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{ormich VOL. LIV.—NO. 299 STRIKERS SHOOT DOWN DETECTIVES Two Killed in a Storm of Bullets and a Dozen Others Wounded in Battle at Hackensack JERSEY CITY OFFICER SUSTAINS 23 WOUNDS Foreign Employes of Susquehanna Railroad Open Fire From Ambush-Upon a Boatload of Strike Breakers—Hand to Hand Conflict Follows an: d More Shooting—Superintend- ent of Erie Railroad Appeals to Governor for the Militia. Hackensack, N. J,, Dec. 11.—Several hundred striking New York, Susque- hanna and Western railroad employes, ambushed under the Palisades over- looking the lower Hudson river, open- ed fire with shotgun and rifle on a boatload of strikebreakers landing at coal docks at Edgewater today, and in a 'pitched battle which followed two railroad detectives were killed and a dozen other men were wounded. Request for Militia. A telegram requesting that the state militia be called to quell the disorder was sent to the acting governor of New Jersey by General Superintendent Stone of the Erie railroad. Mr. Stone escaped a storm of bullets fired by strikers as he was seeking shelter in a building. The Killed and Wounded. The men killed werg: Andrew J. Graw, 28, of Binghamton, N. Y., captain of detectives. Clarence Mallery, 45, one of Graw's men. The wounded include: John D. Ryerson of Jersey City, lieu- tenant of detectives; William King of Lirtleton, N. Y.; William A. Woods and Frank A. Brown of Port Jervis and William Hicks of New York. All these men, like Captain Graw and Mallery, were doing private de- tective work for the Erie railroad. Hicks Has 23 Wounds. Hicks is in a hospital, wounded 23 times in the legs, body and thighs. Brown and Wood were shot through the head; Ryerson in back and chest, and King in the right ear. The men, hiding behind rocky cliffs and trees, waited until a scow had discharged its cargo of men brought to take the strike places. A volley of blank ges did not frighten the strike- breakers, who pushed forward toward the railroad tracks on the coal wharf. A Hand to Hand Struggle. The men in ambush-then left their places of conccalment, and, firing real bullets, attempted to swarm out upon the wharf. They were met at the dock gates by the private detectives who, unarmed except for clubs, engaged in a hand to hand struggle. Strikebreakers Escape to Woods. A fusillade of shots brushed the offi- cers aside and they fled for safety, except the mortally wounded Graw and Mallery. The strikebreakers, under a fire of bullets, fled along the shore of the Hudson and concealed themselves in the woods of the Palisades. Strikers Are Forsigners. Three hundred employes, foreigners, of the Susquehanna, which the Erle railroad controls, auit work on Mon- day, demanding a wage increase of five cents an hour. Officials of the rail- road would not grant the increase. There was a clash yesterday between strikers and detectives and one of the latter was slightly wounded by a gun- shot. _—_ NEW YORK SELECTED AS PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS. Progressive Conference So After a Fight. Decides Chicago, Dec. 11—New York was se- lected as the permanent headquarters of the executive committee of the new progressive party tonight, after a, fight in which delegates to the National Pro- gressive conference from several states sought to have the headquarters lo- cated elsewhere. The vote on this question stood 32 to 12. Chief opposi- tion to the selection of New York as the location of permanent headquarters came -from Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming. The executive committee voted to send a commigsion to Europe to study legislation in England, Germany-and other countries for the purpose of get- _ting material and ideas for the Wash- ‘ington legislative bureau. For the immediate financing of headquarters and bureaus it was de- cided to ask for ome hundred sub- scriptions of $500 each per annum. Six of these were subscribed tonight. HYDE RECEIVES A TWO YEARS’' SENTENCE Released on $25,000 Bail Pending Ar- gument of His Appeal. New York, Dec. 11.—Charles H. Hyde, former city chamberlain, con- victed of bribery in connection with the manipulation of city funds, was sentenced by Justice Goff today to serve not more than three years and six months and not less than two years in state's prison. The justice, however, granted a cer- tificate of reasonable doubt and issued a stay of execution agreeing to ad- mit the prisoner to 25,000 bail pend- ing argument of his appeal. Bail was furnished by Tax Com- missioner Daniel F. McElroy, who gave as. security property valued at half A4 million dollars. Hyde walked out of court laté in the afternoon assured probably of several months’ freedom, as the appeal is not expected to be dis- poseq of until spring. THE DA N CONGRESS. House to Have Holiday Reasss from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2, Washington, Dec. “ongress: Senate— Court of impeachment resumed trial of Judge Archbald. House— Passed bill to repay southerners for wroperty seized by government after June, 1865. Representative Roddenberry intro- duced joint resolution to prohibit in- termarriage or negroes or persons of color and Caucasians. Adopted resolution for holiday re- cess from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2. Secretary Stimson told military af- fairs committee plans for fortification of Hawaii and for guarding Panama canal, War department recommended foot channel Perth Amboy to New York harbor. Secretary Fisher asked for $100,000 for continuation of investigation of mineral resources of Alaska. General Bixby, army chief of engi- neers, asked appropriations sub-com- mittee for aopropriation for great for- tification at Cape Henry, Va. 11.—Today in 25- Taft Re-elected by Red Cross. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—President Taft was re-elected today president of the American National Red Cross at the pighth -annual meeting of the organ- lzation here. Other officers chosen were: Robert W, Deforest, New York, rice president; Charles L. Magee, Washington, secretary; Sherman Al- len, assistant secretary of the treas- ury, treasurer, and William Bullitt, solicitor of the department of justice, souncillor. Over 18,000 Autos in This State. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11.—At the annual banquet of the New Haven Auto club tonight Secretary of State Matthew H, Rogers, who was a guest, said that the revenue frem auto regis- tration the last year amounted to $275,000 and that there are now more than 18,000 machines owned- in the state. Steamship Arrivals. Marseilles, Dec. 8-—Atrived, steamer a, New York. New York, Dec. 11.—Arrived, steam- eor Chicago, Havre. v New York, Dee, 11.—Arriyed, ‘steam~ & Finland, Antwerp » . TWO LAWVERS REFUSE TO DEFEND JACK JOHNSON. Colored Attorneys Say They Disap- prove of His Recent Marriage. Chicago, Dec. 11.—Jack Johnson's attorneys, W. B. Anderson and E. H. ‘Wright, appeared in the United States district court today to ask that their names be stricken from the records as counsel for the fighter. The lawyers, who are both colored, say that Johnson’s recent marriage to Lucille: Cameron, a white girl, was disapproved by them to an extent that they did not care to be longer asso- ciated with him. ‘Wright and Anderson represented | Johnson in the white slave cases yet to be heard. Johnsen appeared in the municipal court-today to answer to a charge of assault and battery bronght by a newspaper photographer whom Johnson is alleged to have struck with a cane. Hearing of the case was deferred. SENATE WILL CONFIRM TAFT'S APPOINTMENTS But None Will Be Made in States Where Both Senators Are Democrats. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—An amicable agreement in the senate over the con- firmation of President Taft's nomina- ations for federal positions, seems probable today when after a number of informal conferences among leaders a tenative plan was agreed upon. Under the arrangements proposed, no nominations for federal offices will be confirmed in states where both sen- ators are democrats, but in all states where the senators are republican there is to be no opposition to con- firmation of these places. It was un- derstood that many democratic lead- ers fn the senate would be satisfied if the appointments in southern states were not put through. HOUSE VOTES TO PAY SOUTHERN CLAIMS Over $5,000,000 Involved in Bill Passed Yesterday. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—More than $5,000,000 derived from sales of prop- erty taken from owners in the south after the Civil war, would be repaid to the southern claimants by the terms of a bill passed by the house today. The bill would amend the codification of laws relating to the judiciary so as to dispense with the allegation and proof of loyalty in those claims, af- fecting only proceeds of property taken after the date mentioned. The bill has not yet passed the sen- ate. LICENSE SUSPENDED FOR SELLING “BING.” State Board of Pharmacy Disciplines Bridgeport Druggist. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 11.—Members of the state board of pharmacy met here today and voted to suspend the druggist’s license of Mrs. W. M. Rob- ertson, proprietress of the Woman's Pharmacy in this city, because of al- leged violation of the law regarding the sale of heroin. It was charged that heréin or “bing” had been sold to a young man after his parents had re- quested the druggist not to make any further sales to him. “BRIDGIE” WZBBER DENIES REPUDIATING TESTIMONY. Writes District Attorney That State- ment is False. New York, Dec. 11.—“Bridgle” Web-’| ber, bne of the four informers in the Rosenthal murder case, quoted yester- day as repudiating his testimony ~iven at the trial of Becker and the four gunmen, in saying that there was no plot to slay Herman Rosenthal, sent a letter to District Attorney Whitman today saying that the statements at- tributed to him were “absolutely false, Any time you wish me to make an af- fidavit to thls efect.” he added, “I shall be glad to do so. Mrs. Webber will corroborate me.” Suioided to Music of Hymn, New York, Dec, 11.—After placing a song record, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” in a phenograph at their home in Brooklyn tenmight, Mrs, Mare Ult- zen, 60, wife of a well to do architect, and her son, Willlam Ultzen, Jr., turn- ed on the gas, fastened rubber tubes to their faces with belt and strap, and committed suicide NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1912 PRICE TWO CENTS Gabled Paragraphs | Whitg Sfave of | Tribesmen Kill Captain Ackford. Teheran, Persia, Dec. 11.—Captain Ackford of theé British army has been killed by trfbesmen near Shiraz, cap- ital of the province of Fars. Landlords and Tenants Riot. Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 11.—Serious rioting between landlords and tenants last evening necessitated the calling out of troops to restore order. Engineers’ Strike May Be Settled. ‘London, Dec. 11.—A speedy settle- ment of the strike of locomotive engi- neers on the Northeastern railroad is now hoped for, as the lord mayor of Newcastle has intervened. Two Months for. Suffragette. London, Dec. 11.—A militant suffra- gette named Elsie Howey was sen- tenced today to a term of two months’ imprisonment for turning in a num- ber of false alarms of fire last night. Minister Calhoun at Amoy. Amoy, China, Dec. 11.—The United States minister to China, William J. Calhoun, with Mrs. Calhoun and a party of friends, arrived here today on board the United States cruiser Rainbow. SAYS POLICE GRAFT IS GETTING WORSE Keeper of New York Tenderloin Re- sort- Pays $60 a Month, New York, Dec. 11.—Mary Goode, as a_self-confessed keeper of a resort in the Tenderloin district ang as a wit- ness before the aldermanic commit- tee which is investigating police con- ditions, declared on the stand toflay that many women of that section banded together in an association and had appealed to Mrs. O. H. P. Bel- mont to aid them in protection against police graft. She declared that the “Becker pocketbook has set an ex- ample. of graft to policemen of the Tenderloin section ang that since the Becker exposure the officers were “wild | in their demands for money.” From her own experience she told of having paid $60 a month for police protection. Some larger places, she said, were forced to pay from $100 to 220 a month. “The police want more money all the time,” she declared. “They keep raising their demands. This is all on account of the Becker pocketbook.” She alleged that the $100 ball required of a woman arrest- ed was divided between the police lieutenant anq the bondsman. She said there were 35,000 women in the city affected by the police methods. “We want to be put under a com- mittee of citizens,” she said. “We want to be protected from the police.” declared that if this women would help the committee in ridding the city of some of its worst vice element. In describing her house as a “re- spectable one,” she told of an exper- : ience with Gyp the Blood of the Beck- er gunmen. men entered her premises one night, she said, and robbed the inmates and | five men in the place. TAFT INFORMED OF ANARCHY IN MEXICO. Presidant Given Details of Unrestrain- ed Lawlessness. ‘Wasghinston, Dec. 11.—President Taft listened tonight to some startling dis- closures about present day conditions in Mexico. Four American business men with Mexican interests, two mem- bers of the senate and a congressman sat in. the.cabinet room in the White House offices and heard the story, Vvouched for by all, told to the presi- dent, by one man who had been in the southern republic within the last few weeks. It was a tale of outrages on Mexican women, of murders and hold- ups of Americans, of bandits who seized Americans and held them for ransom, of general lawlessness and disorder such as seldom has come to the ears of the ~resident since trouble began in Mexico nearly two years ago. ANOTHER UPRISING IN SAN DOMINGO Battleship New Hampshire Leaves Norfolk Under Hurry Orders. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 11.—The battleship New Hampshire left at midnight for San Domingo, on hurry orders, It is understood that another serious uprising has broken out in San Do- mingo. W. T. S. Doyle, chief of the Latin~ American division of the state depart- ment, has just returned from the re- public after having endeavored with Brigadier General McIntyre to effect some settlement of the unrest there. The New Hampshire is said to have considerable less than a normal supply of coal in her bunkers, but did not wait to replenish it. A number of members of her crew were on shore when the ship sailed. MIDSHIPMEN BET ON FOOTBALL GAME Four Hundred to Be Disciplined at the Naval Academy. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 11.—That 400 midshipmen violated Superintendent Gibbons' order forbidding betting on the recent annual inter-service foot- ball game at Philadelphia, has been disclosed as the result of an investi- gation just finished at the naval acad- emy. g The investigating board, it is said, got hold of the full list of midship- men who, it is alleged, had contributed to a pool amounting to 2,000, which was covered by the West Point cadets. The report is in the hands of Su- perintendent Gibbons, who will adsign punishment. Electrification of Shore Line. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11.—An- nouncement is made here that work of electrification of the main line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company between New Ha- ven and New York is progressing rap- idly. fSeventy-five per cent. of ihe work of excavating has been done and 30 per cent. of the steel work. Unless unusual weather interferes or =ome- thing unforeseen occurs, the work should be completed by July 1 next. Hosford Confesses Forgeries. Boston, Dec. 11.—Forgeries involving $125,000 are alleged to have been dis- closed as the result of the arrest of E. H. Hosford, former treasurer of the James Donovan Slipper company of Everett. Assistant District Attorney Lavelle In arguing today against a the prisoner had made a confession and that forgeries to the amount named had been committed. Judge Brown refused to reduce the bail of $20,000, Aute Runs Down Hartford Man, Hartford, Dec. 11.—Bdwin A, New- ten of the' grocery firm of Newton & Burnett was struck by anauto truck driven by Harry Abrey tonight and re- ceived injuries from which he may die. He has a fractured skull. Abery was arrested ad | She ' were done -the | He and four other armed * African Brute” JACK JOHNSON'S BRIDE CHARACTERIZED Is so A VITRIOLIC SPEECH Georgia cflugreumlnkCnnd'mm Re- cent Marriage in"Support of Bill to Prevent Union of Blacks and Whites ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—A epnuncihon of the legal procedure under which “a brown-hued, black-skinned, thick-lip- ped, brutal-hearted African can walk into an office of the law and demand an edict guaranteeing him legal wed- lock to a white woman” was one of many sensational features of a speech in the house today by Representative ! Ruddenberry of Georgia, in favor of a resolution he had introduced earlier to prohibit intermarriage of whites and negroes, ¥ Did Not Get a Vote. The ;measure, a direct result of the recent marriage of Jack Johmson, the negro pugilist, with a white girl, did not ~et a vote, but it enlivened a dull day’'s proceeding and incidentally aid- ed in a filibuster of Representative Goldfogle of New York that sent the Burnett illiteracy test immigration bill over until probably the middle of Jan- uary. May Bring Country to Conflict. Mr. Roddenberry prophesied that the { legal sanction of the mixed marriages ultimately might bring this country to a conflict. He declared: that “no bru- | tality, infamy or degradation in all the days of southern slavery possessed such villainous characteristics and atrocious Qualities as the permission of that marriage by the laws of this country.” “White Slave of African Brute.” In Chicago, he said, not only is the! white slave traffic carried on, but “the | white girls of this country are made the slaves of an African brute, sdnc- { tioned by the laws of the state, and | solemnized by a form of the marriage ceremony.” “Country of Morals, tues.” Mr, Roddenberry added: “We say this is a great country, with its mor-| virtues and examples, als, traditions, deserving to be emulated and envied by the other countries of the earth. But we see an African with much bru- tal force, with no moral character, with no stamina, in defiance laws of Illinols—yea, in accordance with the laws of Illinois—in defiance of the municipal regulations, entering the office of a probating magistrate, or other lega] officer, in that city, and calling on him to issue ‘to me, Jack| Johnson, a ‘marriage license to wed -a! young American woman, of our own blood, our own color.” Suicide Preferable to Such Marriage. The speaker declared that “in the fellowship betwen the blacks and the whites in the south the blacks respect- ed the superiority of their former mas- | ters, and would commit self-destruc- tion before entertaining the thought of marrying with a Caucasion girl.” TO PREVENT MARRIAGES OF WHITES AND NEGROES Reselution Introduced in Congress by Georgia Representative. Washington, - Dec. 11.—“Intermar- riage between negroes or persons uof color, and Caucasians, or any other character of persons within the United States or any territory under their Jjurisdiction” would be prohibited un- der a joint resolution introduced to- day by Representative Roddenberry, of Georgia. “The term negroes or persons of color,” is defined in the bill as any and all persons of African descent or having any trace of African or negro blood. The measure was referred to the ju- diclary committee. WOMEN SELL EGGS AT 24 CENTS A DOZEN Effort to Break Corner in Philadel- phia Starts Out Welil, Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—One hundred and fifty thousand dozen eggs were sold today at stations in various sec- tlons of the city by members of the Housekeepers' league in the first day of their campaign to break the corner which they claim has been maintained by retai] dealers here. Eggs that have been sélling for from 27 cents to 49 cents a dozen were sold by the women at 24 cenis. Such was the demand at the forty stations in operation today that onli; the inability to secure enough handlers prevented even a larger number being disposed of. As a rule the retailers manrained their former price. RUSBIAN CROWN PRINCE WOUNDED BY NIHILIST. Injuries of Such Nature He Can’t Suc- ceed to the Throne. London, Dec. 12.—The Daily Express this morning revives the story that Crown Prnce Alexis of Russia was the victim of niholism. It asserts that he is suffering from the effects of a wound made by a trusted attemdant who has since proved to be aynfhilist. The wound, savs the Express, 18 of | West, Fla., whence he will sail on the | such a nature that the price is incapa- ble -of continuing in the line of suc- cession to the throne, and therefore dppointment of heir designate is be- ing discussed in cour circles as Em- peror Nicholas’ brother, Grand Duke Michel, has renmounced his rights, TO FINISH THE TARIFF HEARINGS IN JANUARY Cengressman Underwood, Democratic Leader, Says That Is His Desire. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—T want to see the tariff hearings concluded by the end of January. The ways and means committee will have a chance to (work out the rough, draft of a bill for the -use of the new ways and means committee after the . presenmt congress expires March 4th,” said Dem- ocratic Leader Underwood today. Mr, Underwood probably will introduce to- morrow a resolution te authorize ad- ditional expert assistance in gonmnec- tion with the proposed tariff revision. Brigandage at Hartford. Hartford, Deq, 11—Mrs, Sarah Res- nick, who keeps a small store at 37 Laurel street, reported to the pelice tonight that three young men whem she did net know, entered her sters this. afternoon ,held her at the point of a revelver, and robbed the cash reg- ister. About $10 was stolen. The peo- lice ‘have so far found no clues Traditions, Virs | of the| Condensed Telegrams The Supreme Court of Missouri ruled that a diverced woman is a widow. Stephen Ranmaker of Woodhaven, L. I, was kicked to death by a mule. Caesar, the Pet Do‘g of the late King Edward, is seriously ill in London. Odessa, Russia, is gripped by a coal f)fllmlne as a result of the Balkan trou- e. The Christmas Demand for new quarters and halves is greater this year than ever before. Col. C. B. Montague, soldier of for- tune, and first mayor of Sitka, Alaska, died in Portland, Ore, aged $3. A Slight Earthquake lasting several seconds was felt at Calais, Me, yes- terday. No damage was reported. Alderman James J. Smith, of New York City proposed an ordinance to make six day bicycle racing illegal. The Health of the Navy Was Good during 1911, showing a slight improve- ment over that of the previous year. After Saving Up Nickels Since 1883, Mrs. Emily Kun of New York lost the entire, bagful, 10,000 in all,to a burglar. William W. Stone, formerly of Pres- ident Roosevelt's secret service staff, died at his home at Conmcord, N. H, Tuesday. James Otis Kaler, author of 145 | books written especially for boys, to i whom he was better known as James Otis, died yesterday. President Taft is Considering an of- fer of the Kent professorship at the Yale Law school. The place has been vacant for several years. As a Protest Against the High Cost tof living, more than 2,000 workmen of Grgenta, province of Fererra, Italy, j fired the house of the mayor. | George F. Heath, the Oldest hand i press printer and compositor in the i fourth birthday in Tarrytown, N. Y. The House of Lords passed the anti- ! white slave bill adopted some time ago by the house of commonse. The bill provides for flogging for first offend- ers, Maine’s Lobster Catch for the cur- | rent year will exceed $2,000,000 in val- { ue, according to a statemen! of James { Donahue, commissioner of sea and ! shore fisheries, | numors That the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology might merge with Harvard. university were denied by President Richard C. Maclaurin of 1‘ the institute. Forty Thousand Letters in five months represents the tota lof Gov- ernor Wilson’s mail since he came in- to prominence as the democratic can- didate for president last July. | Official Society in the Capital is go- ing in for ice skating and steps were | taken yesterday for the building of a | rink on the grounds used by the Wash- | ington horse show in the spring. ! Reiterating the Charge that his wife shot him to obtain his life insurance, Eugene H. Grace yesterday filed suit : for divorce against Daisy Opie Grace. { At her trial Mrs. Grace was acquit- | ted. William H. Quigley, Detroit, business agent of the Carpenters’ union, yester- day was held to the federal grand jury on the charge of the district attorney that he had committed perjury as a witness at the “dynamite comspiracy” trial Damage Estimated as Close to $100,- 000 resulted from a fire yesterday morning in a four story brick building on Park street, New Haven, used for manufacturing purposes. Lederer & { Co. and the Colenial Brass Co. were burned out. Acting on the Complaints of parents that their children had been gambling away their lunch money, detectives vesterday raided a “policy shop” with- in a stone’s throw of two Brooklyn high schools and six men in the place made their escape. William Zeigler, Heir to $14,000,000 under the will of a millionaire baking powder manufacturer,who adopted him in infancy, was married at a fashion- able New York hotel yesterday at noom to Miss Gladys V. Watson of that city. They were childhood sweethearts. Twenty-four of the 20 Massachusetts citles which held their annual elec- tions this month have voted to grant permanent firemen one day off in five. The proposition was defeated in four cities, Taunton, Fitchburg, Northamp- ton and Lowell, and was not voted up- on in Brockton. A Plea by Warden Bridges of the ‘Massachusetts state prison and two clergymen for the pardéon of Samuel Mitchell, a Lynn negro serving a life sentence for murder, was successful. Mitchell was convicted of murdering Mrs. -Ada Taylor 2§ years ago, when he was 19 years of age. A Suit Brought Against General Sickies by his daughter, Mrs. Eda Crackenthorpe, wife of a British army officer, was argued yesterday in the New York supreme court. Mrs. Crack- enthorpe seeks to have revoked a $60,- 009 trust fund created for her benefit and to hawe her father dlsmissed as trustee. President Taft Will Leave Washing- ton at midnight December 19 for Key afternoon of December 21 for Panama on the battleship Arkansas. Mrs. Taft, a military alde, Secretary Hilles, C. P, Taft, the president’s brother, and probably several other persons will be in the party. “The Large Number of feeble mind- ed children today is a direct result of the overwork and overstrain to which the mothers are subjected In the fac- tories. This is the conclusion of Dr. Max Schiapp, head of a bureau which was established by the New York de- partment of charities a year ago for the study of defective children. Bids Called for Porte Rico Bonds. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—Bids for $1,- 000,000 of 4 per cent. gold bonds of Porto Rico have ben invited by the bureau of insular affairs, to be opened Ja 22. These bonds in denom- inations of $5,000 will mature in 1913, but/ are redeemable twenty years after isstie. Their proceeds are to be applied to fan extensive irrigation project. pre. weddass e, e 2y Activities by Black Sea Turks. thens, Dec, 11.—It {8 .emi-ofofally firmed that 1mxm lufl Tu.r’lt.:‘;x: burning v and m th4 inhabttants in the neighberhood of lipoli and Lales., Bimilar atrodities hajye .occurred 'in the Keshanl district of IThrace, where 300 Greeks have been massaered. - The town of Keshani and surrounding viliages have been burned. €0 United States, celebrated his eighty- | Long Terms for Two_gf_ Allens SIDNA ALLEN GETS 35 YEARS, WESLEY EDWAR?S 27 YEARS COMPROMISE EFFECTED Each Was Under Indictment For Three Murders—Two of Gang Under Death Sentence, Enjoy Respite. Wytheville, five yea penal part in Va., Dec. 11.—Thirty- in the penitentiary is the Sidna Allen will pay for his the shoating up of Carroll county courthouse at Hillsville last March, when five persons, including the presiding judge, the sheriff and the commonwealth’s attorney, were killed by members of the Allen clan and a number of others wounded. Allen's ” nephew, Wesley Edwards, will spend vears in the penitentiary. Sentences Result of Compromise. These two sentenc: the re- {sult of a comprom afternoon, following a verdict of voluntary man-" slaughter in the case of Sidna Allen for the murder of Commonwealth's Attorney William M. Foster, the Jury fixing the penalty in that case at five years' imprisonment, Allen already had been found guilty of second de- gree murder at a former trial for the killing of Judge Massie, for which he had been sentenced to fifteen years in the penitenti Another indictment pending against him for the murder of Sheriff Webb, was compromised by letting him plead guilty to second de- gree murder and take a fifteen years sentence. The combined sentences make 35 years. ! Nine Jurors Stood for Acquittal. Three indictments against Wesley Edwards also were compromised he taking a sentence of nine years' im- prisonment on each In the second trial of Sidna Allen, which ended today, nine of the Jjurors on the first ballot stood for acquittal and the other three for murder in the second degree. The Courthouse Tragedy. This ends a tragedy without parallel |and which stirred the country from jone end to the other. Following the conviction last March of Floyd Allen of an offense which would have sent him to the penitentiary for one year, | members of the Allen family, clan- nish mountaineers, opened fire on the court. officials. At the first velley Judge Thornton L. Massie fell mor- tally wounded and after the fusilade which followed Sheriff Webb and Com- monwealth's Attorney Foster also were found dead. On the following day one of the three jurors who wers shot died of his wounds, as did also Miss Beattie Ayres, who had been a witness in the case. Captured in Des Moines. Floyd Allen was arrested the day following the tragedy, being too badly wounded to escape. The arrest of the others implicated in the shooting fol- xlm\fed at various intervals. The two men whose fate was declded today eluded the detectives for some months but were traced to Des Moines, lowa, and captured. Two Under Sentence of Death. Of the six men who have been con- victed of complicity in the shooting, Floyd Allen and his son, Claude, are under sentence of death while Sidna and Friel Allen and Wesley and Sidna Edwards have been given long terms in the penitentiary. Victor Allen, a son of Floyd, was acquitted and Byrd Marion was discharged because of dack of evidence against him. Governor Mann today granted a re- spite untll January 17 to Floyd and Claude Allen, who were to have been electrocuted next Friday ‘at Richmond. SMUGGLING CONSPIRACY INVOLVES DRESSMAKERS. i Wife of Prominent Lawyer Named In the First Indictment. New York, Dec. 11.—A smuggling conspiracy to which many of the larg- est dressmaking establishments throughout the United States are par- tles, and through which the United States treasury has been defrauded of a million dollars, was alleged by the federal authorities today. A middle- aged woman of refined polse, proficlent in five languages, was indicted on the specific charge of ‘“facilitating the transportation of smuggled goods into ihis country” by the way: of Canada. ®ustoms officials described her as the wife of George Haldron, a lawyer,with offices in New York, London and Par- | Is. When arrested she was at a fash- ionable house hers today, being In pos- sesston of 21 gowns valued at $10#000, the finest, the ofMclals said that had been seized at this port in vears. Mre. Haldron was held in $2,000 bafl, SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST MYSTIC BUSINESS MAN of Twelve Young Girls, Mystic, Conn., Dec. 11.—Upon a war- rant issued by Prosecuting Attorney Benjamin Hewitt today, Amos R. Parks, a well known business man, was arrested, charged with a statutory crime against Leah Barraclough, aged 12, Parks waived a hearing and was bound over to the next term of the superior court. Prosecuting Attorney Hewitt an- nounced tonight that more arrests would be forthcoming tomorrow. He declared that twelve young girls be- tween the ages of 12 and 15 had “confessed” to him ang that it was upon their testimony that the addi- tional warrants havé been drawn up. The affair has créated a profound sensation here. New York Bankers Grow Impatient. Washington, Dec. 11.—An iraté group of New York bankerS &nd brokers surrounded Samuel Untermyer, coun- sel for the banking and curréncy com- mittes of the house, when the com- mittee adjourned its “mouney trust” hearing late today and demanded that they be either excused or placed on the stand at once. The New York men have beer. In Washington since Monday and they were told tonight by Mr. Untermyer that they would have to await their turns for examination Colobrated 100th Biréhday. Howard, Kansas, Dec. 11.—Descen ants of George M nger gather . here today to celebrate the 100th an niversary of his birth, Mr. Munsin- ger has 144 desc Hving out os a total of 149, stxty-five of whom were present today. Prices Drop on Bourse. St. Petersburg, Dec. 11.—] X the Bourse hn:: ‘heen m&uly” There was a heavy fall _owing to reporis of a critical temsion tween Russia and Austria/