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VOL. LII.—NO. 240 CITY MAY BE WIPED OUT BY FLODD| Cebed Hali of Business Section of Black River Falls, Wis., Already Destroyed SITUATION STEADILY GROWS WORSE Residents .Seek Refuge on High Lands While Their Stores and Homes are Swept From Their Founda- tions—T,0ss of Life Not Known—Rain Causes Heivy Losse /Around St. Paul—QOver Seven Inches in Week. acr at city of ‘2,000 inhabitants, which swept by a flood today, when the ors of the Bl nt ra washed through the em- nkinent of the Lacross Water Pow- ompan’s dams at Hatfield, is orse tonight by far than was feared osse, Wis, Oct. 6.—The situa- tion cus wa at even when the flood swept upon the ! city, Hzlf Business Section Gone. Half the bu.slne’a section has been destroved, as has been a part of the residence district And it is said by wnapeople, Who have taken 5 the high' lands, unable to ma cficrt te save their stores and homes, t ‘h? city will be wiped out. Not if Lives Are Lost. Whether or not iives have been lost 1n0*, yet certain. The people have been jcattered and tonight canvasses Jiing made to determine how naf L if any, are missing. Thus far w0 persons have not heen accounted Sor Known Dam of Sclid Concrete. The fiood resulted, from the wash- nz out of the embankment around (he J.acrosse Water Power company's dam Hatfield. The dam was of solid comerete, 60 feet high and 100 ieet deep at the base, It was considered flood of i against ong enough to hold ‘any ater which might be turn it < River, swollen by | | Black River Falls, a prosper- | Milwaukee, | Hatfield says: | Hatfield dam | water is risin | moving from | So far the d; | River Falls are intact, | THREE Total Pre in Week St. Paul, iches of rain 4 hours in S coming in fro Paul the tre ight caused thousand doll Over Sev: The total last week has the exception lines, all rai cnsicerable Washou The St. Pa trains on DAM SUCCUMBS. Wing of Hatfield Dam Gives Way— Residents of Town Moving. cxcitement prevails. ticipate how great will be the damage. Teports of washout southern Minnesota X Oct. 6.—A despatch from The west wing of the has gone out and the g rapidly. Residents are the lowlands and great No one can an- am and wings at Black INCHES OF RAIN. tation Around St. Paul Over Seven Inches. three | n Lave fallen in the last | Paul and vicinity, and on railroads are m various points. In St mendous downpour las a money loss of several a en Inches in Week. precipitation during_the been' 7.13.inches. With | of the transcontinentai Iroads report washout dam: was done in nd porthern Iowa, ts Tie Up Trains. road is not moving di- | TAFT DISCUSSES THE SETTLERS’ GRIEVANCES. | Will Recommend Legislation to Re- move Some of Difficuities, Oct. 6.—] of Idaho promi today to bring western rs to Washington next winter m thresh out the question of the public domain. vernor did not elaborate on his the solutign of the public lar sstion, but Mr. Taft himeelf prom- reral audiences to do all in i power at the mext session of congress legislation Boise, ady 1 idaho, Governor President gov- to p T & of to have enacted that will | rations is doing much harm without ‘ some of the difficulties now (any corresponding benefit. No corpo- «nfronting settlers on public lands. | ration can tell whether it is within h legislation, the president said, |or without the law. 1d not interfere with thegeliey of | “Constant agitation and litigation AL | without any particular end, view or grievances, the re the short time in r land are re- quired- nure demanded of a_settler before he becomes owner of the land, and the fa at after a tenure of five yYears title to th 1"nd does not pass. He did not take each issue in detail, but he said hat there was no reason to doubt that zress would settle them at the next sion Mr. Taft mpent the day in Tdaho, king up at Pocatello to “go ashore” from his train and make hisfirst ad- dress, and practically the day's wor here tenight, with a speech to several thousand persons MARRIED HUSBAND FOR HIS MONEY, Testimony Offered in Effort to Break Sculptor’s Will. New York, Oct. 6.—In the trial ot the suit by Miss Elsanor Ward, to breaic the will of her brother, ‘he late John Q. A. Ward, the seulptor, who left his entire estate of 3150,000 to his wife, testimony was introduced today to show that Mrs. Ward married the mged seulpior for his meney. Cella W. Day, an old friend of Miss Ward, testified that she met Mrs. Ward before she married the sculptor. and that she told her that no weman married a man of 76, Ward's age, un- less he had money. =Mrs. Ward, who wae them Mre Smsth, and herself 54, repled, according to the witness, that ghe knew Mr. Ward had money and intended te marry him ANOTHER NEGRO BURNER IS FOUND NOT GUILTY t Demonstration Follows the Ac- quittal of Youth, Gr West Chestes, Pa., Oct. Stoll, aged 16 vears, the second of those chargad with participating in the burning of Zack Walkers, Coatesville, to be placed on trial, sequitted by the jury here todat. A murmur of applause grected the ver dict, which was returned after the jury had deen out one hour and four minutes. ! As Die left the courtroom Stoll was reized by his friends, seme of whym nad been called as witnesses agaiWt him, and was earried on their shoul- derg In triumph aleng the main street of the tewn, NAVY YO HAVE TWO SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS. Cost of Maintenance of Navy for Year Estimated at $129,000,000. Washington, Oct. 6.1t will cost in round nunibers $124,000,000 to maintain the United States navy and to pro- vide for suitable increase during the next fiscal yvear, according to the esti- mates just completed by Secretary Meyer. This includes a provis two super-dreadnoughts, about the sire of the projected Neva- da and Oklahoma, which will displace sbaut 28,000 tems, and a suitable num- | ber of auxiliaries, This figure marks low water in the retrenchment poliey of the admini tration se far s« the mavy is concern- od National German-American Allizance. Washington, Oct 6.—German-Ameri- can participation' in_ pelitical and na- tignal afairs, and the correction of misieading statements as (o lhe atti- tude of German-Americans oy public questions, are to be the subjects of rorious consideration at the conven- tion of the Nationai German-American Alance which began a three days’ session n Washington today. éant, of the world's ite is used for lead Onis n‘:}n 10 penolis even | 6.—George | Rheode Island | [o] Providence, Rhode Island | campaign th | 0% the prosect ‘Waterman, for governor, ance prosecution Mr. criminate pro; o | object to accor | one’ knowing | rot be done | and tends condition Natural | should_be pe | be arbitrarily | ness should tha SUND. to New York, assau cou unext Sunday preme . Co: THe g to g cempany a p prevent the The court hel fee is to be cl parently ends tenant Govern wanager of t meets, o est: for Sunday fl Barnes Said t tirement republican of the Alba ganization, vestigati hegan toda tions in th {John H. s {tain, testified | cently under Barnes, {the Alban tién. He and he was s He was asked sy of publi w 1 which the senate commitice = ci e us and a land publi buted $500 £ Lere next who opposed the > over $10.000. SD! Gompe ompers, Tatio zarmal Commiissioner abell against “smokers” subject Stea At Genoa: from At noa: N York At G New York for eeded). At Nagles: New York P | DEMOCRATS DEFEND raade apparent toGay denounced ‘Waterman serves no useful purpos: to produce an growth to reasenable regu best serve the people.” SHERIFF MAY PREVENT Supreme Court Refuses an Injunction nt the aviation meet planned for Long Island, w sheriff be left free to do his duty. REPUBLICAN STATE | CHAIRMAN INVOLVED. avor James B. McFwan and | said he was Edward B. Cant OVER $10,000 Rockefeller Contributes $1,000 to New York's Celebration. New_ York. Oct. 6-—John D. Rock { feller has coniributed $1,000 and Beimont, J. P. Morgan, I ilie celebration of Columbus Thursday. celebration, has gone to his own et for $230. ond v rs’ union, of cigar and « to the internal altar: Oct. 6, Hambnre, from THE CORPORATIONS. Candidate For Governor n New Tack. R. I, Oct. 6.—That the democr in their staie year will make an issue ition of corporations w when Lewis A the democratic candidate in his letter the “indi large corporations. said: “The indis- secution of large corpo- accept- f mplish, and without any what can and what can- unsettled | mental to aii. and elopment rmitted and should not | restricted, but all busi- be compelled to submit n, that they may is det AY AVIATION MEET. Restrain Him. = nty —That the sheriff authority to pre- Nassau Boulevard s decided today by Su- Justice Garretsen in handed down an opinion ant the Nassau Aviation | ermanent junction to | from iterfering. that where an entrance | iarged the sheriff should | the effor or Timott e as blish a o Have Had Part in Re- | of Police Captain. The name of « irman of the mmittee and leads ty republican o < brought into the in- 1to zovernmental condi- ity county of Alban; dan, an ex-police cap- that retired re- instructions from Mr. ounty >ublican a 1ccesdad by A T to resi organ- | democrat | ublican. n from the force 1. commissioner number of other wealt’ irited men have contr 50 each toward a fund | Mayor Gaynor a city appropriation for The total to date is | rs Enters Protest. president of n of 1. [ the protested today of 'Tniernal Revenue Lis recent decision that i supplied to employes garette factories are revenue tax. | ROUGH WEATHER DRIVES Paragraphs Bogota, Cotombia, Oct. 6.—Conaress’ today passed an additional credit of 2,000,000 to be oxpended for arma- ment 'and a credit of '$1,500,000 to_be | vsed in fortifying ports on the Pa- cific ocean, London, Oct. 6.—The Duke of Con- naught, accompanied by the duchess, sailed on the steamer Empress of Ire- land from Liverpool today to assume he office of governor general of Can- @da, in which he succeeds Earl Grey. Port au Prince, . Haiti, Oct.” 6.—A heavy earthquake “occurred here at 5.30 o'clock this morning. The move- ment was from east to west and con- tinued for thirty séconds. The shock was @zccompgnied by subterranean rumbling. No damage was done. Peking, Oct. 6.—American Methodist missionaries at Cheng-Tu, the recently hesieged capital of Sze-Chuen prov- ce, telegraphed today that th ‘imate tiat 10,000 persons were kiiled during the fighting between the in- surgents and the government troops. Of the dead 2,000 were soldiers and the other rebels, Berlin, Oct. 6.—A group of French- men hoisted a French flag over the fort at Agadir, Mcrocco, threatening grave international complications. It was announced that France had pro- claimed & protectorate and that French cruiser was en route for Aga- air. The French government immedi- ately disavowed the action. Bogcta, Colombia, Oct. 6,—On leav- ing the cathedral last night, where they attended a meeting presided over the archbishop of Bogota, a mob 3 ian legation and tore W 20 arms. This Is th, second aitack on the legation and theé uation is considered grave. The previous attack took place in July Oct. 6—K. Staaff, succeeded today Stockholm, the in forming a cabinet to succeed the one ! of Prem: TLindaman, who resigned In the new cabinet will take the portfolio of and Count Albert Ahrensvard, i he United States, BALLOONS TO EARTH. Seven of Nine Racers Were Compelisd the Land Yesterday. sas Ci Mo. Rough | weather today drove to earth seven of | the nine racing balloons which left | here vesterday in contests for the, James Gordon Bennett trophy, the hm cup and the altitude record. The | her two balloons which ascended | ave not heen heard from. The m ing_balloons are the Condor of France | and the Berlin IL of Germany. | No records Wi broken by any of | the balloons which.are down. The es- timated distances range from 290 to! 460 _miles. Two fell in Wisconsin, two} in Min; ota and three in Iow: The balloo: landed as follows: America 11, landed near Emmetts- burg, Jowa, at 130 a. m. today; est mated distance 390 miles. Pennsylvania 1. landed near- Buffalo! Centre, Iowa, 6. a, m.; estimated dis- tance 300 miles. Topeka 1L landed finn, 8.30 a. m.; miiles. Berlin 1. landed near Austin, Minn., at 10 a. m.; estimated distance 343 miles. Buck landed near Lacrosse, Wis., estimated distance 365 miles. Kansas City IL landed near Keenan, | near Dunnell, estimated distance v 0 a. m.; timated distance 450 miles Million Population club landed at Mason City, Towa, at 5 p. m. The Topeka II. and Kansas City IL were ng only for the Lahm cuband they failed to lift it. The America IL and Buckeye were eligible for this event. hm cup record, 1,171.9 miles, was not even lloons cannot appro: compete fo WISCONSIN CUSTOM. Juge of Whiskey and Keas of Beer Sent to the Voters. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 6.—After ex- CRICE TWO CENTS (1] Breakers” Now . Go On Strike THOSE AT MEMPHIS DISSATIS- FIED WITH CONDITIONS, NEW ORLEANS POLICE BUSY Jail and Hospitals Receive Many In- mates as: Result of Clashes—Traffic Conditions Still Practically Normal, Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 6.—Diszalis- fied with conditionis about the Mem- Dbhis shops, Illinois Central strike- cakers struck late today. Tonight railroad officials assert 100 of them ‘Wwere sent to Chicago. No Disorder. At strike headquarters it is said that more than 400 men walked out, prac- Hamlin Mum On the Stand < DECLINES TO TESTIFY AT THE FLOOD INQUEST. MIGHT INCRIMINATE HIMSELF Superintendent of Concern Owning Broken Dam Stands on Constitu- tional Rights—More Bodies Found. Austin, Pa., Oct. 6,—Frederick Ham- hn, supérintendent of the Bayiess Paper and Fulp company, owners of the dam which broke last Saturday at the expense of many lives and the practical destruction of Austin village, refused to testify, upon the advice of counsel, at the coroner's inquest to- day. Turther inquiry, which will be held There is nothing can endure nothing truth enjovs more than of success. The p soon retives in confusion. Awaj can advertiser had learned to be that he read the advertisements i news like the adverti upon what is new in the realm of dabbling around the edges. The ements is losing opportunities The advertising columns of any henefit those who use them and Send for a rate card and post If you do not take The Builet] Truth Only Fits the Limelight progress this country was making and he found out. be done at the counters of the busi vertise in these days do not get to the The paper will be left at your house daily for 12 cents a_week the limelight like truth. publicity, There is for to it that is the way raricator who gets into the limelight is doomed. for there his true.character is soen who failed in the years gone by,and who now when he gets into print, a closed. He is the advertiser back in Gladstone's time the Ameri- true and edifying; and he declared n the American papers to see what There is no ing announcements for keeping a man informed invention or business, or what can ess houses. Men who do not ad- usiness center, but are just buyer who does not read the adver- of trade he can illy afford.to lose. paper are the columns that bless and those who read. yourself as to c in, now is of space. the time to subscribe. u‘uri:;‘;“t(;“;ing is a mmary of the matter .printed in The Bulletin i Bullatin /egraph Loca/ General Total | Saturday. Sept. 30 108 178 1000 1286 Monday, ~ Oct. 2 130 132 185 457 Tuesday, Oct. 3 95 118 173 396 Wednesday. Oct. 4 116 111 176 403 Thursday. Oct. 5 125 135 299 559 Friday, Oct. 6 105 “155 193 453 Toiar - - 679 839 2036 3554 ly the entire force. Thc walkout s without disorder. ANOTHER ATTACK. Strikers Assault Building Where Strikebreakers Were Housed. New Orleans, Oct. 6.—After an ult at eleven o'clock today upon a brick building in whiclf are quartered 218 strikebreakers, $00 ex-employes of the Tllinois Central railroad company and strike sympathizers withdrew up- on the approach of police reser and won declared a truce to permit the ad company to comply with ‘heir demand to transport the strike- breakers out of the city. Whole Police Reserve Force Out. rly the whols police reserve force of New Orleans was on guard in the railroad yards to prevent a repetition last night's rioting. The force of States marshals was also increased. May Call for Federal Troop: Another day of such rioting and bloodshed may force the governor to call lly to apply for federal troops to mining items of amounts paid fo individuals, who colle: 3 for campaign ex torial committee hi tor Isaac Stephen- | at money | entertainment,” and not | rupt purpose. i was used for for_an No itemized accounts of the expenses | were returned, but Rodney Sacketit,| ne of the c gn m { fied that he was informed that the| money was used largely for cigars and beer. It was the custom in Wis unsin( Guri (< paigns, Sackett testified, (nl senda jugs of whisk of beer | to localities where favorable political| sentiment was to be worked up. All this w -3 n by Sackett as ex- plaining the extent of Senator Steph- enson's expenditure for nomination for senator «it the primaries in 1908, ONE MINISTER TO 5 EVERY 174 LAYMEN. Average of Methodist - Church Throughout the World. | | Toronto. Ont., ative to “resourc: in Meth 6.—Statistics rel- | in men st mission flelds,’ nd means | given to- | he said. day by Rev. Lewis of Cam-| - | bridge, England, proved interesting to | the delesates from 17 coun! who RAISED attended toda: sions of the Ecu- | FOR COLUMBUS DAY. | menical Methodist conference in this | city. In the detailed reports presented, it that during the last year there | S Method! foreign mission-; arie Tne ordained ministry of Ecumenical | Methodism at the bezinning of 1910 was 52,978, of whom but 2,322, or 5 per | cent counting foreizn and natives, | were in the mission field. | “Of the total number of ministers | throughout the world,” said Mr. Lew- is, “the average is one to every 174 Methodist church members.” ot AL e i i) A Degree for Dr. Wiley. ington, Vt., Oct. In connec- | ugural exercises at the Universitv of Vermont, the de- ! sree of doctor of laws was conferrces | I'y the university upon Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of the (ry of the department of agriculture. Bur tion Yale Students to Run a Flower Store. T Haven, Oct, 6—In addition the many business coucerns manag by students of Yaie as a medium o self-help, such as a laundry, clothe New mshlp Arrivals. ©Oct. 1, Duva di Genova, ew York via Naples. Oct. 5, Carpathia, from Naples and Genoa (and Oct. 8§, Carpathia, {rom pressing shop and gas appliance office, a flower shop is to be oDened to se- cure the trade of the student: Storm Delays A Hammond, Ind., Noy. §.—Awaier C. F. Rodges gave up-his plans to con- tinue his crose conmtry flight teday, owing'to a continued wind and rain storm. e plans to start fer Chica- £0, 22 miles awas tomerrew, bureau of chemis- | enforce the injunction United States court. Yesterday’s Casualties. Eight strikebreakers and a deputy United States marshal were wounded in the affair of yesterday. Five non- uiiion men are hospitals. Louis backauer, a il aker of Brooklyn, died from his wound this afternoon. Filling Up the Jail. Twelve other strikebrealkers, dozen sty issued by the half a and George Pence, a Roanoke, Va., detective, are in _jail, charged with rioting. Pence and Ar- thur Copeland. also of Roanoke,” are accused of shooting a policeman. Traffic Practically Normal. Chicago, Oct. 6-—The approaching end of the first week of the shopmen’s trikes on the Harriman and Iliinois Central lines sees traffic practically normal, according to statements Llo- day by President Markham of the nois Central znd Vice President ittschnitt of the Harriman lines. Although both admit the number of shop workers is depleted they say Kr | there are enough men at work to malke all repairs to rolling stock need- ed for service. HORSES DYING IN NEW HAVEN. Spread of Glanders Is Becoming Se: ous—Blood Specimens Secured. New Faven, Oct. 6.—The spread of landers in this city has been So se- vere that one man has lost twenty- five horses and @ pair of mules, the latter, it is said, being the best pair in_the state. Dr. F. G. Atwood of this ‘city has taken to the bureau of animal industry, United States depart- | ment of agriculture, a large number of blood specimens from horses which have been suspiciously ill, and in which the cause has not been definite- 1y marked. GIRL'S CIGARETTE MAY BE CAUSE OF HER DEATH Bed She Was Occupying at Hartford Set Afire. Hartford, Oct. 6.—Grace Cooper, an ilaportant witness in the recent white slave case, was probably fatally burn- ed this moming ot 12 Commerce 3sireet. inmutes of the house veport thai the cnt was due to a lighted cigar- which set fAre to the bed. The n is in a eritical conditfon in, the Royalist Band Defeated. Lisbon, Oct. 6.—A band of royalists has been défeated in a fight with the republican iroops .mesr Braganca in Traz-Os-Montes, the northeastermost ‘ovince of Portusal. It is rumored at a rovalist column at Vinhaes, 14 miles west of Bpaganca, is_surrounded by republicans. T as- | railroad detectives. and- deputy United | out the state guard, and event- | at Coudersport, was adjourned to an ! indefinite date. After the adjournment District Attorney H. W. Nelson- said | that the inquest would not e resumed for at leust two weeks, because of the necessity of obtaining erpert testi- mony and consulting points of layy. Acted on Counsel’s Advice, Hamlin' was the last witness called. Almost the first question brought his refusal to answer. Then valter K. Sweatland, his counsei, and himself a flcod sufferer, announced that inasmuch as it was common re- port that the inguest was being held for the purpose of bringing a criminal rosecution ne had advised his client in his course. Might Incriminate Himself. “Do you mean that in answering he might incriminate himself?” asked the district “sttorne; | “He might Al criminate himself, or the testimony might be used against him st any subsequent prosecution; therefore, 1 insist that he need not answer,” replicd Mr. Sweatland: “an we stand on our constitutional righ Attitude Unchanged. The assertion by the district attor- that no charges had been brought eainst Mr. Flamlin did not change the attitude of his attorney. Labor Trouble at Costello. At velief headquarters it was stated today that 200 men quit work at Cos- tcilo, demanding an eisht-hour day in- stead of ten hours that they have been orking. It was asserted that the men were being paid $1.75 a day. Mounted troopers were sent down to Costeilo, also a paymaster to pay what wages are due they men, when they will be ordered out of town, Five More Bodies Found. Three bodies and the charred bones of two others were recovered from the ruins today. This makes the Lotal list of dead NO" MORE “BEER NIGHTS" AT HARVARD UNION Use of Liquor in Building Forbidden by Administrative Board. Cambridge. Mass,, Oct. 6.—No longer can Tlarvard students drink becr or cocktails at the Harvard Union. There will be no more “beer nights” or ban- quets with drinks served there. Tod: the administrative board of the union voted against the use of liguor in the building. There is no bar ir the union, and liquors are not served in its restawrant, but three of the uadergraduate papers have their 3 in its building, and these or- tions, with the classes, occas- ionally have had “punches” and “beer nights.” DIRECT PRIMARY BILL PASSED IN NEW YORK. Republican Members of .Legislature Call it a “Hodge Podge. Albeny, N. Y. Oct. 6—The New York state legislature adjourned sine die today after passing a direct prim- v bill which the governor said to- : he means to sign next week. He that the bill wa mcasure, because the | he said, was advocated Hughes. :publicans to a man opposed the Lill. Even the most ardent divect nominations advocates declared that it was not a real primary reform me: ure. William Barnes, Jr., chaitman of the republican siate committes, char- acterized it as a ~hodge podge. expressed surprise made a party b esseuce it. First to Heel Women's Shoes. New Vork, Oct. &—Robert Smiley died yesterday at O: At I. 1, at the age of 100 years, tnrea | months and one day. He was one of the pioncer shoe dealers in Boston and this city and was the first cobbler (o Condensed Telegrams 1 Mrs. Laura J. Wilkins wrote her on a physician’s prescription blank. The National Museum of Art at ‘Washington is to be open on Sundays hereafter. The Democrats of Meriden have pe- titioned for a recount of the votes cast last Monday. Pre; nt Taft Confirmed the - sen- tence dismissing four West Point ca- dets for intoxica The D. A. R. is making good prog- ress in liquidating the debt om the Continental Memorial hail. James Gleason, a New Haven fac- tory worker, vesterday with gas while despondent. The Gross Debt of the City of Bos- ton has been cut down nearly one per cent. in the last.nine months. Wireless Communication Between San Prancisco and Japan, a distance of 6,000 miles, was established on Thursday, Former Representative d of the Third Jonas G. congressional t died at Jeffersenville, Ind, aged 88 years. The Bishop of Cremona, Italy, in a pastctal letter approves the military expedition to Tripoli, and says next to the tricolor rises the cross. The Postal Savings Bank at Haven will be opened for deposi week from today, and the district em- braced will be several nearby towns. ° The_Safe in t he Bank at Northville, was blown rday. The mel before reaching the funds. The Officers of the Newport naval tablishment entertained a distin shed guest in the person of Vie dmiral Goni of the Chilean nav: sterday. The ter the nd degree Jackson, who killed Archfe Walke Durham a few weeks ago. Seventy Propristors of Steel and iron foundries met at N York on ¥riday ané for two hour sed ness matters behind closed doors, g out mo information Schley in Arlington cemetery. Des Mo ing nearly on sirik union, stated Street Carmen, number- vesterday voted to go unless three members of the recently discharged, are rein- by 5 o'clock this afternoon, An Incipient Revolution in Honduras, headed by Jesus Ulloa,” formerly con- sul in New Orleans, was effective! crushed last week, according to mail advices received from Puerto Cortez. Conductor John C, Greaney, #_bride- groom of four Yveeks, died yeSterday cellency to form a cabinet for the Dominion of Canzda. New York Was Chosen as the mee ing piace for the fifth annual conven- tion of the Association of Life ance Preasidents in Decembes, a meeting of the executive commiltee vesterday. The Retirement of Judge Peter S. GrosSeup from the bench of the United of a decree, Despatches to Dun’s Review this < from leading trade centers in the ed States show that reasona progress is made in most leading lines. A quiet tone pre at Boston, in the outlook is betier Th Week Commencing November 20 cen fixed by the New York cu of appeals 2 the period for deaths the conder mu: Ter: F Schermerhor Popzhkeeps Fietrc ‘alletto Bert J. Bi Westchester. and After Risking Fis Life for Years, working hizh up m the air on the iron frames of tall buildings Iter Berzman; an iron construciion S of Cambridge, Mass., met his deati Providegce yesterday by a fall from a six-foot fence, Duboise Murphy of Montgomery, Ala., of the acdemic freshman class at Yale, prizes are in each case the income of a thousand dollars. Three United States Army Aviators have been granted permission by General Grant {o participate in an avi- ation meet at Salem, N. H.. on Thur: day, Oct. 12. The aviators are Captain P."W. Beck, Lieut, A, H, Arncld and Lieut, T. D, Milling. A Man’e Unrequited Love for 2 m ried_woman caused a double tragedy at New York yesterda: Joseph Speil- man, 36 years of age, met Mrs. Flora Kirsch, 11 years his junior, on the street, and after an argument shot her twice Botk are likely to die. Leading Educators and Other dis- tinguished visitors from various parts { of the country were guests at a dinner at Burlingten, Vt., last night, in con- nection with the inauguration of Guy Fotter Benton, AM., D.D, LL.D, as president of the University of Ver- mont. Dr. Harry E. Webster, indicted for the murder of his third wife, Bessie Kent Webster, expects to be acquit- t2d, he says. He declared that the action ef his second legal Wife, Zoe Varney Webster of Cedar Rapids, Ia., 4n planning to obtain an immediate di- vorce, caused hi more pain than his arrest for murdes WOONSOCKET BANK TELLER ARRAIGNED. Pleaded Not Guilty to Four Counts of Embezzlement. Providence, R. L. Oet 6-—Hermen- gilde Bessetle, who was indicted b the grand jury on four counts char ing embezzlement amounting to nearly $25,000 from the Peoble's Sav- irgs bank of Woonsocket, pleaded net guilts to each count when arraigned in the superior court today. He furnish- ed_ponds for $2,500, . Bessette is alleged to have made a put heele on women's shoes, e was aiso a friend Qf President Frauklin 4 Pierce, it ?’ & i confession of the peculations to Bank Commissioner William P, Goodwin, Ressette had been teller of the killed himself | has been awarded both the Samuel| flenry Galpin Latin prize and the Hugh Chamberlain” Greek prize. The Turks Protest To the World DECLARE OCCUPATION OF TRIPO- L1'1S UNJUSTIFIED, A DENUNCIATION OF ITALY Assert That She is Unworthy of a Place Among the Great Powers— Formal Note to State Department. ‘Washingtcn, C 6.—The state de- partment today reccived from Youssouf Zia Pasha, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, the first formal note planation of Turkey's attitude in © present war with Italy.- The note revidgwed the action of TItaly, setting forth that war was proclaimed without regard to Turkey’s request for a fur- r explanation of Ttaly’s demands. Wants to Be Set Right. Accompanying the “aide memoir® addressed to the American was a letter from the making it clear that Turkes be set right on the charge dia not give welght to Italy’ heur ultimatur. Used All Pacific Means. is document will establish under true aspect the circumstances rick have preceded the declaration of war which Italy has so unjustly made to the Ottoman empire, s the let- ter from the ambassador. ‘“Mor it preserts irrefutable proof of t e which the -imperial had to use all the pacific power to preserve peace. Did Not Underrate Ultimatum, “Consequently, it never entered inte the mind of the imperial government to wish to underrate the meaning of an ultimatum, as certain parties wish to pretend.” % Italy’s Note to Turkey. This statement presented by the am- bassador reviews the action of Italy in sending a note to Turkey Sept. 23, peinting out the danger to which the security of the Italian subjects at Tyi- poli and in Cyrenicia was exposed, a final 24- means in its note in which it insinuated that it Over Two Hundred Thousand People | W0Uld De induced to take military tok part in _one way or another in el . the jmposing military funeral which marked the burial of R Admiral FUS EROTEST. Say ltaly is Unworthy of Place Ameng Great Powers. Constantinople, Oct. 6.—At & ~oot- ing held today-in the mosque of St. Sophia, a telegram of nrotest against Ttaly's declaration of war on Turk. was formulated and sent to all the parliaments of the world, peace and arbitratien docietles, universities, so- cialist organizations and The Hague peace tribunal. The telegram says the occupation of Tripoli unjustified and that Ttaly is unworthy of a place among the great powers. 2t a_hospital in Houlton, Al Turkish Parliament. injurics received Thursday by falling | T.endon, Oct. stantinople beneatn his freight trafn at Monti- CEDOD ARG S ily Chronicle AT s the summonin the Turki - - = » parliament ha: pur] been post- The Laurier Ministry Resigned yes- | honcd. The oby t to hold terday and Premier-elect R. L. Bor- | fenoral it is hoped den has accepted the call of his e to eliminate a number of the members of the committee of unfon and prog- e from seats. The new cabinet then will be formed If the parliament mét now, the co ondent adds, the sultan would immediate dissolve it. New Government Established. Oct. 6. he Ttalia have yvernment for Tri- 1 Boreddolino has been overnor. Captain Cagni made commandant of the Stateg circuit court in Chicago has | forces harked b the Ttalian fleet. Dbeen delaved beciuse of conficting P iy railroad interests to agree on a araft | PARCELS POST AND AEROPLANE SERVICE. Postmaster-General Provides for Them in Annual Estimates. Washington, Oct. 6.—Pr ion for the establ ent of a parcels post and the transportation of mail by aeroplane has been made by Postmaster-General Hitcheock in hi§ annual estimates of postoffice department expenditures, submitted to the tr ry_department today. 5 According to M s esti- T the appropriations necessary to meet the expenses of the postal service & g the coming fiscal year %463, an increase of $2,- ~ the appropriations for the current fiscal year, or less than 1 per cent, the smailest on record. The most important of the new items in the mates are those providing { for a parcels post. They include $50,- 000 to cover the preliminary expenses on rural mail routes and an equal ap- propriation to start the service in the cities. Arother item included for the first time is the $50,000 to cover experi- ments in the {ransportation of mail by aeroplane. Mr., Hitchcock believes that under cerlain conditions it will be pos- sible in the near future to utilize tha aeroplane to good advantage in the malil service. ASSAILANT OF GIRL CAPTURED IN WOODS. Hustled to Jail by Authorities, Who Feared a Lynching. Goldens Bridge, N. Y., Oct. 6.—A man caught in the weoods near here by a sher posse late today was identified by N Goad, the 17 years old daugh- ter of Joseph Goad, a wealthy farmer, as the foreigner who attacked her while she was riding a bicycle along the Rock Cut road early today. Indignation whieh the report of the asasult caused here ran so high that the man was hurried away to the county jall at White Plains tonight, as a precaution against violence. The man arrested is Antonio Rosa, 40 years old, who until yesterday was working with a gang on the Rock Cut road. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Two City Officials and Twe Contract~ ors to Be Prosecuted. Philadelphia, Oct. f.—Warrants for the arrest of Director of Public Safety Henry Clay, City Architect Carl B, ilenziger, John R. Wiggi con- tracter and builder, and ‘Treasuve Wall, of the latter's firm, were issue today on the aflidavit of Logan M. Bl litt. ehairmam of the taxpayer: miftee.. The charges are consp defaud the wity. and are-an outcome of the investigation conducted By the Catlin senatorial commission. The men will not be taken inte custody, but will | acecept. service threugh their attorneys and appear for a hearing. Aggravating the Offense. “Fooling” as an excuse far rowdyism should be regard Xrava