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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
FOR fraudulent use Of
THE UNITED STATES MAIL
Joseph r. Jeffers Arrested In Canton--Wss De-
fraudins Stamp DeaIers--Went Under
Many Aliases.

electric car in which Mannerlin was re-
turning to Canton. The car did not
stop, however. Assistant. Postmaster
l.. T. Cool was waiting for the sleuths
at the-square and seeing that they had
not arrived, he followed Mannerlin.
When the latter stepped into a drug
store at Cleveland avenue and Seventh
street, Cool secured the assistance of
Captain Patterson and officer thinner
man, and then notified the suspect that
he was wanted at the government
building.
Jeffers acquiesced. When Inspector
Owen arrived he was informed why he
was wanted. Jeffers admitted having
been dealing in stamps, but stated that
he had always paid for what he Sc
cured. AS evidence against him, fac
simile of his handwriting on the circu-
lar of St..Lous stamp firm which had
been sent broadcast to assist In catch
ing the defrauder, was produced and
then he confessed.
According to his statements he has
worked the game in Wheeling, Bel
laire, Martins Ferry. Wellsville, Bar
berton, North Lawrence and numerous
other Ohio cities, his operations ex-
tending over a period of three years.
While in Bellaire he secured $50 worth
of stamps from one company. under
the name of j. Whtmer. Just how he
disposed of them Jeffers will not say.
He was lodged in the county Jail and
Wednesday Inspector Owen went to
Cleveland, where he will notify the fed
eral authorities of the arrest. A United
States marshal is expected in Canton
Wednesday night, and Jeffers will be
taken to Warren, before United States
Commissioner r. /. Gilmer, Thursday
morning. If bound over, he will be
sent to Cleveland to await the action
of the federal grand jury.
Jeffers is an expert stone mason and
has been employed by Contractor John
Dunbar He is unmarried and boarded
at the home of John Murray, 90S High
street.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
NOT FOR PATRICK
viii Leaving Him Rice Mil
lions Pronounced by Court
to be Forgery.

Albany, Oct. 2S.-The court of ap-
peals Tuesday placed final negative
upon the attempt of Albert Il. Patrick
to obtain the vast fortune of the de-
ceased millionaire William M. Rice,
for whose murder he was under SEN
tence OF death in Sing Sing prison.
The court today handed down a de-
cision affirming that of the lower
courts, which threw out as forgery
the alleged will of Mr.. Rice, which
Patrick urged as superseding that adj
mitted to probate by Surrogate Fitz-
gerald.
The will of Mr.. Rice, thus sustained.
makes no mention of Patrick, the bulk
OF the estate. estimated at $4,000 900 or
more, being bequeathed to the propos-
ed William M. Rice institute.
1t bore a date of four years later
than the one probated, but both the
surrogate and the appellate division
pronounce 1t Q forgery.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
DREAM LUCK
Danny Field Won an Automo-
bile on a Tip From
Drea m Ia nd.
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News-Democrat.
Columbus, Oct 2S. - Danny Field,
wire chief in the general headquarters
of the Panhandle railroad here, will
be a firm believer in dreams hereat-
ter He lives out at Arlington and
has for some time longed for an auto
mobile with which to ride from his
home to the office. A few nights ago
he dreamed that he had an automobile
and was gliding along on his way to
the city. When he told some men in
the Office about his dream they urged
him to invest in a ticket in the Pitts
burg automobile rattle. "If you be-
lieve in dreams" they said, here is
your chance" He said he did not take
stock in the proposition, but when a
number of the clerks started fund
for investment in the rattle he Clipped
in a quarter taking a single ticket
while others bought as many as half
a dozen apiece.
He was surprised yesterday by a
letter informing him that the ticket
he held won the manchine-A $500
touring car. There were one hundred
thousand tickets sold, so that he had
just one chance in one hundred thou
sand to get the prize and he won it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
$4,000 PAID
FOR BOY 'SFOOT
B. & 0. Company Settles with VIII
liam Reeves for Injuries
Received.
also PAYS NURSES And DOCTORS.

William Reeves, the little boy who
had his foot cut off by Valley train
near South street, has received $4,000
from the B. & o. company in full
settlement for his claim for damages
The acceptance Of the amount was
authorized by the probate court Tues
day afternoon. The father of the boy
U. s. Reeves, was appointed guardian
and it was through him that the set
tlement was made In addition to
paying the boy this amount, the COM
pany also settled with the father and
mother for nursing the boy and paid
the doctors bill.
The accident occurred on September
% last The boy was crossing the Val
ley tracks and got his foot caught in
a frog. A little brother was with him
and when they saw the train approach
ing both boys worked frantically to
release the foot, but without avail.
When Willie saw that he was to be
caught he threw himself on one side
of the track and thus saved his life.
His foot and ankle were crushed into
pulp and had to be amputated.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
CHAMBERLAIN TALKS
TO W0RKINGMEN
Tells Hearers Trade UnionIs m
Cannot be Reconciled vj1th
Free Trade.

Liverpool, Eng, Oct. 2s.-Joseph
Chamberlain addressed another mon
ster meeting in the Hippodromoe here
Tuesday night. The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Working
mems Conservative association and the
5000 persons present gave the former
colonial secretary a tremendous recep-
ton. 1t was organized as an Offset to
the recent action of representatives of
labor unions in various places in de-
nouncing Mr.. Chamberlain tariff and
preferential proposals.
Mr.. Chamberlain pointed out the
fact hitherto overlooked by his oppo-
nents that when the movement for free
trade was carried the working classes
were neither represented nor consulted,
but it was a movement of the manu-
facturers and the middle-class people.
Emphasizing the statement that IT
was impossible to reconcile free trade
with trade unionism, Mr.. Chamberlain
pointed out the inconsistency of sup
porting policy which admitted the
product of the cheapest kind of labor
without taxation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30

Confessed to having used the mails
for fraudulent purposes, Joseph Rob-
ert Jeffers, aged %, whose home Is
thought to be Mansfield, but who has
resided in Canton since August 1, was
placed under arrest by Captain Pat
terson and Officer Zimmerman in the
postoffice Tuesday night. He professed
to be innocent until evidence was pro-
duced which incriminated him, and
then he broke down and told all.
Jeffers' method of fraud is novel
one. Under the name Of w. r. Man
merlin, he secured valuable stamps
from various philatelist companies
throughout the country and neglected
to pay for them. He received his mail
at Mannerline at Fairhope, a hamlet
about six miles east Of Canton on the
Louisville road, going there on the
electric car. AS reference when order
ing stamps he gave the name Of the
Colesworthy Tailoring company, George
c. Colesworthy, manager, Canton. At
the local postoffice he received the mail
directed to Colesworthy and answered
it, giving Mannerlin an excellent rec
ommendation, which enabled him to
secure valuable stamps, which would
have otherwise been refused.
Several days ago the local postoffice
authorities were asked to investigate
the matter. The stamp companies from
whom Jeffers, alias Mannerlin, alias
Colesworthy, had been receiving goods
had received no pay and clamored for
an investigation. Suspicion was
aroused against Mannerlin, as he was
known to the postal authorities, and
Inspector Owen Monday was detailed
on the case.
The postmaster at Fairhope was in
structed to telephone to the local Of
flee as soon as Mannerlin appeared for
his mail Tuesday night, and he did.
Inspector Owen and Louis H. Van
Horn, clerk in the postofIice, hasten
ed to Lake street and Maple avenue,
where they intended to board the Stark
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
MASS|LLOM GETS IT
CoIored Industrial School Will
be Esta blished at
Once.
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News-Democrat.
Massillon, o., Oct. 2S.-This city will
be the home of the Industrial school
for colored children, to be established
by Miss Frances Riley, with the money
from the Hall fund, about which there
has been so much controversy.
James II. Hunt, as trustee of the
fund, which amounts to $11 1000, will
give $1,000 to Miss Riley to start the
school and 5000 year for its mainte-
nance. Students from Stark county
will be admitted free. but those from
other counties in the state will be
to pay tuition.
In the school will be taught all the
industrial arts, such as cooking, sew
ing etc. The fund originally was $10,-
600, and was left by an abol'.'onist
named Hall at his death before the
civil war;
II was brought TO light by the News
Democrat some months ago and since
that time various promoters lave
sought it.
Miss Riley comes from Titusville,
Pa, where she was in charge Of a
similar educational movement.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
DISEASE LURKS IN
SLEEPING CARS
So Declare Public Health As
sociations-Sanitary Condi.
tions Greatly Neglected.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-The first reg
ular session of the thirty-frst annual
meeting of the American Public Health
association was held here Tuesday
prominent psychologists and stu
dents of sanitation from the United
States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba be-
ing present.
At the afternoon session there was
general discussion of the subject OF
car ventilation, the consensus of opin-
ion being that the air-in sleeping cars
becomes vitiated and that they are
fruitful sources of disease. The dele
gates were outspoken in condemnation
Of the alleged lack of attention to the
matter of cleaning blankets and fur
nishings in sleeping cars. DIR. i. II.
Mccormick of the state board of health
of Kentucky declared that an official
investigation into the subject made
by him disclosed the fact that the
blankets were cleaned only once
every six months.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
BOTTOM
Almost Reached In Crude Oil
Stoeks--Priee Higher Than
For Years.

Oil City, Oct. 27-The Standard Oil
trust, through it purchasing agencies
in the oil regions. has advanced the
price of Pennsylvania crude oil to
STA a barrel, which is the highest
price for this oil since 1895, when a
temporary price Of $3.50 was made
April II.
The total stock of crude petroleum
above ground today is less than 1t
was in 1895, there being trife more
Of Pennsylvania oil, but less of the
Trenton rock oils. known as the Lima
product. which is much inferior to the
so-called Pennsylvania oils.
The Standard has been compelled to
notify the Independent oil refiners that
It cannot supply their requirements
OF crude and some of them have al
ready shut down.
1t is a condition that confronts the
Standard and not a theory. West
virginia is declining rapidly. Ohio Is
as badly of as Pennsylvania. Indiana
Has q small output. but the expense
o. getting 1t 10 great, owing to the
vast amount OF water that comes with
the oil. .sl.-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
ASSASS|NS
Atte mpt to Take the Life
Of a Russian Prince.
Scripps-McRae Telegram.

Scripps- McRae Telegram.
Tiflis, Russia, Oct 2S.-A murder
Gus attack was made yesterday or
Prince Galitzen, governor general of
Caucasus. The prince was returning
at p. m. from drive with his wife.
When they reached the environs Of the
town three natives rushed upon the
carriage, brandishing knives. One Of
the men made several stabs at
the governors head with dagger.
One of the princes assailants was
killed, second mortally wounded
and the third badly injured. The gov
ernors wounds were slight. After his
wounds had been dressed the prince
attended a public reception in the
city.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
STEEL RAILS ARE
ORDERED BY JAPAN
Price Said to Have Been Cut
$500 Per Tonic be Used
on Korean Roads.

New York, Oct. 2S.-It was report
ed here Tuesday that President A.
c. Dinkey and Vice President H. p.
Bope of the Carnegie Steel company
had closed negotiations for the sale
of 1000 tons of steel rails to Japan
for use in Korea at. 500 per ton on
board cars in Pittsburg, or $3.50 in
New York. This represents an appar-
ent cut in the price Of steel rails of
$8 per ton. 1t is claimed that the cut
will not necessarily effect the
price of steel rails for do
mestic consumption iaasmuch as
II is conceded that liberal reductions
have been compulsory because of the
sharp competition of the Germans and
English in the manufacture of iron and
steel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30

MARK HANNA
Columbus Woman Tried the Trick and
is Under Arrest for
Crime.
WROTE A LETTER DEMANDING $500.
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News-Democrat.
Columbus, O., Oct. ga warrant
was sworn out here last evening by
Postoffice Inspector G. v. Craighead of
Cincinnati for the arrest of Mrs Sam
uel Boswell Of $50 Franklin avenue,
this city, on the charge of using the
mails to perpetrate blackmail-her vic
tins being Senator Hanna of Cleveland
and 2. L. White, well-known dry
goods dealer of this city.
Six months ago she sent a letter to
Senator Hanna, asking $500 in order
not to give an exposure of certain
things. This was followed by other
letters, in which she reduced the sum
demanded to $500. Her letters to Mr..
White also asked for $500. The money
was to be left at certain designated
place in the east end and all should
be in bills. She signed all these letters
Anna Linn. Senator Hanna was ad-
verse to the notoriety that publication
would bring and so, instead Of turning
the letters over to the postoffice de-
partment he sent them to John r.. Nal
10y of this city, to find out who the
writer was No such name was found
in the directory.
When Hanna found that another had
received letters from Mrs. Linn, he
withdrew his objections and the let
ters were placed in the hand of Craig
head. He represented himself to Mrs.
Boswell, who, 1t was found, was get
ting the Linn letters, as Senator
Hanna's representative and she made q
practical confession.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
DOW|E is
D|SCUSTED
viii Leave New York and Return
TO licn's Friendly
Walls.
HOW He VILTIMIZES HIS PEOPLE

New York. Oct. 28.-Dowie's rein
forcements from Zion City for his re-
storation host, which was due to ar
rive Monday morning, have not reached
New York, and Tuesday those of
Dowies followers who had not desert
ed and returned to Zion City under
stood that their fellow residents had
refused to come. The prophet has
given up trying to hold successful
meetings at o'clock in the morning
and today the first meeting was called
at $3.50 a. M. His subject on which he
failed to preach was "The Crime of
Covetousness," but he did urge his fol-
lowers to work harder and bring in
more "sheaves."
What we want is converts" said
Elijah, IF you can't bring in converts
don't come back here"
Dowie said that the restoration host
had visited 100000 homes since their
arrival In New York and at this sew
eral declared that somebody had been
padding the reports.
Dowie's bank today returned to him
bogus checks calling for $4,000, which
had been sent to him by jokers. But
Dowie runs no chances with checks.
He sends them all to the bank. From
his own disciples it is learned that
Dowie has made a profit of about 5000
from his own host since coming to
New York. He sold 1000 meal tickets
at $5 each and Deacon Cotton, the COM
missary, told reporter that about 25
per cent, or $1,000, would be profit.
There was $275 profit in the river ex-
cursion Saturday and the creche where
Zion mothers check their babies while
they go out to do the restoration
work has earned $86 by taxing the
mothers. The 300 roomers In Madison
Square garden have already rendered q
profit of $400.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
SWEET CIDER
May be Sold by Farmers,
But There ls a Dan.
DER Point.
Special to News-Democrat.

ppSSldl W
Columbus, Oct. 28.-Assistant Attor-
ney General G. H. Jones has rendered
in informal opion to State Dow Tax
Clerk G. H. Rutledge in regard to the
sale of sweet cider, to the effect that
absolutely sweet cider may be sold
direct from the press without taking
out Dow law license, but If it is kept
sweet by the use of preservatives, such
cider would be sold by the farmer
without a Dow license at his peril.
1t will be noticed that Mr.. Jones does
not exactly hold that such sweet cider
could only be sold by taking out the
Dow Tax license, but he is inclined
to thing that the supreme court would
hold that way.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
RUN
CONTINUES
Excited DeposItors Are
De m q ding Their
Money.
Scripps-McRae Telegram.

Scripps-McRae Telegram.
st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 2S.-When the
doors of the Mississippi Valley and
Mercantile Trust Co. were thrown open
this morning, long lines of depositors
were in waiting anxious to withdraw
their funds, the scare resulting from
Tuesdays run not having died out.
Most of those in line were working
men and women. Each was told that
30 to 60 days notice of intention to
withdraw deposits would be required.
No money was paid out, but the dec
laration Of intention to withdraw was
made by many. Financiers say the
banks are perfectly sound and the
scare is senseless.
At the Mercantile Trust bank Is po-
lice could not keep order and the
crowd surged by and into the building.
1t is declared that the whole trouble
was started by the malicious rumors of
eastern spectators.
The st. Louis Clearing House asso-
citation is backing the banks, and new
Orleans, New York and Chicago prom
Use all the money needed to check the
run. At 12 o'clock the crursh became
so great the Mercantile, Mississippi
Valley and Lincoln Trust company's
offices that the doors were locked and
only few at time were permitted 10
enter. Very little money is being paid
out.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
Seven
Men Killed and Many
Injured In Railway
Collision.
Telegram.

scrpps-McRae Telegram.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 2S.-The
second section of the Chicago limited
on the Southern Pacific railroad east
bound, collided with work train two
miles from Palisade last evening. Sew
en- section men were killed. Ten pass
engers and engineer and fireman of
the limited were injured. At an early
hour this morning two bodies had been
recovered and others were seen in the
wreckage. The cause of the disaster
is not known, as details are difficult to
secure.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
MRS. PAUL sCHAEFFER DEAD.

Mrs. Paul Schaeffer, one of the Oldest
residents of New Berlin, died shortly
after o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The
deceased was born In Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa, and had iived in this county for
the past 81 years. She was rs years of
age. Surviving are husband and
four children: E. G. Schaeffer of Can
ton, Mrs. A. ]. De Hoff of Canton, Mrs.
Jonas Haag OF Tyner, Ind. and Mrs.
r. 9. Williams Of Cleveland. xsa "a
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
NEW CORPORATION
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News-Democrat.
Columbus, o., Oct. 28,-The Hemper-
ly Hardware company of Massillon,
capital $4,000. was incorporated here
today by Daniel Hemperly, Frank L.
Hemperly. Emma G. Hemperly, Emma
X. Hemperly and w, u. Hemperly. The
new company will deal In hardware
and building supplies.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
FOUND GUILTY
scripps-McRae Telegram.

Scripps-McRae Telegram.
KentoD. o.. Oct. 28.-The jury In the
William Nichols murder case, after be-
ing out all night, returned a verdict
today, finding the prisoner guilty of
murder In the first degree, without
mercy. Nichols killed Alphonse Min
cred, an old soldier. last July. He
claimed self-defense.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
MISSING SHIPS
Arrive at San Francisco With
Valuable Cargoes Of
Gold,

San Francisco, CAL, Oct. 2s.--The
steamers Ohio. Roanoke and Senator
have arrived from Nome with 1900
passengers and about 100000 in gold.
They report that the steamer Meteor,
with valuable cargo, is missing and
Ia believed to have been lost.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
# TEXAS AND HE'LL "
Speech OF General Sherm n
Recalled by Genera
Miles.

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 2S.-General
Nelson A. Miles. who is in Seattle on
his way east, denies that he has any
interest in Texas or that he will make
that state his home. Recent dispatches
from Texas said that General Miles had
made heavy investments in the Texas
oil fields.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
LABOR RIOT
Near Pitts burg Resulted
in Serious Injury to
Several Men,
Scripps-McRae Telegram.

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 2S.-Forty-
men, seeking employment, thronged
the labor bureau Office of the Pressed
Steel Car company's work at Schoen-
vile early this morning. A number of
workmen we're unable to gain admit
tance and threw bricks through an
open window. In the stampede which
followed four men were seriously in
jured. John Saturne, an Italian, was
trampled and injured about the head
and body, and Robert Rossiter, an Eng
lishman, suspected of hurting a brick,
was stabbed in the right shoulder.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-30
MAY SEND GUNBOAT
Government Will Take Steps to
Protect American n interests
at San Domingo.

Washington, d. c., Oct 2S.-It is
probable that the navy department will
order the Nashville, which is now coal
ing at Kingston, Jamaica, to San Do
mingo, on account of the revolution in
progress there, for the purpose Of pro-
tecting American interests.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-09
CALENDAR or LOCAL EVENTS

Nov. 9-Play, benefit of Free Kind
ergarten, Wilder Hall.
Nov. 11-Ball, Woodmen of the World
Braga Hall.
Nov. 12-Entertainment, Epworth
League, Simpson NJ. f..
church.
Nov. 13-Delta Baseball Club, Braga
Hall.
Nov. 17-Plnk Tea, Baptist Chapel.
Nov. 17-Ball. German Verguegungs
Club, Braga Hall.
Nov. 18, 10, 20-Fair, Presbyterian
Chapel.
Nov. 18-Ira B. lice Lodge, Braga
Hall.
Nov. 90 to Dec. 3-Fair, st. Mary's
church, Wilder Hall.
Nov. 24-Roll Call, Baptist church.
Nov. 25-F. of A. Court Amboy No.
So, Braga Hall.
Nov. 2S-Danish Brotherhood, Braga
Hall.
Nov. 26-Concert, Simpson M. E..
church. Hli
Dec. BALL, Jolly Social Club,
Dewey Park.
Dee. 4-Braga's Concert, Braga Hall.
Dec. 10-Private Reception, Braga
Hall.
Dec. 31-Ball, Woodchoppers, Cabin
Amboy, 10, Wilder Hall.
Dec. 31-Steamitters Union, Braga
Hall.
Jan. 21-Ball, Original Hebrew Ladies'
Benevolent Society, Grand
Central Palace.