The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-30
TWO ATTACHMENTS
Issued Against tho Firm of Paigo,
Carey & 90. Yesterday
AND ALL THE FUNDS DUE THE FIRM
IN the Hands Of tho City and Ter.
mlnaI Company are garnishccd...A
Sensational Story from Cleveland
Printed Yesterday, which may be
Explained.

against tho firm OF Paige, Carey & Go.
The title Of one case is tho Freeport
Stone Company, OF Ohio, vs.. David R.
Paige, surviving partner Of the lato firm
Of Paige, Carey & Co., which was COM
posed OF said David Il. Paige and OF
Dominick' NJ. Carey, now deceased.
This suit is for s., sol III, Tho other
suit is by Dr.. Charles NJ: Erissell, Of this
city, and is for $500. DR.. Frissell has
rendered medical services to the en-.
ploycs OF tho firm throughout their work
in Wheeling.
The papers wcre served by Sheriff
Steenrod on Mayor Scabright, for the
city, and on tho Terminal company,
garnishGoing all funds in their hands
due said Paige, Carey & Co..
Tho firm has been in :sttait circum-
stances at times for goot while. and
several other attachments :havo been
issued in the past, but these were
always paid oil. Tho action OF tho
creditors Mt this time WIS doubtless pre-.
cipitatcd by reports connecting Paige,
Carey & Co. with tho failureibf the bank
at gainesville, Ohio, OF which Mr..
Paige's brother was the president. Mr..
David Paige was also an officer Of n
bank in New York which failed some
time ago, and that trouble involved the
firm here little, or was said to
AsroRY FROM CLEVELAND.
The following special dispatch from
Cleveland was printed in several papers
east and west yesterday: y
CLEVELAND, O., March 2S.-Excite-
mcnt in financial circles in this city is
intense over the announcement made
that Millionaire John Huntington has
denied that he has endorsed notes for
Paige, Carey 4 Co., OF New York, during
the past year. Tho Paige family con-
sists OF four brothers-Col. Ralph X.
Paige, the gainesville bank cashier, now
confined in the county Jail here; Chas.
c. Paige, Painesyille manufacturer;
Abner Paige, an Akron business man,
and Hon. David R. Paige, OF New York,
ex.congrcssman from tho Twentieth
OHIO district, and formerly business
man from Akron. Two years ago David
went 10 New York, where he obtained
immense contracts for municipal work,
mostly on the new aqueduct. He
formed the paige-Carey company to do
the work. The city
REFUSED TO ACCEPT
the work and Paige received no pay. He
sued the city Of New York for 100000
and the case is now pending. Such a
large sum withheld threw Paige into
serious financial straits. He was in need
Of money, and it is thought some Of the
lost funds Of the gainesville bank went
TO his aid. How he managed to keep
up has been mystery to bankers, al
though 1t was known that he was con-
nected by marriage with some OF the
wealthiest families in Northern Ohio.
1t now transpires that when David
Paige took his New York contracts his
brother-in-law. John Huntington, OF
this city, became his hacker and in
dorsed his paper. The notes were given
by Paige, Carey { Co., Endorsed by Mr..
huntington, and were, as lar as is
known, ior four months. The paper
became known in banking circles and
bearing
so SECURE AN ENDORSEMENT
was honorcd. Two years ago John
Huntington's health failed, and he went
TO Carlsbad, Germany, where he is now,
holding to life bya thread. The trus-
tees Tor Mr. Huntington know that he
mad refused to renew his Endorsement
on tho notes, but in spite OF this fact re.
newed paper confined in circulation.
The climax was reached Saturday when
MI Huntington cabled: II have in
dorsed no notes since last April except
certain notes held by Mr.. Perkins, OF
the Mercantile National Bank,
To-day there was q consultation
among bankers, trustees and members
OF me huntington family. Thousands
OF dollars OF Paige, Carey & Co.'s paper
bearing John Huntington's indorsc.
ment Is held by Cleveland banks. How
much the total is no one knows, but
i nae trustees today had record OF $685.
VERYBA INVITATIONS.
Yesterdays Cleveland Leader adds
the following aboutthe alleged forgcrics:
Some OF the banks which hold the
forged paper may decline to let it be
known; They may say Mr.. Hunting
ION and David X. Paige arc brothers.iT-
law. The former will doubtless paw
t tlisse notes., Or, knowing" that Mr.
huntington is q very sick man, and
I1Aely 70 die ut any moment, thoy may
conclude to lie low and await his death.
thinking in that event to have no din.
cuIty IN collecting tho notes held by
11Item. on tho supposition that Mr..
huntington was really the only man
VINO could say whether or not those
pIr.!cu!ar notes were genuine. j, But rs
;aller OF tact tho signatures on tho
sofEea notes that tho trustees have seen,
T II lar. arc a very poor ilnitation,of Mr..
aun'lhgtons signature, and thctis ono
, ,c;ason, think, why none OF tho paper
w., Kun ~ inc exception Of tho note held BY
'i' central National Bank was. "
FIoATEp IN CLEVELAND. I.
Bankers hero are familiar with Mr.
nun!ington's signature, while those in
smaller towns arc not. Thcn.J{ap
s OF the victimizcd banks may con.
n uuae 70 swallow their losses and say
no'ning about it, fearing to injlui5rre their
"galt, So altogether, I think it Will be
i. ma'u matter to arrive at the exact
~, avs III regard to the amount Of tho fic.
r "tous paper. Tho trustees have re-.
IIgNed several cablograms from Mr.
alum; and arc keeping him fully
s w OF the developments. There is
~ ~ proof as to who forged the notes, but
Kun oa what We can learn Ralph Paige
;Sau nothing to do with them. Mr. HINT: