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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26
GENERAL DOMESTIC,

Warden Woodbridge has offered 800
apiece as a reward for the capture of
three convicts. who escaped from the
jefferson City Penitentiary Thursday
morning.
The price Of May wheat at Chicago went
to 81 90.
The Mississippi House of Representa-
tives voted down a resolution inviting an
address from William j. Bryan.
By the aid of alkoline solutions Doctor
Jacques Loeb successfully crosses the sea
urchin and the star fish,
Shannon wins decided victory over
Mayor Reed at meeting OF Kansas City
Democratic Committee. The committee
seated a Shannon man in place of McCro-
ry. who has gone to Oklahoma. and de-
cided to hold delegate convention.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26
Marine Intelligence.

New York, Feb. 25.-Arrived: Car
pathian.. Genoa and Naples; Siciian
Prince, Genoa and Naples: Prinzesse Irene,
Genoa and Naples: Armenian, Liverpool.
Sailed: La Touraine. Havre; Lain, Bre-
men; Prinz Oscar. Naples and Genoa.
London. Feb. 25.-Sailed: Menominee.
New York.
Queenstown. Feb. 25-Sailed: Western
land. from Liverpool. Philadelphia.
London, Feb. 26-ArTived: Georgian,
Boston.
Bristol, Feb. 25-Arrved: Turcoman,
Portland. via Liverpool.
Genoa, Feb. A.-Arrived: Perugia, New
York. VIA Naples and Marseilles.
Queenstown. Feb. 25.-Sailed: Oceanic.
from Liverpool. New York.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26

Transit Company Sued for $40, 600.
Frank B. NJ. Alvey sued the st. Louis
Transit Company and the United Railways
Company in the Circuit Court yesterday
for $4,000 damages for injuries sustained
October 90 by being struck by a car at
Grand avenue and Caroline street His
skull was fractured and he sustained 9TH
er injuries. 1t II alleged.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26

A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching. blind. bleeding or protrudirg piles.
Your druggist will refund money II Pazo
Ointment fails to cure in to II days. tOa
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26
FOREIGN RRIEFS

City Councillors Of London, invited to
the Worlds Fair in st. Louis. express the
hope they will be able to attend
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26

Russia's views on the question Of CONTRA
band Of war will shortly be laid before
the Powers The technical committee Of
the Foreign Office is now considering the
matter.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26
RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT
IS BUSY AT PEKIN.

The question Of the stay Of the Russian
grnboat Mandjur at Shanghai remains un-
settled. Paul Lessar. Russian Minister to
China. 1t is said. is trying to intimidate
tie Chinese Government in the matter.
declaring emphatically that Japan has lit
tie chance OF victory against a Russian
;Imy 100000 men strong.
The court at Pekin is oscillating on this
question, Russia also pressing China to
declare the neutrality of that portion of
the Empire which Russ.a already occu-
lies
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-26
KAISER's EXPRESSIONS
RECEIVED WITH FAVOR.

The views expressed by Emperor Will
liam Of Germany before and after the be-
ginning of the war, which are character
lied here as broad and disinterested. have
created a favorable impression and are
tending to remove the prejudice which
at one time existed against him.
The Secretary of the Norwegian Con-
sulate at Kobe has gone to Sasebo to see
the captain of the captured ship Holks.
This action is not understood. and 1t has
given rise to speculation.
BLAGOESCHENsKY TO BE
INSPECTOR GENERAL.
Major General Blagoeschensky, Quarter
master General of the Kieff military dis
trict. has been appointed to the important
post Of Inspector General of the Manchu-
rian Army. General Blagoeschensky
fought in the Russo Turkish War. and
since that time his advance in the army
has been steady.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22
CAPT. r. MORT ON GODDARD.

another, but he doesn't neglect his
business, which is growing all the
time, despite the fact that all his sur
plus revenue goes into the cruSades.
The captain is not much over 40 years
old. He is about six feet tall, slender
and with slight stoop. He would like
to be a political poWer-most crusad-
ers would-but he wouldn't change the
nature of his crusades or abate their
intensity one whit for the sake of all
the political preferment in the world.
Police Commissioner McAdoo's part
in the Western Union poolroom inn
broglio is quite as interesting to the
New York public as Capt. Goddard's
From this time on it is likely to be
mort interesting.
McAdoo is a Democrat, while God
dard is a Republican. McAdoo has
never been affiliated in any way with
the Citizens Union or any other body
of professional reformers. Yet while he
has not succeeded in keeping the lid
on" every minute, or quite as tightly
as he'd like to, since he became police
commissioner, he has done much bet
ter in that direction than any of mis-
predecessors, reformers or otherwise,
ever have.
District Attorney Jerome, of course,
will work along Goddard's lines to
the end, whatever that may be, Just
as he will fight the gambling interests
generally as long as he is in power.
New York understands full well that
his erraticisms never make him lose
sight of whatever ultimate goal he
may have in mind. Duane.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts Of Interest to Confederate and Union
Veterans and others

fires are rare in the daytime, ETC., he
shows great ignorance of even Georgia
school fires history. During the past
two years they have been frequent and
many narrow escapes occurred on the
part of those who carried out the fire
drill" to the finish and saw every pupil
outside the burning building. He vir-
tually admits that Supt. Ashmore has
a sort of substitute for this drill, ami
uses it to quickly and safely empty the
school building of pupils. simply de.
sire to stand by my previous state
mcnts on this subject, because they are
cold or hot facts. / have nothing to
do with the wrangle now going on
about the Savannah fire drills"
The brief press telegram from Rich
mond, Va, Of the death there of Col
George Afford Cunningham, a native
Of Georgia, is quite unsatisfactory. His
middle name was Alfred. not Afford,
and he was a graduate of West Point
in the class of 1857, with Gen. e. Por-
ter Alexander 1t. Col. Thos. ]. Ber-
ry Gen. Robt. II. Anderson, and 1t.
Col Aurelius F. Cone. all Of Georgia.
He was appointed, however, from Ala
bama, and on graduating was made a
second lieutenant in the Second y. s.
Cavalry, which rank he held when he
Confederate service. in which he was
lieutenant colonel Of First Virginia
Infantry, and then colonel Of heavy arr
tiIlery in the Cape Fear district Of
N. q. Boston. Mass. has re-
Gently had a very swell wedding az
old Kings Chapel. Miss Eleanor A.
Appleton, OF Beacon street. was united
10 MAJ. Robert II. r. Standen, 81 the
British army. now on duty At Halifax,
n. q. The Applstons were among the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

and sensational scribblers seem to
never tire OF writing about Lieut. JEFF
ferson Davis, u. s. A., and his elope-
ment (Which never occurred with Col.
Zachary Taylor's daughter. Some
writers persist in having 1t Bette"
Taylor, and tell how she escaped one
night from an upper window of the
two-story log house, and eloped with
Davis" This is the merest rot" as
newspaper men say, for 1t was Miss
Sarah Taylor, not Bette, and she did
not escape from a window. Lieut..
Davis resigned and left the fort and
1t was several weeks later that he and
Sarah were married in proper form
at her aunt's home in Kentucky. Bet
tie Taylor, who was a very charming
young woman, married Maj. Bliss, one
Of the most popular officers In the reg
ular army and adjutant Of Col Tay-
lor's regiment. ] am now correcting
the New Orleans Times-D Democrat, the
errors being a recent article on "Old
Fort Gibson" 1t Is simply a repro
duction of previous sensational arti-
cles about Lieut.. Davis at that fort.
The fact is, as the official records will
show, Lieut.. Davis spent most Of his
time at Fort Crawford, Wis, and was
at Fort Gibson, l. r., less than a year,
and then only for short periods Of
time in 1894, resigning from the army
on June 80, 1885, while on leave Of
absence.
Lieut.. Jefferson Davis, u. s. A, at
the close of the Black Hawk War,
carried Chief Black Hawk as a pris-
oner OF war to Jefferson Barracks, near
St. Louis Bitter as was this savage
warrior, he spoke Of Lieut.. Davis as
1.-THE young white chief who alone
treated him with the courtesy and con-
alteration due TO an honorable. van
ouished enemy" How different the
treatment given Mr.. Davis. after his
capture, by Gen. N. A. Miles, u. s. ",
at Fort Monroe. Speaking of Black
Hawk, Ii may not be out Of place to
state that Lieut. Davis administered
the oath OF allegiance. etc, TO Capt.
Abraham Lincoln, In command OF a
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

company of volunteers in the Black
Hawk War. The contrast was mark
ed one, as Davis was a handsomely
uniformed, soldierly looking regular
army officer, while Lincoln was a tall,
awkward, honely fellow in an i'll fit-
ting suit Of blue jeans, adorned with
brass buttons. And yet these two
young officers, so very unlike in every
particular then, lived to become Presl-
dents of the United States and the
Confederate States. and control the
movements of the two grandest armies
the world ever saw during a four years
bloody war. The whirlegig OF Time is
a wonderful mystery.
The Wise Artillery of Martinsburg,
Va, lost a number of it's members
when the Civil War opened. They
were Union men and went into Mary
land and Joined the Union army. Pri-
vate Israel, one of them, In the Ma
tional Tribune. says United States SEN
ator Charles ]. Faulkner OF West vir-
ginia, he thinks, was in the Wise Ar
tillery previous to the war. This state
ment is correct, as Charles James
Faulkner, Jr., surrendered with Lees
army as acting A. ID. G. to Brig. Gen.
Henry A. Wise. The United
Service Magazine advertises hotel in
New York city as Catering exclusive
~ to people of quality" Well, there
Is, even in the army and navy, differ
ent kinds of quality" and this rule
applies to human beings as we'll as
material things. l have seen a very
poor quality of people at the most ex-
elusive hotels and winter and summer
resorts. Money" not only makes the
mare go" but 1t keeps many a sorry
horse on the trot. !: have lived
In the South since 1869. In Alabama.
Georgia and Florida and much as l
have heard and read OF ''you'uns" and
"we'uns." I have known Of their use
In my presence only one time. and that
within Ave miles OF Atlanta. They may
be familiar expressions in some places.
but / have not found 1t so where /
have lived or visited. The following
verse Ia said to have been found Ia
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, May
2l.-The Rev. DR., S. H. ford, editor
of the Christian Repository of St. Louis,
who so bitterly denounced the Santa
Claus myth at the recent baptist Con-
vention in Nashville, is one OF the very
lew survivors OF the Confederate
States Congress. He represented Ken
lucky in the Provisional Congress of
ue1. He IS mar. of varied talents,
out his attack upon poor Oh Santa Will
avail little at this late day. The
American people have myths around
which sentiments or patriotic feelings
cluster The myth Barbara Fritchie of
gettysburg has BEEN made isnmortal by
W hittier's poem. and a hundred rela
Ole denials o. its reality nave not de
stfoyed its perpetuity l might nam
thousand other myths as securely
nXed in the public mind. Mrs.
La Sale Corbell Pickett. the cultured
widow Of the famous Maj. Gen. Georg :
Z. Pickett. G. S. A. is IN the Elmer :
gency Hospital at Washington, d. c..
with a broken ankle, the result of =
Maryland railroad accident. Her son.
capt. George E. Pickett. 4. S. A., Is
n u. the paymaster generals Office ~
ashington, and therefore, near Ms
mother during her weary weeks In the
hospital.
DO not propose TO mix up in the
nre drill wrangle in Savannah. ] IA
ny say long ago on the subject, ana
PRESENTED reliable facts 10 prove my
Dcsiticn. For this reason / cannot q.
Aient and allow my highly esteemed
oid friend. Col. O. A. Mercer. 70 con-
Hhdlct, however innocently. my facts
|'t statements. When he gays school
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

would deceive the very elect, so to
speak. In fact, the captains modesty.
which all his friends will testify is
very real has deceived the elect
among his opponents in public life
more than once.
To his modesty he adds a charac-
teristic often found among gamblers,
and as valuable to them and to petty
politicians as it to the great cap
tains of industry and to most Ameri-
can diplomatists. This quality is di-
rectness of speech, revealing great
simplicity of mental processes.
Without convincing directness of
speech no stranger, untouched for by
mutual friends. could possibly have
gone to the Western Unions Racing
Department and made an uncondi-
tional arrangement for the delivery
of racing news to an illegal establish
ment without himself promising any
thing. Still less could any ordinary
stranger get the wary, willy Western
Union folk to tell him just what to
do in case of a police raid.
Goddard says he did these things and
more. No one who knows Goddard
doubts a word he says, AMI, moreover.
the Western Union doesn't deny his
words. Its rejoinder was, at first.
mainly in the nature of tine familiar
question. What are you going to d.
about it?"
The shutting off Of the racing news
in New York on last Monday and sub
sequent developme however hav-
shown that the company has had a
pretty severe jolt. In the past nobody
has ever been able to keep the public
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

efficient. The Military Order
of Indian Wars is long delayed but
important organization. There have
never been Drawer or more faithful
soldiers in any wars than those who
fought, bled or died in Indian warfare.
The awful Dade massacre in Florida
and the terrible Custer massacre Of
Little Big Horn are only two of the
bloody encounters our soldiers have
had with the Indians. The
People, Fitzgerald Ga, newspaper
claims that the Soldier Colony City"
unfurled "the first flag to float over a
school house in the great state of
Georgia" This was in 1885, and / feel
sure that the claim is not we'll found
ed. There must have been earlier
school flag raisings than this 1896 af-
fair in Georgia.
There seems to be no end to this
first" and last" and oldest" and
youngest" Confederate or Union SOL
der; or who fired the first shot, or
was the first or last soldier killed. The
so-called youngest Union soldier, who
enlisted at 10 years of age, has just
died. He was given a medal as the
youngest soldier. and now the Metrop-
oils of Jacksonville, Fla, wants my
friend, Frank NJ. Ironmonger, of the
Clyde Line steamships, in that city,
to have a. similar medal for being the
youngest Confederate hero he being
only II years and months and days
old when Gen. Lee surrendered. Now,
] know Frank to be very nice fellow
and a popular official but before the
medal could be presented to him a
dozen other youngest Confeds would
put in similar claims. The woods are
full Of them and a gold medal would
bring them out. If his age record is
correct, he is q wonder from mill
tary standpoint. as my parole list
shows that he was paroled as IF. M.
Ironmonger, Capt. and A. Q. NJ" on
Gen. ID. A. Weisiger's brigade star.
Think Of stan captain less than 10
years old 1T the close Of the war
A certain class Of space writers'
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

interested very long in the Western
Unions connection with the pool rooms.
but Goddard has kept everybody keyed
up to the highest interest in the mat
ter for about a month now, and no
one can tell what the result will be.
So far as securing any preferment
for himself is concerned. Capt. God
dard is not a successful politician. Yet
in the six or eight years since he first
dipped into public life he has made
about as big a stir as any of them.
In that time he has turned a district
containing $4,000 voters from one party
to the other. In that time re has dealt
the worst blow it has ever known at
policy playing, which he terms, THE
meanest form of gambling on the whole
earth, since the poor are it's chief VIC
tins" In that time he planted new
ideals among the inhabitants of a biz
slice of the Metropolitan East SidA,
where ideals, generally not very high,
are changed with the utm difficulty.
Capt. Goddard is worth about a mill
lion-perhaps more. He inherited much
of his fortune in the shape of a silk i'm
porting business.
He devotes an immense amount of
time to his crusades of one sort and
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

the pocket of dead Confederate SOL
der, after the battle of Atlanta:
It's hard for you'uns to march in the
ranks:
It's hard for youuns to be fighting the
Yanks:
It's hard for we'uns from you'uns to
part.
Cause youuns have got we'uns heart"
Mrs. II. c. McFadden of waycross
last week entertained the Jonathan
Bryan Chapter, D. A. r., and the meet
ing was "a most delightful official and
social affair, Mrs. w. N Toomer be-
ing the reader for the chapter. Mrs.
McFadden is an enthusiastic and
prominent ID. A. r. worker, one who
thinks family histories of Revolution
airy heroes should conform to official
records. In recent letter to me she
invokes my aid in perfecting her own
family history from official Revolution
airy records. This Is a very commend
able action on her part. for some
swell" people, old friends of mine.
have become quite put out because I
corrected their family claims from Off
cial records of the Revolution. 1t is
bad enough to sail under false colors
through ignorance, but when the fact
is made clear that the colors are
false" no honorable person will con-
tinue to sail under" them, nor con-
denim the party who has kindly and
properly made the correction, I re-
fer to this subject because / am COM
PEELED to make frequent corrections Of
this kind in these letters. / prefer
to stand by the official records OF the
army and navy, and when a man
claims that he was commissioned q
brigadier general or major general in
the Confederate states army, but his
commission failed to reach him, he
must show by the official Confederate
war records in Washington, d. c., that
his claim is we'll founded. The same
rule applies to the Confederate states
navy. and 1t is the only safe rule 20
follow IN determining claims TO ap-
pointment or promotion in any army
or navy. sidney Herbert.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22
PUTTING THE LID
ON THE POOL ROOMS
Millionaire Capt. Goddard's Fight to Stop the
Sale Of Racing News by Western Union.

New York, May 21.-The whole town
is still talking about Capt F. Norton
Goddard, Police Commissioner McAdoo,
District Attorney Jerome, the Western
Unions Racing News Department and
the keeping of pool rooms open or shut
exactly as if something permanent
were likely to be the result.
If this should turn out to be the
case then Capt. Goddard and the dis
trict attorney both will have made a
deeper mark than even their friends
have expected.
No one, on seeing Capt. Goddard
for the first time, would be impressed
over much with a sense of his tenacity
and strength. 1t is even probable that
most people would be inclined to think
after the initial interview with the
captain were over that his words were
more important than his work would
likely be.
For the captain has a certain soft
ness of speech, a certain hesitancy of
manner, an apparent modesty diff
dence-bashfulness, if you will-that
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

most aristocratic of Boston's upper
ten" and Mai. Standen is a son of
Lieut.. Gen. Douglas Standen, of the
Indian army of Great Britain.
It appears to me that the patriotic
women of the country are pressed too
strongly They stand pat" with all
noble purposes and are not 'riotic" in
the criminal sense. The D. A. RS
were called the "best dressed women"
in the country and accused of "cackling
like a lot Of hens" Then
the Colonials Danes assembled
and the headline man called them the
Naughty Danes, and the reporter
said they were so "aristocratic" and
the proud" D. A. RS. couldn't hold
a candle" to them. Well! Well! This
certainly is a poor reward for weeks
and months and years of earnest en-
deavor on the part of these noble and
patriotic women to honor the nation s
dead patriots and heroes and preserve
and mark in proper manner the places
and buildings made famous by their
craftsmanship, patriotic labors or he
roic services. From Castine bay in
Maine to the far off Golden Gate, .
of California, can be found the grand
enduring work of these noble, unset
Ash women. God bless them all--well-
dressed and naughty though they be;
for they have laid golden eggs enough
to be allowed to caekle and assume a
proud strut.
Grover Cleveland McCauley of Texas
is the name Of one Of the new midship-
men of Annapolis Naval Academy. We
hope the young man Will uphold the
honor Of the great name bestowed up
on him by his parents. 80 Miss
c'Ia.a Barton's retirement from the
p. ency Of the Red Cross Society.
10 succeeded by Mrs. John A. Lo-
20 virtually admits that the affairs
OF the society have been too loosely
administered. and that a change OF Of
ficers was absolutely necessary. A re-
organization will no doubt be made at
once, and the society become more
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22

A certain class Of space writer's"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-04
PERSIA TOO ULAT0RY.
United States Demands Punishment OF Mr..
Labare's Murderers.

Washington, d. c. (SpeciaD Jim
mediate action looking to the arrest
and trial of the outlaws implicated in
the murder of Mr.. Labaree. the
American missionary, nearly a year
ago in Paris, will be insisted upon by
DR.. Norton, who has been sent to
Persia by the State Department &C
credited to Tehcran as envoy on
special mission. DR.. Norton is the
American consul at Harput, who has
recently been investigating troubles in
Turkey. The American Minister to
Persia is now absent from there, and
the consul general has very acceptably
administered the affairs of the lega-
ton. but it is believed the Persian gov
eminent will be impressed with the
hrmness of purpose Of this govern
ment regarding the Labaree case by
the sending of special envoy. At the
State Department it is stated that the
leader of the band supposed to have
murdered Labaree has been ar
rested. There are several others
the orders for whose arrest has
been given, but they are still at large
The Persian government is acting with
dilatoriness not to the liking OF the
Washington officials, and DR.. Norton
will be instructed to state the dlssat-
isfied attitude of this government with
the conduct Of the case.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-04
70 STOP CANAL PAYMENT.
Hearing Ia Equity Suit With This End In
View,

Washington, d. c. (SpeciaD.-An
effort to restrain the Secretary OF the
Treasury from making payments or
issuing bonds for the acquisition and
construction Of the Panama Canal was
made in the equity branch of the ST.
prcme Court Of the District of Co.
lumba.
w. s. Wilson. of Hindsdale, ILL.,, is
the author of the suit and presented
his own argument. The government
was defended by United States At
torney Morgan II. Beach and Charles
w. Russell, assistant to the Attorney
General. Justice Stafford, who hear j
the case, has not rendered his de-
cision.
The principal question involved is
whether the courts have authority to
restrain a Federal officer from a
wrongful Interpretation OF Federal
law and consequent depletion OF the
Federal Treasury.
The Canal Commission today award
ed to the Standard Steel Car Com
PAW of Pittsburg the contract for fur
nishing 200 fat cars, to be delivered
at New York city, at 1915 each. The
Bucyrus Company, of Milwaukee, was
awarded the contract for furnishing
the steam shovels at $I17,75o.