jail, there is plain living and
hard thinking The same remedywould
be athoaoiQus in other lines cf
business, and especially as to public
officials.
WEATHER AND CROP*.
Last K-i???rt tor tho Ituroau tor the
Yrar iMued.
The weather bureau In obnr^e of
Seoi.lon Director Hauer Issued Wed
nescay the tinal crcp report for the
year as follows- The week ending
Monday, Ojlober 2od, a mean
temperature about four d rees abi ve
normal in the e rural aud western
pari s and about normal on the coast
The extremes were a maximum of
94 at BlackviUn on September 25th,
and a minimum of 09 at F'? rence and
Greenville on September liSih. There
was considerable cloudiness over ( he
sasteru part, hut almost continuous
utishine over the western parts.
I'here were no hlyh winds or other
conditions that were dim1 Kit tf ti
crops or that interfered wiui iartr
work.
Wuli the exception of trace (>f rain
vcr the eastern half of the state, thi
veek was without precipitation. Th*
irouth ha* bioome mtensitied over
the contral and western counties
whe>e the /round is too hard and dry
for fail plowing and seeding opera
lions, and wher , in many localities,
water Isrcarce, with wells and small
st earns ranidlv rirvlnu no The
weather oondlti-ns were entirely fav
jrable for haying operations and for
gathering oru and otlon,
There has t een no charge in condition
of cotton, tx 'ept that there con
(dimes to be some premature opening.
The entire crop has openr d unusually
fast and picking will be hntshed ear
lier than usual with continued favorable
weather. Ln a few localities thenis
a small top crop, but for the crop
in general and on sandy lands in par
tlcular, t' ?e t* p crop is unimportant,
and tire occurence of either an earl)
op a very late killing frost will not
vary the yield materially. The aver
age of the actual figure* from a fu 1 report
on the pQiCentage of the crop al
ready picked, indicate that for the
eastern division of the state 71 per
cent, has been picked; ln the centra)
division 70 per cent., and In the west
ern division 50 per cent. Reports on
-ea island indicate that ab uc 30 per
jent has been picked. At least two
thirds jf the unpicked cotton is ready
to p'ck, and picking will he practical
ly iinished, with continued favorable
weather, by the end of October.
A'l late food and f >rage crops an
sufft ring for rain. Corn is being
loused i ' many locilltles. Weather
ideal for saving pea-vine hay and for
baying generally, but has bjen unfa
vorabie on truck along the coast, and
for sowing fall oats. ,
Helpless ,to Have Him.
At New York notwithstanding v
desperate strugg o of his wife and son
to nold him by the feet after he had
fainted and toppled over th > ?'M of an
open window, Geo >go F. cashier
of the C )oper Exc l.at.g ? Hi ik, tell
to the st> eet from the f u -r.h tlr o'
Ms homo at No 2> 9 West D7..h s reel
today and whs killed. Mrs. Krapp
and her son, Iierb< ro, saw Mr. Krapj.
who was In 111 health, suddenly fal
over baokwards. R ?th mother a.uo
son jumped to the window in time to
seize the falling man by i he feet
They held him safely for a few sec
otids, screaming for help but the as
si stance was slow in c )ti i 'g, aid M r
Krapp's weight began ?o slip awa\
from his rescuers. The reallz u ion of
this terrible fact cans d -to wtfeV
strength to leaye her completely a-id
the sou, with his mother helples-i y
his side, compelled to hoi bl< father
alone, was loo light, foi his fai tier's
superior weight. Exhausted and op
the point of being dragged ov, r the
window sill hlmsu f, lite boy lost. hK
grip and Mr. Kraop fell to the street,
lie died soon afterwards.
Bov Won ii >11 co'not
If a b >y is to si c din life's battle
for bread and post sou ? ta irg tii'ise at
the top he must be ailve, sa>s an ex
coange. If he Is a cigarette lisnd uc
will never be anything or anj body but
it oommon drudge. Sur-cess tells what
a yi ung man must do to win: No yc ung
roan can hope to advance rapidly who
lacks an enterprising progressive splr
it. Indeed, er.t^rpri.se is a rtquislt to
employment. No one wauls to employ
a youth who lacks push. He must he
alivi to and In tcuih with toe spirit
of the hour, or he is not wanted any
where. Tne enterprising employer
wants overy employe t > share hisspir
It. The unenterprising business man
feels all the noore keenly the need of
assistance from those who can make
up for his falling. Force, push, dynamic
qualities are everywhere iu eager
demand, while the dawlng, Incompe
tent, uoprogressive wait In vain fur a
start 01 for promotion.
Proved ? 1'uHt.
The mosquito unintentionally 1m- 1
ported from America, has been making 1
such havoc with the Hawaiian 1 ?land- 1
era' Idea of personal comfort that the
government has been vainly looklrg 1
for outside assistance to cope with It.
The Introduction of the ma quite eat
log African frog has done something.
But the mosquito still sings and tne
once happy inlanders are now hoping
that more complete results will follow 1
the coming of Alvln Scale of Leland 1
Stanford University, and his proposed 1
attempt to acclimatize a certain mos
qulto-eatlrg American llsh. '
Uarpt-ntorn Wanted. ]
The government Is in quest cf car- 1
pentors to go to Panama to work, i
Transpotation will be furnished and 1
a steamer sails every five days from <
New York City. It takes seven days i
to make the trip And wages are paid 1
enroute. Men work but eight hours i
per day and 5G cents per hour Is the <
sohedule paid. The examination of 1
applicants has been suppsmleu for a I
short time. All that is required is for i
a man to qualify as a good oarpentor.
LINCOLN'S TACT.
lion the Prp?ltlont Won n Ifitml lmke
From no AntiiRonl?t.
In the spring of 1801 George I>.
Wise of Virginia and two other young
southerners, one of whoui stood six
feet four, were attending school in
Washington. The morning the news of
the tiring on I-'ort Sumter reached
them they decided that It was thenduty
to return at once to Richmond,
their homo, and enlist In the southern
cause. As Mr. Lincoln w?* to give a
public reception that it, young
Wise proposed Unit they attend, to see
what sort of man the president really
was.
"No," said the tall fellow. "I for one
won't go near the rascal."
"But," urged the third youth, who at
once fell In with the suggestion, "there
is going to he war, and Mr. Lincoln
will undoubtedly rise to great prominence.
We really owe It to ourselves
to know something about the mau."
More abuse followed from ? the tail
fellow.
"Now look here," broke In young
Wise, after the argument had gone on
for a spell, "Fred and I here are going
to that reception tonight, and you are
going with us."
The upshot of the matter was that 1
Uio three young men went to the re- *
ceptlon and lined lip with several hun- i
dred others to greet President Lincoln. y
Of fll<? tlirf>i? Mutulu lint full
stood first In lino, with his lunula hold
resolutely behind Ills bnelc. 1
"I'll go," he had finally said, "but I'll
never shake hands with him." t
Slowly the tlireo southerners passed N
up with the lino until the tall follow
J
stood opposlto the president. Ills two
friends waited breathlessly for the j
expected or the unexpected, they
scarcely knew which.
The president reached out his hand. ,
The tall fellow, with his hands still behind
him, looked the president straight
In the cyo and with a proud toss of
the hend passed on without taking the ^
outstretched hand. (
Across the sad face of the president
flashed a look of surprise and inquiry, (
and then a merry twinkle leaped to his v
eyes, as he had divined the cuuse of the
slight. j
"Just a moment, young man," ho j
said, as the tall follow was passing on. s
"IIow tall are you?" I
"I?I?I'm six feet four," stammered v
the youth, utterly ustonished at the j
question.
"1 believe I can match you." returned *
the president. And then and there, J
before the assembled throng, he turned
back to back with the southerner to do- *
terinine which of the two was the tall- j
er. The southerner outmatched the
president. 3
"Young man, I can't match you," the ^
president was forced to admit, "but," ,
he added, putting out his hand again T
ntwl l.-lmllu tl?o < l?..
twiti&tj nil yj inu i;,) ur* \J i III*: J
young follow. "1 novor let anybody tall- ^
or than 1 am get by mo without slink- ,
log hands." c
And the southerner, completely overcome,
took the extended hand. Nor did j
he ever again speak 111 of Mr. Lincoln.
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The Great City.
It never misses; It can never nilss j,
any one. It loves nobody; It needs no- j
body; It tolerates all the types of man- ^
kind. It has palaces for the great ^
of the earth; It has crannies for all the ri
earth's vermin. l'nlaee and cranny 'j
vacated for a moment find new ten- t
ants as equally as the hole one makes yj
In a stream?for as a critic London Is c
wonderfully open minded. On successive
days It welcomes Its king going ^
to be crowned, Its general who has a
given it a province, Its enemies who y,
have fought against It for years, Its w
potentate guest from Teheran?It will e
welcome each with Identically raptur- ^
ous cheers. This Is not so much hecause
of a tickle inlndodness as be- [\
cause, since It Is so vast, It lias audiences
for all players. It forgets very
soon, because It knows so well that in
the scale of things any human achieve- t
nient bulks very small.? Iluepfer's b
"Soul of London." t
b
The Chevron. f,
"Dhl you ever notice," Inquired an f
old veteran, "that the sergeants and ,
corporals of the army now wear their
chevrons with the point up? It's only a
been In late years that they've done so. $
The marines always did, hut the army b
for years had the points down. It's t
oidy lately that the chevron has been h
Understood. The chevron Is Inherited li
from the feudal days and meant a roof, h
A man who had rank enough to be a ii
noncommissioned oflleer was required a
to he a freeholder, a man who owned c<
the roof over his head. The chevron a
represented a gabled roof. The prl- I.
vates owned no homo. The Increase In c
rank for different grades of noncoin- a
missioned officers was measured by
additional roofs, the sergeant, for in
Buuue, uaving inree cnevrous against
one for the laneo corporal. You'll find a
that nearly all of these military devices |(
have some origin of historical imerest." q
?San Franclaco Chronicle \
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ItltiK* From ShtNlinlJtn, (j
What a queer old earth it Is! Down e
In Martinique we have a safety valve ai
In wicked old Mont Pelee, which a
belches out deaih to thousands as the q
spirit moves iter, and away up in Alas- j
ka there Is another on Unlmalc island,
called Shlshaldln, striving with might g
and main to melt some of the ice of St. ^
Ellas and warm the gold himters of the .j.
Klondike and Nome. Shlshaldln is the
most remarkable volcano in the world.
In addition to a continuous emission of
lense whits smoke or steam, circular
rings apparently several hundred feet
in diameter and of wonderful syra- ^
metry and whiteness emerge In puffs C(
it short Intervals from the very top of Q
the mountain. It causes one to think of ^
the possibility of old Pluto of Pandalon
imoklng a cigarette.?New York Press. *
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A HEAD FOUND
On a New York Street Wrapped
in a Shirt.]
A. HORRIBLE MURDER
The Forearms and the Lower Portions
of the,Legs Were Found Packed in a
Suit Case. (] rman Arrested
for Crime Protests Mir
Innocense.
The linding of a man's head In N iw
V'ork City on East F/ghteenth 9treet,
tear Avenue C. early Thursday remlted
In the discovery of an unusually
'evolting murder, the victim of which
nas Thomas F. Corcoran.
Corcorau was Killed pn bally Wedicsday
night In the b( use No. 141)
Third avenue. After the picking up of
ihe bead the other portions of the body
verc found cut to pieces in the Third
ivenue house.
The arms below the plbow and the
?gs below the knees bad been packed
ii a? uit case and port! jus of arras and
rps wore hidden In a clothes hamper
n a room occupied by Frederick llauer,
m elevator runner. Bauer was arrested
The point at which the head was
bund is more than a quarter of a mile
iway fiom 149 Tihrd avenue. The head
vas wrapped in the S inday s upplement
if a German newspaper ana a blue and
viiite shirt. The murder was discov.red
through a story told by George
jmole, who had a room adjoining
lauer's and who rushed into a police
tatlon Thursday, saying that he had
ain awake for hours Msteuiug to nolss
which he thought proceeded from
lauer's room.
lie said that late Wednesday night
jo heard nt least two men quarreling
u the a4] lnlrg room He hearn a shot
nd tuo bom d of somo one fal'ing to
no lluor. Then he went to sleep.
Vbout 2:30 o'clock Thursday morning
jino'o said be wai awakened oy
Irange noises In the room where the
hot had been beard. Twice a man
ipened Mie door and went out, and
lianole, after laying awake listening
or some brae, (hedod that, some of
bes< uods he heaid were the noises of
Mill's, hftlrnr hi>. I/. Tl- I. ........ ?1 ?
<?vni ti, iun ounp.UlUll
:?uxd Mm to notify the police.
Bauer was found entering his rtonti
>y the police and said to them: i
"I fou^rl mv ro? rr hke this when?I
,w< k3 tills morning."
ile saio lie had urought two men to
lis ro( m Wrdnesdsy night, one a.solder,
Bauer fell asleep while thesa men
itlked, he said, and when he twoke
ho soldier was gone, leavirg the
rher's b< dv ?<s the p<?llce f 11 id it.
? ie police found that B uier's sock*,
ho rig ho arm of his undershirt ar.d
lie right arm of an outershirt wore
overeJ with blood.
A badly niched r /. >r was found on
lie top of a trunk in Bauer's room and
revolver with ono chamber empty
/as a1?n found In the room. Bauer,
/ho Is 31) >ears old, is employed as an
levator man at the Union ?q iare boeJ.
'l'he rolice make the allegation that
L was a crime < f degenerriov.
For (lit! SoIiooIh,
The situation regard ng p-oilts for
hesoho Is from thi dispensary has
een looking a bit anxious and uncerain
f jr ttie past several weeks, there
eing no mon*y forthcoming from
he dispensary since January, when
(38 70,77 was paid in as scouring
torn -ties made in 1904. Wednesday
he hi ate dispensary people turned in
chick for to the stall treasurer for
25,000, the tirst money to be crediud
to the school fund from sales of
his year. They say $25,000 more
j to come in a few days. While the
HvestlgatlDg commission was sitting
ere a check for 128,000 was turned
a, but tills was to be credited to the
lspensary fund itself, the money
omlDg fr(>m sales of various kinds
nd not representing pre tits at all.
lost year there was paid inro the
redlt of the school fund $236,203,17
nd the year before $186,602.83.
Negro Veteran.
The funeral of Amos Rucker, an
nte bellum negro took place at Atinta
Thursday. lie was a member of
amp Walker, United Confederate
reterans, which followed the body to
Oe grave as an honorary ea..nrt. n?n
lement A. Evans, division cooomandr
of the United Cod federate Veterds,
officiated at the funeral, and
mong the pallbearers were formed
overnor Allen D. Candler, Gen. A.
. West, Judge W. Lowndes Calhoun,
Ir. Amos Fox and II. S. Osborne,
.ucker followed his master, "Sandy"
luck?r, through the civil war in the
3d Georgia Infantry, and has been a
imlllar figure at coufi.ue.ate reunions
>r years.
ami 1AJ?I.
Major General Cor bin, cabling to
tie war department regarding the re*
ant typhoon In Manila, says that all
f the officers and six passengers on
oard the Leyte, the governmentcoast
uard boat, were lost. The dispatch
dds that temporary shelter po^ts at
Ix points were de*trov*d