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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-18
HUGH o,poNNELL's CASE.
Closing scenes In the Trial OF the Home
stead Lender.

Closing Scenes In the Trial or the II ome-
stead Leader.
PITTsBURG, Feb 10 Judge Stowe be-
gan his charge to the jury in the O'Don-
nell case at 7:05 last evening and con-
cluded at 100 The jury retired, and
court adjourned until this morning.
The judges charge was altogether impair
tial.
The greatest interest was manifested
yesterday when the defendant was put
Oh the stand.
O'Donnell testified that prior 80 July
6 he had been employed as correspondent
of the Tri-State Bureau. He then re-
peated the story of the riot and in answer
to the question upon which side he was,
he replied the side of peaceful man"
Upon crOsseNaminatiOn he denied that
the men had a military organization,
but admitted that they were divided into
three turns ut watching the property,
for the purpose of protecting it.
"How far away from the Carnegie
property did the turns eXist?"
''Around the fence"
"Did not you have guards across the
river?''
''No, sir They were working there
and dissuauing men from going into the
mill"
That was the way you were guarding
the mill then, was it?''
- No, sir. not altogether"
''From whom were You guarding the
property the,l?'
''To keep the firm may be from de
stroying the properly"
"ro keep the Carnegie Steel Co. from
destroying its own property?
'"ro keep its watchmen.'
''To keep its wal cnmcA from destroy
ing its pr"rarty:'
Il mcnu exactly what | said"
"Wcrc those turns arne ~
Il cont know"
"Dd You ever hear any onh advising
the men not to go ar.nrl Oh those
urn,:"
- mad uthin4 70 do with them"
Tie u,Il.-,c her. iu.rrpo>ri aid the
| ruNs->X .ninatiol en- led
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-18

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Preservation caused by alcohol or tobacco, Wake
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causing insanity, misery decay, death, Pre-
mature Old Age, and al Female Weaknesses,
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Partree, Orugg Waterbur'. Conn
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soc BANK STREET.
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THE READING WRECK
MEN PROMINENTLY IDENTIFIED WITH
THE REGENT REIMBURSEMENT.

The Story of A. A. McLeod's Career Reads
Like a Romance III Rai1roading-Some-
thing About the Readings Receivers.
Justice Paxson's Record.
The story of the Reading railroad is
one which might we'll furnish the basis
for sensational play or very realistic
novel. It was but few weeks ago the
greatest of all railroad combinations
and had at it's head Archibald Angus
Mcleod, the most phenomenally sue
cessful of railway operators. All at once
there was a 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 a panic.
Ex-senator Thomas G. Platt of New
York, of whom the public has heard and
read since he event out with Conkling"
in 1881, filed the suit in the United States
court in Philadelphia, his right to do SO
being as a holder of $55, 1000 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 M. Paxson Of Pennsyl-
vania, President A. A. Mcleod and E.
P. Wilbur. George L. Crawford was
named special master, before whom the
receivers must lay completed account
each month.
Archibald Angus Mcleod, though but
45 years old, has had career which is a
romance in railroading. Born in the
northwest and educated in the practical
school of life, his first appearance as a
railroader was as rodman for the en-
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Time has strewn some gray hairs upon
Mrs. Lamonts head, but these inexorable
reminders serve to heighten rather than
to lessen the attractiveness of her face,
which literally beams with intelligence
and good nature. Mrs. Lamont has
soft, sweet voice, which never becomes
harsh under any circumstances. and
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
ried Mr.. Lamont in 1876, when they
were both college students. She is the
mother of three girls. Mrs. Lamont is a
woman of fine appearance, and is lov-
ing wife, devoted mother and sensi-
BILE 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-
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Why Smuggling Revived In Mexico.

"At one time during the administra-
tion of President Diaz." said a Mexican
gentleman in Chicago, ''the s1nugglers
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
COOK advantage nf t1,is nfft.r We're
given good positions under the govern
ment. This plan was successful, and
smuggling was becoming rare along the
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.'
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Dakota in con-

nection with mail WILLIAM N. ROACH
contracts, operating route from Grand
Forks to Fort Totten. During 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 Townsite COM
pany, which organized the city govern
ment in 1888, and was first mayor and
reelected for three successive terms, op-
Grating his farm meanwhile.
The irony of the situation is consider
ably heightened by the fact that he was
a Democratic leader and candidate in
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 1885 he was the
only Democrat in the territorial leglsla-
ture. In 1889 he was defeated for gov
ornor by $4,000 votes, and in 1890 by
only 600. He married a daughter of DR..
Liebermauer Of Washington in 1879 and
has three sons and one daughter. Mrs
Roach died in 1896. 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.
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1O t1lIl 11dS OtGu A. VI DECh"41f1s
first settler OF 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 ~ 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 rich man before he settled in
Evanston, a 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 a pioneer in
1866 that he was called from his ranch
to go to Fort Phil Kearny during the
Indian troubles there. The result was
that he was within hearing of the famous
massacre there, when 81 soldiers were
killed by the Indians, and he helped
bury the dead. Despite his unsettled
life in those years, he acquired fair
education and is man of considerable
culture. In religion he is of Methodist
leanings and in politics has always been
q Democrat of the straightest sect.
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ants in Washington will be the same
who have been with her since her mar
riage
Mrs. Smith will have as guests next
winter several Georgia belles and it is
therefore safe to assume that her resi-
dence will be one of the most popular
in the national capital. The wife of the
new secretary is what would be called
fng is n}annesc at a E,laAt Ate::'~9a'ffe' as"fefJ
charitable, as many poor person in At
lanta knows.
Secretary Herbert has been a widower
since 1886, but his household and enter
tainments will be presided over by his
young and beautiful daughter. It's said
that Miss Herbert, previous to her IA
theirs elevation to his present position,
had attained IL greater popularity than
any other young lady in the congressional
circle, In manner she is quiet and dig
nifed, 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 @. Gresham was born
Matilda McGrair. She was married to
the present secretary OF state IN 1898,
when he was a 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 i'll
the home life. She is the mother of two
grownup sons. Lucy LAWN.
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discovered in a pocket of the overcoat he
had worn Oh the previous voyage the
very thing he was in search Of.
THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Richard Olney Has Reen Very Successful
at the Bar.

Richard O1ney Has Reen Very Successful
at the Bar.
Richard Olney, the new attorney gem
eral has long been known as a leading
lawyer in Massachusetts, and, it might be
said, as a lawyer only. Though an un
finching Democrat. he has persistently
declined Office and was candidate for
attorney general Of Massachusetts only
when the nomination was mere compli-
ment, his party being in. Il hopeless mi
nority. He has, however, served one
term in the lower house of the Massachu-
setts legislature.
He was born in Oxford, Mass, Sept. 15,
1886, and was graduated from Brown uni
versity in the class of '56. He studied at
the Harvard law school and entered the
law Office Of Judge Benjamin F. Thomas
in Boston in 1859. In his chosen profess
sion he advanced rapidly. He was for
many years counsel for the Eastern Rail-
road company. and after the consolida-
ton he was retained as counsel for the
Boston and Maine, a position which he
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
era1 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
ly completed a magnificent residence on
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. He
therefore makes a great financial sacri-
fee 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
a pleasing fact that though his selection
was quite unexpected it is warmly ap-
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.
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Ered the ladies will be intrusted with
I, task equally difficult if less fraught
~ith Importance to the general welfare
II 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 G. 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 undis-
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 ad-
naitted to the bar, and within year was
elected to the legislature. During that
time the sterling qualities of the woman
hhone forth, and it is no secret that the
present secretary of the treasury owes
bis political success as much to the en-
pouragement and advice of his wife as
TO his own undoubted ability.
Mrs. Carisle's social duties in ma
houal 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 every body
feel perfectly at home without any ap-
has ever partaken of her hospitality will
cheerfully testify.
Mrs. Carlisle was the first to assert the
-, - ff>n Gir1itilc
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
riage 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 Carllsles
is at 1926 K 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
retary 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 manner behtting her present high
station. although she is essentially a
home body and is never so happy as
when engaged in reading to her children
or giving them musical instruction.
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ty 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 ssfam1ne 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 12. In
boyhood he went to Ohio, where he
worked on farm and in the coal mines,
ran a 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 q shop at the age of 81 and
soon laid up money enough to take a
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.
7" 1or' ''o -~t:-a ssom nraetiea, e,,a e.s,,
soon became nOled Ill poliIlcS. Altei
holding some minor offices he was elect
ed to congress in 1SS24-6. He was for
six years at the head Of the state Demo-
cratic committee, has been delegate at
several national conventions and is
doubtless the most influential Irish1nan
in American politics. The return OF such
a man as consul general to the United
Kingdom, which he left as a poor orphan,
would add another to the many brilliant
proofs that in such land as this no
youth need despair.
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law partners. It is at any rate fore
gone conclusion that Mrs. Bissell will
be one of the most important social fig
ures in Washington. Che is 81 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
every body supposed that the concert
platform would claim Louise Fowler
Sturges. It did really look so until she
met Mr.. Bissel while she was on a visit
to Buffalo, was beloved by him, recipro-
Gated the tender feeling and was married
to him.
Mrs. Bissell has since lived in mag
nifcent mansion in Buffalo, and her en-
tertainments have been the talk of soci-
ETY. 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 is
nevertheless a thorough housewife and
is never SO busy that she cannot find
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 so years old. She is be-
low the medium height and is known in
Boston as judicious and discriminating
entertainer, She dis1ikes ostentation
and dispenses the most gracious hospital
ity in an entirely unpretentious fashion.
She is a highly intellectual woman of re-
fined appearance and tastes and gentle
manners. Her carriageis dignifed. Mrs
Olney has two daughters, both Of whom
are married.
Mrs. Hoke Smith, the wife Of the Sec
retary Of the interior, is a representative
Of the far south, and she is decidedly
creditable one. Miss BERTHE Cobb was
one of the prettiest girls in Athens, Ca,
when she met Hoke Smith while visiting
her married sister in Atlanta. She was
then but Is 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-
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The Smallest Government.

Moresnet, which lies between Belgium
and Germany and has a 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 dispute. Germany and Bel
gium both wanted it on account OF its
tin mines, but neither of them got it.
The territory contains trifle over two
square miles of ground.
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EDWARD M. PAXSON.

&A' A|11oA~s
gineers locating the line 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 Reading system.
Soon after he was made vice president,
and on June 81, 1890, on the retirement
OF President CorD1n, became president
III little while the country was star
tied by the announcement that the COM
pany had combined all the anthracite
coal interests and all the roads by which
the coal reached the cities; that this gi-
gantic corporation, combine or 'trust"
therefore controlled some $500, 900, 900 in
capital and 100000 employees. and that
the price of coal was to go up according
ly. 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 latter's property
was in wretched condition. It fell
with great ruin, and the highest esti-
mate now places it's value away below
5000 100000 Monarchies Of note have
fallen and caused less suffering.
Chief Justice Edward NJ. Paxson had
d salary of $500 a year, and his term
would have continued till 1896. His res
ignat4on to accept the receivership shows,
therefore, how important this matter is
to his state and city. He was born Sept.
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 Lee
high Valley road, principal of the many
lines involved. The history is curious
epitome of railway development and
huctuation 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 Reading
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 q
| year? In 1842 the road was paying well
and absorbed the lines to Mount Carbon
and Pottsville.
This was the beginning of a long, long
career of extension and absorption Of
coal lands, railroads and other property
the coal and iron lands alone being val
ued at S41 .296.250. May 21, 1880, began
.'panic in Reading" 1t was rounc
that the extension business had beer
overdone, and on the Oath three receivers
were appointed. The assets were re
turned at $161, 1858 8,07o, of which $76, 600,
900 was in coal lands: the liabilities a
$145, 800, ,668. In 1884 the Reading wa!
again placed in the hands of receivers
and soon after the great Drexel-Morga1
syndicate took it, with J. Pierpon
Morgan as the directing genius. Hi
name was power, and in 1888 the who'll
system was returned to the stockholder
in fairly good shape. Austin Corbin be
came president and gave place, as afore
said, to Mr.. Mcleod.
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An Absentminded Mathematician.

Of Professor Sylvester, the great math-
ematician, formerly Of Johns Hopkins
university, now at Oxford, many funny
stories are told Probably the most
amusing episode of his life on this side,
however, grew out of a voyage to Eu-
rope. While abroad he made some
highly important calculations, but on
reaching Baltimore found that the paper
on which he had figured was missing.
So important were the calculations that
he took a steamer back to England in
order to look up the papers. He did not
find them and started back to the
United States deeply disappointed, but
during the voyage over be accidentally