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Chicago—Stockholders of the Illinois
Central railroad company were given
a lively half hour at their annual meet­
ing through the efforts o f Attorney
Maxwell Edgar.
Holders representing 784.866 shares
of stock were present. Mr. Edgar ar­
rived, armed with proxies for 60
shares, which enabled him to take part
in the meeting.
He was accompanied
by two deputy sheriffs, who added to
the confusion by serving subpoenas on
the various directors in every lull in
the meeting.
The subpoenas were in a suit for
$10,000,000 damages, which Mr. Ed­
gar, constituting himself an attorney
for the road, started in the Circuit
court when he filed a praecipe in the
case. The defendants to the suit are
directors of the road whom Edgar
seeks to hold responsible for alleged
financial loss through
car repair
“ graft,” general mismanagement and
alleged rebating.
While the two deputies were making
things interesting in the meeting, half
a dozen others guarded exits from the
Park Row building, Mr. Edgar fear­
ing that some o f the directors might
attempt to evade service.
This pre­
caution proved superfluous.
Three resolutions were introduced by
the militant attorney.
All were lost
by overwhelming votes. He denounced
the present management o f the road,
made the charge chat its directors are
incompetent and that its financial
statements are juggled, and that its
officials are dishonest and violating the
interstate commerce law.
His first resolution,^ as in support of
these charges and called for an inde­
pendent investigation o f the board by
a committee o f prominent stockhold­
ers. He was voted down.
A second
resolution demanded that all directors
who were not residents o f Illinois be
ousted on the ground that the constitu­
tion of the state prohibits the present
proportion of outsiders on the board.
This resolution was voted down with­
out the formality of a roll call.
On his third and last attempt Mr.
Edgar proposed a resolution asking
that suit be brought against [James T.
Harahan, president of the road, and
the estate o f the late Ira G. Rawn,
who was vice president before the car
repair scandal came to light, on
charges of gross neglect, criminal lax­
ity and culpable negigence.
This res­
olution was buried under another aval­
anche o f contrary votes.
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Key West, Fla., O ct 20.—Three ves­
sels sunk, one steamer ashore and an­
other disabled is a total of the d’ aasters
to shipping in the tropical hurricane
which swept the West Indies and the
southern section o f the United States
reported here.
Several lighthouses
along the* coast have been reported
dark.
Here and at St. Augustine the storm
is abating, but no word has been re­
ceived from other places and condi­
tions are not known. This city has not
been in communication with Southern
Florida points for three days. Much
anxiety is felt about Miami.
The
wind was still blowing 75 miles an
hour there today, but the barometer
was rising.
Early this morning the sloop Frolic
was dashed to pieces against the sea
wall and a power launch was sunk, but
no lives were lost.
The Norwegian steamer Fos, from
Port Tampa, October 12, for Europe,
via Norfolk, is ashore off Doca Grande
island. Her crew o f 18 has arrived
here. The American steamer Herman
Fraach, from New York, for Sabine,
Tex., is disabled off Alligator Key
lighthouse.
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Arizonans Would Be Radical.
Phoenix, Ari*.— Making up for time
lost in getting ready for business, del­
egates in the constitutional convention
introduced 28 proposals. One o f these
would render all public offices subject
to recall. Two provide drastic incor­
poration regulations designed to curb
Letter Heads. Envelopes,
trust combinations and stop the thriv­
Business Cards, Calling
ing trade in Arisona charters. Others
will limit the number o f bills intro­
Cards, Statements, Bill
duced in the legislature and restrict
Heads, Circulars, and the railroad commission o f the new
state to five members, who would not
lything else that can be pro- have free transportation.
The Press Prints
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T h re e R a c e r * H a v e D r o p p e d in L a k e s
o r in C a n a d ia n W ild s.
SL Louis, Oct. 22.—Relief expedi­
tions to search for the pilots andjaides
of the three missing balloons, Azurea,
Düsseldorf II and America II, which
started in the international race here,
will be started^from Toronto tomorrow
if no news is received from the aero­
nauts before that time.
This an­
nouncement was made tonight by offi­
cials of the Aero club o f St. Louis.
The situation in reference to the un­
reported balloons assumed a most ser­
ious aspect tonight.
It is believed
here that the men have landed some­
where in the wilds o f Canada, where
they may be the victims o f starvation
before succor can reach themmm.
The German balloon Germania, Cap­
tain Hugo von Abercron, pilot, and
August Blankertz,.aide, landed at Coo-
coocaah, Quebec, 179 miles north of
Quebec, Wednesday morning. This is
approximately 1,195 jmiles and may
mean that all world’s records have
been broken.
The Aero Club tonight called upon
General James Allen, chief of the
United States Signal corps at Wash­
ington, D. C., to have the revenue
cutters patroling the Great Lakes look
for wreckage in Lake Huron.
Steam­
ship companies which have vessels ply­
ing Lake Huron and Georgian Bay
have been requested to join in the
search.
Th* Ontario government, through its
lieutenant governor, J. M. Gibson, to­
night notified the club that it would
assist in the search for the missing
men. The Hudson Bay company also
has replied favorably to the request for
assistance sent from here today.
It was announced tonight that a rep­
resentative of the Aero Club would be
sent to Toronto to organize the relief
expeditions.
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Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 22. — Only!
the disasters at sea remain to be count­
ed in obtaining complete reports of the j
damage done by the great hurricane
which swept this state early this week.
Although wire and rail communication
has not been restored to many cities |
in the state, including Miami and Key
West, all points for which ^ears were !
entertained have been heard from and
all weathered the big blow in fairly
good shape.
Thirteen drowned in shipwrecks is
the most authentic count at hand, in­
cluding those reported on both coasts
o f Florida.
Word came from St. Augustine that
three dead had been found in the wreck
of an unidentified four-masted schooner
near Detray.
The missing total at least 50, in­
cluding the crew of nine on the oil
barge Dallas, which broke adrift from
her tow in 100-mile blow.
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Philadelphia — Excitement over the
world’s series between the Chicago
Nationals and the Philadelphia Amer­
icans, it is said, was the cause o f sui­
cide o f Frank Ayers, 15 years old.
Ayers was a delivery boy in a depart­
ment store, and when he was refused
permission to absent himself to see the
game here, the boy gave up his posi­
tion. When his parents learned that
the lad had quit work, the boy was
sent to bed without his supper. Later,
| he was found hanging to a balustrade,
having used a sheet for a noose.
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Noank, Conn.— When the auxiliary
! fishing achooner Ada Bell put in here j
I the crew told of a narrow escape they I
| had, o f being hit by the equiiibrator of |
the Wellman airship. Captain Chria-
tophaen said that they were fishing Jnn I
Nantucket shoals when a large dark
object appeared, which they took to be I
a heavy bank of fog.
As the object
approached, however, they saw some !
thing bumping along on top of the wa­
ter, and the motor was started just in
time to get the boat out of the way as
the airship passed.
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of New York’ s moat famous hotels,
was thrown into bankruptcy.
Judge I
Bolt, in the Federal court, appointed a
receiver with authority to continue!
business, and it was said that the
whole matter soon would be adjust« d
by a reorganization.
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