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The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
DR.. WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER
FAMOUS HEAD OF CHICAGO UNI.
vERsITY is NO MORE.
He succumbed to Intestinal Cancer
Ger After u Long and Hopeless
Hnttle-His Career.

Chicago, Jan. i1.--Dr William Rainey
Harper, president of the University OF
Chicago since its inception, one of the
foremost educators and one of the most
learned Hebrew scholars of his time
died, Wednesday. of cancer of the intes-
tines.
During the last fortnight his strength
failed rapidly and 1t was evident to his
medical attendants that the end could
not be far Off. Messages were sent to
his immediate relatives and all OF thers
were at the house when he died.
President Harper's Career.
DR.. Harper was born in New Con-
cord, o., in July. 1856, and graduated
with the degree Of A B from Muskin-
gum college in that place in 1870. A
short time after this he went to Yale
university, where he carried on studies
of special character in the languages.
The next year he acted as president Of
the Masonic college at Macon, Tmn.
From 1876 to 1879 he resided In Gran
vile, o., as tutor In Dennison univer-
sity and as principal of Granville aca6-
emy, which was the preparatory de-
partment Of the university. In 1880
hn was appointed professor of Hebrew
language in the Baptist Union Theolog-
lea! seminary, in Morgan Park, short
distance from Chicago, where he re-
mained for five years. In 1886 he was
asked by Yale university to become
professor Of Semitic languages in that
institution, where he remained until
1881, when he was elected president of
Chicago university, and remained at
the head of the institution ever since.
While the university was endowed and
founded by John d. Rockefeller, 1t was
the work and energy of President Har-
per that shaped its policy and brought
the institution into being.
DR.. Harper was married when he was
10 years old. Mrs Harper is the daugh-
ter of DR.. Paul, Presbyterian minis
ter at New Concord. o. Dr. Harper's
parents, as we'll as those of Mrs. Har-
per, reside in Concord, and lived there
in the childhood days of the university
president and his wife, who were
schoolmates.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
FAMED MEMORIAL REMOVED
Weloh House in Augusta, Ga, Recalls
No More British Colonel's Exc
cution of Americans.

Augusta, Ga.-By the razing of the
Old Weleh house, with what was known
as the hanging staircase" is removed
one of the most famous memorials of
British brutality during the revolution
airy war.
After the capture Of Charleston nv
the British in 1880, they captured Au-
gusta. Col. Elijah Clarke raised regi-
ment of riflemen and attempted to retaka
the town. The British were assisted by
Indians, but Clarke had the advantage.
and finally Col. Charles Brown, the Brit
ish commander. was forced to take ref.
uge in the Welch house. The Georgia
riflemen September 4 were taken in the
rear by British reenforcements and left
30 prisoners in the hands of the British.
Col. Brown, slightly wounded. lay in
an upper room in the Welch house. To
him the prisoners were brought.
Hang them!' he commanded
Every rebel of them. And string them
up from the staircase, SO that can sea
1t from here
Ihirteen were strangled before his
eyes, when Brown ordered that the II
remaining prisoners should be put to
death outside. Indians massacred these
in the yard, Brown having his cot moved
to the front window so that he could en-
JOY the spectacle.
When Light Horse" Harry Lee recap
tured Augusta the next spring Col.
Brown was still there. The colonial
rifiemen hanged him from the same
staircase where the 13 patriots had been
executed
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
ST. LOUIS POLICE TRAGEDY
serst. George w. Colestock, Twen-
ty-Eight Years st. Louis Police-
man, Commits Suicide.

st. Louis, Jan. 1O,-Sergt. George
Colestock was found dead Tuesday
night in room at the Windsor hotel,
corner Of Jefferson and Lawton aven-
ues, under circumstances that make IL
reasonably certain that he shot himself
with suicidal intent. He was shot
through the heart, the bullet having
come out under his right arm. The
weapon used was 3S-caliber revolver
belonging to himself.
Sergt. Colestock's transfer from a
precinct in the bad lands" which he
had had for years, following the con-
nection of his name with the Ollie
Roberts graft scandal, Is supposed to
have been the cause Of the suicide.
He had evidently stood in front of the
mirror and held the revolver close to
his breast when he fired On the table
in the room box that had contained
morphine pills was found, with but one
Pill! left in the box. So far as known,
Colestock left no letter explaining his
act
Colestock had been on the police
force since 1878, and had been a SER
geant since 1894.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
OWNED BY GLUCOSE TRUST
The St. Louis Sfrup d Preserving
Co. Absorbed by the Standard
OIL Interests.

st. Louis, Jan. 10.-Standard Oil inter-
ests are in control of new glucose
combination, which is to take over the
entire glucose business of the country
including the st. Louis Sirup and Pre-
serving Co., the largest concern of the
kind In st. Louis.
The new company has been organized
under the laws of New Jersey. 1t will
be known as the Corn Products Refin-
ing Co. 1t has an authorized capital of
$50, 100000, Of which $4,000, 900 will be
in preferred stock and 10000, 900 in
common. e. T. Bedford, president of
the New York Glucose Co. and director
Of the Standard Oil Co., will be the head
OF the combination.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
IN A CRITICAL CONDITION
Marshall Field, of Chicago, Taken
Seriously HI ON Board "a Train
En- Route to New York.

New York, Jan. 10.-Marahall Field.
of Chicago, arrived in this city, Tues.
day, from his home, in such serious
condition that two physicians and a
nurse are in constant attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Field reached Jersey
City at 1890 p. m. on the Chicago lin
tied, over the Pennsylvania, attended
by physician and valet. The party
went to the Holland house. Soon after
their arrival hurry call was sent for
another physician, and for more than
an hour there was consultation in The
sick room.
The nature of Mr.. Fields illness Is
carefully guarded from the public, but
1t is learned that both pneumonia and
pleurisy are feared.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
SUIT OVER INCH OF LAND,
owner Ordered to Court to Saw n
Silver Off House to Make
Up Deficiency.

San Francisco,--A silver one inch at
one end and two inches at the other
must be sawed from the side of a bousa
In Berkeley to satisfy a novel suit over
an inch of land for which w. Maucb was
asking $4,000 Of M l.. Wurts, a Berkeley
real estate dealer. II Wurts did not
want to buy the inch outright he had the
option of paying Mauch five dollars
month rent for It,
According to the testimony of Wurts
ne was between Mauch on one side and
a neighbors house on the other which
abutted on his own lot. He could no,
move, but rather than submit to Maucb's
proposition he took his chance in court
He said that he had offered Maucb 800
for the strip which the latter refused,
Judge Waste found that Wurts' house
projected over on Mauch's land and or.
dered so much of the house removed
as was necessary to clear the land sued
for The house is situated near the
Key Route station at Ashby avenue. be-
tween Emerson and Stanford streets
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
SALARY GOES TO FATHER.
Comptroller Settles Family Jar Over
Earnings of Minor Daughter
Postmaster's Query.

Washington.-Who is entitled to
draw the salary of a minor daughter
employed in the government service.
the father or the mother, is the ques-
tion put up to the comptroller of the
treasury by the postmaster of Union
town Pa, and it has been decided by
Mr.. Tracewell in an opinion as digni-
fed and impressive as if millions were
involved. The daughter is employed
as her fathers assistant, receiving a
modest compensation, which the moth
er insisted on appropriating to her
own use.
The father held that, as the daughter
lived at home and was supported and
clothed at his expense, her compensa-
tion should be collected by himself and
put to such uses as he saw fit But
he wanted to be sure he had the law
on his side and appealed to Mr.. Trace.
well.
The postmaster is informed by the
comptroller's decision that the father
has the undoubted right to collect and
put to such uses as he sees At the sal
airy Of his daughter assistant
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
FIND SAURIAN WAS HEAVY.
About 77,oo0 Pounds Claimed for
Large Ancient Monster by
Yale Scientists.

New Haven, Conn.--An interest,,o
experiment has lately been compIeted
at the Peabody museum, of Yale nni.
versity. to ascertain the original
weight when alive, Of one of the great
saurians, the fossil remains of which
were found in the Bad Lands of Wv
oming by the late Prof. o. C. Marsh
An exact model on small scale Was
made OF the saurian, based upon fbe
skeleton, and using the displaced wa
ter test, and carrying out the comm.
tation the original weight was ascer-
tatined as about 1900 pounds. or 3sIh
tons
The Peabody museum owns the
complete specimen Of a skeleton. and
mas already mounted the high quarter
which stands to a height of some
what more than 16 feet the saurlan II.
self being about 73 feet long.
The museum also owns part of n
skeleton of considerably larger speci-
men. which has not as yet been
mounted.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
GREENE AND GAYNoR CASE
The Two Defendants Are Fighting
the Case Inch by Inch at Sa-
vannah, Ga.

Savannah, Ga, Jan. 1.-THE Greene
and Gaynor case, involving charges Of
conspiracy to defraud the government
and embezzlement in connection with
the big government engineering works
in this vicinity, did not reach the point,
Wednesday, of drawing a jury for the
actual trial, so slow is the progress
made in the presentation Of the de-
PENDANTS special plea and its opposi-
tion by the prosecuting attorneys. The
day was consumed in the consideration
Of this special plea, and there is every
reason to believe that it may be next
week before the jury stage of the case
Is reached.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE
RumOr Current in New York That
Marshall Field Had Grown
Worse.

New York, Jan. 11.-While no official
statement could be obtained from the
physicians, it was rumored, Wednesday
night, that grave change had taken
place in the condition of Marshall
Field, of Chicago, who is i'll at the Hol-
and house in this city. DR.. James, the
attending physician, last night sum-
moned in consultation DR.. E. G.. Jane
way and DR.. Austin F. Riggs. All three
physicians were with the patient for q
long time, and afterward held an ex-
tended consultation.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY
Plate From Which the Forged Nor
folk & Western Certificates
Were Printed Captured.

New York, Jan. 11.--Detectives en-.
gagged upon the case announce that they
have solved the mystery surrounding
the forgery of the Norfolk G. Western
railroad certificates recently placed on
the market. The plate from which the
certificates were made, together with
correspondence alleged to involve a
man now under arrest in connection
with another offense, has been turned
over to the district attorneys office.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
BANKER INDICTED IN OHIO
Charged with Accepting Deposftw
After He Knew Bank Vas
InsOlvent.

xenia, O., Jan. 1.-THE grand jury
has indicted George w Snypp for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
snypp was cashier and owner of the
Farmers bank, Spring Valley, and was
forced into bankruptcy. The hearing
before the referee developed that Synpp
had lost over $4,000 In eastern stock
investments. He is charged with accept
ing money from a depositor after he
knew the bank was insolvent.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
MINNEAPOLIS
HOTEL HORROR
AN INSIGNIFICANT FIRE THAT
COST EIGHT LIVES.
BLAZE IN THE WEST HOTEL
Aight Persons Lost Their Lives by
snnoeation or Jumping, and n
score of People Received
Various Injuries.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 11.-Eigh
persons are dead from suffocation O.
from leaping from windows and scor,
Oh people were more or less injured a
the result of fire in the West hote
early Wednesday morning.
The Dead
Capt. John Rerwin of Truck No. / fel
from the fourth floor to the Fifth stree,
sidewalk, while attempting to save Mrs
Barlow's life.
w. G. Nickels, Minneapolis chamber
OF commerce; suffocated In his room or
the sixth floor.
Thomas Summerville, Springfield
Mass; suffocated in his room on the
sixth floor.
]. E. Wolff, New York; suffocated in
his room on the seventh floor.
Clinton E. Lamme, new York; suf.
located in his room on the seventh
floor.
]. B. Peisniger. New York; jumped
from seventh story window.
Mrs. M. E. Hodges, Minneapolis;
jumped from seventh story window.
William Black, New York; suffocated
In room.
The Seriously Injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Spiesberger,
Chicago; overcome by smoke.
N. S. Amsdem, superintendent Min
neapolis and Northern Elevator Co.; Sc
riously burned.
Gordan G. sapp. Chicago; overcome
by smoke.
Mrs. B. D. Barlow, Los Angeles,
CAL; injured by jumping from the fifth
floor Of the hotel to roof of UNIQUE
building.
The Fire InsigniHcant.
The fire, which is supposed to have
been caused by crossed electric wires,
was In itself insignificant, being con-
fined to the elevator shaft and the top
floor m the corner of the building, but
the wild excitement which followed the
first alarm hurried people into halls
and out upon window lodges In frantic
effort to save themselves.
There was really no help for several
who lost their lives. The wood in the
elevator shaft burned like tinder, and
sheet of flame 20 feet wide mounting
to the seventh story frightened the
guests out of their senses.
The Smoke Did II.
1t was the huge volume Of smoke that
stampeded the guests, as the moment a
door was opened the room was filed
with smoke, and the panic-stricken
guests were compelled to beat out the
windows to prevent instant suffocation.
Many used their hands against the win
dows, others their feet, and In almost
every instance ugly wounds resulted.
Result Revealed by n Search.
The full extent of the tragedy which
had been enacted throughout the house
was not known at first. 1t was thought
that the casualties we're confined to
those which the crowd witnessed from
the street, the death of Capt. John Ber-
win and the unfortunate man and wom-
en- who leaped to death in the alley to-
ward Sixth street.
At the moment the department got
the blaze under way and the smoke
cleared hurried search from cellar to
garret of the big property showed a
score of victims more or less overcome
by smoke.
The fire loss will not On over S30 mn
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18

Moscow, Tex, Jan. 11.-Ben Harris
the negro who slew Ezra Polk at Ber-
ings Mill. Monday night, and who was
taken from the officers Tuesday night
at La Sale, by mob, which held up
the Santa Fe train, was lynched here
at / o'clock Wednesday morning.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
Fire Neur Charlotte, n, C.

Charlotte, N. c., Jan. 1.-THE plant
of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Co.,
near this city, was damaged $125, 200 by
fire Wednesday. The blaze originated
ir the seed room, and before the prog
ress of the flames could be checked the
seed room, refinery and laboratory were
totally consumed.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
VICTIMS OF AN EXPLOSION
ON the Missouri Pacific Exten-
sion Near Crane, Mo.

Springfield. Mo-, Jan. 10.-Near
Crane. Mo, Tuesday, while laborers on
the Missouri Pacific extension to
were thawing out dynamite
the explosive caught fire. In attempt
ing to save 1t one Of the men kicked
the dynamite and 1t exploded. Will
lam McNeal and Joe Kepoe were killed
and several others were injured.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
steamer Goes TO Mammoth Cave.

Evansville, Ind, Jan. 10.-The steam
boat Chaperone went through to Man,
moth cave from Bowling Green, KY,
the first passenger steamer to extend
trip that far on Green river. The
recent completion of government lock
10. on the upper river gave through
navigation to the cave.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
THE COTTON CROP REPORT
Ginning Statistics Compiled hy the
Census Bureau From Telegraph
ie Reports of Agents.

Washington, Jan. l0.-The census
bureau report showing the quantity of
cotton sinned from the growth of 1908
by states and territories, is as follows:
Tin the computation by running bales
round bales are counted as half bales,
and linters are not inckided.l
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
DOume Defeats sarien.

Paris, Jan. I'm. Doumer was elect
ed president of the chamber Of depu-
ties by small majority over NJ. Sar-
rien. The result insures NJ. Doumer's
candidacy for the presidency of the re-
public, January 16, and also indicates
NJ Sarriens growing strength as a
presidential candidate.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
Failed to Appear, Forfeit. Big Bond

Danville, H., Jan. 11.-walter w
Jurtgen. the Paris bank bookkeeper
accused Of making false entries and
embezzlement, failed to appear for trial
in the district court, and his bond Of
$4,000 was declared forfeited An
alias warrant was issued for Juntgen.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
To Tour the soutbwe.,

Chicago. Jan. ia delegation from
the Chicago Commercial association
composed of representatives of IA of the
largest firms in the city, will leave, on
January IA, on tour Of the southwest.
embracing Arizona, New Mexico and
California.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 1O.-At Kan.
sas City, Kas.. Judge Pollock, In the
United States district court, declared
the Taylor Grain Co., Of Topeka, small
concern, to be bankrupt, and appointed
a receiver for the concern.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
He Registered Too often.

st. Louis, Jan. 10.-Peter Walsh, Jr.,
q policeman, was found guilty by
Jury in the circuit court OF fraudulent
registration, and the penalty assessed
at two years In the penitentiary.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
For killing Her Husband.

Chicago, Jan. 11.-Fourteen years in
the penitentiary was the sentence i'm
posed on Mrs. Virginia B. Troupe by
jury In the criminal court for the mur-
der of her husband, August 9 last.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
An Aged Pension once EmpIoye,

Washington, Jan. 11.-Franklin
Moore. employed in the pension office,
died here Wednesday. Mr.. Moore was
SS years of age and had served AZ years
In the pension Office.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
Has Endowed n Chair.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 1O.-Word has
reached Omaha that John H. Converse
Of Philadelphia. has endowed the chair
OF his homiletics and pastoral theology
Of the Presbyterian Theological SEM
mary Of Omaha with S50,00a
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
State or Territory. No Bales. Ginneris

the HUuVt STATISTICS nave been COM
piled from telegraphic reports of the
special agents who canvassed the gin
neries, and are subject to slight correc-
tions when checked against the indi-
vidual returns OF the ginners, being
transmitted to the office through the
mails.
The last report showed 9,2S2, ,191
bales, counting round as half bales,
giEned to December l3, 1905
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
Beatcu tn Death and RohhaS

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 11.-After
winning $500 on the races. John Brock
EFT was beaten to death with a billiard
cue and robbed of his money In a pool
room at 1414 Grand avenue.
The Lexington advertiser., 1906-01-18
Presented Letters OF Rec.1.

ST. Petersburg, Jan. 1.-THE retiring
British ambassador, Sir Charles Har-
dinge, had farewell audience Of the
emperor and preserved his letters Of
retsll.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-11
MERCHANTS WILL
DINE TONIGHT
NAVY, ARMY AND DIFFERENT
BRANCHES OF THE GOVERN
MENT WILL BE REPRESENTED.

Covers for a hundred and ten guests
will be laid at the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel this evening on the occasion of
the annual banquet of the Merchants
Association and there will be gathered
together the representatives of the
mercantile portion of the community
and of the Federal and Territorial goY-
ernments, the Army and the Navy.
The members Of the Association have
signifed their intention of turning out
in good force and there will be as in
vited guests Captain Lyon, command
ant of the United States Naval Station,
Humphreys, U. S. A, Judge Dole, the
members of the Washington delega-
tion,, the president and secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce, of the
Planters Association and of the Build
ers and Traders Exchange, the heads
of the Federal departments and the
heads of the Territorial departments.
The dinner will be served on the
Waikiki lanai of the hotel so that the
heat will bother nobody and this morn
ing a staff of decorators was busy put
ting up ceiling of flowers and green
stuff. The toast list will be a fairly
long one in view of the different in
terests represented.
President G. w Smith will preside,
and dinner will commence promptly at
1880.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-11
TAKES MAINLAND
MAIL ON SATURDAY
S. S. NEVADAN WILL LEAVE KA-
HULUI LAST OF wEEK-MAIL
CAN BE SENT BY CLAUDINE.

The S. S. Nevadan will take mail to
San Francisco. She is to sail from Ka-
hului for San Francisco about noon on
Saturday and this schedule will give
people in Honolulu an opportunity of
sending mail to her by the steamer
Claudine which leaves Honolulu tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock
The Nevadan was to have left Ka-
hului for San Francisco tomorrow but
owing to a delay in sugar arriving, she
had to delay her departure. Mail sent
by her will arrive as early and posi-
bly, a day earlier than that sent by the
S. S. Moana last night.
The next American Hawaiian steam
err to leave Puget Sound ports for the
islands will be the S. S. Texan on jan
uary %. This is a change in the sched-
ule.
The S. s. Nebraskan will be the sec
ond vessel from Puget Sound ports as
she will leave that section February %
for Honolulu The Nebraskan will,
however, leave San Francisco on jan
uary IS for Honolulu and Kahului, ac-
cording to schedule
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-11
THE ORPHEUM N
REOPENS MONDAY
THE ENLARGED STAGE AND I'M
PROVED AUDITORIUM MAKE
VAST IMPROVEMENT.

The sale of seats is now going on at
the Orpheum for the coming perform
ances of next week.
The opening takes place Monday
evening on which occasion there will
be a double bill composed cf the act
screaming farce Turned Up" and the
much talked of one act play called the
Half White The latter is strictly a.
Hawaiian story written by Ernest
Wilkes a member of the BUTLER Com
pany. 1t is a story that will appeal
to the heart of every Hawaiian or
friend of the Hawaiian.
With a much enlarged stage and
special scenery there is promised a
magnificent production.
Everybody is talking about the Half
White and wondering what kind of a
play 1t is so there will no doubt be a
crush to see it on the opening night.
After that, well there will be some
thing doing.
Ring up White 6S1 and order tickets
at once.