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Show SECTIONAL FEELING IN WESTERN UNION CoL dowry -Is Suplpanted by C A. Tinker as President of the Telegraph Tele-graph Company. CHICAGO. June It R. C CI o wry has been aupplanted by C. A. Tinker ss president presi-dent of the Western Union Telegraph company, com-pany, according to reports from New York on 'change. The action in deposing dowry, dow-ry, it Is said, waa taken lata Thursday Thurs-day at a meeting of thi directors of tha telegraph company in New York. Tinker was superintendent of one of the Eastern divisions snd st one time ranked as general gen-eral manager of the company. Col. Oowry's removal. If such It be. Is said to be due to sectional feeling between the factions In control of the Western Union. Clowry Is a Chicago man and has been supplanting th heads of. tha different dif-ferent Eastern divisions with Western men. Tela roused the ire of the Eastern directors snd it is said that Clory was called to account for it but protested that the moves were made for tha good of the -service. . . Tlnk-Jr Is said to be extremely populsr with the powers that be in tha Eastern division of tha company. Over the long-distance telephone last night Clowry denied the report that he had been deposed, snd'descrlbed the story as to ridiculous to notice. |