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The Meridian Tribune.
PRESIDENT'S VISIT
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Demand Return of Campaign Money
EVENTS FROM EVERYWHERE.
THE TRIBUNE PRINTING CO., PUBLISHERS
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Cordial Welcome to be Extended by Citizens of
New Orleans.
McCALL REFUSES TO COMPL Y
Entered at the postoffice Meridian, Texas, as
second-class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAS
LEVI A. DUNLAP, Editor and Mgr.
EAGAN’S PROTEST
Statement Issued by Illinois Physician Is Shown to be
Erroneous.
GOOD AND HUMOROUS EXCUSE.
Debtor Really Deserved Grant of Ex-
tension of Time.
A prominent business house in Bal-
timore placed' a bill in the hands of a
collector, who, in response to a re-
quest for settlement, received the fol-
lowing in reply:
“My Dear Sir: Absence from the
city prevented my writing in answer
to yours of recent date.
“It will be utterly impossible for me
to settle the claim you mention at
present, for the very simple but good
reason—I haven’t got it.
“I lost every penny I had in the
world, and considerable I had in the
future, in a theatrical venture last
September. Up to the present time I
nave not recovered from the shock.
“I think if you lay this fact before
your clients they will not advise you
to proceed harshly against me. From
their past experience with my modes
of procedure in days gone by I do not
think they can recall any suspicious
mannerisms which could lead them to
suppose I am a debt dodger.
"I have simply been initiated into
the Lodge of Sorrow, Hard Luck Chap-
ter, Fool Division No. 69.
“My picture, hanging crape-laden on
the walls of the Hall of Fame, bears
the legend, ‘Sucker No. 38876493.'
“My motto is briefly: ‘I would if I
could; but I haven’t, so I can’t.’
“Fortune may smile, however; up to
the present writing it has given me the
laugh. I have hopes.
“Directly I am in a position even re-
•motely suggesting opulence. I assure
you your balance will receive my very
prompt attention.”—Montreal Herald.
SHOCK TOO MUCH FOR BRUIN.
Hugging Bear Evidently Did Not
Know the Summer Girl.
The great performing Russian bear
had escaped from the captivity under
which he had chafed for so many
months; but he was finding that liber-
ty had its drawbacks. For many
weary hours he had prowled, but noth-
ing in the shape of food had he seen.
. Suddenly he gave a growl of delight,
for, sitting on a stile,he espied a tooth-
some little lady, who was evidently;
awaiting the coming of a young man.
Bruin did not stop to ponder upon
his good-fortune; he seized her in a
mighty hug. For a while she said
nothing; but as he exerted more of his
tremendous strength she murmured:
“I don’t think you are quite so
strong as you were, Gerald.”
Then once more melancholy settled
upon Bruin. He had done his best;
but the young ladies of this country
were beyond him.
With a roar of despair he retraced
his steps to the menagerie, and gave
himself up without a struggle.—Lon-
don Answers.
Preferred “Coney” to “Long.”
Capt. Prager of the North German
Lloyd steamer Breslau was constantly
annoyed on the last voyage over by a
mischievous youngster, who shook the
foundations of the captain’s peace of
mind till at last his patience gave
out.
The boy had been hanging around
the captain all day, worrying him with
his naughtiness, till finally the skip-
per let loose the vials of his wrath.
“If you don’t behave yourself, you,”
he roared with the voice accustomed
to obedience, “I’ll put you ashore on
Long Island and let you stay there.”
But he had not counted on the na-
tive American wit. As quick as a flash
the youngster replied:
“Oh, captain, please, I’d much rather
be put ashore on Coney island.”
And when they reached port the cap-
tain wanted to know why one should,
be preferred to the other for maroon-
ing purposes.—Baltimore Sun.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 3.— The
announcement through the Associated
Press of President Roosevelt's deter-
mination to visit New Orleans on his
forthcoming trip to the South caused
profound gratification today, and it is
regarded as certain to give fresh stim-
ulus to the fight now in progress to
drive out the yellow fever before the
end of the present month.
The President’s refusal to be sway-
ed by the fear of personal risk, which
so many influences have pressed upon
him, has further commended him to
the people of Louisiana, and there is
on every side a disposition to make
his reception markedly cordial in ap-
priciaton of the sympathy he has
shown for and the assistance he has
given to the city and State in the pass-
ing crisis.
Mayor Behrman said the arrange-
ments for the reception would be elab-
orate, and he felt sure the President
would find 'himself in New Orleans
on Oct. 26 as he would in his own
home. If he desires to do so during
his brief stay, the President will be
permitted to visit the Emergency
Hospital, which Dr. White and his
assistants of the Marine Hospital the
place in the city most certainly
proof against the danger of infection.
It is expected that when he comes
the President will desire to visit Dr.
White and learn from him personally
something about the struggle that has
been so successfully carried on, and
Dr. White will take that opportunity
to extend his invitation to visit the
hospital. Since its establishment not
a singlecase of fever has developed
among any of those who have been
connected with the hospital, whether
in its old location or in its new. There
have been on duty, among patients
suffering from the worst phases of the
disease, from twenty-five to thirty
nurses, male and female, nearly all of
them non-immunes and an equal num-
ber of doctors, many of whom also
have never had the fever, yet not a
single one of these has developed a
case. Both doctors and nurses have
participated in the repitition of the
experiments carried on by Major Reed
near Havana, of non-immunes sleep-
ing in the soiled bed-clothes and
otherwise subjecting themselves to in-
fection, but all have escaped and their
experience has been to the medical men
the strongest confirmation locally pre-
sented that alone through the agency
of the stegomyia is the fever trans-
mitted.
In connection with the visit of the
President, wide circulation has been
given to a protest of J. A. Eagan of
the Illinois Board of Health to t!he
American Public Health Association,
in which Dr. Eagan states: “The his-
tory of yellow fever in the South clear-
ly indicates that the number of cases
in September is no index to the spread
of the disease later in the seasoin."
In order to reassure the country it is
pointed out that Dr. Eagan is unfa-
miliar with the official statistics. With
two exceptions in all the serious epi-
demics that have occurred, September
has been the worst. The exceptions
1853, when, out of the 7,858 deaths,
5,133 occurred in August, a month
earlier, and 1855, when 1,286 deaths
occurred in August, against 874 in Sep-
tember.
BIG FORGERY PROBED. DID IT AS school. He told Captain McCauley
EXPERIMENT.
A Well Connected Young Man Tells
All About It.
New York, Oct. 3.—Locked up in
police headquarters, with his full con-
fession in the possession of Captain
John McCauley, is the young man who
by means of a forged check, last Wed-
nesday, obtained from the National
City Bank securities, valued at $359,-
080. He was arrested yesterday just
as he stepped from his home and was
on his way to church.
that his crime first found termina-
tion in his mind when he begun to
study how to make it impossible for
just such a theft to be committed. He
was present when Pearl & Co., hy-
pothecated the securities upon which
they obtained a loan of $300,000. He
knew that the loan was at the rate of
interest of four and one half per cent.
Right then he determined to take ad-
vantage of his knowledge of the bank-
ing routine and obtain possession of
the stock shares and the bonds which
had been used as collateral.
“It is true, captain,” he said, “you
He has for several years been the have me right. I am the man. I got
transfer clerk in one of the best known the securities from the National City
brokerage firms in Wall street. He is Bank. None of them have been dis-
twenty-four years of age, and has
been regarded by his employers and
by his friends as a model of propriety
and honesty. His position was one of
responsibility and trust. His engage-
ment to a young woman, well known
in society of this city, was recently an-
nounced and he was soon to have been
married.
After he had completed and signed
his confession he said that until the
moment of his arrest, he did not deem
it possible that he could be detected.
The ambitions of the young man was
to devote the greater part of his time,
not given to his business, to the study
of law, and he would in a short time
have graduated from the Columbia law
posed of. I will return them all. I
am glad that I have been captured. I
have been a fool.”
He then made a complete statement,
which was taken down in writing and
which he signed. To Captain McCaul-
ey he said it had not been his desire
at any time to commit a crime, but he
had been impelled to show the fallacy
of the present surface methods of
banking.
Koretiyo Takahashi, financial agent
of Japan, who shortly returns to Amer-
ica, says there is no definite project
for the new Japanese loan, nor have
steps been taken for the conversion of
the old loan.
Race Suicide Knocked Silly.
Effort to Save Patrick’s Life.
Committee’s Investigation May Reveal Facts About
Company’s Loss of $600,000.
New York, Oct. 2.—It was reported
yesterday that Attorney General May-
er had made a •demand upon John A.
McCall that he return to the treasury
of the New York Life Insurance Com-
pany the $50,000 which he contributed
to the Republican campaign fund. It
was further stated that Mr. McCall
had peremptorily refused to make res-
titution.
Attorney General Mayer was at his
camp in the Adirondacks and could
not be reached.
Mr. McCall was seen at his summer
home, Shadow Lawn, at Long Branch,
by a reporter and questioned in re-
gard to these reports. He said:
“I don’t care to discuss any matters
now before the Legislative committee
until my testimony is completed.”
Mr. Hughes in his examination this
week is expected to bring to light fur-
ther facts relating to he deal in Chi-
cago and Alton 3 1-2 per cent refund-
ing bonds, by which the New York
Life Insurance Company lost $600,000.
as told in the testimony elicited by the
commission last Wednesday.
It became known that it was owing
to the refusal of the savings banks of
this city and throughout the State to
purchase these bonds, although a bill
had been jammed through the Legisla-
ture adding these bonds to the list of
savings banks securities; that the in-
surance company realized a loss in-
stead of profit. It was confidently ex-
pected that this special act of legisla-
tion, which was passed in Feb., 1900,
would create such a demand for the
bonds among savings banks that the
New York Life would clean up a 5
or 6 point profit in the venture.
Savings bank presidents of this city
became suspicious of the manner in
which the bill was put through the
Legislature. They made an inves-
tigation of the Chicago and Alton
bond offering and decided that the se-
curity in their estimation did not come
up to the requirements of the Sate
law, and was not, therefore, a good in-
vestment for savings banks.
LOANS ON MORTGAGES.
President, Morton is Anxious to
vest Funds of Equitable.
In-
New York, Sept. 30.—President Paul
Morton of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, gave out the statement
saying that the society would like to
take its funds from the banks and
loan them on mortgages. He said:
“First-class securities are difficult
to get. The society is not receiving ap-
lications for loans on high-class New
York real estate as rapidly as it would
like to get them. It has money to
invest and is anxious to take it out
out of the banks and put it intto mort-
gages. The policy of the society
will be to make it easy for good peo-
ple to borrow money from it on high-
class property.”
When asked about the testimony
given before the Legislative committee
yesterday regarding the expenses of
the insurance companies in their law
departments, Mr. Morton said that in
the last five years the Equitable So-
ciety had had to contribute about $16,
000 for legislative expense.
THE MISSISSIPPI IS LAUNCHED
Owing to Prevalence of Yellow Fever,
Vardaman Not Present.
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 2 —In the
presence of a distinguished party of
guests, the battleship Mississippi was
launched at the yards of the William
Cramp Ship and Engine Co. Saturday,
The vessel’s sponsor was Miss Mabel
Clare Money, daughter of United Sta-
tes Senator Money. Owing to the
prevalence of yellow fever in the
South, Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi
and his staff were unable to attend
the launching. The Governorwas rep-
resented by Senator Money. The
guests included Admiral Dewey, Lieut-
Commander Wood, Rear Admiral Rog-
ers, Mayor Weaver of this city. Naval
officers stationed here and in Wash-
ington, and many prominent civilians.
The christening party consisted of
Senator and Mrs. Money Miss Money
and her fiance, Dr. William Whitney
Kitchen. They were escorted to the
yard by Gen. George B. Williams,
Cramps Washington representative,
who accompanied them to this city.
Immeditely after the launching, the
luncheon was servedin the main loft.
The Mississippi will be equal to
many battleships of 16,000 tons dis-
placement and no vessel of the same
displacement in the navy of the Na-
tion carries as heavy batteries. The
main batteries consist of four twelve-
inch breech-loading rifles mounted in
two turrets, eight eight-nich breech-
loading rifles in four turrets, eight
seven-inch breech loaders, behind
basement armor, and two twenty-one
inch submerged torpedo tubes.
The Mississippi is 375 feet in length
on the water line and the length over
all is 382 feet, and the extreme beam
77 feet. The speed requirement is 17
knots. The ship will be equipped
with triple-expansion twin screws of
10,000 indicated horsepower, fitted
with eight Babcock and Wilcox water-
tube boilers set in water tight com-
partments.
Mannsville, I. T., Masons are build-
Ing a lodge or temple.
Lawton, Ok., Pythians are arranging
to build a Pythian temple in that city.
A tin box filled with powder of some
kind was found under the staircase of
the hotel in which a coalition of lead-
ers were meeting at Buda Pest.
Negotiations for real estate on which
to erect one of the largest bag mill in
the South are going on in Dallas by
the Fulton Bag Company.
Alderman Walter Vaughan of Mor-
gan was elected lord mayor of London
for the ensuing year. Mr. Vaughan is
a septugenarian banker and bachelor.
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.,
has been offered a million dollars to
move to Joliet, Ill., and is taking the
affair under serious consideration.
Several of the wealthiest and most,
influential business men of Chickasha,
I. T., practically entered into an agree-
ment to build a $50,000 hotel in that,
city.
Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived at Shi-
monezeki, Japan, and went aboard the
steamer Minnesota without going
ashore. The Minnesota left for Yo-
kohama.
The members of the imperial family,
who have been cruising in Finnish wa-
ters on the imperial yacht Polar Star,
have returned to Peterhoff, Russia.
The scarcity of dynamite in Mexico,
owing to accidents to the dynamite
works in that country, will be relieved,
it is believed, by heavy importations
from the United States.
A mountain near Ajello, Italy, called
Pietra Calombia, 300 metres high, split
in two, owing to shocks of earthquake,
and threatens to bury the town. All
the inhabitants have fled.
Burglars entered the private bank
of Burnett & Sons of Eldorado, III.,
wrecked the vault and carried off be-
tween $8,000 and $10,000 in surrancy
and gold.
Fire damaged the McIntosh Hemp-
hill Company of Pittsburg to the ex-
tent of between $100,000 and $200,000,.
fully covered by insurance.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, with
part of the North Atlantic fleet, re-
turned to New York Sunday, the ves-
sels anchoring in the North river.
The skeleton of a woman, whom'
the coroner believes to have been kill-
ed more than two years ago, was un-
earthed by workmen at St. George,
Staten Island, last week.
Three Men Burned to Death.
New York: Two men were burned to
death as they slept, a third was so
badly burned that he died in a hos-
pital, another is in a dangerous condi-
tion and several others suffered seri-
ous but probably not fatal injuries in a
fire in a two-story saloon, restaurant
and lodging house here. The men who
lost their lives occupied room 13 in
the rear of the building. They were
overcome by smoke and burned to
death in bed. All the occupants were
sailors and longshoremen.
Sterrett’s Mayor Badly Hurt.
Denison: G. W. Goodwin, Mayor of
Sterrett, I. T., narrowly escaped death
from a fall into a deep ravine lined
with jagged rocks near the wagon
bridge across Red River. He was
brought to Denison and placed in a
hotel, where his injuries were attend-
ed to by a physician. His body is a
mass of bruises, but it is thought that
none of his injures will result serious-
ly. He was on route to Denison in a
buggy when the accident occurred.
Adagio.
The coming night has wrapped the weary
' world
In robes of solemn, ashen gray,
And, as the light dies out across the
skies,
Take down your violin and play,
But do not strike a major chord for me,
But weave a melody of dreams
As soft as silence and as sweet as sleep,
■ As tender as the moon’s pale beams.
Let no strong passion mar the gentle
strain,
But play a mystic minor tune.
To fill my soul with pleasure sweet and
vague
I crave of you that soothing boon.
And bring to me again the dear dead
days,
Those days deep buried in my heart,
And cause from out the misty land of
dreams
The scenes of old once more to start.
And may your bow become a magic wand
To conjure with a plaintive score
The ones I loved, the ones I loved and
lost,
From out the silences once more.
•—-Will Reed Dunroy.
Perfectly Sober, Too.
A short time ago a man went home
the worse for drink. On arriving at
this home he tried to unlock the door,
but could not get the supposed key
into the lock. A man who happened
to be passing at the time noticed him
fumbling at the door and asked him
what he was doing. He replied:
“Why, trying to unlock the door. I
want to get in.”
“Why, man,” said the other, “do
you know you are trying to unlock it
with a cigarette?”
“Am I?” said the staggery one.
“Then, by gosh! I must have smoked
the key!”—Exchange.
New York.—New York City, accord-
ing to the report of the department of
health, made public Sunday, is blessed
with the lowest death rate in more
than one hundred years. In the mat-
ter of births and marriages the report
also fails to support the race suicide
theory, as it is shown that more per-
sons have been married and more
births recorded within the last six
months than ever before.
The report covers a period from Jan-
uary 1 to June 30, 1905, and shows
that the death rate has diminished
from 22.84 per cent to 19.23 per cent
per 1000 as compared with the cor-
responding period last year. This cal-
culation is made on an estimated pop-
ulation of 3,938,000. The census re-
turns of the department of health in-
dicate a much larger population, which
will give a crude death rate of about
18 and a corrected rate of a little over
17, the lowest recorded since 1798.
The President Will Come.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
will go to New Orleans despite the
yellow fever. This official announce-
ment was made Monday by Secretary
Loeb after a conference with the Pres-
ident, in which arrangements for Mr.
Roosevelt’s trip were arranged.. In
order to avoid complications over the
quanantine regulations in various
states of the Suoth, the president has
Albany, N. Y.—In asking the court
of' appeals to grant a re-argument of
the case of Albert T. Patrick, condemn-
ed to death for the murder of Million-
aire Rice, Ex-Senator David B. Hill in
his brief lays emphasis on the fact
that Judge Gray, who wrote the opin-
ion against Patrick, has a son, Henry
G. Gray, who is assistant district at-
torney in New York, and that this son
participated in the prosecution.
On account of this relationship, Mr.
Hill argued Judge Gray should not
have sat in the case and called atten-
tion to (the fact that without his vote
the court would have stood evenly
divided. The statute provides that’ a
judge shall not sit in a case in which
he is “interested.” Mr. Hill argued
the present circumstances came at
least within the spirit of the law, and
that in the matter of life and death the
point is an important one. There was
no oral argument.
Coal Booming in Price.
• Philadelphia.—Because of the scar-
city of cars, soft coal has advanced
to $1.25 a ton at the mines. Promi-
nent operators say that unless relief
comes within the next few days the
wholesale price will reach $2 a ton.
Notwithstanding the usual demand the
larger companies say there is more
coal above ground at this time than
decided to make New Orleans the final three years ago when the last strike
stop of the trip.
was pending.
Wants Hot Water.
Waco: The city council and water
commission have offered one of the
big artesian wells here as a bonus to
some party who will come and sink it
deeper in an effort to secure the Mar-
lin hot flow, which is said by scien-
well men generally to underlie Waco.
The well originally cost several thou-
sand dollars. Efforts are being made
to find out whether the hot flow is
here.
Shot and Killed a Negro Burglar.
Muskogee, I. T.: James Mallow, a
white farmer living on the Garland
plantation, this city, shot a negro who
was robbing his house. Mallow’s wife
and children were absent at the time.
Malow was at the barn and had his
shot gun with him, and when he saw
the negro enter the house went to a
window and watched him. When the
negro saw Mallow he started to run,
but was shot, dying instantly. Mal-
low went and surrounded.
Killed Himself on Account of Fright.
Chicago: Victor Walowaski was
detected by his former landlord while
he was trying to remove his trunk
through a window. He fired three
shots at he man, and believeing he
had killed him, ran to the street and
shot himself dying instantly. Walo-
woski was 19 years old and boared w
with Frank Garowoski. He fell be-
hind in the payment of his board and
left the place, the landlord holding his
trunk as security.
Bride’s Veil Nearly Causes Fatality.
El Paso: A narrow escape from
being badly burned at the altar today
during the time the wedding cere-
mony was being performed. One of
the candles in use about the altar
came in contact with the veil which
she wore, and but for he prompt act-
ion of the groom in smothering the
flames at once, the accident would
hair was singed somewhat.
Insane Mother’s Horrible Deed.
Rock Island, Ill.: Mrs. Clarence
Markham of Cambridge, near here, in
a fit of temporary insanity Saturday
killed her seven children with an ax,
after which she placed their bodies
on a bed, saturated it with coal oil
and set fire to it. She then hacked
her own throat with a knife and threw
herself on he burning bed. Neighbors
rescued her, but she was so badly
burned that she died soon after she
had made a confession.
More "Reuben" Talk.
Waco: A letter to Mayor James B.
Baker from N. R. Morgan of Meridian
states that a surveyingcorps will be
at once put in the fieldto survey the
road from Waco to Thurber, the mon-
ey to .pay forthis survey having been
raised in thecounties through which
the proposed line will pass. The start
will be made from Waco, and two or
three branch lines are proposed—one
toGlen Rose and another to Hamilton.
With a forged check a thief got pos-
session of securities from the'Nation-
al City Bank of New York amounting
to $350,000. The forger has not been
apprehended.
The governor has offered a reward
of $300 for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer or murderers of Mrs. Con-
dit and four children Thursday after-
noon two miles south of Edna, in Jack-
son county.
A complete fusion has been effected
by the democratic and republican mu-
nicipal conventions of San Francisco
and a joint ticket nominated. John S.
Partridge (republican) was nominated
for mayor.
The finance department of Mexico
City is investigating the abuses in the
rule in the price of corn, which is the
basis of the diet of the poorer classes.
Should it prove that corn is likely for
any cause to remain at the present
high price, it is quite probable that
the duties may be abated on American
corn, allowing heavy shipments into
that country.
Alderman W. H. Davis of Waco has
resigned as a member of the demo-
cratic executive committee in compli-
ance with the new state law forbid-
ding any person holding a position of
public trust while a m'ember of the ex-
ecutive committee of any political par-
ty.
While walking in Sunset Park,
Brooklyn, Vincent Girione, 23 years
old, shot and mortally wounded his
companion, Kate Daly, 33 years old.
The cause of the act is thought to have
been jealousy.
Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, who command-
ed the Russian forces at Port Arthur,
is suffering from a stroke of paralysis,
which affected his entire left side. The
general’s recovery is hoped for.
The jokers tell of a lady in Missis-
sippi whose plantation is divided by a
county line, and whose house is in
one county and garden in another.
These counties maintain a strict quar-
antine against each other, so it takes
ten days for her to get home with a
“mess o’ greens.”
Congressman 0. W. Underwood of
the Birmingham, Ala., district was ta-
ken suddenly very ill at his home in
that city and his condition is such as
to cause alarm to his friends.
When he heard a report that his son
had deserted the Carpenters’ Union,
during its trouble a year ago, and that
Joseph Kran had made the accusation,
William’ Keuppel of Chicago, sought
Kran and struck him with an axe,
fracturing his skull. Kran, it is said,
will die.
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