Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 28, 1911, Page 1

NORWICH, s CONN SATURD AY, OCTOBER 28, 1911 T, 7'he Bulletin’s Circulation in Norw THE LETTERS IN RICHESON'S ROOM Government Abandons Effort to Obtain Them From Detective Burns “IT LOOKS AS IF THEY HAD NO CASE” Assertion of One of Counsel for Defense—More Witness= es Appear Before Grand Jury—Investigation to be Continued Monday—Father of Clergyman Convinced of Son’s Ionocence—Richeson’s Letter Read at Church Mr. Ri son is pastor, was ally the letter sent recently to The letter of which held to reccive fo which the ministe clerk of the church, ues | regarding the pastorate pending the { report of the grand ju It was an | executice session to which only church members were admitted. Among some members before the meeting beoan, there was an impreesion that the let- ter would simply be accepted and further action postponed. Prayers For All Person In Trouble. ev. aptist grand jury = Photographs and other rom the rooms of Mr. Ric arrest Detoctive Not Questioned. Surns, a private of the de s articles from Mr Riche- écn's appartments, was surpriscd At the prayer meeting_which w t ¥ & summons to appear T ccnucted by Edwin S. Watson, the s and it was undcr liurch treasurer, ever Faileth” attorney inter s the topic 1 know about tive further our present situation,” said Mr. Wat- renc th It is time to love rule. Love p st bring out all right for love both rules The meeting closed ntention with a prayer for all persons in trouble and suffering from perplexities, and for those in hard places. Reply to Richeson’s Letter. After considerable discussion at the business meeting which appeared to be harmonious, the following letter was composed Mr. Harris, form- smouth coun- " to be forwarded to Richeson: Your communication of the 24th inst duly received and read before church. We unanimously voted wait until such time as the grand :ur makes its decision, praying that ail things may turn out for the best.” SCURVY CLAIMS ANOTHER FOLLOWER OF SANDFORD. Missionary Who Weighed 165 Fell Away to 84 Pounds. Portland, Maine, Oct. 27.—The eighth death amonz Rev. Frank W. Sandford’s followers on the cruise from Southern no | Waters occurred today, when John Bol- (he | ster, ane of the two men taken from it | the 'Sandford yacht Coronmet Saturday and removed to the marine hospital iy orders of the guarantine officials, pass- and an ef- divulge what the way ons w ing re trying » looks to and they s raised he- this morning t 1 foree give up in w of th: » employ of Mr. gather evidence | | District Attorneys’ Statement. i ed away. Dolster's death was due to District A J. C. Pelletier said | scurvy and it is aileged, lack of food in reference i onference that e | on bonrd the Coronet. d ledge of it until| Holster had been connected with He said that De- | “Sandfordism” for fifteen years, serv imoned to appear | ing 11 vears of the time as vesterday ary for the Holy Ghost and Us societ » produce any | fn” Palestine and Egypt. Before h 1 by him from | denth he said his usual weight was 165 n Cambrid pounds. At the hospital he weighed the district ust 84 pounds. He was 42 vears of vapers and ar- age. ticles taker on's rooms but | “When he jolned the soclety Bolster the witness said that he had trans- | gave up his business as'a blacksmith furred thiem to the atiornevs represent- | 5t Faston. His wite. who assisted Aim fng the defen District Attorney | in {he missionary work, is at the so Pelletier sair that he understood th 11‘%,}'_, Meaiiinitiets 4t Shil6h. iwhere &t the conferenc San-| she proceeded with others from the derson r Mr{ Coronet on Monday nizht. She ob- : :fl“'” jected to Bolster's going to the hospi- tal and did not see him after his re- moval there POET WEDS DIVORCED WIFE OF SCULPTOR vhic Photos and Letters Included. Joces “0| Mrs. trma Perry Becomes Mrs. Rich- ard LeGallienne at Rowayton. New York, *Oct. 27.—Richard LeGal- | lienne, the Tinglish poet, was married at his country home at Roway- Conn,, to Mrs. irma Perry, a { vortea wife of Roland Hinion Perry, cuiptor. Announcement of the marriage w: made by Mr. LeGallien- ne's retary late t y. The offi- ciiting clergyman was Rev. Dr. Philip Nordell of Boston. witne Mr. LeGallienne has twice before e tered the married state. Last July a divorced him from his second posin wife, Julia Norregard LeGallienne, for- e merly of Paris. Mrs. Perry obtained a divorce from her husband in 1904. time Monda nigit Yesterday's Witneszes. | Two YEARS AND $5.000 Today's FINE FOR “WHITE SLAVER.” ury | e Srant I | Morris Cohen Sentenced; Wife's Case clergy Continu, I Monday. the Young W associa- | chi el DIy, tion Jodsing 3 iss Lin-1 New —Morris Cohen pell dled, Miss Julic tHerson. f and his Cohen were con- superintendent. and Mis 2 Hans- | yicteq the United States circuit comb, ille Seigier Miss Mar: = today of violating the fed- Austin v Lin laws prohibiting interstate traffic ell; mi the | in women for immoral purnoses, The ambrids. ury was out only five minut £al made ag charged that the Cohens \ - conyeyed young women fr | York to Connecticut cities. potice, Riceson made ar da years imp > mee_l. iss Linnell on = tlanta penitentiary and a fine y of her death: Dr. His wife was refanded un- , who attended M Monday for sent dying moments; ‘a - b, an assistant nnehan, an errand i Y. M. C. A. Boys’ Conference. Btore of William Hal Newton | Waterbury, Con: 27.—The 12th Center. where Richeson is said to have | annual boys’ c LAy urchased a2 aquantity of cvanide of | ' which by ity yest rver g v «.m..u‘ml lts sessions today ‘;md | will conciude its work tomorrow. Rev. A BGplicals of Cyiinide Bottle | poyert T, Brown of this city dstivered In connection with iling of the ;\],, principal addres stod Mrs, B. 3ast two witnesses s learned to-1) ott of New Haven del ed an day that Inspector Joseph C. Mitchell, | zdaress on the subject, The IMaht in ®©f the local police secured from Hahn's | {ha Hom: "his afternoon, Dr. érug store ot ton Center last T Seaver of New Haven, formerly ph # bottle containing cyanide of po cal dir at Yale, delivered zn ad- | fum similar to that which Drusgist| Jress In the evening, Wallace Ro "nlm ] '“Ah ,.;-m to ‘u; Richeson. =h school bo: ecretary, West Sicg nspector Mitchell is said to have tes- | prancr e vark. oo ets B o Lo ut | branch, New York, addressed the meet s hether he exhibited the nhial and the| — " o woision is not knew. RN Eotb ot Acqaitel Killed While Gathering Leaves. Haitford, Oct. 27.—Nicnolas Ostur- . % h . today by an automobile Thie cits: Tor mi home in v e s R. Keeiey. Ostarcul was e ' vitkiuls on Niles street, and had 1 am living T inow I ure as s living T know | shouldercd a bag of them to carry .'xlt;::kn;f;r:vf;l"m withe { across the street to his wagon. Kee- Ry B o came aleng in his machine and jassachusetts zct into a knocked to the ground, ctured and nevk broken. under arrest, but after an investigation was allowed to go. i n said he cams from his son’s lips a dex eharge of murder pending against him. Sister Returns to Philadelphia Miss Lillie V. Richeson, one of the m of the mccused man, leit for Cows Get Drunk on Apples. Greenwich. Conn., Oct. 27—A herd of twelve cows. owned by Soren Jen- sen, a local farmcr, will Jand in the villaze lockups if ‘they do not stop eatlug apples that intoxicate. The cows were turned loose in an orchard severai days ago and after eating of vartly decayed apples be- ore or les sintoxicated and ince then have refused to deliver milk or do other things that good cows #hould do. by elphia, where she Is emnloved @8 a nurse. a short time hefore her 's departure. Douglas Richeson, elder brother of the minister. is only relative of the prisoncr here &t the present time. ~Richeson’s Letter Read to Church. . Following the regulzr Friday even- yer meeting tonight. = busi- of the members of Im. church in Cambridge d that the church defer action | the | | Cabled Paragraphs Tokio, Oct. 27—It is officially de- 5 Mukden, reported. Manchuria, as had been St. Petersburg, Oct. 27—George Post Wheeler, secretary of the American | embassy, and Mrs. Wheeler left today | for the United States on a vacation. Rheims, France, Oct. 2"—While try- ing out a military aeropiane today, the pilot Jean Despanmet fell with the ma- chine from a_height of 600 feet and was crushed to death. Berlin, Oct. 27—Dr, Frederick A. Cook arrived here. F¥rom Berlin he will proceed to Paris and thence go to els to deliver a lecture before the al Polar Commission. . Germany. Oct. 27—A small boat which’was being lowered over the side of the German cruiser Muenchen last night capsized, throwing its occupants into the water. A boatswain and six sailors were drowned. | _Rome, Oct. 27—King Emmanuel to- day purchased the whole series f thirty etchings by Joseph Pennell ex- hibited at the international art ex- position her The American artist | arrived Rome Iast Saturd |and participated in the work of the jury of the exposition of which he is a member. Copenhagen, Oct. 27—The committee in charge of mission work amons the fiskimos at Cape York has refused to cept the procecds of the _lecture which Dr. Frederick A. Cook_delivered Lere Tuesday night. Dr. Cook, who met with a hostile reception here, an- that he desired to present the momey to the Eskimos. NEWPORT PAYS TRISUTE TO WOMAN LIFE SAVER Marl Manifestations of Respect During Funeral of Lda Lewis. | - Newport, R. I, Oct. 27.—All New- port paid tribute today to the mem- ory of one of its best known residents and thousands of persons filed through the Thames Street Hethcdist church to look for the last time upon the fea- tures of Ida Lewis Wilson, better known as Ida Lewls, the life saver | whose body lay in state for several hours during the day. i Rudolph Lewis, {he aged brother of | ide Lhe Jittle Lime Rock lighthouse this forenoon and watched the launch bearing his sister’s remains make the trip from the lighthouse, where she had spent her Jong life, to the mainland. That's the way she wanted to go,” he said. All the vessels in the harbor had their colors at half-staff, and half- masted flags were flying from all the ou buildings and many . private houses angl residences. Out of respect for Miss Lewis' memory, tarset prac- tice at Fort Adams was suspended during the passage of the body from the lighthouse 1o the church. Another large crowd was waiting outslde the church when the hearse ar- rived. Within the cliirch was a great mass of flowers, including a wreath from the Niuety-seventh coast artillery staticned at Fort Adams, and a pillow from the crew of the lifeboat Ida Lew- is” «t the United States iife saving station at Prices Neck. The funeral service was attended by all of the city officials and many rep- resentatives of the state, the federal government, the army and the navy. Rear Admi‘al Ravmond P. Rodgers, commandant of the Narrazansett na- val establishment, attended with his aide, Lieot. J. P. Jackson. Many of the officers and men from Fort were present, and the Seventh artillery band, statiored outside the church, “Let the Lower Lights Be My God, to Thee,” ted by Rev. pastor of the church, Stanley C. Hughes, Episcopal urch. the parents of the deceased are bur- ied During the funeral services all business houses in the city were closed. To Control Spinal Menin New Yori., Oct, —A discovery whereby epidemic spinal meningitis can be entirely controlled was an nounced by Dr. Simon Flexner, direct of the Rockefelier Institute for Medi- cal Reseacrh, at the closing session, of the conference of sanitary of New York state here toda: con- trol could Le established exner um into the cej 1d thus reacl by injecting ser pinal membrane, ing the seat of the di $200,000 for Smith College. New York, Oct. 2 @onditional ap- | propriations aggre: $655,000 were granted to six colieges and universites | by the board of t of the John | D. Focketelier fund for education— | the Bducation board—today. | Applications from 24 institutions were oresented. From the present list the board selected six. Among them is Smith co Northampton, Mass., | $200,000 towards $1,000,000. Robbed by Masked Men, Greenwich. Conn., Oct. The po- ce were asked today to look for two men, who held up and robbed John Murano of $110 and a gold watch last The men, who wore masks, held Murano up on Round hill and cut his clothing with a razor before he would surrender h iluables, Tonight an Italian laborer was arrested and is being held perding an investigation. State Debt Is $3,837,523.73. Hartford, Oct. 27—According to an stract of the slate tr Urer's repart the state was in debt nearly four mil- lions of dollars, $3,837,523.75, at the end | 'of ike fiscai year, September 30. The | total receipts were $8,229,653.93, and the expenditures $9,017,024.71, penditures in excess of receipts were $788,270.73. The funded debt is $3,064,- 100, with cash in the treasury of $376,- 576.27. Alaskan Lands to Be Leased. Chicago, Oct. 27.—Announcing that > spoke officlally and with the con- snt of President Taft, Secretary of the Interior Fisher said tonight before the American Mining congress in se: sion here that the commiarcial lands comprised in the public domain in Alaska would be available to the pub- lic under a leasing system. Steamship Arrivals. At Liverpool: ‘ Oct. 27, Baltic, from New York. At Rotterdam. from New York. AL Marseilles: from New York, Frank' Gould Has Appendici New York, Oct. 27.—Frank J. Gould, o 26, Volturno, Oct. 25, Germania, on for appeadicitis at his home Aon. day by Dr. Frank Hartley. It is said he 18 recovering 3 nied today that Japan had sent troops | nounced before leaving for Hamburg | ad woman, stood upon the rocks | Adams | |it was learned tonizht. was ‘operated | Slaughter of - The halians ARABS JOIN TURKS IN ATTACK- -ING INVADERS. 300 KILLED, 700 WOUNDED Campaign at Tripoli Costing More Lives and Money Than Was Expect- ed—Cholera Now Threatens Troops. | _ London, Oct, From uneénsored despatches from Tripoli reaching Eng- land by way of Malla and partly con- firmed by censored despatches reach- ing I it is apparent that Italy's campaign in Tripoli has already cost more lives than Italy anticipated it would and the financial outlay will greatly exceed the estimates. Arabs Turn on ltalians. The Turks and their Arab allies, who it was believed would at least carry on only a desultory campaign_which would make a kind of holiday for the invaders, have upset the calculations of the Italians by a series of concert- ed aftacks. In these, accordin accounts sent by correspondents out submission to the censor, the Ital- ian have come off second best. 300 Killed, 100 Wounded. The Turkish embassy issued a state- ich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Sheng Flees to Save Hi_s Head DEPOSED CHINESE MINISTER NOW AT TIEN TSIN. DECAPITATION DEMANDED Proposal Circulated Among National Assembly—Foreign Ministers Object and Are Now Protecting Him. Peking, Oct. 27.—Shen Husan-Hual, whow as removed from the office of minister of posts and communications as a concession to the national assem- bly yesterday, had a narrow escape from assassination here today. He fled and was escorted by a sauad of ten Did Not Enter American Legation. Edward T. Williams, the American charge d’affaires, denies that Sheng Hsuan-Huan entered the American le- gation today, but says he cannot fur- ther discuss the ex-minister’s_depart- ure from Peking. The Associated Press has been able to piece together the following infor- mation concerning the flight of Sheng. His Decapitation Demanded. A proposal was circulated among the members of the national assembly for signatnre last night or this morning | As make advertising successful called which not only means up-to-date-: pels notice. The live-wire quality his memory because it is of person: and take notlce; but the extra ordi expected! The flow of fluid not o but touch his pocket-book right—; touches of life; and a heart-touch trade is labelled response—coming is inviting!” Put things in a-mile tion right way. Send for a Bulletin rate card. space, etc. Subscribe for The Bulletin if v matters of interest in jall nations. door by carrier for 12 cents a week. week: Bulletin Saturday. Monday. Oct. Tuesday. Oct. Wednesday Oct. Thursday. Oct. Friday, Oct. Oct. 8 10. Totas. The Live-Wire Quality In Advertising thern gentleman in giving voice to the things which together but startling—it not only wakes the reader up, but indellibly affects tention to it. Tt Is not the ordinary in print that makes a man sit up a live-wire thought in common every day forms; but must be original. Things sald your way may be best sald. talk like “Cheese with a flavor which is an inspiration and a price that Advertisers, try it! That will put you right s to cost of Connecticut interest and keep in touch with domestic affairs and the Following is a summary of the matter printed during the past Telsgraph 23, 118 79 attention to the live-wire quality iveness but the quality which com- in newspaper work is not shocking 2] advantage to him to give his at- nary—not the expected, but the un- nly should stir the readers’ senses, for that is one of the real heart- of this kind means action, which in right your way. You can't create “Cheese at a bargain,” doesn't a-minute style and there'll be mo- ou would be allve to every Eastern The Bulletin will be left at your Total 1193 455 386 429 414 426 3303 General 914 218 187 184 207 214 1926 Local 206 122 112 143 128 145 856 7 2 | | ment today that in Monday's fighting the Allies won a victory and Italians lost 300 men killed and 700 wounded. This is confirmed, in part, by an in- dependent report that the Italians brought 700 wounded men into Tripoli and further by the announcement from Rome that the government has de- ciced to send forward 15,000 reinforce- ments. Don’t Understand Their Defeat. A belated account of Monday’s fight, which comes by way of Malta, says the Italians have no knowledge of what brought about their defeat. The Mos- lems, thoroughly understinding each other, prepared for a supreme effort to stagger or destroy the Invareds and only by accident did the Ttalians es- cape ambuscades deep and deadly. Italian Sharpshooters Mowed Down- “The Moslems population,” the des patch continues, “was expecting the signal to rise and strike their pro- fessed friends and awaited the oppor- tunity to shoot or steb the Italians who had been drawn a strataeum to parts favomable for an attack, but the Turks and Arabs showed too soon. Their plans and strength were partly discovered. They num- bered perhaps between 40,000 and 000. Undeterred by the failure of their s they fought desperately. The Ttalian sharpshooters lost tha mos heavily, some 200 or 300 of them per- ishing.”’ No Precautions Against Cholera Correspondents who have returned to London on account of the severity of the censorship express the opinion hat the Ttalian losses from cholera and | other diseases will ba most se: | should the campaign last any tim | They say the troops are not suitab clothed for the tronical nights and | that not the slightest taken to prevent them n drin ing polluted water. Bridgeport Man Had Two Wives. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 27.—The fil- ing of a suit of $10,000 against the es. tate of the late William McManus in the superior court here today by Alice McLauren of New Brunswick, the fact that McManus had two wives living when he died was brought out. The first Mrs. McManus 1s an inmate of an | asylum in New York state. ' Autorist Drove Into Lake. Greenwich, Conn., Oct. 27.—Mrs. William Goewertz of this place nar- rowly escaped drowning tiday, wten she drove her automobile into a lake to chine. Night Switcher. The New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad Co. has found it neces- sary to put on a night switcher at the New Pritain freight yard. The busi- ness is heavy and cannot be handled Dby the day crew. It is several months since a night switcher was used in that city, A_thirty mile wind kept Aviator C- F. Rodgers from resuminz his flight from ocean to ocean yesterday. Australla and the Argentina between them pasture one-third of all the sheep-in th world. High cheek bones are said to indi- cate great force of character in some themselves | escape being run down by another ma- | T | | demanding the decapitation of Shen. | | One of Sheng's adherents visited the | | American legation today and after a | hurried conference proceeded to the | race course, from which two foreign | ministers returned immediately to Pe- | Xing. Foreign Ministers Object. Later the French, German and Brit- ish ministers, accompanied by the American charge d'affaires, drove to the residence of Prince Cheng, teh pre- mier, and lodged an objection to a Dos- sible’ decree in line with the wishes of | the assembly. After yesrterday's edict | dismising Shen Hsuan-Huai, ordering | Prince Ching before a board of inquiry | and reieasing from custody the presi- | dent of the Sze Chuen provincial as- | sembly and other leaders in the Cheng | Tu riots, the ministers feared' that the | Manchus would go to any length. | Now at Tien Tsin. i Some persons say Sheng departed from Peking Thursday, but that he left | by train for Tien Tsin this afternoon | seems more probable. | Protected by Foreign Police. | At Tien Tsin and Shanghai the for- | eign residents will give Sheng the pro- | fection of the foreign police. The rep- | resentatives of the governments con- | cerned in the railway and surrency | agreements felt in honor bound to in- | tervene for the safety of Sheng because they or their predecessors pressed him to_conclude these contracts and urged | him to take the determined stand wwhich hesulted in the present. upheav- | al. Caused by Foreign Loan Policy. Although the revolution was brewins | previous to the conclusion of these con- tracts, it is considered here that the foreign loan policy preciptated it. AN INCREASE IN THE OPERATING REVENUE. | Financial Report of N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. for Month of September. New Haven, Conn., Oct nancial report of the New Yo Haven & Hartford railroad month of September shows revenue of $5,649,466.09, for >socrating A decreasa of $16,299.03 over the correspunding month of last year the operating «xpenses the were $3,432,600. 712.71 o : oper. t- 2168 on n- over mber, crease of $46,413.63 1910. The operating mcome was §! 032,653.56, an increass of $109,070.35 over thaf of the corrcsponding month last year. Boy Shot by Companion. Stamford, “Cenn,, Oct. 27—Emnnd Poltrack, 15 years old, one of a party of hoys who were shooting at a target late today, was shot in the left lung by Otto Seibert, 18 years old, and al. niost instantly 'killed. Seibert was handling the gun and in a joking man- iner pointed it at Poltrack and accl- dentally pulled the trigzer. Seibert notified the police, Who placed him in custody pending n investisation by the coroner. | { | Pugilist Raised a Bill. San Francisco, Oct. 27—Frankie Neil, Iightweight pugilist, was indicted hy | upon himself, Antliony Stobinsky, aged | insky is dead at Derb: | Jail, Condensed Telegrams The first snow of the season fell at St. John, N. B., yesterday. Benjamin F. Pilson, railway supply | merchant, died in Washington, Dr. Charles W. Eliot was elected | president of the Unitarian conference. | It is Not the Intention of the war de- partment te*hbandon Fort Des Moines, Ia, as an army pos William Green five years old, was struck by an automobile at Torrington, Conn., yesterday and his left leg brok- en. Rear-Adpfiral James H. Sands, U. S. N., retired, died at his home yesterday of acute indigestion. Ie was sixty-six vears old. A Fire on the French Battleship Jus- tice was in dangerous proximity to the masgazines, but was extinguished with- out danges The coal strike which has kept 7,000 miners in Alberta and British Colum. bia idle for more than six months, has been - settied. Three Hundred Boilermakers em- ployed by the American Locomotive W at Schenectady, N. Y., went out on a strike. A Case Before the Unted States su- preme court requires that tribunal to decide whether a gambling house is a disorderly house. The American Legation at Peking wants more warships, the present num- ber in Chinese waters being insufficient to cover all points. The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, mis- sionary bishop of Alaska, was elected bishop of the Bpiscopal Missionary District of South Dakota. The Army Medical Department has reduced the mortality rate of the army, according to the report of Surgeon General Geroge H, Torney. Governor Hoke Smith's car in the Glidden tour, has been awarded the Anderson trophy, having taken the winning number in the drawing. A possible 34 years in prison was sentence meted out to Philip Solow by Judge Foster at New York in gen- eral sesslon yesterday for “white slave” traffic. By large majorities, Scioto and Law. rence counties in Ohio shifted from the dry column as result of elections, in- cluding the cities of Portsmouth and Tronton. As a result of pulling a_ kettle of boiling soun from the kitchen stove fifteen months, son of Stanislaus Stob- Norval Marshall, a negro, was elect- rocuted vesterday in the Raleigh N. C., Marshall several weeks ago at- tacked Mrs. Joseph Chopin, the wife of a young farmer, at Vicksboro. Robbers attacked the town of Me- Comb, vesterday, cut telephone and telegraph iwires, then blew open the safe in the town bank. They got a large amount of money and escaped. Checks, Notes, Stock Releases and various other documents were poured in as cvidence of the state at the trial of William J. Cummings charged with the theft of $140000 of Carnegie Trust company funds. Marino Bellin, Who Killed Two Men | the tiantic lezal battle with the Zov- the | Give Them V; GARY SAYS IT IS ‘Washington, Oct. 27.—The United States Steel Corporation’s first step in ernment for its existence will be tak- en Monday, December 4. On that day an array of counsel which promises to include some of the most brilliant-le~ gal minds in America will formally ap- pear before the nited. States circuit court at Trenton, N. J, in which the government's dissoluti t has been brought. May Not Answer Until February. On January 2, 1912, the steel eorp- oration is expected to file its answer to the government's sensational charges, which have hardly been par- alleled 'in all the anti-trust suits brought by the department of® justice. Several legal manoeuvres, of ~which the steel corporation’s lawyers could avail themselves, may postpone the date of their answer, for they have the right to ask the ‘court for thirty days more grace, thus extending their time to February 2. Master to Hear Testimony. ‘The government expects that none of the formalities of law will be overlook- ed by its opponents. It | however, that no lesal technicalities may be thrown in the way in which case, the earlitst date upon which the trial can begin is January 2. The procedure will_be for Judges Gray, Lanning and Buffington to appoint a master to hear testimony. The master S0 appointed will take evidence in va- rious parts of the count 1t requir- ed a year and a half to take the test- imony in the Standard Oil case. That was considered fairly qu me. The government hopes to do as well with the steel corporation. A Fight to the Finish. When the taking of testimony is finished and both sides have been heard the circuit court will decide the issue. Whichever side Joses will ap- peal and by the operation of the so- called expediting act, the case W reach the supreme court where the | fate of the greatest corporation in the world will be decided. Department of Justice officials think it will be a fight to the finish. Bill Printed by Private Concern. Official Washington is still wonder- ing how the preparations for the filing of the bill were conducted with such successful secrecy. The bill was not set in type in the government printing offices as such petitions usually are, but was printed by the private concern which prints the decisions of the su- preme court. Government Case Practically Complete and nearly killed another in a board- ing house at Perth Amboy, N. J., Sept. 7, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to die durinf the week Dbeginning Dec, 4. William D. Gates, 60 years old, of apgor, Maine, a former sea captain, wifh has been employed by the Maine Central railroad as a car inspector, was_instantly killed in the railroad yards at Bangor. Escaping from a sanitarium where she had been an inmate for a few day | widow of & well sville, V in’ Laké Mrs, Emma Isham, known merchant of Mor: ended her lift by drowning Champlain yesterday. Advices to Dunn’s Review this week from leading cities in the United States are azain of a favorable tenor, trade activity steadily expand- ing in most directions with the help of generally seasonable weather, H. E. Blair, of Waukesha, Wis., wa lected president of the National As sociation of Postmasters of the second and third classes at the convention at Washington. Next vear the associa- tion will meet at Columbus, Ohio. Southern Pacific Railroad officials have been notified of the discovery of thirty-six sticks of dynamite in a frog on the track at Ellwood, Calf., a few minutes after train N. 18, @ southbound rassenger, had passed the switch. It was intimated at the department of justice today that government con- siders its case practically complete. | Bpecial agents who have worked for the past two vears or more are sti gathering some loose ends, but the at- torney general feels confident in going to trial on the evidence which has been obtained. INCREASE IN TIME FOR UNLOADING CARS Resolutions Adopted at Meeting of Prominent Shippers Boston, Oct, 17.—A strong set. of resojutions favoring a number of changes in the present demurrage core | principally looking toward an increase in the free time allowed for unloading freight cars under the present inter- state commerce commission rules. were adopted at a meeting of more than a Proportion to the City’s 'TWILL BE A FIGHT TO THE FI Government Officials Expect Steel Trust t0 Chairman of Board Asserts That Corporation Has Ni Scucht to Restrain Trade—First Step in Case to be - Taken on December 4—Case Won’t Get Underway Until January or February—The Judges in the Case is possible, | Population igorous Battle NOT A MONOPOL GARY’S STATEMENT. Declares That Stesi Corporation Neve er Was a Monopoly. New York, Oct. 27.—After a day of intense excitement in the stock mar~ ket, with especially severe declines in - the securities of the United States Steel corporation, a statement was is- sued by E. H. Gary, chairman of the board. ~ He said: T “I_believe a disclosure of all the- facts applicable to the allegations con-. tained in the government’s bill of com- plaint as a ground for relief will show that the suit ought to be decided in favor of the corporation on the merits, and that the following will be es- tablished: “1—That in the organization of the United States Steel corporation those in charge had no intention of creating & monopoly or restraining. trade. “2—That the corporation never hes had, or attempted to exercise, a mo- nopoly or to restrain trade. “5—That the conduct of the affairs of the corporation has clearly and pos- itively negatived any effort or inten- tion to" violate any provision of the Sherman law. “4—That the existence of the cor- poration has been of benefit and not of injury to its emploves, its customers, its competitors and the gemeral public. “5—That no misrepresentation was made in regard to the Tennessee Coal & Iron properties, and that the motives' of those connected with the purchase was to prevent a threatened general financial disaster which would have adversely affected the corporation as well as others.” THE THREE JUDGES. Brief Sketches of Judicial Trio Who Will Sit On the Case. Trenton, N. J, Oct. 27.—William M, Lanning, of the three judzes who will decide whether the Steel corporation shall survive or perish, will be 63 years old on Janvary 1 next. Thirty-one years ago, almost to the day, the New. Jersey courts at Trenton threw open their portals to him, Successively he Dbecame judge of the city district court in 1887, United States district judge and finally a judge of the federal cir- cuit court. e hés held this office since May 18, 1909. Judse George Gray, another of the jurists who will hear the Steel case, is the presiding judge of the Third ju- dicial district. He was born in New- castle, Del, May 4, 1840. Fe was graguated from Princeton college in 1859, and afterward studied law at Harvard university. In 1399 Judge Gray was appointed United States, cir cuit judse. Judge Joseph Buffiington of Pitts- hurg was promoted from district coure judge to the circuit court bench in 1906. Judgs Buffington was born in Kittanning, Pa., and is 56 vears old, He was graduated from Trinity cole lege, Hartford, Conn. CHAIRMAN BARNES MUST SHOW CAUSH. Contempt Proceedings Begun Against Him in Supreme Court. Albany, N. Y, Oct Wiitiam Barnes, Jr., the chairman of the repub- lican state committee, was ordered to show cause before Supreme Court Jus- tice, Joseph A. Keilog at Ballston next Tuesday why he sheuld not be com- mitted to the Albany county jail for #e- fusing to answer questions asked him hundred promipent shippers of New England held here today. Another resolution urged the retention of tie offi of demurrage commissioner at Boston and of the present incumbent, A. G. Thomason. Copies of these reso- Tutions will be sent to the American Railroad association and to the Inter. state Ce Commission as an ex. pression of the wishes of the business interests of New England. D. C. Ives, transportation expert of the Boston chamber of Commerce, pre- sided over the discussion. President Taft has commuted to o re immediately the sentences of Wil m Broadwell and Samuel A. Brie: h. each of whom is serving a six vear term in Leavenworth penitentiary r coloring oleomargarine in Chi F. M. Selig, of Chicago, head of a motion picture company, was probably fatally wounded at Los Angeles, Cal., andy Francis Bogss, manager of the | Pacifie Coast department of the con- cern. was killed by a Japanese gard- ener. On Monday before President Taft is handed the siiver trowel with which he is to lay the cornerstone of the Hamilton club at Chicago, he il be made a member “in good stand- ing,” of the “Bricklayers’ union of Ckicago. President Taft has approved the dis- sal from the naval service of Mid- chipmen H. B. Annin) of Montana, Fletcher S. Bleakley of New Jersey 4nd E. F, Leahy of Wisconsin, all at the navai academy, for breaches of diselpline. W. K. Lufkins of North Wales, Pa., and E. P. Wise of Philadelphia, Illinois Central strikebreakers, shot at Fulton Thursday night, were placed in a hos- pital at Paducah, Ky., yesterday. Luf. kins was shot in the head, hands and legs. Wise was shot in the body. Orville Wright _has concluded nhis experiments with the glider, at Xill Devil Hill N. C. by which he honed to solve the problem of auto- matieally maintainine the balance of 1 heavier-than-a'r machine in flight. ife will leave today for Dayton, Ohi ..At the risk of being disinherited by her muiti-millionaire father, Miss Marie Cruse, who & fe. -months aga the federal grand jury here today a charge of having paseed a bank- note which had been rais=d from $2 to $50. Neil says b gassed tha note as — obtained a divorce from Al. - O'Brien, a New York society leader, v sterday: cloped with Harry C. Cotter, & Butts, Mont., miner, was at e e Vice Presidents Timothy Byrnes of {the New York, New Haven and Hart- | ford Railroad and J. H. Hustis of the B Albany Railroad, expres |e jillingness of those roads to | co-operate with the shippers. | TAFT TOUCHES ON TRUST PROSECUTIONS Rather Cut OF Right Hand Than to Disturb Business. Chicago, Oct. 27.—In a speech to- | night here which was regarded as | having a direct bearing upon the gov- ornment’s prosecution of the United States Steel corporation, President Taft vigorously denied that the ad- ministration was being influlenced by political motives. “I would rather cut off, my right hand” he exclaimed, “tHan to do anything to disturb the business of this country, espectaily with a motive of cultivating political success.” The president said he wanted it to to understood for all time .that he intended to enforce the anti-trust law to the letter. Funeral of Judge Sheldon. New Haven, Conn, Oct. 27.—Attend- cd by relatives and a large number of friends, the funeral of Judge Joseph Sheldon, was held tais afternoon from the Church of the Messiah, the pastor, Rey. Theodore A. Fischer, officiating. Interment will be in Syracuse, N. Y. The honorary bearers were Andrew D, White, Ithgca, N. Y.; Dr. Phillips, of Derhy: former president of Yale, Tim- bthy Dwight; Attorney Henry G. New- ton; former Judge L. W. Cleaveland. Sandford Released on Bai Portlard, Me, Oct. 27.—After being in jail since Wednesday, following his arrest on Wednesday, Rev. Frank W. Saniford was released on bail tonight, The_ $5,000 Londs were furnished by | Mrs” C0 A, Hallett, 78, and . Clement, 60, Who ar the investigation which the senate committee is conducting into Albany city and county affairs. The order was issued by Justice Kel- logg on an affidavit of James W. Os- borne, counsel to the committee, and follows the service upon Mr. Barmes upon Wednesday of a subpoena requir- ing him to produce certain books of the Journal Company of which he is president, containing records of tan- sactlons between the company ana the Argus Company. the J. B. Lyon Com-= pany and contractors having busimess either with the city or county and the company. Mr. Barnes refused to produce the Dbooks and directed John H. Lindsay, secretary and treasurer of the com- pany, who was also subqoenaed under. no circumstances to turn them ovar to the committee without a court order. The state chairman was declared in contempt several times for refusing to answer questions which he contend- ed had to do with his private business and were outside the purview of the committee. Among the questions was how many shares Anthony N. Brady owns in the Journal Company. Mr. Osborne was advised today by Mr. Brady that he owns thirty shares of preferred stock in the company for which he paid $3,000. RESTRICTION OF GUESTS AT ACADEMY PARTIES, Precavtions Taken That They May Be Well Conducted. Washington, Oct. 27.—The asitation caused by annoupcements from Anna- polis that a strict supervision was be- ing exercised over the list of guests invited to the m)idshipmen's winter hops has led the havy department te issue an explanation that the only pur- pose of the academy authorities is to adopt such precautions as are exercised in the case of any properly conducted ball or assembly. There is no inten- tion of limiting to three the number of young women each midshipman may invite to the hops, and the only re- striction is_that all invitations shail pass throngh the hands of the commit- tee to insure the observance of due decorum in the ball room.