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OF IMPORTANCE TO BANKERS.
A DECISION RENDERED BY SU-
PERIOR JUDGE SEAWELL.
The Crocker-Woolwor Bank En-
titled to Recover Amount Paid
Upon a Raised Draft.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20--Superior
Judge Seawell to-day decided that the
Crocker- Woolworth Bank OF this city
is entitled to recover the S22,UtO which
it paid to the Nevada Bank two years
ago upon the draft so skillfully raised
and negotiated by gang or Eastern
forgery, which sent Carl Becker ana
James Creegan to the State Prison Tor
life.
About December s, 1895, one A. H.
Dean. now better known as Frank
Sfeyers obtained from the Bank of
Woodland. in Yolo County, draft for
S12 upon the Crocker-W -Woolworth Bank,
it's agent in this city. The check was
regularly drawn and signed by c. F.
Thomas. the cashier of the Bank of
Woodland.
Dean came to San Francisco and
turned the check over to his confeder-
ates. Becker and Creegan, and after
few days labor it was raised by the
prince of forgers" to $4,000 So
skillfully was the work done that when
Dean opened a deposit account with
the Nevada Bank and put in his check
he was duly credited on the books with
So, 900 This was on the 18th of De-
cember.
On the 18th the Nevada Bank sent
the check to the Crocker- w oolworth
Bank, through the clearing house, and
the latter bank honored the check and
paid the money. On the 18th Dean
drew from the Nevada Bank S2O,OUO
and absconded His subsequent arrest
and those of Becker, Creegan and Nc
Cloekey are matters OF history.
The Bank of Woodland had a credit
balance with the Crocker- Woolworth
Bank of over and above the So, 1000
paid. 1t was accustomed to settle by
two seni-monthly statements, one on
the LIST and the other on the 10th of
the month In this case, however, the
1st of January being a holiday, the
Crocker- Woolworth Bank did not for
ward it's statement to Woodland until
the ID Then on the 4th it received
advices of the forgery.
An immediate demand was made up
on the Nevada Bank by the Crocker-
Woolworth Bank for a return of the
S220 900. less S12, for which amount the
draft was given. The Nevada Bank,
however, denied liability, though it Of
fered, and still offers, to return the
$1,000 which is still held in hand, the
undrawn balance of the $50. 900. The
Croker w Woolworth Bank filed suit, and
a bitter litigation then ensued. The
case was heard before Judge. Seawell.
taken under advisement, briefs filed,
and to-day his honor filed his opinion,
awarding the plaintiff bank the full
amount claimed
The record-union., 1897-12-21
CIVIL SERVICE.
Commissioner of Pensions Before
the Senate Committee.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-Commis-
sioner of Pensions Evans to-day APP
peared before the Senate Committee
on Civil Service and Retrenchment
which is conducting an investigation
into the operation of the civil service
system.
Mr. Evans was questioned at length
hy Senators Lodge and Pritchard about
the civil service system and its applI-
cation TO the Pension Office force. He
expressed the opinion that the law did
not accomplish the results it's friends
insisted that it did. The best men in
his office were those who had come in
under the so-called ''spoils system y
They did their duty. and expected to
hold their positions by so doing.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Italy's New Cabinet.

ROME, Dec. 20.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day the Marquis Di Ru-
dini announced the formation of the
new Cabinet, and debate on the sub
ject was opened. A vote will be taken
tomorrow. After criticism upon the
opposition of the Ministry, Signor CO.
lombo, former Minister of the Treas
ury, submitted a resolution of want of
confidence in the new Government, but
the Chamber rejected it by a vote of
200 against 1S4.
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An Insane Patient Ends His Life.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-John Hogan, a
patient at the Cook County Insane
Asylum at Dunning, and a brother of
the widely known sporting man, Ma
lachai Hogan, committed suede last
night in a peculiar manner. lie eluded
the vigilance of the guards, ana. gong
to the bathroom, picked up dust pan
and drew the ragged edge Of it across
his throat, severing the wind pipe and
veins of his throat.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
FIRE AT SANGER.
A Box Factory Burned to the
Ground.

FRESNO, Dec. 20.-Last evening fire
broke out in the cellar of the box fac
tory of the Sanger Lumber Company
at Sanger, about fifteen miles from
here. In a few minutes the building
was in flames. An alarm was imme-
diateiy turned in, and the efforts of all
who could be secured We're turned to
saving the other buildings of the COM
pany. Fortunately there was no wind.
and these other buildings We're saved.
The boX factory was burned to the
ground. 1t contained $4,000 feet of
lumber. The loss was about SO, 600.
The property was partially insured.
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BRITISH GUNBOAT DARIUS.
Arrives at San Diego En- Route to
Esquimalt.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 20.-The British
gun5oat Darius arrived this morning
from Coquimbo, with all we'll on board.
She stopped at Callao, Acapulco and
San Jose de Guatemala, and. after coal
ing, leaves for Esquimalt Wednesday.
Frcm the reports of her officers, the
British squadron on this coast will be
largely increased very soon. Com
mander Fleet says that within the
next fifteen days the cruiser Leander,
1900 tons, is due here on her way
north, and is accompanied by the tor
pedo destroyer Virago. The Phaeton
is also on her way from England to
Esquinlalt, and should reach here in
about two months, accompanied by an
other torpedo destroyer.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Life IMPRISONMENT.

BARBOURVILLE C<y), Dec. u
Isom Lawson, the eighteen-y year- old
boy wao murdered his father in Brush
Creek. this county, was given life
sentence this afternoon Lawson killed
his parent, minister, by striking him
on the head with a hoe because the
father bad corrected him for some mis-
demeanor
The record-union., 1897-12-21
PANIC IN A RAILWAY CAR.
Caused by the Explosion of Two
Boxes of Ce11uloid Combs.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Two paste
board boxes filed With celluloid combs
came in contact with the steam pipe
OF a car on the Seventh-avenue elevat-
ed railway to-day, and exploded with
great force while the train was stand
ing at a station. Two men were hurt
by the explosion, and three women
tainted. There was panic on the
car. but the fact that when the acci-
dent occurred the train was stationary
and the gates were opened operated to
avoid disastrous results. The car was
wrecked.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
MOORHEAD TRAIN ROBBERS.
Chicago Authorities Believe They
Have Them Located.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20-It is believed by
the authorities that they have located
the robbers who held up Northern
Pacific train near Moorhead in October,
and one of the alleged robbers is now in
the County Jail in this city. 1t is re-
ported that he worked in Moorhead long
enough to famiEarize himself with the
situation, and to engage the help or
some local men, who, however, weak
ened later 1t is reported that the pris-
oner has made complete confession,
but the authorities will not talk.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Chard Given Six Months in Jail.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2O-James
w. Chard was to-day sentenced by
Judge De Haven to six months con-
finement in the Alameda County Jail.
Chard was formerly employed in the
PoStoffce, and falsified papers as to the
moneys paid by newspaper publishers
for postages. Chard pleaded guilty to
the charge of falsifying returns, and
the case of embezzlement was not
pressed against him.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
COOPER SENTENCED.
Judge Cook Gives Him Three Years
at San Quentin.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.-"Sir'
Harry Westwood Cooper was before
Judge Cook to-day for sentence on a
charge of uttering and passing a fic-
titious check. Before fixing the pen
atty of the law his honor considered
the appeal taken in the case, and, fin
ally, overruled it. In his remarks he
congratulated the defendant upon the
able manner in which Attorney French
had conducted the case, after which he
sentenced the prisoner to three years in
San Quentin.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Costly Fire at Raltimore.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.-The estab-
lishment Of Crook, Horner & Co., deal
ers in plumbers, machinists' and mill
lers' supplies, occupying a seven-story
building at Howard and Saratoga
streets, was damaged S450.000 by fire
this evening. The loss is covered by in
SuranCe.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
An Ex-Supreme Court Justice Ill.

BUFFALO, Dec. 20.-Hon. Charles
Daniels. who for twenty-eight years
served on the Supreme Court bench
and also represented the Thirty-third
Congressional District. was stricken
with paralysis this afternoon. His doe
tors say his death is only question of
a short time
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Gold Smell in Colorado.

DENVER. Dec. 2O.-The oldest in
habitant can hardly recall cold spell
in this vicinity that Continued longer
than the one which began last We'd
nesday. The minimum temperature
in Denver during the twenty four hours
ending at a. m. to-day was two de-
grees below zero, and the record at 8
a. NJ. was the same. In Pueblo the
minimum was two degrees lower than
in Denver
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armed with a hatchet and Edward with

armed with a hatchet and Edward with
a pistol.
Palmer did not know of their coming
until bystander cried for him to
look out. He turned just in time to
see George Arnold throw the hatchet
at his head. He had no time to dodge,
but threw up his hands to ward off the
blow. The hatchet cut off three of his
fingers. Had he not turned he would
have been killed.
Palmer brought suit to-day against
George Arnold for S11 900 damages
alleged to have been received in the ad-
venture.
George Arnold IS Justice Of the Peace
at Huron, and man of property and
standing in the community.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Funeral of Daudet.

PARIS, Dec. 20-The funeral Of AL
phonse Daudet, who died suddenly
Thursday, was largely attended to-day.
Emile Zola, who attended the funeral,
was hooted owing to his support of the
efforts made by the friends of Alexan-
der Drcyfus to bring about reopen
ing of his case
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Wages to be Reduced.

SUNCOCK IN. H.), Dec 20.-Notices
have been posted at the cotton mills of
a reduction of wares of about 10 per
cent. January 1st The cut will affect
super-intendents ard overseers and all
employees. including nearly l,5OO opera
tives The monthly pay roll amounts
to about S27. 900 1t is probable that
the GU. will be accepted
The record-union., 1897-12-21
LEWIS LELAND DEAD.
Was One Of the Family of Famous
Hotel Men Of That Name.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-Lewis Leland.
one of the family of famous hotel men
of that name. died In this city to-day.
aged Is. He and his brothers have
been among the most prominent hotel
men in the United States. His last
active management of hotel was in
connection with the StuItevant House
in this city. from which he retired about
seven years ago. With his brother, c.
S. Leland, he managed the old St.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
ASSAULT TO COMMIT MURDER.
Two Prominent Fresno Citizens
Placed Under Arrest.

FRESNO, Dec. 2o.-George A. and
Edward l.. Arnold We're arrested to-day
to answer to q charge of assault to
commit murder upon Ed L. Palmer
All the parties are prominent and
wealthy citizens of this county. Palmer
was building a fence across a piece of
land over which he and the Arnolds
have had some dispute, and George
Arnold ordered him to stop Words
followed, and Arnold went for his
brother Edward. George returned
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Her Shaft Broke.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 2o.-The British
steamer F'loridian, Captain Bullock,
from New Orleans on December 1st for
this port, has arrived here and reports
having passed on December 10th, in
latitude 80 and longitude -, the Brit
sh steamer Appomatox, from London
December Sth for Newport News. The
Apponatox signaled that her shaft was
broken The British steamer Virginian
was preparing to take the Appomatox
in tow.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Willful Murder.

LONDON. Dec. 20.--At the inquest
to-day over the remains Of Actor Ter
riss the Coroner's jury rendered YER
dict Of willful murder. The crowd pres
ent at the inquest included many act
ors. The accused man was absent. The
evidence was a. repetition of the stories
when Prince was arraigned at the Bow
street Police Court.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Visible Supply Of Grain.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The statement
of the visible supply of grain in store
and afioat Saturday, December 18th.
as compiled by the New York Produce
Exchange, is as follows: Wheat, 3d.
$50 .OnD bushels; increase, 1000 bush
els. Corn, 3S,3S9,000 bushels; decrease,
2,142.0O0 bushels. Oats, 14,202, 900
bushels: increase, 32, 900 bushels. Rye,
$40 900 bushels; decrease, Sc, ,0o0 bush
els. Barley. 4 500, 900 bushels; decrease,
2S3 GOO bushels
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Non-CathoIjc Marriages.

LIMA Peru), via Galveston. Dec. 90.
1T is understood that President Pier
ola will promulgate the new law as to
Catholic marriages, but Senor Ale
jandro Lopez de Romano, Minister of
the Interior, will resign.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
weavers on a Strike.

NEW YORK, Dec 20-The weavers
at the German looms in the William
Strang Company mills. at Paterson. n.
J., are on a strike against a reduction
Of wages. Fifty broad silk weavers in
the employ of the Needing Manufacture
ing Company at Patterson, went on a
strike to-day for an increase in wages
of 10 per cent
The record-union., 1897-12-21
A Murderer Commits Suicide.

ST. JOSEPH (Mo), Dec. 2O.--Jack
McCune, gambler who killed William
M. Albin on the morning of August
9th. committed suicide in the County
Jail this morning by taking morphine.
McCune had frequently said that he
would never be tried for the crime.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
A Bu11et Through His Heart.

SYRACUSE IN. W, Dec. 20.-Peter
s. McMahon of Albany, crazed by ci-
garette smoking. committed suicide
here to-day. Mcmahon stood in front
of a mirror and fired a bullet through
his heart. He was about 20 years old.
The record-union., 1897-12-21

Charles Hotel, one of the famous
Broadway hotels in earlier days. The
Leland Hotel in Chicago. still in exis-
tence under that name. was one OF the
best-known of the Lelands' enterprises.
as is the Leland at Springfield, Ills.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
Ebanks Must Hang.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20-The Su-
preme Court of the United States to-
day affirmed the decision of the lower
court in the case of ]. !. Ebanks. a
convicted murderer of California, bas-
ing it's decision on the Durrant case.
The record-union., 1897-12-21

One thing about bicycle, it doesn't
care who rides it.
The record-union., 1897-12-21
TEMPERATURE AT RED.
LANDS

REDLANDS, Dec. 20 - The lowest
thermometer reading in Smiley Hights
was 81 degrees. Some exposed parts
of Redlands went down to "a degrees.
Orchardists generally report % and %
degrees. Most orchardists to-day
claimed that navels are uninjured, but
that Mediterranean sweets are hurt
some. Tonight promises to be about
as cold as last night.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way TO cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an innamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube
When this tube is infamed You have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation car
be taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be des
troyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but
an inhamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars fol
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrt
Cure. Send for circulars; free.
+. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
The Bow Out Ran Him.

The following story appears in the
Oxford PesS this week:
A Cuban boy. who escaped from the
House of Refuge at Glen Mills, Pennsyl-
vania, about nine months ago and has
been living with A. B. Cameron for the
past two, escaped from the Superintend-
ent last Wednesday, who having heard OF
his whereabouts through some means or
other, came to take him back to the in
stitution. The escape was rather amusing.
The boy had team of Mr.. Cameron S
taking load of corn away when he met
the officer whom he Immediately recog-
nized. The officer got out of his buggy,
went to the wagon and told the boy he
wanted him. After short exchange OF
words the boy threw the reins to another
man in the wagon and lighted out Oil the
other side and jumped hedge fence.
Then followed the chase. The fence was
too much for the officer who had to find
bars to get over. Then across the fields
and into the woods they went, the boy
gaining on the man. The officer offered
Jos Hammond, colored man who was
working in the woods. S. to catch the
boy. The black man started but when
he found who the boy was he would not
catch him. The boy is liked by every
one acquainted with him and legal means
will be used to keep him,
Mr.. Cameron furnishes more accept
able Refuge than the state of Pa. But
what right had Pennsylvania officer to
arrest the boy in this state?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
ACTORS SOCIAL POSITION.
Moliere Was Considered an Outcast-Re
fused Spiritual Consolation.

Ioliere Was Considered an Outcast-Re-
fused Spiritual Consolation.
The time was in France when the actor
had no social position and certainly no
spiritual one. Special dispensation
was necessary when the Catholic
church allowed mass to be said for the
repose of an actors soul. Prof. War
rem, describing the Moliere period,
writes:
THE social position of an actor in
Moliere's time was low one. Not
from any prejudice against the stage.
evidently, since the dramatists like
Corneille and Scarron were on the same
footing at the Hotel de Rambouillet and
other salons of Paris as poets and es-
sayists and were elected to the French
Academy as readily. Indeed, it would
seem as though the composition of
plays was the shortest road to distinc-
ton in the Paris of Moliere, as it is to-
day.
But with the actors it was another
question. Their wandering, unset
tied modes of life had evidently told
against them. 1hey were not admit
ted to society whether their conduct
was good or bad. They were not even
considered in the light of literary per-
sons. Moliere met his friends, Roileau,
La Fontaine, Furetiere at public cafes.
AS writer of comedy he was either not
taken seriously or had incurred too
much hostility the part of influential
sets, the clergy through 'Tartuffe, the
salons through Les Femmes Savantes.'
AS an actor he was considered an out
cast with his class, and when on his
deathbed he asked for spiritual con-
ISOLATION his appeal fell on deaf ears I'M
til it was too late. So that it was with
the greatest difficulty that his widow
procured bit of consecrated ground
in which to lay the remains of the I'M
shrived COMEDIAN Chautauquan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26

j. Swami Everist, merchant OF
Havre de Grace, has made a deed
of trust for the benefit of creditors.
Mr.. Everist is a son of the late
Francis S. Everist, for many years
President of the school board of this
county.
DR.. Michael A. Durney, a retired
physician and farmer, died Satur-
day at his home near Cecilton, aged
eighty years. He recently fell and
sustained injuries from which,
owing to his advanced age, he never
recovered.
Whiskers that are prematurely gray or
faded should be colored to prevent the
look of age, and Buckingham's Dye ex'
GELS all others in coloring brown or black.
For SALE OR RENT.-Dwellings,
Stores, and only Butchers Plant in
Rising Sun, at half value.
H. H. HAINES.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
Intended Horse Thief Suspected.

The Perryville Record reports the fol-
lowing North East news:
Mr.. Samuel T Shippers had quite an
exciting experience last Thursday i'll re-
covering horse and buggy which he
thinks it was the intention of the parties
who hired the team, to steal Just after
the s. "a 4 m train south, had left man
and woman came to him for q team the
man saying they had missed the train
and that he was very anxious to get his
wife who he said was very sick to Rising
Sun to her brothers. He gave his name
as Hughey Wilson from Providence Cecil
county. After some talk Mr.. Shippers let
him have a team and the pair left, the
man promising to return the horse and
buggy after he had left the woman at the
Sun. Not hearing anything of the team
towards evening, Mr. Shippers became
suspicious and concluded to start out in
hunt of it. With pair of fresh horses
and companion he drove pretty much
all over the upper part of the county on
the trail but though several times i'll close
pursuit never succeeded in over taking
the team. He learned along the route
that the woman was the wife of another
man, of Ed Riley by name an Italian who
he was told lived at Port Deposit and that
her maiden name was Johnson. When
he got home Friday morning he found
that his team had been returned by man
giving his name as Riley answering to the
description of the man said to be the
woman's husband, who said it had been
turned over to him by stranger with the
request that he return it to North East.
When seen by some of the persons along
the road from whom Mr.. Shippers got his
information as to the movements of the
suspected parties, the horse was said to
have been entirely played out and that
the man driving. was Sbeating it I'M
mercifully. Mr.. Shippers is of the opinion
that the fatigue the horse suffered is all
that prevented its being stolen and gotten
away with.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
SO Years of Cures.
The Prohibition Lecture.

The prohibition lecture of Hon.
M. j. Tanning, formerly of Mich
igan, now of Baltimore, delivered
in the town hall on Wednesday
evening was very enjoyable and
from the prohibition political stand
point, good prohibition argument.
Mr.. Tanning is an adept at paint
ing word pictures and his lecture
was largely composed of pictures
of the drunkard's home and its
misery, and the reverse side when
the millennium of prohibition had
been brought to pass by National
and State prohibition laws thor
oughly enforced. The fifteen hun
dred millions spent for liquor in
this country last year is not made
up of the scant wages of the work
ing class. Probably not one-tenth
of it, but by the well-to-do and
wealthy, so that the deprivation of
the necessaries of life on account of
liquor is not felt by the latter class.
This is favorite view of prohibi-
ton lecturers, that the money
wasted in drink is sufficient to make
all happy and comfortable if the
drink evil were banished. This
argument is very shallow, for it is
only true to comparatively small
extent. Of the millions out of
work and wretchedly poor, cold,
naked and starving, those made so
by drink are but comparatively
small in number-though a multi
tude-compared to the whole.
Drink is bad, very bad, but the
destitutiOn which cries from the
streets and novels for relief is
caused by other conditions than
drink. Drink is in a large measure
the result of the poverty and mis-
cry which precedes it, and the cause
that is casting down thousands into
the depths of want could not and
would not be cured by a reign of
total prohibition. The liquor bus
mess is about as bad in every
phase it can be looked at, as any
thing can be, but its abolition
would not cure the misery of pow
erty. The imaginary millennium
which Mr.. Tanning pictured that
would represent reign of prohibi-
ton is almost entirely imaginary.
The drink evil is largely a result
of economic conditions that must be
removed before the evil can be
eradicated. Our earnest prohibit
ton friends are working to cure a
result while losing sight of the cause,
and this is the main reason they
make no progress. The saloons are
not Goliath, but the army of the
Philistians. This is the great
strategic error the prohibition party
movement has fallen into. The
power behind the saloon is greater
than the saloon. In twenty-three
years the prohibition party has
made absolutely no progress. Their
political methods are entirely
wrong.