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VoL. LOEB SUSPENDS SIX INSPECTORS FOUR OF THEM WERE SUGAR WEIGHERS. Collector's Housecleaning Backed by Mace caghCongress Feared. Collector Loeb continued his clean-up in the customs service yesterday, begun last spring, by suspending six inspectors, two on the charge of accepting tips! from passengers on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm and four who were former assistant weighers. In less than a month, it was said yesterday, from 70 to 100 men in the service will be suspended or dropped from the rolls and from five to ten employes indicted.

Some of the forsuer are on the Civil Service list, but that will not make any difference, it, nas declared. Collector Leeb will be the man to act, and there will be no inturference from any one higher up. The Collector said last night that he Had preferred charges against the suspended men, The four inspectors who had been assistant weighers, he said. had been employed on the sugar docks. Their names.

it was said, would not be given out unless the men were dismissed from the service. Wilbur F. Wakeman, former Appraiser At this port, returned to his desk, at No. 239 Broadway, from Washington yesterday. He had seen Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, and said that the Secretary was bark of Mr.

Loeb 1 in his housecleaning. MacVeagh will clean up the service," Mr. Wakeman said, "as it has never been cleaned before." AFRAID OF CONGRESS. Despite reassurances from Washington, that a Congressional investigation of the Sugar Trust and customs conditions here would not be held, there was manifest uneasiness yesterday among the government prosecutors. They are in full swing with their work, which has been under way ever since the raid on the Havemeyer Elder docks in November, 1907, and resent a hint of a check.

Mr. Lob's cleaning up is only the sequel of what the prosecutors have unveiled, it was said at the Custom House last evening. Henry L. Stimson, special counsel for the government in charge of the sugar when he was United States Atcases, torney was asked about a Congressional investigation, and the following question was propounded: you say whether or not the Sugar Trust officials, if called in a Sugar Trust by Congress, will be iminvestigation from prosecution in connection munc with matters upon which they may be called to testify?" would depend upon the terms ef "It the investigation," Mr. Stimson 811 swered.

"Congress could give such imcondition of testifying, and munity as a It could not compel a witness against Hits will to give incriminating evidence unless it did promise immunity." MUST PROTECT WITNESSES. government official said that a ConEressional committee that attempted to investigate anything could make nu headway unless the witnesses were protected, And he said further that it was not only the officials of companies now under indictment who would esca, prosecution it they testified before such a committee, but also men in companies how under investigation, companies in lines of business benefited by customs frauds, When runors of the calling in of concress were first heard, Congressman William S. Bennet went to see Henry Wise, the United States Attorney, 10 his stews. Mr. Bennett knew that Mr.

Stimson was opposed to it. Ate. Wise was just we raphatic in his opposition, and he has nothing to do with the sugar prosecutions. Xe todierments of government en1-loses connected with the sugar frauds vere made yesterday. Some are expectv4.

and they may he handed down this week. Witnesses in the case hate been stifying before the federal grand jury right alone. but Mr. Stimson Is determined to have all of his evidence in before he will ask for action. He and his were busy preparing for the tris! of Bendernagel, Spitzer and the others, set for November 29.

TO REINSTATE CORSA. Te was promised yesterday that a new movement would be started immediately for the reinstatemem of Henry Corsa, who, employed in the Appraiser's department, Was unceremoniously dismiserd after Wither F. Wakeman went rut and George W. Whitehead came in Appraiser. Mr.

Wakeman, to whom Corsa told his story of bribery on the rucar dorks said yesterday that wwuld do all in his power to have Corsa back. In was said that reinstatement would have to be made on an Ex- acutive order. Collector Lorb began the removal of vo-ralled, undesirable employeg soon after his appointinent. Up to the present Flaty-two men have been dropped from the customs service. With those either already dismissed or soon to be, the total result of the clean-up will be about one hundred and twenty-five new men at work for the government.

It was beSieved at the Custom House early yesterday that the Collector had ready his order for dismissal of the first new lot to but he did not announce the suspenson of the six men until late in the day. one of the men in the government servie of the whole customs situation and the legal work connected with the lations: may be raid to the contrars, the fact remains that the legal machinery has been moving as fast as as fast an the Secret Fervice could furnish 'evidence ever vine the said two years ago in burg. ALL PORTS INVOLVED. It is also a fact that Collector Loch la eitaply carrying out the progranite laid Continued ed stroud page "PAUPER" LEFT $62,000. Red Cross Aided Woman Who Lived in a Hut.

San Francisco. Nov. the estate of Mrs. Suzanne Moore was probated by the administrator to-day it was discorered that the woman, who was supposed to have died in poverty, possessed a fortune appraised at $62.000, of which $32.000 was in cash. Mrs.

Moore lived in a hovel, and for years was a charge of the Catholle benevolent associations. Since of 1906 she had received aid from the Red Cross. Two cousins in the East are heir. to the estate. GALE RENDS AIRSHIP Big Dirigible Torn to Ribbons at Morris Park.

The Briggs- Rice dirigible airship, American Eagle, 'he largest ever built in the United States, was wrecked at the Morris Park aviation grounds yesterday, when a northeasterly gale tore away the big tent which sheltered it and rent the gas bag. J. T. Rice, of Hot Springs, the inventor; his son Roy, and one of several workingmen in the tent were struck by the fallang poles and slightly injured. Six of the sixty-foot tent poles, each seven inches thick, were snapped off 35 though sawed in two, and the huge can185 was tern to shreds.

The body of the dirigible, which at first escaped injury, was hastily lashed down with ribPons of the torn tent. but another gust split the partially inflated gas bag and completed the work of ruin. The loss will reach several thousand dollars and means a delay of many weeks in the balloonists' experiments. MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. Gives 288 Square Inches of Cuticle to Save Her Child.

Telegraph to The Tribune, 1 Baltimore, Nov. herself for her child. Mrs. Clarence Boyd this afternoon submitted at the Franklin Square Hospital to the removal of 288 square inches of skin from her limbs to be grafted upon her fourteen-year-old daughter Helen. The cuticle was attached to scarred places on the child's body, caused by a fire two months ago, in which the girl was nearly burned to death.

Mrs. Boyd is being carefully watched for signs bf blood poisoning. Although the mother was told of this danger, she cheerfully met the ordeal in the hope of saving her child. The girl has not been told of her mother's sacrifice. TARANTULA IN MAIL.

Throws Dead -Letter Office Clerks Into Frenzy. Washington. Nov. dead letter office of the Postoffice Department today belied its name, when a tarantuls threw the clerks into a frenzy that for a moment threatened to become a stampede. The trouble began when J.

E. Davis, an experienced clerk in the opening of suspicious mail, tore cover from a mysterious looking packag. addressed 10 "Dott Buggero Verity, via Leon V. Firenze, Florence, Italy." He found a box pierced with small holes. Placing it to his ear he shook it in an effort to ascertain whether or not it contained an infernal machine.

The lid came off. "Jumping Jehosophat!" exclaimed Davis, when he found a gigantic tarantula roosting on his shoulder. He knocked it to the floor, where it prompt13 began a masterly retreat, Women clerks climbed on desks and fell over one another to escape the fuzzy peril. Never, said a veteran employe of the dead letter office. were 80 many silk stockings seen in the office before.

After a brief but determined search the tarantula was discovered killed. in a pile of mail sacks, where it was The box was mailed in New York, and because of its foreign destination and suspicious appearance was sent hera its for examination. SPEEDING CAR KILLS. Although Frightfully Injured, Man Told of Accident. Harkensack, N.

Nov. 18 Although his left eye was destroyed and his right leg and left thigh and his upper were broken when he was run over jaw by an automobile at Passaic and 1'nion streets to-night, the victim was able to tell physicians who he was and how the accident happened. He said his name Gamewell Lynch and that he lived wax with his brother-in-law in Park street. He died a short time after the accident in the Hackensack Hospital. He Was fifty -five years old.

Mr. Lynch was walking along Passaic street shortly before 4 o'clock to-night, and was crossing Union street wheu he heard the toot of an automobile horn. He became confused, and had started to retrace his steps when the machine hit him. His body was carried along by the car for thirty feet. In the car was Charles Hoth, son of the owner, John C.

Hoth, a contractor. Young Hoth admitted to the police that he was going at twenty miles an hour when he struck Mr. Lynch. He said he tried to pass behind Lynch, but the confusion of the latter made the carrying out of his intention impossible. was held on a charge of manslaughter.

BONDS FOUND IN OLD TRUNK. Bought at Auction, They Are Valued at $4,750. Albany, Nov. Klein and Joseph Bolts, Albany merchants, yesterday purchased jointly for $275 an old trunk at an auction sale of effects of murderers, suicides and victims of accidents, and found it contained fifty bonds of a French traction line. They received word to-day that the bonds are believed 10 be worth $95 each, with accrued interest since 19C.

The sale was at the City Hall, and was conducted under the law openly by County Treasurer Wheelock. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER. purity las made it famous." -Advt. MRS. STETSON OUT YIELDS TO HER EXCOMMUNICATION.

States Position After Hearing of Action of Mother Church Directors at Boston. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, at her home. No.

9 West 96th street, sald last night: have not recelved any notice direct from the board of directors of the Mother Church, but 1 have seen the newspaper notice given out by the Christian Scientist Publication mittee for New York state, that my name has been dropped from the rolls of the Mother Church. No student of mine. with my approval, will separate himself from the Mother Church or from Christian Science. for myself, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor ers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. and In Mary Baker Eddy, my beloved Mrs.

Augusta E. Stetson received the news of her excommunication from the Christian Science denomination yesterday afternoon at her home in West 96th street, adjoining the white structure of the First Church of Christ, Setentist, of which she had been the virtual ruler for nearly ten years. Efforts to obtain from her some statement commenting on the action of the Christian Scientist directorate in dropping her from the rolls of the Church were met by the declaration that Mrs. Stetson would say nothing further than what was contained in her statement given out last evening. Mrs.

Stetson's acquiescence in the decree of excommunication has finally settled the whole controversy, the leading supporters of the Mother Church say. Mrs. Stetson's chief sympathizers refused yesterday to commit themselves. Many of the teacher's pupils and practitioners gathered in her home last night. While no direct statement was made on the subject, inquirers were given to understand that they had gathered merely to express their sympathy and loyalty to Mrs.

Stetson and not to plan further resistance to the Mother Church. Hayne Davis, Mrs. Stetson's counsel in her recent trial, who was also one of the practitioners who were admonished with Mrs. Stetson, said that he could not discuss Mrs. Stetson's probable action.

"I do wish, however." he said, "to explain the position of the disciplined healers, who. it has been repeatedly stated. were forbidden to practise Christian Science and Christian Science healing by the Boston Board of Directors, The members of the Boston board have told me that that is Incorrect. We were not forbidden to practise. Only the ofticial authorization of the church was taken away, and our names were removed from "The Christian Science Journal." They expect us to practise Christian Science, and they hope we will practise it more in accordance with their ideas." MR.

STRICKLER RETICENT. Virgil O. Strickler, first reader of the local church, whom the ex-communication of Mrs. Stetson now places in supreme control of the church's spiritual affairs, was questioned as to the effect which the removal of Mrs. Stetson from the sphere of Christian Science influence would have on the First Church, and replied that he saw no reason why the change should in any way affect the church.

He was unwilling to comment on the circumstances which had brought about Mrs. Stetson's downfall. and referred his questioners to Boston for amplification of the official statement issued there. From one of Mrs. Stetson's students it was learned that the charges lodged against the "pastor of the First Church embodied four counts.

The first, as phrased in the official indietments, was that she did not "live in Christian fellowship with members of the church who were not her own personal adherents." The second count accused her of "persisting in working against the interests of members not of her own following and against the interests of the church and the cause of Christian Science in general; also influencing others to pur9110 a similar course." The third count alleged that Mrs. Stetson "by word and work repeatedly made false representations of the leader of Christian The fourth and last count recited that Mrs. Stetson, after being found guilty on September 25 of the offences charged and receiving a reprimand, "refused to heed the admonitions of the directors and persisted in the offences complained of." STRICKLER ADHERENT TALKS. One of the Strickler adherents gave out the following statement last pight: charges enumerated against Mrs. Stetson have been before the Boston board of directors for several months.

In July, 1909, the board ordered the offending leader brought to trial and the charges were thoroughly ventilated. Mrs. Stetson then only escaped excommunication through the earnest appeal made in her behalf by Mr. Strickler. that occasion Mr.

Strickler spoke for nearly six hours in her defence, and at 4 o'clock in the morning succeeded in having the charges dismissed, with only a reprimand as punishment. "Mrs. Stetson has been for years consumed with the ambition to estabiish herself as tha independent ruler of the Christian Science Church in New York, and it was this determination on her part to make the New York church autonomous that resulted in her overthrow." A leading adherent of the Mother Church said: do not think there can possibly be any secession from the church here. Mrs. Stetson would not get a corporal's guard to follow her out of the church, and 1 doubt that she would make such an attempt.

After the official pronouncements 37 the subject, and after Mrs. Continued on third page R. W. GILDER DIES SUCCUMBS TO HEART DISEASE. Author and Editor Stricken While Visiting Friends in West 10th Street.

Richard Watson Gilder, author, and editor of "The Century Magazine," died last night at the home of Mrs. Charlotte Schuyler Van Rensselaer, at No. 9 West 10th street, where he and Mrs. Gilder had been staying for several days, His death occurred shortly before 6 o'clock and followed a sudden attack of beart disease, with which he was stricken at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr.

Gilder had been ailing for about two weeks, but his death was wholly unexpected. On the evening of Novemher 3 he spoke before the Young LIen's Christian Association, of Orange, N. and during the course of his address on his old friend. Grover Cleveland, he was stricken with a severe pain in his side. He continued his lecture, however, and started to return to his home in this city.

At the ferryhouse on tha other side of the river he collapsed and it was necessary to telephone to his home, at No. 24 Gramercy Park, for his son, Rodman Gilder. The latter, accompanied by the family physician, Dr. J. H.

Hodgson, went over and brought him back with them. Dr. Hodgson at the time diagnosed his ailment as acute indigestion and heart disease, and said that his system was undergoing great strain because of his worry over the condition of his daughter, Rosamond, who recently submitted to an operation for appendicitis in the New York Hospital. Mr. Gilder continued to improve, and last Monday he and Mrs.

Gilder went to visit Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Mrs. Gilder, confident of his continued recovery, left him yesterday morning to make a call on friends. During her absence he suffered a severe attack and she was hastily summoned.

Upon her arrival she immediately called in Dr. Hodgson, Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Theodore Janeway. They worked over Mr.

Gilder all the afternoon, but failed to relieve him. At their suggestion the members of his family were summoned, and with the exception of Rosamond, who is convalescing at the home of friends, were with him when he died. Mr. Gilder leaves three sons- -Rodman, George and Joseph B. Gilder--and three daughters Dorothea, Francesca and Rosamond Gilder.

Jeannette L. Gilder, editor of "The Critic." is a sister, and John Francis Gilder, a pianist and composer; Joseph B. Gilder, journalist and one of the founders of "The Critic," Robert Fletcher Gilder, journalist and archologist, are brothers. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. It will be held in the Church of the Ascension, at Fifth avenue and 10th street, and will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev.

Perey Stickney Grant, who was an intimate friend the author and editor. The burial will be in Mr. Gilder's birthplace, Bordentown, N. J. sketch of Mr.

Gilder's life is published on seventh CORNER IN TURKEYS. Speculators Flock to Middle West--Up Go Prices. Telegraph to The Tribune, Cincinnati, Nov. of a tremendous demand in the East, bringing agents for speculators to the Middle West. the price of the Thanksgiving turkey will be from 5 to 10 cents a pound higher, according to information received by commission men in Cincinnati today.

The supply is light, while the demand is the heaviest in years, For months agents have been in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois buying turkeys for the Eastern holiday trade. It is said that the greater part of the output is practically cornered. The sudden change in the weather also helped shoot prices upward. The prevailing figures here will be 25 cents to 30 cents a pound, against 20 cents last year. HE WOULD REMARRY.

I Count Boni Seeking Papal Annulment of Gould Union. Paris, Nov. is stated here today that Count Bond de Castellane has been in Rome for the last two weeks trying to arrange for the Papal annulment of his marriage with Anna Gould, now the Princess de Sagan. The dean of ecclesiastical advocates, M. Pucelli, in acting as the count's intermediary with the Vatican authorittes, it is said, and negotiations are proceeding in strict secrecy.

This report, which reached Paris through a private source which is said to be reliable, has created the keenest interest within the limited circle to which it has penetrated, as it Is assumed that the count would not seek a final dissolution of the tie with his former wife, whom he has pursued relentlessly, unless he had new prospects in view, or, in other words, purposed to marry again. WINTER COMES ON THE WIND. Cold and Heavy Breeze Blows Up from the West. The first real suggestion of winter's presence came yesterday when a steady wind, averaging thirty -three miles an hour, blew from the West. The official thermometer got down to 31 degrees above zero at 10 o'clock last night, after naving attained to its highest mark of 35 degrees at 1 p.m.

The temperature of the corresponding day of last year fluctuated between 36 and 41 degrees above zero. The local weather bureau did not promise any marked rise in temperature for today, but hinted that the weather would be cloudy. A warmer temperature with rain and moderate west to southwest winds are predicted for Saturday, Cardinal Gibbons urges all Catholics to use the Manual of Prayers, John Murphy Co. Balto. For sale book and dept.

stores. -advt. CRUISER DES MOINES, WHICH IS PRESIDENT ZELAYA OF NICARAGUA. SAW ASTOR YACHT SO FRUIT STEAMER'S CAPTAIN BELIEVES. Was Far North of Course Off San Salvador on SundayWashington Has No Word.

Captain Durie of the fruit steamer Annetta, which arrived here last evening from the West Indies, reported having seen what he believed to ba John Jacob Astor's yacht Nourmahal anchored last Sunday off the coast of the island of San Salvador, in the Bahama group. Colonel Astor's itinerary would not bring him that far north. but it was thought on board the Annette that he might have been forced there in an effort to get out of the area of the recent hurricane. The island of San Salvador is about three hundred and fifty miles due north of Santiago de Cuba and about three hundred miles east of Key West, and it is thought by Colonel Astor's friends here that if the yacht was safely anchored off the island Colonel Astor would have had an opportunity of communicating with New York since Sunday. Captain Durie said he did not know that any anxiety was felt for the safety of the Nourmahal or ha would have run in closer and have communicated with some one on board.

As he passed northward he said he saw a yacht anchored in the reef harbor of Hawk's Nest, at San Salvador. The skipper and several members of the crew used their binoculars on the yacht. which was some three miles to the westward. and all agreed that it must he the Nourmahal. Captain Durie is familiar with the rig and general appearance of the Astor yacht, and is confident that it was she he saw on Sunday.

The yacht seemed to be in first class condition and there was nothing observed on board to suggest that she had been in difficulty. The skipper of the Annette said that the storm had abated some when he came abeam the island, but that the weather was by no means calm. Ha was unable to get a pilot when he came off Port Antonio, and after waiting for I two hours he went in without a pilot and tied up at the company's pier, According to the men on the little fruiter there was great destruction on the island. Houses were down and ruined crops were apparent in all directions. It was announced last night in Washington that no report had been received there concerning the whereabouts of the Nourmahal.

Captain Ross, of the revenue cutter service, who has started an inquiry by wireless, said he had received no word of the Astor yacht. CHILDREN BURNED. Two Little Ones Found Dead by Mothers in Closet. Edith O'Reilly, five years old, and Willjam O'Keefe, six years old, who were voted the most popular children in Liberty, a summer resort in the Catskills, last season, and made queen and king of the closing festival, were burned to death together yesterday afternoon in the home of the boy's father. William O'Keefe, No.

412 Sackett street, Brooklyn. The accident occurred on the top floor, while Mrs. 0'Keefe and Mrs. O' Reilly were in the parlor below. The children were first cousins and boon companions.

Shortly after 5 o'clock the odor of smoke was wafted downstairs. The two women ran upstairs and found smoke issuing from a pile of clothing in a clothes closet. They began to throw the burning clothing Into the larger room adjoining. When the bottom of the pile was reached they discovered the bodies of the two children. How they got under the pile of clothing has not been explained.

Thomas O' Reilly, the girl's father. conducts an iron foundry in Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, and Mr. O' Keefe is connected with the Commercial Cable Com- pany. Dewey's (1909 Vintage) Grape Juice. Finest in years, just bottled.

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BEING RUSHED TO PORT LIMON. (Photograph copyrighted by A. B. Bench Co.) TRIED AT MANAGUA. Cannon and Grace Accused of Dynamite Plot.

Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. and Grace, the Americans who were executed for complicity in the rebellion, were judged at a fair court martial held under the direction of the government. The men. it was charged, were responsible for locating dynamite mines which were intended to blow up government steamers laden with troops which entered the river at Greytown. One of the mines planted by Cannon and Grace exploded fifteen yards from the steamer Diamante.

When Cannon and Grace were captured they had with them dynamite machines and other accessories for blowing up vessels. The men confessed their guilt to the authorities, and also in letters to their families. Previously Cannon had taken part in a revolution against Nicaragua from Honduras, where he was imprisoned for several months. MILLIONAIRE SUICIDE Had Killed Farmhand and Feared Unfair Trial. Lafayette, Nov.

Ray. a millionaire land owner, killed himself with a penknife rather than go to court to face trial for the murder of one of his employes last spring. Ray was downcast, as he believed he would not have a fair trial. This morning his housekeeper went to his room to call him and found him dead. He had cut his throat.

Ray quarrelled with a farmhand on May 25 and struck him over the head with a club, inflicting injutes from which he died. RIOT IN COUNCIL. Lights Turned Out in St. Louis and Chairman Flees. St.

Louis, Nov. owners to the number of several hundred started a riot in the chamber of the City House of Delegates late today, when an attempt was made to adjourn a publie hearing on a bill relating to sanitary plumbing. Before the police could clear the hall chairs had been overturned, books and papers thrown, and several men engaged in hand-to-hand fights. In the midst of the disorder some one turned out the lights. BABY BOTHERED HIM.

University Professor a Suicide of Life," Says Note. (By Telegraph to The Tribune. 1 Champaign, Nov. Wilfred C. Wheeler, of the chemistry derartment of the University of Illinois.

took poison and killed himself to-day because he could not endure the petty altnoyances of married life. The erying of a little baby so wrought on his mind that he left home three times a day rather than be disturbed at meals by the infant. and the university neighborhood commented on the spectacle of a husband dining at a downtown hotel while his wife and child ate their meals elsewhere. "Tired of was the cause a3- signed by the chemist in a laconic note which was opened by his wife this after- noon. COAL MINERS IN PANIC Illinois Men Strike, Following Cherry Disaster.

Marquette, IlL, Nov. by the St. Paul mine disaster, four hundred and fifty miners employed by the Mar. quette Third Vein Coal Company went out on a strike to-day. The miners were also aroused because a return aid shaft in the Marquette mine is alleged to have been condemned by the state inspectors.

Springfield, IlL, Nov. were received to-night from Spring Valley, IlL, of trouble among the miners, who, excited by the disaster at Cherry, have struck, demanding that every possible modern precaution be taken to protect them. W. M. LAFFAN CRITICALLY ILL.

Fails to Rally Quickly After Operation for Appendicitis. William M. Laffan, publisher of "The New York Sun." is critically ill at his home, Laffan House, Lawrence, Long Island, following 'an operation for appendiettis performed on Monday. Mr. Laffan was staying at his country home when he was taken Ill, and after an examination had disclosed the fact that he was suffering from appendicitis specialists were hurrted from this city and preparations were immediately made for the operation.

Mr. Laffan did not rally from the operation as as had been hoped. The following report of his condition was given out last night: An operation for appendicitis was per. formed on Mr. William M.

Laffan on Monday. November 15, at his country home, Laftan's House, Lawrence. Long Island. Mr. Laftan's condition is eritical.

Mr. Laffan is sixty-one years old. He has been in the newspaper business for forty years. ZELAYA HAS TWO AMERICANS SHOT WARSHIPS ORDERED TO NICARAGUA. State Department Recognizes Revolutionists and Demands Explanation.

(From The Tribune Bureau 1 Washington, Nov. crisis has been reached in the heedless and remarkable career of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. After submitting for some time to his utter disregard of the amenities which ordinarily exist between nations, the State Department has at last asserted itself. Stirred to action by the shooting of two Americans, it has practically recognized the belligerency of the Nicaraguan revolutionists, and made emptory demands on Zelaya for an explanation of the executions. President Taft is thoroughly aroused by the actions of the Zelayan government.

and in determined to make the lives of American citizens much safer and more respected in Central America than they bava been hitherto. Two Americans, Leonard Grace and Leroy Cannon, who were captured with a fragment of the revolutionary army. were sentenced to death by Zelaya because of their alleged participation in the uprising against his rule, and the State Department has been informed that the sentence was carried out thia morning. No sooner had this information been received here than the gunboat Vicksburg was ordered to proceed under full steam to Corinto, and the cruiser Des Moines was dispatched to Port Limon, from which points they will make immediate wireless reports and use every means to protect the lives and property of Americans. The execution of the Americans is believed to have taken place at El Costillo, which is near Greytown.

When President Taft was informed of what had occurred he immediately announced that he would have no communication with the Nicaraguan authorities here, and the audience which was to have been granted the Nicaraguan Minister, Isidoro Hazera, was indefnitely postponed. DEPARTMENT ACTS PROMPTLY. The State Department was informed of the capture of the two Americans late last night, and early this morning another cable dispatch conveyed the information that the execution had taken place. The American Consul at Managua appealed to President Zelaya for clemency, er at least for a stay of the execution, but after Zelaya had taken the matter under consideration he announced that the sentence was final and must be carried out. So far as has been ascertained at the State Department the men were not allowed to have a trial, and were shot without even a chance to communicate with their government or their friends.

Secretary Knox immediately asked Secretary Meyer to order the Vicksburg to proceed post haste to Corinto, and an hour later the Deg Moines was ordered to hurry to the scene. The Vicksburg is a gunboat of 1,010 tons, and carries an effective battery of six large and seven small guns. The Des Moines is a cruiser of 3,200 tons, and carries ten large and seven small guns. Neither the Des Moines nor the Vicksburg carries marines, but it will be easy to obtain at least four hundred from Colon. The American Consul at Managua has been instructed to send a full account of the occurrence as soon an possible.

DEMAND PEREMPTORY. Announcement that this government tired of the high-handed actions of the small Central American republics practically was contained In a dispatch sent late to-day to the Bluefields Steamship Company, which sought the protection of the State Department from interference by the insurgents now operating against President Zalaya. An hour later a peremptory note, in diplomatic Tanguage, but none the less direct, was delivered to Rodriguez, charge d'affaires of the Nicaraguan Legation, demanding a full and complete explanarion of the execution of Grace and Cannon. The Blueflelds Steamship Company has headquarters in New Orleans, It3 regre lar steamer was about to sail for Blue. fields with a miscellaneous cargo, in which were a number of rifles and other munitions of war.

The corporation was warned by agents of the Nicaraguan insurrectionary forces that the vessel would be liable to seizure, and the steamship people called on the State Department to declare the protection this ernment would give in such a case. The State Department promptly plied. The answer was the result of conference between the President and the Secretary of State and carried full weight. It gave the steamship concern no encouragement and practically recognized the revolutionary forces operating against the Zelaya administration, a proceeding for which there is probably no parallel in the records of this government. The dispatch.

directed to the steamship company at New Orleans and signed "Knox, Secretary of State," read: If the announced blockade or investment of the Nicaraguan port of San Juan del Norte (Greytown) is effectively maintained, and the requirements of international law. including warning to approaching vessels, are observed, this government would not be disposed to interfere to prevent its enforcement. naval vessel will be ordered to Greytown to observe and report whether the blockade is effective. Nothing is known at the State ment of the antecedents of Leonard Grace, but Leroy Cannon seema to have had an unusual career in Central Amerlea. Some years ago ho went there.

His name has figured prominently in revolutions. He was arrested a number of times and tried for heading raids, and on several occasions narrowly escaped death sentence. The general court at.