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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07
IN new YORK CITY
PASSED THROUGH HERE THIS
MORNING FROM HOT SPRINGS.
Guest Of Honor at North Carolina
Society Dinner Tonight-Mrs.
Taft at Boardman Home.

Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Taft left Hot
Springs. Va. last night. and after the
latter part of next week will journey to
Augusta. Ca. where they will remain
until after February 1. Mrs. Taft upon
her arrival in the city this morning went
directly to the home of Miss Mabel Board
man, whose guest she will be throughout
the remainder of the week.
Mr. Taft continued his journey to New
York city. where he will stop with his
brother Henry w. Taft. This trip Is
not for the purpose of any political con-
ference. but to attend to night. as the
guest of honor. dinner of the North
Carolina Society, at which he will speak
on the Development of the South
Tomorrow morning Mr. Taft will return
to Washington and join his wife at the
home of Miss Boardman.
In his and Mrs. Tafts honor the hostess
will entertain tomorrow evening the men,
bers of the Red Cross Society. number
Of delegates to the conservation confer
ence and others. Mrs. Richard Townsend
will also entertain Mr.. and Mrs. Taft at
dinner Wednesday evening and Thurs
day Miss Boardman has invited the men,
berS of the party who made the trip with
Mr.. Taft to the Philippines to a recep-
ton.
Friday Mrs. Beekman Winship will give
be the last of the entertainments of the
week, as they leave for New York again
early Saturday morning.
Busy Week for Taft.
While in the city Mr.. Taft will put in
a busy week. presiding at the conserva--
ton conference of the governors, deliver
ing speech at the annual convention of
the Red Cross Society. attending dinner
of the Gridiron Club and holding a num-
Der of political conferences.
On his second visit to New York, Mr.
Taft will speak before the Civic FEEDER
alton and the Ohio Society. Mrs. Taft
will also address the former assemblage.
In the latter part of the coming week
they will leave for Augusta.
Pending his departure TOR the south, Of
fees for Mr.. Taft are being established
by his secretary. Mr.. Carpenter. in the
Union Trust building here, in the same
rooms formerly occupied by Chairman
Hitchcock of the republican national COM
mittee prior to the convention.
Taft Arrives in New York.
NEW YORK, December Taft. who IS
to speak at the dinner of the North Caro-
lima society in this city tonight, reached
here at o'clock this afternoon. He went
at once to the residence of his brother,
Henry. w. Taft, whose guest he will be
until his departure from the city tomor-
row morning.
Mr.. Taft travelled as a regular Pullman
passenger and the railroad officials Of the
Jersey City terminal had not known OF
his coming. He was met by few friends
to whom he expressed himself as being In
the finest of health and spirits, and was
escorted to a ferry and then he went by
automobile to his brothers home.
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MAVERICK DEED INVALID.
Conveyance of Property in Virginia
Declared Fraudulent.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, December 7.-Another
chapter in the celebrated Maybrick case
was written today when the court of ap-
peals of Virginia decided that the deed
made by Mrs. Florence Maybrick at the
time of her conviction by the English
courts In London for the murder Of her
husband, which conveyed considerable
property in Virginia to David w. Arm
strong. through Harrison P. Groom,
agent, was fraudulent The deed is there
fore set aside.
The decision further requires Armstrong
to account for moneys received through
sale of this land, amounting to about ST.
600, 900, and to reinstate the title for such
lands as are still unsold in Mrs. May
brick and her mother. The decision was
read by Judge Daniel s. Grinnan. Judge
Hill Carter and Phillip B. Shields repre-
sented Armstrong before the Virginia
court and Samuel B. Hayden of this city
was the attorney for Mrs. Maybrick and
her mother.
Many thousand acres of land in Virginia
and West Virginia are said to be involved
in this case.
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identified As A F00TPAD
MISS CUNNINGHAM IN COURT
TELLS OF ASSAULT.
Swears Thomas Young is the Man
Who Attempted to Snatch
Her Purse.

Thomas Young. the negro youth, VINO
was arrested day or SO ago upon sus-
picion of being the would-be pocketbook
snatcher who attempted to grab the purse
of Miss Marie Cunningham last Thurs
day night near 18th and streets, was
given a preliminary hearing this morning
before Judge Mullowny of the Ponce
Court, charged with attempted robbery
and held in $1,000 bond for the action
of the grand jury. In default OF bail the
defendant was remanded to the united
States jail pending further action In MS
case.
The only person to testify at the hear.
ing was Miss Cunningham. who told or
being followed as she made her way up
13th street to the Coywood apartment
house, where she lives. She stated as she
reached a dark section Of the street be-
TWEEN F and G streets negro rushed 10
her. struck her a singing blow IN the
chest and grabbed for her pocketpook.
she testified. she half turned as the man
made a grab for her purse and In this
way succeeded in keeping her purse Out
of his reach.
Under close questioning. Miss Cunning
ham positively identified Young as the
person who approached her and attempt
ed the robbery.
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BIG FALL IN TEMPERATURE
Low POINT OF THE SEASON
REACHED AT KANSAS CITY.
Ten Degrees Above Zero Reported.
Cold as Far South as Okla
homa City.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, December T.
There was fall of twenty-five degrees
in the temperature in western Missouri
and Kansas in the twenty-four hours up
to this morning when the low point of the
season-ten degrees above zero was
reached. The cold wave reached as far
south as Oklahoma City. where the tenn
perature was twenty-five degrees above
zero early today.
NORFOLK, Neb., December IA
heavy snow which fell in northern
Nebraska and southern South Dakota
yesterday was followed by a fall of tenn
perature to thirteen degrees below zero
this morning.
OMAHA, Neb.. December, THE tenn
perature at o'clock this morning was
three degrees below zero.
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both of whom spoke. Secretary Stratus
presided over the meeting. He was es-
corted to the platform by James +. Smith.
president of the Business Mems Club of
St. Louis, and Charles Hall Davis, presi-
dent of the chamber of commerce of
Petersburg. Va. Secretary Wright was
accompanied to the platform by Fred
of Louisville.
The invocation was delivered by Bishop
elect Harding.
Awakening Of the South.
Secretary Straus told of the commercial
awakening Of the south and how its
products of $1,130,OOO annually had in
creased Sc per cent in the past decade.
while the products of the rest of the
country had advanced but % per cent
This statement was greeted enthusiast
tically. The south, he said. had awakened
from being an almost purely agricultural
section and was now alive to the posi-
bilities of mining and manufacturing. Il
believe" said the Secretary, that the
time is coming when the south will be
ready to break away from political tradi-
lions as WELL" There was some applause
at this, but not SO pronounced as in the
former case.
The Secretary declared that what was
for the good Of the south was for the
was for the good of the nation was for
the good of the south. He touched on the
subject Of transportation, and pointed out
the need of steamship lines to link the
country with the 70,000,000 people in South
America. and declared that it was the
height of folly for this country to have
to depend for commercial transportation
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to South America on lines that ran from
England and France. This, he said,
touched the south as much as it did the
north, but it was national problem and
Of greater interest to the south merely in
that the southern states were nearer to
South America.
The Council of Commerce.
On the general subject Of commercial
development the Secretary called atten-
ton to an organization that he had
fathered from the Department of Com
MERGE and Labor. 1t was the Council of
Commerce, about which good deal has
been written and which is to meet in
Washington this month. He said that
other great powers were ahead of us in
their commercial development largely be-
cause their governments and consular
services were closer in touch with the man
ufacturers and exporters of the country.
He hoped that the Council of Commerce
would supply this need for the United
States, and that bureaus would be estab-
lished in Washington that could keep
closely in touch with the government
with the State Department and the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor and
profit by the information that was almost
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Morrow. Thomas P. Morgan. Arthur C..
Moses Frank A. Munsey. Maj. Charles L..
McCauley Frederick b. Mcclure. j: Nota
McGill. John r. Mclean George \. Nc
Lanahan..
James l.. Norris, Theodore w. Noyes-
James F. Oyster
E. Seuthard Parker, Col. NJ. M Parker.
Capt Andrew Parker: Col. James G.
Payne, II, C, Perkins r. Ross Perry. Maj.
Duncan C. Phillips, D. S. Porter.
Frank p. Reside, II. s. Reeside- Cuno
Edgar Is. Shaw. Mai Richard d: -simms.
John H. Small. jr.: A. S. ,Solomons,- Gen.
E1Es Spear, Joseph NJ. Stoddard, Maj.
Richard Sylvester.
Robert H Terrell Col. George Trues-
William p Van Wickle.
Thomas F. Walsh. Brainard II. Warner,
NJ. l. Weller. Henry L. West. Brig Gen.
John NJ. Wilson, Gen. Maxwell V. Wood.
hull.
First Meeting Thursday.
Headquarters of the inaugural commit
tee will be opened in the library of the
New Willard Hotel Of street side), Thurs
day next. and in the evening of the same
day at g o'clock the first meeting Of the
committee will be held by direction of
Chairman Stellwagen.
The great working committees are yet
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News Briefs.

The Lutheran chapel at Elkins. w. Va,
was dedicated by Rev. Luther kaufman
of the Theological Seminary, Gettysburg
John Pacilla, colored, was convicted at
Kingwood, w Va. Of attempted felonious
assault on Nettie Childs. seven years old.
daughter of; the superintendent Of the
poor farm of Preston county, w. Va.
Three barns on the farm of DR.. J. d.
Blake. In Middiesex county, Va. were de-
stroyed by fire. together with four horses
a quantity Of grain. a number OF tons OF
fertilizer and other property.
Samuel Gladding of Easton, Md. killed
two hogs thirteen months old. one OF
which weighed ATTN pounds and the other
42Sh.
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.BILL|k REPR|EvED AGAIN
ILLINOIS MURDERER GIVEN
LONGER LEASE ON LIFE.
Execution Is Stayed for the Sixth
Time-Cries and Laughs When
He Hears News.

SPRINGFIELD ILL.,, December 7.-Her-
man Blink, sentenced to be hanged De-
cember IL for the murder Of Mary Vzral.
was today granted a reprieve until TJanu-
airy 20.
The reprieve was granted by Acting
Gov. Sherman.
Present at the private hearing were
Acting Gov. Sherman, E. A. Snively Of
the state board of pardons and Francis e.
Hinckley of Chicago. attorney for Billik.
Mr. Hinckley set forth in his petition for
reprieve that certain new and vital phases
of the case had come to the attention Of
the petitioner. The petition further stat
ed that Gov. Deenen. who is now in
Washington. had asked that the reprieve
be granted till he can look into the case.
Hinckley declared that new evidence
had been found and that it will free
Billik.
Had Given Up Hope.
CHICAGO, December 7.-Herman Bill
Xix received the news that he had been
reprieved with great surprise, for he had
given up all hope and had repeatedly ex-
pressed the opinion that he would die on
the gallows December IL. Billik's case
has been in every court which had juris-
diction in Illinois and also the Supreme
Court of the United States. Death SEN
tence was first imposed July IS, 1907. and
since that time. including the action at
Springfield today. he has six times es-
capped execution by stays of sentence or
respites.
When Jailer Davis brought the tidings
from Springfield Billik kissed the jailer's
hand and amid tears and laughter ran to
tell the news to his friends in the bull
pen" Noticing Andrew Williams, a ne
gro, who is sentenced to hang next Fri
day for wife murder. Billik triea to COM
fort him, but with little success.
II guess there's not much hope for me-"
said the negro.
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has appointed the grand marshal, Gen J.
Franklin Bell to be chairman of the
committee on military organizations.
Mr.. Stellwagen also said the matter of
railroad rates for visiting organizations
will be taken up by Mr.. Hege. chair
man Of the committee on railroad trans
portation.
Satisfaction Over Selections.
Satisfaction was generally expressed at
the selections made by Mr.. Stellwagen
today. Col Thomas S. Hopkins may be
placed in charge of the matter of.veteran
organizations. The appointment of Frank
A. Kidd. president of Columbia Typo
graphical Union. is taken as a mark of
recognition to organized labor. 1t is said
the c. A. r. will request that as in former
years il be assigned as the guard Of honor
to escort the President and Vice President
to the Capitol, where they will take the
oath of Office.
The Spanish War Veterans will ask that
there be a veteran division in the inaugu-
ration parade. and IL is said certain or
PLANTATIONS of workingmen will ask to be
permitted 10 join the proct sston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07

Henry Fl. Father. George 4, Elem
ing. Percy S. Foster, Thomas NJ GAZE.
Brig. Gen. G. L. Gillespie. Charles
C. Glover. Bernard r. Green. James
M. Green, Gilbert II. Grosvenor. Gen
George H HarYies. Walter s. -Har-
ban. Samuel g. Hege. Frank c. Henry,
James C. Hooe Maj. Thomas S. Hopkins,
Richard r. Horncr.
Hennen Jennings. Brig. Gen. John A
Johnston. Rudolph Kaufman. d. j.
Kaufman. Frank A. Kidd. John B. Lar
ner A NJ. Lothrop.
Henry b. F. Macfar and. James Rush
Marshall George w Martin. Rear Adj
rniral Newton E. Mason William \.
Mearns. Brig. Gen. Arson Mills, MAJ j. j.
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JUDGE At SHANGHAI
President Appoints Rufus
Thayer to Succeed Whitley.
SURPRISE TO DISTRICT MAN
Well Known Lawyer Not an Appli-
cant for Place.
WELL FITTED FOR POSITION
Senior Member of Law Firm and
Long Active in Local Affairs.
Native of Michigan.
SURPRISE TO DISTRICT MAN
WELL FITTED FOR POSITION

President Roosevelt has appointed
Rufus Thayer of the District of Columbia
as judge of the United States court at
Shanghai, China. succeeding Judge Leb-
bus 1. Whitley. resigned. Judge Whitley
was for a long time under serious charges
brought by Americans in Shanghai, but
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Steamer Stranded at Vancouver.

VICTORIA, B. c.. December Z. - The
steamer Glenfarg. under charter to the
Canadian Pacific. outward bound from
Vancouver to the orient. stranded yester-
day in the narrows at Vancouver. She
was foated and taken back to her wharf
at Vancouver to discharge part of her
cargo, and will come up to EsQuimalt to
enter the dry dock for survey and repairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07
METCALF IN LOS ANGELES.
Former Secretary Of the Navy Will
Inspect San Pedro Harbor.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, December T.
Victor Metcalf, former Secretary Of the
Navy, accompanied by Mrs. Metcalf, ar
rived in Los Angeles yesterday from
Washington. They will visit their son,
Victor j., who is at a sanitarium at Mon
rovia for a few days. and Tuesday Mr.
Metcalf will inspect San Pedro harbor
and that evening he and his wife will
leave for their home at Oakland.
Speaking of the Atlantic fleet, Mr.
Metcalf said the reason the fleet could
not be retained In the Pacific was be-
cause Of the lack Of adequate dry docks.
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Drifting Steamer Brought to Port

drifting steamer brought. TO forC.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, December T.
The steamer Valentia arrived in port to-
day towing the oil tank steamer ORR
famine. which had been picked up dis
abled at sea. The Valentia, laden with
cotton. was bound from Wilmington, n.
c., for Rotterdam and the Oriflamme. with
a cargo OF oil, was bound from Phila-
delphia for a British port. The ORR
famine lost her propeller. and was help
lessly adrift when she was sighted by
the Valentia, which answered her signals
and went to her assistance
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daily received from the consuls abroad
and that ought TO be instantly available
to the manufacturers.
Some OF this information received from
the consuls, he said. was OF semi-con-
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Electric r. r. Station Burned.
Fire destroyed the electric railway sta
ton at Fairfax Courthouse. Va, between
IL and IL O'Clock last night.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
DRAFT OF SPEECH MADE
BUT TAFT WILL SLASH IT.
Plan of Action in Ohio Considered
Candidate Plays Golf.

Hot Springs Va July 16.-Mr Taft Is feeing
very comfortable tonight over the fact that
the first draft of his speech of acceptance OF tne
nomination for the Presidency by the Repuoh-
can party has been finished. But the paper 10
far from being completed Mr.. Tart adopted
the course of debating the speech with great
fulness fscluding everything he might possibly
care to have in 1t, with the intention OF cutting
it down so that only essentials. briefly stated
might remain to be presented to the people at
Cincinnati on July 2S The dictation yesterday
and to-day amounted to ten thousand WORDS
which will be reduced tc about three thousand
five hundred.
Mr.. Taft completed his task this afternoon
and then went out to play golf with George In
gals. Arthur 1. Vorys. in charge of the Ohio
campaign walking over the golf links with
them.
Mr. Taft declared that he could not undertake
to give any intimation of what his speech in it's
present form contained, because great changes
would be made in the paper before 1t went 20
the printer Such changes would. he said. be
absolutely necessary as he dictated nearly three
times as much as he purposed to include in his
speech Asked if he had advanced in his speech
any new ideas bearing on the resuiaton OF
trusts he shook his head and insisted that ne
could not discuss the document in any of its
phases.
Arthur I. vorys wiIf-be here several days and
will have conferences with Mr. Taft on the situ-
alton in Ohio Asked when he would leave Hot
Springs. Mr Vorys replied: When We get talked
out"
There are many phases Of the situation in
Ohio that will come up for consideration during
Mr. Vorys's stay here One of the subjects. it is
believed which will receive attention. is that
relating to the senatorship When Taft's atten-
ton was called to-day TO the absence or any
representative of Senator Foraker, one OF the
allies at the Chicago convention, at the recent
gathering of leaders representing various candi-
dates for the nomination. he replied that he had
seen Senator Dick in Washington before coming
here but gave no intimation of the purport OF
the conference.
1t is believed here that before Mr. Vorys re-
turns to Ohio there will be some definite plan of
action in relation TO the Foraker men. 1t is not
believed that any agreement for the support OF
Mr. Foraker by the Taft forces for reelection
to the Senate will be suggested or entertained
but Mr. Vorys has been very explicit while here
I'm declaring that the managers of the national
campafgn in Ohio will pursue policy of hands
off" in relation to the senatorship situation
When asked whether that would be possible. he
replied by asking whether they had not sue
ceeded in doing so up to the present time
William H. H Miller. Attorney General under
President Harrison and Mrs Miller dined with
Mr. and Mrs Taft at the Homestead tonight
Later in the evening Mr.. Taft among the
company in the ballroom and Joined the dancers
in a waltz
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
TOO MUCH WATER At FIRE
High Pressure Floods FiUe Floors,
Running Millinery Stocks.

For the first time in years it was case of too
much water at a fire last night at Nos. /, 3 ana
) Bond street which did $4,000 damage A
greater part of the loss was from water, as the
immense streams which the firemen poured into
the building seeped down through the five floors
below where the fire started. and practically
ruined the stocks of several mI orters of mil
linery supplies and womens furnishings
The fire was discovered the sixth floor, in
the women's waist establishment of Herman
Citron, by Patrolman Schwartz of the Mercer
street station, who sent in an alarm. Chief
Croker, who was dining near by. soon
the scene. and sent in another ALARM which
brought the water tower. Three lines were run
up on it. The pressure was unusually strong
varying from $50 pounds at the plugs to 120
pounds at the nozzle, and it took the firemen
only little more than an hour to get the flames
under control
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
4NTI-BRY4N MOVEMENT.
Alarm Created by Rapid Spread OF
Railroad Organization.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Omaha, July 16.-The Nebraska State Rail-
way Employees Association, started in Nebraska
as a movement against William J. Bryan and
the principles for which he stands. has spread
into other Western states and already organi-
cations are being formed in Iowa, illinois, Mis-
souri,. Indiana Kansas and Colorado. Other
states will be organized fast possible until
all railroad employees in the Middle West have
Joined the organization.
Headquarters were opened in Omaha to-day.
with S. c. Mecomber. Union Pacific conductor,
in charge. The Nebraska organization has a
membership of fifteen thousand out of the twen-
ty-two thousand railroad employees in this state.
Others are coming into the order daily. The
movement is creating CONSERVATION among the
Bryan workers.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
MRS. EDDY 81 YEARS OLD.
Celebrates the Day by Promulgating
NezU BUla7c.
FBy Telegraph to The Tribune.1

Boston, July 16.-Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday by pro-
mitigating new bylaw for the members of the
Mother Church The bylaw is printed In 'The
Christian Science Journal" the official organ OF
the Mother Church. 1t reads:
Article XX-No malpractice. Section 8. para
pranb 2 A member of the Mother Church who
mentally malpractices and treats our leader or
her staff without her or their consent shall be
disciplned, and second offence as aforesaid
shall cause the name of said member to be
dropped forever from the roll OF the Mother
Church.
For years malicious animal magnetism has
been the one fear of Mrs. Eddy. and while she has
snecfcally forbidden its use. never until now
has she taken official cognizance of the fact that
# might be used to her detriment or to work
harm TO her advisers. The penalty, dropping
forever the name OF the offender from the mem
bershp rolls is the strongest provided in the
bvIaws of the Mother Church.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
VEST SIDE GANGS CLASH.
Fifty Shots Fired an Street Roc, but
Only TzcO Injured.

To square UP some alleged i'll treatment re-
ceived by OF their number, the Gopher
gang, which halls from Eleventh avenue, be-
tween 4Sth and 49th streets, went last night
about 10 O'Clock TO 9th street and Eleventh
avenue which is the especial headquarters of
the 'Bedbug Row" gang and the resulting clash
kept that neghborhood in terror for about
twenty minutes
Two men, injured by gunshot wounds. are
held as prisoners in Roosevelt Hospital Patrol
men Butler and Hutchins, OF the West 47th
street station, say that about fifty shots were
fired.
The injured men said they were William
Lynch. twenty-six years old. of No. 335 East
43d street, and John Gando. twenty-six years
old of No 2001 Amsterdam avenue. Lynch
ceived wound in the right hip and Gando one
in the left leg. The others escaped arrest by
running.