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AMERICANS WIN IN NICARAGUA “Impregnable” Position of Reb els Taken By U. S. Four Marina* Killed and Havaral Woundad - Rabal Qanaral Z*l- adon Killed By Federal*. HOSTILITIES BEGIN. Montenegrin Force* Atteck After Declaring War. STANDARD OIL NOT HURT. Turk* Pursue* 8arna_ Bui in«** Method* A* 8« for» "Dissolution.'’ Constantinople— Montenegrin force* early Wednesday morninj_attack«d Reran*, which zt noon was surround- ed. Skirmishes also are reported on the Servian frontier and with Greek band* in the neighborhood of Diikata. An exchange of «hot* occurred near Djurnabala, on the Bulgarian frontier. An official dispatch from the Mon tenegrin frontier says Montenegrins on Monday attacked the block house at Kalva, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Fifteen Turk* were wounded. The same day a large detachment of th« Montenegrin army crossed the frontier and attacked Bran* it also is reported that the Turks surrounded and annihilated a body cf Montenegrin soldiers. Cbieagc—Tbe Standard Oil com pany of Indiana still bay* it* crude oil from the Prairie Oil A. ua* company and tbe Ohio Oil company, and ship* it* refined product in car* of the Un ion Tank line, both former subsidiary corporation* of the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey, the same a* be fore the separation of the corporation* by order of the United State* Su preme court. Such wtl evidence brought out at tbe hearing here in the fight waged by H. Clay Pierce against stockholders of the Standard Oil com pany for control of the Waters-Pierce Oil company. The hearing will be resumed at New York. John D. Archbold, vice presi dent of tbe corporation, will be called as a witness before the conclusion of tbe hearing in New York. it wa* brought out by witnesses that the company since it* separation from the parent corporation has not established any new stations in terri tory outside the state* previously cov ered by tbe Indiana concern. President Cowan, of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, denied, how ever, that John D. Archbold or other directors of the old corporation have had any connection with the manage ment of the Indiana corporation since tbe order of dissolution. President Cowan explained that tbe 829,000.000 stock dividend distributed after the reorganization of the com pany represented property owned by the corporation, and was made after the capital stock bad been increased from 81,000,000 to 830,000,000. L. J. Drake, vice-president of the Standard Oil company or Indiana, said he was in charge of the marketing of the company's product, and that there wxs no agreement or understanding in regard to the prices or territory with any of the former subsidiary corpora tion* of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. Waahington, 1). <* in a gallant assault, American marine* and blue jacket* drove the Nicaraguan revolu tionary leader, General Zelrdon, and hi* force* from (ziyotepe and Barran- cana hilta, near Maaaya, after 87 min Patrla— A general conflict in the utes of fighting, but in the action four Balkan* i* expected by official* here. Montenegro ha* declared war, and privates of the United Slat«» Marino thi* ia regarded merely a* the begin Corps were killed and aeveral were ning. it is believed that the other wounded. unit* in the Balkan coalition will fol (xiyotepe Hill la noted In Central low *uit a* soon a* the mobilization of American warfare a* impregnable. It armie* ia corpplete. There la only a waa never captured by aaaault until faint hope that the representations of the Americana took it. the powers will avert general hostili The victory of the Americana ties. opened the way for the Nicaraguan Montenegro's move ia considered in government troop* to aaaault the town Pari* to be part of a prearranged plan. of Maaaya, which they took from the It ia asserted that Greece was first revolutionlata, and It* starving inhab e'e-tedby the Balkan Federation to itanta were relieved. force the issue and inaugurate the The revolutionist loaaea wore heavy, war. Thia easily could have been while the government force loat 100 done by Greece's seating in the Greek killed and 200 wounded. parliament the deputies from Crete, General Zeledon, the rebel, «»raped, which wav certain to prove a casus but later waa cornered and killed by a belli to Turkey. Greece, however, troop of Federal cavalry. declined to accept responsibility for One thousand American marinea and starting the flame. bluejacketa, under Lieutenant Colonel Montenegro then waa picked. She Charles G. Long, are moving on the had a long-standing quarrel with Tur city of laton, the remaining rebel key over the boundary question, and atrongh >ld, Turkey's re final to grant »atisfart on The American marinea killed were: was seized upon as justification for. Private Ralph Victor Bobbatt, Neva Montenegro'* resort to arms. da, Mo ; Private Charlea Haya Dur It is not doubted that though cool ham, Junction City, Ky.; Private er heads in Bulgaria have been Clarence Henry McGill, Portland, against the war from the start, pop Me ; Private Harry Pollard, Medway, ular excitement i* at such a high Maaa. pitch that that country will be driven Admiral Southerland in reporting the to war to satisfy public opinion. battle to the Navy department, »aid: "The department and the country PUNISHMENT TO FIT CRIME have every reaaon to be proud of the officer*, marine* and bluejacket* who Lo* Angele* Auto Maniac Prohibited were engaged in thi* action." From Using Car Admiral Southerland'* diapatche* lx>* Angele*—Novel punishment, in made it plain that the defeat of the rebel* waa complete. Zeledon. a Nic addition to a fine of 8100, was inflict araguan an<i formerly supporter of ed by Police Judge Frederickson, upon Zelaya, fled toward the Costa Rican Benjamin W. Kittredge, a young boundary for escape. A band of Fed eral cavalrymen diacovered him some multi-millionaire, who wrecked his distance from Maaaya and gave fight. own machine and collided with an When they defeated him and hi* fol other on a wild automobile ride. He lower* he was found fatally wounded ¡drove 80 miles an hour In the city. and died later. For the next six month* Kittredge The »bedding of American blood in Central America is expected to bring may not drive an automobile or ride to a climax in congress the dispute in any machine where he ha» author over the right of thia government to ity of direction over the chauffeur, under penalty of 80 days' imprison intervene in Nicaragua. ment. Kittredge has been arrested three SLOOP CAPSIZED. FIVE PERISH time* for wild auto escapades. Once Heavy Sea at Newport Harbor Over he drove his machine to the middle of a railroad bridge and blocked traffic j turn* Fishing Craft. half a night. He waa celebrating the ■ Newport, Or.—Crossing over South advent of a son in his home. Spit bar with a heavy sea rolling and Kittredge told Judge Frederickson a crew unfamiliar with the harbor en that he wa* guilty, but somewhat un trance, the fishing sloop Pilgrim cap der the influence of liquor. He de sized and the crew of five men were clared he had since signed the pledge. loat. The life saving crew hastened to Unknown Steamer Sink*. give assistance, with the launch Ollie Halifax N. S. —The fate of the 8., but the little vessel turned turtle crew of a large vessel, identity un- too quickly and dumped it* human freight into the sea before any possi kow, reported afire and then sunk off Prospect, east of Sambro, remained ble aid could have been given. unrevealed up to a late hour. First word of the wreck came at 9 p. tn., Fntry Refused to Prince. New York—Powerful influence*, it when the lighthouse keeper at Sam is said, worked all day Monday for the bro sent a wireless message that ’ a release of Prince Ludovic Pignatelli large vessel" was on fire near his sta d'Aragon, eon of the Spanish preten tion. An hour later he sent a mes No der, who chafed and fretted at hi* sage that the vessel had sunk. The confinement at Ellis Island. The ca other particulars are available. bles were plied with messages to es government steamer Aberdeen sailed tablish or discredit the contention that out to render any assistance possible. he as expelled from France for run Grazing Land I* Offered. ning a gambling house and is there Provo, Utah—The sale of 280,000 fore ineligible to enter the United States; also that he tried to kill him acres'of grazing land in the old Uin self and waa likely to become a public tah Indian reservation was opened charge. A special board of inquiry here Wednesday by J. W. Witton, of the 'department of the interior, and will investigate hi* case. Don B. Colton, of ’the United States land office at Verna, Utah. No bid of Eight Joyrider* Killed. Philadelphia—A collision on a bridge leas than 60 cents an acre will be ac cepted, and not more than 640 acres in which three automobile* were in will be sold to any one purchaser. volved resulted in the death of eight There were only a few prospective men in thi* city Saturday night. One buyers on hand at the opening sale. of the machines containing nine men came on the bridge at terrific speed, Turkish Quarter Attacked. it* rapid approach was seen by John Vienna—A massacre of Turks has I. Spade, a Philadelphia contractor occurred at Turtukai, in Bulgaria, who waa going over the bridge in the near the Roumanian frontier, accord opposite direction in a motor. He ing to a dispatch from Oltenitza, to tried to avoid the car but he was too the Neus Weiner Tagelatt. late in steering out of its way and a It is alleged that armed Bulgarians collision occurred. A third automobile attacked the Turkish quarter* of the then ran into the speeding car. town at night, pillaged the houses and massacred the inhabitants, not spar ing women and children. Only a few Seattle—The steamship Senator ar Turks escaped across the Roumanian rived from St. Michael .with 82,250,- border. 000 of gold and 386 passengers, thi* being the largest passenger lilt of the Greek* Await War Call. year from the North. Of the gold Butte, Mont. — Theodore Stakio*, 8500,000 came from the Iditarod and Greek "consul for Montana, Idaho, Ruby, the remainder from Nome and Utah and ’Wyoming, announced that Fairbank*. Nearly all the returning 7000 Greeks from those states were miners had gold, many of them from prepared to answer the call to arms 8H|,000 to 816,000. Four steamships from their native ¡country anil fthat a are yet to leave Nome before the ice special train carrying the first detach closes Bering sea. ment would start from here within a few hours after the call ia received Italy to Pay Indemnity, from the Greek legation in Washing Lausanne, Switxerland- The Turco- ton. ____________ Italian peace treaty awaiting ratifica 43 Killed In Explotion. tion provides for Turkish recognition of Italian sovereignity in Tripoli, ac Tampico, Mex.—Forty-three bodies cording to the Lausanne Gazette. of the victims of the powder explosion The Italian government, it is said, is of Tuesday night have been recovered to pay an indemnity to Turkey and i* and buried. Estimates now place the also to recognise the religious author dead at 100, while the injured will ity of the Khalif over the Mussulmans total another 100. Most of those of Tripoli. killed were laborer*. imm ! Alaska Gold Pour* In. CHAIRMAN OF THE EUGENICS CONFERENCE Darwin's theory of evolution, the survival of the fittest and the Influ ence of environment In the develop ment of organic life, has provoked much controversy, and has sometime* been allowed to remain in the dim do main of speculation like the atomic theory of Eplcuru* or the Platonic sys tem of Idea*. It baa at last been recognized a* something practical in the social life of the human race The most sober-minded of physicians, economists, and philanthropist* have acknowledged that the Improvement of the race, the promotion of Its hap piness, and the prevention of many moral errors depend very largely upon a recognition of such laws as that of heredity. The parent* of the coming generation are to be looked to for the furthering of the race's happiness in the future. It la upon thia basis that a new science. Eugenics, has been Inaugurated and ha* claimed th* at tention of the world. The First International Eugenic* conference, recently held In Ixtndon, waa attended by men and women delegate* from America, France, Germany, Nor way, Italy, Spain, Greece, and Japan. It la Interesting to note that the presi dent of the society »as the son of tbe very Charles Darwin who originated the theory of evolution on which It* principle* are based. "It I* essential to bear In ndnd,” point* our Major Darwin, “the truth that If tbe human race la to continue to progress. Indeed. If It is not to Jose some of the ground so painfully won In the long ages of struggle In the past, some other agency, checking the reproduction of the feeble In body and mind, must be made to take the place of natural selection, the action of which we are now In so many ways rightly endeavoring to prevent.” FETE OF THE “400” AT PUBLIC BEACH Whirling about merry-go-round* and thrusting at coveted brass ring prize*, bowling over “Aunt Sally” or shoot ing at bobbing ball* in tbe rifle range, more than 300 members of tbe sum mer colony enjoyed several hour* of amusement the other evening a* guest* of Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont Milwaukee—David Bruce-Brown, a at Newport’* public beach. After 10 wealthy young New York sportsman, o'clock tbe public was excluded from was killed and his mechanician, Tony Newport's miniature Coney Island. Scudalari, was fatally injured on the From that hour until they became new Wauwatosa automobile road tired, Mrs. Belmost's guests bad full course on the eve of tbe eighth run possession and enjoyed a night as In ning of the Vanderbilt cup race. formal as it was novel. Bruce-Brown was driving his high- .Mrs. Belmont's reasons for giving a powered Fiat car at a 90-mile an free evening at Easton's beach were hour speed when a rear left tire blew threefold, aside from her desire to pay out. The heavy car swerved into a •octal obligations. Those reasons were ditch and a second later men and ma a protest against extravagant enter chine were catapulted diagonally taining. an Intention to turn over to > across tbe road and into a field with a public Insututlon money expended In great force. The men were thrown a social diversion and an argument clear of the car, which was hurled against the hl.ing of men waiter*. high in the air and then smashed into "In the first place I am In favor of a heap of wreckage. the truly democratic Idea in entertaining,” said Mr*. Belmont. “I see no Brown's skull was fractured, bis reason tn the tremendous expenditure of money so common this summer In left leg broken and he suffered inter giving society an evening'* diversion.” nal injuries. Surgeons said that death resulted directly from hemorrhage of the brain. The top of Scudalari's skull was crushed, his right arm broken and his body seriously torn. AUTOIST HURLED TO DEATH AT 90 MILES AN HOUR PROFESSOR MAXWELL’S NEW EXPERIMENT New York will try an experiment thi* fall which. If successful, will completely overturn all methods hith erto applied In its schools and intro duce a new era In education. It Is so sensational that, at first sight, It seems like the Impossible dream of a mad Inventor. Yet It ha* the thorough approval of men who are by no means Identified with any thing sensational and unpractical, among them Superintendent of School* William H. Maxwell and Dr. Lout* Blan of Columbia university, while th* Inventor of the scheme. Nikola Tesla, can point for corroboration of what he claims, to the extremely successful result* already obtained by mean* of hl* Invention in the school* of Stock holm, capital of Sweden. Fifty mentally defective school children will be the first subjects of the experiment They will enter and seat themselves In what will look, ta all intent* and purpose*, like an or dinary schoolroom. But It will be far from that Through the walls Invisible electrical currents will run, by means of which, it is declared, the brain* of tbe chlldern will receive artificial stimulation to aueb an extent that they will be transformed from dunce* into star pupils. City Superintendent of School* William H. Maxwell said, In confirming the report that tbe experiments are to be made: “I am convinced that the high-frequency current has no deleterious ef- feet; that, on tho contrary, it la possltlvely beneficial, and that th* experi mental tests should be and In all probabllly will be carried ou in the Fall.” J. G. SCHURMAN NEW ENVOY TO GREECE I President Taft sent to the senate during the closing days of congress the nomination of Jacob Gould Schur- man. president of Cornell university, to be minister to Greece Thia nomi nation created some surprise, since there has been no announcement that George H. Moses, the present minis ter to Greece, waa to leave that poet. It waa stated that Mr. Moses volun- arlly tendered bls resignation for pri vate business reasons some time ago, aud that It has been accepted. He ex pect* to leave this post within a short time. Intimations that Mr. Moses was being recalled were without confirma tion at either the White House or state department or from members of the New Hampshire delegation. Dr. Schurman, who has long been a close friend of President Taft, has ar ranged to take a year's leave from his duties as president of Cornell. In ac cordance with custom, Mr. Schurman, like all other minister* and ambassa dor*, will be rapected to formally tender hl* resignation on March 4 next whether President Taft I* re-eUcted or not Dr. Schurman has been president of Cornell since 181», »nd wa* born on Prince Edward Island fifty-eight year* ago. Ho has a degree of A. B. and A. M. from the University of London, and la a IX B. of Columbia, Yala, Edinburgh, Williams, Dartmouth, and Harvard, PAROLED MAN IS BLAMED. Adams, Not Webber, Originator of Counterfeiting Plan, I* Belief. Seattle—Secret service operatives, taking note of the effort of George E. Adams, the paroled assay office looter, to represent himself as the dupe of 70-year-old John C. Webber in the plot to manufacture counterfeit silver dollars in a mint established by them near Kent, said that all the evidence they had gathered «bowed Adams as the principal. Adams, they said, supplied the old man with money, obliged him to ac count for evey penny and gave him instructions about his conduct. The secret service men say that Adams and Webber apparently decided upon the counterfeiting scheme while they were both in prison, and Adams set Webber to work as soon as the old man was out of prison at the end of hi* term. Webber make* no denial of hi* part in the plot and will plead guilty. Italian Navy Will Help. BALKAN STATES TO FIGHT TURKS Ultimatum To Be Delivered In Long Standing Dispute. Autonomy for Macedonia, Albania, Old 8*rvia and Cret* to Be Demanded Immedietely. London—The four Balkan state* will deliver an ultimatum to Turkey within a few day*, according to the most reliable new* received here. It will demand autonomy for Mace donia, Albania, Old Servia and Crete. In the event of failure to comply with this demand, the Balkan eoalition will repeat it and at the came time will address a collective note to the great powers notifying them that after the expiration of another three day* the Balkan states will enforce the demand by recourse to arms. Thus there will be a respite of a week before hostilities begin. This respite will be used by tbe powers to seek to arrange a compro mise with Turkey acceptable to the four states which, it is believed, would prefer a wa; out without blood shed. No further new* has been received of reported frontier conflicts, but ten sion is extreme, especially because of the seizure by the Turkish authorities of Greek vessels. WAR POSSIBILITY INCREASES Europe Now Discusses Problem of Localizing Conflict.' Berlin—A semi-official statement on the Balkan situation is published in the Nord Deutsche Allegemeinze Zei- tung. Tbe statement follows: “The alleged or actual measures of Turkish mobilization have given the Balkan states a reason or excuse for mobilising their force*. It cannot be determined with certainty whether their action is a counter move to tbe Turkish preparations or whether it in dicates serious belligerent intentions. The measures taken by the Balkan states, however, undoubtedly have in creased the possibility of a collision between them and Turkey. “The effort* of the powers to pre serve peace continue. However la mentable it would be should these effort* prove unsuccessful, there still would be no cause for immediate anx iety concerning German interests. Still more so because there is every reason to hope that the conflict, if it should occur, will be confined to the scene of its origin. “Late events have increased the probability of a conflict The Euro pean cabinets, however, have been forced to reckon with this possibility for a considerable period and have had ample time to discuss among them selves their attitude in such an event uality.” The German foreign minister. Al fred Von Kiderlen-Waechter, in an in terview on the situation, said : “The situation is so precarious from a military point of view that hostili ties may break out at any moment. The great powers, however, are united in their determination not to permit any change in the territorial position. “The possibility of any great pow er’s becoming involved if war should break out may be regarded as out of the question. Hostilities certainly will be localized.” The Turkish embassy here believes that there is scarcely one chance in twenty of preserving peace. CORNER IN BITTER SENDS PRICES SOARING Chicago—A corner in the available supply of butter, which promise* to carry the price to the high level of last year and possibly higher, con fronts the consumer of this product The big packers are supposed to be the interests engineering the deal. The effect of the control of the available supply of butter is already being felt and the price is now 2} cents higher than a year ago at this date, despite the fact that supplies are 11,000,000 pound* greater than last year, as shown by the monthly re port on cold storage stocks given to tbe trade September 7. Another report is due soon, which will probably show even a greater ex cess in tbe supply. Rome—Italy’s program in the event of war in the Balkan* has not been mapped ouL It is known, however, that the Italian navy will play a prom inent role, indirectly aiding the Bal kan coalition by preventing Turkey from moving troops out of Asia Minor. To this end the Italian fleet will keep its full strength in the vicinity of the Aegean sea. To move troops from Asia Minor toward Macedonia by European* Ar* Manacad. land, ibis said, probably would be be Amoy, China,—Threats to sacrifice yond the resources available to the European lives at Foo-Chow have been Turkish government. uttered by General Pung, unless his Professor Lowe Dying. demands or 460,000 tael* (about 8316,- Pasadena, Cal.—Prof. Thaddeua S. 000) from the authorities are acceded C. Ixtwe, designer and builder of the to. The mutinous troops with Gene Mount Lowe railway, inventor of wa ral Pung number from 10,000 to 20,- ter gas and pioneer aeronaut, is near 000 men. A force of 6000 govern death here at the home of his daugh ment troops is marching from Nan ter, Mr*. E. L. Wright. Professor king to meet the rebels. The mission Lowe won fame as a balloonist during aries have been recalled from the the Civil war, being the first aeronaut Hinghwa district to the north of this attached to the United States army. cty, where serious disorder ha* exist Mount Ix>we is named after him. Pro ed for some time. fessor Lowe i* 80 years old, and is in a Burglary Rat* Advance*. precarious condition. San Francisco—On the heels of a Grand Jury Ignore* Vice. series of burglaries and holdup*, each Chicago—Despite testimony by Miss running into the thousands, public an Virginia Brooks, the West Hammond nouncement was made here Thursday “Joan of Arc,” the Cook county grand that the burglary insurance rate had jury adjourned witbout voting indict been raise! until it is now equal to ments as the result of its vice inves the highest in the country—that of tigations. It also refused to take Chicago. In defense of their position cognizance of the report that a mem insurance men said that they either ber of the staff of the state's attorney had to advance the rate or go out of had attempted to prevent.the vice in business, a* their losses were such that they were not paying expenses. vestigation.