THE PAPER THAT
BOOSTS KEOKUK
ALL THE TIME
VOL. 113. NO. 109.
BALLOT BUTTLE
HEXnUEM
,1
Signs for 1912 Wilt be Watched for
In the Results From the Vari
ous States This
Week.
Fight for Governorship Between Foss
and the Lieutenant Governor
Who Is a Repub
lican.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Tuesday's
elections although an off year and
one of limited number, will be watch
ed with Intense Interest by national
political leaders. Results will be
anallzed "for signs of 1912.'* These
may be seen in the outcome of
sound
the party principles on the
stage and stump. These principles
have been of national import, main
ly tariff and'on the republican side,
the campaign has all the ardor and
hard work that marks a battle for
the presidency.
Foss has been in the front of the
democrats and has emphasized his
record as governor aB the maid is
sue. His friends declare that he will
repeat his majority of 30,000 laBt
year, and hall it as a Bign that Mass
ftchusets will be democratic In 1912.
Republicans Beem to be equally con
fident that Frothlngham will win.
A governor and other state execu
tives and members of the legislature
are to be elected in Kentucky. A seat
in the United States senate hinges on
the legislative contest and for that
honor Representative Ollie James
ha- received endorsemnt at a state
democratic state primary.
In Maryland there is a hot cam
paign for governor between Arthur
P. Gorman, democrat, son of Arthur
P. Gorman, who has long been a
leader of the democrats in the United
States senate, and Phillip L. Goldsbor
ough, republican.
Woodrow Wilson has exercised the
practice that served him so well in
his last campaign for governor, and
is forcing reluctant legislators to vote
for his reform measures by stumping
the whole state of New Jersey, where
a legislature will be chosen. He is
zealous in the work of procuring the
election of a legislature frlindly to
big policies.
Little outside attention has been
attracted to the contest for the gov
ernorship in Rhode Island.
and
choosing two members of the United
Staes senate. It will bo a dull affair,
Senators Martin and Swahsen having
been endorsed for reelection by a
democratic State primary.
Second to Massachusetts ln rela
tion to the presidential contest this
week will be the election of six mem1
bora to fill vacancies in congress. The
ASK UNCLE SI
TO STEP IN
a
terrific campaign for the governorship
of Massachusetts and elections in
half a dozen districts to fill vacancies
in the house of representatives. A
spirited contest in New Jersey will
exoite national attention because of
the story the result will tell as to the
extent of Woodrow Wilson's hold on
that state.
State elections will be held in Ken
tucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mis
sissippi, New Jersey, Rhode Island
and Virginia. In point of widespread
interest and importance Massachusetts
stands far in the lead. A flght for
the governorship between Governor
Foss, democrat, and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Prothingham, republican, led
to a turbulent campaign that made
every inch of the state a battle ground.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge came
full armored from his retreat at Na
pant to lead the republican forces to
0 A
New
new statesmen will hail from
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and intervention by the United
Nebraska. It reads as follows:
who is one of the few city bosses
whoBe machines have survived the re-
forming influences that have swept
Turkish Government Wants America Five Persons Who Were Hopeless In
to Put a Stop to the Butchery
Which Italians are Car
rying On.
MASSACHUSETTS LEADS NO CIVILIZED WARFARE BEFORE BIG AUDIENCE
United 8tat6s Implored to Intervene
and Put an End to the Inhuman
Procedinga In
Tripoli.
AoMn„ Seeretarv Adeo promised to
Acting Secretary Adeo promised
submit the protest to Secretary Knox
who is absent.
the following is a copy:
Your excellncy has heard the newB
unfortunately confirmed. of wholesale
executions of a gTeat numb
habitants of Tripoli, perpetrated daily,
by the Italian inilitary authorltie^
his invaded home la undeniable. It,
confers on the said citizens the Char-j
acter of belligerents and obliges
enemy to respect the lines of those:CONCRETE
nocent women and children on mere,
These acts are, moreover, contrary
to the engagements pledged by Italy'
the laws and customs of war which:
science.
Virginia will elect a legislature and thoritles at Tripoli and Benghazi have,
id wi.l have the rare privilege of
not ceased
lives and property of the Italians.
"Please read the present dispatch
to the minister of foreign affairs, leav-1
"MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
eVery
I
t0
over the country in the past few -. ]na)Bt upon the necsslty for prompt
and efficacious Intervention, in order
to put an end immediately to these
inhuman proceedings."
years. Other large cities are in the
throes of bitter contests, but the is
sues are of local importance.
Taft Will Vote 8tral0hfc
CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 6—The Cin
cinnati Times-Star printed a letter
from President Taft, dated Pittsburg,
October 31, but not given out for pub
lication until Sunday, addressed to
Julius Fleischman, in which President
Taft said
L.
the republican municipal ticket
cause I believe the candidates there
on
to be competent and worthy. I
(Continued on page 6.)
vailds Were Cured by the
Laying on of
Hands.
Many Skeptics Present and Saw a
Blind Woman Read and a Lame
One Walk Cor
rectly.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The so- WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—A demon- MEXICO CITY, Nov. 6.—-With all
called Italian barbarities in Tripoli stratlon of curing by laying on of the pomp and ceremony, the glint of
'arms and the blare of trumpets, so
beloved by the Latin races, Frances
co I. Madero, the second president
who has occupied the seat of power
in Mexico for the past thirty-five years
was today inaugurated president of
the republic of Mexico amid the
cheers of thousands who lined the
streets.
have been brought officially to the hands was given here by Bishop Oliv
attention of the American government
in a a a
of the position of the state depart
ment in the matter is expected.
The subject was broached in the
course of a verbal statement by the
Turkish ambassador in a conversation
with the assistant secretary, and la
ter in the shape of a letter.
In each case the ambassador, who
declared he was acting under cabled
Instructions from his government, de
er
scribed in detail the acts attributed scesses in her eyes, and her husband
to the Italian troops and protested in substantiated the statement that she
the name of humanity against the al- had lost the use of her right eye nine
leged barbarities upon helpless women |weeks
and children and non-combatants by Pronounced her cured she could read
the Italian soldiery. without difficulty
By order of hiB government the
Sabin, founder of the Evangelicaf
Christian church. Before an audi
ence of 200 he labored until exhaust
ed, and five persons pronounced
themselves cured.
In the audience were skeptics, who,
with the newspaper men present,
made such inquiry as was possible to
ascertain the authenticity of the
cures reported. Mrs. J. M. Maney,
who was present with lier huspand,
claimed to be suffering with ab-
aS°-
After
and
at the second conference of The bridge at the time of the disaster, it I fair.
Hague In the convention relating to
Is
wm
B1»h°P Sabi", ha*
A_ ma" w'th
a
Turkish ambassador appealed to the claims to have been rigid for ten
United States to exert itself to put ye«« because of paraljs and who
a stop to practices that, he
declared,
were in Plain violation of the rules sources of the medical profession in
of warfare, and In contravention of ^rch of a cure came from Bishop
the Hague convention to which the Sabin's hands cured.
United States and Italy are parties.
An
®*If£ neck, which he
verted he had exhausted the re-
elderU woman,' using ca e,
nrnmioori tn who -s&id she hftd suffered with neu*
0f
The ambassador note was based ... ,_
h, T,,rw,h 1 meat. A man with rheumatism in his
upon
a cabiegra® frogthe Turk sh,
minister of foreign stairs, of which
rheumatUm lnformed the audI.
ence that she had recovered the use
her limbs as the result of the treat-
no
The right of all able-bodied men!
to flflght for the supreme defense
& woman wbo sald ahe had
hea(Jache
ieted
ement
the
fall into their
the llst of the
are genuine"
and says "there Is
faking about them no fraud what-
lUB
About twenty.flve
persons in the
wer0 eagerly clamoring to
be cured when hfi ended with the an.
that he was exhausted,
I TJ-RTnftTi!
JjttlDUJi,
mM
among them who
hands.
But the Italians are violating not'Atrial Had Not Hardened and Sev
only the sacred principis of modern''
SPAN COLLAPSED
era|
law of nations, but the most element- Lives.
Workmen Lost Their
wreckag0 0f
v,
ary rules of civilization and humani- For Keokuk
ty, in shooting down natives whOj AUBURN, Cal., Nov. 6.—Three bod- and somewhat cooler tonight
have properly enlisted, and tho in-1
les
jjave been recovered from the
suspicion, not to mention those de-1 company's bridge across the Ameri- cooler tonight. Tuesday generally
ported by the thousands.
can
la,)sed
be discovered.
places "the population and the bellig-! The victims of the accident were
erents under the safeguard and the
wori{ing
protection of the laws of humanity building caissons. The concrete pll
and exigencies of the public con-,lars
gave
I therefore beg to protest to t.lie ^or the winter rains, tho concrete
government to which you are accrcdit-'
n0(.
man
AS&IM." sway for an instant, and, as the sup
Supplementing this cable came an-! porting concrete pillars sagged and
other for the Turkish foreign office, gave way, the great arch above came
which is regarded as of great impor-
tance, because it formally demands
Up to President Taft.
expressed fear that the concrete
to display to guard the pinars, which had not settled yet,
WOuld
The
crashtng
m0va.
Anothfer uprising is In progress In "The Italian atrocities ln Tripoli, be-. boulders and eddies of the 'Dubuque .... 18
Cincinnati against George B. Cox, jng confirmed officially and from midstream. They fought their way:
reiterate the representations pre-, brig
8Crn,ed
In my pressing telegram to
KEOKUK, IOWA, MONDAY, NOV. 6, 1911
ERO JAKES
Is Inaugurated Chief Exec a of the
Republic of Mexico
Today Amid I*
Pomp./
there were thirty men on the cooler tonight. Tuesday generally
Relieved that still more casualties For MiBBOurl: Generally fair
under the superstructure
way on account of having
being firmly set.
ed for such crimes against humanity The men caught under the sinking
committed by the Italians, the sad
arcij
spectacle of wheh offers a striking escaped were at work above. vance of the area of low pressure has
contrast with the efforts that our au- The river is swollen and the fore- been attended by rising temperature,
down before a man could
States.) two of the workmen were swept
'into the river and out among the,^
quarter, I beg your excellency across. Eight were caught in the de-. Qajiand
1 n«n. J...M ntnif TA na
river
Noon
i-v 3
'M*
THREE MONTHS PEACE
England Has Little Confidence in New
Ruler and Will See That Her
People Are Well
Armed.
The inauguration ceremony itself
was one of the most impressive ever
seen in this city. Surrounded by
thousands of troops whose uniforms
showed only too plainly the effect of
their long campaigning against the
Chiapas Indians in the south and the
Zapatistas in the north, Madero, ac
companied by his brother Gustavo
and several members of his cabinet,
the party drove down gaily dec
orated streets beneath the trHiippbal
arches to the chamber of deputies
where, at noon, took place thfe
night and Tuesday.
and
not withstand the strain. I
swaying of a lantern throwing
a shadow
tng at the same time a copy of same, ^e men below the first warning of! extreme northwest.
danger.
pjajns to
0n the
weather attends
out across the torrent gave BUre
except
They saw the superstructure. Conditions indicate cloudy cooler
rUBhlng \.
Others found their way to the
bank over the ruined span,
Five Names Presented.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., Nov. C.—Presi
dent Taft let It be known that
some five names have been pre
sented to him In connection with the
supreme court vacancy. He expects
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The ques
tion of Intervention by the United that fully as many more will enter
staten at Tripoli to stop the barabar-1 the field before the appointment Is
Itles practiced by Italian soldiers was
made.
put up to President Taft today follow- demonstration to hear all claims pre
lng the appeal of Turkey for aid. It sented before making selection.
la believed that this country will be!
"I expect to be ln Cincinnati on, owing to the hesitation of: Ex-Convict Captured.
election day, and unless my reglstra-j department to interfere in 1 ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 6—111 a fierce
tlon 1b defective, to cast my vote for situation until after the battle in the swamps of Burk County,
powers
nmre directly interested have
taken some action.
—Road The Daily Gate City.
The president expected
Bill Minor, notorious train robber was
captured after his companion, Tom
Moore, was shot and killed by a
sheriff's posee. Both were ex-etfnvicts.
1
'real
In the course of his speech he prom
ised that peace would reign for at
least three months.
Alarmed at the reports of violence
attending thfe Zapatista revolution
and the fear that the rebels might
capture And loot ^je. city, the British
government through its consul here,
today Instructed all English residents
to demand arms from the Madero gov
ernment for their own protection. The
instructions further state that if the
jtrms are not forthcoming England
will provide them through the local
consulate.
to-
Cooler tonight.
Weather Conditions.
The field of Jiigh pressure, which
moved across the country last week,
been rushed on the bridge to prepare fias passed out on the northeastern
coast, and the low area from the
northwest, has moved southeastward,
Its center being in the upper Missis-
were entombed. The men who! gjppj valley this morning. The ad
weather for this section tonight, and
generally fair weather Tuesday.
Daily River Bulletin.
gt pau)
1.1
4.5
8.9
8.1
4.5
S.l
12.8
Davenport
15
Keokuk
St. Louis
IB
30
OLD. MAN SHOT
•-yxfhi-fi
general rains from the western jat home by neighbors. Mis.
Foggy
Cldy
River Forecast.
The Vlver will continue to fall from
Davenport to Keokuk during the next'
twenty-four hours, and a Blight rise
will follow.
Local Observation*.
a No" Bar.Ther.Wind.
Weather.
5 7 p.m. .. 29.93 41 SE Lt Rain
6 a.m. .. 29.64 47 SW Foggy
Rainfall for past 24 hours 79 hun
dredths.
Mean temperature, Nov. 5, 41. P®
Highest temperature, 4C.
Lowest temperature, 50.
Lowest temperature last night, 41.
1
FRIED Z. GOSEWTSCH,
Observer.
E
l« Charged With Poisoning Nine Per
sons in Order to Collect Their
Life Insurance
Money.
COURT AT HER BEDSIDE
New Evidence Is Given Against Her
By Woman Who Was a Former
Lodger at Her
House.
CHICAGO, Nov. 6—Her house of
mystery transformed temporarily in
to a court of Justice by the attendance
of Judge Waker, States Attorney Way
nian and a guard of policemen, Mrs.
Louise Vermilya was today tormally
arraigned on the charge of murder by
poisoning of young Arthur Blssonette,
one of nine persons whose intimacy
with the woman resulted In mysterious
deaths.
Weak from the dose of arsenic
which she took last Saturday—by
mistake she declared—the woman
lay propped up in bed with an attor
ney at her side. Owing to her con
dition no testimony was taken and
no plea entered.
The hearing was continued until
November 28.
New evidence which the police think
reveals Mrs. Vermilya as the great
est poisoner since the days of the
Medici, developed here today when
Mrs. Elizabeth Nolan, a former con-
ceremony of inauguration, following fldant of the Vermilya woman and at
which Madero delivered his Inaugural
address to a crowd of 20,000 persons. I
one
time engaged to Frank Brlnkamp,
her 8tepson,
told a remarkable story
of her life as a lodger with Mrs. Ver
milya.
Mrs. Nolan told Coroner Hoffman
and his detectives under oath:
That Frank Brlnkamp was original
ly taken ill at Richmond, Va., and
pronounced convalescent prior to his
removal to Mrs. Vermilya's home in
Chicago. That a few days after his
arrival here he grew steadily worse.
That just before his death he ex
hibited symptoms which the coroner
says are identical with arsenical
poisoning. That Frank told her he
had never believed that his father,
ThlB action does not meet with fa- Brlnkamp, Mrs. Vermilya's huB
vor on the part of the Maderists who bant
claim that it shows a lack of friend
ship for the new president and im
plies that he is not able to maintain
order.
THE WEATHER.
day
river, the east span of which col- fair.
and vicinity: londy
Tuos-
generally fair.
the Mountain Quarries For Illinois: Cloudy, unsettled and
Five workmen were injured, For Iowa: Cloudy and somewhat
died from natural
when
causes. That
pranjj Brlnkamp lay dying be
fore his stepmother and Mrs. Nolan,
apparently he recognized his own
symptoms aB Identical with his fath
er's last illness and declared: "I'm
going the Bame way father died.'
That when Mrs. Vermilya gave Frank
some water a short time before he
died, the patient took a swallow and
then spat it out, saying: "That water
does not taste right." That Mrs.
Vermilya Bent the undertaker who
officiated, to Europe. That. Mrs. Ver
milya had Brinkamp's life insured in
her favor for $2,000, herself paying
the dues.
WIFE AND HIMSELF
-t'Jk?
the central valleys. Clirlstofferson was sho four times
pacific slope generally fair
lie
h®ad.anJ
her recovery
Ib
a field of high pres- "er husband had two bullet wounds,
there has been rain in ,ols°
ln h,s
doubtful.
°ea(1,
but
"tB
1 sa 0 Ber
oon(lu,on 18
ous*
The shooting grew out of a quarrel
following the wife's refusal to sign
a deed. In his cell Mr. Chrlstofferson
confessed to the attempted murder or
his wife and the later attempt on
11 ,v. his own life. He declared that he
Stage.Height.Change.Wea r. 1 tired and that he wanted to end
It all. He 1b not ln a serious con
dition. Mrs. Chrlstofferson Is stfll
alive. .. v.
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Cro8Be" 12
Cldy
Rain
Rain
Kain
Romans Are Alarmed.
Rodgers Ends His Trans-Continental
Flight From Ocean to Ocean
In An Aero*
plane.
He will fly the remaining twenty
miles today, lauding at the edge of
the Pacific ocean.
Official figures of Rodgers' flight
given by his manager total the dis
tance of 4,231 miles find tho flying
time at 4,924 minutes, or eighty-two
hours in the air. He Btarted from New
York September 17.
Rodgers appeared on tho eastern
sky line shortly after three o'clock.
He was sighted by telescopes from
the solar observatory on Mount Wil
son, and word flashed down the moun
tain by telephone brought 20,000 per
sons to Tournament Park.
Rodgers hovered over Pasadena a
few minutes, then circled in a wide
spiral and alighted on the greensward.
His landing was a signal for a rush
and Rodgers was mobbed. The avia
tor says his ribs will surely manifest
black and blue markB.
Rodgers started on the last dash of
his flight from Banning, Calif., a little
town out in the desert, where liia ar
rival had interrupted the only diver
sion of the year, the funeral dance of
the Mojave Indians.
Taking the air at noon, Rodgers as
cended in the face of a twenty-mile
wind until he had reached 400 feot.
Then he set his course west and
sparked his motor up to a thirty-mile
gait. Rodgers' wife and mother, who
have been following him on a special
train from New York, left Banning
Immediately afterward.
The flyer arrived at Colton at 1:37
p. m. with his altitude increased to 1,
000 feet, and he kept this height un
til ho neared Pomona, twenty-one
miles from Pasadena. He remained
there until after three o'clock, renew
ing his gasoline and refilling the tank
of the leaky radiator that brought
him near disaster Sa^njday.
After leaving Pomona Rodgers kept
his biplane pointing upward until he
had climbed dver the fleecy sheets of
vapor floating near the tops of the
highest peaks of the Slerre Madre
Mountains.
As he sped on to the finish in Tour
nament Park he was on a level with
the Mount Wilson observatory and
Woman Would Not Sign a Deed and I flying close to the ragged rocks of
Six Shots Wera the mountain.
Fired.
if.,.
conscious and their clothes stained
with blood, Mf. and Mrs. J. P. Christ
offerson, both 70 years ol-d, were found
His machine seemed to hesitate an
instant as the aviator careened It ln-
ATLANTIC, Iowa, Nov. 6.—Half to perlllous though spectacular spiral
glide. At this time he was directly
over the park but as lie came down
his filer described ever widening
curves, until he was within a few hun
dred feet of the ground. Then Rodgers
performed one of the dips Arch Hox
sey was performing when he was kill
ed at Domingues Field, within sight
of Mount WilBon, last December.
GALESBURG MAN
WOULD BE GOVERNOR
Charles F. Hurburgh, State Senator,
,!SlS Has Announced Hlmself as.
Candidate.
jfe1 .v
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Charles F.
Hurburgh, state senator from GaleB
burg, is to be a candidate for govern
or of Illinois,
ROME, Nov. 6.—The serious news
of the conditions at Tripoli have
alarmed the people. The peor „on...om,
commencing to urge that the govern- Is expected to annouce his ca da
ment carry the war Into the enemy's formally within the next few days.
sea or the Dardanelles. There is great
indignation in official circles because
of the reports of Italian atrocities up
on Turks and Arabs. These are de
nied.
Pultlzer's Sons to Manage.'-'
NEW YORK, Nov. 6—At a meeting
of the board of trustees of the Press
Publishing Company, publishers of
the New York World, Ralph Pulitzer,
Bon of the late Joseph Pulitzer, was
elected president. J. Angus Shaw was
named treasurer, and Joseph Pulitzer
Jr., secretary.
This announcement was made last
The people are night by hiB friends. Mr. Hurburgh
I *t _»V nfU iln Vl A *».'
home country, either through the Red Senator Hurburgh, while he will
base his candidacy upon progressive
principles, will not be allied with
either the La Follette brand of insur
gency nor tho organization which for
years has been in control of the par
ty machinery ir. this state.
Another Hunter Killed.
ARBOR VITAE, Wis. Nov. 6— Clark
Sayner, aged 13. of Sayner, son of
the founder of the town, while hunt
ing near his homo shot himself ln the
arm. Before medical aid could be
summoned he had lost so much blood
that he died.
THE WEATHER
Cooler Tonight—Fair To
morrow.
STARTED SEPTEMBER 17 HANG CHOW HAS FALLEN
Landed In Tournament Park, Paaa
dena on Sunday With But Twen
ty Miles Yet to
Travel.
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 6.—Avia
tor Calbralth P. Rodgers, approaching
a successful completion of his forty
nine day ocean-to-ocean "jaunt"
across the American continent, soar
ed into Pasadena Sunday at a mile-a
minute clip on the spurt of thirty
miles from Pomona and dropped from
an altitude of several thousand feet to
a graceful landing in Tournament
Park.
EIGHT PAGES.
COMPLETELY UP
Five Thousand Persona Killed by
Bullet*, Fire and Sword Dur
ing Destruction of
the City.
Admiral Ping Only Haa Four Ship*
Left and Has Hard Tim* Keep
ing Them From tfcs
Rebels.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 6.—Hankow haa
been completely destroyed by Are.
More than 5,000 persons have been
killed by bullets, fire and the sword.
The Imperialists are shelling Wu
Chang and Hang Chow has fallen.
The foreign volunteers and municipal
police have withdrawn from the rail
way station here, which Is now occu
pied by the revolutlonistB.
A topic of interest here had been ..
the breach of neutrality committed by
occupation of the station by foreign
volunteers and the municipal police,
as the station is outside the settle
ment limits. Instructions have been
sent to the British consul at the In
stigation of the mortgagers of the
British Chinese corporation venturing
the opinion that the neutrality viola
tion would probably Involve serious
consequences and endanger the lives
of foreigners outside tire porta.
Admiral Sah Chen Ping, with four
ahlpB, has arrived at Woo Sung ln a
pitiable condition. The other ships
were lost enroute.
Li Ping Hu is the responsible head
of the native city and suburbs, and Is
now engaged in completing his organi
sation. lie Informed the correspond
ent that he recognized only the Re
public of Han, and would guarantee
order. The only disorderly elements,
he said, now in China, are the former
officials, theft* supporters and tho
Manchu troops, who Would nerer
again be permitted to control.
There
IB
reason to believe tho revo
lutionary sentiment throughout the
south strongly favors the uncondition
al abdication of the emperor and the
establishment of an entirely new re
gime. Yuan Shi Kai will be repudiat
ed if he adheres to the Manchus. He
might become head of the government
and receive universal support If he
separated himself from his former al
liances. There 1b, however, a grow
ing suspicion and distrust of Yuan
Shi Kai.
The present plans for a republic In
clude complete oontrol of tho Yang
Tse Klang. The revoluflffnary lead
ers are determined to avoid blood
shed and secure the peaceful capitu
lation of the Manchu troops in the
various southern towns. Huang Sing,
the revolutionary leader in the Yang
Tso delta, arrived ln the native city
of Shanghai yesterday, by motor car.
Today he was engaged with other
chiefs in a conference.
The revolutionists maintain that no
concession on the part of the throne
will avail while the Maachus remain
in power. A meeting of the Klang Su,
Che Klirog and Fukien gentry today
stigmatized the National Assembly as
not representing the country. The
revolutionary proclamations abolish
the liken and land taxes, the mari
time customs only being retained.
Soochow, In the province of Klang
Su, on the Grand Canal, htf# gone
over to the rebelB, the governor and
all tho officials together with the
soldiers, having acquiesced peacefully
in the rising, while Kashing and Ning
Po also have fallen.
Reports are numerous of the defec
tion or the capture of various other
Chinese cities, these Including Wu Hu
and Foo Chow, The Imperial tele
graph operators have gone on strike.
They demand throe month"B pay In
advance.
It is reported that Yuan Shi Kai Is
at Hankow negotiating With Oon. Li,
leader of the rebels, who is ln a posi
tion to dictate terms. It is believed
that the south will demand the retire
ment of the Manchu royalty, with a
pension, and will not be satisfied with
less.
The revolutionary leaders at Shang
hai expressed no fear that the imepr
lalists would attempt to recipture the
city. They said the nffw government
was hilly competent to control the sit
uation and protect foreign Interests.
Three Gunboats Surrender.
SHANGHAI Nov. 0.—Dr. Wu King
Saug, formerly Chinese minister to
the United States, has accepted the
post of secretary of foreign affairs
under the provisional government of
which LI Yung Huang Is the head.
Wuen Tsung Yno. one Of the most
prominent men In the empire has been
offered a place as Wu's assistant.
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