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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-25
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A Walnut Parlor Set comprising
the following articles:
l Sofa, 2 Armohairs, 4 Roc ksrs,
II Chairs, / Whatnot, l Large carpet
or rug, Centre table with mar bic
top, Small tables for howsr jars,
L Loci king glass with marble top
Console. l Hatstsanu.
A Walnat Bedroom Setcomposed of
Large Washhandst and with
Water deposit, l Toilet glass with
vslvit, Night Is bic, l Wardrobe with
mirror, 2 Pins Wardrobes. for
gentlemen and / for ladies, 1 Lazy
writing desk.
A Dining room set
VALIANT dining table with three
extr~ boards, 6 chairs, Rockers,
l Dripstone and stand, Buffet.
All in best condition and on view
at l.. P. Doria & Anguera's fnrni-
sure store & factory. Gale Real,
Ponce, Porto Rico.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-25
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Un sofa, II si,ias. 4 slilones. 2 bu
acas, una consoa con ST. espeJo.
una aIfombra grande, 2 mesitas para
ooner eies.os, una sombrerera, I'm
iaguetero, una mesa do certro.
GABINETE
I'm topero de esp'jo un vestidor,
un lavsmano CON So deposito de
aqua.
COMEDOR
Un ceib6, 6 siilas, un guardaco
mida. 2 siilones, una mesa cen tres
tablas. un ropero dc pino para caba-
Hero, un ropcro de plno para se1lors,
un lavamano color caoba.
Ponce, Noviembre 23 de 1898
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-25

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The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
A PROPHETIC WARNING TO BE
 WARE OF DIR. w. s lENNINGSON.

pr. Mcdonald had very low opinion in regard to his son~ Richards choice of business advisers and on November l he bitterly denounced pr. w. Jenning son, one of Dick McDonald's most per sistent parasites Dr. Mcdonald did not like Dr. Jenningson and urged Dick to send him home to San Francisco. He declared that the man was utterly use less and a general nuisance Jenning- son had travelled various parts of this State for Dick, had gone to New York and had persuaded his master to send him to London and Liverpool. Before making these long journeys, Jenning son had assured the young banker that he could float some of the securities in the English cities. As a matter of fact he could do nothing of the sort and as might have been expected he return ed with nothing of advantage to the Pacific Bank In the following letter Dr. Mcdonald makes allegations far more serious than incompetency against Dr. Jenningson:
 SARATOGA, N. Y, Nov. 1, 1892
 My Dear Son Richard: pr. Jenning-
 son Is Of no use here. I don't know
 what new business you may have for
 him to attend to here, but his stay
 here has been fruitless of any use,
 so far as I know or have been able
 to. learn. I confess that have now and
 have always had a poor opinion of Dr.
 JenningSon, and have, wondered how
 it is that you have had such conf-
 dence and so much to dos. win, him. : He is a smart, cunning fellow, always
 with his sails to the wind, and talks
 of what he has done and what results
 are to follow, but these promises do
 not come out so. So far as l have
 been able to learn from him or others
 he made some sure and fine arrange
 ments for getting a number of thou
 sand of dollars of the assets of the de- funct bank in San Diego. have been asking him about the moneys to come
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

dream in which he saw his son. Richard, murdered before his eyes. The picture, even as the old man wrote it, is extremely dramatic and in an effort to tell his terrible vision he displays a most unusual descriptive power He declares that he saw the wounded and bleeding body of his son carried from crowd and he asked a woman at his slde what was the matter The woman ne saw Tn his vision was Mrs. L. >Rienzi and she calmly informed the old man. so he thought in his dream that she had stabbed his son. Mrs. Rienzi was one Of the women that gathered around DICK Mcdonald in many of his wild ventures in this city, such as the Pano- rama, on Eddy and Mason streets, and the Californian Illustrated Magazine. AS matter of coincidence Mrs. Rienzi had sent Dick many threatening let ters, giving him great disturbance of mind in her decidedly candid criticism of his other lady friends. pr. McDon- aids letter about his dream is as fol- lows:
 NEW YORK, Nov. 2S. 1898.
 My Dear Son Richard: This morn my sleep in great alarm and conster- nation. I had vivid dream that I was walking along the street, and on the other side l saw crowd gather ing, and I went over to see the cause: and as I came up 1 saw you being carried away in the arms of .twos or three men. l, in great excitement, asked what had happened, and Mrs. Rienzi said to me, T stuck a knife in him." At this juncture I awoke The dream scene was and is now as strong and plain in my mind as if 1t had been an enacted reality. It has been some time since I have had one thought of her in any way. I have no faith in dreams, but merely men ton this incident to you that so excited me that it was a good deal while before l could go again to sleep. The old St. Paul clock near my window rang out the hour of just after my waking, which gave me the correct hour of the night. Affection ately your father
 R. H. MCDONALD.
 Tomorrow morning The Call will continue the publication of the letters of Dr. R. H. Mcdonald and will show what the old banker thought of Moses H. Sherman and the wildcat schemes that involved the Pacific Bank and subsequently ruined it. Tn these let ters it will be shown that the old man realized that Sherman had ruined the institution, but had involved himself in that ruin and was as legally re- sponsible for the disaster as the Me- Donalds themselves.
 In this recital w. H. H. Hart. D. S. Dorn and J. D. Farnum will be revealed as three most interesting per sons
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
IT COST A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GET RID OF
 ONE WOMAN.

Again the rod of parental rebuke was raised over Dicks devoted head, when his father penned him another letter on November 8, 1892 This letter will pos sess unusual interest to those who re- member the divorce scandal that sepa- rated Richard H. Mcdonald Jr- from his wife, Clara Belle. The subject Is called up In the mind of Dr. Mcdonald by Dicks frantic announcement that some one of the gentler sex is again blackmailing him. His father coun- seled him how to act toward them and then told him with some financial ex- actness how much his first matrimonial venture had cost the family. Having discussed this the aged doctor gave an eloquent discourse on what a man should be to his family. The letter is as follows:
 SARATOGA, N. Y, Nov. 8, 1892.
 My Dear Son Richard: The course
 to be pursued toward those lying, vicious women is silence and they will soon die out. You will never have to take back what you don't say. You say you had to pay S60 600 to get rid of one woman. IT you said one bad woman 1t would have been nearer the
 truth. I can show figures that the cost of getting rid of that bad woman with the stealing she did will amount to more than S100, 900, and there is no mistake about it.
 Now that you have been so mixed up and so long with a lot of disreputable
 women would 1t not be well for you to look up some nice, good, respectable woman and marry her. There Is noth- ing that does so much to settle a married to some good and reputable woman, and there are plenty of them
 to be found. The world and all good
 society rises up and sayss Let thia
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
HUNTINGTON IS MAKING A CATS
 PAW OUT OF YOU"

Having unmarried some lessons of morality, that were wasted on hls son. Dr. Mcdonald wrote another letter the same day, scorching Crank, the man ager of the cable road of Los Angeles. The old gentleman called MT. Crank some very hard names and at the same time seized the opportunity to give D' M. Tomblin another turn on the coals of his wrath. These parts of the letter that are significant are as follows:
 My Dear Son Richard: You have al- lowed yourself as 1 am told to tax 10 the vagabond, traitor and thiet kranR: i1R pretended friend of ours but a traitor and spy every inch of him, put smart enough to talk with and pump the whole insides of a man or your, kIloWa1 VI, match for such man as he and you should kick him out of the house when he comes in or at least Keep your mouth tightly closed in his presence. Some think here that he has got some inklings out or you that he nas used 10 great prejudice My son. l fear you think you have grown to know so much that you are stepping out on to new and dangerous and untortunate ground for the business My son, go slow and learn all you can an rom on tne hither and. thither for information about this and that and his sWhole course of business has been full or mis- takes and l believe losses to us. am still more surprised at the letter you wrote to that Jew Moses sherman m which you say if you are any friend of mine chuck Mr Dyer on the nose and eyes for me. This letter he has read to MT. Dyer and rubs 1t under his nose all the time and then sings, Richard is such a good friend of mine Am sorry he did it.. Making worse TOT you all the time Have you gained eonf1- dence in the man? If you have have not
 side that you were so anxious to sell for a price offered by MT. Huntington, making you a catspaw to pull the chest nuts Now, my boy. If you had known as much as you ought to have known you would not have acted as you did. Huntington will be. glad to get that road in the end for s200, ,00O So you see you think you know some things that you do not know. Affectionately, your father, R. H. McDONALD- A SOLEMN WARNING TO BEWARE
 OF M. H. SHERMAN.
 Three days later pr. R. H. Mcdonald again raised the lash over Dicks head
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
THE OLD MANS SIGNIFICANT DIS.
 CUSSlON OF THE SENATORSHIP.

In glaring contrast to the foregoing epistle was a letter written by the elder Mcdonald to his son, Richard, on Octo- ber 26. 1892 In this letter the old gen. tleman seems for the moment to have forgotten his own affairs and the af- fairs of his children. He rested for an interval in his struggle with his doz mestic unhappiness and his financial uncertainty to discuss politics and par ticuIarly the contest that-,Was, then. be- ing waged between Collis P. Hunting ton and Leland Stanford to determine who would be the next United States Senator from California. In this letter Dr. Mcdonald voices an opinion that It would be a public calamity for M. H. de Young to be elected United States Senator from this State.
 He declared 1t to be his opinion that Mr. de Young had neither ability nor good principle, but that he seemed to <haxe avery strong support in the hands of, Cotlis P. Huntington. Further than that Dr. Mcdonald was. very fear full that with such support backed bvt all the machinery of the Southern Pacific Railroad MT de Young might be- elected. or It seems remarkable that incidents that are now disturbing and interesting the public mind should have called from his aged bank president a letter of singular coincidence which ne commanded his son to destroy as soon
 
 Excerpts from Dr. McDonald's ex- | tremely interesting and perhaps timely | letter are as follows:
 NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 1892 My Dear Son Richard: Yours of the 18th before me in which you speak of | the strongly contested 4Senatorship be- | tween MT. Huntington and Governor Stanford. I shall feel it a calamity to l have such a man as De Young elected | Senator, without either ability or good principles, in my judgment but he l seems to have a very strong support
 in the hands of MT. Huntington, and if l he has taken decided stand on that question 1t will be very likely to have
 him elected, for he now has all the | machinery of the Southern Pacific | Railroad in his hands which is the great power and always has been. Governor Stanford, but he's now on 1 Huntington on the inside. However, it is barely possible that we might get l a worse man if Stanford should be successful It is my impression that Mir Cleveland will be elected our next
 President, and by a much larger ma jority than most of his friends claim | he will be.
 I hope you will not bother your
 brain one way or another about poli- tics It will in the end be likely to
 break down MT. Dorn in his business
 and I am sorry that he is taking such
 an active part in politics. Truly and
 affectionately,
 Al IT
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

Ten days after Dr. R. H. Mcdonald penned 8 rsmarkable letter outlining
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

son and on a Sunday afternoon he pen ned the following letter:
 YONKFRS. N. 5Y., Oct. g, 1892 '
 My Dear Son Richard: I regret you could not have sent me more qlrect and clear answer to my dispatch Tn, stead of that roundabout nonsensical wording trashy meaning making up two-thirds of your reply.
 I think it would be much more hon orable, respectable and profitable to would marry some highly respectable woman in open day with my consent and approval than to live the sly myS- terious, secret Gas you Suppose1 ana III many respects dishonorable I1e you are living. It is not creditable or pleas ing to me. It is dishonorable to the father who bore you and who has at all times tried to elevate and make first-class man of you. You have maoe one self-willed and secret marriage which came near ruining me ftnan- cially and may finally do so in the enu. You have made you, myself ana the entire family famous in 2 great dls, graceful scandal the damage none or lis can free ourselves of while we live in this world, and in all probability the end is not
 It does seem to me that at this time you should have learned little com mon sense, but from your present con dition I doubt if you have any. Bad conduct of yours does not stop with you, but reflects itself disadvantage OuSly on every business and business transaction with which you have any thing to do, to say nothing of the moral obliquity the taint of which can never be bounded or known. Great and vital responsibilities are now resting upon you and the results depend as much upon your good conduct and character as almost anything or all things together. Afectionately your father. R. H. MCDONALD.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

church and good society and God Is whipping and will whip you for lt until correction and a better state of things comes to you. And you may laugh about what I say as much as you please, but reinstatement will fol- low until correction comes.
 Your brother John killed htmself oy his own acts. Think what you are going to do, my boy. There is no ex- cuse for you, If my children 1hneIne g9 beto to ter ali the time and not from ignor- ance am I as so many do. Now, my boy, I would like to have you turn about. Change your life and connect your self with the church. AnectionhIIely your father. R. H. MCDONALD. |.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
A BITTER DENUNCIATlON OF THE
 YOUNG BANKERS ADVISERS.

One of Dr. R. H. McDonaldS most important letters was written at Sara toga Springs, New York, and showed conclusively that the old man was not only interested in the affairs of his in- solvent banks but was nervously con- cerned as to the future. The writer was in his habitual mood of bitterness and when in that mood he took no pains to choose his words. In the let ter that will follow he struck right and left at Dicks advisers, calling them in plain English the names he believed characterized them best, and warning Dick as he had done many times be- fore to be on his guard. He begged Dick to remember that D. M. Tomblin had broken one bank before he came to them and his judgment was not the best in the world. The old man took another fling at Jenningson and made some rather cutting remarks in refer ence to 'scoundrel, cutthroat law yers." As an introduction to the epis- tie Dr. Mcdonald expressed his opin- ions in his customary emphatic way in reference to the local campaign in which L. R. Ellert was the candidate for Mayor, and in which M. H. de Young used the influence of his paper against him. The epistle is as follows;
 SARATOGA SPRINGS, Nov. 2, 1892
 My Dear Son Richard: Your brief let
 ter of the 26th ult Is before me- You
 say local politics are running high and
 that danger or COlUSIOH IS threatened
 and that somebody is likely to get
 hurt. The more matters are stirred
 up the better for the city. There is no
 danger from agitation. l hope the
 Alert ticket will be elected. That is
 the peoples ticket I believe, and that the miserable blackmailing curse may
 miss his aim, for which he is no more . fitted than the ordinary drag horse. If I were there | know where | would s | be. The Call and Bulletin are right 7 this time. l think as for Huntington and his gang all they are after Is 7 spells, but 1t is, natural to say such about the matter. When does the Ce- dar River coal mine fall into our hands by liquidation?
 What have you done with those scoundrel, cutthroat lawyers that managed the Cedar River matter? Do you allow Tomblin to make any. con-
 tracts for anything now, or depend much on his judgment about any busi- ness matter? It will not do to trust his judgment. I think he Is honest but an enthusiast. He broke one bank before he came with us. What has be- come of Baird of the Madeira Bank? Such a man as he should be confined for life. Is there any immediate pros pect of getting the money from Eng land that pr. Jenningson went over to
 see about? Don't forget it-I don't have much confidence in pr. Jenning- son. I hope the Bank Commissioners
 will make a satisfactory report for us | at the Pacific Bank. Burn this letter 1 after reading. Affectionately your
 . father, R. H. MCDONALD.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

The elder Mcdonald grew philosophic and declared 1t had been one or the cares of his life to determine what ne would commit to paper. He urged Dick to be most particular in this regard and never to write anything that would injure if 1t were placed in print. At the same time he again warned him to be aware of MT. Sherman. The letter, for more reasons than one, is interest," Ing and Is as follows:
 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. F., Nov. s, 1892.
 My Dear Son Richard: After read ing your abusive letters and telesrams to MT. Dyer, or part of them. ana some to Frank as well as myself, I telegraphed you as l did from this place and then sent Frank a copy or my telegram to you. l did not con- suit him about sending it nor did he { know anything about 1t. l hope you will not again give yourself away as you have done to Sherman and possi- bly, others. Don't trust that Jew Moses Sherman beyond what is to his own interest Don't forget 1t. A man should be very particular about what ne commits to paper. It has been one or the cares of my life as to what would commit to paper. Burn up this letter and as many others as could injure if they were in print, unless they contain something useful Ar fectionately your father,
 R, H. MCDONALD.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
DE. R. H. MCDONALD WARNED HIS SON to Beware of the Arch
 COnspiratOr
STORY OF DE YOUNG'S AMBITION
Domestic Tragedy of the Aged Bankers Life One Hundred Thousand Dollars for
 DiVOrCe.

to know much of anything about them. and think If he did secure anything there the best use he can be put to is to go there and look after matters there. l fear the time will come when you will regret ever having. had busi- ness with this man. Affectionately, your father, R.. H. MCDONALD.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
FATHERS TERRIBLE ARRAlGN- MENT OF HIS CHILDREN.

After the foregoing telegram was re- ceived by R.. H. Mcdonald Jr. new troubles arose to assault and disturb his piece of mind Some of his lady friends conceived and carried into effect a brilliant plan to blackmail Dick and the young banker in distress wrote to his father for advice. In reply the elder Mcdonald wrote one of the bitterest letters of' the whole series, denouncing his living children and one, that was dead, and calling upon the young bank CT that was fast leading his institutions to ruin to turn to moral life and all that a moral life means, The letter is as follows:
 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. r., Noy.5, 1892.
 My Son oRichard: These blackmail-
 ing women will soon die out if you will keep your mouth shut. They will
 get some blackInaii lawyer to start A suit against you in all probability hop ing to annoy and get a compromise
 out of you, but never pay and don't
 compromise. It does not matter how
 hard the case, nineteen times out of
 twenty that Is the best way out. I am not surprised that you are getting into trouble I have been expecting 1t,
 but did not know how 1t would come
 But you are likely to catch 1t roughly before you are dead. never knew 1t to fail in my life where a man or wo- man sets aside bis fathers and moth CTS religious training and teaching and their God, and turns away and neglectS his moral and religious duties, then that God sends In some form a seourge upon him to waken him to his duties. You have absented yourself. and I am of the opinion have kept bad company. You kept away from your
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
Overland Trains Delayed.

Owing to the burning of several snow sheds and the timbering in Tunnel IS, near Summit, the two overland trains, due yes terday at 9:45 a. m. and S:45 D. m, respect lvely, will not reach here until 945 this mQTniDg:
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
THE OLD MANS GUILTY KNOWL EDGE OF THE AFFAIRS OF
 THE BANK.

Two days later affairs had reached a critical stage in the affairs of the Riverside Bank. R. H. Mcdonald Jr. saw that he could no longer endure the constant demand of the Overs for money. He realized that they were sinking and were dragging the Pacific Bank down. He rushed new men and spies to Riverside to harass and bad ger Miss E. c. Dyer, the sister of o. T. Dyer, and the cashier of the Riverside Bank. Miss Dyer immediately tele- graphed to her brother in New York that Dicks agents, through their indis- erection, would excite a run on the bank This dispatch called forth the following telegram from the elder Mcdonald to his son in this city:
 SARATOGA, Nov. 4. 1892
 R. H. Mcdonald Jr., Pacific Bank
 San Francisco: D. needed here for inn
 portant business. Observe Iinstruc-
 tiQns in my letter. Use no violent
 measures. Send no more threatening
 or abusive letters or telegrams. Keep
 all your men away from Riverside
 Keep matters absolutely private from
 outside parties or you will damage mat
 ters here. All will come right I
 think. R. H. MCDONALD.
 And the public was deluded, to be- lieve that the elder Mcdonald knew nothing of the affairs of the bank after he had fled from this city.