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MADE AWAY WITH STAKES
Max Eisner, a New lOrk Restaurant
Keeper, Missing, Also Election
Bet Stake Money.

New York, Dec. 27.-With between
SIS, 900 and $4,000 in election bets
placed in his hands as stakeholder, Max
Eisner, a restaurant keeper at 264
Grand street, and an influential poll
tician Of Florescie Sullivan's district,
has disappeared. Bets were payable
Tuesday and creditors fairly stormed
his restaurant and frightened the diners
by their demands for money.
Everyone in his district believed Els
ner to have a fortune. 1t is said, how
ever, that he disposed of the wagered
money early in November and that he
had only a few dollars when he went
awaJ
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A Mexican farmer, Don Luis Ter
razas, has what might be called a tidy
little farm at Chihuahua-about 8,000,-
600 acres. Takes the Mexican Gen.
trail trains more than half a day to
cross it. Don Luis is thought to own
more than a million cattle, but a baga-
teile of 100,0 900 or SO more or less
never bothers him. His stable con-
sists of some 10000 horses; his sheep
fold Of 700 1000 sheep. From zoe, 900 to
3OO, 900 calves are branded with his
brand every spring. More than 1000
cowboys and so on keep his cattle on
q thousand hills.
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MEMPHIS BANKS IN TROUBLE
THREE PROMINENT INSTITU-
TONS CLOSE THEIR DOORS.
All Obligations Dollar for
Dollar.

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 28.-Three
financial institutions failed to open
their doors for business Wednesday.
The Merchants Trust Co., with q CAP
ital stock Of 5000 $1,000; the American
Savings Bank and Trust Co. and the
Mechanics Savings bank, smaller in
situations allied with the first-named
concern, have gone into liquidation.
The following notice was posted on
the doors of the Merchants Trust Co.:
This bank is closed by order Of the
board of directors, and will go into
liquidation. FELIX T. POPE.
President"
Another notice reads Is follows:
This bank has gone into liquida-
ton. John P. Edmondson has been
appointed receiver
Cause Of the Failure.
The cause of the suspension Of the
Merchants Trust Co. is said to have
been over-loans on discounts. One Of
the directors said that the three in
situations had ample assets, and would
pay dollar for dollar.
When the officers of the Merchants
Trust Co. decided to suspend business,
Chancellor Hiskell was asked to ap-
point a receiver for the institution, and
named John P. Edmondson, a Memphis
lawyer.
Caused Little Excitement,
The Merchants Trust Co. recently
absorbed the Memphis national bank,
and, it is stated, owns the controlling
stock of the American Savings Bank
and Trust Co. The latter institution
has practically absorbed the Mechan-
les savings bank. The suspension Of
the three institutions caused little ex-
element in financial circles.
According to a recent statement, the
Merchants Trust Co. Of Memphis,
Tenn, owed depositors $605, 900.
The American Savings Bank and
Trust Co. of Memphis. Tenn, accord
ing to a recent statement, owed de-
positors S625,000.
St. Louis Sent Assistance.
Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 2S.-The Ma
tional Bank of Commerce and the Com
monwealth Trust Co. of st. Louis, by
rushing s750,0OO to Memphis, saved
the city from a financial panic.
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nounced dead by DR.. William 8. Law.
renee. of the city ~dispensary staff, st.
Louis, Rosie Fisher, Fl years old, who
took carbolic acid early in the morn
ing, continued to breathe spasmodical-
" as she lay on an operating table.
She was practically dead when she
reached the dispensary, DR.. Lawrence
said, and her heart and pulse beats
stopped a few minutes afterward.
Spinal reflex respiration, very rare, but
not unknown to medical science, DR..
Lawrence said, was responsible for
the breathing after life was extinct.
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TO THE HIGHEST TRIBUNAL
New Rate Case to the Highest
Court In the Land.

Boston, Dec. 27.-W. o. Robson, Of
this city, supreme secretary of the
Royal Arcanum, stated that the SUI
preme councils legal representatives
had decided to appeal from the deci-
sion of Judge Gaynor, of New York,
which, on Saturday, virtually nulliied
the new rates that went into effect Oc-
tober i. The secretary says that the
council has no intention of abiding by
any decision against the new rates I'M
til it has been taken to the highest
tribunal.
The appeal will be entered in regular
order within the next 80 days.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

Engraving on diamonds a be per-
formed in a very effective manner. 1t
Is true a few not very artistically en-
graved stones were found in India, and
q diamond on which the portrait OF
the king of Holland was engraved was
shown at the Paris exposition OF 1878.
But the work was imperfectly exc
cuted, and the stones looked as il they
had been deadened rather than pol
fshed. Recently, however, according
to the Edelmetall ~Industrie, the Paris
1eweler, Bordinot, has produced some
very beautiful specimens OF engrav
angs on diamonds.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

In 1876 the Universal Peace union
in Philadelphia celebrated the tenth
anniversary of its foundation, together
with the centenary of the independ-
ence of the United States of America.
Some American officers then gave'their
swords for transformation into a pillow
as a symbol of peace. This pillow is
exhibited in the hall in which the
court of arbitration on the Alabama
question sat.
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pr. oliver u. Hart Sentenced.

Chicago, Dec. 30.-Dr. Oliver B. Hart.
son of a wealthy resident of St. Louis,
who pleaded guilty, two weeks ago, to
the murder of Irene Klokow, ten
years old, in his residence in Rogers
Park, last October, was sentenced, frl-
day, by Judge Barnes, in the criminal
court. to As years in the penitentiary.
A number of physicians who testlhed
at the trial agreed that he was not
mentally responsible and that he had
the mind of a boy O. about IL years OF
oUo
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aggregation or Chloroform.,

Atlantic City, N. j., Dec. 29.-Prof.
Alexander Johnson, secretary of the
National Charities conference, in ad-
dressing the state school teachers, sug-
gested that in the matter e defective
children, the easiest way to exterminate
this class was either segregation or
chloroform. He explained that the law
prohibited chloroform, but segregation
was permissible.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

It is the opinion Of DR.. Hunter Nc
CURE, Of Virginia, that tuberculosis
will exterminate the Negro race in
this country. The death rate Of the
Negro Is already twice that Of the
whites, as a whole, while in towns and
cities it is nearly three times as great,
and the proportion is constantly on the
increase
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

One of the discoveries recently made
that is of the greatest value to the
commercial and industrial world is
the demonstration by the government
geological survey that a ton of bitumi-
nous coal will produce two and a half
times as much power when put
through a gas producer as when
burned under a steam boiler.
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DEFALcATIoN GROWS LARGER
Daugherty May Have Made Way
With q Million.

Peoria, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-The defalcation
of N. G. Daugherty, chairman of the
school board, is growing larger daily.
A month ago it was estimated that $780,
600 would cover the shortage. 1t is
now learned from the authorities that
$500, 900 has been stolen inthe last three
years and that the total for seven years
is 5000, 900, with a strong possibility
that the total for the Is years of his
incumbency will go over 81 ,000, 900.
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Relation. Are strained.

London, Dec. 29.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Times reports that
the relations between Russia and Ger
many are distinctly strained, and that
there is a possibility of international
complications arising from the rebellion
In the Polish provinces.
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Gov. Wright May Resign.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Notwithstand.
ing repeated denials, it is well estab-
lished that Gov.-Gen. Luke E. Wright
will not return to the Philippines. It
Is said the administration will inter-
pose no objection to his resignation,
but will rather welcome 1t. Gen.
Wright's racial prejudices have Offend
ed the Filipinos.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
The Illinois Tax Rate.

Springfield, H., Dec. 27.-The tax
rate in Illinois for 1906 will be so cents
on the 500, according to a statement
made by State Auditor Mccullough, the
figures having been compiled from the
state board of equalization. This is five
cents less than that for 1905.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

Magnetic ore, or black oxide Of iron,
Is the richest of es. containing only
oxygen and iron, and yielding 70 per
cent. Of iron by weight. 1t is found
mainly in the older rocks, and in Eu-
rope the best form Of it is found in
Sweden. 1t exists also in Russia.
Canada and several of the American
states.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

Shipments of anthracite coal during
the month of September, which totaled
6,0S2,232 tons, showed an increase OF
over a million tons If compared with
q similar movement in 1904. During
the first nine months of 1905 ship
ments of this commodity reached q
total of $685. $40 tons, as compared
with 42,179, 1888 tons in 1904 and A..
O86, 293 tons in 1903.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

The postmaster general is in favor
of the revocation of the ranking priv
ilege. 1t is said to have cost the gov
eminent $~19,S22,O00 last year. Had
all the matter franked been paid for
at the regular postage rates, that much
more money would have come in.
But, of course, the free privilege was
the incentive to loading the mails.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

When President Loubet presented a
handsome typewriting machine, fitted
with the Persian alsphabet, to the shah
Of Persia, that suspicious monarch
feared 1t contained an evil spirit and
.2nd II Thoroughly tS.led.
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President Gordon Resigns.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The trustees
of Howard university (colored) have
accepted the resignation of President
John Gordon, to take effect at the end
of the present school year in May,
1906, and granted him a leave of alb
renee from January /, 1906, until the
school veal expires.
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Club women Fighting smoot.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs is preparing to
oyerwhelm the United States senate
with an avalanche of petitions, signed
by 1,0OO.O 900 people. for the unseating
of Senator Smoot, Of Utah.
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probably Fatally Injured.

st. Louis, Dec. 27.-Prof. Gustav
Hanback,, instructor of geology at
Washington university, was run doyn
by the wagon of Salvage Corps No. 1,
at Ninth and Pine stdeets, at six
O'Clock Tuesday evening, and sustained
injuries that probably will cause his
death.
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F,re at niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls, N. Y. Dec. 29.-Three
hotels and several other buildings ad-
1acent to them were badly damaged by
fire which broke out Thursday in q
grocery store in the basement of III
old Porter hotel. Loss. $149l.GG0.
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wnnaarfuI. ~ True.

Muskogee, /. T., Dec. 3o.-A new
gas well that excels anything OF its
Kind in the midcontinent field, II not
in the world, is reported from RAJ
mona. The daily now is estimated at
q, O0C. 900 cubic feet.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12
Alabama whites Kill Negroes.

Meridian, Miss, Dec. 29.-News Of q
fatal encounter between whites and
blacks in the interior of Choctaw coun-
ty, Ala, in which Kid George and Bob
Berry, negroes, were shot to death, has
reached here.
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oklahoma Town Has Fig Fire.

Lexington, Okla, Dec. 30.-Fire at
Fort Towson destroyed Wilson Bros.
mercantile establishment and some
smaller business concerns. wilson
Bros. sustained a loss ct $175,00o. half
covered by insurance.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

About n hundred years more will
be required to complete the work of
making a typographical map of the
country, which was begun by the
United States government in 1882.
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FOR JEWS.
Texas Zicnists Adopt Plan to Pre-
pare Home for Their Race.

Houston, Texas, Jan. 2-The Texas
Zionists today perfected an organiza-
ton of independent State association.
Endorsement was given the territorial
movement, and especial study is to be
given this plan, which in effect is to at
once provide a home for oppressed Jews
without awaiting the contamination Of
the Palestine colonization plan. There
was some advocacy of attempting set
Element of European Jews in Texas.
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KILLED BY WOMAN.
Oklahoma Business Man Shot While
Breaking Into Room.

Oklahoma City, Okla. Jan. miss
Barbara I'oxer today shot and killed
F. G. Clayton, a business man of this
city. The woman asserts that Clayton
attempted to assault her and she shot
in self-defense. Clayton, the woman as
serts, forced his way into her room,
when she fired. The bullet entered
Clayton's heart. Miss Toxer, who IS
25 years of age. was placed under arrest
pending an investigation.
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KNIGHTS OF I o
Holding Their Annual Convention
in st. Louis.

St. Louis, Jan. 1.-The eighth annual
convention of the Order Of Knights OF
Zion, which is the Western branch OF
the Federation of American Zionists,
opened today with ever $50 delegates
from all over the country, including
many distinguished Jews throughout
the West. The object Of the conven-
ton is to further the movement for the
re-possession of Palestine for the Jews
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policeman Arrested own Son.

Kansas City. Mo-, Dec. 2S.-Police-
man C. ]. Embree, Of Kansas City.
Kas., appeared at Central police sta
ton In custody of his own son. Will
liam Embree, wanted on q charge Of
murder.
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st. Louis, Dec. 2S.-The safe in the
post Office at Crystal City, Mo-, was
blown Wednesday morning, and a pri-
vate Waterman, who endeavored to
interfere, was shot in the leg. The
bandits secured little booty.
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Fratricide Exonerated.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 2S.--James
McClendon, a saloonkeeper, shot and
killed his brother The coroner's jury
pronounced the killing justifiable.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-12

The sawmills of the McCloud River
Lumber Co., near Redding, CAL,
closed for the winter recently, after
making a record seasons cut. 10000
600 feet.
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Mai. James c. Lacoste.

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 27.-Naj.
James c. Lacoste, a conferedate veter-
an. who took a prominent part in the
firing of the first guns at Fort Sumter,
died here, Tuesday, at the age of 65.
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FrigbtfuI SuicIdc.

Pcttsville, Pa, Dec. 27.-Despondent
over the recent death of his daughter,
George AaEan. so years old, threw
himself upon her grave and then ex-
ploded a stick Of dynamite on his chest.
The dynamite blew him into pieces.
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Ior shaving a customer with a razor
that had not been disinfected, a barber
ut Eisenach, Germany, has been sent
70 prison for a month.
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A Victim of Diabetes.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 27.-William S.
Thorn, assistant general passenger
agent Of the 500 line, died at his home
in this city. He had been suffering from
diabetes for the past four months. Mr..
Thorn had been connected with the 500
line for the past Is years.
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Murders and homicides decreased
more than 1000 in the United States
In the last ten years. Lynchings de.
creased one-half.
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Miss Mary ~Tillinghast, Of New York,
b one of the most successful design.
ers Of stained glass windows in Amer.
lca.

Prison statistics show that In this
country IL men to / woman are i'm
prisoned. In France 1t is s men to /
woman.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07
County Expenditures,

Our democratic friends have made
the remarkable discovery that it costs
more-much more-to run the county
now than it did twenty years ago;
that in practically every department
of county affairs there has been an
increase in expenses-and 1t is all
substantially true.
All this might have some weight if
it were not also true that during the
past twenty years the county itself
had not been growing in like proper
ton in wealth and necessities. The
work required of every Office and
every officer is vastly greater than it
was twenty years ago.
The fact is that while the amount of
the county tax and the amount of he
county expenditures have naturally
and OF necessity been increasing, the
rate of taxation-which is the real
measure OF the tax burden - ia no
greater now than it was then; indeed,
it was less in 1905 than it was in 1885
by l 10 mills,
In the light Of the facts, an appeal
to prejudice or a presumption of a
lack of intelligence on the part of the
voters of Hancock county is not
likely to avail much.
We venture to say that it would be
hard to find a more conservative,
careful, prudent, economical but not
parsimonious body of public officials
than the worthy gentlemen who have
been this county's commissioners dur
ing the past twenty years.
When if ever our democratic
friends wake up to the fact that in
wealth, prosperity, culture and pr g.
ress, this good old county of Hancock
is far and away ahead of where it was
twenty years ago, they may realize
that all these desirable things are
worth having and worth paying for.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07
OBITUARY.
MISS ELIZABETH CROSBY.

The many friends of Miss Eliza bet h
Crosby, who had spent many seasons here
and at Hancock Point with her sister, Mrs.
L. A. Emery, were shocked to hear Of her
death on Saturday last at her home in To-
peka, Kansas.
Miss Crosby was daughter of the late
Maj. John Crosby, of Hampden. Two
brothers, Daniel and John, went West
years ago-John, now dead, TO Minnesota,
Daniel to Kansas, and with him his sisters
Elizabeth and Sarah. Another sister,
Maria c., wife Of Abram Hammatt, had
preceded them to Kansas some fifteen
years.
Miss Crosby spent last summer with the
Emerys at Hancock Point, and came with
them to Ellsworth in the fall. She went
West shortly before Christmas. Death
followed short illness OF pneumonia.
The remains will be brought East for
interment in the family lot in Hampdep.
Miss Crosby was q woman of most
charming personality, and possessed a
keen intellect. Her many lovsble traits
OF character endeared her not only to her
immediate family but also to wide circle
OF friends and acquaintance.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07

In their frantic efforts to find some
thing tangible to attribute to repub-
lican mismanagement of our local
affairs our democratic friends are now
trying 70 make it appear that to col
lect back taxes and expend them for
the purposes for which they were
originally appropriated is crime.
This policy has resulted in giving the
taxpayers for the past three years
the lowest tax-rate for a generation,
and they are not kicking. Are we TO
understand that the democrats prom
Use to increase the rate, if given a
chance?
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07

The English Society for the Prevcntios of
t.onsum pti0n" presided over by the Prince OF
Wales. was ~ Gently addressed by Sir Willis IN
Brosdeent, VINO stated that Il was defiaitely
snown that every case OF consumption began
with germ communicated from some other
"a ThTrr Ia no such thiag a. inherited con
sumption. There may be local weakness which
tends to consumrtiop, but the germ has abso.
iut-ly 10 be lanted In that weak spot beforc
consumption can en-ue. This ought TO comfort
thousands of people who have "wezk chests"
or'weak lungs" They are not foreordainsd
victims of this dread disease. All that Is
n eded 10 bid absolute ted tncc to this deadly
-eourge, Is TO be able TO strengthen the weak
iangs aud build up strong body. The answer
20 this need IL found IN DIR Piefce's Golden
he'iical Discovery. IL so purld rs the blood and
increases the blood supply. that disease IL
thrown Cd. and the weak organs are nourisLed
IT, TO perfect hesth, which del es germs Of every
sind. People, given up by doctors, emaeiated
'lee,iir Z at the lungs, vita obstinate, unxertns
coughs, are being cured every day by the use OF
'Golien Medical Discovery. II Is a strictly
Il importance medicine, containing no alcohol
whisky or other insnxicant.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper VIII be pleased to
learn that there Is al least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in ali its
stages, and tnat is Catarrh. Halls Caiarrn
Cure Is the only positive cure now known 10
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con.
srtutional disease. requires a constitutional
treatment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter.
paily, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de.
stroying the foundation OF the disease. and
giving the patient strength by building up Inc
constitution and assisting nature in doing ia
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Us curative powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure. Send
for list Of testimonials.
Address n. J. CHENEY q CO.. Toledo n.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07
to $500 cords of wood, worth at least
81 per cord stumpage.

81 per cord stumpage.
Several lots were looked over by
men employed by the city for the pur-
pose; this particular lot was
deemed the best purchase, and $4,000
was paid for 1t. City notes, at 3 per
cent, were given in payment. Until
the notes are paid, the cost to the city
will be $50 year; the taxes amount
to about $40 per year-a total annual
cost of a round 500, and competent
judges estimate that the annual
growth on a lot of this size and gem
eral character will fully Offset this
cost to the city for interest and taxes.
1t costs the city nothing to cut and
haul the wood, all this being done by
the keeper of the poor farm, the city
being under contract, as it always has
been, only to supply the wood.
Why this transaction, which seems
to have been one of very ordinary
sort, should create, nearly two
years after it took place, such hub
bub as our democratic friends are try
ing TO raise can only be accounted for
by the straits they are in for campaign
thunder. The original transaction
was as open as the day; wood lot
owners knew the city was in the
market; several lots were under con-
sideration. The purpose OF the pur-
chase was we'll known, and the price
paid was fair market price.
The only mistake the board made
was in not purchasing it some months
before 1t did, when it was offered for
$500. But it is regarded as good
purchase at 5000; in fact, so good
that we can name at least two men
who stand ready to buy the lot at
any time the city wishes to dispose of
it at the price paid for it.
1t is further claimed that the city
has no business to buy wood lots any
how. Why not, pray? 1t has owned
one for years; it was only when the
wood was exhausted on this lot that
the idea of procuring another arose.
The attention that is being given to
this very ordinary business transac-
ton is out OF all proportion to its i'm
portance, and is simply one more
instance of how hard pushed the
opposition is in it's attempt to
show that this present administration
is neither prudent" nor "economi-
caF'