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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-02-24, Page 7MG RIOT AT PHILADELPHIA. Attempt of Car Compan:i to Oper. ate Lines Leads to Riot. Bullets, Bricks and Pavipg Stones Used and Police Baffled. Over SOO Persons Were Placed Under Arrest, Philadelphia, Inb. 20. -The liospitals are overerotvded with persons who were shot or beaten in the car etrike riote that spread viciously ell over suberban Philadelphia today and to -night, At lewd a hundred, got in the way of bullets or nicks or paving atones, and lialf of thee were hurt seriously.. Sev- erne care were burned. So alarming was the outleolc late this afternoon, wnen the Rapid Transit COmearee with- drew every pro a its ears from eervice and sent them, -the barns, that Mayor Ileyburn authorized Henry Clay, the director of public safety, tie 'recruit 4,000 extra policemen to -morrow, if possible. The regular force of 3,300 was utterly unable to smother the trouble today. .Automobilea and patrol 'dragons loaded with policemen dashed hither and thither all day bound for scenes, of rioting. AU of the police stations tvere noisy with strikers and strike sympathizers who had been dragged out of the streets and hauled to jail. Frequently the an- tonaobiles and patrol wagons would bring in policemen with faees bleeding and broken noses. The area of rioting ws so immense that the police had a des, perately difficult problem on their Riands. Several times during the day there were fights, in whicli _More than thousand persons were tiering pert, oceurrieg simulteneously_Xa dozen far - separated localities. jesif PULLED hgeitedFROM CARS. The nornhigfit and northwest was eljesiortiedn-trouble. It ran as far south as Girard avenue, ICensington was a eartieularly riotous section, and there inneh of the serious trouble took niece. '[bo rioters tried to pull loyal. conductors and motormen off the cars. When the (Armen resisted, then the strikers would tetow bricks, smashing windows, and sometimes heads. The strikers and their Sympathizers .rolled tross ties and rails en the becks and blocked ear lines. Veen the police squads got to each viot spot there were always groups of ilon-unton men trying to ward off blows and save themselves from being knocised down and trampleinupon. Time after: trme the police were so greatly outnumbered that they were driven back with torn uniforms, Sometimes they made aercsts only aftee great clubbing. Occasionally they had to shoot. One ,of these incidents took place at lath sand Cambridge streets. A mob stoned :a car until every window was broken. ,A squa& of police cawie up and charged into the crowd. A. and named Violet 53ezan. 13 years old, was standing on the *sidewalk, too scared to run away. Hun- elreds of mee. and some women were yelling and tlirmeing stones all aresand wee A policeman ran from the inside of the car to the front platform. He shot into the crowd several times and one of the bullets struck the little Bezan girl in the abdomen. There is 'hardly a chance of her recovery. Eight others, including a policeman and a fireman, were bit with bullets or bricks in this fight and the ear was burned. BOY'S •SKULL FRACTURED. An 11 -year-old boy, Samson: Sklenow, was riding in a Franklinville car with his mother. At Eighth and 'McKean streets a crowd of 1,000 or more sur- rounded elle car and began to bombard it ,wisth bricks and paving stones. The passengers got down on the floor and tried to dodge the missiles and the shat- tered glass. A brick bit the Sklenow boy on the side of the head and frac- tured his skull. Ile will probably die. Fifty policemen were unable to handle elle mob at this point. They shot over nne heads of elm strikers and their allies, *nit were laughed at. Finally e police- erian wriggled. out of the press and ran for tlie nearest fire-hoese. The engine was out in five minutes and the mob broke under a cascade of water. At Belmont and Westminster avenues a 9 -year-old girl, Catherine Cochran, was hit with a brick. A policeman carried lier to her home in Leed street, followed by. a jeering mob, but the little girl's injury was so grave that ehe was sent to the Presbyterian Hospital. She may BULLETS CRASHED THROUGFI WIN- Mg motormen and conduetore MIA the ino401% of the Keyetone nion,the mei of the Amalgamated elesocio,tion, of whittle the strikers are nieinberi. lIw fernier U111011 Was farmed by men who reraained loyal to the compary timing teat yearn. (struggle and is. not affiliated with tiny other body. The present trou- ble began witen the °Moines of the emu - party treeted with the mbere of the Keystone Uniou against the wiehee of the members of the seinalgamateil Asso- ciation. The latter body niede the re. quest ei the Rapid Transit officials OW uo other union be recognized. Tee re- cognition of this .union was one of the wain pointe at issue between the strikers and the cempaate. Otte thousand Inert on the eligible list for policemen and firemen were sworn in at the City Hall this interning, and there was greet activity among the pa - lice .afifelals, who were preparine''to swear in 3,000 additional men at thefirst sign of further lawlessneee. The °fie elate ef the conmeny started thorough operations with a grim determination to run its care on all lines where it was pessible to get men. "Every one of the thousands of bricks thrown yesterday," said an officer of the eempany, 'eras anerely served. to strengthen the determination of the company to. spend every cent it possesses aria to use every car it owns to operate its syetern. There will be no surrender." National Organizer Pratt, of the Car - men's 'Cala, saint "Our men are better organize(' and better disciplined Om they- were in the last strike, and they stand"up like sol- diers.- If the company could not defeat our raw recruits hist summer it will not break the ranks of our veterans." The company admitted today tliat about 4,009 men refused to take out cars yesterday. This statement ia dieputcd by the strike leeders, who deelare that more than 0,000 are on strike. Rows ever, many of the trolley men who want to continue 'work did not report for fear of being injured. It was estimated to -day that 100 per. eons were injurekyesterday, chiefly by stones or other missiles. Few, however, were seriously burt. A little girl who was shot while wetching boys attuels, car will probably- recover. A statement issued by the oompany, that in all 287 cars were damaged dur- ing yesterday's disorders, two ears were burned and one partly burned, and 2.008 car windows were broken. The eorepany expects to keep in opera - Won to -day. 1,240 cars, 000 less than the regular schedule. DOWS. Girard and Lancaster avenuee were enain lines of trouble. Every car that passed along these thoroughfares ran the gaunlet of bricks and stories. Occa- sionally a bullet crashed through a win- dow. At Lancaster avenue and 44th street nt to the rescue of the the rioters thoroughly, the firemen we police; drenching A. dozen riots, two of them long -con- tinued and bloody, marked the progress of the strike in South Philadelphia. Nearly every ear that the tompany tried to run in teat section of the eity was battered and smashed. Several as were set on fire, In Sottth Philadelpida alone 20 per - eons were so badly hurt that they had to be sent to the hospital. Here, AS elsewhere, Dewy were hurt whose names the police eotild not even attempt to injuries were treated in gee iota whose eieug gores or at their own homes. The estimate of 100 furnished by the d only those wit° got era. pollee inelude bospital treetm STORM IN BRITAIN. Many Persons Meet Death --Coast Strevvn With Wreckage. London, Feb. 21.-A fierce gale Ion swept over the Britiah Isles, doing an immense amount oe damage. The har- bors are all crowded with snipping, seeking refuge. Incoming vessels repine extremely rough passages. The Adriatic and the America, vshich arrived to -day at Plymouth, experienced a succession of gales all the way across the Atlantic. The Mauretania, after a long delay, succeeded in embarking the mails at Queenstowe, but was unable to land her pilot, who was taken on to Neiv York. Reports received here tell of the wreck of a large number of small craft. DRIVEN TO SHELTER. Paris, Feb. 21,-A howling gale in the English Channel, sweeping the French coast as far. as Finisterre, has driven all •shipping to shelter. 'Wire communication between England and Prance has been cut off. Ali steamers ha.ve been considerably delayed. There have been several wrecks on the :masts and a number of disasters ashore, resulting in the eggregitte in nearly 50 deaths, The steamer Queen, from Bou- logne, with 120 :passengers, vainly tried to enter Folkestone last evening. She wee finally compelled to stand off at sea, where she was tossing like a cork for Borne time. Severe thunder and lightning and heavy veins aqcompanied the gale in many places, causing floods. Miles of phone wires are down and communica- tion between London and many of the northern end western cities has been stopped. Three hundred lines are down in London. The suffragette demonstration sched- uled to be held in Trafalgar Square yes- terday afternoon was abandoned, only a handful of enthusiasts being willing to face the, weather. - The gale is etill blowing., .....e. )illeeelpina, teb. 21. ---In spite of yes. terday'e tevere rioting, the Pitiledelphia Venda Transit C nneany stetted their early morning net:elute to -day without enperent interruptien by tile etrikere oi :their itympriteness. The filet ears left the berms in different seetions of the reity at 5 a. nes twelve 'Leine after the ,ettvice had been disrontinned. TTfruh M by their refit, the motormeit end eon iduetors who, bail qlept hi the nettle or nefe provided by the compeny moron the earn protected by polieemen on bet" the front and rear pletformi. Not A eremite Wait thrown, hawev.er.. on the eerier mornine tripe. (Ina the rare were Zfot AS well filled with pestengere. P1'110113 willing to Tide were it +nee fermi teeing so front feer of !Muriel. The etrike letilert, wearied by yesterniva etrennette work, rotted until lete this niortilese and no further etetremints were given era at Unioa bridenettere. Beyond the tantetrient tbat Inlet are In wren* with the full intent re este." the effenele of the Rapid Traneit rem - piety *leo detained to comment on the eel tend Von. Cerneetennue Oei the Inpele �t the warp, •• e DR. FRITCH Will Try to Prove Alibi in Detroit Murder Case. • SHREDOECkl \\WHEATi Boys and: girls .tbrive on it Shredded Wheat fortifies .th.em against winter ills -builds sturdy) robust youngsters. .01Pop1y. heat biocuit in oven, pour hot with over it and ealt. to tante. Boat for ,ovory roma. Sad by ell avocets, W. carton .tWO for 25s. *V 14.41,,,444,01141.P.111141,..- NEED ENGLISH The Catholic Deputation Interview James Whitney. French Schools ad Bi -Lingual Schools Wanted. Toronto, Feb. 21. --That• the Provin- cial Government should recognize the existence of belhigual schools was the eequest made of Sir Antes Whitney mid members of the Government by a large deputation of Freech-Canadians froin various parts of lite province who visited the Parliament buildings. on Settirday erternoon. The visitors were introduced by Mr. A, Aubin (Nipissinge, ana were headed by Mr. J. N. Vincent, of Ottawa. Rev. Father Lehel, of North Bay, and kr,. J. U. Seguin, of Ottawa. The eeputation dealt only with separs ate schools. Thm They asked that all pri- ary schools, where the Majority of the pupils were from French homes, should be declared officially to be Frenchschools, and that in all clones where 25 per cant. of the pupils were French the trustees should regime instruction to be given in French reading, spelling, compo- sition and literature. The authorization ore series of French readers and textboete was also urged upon the Government. en. the high schools, else, it was submitted that in entrance examinations, which the pupil's from belingual schools partiespated;there should be questions on French subjects, and. that the standard on English subjects • should be less for these pupils than for English pupils. lin lingual inspectors were, they maintain- ed, necessary, and the establithetent of continuation classes hi le -lingual schools, where no provision' for French subjects was mac in the high schools with parti- cipation . la the Cloverumeut to such classes. They also asked English -French Model Schools paid an English -French depart- ment of the Normal schools. The deputa- tion also pointed out thee the e,epitrate schools, and an English -French depart- ment for extension to school yards. Opposition to these requests, Mr. Vin- cent stated, resulted from misunder- standing. "We in Ontario," he said, "are anxious to learn English. We recognize that it is .n. eecessity." Sir "J'ames Whitney said the whole subject was a serious one and slatted be considered. from all standpoints. "We will," said he, 'go into 11 Viol- oug,hly, lionestly and carefully. That is all I can say at present Detroit, Feb. 20. -An announceritent by the attorneys defending Dr. George A. Frit& to the effect that they will place fifty witnesses on the stand makes it unlikely that the trial of the physi- cian will be eoncluded within another week. The plan of the defence as revealed in the opening address of Attorney Lodge yesterday will demand: the com- plete refutation of the testimony of the State's star witnesses. Dr. Frit& will not claire an alibi, He will admit beirig in his office the afternoon and evening of the day Mabel Millman is :laid to have forfeited her life, The testimony of Mrs. Joseph 'eV. Leach, the chauffeurs wife, who told of receivirig a telephorie message from Dr. Fritch requesting her husband to call hini up, will be granted its true. But instead of Wanting Leaelds automobile to assist in the concealment of a Milne the defence will claim rritch wished it for an altogether different purpose, that of taking a patient to WS bow. FLOOR 111,101PED. MORE MAD DOGS Two More Heads Sent to Toronto Affected With Rallies, prison system in force in Ontario when the new Central Prison at Guelph, fa finally opened, for occupation. Under the preesut system it is generally recog, nized that the family of a convict suf- fers oven more severely than the eon- dentned man himself. The taking away of the bread winner means something very near to starvation for the inno- cent olio; and this often has something to do with influencing the judges in giv- ing a sentence. One of the most inn portantef the proposed relearns will provide for the payment to the family of the convict of at least a part of the =ridings which will be credited to tint for what he does while in custody. The work the prisonera will do will be large- ly municipal or colonization work in the form of road making, and farm work on the prison farm, FISITERY REPORT. Toronto, Ont., Feb, 21, -:The anneal report of the Department of Game and Fisheries is issued today, aria Mr. E. Tinsley, of Hamilton, Superintendent of Game and Fisheries, reports an unusually successful year. Ile has a. few things to say about the •methods of the Dominion Government in issuing epeelel peruke to fish for Whitefish in certhin portions of Lake Erie during the epawning season. Ile says in part: "I regret that the ab- surd and unwise regulations that have prevailed in pertions of Lake Erie for some years are still in effect, by which fishermen in blies° favored localities are still allowed to violate the laws of nature and common sense with impunity, The Department experiment of raising bass fingerlings in e pond at Brantford Ines been most successful, Twenty-five theusand of these little fish were sent throughout the Province. A series of these ,ponds will beestab- Halted de the near future. .The sale of angling permits this year nee in excess ef last, giving proof of the increased tourist draffia in Ontario. Less illegal fishing tvas done by these tourists this year than ever before. it • Toronto, Feb. 21.-Twe more eases of rabies have been reported from tbe Pro- vincial laboratory. Examinations have been made of the heads of two dogs sent from London and Drew Station, and each bits been found. to heve beesi irt- fected with rabies. In both cases it is inferred that the animals lied bitten human beings, as no other head sr are ac- cepted. at the laboratory here. The heads of the dogs which have bitten other Animals are sent to Ottawa. Dr. Chas. A. Hodgetts, secretary of the Provincial Board of Health, pointed out to the Times this morning that it is mammy foremunicipidities to page special laws in order to make seetion 540 of the public health act, under which the catching, impounding and killing of dogs is regulated, operative. SeVeral places have been in doubt about this, and have written or telephoned to the departmeut for information. They have been told that sueh by-laws are neces- sary at once. Toronto, with its Board of Police Comnaissioners, is an exception to this laW. • PRISON LABOR, It is more than likely that there will be some radical changes in the present A Panic Created at tile Poseral of Wiluisor Young Lady. Windsor, Feb. 20. -During the funeral serviecS over the body of Mine Gladys Pennington, an eetimable youtg Wind- sor girl, nt the parentie residence on Karl place this afternoon the floor of the entire lower portion of the house gave way, and. fell a dietanne of two fret. Women unearned and eeteral feinted. The cenket tottered and would have fallen, bet eves eitved by the pall- bearers. The }tense was crowded vrith friends of the faintly, and the tine/seal weight emoted the jnista W give way. ilo Ma was hart, teat the serviers of a phyai Itdati were required to celm the nerves Of like Wetted Wevmen, FOUND DEAD. Mysterious Death of an Old Halifax Man, ASQUITH. WON'T BE BULLIED Question *f Veto or .Budget in Nouse of .Commons. W.R. Sovereign will Not be Dictated to Nor Drawn Into Partisan Warfare Asquith Independent But Nobody Wants Another Electios, Halifax, Feb. 20.-Guysboro was ex- cited last Sunday on hearing that old Michael McPherson, who lived alone on a farm in the reserve, four miles from Boylston, had been found dead under very suspicious circumstances. When the doctor and, coroner entered the house ther found. the 'one man dead upon the floor of the kitchen with 11 broad axe at his side and a large bore rifle within reach, also lying on the floor. The chairs andbenches were overturned, clothes and. kitchenware strewn about the floor, and at first glanee everything looked as though a mortal combat had taken place, in which deceased had met his death. Much to the surprise of many of those present it was found that there were no injuries on the body whith could have caused death, neither was there any evidenee of poisoning. His watch, some money and other valuables were found scattered. about, but none missing, so fer as could be ascertained, and, after hearing doctorsnevelence and 'others', the coroner's jury decided that decerieed eame to his death by natural causes, and explained the condition of elle room by the supposition that he had been deliriout before he died. McPher- son was unmarried and was reported to have considerable money. DIED OF WOUND. imowerii.r.woor London, Feb. 20, -The central fact in the political situation is that there has been no change la the attitude ot Mr, Asquith, who still holds to the programme of the • Government - namely, the Budget filet and then the auti-Lords resolution, The month's holiday at Easter tvill be follewecl by it fiesh attack on the House or Lords with A general election, probably lit tY• 4 he Premier is still convinced that see finances of the couutry are the most urgent mitten and must lie rep- larised 'before the end of the finan, trial year, The threats of John Red- mond and the Labor party make no bniression on him. It is said that. he is quite ready for a dissolution if de- feated by their votes in the Reuse of C° an541.1iliniuhnils' uisbor sual call issued by the Govern- ne out by the remarkable ment Whip yesterday, warning the reel - eel members that an "important divieion is expected before the debate on the ad- dress has been reached," pleading with them tu be in attendance on Monday oh ternoon, This would seem to indicate that the decisive euestien of the order of the Government procedure -namely, whether thoenBdauy.dget or the veto shall first be raised -will 'be settled without delay on Ai PREMIER'S HAND NOT FOROBD. New York, Feb. 20.-A cable despatch to the Tribune from I. N. Ford, its Lon- don correspondent, says: There is no evidence ,that the Prime Minister's hand has been forced by factional intrigues and hole -in -the -corner diplomacy, Hot and cold fits have followed one another at the National Liberal Club during the week, and there Is a .final reaction ageinst secret negotietiops and genes- tional journalism. If Mr, Asquith cannot command the coalition groups and secure tbe passage of the belated finauce mea- sures no rival can do it on either Bide of the !muse, and e general election is inevitable. That is the sum of the whole mat- ter, and. since an election is not want- ed by any section of the House there is a reaeonable expectation ahat it may be avoided. Certainly the prospect of harmonious action among the three groups which are opposed to the Lord's interferenee with the Com - Mons' control over finance is likely to improve when the debates begirt, and Mr. Asquith has an opportunity for explaining what he meant by safe- guards and guarantees, and in what circumstances he looks for support from the Crown in the event of a disagreement of the Houses over the veto. Loose talk will cease about ob- taining pledges from the King before the veto bill has been introduced, on au actual majority either for or agstinst the budget has been ascertained by a de- cisive division in the Commons. - Whatever may be the immediate or ultimate effect of the Government's policy, it is safe to torecast that the Sovereign will riot be subjected to dic- tation nor dragged lido partisan war- fare, and that Mr. Asquith tvil 'stand or fall as a self-respecting Prime Min- ister. He lacks a majority indepeed- cut and powerful enough to justify a demand for. guarantees if he ever in- tended to make it, yet he will not be bullied by factions nor diverted from a rational course of action which makes finance the most urgent issue and leads up to legislation on the veto power, with a dissolution in due time. As A normal' consequence the faction leaders and Mr. Balfour must face the situation if financial chaos is pro- duced by the prematere downfall of the' on'y government capable of restoriug authority for the taxes. Tirel NEW MINISTERS. Egyptian Preinier Succumbs to As sasins Bullet. Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 21.---Boutres Paella Ghali, the Egyptian Premier and. Min- ister of Foreign Affairs, who was shot by a student yesterdayedied at 8 o'clock this morning.. • The aseasstn, who is in eustody, is a Nationalist, and deelardS that he sought to avenge. certain acts. of the Government, which were displeashig to the Nationalists. ,..tieminimaidomosiosOmmiamon AS this very remarkable preparation Is now called, is the greatest Constitutional Remedy over known for Brood..Mares, Cons, Stallions sand an other horses; also Distemper among Dogs and Sheep. This compound Is made Or the 'retest ingredients and not tut atom of poisonous or injurious nature enters: into its ootnpoMtion. Many persons are now tatting SPOHN'S for La Grippe, Colds, Coughs, Fade ney Trouble, etc., and it is always sae. It expels the Disease Germs from the body acts directly on the Blood and Glands. SPORN'S Is new sold by nearly every drug- gist and hernese dealer in the land, and anY can get it for you. Fifty dents and $1.00 bottle, and 46.00 e.nd $11.00 the dozen. Heeard of Annual Sales. let Year....... . 1,052 tottlee freed 2n Year ...• 4.864 3 Year 4th Yeas. 6th Year 601 Year lth Year Hard fighting has been gain on for three days in Nicaragua. Captain Arthur L. Armstrong, Toronto, died at St. Augustine, Fla. Mr. C. R. /tenter, a Toronto mar- ble dealer, died following a drake of apoplexy. Seven Italian oounterfeiters were *en- teaced to prison Wine rangiug from fit - teen to thirty years, at New York. A man was seen to deliberately ehoot Id a T. & N. 0. Railway Wanting ear at Cebalt. Mr, George Leng, a prominent retired fanner of Pickering, dive suildenly, agesi 00 years. A cotupany has been formed at Nia- gara, Palle to build A railway to Niagara- onithe-Lake. Mr. Shirley Denton has been appoint, ed lecturer on real property in the Law solow, Toronto. Rev. Dr. Barclay, nester of St, Paul's Church, hfoutreal, has aunounced that he will resign on Oct. 1. The recount of local option bellots in Tuckersinith bas increased the majority for local option from three to four. 0,266 19,150 40,284 72,380 100,332 8th Yoe 124,500 Stit Year ..... 172,435 10th Year 221,760 lith Year .... 12t5 Year ..... .278462 leth Year •,, .. . ..... 308,720 " 14th Year 348.260 " " llith Tear 607,364 ' 11 41 41 It 44 04 la 11 44 44 44 11 al 44 14 14 0 Send for our Booklet of twelve good recipe* for family and, stock niedioinee, FRE& Distributors All Wholesale Druggists Spohn Medical Co. ClIEMISTS AND DACTE2101.011112 00SiieNe INDIANA) U. Se Aa London, Feb. 20: -Premier Asquith has filled the vacancies in the Minis- try, which is an indication that he at Teat expects the Government to pass safely through the crisis. The new Ministers are: Wm, Wedgewood. Beim and Ernest Jos. Soares, junior Lords of the Treasury; Edwin Samuel Monta- gue, Under Secretary for India, and Ce- cil Wm' Norton, Agistant Postmaeter- General. Mr. Norton succeeds Sir Beery Norman, who failed of election. es- as Jacob Weiler, a. well-known fernier( residing neer New Germany, died sud- denly on Sunday morning while at week. It is reported that the Janea buititee, on the northeast corner of lenge and Bing etreets, Toronto, has been sold for 5750,000. Fourteen immigrants held at Halifroc for deportation by the immigration of-. finials -were released on a writ of eas corpus. k. Mr. John IL Bellwood, a well known retiree farmer'dropped deed while working in thefruit house at Newcastle, Ont. Heart disease was the. cause. The battleship North Dakota soon will be the first vessel of the Anteriean riaVy on whieh the officerke food will be cook- ed on electric ranges and ovens, The Michigan Central Itaitivey hap definitely decided to put into use a system of despatching all trains by tele- phone between Windsor and St. Thomas, Two head of cattle belonging to Ben Side?, near Stevensville, 'were bitten by it mad dog some time ago, and, have since died. This eistrict is muzzling the dogs. According to the British official re turn'Canada takes second place among the leading countries of the world in its percentage of increase in trade dur- ing tbe last decade., At Birmingham, George Stephens, son of a prominent mine operator, shot and killed three of his little children, shot and fatally wounded their colored nurse, and then shot himself. A fine new temple erected at Keno= by Gold Hill Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., at a. cost of fifteen thousand Jolters, was opened on Friday evening by Senator Derby. shire, Grand Master of Ontario. Two suicides took place in Winnipeg on Sunday. A Galician named Hanc.e- seek hanged himself in the north end of the city, and a. Frenehman named Le doux shot himself in his boarding-house, BLEW UP. • Explosion in Toronto Blows Manhole Covers Up in the Air. Premier hits refused to retire, decitz'Lug that the fortheombig eleettomi will dee eirle the 141140. S. 0 Sinieey, Iseeel of the firm Qi R. Shorey & Co., wholesale elothiere, if.ents real, and one of the best known busbies* men IA Montreal, died on Sunday in his ii0th year after a prolonged illneae, The 81. Themee Y. lif. 0. A. directors have received an offer of e5,000 from a citizen on condition that 05,000 l. nits - ea ler it new building, erre have diesided, oe a funingettiug caulpeign (luring April, The bailing 'will be erected on the site of the present one, oppoolte the City Hall, George I. lielm, WhO WAF$ rrOS1deat of tbe United States nankin; Company, of Mexico City, width went Into the 114444 of A receiver eeevral weeks ago, was en restee at it sanitarium on a, allarge of breath of trusts It is charged tiled mining etock given as security for leitha is miseing,- . The Nassau, Geraiany's first Dread- nought, has succesefully undergone 0. Ae^ mere test, wbich wee highly gratifying to the neve" officers. All her Kole' large and smell, were fired simultaneous- ly withbattle ammunition, without the slightest damage to ally of her fittiugs or inetalletiens. Rev, 3. .„7, -Ross announced to bie congregation in Dovercourt Reptist Church, Toronto, yesterdey morning his determinatioe to decline the invitetion extended to him some weeks ago to be- come pastor in the First Bantle'. Church, Aenherst, Nova, Scotia, at a ealary of 53,000. "What is this anyway -a steamsbip or it dovecotP" asked thegallant captap of the steamship Oceania as it steamed from New York on Saturday for the Bermudas, On board were no leas than fifty-two newly -married couples, wider is the record passenger list for newly.. weds. It is stated at 'Borne that in the event of the failure of the negetiations be, tweeri Italy and Canada, in the matter of granting the most,favorechnation chime treatment, to Italian silks, repri- sals are likely he follow and the marl - mum tariff will be adopted here on all Canadian products. Mr. George Bell, one of the mei. noted dog fanciers and judges in Amer- ica, died suddenly oil Sunday night of heart failure at his home, GO Beach ave- nue Toronto, aged 61 years. While Mr, eieliewas a lover of int kinds of dogs, his specialty was the raising of fox ter. riers and eoeleer spaniels. ' Dr, Frederielc A. Cook, being afforded an opportunity at Santiago, Chile, on Saturday to make public it etatement re- garding his claim of Mining discovered the North Pole and which was diseredit- el by the University of Copenbagen, flatly refused to grant an, interview. His sole expression was that he wished to be left in peace. " In accordance with the recent deci- sion of the Board of Police Commission- ers to increese the Toronto police force to 475 members, fifty men ape wanted by the department. Announcement is made of one of the most important Montreal uptown real estate deals of the year in the sale of the Art Gallery on Phillips square for $275,000. The purchaser is Mr. James Maher, Cardinal Gibbons has accepted the in- vitation of Archbishop Paul Bruchesi, of Montreal, Canada,. to attend the first American Eucharist Congress of the Catholic Church, to be held in that city in September. ' The Marine Department is arranging for an adequate system of Government inspection of canned fish of all kinds produced. in Canaan for export or inter- provincial trade. At. present there is no Government inspection of canned fisb. The discovery of a uew plot at Car- acas, Venezuela, against the Govern- ment and in the interest of former Pres- ident Castro, has caused a sensation. Many arrests of prominent persons have been made. An important extension to the N., St C. & T. Railway will be built this spring -when a line will be construeed from P6ort Colborne to Port Erie and Briageburg, conneeting this city with Crystal Beath. Charles Sayeau, a- farmer living four miles from the village of Cardinal, is a patient at the St Vincent de Paul Hos- pital, minus a large portion of his left arm. He was oiling a power Saar when the horses started unexpectedly. Toronto, Feb. 21.-A series of text ex- plosions of gas of terrific force, follows ing each other in suciihrapia suecession es to be practically simultaneous, ow- ed a great, deal of excitement iit some of the Toronto streets Oii Saturday After. mien, and made it uppor for a few leo. mente AS if the city was being hombarded with shells. When one considers the force of thot eeplosionn whielt hut'. ed ten hetivy hem covers of the Bell TeleSionts tionmeny manholes from their places in the roadways many feet in the air, breaking many of them into several .pieces, One cannot but won- der that many people were not injur- ed or killed. irortunattly the blow- outs oceurred on streets that were not erowded, awl the only persosi who sustained injuries was Police Constable Wallaee (291), who, while standing at the earner of Huron and Sr. Patrick streete, was hurled about doyen or eight fectetway. His faee end clothing were seoiebea and hie leg wrenched, but hi$ injutiee were not of a serione neture. Ile Will be off duty fer a few nays. 'rite cause ol the explosions is bo lieved to hare beers gas which lied tamped, front the main into the cable rondnit of the Telephotte Compeny, becoming ignited by it spark from de- fective inisulation. So quiekly did the Ignition spread through the candult, that the covets which wore frozen in their sockets in the re/Owens were blown out almost et the twee time. .44444.4.0.4400111.41140*****". CHAMBERI.AIN AT CANNES. Canes, France, Pelt. 215-4eeeph Cham- berlain, the British seittestriten wire kt feeble 'resat% &trivet& here te-dsey. A seetion of plaster about twenty feet square fell from the seiling in a moving picture theatre at Brockville on Saturday night. The place was filled. at the time, but fortunately the injuries sustained were of a minor nature. Fire at the house of J. L. Lambourne,. on. Gray street, London, on Saturday night, while he was absent, gutted sev- eral retinue and among other things, de- stroyed a pair of trousers in the pocket of which he had left $208 in bills. The Italian ship F. S. Clamps, with all of her crew, was lost in a gale oif Dunwoody Bay. The wreckage came Ashore at Queenstown. It is understood that the crew numbered twenty, and. some of the bodies have been recover- ed. It seem in London. Eng,. as though the day of the *horse :kir certain purposo is corning back again. After being al - meet Ostracizetl for some four or five years, horses are again being usea for driking in the park end for afternoon calling. Mir. II. F. ndarleg, who for Seven years has been pastor of the First Bap- tist Church, Halifax, surprised the ecni- gregetion an Sunday by announcing hie resignation, to take effect at the end of My. Ile -stated that he had accept- ed a eall to a church in Vancouver. There nee been a robbery of &moue works of Art from the museum at Vein one, Italy. Six valuable eixteenth cen- tury paintinge by 13Orgegtone, five by Mitheletto dello Bettaglie and one, rep. resenting Diatia and the shepherd, by an unknovrn author, have been stolen, telegrithe wap neeelvea by Mr. Gor- don Stonehouse, 064 Gerrard street erten Toronto. telling of the death at Itotheie ter, Mitre, if his brother, Mr. George R. Stenehouse, aged 26 years. 'Ile young num, who Was it motorman on the street railway in Itoehester, was electrocutea while In charge of a ear. This friends of the forMer Spenish Premier Moret nave united.. in oppotation to Premier Cenalajas, claiming that lie 15 not the loader of the Liberal perty, Mei bending that he resign and permit Ceterteledleneral Weyler, the los mer Mine later of War, to form a Cabinet. The AFTER OUTLA Bin Hwy Trued To Wnd Califor- nia Settleffient• St as Angeles, Onl.asb.20.-Dill Timmy, train robber, gun fighter, murderer eiad OlatlAW, on W11060 head, demi er there is a priee of $4,000, bas been traekee it thelleand Miler item Caetula to the ealithasiae Hills, and now notes that wild. settlement iv terror, Apnea with euppreseee OxeitenP3nt and fear of the fugitive, wile hae sworn never to be taken, alive. Tnit beat trainee onions of the Can. adien GovernMent Are hirlden in the feet - 1104040 of the wintry, twittered every moment, in the hope of caching the des. Pored° tuntereeee, and tool detectives and, deputy elimiffs in. all Mamier of aiegmses are helping in the nun hunt. Meanwhile, Ilaney is frequently seen riding on the roads, alone, alert and unafraid, a nine aerOlas the pommel of his saddle one revolvers at bend. De. zens of farmers who knew him years ago hone inet him and conversed with nine but he has told them little. lie sleeps entrenched in it stone hut above a gorge. Officers would be courting death to cross his path and a men nsy- ing to embush hint in a wooded re- gion of Whien he knows every loot would: probably atop his unerring bul- let. e, Haney left Calabasas twenty years ago withhis brother John and, four years later was sent to the peniten- tiary for three years. Whsn released the 'brothers fled to the United State. With skill and cunning they planeed the robbery of a Canadian .Paelfie train last June, Dropping on to the tender near Ducks, where the engine atopped for water, they and four se- complices subdued the crew at the point of their revolt:era and econpelled the fireman to break open the express ear, They had expeeted the ear to contain a, valuable lot of silver bul- lioh, but found nothing of value in it. After going through a number of the paesenger coaches the bandits took to a boat on Lake Shuswap and escaped. A week later'Constable Isaao Deck- er, of Ashcroft, British Columbia, found t he two Haneys descending the Thompson River in a rewboat. Cov- ering them with his revolver, he or- dered the men to surrender. They pretended to obey, but es they stepped ashore one of them fired and Decker fell, mortally wounded. Aa he went down, however, the constable's rifle spoke, and -John Haney was killed. Bill, leaping over the prostrate bodies of the two rnenentuide his escape, and has iinee aucoesifelly defied arrest. ' Miss Martha Macpherson., whowith her sister,' was Attacked, in their little home in the township of Asphodel, three' miles east of the village of Norwood, on January 27, died on Sunday, and a charge of murder will likely be prefer- red against her alleged assailant, Rob- ert Henderson, who is in jail here awaitingpretrial.info rmat ion received at De- troit from Nega.unee, Mich., states that George 3. Maas and his associates when have been' operating diamond drills on lands west of the American mine for the past three years have just located the largest body of ore that has been found on the Marquette iron range since the discovery of the Maim mine. While Mrs. George Nydes was at Pittsburg Theatre on Saturday after- noon, her bome caught fire and a 8- mm:tars-old babe was burned to death. Another infant, 20 -months -old, was so badly burned that it is dying. George Nydes, ion., the father, is au invalid. Ho was overcome by. smoke trying to rescue his children. On Saturday the mausoleum at Mer- thyr, -Tydfil, Wales, belonging to Sir William Lewis, the great Welsh coal owner, was forced, and the coffin of the late Lady Lewis was broken open. The body was not disturbed. It is believed that the perpetrator of the outrage was after the diamond rings that were bur- ied with Lady Lewis, and that he became unnerved and fled. .A. Wheel & Lake Erie Railroad freight engine, running wild, crashed through a trestle over a creek fifteen miles from Wheeling, Va., falling a. distance of thir- ty feet and burying the engineer, fire- man and two brakemen, riding in the cab, beneath a twistee mass of iron. The fireman was killed. The three oth- er trainmen were probably fatally in efiuedfThree effect at Cleveland, 0., marking the -cent car fares have gone it no end of the traction war begun by Tom L. Johnston in 1901. The three -cent fare is to be continued eight months, the Taylot grant, approved Thursday, pro- vided for eked for that period. If the rate of fare fails to show a six per cent. profit in eight months, a higher fere may be charged. Kitchener's recommendations for the defenee of Australia call for practically the same expenditure as the defence bill, £1,742,000. lie suggests that the land force be 80.000. half garrison and half mobile, comprising 34 battlions of infan- try, 28 regiments light horse, 56 batter- ies of artMery and 14 companies of en- gineers, etc. He advises a minimuin camp training of six days annually. eable despatch to the 1d. Y. Sun frotA London Eng., says: Ex -Premier Arthur a, Balfour is suffering from a cold. His followers are much worried lest he should be unable to attend the nession of the House of Commons ori ?,foraley, for which the Ministry has seed out an urgent "whip," saying an important vote would be taken. Speakhig at the Constitutional Club, Landed, Beg., Donald McMaster, M. P Med that his experience had convinced him that with education, OrganiaitiOn and preparation, Some tit or eight moaths beforehried, two-tbirde of the divinione of the United Eingasini cotild lie tarried for the INIOhiSt policy. Ite believea the question of navy and stational security had a tretvisndoue effect, on the votes east. ATE CHUIVI. •••••*...01 Two Prospectors Alleged to Have tined Off Companion's Body. MINEBOSSSHOT At Mouth of St. .Paurs Mine at Cherry, Ill. Cherry, Ill., Feb. 21. -Au attempt to assassinate one of the St. Paul Coal Company's bosses added. to the trag- edy of Cherry's mine disaster to -day. Melis Mandita, a dismissed employee, stepping up behind Charles Atherton, a =WV -appointed top boas at the St. Paul mine'in whieh nearly 300 were kited last November, whipped out a re- volver, crying, "To pay you back," fired three shots. Atherton fell, probably' fatally wounded. The, shooting occurred during the work ef recovering the 166 or more bodies which have been entembed hi the mine since, the fatal fire. Eleven bodies had been brought up. Atherton was standing at the mouth of the shaft, or- dering the hoisting of the bodies. About the mine entrance stood a cire-le of widows and orphans all eager to learn whether the next loody would be theirs. Suddenly three ahots were fired in rapid =cession, min a man 'dasheel from the crowd, leaving the apeetators in confusion. A 'hundred miners ran after the fugitive, who was captured with the revolver still in his hand. Mandita said he shot Atherton because the latter had refesed to give him it job. liontreal. Feb. 21.-A member of the Provincial police of Ontario Is here to try to Iooate it witness who is want- ed to give information contenting what it is claimed to be a clear case 01 eannibalism in the eountry north of Cobalt. It Is alleged that three Americans, who were prospeeting, pt lost stow storm. The body of one .of them was found in 'the steer near it atako betting the manes et tit outer two. The body had evidently been cat up into *beaks and joints. MILLION A MONTH. Increase in Customs Revenue Dar- ing Fiscal Year. Ottawa, Feb. 21.-Canadie8 trade for January totalled 551,500,102, an increase of 512,322,627, or nearly 30 per cent. ever the eorressionding month of last year, and constituting it record: for the month. For the first ten months of the present fiscal year the total trade has been 5563,986,780, an increase of 595," 610,931, or about 20 per cent. The ims porta last month totalled $30,253,852, an iticrease of 57,140,225 over January, 1909. Exports of domestic products totalled, $20,258,406, an increinie of 54,871,084. For the ten months imports have totalled 5302,030,207, sun inerease of 560,078,445. Exports of domestic produets for the ten menthe totalled 5241,375,219, an in- crease of 531,404,708. Of this increase, about 516,000,000 was be exports of afgri• cultural produtts, and seven and a half millions in exports of the forest. Ex- ports of manufactures show art increase of nearly two millions. The customs revenue for the month Wes 54,0064402, an inereate of 5044,037. For the ten moriths the customs revenue hits been 548,002,450, an inerege af $10,261,341, or a little over it million a month. PERJURY CHARGE. •14144.414461. Young Married Man of Niagon Falls Arrested. Niagara Innis despatch: .After being married only a few days, William Glese sore it prominent young electiieloal of thin eitte Wad pleated to•night and log*. cd in the dells. The &ergo against hbu is perjury, Ara the information wen kid by J. W. Bradley, his father-M.14w. Gleason married Miss Rhea Bradley, daughter of a local tontractor, on St. Valentine's Day, in spite of her &them stern opposition. He Wore MS bride Was over eighteen years of age, and the ceremony was conducted by Rev. David A. lkioir at the Methodist parsonage here. Bradley seers his daughter is only sixteen. The father says lus will try to have the marriage annulled. '0 0* imetioal.ii.41 JAP LAND *LOW. Tokio, Feb. 2I. -1i. bill was Int in the Diet today providing that na eigner may own land In Japan iisn15as is it native of a country which pevaillas 1 Japanese to own land vrlibita lta bona*. aria& •