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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
BUSINESS MEN TO B4NK'S RESCUE.
Excitement Over the Suicide of George J.
 Marsh of Gloucester.

EXclTement over the Su1Clue or GeOrge J.
 Marsh of Gloucester.
 Gloucester, Mass, Oct. 9.-Intense ex- citement prevailed this morning over the suicide of Treasurer George J. Marsh of the Cape Ann Savings bank. At an early hour a number of women were on the street waiting for the bank to open, so that they might withdraw their deposits. The officials, acting un- der instructions from the examiners, opened the bank for business as usual at o'clock and at that time from forty to fifty women with their bank books in their hands rushed in and passed them over the counter. All were accepted and the deposits paid.
 Excitement this afternoon was some what abated when it was found that men of wealth had offered to pay de- positors at the savings bank ninety seven cents on the dollar if they were going to draw out their deposits, which offer was the means of restoring con- dence, hence the deposits drawn from the bank would not aggregate more than $2,000 or $3,000 while there was quite a number who made deposits. No other defalcations have as yet been discovered other than that of the Gilbert trust funds and S20,000 of that is made good by John E. Somes, Allen Rogers, John Corliss, John K Dustin, jr., and Sylvester Cunningham, who were on MT. Marsh's bond, which only leaves a deficiency of about $1S,O0O, or less than one-half of what was first expected. As no new developments have come to light it is thought the other funds of which MT. Marsh was trustee and guardian may be intact. The bank will open tomorrow morning as usual and the regular routine of business will be conducted.
 MT. Marst's downfall, it is stated, was due to speculation in stocks, not altogether in regular houses, but in ''bucket-shops," which have been es- tablished in Gloucester for more than fifteen years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
PHELPS HfIE EXERCISES.
Dr. Gi1dersleeve Upon the Worth of This
 Home of the Classics.

Dr. Gi1dersleeve Upon the Worth of This
 Home of the Classics.
 Battell chapel was filled with an ex- pectant audience last evening when Professor Peck rose from the speakers chair and in we'll chosen introduction gave brief history of the Classical club. He said the Classical club, in changed name, had existed at Yale for a generation. The long existence of such an organization shows the gener- ous place accorded the Classics at the university. Interesting, humorous and exqulsitely apropos to the theme were the quoted records from the old manu- script laws of the college, 1920, and the injunction passed that all students be required to recite the shorter catechism in Latin every week; that students talk Latin when together, and chasing Lat in, logic and arithmetic in the same category. The only Greek text used in Yale until the present century was the Greek Testament. He concluded: T speak only for one, but as for myself I cannot comprehend any liberal educa- tion which excludes the light of the Classics from the curriculum; we are the torch-runners, passing the torch of light on to others, following on. Most fitting is the motto of Phelps hall, Light and Truth"
 Professor Williams of the scientific department was then introduced. He made liberal concessions to the worth of classical studies, declaring that the greatest scientists have always urged the classics most strenuously as the complete rounding out of the liberal education.
 Every one in the large audience gave hearty second to the high praise the chairman of the evening, Professor Peck. paid to Yale's illustrious guest, Dr. Doerpfeld, as he introduced him once again. Dr. Doerpfeld said: La dies and Gentlemen-You will kindly grant me the concession of few words here on this most interesting occasion. I take great pleasure in the fiourishiny condition of the classics in Yale, and rejoice most warmly that the plant has so fine a field for development What seems to me most important is the way in which Yale has forwarded the work of the American school at Athens. Your scholars, trained there, come as teachers of power to your own colleges. We of the German institute cooperate most heartily in spirit and are in full harmony with the work you are doing, both at Athens and here in American Yale. I rejoice greatly at the new day for the Classical club at this univer- sity"
 Very graciously, then, when the ap- plause died away, died Professor Peck introduce the speaker of the evening, the scholar of the south, Dr. Glider sleeve, who said: When your gra- cious invitations reached me, I was at Athens; the dreams af a life-t time was being fulfilled. My first thought, was. that a son of Yale would have an easier task to speak to you tonight, a retro spective view, however, of the work of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
3O,OOO BRYANIrEs IN LINE.
Lacked 4O,OOO of the Number of Gold Mer
 in Line.

Lacked 40 ,OOO of the Number of Gold Men
 In Line.
 Chicago, Oct. 9-The organized fol- lowers of Bryan from every quarter of the city tonight marched with flaming torches to stirring music, over very nearly the same route followed by their political opponents during the day. Red fire and search lights added to the att tractiveness of the parade, and lent their assistance in stirring up the en- thusiasm of spectators who looked cn from every position of vantage along rhe line of march.
 The balcony of the Auditorium An mex was the reviewing stand for the free silver parade, and from it Vice President Stevenson, United States Senator Teller and many noted demo- crats reviewed the followers of Bryan and Sewall as they passed. The parade left the Columbus statue on the lake front at 8 D. m. As to the display the parade was scarcely as gorgeous es the gold democrats. but the silver people gave it out early in the week that they would attempt nothing in the way of spectacular effect. The banners as q rule were of an impromptu order. Many of the notices were wildly cheer ed at all points. One in particular, bearing the inscription, Our Bossas are Watching" caught the crowds.
 A float on which were seated seven- teen young ladies, of whom sixteen were dressed in white with silver adornments, and one decked with euld, was cheered continuously. Over 10,OO0 men were in line.
 A conservativ estimate puts the number of people on the streets from 9 500, ,000
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
IN A LOND N GAOL.
An American Society Woman in a Rather
 Bad Fix.


 Bad Fix.
 London, Oct. 9.-It was learned to- day that the United States embassy here was making every possible effort to ameliorate the position of the Amer jeans, Walter Castle and his wife, who were arrested on Wednesday on com plaint of several furriers, charging them with stealing valuable sable and chinchilla skins, and upon arraignment in the police court remanded for week without bail The prisoners, who claim to be well known in New York and San Francisco, are receiving many are also receiving offers of assistance from all parts of America and England. It is learned at the United States em- bassy that Secretary Olney vouches for the good character of MT. and Mrs. Castle and that the mayor of San Francisco, the attorney general of Cali fornia and Baron Rothschild will also certify to their responsibility
 Physicians have examined Mrs. Cas- tie since her incarceration in Holloway jail with a view of ascertaining her exact mental condition and their ex- animation has resulted in their deter mination to support the defence in ob- taining the services of special medical experts to appear at the hearing of the case of the lady and her husband, which will come up next Tuesday.
 The lawyers retained by MT. and Mrs Castle have not yet been successful in their efforts to secure the release of their clients. Mir. and Mrs. Castle are being made as comfortable as possible. Mrs. Castle Is very much depressed. Consul General Collins, MT l.. A. Lath- rop, United States consul at Bristol and a large number of Liverpool and London merchants have signified their Willingness to vouch for the good char acter of Mrs. Castle.
 Colonel McFarlane, the agent In Liv- erpool of the sugar drm of Spreckels of San Francisco, and MT. McNear. a prominent merchant of Liverpool, came to London yesterday, travelling in a special train, for the purpose of assist ing Secretary Roosevelt in his inter- view with the off1cialr of the home of- flee in behalf of the Castles. The in terview was held, but the home of flee people said at the present stage ot the case they were unable to interfere Magistrate Newton of the Great Marl- borough street police court, before whom MT. and Mrs. Castle were ar raigned, was next applied to, but he informed his callers that under the law he could only hear applications for bail in open court
 It is understood the police are in pos session of additional evidence against Mrs. Castle, but nothing whatever | against MT. Castle. It is believed that the defence will plead kleptomania or the part of Mrs. Castle and it is with this view that the lady has been exam ined by medical experts.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
MISS HOYT GOLF CHAMPION.
Wins the Woman's Perpetual Prize o
 Hynrristovru V,int.s

Wins the Woman's Perpetual Prize on
 Morristown Links.
 Morristown, N. J., Oct. 9.--The wealth. CT WIS all that could be desired for goifing purposes this morning when the start for the final was made in the wo- mans championship competition on the links of the Morris County Golf club under the auspices Of the national as sociation. The last two of the twenty five original competitors were club mates, Miss Beatrix Hoyt and Mrs. Arthur Turnure of the Shinnecock Hills Golf club and they fought it out to the end to-day.
 There was large crowd present and enthr sed to a high pitch by the grand exhibition of golf. It resulted in a tie. each woman winning three hcles and the other three being halved. Miss Hoyt and Mrs. Turnure played the final round of the championship this after noon Miss Hoyt, after a fiercely con- tested game, won the championship and secured the custody of the woman's perpetual prize by beating Mrs. Tur- nure with the score of 26 to to play.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co

which will prove to you that my father was in England during the period the slanderers allege he was in Washington bribing the United States senators.
 I should be obliged. if you should forward this letter to the Boston Post. or any other journal that busies itself with this story. < l may add that all respectable journals in the United States published the proofs I sent them and, to quote an American ism, took it all back" and most of the public men in the United States have taken the same honorable course.
 Yours truly,
 (Signed.) ERNEST SEYD.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
FOOLISH YOUNG MAN.
Shame Causes Texan Fiance to End His
 Life.

L1te.
 Washington, Oct. 9-Dillard Regland, twenty-seven years of age, native of Texas, employed in the internal reve- nue bureau of the treasury with rat ing and salary of messenger ($80 a month), committed suicide last night by inhaling gas, because he could not raise enough money to go to Atlanta, Ga, to get married next Monday. He was engaged to a Dallas girl, and the date and details of his approaching wedding had been announced with a flourish in some of the Atlanta newspa- pers.
 Failing to receive pecuniary aid from relatives in Texas, and having only $5 in his possession, Ragland killed him. self. To-day telegram came to the dead man from his father in Texas, stating that funds for his trip and for his marriage expenses had been placed to his order in a local bank.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
(Signed,
Extract.
3S Lombard St. F. C..

Dear MT. Forbes: I have seen your letter and am well acquainted with the islander in question. I thought I had killed 1t in the United States some months since, but I find 1t again crop ping up. The following are facts:
 My father quilted the United States (California) in 1857, and had never been there since. He never was in Wash ington in the whole course of his life
 T enclose you copy of letter in my possession from Moreton Frewen
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
AN AWEUL TRAGEDY.
Insane Man Kills His Wife and Two Small
 Children.

NobIeville, Ind, Oct. 9.-AIbert Bray, a farmer, living thirty miles from this city, his wife and their two young children were found dead on the floor of a room in their home this morning
 A bloody razor was at Bray's side. He had borne 9 good reputation.
 The partially deaf servant girl was not awakened, although the younger child. little girl, who slept beside her, was taken from bed into another room and then killed. Bray had been sick for some time with typhoid fever and was probably insane at the time of the tragedy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
IN CANADA FOR HIS BE4LTH
Is a Government Official $15, 5,OOO Short i
 His Accounts,

TEs
 Washington, Oct. 9.-A shortage of between $5,OOO and S10,OOO was recently found in the accounts of Dr. A. c. Pat terson, the assistant physician in charge of the criminal and homicidal wards of the Government Hospital for the Insane, on the outskirts of this city, known as St. Elizabeth's asylum. The deficit was in the sums paid by private patients.
 Dr. Godding, the superintendent of the asylum, who is the boAded disburs- ing officer of the institution, says the amount of the shortage has been made good. For three months past Dr. Pat terson has been in Canada for his health.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
Monticello Club Closed

At a meeting of the board of govern ors of the Monticello club last evening, 1t was voted to close the club house in-. definitely. Fred N. Robertson, the treasurer of the club, was instructed to collect subscriptions and pay off the in- debtedness of the club. The rate will be as formerly agreed to.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
SLANDERERS OF THE DEAD
4 CALUMNY ONCE CRUSHED TO
 EARTH AGAIN BURIED.

Old Story of Ernest Seyd's Alleged Bribery
 of United States Senators Revived-Abso-
 lute, Complete Proof of It's Falsity-Ven-
 erable Official of the Bank of England
 Testifies-Son Defends Fathers Name.
 Boston, Oct 9.--Mr. r. B. Forbes of this city to-day issued the following open letter to the press:
 Sir-This letter is written not with any partisan purpose, but solely in the interest of truth, ana 70 vindicate the memory of a dead man from unmerited calumny. Several years ago an ab- surd story was current in this country to the effect that the Bank of England had sent over MT. Ernest Seyd with a large corruption fund to secure the demonetiza tion of silver by our con- gress in 1873. This islander was ex- posed by the son of the late MT. Seyd. but it has cropped up again during the present campaign in very circumstan- tial form.
 A MT. Frederick A. Luckenback, for 'merly of the New York Stock Exchange, is stated to have made an affidavit in 1892 to the effect that he had been a frequent guest at MT. Seyd's house in London, where, in February, 1874, MT. Seyd had spoken about legislative cor ruption as follows: If you will pledge me your honor as a gentleman not to divulge what I am about to tell you while I live, I will convince you that what l said about the corruption of the American congress is true.''
 MT. Luckenbask gave the required promise and MT. Seyd is said to have continued: T went to America in 1S72-3 authorized to secure, if I could, the passage of bill demonetizing silver. It was to the interest of those whom represented-the governors of the Bank of England-to have 1t done. I took with me $500,000, with instructions that if that was not sufficient to accomplish the object, to draw for another $500,000 or as much as was necessary. I saw the committees of the house and senate and paid the money and stayed in America until knew the measure was safe"
 Knowing that this story was abso- lutely without foundation, wrote to a friend in England through whom have obtained two authoritative letters giving categorical denials to Mir. Luckenback's assertion and establish ing the following facts:
 1. The late MT. Ernest Seyd left this country in 1857 and never again return- ed here. He was well known in Eng land as one of the most ardent of the earlier advocates of international bi- metallsm and was the last man to 1 have accepted a mission to this country for the purpose of securing the demon etization of silver.
 | 2 The Bank of England never em- | ployed the late Mr. Ernest Seyd or any one else to secure the demonstration of silver in this country or elsewhere. The first letter given below is from Lord Aldenham formerly MT Henry Huchs Gibbs), who has been director of the Bank of England since 1853 and who was the first president of the Eng | lisl Bimetallic league.
 | The second is an extract from a iet- ter from MT. Ernest Seyd son of the Luckenback affidavit.
 | I remain, sir, your obedient servant, F. B. FORBES.
 705 Sears Building, Boston, Oct. 9, l 1894
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
sHERBURNE BANK RoBBER SHOT.
The Other Surrenders-Overtak by the
 Sheriff at Bancroft, Ia.

Fairmont, Minn., Oct. 9.-One of the Sherburne bank robbers and murderers has been killed by Deputy Sheriff Ward of this county at Bancroft, Ia. He had shot and killed the marshal of that place. The other desperado sur- rendered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
Aldenham House, Nr Elestree, Herts,
 Sept 10 1885,


 Sept. 10, 1895. Dear MT Forbes-I have seen your letter to Sir w. Souldsworth and the let ter of MT Farrell to the Boston Post, in which he quotes an affidavit of MT. Luckenbach referring to a conversation said to have taken place between him and the late Ernest Seyd.
 I may venture to characterize the statement as absolutely false from be- ginning to end. I have been director of the Bank of England since 1853, and 1t is absolutely impossible that any such mission could have been made, or any such expenditure incurred, without the knowledge of myself and every oth- CT member of the court But I was also deputy governor of the bank in 1873 and a member of the Committee of Treasury from November, 1872, and am therefore able from absolute per- sonal knowledge to say that it is a rid iculous fiction to state that, through Mir. Seyd or any one else, any such pre- posterous and dishonest negotiation took place. MT. Greene, deputy gover- nor in 1872 and governor in 1873, writes to me: q have never heard of any mission to the U. s. A. or to anywhere else to promote the demonstration of silver in 1S72-3, or at any other time. I did not know MT. Ernest Seyd by sight,
 Neither did l. nor had I heard his name till about 1876, when I was the governor. He, the first man to point out the dan ger to England of the demonstration of silver. would, I am sure, have been the last man to have countenanced such an attempt. The statement that it was not to be divulged till he was no longer alive to defend himself does not add to the credibility of the story. The whole thing, whether as to principal or agent, whatever the name or status of either, lacks, I am sure. any, even the very weakest, foundation.
 Yours faithfully, (Signed) ALDENHAM.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10

Ex-Governor Fuller of Vermont Dead.
 Brattleboro. Vt. Oct. 10.-Ex- Cover nor Fuller died to-day at 1:15 a. n.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09

tebleau, as you call it, but not in the engine room. Our stem and two wall- eyed junks were the actors. It was up there" jerking his head northwards. "There was nothing but a thousand odd miles of water and a dusting of islands between us and Hong Kongs The mate held a lighted match to the chiefs pipe and set him drifting on with the current of his yarn.
 You see, it was years and years ago, and was second in a local boat-Hong Kong to Yokohama. We were the first to employ China firemen. We had been repairing and had put on fresh crowd, ell except one. Li Chin. It was near monsoon time, and the second day out we were sitting, as we might be here; but there was no sunset on view. It had been hazy all day, and we were watch ing the moon rising; just past full, it looked-as if some one had bashed one side off the true. It got up through the haze, big and blood red, like fire bal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
LlA0oA, AONuMEN1aI HAT
Served as q Cabinet for His Pa-
 pets, and Even as 3 Valise.
Said to Have Saved His Life-Uscd ns q Football by Merry Party When the Election News Was First
 Received.
IcorYRIaHr. 1896.

The annual recurrence of Lineoln's birthday invariably brings to light q number of new stories about the mar tyr president. These are always in- tensely interesting. I have just run across several good stories about the high silk hat that Lincoln always wore. This important piece of head apparel served the great Kentuckian in as good stead as the magic cap did Siegfried, "tiding him through wonderful tasks '' In all positions that be filled, whether as soldier, storelSeeper, surveyor, so- licitor or statesman, the silk tile was alike indispensable. Gen. Grants cigar came in for a good deal of attention by writers and reviewers, but the hat Of Honest Abe" was a vefitable treasure house. It served in turn for carrying surveyors notes, letters, dispatches. newspaper clippings, lawyers briefs and state papers of all sorts. It even figured i'll hilarious football game OH the night of his election to the presi= deney, and the scene would have done credit to the best memories of Man haitian Field.
 But before passing to an account of the part played by the noble tile in the martyr presidents career it may be well to give description of it.
 The hat that Lincoln was accustomed 10 wear seemed to be foot high, with brim almost as big as southern som brero. Indeed, Lincoln's headgear was something like his old kitchen stove large, generous and built for hospital ity. In this joint of stove-pipe," as one writer has described it, were tucked away all his personal and professional papers, while its broad brim made it alike seryiceable for rain or shine. Per haps the picturesqueness of the plug had something to do with naming the mob that threatened his journey to the national capital the Plug Uglies."
 Mir. Crane, the comedian, introduces in his play of Brother John" kind Of