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THE MORNING NEWS. ,
Established 1850. . - Incorporated 1888 v
J. H. ESTILL. President. f
LIAO YANG HAS FALLEN
INTO HANDS OF JAPS
Stakelberg Cut Off With His
Siberian Army Corps of 25,-
000 Men and May
Be Captured.
Kuropatkin Claims That Stakelberg Did
Not Obey His Orders.
The flag of Japan flies over Liao Y ang.
Field Marshal Oyama, who led his famous Second Army Into Port Ar
thur during the Chlino-Japanese war of 1894-95, and who in that struggle also
captured Wei-Hai-Wei and Talienwan, to-d)ay, by dint of incessant fighting,
in which his men were spared neither because of casualties nor because of
hardships, holds sway over Liao Yang, and Gen. Kuropatkin, through
whom Russia believed its arms would be served, is in full retreat north
ward, while one of his chief aides, Gen. Stakelberg, with his command, the
First Siberian Army Corps, numbering 25,000 men. is cut off to the west
ward of Liao Yang.
The Rusisans are concentrating at Yentai, but the dispatches thus far
have given no intimation as to whethe r or not they will make a stand there,
or even if the Japanese are pursuin g their foe in flight.
This last blew to Rusisan arms, though it is skopen of in St. Petersburg
as the logical consequence of Russian plans, doubtless will be taken much
to heart by the subjects of Emperor Nicholas, who, after a succession of de
feats and retirements by their army, has expected a finality of the struggle
at Liao Yang in their favor.
In the loss of Liao Yang by the Russians the Japanese probably will
gain little except in the way of strategical point, for the Russians blew up
the magazines and set fire to the enormous quantities of army stores and
provisions there before they evacuated.
JAPANESE MAY MOVE
ON PAST LIAO YANG.
For the Time Reins They May Not
Take the City.
Tokio, Sept. 3, 10:30 a. m.—The Rus
sian force confronting Field Marshal
Oyama’s left and center continues
slowly to give ground in retreat, and is
crossing to the right bank of the
Taitse river. A portion of the Rus
sian army occupies a line of defense
works extending northwest from a
point south of Liao Yang. The Rus
sions also hold an eminence northeast
of Nutchang, on the right bank of the
Taitse. This evidently is intended to
shield the general retreat of both the
left and center.
The Japanese armies continued to
press the Russians yesterday. They
moved forward and occupied a line ex
tending from Tatepjif to Yanchialintzu.
Oyama telegraphs that he hopes
will reach the right bank of the Taitse
this morning.
Gen. Kuroki, after serious fighting,
succeeded yesterday in talcing a posi
tion of eminence near Heiyingtai. De
tails of this fighting have not been
received.
Russians again appear to be concen
trating in the vicinity of Yentai coal
mines, twelve miles northeast of Liao
Yang. Possibly another great battle
will occur there.
The present trend of the movements
Indicates that possibly the Japanese
will move past Liao Yang, temporarily
leaving the city untouched.
RUSSIANS MAY MAKE
THEIR STAND AT YENTAI.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 3.—lt is officially
announced that Gen. Kuropatkin is
retreating, that Liao Yang has been
abandoned and that Gen. Stakelberg s
corps has been cut off. The Japanese
have occupied Liao Yang.
The First Siberian Army Corps,
Numbering 25,000 men, under Gen.
Stakelberg, was cut oft westward of
Liao Yang.
The Russians are concentrating at
Y'ental.
REMAINDER OF RUSSIANS
WERE MAKING A STAND.
Tokio, Sept. 3.—The following dis
patch has been received here:
"Headquarters of the Manchurian
Army, Sept. 3, 9 a. m.—The remainder
of the defeated Russians are making
a stand outside the walls of Liao
Yang. Our left and center armies are
attacking them.”
ATTACKED AND SEIZED
RUSSIAN POSITIONS.
Rurnpatkln's Report I'pnn HU Com
mand’s nluromfltare.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 3.—The follow
ing report has been received from Gen.
Kuropatkin, dated Sept. 3:
"The enemy last (Friday) night at
tacked and seized most of the positions
occupied by our troops at Sykwantun,
and the troop* holding the posit ions In
question retired to a rear guard posi
tion between the villages of Hhansun
•un and Shitshanga.
"The same night the Flr*t Siberian
Army Corps, which had sustained
heavy losses during the last five days,
and which was in dangsr of having Its
Hank turned, owing to the enemy's su
perior forces, retired several kilome
ters to the westward.
"In these circumstances, l ordered
Liso Yang evacuated and lha tloops
to rstlre northward."
J&abannab JRnfninij
NUMBER 17.771.
KUROPATKIN’S ARMY
IS IN FULL RETREAT.
Russian Strategist Manages to Fig
ure a Japanese Reverse In This.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 4.-12:15 a. m.—
All Russia will learn by the mornipg
newspapers that Gen. Kuropatkin’s
army is in full retreat to the north
ward, that Li'ao Yang has been aban
doned and that Gen. Stakelberg’s corps
Js surrounded and cut off.
The hopes of success raised in Rus
sian breasts by the telegram from the
commander-in-chief, published thl3
afternoon, saying that the Russians had
'advanced against Gen. Kuroki on Fri
day, and that an attack on the Rus
sian right had been repulsed, proved
short-lived. Gen. Kuropatkin had
scarcely begun the offensive against
Gen. Kuroki’s army when he was com
pelled by the overwhelming force of
the Japanese flanking movement to
give up all idea of continuing his ad
vance, and hurriedly withdrew in the
direction of Mukden.
The retreat is the logical consequence
of the Russian plan of leading on and
tiring out the Japanese at the suc
cessive stations of the ro'ad northward,
thus placing their foe at the constant
ly growing disadvantage of lengthened
lines of communication. The success
of this plan was marred by a blunder
of Gen. Stakelberg, who in the words
of Gen. Kuropatkin, insisted on plac
ing his own interpretation on orders,
instead of fulfilling them. Gen. Stakel
berg erred in failing to cross the Taitse
river when Gen. Kuropatkin decided
that the whole army should retreat
to its northern bank, as was exclusive
ly reported in dispatches to the As
sociated Press on Sept. 1.
This blunder, it is feared, will in
volve the loss of the whole of the First
Siberian Army Corps, consisting of the
First, Second and Sixth Rifle divisions,
the Ussuri Cossack brig'ade, the First
Siberian Artillery Brigade and a sapper
battalion.
The abandonment of the whole posi
tion at Liao Yang involves the loss of
a great accumulation of stores, though
it is believed that many of these al
ready had been sent north before the
commencement of fighting.
It is more than possible, however,
that the Russians destroyed what they
ooudd not move.
Something akin to consternation pre
vails among Russians who have learn
ed of the disa -iter to Gen. Stakelberg's
corps. All realize that there Is small
hope now for the relief of Port Ar
thur, but the military officials are
unanimous in the belief that it would
only be folly for Gen. Kuropatkin to
remain and run the risk of being sur
rounded with his whole army, and that
the commander-in-chief, by his with
drawal north, has actually converted
what might have been disaster to him
self into what is regarded as a reverse
for the Japanese, for the failure of the
Japanese to hold Gen. Kuropatin's
army and inflict a decisive blow, it is
claimed, cannot be regarded otherwise
than as a reverse. Field Marshal
Oyama's tenacious frontal attack and
the olever flank movements could not
have had any other object than to com
pel the Ruslans to accept a decisive
engagement.
Gen. Kuropatkin'* retreat will un
doubtedly have a discouraging effect
on the garrison of Port Arthur, which
can no longer hope for relief from
this quarter. It Is doubtful, however.
If the Japaneae are In a position lo
press the siege, and it is more than
probable that they liav# diverted e
portion of the besieging army to rein
force their corps operating In Man
churia. Thle would account for the
temporary lull In the fighting there.
Continued on f ixth Page.
SEVEN KILLED ON
GRADE CROSSING
NINETEEN OTHERS INJURED
IN A COLLISION OF A TRAIN AND
A STREET CAR.
World's Fair Train Ran Into n
Snlmrban Electric Car at St. Loots.
The Car Had Stepped Upon the
Track-Was Struck With Great
Force by the Engine-Deed and
Injured Strewed tlic Way—Motor
man and Conductor Arrested.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 3.—Seven persons
were killed and nineteen were injured,
two probably fatally and nine serious
ly, to-day by the collision of a WabaEh
World’s Fair shuttle train with a su
burban electric oar at the Sarah street
crossing. There were twenty-five pas
sengers in the car, and no one escaped
injury.
The dead are:
John W. Wilson, Kirkwood, St. Louis
county, aged 70.
George W. Majors, aged 60, St. Louis
county.
Mrs. Charles Merkley, Ottawa, 111.
Andrew McKinley, 12 years old.
M. B. Bristol, aged 50; Webster
Groves, St. Louis county.
Two unidentified women.
Fatally hurt:
H. B. Culp, aged 60, St. Louis, skull
fractured.
The shuttle train was returning to
the Union Station from the World's,
Fair Grounds at the rate of about
twenty miles an hour, it is stated. The
street car, which was on its way t>
the suburbs with a load of people re
turning home, stopped directly in front
of the engine and was cut in two.
The trucks of the car were knocked
100 feet away, while part of its roof
w*as carried 200 feet further by the
train. Bodies of the dead and injured,
with wreckage of the dismantled car,
were scattered along the track for that
distance.
A. W. Burbank, engineer of the shut
tle train, who blames the motorman
of the electric car for the accident,
staid:
“I was within 100 yards of the subur
ban crossing when I saw the subur
ban car start across the track. It
looked to me as if It had ample time to
get across.”
The watchman and the flagman at
the crossing and some of the pas
sengers confirm the statement that the
car stopped, started across the railroad
track and then stopped where it was
struck.
No satisfactory explanation has been
given why the car stopped in the mid
dle of the track.
Cook, the motorman, whose shoulder
was fractured, was held a prisoner at
the City Hospital, and the conductor
of the suburban car, Patrick Sheehan,
has been arrested.
WOMAN WAS FOUND
WITH HER THROAT CUT.
Bloodhounds on a Trail and a
Lynching May Follow.
Charlotte, N. C„ Sept. 3,—A special
from Clarkton, N. 0„ says that Mrs.
George Packer of that town was mur
dered there to-day about noon. Her
body was found In the woods, her
throat having been cut. One negro has
been arrested and another la under
suspicion.
Bloodhounds were placed on the trail
to-night, and If the criminal la caught
and the proof Is conclualva, a lynching
will likely follow, aa th* community
la vary much atlriad over th* double
crime, which wee brutal In the ex
trema.
The nagro si rested tg not thought to
be the guilty one.
SAVANNAH. GA.. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1904
BREAKERS AHEAD
COOK GOT THE WIMBLEDON.
NVon the Famous Trophy On the Sea
Girt Range.
Sea Girt, N. J., Sept. 3.—The most
important individual competition thus
far of the Inter-state Shooting Tourna
ment, in progress here—that for the
Wimbledon cup—was won by George
E. Cook, of the District of Columbia.
Cook, who is one of the most expert
riflemen in the world, finished with a
lead of three points over Lieut. Wil
liam A. Tewes, of the First New Jer
sey Regiment. Cook’s total was 88 out
of a possible 100. The third prize goes
to Capt. William B. Martin, of the
Second New Jersey, and the fourth
prize to Cfapt. C. B. Winder, of Ohio.
The winner of the all-comer revolver
match, also shot to-day, was Lieut. R.
H. Sayre, of New York. The second
prize goes to Col. Thomas Anderson,
of Massachusetts, and the third, fourth
and fifth prizes to C. F. Armstrong,
Maj. S. J. Fort, of Maryland, and Maj.
G. B. Young, of the District of Co
lumbia, respectively.
The carbine team match was won by
the first team of the Second Troop,
Philadelphia City Cavalry, with a total
of 288 out of a possible 350. Squadron
A, of New York, was second with 284:
the First New Jersey Troop’s first team
third, with 280.
forviolatTng AGRAVE
I. tie Was Fined $2,(100 and Given
Six Months.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 3.—A special
to the Gazette from Searcy, Ark., says:
In Magistrate Harlan's court this
afternoon, Dr. R. G. Lightle was con
victed of the charge of violating a
grave and was fined $2,000 and sen
tenced to six months in jail. The prin
cipal witness for the prosecution was
Walter Gregory, who testified substan
tially that he entered into a plan to
take the body of Edward Pitts from
the grave and palm it off as that of
Dr. .Lightle, in order that insurance
policies, to the amount of $21,000 in
favor of Lightle could be collected.
Gregory implicated Dr. Lightle and
ex-Mayor John V. Roberts. Roberts
is under bond to appear for trial at
Judsonia, Sept. 21, on a charge of vio
lating a grave.
The entire day was spent In .taking
testimony in the trial of Lightle, and
at 5 p’clock this afternoon Lightle was
adjudged guilty. Under the state law
the often sc of violating the grave is a
misdemeanor.
CAMPAIGN IN ARKANSAS
Comes to An End and Election Will
Be Held To-morrow.
Little Rock, Sept. 3.—The state cam
paign closed to-day and the election
for state and county officers will be
held Monday. An active canvass has
been made by both Democrats and Re
publicans, and the latter are claiming
to-night that they will materially re
duce the usuui Democratic majority.
Other than a nominee for Governor.
Harry H. Myers, the Republicans have
no state candidates. Gov. Jefferson
Davis is the Democratic nominee for
a third term. The other candidates for
Governor are J. E. Wilmans, Prohibi
tionist. and William Penrose. Socialist.
The Democratic state ticket, except
for Governor, has no opposition.
Two proposed amendments to the
constitution will be voted upon. One
Increases the number of Supreme
Court judges from five to six and the
other empowers first and second class
cities to Issue bonds for public im
provements.
Approximately 150,000 votes will be
polled nnd the Democratic managers
claim that Gov. Davis will have u plu
rality of 50.000 or more. The Republi
can managers claim that many Dem
ocrats will scratch Davis and vote for
Mysra and that Ihe latter will receive
a large vote.
While state iseuee have figured
largely in the etnte campaign, Gov.
Davie In hla apaerhea throughout the
etate has emphasised the race ques
tion H* has voluntarily pledged him
self to recommend to the legislature
that the school funds be divided so ea
to make ihe negro public schools de
pendent upon taxes pc.id by the ne
groes.
MILITIA SOLDIERS
REACH THE FIELD
THE TWELFTH NEW YORK
WAS THE FIRST REGIMENT TO AR
RIVE AT MANASSAS.
Practice in Detraining Was Afford
ed the Various Commands ns They
Arrived on the Field of the Man
euvers—Charge Made That the
Government Is Paying for Elab
orate Dinners for tMUuera—Officers
Deny It.
Camp No. 2, Thoroughfare, Va.,
Sept. 3.—The two division camps at
Manassas and Thoroughfare are being
populated rapidly to-day with state
militia. Long troop trains are con
stantly arriving at the two camps and
canvas cities are springing up among
the hills with startling rapidity.
The Twelfth New York Regiment
was the first to arrive at Thorough
fare, and added 850 men to the
strength of the “Brown” army under
Gen. Bell. The regiment came In two
sections from New York, going over
the Pennsylvania road to Washington
then over the Southern to Thor
oughfare.
The detraining tracks were utilized
and illustrated to the militia and also
the regular troops, who witnessed the
detraining and the advance in railway
facilities for handling troops. The
baggage cars were switched to sepa
rate sidings and by the time the troops
filed out of the cars and marched to
their camps on a hill, a short distance
to the west, their tents and the equip
ment were on the ground. The ground
had been staked in advance, and each
company was assigned a "street.” The
men stripped off their coats and brown
shirts and rapidly hoisted temt poles
and spread canvas. The regiment was
snugly in quarters an hour after its
arrival. This operation was repeated
as other regiments came in. and at
each camp the reception programme
was carried out exactly as planned
without a hitch.
TJie charge has been made that the
government is paying for elaborate
dinners at corps headquarters, attend
ed by officers In full dress and by other
guests. This is said to be Inaccurate,
as the officers of Gen. Corbin’s staff
are paying for the officers’ mess, at
which the guests are entertained, en
tirely out of their own pockets.
Regimental drills will be held Mon
day In both camps. By that lime It
is expected that most of the militia
men will be settled for the maneuvers,
which will begin at midnight Monday.
The two camps will be in great activity
to-morrow In receiving the remainder
of Ihe state troops.
The quick work shown by troops In
detraining is a source of gratification
to the officers. The excellent track
age facilities provided by the South
ern Railway for this purpose l aided
greatly In this work.
jacksoWlleVegro
KILLS A WHITE WOMAN.
Mrs. N. B. narrow Was Shot by
Wash Bradley.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Sept. 3.—Wash
Bradley, a negro, shot and mortally
wounded Mrs. N. B. Barrow yester
day. Mrs. Barrow died this afternoon
et 1 o’clock. t
Bradley has**not been captured, but
his capture is expected soon. It is
reported that he was at Kanapaha. this
afternoon. Several posses are search
ing for him. excitement Is Intense and
If caught he may be lynched. The
reward offered for hi* apprehenelon
has been raised to $l5O.
TERRELL GoTnG TO ROME.
Rome. Ga., Kept. I—Gov. Terrell haa
accepted the Invitation to attend the
reunion He will be handsomely eli
te! tallied while here.
A MERE COINCIDENCE
SECRETARY WILSON SAYS
It Doom Not Indicate That There
H'ns n Leak.
Washington, Sept. 3.—Officials of the
Agricultural Department to-day de
nied the accusation emanating from
Savannah that there had been a leak
in the cotton report issued yesterday.
It was, they said, but a repetition of
similar charges made in the past which
had been proven to be false.
In a telegram addressed to Wright
Hunter, chairman of the Committee on
Information, Savannah Cotton Ex
change, dated yesterday, Secretary
Moore said:
“The claim of any person to have
been in possession of the government
cotton figures before 1:15 to-diay, the
time of (heir official promulgation, is
absolutely false and without founda
tion. Spurious claims are frequently
made, buit usually they are falsified
by the official figures themselves and
speedily forgotten.
“Surely it is not reasonable to as
sume their occasional agreement as
proof of a leak. The Secretary of Ag
riculture is always ready to investi
gate any charge of this kind if it is
accompanied by substantial evidence or
testimony, but the means adopted to
safeguard the figures during the short
time that elapsed between their being
arrived at and their promulgation ren
ders a leak impossible, and a mere co
incidence of figures, as in this ease,
amounts to nothing in itself."
THOUGHT PROR BRITTAIN
LIVED IN SAVANNAH.
Why Terrell Appointed ltlm ae One
of the Trustee*.
Atlanta, Sept. 3.—Asked to-day
concerning the appointment of Eu
gene C. Brittain, of Valdosta,
but who is to become a resident
of Savannah, as trustee of the State
Normal School for the First Congress
ional district, Gov. Terrell said: “When
I appointed Mr. Brittain a memhci' of
the board, I understood he was a resi
dent of Savantfah, and was so in
formed upon what I considered reliable
authority. I knew he had been teach
ing in Valdosta, and I also knew he
had been appointed to a position in
Savannah, and I had nothing before
me to indicate otherwise than that
he was a resident of Savannah and
the First district. I appointed Mr.
Brittain because I knew he was a good
man and particularly because I de
sired to put one or two tCacherS on
the board. There were several super
intendents appointed, and It was my
desire also to give the teachers repre
sentation. The fact that Mr. Brittain
has been elected to a position in the
High School in Savannah would seem
to he ■&. sufficient indorsement of his
ability and his qualifications to serve
as a member of the board of trustees.”
WILL BEGIN WORK
ON NEW RAILROAD.
All Hfnrfy to Start On the IHrmlng
linm, Uulainbtt* and 9t. Andrew’*.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 3.—Work on the
Birmingham, Columbus and St. An
drew's Railroad begins Monday at
Chipley, Fla-, 'the first part of the road
constructed being sixty miles from
Chipley to St. Andrew’s bay. The
road will then be extended to Birm
ingham, via Columbus. L. E. Miller
of Philadelphia, the contractor, is al
ready on the scene. Five hundred
tons of steel rails will arrive at Chip
ley in a day or two, and terracotta
piping and other material has already
been received.
The railroad company has sent out
for filing in the various Alabama
counties through which the road will
pass a mortgage for 19,360,000 in favor
of the West End Trust Company of
Philadelphia as trustees. This mort
gage is on 'the entire 360 miles of road
between St. Andrews bay and Birm
ingham. W. Miller of Columbus Is
president of the company.
ROBBED A PREACHER'S HOME
nnritlnr* Helped Themselves to a
Valdosta Pastor’s lielonKlnas.
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 3.—E. Slder and
Mr*. L. J. Jackson returned yesterday
from a three months stay in upper New
York and Canada. When they enter
ed their home on Central ave
nue and Troupe street they no
ticed that the clock had disappeared
from Its place on the mantelpiece, and
further Investigation showed that many
other things were missing, among them
a handsome cornet which was left on
the piano when they went off for the
summer. They looked In the closets
and found that many of their winter
clothing had been carried off. It de
veloped later that one of the hall win
dows in the rear part of the house
was partly open and through this gur
giars had been going frequently during
their absence and carrying off what
ever they wanted. The cornet was lo
cated in a pawn shop and the police are
trying to locate the alleged Waycross
negro who left it there.
FOUR MET THEIR DEATH.
Krontera. State of Tobasco, Mexico.
Sept. 3.—At dawn this morning the
home of the lighthouse warden was
completely destroyed by Are. Mrs.
Pnlleras. wife of the lighthouse war
den, and her 2-year-old daughter
Juans, who wss sleeping In a room
next to where the lire broke out. died
from asphyxiation. Mrs. Caldera, sis
ter of Mrs. Palleras, and her husband
perished In the flames.
The cause of the Are has not been
found, as the accident occurred so very
early in the morning.
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DAILY. $S A YEAR.
WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK. 81 A YEAR
SUITS AGAINST
TRUST COMPANY
SEEK TO RECOVER $300,000.
CONTINENTAL TRUST CO. OF BALTt-
MOHF< the defendant.
“False, Fraa.lnlent and Deceitful"
Representations. Plaintiffs De
clare, Were Made to Indace Them
to Subscribe to the Underwriting
Syndicate of the United States Cot
ton Duck Corporation—Showing ot
the Plaintiffs.
New York, Sept. 3.—Two actions
seeking to recover $300,000 from the
Continental Trust Company of Balti
more were begun in the United States
Circuit Court here to-day.
The suits were brought by the Cen
tral National Bank of New York, in
liquidation, and the Merchants’ Trust
Company of New York. The first
named complainant seeks to recover
the sum of $200,000. which it paid as
a subscriber to the underwriting syn
dicate of the United States Cotton
Duck Corporation. The Merchants’
Trust Company asks Judgment for
SIOO,OOO, which it likewise paid on a
subscription to the same syndicate.
The complainants allege that the de
fendant company, in promoting the
United States Cotton Duck Corporation,
used "false, fraudulent and deceitful’’
representations to induce them to sub
scribe to Its underwriting syndicate,
with an intent to “deceive and defraud ’,
them.
According to the two complainants
ihe defendant in 1899 undertook to pro
mote the Mount Vernon and Wood
berry Cotton Duck Company, and is
sued for the latter $9,500,000 of its
stock to purchase certain cotton duck
manufacturing plants in Mount Ver
non, Baltimore. Laurel, Md., Frankltn
ville, Md., Tallahassee, Fla., Columbia,
S. 0., and New Hartford, Conn. These
plants were not worth collectively, the
complainants allege, over $8,000,000, and
were not capable of earning more than
$500,000 per annum. The Mount Ver
non and Woodoerry Cotton Duck Com
pany, the complainant also claims, was
insolvent and its stock and bonds, with
the exception of its first mortgage
bonds, were of little or no marketable
value, all of which facts, it is contend
ed. were well known to the defendant
corporation.
To Take la Georgia Properties.
The charge is then made Unit the
defendant, to enable It to sell the
stock of the Mount Vernon and Wood
berry Cotton Duck Company, formed
anew corporation known as the United
States Cotton Duck Corporation, which
was to take over the properties of the
Mount Vernon and Woodberry Com
pany and acquire additional cotton
duck manufacturing plants at Man
chester, N. H., La Grange, Ga., Ho
gansville, Ga., and at West Point, Ga.,
and to this end issued stock to the
value of $50,000,000. The total value
of the combined plants it was pro
posed to take into the new corpora
tion did not at any time, the com
plainants declare, exceed the sum of
$12,000,000 and collectively were not
capable of earning more than $750,000
per annum. .
The complainants allege that they
were induced to Invest In this new
corporation, on the strength of a print
ed statement issued by the defendant,
which purported to show that the new
corporation was capable of earning
profits sufficient to pay all fixed
charges and dividends on its $50,000,000
issue of stock.
The complainants characterize the
printed statement as “false, fraudu
lent and deceitful,” and issued “to de
ceive and defraud complainants” and
other investors.
LOSS 0F sßCaooolN
THE FIRE AT MEMPHIS.
Division of the Losses Among the
Business Firms.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 3.—Fire on
Front street In the heart of the whole
sale district to-day destroyed property
approximating in value SBOO,OOO.
The fire originated in the Oliver-Fin
nie Company's grocery from an un
known cause. The stock and building
were destroyed.
The building on the north of the
Oliver-Finnie Company, owned by John
Denle's Sons, stored with lime, was
partially crushed by falling walls. The
Memphis Paper Company’s building
was crushed. It was also partially
burned, as was the building of W. C.
Early & Cos., wholesale commission
merchents, and the rear portions of J.
T. Ferguson & Co.’s building.
The Oiiver-Finnle Company’s loss is
between $400,000 and $500,000. Winnie,
Love & Cos., and Behr & Cos., were also
among the firms who suffered loss.
Frank Guffenhaugh, a fireman, was
seriously injured by the falling of a
ladder. Six other firemen were over
come by heat and smoke, and were re
moved to hospitals. All will recover.
Wells Will Re Manager.
Richmond, Va.. Sept. 3.—lt is an
nounced that arrangements have been
made between T. G. Leath and Jake
Weils whereby the Leath circuit of
theaters, consisting of Richmond, Nor
folk, Newport News, Petersburg.
Lynchburg, Roanoke and Charlotte,
N. C., will hereafter be under the di
rect management of Jake Wells. Mr.
Leath will retire from active service,
but will be president of the new com
pany. Jake Wells will be the general
manager. The new organization will
be known as the Leath Theatrical
Company.
Address of President Dias.
Mexico City, Sept. 3.—At a Cabinet
Council, over which President Dias
presided, the mein points to be touch
ed by the President in hie forthcoming
message to Congress on Hept. 16 Inst.,
was discussed. It is learned that
the message will make no allusion to
the question of monetary reform, and
this is accepted here In business cir
cles as Indicating that the plans for
the adoption of the gold standard by
Mexico have been Indefinitely post
poned. ,