PROGRE^IVE But Not Radical Vou LXXIL.X* 24J0,). CLEAN But Not Dull I air to-day and to-niorrovr. SiirrhtlT warmer. NEW-YORK? MONDAY, NOVEMBER ? IVlV.r. \/_",l_ "OU-.! 1 ELSKWHEKK TWO (' and llobokej,. ENT8. b? m mm Rails Spread, Causing Wreck of Merchants' Limited, Ac? cording to Coroner, at Scene of Accident. INVESTIGATIONS ORDERED Interstate Commerce Commis? sion Sends Inspectors to Be? gin Probe, in Which the State Officials May Participate. fB, rrspl te The Tilhaatj.] South Noiwalk. Conn., Nov. 17.? Fr. m every pulpit in the town of Nor w ilk, nearly a score In number, pro? test was mads this morning by the | ll gainst the seeming negligent*-* of the management of the New York, V Haves* & Hartford Railroad, which has. according to the ministers, i.-suited ta the series of frightful acci? dents and near accidents on the road within th?' last year. Th? b rds of trade of Nor walk and floath Norwalk would act in cmjunc Hoa '?.ith the churches in the move? ment of protest, II was announced, and that arrangement! had already been ni?.]-- to hold ?i lit. at tnflattng of pro t>^* againat the fleaadng negligence in the Norwalh atlltuiy on Wednesday - I limed that all of their -Bombers turn out to the meeting and In ti movement A m minent \ ?-... N.iruulk ?Mericus, . .if the movement, said ?it method of running the *raa a erintr*, ?ind that the !-, dra*8 un r?solu nd .-.indf -innation, ? : i ? the road .- mis. The Rat J. : I Wt i not artts at the , a k at Green's irrad, and said It a roi r Qod that ai \ ere not killed outright through the fault of the road . .i u? feotlve tea Itch, - ; i rrltmss " PrSdi port Conn., Hot. 17.?Accu-d ing to Cor : er Phalen, who had charge h investi? , ... .. . ?.. i.: t?nt ' fell tht Mi i n'B Farms, . ra were in td, ara? d ic to the spreading of the if called by the autbori .. ii---'- | gladly inform ' the third In this ? . - .s sUyer Writes Again.14 roBEian. Haikan Peace Negotiation? Fall. 1 Maetoss Land In <*on?tantlnople.3 lort?? .? and 8 Neva for Women. ? 1 Inaticlal and Market?.10 ?nd 11 ?atete ,.ia Weather ...'.?>? ?""hipping New? .?>? Army and Navy.18 TURKEY'S DEFEATED ARMY RETREATING FROM TCHORLU TO TCHATALDJA. FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF NW/'.IM PACHA'S BI TROOPS AFTER THE BULGARIAN VICTORIES. ?RABBIT HUNT NETS $.33 Jersey Men Find Money in Kolo Where Bunny Hid. Great Notch. N. J . Nov 17.?A r.il. Mt hunt on th the smoke cleared away an? their priai 'run Into the hollow of the tree. As the "hunters uerc prcparim. to ?miokr th?' Irab1.it out they discovered In the tree I hollow a much worn **ocket-*00__ It contained one *fl Mil, five twon, three five? and eight one dollor I.ills, ?ill In fair condition. The rabhlt hunting was irnm?'lia'*>'?.? ?topped. There was nothing to show to whom the money belonged, ami the ?upposltton If that it h"-"l toon hi?!den by a thief. HUNTER KILLS HIS GUIDE Dying Maine Man Absolves Slayer, but State Will Act. Skowhepan, Me., Nov. 17.?Sheriff John A. Mooers received to-day the re? port of a coroner's Jury that Wari.n Holden, of Jackman, wn.s ihot and killed yesterday ?it Sandy Ray, BOOrth. ?"anadUn line, by William "Wilding, of Indianapolis, lnd. BoMon, who was a guide for Wilding on a banting trip, wan mistaken for a door, It was reported to the Sheriff that Holden signed an explanation before he died absolving Wilding from ?lame for the ?hooting. A deputy sheriff will leave here for Jackman to-morrow to aerve a warrant on Wilding. Holden had been a guide for twenty yearn. He was forty years old and leaves a small son. U. S. WIRELESS IN PEKING Radio Station at Legation Com? municates with Warships. Washington, Nov. 17.?In the event of future Chine*?; disturbances the American Legation at Peking will not be handicapped In dealing with the situation by lack of communication with the Asiatic float as It was during the Boxer upriaing. Communication be? tween Peking and the outside world too now been assured through the es? tablishment of a radio station at the Ameri?an Legation, operated by ma? rines. Successful communication has been established between the legation ut Peking and the naval ships at Bbacg* hal, a distance overland of some ?six hundred miles, as well as the ships al Chi-Ku and Tslng-Tau. IK MAN HANGED? GFF?GPALS NOT SURE Georgia Prison Had Two Leon? ard Lewisfs?One a Burglar and the Othpr a (Viuidorer. NEGROES LOOKED ALIKE Convict Who Survived Swears He's the Burglar, and Courts Will Try to Determine if He's Telling Truth. [By Te'ecr.ij.h t" Th? Tribune ] Atlnnta, Nov. 17.--Was L?**Onard '? Lewis, sentences* to four yean ?.n the I st;it.? farm for burglary, hnnj-*>d In?* IFrida** ?it I'ouglasvlll?. '"?a., by ml??- ' ?take for Leftward Lewis, who wa? teneed to i><-. executed for mordsr ' That question srorrylng the ? i r t s ? - r ? officials? the Judge who ordered th*? execution and the sheriff who tied ? nooi o end smng the train if th?- v.-onp man was hanged ihr? mtataks waa due ??i the fa?*t that two negro conrlcta from out of town coantlee, both named Leonard Learls ?md both much alike in personal ap Ipearence, were confined in Vtlants lail f'.r f-.-tf?' keeping prior t-. execution ..i .... ateneo. 'm?- Leonard Lewis was from Cowota County, antler sentones for burglary. The other Leonard ?.?-wi.?* was from Douglas County, under flentencs of death for murdsr. Lntri "Friday a Leonard Lewis mi taken from Um Atlanta jnii to f**oofljlasrille and there banged. .?-"..on afu-r the banging rumors be rame current that the wrong Leonard Lewtfl h;id been banged, ami thai the I.?-oii.'ird LflWlfl Who should bflVS died on the gaOOWfl was K.-r\irij* ths fo'ir ?.ears' fltmtetocc for burglary Imposed ..h ths i>?-..n.-iri Lewis who was exe? cuted. Various persona are so insistent thai a ghastly mlfltakfl has been made thai .ill'-*-'*' i?. m\ Roan, of th?' Criminal Branch ol the Fulton county Bu$et1or Court? has decided t<> order a ?ftorough mrestlgatlon tr himself. The state prison officials who are in \ olved deny that there has been a mis? take. They say I he right Leonard 1.4'uls was hanged, but admit the diffl nilty of proving the assertion. PALISADES DEATH HER FATE ON 101 VISIT Crushed Body of Widow Who Went on Visit a Week Ago Found at Cliff's Base. SAW HER WADING, SAYS BOY Authorities to Investigate, but Believe Woman Walked Off Top of Cr.ag -Had De? fective Vision, | I T<*!r?-r.iph tn Th? Trl-iin- ] Hack* risa. k. N. J.. Nov. 17.- While climbing up the sl.Ie of the p.nltsades at Co**tOOT_UO visterday nfternnon W. ( K. Footer, of NTo. HI Kast 41th street Nam fork, who erald he was **anplo*fod by McKIm, M "?id ,V White, of that ? i'y. bapponod to eat. h s?Kht o? a hand of a bttnUU) botafl 'hat hung over the ?-Id.? ..f a I?..wider ahout a hundred f??et I?.?!?.'.?. tl the top of the pall? BadeO, gaTO an alarm and then eUtttbod down two ItOOp lodgOO and slid down t?i whore bo bad seen the hand. To his oatonlohmenl bo found the body of a woman, who, from oppooianioo. bad .'? ? 11 dead seveial days. Th? re were <\." deep notion on 'he m.i?. ?f tho head. ' Tho Mow Yorker then returned to the ClllI and had %v??rd sent t?i the Fort LOO polloe and to County Physician S. K. Armstrong, who ordered an undertaker, Jameo McXally, to get the body. Tho undertaker said It was getting dark and li?* didn't purpose taking any ? I once of killing himself or his ?sslst anta by lowering a basket OTOT the PalloadeO id ?-ending men below to put tho body Into It. COMOQUOntljr, that task remained until this afternoon. County Physician Armstrong, Under Sheriff EtObOtl N. Heath, Councilman Samuel J. Corker, Assessor Kd ward ?"avanagh and Mc Nally, the undertaker, carefully climbed down the Palisades. Then men above lower? d a basket, using siroriK ropes, and the bady was hoisted. The authorities made a careful su vey of the surroundings, and decided that the womun had either been thrust Continued en an und page, ?litb luluina. SMOOTH SEA FOR WILSO President-Elect Walks Dec! Reads and Take3 Lono- Hap, ? >ti board al asa, Nor. it (by ? ponack, K. t.h Pfle?ldent-elect Wem row WllflOtfl BPenl a QUlet B? the Steam.-r i i-daj n iring 'hi- Be mudaa in the m.,rning he area up sarly an sralked the de k I ing ti.. ? -t be read in ths ship library and took a long nap in h <*;r*.tn. Th peeled to arrive at Hamilton to-m-'i row, and Governor Wilson win proi.n bly go directly to his cottage si Ba Kettle, iUflt hitoi-s the buy from Han ilton. $50 HAT FOR 25~ CENTS Rummage Sale Bargain Costl; for Social Worker. ' B) ,- terre*?! '?> The Trlb-n? i BteubenriUe, Oblo, Nov. it.?if Mis Kaanls Oreen trot attends snothe ruminagfl flato she win go bareheaded. Miss Oreen, active in charitable an social W'.rk, was one of the promoter of a riitnniaii?' sale last night t.. giv poor folks a chance to buy rust off ST till? s cheaply. Sii-* served flfl a ?lerl and laid her |f| hat near a counte where second band millinery waa beim sold at 26 cents. An Italian v..itnan picked up the ha >Ai!h tin- query: ?Hou much?" Twenty-fivs cents," said the hurrtet clerk. NINE SUNDAY LAW ARRESTS Police Halt Ball Preparations ai Ritz-Carlton. (?line mea ,*'!?" wots working in >i" ballroom *?f ths IUta-<*arlton last nighi getting it ready lot an mtsrtatnment ti? be givea there to-night by Mr. ami lira Whitney Warren arsre arrested tat ri?la!? ing ti.e Sunday law. Patn Iman I~uvlor saw the nn-n at arorl an" told James Held, of No. 17 4 Kust Tlsl street, who STSS In charge, that lhe> STOUM have to QUtt Rstd aald the men WOUM continu?- ut work, and that ha wniiM In k the door so that the pol loman would ht compelled to break It down to make an an-st. Lawlor simply put his foot in the door, so that it could not he tdOSSd, MS"4 his polite whistle and In a Jiffy two other policemen appeared Ten of the work? men emaped through a rear doorway, hut the three policemen marched their nine prisoners to the East &lst street station, when??- they were gent to the night court. The prisoners were carpenters an.l plas? terers. An extra force will have to be put to work to-day to fret the Job finished In time for the ball to-nl-fht. In the men's nicht court later Magis? trate Kernochan paroled until Tuesday the prisoners In the custody of a lawyer who appeared for all of them. rruKisir MUX-EM rreaking in" ?. YIU.AGK BAKER'S SHOP TO Gl BREAD. Or-??-? !U. S. MARINES LAND IN CONSYANTINOP ! Detachment from the Scorp: \ Sent to American Embassy Reassuring Statements. Constantinople. Nov. 17.?The Pnl States station ship Scorpion has ser detachment of marine?, to the Amerl< Embassy. The ambassador save t this is not because he fears an o ? break, but is In the way of comn j act-on with the other embassies. I'The Se.irplon ha.?- moved up the B poriis and has taken up a position ? poafto Arnautkeul to protect tho gll ooL The United state.? is the only gn ? ". without cruisers Or battlesh Bi orphan carried eighty tr rlneo. Certain aMi.is--a.iors have dociai t la i", ?i ingof whntevor Conatantlnople All tho 01 re under guard to-night, r? iino-fl lal roaldonc-0 of forolgnen i : without protection. Many of th'sc I ? .1 o tho outlying distric where, abould an outbreak occur, th i would l"' the first t?. he attacked. Fu ? thermo'v. aeveroJ of the legations a I stoutly walled, whllo the privat?? re; ? denooo generally are not Inclosed. It |i th" Intention Of the nmbassado [to avoid eroailng ? panic among the national* and In l?verai eaooo 'he m? lines bare gone to tho embassies on boooiioo tho eu-baaelee are good centr. from which they can circulate, if BOM American citizens have been oi tend tho hospitality of the Pritlf ?hipo abould an outbreak rlovolop. Several American women In th lO-riO* BchOOl at Siutari, Asia Minor, r? I main acrooi the Hosporus, aiding an lonoouraglng tho Turkish and othe Ianlui?.-. The Scutari school has boo ClOOOd for some days, and it has bOO Ipropoood to roopon it, bocauao n trOUblO has occurred In Scutari. Sun |d_y*l battle, however, will probahl; ; put an end to that plan, Mr?-. Kockhill has other Americai women daily at the embassy to sew fo the Turkish soldiers. A numb.r o Kngllsh and American hospital work On are giving assistance to the eholer; patienta. Major Clyde B. Ford, of th? Ohtto*. States army, who Is on leave of ah | Banco, is doing conspicuous surglca i Work at the Taskishla barracks. The Rev. Dr. Caleb S. Gates, presl d?-nt of Robert College, bat rSoetdo. thai any of thO toachOTl and theli families Who wanted to go aboard th? British ships could do so, but tho ma j ?rity of the men have gectdod to re. ; main In tho college with the students, Who ?^''' ot all nationalities. Dr. Gatea intends to open {he college grounds, Whlcb are protected by high walls, tc any Moslems or non-Moslems who seek refiu,*-. _ The American Ambassador has re eelvod altogothev about $27,000 from the Auie'i'an Red (*ross and private Ameriian sul.scriptlons. The Ameri? tan?, are working In close touch with the Ibitish Red Ctobs and tho Red i is? cut, which have an even larger tund, but they say all will be needed. Hoffman Philip, secretary of the American Embassy, and Major John II. M Taylor, military attach?, went to the front in an automobile early to? day and watched the battle from the heights behind the Turkish lines. ? BUSINESS MEN OF NEW YORK Should eider The Journal of Commerce delivered at their homes every business Burning, All news stands keep It. . ,._.?,_ ?__r couy.?-AdvL B?G BATTLE RAGING; NEGOTIATIONS FOR ARMISTICE FAIL Nazim Pacha Reports Destruc? tion of 3 Bulgarian Batteries, but Refugees Behind His Lines Break Camp. HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL Turkish Fleet Participates Vig? orously, Both at Sea jof Marmora and Black Sea Ends of Tchataldja Defences. GUNS HEARD IN STAMBOUL Moslem Detachment Replaced by Fresh Troops Several Thou? sand Strong Held in Re? serve Near the Otto? man Capital. (By Cable to Thn Tribune 1 London, Nov. 18.?The armistice ifl at an end, and the great deciding bat ' tie has begun. The only information about It comes from Turkish sources, and Is to the effect that the Bulgarians have suffered heavily in an unsuccess? ful effort to force the Tchataldja lines. Nazim Pacha telegraphs that the Bulgarians begun a gen-ral attack at 3 o'clock yesterday morning:. The fighting lasted until ar. hour after **un 8Ct. The attack was mainly deliver? d against the Turkish right an-l centre, but it failed, it seems, and three Bul? garian batteries were destroy. ?I. In Constantinople there area great excitement all day throughout th?- ? ity. Many of the housetops were crowded with people listening anxiously. A correspondent who procured a convey? ance and drove out In the dire ctton of the firing for a distance at taren ' miles fell In with a number <>i ofltc. ra and private soldiers coming from the locality of the engagement, and on questioning them ascertained that the battle began with the opening of a heavy Bulgarian artillery tire on the Turkish POSltloaa on the heights ...round T?haialdja and Hademkeui. The Bulgarians were advancing slowly beyond the Tchataldja hills, hut were heing subjsctsd to a henvy lire and were losing tonsil ? . Turks Hold Their Position. The Turkish fourth army corps was making a d? t?rmined effort to turn the eiH-niv's right Hank. The posiiion at midday was that t*8S Turks were still holding their positions at Hademkeui. The lighting Is still going on. and ? aoiinda of a furious artillery duel .oui.I he heard. On going back to Constant!? DOpis the ?'orrespondein met several bodies ?if reinforcements hslnfl hurried to the fighting area? as arell a? aoens I in la of volunteers, who artth flying bravely ?Aere marching to bat? tle. This battle will be the deCflBlVS etruggla <>i ti'e war. All that oaa he Bald at present, however. Is that the Turks are evidently ranking a deter mined stand. According to another ?tory, the Bul? garians have suffered a serious check at Tchataldja, Turkish soldiers, it is stated, have made prisoners eight bat? talions of Bulgarian troop? and also tak-n several guns and an enorm?jus ipuantity of munitions of war. New? of Victory Confirmed. The Foreign Minister confirms the news >>f victory, without, however. ?tying the exact number of prison? ers. The official m?*ssage. It will BS seen, gives th*. latest news of ths bsttls, but does not suggest that ?M lighting is not to he renewed to-day. If Nazim Path i can for ones he re? lied on. his m-ssage proves that Tcha? taldja di-serves ?s grant reputation a.* a lino def?'tice. but the Bulgarians probably did BOt expect to force it at the Brat attack. Further n?-ws la eagerly awaited, as on the result of the buttk die term? on which poa??3 will be in.de will largely depend. "Constantinople awakened this ni-ri. ing to the rumbling of guns," ?a>s s dispatch fren the Turkish capital to 'The Daily Telegraph." "The sound was feeble and dull, like a distant storm, but at intervals became distinct to the people thronging ths terraces. Per? Calm and Indifferent, "it was possible to tell th.it the tiring came from behind the hills masking Tchataldja and Dcrkos, Uyt whether the Tchataldja forts vv.-re tiring on 'he advancing Bulgarians or the Turkish cruisers were bombarding the road from Derkos t<> pswrsnl the Bulgarians from turning th? ti lines could not be said. ?'The extraordinary calmness and in? difference of the population in Pera are? striking. The streets to-day were thronged with the usual Sunday crowds, and the caf?s "and places of entertainment did as thriving a busi? ness as before the war. Reassured by the pr?seme in the roadstead of the foreign warships, the only thought, seemingly, was pleasure. "As far as the government is con? cerned, the principal o?cupatlon for th? moment is insuring the position of the Cabinet by the arre?t of as many of the memhera of the Union and Prog