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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

spirit photograph" that is, COPY
of another picture of Hill SO manipu-
lated that it. appeared that he had a
bountiful supply of hair A young
artist was arrested on suspicion of
having made the spirit photograph, /"
but was released. The case went to
the jury and in an hour and a half
the verdict was brought in that Sa.
lem Charles was the rightful heir. and
that the woman counterfeiter's alIeg-
ed will was forgery. Mrs. briggs
arrest followed and she is in Jail,
Her daughter Grace is singing in a
summer garden and the other daughter
after marrying the fourth time, has
left.
A Big Counterfeit Deal.
Just what the United States secret
service bureau would give for Mrs.
briggs secret of the hidden counter
felt plate may be imagined when it
is known that it is that Of the famous
webster head" $40 bill, the most
perfect counterfeit ever made-and
that $240,000 worth of the bogus bills
were found when the then Chief Bell
and his men raided the old United
States hotel or roadhouse, lust out
of Dayton, O., where the gang had
headquarters. Though Mrs. briggs
was arrested with her husband ~
the time of the final raid, the indict.
ment against her in the courts at
Cincinnati, o., was never heard of
again.
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in the year every union man had VIC
lated his contract and joined in SYM
pathetic strike for the benefit of men
at other mines in the neighborhood
who were not so we'll treated.
Colonel Buxton was SO indignant at
their treachery that he decided to en-
ploy no more white men. He closed
down the mines, discharged every one
of his employees, ordered them to va
cate the premises and then went down
to Virginia where he enlisted the SER
vices of 300 or 400 negroes to supply
their places. He brought his new
hands to Muchakinock where color
ed town was formed almost without
white men. The experiment proved SO
satisfactory that 1t was continued and
when the mines were exhausted the en-
tire community, bag and baggage was
moved over to the new operations at
Buxton.
William e. Curtis.
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is pretty child and attracted attention
in court. but it was her mother on
whom all eyes were finally turned for
she proved a fighter who apparently
had no knowledge of the word ode.
feat" Even after the handwriting ex.
pert, Prof. Daniel T. Ames of Molineux
fame, had, following half dozen
others, testified that the lead pencil
will was forgery, she brought more
evidence and fought anew. Her meth.
cd of fighting occasioned her final de.
feat, however, and lost he not only the
case but got her in Jail, even though
she is still fighting and has managed
to get the assistance Of able criminal
lawyers.
A Question of Badness.
1t was question of whether or not
old Charles Hill' was bald that de-
cided this famous battle that lasted
nearly three months. All of Mrs.
briggs witnesses who said they had
seen "Chares HILL" just previous to his
death said he had good deal of hair.
Hospital nurses and others testified
ut he was as bald as an egg. AS he
was 80 years old when he died this did
not seem improbable but Mrs. briggs,
it is now charged, went to wonderful
lengths to prove that he had hair. She
produced photograph claimed to
have been taken in 1901. showing Hill
with great crop of white hair. This
picture was not introduced in evidence,
but was, according to the charge
against Mrs. briggs and the sworn
statement of juror named Butler
handed to the latter surreptitiously, by
Mrs. briggs while the two were in the
court house elevator.
A Trick Of Photography.
The picture was proved to be
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FIGHT AGAINST FATE
WOMAN WHO HOLDS SECRET OF
BIG COUNTERFEIT STEAL
LOSES SUIT. Il
Mrs. briggs, Wife of Famous Bogus
Money Maker, Is In Jail Charged
With Trying to Influence Juror in
Her case.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. ia wom-
an who had associated with counter
letters and a Boston man were oppo.
nents in fight for fortune which
has ended disastrously for the wom-
an.
The woman, Mrs. Gertrude briggs,
wife OF a member of the old Nelson
briggs gang of counterfeiters of Cen
tralia, ILL.,, Minneola, Mimi, and Day
ton, o., is now in the Los Angeles
county jail on charge of attempting
to influence a Juror in the case
just ended.
Supposed Beesar Was Rich.
The death of an old man known as
Charles Hill at the Good Samaritan
hospital in this city, in May, 1901,
and the subsequent discovery that the
supposed penniless old fellow had
left $4,000 in cash in state deposit
vault, brought both Mrs briggs and
Salem Charles. the one Of New York
City and the other of Boston, to the
scene, and the only claimants out of
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5000 who showed willingness to go
to the great expense of court fight
for the fortune. Mrs. briggs posed
as a business woman of 80 Wall
street, New York City. Salem
Charles is chairman of the street COM
missioners Of Boston. Mrs. briggs
said the old man known as Charles
Hill was member of the briggs coun-
tsrfeiting gang and that at the birth
of Grace briggs in 1888, a year before
the final raid on the gang, he made
a will in lead pencil by which he left
all his wealth to the child. She had
not seen him after the raid, in
was shot and she was captured.
Death of briggs.
Her husband, Nelson briggs, was
later indicted in Illinois and died in
Joliet prison. But she produced the
will and traced the movements OF
the old man closely enough to con-
vince many that Charles Hill, whatev-
er else he might have been, had also
been counterfeiter
Ran Away When Boy.
The Boston official proved beyond a
doubt that Charles HILL" was Salem
Charles, his uncle. who had run away
from home when boy and had return
ed with plenty of money, only to start
rowing again. He took his niece, Miss
Mary Charles Brmfeld school teach
er with him, but finally went alone
when she tired of travel.
The case was fought by the briggs
family of their own accord, while the
Charles family. having been accepted
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

Captain Richmond P. Hobson, u. S.
NJ, who is delivering lectures at the
chautauqua gatherings throughout the
country has created new interest
in himself by his recent announcement
that he intends to stand as a candidate
for congress from his home district in
Alabama. Though he has never ac-
cording to his own statement made in
Des Moines, a few days ago, cast a
vote at any election, he has suddenly
taken considerable interest in poll
tics, his object, as he says, being to
obtain the enlargement of the navy.
Captain Hobson is a democrat be-
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cause his forefathers We're of that
school. Southern breeding has much
to do with his political tendency, for
in conversation with William Jennings
Bryan only short time ago, he told
that he would probably vote the demo-
cratic ticket when he cast his first bal
lot He does not profess to know any
thing about money matters, nor tariff
nor trusts, but he has much interest in
the navy and his hobby, which he
rides continually. is the enlargement of
the United States navy.
Hobson's brave action at the time
of the Merrimac incident has raised
him to a position TO fame from which
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

nothing will ever draw him down to
obscurity. Even were he to be can
didate in his home district and lose the
race for congress, which would be an
impossibility for a democrat, he would
still be the gallant Hobson, the hero
of the Merrimac'
1t is true that Captain Hobson, since
he has sprung into national prominence
has done and said a few things which
have lowered him somewhat in the es-
timation of the hero worshippers, but
when the calcium light of public scru-
tiny is turned upon anyone, no matter
how great or small he may be, he is
truly more than human if some fol.
bles are not found.
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RUBY: MINE IN LIBERIA.
Discovery Of Precious Stones In Negro
Republic Is Announced.

London, Aug. 1S.-It was officially
stated by Mr.. Hayman, the consul gen
eral of the Liberian republic in Lon.
don, that diamonds had been discov.
cred in that country. 1t is now an.
nounced that prospecting party sent
out, by the West African Gold Conces.
sions company has returned with fine
specimens of corundum in the form of
both rubies and sapphires.
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CREDITORS GET DIVIDENDS.

Comptroller Orders Payments by De-
funct National Banks.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 1S.-The
comptroller of the currency has de-
clared dividends in favor of the credi.
tors of insolvent national banks as fol-
lows:
Fifty per cent, the Southport Nation
al bank of Southport, Conn; 40 per
cent, the Somerset National Banking
company of Somerset, KY.
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STOP THE TRAINS.

Grasshoppers In Montana Said to In.
terfere With Railway Traffic.
Red Lodge, Aug. 1S.-Grasshoppers
are so thick in this section that they
are plastered each day on the loco
motives of trains, and the wheels are
SO slippery that when the engines stop
it is difficult to start them again. They
have eaten the range bare.
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ARBITRAToRs NAMED.

SHdF WdNeS APPROPRIATENESS 10 oettIe
Venezuelan Trouble.
Washington, Aug. 18.-American
Charge d'affaires Riddle, at st. Peters
burg, has cabled the state department
that Mourabieff, the Russian minister
of Justice; Lardy, Swiss minister to
Paris, and Prof. Matzen, of the univer-
sity of Copenhagen, have been named
by the car as arbitrators at the
Hague of the cases between Venezuela
and the blockading powers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

G. G. smead will erect a business
.Aack. at Newton.
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TOURISTS MEET DEATH ON ALPS
Seven Are Killed in Attempt to Climb
AiguiIIee Crises.

Chamonix, France, Aug. 1S.-Seven
tourists, it has been announced, were
killed recently while attempting to
climb the Aignilles Crises, behind
Mont Blanc. on the Courmayeur side
Of the mountain.
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KILLED AT PHONE BY LIGHTNING

Michigan Mans Talk During Thunder
storm proves Fatal.
Gladstone, Mich, Aug. 1s.-WhiIe
;telephoning yesterday during a thun-
derstorm Hondry Odahl, an employee
of brewing company was shocked
.bY lightning, dying Instantly.
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SCOTS GATHER.
Twenty.first Annual Meeting of Ri!

~ "eSs''S VI DIT
Order of Clans Begins.
Cleveland, Aug.1S.-The twenty-first
convention OF the order of Scottish
Clans of the United States and Canada
began here today and will continue I'M
til Friday night. Delegates are pres
ent from every state in the Union.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

direction of Mr.. Buxton, it's superinten
dent, for whom it was named. There
are a few hundred white people, but
the colored people are SO much in tie
majority that they dominate every
thing and administer it's affairs. AS the
railway company owns the land, it
can control the situation, and by care
full policing is able to exclude the vic.
ious and disorderly element and leave
the industrious and honest colored
people t. demonstrate their capacity
The men earn from SIS to $3.50 a
month, have happy and comfortable
homes, prosperous churches and
schools. and Representative Lacey, in
whose district the town is situated
commends them for their progressive
ideas, their good order, their intelli-
gence and their thrift. He says it is
an ideal community.
Founding of Buxton.
Buxton is only about two vars old
1t did not get into the last census and
was moved almost bodily from Mucha.
KNOCK, another mining district in an
adjoining county, also belonging to the
Northwestern railroad where the de
posts were exhausted. Mucnakinock
was established in 1882 by Colonel
Buxton, father of the present manager
who was then operating the mines at
that place with white labor. His min.
ers formed union and struck for high
er wages which he granted; few
weeks later they again struck for more
wages. He then entered into con-
tract with them upon a sliding scale
OF wages for term of years. If the
market price of coal went up they were
to share the increase; if it went down
their pay was to be reduced; but with
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IMPOSING SPECTACLE.
Military, Naval and Civic Bodies Join
In Big Parade at San francisco,

San Francisco, Aug. 1S.-The parade
OF the military. naval and civic bodies
OF this city and state, which took place
Ibis morning Sa,aaiahAa .gan ma BsHxI
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20
INQUEST BEGINS.
Coroner inquiries Into Causes Of Death
at PHILADELPHIA Ball park.

Philadelphia, Aug. 1s.-The inquest
into the accident at the national league
baseball park, which resulted in the
death Of twelve persons and injaIy, TO
haarlz 500 qtbsss Rsgea today. al. All i. !.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20

William E. Curtis, special cores
pendent for the Chicago Record-Her-
aid, who is just now writing letters for
his paper setting forth the different
characteristics, good, bad and indiffer-
sent of Iowa cities and towns and their
!fustoms, today publishes letter in
which he says things about
Charlton, some OF them of compli-
mentary nature and others not calcu-
lated TO reflect credit upon the Lucas
Z county seat. However. in the main,
he is impressed with the pretty little
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SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO.. LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MER-
CHANTS, SO. OMAHA,
NER

Cattle-Monday's heavy receipts
were all day arriving. Tuesdays run
was light owing to election and a
steady to stronger market Some of
the common stuff is very slow SALE
The demand for feeders is not so brisk
but there is more demand for stock
ers, especially yearlings. Prices were
weak to lower Wednesday.
We quote choice cornfed steers
$500 to $5.25, fair TO good shortfed
$3.50 to $3.50, heavy western beef
steers 1910 to $3.50, choice heavy feed
ers $3.50 to $3.50, medium 1920 to
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yearling steers. choice, $3.50 to S3.65;
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Receipts of sheep heavy and the
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point here made, / will not repeat.
The results attending my crusade,
however, seem to prove that have
some expert testimony" from some
where.
School superintendents and teachers
OF public schools have directly ac-
knowledged all my contentious. Many
is the public school teacher l know
who teaches only because unable to
earn a livelihood in any other way.
The editor of one OF the very Oldest
and largest public school journals pub
lished my most ultra articles, acknowl-
edged his agreement with me on ev-
cry point, and laughed at his constit-
uents when not one Of them attempted
to reply to me, but rather one of them
came out in public Endorsement of me.
But the fact is, Mr.. Editor, | am
getting somewhat beyond the little
details of the anti-public school cru
SADIE.
We are now on the verge of revolu-
ton, either from the forces of labor. or
the negro. Both are the products OF
the public school. Both have i'm
bibed from it the idea that the world
owes every man a living commensur-
ate with his acquired public school
ideals, rather than as reward for la
Dor.
When both labor and the negro find
that they have been deceived they
howl and they proceed by sharp prac-
tees and crime to gain what they
have been disappointed in.
Things have got to such a pass with
the negro that something like a ma
jority of the people now want him
deported 1t seems not unlikely that
he will be.
When these 100000 negroes are
sent back to Africa, or somewhere,
then my public school abolition has a
100000 slice cut from 1t at once.
Later, when the labor revolution
comes, the country will see that all
this state paternalism has been a mis-
take, and that it has given the masses
q feeling of too much confidence and
dependence, and must be revoked. And
then the public schools will go their
way, never to return.
| am always ready, Mr.. Editor, to
answer questions from friend or foe.
But ! am a busy man and questions
must be put to me straight. I repeat,
hints from an editor to answer him,
after he has emphatically refused me
publication, and denounced me at the
same time, are not calculated to draw
out even SO spontaneous and dan
gerous man as | am.
welcome posers on my line, and
the smarter the man they come from
the easier can answer them-a half
fool heeds complexity.
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY.
Sykesyille, Md
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Your paper should be an inspiration
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-12
THE CUBAN TREATY SAFE
IN AGREEMENT REACHED
Draft Of Enabling act ApproUed in
House and Senate.
[FRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

Washington. Nov. 11.-An apprehension re-
garding the fate of the Cuban treaty enabling
legislation was dissipated to-day. when an
agreement pursuant to last nights conference
at the White House was effected between the
leaders of the two houses of Congress- whereby
all differences of opinion were eliminated and
the language of the necessary measure was
agreed upon The bill is practically drawn
and the rough draft has been submitted to
various influential members of both houses
and meets with the approval of ALL
Those Republican Representatives who feared
they would be called upon to stultify them
selves by reversing their action Of April 10.
1902. when they voted to attach the clause re-
peaIins The iire.ential on sugar to the Cuban
Reciprocity bill, have been taken care Of They
will not be brought face to face with op-
portunity to confirm or repudiate the attitude
they then assumed.
Although the measure is extremely simple.
every word has been chosen with diplomacy
to save the House from appearing to yield an
iota of its prerogatives to the Senate and at
the reciprocity arrangement with Cuba rati-
fed by the United States and Cuban senates
The measure will he introduced by Represent
alive Payne, probably tomorrow, and will be
promptly referred to the Ways and Means Com
mittee AS soon as Speaker Cannon appoints
that committee the bill will be taken up and
promptly reported while simultaneously the
Committee on Rules will report a rule which
will forestan the possibility of any amend
ments and limit the time to be devoted to de-
bate Shorn of the privilege of moving any
amendment the Democrats will doubtless sup
port the BILL as it makes for a reduction of
the tariff If only to limited extent. and it is
the opinion of the House leaders that the meas
ure can be sent to the Senate next Wednesday.
Senator Plat. of Connecticut. has yielded his
prerogative as predicted in these dispatches
of last night, and the House bill will be re-
ferred to the Committee Foreign Relations
According to the present programme. there will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-12
OUTBREAKS IN BOGOTA.
M1RTTAL LAW DECLARED.
Mobs Cry "Do5rH 5cith MarOquiH"
-1merican Legation Guarded.

Washington. Nov. 1.-THE state Department.
has received a cable dispatch from Minister
Beauprs at BOgota. dated November o. in which
he minister says that large crowds were parad-
ing the streets on the sth crying. Down with
Marroquinr- There was a mass meeting de-
Of government Hundreds gathered at the pal
ace. and the orator. prominent National gen.
eral. called for the resignation Of the President
The gathering was dispersed by the troops. sew
fatalities. The city was under martial law and
well guarded BY soldiers. The legation OF the
United States was under the protection OF tbs
government. but there were no indications Of
renzo Marroquin Cbelieved here to be a Senator
and son Of the PresidenO has been attacked
with stones
The State Department has been informed that
the two British steamships which were detained
at the port OF Buenaventura by the Colombian
government with the intention Of using them
to transport troops TO the isthnlus have been
released and have left that port The British
government knew nothing OF the detention Of
these vessels until Informed BY the State De-
partment through the embassy here. II was
the intention Of the State Department to have
the Colombian authorities informed that no
troops could be landed on the isthmus from
these vessels. but their release and departure