Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-17

ana brokerage nrm OF DeDIsOn, TIlOT
e. Co, OF Cleveland, o.. which closed
its doors following the suicide OF l..
w. Prior made a partial statement
They are forced to believe that the
firm is insolvent and are convinced
that a number OF municipal bonds
have been forged
The committee in charge of the in
vestigation OF the affairs OF Denison
Prior & Co. Cleveland. held a meet
ing and announced that the facts dis
closed justified them in stating that 1t
is their belief that forgeries to the ex
tent of several hundred thousand dol
lars exist.
l.. w. Prior's personal safe Che
broker who committed suicide in
CleYeland). in which he kept his pri-
vate papers and memoranda has thus
far defied the efforts of the Investigate
ing committee and Of safe experts who
have worked upon it. 1t holds its Sc
crets as safely guarded IS does the
man who last closed its doors.
Parsons, Snyder & Co, stock and
grain brokers. with offices in the Hol-
lenden hotel, Cleveland, o., made an
assignment to j. A. Smith, an attor-
ney. Parsons, Snyder e. Co. are mem
bers OF the Cleveland stock exchange
and of the consolidated exchange in
New York. They did much business
for Leland w. Prior
Held in another's name, but used as
the place OF deposit for the valuables
of Charles Augustus Seton, declared
to be the perpetrator of the Norfolk IL
Western stock counterfeiting, a vault
in the Standard Safe Deposit Co., Of
New York, was opened but the spuri-
Gus certificates for which the police
are now searching were not found.
Two of the alleged forged stock GER
tifcates Of the Norfolk C Western
railroad have been located in Buffalo.
They are Nos $3.50 and SOIL, the for
mer for 80 shares AID the latter for
100 shares. The Pinkerton men stick
to their assertion that the forgery In
wolves more than $2,O0OO0O
Following a conference between
committees REPRESENTING the Ohio In
terurban Railway association and the
Indiana Electric Railway association.
it was announced that the two asso-
Citations will be merged TO form the
Central Electric Railway association
Six children were severely injured.
one possibly fatally, in a collision be-
tween two heavily loaded bobsleds at
Des Moines, la
After day of caucuses, DIR. Frank
r. Carson. of South Bend, Ind. was
reelected president of the Central
Baseball League.
A fire that originated in the four
story brick peanut factory OF the Nor
folk CVa) Storage Co, entirely de-
stroyed that building. damaged the
east wing Of the Jail and falling walls
crushed the Whitehurst & Co., foundry
like an egg shell. All of the 275 pris-
oners in the Jail were marched to the
police barracks under a guard of po-
lice, but nine escaped
Delegate r. S. Powell introduced in
the Virginia assembly a bill to pro-
hibit the game of football in Virginia
a penalty of from $50 to 500 is pre-
scribed for each offense.
Jenkins Burrows and Arthur Will
liams. two of the three negroes con-
victed OF the murder of Julian Wilson,
a prominent citizen OF williamsburg
county, were hanged at Kingstree, S.
c. Robert Scott, convicted of the
crime, was respited for 30 days.
Acting under instructions of Judge
Audenried. the jury acquitted John w.
Hill, Cincinnatian, the former chief Of
the bureau of filtration, Philadelphia.
oil hn u TT
him with forgery and classifying the
records of his bureau.
p. ]. Hughes. a money lender, was
convicted OF the charge of usury by a
jury at Kansas City J. II. William
son charged that he borrowed $40 from
Hughes two years ago and had paid
$41 in interest and still owed Hughes
500.
Though NJ. Marlborough, the Vene-
zuelan charge d'affaires, has not yet
received his passports, diplomatic re-
lations between France and Venezuela
are considered to have been broken
on.
Gen. Morales resignation as presi-
dent OF Santo Domingo was rendered
and accepted. He will leave San Do
mingo city on board the United States
gunbost Dubuque, bound for Porto
Rico.
Aurelio Herrera, OF Bakersfield, Cal,
knocked out Young Corbett in the NTH
round at Los Angeles, Cal.
A correspondent OF the GiOenale di
Italia says Mr.. White, the American
ambassador and delegate 70 the CON
ference at Algeciras, declared he was
sure peace would be maintained.
Cable dispatches from Trinidad
state that there are persistent reports
at Port OF Spain that the French
squadron has sailed from GuadeIoupe
for Trinidad. II Is said the French
ships had been sighted passing St
Lucia