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GrissOn1 Poe+ Matched Against Banker
IN a Kansas City Case Which In
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perial hotel, he called on them. 1t had
been nearly three years since he had seen
her. In that time she had blossomed
into beautiful womanhood Flow lovely
she was to him he told in delightful verse
a few days after their marriage. The
next day after his first visit he called
again. They went out walking together
in Central park. That was on May /
an ideal spring morning and an ideal day
for poets love-making. AS they walk
ed and talked, each found that the old
love, which had cooled somewhat in the
three years of separation, was blazing
anew.
With a sudden impulse he proposed i'm
mediate marriage. Forgetting her prom
ise to the young man in Missouri, forget
ting her trousseau, already half obtained
forgetting all but this love of childhood
she consented. He called a carriage in
the park. They drove straight to the
Little Church Around the Corner, the
place of many a romantic marriage be-
fore, and there they were married by Dr.
HOughtOn, the venerable pastor, now
dead.
Then the two walked leiSurely to the
hotel and went together into the presence
of Mrs. Woods, the mother confessed and
asked forgiveness. She was shocked hor-
rified, Frustrated. She sent a distracted
telegram to her husband. DR.. Woods took
the first train to New York He was as
angry as man could well be. He scolded
and stormed, but to no purpose. The
young people were married. they We're
well pleased with each other and they
had no intention of consenting to a sep
aration, just to please DR.. Woods or any
other person.
At last the banker father-in-law forgave
them, and second ceremony followed.
Doctor Woods and Mrs. Woods returned
to Kansas City.
Mr. Grissom and his bride spent their
honeymoon at Black Rock, on Long ISL
and Sound, and while there Mr.. Grissom
wrote the following bit of dainty verse,
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STEAM SPEEDS AT SEA.
Power Required for Increased Speed
Outlook for the Future.
Casters Magazine.

Casters Magazine.
Although, roughly speaking, the power
required to propel a steamer varies with
the cube of the speed, yet, before third
OF the next century expires another in
crease Of at least 90 per cent in ocean
speed may safely be prophesied. How
this is to be accomplished it would be
too hazardous to attempt to surmise;
but 1 may point out how I think it will
be done and that is by carrying and
handling 5000 tons OF bunker COATS in a
hull drawing nearly fifty feet of water.
The model of the ocean mail steamer of
the next century will probably be that
OF Very much enlarged destroyer OF
great breadth and length and small
draught Of water forward.
Lighter and stronger materials will
compose tho structure, which may be
moved by multiple propellers, possibly
working in a tunnel, so that a number
Of vessels could be worked by separate
shafts. actuated by rotary motors, as
the sizes OF screw crafts ana engines
even now under construction are peril
ouSly large; or the motive power may
be produced by compressed air or gas.
Then the form of least resistance prob
ably being discovered, the hull, broad
and light in comparison with the aug
mented dimensions, will rise or top of
the waves rather than pass through them.
The rolling and pitching may be more
severe than at present, but with improved
cabins and a shortened voyage, the diff
ference may not be noticed. The con-
struction of a steamer of $1,000 tons will
probably not trouble the constructors of
the future nearly as much as did the
building of the Great Eastern those of
the past. There will be infinitely less
labor, both mental and physical, than
was required for the construction of a
great ship in those days.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
ARTHUR GRISSOM.

has driven all happiness out of my life.
He has taken my wife and child from
me-"
The fruit of this marriage is a little
girl, Gladys, who is a dream of beauty.
This child is now in Philadelphia with
her mother and grandmother. Mr.. Girls
som will make a legal fight to regain
his child and his wife. He declares that
he loves His wife devotedly and that she
loves him and would return to him if
it We're not for the influence of her
father.
DR.. Woods declares that he has sup
ported Mr.. Grissom since his marriage;
that his daughter Mrs. Grissom, has no
love for her husband. He says that when
the suit comes to trial it will be shown
that Mrs. Grissom left her husband of
her own accord and has no desire to
return to him.
The marriage of the young poet and
writer to the only daughter of one of
the richest bankers in the West was a
most romantic one. 1t occurred In 1895.
Miss Julia Stone Woods was then beau
tiful young girl. She had been out IN
society only two years. The wealth or
her father, the fact that she was his
only daughter and her own attractions
made her a favorite in Kansas City So
ciety. Miss Woods was a blonde, with
dark blue eyes. Her form was perfec-
ton. She was chic and daShing in her
manner She dressed always in the
height of fashion.
1t was an event of unusual interest in
society when in the spring of 1895 the en-
gagement of Miss Woods to Mr. Archy
c. Ro Bards, the son Of a wealthy man in
Hannibal, Mo, was announced. In the
latter part of April, 1895, Miss Woods and
her mother went to New York to prepare
her rousseau for the wedding. They
lived at the Imperial hotel.
Arthur Grissom, then a young man of
twenty-five. was a writer of polite litera-
ture in New York. He contributed poems
and prose sketches to Truth, Life, Puck,
Judge and the other publications. Mr..
Grissom was also at times The Saunter-
err of Town Topics. He was a writer Of
much versatility and cleverness. He was
q man of exceedingly gentle manners.
He was very modest in all things, and
impetuOsity that he put into his wooing
of Miss Woods, they marveled at it.
Mr.. GrissOm and Miss Woods had been
friends for years. He was born and lived
his youthful days in Independence, a sub
urb Of Kansas City, the son of a clergy
man. He and Miss Woods were school
mates. While he lived in New York he
returned to Kansas City each summer
to visit his mother. On those visits he
went often to the home of Miss Woods,
q guest at summer parties.
When Mr.. Grissom learned that Miss
Woods and her mother were at the I'm
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Nothing that has happened in years
has stirred the social and financial cir
Giles in Kansas City so much as the law
suit brought in the courts by Arthur
-Grissom, the writer and poet. against his
father-in-law. DR.. William S. Woods,
the millionaire president of the National
Bank of Commerce. Mr.. Grissom alleges
that DR.. Woods aIienated the affections
OF Ms. Grissom. and for this he sues
for 100000 damages. He brings another
suit for $4,000 for breach of contract,
making $4,000 which the son-in-law
asks the courts to award him in a judg-
ment against his father-in-law.
Mr.. Grissom states as his cause of ac-
ton that from the day of his marriage
to Miss Julia Stone Woods, only daugh-
ter of the wealthy banker her father has
prosecuted him and used all manner of
means to turn the wife's love for her
husband into dislike and hate. He says
that the banker came to their cosy home
a different times and tainted him In the
presence of his wife because he was
poor. calling him a "scribbler" and a
penny-a-liner." DIR. Woods would sit
down 20 table in the home of his SON
in-law and sniff the viands with con-
tempt and say aloud, III the presence of
his young wife:
What a meal to set before a rich
mans daughter! Why don't you give up
scribbling and go out and make money
as I do? How can you expect any wom-
an to respect your"
And yet, Mr.. Grissom says, his wife
was living in better style then than she
had ever dom in the home of her father
He says he was earning $3.50 a month
with his pen, and was spending it all on
keeping up his home.
My father-in-law despised me and
hated me from the moment I married
his daughter Mr. Grissom alleges. He
never forgave me for marrying her. He
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

the core. Balls, believe. lead to the
grOssest licen iousness, and card-playing,
as conducted today, Is a wanton massacre
of time. 1t leads to gambling. vice
which literally dehumanizss men.
II realize though, that there arc few
good plays, actors and actresses, and I
think there is no more harm in young
people dancing together than in children
jumping rope Young people playing
games of carGs at home are every bit as
innocent as they are in Sunday school"
TIE Rev. Mr.. Davis acknowledged,
however, that his opinions would not BE-
sanctioned when they come up for ac-
ton before the next general conference
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che Of my church members, a school
teacher, asked to withdraw because she
felt that a study Of the Shakespearean
plays was necessary in her work, yet the
church debars her from that branch of
education.
These are simply a few instances, and
there are many Others showing how this
obnoxious article iEterferes with my
work and hinders the church.
This paternalism is belittling. 1t
should be done away with. Methodists
believe tremendously in free will; why
not in free choice?
81 am not defending the thcater. AS
an institution I regard 1t as rotten to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

The telegram in reply was signed Mrs
Grissom" and was:
Please give specific reasons"
Mr. Grissom answered:
MY reasons are my desire to be with
my wife and child and my rights as a
husband"
TO this DR.. Woods wired over his own
signature:
your demands
This ended the correspondence. Since
them, Mr.. Grissom says, he has called at
Dr. Woods bank often to see him, but
DR.. Woods avoided meeting him.
Mr.. Grissom left for Philadelphia, 1t is
said, to face his wife and her methor and
demand her return, and, failing in that,
TO try and get possession of his child
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

LYNN, Mass, Dec. 9O-The Methodists
of Massachusetts are aroused over the
radical stand taken by the Rev Charles
E. Davis, of the First Methodist Episco-
pal church, Of this city, on dancing, card
playing and the theaters.
The criticism directed ct the Rev. Mr..
Davis for opposing the laws OF the
church, which forbid young people par
ticipatiHg in those diversions has only
strengthened him In opposing restrictions
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
DIR. w. g. WOODS.

eight feet. The weights We're raised and
then lowered again, and they were lost,
making in all four such weights at the
bottom of the river, for others had been
fost in previous tests in former years.
Another weight was attached to the wire
and lowered about 100 feet from the
shore, when it was found that the depth
of water there is forty-three feet.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

which he describes as un-Amerlcan and
un-Christien. He says:
81 contend that the Methodist law
which prohibits card playing, dancing
and attending the theater is a dead let
ter. 1t Is not enforced and no attempt
is made to enforce it. But the law is
the means of keeping many conscientious
young people from joining The church
Only yesterday young woman came t.
me and said she could not join my churc1
and be honest, as she did not believe in
it's attitude on amusements. Recently
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
Enjoy Elegance and Comfort
In Travelling ia CoIjfarv

The Minneapolis & ST. Louis R. R. has
secured a line of brand new tourist cars
Pullman's latest and best. Berth rate in
these magnificent cars only $500 to Los
Angeles.
Cali at Minneapolis & ST. Louis office,
3S6 Robert street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
A CHICAGO SWINDLE.

Not many years ago, Chicago firm adj
vertised extensively the fact that they
knew the inside workings of the stock
markets, and laid stress on the state
ment that whereas a man with small
means could make but little, a corpora
ton with a great amount of capital could
make immense amounts of money. 1t
was agreed that 10 per cent a month
would be paid on all Investments. Money
poured in from outside towns and cites.
In certain sections of Ohio people became
particularly interested in the matter.
Every one who sent in $40 received on the
first of each month a crisp new 81 bill
1t was but natural that after this had
been kept up for a little while, those who
had invested small sums should send in
all they had, for had they not seen the
dividends paid? Then, when this had
been kept up for more than year the
concern suddenly collapsed and the in
vestors found that they had lost all their
money The aggregate losses in this
swindle were enormous. The perpetra-
tors escaped to Canada and no portion OF
their spotlS was- ever recovered
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

Next time you make voyage take a
Rlpans Tabule after dinner for three or
four days before sailing, and continue the
practice on board ship till you get your sea
legs on. The chances are you'll not be
seasick at all, and if you are. the attack will
not last over the third dav
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

paper tc Laws bank and asked that
1t be turned into coin, that a light be-
gan to be shed on the scheme Then the
wise ones quietly disposed of their
shares, turning them into silverware,
Jewels. coin, or any other valuables, and
as quietly slipped out of the country
When the crash came, Law was dis
missed, the authority of the government
was taken away from the undertakings,
and their promoter managed to escape
with his life leaving twenty-seven hun
dred millions of livres in unerdeemed pa
per behind him. He died a pauper in
Venice
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
RECENT FRAUDS.

Several recent discoveries have been
mace in the East with reference to firms
that have been doing business on the
same lines. The Franklin syndicate, which
was exposed several weeks ago, Of
fered the extraordinary dividends Of 10
per cent week or go per cent j year Oh
all investments. For time the dividends
were paid, and as in the case of the Chi
cago firm, the money poured in In ever
time payments were stopped and the
drafts which had been sent out all over
the country for the payment of dividends
were not honCred Then the investors
awoke To- find that they had been duped
Another scheme, Terpetrated this time
in New Jersey, has bl en- recently expos ID.
1t was advertised that one of four COM
paneo loaned money on real estate Sc
curity Liberia! appraisement fees were
demanded with each application and a
title guarantee was demanded prepared
by one of the other companies. This, of
course, )st the applicant more money.
Then the easy mark was informed that
the loans We're put up and given to the
highest bidder bids being accompanied
py a remittance of per cent of the loan
asked. No one has yet been found who
ever succeeded in getting a loan, some
one else always being a higher bidder.
Thus the promoters were enabled to get
hold OF peoples money without the draw
hack of having o pay any of it back in
dividends.
Next.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

with his life, leaving twenty-seven hun
dred millions OF livres in unerdeemed pa
per behind him. He died a pauper in
Venice.
SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.
The South Sea scheme, historically
known as the South Sea bubble, was an
other gigantic swindle, perpetrated in
England The company was organized
in III by the Earl Of Oxford for the pur-
pose of trading with the South Seas. It's
charter was secured through bribery OF
members of parliament. It's stock was
So popular that it rose as high as 1000.
when many Of the leaders sold out their
interests. Scores of smaller schemes of
like nature were floated about the same
time, when the fever for speculation was
at high point
In this century the London & Eastern
Banking company was organized by J.
K. Stephens, and various big firms were
introduced as customers of the institu-
ton. 1t was subsequently learned that
nearly all these firms were formed by
Stephens himself, with the help of one or
more ot the directors of the bank. FL
nally a certain Col. Waugh, of Branksea
island, was introduced. BY a small adj
vance he was allowed to borrow money.
With the borrowed money he bought
stock in the bank until he had &244, 900,
borrowed all he wanted of the bank s
capital, and that was the last seen Of
him.
In 1880 in London one WindIe Co}e
needed money. He had noticed that when
documents were offered to mOney-lending
institutions they were seldom examined
with any care. He accordingly rented a
dock, imported some metal, for the re-
ceipt of which he had two separate war
rants made. On one of these he would
borrow money. The other would be cir
culated in the ordinary course of bust
ness. At the end of two years he fled,
having borrowed &350, 600 on fictitious war
rants, while another firm organized by
him had raised G1J0000 in the same man
ner.
The Credit Mobilier affair is within the
memory of many who are alive in this
country today. 1t was a scheme for is
suing stock in company for the building
of some great railroads across the con-
tinent, and involved some Of the public
men of the time.
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MrSIcchcn Commencement.

nual commencement Of the McMechcn
high school ut the NJ. E. church. and
the friends OF the graduates turned out
en- masse. Thaycr's orchestra fur
nIshed pleasing numbers to vary the
programme. and the church was nicely
decorated for the occasion. Rev. Mr.
Carroll delivered the invocation. and
Rev. Il. o. Eden the benediction. Prin-
cipal J. T. King presented the diplomas.
The graduates were Miss Josie MAY,
Miss Ella Tercsn Donovan and Mr.
John Blaine MARBLE. all ncduitting
themselves with distinction. A pleas
ing feature was the vocal solo by Miss
Lctha Frazier. with orchestra accom-
imminent -.f.
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DIED..

MAGEE.-On Monday. June Il. 1899. at 30
p. m, E. W. MAGEE. aged &c years.
Funeral a. 1890 d. m. Thursday. at Snort
Creek church. Friends OF the family
respectfully invited to attend.
BACHMAN-on Monday. June u. 1899. at
G.S5 o'clock y. M. BENJAMIN L.
BACHMAN, In his 10th year.
Funera. services at his late residence. No.
120s Chaplinc street. Thursday after
noon at 8 o'clock. Friends OF the fam
lily respectfully invited to attend In
termcnt at Greenwood cemetery.
FERGuSOS'-At Glen Easton. W. Va. on
Monday. June r. 1880, ESTHER, wife
of William Ferguson.
The funeral will occur from her late resi-
dcncc. n. Glen Easton. on the arrival
OF train No. 70. leaving Wheeling at :
o'clock Thursday morning. Requiem
mass will be said ut ST. Martins
church. Cameron. Interment at Cam
eron cemetery. Friends of the family
respectfully invited to attend.
MULDREW--On Tuesday, June 70. 1899,
Mt 3:2o y. ~, ALICE SUTTON. dnugh-
ter OF Andrew and the lato Elizabeth
S. Muldrew.
Funeral from residence OF her father No
1873 Sixteenth street. Thursday, June 10.
at 3 O'Clock p. m. Interment at Green
wood cemetery
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FRANKLIN's COMMENCEMENT
VIII be Held on June % =. List Of
81 the Graduates,

VIII be Held on june % =. List Of
the Graduates.
+ The seventy-fourth annual com
.mencernent OF Franklin college will be
held at New Athens June %. On Sab
bath. June rs, the baccalaureate will be
delivered by the president. Rev. w. A..
Williams, D D.. Of Moundsyille. The
annual address to the religious ASSOC
Citations will be delivered the same
evening by Rev. r. A. Mckinley, .. D..
of SteubenVille.
Monday evening. address to literary
societies by Rev. Don s. Colt, d. D..
OF Allegheny, Pa. Tuesday evening
class exercises Will be held. p,
The eighteen graduates In the literary
courses are: II. S. Irwin. Il. s., Frank
In. Pa; Gertrude Armstrong, 3. S.,
hammock, O.: Fl. P. Campbell D. S.,
McMechen. w. Va: ]. r. Carver. A.
~, Mansfield, o.; F. B. Grove. A. b.,
New Athens. O.; s. E. Farmer Phi. b.,
Elizabeth. N. j.: L. NJ. Harmon, A. B.,
Buxton. Me-; w. L. Mccormick, Phi. b..
Sewellsvllle, O.; d. p. Mckinley, A. B.,
Steubenville, O.: r. H. MCPHERSON. a.
b.. Blues Mills, N. S.; w. c. Miller,
Ph. b.. Oldham, o.: Lodalee Patton,
Ph. B., Fnirport. o.: L. C. Phillips,
Phi. b.. Frankfort. Ind; N. Anna Pet
ty, A. b.. New Athens. O.: r. P. Rush,
3: S. Falrport. O.: p. NJ. Smith. Phi. B.,
Egypt. O.; J. c. STEERS. Phi. b, Shep-
herdstown, o.: Ethel A. Cummings. A.
A.. New. Athens. Elocution graduates
Jennie Love. Falrport, O.; Mary L.
King. New Philadelphia: Jean LUCAS.
Lumber City. Pa.
There are eight graduates In short
hand. one In instrumental music, one
In normal department.
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Gas Works Strilic.

Some twenty men employed at the
that Is scheduled to occur ut o'clock
this morning. These arc chargers,
stokers and mud.men,who recently ask.
ed 70" an advance Of forty cents day
in their wages. The council committee
on finance and council arranged to
grant an advance of twenty cents u dny
advancing the lowest paid labor from
81 60 to 81 SO per day. and others from
81 50 to 81 per day. An amendment to
the annual appropriation ordinance, en-
bodyins this grant. was to have been
passed by council Tuesday night, but q
quorum was not obtained, and the mat
ter goes over to another meeting, the
probability being that special meeting
Will be held IN the course OF a few days.
Notwithstanding this state OF affairs, It
was stated last night that about twenty
OF the thirty-nlnc stokers ana chargers
would go out on strike ut 5 o'clock this
morning for the higher wages.
Some OF TIE mer stated their inten-
ton to dec!in" to join the strike. and
Superintendent Frank Thompson, of the
works. said there would be no difficulty
In securing other men to fill the places
OF the men going on strike. To-day, he
said. the works would be continued IN
operation with the men remaining, but
tomorrow other men would be secured
to fill the strikers places
Formerly the men who now receive
81 60 for eight hours work got 80 40 for
twelve hours work. Al their own re-
quest the hours were cut from twelve
TO eight. Now the men are asking for
nearly ms much for eight hours as they
formery received for twelve hours.
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Crusiee Safes,
TRUSTEE'S SALE.

I 'A>N''i 4sAs . SALE.
= by Virtue of n deed of trust made by
sarah Hagan to Mo MS trustee dated
November ~. lFNl. recorded In the Office OF
G me .ierk OF the County Court of Ohio
Souh'S. Most Virginia. In deed OF trust
north front door OF tho Court House OF
said County on
SATURDAY. tho 9th DAYOF JUNE, 1899,
commencing at 10 o'clock n m. the fol-
loving described property, TINT Is to say:
certain parcel OF real estate Situated
on the east side of Eofi street, between
EicyGmlh and Twelfth streets. In the city
o. o. neclliis. county OF Ohio. state Of
West virginia, and described as follows,
that Is 10 say: So much OF tho north one.
hnll OF lot numbered Three IN square
numbered IWcnty-onc OF the town NOV
city, of Wheeling. conveyed to Henry Hol-
HhteF by Moan Zane and wife By deed
T manh Suns v iH&', and recorded In Deed
li99R 40. TO- ~ pnEc les. and devised by
SAID Henry Hollingcr to ArnmInta Hoi-
linEcr, MS remains after dcducting from
said north half OF snid 10. so much tbcreof
us was conveyed by said Aramlnta IIollln.
ger TO George ", llollinger by deed dated
February ., ISL, recorded In Deed look
NO. On. page =. and after dcducting also
from said north half of said lot so much
thefe6i an "aH conveyed by said Ara
m.nin iiolingor 10 Thonns IT, Lewis and
lienry Newman by deed dated October II,
lsiS anu recorded In Deed Book No GS
pace Az, I''D o '''
Terms OF Sale: .-Onc.tbird and as p,lrh
moro Ns tho purchaser may elect to nav in
cash on tho day of sale. tho balance in
Two r.lnnl instruments at six nnd twelve
months notcs} bearing Interest from tho
day or shlc to DO given for the deferred
payments. .. o. - - : - - W.
". W. CowDEN, Trustee.
j. Z. HERVEf. Auct!onccr. my2;-s