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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
COLLEGE is I'M WILDERNESS
Institution Dedicated in Kentucky
Region Where Education Is
Sadly Needed.

Bloomington, HIN the Businesses
Of the Kentucky mountains, in the
heart Of Morgan county, there has
just been erected a college in mem
ory of Matthew T. Scott, Of Blooming
ton. The project was suggested by
Mrs. Scott, and met with favor by the
Presbyterian synod of Kentucky. She
was advised to select Morgan county,
which is without any other education
al enterprise of consequence. The site
is near West Liberty and is Is miles
from the nearest railroad, and can
only be reached by a stage coach, and
the route is very rough and circuitouS
Mrs. Scott is widely known through
out the United States by reason of her
prominence in the Daughters of Amer
lean Revolution. having served as vice
president, general and in other posi-
tons in that society.
The college was dedicated by Mrs
SCOTS brother-in-law, Adlai E. Stew
ensOn, former vice president of the
United States. The enrolment upon
the opening date was lis students.
Prof. J. w. Thurman, an educator
well known, is the first president. and
he had for assistants five teachers Of
ability. The board of trustees COM
pIises Bennett H. Young, of Louisville.
and Rev. l.. H. BlantOn and Rev.
j. E. Guerrant. Mrs. Scott has en-
dowed the institution, and a number
of the citizens of Kentucky also as
sisted financially.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
$25o,Ooo FOR WEDDING GIFT
Detail of Marriage of Son Of Rock
Island Magnate Disclosed
by a Check

New York-Frequent mention has
been made of some of the presents
given recently at the marriage of Ma
thanlel Moore of Chicago and Miss
Fargo in New York, but there was one
that has escaped notice That was a
check for $3.50, 1000 given to the young
bridegroom by his father, James Ho-
bart Moore, one of the big Four" il
the Rock Island road and prominent as
promoter of industrial cOnsOlida-
tons. This is the second big check
Mr.. Moore has given his son within q
comparatively short time. When the
young man attained lis majority last
year his father made him a present OF
a check for 100000. What he has left
of the first check, added to the quar-
ter of million he received as a we'd
ding gift, ought to make tidy sum on
which to start light housekeeping.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
KILLS MAN FOR 'AD."
AUTHOR GAINS FAME" FOR
NEWLY WRITTEN BOOK.
London Man Seeking to Call Public
Attention to His Work on yell
low Peril-Slays Aged New
Zealand Chinaman.

London. = Edward Lionel Terry
thought he was a man with a mission
and ought to make name for himself.
He could not bear the idea of set
Ting down in the real estate and mort
gage broker business with his old
father in London. He was descended
from an illegitimate son of Napoleon,
and was educated at Oxford and Eton.
Lionel, at 81, six feet tall, with the
proportions of blacksmith, enlisted
as private in a line regiment, with
out his fathers knowledge He was
afterward transferred to the blues"
Magnetic and easy in address, he was
liked by both officers and men.
In defiance of the rules of the serv.
ice, he at once covered the walls of his
quarters in the Windsor barracks with
caricatures Of the officers. The chap
lain OF the regiment was so tickled
With a caricature of himself that he
cut out the plaster on which it APP
peared, framed it and pleaded for a
mitigation Of the culprit's sentence.
After two or three years soldering,
he was released through the efforts of
his father, but could not remain lone
in London. Off he went to South At
RIGA, enlisted in the mounted police and
served through the Matabele war, TAX
ing part in 10 engagements He was
twice wounded and gained the friend
snip of the great empire builder, Ce.
Gil Rhodes. He returned to London
and a tall hat but two years of this
derlust' seized him again 1t was in
British Columbia that he became con-
WINGED that Chinese cheap labor was
running the white wage Garner, and
that it was his mission to check the
yellow peril" From Canada he went
to Australia, earning his bread by
mining and farming. Then he came TO
New Zealand's shores. Here he
brought >out his first book, God Is
Cold wherein he attempted to con-
vince New Zealanders that the Chi
nese were undermining their prosper
ity. He was then 81.
Il am going to make name for my
self" he wrote to his father, "but
cont want you to appear connected
with me, for it may harm you"
One day recently Terry, while walk
ing in the streets of Wellington, New
Zealand, came upon Kun Young, q
feeble, lettering old Chinaman. Life
seemed a burden TO the aged man.
Fere was LIoneIs chance to become
noted. He would shoot down the dOd-
dering old man.
After his deed of blood, Lionel cool
ly walked to police headquarters and
surrendered. A murder charge was
placed against him. Then he wrote
to Gov. rlunket:
Sir: Having spent several years in
various portions of the British empire
inquiring into alien immigration, ant
being convinced of the evil cOnse
quences arising therefrom, l have de-
cided to bring the matter before the
public eye in a manner which will
compel attention. To make this deci-
sion perfectly plain | have this even
ing put a .naman to death"
Lionel is now famous"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
OHIO THEATER BURNED.
Four Persons Lost Their Lives and a
Dozen Had Narrow Escapes.

LOrain, o., Dec. 1S.-Four lives were
lost in fire which destroyed the Yer
beck theater here early Sunday mora
ing. The dead:
James Dryer, 90.
Mrs William Marsh, "a, and two
children.
The Marsh family had apartments
Marsh was stage manager of the the
alter. Dwyer, another emplOye of the
theater, slept in the basement, where
the fire originated, from which escape
was cut off, Mrs. Marsh and Ger chill
dren were suffOcated by the smoke
which poured up the narrow stairway.
The loss on the theater, which was
comparatively new one, is $4,000.
The loss on the entire building is $780,
900 The theater was owned by the
Verbeck Amusement Co., of Oil City,
Pa.
The Marsh family came here from
Detroit about four weeks ago. A dOz-
en- people living in the building had
narrow escapes from being suffOcated.
The fire department did not have a
ladder sufficiently long to reach the
windows where the imprisoned per-
sons were and William Schultz, mer-
chant, climbed to the top of the lad
der, raised and held second ladder
to the window where the frantic men
and women were waiting for help.
They climbed down the improvised
escape and Schultz stood in his peril
descent Of the tenants were made
over his body Eight persons we're
rescued in this manner.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
-. brrf SUGAR RESULTS
Government Developing Strains on
Sc-e-t- lie Principles-Plan
Large Yield.

WaShlngton.-EeIie that COM
rnerc:al advance in growing beet sugar
depends largely upon the character of
seed furnished the grower. the United
States department OF agriculture is
making every effort to produce q
strain OF pedigree seed that will enable
American farmers to produce a large
yield to the acre OF beets containing a
larger percentage OF sugar and a lower
percentage Of undesirable constituents
The work was begun by securing the
best strains OF European seeds and all
known strains OF American-gr grown
seeds and growing them for cOmpari-
son. Of these the best four strains
were selected as foundation stocks. and
all heets OF exceptional quality were
saved and planted the following year
as mother beets for seed production
In the succeeding year One-haIf Of
the seeds secured from these individu-
al plants were soft and the best sreoi-
mems of beets preserved as specimens
for the production Of the first crop OF
elite seeds. The ether half of the
seed was planted this year, and the
beets secured will furnish next year Z
supply of seed for the new strain.
Along this same line OF imprOvem n.
a private grower a Fairfield. Wash
has produced lot Of some 900 roots
testing from % to a per cent sugar,
a most extraordinary achievement in
view of the fact that the usual beet
seeds available do not contain over 10
Der cent sugar
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
it Is Believed 1t Has Returned
and a Shudder of Horror
COnvulSed Russia.
! UNITING GOWN The Pro. ETARiSTS
NOrkmen's League and the League OF
Leagues Issued a Declaration
of a General Strike.
Count Whites Life Is Considered iu
Danger and the Palace Annex,
Where He Is Residing, Is
Heavily Guarded.

ST. Petersburg, Dec. ia shuddcr
of horror has convulsed Russia. The
government claims it has given battle
only to the red" revOlutiOnists, but
the pOpulace generally believes that
the white terror" has returned. AL
ready the leaders of the prOletariat
organization who escaped capture Sat
urday night at the Economic society
snd even men of the rank of Prof.
sIilukoff are in hiding from the police
who are hunting them down. The
government evidently anticipates a
battle royal and has made its DISPOSE
tons accordingly. 1t fully under
stands that the prOletariat will give
blow for blow in answer to the whole
sale arrests.
The workmens council and the
League of Leagues Saturday night is
sued a declaration of a general strike
to begin Immediately and consequent
ly by an imperial ukase, published al
governors general, governors and pre-
fects throughout the empire who are
cut off by telegraph are clothed with
dIUlOSL ulCtdlOlt di pOWSIS, DcliS3 ou
thorized without consulting st. Pc
tersburg, to declare a state Of
siege, and, If necessary, even mar
tial law. AS most of the pro-
visonal authorities are reactiOnary
officials of the old regime, the advan-
tage they will take of such power TO
terrorize the pOpulace can be easily
imagined they being in position TO
become petty tyrants, and wage war
each in his own particular fashion
against the TevOlutiOnists.
Count Whites life IS considered TO
be in danger and the annex of the pa
ace, where he is residing, is heavily
guarded.
ST. Petersburg, Dec. IS.-A report
that Count Witte has resigned is in
circulation but it is false. 1t may,
however. become true at any moment,
as Gen. Count Alexis ignatieff is be-
ing he'd in reserve.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
REPUBLICANS HELD A CAUCUS
It Was Agreed to Pass a Statehood
Bill This Winter.

Washington, Dec 15.Sihe repub
lican members of the houes il caucus
unanimously declared IN savOr of ad-
hitting Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
ritody as one state, and by vote OF
40 to IS declared in favor of admit
ting Arizona and New Mexico as one
state. Both statehood questions are to
be contained in one bill. The only Op-
position to the program vas directed
against joining Arizona and New Mex
leo, and it is understood that Mr..
Adams, of Wisconsin, and MIR. Tawney,
of Minnesota, were the only speakers
on this side.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
Maniac Gets Big Pension.

The largest pension claim settled
since Commissioner Warner took charge
of the pension Office was awarded to a
veteran of the civil war, who is a patient
in the st. Elizabeth government hos
rital for the insane. An accrued pen"
sicn of $9.S4S is the lump sum awarded,
with future payments OF $50 month
Considerable Of the $a,34S will go to pay
for the mans maintenance during the
time he has been confined in the hos
pital. The monthly allowance will at
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27
The Next G. A. r. Encampment.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 13.-Corp
James Tanner, commander-in-chief OF
the G. A. R. is here in consultation
with the local committee Of arrange
ments for the national encampment
here next summer. July 16 is the
date suggested.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-12-27

Ire emperor of Germany now owns
eight big touring ears, but in spite Of
his versatility and his divine rights
he can't scorch In more than one of
them at a time.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
LoNpoN,s GLOOMY VIEW
Believe Everything In Russia De.
nends On New Reforms.

London, Oct. ESPECIAL dispatches
10 the London morning newspapers de-
pict the situation in Russia in the
gloomiest terms But few of them dare
TO venture predictions as to the out
come. According to the ST. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Daily Mail every
thing depends on the nature of the
new reforms about to be published
The correspondent says that either per-
feet calm will shortly be resumed
through the return of the. strikers or
there will be general resort to VIC
lence. The ST. Petersburg correspOn-
dent OF TIE Daily Telegraph believes
that the autocracy Is dying very hard
but very fast, and ventures to record
his conviction that before Monday Rus-
STA will have taken her place among
the constitutional powers Of Europe.
At the same time he is apprehensive
that the only man who can be charged
with the realization of this program
may meet the tragic fate of that other
Russian who attempted to introduce
a constitution, Alexander II.
There is as yet no reliable news OF
the reported mutiny and incendiarism
In the Russian navy. The Odessa cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says he
has received news from Sebastopol
that the report Of the breaking out of
a mutiny is absolutely unfounded.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
FLEEING FROM HloHsINDERs
White Wife Of chinaman Marked For
Death Because She Knew Too Much.

Death Because She Knew ! 90 mucn'
Washington, Oct 2S.-F'leeing from
Chinese Highbinders in New York,
Lucy Rosebury, white, rs years old,
who says she is the wife OF a Chinese
cigar merchant in Mott street, that
city, summoned a representative OF the
press to the railway station here to
relieve her conscience by telling OF
the doings in the Chinatown OF the me-
tropolis. The woman said she was
warned by the white wife of another
Chinaman that the Highbinders had
decided that she knew too much and
was to be disposed Of. She hastily
gathered up some money, told her
husband she was going to a store
across the street, and departed for her
home in the south, Several years ago
she went to New York in search OF
work She was young, good-lookine
and from the country. She met the
Chinaman she afterwards married, she
said, while under the influence OF
opium. During her life with him she
learned his language and consequently
much of the doings Of Cinnamon In
New York.
She said she had knowledge OF fouI
white women who had been murdered
by their Chinese husbands because
they knew too much" and their bod
les disposed of in suit cases. The Bos'
ton suit case mystery now banning
the police she believed to be another
If su"h cases
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
GENERAL TRADE BRISK
Only Serious Drawback is the Short
age of Freight Cars.
THERE IS LITTLE lrLE Money

Production and Consumption Of steel
Is Il New Maximum Without Return
Of Inflated Prices-Failures For the
Week.
New York, Oct. 2S.-R G. Dun &
Company's Weekly Review OF Trade
says
Almost without exception reports
are favorable regarding the nations
commercial progress. A needed de-
cline in temperature has stimulated
distribution OF wearing apparel and
other scasonable merchandise, reliey-
ing anxiety that heavy stocks would
be carried over at the end Of the sea
son. Some wholesalers are receiving
supplementary orders In these lines,
but as rule duplicate business has
lOt become general. There is no de-
crease in the inquiries for spring ship
ments from jobbers, and little idle
machinery is found in the leading
manufacturing industries. Production
and consumption OF stel Is at new
maximum, without the unsettling In
fuence of a return to the inflated
prices Of few years ago. The rail-
ways have been purchasing new
equipment freely, yet there is the
usual delay in moving freight that has
apparently become inevitable at this
season Textile mills are well occu-
pied, although the labor situation is
more uncertain, and the teamsters'
strike had a tendency to interrupt
business Shoe shipments from Bos-
ton have now risen TO within 10000
cases Of the movement to date in 1903;
all other years being passed A sharp
advance in prices of leading farm sta
pies was accompanied by the great
activity OF the season In the option
markets. and the average Of the 90
most active railway securities estab-
lished a new high-water mark, al
though the outside public was not a
prominent factor. Railway earnings
In October were s per cent. larger than
last year. and foreign commerce at
this port showed gains OF 1851 sos
in exports and $2,2l9, 423 in imports. as
compared with the same week Of 1904.
Limited offerings maintain hrmness
in the hide market. some varieties
reaching a still higher level, which
now means a new high record since
the Civil War in nearly every instance.
Leather is quiet.
Failures this week numbered 210 In
the United States. against 233 last
year. and % in Canada, compared with
Is a year ago.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
snectncnIar Ere at Halifax.

Halifax. \. S. oct. ga spectacu-
lar FIRE which destroyed British gov
eminent property valued at 100000
on George Island in the center Of
Halifax harbor. threatened to oblit-
crate numerous masked batteries and
magazines which constitute one of the
most important groups Of fortifca-
tons at this port. \ row Of wooden
buildings 300 feet in length were burn
ed. In the magazines are stored sew
eral hundred thousand pounds Of gun
cotton and other explosive but the
absence of wind assured the military
authorities and the men who assisted
them to combat the flames that there
was practically no danger in the
magazines as the explosives We're
stored under ground on the opposite
side Of the island from where the fire
was.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
Southern Railway

Schedule effective oct 9th. 1895.
Trains leave Washington from Pennsylvania
station.
7Me m. Dany-Local for Harrisonburg. War.
rentOn Danve. and way stations.
1881 a. m daily-W ashingtOn and Florida
Limited Through coaches and sleeper to 90
iumbia, Savannah and Jacksonville. Dining car
uIss. m. Daily-Unlted States Fast Mall.
Ffrst-class coaches and drawingroom, sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining-ear service
40i d. m. Week Days-LOcal Tor harrsonDurE
and way stations on Manassas Branch.
ass .. m. Daily-Locsl for Warrenton and
1901 m. Daiiy-New York and Atlanta EX
press-First-elats coach TO Atlanta; Sleeper to
Columbus, Ga. Mondays and Fridays, Sunset
Route Tourist sleeper. Washington TO San Fran
$50 o. m. daily-New York and Florida Elk
press. First class zach and sleepers TO Colum
bla. Savannah, Jacksonville. Sleeper 70 Al
Ir1sta and Port Tampa. Dining car la carte
1000 %. m Daily-New York aud Memphis
Limited (vla Lynchburgl -First-class coach and
sleeping car 10 Roanoke, Knoxville, Chatta
aooga, Birmingham and Memphis; sleeper 10
New Orleans. Dinlngcar service.
az n m Washington and south
western Lmited-A1 Pullman trains, CLUB ana
observation cars to Atlanta and Macon; sleeper
10 Nashville Atlanta, Macon, birmingham
Memphis. New Orleans Dining car service.
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Washington SO a. m, l3O p. m,
AZ o. m. b.O5 D. m week days, for Bluemont-
s9s u. m. week days for Leesburg
s.iO a. m. and sos p. m. for Bluemcat Sundays
only. -, MI
Through trains from the South arrive, wash.
lngton 642 a. m, 6.52 a. M, o. 40 a. m' s.oo a.
100 p. m. and $50 p. m, and v,9o ?. n ually
Local trains from Harrisonburg ll.55 a. M. weel
lays and go D. m. daily. From Chariottes
sn!e. s25 a. m. and Lynchburg 92o p. m daily
Tickets. sleepingcar reseryatons, ana detane9
Information can be had at ticket ONCE 30 i9ti
T.: 5ll Pa. ave and Pennsylvania station
Baggage checked through from hotels and resi-
tences
Phone $3.50 for +. r. r. Cab service.
H.B. SPENCER. General Manager,
s. H. HARDWICK, Pass. Traffic Mgr.
VIII. TAYLOE, Gen. Pass. Agent.
L. 3. BROWN. General Agent
Washington. ID. {
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31

Examiner Says Details Of Wrecked
Bank Will Come Out at Trial.
FIRST SUIT HAS BEEN ENTERED

Dead Cashier Charged With Felon-
lousy Taking Stock Certificates
Pledqed Twentyseven Years Ago
Fer Loan.
Pittsburg. Pa. Oct 2S. - From a
statement made by r. p. MoXexy' spe'
cial examiner for the federal authori-
ties in the Enterprise National Bank
failure. il will be some time before
the banks condition is known When
seen. Mr. MoXey said:
"You need not call around here for
80 days. We shall be busy for@ hat
time. and nothing will be given out to
any newspaper
He gave two reasons for not making
the developments public. First pub
lefty would interfere with the collec-
ton of the assets of the bank; second,
IL will interfere with the ends Of JUS
tice. From his 10 years experience
he said that he was sure no one would
know the exact conditions until the
final report.
When pressed for something definite
concerning the banks condition, Mr..
Moxey made a rather significant state
ment
Il cannot tell YOU anything" he
said. butt it will all come out at the
trial"
Asked as TO what triel he had refer
Cnce. ne would make no answer Mr..
Mickey said that in q southern bank
which failed it took IS months TO make
a report. and said it would be long
time before he could finish his exam
ination of the Enterprise National
Bank.
The first suit in court against the
Enterprise National Bank, growing out
of the failure of that institution. was
brought in common pleas court and
directly charges T. Lee Clark the
cashier who committed suicide. with
feloniously taking and hypothecating
n valuable certificate of stock pledged
as security for a loan. A strange fea-
ture is brought out in this suit, name
Is. that the certificate in question was
pledged with the bank as collateral p
years ago. and has been supposed 10
be in the custody of the bank ever
since. as security for a loan.
The suit was brought by d. l.. Pat
terson. of this city. in the nature Of
an equity proceeding. to restrain lie
mart 5. Cook, the Guarantee Title and
. Trust company and the Enterprise Ma
tional Bank from further hypotheca-
ton of the certificate in question.
Receiver Cunningham OF the Enter
prise Bank alyso entered suit against
John p. Klein to recover $50, alleged
to be due on a promissory note.
Formal notice was sent out to the
depositors of the Enterprise Bank to
bring their books to the bank for ex-
animation. Judge oldham intimated
that the possibility of Clarks receiv-
ing money which was never entered in
the banks books could only be au-
thenticated by this system of compari-
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-10-31
TO OH POINT AND NORFOLK.
S EABOARD
AIR LIME RAILWAY

short line TO principal cities OF the south.
Southwest, Florida, Cuba and Mexico.
schedule In effect April 10th, 1900.
Trains leave Richmond, Main street station
laiy.
80 a-m.-Local Tor Norllna, Raleigh, Hamlet
aud Charlotte.
100 D. m-Seaboard Mail. composed oi Pullman
sleeping cars To Atlanta, savannah anu
Jacksonville. Seaboard cafe cars are also
operated on this train. They are maintained
at the highest degree " excellence: also large
comfortable day coaches, running without
change toFlorida.
1000 .. m.-SeabOard Express, composed OF Pun
man seepers to Atlanta, savannah, JACK
sonville and Tampa. Seaboard cafe cars and
day coaches, running to Florida without
change.
Trains arrive 40 Richmond, daily.
SIS a. m.-From Florida, Atlanta and the
Southwest.
L5s D. m.-From Florida. Atlanta and the
Southwest.
$50 D. m.-From local points.
For all Information as to rates, schedules ana
connections apply to any Seaboard agent, or TO
W ". TAYLOR, c. T. A.
II. S. LEARD. ID. p. A.
$50 East Main St, Richmond, va
phona