The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-01-18

& 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
vestigatlon OF the affairs OF DenisOn.
Prior a Co. Cleveland. held a meet.
ing and announced that the facts dis
closed justified them in stating that u
Is their belief that foreeries 10 the ex-
tent OF several hundred thousand dol.
lars exist.
l. W. Prior's personal safe (the
broker who committed suicide In
Cleyeland). In which he kept his pri-
vate papers and memoranda has thus
far dehed the efforts Of the investlgat
ing committee and OF safe experts who
have worked upon IT, II holds it's Sc
crets as safely guarded as does the
man who last closed its doors.
Parsons. Snyder 4 Co. stock and
grain brokers. with Offices in the Hol-
londen hotel. Cleveland. o.. made an
assignment 10 J. A. Smith, an attof-
ney. Parsons. Snyder & 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 Gnother's name. but used as
the place OF deposit for the valuablos
of Charles Augustus Seton. declared
TO be the perpetrator OF the Norfolk A.
Western stock counterfelting. 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.
tihcates OF the Norfolk & Westerii
railroad have been located in Buffalo.
They are Nos. $3.50 and SOIL, the for
mer for 80 shares and the latter for
100 shares. The Pinkerton men stick
to their assertion that the forgery Ia
wolves more than s2O00.00O.
Following a conference between
committees representing the Ohio In.
teruFban Railway association and the
Indiana Electric Railway association.
% was announced that the two asso-
Citations win be merged to form the
Central Electric Railway association.
Six children we're severely injured.
one possibly fatally, in a collision be
tween two heavily loaded bobsleds al
Des Moines. la.
After a day OF caucuses. Dr. Frank
r. Carson. OF South Bend. Ind. was
reelected president OF the Central
Baseball League.
A hre that originated In the four
story brick peanut factory OF the Nor
folk (VA) Storage Co. entirely de
siroyed that building. damaged the
east wing OF the jail and falling walls
crushed the whitehurst & Co. foundry
Ike an egg she'll. AT 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 10 pro
hibit the game OF football In Virginia
A penalty OF from $50 10 500 is pre-
scribed for each offense.
jenkins Burrows and Arthur VIII
iiams. two OF the three negroes con
victed OF the murder Of Julian Wilson
a prominent citizen OF williamsburg
county. we're hanged at Kingstree. s
c. Robert Scott convicted OF the
crime. was resplted for 30 days.
Acting under instructions Of Judge
Audenried. the Jury acquitted John W
Hin. Cincinnatian. the former chief OF
the bureau OF filtration. Philadelphia
on all the indictments which charged
him with forgery and taisifying the
records OF his bureau.
p. J. Hughes. a money lender was
convicted OF the charge OF usury by
Jury az Kansas City. J. II. William
son charged that he borrowed $40 from
Hughes two years ago and had paid
SCI In interest and still owed Hughes
$40.
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 win leave San Do
mingo city on board the United States
gunboat Dubuque. bound for Porto
Rico
Aurello Herrera. OF Bakersfield. Cal.
knocked cut Young Corbett In the NTH
round at Los Angeles. Cal.
A correspondent OF the Giornale al
Italia says Mr.. White. the American
and delegate to the con
ference at Algeclras. declared he was
sure peace would be maintained.
Gable dispatches from Trinidad
state that there are persistent reports
at Port OF Spain that the French
squadron has sailed from Guadeloupe
for Trinidad. Il Is said the French
ships had been sighted passing St.
Lucia
Friends OF Representative Jesse
Overstreet. of indianapolis, have
started boom for him for chairman
of the republican congressional cam
paign committee. to succeed Repre-