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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
RECORD FOREIGN TRADE.
In the Last Twelve Months Tt In
creased $334,3O4,254 Over 1908.

Washington, D. Can increase of
SSS4.304,254 in the foreign trade OF
the United States during the last
twelve months is shown by the report
of the Bureau of Statistics on the
exports and imports for the fiscal
year ended June 80. The total value
of the exports in that period was ST.
74~3,763,612, being 1925, 2O1,946 in
excess Of those for the previous fiscal
year, and forming a new high water
mark. The imports amounted to ST.
z26,615,379, which exceeded those of
1904-05 by $109,1O2,3 sos and also es-
tablished & new record. The balance
of trade in favor of the United States
for the year was therefore $517.148,-
233, against $4O1,048,595 for the
previous twelve months. The aggre-
gate of the foreign trade was $780,
378,991.
: The gold movements for the year
consisted of exports amounting to
$~38,573,591, or $54,O2O,433 less
than the previous twelve months, and
the imports aggregated $~96,226,911,
being a comparative increase OF $42,-
577,95O.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
RUSSELL SAGE DEAD At 80
Venerable Financier Passes Away
at His Long Island Home.
His Remarkable Rise From Country
Grocer to Money Power in Wall
Strect-Worth 800, 900, 900.

New York City. = Russell Sage,
nearly ninety, and the p%ossessor, &C
cording to general estimate, of a for
tune of $S0,O0O,OOO or more, accu-
mulated during a long career as one
of the foremost figures in Wall Street
finance, died at his country house, at
Lawrence Beach, L. l.. The cause of
death was general debility and old
age. On August 4 he would have
reached his ninetieth birthday.
Mr.. Sage passed quietly away in a
state of inconsistencies. By his
bedside were Mrs. Sage, Colonel j..
j. Slocum, her brother; DR.. Theodore
Janeway and Dr.. Carl Schmuck, the
physicians in attendance, and the
trained nurse.
Mrs. Sage was reported to be bear
ing up we'll under her bereavement.
she vas a good deal worn by the
strain OF the last few days, but was
calm and resigned,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
The Mercantile Situation.

Dun's Review says: Confidence is
the commercial sentiment, induced
by exceptionally favorable crop re-
ports and the absence of any dis
tinctly adverse factor. Wholesale
distribution is heavy for this period,
and the majority Of }renorts indicate
satisfactoTy:prompt collections. Not
only the Leading industries, but near
ly all manufacturing undertakings,
have orders assuring activity we'll
into tue future, and scarcity Of labor
is still the chief complaint"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
LAWYER HELD IN KINNAN CASE
Gibson Sent to Tombs on Failure to
Get $4,000 Bail.

New York City.-Burton w. Glib
son. formerly attorney for Mrs. Alice
kinnan and her mother. Mrs. Stem
ton, was held for the grand jury
by Coroner r.. F.. Mcdonald at the
conclusion of the inquest into the
death of Mrs. Kinnan, who w6s muir
cered on the evening of June 8 on
the porch of the old house in The
Bronx in which she lived. Ralph
+. Baxter, a school janitor, who was
the foreman of TIE coroner's jury,
read its verdict. which was that Mrs.
kinnan had come to her death by
the hands of persons or a person
unknown to the jury, and the jury
recommends that Burton w. Gibson
be held for further investigation for
the grand jury"
Bail was fixed at $4,000. Gibson
was taken to the Tombs.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
MOTOR BUS HORROR.
Ten Passengers Killed When Brakes
Refuse to Act on Hill.

London.-Owing to the brakes fail
ing to act a motor omnibus running
from London to Brighton dashed
down a steep hill near Crawley and
was overturned. Ten passengers
were killed and a score badly hurt,
some of them probably sustaining
fatal injuries.
There were thirty-four passengers
on the omnibus, mainly merchants
of O~rphington, ten miles from Lon
don, and all yer either killed or in
jured. The omnibus dashed down
the hill at terrific speed, and ran into
a tree, which was smashed to match
wood.
The occupants of the vehicle were
pitched in all directions. Several of
the killed were so terribly mangled
that it was difficult to identify them.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
7 ICE COMPANIES.
st. Louis Prosecutor Sues Alleged
Trust For $142,SOO. =,

st. Louis.-After an investigation
OF three weeks, Z Circuit Attorney
Sager filed suits in the Circuit Court
against the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel
Company and the Merchants Ice and
Coal Company, on the allegation that
these companies are in an alleged
combination to restrain trade and to
fix and maintain the price of ice.
The suit asks that judgment for
$71,400 be assessed against each
company as fines for the ia days
that the alleged agreement has been
in effect, and further asks that the
charters under which the companies
have been doing business be declared
null and void.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
CANNED BEEF EXPORTS.
2,977.970 Pounds in June Against g..
31O,553 Pounds i'm june. 1908.

Washington, D. C.-The advance
statements of the exports of provis-
ions, issued by the Bureau of Statis-
tics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor show the total value of
provisions exported, exclusive of live
cattle, hogs and sheep at the princi-
pal ports Of the United States during
June, 1896, was SIS, 365, Pts, against
s13,553,014 in June, 1905, and for
the fiscal year 1905, $19f,O56,535,
against $152,530,673 in 1905.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
600 BLUEJAcKcTs POISONED.
TAINTED Liver Bought in Boston
Causes Illness on Evans Fleet.

AOoNOA
Causes Illness on Evans Fleet
Washington, D. C.-Word was re-
celFed at the Navy Department from
Admiral Robley D.. Evans, at Rock
port, Mass, saying that 200 sailors
are In care of physicians, because of
poisoning by eating tainted liver pro-
cured from a Boston vender of meats.
An inquiry is under way to ascertain
II the meat was unfit for food when
purchased, Dr. If improper refrigera-
ZION on shipboard causes it to be-
come unfit.
More than thirty of the sailors are
very Ill, and prolonged treatment
VIII De required Fatalities will not
surprise the surgeons. 1t appears
that the commfssary department, in
charge OF the ~purveying for the fleet
at ~Rockport, numbering more than
forty vessels, from gigantic battle
ships to diminutive gunboats. went
to the Boston Navy Yards provision
er for advice.
He was directed to a firm VINO
buys from n OF the big Four"
packers.
An order for two tons of liver was
hlled, and the regulations require a
rigid inspection.
Admiral Evans, who is much per-
turbed and angry, is .endeavoring to
find out If orders were obeyed.
So great Importance here is at
tached to the matter that the Acting
Secretary has ordered that a careful
test be made of all r~efrigerators in
naval squadron, as we'll as the
food receptacles. The naval authori-
ties decline to give the names of the
sick sailors. Advicesf from Boston say
the meat vendors insist that the liver
was in good condition when deliv-
cred.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Alfred Belts Will

The will of Alfred Belt leaves
great sums to charity and education
in England, Germany and Africa. A
fund of $6,00O,0O0 is provided to
develop communication along the
route of the Cape to Cairo Railway.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
OUMA DISSOLVED;
ARMY IN CAPITAL
Martial Law Declared Dictator
ship For Russia May Follow.
NO PARLIAMENT TILL MARCH
Cars Decision Taken at q Confer
ence Attended by the Grand
Dukes and TrepOn-RiotS Fol-
low Dissolution.

enC0 ACtenQGO DY the Gran0
Dukes and TrepOf-RiotS Fol-
low Dissolution.
st. Petersburg-Russia's first ex-
pertinent In parliamentary govern
ment came to an ignominious end
with the PRONUNCIATION of two i'm
perial ukases, the first dissolving the
present Parliament and providing for
the C~onvocation of its successor on
March 5, 1907, and the second pro-
claiming the capital of Russia and the
surrounding province to be in a
state Of extraordinary security
which is only inf1nitesimally different
from full martial law. This measure
Of safety is to provide for the out
burst which undoubtedly will be pro-
-voked by the dissolution OF the Duma.
1t is now but a step to a dictator
ship.
By the two ukases. both of which
are addressed in the StereOtyDed form
to the Ruling Senate, Emperor Mich
olaS by a stroke of the pen set Russia
back to where she stood two years
ago-in the full grip of autocracy
and irresponsible government-wip-
ing out for six months at least the
whole structure Of Parliament, erect
ed at such cost.
There is little doubt that the con-
vocation of the new Assembly will be
still futher postponed unless the new
Parliament promises to be more
ameGable than the present.
The delay in fixing the time for the
election seems to indicate a decision
to change the present basis of suf-
frage to a basis of universal suffrage,
by means of which the advisers of the
Emperor hope to swamp the educated
Liberals, the Socialists and the work
men with the vast mass of the peas
antry.
The only uncertainty is the COM
ing Storm-when and where will it
break? The advocates of the mailed
hst" believe that by dissOlving Parlia-
ment and provoking a collision now
they will find the revolutionary lead
ers unprepared for an uprising, |
whereas further delay would give the
Reyolutionists the time needed to or
Gan1ze and to continue the corrup- !
ton Of the army. !
There are no presidents in Russian
history for the execution of an order |
of propagation, but the Tauride Pal
ace Will be in the possession of the ;,
military and the surrounding streets
held By the Emperor's Guards.
Evidently the Government is not
blind to the fact that the dissolution /
of Parliament will be accompanied
by riots and bloodshed, If nothing
worse. Troops are being massed at
st. Petersburg Moscow and other
centres, and, in addition to the Guard
which were hurriedly
marched into the capital, the entire
Division of Infantry ar
rived from Pskon.
arrival of the additional troops
1t the capital was followed by the
strengthening of. the patrols through
lut the industrial quarters, where the
Horkmen were greatly excited by the
complete suppression of the Social
site press.
The Gear formed the decision after
with the Grand Dukes and I!
with General Trepoff.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
COLLEGES GET BELTS MONEY.
Diamond Controllers Estate to Goa.
lesce With That Of Cecil Rhodes.

Pretoria, South Africa.-It is
stated here that the estate of Alfred
Belt, who died in London, will be
vested In the trustees of the estate
of Cecil Rhodes and applied to SINH
lar purposes as the Rhodes estate.
Special provision is made for n
downing on a prodigal scale a univer-
sity, a technical college and a Sec
ondary school on the ~Sachsenwald
estate, between Pretoria and Jo-
ha~nnesburg, which is bequeathed to
the education department.
All the estimates of Belts for
tune are ~eonjectural. Some of his
friends here figure it at from $125.-
090,000 tp $130, 000 900, while a
dispatch from Pretoria places it at
s45,00Q,O0O.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
CLOWNS business Prospects.

to record possible yields of wheat
and corn and large outturns of pota-
toes, barley and cotton, have made
for confidence in placing future or
deTs to an extent not usual at this
early date.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
State Regulation Cheapened Oil.

At the State oil rate hearing at
Kansas City A. H.. Gardner, a repre-
sentative of the National Oil Com
pany, Of Cleveland, said that since
railroad rates had been recently
fixed by statute in Kansas the price
OF refined oil had fallen So g. barrel
or about four cents a. gallon to the
consumer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Warrants For Herald Staff.

United States Commissioner
Shields issued warrants for FIVE mem-
bers of the New York Herald staff,
charging them with sending obscene
matter through the mails. The
charge is based on personal. adver-
tigements.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Rogers Must Disgorge s2,a5o.ooo.

Henry H. Rogers, by the Federal
Circuit Courts decision in the Rav
State Gas case, must return to the
receiver $2,25O,00O, perhaps more.
OF his profits in the notorious gas
deal. S"0
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Eeform in Persia.

a new Ministry of Justice will he
established in Persia, which. il is
hoped, will satisfy the popular de-
mand for reform.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Peril of Irdia,s Politics

Mr. John Morley, in introducing
the indian budget, warned the Brit
lsh House OF Commons against the
Peril CT including India in the field
of party politics.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Eoatswain Committed suicide

hsufus S. Chase, boatswain in the
First Naval Reserve, Of New York
committed suicide on board the
Granite State.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD co.
General Offices, Brevard, North
Carolina.
WINTER SCHEDULE

WINTER SCHEDULE
Effective Monday, October G, 1905.
No. 8 Eastern Standard Time No. z
Daily STATIONS Daily
P. NJ. p. n.
3:25 Lv S. Ry. Asheville S. BY 1910
ESQ So. Ry. Biltmore So. Ry 12:V
Hender-
a az A. @ D. -I~ @ D., 77s1h
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26

Conference OF Republics Opens.
The Conference OF American Re-
Dubiics opened in Rio Janeiro.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26

Wholesale Prices Quoted in New York

MILK.
The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is 214c. per quart.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
Southern RAILWAY Trains

0OU1nS4A 4S64"0J
Effective Monday, Oct. 9, I9Co'
Trains on the Southern RAILWAY
leave Hendersonville as follows:
No. IA. No. IL
R,ast Pound East Bound
West Bound West boID
$40 A. NJ. 5:l3 r."
NJ O No. 13
West N Ro y West Bound
1850 P. M. $50 T. ~: ~
Connects at Lake Toxaway lha
Turnpike Line to the Resorts OF ~
Sapphire Country and H~ighlandSp oS.
EIendersonville with Southern n" IL
way for all Points North and oo"'"
T. S. BOSWELL, ,.ut
Superintendent
]. q. HAYS,
General Mana'"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
His Long and Busy Career.

Russell Sage, fnancier. railroad
man, stock broker, public leader and
ian of affairs, was one of the most
remarkable men who have attained
prominence and amassed great wealth
in Wall Street, which has produced
so many other men of striking traits
and extraordinary abilities.
He was born August 4, 1916, in
Verona, two miles from Oneida Cas-
tie, Oneida County, n. Y, the son Of
a small farmer, and, when he was
twelve ear old he found himself an
errald boy in the grocery store of
his brother Henry, in Troy. He
worked for his board and 81 a day.
Although Russell Sage was one of
the richest men of the world, with a
command of more ready cash than
any other individual in this country,
and for more than forty years a DOM
inant factor in Wall Street, his
death will hardly cause a ripple in
the financial world, so carefully have
his affairs been arranged to discount
any effect OF his death.
Mr. Sage's retirement was so COM
plete, his friends say, that he rarely
came into New York In summer once
he went to his summer home. For
several months past it was observed
he was a bit childish and felt
the weight Of his years.
Mi. Sage's first wife, whom he
married in 1871, was Miss Marie
WHINE, Of Troy. She died in 1867.
his second wife, whom he married
years later and VINO survives him.
was Miss Margaret Olivia Slocum, of
Syracuse, and to whose constant care
owed much of his habitual good
health and his ability to attend to
business With such regularity. He
had no children. and the disposition
Of his vast wealth will be Of great in
terest.
a Few Facts i'm q Remarkable Life.
Worked on his fathers farm until
was sixteen and saved $3.50.
can an eTrand boy in his
oTother's grocery store and increased
lis capital to $1,000.
Rose from errand boy to a partner |
'hip and at twenty-five was worth
$4,000.
At t~hirty-fye, the richest whole
ale grocer in Troy, and quoted at
Served four years in Congress and
rational finances.
Began his financial career in New
| ork in 1863, buying and selling
privileges.
Made 100000 in one hour SELL
ng gold.
At the close of the Civil War was
eputed to be worth $4,000, 900.
was the principal manipulation in
he Union Pacific Railway consolida-
ion scheme with Jay Gould.
Lived ffty-two years in one house
n Fifth avenue, New York City.
Became the controlling power in
elevated railroads and opposed
ne abolition Of the %coal-oil lamps.
Paid $12 a suit for his clothes, and
three suits a year.
His daily luncheon down town cost
cents.
Bomb thrown at him by. N~oreross
n 1891. He used Walter Laidlaw
s a SHE'D, and Laidlaw sought pay
nent for the injuries he received.
dr. Sage won out in the lawsuits.
Got out of a sick bed to loan
When rates were high and
made 1855.
Was a director in twenty-six cor
orations; until he became too feeble
tended the meetings regularly and
.rawing the fee.
At the time of his death estimated
o be worth 100000 900, princi-
ally in railroad securities.
Swore in 1903 that his personal
property was not worth more than
2 Zoo, 900.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26

Flag Station.
Parlor Car daily between Lake I0''
away and Asllev;lle.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-21
CLAIM RILEY HAD
UNSAVORY RECORD
TELEGRAM FROM L0MP0C so
INDICATES
Police Commission Delays Hearing In
Order to obtain More Evidence.
Additional Witnesses Are
Easy to Find

New developments in the case of NJ
r. Riley. suspended on the charge of
being implicated in eXtortions, Is re-
sponsible for the police commission de-
aging the hearing of the case a week.
one of the recent complainants
against Riley Is Miss Myrtle Baker.
This woman says that Riley introduced
a man to her whose name was given as
Adams. but later he gave the name of
johnson.
Others are said to have complained to
the police.
What the department is doing in the
case of former Patrolman Riley is not
known From all that can be learned
the department is trea ting the matter
with indifference, but it has little
to say in regard to the affair. Riley
has many friends on the force who re-
fuse to believe the rumors.
Riley lived in Lompoc, Cal, formerly
and his record is said to be bad
Miss Baker arrived from Redondo
Monday night, and after consulting
friends called at the police department.
What she told there could not be
learned from Sergt. Craig, with whom
she talked.
On Monday afternoon, February IL,
it Is said, Riley introduced man
whose name he gave as Adams to the
Baker woman. With Adams Miss
Baker went to a house at Fourth and
Los Angeles streets and there he forced
his way into the room.
After discussing matters of no i'm
portance for minute or two Adams
volunteered the information that he
was special officer and had orders to
pinch" Miss Baker. This brought an
appeal from the woman. Adams"
said that Patroman J. j. Murphy sent
numerous reports to the chief and he
could not afford to lose his job by
letting her go.
At last adams" asked the woman
for $40 and told her that he would for
get the deal. He then offered to take
the woman to his room, but she re-
fused He then told her to go to Re-
dondo and not come back if she did not
want to get in trouble.
After adams" had left the room he
again called few minutes later and
told the woman that she would have
to leave or give him more money. She
refused and told him that she had
given him $3.50 and that was all that
she would give him.
Adams then told her that if any
one molested her to tell them that
johnson had been up to the room and
squared things. The Baker woman
went to Redondo and did not return
until Monday.
AS soon as she arrived she learned
of the trouble that Riley and John
SON. were in.
1t now develops that Johnsons name
is Dewitt and is the same man
that is mixed up with the Hammond
woman.
1t was ascertained that Riley learned
from Murphy that the latter wanted a
man named Williams. Also that Will
lams was associated with the Baker
woman. By means of this knowledge
Riley is thought to have used his
authority to secure funds.
Murphy was seen Monday night but
refused to talk, and referred all callers
tc the chief.
Miss Baker was seen after visiting
the police station Monday and con-
firmed the above story.
Tuesday afternoon the Baker woman
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-21
WILL FINISH
INVESTIGATION
LIBRARY CASE DRAWS NEAR
TO CLOSE
Seems Foreeone Conclusion Verdict
viii Free Board From All
Blame In Discharge Of
Miss Jones

Tonight the long, tiresome, tedious, |
weary, stale, fiat and Improbable !
library investigation will be brought
to a close. The last witnesses will be
examined, and the council If possible, |
VIII go into executive session and be-
fore many hours return its verdict
1t seems almost foregone conclu
sion that the verdict will be mot
guilty." that the library directors will
continue In their office, exonerated of
all blame in the removal of Miss
Jones.
Chairman Smith of the committee
OF the whole before which the investi
cation is being held, made a notable
effort to close up the case last night
AS the fingers of the clock pointed to
1890 he announced that the council
had concluded that last night should
finish the taking of testimony. Attor-
ney Harris who represents Miss Jones,
protested vigorously, and out of cour-
tesy to him the council allowed him
one more night in which to finish.
Directors Trueworthy and Dock
weller and Miss Pearl Gleason. clerk
of the library board, were the most
important witnesses placed on the
stand last evening and in their testi-
mony all three gave Mayor McAleer a
| figurative black eye.
DR.. Trueworthy testified that Mayor
McAleer had been so opposed to re-
appointing DIR. Hecht as member of
the board at the time he appointed
Mr.. Marshutz that he had refused to
have photograph of the library board
which contained picture of DR.. Hecht
hung in his office. To quote DR.. True
worthys testimony
THE mayor was opposed to DR..
Hecht on the ground. as he assured
me, that DR.. Hecht had induced every
Jew in Los Angeles with the exception
of two to vote against him at the time
of his election"
Tells of Lunch at levy's
Mr.. Dockweiler told about that inter-
esting little lunch at Levys, when the
mayor had told the board to go ahead
and remove Miss Jones If she failed
to come through with her resignation,
and he would find the cause for her
removal.
Miss Gleason said that the mayor
had sent for her to come to his office
Pand tell him some of the inside facts
of library questions. las he did not
want to go up there and mix in wom-
ems fights" She added that the mayor
said he had told Mr. Dockweiler to
remove Miss Jones for cause without
stating what that cause was and that
Dockweiler had spoiled the entire prop
osition by presenting charges in reso-
luton, "as he might have to prove
those charges"