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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
BANK FRAUDS.
PugiIist BuTgs The iccompllca
Of BOOkksopsr GouiIs.

New York Nov. 26.-Concerning the
Liverpool bank trouble tire London cor
respondent of the Tribune cables;
THE appearance of the pugilist, Burge.
in Bow street as the alleged accomplice
of the bookkecper. Goudic. of tho Bank
Of Liverpool vas the first stroke OF In
spector Frocste. who has taken charge
of THIS remarkable bauk robbery
The coolncss of Goudio WAS phcnom-
cnal. for when the detective accountant
J-as irving 10 trace % missing check OF
r90o the bookkccper j. reported to have
made q false entry With a fresh pcu aud
to have walked ont uf the bank
All the details are now known e. to th"
method pursued hv Guudic and his cou-
tcdcrates iu tho colossal bank frauds at
Liverpool Goudic knew the nature "t
the accounts iu bis ledger ami became
familiar with the customers checks.
DE is alleged 10 have supplied expert
forgcrs outside with information as 10
the amounts which would pass without
exciting suspicion. The checks were
formed on this Information crossed and
honored I'm due course by Che Bank of
Liverpool
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
P|TTSBURG SWTCHMEN
BEGIN A BIG STRIKE.
All the Roads Entering That City,
With Two Exceptions, Affected.
Increase in Wages Demanded.

Pittsburg. Pa. Nov GA strike for In
creased wages of all switchmen belong
Ing to the sw'tchmens union OF North
America in the Pittsburg district was in
suEuarted this morning
Reports have not been received from
all the yards but the officials OF the
union say II affects every road enter
ing Ptasburg except the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne. Chicago a. Pittsburg and g. g. a
st. Louis and many private individuals
and corporations. There are between 600
and 1000 members of the local organiza-
ton and the union officials say that the
response was general.
In their demands the switchmen asked
for the enforcement OF the standard scale
OF wages. This calls for y cents an hour
for DAY firemen and conductors, the night
men TO receive two ceE5s more per hour,
their work being more difficult and dan
Fercus. Under the new schedule the day
helpers and brakmen are rated at %
cents All hour and the night men at "a
cents. The switchmen declare that the
tonnage handled by them in this city
is much greater than that handled by
other men In other cities.
Whether the strikers will secure the
support OF other railroad men cannot be
lefrned AT this time. The officials OF the
union say that the other railroad organi-
sation cannot, II they adhere 10 the prin-
ciI .es laid down by their organizations.
oorscientiously oppose them. IL has been
stated BY W. G.. Lee, first vice grand
master that the brotherhood of trainmen
is not IN favor of the strike and will not
endorV II.
II is learned that the strike not only
affects Pittsburg, but Mckees ROCKS. NC
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26

Keesport. Braddock and adjacent terri
tory. Following the big steel strike so
closely the present trouble IS quite likely
70 Interfere materially with shipments
The railroad officials believe. however,
that they will be- able 10 cope with the
situation, and that with the assistanc OF
the brotherhood traffic Will not be mate
rally affected. There has not, however,
been time i'm the history OF the city
when traffic ia and out OF Pittsblrg was
go heavy. The strikers say they are
oVeTworked on this account, ana that
they are forced 10 work overtime 10 Keep
j. d. Hughes. second vice grand master
OF the Switchmeus Union OF North Amer
lea, stated this morning that the olIclals
OF the Monangahela Connecting RAILWAY
company had signed the new schedule or
the Switchmen's union, and would hanole
no foreign freight until the dispute was
settled. lie said further that tho Mo Mo
nongahela Connecting people were the
first 10 sign the schedule, and that IL was
the expectation that several other roaos
would do likewise before the close Oh
the day
The Switchmen's union does not have
members I'm the Pittsburg, Fort wayne
and Chicago and Pittsburg {. 9. ana 81.
Louis yards and business was reported as
going on as usual there.
General Manager Schoonmaker, OF the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, re-
ported all the men at work at 10 O'Clock.
The strike was causing some trouble III
the yards Of the Pttsburg and Western
and Allegheny Valley roads, however, put
the railroad officials say they expect 10
have traffic moving as usuai In snort
time.
Special trains with detectives arrived
from the East and West last night. ana
the detectives are on duty about the yards
today. The newcomers are silent lot,
and IL Is impossible TO get them TO talk.
None of the officials say anything about
Continued on Page Two.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
COLOMBIAN
GUNB0AT
LEAVES.
II Is Believed She Has Gone
From Colon to CaItagsna
for Troops.

Washington. Nov 26.-Secretary Long
received a cablegram from Commander
McCrae of the Gunboat Machias at
Colon. today stating that the Colombian
gunboat Gen. Plnzon had disappeared 10
the East. 1t is thought here that she has
gone TO Cartagena for troops.
AMERICAN GUARDS ON TRAINS.
New York, Nov. 26.-Private advices re-
csived here from Colon announced that
Capt Perry OF the l.. S. battleship Iowa
had placed guards on all trains OF the
Panama Railroad and Steamship Co. The
guards were being relieved, the despatch
said. by a relay system.
Local officials of the Panama Railroad
and Steamship CO., had no advices deny
ing or affirming that Gen. Alban 1ad
been refused transportation for his troops
by the Isthmian officials of the company
and that he had transported his troops as
far as Culebra
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
TALE OF The SEA
indications That Vessels Found
cred OFF tho Delaware Capas.

New York, Nov. GA large square rig
ged vessel possibly went down in the
recent gale of tho Delaware capes
Whether her crew went down with her or
have been saved may not be known for
some tirr4e-f for II picked up they might be
taken across the Atlantic.
Upon the survival of the crew will de-
nerd whether the name of the ship Will
ever be known. The log OF the Red ID
line steamer Philadelphia. which arrived
today from Venezuela and Porto Rico,
records that "On Nov. Is. in the latitude
IS =. longitude 72.20 passed large spar
standing on end with yards and sails
attached
The location is about 140 miles east OF
the Delaware capes. The Philadelphia
also reported having on Nov. q In lati-
tude 2929. longitude 69.43 (of the Florida
coasD passed the side OF a vessel about
so feet long and 70 feet wide
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
A CONSPIRACY
Entered Into by Employees to
Rob Chicago Hotels.

Chicago, Nov. 26.-Four employees OF the
Grand Pacific hotel, Rose Malin, Freder-
icka Weisse, Phoebe Williams and Walter
Johnson have been arrested charged with
the theft OF sii0o worth of silver. cut
glass and other hotel material.
Detectives claim TO have evidence of a
large conspiracy OF hotel employees where
by the big hostelrics OF Chicago had been
robbed OF $4,000 10 $4,000 worth of prop
erty. the material all being fenced" or
disposed OF in this city. In few days, IL
IS promised. several suspected employees
i'm the large hotels win be arrested and the
whole conspiracy exposed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
A REQUIEM
For Those Who Died Fighting
for Homes and Families.

New York. Nov. 2G-Bcv. Joseph r.
MCndi. rector of the church Of the Inn
naculaie Conception al Montclair. n. j..
announces that az "a. m. Thnraday be
will celebrate hieh mass OF requiem for
the repoyc of tho souls oi Flipuos who
"6ied nrhung for tho rights of their
country ,,-a allu-thn Catholic -NhO- have
been slain nghting with INC Beers In
South Africa
Father Meudi said the mass was I'm
tended as a tribute 10 those who had
died In tho defence ~ their homes and
families II is also in the nature 81 q
protest. he said. against the acts OF both
tho American and English governments.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
BIG SCHOONER.
FIys-Masted Vessel Success
fully Launched at Buckspori.

nucksport. Me-. Nov. 2cs--Thc largssf
schooner aud the only flve-master ever
built on the Penobscot river the james
w. Paul. Jr.. was successfIlly launched
titls forenoon from the yard OF Mcl<ay' A.
Dix.
The Paul was built for the general car
rvinr trade, and was designed for fast
sailing she viii hail from New York
and viii be commanded by Capt A. Il.
Kent of Brewer. She viii be ready. for
sea in about q week. Her dimersou4
depth. gLa. gross tonnage. iSQS.lss net ton>
maze, tsSS,s
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26

that MCGOWAN had charged his mind.
AZ 1870 today Captain Saunders looked
over the side OF the vessel and saw the
body Of his friend
McGowan had evidently fallen when
attempting 90 get aboard the ship. and
striking on his head. which was quite
badly cut, had been made insensible and
was drowned
The body was viewed by Medical FIX
aminer Perkins and delivered to Under
taker Chase OF 200 Westminster street
1t is said that MCGOWAN had been
drinking heavily for about a week.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26

James McGowan. captain OF tho schoon-
or Ann Louise now lying at the foot Of
Hilrs wharf Was found drowned In the
Dorrancc street slip at 1880 this after
noon.
Captain MCGOWAN visited Captain r. w.
Saunders. of the schooner Chehegan,
at the Dorrance street wharf,last evening
and left that ship at O'Clock intending
10 return an hour later and then go up
town with Captain Saunders
NcGowan didn't show up at the expect
I'd hour and Captain Saunders considered
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
FOR $4,000.
Bahcock Sues Consolidated
Road for Loss by Fire.

The +. w. Baboock company has
brough suit against the New York. New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company TO
lacnxer 5000. ON June 20. 1901, the prop
crty OF the plaintiff was destroyed by
fire -,
The fire was caused by sparks, cinders
and enbers from the smokestacks OF To-
comotiVes. PLAINTIFF * property consisted
of buildings. improvements ana consldei
pbIe oil and utensils. Irving Champln Is
Rttorncy for the plainiih,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
kloNl0R OPINION.

London. Nov. 2s-"rhe course OF events
In Cenfral America" says the Pail Mall
(iazetto. "ia showing how Inevitable IL
IS that the United states should be the
principal performer ON these lfthmian
games and that &c is Just as wcll thar
thcir government and ours should have
settled out-tttdlur differences aud been
WORKING amirlby together lor tht prcser-
walton of an open door.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
TO RECRUITS.
German Kaiser Makes Another
Address at Ki0I.

Berlin. Nov. 26.-Another version of the
Emperor's remarks TN addressing the ma
val recruit. at T(iel quotes him as saying;
You must not think TO yourselves 1T
IS all very easy for the emperor to COM
mand. but the soldiers have the dffTfcu1t
duty to perform have taken my solemn
oath like yourselves and / must perform
my duty like yourselves. each in his
place"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
BLIZZARD IN NORTHERN NEW yoRK.

Malone. y. e. Nov I-A blizzard has
been raging throughout northern New
YORK fot tho list ~ hours The foll 81
SNOW has been very heavy. Trains are
late aud country roads are badly drifted.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
HER SHAFT BROKEN.

Manila. Nov 2s.-Thc United States
lighthouse steamer Gen. AlnVa has been
towed into Sorsogon, Southeast Luzon,
with her shaft broken.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
Body Not Discovered Until Between
II and | O'clock Today, When
il Was Noticed by Cap
tain Saunders.


drowned
at the
had fell
{. vessel and the wharf
Injuries to
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-26
Col. F. F. OIney, Richard H. Deming
and William H. Luther Were Selected.
Resolutions Of Sympathy With
Governor Gregory.

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o. appointment by
by senate today
he
Col Frank +. oaey in
expires
H. expires 1905
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29

and sixteen persons were committed and
8twenty-six discharged. and for the same
time city hospital employees filed twenty
four affidavits and fourteen were COM
United and ten discharged
In 1900 the county paid s9047.TS for in
quests, and in 1901 up to June 20 the
county paid in fees s7,175, making a rate
had the inquests not been stopped, of
$4,000 a year. The expose of the trust
stopped the inquest business, and no
doubt saved many sane persons from
being examined by a lunacy commission,
for, while affidavits We're being filed at
the rate of one each day. there were but
three atiidavits filed from June 20 to
July %.
When the grand jury made it's inves-
tigation the evidence only of inquests
being held was adduced, and while that
body could not find that the law had
been violated, 1t criticised the methods.
The report to the attorney general puts
& different phase upon the matter, for it
row appears that justices charged for
two days when the work was done in one
and often more than one inquest was
held in one day and yet fees We're COL
5lected for two days in each. This rem
ders the parties liable to criminal action.
end the attorney general is determined
that the guilty shall be brought to pun
G
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
TIE insanity TRUST
Indiana Hospital Nurses and
Physicians Caught in Cold
Blooded Conspiracy.
Filed Atfidavits Of Insanity
Against Sane Persons for
o the Fees.
Stern Action Will Be Taken by
the State Board Of
Indiana.

Indianapolis, July Ex-Governor
Durbin will probably order the state
board of charities to make a thorough
investigation of the Marion county i'm
sanity trust The board will meet to-
morrow, and the governor, who has
been considering the report of the at
torney general is likely to probe the
scandal. The attorney general recon-
mends stern action, and finds where the
alleged conspirators have laid them
selves open to prosecution.
The report of Deputy Attorney Cen
eral Hadley constitutes a public docu
TO be found upon the records of any
other state in the Union. Without men
tioning the names of the men and wo-
men who constitute the trust. it deals
with their acts and shows conclusively
that they We're actuated only by greed
agreement as to the share each should
receive. the employees of the city dis
pensary placed their fees in a common
pot and at stated times divided the sum
pro rata among the members of the
trust. According to the report this
cold blooded arrangement included all
who We're in any way connected with
the cases. and embraced matron. am
bulance driver and internes the first
two usually filing the affidavits and
the last named acting as examiners
and physicians.
How rapidly the business was in
5creasing under the stimulus of such
easy fee getting is fully shown by the
report. In 1899 there We're 237 inquests.
months of the present year 16l. AT
the latter ratio the number for the
present year would have exceeded 300.
OF course, the fees We're the same
whether the victim was committed or
discharged, and as the object was to
make money. many for whom the COM
missions We're summoned We're dis
charged.
Indeed. in majority of the cases the
accused was discharged, but the county
paid the fees, and the records show that
the cost of inquests has been Increasing
every year since the trust was organ
ICED.
In 1900, for instance. three persons at
the city dispensary filed fif.y-one affi-
sdavits, on which thirteen persons were
committed and thirty-eight discharged.
In the same year the employees at the
police station filed forty-two affidavits
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29

gard it as certain that the bill will not
pass that body in its present form, and
they expect considerable changes will be
made therein. especially as Emperor
William is DESTROYS of new commercial
treaties.
The projected tariff bill. published
Saturday by the Reichsonzeiger, is the
chief topic of discussion here today.
Even the agrarians are surprised at the
extent to which the government has
complied with their demands. 1t is not
considered at all likely that the bill will
pass in its present shape. Already Der
Norwaerts and the radical national
liberal organs express their determina-
ton to fight the government to finish.
The Catholic organs in Germany are
cautious and do not express opinions.
The comment OF the conservative pa
pers shows them to be surprised at the
success of their party. The National
Zeitung contends the government must
bs shown that its new tariff scheme is
incompatible with the commercial and
social interests Of the country and the
bases of German political economy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
Bad News for Britain.

London, July 29.-War news remains a
record of misery and suffering for two
fighting races. each with inexhaustible
powers OF endurance. The Beers are
credited with success in forcing Stein
acker's Horse to evacuate I3remersdorp
ard to fight its way to Lembobo In
Swasiland. This incident shows that
the clearance of the eastern TransNaa
has not been effective asswas supposed
The British operations against Niijoen
in north MIddleburg have been mora
successful than the official dispatches
have Indicated. and the four columns CO.
operated we'll in harassing the Beers
Western Trnnsvaal is tolerably quiet
and few incidents are reported from the
Orange River Colony. Gen. French s
campaign south of the Orange river IL
making slow progress, and the moral eff
feet of sentences passed upon Cape
rebels Is not yet apparent.
The most hopeful word brought By
Baden Powell is that the war can no..
last longer than three or four months.
This is rot reassuring tidings for a ma
ton signing wearily for peace.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
ANOTHER BIG TRUST
The Organization Well Under
Way Of SIS, 900, 900 Steel
Casting Combine.
Will Control All Steel Castings
for Railroad and Marine
Necessities.
Many Men Will Be Thrown Out
Of Employment as
Result.

rhicao J,,l,. On - .,
:
Mtsn d eapieai OF si9,VVo'ooo embracing
the principal plants engaged in that de-
partment of steel-making Known as
steel castings is bsin., so,,,a4 rhs
ss'-is M
p'ouue' ~ me oililon- aoiias7sfeei eorpo-
iation is confined chiefly TO rolling mills
making rolled steel. s,,ct, as rails st,,,e-
,,1ral stessl .,,7 49,, 80, M
l''i''i " 'iie- F'liilos' 2! W ana siiiiltar
products, comparatively little OF the
output is cast.
The n,,cl,sns ~ ~, ,.a
eoiisoiiaaeiotl' y tAe -Ahlerlean Steel
Casting COMPANY, Which claims the dis
tinction of having been the tirst AZ ,bg
so5ca1,sa .r,,s :, ~ 80
n, =
- : - si's 1857 st'1n y ~
tsfeses OF ne pfinslpsi sJssi-easting
A''aiiss ~ sNisttlce az 'hat Niias ne
,Aii'e'ieali stssi-'7 as'lhs ofilpany has
pssli operated successfully since its for
i,'a'.oii, ana mas pala nancsoine aiNA-
asiics, ne aaalt-en 70 charging and inl-
PROVING an OF lts pants rs principal
pan. ana nome once haNe been local q
at Shes'er' "a, WITH 9allssi sEasan as
, anu otiletS az 4N9ffls'9Wn, IA,
aiiaioil' "a. itsspurs' "a. Aillance, o.s
,sfae'ise' ~. l., ahs o'nsf snaiisi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29

y quarrel concerning girls resulted in
the killing Of Charles Wallace by Allen
q Montgomery at Portsmouth, Mo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
SEIZE san JUAN GOODS
Customs Officers Ignore Procla.
nation Of Free Trade With
Porto Rico.
Seize Imports on Plea That They
Have Not Received
Official Order.
Passengers Deprived OF Their
Cigars and Cigarettes..A
Pretty Mess of 1t.

New York, July 29.-'rhe steamship
Ponce from San Juan, Porto Rico, July
%. locked in Brooklyn sunday after
noon. AS it steamed up the bay the
customs tug went alongside and two
officers boarded the Ponce and took the
passengers declarations. AS soon as the
Ponce locked custom house inspectors
examined the baggage of the passen-
gers, eighty in number. All cigars and
.cigarets We're seized and the owners
We're told to come back tomorrow for
them
Among the passengers WAS j. r..
Carlson, auditor of Porto Rico. He in
formed the inspectors that, according
to the presidents proclamation. free
trade now exists between the United
States and Porto Rico. The inspectors
claimed that they had no official noti-
fication to that effect, and MIR. Garrison
compiled with the order TO dump the
contents of his dozen trunks on the
pier. The baggage fall the other pas
sengers was similarly inspected.
After this general overhaulins of
baggage a telephone message was re-
ceived 10 seize only cigarets in lots of
over 800. Passengers who did not have
that quantity We're let out. one, how
ever, who had $50 cigars was required
to turn them over and told 10 come
around on Monday and pay for the in
ternal revenue stamps. The inspectors
el:tim that. while they know free trade
now exists between this country and
Porto Rico, they don't know it officially.
and that 1t Will be several days before
the new order can be put into effect.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
RusslA's NEW SHIP CANAL.
1t Will Extend From ST. Petersbur.
10 fhe .Whi&a Sea

IL VIII Extend from st. Petersburg
to the White Sea.
Washington, July 29.-The state de.
partment has learned thru Consul ISehl
at Stettin, that operations have beer
begun on the proposed ship canal be.
tween St. Petersburg and the White
sea. The naval port. Cronstadt, the en-
trance to ST. Petersburg, is connected
with the new naval harbor. Scrotskaja
on the White sea by a canalof sufiicien,
breadth and depth to admit the passage
of Russia's largest cruisers. The ex-
IRENE depth will be thirty-one feet
while the water surface will have a
breadth of 200 feet. The length of the
canal Will be 9S6 Kilometres. about 60.
miles. In conclusion the consul says:
with the merchant marine of Russia
her contemplated canals, her finished
trans Siberian railroad, and her tota
Independence of any foreign steamer
cable, telegraph or rail from the Baltic
sea to the North Pacific ocean. one has
a View of possibilities equally as grea,
In peace az in war;