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COURT NEWS
Orphans’ Court Proceedings,
Real Estate, Marriage
Etc.
Licences,
REAL ESTATF.
Wm. Koontz’s executor to Jacob
Koontz, Somerset, $5,000.
Wm. Henry to Susan Shelley, Up-
per Turkeyfoot twp.,$1,200.
Joel Landis to Joel E. Landis, Al
legheny twp.
Arthur Miles to A. G. Black, Con-
fluence $400.
V. M. Black to Atlantic Refining
Co.. Confluence, $500.
Mary J. Rubright to F. B. Black,
Black twp., $436.
L. L. Coleman to Alexander Fish-
er, Barlin, $800.
Eli Shaffer, to Mollie McClellan,
Paint twp., $2,000.
Margaret E. Morrison to Joseph
Luteri, Somerset, $1,000.
Reuben Knupp to same, Somerset
twp., $150.
Mahlon W. Keim to Loyalhanna
Coal and Coke Co., Shade twp., $1.
D. B. Zimmerman to same, Shade
twp., $14,300.
Joseph 8. Miller to David F. Gis-
bert, Summit twp., $2,000.
Chauncey 8. Ickes to Salvatra Lar-
rocco, Boswell, $300.
Elmer Ansell to Homer W. Pletch-
er, Middlecreek twp., $675.
Homer W. Pletcher, to George W.
Ansell, Middlecreek twp., $800.
Lucy M. Heffley, toc Mary Otto,
Somerset twp., $1,650.
F P. Ream, to Barbara E. Shultz,
Stonycreek twp., $7,600.
Wm. H. Koontz’s executor to Stew-
art H. Miller, Somerset, $1,200.
Jacob McGregor fo Loyalhanna
Coal & Coke Co., Shade twp., $798.
Elizabeth Mason’s heirs to Wm. J.
Hay, Berlin, $2,430.
Wm. J. R. Hay to Annie B. Oigbley
Berlin, $2,400.
Grace E. Lohr, to Somerset Trust
Qo., Shade twp., $36.
Isaac E. Keller, to Mary E. Kerr,
Biack twp., $1.
Jennie E. Wilmoth to Mary M.
Clutton, Meyersdale, $4,800.
David E. Naugle to Thomas Wis-
singer, Paint twp., $3,000.
John H. Veil to Herrick Thomas,
Windber, $173.
Robert C. Bittner to E. G. Jones,
Somerset twp. , $1.
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Earle Landers, and Annie S. Hel-
sel, both of Holsopple.
Wm. Morris
Mecllveen, and Ethel
Evelyn Bearl,
both of Pittsburgh.
Wallace N. Berkebile and Edna
Rush Meyers, both of Hooversville.
Josef Szumouski and Alberta Sck-
neider, both of Wilsor Creek.
Luigo Maffeo and Lisa Simoni, both
of Windber. ;
Qelectini Urslno and Anna Mary
Bartolomuccio, both of Windber.
© WILLS.
The will of Wm. Suder, late of
Berlin, was probated. He bequeath-
ed the sum of $200 to his grandson,
Elmer E. Lehman, and directed that
the remainder of his estate shall be
equally divided among his children,
as follows: Elizabeth Moon, Peter
W. Suder,;Rosanna Schrock, John W.
Suder, Harriet Kimmel, James H.
Suder, Missouri Shaffer and Mar-
cellus L. Suder. Testator’s son and
grandson, Peter W. Suder, and
Don M. Kimmell, respectively, are
appointed executors. The will was
dated July 23, 1909, and witnessed by
Samuel G. Walker and Anna S.
Walker.
Emma Martz, late of Southampton
left one-fourth of her estate to her
husband, Charles W. Martz, and the
balance fo their children. The will
was dated June 26, 1912, and wit-
nessed by Henry L. Hosselrode and
John Martz. Charles W. Martz is
named as executor.
ORPHAN’S COURT.
In the estate of Edward Heiple, late
of Somerset twp., the Somerset Trust
Company appointed guardian of
p Elsie May Heiple, a minor. Bond $500
Attorney Clarence L. Shaver, ap-
pointed auditor, in the estate of
Edward 8. Ogline, late of Somerset
twp.
eee een
Emerson Says.
'Tis cheap and easy to destroy.
There is not a joyful boy or an iano-
cent girl, buoyant with the fine pur-
poses of duty, in all the street, full of
eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can
dull and dishearten with a single
word. But to help the young soul,
add energy, inspire hope, and blow
the coals into a useful flame; to re-
deem defeat by new thought, by firm
{ action, that is not easy, that is the
work of divine men.
The Suffragists.
Handicapped by not having the bal- ||
lot, women nevertheless find other
ways of working for the public good.
An organization in Lancaster, Pa.,
for instance, has just petitioned the
city councils to pass an ordinance for-
bidding the door to door distribution
| of patent medicine samples and liter-
ature dealing with sexual diseases.
They argue that both are harmful to
the youth. It is a significant fact ‘that
women in this organization are also
among Lancaster’s most active advo-
cates of equal suffrage.
A canvass of European nations shows
conclusively that the world wide cam-
paign for epual suffrage is by no means
a speradic attempt but it is an advan-
ced position. Only three European
countries have no organized suffrage
movement. These are Spain, Greece
and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
which can scarcely be classed as pro-
gressive nations. Every other Euro-
pean country is represented in the In-
ternatlonal Suffrage Alliance.
Illinois women are anything but
backward in exercising their new right
of franchise. Three generations of
women in one family voted at Carpen-
tersvllle in a recent election.
The bishop of the Missionary! Dis-
trict of Utah of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church is the Rt Rev. Dr. Frank
Spaulding. He formerly lived in Col-
orado, so he may be presumed to know
something about both state. *‘In Col-
orado and Utah the women are clean-
ing house,’’ he said recently and went
on to express the opinion that as a
matter of sound, practical politics the
movement for equal suffrage is the
greatest movement for the betterment
of the American people that has ever
been inaugurated.
Governor George H. Hodges,of Kan-
sas, is hopeful that women will soon
sit as members of the sunflower legis-
lature. Governor Hodges is an enthu-
siastic friend of equal suffrage and a
firm believer that women are as com-
petent to make and administer laws as
men are. ‘‘Women are much interes-
ted in education,’”” he said recently.
“They are closer to their children than
their fathers. They see the need of
laws. Women have the power to aid
in making the Kansas laws and I hope
to several women in the next Kansas
legislature.
P—— Se
Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you ‘crazy. Can’t bear the
touch of your clothing. Doan’s Oint-
ment is fine for skin itching. All
druggist sell it, 5 ¢ a box. ad
PR— SE
\ For "Good Roads.
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 9.—Between
reductions of appropriations and con-
traversies over the constitutional and
other technical questions relative to
use of income from automobile
1 censes under the new act of July 7,
1913, the construction work of the
State department in developing the
road system will be curtailed and the
repair work on the main and State-
aid highways halted within a few
weeks
The situation in regard to the im-
provement of roads in the State is
assuming’ a shape which is beund
sooner or later to be unsatisfactory.
Under present conditions the High-
way department is scarcely able to
estimate how much money it will
have to spend during 1914 and the
first half of 1915, for which periods
much important work was planned,
and the aggregate of the operations
this year will not be much more than
in 1912.
The uncertainty as to revenue and
questions about payments are rapidly
bringing about stronger sentiment in
favor of the constitutional amend-
ment to borrow $50,000,000 for roads
as the only safe and sensible way in
which to obtain the money for high-
way improvement. There is no way
to control legislatures in the matter
of vofing appropriations, and when
the income is exceeded the cuts have
to be made in many directions so that
worthy objects shall not suffer. Hence
it has come about that at the very
outset of the movement of the Key-
stone state to secure good roads all
plans. have to be revised and cut
down. The development of the high-
ways of the State can never go for-
ward systematically, and economical-
ly in the end, without there being a
definite sum available for each year.
The means to bring this aboyt seem
to be afforded by the bond issue
amendment.
The Pennsylvania Motor Federa-
tion, which is urging the ratification
of the amendment, is composed of
thousands of owners of motor vehi-
cles ¢< the State, who.contribute over
three quarters of a million dollars a
year to the public treasury and whose
members regard the bond issue as the
best means to secure uniform and
certain road improvement in a State
solrich in scenic features that it is
bound to profit exceedingly from in-
crease in motor tourist traffic as well
as from betterment of means of com-
munication between market towns
and county seats.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
Fellows
Columbia were represented by dele-
Dockery of Missouri was the orator of
IN
ICKED UP
EN NSYLVAN 1A
Waynesboro.—Ten thousand persons
were present at the reunion of Odd
at Pen-Mar park. Four
states, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West
Virginia, Virginia and the District of
gations. © Former Governor A. M.
the occasion.
* Bradford. —Christi Peter, a Mace-
donian, called “Big Pete,” is in the
Smethport jail accused of shooting
John Gallagher, 35 years old, an em-
ploye of the United National Gas Co.
at Clermont.
Harrisburg. — Suit is to be filed
against the Reading company as the
first development of proceedings
against the hard coal trust as an-
nounced by Attorney General McReyn-
olds of the United States department
of justice. Frederic R. Coudert of
New York has been petained as a spe-
cial assistant attorney general to take
charge.
Butler. — Leaving a trolley car to
walk to their home near Renfréw,
after visiting Pittsburgh, Mr. and Mrs.
John "Kaltenbaugh were held up by
masked highwaymen in a woods and
robbed of a gold watch and $10.
Petrolia.— Picks, trowels and spades
figured as weapons in a pitched bat-
tle which took place between cement
workers and employes of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad. The cement
men were victorious. Section men
employed by the railroad company
started to dig a hole in a new cement
walk laid in front of Hawk & Son’s
store. Three men putting down the
cement went after the alleged in-
truders, who retreated.
Altoona.—Telling how it feels to re-
ceive 3,300 volts of electricity in the
body, Walter Meyer, aged 25, a Penn-
sylvania railroad electrician and son
of former Mayor S. M. Moyer, said:
“My mind was a perfect blank from
the instant of the contact and at no
time did I know a thing that was go-
ing on, until I suddenly recovered
consciousness and thought I had been
asleep.” Moyer was nearly killed by
coming in contact with a live wire
while at work.
Pittsburg.—Nearly 9,000 boquets of
flowers were distributed among the
children in the public ‘schools here
by the flower committee of the North-
side Playground and Vacation Schools
association which completed its labors
for this year.
Mosiertown.—Paul Bacon, 18,’ and |
Clyde Barnes, 18, are dead and Miss |
Jessie Williams, Frederick VanSoot
and two small children of Edward
Freeman, all of this place, are critic-
ally ill as the result of eating tainted
ice cream at a farewell party six
weeks ago, according to the state
health officials. The disease appears
to be a sort of complication of -typhoid
fever and ptomaine poisoning.
Lebanon.—Automobile fire appara-
tus costing $9,000 will be added to the
equipment of the department here.
It will be delivered from the factory
in Elmira, N. Y., on Sept. 15 or 16. |
The machine will first be exhibited
at a show of firemen’s apparatus in
New York city. It is the first of its
type anywhere in the country. Elab-
orate plans for the housing of the ma-
chine are being made.
Marietta.—Their first ride in an
aut; was experienced by William Lit-
tle and George W. Consylman, two
old residents and both 70 years of
age, and they enjoyed it immensely.
Norristown.—Addisen R. Wright,
aged 60, of a shoe manufacturing firm
of Philadelphia, killed himself in a
railroad station at this place.
Marietta.—Established more than a
century ago the postoffice at Oak Hill
is now an institution of the past, the
rural route from Nottingham taking
its place. Edward Priest has been
postmaster for many years.
Carlisle.—One hundred electors of
this place petitioned the council to
hold an /election on the question of
whether or not the borough should ob-
tain a third-class city charter and
commission form of government as
provided in the Rex enabling law
passed by the recent legislature. A
quorum was not present at the coun-
cil meeting and if the delay con-
tinues a few more days no action
can be taken for several years. It
is thought that the failure to obtain
a quorum was due to the activities of
interests opposed to the movement.
Erie.—Mrs. Lena Miller, white, liv-
ing at 302 Sassafras street, had a nar-
row escape from death early yester-
day morning, when she was struck
by thrée bullets fired at her by Asa
Bass, a negro. One bullet pierced
Mrs. Miller's neck, narrowly missing
the jugular vein, another struck her
in the head and deflected, and the
third tore through her right wrist.
The negro made his escape immedi-
ately ‘after the shooting and is still
at liberty. Mrs. Miller will recover.
Lebanon.—Philip S. Long, 46, own-
er of a big baking plant and several
branch stores in various parts of the
city, died here of cancer due to biting
the inside of his cheek while eating
an apple last September.
Lancaster—William Fund of this
city leaped 60 feet from an overhead
bridge at Leaman Place, 12 miles east
of this city, landing directly in front
of the New York day express, east-
bound, on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Virtually every bone in Funk’s body
Carlisle—A wholesale scheme of
marriage and intrigue to swindle two
young Indians and an Indian girl out
of lands they now valued at over $1,-
000,000, has been unearthed, and dis-
closes one of the most daring plots
| BIG WHEAT CROP
.19,000,0Q00 bushels.
ever designed. The two Indian youths
who own a portion of the fortune, are |
students at the Carlisle Indian school.
GOVERNMENT REPORT POINTS
TO DECREASED PRODUCTION IN
MOST OF THE OTHER STAPLES.
DROUHT CAUSES GREAT LOSS
Government Experts Estimate Wheat
Harvest Will Yield 511,000,000 Bu-
shels, Exceeding Record of 1902 by
19,000,000 Bushels.
‘Washington, Aug. 9.—Heavy decline
in the ‘condition and amount of the
corn crop, though not more than ex-
pected, accompanying a gain in winter
wheat crops and makes the total
wheat crop a record for size only once
exceeded in the country’s history, to-
gether with normal or better than nor-
mal crops in all other products, gave
the Government's August crop report
a mixed appearance. Stocks which
had hesitated moved up on its publi-
cation.
A loss of 300,000,000 bushels of corn,
the nation’s greatest farm crop, has
resulted from the great damage
wrought by drought and other condi-
tions since July 1. A total production
of 2,672,000,000 bushels of corn was
predicted. This is 452,000,000 bushels
less than last year’s crop.
The general condition of corn was
placed at 75.8 per cent. of a normal,
compared with 86.9 per cent. on July
1. Kansas was hit hardest, the con-
dition there having been reduced from
81 per cent. in July to 30 per cent. on
Aug. 1.
Oklahoma came next, with a condi-
tion of 44 against 87 in July, and Ne-
braska reported 67 against 91 July 1.
These three Stdtes have almost 19
per cent. of the total area planted to
corn this year.
A bright spot in the monthly grain
report, however, was the preliminary
statistics, showing a production of
511,000,000 bushels ¢f Winter wheat.
This is the greatest harvest of wheat
ever gathered in the United States,
exceeding the record crop of 1902 by
These figures ex-
ceeded by 28,000,000 bushels the esti-
mate made by the department in July.
In Spring wheat, too, there is an in-
creased estimate of production, being
15,000,000 bushels more than the July
estimate, the total being placed at
233,000,000 bushels.
With the bumper Winter wheat crop |
and a fairly good Spring wheat pro-
duction, the total harvest of all wheat |
ig estimated at 744,000,000 bushels. A
crop this size would place the year’s |
production second only to the record |
crop of 1901, when 748,000,000 bushels
were produced.
The harvest of white potatoes, it is
estimated, will be smaller by 82,000,
000 bushels than the crop of 1912. A
total of 339,000,000 bushels is esti-
mated. :
The condition of oats was reported
as 76.3 per cent. of normal. The esti-
mated production is 1,028,000,000 bu-
shels, as compared with 1,413,337,000
last year.
Barley condition was 74.9 per cent.
and the estimated production is 168,-
000,000 bushels, compared with 223,
824,000 last year.
Rye condition was 94 per cent. and
the indicated yleld is 35,000,000 bu-
shels, compared with 35,644,000 last
year
The condition percentage in buck-
wheat is given as 85.5 per cent. and
the yield ig estimated at 17,0000,000
bushels, compared with 19,249,000 last
year.
Tobacco production is estimated at
896,000,000 pounds, compared with
962,855,000 last year.
The production of flax is estimated
at 20,000,000 bushels; rice at 27,000,
000, and hay at 64,000,000 tons.
With the exception of hay, all other
commodities showed slight losses in
condition as well as indicated yields.
The extremely hot weather and lack
.of sufficient moisture in the great
grain producing centers during Aug-
ust accounted mainly for the loss in
all feed crops.
DEATH OF SENATOR JOHNSTON
Strength of Administration Behind
Tariff Bill Reduced—Will Fill Va-
cancy Soon.
Washington, Aug. 9.—Joséph For
ney Johnston, United States Senator
from Alabamg, died of pneumonia at
his apartment in the Brighton after
a brief illness. His death reduces the
known democratic strength behind
the tariff bill in the Senate and leaves
the situation so close as to cause
worry among democratic leaders.
Senator Johnston’s wife and son,
Forney Johnston, of Birmingham, were
at the bedside. Two sons—William
H. and Edward D. Johnston, who live
in Alabama—were unable to arrive
before their father died.
The Senator was 70 years old. His
term would have expired on March 3,
1915. He served through the Con-
federate army enlisting as a private
and rising to the rank of captain.
Senator Johpston was chairman of
the Military Affairs Committee. He
already had determined to be a candi-
date for re-election, and Congressman
Richmond Pearson Hobson had en-
tered the race against him.
Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 9.—Gover-
nor O'Neil will order a special elec-
ton at once to fill the vacancy Caused
| by the death of United States Senator
| Joseph F. Johnston.
DEAD LETTER AUCTION
PROBABLY LAST ONE OF ITS PE-
CULIAR TYPE.
This Year's Sale Proved to Be Very
Successful One, Despite Sundry Set-
backs, the Proceeds Realizing
$10,861—Diamond for $350.
Despite sundry setbacks during the
past month or so, the dead letter sale,
which has just
been closed,
proved to be a
very successful
one, after all, its
proceeds realizing
$10,861. It seems
likely, however,
to be the last one
of its peculiar
type that will be
conducted by the
governmunt, be-
cause of the in-
troduction of the parcel post. Among
the articles sold was one catalogued
as “No. 482, schedule C, unmounted di-
SS ne 4 3-63 karats, brilliant cut.” It
brought $350, as against 70 cents for
the first article sold, which was de-
scribed as man’s black kid glove (8),
two silk neckties, two silk neck
bows.”
It has been necessary under the
provisions of the postal laws and reg-
ulations to prepare and catalogue arti-
cles for sale in such a manner as to
preserve as far as possible the iden-
tity of each parcel as originally post-
ed, in order that, under the law, the
proceeds could be recovered by the
sender or addressee within four years
from the date of receipt of article in
the division of dead letters.
It is said to be impracticable to con-
tinge this method or to hold accumu-
lated packages on storage, under the
parcel post law. In order to elim
inate as far as practicable the objec-
tionable lottery feature claimed to be
involved in disposing of articles un-
der the custom heretofore followed,
the new regulations direct in effect
that parcels will be held in division of
dead letters for one-year only, after
which no claim for reclamation will
be considered.
This will not affect, however, "the
treatment of letters inclosing articles
of merchandise, it is explained, and
an amendment to the statutory law
will be required for that purpose. But
it will permit the disposition of par-
cels at the expiration of one year
as government property, in bulk or
otherwise, and they can be prepared
in such a manner as to permit full ex-
amination by dealers and sold in quan-
tities.
Under the direction of the postmas-
ter general, the parcels disposed of at
the recent sale were opened and dis-
played to purchasers so far as condi-
tions would permit, but the amount of
inspection which could be afforded to
bidders was necessarily slight. While
possible legal objection to the ele
ment of chance in previous sales was
fully met, it is probable a more sat-
isfactory method will be adopted in
the future. It is thought the depart-
ment will not be criticised again for
conducting a “lottery sale,” because
of the new parcel post regulations and
the action expected in response to the
request of the postmaster general for
legislation on the subject.
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WORK ON GRANT MEMORIAL
Expected That Ceremonies of Dedica-
tion Will Be Held In Early
Autumn of 1914.
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, chairman
of the Grant Memorial commission,
says that the commission hopes: to
have the Grant memorial completed
and ready for the ceremonies of dedi-
cation some time during the early
autumn of 1914. The cavalry group,
which is to be placed at the opposite
end of the memorial from the artil-
lery group, and the equestrian statue
of Gen. Grant are yet to be completed
and placed in position, the base, the
bronze lions and the artillery group
having already been completed.
‘Gen. Dodge, whose home is in
Council Bluffs, Ia, is one of three
surviving army corps commanders,
the other two being Gen. Sickles and
Gen. James H., Wilson. Gen. Dodge
is the last surviving general com-
mander, however, having been in
command of the army of the Tennes-:
/| see and of the department of Missouri.’
He was major general at the age of:
thirty-two years, reaching this rank:
in 1864. At that time, he says, he.
had in his command a brigadier-gen-.
eral, in command of a brigade, who
was barely twenty-two years of age.:
“Promotions came faster in those
days than they do now,” said Gen.
Dodge, in recalling this fact.
Making a Guess.
Dubbleigh was entirely mixed on
his road map, and at last in despera-
tion he stopped a farmer and in-
quired: :
“Can I get to Portland this way?” .
“Ya-as,” said the farmer.
“How far is it?” asked Dubbleigh.
‘““Wa-al,” said the farmer, “I cal’late,
if you keep straight ahead the way
you're goin’ it's about thutty miles
under twenty-four thousand.”—Har-
per’s Weekly. \
Benefactor.
“How did Smithers ever come to get
enough votes to get into congress?”
asked Binks. !
“He is a great man,” replied Slopay.
“He promised his constituents that he
would have Uncle Sam paint ‘Post
No Bills’ on every letter box in the
country.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
FOES PROBE FUNDS
LEGISLATORS TRACK MORE SULs
ZER CAMPAIGN CASH, KEPT
SECRET, THEY SAY.
BROKERS BALK AT QUERIES
Frawley Investigators’ Counsel Seeks
to Show Political Cash Went to
Governor's Private Account and
Greatly Exceeded Sum Named.
New York, Aug. 7—The Frawley
committee, sitting in the Board of
Estimate room at the City Hall, pug
up to Governor Sulzer by question
and inference as well as by documen-
tary evidence the practical accusa=
tion that he had used a fund of al
most $50,000 given to him as cam-
paign contributions for Wall Street
bank account.
In the trend of the inquiry those
who have followed this Tammany ate |
tack on Sulzer found that the legis-
lators' who are probing into both his
pointing toward
than impeachment. 12
It should be noted that so far there:
{8 no actual proof that the Morgen-
thau, McCoombs and Lynn checks
were campaign contributions, or that
the mysterious “Account No. 500” was
the Governor's or that the money he
deposited to his private bank account
came from campaign sources. Such,
however,
tion.
committee is through it will be made
clear that the man who bought the Big
Four stock was Governor Sulzer. No-
body pretends that it is criminal for
speculation and to swell his private !
private and public activities are now
indictment rather)
is the committee’s conten-
|
Mr. Richards, cousel for the Fraw-
ley committee, says that before the .
the Governor to bump into the stock :
market if he has the price. But the |
paign far exceeded his statement un-
der oath, that he deposited part of it
to his personal account, that he bought
stocks with part of it, and that the
correlation between the various points
in the testimony will be brought out
later.
The four. main’ points scored before
the committee were these: —
1. In the course of the campaign Mr.
Sulzer, or his secretary, Lonis A.
Sarecky, received from Harry Morgen-
thau, treasurer of the finance commit-
tee of the Democratic National Com-
mittee, a check for $1,000; from Will-
dam F. McCoombs, National Demo-
cratic chairman, a check for $500, and
from John Lynn, of John Lynn and
Co., novelty manufacturers of No. 483
Bond street, a check for $500. None
of these were mentioned in the Gov-
ernor’s sworn statement, in which he
gave his total campaign receipts as
$5,460 and expenditures, $7,724.
2. In the account which Sarecky
tad with the Mutual Alliance Trust
Co. between October 1 and election
day 94 checks were deposited, all be-
lieved by the committee to be part of
the Sulzer campaign fund. In the
Governor's sworn statement the num-
ber of contributors was given as 68.
3. Between September 1 and Jan-
vary 1 Governor Sulzer deposited $24,
395.31 to his personal account with,
the Farmers’ Loan and’ Trust Co. and
on January 1 had a balance there of
$22,527.47. Against this fact Lawyer
Richards sets Mr. Sulzer’s frequently
repeated assertion that he is a very
poor man.
4. On Octobet 21 somebody, said by
Mr. Richards to be the Governor,
bought through the Stock Exchange
firm of Fuller & Gray 200 shares of
stock of the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and St. Louis Railroad—the
Big Four—for which he paid $11,800
fn cash. One hundred shares were
bought at 60 and 100 at 58. It must
have proved a bad investment, for
C. C. C. & St. L. has been sliding
ever since and was quoted at 37 bid
and 46 asked, with no sales—a paper
loss of $4,400 to the buyer of those
200 shares.
This account stand on the firm's
books merely as “Account No. 500.”
Arthur L. Fuller, of Fuller & Gray,
said he didn’t know who the customer
was. Melville P. Fuller, of Harris &
Fuller, also a Stock Exchange house,
refused to answer questions as to
whether he had dealings with Gover-
nor Sulzer, and Frederick Colwell, for-
merly a member of Harris & Fuller,
also blocked the committee “by ad-
vice of counsel.” Senator Frawley di-
rected Mr. Richards to get a court
order to compel them to testify.
It was made clear that Louis Ajj
Sarecky, who refused in Albany last!
week to testify as to whether his ae-
count with the Mutual Alliance Trust
Company was the Governor's, really
was acting as the Governor's depositor
of campaign money.
HAGGLED OVER ARSON PRICE
Self-Confessed Chicago “Torch” Tells
eof Sums Received for Incendarism
—25 Gallons of Gasolene Used.
Chicago, Aug. 7.—John Danies, the
self-confessed “torch” for the so-called
arson trust, on the stand told how he
get fires for a price and how his em-
ployers haggled over prices just as
though he was a contractor for some
sort of legitimate work. He appeared
éuring the trial of Max Covitz, and
W. A. Harris, charged with burning to
defraud.
Ceovitz demurred and after the fire
finally paid him $660 in cash and gave |
him two notes for $300 each
| Danies finally cashed.
committee contends that the money |
received by the Governor in his cam-
which |
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