Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 27, 1911, Page 1

VOL. LHL—NO. 258 R N NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1911 PRICE TWO CENTS RICHESON'S DETECTIVE A WITNESS% Father and Mother of Clergyman’s»Fianceei also Before Grand Jury THE EXAMINATION IS NOT FINISHED Additional Witnesses to be Questioned Today—Minis- ter’s Property Removed from His Room by PoliceE -—His Landlady Declines to Discuss a New Bedfoxd! Report—Defence May Produce Bottle With Drug. inty grand jury which to consider the ev idence tel by the polic sainst Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson n connection with the death by pois- of Miss Avis Linnell, the Hy singer and Sunday school teach- 3 ssumed something of the aspect of a trial today, because some of the witnesses for the defense as well government witnesses were called. Mr. and Mrs, Edmands Testify. When the grand jurors adjourncd at clock this evening, after nearly surs’ deliberation, they had testimony of more than a zen per including three who are directly connected with the case for the defense. These three witnesses Mr. and Mrs. Moses Grant Ed- father and mother of Miss Vio- accumu rd dmands, the accused clergyman’s ancee, and Robert Burns, head of a iocal detective agency, who has direct- gd ihe investigation on behalf of Mr. 31 1. Medical Evaminer First Witness. In unfolding before the jurors the b wvhich the polic t Attorney P his fter 1 formed the in Fxam- autop- 45 | fense have been along the line of prov- | The special session , and driven in the direction of Boston. | | | E ‘ | | Among the boxes were some containing hooks. Congressman Harris Won't Serve. | It was learned definitely today that | the services of Congressman Harris | »f Bridgewater, a former Jjustice of the superior court, had heen sought by the defense and that he is unable to serve. Thus far the efforts of the de- 1 | | 1 i ing an alibi for the clergyman, sup- ported by the conteniion that another man had opportunity to hand er con- vey poison to the dead girl. It is also asserted that the defense can produce | with its’contents intact the bottle of | cyanide of potassium which Druggist | | noon. niarters of an hour i Hahn sold Mr, Richeson. Claim No Meeting on” Day of Death. The defense also hopes to prove be- vond any doubt that Mr. RicHeson did not meet Miss Linnell on the afternoon of Saturday, October 14, on the eve- ning of which she died. It is under- stood that while the police contend that the minister dined with the girl that afternoon, they are admittedly | without witnesses who saw the couple together.. Tney have one witness, Cap- tain Dugan- said. who has informed him that Miss Linnell told her she dined with the clergyman that after- This person will not appear be- fore the grand jury, he added. Richeson Spends Quiet pay. Mr. Richeson, the accused minister spent a quiet day in jail today, Al | though .several members of his family | ing accounts of the grand jury | pec | | | tions. The Other Witnesses. Linnell of Hyannis n dead girl, a.wned en 1 with a heavy veil » Lid her featursiy p . Mcleéan of Brockton, 21 er of the ad girl, who accompenied her mother from their home in Hya nis, and who in contra no of mourning; two voung women. Jieved to be i waitress in & local restau has been | stated Mr. Richeson and Miss | Linnell dined a few icurs before the young woman's death st the Young Women's _ClLristian association lodg rrenton street; Dr, Mary as in to attend | i ore died: Mis Julie Patterson, superintendent of the Y. W A. building, who med charge of ihe ition arising from Miss Linneli's death imwmediately upon covery of the body and until 15 r Leary arrived; Miss a friend of the dead Eirl, and ! lodger, who is un- derstond + comversation with Mi ing he- ner engas 10 death Scom) i inmate of A, who told t on. when she death ared uninter M sted and anything Richeson’s Private Detective. an I klin H ambridze ments; Mr, home on | of M Canter, Mr. nd de. the turday, died; Newton e poli purchased on 1 . Edmeane nim P tr Mr. and when Tia yo evening ertion heson had cle o o r nrns, red est, ation in ain betore the nd that a num- iso will -he Hyanni of the vio hav heson and t one time, e Violet 1d- fjancee, will be s family physi- that the motie Mrs. Linnell L i Required Assistance. ned literally bowed of her so nd ht - side and her ter, . on the other came from Flvannis, despite her enfee- | bled condition, with s olution to do her utmost to ald in clarifyi the | mysiery of daughter . and ft is saia the way. Efforts to Baffle the Crowd. Exireme secrecy marked_the proced- ure of the grand jury. Most of the that she fainted w on witne: e taken into the court- house by a side or back entrance, and were ted in devious ways to bafile ¢ wd gathered akout the district v's offices. ' Even pri- vate stairways reserved for the use of the stices were resorted to. Mrs, Cartcr Would Not Answer. A rep which came today from New Bedford was to the effect that Mr. Richeson, two days before the death of Miss Linnell, secured some flour and water from Mrs. Carter, his landlady, explaining that he wanted it to mix paste with which to bind books. The report has it that uvon returning the bow! which he had used to mix the paste he said to M arter: “You'd better wash it out thoroughly; there has been poison in it.” When Mrs. Car-- ter was asked about this story as she and her husband were leaving the ary today, she would not an- 4 said he would nei- it, intimating that 1pon him as a :d jury had scn’s Apartment Cleaned Out. There s = wholesale ‘removal by the police todgy of the contents of Mr. Richeson’s apartment at the Car- ter home. Under the direction of Po- lice Inspector MeGarr and an associ- ate, who drove to the Carter home in a taxicab with the Carters as the lat- 1er were returning from the grand jury some twenty loaded buxes _ were piaced on & big two-horse-dray i | without are in the city now, he was visited | only by his personal attorney, Philip | H. Dunbar. Mr. Dunbar took with him | reral late afternoon papers contain- ses- The clergyman read with es- il interest an editorial from the Watchman, an official organ of the Baptist church. Chronology of Case. vents associated with the mur- der which have received the sanction of official investigation include. the following: ay, Oct. 10.—Re ¢ of Drugsgist LS to i | | | | The e My Richeson an_ old of alth, ranide po- um Thursday, Oct. £ neli makes telephone appointment to dine with her “gentlemian friend,” Saturflay afternoon. Saturday, Oct. 14.—6.45 p. m.—Mi Linnell, returning from appointment, | tells friénds she has dined with her gentfeman friend,” pleads a headache, and retires; 7.10 p. m.: . Girl heard in ‘bathroom. Door broken in | 1" found sitting in a tub of hot water, Miss Linnell dies | consciousness: Leary finds death anide of potassium, suppos- wdministered; When notified Mecical due to_cy edly scl of the death by telephone, A Ri on said he remembered baptizing Mis: Tinnell Tiyannis three vears ago, | | but does mot know her well enough | to do anything. As however, “Did | she say anything before she died?” { Sunday, Oct. 15.—Miss Linnell’s | brother-in-luw, W. H. McLean of Brockton, arrives and accused Riche- son of murdering his former sweet- | heart. 1 Monday, Oct. 16.—Medical Examiner | Leary finds Miss Linnell pregnant and | dvises police. that matter warrant: investigation. Richeson gzoes to home | of his fi Edmands, | and remair iolet Frida, . arrested on a first murder and 1 o make any statement. Committed to ¢ street jail for hearing Octobe for mar- riage to Miss . Tuesday, Oct. of Miss Linnell exhumed at Hyannis and | browght to Boston. A Wednesday. Oct. 25.— body made by medical miner, in hopes of Ginding container of poison. Several orzins. besides stomach pre- | ination of | viously removed, retained by prosecu- tion to elimin: theory ths other then cyanide of potassium used. Thursday, Oct. 26.—Grand siders ovi gainst Rev. 3 eson. iry_con- . Rich- MUST INCREASE LIST ABOUT $4,000,000 | New London Finds It Has Suffered Much Loss During the Year. New LLondon, Oct. 26.— The special tax commission of New Lonaon has had its initial meeting with the assesors It was brought out in the discys- sion that over $300,000 of taxable property has been removed from tne | tax list during the past year. The | Vew England Navigation company has | sold three or four big steamers, #vhich | no longer hail from that port, and | about $55,000 worth of real estate has been exempted from taxation by pass- ing from former owners to the Con- necticut Woman's college and to the Lawrence hospital. - is a_loss of $8,000 a year revemie which will have 10 be made up. Two Central Vermont steamers plying between this port and New York are on the tax list for $160,- 000, but the company has refused to pay the assessment. Having failed to gel an abatement of the total amount from the board of relief, it Will take an appeal to the courts. The compan: claims its boats hail from Portland, Me., but inquiry, it is claimed, at that | place, fails. to verify that claim. No doubt the steamboat scompany pays | taxes somewhere on these boats, at | some port along the- Atlantic coast, but so far it has declined to make a statement to that effect. A state law provides that personal property can be taxed in this sfate if raainained here seven months in the year. The com- pany claims that as its boats run to New York every other day they are not in the state seven months of the year, To meet the estimated expenses of the city it will be necessary. under a 16-mill tax, to increase the grand list something like $4,000,000. Woerk Still a Necessity. ; No -soil is good chough to make money without considerable work.— Atchison Globe | | | | residence in the country, to which she | he was | eral_officers wer | The passenge | ing with excitement. | 'who have forgotten this or else their Cabled Paragraphs Berlin, Oct. 26.—A detailed report of the fighting at Hankow, October 12, received here, states that the Ameri- can gunboat Helena and the British sunboat Thistle participated. Cape Haitien, Haiti, Oct. 26.—Mad- ame Josephine Leconte, wife of Pres- ident Leconte, died last night at her | went several days ago. Yuzovka, Russia, October 26.—By an St. Petersburg, Oct. 26—There is no truth whatever in the reports circu- ted abroad of an attempt on the lives of the emperor and empress. They | are declared officially to have been cir- culated for the purpose of influencing the marlket. % | order of the governor all Jews in the | province of Yekaterinoslav are subject to expuslion with the following excep- tions: First, those living in the prov- ince cince May 16, 1882; second, arti- sans and others having permits of res- \dence fro mthe governor's chancery: third, those residents since Auguest | 14, 1906, if an order of expulsion against them has already been set side by the governor’s chancery; and fourth, those who have changed to a rural residence between May 16, 1883; and January 11, 1888. FEDERAL GRAND JURY TG INVESTIGATE M’NAMARAS{ Latest Development May Change En- | tire Aspect of Case. Los Angeles, Cal.. Oct. 26.—Reports from Indianapolis todsy that a fed- | eral grand jury would investigate the; so-called McNamara dynamiting cases | suppiied a theme for consideration to- | day by counsel for defense of John | J. and James B. McNamara and at- tracted attention in the office of Dis- | trict Attorney John D. Fredericks as well. Clarence S. Darrow, chief counsel for the defense, telegraphed to Indian- | apolis for more information. A lull in court procedure while a new venire was being summoned gave | opportunity for regarding the sub- | ject. It was believed that the wnole | aspect of the case might be chaqged‘i by the action of the federal authorities | tnd that the McNamaras, under nine- teen indictments for murder in the de- struction of the Los Angelds Times huilding, might enter upon an entirely | changed legal status. It was admitted tonight that the in- vestigation misht-make it easier for the | “Tosccution to institute proceed- to obtain certain records the Ini- es have refused to give Lack of this evidence was said to be one of the reasons why James B. McNamara’'s case is trisd first, PLUMBER HEARD A WOMAN’S SCREAM. Saw Man With Handkerchief Over Face Near Dr. Knabe's Home. _Detectives | e apartment house which Dr. Helen Knabe lived and death by a knife blow, he Teard two screams and saw a man with o handkerchief pressed to his e emerge from an alley in the rear of the building, Carr's story is cod- robative of the statement by the ne- gro janitor of the puilding who said awakeped “in the night by screams_but that he went to sleep | gain without making an investigation. | Whether or not the man who Carr declares e saw had any connection with the death of Dr. Knab. the po- lice said they had no reason to doubt | that he had heard a woman’s scream- in mei her ing in Dr. Knabe's apartiment and that | this fact practically destroved cred- | ence in the theory that the physician | committed TRIPOLI suicide, EETHING WITH EXCITEMENT Three Companies of Italian Lignt Ar- | tillery Annihilated. | Maita, Oct. 26.—The Italian reverse &t Tripoli on October 23, according to steamchip passengers who have jusl! arrived here, amounted almost to a | rout, During a reconnoissanee an Ital- | ian outpest encountered a Turkish outpost, which retreated, 'The Ital- followed and found themselves uddenly attacked on all sides. Three compi of Bersaglieri | (light artillery) vrere anuihilated. Sev- made prisoners and mutilated and hanged by irregula; The return of the remainder of the g a great number by some of the pas- sengers to be seven hundred—caused | interse excitement among the Arab | population of Tripol The Arabs at- | tempted to wevolt, firing many shots and wounding many Italians. The at tempt was soon lled and hundreds | of Mussulmans were arrested and_shot. say that when they left Tripoli the town was still seeth- MERCHANTS HONEST. Derby Sealer of Weights and Meas- ures Found Little Cheating. The report of the work done by Der- 's_sealer of weights and measures, Brassill, which was submitted by b: 3 | to ihe board of aldermen at itswlast | O chances. meeting, was something of a surprise to the members of the board. It was the first time that such a report had ever been given and the first time that the hoard ever got any idea of what the sealer does in the way of correct- ing weights and measures. Whether the present sealer has done his work as thoroughly as some previous one, there is no way of teiling, as there is nothing on file with the city to show what the others have done. The thing about the present report that is prov- ing interesting that not all the scales and measures in the city,are false and that not all of them are perfect. There are a whole lot of people doing busi- ness who still believe that sixteen ounces malke a pound. There are ev- 1dently some, judging from the num- ber of false seales and measures found. i | i | scales and measures have shrunk, | Some of these scales were not chron- ically deficient, because the sealer gave the owners a chance to correct them, and they were corrected. Others were so far out of the way that they had to be destroyed. Nothing Like It. Colonel Roosevelt disapproves of many things, but he continues to think well of the preceding presidential ad- ministration~-Washington Star, Where Seeing Is. Believing. Policemen who cannot see gambling whern it is before their eyés presuma- ply do_their work by the touch s: tem.—Chicago News. Sound travels through the air at the rate of about 13 miles a minute. | game Bender | total of eight errors | the two teams, | of them wer Athletics -Again The Ghampions CONCLUDING GAME OF SERIES A SLAUGHTER. THREE PITCHERS POUNDED Murphy Slams Out Singles and Dou- bles at Will—Seven Philadelphians Earn a Place in Basehit Column. Philadelphia, Oct, 26—Hail! Phila= delphia Athletics, champions of the world for the second successive year. Routed Rather Than Defeated. In an exhibition of batting seldom seen in a premier baseball series, the American League team defeated the New York Nationals today in the sixth game of the competition by the overwhelming scare of 13 to 2. They thus have the four games out of the six played needed to carry off the baseball greatest honor. It was more than a mere defeat for the Giants, it was a rout. Philadelphia Fans Celebrate. Philadelphia is celebrating tonight as never before a great baseball vic- tory. To defeat New York in re- { venge for the trouncing the National Leaguer’s gave them in 1905 was al- most_as pleasing to the: Athletics as | winning the world’s championship it- self. With the victory goes sixty per- cent. of $127.910, or $76,746, of which each Athletic player will receive $3,- 654, mainder, $51.164, New York player. ,Premier Exhibition of Batting. The batting by the Athletics today was one of the finest exhibitions ot offensive playing seen at Shibe park in z long time. New York scored one run in the first inning, but the Athle- tics tied the score in the third inning, won it in the fourth by making four runs and clinched it in the sixth when they added another run. Seven Runs In One Inning. Not only this, but they sinfply crushed the Giants in the seventh in- ning by making seven hits which with a couple of misplays added seven more runs to the total The sensa- tional batting of all the pitchers the New Yorkers sent in to the boxX rous- ed the crowds to the greatest en- thusiasm. ~ With _victory in _their grasp the Athletics appeared to let down and when the seventh inning was over the cheering thousands start- ed to leave the grounds. Three Pitchers Slaughtered. Tle struggling National League champions sent or $2,436 for each stem the tide of defeat but all were | 5 Oct. i | hit pretty impartialy. Wiltse got the ight to v the story of Fiorst whaling. The other two were | v, a plumber, who reported to | Ames who started 'the game, and that last Monday night | Marquard, who followed ~ Wiltse. | ‘Phirteen hits for & total of 17 bases was the total shown by the hit col umn when the game was over. Seven Athletics There With Wallop. except Collins and Bender but the former made a timely sacrilice that helped to score a run, When the game began today Catcher Thomas was the only member of the “White Elephants” team that had not made a'| hit In the series. He got into the hit column in the seventh inning and the Athletic players themselves cheered him for at last getting to a pitcher. | Murray of the New York team is the only one of its regulars who failed to bat any Athletic pitcher in the series for a hit. Bender’'s Best Performance. To “Chief” Bender, the wonderful Chippewa Indian twirler, goes tbe edit of pitching the final victory H hibition he gave in the first game on s work in the box surpassed the ex- the Polo grounds in New York. singles and a double in as many in- nings were all the New Yorks could garner off his delivery. ® *The Giants’ Two Tallies. ¢ The two base hit was made by Doyle in the first inning and he scored later when Murphy muffed an easy fiy. TFrom this time, however, the Indian was never in trouble. lew th Ben- nd in the fifth inning. der appeared to let zog hit- him for a quently _scored. Tt was had pitch second victory in three days. Some Phencmenal Fieldin Notwithstanding the hea X the Athletics and the fact that were made by e game was a bril- liant one. Numerous plays were made chich brought the cheering crowd to s feet. Devore, New Yor left fielder, robbed Lord of a three b: in the n down 2 e and the and subse- thira his 1 by | hit by catching his lonz fly in center | field after a great sprint | Davis made sensational running catch- . Baker and es of foul flies and Collins electrified the spectators by a stop and a throw of a savage grounder bhack of the second base that no one thought he could reach, The Philadelphia te: was charged with five error: made on the eis Two of errors were wild throws which practi- cally started theif downfall. Smallest Crowd of Series, The crowd which saw the Athletics win the championship was the small- | est of the series, But what it lacked in numbers it ma up in enthusiasm. There was litt noise until the third inning when the Athletics tied the score and when the home teain found the ball in the fourth and subsequent rounds there was never a cessation in the cheering. Every local player was given a round when he stepped fo the plate, rank errors were overl and the Athletics so o numbering 20,485. stepped to the plate at the pitching. shown by Captain cheered when he Innis in to the g ning., “Stuffy” and _officially in_ the series. ;:‘Cl‘.h i Mez'hers o‘ll fi'&mm Te- near the en e ga in fa- vor of Wilson, probably %ma reason. Before the game 1 though Plank would be the pitcher and there was seme surprise among the fans whn Conniz ck_sent Bender . (Continued on Page Three,) The loser will receive the re- in three pitchers to| y member of the team got a hit | Three | ork got a single in the third and one | Her- | Nine Hits, 11 Runs In Two Innings. | it looked as | into the box. The “chief” proved that T T Dissolution of - The Steel Trust GOVERNMENT BRINGS ACTION IN :: CIRCUIT COURT. i ALL ‘'SUBSIDIARIES INCLUDED Most Sweeping Anti-Trust Action Ever Brought—Eighteen Individual De- fendants—Trust Prepared to Fight. Trenton, N. J., Oct. 26.—The govern- ment’s long planned suit to brealk up | the so-cailed “Steel Trust” was be- gun here today in the United States | | circuit court. It is the most sweeping anti-irust action ever brought by the department of justice. Asks Dissolution of Subsidiaries. The government asks not only for | the dissolution of the .United States Steel corpcration, but for the disso- lution of all constituent or subsidiary companies which are alleged to have combined in violation of the Snerman law to “maintain, or attempt to main- tain, a monopoly of the steel business.” ‘There are thirty-six subsidiary cor- | orations named as defendfints. t Individual Defendants. | 3. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rocke- | feller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwabh, George W. Perkins, E. H. Gary John D. Rockeftller, Jr., ifenry Frick, Charles Steele, James Gay- ley, Wililam H. Moore, J. H. Moore, Edmund C. Converse, Percival Roberts, Jr.,, Daniel G. Reid, Norman B. Ream, | P.” A, B. Widener and Willlam P. Palmer are named individually as de- fendants. Louis W. Hill, Walter J. Hill, | E. T. Nichols and J. H., Gruber are | namea as trustees of ‘ore companies. | Lease of Ore Properties Illegal. The Steel corporation’s lease of the Great Northern Railway’s ore proper- ties, which the directors of the Steel, company formally decided today to | cancel, is alleged to be illegal. This | action by the directors was taken but a few hours before the filing of the | bill. The government acknowledgs that it was advised of the Steel cor- poration’s mtention in this respect, but states that under the terms of the lease no cancellation would be effec- tive intil January 1, 1915, and there is no limit upon ghe amount of ore that can be taken @t in the meantime. | Roosevelt Was Misled. | The Steel corporation’s acquisition | of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. dur- | ing the panfc of 1908 is declared to be illegal, and is scathingly criticised. The | H i Condensed Telegrams Larz Anderson of Boston, the newly appointed minister to Belgium, sailed with Mrs. Angerson on La Provence vesterday. The Cornerstone of the Davis Library at Phillips_Jxeter academy was laid Yesterday by Gen. William A. Ban- croft of Cambridge. - Lowery W. Goode of New York, president of the Cairo & Norfolk rai road, died at a Boston hotel yeste day, from an overdose of morphine. The Suicide of Dr. Eugene Goodwin, a prominent financier of San Francis- co and Berkeley, Cal, is announced in a letter received at Biddeford, Me. Pedro Rafael Cuadra has been a pointed minister of finance of Nicara- gua to succeed J. R, Sandine. the American legation ~at Tegucigalpa reported. Ex-President Roosevelt was Informed last night of the government’s suit for the dissolution of the United States Steel corperation, but declined to com- ment upon it. The wife of Rinney Woodward Earl | of Edgewater Park, N. J., who is suing her husband .for divorce, alleges that her mother-in-law refuses to permit | her husband to work. | A Severe Tropical Storm Headed wesward from the Bahamas has stirr- ed weather bureau officials and storm warnings were yesterday ordered aiong the entire Florida coast. Shakespeare Has Been Rejected 2 “licenticus, unclean and objectionable by the youthful literary lights of the Hammond high school at Chicago, and | they are reciving the support of their | teachers. | A One Hundred Million Dollar addi- tion to the capital stocic and $100,000,- | 000 bond issue were authorized by the stockholders of the Atchison, Topeka | & Santa Fe in their annual meeting | yesterday. The Selection of S. Alfred Sze to succeed Chang Yin Tang as Chinese minister at Washington was due fu his known sympathy with the United States. He was educated at Cornell university. A jury for the trial of Jacob Heriz otherwise known as George Graham Rice, and associates in the brokerage firm of Scheftels & Co., was completea in the United States Circuit court of New Yorl The government will assume control of navigation on the Monongahela, Ohio and Alleghny rivers on Oct. 31, upon the centenary celebration of the beginning of steam navigation on ‘Western rivers. | petition declares that E. H. Gary and | Henry C. Frick misled former Presi- | dent “Roosevelt when they told him | | “that but little benefit will come to | corporation from the pur- | | the Steel | chase.” Desire to Stop Panic Not Sole Motive. | “IT'he president,” it says, “was not | made fully acqpainted with the state of affalrs in New York relevant to the | transaction as they existed. If he had been fully advised, he would have | known that a4 desire to stop the panic | { was not the sole moving cause, but | that there was also a desire and pur- | | pose to acquire the control of a com- | pany that had recently assumed a po- | ition of potential competition of great | significance, Interiocking Directorates. Interlocking directorates, through | which those in power in the Steel cor- poration 1 positions of influence on the directorates of other powerful corporations, are referred to a “method | more refincd, more euphonious, but none the less effective than pools,” “Grasp of Its Tentacles.” i “The power and control that have | | been exerted by the corporation, large- | | Iy through the grasp of its tentacles, | thus thrown out upon the consumer, competitors and capital, is incompati ble with healthy commercial life | of the na > Service of the Bill. Within_fifteen minutes after the fil- ing of the decision a United States ! | marshal was on his way te New York | to serve the bill upon fifteen Gefend- ants-resident there, among them being | J. P. Morgan, Charles M. Schwab, former president of the corporation: | Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board, | and John D. Rockefeller. The deputy was under instructions to enlist the | aid of United States Marshal Henkel | at Ne entire force of ' aeputie: to serve the | petition ce of the peti- | to a statement given | - office of the United States | Ma ott for this district, is one | of two which will be made in the case | iuring the ne: 24 hours. The sec- ond service will be a subpoena re- | ng the defendants to answer the ition at Trenton on the first Mon- | - in December. PREPARED TO FIGHT. | Government Action Expected But Not | at This Time. N York, Oet. 26,—The United | States Steel corporation is prepared to | fight for its existence. The men at | the helm of the great corporation were [silenl when the news -came to them | that the blow which has been awaited {so long had fallen. Although it was expected that sooner or later the “bil- lion-dollar combine” would be put to the test under the Sherman law, even the highest officials of the corporation had no inkling that the suit would be filed at this time. The attitude of the corporation is set forth clearly, how- ever, in a statement which it issued one month ago today. In that state- ment. it proclaimed its belief that it was within tht law. It declared over the signature of J. P. Morgan that it would not dissolve ‘voluntarily. Because of the fear that the corpor- ation would be dissolved, holders of Steel stocks and bonds in all parts of the couniry have sold their securities in enormous amounts during rectnt months, TLiguidation became so heavy jast month that for a time the stock market was demoralizea. It was on account of this that the directors is- sued their statement and in their ef- fort to stay the prevalent apprehen- sion they to some extent succeeded. | | I Steamship Arrivals. At Naples: Oct. 25, Duca D'Aosta, from New York: Ultonia, from New Yorlk. At Genod: New York. At Plymouth: Oct. 26. George Wash- ington, from New York. Oct. 23, Taormina, from Advocates of Peace. That little Tripoli affair is a sardonic | commentary on the fact that both Itaiy and Turies signed The Hague conven- tion of 1907 for “the pacific settlement of international- disputes.”—Richmond ews-Leader. ' | or | mittee | number tain 2 | murdere | ing the jas are the average members of the | States, | mitted to the fall council of the gen- | ence lam L | wife an In the Hope of Meeting With a 45 50-mile wind, Orville Wright an- nounced yesterday that he probably would remain here all next week to try out his glider, with which he is experimenting. Reger C. Sullivan, democratic na- tional committeeman, yesterday de- nied to the United States senate com- investigating the election of William Lorimer, that he had helped elect Lorimer. James G. Martin, the Aviator, who was_professor of aeronautics at E ard university, had a miraculous es- ape from death while t out a new 106-horsepower engine at the ficid at Mincola, L. I, yesterday | Proposed increases in the freight rate on o and condensed milk | from the dairving districts of Ohio Tndiana, eastward to Pittsburgh, were held by the Interstate Comnmerce Com- | mission to be unreasonable. Isaac Belote, a farmer of Forestville, N. Y., has been asleep since last Thursday. Electric _batte have s been applied and other efforts of a of well-known physicians 1o | awaken him have proved futile. Traced by Bloodhounds to the Moun- | lake road north of Gloversville, | Charles E. Baker, the alleged er of Norman Briggs, was shot dead by onme of the pursuing party shortly after one o'clock vesterday. ¥, The Brookiyn Daily Eagle, celebrat- seventieth anniversary of its first issue, published yesterday a spe- cial ninety-six page adition and with an eftertainment and reception last night to the present and former mem- bers of its staff. It Took a New York Jury only 20 minutes yesterday to decide that Vico Mictlli was guilty of kidnapping the three year old son of Mariano Scimeca, a prominent Italian physician. The maximum sentence Micelli may re- ceive is 50 years. Seventh Day Adventists are doing| 15 times as much for foreign missions other Protestant bodies in the United according®,to a report sub- eral conference committee. The trustees of Princeton university were in conference for about three hours at Princeton, N. J. yesterday but were unable to_decide upon a president to succeed Woodrow Wilson whose resignation of the presidency was accepted just a year ago. A Vigorous Attack on Christian Sci- was made at the annual confer- ence of Unitarian churches at Wash- ington, vesterday by Rev. George R. Dodscn of St. Louls, who characterized it as a “menace to the country and to national life,” and “a fanaticism.” A Sentence of Two Years and one month in the penitentiary at Dorches- ter, N. B. 'was passed upon William Bragdon, who was convicted of man- slaughter ‘in shooting Woodman Mc- Cluskey was in_the company of Mrs. Bragdon when her husband returned home unexpectedly. PRESIDENT’S FAMILY & 5 LEAVE SUMMER HOME. After Few Days Will n Washington they Go to Hot Springs. Beverly Oct. 26.—Mrs, Wil- H. Taft and Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, left their summer home, Parramatta, ontserrat, for the season late They motored to Roston and took an express for Washington, where ‘they will stay for a few days and: then go to Hot Springs, Va., to remain until the president returns from his western tfip and joins them. Mrs. Taft's health has improved great- 1y during her stay in Beverly. | The Dangerops Age. | About the time -a girl begins to be afraid of men they need to take out | Jife insurance against her.—New Yerk Press. " x s | er: The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the _Largesl; in Connecticut in Proport,ion to the City’s Populatio™ Throne Yields To Assembly MAY BE MEANS OF ENDING CHI- NESE REVOLUTION. CABINET MEMBERS TO GO Sheng Hsuan-Huai Dismissed and Prince Ching to Go Before Board of Inguiry—Downfall Due to Reform. Peking, Oct. 26—The throne surrend- ered today to the Tzu:Cheng-Yuan, China’s national assembly, and in com- pliance with the demands of the as- sembly dismissed Shen Hsuan-Hua minister of posts and communications; drdered Prince Ching, the president of the cabinet, before a board of in- quiry, where he -will doubtless be fieverely dealt with; releaged from custody the president of. the Sze-Chuen provincial assembly and other lead- in’the riots at Cheng-Tu and, in- deed, agreed to all that the assembly asked, with a lack of dignity incon+ ceivable to western obrervers. Regretted By Foreigners. The edict, in which these orders were premulgated, has been read with re- gret by the foreigners, especially those who were associated with Sheng Hsuan-Huai in the negotiations of the loans and for reforms which brought about his downfall. Throne Has Defied People. A year ago the throne treated the national ~ assembly at times almost with contumacy. = The ministers re- fused to appear before the assembly, and the budget and other bills sub- mitted to the assembly for considera- tion were subsequently put aside for others more suitable to the palace and the erand councillors. Until even a month ago the throne. defiant of the people, issued edicts embodying drastic measures, one of which in September was directed against the anti-forelgn railway agitators in Sze-Chuen. Now, the first resolution of the newly con- vened assembly carrying consepuences of irremediable character, has been granted without a 'single day’s consid- eration. Deposed Men Not Unhappy. Friends who saw Sheng Ya; when the throne’s intention was kxown to him, say that he is not unhappy. It is said that Prince Ching will be glad to escape the thankless premisrship at any cost. Indeed, it is believe:\that the throne acted on advice of Prince Ching and probably the others. May Terminate Revolution. The appointment of Tang-Shao-Yi ncceed Sheng Hsuan-Hual is be- ed to forecast the appointment of n Shi Kai to the second offi-- in the cabinet, if not to the premiership. With the prospect of Yuan Shi Kali, who is a Chinaman, leading the coun- try, now ruled by the national assem- bly, it is evident that the Manchus mean to oeffer to the people complete and immediate constitutional* govern- ment in return for cessation of hos- tilit It is reported that Yuan is already negotiating wi the the rebels, Members of the legations, who are old in experience in China's affairs, would not be surprised if the revolution ter- minated on these lines, practically without further fighting. General Killed By Own Troops. Peking, China, Oct. 26—The Chinese newspapers report that the troops at ang-Tu, the capital of Sze Chuen | province, have mutinied and killed General Chao Erh-Feng, commander of perlal forces, and joined the who now hold the capital. The legations have received no news officially from Sze-Chueh province for the past ten day: "The ordinarilly dis- credit the reports published in the Chinese papers but consider the state- ment that Cheng Tu has fallen and the imperial commander assassinated= s not improbable. The American legation inquiries. STOLE AUTOMOBILE AND KILLED A BOY. Robert Taft of Springfield Confesses to Hartford Police. is making furtk Hartford, Conn., Oct. 26—By the ar- rest of Robert R. Taft of Springfleld, and his confession to the po- i identity of a sixteen years old boy killed near Buchanan, Virginia, by the overturning of an automobile the latter part of September w: es-~ tablished. Taft said that the boy's name was Richard Clark and that his home was also in Springfield. Taft confessed that he in company with Clark and a third companion stole in this city on the night of September 20 an automobile .owned by George L. Bidwell. They drove through sev- eral cities in the state, being fired-upon s the Stamford police for not stop- ng when ordered to_do so and eon- tinued on down fo Virginia. Whila going down the mountains near Bu- chanan the machine ran into a tree and was overturned, inflicting injuries on Clark which caused his death. Theyv gave the authorities of that place fl(-t(llfious names and left after Clark e The police were advised tonight that the third man had been arrested in Springfield, Mass., and gave his name as Peter Mason. He 1s said to have admitted that he was the third man in the case. Senator Wetmore Il Bostom, Oct. 27—A report reached this city early today _that United States Senator George Peabody Wet- more of Rhode Island has been taken seriously ill with pneumonia while on a visit to the Panama ealan. Mrs. Wetmore and other members of the senator’s famfly went from their Rhode Island home to New York last night and it was reported that their visit was in connection with the sen- ator’s illnes: Jack Johnson a White Mason? Dundee, Oct. 26—The Masonic grand lodge of Scotland an inquiry in- to the recent initiation of Jack Johm- son. the American heavyweight pu- gilist, as” & _member of the lodge of Forfar and Kincardine, of Dundee. It is alleged that Johnson's iniation was accompanied by scenes and cirotm- stances not usually associated with the Masonie craft. Beulah Reasons Well. Beunlah Binford has given notice that she will not go on the stage. Her rea- son is probably similar to that given by, the boy kicked down stairs from thé rallroom, who whimpered: _“I know why I was kicked down; they didn’t want me there”—Pensacola Journal. f all the paper nsed im the the amag 1910 it is said that ;