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LEXINGTON, LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 11. 1901.
No. 15
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:rn Pacific Stock Reacted tbe
.nomeatl Figure of $1,000
la New York.
TH1M6 ELSE RAPIDLY 8MPPED.
Wh ta Feverish Nmaid an4
icted M F Cent. Shortlr After Oae
lock-Assoclatm! Bank Cheeked the
J Daellna la Stock bj OCartag to
Several MUltoM at Bis Far Cant.
A Famous Peem.
Northern roud, made this statement
I never bought or sold share of r The following twena was read at
Ah1 ' . .. la (unn In u 1 V mAnih. T I
have neither acquired nor gotten rid Wmcry, Ala., April 28, by Miss bar
of Northern Pacific stock or any other Howard Joocs, of Montgomery. The
stock. When the fog of battle lift poem is from the Den of tba famous
and the air became clearer, as I be- Louthern poet, Father Ryan, aad bas
lieve it soon will, people will see many . . . , Ulw ,
the Confederate Veteran.
r York, May 9. The trading In
hern Pacific became so wild and
;d toward 11 o'clock Thursday
r rices changed rapidly 25 and 50
tit i time. A sale at 530 was
led and almost immediately an.
.- cams oat on the1 tape at 700.
was for Friday'a delivery, there
'.testing a belief on the part of
rchaser that the short commits
. were so large that the stock to
from Europe would afford lit,
no relief. Meanwhile prices of
s otheF stocks were forced
: from one to three points and
:allv the entire market crum
away again. Northern Pacific
it 230, the regular way, simul
usly with a purchase at 300 for
and on next sales at 320 regular
;:)0 for cash.
11:15 Northern Pacific sold at
s share for cash.
11:40 the statement was mnde
J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kohn,
& Co. had just agreed not to
ce deliveries on Northern Pacific
. With this announcement there
a rally in prices throughout the
nl list, Atchison common wiling
61',, the preferred at 80. Man
u to 100 and other in smaller
rtions.
n came an official announcement
e tape by Street fc Norton that
would nt demand delivery of HO,
iiros of Northern Pacific common
m. This announcement was fol
by a rally in Manhnttan to lotf,
to 4S. Burlington to 182, South
aritie to 43i, and Atchison to
it 12:25 Northern Pacific eom
iold at 700 for cash. At this time
narket seemed to have a better
than nt any prrind during the
and the price changes between
i were not so wide as they had
i during the wild flurries of the
ier part of the session. Even
idard Oil declined to $050 a share,
op of 171 points,
t one o'clock the failures of W. IL
wer, of 60 Broadway and J. T. Lee,
;S Broadway, were announced on
consolidated exchange. Rumors
e circulated affecting the credit
everal stock exchange houses, but
y were soon officially denied.
rtly aftr one o'clock A. A. Houa
t A Co. loaned $1,000,000 at six
cent, and It was said that other
mg flrma were lending their avail-
funds In the efforts to check
declines In prices. The banks,
the other hand, became more con
native, and decided to loan only to
It regular customers. Borne bor-
ers were forced to psy from 10 to
jer cent, for their money.
iter money had gone t W per
t.. it was reported that a number
bank presidents went Into-confer
e with the object of making ar-
gements to lend $18,000,000 on the
ck exchange at' low rates. J. P.
rgan A Co. were lenders of large
ns to-day at six per cent. At two
lock, semi-official snnouncement
s made that the Gallatin national
ok would lend $18,000,000 at six per
t., acting for the associated banks
the city.
Notwithstanding thst Kohn, Loeb
Co., claim the control of Northern
fine, It was said st the office of J.
Morgan & Co. that the firm has con
cts for delivery of stock sufficient
give them a majority,
rhe Evening Post quotes an eml
nt authority of the railroad world
follows: "If will be recognized
en the field of battle clears, that
e balance of railway power must not
seriously disturbed. Interests at
ike re too tremendous and too
iwerful tn he aroused. It only
tans retaliation of a disastrous na
re. which can be avoided by check
g reckless ambition, and leaving
great railroads of the country
re from alliances and open to all
eir connections. Further unifies
n of great railways and forming
'transcontinental systems' will be
opped now, or such plans will be
cognized as forcing competitive
i i Ming on a gigantic scale."
President J. J. Hill, of the Great
things In a much clearer light than
they do now. We never have had
control of the Northern Pacific road;
we don't want control; we are not
trying to get control, and under tho
law we could not retain control it
ever we got it."
There has been apprehension that
large funds of money might be called
from New York by the country banks,
but so far there bas been no evidence
In support of this theory,
who wish to secure eheap stock.
RUN OUT OF TOWN.
Itatteas Baa froaa Kansas City to Iota to
Work la Cement Plant Oat Banc
TraatoMat traaa a Mob.
THE PHANTOM HOST.
BY V4TSSB BIAS.
I My tarm was wrapped in the slumber
Which steals from the heart Its cares,
For my life was weary
Wltb its barren watte of years;
But my soul, with rapid pinions.
Fled swift to the light which seems
From a phantom's tun and planets
For the dreamer in his dream.
I stood in a wondrous woodland,
Where the sunlight nestled sweet,
ta the cups of snowy lilies
whioh grew about my feet;
Aad while th Gothic forest arches
Stirred gently with the air.
The Miles underneath them
Swung their censors pale is prayer.
I stood amazed aad' wondering,
And a grand memoriam strata
Iola, Kan- - May 9. The trouble
here between workmen and the Ital
ians sent here from Kansas City to
work in the cement plant seems to be Came sweeping through the forest.
shout over. th Italians having- been And dies; then rose agaia.
returned home and the leaders of the
mob arrested. Sheriff Hobart ap
peared at the depot abont two hours
before train time and served war
rants on two of the leaders of the
crowd and ordered therest, mostly boye
and young men, to return home or be
arrested. The crowd dispersed with
out making trouble. The cement com-
nanv. findinir that the Italians were
we
Till my soul, with comforttblessed,
Sank down among the lilies
With folded wings to rest
Then to that mystic music
Through the forest's twilight aisle
Passed a host with muffled footsteps.
In martial rank and file:
And I knew those gray-clad figures,
Thus slowly passing by,
Were the souls of southern soldiers
too scared to return to worK, pur- Who fur freedom dared to die.
chased tickets for them and they wont ,n fnml gydney JohnKOn
ImCK IO lansas I uv on um uibi ro- vvlh , - ,,t.r wrunir
senger train. One or two of them vile and senseioss slanders
carry bloody heartR, nut aside irom of a prurient raiiiile tongue;
this the reports that several people And near blm mighty Jackson,
were wounded ennnot be confirmed,
lint the fear of arrest mnkrs those
Interested silent. There is a, gen-
erul feeling here that the trouble
Is well over and joy that the Italians
have gone.
NEW FIELD FOR CARNEGIE.
American Trset Society Will Ask Illm ta
Kstslillsh Ubrartri In Our New
Ininlar rnssmslnn.
New York, May 9. On. O. O. How
ard presided at the jnnnal meeting
ot tue American truci bocicij. ur.
Shearer, financial secretary, stated
that 27 neW . publications had been
added to the organization's list during
the year. During the meeting Gen
Howard mnde a suggestion to the
effect that possibly Mr. Carnegie
might be led to co-operate with the
organization in establishing libraries
in Cubs, Porto Rico and the Philip
pine.
DONEQAN'S BODY EXHUMED.
WMllkr Mlaar Wha Was KiUad by tae
OartreUs Near Aaoorat, Me., WIU Ba
Boiled ta Wyoming. -
With a placid trout, as one
Whoae warfare was accomplished,
Wlu)e crown of glory won,
There Mill. too. pure and noble.
Paxi.Ml in that spirit train,
For he Joined th martyred army
From the south s Ut lia.'tle plain.
Then next In order fo). .v.l '
The warrior-priest, great Polk,
With Joy to meet his Master,
For he had nobly borne the yoke,
Thi're Stuart, the lxld, the daring,
With matchless 1'cl ha in rode;
With earnest, chastened faces.
They wore lHklng up loUod.
Aad Jenkins, glorious Jenkins.
With his psticnt fearless eyes.
And the brave, devoted Garnett
Journeyed on to Paradise.
Before a shadowy squadron
Rede Morgan, keen and strong.
And I knew by bis tranquil forehead
He'd torgotteo every wrong.
There peerless Pegram marching
With a dauntless martial tread,
And I breathed a sigh for the hero,
The young, the early dead.
Mid spectral black-horse troopers
Passed Axhby's stalwart form.
With that proud, defiant bearing
Which so spurned the battle storm:
But his glaace was mild and tender.
For In that Phsntom Host
He dwelt with lingering fondness
On the brother he had lost
Butler. Mo.. Msy 9. H. E. Christ-
man, an attorney rrom Kemnierrr,
Wvo.. eame here In the Intereata of
Mrs. D. E. Ponegan, the wife of the
wealthy miner whom the Gartrells
confessed of murdering near Amoret,
in this county. The body will be ex
humed and sent there. It had been
buried here by the county In the pot-1 romai. Phclan, Alfred Plnckney-
ter's field. I All had found a soldier's grave
They were young and gentle spirits
Fravldad for Hla Fear Wives. I But tbey quaffed the bitter cup,
Halt Lake City, May 9. The will of For their country's flag was falling.
I Then strode the brave Haloney.
Kind, genial adjutant;
And next him walked the truthful,
The lion-hearted Qantt
I There to that solemn music
Passed a trio of the brave:
the late George Q. Cannon, president
nt the Mormon church, disposes of
nronerty valued at $1,000,000, Includ
ing 33.000 acrea of land. To each of
his four wives he leaves a home and a
maintenance for life. To each of his
33 children he gives $2,000 and an
mnn.1 Interest In $200,000 when the
youngest child becomes of age,
Ta Stop Use at Trade Chaeks.
Washington. May 9. The general
circulation recently of "trade checks
by different mining and other enter
nrlses which conduct -company
stores, has resulted In Chief Wilkie,
of the United Stales secret service,
requesting the treasury, department
to Issue a warning sgainst the circu
ehairmaa of the hotels and acoomiuo
dationt committee, at luocheon at
Seelbach'i.
Two elegant private boarding houses
in the most fashionable residence sec
tion of the city were secured by the
committee for the nse of their com-
mandery during the eelebratien. The
houses are located near tbe corner of
Broadway and Floyd street. A con
tract wu made for the accommodation
of 72 visitors but provision was effected
for the caring of a party of 100 in case
ot need, la the special train bearing
the Marshall sir knights will also be
brought members of commandcrles at
Independence, Lexington and Paris.
Templars from Boonville and Fayette
will also join the party. .
And they fell to lift it up.
And then passed In countless thousands
In that mighty phsntom host
True hearts and noble pntrlots
Whose names on earth are lost
There "the missing" found their places
Those vanished from our gaze
Like brllllnnt, flashlag meteors?
And were lost in glory's blaze.
Yes, they passed, that noble army
They passed to meet their Lord;
And a voire within me whispered:
"They but march to their reward."
Miaaonri Knights Templar.
Messrs. It. Lee Smith, clerk ot
Saline county, A. L. Jorden, post
master, and U. A. McBride, a prom-
Ship-Subsidy BUI.
Bt, Louis BepUbllo.
Senator Cockrell is doubtless right
in his prediction that the republicans
will find Ibemseives sumciently amen
able to Hanna's will in the next con
gress to pass a ship-subsidy bill for the
benefit of certain syndicates standing
very near to Hanna.
lie is also justified in bis belief that.
even toough this bill be a modified ver
sion of that which Hanna tried in vain
to jam through the preceeding con
gress, it will nevertheless give the
democnttio party excellent campaign
material for tbe cpogressional cam
paign of 1902. This is inevitable, for
the reason that the American people
are now too intelligently posted on the
ship. subsidy question to be fooled into
bidieving that such a grant can be any
thing but a tax on tbe people, for the
fur'.h'.T enrichraentof the syndicates.
The country has not yet forgotten
the desperate efforts made by llanmi to
bend the Fifty-sixth congress to his
will In this matter of the passage of
tbe Hannal'ayne-Frye-Standard Oil
ship-subsidy bill. It . is remembured
also that Hanna was pledged to the
paBsageot this bill. It was one of the
conditions upon which the syndicates
made up the 30,000,000 slush fund
lor the re-election of Mr. McKinley to
tbe presidency., Hanna's pledge to
the syndicates is still ia force. It
must be made good if Hanna is to con
vince the syndicates that his power is
equal to the perfoimance of any and
every promise whioh he may see fit to
make in return for the syndicates1
financial backing.
Senator Cockrell is well posted as to
the possibilities of congressional ac
tion. He sees as certain the passage
of a ship-subsidy bill at an early day
following tbe assembling ot tbe Fifty
seventh congress. It will be tbe duty of
tbe American people to rebuke such
action at tbe polls in tbe congressional
elections of 1902. The rebuke must
be administered in the form of over
whelming defeat ot republican candi
dates for congress.
Condensed Hews.
The high price of corn at present
threatens to close down tbe big stareb.
works of tbe country.
Tbe British are said to bold tweatf-
six Americans among the prisoners
captured in South Africa.
Tea ears of provisions and clothing
were started from Mew York Tuesday
evening for the Jacksonville Are
sufferers.
Three battles were tougat la the
Philippines recently , between the
Americans and the insurgents and set
an American was hurt.
News comes from China of additional
righting this week in which th
Germans again defeated the Chinese
and killed a large number of them.
Charles J. Devlin, ef Topeka is re
portbd te be tbe richest man in Kansas.
He is very much of a philanthropist
but he makes ne publicity of his gifts,
Five men were probably fatally ia
jnred last Tuesday in a powder ex
plesloa at the Henry Colliery ef the
Lehigh Valley Company near Wilkes,
barre, Pa.
Nevada, Mo., is preparing to give
Bryan a royal welcome May 15th,
when he goes there to deliver bis first
political speech since the presidential
campaign.
Colorado hpriogs, Col., announaes
that President McKinley, who is a mem
ber of the Epworth League, will open
the state convention ia that city with
an address June Gtb.
Upon petition of one' tenth of the
qualified volers, the county court of
Shelby county last Tuesday ordered an
election on the locul option law which
has been in force in that county sinee
ish;.
Burlington passenger train No. 3
was wrecked Inst Monday while passing
Thayer, a small town eighteen miles
east of Creston, causing the death of
Engineer S. D. Brown of Burlington
and injuring over a score of passen
gers. Tbe locomotive hauling the
passenger train struck an engine at
tached to a freight train that was
backing onto a side track. The pass
enger engine aud all ' but two ears of
tbe passenger tram left the rails aad
rolled down a twenty-foot embankment.
Thursday thousands ot the Knights
of Pythiaas of Kansas and Missoari
met in Kansas City. The occasion was
tbe official visit ot the three highest
officials of tbe Knights of fytbias order
ia the United States. These officials
are Supreme Chancellor, Ogden H.
Fethers ef Janesviile, Wis. ; James K.
Carnahaa, of Chicago, major general
of tbe Uniform Rank, and C. F. S.
Neal of Lebanen, III., president Of the
board ot control of the eadewaieat
rank.
inent merchant, all of Marshall, Mo.,
latlon of these unsecured certificates, have Just returned home Bfter a visit to
R.th. w..isunt.h. Waakur.,. Loulsvil.e, Kj.. for the purpose Of
Pretoria, May 9. Dutch refugees securing uuonora iui iuo uuuupsuuy ui
who have arrived here rrom rieiers- the members oi Missouri vommanaery
burg say the reason that there have No 3Gf Knights Templar, during tbe
been so many Boer surrenders recent. connlave to be held in
It U because Commander-in-Chief -Ulu .
Botha wishes to get rid of hia weak that city on August 230. Tbe Mis-
fighters, who, instead of helping him, sourians were shown marked attention
are an incum' '"ce. 1 by the looal sir knights during their
Vort Bcott, Kan., May v. a jury Ti8jt 0 tbe f alls City. Tney were
hi the federal court here awarded Al- tRken , t0Qr of p,aoe8 where qoarters
bert Wallen a judgment against tho . . .. . . ..
Ert Scott Water Supply company for " Mr Charles L. Martin.
$4!oo0 punitive damage, for blacklist- The second day of their visit they were
him. tbe guests ef Col. J. T. Gathright,
The Youiu-ers Almost Free.
St. Paul, Minn., May 7 At a reg.
nlar meeting of the hoard of managers
of the state prison today at Stillwater,
unanimous notion was taken in favor
of paroling the Younger boys, now
serving life sentences. Before the
parole can he effective all three mem
bers of the state pardon board must
approve it, and the action will be
submitted to that body as toon as pos
sible. This is in accordance with the
new parole law, which allows the
parole of life prisoners after about
twenly-foar years' imprisonment, be.
ing thirty-live years, less time gained
by good behavior. Paroles usually
are granted hy tbe prison managers
alone, but in the case of lite prisoners
unanimous approval of the board of
pardons u also necessary, and such
paroled life prisoners cannot leave the
slate. Tne pardon board does not
meet regularly until July, but a special
meeting may be called if the members
oi tbe board consider it necessary.
CORBE8P0NDBNT8 WANTHD The IN
TILLIQEMCBB wants a correspondent ia
very town in Lafayette ooonty. Write
or particulars.
What are Trusts For?
From the New York World.
If you will let the trust organizers
tell the story, the great combined cor
porations are organized to secure
economies, in production and distribution."
That was tbe talk when the great
coal combine was formed. It was re
peated when the eolossal steel com.
binalion followed. There was to he
no advance in prices. The dear pab
lio was to have other object-lessons ia
benevolent despotism and merciful
meaopoly such as the Standard Oil
company has long given this country;
as witness the price of its stock and its
fortune-building dividends!
Well, the steel oombine is but a few
months old, and it bas just raised the
price of rails f 2 a ton. The anthracite
combine, euphemistically called a
community of ieterest" has advanced
the price of ooal $1 a ton, aad will col
lect a tribute of 150,000,000 frost the
consumers.
It thus appears as the world bas
said, that community of interest" is
not the interest ot the community. And
the question, "What are the trusts
forf" is getting its answer.