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a -X 1 it A Fi. tC 4- EWii 'T A. sit. VirglnU Trsu-cJay arte r.cayg LATEST. NEWS, ILL i THE THURSDAY -MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1908 BROTHER, 1 till Id uErtiAi mum Mil JOSEPH If 11' I A W.

fftfTQT llliil, Wit! ill ip tr iff ill It JAMES 11 ff i rs jfcp 1 i JOSEPH 3t 2 'Jf ATTORNEY 'A- 'S. 1 FIRST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, WHO HAS RESIGNED HIS POSITION. ansa JAMES GAYLEY TENDERS RESIGNATION TO MR. COREY WHO WAS SHOT TWICE BY HIS BROTHER, REUBEN, BthUnt inc oi. uj me.

LATTER COMMITTED SUICIDE. brother, Reuben Crown, of New York, yin the attorney's office, 54 Bakewell PC A DC CTADV Uliili.U I Will GAYLEY, 5 St? Pittsburgh Man Decides to Quit The Steel Trust III Health Said to Be the Cause. Next Vice President to Be Man From This. City, MAKES GREAT RECORD; A CARNEGIE PARTNER. Announcement was made yesterday of the resignation of James Gayley as first vice president of the United States Steel corporation.

It is said that Mr. Cyley has not been in the best of health for some time, and that frequently of late he had expressed determination to retire. The formal statement of the resignation came from William E. Corey, president of th corporation, who, in New York yesterday, said: "Mr. James Gayley, first vice president, has tendered his resignation, which will be accepted He has advised us that he wishes to retire from active business; he has contemplated doing this for some time and by resigning now gives time to complete organization for the beginning of the new year." Mr.

Gayley's term as a director In the corporation does not expire until 1910. lie has been connected with United States Steel for many years, and at the time of the resignation of Charles M. Schwab was spoken of in connection with the presidency. Mr. Gayley is president and director of the corporation of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, president and director of the Lake Superior Consolidated iron mines, director of the Duluth Iron Range railroad and of the Windsor Trust Company of New York.

The official announcement of his reslg- CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR. GENTS A COPY TtoSk mm YDfMM? I'ATPP Although Badly Wounded, Victim Will Get Better Trouble Had Arisen Between Two Over a Piece of Property, SHOOTER SAID HE CAME FROM NEW YORK FOR DEED Shots Fired at Close Range, Assassin Giving No Chance for Escape, SMILES KILLING HIMSELF. Witnesses Tell of How Mar Deliberately Ended His Own Life, Following a Joseph Crown, heated argument, a well-known Pitts- building, shortly berore 5 o'clock yes-. terday afternoon." A few seconds later Reuben sent a bullet into his head. Reuben died at 6:45 o'clock, but his brother will recover.

Occupants of the offices on the fiftt floor heard two shots fired in quicH succession, and rushed into the hallway. Crying, "My God! My brother shot me'." Joseph staggered from his office and fell into the arms of Major J. P. McKee, who occupies an office on the same floor. A few seconds later another report was heard.

and when Attorney J. G. Crookston, whose offices are on the floor above, entered Crown's office, he found Reuben lying on the floor with a bullet hole In hie head, fre smoking revolver still grasped in his hand. Crowds Gather in Street Passersby.on the street who heard the shots gathered in front of the building, and the police were forced to guard the doors. The two brothers were hurried to the Homeopathic hospital, where a hasty examination was made.

Reuben, the younger brother, was in a dying condition, and the attention of the physicians was immediaely turned to Jo- sepn in the hope of saving his life. One bullet entered the chest In tfront of the breast bone and the other grazed the body just under the right armpit. One leaden pellet was found under the skin covering the right shoulder blade, but the physicians were unable to de- termine whether the bullet that entered the front of the chest punctured the lung or glanced off when it struck a rib. The man did not suffer from hemorrhage, and at an early hour this morning was rest'ng well. John T.

Ayres, notary public took the following deposition from Joseph a short time after he reached the hospital: "My brother, Reuben Crown, has been here since Labor day, but has not been staying at my house. He came to the office at about a o'clock and asked me for some money. I told him I had none. He went out of the office and I began putting on my overcoat. Another Shot Heard.

"When he returned he said, 'I came here to kill He tried to lock the office door, but could not and pulled out a revolver and commenced shooting." He shot at me at close range and I attempted to go along the hall when shot at me again. "He went in the office by himself and I heard another shot. I then went straight into Mr. McKee's office and remained there until removed to the hospital." The deposition was witnessed by Detective Robert Patton and H. A.

Giban. The trouble between the brothers has been brewing for several years, dating back to the time when they both secured an equity in a piece of property at the corper-of Fifth avenue and Elm street. Reuben was a New York race track follower. Joseph had advanced his brother on his share of the property until the greater part of it was gone, then bought his entire share from him. This transaction took place about three years ago.

A short time after the transaction was-made, real estate in that section of the city began to boom and the property greatly increased in value. Reuben, when he heard of this, came on from New York to claim part of the profit, saying that he had been cheated. At numerous times since the sale of the property Joseph has given sums of money to his brother to pay debts, and yesterday Reuben went to his brother's office for that purpose. What followed can best be told in the words of Attorney J. G.

Crookston, an eye-witness to the shooting. Mr. Crookston said: Story of Eye-Witness. "For some time between i and 5 o'clock I had heard loud words coming, as I supposed, from Mr. Crown's office.

Attracted to the voices I went to my window and saw Reuben Crown leaving his brother's office. Just as he left I heard Joseph say to him. 'I tell you to get out of this office." Joseph then proceeded to put on his overcoat, preparatory to leaving for the day. "Not two minutes later Reuben returned. JiiFt as he stepped Inside the door lie pulled a revolver.

Joseph, who was standing close to him, attempted to get the door open. Then a shot was iired and both men left the room. I heard another shot and Reuben returned to the room alone. "He walked to the middle of the room. i facing me He stood there a few sec It) i HgMIy earner; SiaM $uth ws SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.

Ut US. a I IN 1 1 'MTV I A 14 I i A Enthusiasm Is Almost Boyi iyish During Recital With' Apparent Enjoyment, He Tells of Early Struggles in Pennsylvania Fields. ATTRIBUTES. SUCCESS TO FRIEND'S $2,000 LOAN. Assumes Air of Injured Innocence When Referring to Charges Made.

NO COERCION, HE ASSERTS. "Seems Like a Dream," Assertion During Lull in Proceedings, Is BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Relating his story with the air of a country gentle- man or Kindly mien engaging a nost of friends with incidents of days long past, John D.

Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Company though for nearly 10 years retired from the active cares of company direction, for over two hours to-day reviewed the history of the early oil trade and the development of the first companies that later grew into the present so-called oil trust. Mr. Rockefeller was a witness for defeiisein the suit to dissolve the Standard, which is being prosecuted by the United States Government, and his at the hearings before former Judge Franklin Ferris, the referee, brought a large crowd to the customs building. The head of the big oil combine was surrounded by Imposing circle of counsel and when he began his testimony, he gazed complacently upon a swarm pf behind whom pressed a throng of people that filled the room. Witness at His Ease.

Mr. Rockefeller appeared at complete and when John G. Milburn, of counsel for the Standard, propounded his first question the witness spoke out in lull tones as if he desired the most distant spectator In the chamber to hear. Then in a manner that indicated a pleasure in what he was about to tell, Mr. Rockefeller spoke of his beginning in the oil business and how, under adverse condi--tions, that business grew to the proportions of the Standard Oil Company or Ohio, with Its capitalization of $1,000,000.

Mr. Rockefeller's eyes sparkled in reflection on that early financial organization and speaking of its million-dollar capitalization with almost boyish enthusiasm he said: "It seemed very large to us, who' began with only $4,000 in 1S62." Thus the proceedings lost in a sense their official aspect because of- the en-' gaging manner which Mr. Rockefeller displayed in his answers which now and then contained flashes of kindly humor. A glow of health showed in Mr. Rockefeller's smooth shaven face and to inquiring newspaper men he replied that he never felt better.

Probable Line of Defense. The president of the Standard was dressed in a plain business suit of dark material and across his vest was suspended a heavy gold watch chain. The development of Mr. Rockefeller's testimony to-day, which carried him to the organization of the Standard Oil 'Company of Ohio, indicated that one of the lines of the defense will be that the Standard Company is not the result of an aggressive policy to obtain a mastery of the oil trade, as charged, but rather the natural outcome of an economical development which the exigencies of the oil industry During a brief recess this afternoon Mr. Rockefeller talked to the reporters on the Standard's growth, saying: "What a wonderful thing it all baa been the growth of this business.

It all seems like a dream to me and here I am. accused of doing the very wicked thing of selling a good article at a lower priee than anyone else. Recalls Incidents of Early Days. "This testimony here to-day brings back to my mind so clearly early days In Cleveland, where we were all friends and neighbors together. How well I remember that day in Cleveland when I went into the bank of T.

P. Handy, who afterward became one of my dearest friends. I wanted to borrow money, but I didn't have any collateral nor anyone to Indorse my note. I told him what 1 wanted to do with it and then he asked me how much I wanted. I need I said, and I got it.

To that loan I attribute whatever successes I have had In life since." When Mn Rockefeller took the stand be was asked: "Mr. Rockefeller, what is your full name?" asked Mr Millburn. D. Rockefeiler." "Where do you live?" "My legal residence is this city, at 4 West Fifty-fourth street." was your first connection in the oil business?" Mr. Rockefeller Takes Stand.

"About 1S60 or 1S62, not earlier than I860 nor later than 1862. I was quite a young man, much younger than 1 am now." In reply to the question as to who were associated with him in. the oil business" In the beginning he gave the names of Morris, James and Richard Clark and Samuel Andrews. "A co-partnership was formed," said Mr. Rockefeller, 'known as Andrews, Clark which operated at Cieve-iand, Mr.

Rockefeller said that the refinery was a small one, and hii co-partnership with Andrews, Clark Co. continued until 1SC5, when it dissolved. "I bought the buslnes and the property, and I or- cp Jf TIN LTED pN VAGfZ FOUR. i i aiiiiiT a i I 3 i i 5 I 5 OF ST TWO rnft CROWN, I r-si a rl r. 94 4.

WO, CORPORATE INGING SPEECH Tarentum Student And Chum Missing; May Be on Ocean Post-Cards From' Charles Mc-Ginley Tell of Plans to Sail, FRUITLESS SEARCH MADE, SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURGH FOST. BOSTON, Nov. .18. A search was made along the -water front to-day for two Phillips Exeter academy students. Charles McGinley, of Tarentum, and C.

D. Noyes, of Boston, who left the academy Monday without apparent cause, later announcing on postcards, mailed from this city, that they preferred the sea to their studies and would embark to-day on a long voyage around the Horn to Sai Francisco. Young McGinley is a' member of the lower class of Exeter and played quar- tprhack on the class football team. His chum, Noyes, is also an athlete, and had intended entering West Foint Military academy next year. Friends of the two youths came here from Exeter this morning for the search.

All outgoing vessels were carefully scrutinized, "but without result. It is feared that the pair have already shipped under assumed names, or that they changed their minds and went from Boston to some other point. At the home of the local boy's father, John McGinley, at Tarentum, last night, it was said that the parents of the boy knew nothing of his intention to go to sea. A letter was received from, him yesterday, but" it contained no intimation of his determination to leave school and take a trip around the -world. The youth, who is IS years old, has been a student at- Phillips Exeter for two.

years, and always waa attentive to. his studies. His parents are inclined to doubt the report of his" going to sea. Chaplain Milligan Relieved of His Soil At Prison Reform Meet First Leaves It -in His Room and Then Is Touched for It, SPECIAL. TO THE PITTSPURG1I POST.

RICHMOND, Nov. IS. "Perfectly silly. Perfectly silly." That was about all the Rev. John Eynn Milligan, president of the American Prison association, and a resident of Pittsburgh, had to say today when he learned that he had been relieved of his pocketbook containing $30 in money.

"Here I've traveled al! over the world and had 'to wait until I came toNquict Richmond to be dispossessed of my good coin," he said, dropping into slang for once in his life and smiling broadly. The money was missed for the first time on Tuesday, but this time it was found by an honest chambermaid and returned to the owner. Again it was missed to-day and this time the owner of the book does not blame chance" for the loss. I Throngs have attended the sessions of the American Prison association asme from the delegates here from all sections of America, except Mexico, and it is believed that one. of the very men who should be looking through the bars was "on the outside" and managed to make it convenient to get the fat roll on the inside of Mr." Milligan's pocket.

Nothing, however, could disturb the perfect good humor of the minister. TWlCESlOOfsWS' WW A WNBEAD, sZl -J I jew. i-fr 41 South Pacific Lumber Freight Rates Slashed Building Interests Throughout Country Will Be, Affected. ORDER BY INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. New Schedule Is in Line With That Fixed for Northern Pacific Points SUBSTANTIAL CUT MADE General Rate to East Lowered by About 15 Cents Per Hundred Pounds.

BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. One of the most important railroad tariff reducing rates filed in the year with the interstate commerce commission will be that for which special permission has been granted by the commission to the Southern Pacific Company and its connections. It is a direct result of the order of the interstate commerce commission in the North Pacific Lumber cases, wherein the freight rates on lumber and lumber products were ordered to be reduced from points in Oregon and Washington to destinations In the east, particularly Missouri river crossings.

The Southern Pacific tariff now is in preparation and when completed will be filed and become effective on three days notice. Reduced Rates on Lumber. It provides for reduced rates on all lumber, including timber, poles, shingles and finished building material in carloads, from points in California, Nevada and Utah, to destinations In Canada and that part of the United States east of th Missouri river and north of Tennessee and North Carolina, and also to points in Cclorado. Wyoming, Nebraska, I Kansas. Arkansas and Texas.

The rates will be substantially in line with those fixed by the commission from North Pacific points. They will provide for a reduction of from five to ten cents per 100 pounds on rough lumber, laths and general timber from points of origin to Chicago. To points of Chicago as far as New York the general rats will aboit IS cents less per -040 pounds than it now if. To Compete In East. The commission granted permission for the nf-w rates to be put into effect in order that the South Pacific lumber producers and manufacturers might be abla to compete for the Eastern trade with tho North Pacific producers.

Not probably in the history of the interstate commerce commission has a freight rate been proposed which will affect so generally the building interests of the country as this. NEW YORK, Nov. agents of the railroads east of the Mississippi river met in this city to-day, to discuss the proposed advance in freight rates. The conference dealt entirely with classified articles and excluded such commodities as grain, coal, cokp and ore, which make up the great bulk of the freight business. CASH FOE KINDERGARTEN.

The committee on kindergartens of the Allegheny board of school controllers last night recommended an estimate of $6,350 for conducting the kindergarten schools of the district for the ensuing ftwcal year, the same amount expended this ear. BURNS CAUSE CHILD'S DEATH. While playinR near a rubbish fire In the yard of her home yesterday afternoon, Edna Sowbhall, three years old, was so badly burned about the body that she at the McKeesport hospital at o'clock lac-t night. ALIMONY FOR MRS. GOULD.

NEW YORK, Nov. IS. Mrs. Howard Gould was allowed J25.0O0 a year alimony by Justice Bischoff in the supreme court to-day. This alimony is allowed pending the decision of Mrs.

Gould's suit for di- vorce. Force Admissions As to Dumping of Product Abroad Price in Great Britain 30 Cents Lower Than That in American Market, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. The so-termed "starch trust" was under fire at the hearing on tariff revision to-day before the public committee on ways and means.

The "cross-examination" of B. Walton, representing the Corn Products Refining Company, which, it was claimed, monopolized the starch busi ness, formed the most interpstinr inei- dent. heari on iff hedule covering agricultural prod- ucts and provisions. Citrus fruits also occupied considerable attention. Mr.

Walton admitted that his company sells corn starch in the United Kingdom at a price 40 cents less than it is sold in this country. He also admitted that there was a loss in selling corn starch in Great Britain. Mr. Boutell? of Illinois, wanted to CONTINUEP ON PAGE MAYOR HITS ABUSES IN i Bonaparte Is Advocate of Legal Reforms Expositions of Citizens' Wrongs, and Remedies Arouse National Civic Organizations, PRESIDENT ASKED TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS, Hitting corporate and legislative abuses, emphasizing the power of good citizenship and suggesting remedies for existing evils, addresses by Mayor George W. Guthrie and Attorney General Charles J.

Bonaparte made last night's session the most notable of the joint conventions of the National Municipal league and the American Civic association. The audience in Carnegie Music hall, comprising as it did, delegates and Pittsburgh's most representative citizens, was Xhe largest in the week's deliberations. General interest in the two speakers, who, with Judjfp Benjamin R. Lindsay, of Denver, have proved the chief figures of the National gatherings, was rivaled In the proceedings of the day only by the adoption of a resolution asking-President Roosevelt to recommend to Congress a continuation of the restrictions on commercial use of the water of Ni3Kara Fails, contained in the Bur-ten act. Attributes of a society function de- tracted nothing from the serious purposes CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.

Indictment Pending Against H. Burd Cassel Will -Be Tried Scon State Law Department Has No Intention of Abandoning Case, SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURGH POST. HARRISUURG, 18. Concerning a published announcement that H. Burd Cassel, of Lancaster, will take the oath of as congressman in the coming session of Congress because he was acquitted in one of the c.apitol trials last summer and does not expect to be tried on the other indictments found agahis: him, this statement is made at the attorney general's department: Burd Cassel is as much a defendant in the capitol cases as on the day the indictments were brought." It is asserted that the next case to be tried after the wooden furniture case, scheduled for January, will include Mr.

Cassel as a defendant. EU2T OVER BY, AUTOMOBILE. It. H. Gilbert, of G17 Hellefonte street, was run over Uy an automobile at Fifth avenue and Clyde rtet yesterday afternoon in I' lis nis left ieg badly crushed.

The driver of the car immediately droye away. Gilbert was picked up by another Mitomobile. and taken to his hgme, Planned to Wreck William Rockefeller's Car in Adirondack's Woodsmen Living Near Estate Sought Revenge for Real or Fancied Wrongs, FREIGHT TRAIN DITCHED. SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURGH POST. UTICA, N.

Nov. "IS. It leaked out to-night that a freight wreck which occurred Monday midnight on the New York Ottawa railroad, at Derrick, 13 miles north of Tupper Lake Junction, in the Adirondacks, was undoubtedly the result of a deliberate attempt to derail a passenger train to which the private car of William Rockefeller, the Standard Oil multi-millionaire, was attached. Mr. Rockefeller's car had been coupled to the train at Bay Pond, the station on his Adirondack preserve, the oil magnate being enroute to New York city.

Usually the passenger train arrives at Derrick ahead of the freight, but Monday night the latter was earlier, than usual and pulled in a few minutes before the passenger train was due. Opposite Derrick station the train ran into an open switch that had been tam pered with. A serious wreck resulted, the locomotive and a dozen freight cars being hurled into the ditch and all being badly smashed. Had the passenger train arrived ahead of the freight, there would probably have been considerable loss cr life. Railroad men insist that the switch was opened by someone other than a railroad employe.

The lock of the switch had been broken off. Considering the fact that the woodsmen who reside in the vicinity of Mr. Rockefeller's preserve feel the most bitter animosity toward him because of real or fancied grievances, the belief Is general that the wreck was deliberately, planned with the purpose in view of killing the millionaire. ASSERTS STANDPATTERS ARE "THIEVES OR HOGS." Letter Writer in Former Class, He Admits, but as "Mere Citizen" Has No Hopes, BY ASSOCIATED FRESS. WASHINGTON.

Nov. IS. "To ask us to put aside our business affairs, and at our own expense go tc Washington on a desperate, mission, is asking a little too much, whether the demand comes from the committee or from a Presidentelect." The above is the substance of a letter addressed by Charles Francis Adams to Representative McCall, ff Massachusetts, and made public by the latter td-day, in his explanation of the failure of the tariff reformers to present their case to the ways and means committee, now considering a revision of the tariff. Mr. Adams asserts that the persons who wish the tariff schedules to remain unchanged either are "thieves or hogs," and admits that lie himself belongs to the first class.

But he is also a tariff reformer, desiring to see every protective schedule swept cut of existence. But as a mere citizen, he would receive from the ways and means committee scarcely a respectful hearing, if any at all. being thus in the position of millions of others. EMBEZZLER DIES IN PRISON. NEW YORK, Nov.

IS. News of the death 1n Sing Sing prison of David Rothschild, a former banker of this city, which was received here to-day, renewed interest in one of the most remarkable instances of "high finance" that ever occurred here. Rothschild was president of the Federal bank, which institution was closed by the banking department in 1901. Rothschild was charged with misappropriating $200,000 of the funds. The Globe Security Company, another of Rothschild's concerns, also failed.

CHAIRMAN PAYNE TO RESCUE WHEN STARCH TRUST IS UNDER GALLING FIRE Dons Black Costume, Then Commits Suicide By Hanging Herself Aged Duquesne Heights Woman Makes Careful Toilet Before Ending Her Life. After dressing in deep' mourning and carefully arranging- her personal attire Mrs. Christina Brick. 47 years old, of F-ngal 'arid Greenleaf streets. Duquesne Heights, hanged herself in the attic of her home shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

She was found about 4 o'clock, but died two hours later. Between 1" and 1 o'clock she informed a member of the family that she was going into the attic. She had been '11 for several months, and intimated ihat she would lie down. When-supper was prepared one of the family went to call her. Receiving no response, the door of the room was opened and Mrs Jirick was.

found on her cSl1 XsefLo ianri attache! it around her neck. Death was caused by strangulation. FIRE DOES $125,000 DAMAGE. MEMPHIS. Nov.

IS. Fire to-day. supposedly of incendiary origin, at The Wabash Screen Door Company, destroyed 3,300,000 feet of lumber. The main plant was not damaged. Ioss, insurance, onds, then a smile broke over his face.

Without any apparent show of nervousness he placed the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger, falling backward to the floor." Deputy Sheriff P. Murphy was In Mr. McKee's office at the time of the shooting, and with Mr. Crookston was the first in Crown's office. The revolver was of 3S caliber.

Four cartridges were in it, three having been used. When the two injured men were belay.