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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-09-22, Page 7NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF TwoHundred Thousand Welsh Miners Will Likely Be Locked Out, Toronto Man Falls From Window and is Instantly Hurt, Two Men Killed By Explosion on Canadian Norhern. 1,1.0•11,11,1•101,, William Yates was drowned by his canoe upsetting at Loudon, Ont. The tariff queetion is likely to cause a split in the British, Unionist party. Roumania and Turkey are said to have entered into an alliance against Bulgaria. Tony Toris, Italian, shot and seriously wounded Creeenzo Antone, at Cobourg. He was arrested. Thirteen balloons left Indianapolis Saturday afteraoon in an endurance and distance test. A petition asking for the dissolution of the Sugar Trust will he filed at New York this week. Toronto Canton. No, 7, 1, 0. O. F., has gone to Atlanta, Gia, to participate in the annual convention. Mr. F. W. Nichol, of Westminster Township, was kieked by a colt a week ago and died front his injuriee, The McIntyre bloek at °rand Valley was destroyed by fire and the Queen's Hotel at Woodville bady damaged. Two workmen named Hodgens and 13athgate were killed by an explosion in the C. N. 31. construction camp near Cal- garys A Montreal report has that f.';r T. Shaughnessy is attempting a cousolie dation of the C,P.E., G.T.R. and Cerra' Railway, It is reported that J. A. McKee's farm of 180 acres in Bedford Park has been sold for $200,000. He paid $35,000 -for it five years ago. The purchase of the Northere Gravel road by the Oxford Comulittee was com- pleted before the County Solicitor saw the papers, and it turns out that the title is worthless. The population of Chicago, as an- nounced by the United States Census Bureau, is 2,185,283, an increase of 486,- 708, or 28.7 per cent., as compared with 1,608,575 in 1900. -.Tames Dykeman, aged 30, fell from a third -storey window in rear of 150East Queen street, Toronto and was instant- ly killed. He had been sleeping close to the Open window. The present Unitarian Church in ,Tar• vis street, Toronto, will be cold. The • land is valued at $13,000 and the build big at $4,000. A new church to cost $30,000 is planned. .Sorne time between midnight and one o'clock yesterday morning burglars broke into the store of James Harris, at 63 Xing street west, Toronto, and got away with about $800 worth of fume His Lordship Bishop Sweeney offi- ciated at the formal induction of the Rev. John Elias Gibson, M.A., as rec- tor of the Church of the Ascension, To- ronto, in that edifice last evening. "I am profoundly touched by the testi - 'menials of respect and veneration shown me as the representative of his Holi- ness the Pope,' says Cardinal Velma- telli, in a letter of thanks to Mayor Guerin, of Montreal. The corner stone of the new Free - Masons' Hall, at the corner of Mark- ham and College streets, Toronto, was laid on Saturday afternoon by Judge MacWatte of Sarnia, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada. At Saturday'e session of the judicial enquiry into theeconduct of the Isola- tion Hoepital, Toronto, James Rogers, whose boy died in the hospital, and who caused the enquiry to be granted, "with- drew" from the ease because he was not allowed to cross-exaniine witnesses. 'Reuben Switzer, a young hired farm hand. of East Luther Township, was committed to jail at Orangeville on Sat- urday charged with attempting suicide while temporarily insane. Switzer, who is an nomarried man aged about 25. gashed his throat and forehead with a' vazor and nearly severed his left wrist and is much weakened from lose Of blood. He will recover. The Cambrain collierymen, at a mass meeting on Saturday, decided to strike. Twelve thousand men will quit work to -day. The result will probably be that the Welsh Coal Miters' Association will lock out 200,000 Welsh millers. The miners win strike without the legal no- tice, whieh will render them unable to draw strike pay from their union. The strike will also be in defiance of a de- cision reached at the tonference on Sat- urday, which was attended by delegates representing the entire Welsh coalfield, - • ..-410•••••••••••••••••••••••• MYRON WHITNEY. Famous Singer of Twenty Years Ago is Dead. Sandwich, Mass., Sept. 10. -Myron W. Whitney, one of the most popu- lar singers in the country twenty years 4s. ago, is dead at his home in this town. Mr. Whitney had a wonderfully deep, rioh arid powerful bess voice. Ho be- gan tinging in oratorio in 1858. Af- terwards be was heard as a. eoloist in nearly all the musical conven- tions atOund the world for more than thirty years. Mr. Whitney became a member of the all -stat cast that, pro- duced Pinafore in Boston in 1879. It was from this etunpany that the original caripany ef BAstonia.ns was formed, the members of which in- cluded Henry C. Batne,bee, Tom Karl, George Prothingliatn, George Cay- vanx and Mary Heels. Mt. Whitney never appeared at his beat on the stage and soon returned tg the con- cert platform. He was heard fres (palely with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. Mr. Whitney was born in Aeliby, Mese., in 1838. His body will be 'Aid near that of jos jefferson in this town on Ttiesday. 1.6 THREE BURNED. Chieltgo, Sept. 19. -Miss Anna Belieet. of Chimes° taw% and two children were berme' to ileatti by an explosion of gemoline to -day. lam other ehildrzin vitae probably fatelly hurried. The tte- Meld oreurrea when Mee Dollen tried to start the kitelten fire with gturotiae. MESSAGE OF PEAcg' CAPT. LARSEN Mgr, Bruchesi Looks For Healing of Differences in Religious Bodies. Montreal, .,Fept, 18. - The feature of the annual ceremony of blessing the half million dead lying in the Otho - lie cemetery behind. Mount Royal this afternoon was the reference made by Archbishop Britches' to the recent Eucharistie Cougress, Ilis Grace paid eloquent tribute to "the support mete - ed from our separated brethren," and • added he hoped the time was coming when, through the mercy of God, there would be but one cemetery in Montreal and that all religious harriers separat- ing the people would disappear. Thous- ands witnessed the ceremony of sprit*, ling holy water, and the singing of the Libera •by the choirs was impressively simple. Archbishop Bruchesi was attired in mourning robes. LIKE SLAVERY DAYS Pennsylvania Preacher Wanted to Auction His Two Children. Claimed He Could Not Support Them, But Crowd Stopped Sale. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 18. -There was near rioting at Circleville, Penna., near Ire in, last evening, when Rev. Thos. U. Boord, pastor of the Wylie Baptist Church. of Pittsburg, after advert1s1n4 that he would sell two of his five child - ten to the highest bidder, made an ef- fort to auction the children off. The minister got no opportunity to fin- ish the sale as one thousand people pro- tested, and the minister was nearly mob- bed. Nor were matters better this morn- ing when Rev, Mr, Boord, appeared in the pulpit in Pittburg, for he was sub- jected to many slurs there front his congregation, many of whom would listen to no explanation. Late yesterday the following circulars signed by Boord were passed about Circleville, which is the home village of Rev. Mr: Boord, announcing that tho auction would be taken. The children Lo be offered were described in detail, and the circular said that one was a boy or seven and the other a girl of ten. It stipulate that the purchaser should be a good moral person. At the appointed time Rev. Mr. Boord appeared -with the two children and made explanation that he had five child - ten and was not able to support them - that he wanted to sell two in order to keep th other three, Som person in the crowd became abusive and Mr. Boord finally announced a postponement of the auction sale of the children. Late this afternoon Mr. Boord, who is a prohibition candidate for the Legisla- WU', declared it was a joke, but the crowd took him seriously and made trouble. DOCTOR SUICIDES. Was From Toronto, But Was Prac- ticing at SG! anton, Pa. Scranton, Pa., Sept., 18. -Dr. Jaime E. 'Thompsou, aged 28 years, a widely known and. prominently connected physi- cian, with a good, practice in Throop, th is county, was this morning found dead in bed with a budet in his head. lie boarded Nlith a family welled Swertz. De.spite the fact that the borough peace declare it a case of suicide, the tragic end of the young physician is surrounded with muehanyetery that may lead to an investigation. Eighteen months ago Dr. rhompsron, whose home was in Toronto, Canada, received a diploma from the Bal- tenore Medical College. He came to this eounty to practise bectutee his uncle, Dr, Charles E. Thompson, is one of the firet surgeons in this isection of the State and the proprietor of the Screnton Private Hospital, a large and most succeseful iii- titutIon, He established a practiee at Throop, uneontlying mining Lawn, and was eremingly prosperous, but given to nachmeholia. His health wee not the most robust, and this may have ied him to take his own life. The revolver from which the fetal bullet WAS fired was clutched in the rigbt hand. 3)r. Thomp- son had only reeently returued from a vacation tril, to his borne in Toronto. COMING HERE. Irish Leaders fredict Home Rule For Erin in Two Years. amoodoftwoo.....•• Queenstown, '‘Sept. 17. ---john Red- mond, the nationalist leader, accoxn- panied by jos. Devlin, M.P., Daniel Doyle, M.P., and T. P. O'Connor, X P., arrived her on the Lusitania this evening. . They comprise a epecial missiou of the Irish party to the United Stats, and they were given an ovation on the eve of their departure by large crowds that had gathered here to greet them. Mr. Redmond, hi a brief speech, said that he was going to tell the Americans that the cause of Irish freedom was tied up inseparably with the well-being and freedom of the democracy of Great Britain. The struggle to -day, he added, was be- tween the whole mass of democratic forees itt England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, combined against the last relic of feudalism. The moment the power of the House of Lords diss appeared the toed to home rule, he declared, was absolutely elear, irish- nien foresaw early victory for their cause, "I think we are nearer the suecess of our cease," Mr. O'Connor said, to the press, "than we have bean since the •death of Parnell. Viotory, iri eluding home rule, , 1.1 in two years." IPP SU fiN ED TO DEATH. Clothes of St. Catharines Woman Ig. Tilted While Cooking. St, Catharines, (hit., Sept. 18.- Mrs. Jane Tebbe, a highly respected 1:081 - dent of this city, WAS beirned to death ort Saturday evening. fitei was preparing supper about six °Week and in some niantier unknown, her clothing caught fire and when assistanee reached her she was entirely enveloped in Ramo. She was Irtirried to the holipital, but her burns were tee severe that /titer lin. goring in terlible pain for several home, "the died at midnight. Deceased was 71 Vears Of age; a whim', and lives a tunny of fear ditaghtere end aft sot. RAN THE RAPIDS In a Small Motor Boat Went Through ,the Whirlpool Rapids. The Boat Tossed About at the Mercy of the Great Waves, P,••••1..mow. His Leg Jammed, Eligine Gave Out and Boat Cast Ashore. Niagara Fells, Ont., Sept. 18. ---After the thousandof persoue who had gath- ered along the bluff on either side of the Niagara Gorge to see Cepa Klaus Larsen make his trip through the Whirlpool Rapids, had left their poiut of vantage in disappointment and die - gust and after Capt. Larsen himself had declared to a party of newspaper men and others, at the Canadian Maid of the Mist landing that he would not make the trip through the rapids becauee of the failure of his engine to work prop- erly, he suddenly eltanged his mind and made the perilous pulley. negotiating the five miles ox euromerre waters in' 25 minutes. He left the Canadian Maid df the Mist dock at 4,47 o'clock and at 5.20 was on his way back to the Falls on a car of the Great Gorge Road. Not more than 200 people saw Ids little boat make the trip. After Capt. Lersen hail tinkered with his engine for twL 'flours in an endeavor to get it to tun to his eatisfaction, he tied the boat to the dock and went up the incline to his hotel. There he was found at 4- o'clock by a party of newe- paper men who had returned from a weary vigil at the Whirlpool. When he saw that hie story of a disabled engine was doubted, he volunteered to accom- pany the newspaper men to the boat and prove that the engine was not in good running order. In his absence, an expert engineer from the Ferro Com- pany, of Cleveland, makers of the engine, had succeeded in getting the machinery into fairly good shape. Larsen stood in•ound a while and repeatedly eaid he would not make the trip, as it was growing dusk, and he did not care to be caught in the Whirlpool in the dark. But when the expert emerged from the cockpit and said that the engine was "0. X." Larsen changed his mind, He suddenly leaped around the dock to the deck of his beat, polled his wallet from his pocket and handing it to Ids sister- in-law, Mrs. 0. N. Larsen, who accom- panied him here, said: "Good-bye; I think I'll go now. This is as .good a time atrany." • HEADED FOR 13311 WAVES. Ile fastened the canvas about hie waist and tacked it to the sides of the cockpit to keep the water out, gave the wheel of the enable a twist and started. The little craft'beaded straight for the centre of the stream and then turned down toward the narrows, where the water, confined to a narrow channel, begins to leap and bound in fearsome fashion. Lareen, cool and caleulating, held the tiller rod with his right hand and waved to the few people on the low- er steel arch bride with the other. The boat entered Swift Drift a little toward the Canadian shore. It was going with the velocity of an express train. The intrepid skipper heeded straight to- winels the giant cave,opposite Whirl- pool Outlook. It was here that the river experts expected Larsen to meet his fete. The boat rode up to the crest of the giant billow like a cork and then Allot iuto the air fully twenty feet. com- ing down with a smack that could be heard on the railroad bridges above the roar of the waters. Jt keeled over to alarmingan degree when it struck the water, aneLarsen was half submerged in the spume and spray. It eves then that the navigator's wisdom in loading the boat with 90e pounds of concrete ballast was vindicated. The little craft righted itself in a jiffy, and shaking it- self free from the water, plunged into the next roller, only to repeat He per- formance. Onee the boat spun around like a top, and those who watched with, breathless anxiety from the shore ex- pected to Bee it dash into the next mountain of wa'cr broadside on, but Larsen, never losing his head for 5, nue ment, lammed t'•e tiller over and the boat took the pinege head on, CARRTET) INTO WHIRLPOOL. Tho.next three WaVCS were met stern irst and it seemed that control of the craft had been lost. But the worst of the rapids were passed and the boat shot toward the Canadian shore and rammed its nose on a rock, There it hung for several minutes, swaying and f,umbling in a frightful manner, the jagged rocks, threatening to pierce the bottom every moment. Captain Larsen leaned well toward the stern and by vigorously working the tiller to and fro, sucteeded in working the boitt off the roe:. As it slid back into the water it was caught by the current and hurled towara the Whirlpool, the engine still pound- ing away. A minute later the boat was in the Whielp000l. There Cap. fain Larsen lest his bearings. The river at that point takes an abrupt turn, and many of the mirreets are upstream. Leeson, thinking the arm of the river that extends hit° the old St. Devid's ravine, wee the tight course, steered his boat hi that dir ' ec- tion only to discover when too late, Minthe was running straight into the maw of the maelstrom. Hie boat was serrounaed by a great flood Of de - brie and the logs that were bobbing about in the whirlpool threatened to mash in the aides. He managed, however, to get the bola. across the inaelstrom toward the outlet. PLAYTHING OP THE RIVER. Java as he left the pool, however, the engine stopped working itna Ler- sen wes at the mercy of the waters Inanity less violent than those above. The little boat swung around stern first and then turned completely over, Larsen coming up badly battered ana with An injury to his kg. Prom now on 'Larson WOM the piny - thing of the mighty river, unable to hold the mune, the boat swingieg from one side to enother. After get- ting through the Hole, the Warn seeing lomat the roelts on the Arne/leen Aide of the river, rolled oast one itonWer and went feet tee. t w two ethers. There Larsen Ate %d for nee minders forty fe-et from: ilia - vomiting avegatvatiy to release the eratt. (letting free, he wee bit ley a middle. ERE Lambe,. and seat eareerieg toward the At the bend, with the Lewiston ' . •' . • . bridge in sight,. the boat drifted toward the Amerieztu side agaiu and, was then caught in the shore eddy, The a'erro • HER OWN HOUSE grounded again, this time near .enough to be caught by a man, who wadea into the water and (Naught a rope thrown by Larsen. Larsen wanted to continue the teae but eavieg accomplisleea the word part of the jimmy, he was persuaded to. hoard a trolley to Lewiston, setting t110. boat adrift. lam, WORSE THAN EXPECTED. "The trip wes worse thau I thought it would be," sitia Larsen,. "but I ant not hurt„ and. wit Ide it again sone time with another boat. My leg was jammed when she tipped over, hut that's all. The engine worked. fine through the rapies and 1 would. have made the trip in Milt an hour if it had not stopped af- ter leaving the whirlpool." At the end of the trip the Ferro was found to he leakiug badly, water etende ing six inches deep. Larsen said he had not struck any rocks till after leaving the whirlpool. This morning Larsen was summoned to the police office on the American aid% A committee of five was appointed to in - sped the boat and see 11 the hazard could be termed attempted suicide. Lar- sen flirted with the committee, running the boat back and forth 'near the dock, but not near enough for a close »tepee - tion. Except the old Maid of the Mist, sent through in 1804 to avoid seizure, Larsen's is the only engine -propelled craft to have gone through the rapids. Peter Nissen, Chicago, 1900, and C. A. Percy, 1887 and 1901, are the only men who took boats through and lived. MANY HAVE DARED RAPIDS. Robiuson, McIntyre and Jones made the first known trip through the rapids in the steamer Maid of the Mist in 1864. a Captain Matthew Webb, the famous English swimmer,. paid his life for his folly in attempting to swim the rapids in 1883, Carlisle 1). Graham went through the rapids five times in a barrel, and in 1901 swam the perilous course with the aid. of life-preservere. William J. Wendell swam the rapids in 1886. C. Alexander Percy made two trips in a boat, the first in 1887. George ilbrat and Sadie Allen made the trip io a barrel in 1886. Walter G. Campbell had a, ,thrilling ex- perience which almost cost him his life, covering the course in a boat in 1889. Robert W. Flack attempted the trip in a boat, but was drowned, in 1889. P. M. Bowser covered the course in a boat in 1900. Peter Nissen covered the course in the Foolkiller, a small boat, in 1001. 0. A. Percy made his third trip in a boat in 1901. Miss Maud Willardwent through the rapids in a barrel, but was caught in the Whirlpool and whirled around for six hours. She died shortly after being taken out. This happened in 1902. The only person who has gone over the falls and lived to tell the tale is Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor, who lives at Nieg- ara, Falls.. She accomplished this death - defying feat in 1901, when she went over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel POISONED HIMSELF His Wife Reprimanded Him For His Drinking Habits, Toronto, Sept. 19. -Brooding over a quarrel he had had during tha. evening with his wife when he came home under the influence of liquor, Thomas Shilling - ton, of 477 Bathorst street, took a dose of laudanum early Sunday morning and died. a shore while afterwards in the Western Hospital. It appears that the man had been drinking heavily for • some days past, and had threatened. to do away with himself before. Saturday night, after coming home, he went out again, and when he returned told his wife that it would be all over in a short while, as he had taken a dose of laudanum. She sent for a doctor, and Shillington was rushed to the Western Hospital, but the poison had already taken effect and he lived but a short While. A two -ounce bottle, which had con- tained laudanum, was found in the man's pocket. It had been purchased at Grimelutw's drug store, corner of Lippincott and College streets, Coroner Dr. A. E. Morgan decided that an inquest was unneccesssary, but im investigation will be made by the authorities to ascertain how the man got the poison. CARDINAL LOGUE Preaches in Toronto -Talks of Euch- aristic Congress. Toronto, Sept. 19. -An event unique in the annals of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Toronto was mark- ed yesterday, when hie Eminence Cardi- nal Logue, Primate of All Ireland, honor- ed the city by a Visit and his presence in two of the largest parishes of the city. Supported by the Very Rev. leather Itlulhall, his Eminence attended High Mass at half-putst ten and preached to a mighty concourse. Resplendent in his gorgeous vest- • meots and attended by a•rotinue of train -bearers, the venerable Cardinal Was escorted to the pulpit by Rev. rather Whelan. Ile said Ile was deeply grateful for the eordial welcome. it was, • indeed, a, profound pleasure to visit the children of St. Patrick at St. Michael's end in Toronto especially. He congratu- lated them on their freedom, the glori- ous gift of Providence. Freeitoin, he said, was necessary for their temporal OS well as spiritual welfare. ln some Catholic canaries of Europe such it demonstra- tion as had been witnessed at Montreal would not have been possible. He doubt- ed whether the Eucharistic Congress held he Montreal would ever be eurpass- ed. ‘, *• • DEATD AT CROSSING. Iliteheock, Sask„ Sept. 18.11. Brown, an Englishman working on a farm near here, was instantly killed, and A. Savel- berg, a farmer, probably hardly injured' when the buggy in which they were driving wee hit by a work train at a eriaeing, The view of the tratk With Oh, etrneted by a long meow fenee, and the men probably. never eaw anything until the train was *pen them Dummer Woman, Brutally Assaulted, Dies of the Shock. Food Lifeless on Floor By Husband With Marks on Body, No Clue Obtained to Assailant - What the Neighbors Say. Norwood, Ont, Sept. 18.-Dtunmer Township was the scene of what has all the appearance of another murder on Thursday night. The victim is Mrs. Hugh Delaine wife of a farm laborer re- siding on the 12th line, about seven miles northeast of this village. Though at present considerable mystery sur- rounds her death, it was evident from the appearance of the body that she had met with most brutal treatment, The correspondent visited the scene of the crime, which is in a lonely part of the country about half a mile in from the road and that distance or more from the nearest neighbor, Mrs, Samuel New- ell was one of the first to reach the De - table home after the crime, and was among those present to -night. She said that shortly after retiring on Thursday night she hearil a knock at the door, and asked who was there. Delaine an- swered that it was lie, and asked her to come over to his place, that hie wife was dead. She dressed herself as quick- ly as possible aud accompanied hirn to Matthew Little's and Mr, Buchameds, and, with them, went to the De'.aine home, where they found Mrs. Delaine lying on her hack on the floor of the summer kitchen dead. Her face was scratched and bruised, and there were marks upon her wrists that looked. as if they had been tied with a cord. There , ilivaeprp. eyseveral deep finger nail marks ia ed state and there was a bruise behind theright ear. She was unable to throw her hands. Her hair was in a dishevel- ing' light upon the crime. No stranger had been seen in the neighborhood that day, and, so far as she knew, tho rela- tions between Delaine and his wife were It was learned that Detain°, who had been working for Mr. Samuel Buchanan, left Buchanan's about 7 o'clock that night, and on his way home called at William McMillen's, atitraig there short- ly after 8 o'clock and reached home about 8.30 o'clock. 'It is only about fif- teen minutes walk from the Delaine home to Mrs. Newell's, but Mrs. Newell states that it was about ten when he reached there, Watson Parks and wife'who are cousins of Mrs. Delaine, anet live near the north school house, in the Township of Belmont, arrived while the correspon- dent was there. From Mr. Parks it was learned that Mrs. Delaine's maiden name was Parks. She is about 22 years of age, and had been married a little over four years. She and her husband were cousins. They have two children, both boys, the eldest about three years and the other about five months old. Her father, George Parks, resides in the northern part of the Township of Madoe. So fa,r as he was aware, the relationship between Delitine•and his wife were of the most cordial character. They lived be- side them for about a year. Delaine drove to Havelock yesterday about 1 o'clock to notify Coroner Kindred of the affair, who, in company with a. con- stable, visited the Delaine home about 9 o'clock. Beyond a possible discrepaney in the time, and the other o'rcumstances refer- red to, the reporter was unable to find any evidence to justify the ettepicions en- tertained regarding the huithand. His story, told yeeterday he simple language, and with considerable emotion, was that on Thursday morning shortly after 5 o'clock he left the house to go to Mr. Jas. Buchanan's farm to work, his Wife and two children remaining, in bed. "I do not remember when I left the farm to go home at night," he said, "but it must have been between 8 end 9 o'clock On approaching the house I noticed -that the door .of the chicken coop, whielt my wife usually eiesed before larknes5. set in, was open, and, thinking she might be about, E called her name, but .got no answer, The dour of an ad- joining,outhouse was also open, and, after closing it, I went into the honse. Gong into the room 1 lit the lamp, and found the two children asleep, ono on the couch, the other in bed. 1 agaio called to my wife-etill no answer. Then proeeeded to the kitchen, where 1 found her lying dead on the floor. 1 55 so upset I eould not examine her. I conid MO 6116 was dead, and 1 at once grabbed my hat and ran to Sam Newell's for aseistance." In regard also to his sta temente as to his not being surprised .1 he should find his wife dead, it ie seid a number of poeple that Mrs. Helaine frequently complained of painsin the ecad aSul. the heart, and took medicine for therm Dr. Ttoldcroft, of Havelock, and Dr. Ford, of Norwood, were aetailed to make it yeetemortem emmination of lie lemming of the dead woman, and •shieh was performed at Havekek eesterday, Dr. Holderoft letving receiv- sl pei mission to have the remains re- moved to that village for Hilt purpose. They inede a thorough exenneation, Mali externally tied interney, but; bell- e] to dieeover trates of violenee that in their opinion would have been sufficient '4, have mused death. While the marks on the feta, bends and hotly of the .voiman indicated that elle bee had it ter - tide etruggle and had been roughly hen- hed, the anetore attribute her death to nervous Muzak as a reenit of the strive. gip. Coroner Kindred. of Itteseleek, Mier oeitire th.(, geOne of the tregedy on PH - 'the 23ra Inge tit the lern Mill in 'reeve. proecedea nem to oneeriel a immest wile edinurned until 'Pridey, iery. ond. after the temeitie. ACROSS ALPS t LYING. Brigne, Switzerland, Sept. 19. -Though the weather wee unpropitious for the bohl undertaking, Mr. Weynutn, the Am- erican, and. George Chavez, the Perriviam nttemptea the cross -Alps fteropleine fliglat to -day. Both failed, but not be- fore they had giveit pretty good exhi- bitions of high flying that promised bet- tor success irk fair weather. During the night n 'stiff breeze was blowing in Sim. Won Paris, the mountain peaks were 'hidden in a dense fog. There teemed bit- fle prompt-et that the mpetition would begirt to -day. however, at anylight the wind had gone down and though it is still cloudythe intrephl ('haves and Weyman decided to risk a flight. STRONG IVIINORITY. • South African Elections Cause atis- faction in Britain, London, Sept. 18.-'r14e result of the first South African election is receiv- ed with general satisfaction. It Was expected that the Parliament would have an overwhelming majority of the • Nationalists, that is, of the native white races. It proves that the Union- ists, who are the British element of the population, will have a strong min- ority, so strong that it was at •first thought that a combination with the verioue independents Would make the tenure of the Botha Government timer- tain. Big South African financial in - tenets in London seem well satisfied with the results. The final returns of the elections show that the House will be compos- ed of 67 Nationalists, 37 thtionietei 4 Laborites and 13 Independents. a. ee CR1PPEN DEFENCE. Body Found in Cellar Victim of Insane Man, the Defence Says. The Statement Made by Mis's Leneve to the Police Read in Court. • London, Sept. 19. -That the body sup- posed to be that of Belle Elmore, of tvliose murder her husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, is accused, was buried in the house where it was found before the doctor took the house, will be the • defence offered by Arthul Newton, counsel for Urippen. The theory of the defence is both bold andoriginal, but will not be made public in ad its details until the formal trial, which will follow the present preliminary hearing in about tt jliviueo v Noe esektws. a ble and ingenious criminal Newton, who is conceded to be lawyer in England, will contend that before Dr. Crippen occupied the house in which the body was found, the tenant was a Murderous lunatic, now confined in an asylum. The body, he will say, was that of a victim of this insane man and was buried in the cellar before Crip- pen moved into the house. Counsel read the statement which was made by Miss LeNeve to the police on July 8 (the day before she and Crip- pen disappeared), observing that so far as it went it might be said to he in her favor. In that statement she said she was twenty-seven years of age, it sin- gle woman, and shorthand te•pist. Site stated that since the latter end of Feb- ruary she had been living at 39, Hill - drop -crescent with Crippen as his Wife; that she hail been on intimate terms with him for over two years, and had known him for several years, as they had been with the same employers. She said she knew Mrs. Crippen and had vis- ited her at Hilldroperescent. The state- ment continued: "She treated me as a friend. in the early part of February I received a note from Mr. Crippen saying that Mrs. Crip- pen led gone to America and asking me to hand over the packet enclosed to Miss May.- About 4 p.m. that day he came to our place of business and said his wife had. gone to Ameriee slue had packed up and gone. I had been in tho habit for the past two or three years of going about with him, and con- tinued to to so. About a week after he had told me that she had gone to Am- erica, I went to Hilldrop-crescent to put the place straight, as there were no ser- vants kept, but at night I went to my lodgings. I did this for abont it fort- night. "He took inc to the Benevolent Fund dinner and lent me a valuable brooch to wear, and later on he told me I might keep it. Later on he told me his wife had caught it chill on board ship and got poetinuntia, mid later he told me she was dead." London, Sept. 19. --Something of what Ethel Clara Leneve suffered as, half mad with jealousy, she imptiently Wait- ed the fulfilment of Dr. Hawley H. Crip- pen's promise to make her his wife, wee revealed at to -day's session of the in- quest into the death of Belle Elmore, with the murder of whom the dottor and his typist are jointly charged. In her distress'Miss Leneve confided in her landlady, Mrs. Jackson, and the story Unit the latter told on the wit- ness stand rivalled the most sensational side of the evidenee introduced ttt the murder trial. Mrs. Jackson said that the accused girl gave up the room which she bad occupied at the home of the witness on March 12, explaining that 'she was leav- ing to be married to Dr. Crippen. Until the first week in FebrOary Miss Leneve had slept regularly at Mrs. Jackson's. After that she stopped at the house only occasionally. She said that she spent the other nights at the honies of friends. On one ottasion Miss Leneve mentioned lutving been at the Hill Drop Crescent home of the Crippens early in February, to help the doctor in a Search for a bank book, which showed an account of $1,000. She added that a diamond time and rings had been faind in the house, and that the doctor hail taised $850 011 these. - , About the middle of Itebrutiry witness. said Miss Leneve appeared inost miser- able and depressed. Buell was her state that Wire. Jackson followed the girl to her room to learn if possible the cause of her trouble. Miss Lenevc, the witness said, was in a terrifying state of agita- tion, Her eyes seemedfairly starting out of her head. The landlady insisted upon an exploitation, telling the girl that ,the Mitst have isoniething awful on her mthd to be in such it condition. The witnees testified Oita the other replied: "Would you be surprised if / told, you that it was the doctor mid Miss Elmore? Ite waithe cause of ray trouble when you first knew me. She is his wife, and when I See them go away together it makeme realize toy position, as to what she is and what I ant." / Mrs. Jetekson asked: "'What is the use of you worrying about another WOMWS intSband?" TO this Mims Leneve Answered: "Mitie ilt1more luts hem threatening to go away with another man, Dr. Crippen lets been waitieg for her to do so, when he would divorce her." Solicitor 'Newton, \vim is looking out for the interests.of Dr. Crippen and Miss Lerieve, closely tress -examined Mrs. Ifiehenn, suggesting that her loag- or's exeiterama was due to the landlady having regurreetea ti trouble whieh the pet] eximeienceil auring her earlier aSso- dation with Crippen, but the witneeit reitiriteitted the itorrertnesa of her Md. dente Its given, BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW Closing Sessions of Convention Large- ly Attended, Mr, A. G. Alexander, of Hamilton, is the President. Canon Tucker's Answer to Father Vaughan's Sermon, Montreel, Se to conventon of the Brotherhood of St, Andrew was brought to a successful close to -night with a farewell meeting in St. Cieorge'e Church, at which brief adresses of en- couragement were delivered by Bishop DuMoulin, of Niagara; Bishop Farthing and Bishop Worrell, of NOVIt Scotia. The prinemai event toetay was the mass meeting for men in St. George% Church, presided over by ,Insleap Wor- rell, the subject being "Canada's. Prole lem: The Development of Manhood." The speakers were Bishop Taylor -Smith, chaplain -General to hie Majesty's fore. 08; Rev. Canon Almon Abbott, of Hamil- ton, and Mr. N. P. Davidson, of Toronto. Hundreds of men were linable to gain admittance to the church, On Saturday night Canon Tucker, of Toronto, addressed a' large gathering on the duties of laymen, and incidentally replied to Father Vaughan's "soulless re - 'igloo" sermon by pointing out that the Church of 3?aigland was perfectly satis- fied witlt its religiou, "a livineafaith in a living Christ." He declareelthat lay- men had it large part in the Church of England. Though it was a divinely-ap. pointed body establiehed by Christ Him- self, and as such was governed mainly by the Christian orders of the Bishop, priest and deacon, there was the priest- hood also of the laity. They were all kings and priests.unto God. They had a congregational service where all heart- ily took part. Spiritual life was of a twofold nature, both giving and receiv- ing. Every man should be .a priest in his own household, gathering his family around Iiiin for daily prayer. There W118 no higher priesthood than that of -men and women who taught the young in religion. There was also the priesthood of fi- nance. They who gave of their means were miuistering unto God. There were a number of bodies, as the Y. AL C. A., working for the moral uplift of the peo- ple, and the Church should throw the whole weight of her experience behind them. "Yon have all heard of the Lord's Day Alliance, I dare say," remarked the some of Ito member discretion, that is no reason why WO speaker later, "and though the zeal of. s 113 ILAY111:1,n1 ter le ., 1' ntheir should not support the tering Saturday's sessions, Mr. R. J Hart, probation officer of the Ontario Society for the Reformation of Ine- briates, gave en interesting sketch of the work of hie society. The bretheehood elected the following goiseriiing Council for the ensuing year: A. GesAlexiinder, president,Ham- ilton; .A. 13. Wiswell, first vice-president, Halifax- E. A. V. Mitchell, second vice-. president, Winnipeg; R. H, Coleman, To- ronto, chairmen of the executive com- mittee, the foloivinlg being also elected to the committee: II. S. Theakston, Sydney, C.B.; Fred. A. Bowman, Hali- fax, N.S.•'W. A. Cowperevaithe, Moncton, N.B.; It J. Webber, Geo. C, Wells, Mont- real; A. G Gilbert, Ottawa; T Adler Bliss; Ottawa; Judge McDonald,Brock- ville; C. E. -Baynes -Reed, Brockville; N. Ferrer Davidson, Jofin T. Symons, Evelyn MacRae, Hubert Carleton, L. A. Winter; E.„ F. Crossland, ,Tarnes Money - penny, ,Tarnee A. Catto, Temente; C. W. Ileinniing, H. E. McLaren, Hamilton; A. W. Crysler, Delhi, Ont.; Edward Nash, Wingham„ Ont.; A. G. Roberts, Wind- sor, Ont.; Mackie Kinton, Huntsville, Ont.- S. W. Smith, Winnipeg; H. M. Arnold, Brandon, Man.; J. H. T. Pick- ett, Moosejaw; Charles R. Hill, Saska- toon, Sask.; W. A. Geddes, Calgary, Alta.; C. H. Hewett, Vancouver, B. C.; 0. Litchfield, Victoria, B.C.• Ralph Johnston, Ottawa; W. Walklete, To- ronto; John Oldsted, Hamilton; C. C. Stenhouse, Fort William; A. H. Young, Winnipeg; Dr, Speechley, Pilot Mound, Man., and Fred D4ev.ige, Nelson, B.C. TOO BAD. Five Thousand- Toronto Children For Whom There are no Schools. Toronto, Sept. 1.9. -There are proba- bly five thousand achool children in this city for whom there are at present no properly equipped echool rooms. There are about thirty classes meeting in base - meets, sheds, movable schools, halls and churches, while very many class rooms are overerowded, and in some districts children have no school accommodation of Ally kind available at the present mo- ment. The overcrowding is naturally most marked in the distriots where new homes are being built most rapidly, but at the Sable time several of the down- town schools are also crowded with pto pils, T. D. DEGREE. Barbers to be Known as Tonsorial Doctors and to Refuse Tips, Pittsburg, Sept. 19.-A movement is on foot among barbers themselves for "tipless barbers" and the eleva- tion of their profession to the de- gree of "D. T." or tonsorial ("octet. D. C. Shanley, general organizer of the International Barbers' Union, is here promoting the movement. Ile &elates that in nineteen stets come sort of it atilt) board examination is alfteely required of barbers and many are accustomed. like medical men, to siond in monthly et querterly bills. GRAIN INSPECTION Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 19. -Russell A. Thernton, nn offieial of South Afrien, le in Canada looking into the Dominien system of grain iimpeetion. Ile witi; ad - by the British authoritiee to ex- tonint the Canadian inspecticeo, which they repel WS tint beet and most re. liable in the world. ORDERED TO TRIAL Dundas Woman Loses Appeal- in Old Fraser Case, Toronto, Ont., Sept. 10. -John Xing, K. 0., appeared before the Divisional Court to -day and appealed from the or- der of letr. Justice Sutherland direct- ing trial at Barrie of the action brought to act aside the netrriagi of Michael Fraser, who married at al* years of age a Dundee woman, to whom Fraser's diataut relatives fear all the money and possessions will go, on the ground of insanity. Some $80,000 is the incentive for the action. The court declined to allow the appeal and the ease will go on at Barrio next week. REVIEWED SCOUTS Jr Henry Pellet Presents Colors and Addresses Boys. Queen's, Own Inspected By Duke of Codnaught Who Made Speech, London, Sept. 18. -On Saturday Sir Henry Pallatt reviewed 0,000 of Lon- don's Bey Scouts. He delivered a eltort address to the boys, telling them some- thing of the way in which the Spout movement was advancing in Canada. He also presented a new set of colorto the Ealing troop, Several of the Queen'ti Own Rifles officers were present with Sir Henry, The Scouts accorded all a hearty greeting,. Many of the men of the Queen's Own Rifles are visiting frie.nd$ or sight-eeeing at various places throughout England, though a goodly number remain in Lon- don. The men are free until Tuesday morning, when the regiment is due to Lake part in the army manoeuvres. All the invalid officers are making fair progress,and there are no more cases of sickness. Winchester, Sept. 7, -In a delightfully informal manner, King George's uncle, Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Dtike of Connaught, took afternoon tea under the trees of Avington Park thie Intel -noon with the ()Meets of the Queen's Own Regiment, of Canada. The officers were all presented to His Royal Highness, and the graeiousness with which he talked to them made it assur- ed that he will be warmly welcomed by Cenadians should he go to Canada as their next Governor-General. Tee Can - adieu soldiers evidently made a good impression on the Duke, for even though they had marched fifteen mile's already that day they executed a march past be- fore Inin in a. manner that would have done oredit to any of the regulars. The Duke complimented them on their per, formance. There was some consternation among the officers as 4 o'clock drew near, as it was time for the regiment to fall in to be reviewed, by t1i Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught. The greater number of the men were down at the river, when the bugle sounded. There was some "tall hustling" back to the tents, and into their uniforms. Every- thing was lovely, however, and the bat- talion was formed up in line ready to receive the Duke when he arrived in an automobile from Winchester. His Royal Highness wore the undress uniform of a Field Marshal. With him were Cap- tain Bulkeley, of the Scots Guards, in attendanoe, and Lieut. -General Sir Hor- ace Smith-Dorrien. After. the regiment had presented arms, he made a minute inspection of the Canadians, walking with Sir Henry Pellatt. Then they marched past his Royal highness in excellent order, miter which a square was formed, and his Royal Highness addressed the regiment. His Royal Highness was very much interested when he heard that there was among the members of the Queen's Own Rifles, it veteran of the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny. lte eel:eel particularly to see Private Charles Ellingsworth, who is the old- est man in the reehnent, being 76 years of age. Althongil long on the retired list, Private Ellingsworth was allowed !ei come on this visit with the Queen's Own through the generosity of Sir Henry Pellael. He fought with the 93rd Argyle and Sutherland) Highlanders ag the battles of Alma, and. Inkerman, and before Sebaistopol, itud later in the In- dian mutiny. The old man, "Dad," as he :e affectionately termed by his younger comrades, has been vary popular in the regiment, and has taken a delight in recounting yarns of long ago to circles of thc regular soldiers, who listen with equal delight. Laet week he went on a journey to Glasgow to visit the reei- ment with which he formerly serrve°d. When the Queen's Own came from Al- dershot "Dad" Was left behind with the band to take tare a the camp and look ,Iter the baggage, muell to his sorrot.v.. The Duke of Connaught expressed regret t net being able to see hino-Jaffrity Eaton in Glebe. 4.1 TRIED SUICIDE WITH GARTER. Kingston Girl Sentenced as Vagrant, Attempted to end Life. Kingston, Ont., despatch: Grace For- get, arrested as it vagrant and sentenced to three months ie jail, ettompted to commit suicide after she was placed in the cell to -day. She tied her garter around her throat anti tightened it up. .-he probably lost her nerve, for She sereameik aergt. Snodaen went to he vestigate and found her with a string mind her throat, whish wee bleeding where the cord had erit hitt) it. Before she was taken to jail his afternoon, the is ieported to have said that she would never eerve out her sentence, NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD. Lindsey, Ont., Sept. 19.-eioseph Coop- er. who Time the founder of the Lind/see Warder and other papers, and Wait efri- ployed ill the Offiee nI Nealliftin Leon Mackenzie AS foremen in the aketienger ()Mee, died heve to -day. He was over 00 volits of ago. RELEASED THEM. :\zotkeow. Sept, 19. -The Prussian Lieu. tenants, Daiwa and Wentel, who were aireste4 tharplea with being 'Thee were released to -day.