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NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1912
VOL LI V. NO. 299
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STRIKERS SHOOT
Two Killed in a Storm of Bullets and a Dozen Others
Wounded in Battle at Hackensack
JERSEY CITY OFFICER
Foreign Employes of Susquehanna Railroad Open Fire From
Ambush Upon a Boatload of Strike Breakers Hand to
Hand Conflict Follows and More Shooting Superintend
ent of Erie Railroad Appeals to Governor for the Militia.
Hackensack, N. J, Dec. 11. Several
hundred striking New York. Susque
hanna and Western railroad employes,
ambushed under the Palisades over
looking the lower Hudson river, open
ed fire with shotgun and rifle on a
boatload of strikebreakers landing at
coal docks at Edgewater today, and lu
a pitched battle which followed two
raiilroad detectives were killed and a
dozen other men were wounded.
Request for Militia.
A telegram requesting that the state
militia be called to quell the disorder
was sent to the acting governor of
New Jersey by General Superintendent
Stone of the Erie railroad.
Mr. Stone escaped a storm of bullets
fired by strikers as he was seeking
shelter In a building.
The Killed and Wounded. ' .
The men killed wera:
Andrew J. Graw, 28,' of Blnghamton,
N. Y., captain of .detectives.
Clarence Mallery, 45, one of Graw's
men.
The wounded include: '
John D. Ryerson of Jersey City, lieu
tenant of detectives; William King of
Littleton, N. T.; William A. Woods
and Frank A. Brown of Port Jervis
and William Hicks of New York.
All these men, like Captain Graw
and Mallery, were doing private de
tective work for the Erie railroad.
Hicks Has 23 Wounds.
Hicks is in a hospital, wounded 2$
NEW YORK SELECTED AS
PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS.
Progressive Conference So
After a Fight.
Decides
Chicago, Dec. 11 New York was se
lected as the permanent headquarters
of the executive committee of the new
progressive party tonight, after a, fight
in which delegates to the National Pro
gressive conference from several states
sought to have the headquarters lo
cated elsewhere. The vote on this
question stood 32 to 12. Chief opposi
tion to the selection of New York as
- the location of permanent headquarters
came 'from Colorado, Florida, Idaho,
Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming. ; -
The executive committee voted to
send a commission, to Europe to study
legislation In England, Germany-and
other countries for the purpose of get
ting material and Ideas for the Wash-
"ington legislative bureau.
For the immediate financing of
headquarters and bureaus it. was de
cided to ask for one hundred sub
scriptions of $500 each per annum. Six
' of these were subscribed tonight
HYDE RECEIVES A
TWO YEARS'
SENTENCE
Released on $25,000 Bail Pending Ar-
gument of His Appeal.
New York, Dec 11. Charles H.
Hyde, former city chamberlain, con
victed of bribery in connection with
the manipulation of city funds, was
sentenced by Justice Goff today to
serve not more than three years and
Bix months and not less than two years
in state's prison.
The justice, however, granted a cer
tificate of reasonable doubt and issued
a stay of execution agreeing to ad
mit the prisoner to 25,000 bail pend
' ing argument of his appeal.
Bail was furnished by. Tax Com
missioner Daniel F. McElroy. who gave
as security property valued at half
i million dollars. Hyde walked out
of court late in the afternoon assured
probably of several months' freedom,
as the appeal is not expected to be dis
posed of until spring.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
House to Have Holiday Reonss from
Dec. 19 to Jan. 2,
Washington, Dec. 11. Today In
Congress:
Senate
Court of impeachment resumed trial
-if Judge Archbald.
House-
Passed bill to Tepay southerners for-
property seized by government after
June, 1865.
Representative Roddenberry Intro
duced Joint resolution to prohibit in
termarriage or negroes or persons of
color and Caucasians.
Adopted resolution for holiday re
cess from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2.
Secretary Stimson told military af
fairs committee plans for fortification
of Hawaii and for guarding Panama
canal. -.
War department recommended 25
foot channel Perth Amboy to New
York harbor.
Secretary Fisher asked for $100,000
for continuation of investigation of
mineral resources of Alaska.
General Bixby, army chief of engi
neers, asked appropriations sub-committee
for anpropriation for great for
tification at Cape Henry, Va.
Taft Re-elected by Red Cross.
Washington, Dec. 11. President Taft
was re-elected today president of the
American National Red Cross at the
tighth - annual meeting of the organ
ization here. Other officers chosen
rere: Robert W. Deforest, New York,
rice president; Charles L. Magee,
Washington, secretary; Sherman Al
len, assistant secretary of the treas
ury, treasurer, and William Bullitt
solicitor of the department of Justice,
eouncillor.
Over 18,000 Autos in This Stats.
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11. At the
annual banquet of the New Haven
Auto club tonight Secretary of State
Matthew H. Rogers, who was a guest
said that the revenue from auto regis-
(ration the last year amounted to
$275,000 and that there are now more
- than 18,000 machines- owned in the
state.
Steamship Arrivals. .
Marseilles, Dec. . 8.wAfrlved, steamer
Madonna, New York. - .
New York, Dec. 11. Arrived, steam
er Chicago, Havre. r
New York, Dec. 1L Arrived, steam
r Finland, Antwerp '
DOWN DETECTIVES
SUSTAINS 23 WOUNDS
times in the legs, body and thighs.
Brown and Wood were shot through
the head; Ryerson in back and chest,
and Kins: in the right ear. The men,
hiding behind rocky cliffs and trees,
waited until a scow had discharged its
cargo of men brought to take the
strikers' places. A volley of blank
cartridges did not frighten the strike
breakers, who pushed forward toward
the railroad tracks on the coal wharf.
A Hand to Hand Struggle.
The men in ambush then left their
places of concealment, and, firing real
bullets, attempted to swarm out upon
the wharf. They were met at the dock
gates by the private detectives who,
unarmed except for clubs, engaged in
a hand to hand struggle.
Strikebreakers Escape to Woods.
A fusillade of shots brushed the offi
cers aside and they fled for safety,
except the mortally wounded Graw and
Mallery. The strikebreakers, under a
fire of bullets, fled along the shore of
the Hudson and concealed themselves
in the woods of the Palisades.
Strikers Are Foreigners.
Three hundred employes, foreigners,
of the Susquehanna, which the Erie
railroad controls, o.uit work on Mon
day, demanding a wage increase of five
cents an hour. Officials of the rail
road would not grant the increase.'
There was a clash yesterday between
strikers and detectives and one of the
latter was slightly wounded by a gun
shot. TWO LAWYERS REFUSE TO
DEFEND JACK JOHNSON.
Colored Attorneys Say They Disap
prove of His Recent Marriage.
Chicago, Dec. 11. Jack Johnson's
attorneys, W. B. Anderson and E. H.
Wright, appeared in the United States
district court today to ask that their
names be stricken from the records as
counsel for the fighter.
The lawyers, who are both colored,
say that Johnson's recent marriage to
Lucille Cameron, a white girl, was
disapproved by them to an extent that
they did not care to be. longer asso
ciated with. him.
Wright and Anderson . represented
Johnson in the white slave cases yet to
be heard. . , -'.
Johnson .appeared in the municipal
court -today to answer to a charge of
assault and battery brought . by a
newspaper photographer whom Johnson
is alleged to have struck with a cane.
Hearing of the case was deferred.
SENATE WILL CONFIRM
TAFTS APPOINTMENTS
But None Will Be Made In States
Where Both Senators Are Democrats.
Washington, Dec. 11. An amicable
agreement in the senate over the con
firmation of President Taft's nomina
ations for federal positions, seems
probable today when after a number
of informal conferences among leaders
a tenative plan was agreed upon.
Under the arrangements proposed, no
nominations for federal offices will be
confirmed in states where both sen
ators are democrats, but in all states
where the senators are republican
there is to be no opposition to con
firmation of these places. It was un
derstood that many democratic lead
ers in the senate would be satisfied
if the appointments in southern states
were not put through.
HOUSE VOTES TO PAY
SOUTHERN CLAIMS
Over $5,000,000 Involved in Bill Passed
Yesterday.
Washington, Dec. 11. More than
$5,000,000 derived from sales of prop
erty taken from owners in the south
after the Civil war, would be repaid
to the southern claimants by the terms
of a bill passed by the house today.
The bill would amend the codification
of laws relating to the judiciary so as
to dispense with the allegation and
proof of loyalty in those claims, af
fecting only proceeds of property taken
after the date mentioned.
The bill has not yet passed the sen
ate. LICENSE SUSPENDED
FOR SELLING "BING."
State Board of Pharmacy Disciplines
Bridgeport Druggist.
Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 11. Members
of the state board of pharmacy met
here today and voted to suspend the
druggist's license of Mrs. W. M. Rob
ertson, proprietress of the Woman's
Pharmacy in this city.' because of al
leged violation of the law regarding
the sale of heroin. ,It was charged that
heroin or "blng" had .been sold to a
young- man after his parents had re
quested the druggist not to make any
further sales to him.
'BRIDGIE" WEBBER DENIES
I REPUDIATING TESTIMONY,
Writes District Attorney That State
ment is False.
New York, Dec. 11. "Brldgle" Web
ber, one of the four informers In the
Rosenthal murder case, quoted yester
day as repudiating his testimony -lven
at the trial of Becker and the four
gunmen, in saying that there was no
plot to slay Herman Rosenthal, sent
a letter to District Attorney Whitman
today saying that the statements at
tributed to him were "absolutely false.
Any time you wish me to make an af
fidavit to this effect." he added, "I
shall be glad to do so. Mrs. Webber
will corroborate me."
Sulolded to Muslo of Hymn,
New York, Dec 11. After placing a
song record, "Nearer, My God, to
Thee " in a phonograph at their home
in Brooklyn tonight, Mrs, Mare Ult
zen, 60, wife of a well to do architect,
and her son, William Uitzen, Jr., turn
ed on the gas, fastened rubber tubes
to their faces with belt and strap, and
committed suleida, .
' Cabled Paragraphs
"Tribesmen Kill Captain Aokford.
Teheran, Persia, Dec 11. Captain
Ackford of the British army has been
killed 'by tribesmen near Shlraz, cap
ital of the province of Fars.
Landlords and Tenants Riot.
Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 11. Serious
rioting between' landlords and tenants
last evening necessitated the calling
out of troops to restore order.
Engineers' Strike May Be Settled.
'London, Dec. 11. A speedy settle
ment of the strike of locomotive engi
neers on the Northeastern railroad Is
now hoped for, as the lord mayor of
Newcastle has Intervened. '
Two Months for. Suffragette.
London, Dec. 11. A militant suffra
gette named Elsie Howey was sen
tenced today to a term of two monthB'
imprisonment for turning in a num
ber of false alarms of fire last night.
Minister Calhoun at Amoy.
Amoy, China, Dec. 11. The United
States minister to China. William J.
Calhoun, with Mrs. Calhoun and a
party of friends, arrived here today
on board the United States cruiser
Rainbow.
SAYS POLICE GRAFT
IS GETTING WORSE
Keeper of New York Tenderloin Re
sort Pays $60 a Month.
New York, Dec 11. Mary Goode, as
aself-confessed keeper of a resort in
the Tenderloin district and as a wit
ness before the aldermanic commit
tee which is investigating police con
ditions, declared on the stand tolay
that many women of that section -Bad
banded together in an association and
had appealed to Mrs. O. H. P. Bel
mont to aid them in protection against
police graft She declared that the
"Becker pocketbook has set an ex
ample of graft to policemen of the
Tenderloin section and that since the
Becker exposure the officers were "wild
in their demands for money."
From her own experience she told
of having paid $60 a month for police
protection. Some larger places, she
said, were forced to pay from $100 to
$220 a month. The police want more
money all the time," she declared.
"They keep raising their demands.
This Is all on account of the Becker
pocketbook." She alleged that the
$100 bail required of a woman arrest
ed was divided between the police
lieutenant and the bondsman.
She said there were 3o,000 women
in the city affected .by - the police
methods.
"We want to be put under a com
mittee of citizens," she said. "We want
to be protected from the police." She
declared that if this were done -the
women1 would help the committee in
ridding the city of some of its worst
vice element
In describing her house as a "re
spectable one," she told of an expert
ience with Gyp the Blood of the Beck-
Ol fflinniAn Ua qt,H fnn. nlh.. annul
men entered her premises one night
she said, and robbed the inmates and
five men in the place.
TAFT INFORMED OF
. ANARCHY IN MEXICO.
President Given Details of Unrestrain
ed Lawlessness.
Washington, Dec. ll.r-Presiden Taft
listened tonight -to some startling dis
closures about present . day conditions
in Mexico. Four American business
men with Mexican interests, two mem
bers of the senate and a congressman
sat in- the. cabinet room in the White
House offices and heard the story,
vouched for by all, told to the presi
dent, by one man who had been in the
southern republic within the last few
weeks. It was a tale of outrages on
Mexican women, of murders and hold
ups of Americans, of bandits who
seized Americans and held them for
ransom, of general lawlessness and
disorder such as seldom has come to
the ears of the "resident since trouble
began in Mexico nearly two years ago.
ANOTHER UPRISING
IN SAN DOMINGO
Battleship New Hampshire Leaves
Norfolk Under Hurry Orders. ,
Norfolk, Va., Deo. 11. The battleship
New Hampshire left at midnight for
San Domingo, on hurry orders.
It is understood that another serious
uprising has broken out in San Do
mingo. W. T. S. Doyle, chief of the Latin
American division of the state depart
ment has Just returned from the re
public after having endeavored with
Brigadier General Mclntyre to effect
some settlement of the unrest there.
The New Hampshire is said to have
considerable less than a normal supply
of coal in her bunkers, but did not wait
to replenish it. A number of members
of her crew were on shore when the
ship sailed.
MIDSHIPMEN BET
ON FOOTBALL GAME
Four Hundred to Be Disciplined at
the Naval Academy.
Annapolis, Md Dec. 11. That 400
midshipmen violated Superintendent
Gibbons' order forbidding betting on
the recent annual inter-service foot
ball game at Philadelphia, has been
disclosed as the result of an Investi
gation just finished at the naval acad
emy. :
The investigating board, it is said,
got hold of the full list of midship
men who, it is alleged, had contributed
to a pool amounting to 2,000, which
was covered by the West Point cadets.
The report is In the hands of Su
perintendent Gibbons, who will assign
punishment.
Electrification of Shore Line.
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11. An
nouncement is made here that work of
electrification of the main line of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company between New Ha
ven and New York is progressing rao
idly. f Seventy-five per cent of the
work of excavating has been done and
30 per cent of the steel work. Unless
unusual weather Interferes or some
thing unforeseen occurs, the work
should be completed by July 1 next
Hosford Confesses Forgeries.
Boston, Dec. 11. Forgeries Involving
$125,000 are alleged to have been dis
closed as the result of the arrest of
E. H. Hosford, former treasurer of the
James Donovan Slipper company of
Everett. Assistant District Attorney
Lavelle in arguing today against a
the prisoner had made a confession
and that forgeries to the amount
named had been' committed. Judge
Brown refused to reduce the bail of
$20,000.
Auto Runs Down Hartford Man,
Hartford, Deo. 1L Edwin A, New
ton of the grocery firm ol . Newton
& Burnett was struck by an auto truck
driven by Harry Abrey tonight and re
ceived injuries from which he may die.
He has a fractured skull. Abery was
arrested
White Slave of
African Brute"
JACK. JOHNSON'S BRIDE" IS SO
CHARACTERIZED
A VITRIOLIC SPEECH
Georgia Congressman Condemns Re
cent Marriage in" Support of Bill to
Prevent Union of Blacks and Whites
Washington, Dec. 11. A denunciation
of the legal procedure under which "a
brown-hued. black-skinned, thick-lip
ped, brutal -hearted African can walk
into an office of the law and demand
an edict guaranteeing him legal wed
lock to a white woman" was one of
many sensational features of a speech
in the house today by Representative
Kuddenberry of Georgia, in favor of
resolution he had introduced earlier to
prohibit intermarriage of whites and
negroes. .
Did Not Get a Vote.
The .measure, a direct result of the
recent marriage of Jack Johnson, the
negro pugilist, with a white girl, did
not -et a vote, but it enlivened a dull
day's proceeding and incidentally aid
ed in a' filibuster of Representative
Goldfogle of New York that sent the
Burnett illiteracy test immigration bill
over until probably the middle of Jan
uary. May Bring Country to Conflict.
Mr. Roddenberry prophesied that the
legal sanction of the mixed marriages
ultimately might brin this country to
a conflict. He declared: that "no bru
tality, infamy or degradation in all the
days of southern slavery possessed
such villainous characteristics and
atrocious dualities as the permission
of that marriage by the laws of this
country."
"White Slave of African Brute."
In Chicago, he said, not only is the
white slave traffic carried on, but "the
white girls of this country are made
the slaves of an African brute, sanc
tioned by the laws of the state, and
solemnized by a form of the marriage
ceremony."
"Country of Morals, Traditions, Vir
tues." Mr. Roddenberry added: "We say
this Is a great country, with its mor
als, traditions, virtues and examples,
deserving to be emulated and envied
by the other countries of the earth.
But we see an African with much bru
tal force, with no moral character,
with no stamina, in defiance of the
laws of Illinois yea, in accordance
with the laws of Illinois in defiance
of the municipal regulations, entering
lUB , u J'""'"" ".
or other legal officer, in that city and
cHiungon mm 10 e iu me,
young American woman, of our own
blood, our own color."
Suicide Preferable to Such Marriage.
The speaker declared that "in the
fellowship betwen the blacks and the
whites in the south the blacks respect
ed the- superiority of their former mas
ters, and would commit self-destruction.-'before
entertaining the thought of
marrying with a Caucasion girl."
TO PREVENT MARRIAGES
OF WHITES AND NEGROES
Resolution' Introduced in Congress by
Georgia Representative.
Washington, Dec. 11. "Intermar
riage between negroes or persons of
color, and Caucasians, or any other
character of persons within the United
States or any territory under their
jurisdiction" would be prohibited un
der a Joint resolution introduced to
day by Representative Roddenberry, of
Georgia.
"The term negroes or persons of
color," is defined in the bill as any
and all persons of African descent or
having any trace of African or negro
blood.
The measure was referred to the Ju
diciary committee.
WOMEN SELL EGGS AT
24 CENTS A DOZEN
Effort to Break Corner in Philadel
phia Starts Out Well.
Philadelphia, Dec. 11. One hundred
and fifty thousand dozen eggs were
sold today at stations in various sec
tions of the city by members of the
Housekeepers' league In the first day
of their campaign to break the corner
which they claim has been maintained
by retaU dealers here. - Eggs that have
been selling for from 27 cents to 49
cents a doien were sold by the women
at 24 cents. Such was the demand at
the forty stations in operation today
that only the . inability to secure
enough handlers prevented even a
larger number being disposed of.
As a rule the retailers maintained
their -former price. , ,
RU8SIAN CROWN PRINCE
WOUNDED BY NIHILIST.
Injuries of Such Nature Ha Cant 8uo
' ceed to th Throne, '
London, Dec.: 12. The Daily Express
this morning revives the story that
Crown Prnce Alexis of Russia was the
victim of niholism. It asserts that he
is suffering - from the effects of a
wound made by a trusted attendant
who has since proved to be a, nihilist.
The wound, says the Express, Is of
such a nature that the price is incapa
ble of continuing In the line of suc
cession to the throne, and therefore
appointment of heir designate is be
ing discussed in cour circles as Em
peror Nicholas' brother. Grand Duke
Michel, has renounced his rights.
TO FINISH THE TARIFF
. . HEARINGS IN JANUARY
Congressman Underwood, Demoeratie
Leader, Says That Is His Desire.
"Washington, Dec. 11. "I want to
see the tariff hearings concluded by
the ' end of January. The ways and
means committee will have a chance
to work out the rough, draft of a bill
for the -use of - the new ways and
means committee after the present
congress expires March 4th," said Dem
ocratic Leader Underwood today. Mr.
Underwood probably will introduce to
morrow a resolution to authorize ad
ditional expert assistance in connec
tion with the proposed tariff revision.
,
Brigandage at Hartford.
Hartford, Dec 11 Mrs. Sarah Res
nick, who keeps a small store at $7
Laurel street, reported to the police
tonight that three young men whom
she did. not know, entered her store
this, afternoon .held her at the point
of a revolver, and robbed .the cash reg
ister. About $10 was stolen. The po
lice have so far found no cluoa.
. . ' .
Condensed Telegrams
Th Supreme Court of Missouri ruled
that a divorced woman is a widow. .
Stephen Ranmaker of Woodhaven,
L. I., was kicked to death by a mule.
Caesar, the Pet Dog of the late King
Edward, is seriously ill in London.
Odessa, Russia, is gripped by a coal
famine as a result of the Balkan trouble.
The Christmas Demand for new
quarters and halves is greater this
year than ever before.
Col. C. B. Montague, soldier of for
tune, and first mayor ot Sitka, Alaska,
died in Portland, Ore., aged 83.
A Slight Earthquake lasting several
seconds was felt at Calais, Me, yes
terday. No damage was reported.
Alderman James J. Smith, of New
York City proposed an ordinance to
make six day bicycle racing illegal.
The Health of the Navy Was Good
during 1911, showing a slight improve
ment over that of the previous year.
After Saving Up Nickels Since 1883,
Mrs. Emily Kun of New York lost the
entire, bagful, 10,000 In all.to a burglar.
William W. Stone, formerly of Pres
ident Roosevelt's secret service staff,
died at his home at Concord, N. H,
Tuesday.
James Otis Kalar, author of 145
bookB written especially for boys, to
whom he was better known as James
Otis, died yesterday.
President Taft is Considering an of
fer of the Kent professorship at the
Yale Law school. The place has been
vacant for several years.
As a Protest Against the High Cost
of living, more than 2,000 workmen of
Grgenta, province of Fererra, Italy,
fired the house of the mayor.
George F.' Heath, the Oldest hand
press printer and compositor in the
United States, celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday in Tarrytown, N. Y.
The House of Lords passed the anti
white slave bill adopted some time ago
by the house of commons. The bill
provides for flogging for first offend
ers. Maine's Lobster Catch for the cur
rent year will exceed $2,000,000 in val
ue, according to a statement of James
Donahue, commissioner of sea and
shore fisheries.
ttumort That the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology might merge
with Harvard, university were denied
by President Richard C. Maclaurin of
the institute.
Forty Thousand Letters in five
months represents the tota lof Gov
ernor Wilson's mail since he came in
to prominence as the democratic can
didate for president last July.
Official Society in the Capital is go
ing in for ice skating and steps were
taken yesterday for the building of a
rink on the grounds used by the Wash
ington horse show In the spring.
Reiterating the Charge that his wife
shut him to obtain his life insurance,
Eugene H. Grace yesterday filed suit
for divorce against Daisy Opie Grace.
At her trial Mrs. Grace was acquit
ted. , 1 .
William H. Quigley, Detroit, business
agent of the Carpenters' union, yester
day was held to the federal grand Jury
on the charge of the district attorney
that he had committed perjury as a
witness at th "dynamite conspiracy"
trial.
Damage Estimatad as Close to $100,-
000 resulted from a fire yesterday
morning in a four story brick building
on Park street, New Haven, used for
manufacturing purposes. Lederer ft
Co. and the Colonial Brass Ca. were
burned out
Acting on the Complaints of parent
that their children had been gambling
away their . lunch money, detectives
yesterday raided a "policy shop" with
in a stone's throw of two Brooklyn
high schools and six men in the place
made their escape.
William Zeigler, Heir to $14,000,000
under the will of a millionaire baking
powder manufacturer.who adopted him
in infancy, was married at a fashion
able New York hotel yesterday at norm
to Miss Gladys V. Watson of that city.
They were childhood sweethearts.
Twenty-four of the 29 Massachusetts
cities which held their annual elec
tions this month have voted to grant
permanent firemen one day off in five.
The proposition was defeated in four
cities, Taunton, Fitchburg, Northamp
ton and Lowell, and was not voted up
on in Brockton.
A Plea by Warden Bridges of the
Massachusetts state prison and two
clergymen for ' the pardon of Samuel
Mitchell, a Lynn negro serving a life
sentence for murder, was successrui.
Mitchell was convicted of murdering
Mrs. Ada .Taylor 2 years ago, when he
was 19 years of age.
A Suit Brought Against General
Sickles by his daughter, Mrs. Eda
Oackenthorpe, wife of a British army
officer, was argued yesterday in the
New York supreme court Mrs. Crack
enthorpe seeks to have revoked a $80.
00 trust fund created for her benefit
and to have her father dismissed as
trustee.
President Taft Will Lsava Washlng
ton at midnight December 18 for Key
West, Fla, whence he will sail on the
afternoon of December 21 for Panama
on the battleship Arkansas. Mrs. Taft
a military aide. Secretary Hilles, C.
P. Taft, the president's brother, and
probably several other persons will be
In the party.
"The Large Number of feeble mind
ed children today Is a direct result of
the overwork and overstrain to which
the mothers are subjected In the fac
tories. This is the conclusion of Dr.
Max Schlapp, head of a bureau which
was established bv the New York de
partment of charities a year go for
the study or aerecuve cniiaren.
Bids Called for Porto Rico Bonds.
Washington, Dec. 11. Bids for $1,
000,000 of 4 per cent gold bonds ot
Porto Rico have ben invited by the
bureau of insular affairs, to be opened
January 22. These bonds in denom
inations of $5,000 will mature in 1013,
but are redeemable twenty years after
Issue. Their proceeds are to be applied
to an extensive irrigation project.
Activities by Blaok 8aa Turks.
thens, Deo. 11. It is .emi-offloially
coafirmed that Biaak sea Turks have
befen burning villages and massacring
thi inhabitants in the neighborhood of
Galllpoli and Lalos. Similar atroeVIes
haVe occurred In the Keshan! district
of (Thrace, where 800 Greeks have been
massacred. The town of Keshanl and
surrounding villages hart been burned.
Long Terms for
Two of Aliens
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SIDNA ALLEN GETS 35 YEARS,
WESLEY EDWARD8 27 YEARS
COMPROMISE EFFECTED
Each Was Under Indictment For Three
Murders Two of Gang Under Death
Sentence, Enjoy Respite.
Wytheville, Va., Dec. 11. Thirty
five years in the penitentiary is the
penalty Sidna Allen will pay for his
part in the shooting up of Carroll
county courthouse at Hillsvilie last
March, when five persons, Including
the presiding Judge, the sheriff and the
commonwealth's attorney, were killed
by members of the Allen clan and a
number of others wounded. Allen's "
nephew, Wesley Edwards, will spend
27 years In the penltentiar.
Sentences Result of Compromise. '
These two sentences were the re
sult of a compromise this afternoon
following a verdict of voluntary man-
siaugnier in tne case of Sidna Allen
for the murder of Commonwealth's
Attorney William M. Foster, the Jury
fixing the penalty in that case at five
years' imprisonment. Allen already
had been found guilty of second de
gree murder at a former trial for the
killing of Judge Massie, for which he
had been sentenced to fifteen years In
the penitentiary. Another indictment
pending against him for the murder
of Sheriff Webb, was compromised by
letting him plead guilty to second de
gree murder and take a fifteen years
sentence. The combined sentences
make 35 years. .
Nine Jurors Stood for Acquittal.
Three indictments against Wesley
Edwards also were compromised he
taking a sentence of nine years' Im
prisonment on each.
In the second trial of Sidna Allen,
which ended today, nine of the Jurors
on the first ballot stood for acquittal
and the other three for murder in the
second degree.
The Courthouse Tragedy,
This ends a tragedy without parallel
and which stirred the country from
one end to the other. Following the
conviction last March of Floyd Allen
of an offense which would have sent
him to the penitentiary for one year,
members of the Allen family clan
nish mountaineers, opened fire on the
court, omcials. At the first vnllov
Judge Thornton L. Maasie fell mor
tally wounded and after the fustlade
which followed Sheriff Webb and Com
monwealth's Attorney Foster also were
found dead. On the following day one
of the three jurors who were shot died
of his wounds, as did also Miss Beattle
Ayres, who had been a witness In the
case.
Captured In Des Moines.
Floyd Allen was arrested the day
following the tragedy, being too badly
wounded to escape. The arrest of the
others implicated In the shooting fol
lowed at various intervals. The two
men whose fate was decided today
eluded the detectives for some months
but were traced to Pes Moines, Iowa,
and captured.
Two Under Sentence of Death.
Of the six men who have been con
victed of complicity In the shooting,
Floyd Allen and his son, Claude, are
under sentence of death while Stdna
and Friel Allen and Wesley and Sidna
Edwards have been given long terms
in the penitentiary. Victor Allen, a
son of -Floyd, was acquitted and Byrd
Marion was discharged because of 4ack
of evidence against him.
governor Mann today granted a re
spite until January 17 to Floyd and
Claude Allen, who were to have been
electrocuted next Friday at Richmond.
SMUGGLING CONSPIRACY
INVOLVES DRESSMAKERS.
Wrfe of Prominent Lawyer Named In
the First Indiotment
New York, Dec. 11. A smuggling
conspiracy to which many of the tanr
est dressmaking establishment
throughout the United States are par
ties, and through which the United
States treasury has been defrauded of
a million dollars, was alleged by the
federal authorities today. A middle
aged woman of refined poise, proficient
in five languages, was indicted on the
specific charge of "facilitating the
transportation of smuggled goods Into
this country" by the way of Canada.
Customs officials described her as the
wife of George Haldron, a lawyer.wlth
offices in New York, London and Par
is. When arrested she was at a fash
ionable house here today, being In Pos
session of 21 gowns valued at $10?(K9,
the finest, the officials said that had
been seized at this port in years.
Mrs. Haldron was held in $2,000 bafL
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST
MYSTIC BU8INESS MAN
Several Arrests to Follow Confessions
of Twelve Young Girls.
Mystic, Conn., Dec 11. Upon a war
rant issued by Prosecuting Attorney
Benjamin Hewitt today, Amos It
Parks, a well known business man,
was arrested, charged with a statutory
crime against Leah Barraclough, aged
12. Parks waived a hearing and was
bound over to the next term of the
superior court
Prosecuting Attorney Hewitt an
nounced tonight that more arrests
would be forthcoming tomorrow. He
declared that twelve young girls be
tween the ages of 12 and IS had
"confessed" to him and that It warn
upon their testimony that the addi
tional warrants have been drawn up.
The affair has created a profound
sensation here.
New York Banker Grow Impatient
Washington, Dec 11. An irate group
of New York bankers and brokers
surrounded Samuel Unterrajrer, coun
sel for the banking and currency com
mittee of the house, when the com
mittee adjourned its "money trust"
hearing late today and demanded that
they be either excused or placed on
the stand at once. The New York
men have been In Washington since
Monday and they were told tonight by
Mr. Untermyer that they Would have
to await their turns for examination.
- Celebrated 100th Birthday.
Howard, Kansas, Dec. 11. Descend
ants of' George Munsinger Rather..!
here today to celebrate the 100th an
niversary of his birth. Mr. Munsin
ger has 144 descendants living out cm
a total of 1411, sixty-lire of whom were
present today.
Pries Drop on Bourse.
St Petersburg, Dec 1L Prices en
the Bourse have been dropping dally.
There was a heavy fall today owing
to reports of a critical tension be
tween Russia and Aostrio
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