The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1912, Page 1

WEATHER—Nain probable to-night and Saturday. FI EDITION. Che __PRICE ONE CENT. 012, by ai (The New | ‘The Press Febishinn York World). WIDOW OF COL STOR MAY CONTEST HIS WILL AFTER CHILD [S BORN | Contention Likely to Be Made That There Was No Specific Provision For Expected Heir — Way Already Open for a Fight. There is every likelihood, following the birth next week of a child to Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor, that a suit will be brought by her attorney, Judge Henry A. Gildersleeve, in behalf of this new heir of the late Col. John Jacob Astor, to break the will of the dead multi-millionaire which was offered for probate on May 17 last. ‘The way to euch a contest was left open through the foresight of Judge ———— ss | Matthew O'Callaghan Asserts He Took Her for Marauder in Apartment. | Mrs. Mattiiow O'Callaghan, w'fe of a} wealthy cotton merchant of No. 63 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, who was shot Lawyers who have been m commun'-4 It Mrs, Force should succeed as WIDOW'S FATHER MAKES NO can say that for the present there is WOOL BILL VETOED BY TAFT, WHO ASKS ONE TO SUIT HIM Killing Tariff Measure, He Hopes Congress Will Try Again Before Adjourning. ‘ HOLDS TO HIS POLICY President Against Bill Because It Does Not Bear O.K. of His Tariff Board. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—For the sec- ond time within a year President Taft to-day vetoed @ bill to revise the wool tarif—echedule KK of the Payne-Al- rich law. With @ message of disap- Proval the President returned to Con- ress the bill evolved as a compromise between the House and Senate, holding thay its low rates woul bring disaster to home industries, He appealed to Congress, however, not to adjourn un- til It had enacted a measure to “sub- Stantially reduce unnecessary existing duties” without destroying protection for the woo}, industry in the United States, ‘The Prealdent's disapproval of the woot bill is to be followed with similar vetoes | of the steel bill and the cotton bill. | ‘The sugar bill {8 likely to be vetoed, as! {s the excise tax bill, the latter probably Sn the ground that the President be- Neves !t unconstitutional T shall stand by my pledges to main- tain a degree of protection necessary to offset the differences in cost of pro- duction here and abroad, and will heart- lly approve of any bill reducing dutles *o this level,” wrote Mr, ‘Taft BILL MAY BE PASSED? OVER PRESIDENT’S VETO. While the bill vetoed to-day and the one disapproved last year were Identical in terms, the President's reasons differed. He vetoed the former bili because {t had been framed before the tariff board's re- port—the latter | e he said it had been framed with disregard for the board's findings, ation with members of the Force family hold that the will can be dJe- elared invalid because of the fatlui to provide specifically for the com! @vardian for this child in having the WIFE AS BURGLAR will declared invalid, then there would be a new division of the Astor estate and the newcomer would share alike}, with the children of his first. William Vincent and Muriel Astor, It rests with Mrs, Astor herself to de- DEFINITE STATEMENT. r “Will you state definitely whether ch a contest will be instituted?” was ked of Mr. Force to-day. no intention of bringing such a con- in her home early this morning, recov test. ‘The matter has nuver even ered consciousness {n the Swedish Hos- discussed by Astor or in the fa pital later in the day long enough to of her parents. But as for the fw ure, | tell Dr, Chaplain, the head surgeon who was attending her, that her husband was the one who shot her, Gildersleeve, acting as guardian for Mrs. Astor, and it can be instituted within the next two years upon any ground other than that the document reir, The provision of $3,000,000 was @eneral for any child that might be born termine what course she shall pursue, accorling to William H. Force, her “I do not care to make any dy statement," was his reply, “for 1 would do pot care to ma any binding as- nce, 4s not the authentic will of Col. Astor. Col, Astor. father, of No. 78 Front street, not care to look imo the future, You “ince June 16 last Mrs, Astor has “Most of the rates in the submitted bill,” wrote the President, “are so lov in themselves that if enacted into law the inevitable result would be irretriev- able injury to the wool growing indus- try, the enforced idleness of much of our wool combing and spinning machin- been of age, anil she will follow the d Mra, O'Callaghan made this declara-| oy sng of thousands of looms and the | tatce of her own mind, At that time| ton withouc reservation. This is the) ronsequ out of employment gudne Neca lang to ba Kir she (old the surgeon: | of tho: guardian and became onal coun husband went away from the} ‘The bill s te House im- sel, He will advise her what to do, So Jute last night after having had| posed an ad vs £29 per cent. far as I am aware, Mrs, Astor Is dulte| a couple of bottles of beer to drink|9M raw wool and on cloths of 49 per satisfied anid has no intention of ever | ith my son-in-law, who lives in the| cent. Both ri Mr, Taft held, were! contesting the will.” “Can you stite partment above, When he returned) ositively that there} kK} wi be no contest of the will" late this morning--It must have} “As lt sald before, T do not 5 o'clockK—I saw that he was! bind myself as to the fuur y drunk | reply. “1 do not mind telling you that] He denmnded that 1 should get out} there are a Jot of busy! his world} of bed and prepare something for him| giving adyive 19 people Who do HOt asi ty eat, Ho talked as if he were in a| 2 frieids tay. We since | intox me of the: 1 fight mood. 1 had never seen him annoyed ever sted before and I was afraid, InsuMcient to protect the wool grower | and the manufacturer. It was predicted to-day that the woo! bill might be passed by the House ove Mr, Taft's veto, but there was s doubt as to its fate in the Se Republican leaders were in Heve that It would fail of passage jas it did twelve months ago HOPES CONGRESS WILL Pass ne to be there DYNAMITE BLAST IN AQUEDUCT KILLS FIVE, INJURES SIX Cartridge Is Accidentally Ex- ploded Under 106th Street and Central Park West. BIG ROCKS CRUSH MEN. Others Narrowly Escape Death as Drill Pounds Into Heavy Explosive. Once more, to-day, dynamite stabbed out from the darkness of the rockbound caverns of the aqueduct tunnel, hun- dreds of feet below the surface of the island, to slay and maim the workers who are boring like moles far beneath the world of sunlight, Five were killed | and six others were seriously injured | fn the lightning blast of a dynamito| cartridge accidentally discharged In the | aqueduct an Hundred and they wear about their necks against fust such @ contingency, art Pepo Lanbalina of One Hundred afi Ninth street and ‘Third avenue; instantly killed. John Kuslyak of No. 213 West Second street; Instantly killed. John Gaunalllo of Jerome avenue, the | Bronx; tnstantly kille | Charles Curty of No. 42 Cherry atre |dled at J. Hood Wright Hospital short- | ly after removal there. Charles Capadora of No, % Hundred and Fifth street; Presbytertan Hospital. FOUR INJURED ARE EXPECTED TO DIE. The {njured are: | Angelo / of No. 229 Hast Sevensv- | fifth atre tured skull and internal injurtes; will probably dle. Peter Scoella of No. 206 Jerome aye nue, foreman of the night gang; fra tured skull and internal injuries; wil! probably die. Leo Gusatano of One Hundred and Ninth street and Third avenue, frac- tured skull, Ernest Bucknella of No, 115 Hast One Hundred and Tenth atrect, bruises and | cuts about the body; attended by hos- pital surgeons and sent to his home, | Two uuidentified men, each with a fractured skull and crushed chest; will probably die, | AN of the injured with ¢ of Bucknella were taken to the J | Wright Hospital | One hundred men of th Junder the direction of jen, were working in loading from the elevators dred and Sixth street, N there had peen @ blast at of the tunnel, where th steam drills chug-chug West One fed at the i ® exception Hood night shift son Cul the One Hun | into wall of gneiss to bore the holes fu the reception of the dynamite Cullen had just begun to ascend when | there was @ dull roar at the end the dimly Mt cavern avd instant _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, PLANNED BY bid ida AFTER TIP 1912. and Saterday, EDITION. “ Circulation Books ‘Open to All.” | 12 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. NO CLEMENCY TO SCHEPPS UNLESS HE SURRENDERS NOW TWO BATTLESHIPS : MEETACCIDENTS, | Nebraska ed Rock Near Widow of John Jacob Astor, Who May Fight for Millions. rank shaft of the starboard Whi al Weeks, atid rhaus will trans the battleships. NEWPORT, 1, Aug. # The bat nd the fawehip ¢ other bow t, loft Newport ‘naval engage ' nthe v nity of Dloek Pstaned, [Vineyard Maven and ott duaitn | During the past two daye no word ha Ibeen re © rewarding tleships: Runs on Unchart- elved movernents of th Newport— 5 > RE SREP AUT oy fel cite bet ands caida al ; ANOTNER BIbK, one of the lights strung along the roof |SENATE PRINTS ’EM ALL; CANNOT TELL - 4 4, The President declared in hia mes-lot the tunnel went out A Sonnectic aak TIONS MAY ARISE. ona, over my night dese, T went| syge that he wax anxious to sve achede | jared on his ait ar at the Connecticut Breaks Shaft, | SPEECHES OF WILSON, TAFT nforeswen circumstances might | out tn the Kitchen, I intended to £0/ ule K vised downward that he|the at « burr bad go thinus with reapect to the future |up stairs to the apartment of my son-| would be giad to seo Congress remain} pan unex _ dynamite odstle AND T. R. GO ON RECORD. actions of Mrs. Astor as to the Will. /inelaw, but evidently my husband sua-|in Washington until a bill he consid. | "#4 fatled to ko off In some p AEN Tho tate Sime That ts the only reason why 1 t{ pected me for be followed me to tae|cred proper Was went to the Wh | 5 a dar ship Nebraska r nan uncharted! But Line Is Drawn on Platforms qualify ax to ty future, Une ean) kitchen, 1 saw he had @ revolver in) MH He found tt tmposwtble, he) nad brought down a hi SHORI NAMY RAMS he lute yesters| of the Three Candidates as never tell what wight come up. It is hand [fatd. in view of the platform on which | from the tunnel roof. day and was so Jumnaged that | ame |DODGED INTO THE HALLWAY | ‘he was elected, to approve the sub-| not oeen mangled b she has leon 4 mi to drvdock at} 4 Public Documen (ontinued © age) | PAST HIM, tted measure, but declar one agree. by were shed Leneat Hos N Yard WASHINGTON Auk r ' if Me 1 y past hin ble to his views bad by drafted by | falling ro The flagshin Con oA n Kressive party mad te formal bow NATIONAL LEAGUE, “4 fod ae sed teks a 8 . A |minorlty members of the House Ways SUPERINTENDENT OF TUNNEL] Oi pea is : tha ees ; ys and ran 4 and Means Committee. WORK 1S ARRESTED. ‘ | A A neInber AT NEWYORK, CO eye st| ‘il strongly desire to reduce duti guinn, general superintond nt | sagt 8 een ordered to Whiluders| er va ihat ¢ o10000 | eo ee ene ist protective system be maintained and Rear A Or ati GIANTS— Ff I a hina yer) /that industries now esta 4 be not| 4, oft At the ported 1 100000 ' ‘Vdestroyed. It now appears from the the Navy Popartmont ‘ vs AT BROOKLYN. SPER GOnil |troduced into. the Hou 1 Renate the Nelirasia pais 'ng iment PITTSBURGH — A Sk santa: » terrineg;| Hat ® Bill may be dra #0 ti or cone eee 0200000 lenaitihecehol we ma he he glee! aeiintgs the. paaulterney tlo Judith ' ' \ BROOKLYN-- One of Mats: Was reineved'srom|) ca, hai aniithore he ON criment ' oo 00000 m, O'Callaghan Dy the surgeons thie COT a I ot from 2 ioe Ine a oa o lged be- i yave N ‘ ‘ ' - AT BOSTON. t rune | made to work of the cy sy dan CHICAGO n Nera staken, The tariff . We “ t ' 210000 { Con nt Page.) poe ' ne of t i BOSTON: anes , ar tues 100300 wey | : 4 Na . * | Last Two Days of Big Sale, farmed. in the. interes) ‘ot We: ‘ ; " a AMERICAN L LEAGUE, KGE, SUITS, 4. RA (tie ont J cal tron He i wes 25) SSG: A bia Owing to the ‘! . AT CLEVELAND, i y Another Opportnity to Get a Wood mth the erent anes HIGHLANDERS— ateais 10 & row Wilson Picture, : ‘ ‘how? Sunday # offer, another 0 vod 4 unday » offe Woodrow. Wilt Phish Baty " " a wp tian POR soni for th CLEVELAND— Oat tnnet aher .atare Hie hie ‘ih tom ns sift a the | alma: h ati splendid photogravure will ba 0 y —_ Uben Sacurday night tuli0, ‘se? in next gundass World, +90 *Ht#a| paris 8 [printed in next Sunday's World, | oe pe ny a |District-Attorney Will Not Accept Delayed Confession of, Fugitive Who Is Known to Have Re- cently Been en Near This City. BECKER MAY | GET 7 TERMS FOR, EXPOSURE OF GRAFT Prosecutor Says He He Will Plead for Raider If He Will Reveal “Higher Up” Boodlers. In momentary anticipation of the arrest of one or all of the three missing men wanted in the Rosenthal murder case, District-Attofney Whitman remained in his otiice this afternoon instead of starting for jhis usual week-end rest in the White Mountains, Apparently he was in | Possession of information that he believed warranted him in waiting for \a repott from Detectives Thomas and Leigh, who left the city suddenly yesterday on what was considered a straight clue to the whereabouts of the fugitive The District-Attorney was hoping he would hear that Leigh and Aine! ve nd ! nant and nae > harge of grafting #80 strong | Becker at tha that it can be substantiated withoutll af j@iMiculty. Bye the » is to pile up Deputy Comini verve Thomas had captured “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp the Blood.” He was also looking for the appearance at any time of Sam Schepps, the third of the fugitives. Schepps, it is thought, will give himself up before many hours and volunteer to confess. He was no further away from New York than Hoboken a week ago, and has been, it is reported, almost as close to this city ever since. Me. White notified Schepps's laws {additional evidence against Becker in va 1 Sanat day that hope that he will eventually, finding Jess Sehepps gives himself up at on) ty to make terme to 4) dadlotment eharet Hime with fewt the “syatem,” degree murder will be returned te “Jack Sulliven” 1 norrew, and tie enee can b t-Attorney put that will b 4 from bein poker, ““Sullt ae Sie 60a 1 » any other * - ki but he oI es the United able prea. ached “" t ty | wu er from the Tombs, come tn and ¢ “ \ihin the radiue of Iistrict-Attorney wil only ea en's Influence yesterday, CORE eC (a CF Lea SULLIVAN WEAKENS . UNDER ecbe IAAL CHG: LE VCBRRIN na | PRESSURE BY VALLON, All of this ne communieated to the we haw van. Colne tndictment for mur- 48 Weakened tn fumit EXPECTS QUICK ROUND UP OF LB idol Beg WHOLE MURDER GANG. j Mi Gulllvag, (ha The Distr ie) has no @ | tod “Jack” Rose's that ofty and yp e has advised hin Hood With Becker the He left Becker Rosenthal wi { from Becker to o” Webber, If was, the District- Justitied in getting y for « for Sullivan's Prepar rs counsel tn and ts not expected In his absence, unchanged gront has no intention 4 confession, for that he has nothing jarging murder returned Tuesdity ine the sim reason MADE POLICE “GOAT,” RESTORED TO DUTY. rather Ht sidelight on the e Department in wonthal murder at MH adquarters to: Wounced that the File had had been ¢ ntti the I BECKER'S HOME CALLED FROM, JACK ROSE'S HIDING PLACE, |*' ’ Salat the M oft ; ; ene relia wa . was f Es nded and nt Pi ‘a tn at the a ‘ etto : el n se Ww n lecker ip ane S ‘ t no unt H : , uyhe ow td, Now Fil | tad Becker is da th ; ; 1 sus accumulating tha i ' Uiemselves with és 1 a » mainiy Sri Fn ee as 1 kh him the “gout,” 4 ‘ 1 $ enmeshod ds bi ea to “ v, and that the " Meaing The testhmony ei ta ' W by Harry Poiok to the @rand ean ¥ at Aveniia @ t tra we went ty Saichitcczentnvekoad Leoker's: ofl 1 Headquarters i Sens eat thirty-six hours a Rosenthal was t 1 i tie | killed ' kor af tho ta wea tha " se, Was the