WITH A PEN KNIFE. I A Principal in tha Notorious Bice Case Tries to Suicide. Jklli(r<l Accomplice ol Lawyer Patrick that lie Allied 111 the Forjfliiu; of rhei'ka Claims Patrick (aiimd TIIIIIOII - itlce'* IKtalli. Now York, Nov. 2.- The death of the wealthy William Marsh Kiee at his Madison avenue apartment* on Sep tember 23; tin- attempt of his New York attorney. Albert. T. Patrick, to cash checks for lurge amounts which purported to l>e signed by the mil lionaire; the refusal of one bank to cash the checks drawn on it and th® discover* by the bank officials that Mr. Kiee was dead at the lime the checks were presented; the subse quent claim by Patrick that Mr. Kiee had made him by will the trustee of his estate, -vhioh amounts anywhere from $3,000,000 to $8,000,000; the charge of forgery both as regards the checks and the will placed against Patrick and Mr. Wire's valet, Charles J'. Jones; the arrest of Patrick and Jones and their lodgment in jail, have kept New York interested for over a month in what, by the developments of yesterday, promises to become the most celebrated of the many cele brated crimes which the courts of this city have been called onto investi gate. The first incident which led rp to the climax was the fact disclosed on Wednesday that Valet. Jones had been taken to the district attorney's ollice and the subsequent rumor that he had made a confession to the author ivies. Before the public had time to learn if the report of a confession was true, came the more startling news that during the night Jones had in his cell in the Tombs attempted sul fide by cutting his throat with a pen knife gi\en him, he says, by Attorney Patrick, also confined in the Tombs, and for the purpose of getting rid of one witness to Patrick's alleged crime. His crime, according to the confes sion of Jor.es, parts of which the dis trict attorney's office gave out. was nothing less than the murder of Ihe millionaire by Attorney Patrick and the purloining of valuable papers re lating to the estate. The taking off of Mr. fiice. says Joncfe, was caused by the internal administration of some poison, supposedly mercury, and the final application of a towel satu rated with some anesthetic, pi • sum nbly chloroform. Jones also said. "After the body had been laid out Patrick gathered up all the letters.l was with him and had as much as he to do with lhat. He gathered up two watches and all the money that was in the trunk. Patrick selected such as lie wanted from the papers. He told me that lie wanted all the valuable paper. The next day he returned and had with' him bank books and check books. He ha<l a number of blank checks. 'I have some checks that 1 want you to till out,' he said. One was tilled out for $65,000 on S. M. Swenson «£ Sons, one for. $25,000 on the Fifth Avenue Trust Co. and one for $135,000 on f he same company. ' He told me he had the right to cash these checks before liice's uea'h became known. He left at 8:30 or 0 o'clock and said he would telephone me to dictate messages to be sent to relatives and Maker, and to tell the bank if it called up that the checks were good. About *11:30 o'clock he called me up and said: 'We've made a bust of it.' He again loid me to tell the bank that the checks were all right. A brut ten minutes later Mr. Wallace, of the Swenson bank, called up and asked for Kiee. lie asked me if the checks were in my handwriting. 1 toll him yes, if you send it up I will correct it. That is how he explained ihe spelling of the name Albert 'Abert' instead of correctly. Then he told me to have Mr. Kiee come to the telephone. I said '»'ery well,' and rang off. Then I called up Patrick and told him. He told me to tell "hen. if tiiey called us up again that Mr. Kiee was dead. "Swenson came to the telephone and he asked about itiee. I told him that he was dead. Then he wanted to know all about it.l told him he hatl died at 3 the night before. Patrick then called me up again and said. * These people have kicked out of the traces.' He then dictated to me the message to be sent to the relatives. The next day I saw Jour men hang ing around the house. They came to the house and said they were lawyers. I telephoned Mr. Patrick about these men and he told me not to let them in.** Mr. Osborne was asked what part of the llice estate Jones had expected to get. He said Jones told him Pat rick assured him of being well cared for. but had promised nothing more definite. The estate, Mr. Osborne said, is estimated at from $3,000,000 to £8,000,000. Attorney Patrick denies having fur nished Jones the chloroform and also denies the statements in the confes sion. Seized tlie Koer * -«■ 1 <l. Han burg, Nov. 2. l'he Kocrscnhalle says the gold seized on board the P.undesrath, at Cuxhavcn, on the ar rival of that steamer there from Ik'Ui goa bay. was at tiie instance of an international syndicate of mine own ers, whose product was taken by iui Boers find Ttansvaal bonds of doubt ful value given in exchange. .71 litem strike. Hazel ton, l*a. t Nov. 2.—The mine workers employed by the firm ol Crawford & Dugan, numbering about CO men, quit work at the Honey Brook strippings yesterday and say they will remain out until they get uu increase of 10 per cent., which the iirm declines to grant. UaMi'l an ICarlli«|iiake. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 2.—What were officially pronounced Wednesday night in Jacksonville to have been earthquake shocks, proves to have been the concussions caused by heavy toasting near the citv. MASSACRED BY GERMANS. < 111 nine Who are Captured by Ten toil* are Forced to IIIk Their Own (■rm-ea and are Tlien Butchered. Berlin. Nov. 2.—Considerable impa tience at the meagerness of the news from China is finding expression here. The inference is that German censor ship over such information is very strict. Letters from privates in China be gin to find their way into the social democratic papers, showing that the German troops give no quarter. The liremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a letter from a soldier in l'ckin who mid he witnessed the following scene: "Sixty-eight captives, some of them not yet adults, vere tied to gether by their pigtails,beaten bloody by the Germans, compelled to dig their own graves and then sl.ot en masse." The Halberstadter Volks Zeitiniff prints a communication from Pekjn in which the writer says; "No prisoners are taken. AM are shot or, preferably, sabred to save ammunition. On Sunday afternoon we had to bayonet 74 prist ners. They had killed one of our patrolmen. An entire battalion pursued them and captured 74 'tlive. it was cruel. It was indescribable." Last evening's papers printed a semi-official statement thai answers to the Anglo-German agreement had been received from all the powers, France and Kussia making a reserva tion regarding Article 3 similar to that made by the I nitcd States, anil Japan making no reservations what ever. This result causes much satisfac tion in official circles in Germany, which emphasizes the contention that Article 3 is divested of all importance, inasmuch as all the powers have ac cepted Articles 1 and 2. St. Petersburg, Nov. 2. —The text of the American, French and Russian an swers to the note answering the A:i --•jlo-German agreement on China are now generally known here. They are considered entirely similar in sub stance, showing that these three pow • is are in perfect accord. Washington, Nov. 2.—The alignment of the powers on the British-German agreement is now complete. Aside from Italy and Austria, whose adhe rence to the agreement was expected, owing to their political relations with Germany, Japan is the only one of 'he powers which lias given uncondi tional assent to the agreement. As the matter now stands, five of the powers aie united in all the terms of ilie agreement, viz., Great Britain, Germany, Italy. Austria and Japan; three of the powers, I'nited States, Prance and Russia, accept the clauses relating to the open door and the tcr i itorial integrity of China, but with hold t>ction on the third clause relat ing to future procedure in case any power seizes territory. ESCAPED FROM JAIL. Tilree Prltonitri Get Away from the .Titulary Frlaou on Alcatraz Inland. San Francisco, Nov. 2. —Three pris oners have escaped from the military prison on Altai raz island. One of the escaped prisoners was Frank Kinne, who was under a sentence of 15 years for desertion and treason. Kinnc was brought here a few months ago In irons, from Manila. He had deserted his command and accepted a commis sion in the Filipino army, lie was caught leading a charge of insur gents. In the number captured by the American troops at the time Kinnc was taken were several American prisoners. Kii.ne claimed to be him self a prisoner of the Filipinos, but lire American? who were witii the party declared this to be a falsehood and denounced the man as a traitor < nil a rebel. The others who escaped with Kinnc were C. J. Huntington, under sentence of ten years, and J. M. Potts, serving five years. BOTH IN ONE CLASS. A Chicago Judge Ha* the Itls&t Idea About Hoard ol' Trade and Bucket Shop Heal*. Chicago, Nov. 2. —Judge Vail in op-si court Thursday created u sensation by the declaration that in his opinion dealing on the Chicago board of trade and dealing in one of the institutions which, tlie members ol the board of trade had stigmatized as a ."bucket shop" were pracfieaily the same, lie stated that the same thing was called "gambling" in the bucket shops, and "speculation" on the board of trade, but that both were "betting, pure anil simple." The occasion for these remarks was furnished in the closing of the case brought by the central slock anii t»r.ii ii exchange against the board of trade for an injunction lo prevent Ihe board from slopping it from re ceiving quotations. Judge \ nil post poned a formal decision. A Iteeelver Appointed. Chicago, Nov. 2.—C01. Thomas W. Scott was yesterday appointed receiv er of the Horn. Forum Benefit Order, a fraternal insurance society with headquarters in Chicago. State su perintendent of Insurance Van Cleave asked the circuit court to make the appointment. The state official de clares the liabilities of the order as disclosed in its annual statement re ceived by him last month are $270,000 in excess of assets. The figures giv en in the annual statement place th> assets of the order on October 27 at !M 7,000 and the* liabilities at #317,000. There are 30,000 members in the or der. The lloadi ape KcNpoiiMlble. Chicago, Nov. 2. —According to a de cision by the I'nited States court of appeals in the'case of the Chicago, hock Island Pacific Railroad ( o. against Nancy A. Wood, railroads are responsible for the safety of their passengers while in their stations for a reasonable time after descending from trains, and the relatiens <»;' car rier and passengers continue until j passenger quits the station or depot. Suit was brought by Mrs. Wood to recover damages for bodily in.juri..s she received while inn railroad sta tion belonging to the ltock isla:id. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1900. HOPE LONG DEFERRED. When Itlfhri Came at Lar t Georgt Wedekind Had Lost Ilia Capao it> for Kn joy went. Luck, as it is interpreted in the mining camp, has been emphasized in the case of George Wedekind, of Reno, Nev. Years and 3'ears ago, when George Wedekind was young, he went west in a fever for gold. All up and down the famed coast country of the Cali fornias he wande:ed, bootless. The gold was not for him. As the country settled he drifted from town to town, tuning pianos. It was his trade. He brought his wife to Reno, finally, and the two settled (.awn to the scant ex istence that j.iano tuuing in a western town afforded. UNCOVERED A GOLD MINE. (After Many Years Fortune Smiled on George Wedekind.) Wedekind was 72 years old when one day he went hunting, tven the game had suffered f'-om the civiliza tion that had come to the state and then gone to such measures as to leave it a population less than it had when admitted to the union. He was discouraged with hunting and was re turning moodily homeward. Climbing down the siue of a bluff hi 3 foot slipped— And uncovered a gold mine! He saw the unmistakable "color" in the yellow earth and he staked right and left. Reno awoke to a new gold fever and the stakes were planted everywhere that they had not been driven before. One hundred thousand dollars was bid for his first claim and the old man and his wife are said to be worth $1,000,000. But long j'ears of hardship have dis counted this great sum. Privation and makeshift means to live have so affected the old peopie that they have little capacity for enjoyment of their gTeat wealth. They live in the same little house in the same frugal way that they had lived for 30 years or more. They have better food and better clothes, but the old man's chief pleasure is to "potter" around the mine, while the wife sits with folded hands looking across the alkali plains, day-dreaming. HIS RISE WAS RAPID. Career of Connt Iluelow, Germany's New Clmneellor, Considered Phenomenal by European*. Count Bernhard von Buelow, who has crowned his rapid and brilliant rise to political power and fame by becoming the chancellor of Germany in the place of Holienlohe-Schilling furst, has the shortest career of any of the great statesmen and uiplomats of the world. At he finds himself at a pinnacle of eminence reached by others only after laborious and haz ardous toil and Waiting. Von Buelow until 1880 hai done no better than serve as the secretary of embassy at Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna. Until 1888 he had not reached the dig nity of plenipotentiary, and he was then made minister to the insignifl- COUNT VON BUELOW. (Just Appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.) cant post of Roumania. In 1893 hs was appointed to the mission to Italy, where he remained several years. In 1897 Count von Buelow was selected by the kaiser for the post of foreign minister, and since that time he has been the emperor's right-hand man. During his ministry in tne foreign of fice he has developed splendid capa bilities in statecraft, which will have the freest play should he succeed to the station once occupied by Bis marck. American Salmon in Demand. Another American product that is already affected by the Chinese war is canned salmon. Besides a shortage of from 500,000 to 730,000 cases, as compared with last year, the Jap anese government is placing heavy or ders in the local market for salmon to feed its army. BATTLING FOR LIFE. Widow of Stonewall Jackson, Fa mous Southern Hero. fin* Recently I'ndergone an Opera tion from Wlioae Result* She May Not Recover—Hf r Home Life ait Charlotte, N. t. Rome weeks ago the widow of Gen. Stonewall Jackson had a critical oper ation performed in a Baltimore hos pital, and her friends are afraid that she will not recover from its effects. Although now over 70 years old her face, according to a Charlotte (N. C.) correspondent of the Chicago Chron icle, retains much of the beauty which enthralled the then awkward, diffident young military cadet from Lexington when he first met her as Anna Mor rison at the home of Gen. David Ilill. Her black, luxuriant hair has few traces of gray and her blac.i eyes are piercing and lustrous still. Since the death of Mrs. Jackson's only child, Mrs. Christian, several years ago, she has devoted her life to her grandchildren, who reside with her. Her home is a plain two-story building on Trade street, Charlotte, X. C. To the unpretentious dwelling, however, a picturesque charm is given by ivy and madeira vines climbing at will about the veranda, violet bordered walks leading to the hospitable door way and stately magnolias casting their luxuriant foliage over the whole. Within is the refined atmosphere of a typical southern home. In the draw ing-room the most conspicuous object Is a large oil painting of Gen. Jack son. Portraits of other heroes whose memories are still sacrsd in the hearts of old confederates are also hung everywhere upon the walls, inter spersed with tattered flags and other trophies of the lost cause. Here the widow of one of the great military geniuses of the world has passed her peaceful days, busied with her household duties or superintend ing the education of her grandchil dren. In her "Life of Jackson" she said: "The home of my girlhood was a large, old-fashioned house, surround ed by an extensive grove of pine for est trees, on a plantation in Lincoln county, N. C. My father was Rev. Dr. Robert Hall Morrison, ths first MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON. fWldow of Famous Southern Hero Now at Death's Door.) president of Davidson college. He was a graduate of the university of the state, and of the same class as President James K. Polk, Bishop Green and others of note in church and state." Mrs. Jackson's mother was Mary Graham, daughter of Gen. Joseph Graham, of revolutionary fame, and sister of Gen. W. A. Graham, who was once secretary of the navy. Mrs. Jackson was one of ten chil dren, six daughters anu lour sons. She spent much of her early life in Washington with her uncle, Gen. Graham. While on a visit to Lexing ""ton, Ya., she met her future husband, then Prof. T. J. Jackson, whom she married in July, 1857. Gen. Jackson died in 1563, May 10, and left hit widow and one child, a girl, Julia, who was but a few months old. Tho two and the skillful old nurse Hetty returned to the Morrison home in Lincoln county, where they lived a quiet life until Julia was reany to en ter college, when the mother and child moved to Charlotte. After finish, ing school Julia married E. Chris tian, a talented newspaper man, now in the service of the Seaboard Air line railroad at Portsmouth, Ya. Airs. Jackson lived with the young couple in St. Paul, Minn., Minneapolis and other western towns up to 1889, when Mrs. Christian died, after which she returned to her home in Charlotte and brought with her Juiia and Jack son Christian, her grandchildren. Miss Christian, sister of Mrs. Jack son's son-in-law, came to live with her. Mrs. Jackson's Charlotte home is very near the Southern railway sta tion, where an aged Mexican war vet eran who served under Jackson has stood for years as guard. He took great pride in guarding Mrs. Jacksor, and lost no opportunity to point out the house to strangers. The house is a plain two-story frame building and the yard is adorned by several beauti ful evergreen trees. When at home Mrs. Jackson lived a simple but pleas ant life, surrounded oy her bright grandchildren, who are now off at school. Mrs. Jackson spent part of every year at Lexington, Ya., her health permitting. It was there that she spent her married lfe and where hci husband and daughter are buried. Mrs. Jackson is an ideal southern lady of the old school. She is presi dent of the Daughters of the Confed eracy and regent of the Daughters ot the Kevoluion. ALTOGETHER TOO SHY. Q,ueer Kirutr Given hy n Pretty Girl for Wlidui tlir llrldrKroum Waited Luna; in Vain. Mary Pliska, shy as a chamois, donned her wedding dress at her home in New Britain, Conn., the oth er evening and made all preparations to accompany her parents to the cozy little home that Michael Neidboler had prepared for her and there to be married to him. Michael and his friends were wait ing. It was to be an eventful mar riage, for Mary was pretty and Michael was popular. When the bride and her parents were not on hand at the appointed moment, the prospec tive bridegroom was made the object of jests, lie laughed with the jesters. AND THERE HE FOUND MARY. (Connecticut Girl Who Was Too Shy to Bs Married.) When five minutes had passed the jests became more pointed and the shafts of witticism sank deeper, but still Michael laughed. When ten min utes had passed, and then 15 minutes, and then half an hour, Michael was decidedly uneasy. Then a messenger handed a note to Michael. He suddenly left, without giving an excuse, and went directly to the home of Papa and Mamma Pliska. They were in a state of great excite ment. They could not find Mary! She had robed herself in her wedding gown with her mother's and then, when her mother left tc put on her hat, Mary mysteriously disappeared. Michael thought deeply. At last h# asked the parents if they had gone to the home of a chum of Mary. They hail not. liut they were sure she had not gone there. Nevertheless, Michael got into a carriage and drove rapidly to the home of Mary's chum. And there he found Mary—all dressed in her bridal robes, with a bunch of real orange blossoms in her hair, crying her pretty eyes out. Michael asked her why she had not come to the house. She cried in an swer. He asked her again; and then, amid her sobs, she told him she had feared to face the crowd that would witness the ceremony. Michael left without a word. He drove back to his cottage, told the guests what had happened and that the wedding was off. Some of them suggested that he take the priest to the home of Mary's chum and be mar ried there. But Michael told them he did not care to marry a girl who had insulted him before his friends. And the marriage ceremony has never been performed. FAITH IN BALDWIN. Millionaire Who Will Spend a Fortune on Expedition, Con fident He Will Reach Pole. William Ziegler, the New York bak ing powder manufacturer, who is will ing to spend $1,000,000 on the Baldwin expedition to the north pole, which will start next year, says he is sure Baldwin will not return without hav ing reached the pole. "I am a busi ness man,"he said, in an interview in WILLIAM ZIEGLKR. (Baking Powder Magnate Back of ths Baldwin Expedition.) New York, "and accustomed to look at things only from a business stand point. If I did not feel absolutely sure that this expedition will be suc cessful I would not waste my money and Mr. Baldwin would not waste his time. The race to get to the north pole first is not a race between two or three men; it is a race between nations. I do ijot want to see an Italian or a Norwegian reach the north pole first. I think this country is great enough and progressive enough to have that honor. It is sim ply a matter of national pride with me. 1 have every confidence in Mr. Balwin. He is a man of determina tion and will to get. to the pole if it is within human pwer to do so. lie will not turn back and come home." Two Horticultural Freaka. White blackberries and green roses have been propagated in Louisiana this year. REVIEW OF TRADE. Encouraging Signs Noted itt the Iron Industry. BUYING HAS INCREASED* Full Forces at Work in Eastern Shoe Factories. WOOL MARKET IMPROVES* A Tendency Toward Better Price# for Till* Staple I» Reported -The Cotton market fiirlUliy Kecover* from ttio He<'«ut Decline. Now York, Nov. 3. —R. G. Dun <fc Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:, Tiie period of suspense is nearly over. Business has been longing for a free lield in which to leap forward, but restricted buying largely to wants for immediate consumption. Some evidence appears of willingness toi take speculative chances in the move ment of a few standard goods, nota bly of iron and steel. The resump tion oi operations in the anthracite coal Hclds has added largely to til's working force, and the closing down of a few small steel plants is only in the nature of concentrating opera lions at n.ore advantageous points and has not much reduced the num ber of men employed. Knc.ouraging signs multiply in tha 1 - iron industry. Strength in Bessemer and grey forge at Pittsburg shows ihat the recent increase in activity of finished forms has at last affected the market for raw material. Improve ment in domestic buying of pig is the? more noticeable because of decrease in exports. Structural shapes con tinue in urgent request, plates ad vancingl with active demand frorr* shipbuilders and with talk of a pool 1o sustain the price. Bar iron would Fell readily at former prices, but hold ers grow stubborn. Full forces are employed at Newji England shoe shops, and heavy orders insure brisk work for the rest of the year. Textile operations are more vigorous, sales of wool at the three <hie? eastern markels exceeding all recent records. With the greater ae-. livit.v there appears a tendency to» ward firmer prices. Cotton has recovered a little of the jecent sharp decline, attributed to re ports that frost would surely do seri ous damage. The market does not show much fear of disaster and there is more reason to believe that the slight advance was induced by better ] urchases of spinners, who v. ere at -1 racted after the fall of S7.SO a bale iri less than three weeks. There was also some recovery in wheat. Failures for the week were 108 Irjt ihe United States, against 183 last* year, and 21; in Canada. Will Fay the Count'* Debt*. New York, Nov. 3. —On the author ity of an "intimate friend of the lata Jay Gould," the Evening World an nounces that the debts of Count Boni De Castellane will be paid in full by. the Goulds at once. "The scandal at tending the claims, amounting to $4,700,000, against the spendthrift husband of Countess Anne is to be stopped," the Evening World adds* "A lump sum probably will be con tributed by George, Helen, Howard, Edwin and Frank Gould to wipe out these debts, as they consider the honor of the Gould family is involv ed." ilondler Herd Disappear*. Shamekin, Pa., Nov. 3.—0. J. Reed, an ex-councilman, who was recently convicted of conspiracy in connection with borough paving contracts and admitted to bail pending a decision of the superior court for a new trial, lias disappeared. The local lodge of Maccabees, of which he was record keeper, lias been swindled out of £6,000 by forged death certificates of Benjamin Davis and Thomas Slioener. Davis, who was in Michigan, noticing he was listed as dead in the official newspaper of the order, informed liis relatives, here that he was alive. This started an inquiry. Iteturned to Work. Wilkcsbarre, Pa.. Nov. 3. —The offi cials of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. and the. laborers employed at their Dorrance and Prospect mine who went out on strike Thursday reached an amicable agreement Friday and all the men returned to work. The strik ing laborers employed at the Dela ware colliery of the Delaware & Hud son Co. also returned to work Friday, ihe company compromising with Ihern. It is said that some of the op erators in this section will pay semi monthly in the future. Tliey Need More Voting Dootb*. New York, Nov. 3. —Owing to the lack of voting facilities in many elec tion districts in Manhattan and tho Bronx, the police board yesterday Jet emergency contracts for 40 wojrulen voting booths. This was necessary because in three precincts so -many citi/.ens had registered that it would be impossible for them to vote on election day within the prescribed hours at the regular booths. A re district ing of the city will,.take placa alter election. Student* Cannot Vote. New York. Nov. 3.—According to af decision made Friday by Magistrate Deuel in the York\ ille'-courl, students at educational institutions cannot vote at the coming" election. The case was that of Orin Cox, a student in Union Theological seminary. Cox lives in Schenectady county, this state, and registered as living in tho seminary, lie was summoned to court and the decision made. Cox promised not to vote atfff was discharged. 3
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