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New-York tribune., 1906-11-18
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VAUDEVILLE
By Franklin p. Adams

We're the youngest OF our parents only chill
Oh, we are the confectionery boysl
How we love TO dance and sIngi
[Brcak-doau ,oith drnm obligdtol
We're as happy as king.
[Same
We are handsome, we are witty,
If we only had a chance,
And with YOUR kind attention
Hands OF each others shoulders aud three steps
VIII try to do a little dance,
[Dance.l
BIFF-That was swell girl seen You with
last night
STIFF-A nelygunt lady.
BIFF-Lovely girl.
STIFF-She cert ny was.
BIFF-Looked like a plate o prunes.
STIFF-She looked like plate o pr Nav,
she didn't look like a plate o prunesl
BIFF-O' course not.
STIFF-Whv, OF course not
BIFF-She looked like fire escape.
STIFF-She looked ike fire csc Nav,
she didn't! Say, l wunchu t distinctly
understan' that my sister IS a handsome
BIFF-Is she still drivin' that coal wagon?
wagon Ny sister don't work.
BIFF-She don't have to.
- ! ri curse she Gon nave TO!
BIFF-She gets her hats fer nothn'.
STIFF-You bet she does
BIFF-S'pose the floor walker finds it out?
STIFF-Say, look here! l wunchu t dis
timely understan' that my sister is
honest girl!
STIFF" Neither IS he" Say, YOU talk like
a fish,
BIFF-I got a lovely black bass voice
STIFF-kin you sing!
BIFF-Nou win the chocolate creams.
STIFF-What IS your voice.
BIFF-It's a nuisance.
STIFF-Say, you're a bright young feller;
amt you. Been to college,
BIFF-Sure, | used to pick Yale locks.
STIFF-Maybe If you're so smart you kin
tell me somethin.
BIFF-I kin tell you more n You ever dreamed
STIFF-Maybe you kin answer me a conun-
drum
BIFF-Let 'er gazazzam.
STIFF-Well, what IS the difference between
a young man who calls on his girl till
two o'clock in the morning and the city
OF Albany?
BIFF-What?
STIFF-You heard me, all right.
BIFF-I know | heard you, but the usher
likes to hear you talk.
STlFF-Wen, | prognostcated, What IS the
difference between a young man who calls
on his girl till two O'Clock in the morning
and the city OF Albany?"
BIFF-That's cert'n'y a tough one. What is
the difference between young man who
calls on his girl till two o'clock IN the
morning and the city of Albany
STlFF-One stays up late and the other lays
up State.
BIFF-Huhl Maybe YOU kin tell me one:
What IS the difference between a trolley
car and apple,
STIFF-One goes by electricity and he other
you bake IN PIE.
BIFF-That's right didn't think you
knew it. ITO orchestra leaderl Perfesser,
If YOU please
SoNG: BIFF AND STIFF
A young girl once was sitting in
An elegant hotel
She ordered luncheon for to eat
In that cafe so swell.
The waiter he did bring II in.
She started for 20 eat;
For she quite hungry was although
She was so fair and sweet.
Key changes here 10 nlinor.l
Fer long the meal was finished.
The bill" she then did say.
The waiter brought it and did wait
For her that bill TO pay
She said Il have no money,
Nor even a diamond ring
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
g. S. M'REYNOLDS
DECLARED GUILTY
Mortgaged Grain from
Elevator.

Chicago. Dec. 19.-GeOrge S. Mercy
nolds, recently a prominent dealer in
grain and in the elevator business, was
yesterday convicted of obtaining money
from different banks in Chicago on
fraudulent warehouse receipts The
particular indictment upon which Nc
Reynolds was tried charged him with
removing about 1000 bushels of grain
from an elevator in South Chicago,
when the corn had been pledged as Sc
curity for money loaned him by the
Corn Exchange National bank. Alto
gether it was charged that McReynolds
disposed of grain valued at more than
100000 on which he had borrowed
money from a number of local banks.
Several of these lost more than $780,
900 each through the alleged manipu-
lation OF McReynolds.
The offense of which McReynolds
was convicted is punishable by inn
prisOnment in the penitentiary from
one TO ten years
Pending the hearing of a motion for
a new trial McReynolds was released
on $4,000 bonds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
THE DAY IN CONGRESS

Washington, Dec. 19.-Following is a
summary of the work done in congress
yesterday:
SENATE-Many minor bills from the
calendar were passed without objec-
ton. among them one providing for a
child labor investigation by the depart
ment of commerce and labor.sand one
authorizing a loan of $1,000s0ae to the
jamestown exposition. The Stlrgent de-
hciency appropriation bill was passed.
\ message from the president on the
japanese question was read Adjourned.
was passed. District of Columbia bus
mess and the reading of the presidents
message occupied the remainder of the
session. Adjourned until today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
FUNCTION TO NURSE
GUBERNAT0RIAL BOOM
Of Illinois Gives congratuIa-
tory Banquet at Wash
ington.

Washington. Dec 10. - Representa-
tive Mckinley of Illinois gave dinner
last night in honor of James S. Sher-
man, Vice Chairman James A. Tawney.
and Secretary II. c. Loudenslager Of
the republican congressional committee.
The decorations were on an elaborate
scale. The guests, so i'm number, in
cluded Vice President Fairbanks.
Speaker Cannon, Secretary Shaw. and
many members of both houses of con-
gress. Speaker Cannon officiated as
toastmaster. Speeches of congratula-
tion over the last election were made
by the vice president, Representatives
Watson of Indiana and Dalzell of Penn
sylvania, and others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
NO. 80 IN A WREC K
Rock Island Train DeraiIed AND
Overturned Near Culli-
son, Kan.
SEVEN PERSONS INJURED
Spreading Rails Supposed to Have
Been Cause-Srone of the
Victims.

Hutchinson, Kan, Dec. 19.-Rock Is
land passenger train No. so, was de
rallied at Cullison, south of Hutchin
son. early today. The whole train left
the track and two cars and the engine
turned over. Seven persons were
injured, some of them more or less
seriously.
Caused by Spreading Rails.
The wreck is believed to have been
caused by spreading rails. The injured
were brought to the Hutchinson hospi-
tai. The most seriously hurt was the
Pullman conductor. Among the injured
are the following:
Mrs. E. NJ. Lecerne. Keokuk, Iowa.
Lee Lecerne, ]. ID. Blunt, Chicago.
l.. NJ Ransom, Ell Paso.
c. E. DTalle. Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
GUNSMERE MEETS REBUFF
American Minister Affronted by Repre-.
sentative of Raisui.

Tangier. Dec. 10 American Minis
ter Gummere in protesting to Ben Ran
sour, representative of the bandit Raj
suli. against the beating of a pative
boy by adherents of Raisuli of which
Gummere was an eyewitness, received
a most arrogant response. Gummere
thereupOn retired in order not to exag-
gerate the incident. The sultan's re-
ply to the collective note of the dip
lomatic corps says it is his intention to
suppress the disorders. He regrets the
abuse of authority by Raisuli, and ex-
presses a firm desire for the execution
of the reforms decided upon by the
Algeciras conference. In reply to the
sultan's answer, the diplomatic corps
demanded Raisuli's de-
partuTe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
President Takes Part of
Energetic Georgia
Sheriff.
HAS FAT JOB FOR HIM
Rewarded for Defending a Ne
gro Whites Were Bent
on Lynching.

Washington. Dec. 19.-The following
letter was given out at the White
house today:
Dear Mr.. BOnaparte-Some three
years ago Sheriff J. l.. Merrill of Car
roll county Ga. lost his chance for re-
election by his action i'm beating off n
mob of several hundred white people
who were trying to take a negro out of
Jail and put him to death. Merrill and
the deputies fired on the mob, killing
and wounding several men and beating
the others off. Because of this he was
defeated for reelection.
Called To Notice.
Congressman Adamson brought the
matter TO my attention, saying he hat
ed TO see a man who had done such
service as public official defeated be-
cause of the fact that he had rendered
service. He told me Governor Terrell
had offered Merrill a place. the best he
had to give, which carried a salary of
$50 per month.
Could "Deat Tint"
q told the congressman / thought
could beat that and got him place at
81 200 a year as custodian of grounds
of the federal prison at Atlanta. / hear
he has done we'll If he has done well,
can't we give him a promotion?
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney
General"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
BURN BUILDING
TO HIDE ROBBERY
One Cremated in MiddletoWn, Ohio,
Hotel and others Have Mar
row Escapes.

Middletown, Ohio, Dec ia fire,
which it is said. was started TO hide
traces of robbery and a possible muir
der. destroyed the Rommell house here
yesterday afternoon. c. T. Powers,
proprietor of the hotel. was found
bound and gagged near the door of
the furnace in the basement, and was
saved from a probable death by the
firemen. Earl Albertson, boarder,
was cremated in his room and several
other boarders had narrow escapes.
Powers had been hit on the head and
rendered unconscious.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
WITHIN AUTHORITY IN DISCHARGNG TROOPS
nj o as Result of

Washington, Dec. 10 President
Roosevelt today sent to the senate the
report of the officers who investigated
the Brownsville riot, as a result of
which the members of Companies B, c.,
and ID of the 25th infantry (colored)
were discharged. The report was in
response to resolutions passed since
the beginning of the present session of
congress and addressed to the presi-
dent and the secretary of war.
Had Full Authority.
In presenting the report the presi-
dent says:
Il ordered the discharge of nearly all
the members of Companies b, c, and
d of the 25th infantry by name, in the
exercise of my constitutional power and
in pursuance of what, after full con-
sideration, | found to be my constitu-
tional duty as commander-in-chief of
the United States army. l am glad to
avail myself of the opportunity afforded
by these resolutions to lay before the
congress the following facts as to the
murderous conduct of certain members
of the companies in question and as to
the conspiracy by which many of the
other members of these companies saw
ed the criminals from justice, to the
disgrace of the United States uniform.
Investigation Fair.
81 call your attention to the accom-
panying reports of Major Augustus P.
Blocksom, of Lieutenant Colonel Leon
ard A Lowering, and of Brigadier Gen.
eral Ernest A. Darlington, the inspector
general of the United States army, of
their Investigation into the conduct of
the troops in question. An effort has
been made to discredit the fairness of
the investigation into the conduct of
these colored troops by pointing out
that General Darlington is southerner.
Precisely the same action would have
been taken had the troops been white
indeed, the discharge would probably
have been made in more summary
fashion. General Darlington is ma
tive of South Carolina; Lieutenant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
Bishop M'Cabe Succumbs
to Attack at New
York.
LEADEROF METHODISTS
Famous as War Chaplain and
In Church Extension
Work.

New York, Dec. 19.-Bishop Charles
C. McCabe of the Methodist Episcopal
church died in a New York hospital
carly today Death was due to apo
plexy with which the bishop was strick-
en- several days ago while passing
through the city on the way to his
home in Philadelphia. Mrs. McCabe
and the bishops niece were at the bed
side when the clergyman passed away.
Story of Career.
Bishop McCabe was born at Athens, o.,
Oct II, 1886. He entered the Ohio
conference of the Methodist church in
1860, and two years later became chap
lain of the 122nd Ohio infantry. He
was captured in the battle of Winches-
ter and spent four months in Libby
prison. His experiences as a prisoner
of war were later recounted on the lee
ture platform.
known Chaplain.
For more than 80 years he was pop
ularly known as Chaplain McCabe," ;"
and the title clung to him even after
the general conference of the Methodist
church in 1896 made him bishop.
Following the war he became pastor
of a church at Portsmouth, Ohio, and
later associated as assistant secretary
with the board of church extension.
Originated RaIlying Cry.
While engaged in church extension
work he originated the rally cry, I'VE
are building a church every day"
His success as a money raiser was
He was singer, and his songs were
the feature of his pleas for funds. He
was chosen chancellor of the American
at Washington, Dec. 10, 1902
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
Policy Holders Dispute
With Insurance :.
Officials
BaIIoting as Heavy as When an
Ordinary State
Votes.

New York, Dec. 19.-Never before
in the history of the country has there
been anything TO compare with the
election yesterday of trustees for the
New York Life and Mutual Life Insur-
ance companies. In the number of
ballots cast and expenditure of time
and money the election approached
that of one of the state. Certainly
no corporation or society election ever
measured up to it in magnitude or in
terest
The total vote cast by both COM
panies approximate 100000, of which
about 100000 will be in the New York
Life, in which the contest has been
waged. 1t is expected it will be some
weeks before the votes are counted
and the results known.
Had No Opposition.
The Equitable Life Assurance soci-
ETY.. the Mutual Reserve Life Insur-
ance company, and the Security Mu-
tual of Binghamton also held elections
but as there was no opposition the
elections of their administration tick
cts were but perfunctoTy proceedings.
Officials of both the New York Life
and Mutual companies declared last
night that the administration tickets
had without doubt been elected by
large majorities.
:. The international policy holders
committee. through Samuel Inter
myer, national counsel, expressed the
conviction that the reform tickets
would win in both companies, but by
comparatively close margins.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
OPPOSE PERSHING
Enemies of Brigadier General in
Army Dig Up His Past
Life
TO PREVENT PROMOTION
Said to Have Lived With Filipino
Woman During Service in
Islands.

Manila Dec. 19-The Manila Amer
ican publishes the results of an investi-
cation made by its reporters into the
career of Brigadier General John J.
Pershing while he was a captain serY-
ing on the island of Mindanao. The
American asserts he then lived with Il
Filipino woman, Joaquina Bondoy Ig-
naciO, who bore him two children. One
child died in the cholera epidemic of
1902.
The other, who is named Petronilla,
and is Az years old, lives with her
mother in Zamboanga. The mother is
now the legal wife of William Shinn.
a clerk in the Moro government head
quarters. JOaquina declares that Pc
tronilla was born July II, 1902, and
that Pershing is her father.
Says Money was offered.
Shinn charges that an emissary of
General Pershing approached Joaquina
in the spring of this year with an offer
of $50 a month as hush money. She
refused to accept, saying that Pershing
always had been kind to her and that
she would not expose him.
Joaquina is one of four attractive
sisters who conducted a canteen that
was frequented by army officers in
1900 and 1902 All four now are mar
ried to Americans.
Rumor credits JOaquina with having
borne two other children to a Spanish
officer before the American occupation.
Pershing, according to the Ameri-
can, commenced his relations with Joa-
quina in 1900. erecting a cottage in
in which he lived almost
openly with her.
May Come Before senate.
1t is a common rumor in army cir
cles in Manila that Colonel Morrison
and Captain Swobe. Fredenhall, Clo-
man, Kobbe, and Charles f. Parker.
who are members of General William
A. Kobbes staff. know the details of
the scandal and that their names will
be used before the senate to fight the
of General Pershing's
to be a major general. sue
ceeding Major General Lee early next
yea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19

Colonel Lowering is a native of New
Hampshire; Major Blocksom is a ma
tive of Ohio AS it happens, the dis
closure of the guilt of the troops was
made in the report of the officer who
comes from Ohio, and the efforts of
the officer who comes from South Car
olina were confined to the endeavor to
shield the innocent men of the COM
panies in question. if any such there
were, by securing information which
would enable us adequately to punish
the guilty. But / wish it distinctly un-
derstood that the fact of the birthplace
of either officer is one which l abso-
lutely refuse to consider. The standard
of professional honor and of loyalty to
the flag and service is the same for all
officers and all enlisted men of the
United States army and | resent with
the keenest indignation any effort to
draw any line among them based upon
birthplace, creed, or any other consider
alton of the kind. | should put the
same entire faith in these reports if it
had happened that they were all made
by men coming from some one state,
whether in the south or the north, the
east or the west, as / now do, when, as
it happens, they were made by officers
born in different states.
Many Witnesses.
Major Blocksoms report is most
careful. is based upon the testimony of
scores of eyewitnesses = testimony
which confiicted only in nonessentials
and which established theS essential
facts beyond chance of successful con-
Not only has no successful
effort been made to traverse his find
ings in any essential particular, but, as
a matter of fact, every trustworthy re-
port from outsiders amply corroborates
them, by far the best of these outside
reports being that of General A. B.
Nettleton, made in a letter to the Sec
retary of war, which I herewith ap-
pend; General Nettleton being an ex-
union soldier, consistent friend of
the colored man throughout his life,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
Senate Takes Secretaries
of Interior and Agri-
culture to Task
FOR ExEMPTING LAND
Explanation That They Over
4 rode Law for Benefit of
Indians Not Accepted.

Washington, Dec. 10 Admitting
they had no authority of law for the
withdrawal from allotment of nearly
four million acres of lands belonging
to five civilized tribes in Indian
Territory for the purpose of creating
a forest reservation, two members of
the presidents cabinet, Hitchcock of
the department of the interior and Will
son of the department of agriculture,
endeavOred today to justify their course
by stating they had the best interests
of the Indian at heart.
Did Not Accept IL.
The explanation was made before
select senate committee which is in
vestigating affairs in relation to the
property rights of five tribes, but the
committee declined to accept it. Four
senators declared the departments had
suspended the statute of the United
States without authority, and it was
the duty of the secretaries to immedi-
ately cancel the order withdrawing the
land from allotment.
Clean Pension Calendar.
Washington, Dec 19.-Under a spe-
cial order the senate today cleared its
private pension calendar, passing more
than 200 bills.
Discovering the absence of a
quorum. the house, after being in ses-
sion an hour, adjourned until tomor-
row.
senate Mny Investigate.
Washington. Dec. 19.-The question
as to- whether the senate should make
an independent investigation of the
Brownsville raid was raised in the SEN
ate by Foraker today Immediately af-
ter the reading of the presidents mes
sage on the subject He offered res
olution giving the committee on mill
tary affairs authority to make such in
vestigatiOn if deemed necessary after
the consideration of the testimony
transmitted by the president
Modify Elastic Money Plan.
Washington. Dec. 19-The house
committee on banking and currency
has decided 70 make a favorable report
on a credit currency dill which is but
slightly different from the measure ad-
vCcated by the American Bankers as
soc:ation.
In the bill advocated by the bankers
it was provided that a tax of 2R per
cent be paid on credit currency equal
to % per cent OF a banks capital. The
committee increased the tax on such
bank notes to- per cent.
Another change by the committee is
providing that national banking asso-
Citations desiring to take out credit
notes, which has notes outstanding in
excess of 621a per cent of their paid
up capital, may redeem such excess
without reference to the limitation of
$3.OOO,0OO each month prescribed by
the act of July II, 1882.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
sANlTARIUM AT FREEPORT
Christian Church Will Locate Instltu-
ton There

Freeport, ILL.,, Dec 19.-The National
Santarium association OF the Christian
church will locate its institution here,
according to an announcement just
made. Rev A. w. Taylor OF Eureka
college. its president; J. T. White of
Freeport, secretary. 1t is proposed to
care for crippled children and create
a home for old persons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
SUPPOSED SON OF
ADMIRAL A WOMAN
Death of Consumptive Patient of Dr..
Rowe at Phoenix, Reveals Strange
Deception.

Phoenix. Ariz., Dec. IN. Derylan,
who came here two months ago from
Chicago with DR.. Rowe, died last night
of consumption. Derylan claimed to
be a son of Russian admiral and
has wife and son in Chicago. At
the undertaking parlors 1t was discov-
cred the deceased was a woman. Rowe
declares he had no knowledge of this
before.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
DANGEROUS FIRE AT BOSTON
One Building Destroyed But Others
Were Seriously Menaced.

Boston, Dec. 19.-Fire today caused
heavy damage in the block bounded by
fremont, Beaconsfield, Washington
and Winter streets. and although the
flames were confined practically to one
structure, the Studio building in Ire
mont street, it for a time threatened to
cause much greater destruction. The
loss is $150,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
PASTOR is HELD FOR ARSON
Former Murphysboro, ILL.,, Minister,
Caught in Des Moines.

MurDhysboro, ILL.,. Dec. 19.-Rev.
Milo Gordon Cummings, former pastor
of the Christian church here, who is
under two indictments charging arson
and attempted arson to defraud an in
surance company, was arrested in Des
MOines yesterday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
LOOK FOR A BITTER WAR
Fight for the ST. Paul Road is Ex-
pected to Grow Fierce.

New York, Dec. 19.-The blockade
in the plan of controlling the St Paul
railroad by the hundred million stock
issue of Hartman is expected to
plunge the railroads of the northwest
into bitter war. That is the opinion
of Wall street Hostilities will COM
mence soon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
Raise Wheat In Manchuria.

San Francisco, Dec. 19-ConsuI
Jones at Dalny. says the japanese are
preparing to raise cotton and wheat In
Manchuria and supply all the demands
of the country. They will shut out all
American grain IL they are successful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
NEED NOT PAY THE
DEBTSOF THE COUNT
Madame Gould Wins Contention in
French Courts over Roni's
Creditors.

Paris. Dec. 19.-Madame Gould.
former Countess Boni de Castellane.
has been victorious in suits brought
by creditors and money lenders against
her with the object of making her
jointly responsible with the count
Thirteen of the fifteen cases were dis
missed by the court with the costs
against the plaintiffs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
STEAMER CANNOT BE SAVED
All Hopes for Victoria Luise Are Aban-
coned.

Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 19.-The
steamship Prinzessin Victoria Lulse.
sent on the rocks at Port Royal Sun
day night. has been abandoned as
hopeless wreck. Already the hull is
full of water and there are great holes
in the bottom The steamer will be
total loss.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-19
CANNOT MOVE ITS TRAINS
Rock Island Said to Lack Sufficient
Motive Power

Topeka. Kan. Dec. 19.-Letters from
business men along the Rock Island
road report whole trainloads of loaded
cars standing on sidings because the
company has not sufficient motive
power to move them.