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TELE WILMINOTON VJO. DEFECTS Fate of Russian Given As an Illustra tion Roth Officers Agree as to Annor Line Ileing Too Low Wit nesses Only Allowed to Testify Along Certain Lines. Washington, March 10. That there are serious defects In the construc tion of American battleships wa charged today by Captain C. M. McR. Wmslow, assistant chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy department, and Commander A- L. Key, former naval aide to President Roosevelt. The former officer said the ships un der Admiral Evans were all over draft when they left Hampton Roads. He defended Admiral Rojesvensky for taking the Russian fleet into battle with the Japanese with ,full blinkers of coal, saying that the .Russian com mander could not have done other wise for he did not know how far he would be compelled' to steam. He criticised the armor belt ;and the gun decks as being too loyr and the am munition hoists unsafe., He attempted to dispute the testimony,' of other of ficers, especilly Chief, Constructor Capps, but was not permitted to do o. Finally the committee held an executive session at which It was de cided that Key should be heard to morrow, but that his criticism should be confined to ships. Captain Winslow, who was the first witness in defending the Russian ad miral, used the fate of the Russian fleet as an illustration of the danger of going into action with the armoi belt too far under watei-. At the. same time lie1 said that the chips should carry at least two-thirds their capacity of coal and full ammu nition nd stores. He? said that two thirds supply of all stores would make all American battleships too low, and therefore the armor belt should be raised. He could not state the ex act anient, as he 'said it would vary on the different . ships. There was no need, said Captain Winslow, for more than four feet of armor below the ,water line. The wit ness was asked ton compare certain types of American ships with con temporary class of British ships.. He took the Connecticut; and f the Lord Nelson, and In gunnery said the Bri tish ship has made better records for rapid shooting with her battery of 2.9 inch guns thari had been ; made with the Connecticut 8-inch guns. He thought this actiieyeraent was due probably to the hoists'. "Theoretically, you would feel at a disadvantage if you were compelled to i take the Connecticut into , action against the Lord. Nelson, asked Mr. Tillman. f 4I would say that the Lord Nelson is the more powerful ship," said the captain. He added that the Michigan and the South Carolina were a great improvement over the Lord Nelson and "possible' superior to anything in the British navy" 'On what SiitpS now under com mand of Admiral Evans is the armor belt misplaced?" asked 'Mr Burrows. "All of them, because it is too low." . , . Captain Winslow said that the ar mr belt ertended five feet below water on all of the ships in Admiral Evans' fleet when it left Hampton Roads and most of them showed less than a foot of armor above the water line. He said with two-thirds supply of coal and two-thirds of all other stores on board, the armor belt of all the American battleships would be loo far below the water line. ' "This would be the condition in which the ships would go into bat tle," he said. In reply to question by Mr. Tillman the witness said ho had never writ ten the department concerning the de fects he had found in battleship con struction but that he knew the faults had been pointed out by other officers. As to ammunition hoists, Captain Winslow said that it was not a question of direct hoists as agains: two-stage-hoists, but entirely a ques tion Of Rflfptv "Wei, have we got it?" asked Mr. Tillman. The witness replied . that we had not had safety in the past, but .that he was not familia.- with the new direct hoist with automatic shutters. Captain Winslow gave his exper ience as a member of the board which inquired into th? causes cf the ex plosion due to the open turret and the ineffectiveness of f the direct hoist. Naval officers had predicted that just such accidents would occur and the fault should have ben corrected then," said Captain Winslow. "What officer had pointer: out the danger?" asked Mr, Tillman. "In 1902 I received a ' porsonal let ter from Comr.?.t cr1 Pirns -f irking the Kersarge aVd '.hi Kentucky ;ind saying thai th e, was", sreat danger In the turrets," replied Captain Wins- low. He added that this information had been given 'to, the, department' He said he did not knpw where to fix the responsibility; for. the failure to correct the fault, unless it was in the fact that there was constant change in the department f .through frequent shifting civilian secretaries. Commander A. L. Key, formerly naval aide to the president, was the next witness. He had an experience similar to that of Confmander Sims, the present naval aidein that. he was not permit ted to follow his own Inclination as to the form of presenting his views. He began by stating that he had Q duty to perform not entirely agreeable, as his testimony would not b9 ap proved at the navy department .ti : said he expected to show by compari scn that there were defects in Ameri can ships as to the location of the armor belt, to Cthe height of free board am! the character of ammuni tion hoists an that he would" be compelled to pc'nt out inaccuracies in "the testimony c " Rear-Admiral Capps, chief construct ; and some other, of ficers who tia r been si before . the committee. - Commander Key tooK . up the subjeetn of armor, belt. He said - that the belts should not he placed around. & fictitious -water "line,' bnt should be located with regard to the actual line I when a vessel is equipped ' for action. He criticised the speed tests of bat tleships and declared that the vessels run so light that the test is of no value in ascertaining the actual speed of a vessel when carrying full arma ment, crew and stores. "Why should cotraciors be permit ted to bamboozle the country with these fictitious (Speed tests?" asked Mr. Tillman. "They should not. That is Just what I have been trying to sbowie plied Commander Key; He then pre sented a German criticism to the ef fect that the American and EDglish tests are of no value, while the Ger man tests are made in acordanc with war conditions. Commander Key will continue . his testimony before the committee to morrow. . COXFESSED THEIR CRIME. Four Negro Incendiaries Taken from Officer by Mob and Hanged. Toledo, Ohio, March 10. Napo leon's union school, the largest build ing of the kind in -the state, which was completely remodeled -only last April and had cost the county $110, 000 altogether, was destroyed?by fire this morning. A repetition ; of the Collinwood horror - was possibly averted by only a quarter of an hour in the time of the starting of the Arenas the children were oh: their way to school, and some were play ing in the yard when it was discov ered. At 9 o'clock when the school pupils should have been in'' their seats, the main part of the building was a "mass of flames. Superintendent Bemer, and , Prin cipal White were the only persons in the building when the fire broke out, the other teachers not baling arriv ed. The two men ran to the. stairway leading to the attic and were driven back by a shower of sparks and a great volume of smoke. The fire had evidently caught from a defective flue in the furnace chimney, where it ran up through the attic. Before the fire department could get a stream on the building the flames had gutted the attic, dropped to the floor belowTattacked the east wing and was roaring up the big central tower. The bell fell Inside of 15 minutes. The building Is a total loss. Eight hundred pupils were enroll ed in the school. The big building had 54 rooms, including two large play rooms and two engine rooms. It was recently rebuilt and was formal ly opened last April. WILL TRY HI3I FIRST. New , Orleans Authorities Refuse To Turn Over Felker.. New Orleans, March 10. As a result cf a conference here today between Chief of Police Bousch of Norfolk, Va., and District Attorney Parker,' the New Orleans authorities announced that they would not turn over to the Vir ginia officer Thomas G. Felker, a pris oner held here. Felker is suspected, by the Norfolk police of being implicated in the mur der of Alston H. Berry, of Rome, Ga,, in Norfolk last October. He bas con fessed to several robberies here and District Attorney Parker claims - that if lie was surrendered to the .Virginia authorities and then acquitted it would be difficult to bring him back here for trial. . Chief Bousch says that he will have Felker inducted at "Norfolk and that Governor Swanson, of Virginia, will then be asked to send requisition pa pers for Felker to the governor of Louisiana. . ' THE COLLINWOOD CALAMITY. Coroner Declares the) Loss of Life Was Inexcusable. , Cleveland, O., March 10. The loss of the lives of the little chil dren in the Collinwood school fire was absolutely inexcusable," Coro ner Burke declared today after mak ing a thorough investigationiinto the causes of the fire and the .reasons why the children were cau,ght in the hallwav nnrt humeri wlthmit hoinof " " v r . M w u V IA t hSVAU able to escape.. , "The poor little children were caught in a veritable trap and held and Crushed until burned to death," he said. "Someone is responsible for this and should be held. I am not pre pared yet to say upon whom the blame should be placed. It is a mat ter so serious that must take full time to consider. Before;- I. can charge any one with this horrible re sponsibility I must review the evi dence carefully and deliberately I find that the steam pipes caused the fire by being placed too close. -to the wooden joists. There is no doubt in my mind that the overheated pipes caused the fire. But tke children should have escaped and would have doneo had it not been for the par tition built in the hall at tjie - foot of the stairway This is what caus ed their death." . - v tC ' v ' The coroner said that the buildlng: was also deficient in the lack of au tomatic.devices for opening doors..-.: Little Anna Neubert,,th,e child; who first discovered the fire in the -.Collinwood , school house, told her story to Deputy Coroner Houck today., Fire arshal Brockman Vwas unable to ap- pear. v He is practically, the only Re maining witness to x be' examined,; Coroner Burke will render his ver dict probably early in the' coming week. , CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. - Southern Railroad Lays Off Large Number of Men Indefinitely. Salisbury, March 10. The em ployees of the Southern Railway shop at Spencer except the .round house and car department were laid off this afternoon indefinitely Two hundred men are affected, . Selma, Ala., March 10.- Seventy five skilled workmen at the shops of the Southern Railway in Selma were thrown out of employment today by an order received to close the shops indefinitely. The car repairing depart ment will be continued with a de creased force. V FOUND H RIVER Body Discovered Yesterday Morning. Smith Conducted Restaurant at Place Where Murder t of George Robinson Occurred Many Believ ed Smith Knetr 31ore of the Trag edy Than lie Cared to Admit No Inquest L-sId Over His BoQy. The body of Owen Smith, the col ored restaurant keeper, whose myster ious disappearance several weeks ago had excited some Interest, was found yesterday morning shortly aftei 7 o'clock floating In the Cape Fear riv er beneath a wharf just south of the Castle street dock. The body was first seen by a fisherman and he se cured it with a rope and towed -it into the Castle street dock where it was shortly positively identified as being the remains of Smith. Coroner Bell was soon notified and after view ing the remains he concluded that no inquest was necessary ' and the body was turned over to Teachey. the colored undertaker who prepared it for bilrlal. Owen Smith conducted the restau rant in the southern section of the city at which a few days before his disappearance, a young colored boy, George Robinson, was killed, Furman Lee, a young white man, having been held by the coroner's jury on the ev idence of Smith and others for the superior court on the charge of hav ing fired ; the fatal shot. None of the witnesses saw the shooting and testimony was only circumstantial. On the day following the tragedy Smith's restaurant, where the killing occurred, was ordered closed by the mayor, and it was put out of busi ness by Chief! of Police Williams On Thursday afternoon, following the tragedy on Sunday, Smith's hat coat and "vest were found in a shed stored with lumber- at the Bell and Cantwell lumber yards, in the south ern section of the city, a note hav ing also been found, it. is stated, di rected to Smith's brother, telling him of his intentions to take his own life. It was believed then that he had com mitted suicide and the river in that section was dragged for two or three days, but no trace of, the body could be found. Because his body could not be found many believed that Smith had left his clothes lying on the dock merely as a subterfuge and that he left the city to escape ap-. pearing at the trial df Lee. . The discovering of the body con firms the suicido theory and it has given rise to the belief that Smith knew more concerning the killing than he swore! to before the coroner's jury and it is believed that it will add a hopeful aspect to the Lee trial. Although there is no evidence to confirm the belief many are con vinced that Smith may also have known something concerning ' the murder of Charles Edwards, whose, dead body was found on Kidders' Hill, less than three blocks from Smith's restaurant, one Sunday morning just two weeks beforerdl morning just two weeks previous to, the day of the Roberson murder. The solution as to the-mystery surround ing that tragedy is as dense as ever there haying never come to light the slightest clue as to the identity- of the guilty party. . Smith was a prosperous negro and he owned several renting houses,- He bore a good name among the better class of citizens in the sectidn where he lived and was looked on as a decent, hard-working negro. THE WAGE QUESTION. Proposed Reduction on Southern Rail road Subject of Conference... Washington, March 10. Chairman Knapp), of the interstate commerce commission, and Commissioner of Labor Neill,. as mediators under the Erdman act, today began their con ferences respecting the proposed re duction of wages of employes of the Southern Railway. The mediators instituted their work at a conference -with President Fin ley,, General Manager Ackert, General Counsel Thorn and Controller Plant. No details of the conference were made, pifblic, but it is known that the officials of thei Southern presented a general statement of the financial condition of the system in addition to a statement of their side of the controversy. ' At the afternoon session of the Conference the mediators took up the subject of. the wage reduction with representatives of the Southern Rail way's employes. P. H. Morrisey, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, W. S. Stone, grand chief -of the Order of Locomotive Engineers, and other of ficials of the organized bodies em ployed by the railway appeared as representatives of the men. The con ference lasted throughout the after noon but at its conclusion no an nouncement of the , results, $f any iprQ?feached, was made. ( U4tvi! the purpose of vthie mediators to, confer alternately with the Sotith tn jwficials and the representatives of ""the men and have the idea of bringing,: them; t6 a basis of agree ment. It is said this may require sev- I eral - days, - even if an agreement is reached at; all. ; The whole subject will he ' thfgshed Out carefully ,from the View, point of both the "employers and the employes. " ' - i Will, not sign agreement. t Cotton .Manufacturers Will Curtail ' Production at' Their Own Discre tion. " " - Fall River, Mass., March 10. Fall River mill owners today decided not to sign the agreement recently made at a .meeting of cotton manufactur ers in Boston for a further curtail ment1 of three months. , Secretary Clarence M." Hathaway of the Fall River Manufacturers As sociation said that the mill men here object to being tied up with such an agreement as many of them have con tracts that must tie filled within the next two or three months.' Mr. Hath away sald that a majority of the local mills probably would curtail their" production, but they preferred to do it at their individual discre tion and await further developments. jPiMGS:.FG.4 k iWUi : ... . . , v.. To Be Insiiiuted Bv. EYclYn Hrs- hitThaw Seeks Annulment of Marriage on Ground That Thaw Wad Insane When Marriage Was Contracted. Suit Will Be ik-fended by Hus Ivind. New York, March 10. Every n Nes bit Thaw will instituie proceedings, for the annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw. The action will be based on the allegation that the de fendant was insane when the union was contracted- Thaw purposes to de fend the suit. The papers in the case will be served some time tomorrow and an early trial, is expected. In the meantime the two, by mutual agree ment, , will remain apart. In official sttements by counsel for both parties tonight was confirmed the long sus pected culmination in the wedded lives of Stanford White's slayer and the woman whose story in his defens'f brought her an unhappy notoriety as wide as the reading, world. For weeks it had been gossiped that a divorce was imminent and even dur ing Thaw's trial, throughout which "his wife stood gamely by him, it was pretty generally believed that what ever the outcome for the prisoner the two would never again live together. These reports! were frequently baBed on rumored opposition to the young woman on the part of the Thaw fam ily.. In their statements tonight, how ever, counsel denied that Mrs, Thaw, Harry's mother, had taken any part in the ' proposed separation. During today Colonel , Franklin Barlett, counsel for the" elder Mis. j Thaw, made a. statement in which J 1 t ' 1 L . i .1 n . . . l- ue saio - mai mere was uu tuiiu m the reports that detectives employed by Mrs. William Thaw had had her daughter-in-law under surveillance for months. As to a possible separa tion Colonel Bartlett said: "The matter is in choate. There is every disposition on the part of my clients to be absolutely just and fair to Evelyn Thaw and to make liberal provisions for her support, and even more than that Harry K. Thaw has sought a. reconciliation and has not desired that his wife 'should leave him, but she desires a permaent sev erance of the marital relations. Any thought of espionage upon the' young Mrs. Thaw would be abhorrent to Mrs. William Thaw and has not at any time been entertained by her." , Soon after Colonel Bartlett's inter view 'became public, A. Russell Psa body, personal counsel to Thaw, left tfor Mattewan, where since his last trial, Thaw has been confined in the asylum' for the criminal insane. After a talk with his client Peabody return ed to the City late today and by ap pointment met Daniel O'Reilly, one of Thaw's former attorneys, who Is now counsel " for Evelyn Thaw. The conference - extended well into the evening and at its conclusion Mr. O'Reilly said: "Papers will be served on Mr. Thaw tomorrow. byt me as counsel for Eve lyn in action for annullment of the marriage. The action will be on the ground that at the time of the mar riage,' April 4th, 1905, Harry Thaw was insane and did not know what he wag doing. ' - "This action has .been thought of for -some time. It will be tried in New York county. As yet no mention has been made of any settlement in favor of Evelyn. If after the. annul ment; proceedings, are through and they are in favor of the plaintiff some action might be taken for the recovery of counsel fees and ali mony." vMr. Peabody, who heard O'Reilly re mark, said: "Today I have visited Harry at Mattewan and told him the intentions of his wife. He is willing to defend the suit." Mr. Peabody added that his client. when apprised of his wife's intentions had made no comment except to de clare that he was sane at the time of his marriage and expressed his wil lingness to meet the issue. Asked whether Mrs. William Thaw was active in the pknned litigation, Mr. Peabody replied: "No, she Is not." Mr. O'Reilly added to his formal statement that Evelyn would take the stand duriig the annullment proceed ings and that several of the medical erperts who had testified at the mur der trial would , also be called. He added that despite his announced de termination to contest the suit, he believed that Thaw would put no ser ious obstacle In the wy of separa tion, if for no other reason than the gratitude he felt toward his wife for tfce aid she had rendered him when he was on trial for his life. As to his client's financial resources JO'Rellly , paid he thought she had funds enough to maintain her during the trial of the case,, and as for the future was capable of earning a large income as a -writer. Both lawyers emphatically denied that Evelyn ; had "been followed by detectives or, that had they made any demand upon her husband's mother for a money settlement It is understood that the attorneys ofr .Mrs. Thaw will depend practi cally OU the evidence of insanity In troduced at the last trial of Thaw tc pJ-ove 'that he was mentally incom petent at the time to legally contract a marriage. Should this be established the case would be won for the plain tiff providing there was not introduc ed by the defense that Thaw subse quently recovered full possession of his factultles and by continuing the marriage relation gave validity to the 'original. This point the attorney would not discuss tonight.' It was, however, pointed out that Thaw, though committed to- an insane asy lum as having, been Insane at the j time he killed wnite, has not been declared insane at the present tim Whether tkfe matter of his Insanity will be determined before the trial for annulment is net known. If it Is not, there will be added interest in the probable effect of the present suit up on th later efforts to get Thaw out of the asylum. , TIIF. KIGIIT HOUR UW ' ' ' ' Committee Hear 'Arjninwnts Asint ' the Measure. " ' Washington. ; March 10. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor accompanied by several , un ion men of the District o Columbia made his first appearance today before the kouse committee on labor In the series of hearings on the eight hour W. H. Fletcher, vice pre Bent of the W. and A. Fletcher Company of Ho boken, shipbuilders and representing also the national metallic trades asso ciations, says that if the bill becomes a law his company will be compelled to cease bidding for government con tracts. Answering questions put by Mr. Gompers and by members of the com mittee 'Mr. Fletcher declared that the commercial shipbuilding industry on the Atlantic coast of the United 6tates U practically exUnct; that about the same condition prevails on the Pacific coast and that the only places in the United States where the industry still survives are the Great Lakes and oth er inland waters. Mr. Fletcher said that the manufac turing conditions in this conutry are such that ship builders can , buy Scotch boilers laid down at New York for one and a half cents "a pound less than they can be produced here. He advanced as chief argument against the bill, the claim that It Is uncon stitutional in that it dlscrimlnatea against some manufacturers and in favor of others.- He denied the right. Of the govern ment to designate the number of work hours a day in connection with con tracts. " ' . f Edward Kothagel, representing the electrical workers of the District of Columbia and John . F. , Rabbi tt,-rep-resen ting the union plasters of the district made arguments in support of the bill : , , Mr. Gompers made a plea for the passage of measure and emphatical ly contradicted the assertion that bad been made before the committee by em ployees by representatives that work ing men as a rule were In favor of working over time if they received extra pay for the same. He claimed that the representatives of some of the employees who had appeared be fore the committee' during these hear ings had been instrumental in secur ing regislation Jthat practically has made outlaws of-"union workmen. James H. Haydon, representing the Cramp Shipbuilding company, assert ed that conclusive evidence had been presented to the committee that 1 the working man of the . country desires the privilege of working over time for over time pay. He also attacked the constitutionality of the bill. The hearing closed with today's (session. CAPT. JAMES 1. M'NEILL. Writes Communication Concerning Conditions in Prohibition Town. The following communication was received last night from Capt. James D. ilcXeill, of Fayettevllle, and it is published without comment: Fayettevllle, N C, March 10, 1908. Editor Messenger: I note In your Issue of today the attempt to prove that prohibition pro hibits or decreases crime. Let me give you some statistics from a town that has prohibition laws as drastic as legislation can make them, and that formerly was as "open" as any town ever was governed. From 1887 to 1897 Fayettevllle had open bars and a dispensary for the last year. We had one police man. Average annual police court receipts less than $250. (1897 only $215.80.) During this period our jail was sometimes entirely empty. It was a matter of common talk that we had to employ a person to stay in there for a while with the only prisoner as he was lonesome and afraid of the rats. Not a single police officer was killed or even injured. Cases of delirium tremens a rarity. Keeley caEes more so. Per Contra 1S97 to 1907. Police Torce increased to five. Annual receipts from police court, $400 to $500 per year. New .tail built. Number of courts Increas ed; Jail always full.. During the past five years of total prohibition, two police chiefs killed, one police olicer killed, one police officer badly shot up, several youn? men of good families died from alcoholism, hos pital hnrily ever without a delirium patient. Murder, suicide, Keeley and MclTunna patients and lawlessness ad libitum, and without doubt more public drunkenness than ever before in the city history. How's thi3 for a comparison? Atlanta and Wilming ton are not in it We have had ex perience. Yours, jas. d '"McNeill. Report Was Untrue. Bristol, Va., March 10.- The story sent from Bristol yesterday to the ef fect that Jackson Pressler, a white man, had been taken from his home in Russell county, Virginia, and lynched by a mob, was untrue. - Re ports from that county, which are au thentic, are to the effect that it is without foundation. fJica Axle Grease Helps the Wagon op Ihe mm The load seems lighter Wagon and team wear longer Yon make more money, and have more time to make money, when wheels ase greased with , m The longest wearing and most satisfactory lubricant in the world. STANDARD OIL CO. eamefease AM TEUGHAM WIS M To Richmond, Wilmington and Norfolk Banks i .Uking for Shipment of Currency to Hank In Kim city Money m Shipped and Immediately 1 U-turn od to Consignor May HaTr Ileen Huso of Kobbcrs. An vecurrenco which created con siderable Interest in banking and tele ' graph circles about two weeks ago has .' just come to light and although th has been exerted every effort to sol? the mystery connected with the incl- . V l.ab ym nnt n( lirv(V. About the first of the present month the Murchlson bank of this city; a catkmal bank in Richmond and m bank in Norfolk, all on the fame day, as later investigation revealed, receiv ed a similarly worded telegram from Elm City, signed by the Tolsnot lkiaji lng Co. asking that $2,000 In cur rency be shipped at once. Each ol these banks docs business with the Elm City Institution and the currency was ahiped without delay. On arrival at Elm City the Tolsnot bank officials denied any knowledge of the various shipments and each was returned to the bank from which It was fyht. It was then learned that To auch telegram had been sent through the Elm City telegraph offlee and the most plausible theory is that the wires were tapped and the mes sages sent. I What the purpose of the senders oC the order for currency was cannot be stated but it Is presumed that the message was sent either by rooters or their associates and that the plan was for all the , money to reach Elm City at the same time and during the night before it had been delivered to the banks., an. effort would be made to rob the express office and get the money. The planM whatever It was ,dld not succeed. , The telegraph' company has had detectives-looking' into the matter ever since it occurred and any clue that may. be found will be followed to tht end In the hope of finding the iruilry parties. MRS. W. II. STONE DEAD. End Came Yesterday Afternoon at Her florae in Shallotte. Friends will regret exceedingly to learn of the death of Mrs. W. II. Stone, which occurred yesterday af ternoon at the. late homo of the de ceased, In Shallotte. Mrs. Stone has been ill for some time with a severe attack of lagrlppe and several days ago pneumonia developed, since which time her condition has been regarded as critical. For the past two or three days it was realized that the end was near and loved ones re mained at her bedside hourly expect ing the sad summons. Mrs. Stone had reached an advanc ed age and tho news of her demise will bring great sorrow to many friends in Wilmington and otber places. The deceased Is the mother of Mrs. W. A. Rourk and Messrs. R. R. and B. O. Stone of this city and these will attend the funeral. To the members of the bereaved family the sincere sympathy of many friends jis extended in this hour of their grief. FUNERAL OF MIL KELLY. "Was Conducted Yesterday Morning by Rev. Dr. MrClure. Sad funeral services were conduct ed yesterday morninc at 10 o'clock from the late residence, corner Third and Market streets over-the rcmairiH of the late Mr. John J. Kelly, tho solemn ceremonial having been con ducted by Rev. A. D. McClure, D. I)., pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. I After the services at the hour' the remains were borne to Oakdale and interred., The gentlemen who acted as pall bearers on this sad occasion were the following: Honorary Messrs. W. H. Sprunt, Oscar Pearsall and W. R. Morrison Active Messrs. W. C. Smith, June Shine, E. I). Sloan, A. W. MIddleton, John Lamb and Dr. J. E. Matthews.' LEAVES OLD HANK QUARTERS. Mr. W. II. Cooer Rent Former Ix catlon of People Saving Hank May Start Commercial Hank There in. Mr. W. D Cooper has leased from J G. Wright & Son for a term of yearn the store situated at No. 113 North Front street, next to the Orion hotel and formerly ocupied by the Peoples Savings bank. The lease Is dated aa effective March 1st and It runs to Sep tember 1st 1910, the sum of $2015 or 165 a month being given for thin pe riod. . y V Tbebuildin is being repapered and repaired and it will present an attrac tive appearance when the improve ments are concluded. Rumor has it that Mr. Cooper who Is a prominent wholesale grocer, will soon start a commercial bank in rhis city and that the quarters Just secured wilf be used as the bank's home. Mr. Cooper has been out of the cltr for several days and he Is not expected to return unii Saturday, hence noth ing definite concerning the proposed bank can be learned, but an announce ment can be expected in the near fu ture. Have you r-eyet?; examined by Dr. Vlneberg. the eye specialist at Munds drug store, Masonic Temple. No charge for examination. Spectac les or eyeglasses from $1.00 and up.- Satisfaction guaranteed. ' ew-lt Bears ila M H2W IrS lf Z.