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The Wingham Advance, 1910-04-28, Page 7AN ELECTION IN THE AUTUMN Unionists Are Not Very Anxious For An Election Now, Position of the Government Has Im- proved in the'Country, Radicals Prefer Early Fight -What the King VVants, -,••••I•,••••••,••••,.., New Yora, April 24.-A cable de - &patch to The Tribune from London says: The politieal atmosphere is heavy with rumors of a compromise. A story IS reeking the rounds of the club that the lords will evade decisive action 2.411 en the veto reselation, on the eround that the reform a their House must be undertaken 'before the relations of the two Chambers can be determined. There are intimataone time Lord Rose - bevy's scheme and the veto proposals will be referred to committee and dia. cussed in detail until a compromise on all eutstanding constitutional ques- tions has oeen effected. These rumors are rounded out with forecests that there will not be a general election Oafs year. Nobody in touch with the Govern - meet affects to show feint in these methods of conciliation, and the Lorde theinselves are amused by the crodun ity of the rumor -mongers. The re- ports emanate from the Unionist eide and indioate the depression of spirits prevailing there. The Unionists are more Anxious than the Radicals. to defer the, elections until next year, They admit that the poeition of the Government has improved and that the Chancellor's, explanations of the condition of the Treasury are more favorable than either friend or foe ceuld have expected. They dread the re- sult of a premature erection held on the direct issue of the veto bill as a basie of settlement. They are hoping that the Ring will suceeed in promoting an ad- justment of some kind when he re- turns from Biarritz, and that an ap- peal to the country will be avoided un- til the coalition shows signs of break- ing up. The Radicals themselves are not talaing about a compromise. They have taken their cue from John Redmond, who asserts that strenuous action on the 'Veto question, involving an election in june or July, will be best for them and for him; Ile no longer dreads a contest with William O'Brien in Ire- land, since his prestige has been restor- ed by his brilliant success as a tactician, and the Radicals are reinvigorated by the rapid progress of the Budget and the harmonious relations among the co- alition groups. Parliament will adjourn this week for the lopg recess with a more buoyant feeling on the Government side than in the ranks of the Opposition. The Lib- eral members will begin an .active can- vass for re-election, and will discuss the vete as an issue of paramount im- portance. What is lacking is the dispos- ition for a compromise on the part of the Radical, Labor and Irish factions. They insist on having a straight and strenuous fight for the abolition of pri- vilege. Moreover, a compromise cannot be arranged without a prolonged, leis- urely discussion a various expedients of checks and balances. A cable deepetch to The Sun from -London says: Now that the Budget has been introduced in the House- of Com- mons with the guillotine guarantees that it will pass it third reading on April 27th, British subjects are con- fronted with the necesity for raising the -wind to -pay their income taxes, which payment has been held up since January 1st by the squabble be- tween the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The excise authori- ties have issued intimations this week that the tax must be paid within a fort- night. Of the tax $45,000,0e0 has been voluntarily paid, while $115,000,000 re- mains to be collected within a fortnight. No grace will be allowed. The exoise authorities threaten to use summary processes to expedite the colleetion of the tax. They intimate that they will distrain the property of delinquents within a month or issue summonses of arrest. How much of the income tax pay- able in January has been usecl in gambling in rubber shares is -un- known, but the suni ris thought to be large. Thete is bound to be rapid selling of some shares to raise Rua& to pay the ine,ome tax when the of- ficials begintheir work of collection. The political situation outaide the Budget is unehanged. There is vague talk of a compromise on the Lords veto question, but it is without sub- stance. Efforts are now being made to ascertain whether there is a besis for . comproraise, and these Will be, continued -with the good -will of the King, but no basis has yet been discovered. The gulf dividiug the Liberals and Unionists is too 'wide to be bridged. No real effort will be made to reit& an understanding on the veto questiot -until after the gen- eral eleetion. The Liberals are edufis dent that they will be returned with a substantial niajority. If they are, the Goverinnent will, if the Lords remain obdurate, demand that the King nre- Ate a etifficient wurebet of new Peers to tarry eve ' Liberal bill. If the King refuses the enment will resign. The hif qu, in polities is the dete of the geesral eleetion. Pres alder Asquith will not give a hint a the date. It is prolmble that the elec- tion will not take plate uatil seetunan. It it ktown that the Xing tibjeetti to the dissolution of Parliament early in the slimmer beetle's° it would spoil the erecial eitason and ruin the fashionable *retail trAele. It is reported that his Intajesity ealereassed oppeeition to an early diaeolution to frienda in Biars lite, who have brought the netts to the party leaders in leaden. The ling is a pOlVer even with this Radical Cabinet, and it is peobeble that hie -Wishes will be cloferrea to. FIRE AT INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, April Z. -A fire ,ief un- known Origin in the wholeettle leusineee dietriet te-day deetroyed preperty vale 'Oa at $100,000. Starting in the four. storey building oecupied by the A. Bind- COmpally, it soon spread to Adjacent buildings and befote it was tinder control fortr other firrne Were brolly &mar& * When a girl es in love with a man hen ape elwitye eititur to t.tatr thlraty,- New York X' Mit AVE» FRIENDS. Ben Hasselbach Prevented a Tragedy On Lake Erie, Detroit, April 24. -The coolness 0 Brel liameelbeele wbo wee At the wheel, saved the livee of three of ilia comraaes Tea. teriley when they were overcome by deadly fumes from the gasoline engine. Haeselbach nl hia emapenions were eighteen miles out in Lake Erie in the fishing boat Hall, which has an auxiliary engine of the gasolipe type. This die- eharge pipe became clegged in some manner, and the fumes began to dis- eharge in the little cabin of the boat, in waich were seated 'William MeMunn, Shephen Morgan and Jerome Earle. Be. fore they reelized their predicainent the three men ley unconscious, and Hassel- bach was left alone at the tiller with 4 heavy sett running. At the imminent danger of having the boat go over, Has- selbach succeeded in stopping the engine, and thee, single-handed, set sail and guided the boat into Toledo harbor in safety. KING EDWARD ILL Report That the Polifical Crisis is Also Worrying Him, ••••••••,...••,.• Doubtful Story About the Prince o! Wales at a Match, FO,••••••••••.mo London, April 24. -.King ledwaed will return to England from. Biarritz next Wednesday, and there is a keen anxiety on the part of those who know the alarming reports which have been current about his health te see for themselves whether his conti- nental sojourn appears to have done him much good or not. The official statements regarding His Majesty's health are far from reassuring to those who are aware of the facts and Uwe tended to in- crease the alarm felt. Ana now al- most on the eve of las return there is a renewal of disquieting news. lt is considered particularly unfor- tunate that the Crown should have been dragged into the arena of party politics ac such a time. Both sides are wrangling as to which of them is responsible. The King Iiimseif is deeply perturbed, and mere is no ques- tion that he lays the blame on the Lcrds. From the outset of the strife over the Budget he has strongly depre- cated the action by the House of Lords, which has brought about the present situation. It was on his re- presentations that Lord Rosebery re- fused to vote for the rejection of the Budget he had inveighed against with all his eloquence. The Royal pre- visions of fears have been realized. to an extent which suggests the possibil- ity that to an even greater extent than is yet the case they may prove to have been far-sighted . King Edwards it is well known among his personal entourage, is a Radical at heart, though he has never departed by a hair's breadth from the strict impartiality by whidh as a constitutional monarch set above parties he has been guided in all his public acta. In the case of the Prince of Wales the boot is very inueli on the other leg. He is strong Tory, and makes no con- cealment of the fact. London at the present moment is buezing with the story of an incident which occurred a couple of Saturdays ago, when the Prince attended a uni- versity football match at the Queen's Club. During an interval in the game he was noticed to be talking somewhat emphatically and excitedly on some sub- ject. What that subject, was speedily beeame apparent, for the Prince in the heat of discussion raised his voice to suelt a pitch that it was heard by scores of persons in his neighborhood. He was roundly denouncing David Lloyd -George and "his gutter Budget.' FP'S TWO HEADS. Brooklyn Girl Speaks Through Both Of Her Mouths, New 'York, April 24. ---john O. Nelson, of No. 4114 Stuart avenue, • Brooklyn Mills, Queen's Borough, has a, daughter who has two well-developed heads. She is Six years old, and IS unable either to sit up or walk, but her general health is good and she possesses normal intelli- gence, according to um father. When the ehild was born the doctors said she eould not live, but Mr, Nel- son, then possessed of comfortable meats, engaged the best physicians, toid gave the little one the most careful at- tention, sparing no expense. Mr, Nelson seid nearly his entire fortune of $35,000 lied gone toward making the delicate in- fant a healthy child. The Nelsons live on the gronnd floor, so that they can easily get their (laugh. ter out of doom without attracting at- tention, consequently few persons in the neighbotheed have teen her. The ehilcl speakseEnglish and German with equal fluency, using both mouths when she speaks, her father stays. HAS THREE WIVES Peel County Farm Laborer Arrested as a Bigamist. Brampton, April a-Et/Ward Herring- ton, et Boston Mills, Peel County, is un- der arrest, eharged, With bigamy. It N alleged that he has three wives living, and 4 matiereus family, although he is Only a5 yettre of age. For the past teae years lie has lived in tide tountry, as a farm laborer, with a wile and two ehildten. Wife No. 1, it is said, Rota in Taridetty, suppottitig herself and two eldidren, and wife No. 2, who brings the obarge, la In Tioenneaville, with one child. Cortetable ,Iarvie, Of towneenville, has held the warrant ler two w.ki Walk seterehing foe IZtrilihneton, AN AERIAL DERBY White and Paulhan to Fly From London to Manchester. Government Airship Turned Turtle and Smashed and Torn, London, April Z. -An acrid Derby from London to Manchester is in pros- pect for Wednesday. Both Grabam White, who failed in his attempt last, week, and Louis Paulliau, the French impelled, who has arrived here, are planning to start for the $50,000 aria° on that morning, M. radium gave official notice to the Aero Club to -day of hie intention to attempt the 186 mile flight Wednesday, weether permitting. White i eonfident that the repairs to his machine will be completed in time to permit his to as- cend: similateously with the Frenchman. Paulhan contemplated a continuous flight though aee,ording to the rules of the contest two stops are allowed. Both met will de Farman biplanes. Misfortune continues to dog the air- ships of the 13ritish army. The one which, recently made such successful trial flights was caught by a gust of wind at Farnborough, when it was taken out of its shed this afternoon and quick- ly turned turtle. The gas bap were torn to shreds and the frame work smashed to bits. FLOOR SINKS. Rabbi Prevents Panic in a Montreal Synagogue, Montreal, April 24.-A repetition of the London City Hall disaster of ten years ego very nearly occurred at the Austro-Hungarian Synagogue on Milton street here this morning, when the floor partially collapsed during the Passover service. Fortunately, the floor only dropped about two feet and then held firm. The synagogue was crowded to the doors, the service being the biggest Jewish festival of the year. Rabbi Glazier was in the middlaof his sermon when he noticed from the pulpit that the floor was going down. He re- tained his presence of mind, and, sten- ping las address, told. the congregation there was danger. By this time many in the synagogue had felt the floor giv- ing way, and there was imminent danger of a, panic. Rani Glazier, however, kept control of the situation, and called upon the congregation to leave quietly; first one side, then the other, and finally the centre aisle. Ile himself remained in the pulpit directing the movement, despite the fact that it looked as though the floor might go through any moment, and was the last to leave the building. It was owing to the rabbi's courage and presence of mind tlmt a disastrous panic was avoided. The synagogue was built eighteen months ago, and is a handsome stone edifice. It is supposed the col- lapse of the floor was caused by over- crowding. WHO HE WAS. The Dying Englishman Was a Petrolea Newspaper Man. ••••••••••••••11.0 St. Catharines, April 25. -Wm. Duck- worth, the elderly Englishman who died nt Toronto on Saturday, after stating he was discharged from the St. Catharnies Hospital in n dying condition, was the formel proarietor of a newspaper in Pe- erolee. He naa been in the tuberculosis sanitarium three days, to which he was admitted by the mayor. Duckworth was sent here from Toron- to in the first place, being told that it was a free histitution. Local patients alone are admitted Olt the free basis, and the' sanitarium officials say that al- though he wad suffering from tuberculo- si 5 his main trouble when hero was from the after effects of a spree. When his three days' order expired he was sent back to the place from wbence he mine. • • * GOOD GOOK, But This Girl Was Evidenly Not a a Skipper, b••••••••••••••14•11111 Detroit, Miele, April 25. -Compelling an 18-yeapold girl, cook iithe sehooner Azov, to take the wheel, it. is alleged, while three other members of the crew engaged in a fight on the deck, resulted in the beaching of the boat at the May- bury cut, near Algona; St. Clair River, Sunday afternoon. The tug laresteott pulled the boat off. The Azov was not damaged. She is owned. in Hamilton, Ont,and was bound for Georgian ita,y for a cargo of lumber. The erew admitted there had been it figlit, but refused to give their names. AFTER THE ORE. Removing Burying Grounds to Get at Ore Deposits, Negatmee, Mich., April 25. ---Lakes have been (Indeed and towns bare been remove& to DOW • 10eatiOns in order that ore deposits irt the Lake Superior region might be mined. A new Mid hiteresting event is about to be recorded at Ns. gaunee, Marquette mtge. It is the re- movel of the Protestant and Roman Catholic cemeteries to tt new site, to- gether with the many hundreds of hu- man bodies there. It N said a large body of ore his beneath a portion of the preeent burial ground Mid the de- pereit is to be mined. is 'AFFRONT TO LABOR. it. Louis, April 25. -The Central Trades lattion ha ti peened a teealution eeteirig forth that Presided Teat's at- tendant* at the Cleveland -fn. Louie Awn triton Leap* gam* on 14y 4th will be emaidereel an affroat to them letativete of eke labor trouble in building 4134 ttelf 1:4100.11 park. J. S. LAME DEAD. Canadian Trade Commissioner at Syd ney for 16 Year Passes Away, Ottawa, April 24. -Mr. F, C. T. O'Hara, Deputy Minister of Trade and. CoMmeree, taceived a cable message from Sydney, New South Wales, to -day, conveying the news of the (Natal of Xr, J. S. Larke, Commissioner at Sydney. 1VIr. Larke, who \was Canada's first permanent trade aged and one of the inost capable men In this branch of the public service, was seventy years of age and 4 widower. Ile was for many years a resident of Osha- wa, where be owned and edited the Vin- dicator. Mr. Larke enjoyed a reputation as a platform' speaker. Two years ago he visited Canada, and addressed tae Boards of Tiede of the large citiess on who tilde 1894 haa been Canadian Trade Australian trade conditions and the op- portunities for the development of our export trade fat the island continent. NAVAL CRUISE Great Display of Britain's Sea Power in North Sea. More Than One Hundred Warships Will be in Line. ir.411111811tiows London, April • 25. -The British Ad- miralty has decided to hold a great com- bined naval cruise in the North Sea, dur- ing the current month. More than one Irandred war ships, so it is underatood, will be engaged, and the exeroises are to continue from late iia April when the home fleet is schedulea to meet eho At- lantic fleet in the Downs, until May 2. Admiral Sir William May, as Comman- der-in-Oh/el of the home fleet, and of all naval forces in home waters, will be in command, and there will be ten other flag effieers, eight of them admit. - ale, including Prince Louis of Batten - berg, commanding the Atlantic fleet. The total force, If all the ships are able to participate, mill include: Battle shps 22; armored cruisers, 1; protected cruis- ers and scouts, 10; destroyers, 50; depot ships, 6; subinarines, 20. No fewer than ten ships of the Dread- nought type are expected to be engag- ed, the number depending, however, on whether the Collingwood and St. Vin- cent, which developed defects in their underwater fittings on trial, can be got ready in time. Even allosvang tezt per mut. for absentees, however, the ton- nage (if the a,rxnered ships represented will aggregate over five hundred thous- and. CROWN JEWELS. Packed in Satchels and Conveyed to Bank in " Growlers." London, April 24. -Owing to the neee,s- sity for repairs to the Jewel Tower with- in the walls of the ancient Tower of Lon- don, the Crown jewels were removed this week to the vaults of the Bank of Eng- land. Tbe newspapers did not mention their removal, which was made'unosten- tationsly at noon. The jewels were pack. el in satchels ana conveyed to the bank in two four -wheeled cabs, called growl- ers. The cabs wero. escorted by four de- tectives on bicycles. Pedestrians on the street did not suspect that the shabby growlers. contained the costliest collec- tion of jewels in the world. A STEiiiLIZER. Brown University Professor., Uses Ultra -Violet Rays. 1••••./..mmoroaoloi. Boston, Mass., April 24. -Prof, E. P. Gorham, of the Brown Universitet, piens to sterilize meat, milk, fishand every other food produet in which disease verms exist and to destroy these germs by sinaply passing them under a, ray of light. Prof. Gorham has been working on his process rn secret for some time, and announces that he will make known his discovery and method of applying it within ten days. He indicates, however, that the ultra, violet rays play a great part in his successful experiments in his Providenee laboratory. There his ex- periments have been uniformly success- ful, and he believes he lets discovered a deadly enemy to all food germs. ONE MAN DEAD. .11.1.0.1•=1160111•••••• Slept in Room With Storm Windows and Full Stove. Halbrite, 'Sask., April 24. -Peter Erick- son) whose horae is in the Dirt Hills, was returning from a visit to Weyburn on Squatty evening, and. put up far the night at his brother Shnores place, 150 Miles southwest of Halbrite. Both re- tired in a room with storni windows on, and filled the stove with briquettes. The following afternoon at 4 o'elock a neigh- bor found both men uneonsciotts, though still breathing. Physicians Were Oiled hi and in the meentime artifieial retpira- tion was toed, resulting in the tecovery of Simon, but Peter died before the dos. 'tors arrived. Simon is now out' Of danger. ' * TO ASCEND ITKINLEV. Portland, Ore.! Anril estpedi- tion promoted joinely by a newspaper of this eity and atother of New York City left Portland to -day to scale Mount Mc-, Rinley, Alaska. The party will em- bark for Alaska on the evenue tidier Talterna 'from Seattle on Wednesdey. The expedition is for the purpose of des tete/lining whether the Mountain has been scaled ea it la eleitiledi 13/ Dr, V. A, Cook and the Lloyd party. $100,000 FIRE. Ceetrellei, Moe April 25. -Fire lea de- Istroyea twelve plares of builineeit, include ing tete of the largeet dry geode and *lathing hottsoN, with a Idea estimated at more than .1001000C Are aid $200,000 damage at Ridgeway, ra. Two more cases of rabies are reportea from 'Middlesex County. Traffic at the head of the lakes Was tied up by the storm Saturday. A citizens' league will be organized 41 Ottawa to clean up municipal politics, Toronto Jews on Saturday night com- menced obeervance of the feast of the Pessover. The 0. N. Itailsvity and the Interna- tional Railway nuty erect a new bridge at Niagara, Three persons were suffocated, at Paw- tucket, 11. I., when a child carelessly turned on the gas. James Rose had one foot badly crush- ed by a ear a,t Manning avenue and College street, Toronto, Consteble Samuel Baker, of Kingston, bas been offered the position of chief of police of Trenton and will accept. John P. Laving is dead, peed, 99, He was a boyhood churn at Kingston of Sir Oliver Mowat and Sir John Macdonald. Mr. D. G. Mealattin, Perth has been appointed sheriff of Lanark County, eueeceding the late William McGarry, Sir Richard Cartwright is to be ban- queted shortly and it is thought he will then announce his political retirement. J. G. II. Bergeron, ex -M. P., may be nominated for Two Mountains if the ,sitting member as appointed to ajudge- sliiPr. M. John Gibeon, Invera,ry, has been appointed registrar of Froatenao County, succeeding the 'late J. D. Thompson. Canadian Collieries, Limited, with $20,- 000,000 capital, has been incorporated to take over the Dunsmuir minas, It is a C. N. R. enterprise. Saturday was "Tag Day" in Ottawa. By the sale of the tags 311,600 was rais Ed, to be divided among the three hos- pitals of the city. The C. P. It and C. N. R. have settled their differences as to the latter's right of way through Stettler, Alta., and the injunction glinted the 0. 1'. lerhas been dissolved. The C. N. R. has started grading, The alontred police made a descent upon a cock fight which was Wing held in a yard in the very centre of the city on Sunday morning, and arrested fif ty coofeticshu participants and seized eight game A branch of tap Imperial Bank of Canada has been opened at Ford Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, under the management of Mr. W. R. Thomson, formerly manager at Hague, Saskat- chewan, The Order of the Grey Num, et Mons treat has purchased a portion of the Thomas Breen estate, York Mills, cons slating of about eighteen acres, for about $25,000. It will be used for building purposes. The body of Charles Wickett, Aped 34„ killed in a logging camp of ile Patterson Timber Company up the British Columbia coast, was brought down on Saturday. Wickett's father lives in, Brandon, Man. At Winnipegosis, Man., George Frame, living on a homestead, ti as found dead on Friday morning in Inc stable. The cause of his death is ten known, exeept that he was subject to fits. Be had been demi some days 'be- fore being found. The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, endow of Grand Duke Sergius, and a sister of Empress Alexander, has taken the i eil of a nun. She will devote herself to the hospitid of the Woman's Refuge, ebich was founded after the assassination of bhoemr bh.usband, February 17, 1905, hy The Hastings County police are look- ing for Manuel Hayes, of Dungannon, e, young married man, who is charged with seducing two sisters named Button who live in Renfrew County. The police went to Hayes' house and arrested him, but he escaped by an upstairs window. Be has not been seen since. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, is hastening to Ragland to make an at- tempt to win the Daily Wail prize of $50,000 for a flight from London to Man chester.- Duzonnet, the Freneli aviator, made a flight over Paris on Saturday afternoon, keening, above the Seine dur- ing most of the flight. A horse belonging to W. Hobbs, val- ued at $300, was being led along a Wood - me EVlaRY siugle telephone we put out N LIB perfect MI the pattern inettennent from which it is made the original instrument that Cost 010,000 and yeare Of time from the beet electricel englueent in, the cottetra• our newly. designed No. eurcut ordinarily malted; ourexi y. 1317 Type Teleolieste 1 -;et we're Int large bras* pugs make Lett es talking uhotit-the best rural and much not:A again as ito»gs mother f 'plic,c tinde ten to these details of it. The trdus. ratettletahnetTeithethirgrkatielliokfeaprallitQunul initter is standard Icagalletance imbue. Woe ; tile receiver entirely precludes your hearing local tunics wet/ewe:3g it: the generator win ring more 'phones on a longer line than any other 5 bar generator inose to -dim our new OS type ringer operates on from one-quarter to one-third the TszNO, 211 i nut there's more to hnow-merethat webriverat once to tell here. :lend for our Free Book, Imlletin tn, 5133 and let it tell you the whole story in detail. It also tells all about organizing a land 'pectic com- pare,. tend to -day. ELECTRIC Kintifacturersaandrnp:;ACretas of allINn°ppe4arattle:rind cquiptneut used In the construction, operation and maintenance of "telephone Ana powlderONITIRaistAtt Write to your nearest office, Car. Notro Dam & G11/ St, REGINA 0 TE'reNetOrt,OW. VANCOUVER WINNIPEG 918 Peeler SI, W. CALGARY 590 Hari Am 214 eivir eusesse ee, af, p ,40.01,04* 4 stock street on Saturday whoa it ream. on its hind legs, and, pitehiag farwara on its head, knocked its .brains out on the paeoment, . The horse waa being taken to the fair grounds to eaere:s. for speed. Betty Green in planning, it is report. ed, to rethre from active businees, She is xkuvr 73 yeara old and feels that she dies not care to take an active part in tin ,businese world any mere. Iler daugh- ter, Mrs. Matthew .Astor Wilkes, wit probably assume direction. 01 Aire. (2/melee affairs. The Grand Trunk Itallway has, secured the contract of hauling the Nationat Oa. Line Company's cattle tralus from Chi cago to 13oston, whiea menus that ovel three hundred ears of cotate will paSS through the tunnel at Port Heron melee, week, and that addil unial men m given employment at that terminal. Armed with a blanket warrant, Le speotor Gregory conducted it raid ou Saturday night on the premises of Jos- eph Laner, at 309 Front street east, Toronto. Three beer kegs, one empty, ono on tap and one full, were a and, and also four men who were in & t ified condition from the liquor. In a fit of despondency, Alive(' Va- ebtai, ;Se years of age, St. Ilatnie.i strcet: alcintreal, allot liiinsitf in Lli ttmple on Saturday af.ernoon, 1 lies in a criti- cal condition at the General Hospital. ile waa married and had four ehildrena He recently met with an acitident, which lie lost his lag, and this it is thought drove him to me raah deed. Yesterday morning a steam shovel, weighing several tons, owned by the Godeon Contracting Company, who are laying the trunk sewer along St. David street, Toronto, fell into the sewer, which is 20 feet deep, just east of Sack - vine' street. The recent rains had loosen- ed the roadway, and the heavy weight of the steam shovel eaused a cave-in. In consequence of a quarrel during the debate at the last campaign meeting at Paris of Mme. Durand, who is a can- didate for the Chamber of Deputies, a duel was fought between M. Afre.ense, a barrister of the Court of Appeal, and M. Laroche, a sub -editor of the newspa- per Nouvelles, of which Mme, Durand is editrees. Pour shots were fired. Neither man was hit. Hon. Col. Matheson, Provincial Treas- urer, will leave in the course of the next few days for an extended, trip to Bermu- da and the West Indies, to regain his health, which has not been of the beat since his accident of a few months ago, when his left arm was broken by a fall. During hie absence his duties will be at- tended to by the Hon. I. B. Lucas, Minis- ter without portfolio. Thos. Dunk, of Seymour Township, 26 years of age, drowned himself in the river at Crow Bay, near Campbellford. Up to a few days previous Dunk seemed to be ell right mentally. He had en- gaged to a farmer in the locality for the summed. During the night he went twice into the water, but came out again. After that he was carefully w,atehed, but made his Way to the river and plunged in. Luigia, Venglin, an Italian, was fat- ally injured at blast furnace No. 2, of the Lake Superior Corporation at the Soo on Sunday morning, and died at six o'clock after several hours of agony. Deceased stood on a trestle in the way of the gas when blowing the furnitee out and received the full force of it. Besides being burned he was badly in- jured by flying .coke.' Michael Murphy, =ler arrest at Shawville, Que., charged with killing two young men, is a former resident of Portsmouth, Get. He left that village about a year and a half ago, after re- siding theft, for some menthe, Porta, mouth people sey that they knew very little of Murphy, apart from the fact that he was not employed regularly, aild appeared to be of a roving disposition. The proposed visit of Hie Prince of Monaco to Rome has reeulted la a new protest from the Vatican, where the prince's act is considered a personal af- front to the Pope. It was officially an- nounced a few days ago that the prince would arrive in Rome on April 24, and would be received by the King the fob bowing day. His lecture on oceanograt plot is arranged for April 20. Mr. Samuel Wicks, a Dominion Gov. eminent immigration agent in Toronto for some years, passed away at his home, Bedford Park, on Sunday, after twe weeks' illness, aged 63 years. For thirty. nye years decensed was a farmer and a widely -known breederepf Jereey cattle, Immediately after coming to this coun- try from Lowestoft, Engla nd, Mr. Wiles was in charge of the laying out of Vic- toria Park, London, Ont, The first boating aezident of the sea- son on the Hackensack Itiver occurred on Sunday, when Alexari ler Sinclair, aged 18, of Torontenwes drowned near Bogota when out came -inn The young man lost control of di e.1 et: itta heavy gust or wind ani it upset. Sin- clair was within fifty feet of the bank, but he made an effort to recover the canoe. Ha was se:zed with cramps inti disappeared. The rush of emigrants from Eng/and to Canada is undiminished. On Friday 1,600 sailed en the steamer Empress of India. On Saturday 1,800 sailed from Glasgow for Now York, and 1,200 for Montreal, Next Thursday two steamers win sail with 2,500.: The Carpathian, which sailed on Saturday, took a large party of emigrants for Pewee, Edward Island, a majority of whom are farmer, each having $2,500 capital. Failing to find his wije nt hone at supper time, John Livingstone, an el. derly farmer residing two miles north- west of Brockville, found her body in a field a few rods from the liotiee. Mrs. Livingstone was on her way to milk a cow when she was dot:teed with heart failure and died swab:Lily. An empty milk pail was beside her body, alid faithful dog stood guard over the re- mains until its master arrived. The de- ceased, was 63'years of ago. The Montreal Light, Heat k Power Company on Saturday announced a re- duction in electric light rates which will mean a large saving to Montreal consumers. The residential rate for five- year contracts is cut from ten cede a kilowatt hour to eight cents, and the commercial rate frorn ten cents to nine cents. The latter rate applies only to stores which only use the light for a few hours daily and to offioe buildings, larger users paying on special rates. The -Michigan Central ehopmen at St. Thomas started on5 new time schedule on Friday, working nine hours a day or fifty-four hours' a week in place of eight hours a day or forty-eight hours a week. They have also been offered a voluntary increase iri payof flee per cent., for all classes of employees, which WI 1 go into effect 1st May, .Machinists mew. ing 29 cents an hour have been offered an advance of one and one.half can LS, but are trying to sccure something bettet before closing with the company. 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Semi-rigid and xten-rigid types of ballomite lett Cologne at 11 o'clock this raorniug for Homburg, to be inspected by the Keiser. 'Phe paesengere in the ballootia inoluds ed Gee, Baron Yon Lytheker, the chief of the Kaiser's military eabinet; 0-44, vin Sperling, the; Governor of Cologue, and nuraerous etaff officerti, The airships) were ieighted at various places. One was seen over the fortress of Eheenbreiteestein. near Ceblens, making toward the Ems and traveling at the rate of 36 miles an koer. About e0 minutes later the balloou passed Bingen at an altitude of 600 feet. Airshipe ware alert seen over Wiesileaden„ Keeping their stations with the same regularity ao at the etart, the airships reached Homburg soon, after 4 o'clock after an uneveutful -voyage, on which they averaged 22 miles an hour. Before descending the three airships executed a series of picturs esque manoeuvres above the town, delighting the Kaiser and hie eent- panions exceedingly. They then ap- proached the landing piece, keeping ie line, and descended sumessfully. As soon as the airships were anchor- ed the Kaiser hutment to congratulatn the crews. The trio reasoended and started on their return at 6 caelock. The north- west wind, which had, helped them on their outward voyage, was atilt blowing, giving the prospect of a lees easy homeward .journey. CUT LICENSES. 01.M...1•111•••••• Seven Hotels and One Shop License Less iii Brantford, Brantford despatch; Brantford City License Commissioners announced their decision, carrying out the mandate of the City Couneil as expressed in the by. law recently passed, cutting the tavern lieenees from 16 to 9, and the shop li- censes front 4 to 3. The following tavern licenses were granted Robert Hunter, Eastern Hotel; W. IL Littlefield, Kerby; Win. Fraser, Belmont; Charles Smith, Grand Valley; Mrs. Ross, Imperial; Mrs. Scott, Ameri- eau.; Frank O'Riley, Orley House; R. D. Campbell, Commercial; John Milton, Bodega Tavern. The following shop lieenses were granted C. Coulson, J. S. Hamilton Fred. Montgomery. • The Brantford Club license was re. newed. The seven tavern, licenses which cut off are; George Benwell, Be ell House; 3. Spittal, King's; Simon ones, City Hotel; Benwell Brothers, adracel. bine; Alex. Howarth, Vendome; -Wire °teeter, Clancy House; James Benwelt Western. The otie shop license which was cut off was J. C. Steele. The usual three months is given to those cut off to dispose of their stock. .1 CRAZED ENGINEER .0•.••••••/••••• Runs Train IntoAnother 'tilt the Lord's Command.' .111a.0111.111••••.= Wilmington, Del., April 25. -Declar- ing that the Lord had commanded him to run his train into anotner, Wm. C. Moore, an engineer on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, sent his locomotive into the rear of a Philadelphia freight train waiting to enter the Edgemoor yards yesterday af- ternoon. The caboose and one car of the freight were crushed and took fire from an overturned stove. ,'No one was hurt. Moore jumped from hia engine and attacked the yitaximen. He was finally overpowered, manacled hand and foot, placed on an engine and brought to Wilmington. He is now in a strait- jacket at the Delaware Hospital. Mooris believed to have becorae suddenly insane. He ran by two red signals and refused to heed a flagman who sigealled him to stop. ate, WAS MURDER. The Shooting of Two Young Men By Gypsy at Shawville, Shawville, Que., despatch: "That .1 -ferry Howes and William Dale came to their deaths at the hands of Welt- ael Murphy, and that they were naall- eously and feloniously killed," was the verdict rebutted by the coroner's jury at the Inquest held here yesterday even- ing into the deaths of the two young men. From the autopsy which Coroner Dr. Armstrong performed it Was ateertained that young Dale had been wounded in thirteen places with buckehot arid Howes in tine places. Both young Men kad died practically instantaneouely. --- • - RAN INTO FIRE. Fourteen -Year -Old Windsor Girl Burn- ed to Death. Windsor despatch:. Martha Perry, a Colored girl, fourteen renal old, `Wat burned to death here this afternoon when she tripped and fell dell length ficroeri a, fire of lesievee and brush burn, ing on Mercer tared, a few 'blocks /rots her nome. 'Ile girl lad beet playing with ompaniong, and 'whited looking Where she was going an diree,tly into the floe. With her clothing ablate eke eueited dawn the street enrieklug With pain and fright. The fire Wee eethis guiental, but her body was tattle ot burne front head to foot And death cOed her Offeriligid aa koar Oboe arateli,