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■■Their breath came in
short Pants!”
Those customers that
crowded the
If M M
last week have been ad-
vising 1 their friends to
Hurry t
or the goods would all
be sold before an oppor¬
tunity itself for would them present
to
m MIS SAMIS
that are being offered.
An Cant ii Droves
—TO—
BUY , THE DRIVES
we are letter offering. this
A received
1 week reads: “Pike coun¬
ty, Nov. 1st.—Those
dress patterns that I
purchased New York Store from have the
made .up lovely, and
while they cost only
half so much as those
we purchased from another last firm, sea¬
son, they have caused the
girls around Zebulon to
almost die with envy.
Please save me that pat¬
tern that I looked at
last week, as I want it
for when a I traveling week suit,
marry next
Very truly, MaudS.”
.
You had better come
Nearly securingthe or you large will miss
bar¬
gains the New York
the Store people are offering, as in
came
crowds to trade,
LADIES’ JACKETS,
f which we are selling
from $2.00 to $10.00.
Ladies’ Plush Wraps
from $8.00 to $25-00.
hm PATTtKNS
AT ANY PRICE.
(Iren’ssuits Gents’, Boys’ and Si.50 Chil-
§$25;#©”- from to
$1.50 Carpets from 12 l-2c. to
Rugs per from yard. 50c.
to $10.
The FINEST and LARG¬
EST line of the goods in
ble city is at the old relia¬
NEW YORK STORE.
The Shoes sold over our
counters would STOCK A
SMALL TOWN and must
have supplied a good por¬
tion of the surrounding
counties. We have Shoes
; tor infants as low as 25c.
for Ladies and Gentle-
-a we sell them all the
way from 50c. to $5.00.
WE ARE NOT “BLOWING
as the crowds that have
tify. thronged This our store will tes¬
week we pro¬
pose to clear out our entire
stoek at unheard of prices.
We only imitate Atlanta
for in attractions and
this WEEK will GIVE
WATER customer FREE ICE
at the
ST. GOTHARD PASS.
A JOURNEY TO AND THROUGH
THE GREAT TUNNEL.
Beautiful Scenes on the Borderland
Between Switzerland and Italy--
The Kalis of the Rhine.
Lugano, Switzerland, \
August 23,1889.)
Dear News —At Chiareuna we again
take the train, passing through some
very pretty scenery, and reach Coli-
co, where we find a steamer upon the
beautiful lake of Como, which is
situated in a deep vale shut in by
Alpine hills, and though bordered
by Switzerland, lias none of the
characteristics of the Swiss. The
style of architecture changes equally
with the customs, language and
manners of the people, for here one
would fancy that he was in the very
heart of Italy, while the soft, balmy
southern air, the warm tropical sun,
the dark, rich beauty of the women,
and the lazy, ragged children, all be¬
speak the southern country. Our
steamer glided lazily through the
hot, sultry air over the still, smooth
waters of the clear, reflecting lake,
past lovely Italian villas set in gar¬
dens of evergreens; past oldp\eather-
beaten convents and ruined castles,
stopping at several little villages le
fare we reach Menaggio, where we take
our seats in the carriage of a narrow
gauge railway train, in order to
climb the mountain-like hills to reach
l’orlezza. From the summit of the
hills we have a fine view of the lake
of Como beneath, with its fertile
shores covered with luxuriant vege¬
tation and dotted with villages and
fine old country houses. Our train
then began to descend, and we went
downward always until we reached
Polezza, where we again take a
steamer to reach Lugano, which is
situated upon a lake of the same
name.
Lugano is a village of about six
thousand inhabitants, and is most
charmingly situated. It offers many
excursions to the traveler. The
town, with its arcades and its shops
of merchandise in open air, has alto¬
gether an Italian character; its hills
are covered with vineyards and its
quays are bordered by old shade
trees with numerous cooling foun¬
tains underneath them, and near the
quay rises a fine statue of William
Tell. The old church of St. Maria
des Ange has the entire Passion
scenes painted upon its ceiling by
Luini. There are many lovely prom,
enades and parks, and across the
lake one can make many delightful
excursions. The Grotto of Osteno
particularly merits a visit; it is
about ten minutes’ walk from the
village of Osteno, and is reached by
a footh-path or terrace of planks
built upon the side of the rocky wall
and loading to a, pavillion, from
which the guide pushes off a boat
and rows close under a cataract fall¬
ing over the high rocks, with a nar¬
row gorge between the walls of rock
whhich almost close overhead. So
narrow is the passage that scarcely
can our little boat wind its way
the through the labyrinthine passes of
cool, dark ravine, until we reach
the end, from which a beatiful silvery
cascade falls in torrents from the
rocks far above our heads, breaking
in a fine spray around us, making a
pleasant contrast to the hot, scorch¬
ing atmosphere outside the caves.
We retrace our steps to Lugano,
and there make preparations to re¬
turn to Zurich by the great St. Goth-
aril railway, which is considered the
grandest triumph of engineering
skill of the nineteenth century. The
stupendous chain of mountains be¬
tween Central Europe and the sunny
land of Itally has for centuries been
crossed by the St. Gothard
pass, a simple carriage road, until
this railroad was built recently.
From these cloud capped heights the
mightiest Alpine ranges converge,
and from them descend streams which,
insignificant at first, soon swell into
great rivers that empty their waters
into different seas. In' order to ob¬
tain an idea of the grandeur of the
St. Gothard group, we must climb to
a point in the mountains scarcely ac¬
cessible save to the mountain eagle,
or content ourselves with the view
from The one of its of neighboring human peaks.
only sign life is on the
long serpentine road, and within the
walls of the Hospice. East and
west stretches a sea of snow clad
peaks and icy the ridges, with
glaciers filling ravines. The val¬
ley Rhine of the Rhone to the west, and the
to the east, are but mere rifts
or crevices enclosed by mountain
peaks, and yet find their the waters from val¬ the
mountains way to the
leys, and that man has found his the way St.
there also is witnessed by
Gothard road. The Reuse river at
first flows on peacefully and qoietiy,
bnt soon and a mountain ridge seek bars outlet its
course forces it to an
through the horrible ravine of the
with ever increasing im-
GRIFFIN GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMI3ER 3,18HP.
petuosity until it is lost in the lake
of Lucerne. Yal Along Tremolo the the shores road of the
ravine of winds
n bold zigzags, while white in its like lowest silver
depths glistening turbulent Licino.
flows the Moun¬
tain torrents forming beautiful cas¬
cades descend, carrying with them
great fragments of rock and debris
to deposit in the plains below.
In olden times, when Rome ruled
the world, the lust of conquest led
the Romans to cress the Alps into
Helvetia. At a very early epoch the
French and German traders took
their merchandise across the Alps,
notwithstanding be the hardships and the
peril fatigues to life to rendered Undergone, the and
passage a
most hazardous undertaking; while
at some seasons of the year the roads
were impassable, and it has only
been during could the 19th the century that
travellers cross range with¬
out danger. The St. Gothard rail¬
way has made more than one breach
in the snowy ramparts, and it now
gives mountain easy and chain rapid transit between across Italy
the
and Switzerland, which had always
been an intolerable obstacle to com¬
mercial intercourse between north
and south. Before proceeding to
take our tickets upon this route, I
will try and give you some idea of
how and by whom it was built. Af¬
ter a lively discussion of the question
whether the work should be under¬
taken by the Government or left
to private enterprise, the Feder¬
al Councic finally decided in 1852 in
favor of the latter alternative. Then
there were persistent demands for the
road across the Alps, and in Janua¬
ry 1861 the partisans of the St.
Gothard elected a committee of five,
which went to work with great ener¬
gy and make engaged an engineer from Zu¬
rich to a sketch of the projected
railway. In August, 18G3, the St.
Gothard Union and the two largest
Swiss ra ilway companies too k posses¬
sion of all the documents of the or¬
iginal committee, and in 1869 Prus¬
sia granted Then a subvention in aid of
the line. followed a treaty be¬
tween Switzerland, Italy and the
German empire in 1871, so that real¬
ly the St. Gothard company was only
formed at Lucerne in 1871.
The work of constructing the great
tunnel between Govehenen and
Airolo was intrusted to the talented
contractor Louis Favre, of Geneva,
who undertook to complete it in
eight years. The <eost of the entire
road was of 9,520,000 which English pounds,
the half sum was contribut¬
ed by Italy, Germany and Switzer¬
land
We now take our ticket and secure
our seats in the little train which is
drawn by a very powerful engine.
After leavinging Luga, Brionico and
Taverne are the first stations, and
here the entire scenery has a southern
character, and the inhabitants of
this vale enjoy the reputation of pos-
sesing great artistic talent. We pass
Bellinzona, a little town which occu¬
pies a most remarkable position, be¬
ing situated between a precipice
and an isolated rocky mound in
the midst of the valley. The castles
os the town, with their ancient walls
and towers, are visible at some dis¬
tance. This little town is the key of
the valley of St. Gothard. The rail¬
road now passes Biasca, and just be¬
hind the station rises the Pizzo Mag-
no, over which the Froda pours in a
lovely cascade, while high above the
torrent is closed by an arched bridge,
near which stands a little chapel
overlooking the valley. Before
reaching Biasca we see a number of
rocks strewn across the valley; thisis
the scene of a landslip which de¬
stroyed a little village in 1512. We
now reach the ravine of Biascliina,
which offered many obstacles in the
construction of the road, but they
were overcome by several turn tun¬
nels, viaducts and bridges. On issu¬
ing from these tunnels we catch [a
glimpse of the wild gorges through
which dashes the foaming Ticino,
and the bold construction of the
road here excites great admiration.
We now reach Faido, whose houses
are low wooden structures built in
both Swiss and Italian styles; it has
also a few handsome houses of stone,
but the beautiful cascades from the
gorge of Piumegna to the Ticino are
its chi.f glory. The terraces of the
mountains are occupied by numerous
little villages, and we can follow with
the eye the steep, zigzag roads lead¬
ing up to them. We are now at Air¬
olo, and the most interesting part of
the road lies from here to aloesehen-
en, and leads through the ravine of
Schoellen across the Pass. More than
one iron cross by the wayside tell of
the sudden and terrible death that
has overcome some traveler, struck
perhaps loosened by a fragment of some rock
from the heights above, or
buried beneath an avalanche. The
great tunnel pierces the mountain
side at Goeschenen, and burrows
7000 feet beneath the inhospitable
peaks of the St. Gothard mountains,
where carriage road passed in
olden days. This tunnel is a short
cut Reuss connecting with the the valley of the of Ticino, the
valley
and is one of the mightiest works ac¬
complished in modern times. The
tunnel is nine and a half miles long,
and was nine years in building.
Great was said to have been the re¬
joicing when the telegraph spread the
news that the mountain was at
length the pierced, but it cost the life of
contractor, while Louis Favre, who
died inspecting it in the very
deepest part. On issuing from the
darkness of the tunnel we find our¬
selves with at Goeschenen, in a peaceful
mounted vaUey grass grown slopes sur¬
by dark-green fir trees,
above which rise snow-capped
mountains.
In making tunnels, this trip sometimes ws pass through
fifty-two com*
pletely while under circling the ground, a mountain and top
as we
issue from them for short intervals
we can see. the dense smoke pouring
from the mouths of tunnels through
which we have below passed the in all direc¬
tions, while road on always mountain
side wi ids the down¬
ward, with tunnel-mouths yawning
afresh to be entered, and while the
ravifes between the mountains far
beneath us are spar .led by innumer-
able iron bridges, tunnels making a com¬
plete network winding of road. To and the bridges
is the sense
of pleasure excited mountains by the natural
beauties of the and val¬
leys, which feeling meet us at admiration every step, is
added a of and
wonder at the bold conception and
successful execution of such a rail¬
way, threading the wild valleys and
piercing the solid granite of the
mountains, linking north and south
in new bonds of friendship, and open¬
ing in the very heart of the Alps,
7000 feet below’ the penks, a new
highway We passed for the quickly nations. the
over coun¬
try, not stopping until we readied
Sehaffliausen, near the falls of the
Rhine, so that we might spend our
Sabbath day in that quiet and lovely
little suburb known as Neuhausen,
just over Gie magnificent Rhine falls.
While following the valley of the
Rhine we pass through a calm and
peaceful landscape of luxuriant pas¬
ture lands alternating with vine¬
yards, and the principal features of
the scenery, though wanting in
grandeur, are by no means deficient
in attractiveness. In nearing Scliaff-
hausen the river is of a dark-green
color and as clear as crystal. We
pass over a well-built iron bridge,
which gives us a view of houses and
church towers, while the falls are
away below us. Schaffhausen is the
capital o F the canton bearing the
same, name and inhabitants. has a population During of
about 12,000
the Thirty Years’ War it was visited
by a terrible pestilence, but it is now
a great center of industry. The cul¬
tivation of music has been greatly
promoted by a school of music and
a handsome concert hall, and it also
boasts of a fine old organ. The town
has an antique and picturesque ap¬
pearance, with its churches of medi¬
aeval architecture and its houses of
the Renaissance and “rococo” style
erected in the fifteenth century.
Every house seems different, having
its particular designation or sign.
the while age in which they were built,
the interiors of the houses are
frequently very handsome with with their
ceilings work. adorned Rathhaus their stucco
The is a building
of which some parts date from the
fifteenth century, and in the archives
is preserved a magnificent onyx,
about 4x3 inches, with a carving
similar to those of A. I). 09, while
the setting of the stone is remarka¬
bly beautiful and dates from the
thirteenth century. The chief orna¬
ment to the town is the magnificent
river which nature has bestowed
upon her. Its waters are still clear,
but its surface is no longer placid; its
passage is impeded by the rocks in
its bed and by darns which have been
erected; but the great number of vis¬
itors to the town is attracted thither
by the falls of the Rhine, which is
one of the most imposing spectacles
to be seen in Switzerland. Although
the height of the falls is not very
great, the immense volume of water
makes a profound impression upon
the spectator, while his senses are
overpowered by the roaring and
thundering of the descending flood
of waters. Four rocks still stand
midway the stream, thus dividing
the falls into two masses, and one
rock has an ovai cavity in the mid¬
dle through which the waters rush.
The highest rock has a landing place
with steps, and little boats make
their way up the swift current and
land passengers. The best view was
obtained from Castle Laufen, an old
building perched upon a rocky cliff
just over the falls and where they
can be seen in all their majesty. We
had a wonderfully fine view of the
falls from above, but the impression
was increased a thousand fold upon
descending the stone steps of the de¬
clivity to the “Kanzeli,” or project¬ of
ing platform fastened to the side
the rock, and accessible by means
a small tunnel cut through the solid
rock and at two-thirds further the height
the falls. Descending down
to the iron gallery fixed against
rock and immediately below
principal fall, we stand where sunlit
spray forms a succession of
bows. Returning to our hotel,which
is situated just in full face of the falls,
we wandered upon the terrace just
when an electric light was
upon the waters and the old
far above them, making a
lovely picture, which changing grew
beautiful under the Bengal
lights of red and green, which
the old structure look like
rent Bohemian glass, with a sea
fire rushing beneath and breaking in
silvery spray around its feet;
to complete the grand illumination,
fireworks were sent off and
high in air above the falls in bou¬
quets of colored lights and dropped
their golden sparks into the
waters beneath. Pine County.
“Helen’s Babies.’’ This work is
knowledged ticle in to be the best Druggist*, selling
our bookstores.
however, say that Dr. Bull’s
sells better than any
ly. It is always reliable.
ed The and Savings is Bank furnish is fully Money
ready to homes,
parties who want and
^ back in smell monthly
INDIAN EDUCATION.
A Comprehensive System Devised
by Commissioner Morgan.
TO SOLVE THE INDIAN PROBLEM.
The Unreal Will Adopt th© American
Common School System to thfl Require¬
ments of the l>nt»ky Youths ami an
Kducatlofi Will He Placed Within the
Reach of All.
Washington, Nov. 2.— Commissioner
Morgan, of the Indian ■ office, has
elaborated a system of education de¬
signed to reach all Indian youth of
school age now under control of the In¬
dian bureau. It is practically the
•American public school system adapted
to the special requirements of the In¬
dians.
It contemplates day schools, primary
or home schools, grammar schools and
high schools, made from' so related grade that promotions grade and
can be to
from schools of a lower to those of a
higher. It is to be non-partisan and
non-sectarian and teachers are to be em¬
ployed and dismissed solely on the basis
of efficiency or inefficiency.
The “Outing Sv*t®m.”
The industrial feature is to re-
for the practical i unties of life.
The “outing system,” b; iy-which pupils
are placed in white fami lies and attend
publi' schools, is to be encouraged
wherever practicable. The fullest op¬
portunity n to be afforded to any In¬
dian youth who desires it to find a home
among white people.
Stress is laid upon the necessity of co¬
education boarding and of bringing school members together of in
the same
as many different tribes antagonism as possible, and in
order to destroy tribal
to generate a feeling of common broth¬
erhood and mutual respect.
The scheme contemplates the organ¬
schools, ization of fifty perhaps primary twenty-five at home grammar schools
and enough day and camp be brought schools to
reach all who cannot into
boarding schools.
The Scheme Entirely Feasible.
Congress, in the commissioners an¬
nual report, will be asked to make a suf¬
ficient Indian office appropriation a"t early to day enable to brii ring the
an
every Indian youth of school age tl that
can be reached under proper instruc¬
tion.
In no other way, the commissioner
characterizes the administration of pub¬
lic school matters in the various states,
its solution is easy. Enough has al¬
ready scheme been accomplished is entirely possible. to show that The
the
Indian youth now in school are making
excellent progress and there is a con¬
stant demand made upon the Indian
office for more and better schools.
Tlie Commission Means Business.
Washington, Nov. 2. — Theodore
Roosevelt, of the civil service commis¬
sion, returned to Washington after an
absence of two weeks. Speaking of the
efforts of the ie Old uid Dominion Dominion League League to
gather political assessments, commission he an-
nounces the purpose of the iion
to prosecute every one connected with
the violation of the l.iw.
Not Taseotf, but Bowman.
Columbus. (). , Nov.2.—A letter was re¬
ceived by Deputy Warden ('herring-
in ton which from the inclosed Philadelphia photograph authorities
was a of
the man Sutherland, who is held there
as W. B. Tascott, the murderer of Mil¬
lionaire Snell, foi identification. Mr.
Cherrington recognized the picture at
once as that of Samuel Bowman, who
was released from the Ohio penitentiary
only a few months half ago after serving a
two and a years sentence for
Champaign burglary and larceny committed in
county.
A MorlgHj.- I r #15,000,000.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 2. —A deed of
trust from the Norfolk and Western
Railroad company to the Mercantile
Trust company, o New York, for §45,-
000,000 has been filed in the clerk’s of¬
fice here. The purpose of the deed is to
provide means to double track portions
of the line of the road and to build exten¬
sions to Iron ton, <>., also an extension
to North Carolina and to provide Norfolk addi¬ and
tional terminal facilities at
other improvements. Existing mort¬
gages will lie retired.
A Vanderbilt Line to Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Nov. 2.—A charter has
been granted to the Beach Creek, Pitts¬
burg and New York Railroad compan
which will build a line connecting tl lie
Vanderbilt's Beach Creek railroad with
the Pittsburg and Western. The im¬
portance of tne project lies in the fact
that the new road will be the connect¬
ing link in another through line between
New York and Chicago by way of Pitts¬
burg.
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To Reform Cotton Inspection.
New York, Nov. 2.—The members of
the Cotton Exchange met and passed a
resolution calling on the board of man¬
agers to submit a by-law to Ire voted on
on the exchange which would repeal the
present system of inspecting and class¬
ing cotton and re-enact the former sys¬
tem with such amendments and modifi¬
cations as experience has shown to be
desirable.
_
A Boy Hangs Himself.
Bradford, Pa., Nov. 2.—At 8 o'clock
last night Jesse J. Harvey, aged well-to-do lo years,
a nephew of K. Maury, a
merciiant, hung himself in his bed¬
room. He screwed an iron hook in the
ceiling and made a noose with off a piece chair. of
a clothes line, then stepped a
No cause is assigned for the deed. The
lad's parents live in Franklin, Pa.
Scliaffer will Be in It.
Pittsburg, Nov. 2.—Jacob Schaffer,
the hilliardist, of this take city, whom in it
supposed would no part the
international billiard tournament, has
decided to become Schaffer’s a participant remarked in it.
A friend of last
night that the Pittsburger would come
out with flying colors.
An Embezzler with ■ Long Name,
New York, Nov. 2. -"‘Newton Percy
Randolph embezzling Hatch, #7,000 who from is the charged Baltimore with
•*"
wasoom-
000 .
A FIGH FOR LIFE.
In«uit. Mary ti*r«»ii Trim to'Strung!* H.r
Aged Mother. ‘‘ j,;*••
New York, Nor. 2.— Mary Baron, 26
years old, the mother of three bright
children and the wife of an old man of
70 odd years, was taken to the Insane
ward in Bellevue hospital in a strait
jacket from the rear tenement 189 West
Twenty-eighth street, Poverty, hunger
and trouble had driven her mad.
For weeks the poor mother had eaten
little, partly through worry, partly that
the others might not want. The natu¬
ral result came. Her mind began to
wander. from her bed. At night and clutching she suddenly her mother sprang
by the throat tore and clawed her flteh
aged mother fought her for them and
for her own life daybreak through the a long neighbors night of
terror. At
called in Policeman Thompson, and the
whole family was taken to the Thirtieth
street station house.
An ambulance carried Mrs. Baron to
Bellevue hospital. The children were
fed and cared for in the men’s room,
and Capt. to Reilly and sent take charge to Mr. of Gerry’s them.
agent come
The old grandmother returned alone to
the wrecked home.
THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON
Effort. living Sind, to Complete the
Monument to Her Memory.
Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 2.— The
city council took final action on a com¬
munication recently received from the
Old South church, of Boston, asking
contributions from Fredericksburg to
complete the unfinished monument to
to Old
. their
ciation in recently Boston inaugurated for patriotic
movement towards
the completion of the unfinished monu¬
ment and to Mary, inviting the mother the society of Washing¬ to
ton, ladies this who co¬
operate with the in city,
are now making a strong effort toward
the who completion will be glad of the to hear monument from their and
patriotic friends in Boston.
The Mary Washington association of
this city have already, elected officers
and will apply for a state charter when
the legislature meets in Richmond, early
in December.
The Plymouth Church War.
WiLKKSBARRE, Pa., Nov. 2.—There is
no Plymouth, change in Polish church affaire at
and no immediate outbreak
is probable, as Bishop O’Hara is desirous
of made avoiding bio bloodshed oucu. with dynamite An attempt was
to up a tene¬
ment house belonging to Father War-
nageris, the deposed priest, and which
contained five families, hut the men
were discovered and fled before putting
their of design them, into all execution. unknown. There No Were
six arrests
have been made. People residing in the
of vicinity of the church are apprehensive
danger. •
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The Fotonu Boundary Dispute.
Heathsville, Va., Nov. 2. —-Gen.
Joseph Governor B. Seth, Jackson who was appointed Mary¬ by
to represent
land in the settlement of the question Of
lotauu tutvo, ui wrc x uwuwtv n*ci, ouu
W. A. Jones, representing Virginia, and
Henry P. Whiting, of the United States
coast survey, met at Goon wharf,* Va.,
but could not agree, and adjourned to
meet in Baltimore Nov. 18.
A French ( omit Coen to Prison.
New York. Nov. 2 —William C. Ten¬
ner, alias Count de Vermont, was sent
to Sing Sing for five years by Judg
Martine. Tenner forged a check for $1
on the Garfield national bank. Tenner
says his father is a member of the
French house of deputies and his grand¬
father president of the French colonial
supreme court.
Died on » Railroad Train.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 2.—John
Ravenburg, a resident of Carbondale,
died on a White Lehigh Haven Valley and passenger train
between Wilkesbarre
home. while en He route from found Philadelphia dead in his to his
was seat.
The body is now in this city awaiting
the arrival of friends. The man was
about 60 years old.
Bowel 1 Dies of HU Injuries.
’ Vernon,
Belle Pa., Nov. 2.—Hon.
Jesse M. Bowel 1, who was assaulted by
Capt. Monday Decatur last,. Abrams died yesterday. at this place The on
stories Capt. Abrams of the claiming affair are that conflicting, he threw
the stone in self defense.
Another Yale Student Die* of Typhoid.
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 3.— Charles
E. Brainerd, Leverett of the Brainerd, junior class of Yale, city,
son of of this
died of typhoid fever at his home here.
He came Lome with the disease two
weeks ago.
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The Weather.
Fair, preceded by Pennsylvania; light rain in New
Jersey and eastern slight¬
ly warmer; southerly winds.
NUGGETS OF NEWS.
The onslaught on New Jersey rabbits and
quail commenced today.
In a letter Secretary ary Blaine Blaine says says be would
gladly ly accept »< the invitation of the New York
Republican an comrni committee to make a fev
a.igu speeches jeekea in in tnat t state if his official en-
gagements nents permitted permitt him to be absent from
Washington.
The report of Governor Prince, of New Mex¬
ico places the population of that territory at
196,000 and the taxable property at $45,690,723.
Assistant Attorney General Shields decides
that the Cherokee nation can lawfully re¬
linquish its claim of title to the Cherokee out¬
let lands.
The United States warship Galena ran
aground in the Swash channel in entering
New York harbor. She was floated off at high
tide and reached the Brooklyn navy yard none
the worse for her detention.
A dispatch from President Barillas, at
Guatemala denies the rumors of a revolution
in that country.,
The pan-Americans visited the tomb and old
residence of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield.
Ilia.
New York’s subscriptions to the. world’s
fair guarantee fund have reached a total % at
$1,797,654.
It has been settled that the cruiser Bal¬
timore will not hare another official trial.
The vessel will be accepted, the contractors
paying $25,000 penalty for failure to derelop
the required horse power.
Mrs. Mackey's libel suit against The Man¬
chester Guardian came up for hearttv fa Lon¬
don. The Examiner said she was a washer¬
woman when Mr. Mackey first met her.
Mr. Oavitt concluded his speed! before the
Parnell commission.
A CASHIER’S «
The Tradesmen's Bank
nhohooken Closes Ita
FROM $50,000 TO $10
A Bank Exanlnof U
iBstltodoii HflhC
Cashier CfoilQIl
High la th* Community.
Coxshohocesw, Pa., Nov
Tradesmen* National Baal
hocken is closed on account of the de¬
falcation of the cashier, William Henry
Gresson, whose shortage will exceed j
$50,000, approach *100,000. *
and may
Conshohocken:
To whom It may concern: This teak Is
IrsnflMrn
(IKOROS Oobsos,
■ ’ Directors.
The Defaulting CiuUlsr.
The defaulting cashier is William Mood
Henry ssifcss&ar Cresson, than whom 11 noons “*
1
Your con
a half hour before the
ned for information
it there was the
the about rumor. “Pshaw! They there
it.
thing in it.” they said. L
soon spread in every part
and the notice on the IN
firmed the startling report
and others flocked about *
ment and read and
from the director*, matt#. t
curb to discuss the •4 5
Discovered by a Dank SuwlMr,
Robert E. James, the a ,
examiner, visited
week Wednesday, in the --—
there was so—— “
returned the
further prosecute
“3 Several the}** subsequent;
■
directors the
they with at once ade-
son tfle
faulter. It is un
rectors sra*i' attempted to 1 and realized
eluded them,
for the present at least.
Th. Book* Doctored.
Bank Examiner James was questioned
by your correspondent; but he was re¬
luctant to say anything there about the affair
further than that t
defalcation, which, he
l e less than $50,000, am. .„, 6M
. >.000, He said the scheme had been
mg on tor some time, but for how
long tlgation h<
done by -book treatment," in which he
embraced false entries and substitutions.
molested.
Tim A nrnixml Man CtSST™ THoannaan.
Tellm J am, ralltoa.* die-
stations patched to ascertain the two if the
to <
been seen to leave Conshocken on any
of the trains. His excited manner con¬
vinced the station agents that some-
leave town over either mlreai Officers
of Fourth and Hallowell street and the
home of liis aged motlier. 7
not caring to convey the drea
to the man’s family, said
either place as to the real ob
mission. Mr. Cresson’a \
sent, in having day gone spend to the
the to un¬
friends.
Us Forged Notes.
the One concern’s of Cresson’s methods without for exeitmg taking
suspicion money discount
was to notes on
which he had forged the indorsement
and pocketed the- proceeds. Until tbs
amount of these notes ia known it will
be shortage impossible and it to state the be months extent of before the
may he
accurate bank official figures can the deficit aseertiw
says
ceed $80,000.
iigfi David Wood, of Conshohocken, sad D.
EKMto years
gaged and much of his stock assigned
as collateral.
Cresson’* Business Ventures.
No one in Conshohocken seems to bo
able to lonn the slightest disposed conception his as
to how Cashier Cresson of
ill gotten gains, or what ted to the com¬
mission of his rash act He invested
heavily Electric recently Light and in stock of both and, the
Gas company,
as president plan whereby of both, the was i
mg a t" ....
would pass under one and the
He was the director of the Trade®
tive Building and of Loan the board association, trade on I
member of m
well np in the front of almost <
terprise of public nature- ~
a
vestryman m the Calvary