davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-07-19

0g ~ OF MiBslsslppI, Washington county.
Perso aally appeared before me. a Nsno
Notary Public In the city Of Greenyiile ana 4
state aforesaid, Herman SchiesinrerI VIM anu
n Delng dniy sworn says that the Foregoing
AZ the;y ~ rao wrls'en ~ themselves, or by him
n sworn to and subscribed before ne eth tn;a
lOday Of March, 1902 NANCE. Notarv NH
Hiled July l. 1902. william Yerger, Clerk. ~
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-07-19

FOR SALE-One 80 H H Boiler. %
nane, one 80 saw gin stand, End hand
one southern Standard Press
-, W ] Guice,
MOI Winterville, Miss.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-07-19

hob kENT-A large comfortable
airy froutroom st reasonable rant 49,
ply = RESIDENT q Mrs 8 Henry chspD1.
, 1902-01-02

DENVER NJ SEIZED
BY TRUST COMPANY

Denver. Dec. 29.-The International
Trust Company took formal possession
of the plant, office furniture, fixtures
and all a"ppurtenances of the Denver
Times last night under power con
tanned In Ii mortgage for $4,000 1t
holds against the newspaper.
The action was precipitated by n
lien served on the printing press earlier
in the day by United States Marshal
Dewey c. Bailey to satisfy an eXecu-
ton against the company for $1,000.
The Judgment on which this execution
was made is held by ii. Il. Kelly. In
addition to the lien on the press. gar
nishment notices Were yesterday
served on nearly 100 merchants and
others who have accounts with the pa
per.
The dispute between two rival forces
which is disclosed by the actions of
yesterday Is said to mark the begin
ming of an attempt of outside parties
who have moi yet disclosed themselves.
to gain control Of the paper. The In
ternational Trust Company has held
the mortgage against the paper for sew
eral years, but the mortgage is really
owned by II. II. Moffat. 1t is UNDER
stood that the paper has defaulted,
and, according to the terms of the trust
deed under which the mortgage vas
executed the holder of the mortgage
can take possession Immediately.
The claim under which the lien and
garnishments were issued was an old
judgment for $1,000 held by the Union
National Bank against the paper. This
Judgment was secured by John w.
Schoiield. receiver of the bank. in 1895.
About two years ago the Judgment was
- H. g - & .
, 1902-01-02
UNITED STATES REACHES THE
HIGHEST WAVE OF PROSPERITY

New York, Dec. Gothic annual re-
view of American trade, finance and
industry prepared by Bradstreets de
clares 1901 to be n record breaker"
among the five succeeding years of
commercial expansion enjoyed by the
United States.
Its pre-eminence. the review states,
was all the more notable because 1t
suffered from u combination of hap
penings that In II normal year would
have proved depressing, II not disas-
trous. Enumerated in the latter are
the machinists' and steel strikes, the
stock panic of May, the failure of sew
eral imprudcntly managed comblna-
tons. including that in copper, to fix
prices, the shortage in corn, cotton and
oats, and the assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley. Summarizing the gen.
eral situation, h review says:
Briefly summarized, the year has
seen transacted an aggregate of gen.
eral business as reflected in bank clear
ings, far in excess of any preceding
period; has witnessed stock specula-
ton, rampant beyond the dreams of
old-time brokers, checked and curtailed
by one OF the sharpest stock panics in
history, and yet with n remarkable
minimum of disturbance of general
operations; has watched gen
eral industry and production grow
steadily until new and larger figures
We're needed TO express the outputs of
ore and iron and steel and leather and
lumber, and "A multitude of other
branches: has seen the freight trans
portatiOn facilities of the country
strained to the breaking point. prove
insufficient TO handle the volume of
business offered; and finally has wit
messed n volume of holiday business
passing all previous bounds both in
quantity and quality and the vastly in
, 1902-01-02
WOMEN GAIN RIGHTS
IN METHODIST CHURCH

Chicago. Dec. 2S.-The announce
ment is made here that the new consti-
tuition of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which was adopted at the last
general conference Of that denomina-
ton, held ut the Auditorium in 1900
and referred to the various confer
ences throughout the country, has
finally been approved by the three
quarters vote required. The vote is as
follows: Ayes, S,9US; nays. 2,231. The
element which opposed the new organ
ic law of the church because 1t provid-
cd for the admission of women as dele
gates to the general conference made
war on the new constitution all along
the line, but met with defeat. One
hundred and twenty-One annual confer
ences voted on the question. Il total of
1O,TO9 ballots being cast by delegates.
The principal changes provided for in
the new constitution are:
1t gives womeu the right to sit as
delegates in the general conference.
1t gives laymen's electoral meetings
authority TO vote ON constitutional
questions.
1t changes the vote necessary in the
general conference to amend the con,
%stitution from three-fourths to two
thirds.
, 1902-01-02

fensive measures Venezuela is adopt
ing. but there is no indication that h
is laying mines or preparing in any
way to resist an occupation of La
Guayra or Maracaibo. which are such
open ports that they are practically de
fenseless against such u powerful ar
mament as the Germans can bring to
bear. The reliance of Venezuela seems
to be on the practical difficulties Ger
many will encounter.
There appears to be much reliance on
the part of Venezuela in the sentiment
and sympathy which can be aroused
within the United States when n
European invader is actually operating
on American soil and Venezuela issues
Il declaration of war. Venezuela. it is
understood, also relies largely on the
fact that foreign capital is invested in
h large Venezuelan ports and would
be the heaviest suffe rer from any de-
struction wrought by the Germans.
Money from France, England, Ger
many and the United States has built
up La Guayra, Maracaibo and the 9TH
err large places. and little Venezuelan
capital, II Is said, is at stake.
A German blockade, Venezuelans de-
clare, will prove quite as onerous to
American, British and other foreign
shipping as it will be to the internal in
terests Of Venezuela, and these ship
ping interests are expected to appeal
to their several governments. There
are a few hopeful signs ON both sides
that at the last moment n clash may
be averted.
The presence of the North American
squadron and many other American
warships in West Indian waters is the
source of much speculation in Germany
and Venezuela. The Berlin officials
are assured that the presence Of Amer.
lean ships has nothing to do with Ger.
many's plans against Venezuela, but at
Caracas the presence Of American ships
in the neighborhoOd is looked upon
with satisfaction and is construed as
distinctly significant.
, 1902-01-02
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION PAYS
EULOGY TO DIR. HORACE M. HALE

Denver, Dec. 29.-With eulogies of
the late Horace NJ. Hale, founder of
the association. author of the Colorado
school law and inspirer Of the cOnsti-
tutiOnal section relating to schools,
ton yesterday afternoon adjourned its
twenty-seventh annual session.
The principal business of the day
was the election Of officers. at the
morning session. The elections were
in all cases unanimous. Those chosen
are: President, John Dietrich, superin-
tcndent of the Colorado Springs
schools: director, threc-years' term,
Charles l.. Chadsey, superintendent of
the North Denver District No. II;
auditor, i. j. ~Browncombc. Durango.
The present treasurer, IL. w. Xirkle.
and secretary, j. Il. Raglan of Denver,
hold over.
Aaron Cove, who was superintendent
of the Denver schools when Horace NJ.
Hale was e~ndeavorinG to get the terri
tOrial Legislature to pass a SchOOl law
adapted to the needs of a growing
state, opened the series of tributes to
the dead educators memory. He told
how Professor Hale framed the law,
and summoned the first meeting of the
Colorado Teachers Association, which
went over the proposed law paragraph
by paragraph and line by line and rec
commended it To the Legislature which
finally nactcd it into law. Mr.. Cove
spoke also of the regret of Professor
ualc's friends klat his picture was not
, 1902-01-02

creased purchasing power OF the pub
lie in late years.
From the standpoint of the present
estimates the clearings this year will
exceed the highest records of preced-
ing years by one-fourth. Gross railway
earnings have increased twelve per
cent, and net returns have gained six
teen per cent. over the best preceding
year. Pig iron production will be not
far from ~one-seventh larger than the
heaviest ever before recorded. Shoe
production and shipments and there
fore, presumably leather production,
show almost as large n gain.
Iron production and shipments were
never before equalled; certainly lake
shipments were never so large. An
thracite coal production will be fully
ten per cent. larger than last year and
five pei cent. heavier than the record.
The bituminous production promises as
heavy a gain over past records. Wool
en- manufacturing has been helped by
low cost of material and good demand
for clothing. All the turns are not so
favorable. There has been less money
in cotton for the South this year, and
the margin of profit in manufacture
has occasioned complaint there and in
new and old England.
THE agricultural interest has been
favored by heavy advances in farm
products, which have done much to
counterbalance reductions in yield. EN-
port trade has shown signs of hesita-
ton after years of steady advance and
imports have increased but mainly IN
materials intended for domestic man
facture, and the margin in favor of ex.
ports is still enormously heavy"
The bank ciearings are estimated at
S11S,Go0,OOO,OOO, n gain of thirty-eight
per cent. over last year and twenty-siX
per cent. over the record of 1899.
, 1902-01-02

Mexico City, Dec. 3O.-The Pan.
American conference last Friday ap,
proved n recommendation to the sew.
eral governments on behalf of the
Olympian games to be held in Chicago,
as well as the reports of the commit
tees on and statistics and on
commerce and reciprocity. A new
clause was added at the suggestion OF
Pablo Macedo of Mexico, whereby the
various governments will within six
months send their Publications of the
and reciprocity resolutions
to h bureau of American republics
President Raigosa announced the fol,
lowing appointments made by him fol
a committee To reside at Washington
and to interest itself in pushing the
Pan-American railway project: Sen.
ntor ii. c. Davis, Manuel de Aspuroz.
Mexican ambassador; Andrew Carne.
gle, Manuel Alvarez Calderon. Peru.
Wan minister, and Antonio LazO ART
ga, minister of Guatemala.
, 1902-01-02
VENEZUELA MEANS TO OFFER
RESISTANCE TO GERMANY

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The gathering
of German warships in the vicinity of
Venezuela, and the presence in the
same locality of the American, British,
French and other foreign warships, is
directing attention to the imminence of
the naval demonstration Germany is
about to make aGains Venezuela.
Thus far the German government has
moi made known the details OF
her purposed move, the official com
munication to the United States being
confined to an inquiry as to the atti-
II d of this government III the queS-
ton of n demonstration in view of the
purpose on the part Of Germany not to
acquire any permanent foOthold in Ven
czuela. The answer of this govern
mcnt was entirely satisfactory to the
German authorities, who since have
proceeded with the execution Of their
plans for coercing Venezuela.
1t is said to be probable hat the
first move made by Germany will he
the establishment of n blockade Of
Venezuelan ports. so as to prevent the
introduction of food products into Ven
ezuela, and thus starve the besieged in
TO submission. Venezuela, 1t is said, Is
entirely dependent on the outside world
ior lls supply Oh cOTh, WHICH Is II Slalie
among the N~eneZuelans.
The Germans are expected to occupy
one or more of the main ports of Ven
ezuela, probably La Guayra and Mara
caibo. In this connection most posi-
tive assurances have been given to the
United States government that the &C
cupation is To he temporary, and for
only such length of time as will permit
the collection Of the debt due to the
Germans, thus d~isposing of the report
that there is any Interior motive to es-
tablish IL German coalinE station on
Venezuelan SOL.
On the part of Venezuela. it is semi
officially understood that President
Castro has made known that he is pre-
pared for any e~ventuality. There is
complete silence, however, us to the de
, 1902-01-02
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Fort Worth. Tex. Dec. 2s.-Secre-
tary j. c. Loving of the Texas Live
Stock Association of this city has Just
made public the program of the forth
coming convention of the association
to be held in Ell Paso on January 18th
and 10th.
Papers on the following important
subjects will he read: What Consti-
tutes n Good Beef Animal?" How
Can Texas Cattle Growers Remove the
Existing ~Prejudices Against the Texas
Steer In the Markets of the World?"
.IeNas Feed Products the Best in the
world for Fattening Cattle" "The Re-
vlyal of the Horse Industry" and .arhe
Sheep and Goat Industry" Governor
Joseph Sayers viii address the CONVEX
ton. The next or twelfth annual con.
vention of this association will be held
In Fort Worth.
, 1902-01-02

Denver. Dec. 2S.-A Victor special of
last night TO the Denver Republican
gives the following account OF a nor
rible crime at that place:
Lured into an abandoned shaft house
to be foully murdered and his body
thrown into the shaft of 600 feet depth
was the fate of Martin G. Gleason, one
of the best known mine superintend-
ents OF the district.
Gleason's body was found n few
minutes after s o'clock this morning
AT the bottom of the Kalamazoo shaft.
The top of the skull was almost com
pletely cut off by having come in con-
tact with n tramway rail. Both legs
were broken at the thighs and n bulle
hole In the head told the story of the
murder, a murder which In the annals
of crime in the gold camp has not been
excelled, If equaled, in cold-blooded,
calculating brutality.
Gleason was manager for four COM
panies controlled by the Woods Invest
ment Company, and made his head
quarters at the Wild Horse mine on
Bull hill. of which he was superintend-
ent. He lived with his family in Vic
tor and was in the habit of taking his
monday luncheon at Altman. Yes
terday noon Gleason went to the Alt
man restaurant with +. H. Beebe, as
sistant superintendent of the Wild
Horse, and they lunched together. Az
ter lunch they parted on the main
street of Altman, Beebe going to the
Deadwood mine. south of Altman, and
Gleason taking the trail leading west
from Altman to the Wild Horse mine.
This was the last seen of Gleason
by his friends. His absence from the
mine during the afternoon did not eX-
cite apprehension. it having been pre-
sumed that he had gone to some of the
other properties of the company on
business, but when he failed to appear
at his home last night the family be-
came uneasy. although still comforting
themselves with the thought hat he
had been detained on duty. This morn
ing when GleasOn's son, Thomas, went
to the Wild Horse he asked Beebe:
What did you do with father yester-
day?' Beebe, upon learning hat Mr..
Gleason had not been at home during
the night, inquired by phone of all the
other Woods properties and learned
that none of them had heard of the
missing man.
Then came the fea that Gleason had
met with trouble. a searching party,
headed by Bcebe. set out TO see if II
trace of him could be found. They
took the trail leading to the place
where Gleason had last been seen. AZ
ter going n short distance they came
upon the abandoned Kalamazoo shaft
house. They made an examination of
the huilIiup Mt oupp and upnn nDaufnp
, 1902-01-02

Cincinnati. Ohio. Dec. 20.-Thc con
test at Columbus this week between
the followers of Senator Foraker and
senator Hanna over the organization
OF the Legislature has extended TO fac.
tional circles elsewhere In the state.
While the members of the Legislature
and candidates are lighting ut Colum.
bus, the principals are kept busy at
long distance telephones, notably Sen
atOr Foraker ana George II. Cox In
Cincinnati; Senator Hanna In Wash
ington; Congressman Dick. chairman
Of the state executive committee, and
other Republican leaders.
, 1902-01-02

placed in the dome of the capitol, since
of all the founders of the state, he said
Mr.. Hale played the most important
and perhaps the most lasting part of
all.
DIR. j. A. Scwell spoke of the services
to education done by Professor Hale
and paid n tribute to his personal char.
acter, and Dean j. c. Shattuck of the
University of Denver added more tes-
timony of the services done the com.
monwcalth when 1t needed all good
advice which it could get.
Horace NJ. Hale" said Dean Shat
tuck, passed the last great moral eX.
animation. He had learned the great
unselfish lesson that Il must decrease
that someone else may increase When
the State University had reached q
standing under his care, where there
seemed to be prospect of easier times,
and of ~lOre rapid advancement, he
voluntarily withdrew thai stronger
hands might carry on the work. He re
tired to private life and there with ad,
vancing years his character was such
ter the kingdom where none may 60
except their minds are as those of lit,
tie children
In p|ronouncing the session ad.
tourned, c. s. Palmer of Boulder
hanked the members for their kind
ness and courtesy to him. The session
closed with 6S3 names upon the roll
and that many dollars in the treasury
augmented by eight so life member.
ships.
, 1902-01-02
NINE MANAGER GLEASON WAS
FOULLY MURDERED AT VICTOR

the door were Mortified to find three
bip pools of blood between the door
and the shaft. Over the shaft are Two
iran doors which close together in the
form of a letter v. When these doors
were raised more blood was found on
the underside. Then Ii searchers
knew that there had been a tragedy
and were confident of finding the body
of Clemson in the shaft. Descent was
made as quickly as possible and the
body was taken out. Coroner Dunn
wa called from this city N after he
had examined the surroundings the
body was removed to the morgue.
Gleason's watch had stopped at the
hour of / o'clock. Between his firmly
set teeth was the stub of n cigar he
had been smoking on his way from
Altman to the mine. An examination
of the body revealed a bullet hole In
the head, four Inches above the right
ear. and around ii the scalp was pow
der burned. The bullet was not found
Mt this examination, but from the
wound appeared to be about thirty
eight caliber. Its course was down
ward ut an angle of forty-fiye degrees
toward the base of the brain. ms,
taken in connection with the fact that
inside the shaft house was found an
iron dump hook bearing blood stains,
is taken to indicate that Gleason was
struck down with the dump hook upon
first entering the shaft house, II was
shot after he vas down by some one
standing directly over him. Then the
body was picked up and throw. into
the shaft. II is presumed that at least
two men We're engaged in the bloody
deed. While one of them lay In wait
inside the shaft house, the other must
have met Gleason on the lonely trail
and on some preteXt induced him TO go
with him TO the shaft house, n the
man who met Gleason must have been
some one WHOM Gleason believed to
be his friend. Gleason was not a man
to be easily led by an enemy into n
trap. The hypothesis that Gleason
went voluntarily into the shaft house
is based on the fact that on the out
side were no evidences of n struggle,
and the fact that the bullet entered the
top of his head shows that ne was not
shot until after he had been felled to
the ground.
Who committed the deed. and what
the motive was, are questions not yet
decided. AT present there are no
clews.
The Woods Investment Company has
offered a reward of 5000 for the ap-
%prehcnsiOn of the murderer. and 1t Is
said the county commissioners will of
fer n similar reward. This is expected
TO enlist the best talent in the county
in hunting down the criminals, and 1t
is believed they will be caught.
, 1902-01-02

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-FiEures have been
prepared by the Railway Age showing
that railway building in the United
States during 1901 has been greater
than 1t has been for eleven years pre-.
rlous. the total approxImatlng 5.5OT
miles OF line. In 1880 the total was
5,OIO and in 1900 was 4.I37 miles.
The construction for the ycar. added
to the total mileage previously report
ed, brings the total mileage of he
country to approximately 199,3TO miles.
, 1902-01-02

Washington. Dee. 29.-In "A commu
nlcation TO Baron C%oubertin, president
OF the olympic games, To be held in
Chicago In 1901. President Roosevelt
has Indicated that it will not be posi-.
Bile for him to preside on that occasion,
as 1t has been hoped he would. The
President takes the keenest interest In
the contests which are TO be the feat.
ures of the games, and so expresses
himself To Baron Coubertln, but regret.
ted that for various reasons II would
be impracticable for him to preside.
, 1902-01-02

Los Angeles, Gala. Dec. 2S.-A wind
storm of unusual force and destructive.
ness ragged yesterday all oven the south.
ern part of California. The storm is
what is locally known as a santa
Ana, and carries with 1t fine dust from
the desert to the east. that fills the mir
ana obscures the vision at distances
more han a few hundred yards.
Reports from Riverside. the beort Of
.ne great orange region, sixty miles
east Of Los Angeles. state tIot In
mense damage has resulted from ,bo
high wind. y" Tue
, 1902-01-02
CLEVELAND
Grand Welsh Tournament of Song ON
christmas.

Welsh singing societies from a dozen
states gathered at Cleveland, Ohio, on
Christmas to participate in a song con,
test under the auspices of the local
welsh singing societies. There were
forty-nine numbers ON the days pro-
gram. Davis Lloyd of New Castle,
pennsylvania, received first prizc lor
II best rendition of 1.-The BritOns,
In the cOntralto voice control, Mrs.
Richard of Akron, Ohio, won hrst
prize.
John l.. Bevan and Rev. ID. l.. Tvs
lin Davis of Allegheny, Pennsylvanla,
were so evenly good in their reading.
or the poem, Benjamin Harrison
II a the prize was divided.
The prize in the baritone solo con
test was divided between Thomas );
Roberts Of Granville, New York, ana
william Harvard Of New Castle, Penn
sylyania.
For male 200 voices in competition
was the feature of the afternoon. Inc
New Castle, Pennsylvania, male cho'
rus was given the first prize of >aVo,
second prize being awarded 10 int
Meteowes club of West Pallet YER
mont. The Eisteddfod lasted only one
day.
, 1902-01-02

Washington, Dec. 2T.-Admira!
Schley and eX-~Secrctary of the Navy
Herbert occupied Il box at the New
National theater tonight to witness
James *. Hackett and company in
Don Caesars Return" 1t was the
first time the admiral had been in
II public place here since the verdict of
the court of inquiry. The house was
crowded ana when the admiral an.
peared he was given an ovation, the
applause lasting several minutes.
, 1902-01-02

An eminent French psychologist
having again given expression to the
theory that insanity and genius are
akin 1t would be interesting to have
the psychologists explain who so many
men of genius have been sane while
multitudes of insane persons have been
in no sense geniuses. Poe and Byron
offer excellent examples in support of
the insanity theory. out how. on that
theory, are the psychologists going to
account for Thackeray or Dickens or
Sir Walter Scott or hat em~inently san
and wholesome philosopher, William
shakespeare
, 1902-01-02

Buenos Ayres, Dec. 2S.-It is gener-
any admitted that the difficulties be-
tween Argentine and Chill have beer
ehded. 1t is r that a word in the
protocol was changed before the text
ol tie document was made public az
santiago, but Senior Portela, the Argsa.
una minister, protested against the al.
tefatlon and the Gillian foreign min.
ister promptly ordered n rectifcauon
to be made.