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.