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THE WEATHER. Rain today; Saturday generally fair and colder. VOL. XCI NO. 148. nn 'H' 4 AS TO ADVERTISING. H fl I J Wr C rrM IIESte mMjW) KJKIHRQiYmI! fHA1 BRSk FBI A H M concerns that were LITTLE concerns be- B m4 U-flj e- 'Ml; Bo ?a U iV-l . W ' m BVr f th"v started to advertise, be wUl be 1 .XXX-J J I y I Aj gj to " I"D'tafford OTto WILMIKGrTOK, X. C., FRIDAY MfamG, MARCH 21, 1913. , WHCELB KIMBEB 13,277. M ACTING SECRETARY. OF STATE RESIGNS Huntington Wilson Doesn't Like Administration's Chinese Policy J. B. MOORE TO SUCCEED HIM Counselor of Department of State Will Act as Secretary Wilson Ac cepts Resignation Secre tary's Statement. Washington, March 20. Huntington Wilson, assistant and acting Secretary of State has resigned that office and insisted upon immediate acceptance of the resignation because of his radi cal difference of opinion with the ad ministration regarding its Chinese policies. President Wilson immediately ac cepted the resignation. Mr. Wilson, like all assistant secre taries in the various departments, ten dered his resignation as a matter of form to President Wilson directly up on the latter's assumption of office. Ir. Wilson was requested to continue in his place until it should be conven ient for the President to name his successor. He consented to do so to accommodate Secretary Bryan in his desire to make his present visit to Lincoln, Neb. The issue of the statement from the White House defining the administra tion's attitude regarding the Chinese loan negotiations is believed to have been regarded by Assistant Secretary Wilson as sufficient to justify him in requesting to be relieved at once from duty. . . ; After telegraphic notice to Secreta ry Bryan of his intention, Mr. Wil son late yesterday afternoon dispatch ed a note to the WJiite House termi nating his own service and President Wilson at once designated Second As sistant Secretary Adee to act as Secre tary of State during Secretary Bry an s present aosence. ... , The probable r.ssjBrTJf" the rasigna-1 -Aon will be the immediate appoint ment, under a recess commission, of John Bassett Moore, as Counsellor of the Department of State with authori ty to act as Secretary. In a thousand word letter to Presi dent Wilson, the former acting Secre tary of State set forth that when he consented to continue for a time with the new administration he did not un derstand there were to be any radical hanges of policy for which he would be called upon to act as spokesman. The letter 'continued in part: "It today becomes the duty of the acting Secretary of State, in dispatch ing instructions to the representatives of this government abroad and as the channel of. communication with the representatives of foreign government at Washington, to be the spokesman of the President in regard to a new Far Eastern policy which is apparently de ducible from your statement issued to the press last night. Inasmuch as I find myself out of harmony with this radical change ot, policy as I under stand it, I trust that you will sympa thize with the view that it was not ap propriate that I should longer retain the responsibilities of the office which I have now relinquished. "I have no'reason to suppose that the officials now on -duty in the De partment of State would learn first from the newspapers of a declaration of policy which I think on its face shows the inadequacy of the considera tion given to the facts and theories in volved and the failure clearly to ap prehend the motives leading to the purposes of the policy superceded. I had no reason to suppose that the fate of the negotiations which had so long had the studious attention of the for eign officers of six great powers would be abruptly determined with such Quite unnecessary haste and in so un usual a manner. "These methods, against which I respectfully protest, are the very ex traordinary circumstances which I feel vitiate my understanding with Mr. Bryan and completely ' relieve me of any further obligation in the prem ises. 'The repeated utterances of the 'ast administration must have made it perfectly clear that the motives and ! J r poses of the policy h&w abandoned ' ere first and primarily the protec tion of China's integrity and sover eignty, the uplift of the Chinese peo-i pie morally, materially and govern mentally, the development of China's i esources and the maintenance of our traditional pplicy of the 'open door' or "quality of opportunity' for American ' nterprise. Precisely because of the jltimate possibility of a measure of foreign control of China's govern ment, which 'may be inferred from a study of other countries which have found themselves in a . similar situa t'on, it was deemed imperative that 'here should be American participa-' ;'on in the rehabilitation of China's 11 nances, in order to make sure of the J'sence of the pptent friendly and -'crested influence of the United states. The only practicable method ': Kuch participation was by the use '' reliable American bankers. n the consideration of the Far -astern policy, i have feft that so much should be promised and that the problem of the government's using (Continued oil Page Eight.) 4 1 , . BALKAN SITUATION Austrian Government 'Makes Peremp tory Demands on Montenegro and Dispatches Three Battle 's ships to Support Them. Vienna, March 20. The Austrian government brought the Balkan situa tion close to a crisis today by making several peremptory demands on Mon tenegro. The Austrian minister at Cettinje was instructed to inform the Montene grin government that it must comply with the following: Free exit from Scutari of all non combatants. Explanations of the death of a.Cath olic priest named Palie, who was said to have been slaughtered because he opposed violent conversions of pris oners. Violent conversions must cease in stantly. Full satisfaction must be given for the violence shown by Montenegrins and Servians at Sangovanni Ni Me deua toward the crew of an Austrian merchant vessel. Three Austrian battleships and three smaller warships left Pola, the chief Austrian naval station, yesterday for an unknown destination. It was supposed they were to support today's demand. Says Complaints Are Untrue. London, March 20. M. Popovitch, the Montenegrin delegate, now in Lon don, declares that incidents on which the Austrian complaints are based either are untrue, or of small impor tance. The story of the molestation of the Austrian steamer Skodra is officially denied by the Montenegrin govern ment. She is an insignificant river craft, according to the Montenegrin statement, carrying a crew of eight men. The Montenegrin commanders, M. Popovitch says, have long known that the Franciscan Monastery, the Austrian's orphans home, the Italian schools and other foreign private buildings in Scutari, which fly the Austrian flag, have been employed for military purposes, and it is not sur prising, therefore, he asserts, that they have been fired on. The allega tions of the ill treatment of Catholics and of forcible conversions, he de clares, are false. FJohtina at Tc ha tali a. - 1 oitoIae1h M Severe ftghtHEg occuired yesterday along the Tctiatal ja lines. -According to an official state ment a Turkish division with artillery advanced against the Bulgarian left wing, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Another Turkish division, which advanced against the center, was put to flight by a Bulgarian counter at tack. The Turks left 500 dead on the field. In the evening six battalions tried an attack on the extreme left, but were forced to retreat under hea vy artillery and rifle fire. REFUSED APPEAL. No Federal Question Involved in Allen Case, Says Judge. Richmond, Va., March 20. On the ground that no Federal question is in volved, Judge James Keith, president of the State Supreme Court today re fused .to grant an appeal to the Su preme Court of the United ' States to Claude Swanson Allen, who is await ing execution with his father, Floyd Allen, for their part in the Hillsville court murder on March 14th, 1912. Having failed in the only chance that remained in a Virginia . court, counsel for Claude Allen announced to night that they will apply tomorrow afternoon to Chief Justice White in Washington for a writ of appeal and "supersedeas, their claim being that the prisoner was twice placed in jeo pardy fpr the same crime. This pro ceeding does not affect the status of Floyd Allen, who will be executed in the State penitentiary on March 28th. Claude Swanson Allen will die on the same day unless a writ is secured to morrow from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. WANT NATION-WIDE FIGHT Illinois Legislators After Federal Aid in WWt Slave War Chicago, March 20. Lieutenant Gov ernor O'Gara and four State Senators composing the legislative vice com mission, left tonight for Washington to ask President Wilson to call a Na tional conference of Governors and law-makers to institute a country-wide fight on white slavery. Besides'asking that a conference be called, the commission will petition for a Federal investigation of woman's wages and request the President to make a public declaration" giving his moral support, to the work being done by the commission. It was suggested, by Dr. Maurise Loebel that segregation of sexes in the icity schools will be investigated by the commission on its return. The physician says the adoption of such a plan would greatly aid in the teaching of sex hygiene. FINAL SESSION HELD Porto Rican Legislature Regulates La bor of Children San Juan, Porto Rico, March 20. The Porto Rican Legislature held its final Jsession today. The bills passed include measures regulating child and woman labor, establishing an employ ers' liability law, providing for the construction of roads and bridges and increasing the revenue .by the imposi tion of taxes on liquors, cigars and cigarettes. s ' A. .commission will bfe sent to Wash ington when the tariff comes up for J discussion in Congress. " SAYS MADERO WAS KILLED IN PALACE Assault by Guard Merely A Ruse. Declares Mexico , City Publisher i V & IN A POSITION TO PROVE IT Col. Alcalde Says Madero Was Shot and Suarez Strangled Guards Poured Lead Into Dead Bod i is on Way to Prison San Francisco, March 20. Colonel Manuel (Blanche Alcalde, publisher of the New Era, a Mexico City newspa per, generally regarded as the mouth piece of the late President Madero's administration, arrived here today with the assertion that he "is in apo sition to prove" that Madero was shot to death and that Vice President Sua rez was strangled in the National Pal ace on the night of February 22nd and their bodies taken to the prison in an automobile. "The reported: assault by the guard," said Alcalde, "was merely a farcial ruse and a part of the plot. When the automobile was fired upon guards were only pournig lead into the dead bodies of the President and Vice President, who were murdered in the palace hours before." Colonel Alcalde described himself as an intimate friend of Madero. His mission in this country, he said, would be to expose the plot which brought about the Diaz uprising and the deaths ot4 Madero and Suarez. 'Accompanied by his wife, two small children and his brother, Joaquian, an army captain, Alcalde fled from Mexi co City February 22nd, taking an ob scure route to Salina Cruz. The party disguised themselves as peasants. On reaching the west coast port they re mained in seclusion 12 days, believing they would be killed if discovered by agents of the new government. They chattered a barge to reach Acapuico, .whence they took passage with other refugees. "Colonel Alcalde asserted 'the news of Madero's fate was known in Washing ton before the hour named in the offi cial version as the time of the alleged attempt to rescue him. "As a matter of fact," said he, "Pres ident Madero and Vice President Sua rez were killed between 8 and 9:30 o'clock, . Mexico City time, on the night, of February 22nd. The President was shot from behind and the powder burn ed his neck. Suarez was choked to death. His secretary, Fernadez De La Reguera, saw the body two days later and there were finger marks on the throat. One eye had been forced from its socket and the tongue protruded." Colonel Alcalde was positive in his assertion 'that Madame Madero had told him there was no hope for her husband, basing th,is fear on an inter view she had had with American Am bassador Wilson on the afternoon of February 22nd. "Madame Madero and Madame Sua rez went together to the ambassador to implore him to intercede for their husbands' lives," he said. "I saw them when they left the embassy and they told me there was no hope. They said Ambassador Wilson had express ed to $hetn his belief that the Presi dent and Vice President would be exe cuted as the Huertaristas regarded their deaths as for the good of the country. "General Ascarde was in command of the guard that night. I was told by another officer of the guard that it was he who slew Madero and Suarez." Bitter in his criticism of Ambassador Wilson, Colonel Alcalde declared the American diplomat had declined to in tercede '-to save him from arrest and death. "I had' protected 15 American famil ies in my school, the Internado Na tional,'" saifl he, "where I commanded 300 soldiers, feeding the Americans and housing them during all the fight ing from February 9th to 18th. After the Huerta coup, fearing arrest and execution, I went to the ambassador and appealed for his aid, in return for my protection of his people. He told me at first he could do nothing. Final ly he esked me to write my name on a card with that of my brother. Soon af terward a friend of mine rushed to me with the information that the Ameri can ambassador had given a card on which were the names Of my brother and myself to Secretary of the Interior Granados and the latter had immedi ately issued orders for our , arrest. This friend had overheard part of the conversation between the ambassa dor and Granados in which he said the ambassador had said that my brother and I were in fear of arrest. Grana dos replied that we had escaped his attention, but he would attend to our cases at once, and the order of arrest was issued. "My friend hastened to me, gave me his purse and urged me to flee. I left Mexico City disguised as a track la borer at io o'clock that night. My wife and babies were disguised. Thanks tct a friendly tram, conductor we made our way to Salina Cruz and embarked for San Francisco." Colonel Alcalde said Mexico will know no peace for years. Alcalde asserts that papers that have been smuggled out of Mexico will, as sist in proving his charges. He said these papers Will reach him at Los Angeles, for which city he left tonight. CURRENCY RE WILL BE TAKEN UP V:- U Wilson Thinks Extra Session Will Have Time to Dis- Sir ' f pose of it WILL BE A PARTY MEASURE President Has a Long String of Callers Dr. C. W. Eliot Under Considera tion for Ambassadorship to . Great Britain Washington, March 0. Encouraged by the rapid progress already made in preparation of a tariff revision bill, close friends of President Wilson pre dicted tonight that there surely would be currency reform bWore the extra session of Congress adjourned next Summer. The President talked informally with some of his- callers about-the pros pects for currency legislation. They went away convinced that while the President would devote himself first and foremost to tariff revision, he now hoped that at least a start on monetary reform would be possible during the extra session. - From the first the President has be lieved in necessity for immediate currency reform and though anxious that Congress should focus its atten tion and that of the nation on the tar iff question, he never has given up the idea of getting a currency measure before the country within a few months. Some of his friends said to day they were particularly hopeful for currency reform because of the atti tude of Democratic leaders in Con gress toward evpeditious action on the tariff. Lake the tariff, the currency bill when drawn will -be presented as a party measure, carefully worked out by Congressional committees in co operation with the President. It will not be made public, it is said, until it has been closely studied by mem bers of the cabinet, recfiimize&aai.thori ties on currency questions and some of the leading business men of the country, in whose judgment the ad ministration has confidence. It is pointed out that all the work of prepa ration can 'be carried on inconspicu ously while the tariff debates occupy the center of thestage in Congress. The President' intends to stay in Washington throughout the extra ses sion giving every attention to legisla tive matters. He has. been declining invitations every day to make speeches outside the capital. Two such invita tions are extended today for speeches in Baltimore and Chicago. . The cabinet will meet tomorrow when the question of making recess appointments will be discussed. The resignation of Huntington Wil son today as assistant Secretary of State leaves the State Department un der charge of Alva Adee, second as sistant secretary. It is probable, how ever, there will be a recess appoint ment, of John Bassett Moore as coun sellor to the State Department tomor row so that he can co operate with Mr. Adee in running the department. The President telegraphed Secretary Bryan that he need not eut short his vaca tion on account of Huntington Wil son's withdrawel. The President today had a long string of callers. He talked over the (Continued on Page Eight.) OUTLINES The Austrian government brought the Balkan situation close to a crisis yesterday by making several peremp tory demands on Montenegro. In the presence of physicians from all parts of the country, Dr. Fried mann, the Berlin physician, treated 35 patients with his tuberculosis vaccine at New York yesterday. Encouraged over the prospects for rapid completion of the tariff revision plans, President Wilson yesterday pre dicted that the extra session of Con gress would take up currency reform. Mrs. Jennie May Eaton was locked up in the county jail at Plymouth, Mass.,'yesterday, pending a hearing on the charge that she murdered her hus band, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Ea ton, by poisoning him. The verdict of the Appellate Court in the case of the 106 Koreans charged with conspiracy against the Japanese Governor General, Count Terauchi, was announced yesterday, all but six of the prisoners being acquitted. Huntington Wilson, acting Secretary of State, resigned yesterday because of his radical differences of opinion with the administration regarding its Chinese policies. President Wilson immediately accepted the resignation. Col. Manuel Blanche Alcalde publish er of the New Era, a Mexico City newspaper, yesterday asserted that he is in a position to prove that Madero was shot to death and that Vice Presi dent Suarez was strangled in the Na tional Palace on the night of February 22nd and their bodies taken to . the prison in an automobile. New York markets: Money on call firm, 4 1-2 to 5 per cent.; ruling rate 4 1-2; elosing bid 5 1-4; offered at 5 1-2. Spot cotton closed steady; middling uplands 12.60. Flour quiet. Wheat firm; No. 2 red 1.09 1-2 and 1.11. Corn firm, 56 3-4. Turpentine steady. Ros in nominal. WIFE OF ADMIRAL ;-!'' Mrs. Jennie May Eaton is Charged With Poisoning ' Her Late Husband WON'T BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL? Commission is Likely to be Appointed to Pass Upon Her Sanity Ad miral and His Wife Both Led Checkered Life. Plymouth, March 20. Mrs. Jennie May Eaton was. locked up in? the coun ty jail here late today, pending a hear ing on the charge that she murdered her husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, by poisoning him. She was brought here from Hingham, where she had been arraigned earlier in the day following her arrest. Through counsel she pleaded not guil ty, waived the reading of the com plaint and was held without bail for examination March 28th. It has not been determined whether the inquest into the sudden death of the admiral will be resumed. It was intimated tonight that Mrs. Eaton might not be brought to trial. The possible appointment of a commission to pass upon her sanity was suggested. When Mrs. Eaton, who is a stout woman, 45 years of age, entered the jail here, she was dressed in the black suit she wore at her husband's funeral. A mourning veil partially hid her face. She had been weeping, but generally maintained the composure that has characterized her bearing from the first. Admiral Eaton died in his bed at the home in Norwell where he lived with his wife, her mother, Mrs. George Harrison, and his step-daughter, Doro thy Ainsworth. The death was unex pected and due, the others members of the family said, to an attack of in digestion "which followed a tod hearty meal of roast pork. Circumstances led to an Investlgw tion and according to a statement by District Attorney Baker today evi dence of arsenical poisoning was dis covered by Prof. William F. Whitney, who analyzed the contents of the stomach. The formal report of Prof. Whitney has not been made and the arrest was ordered upon a verbal com munication to the district attorney. For 10 days the authorities have known that the admiral died of arseni cal poisoning and their efforts have been directed to finding where and by whom the poison was obtained and to laying bare the home life of the Eaton family. In the first quest they have not been successful, the district attorney said. Along the second line of inquiry a wealth of evidence has been furnished by friends of the family and neighbors. The nicture was not an altoeether pleasant one. ,The admiral and his wife, who was 20 years his junior, did not always agree, it was said regard ing those who should be received at the home Both nad been married before. The admiral's first wife was Mary Anne Varnum, whom he married at Dracut in 1871, when he was a lieutenant in the navy. His body was buried beside that of his first wife. From his grad uation at Annapolis until his retire ment with the rank of rear admiral in 1905 the life of the naval officer was filled with honors, and he acquir ed a fortune. Soon after his ietirement he met Mrs. Jennie Mary Ainsworth, the daughter of George Harrison, of Alex andria, Va. Mrs. Ainsworth later di vorced her husband, an employe of the Senate at Washington, and she and the admiral were married in 1907. During an estrangement with , his wife, in a statement the admiral has said: "I met Mrs. Ainsworth in Chicago and at that time I thought she was a widow. At that time, however, she was not actually divorced from her husband. It was not until . just be fore my marriage that I learned she had a husband. Then she told me that her husband was alive and that she had just obtained a divorce from him on the grounds, of drunkenness and desertion. "During the time that I paid atten tion to her knowing her straightened circumstances and thinking that her husband was dead, I helped toward the support of herself and children, giving her money, though at the time I did not know for what purpose She was using it. Later after the marriage, I learned inadvertently that I had Been paying for the divorce proceedings which she had instituted against her husband. I married her because I said I would and because too much of a gentleman to withdraw my promise. She has always been a good wife. -I knew that money was givento Ainsworth, but never with iny con sent, except once; then! paid his fare to Cleveland to get rid of him." After their marriage the Eatons came to Brookline. Soon afterwards the admiral met with financial revers es and in his last days led an unpre tentious life on a poultry farm in Nor well. His principal income was f f om his allowance as a retired naval officer, which amounted to $4,000 a year. It is understood that his estate is represent- EATON LOCKED UP 35 PATIENTS ARE TREATED Scores of Physicians Attend Dr. Fried mann's Clinic 29 Deformed Ba bies Vaccinated Patient Shows Improvement. New York March 20. In the pres ence of scores of physicians gathered from all parts of the country, many of them representing city health boards, Dr. Friedmann treated 35 pa tients with his tuberculosis vaccine to day. Twenty-nine of the sufferers were deformed babies. Before the demon stration the Berlin specialist issued a statement advising out-of-town' per sons not to come to New York with the hope of being treated until after the government has passed on his vaccine. At the doors of the Hospital for De formities and Joint Diseases, Dr. Fried mann was beset by a throng of suffer ers who implored him to take them with him in out of the rain and admin ister his treatment. The patients he attended, however, were ones already selected, awaiting his arrival at the hospital and he had to force his way through the crowd of disappointed men and women. A mother with a child sank to her knee, holding the baby toward the physician in out stretched arms. During the clinic a 17-year-old boy walked into the operating room. He was a patient treated with the vac cine 12 days ago. "Look at my leg," he said to Dr. Friedmann, baring his knee. 'When you injected your vaccine I could hardly move, the leg was so swollen. Now I know that I will get well." The boy went through exercises to show the suppleness of his legs and then submitted to examination by the gathered physicians. Diseases of the bones were treated today. Tomorrow Dr. Friedmann will hold a clinic at Bellevue Hospital, treating pulmonary cases. Dr. Fried mann had requested the government physicians who attended the clinic to day to place Dr. Arthur Atkinson, a Wisconsin physician, on the list of patients to be treated at Bellevue. Dr. Atkinson, suffering with pulmonary tu berculosis, came East to urge Dr. Friedmann to treat him. "Do not come to New York at the present time," said the statement issued by Dr. Friedmann today. "It will not be long before you will have the" opportun ity of receiving my treatment4 A trip, to this city would consume your strength and vitality. So do not come, because I can now treat only those suf ferers selected by government physi cians." WARNED AGAINST BECKER. Mayor Gay nor Received Letter Re garding Him in 1911. New York, March 20. Letters read today before the aldermanic commis- hsion investigating police graft showed tharMayor Gaynor and Police Com missioner Waldo were warned against the character of Police Lieut. Charles Becker as far back as August, 1911. John F. Lynch, brother-in-law of Beck er, bitterly denounced the former po lice officer in a letter to the mayor. The letter was referred to Commis sioner Waldo, who told the mayor that "this seems to be a family row," and "Becker Is doing excellent work." Another letter written to the mayor last March by one Henry Williams, asked that Becker be investigated. "He is getting more money than a for mer chief of police," the Writer said, naming the chief. This missive was sent by Mayor Gaynor to police head quarters and there it was turned over to Becker himself, the record showed, "for investigating and report". Beck er's report was that he had assigned a detective to find the writer and that the detective had failed to do so, after interviewing nine men named Henry Williams. Becker added that he fear ed the writer could not be found and suggested that some other member of the force be assigned to the task. Ithaca, N. Y., March 20. John Paul Jones, Cornell's crack miler, is lower ing his own record every week in prac tice. Today he ran the mile on the board track in 4:21 1-4. His own rec ord made last week was 4:22. ed largely by a life insurance policy for $6,000. o Disappointed that a child had not been born to themv the admiral about two years after his second marriage secretly adopted an infant which he proclaimed as his own. The deception was successful for a time, but the baby died when a few months old. Mrs. Eaton declared that the infant had been poisoned and an examination of the stomach was made. No poison was found, but as a result of her charge Mrs. Eaton was estranged from her husband for a brief period. Then they were reconciled and again lived together. With them at that time lived the two daughters of Mrs. Eaton, by her earlier marriage, June and Do rothy. The former is now the wife of Ralph P. fceyes, of Boston. Ainsworth, Mrs. Eaton's first hus band, renewed friendly relations with the Eaton family and was an occasion al visitor at their home. Mrs. Eaton has stated that her husband was much interested in drugs and their effect upon persons and devoted much of his time to strange experiments. The blue and starred flag of the Rears arge Association of Naval Veter ans of Boston, will wave over the grave of the admiral at Dracut. The association made known today their regret that no naval honors had been accorded the dead officer and announc ed they would mark his resting place with their colors. BARON YON GDI HO GIVEN jlX YEARS Former Korean Cabinet Min ister Is Found Guilty of Conspiracy 100 CONSPIRATORS ACQUITTED Yan Ki Tak, Another Former Minister, Is Also Sentenced to Six Years for Conspiring Against' Gov. General of Korea Seul, Korea, March 20, The ver dict of the Appellate Court in the case of the 106 Koreans charged with con spiracy against the Japanese governor general, Count Terauchi, was an nounced today. All the prisoners with the exception of six were acquitted. Baron Yun Chi Ho, a former icabinet minister, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. On the first trial he was sentenced to 10 years. Yan Ki Tak, "formerly connected with the Korean Daily News, An Tai Kog, Im Chi Chong, and Yi Sung Hun, also were sentenced to six years' im prisonment while Ok: Kwan Pin was sentenced to five years. A' Hundred Acquitted Tokio, March 20. One hundred of the Koreans charged with conspiring against Governor General Cjjunf Ter rauchi of Korea in 1910, were found not guilty today, according to a dis patch from Seul. The judges sentenced Baron Yun Chi Ho, a former Korean cabinet min ister; Yan Ki Tak a Korean minister, and three others to six years' imprison ment each. At the first trial Baron Yun Chi Ho . and several of the more prominent prisoners were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and the others .to terms of five to seven years. Baron Yun Chi Ho, who was today sentenced to six , years' imprisonment . at Seul, is one ofrthe best kyjown Etog- -iish-speakiag Koreans. He was at mie ' time minister of eSiicatiott aad minis ter of foreign affairs in the Korean cabinet. He is a member of one of the most ancient families of Korea and has held at various times the post of king's private counsellor, Governor afid legis lator. He was formerly very wealthy and devoted his time to farthing his large estates, which have since been ' confiscated. He is a Methodist bjf religion and is held in high esteem by the Members of his sect. He is a graduate of Van derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. He was at one time the Head Of the Ko rean Young Men' Christian Associa tion. He attended the missionary conference at Edihburg, Scotland, as a delegate from Korea. Baron Yun Chi Ho is now in ill health. He is said to be suffering from incipient tuberculosis and in the opinion of many of his friends if he is incarcerated he Will not live to serve the full term Of his long sen tence. Yan Ki Tak was at one time editor of the Vernacular edition of the Ko rean Daily News, formerly owned by Ernest T. Bethel, a British .subject, which paper was suppressed in June, 19fa, after having approvingly copied from a San Francisco-Korean paper an article praising the assassins of Dur ham White Stevens, the Japanese agent, who was murdered by Koreans in San Francisco in March, 1908. Bethel was arrested and sentenced by His Brdttainic Majesty's court, fit ting in Seul, to three weeks' imprison ment and six and a half months; sur veillance by the police for publishing seditious matter calculated to excite the Koreans against their government. Yan Ki Tak, editor of the Vernacu lar edition, escaped from, the police in August, 4908, and took JtefugAvin Beth el's home. Bethel raised t&e British ensign above his gate and refused to surrender the editor to the police, claiming extra territorial protection from the British consul. A week later, however, the British iconsul surrendered "fcah Ki Tak to the police and the editor was placed on trial on the charge Of complicity in the misappropriation of a iw)rtion of the Korean National toan redemption fund. Yan Ki Tak was acquitted of the charge in September, 1B08, being cleared partly through the evidence of Bethel whose testimony was consider ed satisfactory by the prosecutor. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. Will Hold Organization Meeting April 5th Mann for Speaker. Washington, March 20 Republicans of the House will caucus on Saturday, April 5th, for organization. Repre sentative Mann, of. Illinois, minority leader, will be put in the afield as Re publican candidate for speaker. The Democrats will hold their cau cus to pass upon the tariff policy and the House organization probably April 7th or 8th. x Representative Hmebaugh, of Illi nois, tonight issued a call for the Pro gressive caucus on April 2nd. The Progressive spokesmen are avoiding predictions of strength until after the members begin to gather in larger numbers for the extra session, but they figure on anywhere from IB to 30, including one or two from California, to Tine up as Progressives on the issue of the speakership. . n l I
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