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Show COLONEL REIFf,. OIICE PUNT IN WALL STREET, DIES ! ai i Was Friend of Morgan and Opponent of Jay Gould. KBW YORK. March 1. Colonel Joseph C. Retff, a weU . known figure la Wall street, who twenty-five years ago waa one of the chief opponent of Jay OouM. la dead hero at tb homo ot a relative. He wa 74 years oM. He bad been IU of pneumonia only a fw day. ' Mr. RelS waa a central figure In many campaigns waged against Jay OouM and hie eaeoclatee. He waa aa Intimate friend of J. Fterpont Morgan. Colonel He I IT. waa born tn Norrletown. Pa., He eervod through the civil war In a Penneylvanla regiment end after Ite ctoee he became the financial agent of the Kaeaaa Pacific railroad, which eubae-quentlg eubae-quentlg waa absorbed by the Untoo, Ve- The business antagonism between Colonel Colo-nel Relff and Mr. Gould reached Ire climax tn 1IH7. when the former protested eaalnat the Indreaoe tn etock of the Western Union and finally brouaht an Injunction eult to restrain tha leaue. He Wee aleo the principal la eeveral other eulta against the Ooukla, oke most famous of which waa that to recover paymente of the quanru-plex quanru-plex patente from the Wee tern Union oompany. which waa decided Anally only a fortnight ego. Altnouah Colonel RelS had retired from active busineee eeveral jreere ago, be waa Mill president of the American Copper company and the British Columbia Copper Cop-per oompany. He wee a bachelor and la survived by two brothers, one of whom Uvea ta Art sons and the other la Indiana. |