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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-03-03, Page 7THE LIBERAL GOVERMENT. Asuth llos Accepted No Dictation From Any Group. Rumor That Referendum Will -Taken on the Question. Will Probably Make a Statement the House To.day, Loudon, Feb. 27.—The month is. elo big evith the fete of the Carom* still banging in the balance if John Re mond sticke to his determination to le his Irielt followers against the badge Unles6 the Government not only di closes a scheme of dealing with the ve of the House a Lords, which he proves, but also gives assurance that can down the Opposition of the Ler to. this scheme, no. means. are appare by which the Government can leave tl budget. Strong rumor e ere current of a profound change in the political situa- tion following Prime Minister Asquitide audience with the King yesterda,y, Xn- rnediateiy after the audience Mr. As- summoaed hiscolleagues to a Cabinet council, which tested three hours. The impression prevails liere that the •Preinier surreedered to the 3allett1 extremists, who object to reforms of the Lords being discuseed befon the veto question is tackled. NO BITTER FEUDS IN CABINET. New York, Feb. 26.—,A. cable despatch to the Tribune from London says; Ac- cording to the best information obtain. Able, there are no bitter feuds within the Cabinet, but merely honest differ - oleo of opinion respecting the most .ef- fective procedure agams tthe Lords, The report that Sir Edward Grey has threat - enact to resign office is a canard, and equally untrustworthy has been the ru. mor that a combination has been formed to drive the Clutuctilor of the Excheciaer out of office. The burried visit of the Prime Minister to Buckingham Panto gave rise to rumors that hie resignation WS impending, but these have beeu promptly contradicted with the story that Witston Churchill is holding out evith David Lloyd -George against the majority of the Ministry. It is more probable that Mr. Churchill is acting as peacemaker in the Cabinet, siding with the majority, and is seekino to bring the disappointed Clutacellor °to reason and to call of ehe indiscreet Itedical editors. The Cabinet has been divided into two well-defined groups of temporary tacticians, and far-sighted statesmen. One bas favored a simple, straigntfor- ward policy for the limitation of the powers of the House of Lords without a change in 4the constitution �f the hereditary chamber. The oth- er has looked beyond. the immedi- ate necessity of Bilking together the groups making up the coalition, and has recognized the, necessity of fram- ing a statesmanlike reform bill, cora- prehensive in scope, on which the Government can appeal to the coun. try at the .next election. Meanwhile, before either resolutions or a bill, can be produeed, there is Sir Henry palziel's amendment to the Prime) Ministenhe motion for giving precedeace to. Government business until Easter. When the crisis coznes it will prob- ably turn out that a Cabinet agree - anent has already. been reached, mad that a basis of eoint action for the coalition has been found temporarilly on the veto question, yet the situation cannot b described otherwise than as critical. STILL CONTROLS THE SITUATION: While every section of the coalition is suffering from attack of nerves, even so hopeful a Radical as H. W. Maseingham, the editor of The Nation; cannot suggest a better way eta of the deadlock than the adoption of a refer- endum, width would convince the King of the zteeeseity for guarantees and also keep the Government in of- fice without a general eleetion. These counsels of despair may be dispelled by the 'united, if 'belated, action of the Cabinet an the resolute bearing of the Primo Minister, who has not yet accepted dietation from any group and is still master of the precarious situation, since he alone can straigh- ten out the finances before the end of March, and since every section of the Commons is anxious to avoid a prema- • ture appeal to the ountry. Tho less influential Peers are in greater danger front Lords Itosebery and Curzon than they are from the distracted Radical patty. Lord Rose- bery -will take an early opportunity of proposing the reform of the upper Chanther from within, and Lord Cur- zon hap been -working out a practical echento for convetting it into a smaller and more effieient body of legislative peers. Practical politicians on the Conservative side agree that the party must have a definite whom° for the reform of the upper rfous *before the next general election, since a body of • hereditary legislators, pure and sim- ple, cannot be defended in the indus- trial north and Stobland, or anywhere outside of feudel England. A. despatch to the Sun from London Rays: The new Asquith Government ha e servived the first week of its exist- eno lonely by the grao ef the Uniou- ist opposition desire to aid an itn- mediate oriole. This feeling is so strong, even among the opponents of the Government, that a eufficient own - her of *Unionist members were instruc- ted lett tighb by their whips to ab- ets& front. voting, and the Cabinet thus escaped defeat. There aro persistent 'rumors from labial that the Government will be defeated. William O'Brien, in a pub - Halted artiele, deoloreo that. john Itedmona, leadet of the Nationaliete, is &Voted to fillet that Mr. O'Brien's violet on the Budget were right, and has now decided to seize an (mike etttelity than that orhielt the Budget affords of ending the Gov. eininenet's exigence. There is a pose sibility thab the Cabinet .nn MnInlAY 32143,* be defeated by a combination of the Nationalists and a, eeetioti of the Itaddeale. The idea of the Govern. toot attain office by the help •of „ the Coneervittives is repugnant to afl oat -loos oolong the Lileerale. 'Ilte Labor party-, owing tq the re- ed tho minors to provide a Can. Mate, will offer no oppotiott to the ideation of Mr. j. A. Pose inthe Itotherhatt divhdon of Yorkkire. Mr. Perna was defeated at the tree- eral election Th the Saffeert "Weldon divislon of teen. Ths appeinfanent to the Cabinet makes it aeoeseary for hint o ftstd 1 oat, FOR CHURCH WORK. Ar hhishops of Canterbury and York Issue an AppeaL ,VP Loudon, Feb. V.—The Archilishepe of Canterbury and York have bawd aa an. peal in couneetion with church wselt in Western Canada, and they 46k for. in. Wrest, inane; men and money. They wis3t to send fifty men yearly for a oe. eade. At a vonvoeation the Arclibiehop of Canterbury referred to the apped. Most of the bishops knew that eh Arab- an the outeide were begiuu ng to understand the unique responsol.ity which would rest upon them in .1,gaed to the thousands of their fella*. countryenext who are laying the teen - elation of a great 114tiOn in Wes%ern Canada. As inetters stood, the Chnealt of England is not the primary -religious force which is telling Among ti (se who settle in that vest diste et; Magnificent oppoztuntties -were afford- ed the younger clergy for serving the 41106 there, 04* FORGERY CFIARGE. George Whitfield Brought Bach From Eneanel. aloutreal, Feb. 27.—George White- field, wit° is now beinn brouglet back to Montreal, is wanted here on a charae of issuing a forged cheque. He was here last year from England with a party of Cook's tourists, and it is alleged that while in Montreal he pawed a forged cheque for $150. He was finally traced to England and arrested there about a month ago. Detective Gorman was tient to being him back, and while Gorman was On the other side ha was summarily (Unlined by Chief of Police Campeau for insubordination, Campeau claiming that the detective had no right to go on the order of Chief Carpenter, of the de- tective force without reporting to hina The dismissal, of course, did not effect Gorman's mission, and with the new ad- ministration that has come into office between the detective's dismissal and, his return to Montreal, it is not known what will happen to him on his return. 4 41, WEDS MILLIONAIRE. Former Waitress at Vancouver Ncw on. Her Honeymoon. Victoria, B, C., Feb. 27.—Step1ien Jones, owner of the Dominion Hotel here, the Jones Meek in Vancouver, and other properties in British Columbia cl- efts representing a valuation of o -ver a million, was worried in Los Angeles, Cal., to Miss Elizabeth Thompson, for- merly of New Westminster, and has stetted with his bride en a two years' round -the -world ramble. Miss Thompson applied to Jones about two years ago for work in the (Bring - room of the Dominion, and was engaged as waitress. Her attractiveness and her brightness won her speedy promotiou to the cashier's desk, and later, at Jones' urging, she went to a 'ladies' college. Her engagement to her former em- ployer was announeed privately •tao months ago. QUESTION OF ARREST Ambassador Bryce Interferes in International Case. Woodstock, N. B., Fcb, 27.—The re- cent arrest of William Kelly, of Rich- mond, N. B., and his subsequent convic- tion in a 'United States court at Port- land, Me., and sentenced to a fourteen - year tern in the federal „penitentiary at Atlanta for an assault ou an American customs officer, has been taken by Brit- ish Ambassador Bryce, who has made representations to Secretary taloa that Kelly was arrested by American offi- eers on Canadian territory, and. forcibly taken across the border. Ambassador Bryce, it is said, has re- quested Kelly's immediate release, and the matter of damages claimea by Kelly will be taken up later. Secretary Knox's reply to Ambassador Bryce's request is now awaited with Merest. Kelly, it is alleged, was a notorious smuggler along tto noble -New Brans - wick boundery,,and the assault on Cus- toms Offieer Burns, of Houlton, Mee was the result of a smuggling episode. * 'MOCK WAR. ••••••••••••.1, Briti h Ttoops to Repel Invasion rront Ireland. London, Feb. 28..--A feature of the autumn army manoeuvres which are new being arranged will be an heves- ion of this countey, the hostile force be- ing landed from Ireland. The pro, greannte of the manoeuvres as a. -whole will be very iriterothig. The County of Ilampsbire and parts of Dorset, Song erect and 'Wiltshire will 1* brought in - use for brigade and divisional train- ing and for the final work in Septem- ber. It is 'understood that one of the four divisione in England -.-probably the fillet, at Aldershot—will lie mobilized all war etrength and. etaployed against two others as a, test of division on a war footing. The ottonanders-hathief are not yet eeleeted, but they will to doubt be Lieut. General Sir Eforao, Smith- Dorrien and Lieut. -General Sir Charles Douglas, OR., PRITOH ON RACK. Former Drurnbo Physician Ceass. examined in Murder Trial. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 27.—or font hours yesterday De. George A 'hitch, formerly of Drumbe, Ontario, eharged with nrurder, was subjeeted to one of the most grilling oress.examinations at the hands of Pr& ecuting Attorney Van Zile that has ever been witnessed in a Detroit court. Suclge Phelan was obliged to order a noon adjournment beearise one of the proateution's rebuttal witnesses were on hand. Annonneeinent was also made that all teatimonv must he in by Monday evening, It is now confidently expeeted that the case will go to the jury not later than the middl4 of the wade. Arrested, end Consurription Cured Mr. G. D. Co1weU of Walkwilia, Ontario, was otrickon down with La, Grippe In PM and lb left him in Irez7 bad condition, Ile as I Witi ail run down and bordering on Consumptiou. could not sleep at nights, Igtd EVWftgeWeAtai and. coughed nea,47r the whole time, Thie is how X wai when I began to take roychine, ht a low nervous State but from the first -bottle 1 began to improve. It dhlroarvela for Me and hroughtme baok to health in no time, tusking a new man of me. It fortifiee the body againet tho attacka ol LaGrippe and Is a, swe Vreventative. I always take Payohine if I feel a ,aftld, corning 94 and it nuts me 3?I410; In no s, • 4 4.• yrtv 1.14. '* NO 1101XE SHOULL* 4 HOtik PSYCHINE is the Oreatoit Strentitiltei_te_rir:nd .Systein Builder known to Medical aCie9Ce. and 611001 be used for COUGHS, COS, Vrg4*„ X..,Y;`.1„cts, LOSS OP AP. PETIT WEARINESSAA " % , • ; For 84a kell prygkiste .and pesieso cons and $1, For bottle. " si7046V1Y1%".L.* 1111;0 eve - TORONTO WASHES DISHES Printer Placed in Wife's Charge Shows Humble Sphit, • She Tells ef Husband's New Duties While Twins Laugh. Steady job of printer paroled to hie wife: Doing the family washing, Helping to wash the dishes. Reporting daily on the company he keeps. • Returning home every night before 9 p. Limiting himself to three glows of beer a day. Chicago. Feb. 28, --just as a means of keeping her husband humble, .Mrs. An- na tilrieh, 1805 Warren avenue, has de- cided thae he must do the family wasla ing and help every day with the dishes, 'Plies° teens and several others aye im- posed because dudge Newcomer gave her the power in the Desplaines street court on Friday. The hueband .Charles Ul- rich, was paroled to his wife afterr being arraigned on a charge of drunkenness. "The judge told me I could boss him around and I'm going to keep him out of trouble," said Km Ulrich. 'It was a funny thing for a. judge to do, wasn't it?" "Li addition to doing the washing and doing the dishes I am going to see that be does not stay out at night. It is the gang he knocks around with that make him drink too much, and he must keep away from them. "I am going to let him have three glasses of beer a day .Beer doesn't hurt anybody that knows when to quit. Yes, I think It will reform him. "I was never in court befoo, but I didn't think our home ought to be broken up just beciause he drank too much. We get along all Tight when he keeps oboe. That was why I took him into court." Ulrich was present when his wife was talking, but had little to say. Ere mov- ed into another room -svithont a protest when she outlined the programme she I think I will refertm lane The 'Chien twins, aged O., laughed as their mother painted a word picture of their father at the washtub. In the ourtroom .Efrs. Ulrich com- plained that her husband had been drinking too much and that he had threatened her. The husband admitted that he had been drinking and was not responsible for what he said. "I'll give you a chance," said the court. "You. are paroled to this woman. She will collect your wages and give you a daily Allowance. She's gob to run the house now, Ulrich agreed to the stipulation and went home with his wife promising to be good. Judge Newcomer shied at the sugges- tion that he was reviving the probation system of judge Cleland, but admitted he was continuing many cases .to give hard drinkers a chance to reform. Ele pointed out as a difference that he did nob require the probationers to COMO in every week to report. - 4,, As a result of a tree falling upon him, hornian Payne, of Wersaw, Ont., had both legs fractured below lite knee. men had been already arrested. WANT GIRLS. Deputation of Ladies Needing Ser- vants See Premier. ,•••••••••••••.•, . Toronto, Feb. 28,—Once more the ladies who employ domestics—when they earl get them—returned to the attack this morning. They mune in ioree once, and were received by the Premier with all courtesy, but given no more enctouragement in their searoh for Government aid than they absolutely needed, turned their atten. tion to- the Agricultural Committee, That body, figuratively speaking, took ,to its heels, and to -day the ladies once more stormed the Premier's of. nee with climinished numbers, but uuquenchable enthusiasm. Miss St. John Wileman, Mrs. Monk and Mrs. Mackenzie spoke for the ladiea. They wanted to eee Sir James, but Sir James was wary, and sent a hurry up call for 1Vfr. C. C. ja,nme, Deputy Minister of Agriculture. .As before, the Premier was none too enthusiastie on the subject. He could not promise that the ladies' request for one thous- and dollars to aid in the work of get- ting domestics over here from the old lands would be granted, pointing out that the Government did not con. eider it a business -like method to deal with unorganized bodies. ' . "If we organize will we get the money?'" asked Miss Wileman. "Organize and see," was the Pre- mier's cryptic reply. •4,it/ TWO WHITE SLAVES. Totosto Girls Arrested on Way to Euffalo, Buffalo, Feb. 27.—a wo Toronto girls, giving their names as Agnes Fletcher, aged 21, and Ethel Taylor, aged 10, and two Toronto men, giving their names as Edward Armstrong, aged. 27, and Wm. Wilson, aged 20, are under arrest here and will be given a hearing before 'Unit- ed States Commissioner Robinson to- morrow morning. The girls were arrest- ed. on a train bound. for thin city at Blaek Rock last night. They declared to Immigration Inspector Landis that they' had con* to join their husbands, who had eome on ahead to establish a home for them in this city, The answer did not satisfy Landis, and in going over some letters the girls had he discovered that they were being imported. as white staves. Front the letters he learned that the men in the case were living at 418 Seiteett street. Ile enlisted the services of the police audthey visited the house. They found, the two men established in imettilotisly furnished quarters, having gob the furniture on the instalment plan. They admitted they had jut comp from Toronto. Armstrong said they had known the girls for a long time; that he was em- ployed in a cigar tore in Toronto, and that the girls said they would like to go to Baffalo, and suggested to him that Wilson and he finance the trip. He blam- ed the girls. A telegram came. to the house from the girls, notifying the mot to get away, as they had been -taken into custody. They did not know at the time that the Talks toWoment INJURIES & SKIN SORES—QUICK CURE, °A little child ran crying to her mother the other der with a nasty flesh wound and asked for Zam.ltak. („, There lies a more powerful argutnent for Zorn -Boit than even the scientists can king. The child had had Zara -Silk Wore, and knew it eased pain and healed. am-I3uk works hi two directions, Pre- vents worse results from a skin, Injury or Skin disease (such as fettering and blood poisoning) while it repairs the damage already done. Zam-Bult is entirely herbal, is pure, contains no trate of animal fat or mineral coloring. Surest and quickest known healer; • rAttieR AND SON BENITIT mom US Oil THIS BALM, - - ttr. Walter Adecas,1/7B.e11wa A. ve. rand* I* * few weeks Zam.Bak °IA irsys 1—'' My ion ime, heeled the wound re nieely the! my *On i piling barefooted abotlt the bask- Was abloom* more to go about, and ablO yard, mit hhilittle toe on the *harp age to wear his Mose without the elighteft of 1104460f tin, The too wee masb the ineenvisienoe. Not only' 1* Zara•Buic first phi, and almost *overeat Imo the 'valuable for warm& saulouts,hutr medal foot. My wife hurriedly hatted it with aa eadweiatial,1 have also found it warm Water, afterwards applying limns ass*, fer thematis pitins.10 lid Moiety epread with Zean.Buk. tn. • mum bahn -quickly choked thefiewof *teed and soothed the bed infistarastion end Serie 111f, scs.ans,ringwere., skin aiseasss. Dot. In* 1.401 &A. 411k/ 90.000 MEN MAY WALK OUT Philtylelphia Labor liiteltailMS a Sympathetic Strike. Two Killed ad Four l'urZ by Car Off Tr. ck, Sunday a Day of Rioting—Nosy Cars Ruuniug Philadelphia,28:-Deepite. the numeronsmite of violence itounnitted by riotone crowds throughout the city yes- terday and last night, the Philadelphia :Rapid Tempel; Company toe propared dile. morning to open ite varioue linos with an luereased number of cars. Tile membersof the idle Sunday throngs liave been once more traneforat- ed lino hard workiag citizens, or are erilt resting front yesterday's exciting ogled - mos, for very little difiettity was ex- itsrlyi iecnced iltsrfof tlteopflclay.eAteatiof any line in t Yesterclaya record of nearly one t;ion. sand cars operated prontilsee to be oliv..e ed Mora to -day's close. Through the central sections of the eity nutty ears are being run without even a single po. demean aboard, but la the outlying toe - tions niottntod escorts Are the rule. More important than the ability of the Rapid Transit -Company to operate its cars is the probable .effect of the smut- thetie strike decided upon by the loaders .of -every labor organization at the meeting held ye,sterday, This atonster• walleeoitt of 90,000 union workers is scheduled for next Saturday, unleee the • differences between the Roata Minn, Company and its uniou .eniployeeshave been amicably adeusted before that time. QUIET AT eileletintEllittf. ,prirlS0,10olltittsitisn letoilaethlehem, Pa., Fob, 28.—Peace South Bethlehm. eaud ite -day, but the Bethlehem Steel Company, time of whose employees.are on strike, did not succeed in resumiug work with the large force Of Men it ex- peeted to have on haml. One hundred State police and mare than one hundred speciad deputies sworn in by the Sheriff of Northempton:county were on liend to protect workers, but only a comparatively small percentage of its 9,000 men reported for duty. Most of the men wanted to work, they sly, bat are afraid to run the gauntlet of the pickets. GENERAL STRIFE ORDER. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 27.—Action fraught with possible momentous eon- segpences to Philatleitetia was takeu by the Central Labor 'Union Inet night, when that body, repreeeetting, 140 unions, which .chtim a membership of 125,000, voted to begin a sympathetic strike next Saturday in aid of the striking etrect railway employees, This (*time came ae the end of a secret session of about 700 deelgatc, in Labor Lyenum Ball which lasted mare than six hours. There waa apparently 00 queetion that the delegates would vote to strike, the split being on the queetion of whether it slieuld be tart. eel immediately, 'rhe more conserrative element prevailed and the walk-ont was put off until next Saturdey. • A man and a boy are 'dead nod flue, others were seriously hurt as a reault of 0 trolley ear jumping a switch at Sixth and Jackson streets downtown to -night end erashing into the front of a cigar etore. The dead and ininred were ill standing in front of a cigar store. There had been a disturbance down the etreet and someone had turned. the no. need switch at this point. A trolley ear driven at high epeed jumped the trine end craehed through the crowd on the eidewalk, only stopping after 11 had torn the front out of the store. Realizing that melt .of the dieturb. %IWO 011.01100at the city was in many alga started by young eldhlren, Arch- bishop liyan Relit a letter, which was read in every Roman Cetholie Church 10 the city to -day, warning parents not to all their ohildren on the streets din•hig the present trouble. A. DIY OP DISTURBANCES. Cars were stoned, motormen and col - doctors beaten find many passengers were !Amick by flying Missiles in the ..rioting which was renewed here this an- terizoon after several days of compara- tive quietness. Nearly a dozen riot calls 'were received at police headquarters, but in most instances the mobs were dis- persed with riot sticks alone. Seventy- five arrests were made. Crowds of men and boys who -usually fill the streets on tSauen:sa. y in many sections of the city were responsible for most of the at - The orders of the director of public safety that wagons and busses must not be used to convey passengers also resulted in many- disturbances. Charged with being implicated in a plot to blow up trolley oars filled with passengers and to destroy other prop- erty of the Philadelphia, Rapid Tran- sit Company, Charles R. Copeland, a striking conductor, and 'William C. Field, a .etationaly fie:Omni foeuterly of New York, were hold in $2,500 bail to -day in the- Pouted Police Court. The detective declared at the hearing that a plot had been hatched at ao re- cent meeting of the trolley :nen to blow up ,cate, :Early to-da,y they said they saw Copeland pick somethittg from the tracks at Vortylninth !street and Wood - at Foetus, Virest Philadelphia. When they followed Copeland mid arreeted a boinb, which Silcox declared coin tallied sufficient nitroglycerine to blow up. a ear, was fottnd in his pocket, 'When a policenian on a Frankfood & Lehigh ovenuee car fired a ghat from hie revolver over the heads Of a mob at Fifth and Cumberland etteota every winnow in the car Was flattered by a hail of steno, The frigliteited motorman end emeduetor ought pro- teetion in it nearby Igoe. Iron gratinge were piled on the triteks and the mob was endeavoring to clotiolieli the tar when a foaled of State police arrived on the woe. They drove back the crowd and escorted the ear to the bare. The riot squad from the eity which hael been hastened to the stow autontobiles, were obliged to shoot before they succeeded in eliveralug mob of 2,000 persons' width had gather. eel at Eighth and Fitzwater streets, A ixilicemart had forced the driver of a Int,eketer .tvagott, converted into 1tatee to unload hie loateengers. This infuriated the erowd and they gated to Ivrea a Inielling pone': oar* Fifflt street, Girard avenue, South . fleet and other thoroughfares were the eeenee of ohm* continuove diver - dere during the late afternoon. nem are 51 MO" for hettrieg in the Tdrontil General Sessioni, Hon, L. L. Brodeur b le gene to Pins. horst, aouth Carolina, far a ehaligo Sir W. IL 'White bas been appointed A director of the Grand Trunk Railroad, Sir Charlee Itivers-Wilson 40 resigned. The Montreal Board of Control has held up all talary Inereasee so goner- ouely voted by the late Council, pending investigation. An alartning state of affeirs prevails along the Turke-Bulgarian frontier. where a tonditiou approaching a *tate cd war exists. One hundred and twenty-four eases of typhoid fever have bon reported to Dr. Shane', Toronto Medieel Ifealth non this moutb, Plans have been prepared ify the Mani- toba Govermnent for the reconstruction of the legislative buildings i» the home. (Date future, at it east of $400,000. Guelph has been selected for the annual meeting of the Canadian Con. ferenee of Charities and Correction. whish will take. place from Auto 22 to 24 next. Mrs. AInta Printer Ireuglin was ar- rested at Kirkeville, Mo., on it warrant slugging her with Ute murder of her husband, Prof.' John T. Vaugine. She was releaeed on d25.000 bond. The First Congregational Church mem- bers of Londonhaxe decided in favor of church union by it large majority. The Southero Congregational vote annatineed to -night, showed an 41'0114 vote, The authorities of Burlington, Vt., have discovered that six pommel hew been subsisting for six yeara on garlato,e which the head of the family gathered in tits city, ostensibly to feed his pigs. The premie is of the Dominion Shoe Supply Company and the Montreal China & Glass Decoreting Company, 153 and 55 St. Peel street, Montreal, were badly damaged by fire on Saturday, musing- a loss of uowards of $10,000. After preaching for three years to cowboys and ranchers, Rete intyre, of Pincher Creek, has become as- sistant pastor in Calvary EaptDisotnacilid.Mjurehe: Sixth avenue dietriet, New York. He studied in Brandon, Baptist College. The St. Thomas City Council has re- duced the price of gas from $1 to 00 cents per thousand, to start on March 1. Light, heat and power department is owned by the city and has largo surplus every year. .As the result: 01 a fall on the slippery pavement of Sparks street, Ottawa, John Wright, ogee 00 years, an employee of the Public Works Department, was ren- dered unconscious and died before he could be hurried home, The official reports of the French flood damage in 18 out of 86 depart - touts show it 'Monetary loss of $14,000,- 000. This includes the $10,000,000 dam- age done in Paris, but there as elsewhere, Do recount le mode of tho Lidirect losses, which are incalculable. The non-pay.ment of the 90th Regi- ment of Wipmpeor at Fort Willi= for the efficient work performed during the coal strike las year, when a mob of ex- cited armed foreigners was eaved from itself by the citizen soldiers, lute caused considerable 'comment in that city. . Word has hest been received at Win- nipeg of it Want, at Cowdery, a aillage one hundred miles earth of there, where a young man named Edwin Soli was instantly killed while at work in the bush with his father. A falling tree struck hint Residents of Cavan are prently ex- cited over the statement of Mr. Win. Johnston, of Cavan township, who claims that the ghost of an old, white-haired man haunts his farm. Other members of the family Oahu to have eon the ap- parition. Laet ,August Albeit Dawe deserted front B 'Battery, Kingston, and has elute kept out of the limelight. Growing tired of hiclieg, he gave himself up .to Chief Those, of Cebourg. The latter wired the military 'authorities at Kingston and he was :taken back. Fire in the Gier block at Macleod. Al- berta, did $10,000 damage. The American Hotel ttt Moneton, N. 13„ was damaged to the extent of $20,000, and a blaze in Naylor's factory and the 'Sanded Glove Works it St. John's, Que., throtened the destruction of the town. Williamn Ashworth, aged 48, formerly a letter -carrier, hanged himself in the Voneouver jail. He was sentenced in the polio court a few days ago for as- ' emitting his Wife. The guard, entering the oil, foriml Ashworth hatiging by a small rope tied to the. bars. There has been a recrudescence of the antiolynastic agitation at Ping -Ile - Haien, in Southern Fukien, Caine, and 1,000 Government troop oceupy the dis- tricL The insurgents have withdrawn t.opot5htd eeh.ille.. Skirmishes letve occurred with the troops, but few- caeualtie.s are ie It is stated in London that it meeting of the Atlantic shipping conference will be held in a few days in the United - States, when final arrangements will be decided upon for unifieation of the freight charges east -bound from different ports Along the east coast of Canada and the United States, At it meeting of the English Amodio then of American Bend and Shareholders, Mr. A. W. Smithers, the chairman, said. he believed there was imminent . a long aeries of big enterprises for which Ade- quate capital would be forthcoming if Canada maintained her present proud position respeeting credit. The erety stetisfActory turn in the con- dition of D. Goldwin Smith reported a few days ago has boo eteadily main. tabled and the illustrious patient reload a very good doy yesterday. In reply to enquiries made at The Grange lost night it was stated that Dr. Goldwin Smith was resting well. A •GranI Truuk double header freight train of twenty ors met with an etoi- nob ot 1donlock on. Sunday morainn near Citumbellford, roving to it flange ot the .fourth -or breaking. The disabled ear and the following eight left the traek, And two, whit+ were empty, were thrown demi the teak. Hon. Mr. .Cushing on Saturday ex. piainetl the l'Sa9O)) of hie insignatioe in the Alberta Legisloture, nod te debate then place. in which Mr. Boyle joined the ex-Minieter in Attacking the Government's railway volley. whielt wee defended by Premier Pattborford ana Attorney-teentrAl Croat, thateellor Lloyd -George, ,Tolin turns ana Winston Spencer Churchill, among other, were the goods of the Xing at a dinner on Saturday night. Prettier Asquith dined with -the Wog last night 541 the uneet of the An...tre-linnentlan amlemealer. While eatieg5 soda blsenit 'before re - 1 • bishop of Rheims, was condemned jltbig)tthilftrir"t:guillti44.1:1)'wei.111"*tar1711:s541w01:44041.11:syli:b.nogiswrewti.e4tttablar:at deliM311:345 was annum:med. Ile toned her throat badly lacerated,. and Mrs. Doweley 511.0 feting intensely. Cardinal Ludovig Lucen, Arch - yesterday by the civil tribunal to Pay $1.000 damages to the Public School Teachers' Association. tor e4gn- Ing the episcopal letter forbidding_bhe nee of certain textelnwits in the rub - Ile echoole. The association sued tor *i,00G. Among applleante for itervice lie a jen mai hottemuctit in a Pittsburg deonly wits 1, raw-boned Well girl of rather forbid,. ding opeet. "Do you love ehildrentz' Asked the Anietreee, '9Ysll, mum," re. sponded tbe Celt, with it griut emile, 'thet ill depends on the wages," ---Sunday Ungava°. Thule Rathbun, private hanker, of Glencoe, linseed away tbere on Saturday evening. Mr. Rathburn bed oceupied a prominent position in the banking, Wei. rteSS and municapal affairs of Glencee for the pest 40 yogi. He wee reeve of the village on several aceesions, and oce cupied lmot every ignition of trust in • the gift of the Inuincipality. Word is coming in from points in the Blue 'Mountains in Oregon awl Wasiklag- ton, including the Tukainion, Upper Petit and 'rocket, Panjab, Wiliowa and Salmon River dietriets that wild- cats, wolves, lynx, and other feroeious animals are beemniug so numerous that cattle horses and human 1.eings are in danger of their liven An Inaian from the reservation at Fart .Frances was found dead on the railway tracks early on Sunday morn. ing, with both legs cut off. Be was re- turning- from the reserve, where it ie claimed he was treated ,a whiskey by 4 fur buyer, evidently became tired, and lay down on the treek. De was frozen to death and then run over by aa ea aille. Toronto's aseessmout .1nts been in- . creaeed by $3,400,000 by the recent au- nexation of this castled north of Dun. forth avenue, the Midway, and Earls - court and Dovercourt, The eity's assess- ment, as passed by Judge Winthestee, was $207,030,705, and now the total is $270,430,705. It may be possible to re- duce' the tax rate to 17 znills, as the Mayer aims at. The Salvation Army authorities are perfecting the errangements for the op- entog of an Inebriates Home for Women. This institution will be located in To. ronto, and a building on George street, near Queen street, well suited for the purpose, has been secured. The lotildiag will be opened by Mrs, Coombs, wife of Commissioner Cootnbes, who is now on hie way back front the old eouutry. - A large delegation consisting of reeves, councillors, bankers and business men, waited on the Afanitoba Government and. asked for an amendment to the li- quor license act to have the local option by-law' submitted in a given municipali- ty only ouee in three years instead al once a year, as may be done now. The objection to the present pion is that it keeps the Province agitated all the time. The statement was made in fin- ancial oircles on Saturday that the Grand Trunk Railway officials, who aro buildinga transcontinental line, are considering the possibility of ex- tending their system to Boston ae well as to Providence, where applica- tion for a charter was mule recent- ly. The method by -Which the Grand Trunk could enter Boston involves legislation adopted 30 years ago. According to adviees from Canada the Montreal Elevated & Underground Rail- way Company, for which a charter hal been askeio win have, a.eapitalization of $20,000,000. It will absorb the Montreal Street Railway, MontrealgLight, Heat & Power Company, and the Shawinigan Lighb & Power borapany, all of which are operating in Monti -eel. The Ministerial Asspeiation of Van- couver, composed of .virtually all the Protestant ministers Of that city, has applied for and obtained affiliation with the "Trades and. Labor Council, in the same manner as a recognized trades union, accepting the coudition imposed by the council that delegates individual- ly must pay the per capita, tax IA other cases borne by the several local unions. After being in operetion for less than a year in Britain, the Children's Act, pro- hibiting ameking for children under 10 years .of age, has proved so succeseful that the recently flourishing Anti.Ciger- ette League has vow terminated its ex. isteuee. After organized inspection and enquiry it has been fottuel that juvenile smoking lits been pm:Wordier stamped out. Baran Hermann Whierhofer, an Atut- u•ian Government offidal end. eon of the Emperor's late physician, was shot and killed in a duel on Saturday by hie former friend and colleague, Dr. Mayer, who is Ithown ite a comp:oar, elm* player and Alpinist. The clnel was the outeome of a (mere resulting from an impromptu scuffle, in winch Baron Wei- erlicants right arm was- hurt, wimp:tiling him to wear it in it sling. An uhusual accident happened hi Windsor on Saturday, when a team of homes attaelted to a brewery wagon, taking fright et a street ear, ran oway. Turning it street corner sharply the wagon struek the torth with such torte that it keg of beer wasprojected from the wagon and shot through the big plote glass whitlow of the Great West- ern Hotel with the force of a giant eatapult. Several persons in the offire of the hotel were badly friglitened, but nobody %VAS hurt. • .0 A liONAMOON Ended by Police at Halifax --Groom Wanted by English Author:ties. Halifax, reb. V.—After traveling two thousand miles across the Atlantic foe his hone in the west, Prank Swink, 4 young Chinaman, accompanied by Ids English bride, is locked up. no young celestial is wanted in England as rsultsr, and with his young wife will be deported on the Corsican. Brown is a naturalized Canadian and belongs to Lethbridge, Alberta, atone eoncleds it large businets, teme menthe ago he Went over to Eng,and and while there, betarric acqueamed with a &arming young tsiglieli girl. They were married in Liverpool oft We. 10, and tome over on the Corsican. It Is alleged that Brown ateured $1,0)0 legally and aleo contracted debte xfl England. China's Tin Exports, Tirt is ny far the most vainoble coat at meant exported from (linnet. It 14 Mille a in Vlinriftti nUit OUIOil tiltotlith Ile ittizttia t ty eitn t XI f Aletudez 10 Man -Kong, whence'. 11 is -exported to fretign eountelea end to Chinese porta, URIED urn BY AVALANCHE* Seventy 'Five Perms 1411*Te41 10 Have Porinked in Esow Wallsee. Yob. 2S,—.0 A1'6,- 142160, which has threatened the little town of Mace, five exiles up the from Wallace for two days, descended last night about 11.30 o'clock, ',with a I roar heard iu WaUaee, and buried In Its path Wearily° fernlike or about 75 801110, lbw' many of these are demi will not be known nal Atoms time later this morning, and perimpe not for many days, tor reports tell of snow felling in the eanyou to a depth p150 to 16 feet, Three bodies are reported to have boon mover - ed. Superintendent Pant*, of the Stand- ard mine, is 0514 to be missing, hut a child of his wagi fOnna alive. Ilundrede of men were awakened by fire bells OA soon as the extent of the eatestrophe beeame knowm Specie' trains were made up, the first leaving Lor Mao at 12,30 it. no, and, the ;second at about L IlardWare enereboots ()peeled their establishments ami Shovels, picks and other implements were had for the asking. Every able-bodied men in Wal- lace was rushed. to the scene. The little town et Mace lies between mountain sides, a straggling line of cot- tages in the creek hottorns, being eon- nectea by the lines of the Northern Pa - eine and Oregon Ranrocul and navigating companies. Its one industry ie mining and its big mine is the Standard. " With Burke forma long string of houses for the towns of Black I3ear, Gem, Mace and sepi.caree a dividing lino perceptible Mitee has a population of 100, all, with the exception of a few storekeepers and scbool teacher, in the employ of the 11111;eillowing ie a partial list of the dead reeovered up to 2 a. in,: Edgar Kittrell, a miner, tool his 'Wife and two bailee. Niek Moyel. Mrs. Lain. Alsg.arp Fennaeslele. e, son of fho standard mine superintendent. Inez Pascoe, 15 years old, daughter of the superintendent. IL S. Pascoe and. wife are missing and are eupposed to be dead. Two' box ears, containing fifty section hands in the employee of the Northern Polite Railroad, were standing on the side track when the slide occurred. All of these men are supposed to have lost their lives. Fifteen bouses lune beeo swept away, according to latest informatien. At the Mace bearding house the snow is 30 feet deep, and. all of the flat front the boarding house to the end of the town towards Burke is buried beneath the slide. Never since Burke, another little can- yon mining camp, was almost wiped out b,v a landslide on Feb. I, 1890, has a Couer d'Alene town been so sorely strick- en as was Mace yesterday. As on that occasion the conyon was filled 1,000 feet across by a grinding mass of trees, earth And boulders fifty to seventy feet deep, packed. almost like solid ice. Warning was yesterday given to resi- dents of the canyon towns that condi- does similar to those prevailing before. the famous Burke slide prevailed, but nobody seemed to take any heed. suTuflifuedrscolalt nthigehtlivao:noofwfahruede Iparosndeplisdoe. tors and a woman at a very small town on the Chieago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, near the mountain line. All were in the cabin at ditmer when the snow descended. During the winter of 1888 the snow piled high in the can- yons, and never sino has such it heavy fall been recorded as this year. FURIOUS BLIZZARD RAGING. Walla Walla'Wash. Feb, 28.—A spe.- cial from Wallace, Idalto, says: With a furious blizzard blacking. efforts of MO. euers, progress in recovermg those buried in last night's avalanche Is almost inn Possible. Five hundred men sent from Ibis eity had recovered only twelve bodies at 3.3Q a, m. It is practically certain that more than 100 persons Moe perished. Mao is divided into two parts, known as Upper And Lower Mace. The catas- trophe occurred in Lower Mace, where are quartered about 300 miners„ em- ployed itt the Standard mines. Most of these men are unmarried and live irt the, Rotel Standard. Meagre reports by tele- phone to this city are that this hotel was in the path of the avalanche. Though first reports of the disaster were that the town of Gem, Idaho, !matte.' it mile above Mace, on the same side of the canyon, &ad been overwhelm- ed, later news seem to inilistate that this town has eaped. FIFTY KNOWN DEAD. Spokane Wash., Feb. 28.—There are now fifty known dead in the land- slides at Burk and Moe, Idaho. TAILLESS OAT. , Odd Experiments Being Made in Dark Cavern on Long island. 4/4 New York, Feb. detetroine the effects of darkness upon venom forms of animal - life, experiments are being conducted with insects and fishes at the Carnegie Braneh for Bx- nerimental Bvolution at Cold Spring 'anther, L.I. .The experiments are in charge ef Dr, A. If, Banta, . A concrete save has been built, 42 by 10 feet, and tight feet in height It is five feet underground. It is equipped with tanks in which live fishes of various kigds have been placed, While crickets and other in- tiects have been placed in compart- ments that are dry, but without a ray of light. Other odd experiments have been in progrees for some time, one' of them being the effort to breed it tailless eat. • LOST BOTH PEET. *L. Public Appealed to in Case at To, tont° General Hospital. Toronto, Feb. 28.-44ittle Annie Rol- lanby, aged 11 year% who was sent out to Canada in the autumn of het year to it intin in Ontario, now lite in the General Respite' with both her feet amputated. Tho thild IS an er. phan arid eannot claim a relative in the world. A ehert tittle ago she had the rnis- fortune of having her feet frozen and was immediately Sent to the hospital hers for treatment. Dr. Bingham, who has (Atop of the turne, decided that the only way tO athra Was to have the feet amputated, as gangrene had set in. Ilndettvore are being meat by eerhe kind-hearted eitiee,na tonnected with St. Augue. tine's 'Church to look after the child'a future, but at prevent aubarriptions are being asked to purchatte itpair 01 artitwal feet for her,