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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
DEATH REVEALS G
The Late G. H. Gaskill, of Philadel.
phia, a Stock Raiser"
Certificates Altered to the Extent of o
Million D~ollars-Scion of Hon.
ored Family.

Philadelphia, Pa.-If Il gnost had
stalked forth and proclaimed Benjamin
Franklin a robber or Stephen Girard
a pauper it could not have occasioned
much more surprise than the announce.
ment that Benjamin II. Gaskill, who
died four weeks ago, was involved IN
a series of forgeries which has result
ed in a loss of almost S1,0G0,OOO tc
banks and trust companies here-the
majority of them representing the ul'
tra-conservative type Of fduclary in
stitutions. 1t was disclosed that Ger.
tifcates calling for small numbers OF
shares of stock had been raised
by a skillful process and without ex'
citing the slightest suspicion.
Benjamin H. Gaskill was the sole
member of the banking and brokerage
firm which carried on business under
the title of Benjamin II. Gaskill & co.
He had fine offices in the financial dis.
trict and his credit was gilt-edged.
At the time of his death Gaskill was
reputed to be worth about 100000.
He left no will, and when the admin.
i~strators started to close up the estate
the remarkable story was revealed.
One of the customers of the firm,
whose name has not been disclosed,
bought from the estate 100 shares of
Philadelphia Traction Company stock
and 100 shares of stock of the United
States Steel Corporation. He turned
the account over to E. c. Miller IL Co..
which firm sent the 100 shares of trac-
ton stock to the Philadelphia Traction
Company's office to have the transfer
recorded. The certificate did not agree
with the company's books, and an in
vestigation showed that the certificate
had been raised from six shares to
100. The discovery was reported to
E. G.. Miller & Co., which firm immedi-
ately notified the Stock Exchange of
which GaSkill was a member, which
in turn sent out notices to its members
not to receive stock certificates from
the Gaskill estate.
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Prominent People.

Chc Gear of Russia, it is said, has
$50, 100000 invested in English securi-
ties.
William Dean Howells and family
have settled for the summer at kittery.
Point, Me.
Paderewski, it is said, car play from
memory more than five hundred COM
positions.
Nine. Rejane, the noted French &C.
trcss, proposes to establish q French
theatre in London.
Kaiser Wilhelm often notifies young
officers to leave the hall, as their dane
ing is not up to the mark.
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Sporting Brevities.

James Braid, with a score of SIS, won
the open golf championship at st. An
drew, Scotland.
Thirteen automobiles completed the
economy tour of the Long Island Auto
mobile Club within schedule time.
Michel E%phrussi's Finasseur. with
Nash Turner, the American jockey, up,
won the Grand PriH at Longchamps,
France.
Beals c.. White and William a.
Larned Won in singles in tn" round
robin lawn tennis tournament ut tho
Crescent 4. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
BOWEN IS DISMISSED
President Roosevelt Acts on Venez-
ueIan Diplomatic Scandal.
LOOMS SEVERELY REBUKED

Monomania in Bowen's Case-President
Reviews Entire Affair in His Letter
10 Secretary Taft-Loomis May Get a
Minor Post - Mr.. Bowen Refuses to
Give Ont ANY Immediate Statement.
Washington, D. C.-The dismissal of
Minister Herbert w. Bowen from the
Diplomatic Service and the retention
Of Assistant Secretary of State Francis
b. LOOMS, although after such a
searching rebuke as has seldom been
administered to an officer of his rank,
are the results of Secretary Taft's
long investigation of the scandal af-
fecting the two men. The report OF
Mr.. Taft and the Presidents reply
were made public at the War Depart
ment.
Mr.. Bowen's departure from the SER
vice was anticipated, but 1t was sup
posed that he would be permitted to
resign. MI. Bowen made his dismissal
necessary by telling the President that
he would regard a resignation as an
admission of misconduct. The Presi-
dent in his. letter says that until this
scandal came up he had intended to
promote Mr.. Bowen.
The action taken with regard to Mr..
Loomis is more of a surprise. 1t had
been expected that the Assistant Sec.
rotary would escape either scot free
or with Il light rebuke. Instead, Mr..
Taft, while acquitting. him of the
charges brought against him by Bowen,
scores in strong language his behavior
in mixing up in business investments
in Venezuela. The President adopts
this language G his owa.
Mr.. LOOMS is a candidate for an en-
bassy. The view of his conduct taken
by the President and MI. Taft makes
it unlikely that he will get it. MIR.
Taft's language, however, is taken here
as indicating that he may be let down
with a less important post.
Secretary Taft's letter is fully re-
viewed in the Presidents letter.
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make YOU irritable; you can't Sleep
YOU are unable to quietly and calmly
perform your daily tasks or care tori
your children.
The relation Of the nerves and gent
erative organs in women Is so close
that nine-tenths of the nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, the blues
sleeplessness and nervous irritabiltty|
arise from some arrangement OF the
organism which makes her q woman
Fits of depression or restlessness and
irritability. Spirits easily affected. so
that one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and
between the shoulders. Loss of voiced
nervous dyspepsia. A tendency TO cry
at the least provocation. ALI this points
to nervous p~rostrat:on.
Nothing will relieve this distressing,
condition and prevent months OF pros1
tFation and suffering so surely as Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 1os FlatbusH
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. z, writes:
~ cannot express the wonderful relief
have experienced by taking Lydia e. PINK
hams Vegetable Compound. I suffered fod
q long time with nervous prostration, back
ache, headache, loss Of appetite. l
not sleep and would walk the floor almosY
every night.
II had three doctors and got no better, and
life was q burden. I was advised to try
lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and il has worked wonders for me. ]
am a we'll woman, my nervousness Is al
gone and my friends say I look ten year.
younger"
Will not the volumes of letters fron
women made strong by. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound convince
all women of its virtues? Surely yoru
cannot wish to remain sick and veal
and discouraged, exhausted each day
when you can be as easily cured a
other women.
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FOOD IN SERMONS.
Feed the Dominic Right md the Sermons
Are Brilliant.

A conscientious, Woodworking and
eminently successful clergyman writes:
81 am glad to bear testimony to the
pleasure and increased measure of
efficiency and health that have come to
me from adopting Grape-Nuts food as
one of my articles of diet.
"For. several years 1 vas much dis
day by indigestion. My breakfast,
usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and
eggs, seemed to turn our ard failed
to digest. After dinner the headache
and other symptoms following the
breakfast would wear away, only to re.
turn, however, next morning.
"Having heard of Grape-Nuts foodsl
finally concluded to give it a fair trial.
I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs, and
made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts,
cream, toast and Postum. Tie result
was surprising in improved health and
total absence of the distress that had,
for so long a time, followed the morn
ing meal. My digestion became
nee more satisfactory. the headaches
ceased, and the old feeling Of energy
returned. Since that time, four years
ago, l have always had Grape-Nuts
food on my breakfast table.
~ was delighted to iEd also, that
whereas before l began to use Grape
Nuts food l was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied IN the work of
preparing sermons and in study, a
marked Improvement n this respect re-
suited from the change in MY diet. l
am convinced that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result and helped me to a
sturdy condition of mental and physical
strength.
81 have known several persons who
were formerly troubled as I was, and
who have been helped as I have been,
by the use of Grape-Nuts food, On my
recommendation, among whom may be
mentioned the Rev. -, now a mis-
sionary to China" Name given by
Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason"
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wcllville," in each pkg.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12

Perhaps it is not with unmingled
regret that we may look upon some Of
the performances of the motor car
riage. 1t seems that the chauffeur is
exposed to certain injuries of the fore
arm, especially at its lower portion,
produced by a recoil Of the crank whe1
the motor is started. Two examples
are recorded by G. Deutschlander in g.
German surgical magazine, both frac-
lures in the epiphyseal region, n of
them attended with much overriding
bf fragments.-New York Medical
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
BOSTON HOLDS RECORD.
Cost of Running Public Buildings De-
partment Highest of American Cities.

partment Highest of American Cities.
Boston. Mass.-According to official
figures Boston municipal "grafters'
hold the record. The statistics pre-
pared by Harvey S. Chase, an expert,
in the Mayors Office, show that the ex-
rense per capita of running the Public
Buildings Department alone is twenty
four cents Il year. estimating Boston's
population at 100000. This, according
to the same source Of information, is
against the per capita cost in New
York for the same department of twen-
ty cents; Philadelphia, fourteen cents;
st. Louis, ten cents, and Baltimore,
sixteen cents.
Fictitious names have been found on
the rolls and s%yndicates have been or
gained to do carpenter work and cleo
trio wiring for public buildings for
which men were already carried on the
pay rolls, while n concern has a mo-
nopoly in disinfectants which Is max
ing it rich.
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Feminine Notes.

The Empress Eugene recently en-
tered on her eightieth year.
Mrs. William ]. Bryan and he,
daughter Grace have gone to Germany
Signora Cousino, of South America
is said to be the richest woman in TIL
world.
Queen Alexandra's campaign in Eng
land against live pigeon shooting il
having its effect.
Mrs. Rorer, the New York cooking
teacher, invariably prefaces her clas'
lessons with a story, even if it is some
times against herself.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
It Seemed Impossible.

A friend OF James Mcneil Whistler
once came upon him in a London streed
while he was questioning a very dir1l
newsboy, says Harper's Weekly.
ayes, sir" the boy was saying, "Fvd
been selling papers three years."
"How old r your
Seven" Hs
"Oh, you must be more than that"
mo, sir, 1 amt"
81 say, Charley" said Whistler, turn
ing to his, friend, ~ don't think he
could get tn t dirty in seven years,
Do you?" e. -, 30
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
DEATH FOLLOWED LAUGH.

Business Man Expires After Hearing
Funny Story on Train.
Fort Dodge, Iowa.-Ralph T. Jack
son, a Dubuque business man, laughed
immoderately at a story told him by
the conductor on the Illinois Central
train. Twenty minutes later the con.
ductor passed Jackson, who appeared
to be asleep. The conductor shook him
and asked if he wanted another story
Jackson made no response. He was
dead. A Coroner's jury declared he
eXrired Of heart failure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Bowen at East Orange.

Herbert w. Bowen, who has been
dismissed from the diplomatic service,
returned to East Orange, n. j., late
in the evening, Unexpectedly to his
family. He was stopping at the home
of Arthur Clegg, 124 Prospect street.
81 will say nothing now" said Mr..
Bowen. after listening to a synopsis
of the Presidents letter. Such q doc
ument calls for a careful and full re-
NV"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
REFUSES WOULD-BE BRIDES.

Eloping Couples From P%ittsburg Were
Sent Back From Ohio Unmarried.
Pittsburg. Pa.-No more can Pennsyl.
vania would-be brides invade Ohio and
be legally married. The Probate Court
Of Ohio has decided that the justices
of Columbiana County, the "Gretna
Green of Ohio, cannot secure marriage
licenses by telephone as heretofore.
Then, again, the marriage license can.
not be granted unless the prospective
bride is a resident Of the State.
Recently numerous couples who have
not become acquainted with the new
order of things have been disappointed
in not being able to get married. Eight
couples were turned away by one JUS
tice in East Liverpool recently
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
100 WORKMEN SHOT DOWN.

$4,000 Paraders at LODI Suddenly At
tackled by Troops.
Lodz.-Eighteen persons were killed
and 100 were wounded by volleys fired
by dragons and Cossacks on a process
sion of $4,000 workmen which had
been organized as a demonstration
against the Government.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
ALEXANDER AND HYDE OUT
President and First Vice. President of
the Equitable Vacate Posts
MORTON ACCEPTS RESERVATIONS
Chairman of the New Boar OF Directors
to Sue Old Officers For All Misused
Funds of the Life Assurance Society
MIR. Alexander Receives the News on
Sick Bed-Hyde Won't Talk.

New York City.-Secretary of the
Navy Paul Morton, the new head of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, ac-
cepted the designations Of James ".
Alexander as President and James II.
Hyde as First Vice-President of the
society, and they at one ceased to be
officers Of the company which their
families have dominated since it was
founded forty-siX years ago.
At the time Mr.. Morton accepted the
designations Mr.. Alexander, who had
devoted forty years Of his life to the
upbui!ding of the Equitable, was lying
ill in bed in the home Of his married
daughter. at No. 11G East ~SiXty-hfth
street. For a time his family feared
to communicate the news that he was
no longer IN officer of the Equitable
Society to him. 4. polite letter had been
sent to him by Mr.. Morton, in which
the latter briefly stated that he be-
lieved it to be for the best interests OF
the Equitable to accept the resigna-
ton which Mr.. Alexander had placed
in his hands on June 10, The day Mr..
Morton was elected Chairman of the
Board.
Mr.. Alexander took the news calmly,
however.
James H. Hyde was in his magnih-
cent suite of offices on the main floor
of the Equitable when Mr.. Morton's
letter accepting his resignation reached
him. A few minutes later Mr.. Hyde
left his offices, entered his brougham
and was driven to his home at No. 0
East Fortieth. street. Soon after his
arrival there he summoned his electric
cab and took a ride up Fifth avenue
and back, reaching his home about 7.30
o.. m,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Killed Showing How Brother Died.

Two boys, Vincent and Antonio Pa
tracci. were passing along the street 1t
Kenosha, Wis. when Vincent, the 'eld-
er, grasped a live wire which had bro
ken and hung from 4 pole and was
killed instantly. Then lie younger
lad. while explaining to the cro|u how
it occurred took hold If tho Viz end
he too. was killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Views of an y

James Dalrymple, Glasgow expert
says municipal ownership of railways
will not succeed in America unless alb
solu!ely divorced from politics.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12

Mayor Weaver Arrests J. W. Hill.
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, Pa,
caused the arrest of John w. Hill on
the charges of forgery and of falsify-
ing books and papers belonging to the
city.
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Appointed as Peace Ambassador.
NJ. Nelidof, the Russian Ambassador
at Paris. France, was appointed n
of the peace ENJOYS to Washington,
n. C..
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Prohibition Maxim From Japan.
It. is difficult to beat the Japanese In
philosophy, too. One Of their wise saws.
Is: First the man takes a drink, then
t.he drink takes a drink, then the drink
lakes a man."-Washington Post.
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Grand Duke Vladimir Resigns.
It was stated that the Grand Duke
Vladimir has resigned the command OF
the military district Of st. PETERSBURG.
Russia.
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Accents Views of King Oscar.

Accepts Views Of King oscar.
Tie Swedish Riksdag accepted the
views of King Oscar and the members
Of the Council of State, who asked au-
thority to treat with the Norwegian
Storthing for a dissolution of the
union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Killed in Quarrel.

Renewing an old quarrel Join Plum
mer shot and killed l.. Dale, assistant
mine foreman at Bevier, Mo-, and was
himself fatally wounded by q posse.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Cotton Improves.

Further improvement in the condi-
ton of cotton is very generally indi-
Gated throughout the cotton belt.
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Rios For Spanish Premier.

Consequent upon the resignation Of
the Villaverde Cabinet, King Alfonso,
at Madrid, has charged Montero Rios
with the formation of a new Cabinet.
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SnaniSh Cabinet Out.

The entire Villayerde Cabinet, il Ma.
drid. Spain. has resigned, and its res
ignation has been accepted by King
Alfonso.
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Old Vesuvius in Commission.

After being out of service seven
years the old dynamite cruiser Vcsuv-
Jus has been commissioned at Boston,
Mass, as a torpedo training ship.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Drive Russians North.

The Japanese troops in Mancnu"la
continued to drive the Russian adj
vance rapidly northward.
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Piano Dealers Convene.

The National Association of Piano
Dealers Of America held its fourth an
nual convention at Put-in-Bay, ..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Eigh Price For 4 Cellar.

A collar, composed of 1T pearls. saS5
a special cable despatch, was s"!C ct
Paris, France, for S12,420.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
For More Indian Troops.

Mr.. Brodrick asked the British House
of Commons at London to vote an in
crease of S12, OCO, 1000 in the charge for
military service in India.
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Prosecution Of Cork Abandoned.
The proceedings against Maxim Cor
Iii, the author, who was charged with
melting the disturbances in st. Peters
burg, Russia, last January, have been
abandoned.
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Drowned in Canoe.

Seven men were owned near IA
Zleton, &. c., Is their canoe being
wrecked.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Prominent Teacher q Suicide.

In q ravine east Of Richmond, Va.
was found the body Of Leon \. Hasleh,
a prominent teacher. evidently q sui
eide from poison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
New Canal Open.

The Truckee-Carson Canal. below
Reno, New. was opened.
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100 a Day Die at Hardin.

lUU q Day DIG ut ddIUIH'
Cholera and dysentery are still raging
at Hardin. the Russian city in Man
churia. The death rate is 100 a day.
There are now $4,000 sick and wound
ed Russian soldiers at Hardin.
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povoo++ Talk in SinoaDOr

The Cantonese merchants at Singa-
pore. Straits Settlements, have held a
meeting to consider the question OF
boycotting American goods.
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Morton Accents Reservations.

Morton Accepts designations.
Paul Morton. in New York City,
accepted the designations of James w.
Alexander and James H. Hyde, presl-
dent and first vice-president OF L
Equitable Life Assurance Society.
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Trouble n Hungary.

The United Opposition of the lower
house of the Hungarian Diet at Buda-
pest passed a motion of want of conf
dence in the Fejervary Cabinet.
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France Treats With Germany.
A note, inviting Germany to define
the limits of the proposed conference
on Morocco, was transmitted from
Paris to Berlin.
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REFORM REACHES DEADWooD.
Gambling Houses Closed For First
Time in Towns History.

Deadwood, S. D.-For the first time
since gold was discovered in the Black
Hills there is no gambling in Dead
wood and the other mining towns and
camps in this county. All gambling
houses are closed by order of the
Mayor and county authorities. Dead
wood without gambling is like a river
without water.
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Wholesale Grocers' Convention.
The annual convention of the South
.rn Wholesale Grocers was held at
Norfolk. Va.
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Nervous Women
Their Suferinss Arc Usually
Duo to Uterine Disorders
Perhaps Unsuspscted
A MEDICINE THAT CURES

Can we dispute
the well Known
fact thatAmerican|
are ner,
How often do wei
hear the express
sion, II am SO ner|
vous, it seems as
T should fy;" orr
Don't speak tn|
me-" Little things|
You and
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Plague of Caterpillars.
Eastern and Southeastern Texas
have 4 plague of caterpillars.
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Other Frauds Discovered.

This led to q further investigation,
and with startling results. 1t was
found that Gaskill had credited him
self on his own books with 6000 shares
of Philadelphia Traction stock valued
at approximately 100000, while the
traction company's books showed he
had only 400 shares. 1t was also dis
covered that he had raised stock GER
tifcates of the United Railways of
New Jersey from 2 to 200, and the
certificates of the frankfort & South
wark Street Railway Company of this
city from 2 to 20. The latter stock is
worth $3.50 a share.
Gaskill kept two accounts-one re-
cording the transactions Of his 1cus-
toners, which was correct, and another
giving his own transactions. His books
showed that he was losing from$15,000
to $4,000 a year in his business. His
method of operation was to obtain GER
tifcates Of gilt-edged securities calling
for one, two, three or some other small
number of shares, raise the figures and
give them as securities for large loans.
At least six banks and trust companies
of this city admit holding fraudulent
securities for large loans.
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One Million For Fairgrounds.

The New York City Board of Alder
men voted S1.000,O00 for Fairgrounds.