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VOL LXI—NO. 269 .0.P. SPENT BETWEEN JUNE 14 ANDOCT. 18 §2.741,903.34 Dfficial Statement Filed by Treasurer Upham of the N‘til.)nll Committee, With Clerk of the House of Representatives —Receipts For the Same Period Were 32,466,019.5:1— Number of Contributors, 34,867 — Sixteen Contribu- tions Were in Excess of $1,000, the Largest by tlfe Ham- ilton Club of Chicago, $6,120.50—Other Contributions Ranged From 25 Cents to 31,000 and Covered the En- tire Country. i \sburse-| The American people likewise understand Wasieston, O '-;1-\T:'l\::lnnda|m;nm- the meaning of words. You have been ments of the o and October 18 |given the opporturity to correct your mittee between T At $2.741,503.34 | misstatement and this correction you o R A N etement filad today with|“ave failed to make. et he house of representatives \ JAMES M. COX. ek o iteasurere of the na-| New Jersey gave Governor Cox a Pred LD, pts for the pe-|warm welcome. Accompanying the gov- S iesd ot $3,4ENOTRSE |ernor through the state .was Governor wiod were placed At T the number of| Ndwards and other prominent Jersey he statement D nd added that| democrats. Chairman White of the dem- contributors at HEC0 jans in excess of| ocratic national ~committee joined the oy tcaived. These sixteen |candidate at Trenton. / B ations, it was added, sggregated o butons N amilton club of Chica-| GOMPERS ATTACKS COOLIDGE e was named as largest single contrib- ON BOSTON POLICE STRIKE e ittecs announcement ®aid| ywiimington, Del, Oct. 22.—An attack contributions ranzed “from 25 eentson Governor Coolidge, republican vice- a0 and cover t entire country. presidential nominee, based on his ac- reasure ams reports,” it added. | yiong in the Boston police strike of 1919, that contr for state commitiees | gag made here tonight by . Samuel were received to the amount of $1.015-| Gompers president of the American §18.64 and . I by him as agent| pegeration of Labor. Mr. Gompers said, o state committes In an address, that after the policemen The sum was borrowed 0T | yag left tifeir posts “Governor Coolidge 7 and his police commissioner, knowing full well the city would be unprotected, and congressional | to these commit- po-e Vithheld the powe. they commanded. e “If the action of the Boston police was NARDING PREPARING a ‘crime against civii#ation, what terms FOR CLOSE OF CAMPAIGN | pan. describe the action or inaction of e Governor Coolidge and kis police com- sion, 0. Oct The last of DiS | vijssioner?” Mr. - Gompers asked. “Who B ewings outside Ohlo completed, | hut a hypoerite of the rankest kind could e farding ook 4 real holiday 10 | make a campaign of law and order up- Sy before starting work on the series of | yn such a record of cunning treachery ehes e will deliver next week in | snd deception? O mcipm! cities in his own state. “*There is no right to strike against P e his arrival here late in the mom- | the public safety by anybody, anywhere, ial train which carried him nto New York state, he s office for only a short r a forty mile motor nd a game of golf. | weeks any time' he (Governor Coolidge) bom.: wastically shouts after having aided and: betted, the most vicious blows against a ing on the snec on his excursion Tooke while and then wide to Mansficld 3 It was the first time in several uninvestigated and unpunished.” that he had taken so complete a Test . “Imagine this contingency. The pos- from the cares of the campalgn. Al- | sible election of Senator Harding to the hough he anveared in perfect health, | presidency and a vacancy for any cause ain of his speaking trips had eresh himself with some wholesome phy- sical exercise before taking up the home ¢ the campalgn. S Eemorrow the nominee will begin prep- aration of his final campaign utterances, @ be delivered on the last four nights of pext week to meetings in Cleveland, Ak Cincinnati and Columbus. No more ‘ront porch dates have been Fonked and ghese four addresses may be the only ames he will deliver before clection day It is considered entirely nossible, how- that when he leaves Wednesday he ident of the United States. Commissioner Curtis, Mr., ler” hfs control in order that the city ron, men who had ceased work.” LEAGUE. OF NATIONR TRINITY ever. will run into numerous rear-platform gatherings, locally arranged, and WLl 1o\ yoiney Town, Getl 22 Seerstary supplement his four main speeches with ~mu‘- hort Talke of a lens formal nature. The present plan is to make the Ohio eireuit on a special train, not returning to Marion until Sunday. Mis managers consider that such a trip probably will mean an extensive rear-platform pro- gram. €6X TELEGRAPHS ROOT, CHARGING MISREPRESENTATION ing Fisher, of Yale university, Colonel party.” cewark, N. J., Oct. 22.—Charges that Fie Root nas misepresentad his league of nations position were reiterated by Governor Cox of Ohio in another tele- gram sent Mr. Root today during the democratic presidential jdate’s New Jersey campaign g Making & second vigorous demand for a retraction by Mr. Root, the governor said, regarding Mr. Root's reply today to we candidatc’s first telesram “You shave entcred upon a long dis- sertation upon the subject of Article 10 in which again by inference you are en- deavoring either deliberately or through misunderstanding and lack of informa- tion concerning my Speaches to misrep- resent my position on the league of na- tiome." In this method and in more than a half dozen speeches today in his ome day tour of New Jersey, Governor Cox Telterated that he would accept “helpful Tessrvations. Trenton, Camden, Newark and Jersey City tonight were visited by the governor. Governor pot read lencrable Fiihu Root New York City. Wave your telegram of October 21st n reply o mine of October 20th in ch 1 called attention to your mis in New York Cox declared that he will msist upon the treaty just os Mr. Wilson negotiated it’ “I respectfully asked of you a retrac- tion of your untrue statement. You bave apparently mistaken to correct a possible error or to admit the deliber- eness of intent in its presentation. Permit me, therefore, to renew in terms that cannot be misunderstood the re- guest which can be answered with an un- auivocable ‘Yes' or "No'; did you or did you not make the statement as quoted ; wnd do you know now that it was false; and do you not recognize that in justice ts yourselt and in justice to the Amerj- ean people who have honored you, you Ja publicly acknowledge it.” “In your reply to me you have enter- 4 upon a long dissertation upon the sub- ject of Article 10 in which again by iaference you are endeavoring either de- lberately or through misunderstand or bk of information concerning my speeches, to misrepresent my position on the league of nations. Accepting the faet that your misstatement was based »pow lack of information, 1 referred you to the dally report of my speeches in the newspapers in which I have invar- iably said hat I favored the Hitehcock teservations and also that 1 would ac- sept reservations from any sonrce offered ballot for Governor Cox. CRAP GAME RESULTED 1 able Williams, colored, was “get” Anderson, whom he accused o cheating him in a crap game in Stam. walk hospital notified the polic; of the shooting. Hi being heads of rival “gangs.” DECISION FAVORS FOREIGN ox's telegram today to Mr. New York, Oct. 22.—A demurrer to federal indictment returned August da by Judge Julius M. Mayer. city when you said, ‘Mr. eign commerce. forwarding of freight. M. C. RAILROAD AUTHORIZED day by the interstate commerce commt 619,000. tion equipment purchases and -$400;0: as security for a loan to redeem certai maturing February 1, 1921. MACSWINEY ASLEEP AFTER London, says the night bulletin of the Iri in sincerity and with a desire to help. | lent, but short, attack of delirium at 7 Eimply that you may be further in-|ofclock this evening, after which he OF IMPORTATION OF LIQUOR ; formed, let me call your attention to [slept. Mrs. MacSwiney was with him the fourth of the Hitchcock reservations In reference to Article 10: ‘That the ad- vige mentioned in Article X of the cove- sant of the league which the council give io the member nations as to the employ- ment of their naval and military forces s merely advice which each member na- lien is free to accept or reject according w the conscience and judgment of its WATERBURY TO NEW HAVEN the track tonight near the town hall Hamden. POPULATION 29,685 counselled and advised one of law- wbiding community ever allowed to go vecurring, and Coolidge, the police bait- er, the agent provocateur, hecoming pres- Gompers sald, “after provoking the strike decid- ®d to_withhold all police protection un- would be completely 4t the mercy of the lawless element for over 14 hours there- by causing a revulsion of public epinton, and casting a stigma upon the police- INCLUDES “PROMINENT” FISHER of War Newton D. Baker, Professor Irv- Whittlesey, of “Lost Battalion fame,” and other men and women of national prom- inence here today in their crusade for the league of natons, stressed the necessity this vear of “vote by. principle, not by The issue of this campaign, they assert- ed, was the league of nations and since no one knew where Senator Harding stood on this issue, the only sute hope of league supporters was to cast their MURDER IN SOUTH NORWALE South Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 22.—Vener- b shot and killed before a noontime crowd today by Ira Anderson, colored, after Williams had opened fire on him, in a determination to ford last night. The slayer escaped from the crowd and made his way to the Nor- for treatment, and then was unaware tha® Willlams is dead. The shooting was the result of a.colored feud of some standing, toth Williams and An- derson being known as gamblers among the colored nopulation of the city, and STEAMSHIP COMPANIES 30 charging violation of Sherman anti-trust laws by 38, foreign steamship companies and a number of brokerage firms and in- dividuals, was sustaimed in part here to- The court sustained the demurrer de- nying the charge of monopoly. and re- served decision on charges of conspira. cy to restrain luterstate trade and for- The case grew out of alleged contracts«for the handling and TO ISSUE BONDS FOR.$3,619,000 Washington, Oct. 22.—Authority was granted the Maine Central Railroad to- sion to issue first and refunding § per cent. gold bohds to the amount of §3,- The road was also authorized to pledge with the secretary of the treasury $2,067,000 in bonds as secur- ity for government foans, $1,152,000 as security for a loan for financing addi- bonds of the Knox and Lincoln Railway VIOLENT ATTACK OF DELIRIUM Oct. 22.—Mayor MacSwiney, Self-Determination League, had a vie- all day, but was not recognized by him. TROLLEY CAR JUMPED TRACK New Haven, Conn., Cct. 22.—A Water- bury to New Haven trolley car jumped A dozen passengers were shaks+ CabLty PARAGKAPHS MacSwiney at Point f Duath. London, Oct. 23.—The Exchanse Tele- graph announces that it has besn - formed that Lord Mayor Maghiwinoy at the point of death. JUDGE LANDIS GETS A THREATENING NOTE Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22.—Federal Judge K. M. Landis received an anony- mous note here tonight threatening him it he continied his attacks on the radical movement n America. . . The . note, unsigned, typewritten on business astationery, was addressed to him at his hotel and was delivered by mail. It said: “To Judge K. M. Landis, Indianapolis “For the last time you are warned to keep your d— mouth shut concerning charges that you have made against ‘radicais’’ movements in speeches at Chi- cago and ‘other towns in Which you have spoken.” Judge Lardis in referring to the note said: “My sole hgpe at this hour is that I may live ont aly life in full, abeut thirty years mor:! So that I may fight the treasonable crowd of men who planned and supported tnc St. Louis platform of the socialist party. The socialists did not omit one opportunity to embarrass the goyernment, and I intend to omit not one opportunity of calling it to the attention of the people. Judge Landis, in addressing the Indiana state convention of school teachcrs today, criticized both Senator Harding and Gov- ernor Cox for what he termed their eva- sion of vital election issues. Both the democratic and the republican parties, Judge Landis added, took indefinite Stands in their platforms regarding im- portant questior The only specific complaint against the candidates made by Judge Landic was that_“neither has said what he will do as affecting legislation that will give life to the prohibition amendment” Hotel, BODY OF WOMAN IN WOODS 0 FOUND N STATEN ISLAND New' York, Oct. 22—%he body of an unidentified woman, with a piece of ma- nila string wound and tied about. the neck, was found by hunters late today in a clump of trees nmear West Brighton, Staten Island. There were indications that she . had been Killed after a desperate siruggle. Her hat was found several feet away and pearls from a broken necklace were scattered -about. Ildentification of the body was difficult, as no jewelry other than the pearls was found, and there vére few marks upon the clothing. Ap- parently the woman was about 30 years old. The officials believe the woman had Dbeen dead since Wednesday night and they expressed the opinion she was lured to the lonely spot and attacked. HEAD OF LARGEST WHISKEY RING IN THE COUNTRY New York, Oct. 22— Charged with vi lating the: Volstead act and with conspir- acy, Henry T. Semel of New York, who, prohibition enforcement agents allege, is hend of the largest whiskey ring in the country, was arrested here today. Alarico Valle and Don Pollock, charged by the officials with being Semel's assistants, Also were arrcsted. ‘The three were. ar~. raignod beford a United Stateg commis- sioner and furnished - $1,500 ‘cash bail each. i Arrests of the men resulted, prohibl- ton agents said, after they had pur- chased seven cases of #iskey from Semel and had haid him $.0 in marked bills. After the arrests six agents seized 400 cases and eight barrels of whiskey, valued at more then $40,000, at Semel's headquarters. . 1 SIGHTSEERS SAW MAN STUICIDE AT NIAGARA FALLS agara Falls, N. Y., Oet. 22.—Before the eyes of a score of sightseers at Pros- pect Point late this afternoon, a man climbed over the railing, waded out into the river and was carried over the Amer- ican Falls. Too astounded to act, the spectators stood by while the man.drifted to the bi /., waving his hand and shout- ing “Heres where I leave you. Good- bye!” In a black derby found mear the place where the man climbed the railing was found a piece of paper on which was written: “This hat belongs to Carl A. Ellis of Hamburg, N. Y.” The descrip- tion of the suicide corresponds to that of Ellis, who could not be located in Ham- burg tonight. 1 e $200,000 FOR ALIENATION OF HER HUSBAND'S AFFECTIONS New York, Oct. 22.—A sheriff's jury today awarded $200,000 to "Mrs. Laura Cave Wilson in her action against Mrs. Bertha Lobit Wilson, charging alienation of her husband’s affections. The verdict is sald to_establish a new high record in this elass of litigation. The plaintiff, Mrs. Laura Cave Wilson, al- Lobit Wilson without obtaining a divorce. Mrs. Lagyra Cave Wilson's father was Major Cave, a railroad builder, of Dal- las, Tex. Mrs. Bertha Lobit Wilson is the daughter of a banker in Galveston, Tex. GREAT FOREST FIRE IS . the destruction of the villages of Ceaterville and Craigville. gained great cottages and ers. the flames. THREAT TO BLOW UP COAL oy in they did not redueg the price of coal theis yards would be blown up. extending protection. i TO PRAY FOR PROHIBITION sh Regina, Sask., Oct. 22.—Methodist con gregations througrout Saskatchew: lowing day. ERPRIE S5 0 in | FIRE IN WOODS ALONG then existing government and in the United States, this advice ean only be iocepted by action of the congress at he time in being, congress alone under Me Constitution of the United States aving the power to declare war.” “Now, Mr. Root. I have asked you a Main question. We are both assumed p understand the meaning of words. en up and cut by broken glass, the c turned completely around and derailment is mot known. roads outside tipped against a trolley pole. The cause of the Aleohol valued mt $4,000 was seized and four automobiles confiscated by fed- eral agents during Thursday night on the o & ar hunters, is_burning along_the Connec: Sing Sing Fugitives Surrend- on the hea leged that Wijson married Mrs. Bertha THREATENING HYANNIS, MASS, Hyannis, Mass., Oct. 22.—A forest fire ‘which .broke out- at the Yarmouth camp grounds this morning ‘onight threatened rt of this town and Fanned oy a brisk northeast wind, the fire eadway, destroying four rtly burning several oth- More than 600 volunteer fire fighters were engaged tonight in an effort to check YARDS IN BRIDGETORT Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 22.—All the coal dealers of this city, with the exception of one firm, reported to the police today that they had each received a postal card this morning containing The threat that it The police are have been urged o pray next Sunday that importation of liquor may be de. feated in the provinclal election the fol. THE RHODE ISLAND LINE Oneco, Conn., Oct. 22.—A Woods fire, thought to have been started by careless NORWICH, C# Captured £y ered Without . Resistance, When Surprised -in’ Foot: hills at Warner, N. H. | Warner, N. H, Oct. 22.—A man-hunt ly wooded ‘southern foot hilis of Kearsaze Mountain okded’ today in:the capture of George Stivers and Marcus Bassert, who escaped from Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y., last Saturday night. The men, tired and hungry were surprised eating apples under a tree by the roadside and surrendered without resistence. They readily admitted helr identity and. tonight were on their:way back to the prison in custody of Warden Lewis E. Lawes and three prison. keep- ers. t 1 Hunt started when the two men were seen to jump from a stolen automobile here yesterday and run “into ‘the: woos, Sherift Gieorge A. Wooster was ‘motifted and within a short time a posse af. depu: ties was formed. Througholt . yester- day, last night and today the conStantly augmented by, - repi ot Warner “and adjacent . towns. . Many brought rifies, shotguns, or: :fevoivers, while some of the: farmers were" armed With pitchforks, clubs and axes, Once, early last evening, the men were. sesn at the edge of the wdods. Shote promptly fired in their direction sent them scurrying back to shelter. A-little® Jat- | er they ventured out of the forest, un- observed in the darkness, and sought food Hartford, . utilities commission, in an order made public tonight, grants the. petition of the Connecticut company for a flat ten cent fare rate, on_its trolley lines, instead, of the seven' cent fare now i force. The order i The o mpany in the state except those in the iew . London division, where a_ten cent ct ‘several days ago. 1t is signed by Richard T. Higgins; chair- Han, and Joseph W. Alfop. Appended to the | order is a dissenting opinfon Charles. C.Elwell, - the third -member ‘of ‘commission. order provides for the establish- ‘ment, of fare limits based uponthe or: nal'five. cent fare limits, as in effect be- fore, there was. any increase ‘School -tickets _shall be igsued at half the Teglilar rates, the:order ‘says, and the company shall jssue_commutation tickets similar to those now in use, at a rate of two and one-half cents a mile. 'In . reviewing the . hearing. of ‘Oct. 1, ‘when the company made the ten cent fare proposal, the commission says that it was not sdisputed that “ the company needed ‘more revenue, althouhg it was tioned by some whether the flat ten cent fare would produce the required increased fare was. put int Conn,, , Oct.. 22. “to take offett on Nov. 1. r applies to all lines of in . ra doing. than the spoken message. say too much in its behalf. depenllence they place upon, it. wise be obtaine columns for two conts a.day: m Get the Most From Your Advertising Advertising is one of the greatest forces in the world, It has ac- complished purposes which no other agericy has ever been capable of The printed word reaches further, is more effective, brings things to pass more quickly and eatisfacterily in almost every instance i Every business that has made’ judicloits use of mdvertising cannot They know wHdt théy owe to it and what Advertising giyes them a salesmanship service which cannot other- That service is increased. in' proportion to the cir- culation of the medium that carries the advertising. In vicinity The Bulletin has a eirculation Which no other approaches. Its value for effecttye advertising cannot therefore be wiscly disregarded. In the past week the following matter has appeard in The Bulletin's dt two farm houses. The occupants, thinking they were tramps, refused ‘fo give them anything fc eat, and €d back into the woods. For the rest of the night Stivers and Bassett kept out of sight. They Admit- ted after their capture today,that they had spent the night seeking an: outlet of escape, but being unfamillar: With' wpod- craft they had wandered abomt in . & cirele and at daylight found themselves near where they had started. ey had| no_sleep and no food. v 3 e A, eepers, who ‘Warden Lawes and his ki had hurried here on receiving: the word that the men ~were cornered, ' Jjoined Sheriff Wooster during -the -night. . At daybreak, members of the posse were strurig out “along’ ‘the “borders”of the woods for a distance of ten .miiles, and others were sent into. the forest,, where in systematic fashion they sent round after round of shots in every dircetion. As it developed, afterwards, this meth- o was successful in gradually forcing the fugitives toward the outer edge of the forest. They were not seen, however, untel this_afternoon. Sheriff Wooster sent two men, Edwin L. Forsaith and Carl W. Rowe, to & point on the roay near a house on Tory Hill. They had not been stationed thers ten minutes before they caught sight of two men lying nder an apple tree close to the road and munching. apples. Creep- ing along a -qmewall, Forsaith ana Rowe got close to the men without be- ing seen. Tnen they straightened up. The men, thinking they were hunters, asked them the way to -adford, an ad- joining town. For answer Forsaith and Rowe pointed . their rifles at the men and ordered them to surrender. Taken by surprise the men threw up their gands, and in a few minutes they were bound hand and foot. They admit- ted they were the escaped. conviets. Rowe stood guard while Forsaith went to the nearest house-and telephoned the- sheriff, Shortly- afterward ‘Sheriff Woorster and Warden Lawes arrived and the warden at once identified the men 23 Stivers and Eassett. 2 After the posse had been dispersed, the convicts were taken to Concord, leaving that city by automobile late'in the aft- ernoon for Worcester, Mass., whence they were to be returned to Ossining by, trai : T Stivers and Bassett talked. freely aft- er their capture. They said that theif first move after escaping from.-the’ pris- on was to steal an automobile nearby. They drove at top.speed for the_ state ne and into- Connecticut. At - Derby, Conn., they hild up a man in another ar and stole his overcoat and- that of-a companion, some money and the:mumber, plate of the car, which they attached to the automobile they were driving. Always with the idea in. mind . of sventually reaching Canada. they drove back and forth over .Connecticht . roats during -Sunday- and - Monday, hopfug’ to throw pursuers off the trail. .On Tues- flay they dashed into western . Ma chusetts and managed to find their wa; % Springfield and Worcester, then. i northward again and drové to Keene, Nj 1. From Keene they proceeded toi East Jaffrey and followed ‘the raflroad.line to concord through Henntker and ‘West Hop- Kinton. 3 PRI L In Concord they stole anotfier autamo- Sile afd Bassett drove'it’ off, followed by Stivers in the first car, . ‘They,return: ed to Henniker and triéd to rob 2 lunch room proprietor, ‘firing one shot at hi hut were frightened away by the ival of armed meighbors. ‘A t | tance from the village they, | the car in which they had: come. inth the state and proceeded in'the stolen coneord automobile. < LS R On Tuesday morning their gasoline had given out and they obtained-a~ #wg quantity at Carl Jevell's garage in. Wa r I- imber have been burned over. and west of here. cut-Rhodé Island line in Sterling today. veral hundred acres of fairly valuable | ed the ear and ‘seeing men, approa Two | realized that they were being ‘um other fires have been seen In 'Woods north 3r. When this was used up they abandon-, nd took to the Woods. By a siogular colncidence, it ‘was.at. they dodg- | The ; he'S _Connecticut com; sible action by the ne: 10 solve or reliet: way difficulties, of preventing i “J0st -and reasohabla_ at this % ‘#1s0.says: ® bl Increased rate such as asl company’ would result proved seriice and the property. burdens resting on Dbature of paving ‘a and had, it not fos been confronted with public service, automobile, payement paid for by t) ;Delkev there .would hax or a petition to inerease th, conts’ at_this time.” R In the dissenting opinion Commissioner Elwell reviews the various rate’ increases since October, 19 :hmz five to aix a8 beginning to a f-raa berinning to acoept the six &ystem. . This was then. promounced: Storrs of the com: says. Sifice then been in effect for ment eontinues: fiw\m becaise of 114 possible falling off Datronageé dus to the ‘increased r: Statement” gives the figures ‘the Nearing .on the ¥, mentions t general asee: @ the present street & the ‘ten eent fare t “The estabiishment - of better maintenan “Proyided there h: T the past fi the 17. when the cents. He says the company adopted -the city are: T Actor Oliver Doud Brrom Deai. Long Beach, N. Y., Oct. Doud Byron, Veteran actor of th ican stage, Who hay win Beoth . John Jefferson. Laura. Keene, dons and other famous stars, home here today. Wilkes Rooth, “ques- Norwich and finances of Tefers to the importan suspension of trolley ser. A substantially ked for by the in materially im- ad been mo ‘unfair the company, in the nd bridge obligations, ve years unregulated Which uses the he company, we ve been no need tried eight months and a failure by President many, the commissioner the ‘seven cent fare has His state- d appeared with Ed- Mrs. Scott Sid- He was 78 years old. — FOURTEEN PAGES—112 COLS. BRIEF TELEGRAMS Britise’ Colambla voted for government sontrol_of liquor. “Bar geld in London was 119s 3d, as against 1208 rd at last ciose. The state department estimates that theré are'about 35 Americans in Russia. Amerfean dollar in Paris was 8 cen- times' off, being quoted at 15 francs 42 cetitimes. . The Tiational conference of health ficers will be held at Detroit beginn Nov. 30. Polish government announced an order had been issued to troons to withdraw trom Minsk. Automebile bandits fired five sho's in a vain attempt to hold up an. automobile #t Babylon, L. L ' the Former Premier Orlando of Ttaly, re- cently appointed ambassador to Drazil, arriyed at Rio Janeiro. Several midshipmen face from. Annapoiis Academy following their arrest on sharge of intoxication. by Frances E. Lee, a Chinese girl student aviatrix, was killed when she jumped from a.faliing airplane at Menlo Park, Calif. tes, Torkish nationalists, who hare been fighting the French in the region of An 1tab, Asia Minor, shelled the American College. Pelts of sliver foxes valued at more than $1.000.000 were exported from Prince Edward Island during the past season. Primary defense of New York eit against an invasion by sea would be di rected from Boston, under a war depart- ment order. A fire, which started in the Mop Fx- change, London, has been burninz for about 18 hours. Damage is estimated at £1,000,600. Marry C. Toback, arrested several da ago as a suspect in connection with the $500,000 Caruso gem theft, was dis- charged in court. Seotland Yard officlals served F. 3, < §{ Costells. managing editor of Chica=o la- bor, soclalist and farm papers, with a deportation order. Five thousand workers in the Troy factories of the CluettPeabody Co.. were notified the factorfes would be operated on two-thirds time. The Right Rev. E. A. Carvey, bishop of the Altoona diocese of the Roman Cath- olfc church. is seriously il at his res dence in Altoona, Pa. Bulletin . Telegraph ' Local - General Total Should King Alexander's finess ferm- Saturday, October 18........ 77 114 347 538 inate fatally, the throne will undoubted- Moodiy, ettt i SR it sas |17 pe oftered to Prince Paul, King Alex- e i ander's younger brother. Wednesday, - -October 20. John D. Barvett.. 47 en .inswrance g and mgrine broker in New York. who was ::';;’:;"{ Q ctapar Wy ‘a 4rain at_the Greenwich sta- strask {iqn; dled from his injuries. Tow 'pricea for coffee in 1in ‘Bogota, Coiombia. The may declare a moratorium. Commisstoner Voorhies, of tho of Elections. announced that in o accommodate voters New York Ci have 127 new election districts. ate.” _pre= pos- 'mbly rail- . Several persons are believed to the ‘business district of Los Angeles. be It ber of commeree and agricuitural league. _Bar sfiver in London was 1 at 53 1-4 an ounce. silver was 99 1-2 cents, unchanged. ce of cents. £ of explosives and several pounds o tam exploded. der. was scen vesterday at o here is division among the railrpad Woeekly statement of fthe Tank of | Of his uncle, John R Wiggins, a building | men with regard to-a strike. A Hasge France shows gold on hand for swees | cOntracior. where he had visited with his | section of them opposing it. J. H. Thom- ending Oct. 20 tota'edl 5.454,279.00 | mother since Tuesday y after her | as, general secretary of the francs, as against 5,482,429,000 francs]Son left Wigzins' home ines was | Union of Railwaymen, has a pub- < : ¢ '7¢8 | taken to a local ho she je | the statement that he is Pub- | for previous week. ! suffering from nervo strike. =3 e A iy ‘tord e ] —_—— - erThis has brought about the very gen- Jane Jefferson club at Denver, Colo, a | SHIPPING BOARD OPPOSES al opinion that there will not, in ‘woman's organzation, that Senator Hiram CONSTRUCTION OF 31 VESSELS| S De a rail strike before Wi . Johnson hid “wold ‘hiz’ moul” to support but s ould it occur. the ministey @8 Senator Igwrding. Was ton, an e promoter died in Chicago. He orzan- 00 deadweight tons un- | €TY_Created for the purpose during fast ized the showen's league of America and ions of the merchant ma-|¥e2r's strike will be ut i —Oliver | was a life member of the National Press mpts shipowners from| e - . ¢ Amer- | Club of- Washington. ! rofits tax if an | 'WNAB DECLINES APPOINTMENT Is devoted to TO THE U. S. SHIFPING BOARD. Joseph | ' Probibition agents seized a winery | containing a one and ome-half ton ca- new vessels are to be Francisco, Calif., Oct. 2324 died at his | pacity press. and morer than 7.000 gal- mast woo declining appointment ~ to lons of wine in Clveleand becausa after their not, as ‘at bad_.an automative fnree cartfiiges ‘aRd. were found about 26 more cartridges. ivers had’ not used the weapon when approachcd by Forsaith and Rowe, he ex- plained .because -he did mot realize that ‘they were members of the posse and aft- er he had dis o0 Tate, Ay the the _ con¥ic ang Rowa st told Jewell's house:'that they first obtain food last n: Jewell. paa The identity of the men was first Mely" established foday when v was shown by Warden N el ©f Btivers ‘and Bassett and ‘warden -t the "descriptfm of “the 4ad called at her ‘home. ., ‘Examinadon of the prisoner: capture showed that they were Stivers ‘e revvolver containing on the two men t_ the; first thought, unarmed. red, his mistake o men’s_riftes. ;ymmn:,v ran dry, at the oad 't replenish them the place.” Two eitizens and five N : 1 Ry Wehe 0N for e e 4hat caped from Sing Sing, their hie head J B eahthe | were, ! n the: trowsers, two_p leader ted to be sure its Ware 'the ight. Jewell recognis- Lawes protographs v completely. answered two men who Bassett were covereu wes 8aid that the reward offered for, the capture of . ¥ould be pail to_Forsaith Bastett and Stivers langhed as they Of: ohe ‘incident' of their m;r:‘: fi: gasoline tanks in ‘the car which t caped “from: | g 'fi policeman Had given time of and the conyicts: stopped Trom . station: 'y with them ‘affer’they.drove the “tonneau. of .iue car, say- occupants Tew 'ul"ed,'-‘lnd thep, al- owners had failed to register it. ~— led” to ed the mas the men who had bought -, of anonymous threats to burn certaln ©an Francisco attorney. today. line'from him in the motming. it 4ri po; [newDADeTs In north e e e | NEW BUILDINGS AT ELLIS L Mevab sald in ihe iclegram Siuy snow 3t the time that they were the |MBPOTE & movement fo Hold cotton unti il = i P AN [ preciate the courtesy which the price rises to 30 cents a pound. The discovery of four c defin- in’ Massachuselts caused Dr. Eugene R.|planned for the Bilis Tsiand Tmmigrati McNab was given a recess appotats! Tac | Kelley, state commicsioner of pubiic | station will cost_about 15.000.000 it was|ment by President Wilson yesterday, health, “to lssue @ ‘warning against the | announced today. followinz fiing of & re- ——— U of he eheaper | Erades of shaving | port with Commissioners of ImmisTation | xo OPERATE ON KING S hay 3 brushes. ; yailis e TRat iR, bl ALEXANDER OF GREEGE[ BB LI eonlines Sraaioct 46 evace he New York district. Cap at the plebiscite - district of Klagenfu ‘tiations for settlement of the question, according to the Rome a'Ttalla. One o the serious results of it was according to Willlam C. Mullendore. ofticial of the American Relief Adm: tration, returning from Europe. Pexry 0'Nell, the actress, who about ey es- Port | was due to an attempt to poison her. Seichprey on his birthday and who was on’ Oct. 7,,1918, w: burial yesterday. ene thrust consider the advisability of placing expulsion | L. e Ameriean | markets have produced a financial crisis government Board der to y will have | been burned to death in a fire which par- ally' destroved a four story building in ‘Ways and means of assisting farmers to secure labor have been considered by fhe executive council of the state cham- 8d hicher New York domestic For- efen silver was 3 1-4 cents up, at §1 3-8 A bag containing five hombs, two tubes of shrapnel was found near the Hotel Ca- vour, Milan, where bombs were recently . Frank Albert, a well known amusement the Federal officers began an investizration es of anthrax Premier Giolitti will participate in nego- Adriatic Sornale food shortage In Central Europe is the Ina bility .of. hospitals to. care for the sic month_ago was taken sudenly ill during the .performance of a play at the Savoy theatre, London. has just returned to her place.fn the cast, and declares her illness <he. body of Merbert Hall, 21, of Gull- ford, who was captured in the fight at prisoner in a amep .at Limburger, and died at Bengal, Germany, from infiuenza | brought home for ( ‘A pablic hearing will be held Dee. 20 by, the Federal Horticultural Board to quarantine ‘on fruit from Cuba, the Ba- MAYO CLAIN TRUSTS HAV BUILTWALLAROUNDNEWYORK Disclosure Mads in Investigation of th: “Building Trust”— Ready to Suspend All Public Work Until It is Learned There is “Open Bidding For the Work”—Contracts For $7,000,000 Worth of Work on New York Cmni'y’? Propesed Courthouse Have Been Rescinded — Labor- Contractor Combinaticn is Stifling Construction wotk’:‘. New York, Oct York ‘submitted their proposed bide dee ; New Yor : e d lumbing work to a central ] New York is rea : spend all pu lic | plum Ender the. code. of practice AN o X it ther eis were offcred 10 a prospeciive e “'op competition in bidding for the | ent work.” A dramatic moment came whes Miiten s This annofincement made here | Schnaier a plumbing contractor, pleagied when on the witness stand with commilies sousel not to continue questions witlel %e said would imperil his “million-del= iars' worth of business.” ok Schnaier made this appeal after testify- mg that he had subscribed under pres- | sure to the “o of practs of the i a after Mayor plumbing contractors. This organiZifion cons; e said, ted of the 400 contrastors ufiding trust. the mik irust. |of the eighth street nw‘m‘ the coal trust and other trusts have built | vho sent their bids to John T. Hetiriek, wall about New York greater than|a lawyer, who is alleged to have opefaled of China.” Vie “code legislative committee was| “To what extent were you not & ffes aqu chamber. of the city hall, | wgent?" asked Mr. Untermeyer. the board of estimate m | | | “You brought it out yourself here WS rescinded four coniracts involving ap-]Vir. Brindell” replied the witness. proxin $7,000,00 work| “Oh you mean that if you did not des on New York county's d court | wng to that association, even though. you house. The mayor also authorized Com- | were a union shop, Nrindell would Pait missi ts Hirschfield to make | off his men. is that it?" searc! on contracts| “Mr. Untermeyer. you don't want 10 for schoc save my doors closed with a miNen prople to know that they | Jollars worth of business by asweBBE zainst men who are those questions hers?" of combinations | but we wil coss M- BrinSis unfair ulct the people.” ex e plained | thee will be somebily 18 Wh committee he'd | step in Mr.’ Brindeil's place. the sami-as but a brief s-ssion/today. Samuel Unter- | 2e is the successor to Sam Parka® & meyer, committee counsel, examined sev- | “I have all I have in this world a% | eral witnes: exarding the activities | ytake” protested Mr. Schnater. addidg of the allezed labor-contractor combina-| ‘You are not going to sacrificy me in on, which he arserted was stifling con- | § pe structin work in New York e t> sacrifice all the 1 Important _developments were people in sears” reptedMr. | TRefusal of Robert P. Brindell, pres- | Untermyer. ident of the Tuilding Trades Conncil. 2| “I will anewer vou truthfully. of t opportunity refute test I given mony | cker I ask in a’l farness an to man mot the con to sacrifice hiriam Lev of and Georze When th wiin said he was *4 s “wage Cntermyer | regarding a bribe paid to alleged labor this thing through,” Mr. | representatives to eall off a strike. : Assertion Untermeyer that a n't want to be sacrificed widepread system of extorifon was A rightacusness. is that W, being practiesd by unserupious labor | caking It up? The things you want leaders to obtain vast sums of money | broken ur understand 1z, is A8M: from employers under the pretext, or a nioa shop and obey tually ealline strikes. the urion rerulations 28 1o the houmss , Admission by one witness that he fear-iand wazes and treaiment of your _men e1 his s would be ruined by land other ta nps: you do not want goge withdrawai of he answered ! super-union, anthority pulling your questidny -address fm concerning | off hecause yon don’t belong to & the alltged labor-contractorr comhination Isw't that right? - Testimony o the effect that upwards ave answered it” nodded of 109 plumbing .contractors in Ne lxr. Schnaier. o g JEALOUSY MAY HAVE'BEEN MORE HOPEFUL SITUATION IN * | MOTIVE FCR DREWES' MURDER Oct. DBRITISH COAL MINERS' STREKE Philadelph ia, 22—Jealousy may | London, Oct. 22 The A. P.) The I have been the motive for the killing of |strike situation ton was considered Elmer, C. Drewes, the Dartmouth senior, more hopeful by the fact that the Peste whose body was found last Sunday morn® | conversations between the goyernmest ing in the outskirts of the city with aland the miners lcaders are continming bullet through the forehead. In advanc- | unbroken. There were no new develop- ing this theory tonight the police said | ments hcwever. . they had learned that recently Drewes| At a joint conference tomurrow. ‘bes and William P. Drines. the University of | tween the railm Miners. - from Pennsylvania freshman, who is being | which it is. hoped Say Spbimt sought on a Warrant charging him with {is expected the suggestion will be thade Drewes' murder, had differcnces over a | that the railmen postpoae thelr stefiie: girl upon ast t asions. | set for Sunday night should there be no | A woman, whose name the authorities | reported to the ie had seen Drines on ping what appeared to be he motor car which he later An automatic pistol and two es were found in the car and ained in several places. Agrecment between the government and ihe miners by Satarday, - until . sfter Weines trades union conference. The greatest anxiety exists among Londoners, for if the rail strike becomes effcctive Sunday night the underground tube railways will ceass working. If i8 possible also that the..trams and Whose drivers are members of the trans- vort workers' union. will suspend opff- ations. The bus and tram drivers howe | ever. have expressed themseives &s vo- luctant to join the movement 1y’ bloo: empty t wa No definite clues to Brines’ whereabouts | n or near this | have been discovered. but the police said tonight they belieevd he and will be found Wituin tw e does not voluntarily ~for surren- e home city hours readiness for immadiat volunteers 1 tonight by tion of plan® operation ofe and anl P thirty-one ve: St ound that b prevent him setvi dent Wilson by teen are be- jard Oil company ten for tion Company of New York s shipping board g rof-ssional duties would was sent 10 Phogle avin McNab promient rompts the appointment, 1 am so witns ated at this time that my service on She] *vard would not be possible.” ) New York, Oct —The new huildings Rome, Oct. 21.—Professor Delbers, eminent French surgeon passed 1 Italy today oi his way to Athens, he hopes to arrive in time to operat King Alexander in an endeavor to the monarch's life. The surgeon travellet awn plans ,and ade est Il be forwarded to the Washington and estimates conzress will be ke appropriations. mates dep. upon e o8l w improvements. the EI 4 station will have cost £12,000-|0°0 a special train, the railway line Be- | leared for its progress. At Tardatd,| reek torpedo boat destroyer « wEy| | BURLESON NOLDS FOR TWO-CENT |4waiting to carry Mim at full speed-te- FIRST CLASS LETTER RATE 3 o e RULING FOR RABBIS ASKING = shington, Oct. 22.—Postal estimates 2 a | o Do pabmattisd tp the Thie s ot FOR SACRAMENTAL WINBS Postmaster Goneral _Burieson id today. will not recommend any in- crease in the two cent first elass letter Tate, in connection with any plan of tax- ation’ revision, and, will renew the de- partment’s previous recommendations for a one cent local delivery rate. The post- reneral estimates that a reduc- n of the local delivery rafe from two nts to one would proba'W'y increase the postal revenue rathgr than decrease i ashington, Oet. 32.—Jewish rabbié~ applying for sacramental wines satisfy state prohibition directors they are “actually entifled 1o . repelws. wines for sacramental purposes and e the quantity applied for is not e sive” according to instructions iseT tonight by Commissioner of Revenue Williame. HAVE YOU GOF ¥pUR PEE carh OF MONEY IN CIBCULATION Washington, Oct. 2%.—Distributios f" the money in the conntry outside 0 amount_held ip the trezsury and. fs system was estimated at congress, PROIIBITICN CANDIDATE NOT TO WITHDRAW FROM RACE Chicago, Oct. 22.—Virgil G. Hinshaw, | shairman of the nrohibition national com- mittee, in a statement tonieht denled re- a hamas, Jgmalca, Canal Zone, Jawe to prevent spread of the Costa. Rica_India. the Philippines , Ceylon and citrus ports which he said were “fooding his Aarom S. Watkins. prohibition al candidate, planned to with- draw from the ra:c. ita on September 1, or an $13.18 over July 1 1817, by reserve board tonight in its

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