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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
NEW METHOD WORKED.
By 1t Party Much In Demand
Is Taken In Charge.
AMATEUR DETECTIVE AID,
President of Company From Whom a
Number of Bonds Were Abstracted
Organizes Clerks and Sends Them In
Search of Missing Man.

New York, April 23.-The speedy ar
rest of w. o. Douglas, assistant loan
clerk for the Trust Company of Amer
lea, on the charge that he had stolen
bonds valued at $4,000 from the com
pany, reveals new method in detect
I've work. Douglas disappeared from
his Office Saturday and an investiga-
ton showed that bonds valued at $50
goo were also missing Oakleigh
Thorne, president of the company. no
tilted private detective agency and
the police, but, not satisfied with this
he organized the twenty-eight men of
his office staff into an amateur de
tective force and had them guard
every railroad exit from the city. Be
sides directing the sleuthing of the
watch over the Grand Genital station
for six hours.
Early Sunday morning A. NJ. Os-
trand and w. Black, two of the anna,
teur detectives stationed at the Grand
Central station. stumbled on the miss
ing clerks trail They were watching
near the subway station when they
saw Mrs. Douglas, wife of the missing
clerk, appear. She took cab and the
two clerks, following in another car
riage, she led them to the Hotel Port
land, where Douglas arrest was &C
compllshed shortly afterward.
Douglas confessed and said his
downfall was due to speculation. The
stolen bonds, he said, had been placed
with firm of brokers to cover deals
he had made in the market
The shortage in the accounts of w.
Douglas may reach $250000. Douglas
is said to have confessed to Mr.. Thorne
at the time of his arrest that he made
away with $4,000 in bonds and it is
reported that he made a written con
fession tC Mr.. Thorne in which he adj
mitted the total value of the bonds
taken by him will reach $250,000. The
bonds were said to have been turned
over to a Wall street broker, who is
believed to have acted for Douglas in
good faith.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
GIMBEL PASSES AWAY.
Rich Merchant Expires From
SeIf-Inflicted Wounds.

New York. April 23.-Benedict Gin
bel, the wealthy Philadelphia mer
chant who cut his throat and wrists
with broken glass in a hotel at Ho-
boken soon after he had been arrested
on serious charges in this city, died
in st. Marys hospital, Hoboken, short
iy before 3 O'Clock Monday morning
Thursday afternoon he was taken
from a cab in this city while in com
pany with Ivor Clark, sixteen-year-
old boy. by two detectives, who acted
on the complaint OF Clark's parents.
Gimbel, according to the detectives,
resorted to an attempt at bribery and
offered the detectives $4,000 If they
would release him. The detectives APP
parently consented, and. demanding
the c;sel9. were driven with Gimbel to
his bankers office here and given
$4,000. They then informed Gimbel
that the additional charge of attempt
ed bribery would be placed against
him and took him to the district at
tOrneys office, where, it is alleged,
Gimbel, who keenly felt his predica-
ment offered Assistant Attorney KrO-
tel any amount of money to gain his
release
Later Gimbel was released on heavy
bail and started ostensably for his
home in Philadelphia. He never got
there. Instead he went to the Palace
hotel in Hoboken, and there. with
jagged glass obtained from a water
pitcher which he broke, he cut his
throat in many places and gashed his
left wrist He was discovered several
hours afterward almost dead from the
loss of blood.
At St Mary's hospital. to which he
was removed Friday night, it was
thought for time that his life might
be saved, but Sunday he began sud
denly to fail and late that night hope
was abandoned.
Gimbel's wife and two of his six
brothers, he being the youngest. who
have shown confidence and devotion
to the husband and brother. went to
his bedside late Friday night and re-
manned with him till the end. In a
statement the family notified the pub,
lie thta Benedict Gimbel had been i'll
for some weeks as the result of over
work and that this had undoubtedly
dethroned his reason. His brothers
say the business will not be affected.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23

ing running. sometimes doubt wheth
er ne hlmselt cares fig for the presi-
denCy. For, | should think, if he be-
lieved Democracy had a reasonable
chance for carrying the country, and
that he might be nominated, he would
be more circumspect and would show
greater sense of responsibility than
he seems to be showing"
Asked what he considered the most
vital issue - be raised by the Demo
cratic party Colonel Watterson said:
THE one thing to constitute a mill
tant Democracy is that we must think
together. So long as we don't. there
Is no use proposing any issue. The re-
lation of franchise corporations to the
public and of capital and labor are the
great economic problems to be work
ed out in the coming years. We are
on the threshold of the rapid develop
ment.
Il do not believe President Roose
welt wants a third term for himself
| know he recently stated that if the
convention nominated him and ad-
iourned it would have to reeonvene.
as he would never accept another nom
ination. | am willing to take him at
his word
The Kentucky editor declared that
Governor Hughes was a force to be
reckoned with in Republican politics.
II predicted last June" he said. that
Hughes would succeed Roosevelt in
the white house. At that time Horace
White, Mr.. Hughes and | were at
Brown university, where the degree of
LII. ID. was conferred on each, and
l told Hughes that while some Repub-
licans might not like him. they would
have to select him. | believe Hughes
will be to the Republican party what
Tilden was to the Democratic | have
in my pocket ticket In the Paris Mu
tuals calling for 100 to l that Hughes
will be the next president of the Unit
ed States"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
Independent PROPOSITIONS,

Toxic, April 23.-According to thu
Japan Mail, the Japanese delegation a.
he Hague peace conference will pre-
sent a series of Independent pIoposi
lions, among them being conclusion c
conventions for the conduct of battle
on land and use of mines in CONNIE
cial routes, use of wireless telegraph
between bes.eged fortresses and pciEt
In neutral. territory and use of neutr:
ports for beiligerent purposes.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
American League.
st. Louis, 8; Chicago, /.
BREVITIES PUNCHED.

Ramsey gin at Garrett, Tex, valued
at $4,000 burned.
A sign painters union has been or
gained at Dallas.
At Americas, Ga. Judge Allen Fort
a noted jurist, died
Comanche (Tex.) Board of Trade
has been organized.
Plant of Seattle Star was burned,
entailing $4,000 loss.
Sir George Armstrong, proprietor of
the London Globe is dead
Commercial Lumber company at Gil
mer Tex. had 100000 fire.
Portugal had an earthquake shock
on the goth. No damage was done
G. A. Gross. for twenty-three years
clerk in the comptroller's office at
Austin. is dead
On the evening of the Goth Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Cramer of Houston celebrated
their golden wedding.
Red River county, Texas, farmers
are shipping walnut logs to Liverpool,
Eng, getting good prices.
Professor Jennings of Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, has taught a
starfish to turn somersaults.
A street car crashed into a wagon
at Pittsburg, fatally injuring three &C.
cupants and hurting ten others.
A. f. Dundas. claiming to be heir
to millions of dollars at Philadelphia,
attempted to suicide at London.
A window fell on the neck of Will
lam Burton, little negro boy at Mac
ogdoches, Tex, breaking his neck.
Frank Whites fine residence lust
north of Terrell, Tex, was DESTROYED
by fire. The occupants barely escaped.
Court records of Chambers county.
Texas, have been removed from Wal.
lisville to Anahuac, the new county
seat.
Mrs. Esther M. Neil, founder of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and its first president, died at Dunkirk.
N. Y, in her ninety-fifth year.
Clay Thomas, youth. confesses
that he killed Jesse Abner in Lee coun
ty, Kentucky, because the latter at
tempted to force him to drink whisky
After being entombed under twenty.
five tons of coal at Escamba. Mich.
nearly twenty-four hours, Frank Erlek.
son was rescued He was badly burn.
ed.
Grief over Dowies death caused
Mrs. Lydia Stadley to jump from the
fourth floor of house at New York
Her skull was broken, and death soon
followed
Thirty-five years ago barber
charged ]. w. Main of Glenwood, Neb.,
rs cents for a hair cut and shave. he
vowed never to shave again. He now
has whiskers seven feet long.
Thomas Venness. former associate
of Bessemer in the iron and steel bus
mess. and the first manufactu. er of
steel rails in the United States, died
at New York, aged eighty-four years.
A highwayman at Hoboken, y. J.,
hit Frank Shrenk. knocking him down
Taking 81 eco Shrenk was. taking to
his factory to pay his hands away from
him, the miscreant jumped into g.
wagon and forced the driver to hurri
eddy depart.
j. G. Lowden, president. and otto
Steffens. cashier of thu. defunct First
National bank of Able he, Tex, we're
convicted on charge of wrecking that
institution ard sentenced 10 five Yeas
In the United States paniteni AIRY
Atlana. On a previous trial each yas
given two years.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
BIDS INNITED.S

Bids are hereby invited for buisding
two bridges of twenty and ;''rty fee G.
spectively on continuation 'of Fairfield
avenue between Line avenue and Norris
ferry road. Bids to be for eitheT steay
or wood. Wooden bridge timbers O. DE-
crcosoted, except flooring Bids Go o.
opened al next mectin, May O. 1907, jur0
reNcrving right 10 reject any and all bis
K. FURMAN, Presideng
a. /. DURINGER, Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
LEISHMAN'S NEW MOVE.
American Minister Places Sultan In an
Awkward Position.

Constantinople. April %. = By his
new move on the American school
question Minister Leishman has placed
the sultan in an awkward position. In
his last communication to the foreign
office the ambassador pointedly called
attention to the fact that notwithstand-
ing formal promises and pledges of his
majesy, that satisfactory settlement
of the school question would be ar,
ranged. the porte has utterly failed to
carry out his imperial assurances. The
action of Mr. Leishman in holding the
porte responsible for the delay is re-
garded in diplomatic circles here as
being very adroit. Even Turkish cir
Giles admit it places the government in
an unenviable light.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
Thirty-Njne Lives Lost,

st. Petersburg. April 23.--It was def
nitely established that thirty-nine per
sons lost their lives through the foun-
dering of the ferry steamer Arch
sngelsk on the Neva Saturday night
Divers recovered several bodies. but
the majority were borne by the current
into the Gulf of Finland.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
NO FOUNDATION.
Mans Mind Became Unbalanced by the
Death of His Wife.

Washington, April 22.-Announce
ment is made by secret service officials
that no further attention will be paid
to statements of Jan Bartula, who in.
formed the police of Newark that q
conspiracy was on foot among an,
archists at Hazleton, Pa. to assassi.
nate President Roosevelt. Officials
state an investigation clearly estab-
lished the fact that the story told by
Barula had no foundation and that his
mind became unbalanced by the death
of his wife several weeks ago.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
CHARTERS AND PERMITS.
Bill Increasing the Filing Fees OF
Same Passed In House.

6iiI increasing the Fliihg Fees OF
Same Passed In House.
Austin. April 23,-Bill increasing the
filing fees of charters and permits was
passed finally in the house.
Bill providing for the publication of
delinquent tax lists was engrossed in
the house.
The enacting clause of the bill pro.
viding for a verdict by nine jurors in
civil cases was struck out in the sen
ate after two hours discussion.
Governor decided to veto the text
book bill. He objected to the supple
mental book feature to the provision
for the purchase of books from a trust
when not otherwise obtainable and to
having trust representative On the
board
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
RIOT IN CHURCH.
Factions Fought, Some Women Faint.
ed and Others Fled.


Portsmouth, O.. April ga faction
opposing their pastor, Rev. Freeman
Chase, made an attempt to depose him
and hold services with another min
lister and caused a riot in the Free
Will Baptist church here Sunday. The
followers of the different factions
came to blows, women tainted and
others fled screaming into the streets
When the police authorities were ap-
pealed to they refused to interfere.
Order was finally restored by the new
minister and elders withdrawing A
majority of the church officers are
opposed to Chase, who has withdrawn
from the conference, and has been con-
Quoting the church independently
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
MOBILE DRENCHED.
Alabama City Visited by One of the
Heaviest Downpours In History.

Heaviest DoWnpours In History.
Mobile, April 23-From midnight
Sunday night until $50 o'clock Mon
day morning Mobile was visited by
one of the heaviest downpours of rain
In her history. So great was the
downpour that the streets in many sec
lions Of the city were covered from
one to two feet with water and the
school board closed the schools. The
new union station was completely cut
off and damage to houses and build.
ings was heavy. In some sections the
city was cut off for a radius of ten
blocks.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
MAY HAVE TRACHOMA.
Woman Claiming to Be Cousin Of Gar
Detained on Shpboard.

San Francisco, April pa woman
named Martha Covalinsky, claiming to
be princess and cousin of the car of
Russia. is being detained on board the
liner Ventura awaiting the decision of
the immigration commission as to
whether or not she is the victim OF
trachoma.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
THE BEAuREGARD MONUMENT.

The occasional references by the press
of the city of New Orleans would
indicate lively revival in the proposed
erection Of a monument to General
Beanregard II is time that this move
nzent should be reinforced with the
earnestriess which secures every prac-
tical enterprise from failure The
amount necessary could be realized in
New Orleans. but as General Beaure-
gard was distinguished son of Louis
lana. his admirers throughout the State
should contribute some money, the es-
sentiaI required to assure the monument
beyond al question Of doubt This
monument Bias already Seen too long de-
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
DEADLOCK ON.
Nicaragua Insists That Salvador Shall
Be Held Responsible.

Washington, April 23.-Advices re.
ceived here from Central America are
to the effect that peace negotiations.
which have been in progress for the
past few days at Amapala, have come
TO deadlock, and it is feared that a
renewal of hostilities is impending
The difficulty appears to lie in the
Nicaraguan demand that Salvador
shall be held responsible for what has
occurred, which condition Is not ac.
ceptable
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
RAILROAD SLAUGHTER.

The frequency and fatality of railway
accidents have created a widespread de
mand that somebody should be made re
sponsible, but the fact remains that no
body is held to any such accountability,
for the reason that there is no author-
tative official investigation.
AT this time. when a popular wave of
hostility is aroused against railroads,
legislation to control, if not to cripple
them is being urged upon National and
State lawmakers to fix the blame upon
the presidents, directors and managers
of the railways.
OF course, no such legislation would
be reasonable or just, since the guilt of
an offender can only be fixed after off
cia investigation When the Interstate
Commerce Commission was charged
with various powers and duties placed
in its hands its functions were confined
TO questions of money and business. The
most trivial details where money is con-
cerned were required of the commission,
but where human life is concerned that
was too utterly inconsequential to be
mentioned.
Thus it is that railway wrecks de-
stroying life and property are of almost
daily occurrence, and nobody is held re-
sponsibie because there is no proper in
stigation.-New Orleans Picayune
Simply because greater value is
placed on dollar than on the life of a
human being. In the mad rush for COM
merce, the Dollar, the railroads are too
busy to worry over the killed and the
injured. The wreck is removed, the
track is cleared and rush is the cry re-
CARELESS of accidents, ir who is killed or
manned for life.
Ii IS time so. call halt 1t is time to
1haIiias fsiIrc responsible his
slaughter OF humE cFfhgs. With rare
exceptions, this slaughter of human be-
ifigs by railroads may be traced to care
lessness, to recklessness, and to cussed-
ness. A few terms at hard labor in the
penitentiary would have q desirable eff
feet in decreasing, if not preventing al
together, this slaughter of human beings
by railroads.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
LYNCH LAW PREVAILS.
It Is Resorted to at Lodz to Stop Sc
ciaIistic outrages.

Lodz, April 23.-Lynch law has been
an end to Socialistic outrages here
Having captured one of three Social
lists who murdered a fifteen-year-old
girl the Nationalists took the prisoner
to the outskirts of the city, tried him,
sentenced him to death by hanging
and carried out the sentence. Last
weeks victim of the Nationalist and
Socialist fights total twenty three
killed and fifty-seven wounded, the ma
jority of the casualties being among
Socialists.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
"MATT" HICKS DEAD.
First Baseball Player to Catch off the
Bat Is Gone.

New York, April 23.-"Matt" Hicks
an old-time baseball player, who
played with the old New York Mutuals
and the Cincinnati Red Stockings, and
who is credited with being the first
man to catch off the bat was found
dead in room in hotel in Hoboken
Hicks, who was the manager of the
billiard room at the hotel, was aspyxi
ated by gas, which had probably been
turned on accidentally. He was sixty
years old.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
Deputy Collector Suicides.

Nashville, April % - Deputy Reve
nue. Collector E. E. Bell suicided in a
local hotel by taking morphine He
had been in the revenue service many
years and was a terror to Tennessee
moonsiners in the mountains.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
PRAYED For Rain.

Havana, April ga Prayers were of
fered In all the churches throughout
the island Sunday for rain. which has
not fallen for SIX months.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23

National League.
Pittsburg, 6; st. Louis. 5.
Chicago, s., Cincinnati, 3.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
Sugar Duty Reduced.

Buenos Ayres. April 23.-Argentina
government has reduced the sugar
duty to cenfayob (gold).
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
"Crumbs of Comfort"

md appetzlng crumbs too, are those
,dlllng from our superior Bread and
lake. There's a ''home relish" about
The taste of both that appeals to all low
ers of good Bread and Cake Better re-
plenish that Cake box now and you'll
then acquire the habit of calling on us
for all your Bread stufs. Being best
quality it is cheaper in the long run.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
TO ADVERTISERS.

The advertiser who would reach
the greatest number Of people, and
secure the best results from his ad.
vertisements. will find The eau.
casian a most profitable and desir.
able medium.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
BIAS BALL.

Rain Prevents Games.
Rain prevented all Texas Baseball
league games Sunday
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
PLANT CONSUMED.
seacoast Canning Company sustains
Lubbock, Ne, April 23.-The entire
Tremendous Fire Loss.

plant of the Seacoast Canning com
pany, leased to the American Can com
pany of New York, at North Lubbock
was burned. The loss is estimated at
5000 600
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23
Southern Ieauu

3; Shreveport, l.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-31

200 years old, and sun-dial made in
1881, loaned by Mrs. Charles Carroll
1t has been handed down through six
generations. The Methodist class
book Of Hopewell, made in 1925 was of
much interest and also a leather peck
ct book Of Isaac Thomass, in which
the slave money was carried AMI
which IS $50 years old. The hand
woven spreads and pteced quilts were
the best portion Of the exhibit. One
bed cover especially, which was Of
much interest, was the one spun and
woven by Mrs. J. NJ. Johnson sixty
years ago. Her grandmother color6d
the wool and it took nine pounds of
wool to knot it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-31

cess of $500 was cleared at the bean
supper Saturday evening
Cambridge City. Ind. II. Patton
has leased the A. w. Bradbury livery
barn on North Foote street and will
move his livery stock to that location
soon.
New Paris, O.-Misses Marie Wrenn.
Elma and Bernice Horner will give
Halloween party at the latter's home
south Of town this Thursday evening.
Cambridge City. Ind-Kennedy and
Davis. proprietors of the General Re-
pair Co. have installed an up-to-date
shooting gallery in the room recently
vacated by the Dean House drug store.
Economy. Ind.-The Halloween So
cial given at the NJ E parsonage We'd.
nesday night was success.
Economy. Ind.-The Etude club will
meet with Mrs. Emma Ballenger No
vember 9TH. Thursday afternoon. All
members are requested 10 be present.
Cambridge City, Ind.-Hallowe,en
will be observed in the usual manner in
this place. Several parties and gath
erings are scheduled
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-31

ognized by the reading of an excellent
and we'll prepared paper by Mrs
Stubs of West Elkton. giving a sue
cinct history of the origin and work OF
that organization.
| A conference was presided over by
Attorney G. w. Cradle of Dayton, dis.
trict manager of the state anti-saloon
league, in which he answered numer-
Gus questions propounded to him in re-
methods.
At the afternoon sessions addresses
were delivered by Rev. Geo keene Of
Lewisburg. and Rev. ]. Wesley Miller
of West Alexandria.
The committee on nominations re-
ported the following recommendations
for the official board for the ensuing
year, all of whom were unanimously
elected:
President-Rev. Earle NJ. Ellsworth,
of Eaton.
Vice president-C. W. Bloom of New
Paris.
secretary-Rev. Henry Champion Of
Eaton.
TreaSurer-John w. HORNE of Ea-
ton.
The committee on resolutions submit
ted the following.
Whereas-The Preble County Anti
Saloon league in convention assembled
at Eaton. desiring the abolition of the
liquor traffic:
Resolved. That it is the unanimous
opinion of this convention that the
next step in legislation should be a
county local option law.
Resolved, That We most heartily
endorse the stand taken on past lesis
lation by state Senator w. H. Neck
and Representative E 4. Erwin and
earnestly urge their support of the
county local option bill at the next SEES
sion.
Resolved, That We pledge our united