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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-29
Great Philadelphia Concem
That Was Presbyterian
Depository Closes Doors
$t0,000,000 Is THE
SUM INVOLVED
Heavy Loans Secured by
PromotorWho I Hypnotized
President, 1t Is Alleged

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2S--The Real
Estate Trust Company, organized in
1885, the depository for nearly sI,O0o,-
900 of the. funds of the Presbyterian
Church and holdings, 100000 of the
money. of the city of Philadelphia and
.sI75,OOO of State deposits, closed it's
doors today The failure was caused
by heavy loans made by the late presi-
dent, Frank X. Nipple, to Adolf Segal,
promoter, on insufficient security. A
desperate effort was made by the board
of directors TO save the institution
through an appeal TO the Clearing
House Association, but that body de-
eIined 10 subscribe a guarantee fund
of 100000 because of insufficient Sc
eurity.
The liabilities are placed at 10000
200. with quick assets Of ss.5oO,OOO and
doubtful collateral amounting to
$4,000. 600.
George X Earle Jr.. president Of the
Finance Company OF Pennsylvania,
was appointed receiver and in a state
ment 70 the public he expresses the
hope that he may soon be able TO
recommend plan to depositors that
win better serve their interests and
terminate his services.
NIPPLE HYPNOTIzED.
President Nipple was always re-
garded as e conservative inancier, but
following his sudden death last Friday
an investigation by the directors de-
veloped the fact that his loans to
Segal had been made regardless of
proper security and that he had made
false statements to the directors Of the
banks condition Friends Of the presi-
dent express the belief that Segal ex-
eVcised a hypnotic power over him.
Although the cause OF Mr.. Hipple's
death was given by his physician and
the Coroner as cerebral hemorrbage.
it is intimated that he may have COM
mitted suicide.
Mr.. Nipple. in addition to being pres
ident OF the Real Estate Trust Com
rsny. was treasurer Of the board of
trustees Of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the United
States and OF several other church
funds, and was director of the Frank
liE National Bank. Recently Mr.. Hip
pies accounts Of the Presbyterian
Church were examined by certified ac-
countants and found to be correct. but
IL canhot be stated positively tonight
whether all the securities belonging to
the General Assembly are intact.
WEIR MITCHELL DIRECTOR.
DR.. ". H. Roberts. stated clerk of
the General Assembly OF the Presby-
terian Church. who is at Mount Pocono,
said that in addition to the deposits
Of the General Assembly, the Real Es-
tate Trust also had about $4,000 of
funds placed there by him as stated
clerk.
Among the directors are: DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell. the eminent author; John H.
Convers OF the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and one OF the most prominent
laymen in the Presbyterian Church in
the United States; John S. Betz. the
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-29
LABOR.

days Pages 1928
LABOR.
BARRIERS Union indorses the resolutions adopted
by the Japanese Exclusion League. Page 9
CITY.
Refugee man and wife beat their young chill
dren in camp. Page IA
District Attorney Langdon TO close disreputa-
bic houses in Western Addition. Page Il
Relief Corporation lets contract TO built 1000
cottages in the parks. Page 9
Relief Corporation still has more than $780,
oco worth Of supplies on hand. Page 9
Warden Seitz is ousted by Health Board and
DR.. J. Y. Hughes succeeds him. Page IA
Policy holders of the Traders Insurance Com
pany hear they may get s5 cents. Page l3
lions begins today. Page IA
Joseph Lomeline gives his wife the bulk of
the community property. Page IA
Railroads find printing required by new rate
bill viii cost big sum. Page Is
Hero saves wife from FIRE and is seriously in
jured in fall. Page IA
LOCAL POLITICS.
San Francisco Republican delegation elects Abe
Ruef chairman and praises Schmitz. Page 5
SUBURBAN.
saloon-keeper interrupts wife's intrigue by
shooting through door of her room. Page 4
San Quentin guards ordered to kill convicts
who try 70 reach the beach. Page 4
Mrs. Wildorf Of Alameda lashes her husband
while neighbors look on. Page 4
Oakland man says neighbors are trying to
tries to railroad wife to insane asylum. Page 4
SPORTS.
1907 models of automobiles now being dis
cussed by the enthusiasts. Page 8
Representative entry of high school athletes
received for cross-country run. Page 8
Joe Cans agrees 70 weigh >in light ring
costume. Page Z
Turf ana baseball news from the centers of
those sports Page Z
MARINE.
arrives from Honolulu. Page 6
PACIFIC COAST.
seventeen-year-old boy slays father with an
AK. hoping 10 secure $500. Page 6
Filing of records divulges fact that Southern
Pacific is surveying along coast Page 8
DOMESTIC.
Nine Nodjeska has emerged from secIusion
ana VIII nnance nerseit on starring tour fege D
Liner Manchuria. with stem down nine feet
lies 500 feet from deep water. Page 5
Real Estate Trust Company Of Philadelphia.
depository of Presbyterian funds. fails for slo.-
00o. 600. Page
Hearst viii be nominee Of Independence
League for Governor of New York. Page 8
MINES.
Latest news from the goldproducIng camps of
Nevada. Page 6
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-29

millionaire brewer; William A. Patton,
assistant TO President Cassatt of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
There were probably fifty bank pres
idents at the Clearing House to meet
the directors of the trust company.
The latter stated that they needed
s7.000.OO0, but the best the banks
could do was to guarantee s3,500,00o.
Samuel F. Houston, vice president of
the company. said tonight that no
other bank would be affected.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2s.-The stock
market was affected unfavorably by
the failure of the Real Estate Trust
Company of Philadelphia. Prices de-
clined from 1 to 5 points, the latter in
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul
1t was authoritatively stated tonight
that President Nipple took his own life
at his home last Friday morning. He
is said to have taken laudanum While
still conscious, he filled his bath tub
with water and later was found appar-
emily drowned.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-29
Carmen Refuse the Invitation Of Calhoun to Return to Work
INBEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1906.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY-Cloudy; west wind; maximum
temperature. 81 minimum temperature, 81.
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Cloudy; fresh west
wind. Page. s.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-29
CARMEN's STRIKE.

Carmen refuse CaIhoun's invitation to return
to work United Railroads is importing an army
Of strike breakers TO man the cars. and Calhoun
declares they Will be running before many
DAYS Pages 1928
.nnn
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continued ON Page 2. Column :
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
NEW STEEL BRIDGE READY

The Pennsylvania railroad expects to
open its new steel bridge over the Sus-
quehanna river next Sunday. 1t is un-
likely that there will be any ceremonies
connected with the opening.
The new bridge is between Havre de
Grace and Perryville Md land is double
tracked 1t is built OH substantial masonry
piers " hich have been Carried in all in
stances to solid foundation and is situated
on line parallel with the present bridge.
More than 10000 tons of steel have
been used in The construction of the new
bridge, and it is designed to carry the
heaviest traffic at high speed. The total
length of the, new bridge is Asa feet, and
it consists Of s spans 26O feet each, Z spans
200 feet inches each, spans 1877 feet
each and draw span 260 feet. The
draw span is so arranged as to give two
waterways about 100 feet clear, and its
height above water is 54 feet clear above
mean low tide. This height enables
most of the river traffic to pass through
without interfering with the railroad
traffic
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
CALENDAR EoR TRIAL CASES

Superior Court Thursday morning an
notlnced the daily calendar of cases fol
trial beginning Monday, May 2Sth. Eact
day, With their exception OF Wednesday
May 30,h. Memorial Day, seven or eight
cases viii oeenpy the attention OF the
court.
TIE following aie the cases for trial by
special jury: Pennell's admr. VS.. The
Malor aud Cot of Wilmington Mary
FullertnNn vs. F., b. W. r. K. Co.;
Caroline Bryon vs.. Wilmington City
Railway Company Gnwannina Epifanio
vs.. B. & P. R. r. Co., A cases John W.
Kirby rs. P. b. & w. r. r. Co.; John o.
Solomon VS.. P B. & w. II. Il. Co.; Will
liam f. Bowers, admx P, B. & w. r.
R. Co.; Jacob Robinson VS.. Delaware G..
and M. Co; Herman F. Duncan VS.. The
NJ. & C. Of Wilmington William R. Gar
rett vs. Peoples Railway Co.; Elizabeth
7. Donghten VS.. Wilmington City Rail-
way Co.; Charles L. Simmons VS.. Peo-
ple's Railway Co.; Joseph L. Carey VS.. II.
& H. Corporation George w. Todd VS..
Every Evening Printing Co., 2 cases;
William Kennedy vs. P, B. & w. R. r.
CO.; Leslie R. Casperson vs.. Wilmington
City Railway Co., Peter Barnes VS.. Bryl-
gon Steel Casting Co.; Martin Graboski
VS.. New Castle Leather Co.; James G.
File vs. Wilmington City Railway Co.;
John L. Yates vs. p, B. & W. r. r. Co.
and Eva L. Evans VS.. New Castle Leather
Co.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
FAILED, so FAR. TO GET "DIvvY"

William A. Scott, Levy Court Com
missioner, living at Townsend, was sur
prised Tuseday morning at being met by
a friend in that town who asked him if
he had got his "divvy." Upon inquiry
as to what was meant Mr.. Scott was in
formed that unknown parties had visited
the farm OF his son-in-law L. L. Maloney
near Townsend and had dug a hole in a
field IL or IA feet in diamater and about 5
feet deep, supposedly in search of buried
treasure. The only treasure" unearthed
however, was two big rocks, one about
4x8 feet. 1t was under these rocks that
the treasure was supposed to be buried.
Who the parties were who dug the ex-
cavation and why they located that partic-
ular spot is not known. Scott has failed
so far to get his "divvy" of the treasure.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
DELAWARE's COMMENCEMENT

Delaware College commencement week
will begin June IL and will end with the
graduation exercises on June 20. This
years class will comprise nineteen young
men. DIR. George A. Harter, president
of the institution, is arranging the pro-
gramme for the closing week of the college
year and it will be finished withina week
or two.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached on the evening of Sunday, June
II, by the Rev. W. D. Roberts Pres
byterian clergyman of Philadelphia.
Chief Justice Charles B. Lore will make
the address at the literary societies.
The annual address at the commence
ment exercises on the morning of We'd
nesday, June 20, will be made by Henry
Ridgely, of Dover, a we'll known young
lawyer.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
Double Sunday Trains Service

On Sunday, May 27, two Sunday trains
in each direction will be established on
the Delaware Division Of the Ptnnsyl-
vania Railroad, and branches, except
the Smyrna Branch and the line between
Georgetown and franklin City. No Sun
day trains will be operated on the Smy-
rna Branch and only one train in each
direction will be run between Georgetown
and franklin City.
Through trains will leave Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia, at 7.06 A. NJ. and
3.46 P. NJ. Sundays; leave Wilmington
7.53 A. NJ, -t.30P. NJ, and arrive Delmar
at 1858 A. M. and 7.35 P. NJ. Returning,
trains will leave Delmar at zoo A. NJ. and
8 AZ P. M. Sundays, arrive Wilmington
1905 A. NJ. and 50 P. NJ. arriving Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia, 11.OO A. NJ.
and 7.45 p NJ. Connections will be
made with branch trains in each direction
as indicated above. For time at local
stations consnlt new time table.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
MEMORIAL DAY
BY MARY CLARKE HUNTING

For those who fell on battle fields,
For those who sank beneath the sea
Yet knew such joy as victory yields,
Though dying at foeman's knee
That freedom dwells With you and me
For all which anxious love e'er rears-
For mothers prayers and daughters' tears
For sweethearts' clirgihgs, wifely pain,
We twine memorial mreaths again.
For all the noble strife and fears
0fhearts that toiled-and not in vain
To ease humanity's great ache,
Then died content for truths aear sake
In the lat cycle OF the years,
We twine memorial wreatIs-and, fair
To trust glad angnries, we see
The light Of this new century
Shine DER the world with peace to be
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26

Mr.. Garfield reiterates his assertion
that the discrimination in freight rates
means a saving to the Standard of hun
| dreds of thousands of dollars annually.
He declares that to effectively conceal the
lower rates they have given to the STAN
dard, the railroads have used peculiar
methods of billing and accounting. He
says that shipments have been falsely
waybiled at the published rates and
freight charges collected at the lower
rates. Rates have been made for the ex-
press purpose of letting the Standard into
certain markets and for keeping competi-
tors out. If Mr.. Garfield adds, the law
prohibits the obtaining of certain advan-
tage by specific device and the same re-
4 suit is obtained in a different way, then
l the law is family and its Justice is sham.
| Altogether the Commissioner shows him
self no mean hand at toying with the
Muck Rake, but he shows that as Com
missioner Clements put it in the Inter
state Commerce hearing, that "if the
Stapdard is muck, there is no good reason
why it should not be raked." In fact
Mr.. Garfield comes out as the Ida Tar
bell of the Administration and it is prob
able that the railroad and Standard Oil
officials will keep quiet after this blast for
fear worst thing befal them.
~
Much more than usual interest was at
tached to the meeting here this week of
the National Association for the Study |
and Prevention of tuberculosis. This as
sociation resulted from the appointment
Of the commission by the president to in |
quire into the subject and the meeting |
this week brought together some of the
greatest medical. men from all over the |
country interested in the prevention of
the diseases. 1t was subject that knows |
no limitation OF color, creed or cline, and /
the proceedings of the Association were
interesting in detail. The most impor
tant conclusion reached. however, was
that the check of consumption in this
country could be the result only of cam
paign of education that would reach /
every person in the land. 1t was stated
that consumption is neither hereditary
nor contagious, though it can be and is
conveyed from the patient to the rest OF
the community if he does not follow GER
tain lines and destroy the sputa that
carries the contagion broadcast The As.
sociation decided TO enlist the aid Of the
school teachers throughout the land and
get them to help teaching both scholars
aud parents what tuberculosis really is.
how it may be conveyed and how it is to
be avoided. The Association has large
amount Of literature on the subject that
it is ready to distribute on application.
IN - stsa5
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

If you can't mend your ways adopt
some new ones.
The poor of England cost the govern
, ment SIP, 500, 600 year.
If you refuse to talk no one can prove
that you are not bright:
Canada's bank deposits have more than
doubled in the last seven years.
Between 5000 and 5000 alcohol en-
gines are now in operation in Germany.
The true American spirit knows no dis
couragement of permanent character.
Gasoline engines can use alcohol instead
of gasoline with no material change.
There are some men who might be
worse than they are, but they don't know
it.
The lowest rate of illiteracy in the
world is found in Sweden, Norway and
Germany.
II isn't what the average man knows
aboht the hereafter that he fears but what
he doesn't know.
Amy concern which makes S36, 900, 900
in three months has little cause for COM
plaint against hard times.
The banana, like most plants, las its
peculiar disease--a blight which causes
much loss in central America.
New York city's gross debt is $6IS, 1885,
337, and the net debt $447, ,SS2, ,0S9. The
years increase was $4S.OOO,0OO.
A Russian scientist says hair is disease.
Bald-headed men will not be likely to be-
lieve that it is catching.
Portland and. Seattle rank next to San
Francisco in Importance among l,e ports
OF the Pacific coast of the United States.
In China volunteer militias are being
formed. Thousands of young men are
enlisting and meet twice week for drills.
The dandelions seem to be taking the
country. A few years ago it was the
Canadian thistles, then it was tile sweet
clover, and now it is the festive dande.
lion.
Kansas is boasting. 1t has 85 out of los
counties without pauper. Twenty-Five
counties have no almshouses and thirty
seven have not single criminal case on
the docket.
Gall seems to win out sometimes, but
its victories are short-liyed. The man
who does little better than he claimed
to be able to do is the one who holds his
job as long as he wants it.
At last the worm has turned An In
diana husband has out talked his wife to
such degree that she has become ner-
vous wreck and is suing for divorce on
the grounds stated.
A Birmingham, Ala, negro has just
been paid 500, 900 for car coupler of his
and can in future afford to buy
his chickens instead of depending for
their requirement npon the dark of the
moon.
Nothing is SO hard to do as it seems be-
it is done in the wrong
way, when it is harder. For example, to
sell that piece of property quickly with
out advertising it would be harder than |
it seems.
Every man has right to think for him.
self, work for his own interest and do a |
number of similar selfish things, but
after all the things that give the most |
pleasure when looking backward is the
good we have done others.
A full-grown whale will yield about
500 pounds OF bone, and as the whale
bone sells for $4,000 ton, a whale OF
hat kind brings in bone worth about
Sl0, 800 In addition to this the oil of the
whale is valuable, so that single whale
may yield $4,000
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
Mfstakan Identify

A photograph found among the effects
Of john NJ Rogers seized at the Rogers
Drill aud Press Works ut Gloucester, N j :,
in connection with the case against Mr..
Rogers which was Saturday quashed in
the United States Court, WAS supposed
by the Secret Service department to be
tile photograph Of Paul Conrad, deceased,
Il 9 former president of the Louisiana
State Lottery. Willard Salisbury, conn
sci for Mr.. Rogers, identified the photo
graph at Trenton as that OF former Gov
ernor Benjamin T. Biggs, OF Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
Home Baking
with
ROYAL
Baking Powder

The United States Agricultural Department
has issued land circulates free) valuable report
giving the results Of elaborate experiments made
BY and Under the direction Of the Department,
which show the great saving from baking at home,
as compared with cost Of buying at the bakers.
Abread, cake, biscuit, cruers, etc., are very much
fresher, cleaner, cheaper and more wholesome when
made at home with Royal Baking Powder.
aoYAl BAKING POWDER 60, NEW Yskk,
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26

EGGS FOR THE FARMER AND FANCIER.-
Standard bred Rose Comb Rhode Island
Reds, the best and most profitable bird
for all purposes, excellent layers of brown
eggs, and unsurpassed as market fowls.
Write or call for prices.
G. P. COCHRAN,
Middletown, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
New Sunday Trains

Delaware railroad officers expect the
Sunday trains on the Delaware railroad
to be well patronized and various crcu-
lars are being put in public places to ad-
vertse them. The trains will begin to
run on May 9th. There has been con-
siderable demand for Sunday trains and
they will be tried largely as an expert
ment by the railroad people. If they are
well patronized they will of course be
continued.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26

II you are looking for the best general
purpose chicken in this country buy a
few settings of my Columbian Wyan-
dotte eggs. have the best strain of
Columbians in America and will only
offer few settings for sale.
JOHN A. JoLIs,
Middletown, Del
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW
Gelatin will not dissolve in cold water

Dark calicoes should be ifoned on tile
wrong side with ir5ns that are not too
hot.
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26
- EGIsTER's ORDER.


.55re Off1GE OF HEGlSTFh UT WILL,
NEw CASTLE CoUNTY, DEL. nov. 20 1905
Upon the application of Joseph Z. Jolls and
John A. Joils, Administrators of John w.
county, deceased. it is ordered ard directed
by the Registar OF Wills that the AdministEa-
tors aforesaid give notice ofgranttlg OF Letters
of Administration upon the estate of the de.
ceased, with the date OF granting thereof, by
causina advertisements to be posted within
forty days from the date of such letters in six OF
the most public place of the county of New
Castle, requiring all persous having demands
against the estate TO present the same or
abide by ln act of Asst nbly in snch case
made and provided and also cause the same
to be inserted within the same period in the
Middletown Transcript newspaper publish
ed in Middletown, Delaware, and to be C N
tinued therein two months.
Given under the hand and seal OF
Seal office of the Register0 wills atore-
i-i said, at Wilmington, In New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
written.
FRED E. BAGH, Register of Wills
NoTloE-Notice is hereby given that Letters
of Administration were in due form of law
granted unto the undersigned, on the Twenty
ninth day of November A. ID. 1900, and that
all persons having claims against the estate
of the deceased must present the same, duly
attested, TO the said administrators, on or be-
fore the Twenty-ninth day of November, .906,
or abide the Act of Assembly in such case
JOSEPH G. IoLLS,
JOHN A. J0LLS,
Administrators.
Address. Middletown. Delaware.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1906-10-27
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
That no Frankfort Citizen
Can Aff,rd to Ignore.

Danger Signal No. l comes from
the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are
sick. Well kidneys excrete a
clear, amber fluid. Sick kidneys
send out a thin, pale and foamy.
or thick, red, ill-smelling urine,
full of sediment and irregular of
passage.
Danger Signal No. , comes from
the back. Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, tell
you OF sick kidneys and warn you
of the coming of dropsy, diabetes
and Brights disease. Doan's Kid
ney Pills cure sick kidneys and
cure them permanently. Here's
Frankfort proof:
w. III. Roberts, grocer, of $50
Todd street. says: Being in the
drug business good many years
and Il graduate pharmacist, and
my knowledge of medicine was
sufficient to prove that my kid
neys were not performing the work
which nature intended they
should. for | suffered "a great deal
from II persistent aching pain
across the small of my back, and
the secretions from the kidneys
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for the kidneys. A number of
friends of mine to whom | have
recommended Doan's Kidney
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Remember the name-Doan s.
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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1906-10-27
HOME GROWN BANANAS
SERVED.

AS we noted last year, our
friend, DR.. L. Y. Williams, has
been cultivating n banana tree
for the last three years. This Is
the first year that the tree has
produced fruit.
After the warm weather had
set in. DR.. Williams had the
plant Git can hardly be called II
tree) set out on the west side of
his office. ON Elks' Place, and
carefully tended it until it became
necessary, on account OF the APP
proach of cold weather, to trans
fer it back to his conservatory, at
his residence on Steele street.
The fruit matured this week