Connecticut western news., 1911-11-30
2,3OO KILLED IN FIERCE
 FIGHT AT MARKING
Rebels Capture Part of City
 With WarshlpS' Aid.

l l Storming the gates under the fierce bombardment of their own artillery, the rebel force which has been besieg- ing Ranking for a fortnight has gained entrance to the city.
 The battle was one of the fiercest of tho revolution, the rebels losing up ward of 300 men, while the imperial ist casualties were placed at 2,000.
 Rebel artillery on Tiger hill silenced the batteries on Lion and Purple hills, which were pouring raking fire into the ranks of the revolutionary army on Tahchingmen gate. With this en- trance to the city captured, the rebels swung their guns against Peichekao fortress.
 Both the land and sea batteries con- centrated their fire upon this work, the battfeships doing great havoc with their heavy guns.
 The heaviest firing was at the Ming Tombs gates. Four thousand rebel soldiers with battery of twelve three-inch guns were massed there.
 
 foyalists with four six-inch guns on the wall and fourteen three-inch guns on Purple hill.
 Despite the fact that the govern ment guns outnumbered those of the anti-Manchu forces, the rebel aim was so superior that the imperialist bat teries were soon put out of commis- sion.
 The object of the first seizure of IT. ger hill was shown by the early ap- pearance of four cruisers and later of other warships. Now a dozen torpedo boat destroyers and cruisers are lying menacingly near the city.
 These are all we'll armed and we'll supplied with ammunition. They will quickly reduce the lower section and drive the defenders to the south. Dis astrous fires have been started in the Manchu section.
 n~u=.n The arrest in Texas of
 .-,. Leon Ling, charged ~ with the murder in HAPPENINGS. New York some time ago of Elsie Sigel, is expected to follow information telegraphed to that state by the Cleveland police. The informa- ton came to the Cleveland police as the result of tong feud which was re- sponsible for the fatal shooting of Woo Dip in Cleveland. His assailant was Leon Young, a member of the Hip Sing tong. who fed and has not been arrested.
 William Willett, Jr., defeated candi- date for the supreme court, second ju- dicial district; Joe Cassidy, former borough president and Democratic boss of Queens, and Louis T, Walter, IT., lieutenant of Cassidy and friend of Willett, were placed under arrest In the Queens counnty courthouse on the charge of "corruptly conspiring" to bring about the nomination of WiIlett for the supreme court bench. Bail was fixed at $50 each.
 Ellison N. Cooper Of Philadelphia has just received the champion bath tub of the world. It is large enough to float a rowboat in. Mir. Cooper stands six feet four inches and weighs about 400 pounds. The bathtub is sev- en feet four inches long, three feet four inches wide, four feet deep and weighs 1,940 pounds. It will hold 800 gallons of water and fs made of solid porcelain four inches thick.
 Three men convicted of murder were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, New York. Those who died were Bert L. Brown, a negro, who killed his half brother in a saloon in Rye, N. Y.; Pietro Falletta, who killed Louis Levine. a nonagensrian, and | Frank Schermerhorn, who killed Miss Sarah Breymer, a governess, employed in the home of Barnes Compton, at Millbrook.
 Burglars will have little chance of escaping if they ply their trade in Greenwich. Conn.,, or vicinity, for Per cival Rockefeller will lend two i'm ported English bloodhounds to the Greenwich police department The dogs are the only imported specimens in this country. The value of the hounds IS said to be $500 each, and they have records in Scotland Yard. 1 Armed with hatchets, axes and crow bars the women and girls of Myrtle, New, will celebrate Thanksgiving day ] by demolishing a distillery. Myrtle is a prohibition town, and the distillery was just across the state line in Ar kansas. Churchmen bought the plant and set it up in the public square here. After the church services Thursday l the women will wreck and burn it.
 That the Austin, Pa, dam disaster of Sept. 30 was due to gross negli- gence on the part of George c. Bayless, president. and Fred N. Hamlin. super intendent of the Bayless Pulp and Pa per company" is the unanimous yer dict of the coroner's jury. Warrants for the arrest of both were issued.
 Jaisint Gaekwar, heir apparent to the throne and 100000 subjects of Baro- da, in India, and now Harvard sopho-