The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, TAMMANY TIGKET 15 NOT INDORGED Kings County Demo- cratic Committee Is Not Harmonious. McCarren’s Forces Defeated After a Hard Fight. Senator Are YORK, Oct. 19.—The meeting of gs County Democratic Committee called by Senator P. J. McCar- force an indorsement of the entire any ticks McLaughlin, who carried ten of the ty-one election districts. The vote s very close, fourteen delegates, whose es might have changed the result, be- when the meeting was called McCarren mace a speech in rt of a resolution offered by him to dorse the entire Tammany ticket. John rman of the executlve com- offered a substitute resolution that ole matter involved in McCarren's n be referred to a commi hat the committee be directed recommendations to the c tee as to the best means of f action on the of the various s substitute was s of McLaughlin t 148 to 141 ained that succeed in y considered the rival fac- McCarren will paign ¥ organizations -night. Mayor ngs on the an spoke in Man- ughs. Republicans Nom nts to Parole. orse in Sanford resulted in a victory for | ONCE LOWLY COBBLER DIES A GRESLS Estate Left by Gorman McKay Aggregates $25,000,000. | * — | Fame and Vast Weal'h Are Won by His Inventive Genius. patal gl ool Passing of a Man to Whom All Wearers of American Shoes i Have for Years Paid | Tribute. | AR Bpecial Dispatch to The Cuall. NEWPORT, R. I, Oct. 19.—Gorman Mec- Kay, one of the world’'s best known men, died to-day at his villa in this city, after | | an fliness of a year. Inventions by McKay revolutionized the | | boot and shoe Industry of the world. | They shut the doors of the little cobbler | shop, with its solitary bench, its hand- ' | ful of pegs and its waxed end, and open- ' | ed the big factories run by machinery, | | where great processions of skilled labor- | | | | | \ ers wound In and out twice a day. McKay peddled the stock of his first | corporation from door to door among his friends and acquaintances in the Berk- | shire town of Pittsfleld, where he was born in 1 among the cotton works of | | Lowell and Lawrence, where he had man- | | aged machine shops, and among the whal- | | population of New Bedford ‘When first dividend was declared the hold- | ers of these shares found themselves wealthy, with the assurance of still great- er accumulation | McKay ¢ man, woman | and child who wore American shoes to | | pay tribute to him. It was only a small | | bit of tax, from 1 cent to 4 cents a pair, | but luxurious styly en to live modern in the most millionaires, -ducational institutions gifts to friends. residences in Pittsfield, Boston and a magnificent . to which he took | on whom he | money 1 n in Washin g bride, Miss Ti 1 that After she obtain nued to glv reat, 0% | ng money and to send s and flowers. When she married Baron Adolf von Bruen- : he sent her a check of such munifi- that it became the gossip of the leaves a vast estate, estimated at i he had two relatives— Mrs. Dexter and Miss Catherine Dexter f Boston. It s understood the bulk of estate will go to Harvard College. —_—————— & 19.—The manasers the an and North German Lioyd | | ip companies, who have been conferring | | burg regarding cabin passenger rates, | decided to-day criating 1 of to adhere to the arrangement | & between the two companies and the | ational Mercantile Marine Company and lines. ADVERTISEMENTS. Gzorez P —— e A NG FUGITIVE HIGHWAYMAN SHOOTS HIMSELF TO E George W. Nottingham, Ex-Convict, Enacts Tragedy at the Bedside of His Divorced Wife, Hattie Nelson, When Hunted Down + SCAPE JUSTICE Z RS - HIGHWAYMAN NOTE LEFT BY HIM. WHO KILLED HIMSELF TO AVOID ARREST, THE WOMAN WHO WAS HIS FORMER WIFE, AND FACSIMILE OF | < ITH detectives close upon him, George Nottingham, alias William Welis, ex-convict and highwayman, ended his life with bullets early yesterday {man of crime chose the bedside of his divorced wife, for the love of whom he committed his first felony and for whom | that love has been enduring through years | of disgrace and penal servitude. When | the police arrived at his house they found that exonerated his brother in the offense | for which they wanted him and told in | simple language of his dissipation and crime and desire to relieve them of their duty. it yourself. it from the woodman’s gracefully designed table and finished in a manner which wonld justify our asking more money. " In rich golden oak at $8.00. The same design in beautiful birdseye maple at §10.00. For parlor or bedroom. Brisk buying in the curtain department yesterday. A great many of the special curtains are gone, but there’s Just as good patterns to choose from to- sti]l some left. day—and just as good value. hams for go cents, No telephone or mail orders filled and not more than four pairs of curtains to any one buyer. ends to-night at six sharp. We are figuring on [ street building about the middle of next month. There will positively be no removal sale, i (Formerly the California Furniture Co.) 957 to 977 Market Street. San Francisco Rich golden oak .00 58 Count on the construction as though you had made On the wood as though you had followed | Nottingham’s career as a criminal has been one of desperation. He undertook | the most daring work and fought for life when pursued. That he gave himself to death without taking other lives is a mystery to those who knew him. Now, as he lies in the Morgue, he has been de- | serted by former friends and even the members of his own family have turned | against him. In Martinez, where he was wanted for a robbery, his mother visited police headquarters and expressed her bitterness for him. She forbade that the body be sent home and expressed the wish that he had killed himself ten years 1 ago. STORY OF THE CRIME. ' The crime for which the suicide was | hunted was the robbery of a saloon con- taining five men at Point Richmond last Saturday night. His brother, Walter, assisted him in the deed, and when they were pursued and overtaken they bat- tled with deputy sheriffs until the re- volvers of the entire party had been | emptied. The fugitives again fled, but ‘Walter was captured Sunday morning and made a confession. It was when George learned that the sleuths were aware of his presence In this city and ! that he would soon be returned to prison that he decided to end his existence. ! While the Point Richmond affair was the particular one for which the brothers were wanted, several other bold crimes have been credited to them to-day by the police of three counties. It is said that the pair was responsible for the last thres daring saloon holdups in this city, and they are also accused of repeating this performance in Oakland a few nights ago and of holding up a train near Berkeley. Last Saturday night Nottingham and his brother left this city on the 8 o'clock boat and went to Point Richmond. They rode as far as the second station and entered the Manhattan Hotel, their faces concealed by masks. With drawn re- volvers they ordered the proprietor and four other men in the place to throw up their hands, and when this request was complied with, Walter went through the victims’ pockets and the cash register and took about $200. The thieves then de- parted and started off in the direction of West Berkeley. BATTLE WITH DEPUTIES. Deputy Sheriffs Maitoza and Lindley were called and took up the chase in a buggy. At the corner of San Pablo and { University avenues they met the brothers, #and, knowing them, addressed them. Nelither of the deputies was then aware that they were talking to the highway- men, but after a short conversation George Nottingham suddenly pulled two revolvers from his pocket and commenced firing. The two brothers ran down Uni- versity avenue, shooting as they ran, bul- lets from the deputies’ revolvers flying after them. When the four revolvers en- gaged in the battle had been emptied the ax to the finishing shop. A Regular $1.25 Notting- Sale moving into our new Geary men jumped into the bushes and disap- ! morning. As the scene of his suicide the | a letter to the Coroner beside his body | Y peared. The police in surrounding towns were notified and next morning Walter was captured by Deputy Sheriff Palmer at Martinez. He was on his way from his home in Walnut Creek to Crockett visit his sister when he was taken from the train. He made a complete con- fession. He claimed that his brother had forced him into the act; had threatened to kill him if he did not assist him, and that he did not participate in the battle with the officers. He sald that when the to vrotect himself from bullets, and this TRACED TO THIS CITY. Sherift Veale of Contra Costa County then took up the chase. He came to this city Sunday night and secured the ser- ! vices of Detectives Charles Taylor, | Thomas Ryan and Robert Graham. The | officers were in possession of the name of Nottingham's divorced wife's father and | started to find him in the hope of locating their man there. The name was Thomas Scott and they | believed he resided in the Mission. The sleuths visited many residences and, after | working all night, came upon a barber- | shop at 77 Howard strect, where the | woman, now Mrs. Frank Nelson, was em- | ployed. They had learned that the for- | mer wife was a barber and searched barber-shops until they came upon this one conducted by a Mrs. Dunnigan. There they gleaned all the information they desired of the criminal's relations | with his divorced spouse; also that he | was in the habit of spending much time at her house. Just as the detectives were ready to depart the telephone bell rang and a message came to the proprie- | tress that Nottingham had committed | suicide. The quartet of man-hunters then hur- ried to the Scott residence at 102A Noe street. They found their man dead and the Coroner’s deputies in charge of the body. It was not known who the de- ceased was, as he had traveled under the | alias of George Wells and the case was | put down as one without any extraordin- ary features. As Veale entered, how- | ever, Mrs. Nelson rushed to him and cried that the game was up and that the dead man was the person he wanted. Not- tingham was smooth shaven when he took his life, he having removed his mus- tache to make escape easier. The story of the tragedy as told by Mrs. Nelson follows: MRS. NELSON’S STATEMENT. ried Nev. Nottingham Ji 1001, and fmmediately started to win back my affections. He soon succeeded and then he urged me to desert my husband and return to hi I refused to do so. On March 12 of this year Nelson died of consumption and Notting- ham urged me to remarry him immediately. [ told him that I was willing to be his wife again, but that he must wait for one year and until my period of mourning was up. his entreaties I remained firm, and that n been the condition of affairs since my husband's death. Nottingham, however, slept on a lounge in the kitchen of this house. He came during the evening and left at early morning. He never disrobed, but came In and kissed me good-by every morning. This morning he entered earlier n usual. I asked him the occasion of it and he made some evasive reply. We had spoken but a word or two, when suddenly threw himself on the bed beside me, and, kissing me, osked me to forgive him. I replied that I cer- tainly would if I knew of any fon b had committed. hen said that he was glad, Tut out a candle that was burning, and the next thing that I realized was that he had fired two shots into his breast. His head fell across my arm and his hand, still clutching the weapon, lay over the bed. FATHER HEARS SHOTS. S D e AR AR Y SRR 67 Badha b bt Bl firing began George jumped behind him | | | rest of ‘my life if any violence is used and | statement is true. ! | | | back by her; |1 want you to consider It always | that you were to serve. to | working For a moment I was stified with fear. Thea! While in prison N 1903. SULTAN DEFIES BREAT POWERS Declines to Receive the Russo - Austrian Joint Note. LIVELY MOVE 15 MADE FOR REGENERSHIP Traachery of Forte in Its|Delaware Stockholders Dealing With Bulgaria Is Appirent. e g LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Vienna corre- spondent of the Times explaing the non- publication of the Austro-Russian joint note and the detailed instructions to the Porte, imposing a fuller measure of re~| form In the Balkans, by the fact that the | Sultan flatly declined to receive either | document. The correspondent adds that | both Austria and Russia are now at a | less how to overceme the Sultan’s recal- citrance. Telegraphing from Sofia, a correspond- ent of the Times says there is not yet any intimation that the Turkish Government intends to follow Bulgaria's lead in the demobilization of troops. It is reported | that Turkey Intends to keep to the letter | of her agreement to this end by disband- ' ing troops In some distant part of Asia Minor. | SALONICA, Oct. 19.—Hilmi Pasha tele- | graphs that the leader of the Insurrection- ary band killed In a recent engagement near Florina was Stephen Petroff, not | Boris Sarafoff. Petroff was the soul of | the insurrection. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 19—In con- sequence of the understanding arrived at between Turkey and Bulgaria, the latter, it Is stated here, has ordered the disband- ment of 10,000 troops now on the frontiér. Turkey must now, in accordance with the | agreement, disband 20,000 of her troops. L e e e ol my father, who had heard the shots, rushed in and lighted the gas. In the meantime I had knocked the gun from his dead hand, fearing that it might explode. My father picked it up | and placed it on the bureau. This was shortly after & o'clock, and for a time we discussed what we had best do. At length we sent for the Coroner, and soon after his arrival the police came. 1 knew what they wanted and that they were after him. He'dld not discuss the case with as 1 did not see him after 10 ; o'clock the previous evening. 1 left him on | the lounge at that time and do not know what he aid or where he went afterward. Mrs. E. W. Elvins was also sleeping in | the room where the tragely cceurrad. she | occupied a small cot. At the time Not- | tingham entered Mrs. Elvins says she was asleep and did not hear anything that passed between the couple previous to the shooting. She was awakened by the ghots, but, like Mrs, Nelson, was . too | frightened to do anything until after Scott had entered and lighted the gas. Nottingham's relations with his former wife and his efforts to wed her again is | best told in the following letter written by the woman to him when he was at | Point Richmond: | WOODBRIDGE, Nov. 14, 1902 | My Dear Georgle: I really don’t know how | to start about answering your lette., but I| shall try my best to make vyou understand | how I feel on that subject. You all want me | to leave my husband and say that he abuses | me, but I haven't yet found a sufficient cause | for doing £0. Of course there were {imes When | 1 have wanted to do something that I knew | he would oppose very much, and we would have some very warm words over it. But, in the end, instead of holding out, he has turnéd | around and. given consent to everything I have | wanted so .far, and, as for leaving home, I, knew and he knew that to remain in San Fran- clsco meant death in a very short time. He could not stand that climate, and felt if he could only go away for a littlé while he would | be better. Now, Georgle, try to understand | how It would be to be placed in my position. | I married this man of my own free will, and | at that time thought 1 was doing the best, d when he found that he would have to leave there or die was it not my place to go with | him? | If I had insisted upon staying there and he | should have died I should always have felt | as if 1 had almest killed him myselt. I do | cot want to go through life with that feel- | ing hanging over me all the time, and, ' Georgle, neither do I want any one else to ever have the same fecling. 1 know and appre- | cla‘e the motive that prompts you and others | to send me the (almost offer) that you did, but, Georgle, I cannot have other people suf- | fer such things for me. Georgie, remember | there is one year yet remaining to the eight | There may be many | things happen In that y Do you remember | one day last summer I ‘® yOou one reasol | for my wishing to g0 to Woodland, = Well, the | last of the next weeks if nothing happens, we | 80 thece, and my eyes and my ears shall | always be open and don’t forget I shall make | everything count, but I must have cause be- fore I can do what you all wish me to do. | Now, Georgie, try to be patient. I shall dc all I can, but everything must be done in my own way or 1 shall never be contented the rene shall be used unless it s a necessity, absolute | and when that time comes no one | can heln me but you, if you are then willing. | Remember, when I make a change everybody | will respect me and no one will be able to | look down on me for what I've done. We will | g0 to Woodland first, then in a little while we shall be in San Francisco for supplies, Per- | haps I shall be able to see you. If you can | manage to be in the city some weekday I may | be able to go to lunch with you. Would you | like it, Georzie, or would you rather not? confess T should Ifke to very much, | Now, Georgle, 1 am going to close. T hope | you Will then begin to see things the way | 1 do, but I don't know whether I am right | or not. 1 am trying so hard to do what I! think 1 ought to, but it 1s so hard to know | what to do sometimes. I think the best way | out of it, since I've got myrelf into such a | box, is for me to take something and go to sleep and forget to wake up. Then every- | thing would come out straight. But that s | silly of me, I know, so I won't think of it. Mrs. P. will be In the city again the first of next week. If you get this in time write if not, wait until you hear from me again, as I might not be here when you get a chance to answer. Georgle, try still to have kind thoughts of me, aithough I cannot bring myself to jump right up and do as you wish. Think kindly, dear, of your little girl. Among the dead man’'s effects were found many of these epistles. At the , time this was written Mrs. Nelson was away from this city with| her husband, who was in quest of health. Excerpts from other letters follow: ' MORE TENDER EPISTLES. I do not want you to worry about me, be- cause I shall be careful and I shall write to you every chance I get and tell you just how everything And, dear, whenever you come 1o town, please come to see mamma and papa. ,your home when _in town; will you, dear? 1 may have something to tell you the next time 1 see you, that is, if things remain as they are at present. * ¢ Dear, enjoy yourself as much as you can in that way. Your time may be shorter than you think. ¢ ¢ « My Own Dear Boy: I hardly know what to say to you after reading your letter. I know it s very, very wrong in me to expect.you to =it down and quietly wait until God kindly re- moves an object from our path, but as sure there is a sun in the heavens, no man will ev call me wife but the one that took me when 1 was 18. Yon asked me, dear, so that is my answer, although I promised something of the same Kkind years ago and broke my promise. { can hardly expect you to put any trust in this one, but still I am older now and know_what 1 should havé known years ago. * * * WAS A DRUG “FIEND.” Nottingham’s first offense was the rob- bery of the railroad ofilce at Walnut Creek in 1885. In company with a man named Jones he held up the agent with a revolver and secured $43. He came to this city with this money for the purpo: of marrying Hattie Scott, then 18 years old. Soon after the ceremony had been performed he was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted. Since his release he worked at various places In Contra Costa and Alameda countles and for the last three weeks was employed as a riveter on the new Fairmount Hotel. For the last seven months he pald Mrs. Nelson about $12 per week for her living expenses and although he kept a room in the Hancock House with brother he slept at his divorced wife's house. His brother states that he came home every evening after work, changed his clothes and left. He returned early each morning, put on his clothes and went to work. ottingnam “acquired i | Follow Chancelior Nicholson | court in the State, ! overtake the Chancellor and express | precedence. of Defunct Bank Are Not Napping. to Sea to Get His Signa- ture to Papers. S Will Ask Him to Appoint Official to Handle Affairs of the Interna- BRIDGE BUILDERS HURLED T0 DEATH Breaking Crane Throws Them Into Monon- gahela River. Ten Workmen Are Killed and Five Others Receive Se- rious Irjuries. PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 19—By the breaking of the ropes carrying five beams to their position, letting many tons of fron fall upon the movable crane at the Pittsburg end of the Wabash bridge beirg built by the American Bridge Company over the Monongahela River, almost a dozen workmen were hurled to death by a fall of more than 10 feet, | striking the water and two barges be- tional Trust Company in Mexico. g, | Several bodies | wrecked barges. DOVER, Del, Oct. 19.—The insolvency | of the International Bank and Trust Company of America at the City of Mex- | fco, which is a corporation of the State | of Delaware, and which was recently given authority to increase its capital | stock to $5,000,000, caused, to-night, one| of the most remarkable dashes for a re-| celvership ever known here. A number | of those Interested in the big company | who are opposed to the receivership and | also opposed to the selection of Don Jacinto Patteres, a lawyer, as receiver, | gathered here to-night with the object of obtaining the judgment of the highest which created the company. i Those present were: Charles L. Phillips, | vice president of the company; Joseph G. Dean of New York, a director; James Walcott, a lawyer of Dover, another di- rector; former Governor William T. Wat- | son, also a director; Henry Ridgely, spe- clal counsel for Herbert Compton, a stockholder, and Willlam Gooding, spe- clal counsel for the company. An application to Chancellor Nicholson was hurriedly drawn up, praying him to appoint a recelver who could go into Mexico and elsewhere and take charge of the company’s assets. Later the party hurried aboard a Dela- ware Rallroad train for Lewes, and there continued their search for Chancellor | Nicholson by boat, the Chancellor having gone out on a trip from the Delaware breakwater on the pllot boat Philadel- phia. The members of the party expect to the | bellef that they will get a receivership | te-night. They claim that because this is | | a corporation of the State of Delaware the action of the Chancellor will take | Herbert Compton, a stock- bolder, directly makes the application to Chancellor Nicholson on the ground of | insolvency. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Miner to-day began an in- vestigation into the affairs of the Inter- national Bank and Trust Company, a concern incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, with a capitaliza- tion of $12,000,000, Thus far $1,800,000 of | stock has been issued. The company does business principally in Mexico, where it has seven branches. Its of- fices in this city were in Wall elreeh‘ The officers are Willlam H. Hunt, presi- | dent; Charles L. Phillips, first vice presi- | dent, and John H. Maugham, second | vice president. | On Saturday last the concern failed. | It was then learned that $36,000 of the firm’s notes were protested here, and it was then charged that the company had been doing a banking business in this | State without having filed a certificate with the State Banking Department. | Miner announced that he would exam- ine the officials. Speaking of the announcement of his name as one of the directors of the in- | solvent International Bank and Trust| Company, Willlam Astor Chanler said | this afternoon that in March last he | withdrew from the company, and pub- lic announcement was made that he had | ceased to be elther a director or a stock- | holder. RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE. | Seattle Branch of an Eastern Bank- | ing Concern Closes Doors. i SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 19.—The Seattle | branch of the International Bank and | Trust Company of America. which fafled | Saturday, has closed its doors and 1s in charge of a recelver. The assets of the local bank are given at $87,000 and the lia- bilities at $95,000. Seattlé customers, it is stated, will receive over % per cent of thelr deposits. Cashier M. D. Barnes, as late as Satur- day, refused to homor a draft from the | Mexican branch for between 325,000 and | $20,000, although peremptorily ordered to do so. Barnes was ordered by wire yes- | © it @ the morphine habit and was a confirmed “fiend.”” This accounts for the statements made in a note he left addressed to the Coroner, which follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Oect. 18, 1903. Coroner—Dear Sir: To the best of my recol- lection I was dosed Saturday evening, and during that state must have committed some awful deed, because I have a faint recollec- tion of shooting at_some one who was trying to stand me up. The thought of killing any one is too great for me. At present I am un- der the influence of that horrible drug, what- ever it was. Yours respectfully, 1 WILLIAM WELLS. | Please notify W. C. French, 927 Mission street, and Mrs. H. M. Nottingham, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County. On the back of a raffle ticket that was found in his pocket Nottingham wrote the | following note: ! My brother was 1 was crazy | and forced him. BILL. HAD BAD REPUTATION. It appears that all who knew Notting- ham feared him. His brother expressed fear for him, and Mrs. Nelson says she never felt secure. It was found by the| detectives that the man had on many oc- | casions threatened the woman's life. He spoke of taking her with him when he went, and also of taking a couple of po-| lcemen. No signs of insanity, however, were | manifest to those who were employed with him and his past career was unknown to all save his assoclates, as he traveled ; under the name of Wells. He was 31/ years of age and his home was in Wal- nut Creek, where his father, C. B. Not- tingham; his mother, three sisters and | four brothers reside on a small farm. He | was considered a bad character and in the region where he was raised few peo- ple had any use for him. Detectives Taylor, Ryan and Graham are positive that Nottingham and his | | | innocent. brother committed the several robberies| YO in saloons in this city. Their descriptions tally with those given by the victims of the robbers and the manner of work in all cases on both sides of the bay is the same. In his pockets were found news- | paper clippings of all these crimes. The Oakland authorities aiso say that the | brothers are responsible for many crimes | in that city and crimes committed in! other places are attributed to them. | There will be no effort made, however, | to try Walter Nottingham for crimes committed in this city until after the conclusion of the Point Richmond case. | and discounts, $7827°29 in e and | Our home is a different neath. Ten of the dead have been recov- ered. Five men were seriously injured. are yet burled in the The part of the bridge extending out over the river from the Water-street side is a total wreck. The dead: EDWARD MORRIS. JAMES SIMMONS. W. J. McCLOUD. GEORGE WELLS. G. W. KEITLINGER. WILLIAM KEMPTON. C. L. FLEMING. FREDERICK SALLINGER. FRANK DALBY. J. CAMPBELL. The injured: Adolph Vosburg of Du- quesne; Frank Hoover of Allegheny, re- covery doubtful: Willlam Jay of Beaver Falls; A. M. Fowler of Paterson, N. J.; Earl Crider, Allegheny, injured in the head. Deputy Coroner L. C. Huchel believes the blame rests on whoever was In charge of the fastening of the I beam. He says a failure to properly secure onme derrick load caused the breaking strain to fall on the crane. The accident was caused by the giving way of a two-inch steel cable which was used as one of the guys to support the big crane. This cable was tested to bear a strain of 100 tons_and it is said that it did not break, but pulled loose from its fastenings. There were thirty-four men at work the superstructure of the bridge and the barge below, from which the beam were being hoisted by the crane, 175 feet above the river level, when the booms Of the men who were in the scaped h their lives by jumping into the river the moment they heard the crash above. Some of the men on the superstructure who were engaged n collapsed in riveting and handling the bars that were lifted from the barge also got off uninjured, Arranging Mass-Meeting. The Austrian-Slavonian-American Re- publican Club held a meeting in Austrian Hall last night and made preparations to hold a mass-meeting in Apollo Hall some time this month. President B. M. Burin appointed P. C. Medovich, M. Saba- din, V. Liecich, L. ‘Odovich and Nick Bore a committes of arrangements. The club is working to elect Henry J. Crocker. —_——— There are 4702 lawyers in Chicago. The increase in their number during the last twelvemonth was 320. L o e e e e manager of the bank, Otto Otterson, left for New York last Wednesday. LOCAL MEN ESCAPE LOSS. Bank Examiners Take Charge of Branch in This City. The San Francisco branch of the Mter- national Bank and Trust Company was taken possession of yesterday by the State Bank Commissioners =nd the vaults sealed up pending the resuits of an Inves- tigation now being conducted in New York. About six months ago a branch of the company was established in this ecity at 412 Montgomery street, under the manage- ment of W. H. Hunt, president; J. H. Manghan, vice president; J. O. Rice, treasurer, and W. R. Morris, secretary. An examination by the Bank Commission- ers developed the fact that the total la- bilitles of the institution here are $53,- 797 13, of which $40,367 17 is due depositors and $13,212 85 is due banks. Against this a balance is shown of 320,064 49 in loans h and $18,- 821 §5 due from other banks. ‘The business of the local institution was small and no one in this city will sustain any considerable loss. ADVERTIiSEMENTS. Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice-Pres- ident Milwaukee, Wis., Business Woman’s Association, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound. “ DEAR Mgs. PrNxmax : — I was mar- ried for several yearsand no children blessed my home. The doctor said I had a complication of female troubles could not have any children un- could be cured. He tried to cure le Com; he went out t a bottle for me. 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