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The Blyth Standard, 1907-11-14, Page 2EASY MONEY FOR MRS. CHADWICK. BORROWED NEARLY $800,000 FROM PITTSBURG MEN. Fake Securities $5,000,000—Opening of FamousAffidavitLeta in Light on Dealings of the Dead Adventuress. Pittsburg, Nov. 1L—The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has allowed the public a peep at the famous Chadwick deposition introduced in litigation sur- rounding the settlement of the estate of the lite. W. C. Jutte. The dooument showy that Mrs, 0bad- widr got from Hoffetatt and Friend, who awe respectively Pre ident and Vice -President of the Praised Steel Car Company, almost $800,000 in liana, for whieh she pat up $6,000,000 is bogus eeonrltka. Among other things contained in Mse. Chedw ek's deposition is a copy of this mamorusdumt To J. W. Friend—As a 000sideratisn et the loan of 173,200 made by you to me on Marsh 96, 1004, and the loan of ;37,000 tWa nth day of Marin, 1904, made by you to me, I hereby covenant, !promise and agree Irrevocably to place 'in your possession no later than April 12, 1904, all of the seourltlee now in ��thKae poseoaeion of Ira Reynolds, agree- eki in trust for me, dated March 5, 0,000,000, 1908, end that you shall have full power and authority tq dispose of the said securities for the ?mime and in the manner following: To pay off in full the - eaaburg parties evidenced. by the foflraing notes to your order:' Note of $363,000, dated April 10, 1903, Note of $900,000, dated February 8, 1904. Note of $10,000, dated March 18, 1904. Note of 323,000 dated March 18, 1904. Note of $73,200, dated Maros 25, 1904. Note of $37,000, dated March 29, 1904. Total, 37982200. 10 hold the balance of said eeouri- t31 until I shall create a trust under er ioh I will 'tie :fp during fay life ,000 of told eeenrities, and on the lcutfon of pbpere creating such a ,$fust, you, the said J. W. Friend, will turn over to the trustee named in such trust papers the amount of Iiecuritiea provided, in such trust, and the hal- ' ' auoe of the securities you will cleaver ,kto me personalty, As inducement to said loan 837,000 1 further covenant and agree that the iMtid securitiee *hall remain aa they Row are in the custody of the said Ira and shall not be dieturbed ' Im April 12, 1904, ung sooner turned over to J, W. Friend, and said Mountie are in Cleveland in the active poaseeion of said Reynolds, and are of a par value of $6,000,000. This paper "ball be considered the exeeutioa of a power coupled with an interest and irrevocable. Witness my hand and seal, Meech 29, 1904. CASSIE CHADWICis., Memo. From Victim, Another paper was produced and marked exhitidt B. It wee * follows: Pittebtr'g, June 4, 1904; Mss. Chadwick: Herewith memo. of your entire in- debtednaea to me, being promissory notes, payable on demand with inter. est from the date of paper: April 10, 1903, 3353,000. ..February 20, .1904, $300,000. March 18, 1904, 310,000. March 18, 1904, 326,000. March 26, 1904, 73,200. Mems 29, 1904, 857,000. Torah, 3798,200. Very they yours, J. W. FRIEND, M s Chadwick said she had been caked several times to take the Jutta bonds and dispose of them, Friend telling her "the poor old man (Jutta) was oraay and not able to take care of his own affairs." The remainder of Mrs. Chadwick'* alfidt}vit re(ere to alleged efforts on part of Friend and offetatt'a re• eeentatives to induce her while in e Oleo penitentiary to refuse toive se many in the Jutta ea. g W.C.T.U,CONVENTION 1YHIT&, RIBBON$RS MEETING AT s• CORNWALL THIS WEEK. Cnflu�en,c,Je' !W Be reit fm,'Pour Score of 7"T Option Cathpaig . Preeldeat's Reports Presented— Over- Public Meeting, apateh: Even ff the mem. "Women's Christian Temper - have no votes, it is quite ap• m the tone of the Provincial tion being held here that they in• aking their influence felt in the re campaigns now in progress in rio. Today the great feature was report of the Corresponding Secre- tary, Mrs. Flora York either, of London, who stated that legislation in reform meaeure$ was claiming the attention of the women. The W. 01,,T. U. had taken quite a part in the elections of fast January, but if the members could not be the voting power they intended being the praying power. hire, Miller 'further pointed out that thirteen new and reorganized unions have been re- ported, among these being St. David's, Welland, Whitby, Burford, Ridgetowa, Mar'kdale, Avonmore and the Beaches, Toronto. The Toronto district work Wag laid out in the erection of a 450; m,C00 building, of which the lot and over 37,000 had already been procured, In Ottawa the special work had been the opening of the White Ribbon Mission liome. The counties which had report- ed financial and numerical increase were Essex, Grenville, Ontario, Bruce, Lincoln, Welland and Stormont. The total number of unions throughout the Province was 176, number of regular members 5,003, honorary memhcre 717, amount of money raised for general pur- poses, $13,734,10, an increase of 8034.13 over Inst year. After a consecration service by Mies M. Jameson, of Rochester, N.Y., the con- vention tete formally opened by Mrs. S. G, E. McBee, of Barrie, the Provincial President, The morning session was taken up with the considering and adopting of various reports. In the afternoon the President's address was delivered by Mrs. McKee, The church was filled to overflowing at the public meeting in the evening. The feature of the evening was an elo- quent address by Miss. Kearney, who spoke at conk enable length, to the de. light of the large audience. HIS WIFE ELOPED. CANADIAN J. P. CHASES COUPLE r,5oo MILES. Be Caught the Elopers in Michigan— Romance Which Had Its Genesis in Alberta Comes to an End in Ann Arbor. Aim Arbor, Mich„ Nov. 11.— After a 1,500 -mile chase, during which he was at all times just a few hilos behind bind his wife and the mem with whom she has eloped, Charles Wixman hermit, a justice of the ponce in Raymond, Al- berta, Northwest Canada, had the flee- ing pair 'rested here. The ma.n who le held with the woman 1* John Cooper, a land agent. Although Hermit arrived here several hours behind the couple, be was enabled to make the capture because hie wife tarried too long over a visit to relatives In Ferriaburg, Permit claims that while be was in Oregon, on a bualnesa trip, Oooper became infatuated with Mrs. Hermit, and enticed her to elope with him. Her- mit, notified by his friends of her deaer- tfon, started out on the trail of the pair. He followed them through a score of cit- ies in the Middle West, but Cooper and hie companion always managed to keep a few miles ahead. The couple were arraigned in police court, and both gave bail for their ap- pearance in court next week. UNHAPPY WIVES. Three More Canadian Marriages Annulled in Detroit. Detroit, Nov, 11,—Three more Can. adieu wives told their troubles be the divoroe court to -day and all three sero returned by Judge Mandell to the stage of single blessedneee. One day in December, 1904, George C. Dew returned to his home in Forest, Canada, and found thot his wife Minnie had decamped, taking with her every- thing but the household furniture, George came to Detroit, and, as Minnie evinced no desire to return to him, etatted divorce proceedings. He told his story to Judge Mandell and will get a dearth in 30 days. Pauline Wirth told Judge Brooke that on March 21, 1007, when she was ' rt 17 yearn of age, Albert Reiger persued:i her to go to Windsor with him' *ltd be married. She insists that she didn't know what it was all about until it was all over. Thejudge will annul the marriage, as the girl's testimony was corroborated, Non-support wee charged by Esther Milnes, who said that John Mimes left her four years ago and has contributed nothing to her support since that time. They were married in Leamington, Ont,, In March, 1804 ONE KITCHEN FOR TOWN. Residents of. Montclair Have Plan to Solve Domestic Problem. Montclabr, Nov. 11.—A co-operative kit- chen to one of the possibilities in Mont• whir during the coming winter. There is a great scarcity of maid servants In this town, and consequently cooking has been done under difficulties. A young woman from Boston, who managed a somewhat similar institution in the Huh, has been here endeavoring to interest housekeepore In the plan. Last season a number of local resi- dents went ao far with the project that meetings wore held, but at that time no person wanted to shoulder the manage - went of the kitchen, and it was dropped, Serviette here are said to bo receiving the highest wages ever paid for domestic help. CUSTOMS MAN'S FIND. New Yorker 'Recovered Trunk Full of Stage Jewels on Pier. New York, Nov. 11. -=When the ouatomzs of- ficer discovered an odd-looking trunk on the p'renab line pier yesterday, feet after the arrival of the Gaslogne, and began to tern uo the contents ho thought for a moment he had stumbled upon a treasure cheat. Strings of pearls by the acorn, necklaces of diamonds whose size would put to shame the jewels displayed at a gala performance of opera, brooches al every conceivable abape end aetting, bracelete—the lnspeotor telt tent. 'Then be turned to the declaration In his hands and found he had been losing his breath over n lot of "stage jewellery." What was contained In the trunk was large oortlon of the paste decorations which some stare bed others of gr. 'Oscar Bummer - stetter, company bedeck themselves with ..in grand (mere performances, Mme. Cteofonte esmennlnt, wife at the operative director of the Manhattan, hoe been In the custodian of the jewels, end somehow they were left behind when she cane to America recently. If real the loves would hove represented mayoral minion dnlinr' A.- It wile the eon - tents of the t.r,n P : - cxluel aC $2,080. U. S. WORKMEN BRING THEIR SAVINGS OVER TO WINDSOR BANKS. Small Army of Depositors From Across Line Place Savings in Windsor Branches—Impressed With Stability of Canadian Institutions. Windsor, Nov. 17.—A curious result of the panicky conditions on the 1'fnaacial markets of the United' States is seen here. During the past week a small army of depostione from Detroit have brought their money over and placed it in the Canadian banks. Many of them are Can- adians, who have full knowledge 'of the stability of Canadian monetary lnetitn- dame, but many, too, are Americans, born and bred, who have a faith that thinge "Heroes the' line" are not lb be rocked and tossed about by the machinations of truete and unscrupulous financiers, Most of the dopositore are working p t , who bring in their hard-earned sa that mean the accumulation of mon s and years. "I lost all my savings in a bank failure five years ago," said one horny -fisted workman in one of the Windsor hanks to -day, "and trine then I have kept my savings over here. And many of my friends do the same." The managers of the various baoke state that they have never seen such a rush of American depoeitore ea dieing the Met two weeks. They say that they have almoet as many Detroit deposit,rs ea Windsor people on their savings 1108*, and that the list is increasing largely THOUSAND A DAY, RATE OF IMMIGRATION TO CANADA SINCE LAST APRIL. Returns for Nine Months Show a Splen- did Increase in the Work of Settling the Country—Arrivals From United States Not So Numerous Now. Ottawa, Nov, 11.—For the first time months of the present year ending Sep- tember 31st the total immigration to Canada ha* been 230,008, an increase of 04,730 as compared with the correspond- ing nine months of 1901. The lacrosse above is nearly double the total inmri• gradin for 1000, and for the nine months the immigration is nearly nine times the total immigration of that For the Bret six months of the present fiscal yesr, beginning with April, the total immigration hna been 193,690, of whlolr the number conning from the United States was 35,092, and the num- ber via ocean ports was 158,698. The total increase se compared with the cor- responding months of feat year is 46,9$0, or 81 per cent. The peroentage of in. crease via ocean ports is 44. Immi- gration from the United States ehowa a decrease of 2,801, or 8 per cent, For September the immigration from the United States was nearly 4,000. The number of arrivals via ocean porta for the month was 18,204. Since the 1st of April last immigrants have been arriving in Camels et a rate averaging a little over a thousand per day. FACED DEATH. G. THIBERT HUNG IN MOUTH OF PENSTOCK AT NIAGARA. Small Rope That Sustained Ifim Wae Fouled, and Rushing Watera Threat- ened- to Carry Him Down at Any Minute --Rescued, But Badly Hurt. A Niagara Falls despatch: For a long half-hour today Godfrey Thibert hung by a thin rope in the mouth of one of the great penstocks of the Electrical De- velopment Company's power house while thousands of tons of water tore at his swaying body to carry him to desiruc• tionand despairing mates worked like maniacs to save lone, The men soon in the end, and Thibert is alive but .cry 01 to -night. Shortly after 10 o'cioek this. morning Thibert donned a. diver's outfit and went down into the forebay to do some work. The current running through the head gate of penstock No, 3 caught him and larked him into the mouth of the pipe. The rope prevented hies from going down, but when the mut above tried to pull him out it was found that the rope was fouled by an ao bar, and the diver could not be raised. It was impossible to shut down the head gate and stop the rush of water, for Thibert was hanging right under the gate, and it would hart eat him in two. The men on the line ecoid at their posts, straining every nerve to lift their imperilled mate, yet fearing each minute that the life line would part from the strain or be worn through where it was foul of the ironwork, and Thibert be snatched down one hundred and fifty feet into the turbine wheel. The pump tenders worked like machines, sending an uninterrupted supply of life-sustain- ing air down .through the hose to Thi• bert, Every possible scheme was brought into play to release the fouled rope, but it was half au hour before a prdetioable way was found. When the rope was at last free and the men pulled it in they did not know whether it was a living man or a corpse they were dragging from the depths of the cold. rushing water, Great wee Heir j. , nclr,•, the helmet was removed end Thibert found to be alive, RIO greater still when the doctors pronounced 00 mines broken, and the in- jured maws chances of recovery goad ueleas the lungs or heart imve suffered too great a strain. Th,bert's body vette nearly cut in two where the rope was round him,andC the drag of rushing water on the helmet squeezed and bruised Isis Beek, arms and shoulders. He had given up nil hope of reseuo, believing he would die from the pressure upon him or the rope would break and send him down to be torn to shreds on the turbine wheel, He was taken home to Chippewa ,and to. night Is doing as well its can be expect- ed, NATIONAL RAILWAY. NEW ONTARIO SECTION WILL BE LEFT TO THE LAST, Will Use the Temiskaming Railway to Take Supplies Into the Country— Progress in Quebec and Other Sec- tions eations of the Line Satisfactory. Ottawa, Nov, 11.—About fifty miles of mile have now been laid on the Na. tional Transcontinental on the Quebec section, and grading is well advaneed for ti long distance on the various divi- sions now under contract, It is thought that by next fall about four hundred miles of road will be graded, and the track will be laid on a large portion of 10.. Tenders for the greater portion of the remaining thousand miles between Win- nipeg and Monoten will be called for next spring. The contractors for the sections now under construction are re- pot ted e•lotted to be making satisfactory pro- gress, and Hon. Mr. Parent Is hopeful of completing the whole line by the end of 1011, as originally intended, The portion of the lino in New On- tario adjeeent to the route of the Tends- kerning & Northern Ontario .hallway will probably be the last to be construct- ed, as tenders will not be called for un- til the Provincial line ie extended to the proposed junction point, thereby lessen. Ing the cost of transporting supplies, seta, , for the Tran . continental line. DITCHES TRAIN. Lackawanna Passenger Train Saved as Erie Coal Care Pile Up. Paterson, Nov, 1L—The presence of mind of a trainman et the intersection of the Lackawanna Railroad tracks with those of the Greenwood Lake dlvlelon of the Erie at Mountain View yesterday averted the wreck of n passenger train. To avoid such a disaster the towerntan was compelled to ditch a coal train, causing damage estimated at $18,000, The Greenwood Lake train was behind schedule. As the coal train of ten cars approached the crossing on the Lacks. wanna tracks the passenger train on the Greenwood Lake road came in sight The towerman caw that a collision was inev liable, but he made up his mind quickly. He closed the block signal against the coal train, which was a fast one. The locomotive driver, realizing that some• thing was wrong, applied the emergency brakes with such force that his train of ooal caro buckled and toppled from the tracks, while the engine held the rails until it reached the derailing switch. The engine then tore the ties toward the creasing. The passenger train swept peat in the nick of time, se the locomotive on the coal train did not stop until the cow- catcher extended a few feet over the Greenwood Lake tracks, The Lacka- wanna roadbed wan badly torn up ''and traffic on both roads was delayed for several hours. FOUR YOUNG MEN DROWNED, Boat Found on Shore, With Body of One of the Victims Dalhousie, N. B, despatch: A gloom was cast over the town this morn- ing by the newe of a terrible drowning accident last night, tour young men hoe- ing their lives. Andrew Carr and Jack Neilson, of Dalhousie, and Willie Wafer and James Dickie, of Florence Point, Que., started for Florence Point last night in an eigh•foot boat- The wind was blowing a gale from the northwest, causing a heavy sea. The boat was found on the Quebec shore, with Nelson's Ole - less body in 1t, tide morning, being the first intelligence of the tragedy. Neilson was to have left for the Wet tomorrow, sea YOUNG WOMAN DEPORTED. An Idiot Sent From Worcester, Masa,, to Montreal, Montreal Nov. 11,—A curious case of apparent deportation from the United States attracted considerable attention at the Windsor Station today. A young woman of French-Canadian parentage, apparently about seventeen years of age, arrived by the Rutland train this morn- ing from Worcester, Mase., bound for Quebec. It became apparent after a time that the young woman wale a kind of harmless lunatic, who did not know her way about and had the dimmest realiza- tion of her surroundings, The girl said she did not know her open name or the name of her parents, but she knew her father and mother were dead, and that ehc had lived with them for a long time in Worcester, Masa. She had been sent by somebody she did not know to Quebec, where, she said, her attar lived, She was told she would meet her aunt at Quebec, but she did not know that relative's name, nor lied she any letters directing her to any person or place. She was sent to Quebec ;his afternoon, CROWD SAW HIM. FIRES•A SHOT FROM WINDOW TO ATTRACT CROWD, Then He Shoots Himself --Men and We - men Panic -Stricken at the Spectacle, But Bullet Fails, sad Man is a Prisoner, New York, Nov. 11.—Before attempting to end his life by shooting, Joseph Gau. dette, 22 years old, a mectitude, threw up the shade of awindow in his room in a boarding houaa, at No. 131 Court street, Brooklyn, Met night, and drew the attention of hundreds of persona in the street by firing e. shot. Then with the bright light in the room slowing his form in the window, the young man placed the revolver to his temple and fired, The spectator/ saw the arm of the young man fall to ills aide and the next moment he reeled, and, falling over backward, disappearing from view. Panic stricken, the women who had witnessed the deed fled. The men in the crowd ran toward the bowie and pushed into the halL But before any one from the street could reach the room occupied by Gaudette, others in the house who ht.d been startled by the shot rushed to his apartment. They found the young man lying on hie back with the revolver still gripped in hie band, When the ambuiande of the Long Island College Hospital arrived, Dr, Brennen found the bullet had glanc- ed off Gaudette's skull and that the wound was alight, When the ambulance surgeon was ex. *mining the wound Gaudette regained hie senses and started to tear up two letters which he pulled from a pocket. Before Policeman Elwood, of the Adams street station, oould stop him, the young man had torn the lettere Into many pieces. Inter the police patched the pieces of rho letters together and were able to read them. One, addressed "To Mar- garet," informed the woman to whom it was addressed that the writer did not dare to face her again. He Bald he still loved her and asked her to. forgive hem. In the other letter, which was ad- dreaeed "To Dan," the author again spoke of hie love for Margaret. He silk - ed Dan to notify Andrew Deuce, of West street, Middletown, N. Yeeof what had happened. Dr. Brennen decided that the bnliet wound was not serious enough to war rant him in taking Gaudette to the hos- pital, so the young man was taken to Ole Adams attest station, where he was locked up on a charge of attempting sill - aide. Beyond .saying he had been in Brooklyn only a few weeks, be refused to make any statement. ♦.e BY THE GRACE OF GOD, Not by Grace of Powers Does Persia Exist. New York, Nov. 11.—The Herald Sas received the following cable de/pater from Teheran: The Minister of t Affairs lute informed the Russian Min ter and the British Charge d'Affaires by letter, dated November 2, that the con- vention between Russia and England can only concern the signatories. The Gov eminent of the Shah of Parma We letter declares, i* by the grace of God independ- ent. The Sissdm, says the Mlplater, en joys all the rights of sovereignty, and no oonventlon between two or more Boldon ran in any way interfere with Pereia's4 lndepeadence. Persia, It le declared, endeavor* always• to inereaae friendly relations with ell no• tions, observing freedom of commerce. In regard to the loan Persia' will adhere to all olauaea contained in the agree. meet. The tension between the clericals and the reformists le daily increasing. SEIZED COWS FROM BAILIFF, Oananoque Drover Allowed to Go After an Apology. ABrockville, Ont., despatch: Thomas Dempster, a wealthy Gananoque drover, who forcibly took poseesalon of two cows In a herd which Deputy Sheriff Trail was seizing tinder a writ of excess• tion in the Township of Lansdowne, ap- peared today before P, M. Deacon, pleaded guilty and apologised for his act. He was let go on suspended sere tense, after paying the costa incurred. Dempster claimed that he owned the cattle, having previously purchased them from the man whose goods and chattels were under seizure. MUNICH HAS A SENSATION. Brewers Try to Advance the Price of Beer. Leaden, Nov, 11.-311 Munloh, the great beer. drinking Bavarian capital, something like a emotion has beeen caused by the recent announcement that the Brewers' Association had decided to raise the price of their world- famous product by 10 cents per barrel of twenty-two sallow,. The population epee- taneouelyeorganised, 07 common accord, a kind of passive resistance, by cutting down their expenditure an beer, boycotting the allied houses and patronizing conspicuously the liotbrauhaus, the only establishment that hod stood aloof from the Brewers' syn- dicate, The trade unions of Munich, which corn - Prise a membership of 47,000, have declared open war on the brewers by binding them- selves, to touch no beer tar a week at least This will mate a difference for that period et 1(6,000 gallons on the local consumption. The general opinion is that the brewers win be unable to enforce the higher price In rho fan of thin dete^rnteed attitude et tbs beer drinking camrnunity. Fair-hairod pecplc are rapidly dim- Inishfng In number in this country. Out of 440 women polluted in n London street there were 227 dark to 213,fair od red-. haired, WOMAN MURDERED Throat Cut in Brutal Manner in Kitchen. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.--iVhilc attending to her hnnmmhold work, yesterday 1110111 - ill a urn- inn little lenirto shnnh•, int WV:it Philadelphia's "Little Italy," an aged amnion was murdered and robbed of $700. tier throat was cut with a stil- etto from the left ear to o point under - the chin. The place where the body was found was hardly one in which it would be supposed murder would be done for the purpose of robbery, but the itgvd woman was the wife of Amatto Mongol• luzzo, who is very much younger, than his wife, bring only 48 years old, while she is 70, Ile is a trackman on the Bal- timore 31 Obio Railroad, and for eleven years had been caving all of ]tis wages except the unite he allowed himself and his wife to lire on, planing in the near future to return to itis native Avillon, in Italy, to settle down as something of a lord among his countrymen. Ills wife, Martina Garmellst, had se- creted about her person $700. Of this 4000 was in her bosom, pinned to •her clothifound,ng, and $100 was in her. pocket, . All this wasmissing when the body was No one saw the murder committed, no suspicions person was seen about the premises, the police suspect no particular person and no one is under arrest. It is believed, however, that the murderer may be picked out 801110 day among the steerage passengers sailing for Italy, as men like that generally make an early break for their native country. The scene of"` the murder adjoins 8,023 Woodland avenue, The house fs owned by Antonio M, ;Marthn, otherwise known as "Alike" Martin, He keeps on Italian hoarding house, and formerly kept a grocery and provision store of the first floor of the building, which is a three-storey brick structure, flush with. the street. Six families, beside Alar, tin's, live in the house, and there are several lodgers, while in it ,small storey frame house adjoining, several 111o1.0 families lige, KILLED ENGINEER. MURDER IN CANADIAN WATERS IS UNPUNISHED, The Terrible Act of Whaling Captain-. Arrested at San Francisco and Tried —No Question of Jurisdiction Will Arise. An Ottawa despatch: The question of Canadian or United States jurisdiction in the Arctic seas will not arise in connection with the arrest of Capt. Klengeuberg, of the United States steam whaler Olga, for murder. Two winters ago the Olga was icebound off Point Barrow in the Canadian Arctic, Klelgeuberg, emu all ac- counts, was a veritable msu'tinet,- nod had his crew simply terrorized. IIe had a falling-out with - his chief ' en- gineer, J. D. Paul, and one day step- ped to the engine room and shot Paul dead. •+ As noon' as the, news reached Otta- wa the `Canadian authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of Klengen• berg, but his vessel did not touch a1:' any Canadian port, and when the Olga reached; San Francisco the cap- tain was .arrested there. The trial lastcd''for, some time, and when the ease WEI "omitted to the jury last week they returned a ,verdict, after six hours' deliberation, of not guilty. Word to, this effect was received by tic `Gos•ernnient to -cloy, It ap- pears that the decleion of the joy was influenced by the fact that sev- eral of the witnesses" who testified strongly against Klengenberg at the San Francisco trial had previously made affidavits exculpating the esp- tain entirely, and declaring that he slot Paul in self-defence. They further said that the affidavits were exbo'ted from them by threats of personal violence from Klengenberg, Ifowever, the jury' gave the prisoner the benefit of the doubt, and he has been liberated. NO RAILWAY STRIKE. BRITISH EMPLOYEES AND COM- PANIES REACH AGREEMENT, Lloyd -George, President of Board of Trade, the Conciliator—Further Mat- tern in Dispute Will Be Settled by Sectional Board of Conciliation, Lmtdon,Nov, 11.—The anticipated rail- road strike throughout Great Iritain has been averted by an agreement ni ited by David i.leyd•tloorg,, Presi- dent of the Board of '!rade, surd signed MIA! Cilia evening by the chairmen et the principal railroad companies and reprc- acatatives of the Auuslgaumted Society of tiailway Servants. : The agreement provides for the con- sideration of further matters in dis- pute primarily by'n sectional board of conciliation representing the various grades o1' employees and the individual mum representing the full membership of the society. if tlse board and these representatives fail to reacts n derision the "utter then mist be settled by arbitration. c • Twenty-three Internationals in the States paid out sick benefits anioainting to $003,430.01 last year,