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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22
| In the City.

RECORD CLERk-E. E. Schnepp was
yesterday appointed record clerk in the De-
partment Of Public Buildings.
CURATOR TO HIS STEPSON-Probate
Judge HENDERSON yesterday appointed Wal
lace W. Steward curator of his stepson,
Fauntleroy Mathews, who inherited $4,000
from hts father.
REPUBLICAN WARD MEETING-The
Tw enty-secUnd Ward Republican League
Club will meet this evening in the club
headquarters on Ewing avenue, near Pine
street. Business in connection with regis
tration will be transacted.
INFANT on DOORSTEP-An infant
about a day old was found on the steps Of
Mrs. Annie Harris'S house at No. 2s45 Nor
gan street, Tuesday night. The police were
notified and the infant removed to the Be
thesda Home.
GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL
Comptroller Player and First Assistant
Comptroller Lockwood are preparing the
troduced In the Municipal Assembly in about
a month. The bill probably will not differ
much from last years in the aggregate OF
allotmentS.
HURT GETTING OFF CAR-william
street. is at the Ci,y Hospital suffering from
a confused back and chest. In attempting
to alight from an Easton avenue car at
Eighteenth street and Franklin avenue ear
ly yesterday morning he fell to the pave
ment.
MRS. ALLAN c. GLASGOW DEAD
Mrs. Nellie Miller Glasgow of No. All
Washington avenue. wife of Allan c. G!as-
gov died yesterday morning from heart
failure The funeral will take place Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock from the resi-
oence.
COAL FOR sCHOOLs-The Board Of
Education yesterday opened bids for the
supply of coal for the St Louis schools. The
contract was awarded to Boehmer Coal
Company owe. five other bidders. Their
prices was s1.62'2 Il ton. The highest bid
was S2.01.
SELF-CULTJRE CLUB ENTERTAIN
ment-The elocution class of the North Side
Self Culture Club presented a one-act farce
at the hall. No. 1882 Carr street. last night.
The piece was entitled Amanda The per-
formance will he repeated tonight and to-
morrow evening two-act comedy will be
presented.
JACKSON CLJB'S OFFICERS-The
Jackson Democratic Club. No 1i0S Chouteau
avenue has elected the TO lowing officers
for next year: President, J. Parker: vice
president. Edward Wilson; secretary and
treasurer, A. G.. Walther; sergeant alarms.
L. ]. Callahan; musical director Theodore
Zeiner.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22
FRANK BASLER.

SPEClAlA
Charleston. ILL.,, May I-Doctor P. H. Nc
Grrty died this morning. He was 81 years
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22
BENEFIT At MEMORIAL HOME-Thc

y
annual festival and sale of fancy articles
for the benefit of the Memorial Home at
Grand and Magnolia avenues. will be held
this afternoon. from to s o'clock. As the
home is very much in need of funds to
care for the aged ones the managers hope
to have a large attendance.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22

COAL FOR sCEEOOLs-The Board of
Education yesterday opened bids for the
supply of coal for the st. Louis schools. The
contract was awarded to Boehmer Coal
Company owe. five other bidders. Their
prices was s1.62i2 ton. The highest bid
was S201.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22

ment-The elocution class of the North Side
Self-CultuTe Club presented a one-act farce
at the hall. No. 1882 Carr street, last night.
The piece was entitled Amanda" The per-
formance will he repeated tonight and to-
morrow evening two-act comedy will be
presented
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-22

Player received many letters from banks
and capitalists for information concerning
the 81 10000 issue of municipal bonds in aid
of the Worlds Fair. Bids viii be received
by Mayor Wells and Comptroller Player on
June q The bonds will be delivered June 20
TO the successful bidder.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
About the Stogie.
From the New York Sun.

from the New YORK sun.
The object of the stogie trust, just
formed in Philadelphia, can be con-
demned even by the devlfish potters.
That object is to put the stogies on
the foreign market, to light up and
make fragrant the waste places of The
Old World with these bright new.
quaint-shaped cheap and filing Anne ri
can weeds and flowers. We have no
passion for statistics, yet we can feel
our chest putting out with satisfaction
and pride as we read that the yearly
output of the combined factories is
800, 000, 900 stogies." Three hundred
millions! Think of that. and stogie
smoking is in its rattle-and- coral days
yet and hasn't half begun. We smoke
and celebrate all the American cigars
the COMPOUNDED doctors will allow us
and few boxes more on the sly; but
these is something homely, a native
flavor, fascination Of honest ugliness
and simplicity about the stogie. II is
unpretentious. 1t is democratic, and
found in the mouths OF millionaires and
Of virtuous tramps. 1t is a friendly
fellow, and we know men who arc
getting rich by smoking 1t.
And now to carry it, no green ci-
gar for American visitors" but the
pride of Pittsbrug, the jewel OF Wheel
ing, the ornament of Ohio, across the
drink; to tickle the noses of kings with
1t; to fill with its scent the lord chan
cellor's wig and woolsack; to stuff the
knapsacks OF soldiers, the bags of bar
risters, the chests of seamen, the gold
cases of princes; to carry ii to Cathay
and Ormus; to hear prayer wheels in
some lamasery high on the ThibeLsn
mountains turning piously to the ac-
compartment of that strange Western
incense; to see all heather affairs smox-
ing with it and all heather priests and
seers, all BONES. shamans and auge-
koks smoking it; to see Terra del
Fuego becoming a land of stogie smoke
and the Hottentots truly happy for the
first time
The Spice Islands are called the Sto-
gies. Shy. honey-hunting men, An
damanese and Veddahs. accept civili-
cation since such a fragi ant herald
goes before ii. The Malay drives off
all evil spirits with the stogis. Aus
tralian black fellows, Arunta and IRA
burma. make II their totern Damars
and Malabar, Yoruba and Eve say IL
is a god. Our eyes follow II around
the earth. II cheers the fires Of the
nights Of the ultimate pole It is box
ed more than the compass. The Green
lander grunts with JOY ir his house
of snow wanting nothing since he has
a store Of stogies. The Siberian coast
lander sells his fishskin suit for
single one OF the sticks Of sweetness.
The soft Melanesian pulls away at
stogies. watching thel- breath and the
eternal surf The Kingsmll Islanders
but the ApotheOsis and Universal
Triumph II tie stogie n'ust ba paint
ed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
OPPOSITION WHISKY TRUST.
Outside Kentucky DistiIIers Report
ed to Be Getting Together.


ed to Be Getting Together.
Louisville, KY, Aug. 19.-The Post
to-day says: "A plan is now on foot to
form a combination of the outside dis
tillers in Kentucky and the outside
spirit distillers in Ohio, Illinois and In,
diana, the proposed consolidation be-
ing revival of the so-called Green
baum plan,' which was stopped in it's
infancy three years ago by the forma-
ton of the present combination, known
as the. Distilling Company of America
The plan, which has been quietly
discussed. has not yet taken definite
form, but 1t is proposed to interest in
the scheme the leading jobbing houses
OF the country and to interest perma-
nently all the distillers whose plants
are bought by including in the deal
the agreement to have the goods man
ufactured in their old locations under
their old brands, thereby making them
customers of the new company, afford
ing an outlet for the goods manufac-
tured and leaving the brands and out
put in the hands of the original own
ers.
1T is claimed that the outside dis
tilleries of Kentucky would have a
combined output capacity above equal
to that of the trust, and that the
outside spirit distilleries would have
a combined output greatly in excess
of the trusts.
1T is further asserted that a new
combination might offer big prices for
outside properties, and yet have a
capitalization much less than the bond
ed Indebtedness of SIG, 100000 which
the Distilling Company of America has
Just underWritten
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
GATES GETS A SETBACK.
Loses First Round of Fight TO Con-
troll Colorado Company.

Denver, Col, Aug. 19.-The John w.
Gates faction of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company have lost another round
in their battle for control of that
company.
Judge Riner of the United States
District Court tonight denied their
application for a preliminary injunc-
ton to prevent officials of the COM
pany from refusing to allow them to
vote proxies they claim to hold at the
stockholders meeting tomorrow in
this city.
The suit, which was brought in the
name of John ]. Mitchell and others,
against the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, was based upon the alleged
fraudulent and absolutely void bylaw
which was adopted by the board of
directors of the company on July 80,
last, and which the compliments
charged was framed and adopted for
| the purpose of enabling the present Of
ficials of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company to dictate the action of to-
morrow's meeting, and also to deprive
the compliments and the shareholders
they represent by proxy from voting
at such meeting.
Judge Riner held that the allegations
i'll the bill of complaint were fully met
and denied by the answer of the de-
PENDANT company. In deciding the
application for preliminary injunction,
the court was not expected to pass
upon questions of law. However, he
would say that on it's face the by
law provided for an orderly and law
ful method of conducting q
shareholders meeting and that appar-
emily there was no other purpose in
view. The bylaw was adopted in good
faith. The application for preliminary
injunction would therefore be denied.
The application was made several
days ago and a brilliant array of le-
gal talent was retained on each side
of the case. The court room tonight
was crowded with spectators. Mr.
Gates and his friends listened atten-
lively to the reading of the decision
and as soon as it was completed left
the courtroom with their attorneys.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
Clutch Thompson. Gambler

Saratoga. N. Y, Aug. 19-CharIes
Fl. Thompson, better known as
Butch" Thompson, died here to-day
after long illness following injuries
received in a runaway accident ten
years ago at Long Branch. The di-
rect cause of his death was Brights
disease and cirrhosis of the liver.
Thompson was one of the richest
gamblers in this country and leaves
property valued at 100000. He was
born in Norway 81 years ago. and,
coming to this country while young
man, entered the army, where he
learned to play cards so skilfully that
he gambled professionally the re-
manner of his life. He was known to
every sporting man the country over.
With AL Smith he ran the White
Elephant in New York city many
years and made a book on the races.
He leaves two sisters in Norway
The burial will take place here on
Thursday in Glen Ridge Cemetery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
sLAsHING MATCH IN DOUBLES.
Begins the Annual Tennis TOurna-
ment at New York.

Begins the Annual Tennis TOurna-
ment at New York.
Newport, r. l.. Aug. ia slashing
match in doubles and a full score of
single matches started most success
fully to-day the annual national cham
pionship lawn tennis tournament at
the Casino. The double event between
the Doherty brothers, the champions
of the East, and Collins and Waidner,
of Chicago, champions of the West,
was the leading feature. The foreign
ers won. but it required most careful
play to do 1t.
From the start both Collins and
Waidner were on their toes, and had
the latter played with the same steadi-
ness as his more experienced partner.
the result might have been different
But their success in work at the net,
in tremendous smashing and in light
ming cross-court strokes, which the
Dohertys found impossible to handle,
appeared to intoxiCate both
Of them, especially Waidner, until the
latter threw caution to the wind
When Waidner began to drive out of
court, the Dohertys were quick to seize
on the weakness, and fed him balls
continually. In the last two sets Col
Inns and Waidner scored only seven
teen places and piled up forty-four
errors, which gave the Dohertys the
match.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
Nathan Nathans, New orIean,.

Mr.. Nathan Nathans, formerly of
this city, died in New Orleans Mon
day night. The information of his
death was received in Savannah yes
terday by members of his family here
Mr.. Nathans was AZ years old. His
death resulted from a complication of
diseases. He was connected with the
firm of NJ. Ferst & Sons many years
ago and had a wide acquaintance
throughout this section of the state.
For several yeasr he had been repre-
senting agent in New Orleans Of va
rious large Western tobacco firms. He
leaves a wife, whom he married in
New Orleans and who has relatives
in Savannah; brother, Mr.. S. Nath-
ans of Chicago, and three sisters. Mrs.
Harry Karger and Miss Minnie Nath-
ans of Savannah, and Mrs NJ l. Gott-
leib of Ocala, Fla. The funeral will
take place in New Orleans to-day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
A BILLION SPENT
DETAILS OF LAST SESSIONS APP.
PREPARATIONS
WITH AUTHORIZED CONTRACTS
CONGRESS PROVIDED FOR USE OF
A THOUSAND MILLIONS.

statement Compiled for Use of COM
mittee on Appropriations of SEN
ate and HOuse-ApprOprintiO Ac-
tuaIIy Made Amount to $S0O,624,-
400, While the Contracts Author
lied Increase Projected Outlay by
S262,711 ,405-How This Vast sum
Is to Be Spent-NeN Employees Cost
Much Money.
Washington, Aug. 19.-The volume
containing statements of appropria-
tons, new offices, etc, required by law
10 be prepared and published at the
end of each session of Congress under
the direction of the committees on ap-
preparations of the Senate and the
House, has been completed for the first
session of the Fifty-seventh Congress
by Thomas P. Cleaves and James c.
Courts, chief clerks. respectively. of
those committees. A summary of the
appropriations shows the grand total
of $780, ga, 1876.
The details by bills are as follows:
Agricultural, $5,20S, $50; army, $751;
7SO, 1856; diplomatic, $1,957.925; District
of Columbia, 49, 544469; Notifications,
1925, $50; Indians, IS, $50, OPS; legislative,
$25, 1898 .6S1; Military Academy, $2,627,-
S24; naval, $7S,S56Se3; pension. $780,.
S42,23O postoff1ce, $13S. 1865 river and
harbor, $26, I'll, 442; sundry civil $780,,
163,359; DEFICIENCIES, s2S, O50O07; miscel
laneous 81, 722, 1875; isthmian canal act,
$50, 13O, 900; permanent appropriations,
$123, s21, 22O.
The Authorized Contracts.
In addition to the specific appropria-
lions made, contracts are authorized to
be entered into for certain works re-
quiring future appropriations by Con-
gFess in the aggregate sum of 1852, ILL.,
405. These contracts include 1,069, 500
for additional ships for the navy and
for permanent improvements Of and
increased facilities at certain navy
yards $15,943,650 for additions to old
public buildings and the construction
OF new public buildings in various
cities of the country; 1896, 160 for i'm
provement of river and narbors; 49,
100000 for reconstruction of old and
erection of new buildings at the mill
tary academy at West Point, and $780,
900. 900 for the construction of an 18TH
milan canal.
The new offices and employments of
a civilian character, specifically au-
thorized, number 1886, with compensa-
ton for the year of Sc. 343,595 and
those abolished or omitted aggregate
1,165 at an annual pay of $1,2S9,0S0, a
net increase of 5,221 at a yearly cost
of $5,054, 514
Increase in Army and Navy.
In addition to the new civilian en-
Payments shown the volume also
Sh m af in he mill
establishment, at an annual cost of
$42, 308, and 300 officers (ncluding 2S5
additional midshipmen), together with
5000 seamen, in the naval establish
ment, and $50 additional men in the
marine corps, with total annual pay of
$1,343,777.
A comparison of the total appro-
priations made at the last session of
Congress for 1902, $500. 624, 496 with those
of the preceding or short session of the
56th Congress for 1903, $780, 1888, $40,
shows an increase of $40, 2S5, 800.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
OBITUARY..
Mrs. Eliza NJ. Armstrong, Guyt

Mrs. Eliza VI. Armstrong, Guyton.
Mrs. Eliza NJ. Armstrong, widow of
the late B. r. Armstrong died at her
home in Guyton yesterday after an
illness of two months from dropsy
with a complication of other diseases
Mrs. Armstrong was a native of
Charleston, S. c., and was born in
May, 1925. She leaves two sons.
Messrs. l.. G. and George F. Arm
strong of Savannah. and two daugh-
ters, Mrs. d. II. Clark of Tuscalum
and Mrs. w. A. Davis of Nashville,
Tenn. Her funeral will take place
from the Cathedral of ST. John the
Baptist at 9 O'Clock this morning. The
interment will be in the Cathedral
Cemetery. The pallbearers will be
Messrs. William BoardIey, D. Hoagan,
George p. Walker Edward f. Lowell,
B. j. Cubbedge, George Rawls, James
Neidlinger, and r. j. Davant.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
A MOCK ATTACK AT SEA.
Maneuy ers of Torpedo Boat FIotilIa
on Rockport.


on Rockport.
Rockport, Mass, Aug. 19.-The tor
pedo fiotilla, which to-day was attach
ed to the fleet commanded by Rear
Admiral Higginson, executed maneu-
vers tonight which somewhat resem-
bled an attack under cover of darkness.
The fleet did not put out it's anchor
lights at dark and vessels were scarce
ly discernible from shore all evening.
1t was supposed that the fleet was
making ready to sail, for an incoming
craft reported that the tunnels of all
The vessels were belching forth smoke,
as if fires were being raked up to
quick steaming heat. The torpedo
boats which had proceeded southwark
for about four miles during the after
noon and anchored of the Gloucester
shore, also were lost to view at dark.
Just after 10 O'Clock tonight observ
ers on shore saw a rocket go up far
out to sea. Then another went off to
the northward and quickly others went
up, seemingly from vessels sailing on
an arc. The instant the first rocket
was seen all the searchlights of the
fleet were turned on, and.
as If by magic. the vessels were
ablaze with lights, where an instant
before they were in darkness. The
rocket display lasted twenty minutes
and it could be seen that the incoming
craft were converging as they neared
shore.
At midnight the torpedo f1otilla came
up into the bay and anchored near the
flagship Kearsarge. Signalling con-
tinued for some time among the YES
sells of the feet and the searchlights
were used for some minutes. After
the torpedo boats anchored the fleet
resumed its normal night appearance.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
TROLLEY CAR JUMPED TRACK.
Fifteen Persons Injured and Several
MAY Die.

New York, Aug. ia trolley car
of the Union Railway Company. going
to Yonkers tonight, jumped the track
at the Moshula parkway and Jerome
avenue, struck a trolley pole and turn
ed completely over.
There were about forty people In the
car at the time. and many were rem
dered unconscious.
Eight persons were seriously in
jured, two of them, at least, fatally,
and a dozen others severely. The
injured We're taken to Fordham Hos
pital. Two of them had their skulls
fractured and probably will die. They
have not been identified. Others taken
to the hospital seriously wounded
We're: Michael Donahue. William Els
ner c. H. Herrin, A. L. Merrill, Ber-
nard Feeney, Patrick Dale and r. w.
Crawford.
heavy storm which passed over the
Bronx earlier in the evening Is be-
lieved to have been the cause of the
accident. The rain had washed guam
titles of sand down over the rails, and
in many places there were small hill
locks of sand and gravel across the
tracks. 1t is supposed by the railway
employees that the car struck one Of
these hillocks of sand and left the
rails.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
OIL REFINERY ron CHARLOTTE.
The Company Is Capitalized at
x15O,OOO.

Charlotte. N. c.. Aug. 19.-The incor-
porators of the Charlotte Oil and Re-
finery Company, which is capitalized
at S150,000, met here tonight, but as
the charter had not yet been recorded
in the Office of the clerk of the Supe-
rior Court, the organization was de-
ferred until tomorrow.
c. w. Johnston of Charlotte will be
made president, and J. E. Groce of
Duncan, s. c., secretary and treasurer.
The directors will be w. E. Holt, J.
s. Spencer, J. E. Groce, F. D. Hunter
and others.
The plant Of the company will prob
ably be erected in Charlotte. 1t will re-
fine oil from six or seven mills, most
of them in South Carolina, among
them the new Acton mill owned by the
Highland Park Manufacturing Com
pany at Rockhill.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
WILL BE NO BAR TO TRIAL.

Pythtan Supreme Lodge May Try
Member Subordinate Lodge Has
AbsoIVed.
San Francisco, Aug. 19.-The atten-
ton of the Supreme Lodge of knights
of Pythias was taken up to-day prin-
cipally with the consideration of a
proposition to amend the supreme stat
utes of the order so that no member
who has been acquitted of a charge by
the subordinate lodge in which he holds
membership can be held before the
supreme tribunal for a rehearing of
the case. The proposition was de-
feated by vote of 50 to As. The mat
ter was the outgrowth of the Kennedy
Hinsey cases.
The following were elected members
of the supreme tribunal: John F. Alex
ander, Leesburg, Va; Tulley Scott,
Cripple Creek, Col; John A. Helcher,
st. Paul.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

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MRS. LOUISE GIBson, 4S13 Langley
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If you feel that there is anything at
all unusual or pulling about your
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be advised free of charge. Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
has cured and is curing thousands OF
cases of female trouble. n
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
ATLANTA STRUCK ny GALE.
Temperature Dropped ~ Degrees In
as many Minutes.

Atlanta, Aug. 1s.-Atlanta was
struck By a severe wind storm this
afternoon about Z O'Clock. The wind
reached a velocity Of ffty-two miles
an hour. according 10 the weather
bureau records. and for q while things
we're blown around a. a great rate
Limbs were blown on trees ana signs
and awnings blown down in maay
places The temperature dropped ri
degrees during ths gale
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
FUNERAL OF COL. HEMPHILL.
Eishop Warren A. Gambler Conduct
ed the Services.

Atlanta, Aug. 19-The funeral of Col.
w. A. Hemphill took place this af-
ternoon at o'clock from Trinity
Church, of which he was so long a
devoted member. The services were
conducted by Bishop Warren A. Cand-
Ter, assisted by Drs. Heidi and Head of
Rome and Gen. Clement A. Evans.
The church was crowded to over
flowing by the Confederate Veterans.
the Sunday-school children and many
societies and institutions attending in
large bodies.
Owing to the lateness of the hour at
which the funeral cortege arrived at
Oakland Cemetery, the body was plac-
ed in receiving vault. The services
were conducted there and the inter
ment will be had tomorrow without
ceremony.