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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE stock market In Wall street, New York
City, was saved from wild panic by Drexel-
Morgan and Vanderbilt interests ; 8. v. White
suspended, and there were Wild scenes on the
Stock Exchange other Wall street men could
not meet their obligations.
MRS. FANNIE WARINa HORN, after giving
poison to her two children, Edwin, eleven
years old, and Fannie, six years old, shot
them and then shot herself in her fiat In New
York City. The girl died. ...,...e.,sR
The Heraid's regatta in New York Harbor
for foreign men-of-war's boat crews was q
great success. The first race won by the
British ship Australia, Etna second and
Magacienne third the second race, by the
Russian ship General Admiral, Blake second,
Australia third the third race, by the Aus'
ealia Qboth first and second prizes), and Blake
third.
delphia, Penn, for St. Johns, New Found
land, to complete his arrangements for the
vessel to take the Arctic exploring party to
Whale Sound. The party will be composed
Of ten men, seven Of whom have been already
chosen. a....-. ..s- as-v ~.
GOLD medals for Life saving were presented
by Sons Of St. George on board q. II. 8.
Blake, In New York Harbor, to Seamen
Robert Halfyard and Henry Charles William
Hunt, and on shore to Battery >Boatman
James O'Connor. -"
b. q. WARNER, OF Rochester, N. T., made
an assignment, with liabilities estimated at
$5O0, 900. '---'... r'- -.-,-'' - q I.
WHILE In New York Harbor the crew OF
the United States steamer Atlanta enter
tanned the crew of q. N. steamer Magicienne
at dinner, and other foreign sailors were
entertained by the Philadelphia and Newark.
The body Of Carlyle W. Harris, the wife
murderer, was buried in Rural Cemetery, be-
tween Albany and Troy, New York State.
Harris's last written statement was madepub-
Lie by Assistant Superintendent OF State
Prisons Baker. : Z
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

time to play with her little Margaret,
who is almost exactly as old as Baby
Ruth.
Mrs. Olney, the wife of the attorney
general, is about 90 years old. She Is be
low the medium height and is known in
Boston as judicious and discriminating
entertainer. She dishkes ostentation
and dispenses the most gracious hospital
ity in an entirely unpretentious fashion
She is highly intellectual woman of re-
fined appearance and tastes and gentle
manners. Her carriage is dignified. Mrs.
Olney has two daughters, both of whom
are married.
Mrs. Hoke Smith, the wife of the sec
rotary Of the interior, is representative
of the far south, and she is decidedly
creditable one. Miss BERTHE Cobb was
one of the prettiest girls in Athens, Ga,
when she met Hoke Smith while visiting
her married sister in Atlanta. She was
then but 10 years old, but love recog-
nizes no age, and she and the brilliant
young lawyer, after an engagement OF
FIVE years. were married. Mrs. Smith,
although the mother of several children,
is still very young woman. She will
entertain a great deal, but not In a
merely perfunctory manner. her serv-
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

F. P.SIIBCR. A. a. M'LEOD.
gineers locating the lne of the North
Pacific. He soon showed unusual ca
pacity, rose rapidly through all the
grades and was made general manager
of the Elmira, Cortland and Northern
road in New York. In 1886 he secured
the same position in the Readingsystem
Soon after he was made vice PRECEDENT,
and on June %, 1880, ON the retirement
of President Corbin, became president.
In a little while the country was star,
tied by the announcement that the con-
pany had combined all the anthracite
coal interests and all the roads by which
the coal reached the cities; that this 81
gantic corporation, combine" or trust"
therefore controlled some $500, 600, 900 in
CAPITAL and 10000 employees, and that
the price of coal was to go up according
". The legal battle which followed Is
fresh in the public memory. The New
England and other railway combines
thwarted the Reading combine, and soon
it transpired that the latters property
was in a wretched condition. 1t fell
with a great ruin, and the highest esti.
mate now places its value away below
$500, 900, 900. Monarchies of note have
fallen and caused less suffering.
Chief Justice Edward NJ. Paxson had
salary of $500 year, and his term
would have continued till 1896. His res
ignat4on to accept the receivership shows,
therefore, how important this matter Ii
- I'D pit IJa horn
8, 1924, in Bucks county, Pa, was ad-
mitted to the bar there in 1850 and To-
Gated in Philadelphia soon after. In 1874
he was elected to the supreme bench OF
the state for the full term of 81 years,
and in 1889 became chief justice by SEN
iority for the 7-year term.
The third of the receivership trio is
Elisha P. Wilbur, president of the LIE
high Valley road, principal of the many
lines involved. The history is curious
epitome of railway development and
fiuctuation in the United States, as the
Reading system, so called, has twice be
fore been in the hands of receivers. The
original incorporation was in 1888 and
authorized the Philadelphia and Readins
company to construct railroad be
tween those two cities. Will it be be
lieved at this day that they were five
years in doing it-not quite 12 miles
year? In 1912 the road was paying wei
and absorbed the lines to Mount Carbon
and Pottsville.
This was the beginning of a long, lont
career of extension and absorption o
coal lands. railroads and other property
the coal and iron lands alone BEING val
ue0 sc a., 80. Lay Il, 1850, Dco1'
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

which is an index Of the gentleness for
which she is noted. She is IS years old,
was born near Cortland, N. Y, and mar
RED Mr.. Lamont in 1876, when they
were both college students. She is the
mother of three girls. Mrs. Lamont Is
woman of fine appearance, and is low
ing wife. devoted mother and a sensl'
bic woman.
Many persons predict that the lady
who will be most intimate with MRS.
Cleveland during her reign at the White
House is the vivacious wife of Postmas'
ter General Wilson S. Bissell. There
are several facts which lend probability
to this prophecy. The ladies are OF
about the same age; they come from the
same locality; they are both young moth
ers: their tastes are similar. and their
husbands are intimate friends and ex'
law partners. 1t is at any rate fore
gone conclusion that Mrs. Bissell Will
be one of the most important social fig
ures in Washington. She Is n years
old. decidedly handsome. although per
haps not pretty, and an ideal hostess.
She is a musician of great ability. Her
voice was cultivated in Europe, and
everybody supposed that the concert
platform would claim Louise Fowler
Sturges. 1t did really look so until she
met Mr.. Bissell while she was on visit
to Buffalo, was beloved by him, recipro-
Gated the tender feeling and was married
| to him.
Mrs. Bissell has since lived in mag
nificent mansion in Buffalo, and her en-
tertainments have been the talk of sOci
etv in the Bison City. She is charming
conversational and observant hostess
and a particularly attractive woman
Devoted as Mrs. Bissell is to the pleas
ures and amenities of society, she il
nevertheless a thorough housewife anC
is never so busy that she cannot fine
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

ton he was retained as counsel for the
Boston and Maine, a position which ho
still holds. He is also counsel for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
roads. He has twice declined place on
the supreme bench of the state, and it is
said that he has invariably supported
the Democratic ticket except when Gen
eral Butler was the candidate for gov
ernor. when he "bolted with emphasis"
His home is in Boston, but he has a
summer residence not far from Gray
Gables, and is therefore a sort of sum-
mer neighbor of Mr.. Cleveland, from
which some people draw conclusions.
His income as lawyer has for some
time been $50, 900 year, and he has late
" completed magnificent residence on
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. He
therefore makes a great financial sacri-
flee in entering the cabinet, but this is
only what many others have done.
Socially he and his family are well
equipped for the position they will be
called to fill in Washington. 1t is also
pleasing fact that though his selection
was quite unexpected it is warmly APP
proved by New England congressman,
and it now transpires that his name was
urged upon Presinent Cleveland for the
place of chief justice of the United States
at the time Judge Fuller was appointed
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

thusiastic advo- HILARY A. HERBERT.
cate of an increased navy and an untir-
ing student OF the best methods to secure
it. He also has the great advantage OF
possessing the confidence of every con-
gresham who has served with him, re-
gardless of party.
He was born March IL. 1894, at Lau-
rensville. S. c., but was soon taken to
Greenville, Butler county, Ala. He was
educated at the University Of Alabama
and the University of Virginia, studied
law and was admitted to the bar. He
entered the Confederate service as cap
tain and was in a short time promoted
to the colonelcy of the Eighth Alabama
volunteers. He was wounded at the bat
tie of the Wilderness in 1864. After the
war he resumed the practice of law at
Greenville, Ala, until 1872, when he re-
moved to Montgomery, where he has
since practiced. He was elected to the
Forty-6fth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh.
Forty eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and
Fifty-irst congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-second congress as a Demo
crat, receiving 1881 votes against 1851
votes for s. A. Pillary, independent.
His Democracy is of what is now called
the Cleveland type-that is, he advocates
radical reform of the tariff, is opposed
to free coinage of silver, is practical
civil service reformer and opposed to
those sc'9-'as Of govo-~nent pa-o-"al-
isra now 30 much a3y Gated. he Is a
widower with three children, one a mar.
ried daughter. another young lady and
the third a younger son at school.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
Why Smuggling Revived In Mexico.

"At one time during the administra-
ton of President Diaz," said Mexican
gentleman in Chicago, "the smugglers
became so numerous that the president
issued proclamation stating that all
smugglers who would put themselves
in the hands of the revenue department.
would be forgiven for past offenses and
be given profitable employment in the
custom house. Many of the smugglers
took advantage of this offer and were
given good positions under the govern
ment. This plan was successful, and
smuggling was becoming rare along tho
United States border until the Mexican
government reduced the salaries of the
reformed smugglers. Then one by one
they deserted their Offices and engaged
in their old customs. They are now
fully organized along the Rio Grande
and conduct their unlawful business
most proftably."
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18


Mrs. Carlisle was the first to assert the
claims of the speaker to official dignities,
and she boldly selected Wednesday, or
cabinet ladies' day, for her receptions.
During the administration of President
Arthur she claimed precedence upon
ceremonial occasions, and until the mar
rage of President Cleveland asserted
the same right by virtue of the constitu-
tional rank and title of the speaker.
Mrs. Carlisle is a woman who would
command respectful attention anywhere.
She is handsome. tall and well made,
with walk and carriage noticeable for
their dignity. The home of the Carlisies
is at 1929 X street, which will doubtless
be the scene of many brilliant and thor
oughly enjoyable entertainments be-
tween now and March 4, 1897.
Another well known and universally
popular figure in Washington society is
Mrs. Daniel s. Lamont, wife of the sec
rotary of war. When Mr.. Lamont was
in Washington as President Cleveland's
private secretary, his lovable and accom-
plished wife was an intimate friend OF
Mrs. Cleveland, but she was very natu-
rally comparatively unimportant in the
social life of the capital. That of course
will all be changed now. 1t is under
stood that Mrs. Lamont will entertain
in a manner BETTING he- present high
sts,.on. although she Is essentially q
home body and is never so happy as
when engaged in reading to her children
or giving them musical instruction.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

first settler or first merchant in many
places from Iowa TO Nevada.
He has held but two offices. One was
membership in the national WORLDS fair
commission and the other Membership
in the first town council of Cheyenne.
He went there 81 years ago, working his
passage across the plains with an OK
team. He identified himself with the
community by building its first house
and opening a grocery. When the rail-
way came and went on, he went with it
and was a rich man before he settled in
Evanston, thrifty town near the Utah
line. There he owns the local bank,
herds of cattle and tracts of range, coal
mines and coal and timber lands. His
hobby is horses, and he breeds trotters
on the finest farm in the mountains.
He is married and has four children.
New York is his native state, but most
of his life has been passed in the west.
He was already so much of pioneer Ill
1866 that he was called from his rancl
to go to Fort Phil Kearny during the
Indian troubles there. The result wa
tlathsvas ..thiu hearing 60; Il, fal4ou.
massacre there, when 81 soldiers wer'
killed by the Indians, and he helped
bury the dead. Despite his unsettled
life in those years, he acquired fail
education and is man of considerabl,
culture. In religion he is of Methodist
leanings and in politics has always beer
a Democrat of the straightest sect.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

THE LINCOLN TOWER. origin at ancien.
Oxford will have an American Oxford
of its own. Lincoln memorial hall, az
aforesaid. is to be the first structure
erected. and this is to be paid for by 81
contributions from those who desire to
honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
At the main entrance to the tower II
granite columns will represent the orig
inal states. At the corners are columns
representing the new states admitted
down to the time of Lincoln's Inaugural
ton. Above in the tUrret are the proph-
ecies of the states yet to be and the ter
ritories. In the center of the space ele-
waited above this canopy is the shield OF
the United States, the bars of gothic
tracery and the field set with 10 translu
cent and glittering stars of Rocky noun
tains quartz crystal. Surrounding tho
whole is a roof of metal i'll the form Of
tents, as near as possible, as a sugges-
ton of the tented field.
This tower is to he upon the highest
plateau in the District of Columbia, and
from its top the view will extend over
the whole territory between the Blue
Ridge and the Atlantic ocean. Toward
the right rises the Sugar Loaf mountain,
and to the left are the windings of the
Potomac. beyond which are the historic
battlefields. Massachusetts, avenue, run
ming through the very center of the city.
and upon which stands many palatial
residences, opens up direct communica.
ton with the university. Every promi.
nent building of the city will be visible
from this elevation, and towering fal
above them all is the beautiful vaulted
dome of the capitol and the shapely shaft
of the monument. And on this com
! manding plateau the Methodists expect
/ TO rear the American Oxford.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

tered the ladies will be intrusted with
a task equally difficult if less fraught
with importance to the general welfare
of the country.
The lady who is better known IN
Washington society than any other OF
the wives of the members of Mr.. Cleve-
lands cabinet is Mrs. John q. Carlisle.
Mrs. Carlisle comes from an old and
noted Kentucky family. Her father,
John A. Goodson, was Covington's first
mayor, and also held important state
offices. Miss Goodson was the undls-
puted belle of Covington when, at the
age of 81, she married teacher in the
city public schools named John Griffin
Carlisle.
Two years later Mr.. Carlisle was adj
mitted to the bar, and within year was
elected to the legislature. During that
time the sterling qualities of the woman
shone forth, and it is no secret that the
present secretary of the treasury owes
his political success as much to the en-
couragement and advice of his wife as
to his own undoubted ability.
Mrs. Carlisles social duties in ma
tional way may be said to have really
begun when her husband became speaker
of the national house of representatives
That she was charming hostess, with
the rare faculty of making everybody
feel perfectly at home without any ap
parent effort to do so, any person who
has ever partaken of her hospitality vii
cheerfully testify.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

NGJt-.s.. Boz Il maj " lDLiAM y. - ACi.
contracts. operating a route from Grand
Forks to Fort Totten. Dnring this time
he took homestead and tree claim near
Larimore, where he has since resided.
He was interested in Larimore. plated in
1881, and an agent of the Towrnite com
pany. which organized the city govern
ment in 1893. and Was first magyar and
reelected for three successive terms OPP
Grating his farm meanwhile.
The irony of the situation is consider
ably heightened by the fact that he was
a Democratic leader and candidate III
the times when men of that party were
distressingly scarce in Dakota, and was
elected senator most unexpectedly and
by an independent movement OF the Re
publican members of his own county.
Grand Forks. after he had. as it were, re-
tired from politics. In 1895 he was tn
only Democrat in the territorial legisla-
ture. In 1889 he was defeated for gov
ornor by 14.0O0 votes, and in 1890 by
only 600. He married a daughter of Dr.
Liebermauer of Washington in 1872 and
has three sons and one daughter. Mrs.
Roach died in 1890. Two sons are now
in Georgetown college. The senator Is a
tall gentleman with iron gray hair, mus,
tache and goatee, and presents very.
dignifed and commanding appearance.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
MRS. HOKE SMITH.

ants in Washington will be the same
who have been with her since her mar
riage.
Mrs. Smith will have as guests next
win NJ averal Ccorgia bellies, and = =
therefore SAFE to assume f,2s her res--
dence will be one of the most popular
in the national capital. The wife of the
new secretary is what would be called q
fine looking woman, and her good breed
ing is manifest at glance. She is very
charitable, as many q poor person in At
lanta knows.
Secretary Herbert has been widower
since 1885, but his household and enter
tainments will be presided over by his
young and beautiful daughter. 1t is said
that Miss Herbert, previous to her ia
TIERS elevation to his present position,
had attained q greater popularity than
any other young lady in the congressional
circle. In manner she is quiet and dig
nified, but she knows how to entertain
and will probably be one of the most
popular of the cabinet hostesses. There
was an elder Miss Herbert, but she is
now married.
Mrs. Walter Q. Gresham was born
Matilda McGrair. She was married to
the present secretary of state in 1858,
when he was struggling young lawyer.
Her father was farmer near Corydon,
Ind. Mrs. Gresham was never noted as
an elaborate entertainer, her tastes hav-
ing always run toward quiet comfort in
the homelife.. She is the mother Of two
grownup sons. LUCY LAWN.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
Disease Spread by Pencils.

Now they say that the free lead pencils
furnished the school children of Detroit
by the board of education are response
BILE for the epidemic of diphtheria in that
city. The children get different pencil
every day, all the pencils being dropped
into box at the close of school. The
average child using pencil will put the
point In its mouth very frequently, and
it is not difficult to see that the practice
might become very dangerous.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
The Smallest Government.

Moresnet, which lies between Belgium
and Germany and has population Of
1000, is the smallest government in the
world. There Is senate Of 10 members,
who are appointed by the mayor. He Is
appointed by two delegates, one from
Germany and one from Belgium. The
territory was made Independent in 1915
to settle q dispute. Germany and Bel
gium both wanted it on account Of its
tin mines, but neither of them got it.
The territory contains trife over two
square miles Of ground.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
THE READING WRECK
MEN PROMINENTLY IDENTIFIED WITH
THE RECENT REIMBURSEMENT.

The Story of A. A. McLeod's Career Reads
Like a Romance In RaiIroading-Some-
thing About the Readings Receivers.
Justice Parsons Record.
The story of the Reading railroad is
one which might well furnish the basis
for sensational play or very realistic
novel. 1t was but few weeks ago the
greatest of all railroad combinations
and had at its head Archibald Angus
Mcleod, the most phenomenally sue
cessful of railway operators. All at once
there was change more startling than
any kaleidoscope can produce, and now
the combined railways are in the hands
of receivers, and there has been fall
in the stock and convulsiOn in Wall
street which in less healthful state of
the market might have produced panic.
Ex-senator Thomas C. Plat of New
York, of whom the public has heard and
read since he went out with COnkling
in 1891, filed the suit in the United States
court in Philadelphia, his right to do 50
being as a holder of $50, 900 of the com
pany's preference bonds on which inter
est had been refused No denial of the
facts being made, Judge Dallas made the
order as of course, and on suggestion OF
the parties appointed as receivers Chief
Justice Edward NJ. Paxson of Pennsyl
vania. President A. A. Mcleod and f
p. Wilbur George L. Crawford was
named special master, before whom the
receivers must lay completed account
each month.
Archibald Angus Mcleod, though but
As years old. has had career which is {
romance in railroading. Born in th'
northwest and educated in the practica
school Of life, his first appearance as {
railroader was as a rodman for the en-
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18
PATRICK A. COLLINS.

tv Cork. where he was born in 1874,
when he was but years old, his wild
owed mother fleeing from the poverty
and misery which followed the famine
and famine clearances." Yet despite
his "A years in America he is still Irish
in his sympathies, though he has always
earnestly opposed the mixing up OF Irish
matters with American politics.
His mother secured modest home in
Chelsea. Boston's suburb, and the son
gained eight years of American training
and common school education before
going at hard work at the age of -. In
boyhood he went to Ohio, where he
worked on farm and in the coal mines.
ran stationary engine and did all sorts
of common labor. but always struggling
TO improve. He returned to Boston
learned the trade of an upholsterer, was
foreman of shop at the age of u and
soon laid up money enough to take
course in law, graduating from the Har
ward law school. His success was great
from the start and his manner OF speak
ing singularly effective.
In 1871 he retired from practice anC
soon became noted in politics. Attel
holding some minor offices he was elect
ed to congress in 18S24-6. He was foI
six years at the head of the state Demo
cratic committee, has been delegate a
several national conventions and L
doubtless the most influential lrishmal
in American polite. The return of sucl
a man as consul general to the United
Kingdom, which he left as poor orphan
would add another to the many brilllan
proofs that in such land as this n
youth need despair.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-18

the richest man
in the state, and
now probably the
oldest pioneer in
it, though but IT.
tie past so year,
old. Indeed there
are few pioneers
of his experience
in the W h o / Q
west, for he was
in the Missouri
river country at
the early age of
1E anJ hos haay,