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Will Bank Clerks in Pennsylvania
Be Treated Hereafter.
AMAZING REGORD OF LOOTING
A Recently Issued Decree by Presi
dents of Banking Institutions Re
quires Employes to Submit to Be
Photographed and Measured by
the Bertillon System.
Consternation among the hundreds
of bank clerks in Pittsburg has been
caused by the decree recently issued
by the presidents of all banking in
stitutions that all of their employes
must submit to the photographs andJ
measurements of the Bertillon sys
tem. This radical move on the part
of the bankers is a sequel to the
most amazing series of bank lootings
that mankind has ever known.
Within the last three years it is es
timated that something like $7,500-,
000 has been stolen by dishonest
bank employes in that city.
A Measure of Safety.
The banks have concluded that the
best course before them—while not
wishing to cast suspicion upon any
one—is to photograph every one of
their employes and take their meas
urements by the Bertillon system,
so that, when a next defalcation may
occur, the police authorities all over
the world will have the latest em
bezzler marked down as minutely as
though he were the most elusive
Max Shinburn who ever alternated
between safe-cracking and jail ser
vice.
If there was one bank officer who
would have surrendered his com
plete control of millions rather than
submit to being ‘“‘mugged” by the
police it was William Montgomery,
cashier of the Allegheny National,
under arrest in connection with the
disappearance of $839,000 ®f de
posits and the entire $500,000 worth
of capital stock. He was the inti
mate friend and conficzant of Sena
tor Quay, the man who placed
Quay’s bets during the Harrison
campaign, when Quay won $250.000,
and the trusted handler of the mon
eys of the political machine in that
section of the state.
When the Allegheny National went
down—or up—the state was backing
it with $532,000 of deposits and the
Bank of Pittsburg with $1,532,000.
Private depositors were so wary
that they let it have little. When
the crash came, after a series of
speculations in stocks, the police re
ported the discovery or no photo
graph of Montgomery, even during
their investigations of the suddenly
acquired fortune of a Pittsburg
widow whose wealth leaped, in eight
years, from $lO,OOO to $333....,
and of other women in Pittsburg
and neighboring cities, whose real
estate investments had increased
With remarkable facility.
" Stole a Million and a Half, ]
While the fate of the ;\lleghene.\'\
National's money still hung in the
balance, pending the decision of
Montgomery’s allies as to restitution
of the million that had gone, a man
returned to Pittsburg who, for near
ly three years, had left the police
bitterly regretful that the Bertillon
system was not compulsory there be
fore the Enterprise National of Alle
gheney collapsed in October, 1905.
A SIDIPLE REMEDY |
\
FOR DYSPEPSIAI
Make it up for Yourself from a
Specialists Formula.
We publish below the formula of
an expert stomach specialist, whose
fee for diagnosis and prescription is
$25.00. |
Anyone is free to use this formula
and make the medicine up for him
self at home. It is said to be marvel
susly curtaive in severe cases of in
digestion and dyspepsia, especially
where there is an excess of gas on
the stomach. On the other hand, it is
free from harmful ingredients and
will not injure the most delicate \is
sues. While immediate relief is tn be
expected, it is recommended that the
treatment be continued for threoe
weeks in order to zZwarantee a com
plete cure.
Get from your druggzist % oz. so
fium Jhosphate, 1 ooz. essence seal
axmmt. Take an 8 ounce (1% pint)
Yottle with a good cork, fill > nearly
full of hot water; then put the 1% oz
sodium phosphate in and add 1% tea
spoonful of good baking soda. Let
stand until cool, and add 1 oz. es
sence sealmint, and shake well. Take
Wo teaspoonfuls before each meal.
It is said that nearly 90 per cent.
of all indigestion and dyspepsia is
due to fermentation of food in the
stomach. This prescription is de
signed to counteract that, to stimu
late the digestive secretions, and to
regulate the movements of theybow
els. Certainly, unless it possessed
remarkable virtue it would have been
Impossible for the originator of it to
have won such a high reputation in
his profession, for he uses it in nine
tenths of the cases that come before
him,
|}He was Thomas W. Harver, teller of
lithe Enterprise, who in the vain hope
jof escaping tiie penalty for his share
iin the crime, had given up his ident
ity and his home to wander amid
| agonies of dread until his fearful
|| spirit could no longer bear the strain.
| He surrendered himself to the fed
geml authorities, and on the same
iday was sentenced to seven years in
lthe penitentiary—and that with no
| more notoriety than if he were a
| purse snatcher. Pittsburg was learn
fing to wash its dirty linen with
neatness, silence and dispatch. Yet
the Enterprise embezzlements were
among the most sensational ever
known in the state of Pennsylvania.
The losses amounted to $1,500,000.
It was a *‘political’’ bank, like the
Allegheney National, and hundreds
of thousands of its deposits had gone
out to politicians on notes which,
unsecured at best, had disappeared
when the cashier, T. Lee Clark, both
poisoned and shot himself to make
sure of death,
Marks for Gamblers and Women.
Speculation, women and gambling
was the way the stolen millions
went. When the Union Trust Com
pany of Pittsburg discovered its loss
of $385,000 in 1906, almost on the
anniversary of the Enterprise ruin,
the thieves proved to be a couple of
mild young persons, Clinton B.
Wray, the teller, and C. S. Hixton,
the individual kookkeeper. The
gambling crooks: took it off these
two marks in large chunks. Both
received ten years apiece when their
defalcations were discovered.
While the gamblers were enjoying
the Union Trust Company’s cash the
bucket-shops were getting during
the yvear between March 1907 and
'March of this year $520.000 taken
\from the Farmers’ Deposit National
Bank by Henry Reiber, the paying
teller, and John Young, the auditor.
They proved themselves fools as
simple over wildcat curb adventures
as the boys of the Union Trust did
over crooked cards. For ten years
those two presumably experienced
financiers had been stealing $1,105,-
000 from the Farmers Deposit Bank, !
and no one among other officers or
directors had suspected them. They,
too, have been sentenced to ten vears|
each by the same judge, whose rul-|
ing in the cases of men who stole
$395,000 and of others who stole
$1,105,000 would seem to prove that |
in Pittsburg you might as well stealj
a million while you are about it. |
Pittshurg's example has given the |
state of Pennsylvania a record that]
puts the dashing depredations of
bank robbers in the southwest, with |
their masks and their revolvers, to|
the blush of poignant shame. In |
six months with all the reckless-|
ness of hold-ups, burglaries and safe- |
blowing the bank bandits of Kansas,,
Missouri and Oklahoma, between
November 30, 190/, and April 21,
1908, scouring three states and a
dozen banks, obtained only $56,000.
A Pittsburg bank clerk would not
take them as apprentices. l
PECANS ON HICKORY TREES
Sumter County Farmer Making an
Interesting Experiment.
Many people are following with
interest the experiments made by Mr.
H. W. Smithwick in budding pecan
dees on hickory trees at his home
on Brooklyn Heights.
Mr. Smithwick decided last year
that several years of time might be“
saved in pecan culture by budding
the pecans on the hickory trees which‘
abound in this section. Last sum-]
mer he budded quite a number and
this summer is devoting his spare{
time to a continuance of the work.
" The results so far have been highlyl
lsatisfuctory. The pecans have taken:
}n strong hold on the hickories and
are growing luxuriantly. It looks
Isome\what peculiar to see the pecan
growth on the top of a hickory twen
ty-five feet or more in the air, hut
there they are, putting out new
growth right along and flourishing
apparently better than much older
stock planted in the ground.
Mr. Smithwick is confident of the
success of the experiment and feels
satisfied that he will be able to soon
demonstrate that yvears of time in the
raising of pecans can be saved by
\thlq process.—Americus Times-Re
corder.
CURIOUS CAPER COF CUPID.
Gets Divorce From Her Second Hus
band to Re-Wed Her First,
Remarried to her first husband af
ter being divorced from her second,
Mrs. Harry Janney, until the second
marriage Mrs. Sophie Tobias of Mor
ton, Pa., has decided to forget the
troubles which led to her first di
voree suit and try once more to live
happily with her heart's original
choice.
The couple's litle girl, Rhea, led
both to the second divorce and to
the third marriage. Husband No. 2
'is said to have given his wife the
choice between him and the child.
She chose the child, and then hus
band No. 1 appeared.
TAX GAINS SMALLEST IN YEARS.
Returns Do Not Denote Usual Prog
ress and Prosperity in Georgia.
Tax digests have been received at
’the office of the controller general
for an even 100 counties. These
show aggregate gross gains in sixty
eight counties of $7,64¢,739, and
aggregate losses in thirty-two coun
ties of $3,382,191, leaving net gains
of $4,265,649. This is an average
of about $42,000 to the county,
which, if kept up by the remaining
counties, winn make the total gains
on county digests for the year ap
proximately $6,000,000, the small
lest known in years.
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WOMAN WEIGHING SEVEN HUNDRED
POUNDS IS DEAD OF ELEPHANTIASIS
Mrs. Annie E. Lynch, believed to
be the largest woman in the world,
died in scKeesport, Pa., Thursday.
She weighed nearly 710 pound, and
for 19 years had been afiflicted with
elephantiasis. The largest casket
MRS. RUSS. SAGE'S TRAMP
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SHE FOUND HIM IN THE ROAD
OVERCOME BY HEAT.
And Took Him Into Town in Her
Automobile, He's Enthusiastic Over
It, and Promises to Reform.
Edward Jocelyn, the tramp who
was befriended by Mrs. Russell Sage,
who brought him to this city in her
automobile when she found him
cvercome by the heat in the road,
was enthusiastic over his treatment
by Mrs. Sage, says a Poughkeepsie,
N, Y., dispatch to the New ' York
Herald.
“‘She’s the finest woman I ever
met,” said Jocelyn, as he sat ragged
and unkempt in the police station in
Poughkeepsie, waiting the time
when he would go to the depot to
take a train for Albany to visit a
brother who resides there. ‘I al
ways thought that these very rich
people were for themselves and no
one else. 1 had been sick and was
trying to walk from Ossining to Al
bany. I remember leaving Fishkill
and wondering how I would ever get
to Albany. Then everything got
black and the first thing I knew I
heard the roar of something like a
railroad engine. 1 opened my eves
and saw an automobile. That didn’t
interest me, for I knew it would do
me no good, so I closed my eyes.
But the thing suddenly stopped right
near me and I heard a sweet voice
say, ‘the poor fellow; I am sure he
is ill. .We must take him to the
next city, where he will get treat
‘ment.” I was sure it was all a dream,
‘but then I heard footsteps and the
chauffeur asked me if 1 was ill. I
'said I was, and he told the lady, and
'she said, ‘just take him in the seat
by vou and hurry along.’
“Well, the next thing I knew I
was sitting in that front seat with
the coolest breeze blowing past me.
It was like heaven, and all the time
this nice lady was talking about how
sorry she was for me, and hoped I
could stand it until I got to a hos
pital.
“Say, partner, I could stand a ride
to California in that machine. It
made me better in no time. Then
when we got to this town this nice
lady pushed something into my
hand. She did it so nice and easy
like that it did not make a fellow
feel cheap. I round it was money.
“I'm going to quit this hobo game;
I've got a new lease on life. 1 never
thought nice folks were so kind, and
when I was told by the chief that I
had been the guest of honor of Mrs.
Russell Sage, well, pard, T ain't over
it yet, and I guess I'll never get over
1t
“I am going to Albany by passen
ger train, you know, for since the
ride in that automobile and the kind
‘words by that fine lady the freight
cars have no eall for me now. You
can say for me that if there were
more such sweet characters in the
world like Mrs. Sage there'd be fewer
men ‘who stay on the downward
path.’
| Stovall’'s Heavy-Hitters.
When Editor Stovall draws one of
his double-column heavy-hitters on
the boys he makes dents like those
of a battering ram.—Valdosta Times.
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HOW'S THIS?
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case of catarrh that eannot be cured bv Hall's
Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co. . Toledo, O,
{ . We. the undersigned. have known F. J. Cheney
| for the last 15 years, and beljeve him perfectly
i+ honorable in all business transactions and finan
| eially able to earry out any obligations made by
! his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MA RVIN.
Wholesale Drugaists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood wnd mucous strface of
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
ever made by the National Casket
‘Company of Pittsburg was necessary
’to hold the body, and there was not
‘a hearse in the country large enough
to carry it. The body was conveyed
to the cemetery in a open wagon.
There were fifteen pallbearers.
MUST THINK THE PEOPLE FOOLS |
The Atlanta Journal Has Plunged
Into the Bottom of the Mud.
From the Macon Telegraph.
We have thought a number of
times that the Atlanta Journal hud,
reached the limit, but when it aband- |
ons the old campaign charge that the
railroad and the whisky interests
were behind the ecandidacy of Joe |
Brown, and now tries to shift the l‘(‘-i
sponsibility of his election to de
signing convict lessees, it plunges
into the mud at the bottom!
After naming five or six friends
and supporters of Brown out of 110=
000 who have, as attorney, or lessee,
or state official, or otherwise, had at
one time or another some conneo—l
tion with the lease system, as evi-l
dence of a conspiracy, the Journal
proceeds to say that ‘“‘the platform
under which he wag nominated does
not declare against the lease of con
viets;
But the platform on which he Was‘
nominated does, in the following
words: '
17. Recognizing that the car- i
dinal principle in the enforce- !
ment of our criminal laws is
the punishment of crime, the re
formation of the offender and
the protection of society, we ‘
pledge ourselves to such changes |
in our convict system as will
completely eliminate any traf
fic in convict labor, and as far |
as possible place the state’s
convicts upon public works. l
Can you ‘‘completely eliminate
traffic in convict labor” withoutl
‘‘completely” stopping the sale or
lease of those conviects? I
BIG RETURNS FROM NEAR BEER.
Three Thousand Licenses Have Been.
Granted in Georgia.
The money derived by the federal
revenue department in Georgia dur
ing the coming year from licenses to
sell near beers will probably total
$lOO,OOO. :
There are approximately 3.000
near beer saloons in the state. REach
of these is taxed about $2O by the
government, Practically 3,000 ' li
censes have been issued by the reve
nue department for the present fiscal
year, which ‘hegan July:iil.
The records in the internal reve
nue collector’s office snow that the
federal returns from near beers for
!the year should approximate $lOO,-
1000. Already in the neighborhood
of 3,000 licenses have been granted.
These licenses are for wholesale
liquor dealers, wholesale malt deal
ers, retail liquor dealers and retail
malt liquor dealers.
The government fiscal yvear ended
June 30, and the matter of renewing
all fiscal licenses under its control
was begun by the revenue depart
ment. Throughout July there was
a rush in the renewal of licenses.
Iln this connection there remains lit
;tle further work to be done.
| There are some who have been
'slow about the renewal of licenses,
but such cases will be placed in the
hands of the revenue agent, and fines
and prosecution will result if the
offenders delay in the matter of re
‘newal.
[ Summer complaints and other se
'rious ailments common in hot weath
er can be traced to the stomach nine
times out of ten. XKeep the stomach
in good order right now by keeping
a bottle of Kodol handy in the house
lall the time, but especially during
fthis month. Take Kodol whenever
{you feel that you need it. That is
[the only time you need to take Ko
idol. Just when you need it; then
you will not be troubled with sour
‘stomach. belching gas on the stom
ach, bloating, dyspepsia and indi
gestion. Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
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