Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 26, 1909, Page 1

“ TERY SOLVED Took His Wife to the Woods Near Islip and Shot Her Eighteen Months Ago THE MURDERER’S SIGNED CONFESSION Anna Luther, whose ‘k:leton was Found a Week Ago was but One of zeveral Women whom Freder.ck Gebhardt Married— [hrilling Details of ths Tracking by Detectives of the Slayer to His Home in / storia. New York, Oet. 25—A year and a half ago a girl was murdercd in forsaken patch of woodland near Islip, Long Island; a week ago the crime was discovered when her bleached and charred skeleton was found with noth- ing to indicate its identity but her jewelry and a bill of sale from a Ger- man shop; three days later, through the police of Hamburg, Germany, her identity was established as Anna Lu- ther, though the cables first carried | the name as Latter; last night her husband, Frederick Gebhardt, wa: caught in Astoria, L. L, and tonight he confessed over his signature that he is the murderer. The Confession in Full. The confession is as follow: “About December, 1907, I first met Anna Luther. We were married in Feoruary, 1908, and went to Europe to live. We returned April 6, 1908. She went to Henry Wertupp’ Newark., N. J., to spend a day or two. On the pretense that 1 was going to rent an apartment for us to live in, I returned to my home and wife in Astoria. ‘I met Anna again on April 8, in Newark, and we went to an address in Thirty-fourth street, New York, and then to Jamaica, L. We stayed at Jamaica until next day “April 9 we went to Bayshore and we walked about, and I Showed her some property. 1 got into an argu- ment with her about some money mat- ters and I turned away and wanted to g0 back, She followed me up, scream- img, and T-shot her in the head. 1 did not' look at her, and do not remember whether I shot her more than once. “Immediately after, 1 went to the Islip depot and took # train for home. It was nearly dark. On the way home on the train I threw the revolver out of the car window. Why He Shot Anna Luther. “I want to state that I did not kill Anna_Luther for her money as the newspapers have stated. My original reason for marrying Anna was that I did not care to live with my first wife eny longer, but as she—my first wife— had given me a child, my desire to again see my ¢hild caused me to want to get rid of Anna Luther and return to_my first wife and child. “This i# the reason why I shot An- Vria Luther, and I told her in Bay- v shore that 1 was married and had a wife and child and must leave her. “She screamed and ran after me, and kissed me, and wanted me back, and 1 shot her. / “This confession is made of my own free will, without any hope of recom- pense being offered me.” Admits Committing Bigamy. From the time of his arrest last night until he broke down under the questions of the detectives, Gebhardt, though admitting that he committed bigamy when he married Anna Luther, denied consistently all knowledge of her death. “How about this letter?” sked Coroner Savage, and he began 0 read a note mailed last night to the German consul and signed Otto Muel- fer, the name under which Gebhardt was known when he married the Lu- ther girl. CROKER NOT COMING TO AS8IST BANKER MORSE. Report That ex-Tammany Chieft: Errand Was to Aid lce Man Denied. New York, Oct. 25.—Richard Cro- er's unexpectedly early trip to the 'nited States this fall is not in re- to a call for aid from Charles Wfl'le. according to Mr. Morse imeelf. The former banker, a restive ut hopeful prisoner in the Tombs, was asked today if it was true thaf Mr. Croker, as had beem stated, was hurrying to the country to aid him 4n his it for release. “Not a word of truth iin it” was the note which Mr. Morse pe ciled on the bottom -of the written query. Jt had been asserted that Mr. Croker i ly instrumental in the secur- ing ot which the banker was released from the Tombs while his former appeal was pending and that Croker's aid had been again re- quired. Morse’s counsel is now pr paring an appeal to the United States supreme court, pending the gecision on which the banker hopes again to wecure his liberty and resume the work of his financial rehabilitation. TALK OF CURTAILMENT IN NEW ENGLAND MILLS. Betwsen Nine and Ten Millien Spind Wwill Affected. Boston, Oct. 25.—The official, of the Arkwright club reported today that cotton manufaeturers in New England representing several million spindles have expressed their intention of fol- doving out the club’s suggestions for a cu ent equivalent to 224 hours between Nov. Tst and August next. It was also stated that while some of ¢he mills might not curtail unless there were general action on the part of a lurze majority, many other mill trea: urers have announced that they will close their factories regardless of what action others mey take. Assurances have been reeeived, it is #aid, from mills in New York state that they will follow the example of the New BEngland mills. 1¢ the other mills .includéd in th: Arkwright club join in_the mévemen between nine and ten million spindies will be affected. Boston and Australia Regular Steam- ship- Service. Boston, Oct. 25.—The establishment within a: short time of a regular ser- vice between this city and Australia by the Deutsch-Australin Steamship company of Hamburg was announced through (he chamber of commerce to- day. It js expected that a monthly service will be maintained and that the trig’ from Australla to Boston will Ve made inside of Aty days Two Missing Bridgeport Girls Located New Huven, Oct. 25—Missing from their homes in Bridgeport for the past two weeks, Florenge Clark and Hizel . each 16 vears old, were Joéal police here today a | | Wrote Fatal Letter to German Consul. “I am the husband,” it ran, “with- out doubt of the woman, Anna Muel- ler. After we arrived in New York from Germany, in_April of last vear, we stayed in New York ten days. Then v, went to Florida for the health of my Wi aand settled there for the time being. “In Jamaica, where I formerly lived | with my wife, she had received a vis- | itor whom she represented to me to | be a Mr. Bradiey of Denver. From Florida we went to Denver, and tiis Mr. Bradley called again.' in Sep- tembor, 1908, my wife disappeared, ofter 1 reproached her for seeing Brad- ley when 1 happened to be away for two days. “This man, Bradley, is about six feet high, with light hair, smooth face, and claims to be a real estat nt. 1, | Mueller, will at once go to Germany to see my parents-in-law and will then be at your service.” T he same inexplicable impuise which prompted. Gebhardt to write this fatal letter had led him to give to Bradley, who does mot exist outside his own imagination, his own jlersonal descrip- tion. As soon ax he saw the letter | again his jaw dropped, he grew white and began to shiver, and before the | reading was compléted. exclaimed: “Oh, what's the use, anyway?” You { have me, and I might as well own I killegfl her.” X “l Had to Get Rid of Her.” Given verbally, the confession as re- lated was even more shocklngly brutal, the police say, than it appears in the formal language of the police officers, hose version Gebhardt signed. T had to get rid of her” he said, “put I did not mean to kill her. I thought first I could get her to give' me some money for land I didn't own. So I ‘took her down to Long Island, near some lots T did own, to let her see the land. She would not come to terms, and I told her then that I was Lalready married and had a child I lov- ed; that I was tived of her and wanted to go back to my wife. “She began to cry and plead and scream and. rup about. She told me she loved me &nd kissed me. As she put up her face to kiss me again, I shot har in the head.” How the Detectives Found His Home. Gebhardt teld the police he mever thought it “worth while” to go back to bury her. Instead he wrote let- ters fo her friends in . Newark and Germany, telling them that Anna was | in poor health, and hid gone to Flor- | ida. Then bothering about her, Gebhardt, when he was in Germany, bought two German police dogs, and it was by tracing the dogs that the detectives found his home in Astoria. While . a newspaper photographer chanced a flashlight at the dogs, the flare revealed the pale face of Geb- hardt peering from the, chinks of an outhouse. He was fyn down and ar- rested. Search of the house discovered a quantity of household effects and woman's finery marked “A. 1." Geb- hardt had told his wife he bought them at a sale of unclaimed trunks in Germany. ~ - he quit DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS | LAID TO LABOR UNIONS. Four Buildings in Indianapolis Wreck- ed About Midnight Sunday. Indiznapolis, Ind, Oct. 25.—Four buildings in different parts of the city were wrecked late last night by~ ex- plosions of dynamite caused, according | to the police, by malicious members | of labor unions employed by Albert Von Speckelson, a_contractor, in the constructign of a Mystic Shrine temple | and theater. The four explosion occurred about midnight, and it was not discovered - that more than two build- ings had been damaged. Two auto- | mobiles and tiwo horses were destroyed | in the explosion and fire in Von Speckelson’s _stable. A branch e change building undes construction by him was damaged beyond repair. Von Speckelson’s planing mill was torn to pleces. A branch of the public libra- ry, being built by Von Speckelson,was damaged to the extent of $1.000. During the fire at Von Speckelson’s home a fine horse, a pet of the family, staggered out cf the stable, horribly | burned, and whs shot by a policeman. | Small bufldings surrounding those destroyed were damaged. ________ | PIE STRIKE LEADS TO SHOOTING Employe of New York Health Depart- | ment Hit by Bullet d at Strikers. | New York, Oct. 25.—A shooting af- fray. in which oné man was serfously wounded and several strike rested, was the result of conditions on the -lower East Side, where the pie bakers are on strike. Pefer Cahill, an employe of the health department, was accidentally dropped hy—a hullet fired at three strikers by a special polices n employed by one of the large pie-baking concerns to protect its non-union men. The strikers had | attacked him, the policeman said. They | were afierwards arrested. were ar- | SCHLATTER'S BODY IDENTIFIED By a Brother Who Had Not Seen Him for 35 Years. Hastings, Neb,, Oct. 25—Hector Mc- Lean of Brush. Col, a brother of the late Charles McLean (Schlatter), ar- rived here today wtih pictures of his brother at the ages of 30, 40 and 0. Compared with the features of the dead man they revealed his identity. MeLea for Regular Collegiate Course at Age of 79. Colunbusg Qut. 25—Ars. A, Dl Winship of sine, Wis, although | nearig her 79th Lithday, has eatered Oblo State university for the regular collegiate course. the last two yefys she atlended summer school at ihe universit pecial studies: She will;atud logy and liter- { the alley i brought out two more | of a creek farther on-and he sald to | with me. { not to worry about a bill T owed him. Newnutle, Eng., Oct. 25—Jim Mah- er of Philadelphia was beaten here to- night by a local pugilist named Lan- caster in the seventh round of what was scheduled to be a twenty round | contest. e Bogton, Oct. 25.—Reinhold Sydov, minfster of commerce, today author- ized the statement that the German government has not as yet decided what it will do regarding the control of the potash industry Paris, Oct. 25.—At a stormy session of the ‘eity ‘council today the recom- mendation of a special committee that a street be named after Ferrer and that his grandchildren be educated a. the expense of the municipality s Jected by a, vote of 34 to 10. The committee thereupon resigned, _St. Petersburg, Oct. -25.—Nicholas Yushievitch-Krasskovsky, formerly a leader of the League of Russian People, and his alleged tool, a workman named Lerishkin, were ~convicted at Terioki, Finland, today of complicity i the murder of Deputy Hertzenstein and sentenced each to a minimum of X years' jmprisonmen Wronke, Prussia, Oct. 25.—T. St. John Gaffney, the ~American consul general at Dresden, landed here last night atter a successful balloon flight of approximately 160 miles from Dres- den. Mr. Gaffgey was accompanied by Captain yon Funke. and the flight was a trial trip for the Heyden, the new balloon of the Saxon Air Navigation dub, London, Oct. 23.—Major the Honor- able J. Beresford of the Seventh Hus- sars and Lieutenants M. Graham of- the Sixteenth Lancers and T. G. Hether- ington of the Eighteenth Hussars will sail tomorrow for New York, where they will participate in the jumping contests of the national horse show at Madison Square Garden. It will be the first time that British officers have competed in the United States, though the three named appeared at the inter- national horse show at Olympia. ~ DR. FRITCH HELD ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER In Connection With Death of Miss Maybelle Miliman. Detroit. Mich., Oct. After Joseph W. Leach, a chauffeur, had testifled in police court this afternoon that on-the night of Aug. 27th he drove Dn. George A. Fritch from the physician’s- office to Ecorse creek,where the doctor threw nto the water three sacks which they had taken from. his office, Dr. Fritch was held fa trial in the recorders’ court on the charge of manslaughier in connection with the death of Miss Maybelle Miliman of Ann Arbor. Miss Millman's body was found in three sections in sacks in-Ecorse creek and the lower Detroit river early in September. The police and county physicians say the body -bore evidence that a criminal operation had been per- formed. Dr. Fritch was held in $10,000 with two suréties. Chauffeur Leach today on the stand gave a graphic. recital of the story he told the police about the events of the night of Aug. th which led to Dr. Fritch's. reargest. - Cross. examination tailed to shake his testimony. Leach said he responded . to Dr. Friteh's call for an automcbile early-in | the evening of Ang. 27th; that the doc~ tor told him e was i trouble and needed a friend and asked him' about accessible deep wate “Have you been killing someone: the chauffeur testified he asked Dr. Fritch, “You are not supposed to know an thing,” was the response Leach sai received. They arranged that Leach was to return to the doctor’s office later and drive him down the river. “When 1 called for the doctor about he 9 o'clock,” Leach festified, “he brought out a newspaper package perhaps eighteen inches ‘long and said for me to drive to bis house. We drove Intq behind the doctor's house and under the doctor's direction 1 took half a doven bricks from a pile in the alley and put them -in the automobile. While I was doing this the doctor went into the yard. - He returned without the package and we drove back to his office. We did not remain in front of the office more than ten minutes. Dur- ing this tirge the doctor made two trips up the steps into his officc. First he brought out a sack that was heavy enough to requive him to carry it with both hande. Then he returned and sacks, one in each hand. While he was at {he offic 1 saw him put a revolver in his pocket. AWe drove out Fort street to the West- ern boulevard. They found it impossible to reach the river at the foot of the boulevard and continued out Fort street, Leach testi- fied. They did not stop at the Rouge river bridge, he said, because jt was too light there, and because a watch- man's shanty stood near by. “After ‘we had passed the Rouge,” d Leach, “I told Dr. Fritch T knew drive there. We drove a little distance beyond the bridge that crosses Ecorse creek and the doctor got out and told me to turn around. Then he stood on the side step of the machine while we rode back to the bridge. On the bridge he opened the door of the auto- mobile and threw the ¥acks into the creek. Nothing was said after they were put in the river. The dootor rode back to the city on the front seat “He said if anyone asked me about where I had been I was to say I had taken a party to a roadhouse out Grand River avenue or somewhere eise. “We stopped under a light and the doctor gave me $25. He alvo told me When he told me he had another package to dispose of 1 said I could not get away to atiend to it. On_cross examination Leach testi- fied that while “T mistrusted that there was sonething crooked about the busi- ness. I was willing to do a favor for a friend and did_not think of it at the time as crooked work on my part.” ONE ROBBER STOOD GUARD Whils Another Entersd and Robbed a Saloon and Killed Two Men. Philadelphia, Oect. 25.—A new and surprising solution tc the mysterious killing of two n%n and the wounding of a third in a saloon in Old York | road on September 27 was made public today, when Michael Comporto, who has been under arrest here during the past week, made a confession in which he admits that he kept guard on the outside of the building while Sebas- tiano Dimasse went inside, shot the three men and robbed the cash draw- 3 arrested in Jersey but denied ail rime and. fought extradition, After the shooting James Quinn and Henry Saylor, who had hoth been shot in the stomach, died before they were able to-shed any light on the tragedy. Sold to J. P. & o g CHAS. FOX AND PATRICK NOONAN GET FIVE YEARS. JUDGE DIKE OF BROOKLYH In Passing Sentence Scored the Pris- oners and Hoped That the Lesson Will Discourage Others. New York, Oct. 25.—Judge Dike in the county court, Brooklyn, today, sentenced Charles A. Fox to-not more than five years and not less than two and a half years, and Patrick Noonan to five years In Sing Sing for illegal registration. In sentencing the men, he_said: - You have been convicted of the crime of illegal registration on the eve of a great municipal election. Such a great offense against our Jaws is of peculiar interest. ‘You are t; of the miserable repeaters who, in ‘the past, with - the frightful system’ we know existed, voted or fried to vote in several election districts, and. proba- bly in several. boroughs of the city. What, can the people expect of the ballot when such miserable types as vou nullify its workings? “In -the borough- of Brooklyn it hoped that repeaters will be discou 15’ learn how this aged when your court disposes of such men as you.” NEW YORK WELCOMES MRS, PANKHURST. Large Gathering Meets British Militant Suffragette at Carnegie Hall. New York, Oct. 25.—Rarely if ever has Carnegie hall seen such a gath- ering of women as assembled there to- night, under the auspices of the Equal- ity League 0f Seif Supporting, to weh come Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the British militant suffragette, and to 1 proclaim their own right to vote. On the stage were 79 teachers, 57 women physicians, six women dentists; 49 ‘social workers, 38 trained nurse 120 trade unionists, eight actresses, in cluding Miss Carlotta Neilson and Mrs. B, F. Robertson, 10 musicians, M Anna Peck, the mountain climber, four women civil engingers, 46 business women. 16 authors. including Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Countess De Grammont, three sculptors, one archi- tect, four journalists, including Mrs. Elbert Hubbard, 18 eivil service wom- women lawyers and representa- tives of 13 trades in which women com- pete with me NEW YORK DOCTOR SUFFERING FROM MENTAL STRAIN Be Judge Gaynor Mlevue. Declared Himself —Taken am Judge ¢ 1 have " was the startling an- this afternoon fram. the steps of the. KaickKerbocker Trust Co. in Fifth avenpue. The speaker.’a well- dressed man of about 34, bearing no resemblance to the demoeratic candi- date for may then buttonholed the first man who walked "out of the trust company. “You be my commissioner of the street cleaning department and I'll give you $75.000 a yvear,” he con- tinued. At Bellevue hospital tonight the stranger has been identified as Dr. Louis Fichter of this city, suf- fering from severe mental strain. He offered the policeman who arrested him $30,000 a yecar to be his com- missioner police. TWO BULLETS REMOVED. Condition of Actress Shot at Wash- ington Is Much Improved. nounce; me?‘t ‘Washington, Oct. The condition of Mrs. William H. Short, or Evelyn Howard, the show girl, who was shet three times by her husband yesterday, was reported topight to be much im- proved. Surgeons removed two of the bullets and the young woman rallied immediately after the operation. Tt is believed she will recover rapidly un- less a relapse sets in. ‘The body of her husband, who com- mitted suicide after shooting his wife when she refused to leave the stage and return fo him, s still at (he morgue, unclaimed. Shot His Thirteen-Year-Old Wife and Then Committed Suicide. “Roanoke, Va., Oct. 25.—Following & domestic quarrel. in their home near the Norton Coal company’s mines, in Wise county. this afternoon, Charles Rhinehart fatally shot his thirteen- year-old wife and then killed himself. When the girl wife started to bring a bucket of water from a well, she was shot three (imes:by Rhinehart, all the bulets taking effect in the baeck and coming out just below the breast. Rhinehart then turned the revolver on himself and blew out his brains. It is said Mrs, Rhinehart cannot survive the night. The couple had been mar- ried about a month. Bridgeport Democrats Nominate Gity Ticket. Bridgeport, Oct. 2%.—The democratic convention here tonight passed off smoothly and the foliowing ticket was nominated: Mayor, E. T. Bucking. ham: city clerk, 8. M. Boueher: town clerk. W. M. Thomas; tax collecto J. M. Donneiley; city treasurer, I, W Hall: hoard of education, J. J. Culle- nan and D. H. Monahan. Italian - Pistol Dus! in Crowded New York Street. New York, Oct. 25.—~Two furious Ttalians, qvarreling over matters un. known to the police, drew revolvers fo- and fired point blank at each on a_crowded street when only four fect apart. Both fell, Josepl' Mig- alitizi, fatally wounded in the head, and Angelo Francisco, less dangerous- Iy wounded in the body | Two Women Killed on Way to Revival Meeting. Canton, 0. Oct. 25—While on their way to a religious revival meeting, Mz, Hiram Spyder and Mrs. Mary E. Horting were run down by a street car here fonight and killed, The women passed behind one car to step in front of another. Prominent Connecticut Mason Dead. Milford, Conn., Oct —Henry Da- vidsow, 79 years old, of this place, died suddenly ot aenté fndigestion al the home 0f friends in Ruxbury today. Mr. Davidsol was - prominent in Masonic circles of the. state. \ v Steamship Arrivals. Syndicate. . 25.—John R. Walsh's ature especially. She gays she has theif. homes The girls e )w.l-afd?i;t Teayv- planned a course of, stdy that will keep her occupied e reachcr her 90th birt 1 = were s0ld to a syndi- P. Morgun & com- tonight. The report At Glasgow, Oct. 24: Caledonis, from New York, -t “At Christiaysfhd, Oct. 24: United States. from New York At Jiverpook: Octy 3. Arabic, New York - AT ST. LOUIS AND IN EASTST. Louts, ILL. WATERWAY IMPROVEMENT Jhe Theme on Which President Taft, Speaker-Cannon_and Others Spoke %o Large and Interssted Audiences. St. Louls, Mo., Oct. 25.—Waterway' improvement as a part of a national policy of conservation of the streams, the lands adjoining them and the for- ests at their sources today was the theme of two notable gatherings in St. Louis and in East St. Louis, TIL, in which President Taft, Joseph G. Can- non, speaker of the national house of representatives, and Governor Deneen of Illinols and Governor Hadley of Missouri teok leading parts. Vice President Sherman was also at the East St. Louis meeting, his pres- ence making the occasion perhaps the Airst-that so complete 'a roster of high officers has gathered at any place west of the Alleghenies. Audiences of 100,000. Cabinet members, United States sen- ators and representatives and minis- ters from foreign governments listened to the speeches at one or both of the meétings. Added to these were state and manicipal officers of ‘all degrees and close to one hundred thousand cit- izens who had flocked to the two cities to see and hear their superfor officers. Speeding Down the Mississippi. Tonight the president, the speaker, the diplomats, the legisiators and gev. eral hundred representatives of com- mercial organiations in the Mississippi valley are speeding down the Missis- sippi river aboard a flotilla of paddie- wheel steamers bound for New Or- leans. There they are to assemble with hundreds of others in the annual convention of the Lakes-to-the-Guif Deep Waterway association, whose pet project is the creation of a’ permanent fourteen foot channel in the Mississipp! river from the Illinois river to the Gulf of Mexito. Four Speeches by President. President Taft made four speeches today, but the longest consumed less than half an hour. At breakfast, as a guest of the Cormmercial club of St. Louis, he referred to the part that body took in the inspection of the Panama canal by business ~organiza- tions several years ago, speaking about fifteen minutes, At the Coliseum he discussed water- ways for about twenty-five minutes, but at luncheon , with the Business Men's league of St. Louls and at the East' St. Louls meeting he merely thanked his hearers, using his voice less than five minutes un each occa- sion. President in Fine Trim. *T leff most of my voice in Texas, tried vainly to recover it in Arkansas, and lost what was left of it in Mig- souri,” !g.'t%m his 1llinois auditors. Excep “ his hoarsenese. the presis dent 10bK.in fine trim nd ready for he final laps of his long journéy around the country. SHOT HIS WIFE ON A SOUTH NORWAK STREET Angered Because She Would Not Live With Him. South Norwalk. Conn., Angered because. she ref: to' iis home in Bridgepart with him, James A. Reynold 3 old, shot angd seriously. if mot fatally wounded his wife Acelia, 24 years old on South Main street. here, tonight. Mrs Reynolds left her husband. with whom she had been living in . Bridge- port. a short time ago, and came io the home of her mother here and se- cured work in a local hat factory. Since leaving her mother he had re-, quested her several times to return to him, but had in each case refused. Tonight he met her as she was leav- ing her place of employment and again asked her to return to him and on her refusal drew a revolver and fired six shots at her, four taking effect. One bullet strick her over the right eve, passing through her head, de- stroying the sight of hoth eves: a sec- ond shot struck her right wrist, a third her right arm and the fourth her right breast. Mrs. Reynolds was taken to Memo- rial hospital; where it is thought that she has a silght chance for recovery. though if she does live she will be totally blind. Reynolds walkeds away after shoot- ing his wife and was arrested a chort distance away from the scene of the shooting. He seemed to realize what { he had dome and said that he guecssed it was all up with him. He will be held pending the result of his wife's injuries. o OFFICERS ELECTED. Annual Mesting at Willimantic of the Fields Trials Club. Willimantic. Oct. 25.—At the annual meeting of the Field Trials club here tonignt, a resolution was passed on the th of the late William C. Comstock of Bast Hartford. and five new mem- bers admitted. The entries in the dif- ferent stakes showed tries in the membership stakes 14 fili- [ With 12 filled, and in the all aze 21! of the 24 entries filled. e Phe following officers were electod President, . M. Chapin, Pine River: first vice president. H. .. Wade, Wa- terbury ; s Goodwin, Newburyport. tary-treasurer, H.'A. Baile Mass.; gect New Bri ain. The hoard of governors chesen were as follows: M. Wallace, Farm- ington: L. R. Libby, Hartford; Russell Verkins, Pomfrei: W. New Britain, and ¥. C. field. . Hungerford, Bradley, Fair- T North Carolina Merchant Held Up and Robbed by White Man. ‘Winston-Salem, N. C., Oct. 25.—J. P. ‘Reid, a merchant of this city, was held up near Belo’s pond, in the northern part of the city, early this morning, and robbed by an unknown white man. Reid's assailant shot him twice, one ‘| party e, arid the other in his Jeft side r the heart. - He was removed to a local hospital, where it is stated he will probably die. $10,000 for Home Rule in Irelasd. Boston, Oct. 25, -One of the largest gatheriugs of Irish-Americans ever seen ln Boston coverfiowed Tremout teraple 1night, giving & rousiug recep- ton (o T. B. O'Couner, M. P. a iead- lng member of the Irish naticnalist in the British bouse of com- mon3, cheered to the echo the presence af Capt. Wdward O'Meagher Condon, and wound up-the evening by raising in raxh and plodgak the sum of nearly §:lqt taking effect in his right tem- Aromw | $10.000_for the advanes of the cause ot home rule in'Ireland }at Cornell that of 16 en- | od: in the derby there were 14 entries | a ond viee president, C: A. | _King Manuel of Portugal, who has| been fll. is convalescent. ‘ - . Charles F. Spalding, a prominent Chicago banker, 1o deud. Princeton University has receiitly re- celved gifts aggresatng 541t A Bomb Was Found in the Church of the Irish Dominicans at Lisbon. Nichelas M. Smith died at Mobile from tetanus caused by a bad tooth: It is Reported That Sp: will not push any further its operations in. Mo- Tocco. Ten Thousand Persons Took Part in an anti-clerical demonstration at Bil- bao, Spain. . Hope Booth, the Actress, is lying in a hospital in Genoa, Italy, suffering from nervous breakdown. Henry Charles Lea, widely known as author, banker and sciehtist, died .in Philadelphia, aged 84 years, At M. Meeting in Los Angel resolitions were adopted protesting against the surrender of De Lara to Mexico. The Unveiling of a Statue of Gen. Jose de SaneMartin, the South Ameri- can Wberator, took “place at Boulogne Sur Mer, France. The United States Steei Corporation plans to buy up the breweries in Fay. ette county, Pa., to curb the drinking of, the cokeworker: The Contest Over the Will of Mar- garetta Todd, the éccentric millionaire, who died in New York in -1905, has finally been amicably adjusted. The Revenue Cutter Woodbury saved vessels from collision with a derelict off Sequoin light, on the Maine coast, and towed the derelict to part. A Movement to Raise Funds for a memorial tablet to Prof. Ross G. Mar- vin, who was drowned on the Peary north pole expedition, has been started Wycoff, en- were killed by the blowing it of a firebox on a Cleveland, Cin- cinnati, Chicage and St. Louis freight locomotive. Many Valuable Jewels and expensive shirt waists were found in the trunk of Bessie Lee in Greenwich, Conn. She had worked as laundress for many rich New York families. Charles N. Fowler, chairmen of the house committee on banking, has chal- lenged Senator Aldrich to a joint de- bate on the latter's plan to establish a central bank in this country, Rev. Oscar Haywood, lor of the Collegiate Baptist Chufch of the Covenant, New York city, says that i the Apostle Paul were living today he ;muld be a champion of woman suf- *age. King Alfonsc’s New Cabinet is try- g to quiet the storm aroused by Ferrer's execution, while the other Fovernments of Europe are watching the movements of the more exireme socialists with interest. In a Battle between the revplution— ists and the government troops on_the San Jusn river, below Boca San Cars los. Nicaragua, the former. were vic torious, 100 of the government. troops being killed and 300 wounded. / Unusual Precautions are being taken to protect Emperor Nicholgs on his travels because of the ugitation that followed the execution of Francieco Ferrer, the Spanish educator and re- former. After quitting Italian sofl the of the Russians is to meet M. Pichon, the French foreign minister, on the Ttalian frontler. BARRILL DECLARED HE SCALED MOUNT M'KINLEY Last February He Told Dr. Williams Ho Reached Summit of Peak with Dr. Cook. St. Paul, Oct. 25.—Dr. Henr{ 1. Williams, ceach of the university of Minnesota football team, declares he was told last Febroary by Edwin Barrill that he and Dr. Cook did reach the top of Mount McKinley, Not un- til_vesterday did De. Williams asso ciate his experien.d in the Rec moubtains last February with the con- troversy hetween Cook and Peary. “I am positive that Barrill sald that he and Dr. Cook reached the mountain top,” sald Dr. Williams. “Furthermore, he assured me thaf every word in the story written by Dr. Cook was true and that he and Dr. Cook were the only men that had ever reached the top of Mount MecKin- le: C. B. & Q. ANNUAL REPORT. Operating Revenue $79,414,357; $55,347,759. The annual re- Burlington & Total Operating Exper Chicago, Oet. 23. port of the Chicago, Quincy Railroad Co. for the fiscal year, ending June 20, 1609, shows & total revenue from operation of $78.- 414, total operating expenses of 55,347.759, leaving a net revenue from operation of $24,066.398. ‘The operating expenses show a de- crease of $637,465 as compared with the previous vear, while the revenue stows an increase of $1,582,760, mokt- - maintenance of way account. ninz e e was operated at a loss of § Deducting taxes. interest on bhonds, sinking fund provisions dividends, hetterments, ete.. a surplus of “$22,366 carried over to the new year. Henry Erben, The * finera! Rear Admirai | aiha % LNL (retired). wh at his home in this city held today at Trinity chapel prominent navy officers wers present. including ‘Rear Admiral Schroeder, commander of the Atlantic fieet, Rear Admiral Harrin, (re- tired), Rear Admiral Goodrich, Rear Admiral Ludlow and Captain Murdoek. ommander of the Brooklvn navy yard. Two compa segmen from he battleship Ohio particiy vices and a detachment of magin from the Rhode Island fired the cus- tomary volley at the grave in Trinity cemetery. National Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union Convention at Omaha. Omaha, Neb., Oc A stirring address by Dr. 0. Edward Japney of Baltimore, chaivman of (W Datiopa vigilance committee for the Supprws- sion of the white slave traffe, was the Torf notakl- -vent of today's sessign of the thirty-sizth annual ybnvent] of the Natlonal Woman's Christign Temperance union. - Tonight was “Woerld's W, ¢. 18U, night” One of the notablé speakers was Miss Ellen M. Ston: mission- ars. whos abduction and HnsomSin = hern Burope a fes.y ago | Tt Enown interaaipaatys T o es | worth | ure ut Fort . PRICE TWO CENTS. \TING OF BALLOTS Supreme Court Justice Gerard Listens to Pro- test of Counsel for Hearst THE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE BOBS UP As a Legal Techniulit.y which May Interfere with tln\f Preparation of the Official Ballots in Time for the Election of Nov. 2—The Three Candidates for Mayor Still $peechmaking Throughout'the City. Néw York, Oct. 2.—William R. Hearst's former political organization. known as the Independence league, the machinery of which was ubsorbed by Tammany Hall at the recent primaries, bobbed up tonight as a legal techni- lity which may seriously interfere ith the preparation of the official bal- lots for the municipal election to be held Nov. 2. sClavence J. Shearn., as counsgel for Hearst, appeared before Supreme Court Justiee Gerard at a night session of that tribunal tonight, protesting against the appearance of the names’ of the democratic candidates under the Independence league emblem, with the result that the court ordered that the printing of the ballots, which was al- ready under way, be suspended until arguments for both sides can be heard tomorrow. Ballots May Not Be Ready Nov. 2. This order was made over the pro- test of Assistant Corporation Counsel Hahl, who insisted that if such arastic action were taken there might not be time enough to_deliver the ballots for election day.. The manager of the printing firm in charge of the work said that the plates were already made and it had been expected to begin the printing tonight, but the court was obdurate and instructed that if neces- sarv the hallots might be prepared, minus the Independence league- em- blem, to be added later. Gaynor May Appear in Court as Wit- nes: In clearing up the cs morrow it may be neces e In court to- ary for Wil- Gaynor, democratic nomines alvin, democratic nominee for president of the board of aldermen, and Robert Moore, demo- cratic nominee for comptroller, whose names appear under the Independence league émblem, to appear as witnesses, While the Independence league is not now, strictly speaking, an organization of independent voters, the adoption of the name by Tammany Hall was con- sidered an asset to the democratic candidate in that it might lead Hearst supporters to vote under that emblem, Fervid Oratory from Three Candidates. While lawyers were arguing in’court over this latest-phase of the campaign, fervid oratory by the three candidates for mayor was going on throughout the greater city. Judge Gaynor addressed a gathering of Columbia students and others at the university late this af noon and spoke before a labor mass meeting at Cooper Union tonight. Mr. Hearst spoke first at the Murray Hill Lyceum, in the heart of New Yorl city proper, then crossed over to Long Island, where he spoke at College Point and Long Island City. Mr. Bannard, the republican nominee, delivered a se- , ries of addresses in Brooklyn. The Hearst and Gaynor speeches to- night paralleled cach other in many respects. Both dwelt at length on po- lice reform and both criticized General Theodore A. Bingham, recently ousted as police commissioner. Heretofore Hearst has made little reference to the police, but Gaynor has emphasized in nearly all of his addresses his ciews on “Personal Liberty.” Hearst follow- ed along these same lines tonight. AMERICAN GIRLS INJURED BY : FOREIGNERS IN NEW JERSEY. | Cigar Factory Strikers Attack Other Young Women Who Wish to Work. New Brunswick, . 25.—Sev- eral hundred young women took part in rioting today. outside the cigar factory of Hirschborn & Co., where a strike is in progress, and three women were knocked down and roughly handled before the police could queil the disturbance. Nearly 500 young women, mostly foreign quit” work Saturday, when thelr demand for an incrense in piece rate work was re- fused. g A mumber. of American giris de- dl%'.d to join the strikers: and when these girls attempted to enter the fac- tory todav they were attacked by the strikers, who outnumbered them three to one. The women Injured were taken to their home: CHEROKEE INDIAN BARRICADED IN SCHOOLHOUSE Fought with Officers Until He Is Shot Dead. Muskogee, Okla., caded in a country with children, near Sleeper, Okla., yes- terday, Jack Willis, a Cherokee Indian, fought with officers until he was shot dead and Constable Tuck Ketcher was fatally wounded. Willis resisted ar- rest for a trivial offense. Finding himself pursued by officers, he sought refuge in the schoolhouse. When the officers appeared, Willis opened fire, wounding Ketcher. The wounded con- stable, Iying on ground, Kept firing at Willis. The pupils escaped through | windows. Constable Wilson finally | crawled close to the building andsshot Wills. ET8 EXPLORER RASMUSSEN ARRIVES AT COPENHAGEN. Confidently Belie That Dector Cook Reached the Pol Copenhagen, Oct. 26.—Knud Ras- mussen, the Danish explorer, arrived here today on the government steamer Hans Egede from Greenland. Ques- tioned as to his views on Dr. Cook's expedition, he repeated the statement made by him in a letter to his wife that he confidently beifeved Dr. Cook reached the pole. He said he had seen Dr, Cook's*dlary and could ndt believe it taise. Rasmussen will return to Greenland next spring and will proceed to Etah, where he hopes to meet the two Eski- mos who were Dr. Cook’s sole compan- jons on the later part of his journey, Oct. 25.—Barri- schoolhouse filled FEDERAL OFFICERS BREAK UP BAND OF OPIUM SMUGGLERS. Negross and Chinamen Had Been Op- erating in Texas. Federal of - in the arresis Ela Paso, Tex.. Oct ficers here believe t here Priday and rday of two ne- groes and two Chinamen and the ture of a_quantity of opium they have succeeded in breaking up a band of opium smugglers ihat has been oper- ating i this territory for some time. The arrcais in Kl F were fol towed =0 nished a « Worth, goveral cans of opium. exas, Will of Former U. S. Senator Vilas Acumitted to Probat Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 25. —The will of ‘Wwilllam Vilas, formerly United States senator from Wisconsin, bequeathing the bulk of his estate, said to be 2,000,000, to the University of ‘Wisconsin, was admitted to probate today, and J. T. Gregory was appoint- ed administrator. The court ordered the administrator to hold, subject to ‘the order of the court. ond-half of all moneys coming Into his custody untjl the interest of Mrs. Anna M. Vilas shall he fully detery Mirs. Vilas CIRTIs s undivid terest in the roperty iu this stu Waterbury Railroad g Yarde. Watelbury, Conn, Oct. 26.—Joseph Tereghvage, aged 13 years, of Rallroad HIIL streei, was Instautly killed in' the rallroud. sards here this afternoon when he was LIl by o passenger train aftor jumping from o freight teain father was killed three veare y Killed in BRYAN DROPPED AS A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY. Governor Harmon of Ohio for the Nomination in 1912, Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 25=~The National Monthly, edited by Chairman Norman E. Mack of the democratic national committee, and now' the official organ of the committee, gives considerable space in its November number to an article by Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, in which he bitterly assails the republican administration at Washington on. account of the new tariff Hill and other alleged political iniquities. Governor Harmon was the principal speaker on: “democratic day”’ at the Texas state fair at Dallas, Oct, 16, and his address there, taken in connection with his article in National Monthly. has given to the statement In political quarters in close relation with Mr. Mack that the chalr- man of the democratic national com- mittee has dropped William J. Bryan of Nebraska as a presidential possi- bility and is now engaged in grooming Governor Harmon for the democratic presidential nomination in 1912, HOLY GHOST AND US SOCIETY SHIP ON SECRET MISSION. Barkentine Kingdom Waeighs Ancher and Heads Southward. Me., Oct. With her unannounced, but believed to be South America, the barkentine Kingdom of the naval fleet of the Holy Ghost and Us Soclety of Shiloh, of which ‘Rev. Frank W. Sandford is leaded, sailed from here today and headed sguthward, Tt was not known whetherMr. Sandford was on board. During the past week the Kingdom has been provisioned for a long vovage and a number of the society's follow- ers have been taken on board. The yacht Coronet and the small schooner Ripple, of the same fleet, remained be- hind. AMERICAN ICE CO. TRIAL. Thorough Work Done in Gobbling Up Independent Companie New York, Oct. 25.—The thorough- ness with which the American Ioe company, trial for attempted re- straint of trade, is afleged to have done fts work of gobbling up inde- pendent competitors was shown today by Deputy States Attorney General Osborne, who read « list of the busi- nesses pufchased by 1. O. Blake, at one_ tim branch manager for the compan: The name of C! s W. Morse, the convioted financler was frequently mentioned in today's proceedings, and the name of Augustus C prague, the mysterious person who received $18.- 000,000 from the eompany “for value received” also figured in the testi- mony. New Haven S eplejack Breaks His Neck. New Haven, Oct. Charles Hughes, a local steeplejack, fell from a ladder at the Grand avenue power house of the Connecticut eompany late today and was instantly killed, ‘e neck being broker. He was 50 years old and lived at 54 Hill street. He a daughte) leaves Connectiout Editorial Association Fall [ New Iaven, Oct At the fall meeting of the Connecticut BEditorial association here today papers were read by Clayton Chamberiain of Mart- ford, Phillp Troup of New Haven and A. . Howe of Derby. The annual meeting will be held in Hartford. Fcimer Bank Cashier Pleads Guilty. Covington, Ky. Oct.' 25.—Charles McConnaghy, former bank cashier of Monticello, Ky ay entered a pi of guilty to part of an indictme charging embezziement and false e tries amounting to $20,000 and wi given three five-year sentences, to run concurrently, by United States Judge Cochrane. McConnaghy will serve only five years altogetlier, Confessed to Robbing Reckville Store, Hartf s Oet nes J. Delissl Was arrested here today and confessed 10 having robbed the hardware sture of Snow & Co, ln Rockyille, Saturday night. Dellssi, who hat been exhib= iting Whinselt s a strong man at the. Tmperial theater, Rockville, f DA vok, was caught i u hand store here tonight try the articles stolen from the store. Hig home Io In Brookiym, N.