The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

morgan * Co, bankers. The latter be-
I came dissatisfied with the security, and
! an arrangement was made by which the
I loan was transferred to the American
/ National Bank of Providence. an insttu-
/ uon closely allied with the Tool Company,
| the cashier of the bank, Horatio A. Hunt
being a brother of the president of the
/ company
| 1t dld not take the sultan long to learn
OF the pledging of his rifles Promptly he
entered bill of complaint in the United
/ states circuit court for the southern dis
| trict or New York against the Providence
! Tool Company the American National
| Bank OF Providence, Horatio A. Hunt. e.
/ g. Bartlett " Co., and every one else con-
! cerhed. William NJ. EVarts was the sui
tan's counsel, and Hassan Basseri APP
! peared as delegate for the plaintiff. The
| sultan claimed the rifles as his property.
/ and denied the right of the Providence
Tool Company to pledge them as security
for a loan.
All the firms and individuals named in
| Abdul Hands bin of complaint promptly
| began counter-suits. The new complca-
| ions proved too great a burden for the
| Providence Tool Company and on April
| H. leS2, 1t suspended payment. The as
siShee then began suit against Abdul
/ Hamid for breach of contract Mean
| While the warehouse company kent try
| ing TO collect from some one $93797 due
Tor storage of the rifles and the bayonets
| Inc counter-charges made in answer to
the sultan's bin of complaint contained
many curious allegations. one in partic-
| ular, which was never argued alleged
| that Eel Ghazl Abdul Hamid Khan SAM
| was not the lawful ruler of Turkey. but
| that one Murad was the lawful and true
! sultan and sovereign of the Ottoman en-
| pre-. This was Abdul Hamid's brother
and immediate predecessor who, after
! reigning as sultan for few months. was
| declared nd
| throne. He was confined in prison, and
Abdul Hamid, rightfully or wrongfully.
| look to himself the title of sultan
Upon no part of the many suits were
| any court decisions given. Complaints.
| answers, injunctions, and STAYS contin-
ued to be filed from various quarters un-
IN 1854. Goodrich, Deadly & Goodrich, the
wan street lawyers who now have one
| OF the rifles, went so far as to summon
the sultan to appear in court. His coun-
sell William M. Evarts, accepted service
of the summons. Suddenly within one
week all litigation ceased. The year 1884
| brought an ominous war cloud about the
| sultan's head. He needed his rifles ana
he needed them badly He at once paid
| all claims. The tool companys bill che
| bank loan, the court costs-even the law
yer's fees of his opponents which he had
not been asked to pay--were settled speed
lily by the sultan in his anxiety to get his
guns.
| Although not generally known, this law
suit of the sultan is but one of four in
| stances within the last half century i'm
| which foreign monarchs have figured in
| New York courts. Money in every case
has been the cause of action Queen
| victoria not so many years ago was here
| by proxy, trying to recover a few paltry
thousands from a citizen of New Jersey.
| Emperor Francis Joseph was trying to get
| New York to issue an injunction against
Louis kossuth. The Car of all the Rus
slas was the defendant in a suit over a
| damaged barge
The case in which Queen Victoria was
the plaintiff had its origin on July 4, 1878,
| when ST. 400 in Canadian bank notes was
| stolen in Toronto from the Office of Alex
| ander Fraser, assistant receiver-general
| of Canada. After several months search
| ing, detectives produced evidence in a New
| York court to show that some of the notes.
| 5000 of which were two dollar bills and
| $500 oue-dollar bills, had been traced to
Jacob D. Otis. a resident of New Jersey
| Judge Morrison r. Waite accordingly is
| sued a summons for Otis. The affidavit
| upon which the summons was issued was
| peculiarly worded. 1t said: 1.-The plain
| tiff, who is not a citizen of the United
| States. but Is queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India, shows upon
| her information-' The answer to the
| summons as fled by Otis also had Gu
| rious phrasing. The defendant admits
| that Victoria is not a citizen of the Uni
| ted States but is Queen of Great Britain
! and Ireland and Empress of India, and
| admits that he is a citizen of New Jersey"
| but denies everything else. The case
dragged along for three years, affidavits
| being filed from Paris Brussels, Turin,
and other European cities. 1t came to
| trial in the early part of 1881, and on Feb.
3 the jury disagreed. The queens coun-
sci applied for a new trial, but before ac-
| ton was taken Of his motion, Otis pro-
posed a compromise. The case was set
tied on March 80, 1881, by Otis paying to
the queen 500 and also $3.50 court costs.
When Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian
| patriot, spent six months in New York
| in the winter of 1S51-52, he endeavored to
raise money for his cause by issuing Hun
! garian notes payable one year after the
independence of Hungary has been es-
| tablished." The Emperor Francis Joseph
| applied for and obtained a preliminary in
| junction to prevent Danford Bold & Co,
| engravers, from printing the notes. When
the case was argued. the New York courts
decided that they had no jurisdiction and
dismissed the injunction although the
court of chancery in England granted
| similar Injunction, TO the great indigna-
| ton of Kossuth, who wrote an angry let
| ter to Sir Joshua Walmesly denounclng
Francis Joseph, 1.-THE pretended ruler Of
hungary.
The most recent of the four cases was
Of minor Importance. During the Column
bian naval exhibition IN the New York
| harbor in 1898. the Russian man-of-war
Dmitri Donskoi fouled the tug Heiperhau-
sen, damaging some of her barges. The
ordinary course of action would have been
to libel the offending vessel and detains her
in port until the damages had been adj
justed international law, however. pro
vides that war vessels cannot be libelled
Nothing was left for the owners of the
| damaged barges to do but to sue the
Gar Of all the Russias, and they did SO.
Representatives Of the car after endeav-
oring in vain to show that the Heiuer-
| hausen's lights were not properly display
ed, footed the bill, and the suit was with
drawn.