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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
BROKERAGE
FIRM GOES
TO THE WALL.
Price, mccormick & Co. Fail for Thir-
teen Millions of DOllars-Nearly
All Secured.
THEYWERE "LONG" ON COTTON
Admiral sohley's son-in-1aw a Mem
Der of the Company-cotton Mar
ket Creates a Sensation.

NEW YORK, May 24.-Price, Mccor-
mick G. Company, one of the largest
brokerage houses in the city. failed to-
day with liabilities estimated at Sls.OOo,-
900. The firm is member Of the stock.
cotton ana produce exchanges, and Of
the Chicago stock exchange and has
branch offices in about thirty cities
throughout the United States. The
failure is ascribed to the fact that the
firm was long on cotton in the face Of a
fast falling market. A notice on the
doors of the offices of the company re-
ferred all inquirers to William ]. Cur
tbs and William Cromwell, assignees.
Liabilities Were Thirteen Millions.
Mr., Cromwell said late this afternoon
that 1t was impossible to make any
statement at this hour concerning the
condition Of the firm; that its business
is very extended and covers several
branch agencies. The total liabilities,
he said, are about s1S,OOO.OOO. nearly all
of which was secured. He added that a
statement would be submitted to credl-
tors at the earliest possible date
The firm is composed of Theodore H.
Price, William G. Mccormick, r. G. NJ.
Stewart wortley and Walter W. Price,
with George crocker of San francisco.
n special partner on an investment Of
S5OO.OOOO.
so,-I,-Tom NJ scI1lev.
Mr.. Mccormick is of the well known
Chicago family of agricultural imple-
ment fame, and Mr.. Stewart Wortley is
a son-in-law of Rear Admiral schley.
The firm was organized January 2, 1897.
OF the partners Mr.. Crocker is now in
Europe and Mr.. Stewart Wortley is on
his way back from Europe.
Following the announcement of the
failure the cotton market became panic
stricken and broke 10 to 10 points. The
extent Of the decline from the highest
price when the bull movement culmi-
mated had been 122 points.
Members OF Produce Exchange.
Price, Mccormick & Company were
also members of the produce exchange.
There was no formal notice of the FIRMS
suspension made there UP to 2 p. m. The
firm was not prominent operator on
the produce exchange and the effect of
the failure there was almost wholly
sentimental. Wheat declined about 4
of a cent.
Assignees Curtis and Cromwell make
the following announcement regarding
the failure:
ITO the creditors of Price, Mccormick
& Company:
Price, Mccormick & Company have
been compelled to temporarily suspend
payment. We ask and advise that
creditors holding stocks. bonds and
other collateral to loans, and already
well margined, hold the loans until rea-
sonable opportunity be afforded the as
signees to deal with the same, that un-
necessary loss thereby be avoided"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
Mob Looking for Gardner.

ATHENS, o., May 2l-At midnight
mob attacked the jail where Richard
Gardner, the negro rnplst, IL confined.
They failed to ind Gardner, who was
smugRlcd out, and the mob dispersed.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25

NEW YORK, May 2L-Jim Jcifr!es
ard Tom shnrkey were matched to-day
10 iight on August %. before the club
Offering the best purse.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
Mnunments Of steamships.

QUEENSTOWN - Pcnnland from
Philadelphia for Liverpool.
NEW YORR-Germanic from Liver
pool: Saale, from Bremen; KAISER
Wilhelm II. from Genoa.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
ANGRY DELEGATE
At the Methodist General Conference
Accuss Another of Uttering a
77,l.oboo5. 0oy NJ Exciternent.

At the Methodist General Conference
Accuss Another of Uttering a
Falsehood-Day of Excitement.
CHICAGO. May 24.-ThIs was day
of elections, attended by extremely
lively debates, in the Methodist general
conference. Agents of the eastern and
western book concerns were named, the
election for western agents resulting in
the retirement OF DR.. Lewis Curtis, Of
Chicago, over whose management Of the
office considerable controversy has ta-
ken place. Samuel H. Pye and A. c.
Jennings were the successful candidates
for the Chicago and Cincinnati offices
and Homer Eaton and p. Mains were
reelected to the New York office. Fol-
lowing the general plan of uniflcation
and consolidation which has prevailed
throughout the sessions. the conference
to-day abolished the Office of secretary
of the Epworth League and refused to
allow another secretary for the Sunday
school union.
Bitter Debate Results.
1t did. however. reconsider its action
of week ago in abollshlng additional
secretaries of the various church be-
nevolences so far as the Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Education Society
was concerned. The debate resulting
In this action was quite bitter at times,
the race question being brought out
prominently, and once in the discuss
ion an angry delegate accused another
of utterIng a falsehood The conVcn-
tIon. Mt this became involved In appar-
emily hopeless parliamentary tRngles
and presiding Bishop Nlnde, In the ar
ternoon session. admonIshed the dele
gates not to turn the conference into n
debating society. The general confer.
ence voted to adjourn sine die nt l2:SV
d. m, Tuesday next.
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ENGLISH
ADVANCE
DELAYED
Or the Banks of the hsnoster-Pon-
toon Bridge Being Constructed,
Railway Little Damaged.
IN THE FORM OF A CRESFNT
Are the British Troops-BOer Fight
ing Men May Decide to Quit.
Mafeking Well Supplied.

LONDON, May 25. 1855 a. m.-LOrd
Roberts infantry advance is delayed at
the Rhenoster river for a day or two by
the depth of the stream which is not
fordable. The banks, which are pre-
cipltous, are forty feet high. A pom
toon and temporary bridge construction
are under way.
The railway has not been damaged to
any great extent between Eroonstad
and Rhenoster. The Transvaalers have
offended the Free staters by destroying
their splendid bridges when retiring to
Kroonstad. The refralned from doing
this on the retreat to Rhonoster, but
now they are destroying the railroad
and bridges almost completely north OF
the Rhenoster.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25

Tho temperature yesterday as observed
by c. Schnepf. druggist, corner mntkoI
and Fourteenth streets. was as iolloWS'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
weather Fnrecnst for To.day.

For Ohlo-Gcncrally fair Friday anu
Saturday; warmer Saturday In noIIneinhk
portion; light northerly Winds oo'o'''''S
variable. u,,.,,,
For Western Pcnnsylvnnia-Part,y
Cloudy Friday; Saturday fair; variable
winds. .,t,,,,..t
clearing I'm southeast half Friday SAT-
urday fair; castcrly winds
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
The Cornerstone Laid and
 Documents Dedicated
Last Saturday the cornerstone o

Last Saturday the cornerstone oi the new sch oolhouss was laid with the usual ceremonies. In the box placed in the hollow receptacle Of the stone was deposited the names Of the children appearing on the school re. gister for thIs year, the names of the tea rhers and trustees, the roll oi honor for the month of November, copies of teachers monthly report, the name oi the architect and build ers, 6 copy of the Arizona Range News, Tomos PkosPEcToR, Ari- zona Daily Citizso, AriLoas Daily Star; also . program ct the k. P poverty ball given at Norton's Hall Thanksgiving evening. These srti- cles are the messages we WillcoIi.es trsEsmit to future generations. and which some dsyvill be naearthei and highly valued by the students of an tiauity.
 Planets and spheres have their be- ginning and end, nations rise and fall one generation succeeds another up on the aren. of action, bu. sii are consigned 10 their tomb. Natures laws which are considered uuchsDge- able, are subject to the same vsus- tiops. All is changed, everything mus. crumbls before the mutations Of time. When in future ages this hollow stone shall be excsysted from the bosom of mother earth, where it has rested for cycles and centuries, alter the structure in which it i. plsc- cd has been obliterated from human vision, there will be no need of learn cd savsnts to decipher strange hi.r. oglyphics or cuniform brick to get q broken message from the silent gloom of antiquity bu, they can simply ad : just their specs and read the Rsnge News and other psper., which will be found intact within tbeIr sacred sar- cophsgus, which we have dedicated to the historian of . thousand years hence. Speed On, Father Time, in your resistless flight We will bid you sdieu and ring down the curts,n upon our news box for c thousaue years.-RAnGe News.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

" VICKERS, President and Manager.
 Tombstone LEW WILLIAMS, Vice President, Bisbee Ar JOHN BLAKE. Secretary Stafford Arizona C w GATES Treasurer Los Angeles. Ca Principle range between Chiricahua an Dragoon mountains in Cochise county. Steer ranges on Eagle and Bonita Greek in GraAan county. AriEona Separ. New Mexico. and sherman Co. Texas
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

G W Sesvern. arrived yesterday from Boston and shaking hands with his many Tombstone friends. Mir. Seaverns was for yssrs connected with mining and milling operations at Turquois and had charge Of the famous Silver Bill mine there which wss ranked among the big producers. MT. Sssverns is here on mining busi- ness.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

New Mexico and Arizona may get in as a pair of etstes because tLey are . tie politically. if the majority party io control at Washington are not afraid of @ silver roorsack. Both ter- ritorie, should be admitted ss stat... -El Psso Eews.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

DM Barringer who is heavily inter- eeted in the Commonwealth Co 8, Pearce is 8 Tombstone visitor. MT. Bsrringer recently returned from e trip to Philadelphia. He is here on mining busine,e.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

IL is cslcplslsted that the digging Of the iethmisn canal will employ something like fifty thousand men Tor about ten years after the throwing up Of the first cod
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

$ Fleming, prominent mining man Of Boston arrived yesterday with G W Sssverns from the east. Mir. Fleming is loo ing over the mining field of this section.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

J V Nickers left tedsy for Los Angeles where he will spend the holi- days with his family before returning here.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

A break in the main line oi the HuachucA Water Go pipe leading from the Huschucas occurred last night and shut of the supply for Tombstons. The break is being re- paired today meanwhile the water supply in Tombstone is very short.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

Sensational evidence galore has been Adduced at the Downing trial. The case has been productive of much surprising evidence
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

This closing year promises to break the record for matchless holiday weather,
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

Don't forget the Dramatic Club en- tertsinmept at Schieffelin Hall Friday night.
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16

TO cure Constipation Forever. Take C2scaIets Candy Catharuc. iOc or 25e. c. c. C. fail Q gre. druggists refund money
Tombstone epitaph., 1900-12-16
From Wednesdays Duly.

It is expected tke Page case will be taken up tcmorrow in court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
AN END TO ARGUMENT
INTERURBAN COMPANIES WILL AC-
CEPT THE FRANCHISE.
The Works Board Hears from Joseph
j. Irwin, of CoIumbus-Fire
Department stimate

Representatives of the Greenwood and
Greenfield interurban electric companies
signihed their intention to the Board of
Public Works yesterday of accepting the
franchise as amended by the board. Jo-
seph l. Irwin, president of the Greenwood
company. ~telephoned that. on account Of
the death of his grandson, he could not be
present. but said ne would sign the fran
chise before next Monday, so that 1t could
be sent to the City Council for ratification.
Officers Of the Greenfield company will also
sign by that time. They will endeavor TO
secure concessions from the indianapolis
Street-railway Company. so hat the inter-
urban companies will not be compelled to
pay three-ffths Of the local fares collected
In the city 10 the indianapolis company. In
doing this they will do away with part of
the objections to the transfer question.
The Greenfield company will enter the
city by the same route as the ~Irvington line
and the Greenwood company will come in
over Virginia avenue 10 Maryland street.
west TO Meridian. south to Georgia, west
TO Illinois, north to Washington and return
by Virginia avenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15

it in Germany or France. or even in En-
Gland. j think, however. the tide Is turn
ing in England. and hat they no longer
throw brickbats at the people who want
the South African war stopped.
A LONG DEVOTION.
"In order TO take this up effectually we
have got TO devote the rest of our lives
TO it. We must simply regard a presiden-
tial election as il comes along as an OPP
p%ortunity to use. and 20 take such action
by the light of how our conduct is going
10 affect the rest of our action and our
cause. / said il is necessary for us never
10 mix in any concession 70 evil or any
concession to private selfshness with the
action we take. If you take a course in
politics which is absolutely straight, no
matter how much il may appear to De
foolish. you collect about you all the peo-
pie who believe i'm that ideal. Not only
do you actually collect them, but you APP
peal 10 the instructive understanding or
everybody in the land.
why do we want to run an Independent
candidate at this time? Because In DONG
so we shall come in contact personally with
all the active spirits in the United states
who want this thing done. 1t is the only
way you can do it. the only way TO keep
together the men who in the future VIII
help you. If you believe that MIR. Bryan
- SCE-o ~ eNCP nv "a
Bryan, you lose your moral power I'M
mediately. and at the end OF the campaign
you have lost your friends again. We have
done that in New York, we have gone
wrong SO many times that IL has become
very simple. We have got up-I don't know
how many reform as~sociations-and then
they have gone and made slight concessions
to some evil. and the thing went back, and
then we waited until some other awful
thing happened. Perhaps the people will
believe us again. and then we will go half
wrong again, and have 10 begin at the
beginning.
Now those good Anti-imperialists who
have come here do not know that: they
do not know that as a matter of political
education, of practical politics, what an
awful thing IL Will be TO disturb and throw
back again upon the United States the
sacred forces that have been brought to-
gelher by their coming here. They do not
know that there is in the present constitu-
ton of society only one way by which they
can hold their forces together, and that Is
TO put up candidates of their own or come
I'm with us and develop a campaign which
from moment to moment can be supported
by people with their whole hearts: hope
that between us all we shall be able TO run
a campaign that shall be a beginning.
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John JAY Chapman. Prof. Nash and
Louis R. Enrich Furnished
the Days Oratory.
MET At COMMERCIAL CLUB
4 FEW OF THE So-CALLED
INDEPENDENTS" HERE.
Want n Third Ticket. and VIII
Ask Anti-Imperia1ists for CO.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Mckinley will be reelected President
because Bryan is tied up to things that
the conscience of the country cannot sup
port" This was the ringing sentiment of
John Jay Chapman. the brilliant New York
writer on political and economic subjects,
at the convention of the independents
held in the assembly rooms of the Com
merciaI Club. yesterday afternoon Mr..
Chapman used these words in a speech
which he made to the convention. just be-
fore il adjourned.
The first session Of the convention opened
yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. There
were between forty and fifty people in
attendance. including the wives of some
of the delegates. Aside from the temporary
chairman. Louis r. Enrich. there was
but one member or the A~nti-imperialist
League present. He was Morefeld Storey,
OF Massachusetts 1t had been said that
the convention would probably consist
of two hundred delegates. One of the
leaders, however, remarked yesterday af-
ternoon that there was as many present
as he expected. No attempt was made
to nominate a ticket yesterday, and some
of the most conservative of the "~independ-
ents'' say they are i'm doubt about one
being nominated at any time. When the
convention adjourned last evening it was
with the understanding that it would re-
convene at the call of the temporary chair
man. Mr.. Enrich will probably not call
the delegates together as a body again
until tomorrow. To-day they will attend
the conference of the Anti-imperialists at
Tomlinson Hall. 1t is understood that the
action of the independents I'm placing a
ticket in the field will depend largely on
what the Anti-imperialist conference does.
A committee was appointed yesterday to
visit the Tomlinson Hall conference and
outline the plan of the independents" and
invite the members of the league to join
in the national third ticket movement.
Thomas M. Osborne. of Auburn, N. Y,
called the convention TO order yesterday.
Among the local visitors were Professor
Demarchus Brown, of Butler College, w.
w. Woollen, Lewis Wallace, jr., and Clar-
ence A. Kenyon. Mr.. Osborne introduced
Louis r. Enrich. who presided as tenn
porary chairman. As part OF the proceed
ings Everett V. Abbott, of New York, read
the call issued by the independents and
a resolution was offered by Francis Philip
Nash, providing for the appointment of a
of three to devise plans for "A
permanent organization. Robert A. Wide
mann, of New York, introduced a resolu-
ton which provides that a committee of
three shall visit the Anti-imperialist con-
ference to-day and invite the members TO
join in the third tickle movement. Mr..
W1demann referred TO the conference as
the liberty congress-" The committee
that will visit the conference is composed
of r.. A. Widemann, Prof. f. p. Nash and
j.. II. Klein. The committee on permanent
organization is Everett V. Abbott, ii. o.
Apthorpe and A. @. Willard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
EXHIBIT OF VEHICLES
Will BE One of the Features of the
state Fair.

indianapolis people, as we'll as those from
out in the State, will find much to interest
them in vehicles at the state fair. when
il opens on Sept. IL. Last year the manu-
facturers of traps. phaetons. carriages and
similar vehicles had in their exhibits one
Of the features of the fair. Most of them
were in large tents, just north of the Art
Hall, and admirers of trim conveyances saw
the newest ideas the manufacturers had TO
cffer. The exhibits this year will be on
a larger scale than last. The manufacture
ers say they found the fair a source of
profit to them, since il gave them an op-
Iortunity TO show TO the people their
fanciest work. Many of the vehicles TO
be seen on the fair grounds next month
are now being especially made and will in
Guide the fashionable. as we'll as substan-
tial. creations that can be driven on the i'm
proved streets of an Indiana city, as we'll
IS those that are adapted 70 the. highways
o. the country and small towns. Most of
the manufacturers of the Mississippi val
ley will be represented, some of them send
ing q dozen or more vehicles.
The people of Indiana are giving more
attention TO vehicles every year" a manu-
f~acturer says. Every family, whether liv-
ing i'm the city or country. aspires to the
ownership of a turnout that includes a
good-looking horse and well-made vehicle.
As the streets of the cities and towns and
the roads in the country are improved. the
demand for better and newer patterns in
vehicles continues to increase and now the
Ieople want the best that the manufacture
ers can produce for them. In indianapolis
there is seen a better class OF vehicles every
year. There are a good MANI fancy ve-
Eicles driven. but the taste of the people
seems to run more 10 the neat. well-made
Cnes. The people OF the city do not have a
better opportunity to see what the manu-
facturers are turning out than at the State
fair. Those who have exhibits on the fair
grounds stock them with their best prod
nets"
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which they view the catastrophe of
promised to be a noble and useful career:
Now, sir. the question that naturally
suggests itself to those who are not toe
lazy to think is. how did we come by sucn
candidates? The answer is not FAR 10
seek. We owe them to machine politics.
and to the rule of the bosses. They are not
the deliberate choice of the people, for l
believe. sir. that the American people is
still substantially an honest and TRUTH
loving people. If l doubted this | should
indeed despair of the people of this Repub-
lie. That eminent political writer De
Tocqueville, who, whine our beloved coun-
try was yet in the early bloom OF her
youthful promise. discussed the subject OF
Democracy in America. spoke words or
golden truth when he said that the success
of a pure democracy like ours depended
wholly on the honesty of the people: and II
ever this people should lose that charac-
t~eristic. the whole fabric of our institutions
would be in danger of immediate
able overthrow.
CROWN OF GLORY.
''The people of this country nave not. 1
fondly trust, abandoned and lost this their
crown of glory. But, sir, i'm place of that
eternal vigilance which is the price of
liberty, they have permitted themselves 10
drift into a culpable state of Indifference
as to the moral basis of their own political
life. This indifference is two-fold. First
came Indifference as to the civic duties of
the voter himself as a unit in politics; and
this was soon and most invisibly followed
by indifference as TO the honesty n
ability and ~soundness of those professional
politicians TO whom the inertness and in
dolence of the citizens had gradually aban-
doned the control of public offices. From
this was developed the gradual corruption
of parties; things dangerous. IL may be.
but not wholly esl in themselves, and
their change into immense political ma
chimes, superseding and abolishing all the
initiative of the ordinary voter.
And this, sir, is bossism, This il Is
which has brought us to our present un-
happy condition. This II is that j~ustities
the attitude of the National party-that
necessitates the creation of such a party
at this time.
II venture to assert that, while our party
American people an honest third ticket. its
chief and highest function Is to restore 10
the people the control of their own affairs;
TO release them from the slavery which
now Expresses them; to remind them or
their sacred duties to themselves and to
mankind. The mission of our party may
incidentally involve the consideration of
pending questions of policy-what we call
platforms. 1t. certainly involves resistance,
both organized and especially individual
resistance and opposition to the election OF
dishonest candidates. such as the political
machine must always propose TO the peo-
party is to safeguard for America and for
the world those institutions of pure
democracy which in times past have been
the glory of our Republic, and which are
still the best hope of an almost despairing
world"