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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-06-01

The chief secret of beauty is
to stay young, SO buy yourself an
Ideal Comb is lasting, it will not
wash off and the hair may be
crimped or curled or washed with
out the least affecting the color,
Jules Francois, agent.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-06-01

Charles Hotel
the Cumberland Der,
miles which Nashville
FurOngs O55H 10 mile
but
tracks,
them
m "a times.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
ABRUPT REVERSAL OF
| SENTIMENT ON STREET
Very Sharp Recovery 10 The Prices
Of Stocks Takes FIace
Without Warning.
SPECULATIVE SENTIMENT TICKLE
The Uncertainty of 1t Completely Mys.
titles the Professional Traders in
Wall Street.-The Upward Move.
ment Placed Prices on Higher Lev.
el-The Total Sales.
fRy Associated Press.l

| NEW YORK, Feb 28.-There was
rs abrupt reversal of sentiment from
tia. of yesterday in the stock marked
today as there was on Tuesday fror,
tnnt of Monday. Todays sharp re.
coveries placed prices on level with
The best prices touched in the recov.
cry on Tuesday Tho complete un.
ce, tainty of the speculative sentiment
Is clearly defined In these numerous
ana abrupt changs in the reverse cI
! prices
| Today's recovery, which was slight
was accounted for by the absence If
new developments. as have been the
cher movements OF the week. Some
| Instances was attributed to the al.
iournment of the Interstate Comm re.
Commissions hearing In this city. But
opinions In the Wall street district Of
| me bad effects ON securities threat.
ened AZ result of that hearing. were
not altered but rather were empha.
sled by the later phase of the inves.
tigation. Commission houses profess
conviction that the public cannot he
! induced to buy stocks while these rev.
Citations are fresh In the mind.
Importance was given the highly
| favorable reports from the iron and
steel trade and the great confidence
expressed by authorities in that trade
! and of the soundness OF the conditions
! existing.
Money was firmer today, 10th IN
call and on time. There was suppos.
ed to be some calling in of loans 90.
Ing on In preparation for March sct.
Element which will be unusually large.
Discounts were easier In Berlin. Tho
Bank of Frances return was weal
ono but sterling exchange ut Paris
rose.
| The profit taking in the final houy
was well absorbed and the market
closed strong and active.
Bonds were Irregular. Total sales
par value sl,152,O0O. u. S. 9 coupons
! declined 1.2, while the 3 registered
advanced 1-2 per cent on call. Total
sales t,l24 900 shares: Copper GS.
100; Smelling 72,40O; Sugar 1900
ToDaccn 100: hnacon'o ~ 900. A,rNi
son 31,10O; A. G. L. 400; M. K. & It.
41,300; Reading 3s6.3OU; S. p. rs SUI
Southern 1920 Southern pfd 1900,
Union Pacific ia. 300; U. s. Stee,
44.400; Virginia-Carollna Chemical
Company 800; Virginia Carolina Chem.
ical Company pfd 100.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
TWO FOUND DEATH IN
PATENT MEDICINE
Third Person Will Probably Die as
the Result of Drinking the
Stuff.
(By Associated Press.l

ST. LOUIS. MO. Feb 2S-L.ying
upon the floor at the home of Emil
Koeppen, night Waterman living in
Woodland. Il suburb, the dead bodies
of Frank Koeppen, aged nine years,
and Miss Selma Giorsback, the house
keeper, were found today and beside
them lay Bently Koeppen, aged eight
and Robert Kocppen, aged six both
unconscious. Nearby lay Il nearly
empty patent medicine bottle. After
hard work, physicians stated that
Bently would probably recover. They
said that appearances indicated ii
was case of poisoning.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
Baltimore Produce Market.


BALTIMORE. MD, Feb. 2s,-Flour
Dull.
Wheat-Easy: spot contract 7s 10
IS ID; Southern on grade rs 1-2 Ia
rs Ia.
Corn-Steady; spot so I'D to 90 rs;
Southern white corn 40 1.2 to 81 ~.
oats-Firmer; No. 2 mixed 4G 1,2
to AZ,
Rye-Firmer; No. 2 mixed 4G 1.2
to AZ.
Rye-Firmer; No. 2 Western do
nestle 73 to IA; choice n to n rs.
Butter-Firm and unchanged; fan.
~ imitation 2G to 81; fancy creamery
"a to 50; fancy ladle 90 to "a; store
packed II to 20.
Eggs-Firm; "a cents.
Cheese-Strong and higher; large
Ia rs; medium Is 1.S: small is 3.i
Sugar-Steady and unchanged
coarse granulated 8; fine 5.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01

To Always Be Sure of
Good Cigars
Look for this triangle AZ

AOOh iUl eltlS Triangle N
You simply choose your favorite
among the brands backed by the s9Tri-
angle A. guarantee Of honest cigar
values.
Then you have banished uncertainty
from your cigar purchases. And wher-
ever you go you have reliable guide.
Simply look for this ssTriangze A.
The Triangle A" on box of cigars
means that every sprig of leaf in every
cigar in that box was graded by experts
for that one cigar, two years before it
was made.
During these two years this leaf has
mellowed and ripened in great, clean
'stemmeries" in an ideal temperature
till all its finest smoking qualities have
been developed to degree of perfec-
ton.
The Nep CRE11O
will put these claims to the test and will
furnish you most convincing proof.
Every box is extra-vrapped in glassine paper,
sealed to maintain perfect smoking condition
and cleanliness until the box is opened.
AMERICAN CIGAR COMPANY NeH,AMtl
Manufacturer I'm
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
RlCHMOND'S MAYOR USES
SOME VIOLENT LANGUAGE
Denounces the Goulds and Says He
is Willing to Use the Shotgun
if Necessary.
Especial to The Daily Press.

RICHMOND, VA. Feb. 2S.-Mayor
Carlton Mccarthy tonight, in an adj
dress before the Travellers Protective
Association, attempted to justify his
speech before the common council
several nights ago at Mechanics In
stitute, when he denounced corpora
tions for attempting to grasp fran
chises to the hurt of the city, abiding
particularly to the Gould interest in
street railways, without, however,
mentioning Gould's name, and saying
that he would defy the. courts If re-
straining orders should be issued to
him by them and If necessary would
be one to take down his shotgun in
defense of the rights of the citizens
'of the city. The language used by
the mayor tonight was even more
violent than on the former OCCASION
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
NorIcE.

Bids are requested for erecting one
brick building as pumping station
for the Peninsula Pure Water Com.
pany. The building to be erected &c
a place known as Big Bethel. va.
Plans and specifications may be had
from T.. A. Smith. Resident Engineer,
P. Q. Box ZIG. Hampton. Va. The
Peninsula Pure Water Company re-
serves the right to accept or rsiesr
any or all bids. Bids to be forwarded
to the office Of the Peninsula Pure
Water Co. IS South King Street rot
later than Friday, March Is, 1907.
Bids to be marked: Proposal soy.
erection of pumping station at Big;
Bethel. Va" All bidders excepting
successful ones) agree to return plars
and specifications after bids are
opened.
VIM. H.. BoARDMAN, 81
civil, Sanitary & Hydraulic Englnee..
426 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Pa.
b. A. SMITH, Resident Engineer.
Hampton. Va. 2.24 Cd
I.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
Money Market.
fDu h,a&atot1 Vice.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.--Money on
call firm 6 to 6; ruling rate "a;
closing bid 5: offered at 6 IA
Time loans dull and firm; 60 days
md 90 days 12 to 3.4 six months
5 ~.
Prime mercantile paper 8 3.4 to G
per cent; sterling exchange steady,
With actual business In bankers bills
1t 484.65 to 484.70 for demand, and at
1905 to 4S0.40 for 60.day bills; post.
I'd rates 4S1 IL and 4S5 1.2; CONNER.
cial bills 4S0 to 4s0 1-S: bar silver
SO l-2; Mexican dollars 53 10: gov.
ernment bonds steady; railroad bonds
Irregular.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
Wines and LIQUORS

! belong to tho lost tribe that stray.
ed away from Dublin before Moses
sailed on the Red Sea. I'm q price
cutter. I'm n inoney.mnker; I'm the
one that sells all straight Whiskies
retail at Wholesale prices. The fol.
lowing high grade 10c Whlskies I
sell for 30. q drink: Paul Jones. Pure
Rye, Sherwood Rye Whiskey, Carroll
Springs, pure Maryland Rye Whiskey.
Overhold Rye whisksy, Parkwood Rye
Whisky. All ct the above named
Whistles are strictly high grade.
watch my price, II you dare, beat
me X you can.
Whishey In bulk at following prices
Old Nick Pure Rye, IL pit, Csc;
SdllOn $4.00
Leonard's Favorite. lie pt. zoe;
sailon ................s., 300
Hunters Baltimor Rye, LIZ pit,
26c; gallon .............. 400
Maryland Club. IL pit, Csc gal.
ION ................... 400
Paul Jones Pure Rye, IL pit.
zoe; gallon ............... 2.75
Carroll Springs. gallon ...... ESQ
x8xXBaker Rye, gallon 1850. $50
Star A, Rye, gallon .......... 200
Moss Rose, gallon ............ quo
LAKEWOOD Pure Rave, gallon :. 200
Jefferson Pure Rye. gallon ...... IFS
Kentucky Bourbon, gallon ...... 40
Double Stamp Gin, gallon $500. 200
The following brands OF Califor.
ola Wines. Port, Sherry, Catawba
Claret, Blackberry at 25c per at.
per gallon, 75c. Pride OF North Car
'lind. 4 years old, gallon. ....... 200
Kummeill, per gallon .......... 200
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
Rescued BY Eiremen.
(BY Associated press.l }

CLEVELAND, OHIO, Feb. 2s.-
Five men in the toy story OF the
John Scaber Picture moulding fac
tory on Spring street had a narrow
escape from death by suffocation to
night when the building took fire
and was partly destroyed. The dam
age amounted TO 100000 The FIRE
men climbed to the third story ans
rescued the workmen. ;
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
paul Morton Reelected.
(By Associafed Press !

NEW YORK. Feb. 2s.--Paul Nor
ton was reelected president OF the
Equitable Life Insurance Company
at the annual meeting OF the board
of directors today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
N. LEONARD'S
Barrel and Bottle House,
10 AND 10 MELLEN or,
phoasua. Va. 'phans. eaa
will Have Track in Georgia.
(By AssocIated press)

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Feb. 2s.-
Several horsemen temporarily out of
business at Nashville and Memphis
by legislation prohibiting racing III
Tennessee, are here planning to es.
tablish a race track just across the
Georgia line, five miles away.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01

HAMPTON AND PHOEBUS BU-
reau of Information has been form
ed by two ladies for convenience of
room renters and strangers expect.
ed to attend the jamestown Expo.
sition. Anxiously solicit patronage
OF those having rooms to rent to
list them with us and save trouble
IN securing roomers. collecting,
meeting boats and trains. For par
ticulars apply to MRS. j. WILTON,
HOPE or MRS. EUGENE IRWIN,
office 1903 N. King st. p. o. Box
$50. 2-24.fri-sun.4t
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
Railroad Notes
Abandon Local Trains.

A report is current among railroad
circles that representatives. of the var
ious railroads operating in Ohio, at a
meeting held last week, decided to
abandon all their local passenger
trains running in that state, owing to
the effect Of the two-cent rate law
which has caused the business to be
cut down to such a degree that the
trains are being operated at loss
Among the lines represented at the
meeting were the Pennsylvania, Wa
bash, Pittsburg & Lake Erie. the Bal
timore & Ohio. and the Lake shore
Lake Shore officials state that a pass
enger train must earn on an average
of so cents per mile to pay the wages
OF the train crew and for the fuel used,
and to cover the expenses Of move
ment and to keep it up must earn 81
or more mile before there is any rev
enue to be derived by the company.
According to a statement made many
OF the Lake Shore trains are earning
an average of 10 cents per mile, and
the officials assert that all paying
trains Will probably be taken off the
schedule, the change to be made when
the summer time card schedule be-
comes effective.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
Railway Magnate Hartman Puts
in a Day with the Inter-
State Board.
VERY IMPORTANT POINT RAISED
Involves the Inquisitorial Powers OF
the Commission.
VIII Be Decided by the Courts-Noth.
ing Sensational Comes Up and
the Story Is Pret-
ty Dry.

New York. Feb. 26.-E. II. Harri-
man, master Of the Union Pacific sys-
TEN. spent a day in a recital of por-
tons of the intimate history of the
financial operations Of himself and his
associates before the Interstate com
merce commission, which in behalf Of
the United States government is inves-
tigating consultations and combina-
tons of carriers, relations between
carriers and community of interest
therein, their rates, facilities and prac-
tees. Special counsel for the govern
ment made particular attack upon the
reorganization and financing of the
Chicago and Alton railroad by the Har-
riman syndicate and its action, with q
challenge by counsel for the railroads
of the right Of the interstate COM
niece commission to inquire into the
private transactions of an individual
constituted the two chief events of the
days proceedings.
Point Raised Is Important.
BY direction of counsel Hartman
declined to tell what proportion Of the
preferred stock Of the Alton sold to
the Union Pacific belonged to him in
dividually, and the way was paved for
taking the question into the federal
courts. The point raised involves o
material limitation upon the inQuisi.
torial power of the commission, and
is of serious Importance to the whole
question of interstate corporation Ill
vestigation. Anticipation Of sensa-
tional testimony from Hartman and
sharp encounters between Hartman
and special counsel for the government
failed of realization.
What Uncle Sam Tried to Show.
There was an effort to show by Har-
| riman's testimony and the records OF
/ the company that there had been an
enormous imitation of the stock securi-
tics and liabilities of the Alton; that
the Hartman syndicate had taken I'M
! fair profits by declaring a dividend OF
80 per cent. from the proceeds of the
first sale of bonds, amounting to $4O,-
100000; that the syndicate had sold it.
self the bonds at an unreaSonably low
figure, only TO resell them at enormous
profit; that the Hartman syndicate
had in the Alton capitalized the losses
of former stockholders in the road, and
the money which had been spent by
the old management for bettermenta
over period Of ten years, and already
charged to operating expenses; that the
books of the company had been doc.
tored, and that for an increase of the
stock and liabilities from, roughly, $4O,,
100000 to about $116,000,000 there wan
nothing to show except an expenditure
of S22000,000 in improvements on the
property.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
GARY LIKES INVESTIGATION.
Steel Magnate Approves of Researches
In Spite OF Wall Street Protest.

New York, Feb. 26.-In spite of the
protest which Wall street ana the cap
itaists of the country are raising
against the Investigating" Of railroads
and industrial corporations, e H. Gary.
chairman of the United States Steel
corporation, believes that so far as
industrial corporations are concerned.
and his own company in particular.
nothing but good can come from the
Investigations and researches now in
progress.
Let US have the work done bv CON
sentative and intelligent people. and If
there are vicious conditions discovered
in investigation the sooner we know
about it the better" is the KEYNOTE
OF the sentiment which Mr. Gary holds
toward the present era of investigation
by the federal government.
Mr. Gary said that in the several
corporations in which he was interested
and in which an investigation was go
ing on the auditors and representa-
tives Of the bureau Of CORPORATIONS
were being afforded every facility to
obtain facts.
Nothing is concealed" said he. for
the reason that we are as anxious as
the government to ind out wherein
any injustices are being done. our
aim is to perform what is best for the
general good of the public. If # Is
deemed wrong to do certain things
honest and just criticism may guide
our directors TO do that which is rfebt
OF course we will defend ourselves
against any action which we think Is
harmful"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
HE DENIES ALL THE CHARGES
All the Deals in the Open and for Ino
vestment Solely.

Harriman's testimony was a denial
of all the charges, and toward the close
of the afternoon he made an extended
explanation and defense of the entire
transaction, which he contended was
fully justified by the conditions and
circumstance of the time, and which
he asserted had been conducted entire
ly in the open. Harriman's examina-
ton lasted for five hours, and it went
to the end in good spirit, unmarked by
acrimony. The witness throughout the
entire day declined to be led into an
attempt to explain the details of the
Alton operations, and constantly re-
ferred his ques doners to the records OF
the Alton company.
The testimony of Hartman began
with the issuance Of S10O,o0O,OOO OF
convertible bonds by the Union Pacific
for the purpose primarily of paying for
the Southern Pacific in 1901 and then
led through the purchase in connection
with the Oregon Short line of the
Northern Pacific stock Hartman iden-
tilted q statement showing that since
{
Pacific and Oregon Short line have
purchased stocks at a cost of S131, Co.,
600 and Kellogg sought to show that
figured by prices in the market today
there had been a loss Of 81. 600, 600
or the investment. Hartman said that
this was possibly true and when fur
tier questioned asked permission to
| explain.
Witness related the story Of the pur-
chase of S45000.00O Of the stock Of the
Baltimore and Ohio, and the purchase
/ by Union Pacific of stock in the Alton
was then opened up. The whole story
was dry as dust; there was q bewilder-
/ ing array Of figures as 10 prices OF
| stock. and how ii was sold or retained
| according to which was the most ad-
vantageous: but all through it was
/ the positive declaration that all the
/ deals were made for investment. and
not for speculative purposes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
MATCH FOR THE LAWYER
Mrs. Thaw Makes Two Points for Her
Husband-Loses None,

Mrs. Thaw was in much better spir-
It's when she took the stand. She had
all her wits about her, and did not
fare at ali badly at the hands of the
district attorney, who was more gentle
in handling the witness. Instead OF
further hurting the cause of her hus-
band Mrs. Thaw managed to make
two decided gains. When court adj
journed last Thursday it appeared
from her own statements that she had
used a letter of credit from Stanford
White while touring in Europe, and
had turned the letter over to Thaw.
Yesterday she explained that Thaw
took the letter of credit from her, say
ing the money was poisonous" and
neither she nor her mother should
touch it, and that he would provide
them with funds. Whatever had been
spent of the money, she declared, was
for her mother.
The second point Mrs. Thaw made
was concerning the cablegrams which
Thaw is said to have sent to Stanford
White from London. 1t appeared last
Thursday that these cablegrams were
requests to White to use his influence
in keeping Mrs. Nesbit from raising
a row. and interfering with Evelyn
continuing in company with Thaw.
Jerome took up the subject again yes
terday. but his questions ELECTED the
information that the letters did not
concern Mrs. Thaw at all but related
to a mana secretary of the American
embassy in LondOn-whom Mrs. Thaw
said had "sneaked up to mama's bed
room and insulted her" She said the
man had also insulted her, and that
Thaw had gone in search Of him, but
failed to find him.
During the examination Mrs. Thaw
admitted that she lived with Harry
Thaw as his mistress before they were
married. she also admitted having
been expelled from the Cumberland
hotel in this city while SO living. She
denied all the stories about Thaw's i'll
treatment OF her, and also a story
that he had accomplished his purpose
with her by the use Of drugs the first
time. She also denied that she ever
was out all night with Jack Barry
more. or went with him to see DR..
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-26
FROM DOWN
THE: STATE:
Telegraph News by Direct
Wire from All Over
Indiana.

indianapolis, Feb. IS. - II plans
which have been carefully arranged
by Attorney John ". Claypool do not
p1lscarry Elma Dare, accused Of kid
naning George Rhodlus and getting
married to him II an effort to get con
troll Of his property, valued at $780,
600. will be behind the bars of the Mar
ion county Jail during the next three
Of four days The Dare woman was
arrested Sunday at Cambridge Springs,
Pa, a health resort town a short dis
lance from Pittsburg, and efforts are
being made to have her extradited and
brought back to Indianapolis.
Man Has ParaIytic Dementia.
EIma Dare is the proprietor of re-
sort Ia the "Tenderloin" district Of IN
dianapolis, Rhodius is said to be afffict-
ed with paraIytic dementia The wo-
man, It is charged took Rhodius from
this city ct midnight on Jan q, and
YVES married to him at Louisville the
next day. Since then their whereabouts
had been a mystery. Rhodius Is worth
in the neighborhood OF 5000, 900. Attor-
ncys representing the Rhodius' estate
have maGa vigorous efforts to locate
the missing couple, but without avail.
Affairs Got Into Court.
Rhodius affairs were brought into
court and a guardian was appointed
fer his estate, but this was contested
by other attorneys claiming to repre-
sent the missing man. These attorneys
produced a power Of attorney from
Rhodius assigning all Of his property
to a trust company. A warrant charg-
ing Elma Dare with kidnapping was
issued soon after the couple left Indi-
annapolis It has been charged that a
conspiracy was on hand to gain posses
sion of Rhodius' fortune, he having no
close relations.
Hearing Before Gov. Hanly.
A hearing is scheduled before Gov
ernor Hanly at which arrangements
will be made by Attorney John w.
Clavpool, representing the Rhodius es-
tate and Cass ConnoWay, representing
Elma Dare, on the question of the is
suing of a requisition for the return
TO this state of the Dare woman.
Later.-Tbe governor has issued a
requisition on the governor of Pennsyl-
vania for Elma Dare