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4 j . t5 I - - 1 it' ; , 1 " -- . ,,. ' 4 -i ( t 1 ' ; ! A J' " SCrd YEAH. KO. 25 111! ic.C nfidentof Ilc.v'jYork, Indiana and Ohio. OF RELIABLE SOURCE Information Received from tho Leaders Thrcujfiout tha ' Entire Country. , DENIES OIL CCNTRIDUTIONS Chairnun Alter Reading Statement " o Democratic Ch&hmm Mack, 6Say Eeport t Standard Oil Fundi ia Abiolutely False. . NEW YORK', Oct. 30.In hi ' furecast tf the comjjoishioii of the electoral college which wilt chooe the next President and Vice-President , made public at , Republican Jieatituireri ! t&nlght, I : CUairutan lUtchcbck claims '325 Republican or W more than required to elect. Hitchcock ii jure ol New York, Oh4 'u4 .Wdiaia;-1 lie shti Include in the Republican column Nebraska, Mantanit) ' Miryla'hd and Nevada. In explaining his list Hitchcock raid he believed the chances were even in Kentucky and ' Missouri If any of , the states cluimed went Democratic they would be Maryland, Montana tend Nevada, ' jit ill leaving j3i Repute Hviin margin of U) and of this ad vantage he expressed himself as per fectly confident. IHtclicock concedes that the' chancel in Tennessee and Oklahoma are against the Republi can ticket. Hitchcock said his fore cast is based upon information re ceived by 1tim up to tonight from party leaders throughout the United States. " ' .., '. , . : (, -. ! ( After" reading the "statement of Chairman Mack in whkfi the Demo cratic national chairman charged the Republican organization with having recently received contributions from .the i Standard Oi ' Co., Chairman Hitchcock s'aid" that the statement is absolutely false and that his com' mittce has not received directly or indirectly from- that .organization or any of its officers a single dollar. Hitchcock says when the sworn likt of contribution If published 'sf ter the! ellclion, Jaccording to ' the state law, it Will show the fality of the charge that the Republican or ganizatipn has received a dollar from any corporation, any trust or any Officer of any corporation or trust, j THEATRICAL SPLIT. CHICAGO, Oct. 3p.A .dispatch from New York to the Tribune says: 1 IJIIS TAFT AND HUGHES - GET MANY CHEERS Carnegie lldl at k'i York Filled to Overflow at . . .v 1 Dig Republican Rally. , ' NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Collegc cries as plaudits punctuating ad dresses of speakers, and college Hags waving franticaly 1 upon the same frequent provocation; were the domi nating features of the! political Tally at Carnegie Mall tonight under the auspices" of the national Ile'publicaji college league. The crowd cheered vociferously at every mention of nnnnnif rn 01 An iriU-rcstiug story is being told on Broadway tonight to the effect that Klaw Etlangcr and the Shubcrts had come to tha parting of the ways and that the latter had decided to join forces with the independent move ment as represented by David Bclas co and Harrison Grey Fiske. ELATE, VESSU3 WHITE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-As the battleships of the Atlantic fleet pro ceed to the navy yards , for target practice nrxt Spring they will be painted a slate color which is being done with the vessels of the third squadron of the fleet now in Atlan tic waters. With; the color cf slate the ships are less visible and in the maneuvers they are thus able to bet ter simulate war conditions. mviri riso nnrro hllliil IJIIU UUitUi, OHIO YESTERDAY WAS GIVEN ELABORATE RE RECEPTION AT , CLSVE- I' i " LAND. F.CCKEFELLER UkllWVKI SaiS Tliat Oil King'ia Supporting Taft In Return For Like Sup port Bryan Leave For Indiana Today. I." S I ' '." ! I CLEVELAND, Oct." 30.'-After traveling up and down across the state of Ohio today, Colonel Bryan arrived here tonight and was' the re ccpient of a great demonstration. A dozen or more marching clubs es corted the Democratic candidate to the armory where he spoke to a vast concourse. Later he went to Cray's Armory and spoke to another im mense crowd. , .. . . , , 4 r Beginning at Napoleon early this morning Bryan hurled an avalanche of condemnation upon the heads of job D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car negie at every point where the train stoppd. He had observed in the morning papers authorized state ments by (wo financiers that they were supporting Taft. Of Rockefeller he said that the oil magnate is supporting Taft because Taft is -supporting him and concern ing Carnegie he accused him of hav ing absorbed a competitor of the steel trusts after securing the approv al of President Roosevelt and said that the steel trust was today, "sup porting Taft, as it helped to secure his nomination." Northern Indiana will .claim Mr. Bryan's attention tomorrow previous to his arrival at Chicago tomorrow night, if , , ' ' Taft and Hughes. Former Governor Black's speech was warmly eulogis tic of the candidate. There were pas sages which the audience - took as implied ;, criticism of ...President Roosevelt and .this brought forth cheers for ; the , President which last ed for-several minutes. , When the uproar "died down, Governor ' Black resumed. astchsa, gheco:., satuhday, cotc:er si. i::3 - passes oy fkw York Society Lc !;r Dies cf Heart Trc Ma NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Mrs. Wil liam A stor, who for 30 years prior to two years ago was an acknowl edged a leader of New York society, died tonight of heart trouble, at her residence on Fifth avenue. Mrs. Astor, who was advancd in years, was first seized, so far as is. publicly known, with the affliction about two year ago, when for the first time in years hef ;snminer home in New port was dot opened. Since then she has take no f)art in' society functions., ". - I FOURTH MAN ACCUSED. Blake, Already Convicted, Now Im plicate An Attorney In Cae. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30,-A fourth name has been added to the trio accused yesterday in the confes sion of E. A. S. Blake, the convic ted jury briber, who declared that he had been offered $10,000 and a pen sion of $100 per month for his wife to serve a term in the penitentiary without revealing the identity of hi alleged confederates. According to the statements made by . I'.l.iie to District" Attorney Langdon supple menting the dramatic confession he made in the open courtroom, Martin Stevens,' ah attorney, was made the custodian of notes for $10,000, alfeg cd to have been executed by Abra ham Rucf, now on trial for bribery, Steven f hen asked to explain, Blake's accusation,;" refused '; to make any statement except under oath. Ste vens was attorney for Blake when first s accused of having offered $1, IXX) to John M. Kelley, a venireman, in order that Kelley should attempt to qualify on the Ruef jury and vote for .acquittal ? J 5 M IKES UP STAE'DARD LIMilTIilfl Ridicules Idea cf Rockefeller's Support in tho Present Campaign and Election. STAIIDARD CO. DID HOT CONTRIBUTE A CENT Some One With Lively liaasinatlaa Starts Story Which is Consid ered as a Foolish Gno Owing 13 tho f.'ar.r.gr tho Com . . posy l!:s Boon Treated by tho Ai,r.!n::trat!:n. .... BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 30. Sledgehammer blows at Gompers' and Bryan f Jabor ? , legislation plans were delivered here tonight by Judge Taft before two. immense , audiences. Taft gave the names of many la bor leaders high in the councils of the American Federation of Labor who he said were leaving Gompers. Taft said the attempt to deliver the labor vote of the country is. as auda-j cious an act of political effrontery as has? ever occurred in the history of j politics. The meeting at Utica to- day between Taft and Sherman and man from your city with a very live the magnitude of the enthusiasm' of ly imagination growing even more the reception the Republican presi- lively as the responsibility of the .lutia! rnmtiihitp received here to-' night were the features of the cam paign Taft is making in Northern New York. ' ' 'At Batavia he left his "car in a driving snowstorm to speak to many that neither the Standard Oil Co. nor thousands of people. Buffalo has two anyone connected., with its manage enormous, meeting places, the con- ment has contributed a single cent, vention Hall and the Broadway ar-j Judge Taft said further. "The ad aenal. Two hours before the time . ministration ' is prosecuting the set for theses meetings, the two Standard Oil Co. and' it intends to places were filled and outside many 'continue the prosecution until that were' clamoring 'lor 'admission to' fill part which may be evil will be the speaking places the second time, j stamped out." www"' j i i:iB.fii CAUSES DSEUT Locks Cn it As , h:ni: J fa Injure Taft WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-The following official statement was is sued, from the White House tonight: "At the White House the announce ment of Rockefeller through a press agent of the Standard Oil Com pany was regarded with some amusement in view of what the ad ministration has done to the Stand ard Oil Company and of the bitter hatred- borne by Standard Oil Co., to the administration. It is a perfectly palpable and obvious trick on ' the part of the Standard Oil Co. to try to damage Taft a trick so palpable that it cannot deceive no one." The statement was issued anent the dec laration of John D. Rockefeller, pub lished in a Chicago paper that he intended to support Judge Taft for the presidency. - DESPONDENT HE DIES. Oakland Druggist Take The Poi on Rout? Out Of Difficulties. OAKLAND, Oct. . 30.-Mrs. Paul N. Hanby, wife of a well known West Oakland druggist, returned to her home late yesterday and found her husband dead upon tb floor. By his side was an empty bottle with a poi son label. lie leaves a widow and a daughter. Despondency is supposed to have been the reason for the sui cide. - ., ...,-.';;.., "' - Wa'ttr: McPec'fc, a railroad em ployee was found dead in his room by his on yesterday when the boy returned from school. McPeek had committed suicide by inhaling illu minating gas through a tube. The dead man was partially paralyzed and feared he would be unable to re sume work. At the convention hall Taft took up i" Standard UU suoject. . so anxious to bring about my elec tion," he said, "I should take it that the last thing that would be done would be to advertise its support for me. Therefore this publication which Bryan is now making so much of, it seems to me, has but little signifi cance in attempting to show that Standard Oil Co., or any other trust, because it hopes for immunity, is supporting me. That is not the w ay things are done. There is a gentle- camnaiirn erows upon him. He has conceived the idea that the Standard Oil Company contributed a , large amount to the Republican campaign fund. I am in a position to state JOVERs .. ' ""fiNING HLO CM ? I Iii Ifii I ft 1 VA3 A RUEF MAN. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.. 30-The jury that is to try Abraham Ruef on a charge of bribery, which was yes terday believed to have been com pleted after weeks of effort, still lacks a mmber. At a night session of court, during which the arguments of the attorneys several times grew heated, Judge Lawlor discharged from the box George H. Cross, who was yes terday accused by Prosecutor F. J. Heney of having obtained a saloon license through the influence of Ruef. Cross denied the impuattton, but at the night session the records of the police commission and the testimony of witnesses convinced the court that Cross was not an unprejudiced juror and the challenge of the state was allowed. ' , . BELL1NGHAM CITIZENS IN HOT PURSUIT OF, KIDNAP- ' ,,. PER, OF ED.i ENGLISH." " THOUGHT THEY SU"E HADtUll Excited Men Sae the Kidnapper and Instantly Their Guns Flashed Fire Injuring One of Their Own Party. " Hunted One Escapes Meanwhile. ; BELLINGHAM, Wash.', Oct. 30. Twenty determined men are today trailing the bandit who Monday night kidnapped Ed English, a wealthy lumberman of Mount Vernon. Last evening word was received ' from Sylvana that the baadid, whose iden tity' is not known, Was seen there. A posse was at once organized by Sheriff Harmon at Mount Vernon and started on the trail The party divided, and the kid napper was overtaken at English, four miles , below Mount Vernon, by Deputies Stephenson, Mason and Dunham, of the Sheriff office, and Special Deputy Branstad, of Syl vana. Mhe minted man was nrst seen on the Great Northern Railroad track. He was commanded to throw up his hands and surrender. Instead of heeding, he dashed into the woods. Instantly the guns of the deputies flashed fire, and a fusillade of shots were sent after the fleeing man as he disappeared in, the dusk. In the excitement Brandstad was shot in the hip. The kidnapper escaped, and the deputies then gave their, attention to the wounded man, placing him on the first train for Everett, where he received medical attention. i E.IiIiUiiv nr. n put Ui huh POSSE AFTER BMIDiT sioisio'ienii PASSENGERS PLEA ' FOR GIRL'S RELEAS Fcurtecn-Ycar-Old Child in Caro cf a Chinar.zn I ll Vtliw) I UOwWIlUul V Ksi I lO Wvii. OGDEN, - Utah, Oct. 30. -West bound passengers in tourist car No. 3061, leaving Ogden this morning, attached 'to Southern Pacific No. 3. appealed to local authorities to re lease a young girl from the bondage of. a Chinaman and .white woman. The girl had cried out for assistance, but had not been, allowed to leave her berth. 1 i The passengers took up a sub scription with which to se,id nies- THE LO'.VER COl.Of t A r""T rr;r f7T! 1 rtthllt illULltu llUsiUhil Pcsitivo Proof cf Guilt in coriFEssion is full Aboot Ten f.'cn Wore A;tu;!!y at Killing Tfcoajh 23 llzrs Are lzfda:t AmHESTED Vl'l ir.VCLVcD Frank Furriner's Confesrion is Com plete, Giving the N.imfs of These Participating in the Ilarsi.'.j an! Shooting.. ; ... . CAMP NEMO, Oct. 3).-"Ve know who fired the shots and who put the rope around Rankin's neck," said Governor Patterson tins after-' noon. The governor also stated that the proof thus far developed is posi tive as to the gui't of some of t!,e men under arrest and it implicates others. He s;.iJ the nurvler cf nu n actu-l!y at tie lillin wai r t My n't n.oie t.'an Id, iii.'e g-uard and others held the horsis. The whole number engnjjed, he thinks, will not exceed 35. It is learned that Frank Furriner's con fession is full and conv-lcte; that he said he was wi'.h the nen who took Rankin and Taj'or to the hank of the slough; that he gave tho name of the men who pulled the rope and the man who fired the first shot i:ito Rankin's body. PINCHER- BROWN DEAD. NEW YORK, Oct. 31-Edward Brown, once famed as a baseball player and r.-.ore recently a member of the police department from which hewas retired five years ago with the rank of captain, succumbed to an attack of apoplexy last night at the home of his son in Brooklyn. Brown, who was 71 years old, enjoyed the appellation of "Pincher" Brown in the heyday of his baseball glory. Un der that sobriquet he was known throughout the country a3 one of the Brooklyn team of a generation ago. PAPKE TO MEET KELLY. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30. Eilly Panke has Mirned articles callinsr for U 25-round contest with Hug? Keliy within 30 days. Kelly it h said is certain to agre to terms. BASED ALL GAMES. Los Angeles 3, Portland 1. San Francisco 9, Oakland 2. 11. j sages to Chicago newspapers, asking; if a child had been abducted answer ng the description .of the girl. " Local officers were notified too late to act, but Superintendent Man son, of the Southern Pacific, ordered the' railroad detectives at Morstello, 1G0 'miles, west of Oj-den, to search the car and report o:i his invi ''. i tion, and if advisable aecoi.ip y child to San Francisco, the t'c-1 a tion of the 'party,- there to make' fur ther investigation.