HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-10-13, Page 7GREAT FOREST FIRES
SWEEP OVER TOW
Whirlwind of Flames Devastate Portions
of Western Ontario and Minnesota.
Sixty Corpses Found -People Flee in Ter-
ror -Heroic Railway Men.
Rainy River, Ont., Oct. 9. -The most
disastrous forest fires in the history of
Northern Minnesota, and, Western Ons
tario have been ravaging the country
the past three days. The towns of Spoon-
er and Beaudette, on the Ameriean side
are now nothing but heaps of
manes, When Spooner and Beau-
dette caught fire the Canadian Northern
Railway rushed a train of fifty box cars
to help the residents get away. They
were brought to this place last night.
The flames are raging fiercely through
the Umbel -arid already millions of dea-
lers of damage has been done, The Shev-
let-Matthien Lumber Co. lost all their
buildings and 150.000,000 feet of lumber.
The Rat Portage Lumber Co. oleo lost
all their plant with 00,000,000 feet.
The Rainy River Co. also lost all their
plant with 00,000,000 feet.
The Rainy River Co. suffered the
Slane 6fate and lost 35,000,000 feet , of
lumber. There are 1,000 people homes
less here. The villages of Oleemans, Pitt,
Willie:ma Rad Swift have also been des-
troyed,
RAINY RIVER ALSO SUFFERS.
While a wind is sweeping a sea of
fire eastward on the south side of the
Rainy River at a velocity of 50 milee
an hour, the great body of flames
passed tbia section, revealing'a calam-
ity that already reaches the propor-
tion of an international disaster.
Sixty blackened corpses have been
found in thepatli of the flames and
i
a vast area s yet to be searched for
dead, while the towns of Spooner,
Beaudette and Pitt have been totally
destroyed, with a property loss that
cannot be intelligently calculated at
present. With the exception of, the
destruction. of- the mills and stock of
the Pat Portage Lumber Co. near
Rainy River, following the course of
the flame» which touched a corner of
the town, the principal loss is confined
to the south Mae of the river and
chiefly ustained along the American
border.
Railroad and wire connection with
the scene of the great disaster in the
West is cut off by a burned. district
from Warroad, Minn., on the Canadian
Northern Railroad, a distance of forty
miles, through which the last trains
passed last mire at imminent peril of
the lives of the crew. The road is
open to the south and est, however,
and relief is beina afforded from Fort
William. Those fires have been smoul-
dering in that district for months, and
were started anew by the terrific wird
which began to Mow two days ago.
The wind increased in velocity with the
heat until a wave of flame over a hun-
dred feet high, and as long, leaped bar-
riera half a mile wide in wiener direc.
tipns. It was this situation that eaused
so many to perish on the railway track.
:Aht, They sought this opening in the bush,
but were burned to cinders by the heat
Wave leaping this barrier of some tbree
, hundred yards along the clearing of the
railway tracks.
A THRILLING STORY.
e The most intelligent description of
the liolocause is related by John Ram-
sey; a well-known citizen of Spooner.
To the writer he said: "I was several
miles south of Beaudette. when I first
heard the roar of the flames. I started
to run for the toren, but the fire was
coming fast and was very close. I caught
'ap with a man who was accompanied by
a woman with a baby. They were ex-
hausted, and I grabbed the thild and
fled. There was a wall of flames ahead
of us. but the wind shifted and we pass-
ed through. I can't understand how any
of the homesteaaers of that section can
have escaped. I believe this fire will go
through hundreds of miles of timber
and bush, and that hundreds of people
will pertsh.
"The flames street; Pitt early itt the
afternoon, and everything was destroy-
ed. Prevtously, Beaudette and Spooner
had burned, end the people fled Across
to Rainy River, Many were overtaken
as they fled from Pitt and perished.
The identification of the dead is nu st
difficult bemuse the people have sell.-
terea so *widely.
"The prompt work of relief engineer-
ed by the Cariadien Northern preserved
thousands of lives, as practically all
the tesieelnts of Spooner, Beantlette and
Pitt eseaped only by the special trains
run for them by that compeety. The
people had beceme so aecustomed to the
smoke and haze in the sky boa:lent to
burning timber that they could not be
Made to realize Thursday that the situ -
ration was becoming dangerous, Then
eithen the danger beeame imminent they
were forced to escape ht erovede. The
Canadian Northern Railroad has been
running relief trains in every direction,
stopping at any point where freak peo-
ple were to be found alortg the track.
The heroism of these train crews is a
part of the heroism of the ()omelet' die
-
played by no many.
DRAMATIC INCIDENTS,
"Many trains have been running
through tuffoeating smolce and burning
bridges ana timbers regardless of art*
ger to the crews, The roost dramatie
incidents were those incidant to the es -
mine of two thousand fugitives in a long
train of box ears. The mob of men,
women and ehildren waited for the train
while their Lollies were in flames and
the roar of falling timbers was harrow-
ing 1 the extreme. The first twain load
steamed across to Rainy Inver -with nien
basigirig to the side arid to the truckle
Women were given Bret placee, Marty
stf those lett started running doWn the
tracks ana perished thus. Others, with
great tourtige, stood to their ground and
were reecued by tile aeronil train.
"On thie title of the line there seemea
no danger until late in the riftereoon,
when a email fire was fanned to a
Beene. It was near the big Itat 'Portage
Lumber Co. Mili, And the plant and
great piles of lumber were roaring in
An instant. Again the terror-stricken
fugitives 'prepared to depart, as it looked
as if /trilby River mud go the way of
BeAndette. Trttimaletter 'Nelson, wheat
tinflinehing eourage Ana resoureefulnees
le the raw* of saving hrinarede, prepay -
eel a line of bee ears and the fugitives
eariimbled rebottrit Many Rainy liver
eittexele prepared IA desert their home,
Vat they were not parthestrieken as
iiterre the poor fugitives from the other
side. The train started east, but the
wind turned around and the flames on
this side subsided.
"At Spooner the heaviest property
less is that of the Shevlin-Matthieu
Lumber Comparly, Beside the mill, they
lost fifty million feet of mill steak,
valued at $20 per thousand, This was
insured. at $10 per thousand. in Lloyd's.
The chief stockholders are it. Paul,
Minneapolis and Toronto people. The
Rat Portage Convener is also insured in
Lloyd's.
"In Spooner the only houses still
standing are those around the station
and half a dozen around the river. The
problem of caring for the refugees is a
serious one. Eight hundred were taken
to International Falls. It is expected
relief will be supplied by the United
States in a few hours, but in the mean-
time the Canadian people are feeding
therm
"The women and children have found
shelter with the families of Canadians,
but most of the men are living in box
cars; Most of these unfortunates have
toil everything they possessed, many of
them being almost naked. Tents are
badly needed. The most conservative
estimates are that at least one hundred
people have perished in the woods, of
Ni7hich there is no record and possibly
never will be, Two thousand people are
homeless,"
AID FROM WINNIPEG.
Train of Canadian Northern goes
Through Bridge..
Winnipeg, Oa, n. -Two fire compui ies
left here to -night. They conaisted of
twelve men under Caat.•ain Stromer' with
two eirines, two hoes wagOns, andSAO
feet of hose. They Were lient at the re-
quest of the Mayor of Rainy River, Du-
luth, Fort William and Port Arthur will
also send assistance.
Geenrel Superintendent Cameron, of
the Canadian Northern, wires from
Rainy River that his estimate of the
number of dead is forty, but admits
this number may be exceeded. He also.
wires that yeeterday a wheat train in
charge of Conductor Monohan went
througha burned trcstle,the engineer
being unable to see .the danots\,, 011 Re.
WW1:, of the heavy smoke. The only
building left in Beaudette is- the Cana.
(Ilan Northern depot. in Spooner the
large mill of the Skevlin-Matthieit Lum-
ber Company was ;saved through the et
torts of the employees, many of whom
worked to save the comptunes property
while their own was burning. Ile reports
that ten corpses have been found on
the track between here and Pitt,
GRAPHIC STORY OF HOLOCAUT.
More Than 250 Dead, 3,000 Fleeing
From Flames.
Iuternational Falls, Minu., °ea 0, -
Mare than 250 dead, milliens upon
millions of dollars' worth of property
dt s troyed, 3,000 refugees fleeing- from th,e
flames, is an epitome .of the luippeninge
of the day's 'developments in the ltd.
trann country forest fires.
Thirty-five typhoid fever patients were
carried on improvised litters from Spoon.
er just before it was wiped off the map.
Forty-five were carried fromileautlette,
and the Mecca of all the refugees, oar -
tied or loitering from exhaustion, was
Rainy River, Canada, across the water
hoqtu
san. the fire -ridden districts of Minne.
Then nip . flames hit Rainy Bayer,
destroying the lumber n1.ilI4, And two
thousand panic-stricken refugees piled
into freight cars anl all but mobbed the
engineer of a switch engine, wee-, thin1.
Ing there was no danger, started to pull
them out of the town.
Later ,the flames subsided and last
night 500 refugees landed in Interna-
tional Fella, strong Moo shaking like
leaves an a gale, womon and their
children, fever petiole; en shutters,
burned men and women .swathed in ban.
fhtws and a . whole • mot' crowd in
stoek cars like cattle.
International Falls met them at the
station, opened the City Hall and hotel
for them, and pee them beds Bitch at
eauld he provided.
There was no escape to the west.
The eaet was the only ehance, and it
a slim one. Bridges and culvert.;
inul burned out, wirewere down and
trains were run at their fell speed. All
the, way _from Beaudette and Rainy River
weet to Warroad, 8 distance of 50 miles,
was a solid mass of flames.
Beaudette is only ft charred remnant
of a town. Spootier is wiped -off the
map. Cedar Spur, Gracetom Pitt, Swift
and Roosevelt, mere hamlets, are burned
to the ground.
It was a veritable cyclone of fire that
struck the Village of Pitt, at 2 o'cloek
yesterday afternoon. The wind was
blowing 70 miles an hour, end the flames,
kilned from tree .to tree with the speed,
of a hawk. It continued blowing at a
eyelone rate until 3 p.m., when it hit
Beaulette, and 15 minutes later it struck
Spooner. Between tho two towns, a
distanee of fifteen miles, was a sheet of
olid flante 200 feet high. Men dropped
in the street; from intuiting' the .heitts
ed air and were blown off their feet by
the high wind. The Ocot1118 from Mese
.two towns began six hours before the
flame hit them; till many, assumiug
bravery, remained behind.
A few minutes after the .flames bit
these two towns they were ablaze, and
it was seen they could not beesavedi
The tales; of horrible suffering being
brought by the refugees beggar Parra -
tion,
'Near dohnson, wife Ana three children,
stood five hours in the Beteulette river,
ducking their heads when the heat be-
came too intense. They say the water
In the river was heated to an uneona
fortabie temperature, and that stolen
rose from the surfata. 'When they es.
eaped, it was through a fermate of .dyisest
mats, with bore And there a blaze mtele
ing out for what it might destroy.
Mn. A. C. .CrAgeon, Aged 00. a Pee
eer, .etoca in a freight ear in the relief
,frairt with her grend-deughter in otr
Arnie and fold the marvellous tale of a
white pony. tanning up to her on tee
tatirfely track with neek extefidea Auit
whinnowing an if seeking aid. She ail-
ed this pony to bor. Anil it stool *all
white she mounted R. and tegther they
went up the rettlenad .tracks at ,higk
ftpeed, while the firet 'biased on bath
sides as they flew along. She says she
Coluited Dino bodies along tile trail.
The dintruction of a3,000,000 worth of
lumber mill propirty silti mations of
dollars' worth of timeer paleinto it eg-
nificance beside the terrible peyeietl
suffering omit the &locking death roll.
There was no escape for the settler);
bewailed in their little elearinge by groat
foreete on all side, and with only a for-
est road connecting them with the Main
highWayS.
Cattle, eeleasea by their owners at
the approtieh of the flames, fled to safe-
ty, and accompanyIng them were hun-
dreds of deer, caribou and mime, and,
in truth, not fietiou, the cattle lees down
with bears, wildcats aod timber wolves,
and with no danger from them. They
were all flying from e, common enemy.
Never, probably, in the history of the
world, was there every sueli a herd of
wild animals as passed before the eyee
of the human refugees. Not one of thou
was shot nor molested in any way.
THE DEAD AND MISSING.
Rainy River, Ont., Oct. 9, -The dead
,and missing ineludei :nix unknown rest'.
duets of Pitt, Mien.; unknown. woman
one baby of lionmateader, twat! Pitt;
seven upknown settlers on track west of
Pitt; two entire families, One of eight
members and one of seven, residing ten
miles east of Pitt, recently arrived from
Grafton, N. D.; John Tulley AIM five
members of his family, reeently arrived
from Fulerton, Neb., Waned to. death
west of Spooner; servant of Hon: Albert
Berg, of Spooner.'four land. Speculators
from Davenport, Ia., recently arrived ot
Beaudette, caught by flames while out
for hornesteeds on south side of Beau-
dette Riter; John Simmone, of Red Oek,
timber raeger, caught by flames on rail-
way track while tryieg to escape to
Rainy River; Matson Berg anri five
members of his family, burned to death
on the outskirts of Spooner when his
house was destroyed. They attempted
to weather the sea of fteene in a- big
stone cellar, and were suffocated; John
Itolin and family of eight, from Pitt;
Severt Hagen, George Ewer, Charles Ra-
ker, and Patrick O'More, ell of Arling-
ton, Minn,
The missing include some 2,000 resi-
dents of Beitudette, Spooner and Pitt,
some or whom are deed, but the most of
whom are safe in Rainy River and the
adjacent towns on the Canadian side of
the line.
Themost serious .aspect of the missing
includes the homesteaders. site rarmerS
ilk a, busk for 100 miles each and twenty
miles south, of whom absolutely nothing
can be known for some time, as searee-
ing patio do not dare penetrate the
still smoking foreets through which tho
cyclone of fire has swept.
Warroad Minn., Oct. 10. -Estimates
9f the toss of Iife in the forest fires
which started Friday wiped out several.
small towns and are still raging, range
all the way from 50 to 200. The pro-
perty loss will amount well up into the
millions.
The fire zone covers an area of 85
miles in length, from the gravel pits
west of Wanrroad to Stratmon, the
fourth station east of Rainy River, arid
hi, width about 30 miles, covering all the
territory between Redlake and the Lake
of the Woods. The fires have wiped out
the villages of Baudette, Spooner, Pitt,
Myron and Malcolm, the last two nam-
ed places are small settlements in Bell -
trend County, south of Warroitd.
The greatest property loss occurred
at Baudette and Spooner, which is prac-
tically oae community, being separated
by a narrow river. The other towns
consisted of only a few small buildings.
There were hundreds of homes destroyed
in the territory, and as there are no
roads in the district, Save for the trails
through the woods, it is thought that
many lives have„been lost that will not
be reported for weeks.
The State of Minnesoto, is sparing no
expense to check the fire, The State
fire warden is mustering every man here
and in other places and he is instruct-
ed to use every possible means at his
command, regardless of cost. Every man
available is fighting the fires, but be.
cause of the moss which covers the
ground for a depth from one to two feet,
it seems impossible fo do anything.
If the blaze is fanned by a breeze,
all efforts to cheek it are futile, and
it is only where it is creeping along the
ground tlutt any attempt is made to
head it off. To do this it is necessary to
dig wide and deep trenches.
The fires were almost to the boundary
of Vlanitoba, ,Iast night. Burning over
the. Sprague Lumber Co.'s timber 'lim-
its around Sprague, Manitoba, the fires
are making steady progress toward the
wooded dietriet in southeastern Mani-
toba. From the northern ond fire is com-
ing to join it.
The missing include Rome 2,000 1051-
(141115 of Bitudette, Pitt, Spooner, and
adjohling territory, some of whom are
'lead, hot mese of whom art. Sae in
'Rainy Rivev, and adiacett towns on the
Canadian side of the line. The most
ecriows aspect of the issue ineltidee the
liontesteaders and farmers in the brush,
of whom abtolutely nothing ten bo
learned for some time, as ssetrehing par-
ties do not dare penetrate the still meek -
mg forests through which the eyelone
ea fire has swept.
Late yesterday a apecial relief train
arrived at International Valle from Be-
anie', bearing provisious destined for
Rainy River, and the Bemidie 011111)1"V
of the elinnesont National Guard, which
will take &large of the distribution of
tilliellea and provisions.
The burned distriet ham been platted
under martial law. There are three ty-
phoid fever eases among the refugees at
haternational Falls, Rix ewe badly burn-
ed, and it 8003118 that every fainily or
settlera has from two to ten children.
The women lave borne un muter the
terrible strain with wonderful fortitude.
fool all storice from the fire district are
111111 1118 wOMon Were the helmet. When
the refugees flea in panic for the freight
train that bore them to Internationel
ladle and Rainy River, mon crushed
down women and children, it is reported,
:Ina in spite of tins fact Chet ths, ears
were eboked Bo that standing room vats
al a premium, they insisted on erana-
ming themselves in. atlas efeitit pert, a
eonna woman of Baudette, stationed
hertelf itt the door of one ear, kicked
every man in the fitee with her pointed
shoe abet attempted ta board the eats
and herself restated out and took babies
from the arms of their mothers, Whet
the train sterted there were five behiee
whose mothers were left Vida They
are beteg eared for fit the hospital,
130 DVAD:i
Warroad, Minn., Oct. 10. -Men wlio
have just returned from Demidette on
a reilwity visitor say that the list of
dead in the dietritt bit& frern the treek
wilt remit 160. The Mayor of Beandette
stat ee that 73 bodies have already been
found, and refugee!' venting in every
hour report having seen Many dead bod-
108 011 the roads,
•
Mother -s -Von ?shouldn't eat your cake
80 quiekly, Bobbie 1 on knees a little
boy who Ate hie mike so milekly that he
M...) befoi* his firriehed it! Bobbie -
PORTUGAL AS
REPUBLI
People Too Ignorant For Represent.
alive Government, it is Said,
Government Outrages Towards Con-
vents and Priests.
Manuel's Yacht Sent to Lisbon -
Dash by Manuel,
•••••••••,....4,
London, Oct o, -rt cart hardly be said
that the new-born Republic of Portugal
begins its career altogether in encour-
aging auspices, Her daughter, Brasil, is
far more eompeteet than the mother
coontry to get the best out of democra-
,
Ileiinetrteiltltsno There reason for impunging
of Portugal are nimble to read or
write, and their political intelligence
is of the lowest order, Representative
government under such conditions be-
comes almost alms, and. the public
welfare aependa virtually upon the
faith of the new rulers,
There is no reason for impunglne
the sincerity of the group of men who
have melte the monarehy from power.
They are honest so far aft known, but
visionary and most extreme in their
views In some directions. One of their
first acts hasebeen to order the instant
expulsion of monks and nuns of all re-
ligious orders. This intolerant spirit
of anti -clericalism will not be endorsed
by the masses, who, in the country at
large, are still religiously inclined, but
it is doubtful if the popular will finds
expression in any practical form of
opposition.
There is unconscious revelation of
the manner of the man who is now
at the head of national affairs in the
brief autobiography of President Braga,
written by himself a few weeks ago at
the request of the Paris newspapers. At
the age of three he lost his mother. At
Ceimbra his life was an obscure strug-
gle, from lack of all means of existence.
He bore up in the struggle with uncon-
querable pride. In 1872 he presented.
himself as a. candidate for the profes-
sorship of Modern European Literature
at the higher Liebon classes. What a
terrible battle! All the conservative ele-
ments were opposed to him, Catholics,
Monarchists, metaphysicians, ultra -Rom-
anticists and journalists in the Govern-
ment pay, but the public acclaimed him
and foreed the Ministry to appoint him.
BOMB FROM CONVENT,
Several Teachers Killed
Streets.
Madrid, Oct. 9. - Despatches from
Lisbon report that at 0 o'clock on
Friday night, while students of the
Polytechnic School, accompanied by
a number of sailors, were marching
through the Rue Da Qualpase a window
of the College of St. Louis of Frances
Was openea and a. bomb thrown out.
Two sailers were killed and a cadet was
wounded.
Troops were then called up. They en -
'countered a showed of all kinds of ex-
plosives. A fight ensued, and. it 'was con-
tinued until midnight.
It is stated that a number of soldiers
were killed.
The Republicans are indignant at
the attack. The Government will de-
cide to -day what measures shall be
taken.
The throwing of bombs from the
window of the college was probably
brought about by the decrees issued
by the provisional Government yester-
day ordering monks and nuns to leave
the country.
A news agency despatch form Lisbon
says the Government forces continue to
arrest priests and raid the convents,
They have confiscated coasidera,ble
wealth -which has been found in the mon-
asteries and convents.
NO MILITARY OR PERSONAL AIMS.
President Braga, in an interview to-
day, said be was particularly anxious
to have it known that the revolution
had no military or persoital aims, but
like those of Brazil and Tukey, Was
purely the outcome of philosophical
ideas, The Itraganza dynasty, he
said, had failed to keep abreast of
modern progress, ana and done nothing
to render the people masters of their
own destinies, 'elle revolution, he de-
clared, was based on the emancipation
or his popular sentiment, and aimed at
the complete realization of civil life, un-
trammeled by prejudices or clerical dom-
ination.
One of the means whereby the -late
dynasty endeavored to maintain its
postilion wits to continually menace
the people with threats of British in-
tervention in order to crush popular
sentiment, as if the ancient °Allende of
tae two nations were between dynasties
ana not between two peoples. „President
Braga, said he believed the British peo-
ple enttlerstood andeympathize with the
struggle of the Republions in their
cause Of progress,
TALK Or A DASH.
London, Oet. 0.-A despatch front
Gibraltar says that leitig Manuel, Who
to -day transferred his quarters from the
yacht Antelie to the Governor-Generaes
house, will probably leave Gibraltar to-
morrow for Seville, whenee there Is some
little idee lie may risk the hazard of a
dash into Portugal.The young King's
accptiescente in the claim of the provi•
Anal Goveriurient upon the yacht which
to-dtty galled. tor Lisbon, after the Royal
familyn, personal effecte had been re-
in.oved, does not, however, indicate much
of a fighting spirit.
YACHT GOING BACK.
Gibraltar, Oet, 9. ---The fagitive Royal
family of Portugal left the yacht Ainelie
to-aay arid are now guests of the (lovers
nor at Government House. The yeeht
sails for Lisbon to -night. She Will enter
the harbor without displaying any ilag,
and will be turned, over to the Govern -
meet.
. The. people of Gibraltar gave the
exiles a warin welcome. When they
attended Masa ett St. Mary's Church
this morning the edifice was trowded,
arid thousands had congregated outside,
King Manuel and the Queen were cheer-
ed entlitisinstierilly,
CLEARING OUT CLERICALS.
in Lisbon
Lisbon, Oet, 9. -The GOVernMent
le making ettroeg efforts to atm the
antaelerical Agitation. The 'Minister
of the Interior lute hetet touring the
And what did they die with the rot of aireeta in An stritlitnobilel dianersing
hie Nuke, mcrtivare"-Betroklyn °Baleen. manifestattlrma, Priests are set upon
wherever seen. A few of the chumbee
twin 'priests reeognieed by the Govern-
ment intro opened their dom. An
armed band to -day entered Trines
eonvent, withal wee occupied by 160
Portuguese Sisters of (amity, some of
wbout misted. A dozen of the Siatere
were wottuded, Later the troops oven -
pied the tonvent. The wounded Sisters
were transferred to a itosplital. The
othera tvere talien away in, Weald vane,
their destination being unknown.
An official decreewas published
Saturday morning ordering all relig-
ious bottles in Portugal to leave the
country within twenty-four hours,
The Government hos promised the
separation of Church and State and
the suppression of the religious or-
ders. Abnost at the moment taat the
decree eppeerea Marquis de rombal
was placed under arreet, charged with
having sheltered, members of the religi-
ous bodies alai having concealed arm Su
Itie holm. Troops were stationea in the
vicinity of the religious este blialiments
to prevent attacks upon them by mob,
REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED.
(A. le. Cable to the Times.)
New Goa, Goa, Oct. 8. -The Republica
of Portugal was proclaimed here last
evening, amidst popelar 'dernonStratiOns,
The Portuguest gunboat Sado fired a
snlute and the crew cheered'. The Geyer-
nordleneral has resigned.
Goa is a territory of India belonging
to Portugal, and is -situated on the west-
ern oast. New Goa, is the eapital.
NO MORE ROYALTY.
Lisbon, Oet, 10, -The transformation
31 the country into' a democracy mani-
fests itself on every hand. The word
Royal in connection with public build-
ings, theatres and other establishments
has been entirely suppressed. Official
documents begin "In the name of the
Republic," end end with "greeting and
fraternity!'
The privileges of the nobility have
been abolished and the equality of relig-
ious seats proelitimed.
WARSHIPS AT LIS/30N.
Lisbon, Oct. 10. -The British Cruiser
Venus and the U. S. battleship Des -
Moines are here again to -day.
.BRAZIL IS CAUTIOUS.
Rio Janeiro, Oct. /0. -The government
of Brazil lute authorized its Minister at
Lisbon to enter into relations with the
provisional government on eurrent bust.nes, and the protection of Brazilians in
Portugal, but has declared verbally that
this does not mean that recognition of
the establishment of the new regime.in
Portugal, This recognition cannot be
accorded until Brazil is certain that
the new regime has the support of the
majority of the Portuguese people.
EXCITEMENT IN BARCELONA,
Barcelona, Spain, Oet. 10.-A state of
iucreasing excitement reigns in Barcel-
ona, The success of the revolution in
Portugal appears to have fanned the fire
of the rebellion that has smeuldered
since the furious outbreak of a year ago.
There was the greatest animation in
the streets to -day. The _people pretend
not to notice the patrols and civil
guards, which are being strengthened
gradually in preparation for eventuali-
ties on Oct. 13, the anniversary of the
execution of Prof. Francisco Iterrere, the
direetor of the modern school of Barcel-
ona, who was convicted of having incit-
ed last year's revolutionary movement.
Gen. Weyler, Capt. -General of Cana -
coda, admits that the strike Of miners
here is taking on a revolutionary char-
acter. He says that his orders are to
fsiirnmpiiieutsnsd.any active disloyalty with a
Ten thousand stein -faced miners
marched to the cemetery in the suburbs
yesterday and placed wreaths upon the
tombs of Ferrere and the revolutionist
Garcia, who also was executed in con-
sequence of what has come to be knewn
as "bloody week."
Violent speeches were made by lead-
ers of the 'Waters who ilayed the dere
cats, charging them evIth responsibility
for the executions. A spectator who
shouted,"It was your fault as well as
the clericals," was seized by the miners
and haa been beaten almost to death
when he was rescued by the police.
The military and police forced the
raanifestants to return to Barcelona in
small groups.
PROTECTED THE CARDINAL.
Dr. Costa, the Minister of Justice, to-
day ordered the release of . Cardinal jos
seph Sebastian Netto, former Patriarch
of Lisbon, who had been seized and, or-
dered expelled from the ebuittry. Costa
explained that the real object of the ar-
rest was to protect the Cardinal from
possible outrage.
The Minister declared that several
monasteries and couvents belonging to
Portuguese or foreign orders were von -
table arsennes, and that the activity of
the clericals, who persisted in obstinate
resistance to the advent of the republie
hastened the order of expulsion, whieh,
be added, was necessary to tranquilize
the public spirit.
It la understood that all the officers
who aided the revolution refused offers
of promotion, affitming that they had
done only their duty to the nation.
The Theatre Queen -Amelia has been
n
re -mimed the Republie.
Thegovernment has decreed the sus-
pension by the cable companies of the
aceeptance and delivery of code and ca
pher messages.
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FATAL SWING.
Two -Year -01d Child Hanged While Its
Mother Was Absent.
Statesboro, Ga., Oct. 10. -The little
child of Mr. and Mrs. S. 0. Banks, who
lived with the latter's parents six miles
'from Statesboro, was hanged in a
swing.
The little Otte Was about tire} years
old, ilea was playing around the swing
with Ws mother. The mother went into
the houses leaving the chilkt alone, and
when she returned she Was greeted by
the horrible sight of her little One hang-
ing from the swing with life almost ex-
thict.
Grabbiug the child from the swing,
ethe eituletivovea to get breath into its
body, but after n. few gasps it died:
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A. 0. f. DEGREE TEAM COMING,
wtnagor, Ont., Oet. 10.---Windser and
Walkieville Coutts of the Ancient Or.
der of Foreetere will be teptesented at
Toronto in a temmetielon between &-
gape teams. The dem( e team of Court
13. -aver, Windsor, and Court Pride, Welk-
eivile. has been seleeted withant eom-
petition ail the olle meet likely to bring
home the prize. They give tin eathibition
in London to -night, arta arrive in Toren.
to to -morrow morning. Vallowlng the,
rampotition they will vitit Hamilton.
Brantford and Stretford, giving exhibi-
tion at these cities,
NE
S OF THE YORK LOAN.
DAY IN BRIEF
A Peterboro Man Gets Seven Years
For Burglary.
First Fatal Case of infantile Paraly-
si3 at St, Thomas,
Medical, Students Heavily Fined For
Gate- Rushing.
sea --
Total receipt.; from tae diy in aid
of Brae ford bawd ta emelt n t to 442,454.
A white silk ensign has been preemie
ed. to the ileW Canadian cruiser,. Niobe,
by Queen Many,
'ahe lake trade as tettihg up fast. A
number of steel steamers were placed
for grain last week at a cent a bushel
to Buffalo.
The first death in St, Thomas from in-
fantile paralysie wag that of Os twa.
yeareola daughter of Thomas (soden, M.
fireman.
A steamer whose name cannot be dis-
tinguished from shore is fast on a reef
of Big Bay Point, 25 miles north of Mer-
quette, Miele
So far as Toronto is 'concerned, nave
gation will acme offielally on October
15, this being the date upon which the
merine insurance expires.
A veteran life insurance man, Mark
Cohen, is dead at Toronto, He was the
New York Like Insurance, Company's
first general agent in Ontario.
Eire destroyed E. II. Manns St Com-
pany's cheese factoky, Peterboro. The
damage is estimated at $2,000 to build-
ing and $1,000. to contenta.
Sandford Baker Feeler Toronto, agent
for the Canadian, Nor:thern Express
Company, die(1 at the home of his father,
John Buller, 7 Classic Avenue, Toronto,
His Excellency Bary Grey has return-
ed to Ottawa. He has been absent froni
the capital for two months, during which
he made his now historical trip through
Hudson Bay.
A barn, owned by Edward Leeder'of
WeIntosh Mills, caught fire through the
upsetting of a lantern and burned to
the ground, together with crime and im-
plements.
sr Three students of the Western Medical
School, London, pleaded guilty to the
charge of "rushing the gate" at Denney -
brook Fair, Dorehester, and paid fines of
325 and costs.
Police Magistrate Humble, of Peter-
boro, sentenced William Jobe who plead-
ed guilty to five charges of lAirglary and
theft, committed last August, to seven
years in the penitentiary.
The banns of the marriage of Prince
Victor Napoleon and Princess Clemen-
Hue of Belgium were published at Brus-
sels. The wedding will take place about
the middle of November.
A Norwegian -American steamship line
has been formed at Christiania, with the
intention of maintaining a hi -weekly ser-
vice from Christiania and Bergen to Now
York, beginning next 'March.
Joe Harp, a Brantford boy, who es-
caped from the Mimico Industrial School,
has been arrested at Stratford and was
taken back to Brantford to face a charge
of breaking into the residence of Frank
Foster.
."laid." Brady, under sentenc?, of nine
menthe for candueting a gambling resort
in Cobalt, and who eacaped from guard
Parket' while the Cobalt express was
pulling into North Bay, has been captur-
ed at Thessalon.
Prank Maxtonili, an employee of the
McKnight Construction Company, while
working in a sewer at Davenport road
and Ossington avenue, Toronto, was bad-
ly bruised as the result of the aides of
the trench giving way.
Simon Bolitho was sentenced at Nia-
gara Falls to one year in the CeutreI by
afagistrate Eraser for robbing Burt
Coles' liquor store, He pleaded guilty.
Many bottles of stolen liquor were found
under Bolitho's kitchen floor
Rev. Roger Howard, rector of Christ
Church, London, has been selected by
his Lordship Bishop Williams Its rector
of Christ Church, Chatham, to succeed
Rev. Dr. Boyle, who has tiecepted n
professorship in Trinity College.
Mr. Haldane Minister of War, ad-
dressing a, meeting in Haddingtonsbire,
said nobody knew when the next elec-
tion would come. He had a suspicion,
though, that it would come like a thief
in the night.
The London Water Clommieeioners be-
lieve that a metu eombiee exists, the
prices quotedby„live coMpanies in ten-
ders being exactly the same. The ann.
mlesioners have decided to purebase a
limited supply and await developments.
An interesthig retie of Toronto's early
days is the original municipal coat of
arms, cast in 1834, which has been pre-
sentea to City Treasurer It. T. Coady by
former Street Commissioner John Jones,
at is itbout 12 by 10 inches in size, and
is set in a plain wooa frame.
Correspondents With the Turkish
forces which were sent oet te collect
Arms from the Drusee of the Stowed:ill
district a northwestern Syria report
that the troops killed no less titan $03
Druses who attempted to block the pr»
greet of the soldiers:
3. A. Monte. and J, L. Xieffer were
found guilty in the 'Montreal Court of
Xing's Bench of killing Bessie Smitht,
who was run amen and killed by an au-
tomobile driven by Dionne end Kieffer,
on the Victoria, bridge, mesa the St.
Lawrenee, in April last. Sentence was
deferred,
The jury empanuelled to enqttire into
the death of Lueue Turner, at Dresden,
011 Sept. 28, Inought in a verdiet of ite-
eidental death due to a fall on the Side,
Valk, completely exonaterating Wallitee
Humphrey, the young mon who led Tur-
ner from the restaurant in front of
whieli the fall occurred.
Archdeaeon Madden, et Liverpool, wile
!a visiting Canon Hague, London, Out.,
(lectern that the Brinell, Paeliament will
deal with the home rule and the House
of Lords questions alone at the riext
soesion, and that aisestablisbmetat of tha
einirch and eatmational maitere will not
he taken up. A measure of home role
may be granted 10 thte Irish. he belirves,
FATALLY HURT.
Toronto, Oet. In. -Running alongside a
King 'street car, eastbound, lett night,
Albert C. Blake, nine years of los, fell
boutath the rear treks of the ear end
had Ills left Ieg severed below the knee.
He else' suatftined it facture of the left'
marmolatiti6himsooften jeengw.as lie died
ent.
Sharhoiders of Company Preceded
by Many Creditors.
Toronto, Oct. O. -Shareholders in
the York County Loan and Savings
Co. need not expect another dividend
until. the middle of next year at the
earliest and. probably not till later in
the year. This 18 the stateraent of
R. Rome Smith, of the National
Trust 00., liquidators of the York
0outity Loan.
The company went into liquidation
in 1905. There was prodigious work
in sorting out the various classes of
ereditors of whom there were many
thousands. The first dividend of 23
per cent, was paid on November 1,
1909,
The next dividend will be 25 per
cent., and there will still be a small
amount left for distribution, There
Is about $250,000 worth of land un.
old. Collections are being made on
mortgages and piano accounts. By
Denying them Wong they can realize
90 per cent, on them, said Mr, Smith.
At a sale they would only realize 341
per cent,
To some 'extent the declaration of a
dividend is due simply to the ertor,
mous amount of. clerical work in.
volved. Though a large special staff
is employed it takes a long time to
cover the ground.
FEARFUL FALL.
Buffalo Man Crashes Through Roof
Shad to Death.
Buffalo, Oct. 10.---Wlaile at work on
the topraost part of the -Mutual elevator
at the foot of Ganson street yesterday
morning, Petrick Manley fell from a
doorway and dropped 155 feet, erashing
through the roof of a shed to his death,
• Employees at the elevator were en-
gaged in lowering a pulley from the
top floor to the ground, to which was
attached a huge piece of machinery. The
machinery had been swung out front
the top floor and Manley had charge of
a guy line to govern the course of the
mach
machinery in its descent.
In some manner the rope became coil-
ed about his body and he lost his ban
anee and fell out of the doorway. Other
workmen stood terror-stricken as they
saw the man take the fatal plunge.
Every bone in the man's body wis
broken after he had passed through the
roof, breaking through the shingles and
the rafters.
An ambulance was summoned from
the Emergency Hospital, but when the
doctors arrived they declared that the
man was dead.
SOAP PRICES.
Report of Intended Advance Denied
by the Trade.
A despatch in a Toronto paper this
morning stated that the price of soap
would advance very materially with-
in the next few days. The reason
given was that the price of raw mater-
ial had advanced to such an extent
that there was no other course open
to the manufacturers. The manu-
facturers claimed, according to the
despateh, that tallow and resin had
gone up in price about six cents a
pound.
Toronto, Oct. 10. -The statement
that local soap manufacturers were
to raise their prices was denied by
the largest of the Canadian makers
here to -day. While the cost of raw
material has gone up steadily for last
two years soap makers see a tumble
ahead. "We have never heard of any
intention on the part of Canadian
soap makers to raise their prices. The
rumor about increased prices was
copied from a New York paper," said
the manager of one of the large com-
panies to -day, "and has nothing to do
with Canadian makers. Some United
States manufacturers 'increased prices
10 per cent. on laundry soap, bat
that is all, there is to be no increase
here that we have heard about."
1 a O' ,•••••••••
THEY KNEW HIM.
Mialleton Recognized at Kingston
Penetentiary on Saturday.
Kingston Oct. 10. -john Bagley, Sen-
tenced at Toronto to four years in the
penitentiary for uttering a forged
eheque, was brought down here on Sat-
urday by Deputy Sheriff Arthur M. Jar-
vis, Bagley had denied that henvas the
celebrated Middleton, the bigamist and
promoter, sentenced at Woodstock in
1803, but as soon as he enterea the pri-
son gates he was recognized as the same
crook who had spent seven years in the
penitentiary at Portsmouth. He was
gettr.
uitesnervous when he entered the pri-
son, where he will spend the next four
y
SHOT BY SMALL BOYS,
Quebec, Oct. 0. -Three young boys,
betweee thirteen and fourteen years
old, mulled Adelard and Wilbred La -
prise and Etienne Blouin, Were arrested
this evening, charged with having about
4 o'clock this afternoon, neer the resi-
dence of his father, on St. Valero
street, St. Sauveur, killed (mother boy
of ten years, named Clement Langlois,
son of Mr. 3. A. Langlois, bL 1'. 1'. for
St. Swear. The three, young prisoners
were eoming home from hunting when
they' fired at young IAnglois without
provocation whatever. The bullet p053 -
e(1 through the abilomen of the young
vittint, who succumbed to his woUnd
aboftt 7 o'eloek this eevning.
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"WOMEN RULE THE WORLD."
ltoetreal, Oet. 0e -411e body of a num
who Was identified as John Malone was
found in Mount Royal Park to -day with
not empty bottle that liad rontained car-
bolic acid, A note was found in his
pocket in which lie wishes good luck to
all his friends and in a pocketbook was
written, "Wornea isule the world, and
ma are their willing slave."
3rftutfuosr(71:14-,0:700.5 7,01:ANNiavgar
IND R PORI),
1 0 - a Bed -
Stead Compauy, of Buffalo, Neill be 10 -
to Brentford 'shortly. The Man
Nott Company, of Me eity, wilt take
over the oneern, locating It in the new
1 -wilding which will he ereeted near their
feetory here.
ROBERT PARKER
SHOT MASTERS
Jury finds MI Mao Guilty of Kill
-
ng Dia Neighbor.,
Prisoner Took the Stand in His Own
Defence, and Denied Crime,
ROBERT PARKER, AGEE!. 71,
Sentenced to be hanged, on Saturday,
Dec. 3, for murder of Wm. Masters,
aged 76:
Belleville, Oct. 8. -The jury in the
trial of Robert Parker, 71 years of age,
eharged
aNaLies.dt or: ga, of ox:: gdeeia.
1)38108(1 with
hith the mureer of William
Liter half -par 104:: trhati: ateouw•nniisilgilifttliere
being out for over four hours.
d edt ibrof deyu vty'alt::1 ?Lt. atIlldyd-
Ode, returnee a ver
Dr, Yeomans' Coroner, of this city,
was the firstwhom called by the
defence to -day. Having lead the re-
port of the postonortent, he said that
'floe:711e Ilk:ave been inaposeible to have
ye
d hate been
He conteuded that it
imve ben
08
woul
eoan abudlleeetumneusetreiattheitt.
bullet il the rifle were dis-
charged at short range. The Outlet
aourd not only have paieed through
the body, but have gone yards beyond.
The ribs of a man of Masters' age,wou:d
n
notLic.
enecessarily off.pr any great resist -
Mr. Harry Day, of this city, gave ex-
pent
ranyie0e. Siottfionbbiticeihn: y n reference to makee of
aletisatter fired at different
s.
and the penetrating
Robert Parker, s.' *
wifeof the pris-
oner, WAS examined at considerable
length. On the day -limiters was
kited, witness swore that she did not see
her husband have his rifts at all. He
left the house twice that morning, once
to the Post Office, and upon retureing
went to Tweed, The last time she saw
Idle take out the rifle far use was on
.141111 1. The witness in her cross-exam-
ination by Mr. White contradicted her.
self on some material points in reference
to a conversation she had ihe day Mts.
Id's was ahot with a Mrs. Wright. She
admitted that she was unable to swear
how long her husband was out of the
hicei:isitts,eiaogna-efdttey.
hze,nsohert
ccononttiocca.sion, the day of
the tragedy.
took the
bax in his own behalf. He testified
that he was 71 years -of age and lived in
Hungerford. He was rather broken
down in health.
Mr. E. Porter -Did you shoot Wm.
'Mestere AI dia not,
Mr. Porter -Do ynt know anything
of the shooting at .Mitsterst
what I heard about the sh.roting after
It occurred.
The accused then detailed his trip that
morning to the Post Office at Chapman's
Corners, and also his trip to Tweed. He
denied that he ever left the Gravel Road
when he went to the Post Office. He
did not have his rifle that morning, and
in fact had not used it since the first
day of April. Prisoner denied that he
saw Mrs. Caul' that morning watering
her horse at tile creek at Main's
bridge, but remembered seeing her in
that aet time days preview.
The aaeused alsoonade a general denial
of threats made by against Masters
personally. The day after the ehooting
he beard that a warrant was out for
his arrest, aud he went and gave himself
U[) to County Constable Mien.
111 cross-examination the accused ad-
mitted that he had said he would shoot
,the boys, but not Masters, as he had no
ill -feeling against Masters. lie remained
initoieneilofie
ra.Tttc.ket's house that night be.-
cause he was tired, althoagh it was only
one mile from home and his wife was
This closed Die case for the defenee.
In rebuttal far the Crown Mn. and
Mrs. James Bowers were called and tea -
tided that they heard Mrs. Parker say
on the afternoon of the day Masters
was shot, that once on that morning her
husband went out of the house and she
did not know how long he remained out.
Mr. Charles Hoiden testified that he
niet Parker on the road towards Tweed
the day Masters was shot and he was
carrying a g1111. This 0011811340a the evi-
donee in the ease and at 4.10 Mr. Porter
commenced his adaress to the jury, oes
(mining two hours. Counsel laid coneids
crable stress upon the faet that tmahie.seseoinvnligi
derm.
ea in this ease was purely eircu
Sintantitis AnntdinastittleterereitWitsWerehink
not plete chant. The evidenee was reviewed
minutely aria marehalled in it concise
manner. In concluding, Mr, Potter made
a pathetic -appeal for the acquittal of
the itemised, ana especially 13 he wee an
ag;ed man.
Mr, White, X. C., Crown Prosecutor,
()MOM over an hour in les address to
thejury. Ite laid especial steess upon
she Met that it waS it eertainty that
Pinker, on the morning alitatere was
killed, was hi the vieinity where the
tragedy occurred, and he had a gun with
him, and ale° his (Parkees) denials of
having meats threats against the demis-
ed personally. The defenee was a blind
denial of the facts of the OW.
LOY,T A LEG.
Montreal, Oet. 10. -Hugh Watson, a
well known young member of the Mont-
real Hunt Club and 'Montreal Polo Club,
fell meter a 'C. P. IL train et Vermin
,Tunetion Saturday evening, arid h.ta his
right leg rot off at the thigh. It is
stated his chimes for reeovery are
good,