Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 16, 1911, Page 1

BEHEADED FOR DISCARDING QUEUES Disloyal Chinamen at Nanking Being Sum- marily Dealt With by General Chang ASSASSINATION OF CHANG PLANNED Volunteers to Execute the Plan Called For at Revolu- t'iona.ry Meeting at Shanghai—Effort to Secure Agree- ment to Armistice Fails—Yuan Accepts Premier- ship—A Demand For Abdication of Regent. situated, in place of Pu-Ting, the Tartar general: This appointment has led to the belief in certain quarters that the court may retire to Jehol, leaving Yuan Shi Kai as chief execu- tice until the opportunity arrives for the, court to reassume a measure of authority. Viceroys Ostensibly Join People. Sun Pao Chi, the viceroy of Shan Tung, has been elected president of the republic which has been proclaim- ed in that province. His acceptance ©of this office in accerdance with the government's advice, and_several other viceroys have gone with the people, in the hope later of influencing the provinces to renew their allegiance. The provincial assembly of Chi-Li adopted a memorial to the throne in Shanghai, Nov. 15.—A veritable reign of terror prevails at Nanking, accord- ing to latest despatches from that city. 1'nder the dominance of General Chang Jen-Chun, the viceroy, who has cast restraint to the winds, a systematic | search is being made for Chinese who have discarded their gqueues and all so | found are beheaded. Assassination of Chang Planned. ‘The revolutionaries in Shanghai are making vigorous preparations to attack Nanking, and at a meeting last night velunteers were called upon to under- take the assassination of Chang. Refused to Entertain Armist: Dr. Gilbert Reid, & prominent mis- sionary, visited Chang yesterday and endeavored to induce him to agree to an armistice. General Chang resolute- | i1y refused to entertain the idea andlf&\‘or of the establishment of a re- declared that he must be loyal to the | public with Yuan Shi Kai as presi- dent. Wants Abdication Demanded. Wu Ting Fang, secretary of foreign affairs in the provincial government of Shanghai, and other reformers have sent a telegram to the American charge de’affaires here asking for the good offices of the United States in the delivery of a demand for abdica cmperor. He said he intended to lead his troops in the recapture of Chinki- eng, Soochow and Shanghai for the throne. Chang’s Blood is Up. Dr. Reid says that Chang’s blood is up, that he is fired by his successes and the number of those he has be- headed. He boasts that he has 20,000 devoted soldiers and holds Nanking in | tion. The telegram is dated Nov. 11 the palm of his hand. It is admitted | and reads “Kindly deliver personally the fol- that he is a man of great courage and s, the regent, in- military ability. He has abundant|lowing to his highn money and ammunition and he has|forming him that further conflicts be- sown the city with mines. tween the imperials and the people S e will cause needless bloodshed. If his ACCEPTS PREMIERSHIP. majesty abdicates we shall endeavor to afford safety to the court and pro- tection te their-property- Message to the Regent. “To the Regent: Your manifesto acknowledging guilt has been publish- €d, but the murder of the people con- tinues more widespread than ever, which is contrary to the mind of the ration as one. Ovinions of intelligent foreigners agree that the constitutional government inaugurated by the sove- reign is not suitable for the present- day China. You should follow the ex- ample of Yao and Shun. If you im- mediately awake and_ assist to har- monize the people and treat them on the principles of wisdom, justice and clemency, the people will secure to the imperial family peace and riches, honor and glory, and not merely give peace to the Manchus. Otherwise the war will be prolonged and troubles will accumulate. The northern army is cruel and inhuman. How can = the throne stand alone? We utter this last loyal warning.” 7" No Acknowledgment Made. This telegram is signed by Wu Ting Fang, Tang Wen Chih of Kiang-Su. former vice president of the board of commerce, Chang Chi- former ad- viser to the board of commerce, and Wen=-Tsung-Yao, former assistant im- perial resident at Lhassa and now as- sistant foreign secretary. The lega- tion made no acknowledgment of the receipt of the telegram and did not @eliver it to the rezent. but unofficially permitted Yuan Shi Kai to peruse it. Yuan Shi Kai Expected to Assume Duties of Office Today. Peking, Nov. 16—(1.35 a. m.).—Yuan Shi Kai has accepted the premiership and will assume office probably today (Thursday). Yesterday’s official ga- zette contained an expression of thanks from him to the throne for his ap- pcintment, but the truth is that he did not undertake the task before him without receiving guarantees that he would have practically a free hand in conducting affairs while he retained his cfficial position. To Win Back Allegiance. The new premier receiyed several foreign ministers yesterday, Including the United States minister to China, William J. Calhoun, who has only re- cently returned here. In_ conversation with a foreigner Yuan Shi that he intended to form a cabinet $mmediately and to endeavor to carry onr the government by securing the =upport of as many provinces as pos- gible and allowing the remainder to retain their independence for the time being. It would be his endeavor also gradually to win back their allegiance to the throne. New Commander at Jehol. Another important development in the capital was the issuance of an edict yesterday ordering Hsi-Liang, formerly viceroy of Manchuria, to as- sume command at Jehol, .where the summer residence of the emperor is FORTUNE OF $1,000,000 ROBBED AN ELDERLY < DWINDLES TO $23,000 FARMER OF $52 Got Into His House on Pretence of Buying Cattle. Litigation Consumes the Funds of H. M. Bennett Estate. Collinsville, Conn., Nov. 15—A young = Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 15.—That the man who answers the description of | estate of the late H. M. Bennett, for- the one who held up L. S. Mason, an; mer owner of a theater here, has dwin- clderl; farmer of Nepaug, on Novem- | dled from $i,000,000 to /000, owing ber 6 and secured a roll of $100. ap- | princirally, it is to litigation, became known today from answers vesrcd at the home of Edzar A. Rich- who lives alone a mile and a | prepared by local attorneys to a suit ards, 4 : half outside of the town and took $52 | filed in Jersey City aguinst the estate from him. and made his escape. by Laura Bigsar. the actress. She ! Fichards i= an eclderly man and a | claims to be the widow of Bennett, It farmer, working during the winter | iS the nineteenth suit brought her months in a factory here, Tonight | and is directed against James Platt =oon after reaching home a young man | of Pittshurg ing executor of who zave his name as F. H. Howard | the Bepnett A hearing will be said he was a cattle buyer, called { held at Jerse next Monday. at the house and said he had come to There is left for distribu- purchase 4 yoke of cattle owned by ! tion in the state of New Jersey, de- Fichards angd offered a fancy price for | rived from the sale of Bennett's town them. Richards iook the man out to | house in Yerk for 000 and the barn inspected the cattle and [ an estate Avon-by-the ch B now lives at City, de- sites to seeure this sum through a clause in the will which awarded her an annuity of $1,800. She has never et the house where ards sat down to draw up papers of sale. As he leaned over a table writing the stranger fired a revolver the bullet grazing the back at him, &f the old man's neck. The man then { been paid this annuity becauses she said he did not want to buy the cat- | was mot entitled to it_until all the tie but wanted the money Richards | creditors were paid. She ks the had been paid at the factory where | New Jersey courts to set aside the he wag weorking. Richards grappled | decree of = local court which ordered her to make a deed for her intercst in the theater 1 fraud in the manne terest was secured. pared denies all the allegations. Lo- cal attorneys point out that Miss Big- gar failed in her efforts to prove that she is Mr. Bennett's widow. w the man, but was overpowered, and the ray envelope, containing $52, was taken away from him. The stran- ger then ran out of the house and made his getaway. Richards notified neighbors and the Collinsville anuthoritics and thcse of tne surrounding towns as well as the state police. The man's description elso answers to that of the man who a monih ago held up three women here but failed to secure any booty, as the women screamed and ran. One of the women, the wife of a storekeeper, had over $600 with her at the time, it is said. After the Mason robbery the yan was traced to Bristol, at least the man who is supposed to have com- snitted the hold-up was traced there, where he was lost. AUTO MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE AT WASHINGTON Postmaster General Hitchcock Intro- duces Another Innovation. . The answer pre- “GOOSIE’S” LETTERS TO “PERFECT SWEETHEART” Figure in the Marital Troubles of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Van Dyck. New York Nov. 15—“Xantippe,” “Goosie,”” and “Perfect Sweetheart” are terms added today to the litera ture of marital troCbles. Mrs. Irene A. Van Dyek disclosed them in a mes- sage which she quoted in a complaint gainst her husband, Edward B. Var Dyck, an officer of the New York Cot- ton exchange, for payment of overdue alimeny pending termination of her suit for divore Mrs Dyck names M trude Hall, a “really pretty and re- fined young wcman,” as the author of the letters depicting Mrs. Van Dyck as “Xantippe,” and she quotes from her husbanW’'s rnessages to Mrs. Hall, addressed “Perfect Sweetheart,” and signed “Goosie.” Mr. Van Dyck an- swers the complaintswith the allega- tion that he is short of ready cash, but the complaining wife cites that he received an income of $3,000 a month. ‘Washington, Nov. 15.—A special au- tcmobile delivery mail service was in- augurated in Washington today, “vhich 4t is expected will be extended by Postmaster General Hitchcock to other cities in the country in the near fu- ture. Letter carriers wers taken to their various-routes in the machines, Joaded with and thus were e abled to deli ‘the mall from fifteen minutes to half an hour earlier. The eollection of mall by the carriers was similarly expedited. Canali Won't Succeed Falconio. Rome, Nov. 15.—Mgr, Canali, under- secretary of state at the Vatican, will not be apvointed apostolic dclegate at ‘Washington to succeed Mgr. Falconio, as has been reported. It was posi- tively asserted at the Vatican today that Mgr. Capali would not be trans- ferred from his present position, nor did the papal secretary of state, Car- dinal Merry del Val, wish him to aban- don the office he mow holds. Destructive Blaze at Ogden, Utah. Ogden, Utah. Nov. 15.—The entire tusiness quarter of Ogden is threat- S mpreach $150:000. The Are staried approach $750,000. e fire s In the Eccles bullding. one of the Bargest structures of the city. At Marseill . 1 , = % wil T i oesie ap s Cabled Paragraphs e e diigni Berlin, Nov. 15.—Herr an aviator, fell while making over the Johannisthal field today and was killed. His neck was broken. i Berlin, Nov. 1 l anese ambassador to Germany, who is to succeed Viscount Uchida as :nl bassador to the United States. was given a farewell audience™cy Emperor William today. London, Nov. 15.—A national strike in the coal trade was temporarily averted today when the delegates of the miners, who have been in session here for three days, voted against tak- ing a ballot of the men as to whether a strike should be called. Rome, Nov. 15.—The pope today re- ceived in private audience the Rt. Rev. Dennis J. O’Connell, auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, who renewed his ex- pression of the satisfaction felt in America over the appointment of three new cardinals from that country. [Mlx LEFT A NOTE | ON THE AFTERDECK. In It Announced His _Intention of Jumping Overboard. ; _ Calajs, France, Nov. 15.—No doubt is now entertained that Edgar W. Mix, the American engineer and aer- canut, committed suicide by jumping from a mail boat during the passage frem Dover to Calais Sunday night Mr. Mix’s secretary, Pierre Hablizig, arrived here tonight and had no he; itation in identifying as Mix's the handwriting on the letter addressed to_the captain of the steamer. Ir this letter Mr. Mix expressed his intention of jumping overbvard. The two letters mentioned in the note to the captain were duly mailed as re- quested, but the captain has no exact recollections of the addresses. He be- lieves that one of them was addressed to a firm of lawyers in London, and the other to some one in New York. i It was when the steamer was a lit- tle more than half way across the channel that the boatswain in going the rounds, observed an overcoat ly- ing on the afterdeck close to the It was placed in such steering gear. a manner as to attract attention. Go- ing nearer, the boatswain perceived a visiting card pinned to the garment. Startled by his discovery, he hurried with the ccat to the ptain, Who searched the pockets and found, in ad- dition to th= letters mentioned, sever- al photographs. The sangpiank men closely scrutinized each male passen- ger as he landed at Calais, but no one resembling the photographs went ashore. The captain then gathered the crew and one of the sailors said he saw a passenger corresponding to the por- trait shown, in the act of changing a nat for a cap when the steamer was about half way over. This 1s the last trace of Mr. Mix, for his hat was found in the smoking room. It is believed that he must have slipped in and placed it on a chair, gone thence to the stern, taken off his cot and cap, and jumped. RELATIVES OF MIX DOUBT HIS SUICIDE. State That He Had Bitter Enemies Among Foreign Aeronauts. l Lynn, Mass., Nov. 15.—Not vet con-’ vinced that their brother, Edgar W. Mix, was a suicide, in spite of the let- ter which he is said to have left, Mrs. Henry R. French and Mrs. Jessie Hol- der, both of ithis city, have cabled to Paris asking for a full investigation of Pis disappearance from an English} channel steamer. Mrs. French said: “I am sure that he never committed suicide. He was not of a morose dis- position or the type of man who would end his life. His business and bal- loon career have given him no cause for worry. can imagine nothing which would lead him to such an act. I have heard him say frequently, how- ever, that he had some bitter ememies among foreign aeronauts.” The sisters said they had been in ccnstant communication with Mr. Mix and that he appeared to be perfectly happy and in good spirits. SENSATIONAL DENIALS OF HUSBAND’S ALLEGATIONS Mrs. Moore Said S Swore They Were Untrue Over Body of Her Boy. Redwood City, Cal, Nov. 15.—Mrs. Lillian L. Moore, who is suing for | diverce from her husband, John J. Moore, in the courts here, took the stand late yesterday and made a sen- sational denial of the husband's alle- | gations ‘involving Rear Admiral { Thomas Phelps, U.S retired. ‘T went on my knees to my hus- band" sald Mrs. Moore, “and swore | by the body of my dead boy and by | my two iittle girls that his accusations were untrue.” Moore charges that his wife admit- ted to him that she had been intimate with Rear Aemiral Phelps and that | Phelps was the father of two of her | children. Rear Admiral Phelps de- clares that the charges are baseless. SIX MEN DISQUALIFIED ; FROM M'NAMARA JURY Farmer With Great Respect for the Laws Accepted. Los Angeles, Cal,, Nov. 15.—Six men were disqualified and one was accept- ~d for cause for jury service today m’ the McNamara murder trial. When one more man has been accepted and is in the jury box, it will be filled for the second time and counsel will ex- ercise peremptory challenges. As has frequently happened, recent- { 1y, the mar accepted was subjected only to brief examinations. FHe is C. A. Heath, a farmer of English birth, who expressed a great deal of respect passed by the recent general assem- bly wculd be tested. Action will be brought in a single case, Attorney General Light has declared the law unconstitutional. TELEPHONES ON STREET CARS. They Will Save Opening the Door in Cold Weathe: Chicago, Nov. 15.—Chicago street cars are being equipped with a device intended to do away with the needless opening of car doors in the winter, thus contributing much to the comfort of- the passengers. The device con- sists of enunclator horns, set in the ceiling at the four cormers of the car. The conductor will have a small tele- phone will PRICE TWO CENTS - Mrs. Vermilya DENIES POISONING HERSELF OR ANYBODY ELSE. ‘ VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES Declares She is Not the Ogress She Has Been Pictured—Nurse Brought Her Roach Poison by Mistake. Chicago, Nov, 15.—Mrs. Louise Ver- milya today made the first public statement she has given out since she was placed in jail on charges of pois- oning Policeman Arthur Bissonette. She denied guilty knowledge of \ten deaths that have occurred beneath her roof in the last eighteen years. Denied Poisoning Anybody. She received newspapermen in the county jail hospital, where she is re- covering from the effects of poison said to have been taken by her while under surveillance. She denied that she had poisoned herself on any of the three men, Bissonette, Richard T. Smith and Frank Brinkamp, in whose viscera arsenic has been found in abundance. A Victim of Circumstances. She disputed statements by persons to the police that she had other than ‘business relations with Undertaker C. C. Boysen. She also classed as false stories that she had posed as Smith filancee or wife and declared herself the victim of a peculiar chain of circum- stances which she did not create. All Died on Her Hands. “I never poisoned,” said Mrs. Ver- milya, “all those who died came to my hcme when they were pretty ‘done for,” and then died on my hands. How they got poisoned I don’t know. I did not give it to them. Smith simply was a boarder. I was engaged to mar- ry Bissonette and T never heard that Miss Lydia Rivard was engaged to him tili after his death. Nurse Brought Her Roach Poison. “I didn’t try to commit suicide. T didn’t know the pepperbox brought to me contained arsenic. I asked the rurse to bring me some white pepper, never thinking she would bring the box of roach poison. In fact, I forgot the roach poison was in the pantry. Not an Ogress, “All stories about my having a fondness for the dead are false and when I go on the witness stand, as I shall insist on doing, I will have no difficulty in proving I am not the cgress 1 have been pictured, but a vic- um of ghastly circumstance: SOCIETY WOMAN’S GUEST ROBS HER OF JEWELS. Saw Her Hiding Them Beneath the Mattress on the Bed, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 15.—Wilfred Stuart Sheldon Dickason, said to be a member of an ¢ld English family and fGr some tinie prominent in Minneapo- lis society” ciry is in jail tonight, charged with stealing from Mrs. Olga Baskell. a society woman, diamonds and other jewels worth $3,000. Dicka- son, who has been staying at the Haskell home for some time, denied the charge. Dickason arrived several months ago with letters to prominent people. He assumed a leading part in Minneapolis societ: He is said to have traveled widely, and is said to have hinted that he lost a fortune in speculating on the London exchange. According to NIrs. Haskell, when she returned from a reception on Tuesday she placed her jewels in a glove and hid them beneath the mattress of her bed. T looked around,” said Mrs. Has- kell, “and saw Mr. Dickason standing ir. the doorway. I knew he had seen me putting the jewels away. However. he made only a passing, remark and walked downstairs.” Dickason was for a time engaged in newspaper and magazine work. A re- ward has been offered for the return of the jewels. MILK TO ADVANCE THREE CENTS QUART IN NEW YORK. | | City to Provide Pasteurized Milk for | Infants at Cost. near | New York, Nov. 15.—Another in- crease in the cost of living is fore- casted in circulars which the Retail Millk Dealers’ association sent to 20,- 000 householders today. The circular asserts that a compulsory graduation of milk which the health department has ordered shall begin on January 1st will necessitate an advance of threa cents a quart to some 75 per cent. of the householders of the city who are now paying five or six cents a quart for milkk from the open can. Health Commissioner Lederle said tonight that the order would work no great hardship among the poorer class- | es, because the city hoved to have 52 Pasteurized the coming year where the poor might purchase milk for infants at cost. RODGERS ATTACKED BY “ETHEREAL ASPHYXIA" Aviator Explains Cause of His Acci- dent Last Sunday. Pasadena, Cal, Nov. 15.—“Ethereal asphyxia oz aerial what Calbraith P. Rodgers, transconti- mental aviator, says attacked him when | he fell near Compton, Cal., last Sunday on the last stage of his cross country | Furthermore, Rodgers asserts' flight. for. Tstiulione Sk le Wi, this is what caused the deaths of many other aviators. | HARTFORD VETERANS ‘It lurks in the pockets af the upper HEAR WELCOME NEWS |air strata.” he said today, “and creeps it D S < irresistibly upon the senses of the avi- Constitutiorality of the Pension Law |ator, lulling him into dreamy uncon- Will Be Tested. . 3 & “I(l?e”etveAfl::'!: s;me thing ([au d the = 3, Tl = eaths o T oxsey, Ralph “Jahn- of'l’{";;:gfdb i IDO“A:; A BT et | stone, Bugene Ely and a number of fonight, i was anmounced that the | 0thers who have fallen to their deaths constitutionality of the pension law | 07 '0SIng control of their craft. Scarlet Fever at New Haven. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 15—On ac- count of the prevalence of scarlet fever irn that section of the city, two public schools in the Winchester district, the ‘Winchester and the Shelton avenue schools, have been ordered closed for the remainder of the week and the school buildings fumigated. Open Gescock Causes Death, Gridgeport, Nov. 15.—George W. Mack Cormack, 84 years old, was found dead in a in his sis- ter's home on Stratford avenue herc late todey, from gas asphyxiation. A cock on a gas stove in the room was opeén. Death was probably accidental. —— e The Foreign Trade of the Latin- American ‘with all the world _years has ad- comnopathy,” is| milk stations established 8 Cona _ed Telegrams It Is Now the Plan of the navy de- partment to retain all the navy yards for special work. Three Americans Have Been Killed in Sonora as the result of an uprising of the Yaqui India; The Commerce Court Held That the long and short haul provisions of the interstate commerce act to be valid, By Order of the Athletic Committee of the Trinity college facuity, basket- Pflgltt that institution has been abol- iche There Are Now 112 Foreign warships in Chinese waters, of which number 31 are British, 29 French and 19 Am- erican. Stella Gera and Frank Myocek of Chicago were found asphyxiated with gas an hour before they were to be married. Both Houses of the Mississippi Leg- islature have just passed a bill grant- ing immunity to those testifying in bribery cases. James Minot, a Concord, N. H, Banker and past department com- mander of the G. A. R., died yesterday, aged 68 years. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is in-the market for 8,000 freight cars of the various types, to cost in the aggre- gate $7,200,000. Thomas Burke, an old Indian fight- er, shot ahd killed himself in a dream at Chickasha, Ok, believing he was | chasing a train robber. A Few Hours After the Opering of the deer season in Vermont yesterday Charles Barnard was accidentally shot and killed by Charles Cove. All Four of the United States Battle- ships now bullding advanced approxi- mately three per cent. toward comple- tion during the past month, | Under the Most Favored Nation clause in the treaty, Germany has put in a claim to have her wood pulp and print paper imported free of duty. dent Brown of the New York lines announced yesterday that orders have been placed for 120 loco- motives and 17,400 freight cars for all lines. Roy Hartman, Eight Years Old, who was struck by an automobile at Mid- dletown, Conn., Sunday afternoon, died last night from a concussion of tne brain. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president em- eritus of Harvard, was greeted with a cordial reception by the parliament- ary arbitration party in the French senate, | | | i A Naval Courtmartial Convened /at Halifax, N. S., yesterday to investigate the responsibility for the stranding of the Canadian cruiser Niobe near Cape Sable last July. Grain is Being Shipped from Mani- toba to North Dakota and Minneapolis, and the farmers are making more money on the transaction than if they sold it on the Canadian side of the border. Whether the Law Relating to the use oi individual drinking cups and towels, which goes into effect Janu- ary 1, 1912, will apply to the state capitol at Hartford, is puzzling the officials. Construction of Good Roads by Con- vict Labor is being urged by speakers in attendance at the eighth annual convention of American Road Builders' association and national good roads congress. Penny Lunches, Which the Chicago School Board as an experiment bezan to serve a few months ago, have been found to be of great value in making the children more plump and the vrains more active, The German Ambassador to Spain, | Prince von Ratibor and the Spanish | minister of foreign affairs, Marquis | Garc Priete, held a conference at | Marid to discuss the cession of Span- | ish Guinea to e ny. | I. Curt Jett and Henry Youtsey,| probably the most notorious of the life term prisoners in the Kentucky peni- tentiary, are both earnestly seeking on as president of the prison an Endeavor soclety. Friends of James E. Stimson, the Newburyport man under arrest in New York.for attempting suicide, believe that Stimson’s mind has been affected by protracted iliness which foreed him to give up work as railroad engineer. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey declared yesterday a dividend | for the last quarter of the year of $7 | @ share. This is the last dividend to be declared before the company dis- olves under the mandate of the su-| preme court. Because of the Continued Spread of | the smalipox epidemic in the Pawtuxet lley, the board of health of War- wick, R, 1., have requested the theaters «nd moving picture show houses to close until further orders. Bones of a Strange Animal found on Grand Tracadie beach, Prince Edward's Island, are so unfamiliar and puzzling to residents there that they will be placed in the hands of a scientist to Getermine the identity of the strange skeleton. ac Harris and Max eprictors of ‘the Triangle Wait comrany, who are charged with | manslaughcer in connection with the | death last March of 147 girls in the| ‘Washington Place fire, New York, was put over until next Monday. | Through the Failure of Attorney General Swift of Massachusetts to take an appeal in the required time, the state of New Hampshire will have the full benefit of the income tax on the estate of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, Blarck, p The State Department at Washing- ton has heard from Turkey or italy nothing that would suggest an exten- sion of the good offices of the United States to terminate the present war since the notification from the Italian go;iernment of the annexation of 'Tri- poli. A Surprise Equal to That Caused by the action of the Chicago butter and egg board when on Monday it forced up the prices of butter and eggs came vesterday when it became known that the board had just as suddenly cut the prices to the figures which prevafled on/last Saturday. Permission Was Granted by tle supreme court westerday for an iu- crease in thc yearly fmcome of Johr Armstrong Chanler, or Chaloner, as he now calls himself, whe is an in- competent In New York and whose large estate in New York is managed by a committee of persons. This amount Chalgner's yearly in- come up to $17,000. Leonard H. of New York. Faction Fight Of Grangers MOVEMENT TO OVERTHMROW THE NATIONAL OFFICERS. SECRET CAUCUSES HELD Healey of Woodstock Lin Up With the “Middle of the Roaders”—Bachelder Not a Candidate Columbus, O, . 15.~—8ecret ses- sions by “insurgents” and ‘“regulars” marked the end of the first day's con- ;emlon of the national grang® here to- ay. N Plan to Overthrow Present Dynasty. Indications of a struggle between the factions appeared after the tabling of the report by the executive committee relative to the attempted expulsion from the order of George P, Hampton Immediately after this, cret mession, the “progressives’ laid plans to overthrow the present o ganization control. Healey a “Middle of the Roader.” As secret as the sessions of the re fonaries and “insurgents,” so-called, was a meeting of fourteen state mas- s who organized a “middle of the road group. Among those fourteen masters were Leonard H. Healey, Con necticut; Richard Pattee, New Hamp shire; Charles M, Gardner, Massachu- setts, and F, E. Marchant of Rhode Island. Bachelder Not Out for Re-election. Nahum J. Bachelder, national mas- ter and former governor of New Hampshire, will not seek office again. “Insurgents” favor G. B. Horton of Michigan, and regulars Secretary Free man, an Ohio granger, for nation master. OBJECT TO WAVING OF “BLOODY SHIRT” Anti-Northern Speech Repudiated by Aldermanic Board of Norfolk, Va. 15, ~With talk a g ach of the proprieties 11 an affront to the dignity of those assembled,” the Norfolk board of al- dermen last night adopted a resolu- tion formally repudiating an utterance said to have been made at the recent Waterways convention in Richmond by Mayor James GG. Riddick, who attend- ed thesconvention as a representative of this city. It is alleged that the mayor declared in his address “I am from a southern city and am a souiherner through and through. If I had one drop of northern blood In my heart, I would tear it out,” ‘After a preamble setting forth that the mayor’'s utterance was particularly offensive to delegatos from the north, and that “it is necessary and becoming that some official expression of dis- sent to this unwarranted language should be given to the press of country,” the resolution says: “Be it resolved, That the councll of the city of Norfolk on behalf nf pub- ile sentiment in this cfty and else- where, do hereby officially repudia the said utterance of Mayor James C, Riddick and emphatically deny that it represents the sentiments or feelings of the people of this section.” HEARING TODAY IN BEEF PACKERS' CASE Norfolk of “a s br Decision of Supreme Court of Great Interest to Business Combines, ago Nov, ~—Attorneys for the A meat packers were busy te- preparing for the next step im latest action to obtain a ruling United States supreme court the validity of the Sherman anti- trust law, They contended that the law i# not now a positive law because the ‘reasonable restraint” ruling makes it Impossible to determine be- hand whether an act is legal for g hearing on the habeas ocorpus granted yesterday by United Circuit Judge C. C. Kohlwaat, will come up tomorrow. Whichever way decides the case will be at once appealed 1o the United States supreme c t, it is aid. writs, States Meantime the criminal cases against the ten puckers will be halted because the case is now out of the jurisdiction of Federal Judge Carpenter, the packers having surrendered in Judge Kohisatt's court yesterday. Attorneys who have studicd the le- ] phases of the latest move by the ckers, sald tonight that the decision the supreme court in the present will_probably be of great inter- to all -business ccmbinations in country. ca est the FELONS' STRIPES FOR THE TRUST CRIMINALS. Drastic Legislation Proposed by Con- gressman Henry of Texas. ‘elons’ r “trust shington, N ' ymmercial piracy under benevolent s of reason,’" are proposed in a bill amending the Sherman anti-trust law drafted by Representative Henry of Texas, to be introduced in the house upon the opening of congress next month. Introduction probably will mean its passage in the house. The bill specifically defines just what constitutes a trust, legislates from the present statute the “rule of reason™ as interpreted by the supreme court in the Standard Ofl and Tobacco company case decislons and provides as punish- ment for violation of the law impri onmegnt from two to ten years in the penitentiary. It will be referred to the Jjudiciary committes for deliberation, Princeton Men Engage Rooms. Bridgeport, Conn.,, Nov, 15.~Instruc- tions were received at a local hotel u here late tonight to reserve quarters for twenty-eight members of ths Princeton football sjuad for ¥Friday night. The squad will probably leave here Saturday morning for New Ha- ven In time for a short punting and signal drill on the Yale gridiron be- fore dinner. Baby Kiilled by Nursing Bottle, Boston, Nov. 14.—A fall from his baby carriage on to his nursing bot- tle killed James, the four months ol son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Dafoulrs of Dorchester. The nursing bottl fell and was smashed on the floor ard the child tumbled headfirst on the broken glass, which plerced its brain. Verdict in Cummins Case This Week. New York, Nov. 16.—The week end may see a verlict in the case of Will- jam J. Cummins, who is charged with the theft of a trust fund of $145,000 while chairman of the exeeutive odm- mittes of the in . The defense g