The times dispatch. [volume], November 11, 1910, Image 1

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THB DIBPATCH FOTJNDI-D IN 1S30,
rHE TIMEB POUNDFD 1B*
WHOLE NtJ.M
WX-AfllEn TO-DAY?Pnlr.
P.KICE TWO CENTS.
FIX PRICE FOR
City Must Pay $112,000
for Site and 90-Foot
Strip.
&BUTMENTS MAY
MAKE COST HIGHER
Courts Must Determine Owner?
shlp, and if Bridge Company
Wins Total Value Will
Reach $120,000?Ready
Now to Erect New
Structure.
CommlsslonerH appolnted by th.
Mustlngs Court to hear condemnatlon
proceedings for the acqulsltlon by tho
clty of a Btrlp of land across James
Rlver on whlch to erert a new free
brldge on the Jlnyo Brldge slte, reported
to Judge Wltt shortly before 2 o'clock
yesterday that the city must pay su.,
ooo for thy old structure anfl rlght of
way ninety /oet wldo .lcroHH thc Island
and rlver. Thc commlssloners do not
pass on the contested point nn to who
owns tho ftbutments at elther end, but
assess tliem at JS.000. Tho questlon of
ownershlp wlll later be determined by
the court, and should they be held to
be the property of the Mayo l?ind and
Brldge Company, the total cost to the
clty wlll bc $120,000.
Vnlue. of Ahntinrntn.
The abutment at the north. or Rlch?
mond end, Is valued at $5,500, whlle tha'.
at the south end ls valued at $2,5uu.
Judge Wltt appolnted as the commls
fioners to value the property Judge
Beverly T. Crump, formerly a member
of thc State Corporatlon Commlsslon;
James Caskle. N. B, Anearrow. John 11.
Krlschkorn and F. B Dunford. . Tho
-ommlssloncrs held fourteen sesstons,
and nl"el witli their report a volume of
typewrltten testlmony, together wlth a
number of .-.^hlbltB 'and inaps.
The assessment of thc brldge value ln
cludes not only the rlght of way arross
ilver and Island, anel the pn^ent ruruc
turo witli ita piors, but also the fravi
chlse or rlght to take toll. Thc cora
mlssloners reported tliat there wlll ne
no damage tb the reeidua of the prop
crty of the Mayo I?incl and Brldge Com?
pany, and that no damage wlll accru.
i" ..iiic-r ubuttlng property owners by
n . .n ot the Improvements ta. cltv
?-onteinpl.it-., prorlded thc new brldgo
ln on" fh* _*mc- grade as the old. Tho
valuatlon Inctude. ihe 1 rlck bulldlng
cm the -Southern side- of Fourteenth
-treet, adjolnlng the dock.
??ntH l*?> for Ap[iri>?rhr_.
The Mayo l_tnc| and ltrldgp Company
makes thc contentlon that It is entltled
to be pald for the approac-hc., lnelud?
ing that part of Fourteenth .treet be?
tween thc dork and the brldge proper,
and that portion of Iltill .-'treet between
the southern .-Ide of the rlver and tn.
canal. l? this contentlon ls sustalncd
by thc court, the coininissiotiers rei>*ori
that $120,000 wlll be Just compen.ation
for all of the property.
lf the court does not allow the con?
tentlon and tlie \alueof $112,000 stand!-.
the clty wlll acitilro what lt needs, for
$15,500 less than lt was offert-d to tho
Flnance Coinmlttec aome months ago.
At that time lt was brought out that
ln former years the brldge had been
offered for much less money, once to
the clty for $110,000. whlle the ques?
tlon was asked by Mr. Mills and not
.answered ns to whether lt was not a
fact that the brldge had or.ee beon of?
fered tlie Richmond Passenger and
I'ower Company for $s7,5i'<'. Judgo
'Wltt, however. Instructed the eotnmis
filoncrs to roturn tho present value of
tho property without regard to former
prices at whlch it had been offered for
sale.
Wortt Mny Procred.
Under thn law governlng suc-h con
demnatlon proceedings ihe clty has
thlrty days ln which to appear before
thc; Hustings i'c.crt and take appeal
proceedings. It may, however, dc
? poslt the money to the credlt of the
court. take possession of the prop?
erty nt once. and proceed 'wlth tho
.rectton of a new bridge without
awaiting a flnal declslon from the Vlr
tSinia Supreme Court. lt hns not as
yet been determined whether tlie clty
Wlll accept tho prlce offered or make
a contest. ln any event, it can at
once tako possession of thc old struc?
ture and mako preparations for the
concreto plers and nbiitments. foi
whlch plans nnd speclllcations and blds
Lvlll be shortly invlted. tlie Clty I.n
erlncer belng now at work on a llst of
the prellmlnary requlromejits.
Uuextlon of OwtierMblp.
Members of the Council havo ex
pressed some curldsity ns to who aro
the chlef stoekholders of the Mayo
.'Land and Bridge Company, and tt may
arlse whon tlie questlon comes up of
approprlating the money for the
brldgo, there having heen perslstent
rumors for some time past, ln fact
since Just beforo tho annexatlon of
Manchostor. thnt large blocks of the
stock formerly held in New Kngland
were purchased by Rlchmond poople,
in the hope that thc annexatlon ordl?
nance would pass, nnd that they might
then be tn r position to sell the old
brldgo to the city.
SITUATI0N IS SERI0UI
Flood Is Doing; Heavy Duiiiiige ln Fnst
ern Krnnce.
Parls, Novomber 10.?A sorlotis flood
: Mltuatton has devel.oped ln Eastern
Fraiico. Tho Rlver Muertlie and Us
trlbutaries aro over their banks. Many
vllJagPs luive been inundated. At Nun
cy alono thero are 1,500 homeless.
Jiniiiense rtamugo has beon done. Tho
valley. travorsed by tho River Moselle
ls ono vast lake. Many fnctories have
stopped work. The river Baone threat
. ep _ tn invade tho famous Crueaot Steel
Works.
RICHMOND WANTS IT
tVa.hliig(?n aIno Ask. for Meeting of
l)niiK''>tei-N of <'iint>cler"ic.v,
Llttlo Rock, Ark., November 10.?
Crosses of honor were presented to
John A. Wllkerson, VV, ll, Itamsey aml
J. T. Sweot, all of Arkansas. at the
session of tho United l)augliter_ of tho
Confederacy here tn-dav.
Reports of the soci.tarie. of all
State dlvls-lons and executlve and
financial committees wero presented.
Blds for tho next eonventlon aro be?
ing pressed by Washington. O. C., and
fUAbmond,
TRUCE ENDED
Perrs nnd lloimc of CoiniiHHi* Wlll Ue
siiiiic Flght.
London, Novefnbei 10.?-The confer?
ence whlch was organized shortly af?
ter thc d".-it.|i of Klng I'd wa rd ln nn
endeavor to B.curo a settlonient of the
ncttte eontroversy over the questlon
ot' thc veto power of the House of
Lords, .with reference to i nen-.it res
passed by flie llouse of Common.?a
eontroversy aggrnvnterl by tho re
fusal or tho upper llouse to pnss the,
budget?hrfa dlssolved wlthout reach
Ing nn agreement.
Announi.oment of the, lallnre of thc
leaders of lhe two great polltlcal par?
tles to flnd a solutlon for the dlspute
whlch hns kept Brltlsh poll ties m a
turmoil for more than a yenr was
mado by Premier Asquith to-nlght af?
ter a mootlng of the f ablnet, which
followed tho earller gathering cf the
conference. Thc offlclal statement
does not diseloso the cause of the dls
agreement. It slmply says. "The con?
ference which has b .en-#lttlng to con?
sider a constitutlonal questlon has
come to an end wlthout arrlVlng at an
agreement."
? The stateiiient adds that thn mem?
bers of the conference had decided
not to dlsclose the course of the ne
ffotlatlons or the causes which led to
Its termlnation. It Is understood, how?
ever, that the rock on whlch the con?
ference spllt was the qiiesilon of tho
composltlon of the Jolnt committee of
both house. that should adjust the
dlfferences nrlslng In the future. The
Llberals lnslste dthat the proportion
of peers 011 thls cointnittec should he
such that the wlll of the llouse of
Commons would have a falr chance
of prevaiilng. The Conservatlve mem?
bers of the conference could not agree
to the government's proposals, and Its
altematlvc proved unacceptablc to the
Llberals.
The polltlcal situation now reverts
to the position It was ln beforc the
truce. Tlu* conference secured a re?
splte ln tlre eontroversy over tlie most
aeute Issue of the day durlng tho
period of national mournlng, which
gives hope that some m-.nn wlll he
found to avoid polltlcal cornplleatloii
until after the poronatlon. How thls is
to de accompllH.ied remalns a matter of
conjecturc, and polltlclans are prepar?
lng to rcaiime the flght.
AT WASHINGTON HOME
Senator Klkltis Trnvels In Speelnl Car,
. (tend.d hy III. I'Ii.v-.|i-1iiiik.
Washlngton. November 10.?Senator
Stephen B. Klklns, of Weat Vlrglnla,
who waa brought to Washlngton last
r.ltht In a prlvate enr from hls home
at Klklns. W. Va., ls reported to-day
to be making favorable progress to?
ward good health At Che Klklns
house on K Htrect to-day tt was said
thnt Senator i.lklnB had f?lt no lll
effects of the Journey, and that lo-dav
he was able to sit up for a while.
Talk of an operatlon was Scouted by
frlends of the Senator. who declared
that he was much better now than
he has been for some time. and that
hls recovery was merely a questlon of
time.
Senator Klklns left his West Vir
erinla home vesterday mornlng at 7:50
o'clock. accompanled bv Dr. Colden,
hls famlly physlcian, and Dr. '/.. T.
Sowers, ot thls clty. Hlalne Klklns,
ono of hls sons. nnd a eorps of ser
vants. oti board thc prlvate car of
President Willard. of the Baltimore
and Ohio ltailroad.
Senator Klklns wan removed from
the prlvate car when lt reached Wash?
lngton ou a stretch.r. and placed in
a prlvate ambulance, in whlch he was
carri.d to hls home.
Mrs. Klklns and Mlss Katherlne
Klklns, who recently returned from
Kurope. and who went at once to Sen?
ator Klklns's bedslde. had r.turned to
Washlngton several days ago to get
(he house in readlness for Senator
Klklns. Stephen B. Klklns. Jr.. was
here wlth hls mother and slster to
receive Senator Klklns last nlght.
A report was received hore from
Klkins. W. Va., that Senator Elkins
was belng brought to Washlngton In
order that he mlght t,e near the Wash?
lngton and Baltimore bospltals If hls
physicians decided that an operatlon
was necessary. It was also reported
that Senator Klklns is sufferlng from
dlnbetes.
Senator Klklns was slxty-nine years
old In .September. His term in .the
Senate will expire in March, 1913.
'--??
OFF FOR PANAMA
I'renlilent Taft and I'nrty Snll Away
friim Chnrlr.ton.
Charleston, S. C? November 10.?
President Taft and hls party, who will
accompany hlm on hls voyage to tlie
Isthmus of Panama, reached Charles?
ton at 7:15 o'clock this morning on
a speclal traln, and four hours later
embarked on board the armored
crulser Tennessee, whlch, escorted
by the Mohtana, stcamed out of thc
harbor and began ihe voyage to the
canal zone. Durlng the four hours
spent by the President In Charleston
lie addressed tho white school _hll
dren of tho city on Marion Square
and the colored school chlldren as
sembled in front of the industrial
School. declarlng thnt he wlshed he
had fifteen more chlldren in hls own
famlly. Before hls embarkation, tlie
President was shown a number of
places of hlstorlc lnterest in tlie city.
Wlth Mayor Rhett, he and the mem?
bers of his party went upon the roof
of tho tallest ofllce bulldlng In town.
"My, what a magnificent harbor,"
he'cxi.'laimcd, as ho looked eastwnrd
over tlie bay.
MISBRANDED HAIR TONIC
instructlon to Mald HcnilH to Ilub In
11 i.l t lt oo t h :
Chicago. IU., Novomber 10.?Mrs.
Gerv.lse Graham was fined $50 and
costs by .ludge Landls ln tlio Unlted
States Dlstrlct Court yesterday on a
plea of guilty to havlng tnisbranded
hair tonic.
Tlie label read, "Guaranteed to Grow
Hair on Bald Head.." Then under In?
structlons it i read, "Rub in the Roots
of the Hair."
.ludge Landls askeij for tvn oxplana
tlon of "roots of hair' on a bald head."
Nono was fortlicomlng.
Asslstant Unlted States District At?
torney Hurlburt. who prosecuted tho
case. told the court that an analysls
of tho product showed thnt tt did
not and perhaps could not contajn
tlie necessary clements to bear out
tlie statement on tho label.
DAY IS TRANQUIL
t'ullcc Prevent Heprtitlon of Dcnion
HtrntloiiN ln .le.vlco.
Moxico Clty, November 10,?Ropres
slvo measuios adopted by tho Mexlcan
authorities prevented to-day a repoti
tlon of yesterday's scones In thls capi?
tal and resultod ln a day of comparo
tlve tranqulllty. An attempt by tho
demonstrators to gather lato thls af?
ternoon ln tho nelghborhood ot the
now National Theatre was discour
agod by U'O mounted oollce, who kept
crows moving, Tho Foreign Offlco
lias advised Ambussador Wllson that
thero wlll be no repetlt(on of tho riot?
ing. Striot orders havo been glven
the pollce, Mlnlster Creel said, to pro
vent by. v.igorous meusures if neces?
sary, gatherln*_s of any deacrlptlon ln
thet ^tr.i^atf. "''"',' ^'" N
JUS1ICE HUGHES
IS TtfTSCHMEE
He Will te Elevated to
Country's Highest
Judicial Honor,
OTHER NAMES
ELIMINATED
President Wants Man Who Can
Give Fifteen or Twenty Years
of Hard Labor, and Hughes
Seems to Fill the Bill.
Sound on Funda
mentals.
(.Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.]
Washington, l->. C, November 10.?
Charles K. Hughes is Presldent Taft'a
cholce for Chlef Justiee of thc Siipreuic
Court. The Presldent has been ln
clined toward Assot-late Justlc-c Uughcs
from the flrst, and the longer he has
considered the avallable material tho
stronger has become hls bellef that Mr.
lliigheH ls the man for tlie place. Tha
Presldent ls still holdlng the appolnt?
ment open, but there Is no longer nny
doubt that Mr. Hughes wlll be named.
There has been ? dlspositlon in some
ciuarters to regnrd Mr. Hughes as too
uncompromlsltig and also a little lvt>
progrewalvc ln Ins view. for Chief Jus?
tiee. The former crltlclsm has been
voice. by one or two members of thc
Presldent's Cablnet: the latter comes
from business men who apparently had
ln mlnd Mr. Hughes's stand for a di?
rect prlmary and simllar leglslatlon.
Thc Presldent has carefully consldert/l
both of these so-called objectlons, but
they have not affected tlie favor wlth
whlch he regards New York St-te'B
former Governor.
The Presldent has satlsfled hlmself
that Mr. Hughes ls sound on funda
mentals-r-tbat is, on hls vlews of thc
Constltutlon?and that consldeiatlon is
placed before everythlng else ln Mr.
Taft's .electlon of a member of the
Supreme bench.
Ellhu Root, Assorlate Justiee Edward
D. White and Associatc Justiee Harlan
are thc most prominent. of the other
chief justlaeshlp possibilltlcs consid?
ered by Mr. Taft. All of them were se
rlously under conslderatlon at one
time, but thelr ages were agalnst
them. A.soclate Justiee Harlan ls now
over seventy and cllglWe to retlre.
.enator Root and Assoclate Justiee
Whlte are each slxty-five years old.
The Presldent has made up hls mlnd
that he wants a man at the head of
the bench who can glre flfteen or twen?
ty years of' hard servlce there. Mr.
Taft desires somebody who can devote
hls energy to brlnglng about rcforms In
the clvll procedure ln tho Federal
court.. The Presldont often has spo
ken of hls deslre for such reforms and
has formally recommended that Con?
gress appoint a commlsslon for study?
lng thc subject. The Presldent has
sald:
"Speaklng generally. 4he Improve?
ment of the admlnistratlon of Justiee.
clvllly and crlmlnally, ln the matter of
Its prompt dlspatch and the cheapenlng
of its use for the poor nian, ls the most
Important questlon before the Amerl?
can people."
It ls understood that lt is the Presl
denfs hope that the new Chlef Justlco
wlll devote hlmself to worklng reforms
ln equlty procedure. Former Governor
Hughes flts in wlth Mr. Taft plan. He
ls only forty-eight years old and has
twenty-two yeals before him befcorc ho
has reached the cllgible retlrement age.
Hls capaclty for work is well known.
The Presldent wlll expect hls appointee
;o contlnue the work of reform even
after Mr. Taft hlmself has retlred from
ofllce.
There Is another conslderatlon that
has caused the Presldent to turn to
Assoclatc Justiee Hughes- Mr. Taft
desires to name a man for the chlef
justlceshlp whose appolntment wlll be
popular. He belteves, it fs said, that
the appolntment of Mr.- Hughes would
strike a popular cord and also that It
might offset recent crillclsms of the
court.
WIFE IS ACCUSED
Allcgred to Have Trled to Murder Mll?
llonalre IIuMband.
Wheellng. W. Va., Novomber 10.?
Further sensatlonal dovelopments ap?
peared to-day ln the ca.se of Mrs.
Laura, Farnsworth Schenck, who ls
lockeii up, charged with attempting
to polson her husband, a mllllonalre
pork packer, when. according to thp
prosecutlon, a detectlve disgulsed as
a nurse charged that Mrs. Schenck of?
fered him $1,000 to put arsenic ln hor
luisb-and's medicine. The offer ls al?
leged to have beon made to the detec
tlve-mirse at the North Wheellng Hos?
pital. whero Mr. Schenck ls ln a criti?
cal condltlon.
The date of Mrs. Schenck's arraign
ment has not been llxed, and ln tho
meantimc she Is in the county Jall wlth
ball refused.
Mr. Schenck was not told of hls
wlfe's arrest untll to-day, for fear
thut the news would be a sovere shock
to hlni in his enfeebled condltlon. Ho'
received the news c-alnily, however,
hls only remark being: "She's just
where she ought to be."
Dr. F. U llupp. who had mlnei-al
waters analyzed by Eastern chemlsts,
retalns possession of the nnalysts,
which. lie says. shows heavy tracos of
ursetilc. These aro to be turned over
to the prosecuting attorney upon de
,111 llnd. Tho news to-dny was the
flrst Intlmation of any allegod at?
tempt on hls llfe that Mr. Schenck hnd
ever had.
MAY OUifToWERS
Deinocratle. CongrcH.iue- |(l Scek Ilin
llejeetlon by House.
l.oulsville, Ky., November lO.-'-rte
ports whlch were froely clrculat.ed to
day and whlcli wero lie.thor aftlrtued
nor denled by Democruttc leaders, ave
to tho effect that there ls a movo
nient underway to havo the nlne Dem?
ocratlc Congressman oe the Kentucky
delegatlon make a concertod effoj-t
to have Caleb Powers oustod ' from
hls seat as representative of the Kl'ev
ontb. Dlstrict. Congress. lt ls reportod,
wlll be asked to deny Powers lils seat
on the ground that lie 'haa thrlpe
been convicted of foldny, and has not
been acc|iut,t?<}., by a Jury! Gov'omot
Wlllson's pa.i.d,o^, It la contended. does
not havo jyio.-same efteot aa an ac
quittal on ? th'e oharare. _of compllclty
COURTS TO SETTli
Methodist Conference
DemandsChange inRan
dolph-Macon Charter.
DR. KELLY ATTACKS
REV. JAMES CANNON
Wants Return to Golden Silence
Which Prevailed When Editoi
Was in Europe?Entire Day
Spent in Able De
bate on College
Resolutions.
Able dlscusslon of the Cannon reaolu
tlons on thc relatlons of the Randolph
Macon system of colleges to the Meth?
odist Church occupled the entire time
of tho Vlrglnla Annual Confcrenco for
two extended scsslons yesterday, a
number of thoughtful addre.ses helng
made on both sldes of the ciuestlun,
whlch has agltatod the church for lhe
past three years nnd whlch some ot
the speakers as.erted was further from
a .ottloment now than ever beforc.
Llte yesterday afternoon, after many
BUb-titutes had been rejeeted, thc res?
olutions were taken up serlatlm, and
the first two adopted after heliig
amended, extending the time for action
by tlie college board from sixty days
to May I, 1911. Thc other slx resolu?
tions had not been reached when the
body adjourned late yesterday after?
noon, and the paper as a whole is stlll
before the conference.
WantN n "f-olden Sllencc."
A strong defense of the college board
by John 1*. 1.ranch was the feature of
thc mornlng session. Tlie afternoon
was enlivcned by several more or lesu
personal attacks on Rev. James Can?
non, .Ir., by Rev. R. M. Maxey and
Rev. G. C. Kelly, Mr. Maxey referrlns
to the author of the resolution as one
who perpetually sat upon a block ol
Ice. while Mr. Kelly thought that lf the
edltor of the Chrislian Advocate would
drop lnto the "golden silence" whlch
was observed durlng the summer whlle
Dr. Cannon was in Kurope, the questlon
would soon scttlc Itself. The forclng
of the Issue. accordlng to Dr. Kelly,
could only result in puttlng the col?
leges out of doors, and he asscrted
that certaln Methodist preaehers were
taking the initiatlve fn forclng them
out. and predlcted that if that course
were continued the colleges would pros
per Independently and -'forever stand as
a monument to the foUy of tbe. Vir?
ginia Conference."
It was freely predictod that should
thc conferenco Uke steps to go into
court over the matter it would almost
certalnly lose. and many speakers
thought lt better to continue a relatlon
under which both church and colleges
have prospercd for elghty years, rather
than risk everythlng for the doubtful
advantage of havlng is named in the
charter that thc lnstltutlons are. Metli?
odlst.
Few IVrionallllev
In the maln rhe dlscusslon was char
acterlzed by moderation and absence
of temper, the references to Dr. Cannon
belng almost the only per.sonalitie_i.
Broadly speaklng, that faction of the
conference led by Dr. Cannon, araused
by the entrance of the Randolph-Ma?
con Woman's College, of Lynchburg, to
the Carnegle Foundatlon in 1906 as a
school ln whlch there were t<o denom
lnational tests in the selection of trus?
tees or faculty, claims that the colleges
are the actual property of the Vlrglnla
and Baltimore C'onferences; that the
trustees ot the colleges are their trus?
tees. and should he either nomlnated or
conflrmed by the conferences, and that
the charter of the lnstltutlons should
be so amended as to clearly stato thein
Methodist ownershlp.
Cannot Change Chnrter.
Friends of the colleges do not deny
that they are under strong Methodist
influences; that practlcally all of tho
members of the board aro and have
been Methodlsts. Thoy clalm, how-.
ever, that for elghty years the lnstltu?
tlons have heen governed by a self
perpetuatlng board, rhartered by the
Leglslature of Virginia, and that in
that time they have accepted donatlons
of more than $1,25_,00_, which is held
in perpetual trust as a blnding contract
for purposes of educatlon. As a com
promise for thc whole matter, tlie
board is wllllng to have tho confer?
ence approve the selections made to fll'l
vacancies. but opposes any change in
the charter.
It is as.erted that the fund whlch
made possible the Randolph-Macon
Academy at Front Royal came partly
from Catholic sourees, and that which
founded the Woman's* College at Lynch?
burg from the Rlvermont Land Com?
pany, whlch flrst inqulrcd and nscer
tained that the college was not under
doiioininational control. Members ot
the board hold that. there is a blnding
contract or perpetual trust to which the
partles are the trustees, tlie donors,
some ofwhoni are now dead; the State,
which chartered the trust, and the ben
eflclarles, some of whom are yet un
born?the boys and girls to be edu
cated from the proceods of the fund.
To impair the ohligatlon of such a con?
tract and dlvort tlio funds, it has been
held, would he both morally and legnlly
i ni pro per.
Whnt llcNolutlons Provlde.
Tho two resolutions as adopted set
forth that for the good of the church
thero should bo a spoedy and final set?
tlement of the Randolph-Macof ques?
tlon on the basls of a recent nctlon ot
tho Oonoral Conference on tho subject
of Chrlstlan educatlon, und thnt tho
board of the colleges is roquesled to
meet in speelnl sesslon beforo Mny 1
next and to appoint a comml.toc wlth
Instructlons to unito wlth a slmilar
commltteo from tho conference lu an
appllcation to tho clvll authorltles for
such changos lu the chartor as wlll
provlde that the trustoes shall bo se?
lected ln accordanco wlth the roqulre
ments of tho Dlsclpllne of the church,
and wlll further provlde that tho prop?
erty '.Jiqld ln trust by the Randolph
Macon board shall be doclared In thc
oharter to bo held ln' trust foi* tho Vlr?
glnla aml H iltlmoro. Conferences, to b<
Used for eilueational purposes.
Further clntises of the Uanndn res?
olutions, not yot uctod on, provlde foi
(uontlnued ou Seventh Pa___*. .
FIRST TOLL TAKEN
Bf SPEED
Mechanician Meets In?
stant Death on Grand
Prize Course.
DRIVEROFCAR
BADLY INJURED
Onrushing Machine, Swerving
from Course, Crashes Into
Tree, Then Tears Into
Barbed Wire Fence, Final?
ly Turning Somersault.
Had Premonition.
Savannah, Ga., Novcnlbcr 10.?Speed
manla collected its firnt toll ot llfe ln
the Grand Prlzo automoblle course to
day. Albert Fuchs, a young meclianl
clan, met Instant death, and W, 11.
Sharp, drlver and owner of the car
bearlng his same, was scrlous.y Injured
when the powerful machine swcrv.d
from the road and crashed Into a
ba i bed wire fence.
Sharp had hls car on the course for
practice. Ile had mado several lapa
at high speed when the accident oc?
curred. All seemed to be well with
the car, and the causo of Its dlsaster
la a mystery. Only Sharp, tt la thought,
may be able to shi/d any llght upon lt,
and he is lylng ln a hospltal, unable t.i
talk. One thcory is that .Sharp took
a curve on tho back stretch ln Fpr
guson Avenue at too high speed, thus
loslng control. Another ls that a tlr<
blew out, causlng thc drlver to lose
control. The lattes theory is suppoiied
hy the fact tliat the left front tire wat
stripped.
Tnngled ln llarbed Wire.
For flfty feet along the side of thc
road the car plowod Its way, then lcap
Ing a dltch and strlktng a small tree,
Soemlngly. the tree, though bent to
earth and swept Its entlre length by
the onrushing machine, linpeded Ita
course but little. A few yards furthei
the car struck a thlck post of the fonct
extendlng along the road. On lt sped,
knocking down post after post aud
tangllng posts and wlres In Its meeh
anism and about Its whecls. It was
thls langle that finally brought the cftt
to a standstlll, tirst throwlng lt intc
the alr for a somersault, drlver anfl
mechanician falllng as lt was thrown.
Fuchs struck upon his head upor
a log. Shtrp fell clear, but apparentlj
sustalned injury to hln abdomen bj
striking agalnst the stcerlng wheel
Whcti a tlagman on the course and twf
convlcts who were worklng on the roar
reached the scene they found Fuchl
dead and Sharp helpless. Efforts wen
made to flag other raclng cars as thes
sped by ln practice, but without resul
untll word was telephoned to tln
grandstancl, several mlles away. Thei
two of the raceis stopped on reachlnf
the scene and brought the body o
Fuchs and the Injured Sharp to th'
grandstand.
Fuchs, aged twenty-four years, llvcc
at Trenton. N. J. Men at thc Shari
tralnlng camp say hc had a premonl
tlon that the course held danger fo:
him to-dny. 11c sought to be rcltevet
fvom duty, but no substltute was a
hand.
Sharp la well known as a manufac
turer and drlver. Hls factory Is a
East Stroudsburg, Ta. Hls .accldcn
cllmlnates hlni and hls car from tlu
Grand Prlze race, in whlch he hat
drawn flrst place for the start.
Meet Open. To-Uoy,
The meet wlll open to-morrow nt 1<
?o'clock wlth seven entrants ln thi
Savannah challenge cup race. Thi
competltors wlll start at thlrty-seconc
Intervals. to be folowcd %an hour latoi
by the eight starters ln the Tledmar
trophy race.
It ls estlmated thc race will be fin?
ished by 3 o'clock. Entrants for tht
llKht car race, 276.8 miles, are:
Falcar, drlven by Hughes; Marmon
drlven by Helncman; Morcer, drlven b>
Roebltng; Pullman, drlven by Gillard
Falcar, drlven by Gelnaw: Marmon
drlven by Pawson; Falcar, drlven bj
Pierce.
Llght car entrants for the 190.3-milc
race for the Tledman trophy are:
E. M. F., drlven by iCohen: Maxwell
drlven by Wrlght; Cole, drlven b>
Knlght; Lancla, drlven by Knlpper
E. M. F., drlven by Witt; Maxwell
driven by' Doerly; Cole, drlven hy En
dlcott; Maxwell, driven 1JT Costello.
BULLETS KILL TWO
Ho.ton Man Sluyn \Vlt_es?CH Airalns
Illm.
Boston, Novembor 10.?Walter E
Fall, a statehou.se employe, who wa;
at llberty ou ball awaltlrig trlal on >
charge of assaultlng a .Courtecn-yfiur
old glrl, Esthor H. Epgg, to-day sho
and kllled Frank A. Rj_ea, stepfathor o
the child, and Police Sergeant Fred
erlck Schlehubor, the princlpal wltncs
agalnst him, as they were waltlng t.
lay the case before tho dlstrict at
torney. Tho shooting occurred ln th
dlstrict attorney's offlce In the Suffoll
county courthouse.
Rees was Instantly kllled aml Schle
huber died a few moments later at th
Relief Hospltal.
The polleenian on duty in tho dlstrle
attorney's ofllce grappled wllh Fal
who struggled tlorcely in an attempt t
end hls o%vn llfe. He was soon over
powerod and taken to police headquar
ters.
sald aftor thc shuotlng that Kall's nello
after tho shooting that Fall's nctto
was entlrely unoxpected. Fall, thc at
torney sald, had appeared calm an
had given no Indlcation that ho ha
any vesontmont toward oither lleos u
Schlehuber. nor did Haines have an
Idea that Fall carrled a rovolver. Mi
Hatnos said that Fall tired at hls vlc
tlms as soo'ii as he entered tho dlstrlc
attorney's'olllee, nnil ln each case tli
bullot entered the raco, probably none
tralinp the brain.
Fall ls about twenty-four years c
age, Ile was employed iu the oltlce c
tho soalov ot welgh ts and nie.auiet.,
Rbes was employed at a South Bo?
ton house i/.s _n audltor,
ALL ARE ELECTED
>.o Dotlbi Alicillt l.nflrc Tlcket t.olnit
Tlironajh.
N>w Vork, Novembor 10.?Practlcally
complete returns froin Interlor coun
ticfl bf the State contlrm prevlous Itt -
illiatlons that all of the Domocrntlc
candidates on thc Stato tlcket Wero
elected, These, ln additlon to tho can?
didates for Oovernor und I.letitenant
i Sovernor, are;
Secretary of .State?Edward Lizan
m k y.
Male Comptroller?Wllliam Sonmer.
Slate Treasurer?lohn .1. Kcnnedy,
Al torney-Oonoral?Thomas Carmody,
Maie Bnglnoer and Surveyor?.lolm
-\. B'en.el,
AssOclate Judgos of tho Court of Ap
poals ? Frederlck Oollin and Irving G.
V.uin.
The returns on theso State offlclals
are not yet complete for slx countles,
but an estlmate basod on 2,100 elec?
tlon dlstrlcts OUtSlde of New York
''ity and complete returns of New Vork
Clty glve tlie results above stated.
The smallest Indlcated plurality ls that
of Lazansky, for Secretary of State,
who has S,.S66 over Koettlg, Kepubli
. au, and the highest that of Kcnnedy.
for State Treasurer. who has 26,332
over Fcnnell, Republican.
Late returns Indlcate that Conway,
Democrat, for Lleutenant-Governor,
has a plurality of .111,000 over Schoe
neck, Republican.
Majority Is Redtieed. ?
Memphls, Tenn.. November 10.?Re?
turns from additlonal countles in Kast
Tennessee late to-day. instead of in
creastng the majority of Hooper. Re?
publican, for Governor, as expected,
reduced it somewhat. While the total
vote lias been received from only two
th-irds of thc countles, all but slx
have reported nclual majority. On tho
face of the returns Hooper has a plu?
rality over Taylor. Democrat. of 13,564,
The Leglslature, on Joint ballot, will
be very close.
Uhofnclal returns up to I o'clock to
day Indlcate thnt thc administration
Democrats hnve a majority In the Sen?
ate wlth two dlstrlcts In doubt. and
not Including two Repuhllcuns. who,
li Is claimed, wlll vote wlth the ad?
ministration Democrats. In tlie Houso
tlie fuslon Democrats and Republlcans
liave a majority of slx, wlth one ln
doubt.
lt is said that the Regutars wlll con?
test tho electlon in tlie Flrst District
because of an alleged illegal ballot.
This dlstrlct gave Hooper 13,720. lf
tlie Itegulars wln and the district vote
is thrown out, lt may wlpe out Hoop
er*s majority.
Hoth Clnlm Stnte.
f.uthrie, Okla., November 10.?Both
political partles to-nlght stlll clalm
the State as a result of Tue.sdays elec?
tion. Returns received, however, Indl?
cate that l-fo Cruee. a Democrat, was
elected Governor, by a plurality rang
inir from 6,i)nn to 10.000.
Republlcans clalm sixty-throe of the
100 members of tho llouse, and a gain
of nve Senators. Fulton, Democrat,
who was defeated in thc Thlrd Con
grcsslonal Dlstrlct. wlll contest the re
clection of Dlck T. Morgan, Republi?
can.
Mny Reach 50.(1-00.
Trenton, N. J., November 10.?Latost
electlon returns sliow Woodrow \Vil
son's plurality for Governor to be up?
wards of IS.Onn. and It ls expected that
the complete returns will brlng thc
plurality up to *.0,00.
\. Inn br XorroTV Mnrgin.
Pott-ville, Pa.. November 10.?Com?
plete. though not offlclal. returns frorr
the Twelfth Pennsylvanla Congression?
al Dlstrlct glve Robert Lee, Demo?
crat, a majority of eight votos ovoi
Robert Benton. Rooubllcan. (
PARKER REFUSES
He Wlll Not IJe n Candldn.e for Sen?
ator.
New Vork, November 10.?Judge Al?
ton B. Parker authorized the follow?
ing statement to-night:
"I am not unappreciatlvo of the fact
that many good people favor my selec?
tion as a candldate for the Unlted Statos
Senate to sueceed Dr. Depew. I am,
indeed, most grateful to them for thus
suggesting a mont attractlvo opportu?
nlty for useful public serviee. hut my
obligatlons nre such that I would not
accept the ofllce, even if It should bo
tendered to me."
Several new names were advanced
ln connection with the senatorship.
Among them were Charles F. Murphy;
loader of Tammany Hall; Mayor Oay
nor. Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn;
Nortnan B. Mack ancl Martln XV. Llttle
ton, Representative-elect from tho
Oyster Bay District. John M. Stnnch
field. Wllliam F. Sheehnn and Edward
M. Shepard continue to flgure ln tho
gosslp.
Charles F. Murphy quickly denied
any ambltlon to become Senator. Noth?
ing could induce him to seek tho po?
sition, he sald.
Although Mayor Gaynor refused to
be a candldate for Governor, thos.
who deslro to put hlm ln tho rnce
for Senatoi argue thnt in view of tlie
electlon results thc reasons that im
pelled hls refusal no longer exlst. The
Mayor has sald nothlng.
BALDWIN DISCUSSES SUIT
Govemor-Klect Says llo Wlll Teaeli
RooNevelt Some I.avr.
New Haven, Conn., November 10.?
Judgo Stmeon E. Baldwln, just elected
Governor of thls State, ln replylng to
the congratulatlons of hls class in tlie
Yale law school on his electlbn, reit
erated hls Intentlon of hrlnglng suit
against former President Roosevelt b^V
cause of certaln statements roported
to havo been made liy the lutter con?
eernlng Judge Baldwin's atftitudo on
workmen's compensatlon. In a briel
reply to tho students' congratulatlons,
.ludge Baldwln sald:
"I thank you, gentlemen. I stant*
before you as an Instructor rather thar
as a polltleiau. But 1 wlll say that li
my campaign I was assisted by a eon?
troversy I had with a certaln ex-Pres
Ident, and I havo comg t<| the conclu?
sion that thls ox-Presldent knows le*..'
law than you and I do, and l am goins
to teach hlm some."
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Speaker Cannon l.oolliie. to Commcu
on Dpiii_.ra.t-' l.nnd.ltd..
Danville, 111,, November 10?"Th.
landslldo speaks for Itself. 1 hav,
nothlng to add to my siatemont con
cornlng my own attitude,. whlch I mud.
Tuosday nlght," sald Speaker Cannot
last nlght. "Coneernlng causes an.
offocts, 1 am not prepared to say any?
thlng. As yet we aro all up iu tho aii
as to exact condltlons throu_rhout tln
I'ountry, I wlsh to get ut those con
dltlons bofore dlsousslng tlu. sltjun
tlon."
Representative Wt B. MeKlnley
chairman of tho Republican Niitlona
Congressional Commltteo, was ln con
terence wlth tho Spoakor for sonu
tlmo last nlght.
Speakor Cannon statod thnl ho migh
lasue u statement dtscussing som.
features of tho landslldo as soon as h.
is fully informed coneernlng the tc
sult.
Miii-il. h; Theu Goe. to Sehunl.
New York, Novemher 10.?llcnr
Frank Guggonhelm, son of Danlol Qug
Kcnhelin, tho mllllonaire smelter, wa
marrled yesterdatf ._> Mlsa Hol.n Ro
i __________
STRiKERS ACCEPT
PEACE PROPOSAL
Agree Tentatively to
Return to Work on
Monday.
DEPENDS NOW
ON JERSEY MEN
Agreement Signed by Employers
and Men, Only to Be Rejected
Later at Behest of Unions,
Then Adopted?Believed
Trouble Is
Over.
IVew Vork, November 11.?After hack
! int; nnd llllln. for flve hours, nn execu?
tlve M-NMlori of the Mtrlking clrlirrn 11 ?*d
' lirlpers of the flve trnn.contlnentnl m
lire.n enmpnnlen declded tentatively
<-nr|\ thln mornlng to return to work.
?n Mondny under the terma of the
?igreeiucnt sluneri yeMrrdny nfternoon.
lf tlie Jersey Clty xtrlkerw nlso npprov.
the agreement tlie men will go bnck:
If the Jersey Clty men reject thc n>rree
ment, the >"w Vurk lnrn wlll ntny out.
Drivers nnd chniilVoiirw on Ntrlke not
einplo.vcil by the express eompnnle* nre
not nfTceted nud mny sc-tilc thelr dlf
ferencc. ns they choose,
Agreeiucnt Klnally ltntlfleil.
Now York, November 10.?The driv?
ers' and helpers' strike agalnst the tivo
transcontlnental express companies
was settled to-day in the otflec of May?
or Gaynor, In the bellef and to the sat
lsfactlon of the Mayor, the representa?
tives of thc strikers and tlie executlve
ofTlcers of the companies, but the agree?
ment, although drafted and slgned by
both partles, was rejected to-n!glit ai.
a unlon meeting. Later, however. it
was tentatively accepted.
Thc day was stormy in tlie streets
and lowerlng to-night In o-iincil. "When
the men gathered ln a mass-ineetlng
to conslder the agreement recomnienct
ed to them for ratlIlcatlo__* althougn
the Mayor, when he left his offlce, hart
lssued n statement congratulatliig
Henry H. Towne, presldent of the Mov
cliants! Assoclatlon of New York, whti.
had attended the afternoon conference.
for hls sh.ro in "settling the strike.
it was seen that the strike was not.
settled at all. On the contrary, one
after another of the speakers nrose IM
opposition to the agreement.
Two hundred chauffeura, who struck
ln sympathy wlt'n the expressmen and
went back to work a week ugo, when
thelr clc-mands were granted. were dl
rectod to strike agaln because the com?
pany would not pormlt them to wear
the unlon button. It was ordered that
all garages still hostlle to the union
be plcketed to-morrow. Tho tone pt
the meeting was dlstlnctly belligerent,
and Just beforo an executlve session
was declared one of the leaders gavy
private assuranccs that In no clrcurh
stahces would the men accept thc set?
tlement reached thls afternoon, or one
like it.
Those who signed for thc men this
nfternoon. he sald. did so as represen?
tatives of employes and inot as repre?
sentatives of the unlon. That would
not suftlce. Union men. he believed.
would Inslst on full recognltion of
the unlon us they had all along de
mainded.
The terms of agreement proposed
woro set forth In the form of a letter
to Henry R. Towne, presldent of the
Merchants' Assoclatlon of New Vork.
which follows:
"We aro wllllng to take back our
i employes who are on strike whether
j or not they have Jolned a union, re
! servlng the right. however, to decline
j to take back any of tliem, whether
I they bo members of a unlon or not.
j who may have commltted or Inclted
| acts of violence aind hostlllty agalnst
us.
Effective December 1.
"Those of our companies .whose em?
ployes have raised a cniestlon concern"
Ing thelr hours of employment or rate
of wages wlll agree, aftor tlio men
rcsume work, at once to take up theso
nucstlons wlth thelr employes, or with
committees of them, for the purpose of
reachlng a settlement whlch shall 'be
lust and satisfactory to both partles,
wlth tho understandlng that thc former
hours and rates of wages shall con?
tlnue im effect untll December 1 next,
and only on that dato any change mu
tuallv agreed upon shall then become
effective.
(Signed)
"ADAMS EXBKESS COMPANY.
"Wm. M. Barrett. President.
"AMERICAN* EXPRESS COMPANV,
"tl. S. Julller, Vlce-Presldent.
"NATIONAL EXPRESS COMPANY.
"1. X. Smith, General Manager,
?'UNITED EXPRESS COMPANY.
"Frank II. Platt. Dlrector.
"WKELS. FAKGO & CO.,
"E. 11. Steadman, Vlce-Presldent."
| To thls offer the representatives of
I the strlkers asscnted, as follows:
"The undorslgtned, a commltteo rcp
1 rasentlng the employes of the expresa
| companies which join ln the ajinexod
II letter to .Mr. Towne, hereby recelvw
? ! the terms of the sald letter ln settle;
? ment of the strike. and adviso the satd
i employes to rcsume work thereon at
; once atid ond the strike. We proposed
those samo terms .irough the Mayor
last Frlday at li ls rectuest, und adhero
to them now at hls rectuest.
(Slgned)
"DANIEI, P. O'CONNOR.
"Of Adams Express Co.
| 'THOMAS YV. TAIXON,
j "Of American Express Co.
??K. .1. MARA,
"Of National Express Co.
MAMES Q. ACKEUMAN.
"Of U- 9- Bxpross Co,
MAMES VV. nONNEfXY.
"Of Wciis. Fargo _ Co."
Beforo the a'stroapAent wus signcv
the day had be.'en turbulent, confus-d
and full of statements and counter
BtateniontS, There was moro rloilnst
than at auv time during. the strike.
t'oiuisol for tho Adams. the l*nit...t
States an.l the VVellsrFargo Company
ohta'ned nn order from Judge Cose. t'V
tho United Statea Clrcuit Coi-rt, dtr>>?t
ln. ihe olty to show cause td-morrow
why It should not be restralned from
onforclng the ordlnanc.e whic-h rp?
ciuir's carrlers of Interstate exprear
matter lo tako out ?lty HcenseM.
lt ls probable thut tlio ooinpanlej