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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-5-31, Page 4THE. ' ti r Ablacticate SANIJERS do DUli2, '?rcip, ; RliRSDAY, MAY 3Oth, 1096 THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY. Y. Lust Friday the 24th of May through" Oval the British Empire, was celebrated. The 76th anniversary of the birth of riiit great woman Her Majesty the trtueen, and here as elsewhere under :? e British flag, the day was hailed with signs of rejoicing. This was as it should be, for never in the world's his. awl has any people had more reasou to .isjaiee at the longevity of a soverign atm have we at the days and years stat have been meted out to her through -whom we trace much of the peace and asperity that has blessed the Emetics hiring the past half century. The in - Nuance for peace and good will that This been exerted by our Queen has Breached out to the utmost bounds of er Kingdom, and beyond it to the wilds of even uncivilized tribes, until all nations have begun to realize the Truth of the poet's couplet who says; "Howe'er it be, it seems co me 'Tis only noble to be good." Long may the benign influence of ;aur good Queen continue to shad its lastre on the British Empire, and long may the loyalty of her people shout :sassaises in her honor and sing "God -ave the Queen." (Very certain is it that Mr- Cockburn wanted to over the ad'air up or he would never have submitted autheuti cated doeuments proving his figures, But the details aro even more damag- ing than the totals, It is charged that there were "extra meals and wines," This seems to be true. Mr. Cockburn appears to have entertained visitors at Chicago, paving $14 one week, $5,70112 another, $88 in another, and so on for their dinners. Everybody must see that this was infamous. Admittedly, air. Cockburn was the official represent- ative of a great Dominion; but if he had read Sir Richard's lugubrious ora tions with care he would have known that this is a wretched country, ar d would have consequently taken the distinguished visitors received in the Canadiau section to a free lunch cowl! ter instead of inviting them to a formal meal. it is further alleged that there is "a heavy bill for blacking boots." According to the vouchers this 220114 - tion is also well founded. The Chicago hotel charged for boot blacking, a practice which is probably not followed where Mr. McMullen stays, Some of the accounts are as "heavy" as twenty - cents for boot cleaning for a week, and the complete charge for boots during the fair is fourteen dollars and eighty. cents. Whv:did not Mr. Cockburn wear moccasins? Or if he insisted on ap- pearing in boots and having them clean, which was not at all necessary seting that he was merely a commis- sioner from Canada, why did he not keep a brush and a little pot of black- ing in his room? This is no daubt what Mr. McMullen would have done. Again, it is charged that there was an "order for crackers." This accusation is amply sustained, On the hotel bill, dated July 27, 1898, an item says "Or- der for milk crackers $1.85." Here was a sum of money equivalent to the price of three bushels of wheat, as Mr. McMullen would say, "deliberately "thrown away- upon crackers." Why did Mr, Cockburn indulge in crackers ? Had he bought cheese contemporane- ously with his cracker investment the. explanation would be obvious. But crackers without cheese was sheer waste. The cracker purchase suggests a point for Mr. McMullen or Dr. Lan- derkin, of which it is to be hoped these gentlemen will take advantage. The sum of $1,85 was admittedly spent in crackers. No doubt the crackers were intended for human consumption. Pos- sibly; indeed, Mr. Cockburn ate some of them himself. Now if on July 27th YIr, Cockburn could eat crackers why could not he have lived on them dur- ing the entire period that he was in Chicago . Had he taken a few boxes of crackers with him, and slept in a cheap lodging -house, blacking his own distinguished boots, and giving dlstln„mshed yisitora a glass of beer and a free lunch instead of taking them out to dinner he would have conducted himself as a Canadian commissioner at a great international gathering should, and, what is better still, he would have escaped the awful scandal which the opposition, brings against him. THE JURY SYSTEM. Time and again during the past few amass has the public been treated to abeit may properly be termed a mis- marriage of justice and now again we care confronted with another failure on re part of the jurymen of our Province »iso their duty. Too frequently we :ad jurymen ready to be swayed by sentiment instead of calmly weighing Ihe facts as presented in the case be - !ore them. Probably ne trial in the istory of Canada,—not excepting the celebrated Birchell case,—ever excited she interest which has existed during the past two weeks in the trial for murder of the Hyams brothers, in Tor- onto. In this case the jury, as in too many like trials, failed to agree and a xlew trial will doubtless be the result, Then again we have had verdicts so far from, according with the facts, that Considering the whole matter, it be. -tomes us as a people to calmly sit ewn'and decide whether or not the system should not be abolished and in- stead thereof, institute a bench of ;badges; say, three or five. Without speaking disparagingly of the intelli- gence of our own people, we believe haat a large majority of those summon- ed on the jury, are not capable of areighing and deciding such an im 4,srrtant matter as the taking of the or pro of murder life of a man accused iwuncing his innocence. They are too easily influenced by the pathetic ap- pals of connsel and too apt to be bias stf by preconceived ideas of the innoc- rnee or guilt of a prisoner. Oa* the ether hand this could not be said of the 'rained minds of the judges of our land and to them we believe the res- nsibility of pronouncing the death faenalty should be relegated. It would be more satisfactory to the prisoners 2nd to the public and lift a burden of responsibility from the shoulders of our ?allow countrymen that they do not Teel able to carry. SCANDAL HUNTING. The scandal industry received'aa se- -rare check not long since when the b n. Mr. Angers, Minister of A,o ricul 7Ste at Ottawa, recovered $5000 dam - Agee from Mr.Paland a lieutenant of Mr Laurier's in Quebec, for stating in bis wiper that the Minister of Agricultural lad sold railway legislation for $25000. Sitio acted like the late spring frost :am a time, but it appears statesmen of Mari Lauderkin and McMullen stripe !tan not be so easily daunted in the mad mice toward securing a monopty of the ecandal traffic and now they are after ,pry. Cockburn, a commissioner of the Dominion Government at the: World's Lair. "The Mail•Empire" veryfactious- ly xefers,to theaffairs as follows:—"Mr. .unelcburn did not charge for his ser. ,limo, as did Mr. Awrey, the Ontario Commissioner, but he did bill the conn- ;wry for his expenses, less $3,000, which 2t2 paid out of his own pocket. The total 'hal put in by Mr Cockburn was $4,425, tan amount being made up of travel - Vag and hotel outlays, extra meals for •visitors, and so on, from April, 1898, to ;5kvv, 4 of the same year --148 days. "e Toronto Globe publishes all the :tearful facts of the scandal, with the deadly hotel vouchers as presented to the hGovernment by the offender. One ; "tlie most telling features of the out- ;aug e is the circumstance that the vouch, mere preserved and duly passed in' THE Jul The Hymns T other Tt� Ails TEN IN FAVOR Some Thought the Protbors Were Guilty, But the Cro'wn's Case Was loo Weals to Convict Longest Criminal Trial Ever field In Canada, Toronto, May 82.—The evidence of the defence in the ,Ilyains easeis a series of Surprises, But most sensational of all was the testimony of D. N. MoCartlay, wild, if his story bo true, heard young Wil- liam Wells killed by the falling weight. He says°'that from the adjoining cellar he heard Wells tomo down into the . cellar and get some coal. Then he heard the weight .fail with a crash, and a little later scene one run in and calls Wells by name. This story fits in accurately with the one told by Dallas Hymns shortly after the accident. Mrs.Dallas Hyams had au interview with her husband in the presence of the constables. The meeting was a very af- eating ono, : and after it was over the wife sat in the court -room, and for the first time saw her husband in the dock, , The defence will rest its case to -day, and the evidence in rebuttal will be put in, and an effort will be made to give the ease to the jury to -morrow night. The defence put two witnesses in the box yes- terday in support of the Johnstoniah the- ory as to the manner in which the tra- gedy might have occurred. The testimony " of Thomas 33raggo, taken under commission at Cleveland, was read by Mr.Lount. Be corroborated the evidence of McCarthy with respect to thelatter's duties as cellarman in the promises adjoining the Hymns ware- house. He also corroborated the story of McCarthy with respect to the break in the wall,and to the fact that noises in the Hymns collar could be heard in the Ne- smith cellar. Duncan McDermott, a carpenter, said he made some changes in the cellar of Hy- ams warehouse after the twins vacated it. There was no box for the weight, and no portion thereof, nothing to prevent the weight swinging from side to side. When he had made other changes in the collar in January of 1893 there were portions of the box weight there. He saw no buffer block for the weight to conte down upon, but had a sort of recollection about seeing a piece of scantling. Joseph C. McMillan was employed by the Imrie & Graham Company from De- cember,1S91, to September, 1892. He used the hoist more than any one ,else and thought it a very unsafe one. Sometimes the weight would catch on the ground floor, and he frequently found it difficult to release it. Tho weight usually caught when it was descending, but he never know it to catch as it was going up. During the ten months that ho was there the weight caught half a dozen times in all. Toronto, May 27.—Mr: Johnston began speaking on behalf of the prisoners at 3.08 on Wednesday afternoon and uttered his last sentence at 6.45. At the end the audience began to applaud, but the ap- plause was at once suppressed. When Mr. Lount began his address at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning he spoke amid silence so pronounced that the tick- ing of the large clock above the jury -box could be distinctly heard. The prisoners spoke pleasantly to their friends and ac- quaintances as they went into the doolr ; but they were evidently in a most ed anxi- ous frame of mind. Their faces showed the terrific burden upon their minds and hearts. They intently listened to the elo- quent language of the man who was pleading for their lives and asking the jury that to -morrow, on the beloved Queen's natal day, they might go out of the room free Igen, thanking God for their liberty. At five o'clock Thursday afternoon, Mr. B. B. Osler, Crown prosecutor, began his address. He was speaking when the court adjourned and resumed at 10 o'clock Friday morning. Referring to the medical evidence, Mr. Osler said that when he first realized the theory that the defence had set up, he know that everyone of their medical men was a witness for the Crown. Both sides agreed thatthere were two blows, the Crown said that there was evi- depce of the first ono. The defence was driven to the desperate theory that the weight struck the boy and thea the head came to the ground first, the weight toppling over on it.. Continuing his address, Mr. Osler said: "Yon will remember, gentlemen, that the first part of the evidence I have brought before you is with reference to the act of killing itself. Then I have taken the circumstances prior to that act throwing light -upon it, giving you an idea of the motives that aright have ex- isted. "I think I have omitted to point out in that second branch the fact that from December, 1892, until the June follow- ing, there was no money coming by ex- press; the source of supply had been cut off. For what reason? It may have been from thanother absence of the c anot er in the south. If so, it is an indication that the money was for her separate use." Mr. Justice Street told the jurymen that they must make up their minds from the evidence alone. One of the most serious questions in the whole trial is what profit was there in this for Harry Hyams and how was he to keep up the premiums? What could have induced hien to take out the insur- ance? The answer of the defence is that it was that it was an excellent investment. It was fur the jury to say whether they think that is the reason why the insur- ance was placed or whether it was a part of a scheme to make $80,000 at the ex- pense of the life of Wells. His Lordship•polntcd out that evidently no reasonable explanation had been pre- pared for the cause of the death of Willie Wells had it been murder and been very carefully planned out by ,the prisoners, .as'contended by the Crown. In closing', His Lordship pointed ont that with 'Cue exception of 1.4,700, all the insurance had been absorbed by the prisoners; but this, ho said, was only fin evidence of motive and otherwise against the prisoners, Before giving the case to the jury His Lordship pointed ottt that it Man OM a should •- the Ut 1)0 Was not nocessaa,y„ present at the commisston 01 the crime to bo guilty of murder. He urged Upon them as, a final ,consideration that the Crown most have matte out its ease to their satisfaction, and if it had not done Fire at Wingham. The biggest blaze ever seen at Wing - ham occurred on Tuesday afternoon, when the Union Furniture Factory was totally distroyed. The workmen were all working at the time and several barely escaped with their lives. While Hugh Hamilton was jumping from the third story he caught on a wire whtch twisted him around and in striking the ground broke his wrist and sustained other injuries. Robt. Cornyn displayed a most remarkable feat and thereby saved his life. Starting from the third storey- window he dropped and caught himself on the window sill below, hung there for a moment, dropped and caught on the window sill below him again and then to the ground, Albert Bell in smashing a window to get out made a cut about six inches long on his arm. A frame house owned by T. L. Jobb, was badly burned. While working at this building John Drum mond fell down a stairway, after hav- ing his right shoulder badly burned, and sustained severe injuries. A stab- le belonging to Mr. Jobb was destroyed, By five o'clock the Union, with all its valuable machinery, the coats, vests, hats and tools of some of the employees were a heap of burning, hissing ruins. Some of the bench hands had very coin plete set of tools, and their loss will not be very light, Oliver Gilchrist had a most valuable set destroyed. The Un- ion, since re -commencing operations last fall, had been controlled by a joint stock company of our citizens. The factory' was running full time and basis ness was increasing daily. The out- look was most promising, About fifty hands were employed, and the loss of work by many will be keenly felt. The merchants will also feel the loss heavily It is aimost a eertainty that the factory will not be rebuilt on the old site, Th town was interested in this concern by way of a loan to the amount of $8,000 t however, wh c hwas secured 9 r by insur- ance, The total loss is about $50,000 with an insurance of about $12,400. Clinton: The other day while hand- ling an electric -light shade Mr. Ed Cantelon got his hand badly cut, The so they must decide irl'uspoetive of any- thing else. Friday night the crowd in front of the court house extended up' Adelaide to Cherub, streets,. and thb county conStabli,- lary had to be re-iuforoecl by city petite - men to control the throng, Inside the brilliantly lighted court room. a great audience slit and waited, and when finally the jury did file in it was known that no agreement had been reached. `,Vile jurymen told His Lordship that tilers was 110 prospect of a settlement, and they were let go. The ballot on the guilt or innocence of the prisoners stood ten to two in favor of acquittal, the two dissenting ones being George Munro, a farmer of North Gwil- limbury, and Tames Crichton, a tamer of Scarboro'.• Late in tale evening several members of the Jury .who voted for acquittal ex- pressed their moral certainty of the guilt of the prisoners. Tho naso exceeded in length any crim- inal trial over . before held in Canada. The Birohall case ocoupied seven days, and the trial or the Rouclershotts at St. Thomas was ono day longer. , The Hyams trial lasted for just two weeks and one clay, In it more witnesses wore examined, more evidence taken and Imre brilliant counsel engaged than was probably ever seen in a Murder trial on this continent greatest h One ofthe tea t lawyers oft e Oa � tes v�y United States was associated with two most prominent members of the Cana- dian bar, in an effort to clear the -Hyams twins of the charge of murder. Itscost will be about $6,000 to the Crown, and perhaps four times that for the defence. And the only result of this concentra- tion of knowledge and ability and wealth is a mistrial, and the whole proceeding. with the exception of the termination, will have to be repeated. THE COLONIES TO BE REPRESENTED. Supreme Court Judges Who Are Privy Councillors Are Eligible. London, May 28.—In ' the House of Lord's yesterday Lord Rosebery presented a bill to enable colonial judges to sit in the JudicialCommittee of the Privy Council. In his speeoh introducing Mie bill, Lord Rosebory said that there was only one judge of colonial experience who now sat in the Judicial Committee, while the number of colonial appeals was con- stantly increasing. The bill, he said, pro- posed that anyone holding a judicial office in the Supreme Courts of Canada and Australia, if sworn as a member of the Privy Council shall also become a member of the Judicial Committee, but without salary. If the bill was passed, the several oolonles would take advan- tage of its provisions, thus adding a link to rho golden chain of the Empire. Lords Salisbury, Knutsford and Hers- chell expressed their approval of the bill, which passed its first reading. DICKS MURDER CASE. It Will Probably Be Traversed to Next Assizes fi+ Toronto, May 2S,—The trial of ex-Ald. Stewart, on a charge of municipal cor- ruption, will beginat the Assize Court this morning before Mr. Justice Robert.- son. obert-son. The case against Albert Garrett, charged with stealing a bicycle, was traversed to the Sessions. Tho charge of murder against Arthur A. Dicks may not be proceeded with, as an effort will be made to have it traversed to the next assizes. Rideau Range Unsafe. Ottawa, May 27.—It will be news to the riflemen of the Dominion to learn that the Rideau rifle range, a where the annual al matches of the D.R.A. aro held, has been condemned as unsafe, and that pending certain repairs which will benecessary shooting has been absolutely prohibited. Local riflemen, for some time, at any rate, will experience considerable hard- ship at the order which has just been issued. A civio deputation saw Mr. Dickey in regard to the matter, and urged him to have the repairs executed. It is hinted that if the Government will not effect the repairs the association matches this year may have to be hold in Toronto. A deputation of riflemen, consisting of Senators Poivair and McInnes and several local shots, visited the Militia Department Saturday to urge the speedy re -opening of the Rideau ranges. The deputation stated they bad visited that part of the range which was claimed to be dangerous, and found that the conten- tion was very much overdrawn, Some of the residents who are kicking live one thousand yards from the range and 350 yards outside the lino of fire. Ifuddart Still Hopeful, London, May 28. -In an interview yes- terday, Mr. James E. Taluddart, the pro- moter of the now Canadian steamship line to Australia, via England, expressed himself as greatly pleased with the reply of Lord Rosebery to the Chamber of Com- merce deputation, last Friday, in regard to the resolutions of the Ottavva'Intercol- oniel Conference, favoring an inter -im- perial system of postal and telegraph routes between the United Kingdom and the colonies. Mr. Huddart declared his strong belief that' some assistance from the Imperial Government in furtherance of the objects mentioned would shortly be forthcoming., Canadians at Court. the May 28. —At t h o Prince of Wales' levee yesterday Sir Charles Tup- per, Canadian High Commissioner, pre- sented Hon. Mr. Vernon, the Attorney- General of British Columbia, and Major- General Herbert presented Colonels Otter and Wilson, Rutherford and Lessard, and Captain McDougall, all of the Canadian permanent force. Tho levee was chiefly military and diplomatic affair, Tho Afghan Prince Nasrillia Khan was pros. ent A 1!'ire at Petrolea, Piatrolea, May 28.—Tire broke out in the brick block known as Lencey's Folly yos- terclay morning and damaged it to the extent of 51,000; insured. Other losses: Mr. Soarsbrook, grocery, $500, insured; R. Herring, Advertiser office, 5200, insur- ed; Young Conservative Club, $100, The origin of the fits is a mystery. Tho in- surance companies interested are the Al, lianas, Norwich Union, Queen's, Western and Mercantile. Launch of the Cruiser Terrible. London, May 28. --Tho new British cruiser Terrible was launched in the Clyde yesterday. She is 1050 tons, with engines of n N4i,000 horsepower, and is ex - Doted to develop a speed t+1262 knots all hour. , To Suce eedi Byrnes, lti ew York, Mwy 25.---TTtnodore :lioosevel t, 'provident of the Police Cotnm1ssionore; is at :eci of tis the new chief. • H. IN AND BISHOP SON Have decided to give 'special bargains this week .. SCREEN DOORS c . SCREEN WINDOWS. , We have them . , . Varnished; Oiled or Painted. MAKET•T� �y .. Something new in these Goods! N MILK. CANS (VERY STRONG.) tl the SEE THEM, CREAMERY CANS,Wit STR,EI Latest Taps. xx. CORN; ! It is going fast. If you need any, be sure CORN ! and get it at once, Also a large assort - CORN g ! ment off seed potatoes. H. BISHOP & SON. Seed Co.rn, Potatoes, AND LI , White and Grey. Prices away clown. First Storehouse at the G. T. R. Depot. JOSEPH COBBLEDICK, Exeter. Goderich: The staff and some cus- tomers iia Elliott's grocery store got tt surprise on Tuesday last, when the top. of the stove went uaato the ceiling and several yards of pipe came divn to the floor. The cause of the agitation was the stove being; s`tuffed full of straw and rubbish, which not burning freely caused au explosion. No dam- age was done. FINANCE AND COMMERCE. Toronto, May 28.—Flour—The mar- ket is very firm. Straight roller sold at $4.75. water freights, and Manitoba patents are quoted at $5.20 to 5,25. Wheat—Offerings are so small that dealers will pay almost any price asked, There were sales of white wheat out- side to -day at $1, west. and at $1.01 east. Manitoba No. 1 is also higher with sales at $1.05 to $1.07, Toronto freights. Barley—There is a good demand, with sales of feed at 50c. outside. Oats—The market is strong, with a good demand. Sales of white at 38?:c. to 39c. west„ and many asking 40c. New Suits for 10 Coes. "There are Mrs Brown's boys all out in new suits again. I never saw such a>woman ! They are the best dressed family its town, and anybody would think her extravagant if they didn't know that she did it all with Diamond Dyes The boys' clothes are made from her husband's old ones dyed over, while her own and the girls' dresses are dyed/over, and many of the suits and gowns'do n t cost her ,over a dime, the price of a pack a of Diamond. Dyes." No experience is needed to do good work with Diamond Dyes. They make beautiful colors that are non -fatting and are prepared for all kinds of goods. Their three special Black dyes for different goods, make the blackest and fastest color known. Ga+'Direction book and 40 samples colored cloth free l\it s $ RICn LED, SON Co„ MONTREAL, P.Q. ook'sCottollRoot COMPOUND. A recent discovery by an old physician. Successfully used monthly by thousands of Ladies. Is the only perfectly safe and reliable medicine dis- covered. 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SPECIAL RATES WITH ''''\ COMMERIAL MEN. Orders left at Bissett Bros.'Hardware Store,will receive prompt attention. TERMS - REASONABLE A TRIAL SOLICITED. W. G. BISSETT C. LUiZ, PROP Fanson's Block Exeter. Family Receipts and Prescriptions, Carefully'prepared: A complete stock of drugs patent medicines, Drug- gists' supplies, perfumes, toilet soaps, hair brushes, tooth brushes, combs and all articles to be found in a first-class Drug Store. DR. C. LU T Z, Druggist,. LEY & SON .Are showing special line ; for the next two weeks in !...3. PARLOR TABLES, CUOTARI POLES, ASD PICTURE MOULDINGS, S. GIDLEY & SON; O� DD FELLOW'}; Block