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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-05-05, Page 7-47 THE CORNWALL HORROR Twelve Persons Perish in the Hotel Fire— Names of Dead and Who Escaped. Cornwall, Ont., ilespatea; Friday, the/ 26th of A-pril, will long be remem,, bered es the darkest day in the his. to of the old Pactory Town. of Cane wall, aa it marks the death by fire of twelve people and the. destruction of a Spiatter of a minion dollers' worth of Imonerte in the very liub of the town, The victim we all either board- ers at the hotel or employes, the transient guests all eiscapmg, The Dead. 'Benjamin Fielding, aeehuntient the Sterling Bank, a native of Liver- pool, Eng.; at of Toronto. Oloas, Gagne, teller in the Bartle of Montreal, a native of Leona Que.; at of Danville, Quo. Oluts, 0, Gray, of the Ives Modern Bedstead Company. Mrs. Chas. 0, Gray, and two "chil- dren. Mee. W. Taylor Archibald, aged. 70, on Invalid lady. AVillitini Holmes, porter, late of 'Montreal. Ernest Bullook, bell boy, late of Montreal. Misses jennie and Mary White, girls employed in the hotel kitchen. Mrs. Jolla Gooier, late of Phila- delphia, Penn. The Tatter was; the wife of john Goeler, who lost his life in the Wipd- ear Hotel fire here on 1VIarch 24th, 1i109, when two other men lost their lives and eight were badly injured. This is a strange coincidence, as Mrs, 43oe1er was one of those who con- sidered they had a claim for dam- ages in the Vihrtdsor Hotel fire, In fact, it is understood that she was working hero to establish a Canadian residence, with a -view of entering a suit for damages. She had a familY of evert children. GUESTS WHO ESCAPED. The transient guests at the hotel Who escaped were:—Major Beattie, M.P., London, Ont.; A. R. MeLene nazi, Toronto, with his wife and child; A, Findlay, traveller for J. 0. Wilson and Company, paper bag manufacturers, of Montreal; Capt. Harold Lumb, Montreal; P. Briggs, traveller for Paquette, Quebec; Samos Rowney, Anglo FireInsurance Com- pany inspector, Toronto (Mr. Rowney helped to save Mr. leleLenan's little girl and had his hands very badly lacerated doing so); Mr. Golder, mil- linery traveller, Toronto; Dan Kerr, Eur traveller, Montreal; Mr. Mowatt, leather goods; jay A. Burns, cigar traveller, Montreal; C. I. Musgrove, Toronto; Mr. Higginbotham, furni- ture traveller; W. Richardson, travel- ler, of the Canadian Oil Company, Ottawa. THE PROPERTY LOSS. • The Rossmore House, with its annexes on Pitt and Second streets, was totally destroyed, involving a loss of $125,000. This block included the jewelry store of L. E. Bailey, with a $26,000 stock, insured for only $5,000;. the Bell Tele- phone Co.'s offices, with a loss of $8,- 000; George A. Milden, Division Court Clerk, office fixtures; R. A. Pitts and John E. Ross apartments. The Col- quhoun block, across the street, was gutted in the upper storeys and the low- er parts were flooded. The total losses may be summed up. as follows: The properties destroyed besides the Ross. more and annex are: L. E. Bailey's jewelry store, stock valued at $25,000, Insurance $5,000, in Queen's, $1,000 in North American. The Bell Telephone Company, occupants of the Rossmoie annex, loss, $8,000; W. Milden Division Court Clerk, lose $400, insured in the Phoenix, of Hartford; C. P. R. Tele- graph, loss $500, insured; George ...W. .Artestrong, grocer, Sterling Bank block, tock considerably damaged by fire and water, insured for $2,700 in the Guard- ian Oliver Charlebois, of the Rossmore barber shop, lost a plant worth $700, un- insured; Colquhoun's block, loss to prop- erty' $10,900 to $15,000 or more,. insur- ance in Queen's $8,000, Commerczal Un- ion $3,000, Royal $2,000; A. E. Monk, Manager Bank of Montreal, considerable loss to furniture; Bank of Montreal, some, largely by water; C. A. Mac - baffle, druggist, $1,000, loss by water covered by insurance in Queen's for $3,145; W. V. Dunkin, grocer, in Queen's for $3,105; Magwood, Walker and Stich well, engineerslefillian and Roach, bar- risters; Fred. G. Adams, insurance, itud. the Cathelie Order of Foresters' lodge room, all considerably damaged in the Colqouhoun block, and all more or less insured. In the Yates block the rooms of the Cornwall Club were destroyed by water., Mr. Yates had in all $5,500 in- surance, $2,000 in the Royal, %sip in the Ontario and $2,000 in the Phoenix, of London; C. W. Lent's confectionery store was -practically ruined. Melly liveti hi Toronto, where his broth- er Finale and his mother still reside. About seventeen gavots a the hotel made their escape by the ail of relies" and Some thrillipg caperieuces are re- ported, W. Fitzgibbon, the well. known lacrosse magnate, made hia escape by jumping on the roof of the anuex. Above bun, ozi tha roof, he saw three women, who wor1 111 the hotel, and he extended A ladder to them and assieted them to where he stood, • and then down to the ground. Bridget Manion, a servant in the Rossmore, sustained two sprained ankles, and is in the General Hosea tel, Mary jock and her sister escap- ed, and are at their father's home. Two sisters, named Mary .esd Jane White, both of whom -worked. at the hotel, are still inissing, and. it is fear- ed they are also lost. They aro both Cornwall girls. Another employee of the hotel, whose first name is Eliza, has not yet been located, and she is be- lieved to have been burned, DROPPED CHILD FROM ABOVE. M. Alex. It. McLennan, of Toronto, brother of the late Col, R. R. 1)110, Lerman, M. for Glengarry, with his wife and child, were stopping at the hotel, having arrived hero Weduesday afternoon. Mr. McLennan was awak- ened by the flames breaking the ken - soul, window. He jumped up, threw out the rope' fire eseape and let his wife down, Fearing he could not hold his child and descend, he took the youngster by the hands and dropped her into the arms of the mother and Mr. J. Rowney. The fall was twoken, and the child escaped serious injury. letr. McLennan followed. His hands were burned,. but he is otherwise unin- jured. Mr. McLennan says there was practically no warning, JUMPED THROUGH WINDOW. G. A. Burns, traveller Mr La Crothe & Co., Montreal, seys he retired about .1 o'clockafter having spent an hour talhing to Charlie Game, the bank clerk who perished. lee had leo warn- ing until the flames burst througle his window. He jumped for the fire es- cape and got down with no injury other than the burning of his heads. No sooner had he reached the ground than •a man named Bristol jumped through the window. He struck the pavement and fell into a cellar window, some feet below. Burns palled bine out, and bad him taken to the General Hos- pital, 'where he is doing nicely. Mr. Harry Briggs, fur traveller for Paquette, .of Quebec, whose home was formerly Toronto, had a • narrow es- cape. Mr.. Briggs saki he had no warn- ing and had. barely time to get on his trousers and coat before the flames were upon him. He lost all his personal be- longings and gold watch. body, supposef.i to be thet Of hira. Arelel- bald, was found about 10.30 a. m. The work of !Marching among the itearred Mina conttuued till alight and Will be re- amed in the morning. In reporting the deeth of Mr. Yielding ami the injury to the beak, property to the head office of the Sterliug Bank, E. Fletcher, the local mauager at Cornwall, laid the fire damage wee moan, and Oa tile bents would carry on at; huelueosna mai. The principal damage to the beide property wee by water, Yesterday's terrible holocieust at Corn- wall, in which the llossinore liouse was destroyed, recalls a similar tragedy which oecurred a little over a year ago in the seine town, when three lost their lives and Ma were =lousily injured in a fire which destroyed the Windeor Ito. tel. FIRE INQUEST, More Bodies Found in- Cornwall's Hotel Fire Ruins, CornWoll, May L --Nearly one haw &NI, men toiled all day Sunday iet Corn- wall without a word of protest font the Sabbath Day observance supporters, The Bell Telephone Company had fully halt of this number striving to straighten out their system, and to connect their local lines with their temporary quarters in the rear of Duncan Mouroe's insurance offices in the Glengarry Week. '1?his was considered necessary work. The Town Coupon hed also a. large force ef men cleaning outthe ruins ot the Rossmore House, and seeking ,for the remains of those who lost their lives in the eonfla- gotten of Friday morning, Inunediately under the room occupied by the aged in velih, Mrs, Taylor Archibald, a number of bones were found. The location cou- pled with the finding of a gold brooch identified as hers, leads tie the belief that the bones Were, those of Mrs. Archi- bald, At the rear of the hotel another lot of hones were found. These are believed to be the remainof one of the missing bank clerks, Ben Fielding or Charles Gagne. On Saturday afternoon the cor- oner opened an inquest on the remains of the six bodies recovered at J. IL Mc- Donald & Company'e undertaking rooms. 'The jury assembled in the Town Hall, next door, and, after viewing the It: - mains, adjourned to meet in the Court House next Friday night. In the opinion of the local authorities the bodies so far found are: Mrs. Gray and her little daughter; Messrs. Fielding and Gagne, Mrs. Archibald, Mrs. Gooier and Misses Mary and Jane White, SLID DOWN A ROPE. • Mr. 3. Rowney, of Toronto, inspector for the Anglo-American Ineurance Com- pany, was on the second storey. Like the other guestsat the hotel he hin little or no warning. Someone was ettil- ino, "fire," and Mr. Rowney jumped up. turned on the electric light, hurried inbo his clothes, and opened his door, expect- ing to make his ,ceertpe by the regular exit. The moment the door opened. however, the flames drove him back, and he seized a rope fire-eseepe. No sooner had he. reaehed the ground in sefety• than he noticed a man, who proved to be Mr. McLennan, holding a, child front a window by the arms, Rowney celled to him to let it drop. MeLeneat's wife oeut Rowney together broke the child' fall and saved it from serious injury. JUDGE BROKE DOWN DOOR. Probably one of the Most thrilling escapes was that of His Honor Judge O'Reilly. He succeeded in getting his see, who was sick with pneumonia, and his wife, out on the roof of an•atijoin- ing building. He then went back into his private parlor and from there to the stair landing. When he opened his door Charles Gray, who was in his eight clothes, ae,ked the Judge how be ceuld escape. The judge told him to come through his parlor and out by the way of his son's room to the roof.- His Honor then turned to retreat, but found his door had jammed and he could mot get out. He jumped at it several times and finaqly burst it in. The flames were close after him. FAMILY DIED IN LAST EMBRACE. FLAMES GOT GOOD START. The fire broke out shortly afthr 3 o'clock' this morning in the Rossmore Hotel. It was discovered by the night elerk, but even then had gained such headway that it was beyond his con- trol. A fierce gale was blowing and the blaze was speedily fanned into a roar of flame. An alarm was sounded, Frightened messengers hurried hither and thither along smoke -clogged corri- dors awakening sleepers.. The prineipal stairway Was ablaze. It was in the tonfused flight by this fire -swept Nate that much of the loss of life occurred. 'The Itossmore annex and contents were valued at, about $125,000. It was a brick building. four storks high, with an attic above, In the hotel at the time were twenty transient guests, twenty boarders, fotir of the Ross fatuity, and sixteen of a hOuse staff. The Cornwall volunteer fire brigade were early on the scene and did yeoman service, but the fire had gained leach control before the general alarm was sounded that it was impossible to Save more than was sieved' It. Wee not until after 8 o'clock that the fire Vas got under control, and two hours later the workers directed their efforte to the iota an& gtueeonee task of searching for the lost. DEEDS OF HEROISIVT. • During the five hours of fire -fight- ing many daring deeds of herolein and self-saerifiee were entonieled. Mr. Charles 0. Gray, Secretary aud Martagieg Director of the Ives Mod- ern Dedetted Co., perishect in tat at- tempt to ramie hi wife and two thild- ren. Gray was Met seen by Judge O'Reilly ea he 'looked about for a. possible Ineetrus Of escape. Being shown an eitit by the judge, Gray went beak along the blazing eorrldor to save his dentate If and the two young elsildrere All four are believed to ha,ve been overeeine by smoke aful. atiffotitted. Mr. Gray's room was directly across frOln that of the Judge, but the flames by this time had begun to make great headway, and it Was imponible for Mr. Gray to get out of Itis room. He was trapped, On the other side of him there was no escape, as ttie north side of his toom was a solid brick well. lie might have jumped from his room Win- dow to the street, which would have meant death, as he would have alight- ed on the pavement some seventy feet below, Mrs. Gray was a delicate women, and it is thought the four membees of the family, father, mother, fold two chil- dren, clung 1,0 each other and died in one another's embrace. CLOSED BARS. Galatiotels Close—Sheds Burned— Much Booze Drunk, WORLD'S NEWS TERSELYTOLD IMNINP,r0P, A Daughter of the Mikado to Marry Prince Askia. Montreal Lady Dies Suddenly On Atlantic Steamship, Little Tot in West Shot By Eight -Year. Old Brother, ,,e1•41, May day in Europe and A.merica paps, ed off eeuietly. The Woreato Y, M. C. eh, building fetal now totale $301,080. The motion to peel). Strathroy'o local option by-law has been dismissetl. Nord Alexio, elf:President of Hayti, died at Kingston, Jamaica, to -day after larief illness. Chime* costing between $1,000 and $5,000 will be parchased for $t. John's Church, Peterbore. Geo. B. Reeves, former 'General Man- ager of the Grand Trunk Rnilwa,y, died on Sunday at ids lime ip Califoruia. The Central of Georgia Rallyvay shops at Modem, Ga., collapeed this morrapg. One man was killed. Several badly in- jured. The tornado which struck Emporia unroofed several houses and carried one off its foundations, No on was killed or injured. The village of Plymouth, six miles southwest of Emporia, Ran., is. report- ed to have been destroyed by a tornado Sunday night. Plymouth has 400 popu- lation. A jemmies° spy, who was caught sketehing Lia -Along fort at the entrance to Hong Kong harbor, was sentenced to day to imprisonment. Captain Samuel L. Madding, a partner hi the Swift Co,, when that'firm started .in the packing business in Chicago, is dead at his home la Bristol,. R. 1. 'J. H. lefaelhee, barrister, has been ap- pointed secretary , of the Ringssoa Board of Trade to succeed Mr. E. 3. Reid. Brant Co. Nearly Dry—Situation at Orangeille. Galt, May 1.—Local option came into effect here last night without any disas- trous effects. The bars of all the hotels were packed' all day and a big business was done. There were a few fights, but of no ac- count, and plenty of noise. In the morning the New Royal Hotel equipment was sold by public auction, and to -day the building is vacant. Short- lv after 'midnight the fire department received a call to a fire in a shed behind the New Royal, and it was extinguished but at 3 a. ne, another call was sent in, and this time the building was burned to the ground. • There were numerous drunks around the streets last night, including a num- ber from surrounding towns, who came in for the clesing. It is said there is more booze th Galt to -day than there ever has been in the history of the town. The liquor stores have done an enormous business of late. It was not uncommon to -day to see some men on the street intoxicated. The bar of one -of the local hotels was open to- day dispensing soft and local option drinks. RAISE PRICE OF MEALS. Orangeville, May 1.—None of the bars of the six hotels here will attempt to supply intoxicating drinks after to -day, but will be supplied with soft drinks and potuiblue. eracoemmodetion for the travelling At a meeting of the local Hotel Men's Association they decided, on a uniform charge of 10 cents fer single rigs and 15 cents for teams for shed room. The sta- ble charge will be 25 cents, and the price for 'meals will be raised from 2.5 cents to 35 cents, The hotel men and a commit- tee representing the various churches in the town, are negotiating -with a view of having the hotel sheds open on Sundays. The congregations have a large country membership, and the matter is therefore of great importance. The hotel men offered to open their sheds on Sundays for $150 per yea, and the churches were prepared to Tiny this sum, but a -dispute arose Over the distri- bution of the money, two of the hotel men claiming that nearla, all of the chetah -goers put up at then sheds, ited are therefore entitled to there than one: sixth each of the h150. At present the negotiations appear to be at a standstill until an agreement is reached. Mr. Wm. Fitzgibbon, who was instru- mented in saving the lives of several of the inmates, got Ben Fielding up. Field- ing opened hi S door end event back, it is supposed, to get some of hi clothes. Had he walked across the hall he could have got out of a 'window on a roof and cotild have been sieved., but it is supposed lie also tried to rouse his friend, Charlie Gagne, and perished, It is Bate to say the death list now reaches twelve. The last three to be un- accounted for are Mary and Jenet-WIlite and hIrs. Gloellera whose 'rubella per- ished itt the Windsor Hotel fire here about thirteen months ago. She sitbse- quently took a position es a domestic in the Rossmore. It is a strange Met that so far as knowo not one traveller perish- ed, while the victims were guests arid employeesi who had lived in the hotel for months and were perfectly aegetaint- ed 'with the surroanclings, The most of the hotel employees' rooms were lotated in the fourth storey of the hotel, and they made their eseape through a skylight and down the roof of different nhjoirting lettildirge leading to the annex, where they were mental by ladders,. FINDING THE BODIES. At 10 Oeloek four bodies were found in the trout of the ruins -of the Ross- inore building. These are supposed to be the bodies of C. O. Gray, Mr. Gray and their two /Mare% as they were famed beneath the roonte ocetipiea by the Greer fewithr. A patient of a body BRANT ALMOST DAY. Brantford, April 30.—At 7 o'eloek to. night 'the lights event out in every hotel ip Brant County exeept those in Brant- ford and Paris so Mr as liquor selling privileges were concerned. The carrying of loeal option bydaws by substantial majorities I3urford, Brantford, Oakland and South Deinfries Townships revealed a strong expression of popular opinion in favor of the aboli. tiou of the bar. That a coesidereble por- tion of the hotels will remain publie hottaeS catering to the needs of the trey. eller is assured, although in some came the proprietore hone announced their in. tention of giving up businese. hie Brant- ford Township five licensed hotels go out of business. The Maple Leaf, Calusvilk; 'Langford Hotel, 'latch's Cornere,Mount Pleasant raid Parkelale. The hotels in Burford end Oakland Townships have 'deo their liquor 'selling privileges can- celled, while in South Dumfries the ho- tels whieh have eateree to the nubile for set "Many years at Therrieburg and St. George will Po longer have liquor selling Privilege*. Otorelage, three years ngo Mr, Gray ante 1*re recently from West- of a child xviia fennel in trio rear of the went dry mu% the whole enmity, with the mount, Quebec, and was already pope- ruble, bel. to authentic *termini of who exts theft of Brantford said Paris, has ea Saturday. The body hats Welt meg- tar wad proialtent busitiong win. 110 for. it might 14 014 be ohm The owl footohoh hot taisted ea that se Eugene Woods, of Pest Dalhoualsaile Wal 0/1101 eneriener of the ill.fated boat, The Nova eicotle Department of leabot lute granted 4 cominiealen mider the ,[4,4* IniellX Act to investigete the dispute be tween the Downtime Atlantic Itellway and eertain et its emir oyeee who hid united with •the Canadian Brotherhood of Itallivay Employees. Official nunouncement is made of Iie Marriage, engageineut of Priecaes runii-Ne-hliya, the third sorra.- ing daughter of the Eroperor and Bair pros and Prince A.skia. The th41A0 will be eoleninized on May 6. The Prlie. eoso was horn an A.ugust 7, 1891/ The National Aerial League of France has awarded its grand gold medal to lands Paulhaa for his aight from Len - don to Manchester, The Lord's Day Alliance will appeal to the Railway Commission eo stop the run Bing of &moats ears on the Landon & Lake Erie Raifway, O. C. Bowen, a young homestee der, at Manville, Alta., committed sule'.de, last Tuesday, the body being found later, His relatives are Unknown. Al Indian Head, Sask., the Dominion elevator was burned to the ground, with 1,200 bushels of wheat, late on Friday night. Total lose about $1e,000. Robert Baxter, 68 George street, Pet- erboro, is in the Nicholls ,Hospittl as a result of burns sustained by a lamp ex- plosion. His condition is eriticil, A. by-law to loan the Imperial Cement Company $20,000 was carried at Owen Sound by a Maga majortty on Saturday; L,295 voted for the. hydaw and only 133 against. London ihthers on Saturday went on strike for twenty-two cents per hun- dred. The present price is eighteen. Eight firms are affected. The roan have no union. • The publishing company of will& Lord Northcliffe is head has . offered a pris of $50,500 to the first British aviato: who will fly from London to Edinburgh and back again. Eighteen hotels in Middlesex went out of business last right.• The licenses cut off are: 'Dorchester 3. Westminster 4, Adelaide 2, Lobo 2, Ailsa Craig 2, and Arthur Shore, the six -year -told Isole4L Strathroy 5. Mrs. Birkett, Scarlett road, Lambton Mills, was drowned in the Ifumbee Riv- er within one yard of his home about 9.30 on Saturday morning. Premier Murray's general condition continues to improve,. but the decision of the surgeons is that amputation of the leg will be necessary, and the opera- tion will probably be periornied in. a few days. NONE WANT AN ELECTION But- it Looks as if Britain Will Have One Next July, Armed, with axes tend pledge hanunero 1 - the police ot No. 2 divetioa hest eight ina.de a raid ote the Pekin Club, at 100%. tlo-vernmTenhte'sHoSucsheemofe L .Fo or rd s R.eformin Queen street west, Torouto, and. est a result 08 Chinamen who were indulglug Ina game of feet -ten behind. closed. doors wepraerkplalieesdptuisntdecrilcrrhee,t.srantrord. 1,14 reopened on Sunday after extensive re- novation and enlargement at an outlay exceeding twenty thousand dollars, which has already been subscribed the members. Notable among the chang- es ia a new .Sunday- wheel room, Six thousand bakers are on strike in New York for a nine -hour day and an increase of hl a week iu wages. .A. walk- out of four thousand additional bakers outplayed by the Koeher dealers was prevented through an agreement to sub. mit their grievances to arbitration. :the Woodetoek Bead of Heats!' hes erdered that ell dogs kept within the el ty 511511 lee securely, *elm under 1 co line key, the muzzling privilege beiug with- drawn, When ouG for exeteise the th.ge must be on a ehain, inuezled, And 1,11liAe1 the care of a competent person. Real A.merican diamonds, the first to be shown in Maiden Lams, made their appearance there last week. They were not offered for sale, but were exhibited ekskainnsaasn ierifftehret ooracioungv to the large manufacturers and import- assenible on MAY 20. iinicevaithoefin sotuletaut t'ileTldureciGaioavteironumgenf tthlemsresaleticolyns Tat, Africa, to. the form of a bill, the text 141 which Angry settlers forced from their lauds has been made public. Toe resolve inothe middle of "seeding by floods pre- thine declared first that it is expeaient vatting over the Lake or the Woods elk- that the Lords be prevented by law trice have threatened. to blow out tho from rejecting or amending a money that this dam does not permit the Rainy big dam at Honors, Ont. They allege that ea 1 loth -t- • II . hill,e I 1 1 a ion , s‘.a not in• anywise affect the righte' and Ravi - River to relieve itself naturally ef the leges of the 'Commons as they new excess waters, exiet. Then follows a definition of a The month of April ended at the Mont mouey bill as affected by the resolutions. real Customs House la the biggest on re- The. second of the reeolutions set cord for that particular month, the tota, forth that it is expedient, that tile collectiona on imports at the port of powers of the House of Lords respeeting 'Montreal having repelled $1,314,951.al, all other bills be restricted, so against $1,200,937.00 in the eJrrespond. that if any such bill shall be passed ing month hist year, an int:re:tee of by the Commons at three successive . - $111,013.01 for the 26 business daye. sessions and rejected by the Lords at the death of Lt. -Col. H. A. Bate, al a hew without the consent of the Lords eaeh of those BeeSiOnS it shall become Word has lmen received at Ottawa of minent eitizen of Ottawa and until two that at least two years shall ha,ve O1 Royal assent being given, provided Now York. Be was a wealthy and pro - years ago commanded the Governor-. elapsed • between the introduction of General's Foot Gitercls. He accompanied the measure and iteethird passage . by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to England upon the House of Commons. the occasion of the coronation of the The third resolution set forth that it present Xing and acted as the Prem. is expedient to limit the duration of a ier's aide-de-camp. He was iu his 551h Parliament to five years. year. LORDS MAY IGNORE RESOLUTIONS. The two-and-ashelf-year-ohl daughter The bill will be, submitted to the of James Wreens, of Melville, sask., w 4. House of Comm.ons when Parliament year-old brother. The children had been left alone, and it is thought the little new or novel, but the preamble fore - accidentally shot and killed by het eight. reassembles on May 26th. There are boy decided to remove the elun from its shadows that action will be taken position in the cornei the six clauses in it. They contain nothing the muzzle. The liam'intte ey later for the reform of the House of rndeastetglzheidiii'it, churns discharging the contents into the Lords, a matter with which the reso- lutions do not deal. It says that it is child's breast. intended to substitute a second Cham - A. typical figuro of the Vatican has ber constituted on a popular instead of a. hereditary bask. Such setbstitu- passed away with the death of Monsig- Viola the preamble declares, cannot nor Guglielmo Pifferi, who had been the inneediately be brought into operation. sacrista, or parish priest, of the Aposto. lie Palace since the time of Pius IX. Provision is also made for limiting and The aged, ecclesiastic died in the arms elefining the powers of the new second of the Pope, who had gone to the 1 ed. Gliambel% side this morning upon learning that The Lords may ignore the resolu- the end was near. The monsignor had tions and wait for the bill itself to come served for fifty yeart under three before ithem. Their notion then will Popes. , bring matters to a. head. In Liberal cir- cles dissolution is still regarded as a Opposition developed during a discus- sion of the Budget in the Turkish Chem- foregone conclusion. ber of Deputies to the annual grant ELECTION IN JULY. "if 2,160 pounds Turkish to thelnuebauds „The leading •Ministerial organ to - of the Imperial Princesses, on the day asserts that the Ministers regard ground that these were sinecures. As a, general election in July as almost a consequence Djavid Bey, the Minis- certain, and that all preparations are ter of Finance, presented his resigna- being made for dissolution at the end tion and it is likely that Talaat Bey, of June. There is no certain indica- Minister of the Interior, as well as don whatever of how another appeal other Miaisters, will also resign. to the country will eventuate. It is An extraordinary riot has occurred not,orious that all the parties dread at the Roben Island leper station. The the prospect and all would be glad, lepers found a 64 -gallon cask of rum though for different reasons, to avoid that had been washed ashore. After it. driuking greedily of the rum, they tan It is not surprising, therefore, that amuck. Tht officials and police had the means of escape are being discussed.' greatest difficulty in controlling them, There is much talk of a compromise as the law does not allow the authorie among tho more moderate members ties to use force in dealing with the lop- andaConservative parties. To this the era. Three of the latter died from the unbending stalwarts on either side will .effects of the orgy-. not listen, The Saturday.Review em The police of Fort Frauces and Inter- PbatinglY opposes compromise. It urges national Falls, Minn., are looking for a fight to the last ditch. One form of James Vincent, of the latter place. A the suggested compromise is thee the vetoeresolutions shall be passed by the short time ago be went to Appleton, Wis., and there induced Lillian Newman Lords as they stand. without being back- ed by a bill. The resolutions would time and Sylvia. Grimes, sixteen and seventeen have the force of custom and would years of age respectively, to accompany - work without the laced for a written in - him to Milwaukee on promise of lucra- tive employment. Ile later took them strument. al Falls red light dis- PAIR OF A. COMPROMISE. to the International trict, eviler', it is alleged, he sold them Another panacea for escaping a for $150 each. general election is to submit the veto That the Climate of Ontario is condo. question to a popular referendum. cive to :longevity is manifested by the Thi is the favorite Whole) of the following statistics: Within the tor- Liberal -Unionist- Spectator, 'which potation of St Williams, the population urges tho Lords to refuse to disease of which is: ono hundred and niiiety-sia, the veto resolutions until they are there are living eight persons, oe more put iuto couerete legislative shape. than four per cont. of its ithabitants, The Government theta it thinks, could who are eighty years of ago and over. not 'refuse to embody theta la a bill, Iii the village cemetery, where prob- whidli would be sent to the Lords in the ably no rnore than Ono hundred and ordinary course. The tipper House ought fifty interments have 'been made, tre then to add to the bill` a clause declar. the graves of itinethen people who lived ing the bill inoperative until it is sub- eighy years or more, the average ago at 'flitted to a referendum. death having been eighty-six. Lord Courtney, a Liberal Peet, ad- , eel,' vocates a referendum, The Times, irt an editorial to -clay, admits thee a te. Second Chamber On a Popular, Nota Hereditary Basis New York, May L—A cable des- patch to The Sun from London 'Says: TO politicians,' whether in Parliament or on the outside, as well, as ti the petrol publies time is immense relief that the Budget has deportee iron the stage, The political atmos- phere i$ at Met cloaca. of the puree - 13,1011 which had become almoot healer:a ble to a inajoriey of the pulnie. Mementos graver ieettes are inn pendipg which may ehanga the 0.41- stitation. The resolutions crippling the Douse of Lords, popidarly the veto resolutioaa vile& Itave al- ready passe(1 the Ilouse Of commous, will mile before the Lords as own as that body finishes with Lord Rosebery's retina, eesegutions, whica will be tue first business of the Peoria when they re- A. number of noh-commiosioned officers and men \in the Twenty-first Regiment, Windsor, have been served with Police Court summonses for failure to a tond the drills of their corpe when ordered to do so. There is a serious uprieing of netives itt Nyasse, Portuguese East Africa. King Muria, at the head of numerous tribes. has massacred the people, pillaged rtmi burned the settlement and destroyed Empogu a.. A wireless despatch from the Vigil- ancia off the south of ScOtland, tells of the death on board of Mrs. J. A. Phil- lips, of Montreal. Mrs, Philips was stricken with apoplexy on Saturday, and died on Sunday. In a special message to Congress Pres- ident, Taft urges that the defenees of the Panaina Canal be completed and ready for business On Jan. 1, 11)151 on whieh date it is also propose:1 t) open the 'canal to navigation. john D. Sharman, formerly assistant postmaster of London, died on Sunday, aged 77, He had been a member of the City Council and of the Board of PAU. cation. He was born in Ireland, hut eame to Lando u in 1858. By the arrest yesterday of a hate. (Ionian by the name of Steven Dc,neous on a. charge of a vagrancy tho Toronto pollee believe they have a Mall who 11A3 been for some time past robbing Ids 411. suspecting countrymen. The /Casette lieense to.remistionets, in aeeorclanee With the request a t' e City Council, ha,s reduced the aumber of hotel lieensee to twenty.five. The lienees held by the Congthea, Exchange ailed Ottawa hotels 'were out off. it Following the arrest of four Ituesians at lIoholult, On the &large of inciting dieorder, a mob of 400 of their eountry- Men tarrOlintled the pOliee station, aid a, battle with the police followed, After a hard fight the mob was 'watered, William Eitkluen, an old resident of Bathurst Township, was killed 'Mule driving honk from Pettit *with Ida two sorts. Tho homes beearde utintanagealne and Mr, was throvnt out of 1,13 wagon, his head striking a telegraoh pole, Anether *lethal of the ear ferry WPM - or Bestemer Ilea 2 Was MIMI On the lake shore Omit a Inge -ellet, Port Oolliottee COL DAVIDSON. 1111..WMPIOTM.MP Public'. and Military Funeral for Deceased Torontonian, 113 'Toronto, May 2.---Witth 0, greet throng lining the etreeto along whiele the eortege paseed, and the band of the 48th Highlandere, whese martial rando he had loved so well in daym gone by, playing the Dead March in Seul, followed by a numerous( party of his old comrades in alma march- ing with arum reversed, the remaine of the late Lieut. -Col, John I, David- son, in a flag-drapo casket, were borne to the tomb in. Mount Pleas, ant cemetery on Saturday afternoon. Earlier in the day a private funeral service Was held at the family reel, (knee in St. George street. Many dietinguished officers took part in the ceremonies. Col. Septimus Denison acted tte Marshal. Those who officiated as honorary eall-bearerg were:—Brigadier-General W. Cotton, G.0.0., western =inland; Col. Sir H, M. Pellatt, Sncl Q. R.; Col. W. 0, MacDonald, commanding Toronto Infaatry Brigade- Lieut. -Col, V. A. Williams, A.D.C.; LieutsCol. A. E. Gooderharre 10th Royal Gren- adiers; LieutsCol. D. M. Robertaon, 48th Highlanders; Lieut, -Col. P. L. Mason, Q,0.11,, and Lieuta0ol. F. Fleming, G,G,B,G. Captain Trotter was present for his. Excellency the Governor-General. The Lieutenant- Goveraor, with Captain Douglas!! Young. The Honailton Wholesale Grocers' Guild sent a wreath. IRISH AND SCOTCH Province Has PracticOly Ceased Work in England. - anwier•••••••••••• Toronto, May 2,—"We have placed over 600 immigrants on Ontario farms already this epring, and still we have 400 applications ore hand," said Mr. Donald Sutherland, •Provincial Di- rector of Colonization. "The condi- tion in the country is critical, and many farmere are tied up for want of help." In view of the dissatisfaction ex- perierited in former years—when many were brought from the English cities and refused to stay upon the farms where they were placed, drifting into the larger town and cities—the depart- .ment has this year devoted its energies exclusively to the import of young farmers. an.d girls fat domestics. As a result, according to Mr. Suther- land, the majority of those arriving are front Ireland, with art occasional consignment from Scotland. Prac- tically no English have . yet been brought over under Provincial aus- pices, as it is difficult to procure experienced farm help in England. On Saturday 30 Irish girls arrived in a Rigby party, under Provincial auspices, and were located as domes- tics in many applying homes. helialeesaeseliela KINGPAID TAX. fereneluni would be the most practical course, haring the obvious advaribage of keeping the Sovereiges out of party po. Mks. Didn't Wait Until Budget Was Signed' THE FEELING- IN IRELAND. T. P. O'Connor declares eiziphati. —Followed Victoria's Example, eally againet compromise or a refer- endum. The real poliey of the fighting melt of the two cl' emotraeies Mr. New York, May 1,--A cable despatch Contor says, is to go aheadwith their to the Sun from Londoq saps: King 6egnile,r'al ietleeistiosn6frs to itsoawYltetrehat dreaded Edward did not wait until he had given g more than among the members of the his assent to the finance bill on Fri - PHOTOS BY WIRE. Inventor Arrives in New York to Introduce System. ..0•1111. K11110 MI EATEN RTF,111/**WWW, NM Missionaries Met Horrible Fate In South alms. Rev. Horatio Hopkins and Rev,,ilector I, McPherson to Victims. Seattle, Wash., May 2.—Deteile of tite i� aeatingeietanbty, t°11a07Rel;,1111Hoenot :78174 5 ot the Rev. Horatio Hopishm and IlePherson, miseionarleae ot the Presbyterian Church on Savage Is, land, were brought by the barketine Mary B. Winkelman, which arrived to-dey at hfulsilteo, Wash, from tins Tonga Island, in the aoutu Seas). While the, barkentine lay at Tan - getable, in the Tonga Island". a Canoe -load of mission natives from Savage Island arrived at Flea, bring- ing news of the butchery, The natives said that Hopkins and btoPherson were teaching in the Mis- sion, building, which stands on the beach in the little harbor of Savage wleen 200 unconvertad. savages, howling war cries and brandishing clubs and spears, descended on them and took thirteen prisoners. The robs- sions,ries bad 20 converts in training at the time and only nine of them escaped. Both. missionariee were bound with thonge and left lying on the beach in the tropical sun for sae, eral hours,. while savage's took the native capteves inland. The cannibals then returned to the beach and carried the miSsionaries on a litter to the crater ef the extinct, volcano Van hie, in the centre of the island. There for two days and nights they held a eorroboree. At times their dancing 'and revelry could he seen plain by, the fugitive Christian naWtilheilse most ef the cannibals were sleeping, the captive natives escaped. Their goipg was hastened by the sight of two of the cannibal chiefs donning the missionaries' dothee. The clergymen had already been eaten. The Kinkelman brought news of a general revival of the old-time religious customs in the Tonga, the Society, the Solomon and the Cook groups. The natives are holding dances and feasting on human flesh as they did in the days before the white man4 interf:rie4wd, New York, May 2.—T. Thorn Baker, who has perfected the invention by which photographs are sent by telegraph and who has successfully operated his system between London and Paris ar- rived here yesterday on the Cunarder Carmania to demonstrate hie system in this country. He says that he has so far developed his system that it is now * commercial proposition and that there, is a great future for it, especially on the lines of transraission of photographs by wireless. "The difficulty heretofore has been that the pictures became distorted ill transmission, hut I have invented a ‘bala,nce,' as it is called, that corrects - this and now it can be uded with ease and correctness," said Mr. Baker. "The most interesting. part is that photographs can be sent by wireless as well as by wires. I look forward to the time when the newspaper photographer will carry the apparatus with him in a compact box and when he has made a photograph, develop it, and send it by wireless to his office." Baker will probably work ftrst be- tween New York and Washington. she a rule he uses the 'telephone wires to send his pictures. day, but paid his income tax in full at X aAtiTlitillosilitttilVi tayrt to. tho midget among the rate of 14 pence i ti the pound he- itil;itIv!riefiniiivl oopinvediop,iis Igdoexiaelatavisointeltragof:paspoorvetevreoitri fore haud. tory act cat the Itinife part,' as it eves on She Queen's, who was equally prompt, The payment Was an entirely valuta lend.the Budget, has cot him the loyalty of. many of his fornier followers in Ire. einee there is no power to levy upon the Crown. For several years after the Many Meetifige 43f protest have beee Ineome tax was introdeeed the Sovereign held, and local Couneils have de - did Pot pay it, but Queen Vietoria in- nounted the betrayal of Irish biter, trodueed the euistorft in order to share to be, the repreeentativee at West. the people's burden, minstet. The aituation in Ireland is Ring Edward, when the Treasury ap• full of encouragement for the O'Briet proaehed hitht after he cane to the and rtealy eeetion, They have enrage. throne, deelded to follow ids mother's ently opposed and voted against the 4+lomitple. The tex offiekle rigorouele, Budget. A general election will warms - guard as a sestet the antraint of the Sovereign's private ineome. thenably teed there IAA to ?aliment with greatly strengthened number. FOR STUDENTS. *ye Examinations at the University—The Arts Began To -day, LIBERAL ELECTED In ,By -Election in South Edinburgh, Scotland. 1 4 1 11.••=.0••••••• London, May 2.—In the bye -elec- tion in South Edinburgh to -day ..„...r. Charles Lyell, Liberal, was elected over his Unionist opponent, Mr. Glynn, by a majority of 2,327. Mr. Lyell secured 8,694 votes to his Op- ponent's 6,367. Curiously, the M- ere' majority at the general election in January was 2,334, only seven more than to -day. The vote at that time, however, was mucb greater, the Lib- eral candidate seoring 10,235 and the Unionist 7,901. The next by-election will probably be in the Crewe division of Cheshire, the member for which, Mr. James Tomkinson, was killed at the Parlia- mentary steeplechase a fortnight ago. 4 • CAUSED PANIC. Small Girl Stumbles and Causes Ex citement in a Theatre. ••••••••••••=.• New York, May 2.—A little girl fell 48 feet from the top gallery of the Lin- coln Square Theatre last evening. Iter fall threw a fair-sized audience, made up largely of womera into a panic. Louise Loeffler is the child's name. She is fourteen years old. Three or four women promptly fainted and others stood up and started to rush towards the exits, but employees check- ed the rush. Louise was removed to the hospital, where an examination showed a compound fracture at the base of the - skull and internal injuries. She will pro- bably die. TorontO, May 2.—During the month of May hundreds of students will write on examinations at the 'Uni- versity of Toronto. They *will write in sixteen different rooms in the var- ious buildings at the eame time, and the wOrk has beett crowded into eight- een days instead of the twenty usual - 137 given over for this purpose. Thie is understood to be because of the month commencing on Sunday. Examinations will be held in the Faculties of Arts, Education, Medi eine and Music, the LL.B.,in Law, and the Civil Service. The Atts ex- arninations stat to -day. Four hun- dred papers are set, and there will be in all about 15,000 papers to be examined. All this work uniet be fin - Jetted by June 6, and the exatnitere will commence their labors to -mor- row. 4,, OR. MILLIGAN RESIGNS, Toronto, May 2. --The members of the congregation of old St. Andrew's Church were notified yesterday by their mink - ter, Rev. Dr. G. M. Milligan, of his resigs taloa, arid 41 meeting was called to be lubld on Monday, the 9th inst., to eon. eider it in accordance with the rules of the Presbyterial Church. Dr. Milligan explahlea that it Was solely on the ground of his health that lk felt obi - wiled to lay down the burden of hie oh flee. On Sunday next ik will preach his farewell Amnion, atul, it is aulerstood, will soon after leave on a trip to Sot - tea which, it is lamed, evill 'effort% hien the needed (dump and rt•at, The Swish general electieas witi lie held on May 8t11. • • • ROYAL ASSENT. British Budget Fight Was No Quick. fireAction. em••••••••••01•11.... London, May 2.—In the by-elec- which has kept politics in a turmoil during the past year, received the Royal assent this morning, thus be- coming a law on the anniversary of its introduction. The Howie of Lords and the House of Commons met in formal seesion to -day, not more than a dozen maul - bets being preseat to hear the Royal assent read. Roth Houses adjoutned until May 26. JEWS DRIVEN OFF. Ten Thousand of Them Forced to Leave Kieff, Russia. New York, Mey 2.-1ews of the brutal expitision from Kieff, rinesia, of 2,500 jewieh families, which prob. ably IneaThe MOTO that 10,000 person% was Deceived today in cable dine - patches to The Jewish Daily llews of this city. The report ie confirmed by advices to the American lowish Cora- mitte and the Geriruin Relief Sotiety. .IAM AT THE SOO. &viitt, Ste. Marie, Mich., May 2.—The largest fleet sinee the bloektide of ice is now in the Se litarfe Riven. (Nei a, Imitate(' boats up and dowel bottled are at encltor waiting locking turn. There it an Average delay of 48 hours to vessele. Every effort is being made .to have the American lock ready for opeithig by the officially stated time, text Wednesday. Three thousand ftehetet, tandiere in Chicago have rejected a wage hierease of one ecut ati hour offered them by the raiIrod attti aomea to sere anmu. 'mature en the inahagert to -day. Roosevelt sailed from Kiel thle morn- ing for Copenhagen.