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Wanted, For Sale, '• Tjy •'i' 20 Pages ONE SECTION, THE ltdoms or Ei C 20 Pages ONE SECTION. Minister Faces Evidence Of An Indisputable Nature CHARLOTTE, N. C« MQRNIXC, OCTOBER 2», 1911 PRICE 5 CENTS Faet That Be Dined Wtth Avts Luvul a Few Hours Before Her Death Has Been Est^blisfled^This Was the Missing Link in Chain* Past Life of Ptemtktf ^Shovm. Jp-Storim The Many Girls CO WhomBiSad Been tngaged-Girls, Girls, Girlls Bo«oti, Oct. 21.—Th# R«v. ciar- ecee Vlrril Thompson Ricbeson is lonight fac« to face with Indisputa- b!« eridenc® that he dined with Avis LinneU l»«t Saturday only a few hour* before she innocently swallow- eu the fatal poison which according to the police he had fiven her. Tbit wac the one mlaaint link, the detectives asserted, in the chain of evidence that connected the young (lersyman with the moat remarkable crime in the annals of New Ehifland. The young clergjrman has not yet brokeo the attitude of silence he as sumed at the time of arrest. He Bpent the day pacing his ceD in the Cli-rleB street jail and spoke only to Moses Grant Edmands his prospec- tl-^e f&ther ln-law and rhllip R. Dun- b&r, Mb attorney. Miss Violet Edmandi, the prospec tive bride, is still prostrated by the shock caused by the arrest of Riche* Bon and is under the care of two physiciuiB. Returning Wedding Qlfts. Miss Edmands* mother was occu* pled tpdav with the mslancholy duty ef direofiDg the return of the wedding £ ^tc Bent by friends from distant - ■’.tf. Mr* Edmands has refused to dis- , f;;e ;ase with newspaper repre- ; es but declared to a neigh- that the Rev. Mr. Richeson . lit ! have been with Avis Linnell a.' Saturday, as he was at her mine BURNING: many dead. ♦ CaltanlseU, Sicily, det. 21,—. ♦ An explosion of gfltf in a ♦ pnur mine at Trabonella toi ®®t the mine aflire and causf ♦ a number of deaths. The bodU ♦ of 20 men have been recoveNi ♦ ed and some other miners who ♦ were workin^i In galleries dis- ♦ tant from the -mouth of the pit ♦ were missing tonight. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE sUrt Senator Ls Foiiette who will early in November on a speech-mak- Ing swing through the Middle West, le will last until congress meets In December and will embrace the Da kotas, i\^lnnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Ne brasks, Mlaaouri, Mississippi and probably Ohio, Senator La Foiiette is a formidable candidate for the nomination for the presidency againat President Taft. Express Rates lobe Changed ‘ime. Family to Stand By Minister. ^he wealth of Millionaire George : F^dmands estate will be poured out to i_ e the defence of Mr. Richeson. rge F. Edmands was the father of es Grant E(^ands and itiier of Mlse Edma! -ii.iage to Rjpitfqn p October »>t; 'Moses Grant Ed ■is said tonight that his faith was - laken In the young clergyman, and • mated that the family would stand ’■ until the last. The police say they are at a loss .nderstand why the Edmands fam iume this attitude, since it is : ^ ^ lown by their secret investiga "Ti that Richeson spent several hours '»ith Avis Linnell Saturday, October 14. ’he day she swallowed enough inide of potassium to kill ten peo- ^■'e. A New Witness. A new witness discovered by th# : illce has told that the young choir ..ugrr’s last words were: "I dined -lav Tilth Mr. Richeson.” ihe po- . e assert further that they have ^und the restaurant where Richeson i d the girl dined. May Use Same Old Piea. Tne' have found a girl who saw fhem eating together, who recognized 'j^m and ^'ho talked with Miss Lin- cell. Th.E girl will be a most important ’fitnehs at the trial of Richeson and the police would not tonight reveal ^.er Identity. It was intimated that ^ Linnell had confided to her a ^cret she Jiad Jealously guarded from others. TXliile the police were laboring to tomplete their cAse Richeson’s law- er. Philip R. Dunbar, the son of Former Judge Jsmes R. Dunbar, of 'he Massachusetts superior court, planning to fight for the clergy- maa'e life. It it already intimated a plea of insanity will be made If he . ase ever comes to trial. Many people can be found who ad- 11 that Mr. Richeson was a most ec- fentric person, but there are none lo pxpress the opinion that his mind " v unbalanced at the time this deed ^ = cortimitted. Dr. H. H. Gardner, ”‘■'1 has performed professional ser- v’iCft for the clergyman, made the fol- i ine statement for the I. N. S. to- • '* • Doctor Makes Statement. I have treated Mr. Richeson for about six mouths. His only ailment is : ai.e of nerves. .. The only medicine I have prescrlb- «’ for him is what is ordinarily prfr ibed In cases of nervous break- u *ind his condition was due whol- I" -1 overwork. There is absolutely no f‘ ot Insanity about the man. I'octor Baldwin prescribed for him Continued on Page Ten. Columbia, Oct. 21.—Rieductiona in transportation charges by th« South ern Express Company, effective ear ly in 1912, were today decided on by the railroad commission. The changes consist mostly in the creation of an other class of shipments, making five classes in all, besides some reduc tions in particular rates. The commission says the dumges will effect a reduction of about 15 per cent. Instead of only ;three “breaks” of 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 miles and from 100 miles to 200 there are four more “breaks” making a total of “breaks” up to 200 miles, in- six as at present, allows a more minute division of the hauls, enabling the shipper to pay more exactly J naccordance with the length of the houl. The new class will Include principally vegetables and fruks. There, have been' hitherto three rate tables in use, but under' the new order there will b only one for the entire state, including short line roads, with a special table on ice which has' never been carried before lour mor nini “bi of j^9kis a WIFE ACCUSES MERCHANT. Crowd Saw Her Dragged by Heels in Street. Burlington, N. J., Oct. 21.—J. Par- rich Woolman, a merchant .and form er mayor of Burlington, was arrest ed here on a wife-beating charge and Magistrate Smith held him un der 1300 for the grand jury. A score of men, the police charge, saw Wooi- man attack his wife, throw her into the street and start to drag her across the pavement by the heels. The man’s alleged brutality so en raged the crowd that the police say It only lacked a leader to have taken the law into its own hands. Mrs. Woolman, her face terribly bruised, swore out the warrant for her husband's arrest, and gave it to Constable McCormick. Woolman was allowed to go to the court unattend ed and he pleaded that he be allow ed to settle the case with a fine. Magistrate Smith said he had Beard so many complaints of the man’s al leged cruelty to his family that he refused to listen to the pleas. MORFAN CUTS HIS TAX BILL. Saves Himself $4,000 by Swearing Off Assessed Items. New York, Oct. 21.—J. P. Morgan appeared personally at the tax, col lector’s office and swore his assess ment of $800,000 down to $550,000, In Mayor Low’s term he was assessed in personal property at $1,000,000, and, after negotiation, agreed to pay on $400,000. From that time on until this year his nersonal . assessment has been $400,000. This year the commissioners raised it to $800,000, and he wanted Tax Commissioner Kaufman to make the amount $400,b00, 'but, upon question- ine him, it appeared that he om^s tawble bonds and other property valued at $550,000. His ® work in the tax nancter something like »4.000 in taxes saved. Attorneys General of Jhtee States Opposing Scheme of Reorganizing Tobacco Trust York, Oct. 21.—Attorneys gen- of Virginia. North and South ^•roiina, today filed a Joint petition the United States court igainst '•oposed re-organizatioB plan of American Tobacco Company. A •*r petition was lllsd on behalfOctober 80, of the independent u ^ aSiter sociation of the United SUte^ While not allowing fJS? to intervene the court in m order replied that they would opportunity to Present th^ objec tions to thep Ian et the hearing o GDNVIGTED OF fiOBBINE UlilTED SUTES II m Greenville, Oct. 21.— case that created cohsiderable 4St in fed eral court now in s ^ ^n here was that of Arthur Pen)^ a boy 14 years of age, who live ^ jar Woodruff in Spartanburg co^ . The boy was charged with ^ .ng the United Stat es mail. Of charge he was tried and convictt >tnd sentenced late yes terday afternoon. Judge Smith stated that he would fine him $100 or sen tence him to 30 d»ys in the reforma tory. -The sentence was not pasMd, the boy being allowed a week in which to get the mqney. His attorney, Ctpt. William Me Gowan of Spartanburt, asked that the fine be made as iight as possible, stat. ing that the boy was good and that his parents were without means wtth which to pay his fine and that the det fendant has never before given any trouble. To this statement several cit izens of Woodruff testified. MRS. FAIRBANKS ROBBED OF VALUABLE JEWELRY. Chicago, Oct. 21.—Mrs . Warren Fairbanks of Chicago, social leader and wife of the son of Former- Vlo® President Ftfrbanks, reported to the t>olice today that a bag containing jewels worth $10,000 had been taken from her while traveling on a train en route from Boston to Chicago week ago. Mrs. Fairbanks said she did not learn of the loss of the jewels, which were enclosed in a chamois bag car ried. in a traveling bag until yester- day. Mrs. Fairbanks, who before her mar* riage was MisB 9thel Cas«i4y Ot Penn sylvania, was retumUjfc fi^aitt. -a vl with r^atlvei in Jewels wer# t^eyf “I think they must have been 'stc^ en the night ^fore I arrived In 'Cht* cago,” she si^d. “W^en t,hp porter helped me get my grips ready to leave the train I don’t think the bag was there although I did not notice its absence at the time. We discov ered the loss yesterday.” FOUND HUSBAND DEAD BY RAILROAD TRACKS. Washington, Oct. 21.—Mrs. Ira Grunweil, of Spring Hill, Va., en route to Washington search for her missing husband, who failed to come here last night, caught a glimpse of his body lying beside the track as she passed on a Great Falls and Oid Dominion car this morning. She screamed and the motorman applied the brakes'. Mrs. Grunweil. led the crew' and several passengers back along the track where Grunwell’s body lace face downward on the ground dead for hours. A short gash was> found on Grun- well’s head. It is believed he was struck by a car. Grunweil had no known enemies. His money was found intact. Coroner Detwiler ^ will hold an, in quest. Grunweil was about 35 years old. He came to Washington last to attend to some business. BAKER'S HONOR HIT WOMAN. Fair Fan, Bedridden With Bump on Head, Will See Next Game. New York, Oct. 21.—Theg reat mys tery of what became of the ball which Baker slugged for his home run in the fatal ninth on Tuesday and the score has been solved. On that fateful day, occupying a seat in the eighth row on the projection of a line drawn through home and first, sat Mrs. Charles F. Hunt, of No. 53Y West One Hundred and Forty-ninth street. Her husband. Dr. Hunt, xs physician to tfie^ Yankees. When Baker let go with a line drive some one got up in his seat just ahead of Mrs. Hunt and she could not follow the course of the ball. The man ap parently was trying to catch it. Then as Mrs. Hunt sat still the ball flattened the left side of her felt hat as Its impact shook her head with a blow on the left temple. “I feel a little dizzy, hut I’ll be all right in a moment,” she- said,-pluckily, r^ fusing medical attention. A big bump was raised upon her. left tem ple, but she sat through the game, She was In bed ill a part of the next day, but she hopes to be able to see the oth^r games. BIO DEMAND FOR NEW ^ONEY. New York, Oct. 21.—The dem^i for new paper currency is so gtisat that Treasurer McClung and Dltec-' tor Bolph of the* engraving #nd print; ing bureau are today making a‘tour of the sub treasury, si»kinir to de* vise a way to limit the redemption of biUs. ■ Making new Disper money. Is now costing more than the treasury can aliord. Director Rolph-^says that sentiment is largely responsible for the demand and deprecates the idea that old bills tfread dise«M. . ^ WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, Oct. 21.—North Ctrolina, increasing cloudiness Sunday, rain at .night' or Men- 4iy; cooler Monday. South.Carolina, rain Sunday^ ®r . night and probably ♦ ’ ))|on9iy: cooler Monday. ^ ♦ t - t An Expett Diagnosis Of Present In Chinese Major ,^pieral Jl^ Uson Does not fhii^ihe Preset Insurrec tkm Witl Amount to Much-- Bandful of Manqhus Rule th Ignorant Millions. LORITA ARMOUR V ENTIRELY, CURED Latest photograph of Lirljka Anfieur the fourteen year oid^Atighter of J. Ogden Armour the miltjonalre Chi cago packer'who was enbe a cripple and was cured by the.fatneas' Dr. Loh»nz ef Berlin wKo earns to the United States to perform his'marvel ous bloodlesis operation on the child. Lately little Miss Armou^ has; been taking daneiitfi lessons and ahbws very little trace'of her infantile die* ability. Bead. Battered ^ith An Ake, Maii Dus Nashrille, 'Tenn., Oct. 21.r-A dis patch from Jackson, Teikn.., says that Robin McGee, the prominent young man found in'the heme of John Kyle with his head battered, apparently with an.axe, died last ,ni|^t. Kyle, his wife and another wqnian are ^ jail on the^‘ o^MM’ge of I'.beini held on circuiiwantiaL en^nc^. ; lircGee died '.withowt» statement. -. ONP^Ayi%T, Richittond, Va., Oct. 21.—The won derful developflient and still dominant position of the territory, of the Thir teen Original States in the matter of Population, Industries and Com merce*^’ were discussed before the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Con vention here by. Director of the Cen sus E. I^nna Durand. “Naturally the percentage rates of growth of the population, .industries and commerce of the Thirteen Origi nal'^States/* said ’ Mr. Durand, “have been less .than for the United!" States as a whole, since in 1790 there was practically nothing in thje territory out side of th68e states. The developnient within th^ territory of the Thirteen Stat^ hai,-however, been extraordi nary. In fact, it has been promoted by the'Iprq^e^s'of'the newer sections of the country.'. Betweeii'If 80 ,^nd. loio the popula tion. 6ft&eTh^rit^n Original St«,tes in- 6re$iWd fromv5>82()r}000 tO'37,3lli000, or alnrost ten-fold. '‘The..value 6t.theU* ttiaQ^ifcturc^ ;produtta^ increaised from about $^^6,000 to $11,121,000,000, or nearly ,fix: hundred-fold. Their ex ports to foi^ign countries increased from about $20,000,000 to $1,018,000,• 000, or oyer fifty-fold^ and their im ports incr^M^ by about the same prb- portton. ? ' f'liSM the^ ThifteeA>Orlgi' 9^ tib^MrfoW mm tjilou. a second Jday of; the Uni^ coi^iaty .fair, was'^^fially brlHit ^d. PM^^ant^ M Wedneiklay^and-was well attended, the crowd being ^iiisated' at s,bqi^.^thre^e thousand. vwm to .agriei^tare have '^'3!^ii^eei!i^;pri^^^ nai jBtaiii thft rest of the country. **Althbugh their territory-' comprises GEN. YUAN SHI KAI General Yuan Shi Kai the famous Chi- nese; leader, once disgraced by the Imperial government and now recall ed in extremity to head the imperial forces. Gen. Kai organised the Chin ese army into an effective fighting corpse and through the meehlnations of his enemies yvas relinquished of his command may years ago. Members Of Royalty Are Wedded Vienna. Austria, Oct. 21.—The arch duke Karl Franz Josef .and Princess Zeita .of Parma were married today in the Castle At Schwarzau, lower Atist^,«:iti the pi^sentse. of the ibn-- i^or.^and the Kiag.of barony.:;. ' Th« :b^egi^ni> pr^biy bewii^ - the General Population Tot Poor and Too Ignorant ti Join in a Concerted Revott-^ Why the Powers Are Slou to Act Wilmington, Del., Oct. . 21.—Majoi General James H. WilBon,- U. S. A. re tired, who led the American and Brit ish troops in China in the Boxeir rebel lion iQ 1901, declares that the present insurrection there will not end in revo lution. General Wilson knowa China and the Chinese intlm'ately, . having projected a quarter of a century ago, the first railroad enterprice there. Too Poor to be Aroused. ‘I can’t see,” said he to an I. N. S. representative today, “the possibility of a serious outcome of the present rioting in China. I hope that conditions' there are such ae to make possible the purpose of the moyigment, ^ut I fear it is visionary. Chlnifis yet too pbor and too ignorant to b^ aroused. , ^ “This does not ‘^ean that there are not able, wealthy’ and far sighted men in China. I hItVe the pleasure of knowing many such: The teeming mil* Itons of the ma'ss, though, are so piti fully poor, so pitifully ignorant, so wholly untouched by modern progress, that: it is impossible to oi'gapize them into a concerted movement. Not a Military Peoplie. 'Primarily, the Chinese are not a milftary people. I do not i^ean that individually or frequently by groups ■^D;d soiinetimes by communities, they will not fight ferociously, and kill mer cilessly. Nor do I m^n that they can* not be disciplined as a fighting ma chine. - - LThat they csii'be was shown in the «en®5atie3i There was a ‘ band concert in the only one*eighth of the U. S. area, it morning followed by a. display of./the prise winners of the day 'bjtfore in froht of^ the grand stand aft^K ivhich South Carolina owned stock ^as ex- hibit'ed. , , Coffee Takes Downward Plunde. V i . .. ^ New York, Oct. 21.—The bull itoovi^ ment in coffee received a sharpi chew during today'a operation, theu^i^rk^t closing 25 to 46 points beldWf th# final'of Friday. At the new pO^t of the day values were 47 to 102^|ioi^ts below the recent high mark.', Thi reaction was due to heavy, iiquidatioh on the part of the longs as w^ll ai selling for foreign account |ind th^ undoing of straddles between here and Europe, which had been taken on when the markets were at ah unusually difference a few weeks a^. cohtaihs two-fifths of the population and produces 53 per cent of the total 'Vilue of jfianufactured products, 46 per cent of the mineral products, and cent^f ,the coal. Their exports ili^e 5^ peF'iient of the countrys total Vt8^ are 79 per cent. Their ridM^d mileage is 23* per cent dt'thi tWstor'the country and their prot^riioA railroad freight and pas- B#n|«r ti^c ' is much larger. The wai^jrtoffie traflSc of the- Atlantic and OuK roistlj exclusive of foreign trade, amounti to 37 per'cent of the coun try’s tqtil Water-borne traffic. “Any pri^ticabie means, whether through iovemment or,, private actidh, for Jtiir further developing the resburpftd i^d promoting the commerce of irUi!& #hich have made such a re cord M this deserve the most serious coniddiir4tion.” Revolution the R^utt Of New Spirit In China Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 21.—*^0 Southern Pr^byterian Foreign Mis sion committee this morning rcceU?^ cablegram from Rev. S. I. Wbpd- bridge of Shanghai, China, in. reply‘ to an inquiry sent yeftefday relative^to the disturbance in China. ^The cabl^ said: “All ^^^afe. Excitement increasing. Government protecting* us.” - - In connection with the cablegram. Dr. S. H. Chester, of the committee, said: • ^ "A very significant and hqpeful |ea- ture of the situation is that the’ rebels have issued stringent orders which seem to have b^en obeyed thus far, that foreigners are not to be disturb ed.. The Manobu dynasty has long been doomed and its downfall has been waiting for the day when pub lic intelligence would reach the point that woulud make co-operation ,be-, tween disaffected parties in different parts of .the empire possible. In my judgment this uprising is the first and inevitable manifestation of the new spirit ln‘ China which is being gene rated by the introduction of modem educatipn and the incoming of rail roads.” >»/2!WieiS rew of . tt^e" ar^«^ _ Sid,.'' h^lf i^i^sumpti^e V to ' W- nej throne. As • the latter made > a hiorgaaitlc marriaj^ with the Princess ’^ohen- berg and renounced all rights' of sue- cessipn on her behalf and of !^helr children,' the Archduke Karl Franz Josef is next in the line of succes sion. Princess Zeita is the thirteenth child o? the late Duke Robert*' of Parma and his second wife^ Marie Antonia, Princess of« Portugal. She was born on Ma^^ 9, 1892, and has twenty three brothers and slstiers. She is a remarkably handsome bru nette. The marriage is said to be a genuine love match. The archduke is 25 years older than his bride. TROUBLE GROWING OUT OF STRIKE SETTLED. MUUani Stjjfmgette Urges Het Bister Bpmts To Be ^ JZ^er Than New Orleans, Oct. 21.—The con tempt case against Bernard Bowen, son of the local leader of the strike of the federated employes of the Il linois Central Railroad, who was sen tenced in the federal court yester day to four months imprisonment for assaulting a woman employe of the road, was ’ reopened* today follow ing the voluntary confession of C. F. Lockridc, another striker, that he and not Bowen struck the woman. As a result of today’s hearing befpre Judge'Foster of the United States circuit court the sentence against y Bowen t^s allowed to stand Loc^ridge; wfUB given six months in the St. Charles parish prison. Mrs. Ed Thomas, the woman as saulted, ipsist&d that her identi^car tion of Bowen . was positiy^?.,, Mr. Thomas, also an,employe of'the road, who was' assaults'at'the same time, also testified that he could not be mistaken «in Vhis' identificatipn .ot Bowen. Botb testified that th^y did not see Lockridge in the .attacking party. Lockridge testified that Ive and several other strikers*on picket |nty; laid in wait’/or Mr. and Mrs.' Thpmas. He admitted that LaJwrence Neur- man, vthe other striker who' wi» yes terday sentenced;to four months in this case, was present but denied that Bowen was there. ' - TRIUMPHS AFTER 58 YEARS. >• ■■ ■ - li.- I - .... .'Pi i'!, U)uisirtlle, ky., even/ vdigfif-ni^ods wefl? nrg^ ican ''' here Winsor, “WhateVler rQjjc^Sb,*’'^«he advised earnestly,* *.‘dMi!tvbe tir^mc^ ^tter be vulgar.” When the delegates laughed in-' credttlou^y' she reiterated the ad vice;' - “Yes,” she sa;!^. “ThlS'Is a vulga* age. 'Be loud, be yelUjw, be . anytMng to be - plctiuresqf»e« ,Bpttejr go to ‘ex- tfemes thaia^o boi^Tjieople. r “Don’t argue with your family. Whfn they object; when they say you are disnaclng the family, for getting. ■your '^cestors, don’t inflame them by back. I h^ded mine some suffrage literature. W^en you ■Win thetf they will have been fbr you all the time.” ■ ' MvSk Grace Gallatin Sea ton, i?ife of Ernest Seatqn-Thompspn, pf Connecticut, and Mrs. Susan W. ^t^raldv'^of Boston> addressed the boavMtiott on "‘PrdpajBanda.” Mrs. S«Bton and Mrs. Fltsgeraid ven lew mlBtant, urging organlza- tion aa. t|i« cl0ef -essentiaL tliough no Ifjpi poBttiv* than MIm Wiaapr. , / • f- “Mbther of Women’s Clubs” Swears to Registry as Voter. Los Angeles, Oct. 21.—Mme. Car oline M. Severance, “Mother of Wo men’s Clubs,” crowed with the expe rience of 91 years, foresaw what she termed her great victory when she swbre to her registry as a prospective voter and knew that her 58 years' fight for enfranchisement was won Mme. Severance answered the ques tions of Mra. 'Leslie M. Carlislie; wfeq had been pronUMd by- the celebrated woman the ^ honor of registering h^. Mme. Severaiwe refused to pl^ce herralf on record as belonging to any political party, as that “is-too a^ious a matter to decide at once.” “Moth er of Women’s Clubs” was the occu pation to which \ she swcre. Mme* Severance was bom in Canandaigua, N. Y. In X855 she /ounded In Bps^ the New England Woman’s C^ub, tbe (irist of its ^d In .Ainerica. In 1853 ^ she her equal sulEr^e wt>rl(. fortuife. inspired great hordes the" igho to fol low to d^th the banners of the tmpe* rii^:' government.” "Isn’t the same spirit latent amonS the masses today?” General Wilson was asked. ‘T think not,” he replied. Only a Handful of Manchus. “I am inclined to believe now I could sweep from the coast to Pekin with 5,000 American soldiers, take the im perial city and topple the baby Emper or from, his throne. “Just contemplate for a moment,” General Wilson rbfiected, “the tremen-* dotis meaning of the spectacle in China which for two hundred and fifty years hafi puzzled the civilized world. A handful of Manchus during these two and a half centuries have dominated the empire. “I dafe say that there are not more than three million or four million Man chus in the nearly four hundred mil lion of total population. Why have not these four hundred million risen in their wrath and even with their bare hands, if necessary, torn the Manchu oppressors from their throne? No National Feeling. “There is Absolutely no national feel ing in China. The resentful attitude the Chinese show toward the outer workhlB'due wholly to racial feeling. The> Leader- a Shrewd Politician. “As soon as I saw that the successor of Li Hung, Chang,*in point of person al ^fiuence ■ and standing, had con sented to take .supreme command of the ihipfrial forces,.! concluded that the rebellion would be short lived; not becatlBe of any superior military prow ess o'r experience of this mandarin, whom I happen to know ver ywell, but because he is one of the shrewdest politicians in'China. He.knows that, should he fail, not .only would he suffer ignoble death and the confiscation of all his worldly possessions,'but that every man, wo* Continued'on Page Ten. BANKER* CUMMINS ON TRIAL ■ . . I New York, Oct. 21^The trial of WiHiam J. Cummins who was a dliiec- tpr of the Carnegie Trust Company cbafi^d wlth .th. larceny of $140,000 started Tuesday before Justice Davis and a Jury in the criminal branch of the supreme court. Joseph G. Robin ^e convicted ‘sky-rocket” financier WilJ be an important yvitness for .the state against cummins. It Is expected that' the. tr|j|r of exlty. chamMriain Hy^e wIM follow that ef Cummlnsr -I m 7