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RAILROAD LINE TO ADRIANOPLE IS SEIZED
NEW HAVEN LENT ft LIONS
10 15 PLUMBER WHO ACTED
AS DUMMY OFFICER IN DEAL
He Was Olllccr in Company
and His Job Was to Sign
SI, 500,000 Draft.
i sOIRECTORS ARE SCORED
Government Attorney Tells
How Billard Was Able to
Swing Millions.
Bpeclal United States Attorney tlcn.
rsd Itobcrt I 11a tta bo ran to-day his
two day address to the Jury which Is
to bear tho ovldenco against William
rtockefcllor,(Lewls Cais Ldynrd nnd
ten other, millionaire oincoia and 01
offlcers of tho Taw York, New Ilaven
and Hartford lUillroad, charged with
violation ot tho Sherman Law. If
these big railroad man, financiers anil
lawyers are found guilty of conspiracy
to monopolize tho transportation busi
ness of New England they fuco mail-
mum penalttos of a J5.00O lino or a
year's Imprisonment or both.
s 9 llr. Baits declared that millions
V wcro squandered In bulging up tho
I monopoly ot New Kngland tninspor
"Hatlon lines. Ho told how John U
IJIIlard norrowou immon.i io sivnit
one deal and how a 15 a day plumber
handled millions In another deal.
William llockefellnr, Unnry K. Mo
ifarg and Churlos S. Urookor of the
defendants wero not In court when
the proceedings openod, but nppoarcd
within flfteon minutes. Th law In ft
jnls'dcinoanor caso doos not requlrn
the presence of tho defendant, but
Da Laneey Nlcoll, chief of tho great
ataff of eminent lawyers for the do
.'ensc, said to-day that ull of tho do
'endants wero no hrunlv Interested In
be trial that they would spend ns
nuch time In court ns thoy cotild
.vlthout dlsastor to their biff buslnem
nterests, Tho trial will last for at
east threo monthB-perlmps for sir
nonths.
To save Mr. Hatts from the fatlgun
bf his hours of speaking, his assistant,
nobort 1. mopnenson, reuu m punn
of the Hhermnn Law cited by tho Oov-
rnmcni niu me iuuk imuwiiu.ui.
fylAPS TO 8HOW GROWTH OF
MONOPOLY.
the right of tho Jury box was a
V iron rrame in which iimig, him.
f ft book, maps of Now Kng-
istratlng Mr. Hatts1 nhrraMve
grasping growth of tho Now
. n.itnm nvnr fnmmfrpn mat nf
the Hudson and Lako Clmmplaln and
south of the Oulf of Ht. Iiwrence.
Some now material In tho Govern
ment's ense wns disclosed by Mr.
BnttH's opening. He wo prepared
to tell for tho first tlmo, for Instance.
HI
i xno "insiuo story 01 ino gooming oy
1 the Now Havon of tlio New York and
New England, with Its strategically
Invaluable assot. tho I'ouchkeepsln
Bridge.
Tho formal motions for tho dismissal
of the Indictments as Insufllclent will
not bo mado until to-morrow or at
the conclusion of tho speech of Mr.
lift Us.
Among the spectators to-day was
. -miA State Senator Ilrackett of Saratoga.
V Ho explained that ho was not directly
r;"At tho beginning," said Mr. Halts
"I'doslro you to understand tho charge
ogalnst tho defendants. One nf tbo
provisions of tho Sherman Act Is that
any person who Joins a conspiracy to
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WILSON HERE NOV. 4 AS
MANHATTAN CLUB GUEST
President in Speech Will Open
Campaign for His National
Defense Programme.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Ircsldent
Wilson will open his campaign for hla
national defense programme In a
speech before the Manhattan Club In
New York on the uvonlng of Nov. 4. It
will be the President's first public
uttcranco on the subject since he ap
proved tho plans prepared by Secre
taries Garrison and Danlols, and the
speech 1s expected to be of Hlprnlfl
canco, bttMUM tha . lresldont la ex
pected to disclose the reasons ha will
urgo upon Congresn, why tha United
States should b more adequately pro
pared for defense.
To-dny the President lecotvcd a let.
ter from the Maryland I'enco Dclega
tlon far National Defense, asking him
to take steps to assure tho United
States sgnltist attack from abroad,
Tho lottcr was signed by Gov. Golds,
borougli. Senator John Waller Smith,
KopresuntutlvcH Coady, I.tnthicum and
Tnlbott, and many business mon
bankers, lawyers, Judguii and others.
resident norm lu Jersey To-Morraw
tn Vote for Suffrage.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. President
Wilson will go to Prlnrcton to-morrow
to rust his vote for 'woman suf
frage and an other proposed consti
tutional changes. He will be accom
panied by Hecretury Tumulty and
part of the way by Secretary of War
dnrrlsqn. Tho President will leave
Washington Ht 8 A. M. and return
directly after voting.
I'rosldent Wilson to-day sont word
to C. 1 Itellloy. Plaliifleld. N. J..
Chairman of the Mon's Suffrage Com
mittee, saying It was bovonil ih
power to put Into execution the sin.-.
gestlon llmt all Now Jorscymaii In
l no uovtrnnirin service lie glvon a
hnlliiuy in-morrow to go home to
vuie.
FOR WILSON WEDDING RING.
Girl oil Wny tu Washington With
One unit n llnlf Onnoea of fluid.
OIIASS VALLEY. CaL, Oct. 18. Car
rying one und a half ounces of virgin
gold to give l'resttlent Wilson for use
In his wedding ring, Miss Dorothy
Starr, daughter of tho Umplro Qold
Mine's geuaral manager, was on her
way to Washington to-day.
Rho also represents the private
schools of San Francisco, who havu
Invited the .President to bring Ills
brldo to
California for tha
Honey
moon.
20 DEAD; 80 DYING
FROM WOOD ALCOHOL
,
Workmen Who Drank From Bar
rel of the Stuff Rill Vic
tims After Spree.
HI'.IU.IN, tvia riuyvillii wireluss)
Oct. 18.-Of 100 workmen who, Hhip
ping wood alcohol from Nlchjl-Nov
gorod, Russia, opened u barrel nnd
drank from It, twenty aro dead and
tho rest dying, according to n Copen
hagen despatch to-day.
Illg Frisco (Irrrtlng to Billion,
SAN rUANCISCO, Oct. 18 Arrange
mcnts were completed for a popular
demonstration III honor of Thomas A
Kdlson. tho inventor, who wns dun in
arrive from tho lOast to-day to visit
the Panainu-I'aclfic Imposition. San
1'rnnelsco's reception of Mr Killson is
to tnio tno rorm or a general lllu
iii Inn I Ion of the city to-morrow night
wnicn it is unnouncea win do on
scale never before ftttemoUd hera,
WOMEN WHO LED IS
FIGHT FOIl SVFFHA (!E
THROUGH NEW JERSEY.
AMERICAN YACHT HELD
AS SUSPICIOUS CRAFT
Colombhn Offldals Say Papers of
Academy Sailing as the Rtliel
t Had Been Changed.
HOQOTA, Cnlmnbla, Out. 13. All
American yacht bbound from San
lrrnnetsco with tho nnmo "Academy"
painted over the name "Kthnl" und
carrying nn unusually largo crow Is
being dotalncd by Government au
thorities near Muenavcnturn, u Co
lomblan port on tho Pnclflo, under
suspicious clrcumntnuces.
According tn the Colombian olll-
clals, tho vessel's papers uro Irroggu
Inr. Tho German iminn of tho master
of tho ship, It In assorted, hus been
erased from tlio Honors unu nil Ameri
can name substituted for It. Tim
vaidit wua searched, but nothing was
found to Jiiillcati) tho mission of the
crew. The vessel will be detained
until her legal status has boen estab
lished. STEAMSHIP ORDER REVOKED.
Sci'diiil ('linn I'lissriiKrrs Will (t
lie MiiUimI Willi Mrrrillii',
WASHINGTON. Oct 18 -Hoeretuiy
Wilson to-day revoked nn order which
would have required all sernnd-cliiss
pnssengnra on inriimliig steamships at
New York to go tn HUH Ifclnnu Willi
uninigiiitits tor exninlniillim lln will
nppolnt a committee to arrange some
other way of iixamlnntloii
Tho order was cunioiniuaieii nfiniine
of the decrease of Iniinlgrntlun lncn
tho wns lis cut down Inspection forces
In a point whero It was linposrlhlo In
give separate Inspection In second' class
passengers. Ktenmslilp and other Inter
sts objected to the order.
NECK BROKEN AT FOOTBALL
llluli School Player Dies I'rnlii In-
Juried Slltatlllliril In (.Hliie.
MOSCOW. Idaho, Oe IH - Klti) il
llllicrt, cnptilu of the Graiignvllle HlKh
tiohiml font ball I i n in. died at n lioipltal
lieiu to-day (mm ,1 broken li'cK uns
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SUFFRAGE VICTORY
ASSURED IN N. J,
Majority of 20,000 Claimed at
Close of Liveliest Fight
State Has Known.
MEN'S TRICKS EXPOSED.
Women Taught to Protest
Ballot Boxes Straw Vote
Indicates Success.
Now Jersey Is the first Stole tn
vote on Woman Suffrage this year.
Tho special election to-morrow will
end a campaign as remarkable as it
has been enthusiastic on the part ot
women, but it will bo tho voles of the
male population that decide whether
"votes for women" Is to be a fact or
merely the battlu cry tor another
year. All through the State to-day
tha Suffragist aro making their
nnal effort.
If tho Slate ever dreamed she had
nothing more to learn about political
campaigning, tho women havu rudely
awakened her this year.
Voting upon constitutional amend
ments In Now Jersoy has never yet
succeeded In drawing great numbers
to tho polls, and It la generally
thought that u light vote will bo reg
istered. Forecasting the result, leud
era of thn suffrage forces say that
their cauNo will win by ut least liO.ouo,
Thn Antts say that after lo-innrruu
woman suffrage will he so dead thai
It will take yours to ruvtve It.
Veterans In polltlas accustomed ti
forecasting elections are discreetly
silent upon thn result, excopt so far
as ICssex County Is concerned. Tn
feel euro that Iloss Nugeut'n domain
will not be captured by tho women,
whatever they may do elsnwheru In
tho Stato.
OUTLOOK IN THE DIFFEHENT
COUNTIES.
In many counties the Democrats
(Continued on Sixth Pag".)
FRENCH SHIP TORPEDOED
AND SHELLED BY U-BOAT
Six Sailors Wounded as Cannon Is
Fired Upon Passengers
and Crew.
PAItlB, Oct. 18. Tho Marseilles
correspondent of the Petit Journal
telegraphs that the . mall steamer
ICugeno Perelie has arrived hern with
thirty-three sailors of tho French
steamship Atnlral-ilameltu, which
was sunk by u submarine. A previous
report said suventy-one persons hail
lost their lives.
Tho Amlrtil-ltamclln was under
Government requisition. According
tu tho correspondent she was tor
pialocd by an Austrian subiiiurln,
without noUco, and whllu pasiengnrs
and clew wero being transferred ti
the bouts tho submarine bombardi
tlio hUulllCt, Which hut utlUbk b
forty shells.
The captain of thn submarine ns
sertcd thut.thn steamer was unm .
but this Is denied by the curreHpn,,
dent. Six sailors were noijuded. Tit
llrlug drew u l-'rnuch torpedo bout an,
h'ngllsh huspltal ship and th.
wounded and fugitives worn suved
Tho submurine Med after llrlng tw.
torpedoes Into tho Amlrul and sinking
her.
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W Ai I'til lion, N. Y. Oil.
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...l .i,.-l ki.utli ADinicmi .nini.Mu lllii. TtiicI
itii ft.fV. inJ moiir oiJfr fr ,tl Tllto
.ninmoLtl.. (or htrf. Clwck ruun for htm.
! urn I'ZJZ mm .ihhhsi
SAY CAMPAIGNERS
CHARLTON
SWEARS
WIFE'S ABUSE MADE
While She Raged, He Ran at
Her Willi a Mallet, Then His
Mind Became a Blank.
NEXT FOUND HER DEAD.
Declares His Love for Her
Was Intense and That She
Drove Him Insane.
COMO, Italy, Oct. lS.-Trombllng
and at thn point of collapse, Porter
Charlton to-day told tho court which
Is trying him for his wife's murder
how bn met und married his victim,
ot their life together, ot tha events
which led up lo thn filing In the
honeymoon villa mi Inke Como, Tha
young American told of Ills dlioovery
that he had slain the woman, during:
an Interval he declared was a blank
In Ills mind, of tho manner In whloh
ho sank the body, In a trunk, In Lake
Como, and finally of his Might,
The womnn, Mary Scott Castle, al
ready dlvorcod und oonsldorubly older
than himself, was married to him In
I!09, he said. Ills love for her, bn
declared, was so Intenso that It tilled
his entlro life, tie could think ot
nothing else.
On hor furious joalnusy and rlnlont
fits of anger against him following
their marriage ho spoke ut length.
These spells of rngn he attributed In
tlio cau so (his wlfn'n habits) which
finally, ha suld, temporarily unseated
bis reason.
Noxt he described tnlr trip to Italy
together, of his wlf'n alcoholic In
temporance, her persistent carousing
and her savage abuse of himself.
At lost, ho said, she declared she
was about lu leavo him.
'Sho covered mo with insults," he
told the Court. She swore llku a
woman ut the streets. I could not
but think that another man uwalted
her. Something broke In my drain
Stooping, I seized a wooden mallet
and run ut her. What happened next
t do not rumomber.
"On waking up I understood that
soinothlng terrible must huvo hap
pened. I Jumped from bed und saw
tny wife lying across tho threshold.
Immo.dlntc.ly I remembered thn scene
nnd threw myself upon tho prns'ratn
form, Imploring her to answer mo
"I undorstood what I had done. I
was niled with horror. I had de
stroyed the woman for whom I would
gladly havo shed every drop of my
.ilood,"
Hn thought nt first of suicide,
f'hiirltnn said, but abandoned the Idea
nut of regard for his family. Instead
lio packed his victim's body In a
trunk, carried It by night to Iike
I'miio and sunk It In tho wuter, at
'ached to a heavy stone. Then h
lied to Oenoa on his way homo.
At this point thn prisoner broke
dnwn completely und, at his broken
voiced request, the Court ullowud him
lo i el I re.
After Charlton had recovered from
i lie fainting lit Huron Sclacca con
viiuKd tho Inquir).
Th public Is being excluded from
i he courtroom because of tlio natun
.f thu testimony.
LAUREL RESULTS.
rilts'l It.M'l. -crlllni, for lo rir,Ms fin
u l i nr half fullinl
Malfon. 10.1 iMilMli'lD utralglit $13 Ml. pltrv
ill'.'O. tin. It III flrrt lii.lnrUf 1 07 llm
.rill Tlr. f.', .Hi. sh'i'. (I HO. up, i.ii.I lr
illainml sIkiw. I Hi. llilrl llui. 1.11
.iHrui W Illlia (Irrrllnxa Knna Kriin, I)r
-iiUikii. N'nln. Ini iui,i. sit tnlty lw rm
,,'mieli I'rrslilrnl'n "rerelury l)lr
Hoilrlrnly.
I'AltIS, Oct l8.--rex Decorl.
IM slili iil 1'r.lneare's s.erelary-gi'ii-mal,
died suddenly to-day ut tho
Elysee I'alacs,
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MURDER
R
rv tiie at fire
If A AAAAj IMjIjIIjiJ,
AMEHICAN WOMAN
. VICTIM OF HUSIIAND
1 IN LA HE COMO Tit A GEl) )'.
CASTLE - CHARLTON
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IN DRIVE ON RIGA,
BERLIN JNOUNCES
Attacks of Russians on Exstcrn
Front Are Reported
Repulsed.
HI31U.IN. Oot, 18 (via Loudon).
Tho ofllolal report Issuod to-day says
regarding tho operations In tho east
ern theatre of war:
nHn. von llludcnburg In his ut-
tuok south of Ktga mado good prog
ress. Two otllcers ana xsu ouier
prisoners renialiieil lu our hands.
'Husslau attacks west of Jnuou-
stadt wore repulsed.
"West of IllmiKst wo capiunm
.noon. ..vininlln? on a front
of aUiUt lliren Itlliiincnw (l.S miles)
"further sotitn in inn mmuii m
Smorgnn, repented Itusslnn advances
undurtuUon with strong forces worn
..I-.... ..ul, licnvv IriHsns tn tho
tnemy 'Vwn olllcnrn and 173 tnmi wero
inkon prlHonorH.
Arniy kioup ruin." nfcrui
Iloimclni k lliim hin ntfnrlc nn hoth
..i.i..- .... f .i i. i)w.v.tMi'ii i-1 lnr.i rui-
niut'n in vmu iiniHii"r.. -
Dnilii'iiv Iti-rvWit ilriwn unilnr our
Hro ut u diMtuiico or 400 yurdu in front
ot our pwm.ni.H -
GERMAN SUBMARINES
SINK 23 VESSELS
Four of Tliem, Says Count von
BernstorlT, Were Transports
of Allies.
Count von Itornstorff, tho Qermnn
Ambassador, announced to-day that
.in ofllclal communication from Ilerllu
stated aermim submarlnrs hnd re
cently sunk twenty-three vessels.
They lncluile-l fotlr transports of tin
allies In the .i.edltorranean.
GERMAN AVIATOR
SHELLS SWISS TOWN
NHUCHATKU Kwltrerlalld, Oct IS
- Crossing the frontier after u flight
over Kratiie. a Herman avlatoi
dropped three bi'iub'i to-da ul li
C'lmuz do f onilH und two in iion.ui
both HuIms towns, wuuiidim! three pel
s'-ns und iuusIpi: serious property
daniuge.
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GERMAN ADVANC
VON MACKENSEN'S TROOPS
DRIVE SERBS THIRTY MILES
BACK FROM NORTHERN LINE
New Move That
Constantinople From the Rear or
Menace the Bulgarian Capital of
Sofia Launched From Aegean Sea.
BERLIN REPORTS GAINS
IN NORTHERN SERBIA.
As Berlin was reporting to-day a steady drive In Serbia, south from
Belgrade, and the capture of several towns, there etme rho raws of a
sudden allied offensive from the Aegean Sea. It was stated thtt troops
had been landed at Finos, on the Turkish mainland, Just across Hie Bu
garian border. The Dedeagatch railroad, which leads irom the Bulgarian
coast to Adrlanople, has been seised.
This may-mean that an attempt
from the rear, or it may also mean that a march will be nude upon Sofia,
the Bulgar capital. Earlier in the day it. had been announced that French
and Serbian troops had driven a Bulgarian army of 40,000 bade across the
Serbian border. It was intimated -that these troops might move toward the
Bulgar capital.
To olfset this it was reported that
town of Vranje, twenty miles inside
ng to Nish, the present Serbian capital.
Another force of Bulgarians is
junction with the Teutonic forces
captured additional heights.
Allies Suddenly
An Army at Enos, in Turkey
LONDON, Oct. 18. The entente allies have effected a landlmr at
Enos, on the Aegean Sea in European
der and have seized the Dedeagatch Railroad, according to a despatch
from Athens to the Messaggero of Rome transmitted by the Central News,
OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT FROM BALKANS.
BERLIN, Oct. 18 (via London) -Following Is the text of the reoort '
Issued to-day from the Berlin War
Balkans:
"In the Macva district the enemy Is beginning to retreat.
"Our troops arc advancing south of Belgrade against Cvet-kov-Grob
and the village of Vroln. Southeast of Pozar-Evac we
took Ornlce and Bosevac.
"The Bulgarfans have occupied the heights of Muelln Perdn
and Badln Zub."
This report Indicates that the Serbian forces In the Macva district on
the Sa-Dritia front In Northwestern
are being forced back.
Bosevac, which is reported captured, is about thirty miles south of
the frontier. Tills Is an Important
French and Serbian Amy
Drives Bulgars Over Border
LONDON, Oct. 18. Herblan nnd
l-'rotich troops have occupied the Ilul
garian town of Htrumnltsa, fifty
ntllw !2orh f Mnp.nie. vordln to
olllclul telegrams from Athens. This
follows closely upon news that Her
mans, with alllod aslstanoo. havo re-
GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT
IS SUNK BY FERRYBOAT
LONDON, Oct. 18. A large Oer
man torpedo boat was run down and
cut lu to by a Ocrman steam ferry
which left Trclleburg, Hwcdcn. at 8
o'clock Friday night with nil lights
out, says a Hunter despatch from
Mn I mo, Hwcdcn, Only five of the
torpedo boat's crew of fortyOve wera
saved.
May Threaten
will be made to.rach Constantinople
the Bulgars had taken tho Serokn
the border and on the railroad lead-
pressing from the east to form a
coming from the north They have
y
Land
Turkey close to the Bulgarian bor
Office concerning operations th the
Serbia, although making resistance,
advance.
pulsed a Bulgarian attack at 1Ian
dovo, turning tha advnnoe of tha Ilul
gars Into a retreat beyond their own
bcrdcr.
Tha French troops arrived at the
psychological moment when 'the Ser
bian strurgle with 40,000 newly ur.
rived Bulgarians at Vllandova and
Ilundovo still hung In the balance.
Despatches from Sofia dated Oot.
IS declared the Bulgarian troops were
over thn frontier at several points
and had setzsd positions which enable
thorn toV '"-eaten tho Macedonian
railroad, possible that soma of
these troopsN those driven back
at Btrumnltxa, v -Sofia statemanV
declared that Bulgarian troop had
reached points on tha wasUrn aloees
ot the Balkan range, Including Novo
korlto, JUdlaaUz, lUpuoinlUa, JUv-
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