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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14
BETRAYED HIS TRUST
Criminal Management of The
Funds of a Bank Bringo
Disgrace and Ruin.
aAN WHO DID IT rs UNDER ARREST
While Ruin Stares in the Face Hun
1reds of Depositors Who
Lose Their All.

Detroit. Mich, Feb. 11.-Nice Presi-
dent Frank c. Andrews, of the City
Savings bank. which was put into the
LANDS of State Banking Commissioner
George l.. MaltZ yesterday morning,
was arrested late yesterday afternoon
and arraigned at $3.50 p. m. on the
charge of ''willfully, fraudulently and
knowingly securing from the bank,
without security, and without the
knowledge of the other directors, a
sum exceeding $1,000,000. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bail, and his exam,
nation was set for Feb. 81. Cashier
Henry c.. Andrews. through whom f.
c.. Andrews is said to have secured the
money by means of overdrafts and
certified checks, is seriously i'll at his
home with nervous prostration.
What the Investigation Developed.
AS soon as Commissioner Maltz took
charge of the institution he began an
examination Of it's books. 1t was
found that Cashier Andrews had per,
mitted f. c. Andrews to overdraw his
account S914,O00. Other liabilities
brought F. G.. Andrews total indebted
ness to the bank up to $1,15S,000. In
addition to this Cashier Andrews had
certified to checks for F. G.. Andrews,
which he had deposited in other banks,
to the amount of $662, 900. The eX'
animation showed that the record OF
f. c.. Andrews transactions was not
kept in the regular way, but in men,
orandum book The first record of
transaction between Cashier Andrews
and f. G. Andrews is Jan. II, but the
examiners estimate that the transac-
lions have been going on for about six
weeks.
How the Game Was Played.
President F. c.. Pingree explained
the manner in which the certified
checks was obtained as follows: IF.
G.. Andrews would draw a check for
the amount he wanted and have it
certified by the cashier Henry r. An
Grews. He would present this certi>
fed check to the person with whom he
was doing business, and ask him to
hold it out for that day, as the bank
was not in funds to meet it. Perhaps
he would thus hold it out for two or
three days, and eventually when there
was money enough in the bank to meet
the check, he would go in and take it
out There would be only a slip Of
paper in the drawer, and the with
drawal would be put down as cash
item. With this money he would in
person pay the certified check and
tear it up. This was done time and
again.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14
New Orleans

is delightfully."- unique city for the
tourist to visit. Winter tourist rates
now in effect. Double daily service and
all meals en- route in dining cars. Send
for an illustrated book on New Orleans.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14

PRESIDENT rs ANXIOUS
His Boy Has Double Pneumonia and He
Is Awaiting the
Crisis.

Groton, Mass, Feb. 10.-Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., the oldest son of Pres
ident Roosevelt, has double pneumo-
MIA. Otherwise his condition was un>
changed last night The boy is serl,
ously sick, but it is too early to say
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14
SUNSET LIMITED

of the Southern Pacific, giving special
through service to San Francisco. All
roud-trip Tourist Tickets to California
reading via Illinois Central r. r. permit
of stop over at New Orleans. Tickets
and full information concerning the
above can be had of agents of the Cen
trail and connecting lines.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14

Ireland has 4OS ablebodied persons
to 1000 inhabitants, Scotland 424 and
England 432.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14
CALIFORNIA
VIA NEW ORLEANS

VIA NE W UhIEANO
Personally conducted through weekly
excursion sleeping car leaves Chicago on
[. G. r. r. fast New Orleans Special"
train Every Wednesday for Los Angeles
and San Francisco without change. The
special also connects at New Orleans
daily with express train for Pacific coast
and on Mondays, Thursdays and SaIur-
dave with tho
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14
Hammond, La,

send for Hammond, Louisiana, as
Winter Resort" beautiful illustrated
folder showing few of the winter at
fractions in and about Hammond, copies
of which will be mailed free on appli-
cation to J. F. Merry, A. G. P. A. Illinois
Central r. r., Dubuque, Iowa.
FULL PARTICULARS concerning
all of above can be had of ticket agents
of lines connecting with the Illinois Cen
trail, or by addressing
A. HI. HANSON, G. P. A., Chicago, Ill.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-14

harvesting machinery, at a cost Of
SI50,0OO, and at that time the shops
We're the largest under one roof in the
world, and it had only one rival in
later years-the Krupp gun works, in
Germany.
The equipment of the shops cost
about $2,000,000, but after the failure
of Whitley few years later the shops
were left idle for nearly ten years.
When they were sold at receivers
sale and Senator Fairbanks and sew.
eral other capitalists bought them for
mere song, the price paid being $780,
GOO. The total loss by the fire yester-
day is $500,000
The fire was caused by an eXplo>
sion Of chemicals, and the employees
had very brief time to get away.
Jersey City Has a $55O,OOO Blaze.
New York, Feb. 1O.-Fire started
early yesterday in the freight piers of
the Lehigh Valley railroad Jersey
City, entailing a loss roughly estimated
at from $250,O00 to 100000. Two
piers, two warehouses and about 1000
barrels of flour were destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

| attic project of park improvement and de
velopment; to enlarge and purify the citys
water supply; to fill the old canal and to
reclaim Potomac and Anacostia flats; to
secure the approval and gradual execution
OF comprehensive plan of sewage disposal;
to eliminate grade crossings to clear rail
road tracks from the Mall, and to secure
the erection of an imposing union station
to obtain a model rapid transit underground
electric street railway system; to remove
that nuisance and eyesore, the menacing
dam called Long bridge; to codify the laws
of the District, and to establish a municipal
public library.
The Star labored for assumption by the
nation of its responsibilities in respect
to the capital, for the enactment of the
organic act, which pledges the nation to
proportionate contribution toward the ex-
penSeS of capital making. and it has stead
lily defended this legislation so vital to the
Districts welfare against every assault
direct or indirect, open insdious, which
has been leveled against it. 1t has been
the answering advocate of just and fair
treatment of the Over-assessed and unduly-
burdened local taxpayer. 1t has fought by
the side of Shepherd. 1t has fought by the
side of Mcmillan. 1t has both defended
the taxpayer, and at the same time coop
Grated in every project of capital develop
ment and adornment. 1t has labored with
success to cure congressional hostility and
Indifference, and lack of harmony and con-
centrated effort the part of the people
of Washington, to which in combina ton
the dscredtable condition of the capital of
1852 was due.
The Star has not hesitated in defense of
the District and of what it believed to be
its vital interests to oppose and to incur the
ill-wil of the highest national officials, in
the White House and at the Capitol. over
the question of home rule for the District
it contended bitterly with President Cleve-
land; its campaign for the elimination of
grade crossings and the clearing of railroad
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space filters. occupying a larger or smaller
fraction of a column as the advertisers de-
mands dictated. AS the first stage of de-
velopment the editorial matter from
shifting quantity gained recognition by its
right to occupy exclusively column. Then
it extended its lien to two columns, and is
now entitled to three. including therein the
humorous department or Shooting Stars
and some miscellaneous reprint.
But while there has been this increase in
quantity and a broadening in scope of the
editorial matter there has been no essen
tial change in editorial policy. Devotion TO
the welfare and to the promotion of the
interests of the national capital has been
its unvarying principle. The editorial an
nouncements of 1852. 1853 1867 and of 1902
all declare the same policy: To be honest,
fair and accurate and to fight for Washing
ton.
The Star has ever been in close touch and
hearty sympathy with the concerns of the
people of the District as a distinct local
community. 1t has recorded with minute
ness the minor personal happenings which
constitute local news in the narrower sense.
Births, SicknesseS and deaths have been of
interest to it. 1t has been adviser, enter
tainer and instructor in the home circle.
1t has voiced the grievances and the minor
complaints of the unrepresented Washing
tonian. 1t has been distinctively a home
paper, family paper, a sympathetic per-
sonal paper for Washingtonians. When it
was born Washington had no local organ
only political. partisan organs, with little
or no local news, and with political essays
for editorials The Star cut loose from po-
litical organising and developed continuously
as the paper of the people of the District of
Columbia, so firmly establishing the prece-
dent of the necessary character of the sue
cessful Washington newspaper that it's CO.
temporares, later established, all follow its
general lines. at least to the extent of
GvOiding political organising.
1t has given increasing attention to poll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

The Star S retrospect of its life on the
occasion of its fftieth anniversary revives
in memory and reviews the events of the
most notable half century in history, occur
ring at the worlds focal point in interest
the political capital of the great American
republic. the most progressive and intense
ly active section of the world and as
such the most important field of history
making during that period.
The Star as recorder or participant has
for its lifetime been IN and of WaShingtons
great events. whether their interest has
been primarily local or national and inter
national. The civil war, the war with
Spain. the great political struggles of the
republic, all the varied phases of national
forth in the national capital have been
local and intimate and domestic concerns
of Washington and its representative news
paper for half a century. Nothing that
pertains to the nation is foreign to the
nations city. And everything that con-
Germs the capital, however broadly national
in character is local TO that city's news
paper exponent
AS the life lines of the republic and capt.
tai intertwined, each basing it's exist
ence and continuing welfare on the patriotic
sentiment, the fine. strong spirit of Ameri-
can nationality. so The Star is identified
with Washington as the representative and
advocate of it's people, voicing their
thoughts and needs and hopes and sharing
their prosperity and adversely.
The Stars first semi-centennial is thus in
one aspect a semi-centennial of the capital
itself, celebrating the nations achieve
ments and Washingtons development dur
ing the most interesting and progressive
period of the worlds history. The Stars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
A HALF-CENTURY RETROSPECT.
BY THEODORE W. MOVES.

pered by the hostility of some and by the
Indifference and neglect of a great majority
of it's legislators and constitutional pro-
tectors.
in place of the struggling country village
of 1852, with zig-zag grades, no sewerage,
no street cars, water supply. except from
pumps and springs; unimprOved reserva-
tions, second-rate dwellings, and streets of
mud and mire, the modern Washington has
arisen, Americas most attractive city,
the focus of national politics, a scientific,
literary and art center the great gathering
place of the people in conventions assem-
bled; with its population of 2IS,201, multi
piled more than five-fOd since 1852, a popu-
lation rapidly increasing and spreading
the capital over the whole of the present
District; a city sustained improved and
adorned by the annual expenditure of near
ly $9000,000; with d clean and economical,
partisan municipal government, a mar
vel in this respect among great American
cities; with surface remodeled; with more
smooth streets than any other city in the
world; with enterprising business houses
relieving Washington from dependence on
it's great commercial neighbors; with manu-
features not imposing but respectable, in
view of the design to retain Washington's
pre-eminence as a residence city by en-
couraging only light and clean manufacture
ing; with an elaborate and costly system of
sewers and water mains: with convenient
transportation by nearly $50 miles of street
railway, underground electric in urban sec
tions and constituting an almost ideal
rapid-transit system; with numerous
churches and schools. as we'll as govern
ment buildings of architectural pretensions;
with broad streets, shaded for several hun
dred miles with 10000 trees, destined to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

tracks from the Mall brought it into sharo
collision with the railroads; its opposition
to the overhead wires and to the use of the
trolley on street railways, and its campaigns
to cheaper the price of gas and telephone
rates caused it to collide with powerful
syndicates and corporations and allied local
interests; in upholdng the organic act and
in defending the Washington taxpaver
against unjust eXactions it has clashed with
some of the strongest men in Congress
Inc half-tone which illustrates this page
shows the Capitol, the monument and The
Star building of 1902. Each of these struc-
lures may be viewed as symbolic
The development of the republic between
1852 and 1902 may be typified by the growth
of the Capitol during the half century.
Fifty years ago it was a low sandstone
building unpretentious unimpressive; now
we behold an imposing structure with
beautiful and symmetrical marble wings
and a grandly swelling dome, UNSURPASSED
in beauty in all the world.
The capitals half century of DEVELOPMENT
may be typified by the growth of the monu-
ment to the memory of the great man
whose name it bears. In 1852 the Washing
ton monument was a stub one hundred feet
high, like Washington itself an object of
derlSlon to foreigners and of shame to
Americans. Today it is a symmetrical ODE
lisk, towering to the height of 300 feet the
highest and most impressive masonry struc-
ture on the surface of the earth
The Stars half century of development is
typitied by the growth of its material home
from an unpretentious carriag e-making shop
south of the avenue to the imposing and
beautiful marble structure of today
These have been fifty good years for The
Star and for Washington. They have con-
frmed The Star in the confidence and re-
gard of the people of the capital and have
confirmed the nations city, partly through
The Stars instrumentality, in the affection
and pride Of the American people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
A View of Washington From Arlington.

make Washington the forest city: with at
tractive suburban drives, including those
which traverse Rock Creek Park, with its
winding stream and it's wild and diversified
scenery; with parks and reservations given
a picturesque beauty by shrubbery and
abundance of foliage, statuary, fountains
and flowers, and with costly dwellings,
showing the most varied and pleasing archi
lecture springing up in rapid succession
where only boys and swampy pastures were
seen half a century ago.
The Star has developed with the capital
and the nation. AS the republic has become
more and more world power, so the news
paper which reflects the spirit of the repub-
lies representative city has correspondence
broadened.
1t shows forth in everything the thought
and tendency of Washington 1t protects at
all times the welfare of Washington. 1t
has grown increasingly with the growth of
Washington
In it's half century The Star has developed
its plant from a single hand press, housed
in a coachmakers shop, to its present fine
equipment 1t has multiplied it's size, cir
culation, advertising and influence 1t has
fostered and quickly utilized all improve
ments and special uses of the telegraph,
telephone, monograph and camera, press
association facilities, typesetting machines.
typewriters. BICYCLES stereotyping devices,
pneumatic tubes, printing presses and
every other item of perfect mechanical
equipment to facilitate the collection of
news, the setting of the type, the printing
of the papers and their distribution to the
public. This notable development of The
Star in every department is elsewhere de-
scribed in detail.
The Star has expanded edtorially in har-
mony with news and mechanical develop
ment. In 1852 and for years thereafter the
editorial matter printed was an uncertain.
varying quantity. The editorials were
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tcs, but primarily from the point of view
of the promotion of the Districts welfare.
Nowhere else is politics so interesting
in the city of the nation. Nowhere else is
there so little of practical, everyday parti-
san politics, with the prejudices and bitter
nesses resulting therefrom.
The Star covers thoroughly and impartial
ly the of politics. Since Congress-
whether republican democratic is our
exclusive legislature, a national election is
our city and state election also, and is of
concern to the WashingtOnian in three
fold aspect.
Sometimes national political issues vitality
affect the capitals welfare. The free sill
Yer and free riot issues of 1896 revived and
reaffirmed in 1900, threatened business
Washington, and gave the capital and The
Star as its spokesman distinct self-in-
terest on one side of the partisan struggle.
Moreover, without regard to partisan poll
tics, the capital is always unhesitatingly on
the side of its own government against a
foreign foe for promotion of the national
idea and for healthful expansion of the re-
public. Whatever strengthens and solidifes
national sentiment promotes the nations
city which finds the foundation of its ex-
istence and prosperity in that sentiment
But in the absence of such issues vitality
affecting it the District is philosophical and
non-partisan. and The Star with it, The
Stars allegiance is to the national capital
and not as a partisan organ to any political
party. This is principle which it declared
in 1852, announced again on the change of
ownership in 1867, and reaffirms today.
In its half century of capital development
The Star has made Washington more at
tractive, more healthful, wiser better. mere
prosperous. The details of that campaign
are elsewhere recorded in this issue.
1t is marked by such battles as those to Sc
cure Rock Creek and Potomac Parks, and
to obtain the expert planning and practical
execution of a comprehensive and system
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retrospect emphasizes the close relation of
nation, capital and the latters oldest and
most intimate newspaper and teaches the
lesson of their identity of interest
The Stars half century has transformed
the federation of 1852 into the Union of
1902 the republic of Fillmore, with it's
thirty-one states and population of % 49,
$40, into the republic of Roosevelt with
forty-five states and 76,303,3S7 population.
There has been a development of national
sentiment as striking as the increase of
physical strength and material resources.
At the beginning of the half century the
states were feebly united the ties of
nationality had been weakened. the people
of the different sections differed to the
point of blows over the character and per-
petuity of their union and the Irresistible
drift toward civil war had set in. In 1852
the American republic faced toward con-
traction. division disunion disintegration.
To-day it is united physically and in patriotic
sentiment. From disputed supremacy in it's
own borders the union has come to domi
nate one hemisphere and slice of the
other. 1t is moving irresistbly toward
trade supremacy in the favor of our Amer
lean neighbors in the south and our Asiatic
neighbors to the west. In place of the dis
contented. wrangling sections, loosely held
together in the nominal union of 1852 is the
real union of 1902, prosperous and powerful
beneficently dominating a hemisphere and
influencing for good the world.
Washington in 1852 and for a score of
years thereafter was in the same miserable
condition which had been its lot from the
beginning. Charles Dickens ten years be-
fore The Stars birthday, and Anthony Troll
lope. ten years after that day, agree in
their descriptions of the dscredtable capt.
tai which had resulted from leaving a ma
tional plan of magnificent intentions to be
carried into execution by a population
feeble in numbers and resources and ham
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-30
RECIPROCITY TREATIES
RECOMMENDED TO CONGRESS

Washington, April 3O.-The- senate
committee on foreign relations today
agreed to report favorably all reci-
pTocity treaties before the commit
tee except the treaty with Argentina
and the treaty with Great Britain per-
tanning to Jamaica, which the COM
mittee decided to report adversely.
The treaties on which favorable re-
ports are recommended are between
the United States and France, Nicar-
aqua. Ecquador. Dominican republic,
four with Great Britain. covering
Bermuda. Bara BADGES, British Guiana,
Turs, and Coicos islands.
The committee also agreed to re-
port the amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill providing nee
essary funds for proper diplomatic
from this country in
Cuba.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-30
National Came RECORDS.

Chicago. April 3O.-RecOrds made
by the base ball experts yesterday are
given below:
Lea que: At New Nork-Erooklyn q.
New York five innings, rain; at
delphia-Weather.
American: At st. Lous-DetrOit II,
st. Louis 3; at Observation-Disclosures
phia >. Washington Z; at Chicago
Cleveland >. Chicago t.
Association: At IndanapOliS-Kan-
sas City II. Indianapolis /: at Louis
ville-Milwaukee 10, Louisville q; at
Columbus and TOledo-Weather.
Western: at Denver-KanSaS City
,. Denver o; at Colorado Springs-St-
Joseph Z, Colorado Springs ,; at Oma-
ha-PeOria ,. Omaha , twelve inn
ings. darknesSl: at DeS Moincs-Mil-
Maukee II Des Moines 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-30
TREASURERS' TROUBLE
VigO County in Difficulty Over
Shortage of Off
cialS.

Tcrre Haute. Ind. April 30.-The
bcndsmen of ex-County Treasurer
Jock" Walsh now estimate that each
Of the fourteen bOndSmen Will be re-
Iuired TO pay $2.21O. SO far as the
books of the office have been examined
no mistakes have been found which
Will reduce the shortage of $4,000.
There has been unaccountable con-
fusion i'm the books of this Office. \
few years ago il was discovered that
4 county treasurer who went out OF
office some years before had taken
with him several thousand dollars that
belonged to the county. He was said
to be an honest man. and as soon as
the discovery was made he paid the
amount due from him.
Then another former treasurer put
in claim for several thousand dollars,
alleging that the discovery had been
made that he failed To take the
amount due him when he retired from
office. There have been four or five
short" county trcaSurers and city
trClsuTers.