Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 5, 1911, Page 1

~NORWICH " DECEMBER 5, 1911 'CONFESSION BY JAMES McNAMARA Writes Statement of About 200 Words and Turns It Over to District Attorney Fredericks DYNAMITER IMPLICATES NOBODY BUT HIMSELF Both Brothers Summoned to Appear Before Federal Grand | Jury Today—Wife of Juror Tells of Bribing of Her Hus- band—Gompers Aware That He is Being Shadowed by Cabled Paragraphs I The Hague, Dec. 4—The internation~ al opium conference has decided thas its sessions shall not be opean to the public. - Rome, Dec. 4—The pope will receive in farewell private audience Dennis o‘-c«meu O'Reilly, bishop of San Fran cisco. Teheran, Persia, Dec. 4—The nation- ! al council has telegraphed an appeal | for aid to the American congress and Liverpool, Dec. 4—On December 11, when the United States l‘rlcultml department issues its final estimate of | the cotton crops, the cotton exchange here will hold an extra session to re- | ceive the report. | to the sister parliaments of the world. Manila, Dec. 4—The United States | transport Thomas arrived here yester- day and hurriedly disembarked details of various trooops. The 15th infantry om army headquarters at Wi Detectives—Federal Investigation Will Begin Today. fl“s Maix Kesoove. - ANe JNE- N Rater ashing- to T.os Angelds, Cal, Dec. 4—James B.|state and John J. McNa- McNamara, who on Friday pleaded |mara, in w ed how he #ullty to murder In the dynamiting of Lblew up the Los Angeles Times build- | the Los Angeles Times building, wrote | ing on Oct. 1, 1510, ing a loss of | his confession tonight and gave it to |21 g District Attorney Jobhn D. ¥redericks. —District Attc No Confession from John. admitted to written o His brother, John J. MgNamara, sec- | ;7 lem.r'v of the Internati furnisied s John D, Fredericks that in aadition to the jon both brothers “had formation of signal va_lug to the state” It is virtually assufe of Bridge and Structural !"miw";‘f' |that when the men appear tomorrow ers, who pleaded l“miltro hav; s } i before Judge Bordwell, the district na.lnlted the Liewellyn ‘ml W;” I’: | attorney will recommend such leniency Jos Angeles, made no confession. Il!,. the court may see fit to bestow. “as said he was not asked 0 8% | "The moment sentence is pronounced, Association | To aed, Public Today. _ |according to plans completed tonight, u B 'Wmlst con- | the brothers will bs served ;‘(‘jlh l]u;'n- fession was Attorney | mons to appear befors (he federal in- Fredericks -ud he would not give it | quisitorial body. b3 out until after the mem Were sen- The decisic ched by the Mec- tenced, and tomorrow is the day set | Namaras is regarded here as of vast ggr am:xtl. proceeding by Judge Walter |importance. If there is a glgantic lly-'. ordwe namiting _co ch is what Confession Implicates Nobody Else. tuxal ,grfrxe to r:nvl.-\v the is 0 ince at to- It was learned, however, that the |Si3le tonig nced -tha | morrow’s de 1 place on statement implicates no one except the I ecird the ey b writer. It deals with nothing except |! the actual happenings fn Los Angeles. y.'lr does not describe the trip from In- | dianapolis west or tell who McNamara saw after he got here. nformation, federal grand polis will be ed w £ e juries here and in comparatively simple This outcome ¢ is urged No Stenographer Present. ;In a message t At- Clarence S. Darrow and Lecompte |torey Freder alter L. Tavis, of counsel for the defense, vi it atlonal | They- cam g to a !hed the brothers today. &way and returned, accompanied by . anah ! District Attorney Fredericks. There | et e ld {®as no stenographer with them. atate Ly Wrote It Himself. James B. McNamara sat with & ®lock of scratch paper on his knee and i #vrote his confession his own way. He | did it deliberately and with care, for | ; “J. B.” does not take to writing as casily as his brother. ‘When he had nished it he passed the paper to Mr row, who read it with Davis look- STIGATION. READY FOR IN\ Vice President Butler Says His Union Planned No Explosions. Buffalo, N, Y., Dec. 4.- hn T. But- ng on. They handed it to Fredericks. |ler, first vice president r- he names of the witnesses were at- |national As.ociation and tached and Fredericks_took away a | Structural Iron isheet of paper bearing perbaps 200! I want to declare now that I never jfwords. The brothers nodded to Jailer |gmew the association to provide any ’ allagher and filed back to their cells ng andggs an inte after saylng goodbye to the attorneys. |nationai officer for many veérs, I ougzit to know what's going on, If th The Bribing of Juror Bain. Today's developments {included the resentation of the deposition of Mrs. 2 1 uni were crimes planned in the knew nothing of the; ert ¥, Bain, made to th- district “I stand reedy sny Investiga- Mtornay, ‘that at the imstance of Bert!tion by anvbody. I do not intend to| Franklin, investigator for the de- [resign.s Organized labor and even the . fense, now_charged with bribery, she |ironworkers ought not to be blamed ersuaded her husband, the first Mec- |for the crimes of these two men. I do not believe that Detective Burns is ’ amara juror to be sworn, to accept $4.000, if he would make sure that a justifled In declaring that Mr. Gompers | werdiét of guilty would not be given, t knew all thie t me maras end that $400 of this money was pald | wers gull er. “IL @s a re r. (This confession will be | was closer to John J. ra than found M full on Page 2.) Mr. Gempers and I beli solutely Bain Son of the American Revolution. | I0 Lis innocence. I did not know the | Bain is & CIvil war veteran. His | ooher, James B, He - nowr i randfather fought in the Amerfcan [ ™S7°F O Ut 0FERRIZELORT tevolution and captured a British| S0 Gt o e RN drum in a fight with General Bur- A, Al Sy b NEE s sl S et Send Ho expects a call oyn This drum still 18 In | ¢or o meeting of the board at Indlan- | ,fha funfl'y and Balne beat it in the i parades which preceded the election of sirict Attorney Fredericks. Franklin Denies Making Confession. A contlnuance was nted the de- tenss in the case of anklin today. oday Franklin dsnled rumors that he The outcome of his ad confessed. !taae ‘may determine the fate of men apclls within a day or two, GOMPERS SHADOWED. iabor Leader Says Two of Burns’ De- tectives Follow Him. muel! Gompers at extent the New York, Dec. 4—8 was asked tonight to "ho:e liberty tonight lles on scales | American Federztion of Labor, of ; ghat a hair'may tllt, according to Per- | which he is president, would ald in #cns in e position to know. further investization by the govern- ment of labor troubles. “Our books and such have will be en,” ar pers, “to the Tederal tigating committee, ble person of decent We have City Election Today- Complicated by tomorrow's election, which Job 1 of counsel for e McNamara brothers, is the socfalist ndidate for or, and Joseph Scott, 80 of col is running on the 00d government” ticket, for member- ~ on the school board, of which he Yos Angeles was th confllcting asser- lons. records as we ed Mr. Gom- responsi- character and In- nothing to with- include the books ecelved | “Would this offer and records showl and paid out d la reporter aske now presiden: pt tonlthb ene and Fedml Grand Jury Convenes. Another anslb of the case cpened to- | . MI: Gompers replled with some heat: fisy with the comvening of the federal | L (ricd £ T rand jury. Althourh the government's |~ g g e 18 umpm n charge of g :\’r}:cfixer he was ur it was said | 75 strict Attorney R 3 Tas A I SfcCormick, dis. | Lihat soon as A L “I know I em,” replied : . ai e em,” replied 3 ey ‘or the southern Slerict | Two of Burns’ men have been | c& returned from Washing , whither he was summonocd by At- ince my arrival in New I§o General Wickershem, he would . h(rt in hand and that an assistant | grom Mr. Wi ‘s office might | isist him. The latter statement could | 0 ba eonfirmed Stacks of lv'd-nu Ready. .Aa a Mv; of the Unfted tes government, eagan was in last ¥riday when tha T ever ty District Attorney Fred: O h&l stacis of evidenca for which e Esems !u.w ha nrflmynr nuss in at dudge Not .-dln. T.’Qgr-.rru. me. wonld be Imposed u; only Jufl‘g? Bor 71 avr Many telegram: h mdv’:x from eastern un- = m labor bodies, wanalty for both men. .l" vith a positive credited 10 Detlec lthat Clarence | conference in Ine |is absoluteiy fals a. |wore forty iahc aders from fl!l n'\«'r ,ths country present to discuss plans for ralsing money for the dsfense of [ the \Im\‘fimxrn There was no ullt siven out at that denial of a state ive W D:xrro\'. a ithe leadership of the tion in the neas was lately 2 | president of the Aw n Federation | of Labor, Jir. Gompers t most lof the day In conference v is at- tornevs. GOMPERS “UNSAFE LEADER" United States DIserct Attnrnsy Says He Should Be Retired. Indianapolis, Dec 4—“An earnest effort will be made by the govern- jment to bring to justice every man ! who was involved in the most damna- ol conspiracy evereentered into in this country,” sald Unlted States District Attorney Charles W. Miller today in discussing the federal grand Jury's in- vestigation of dynamiting operations of-the McNamara brothers and others alleged to havé been assoclated with them. Samusl Compers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was jcharacterised as &n umsafe leader by I Mr. Miller, and he said it was time rmnll | Zor labor :llsadem 'wh&hst.and on hon- est ground” to take charge of labor | .‘F““&“‘ az"ganlmflcn., Mr. Miller said fur- art by *“The people are entitled to know anl ord Mu‘gon the facts, and all the factzs will bo late temight jén unimpeach- |known at the proper time. It 1s not by & part of my duty to discuss the de- barmiant’ gffoxded an an-talis and Fwil fio do Jo s0. The ttme 1s &Wg cunte%on 4 ask le Did Not Represent Gompers. Seerotary Nockels of the <Chicazo | deration of Labor r: rted today, espite reports to the ry, that he a not ecome here to represent Sammel ompers, president of the. American jeration. *That 1s a Il ho sald, “Did you keep Gompers informed of p-op— of the ns?” was dla met™ sa1d Nockels. | MNAMARAS SUMMONED., it Appear ‘Befors the Ffllrul Grand Jury Today.: -8, and | fappesr beiore of being | liam J. Burns | intl- | n. None, however, have yet besn re- ceived. ; _Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 4—The | Kingston newspapers publish reports of summary executions outside of Port Au Prince, Haitl. It is alleged that the victims are guardh who were sent | to northern Haiti by Ix-President Simon to assist in putting down the revolt which was started by the fol- luwers of General Le Conte, the pres- ent occupant of the presidential chair, bor. Capitalists end laborers who be- lieve in law and order must and will stand together. “Such unsafe leaders as Gompers must be retired. Let men who stand on honest ground ecome to the front. The destruction of life and property must cease. Acts of force and vio- lence must cease and all violators must be brought to justice.” i THAT $10,000 REWARD. {issue as to Who Is Entitled to It Must Be Determined. Sacramento, Cal, Dec. 4—Regard- Ing ths payment to Detective Willlam |J Burns of the reward of $10,000 of- (Aer(d by the slate for tha captire of the Los Angeies Times building dyna- Speaker Hewitt of the state ture said today: he money wili be paid the mo- ment the identity of the person en- itled to it is proved to my satisfac- | tion.” PAID TooOL" Lawyer Drew Advocates Mercy for | James B._!(-mnr-. New York, Dec. 4—On behalf of the | National Erecters’ association, which | employed William J. Burns to run | down the McNamaras in the dynamite | outrages, Walter Drew, as counsel, is- | sued a statement here tonight urging that the prisoners “make a frank and | full confession.” Mr. Drew says among | other things that he doubts the sin- | cerity of labor's demands in urging ex- treme punishment in the name of jus- tice, and indicates rather that those who take this attitude have an ulterior moluve. “A WEAK, Mr. Drew’s Telegram. Mr. Drew issued the statement in the | form of a telegram to J. B. Fredericks, | district attorney at Los Angeles. - The | telegram foliows: “Dec. 4. 1911. “Capt. J. B. Fredericks, District Attor- | ney, Los Angeles, Cal.: | . ‘I note the many statements from or leaders repudiating the Me- amaras and demanding the infliction jupon them of the extreme penalty of the Jaw. As you know, I am counsel for a group of employers who have | ef sufferers at the hands of { these men, and am, gerhaps as famil- iar as anyone with the series of dyna- | mite outrages in which they took nart. {1 éeem it my duty to say to yom, In r that in your discretion you may viss the court: Loss of Life in Only One Explosion “1-—No bhuman life has been destroy- { ed by any other explosion tracezble to these men, nor do I know of any such explosion which was apparently plan- Leen ck ned with the purpose of taking life, though in some instances a disregard lof = possible consequences was shown. Younger McNamara a Weak, Paid Tool “2—The Natlonal Erectors’ assocla- tion does not join in the demand for the death penalty for the younger Mec- Namara, believing him the weak, paid tool of others, and his actions the nat- ural consequence of the doctrines taught by men who now repudiate him. We believe the punishment of both these brothers secondary in importance to the convictlon of the men behind them, end we sincerely hope they will ke advantage of the opportunity now presented to perform a sizmal service for soclety by making full and frank confession. .Doubts Sincerity of Some Union Men | “3—Inasmuch as some of the de- n"Anfl! for extreme punishment come from men who must have known of the guiit of the McNamaras, and one of | them, at least, I know to be Implicated in several outrages with them, T sin- cerely doubt that such demands are Leing made with the sole desire of ald- ing the ends of full and complete jus- “WALTER DREW.” | Twenty or Thirty Leaders to Be In- dicted. | Mr. Drew reiterated this { that he believed that 20 or ders would be Indicted as the result ha federal Investigation now under at Tndianapolis and that the rami- ation: the Inquiry would extend { from Bost to the Pacific coast. Aa | to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, would say nothing other than to repeat | what he sald during the dav—thet. so | far as he kmew. Mr. Commers had no { kmowledge of the dymamitine and no ndvance information that the Me- i Namaras wera to plead gufity. { | | | et DETROIT WANTS M’'MANIGAL. May Try Him for Dunamiting Gas Building There. Detroit. Mich., Dec. 4.—The police are consldering the advisability of try- ing to brinz Ortie McManizal here to stand trial for the dynamiting of the sas bufldine here & few years azo. Captaln McDonneli, chief of the de- tective bureau, said today he would confer with Superintendent of Polles Downey concerninz the matter and would probably telegraph to Los An- geles for official verification of Me- | Manigal's allered confession that he | atteopted to destroy the building, UNION PAID $1,000 A MONTH. Detective Burns Says It Was Turned Over to Menmd. and McManigal. Cleveland, ©. Do&b—"hll 13; true that the mflv.’&nflm e iron werkers' union voted a month- utnnfla{&mwhwhml’. 31oN There is to subd- he | LITTLETON'S CHARGES Asserts That Effort Has Been Made to Use St A Demand For Investigation INTRODUCED BY MANN TIONAL HOUSE IN NA- | Investigating Com- mittee to Depress Stock Values. ‘Washingto: sembled today sentativi reas It inducted into office two newyssenators and five new repre- and in the lower branch presented the sensational spectacle of an opening day phillipic—a speech by Eepreseniative Littleton of New York a democrat, who for veighed against the so-called American Anti-Trust league. 17 islative needs noon. The hou minutes. for two hours and 18 minuies. senate decided to meet hereafter o'clock. beginning tomorrow, until leg- ut the hour back however, will con- tinue to meet tomorrow and hereafter at noon. Senator Curtis President Pro-Tempare. Vice President Sherman was ‘The house, 70 minutes in Senate in Session 17 Minutes. The senate was in session today only however, Th at to Utica :by the deaih of bis maothe in-law, Mrs, Ellen Babcock, and senate designated Senator act as president Lec. Washington, Dec the workings of the so 12, tfon of American Anti-Trust league tvas de manded by Republican Leader Mann in the house today after a remar Representative Martin Littleton of New York, who charged Henry B. Martin, secretary league, with attempting to defame him It was the climax of the dispute twecn Mr. Stanley of the house steel corpnrnlmu speech by LITTLETON’'S SPEECH Charges a Conspiracy to Depress Stock Values in Wall Street. 4—an Littleton and Cu pro-tempore This was on the motion Senator Gallinger, the candidate of the regular republicans in the contest for the office. inv < of th rtis bl [3: be hairman investigating committee over meth of ernment’s suit against States Steel corporation. Wants Littleton Impeached. Round after round of applause inter 1upted Mr. Littleton's fense of himself and democrats and re- publicans assured him of their confi- Martin the . 70-minute cdence in him. Meantime Mr. had handed to Speaker Clark a memo- rial and petition asking that Mr. tieton be impeached on the ground that he bad “co-operated and spired with heads of the trust” vent a continuance of the This memorial, quiry. not presented to the house. steel ! Used Committee to Depress Stocks. Mr. Littleton assafled Afartin cthers as having conspired to use the steel however, rocedure since the fillng of the gov United [t Lit in wa investigating committee to rress the value of stocks in Wall st blished articles characterizing Littleton as the champlon of the corporation and resolutions adoptec a meeting here last night at w Martin reiterated his charges formed the basis for Mr. Littleton’s speech. Mr. iows in part: “Resolved: That a committe of seven members be appointed to Investigale circumstances of the said news- dttack, the relations of the so- the paper czlled anti-trust league thereto, activities of the sald league, so far as they may be designed to affect the ac- tion of the house, or any committee therecf, and that the committee have authority to send for persons and pa- pers and take testimony at any time in The Mann Resolution. Mann’s resolution, which was referred to the rules committee, which expects to take early action on it, fol- Washington and other places.” plauded declaration interested In steel was vigorously Mr. Littleton Applauded. Republicans and democrats allke ap- Littleton's that the charge that he trust affairs were “false in every particular.” “I propose to firht to the death the defamation of public men in this coun- try,” said Mr. Littleton. Chairman Stanley of the steel Inves- an sat to to until con- to pre- |1 and !Condensed Telegrams Tod Schiver, the Aviator, was Killed during a flight at Pouce, Forto Rico, The Navy Department Has Decided to abandon the Lurbine engine In lavor of the reciprocating engine, Andrew Carnegie Said in New York that the warlike proceedings in Kurope are only & flask from the past. Miss Anna Doinach of Sterling, I, married Louis Spoler, who shot her rather than see her wed another. Fire Yesterday Swept the Plant of the United States IExpress company at Jersey City. Loss about $400,000. The Cruiser Colorado Made the highest score among battleships and cruisers in the fall target practice. Williams College Receives approxi- mately $100,000 by the will of Miss Sarah H. Pattison of Ossining, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah Frances Burchell of the famous old Van Ness family of Wash ington died there at the age of &5 ears. I 25 ¢ The German Military Authorities are planning to build an aerial cruiser with a carrying capacity of 300 pe sons. About 200 Men Were Laid Off at the a | plant of the Maxwell Briscoe Automo- 2 | bile company at Cranston, R. L, yester- day. { The Union Na ional Bank of Colum- bu:, O.. posted”/a motice of st a resolution of the board l H. F, Gjorstan, Former State Senator and a leader of Norweglans in the United States, died in Minneapolls of rt disease. - Hundred Trained Detectives n assigned to the big Chicaec afl stores watch for shoplifters uring the Christmas shopping season pension directors. Fuve A Reduction in th- Pricea of Stanle oods mannfectured in the B. E night and the Goddards’ mills af ence went into effect yesterday. worth of opium otficials 1n elphia’s Chi th.z Hundred Wo r NMembers Sv: enteen Chma'nzn Were Arrested | | the o No Vote o Tax leagu Lave signed their nam to a pledge | rot to pay tz voluntarily until the; o | were aHowed to vote. The Ame-.un\ocmy of Mechanical Engineers, ¥ k 4,000 members; g | believes that o engineer should rani with the lawyer and the flnancier as a affairs. leader of pub! While More Than 100 Fellow Skaters tood around end watched her strug g le to lend assistance, Hilds rison, 18 years old, drowned in Greens' pond, Fitchburg, Mass. Figures Recently Compiled Show that ne etts and Rhode Is more deaths have been caused by iminating gas than by scarlet fever typhoid fever or infantlle paralysis, lin Massact John Jacob Astor Sent His Attorne, iLto police court yesterday to ask that sentence be suspended in the case of two young men who stole a valuablc robe off tha hood of his automobile. Mrs, Ella Flagg Young, Supsrinten- dent of Chicago schools, believes that the building up of the bodies of the he public school is more im- an the training of the mind. Judgq Ho|t of t e United Skales el terday appointed M ver for t sl ecom Albany, Nev re rqon‘l the Rudolph Blankenburg Was Inaugu- rated Mayor of Philadeiphia yesterda ‘.vd for tr first time in vears t city is governed by a man who w rot elected by the republizan organiz: d tien Declaring That Conditions in Mexico were far from settled, Revwresentativ Burleson Texas vpon President Taft f‘“,“‘ United States troops a'unz th People of Craig, Col, and its ding territory are aroused pver srobabllitics of another sheep v stmflar to that of 15 years ago, wh several men were killed end thousan cf sheep destroved A Bankrupt is Liable to Prosecution tigation commities remalned sllert | oo perjury if he swears falsely at the during the speech of the New York | grg¢ eating of his ecreditors to In- member. quire into his business, according to a TWO SERIOUS FIiRES Jersey fires occurred here today. leved they City, AT JERSEY CITY. Two Men and 350 Horses Perish; Loss | About $1,500,000. Deg. caused the paper boxes, and a total loss of over $1,500,000. The missing men are Willlam Wil- son, the engineer of the stables Ferdinand Ackery, a negro watchman. | one of the win- Ackery dows of the blazing bullding frantical- Iy waving his arms and that was the | last ssen of him. Wilson up to a late hour tonight had not returned to hts | | boarding place and his | certain that he perished iIn the fire. | He was about 55 years old and singls. Two negroes whose names were un- known were also said to but the police do not believe that they was seen at ‘were burned. The fire at the box nearly all day and razed the entire place which occupied almos all of the | eorner of Varick Coleman streets. Three hundred em- ployes were in the bufldings at the | time the fire broke out but they es- caped without injury. The loss on the | box factory is estimated at ! and that at the express stabls fire at $1,000,000. block at the Cenn., sul general in Glasgow, Mexican the 4—Two It is | deaht of two men and 350 horses, the destruction of the United States Hxpress company’s sablest and the entire plant of the James Lee company, manufacturers of sertol be 1 Ceclsion yesterday by the ccurt of the United States. supreme The Refusal of Harvard University authorities last week to allow Mrs Emmeline Pankh st, the British suf- | tragette, to use Sanders theater for & ecture, has aroused a storm of protest ng graduates and undergradustes. A Suggestion That the Church Base- ment be used for courting by the young people and for billlards, poo! and bowling by the men was made by Dr. George Durgin_ at the Tremont monetary | iraet Methodist FEpiscopal ehurch, : Boston. mates Body to Be Sent to Scotland. Greenwich, be missing factory burned $500,000 Dee. 4—The| funeral of Willlam J, Templeton, con- | S2fety of Norwalk, and are and , The Removal of Dr, Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, 1ended in a report to Gover- | nor Dix yesterday by Charles N. Bul- as appointed by the gover- vestigate business and affairs of the office. d In the United States circuit court at Cincinnat! yesterday by United States District Attorney Sherman T. McPherson against the National Cash' Register company of Dayton, O, e¢harging the <company ‘whh being a trust, Suit Was The Trial of Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, proprietors of the Trian=la ‘ Vvaist company,who were charged with manslaughter in the first and second degrees after the fire in thelr factory on March 26 wiped out 146 lives, began et New York yesterday. i That James J. Koena and Edward F. Duffy are entitled to hold the offices of city clerk and commissioner of public respectively, until Jan. 1, 1912, was the opinion handed down yesteraay by Judge H. L. Curtis in the superior court. President Gompers and _Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Lebor, together with other ll.hflf lt::dm. opprose the Baltimore ence ehe felt as ened ‘Woman Awakes from Long Sleep. domAfter 8 .h? Without Clarl, Imrd the appoiritees of |tlon of Japanese with the rebels tc PRICE TWO CENTS Yuan Deserted By Associates CHINA'S BOARD OF FINANCE GETS COLD FEET. SITUATION HOPELESS, So Declares Vice President as He Packs His Grip to Leave—Acting President Claims to Be Ik Peking, Deec, 4.—~Premier Yumn Shi Kai s having great difiéulties with the board of finance. He appointed a pi ldnnt of the board, who declined to The vice president left Peking r informing his friends that the | sitvation wag ho, peless, ‘The M:fln? rsked for a leave o but be- president has no sonce, on the ground of illnes really beéause he was summone fore the natloral assembly. Three Different Texts of Loan. Considerable of a sensation has buen d by the discovery that the na- I @ssembly, the Chinese foreign Joard and the board of finance hold different texts of the $30,000,000 agreement negotiated by Baron in bebalf of a Franco-Belgian syndicate. It is on this loan that Chi- na’s future form of government prac- tically depends, National Assembly Deserted. A Gespatch from Tien Tsin says the < provincial assembly hos tele- graphed the French government pro- ‘esling agalnst the Cottu loan and de- claring that the national assembly's action with respect to this loan is le legal., A muln;. also has been sent to Peking, t L t ! « which now musters few be- the throne. ions of the nutional house are be- ng held with about one-third the total miembers in at Japanese Al Consular advices say that the tures lays’ armistice &t Wu Chang will ter- te Wednpesday morning, but that probably will be renewed. If reporis rect there is a strange associa. sembly, in susicauiia. Jieretotore fear of Japuncse aggression has prnvenled the Chinese from accepting the assistance of the Japanese. Rebels Warn German Firma, Shanghal, Dec. Arms which hay supplying munitions to the imperial- ists have received &n enonymous varning that the charge is b in- vestigated. They have been notified t anyone found gullty of such prao- foreigner or Chinese, shall be mmediately slain. Anxiety 1is felt oncerning the fate of a German clerk who has been missing several days. ELAMES RAILROAD FOR THE MANCHESTER WREGK. Coroner Finds It Negligent In Permit- ting Use of Defective Rail, Rochester, N. ¥, Dea. 4-—Coroner Daniel A. Eiseline of Ontario county ianded down & verdict today In the 156 of the Manchester wreck Aug. 28 on the Lehigh Valley railroad, in which were killed. The last paragraph reads in part: “T find that this derall- ment was caused by the breakine of a 24 feet long, and that the Lehigh v Rallroad company was negli- t in permitting this defective rafl be placed in its main track In pril, 1811, but only insofar as the de- fect known as ‘pipe’ or split in the web »f the rail is concerned GOVERNMENT TAKES UP THE PASSPORT Issun President Taft Awaiting News from Ambassador to Russia. Washington, Deo. 4~—After' months of uncertalnty the United States gove rnment has taken up with the Rus- n goverament at St Petersburg the estion of passports for American ® in Russia, ipon Russia embodled liscussed treaty of 1832, Taft is awaitl an Ambass burg, which, If it comes tomorrow, will be discussed by the €abinet at its res: lar sesslon, f’! It does not Indicate & willlngness upon the part of the Rus- sian government to consider the ques- tion, Mr. Taft may recommend to congress legislation that would ac~ complish the end des! and the obligations in the mucl Prsid Made Plates for Counterfeiters, New Yorlk, Deo. 4—~The man who is alleged to have made the plates for the Lupo-Morrello counterfeiting gaag which circulated thousands of spurious two and flve dollar notes about the country & year ogo, was placed under arrest in the Pronx today by secret sorvice men. His name is Antonio Milone, & photo-plate etcher and sal: to he one of the most skilled workmea in that trade in the After New Haven Tax Dodgers. New Haven, Deo 4.—Instead of is- suing warrants for those who have not paid thelr perscnal tax nn city attors new will 1ssus subpoenas f eir ap= pearance in the dJ coart. passed by unnof warrents then be lesued. 'rbnro are about 12,000 who have not paid the tax and tomess 10w 125 subpoenes will be issued Insurance Policy May Be Assigned Washington, Deo. 4—~The supreme court of the Unitod States ed u a much disputed point of law »5§ when it decided that a life insuran policy may be assigned to one not re< lated or to a creditor of the person insured when the assignment was not contemplated at the time the policy was procured. 3 PR S Sheotlng and Cutting Affrey New Eritain, Conn.,, Dec. —~With the, left side of his face cut from mouth to ear, Balvator Motto tonight pull a revolver and fired five timos at Sal« vator Cantane'll without hitting him. The outting and shcoting took pl on Lafayetts sireet during a fight tween the two men, Demoorats Carry Portland. Portland, Me., Dw. 4~The democrats carried Portland ML!'I uulnh!vnl election, re-dooflnl Curtis with a the elt council. m cmu hnx ) hll votes to 4,518 for Hean Bteamehip Arrivale. wu&“fi.