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Marquise de Merinville Quits
the Catholic Church.
FOUNDED GREAT SCHOOL
Daughter of Millionaire Caldwell Re
turns to Faith of Her Fathers Af.
ter Most Eventful Career in
Philanthropy, :
The Associated Press at New York
hag received the following, but before
glving it publicity its authority has
been fully verified by cable from
Rome:
“Rome, Nov. 14, 1904.
“Eaditor of the Associated Press:
You have full permission to print
the enclosed and give it as wide
a publication as possible.
(Signed.) Yours truly,
“MARQUISE DES MONSTEIRES.”
“Dear Editor: It may interest some
of your readers to know that the Mar
quise de Monsteires Merinville, for
merly Miss M. G. Caldwell, who, it will
be remembered, founded the Roman
Catholic university at Washington
some years ago, has cutirely repudiat
ed her former creed. In an interview
with me the other day, she said:
‘‘Yes, it is true that I have left the
Roman Catholic church. Since I have
been living in Europe my eyes have
been opened to what that church real
ly is, and to its anything but sanctity.
“‘But the trouble goes much further
back than this. Being naturally rclig
ious, my imagination was early caught
by the idea of doing something to lift
the church from the lowly position
which it occupied in America, so I
thought of a university or higher
scjol, where its clergy could be edu
cated and if possible refined. Of course
irn this I was merely influenced by
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, who rep
regented it to me as one of the great.
est works of the day. When I wag 21
I turned over to them one-third of my
fortune for that purpose. But for
years I have been trying to rid myself
of the subtle, overwhelming influence
of a church which pretends not. only
to the privilege of being the “only
true church,” but of being alone able
to open the gates of heaven to a sor
rowful, sinful world. At last my hon
est protestant blood has asserted itself
and I now forever repudiate and cast
off the yoke of Rome.” o 0 saying the
marquise politely dism.ssed me.
“Ilt will be remembered that the
Marquise des Monsteires Merinville
and her sister, the Baroness von
Zedwitz, are the daughters of the late
William 8. Caldwell, and his wife was
a Breckinridge, of Kentucky. Shortly
t}efore his death Mr. Caldwell became
a convert to Roman Catholicism and
left his children to the care of Irish
Roman Catholics in New York, whom
his wife had met in church circles. The
youngest sister married some fifteen
years ago a German mnobleian, a
T.utheran, and has since then also left
the Roman Catholic commqnion. The
LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1904
elder sister has been ia very bad
health for some years, from having to
occupy a position before the world as
a prominent Roman Catholic church
benefactor which was not a real one,
and into which her generosity led her
as a young and inexperienced girl.
Now at last her own mind has assert
ed itself and she returns to the creed
of her ancestors.”
The Divinity Colleze of the Roman
Catholic university in Washington is
known as the Mary Gwendolyn Cald
well Hall of Divinity. i
Prominent members of the Catholic
clergy in Washington expressed their
surprise at the announcement.
One official of the church attributed
as a possible cause, taking the story
to be correct, the noworiety which the
university gained by the failure of
Thomas E. Waggamaan, its treasurer,
by which the university suffered con
siderable loss.
Appointmetns for Parker.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker has
been appointed a member of two com
missions to acquire dock and wharfage
rights for the city of New York on the
East river. The appointment was
made by Justice O'Gorman, in the su
preme court.
Big Blaze in MissoLri. Town.
Eight of the principal business
houses of the town of DeWltt, Mo.,
were burned Thursday with the con
tents, causing a loss aggregating $50,-
000. The insurance partially covers
the loss.
A Dk et
MUST BE DEPORTED.
Qeisha Girls Wil be Sent to Their Own
Country at Once.
A Washington dispatch says: On
the report of Immigration Inspector
Dunn, at St. Louis, the department of
commerce and labor Thursday ordered
the deportation of fourteen geisha
girls and six Chinese. who have been
employed in a coneession at the Louisi
ana Purchase exposition. The case
has been pending for several weeks.
FREIGHT STEAMER BURNED.
Mohawk Takes Fire In Long lsland
Sound and is Destroyed.
While bound. down Long Island
sound on one of her regular passages
from New York and New London,
Conn., the freight steamer Mohawk, of
the Central Vermont railroad, took fire
off Horton's Point, L. 1.,, and was burn
ed to the water’s edge early Friday.
Her crew, except ine watchman, was
*escued by a passing steamship, None
of the .‘valuable cargo was saved.
DUNCAN PETITION DENIED.
Case of Outlaw and Murderer Before
the Alabama Supreme Court.
The Alabama supreme court Thurs
day denied the petition cf Frank Dun
can, noted safe blower and murderer,
for a writ of error for the reason that
the petition was not accompanied by
the transcript of record. Frank Dun
can is now }n jail at Birmingham,
and has been sentenced to be hanged
sn November 25th,
Sought Overthrow of Presi
. dent Amadcr But Failed,
SEEK CANAL MILLIONS
News Received in Washington Indi.
cates Widespread Conspiracy and
- Trouble Brewing on the
Isthmus.
Advices have reached Washington
concerning the reports from Panama
of a conspiracy there directed against
the president While the details are
not available, it ig understcod by ad
ministration officials that this conspir
acy was directed against President
Amador and was conceived by persons
who want to control the remainder of
the $10,000,000 fund paid by the United
States to Panama in consideration of
the right of way across the isthmus,
It is further learned that the move
ment was a failure, President Amador
having been warned in advance, but it
is fearel the same elements wili re
peat the effort.
INQUIRY BEGINS AT HULL.
England Preparing Her Case Against
Russia in North Sea Affair,
The inquiry which Great Britain
conducts on her own behalf into the
North Sea incident,” opened at Hull
Tuesday. Vice Admiral Bridge and
Butler Aspinwall, an admiralty court
lawyer, who were appointed to conduct
the inquiry,and whose report will form
the basis of the British case before the
international commission at Paris, sat
at a large table surrounded by maps
showing the Dogger bank and the
North sea.
The correspondent of the Associat
ed Press learned at the outset that the
board of trade solicitors who have pre
‘pared the case have found no evidence
to suggest the presence of torpedo
boats among the fishing fleet. The in
quiry will therefore merely be an. im
plication of the evidence at the inquest
“and it will be moved to London in the
course of a few days, the proceedings
in Hull being confined o a narrative
of the shooting.
~ STOESSEL REMAINS DEFIANT.
Commander of Port Arthur Garrison
r Sternly Refuses to Qapltulate,
Advices from Japanese sources at
Port Arthur state that a wound receiv
ed by General Stoessel has necessi
tated his confinement in a hospital,
that he refused to relinquish the com
mand of the garrison and that he has
issued orders to the troops to die at
their posts rather than surrender.
It is said that the spirits of the
Russian troops has been dampened by
continuous work, the lack of supplies
and the hopelessness of their ability te
make any successful cefense of the
fortress. It is sald further that many
of the Russian soldlers are ready to
surrender, but that they are kept at
their posts by officers who threaten
them with revolvers and that several
soldiers who were suspected of a de
-Bira to desert have been shot as a
warning to others.
OUTLAWS CONTINUE BUSINESS.
Robbers of Bank ard Murderers of
Cashier Do Another Bold Deed.
The two bandits who made a de
scent on the First national bank of
Cody, Wyoming, two weeks ago and
killed Cashier Middaush, committed
anofimer bold robbery early Tuesday,
when they held up the inmates of Ed
wards’ saloon and gambling house at
Thermopolis, Big Horn county, and so.
cured a large s.-‘-ggt,fl:,.‘,' moucy, watches
and jewelry ¥
The outlaws wore masl3, but were
recognized as George Merritt and his
partner, who killed Mlddaugh. They
were mounted on fast horses and es
caped.
ALABAMA IS FOR MERGER,
State Presbyterian Synod for Consoli
dation of Universities.
By a vote of more than 3 to 1 the
Alabama synod, in session at Annis
ton, voted for the majority report from
the Atlanta conference. By this mo
tion, the synod of Alabama concurs in
the majority report which provides for
the union of the Presbyterian school
at Columbia, 8. C., and the Southwest
ern Presbyterian university, now 10.
cated at Clarksville, Tenn., into one
large school, to be located in Atlanta,
provided legal obstacles are removed.
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HUNDRED ALGERIANS DROWN.
French Steamer Goes Down After Hav
ing Been in Collision.
Advices from Bona, Algeria, staco
that a hundred persong were drowned
Thursday night by the sinking of the
French steamer Gironde, after having
been in collision with the French
steamer A. Schiaffino near Herbillon,
23 miles from Bona,
The Gironde left Bona with 110 pos
sengers, of whom 100 wcre Algerian
natives.
TURKEY TRUST FORMED.
Farmers in Warren County, N, Y., De.
cide to Raise Prices on Fowils.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., says:
Warren county farmers who raised
many turkeys for the eastern markets,
are reported to have formed a trust
and. unanimously decided that the
Thanksgiving fowl is worth more mon
ey thig year than heretofore. The pres
ent price is 23 cents, and a rise to 30
cents a pound is expected.
SEVEN ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
Prisonergs Tore Up Blanket and Let
Themselves Down,
Seven prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Lumberton, N. C., ear
ly Saturday morning by cutting the
bars of the cage In which they were
confined, and the bars of the outer
window with a saw. \
They then tore up a blanket and
let themselves down to the ground.
Bix were negroes, one a white boy.
NO. 17.