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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-11-26, Page 30 AFTER FOUR YEARS' SEARCH Hiram G. Campbell, of South Vancouver, U. C., Arrested, A des ate,' from Vancouver says : years, his wife being with him. The A searc -y 'uch has lasted four years couple had the reputation of being throug ' the United States, retiring in disposition and were well eastern anada and Mexico, was spoken of in the neighborhood. The concluded on Tue.day night, when crime Campbell is accused of com- 1'rovincial Constable Smith stepped n:itting was the theftof $10,000 into a house en feveuteenth aven- from a lumber company of C'oluut- ue, South Vancouver, tapped the bia Falls, of which he was an ofti- stt rtled occupant, Hiram G. Camp- cial. During his residence in Van - bell, on the shoulder, and put him couver Campbell is reported to have under arrest on a charge of grand made considerable money in specu- larceny, alleged to have been corn- Intiou, and he is said to have m- utated at Columbia Falls, Montana. terested himself in a local n:anufae- Carnpbell has been living quietly in taring establishment, through the South Vancauver for the past two acquisition of stock in the business. THE HUSBAND'S PO('KETSLiGHTNING STRIKES SHIPS. May Le„ally he Searched by the) Much More Often Than Is General - Wife, Says a Judge. ly Supposed. A despatch from Washington, D. In spite of the popular impres- C., says: A woman has some rights, slots to the contrary ships remote and they include the searching of from the land are seldom damaged her husband's pockets, according by lightning, although some of the to a decision of Judge Mullowney most awe inspiring displays of at - of the District of Columbia Police n:ospheric electricity are frequent - Court. "It shows the interest a ly witnessed by those on board of woman has in you," the court held. them. "It shows that she loves you. A Standing rigging and even parts woman who does not go through of the running gear are now made 1) he pockets of her husband does of steel wire, and this substitute hot love him. You have been mar- for the old-fashioned hemp serves •rigid long enough ka oman e trip, of lightning due is some rights, Rtoidgtvay.now w " Tho wthhoapurhoose ship is not frittecund with defendant, George Ridgway, was such an aid to safety. The electric arrested on Tuesday on his wife's complaint that he threatened to knock her head off, and he objected to his wife taking liberties with his pockets while he slept. The defend- ant said they "sometimes got along fine and sometimes scrapped." 4• WILL. HANG FOR MURDER. - Stephen Szweryda round Guilty at Brampton. A despatch from Brampton, Ont., says: "Stephen Szweryda, the judg- ment of this court is that you be taken from here to the place whence you carne, and there kept in close co.rfinemont until Thursday, the lith day of February, 1909, and that you bo taken thence to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul." This was the sen- tence that Mr. Justice Riddell pro- nounced upon the Ruthenian who unc:er the guise of friendship en- ticed a young fellow -countryman, Olvickh Loutick, a stranger in Ca- nada into a lonely wood near Er- indale -and with a heavy bludgeon beat t o poor boy to death. ----a- IIEVIEWED BY TIIE MiKADO. Japan's Fighting Fleet Passed Be- fore the Emperor. A despatch from Kobe, Japan, says :Vie fighting fleet of Japan, comprr ing 110 vessels, exclusive of submarines, passed in review be- fore r?e Emperor on Wednesday. The leather was perfect, and the occasion was one long to bo remem- bered. Notwithstanding the recent plague scare, the Emperor and his attendants arrived at Kobe as early as 9 o'clock in the morning. On his way to the harbor front he drove through streets crowded by several thousands and rendered gorgeous by magnificent decorations in his honor. 4. ONLY THE BART SAVED. Four of a Family go Through the lee at Red River. A despatch from Selkirk, Mani- toba, says: Four lives were lust in the Red Hiver on Wednesday. The victims were : C. Favel, a fisher- man, and his wife and two chil- dren. They were travelling over the ice by dog train to the mouth of the river to open winter fishing quarters, when they all went through a weak spot. Mrs. Favel had thrown her little baby up on the solid ice when she went through herseif, and it was found shortly afterwards, safe and sound. The others had been swept away. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS'GREAT POWERS OF SLEEP' [HE WORLD'S MARKETS I1.OPENINGS FROM ALL OVElt THE GLOBE. 1 eiegraphic Briefs From Our Owu and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Mr. H. S. Holt has been elected !'resident of the Royal Bank. A Montreal lady was robbed of $1,000 while doing her Christmas shopping. The Eastern Ontario Fat Stock Chow will he held in Ottawa on January 18th to 23rd. A white deer and black fox were shot by a Prince Edward hunting party. The steamer P. P. Pratt was burned off Long Point Island. The crew lauded in the yawl. Ontario expenditures on colon- isation roads and bridges this year totalled about $750,000. Prof. Adam Shortt declares that trades unions were indispensable to the political life of the democracy. Seventy grain trains, with 3,210 cars, passed in and out of Fort Wil- liam on Saturday and Sunday. James McQueen was kidnapped at Emerson, Man., and taken across the border by United States secret service officers. Charles II. Fowler of Burford has received Black Hand letters, threat- ening him with death unless he con- sents to be blackmailed. Mr. N. K. Laitamine, K. C., of Montreal is the latest recipient of a Black Hand demand for money, current is conveyed down the wire, uecompanicd by the usual threat. rigging and reaches the sea through The statement comes from Du - the vessel's metal hull. Damage luth that Messrs. Mackenzie & occurs only if the current be inter- I Mann have an option on the Rainy rupted on its way to earth. In a coo- I Bayer Railway at sixteen million paratively large proportion of in- dollars. stances the foreroyal truck is struck The union mechanics of the C. hs lightning, that of the main less P. R. in the west have given one fiequontly and the mizzen least of day's pay each to help their east - the three. ern brothers who have not yet found Very serious casualties under this work. head occurred to warships and mer- chant vessels in the days of wood- en hulls and hempen rigging. . An announcement was made by In July, 1802, as thirteen sail of Premier Asquith on Thursday af- the East India Company were try- ternoon to the effect that a bill ing to round the cape in the vicin- would shortly be introduced in the ity of Algoa Bay, homeward bound, !louse of Commons prohibiting the two of them, the Britannia and the use of hop substitutes in the rnanu- Bombay Castle, were struck by facture of beer. lightning. The foremast of each was • soon enveloped in flanks and the UNITED STATES. masts had to be cut away in order to aave the ships and their combus- The aerodrome, invented by J. A. tiblo cargoes. A heavy gale was D. McCurdy, a graduate of Toron- ilowing, the night was dark, and to University, will be tested at the other ships of the fleet, which Hammondsport, N. Y., shortly. were hove to at the time, wore wit -Whiskey in the form of stick can- nespes of this thrilling incident. dy to be dissolved in water, is of Many vessels aro now fitted with fered for sale in the local option lightning conductors of approved town of North skims, Wash. types, lest the wire rigging should Peter Van Vlissingen, a Chicago fail to carry off the electric cur- real estate dealer, confessed to tont. In May. 1896, shortly after having obtained $700,000 by means a severe thunderstorm, accarnpan_ of forged notes and deeds. He led by lightning and rain in 3 de- was given an indeterminate term grecs south, 87 degrees east, the in the penitentiary. P. and O. steamship Victoria had a GENERAL. sudden increase of deviation, amounting to six degrees in both Belgium formally assumed eon - the standard and the wheel -house trot of the Congo Free State on compnsses, and later it was (hseov- Sunday. ered that the lightning conductor War again threatens between Au - nn the fore truck had fused. The stria and Servin, and between Tur- ship must have been struck by light- key and Bulgaria. ping during the storm. Holland is proposing the convo- cation of an interuational commit- swEDEN'S KING AND Qt•EEN. teo to arrange for a third peace - cenference. Entertained by Lord Mayor and There is some fear of a revolu- tion in China, the adherents of dis- appointed claimants to the throne A despatch from London says: being disaffected. Tho King and Quen of Sweden, who The Kaiser is cancelling engage - are at present in England as the monis which demand his appear - guests of King Edward at Windsor, ance in public, and is effacing him - paid a state visit to London on self as much as possible. Wednesday and were entertained at The baby Emperor of China is luncheon in the Guildhall by the said to be apenchng his days and Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London. An address was present- ed to the King of Sweden in a gold casket. ---- A jovial party with an excessive- ly red nose entered a railway car- riage one cold day. "It is not en- tirely due to the heat that your nose is so red, I presume 1" said a fellow -passenger. "Alas! no. sir," replied the new coiner, quite frank- ly, "hut I will tell you something that. will astonish you. I once drank nothing but milk for a whole sear." "A year; Where was that, then 1" :THE TURN OF THE TID Tra a Returns for October Show Marked Improvem.ent. .number cf wholesale licensee can - A despatch from Ottawa says: 2(12,985, as enmpared with $31,484,- celled. Trade returns for October show an 500 for October, 1907. -a► inerease r.1 82,602.07.4 in exports of For the first seven months of the BARS PEN '.1S1-I,1':1NIA CATTLE. domestic products and a decrease present fiscal year the imports en- ----- of *3,221.513 in imports of merchan- tered for home consumption total- Canada Prohibits Importation Ow. dise entered for consumption, as led $162,908,302, a decrease of $59,- ing to Disease. compared with October of last year. 726,93,3. as compared with the carne The total value of domestic exports period of 1907. During the seven A despatch from Ottawa says : for the mouth as 826,299,212, as months coin and bullion were im- The Governnor-General-in-Council the compared with 23,('117,148 for the ported to the volae of 87,21.1,812, has passed an order prohibiting the for whom he was the passengers to the same month last year. Exports of as compared with $1,396,375 last iini'ortntien into ('anada of cattlepassengers awful fate of sudlett hurled him andd agricultural products increased by year. Exports of domestic products or hides (rein the State of i'ennsyl- coir millions. while exports for the seven mouths totalled glary.- vania for a peri..d of six months 4 en death. about f of the mine and of animals and 409,263, a decrease of $12.'412.525. from date. This has been found their products each fell off about The total trade for the .,overt reressarc on ing to a severe out - c ne million. Total import' . exelu- months Ives 8318, 106,983, a (Weren't. ).;est( c:f fart and mouth disease siNe of coin and bullion, were $20,- of 873,216,434. there. rights crying for his old nurse, from whom ho has been taken away. Influential Persian mullahs and merchants have appealed to the foreign representatives fur support in maintaining the constitution. Ten thousand foreign elgn drt lled troops have been stationed in Pe- kin to keep order. There is a re- port that Yuan Shi Kai has sought refuge in the British Legation. PROHIBITION IN NEW ZEAi.AND Fourteen Districts Carry "No Li- cense" Measures. MEN GO UNDER ITS SPEI.I. RE- GARDLESS OF ItESL'Lil'S. Instances When They Fall Asleep While Holding Very Respon- sible Positions. There are numberless cases of I sentries who have slept at their Toronto, Nov. 24. - Ontario coats under the influenve of cold wheat -No. 2 white or red, outside, and fatigue, of mon who have fallen 92t to 93c; No. 2 mixed, 92o to asleep though they knew that sleep 92%c. would be the immediate and inevit- Manitoba Wheat -Spot, No. 1 Dundas about 5 o'clock on Thurs- able forerunner of death. But in northern, $1.09 to $1.03%; No. 2 `lay evening and received injuries these cases the men have usually northern, $1.05 to $1.05%, lake from which she died at her home lain down to sleep, or at least have ports. about 10 o'clock the same night. settled to a posture of repose. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 38;,c Miss Norton was crossing the tracks Other cases show that men may t , 39%c, outside ; No. 3 mixed, near the canal when her foot caught in the frog. Sho tried to pull it out, but without success, and though she called for help, no per- son was near. Shortly after her REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Howe and Abroad. BItEADSTUFFS. • 'HELPLESS IN FACE OE DEATH Twelve -Year -Old Dundas Girl Run Over and Fatally Inj ured. A despatch from Hamilton says:' Violet Norton, the twelve -year-old daughter of Edward Norton, Flanr- boro' street, Dundas, was run over by a Hamilton & Dundas car in A despatch from Wellington, N. 1., says: The latest election re- turns give the Government 35 ,Haat important. of these. Cold and Minneapolis, Nov. 24. --Wheat - scats, the Opposition 16, and the exposure to the wind comes next Dec., $1.04; May, *1.08%; Ni.. 1 Independents 3. Second ballots it the category. Straining of the bard, *1.08%; No. 1 Northern, $1.- will be required in twenty-two con- attention, as in attempting to work 07 to $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, 8!.- stituencies. Fourteen districts an elaborate sum to curt insomnia, 05 to 8I.05'%; No. 3 Northern, $1.- carried the "no license' proposal, 1s a further factor, and monotony Obi~ to $I 04%. Flour -First pat while. six carried measures looking induced by the dull mechanical thud ents, $5.-10 to $5.65; second pat - toward reduction. The prohibi- of machinery and the constant shy ' ents, $5.25 to $5.50; first clears, $4 ti»nivta estimate that at least 150 thole reputation of a sound acts to $4.30; second clears, $3 to $3.30. pubii. beasts will be clo+eot sada further es a rvporifie. I Milwaukee, Nov. 24. -Wheat - No. 2 northern, $1.08; No. 2 north All these causes may have been brought to hear on the unhappy ern, $1.06; May, $1.07% bid. Rye man, who, it he fell asleep, was a1 -1 -No. 1, 75'Ae. Barley --Standard, most certainly unconsc•inuq of his 65;zc; No. 3, 60 to 62c; No. 4, 60c. act, arid may have remained per- Curn-May, 63 to 63';c bid. fectly capable of performing the -- more mechanical function connect- CATTLE MARKET. cu with his work, while the sleeping Toronto, Nov. 2•t. Sales of the of the higher functions of his intel• K best butchers' steers and heifers ranged from $4.25 to $4.50 per cwt. Good loads were Feld at 84 to $4-- 25 and medium at $3.35 to $3.75. Common cattle could be had from $1.75 per cwt. upwards. Quota- tions for light stockers ranged from fall asleep and yet retain posses- 37%c to 39c, outside. Manitoba pion of a number of their powers. No. 2 western Canada, 43%e to 44c loot -soldiers and cavalry have alike or track, lake ports; No. 3, 41%c slumbered on the march. Men tc 42c ; No. 1 extra feed offered at have slept when riding on camels, same level. cr have been able to preserve their Barley -No. 2, 56c to 56%c; No. balance while sleeping as they bi- 3 extra, 55c to 55%c; No. 3, 53c to cycled along the road, but the moat 53%c. remarkable are cases quoted of in- Corn -Old, 77%c to 78c, Toronto ciividuals, freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow; new Of the famous father of medicine, No. 3 yellow, 71%e to 72c, Toronto Galen, the rather mild feat is re- freights. rorted that he walked over 200 yds. i Rye -No. 2, 76c to 77c. asleep along a rough road, and only! Peas -No. 2, 85c to SOe, outside. woke up because he knocked his foot Buckwheat -No. 2, 54c to 55c. against a stone; while the Abbe Flour -Manitoba, first patents, Richard walked over half a league $5.50, seconds, $5.30; strong bak- along an era', $5.10; Ontario winter wheat UNEVEN, CROWDED ROAD, 'patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75 outside. There are cases of the lawyer who Millfeed-Bran, $20 to 820.50 per wrote out a brilliant judgment in ton in bags, outside; shorts, $21 his sleep and forgot where he had bulk, $24.50 in bags, Montreal. placed it, till it was shown hint by, his wife, who had watched the whole COUNTRY PRODUCE. proceeding; of the student who went to bed tired out, but got up Apples -Winter stock quoted at in the middle of the night, joined 82.50 to $3.50 per barrel for good his friends at supper, played the qualities, and at $t.50 to $2 for piano, sang a song, and on waking cooking apples. up next day knew nothing of what Beans -Prime, $1.a0 to $1.85, and he had done. hand-picked, $1.9u to $1.95 per There is the well-known instance bushel. of the cure who used to write ser- Honey -Combs, $5.25 to $2.75 per mons in his sleep and read then dozen, and strained, 10 to lle per over critically, correcting his mis- pound. takes. He appeared to use his eyes Hay -No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 but he was quite unconscious of a to $11.50 a ton on track here, and card being held between his eyes No. 2 at $7 to $8. and the manuscript which he was Straw -$6.50 to $8 on track. wr(Uiting. Potatoes -Ontario 60 to 62c per assendi quotes the example of a bag. Delawares, 75 to 80c per bag patient who would get out of bed, on track. rut on stilts, cross a stream in the Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 9 darkness, and eventually return to to 10c per pound; fowl, 7 to 8c; bed in perfect ignorance that ho (lucks, 9 to iOc; geese, 8 to Oc per had ever left his room. pound ; turkeys, 12 to 12%c per Another doctor has described how pound. it certain count whom ho attended would rise from his bed, leave his THE DAIRY MARKETS. house, unlock the stable door, sad-' Butter -Pound prints, 22 to 24c; due and bridle his horse, go for a tube, 22 to 23c; inferior, 19 to 20c. gallop, and again undress and re Creamery rolls, 27 to 28c, and sol turn to bed ; while the case is quot ids, 23% to 26c. ed of a young chemist who would, Egga-Case lots of storage, 22 to in his sleep, translate from Italian 23c per dozen, while new laid are into French, looking out the words quoted at 29 to 30c per dozen. that ho did not know in a diction - Cheese -Large, 13%c per pound, ary. These cases might be multi- and twins, 13%c. plied indefinitely without a refer- ence to the PROVISIONS. MARVELS OF HYPNOTISM. Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar - The difficulty is increased by the rel; moss, $19 to $19.50. fact that no ono knows the cause Lard -Tierces, 13c; tuba, 13Ne; of sleep. It has been attributed to pails, 13%c. the storing up of the acids in the Smoked and Dry Salted Meats - brain and to half -a -dozen other cau- Long clear bacon, 12c to 12%e; tons ses, while every smother who has and cases, hams, large, 12%c to watched her sleeping child knows 13e; small, 14e to 14%c ; backs, 17c that the presence of sloop is accorn- to 17'/.,c; shoulders, 10c to 10%c; panied by a shrinkage of the skin rolls, llc to 11%c; breakfast ba - that bridges over the gap in the con, 15c to 16c; green meats out of skull -bones of the now -born babe. pickle, le less than smoked. This shrinkage of the skin is merely - -- the outward expression of the fact BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. that in sleep the brain is at once Montreal, Nov. 24. -Grain -Ca - deprived of the rich, red blood that nadian Western No. 2 white oats brings it the life-giving oxygen, aro selling at 46%e, No. 3 at 45%e, This has been proved in the case extra No. 1 feed oats at 45%e, and of animals, and was seen to be true No. 1 feed at 45c. Ontario No. 2 of man some fifty years ago, when white at 45c, No. 3 at 44c, and No. a soldier lost it patch of 18 square 4 at 431/2'e per bushel, ex store. inches from his skull, through a Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat sabre cut 6 inches long and 3 inches ents, firsts at 86, seconds at $5.60; wide. As the man sept his brain Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; grew pale and shrank within the straight rollers, $4.G0 to *1.70; do., skull, but as soon as ho awoke it in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extras, 81.• flushed with blood and bulged out 75 to $1.85. Feed --Manitoba bran through the open wound. With at $21; shorts, $24; Ontario bran, their consummate ingenuity $21.50 to $22; middlings, $25 to THE JAPANESE WRESTLERS $20; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton. at havehave applied this knowledge to (.heeso-Westerns were quoted e {,ring about anaemia of the brain. 12Nc to 12%c and easterns at 11%c by pressing on the arteries in the to 12. Butter -Finest creamery was neck to induce unconsciousness in quoted at 27e in round luta, and 27';o to 28c to grocers. Eggs -New - rival wrestlers. laids wore quoted at 29c to 30c, se - Tiro cause of sleep may he ob jetted at 25c to 25%c, No. 1 at 22c score, but it is known that it fol - to 23c and No. 2 at 17yc. lows as a result of certain anteced- ents. Want of sleep to "ravel tip UNITED SFT $ MARKETS, the knotted sleeve of care" is the Every German Prince is required to learn a trade. The .,pavan i;m- $1 75 to $2.25 per en t. peror was taught cabinet-making. For the best tnilch cows as high / - foot was caught she heard the car approaching. Sho cried to try and attract the motorman's attention and threw her body to ono side, but the spot was unlighted and he could not hear her cries over the noise made by the car. Tho first he know of the accident was after the car wheels had passed over her leg. This was terribly crushed near the knee. She was taken home, where 1)r. ltyckert was called. He first thought she would be brought to the city hospital for treatment, but she was too weak from loss of blood and shock, and rapidly declined. a' $70 was paid. The ordinary cows sold around $30 each. Choice seal calves are wanted. Sheep were steady and unchanged, white lambs wore slow of sale. Select hogs continued to sell at $6.25 per cwt. fed and watered, Toronto. GREAT FIELD OF COPPER. Discovery Near Fier island, Thun- der Bay District. A despatch from Port Arthur says: One of the richest and most extensive discoveries of copper in this district was made within the last few days near Flor Island, off Isle St. Ignac, at the entrance to Nepigon Strait, by Didace Cam - fel of Sudbury. It is said to ex- tend for miles, and the deposits seem to run through a chain of mines continuing from Lamb Is- land lighthouse eastward. Carufel and his associate have taken up sev- enteen claims. A ;31:1 M M OTH ELEVATOR. Plans of the Grand Trunk Pacific for Fort William. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Mr. W. 1t. Sinks, General Manager of the Stewart Company, who will build a big handling warehouse for the G. T. P. at Fort William, is here preparing to undertake the contract. He says this mammoth elevator involves the largest con- tract of the kind let in America. The tanks of the now storage ware- house will be of concrete and will have a capacity of three and a quar- ter million bushels, and the esti- mated cost is about $1,250.000. BAR STRUCK HIS SIDE. Port Elgin Man Killed by Overbal- ancing of Machine. A despatch from Port Elgin, Ont., says : Edward Williams, a welder, was killed on Thursday morning in the Dominion Pressed Steel Works. While he and other helpers were moving a riveting machine, the base or: which it was placed became ov- erbalanced on the rollers, and the machine struck a pinch bar which Williams was using. He was struck on the right side, causing inunediate death. ---4 SMALLPDX iN LC31111ER ('A311'S Eight Cases in North Part of Peter- borough County. A despatch from Peterborough, Ont.. says : Smallpox has broken out in the lumber camps in Caven- dish Township, in the north of Pe- terborough County. There are eight cases. The disease is said to he of a mild type. Dr. Smythe, of the Provincial Board of Health, has ar- rived to take charge of the cases. SI101' 1115 1V1FE DEAD. Japanese Woman Killed by Her Husband While Shooting Rata. A despatch from Vancouver says: A Japanese named Ippei Nagi of North Vancouver, in attempting to shoot rats on Wednesday morning shot his wife dead. He will be held by the police until the Coroner in- s estigates, FR('I'1' FACTORY ABUSES. Evaporating Plants Criticized by the Factory Inspectors. A despatch fr en Toronto says: When the Ontario factory inspec- tors submit their report to Hon. James S. Duff, Minister of Agri- culture, they will severely con- demn the present methods employ- ed in many of the apple evaporating factories in Ontario. Instances will be shown of these evaporators started in all manner of places - from barns to skating rinks -where there has been an absolute disre- gard for anything like sanitary con- ditions. There have been no wa- ter, towels, or conveniences of any kind, and, in some cases, the help have been obliged to walk on the apples. The reports will show that there has been a general improve- ment of the canning factories and evaporating factories in the Nia- gara Peninsula. R1CllEST SWISS DEAD. Wore Shabby Clothes and Accepted 'Pips With Glee. A despatch from Geneva says: The richest and most eccentric man is Switzerland, 1)r. Gabrini, is dead at Lugano, leaving a fortune of $500,000, most of which was made ir, America. Dr. Gabrini was a man of the simplets habits. He would wear the shabbiest clothes, and many tourists who visited his beautiful chateau at Clani accepted bis services as a guide under the impression that he was one of the gardeners. He used to take their tips with glee. FOR MURDERING A WOMAN. George F. Johnson Sentenced lo bo Hanged at Kenora. A despatch from Kenora says: George F. Johnson was on Wed- nesday found guilty of murdering Mrs. Ackerman on July 28 and sen- tenced by Judge Britton to bo hanged on January 20th. The jury was out only twenty rninetes. Tho crime was a peculiarly brutal and unprovoked one. Johnson deelared that he could not remember ever having struck Mrs. Ackerman. VOTES FOR WOMEN AT LAST. .Australian date Legislature Pass- es Bill. A despatch from Melbourne, Au- stralia, says : Tho Victoria Legisla- tive Council has passed the bill em- powering women to vote at the State elections. This bill previous- ly bad been rejected several times. The women throughout Australia have now won the right of suffrage it both Commonwealth and State elections. DIED OF GL:tNDERS. Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood Succumbed to Disease. A despatch from Startford sass: Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood, Ont., died of glanders or. Thurs- day at, the Chicago Presbyterian Hospital. He is supposed to have become infected while pursuing a post -graduate course at the Rush - well Medical College. J IIE DIED OF STARVATION Peterboro', Ont., Man Found Dead in a Cincinnati Hotel. A despatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, says: Patrick J. Creedon, aged forty-five, an inventor, and a na- tive of Teterboro', Ont., was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in his room at the Burnet House. Dr. Coe of the Coroner's staff stated he believed death to be due to natural causes, probably a hemorrhage brought on as a result of starva- tion. The man was last seen in the hotel lobby at noon on Monday. The failure of the porters to obtain a response to their knocks on his door necessitated the employment I)! the pass key and resulted in the finning of the man dead on his bed. He was partially dressed. Creedon carne to Cincinnati on Wednesday, November nth, to ne- gotiate with Arthur Francis et and Charles S. lturdsnll the organisation of is company to put on the niarket a bit that Creedon had patented, and also to employ his secret process of hardening steel is the manufacture of the bit. He had held a number of conferences with Burdsall and Hoover and ne- gotiations had proceeded to the ex- tent of obtaining the subscription of several thousand dollars to capi- talize a $75,000 company. Pipers found en the man by 1)r. ('ec in- dicate that he was married.