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.
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• 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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EIGHT KILLED.
Disastrous Wreck on an English
Railway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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News in Brief
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.