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JURY DEFIES JUDGE AND WINS Refuses for Four Days to Sign Dictated Verdict. THEIR WIVES BACK THEM UP Brings in Finding in Will Contest Case Directl y Opposite to That Or- dered by the Court and Sticks to It Till the Judge Gives in. St. Louis. —The jury in the famous McDermott will case triumphed over Circuit Judge James E. Withrow when on the fourth day of their refusal to sign a verdict dictated by hirn they re- turned a verdict directly contrary to it. The Judge decided that it was his duty under the Appellate Court' s de- cisions to accept the verdict and did so , intimating that he would later ex- ercise his right to set it aside. The verdict returned by the jury was in favor of Mrs. Mary Farrington and against the Rev. Father ' John White , rector of Holy Innocents ' Church. Mrs. Farrington sued as exe- cutor of the estate of her mother , Mrs. Bridget McDermott , to set aside the will. The plaintiff' s allegation was that undue influence caused Mrs. Mc- D ermott to leave the property in such a way that it later came into the Rev. Father White ' s possession and cut off Mrs. Farrington with §1. The \insurgent\ jur ors \deliberated\ exactly sixty-eight hours. When they first refused to return the verdict which Judge Withrow ordered th ey an- nounced they would stand on their rights as American citizens. Wives of the jurors entered into the discussion of the case. One , Mrs. P. P. Smith , announced she would sue for divorce if her husband paid a fine which she understood Judge Withrow would assess if the jurors failed' to find a verdict as he directed. - i , X~ -i- i BRITAIN BARS OUR BEEH War Office Withdraws Custom While Packers Are on Trial. London. -r-The British . Government has decided to exclude all the Ameri- can meat packers against whom prose- cutions have been instituted in the United States from tendering for con- tracts for the supply of meat to the British Army, pending the settlement of the suits. The notification is in the following terms : * \Pending the ultimate results of the legal proceedings in the United States against certain meat packing firms it has been decided by the British Gov- ernment that none of the firms in- volved shall be invited to tender for army supplies. \ The decision of the Government is due to the opposition of Labor and ad- vanced Radical members of Parliar ment to the American trusts. Chicago. —News of the action of the British Government provoked only meager comment from the Chicago packing firms whose business is hit by the exclusion of American products. Armours ' counsel says the action cuts off their largest outlet for canned meats , of 1, (&0 , 000 pounds , with no d& mand in this country to equalize it. NEW STYLE OF FISHING Barg e Canal Suction Dredge Scoops Them in b y the Ton. Auburn N. Y. —Farmers and barge canal laborers have discovered a source of income in the new form of fishing which employes of Stewart & Co., barge canal contractors on the Seneca River, hav e learned. The six- teen-inch suction tube of the hydrau- lic dredge rooting in the river bottom draws in suckers , bullheads , pike and other species and shoots them far out on land by the ton. Included in the catches of the last few days are a twenty-five pound sturgeon and a thirty-pound snap p ing turtle. Auburn markets are filled with the fish , which are alive when they are brought in for sale. SHOOTING GIRLS ACQUITTED Assailants of W. E. D. Stokes De- clared Not Guilty. New York. — Liliian Graham and Ethel Conrad were acquitted of the charge of attempting to kill W. E. D. Stokes , the millionaire \ old cove. \ The jury which freed the chorus girl s believed their story lhat they shot Stokes in self-defence. It was not im- pressed by Stokes ' s account of „ the gunplay and the circumstances that led up to the shooting. Persons who talked to the jurymen said it was evi- dent that they considered Stokes as well as the chorus girls had been on trial. The verdict surp rised both sides. JAPAN AND BRITAIN WILL PACIFY CHINA Offer Mediation; If It' s Refused They Wilf Take Other Steps. Tokio , Japan. —It is unofficially re- ported that Japan and Great Bri- tain have offered or are about , to offer to mediate between the Chinese Government and the rebel s and will adopt further measures if the offer shoul d be refused. The newspaper Yorozzu says that on December 11 Ja- pan notified China of her intention to make such an offer and said an agree- ment had been made with Great Bri- tain by which the two Governments would act in concert in the matter , • Mr. Iiuin. th I(Jananese Ministeriat ¦ ' : . -- r™ f ; ; - :- N. ¦ - - , -— - . - . ; -~ I- . \ ¦ - ¦ ; Pekinr was ; ' nolj ifiVi : o£- this-action on December 16 , and it is under-stood that he forthwith informed Premier Yuan Shih Kai and the ' rebel leaders at Shanghai that Japan and Engl and were instructing their respective Con- sul-Generals at Shanghai to offer to mediate. The Jiji Shimpo adds to the above that if the terms suggested by Japan and Engl and are refused tjhey will take decisive measures. The Foreign Office re fuses to con- firm jpr deny the story, but says its publication was not authorized. It add s that it is impossible to make a statement now owing to pending nego- tiations. Some action of this sort has been expected for several days. Jap an . re- cently sent the Councillor of the For- eign Offic e , Matsui , who was at one time Charge d'Affaires at Washington , to Pekin , where he has held frequent conferences with Premier Yu an Shih Kai. It is reported that Sir John New- ell Jordan , the British Minister at Pekin . left for Shanghai on Decem- ber 16. A despatch from Shanghai reports that Japan and England have notified the revolutionists that they are pre- pared to guarantee certain terms of peace. HOUSE HONORS OLD MEMBER Recesses to Greet S. E. Ancona , 90 Years , of Civil War Congress. . Washington. —The House paused in its labors to do honor to Syderham E. Ancona , one of the two survivors of the 37th Congress , in which war was declared on the southern states. Mr. Ancona is nearly 90. Speaker Clark made the announcement that Mr. An- cona was in the House and he sug- gested that the members shake hands with the visitor who saw service in Congress years before many of those present had reached manhood. On motion of Representative Roth- ermel of the 13th Pennsylvania , the district represented by Mr. Ancona in the 37th SSth and 39th congresses , the House took a \ recess to enable members to greet Mr. Ancona. PARSON HELD AS DYNAMITER Fo rt Riley Exp losions Laid to Ex-Army Chap lain. Junction City, Kan. —A confession by Michael Quirk , private In the Sixth United States Field Artillery, station- ed in Fort Riley, implicating the Rev. Charles M. Brewer , formerly chaplain of that regiment , in a recent s eries of dynamite explosions that have caused $500 , 000 damage to Government prop- erty in the neighborhood of the Army post , resulted in the arrest of the preacher in his home in Olustee , Okla. Mrs. Anna Jordan of Kansas City, wife of a prisoner in the Federal penitenti- ary in Fort Leavenworth , also was in- volved in Quirk' s statement , and also was arrested- FOUR BODIES DISCOVERED UNDER BARN FLOOR Mother , Two Daughters and Son KilK- * ed atflTheir Farm—Fiendish Brutality Shown. Albany, N. Y. —The bodies of four members of the Morner family of De Freesville , Rensselaer, county, ; five miles from Albany,; were found under tlie barn , floor at the. Morner farm. The man suspected of murdering them is Edward Doualo, their Italian farm- hand. He is descri b ed as of very dark com- plexion , 5 ;feet 6 inches tall , and weigh- ing about 120 pounds. ' He went to thfe Morner farm in August last from an employment , agency in Albany. . *- \ - „ . v-^k.os^- 'Burflsrirtf were . >Vrif . ^ _ oi>*- J \L. •Morner^ 52 years \ old; ' the \\ mother; Edith and Blanche Morner , 18 and 16 years old , her daughters , and Arthur Morner, 28 years of age, her son. Their The Morners were prosperous dairy battered with a bale stick. They were Killed in the barn ,, it is presumed , and probably the only^ wit- ness besides the murderer to the strug- gles of the three women and Arthur Morner was a dull * eyed bull \ chained ia a corner of the barn. Six horses Were in the building, but they were in the part used as a stable. The eMorners were prosperous dairy farmers and fi fty of their cows return- ed from the pasture to the barnyard on the night of the murder and bellow- ed their discomfort at not receiving food or drink. ' Inside the barn neith- er the bull nor the horses had been cared for , but more than twenty hours passed before the murders were dis- covered. A State dairy inspector vis- ited the farm , but finding no one in the house he concluded that the fam- ily, was away for the day. He return- ed to the farm and found no one , yet there was nothing to indicate that anything was wrong. The Morners supplied milk each evening to Horatio Mould , a milk deal- er of Rensselaer City. When he did not bring the milk Mould drove out to the Morner farm and begun an inves- tigation. He got several farmers of the nei ghborhood and likewise Jesse Morner , another son ' of Mrs. Morner, who lives with his wife and family on a farm about two miles away. With lanterns the party began a search. The . house was found in per- fect order , the women of the house- hold having completed their house- work before they were killed. Next the barn was searched and a blood stain on a milk can was the first clue. Boards wer e ripped from the floor cov-/ ering the stable refuse and in the refuse the bodies of the mother and two daughter s were found. Their heads were gashed and most of their clothes had been torn off. Many bruises on the bodies indicated a struggle. ¦ ¦ ¦ •». A note was found on the piano in the sitting room of the farmhouse. It was written in English and read; \Italian meat and American-made sausage imported from Rome. Italy. \ NEGRO HANGED N THEATRE Authorities Feared Crowd Gathered ' About Jail Gallows. Jackson , Ga. —The scene of a'legal hanging was hastily changed from tha local jail yard to the town opera house here to prevent possible race trouble. * Will Turner , a negro preacher , was to pay the death penalty for killing Jesse Singley, a white man , last Aug- ust. A large crowd gathered in the jail yard , and fearing serious trouble, the authorities quickly mo-r ed Turner to the theatre , and he was hang:ed on the stage before only few witnesses. MEAT PRICES Loss of Foreign Trade Strikes in Vulnerable Spot. STOCK RAISERS WILL SUFFER Packers Fear Other Countries Will Follow Eng lish Precedent—-Chicago Board of Trade Gloomy—Stock- raisers Will Have to Bear Loss. s ** Chicago . —The \high cost of living \ question is to find a partial solution in the .. exclusion of the \beef trust\ from competing for English army contracts and the anticipated general boycottin g of products of ' the \United States \trusts \ by the general ' public of that isle. If the packers . fear that Russia , Ger- many Italy, France and Japan will fol- low the precedent established by Eng- land is founded upon fact , meat and meat by-products will take a decided slump and the- working man will be the triumphant winner , with the stock raisers, of the country—not . the pack- ers—holding the small end of the horn. Thi s opinion was expressed by pack- ers and Board of Trade men. Few cared to ' openly voice , their\ views , gloomy from a Baard of Trade stand- point as they are , although acknowl- edging that the situation is a serious one. v The law of supply and demand is the basis for the prediction of the packers and Board of Trade men. They declar e that if the American ex- portation of meat and by-products is cut off , and the packers are forced to cater to the domestic trade alone , the P\ice of meats can only be helc^up by a terrific diaplayJof'^'physicaL-fpxfte^. JTo^stem Wej SluwpwoVhi: bx5'jV' K ratne ' uAj} oyJ: *ih.yV'a:ty~zor\Crrio~iiiaTl~tv attempt to dam the Mississippi River at its mouth. The United States produces . more meat than is now used by its citizens. The workingman has been forced to cut down the rations to his family be- cause of the excessive price. To rid themselves of this enormous surplus , the ' packers have built up a grea t market abroad. England , Russia , Ja- pan and Germany have been the larg- est buyers. Generally throughout the yards em- ployes of the big packing firms said the effect of the English Government' s action would be to lower the values of cattle on the hoof and that this would have its reflection in the retail price of beef. ^ \The farmers will have to bear the expense. Meats will he cheaper and the . producers naturall y are the ones who will have to suffer , \ sai d one man connected with one of the large con- cerns. ¦ ¦ ¦ \ • ¦ UPROAR OVER THE MAINE Showmen Offered $1 , 000 , 000 for Hull for Exhibition Purposes. • Washington. —There was an uproar in the House of Rep resentatives that for some time looked as if it would develop into a free fight. The clash was started by an effort-to authorize the sal e of the hull of the battleship Maine for $1 , 000 , 000 to private per- sons , who want to exhibit it in har- bors of the United States and charge admission fees to visitors. The uproar, started when Mann of Illinois asked Sisson , who approved the measure , why he did not include selling the bones of seamen who died in the vessel. The measure was de- feated. VANDERBILT—M'KIM WEDDING. Ceremony at Rei gate , Eng land—Bride Daughter of Capt. Emerson. London. —Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt aged 34 and Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim , aged 27 , daughter of Captain Isaac E. Emerson , of Baltimore , were married at Reigate. After the ceremony the couple went away in a moter - car and came to Gloucester House , Park Lane , the London mansion of the Vanderbilts , where they entertained thei r friends. Captain Isaac T. Emerson , is a mil- lionaire drug manufacturer , hotel owner and clubman of Baltimore. U NFRIENDLY , SAYS RUSSIA . But Does Not Question Our Right to Abrogate , the Treaty. Washington. —Russia has informal- ly informed this Government that the Snlzer resolution proposing to termin- ate the treaty of 1832 with Russia is offensive to that Government. This Is the resolution passed by the House a few days ago by a vote of 300 to 1. The Russian Government has not lodged any formal protest with the State Department and does not ques- tion our right in the matter. TMI ABROGATES RUSSIAN TREATS Has So Notified Czar ' s Gov- ernment , He Tells Senate. / RUSSIA'S DEFIANT ATTITUDE Special Message Sent to the Senate Asking That Body to Approve and Ratify Action—Joint Resolution ' Introduced with That Object Washington. —The treaty of 1832 with Russia , against which the Jew s of this country have been protesting for mnay years will be terminated without giving serious offence to the Czar ' s Government. Formal notice has been served on the Government at St. Petersburg of the intention of the United States to end the treaty on January 1 , 1913. President Taft took the situation into his own hands and through the United States Ambas- sador at St. Petersburg made the first move toward the cancellation of the treaty. The President in a sp ecial message notified the United States Senate of his action and asked for the approval and ratification of that body. Ignoring the Sulzer resolution passed by the House denouncing that treaty, the President asked the Sen- ate alone to ratify and approve his action. After three hours of discussion the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- tions, instead of reporting a simple Sen ate resolution giving its approval , made a concession to the Democrats in the Senate and House by including the lower legislative branch in a joint resolution which both Houses favor. 'Butjiwashirvgton Believes New Treaty Is Possible. St. Petersburg. —It is apparent that Russia has no intention of yielding any concessions whatso ever On the Jewish passport question , no matter what proposals may be made: by. the government of the United States^ The : members of the Duma are skeptical as to the possibility of the Democratic party taking any serious action in the matter. The leaders of the Duma as- sert that no members of the cabinet would dare to touch the question. Jewish International Bankers Silent. * New York. — \We are pleased and content , \ said Jacob H. Schiff when he was , asked to say what he thought of the abrogation of the treaty , with Russia. \We are grateful to the Am- erican people for thus vindicating the dignity of American citizenship. Mr. Schiff laid particular emphasis upon the \ we. \ Jewish international bankers refus- ed to say anything on the ground that since the matter was purely a politi- cal one, altogether without financial • significance they coul d add nothing to what had already been said. RECEIVERS FOR THE WABASH Action on Request of Westinghouse Air Brake Company. St. Louis , Mo. —On the application of the Westinghouse Air Brake Com- pany, Judge Elmer B. Adams in the United States Circuit Court appointed Fre d erick J. Delano , Edward B. Pryor and W. K. Bixby receivers of the Wahasih Railroad Company. The re- ceivers ' bond was fixed at $300 , 000 each. W. H. Blodgett , is counsel . The appointment of the receivers , which has the sanction of the recentl y elected Wabasih Readjustment Com- mittee , was a surprise to railway offi- cials here. COURT HOUSE DYNAMITED Nevada Building Torn Asunder Fol- lowing Contract Wrangle. Reno , Nev. —The new county court- house at Yerington , Lyo n County, which was almost ready for occupan- cy, was almost completely destroyed by dynamiters. When the bids were let the contract- ors of the county were loud in their denunciation of the county commis- sioners in awarding the contract to a Reno firm. GAV E $20 , 000 TO THE POPE Cardinal Farley Paid # $10 , 000 Fees on His Elevation From His Own Purse. Rome. —Of the '25, 000 purse raised to pay the expenses of the investiture i of Cardinal Farley the Cardinal gave I to the Pope $10 , 000 upon the occasion / of his first audience. \ Cardinal Farley/ has now presented to the Pope in the? name of the clergy and the diocese $10 , 000 more. In addition to the $£, • 000 remainin g Cardinal Farley his paid from his own pocket $10 ,000/m fees, gratifications and stam p dutiea on his ring, red hat and scarlet robes . THE CORRECTOR ¦ i \ Sag-Harbor , IT. T» \T . ' BBnTLET D. SLBTOH^' Edito r ft Proprietor. Published averj Saturday raomlngj *a the village of Sag Harbor , Suffolk County, N. Y , Tarmfl 82.00 per year in &dvan««. ESTA B LISHED I82£. / ' ^^^^^^ MMI ^^HH aHiH ^i^^MM^k^BH^ \71 Rerassnberjx 1 B That every added sub- g ^ jcriber hel ps to make this . 3 ^L paper better for everybody j Ma^^Mes ^^H^^^KMM ^^H^^^^^ n^SBMBai ^BIMaBt I DO II NOW ggg I rmmimm., \ ~ ^^— lj T i • ft If {% Subscribe [ Again We Say ? 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Having severed my business connection with theDeCastro ijy ery Stablea , on lotf- , er: Main str^et ^-I , Leg to ^ ajiawwes ., to- -ier-~ ¦ ^?r. pstrons' .aa& ' tiii; jAtbfic in general that r have ^fitted up & first «iasa Livery and Boarding Stable hi the rear of my resi- dence on Union street. With new horse* and modern equi pment I am prepared to furnish the most up-to-date ana stylish figs in town, lly wagonette wfll meet all bi>a.b« and trains , ana orders to call foJ passengers for outgoing boats and trains »wll be \ promptly attended to. I respect- (ullv ask a share of your patrona ge. SEYMOUR DECiVSTRO. Bag Harbor , N. Y., 4prfl 14 , 1008. ¦ ' —W C. R. 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