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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
CAPTAIN LiTTLES' QUARRlES
Will Furnish Stone for Ohio River Bridge and
Ferry COmpany'S Piers.

After careful examination of the
several stone quarries with respect to
quality and accessibility, Messrs. Gar
retson, who have the contract for get
ting out the stone which will be used
in the piers of the Ohio River Bridge
and Ferry Co.'S bridge. decided to get
their rock from the quarries on Capt.
Little's place, situated just opposite
st. Marys. The stone will be cut
there, loaded on boats and transported
to the location of the piers The con-
tractors expect to have the stone out
for the first shipment by the first week
in June. The plant is expected today
and will be put up as soon as itarrives.
The work at the quarries will be in
charge of Jack Garretson, while his
brother, w. F. Garretson, will look af-
ter other matters connected with the
business.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
For the Two Cemeteries, Location Of Steps
Leading 10 Mound.

While in Cleveland on a tour of in
spection during the early part of last
week, ,Messrs. Price and Garretson pur-
chased equipment which was sanction
ed by the Cemetery Board at the meet
ing on May 16.
A casket rack with capacity for 40
caskets, an octagon shaped steel seat
to extend around the apex of Mound
cemetery three steel lawn seats for
Oak Grove and six wire baskets constl-
tuted the purchase.
The trustees wish to change the
steps which give ascent to the mound
from the easterly slde facing Tupper
street TO the westerly side, looking to
Fifth street. They would be glad to
know if such action would meet with
general approval or if there is any his
torical reason for the location of the
steps in that particular spot. In cas-
the steps are left undisturbed, the
Trustees will build a small rustic
bridge to span the low ground in front
of the approach.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
JEALOUS HUSBAND
Shot by a Merchant and Falls Dead at His
Wlfe'S Feet.

By Associated Press.
Evansville Ind, May 20.-John l..
Jones, shot and killed Thomas Keane
today in the presence of Keane's wife.
Mrs. Keane is bookkeeper in Jones de-
partment store Keane went to the
store this morning and began abusing
her and Jones interfered. Keane pull
eQ a pistol and Jones also pulled his
and shot Keane in the heart. He fell
dead at his wife's feet. Jones went to
the police and gave himself up. AT
the preliminary hearing this afternoon
he was bound over to court under bond
of $4,000.
Jones is a prominent merchant and
owns stores in ten different cities
Keane separated from his wife at Cal
70, ILL.,, two years ago. Keane was
jealous. Jones asserted that Keane
threatened his life, Mrs. Keane is "a
and beautiful. She is unroncerned
about her husbands death.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
mnU. mCNInLET
Passed a Very Cheerful Afternoon and Is
sGreatIy Improved.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
San Francisco, Cal, May 20-Mrs
Mckinley passed very good after.
noon and the President is very cheer
full over herimproved condition. While
Mrs Mckinley did not leave her bed
today. she passed considerable time
propped up and rested we'll No def
mite date has been set for the Presi-
dents departure. The present ar
rangements are to go direct to Wash
ington and not to Canton, as has been
unotiicially stated.
During the remainder of his stay in
this city the President will participate
in as many public gatherings as the
condition of Mrs. Mckinley will war
rant, but only in an impromptu and
informal way. Weather permitting,
the President tomorrow, will review
the school children of the city and Wis
it the Presidio. Secretary Hay and
other members of the cabinet will re-
main with the President until Mrs.
Mckinley is able to travel and they
will go east together. The physicians
have not yet been able to fix date
when Mrs. Mckinley will be strong
enough to make the trip, but week is
their present approximation.
In spite of the stormy weather today
the President drove to the residence of
his uncle. Benz. j. Mckinley, on Bush
street, where he spent ten minutes
with the family.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

Attorney General Sheets does not be-
lieve that the laws of Ohio provide for
junketing trips for the officials Of state
institutions at The states expense. In
an opinion sent on Saturday to the
trustees of the Dayton State Hospital
he takes the position that the expense
incurred by a superintendent Of state
institution in attending the national
convention of superintendent of in
sane asylums cannot legally be paid
from the appropriation for the instl-
tution's current expenses. He says:
There can be but one answer to this
question. and that is in the negative
Even without the clear provisions Of
the law, it would be difficult to arrive
at any other conclusion than that the
payment of such expenses out of this
fund would be without authority of
law. The superintendent of these in
stitutions are selected because of their
special fitness for the services required
of them and because they are supposed
to be sufficiently interested in their
duties to take advantage of every Teas-
enable opportunity to make themselves
more efficient"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS
Deprecating Action Of Exposition Directors
on Sunday Opening.

By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, May 20.-Routine mat
ters occupied the attention of the
commissioners to the Presbyterian as
sembly for the greater portion of the
days sessions. The annual reports Of
the eight church boards were submit
ted, and three of them, ministerial re-
lief, education and freedmen, with the
the reports of their standing commit
tees, were disposed of. The others
will be taken up tomorrow and We'd
nesday, when it is expected the deck
will be clear for discussion of the re-
vision of the committees reports,
which is the special order for Thurs
day. During the afternoon Moderator
Minton announced the appointment, of
Robert Pitcairn, of Pittsburg, as Vice
Moderator. DR.. Minton also appoint
ed committee of five to complete the
details of the Peoria Overture, the new
plan of electing standing committees.
A resolution was adopted deprecat-
ing the action of the directors of the
Pam American exposition in opening
the gates on Sunday and earnestly
urging the closing of the exposition on
that day. The special committee on
Sabbath observance protested against
the publication of Sunday newspapers
and all use of the Lords Day for busi-
ness purposes or commercial interests,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
Gleason Dead.

New York, May Fitzpatrick ], Glea-
son, former Mayor Of Long Island
City and popuuarly known as Battle
Axe Gleason, died here tonight, a7ed
~ years. Gleason's last candidacy for
public Office was for Mayor of Greater
New York, when he ran on the indie
pendent ticket in the fall of 1897.
Heart disease caused the death.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
DASTARDLY WORK
OF Fire-BugS Near StanIeyVlIIe late Sunday
Night.

Mr.. Peter Conrath, of near Stanley
vile, was in the city Monday and told
Of the burning of his barn and of be-
ing robbed of ten dollars in money
and watch on Sunday night at about
~ o'clock. He awoke to find his barn
burning and gave his attention to saw
ing nearby buildings.
When the barn was burned to the
ground, he returned to the house to
find that while he was fighting the
flames he had been robbed.
The barn had been fired evidently
to get his attention while the robbers
were searching the house. The burn
ed property was not insured.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

Adelbert S. Hay, late Consul to Pre-
toria from the United States, and who
but recently returned from South Afri-
ca, has written an account of his eX-
periences in the Transvaal, which con-
contains much interesting information
concerning the people of that country.
Mr.. Hay says that the Boer is a re-
jncarnated coyenanter who fights as
Cromwells' Ironsides did, chanting a
psalm before the charges. Especially
is this true of the old men who are the
ones still fighting with the greatest
zeal. He thinks the history of the
world can show no Other case of such
indomitable tenacity, fully fifty per
cent of the original Boer army having
been killed or CAPTURED, and that they
must be practically eXterminated be-
fore British authority can be recog-
nized. The picture which Mr.. Hay
draws of the Transyaal and its people
is painfully sad.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
Must Not Publish II.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Mansfield, o., May 2O.-The Common
Pleas Court today granted an order
prohibiting the publication by news
papers of Richland county Of news or
comment relating to the case of Mrs.
Hays Fleming, the stenographer un-
der Indictment for forgery. The
courts order was granted upon applica-
tion of Mrs. Fleming's attorneys and
will continue in force until after the
trial 1t is claimed that the prisoner s
case is being preiudced by publica
tons relating to her past life.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
American Gets the Money.

By Associated Press.
London, May 21.-Jacob Ryan, of
Philadelphia, defeated Geo Chriss, of
New Castle, in II rounds The contest
was for the heavyweight champion
ship and S4500.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

Today the Republicans of the Fifth
Sixth Senatorial joint district will in
all probability nominate T. NJ. Watts,
OF Highland county Mr.. Watts is a
lifelong friend of Senator Foraker.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
Won Prize Trophy.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Louisville, KY, May 2O.-The prize
trophy in the Tri-State field and track
meet this afternoon was won by the
Indianapolis Training School team,
which scored 81 points to 4S by the
Louisville Manual Training School and
16 by the Mooney School, of Franklin,
Tenn.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

In spite of Senator Quays public
proclamation that he is out of politics
forever, there is a lurking belief in
the minds of many old-timers that the
"old man" ought to be searched for
firearms.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

Senator Bright, Of Logan, arrived in
the city Monday afternoon to look af-
ter his political fences. All indications
point to a lively convention at Athens
on the 4th Of June.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

The latest airship man says that he
expects to travel at the rate of eighty
miles an hour. 1t should be kept in
mind, however. tnat all of these fell
lows talk great deal faster than they
fly.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

Four weeks from today the Republi-
cans of Washington county will meet
in convention and nominate a win
ming ticket.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

"a VIZ SAoNHe'tihS VASiNiSNo
PROGRAM OF COMMENCEMENT
WEEK.
SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH.
400 p, m, Baccalaureate Sermon,
Presbyterian Church
President Alfred T. Perry.
500 n, m. Address before the Chris
tian Associations, Presbyterian
church.
Professor Edward |. Bosworth. D. D.,
of Oberlin Theological Seminery.
MONDAY, JUNE 10TH.
1880 p. m. Prize Defamation Contest
Presbyterian Church.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11TH.
$50 a. m. Annual meeting of the
Trustees, Science Hall.
1000 a. m. Class Day Exercises, The
Campus.
200 p. m. Academy Commencement
Presbyterian Church.
400 p. m. Meeting of the Alumni
Andrews Hall.
600 p. m. Alumni Banquet, Andrews
Hall.
Orator-Williaw Wade Dyar, Glass OF
1888.
Poet-Archer Butler Hubert. Glass
Of 1896
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18TH.
1000 a. m. Commencement Exercises
The Auditorium.
300 p. m. Musical Recital, Presbyter-
ian Church.
500 p. m. Presidents Reception, And
rews Hall.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
THE DANCING QUESTION


By Associated Press.
West Point, Miss, May 2O.-In the
Cumberland Presbyterian General
Assembly, this morning, the womens
electorship question was settled by
suffering the young woman to hold her
seat. West Lexington reported the
closing of saloons in the city of Lex
ington upon the Lords Day. The as
sembly declined to grant the request
OF the Brownwood, Texas. Presbytery
to expunge from the pastoral letter the
worus dancing which is innocent"
The report of the committee on the
million dollar Twentieth Century Edu-
cational Fund. showed that some of
the Presbyteries had exceeded the
amounts assigned them.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

But little credence is being put in
the story that a plot is being laid to
abduct the Sultan of Turkey. Who
would pay ransom for his recovery?
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
Subscription Rates for Daily.

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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
EXCLUSIVE REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.

BARGAIN. NO. Good six room
house 4th street near Warren. all as
sessments paid, good buildings for
only $4,000. Lot 45x80.
BARGAIN NO. 2-Four room cot
tage. 5th street on street car line. fine
full half lot, 45X1S0. Good fruit and
buildings $4,000.
BARGAIN NO. 3-Full city lot
9OxlS0, Front street. with 8 room
house on and a dandy location for only
$3.50.
Lots Of Lots.
We have hundreds of fine building
lots for sale, including Miller Place,
Strecker's Addition, Rathbone Place,
Sunny Side, Mt. Everett, Morningside,
and every other good addition ever
laid out to the city of Marietta.
Call and see us. We are the leaders
in Real Estate.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21

For the first time the Prohibitionists
of Ohio have failed to put the woman
suffrage plank in their party platform.
With the single exception of direct leg
islation, which is favored, the plat
form is prohibition throughout.
f Mr.. Schwab, who receives a salary
of million dollars year as president
of the great steel trust, remarks that
a young man wastes his time by going
to college. Let him make a few mil
lions, or get elected to high Office, -
says Mr.. Schwab, "and the colleges
will be running after him with de.
grees." 1t must be admitted as being
painfully true that the obnoxious prac-
tice of dawdling out honors by Ameri-
can institutions of learningh has reached
an excessive degree, but it should be re-
ly reached through hard work.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
Williamstown.

Tom Johnson has proven himself to
be the Vesuvius of Ohio Democratic
politics-with daily eruptions.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
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PAIL laundry does washing and ir-
oning.
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Marietta-West Side.
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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-21
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
Graduating Exercises of Marietta College
Announced in Point of Time.

The authorities of the College have
issued the following calander of the
various events and attending features
of the graduating exercises:
PROGRAM OF COMMENCEMENT
The Conservative, 1901-09-12
Che Conservative.

assembly Of the territory of Nebraska,
which exempted from all legal process
a quarter section of land and all the
improvements thereon. This law was
passed for the purpose of inviting men
from other states to escape into Nebras-
ka with dishonesty acquired funds,
which could be absorbed in quarter
section homestead and protected against
all invading or pursuing creditors. The
result of such law-making ought to be
and generally is disastrous to the people
who indulge in it. The credit of the Ne
braska pioneers referred to was based
upon property, and as there was no
property to speak of, except improved
quarter sections of land held as homes,
the very basis of credit for everybody
was knocked out and it was not long
before common sense and honest de-
cency and self-respect caused the repeal
of that wholesale exemption. It is safe
to say that throughout the Northwest
generally these exemptions have been
very large, too large, and in many of the
states they are still quite too large.
The fundamental and righteous idea of
the exemption is, of course, that some
protection or provision ought to be made
for the family. But experience teaches
that the larger the exemption, the moreit
encourages men to rely upon government
for protection: to depend upon law, rather
than to face the asperities of their con-
ditions and to work out their own sal
vation. The states severally, and the
republic at large, need at this time re-
vival, an arousement, as the Methodists
call it, in favor of individual honesty
and absolute mercantile integrity. All
the commercial world ought to be con-
verted to the doctrine that contract is
a binding and not q voidable
obligation. Every member of the
industrial and commercial organiza-
tions of this country ought to under
stand and swear allegiance to the great
principle that as a man agrees to do so
in truth and honor, he must and shall
do. The government should not be i'm
portuned to protect the indolent, the
extravagant and the thoughtless from
the consequences of their own misman-
agement. The prevalent idea that it is
the duty of the government to provide
or secure every man living and an es-
tate ought to be erased.
Recent legislative assaults upon prop
erty rights and against organized prop
erty interests have degraded and cor
rupted public sentiment. All attempts
to divert from the provident to the i'm
provident the fruits of industry and
thrift are detrimental to the moral and
social status of the people of the United
States. All exemptions by state author
| tiles should be restricted to a. mini
The Conservative, 1901-09-12

improvident from the consequences of
their own extravaganza and Incidence, at
the expense of the frugal and indus
trious. It is the function of govern
ment to maintain the peace and to per-
NIT each citizen to have an equal chance
in the struggle for life, liberty and
property under a system Of fair, just
and equitably administered laws. Each
American must learn that he must do
for himself and not depend upon the
government to do for him, and every
body ought to know that to "do' the
government by getting an unnecessary
appropriation, or creating sinecure for
a political favorite is not craftsmanship.
All the "Stay laws" whereby debtors
suspend for all indefinite time the decree
or judgment in favor of the creditor,
ought to be repealed. All laws which
permit appeals in foreclosure cases, from
orders confirming sales, upon bonds
which do not protect the creditor, but
which permit the defaulting debtor to
remain in possession of the land, reaping
the harvest thereof, ought likewise to
be repealed. The laws which intention
ally make it difficult by delay, and very
expensive for an owner to obtain from
defaulting tenant the possession of his
property, ought likewise to be repealed.
All laws which make it easy and cheap
to appeal a cause, in order that the
delay which the debtor thereby
so profitably secures, because the
delay is worth more to him than the ex-
pense of the appeal, ought to be obliter-
ated from the statute books. All laws,
the theory and principle Of which are to
give to the debtor who has made default
in his obligation some privilege Of value,
at the immediate expense of his creditor,
ought to be repealed, because such laws
are inherently dishonest and shame
lessly reward dishonesty as though it
were a merit.
The class of laws alluded to
are inimical to the debtor,
whose best interests are conserved
by speedy liquidation. They are
likewise very expensive because
the creditor in dealing with him,
endeavors to guard against all
these contingencies so far as he may, by
charging higher rate of interest or a
higher price for goods. Thus the bur-
dens which fall alike upon the honest
debtor and the dishonest one are created
by unwise legislation.
But the most malicious effect of this
sort of law-making is it's general result.
Laws encourage and foster the spirit to
which they pander. The ambition of
dishonesty wrestling from creditor
what it was agreed he should have makes
the improvident q particular class, for
whose interest this sort of specific legis-
The Conservative, 1901-09-12

insolvent, to any one of his creditors,
even though it be paid in the ordinary
course of his business, if paid within
four months of his bankruptcy, whether
the debtor was insolvent or not, and
whether the creditor had any reason to
suspect insolvency or not, or whether
any preference was intended or not,
must be given up by the creditor as a
condition precedent to having his claim
allowed against the estate Of the in
solvent and participating in the divi-
dends of that estate? And must not such
decision to a very large extent, unsettle
all legitimate mercantile credit? Can
the existence of any law be continued
and justified when the law itself is at
bottom morally wrong? Can the present
Bankruptcy law be tolerated, except on
the basis of expediency, and the imper-
ative public necessity for some sort Of
bankruptcy law? Have not the condi-
tions which brought. this statute into
existence passed away, and the necessity
for just such law ceased? Is not it's
continuance wrong and it's spirit con-
trary to the righteous idea of holding
each man responsible for his acts? Is it
not at base the government coming in
to relieve man from the obligations of
his own contract? In short, is it not an
indulgent paternalism? Was not the en-
actment of this law, without limiting
it's operations to specific and compar-
atively short period of time, mistake
in economics and in morals? Men are
made strong, honest and prudent by
teaching them that they must bear the
consequence of being weak, imprudent
and dishonest. One great objection to
the present bankruptcy law is that it
puts all creditors-the careless, the in
competent, the ignorant and the mat
tentive, upon the same basis as the in
telligent, the vigilant and the indus
trious. The honest man who found
himself deluged with debt, overwhelmed
in the depths during the panic of 1898
and 1894, could, in majority of cases,
compound with his creditors, by agree
ment, upon surrender of his estate. But
the fraudulent debtor who has, in viola
tion of his creditors rights, pretended to
sell estates by transferring them to
relatives, practically does away with
any contest over the fraudulent aliena-
tion, because as creditors must all share
pro rata in the division of an estate, no
one creditor is interested in proceeding
at his own expense, to contest the fraud
ulent transfer for the benefit of all the
creditors and, as rule, these contests
are therefore rarely made, and it is safe
to say that in a great many instances,
debtors have proceeded to bankruptcy
and become relieved of their obligations
while large estate were held practically