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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
BASIS OF
BIG BANK SCANDAL

Seymour, Ia, April 24.-Cashier Lee
Roy Ware, Of the Farmers and rover
rsnk, made a complete confession of
ais operations in the bank this morning
% the state auditor and several direc-
:ors. He said that the shortage would
oe nearer $3.50 than any other sum
he could name. He feared it might
.un to 500, 900. Ware said;
LAS God is my judge I have not
profited by this shortage by a single
cent. l was the dupe of several men
who found out that 1 a manipulated
the books by false entries and used
hat information to hold me up for
money!"
The system of robbing the bank was
to issue certificates of deposit to men
who did not give the bank any money.
These men speculated in grain with the
certificates of deposits. SO long as they
had money, we'll and good. and the GER
tificates were redeemed
Will Prosecute.
Auditor Carroll will not permit the
bank to open until experts have gone
over the books to get evidence for
criminal prosecutions.
Ware is generally believed to have
been duped. He was not a high liver.
r. s. Davidson, a depositor had $4,000
in the bank for which there is not a
record. Twenty-Five angry italian coal
miners are in Seymour clamoring for
their money and threatening trouble.
Extra police have been ordered to keep
them ava from the bank Cashier
Ware after opening the safe and max
ing his confession collapsed and he is
at his home behind locked doors. His
wife is standing by him nobly and in
sists that men higher up in the town,
though not officers of the bank, are the
real culDritS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
ROADS ARE WORTH
$4,000 A MILE
Minnesota Investigating Com
mittee Squeezes Out Con-
siderable Water.

st. Paul, Mimi, April 24.-Railroae'
property in Minnesota is valued at
t$215, 900, 900 by the Sundberg investigat-
ing committee which returned it's re-
port to the state senate yesterday. This
is approximately $27, 900 a mile. The
lof $500, 600, 900 or $4,000 a mile on an
average. The net earnings according to
the committees findings averaged over
5000 a mile last year, or Is per cent.
ION the committees valuation.
The report say that to arrive at the
cost of reproducing and equipping the
different line in their present condition
the committee considered the original
cost of construction: the cost of inn
iprovements, betterments and equip
ment added since; the cost n charac-
ter of the lines recently built; the ex-
.pense Of operating and the earnings
under existing rates; value of stock
and bonds; the geography of the line
and the judgment displayed in its To-
cation.
.ern, the report says:
This road was built by A. B. Stick
ney, who raised the funds by acquir-
ing, organizing, recognizing and har-
monizing corporations Of Minnesota.
Iowa and Illinois"
of the road is S143,66S per mile and
the committee finds it is valued at
about one-ffth that, or $4,000 a
mile. In it's last report the company
certif1es that the line and equipment
cost S9S,011 per mile.
Referring to the fact this in 1891
there was reported for purchase of
constructed road" $6,317,1 91. So, the
committee says sit was then 815 miles
long. Fifteen years later this elastic
item had been stretched to $5O,594,-
344 IS, but the whole line had shrunk
sixty miles in length. 1t had been
fwatered foo much"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
NAvYMAN, BARRED,
"A @ ONLY
PRICE OF TICKET

Providence. r. l., April 23.-Fred J..
Buenzle, who was barred from dances
in Newport because, as he claims, he
was wearing the uniform of the navy.
can recover at law only the price Of his
admission ticket, according to a de-
cision handed down by Justice Swee-
land Of the Rhode Island superior court.
The decision says the legal rights OF
a man wearing a United States uniform
are not different from those Of any we'll
behaved person who possesses a ticket
of admission to any place of amusement.
The judge holds that the proprietors
of n amusement place are not under
any obligations to admit any person
whom they may choose to exclude.
Buenzle was given financial support
by the naval officers n President
Roosevelt to help defray expenses OF
the prosecution.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
BICAMIST ARRESTED,
SINGING TO HIS BABY
Second Wife Faints When Con.
stables Suddenly Appear in
Home, for Husband.

Philadelphia, April 24.-While sing
Ing to his baby, born to his second
wife, Morton Wood, who has lived his
life in two sections, and who was SO
well along in the second that he was
beginning to f1atter himself he would
never again hear from the first, was
surprised when suddenly two con-
stables appeared in his home in Ger
'mantown and arrested him for big
amy.
1t had been five years since he de-
serted his wife in Waterbury, Conn.,,
and closed, as he thought, the first sec
ton Of his life. 1t had been %unsatis-
factory to him, and he decided to start
taneW.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
IOWA AND NEBRASKA
EDUCATORS BENEFIT
BY CARNEGIE FUND

New York. April 24.-J. D. Bowman
secretary of the Carnegie fund for tn
advancement of teaching, announced
today that although the foundation has
declined to admit state universities to
the list of beneficiaries 1t occasionally
grants retiring allowances in state in
situations to men who have rendered
distinguished academic service.
In accordance with that plan the ex-
ecutive committee has given retiring
allowances to following educators:
Benjamin Andrews, chancellor Of the
University Of Nebraska.
Francis P. Smith. professor of nat
ural philosophy IL. the University of
Virginia.
William v. Folwell, ex-president of
the University of Minnesota.
Amos N. Currier, dean of college Of
liberal arts. University of Iowa.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
R4ND u. BREWER
Rr10zp 81 6ANnAEk

New York, April 24.-United States
Supreme Court Justice David j. Brew
err pleaded for a higher standard Of
ethics in the legal profession in an adj
dress before the Ethical Culture So
riety In Carnegie hall. The justice
said no profession is so often wrong
fully attacked as the legal, adding:
"It is strange there should be so
much criticism of the bar. We must
remember the wisdom of the law
maker can never keep pace with the
ingenuity of trained minds seeking to
evade legal limitations.
THE old saying that holes may be
found in every law, simply means that
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
%COURTMART|AL FOR
CALAMITY LIKELY
West Pointers Who Put Coat
Over Girls Shoulders Are
Now In for 1t.

West Point, April 23.-Court mar.
tailed for g%allantry is to be the fate
Of the seventeen cadets at the Unitet
States military academy here, who are
under charges of having loaned thei,
cVercoats 10 rs many fair visitors al
the dress parade of April II, when
Colonel Howse ordered the masculine
garments stripped from the feminine
shoulders. Colonel Howse, the COM
anGan admitted today that the ca
diets would be punished. Colonel
Scott, superintendent of the academy,
will name the members of the court
Immediately.
Colonel Howse is upheld by the mil
ltary authorities, both in Washington
and at West Point. A report Of the
whole affair was sent to General Aims
worth, military secretary of the gem
eral staff, and was communicated by
him to the war department and to the
president. All are thoroughly in sym
pathy with Colonel Howse.
1t Is said that the punishment prob
ably will take the form OF, demerits.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
ON MANY CHARGES

Wilkesbarre, Pa, April 24.-More
!han a score of foreigners charged with
being members of the Blackhand are
responsible for many crimes in this
'icinity, were placed on trial here to-
lay. Thirteen cases of shooting with
attempt to kill. thirteen of conspiracy,
six of ~dynamitlng and two of robbery
by threats and menaces arc charged
against the men who are alleged to be
'eaders of the Blackhand.
Hundreds of foreigners families In
his section have for several years lived
In a state bordering on terror as the
result Of threats made by his myster-
lous organization which in many cases
have been followed up with murder.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
THAW MANSION
REPORTED HAUNTED
BY WOMAN SUICIDE
Wife of Presbyterian Minister
Hanged Herself in One of
the Bathrooms.

P%ittsburg, Pa, April 24.-After being
carefully suppressed five years, the Sc
cret of Lyndhurst, the Thaw family
mansion. became known today through
an admission by ex-Coroner McGeary.
For the first time the public knows
why Mrs. William Thaw refuses to live
in the great house alone and why
Harry X. Thaw was SO nervous when
he visited there.
Five years ago a Kentucky woman,
wife of n Presbyterian minister, and a
relative of Mrs. Thaw, while visiting
her at Lyndhurst committed suicide by
hanging in one OF the large bath rooms
IF the house.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25

the ingenious lawyer can often fins
either in the statute or in the mode of
its enforcement, some way to escape
from its penalties.
ct is this which provokes the fire.
quent remarks that the law SO seldom
reaches the rich, for the rich can pay
for the brainiest, II the b~rainiest can
quickly discover means of evasion.
"As against this. I appeal for a high
er standard of ethics. 1 appeal for ev-
cry lawyer to put his heart alongside
his head, to mix his conscience with his
brains. Let him have courage to say
to his client: Tt may be legal but it
is dishonest, and 1 will have nothing
to do with it,"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
MURDER SIGNS
IN DEATH CAkf

Chicago, April 24.-Positive proof Of
murder in the Irving park poisoning
mystery vas found when Professor
Walter NJ. Haines, of the Rush Medical
college, reported to Coroner Hoffman
that his analysis found sufficient arsen-
ic to kill in the stomach Of Mrs. Mary
Mette.
Mrs. Mette baked a Bohemian fruit
cake of -four that contained enough ar
senic to Kill twenty persons. The day
the cake was eaten she became Violent
~ Ill with the other members of her
family.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
IHUCGER NARROWLY
ESCAPES LYNCH|NC
Crowd Gathers After Man Who
Forces Embraces on Girl
Has Been Thrashed.

Norfolk, Va, April Pal. B. Plum
mer. a well known young mar narrow
ly escaped lynching at the hands of in
furiated citizens after hugging a promi-
nent young woma on the street.
Plummer followed the girl several
blocks, threw his arms suddenly around
I her and gave her a good hug.
) The girl screamed and the man was
given a t%hrashing by several men who
1 happened to be at hand.
A crowd gathered, but the police sue
ceeded in rescuing Plummer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
LORD HARRINGTON
GUILTY, DECLARES
SUPREME COURT

Washington, d. c.. April 24.-In an
opinion by Chief Justice Fuller of the
supreme court. today he dismissed the
criminal case of Frederick Seymour,
alias Lord" harrington, under sen
tence of death in st. Louis on charge
of Numbering James ?. Mccain in
June, 1903. thus sustaining the verdict
of guilty returned by the trial court.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
ADMITS THEFT is
CHARTER MILLION

New York, April 24.-The shortage in
the accounts of w. O. Douglas. assist
,ant loan clerk of the Trust Company of
North America, who was arrested yes
terday on charge of stealing $4,000 in
bonds from the institution. may reach
$3.50. 600.
Considerable anxiety is felt for the
safety of Mrs. Douglas, who has not
been seen since shortly after midnight
Sunday
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.
ILOELO is SUFFERING

Manila, April 23.-The latest reports,
from Iloilo say the fire has been.
checked. The native quarter Of the city.
was destroyed and the property loss isl
estimated at 100000. The business Sec
ton WAS untouched.
Several hundred houses We're de-I
stroyed and 1e,o0G natives are home-I
less.
The shocks were the most severe mi
fifteen years.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
3 BABIES BURN TO
DEATH; MOTHER AWAY

Des Moines, Ia, April 24.-Two chill
dren of Chas. Bratewell We're burned
to death today near Mystic. and a third
SO terribly injured that death will re-
suit. A boy Of 5 was playing with
matches while the mother was away.
A boy of 3 and a baby 10 months old
were burned to a crisp.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
STEPHENS CALLS ON PRESIDENT

washington, D. e, Apr 23.--Jchn T.
Stevens, eX-chief engineer and chair
man of the isthmian canal commission,
was a caller at the White House today.
His visit was personal, he said. as ne
had not seen the president since his re-
turn to this country. He talked with
Roosevelt about the condition Of affairs
IN the sthmus
How long will it tax to complete
the canal?" was asked of Stevens.
Between Six and seven years." he ~e-
piled, adding:
January /. 1916, after d~lscounting all
contingencies, and 1T should be COM
Melted tWo years before that time"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
STRIKING CLOAKMEN
ASSAULT EMPLOYER

New York, April 24.-The striking
cloakmakers at the establishment of
Oscar Hargolin & Son, today assaulted
the senior member of the firm. and
created a riot in which several hundred
persons participated. They were dis
persed by the police and fou were
arrested.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
BANDIT WHO STOLE
S26, 900 SENTENCED


Tuesday. $40 p. M, Gunderson :
: held up Clerk Fred Zimmerman in Z
; the Union depot office of the North :
; ern Express company In st. Paul :
: and forced him to open the safe. :
Gunderson made away with SIS, 900. :
Wednesday,, 4 a. M, Gunderson :
was arrested by the police In his :
home. :
Thursday, s a. m. Gunderson con- Z
fessed he had taken the money and :
told where he had concealed it. All :
, the money was recovered. :
Friday, $50 a. m, Gundcrson was :
arraigned waived examination and :
was bound over to the district
court. :
Friday, 2 p. M, Gunderson was
= sentenced.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25

st. Paul, MINI, April 23.-John Gund-
erson. who confessed to the robbery Of
h Northern Express company's office
by holding up Fred Zimmerman, a
clerk, compelling the latter to hand
over a package of money containing
$25. 900. was sentenced to the st. Cloud
reformatory. The sentence is indeter-
inmate,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
WIFE'S SURPRISE
PLAN is SPOILED
BY 500 HOTELS.

Atlantic City. N. j., April "a
Planning a little surprise for
her husband, who is at one of
the Atlantic City hotels, Mrs.
Walter Brown came over from
New York to pay him a visit.
She had eve been in the re-
sort and when she discovered
that her hubby might be in any
one Of the H99 registered hotels,
she narrowly escaped Mysteries.
Persons to whom Mrs. Brown
told her plight sent her to po-
lice headquarters and friendly
detectives started a seach for
her husband.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-25
STEAMER DODGES
SHIP, Is AGROUND

Toxic, April 24.-The Pacific mail
tteamer Mongolia ran aground this
morning near Mayeda lighthouse, PROV
ince OF Nagato, Japan. The locality is
full of reefs. The accident was caused
by an attempt to avoid collision with
a sailing ship.
NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
Chicago, April 22.-New York ex
change 25 per cent. discount
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
PRESIDENT GOES
TO SEE HIS SON
WILL SPEND TODAY AND SUNDAY
AT BOSTON AND GROTON-WlFE
AND DAUGHTERS ACCOMPANY
HIM.

Washington. February 22.-Presldent
Roosevelt left Washington at $40 o'clock
this afternoon on the federal express via
the Pennsylvania railroad for Boston,
Mass, between which place and Groton
he expects to spend Saturday and Sun
daJ, returning to Washington in time for
business Monday morning. The President
was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Representative and
Mrs. Longworth and Mr.. NJ. C. Latta,
assistant secretary to the President. The
Massachusetts trip is purely a personal
one, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
desiring to spend short time with their
sons, Theodore Jr., who is at Harvard,
and Kermit, who is at school in Groton.
The only function in which the Presl-
dent will participate to any extent while
away will be the reception of the Har-
ward union, at Cambridge Sunday aft
ernoon. AT that time he, will deliver a
carefully prepared speech. Previous to the
reception he will attend a luncheon given
by the Sphinx club, a university organi-
cation.
In Boston the President is to be the
guest of a former Harvard class mate,
DIR. w. S. Bigelow, while Mrs. Roose-
Welt during the few hours she is to be
in the city. will visit at the home of
Mrs George e. Lee on Chester Hill. Mrs.
Longworth and Miss Ethel Roosevelt will
also go there on arriving in Boston.
At half past o clock Saturday evening
the President will attend a gathering Of
the Porcelain club of Harvard to wit
ness the initiatory ceremony attending
the induction into that organization OF
his son, Theodore.
Saturday about noon Mrs. Roosevelt
and her daughter Miss Ethel, will go to
Crotch to see Kermit and will remain
there until Joined by the President about
noon. sunday The three will get back to
Boston in ample time to take the fed
eral express, leaving at o'clock Tor
Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
MOBILE WILL AGAIN
HAVE COUNTY FAIR
MEETING HELD AT
COMMERCIAL CLUS-THE GULF
COAST ASSOCIATION ORGAN
lied, WITH 100000 CAPITAL.

Mobile, February 22.-(Special)-rhe
revival of the county fairs held in this
city for many years, but which were dis
continued about fifteen years ago, was
assured tonight at a large and enthus-
iastic meeting held in the Commercial
club. 1t was for the purpose of a tenn
porary organization. The committee ap-
pointed at meeting held "Wednesday
TO draft plans of organization made
recommendations which were adopted,
choosing the name for the association
Association of Mobile
The capital stock will be 100000 at par
value of 800. l.. Hammel was appointed
temporary chairman. The call for sub
scriptions and $4,000 was subscribed in
few minutes, amounting to 10S shares.
The association will have a board of di-
rectors numbering twenty-one members.
committee of twelve was appointed to
solicit subscriptions, and will begin work
tomorrow, to report at special meeting
Monday, when a permanent organization
will be effected. 1t is the purpose to hold
annual fairs with exhibits from gulf
coast and counties adjacent to Mobile,
as well tropical and South American
countries. Races and sports will probably
be INDUCED in and the association will
ask an appropriation from the state.
The Alabama society Sons of the Revo-
luton met at the Cawthon hotel tonight
and drank a toast in honor of the birth
day of George Washington, after which
they adjourned until next Friday night,
when they will hold their annual meet
ing. The society held like meetings to-
night at birmingham, Montgomery and
other cities of the SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
NEGRO THIEF IS
HARD TO CATCH
Pursuers Chase Him for Eight Blocks
and Finally Land Him
In Jail.

After a dash through the main streets
of the city, with two police officers at his
heels, Frank Owens, an alleged burglar,
drew up in the Louisville and Nashville
yards ear the Williamson furnace yes
terday afternoon at o'clock.
The negro was seen by Detective Ham
ilton at the corner of Norton's drug
store but he dashed off down the street.
When passing Nineteenth street Desk
Sergeant Ennis Joined in the chase. and
gained rapidly on the fugitive. He ran
more than eight blocks, climbing over
box cars, and making every effort To
evade his persuer
On his person were found two watches
and a chain which had been stolen from
the residence of l.. l.. Duderaw. 20 Sev
neteenth street, north. Mr.. Duderaw was
asleep at the time. but about three hours
later notified the police. and his property
was soon returned. The negro also car
ried a dark lantern which he had used
to good effect
Several other petty thievries We're re-
ported TO headquarters yesterday. being
the usual run of residence entrances II.
q. Jones of 1921 Fifth avenue reported
the loss of his watch. while DIR. Dedman
asked for aid in finding the wheel which
had been stolen from his son. A number
of bicycles were ruined yesterday by a
mischevious boy who slashed up the tires
with his knife
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
WIDE CREVASSE
OPENS IN LEVEE
UNLESS CLOSED AT ONCE THE
WATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI
wIlLFLOW OVER TWENTY-FIVE
MILES OF FARM LAND.

New Orleans, February ca crevasse
seventy-hve feet wide, which, unless
closed Immediately, will cause overflow
water to back up as far as Gretna'
town opposite New Orleans, opened TO-DAY
twenty-five miles below here in the west
bank levee of the Mississippi river. 1t Is
the first serious break in Louisiana since
the high water began.
No lives are endangered, but large
area of rich sugar and truck farming
land will be inundated to depth of eight
feet in a few days. Among the planta-
fions threatened is that OF former Gov
ernor Yarmouth of Louisiana.
The tracks of the Grand Isle railroad
are also being washed out. The break
first appeared after dark last night short
lv following an official inspection in
which the levy had appeared safe.
Crawfish are believed TO have cut
through the embankment Five hundred
men will be put to work tomorrow in an
effort to close the crevasse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
THE INTERNATIONAL
CHESS PLAY STARTS
MATCH CABLE GAME BETWEEN
AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN.
CHANCES OF HoMETEAM LOOK
SLlM-MovES RECORDED.

New York, February 22.-When play in
the ninth international cable chess match
between teams representing America and
Great Britain closed today the chances of
the American team looked rather slim.
OF the ten games started this morning
the American had won one, the BritisherS
two, and one had been drawn. Howell,
with a Guicco Pine opening, defeated
Mitchell on the twenty-first move, but
the enthusiasm of the Americans were
short lived, for the British claimed a
victory for Richmond over Morgan, the
latter failing to observe the time limit.
The rules called for twenty moves an
hour, while Morgan, understanding that
all he was required to do was to make
forty moves in two hours, failed to keep
within the limit for the first hour.
On the tenth board Wainwright defeat
ed Robinson, the American, and Marshall
drew with Bearr on the first board. Play
will be resumed tomorrow morning, but
from the positions on the other six boards
it seems probable that the Sir George
Newns cup, which has been held for two
years by the Brooklyn Chess club, Will
take another trip across the Atlantic.