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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

space than have at my disposal, and
shall. therefore, state that the Wat
sons" were found to have been the Bal
lard brothers-Thomas George and
John. In all the annals OF counterfeit
ing in the United States the name of
Thomas Ballard must stand out most
prominent, and | shall take the liberty
of telling enough about this remarka-
BILE criminal character to give my read
ers some conception of his importance
in ''koniacKing" history.
Fist, let not the members of the
masonic fraternity be shocked when
say that Thomas Ballard, at the sum
NIT of his success as a counterfeiter,
was the master of Park lodge, A. F. &
A. M, in New York city. He came of
good family, never smoked a cigar nor
took drink of intoxicating liquor,
was married to an estimable woman,
and, like many of his kind, was model
family man." He was born in New
York state in 1910, and learned the
trade of fancy carriage painting. When
18 years old he went to work for Henry
Hinman, a wealthy carriage builder of
New York city, and related by marriage
to Joshua D. Miner, prominent New
York politician and city contractor.
Hinman observed the genius of young
Ballard and Induced him to learn the
trade of banknote engraving, at which
he served four years.
Aided by Miner Ballard obtained val
liable information from the engraving
department of the government. In 1862
Ballard produced for Miner and Henry
G. Cole plate of the one dollar United
States treasury. His next was plate
of the two-dollar bills of the National
Shoe & Leather bank, of New York.
From that he went to $40 counterfeits
of three national banks of Poughkeep-
sic, the $40 bill of the Shoe & Leather
bank, and then to the 500 and $500
'old issue" United States treasury
notes.
Ballard had a comfortable residence
at No 225 West Fifty-third street, and
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

which fact accounts for the frequency
with which l encountered the assumed
family name of the Ballards while try
ing to identify the man who had been
arrested in Vandalia. The st. Paul con-
tingent of counterfeiters had in their
possession, it was afterward found, the
Poughkeepsie and Peakskill plates that
had been made in the east by Ballard
and had issued money from them.
There was no evidence that the Bal
lards accomplished much in the line of
producing "coney" while in the west.
1t is only fair that | here call atten-
tion to the fact that from this point
any credit accruing to the secret serv-
ice for the ultimate discovery Of the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

of confiscating these plates, $8, 900 in rep
resentative currency and counterfeiting
press, inks and paper. 1 do not know
what became of the other five sets of
plates after the Ballards buried them.
My information concerning the burial
of these plates came to me from a man
who may yet be living. He had my word
that | would never make public the
source of this information, and to re-
veal his identity might, even at this re.
mote day, result in dire consequences
to him. For be it remembered, there are
some bits of secret service history which
cannot be written without violation of
sacred agreements, even after the lapse
of 30 years.
THE END.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
Myra Kelly as a Car Full.

Miss Myra Kelly, the writer of East
side stories of New York life, relates
this story of a gentleman's politeness
to her:
THE car was entirely empty, with the
exception of the one man, and his con.
dition was exactly the reverse. AS | en-
tered he arose. made me an unsteady but
magnificent bow, and said: Madam
please be kind 'nough toasshept thish
plashe. There was nothing else for me
10 do, SO | thanked him and sat down
For 20 blocks the IDIOT hung from q
strap, with not soul in the car but our.
selves.
Il have been taken for another won.
ma, but never before had anyone think
| was car full. Boston Herald.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
Let Her Go.

How did Smiths wife come to leave
him."
1T was all her fault"
But how?"
why she told Smith that II he Gl1
not get her the bonnet she had set her
heart on she would go home to her
mother"
why did he not get it for herr"
'He would have gotten it for her il
she hadn't made that threat. .'-Hous.
ton Post
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
Another Version.

Jack was just about to build his ia
nous house.
why don't you get some men to
help you?" asked cruious friend.
mo, sir" replied Jack, they would
call strike on me before the house
was finished. I'll build it myself"
Thus we know why the house was
Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
A Confident Forecaster.

"The weather bureau needs jes' one
thing" said the man who walks with
a cane.
"Why they have a wonderfully COM
plete scientific equipment"
Eyes But they ought to have a
man with the rhumatism up there to
tell 'em dead sure when it's going to
rain. Washing Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
Friendships Tribute.

Didn't the wedding go off nicely!"
exclaimed Miss Sweetun, enthusi-
astically.
Yes" said Miss Tartun, except
that poor, dear Fan needn't have been
quite so prompt in making her re-
sponses. She hadn't the slightest rea-
son to fear that Jack would repent
and back out when she had him actu-
ally at the altar. Chicago Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
Parental Solicitude

maria, who is that young chap
that's coming to see Bessie?"
His name is Hankinson. He seems
to be all right"
"Do you consider him a safe young
man."
Bessie does. She says he's in good
circumstances and has been operated
on for appendicitis" Tri.
bune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

residence on a farm near Clear Lake,
la. They assumed the family name Of
Watson, and. naturally. fell into asso-
citation with the counterfeiters oper-
ating in the northwest. They became
acquainted with the Boscobel and ST.
Paul gangs, and with Frank Conway,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
By CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL

copyright 1905. by Marion G. Scheitlin.l
The further identification of Conway
was simple matter. | found he had
affiliated with counterfeiters for many
years, and in 1876 had been arrested
for horse stealing and convicted, car
rying his case to the supreme court.
After securing his freedom on bail he
had disappeared from his Wisconsin
hauntS. He had been an associate of
the mysterious Watson brothers," and
had visited them at their farm at Clear
lake. Further than this he had been
closely connected with a band of ''ko-
niackers" that made headquarters in
st. Paul. In short, the connection be-
tween the "Watsons," Conway, the Bos-
cobel gang and the st. Paul counterfeit
ers was found to be very close, al
though the theft of the team of horses
in Watseka county, Minnesota, was the
only fact discovered that could be used
against Conway at the forthcoming
trial.
The defense of Conway at the trial
was that Charles Scott" whom he sub
poenaed, had given him the bill. Scott
he had been arrested, and said after his
arrest he had come to Chicago and then
gone to New York, assuming the name
of l.. c. Lavaree. He remained in New
York year, he said, and then returned
to Wisconsin.
His defense ayailed him nothing and
he was sentenced to serve five years In
the meantime the case in Parsons,
Kan, had been made and he served
another five years for that offense
Subsequently he was given another five
years for horse stealing.
With Conway settled" in the peni-
tentiary an investigation was made to
determine the identity of the WAT
sons While it had not been proved,
there was little doubt that Conway had
gone east for the purpose of establish
ing connection with one of the bands
of counterfeiters which Infested the
Atlantic seaboard, that he had formed
such connection and that he had un-
dertaken to shove" some of the "co-
ney" that was being issued by them.
To a secret service man it was also
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
sentence containing the
A Premature Discussion.

Miss Flighty-Have you decided to
take any part in the discussion, "What
will we do in Heaven?"
Good Minister-No, miss. l am at
present much more interested in the
question, What shall we do to get
there?"-N. Y Weekly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
The Ratio.

The statesman strives to be exact,
His zeal, he'll ne'er restrain it.
1t takes day to state a fact
And thirty to explain it.
Washington Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

Molly-Cholly's fool!
Dolly-What kind of a fool.
Aolly-The kind thai would say
Thank you" for a kiss.-Clevelan
Leader.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26
No Trouble.

What is the meaning of alter
ego?'" asked the teacher of the be-
ginners' class in Latin.
''The other I, said the boy with the
curly hair.
Give a sentence containing the
phrase"
He winked his other I."-Chicago
Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
CHILD TERRIBLY BURNED.
Matches While Alone and May
Die as Result.

LONE ROCK, Wis. March 6.-ISpe
cal. - The 3-year-od daughter of
Nathan Schoonover may die from ter
rible burns received while playing with
matches. The little girl locked herself
in room in the second story Of the
house and lighted several matches. Her
screams were heard by Il brother, who
rushed upstairs, but could not get into
the room. Securing assistance. the door
was broken down and the child was
found with her clothing nearly burned
off. She may recover. The age Of the
girl makes her condition serious
ARCADIA, Wis, March 6.--Emil Flu
CINE. aged 30 years, Il merchant was
burned to death in the sight of a num-
Der of customers. his clothing catching
fire from n stove near which he stood.
Fuginc rushed into a neighboring barn,
which caught fire from his burning
clothes and was partly destroyed. He
was member of the well known Flu
CINE family of Fountain City, rela-
lives of District Attorney Fugne of But
talu county, and Of others who are NOR
chants and steamboat owners at Foun-
tain City. He had Il large acquaintance
III Trempcaleau, La Crosse, and Buffalo
counties
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
FREE HIDE BILL LOST?
Representative Minor Writes Green Bay
Man That No Measure Will
Be Reported.

GREEN BAY, Wis, March CT Spe-
cial There Is no prospect of the sched-
uled raise in the prices of shoes being
averted by the removal of the tariff on
hides, according to a letter from Con
gresham f.. S. Minor, received by Ma
than Saubei of this city, in reply tc
request that the congressman use his
vote to further the measure. In reply
Congressman Minor wrote:
Answering yours of February Il. | desire
to say that | have no Information that
would lead to believe that a bill will be re
ported from the Ways and Means commit
tee, putting hides on free list,
Senator SpOOner answered Il like in
curry through his secretary rs follows;
I am directed by senator Spooner to ac
knowledge receipt of your favor of the lItl
inst. relative to the question of free hides
and 20 say that the matter VIII have hi,
careful attention,
Senator La Toilette answered in per
son as follows:
Replying to your communication of tho
18th Of February, | beg TO assure you thai
tn" Free Hide bill and every ,hing submitted
with respect to it, will have my most care
full consideration
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
FLOOD OF MONEY
IS merchants BANE.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TORNADO SUE
FERERS OVERWHELMING WHILE
NOTHING Is NEEDED.
Soldiers Guard Gangs of Convicts Who
Are Making Order of Chaos in
Mississippi Town.

MERIDIAN, Miss, March 5.-The
work of gangs of convicts brought from
the state farm at Rankin, and from the
city prisons, AS well as thousands of
citizens, in clearing away the debris of
the tornado of Friday night. continued
all last night without interruption, cor
don of soldiers being drawn around the
places where the work was going on to
prevent the crowds from interfering with
the progress of operations
The main efforts of a ma jority of the
workers were confined to the ruins OF
the Meyer Neville Hardware company S
store where several dead bodies have
been taken out in the last two days.
The relatives OF several missing persons
fear their loved ones are still lying be
Meath the debris.
Offers of assistance and drafts Tor
financial aid have been reaching the re-
lief committee so rapidly that refusal
was hardly possible. 1t is again an
nounced that money is not needed for
relief purposes, the people of Meridian
being amply able to take care of them
selves.
The list of casualties as result of
Friday evenings tornado remains I'M
changed, twenty-six dead and forty-siN
injured. The suffering among the poorer
classes has been found to be much great
or than at first supposed
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
JUDGE 0'NEILL ON
THE JUDICIAL RACE.
DEGREES WHAT HE DEEMS A PAR.
TISAN CAMPAIGN FOB THE SU-
PREME COURT BENCH.
Accuses Friends of Certain Candidate
Prefers Present Place if He Must
Fight for the Other.

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.
March 6.-[ Special. because the fight
for the supreme bench is taking on the
aspect of political strife in his view
Judge O'Neill of the Seventeenth circuit
candidate against W. III. Timlin of Mil
waukee and ii. Ii. Grace of Superior,
says:
II very much regret the action of Ger
tain over-zealous friends of Il leading
candidate in this race, who are endeav-
oring to help his cause through partisan
methods. | charged the committee
which is looking after my candidacy to
do nothing that could be construed as
partisan work.
Il would rather remain where l am
than gain seat on the supreme bench
through fierce party strife Some of my
most earnest supporters and wafmest
personal friends are Democrats.
Il was elected to the bench of this
circuit by a united people and l think
too much of the good will of my sup
porters to allow my cause to take on
what can be construed as partisanship
in any sense"
Robert NJ. Bashford of Madison and
Louis Hanitch of Superior have with
drawn because of the political aspect OF
the race, but Judge O'Neill will stay.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
The Best Guaranty of Merit
Is Open Publicity.

Every bottle of DR.. Perce's world
famed medicines leaving. the great labo-
ratory at Buffalo, n; Y, has printed
entering into its composition. This fact
alone places DR.. Plerces Family Medi-
cnes IN q class all by themselves. They
cannot be classed with patent or secret
medicines because they are neither. This
IS why so many unprecedented physicians
prescribe them and recommend shem TO
their patients. They know what they
are composed Of, and that the ingredients
are those endorsed by the most eminent
medical authorities.
The further fact that neither DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the
great stomach tonic, liver invigorator,
heart regulator and blood purifier nor his
rFavorte Prescription for weak, over
worked, broken-down, nervous women,
contains any alcohol, also entities them
to a place all by themselves.
Many years ago, DR.. Pierce discovered
that chemically pure glycerine. of proper
strength, is better solvent and preServ-
alive OF the medicinal principles resid-
ing in our Indigenous or native. medi-
cinal plants than is alcohol; and, further
more, that it possesses valuable medicinal
properties of its own, being demulcent
nutritive, antiseptic, and most efficient
antiferment.
Neither of the above medicines con-
taIlS dIColIoI, OF any udFDilul- NGOlI-
forming drug, as Will be seen from n
glance at the formula printed on each
bottle wrapper. They are safe to use and
potent to cure.
Not only do physicians prescribe tho
above non-secret medicines largely. bat
the most intelligent people employ them
people who would not think Of using
the ordinary patent, or secret medicines.
Every ingredient entering into the com
position of DR.. Pierce's medicines has
the strongest kind Of an endorsement
several schools of practice. No other
medicines put up for like purposes has
any such professional endorsement.
Dr.. Perce'S Pleasant Pellets curc con-
stipatiOn. Constipation is the cause Of
many diseases. Cure the cause aud you
cure the disease. One pellet" il gentle
laxative. and two mild cathartic. Drug
giSts sell them, and nothing is "just as
good Easy to take as candy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
GROCER Is BUNCO VICTIM.
Sheboygan Man Pays $3.50 for Express
Package of Old Papcrs-Gar-
nishces for Money.

SIIEBOYGAN. Wis, March Ct Spc-
ciuL IA New York bunco game may
cost Frank Leugfold, a grocer Of this
city, 500. Mr.. Lengfeld paid the money
for G. .. j.. express package filled
with railroad folders and old newspa-
pcrs, but stopped the remittance tempo
rariiy by means of n garuishcc proceed
inES against the express company. He
was induced to buy n model" he says,
through an advertisement in the Chicago
Sunday newspapers. lie got the pack
age Of old papers instead
Mr.. Lengtcd was notified that there
was package waiting for him with
500 g. q. d. charges attached. He
handed oyer tie money and took the
package home \ short time aftcrward
he came back, declared the package con.
tanned nothing but waste paper, and de-
uaudod his money.
Express rnmittanccs are not made nm
til night, so the cash was still in the
office. But Agent Anderson had no au-
th0rty To- return the money. Mr. Lcug-
ielG secured 81 garuishcc on the cX-
press company stopping the remittance.
The package was sent by "Abucr b.
Grant, PIG West 10th street New
York" Judge Gibju set the hearing for
Marsh -. Mr.. LcngGcld refused to tell
further details of the swiudc
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
EX-ALDERMAN PAYS FINE.
to Three Bribery Charges-Mor-
gan to Be Sentenced.

GREEN BAY, Wis, March 6.-Pleas
of guilty in three graft cases We're en-.
tered by former Aid. George }.
Schwartz, who previously confessed one
bribery charge and paid a tine of $1,000
Fines of $500 in each of two bribery
eases and nominal fine Of 81 on a charge
of malfcasancc in office were imposed by
Judge Hastings yesterday and promptly
paid. Two of the indictments charged
Schwartz with taking small brides from
sewer contractors and the third allega.
ton was changing sewer bids in commit
tee to favor Il certain contractor. Two
more cases against Schwartz charging
subornation Of perjury are scheduled for
immediate trials today.
Former AID. Edward Il. Morgan, who
pleaded guilty to bribery, will be sen
fenced this week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
Organized Faculty in 1894.
MISS WOODRUFF'S CASE.
Her Father Tells of Courtship Of Amigo
Man in Iowa-Knew Nothing of
First Marriage.

AMIGO, Wis, March G.--,1udge Par
sons, accompanied by District Attorney
Hay, are in Chicago, where Judge Par
sons will appear as a witness in the
trial of +, T. Clcsg, accused Of bigamy.
If necessary Mrs. L. r. Clegg Of this
city will 50 also,
A letter received from \. l.. Wood
ruff of Sumner, L., cXonerates the al
legged Mrs. Clcgg No. =. He states that
+. I. Clegg first met Jessie W Oodrut
at Milwaukee, when Miss Woodruff was
stenographer in the st. Charles hotel in
the fall of 1904. Miss Woodruff was
favorably impressed and wrote her faith
er about him. Mr.. Woodruff made in
quiries in regard TO Mr. Clegg through
the bank at Sumner, and they CORE
sponded with the banks of this city. and
the replies were favorable Miss Wood
ruff w.lt home for the holidays, and
on June /, 1903. Mr.. Clegg visited her,
remaining about three days.
1t was at this time that they were en-
gagged. During the summer of 1905 he
was a frequent visitor at the Woodruff
home. The marriage took place at the
home Of A. Il. Woodruff on October Z,
1908.
During CIegg's second courtship and
after he was married he wrote letters
home. He always pleaded poverty and
told his wife that it took all his ready
money to operate his oil well, and that
he was very economical; that his meals
cost him 10 cents a day. He also wrote
her that She had better dispose of any
unnecessary furniture. That he would
soon secure ii fiat in Chicago. and that
she ana the family would remove there.
TINS was about holiday time.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08

RUINS SOON IN FLAMES
Largest Loss of Life Is Among Colored
People--Wisconsin Towns Are IN
Danger from Floods,

MERIDIAN. Ala, March 3.-The list
of dead from last nights tornado mum
.bers nineteen with one missing aud per
.haps several bodies under the debris
The number of injured is about nifty
The miltia is keeping the crowds back
while the search of the ruins progresses.
The citizens today organized relief work.
COY. VardamaH said the state viii ana
upon his arrival here
Property Loss Estimated at S5,ooo,ooo.
MERIDIAN, Miss. March "a tor
nado in the yukc Of which followed
death, fire and property loss in q snm
hardly to be estimated early today, de-
sceudcd shortly after 6 O'Clock last night
and plowed pathway from the south
rrn 10 the eastern suburbs Of the city.
The property loss is conseryatlyeIy es-
timated at $J,0UU,0OO.
At > o'clock this morning the city was
in darkness, and the local guards by the
light of camp fires and candles We're
patrolling an area of debris aud wreck
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
Couldn't Give Cash AWAY.

After vainly trying to give away
S1O39 to q fellow passenger on Il street
car, Christopher Fangrow, a stockmau
of Shawnee Kan, was arrested at Kan
sas City, Mo-, for safekeeping. He was
very drunk and highly indignant that
no one would accept the bulky roll Of
bills he was, flourshing about his head
Fangrow went to town with a car Of
stock and disposed of them at the stock
yards. One morning he started out alone
to see the city. On boarding a Roanoke
car down town he offered his money to
every passenger. His son-in-law called
at the police station and promised to de-
liver Fangrow and his bundle of money
at his home in Shawnee
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-08
MAYOR SHOOTS TWO DOGS
TOmahawk Lad Attacked by Animals and
Executive Saves Him from Pos
sible Death with Rifle

TOMAIlAWK. Wis, March CT Spc-
rial Two large dogs attacked the &
ycar-old son of Clarence Knagg on the
main street Of the city and the boy would
have been hndly hurt but for the inter
ference Of Judge sheldon, who was pass
ing. Mayor Ihielman saw the attack
from his office window and grabbing his
Winchester dispatched the animals. The
mayor made the following statement:
Il am sorry ! was compelled to kill the
animals, because they were someone =
pets. ! am Il grent lover of dogs, but |
do not propose to let them infringe upon
the rights Of my people, II | ever see
another person attacked, my rifle will
again be put in use.
The lad is seriously injured. II is not
thought, however that the animals were
rnhid.
LA CROSSE, Wis, March CT Spc-
Cinl "A mad dog attacked Aid. Harry
Palmer District Attorney otto Bosshard
aud several pedestrians, but the injuries
are not serious. The animal was killed.