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BOMBARD A FORT
Turkish Warships Shell the
FOrtificatiOns at Kavarna.
Su1tan'S Army Is Retiring Be-
fore Advance of Allies.

Sofia, Oct. 21.-Turkish warships to-
day bombarded the Bulgarian fort Of
Kavarna. The customs house was de-
stroyed and several shops and dwell
ings were damaged.
Kavarna is a Bulgarian town on the
Black sea, 2S miles northeast of Varna.
Big Battles Soon.
London, Oct. 21.-Three and perhaps
four big battles probably will begin
within a few days if not a few hours,
on the territory of European Turkey.
The armies of Balkan allies have now
crossed the frontier on all sides, while
the Turks as their opponents advance,
are giving up their frontier posts and
abandoning small and unimportant
towns, falling back slowly on to their
strongly entrenched positions prepara-
tory to giving battle there.
The Bulgarian army will, it is
thought be the first to strike because
at its objective point the fortress of
Adrianople, the main Turkish army is
growing in strength. If the Bulgarians
allow the Turks time, the sultan s
army will outgrow that of the invad-
ers. 1t was rumored today that two
of the outer fortresses of Adrianople
had fallen into the Bulgarian hands
and that the town of Kirk-Killisseh
had been captured, but there was no
confirmation.
The Greek army is resting after its
capture of the Turkish town of Elias
soma and preparing for the more siren
uous task of attacking the Turkish
army of 1000 men concentrated al the
town of Servia, a little to the north.
The Greeks are said to be go, 900 strong.
The grimmest fighting of the war is
likely to occur out of sight of the
main armies as some 1000 AIbanians
are arming and Greek and Bulgarian
bands have taken to the hills, where
they will engage in guerrilla warfare.
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JOHNSON HIT HARD
That $4,000 Fight in Australia
Is Called Off.
Whites There Are Angered by
GirPS Abduction.

Sydney. Oct 21-Jack Johnson will
not fight in Australia Hugh McIn-
tosh the Australian promoter who had
offered johnson $4,000 for fights with
Sam Langford and Sam McVey or Joe
Jeanette, cabled today to W. w. Kelly,
his representative in Chicago, to can
eel all negotiations.
Mcintosh explained that Johnson's
part in the alleged abduction of Lucille
Cameron, white girl, had so angere0
the sporting men and public at large C.
Australia that the matches were no
longer desirable.
Judge FoiIs Jacks Attorney.
Chicago, Oct. 21.-Robert E. Cantwsll,
an attorney today asked United states
District Judge Carpenter for a writ Of
habeas corpus for Lucille Cameron,
the Minneapolis girl whose name has
been connected with that of Jack john
son. the negro pugilist, and who is be-
ing held in the Rockford, Illinois, Jail
in default of 900 bond as a witness
before the federal grand jury. Judge
Carpenter announced that he would be
unable to hear the petition until to-
morrow. Inasmuch as the girl is tn aU-
pear before the grand jury tomorrow.
Attorney Cantwell withdrew his peti-
ton. He would not say whether he had
been retained by johnson
Federal investigation of the charges
that johnson violated the Mann law
moved swiftly today. Twenty-Five
subpoenaeS were served on the pugl-
lists associates, ordering them to ap-
pear before the federal jury tomor
row.
Prosecution was started by the city
against Johnson for alleged violation
of the 1 o'clock saloon closing law
The case was set for hearing Octo-
her %
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EVIL WAYS ABANDONED
Prosecution of Standard Oil Has Been
Success.

Washington, Oct. 2.-To sustain his
contention that the decree dissolving the
Standard Oil company gave the relief
sought by the antitrust against the
cor corporation, Attorne7 General Wick
ersham has issued a statement revealing
some Of the results of an inquiry he has
been making into conditions in the oil
business
The statement, intended as a further
reply to criticisms that such DEGREES as
that of the Standard Oil benefited rle
trusts, was built around a letter. optirn-
lstic as to present conditions which the
attorney general recently received from C..
D. Chamberlain, secretary and general
counsel of the National Petroleum aSsocia-
ton. That organization is composed of
a large number of independent refinif-..
companies embracing according to tine
attorney general practically all the COM
panies not connected with the Standa1d d
Mr.. Wickersham had written to Mr.
Chamberlain, the statement said, for ac-
curate information as to present conoi-
tions contrasted with those existing prior
to the supreme courts decision in Nav
1911. Mr.. Chamberlain pointed out that il
was difficult to make such a comparison
because the effect of the government s
prosecution of the Standard Oil com mbina-
ton began practically with the filing o.
that suit in November 1906: and from
that date the practices of the Standar
Oh combination in large measure ceased
to be predatory and the independent deal
ers began to have a chance to live.
Continued Improvement.
This condition. Mr.. Chamberlain al
ded, continuously improved, during the
tendency of the governments suit aad
that Improvement has continued since the
decree of dissolution so that it may be
stated that the giving of rebates upon
Wfic-- the Standard monopoly was built
up, has ceased, preferential rates are few
and far between, disclosure of informa-
ton by carriers of compel titive shipments
is no longer practiced, price cutting be
low cost to kill competition is rare, and
many other unet-ical commercial prac-
uces have become so infrequent as hardly
TO cause complaint
Now the independent manufac-
turer and refiner of oil is able to conduct
his business with a fair share OF profit
reasonably due him and without the fear
ful handicap under which he labored be
fore the government suit was brought
In 1906 returns from the oil industry
show that the Standard Oil combination
controlled about ST per cent of the entire
oil business of the United States and the
remaining Is per cent was distributed
among the independent companies. The
most accurate data which 1 have been
able TO secure show that at present the
independent companies control "a per cent.
exclusive of California. where l am in
formed the independents control nearly
50 per cent
.-One other practical result of the gov
ernment's prosecution and decree Is
shown in the increased prices secured by
the producers of crude petroleum.
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DROP Three Miles
Two German BaIIOOniStS Killed
Making a Trial Flight.
Gas Bag Burst or Was Struck
by Lightning.

Berlin, Oct. 21.-The announcement
of the death yesterday of Lieut. Hans
Gericke, winner of last years fnternl-
tional balloon race in the United States
AMI head of the team of German de-
tenders in the races to be held from
Stuttgart next Saturday created pro-
found sensation here today He was
thrown from his balloon at height of
three miles by the explosion of the gas
bag. which is believed to ave h9en
struck by lightning His aide, Lieuten-
ant Steler, also was killed.
Gericke and Steler were making a
trial flight to test the new ball, on
which they expected to use in the inter-
national races. Just above the town ,lf
Grossenhain they met a thunder st1t1n.
which they attempted to avoid by rIs-
ing above the disturbance. When a mil .
in the air the craft was caught in an
eddy and became unmanageabIe After
burst
The shattered instruments which the
bal1oonists carried on their nighht ve,,e
examined today. The recording appar-
arus showed they We're riding at a
height of 5000 feet when they were sud
denly hit by a vertical gust of wind
which pushed them straight up With
the violence of a hurricane to a -eieht
of more than $4,000 feet
At this altitude the bag burst. either
from the sudden change in pressure or
as is more likely from oelng stuck
BY lightning. The balloon embodied ali
the latest ideas in gas bag constructor
and was regarded throughout Germany
as the likely winner of the international
cap IN next Saturdays con est GericR .
and Steler had expected to try for an
attitude record in the course of yesto~-
DAYS fight and had equipped their car
witt oxygen tanks and apparatus to as-
SIS them in enduring rarified atmos-
phere
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HEAD NEARLY CUT OFF
Some one stretched Rope Across Navy
Yard Street.

Washington, Oct. 21.-Nearly decapi-
tated as the result of an automobile
accident Alexander O'Shea, a civil en-
gineer, lies today at a local hospital
between life and death. Mr.. O'Sher.,
who is connected with the government
proving grounds at Indian Head, was
driving his motor car rapidly through
the navy yard last night when he
dashed into a rope stretched across the
road. The rope caught him beneath
the chin.
That his head was not torn from
his shoulders was due to the slackness
of the rope and to the quick action
of a friend in the tOnneau who sprang
forward and reversed the engine.
O'Shea was hurried to the hospital
where II stitches were taken in his
throat. Later he recovered conscious
ness but his vocal chords appeared
paraIyzed.
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JOHNSON SCARED.
Black Champions Place Guarded by
Special Detectives.

Chicago. Oct. 21-Instead of the ad-
miring throngs which followed his mo-
tor car through the streets of Chicago,
Jack johnson, negro champion prize
fghter. now faces angry crowds. The
cheers that formerly greeted him on hi :
appearance have been changed into
misses and the fighter is Obliged to pro-
tect himself with a bodyguard of six
strongarm men. At one time today it
was reported that he had been shot.
Saturday afternoon he was at the
corner of South Dearborn and West
Monroe streets. He went into build
ing on business and came forth to find
a crowd of one thousand persons block
ing the path to his car
Kill him. Lynch him." were the
cries which followed his appeara nee
ard from a window some one hurled
an ink bottle that, it is said. narrowly
missed the head of the giant prize
fighter. The six strongarm men fought
openings through the crowd and John
SON was whirled from the scene OF
danger.
Pubic opinion has been infamed by
reports of his affair with Lucille Cam
eron. the 19-year-ol white girl from
Minneapolis, and there is much talk OF
driving him from the city.
II was the determination of Lucille s
mother Mrs. F. Cameron-F'alconet
that aroused the storm of Indignation
against Johnson and involved him in a
complication of legal difficulties. She
sM ore out a warrant for Johnson on
charge of abduction and at the same
time she requested that Lucille be re-
tained pending an examination of her
salty.
The first move into the case did not
disturb the black champion. Confident
tnat his money would extricate him
from the predicament. he treated the
matter in the light of a joke.
'.They can't get me- he said. I've
got money, so what's the use in trying
to knock
Still the mother fought on, even when
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SPEELMAN WANTS OUT
Former Bank Teller Asks United States
for CIemency.

Ward Speelman, who pleaded guilty to
embezzling funds from the Merchants
National bank in Topeka. and was SEN
fenced to five years in the federal peri
tentiary, has pettioned the United States
district attorney to shorten his time, and
asked that he be allowed to serve ei-hr-
cen months only AS this course is usual
ly adoptd by prisoners of several months
the federal officers were fully expecti: e
the petition; attention will be paid to
it, however
Mr.. Speelman might lawfully be grant
ed absence on parole for the last third
of his term but that is all that could be
done for him.
AT present see no reason for malz-
ing this concession the United States
marshal declared
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Many Republicans Who Left
the Party Are Returning
Says President Taft in a State
ment at Beverly.
THEY DON'T EXPECT TO WIN
Declares Third Termers Have
No Hope of Success.
Only Hope Is to Disrupt the
Grand Old Party.

Beverly, Mass, Oct. 21.-Presidsnt
Taft has issued statement predicting
Republican victory next month and de-
cl"ring it obvious that either the Re-
publican or Democratic nominee will be
elected" He says it is an open secret
that "the third party does not expect
success"
The president reviews business IN
ditions which he says are unprecedent-
edly prosperous and asserts the belief
that sober judgment of the voters will
continue present conditions. The state
ment reads:
"Fifty-two years ago seceders from
the union thought they were facing a
divided north, and would win an easy
victory. There had been division
among the loyal people, but all united
in face of the common danger and in
addition of a great number of Demo-
Gratis Joined the Republicans in the sue
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IS 13 DEGREES COLDER
Sudden Change in Temperature Today
Snow in Denver.

A drop of 13 degrees in tempera-
ture was recorded at the government
office from o'clock this morning to
o'clock this afternoon. The wind is
blowing at the rate of twenty miles
an hour from the north. Tonight the
mercury is expected to go down close
to the freezing point. No precipi-
tation is anticipated in the next "a
hours, but the clouds will probably
continue to envelop the sky tonight.
1t was showing in Denver this morn
ing and the temperatures were be-
low freezing in the northern Missouri
river valley.
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GREEKS GO TO WAR.
Friday Night 700 VIII Leave Portland
for Home.

Denver, Oct. H-Two hundred of the
four hundred Greeks who held a meetirg
IN Denver last night, placed their names
on the enlistment roll for service with
their country men in the war against
Turkey More than half of them are
framed soldiers, having seen service IN
the Grecian army. They will ioin several
hundred Greeks recruited from Utah and
wyoming and the force is expected to
week.
Portland, Ore, Oct. 2L-Fullv 100
Greeks. it was announced here today.
viii leave Friday for New York by special
trains en- route home to join the arrly
Local Greeks subscribed $1,000 yesterday
at mass meeting to defray expenses
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JAYHAWKERS TONIGHT
Will Hold Monthly Dinner at the
ThroOp Hotel.

The Jayhawlzer club will hold its rega-
lar meeting at the Throop hotel tonight
The feature of the meeting will be
paper 1.-The Progress of Jurisprudence"
by Otis S. Allen. Cards notifying the
members and urging their attendance
have been sent out by W. T. Williams.
secretary of the club. The meeting viii
include a dinner Al the Throop.
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PAY OLDEST MORTGAGE
After 2o6 Years 1t Is ordered Marked
Paid.

Philadelphia, oct. 21.-One of the old
est moregages on record in this country
has just been marked paid here. 1t
dates back to September ID, 1853, when
it was given by Jacob Stadler to John
Miff1in, and his wife on a II foot front
on Market street.
The value of the property in 1706 was
$3.50, and the last owner of the tract
was a Frenchman of 20 years ago, who
never claimed it because of the in
cumbrance. 1t was finally sold to pay
the claims of the city but the mark
ing of the mortgage has just been
authorized by the courts. The property
is now worth about $500 a foot.
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GAME CLAIMS VICTIM
James Lynch Dies From Injuries Re-
ceiyed ON Gridiron.

New Haven. Conn, Oct. Thames
Lynch, aged 20. of Bridgeport, is dying
here today of injuries received in a foot
ball game yesterday He is in a local
hospital with a fractured skull Lynch
was struck on the head by players knee
during a scrimmage-
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Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday.
Colder tonight.
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company he advanced to Mr.. Bliss
S4S SOC, for which he was reimbursed
by the company. Later when the in
surance investigation began he re-
turned the money to the company.
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
PR0UTY DECLARES
MELLEN IN ERROR
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Says
Report Followed Bridgeport
Wreck.

Washington, Oct. 6.--Judge Charles A.
Prouty, chairman of the interstate COM
merce commission, says that President
Melen of the n. Y, N. H. & H. r. r.
was entirely wrong in his statement
that notwithstanding the interstate
commerce commissions investigator had
made report on the Bridgeport wreck
on that road over a year ago, no recon-
mendation of precaution against such
wrecks had ever been made by the COM
mission to the New Haven road.
what we did in that case" said
Judge Prouty,' is what we do in all such
cases. A report was made by an in
vestigator. That report was made to
the interstate recommendations which
applied to the case. A copy of that re-
port was sent by the interstate com
merce commission to the New York &
New Haven railroad company. If Mr..
Mellen did not receive it, his road did.
We did not recommend or order any
changes in his road, and we had no pow
er TO do so. but we sent a copy of the
report of the expert who investigated
the wreck, and il had the APPROVAL of the
interstate commerce commission
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
NOTES ON NATIONAL POLITICS.
Brief Bits of News and Crisp Comment
on Men and Measures.

Democratic hope" said Mr.. Wicker
sham in Cambridge. lies only in Theo-
dore Roosevelt's ability to take enough
votes away from the Republican ticket
10 elect Wilson. Nobody pretends that
Colonel Roosevelt could be elected
Senator Dixon. the volatile Bull Moose
leader. thus predicts: we will carry
Pennsylvania by more than one hundred
thousand plurality. We win sweep II.
linois by more than one hundred thou
sand. He viii carry Michigan BY thirty
thousand. Confidential reports from In.
diana indicate that We will carry that
state. We are making a great fight in
Maine. and they tell me We are sure
Of CARRYING H. Allen White sends word
from Kansas that we are surely going
70 carry that state. We will win in
the northern part Of New Jersey. Re
spending 10 a suggestion. he added;
we are going to carry New York
John HAYS Hammond az Trenton eulo-
gized President TAFT as man and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
RooSEvELTs NURSES POPULAR.
They Spend Vacation Reading Beautiful
Proposals of Marriage.

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Niss Margaret Fitz-
gerald and Miss Blanche Welter, the
nurses who attended Colonel Roosevelt
while he was patient in a hospital
here, have been granted vacation. The
young women complained Of being tired
out. Their WEAKNESS, they said, was
not due altogether to the strain of tax
ing care of the colonel, but to the large
number of letters they have received,
many of them from men who had made
proposals OF marriage. you are the
girl for me- wrote one man to Miss
Fitzgerald. II am well off and can make
a happy home for you. fell in love
with your picture. Marry me and save
breaking my heart"
Your care and devotion to hero"
wrote another TO Miss Weiter, have
completely broken my heart. A beau
tiful capable young woman like YOU
would make a happy wife. know |
can make you happy"
Still another wrote Miss Weter that
he had not been able to eat or sleep
since he had seen her picture.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
Drowning a Fish.

The shark is a monster justly dread,
ed by the swimmer or unfortunate sail.
or who fails overheard; yet, from the
following extract from the manuscript
journal of an oriental traveller. it would
appear that the divers employed in the
pearl fisheries have little fear of them.
He says: The ravenous nature and
great strength of the shark are well
known. yet the divers in the East In
dian pearl fisheries think little of en-.
tering the lists against him. armed with
u strong piece of wood sharpened at
both ends. Awaiting the opening of
his enormous mouth. they thrust in
their arm. holding the wood perpendic-
ularly, and his mouth being kept thus
extended he swallows water and is
drowned. Louis Globe Democrat :
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CONTEST FOR
THE KEYSTONE
Remarkable Campaign On in
Pennsylvania
MAY SWING TO DEMOCRATS
Colonel Roosevelt in Good Trim, Re-
sumes observation-disclosures Will
son Monday Will Resume
His Campaign.
MAY SWING TO DEMOCRATS

New York, Oct. 26.-Pennsylvania is
passing through new political expert
ence in a campaign, the result OF which
appears in doubt. 1t is chiefly bat
tie of bosses, or leaders, and if Finn,
with his Bull Moose, can draw large
number of votes from the Republican
party, the chances of the Democrats APP
parently are very good. The state now
is one of the conspicuous backgrounds
Of the nation, and the good people, who
do nothing but vote in election, are being
heavily bombarded with political shot
of varied sizes.
President Taft's vacation ended yes
terdav as he, at Danville, Me- boarded
train for Boston. He left the latter
city yesterday afternoon for Cambridge
Springs, Pa, where to-day he will de-
liver an address, after which he will re-
turn to Washington and attack large
lot of work which has accumulated.
Colonel Roosevelt, in good physical
trim, but slightly weak, yesterday re-
sumed in part political operations. He
wrote several letters to Bull Moose lead
ers and began preparation of the speech
which he expects to deliver in New York
next week His physician says he is in
surprisingly good condition and expects
that his strength will return rapidly.
Governor Wilson, assured that Colonel
Roosevelt will recover, will resume his
speaking campaign on Monday and is
booking dates to be filled before cleo
ton. Yesterday for time, he dropped
politics and went back to his college
days by affixing his artistic signature
to few Princeton diplomas for gradu-
ates who had studied under his admins
tration.
Senator La Toilette says IL would not
surprise him much if Wilson should be
elected, and IF he shows himself pro-
,ressive" the senator will support his
policies if he does not, then the senator |
will 'denounce him with equal fervor."