Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1903 — Page 8

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1903.

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EXCESSES BY TURKS

oykk nuuuk nuns D persons AID TO II V E BKKN l R ED. All bat Ten of the Population of Reilos Put to Death. According to Revolutionary Advice. TURKS HAVE UPPEE HAND REPORTED TO HE tiAIMXi AT EVLRV POINT J MAC EDONIA. lasaraenta Honfvrr, Continue to Report Victories and Slaughter of Many Moalems. LONDON', Oct. 2 With the exception 0i a revolutionary rport ol a massacre at Mehomla, which is identical with the town of Raalog. thr is little news from the Balkans. 'I he semi-official Journal de St. Petersbourg, commenting on the visit of the Czar to Emperor Francis Joseph, declares that the firm language employed by the repre sentatives of the Russian and Austrian governments at Constantinople and Sofia has averted war for the present. A dispatch from Constantinople says the Anatolian troops recently called out are merely Intended to replace the unruly troops who are responsible for the excesses, so the actual effectiveness of the army in Roumania will not thereby be increased. According to a special dispatch from Constantinople . an irade of the Sultan intimates that he advance of 15,000,000 on the mm loan will be expended entirely on war material. .. other dispatch says that In the neighborhood of Lucovo, on th Servian frontier, 8,000 Turks have engaged Ave bands of insurgents. Desperate fighting is reported. The insurgents are employing bombs and the Turks have lost 300 men and several officers. The battle continues. Lucova is aid to be in flames. SOFIA. Bulgaria. Oct. 2. The Macedonian revolutionary committee asserts that it has information that the whole Christian population of the town of Menomia (Razlog), province of Seres, was massacred Sept. 28, with the exception of ten men, who escaped with the news. Menomia is an important town and the seat of the local government. The population was about equally divided between Turks and Bulgarians. The latter nurubcreo 3.2'JO persons. According to the fugitives, when the general rising was declared in the Razlog district on Sunday the Turkish troops in the pirin mountains hurried to Mehomia and surrounded the town, rendering the escape of the ChrtetHna impossible The Bulgarian population were p:-pared to join In the rising, several insurgent agents being in the Bulgarian quarter of the t(wn at the time. Desoeratf ttsjntinsj recurred in th- street.-, bomb, and dynamite being freeJy used. After fighting for five or six hours the Turks gained the upper hand and proceeded to massacre evey Bulgarian they encountered. According to advices received here this afternoon the backbone of the revolution in Macedonia is broken, the Turkish troops are gaining the upper hand everywhere, several insurgent chiefs have been killed or wounded, others are abandoning the struggle and fleeing to the frontier, the revolutionary bands are sustaining heavy losses and aro nuking refuge in large numbers and the Turks occupy every important point along the rsutes of retreat to the frontier. Five engagements are reported to have taken place in the vicinity of Kratovo, where 5,000 Turks are attacked by revolutionary bands and though many Turks are killed, the insurgents were routed. One of the leaders of the latter, Lieutenant Tontcheff. committed suicide in order to avoid capture. Advices from the insurgent headquarters assert that 6.000 Turks were routed by 2.000 insurgents In the Pirin mountains, after four days' fighting. The Turkish losses in this affair are said to have been the heaviest during the whole outbreak. They included three colonels and many officers of lower rank. Three batteries of siege artillery left Sofia early this morning for Haskovovo, near the frontier of Adrianope vilayet. Csavr and Emperor Confer. VIENNA. Oct. 2. The Czar of Russia and Emperor of Austria held an important conference at Muerssteg to-day. Count Lamsdorff. Count Goluehowski, the Russian ambassador at Vienna and the Austrian ambassador at St. Petersburg, being present. The correspondent of the Neue Frie FWal says that it was decided at the conference to amplify the Macedonian reform scheme. The two powers still entertain the belief that Turkey wili carry out the scheme which will result in the pacification of Macedonia. OPPRESSED PEASTS. Macedonia, Even In Times of Peace, Full of Misery. New York Tribune. A most interesting people are the peasants of Macedonia, who are now in revolt against the heavy and unbearable rule of the Turkish Sultan. One outrage after another and the unceasing despotism of the officials whom the Sultan has placed over them have driven more than half of the men of the country from their fields into the mountains, where they are wandering about in bands, heavily armed and desperate. 1 1 is a region of diversified population. In he South the Greeks predominate, in the north the Slavs. The middle section has a mixed and debatable congeries of national itiea and dialects. There are a few Wallachians here und th.-re and a sprinkling of Mahometans everywhere. In times of peace 96 per cent, of the population is engaged in agriculture. They till the fields in a primitive fashion, having little use for modern improvements or farm machinery. Their stolid industry, their thrifty habits, the fine climate and the natural fertility of the country would make them a most prosperous and happy people were It not for the oppression put upon them. Each Christian village suffers exaction from its Moslem neighbors, its Turkish landlord, the Albanian brigands, to say nothing of the official tax collectors. The people have no security In trade, and the privileged class lives upon their labor. A recent visitor tells of a village where the peasants, besides sharing the products Of their field equally with their landlords, sra forced t work for them eighty d.is aach year, including all the Sundays, without any pay in money or goods. They are forced to obey at the point of the knife, and there Is no redress. This incident tells the story : Come, dog, and help me here!" cried a Moslem peasant to a Bulgarian in the next Held. "In five minutes, as soon as I've finished, 1 will come," answered the other. The Moslem crossed the low stone fence which divided the property and Jabbed his knife into the arm of the Bulgarian. He cot the desired assistance without further delay. Two days later the Bulgarian's wound began to fester. He set out to the nOaJ b.wn to have it dressed. The Moslem met him on the road and at the point of his knife turned him back to help with another task. The cottages of the peasants are grouped together in little hamlets like those of France or Bulgaria. There are few fences and the landmarks are uncertain. Many of the villages have a common lot for pasturing the flocks when it is impossible fur the shepherds to I -.i.l them into the mountains, where for several months each pear the grazing is good. Both men and women are strong-limbed and full of endurance. Few are idle or vicious. The wonn-n do their share of work in the fields, and have no end of home duties. They make the clothing of the family, usually from wool grown and sheared upon the farm. spun, woven, cut and made In the house. As in ti ighboring Bulgaria aae often a little patch of cotton alongside the peasant's cabin or hut. The women have learn, d to utilize this product to the fullest advantage. They do beautiful embroidery, which th-y do not care to sell. preferring to keep it fur the decoration uf the home. Kli. uoopltality of the people appeals to

the visitor. Oriental laws prevail, and no 1

one wno comes in peace is turn- ). i n the poorest peasant will share his crust of bread and his woolen blankets with a stranger, and without asking. Most of the larger villages have a "khan," or inn, with a large common room, where guesis, both men and women, are accommodated. The average peasant family possesses a pair of oxen, forty or fifty sheep, a cow. several pigs and c hicken. A portion of the increase of the sheep flock must be turned over to the landlord In many cases. One day each week in the towns of the district Is market day. and the peasants come from every direction, driving slow going ox teams hitched to rough carts loaded with produce. The distances are great, and the market Journey is usually begun the day before and ended the day after market day. Like his brothers in Bulgaria, the Macedonian peasant buries his money in the fields. There are few banks, and ths few the peasant does not trust. The house la not a safe hiding place, for It Is labia. to be searched at any time by passing bands j of Turks, who do not hesitate to loot when there Is anything to be taken. In Bul garia, where reform has been in force for rome years, the peasant is prosperous, and the total amount of coin burled in the fields Is enormous. So fast do the peasants hide the money which comes to them that the output of the Bulgarian mint disappears almost as soon as coined. As though one government could not put sufficient oppression upon the unfortunate Macedonians, there has for several years been a secret Christian government, carefully concealed from the Turks. It Is administered by seven or eight prominent men, and In Macedonia there are between seven and eight hundred bands. After sundown the authority of the Turk is gone. Then Um Mahometans shut themselves in tiuir houses and refuse to emerge even to stop the carriers who bring in arms from Bulgaria. The leaders of the bands address the people In church or schoolhouse on Sunday. Punishments are decreed by the central committee, and are carried out swiftly, secretly and with Impunity in hundreds of cases. I nder the Christian or unofficial government treason is punishable by death and the penalty Is administered by one of the members. Christians are forbidden to take their differences before the Turkish law courts, and no marriages can bf contracted without the sanction of the committee. SHE RELEASED HER BROTHER. !ow She Is Occupying the Cell Vnented by the Fugitive. HAZLETOX, Pa.. Oct. 2.-Carl Freisrhman. an alleged deserter from the cruiser Topeka, has been confined in a cell at the City Hal", awaiting transfer to the league Island navy yard, Philadelphia. The police allowed Trelschman's father, mother and sister to converse with him and gave the prisoner and his visitors the liberty of the corridor, the door of which was locked, with the key on the outside. Taking advantage of an opportunity Miss Trelschman is alleged to have forced her slim hand through the grating of the door and turned the key. The prisoner darted out. escaping by a side door and has thus far eluded capture. Miss Treischman and her father have been locked up on the charge of aiding a government prisoner to escape, and the girl is in the cell formerly occupied by her brother. VICTORY FOR SAM PARKS WALKING DELEGATE DEFEATS A CHANGE m COWIIHU 11 Carries the Convention nf Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Against President Buchanan. KAXSAS CITY. Oct. 2.-Samuel Parks, tha New York walking delegate, won a personal victory over President Frank Buchanan in the forenoon session to-day of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. It developed when an amendment to the constitution, drawn by J. Dugan. of Chicago, a Buchanan adherent, to the effect that no man holding political office could be eligible to J representation at any convention of tho association or to hold an executive office therein, came up for a vote. It was directed at Richard J. Butler, a member of local No. 2 and an assemblyman from New York city. President Buchanan left the chair and spoke for the amendment and was followed by Samuel Parks, who opposed it in one of the most ardent speeches of the convention. The amendment was defeated fifteen to thirty-two. One third of the delegates did not vote. At the afternoon session a committee was appointed to draw up a working agreement between the shop, or inside men, and the outside men. President Buchanan brought up the question of organization in the South by suggesting that he believed something should be done in this regard. He made no recommendation, but said simply that he believed the time had come to take some kind of action, and he asked for expressions on tb subject. A long discussion followed. Every delegate who spoke was opposed to the taxing up of the question at this convention, arguing against recognition and the subject was dropped. The election was again put off another day. NBW YORK, Oct. 2. Robert E. Neldig. who was re-elected president of the local housesmith' and brldgemen's union about three months ago. to-night was deposed on account of non-attendance and a new president was elected. The union held its weekly meeting to-night, about two thousand members being present. It was reported that Samuel Parks had sent word from Kansas City that Neidig was not wanted as president, and that the union might just as well put him out and elect a new president. The Carnegie Company's Notice. NEW YORK. Oct. 2 Regarding the proposed readjustment of wages by the Carnegie Steel Company for 1W4, Chairman Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, to-day made the following statement: "An old written agreement between the Carnegie Steel Company and its employes provided that existing wages should be continued during each calendar year Bateau notice of cancellation or readjustment should be given three mouths prior to the beginning of the year, and this custom has prevailed ever si DOS. Pursuant to this practice, the usual notice has beep given, so that, if deemed proper, adjustments can be made next January. The notice does not necessarily mean that wages will be decreased or increased in any particular line. The matter will be mutually considered at the proper time." Shaffer Merely C'ennured. PITTSBL'RG. Oct. 2.-From semi-official sources it was learned to-day that the board Investigating the charges against President T. J. Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, voted only to ceusure him for not attending the convention of sheet workers held in this city. The other charges, it is said, were considered, and, in the opinion of members of the board, the testimony did uot warrant a conviction or even any serious consideration. It is understood that no inentiou of the decision reached by the board will be published in the official organ of tht association, and that their findings will only be presented to the national convention uext May. Oenernl Labor etvs. Chicago pa caaSl and the cattle butchers agreed on the wage demand of the union Friday night ar.il a new agreement, satisfactory to both sides, ill be signed to-day. The demands of the union that all men receiving 12 a day and ovtr be Increased 25 cents a day was eOItOSdsd by the packers. Two unions of the United Garment Workers of America were granted an injunction at Chicago Friday by Judge Tuthlll. to prevent interference of employers and rival unions. I'njust discrimination is charged, the trouble being an outgrowth of the right between the garment workers and the special order clothing makers. The employ, s t : ; ui lb servic e corporation which controls a big system of trolley lines In New Jersey have voted overwhelmingly again.-t a strike on the Companys system, according to a statement made by National Treasurer Orr. of the Amalgamated Association of Street aud i:t iric Railway Employes. Seventy-nve per cent of the votes cast In Essex, Passaic. Hudson and Union counties were against the provsed Ulrike, he said.

GONZALES NOT ARMED

TEST1MOW OF WITNESSES AT THE TRIAL OF J. H. TILLMAX. Victim nf the Lieutenant Governor Had o Weapons in His Pockets When He Wan Shot. THREATS MADE BY TILLMAN ACCORDING TO THE EVIDENCE OF EDITOR C J. TERRILL . He Is Alleged to Have Said He Would Kill Consnlea Like a Dog; When He Met Him. UfeXINGTON, S. C. Oct. 2 A vast amount of testimony was taken to-day in the trial of J. H. Tillman, nearly twenty witnesses giving evidence. In addition to this the reading of the editorials iu the State was concluded. The prosecution has progressed rapidly toward the couclusion of its side of the case. The first witnesses called to-day were among these who were in the office of the State when Gonzales was carried there after the shooting. L. G. Wood, jr., testitied that he found no weapons in the overcoat that Gonzales was wearing when he was shot. Dr. W. J. Murray said that Gonzales said to him In the State office that he w is fatally shot. The doctor opened Mr. Gonzales's clothes and saw no weapons, but on cross-examination said that he did not examine the pockets. C. J. Terrell, editor of a newspaper at Johnston, S. C, was among the first witm sses of the day. ".Mr. Terrell, I wish wou would state to the jury whether you ever heard James BL Tillman make any threat against Mr. Gonzales?" said Solicitor Thurmond. After saying that he had and that it was In the streets of Edgefield, just before the beginning of the campaign of last summer, witness was asked to repeat what Tillman said when he made the first statement. TILLMAN'S THREATS. "We were walking along," he said, "and I spoke to him about his health and his improvement from his trip, and as we neared the office door and we had been discussing some printing he wanted done, he made the remark that he was going to run lor Governor and was going to be elected, and if Gonzales, referring to Mr. Gonial I with several oaths, attacked him like he had been doing, he was going down there and kill him like a dog. 1 remonstrated with him about that, told him I thought it would be wrong in principle and every way, and said the best thing he could do if he had given him any insult or cause for anything like that was to g.o down there and tackle him man and man and give him what he thought was needed. He said no, that he was going down there ami give him no more show than he would a mad dog." "Did you at any other time hear him make a threat?" the solicitor asked. "Yes, sir," witness replied. He said that It was on a train going to Columbia, and that O. D. Black was present. In answer to further inquiry from the solicitor, witness said: "Black and I were talking and Colonel Tillman came and I Introduced them. 1 said: 'Colonel,' this is Mr. Black, do you know him?' He said: 'Oh, yes, I know Black,' and slapped hjm on the shoulder or leg, slapped at him that way (indicating), arm from that the conversation want on to general topics until presently he referred to what he called the 'Gonzales matter' and he referred to Black. I want it distinctly understood I am not trying to quote verbatim what was said, but 1 am just giving an idea of my recollection of the words that were used. He said: 'Black, old boy, 1 am going to do what I said about that old fellow. I am going to put an end to his way of abusing me, slandering me, ate., like that. 1 am going to put a stop to it,' something like that. CALLED HIM A SCOUNDREL. Asked as to any other statements, the witness said: "On the day they were canvassing the returns in Columbia I went to Columbia to present my bill for advertising. I was standing in front of the attorney general's office, talking at the time to Attorney General Gunter a. d Secretary of State Gantt and Mr. Watson, of the Stite. All four of us were talking, and just as Tillman came up Gantt and Gunter walked off and Colonel Tillman addressed Watson and said that scoundrel, with some oaths before it, in that building SOnder had attacked him. He went on to tell about his attacking him and being unjust to him. and made some thivat. 1 don't remember the nature of it, but he said he had as much of it as he was going to have, and made some demonstrative threat and told Watson: 'You can tell him if you want.' Watson declined to do it. He said: 'I wish you would do it. I made it with the intention of its going to him.' in a demonstrative way, that way (indicating), and Watson declined to do it." On cross-examination Mr. Terrell was questioned as to his feelings toward the defendant. Hb said heWrote one article against his candidacy, but that he never wrote anything against him as an individual. State Senator Thomas Talblerd, of Beaufort county, testified that he left the capltol accompanied by Mr. Tillman an l State S. satOT George W. Brown. As they reached the street-railway transfer station, just across Gervais street, he said he saw Gonzales approaching. He said Gonzales had on an overcoat and his hands were in his pockets. He testified that Tillman said "Good morning." or "How are you? " Gonzales turned to pass inside and when he had passed beyond the witness's line of vision and, as he supposed, was in line with them, he said he heard Mr. Tillman say: '"1 got your messag ." He then sai l he gat a glimpse of a pistol in Mr. Tillman's hand and that about that minute it snapped. The witness said he threw up his hands and said this must stop. He next said he heard Mr. Gonzales say: "Here I am; finish me." Gonzales went toward the corner and said to him: "I am shot in the stomach: send for a doctor." The senator said Tillman told him subsequently that he did not shoot again for fear of hitting witness and because the witness had thrown up nis hands and said: "This must stop." He said h- did not ht ar Mr. Gonzales say: "Fire auain. you coward." He said he did uot ? Gonzales make any demonstration, but on cross-examination said he was not in position to see from the time Gonzales passed beyond his line of vision until the shot Was bred. MONEY PILES I P. Grovrth of the Famous Girard Trust In Seventy Years. Philadelphia Ledger. Few people know just what the Girard trust is, its purposes, how it is managed and what it has done for the city and the Nation. Its vastness. in the firsi place, is worthy of note. Stephen Girard died in lfeJl. reputed the richest man in America, and by his will devoted property worth approximately 5.Txu,000 to public uses. Managed In strict accordance with the views and Instructions indited by him. it has increased more than five times the original amount, being now officially estimated at $29,780.000. It has yielded in feventy-two years a net income of 11&.557.000. exclusive of a very considerable portion of the revenuethat derived from anthracite coal lands which has been capitalized. All of this net income, with the exception of accumulated balances in the current accounts of the trust, has been expended in works of benevolence. The largest of all the public-spirited projects which Girard had In mind when he ordered the disposition of his great wealth was, of course, the college which bears his name. He originally intended that it should be located on the uuare ot ground bounded by Market. Eleventh. Chestnut and Twelfth streets, which has proved one of the most productive portions of the estate; but, havux acquired the forty-five acres of land

now chiefly covered by the college site, he entered this feature of his plan in a codicil. The total productive reality in Philadelphia given to the tru?t was valued in 1S31 at $1,500.000. Its present valuation is $11,000.S9S In th" same time the value of the Girnrd College grounds has increased from $10.000 to $1.700.000. The college buildings have cost $3.370.000. Of the realty which belonged to Stephen Girard outside of the old city of Philadelphia, then valued at $500.000. a portion, between 131 and 1903. was converted into cash, realizing an increase of $$.645,000. which was invested; the increase of the remaining portion is estimated at $7,."00,000. Bonds and stocks constitute the only part of the original trust which in seventy-three years has depreciated in total value. WITNESS CLAIMS FORGED.

Somebody Made Money Out of the Recent tfnleb Powers Trial. FRANKFORT. Ky., Oct. 2. A bungling forgery in the matter of claims presented to the state auditor for payment of witnesses in the recent trial of Caleb Powers, at Georgetown, has been unearthed by Auditor Coulter. Recently Attorney J. Tevls Cobb, of Richmond, presented a bunch of these claims to the amount of $2,766. An inspection of these before payment developed the fact that but $1.95) was due the claimant and that the remainder was forgery. The claims were purchased for Attorney Cobb by YV. H. Coulton. one of the commnnt!th witnesses in the Powers case. Cobb will be the loser by the forgery. Claims were raised by placing a figure before the corred amount. Mr. Cobb will vigorously prosecute the forger. TO UNITE TWO CHURCHES PROPOSITION TO BE SIBM1TTED TO l'RESBYTERIAX ASSEMBLIES. Statement from the Subcommittee on Inion Which Has Been In Session at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1 Committees on cooperation and union' of the Presbyterian Church and (he Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which have been in session four days, to-day adjourned and to-night issued the following statement: "While no final agreements were reached at this meeting, encouraging progress was made toward outlining a proposal of a b;ii.-5 of union to be submitted to the two K n ral assemblies. Tentative proposals of a basis of union, mak by the Presbyterian committee, were responded to with like proposals from the Cumberland Presbyterian committee. Pending consideration of a second paper from the Presbyterian committee, the Cumberland Presbyterian committee agreed with the Presbyterian committee to submit the whole matter to a .subcommittee of six, three from each of the general committees, said subcommittee to formula ta concurrent report to be finally COBSiderdd by later joint meeting of the two committees' in St. Louis. "In all the associations and negotiations of the two committees, both severally and jointly, there was absolute cordiality and fraternity, and there were no negative votes upon any question finally acted upon by either committee or in the joint committee conferences. Such unanimity was the normal fruitage, we believe, of the devotional spirit that pervaded every session, the answer to the prayers of the members of both churches everywhere. "While slight doctrinal and other differences were thought to exist by some members of the committees, a thoughtful and prayerful consideration of these supposed barriers has so far either removed those obstacles, or so nearly shown them not actually to exist, that we entertain the conlident hope that within a very few years reunion may- be accomplished in a manner wholly creditable to both churches and honoring to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Pending further negotiations and until final action shall have been taken, it is. of course, impossible to explain in detail the proposals under consideration, or to announce the basis upon which we all expect to reach an agreement." ALL BY ACCLAMATION CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY REPIBLICANS OF MASSACHUSETTS. Another Term for Governor Ilntes nnl Lieutenant Governor (iuild Tnriff Revision Only When Necessary. BOSTON, Oct. 2.-In the same hall which yesterday was filled with Democrats cheering to the echo the oratory of their leaders, the Republican of Massachusetts met today and nominated the following State ticket by acclamation: For Governor, John L. Bates; Lieutenant Governor, Curtis Guild, jr.; secretary of state. William K. Glin. of Boston; treasurer, Edward Bradford, of Springfield; auditor, Henry E. Turner, of Maiden; attorney general, Herbert Parker, of Lancaster. The platform follows: "The Republicans of Massachusetts. In convention assembled, give their cordial indorsement to the administration of PrcMd nt Roosevelt. An able, honest, fearless chief executive, we pledge to him our loyal support for the campaign of llMM. "We reaffirm our belief in the policy of protection to American Industries. While admitting that tariff schedules should be revised from time- to time to meet changing industrial conditions, or to secure the bt Befits which may be obtained by reciprocity, we declare that the present tariff lawshould not be revised or changed until the need for such action and the benefits to be obtained from it are clearly showa. Whenever Industrial conditions shall require a readjustment of the tariff, the work will be undertaken by the Republican party, the friend and defender of protection, without unnecessary disturbance to trade and commerce, and with fairness and justice to all American Interests "To uphold law and order should be the first duty of every American citizen. In many sections of the country there is a disregard of law which is bringing ' discredit to the whole Nation. All parties should insist that public officials should be firm and resolute in the enforcement of law, regardless of personal or political consequences. In this land, dedicated to liberty and freedom, the rule of the mob should be suppressed. "The Republican party favors legislation that is just and fair to all interests, that encourages and protects the enterprise of capital and promotes aud safeguards the welfare of labor. "We heartilv indorse the administration of Governor Bates as able, safe aud successful, and confidently submit It to the voters for their approval at the election in November." Governor Bates and Lieutenant Governor Guild addressed the convention briefly before adjournment.

Obltnnry. IOWA CITY. Ia.. Oct. 2. Charles Lewis, of Sheridan, Wyo., a member of the legislature of that State, died here to-day after a long illness. Before going to Wyoming he was twice mayor of Iowa City. He returned here recently for his health. OTTAWA, Ont., 'Vt. 2 Henry Cargill. a member of Parliament for the last fifteen years, Is dead. Mr. Cargill was overcome by heart failure while at work in a committee room of the House. OSWEGO, N. Y., Oct. 2 -Washington Henderson, a wealthy lumber dealer, is dead, aged seventy-five ar. He was a prominent Democrat and was twice his party s candidate for Congress. Presideut Taylor Inaugurated. GEORGETOWN. Ky.. Oct. 2. Inaugural exercises in honor of J. J. Taylor, president pf Georgetown College, were held tonight in College Chapel. Addresses of the occasion were made by Dr. Arthur Yag r, acting chairman of the faculty. Dr E. Y. Nelaings. president of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville. Dr. J. A. Lewis, president of the board of trustees, and by Mr. Taylor, the new president. Quite a large crowd was present. Taylor recently resigned as pastor of FreemasonStreet Church at Norfolk. Va., iu ordtr to accept the presidency here

SWINDLER AND FORGER

ARREST OF F. H. CROSBY BY A POSTOFFIt E INSPECTOR. Alleged 1 rook with Several Aliases, Who Is Charged with Stealing; a Valuable Mall Pouch. WAS TÜLL OF BANK CHECKS WHICH CROSBY IS SAID TO HAVE RAISED AND CASHED. Posed nt Anbury Park as a Fruit Speculator His Wife Reported to Have Mingled iu Good Society. NEW YORK. Oct. 2. Word was received to-night that F. EC Crosby, alias E. Bell, alias Hammond, alias Crawford, had been arrested in Denver, accused of stealing a mail pouch containing $5ö0.uüö worth of negotiable bank paper at Philadelphia on the night of Sept. 8. He is charged with several other crimes, including swindling and forgery. It Is alleged that Crosby returned to this country from Crowe, England, last summer and went to Asbury Park, where he represented himself to be a fruif speculates His wife mingled In good society and introduced her husband to prominent business men and at the banks there, where he made deposits, declaring to the officials that he intended to continue his account for the summer months. On Sept. 10, it is said, he deposited a number of checks payable to his order, drawn on different Philadelphia firms. Two days later he closed the accounts, withdrawing the amounts due him. He and his wife then left Asbury Park. About this time, it Is said, W. W. Dickson, chief postoffice inspector of Philadelphia, discovered the theft of a mall pouch containing bark remittances from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, the entire amounts being estimated at JöoO.OOO. It is alleged that during the last ten days complaints were received at Asbury Park banks that checks accepted by them had been tampered with; that the names of the payees had been erased and Crosby's name inserted and that small amounts had been raised to larger ones. It was recalled that a mall pouch had been stolen at Springfield Junction, 111., last April and that A. E Hammond had opened a cash account at the Lincoln Trust Company, St. Louis, depositing a number of altered checks from the stolen mail pouch. It was suspected that the mall-pouch rob--bery was COBBasitted by A. E. Bell, alias Crawford, whose photograph was identified by the officials of the St. Louis bank. Investigation at Asbury Park developed that Crosby was none other than E. A. Hammond, alias Bell, alias Crawford. Postoffice nspector Jacobs traced him to Denver, where he was arrested to-night. Crosby is suspected of committing numerous poetofBoe robberies In New York, Buffalo and other cities. He is said to have made a big haul in Buffalo some time ago, when he disguised himself as a railway porter. In 1SD4 Crosby is said to have been arrested in New York while trying to cash a $1,200 check with a Maiden Lsne jeweler and to have been sent to Elmira Reformatory, from which he was released In 1897. Through an agreement with the postofflce Crosby will be surrendered to the St. Louis police to stand trial on a charge of swindling. J'rosby is snid to have been arrested In New York in the company of "Kid" Foster, a reoria pickpocket, while they were attempting to cash a draft for $425 with Marcus & Co.. jewelers. It was afterwards learned that the draft offered by Crosby had been stolen from, a mail pouch in the Mi vv York Central station at Buffalo. For this crime he was sentenced to five years in Auburn prison. Foster escaping with three years. Crosby also served a threeyear term in the prison at Jefferson City, Mo., for a similar offense. The woman who passes as Mrs. Crosby is said to be a Western woman and has shown considerable skill in obtaining introductions at banks. Crosby is from Kansas City. MAKING OF MEN'S CLOTHES SEVERAL REASONS WHY A TAILORS' TRI ST COULD NOT SUCCEED. Tailor Tells Why Cnntoni-Made Garments are Costly High Waves to Workmen. Philadelphia Record. A tailor trust similar in scope to the mammoth steel trust is to be started by Charles M. Schwab. This trust is to make its own .cloth in its own mills; it Is to run a cutting school for the retaining of itsarmy of men; its hundreds of stores are to be planted in every American city and town. Trust clothes will oost $15 a suit. Mr. Schwab thinks that the tailor trust will wreck the exclusive tailors, who charge $ for a costume, and the readymade dealers, who charge $10. He says something like this: "Once put a well-fitting, made-to-meas-ure suit of clothes on a young man's back and he is done with ready-made clothes forever. The best kind of made-to-measure clothes cost tO-day $50 or thereabouts. Such clothes we will be able to make, all over the country, for $15 or $20. We ought, in a few vears. to govern nearly all the clothing trade of the country." To a number of Philadelphia clothing dealers both custom-made and ready-made clothing dealers Mr. Schwab's trust s. h. me was submitted the other day for criticism. These men were unanimous in condemning the scheme; they were also unanimous in their reasons for condemning it. Their reasons were: "A k'o,.,l suit of ready-made clothes excels in Jit and in durability and in appearance a poor suit of custom-made clothes. It is Unpossible to make profitably decent custom clothes at less than $25 a suit. Get below that price aud the clothes are cut poorly and sewed together poorly, and the stuff iu them is poor. They are. in fact, ior in every way to ready-made clothes. Therefore. Mr. Schwab, with his $15 custom-made suits, won't be able to compete wuh the custom men, because his trust product will be inferior to theirs, and he won't be able to compete with the y-made cJothes men. because his product will be inferior to theirs, too." CLOTHES-MAKING AN ART. One tailor Waal exhaustively into the bus- - of making clothes. He showed what an art this business is. He proved that the best clothes cannot be made at a low price. Good cutters, he said, get from $50 to $100 a week. Good sewers are paid $10 or $11 for every coat they put together. Good cloth costs from $4 to 7 and $8 a yard. In one suit there are no less than fifty pieces twenty-three in the coat, Steven in the waistcoat, sixteen In the trousers besides buttons, buckles, silk thread, etc. This man said: "You might as well expect to get good locomotives or good battleships cheap as to get good clothes cheap. Neither Schwab nor any one else can do it." The tailor described the learning of the tailor's trade. "A tailor," he said, "is t i bnically. a sewer. Th cutter take the measure and cuts out the garment; the tailor puts it together. To learn tailoring completely to learn how to cut and sew trousers, waistcoats and coats would take ten or twelve years. No one, at least in America, knows all that. Each man is a

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specialist. Smith, here, cuts coats, has been cutting coats all his life. Jones is a c"Tt tailor; all he does is to put coats together, seated cross-legged on a table top. It took him at least four years to learn his business. Our elderly coat cutters are, as a rule, coat tailors. They studied tailoring three or foui years before they took up cutting. But your modern cutter Is rarely a tailor. He thinks too much of his eyesight and his figure to sit curled up, year after year, on a table, a coat in one hand and a fine needle in the other. "Suppose you wanted to learn to be a tailor a coat tailor, say. for they make the most money. You would go and sit on the board tas we sayi with a 'jour' tailor. You would be an apprentice, and you would learn slowly to sew inside seams, to press, to run the machine and so on. It would be three years at least before you would be a good tailor the kind of a tailor, as we say. who assists the cutter for the cutter gives this sort of skilled, high-priced tailor directions, telling him to stretch a coat at the shoulders and to shrink it at the waist, but to the poor tailor he gives no such orders, knowing that, any way. orders so difficult would not be carried out. When you have become an expert tailor the sort of a man who assists the cutter, enhancing a coat's beauty by the skill with which tou Insert the sleeves and shrink the cloth here and stretch it there you are able to earn $30 a week. You must work long hours, oJt your income, you see, is a good one. You get $10 or $11 for making a coat, and only the best coats the silklined ones, made of imported cloth are intrusted to you. Every custom dealer whose business is big employs about fifty tailors men who get various rates and to these men go suits that are high-priced or lowpriced, as the men themselves are highpriced or low-priced. TAKES YEARS TO LEARN CUTTING. "Well, suppose you have learned to be a coat tailor, at $30 a week, and are still dissatisfied. The thing for you, then, is to learn to be a cutter. Cutting you may take up in a sh"p or in a school. There are a dozen schools in the United States, and the courses cost from $250 down. Each school teaches a different system of cutting, some o? them very elaborate and complex, so that to measure a man you harness him up as though he were a horse. Of course, simple systems are the best ones. "My system is simple. I use no harness. I am careful to get correctly the centers from which I measure my man and to get the measurements themselves correct. After that there Is no difficulty. But, whatever system you use, it takes a man several years to learn to be a good cutter, and some men can never learn. They, in despair, go back to the board to their $30 a week. A good cutter earns here in Philadelphia from $40 to $60 a week, and in New York he earns from $100 to $125. "In measuring a man for a coat eight or nine measurenents are enough to take. They who take more confuse themselves. The best cutters take the fewest measurements. After you have learned to measure you learn to draft and cut patterns. With green paper (because green Is easiest on the eyes) you cut out the six pieces that are needed in a sack coat. These pieces are: (1) The back. (2) the forepart, (3) the undereleeve (4) the top sleeve, (5) the collar and l6) the facing. You make the dimensions of these pieces correspond with your measurements. In like manner the vest and trouser measurements are taken and the patterns cut in three pieces for the vest and in two for the trousers. TO SAVE YOUR CLOTH. "Now, having all your patterns, you lay them out on your piece of cloth in such a way as to be able to cut them with as little waste of cloth as possible. This process is called 'the lay.' and all cutters are interested in it deeply. When, indeed, a man devises a new and good lay when he gets an unusually big suit out of an unusually small quantity of cloth he makes a drawing of his lay and sends it to a tailors' trade Journal. You can never pick up one of these journals without finding various drawings of fine lays in them. A tailor's busy and slack seasons are: "Busy Sept. 10 to Christmas. "Slack Jan. 1 to March 15. "Busy March 15 to July 4. "Slack-July 5 to Sept. 9." The tailor then drew up a table of the actual cost to him of the cheapest and the most expensive sack suits that he makes. The table follows: Cloth, about 3V yards at $1.75 $6.12 Trimming and lining 3.00 Cutting 2.50 Making 6.25 Total $17.87 MOST EXPENSIVE SUIT SELLING AT $65. Cloth, about 3H yards at $7 $24.50 Cutting 3 no Trimming ar I lining 12.00 Making 15.00 Total $54.50 "From this table," said the tailor, "you see that there is no great margin of profit in the making of clothes to measure. Of course, it is possible to make clothes to measure very cheap as cheap, in fact, as $10 or $12 a suit but such clothes can't be well made, and a man who buys one suit of them, if he has good taste, will never buy another. They are far and away inferior to the good grades of ready-made clothes. "Mr. Schwab will find it Impossible to make good clothes cheap, no matter how perfect his system may be. Good cutters and good tailors work rather slowly, and in order to live they must be paid good wages." LINCOLN'S FLINTLOCK. Gun Once Owned by the Liberator oiv Owned by Indiana Minister. Washington (Ind.) Gazette. Rev. J. T. Hobsor, pastor of the United Brethren Church, this week became the proud possessor of a gun once owned by Abraham Lincoln. He purchased it from Samuel Bruner, of Dale, Ind., near where Lincoln spent his boyhood. Dr. Hobifon has for several years been working on a history of the early life of Lincoln in Indiana, and before going to the conference at Marengo last week went to Dale and other points where Lincoln spent his early life, to gather data from old settlers. On this trip he learned that Samuel Bruner, a farmer living two miles north of Dale, had a gun once owned and used by Lincoln, and meeting Mr. Bruner, he inquired as to the relic and in the end purchased it. The gun is an historical one. It was purchased in 1823 by Abraham Lincoln and Henry Bruner at Vincennes. They had smUted to the old post to do some trading and bought the gun to hunt on their trip home, and after arriving there, continued to use it as a partnership gun until 1839, when Lincoln moved to Illinois. Bruner then bought Lincoln's Interest in the gun. and kept the flrearm until 1872, when it went to an adopted son. Samuel Bruner. of Dale. Mr. Hobson is therefore the third owner of the gun. Mr. Hobson brought the firearm home with him this week. It is a long barreled shotgun and h in good condition. The wooden stock has been repaired once, but otherwise the gun ia the same as when bought by Lincoln eighty years ago. It has a hammer and looks like the guns of that period. While on the trip Mr. Hobson gathered much data that will be of use to him in his history of Lincoln's life. I n ii mi al Bunch of Lerrlaes. Anderson (Ind.) Herald. George Haitis entered his office yesterday and found three men in the three rooms. Private conferences with each ascertained for the constable the fact that each of the visitor.- wanu-il ti know about R-d Cross Association agencies. "Come into this room.' Hallls said to the party. 'We 11 talk it over together."' When the men were assembled Hallls remarked that he would like t Introduce ihem, but he did not know their names. "My name ia Lewis." volunteered the first. That's funny.-' said the second. "I don t know you. My name is Lewis." Well. I'll be darned." said the third. This i funny. My name Is Lewis also." The three were no relation and had never met before. Nextl

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