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federate army and United States senator from Alabama, passed into rest at Wash lngton near midnight June Il.
 At the breaking out or hostilities in 1861 he displayed his devotion to his state by entering the army as a private in the gallant Fifth Alabama regiment under the command of the peerless Rodes. By force of merit he rapidly rose to the command of brigade, and as such command rendered most efficient service to the cause he loved so well.
 "1t was in post bellum affairs that the marked ability of this man was most conspicuous As leader in national mat ters, the constant and unwavering con sideration which he gave to all that would add to the glory and renown of his country was noted, and won the plaudlts of the world. Rigid in his con struction of his duty. immovable when his line of action was decided on, un- corrupted and incorruptible. he died with a character as pure as the snow and reputation without flaw or stain. He stands out the most conspicuous figure of his day and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all-his friends and his enemies alike. To the youth of the en- tire country, north and south, his noble life may be held up for emulation; and to be like Morgan in character or ac- tlon may be regarded as the highest honor known to man.
 Old Home Is Beautiful.
 Senator Morgan's old homestead is one of the most beautiful old homes in Selma. It is a two-story house, with the tall posts and impressive appearance that is so much admired
 It is now owned by w. c. Agee who had it entirely remodeled The only me- mentos of the Morgan's time are the mahogany staircase and the stone man telpieces. The senator sold this place three years ago. when he bought a home in Washington.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
STEAL
BIG IRON SAFE
Ponderous Lockbox Taken from
House While Its Occupants
Sleep.

NEW YORK, September 12.-Burg-
lars forced their way into the home
of William II. Denton, a well-to-do
resident of Evergreen, Queens borough,
early yesterday and, after ransacking
tho first floor. removed q 500-pound
steel safe from the house to vacant
lot, three hundred yards away, and
dynamited 1t. Many yaluables were
taken.
Although Mr.. Denton and his family
were in the house at the time, no one
appears to have heard the robbers.
The theft was discovered by Mrs. Den
ton, who became Ill about o'clock
and started downstairs to get some
medicine. When she lighted lamp
she saw that the entire lower floor
had been turned topsy-turvy.
The burglars gained an entrance to
the house by prying open front win
dow with the aid of Jimmy" Much
silverware, jewelry and bric-a- brac
were carried off. Mr.. Denton said
that 1t would be impossible to tell
how much had been stolen until an
inventory is taken. However, he adj
mitted that the theft would amount
to a large sum.
In the safe that was blown open
were number of valuable deeds, pa :
pers and bank books. The bank books
We're taken, but the deeds and papers
were left scattered about the lot A
valuable gold watch and chain, family
heirlooms, which were also in the safe.
were stolen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
CRISIS in COPPER is
DEPRESSING STOCK
Largest Producing Company Is
Soon to Shut Down Its
Mines.

NEW YORK, September IA crisis
In the copper situation, due to n dead
lock between the producer and the
consumer, has resulted In n tremen-
dous overproduction of the metal. and
the Amalgamated Copper Company,
the largest producer OF copper In this
country, will soon shut down down Its
mines In and about Butte, Mont.
News of the intended suspension of
operations there was made known to-
day by an interest closely identified
with the company. Amalgamated Cop
per stock fell over 81 per share in the
Stock Exchange when the news became
known. and the shares of the company
sold down to s6o.25. which is GIL points
under the highest record price of the
year. The Amalgamated Copper Com
pany has had difficulty in obtaining
adequate supplies of fuel at Butte, and
this Is said to be a contributing cause
for the shutdown.
The Amalgamated Copper Company.
along with other copper companies.
has been piling up large surplus of
copper for several months, and 1t is
authoritatively stated that there is n
surplus of 250,000.000 pounds of refined
copper in the United States. Henry
II. Rogers, president of the Amalga-
mated Copper Company, is now III at
his summer home in Fair Haven, Mass.
j. w. Beck. counsel for Mr.. Rogers,
that Mr.. Rogers had been Ill since
July, and that he would not be able to
appear in court for at least three
months,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
DOCTOR URGING
GAME OF CRAPS
Husband Of Novelist Backs Man
in Game With
Negroes.

NEW YORK, September 12.--Dr.
Charles NJ. Freeman, husband of Mary
u. wilkins. the novelist, has been ar
rested in his home town of Metuchen,
n. j., on the charge of aiding and
abetting gambling game.
DR.. Freeman, it appears, was can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Mayor. It is charged that he
backed citizen of the town in a
game of craps against two negroes.
his object being. 1t is alleged to In
fluence the negroes to vote for him.
The primaries were held yesterday,
and DR.. Freeman was not only hope
lessly beaten, but his arrest on the
gambling charge occurred.
Dr. Freeman denies that he was
present at the game and does not take
his arrest seriously. He was held In
$500 bail for the action of the grand
Jury
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
BURTON is CHOSEN
C. A. R, COMMANDER.
Missouri Ex-Congresslnan Wins
Coveted Honor at Great
Encampment.
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ASK INCREASED PENSIONS
Two Aged Veterans Die from
Overexertion in Great
Parade.

SARATOGA. N. Y, September H.
Charles G. Burton, Of Nevada. Mo-, 81
former member of Congress, was to-day
elected commander chief of the
Grand Army Of the Republic. which is
holding It's forty-frst annual encamp-
ment here. The new commandments
chief was opposed by three candidates,
General John r. Wilder, of Knoxville,
Tenn: Charles Burr1Ws, of Rutherford.
n. j.. and Patrick II. Coney, of Topeka,
Kan. His plurality was more than
300.
other officers elected by the encamp-
ment were as follows: Lewis c. Crit
fifth, Troy N. Y, senior yice-command-
er: William NJ. Scott. Atlanta, Ga.
junior vice-commander; DR.. I. Lane
Taneyhill, Baltimore. Md: surgeon
general; Bishop Samuel Fallows. Chi
cago. chaplain In chief. Toledo, o., was
selected as the next place of meeting
The date will be fixed by the national
council of administration.
In the morning the reports of officers
and the annual address of Commander
fn-Chief Brown were presented; In the
afternoon the reports of two commit
tees were received and adopted. These
included the recommendations of the
committee on pensions, which Endorsed
an effort to Increase the pension of
veterans widows to s12 per month, and
that OF the committee on the COM
handkerchief chiefs address, which. 1t APP
pears. approved all of hts recommen-
datlons.
The Women's Relief Corps to-day
elected Mrs. Kate Il. Jones, of New
York City, national president. The la
dies of the G. A. r.. elected as their
national president. Mrs. Clara L. Saw
yer, OF South Portland. Me.
AS a result of the parade yesterday
two veterans died to-day. Ensign S.
Bunce. past commander of John r.
Griswold Post, of Troy, n. Y. was
stricken on Broadway dying shortly
aftcrward of heart disease. Eli S. Rob
inson, of Post No. 234, OF New York
City. also was overcome and died to-
day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
NEEDS A
SEA VOYAGE NOW
Gaynor, Improved at Health Re-
sort, Wants Salt Air
Trip.

INDIAN SPRINGS, GA, September
12.-Having greatly improved at this
health resort. where he has been by
grace of the government for several
weeks John G.. Gaynor, who was con-
victed with Benjamin d. Greene and
Capt oberlin NJ. Carter of defraudipg
the United States in the Savannah har-
Dor contracts. has decided that a sea
trip Will completely restore his health,
so he has asked the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals to allow him to
take an ocean voyage.
Gaynor has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment. and the Circuit
Court has affirmed the sentence, but
1t will hear an application for re-
hearing.
Under the circumstances Gaynor's
request for a sea trip is considered a
little unusual. The privileges already,
accorded Gaynor have caused much
comment, and should the government
allow him to go on an ocean voyage
there will be strong protest.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
THOUGHT HE WAS EARLE.
Crowd Hoots Bewhiskered Man and
Wnman COmpan Mon.

NEW YORK. September 12--With
cries of Hey. there, Affinity" crowd
OF men and boys in the Bronx surged
around an unknown man who resem-
bled Ferdinand Pinney Earle. the art
list of Monroe. n. Y. and his woman
COMPANION yesterday. and IL required
the vigorous use of his club By po-
liceman to rescue them.
When tall heavily bearded man,
wearing sombrero. and with wo-
man on his arm, left the subway sta
ton at One Hundred and Forty ninth
Street and started up Third Avenue,
tracted attention, and small voice
piped out: Hey, fellows. There goes
Thirty-five or forty other persons
started In the direction of the couple,
Hey. there, Affinity? What did you
quit your wife for? Is that the new
one?"
AT One Hundred and Fifty eighth
Street there is public school, and
there scholars swelled the crowd
shortly to several hundred. which filed
the walks and impeded the progress
pf the man and woman, and 1t was
necessary for the former to nse his
Sergeant Joseph Wasserman used his
club to dispense the crowd, and then
ne escorted the couple to the One Hun
fred and Fifty sixth Street Station OF
ihe elevated road. AS they started UP
the stairway the man remarked:
For heavens sake! I am not Earle.
will have this cut off, and he toyed
With his beard, Elf it's going to make
this kind of trouble
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
GREAT COUNCIL
WILL RETRENCH
Red Men Decide to Reduce Ex-
penses in Number of
Directions.

NORFOLK, VA, September 12.-Fi-
nancial retrenchment was effected by
the Great Council Of the United States.
Improved Order of Red Men, here In
their sixtieth annual convention. They
reduced mileage to the members to the
great council from ten to eight cents;
abolished the standing committees on
revision Of laws and ceremonies; re-
duced the allowance of travelling eX-
penses to the great incohonee for the
propagation of the order from $4,000
to $1,000. and increased the per capita
tax from ten to eleven cents on all
tribes In the territories and otherwise
reporting to the great council.
Two thousand dollars in place of
$4,000 will be hereafter allowed the
official journal.
Judge William II. Boyde. of Della
ware. was appointed a member of the
great board for three years.
The great incohonee and great chief
of the records were authorized to bor-
row enough money to run tho order
until next April, when per capita taxes
will be paid.
Bridgeport. Conn.,, was selected as the
next place of meeting.
"A law was passed requiring the
qualifications of a member to be that
of white citizen of the United States.
Following were the appropriations
for the ensuing Great Sun, as recon-
mended by the finance committee:
Salary of Great Incohonee $4,000
Salary of stenographer to Great
1ncohonee .................... 800
Contingent expenses of Great In
cohonee $500
Salary of Great Chief of Records $500
Salary of stenographer to Great
Chief of Records ........ $50
Salary of clerk to Great Chief Of
Records ...................... 1900
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
MISUNDERSTANDING
SALE OF CITY BONDS

NEW YORK. September little
city's s4o,o00,O00 4 IL per cent. gold
bond issue was subscribed for more
than five times over in the bids that
were opened in the controllers office
yesterday afternoon. More than 900
bids were received. SS6 Of which will
be tabulated. the others being irre-
gular and therefore thrown out. The
bids aggregated S207.159,420.
According to old-time officials in
the controllers office no such compe-
ttion for municipal bonds was ever
known in this country. The most
spirited bidding in the city's history
for its bonds before this was in 1904,
when s37.0oO,0O0 at 3 1-2 per cent.
were offered. There We're 1877 bids for
those. and the issue went at the price
Of 100.13 to 100.34.
The high bids of the sale were most
ly in small amounts. the record bid
in price being made by Jesse Leeman
OF COS Ninth Avenue. He asked for
$4,000 worth at 10. There were more
than hundred bids above 102, large
and small and according to the es-
Inmates in the controllers Office all
these will also win out.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
THIEF WITH AN AUTO.
Modern Method of Holding Up Rail.
road Office.

NEW YORK, September 12.-Frank
Kelley, the night ticket agent and tele-
graph operator at the West Eighth
Street station of the New Jersey Cen
trail Railroad at Bayonne, was send
ing a message shortly after 8 O'clock
Monday morning when coin sounded
on the marble slab at the ticket win,
dow. When he had finished sending
the message. Keeley walked over to
the counter. He faced a middle-aged
man.
"Let me have return ticket for
Elizabeth in hurry please the man
said. When Kelley got the ticket and
showed it beneath the brass grating
which protects the window ha looked
into the muzzle of a big revolver.
Now, sonny. just open that door
and be lively and you won't get hurt"
said the man behind the revolver.
Kelley. who was scared, showed back
I the latch on the door, and the man
walked in and cleaned out the money
drawer. He got $34.64.
Not a word. I'm off, said the thief
as he slammed the door. He started Off
in an automobile, the police think, but
no one got trace of him.,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
NAY GO TO EUROPE CHEAP.
Great TrnnsatIautIc Lines Now Cut
ting Rates of Travel.

Great Trnnsatlautlc Lines NOW Sut.
ting Rates of Travel.
NEW YORK, September 1.-THE rate
battle between the transatlantic lines
assumed heartbreaking phase yester-
day from the point Of view of the
stockholders. In the early afternoon
the International Mercantile Marine an
nounced that by the Baltic, the Cedric
and the Celtic, of the White Star fleet,
the minimum first cabin rates from
New York to Liverpool would be
S72.50, reduction from $95, and that
the eastward rates by the Arabic to
Liverpool and by the Minnehaha and
the Minneapolis and the Minnetonka
$3.50. reduction from $50. BY the
Mesaba, of the Atlantic Transport
fleet, until further notice, the rate will
be from New York to London, first
cabin minimum, $50, reduction from
$40. The reduction on the Adriatic. the
giantess Of the White Star Line. is
from $95 to $3.50.
~ Several hours after the International
Mercantile Marine had announced its
cuts the Cunard Line issued state
ment saying that the Caronia., Carma-
MIA, Campania and Lucania will carry
passengers to Mediterranean ports and
to Liverpool and Queenstown for $7250,
first cabin minimum. The present rate
on the Caronia and Carmaniaais sos,
and on the Lucania and Campania, 500.
BY the Umbria and the Etruria 1t Is
now possible to get to Liverpool and
Queenstown for $3.50, The minimum
summer rate on these boats was $3.50,
which was recently reduced to meet
the cuts of the White Star Line.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
in the foundry in the Southern shops.
He will be unable to work for several
days.
TRACTION STOCKS Low.
philadelphia Securities Record Unusual
DcpressiOn of Values.

PHILADELPHIA. PA. September 12.
During the afternoon the market for
traction stocks on the Philadelphia ex-
changes was dull and steady. the close
being above the lowest Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company stock closed at
Is IA. compared with low record
of Is 1-2. Union Traction closed at
and the net loss 6 ga. Both these
stocks have been under pressure be-
cause Of rumors affecting the stabil-
ity of the companies.
delphia Rapid Transit Company denied
positively that tho company Is in fnan-
cial DIFFICULTIES or that a receivershtp
is remotely probable
Figures given out show ample funds
on hand and in sight to cancel all
obligations and pay for improvements
under way.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
FIND KIDNAPPED GIRL
AFTER FORTY YEARS

NEW HAVEN. CONN, September II.
Mrs. James Wicksell has learned that
her daughter Eleanore, who was kid
raped from her forty-two years ago,
Is alive in Chicago. When Elaanore
was 4 baby less than two years old
her father, Gustav Wicksell, TOOK her
from her mother and disappeared. Since
then the mother has kept up con-
stont but unavailing searcit to find
some trace OF her daughter In Spencer,
alass.. and in Rochester. N. Y.
Recently the mother learned thai
the, daughter was in Chicago. and she
notified the Chicago police to look
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
Brief Items Around, Town

ron yesterday after undergoing extensive
alterations and improvements. Miss Reellie,
OF Canada recently head nurse in the Gem
eral Memorial Hospital In New York. has
been appointed head nurse, and will have
charsa-pf the training school for nurses.
The condition of William Il. Slater, who
looked on while his left fore leg was heing
ground Into a pulp, was reported to be-
greatly improved at the Virginia Hospital
last night The accident occurred at the
American Locomotive Works.
! A telegram from Joliet, III, states that
Rphert Bullock, Richmond hoy, seventeen
years old, WAS seriously hurt while stealing
a ride on the top of a railroad coach near
Joliet, His skull was fractured BY striking
an overhead bridge. r447 u Az .sss-, ~ ~,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
.silcnt Trentment' for Earle.

NEW YORK, September 12.EFerdi-
nand Pipney Earle whose unique
arrangements have brought
him notoriety, has returned to his
home in Monroe. He was accompanied
by his mother. The village people
made no attempt to disturb him, but
his homecoming is a fruitful subject
of discussion among the people to-day.
Earle declined to discuss his affairs
any further at present, but another de-
fensive statement, credited to Miss
Julia Kuttner, the young woman Earle
intends to marry, is published to-day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
POSTPONE Telephone Case.

ATLANTA. Ca September 12.-The
Georgia Railroad Commission to-day inde-
intely postponed consideration OF petition
for restoration of the reduced night rates
for long distance telephonlng recently aban-
doned by the Bell Telephone Company pend
ing detailed report from tho company
Vice-president Gentry. of the company,
said that after a fair trial he will be pre-
pared to make a detailed report.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
Peace Among SINNERS.

BOSTON. MASS, September 1.-THE sec
ond annual session OF the cotton mills spins
ners began in this city to day, and the dele
gates from many parts of the country We're
informed by Samuel Ross. of New Bedford.
International secretary that all was hai-
mony in the different districts except in
one.
The sessions, 1t is expected, VIII continue
three days. and the delegates will discuss
shorter hours and the reserve fund.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
We'd In IlinEtOn.

WASHINGTON, D. c., September -.
Marriage licenses We're issued here
to-day to these Virginians:
Grover c. AshbyS and Beatrice I.
Crosby. both of Stanton. Ma.
Charlie White and Lizzie Berry, both
of fredericksburg, Va.
Russell H. Brown, of Culpeper, Va,
and Marie G. T. Hudson, of Winston,
Ma. a4
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
MANS HAND
MASHED IN PLANEIl


Especial to The Times-Dlspatchl
FLOYD. VA, September 12.-Floyd
Richardson had his left hand crushed
to-day while working a planer in the
shop of L. A. Hylton. and three of his
fingers were amputated by Drs. Law
renee and Hartman. The young man
stood the operation, and the last report
was that he was getting on nicely,
though 1t is feared that blood poison
will take place.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
New POstmasterr.

Especial to The Times Dispatch,]
WASHINGTON. D. c.. September ~.
Virginia postmasters appointed:
James Store. Gloucester county, Robert
Z. Belvln. vice William Il. Massey, re-
signed; Madison Run, Orange county,
Cleopatra Bell. vice G. r, Simpson, re-
signed,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
IN RECEIVERS HANDS.
North Georgia Electric Power Compan,
Is Emhnrrassed

Is Embarrassed.
ATLANTA, GA, September 1.-THE
North Georgia Electric Power Company
was to-day placed in the hands of a
receiver. This action was taken on
Chamberlain. of Xenia, O., and the
Western Union Telegraph Company. A
similar petition for receiver was yes
terday refused by Judge Shelby, at
Atlanta
The North Georgia Electric Company
has a plant of $4,000 horsepower, In
the Chattahoochie River and sells
power to number of points, near
Atlanta.
Samuel c. Dunlap, of Gainesville, was
appointed temporary receiver.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
Acquitted OF Murder.

CHATTANOOGA. TENN, September
12.--The Jury to-day in the case of
Walter * fitzpatrick, formerlyYof South
Pittsburg, Tenn. charged with killing
Wiley Maynard. OF Macon, Ga, re-
turned n verdict OF not guilty. The
killing occurred on sand boat, this
city, several months ago.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
Socialism rs DIscu.sed.

BUFFALO, N. Y. September 12.-'Is
socialism threatening calamity?" was
the general topic announced for dis
cussion by the American Social Science
at to-day's session. DR.. A
II. Weber, of the New York State De-
partment of Labor, spoke on Labor
Legislation, National and 1nternation-
al" and w ]. Client. on international
Socialsm-Its Aims. Methods and Pro-
gress.'' These addresses were followed
by a general discussion.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
SEABOAtD AGENTS LEAVE
FOR FEW DAYS OUTING
Especial to Tho Tlmes-pispatch1

NORFOLK. VA, September 12.-This
morning freight and traffic agents of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway left
for a sightseeing trip in and around
the harbor on chartered steamer.
About $50 were In the party. among
whom were some of the highest Off
Gals Of the road.
This afternoon they held business
session but little work OF interest to
the public was done. most of it relat-
ing to railroad technica1ities.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-13
English Request to Yale.

LONDON, September 12-Archibald
Henry Blount, lord of the manor of
4Orleton. Herefordshire. has bequeathed
100000 to Yale, to be applied as is
deemed best for the university. Mr..
Blount died In London June 21st last.
at the age of sixty seven.