Claiming that she has Jost four her five senses Miss Ruth Knoeller, 27, of Brooklyn, New York, has just filed suit against the municipality of New York for '$100,000 damages, alleging municipal negligence in failing to guard Public street, Mina Knoeller panions of Miss Knocller, who w killed at the same time, had previously asked for $300,000 damages, Stockbrokers! Failure use the list was grossly inaccur-'The Republican Committee, of course, issued a statement in reply in which they showed conclusively that several named on the list had resigned, several more were not in the United States but at their posts, and three had been recalled for specific conferences at the State Departmer€ In addition, they call-fed attention to the fact' that even if the list had been accurate, John W. Davis, while Ambassador to Great Britain, had returned four' years ago and made a number of Speeches favouring the Democratic and the League of Seats on the New York Stock Exchange are worth $80,000 gold, The last two seats to be sold, those Jof William W. Heaton and Harry V. Day, have just realized that amount each, while the seat of William H. Heaton, another partner the same firm, was sold last week for the same amount, All three were members of the firm of Day Hexton, forced to suspend business because of the alleged dofalations of George R. Christ Sanior member, of ie firm. - With the transfer of the seats the final] Jchapter was written of the house which began operations on Wall Street 53 years ago.
As far as Dr. Schurman is con-
Armistice Between Tongs cerned, Iam able, of my own knowledge, to say that he has not made any political speeches while he hgs been here. On the contrary, after brief visit to Washington he went to New York—where he now is— to rest. He has taken no active art in politics and, in fact, was never active in politics even before hhis selection for the Peking post. He returned to the United States on. leave, paying his own expenses, and he left China before civil war started or there was any real indication that a war of the size that has since resulted would break out.
The Democratic attack on Dr.
Schurman was, therefore, grossly unfair, and its authors were deserve ing of the boomerang effect It has Tong wars between the Hip Sings and On Leongs, which broke o lover the country several week: Jand have resulted ili the deaths rival have bean brought to 12 Chinese, killed by members of
Jat least a' temporary end Cly an armistice just signed in New York, which has been the centre of the trouble. During the armistice, which will last.two weeks, Consul-General Chang at New York will attempt to effect a permanent peace. Dr. Sze, the Chinese Minister, was. fable to' bring about peace as far as the Chinese in Washington were Jconcerned, before he sailed for Geneva, but he was unable to cause cessation in the warfare at New York. Because of the usual Chinese Zmtactics and the, usual Chinese Death 6f Mrs. 8. T. Johnson Mrs, Salome T. Johnson, mother of Mr: Nelson T. Johnson, Consul-General at Large for the Far East Jand China, and well -known in Shanghai, died of heart failure while driving a motor car ona Washington street yesterday. Before her husband, Jeremiah Johnson of the War Department, who was in the car with her, could regain control of the machine it ran into lamp post at Eighteenth and New-min streets. Mr. Johnson was not njored. Mrs. Johnson was very }well known socially as.she entertained considerably in her home at. Ridgley, In Georges County, [fashion of refusing. to speak police $4, have made little headway in stopping the string of murders that has too resulted from the tong's rivalry.
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