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The Omaha Daily Bee Looking Backward This Day in Omaha Thirty Twenty Ten Years Ago See Editorial Page of each lssut WEATHER FORECAST Snow; Colder OMAHA, TlllTwSlWY MOKXIM1, XOVEMHKK 2, ifltl-FOUKTKKX PAHKK. SIN'OLE COPY TWO CENTO. VOL. XLI-XO. 118. YUAN-SIII-KAI IS HEAD OPCABINET Chinese Leader Recalled from Exile Will Reorganize the Gov eminent. MORE CONCESSIONS TO REBELS New Premier Will Conduct Negotia tions in Person. GENERAL OUTLINE OF PLAN It Amounts to Union of the Govern ment and Revolutionists. EDICT " FROM THE THRONE Xht Premier ia Commanded to Carry Out Reform in Pol ities and All Other Matters. FEK1XG, Nov. l.-Yunn-Shl-Kal has been appointed premier of China and he will organize a new cabinet as soon an lie assumes his post. Meanwhile Prince Chine, whom Yuan-Shl-Kal succeeds, will continue his duties as acting premier and have as associate premiers Na-Tung and Hsu-Shlh-Chang, who up to the present have been vice presidents of the cabinet. Prince Chlng has been made president of the privy council and Na-Tung and Hsu-Shlh-Chang vice presidents. Wei Kuang Tao, formerly viceroy of Kwang Tung province, becomes viceroy of IIu Feh and IIu Nan provinces, to which office Yuan-Shl-Kal was elevated when he was recently recalled from official banishment ' to restore the Imperial au thority In the southern provinces. In the redistribution of offices the present minister of war. General Yin Tchang, who was In supreme commund of Imperial troops until he was super ceded by Yuan-Shl-Kal, Is made chief of the general staff. This much of the program hastily con structed by the throne in the hope of appeasing the revolutionists, was made effective by an imperial edict promul gated today. Earlier In the day a tele gram had been received from Yuan-Shl-Kal In which he asked that he be ap pointed acting premier and set forth his Immediate plans for restoring peace. He Intends to halt all the imperial forces and order all aggressive campaigning against the rebels stopped at once. TJien he proposes to enter without delay Into negotiations with LI Yuan Ileng, the head of the revolutionary forces, with a view to establishing a permanent peace. ' He plans to make his overtures directly to General Li. and If a personal parley Is unobtainable In any other way he will visit the rebel headquarters at Wu Chang. Yuan's proposals amount practically to union between the government and the revolutionists. Ilrslernstlons Are Accepted. The edict accept the resignations of the ministers, which were tendered fol lowing the acquiescence of the throne In the demands of the national assembly and the. army league. Reference to, Yuan Shi Kai's future pre-eminence Is made as follows: "When be has arranged matters a little In Hu-Pch province, let him come to Peking and organise a complete cabinet and carry out immediate reforms In pol itics and all other matters." The leaders of the national assembly met with Yuan's close friends today and decided that the government should be required to accept all the demands of the army league as issued from Lanchau on October 9. It was also decided to re ijulre the appointment to high offices of General LI Yuen Ileng, the rebel com mander, and Tang-Hua-Lung, the rebel governor of Hu-Peh. HEIRS TO HOMESTEAD MUST CONTINUE CULTIVATION RAPID CITY, S. D., Nov. 1. That resi dence upon and cultivation of a home stead must be made by the heirs of a claim holder who djes before bis resi dence time Is up, U the decision of the secretary of the Interior in a land case here. The case was the contest of WII lium Bartseh against the -claim of the heirs of Thomas Brown. The heirs did not live on the homestead for more than a year afxer Brown's death. The Weather For Nehraska Generally fair, except unsettled south portion. For Iowa Generally fair; colder east and central portions. Temperature lit Omaha Yesterday 5 a. m U a. m 7 a. m 8 a. m 9 u. m 10 a. m 11 a. m 12 m 1 p. m 2 p. m 3 p. m 4 p. m o p. in 6 p. m 7 p. m p. m ... 24 ... 22 ... W) 11 .... Local Record. 1911. 1910. 1909. 19'. Highest yesterday 53 lil M lowest yesterday 2J 41 Xi Mean temperature 2'. W rJ 41 Precipitation il .00 .M .0) Temperature and precipitation depart ure from the normal: Normal t mpei ami e 4S Ueflclency fur the day , . J'olal excess since March 1 Normal precipitation Inch I tendency for t tit; day 05 inch TuMI rainfall sine March 1....12.M Inches I'.eficlency fines March 1 14 4'5 Inches Ieflclenry for cor. pel lod, l'OO. .13.S4 Inches 'Ueficlency for cor. peiiod, 1WJ.. l.L's Inches Reports from Stations at T I. M. Btatlon and State Temp. High- Rain Of Weather. 7 p. in. est. (all. Che-nne. snowing 12 1H .on 1'avenport. clear 24 .'! .flu I'enver, snowing 1H 2! .ul 'leu Moines, c.oudy 24 . T T'odge City, snowing 23 Hi .52 1-ander clear 24 2'! .01 North Platte, part cloudy IS 22 T fmiaha, clear 22 ?4 .01 Pueblo, suowinrr 22 3') ."2 Rapid City, clear 14 it .'! Fait LnKe, clear 4X It .) Kama b'e, cloudy i T Sheridan, clear 22 ?l .OH Sioux City, clear 14 ? .10 Valentine, clear 14 1 "T" Indicates trace of precipitation, Indicates below sero. i A. Welsh, LouU Forecaster. AjNilVTLttN. 6.- if Stephenson Says Evidenco Against Him Proves Nothing MILWAUKEE, Nov. l.-The Vnlted States senate committee which for a month has been Investigating charges of bribery In the election of Senator Isaac Stephenson, today adjourned Its hearings In Milwaukee, to meet later In Washing ton. Edward Hlnes, the lumberman, today again denied before the committee that he had anything to do wrongfully with the election of Senator Isaac Stephenson. "A story has been told before this com mittee that you attempted to obstruct the 'election of Mr. Stephenson with a view of obtaining money from him; that you went to Washington and suggested he put up half of the 1110,000 to put thv election over. Is that true?" Mr. Maes was asked. "It's absolutely untrue." replied Mr. Illnes. "It has been stated that you had a dispute with Robert J. Shields over the amount of money Shields was to get for putting over Benator Stephenson's elec tion; that in that dispute you threatened to send Shields to the penitentiary and that when so threatened Shields replied to you: "I have burnt your buildings for you, have bribed the assessors for you and committed every crime In the cal endar for you except murder, and If I go to the penitentiary you will have to go too.' Did any such dispute take place?" "I never had a dispute with Shields over Senator Stephenson's election, nor did I ever pay him any money In con nection with It." Senator Stephenson, the last witness, repeated nls former testimony that while he expended $107,793 In the primary cam paign of 1908 for nomination he had given little attention as to how the money Was spent. The senator declared he never knew Robert J. Shields and that he never had had any political dealings with Kdward Hlnes. Senator Stephenson said after adjourn ment: "I am confident there has not been presented any evidence on which to sus tain any of the charges." Buffalo Bill Will Spend Remaining Years in Big Horn RICHMOND. Vs., Nov. 1. Col. Wil liam F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" to all the world, retired from public life tonight. His show .was packed off to winter quar ters and his Indians will return to their tepees in what Is left of the red man's land, while "Buffalo Bill" Intends to spend his remaining years in the Wyom ing Big Horn, where he helped mako American hlrtory. Purine a career which began as a pony express rider, led him through more Indian battles -than any - other living white 'man, and Included twenty-eight year as a showman, Colonel Cody be came known as one of the most pic turesque figures of American frontier life. . The sobriquet "Buffalo Bill" he earned In the early 0'a, when he contracted to furnish, buffalo meat to the laborers on the building of the Kansas Paclfio rail road, and In less than eighteen months he killed 4,280 bison. Body of Pulitzer Is Laid to Rest in Woodlawn Cemetery NEW YORK. Nov. 1. The Episcopal church performed the last rites this af ternoon over Joseph Pulitzer, tha dead newspaper publisher. Burial was ut Woodlawn cemetery. The choir of St. Thomas', where the services were held, sang the music of which Mr. Pulitzer, during his lifetime was most fond. The mourners Included so many of his former employes and personal friends that there was little room for the public. The hon orary bearers were Nicholas Murray But ler, Lewis L. Clarke, Colonel George B. Harvey, Frederick H. Judson, General John B. Henderson, Seth Low, St. Clair McKelway, Georgo L. Rives, Dr. James W. McLane and J. Angus Shaw. If. was planned that for five minutes at the funeral hour the machinery in the offices of the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch would stand still. Subpoenas Served On Steel Magnates NEW YORK. Nov. l.-6ubpoenaa In the government's dissolution suit have been served against the United States Steel corporation on J. P. Morgan, Charles Steele, Andrew Carnegie, James Gayley, Edmund C. Converse, Daniel G. Held, Norman B. Ream, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; James X. Hill, E. II. Gary, the United flatea Steel corporation, Fed eral Steel company. Lake Superior Con solidated Iron mines and the Union Steel company. John TV Rockefeller will be served at his home In Pucantlco Hills. DENISON FINDS A WAY TO QSLERIZH HALLOWE'EN DENISON, la., Nov. l.-(Speclal.)-The city authorities of Denlson believe they have hilpd to solve the problem of pre venting the malicious mischief usually done by the boys and young men on Hal lowe'en. It is by arranging another at traction for the boys that evening. Last year damage was done In this city to the amount of over 11.000 by overturn ing and burning up sheds and outbuild ings, damage to buggies and anything movable. For this year the mayor, coun cil and publlc-mlnded citizens arranged a big gathering of the young men In the assembly room of the city hall. Provision was made for an orchestra, music, enter- tailing Kiwukeis, clears and tables for caids. The boys entered into the spirit of the occasion ami helped provide the cofce and supper. So with muuV, singing, speeches, story telling, duno'n;; mid ghmes some were so Interested tiny did not go home until after 1 o'clock In the morn ing. The morning of November 1 arrived nd the community awoke to find no damage, and the boys declared they liked the new way much better. MEYEK INSPECTS ATLANTIC FLEET Secretary of Nary Says Effective ness of Organization Has Been Proved. TAFT TO REVIEW SKITS TODAY Greatest Mobilization in History of United States. NOTED MEN ATTEND CEREMONY Naval Officers Favor Creation of Vice Admiralship. HUGE CROWD SEES SPECTACLE Secretary Meyer Kas Mobilisation Demonstrates eed for Greater IS amber of Knllttvtt Men for Reserve Fleet. NEW YORK, Nov. l.-"The fleet has demonstrated Its preparedness for any emergency and has Known the effective ness of the present organization." George Von L. Meyer, secretary of the navy, smiled as he made this statement tills evening on board the president's yacht Mayflower, after having Inspected ninety-nine fighting ships of the Atlantlo fleet assembled In the Hudson river for the greatest mobilization In the history of the American navy. President Taft will review the fleet tomorrow as It passes out to sea and, though the Pali sades and the shores of the Hudson will -echo back a greater number of salutes than was accorded the secretary today, Mr. Meyer says he Is satisfied with what he saw today. ' Meyer Visits Flaarshlnn. Leaving the Mayflower In a speedy launch, after having received on board Rear Admiral Oslerhaus, the commander In chief, and the division commanders, the secretary paid visits to the flagships of the fleet, standing erect In the launch with silk hat held firm and frock coat flopping as he sped from ship to ship In the face of a twenty-mile nor' by nor'west wind. The Mayflower fired a salutt of nineteen guns as he left her side and this salute was repeated by each of the seven flagships that he boarded, beginning with the little Dixie, tender of the torpedo fleet. His calls completed, the secretary re boarded the Mayflower, which had steamed to the upper end of the seven miles of warships and passed slowly southward along the entire line, each ship saluting nineteen times as he passed. The echoes roared back from the New York shore after an interval so long that It seemed as If a second bombard ment were going on ' In the streets of Harlem. It was 5:10 o'clock when he repassed the Connecticut on hla return trip, marking the end of -the day's for malities. Would IJnv Vice A4mlra.li Members of the house committee on naval affairs followed the secretary on his visits to each' flagship and were honored with a salute of seventeen guns. They, too, were gratified with- the ap parent efficiency and preparedness of the fleet and when the party reassembled on fno Mayflower' hope was expressed that congress mig-h-t see fit to create the position of vice admiral. "The rank of the commandcr-tn-chlef should bo commensurate with his great responsibilities," said Secretary Meyer, "and it is due his position that he should have the rank of vice admiral." Rear Admirals Walnwright, Vreeland, Potter and Fletcher, acting as the secre tary's aides, endorsed this expression and hoped also that the position of vice admiral would be created. "This mobilization also has demon strated," continued Secretary Meyer, "that for our reserve fleet we should have a greater number of eulisted men. I have anticipated this In part by asking for 2,000 more men In this year's esti mates,, which have now gone to the Treasury department. These estimates provide for the maintenance and addi tion of these men, but they are no larger than those of last year." JVoted Visitors Present. Besides the congressmen and other prominent guests aboard the Mayflower this afternocn, attaches of four foreign nations were present. They were Captain O. F. G. Sowerby of England, . Com mander Retzman of Germany, Com mander Tokutaro Hlraga of Japan and Commander Vassllleff of Russia. There were also present Senators Root and O'Uorman of New York, Mayor Gaynor, Attorney General Wlokersham, Secretary of the Interior Fisher and others. The two latter accompanied Mr. Meyer on his visit to the flagships. Two slim-nosed destroyers, painted green, patrolled the courso during the inspection and there was no untoward Incident throughout. About 200,000 per sons witnessed the spectacle from the New York shore and gaily decked har bor craft boro other thousands up and down the line. Each warship crashed forth the "Star-Spanglsd Banner" when either the secretary's Large or the May flower drew neir, the crews manned the rails and those ships which he boarded hoisted the secretary's flag with Its blue fieid, white anchor and iour stars. It was announced early In the day that all the fleet would not salute the secretary as he passed back along the line, but these arrangements were changed as the Inspection progressed. The ships did not dress in rainbou- colors as had been expected, but reserved this hoiur for t'.e president. DEPUTY MARSHALS GUARD ILLINOIS CENTRAL PROPERTY EAST ST. LOflS. III., Nov. l.-Twenty t'nlted States deputy marshals relieved the local police today as guards of the Illinois Central - property during the strike. Th railroad;) also dispensed with the 'services of Ilia special guards. Fcd eial Intervention Is the result of Judge Wright's -decent order restraining the sti liters from damaging the property. NATIONAL W. C. T. U. RE-ELECTSJTS OFFICERS MILWAUKEE, Nov. l.-.Mra. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me., was today re-elected to tine presidency of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union. The ether officers were also reelected. From the St. lunula Times. HANECY AND HEALY CLASH Lawyers in Lorimer Case Have Vio lent Verbal Bouts. BOTH ARE CALLED TO ORDER State's Attorney Darke of Spring field Questioned A boat Holts law's Appearance Before the Grain 4 Jury.. CHICAGO, Nov. l.-Attorney Hanecy of counsel for Mr. Lorimer and Attorney Healy of counsel "for the committee clashed sharply and were reprimanded by Chairman Dillingham today before the federal senatorial committee Investigating the Lorimer election, - ' The verbal bout between the two law yers occurred during the cross-examination of State's Attorney Burke of Spring field, . and continued several minutes, while Senator Dillingham rapped ; for order and directed the attorneys to cease the exchange of personalities. The trouble began when Attorney Healy Interrupted Attorney Hanecy by saying: "The witness has answered that ques tion a doien times and I make objection to this delay." Hanecy: "t want to say that I Intend to get these answers In chronological order and I Son't Intend lo be suppressed by this person over here," (Indicating At torney Healy). Healy: "Well, I think the chairman should suppress counssl for Mr. Lorimer." Hanecy: "You cr.n't suppress me, and I will get these answers." Healy: "I think such tactics should be eliminated from the hearings." Hanecy: "Well, I want to say that you can't suppress me or railroad me, and further, I want to deolare myself now. that you are not going to railroad my Client, either." Questions About Waron. Asked about the actions of State's At torney Wayman of Cook eounty, Burke said: "I wish to say In Justice to Mr. Way man and to Attorney General Stead that at the time they may have thought I was trying to build a 'back fire against the lnestigatlon In Cook county. That may explain their attempt to head me orr in Sangamon county." Attorney Hanecy. "Were you, as a matter of fuct, trying to interfere with the Investigation In Cook county?" "No, sir, I was not." Burke then told that former State Rep resentative Michael Link was called be fore the court at Springfield and ordered under threat of contempt proceedings to testify before the grand Jury. Link then appeared and was asked only one ques tion. 'Link was asked If he had been of fered or had received money In Sanga- . - ; . : I J l.l mon county to vote tor mmiuhi " he had not." wald the witness. Attorney Hanecy asked the witness If It were not true that when State Sen ator Holstlaw was offered Immunity It was on the direct understanding that Holstlaw would admit receiving money for his vote for lorimer. "No, Ihut Is not true." replied Burke. He asked to return to tho gtand Jury room nd correct his testimony In rela tion to the furniture deal, wherein he had sworn that he had not written a let ter to the agent for the C'hirafcu firm." Burke later denied that the question of the senatorial election was nanud spe cifically In discussions with Holstlaw's attorneys regarding Immunity for tlulr client. TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED WHEN STEAMER SINKS LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Nov. 1. Twenty-four persons were drowned when the French steamer Iilollbali sank at sea. The I!ollbah was ' towing the Fronch steamer Uberla for Marseilles when the latter fouled It. The Liberia was picked up by the German steamer Elmshorn and towed in here today In a dangerous condition. More Black Hand T V 9 II YLL 1 GOT THE STOVfc UP Two Men Killed and One Wounded by Deer Hunter MAYS LANDING, N. J., Nov. l.-Mls-taken for deer In the gloom of the early dawn. Constant Steelman and John Yost, business men of Pleasantvltle, were killed and William Jarvls of the same plaoe was Injured today when a hunter fired at them at Weymouth, six mile from here. Tha man alleged to have made the fatal mistake Is said to be Charles Nprcroas, ft stranger In the neighborhood. Steelman Is In the oil business, Yost, a furniture dealer, and Jarvla, left I'leas antvllle at midnight with two friends to hunt deer. The deer season opened today and- hunting Is permitted only on Wednesdays In November, consequently the woods were filled with sportsmen. The party spent the night In the woods near Weymouth and about daybreak the hunters were walking down a road toward their stand. Without warning a shot was fired from the heavy under brush on the roadside and Steelman, Yost and Jarvis fell. A moment later the man who fired the buckshot stepped Into the road. ' The hunter who fired the fatal shot Is under surveillance and can be taken Into custody at a moment's notice in cuse the police want him. Says the President - Will Have Salaried Publicity Agent DES MOINKS. Nov. l.-"The time will come' when the president of the United States will have a trained and salaried publicity agent," declared George E. Itoberts, director of the mint, In an ad dress before the D.'S Moines Ad Men's club last night. Mr. Itoberts eulogized President Taft, expressing the conviction that the chief executive would be renominated and re elected next year. He declared that Taft was misunderstood throughout the middle west and that factionalism In the re publican party was responsible for it. "When prosperity came back to the country after McKlnloy's first election," said Mr. Itoberts, "the di-mocratio party almost disappeared as a factor In affairs, and nuturully all political controversies developed within the republican party." Motion to Expedite Suit Against Ohio Coal Railroads COHIHl.'S. O., Nov. 1. Determined to follow President Tuft's policy of quick action in the anti-trust cases, Attorney General Wlckerslium today filed a certi ficate of expedit.on In tho I'nlted Stales court here that the canes against tlio Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and other railroads and coal companies who were charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust law In a suit brought several weeks ago by the government be given precedence over other rases and be tried at once. Madero's Train is Wrecked Near Torren TOJIUICON. Mexico, Nov. l.-The special train on the. Mexican Central railway canylng Pres dent-elect M micro and Ids party from Chihuahua to the capital collided head-on with a freight train near Gomes Palaclo early today. The Madero party escaped unharmed, but Trainmaster Alberto Sanchex of Gov.iez I 'a I a do was killed. With Madero were Alberto Madero and his wife. Governor A brain Gonzales of Chihuahua and General paaqual Orotu RIGHT TAFT SPEAKUO STUDENTS Executive Makes Address at Uni versity of West Virginia. TO INSTALL NFW PRESIDENT Governor Glassroek and Staff Participate In the F.sercUrs Will Talk More of the ,. Treaties. to MORGANTOWN, W. Va . Nov. !. President Taft and his part arrlyved here at 3 o olock a. m. from Pittsburgh to par Helpate In the Installation of Thomas R Hodges as president of the Vnlverslty of nest Virginia. The president left his car at o'clock and was met by a com mittee from tho Morgantown and West Virginia, Boards of Trade, and Governor Olassoock and his staff, who escorted him to the residence of Dr. White, where he breakfasted. At 11 o'clock he addressed the student body from the steps of Mar tin hull. From now on the president will dovote inucn nine to speaking about the treaties And It IS known that V, ho. .nllalaA Bno- retnry of State Knox In the fight to have me senate raitry tliem. Mr. Knox will make a speech about tho peace pacts n Cincinnati next week, probably after Mr. Tft hi..if i ihnr. lo vote and to keep a'speaklng engage ment, j ne president may refer to tho treaties In hla ninclnnsti AAr.. xr- Knox Is expected to go thoroughly Into me suujeci or arbitration. Between the time ha aDcaks In C nrln. tiafl and tho ouenlnv nf rnmrr... in De cember the secretary of state probably will have additional opportunities to make clear his views on the treaties which he drafted for the United Rtateu T'r m more than a dosen United States senators uuve expressed their Intention of voting for the treatbiH and thm I.,.. - .... I.L.IUCII, nu,e to Increase that number before he reaches rvaiiiHgton late next week. The program for the president's nnv in Morgantown, ""the first West Virginia town on nts schedule, was not long. It Included an autrmoblle ride through the city, an address, and Mr. Taft's presence ut the Inauguration as DreMl.lini ,r u, university of West Virginia of Thomas II.... V i uuugrs. leaving mere the president will go by special train to Washington en route to New York. New Orleans Negro Killed After He Had Shot Two Policemen .Mi.N OHbKANS. Nov. 1. Two nulrnl. men were moi-tally wounded and several persons nurt when an unidentified nccro, who was later shot to death, tun wild on an Algiers fcrrybout toduy. As tho ferry approached the Algiers landing the negro apilcared on deck a'ld declared he was "going to get a white man," where upon hn began firing. Policemen Georgo A. ItuHscll and Jovenli l a I Inter fered anil they wrro shut down. Immedi ately a crowd cloned In on the negro, who was killed after he had wounded several of the crowd, using his gun as a club. Double Suicide at Wooster, Ohio WOOSTlCIt, Ohio, Nov. l.-What ap pears to have been u double suicide de veloped today when Lewis Billiard, aged 3'i yeurs old, wus found dead In Wooster cemetery with an empty bottle which contained Ktrychnlne by Ills side. Mlas Cuniien Humphrey, aged 10 years, to whom Billiard was engigeri, died In con vulsions last night at her home after attending a Hallowe'en party witli Bil liard. In a notebook found in Billiard s room he had written: "Dtar Mother Forgive me.' Bury us together. HUFL'B." NINE DEATHS IN WIDOW'S HOME Police in Chicago Investigating Pev cnliar Series of Demises of Rela tives and Friends. rOISON EXPERT EXAMINES BODY Policeman Sweetheart's Sadden Passing Arouses Suspicion. WOMAN OFTEN TALKS OF DEATH Three Children and Two Husbands Lose Their Lives. NO ARREST MADE BY POLICE Positive F.ldenee of Any Crime Yet IHsenvered and Widow Pro. tests Hresnut she Is llelil I mlrr Nurvrllnnee. CHICAGO. Nov. 1. Chicago police to-l day pursued their Investigation Into the deaths of nearly half a score of relative and Hcnunlntum-es of Mrs. Louise Veil nnlya to make certain whether the slml liar demises constituted only a remarkl able series of coincidences, as Mrs. Ver- nillya asserts. f Nine deaths are Included In the l list with which Mrs. Vermllya's name hi been connected. Including two htmhatvl two tsep-chlldren, three children and tv roomers at boarding houses she kept. rending the report or toxicoiogisis wu m are examining the viscera of the last of 1 ifio irrnMun wiinpt! m'Hinfl nave uixuucu beneath Mrs. Vermllya's roof, the police have made no arrests. No positive evl dence of crime bus been uncovered. New Fnets Disclosed. From letters received by Hie police and from separate Investigations the following new facts became known today: That while Mrs. Vermllya has said one of the members of the death roster, Rich ard T. Hmith, a conductor, was only a boarder at her home, a former roomer asserts the two claimed previously to have been married and that they lived together as man and wife. That while the woman told the police she had assisted an undertaker at Crystal Lake, a former home. In embalming bodies, the undertaker there denies she ever nad any such experience. She gave thla as a reason why she could d Incuse the deaths with composure. That H. N. Brulngton, a photographer of Peoria, and brother-in-law of . the conductor. Smith, had made love to the widow following Smith's death so as to Investigate suspicions he then had about the reason for his relative's demise. That the widow had told him part of her matrlmoniul history, which he desired to give to the coroner. That Smith died during convulsions and after drinking some substance, but that tho doctors gave the cause of death, from descriptions of symptoms given by -the widow, as acuta gastritis. Wldon- Talked of Death. Photographer Bruington'a story relat ing tho confidential talks he had with the widow while he was courting her was expected to develop new Interest. In a talk with the police of Peoria he said Mrs. Vermllya had periods of mental depression In which she wus fond ot talking of death and the many visits It had made to thoso near and dear to her. Ho said to the police: "She told me It seemed strange to her that nearly everyone she knew well and cared for died, and asked me if I was afraid of death." A new coincidence developed today, fol lowing the sudden Illness of Mrs. Ver mllya herself, when a sister living In the house adjoining, Mrs. Mary Duchholx, suddenly became 111. Mrs. Vermllya told Inquirers today she had never studied medicine nor sought to become a nurse, as had been reported, but that she had some little knowledge of medidne that she had acquired to enable her to bo of aid to neighbors and relatives In time of Illness. She asserted she was Innocent and condemned the po lice for maintaining a surveillance over her. , Pecnllar Deaths. The deaths which are being looked Into follow: Fred Brlnkamp, first husband of Mrs. Vetmilya, died on farm near Bairlng ton, 111., after brief Illness. Charles Vermllya, second husband,' died after six days' Illness of "gastritis" at Maplewood, 111. Florence Brlnkamp, 4-year-old daugh ter, died at Harrington. Cora Brlnkamp, 8-year-old daughter, died at Harrington. Harry C. Veiin.lya, stepson, 35 years old. Lillian Brlnkamp, stepdaughter, 20 years old. Frank Brlnkamp, son, died of pneu monia in Chicago. ltlchard T. Smith, conductor, and re ported to be third husband. He boarded at her home. Arthur Biftsonnette, policeman, roomer, to whom she was engaged to be married, died of "gastritis" last Thursday. It was the suddenness ot Blssonnette'a death, coupled with tho widow's state ment that ho was addicted to drink, win leas members ot the police force had known him as an abstainer, that prompted the Investigation and a deter mination of the coroner to have the policeman's viscera examined by a toxi cologic. Professor Walter Haines, a poison expert, who testified In the Hyde murder trial at Kansas City, Is makint the examination, and expects to report by Friday, he announced today. The coroner left today for Harrington. Tickets to Ameri can Theater. Boxes of O'Brien's Candy. Dalzell'a Ico Cream Brick, All are giveu wajr free te tliose who tiad thoir name la , ' ttt want adi. Head toe want adr. evcrr da, your utmn will appear soma. time, may b more than one k .. . . . No puiiles to solve nor sub. crlptioDs to get just read to a tut ads. Torn to the want ad page there you will find nearly ererjt feuaineaa house in the city reW ess(4.
