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The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18
a TYPICAL POLITICAL MACHINE.

We are not accustomed to look 10
I Greater New York for corrupt Re
publican politics. Until the last cleo
/ ton Tammany was the domino ting
and overshadowing political force
I there, and the dongs of the Repub-
licans attracted very little attention.
1t seems that in county affairs in the
city of Brooklyn the Republicans and
their allies have been on top for some
time, and they have been doing some
very clever political work, if the
statements made by Bert Reiss, a
prominent Republican who was de-
feated for Congress a year ago, are to
be believed. Reiss made a speech last
Tuesday night in Williamsburg, be-
fore a Republican organization Of
that town. In the course OF his re-
marks he said that the Republican
Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff
Michael Dady and other managers of
the Republican machine of Kings
county, prior to the last election, re-
quired the fusion candidates for sher-
if, county clerk and register to sign
an agreement to turn over to the ma
chine the greater part of tire incomes
from their offices. 1t is the under
standing that if they had refused they
would have been defeated.
The fees of the Office of sheriff
amount to $4,000 year, those of the
county clerk to $45, 900 and those of
the register to $4,000. The machine
allowed the officials in question to re-
tain $4,000 in all per year. The rest
was to be paid to Dady for the bene-
fit of the machine.
1t is doubtful if Tammany ever did
anything quite so bad as that. Those
Brooklyn Republicans surpass the
Philadelphia Republicans, who are al
legged to be about as corrupt politi-
clans as there are in the country. elm
the light of the Reiss revelations the
Tammanyites have no reason to feel
that they are worse than the Re-
publicans, who have been their ac-
cusers for so many years.
But why is it that the people
haven't the moral courage to rise up
and have laws passed reducing fees
that bring into the pockets of an Of
fetal $65, 900 a year? They know full
well that offices that yield such enor-
nous incomes are used for corrupt po-
submit TO being ruled by corrupt po-
htical rings rather than make an eff
fort in their own behalf.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

In Cincinnati recently a woman was
taken i'll of heart disease in the mid
die of the night. A hurry call was
sent for a doctor. When the doctor
arrived the elevator had stopped and
he was obliged to walk up three flights
of stairs. As he opened the door of
the womans room she gasped her
last. The doctor sank into chair
painting from the exertion of the swift
and hard climb, and an instant later
slipped to the floor dead. He, too,
was victim of heart disease.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Mlld-mannered religion will not
go at FindIay, O. The congrega-
lion OF the Union Church in thai
town demands action for it's money.
II has just discharged a preacher who
was too undemonstrative, failing to
shout and pound the desk with his fist
by way OF driving home the argu-
inents he advanced. The governing
board OF the congregation has drawn
"a contract which must be signed by
the next preacher who holds the job.
This contract requires that the pas
tor must use physical a. well as
spiritual energy" And. as the con-
gregatlon pays its good money Why
should IL not have what IL wanls3
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

1t is announced from San Francisco
that an electrician of that city has
succeeded in penetrating a thick fog
from one-third to one-half a mile with
a green light projected by an electrical
search-light apparatus. Powerful
lenses were used. Experiments showed
that the white light had very little
power of penetration through fog, and
a red light but little more. Green gave
the best results of any color tried
The experiments will be continued.
What has been achieved is promising.
If signal can be sent through fog
for even the distance of a quarter of
a mile, it will tend to greatly reduce
the number of fog accidents. 1t may
be that some electrical ray of a GER
tain color will be found that will safe
guard ships against the fog. Some
wonderful things are being done these
days with colored electrical rays.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Minister WI Ting-fang will appear
before the Senate Committee on I'm
migration next Tuesday, and submit
an argument against Chinese exclu-
sion. This, II is said, viii be the first
instance on record OF a foreign minis
ter appearing before "a committc OF
Congress In an effort to influence leg
islation.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Wisconsin to suppress
anarchy by making anarchists take an
oath that they will not assassinate the
holder of any public office. The author
of the bill, of course, is one of those
persons who believe that morality can
be legislated into a people and that
BE it enacted" will override the
law of supply and demand. An an
archist, with murder in his heart,
would regard an oath just about as
much as he regarded his proposed vic
TINS life, and no more
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Secretary Gage. according TO report.
has not decided what he will do when
he retires from the cabinet. There
was a story that he would go with a
big New York financial establishment
as it's executive. A recent rumor.
however has it that he has political
ambition and would be pleased to sue
coed Senator Mason of Illinois in the
upper house of Congress-.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Throughout a great nation of eighty
million it is a desperate struggle to
secure even a recognition for new
article TO say nothing Of achieving pop
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Frank King, a printer on the Kan
kakee Qll.) Times, used to laugh when
he read some of the stories Of bur-
glaries that the reporters would send
in. The reporters, lacking details of
the robberies, would sometimes fake"
incidents. King would cut out the
untrue parts OF the narratives. and
when he would come to the statement.
The police have no clew." he would
chuckle. 1t developed the other day
that the reason King was such a good
editor of the stories was that he was
himself the burglar. Before the au-
thorities caught him he had more
than twenty burglaries to his credit
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Dudley Buck. who is famous in the
musical world both as composer and
an organist, has resigned as musical
director and organist of Holy Trinity
Church, Brooklyn, after twenty-five
years service, MIR. Bucks chief rea-
son for retiring is said to have been
that he was not pleased with the "mu-
steal limitations" OF the church lie
is now SO years old. and is said to be
In the best Of health.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

IL seems that the announcement
that the German Emperors new
yacht would he named Alice" in
honor of the daughter of President
Roosevelt, was premature and unau-
thorized. According to the Herald
the craft is to be the Meteor" The
Emperor seems to have a strong lik-
ing for that name, since he has had
two yachts named Meteor" already
one of them was the Thistle" which
failed to win the Americas cup.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Mr.. Croker insists that he is perma-
nently out Of politics. and that Lewis
Nixon is the actual head of Tam
many. He told a reporter day or
two ago Nixon is the leader. I
think he is doing well. but 1 am only
private citizen now and what l think
and say are no longer of public inter
est There is to be a great farewell
dinner to Mr.. Croker at the Demo-
cratic Club on the evening of Jan. y.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18
Reward Of Merit.

A New Catarrh Cure Secures Ma
tiOnaI Popularity in Less Than
One Year.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

Jean De Reszke is one of those for
tunate persons who have achieved n
position in which money is no object
TO them. De Reszke the other day
declined an offer Of 100000 for an en-
gagement Of forty performances In
the United States. In the days OF
Campanini. not so very long ago, any
such sum as the pay OF a singer for
one short season would have been re-
garded as fabulous and impossible.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

A cable dispatch says that. should
the visit of Prince Henry of Ger
many prove as successful as is ex-
pected. the Kaiser himself may pay a
visit to President Roosevelt in the
autumn of the present year. There
can be no reason for doubling that
Prince Henry will be given a most
cordial and sincere welcome; and his
brother. the Kaiser. would be re-
ceived in a similarly hearty and
friendly manner. II the Kaisers trip
depends upon Henry's reception. he
would do well to order his valet to
set about creasing the trousers and
selecting the neckties.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

The New York correspondence of the
Philadelphia Ledger notes as a mat
ter OF interest, In connection with the
visit of Prince Henry of Germany to
the United States, that for the second
tions are asked to new German loan.
The first time was in September, 1900,
when the offer was a direct one from
the German government. The other
which is now before the financiers, is
being presented by German bankers
through their New York agents.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair and warmer weather. except
rain in western portions; fresh south
erly winds: and for Eastern Florida
fair and warmer weather. variable
winds, becoming fresh southeasterIy.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

The information is rather late COM
ing. but it is nevertheless interesting,
that Shylock was not a Jew. Dr. Emil
G. Hirsch of Chicago says no such
character as Shakespeare drew of Shy
lock could possibly have been a Jew,
for two very good reasons; first, that
according to the unwritten law of the
Jewish people, no Jew would have
taken SO much as an ounce of flesh of
a living brute, let alone taking a
pound of living flesh from a human
being; and second. the Jews OF the
days of Shvlock were so opposed to
any mutilation of the human body
that they would not permit dissec-
tons or post-mortem examinations. If
we are not mistaken, Tom Keene, the
actor always held that Shylock was
sadly misunderstood character, and
was really a very high-minded and
honorable person.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18

According to a Herald cable. John
Bull is now buying largely of gold
bricks, of the kind that used to be
sold in this country to persons with
more money than discernment. 1t is
stated that several members of the
upper crust of British society have
lately been victimized by the old, old.
gold brick swindle, some of them for
sums as high as $4,000 and $4,000 In
one case the Englishman journeyed all
the way to New York to get his gold
brick and give the swindler a round
sum of good British money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
REPRESENTATIVE hoa Sales.

Chicago, March 15.-Pigs sold from
$500, a small bunch of sixteen aVefag-
that price. a bunch of sixteen ayerag-
ing ia sold at $40. and fifteen nice
shoates brought $3.50. Thirty-siN light
142-lb hogs sold at the same price Sin
ty-two averaging 169 went at 500, and
n fine lot of eighty-one weighing le2
sold up to $500. Butchers ranged up
from s6.10. FIFTY eight 230-lb hogs
brought $500; seventy-five 220-pound-
ers sold at $500 A nice lot of seven
ty-four weighing 225 brought $685., and
a sale of seventy-one 239-lb extra ones
was made at s6.40. Fifteen poor pack
ers went at $500. Forty better ones at
$50. Thirty-two 2S2-lb packers at
$500. A nice lot averaging 296 sold at
$500, and ia smooth ones averaging
247 at $685.. Shippers and heavy ones
ranged up from 500. Seventy EIGHT
1918 hogs sold at s6.25. Forty five
weighing ZIG at s6.32ls Thirty three
fair FOUNDERS brought 500. A nice
bunch averaging 272 sold at s6.45. and
n load of siXty-seven excellent hogs
brought $3.50.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
Market Gossip.

Chicago. March l5.-Country demand
for stockers and feeders remains poor.
Prices are practically stationary. The
volume of trade during the week has
been light.
Buyers are beginning to discriminate
against heavy beeves, which is an an
nual occurrence With the coming of
warm weather. Light hogs are regain
ing preference for similar reasons.
Gamers and medium cutters are
hard to sell and prices on this KIND OIL
stuff are very low proportionately
Central Iowa reports are to the effect
that few cattle are on feed and fat ones
are nearly all shipped out.
Kansas reports show a decided inn
provement in wheat prospects where
the crop has not already been killed.
The horse market is in decidedly bet
ter condition at present than at this
time one year ago. Demand is stronger
from all sources and values are higher.
More Improvement is expected in the
near future. The majority of buyers
at this season oIthe year are from ru-
raj districts. Demand from New Jer-
sey districts is strong, but the buyers
are experiencing some difficulty in ne
gotiating their stock at prices low
enough to prove remuneratiye at their
respective points.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
Nm, g. Co.'S Review,
New York. March 15.-R. G. Dun

New York. March 15.-R. G.. Dun d
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade today
says:
Business in Boston was completely
paralyzed by the strike of frelght
handlers and teamsters, which dfrectiy
affected $4,000 men and indirectly al
fected others. Fortunately, the strug-
gle was brief, but another will begin
on Monday at Fall River and other
textile plants In that vicinity. Out
side of Massachusetts, however, the
labor situation is exceptionally free
from controversy, and even in the coal
mines there Is less than the usual agl-
tation as April approaches. Distrib-
utiye spring merchandise is making
rapid progress, the most sanguine ex-
pectations being fully realized in all
sections outside the strike area. Con-
s,1mers of iron and steel products are
still anxious regarding conditions dur
ing the three months. After July l IL
is believed that deliveries Will ne am
ple. The most important event OF the
week was the heavy buying OF steel
bars by makers of agricultural lmple-
ments in anticipation of higher prices
becoming effective on April l. Blliets
command large premiums for spot
delivery and more purchases are re-
ported from foreign makers. Pipes
and tubes are more active as the sea-
son advances, while large contracts
have been placed for structural shapes.
BETTER transportation for coke is rap
idly reducing surplus stocks in the
wards and supplying furnaces with all
the needed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
BANKS in BIG SCHEME.
Proposition is to Enter the Money Or
der Business on an Immense Scale.

Proposition is to Enter the Money Or
INDIANAPOLIS, March 15.-The Sentinel
today says:
"Charles L. Farrell, assistant cashier
of the Capital National bank, and sec
rotary of the Indiana Bankers assoc
citation, left yesterday to attend a meet
ing at New York city, Saturday of
prominent bankers from nearly every
state in the union in one of the most
important bank schemes of late wears.
The proposition is to enter the money
order field as a competitor OF the eX-
press companies and the government it
self. 1t is proposed to issue uniform
bank money orders payable thru an i'm
mense clearing house in New York city,
probably the Western National bank,
with branch clearing houses in all other
larger cities.
"The scheme was conceived by east
ern bankers, who held a meeting in New
~
Grafton Of the western banks, to extend
the proposed system over the entire
country. One representative from each
state was nominated as a member of
the executive committee. The matter
was laid before their representatives
last fall in a circular explaining the de-
tails of the proposed scheme and In re-
turn by them to the bankers IN the
principal cities of their states. he
sponses were generally favorable and
two weeks ago n call was issued for a
meeting of the executive committee 10
be held in New York Saturday.
at the head of the system VIII be
the Western National bank of New
Yorl, city. which will act as one inn
mense clearing house for the national
association. In each city where num-
Der of banks request 1t. there VIII also
he clearing houses to collect daily Or
ders cashed by the various banks.
1T is proposed to incorporate the as
ISOLATION with q paid-up capital OF 81
gantic proportions. reaching far into the
millions. that credit may be absolutely
unouestioned, and it's orders may cir
culate almost the same as currency, anu
wdeyvesx(b vbgkqj bgqkj bgkqj ajoaojj
he used with the same faith and credit
now given orders of express companies
and the government.
"The rates for the orders VIII De
placed at a price which 1T is peileveo
the express companies will not be able
to meet because of their limited bank
ing facilities. The rate proposed is
one-tenth of one per cent"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
A Corner in Oats.

chicago. March 15.--James A. Patten.
who has the May oat market cor
nered," is daily the recipient OF as
much careful watching by board of
trade men as Prince Henry got from
the diplomats.
Nav shorts in particlar and oat
traders in general have become band
of amateur sleuths, and his every word
and act is watched and inevitably fol-
lowed by clever deductions.
An incident was AN illustration. Mr..
Patten entered the oat crowd in search
of one of his brokers'. Almost before
he had reached the outskirts of the
crowd he was surrounded by eager and
watchful traders, and his explanations
drowned In cries of Buy ten" Sell
ten Mr. Patten calmly looked around
a minute and then left the pit.
There is no doubt in the minds of oat
professionals about the May corner. Mr..
Patten is said to have at least 100000
bushels bought, and his position is
strengthened by owning. 1t is reported
the entire local stock. This local stock
was given on the least inspection sheet
as $4,000 bushels. and since then he
has moved out 100000 bushels. with the
ultimate intention of shipping the en-
tire stock.
Late in the morning Patten sold a
few Elves" to keep the market from
running away. Prices however, gained
half a cent at one time. the May selling
at 45B cents, with July delivery 9ss
cents under it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
WHEAT RULED STRONG
Prediction of a Cold Wave Caused
an Upturn in the
Price.
--------
Weather Also Helped Corn, Which
Closed Firm, Two Points
Higher.
Hogs S to 10 Cents Lower and
Cattle Strong Sheep
Strong.

Chicago, March 15.-The weather
map again caused anxiety among the
shorts in grain at the opening today.
Gables We're very steady in spite of
Yesterdays break in wheat and May
wheat started IS to u higher at toA
to 75as and at once became strong
on the Washington prediction that the
west and southwest were to be visited
by cold wave. Dry weather damage
statements continued to arrive from
Kansas and commission houses exc
cuted a good number of buying or
ders. Early trade was not large and
scalpers did most of the selling. May
quickly jumped to 1913, but Quoted
down on liberal liquidation and reacted
to 7534 d75ss.
Continued liquidation and general
evening up over Sunday took much OF
the strength out of wheat and MAY
at one time sold 747s The close was
barely nrm, May Il UP at 751s.
The fear of a cold wave and It's
possible effects on stock feedlns,
strength in wheat and continued small
receipts of corn brought q strong
opening in corn, with May 1s@A to
asGls up at 621s to 62a4. Gables were
unchanged. offerings small and colo
weather threatened Still further to
curtail the movement. Some buying
done and May held around opening
prices.
May corn luctuated very narrowly
the latter part of the session and closed
hrra, = UP at e9ts Ghe9As
Oats were firm mt the opening in
sympathy with other grains. July was
in a fair demand and some May was
wanted at advanced prices. May start
ed Ato X up at ASS to 45ts, but the
demand was easily supplied and eased
TO 45ls. Lower prices for hogs at the
yards restricted trade in provisions
The tendency was for lower prices,
but the grain strength kept the mar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15


ting the place in running order. would
suggest that you get the Tossetta team
or have Frank Brill bring out a team. l
should think you would have no trouble
in getting a team. l know 1 should
like to send out one but | feel that |
can not spare the time. l shall ask you
to call the game off. as far as and Mr..
Clinch are concerned,
A. c. ANsoN.
Chicago, H., March II, 1902"
The Tossetta team is the best team in
the world and holds the worlds cham
pionship today with an average OF 200
points per man, contest games.
Mr.. KintZley writes that he has writ
ten to engage the Tossettas and Frank
Brill, 10th for a match game on the
Ames alleys with the Boone team. capt.
Arson has shown his hand and the
Boone team will never entertain an
other proposition from him or his sec
onds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
The Horse Market.

Chicago. March 15.-Scarcely $50
head arrived in this branch. No ma
terial change could be detected in the
general market. Trade was active as
ever and values fully as high as at any
time recently. A large volume of
spring orders effected the trade. The
urgency of eastern buyers gave
stroner tone to the general movement,
and all classes of horses sold stronger
under q broader demand The most
conspicuous gain was the firning of
prices for heavy drafters, which sold
at the wide range of S1l0@255 for in
ferior to fancy offerings, with bulk of
sases around S140@ ITO. Eastern de-
mand took precedence, With the bulk OF
offerings that sold above SITS changing
hands on eastern demand. Bussers
steady at s90G135. Farm chunks act
i've at s75@l25. with bulk of of sales at
SS0G115. Drivers and coachers in
broader demand, especially the better
grades. at s150@500. with the medium
kind steady at s75@125, the latter Of
ferings hardly selling above country
cost Warriors firm at s65@9o.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
ANsoN CALLS GAME OFF.
Boone BowIsrs Feel Little Sore To-
wards the CAPTAIN.

Special to Times Republican.
Boone, March 15.-Capt. A. G. Arson,
of Chicago, has written a letter calling
off the bowling game with Boone. which
was to have been played at Ames for a
purse of $500 and side bet of $4,000.
Anson's letter says:
Dear Sir:-1 am in receipt of your
letter of March and have been watt
ing for Mr.. Clinch who arrived from
New York city yesterday. l have made
up my mind that 1t would be very bad
business policy to send him out to your
city with a team which he knew moth
ing about; and then again I find there
will be plenty Of work for him in get
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
Death of Michael Hennessy.

Dubuque, March 15.-Michael Hen
Messy, brother of the late Archbishop
Hennessy. died yesterday at Mercy
Hospital, after a brief illness of paraly-
sis of the heart. His age was 62 years.
He was man of fine education, q grad
uate of Yale, and was contributor of
essays to various magazines.