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t INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAI ? ! INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1904 TWELVE PAGES. DAILY ESTABLISH CD 1S0O. J Ji.J. J1 V J W . . PRICE 2 CENTS. ON PUTWAT TTtAINS FIVE CENTS. WRIGHT TELLS OF SCENE WHEN HE IDE PROMISE TO SHIELDBEST FRIEND With Emotion Recites Conversa tion When Brodrick Accuses Him of Going Back on Him. TRIED TO EVADE TRIAL . SULLY. TH we C.F.S.NEALFCR60VERNGB, SIB TO BEAT TAGGART, "COTTON Kll," LOSES HIS THRONEAND WEALTH Failure of the Great Bull Operator Is Announced on the New York Exchange. i ' V.! S inn Managers Mature Plans and John C. Eastman Issues Formal State ment to the Public LIABILITIES ARE LARGE WAR OX REORGAXIZERS I Will Go to Penitentiary if You Testify," Said to Be let ter's Words. BWS He Drops About $5,000.000 on a Slump in Price of Nearly $13 a Bale. 1 WILD SCENES IN PITS Challenge Sent Taggart and In diana Boss Must Fight for His Political Life. j SIGNING LABOR CHECKS Laborer Gives Strange Evidence of Work of the Bank Officials. Forced to testify against his best friend, Charles H. Wright, secretary of the Garden City Stationery Company, presented a pathetic picture a? he sat upon the stand yesterday in the trial of Justus L. Rrod rlck, who is charged with f mbezzlement and sixty-three other offenses eontributing to the ruin of the Indiana National Dank of Elkhart. Mr. Wright and Mr. Brodrick are friends of long standing and the unhappy plight of the former, as he gave up the most dam aging testimony against the defendant touched many hearts in the courtroom. By the testimony of Mr. Wright, the cause of J. L. Brodrick received a blow under which the latters attorneys were hrlpless. Wright had endeavored by every means to e?eape appearing in court as a witness and just previous to the serving of the warrants left Elkhart and took a j trip through Michigan. However, he was followed and finally tubpoened and forced to appear in court. Although h had bon a heavy loser in the Elkhart bank failure, hi3 friendship for Mr. H rod rick had not wavered. When first placed upon the stand, it was eidnt that Wright was making every effort to shield Drodrick. but when District Attorney Kealing pressed him sharply he shrugged hi.s shoulders wearily and made a clean . breast of relations between him self and Rrodrick. The sensational feature of Wright's testimony was a conversation which took place between himself and Brod rick Thursday noon at the Denlson Hotel when the latter charged him with having gone out of his way to testify at the trial and told him that his perjured evidence would send him to the penitentiary. CONVERSATION IN HOTEL. Mr. Kealing asked Wright the last time he had seen Brodrick. He evaded the ques tion. Then Mr. Kealing asked him if it was not yesterday noon that he had a talk with Brodrick. It seemed for a minute that Wright would break down, but he finally answered yes. Kealing then asked him to tell what had been said by them. His words punctuated with emotion, "Wright answered: "I met Mr. Brodrlck at the Penison Hotel yesterday noon. He said that he "wasn't feeling weif. "and that his best friend In the world was going back on him. lie said that if I persisted in giving evidence he would be sent to the peniten tiary, and I would be the one that sent him. He charged mc with having gone out of my way to appear as a witness in the trial." "What did you say to Brodrick?" asked Mr. Kealing. "I told him that I had tried to evade the trial, and that if I could help it he would not. suffer from my testimony." "Was any one else present when this con versation took place?" asked the prosecu tion. "Mrs. Brodrick was present," replied Wright. "Mr. Wright," continued Attorney Keal ing. "will you tell the court about your transaction of the Elkhart Paper Com pany with Brodrick?" "I gave Brodrick two notes," testified Wright, "on for $3.000 and one for $1.000 for Stock in the Elkhart Paper Company." "Why did Brocirick want you to take stock in the Elkhart Paper Company?" "He said that there was one of the stock holders who wanted to sell the plant at a rediculously low price and he asked nie to agree Co buy $7.oJt in stuck on condition that he would give th" -notes back if I should not care to purchase the stock formally." "When did you get the notes back?" "The day after the bank failed. Brodrick brought them to my home." "What- did he say?" "He said: 'There are your notes.' " "Is that all he said?" That is all I can remember." STORY OF THE NOTES. ' "Mr. Wright, to refresh your memory, didn't Mr. Brodrick say: I got them from the bank; and you replied, 'I didn't know they were In the bank?' " "It is my impression that I -did." "You really didn't have any stock in the Slkhart Taper Company, then. It just ap peared that you did?" "Yes, sir." Mr. Kealing then questioned him about a note of $1,000 which ho had given Mr. Brod rick to deposit in the Elkhart bank to the credit of the Garden City Stationery Com pany, but which, it is charged, he sold, with three other notes, to the Hamilton National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Wright said that he had given Brodrick the note and it had beer, recorded in his passbook. Attorney Spaan questioned Wright but briefly as he did all the witnesess who were on the stand yesterday afternoon. D. C. Thomas was then called to the stand again. Mr. Kealing asked him to turn to the entry of the Garden City Stationery Com pany and tell the jury if there was an entry of $1.000 deposit on Nov. 9. He said there was not. "Is there any entry from Nov. 9 until the bank closed of a $1.0uo deposit?" "There is not," replied Thomas. "Was there any difference between the account ou the pass book and that on the ledger?" . "There is a difference of $1,000." "Is there any record of a $1,UA) deposit in the bank books?" "There is not," replied Thomas. "In whose handwriting 1 the record in the pass book?" "J. U Brodrick." There wvre many new developments in the trial yesterday afternoon. Eleven wit nesses were on the stand, among them Mrs. Fannie K. Thompson, who, as a stock holder of the Acme Cycle Company, lost h-avlly by the bank failure; J. Walter Brown, who i charged on sixty-seven counts as having been instrumental in wr,tcl:lng the bank; several of his stenog raphers and bookkeepers employed in the detunct bank and several men with whom Brodrick. Brown and Collins had had deal ings. STENOGRAPHER'S TESTIMONY. A notable phase of the trHl was the trend o.' t:.c iv. tlmony towards Implicating J. Walter Brown in the financial chicanery. The testimony of Beryl Touslcy. employed in the Consolidated Paper and Bag Com pany as Brown' stenographer, was to the effect that she had. at Btown's request, made out many notes to the bank which vre carried as assets, although they repre sentee nothing, us Miss Tousley had no money. She said she signed the notes be cause Brown told her to. Her signature on then s M. B. Tousley. jhe said that (CON TIN Ü ED ON PAG E C, COLTTj"" if lift. Willie "Coeur De Lion" Will Crusade E WORKERS VOTED STRIKE 8! BIG Over .100,000 Members Uphold Officials' Stand Before the Convention. LEADERS ARE ELATED Total Vote Cast Exceeds 170,000 ' Operators Are Greatly Pleased. Total vote cast 170.43i For strike 68.526ft Against strike 101.927 Majority against strike, , i. .v. .v.-i Sar-WOH By an overwhelming majority, which ex ceeded even the hopes of the national offi cers of the United Mine Workers, a strike was voted down and the reduction of 5.55 per cent. In 'wages was accepted when the miners of the soft coal districts cast their ballots on the important issue iast Tues day. They not only put themselves on rec ord as favoring a reduction, but they saved the long-cherished interstate movement from a dishonorable death. The canvass of Tuesday's votes was com pleted yesterday afternoon and of the 170, 453V4 votes cast 101.927 favored the compro mise and Ca.526 favored the strike. The werk of counting the votes consumed the greater part of two days and the teilet s who did the canvassing were Nat Charlton, of Illinois, Patrick Fitzsimmons, of Penn sylvania, and James Pritchard, of Ohio. A number of district officers were present at the canvass, among them W. Belling ham, vice president of District 5; W. H. Haskins. president and D. H. SuUivan. vice president of District 6; W. D. Ryan, of Dis trict 12; G. W. Purcell, of District fc. and E. L. Ison, organizer, of Fontnnet, Ind. As a result of the amicable outcome of the vote the interstate movement, which it was feared had been disrupted, will be pre served and two more years of industrial peace is assured in the central mining rields. A meeting of the subscale committer, con sisting of two operators and two miners from each of the competitive States, will be held at the Claypool in this city Mon day. It is then that the new scale will be signed up between the operators and miners to go into effect cn April 1, liWl, and to con tinue for two years. It is expected that the scale will be signed up for each State separately by the district presidents and the representatives of the operators. There will be no meeting of the joint conference for the purpose. REJOICING AT HEADQUARTERS. There was general rejoicing yesterday at the headquarters of the United Mine Work ers in the State Life building at the out come of the vote. Vice President Lewis said that he had made an estimate on the figures of the vote and thought that the strike would be voted down by a vote of 100.000 against it. He was short on his guess about 1.000 votesv Mr. Lewis said last night: "I be lieve 'the result of the vote demonstrates that when any Important issue Is to be de cided which affects the interests of the United Mine Workers that the mine work ers themselves know how to turn out and decide that question. "The result of the vote means the preser vation of the interstate movement and the joint conferences between the employers and the employes in the mining industry, and it is an emphatic vindication of the joint method of arriving at wage agree ments. "The vote on Tuesday also demonstrates that the United Mine Workers' organiza tion is a conservative institution, and one that will wield a powerful influence in the industrial affairs of this country. It' will giv a new impetus to the labor movement and encourage the rank and file of every other labor organization of this country to place and keep at the heads of their .unions conservative men." J. Smith Talley. of Terre Haute, one of the leading operators at the Joint confer ence, was in the city yesterday. He said that the outcome of the vote was the great est honxr that the miners could place upon themselves and the industrial world. The vote by States was roughly tabled last nignt as ioiiows: For Against strike, strike. Total. Cent. Pennsylvania 4.553 11 23.953 West. Pennsylvania 6.1L3 14.5.H) 21.523 Ohio 7,V,6 26.600 S3.645 Indiana (block) 711 2.150 2.873 Indiana (bltumin's) 4.074 7.93'J 12.010 Illinois 34.700ft 14.702 49.402U Iowa 8,130 4,615 12.745 " Maryland 7S 643 721 West Virginia 395 6.573 6.96.S Kentucky 1.071 1.726ft 2,797ft Michigan fell 1.6.10 2,420 Unclassified votes... fcl 277 361 The one-half votes are accounted for by the fact that the trapper boys employed around the mines and who pay only one half dues into the organization, are entitled to u one-half vote on issues of this kind. Illinois .Miners to .Meet Xext Week. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. March lS.-Statö Secretary-treasurer W. D. Ryan, of the United Mine Workers' Union of America. to-night Issued a call for a meeting of the miners of the State to meet the oper ators in this city Thursday, March 21. The session will be a joint one. and a new scale will be discussed and adopted for two years, commencing April 1. next. Ml DDI MAJORITY Hlllt.fi W V ' - Ml l Indiana and Endeavor to Rescue the State SHE MAY HAVE MAILED THE POISON TO HERSELF New Theory in the Nelson Candy Case on Which Officers of Boone, la., Are Working. PROSECUTOR ACCEPTS IT PIERRE, S. D., March lS.-State's Attor ney Goodner has been to Boone, la., on an Investigation of the Nelson poisoning case, and has finally come to the conclusion that the case was one of suicide with an attempt on the part of Miss Rena Nelson, of this city, to place the blame on Mrs. Dye, of Boone, la., as. the person standing in her way toward the realization of her hopes of marrying Sherman Dye. BOONE, la., March IS. A theory that Miss Rena Nelson, of Fierre, S. D., mailed to herself the box of poisoned candy which caused her death. Is now being vflorked on by officials of this county, who expect to phove that Mrs. Sherman Dye,' of Boone, is innocent of the charge of sending the candy. County Attorney Goodner says developmepts in a few days will cause surprise. The officials have been unable to find, in Boone a candy box similar to the one re ceived by Miss Nelson, but they have found such a one in Pierre. The cancellation stamp on the box is similar to that used in the Pierre postoffice. It is averred that Miss Nelson, in letters written to Mrs. Dye, had threatened to take poison. ' STRUCK OIL WHILE DRILLING FOR WATER ST. LOUIS, March 18. While drilling for water in the western part of the city last week a vein of oil was struck and the flow has been so great that the city au thorities to-night ordered the pumping stopped to avoid any accidents. The flow has been escaping into the sewer and the sewer commissioner this evening discov ered that there were large quantities of oil at the large outlet sewer. Serious results are feared If the oil should become ignited. VEIN OF COAL LAID BARE BY AVALANCHE SEATTLE, Wash.. March 13. An ava lanche in the Cascade mountains In the re cent storm opened one of the largest veins of bituminous coal ever found in Wash ington. ' ' The big snowsllde covered a mountain road for a quarter of a mile to a great depth, and timber cruisers estimate that it carried down 2,000,000 feet of timber from the mountainside. STUDENTS HISS AWARD .-'OF JUDGES TO NEGRO Shortridge Primary Oratorical Won by Colored Youth Much Ill-Feeling. WAS NO DEMONSTRATION That the color line is well defined atthe Shortridge High School was manifested last uight at the primary oratorical contest, when Samuel Taylor, a negro youth, won first honors. The decision of the judges announcing Taylor as winner was greeted with hisses and noisy disapproval from many parts of the English Lutheran Church. So boisterous and evident became the dis pleasure of many of the students that it was necessary for half a dozen policemen to quiet them. Although the teachers of the school made an effort to quell the din of disapproval, their presence was disregarded by the stu dents. After the adjournment of the meeting the students remained ant! talked the oc currence over. A number of them, in the height of their excitement, declared that they would not give Taylor any support whatever In the State contest, which action may jeopardize the chances of the school of remaining in the State association, as teachers of the school may forbid any simi lar contests in the future. In spite of the feeling against the negro winning the contest it is conceded that he delivered a winning oration. His . subject was "The Winning Quality." Samuel Clan cey won the second tdace with the oration, "The Society of Crime." Many of his sup porters thought that he should have been given f.rsf rhce. The third place was given to Ward l i.sher. IU oration was. "A Real Ideal." The other contestants were Luther Benson. "The Declaration;" Waldo Wurt, "Our National Flower;" Herbert Wyman, "Robert Morris," and Janus Myu "llar ikl Ecechcr Stowc." from the Taggart-Parker Combine. . E BOAT SUNK ELEVEN LIVES LOST Struck by a Steamer, Which Re ported She Had Run Into a Torpedo. 'NO CHANCE FOR ESCAPE Crew Perished in Steel Tomb Their Boat Was Lying in Wait for Enemy. PORTSMOUTH, March lS.-The British submarine boat No. Al was run down and sunk off the Nab lightship o-day by a Don-ald-Currle liner and eleven persons were drowned, including Lieutenant Mansergh, the senior officer engaged in submarine work. The liner passed on and reported that she had struck ä torpedo. At the time she was struck the vessel was off the lightship engaged in the maneuvers and was 'lying in seven fathoms of water waiting the approach of a battleship. The boat was one of the newest of the fleet of submarine vessels and was built from the latest models, but she has always been a bad diver. She was inspected re cently by both King Edward and the Prince of Wales. It was learned to-night that the name of the Donald Currie liner which struck the submarine boat is the Berwick Castle, from East London, South Africa. The loss of the boat was not known for some hours after the liner had reported to the ma neuvering fleet that she had struck a tor pedo. The officers of the liner say that they saw a glistening torpedo-like hull in the vwater and it is supposed, therefore, that the submarine boat rose just before Ehe was struck. The officers of the fleet did not suppose for the moment that the submarine had been struck and continued operations, expecting that vessel to reap pear at some other point. Finally a search was made and the breaking of the waves revealed the presence of the submarine boat. There Is no doubt that all the members of the crew died in their steel tomb. It i3 presumed that the Berwick Castle, in striking, upset the trim of the boat and spilled the gasoline in her tanks, rendering her helpless. The crew were battened down and must have met their terrible fate from suffocation in the absence of air and ow ing to the fumes of the gasoline. 3Iay Stoil Over Ten Days. ST. LOUIS. March 18. At a meeting of the association of general passenger agents of St. Louis terminal lines to-day it was decided to allow a ten days stopover privi lege on all tickets reading through St. Louis during the world's fair period. This ruling will apply to all tickets except col onists'. AIID ELEVATOR BURNED I Loss of Upwards of $25,000 on Building and Contents, with In surance of but $12,000. CAUSED BY HOT JOURNAL Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., March 18. The large flouring mill and elevator owned by I. F. Adney.his son, Earl Adney.and John Walk er, doing business as I. F. Adney & Co., caught fire about 11 o'clock to-night and in an hour was destroyed. The loss is estimat ed at between $20,000 and $23,000, with insur ance of $10,000 on the building and $2,000 on the stock. No decision has been reached on the ouestion of rebuilding. The fire started on the third floor and is supposed to have originated from a hot journal. The firemen were unable to pre vent the destruction of the building and devoted most of their efforts to preventing the spread of the flames to adjoining resi dence property and to the business part of town, but a block away. Blazing embers were carried by the wind all over the busi ness part of the city, but no damage re sulted. The contents of the building were de stroyed. They consisted of upward of 40. 000 pounds of flour, about 3.(M) bushel3 of wheat, from 500 to sr0 bushels of corn and considerable quantities of oats, feed and screenings. Jury SMnred to Try 3Ir. Dotkln. SAN FRANCISCO, March lS.-The jury to try Mrs. Cordelia Botkin for the mur der of Mrs. John P. Dunning was com pleted to-day and tlie trial will commence to-morrow. SUBMARIN 0 FLOURING MILL New York and New Orleans Brokers Tear Coats, Smash Hats and Plav Other Havoc. NEW YORK, March 1?. Daniel J. Sully, the cotton operator, also called the "cotton king." who has for fifteen months been the biggest figure in the cotton markets of the world, and who has "bulled" cotton from 7 cnts a pound to over 17, announced his in ability to make good his engagements on the New York Cotton Exchange to-day. Wilhin a few moments cotton fell nearly $13 a bale from the highest figures of the day. , . " Scenes such as followed the announce ment of the failure it has been the privilege of few brokers to witness before. Traders in the street have witnessed stock panics in previous years; corners have been broken and many crashes have been recorded, but none has been accompanied by such frenzy and confusion. While there had been no premonition of the Impending crash no morning session has witnessed a more demoralized market. In less than ten minutes after the opening half a cent had been taken off the price of cotton. Trices went up and down ten, twenty and thirty points within two and three minutes. May opened at 13.23 and sold down to 14.75 in f-ess than fifteen minutes, while July, opening at 15.22, went down to 14.86. Towards the end of half an hour early sellers started to cover and there was a rapid advance. There was nothing in the news to account for the excitement. It seemed merely a renewal of bear operations and the catching of further stop orders. THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Shortly after the afternoon session, how ever, there was a lull in the pit and at about five minutes after 2 o'clock the an nouncement of the suspension was made by Superintendent King, who read from the rostrum this notice: "We regret that we are unable to meet our engagements and will, therefore, have to suspend. "DANIEL J. SULLY & CO." For a few seconds there was an ominious quiet over the floor as though the news had stunned all within hearing of the an nouncement. When, with one impulse, a mighty shout went up from bears, they who had been fighting Sully and his bull clique for months. Hats were thrown Into the. air to fall wherever they would, a mo ment later to be trampled upon by the" stampede for the pit. ' Coats were torn by frantic brokers in their mad efforts to un load their holdings and chairs and camp stools were dashed into the pit to empha size some wild broker's offer to sell. Mes sengers soon were rushing in and out of v the building with orders to sell or buy; tele phone booths were besieged, and telegraph offices were flooded with dispatches. Outside the Cotton Exchange appearances gave little indication of the pandemonium within until the messengers began to. rush between the exchange and the brokers' of fices. Soon the news reached the Stock, Produce and Coffee Exchanges, and traders on these markets hastened to the scene of the panic. Crowds assailed the entrance to the visitors' gallery, but a double guard was placed at the doors and admittance was refused to all but those accompanied by members. It Is estimated that something like three quarters of a million bales of cotton were traded in Muring the twenty minutes of the panic that followed the announcement, and that of this upward of a half million bales represented "forced liquidation." or the sell ing out of men whose margins have been nearly or quite wiped out. As the market slumped 250 points during this period, the loss falling on this element 'amounted to something over $1,000,000. SHARP RISE. The market steadied after about twenty minutes and there was a sudden upward shoot of about an even hundred points. This sharp upward rise was brought about by the buying of brokers and speculators who saw that the market had slumped too far and would react Just as it did. A part of the excitement on the floor of the Exchange was caused by the scramble of brokers who wanted Just such bargains and had to fight to get in the ring to get them. The buying rush was almost as exciting and just as noisy, if not more so, as the panic. The announcement of Sully's suspension was put on the tickers everywhere within a few moments after it was made, and there was somewhat of a flurry on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the news reached there. Mr. Sully is a member (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9, COL. 2.) SIX TRUSTEES OF THE HANNA CM ARE NAMED They Include Governor Durbin, of Indiana, and President Mitch ell, of the Mine Worker. SCOPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS CLEVELAND, March IS. The names of six of twenty of the trustees of the Hanna chair of political science to be established at Western Reserve University in this city are announced. They are Governor Her rick, of Ohio; United States Senator Dick, Governor W. T. Durbin, of Indiana; John Mitchell, president of the. United Mine Workers of America; Elmer Dover, secre tary to the late Senator Hanna, and the Rev. J. S. Rutledge, of Cleveland, who sug gested this method of perpetuating the sen ator's memory. The remaining trustees will be named next Friday. They include promi nent men in cities from Washington to In dianapolis. The scope of the contributions, however, will be national, and $130,000 instead of $100, 000. as previously stated, will be sought. It will be the purpose of the trustees to se cure the ablest man possible to fill the chair. The project is the idea of the Rev. J. R. Rutledge, who, because he had a struggle to obtain his own education, suggested that a memorial to such a practical man as Senator Hanna should take a more practical form than a silent tomb or statue. The suggestion was adopted and the matter has met with very encouraging responses from widrly separated points. Harris Creech, 43 Colonial Arcade, Cleveland, ia treasurer of the fund. few -jffm i H jrA ft , V Ui n v I" us r . i j : . : . f : ' . " - 1 " ' I 1 v S :.-...: , -.-a t.vv I -v : I x - - '(, ' I 1 DANIEL, J. SULLY. "King of Cotton." Who Lost His Crown Yesterday. ALEX1EFF TELLS CZAR 'THAT PING-YANG 18 Also Reports an Attack on His Patrols About Three and One Half Miles from Anju. ONE HORSE IS KILLED Only Casualty of the Fight .Vladivostok Squadron Is on Another Cruise. ST. PKTERSnURG, March 18 Un der to-dny'a date Viceroy AlexlcfT cables to the Emperor from Mnkden. as follows! General MIshtchento reports that PinK-Ynng Is occupied by Japanese infantry .tvith some Kims, nnd that Korean carts are carrying; their sup plies. The enemy cavalry la not visible In Ikree bodies and only isolated horsemen nre seen. Their horses are poor. Our -patrols discovered the pres ence of the enemy's Infantry- on the hanks of the Chensr-Chensr river, five versts (about three and a. half miles) from Anju. The enemy opened fire nnd hilled one of oar horses.' PARIS, vMnrch 10 The Petit Par iftlenne'fl St. Petersburg: correspond ent cables as follows "I learn from a sure source that the Russian Vladi vostok iqnadrun has left port. The officials absolutely . refuse to discuss, the destination of the squadron. Sev- t enty-two hours have passed since the ships left Vladivostok' RUSSIANS UNABLE TO JOIN THEIR FLEETS LONDON', March 19. Again there Is no news from the far East printed In. this morning's papers with the exception of vague rumors of unsuccessful attempts of the Port Arthur and Vladivostok fleets to join hands. The Standard's Ticn-Tsln correspondent says that Paul Lessar, Russian minister to China, has renewed his protest against the dispatch of Chinese forces outside the great wall, and intimated that unless they are withdrawn Russia may be compelled to act on the assumption that China is aban doning her neutrality in favor of Japan. The . minister is also reported to have re newed his threat that on the slightest movement on China's part Russian troops will march on Peking. It is understood in reply to this, the correspondent adds, China refused to recall her troops. The Nieu-Chwang correspondent of the Times, cabling under yesterday's date, as serts that there are no Japanese north of the Yalu river, and that not any of their scouts have been seen there since the be ginning of March. On the other hand, the correspondent says, the Russians are re ported to have crossed the Yalu to the south, leaving a small force to guard the river. RUSSIANS MUST NOT WAGE WAR ON KOREANS ST. PETERSBURG, March 1$. A com munication from the Foreign Office is pub lished here confirming the statement made to the correspondent of the Associated Press that Russia does not regard Korea as bel ligerent and will not do so until there is evidence that Korea is actively making common cause with Japan. The communi cation, after reiterating the assertion that Russia considers it implicitly a neutral state acting under pressure by Japan and de prived, of the power of free action, and that Russia, therefore, cannot regard as valid any treaty to the benefit of Japan, nor the abrogation of Russian concessions, pro ceeds: "Should the Russian troops encoun ter Korean forces operating against the Russians under the infiuence of Japanese ofücers, who are forcing them to act against the wishes of the Korean government, the Russians are Instructed not to fight them as though they were troops of a belligerent state, but to confine themselves to placing them under arrest." EXECUTIONS A T SEO UL : FLIGHT OF KOREANS SEOUL, March 18. On Wednesday thir teen accomplices in the murder of the Queen in lSr5 were executed by strangling: in the city prison. Twenty-two highwaymen were siml'arly executed at the same time. The United States crulsor Cincinnati took to Chc-Foo the Korean general. Yl-Hak-Kiumon and Chamberlain Hak-Sang, both advocates of the declaration of the neutral ity of Korea submitted to the powers In January, the effect of which would have been favorable to Russia. When ,the Jap anese were victorious at Chemulpo the ad vocates of neutrality became alarmed and many of them camejn the American lega- tCONTlNUED-ONPAG15 2."COLr3.)" OCCUPIED B? JAPANESE DEAL MADE TO BEAT DEAL,' Headquarters to Be Opened at Once, with Xeal Directing Operations. William R. Hearst for President. C. F. S. Neal. of Lebanon, for Governor, and Dan W. Slmms, of Lafayette, for member of tha Democratic national committee from Indi ana. Such is the detailed programme Hearst's managers have set out to carry through In. Indiana by their invasion of the State and the establishment of a Hearst bureau in this city. Mr. Neal will 1 the real head of the Hearst forces in Indiana, although he may not be thfe nominal head of the bureau, for as a gubernatorial aspirant It will be a part of his plan to be the power behind th throne. The Hearft programme means war to the finish on tho reorganizes, war on Parker and the Parker following in Indiana, and a war of extermination cgalnst Thomas Tag gart, who is recognized now as the leader of the Democratic forces in the State and the prospective leader of the national organ ization in event the reorganizers control th St. Louis convention. Tho gauntlet hat been flung at Mr. Tapgart with a no un certain challenge. One of Hearst's man agers last evening sent the following mes sage to the wily boss by a mutual friend: "You tell Taggart that he has committed political zuleide that he's .a dead one now. And you tell him that I said that we'd let him go Just so far, but that when we g t ready to stop him he'll be given Ju?t thirty minutes in which to decide to Quit, snd he'll quit." When C. F. S. Neal appeared in the city Thursday moroinp with John C. Eastman. Hearst's personal representative. C. A. Walsh, secretary of the J)cmooratlc na tional committee, and J. G. Johnson, chair man of the Democratic national executive committee, and the public statement was made that ho was here as a Hearst boomer, his friends in his own party immediately set about discovering an explanation for his sudden alliance with the Hearst forces. "What is Neal after?" was the question asked by all the Democratic leaders. The answer to this question, which ha been obtained from reliable sources, is: "Neal wants the Democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana." CONFERS WITH NEAL. The story in a nutshell Is that Hearst sent for, Neal in Chicago last Tuesday and told him that he wanted him to take charge of the Hearst campaign In Indiana. Hearst knew that Neil had a "wide acquaintance over Indiana, gained through his long coö- ncction with the Knights of Pythias, and that he might look much farther and not find a better roan. Hearst learned adroitly that Neal was troubled with the guberna torial bee and that made his task an easy one. The plan as finally developed was that Neal should come to Indianapolis and take charge of the campaign and undertake to line-up the Indiana delegation to St. Louis for Hearst, while at the same time he should rapture the gubernatorial nomination for himself. Incidentally, a good man was to be selected for the Democratic national com tnitteemanship from this State to succeed Mr. Taggart, and Dan W. Simms. of Lafay ette, former member of the Democratic state committee from the Tenth district, and one of the men who have been men tioned in connection with the Kubernatorial nomination, was eventually agreed upon as the man who should beat Taggart. Mr. Simms was at the Claypool Hotel last night in close consultation with NeaL Eastman. Walsh and Johnson. The Neal-Simms end of the deal was to be kept a profound secret for the present, but some of Mr. Neal's friends had to be taken into his conftdenee and in this way the story leaked out. When the matter was put to him directly last evening Mr. Neal pooh-poohed the suggestion that he had gubernatorial aspirations, but his denial was far from convincing. He admitted that he expected to assist in the management of the Hearst campaign in Indiana, but he denied that he was to take charge of the headquarters. Inasmuch as the Hearst managers have had so much to say of the deal which Mr. Tagftirt and his associates are said to havelmade with the Parker Interests, the full details of the Hearst deal with Neal and fcimms are not uninteresting. It i pointed out that through their statements to the press the Hearst people have been denouncing Taggart for making a deal to deliver the State to one of the presidential candidates, while at . the same time they have been negotiating a deal with Neal and Simms to have the State delivered to them for Hearst. CHARGES AGAINST TAGGART. They charge that Taggart is attempting" to deliver the Indiana delegation to Parker, in consideration for which he is to re ceive the position as chairman of the Dem ocratic national committee. At the ajame time they are making a bar gain whereby the State is to be delivered to Hearst, and in return they are to help make Neal the candidate for Governor and Simms the Democratic national committee- , man, with further emoluments in sight. To carry through this deal the Hearst barrel is to be tapped and Neal and Simms are to have all the money they need or can use. This will be good news for hun dreds ctf fDemocrats In Indiana who havo yearned In vain for financial encourage ment for their party services for the last eight years. When asked to name prominent Indiana Democrats who would lend their names and efforts to the Hearft cause one of the quartet at the Claypool mentioned Dan W. Simms. of Lafayette; S. M. Ralston, of Lebanon; Ren F. Shively. of South Rend, and John W. Kern, of Indianapolis. All four of these men have heretofore been classed as ardent supiKjrters of W. J. Pry an. The Hearst headquarters, it is announced, will be oncned in one of the o!TUe build ings of the city on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Hearst literature will be scat tered broadcast over the State and Hearst shakers will be sent into every district to hold meetings .and urge the cause of the cheek and checkbook candidate. It wiil b". a brafs band campaign, of the kind Hearst has been conducting all over the country wherever he started his fores Into action. The organization will be of!ierel by a chief in lndl mapoH. with a captain la each district and lieutenants In each county. LACK OF AN ORGAN. One difficulty the Hearst boomers hav had to encounter is the lack of an organ. The State Democratic organ li controlled by Taggart and none of the Indianapolis papers has espoused Hrant's cause. It was reported last night that the Hearst jx'ople were negotiating for the purchase of an Indianapolis paper, and that they had threatened to establish a newsiuier here unless the Democratic organ ' toted fair" with th m. John C. Eastman denied that Hearst had anv intention of starting a newspajvr hre, although he Intimated that if n-eejary he could have a newspaper in this ity within ten days. Messrs. Eastman. Walsh. Johnson and Ntal .were e xceedingly buy all C&y yertr day receiving numerous callers at thlr ICONTIN LED ON PAG E C, COU U