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SLAIN BJ ME PISTOL SHOOTS WHEN INNO CENT GIRL PULLS RIBBON STRANGE SUICIDAL CASE Young Man, Promising Sweteheart n Wonderful Surprise, Asks Her to Pull Ilibbon—She Does so and a Pistol Fires, Fatally Wounding Him. Emily Wheeler, beautiful twenty two-year-old daughter of John • De Forest Wheeler, of Stratford, Conn., at an early hour Tuesday morning told the tragic story of her last few hours with her fiance, Arthur Hearn Cowl, grandson of the late multi millionaire merchant, James H. Hearn, She told it in a small, bare room in the hospital at Bridgeport, Conn., to officials of Stratford and Bridgeport and physicians, while in an adjoining operating room lay her fiance dying. Young Cowl called on Miss Wheel er Monday night and shortly after 10 o’clock said he would show her a wonderful new trick if she would Just shut her eyes and Jerk a piece of narrow baby blue ribbon, one end of which he handed to her. She did so and there came the sound of a re volver shot. Cowl slowly fell dying at her feet, wounded in his temple. The ribbon which he had Induced hey to jerk was tied to the trigger of a heavy calibre revolver. This is Miss Wheeler's own story^ "Arthur wrote me that he was com ing to see me Monday afternoon and would go to Bridgeport on a through train from New York, and there take a trolley to Stratford. I watched for his car and when I saw him step off ran down to meet him. "Not for months had I seen him in better spirits or in better health. We walked home and had tea. and he was so bright and happv. After tea mother and father went to a meet ing at Christ church and left us to gether. First we sat In the hall. We talked of our love: he told me how greatly improved his health had been by his trip to Bermuda; he told me I.. __ , ., that he felt sure that he would be from his coat and polnt- entirely recovered by early fall and * 4 lt al hU tem P ,e we sat there dreaming and planning Mr » Wheeler, mother of the.girl, our life together. said to a correspondent: "There is thp nothing we desire to conceal. The he remarked. This view is shared by his fellovtownsmen. Miss Wheeler did not offer any ex planation of how Cowl succeeded in hiding the revolver from her sight, nor can It be positively stated wheth- er she actually pulled th^ trigger by pulling the gibbon or whether he sup plemented her strength with his own. Physicians are trying to figure out the physchology which prompted the tragedy. Drs. Wright, Garlick and Coggswell all unhesitatingly declare that the act was the act of a diseased mind, of a mind suffering from mel ancholia so morbid as to amount to practically perversion, in the sense that the sufferer derived a painful pleasure from his act. Cowl's first physical breakdown is attributed to his ambition to emulate his grandfather and become a "mer chant prince.” To further this am bition he went to night school and made a special study of such subjects as efficiency and economy, f ' Dr. Coggswell asserts that at worst Miss Wheeler only rendered some slight assistance to Cowl in pulling the trigger. "Miss Wheeler,” he said, “did not have the physical strength to pull that trigger bymeans of the ribbon. She tried once and failed as she her self said. Now it is my opinion that Cowl was quick to realize this and simultaneously wheq she gave the second Jerk he pressed the trigger. That would make it technically whi in any event it is, a case of suicide. - Dr. Cogswell took out of his desk the revolver. It is a regulation .38 calibre blue steel Colt. Only one of the. six chambers had been loaded, and that still had the exploded shell. Tied to the trigger was one end of a length of pale blue ribbon something less than a quarter of an inch wide. The ribbon measured perhaps three and a half feet, and the loose end for six or seven Inches was red with young Cowl's blood. With Dr. Coggswell holding the re volver in the position it is assumed that Cowl held it the correspondent jerked the ribbon sharply, but failed to pull the trigger. A sharper jerk succeeded. With the revolver fully cocked It was found almost impos sible to pull the trigger by Jerking the ribbon, and the test proved that in any case It required considerable physical strength to do so. "We have been unable to learn,” said Dr. Coggswell, "the exact post tion of the pistol. Miss Wheeler never saw It until after the shot had been fired. It may readily be that when she turned her bead he moved HOW CRUISER SANK ALMOST ENTIRE CREW OF THE FRENCH SHIP LOST DISORDERS IN INDIA EFFECT OF 'GERMAN INTRIGUE AND TURK ALLIANCE. TAKEN BY SURPRISE Italian .Accounts Tell How French Ship Was Torpedoed in Bright Moonlight on Smooth Sea—Cap tain Refuses to Leave Ship and But Few Escape Destruction. "He spoke of our marriage in early fall as a certainty. He told me that he intended spending thin sum mer In the country, end that he was sure at the end of the summer we could be married "Then he said to me: 'Emily, you know l have been a very sick man; I have not really been myself a lot of the time I want to tell you some thing. While I was sick end not en tirely responsible for what I was do ing 1 wrote you a letter, but I didn't send it. 1 am glad I didn't bnt I want you to see It. I told you In that letter that I had cc^aed to care for you There was a lot more, but that was what It all amounted to— that 1 had ceased to care for you.' “Yhen he told me that be wanted me to see that letter. He said he had It upstairs, and he wanted me to read It and see how foolish he had been when he waa sick. Then he wanted me to destroy it with my own hands. He told me that he loved me and that he only write what he did because he was sick. Then he talked some more of our marriage in the fall. _ _ "He went upstairs and got the let ter and brought It down for me to read. He did not seem at all excited and I didn’t notice anything unusual in his manner. I road the letter and then h«.urged me to destroy It. To gether we walked out on the porch and down the steps and sat on the lowest step so I could burn the let ter. As we sat down my mother and father came back from their church meeting and. after speaking to us. went on upstairs. It was getting late. "1 destroyed the letter. He wait ed for a few moments and then, fum bling in his pocket, pulled out a piece of ribbon and handed me the end of it. He told me he was going to show me a wonderful trick. ‘You must shut your eyes, turn away your head and pull the ribbon,’ he said. After hesitating I did so. He laughed end said it hadn’t worked. Then he told me to try it again. ‘Give the ribbon a strong jerk this time,' he told me, ‘or my trick won’t work. And you must keep your head turned away and your eyes closed.’ “I did as he told me. I jerked the ribbon again and then, then ” Here Miss Wheeler for "Che first time during her narrative gave way to shuddering and hysterical weep- in^ , “There was a terrific explosion and my boy fell over on the ground and lay there without moving. I calldU him by his name; I begged hint to speak to me. For a moment I thought it only another of the Jokes he liked to play on me. BaJ he lay there so cold apd motionless I was frightened and screamed. After a while father came running down. ~ never, nerer thoughf ailyfBrhg like this, His voice was h|s own; he poor boy waa suffering from a ner vous breakdown and waa irresponsi ble. We have a great grief on our handa, and my daughter ie complete ly proatrated. She believes that the waa his executioner. I don't know where the revolver came from, but It did not come from this bonne. He must have brought It with him. 1 want It understood that their engage ment Lad not been broken and they expected to be married." "I can state positively that my daughter l vl not broken her engage ment with Mr.* Cowl," said Mr. Wheeler The fac: that there waa a tempor ary severing of the engagement was. It was l*«rned. solely due to Mr. Cowl's breakdown in December or January. There never waa any quar rel or estrangement after the young man bad declared In a fit of despon dency that they could never wed and she htl returned the engagement ring she had worn. He followed her to Merranda where she had gone to visit her married sister, and there protested hia love so ardently that the two quickly renewed the engage ment. Mice Wheeler is a descendant of one of the oldest and wealthiest fam ilies in Connecticut. She is an en thusiastic tennis and golf player and a splendid yachtswoman. She took an active interest in the work of her church and taught a class in the Sun day school. NOTE TO BERLIN But was smiling at me; he wasn’t excit ed: I thought he was Just playing with me. X can’t, can’t understand. He was so well, he spoke so positive ly of his getting entirely well; he talked so earnestly about our mar riage soon. It had seemed to me that our troubles were over. He was very happy frith me all the afternoop and evening. There was nothing to warn me. I can’t believe It yet." The coroner aaid that; although he had made no format tnvesfigation of . CowFb dentil, nrwipaper reporU IK* allien to Join In the war against teemed to Indicata so etearly that the rate waa one of suicide. In fact If not la deed. tfcU unleaa something dif ferent develop* he thought it enlike- ly he weald held any inquest. ' U pees* to me It would, be to this peer yeuag lady to Indemnity for Frye Accepted Original Note Is Upheld. -* A second note from the United States to Germany concerning the sinking of tho American ship William P. Frye by the commerce raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich was dispatched to Berlin Wednesday. It is under stood it accepts the Gefman propo sal to compensate the owners of the Frye under the terms of the old Prus- sian-American treaties of 1799 and 1828, regardless of any prize court decision. These treaties provide that contra band belonging to the subjects of either party shall not be confiscated by the other in ahy case, but may be detained or used only in considera tion of pAyment of the full value. While willing to agree to payment for the Frye, it is understood the Voited States stands by its original protest against the destruction of the ship as a violution of international law, and again denies that the wheat cargo was contraband. No claim for the cargo was made, however, be cause it was sold en route to British dealaia. : Ap effort is sdid to have been made in the latest note to narrow the ap plication of the old treaties so that no precedent will oljpJcTeated warrant ing the lodgment under them in fu ture of claims Against the American government under favored nation clause. ' I-. ; Greece Bendy to Join War. Chrlstaker Zographos, foreign min- luter of. Greece, is credited in Paris with having made the statement thet- Greoce only awaits InritnUon /■> taCOSm ‘ ~ Hgmmkm Germany. Admiral voa Tlrpiu, minister of ariae aad commander of tbe Ger- ■aa OmL has been haaorad by bin tar the wpimin of •f aaval aarnee Rome, Italy, reports: The 12,000 ton French armored cruiser Leon Gambetta was torpedoed by an Aus trian submarine in the Strait of Otranto the night of April 26 and went down in ten minutes, carrying with her her captain and more than 500 of her crew. It is reported from Cape Santa Maria di Leuca, the nearest point to the scene of the disaster, that not a single officer of the Leon Gambetto was saved. The 136 petty officers and soamen rescued by boats from the Italian shore are in pitiable condition, with out clothing, most of them having been awakened from sleep by the ex plosion of the torpedo and forced to leap overboard and swim for their lives. Some had been keeping them selves afloat with the aid of bits of wreckage for more than an hour when help reached them. According to an official report from Vienna, the Leon Gambetta was sunk by an Austrian submarine, U-5, a Holland boat of 273 tons, com manded by Lieut. George Ritter von Trrapp. The Austrian report also claims that the French cruiser was sunk in the Aegean, which would make It appear that Austrian sub marines are menacing the. Darda nelles fleet ' The Leon Gambetta, with her sjg- ter ship, the Jules. Ferry, formed part of the French patrol squadron watch Ing the mouth' of the Adriatic and penning the Austrian fleet in their bases at Pola and Cattaro. Since the opening of the war, this squadron has been on duty, and, although several times before attacked by Austrian submarines and aeroplanes, has hlth erto escaped practically unscathed and has kept the entire Austrian navy rigidly blockaded The l^on Gambetta was laid down in the Brest yards In January. 1901 and put In commission In 1903. She was 487 Jeet long, dlsplhced 12,416 tons and made a speed on her trails of Slightly more than 23 knots. She carried a main battery of four 7.6 inch and sixteen 6.4-inch guns, with five 6 3-4 Inches belt and 8-Inch tur rets and conning tower. Although ontrlassed by the battle cruisers of more recent construction, she was considered a fine ship of her cla Three French cruisers, the Leon Gambetta. the Jules Ferry and an other, believed to be the Victor Hugo of the earns class, were that night on active patrol duty for the French squadron In the western passage of the Straits of Otranto, between the island of Corfu and Cape Santa Maria Leuce. on the Italian coast The sea was calm, the night clear and the moon shone brightly. Early In the evening, the Leon Gambetta parted company with the Jules Ferry nesr Corfu, to steam across to the Italian coast, running up toward Brindisi, as was customary in the plans for patrolling arranged by the admiral commanding the blockading squadron. For a long time the blockade had been quiet, and the patrol unevent ful. Although the Leon Gambetta was cleared for action and showed no lights, all the crew except the look outs and the watch on deck, hod been permitted to turn in, and were fast asleep In their hammocks. The ship was about twenty miles northeast of Cape Santa Maria Leu ca, and the lights on the Italian coast were plainly visible, when a terrific explosion shook the big cruiser from end to end. All hands tumbled out of their hammocks and ran, half awake and unclad, to their stations hurriedly casting loose the guns and searching the placid waters for the trail that would mark the passage of a periscope. Nothing could be seen, however and in a few moments, as the ship began to list heavily to port, and the int rushing water drove the men below from their stations, it was plain that the cruiser had received her death blow. The captain, stand *T.g on the bridge, gave the order to swing out and lower the boats. All the survivors agree that there was not the slightest sign of panic Every officer and man stood quietly at his post, or moved promptly to obey orders. But the boats, swung inboard out of harm’s way, and to clear the sweep of the turret guns when the ship was cleared for action could not be swung out In time and in a few minutes the ship, listing rapidly, made it impossible to lower the boats’on the starboard side. The wireless and signal lights were already sending out signals for help, and the message of the signal lights was seen and understood «»4! The Italian shore, but help was too far away to be reached in time. Several of the survivors say that, when it was seen the ship was doom ed, many officers Implored the cap tain to leave the bridge and save him self, but that he refused, saying: "I go with my ship.” The crew, lined up on deck, were permitted to seize gratings, life-pre- servers, etc., and leap over the side to dear of the suction aa she went Pathans in Revolt—Mutiny at Ran goon Suppressed—Severe Fighting on the Afghan Frontier. A special correspondent of the New York Times in the Straits Settle ments writes as follows, dated March 8: The strictness of the censorship has prevented neutral countries and incidentally the British public from receiving full information of the seri ous disorders which are proceeding in India and Burmah. There is, how ever, sufficient travel between these and the Straits Settlements to enable us to gather fairly reliable news of what Is going on. Of course it can not be published, but it is passed on by word of mouth. The most startling report we have heard is that the Ameer of Afghanis tan has been assassinated. This Is doubtful, but it is certain that there is severe flghtjng along the northwest frontier. From four different dis tricts news of trouble has been re ceived, and there is no doubt that the Indian government Just now has its han,ds full. Some of the sedition ap pears to be due to the deliberate at tempts of German agents to stir up trouble, but a good deal is probably the result of the bazaar rumors con cerning the war, and especially of the appearance of the Sultan of Turkey as the ally of the Kaiser. The first serious riots are reported as having occurred two days ago at Cawnpore. No details have been al lowed to come out, but it (8 realized by all Anglo-Indians how dangerous a matter an outbreak at this point might be. A considerable number of Europeans live there, and It Is hoped that the garrison will prove strong enough to protect them. After the outbreak at Cawnpore, a regiment of Pathans at Rangoon, the capital of Burmah,.attempted to re bel. Mohammedans by faith, they are believed to have been affected by the news from Constantinople. The mutiny was quickly checked, how ever. Nine of the ringleaders were shot, 200 others were sent to prison for terms ranging from fifteen to twenty years, and the rest were dis banded. Coming as they do from the extreme northwest of India, It is not likely that the Pathans would be able to do much harm to'the British rule among the Burmese, with whom t|>ey have nothing tn common. SEEK NEW ilLMNCE MINISTERS OF ARGENTINE, BRA ZIL AND CHIU MEET WASHINGTON INTERESTED to TTiat a CULEBRA From the Central Province of dia word has como of riots in four different places. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the em pire; no one is permitted to land la any part of India un’.ess he can ex plain his business is Imperativo. and the most strenuous efforts are being made to keep the sedition from spreading. Above all the seringont press laws are being applied with their full rigor, aud the vernacular newspapers have to follow a very cir cumspect course. —The rumor that the Ameer of Afg hanistan. Hablbullah Khan, had been assassinated was accompanied by re ports of severe fighting along the Afghan border. Hablbullah bos been on the throne since 1901, and his reign has been on the whole a satis factory one so far os the British are concerned. Both Groat Britain and Russia have undertaken not to Inter fere with the internal affairs of Afg hanlstan. and since they reached their agreement In 1907 Gabul has ceased to be so Important a centre or in trigue. Probably If the Ameer is dead. India would foel It most seri ously through the loss of his Influ ence over the tempestuous- border tribes. . It is tney who. according to what we hear, are giving trouble. Three regiments of territorials from Eng land, who wore sent out to relieve the regulars in the belief that they would not be required for anything worse than garrison duty have been moved up to the frontier. There they are face to face with conditions tha^Jiave tried the nerve and skill of veteran Anglo-Indian fighters. How they are faring we liave no definite information. They are not permitted to write to their friends, and no civilians are flowed'to ap proach within fifty miles of tho dis turbed area. It is said, however, that the British losses have been heavy, and that reinforcements have had to be hurried to the front. You may have heard that on F^>- ruary 16 200 of the Malay States Guides of Taiping mutinied.-* These were soon subdued and the situation is now well in hand. Great Significance Is Attached Conference BetWeen Three Mediat ing Nations—Expected Joint Policy on European Affairs And Relations With the United States May Result. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, states that Dr. Lauro Muller, Brazilian minister of foreign affairs set out with his suite Monday night on a Journey to Uruguay and Argen tina. A large crowd bade them an enthusiastic farewell. Primarily their purpose was to pay a visit of courtesy to Uruguay which has honored the late Baron do Rio-Branco, formerly Brazilian minister of foreign affairs; by having a statue of Rrio-Branco placed behind the boundary line be^ tween the two countries!' Dr. Muller will unveil this statue. Yielding to the urgent requests of the governments of Argentina and Chile, however, Dr. Muller has been, obliged to extend his itinerary, whicJf now will bring about an oxchango of visits by the m'ulsters of foreign af fairs of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, whose action Is recalled In the recent crisis between the United States and Mexico, indicating the necesssity of a stronger and more definite union. After the visit to Uruguay Dr Mullsr will go to Buenos Aires, and from that point he will set out for Santiago with Jose Luis Murrature the Argentine foreign minister. From Santiago they wllLreturn to Buenos Aires, accompanied by Manuel Sali nas. former minister of finance of Chile, on tbe occasion Of the Argen tine national holiday. These various meetings 'will call forth an exchange of views which augur farroaching results. Ths news papers all comment upon the event as bound to mark a new era In the international politics of South Anferl ca. Dr. Muller aad his party will travel by railroad as far as Uruguay, and an Argentine warship will take them aboard at Montevideo. A Washington dispatch says offi cials and diplomats understand that the greatest Importance attacheq to the Journey of Dr. Lauro Muller, tbe Hfoxlllan minister for Foreign af fairs, to Argentina, Chile, and Uru guay. on which hs started from Rio Janeiro Monday night. The belief prevails in some of the best Inform ed quarters that Dr. Muller's visit marks the begtalng of en effort to establish a policy of Pan-Amertraa- ism which means In this com am ar rangement among the Month Ameri can republics to net together in nil matters pertaining to Month Ameri can affairs and possibly on the rain lions of these nations with non- American countries. Commercially and Industrially, Latin-Amerlca haa been badly crip pled by the European war. Up to tbe beginning of the greet struggle the major part of the commercial dealings of South America was with Europe. Now South America's bool- ness relations with foreign laqds are in a state of uncertainty as to what the future will bring forth. . It is in the hope of producing better and closer business relations that this gov ernment has called a conference ot the finance ministers of South and Central America, which is to be be gun in Washington on May 24. Throughout certain Interested dr cles there Is apprehension that the ending of the European conflict may be the beginning of a new deal in the relationship between Europe and I^itin-America. The victors in the gigantic struggle, it haq, been sug gested, may be in $ mood to take ad vantage of thei’ military supremacy to' demand sn adjustment of matters that in ther have been tbe cause of more or less friction. To Brazil the outcome of the war is of prime importance, for, whatever may be said officially, the fear has been prev alent for years that the great Ger man colonization In that country might lead to complications, growing out -of Germany’s colonial ambition. Of course, any such fear is based on the assumption t tat the Monroe Doc trine would be disregarded by Ger many, b}it it has been the cause of uneasiness nevertheless. Charges that German wireless sta tions were established during the present war on Colombian and Ecua dorian territory were made by the British government, and ft has been alleged that German warships coaleu In violation of international law In Chilean harbors, dent grew out of the recent destruc tion of the German cruiser Dresden by a British squadron In the Chilean port of Juan Fernandez. This brought a protest from Germany, a demand for rtu ess by Chile, and en apology to Chile from the British government. It is the opinion of some diplomats that the exchanges will result In overtures to the United States to Join with the principal South American countries in an agreement to net in of Pence Labored' f . .. . • wv - President Wii ed an executive name of Culehra canal to GailUird < late Lieut. CoL lard, engineer Gall lard ae a me mlan canal commi for more than six tral division of the from Gatnn to Pedto eluding Culehra. Debilitated by the < he so exerted himself, medical advice. In bis i his work that his atr taxed. Hls-death, ther Hopkins hospital, was directly ascribable < success of the canal proj Col. Gaillard was' Goethals. Had he Uvefei have been placed in canal zone. H^e handled problems far more that his asaoclatee in the < encountered. Bom nt Fulton, Sumter C.. in 1859, David was educated at Mount emy, Winnaboro, 8. ‘C., PoiMk He was married bordr shortly after he aripy, to Mine Katherine of Columbia, sister to I Means Davis of the Uni South Carolina. Mrs. vtves her husband, with a i Gaillard. Col. Galllard’s more tours of duty were aa folios onel. Third U. 8. V. 7. 1898, to May 17, to Capt. W. M. Black and la i of various surveys, aad provements at 8t. Augustine, and Withlaoooehee river, 1887-91; member of the al boundary com States and Mexico, 1891-4; of Washington aqueduct, projects la vicinity of Vi 1895-8; asalsant to es| mlMtoner of District of 1899-1901; in charge of all i harbor improvement. Lake district, 1901-3; member of staff corps and engineer Northern division, 1998-4; at Army War college, of the military information army of Cuban pacification, ano, Cube. October. 1904, ary. 1907; member of canal commission and Panama railroad, from 1907. to hia death, during the first year of ■hip la the canal supervising engine* dredging in waters aad other e* betta turned on her side and slowly disappeared from view. Not a man on board the ship saw the periscope of the submarine . which destroyed her. The coast guards at the station at Cape Santa Maria di Leuca were the first to see that something was wrong with the big cruiser, which they had been watching as she steam ed slowly up the coast The moment they sighted hey distress signals, they telegraphed the news to Brindisi, Taranto, Otranto and Barl.and imme diately launched their owiii boat and set out to the rescue. Boarts of every description were at once hurried- la the-rescue fronr alt the towns notified! but it was more than an hour before the boat from the cape, the first to reach the scene, grrived. Not a trace of the cruiser herself remained abdve water, but the sea was dotted with half-clad' concert in the adjustment of purely m on momv r\r rnam waitn/laH Her 1 . . _ men, many of them wounded by tho explosion, >Unging desperately the buoyant objects. By morning, all who survived had been brought ashore, most of them seing taken to Taranto, where cloth- down: but only a few availed them- , selves of thlg. xnd j—«tr ef ^ ^ ♦trondwf Those rescued were washed off the deck, wheiw they SttHM;iirirftf'wITh American affairs and possibly in a definition of the relaUenship - that this government will assume toward the smaller republics on this hemi sphere If danger threatens from nay outside source. It should be made lag and suppItM are being despatch-1 pf^in hnsr>t«r tUmi. ^ p»^. w|Oambena an ' 1 speculative, and nothing has been carried 70 many others suffering from the ex- peenre are receiving medical TTT6B- their fellows aa the ship careened be fore taking the final plunge: The of ficers. while encouraging their men to seize artieiee that might eefe tion. to Pay. The United State* snoanted ju ewnera of by a Noi said is any official quarter to Justify a supposition that tbe United States wju depart from Us source of hold ing aloof from anderntaac a course of future nations uch oppos.Uou to Pan-, m in this coulter, am BENSON NAIE9 Secretary Daniels nounced the appointment William 8. Benson to sled poet of chief of op< navy. Capt. B4 mandant of the Phtta yard. Capt. Beneon waa appointment by subject to confirmation j ate at tbe next He will take up his wc dly with the rank of while on the same day Bradley A. Flskc, whoae'< for operations is 1 post, will begin his duties 1 of the naval war colleen i The chief of operati tremendous task, the feature of which will tion of plans, under tha direction, for operation in time of war and their in normal periods. In the 1 the secretary and the assistant tary, he .will be acting secretary the navy. An asaistant chief of erations, not below captain in ra Is to be named later. RECOGNIZE NO FACTION l Washington to Go How in Oonsiti ing Mexican Affairs, Recognition of any jol the Utah factions during thjrpreeent uncart state of affairs is 1 ot contemplated the United State:, according to pressions by high {officials. Secretary Bryan* told inquirers U the subject of recognition had 1 reached ihe point of formal com eration. Persona close to the Wit HPi House said President Wilson Intel Another war tner- e) i t 0 study the question carefu fore committing the American' ernment to recognition and that. did not propose to take any until the military situation in clarified itself. FRENCH CILTSB TMBBliB Lean Gambetta Sank by Auntrii Submarine Wednesday. Berlin reports by Wireless' day: The French armored Leon Gambetta has been by an Austrian submarine, to news received by the News agency. The French carried 700 to 809 She van built at waa 484 feet hadsmeandr rted four 7 4 24