Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 18, 1912, SECOND EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextII jrtfrnn Hlttarleal CUyHtV . . MEDFORD Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER yJfnt. r.Sj MIh. SI. Shower tonight awl Twrs- - Corly'iiiponil Tnr. Dully ilnvniith Y.Br, MKDFOHD, OKFION. MONDAY, XOVJCMHJCR 18, 1012. NO.' 205, i ji MONASIIR CM REAR ADMIRAL OSTERHAUS. TO MAIL OREO BY SERVIANS STAY BO CONFESSES SAYS C R MB 45,000 TURKS MADE PRISONERS BA OS N ra CARD fo. .. t- . f ! r . WESTERN FORT POWERS LAND BOMB STORIES FALLS TO SERBS Zokkl Pnshn nnd Three Generals With Remnants of Western Ren incuts Surrender After Stubborn resistance Both Lose Heavily. Fearful Sufferlnu Amonn Soldiers Who Flht Knee Deep In Marshes for Several Days. LONDON, Nov, IS. Thn surrender of Moiinwtlr to thu Horvlan ItivcutliiK nrmy Im reported Hi In afternoon from lltlruiln. It In imtil In tho dispatch received by tho Horvlan c.overniiuuit Unit three Turkish generals and Ui.000 Turkish soldiers woro cap tureil. 'olikl Pasha, with tho remnants of various westoru Turkish rcKlmouts, wnn Hip defender of Monastlr. It Ik known t hut ttukkl I'anliti was In des perate straits, Jitllltnry men hero be lieve ho Iiiim h no n forced to cnpttif Into. Surrender Cnnflnueil Dispatches received hero later In tho tiny confirmed tho full of Man nntlr. Tho Turku, It wnn said, put up u stubborn resistance ami the Servian losses woro heavy. Tho (Differing aiming tho soldiers on each ultlo ,wh .. frightful. . For several dayinthey fought knew deep In thu marshes which Nurroundcd tho town, Ho far oh could hn learned here, tho Greek force which was on roiito to reinforce thn Brrvlans, hail not arrived whon tho Turk lull garrison surrendered. Hnvngrn of Cholera VIENNA, Nov. 1 Tfrrlbla stor ies of tho ravages of cholera among tho TurklHh troops nod tho treatment necordod thu vtctlmn aro told toilny In thu Frankfort Unxottc. Ihiudrodii of Turkish soldiers, afflicted with tho disease, nro reported dying with guns In their hnndi. Tho railroad In tho vicinity of Constantinople nro lined with corpses. Dying men are kicked ruthlessly from tho trnlm. Threo thousand ntrlckon soldiers who arrived at Ht. Stofano In hox earn, woro loft for twenty-four hourH, with out inodtcnl attention, food or wittor. Several timed In storming Moslem fortification, tho Ilulgnrliiu troops, meeting with weak rcshituucu, found tho TiirkUn eutroiicliumntH filled with dead nnd dying eholorn victims. Appro I to Powers Dispatches received from Cnnntnii tluoplo Into today Hay tho foreign residents hnvo appealed to tho rep resentatives of tho powers not to per mil either tho Turkish or Utilitarian troopu to oiitor tho city while cholera Is rnglng. Whoeltmlo arrests nro roportod In tho MohIoiii capital In connection with an aliened Young Turk plot to OHtalillHh a ropulillo tiudor Chufket Pasha. Tho government's position 1 hellevod precarious. CHINA TO DECLARE PKKIN, Nov. IB. Clilursn troops nro today lioliio; i'iikIiuiI to Mongolia whiuli it in lioliovutl IttiNiit h tryiiiR to Ki'"b, Tho Mongolian (llgullitriim linvo uicd thu Kijyeinment to koiu! li'oups nnd I'ffHldoiit Yuan Shi Kui evidently iin Hiirrendered to tliu war )inty. IfoHlllilioH u re imniiueiil, RIlANOirAI, Nov. 18. TliouHitmls o(! ClilnoHo tiro unrolling hero ih vol nuteoi'rt ill tho ovqnt of will1 witlt KiibhIii, A iiiiish mootliiK nt Uaittott Iiiih ileiniiinlcil of the Kovoniinont uu Imiuoilluto dculnnilioii of wttr. WAR mm m warn b y act bycaufornians Two Thousand Marines From War ships to Guard Embassies Move Quietly Into Constantinople Brit ish Guard American Embassy. Reports of Turkish Victories Denied Action by Powers Forecasts Fall of Capital. ST. IM:Ti:itHIIUKO, Nov. 18. Another appeal for o-matloii o( ho tlllllrN wnn made by Turkey thin nf tornoon, throiiKh tho Hmmlnn nn batnmdor at Constantinople 1ONDON, Nov. 1H. Two thou and marines and bluejackets from tho warships of thu powers wore lauded In Constantinople this after noon. Thn Turkish government was willing that the powers should laud the forces but thu marines were moved Into tho city quietly as iho authorities feared to arouse tho an gcr of thn masses. Unitarian diplomats hero deny re portH from Constantinople that the Turks have been victorious In the defense of the Tchntalja forts, nod the action of tho powers lit latidlnK 2000 men Is believed to ninko It virtually certain that thn Turks aro not holding their own In tho defense nf tho city. r llrltlsh marines nr guarding tho United Stales oinbussy lit Constanti nople. Karly despatches that the American guard ship Scorpion had landed clKhty American marines to protect tho embassy wero untrue. Tho Scorpion Ih one of tho smallest of Kuardshlps. and was ablo to fur nish only six mou. England, It Is stated, let Ambassador W. W, Hoc.k hlll have 110 men to protect ills of ilce. CONSTAN.A, Houmanln, Nov. 18. Despatches received hero from Constantinople state, that tho rate of Increase of cnolorn cases among tho Turkish troops has reached r.000 n day. ST. PETHItSllUUG, Nov. 18. An official despatch to thu TurkUli am bassador here stated that tho Hul Knrlnnx had resumed tho attack on tho dofuiisos of Constantinople and Hint tho Moslem troops woro more than holding their own. Tho mes sai;o added that thu Turkish victory yestorday was complete. GMHI ON STAND SAKKM, Mass., Nov. IH. Art nro nioMiunitti iieeiined of the murder of Atiuii LoplxKO, togethur with Joicpli Kttor mill Antonio Ciiru.so, hh tin out Krowtlt of the ldtwrenee textile strike took Die witness stand hero today in UU own ilefeusu. ASK TEDDY TO OMAHA. Noli., Nov. 18. That prominent Nebraska progressives nro behind a move to induce Colonel Theodore ltoosevelt to return to tho republican party and continue his fight Tor progressive principles therein, heenino known hero today. Professing to voico progressive sen timent in tho state, a letter written to Colonel Itonsovelt hy John O. Yelsor of Qiiiahn, progressive leader in thu recent caiunnluu. ttriroH the uhuiidnnmeiil of tho third party movement, In imrt tho lottov says: "Your fiuht is not acainst tho rank and file of tho republican party tho overwhelming majority of whinh Is honest hut niriiinst a few orooks who obtained control, Tho people woro wttn you at mo unoitgo oonvon tion. Ym woro justified in slarlinp; a Many Witnesses Confirm McManl jjal's Narrative Destruction of Times Builillnp. Retold Finding of Bomb Under Porch of Otis Home. All Defendants Insist on Testifying in Their Own Behalf Tveltmoe Implicated Again. INniAKAI'OI.IH, Nov. IS.-rnlt-fornin witnetfiM occupied the ntten tion of the jury in Hie Tnilcd Stntes court today in the trinl of forty xcveii union men clmrced with ille gally trausHjrtiiig dynamite. The firwt wilncfH was JoNcph Itriiiglinin, n l.os AligeleH utrect cur conductor, who told of fiudini uu inforunl inn chine at I he home of I .1. Zeehnndel nrr, fceeretiiry of the Merchants nnd .llllufuelurerM no'.ocintion. Detective K. llico, who opened tile Nititcnse, was the next witncxH. He Hiiiil it coiltniued n clock and n (itnutity of explosives. Uice nlno told of findiutr.nuotlier xuitcnxe lin ger the porch of the home of Ocncrnl II. O. Olix, the moruiiur tifter the Timert Ituildiuc whm dynamited. II exploded when ho left it Sit tho park. Phi kill lim Dynaiullc Willmin l.viijupf Oimitr Cnlf tor mcr employe of the Oiant Powder company, tcHtificd that he packed the fiOO pottndK of nilro-glyccrino sold to J. H. McNttmurn and io .lax, H. Mr Nnninra. It wjih learned liero this afternoon Hint nearly till of the de fendant insist on testifying in their own behnlf. Kdwnnl Smvlho of Springfield, Illinois, paid ho would have tit least -i. wituosKcs, anil that mnnv of lii-c co-defendiints also would hnvo n large uuinlier. John Hendricks, a Lo Angeles de tective, kiivc n detailed description or the Times dynamiting. His testimony wns corroborated by (leorgo Ilolines, nnother detective. .lames Ornham of San Fmncixco, a file cleric for the Asiatic Exclusion league, was the next witness. He identified Olnf Tveitmoc, the lengue'si secretary, flrahnm snid Hint before Hie Times explosion ho frenuently snw Tveitmoo with .Schmidt, Cnplnn mid Anton Johnnusnn. Saw Tveltmoe Frequently Mrs. Oraco Oamphell, former pro prietress of a holel nt Corto Mudern, Cnl., where Joliniinsoti, Cnplnn nnd Schmidt lived, described visits slie nlleged Tveitmoo made to her place Ho wns frequently nccompnnicd, she snid, by strangers, just beforo tho Times oxplosion, all holding lengthy conferences with Schmidt and Cup Inn. Mrs. Hello I.nvin of Sun r'rnncisoo testified Hint Schmidt stayed at her house for eight mouths prior to thu TinicH dyniimitiug. On October 1, 11)10, a day after the explosion, she said Schmidt hurriedly tool; several suits of clothes from her homo nnd did not return. RETURN TO FOLD 'hack fire,' and succeeded to tho sat isfuetion of tho majority of tho rank and lilo of thu republican party. We rejoico that an unity nf timid offiu iuls lost their positions beonuso self ishness hud submerged their patriot ism. "Yon hnvo trimmed thu political cmbetttluig officials and ouii now do a great sorvico for u regenerated party of past honor. You deelnrod you could not stand with tho old par ty, as constituted, mid tho result has luum that it is very differently con stituted. You have never commit tod yourself permanently to any now par ty, but only to proRressivo princi ples. The, now party was merely a tompornry party of protest to provont tho dolivery of a party of honor to a gang of thieves," BSJHHbISHSK Hfefekk r mV -1. HiHlf Rear Admiral .. ti Cc lira. Hear Admlro OHlirb'iw. In romuini.d of ibe Atlantic flwt. v. Ill tie the prluclp.it figure at ClurlMob, S. (X, when Hie licet 8einliIeJ there on Its io m hern trip. DEGENERATE Rli ROUNDED UP BY V POUTI.AND. Ore. .Nov. IS. W. II. Allen, Krnyhnlrod businessman, Is today dying from the effects of chloroform taken with suicidal In tent and Jack Klgo, Oypsy violinist, C, D. IlronncrN. It. Healy, H. L. Itowc, Knrl Van ilutenm, Earl Hrown Lionel Oenn, Itobert Johnson, K. Tay lor aro tindor $5000 bonds each as tho result of the unearthing of evi dence connecting them with alleged Illicit conduct toward young boys. The Investigation woa started at the Instigation of V. .M. C. A. offi cials. All hnvo confessed with the exception of Itlgo, who Is notorious because of his escapade with the famed Princess Chlmay several years ago, ainl Johnson who has not yet boon examined. Pernio In a prominent architect, nnd all of the others aro prominent professionally or lit a business way. Tho in on confessed to forming n vlco club for the recruiting of young boys. It lA authoritatively said that no person actively connected with tho Y. M. C. A. was connected with tho unprintable affair, Dr. Harry h. Start and Hr F. J. Ilodgman wero also arrested In connection with tho, scandal but Dr. Ilodgman was renleafscd and Dr. Start Is being examined this after noon. It Is suited that, tho evidence ngntnst tho phjslclaus Is far from be ing conclusive. St. Vincent's hospital reports this afternoon that William 11. Alton, will doubtless recover. Allon stout ly maintains his Innocence. Doctors Start nnd Ilodgman aro prominent In tho city. MAHYSVILLIC, Cal., Nov. IS. Fifteen porsons wero badly Injured, two fntnlty, today whon. a Northern Eloctrlu street car was struck by a frolght train and knecked: off the trtlo near tho Feather rlvor bridge hero. Tho car was crushed llko art ogg sholl whon t fell thirty foot to tho ground and all tho passengers wore sovoroly Injured. William Carpen ter," proprietor of n moving picture theator horo, nnd Lowls Stone, a oar pentor, aro roported to hnvo been fatally- hurt. f A honvy fog proventod tho train inon from realhlng tho dauor un til too late. PORT Dm pe rl II II II NJURED Hugo Oittrhauj. AUSTRIA PLANS I E DEItLIN, .Nov. IS. As a warning to Servln, Austria Is believed today to bo preparing a demonstration of overwhelming military strength on tho Hungarian-Servian frontier, and a naval demonstration in the Qnltlc. Sofia Intimates that Uulgarfa has assured Servln of strong support Ifl ourvia ueucs .uina io tnioriero with tho planB of the allies for the partition of Turkey. Ninety thous nnd Austrlnns are known to bo with-, In striking distance of Servla. The! situation Is regarded as most oml- nous for the peace of Europe. L GUNMEN'S TRIAL NEW YORK. Nov. 18. Jttdgo Wnhl, attorney for tho gunmen on trinl for the nctual murder of Gamb ler Herman Rosenthal, summed up his case today, and denounced "IJnld Jack" Hose, Sum Sehepiw, Harry Vallon and "Hridgey" Webber. Each side is allowed three and a half i hours for argument. DEMON RATION TO OVERAW SER1 FNA ARGUMENTS Justice John . Goff plans to do-1 assumed charge today of his own liver his ehargo to the jury tomor- varied Interests, row. Heretofore Edison has allowed Wnhl cnlled Ifose a gnmbler and others to direct his many corpora au admitted liar, and asserted Unit tlons, but he will now take personal he lured tho defendants to the scene ! control. of the murder in order to shift tho responsibility upon them. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. One cent postngo, nn extention of tho par cels post, and rural free delivery service; tho establishment of federal aid for post roads and a readjust ment of railway mail pay, aro some of tho post office reforms to be in stituted by the democratic nilmiitta tuition, according to information ob tnined hero today. Democratic senti ment in the house and sennto is against any further extension of the civil service in tho post offico de partment at present, It wns stated that President-Elect Woodrow Wilson will be urged to re scind tho executivo order promulgnt ed by President Tuft, putting fourth class postmasters in the olnssifted list. Dcniocrnts, it is snid; boliovo this policy is impractical. DEMOCRATS FAVOR 1 CENT POSTAGE Supreme Court Upholds Decree of Maryland Federal Court Dissolving Ctandard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and Allied Concerns. Patent Monopoly Law Does Not Ob tainOwnership of Patents Net a Justification of Monopoly. WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. The I'niled Slntes supreme court today upheld the decree of the Maryland federal court disolvinir the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company nnd allied concerns, which form the sotnllel bathtub tru-.t. The concerns were ordered diohed an in restraint of trade, in pite of the contention that the decree invaded the patent rights of the trut. No decisions wero announced in either the anthracite trust or the railroad rate ones. The court recessed until December Trust busters regard the bathtub decision as the most important since the Standard Oil decree. In the "patent mono)oly" decision Inst year the court held that the owner of a patent could dictate terms tinder which the patented article wns to be sold. It wns feared that this might npply the same reasoning to the Shermnn anti-tmtt law and prevent the government from attacking trusts which controlled through owning pat ents. The decision, however, denied such a view, declnrinc that the de-i fendnnU' ownership of a patented .ur-icje. did no L.-j notify- tlit-Hi.."m..'M-dncting a nionnixily. It wnsTdeelared that they violated the Sherman law whether the patented article figures in the ease or not. j ED BY BERMUDA PEOPLE HAMILTON'. Bermuda, Nov. 18. The Quebec Liner Dermudlnn. with resident-Elect Woodrow Wilson and o's party aboard, arrived here today. The Dermudlan docked this after noon. The mayor went out In the official yacht, to take Wilson off but tlte president-elect declined, preferr , Ing to land with the other passen gers. I A largo crowd greeted Wilson, . who spoke briefly. EDISON TO MANAGE NEW YORK, Nov. IS With tho resignation of Frank L. Dyer, as prosldent of the Edison company and allied Interests. Thomas A. Edison Dyer acted as head of the Edison enterprises for moro than ten years. Information gathered by house democratic investigating committeos shows tUo postal service is burdened with unprofitable business which should bo otfset by business now car ried by the express companies. Log islntiou to remedy this will ho urged. That tho dissolution of tho Stan dard Oil and tobacco trusts may be come a reality without wniting fpr congressional action is tho belief cur rent here today. This because Louis lirnndcis, acting for tho independent oil nnd tobacco men, protested against tho iwtion of Attornov Gen eral Wiekershnni in declining tn ap peal rrom the decree of the UniteiJ States circuit court whon it approved the rcorgunisnitiou plan of these trusts. Now Hrandeis is talked of as tho next attorney general. Maniac Tells of Murderino Children by Torture and Attempting to Kill Twelve Others Following Brutal Assaults Little Hope of Capture. All Schools Closed at Buffalo in Re spect to Memory of Last Victim ef Fiend. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 18. The, arrest of the maniac flayer of seven- year-old Joseph Josephs is now but a. question nf hours. It wns author itatively stated by the police this afternoon that they know the identity of the mnn but do not know his pres ent whereabouts. Chief Gilion of Lackawanna says the arrest may be made tonighf. Un til a year ago, according to tho police the innn wns employed by the Lack awanna steel company. He is said to bo a member of a socially prominent family nnd a valuable cmployo when in his right mind. Sometimes it wns paid, he exhibited the characteristics of n pervert. Finally the police say,- , lie wns discharged nnd went to Bos ton. He remained in Boston, it wns said, until Sunday a week ago. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 18. With all schools closed in respect to hiu memory, Joseph Josephs, boy victim of a maniac murderer, was buried here today. Mrs. Josephs, prostrat ed by the crime, was unable to attend tho services, which were held fn St. Charles church. ." . The police admitted today Hint they liavo little hope of eapturing-.tUe. murderer. Before the boy was slain a year Hgn, M was put iri a VBult anil there slowly tortured by tho maniac. Finally he was choked to death. One of the last postcards the in sane murderer wrote to the police said: "Like Rnnipio's, ghost, my ' crimes will not down." The enrd also said that the fdnyer would sur render Wednesday. Chief of Police Gibson, of Lack awanna, where the boy wa.s slain, thinks the murderer is a wealthy nnd highly educated man. His postcards confess to four murders nnd twelve, attempts to kill children following assaults. NEW Y6lK, Nov. 18. Tho police here are investigating today the deaths of a number of children which have never been explained, believing they probably were victims of the "Buffalo post card murderer." One of tho postcards seut to the Buffalo police confessed to tho murder in Central Park hero of Michael Kurk, in 1002. Tho records show- tho slay er fastened his teeth in the child's neck beforo death. BOSTON, Nov. 18. The nolico ore scourine; the city today for clues that might lend to tho identity of the ' "Buffalo postcard murderer," Tho postcard confessing to the murder of Joseph Josephs was written at the Tremont Hotel here. , IS PAROLED BY enORWEST SALB.M, Ore., Nov, 18. Governor West today paroled W, Coopor Mor ris convicted of embezzling funds be longing to tho derunct Oregon Trust nnd Savings Dank. He wag nen teaced to a torm of from one to ton years. It dovoloped In the trial of Morris that ho tried to apply tho bank's funds to the rejuvenation of a dilapidated railroad, the promotion of tho Golden Eaglo department store In Portland and other ventures either totally unstable or apperently so. COOPER MORRIS FORMER SENATOR TERRELL OF GEORGIA II DEAD ATLANTA, On., Nov, 18, After tin illness, J. M, Terrell, fanner gov ernor and United States senator, is .dead at his home here today, Terrell; hiicceoded At S. Clay, in the S8rwitj " and held tlitf place .until the eMiofi of Hoke Smith, present niuimiKHt, , ,.