Exeter Advocate, 1908-01-02, Page 7MURDER OF PEEL FARMER
William Curry the Victim of Immigrant
v*' Farm Hasid.
A despatch from Brampton says: Dur.
ins' the closieg hours of C:hrtstmos Day
a horrible tragedy was enacted 4n To-
r(,nto teens rip by tvhich William Cur-
ry. u mai of sixty yea's, was siert and
killed. Thursday afternoon John Ter-
r%.s, en English immigrant, was token
le the county jail here, charged with
order.
VISITING ON CHRISTMAS.
Christms Day was 4ous;e d by the de-
-ceased and his son at the home of \1r.
J. Black is son-in-law, 'nee. • tt•ere
then left in the Curry home 'terns attd
•a ten -seer -old "twine' boy. Mins Curry
the housekeeper, was away et Stayner
.paseing the holiday with her sister,
Mrs. fain. About 8 o'clock the two
Currys returned to their home. 11a1r-
,agt 8 found Janes Curry zone the pri-
ener• sitting in the living room reading
t`''"`%%%%%newspapers at the table, with the fa-
ther gone to his bed in 1. room opening
-cif the living loom. The home boy, ac-
centing to the story tokl, said to the
hired roan. "Let's go to bed." Terriss
r.. walked over to the corner of the
1'4,, lin, :ori picked up James Curry s
!trete:I-loading, double-barrollod shot-
gun. Drawing 'tie gun to his shoulder
he covered Curry with it and remarked:
"The other day you laughed at me be-
fore others, but now 1 have the laugh
-on you." Currry thought the gun was
•empty, ns he had left it in the corner
it few days before, and did not treat
the threat seriously at first. Ile told
'i'er•riss to put the gun down, end there
mere words Peel enough to rouse the
I 'ran in the adjoining room) and
1i.ng him to the door.
TO SAVE IIi.S SON.
'arras, it is said, Turning to hint. or -
•d, rod trim back. lin•eatening to shoot if
Lc advanced. The old man advanced
Auld the shotgun belched at the sante
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moment. A charge of No. n 4 shot en -
.reel the old men's left breast and tore
pen n tares la's. At the same moment
the lamp was extinguished by the dis-
charge of the weafx n• Jamey Curry,
whe had been stinted when the shot
i n a, tired, sprang, to his feel, rushed
e', ferriss, grasped his throat with one
leind and the elan with the other.
WERE TWO SiIOTS.
A second report rang out, but th
charge passel harmlessly into the cell
ing. The deadly struggle in the dar
continued over chains and around the
table. Cluny suceeded in pulling th
gun away from the Englishman, bu
tic sooner had ho done se than he was
attacked by a fresh weapon In the
hands of the infuriate1 Torriss. 1111Swes a stove crank shaker, which the
man had m his poekeI. Ile struck Cur-
rys on the head and on the arm with-
out inflicting very serious injuies.
Curry was able to wrest the crank
from the mat, whom he struck over
the lett temple, felling hint to the floor
where he lay unconscious. In the rnean-
time old Mr. Curry had staggered in-
to his room and fallen on his bed. Tho
boy had fled the scene when the trou-
ble began and hod hidden himself.
A MONTHIN CAN -1D.\.
The aged victimof the shooting ling-
ered for two or three hours, but he
was unable to survive the shock and
expired. The alleged perpeteator of the
deed, though he received a heavy blow
'front the poker. regained his senses
and revived sufficiently to be brought
to the jail. Ile had beer, known around
the farm as "Jack," and iris (suniame
was not ascertained until 1!e gave it to
the officers of the law. Ile Nigher
slated that he had conte from New-
castle -on -Tyne, and it is believed ho
has a wife livingthere. The prisoner
is about thirty years of age end is a
painter by trade. Ile came from the
old eounlry about a month ago and
went straight to the Curry tern' from
the innnibnnlion depot in Termite.
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CLAI\IS SHOOTING ACCDENTAL.
it is said Merl the iliepute between
the younger Curry and the hirci man
arose over o question of wages. The
hatter, it seems, claimed he had been
hired for a year, wimile curry state)
that be had only come a month on
trial. Terries; had been fold his servtc-
es were no longer required. After-
ward., it is claimed, there was n quar-
rel about o sick horse, and whatever
was said rankled in Terrill' (heart.
When arrestees in lacking of the affair
the prisoner claimed that the shooting
oras accidental.
LEADING MARKETS
tithe\I).s'l1 1 1
• yipI Tonto, . 31.---elanibeba Wheat-
"• . 1 u' 11•.fF,1, about nominal at 81,-
1 ', N tiorthern, $1.133,; No. 3
•I toes; feed wheal. 6(k! to
1 \ • I. .''t Io 51e, inke ports.
\s : e 2 tt tete or red,
\o. e mixed, 94c
. sew.
- Dinars• r wheat patents;
!• I export, 83.65 ',se. offering at $3.7u:
at ,h;rtoba pateunts, epec•ial brand, $5.80
1. 86; sex,nds, $5.20; strong bukeree
veto,.
Bark'}' -No. 1. 72c to Tic; No. 2, 70c
tr :'c. outeide; No. 3 extra, Glc to70c.
'ea outside.
kiln -
lie \•,. 2. 80:,
e.im--Old No. 2 yellow .\►n erican,
t•, 73c, 'Toronto freight.:: new, No.
3 yeIk,w. 63e; new• No. 3 yellow, kiln-
'drie 1. 67e to Gee.
O.'il.:--No. 2 while. 45e to 45%e, cia-
o] e
,ut.1.: mixed, He lee 11,14c. outside, 4t►c
Par/ 10.
rtuckeheat- -We outside.
Itrun--$19 in bulk our!ide; &hurt.,
'121.
COUNTItI• PlIODCCE.
hatter- \tarket steady, tt ith prices
nn. 1:441., 1.
4.1,'.eecry. print& .... .... .. 28' to 30e
• solid; .,,, .,,. •• .,.. 26e
D e ry prints .... .... 23e lo 21c
111.i 4.)I:411 .... .... .... 22c to 2:Ic
biteri•ir ,... sees .. 20cto2le
(:hecse--2)012 at 13' c for !ergo nod
1't c for loins.
I.:glee--Storage. 220 r dozen In case
eek'cts, 21x: sheeny new -Ink( nom-
inal
om-
inal at 30e to 35e.
Ix)tnl .'.i-Steaely at 80e to 85e per
ln, in car .ohs .ren track hem.
It'a►)s- tl.7i► to $!.7' for primes and
1e1.8E1 to $1.8a for handideked,
Venison- Firm anti in demand; h nJ•
q"ar'crs, lI ,c to I:c; front quarter?.
5e•. caren'e . 8,Se 1, 9e.
Balevl Ilay--Timothy quoted front f.'17
to 117.50 icr Ion on 'reek here.
Brent Straw --Quiet et 81.50 to 810. -
to per 1 on on track here.
!410VI'IONS,
seeded end Dry salted \lent.-- Long
wear baron, 10c to 10)-;c for torts and
Gree.; harts, large medium and light.
1f. to I5c; hauls. 12Xc to 13c; backs,
16.eec
to 17c; shoulders, 10c; rolls, 10c to
Jr }{c; breakfaet Won, 15e to I514c;
green n:eats out of pickle, 1c less than
5'reoked.
P•)rk-Shirt cut, .2;.75 'o $.'3 for bar -
1,.1s; mess, ere to b19•
Lard- 'Solves. Wee; tette,
12 c,
12c; pails,,
BUFFALO \IAl1KET.
Ruffa!o, Dec. 31 -Wheat - Spring,
firmer; N•', 1 Northern. $1.173,; \\'inter,
steady; No. 2 red, 11.06. Cern-Lower;
No. 3 yellow, 6I ;c; No. 3 white. See.
Oats -.Steady; No. 2 intact!. 50c; No. 2
White, 533 e. Barley -95e to 11.12. nye
--Nu. 1,• 90C.
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NEW YORK \VIIE\T MARKET.
New York, Dec. 31. --\'beat - Spat,
fern:: \o. 2 red, $1.44, elevator; \'o. 2
red. st.biy feel,. anent; No. 1 northern,
Duluth. 81.2.73, f.o.b. alkoat; No. 2 hart
'tinter, 81.173, f.o.b. afloat.
1'It(iI.M 711 %I)1: \11111 (:V\.tD.t.
Cermet' Paper .tdvocales Change In
Gaul • 11's Polley.
A dmpatch (rare Berlin says : 'The Dor-
een Courier publishes a leading urtielo
all trade with Canada, urging u change
of tactics on the part of the German
Government. It regrets that not the
sleilitesl reference is made to Canada in
the bill pmle;nging-the provisional com-
mercial ur•rangerncnt with England until
the end of 1t109, which has just become
law. "If we continue our present policy
In respell of our commCieInl relations
t'. ith Canada, • it remarks, "wee run the
teak of being left very far behind 111 the
rare for trade with Uti., thriving country
which contains almost inconceivable pos-
sibilities for development. The interest
of German trade and Induary demand
most urgently that the German Govern -
men shall now do something Inwards
renewing German•Cnnndinn dnnrnercial
relations."
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Woman Itn'hr, rhil nn the Street In
et. leen. \.B.
\ despalch fins 'i .I. ;,.. e
\\ bile Mrs. clary a „r;" ,i. ,. '.1../1
Streit. wen. lighting n Tire in the :.:t ',• n
:stove on \Wednesday afternoon her (1-111-
ing caught fire. The family Ile on the
third iki)r of the house. leers. Connell
was nk,lee and when she saw her dress
afire she rus!id down lite three Ilights
of slain end into the open street. The
flames by this lime hell enveloped her
Male blithe and ng she enlergeel into h,
the street she presented a fenremnne tl
sight. "I he terrified woman made a -Insh tth
foe 1110 open doer of Gmrge Heeler's xt
restaurant. where a man threw his cont on
Ib
$117.000.o a FOR ROLLING STOCK.
'rlw Railroads In: reared Their Equip-
ment in 1207.
A ele.' patch burn Chi.•ago says : Ilail-
roads of the United Stakts and Canada
have spent approxiniutcly (half a billion
(tellers for rolling stock this year. This
ewers only the cast of products of car
building concerns, and dons not include
cars and locomotives constructed in thee
railroad shops.
Ansording to the Railroad Gazette, U
Rmanciul tilunhp will be felt by the c;
buiklers next year. Orden; for uc
et:uipnieeit, to be a:elivtmtkl during 1908
leave fallen off greatly.
'I'Iw total number of ears built in 11
United States and Canada this year
2e9,645, against 213,670 in 1906. Of the
built Uri, year, 281,118 were freight ca
and 5,157 passenger coacher. The out-
put of locomotives was 7,:362, against
di
t: 952 in 1906. Freight. cars nt an aver-
age of 81,100, an increase of $11X), pas -
singer cars. $8,51X1, an increase of $500,
and locomotive's, Ste,000, un increase of
from $500 to 81,000. 'Taking these figures
as a basis, the total expenditure for toll-
ing stock was $177,000,000, an iaceeaso
of 25 per cent. over last year.
The mileage added til' year wan 5,220,
against 5.623 in 194)6. Only 349 mile's of
road weal i111) 1110 hands of resolve's
this year, against 657 in 1!X0;, and only
six toads, with a total mileage of 175,
were sold under foreclosure.
A I[E.\D-ON (Y)LLISION.
Four Trainmen Killed on the Grand
Trunk Railway.
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A despalch from! Detroit says: Speed
ing through n dense fog at forty nulls at
hour, Grand Trunk passenger train No
which left Ivnrt Huron shortly before
7 o'clock on Friday night for Phi: city,
collided head on with a double -(reader
freight train one toile north of Lenox,
Mich. Five trainmen met death, four be-
ing killed hsten!ly, the fifth dying three
teems later. All of the passengers es-
enlrced injury except a baby. who was
only slightly hurt by being thrown out
of its mother's arms and over a seat
when the trains crashed. The. dead are:
Engineer Bennett of the passenger train,
Etegineer Beleneski of the first freight
engine, Pirvivan tloughner, Fireman
Albert McCall, Switchnman \V. G. Tay -
ler. The passenger locomotive ploughed
metier the engines of tho double-header
and the trainman were buried in the
wreckage. Their bodies were terribly
mangled and scalded by the escaping
steam.
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WHISKEY KiLLS A 1101'.
Ten -fear -Old Got Hold of Some on the
Railway.
A despatch from St. Stephen, N. B.,
says: A very sad affair has occurred at
Ronny Hirer, Charlotte county. On
Christmas eve a number of born wCPC
(,lay en►; ab nit the station, among them
Jelin Maxwell, len years old, who lived
with hie :itepfatrer, Mr. Cook. The
boys discovere3 there was sone Whis-
key in transit, and little Maxwell ob-
tr,ined possession of a quantity and
drank i1. The result was that be be-
came ill, and died on Christmas Day.
An inquest was hell, at whi•:h witness. -
es testified to seeing Maxwell drinking
the whiskey, and a verdict was return-
ed that his death was due to that cause.
I'.V7'ROLLINli THE WEST.
mounted Police to Visit Isolated Sec-
tions This Winter.
A despatch [mar Ottawa says: Al-
though climatic conditions in the west
have been quite favorable so far This
winter, the ,Northwest Mounted Police
•have derided to repeat the policy of last
w:iikr of sending out patrols to 11►e out-
lying sections. The first of them pa-
trols will be, sent out to look after the
welfare of a party of Scold) settlers
who arc 100 miles from a railway and
twenty miles from a neighbor. 7 hey
are located between Swift Current and
Ilattlefonf, 0t -her patrols will follow
in due course.
SIX at: tIt 01.11 Itl)1• LOiT.
Started Froin Home 1n Final His Father
in the Weeds.
A despatch from Quebec sap, News
comes (rani Sl. Gabrlet, county of
Ilttnouski, of the cfmppeornnce of 11 six•
yearold boy, named Levesque. It ap-
pears that the lay set nut iom his Tame
with Iwo little sisters to join their
father, w'Ia W31 at work In a bush at a
considerable distance from the house.
The Iwo girls, who were younger than
the boy, became fatigued, howe•er, and
after vainly urging their brother to re-
rn home, parted from Ihirn and retraced
eir steps, rea•:king there siIIely. Since
at time no trace has been found of the
y. A general hunt for him was at
co inaugurated, some seventy men of
t• place turning out, bul, despite all
their endeavors, the boy could not be
found. The only thing discovered was
the boy's pocket handkerchief, which
was picked up in the bush. The boy is
supposed to have become buried in the
snow or to have fallen into some cre-
vice, end the parents have lost all hope
of seeing him again.
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WIRT "1.11?" DID IN & T. 1.01'1S.
mound her end pet out the fire, She Li
badly burned, but will recover.
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All) TO TI:MI'Elt 1\(:E.
Stencil) nI Itarlry 1V ill (:lose One Thou -
Nand I:hirafin Saloom.
A despatch front, 4 ago says : "One
theeusand eneeets eel have k,c;.t,l their
doors and gone out of busine,ee in this
city by Mey 1 next," said Adam Ortsel-
feu, president of the McAvoy Brewing
Co., during a talk on Tuesday night on
Ilse scarcity of barley, which is sei1otasly
crippling the largo breweries and the
malt house\,, and may mean a probable
raise in the price per barrel of beer
o illtin a few weeks. loth brewers and
malslcre. for several week:. have been
I,i,Iding almost to the point of wiping
out the margin of pmflt in order to get
the few carloads of barley that arrive in
this market each day.
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VI %DE 50.000 MEL.
Robber% Broke Chicago Jeoelery
\Window and Seated Trnys.
A dn+p,ateh from Chicago says : while
I!,c jewelery store of David Mollie was
crowded with customers on Tuesday
night, two robbers smashed a show
window and escaped with two trays of
diamond, and jewe•lery valued at EA,.
OW. The thieves °seeped.
Store
Sunday Lao Enforcement ''ruses 700
Saloons 10 Quit Business.
:\ despatch from St. i.ouiA says:
Thome E. \Iui•ihill, Slate Excise (om-
n:tssfoner, gives out a statement show-
ing the effect of the enforcement of the
Sunday closing statute in this city.
Comtnissloncr Mulvihill says that 300
mere St. Louis saloons will close when
their licenses expire Jan. 1. making 700
saloons driven out of business hero In
three year by the enforcement of the
Sunday closing law. Ile says that 250
lit lilting clubs, which sprang up to re-
place Sunday closed saloons have also
been closed, only twenty-five now re-
maining. Ono thousand five hundred of
the 2.300 saloons here, he says, are not
paying Investments since the removal
of card tables, belting rings and wine
manus as the result of the rigid enforce-
ment of the statute!.
The Interoolonial Bailw.ay menage -
meet has decided that its emple,yoes
Shall not accept municipal . ffi tr.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
11.lrl'l:\1\CS 1110\I AI -l. o'. Tin:
GLOVE,
Telegraph Drkfs From Our Own anJ
Other
Countries of Recent
Events.
CANADA.
Canada's fisheries yielded 826,125,000
last year.
Over 8113,000 was spent in Waterloo
This year on new buildings,
Port Dalhousie storekeepers protest
against unlicergad peddlers.
At Kenora 85,772.80 was paid in 1907 in
1'clice Coral lines.
The play -grounds of the St. Catharines
Public Sct►erels are all too small.
The N., St. C. and T. Railway will rr
lay their tracks in Niagara Falls in the
siring.
Fred Leclair•e was murdered with an
axe near Gretna, Man., his head being
split open.
Andrew McComb, railway laborer,
drank wood alcohol at Lanigan, Sask.,
and died,
Oswald Robinson, aged 40, of near
(:umpbelllon, N.B., died from drinking
wood alcohol.
The O'ole! calcl► of'flsh in Canadian
waters for 1906 was worth over 213 mil-
lion dollars.
'toy Pears, of Rosthern, Sask., received
nn injection of anti•to:Ono and expired
instantly.
A number of St. Catharines b ys'have
been summoned to answer a charge of
conk -fighting on Sunday.
Toronto es.scssrnenl, as finally revised
by the. County Judge, is 8206,403,246, an
increase of $22,120,161 over last year.
Atr•. James Blythe has given the Meth-
odist Church of Raleigh Plains a free site
for a church. Mr. Blythe is a Catholic.
The first sheet of Canadian tin-plate
turncxi out al the new factory at King-
ston was presented to Premier Whitney.
D. J. Hamilton, a diver working on the
G:1'.13. bridge at West Fort William,
was drowned by Ills diving suit bunging.
11 is reported that Mr. John D. Rocke-
feller will donate 82,000,000 to McMaster
University, Toronto, for the establish-
ment of a medical department.
Since the inception of bounties, in
1882, the sum of 83,949,701 has been paid
It the deep-sea fishermen of the Mail -
time Provinces.
Plans of Saskatchewan's new legisla-
tive buildings, which will cost over a
million. are being prepared by Messrs.
E. & \V. 5. .Maxwell, of Montreal.
A young Tann named Roland Madill
was stabbed• by his uncle, Jnn►ee Morri-
sc.n, at (:0oderham village, on Christ-
ians Eve. and may be fatally woundecd.
For raising it disturbance In the
Kingston penitentiary on Christmas
night twenty-seven convicts Shave been
placed in solitary confinement,
The '1'aronlo City Council decided lo
ask the Legislative 1) grant to marr°ctrl
women owning properly- in their own
uanre the franchise in Toronto.
A quantity of plate, including two
w.Iid silver trays, was found near the
railway nt Niagara Falls on Thursday.
It is supposed to bo thieves' spoil drop.
ped front a train.
Two Emerson, Manitoba, men who
were forced over the line and arrested
by a United States secret service officer
are, taking steps to extradite the officer
and havo him tried 4n Canada for his
illegal act.
GREAT nllrrAIN.
Seven hundred Indian IUuliny veterans
met in London to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of the great struggle.
net'. W. White, a curate In 'Tipperary
county, Ireland. was shot and danger-
ously sv'itinded by a brother clergyman
on Christmas Day.
UNITED STATES.
New England colloh rnanufaeturers
w i!1 curtail their output 25 per cent. un -
lei March 1st,
Bertram Somers of San Jose, Cal., mis-
look his five-year-old boy for a burglar
and shot his dead.
Officers of tete New fork trust com-
panies claim that their institutions are in
a better position to -day then they were
before the panic.
The New York Republican Club has
endorsed Governor Hughes as a candi-
date for the Presidency.
James W. Paul, a Philadelphia hanker,
gave a ball the other night at winicn
the decorations aline cost 835,000.
The International I'aper Company has
purchased 350,000 ares of !town). -
wooded spruce lands on the Ilestigouche
'liver in New Brunswick,
nee, A. Leonard Parker, an Episco-
palian minister, said to is well known
in (:a)ada, has been arrested at Boston
on a charge of Inrceny.
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GENEII.IL.
Famine is threatening a large number
f villages in the interior of 'Turkey.
The Mikan Government will com-
lete the excavation of Herculaneum.,
Guslave, the new Icing of Sweden.
Ries not desire an expensive corona-
ron.
The Dutch Cabinet has resigned be-
low.e its army esti/mitts were rejected
y the second !liaise.
Two hundred and len strikers were in encounters with the troops in
c Chilinn nitrate trouble:,,
General Drtide, commander of the
retch troop% in Manx co, has been re-
elkel on ociunt of III health.
The Indian National congress at Sural
rake up in a free fight on Friday. home
ile for India ons the owed question.
Fife men were. killed by compressed
Ir in the Metropolitan subway in
arts, and sixty-five miraculously es-
ped.
of chikIren In the f.rim-
y schools of Berlin. Germany, aro
.liged to go to school %%1111,411 b .eek -
at and web no prospect of a midday
eat.
1\t111C.R VI ION 1NCRE.%SI:D,
Returns for Not mber Show tdvnnce of
Eighteen Per (:rat.
A despatch from Ottawa says : The
immigration returns for the month of
Neverr1'cr showed an Increase of about
13 per cent. over Nov. 1900. The total
arrivals for the month were 13.599, an
increase of 2,074. There were 9,064 im-
migrants by ocean ports, compared with
7 225 In November last year, an increase
of 2,:1!13. The arrivals from the United
Stites were 3,990, a decrease of 260,
TWO LIVES FOR A DOLbAB
Double Murder Near Genoa Over
• Four Shillings.
A c'ospatch from Genoa says: Heated
words between two wives over a ques-
tion of four shillings for rent led to u
de able ruuder by (Ito husband of one of
there in the suburb of Semitic,. d'Arena.
The nurrierer escaped to the mountains,
where his arrest St problematic owing to
the facilities to fugitives to escape over
the frontier.
Signora Bianchi, the wife of a trade
melon leader, with four children, who
sublet a room to a custom-houso guard
rimed Quattnnr'chi and his newly mar-
ried wife, quarrelled with Signora Quat-
lrocchi over the anrot.nt of rent to be
paid before the latter left. Bianchi
entered, but 5001115 to have taken little
part in Iho discussion. Quulhocohi ap-
peared in the doorway holding his hand
behind his back. Suddenly he sprang on
Bianchi, dealing hire a blow in the chest
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with a largo clasp -knife. Bianchi's wits
rushed to his assistance, but Quattrocchi
turned his fury on her, stabbing her in
the chest, shoulder, face and lower body.
Bianchi seized a chair to defend (himself
and his wife, but was overpowared and
fell mortally wounded. The knife, bro-
ken by the force of the blows, was found
on the floor.
Neighbors hearing cries ran to the
Biancl)is' lodging. Quattroschi rushed
past them, covered with blood, Into tho
street. 'Though chased by a crowd that
showered blows on Inn, he sped towards
the Ligurian Alps, and is still at large.
On entering the room Igo neighbors
fcund the husband and wife on tho floor
dying. The children were huddled in a
COMM' whining with terror, except tho
little two-year-old baby, which was play-
ing with a toy 1n 1(3 parents' blood.
A BLACK IIRND SCHOOL.
Discovered in a Raid by the Pittsburg
Pollee.
A despatch from Pittsburg, Penn.,
says: Intensely Interested in a lesson
explaining the exact spot on the human
body in wide!' a stiletto should be
plunged to insure instant death, seven-
teen embryo Black (land members were
surprised on 'Tuesday afternoon by fifty
detectives in a raid planned by the Pitts-
burg police, assistisi by detectives from
all parts of lite country. After a desper-
ate battle the seventeen member's of the
Italian band, together with two experts
in the art of uaing the stiletto, who were
acting as instructors to the others, were
handed in the police station. For months
1'lltshurg has been terrorized by law-
less Italians who styled their organiza-
tion the "Black 1land," several murders
have occurred and dozert-s of persons
have paid tribute to the band under fear
of death,
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GRIP SMITES NEW YORK.
Sixty -Eight Deaths Occurred Within i.ast
Week.
A despatch from New York says : The
city's yip epidemic isn't letting up n bit.
11 is getting worse, Singers, actors. pro•
fe kone! men and clerks aro suffering:
There were sixty-eight deaths last week,
as compared with fifty-one for the same
period last year. The disense is not only
serious in itself, but the bacillus affects
every known throat and lung disease.
Leber pneumonia caused 217 deaths,
against 134 last year; bronchial pnct,•
monis last year, 98; this year, 159.
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82,000,000 TO EDUCATION.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Benefits [ty
Lady Pearce's Will.
A deepalch from London. England,
says : Trinity College, Cambridge, bene-
fits to the extent of 12,000,000 by the
do ali of l.ndy Pearce on Tuesday. Her
husband. Sir William George Pearce,
chairman of the Fairfield Shipbuilding
and Engineering Company, died on
November 20 hist. 13y his will his for-
tune was bequeathed to 'Trinity College
on the death of Lady Pearce.
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IIEIR LOVER Dll1NK.
Young Woman in S1. John, N.I1., Seal.
loos Carbolic Arid.
A despatch front St. John, N.I1.,
Lizzie Anderson, nged about 22, drank
carbolic acid on Wednesday night ft a
L•cusc Isere where she wui a servant.
The young 111811 with whom she kept
company called on her, and she charged
Lein) with having been drinking, said
site could do eo too, end then swallowed
the: poison. She died less than an hour
afterwards in the hospital.
PANIC AMONG (:111N1:-4,:,
Sudden Death nl Woman in Midst Re•
gnrder as V'laitation of Joss.
A despatch from Pittsburg says : Sang
Fe,)n \\'uh, the only Chinese tvolnon in
Pittsburg, dropped dead at the home of
her cousin here late on 'Tuesday night.
It is thought she had indulged ewes.
sively In opium, whi'h affected her
heart. Iler sudden death was followed
by a mile among several Chinamen
who were in the mom, and who were
terrorizes' by what they con.sIdercel a
visilatkm from Joss, their god.
FLOUR SHIPMENTS DECREASE.
Minneapolis Sends Out 1,000,000 Barrels
Less Than Last rear.
A despatch from Minneapolis says:
Flour shipment -4 from Minneapolis for
194)7 will fall short of the total shipped
during 1906 by nearly 1,000,000 barrel,
This decrease apparently has not betit
entirely due to the financial flurry, as the
REures for each month show that only in
three months for the entire year have the
shipments for 1967 exceeded those for the
same months in 1906. The number of
barrels of flour shipped from Minnea-
polis so far tills year is 13,825,375, while
for a corresponding period In 1906 there
were shipped 11,573,123 barrels, a de-
crease of 717,718 barrels,
KILLED .tND WAS KILLED,
Austrian Navvy Kniied a Countryman
and Was Shot by t:ontractor.
A despatch from \li e-eula, Montana,
says : Two men were killed on Tuesday.
night at a railway construction camp
near t.otluop. George Morris, an Aus-
trian. killed one of hie countrymen in a
knife duel, the cause of the trouble beim,
ur,knotvn. Morris then started to
Lathrop and met Contractor Walter A.
Arnol4nn a bridge. Ile atlaeRed Arnold
with the knife and Arnold drew a revol-
ver and Allot the men dead. Arnold gave
himself up, claiming' Vral he acted in
self-defence.
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D114)1%N1.1) 7•IIItOI'G11 THE
Three retie. ('eti•h in Pond in Nova Scot
Dining Parents' Absence,
A despatch from Halifax, N.`;., says
A tragedy occurred at bower North:feet,
I.ume►iburg, on 'IVodneeday. 'three chit.
dren of Ernest \'enk)t were drawee(' in
a pond near their temente' house. see
and Mrs. Veniot had gene to the Chrial-
inas service in the village church. After
warning the young folks not to go on
the ice. Notwithstanding the caution
they ventured on the thin iso to skate,
and when Iho parent. returnee) even
(Lanett were mi sing, A search was
instituted. and below a hole in the ice
wero the three bodies. The ages of the
three were 23, 12 and 7.
ENGINEER ItryNOI.Dt 81:1'11:it.
Operation of Skin -grafting at 01I;►nri
Ilo.pIIab \Vas tiurres,ful.
A deep/deb from Ottawa says : Engle
neer 1h'ihert Reynolck. badly injured I1
the ''.Pelt. wreck at Plantagenet on
September 11 Incl, was tip o1, \\'cdnes-
day at lite (hospital for the Met Limo
since that dale. The operation of skin-
grafling. when len of his fellow -employ-
ees gave up portions of their (skin to..
hum, was eminently successful. Rey-
r.clels when fully recovered will testify
Is r himself at the inquest on tho fireman
killed in the Plantagenet wreck. Until
then the inquiry stands adjourned.
The Pe'rseati Shah bees accepted the
stipulalivn of Parliament us to the
mnintett n1^e of the constitution. rind
has ogieeil to banish the inlrigui:ii
priests.
TRAGEDIES MARK VOYAGE
Vessel Reaches San Francisco After
Many Disasters.
A despatch from San Francis:o say.g : hail tbiappcnred, '1 • "a) put into
The American mop Aiia., dropjs•,I lb. de Janeno for nee:. -, ,eking badly.
res the way to Ude pint a mutiny leek
nrchor herr on Tuesday night, 275 Jays- among the crcty over New trouble
out. from Baltimore. It ended a voyage with the reale, lett 11 was easily quelle.l.
macho tragic by a collision off (:)pe Before the colliskm off (:ape thee,
Ilam, attended by the sinking of another three of the shipis company met .Ieath,
vessel, the drowning of the fitted craft's 0:i May 23 .1. Scnurnacher and feta...
captain and the captain's wife, mutiny Nolan, seamen, fell freer) the jibhnon)
on Its decks and death among its Crew. and were drowned. On Jnne 15 John
On June 0 nt 6 p.m. the alas struck Ilu)k, saihnaks'r, died and was tures! at
the Norwegian bnrgne Viking ,Captain
Peltrson), (sound train Hamburg to (:al- the rnptoin's stun and ire• third •:f)r or
Pao. (Both were badly damaged by the were ill. end the vt..•rt uta- ed:re•I nl.e
ccntael, but the barque fare) worst. In (p:ernntine,
the terror of the night thirteen of the The Atlas hail n cargo et ceol Ir.:• Ile.)
crew of the Norwegian barque boarded I oiled Steles 1;.' rrnmeiii. l l \.'.-e•1
the American ship. crawling over lan- had Leen 12o days reit foe:, tli.,
glad shrouds and dangling booms. Cap- Janeim, Reinsurance hail leen orb, ed
lain Peterevm and his wife were not et 10 per cent. The Viking on: n u• s••
among those who made the dnngi'miis hnrgne of 2.511 inns. Nothing hail leer',
transit. but it was too dark lo render heard of her after she began her Inst
nk1, lhoi.gh the Atlas stood by tiering s's;ig.' ,until the .ones brought in the
the night, and next morning the Viking tidings on Tureday night.
see. when lee ship nr nit est .en '111 -•t.ie