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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-02-03, Page 7BRITISH ELECTIONS ARE AT Al END. Unionists Made 99 Gains, While the Liberals Had Onty 23 to Their Credit. Election, Results Seats in the House ,.. 670 Seats filled (so far as report- ed) 0*$ 04o 4o4 00. 9000. 664 Results reported Saturday: --- Liberals elected . 9 Nationalists elected ... 4 Unionists elected 6 Unionist gains „. 2 Liberal gains ... ..... 6 Aggregate returns:— Liberals elected .... ... 272 Laborites elected ...... 40 Nationalists elected . . 82 Unionists elected —. 270 Liberal gains .., 23 Unionists gains ... 126 Labor gains2 Nationalists gaiN 1 Net Unionist gains ,.. 99 Total Ministerial strength, including Nationalists and Laborites — 394 Total Unionist strength 270 A NOVEL SCH.EtalF. London, Jan. :30.—The moral generally drawn front the elections is that the country does not want radical condi- tions in the House of Lords or in ths Government policies. The spirit 01 conciliation, therefore, is Mooed, and msehemes for a compromise are being debated, The Courserva Live papers propose the most interesting plan— that a joint Cabinetbe chosen from the most moderate men of betit par- ties to carry on the Government an about two years, ami that a trace be declared on party questions in the meantime. 'A Royal Commission to investigate the country's fiscal policy and to make recontmendatione regard- hig tariff reform is proposed. The marepaper scheme of coalition Gov- ernmene h not taken seriously by the Liberals, who`, having won a victory, even if a narrow one, object to having their opponents • dietate the era granune. The reform of the Muse of lands seems to be the one timing assured. Loth duties support- it now. The Conservatives and the Lends them- selves are willing to adopt moderate changes immediately, leet reforms which would knock the foundations from the upper House be carried. It is taken for granted that the House of Lords will paws the budget, but the Cabinet may be obliged to maw the whiskey votes in order to get the votes of the Irish memben. Beyond the reform of the House of. Lords and the passing of the budget, Parliament is not likely to get far with anything. The Mali members probably will obtain the introduction of a home rule measure, but the Com servatives oppose that solidly, and a marker of Liberals are against home rule also. Several Cabinet changes are probable when the new Government is formed. Reginald Mc- Kenna, who has been unpopular as First Lord of the Admiralty, will like- ly be dropped. He may be given a Peerage. Richard Burton Haldane, Secretary of State for War, may be - Come head of the navy. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, will probably succeed Herbert Gladstone as 'Home Secretary. Winston Spencer Churchill will take the place vacated by John Burns, and they will each receive $25,000, instead of $12,500 as salaries, both places aaving been raised by the last Parliament. With only three or four votes likely to divide the two "great historic par- ties,"the British elections will virtu- ally close to -day, although Orkney and Shetland polls later. The Unionists had at latest reports 270 members, the Lib7 erals 272, Laborites 40, and Nationalists 82, leaving six seats to hear from. Those who are speculating on another early appeal to the electors forget one or two very important factors which are likely to delay that appeal for probably two or three years, or even more. The first is that all parties concerned are pretty well exhausted, and have spent their campaign funds, so that they all need rest and time to recuperate, The Unionists win probably be the first to recover, and will doubtless begin their usual cot. lection of funds from the liquor men, unless' they are forestalled by a Lib- . oral measure forbidding Government licensed businesses contributing to campaign funds, or their operators taking any part whatever in an elec. tam. Then the Government coalition has two sections which will seek to delay en appeal to the country as long as possible. These are the Labor men and the Nationalists. Tho Labor men will delay a contest if they can be- cause they must accumulate their campaign funds by collections made monthly among the union members, The House of Lords decided that the unions could not legally levy contri- butions on their members for election purposes. This decisoft had a serious effect on the fortunes of the Labor partly during the present campaign, and is one of the grievances against the Peers which will he hhinmered into the union men everywhere dur- ing the next year or two. They are sureto get power to make these levies, but it will he at least another year before the levies eats begin to come Nationalists were woefully short of funds during the campaign, and as they will have the most important bat- tle in their history to fight whenever the neXt election comes, they will not hurry matters until their coffers are well replenished. TWO UNIONIST GAINS. Laborites. The defeated. Labor repre- eentative, Mr. Peter Curran, had got Into severet controversies with var- ious parties, and was unable to hold his organization or awaken the en- thusiasm of the former campaign, spite of this, hewever, he only lost by 07 votes. The combined Labor and Liberal vote was 5,000 more than the. Unionist vote. In the Forest of Dean division of Gloucestershire, Sir Charles Dilke, Liberal, who has represented the riding for well night twenty years, had an easy victory. In the Osgoldeross division, of Yorkshire the Liberal majority was in- creased from 424 to 5,000, while in a three -cornered fight bi West Fife the Liberal had about 1,400 majority over the Laborite and nearly 4,250 over the Unionist. Sir John A. Dewar, head of the great Edinburgh brewing firm, carried Inver- ness-shire easily for the Liberals and the budget, while Mr. W. A. Weis, the Crofter and Liberal candidate, added 900 to his former majority in Ross and Cromarty. Mr. James Dundas White, M. A,, LL, D., the well-known author of works on social and economic questions, increased his former majority in Dunbar- tonshire. ABOUT THE FUTURE. London, Jan. The week closes with the Liberals in better heart as a result of their gradually swelling total. They empluisSze the fact that with the Laborites the Government's purely Bri- tish majority will be forty. Tho fact that Premier Asquith and Chancellor Lloyd -George are taking a brief 'holiday after a short conference ori Saturday, further is reassuring to the ministerialists, who see in this an evi- dence of harmony in the Cabinet. It is notable also that the more mod- erate opinion, which a few days ago echoed the Conservative suggestions of a conference on the subject of the House of Lords. has now come into line, the extremists declarrug that it js the Government's first duty to pass the budget at once and then take up the matter of the lords. It is hinted that the second budget, which is due to be presented immedi- ately the first is passed, will contain concession to the Irish, in the reduc- tion of spirit taaes, and to the hnper- ialists by an increase in the navy, for which probably $25,000,000 will be voted. The Unionists are confident that the Government will be plunged into .dif- ficulties front the outset by the Labor- ites, who are certain to reintroduce their "right to work" bill, which was rejected by the Government in the last Parlia- ment. Moreover, the debate on the address is likely to be very animated. A host of amendments is already foreshadow- ed, including the home rule and fiscal questions. The latter, however, is likely tie be in the background so far as Par- liament is concerned, although an active propaganda will be continued in the constituencies. The warmest fight in the new Parlia- ment will be on the veto of the House of Lords, which all are agreed will pre- cipitate a new election within a few months. •In Saturday's results, the Unionists gainea two seats out of eighteen. In North Huntingdon, where Mr. A. C. F. Iloulton, a Canadian, triea to hold the twat for the Liberals, lie Was beaten by 1,871, nearly five times the Liberel majority hi 1006. In the Droitwith division, Woretershire, the 'Unionists turned a Liberal majority of 654 into a minority of 203 The Liberal candidate was Mr. cavil Harnieworth, the fonder member. ena it London, Jan. 31. --The ie -election of J. G. Hancock, Labor candidate for the Middle Division of Derbyshire, announc- ed to -day, comehetes the eleetious for the new Parliament in England.,The remaining half-dozen constituencies to make retinas are Scotch and Dish. The final totals in England alone give the Unionists 239 eeats, the Liberals amid Laborites combined 227, or a Unionist majority of 12, compared with a Liberal - Labor majority of 211, .reecived in 10013. NO MECRY. Feavy Sentence on White Slaver in New York. •.•••••.00. • New York, Jan. 31. --First of the traf- fickers in women to be indicted and fast to be sentenced, Gineeppe picene, aureeeen years old, was Beet to Sing Sing for not less than four yeers an -a six months and for not more limo nine soars and six months by ..iudIge Foster in General Sessions Court yesterday. In scatencing him the Judge said: "When such men as you tempt young girls to do wrong by picturing an evil iife in glowing terms, it is time for the courts to make an example of you. Your counsel asks far mercy; you showed ua mercy to your young victim, and public policy demands that is severe penalty tee inflieted an you." Acme, wile lived at 543 East Twelfth street, was eonvicted by the testimony of Wanda Bosha, the fifteen -year-old daughter of a neighbor. He hired her hem home by prondeing her good cloth- ing and jewelry and placed her in a fiat in West 100th street. ••• • "S.- CRUSHED HiM. Hundred Tons of Coal Fell Upon and Smothered Man. New York, Ian. 31.—Although buried under many tons of anthracite coal, Nicholas Nedendoek superintended the work of his rescue for six hours to -day until 100 tons more of the coal were pre ciphated upon him and he was crushed and smothered to death as When aleden- dock accidentally fell through a coal chute from tut elevator on an Etta Ri- ver pier, tons of the COM drowned him before it could be shut off. Policemen, firemen tend doekmen worked. freaked- ly for siX hours to shovel away the coat, receiving directions from Nedendoek as to where to direct their ettergiess The end came when the support of a coal bin collapsed and fully 100 tons of coal came down, killing Nedendock and burying two of the rescuers. These two were quickly dug out, but were badly hurt. BRITISH AIRSHIP. THREW ACID Largest in World to Patrol the Over Youngvi"He Called to ..... North Sea. Door in New York. London, Jan. 31.—The first British naval airship will be launched in a foe weeks. The crew will consist of six officers and men from the warship Vernon, and they are now undergoing a course of inetruction. The airship was designed by Spencer, of Highgate' for the purpose of patrol- ling the North Sea. It will be of the rigid type and' will be the largest of the kind in the world, except the Zep- pelin machine. A special feature is a magazine for currying explosives, The engines will develop about 200 horses power. The machine could carry from 20 to 30 men, but the crew is limited to six, in order to allow for as much war material as possible Mr. Spencer says: "It is naturally something in the natnre of an experiment. It is enor- mously powerful, and is the outcome of long and careful experiments. The latest known improvements have been incor- porated as well as others which have not been made public. I am convinced that the selection of sailors as the crew is a step in the right direction. I have found that seamen make far better we - tunas than soldiers." WIDOW'S CLAIM. Will of Professor Raynolds Filed in New Hovey. 1•00.0.1110.0•0 New Haven, jau. 30. --The estate of Professor Edward Vilette llnynolde, of Yale, who died last Wednesday, am- ounts to more than $200,000, wording to his will, which was filed here on Sat- urday. it consists largely of property in Olucago. The will brought out the L Mrs. An- nie Stewart Harms, of Toronto, Oanada, whom Professor Rapid& married the week before he was stricken with poen- amnia on his bridal tour, Lae waived claim on alie cetate. She was entitled to a third of it, but the will, watch was drawn a, week before the marriage, contains an agreement by which she surrenders all claim to the estate of Professor Menial& in cam of Itis death, The will divides the estate into three Equal parts, two of which go to limo dolph and Elizabobh, 'the children of Professor Haploid% The third is held in trust while the present Mrs. Rey- nolds lives. If her private fortune fails .she may arm the income ,from the fund. At her death it is to he di- vided equally between the children. The law library of Professor Reynolds is left to his friend, Geo. D. Wetrouee of this city, whose sister was profes. sor Reynolds' first wife. JAP LOAN. Tokio, .Tan, was authorita- tively stated to -day that the Cabinet has decided to ienue a 4 ter rent. t1 - brother of Lord Northeliffe. ambito limmin of 11130,000. a deeming In the Jarrow divieimi of Durham 1 mast:ending 5 per cent. }monde to a like the Liberals won a scat from the amount. The issue price is to be 06. HAD TO WED. Before They Could Cross Over Into the States. Niagara Falls, —0—nt., Jan. ;M.—Before George E. Smith, 24 hears old, and Eve- lyn Davidson, 26 years ola of Guelph, Ont., were permitted to enter time United atates hest night, the immigration de- partment compelled them to return to Canada and get married. This was done, the immigration officers say, in erder that the couple would not be inconven- ienced by the matrimonial laws of New York State. The two young people were on Grand Trunk train No. 14 last night when they were seen by an immigration of- ficer. He learned that they were leav- ing home to get married, and were bound for England for the wedding tour. He informed theta they could not enter the United States unless they were married. The eoupld returned to this side, where they were married. On showing their marriage certificate this morning. they were allowed to proceed to New York.• GO TO MARKET. J. J. Hill's Advice to Housekeepers —Cut Out Telephone. New York, Jam St.—James J. Hill, one of the first persons to issue a. warning against national extravagance and its reflection in the advanced cost of living, said to -day that half the problem Iles in the discretion of the housewife. "If a housekeeper," said Mr. Hill, "In- stead of standing In front of a telephone to Order the family supplies, would go to the market and learn what toads are cheap, and what are dear, there would be less of this kind of talk. As I have said before, the high cost of living is the cast of living high." Mr. Hill denied that there Is any industrial and financial Una:mines* over the attitude of the Government towara corporations. Ask- ed to what he attributed the depression of the stock market, be answered "Hysteria." WRECK VICTIMS, C.P.R. inquiry Into Case of Webb. wood Wreck. Montreal, Jan. 31. ---Several of time trainmen who were in the wreck at Webhwood arrived this morning to Woman in Critical Condition—Ass- sailant Escaped. New York, Jan. 31,e -Within two block e of the scene of the ilighbridge Park murder of two boy, au unknown assailant called Miss Carrie Prieeter, t Id- ost daughter of a wealthy retired 1.04., tratrantleeeper, to the door of her hems late yesterday adternoon and threw acid over her face, neck a na arm, The, young minima terribly disfigured, is in a critical coaditiona The description given by the young woman of her assailant, corresponds in some particulates with the description of the Higabridge Park murderer. The young woman was alone in the 'house, The basement door bell rang and she answered it. She was dressed in a house gown, cut low at the neck and with short sleeves. Her caller, she said, was about 33 years old, five feet five inches in height, wore a milt of dark clothing and a derby het putted well down on his .fatee He wore mm black beard and blachamonettiche, e, tan overcoat, and was croeseyed. ateellelophtt telephone inrsepeguelittorr,i"ostrieecteoa:: u "I've come to look over your 'phone. she said. "Show me your creden- "tier° is my badge,"' said the man, He reached into a small black 'bag and drew out a bottle. Before she vela divine his intention he had poured acid over her face, neck anl arms. She fall backward, screaming with pain. The man disappeared. _. 4 • e EIGHT KILLED. Disastrous Wreck on an English Railway. •••=•••••••••••• London, Jan. 30. --One of the most serious railway accidents in bighted since the disaster to the 'steamer train at Salisbury In July, 1006, occurred at Stoat's Nest Station, near amazon, on the London & Brighton Railway, yester- duty afternoon. • Eight 'deed amal about thirty injured were taiVen from ,.the wreck.. Two third-class and a Pullman of a train . from Brighton, travelling at a epee of forty miles an hour, creehed into the station, The third-class ears were completely wrecked and a part of the building was de,malistuel, '1.11e Pullman was thrown violently into the air, but was comparatively little damaged. Its passengers escaped with minor injuries. .Robert J. Wynne, the former United Statea Sousuatleneral at London, who wes hi the Pullman, escaped uninjured, Ir. deseribiug the accident he said: "Wo were passing through Stoat's Nest at a rapid paee when sari:timely a part of the train jumped the mails and began to tear along the track on its side. The car in which I was seat- ed rocked so violently Ova mammy things were smashed. The passengers were preparing to eseade when the COT stopped with a crash. I looker). out of the window and saw a man lying dead near the wheels. I got out and helped to pull another man froth a ditch. Tic died before a doctor arrived. We found two snore dead, and a woman breathing tea last. The thheachas cars were lying on their sides, having been thrown against time- stone %embankments, emit were smashed to atoms.' Mr. Wynne thought the breaking of a coupling caused the aceident. The critically injured were taken to a local hospital, while the others were brought to London. a SEALED TOMB. Shaft of Mine to be Opened This • Week. Cherry, Ill., Jan. 3L—This little town is steeling itself for the ordeal of exhumation that is expected this week, following the promised unseal- ing to -morrow or Tuesday of the St. Paul mine, in which the bodies of more than 200 coal miners have been entombed since November 13, when fire caused the death of some 860 men. A suety/storm is blowing up, and the oxygen helmet men have not ar- rived from the University of Illinois, so the prospects to -night are that the lid which has kept the mine closed for two months will not be pried off the shaft mouth before Tuesday. As it is not eertain that the fire in the mine is extinguished, nothing definite towards the recovery of the bodies Will be planned until experts, protect- ed with oxygen helmets, have explor- ed the shaft. If conditions are propitious the fan will be started to supply fresh air. Any smouldering fire will have to be extinguished and 2,000,000 gallons of water pumped from the third level. It is thought that about 40 bodies are floating on this water in the bet.. loin of the mine,. and around 200 other corpses, it 3,6 estimated, are huddled in the second level. attend a ,pritaqe investigation, to take place in the office of the superintend- ent here, The news received. at the Canadiali Pottle Railway headquar- ters to -day from Webbwood is to the ca feet that all the injured in the hospital —elevenin slumber—are doing well, and are hi a fair way to recovery. Four were discharged from the hospital yes- terday, cured. The diver was down 66v- olt! times this morning, but no more bodies were recovered. THREE VICTIMS BURIED. laitergrove, Jan. 31.---1?hie village was the scene of a sad event this morning, when three of the victim of the C. 11. wreck were buried. They were Joseph Kelly and wife, and Florence Kelly, their little Oeven-year-old daughter, who were on their way to Leavenworth, B. C., after it visit of a few weeks with their relatives in Mara and Toronto. The three bodies were brought here on the C. It. to Coldwater, and conveyed by road to Uptergrove. The three were found in the ear which Was submerged in the Spanish River. On featurdey morning the tame-, rid of another of the victim, Daniel, MoirldiOn. of Longfora, tseee place in the mime church. His body was the lest, but cote taken front the river. USED AN AXE. Robert Henderson Lodged in tie County Jail at Peterboro. ••••••••••1••••••110 Peterboro despatch: Robert Hen- derson, Who assaulted the 'Misses Mae. - Pherson near Norwood on Friday morning, was brought to Peterboro' and lodged in jail to -night. Previus to the assault he lodged at a Norwood hotel, and left *Mont paying his bill, besides stealing a sum of money from Mr. Rose, a Peterbore contractor. The younger Miss MacPherson, aged 67, in telling the story of the assault said Henderson evidently intended murder, for he swung the axe with both hands down on the head of the elder sister, fracturing the outer por- tion of the frontal bone and knocking her unconscious. In spite of the ser- ious wounds and her age, 77 years, though she is still in a critical con- dition, she promises to pull through. QQ0000000000Q00000;10 News in Brief 00000000000000000000l Ur. Kenneth A. Miller, an accountant in the Provincial Lauds Department, ie dead. The Provincial Government will se- cure part of Lord Stratheona's grant for physical training in wheelie. Frederick Marx, who discovered the process of making paper out of wood pulp, is dead, near Utica. Time bill incorporating Prince Rupert wiljobe submitted to the British Colum- bia -Legislature next week. Hon. A. MacNab, Municipal Commis- sioner in Saskatchewan, is recovering from an attack of appendicitis. President Taft has decided to press the suit looking to the dissolution of the Union Pacific -Southern Paefic mer- ger.. The death occurred. on Saturday at the rectory, Dresden, of Mrs. Blanche Miller, wife of Bev. 13. Allanneiuder, M. A. Levi Williams, Wanpoos East, has been appointed police Magistrate of Picton, as successor to the late George Calvin Curry. The Canadian Northern Railway eta - tion at Sprague, Manitoba, was burned. to the round on Saturday. The loss is about $3,000. Premier Roblin is again quite his sojourn at the southern sanitarium not having benefited his health to any appreciable degree. A by-law was unanimously adopted hr the Quebec City Council prohibiting sal oons or retail grocers selling liquor be fore 7 o'clock in the morning. The five-year-old son a Mr. M. A. Delta, of Renfrew, was struck by the C. P. R. train and so severely injured that his recovery is very doubtful. Arnold Shoebotham, of London Town- ship, fell through a trap door in his father' barn on Saturday afternoon, and died in two hours of his injuries. Police' yesterday searched the St. Pe- tersburg apartment of Col. Mamuiloff, formerly chief of the Russian secret po- lice. They confiscated a large number of documents. Cattle buyers at the Western. Cattle Market, Toronto, have issued a notict against sellers who "doctor" cattle to make them weigh heavier than they would do naturally. ging Edward and Queen Alexandra have each contributed $5,000 to the Mansion House fund for the relief of the flood sufferers to France. The fund now amounts to $25,000. Through the generosity of Mrs. Chas. E. Fulford large and commodiems sun parlors have been erected in connec- tion with the General Hospital of Brock- ville, at a cost of over $7,000. An early rebuff was met at Budapest by the recently -formed Herevary Cala inet when the Chamber by a large ma- jority, voted a want of confidence in the Ministry. A Roman tomb of the second century B. C„ containing a marble sarcophagus of exquisite evorkmanshiy, five foot long and admirably preserved, has been discovered at Grosseto, Italy. .Frank G. McKay, manager of the Do- minion Express Company, and formerly district agent between Detroit and Tor - oto, died uneapeetedly at London, af- ter a brief illness from stomach trouble. 25 MURDERED; Tokio, ;Tan. 31. —Special. deepetehea • from Seoul report it eritm4 optieing of ineurgetas at Soma Phonged, Naive. Plain Talks toWomeit Children's Skin Troubles, Cuts, Etc, Evely healthy child gets them, and ovary mother has to "iwt oonziething Am." What do YOU ptzt an? When you put an ointment on to a child's skin it gets into the blood through the pores just as surely as if you put it into the child's stomaeh, Did you ever thh* of that? now im- portant, therefore, that the salve or balra should be pure 1 Zam-13ult is absolutely pure; contains no animal fat; no minera coloring matter; no acid astringews; no binning ranieeptice—yet it is anaetetic I It is pu sly h Thal, and thus meets all the needs of the thin in that Deportee and. ell -powerful way in which nature alone provides. Children like Zam.laik best because as soon as applied it stops the pain and the smarting of the injury or sore place. Healing then sets in immediately. Ato reavauses i$D Roans, Soo, CONTAINS NOANINAL OiLORFAT NOR ANY MINERAL meals oo the train to cut down expens- es. Mr. H. C. It. 1414;174mi, X. A., hat been appointed, on the recommendation of the lefnivemity of London, Professor of Political and Economic Science in the newly -established Imperial University of Pekin. This is the first professorship of politics in China. William Parket pleaded guilty at Brantford, to breaking jail there in 1908, before Judge Hardy, and was sentenced to two months in jail. Parker is 39 years old, and has served fifteen years in prison, horse steeling being a, favorite offence, Immigration Inspector Charles Willox has stationed an officer at the Canad- ian side of the Falls to prevent an undesirable class from entering Canada. In former years many people came into, 'Canada by this route, but this year the supervision is quite as strict as on the steel structure above. Her clothes saturated with oil, pieces of a lace curtain tied tightly about her neck, another piece binding her feet, the dead and scorched body of Mrs. Al- ice Vitnzandt was found lying across a gas stove in the kitchen nt her home, at Cincinnati. Every indication points to murder, the police say. organre union of the Central 'Y. M. C. A., West Bud YeH. C. A., and the Broadview Boys Institute, Toronto, "for a new buildings campaign has been effected. with the strong probability that a permanent amalgamation of the Y. H. C. A.ssoeiations within Toronto will be the ultimate outcome. T. H, Taylor, driving his $3,500 au- tomobile, crashed into the iron frame- work of the Granville street bridge o'er 'False Creek, Vancouver, on Saturday night, A heavy rain obscured the glass. The engine of the machine was driven back to the seat. Taylor's nose was broken and his body severely bruised. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Simmons of Col- borne, have presented the Methodist Char& with a pipe organ with tubular pneuinatio actions The instrument is to be installed in the 'church by May 15. At the G. T. P. Montreal offices fig- uresehave been given sheaving that 923 miles of steel are now down on the main line west. of Winnipeg. This is more than hall way from Winnipeg to the coast. T. Thorson, a young Icelander, who haelmen a student at Manitoba College, has been nominated by the Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Winnipeg. This is the. second Icelandic student to receive the honor. A defensive and co-operative alliance between Great Britain, Japan anti Am- erica was proposed on Friday night by Dr. Lyman Abbott at the dinner given by Baron Kikuchi by the resident' con- sul -general of Japan. Niagara's gorge is now *mined. by one of the most substantial ice. bridges in years. It is estimated by rivermen that the ice composing the bridge is over 75 feet thick, At Marquette, Mich., Stanislaus Step. kofekee, a miner, crazed by drink, stab- bed his six-year-old son to death. Then he in ()cured a Stick of dynamite used for blasting at the mines and blew him -- self and. Ms wife to atonIS. Tom L. Johnson, for eight years May- or of Clevelahd, is -said to be critically ill in New York, or near it. Private ad- vices received from Mr. Johnson's friends in Cleveland say that lie is suf- fering from ,cirrhosis of the liver. An agreement has been reached by the Theotokis party, the Rhallis party and the Military League to convoke the Greek National Assembly for a revision of the constitution with the xcondition that the league shall first be dissolved. Senor Gavazzi, a loading Italian silk manufacturer, will be sent to Canada at the head of a commission to negoti- ate a treatt, granting Italy the same treatment that is accorded France in the exportation of silk and other products. The notorious Bob Cook, who has been a fugitive from justice for several months, ana who was arrested at Sitult Ste. Marie, arrived at Orangeville on Fri- day in charge of Chief Inspector Greer°, of the Ontario forte, and Chief Consta- ble Hughes. At a meeting of the eteditors of the Ilium of Podvol & Rosenthal, of Mont- real. it was discovered that the liabili- ties were some $30,000, and the assets probably nothing in comparison. The creditots are Montreal liottseg. Rosen- thal is now across the line. Mr. Justice Morrison has given judg. tient fit the Deadman's Island case of Ludgate vs. Vanconver. Ho decided that the city owned Deed/nal:ea Island un- der an ordereifremincil of 1887, which was irrevocable. He added that Lode gate had no right te the lease given by the Dominion Government. For the Rhodes scholar to represent Nova Scotia the choice of students and imitate alike has fallen upon John Era kine Bead, 13. A., of Dalhousie College, eon of Dr. IL IL Bead, of MUM, and nephew Of Professor J. Gordon Mac- Gregor, of Edinburgh University. The Toronto teachers will have a weeks outing to Boston during the Easter vacation, if the plan of /nspee- ton Hughes materialism The' fare is plaetal at E.2.50. To get this cheap tate * through teririta, 'train will be engaged, It is announced that the prophrty on St. James street, Montreal, opposite the post -office and owned by the seminary of St. Sulpice, has been leased for a per- iod of ninety-nine years by the Grand Trunk Pacific, and that the work of constructing a ten -storey building will be commenced in the spring. A. campaign has been started at Win- nipeg against Chinese who are believed to be responeible for the downfall of young girls, and severaj arrests have been made. On Saturday one laundry- man named Sing Jim was sentenced to pay a dine of one hundred dollars and to serve three months in jail for the offence. As the result of a mass meeting held in the Trades and Labor Hall, Guelph, the attention of the Ottawa. Govern- ment is to be called to the alleged vio- lation of Canada's immigration laws in the importation of ten British weavers to take the places of striking weavers, who were employed by the Guelph Car- pet Mills. A 'dozen foreigners discussed the meat boycott at breakfast on Saturday 'in a Mulberry alley, Pittsburg, boarding house and all of them, except Mic Skeelac, agreed to eat no meat, Mie Skovlac, delighted to have the breakfast steak to himself, tackled it so violently that he choked to death on the first mouthful. Pennsylvania train No. 0, westbound, killed Mrs, Rdy CoOert and fatally in- jured her husband at a. crossing near Lendonville. A few miles farther on, the :train struck on automobile on the out - skirt e of Crest Line and. killed J. U. Sigler, aged 60, and Chas. E. Olielbiger, both of Haycsville. A third man was badly hurt. News has reached. Vancouver of the discovery of a great body of excellent cent on the west arm of Quatsine Sound, at the north end. of Vancouver !shod. The coal lies in slick quantity and of such quality that it is predicted that mines rivalling the famous Duns- ntuir property at Nanaimo will be opened. up. ' Louis Eduard Rod, the novelist, died suddenly itt Grasse, France. Eudard Both was born at Nyon in 1857. He Was chief editor of La Revue Contemporaine in 1684, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, 1880.93. Ills writings covered a large and varied field and. included a series of romentic novels. Although the weather conditions have improved. throughout Italy, reports are still. being received of the flooding of Much territory. The Po threatens to overflow its banks, while at some points landslides have °courted. Despatches frontPerugia, say the Tiber continues to rise, and is now three feet above the highest level of the lest flood.. One week from to•day the switchmen of the Northwest, who have been on strike since November 30, will return to work. Practically every one of the strikers will be in their old places. They will resuthe work with the wage tuestion unsettled, but they will be governed by the figures agreed upon in the Chicago compromise conm fored. The Educational Association of Der - lin, known as the Free High School, is about to include in its eurrictilum courses of speech instruetion for ladies. It is contended that, however well wo- men are able to chatter in private life, the majority are incapable of makifig logical speech in a clear 'WACO and with a good delivery. ,All this they will in future be able to learn. The Berlin KolnIseli Zeitung deeply deplores the fact that Germany is car- rying on a tariff war with Canada, which has resulted in aterrible decline of her exports to the Dominion. It teen that Germany will not participate in the development of Canada, where her in- dustrivil products thould find surit an excellent market, amid Watt: that the re: - Twenty -five of the /settlers ale staid to with cooking ranged In each ear. The Wiens between the countries will WWI have been antlered. trekkers will have to cook their own be normal. GOT WIFE, OM..0,•••••01M1 But Found It Difficult to Find Pail in New York. aritish Officer Who Weds OD s Dare is in Trouble. New York, Jan. 30.—Captain Arthur Barton, of the English army, has die' covered it is more difficult in Amer. ic,a to find a person to furnish bail for his release from a New. York city prison than it does to find a wife. He admitted in West Side Court yesterday morning that the ceremony in which he was one of the princi- pals three weeks ago had resulted from friends at a dinner party daring himself -and Miss Madeline Davidson to become husband and wife. Captain Barton appeared in the West Side Court before Magistrate Breen in answer to a complaint that he owed $173 to Mr. Augustus Patter- son, proprietor of the Hotel Patterson, at No. 59 West Forty-eixth street. Cap- tain Barton said the affair was un- fortunate and embarassing, and asked for an adjournment; Magistrate Breen set bail at .6500 and the Cap- tain was sent to a cell until a bond is furnished. He was still there last nighAectording to his story, Captain Bar- ton's regiment is the Sixteenth Not- tingham Rifles and he has been on leave. Miss Davidson is Very Well Known • in Springfield. ' Springfield, Mass., Jan. 31.—Miss Madeline Davidson, who married Cap- tain Arthur Barton, of the British army on a dare, is the daughter of Mr. James K. Davidson,of No. 40 Avon Place, this city, assistant treas- urer of Smith & Wesson, the revolver manufacturers. Miss Davidson is twenty-five years old. She is slender, of medium height and has auburn hair bordering on red. She is a member of the Spring- field Country. Club. MAN'S EQUAL. Dr. Sargent, of Harvard, Sees De- velopment in.Woinan. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 31.—Drs Dud- ley A. Sargent, Harvard's physical di- rector, stands firm in the belief that woman is fast nearing the way when she will appromm the capabilities of man not only in mental powers, but also in physical strength. Dr. Sargent says that woman has be- gun as realize the surest road to beauty of face and figure as well as health of body lies through the path of physical culture, Her sex is become to be a strong and well developed race. Per- haps,' said Dr. Sargent, "she will yet overtake man in a field which he has been wont to claim as all his own. Wee man's habits are better than man's and herphysical welfare is not retarded by business cares and worry." FURS FROM LONDON. Fifty Pieces Seized by Customs Men at New York; New York, Jan, 30.—Cuetotris argot. yesterday seized fifty pieces of fin. front Canada. valued in all at $1,000 eiecording DO Collector Loeb, they wet, shipped from London, Ont., to a Brooklyn address: as hothehold good* tree of duty, and were so entered at Suspension Bridge, Niagara. Mils. "When the officers to:emitted the ear," said Mr. Loch, "they found a large quautity of skins and manufac Lured furs. concealed limier kitchen. utensils and other household effeetsa e— 4 • . FOUL FIEND IiiPed Child, Wounded Another and Then Suicled. ialy DOG THIEVES. miry Articles Poo bow is The. Mealere, 0.44,00•10- Trained in Paris to Help 'Pickpocket Owners, I Paris: Jan. 31,-1'hat erinilaal in- genuity keeps pace with, the moat mod- ern police methods exemplified in the feat that scarcely have the depart- ments of public safety in Pari e enlietet canine detectives eltan the underworl bee answered vvitit "canine apaches," Dogs trained to fight and attract n. crowd in order that their masters may rifle the pockets of visiting countrymen at fain are nob new,. but, says the Paris Liberte, the professional dog thief has only recently made its appearance in the French capital. A scene the other day in the Rue de Turbigo proves the kil1 of the canine robbers. A. man, accompanied by a dog, halted in front of 11 shoe store and ex. amined with great interest several pairs of shoes. One pair appeared to please him, but after a word or two with the storekeeper he dropped them upon the heap and departed, the dog remaining behind. When the shopmanis back was turned the dog seized the shoes, dashed Waugh the crowd and was soon lost to sight. A butcher in the Place Ciambetta says that lie has been the daily vic- tim of another dog thief, The in- telligent animal waits -until the shop is crowded in the evening. He then dashes in, seizes a joint from the counter and disappears, At first be seemed to prefer stealing veal, but recently he has, confined his thieving to legs of mutton, and he always selects the choicest outs. The butcher believes the animal's master mingles in the crowd and touches the pieee wishes stolen. New York, Jan. 31, --Another child murder startled the' city to -day. It occurred in a. house on East 50th street, where a man shot and killed. one child, wounded another probably fatally, and then, shot himself. The polka are fol- lowing a theory that the man may have been the slayer of the two boys shot re - tautly on Washington Heights. r ** STOPS SLAVERY: Pekin, Jan. 31. ---An ediet is- sued toolay approves the plans of the Constitutional Bureau for abelisbing the traffic in human being's. The Victorie, B. C., Board. of Trade yesterday passed a resolution to be for- warded. to the Ottawa Government, as follows: "That there shoula be establish- ed a perm:meta trade tribunal, with power to sit in rages of alleged trade combines, and that such tribunal should be a court of commercial men, With pow- er to hear all evidence, find, its a pro, teatime to the Wale anti manuateturere and merithante. all eases involving trade relations should be tried before such (omission." WANT BODY. Canadian Antliorities and Shooting of George Weigand. Niagara Fails despatch: At a, eon - :awe held in Buffalo this afternoon between Divisional Inspector W. H. elains, Medical Inspector Dander, of Buffalo. and District Attorney Bud- ey, of Erie county, it was decided that au teener aivestigation could be made by the Canadian authorities un - Lees the body of George Weigand, the fish poacher, who was shot in Niagara diver. on Wedneeehey, was turned over so the Canadian •authorities, Whether this will, be done rests With Sirs. Weigand, the mother of the aced autn. Mrs. Weigand, Was present at ehe meeting, and the position of the iuthoritiee ewes eaplained to her. Up im a late hour she had not intimated her intention of handing the body over. That the shooting took place in Can - Adieu waters has been established. The international boundary line is 300 feet (iota the shore of Grand Island, which divides the waters of time river. Grand Island is three-quarters of a, mile from time Canadian shore. Therefore Epees two reported statements that he was fired at by. Game Warden Briggs and that his boat was.not m Canadian wat- ,:lb are contradictory. Captain Alfred . Hunter, of the Om lark) Fishery Department, had an in- vestigatihn . to -day at Bridgeburg, at .elach Game 'Warden Briggs and wit- nesses of the shooting were exemined. FATAL FIRE. Mrs. Dalton Burned to Death at Amherst, ti. S. Halifax despatch: The moet disas- trous fire- that has occurred in Am- herst for some time broke out in Caw; large four -storey building of the Black Printing Co. at 3 o'clock this morn- ing, and raged with terific fury for several hours. The lire is now un- der control. An aged woman, Mrs. W. Oulton, widow of the late Dr. Oul- ton, was overcome and died before being rescued. Her daughter, Miss Georgie Oulton, was taken out almost exhausted. The fire broke out in one of the lower flats. The alarm Was immediately sounded but the flames, seemed to have complete control, the whole north. end of the building ape parently being on fire. The flames rushed up the elevator shaft, which extends from the basement to the roof. Sotne 16 lodgers were in the third flat, and these escaped in their night clothes, all losing their furniture and clothing. The building is gutted, and the plant and stock a complete ruin. The loss will be in the vicinity of $30,000 to $35,000, insurance about $20,000, divided among 12 companies. Mrs. Oulton, the unfortunate victim of the fire, was upwards of 90 years of age, and has been for some time an invalid. 4 • FOR CHURCH UNION. London, Ont., Tan. 31.—Members of Congregational Churches all through this district are greatly interested on the ballot which *loses February 23, On the church uniott (motion. Preachers are pledged not to influence any con- gregation in any way. All ballots have got to he inspected hi Toronto. It is likely that members here twill strongly favor union on professed basis. A. similar ballot will be taken in this district next mouth. HURT IN EXPLOSION. Leroy, N. Y., Jan. 21.o -Twenty per* Sons were injured, one probably fatally, by an explosion of gas during a fire which destroyed the Geuesee Hotel hete early toalay. The injured, several of whom are firemen, were in or neat an adjoining house, supplied with gas from the hotel. Some one in the •house struck a snatch, .A bhimicling flash followed, windows end doors were blown out and people were hurled in all directions. ete*e. (OLD STORAGE. Chicago, Jan. 31.—An ordinanee be presented to the City Cousell night prohibiting the cold stomp moo from keeping their supplies more guto sixty days. CRUISER ASHOR0* Taegier, Jae. 31. --The ).ateaurenault. watt& Taft rallee :at of Car I 1-114Y* wet, hauled wit MI int.