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i TAR WANT ADS RENT ROOMS Indianapolis Morning Star SEE WANT AD INDEX age Calami 4 INDIANAPOLIS TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 20 1906 VOL 4 NO 168 MYSTIC BUICK HOOSE Prophecy of Weather Man All Day from 8:00 A 9:30 I you can Phone your Want Ads to The Star CALL UP 4000 Old or New POaiES OEICEB Dwelling While Town Marshal Waits for Pris oner to SNOW nesday ore cast for Indiana: Snow and colder Tues day Wed falr light to fresh north winds orecast for In dianapolis and vicin ity for today: Snow and falling temperature IlWONOKR HOW jLOJVO IT hJlbl fl Trt AX 7US5TKXE I OL AND ET 9 KNEW HIS MAN ALL RIGHT Building However an Unknown Quantity to Official Grant Daugherty town marshal' of York Clark County Illinois kicked the pickets off the fence in front of a brick somewhere in Indianapolis early yesterday morning and waited impatient ly for Orey Jackson treasurer of the York Town Board with whom he had journeyed all the way from York Jack son was inside the house according to Daugherty trying to borrow $15750 to make up an alleged shortage in his municipal accounts and he was Daugh prisoner Daugherty tired of waiting but he did not fear Jackson would escape He has known Jackson for several years So to pass away the time he wandered around the block and reached the brick house 'aain safely Jackson to ail ap pearances left the house The York guardian of the law removed his overcoat He was sweating but time dragged heavily and he started to walk around another block That was the last calm moment Marshal Daugherty enjoyed yesterday at least that was what he told the police later In the afternoon Time and again he tried to get back to the brick house and the fence pickets But he failed each time The brick house seemed to have vanished like the fairy castles of old He walked until exhausted Then he hired a rig at a livery stable near by He was afraid he could not find the livery barn to return the horse so after sev eral valorous sallies out into the labyrinth of Indianapolis streets he abandoned his rig and had an urchin escort him to thePolice Station He gave the boy a nickel it said the marshal to Captain of Detectives Bray who pre served his facial gravity with difficulty been anything That house was there and it wasn't there I walked around them thar blocks I 1 got dizzy and I hired a rig and druv over the hul dern town Id hev gone further but I was afraid I find the barn agin Now I got no overcoat nor no prisoner I know whether he got the money to make up his accounts or Captain Sympathetic Capt Bray was sympathetic and De tectives Kinney and Morgan were called Ain on the case The marsnal said that he had brought Jackson to Indianapolis at the request that he might be able toget the money from his mother a Daugherty said he was led to the home of Mrs Whiteacre the brick house by his prisoner about 4 yes terday morning They came in on an early train from York officers tooa Marshal Daugherty to a number of homes of Whiteacres the ad dresses being found in the City Directory But none right The brick house had truly vanished Late yesterday afternoon Daugherty de cided that he would go home not having sufficient money to remain in the city This reason alone he said was sufficient to cause him to face the disgrace of re turning without his man say said he in departing a lookout fer him will you fer my overcoat too I left it at the houseyou on the Bray and his officers are Daugherty tell even the direction he and Jackson pursued after leaving the Union Station The are looking for a brick house A picket fence surrounds the house A coat hangs over the fence It flaps idly ifl the breeze provided a breeze TEMPERTURES 7 a 34lMlnlmum 34 7 38Maximum 40 OR THE SAME DATE LAST YEAR 7 a 38lMlnimum 35 7 43Maximum 50 ALMANAC THE DAY Sun rises at sets at 4:25 WEATHER CONDITIONS Max Atlanta Ga 72 Bismarck 14 Chicago Ill 36 Cincinnati 0 46 Denver Colo 16 El Paso Tex 24 Helena Mont 16 Jacksonville la 80 Louisville Ky 44 Nashville Tenn 54 Min Weather 66 PtCldy 6 Clear 26 Cloudy 40 Rain 8 Clear 22 Snow 2 Cloudy 72 Clear 40 Rain 46 Cloudy BOOT NO CANDIDATt I NOR WILL ROOSEVELT BE Secretary Discussing Presi dency Says Hearst Struck KANSAS CITY Mo Nov am not a candidate for President In 1908 nor will President Roosevelt Randolph Hearst has struck In these words EHhu Root secretary of state In an interview today epitomized the defeat of the Demo cratic candidate of New York for Gov ernor "I am glad of his glad of it" he said "He should have been "Why?" was asked "Hearst he answered his nat urally not very strong voice growing firm taught a bad doctrine Every year great numbers of immigrants come to this country Last year alone 1200000 landed upon our shores They become Americans In timeof course in time But they are not Americans at once They become so by the process of development And It has been to these immigrants that Hearst has taught a bad lesson He has been telling that American men American customs American Institiftions are rotten Bryan be the next choice of the Democratic was asked yOh I don't he replied other was asked "David he replied man jreat man clean honorable and up right Wouldn't he be almost an ideal choice for the Democratic nomination? "Will Roosevelt accept a nomination if tendered him by the replied Mr Root "He wont His intention on that score has been def initely and absolutely given out No he accept it "Your name is mentioned a great was suggested "I am not a candidate and won't the secretary replied BANKERS MUST GO TO PRISON New Jersey Court Sustains Conviction of Twining and Cornell TRENTON Nov The Court of Errors and Appeals today" by a vote of 7 to 2 sustained the conviction of Rob ert Twining and David Cornell of ficers connected with the wrecking of the irst National Bank of Asbury Park and the Monmouth Trust Company The criminal charge was the exhibiting of false papers to the bank examiner in the case of the Monmouth Trust Company The men were each sentenced to six imprisonment and are out on ball pending today's decislpn ROOSEVELT HOME SUNDAY President Will Arrive Home a Day Ahead of Schedule WASHINGTON Nov The latest word received at the White House from President Roosevelt before he left Colon on his way to Ponce Porto Rico indi cates that he will reach Washington on his return at least twenty four hours and probably thirty hours earlier than the original Itinerary of the isthmian trip contemplated He gained a day at Panama leaving there Saturday night instead of Sunday night and Is expected to finish his visit to Porto Rico and embark on the Louis iana from San Juan by iZednesday night If the Louisiana me ces as good time on her return run from San Juan to Hampton Roads as was made to Colon the vessel will arrive and transfer the President to the Mayflower in the lower Potomac In time for him to reach Wash ington late Sunday evening or Monday morning next BABY IS HURLED INTO OCEAN Insane Governess Drowns Child During Voyage on Liner NEW YORK Nov On the arrival at New York today of the steamer Nleu Amsterdam of the Holland American line frdm Amsterdam it was reported to the police that while the vessel was in midocean on Thursday Rosa Naegle a Swiss governess in a fit of temporary in sanity grasped a baby from a crowd of 'children at play on the deck and threw It overboard Only the prompt Interference of the officers of the vessel prevented other passengers led by the mother of the child from Inflicting serious Injury upon the crazed governess The steamer was stopped and search made for the body but it was not recovered Miss Naegle was locked up in the hospital ARMED POSSE SEIZES NEGRO Masked Men Seize Colored Man Who Shot at Two arm Hands NEWBERRY Nov 19 Mark Davis a negro is believed to have been lynched Saturday afternoon near Smyrna Church about five miles from here by a crowd of masked men Davis fired on Will and Alf Dorroh two white farm hands but neither was hit Constable loyd with a posse then cap tured him and while bringing him here a mob of masked men suddenly appeared taklrtt: him from the officer and disap pearing with him PROBE INTO ARMY SCANDAL Charges of Irregularities In Payments Not Substantiated HAVANA Nov 19 Rumors have been curreht lately of extensive Irregularities In the department which controls Cuban army payments This department Is now being investigated by Terrill of Michigan but Mr Terrill has not been able to discover any corroboration of the reports BAIL OR NEGROES QENIED Men Accused of Murder of Atlanta Policeman Must Stay In Jail ATLANTA Git Nov 19 Application for ball made by the attorneys for twenty five negroes charged with the murder of Policeman James Heard during the Sep tember riots was denied today Exceptions to the ruling were made in five cases in which Judge Roan said he would make further Investigation with the possibility of permitting bond to be given WIE IS DEAD Mrs rank Stockton Pastes Away at Washington WASHINGTON Nov Mrs rank Stockton widow of the novelist died at her home in this city at 10:30 3 I 2 HUNTS OB 1400 GRAVES Col Elliott Will Try to ind Bury ing Place of Confederate Sol diers Who Died Here MEETS MANY DIICULTIES Records and Stories of Old Citi zens Conflict ourteen hundred men are missing They are in their graves That much is known but the fact remains that they pre missing just the same Col William El liott of the War Department at Washing ton came to Indianapolis yesterday to un dertake the colossal task of locating the graves of 1400 Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton during the civil war and who were buried in one of the Indian apolis cemeteries Col Elliott is accompanied by a clerk from the War Department and he pro poses to remain in Indianapolis until he locates the graves or else concludes that his task Is impossible Records In the possession of the War Department show that the Confederates who died at Camp Morton when held as prisoners of war were burled In Green lawn Cemetery These records however are at variance with statements Col El liott has obtained since coming to Indian apolis He spent yesterday morning In the State Library and in the afternoon he vis ited Crown Hill Cemetery According to the War Department records the graves of about fourteen hundred Confederates should be located In Indianapolis expected to find these in Crown Hill Cemetery" said Col Elllottt last night "and went there yesterday afternoon for that purpose At the cemetery I was In formed that not a single one of the Con federate dead has ever been buried there The situation here Is stlrely unusual and difficult to Refers to History At the State Library Col Elliott found a history of Indianapolis written years ago by Col Holloway now United States minister to Halifax Col Hollo way In dealing with events of the war in which Indianapolis people had a part says the bodies of the Confederates were moved from Greenlawn Cemetery to Crown Hill Acting on this Information Col Elliott went to Crown Hill con fident that he would find the graves he sought there "I can find no trace of the graves in he said "The cemetery seems to have been abandoned long ago The men In charge there pointed out to me where they thought the Confederate soldiers were buried I went to the place but could find nothing The only graves to be found in Greenlawn are those that are marked and are evidently the graves of Indianapolis citizens I have found a plat of the cemetery but it gives me no Martindale who wag publisher of the Indianapolis Journal during the civil war said last night It was his recollec tion that the bodies of the rebel prison ers of war were burled In Greenlawn near the river bank He did not remem ber that they had been moved Capt Reynolds of Irvington said last night: a boy of 23 I remem ber very well of seeing the undertakers take those bodies up They were taken from the northwest part of the cemetery I was employed by the old Terre Haute Railroad which ran near there I remem ber that one body was found to be petri fied It was the body of a Confederate officer It was my understanding that the bodies were taken to Crown Hill Cem Today Col Elliott will endeavor to find some of the old time undertakers He is staying at the Hotel English and will be grateful for any Information that will help him In his search The War Department in making an effort to lo cate the graves of Confederate soldiers in the North Is acting under the pro visions of the oraker bill passed by the last national Congress The bill authorizes the War Department to ascertain where all Confederate soldiers lie burled In the North and to place a marble slab at the head of each grave The Confederate prisoners who died at Indianapolis were brought to Camp Mor ton In ebruary 1862 They came from Donelson and had belonged to Gen Buckner's command ifteen thousand Confederates were captured at Donelson by Gen Grant and were brought north Several thousand of these prisoners came to Camp Morton The weather was bitterly cold when they arrived here and many of them con tracted pneumonia as the result of the sudden change In temperature The Con federates had no blankets and had only thin comforts to wrap themselves In when they slept Dr Jameson and Dr Kitchen were the physicians In charge of Camp Morton SHAKESPEARE AN IRISHMAN? of of Student of Gaelic History Believes He Has Proved Ancestry WINSTED Conn Nov 19 John Hurley of Litchfield a student of Gaelic etymological history after years of re search In regard of the derivation of the name Shakespeare declares that he was an irysnman He says the name mother Warden Is Irish Origin Virgil the great poet Hurley savs was born 70 and was undoubtedly of Irish origin and in name because he was connected with one of the most re markable historical events 'recorded In the history of Ireland earghall (In Latin Virgil) now erhlll the Irish astrono mer who discovered that the earth was round was a cousin of the great St vlrguius in Germany Both were Irish and related to the Irish King earghall also known as Virgil and eargail as the different languages Virgil the Latin poet was Roman by adoption and belonged to an Irish set tlement WOMAN PLAYS DETECTIVE Indianapolis Eye Specialist Is Arrested at Marlon but Released MARION Ind Nov Mrs Emma Myer living on West Eighth street played detective today and caused the arrest of Dr Abe Bass a traveling eye specialist whose home Is In Indianapolis upon a charge of profanity Mrs Myer claimed that spectacles purchased of Dr Bass did not give satisfaction and that he used profane language when she refused to pay for them Dr Bass protested his Innocence shed a few tears and told of his sick wife In Indianapolis City Judge Williams did not fine Dr Bass but suggested that he leave the city and that he not continue his business in this territory Dr Bas was satisfied with his decision He tipped his hat to the court and was pro use In his thanks as he departed Plan Great Campaign for International Peace I Hi' i I I fete BIK Sr Nk ww ANDREW CARNEGIE CONGRESSMAN BARTHOLDT MISSOURI MILLION OR PEACE OBJECT TO TILLMAN LOAERS MUST WORK CARNEGIE TO CREATE UND CHICAGO NEGROES AROUSED POLICE INVADE THEIR HAUNTS Congressman Bartholdt to Con duct International Campaign Against War and Bloodshed ST LOUIS Mo Nov 19 Congress man Richard Bartholdt left today for New York at the invitation of Andrew Carnegie who has promised to turn over to him $1000000 to be used in furthering the propaganda for inter national peace The matter has been under consideration for some time Be fore Mr Bartholdt started for New York he told several friends of the plan and expressed hopefulness as to the result of the work One of 'these friends said the money had been definitely promised and that the present visit of the congressman to the ironmaster is to arrange for the transfer of the fund and for the forma tion of the peace bureau which will have charge of the campaign Only the income of the fund will be utilized This income will amount to $40000 or $50000 a year It will be ex pended in an effort to direct public opin ion In favor of arbitration as a means of settling disputes between nations The scope of the work will be world wide and those nations which are often est engaged in wars and threats of wars will receive the most attention Literature will be scattered meetings will be arranged and all possible means will be adopted against war and blood shed Mr Bartholdt has taken a prom inent part In the work done by The Hague Peace Conference and has had many interviews with mperor William of Germany the King of England and other European crowned heads The formation pf the new peace which will be purely American will be under the direction of the St Louis congressman TWO BANKERS ARE INDICTED Accused of Conspiracy by Unlawfully Pro 1 curing Charters WASHINGTON Nov 19 The grand jury of the District of Columbia today re turned an indictment against Abner Clements ex cashier of the Aetna Bank ing and Trust Company of Butte Mont John Hoag assistant cashier of the same institution In charge of the Wash ington branch and Eveleth McCor mick of this city for conspiracy A sepa rate indictment charging false pretenses was returned against John Hoa only The indictment charges conspiracy by unlawfully procuring In the District of Co lumbia charters for corporations and ob taining charters in the United States by false pretenses POPE IS RECEIVING THREATS Writers Declare They Will Kill Pontiff In the Palace ROME Nov 19 The pope has re ceived personal letters containing threats that he will be assassinated in the palace as a protest against the present organ ization of society The anarchists it is added are ready to employ every means to destroy all Institutions supported by religious or military forces The police have been making diligent ef forts to discover the men who were re sponsible for the bomb explosion In St yesterday but so far without suc cess tSuspicIon however points to the same individual who exploded the bomb In the Cafe Aragno on Nov 14 DANISH KING VISITS BERLIN Streets Traversed by Royal Party Guard ed by Whole Garrison BERLIN Nov 19 King rederick and Queen Louise of Denmark arrived here today from Copenhagen paying their first official visit since their ascension to the throne Their Majesties were wel comed at the railroad station by Em peror William and Empress Auguste Vic toria The streets through which the royal party passed were guarded by the whole garrison of Berlin a special act of courtesy on the part of the Emperor DEMURRER IS SUSTAINED United States District Judge Renders De cision In Western Miners' Case DENVER Colo Nov 19 The demur rer of the defendants In the action for $109000 damages brought by Charles Moyer president of the Western edera tion of Miners against ex Govemor Pea body formerly Adjt Gen Sherman Bell and Adjt Gen Bulkley Wells is sustained In an opinion returned today by Judge Lewis of the United States District Court Moyer alleged wrongfuT Imprisonment by the military In Interest of Race Peace They Want Him to Speak in Their City Barrel Houses Emptied in Answer to Appeal by Traction Lines for Laborers CHICAGO Nov 19 Angered by the discussion which has followed the cam paign of Barnett a negro for the bench and other Indications of an awak ening of race prejudice In Chicago negro leaders are planning an attempt to pre vent the appearance of United States Senator Benjamin Tillman at Orches tra Hall a week from tomorrow Appeal was made today to "all brave and lib erty loving Afro Americans In this city to assemble at Orchestra Hall and pre vent Ben Tillman from speaking The call appeared In" the current issue of the Broadax a Chicago negro pub lication wielding wide Influence among the colored residents Senator Tillman Is announced to speak Nov 27 for the benefit of the Chicago Union Hospital Tfie patronesses of the benefit will be some of Chicago's foremost society women This Is the part of the call that has been sent broadcast to the negroes of Chicago to prevent his appearance: "Prevent United States Senator Benja min Tillman of South Carolina the bloody advocate of mob and lynch law for Innocent negro men and women and children who is a disgarce to the race which he claims to represent and a dis grace to the Nation from lecturing for the benefit of the Chicago Union Hos pital "HO should be choked off before he has the opportunity to spew out his nice poison hi this community Senator Till man openly boasts that he has taken part In two or three race riots in which negroes were Chief of Police Collins when Information reached him that such a movement had been planned to stop Senator lecture declared that hls life would be protected and that no violence would occur DISEASE TRIUMPHS IN THE END Dr Solly Claimed by Tuberculosis to Study of Which He Devoted Hls Life COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Nov Dr Edwin Solly one of the most noted authorities on the cure of tuberculosis Is dead at Asheville by a peculiar fate a victim of the dread scourge to the study of which he had devoted most of his life A telegram was received at Colorado Springs today by hls stepson Evans notifying him of the death of the physician Dr Solly was a resident of Colorado Springs for more than thirty years dur ing which time he made a scientific study of tuberculoisis Ten years ago Dr Solly wrote the of Medical which' has already been through several editions PRISONER POET IS KILLED ormer Inmate of Reformatory Crushed by Train at Cincinnati JEERSONVILLE Ind Nov Paul Hudson who attained fame as an author of a volume of poems and songs entitled written while an inmate of the Indiana Reformatory was killed by a train last evening in Cincin nati while attempting to board a train Hudson was a printer and was sen tenced from Evansville in 1904 to serve from two to fourteen years for burglary He proved to be an excellent prisoner and was paroled from the Reformatory last August A amous Romance true story of Capt John Smith and Pocahontas has never been says George Ade only version given to the world was written by Capt John himself and he gives him self all the best of it John was a great hand to plug hls own Mr Ade In hls inimitable style then proceeds to tell what really hap pened to this distinguished Britisher in America The true version of this famous romance will appear in the magazine section of The Sunday Star With a famine of common laborers on one hand and the barrel houses filled with on the other Chief of Police Robert Metzger yesterday began a cru sade with a view to relieving the situation As a result twenty six men were haled to cells by the police on charges of drunk enness anti loitering while the barrel house keepers raised a storm of protest because their was taken from them 1 rom now on House and the rest of the gang who have been wont to toast their shins before a good warm fire in barrel house or corner saloon while took In washings or their sons and daughters worked to support them will either have to go to work or to the Work house lils was the edict that went forth from the Police Station yesterday the district officers started out bright and early to enforce it With Lieut Henry Sandmann in charge of tlie work arrests were made in a wholesale way Still more are to be made Traction officials who employ la borers have asked the police repeatedly to aid lhein in getting workmen and have gone so far as to furnish them wdth names of men who have worked day or two un til tliey could get enough money tn buy liquor It is said that the majority of contractors are offering $2 a day for nine hours' work for common laborers In the majority nf cases the police found that the men they encountered would not work even if they were paid $10 a day It WAS just such ft crowd that Patrolmen De in er and Slate ran across In a West Washington street barrel house yesterday morning Toasting Before ire The patrolmen strolled leisurely into the place swinging their clubs There were seven men with backs turned to the stoves when they entered but with a movement that strongly resembled a military maneuver they turned ns one man and began warming their hands be fore the lire are you fellows asked Doiner Must of them were too lazy apparently to reply but one man summoned energy enough to say you arc certainly the men we want 'to find exclaimed Dciner traotlon companies want 700 men right away nt $2 a all work and only nine hours a day Do you fel lows want a But If the police expected any stam ped" for work they were mistaken you the truth pardner like to work but my back hurts just a said one man Others had simi lar excuses said Delner you don't want that kind of work we can give you another lob give you a nice job making lltle stones out of big ones at the They were arrested Other officers had practically the same experience? in every barrel house in the downtown district rom two to four persons were arrested In each and in some cases the barrel house keepers were Indignant because the police had made severe inroads on their Lieut Sandmann has been instructed to accompany every district man In the city over the district and thus visit every sa loon In town contractor in the city is mak ing life miserable fur said Chief Metzger last night us to help them find laborers At least 1000 men can find work and there is no excuse for a man not The crusade for the present will be car ried on during the day time and after all the districts have been covered Lieut Sandmann will begin following the same plans at night The arrests yesterday wer made largely by Lieut Sandmann and Patrolmen Dugan Hillman Delner Slate and Hagerman INSULTS ARMY IS ARRESTED Anarchist Creates Excitement During Military Review at Naples NAPLES Nov 19 An anarchist made a demonstration against the army here today while the duke of Aosta was dis tributing prizes to soldiers who dis tinguished themselves In the relief work during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius on April last The duke who is commander of this military district and cousin of King Victor Emmanuel was standing surrounded by the local military authori ties and the troops of the garrison at a short distance from the massed standards of the regiment when man named Nicola iore known to b4 a member of an anarchist organization threw a pack age of anti military newspapers at the regimental standards and at the same time shouted Insults against the army in general He was Immediately arrested PRICE ONE CENT RYAN CURTAILS HIS BUSIKSfflTUBES Noted New York inancier With draws rom Many Railways and Corporations CAUSES LURRY ON WALL ST To Give All His Time to His inan cial Institutions N1TV YORK Nov 19 Thomas ortune Ryan multi nffilionatro and one of the greatest powers In the financial world created a decided sensation today when in a formal statement lie announced that he Revered hls official connection with muny railroad and industrial corporations1' He gave hm a reason that inasmuch as he la clnsolj" associated with financial and fiduciary Institutions owning hundreds of millions of assets and deposits bepnglng to thousands of people he consldA cd It necessary to sever his connection the various corporations with which these institutions are likely to have business dealings The announcement of Mr Ryan's action had much of the effect that the exploe sion of a bomb might in financial circles 'L A au mu metropolis i nerc wat a nurry and a scurry on the part of the men whoso names arc household words to find out why this action was taken and what companies MrJRyan had abandoned Mr Ryan himself declared that hls for mal statement contained all that he would say under any circumstances and Henry' I') MclJonn who has been associated for years with Mr Ryan when asked to fur nish the list mentioned declared that ft was Impossible Mr Mo Dona read Mr official statement with a great deal of Interest and then announced that ho believed ft contained all that Was to be said on the subject Mr Ryan's statement read as follows: I have resigned from the directorates of a large number of railroads and other corporations My accumulating interests and lospnnslbllitles render It impossible for me to attend so many directors meetings mid properly to discharge my obligations to lino stockholders concerned Gives Hls Reasons have also reached the conclusion thatV i un best servo the financial and fiduciary institutions with which 1 am ns soda ted by severing my official connec lion with the railroad and industrial cor i poratlons with which they necessarily have constant business relations I and believe that the decision' which I have made will prove to tho advantage of all the interests for which my friends hold r' me responsible and of tho gentlemen with whom I have so long been asso elated in thA various corporations from whoso boards 1 hove It was reported among men who ard supposed to bo In touch with Mr Rytin tonight that ho has considered tho stepM taken today very earnestly for some time The open criticism of hls methods in the newspapers of tho United States have deeply pained him according to Ids 7 friends ami he desires to place nf fairs in such a state that they will bo above and beyond criticism Mr Ryan besides hls own vast property interests sea tiered all over the world has 4 many big concerns especially banking Institutions and Insurance corporations luring tin? List decade His friends de flu re that he deeply appreciates hls re sponsibilities from this source and there fore Is severing hls relations with the corporations which these Institutions are likely to have business dealings with Buys Hyde Interests As will l)o recalled Mr purchase of the Hyde Interests in the Equitable Life Assurance Society was criticised very severely nt tho time and tho charge was made that he took over the control of the Equitable so that he might have the dlrec tlon of Its enormous surplus funds Mr Ryan through hls declared that the strictures gm his fiction were unfair and uncalled for However the criticism was continued and it has also been asserted that Mr Ryan was using hls enormous fortune to force certain concerns with which he was connected to make what is usually termed business i with other concerns that he dominated H1b action tonight is Intended to put an end to this criticism While Ryan will not discuss the con cerns he is leaving a few of those that he Is a member of or that he at least was a member of a few days ago are various railways In the Routh coal prop erties In Ohio and West Virginia railways In Ohio vice president of the Morton Trust Company trustee of the American Surety Company director of the Pere Mar quette Railroad the Hocking Valley Rail road the Consolidated Gas Company of New York tho Seaboard Airline Railway the Metropolitan Securities Company the Consolidated Electric Light Gas and Power Company of Baltimore the Amer Jean Tabacco Company the National Bank of Commerce the Union Exchange Bank the Equitable Life These are Just a few of the largest concerns with which Mr great fortune has been associated and in the direction of whose affairs he has taken a decidedly Important part COMMITS SUICIDE IN HOTEL Guest Leaves Note to Management and Also to Relatives LOUISVILLE Ky Nov Kimball who since Nov 10 hns been a guest of the Seelbach Hotel killed him self In bls room this afternoon The fol lowing note was found: "To the Management I guess there la enough money to pay my bill Please wire my father Kimball 1018 Polk street Topeka Kan Other letters were addressed to Carl Kimball 76 Park place New York and Mrs Kimball Topeka WILL MRS DAVIS ILED Widow of Confederate Leaves Property to Her Daughter VICKSBURG Miss Nov The will of Mrs Varina Jefferson Davis widow ot the President of the Confederate States was filed here today for probate The will leaves to Mrs daugh ter Mrs Margaret Howell Davis Hayes of Colorado Springs Colo all of the es tate with the exception of $10900 lite In surance This sum Is divided Into num erous small bequests DROPS TO DEATH IN SHAT Blacksmith Plunges Down 300 oot Hole at Superior Mine LTNTON Ind Nov 19 Henry Glllman a blacksmith employed at the Superior Mine near here was instantly killed this mAmlno hv falling trt tha knttA onft foot shaft Almost every bone in hls body was broken I i I i.