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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1911-01-26, Page 7NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF $38,000 Methodist Church Dedicated at Owen Sound, Young Russian Drowned at Halifax While Skating. •••••••••••••,.. 16-Year.Old Boy Found Guilty of Mur- der ia Second Degree. Stewart Campbell, of Pore Colborne, was kicked in the head by a horse. President Taft in a speeeli on Saguia day insisted on the fortitieation of the Panama Canal, 'The work on the Trent bridge ecetion of the Trent Canal has been eloied down for the winter, After a protracted illness Mr. William Beath, head of the firm of Robert Seath & Souse merchant tailors, died at Mont- real. 'Ile unitary in Anhui Province, China, is still engaged in trying to control the famine victims, wbo are organized in robber Weide. The• new NVestside Methodist Church at Owen Sound 1ms been dedicated. By raising $10,000 the $38,000 :structure is practically free from debt. James Winn, Calgary's immigration officer, dropped dead. He went to Cal- gary twenty years ago from Cobourg, Ont. Ho was 75 years of age. William Babcoek, .oe Amlierstburg, stems() skull was fractured, passed away at the home of Robert Meyers in Sidney Township, near where the accident me a emend. Word has been received by relatives in Toronto that the body of Henry Wal- ter Selby, who Was drowned in the Atha- basca, River on August 23, has been re- covered. The British steamer British Sun, from London for Philadepnia, was spoken with her propeller broken on January 17 in latitude 40, longitude 41, by the Ger- man steamer Breslau. The grist mill of the Perth ?Milling Company, Andover, Victoria County, N. 13., was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $8,000, and as far as can be learn- ed there is no insurance. It is understood that the old site on Sandwich street, Windsor, formerly oc- cupied by D. M. -Ferry & Company's wholesale seed store, has been purchased by Hon. 3. 0. Reaume. At Mourmelon, France - Henry Vey - mann made 0. brilliant flight. With three passengers he flew across country to Rheims and return, a distance of about 37 miles, in one hour. At the meetiug of the executive of the South. Ontario Liberal Association held at Oshawa Mr. Fowke, 31. P., was presented with a fine portrait of himself by Herbert Trull, the artist. In the First Baptist Church, Brock- ville, a letter from the pastor, Rev. S. J. Robins, was read, in which the minis- ter announced his resignation owing to ill -health, to take effeet February 12. The steamer Megantie, from New York to Liverpool, reports that passen- ger Martin Wigsh fell or jumped over- board from the vessel. .A half-hour's search for the man proved unavailing. The fishing etemner Chicago, which laid night brought every wireless sta- tion on the North Pacifie coast into ac- tion by sending out distress signals, is on its way to Seattle in gond condition. Rev. de Russell MacLean left Cob borne for TorOnto, where he enters on a larger field of labor. Be has spent two years as incumbent of Trinity Church, Colborne, and ea. Peter's Church, Lake- port. .A. sudden death occurred at Toronto eon on. Saturday night, when Duncan McDonald succumbed to heart failure in the hospital ward. He had been sent down on Thursday on a charge of drunk- enness. - The coroner's jury at Orangeville call- ed to enquire into the death of Thomas Riley. section foreman, who was run over while .1ying on the track near there, brought in a verdict of accidental death. After three years' experimenta Lion, Prof. Wagner Von Jauregg, of the UM- vereity of Viemia, claims to have cured 23 per cent. of eases of progressive pat- alysis out 011,500 patients by injections of Koch's tubereulin. The first skating on Sydney, N. 14., Harbor eost the, life of Peter Volloden, young Russian, who broke through the i ine and n a few minutes was caught in the current and &Ironed, his body being carried under the iee. A serious coasting ateeident coloured at Guelph, whereby Mr. 11. Tj. Reinhardt, accountant of the Royal Bank, had the misfortune to break one of his legs In two places, tesides causing a severe splintering of the ankle bone. The ' Hamburg -American steamship President Lincoln, whieh left New York on January 12 for Hamburg, and the Wilson liner Tasso put in at Dover Eng. They were in collision off the Go:Amu Sands, and both steamers suffered dam- age. The Plymouth Cordage. Company's of- ficials at 'Welland received word 'of the death of Gideon Francis Holmes, treas- urer and general Inanager of the Ply- mouth Cordae Company, at Plymouth, Mass., where he resided. Ire was oged GS years. The jury in the ease of Chas. Melo drowsky, the 16 -year-old bad man who killed Policeman Parry Glimmer° at Du. luth on january 10, after bolding up the Eight clerk and porter in lefeKay's Ho- tel, returned a verdice of guilty of mur- der in the amend degree, which earries life sentence. 4 ** PULLMAN SLEEPER .1.•••••*. Railway Companies to Submit Proposal for Lower Rates to Commission. .ottawa, Jam 2e.- The Rnilway Com- mission will tide week probably settle the rates for Pullman berate chi the rail- way& The proposal to be laid before them by the eompanies will lie for a twenty per eent. imbietion on upper berths and the lower Neill be ellarged on a mileage basil As an example of the effect of the reductions tbe rates out ef Ottawit for upper lee:tits will be: To To- routo-Now fet„ will lie *Lae Winnipeg - Now ite.50, will be $11.49, Vitneouver • *17.50 down to $14, Montreal.- $1.50, will be $1.211. 'New Yotk--$2.50„ will lie $2. Those rates will go into effect Feb - rotary I. ON CONSUMPTION; Lloyd -George Thinks Government May •be Able to Stamp it Out. London, Jan. 20. -In a letter to Mr. Hall Caine, the femme author, who has been advocating Govermnent measures with the object of stamplin; out con- sumpttou, principally through the State • taking charge of all consumptives,• the Right Hon, David Lloyd -George, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, makes an in- teresting announcement that he has al- ready been coneldering the practicabil- ity of dealing with this problem in his forthcoming scheme of invalidity instil.- ance. The Chancellor soya that the chief difficulty is financial, and that it will be especially hard to estimate the max- imum contribution whieh can be levied on workmen, lie says be is hopeful of being able to do something. 4 TORONTO REVIVAL Two Hun, red Make Public Confession of Sin in Massey Hall. Dr, Chapman Spoke to Travellers and Also to Parents. Toronto, Jan. 22. -Dr. Chapman gave a special welcome to the 300 odd travelling men who were present by invitation sent tin ough their own Christian AssoelatIon, and his text bad an interpretation ap- propriate to their calling. It was from Jorah 1. 3: "He paid the fare and went, not to Nineveh, where he was bidden to ge, so he was caught in the gale God sent to trouble him. "If," said Dr. C11110 - man, " a man is told by God to go to one place and he goes eo another, every- thing is agaist him. There are two ways to travel by to -clay -the line of duty done and the line of duty neglected. It is an absolutely impossible thing to run away from God. If you are attempting to do it, away ahead of you is the hurri- cane' one of these days you'll be helpless and hopeless and godless. Upon the call of the evangelists about 000 men went clownsairs to the basement Lor the after -meeting. After a number of the city preachers quoted verses et Scripture which had influenced their liver. Dr. Chapman asked ehose in the meetire" who wanted to make public con- fession of their sins to go down on their knees. and perhaps 200 obeyed. IlVen this response did not satisfy him, so he asked every man who did not bend the knee to ecme up and receive a copy of the New Testament, a number of them cotnplying. Dr. Chapman was remarkably plain- spoken to parents especially those delin- quent in respect to the example they set their children in his address at Massey Hall, on Saturday night. With Impres- sive eloquence, he dwelt upon the founcla- mental basis of a Christian lif e- a wholesome home influence. •At the close of the meeting nutny in the vast concourse that thronged the auditorium to overflowing, bespoke the prayers of the evangelist. The audience was deeply touched. There were many appeals for prayer and nuite as many signified their desire to accept Christ. While the doors were still kept closed, an invitation was ex- tended to those who wished to pay res- pect to the loving memory of some de- ceased relative .to stand up with hand- kerchief covered hand. Nearly the whole of the vast concourse responded, and while they remained standing, the choir song softly "In the. Swee-By-and-By." WOMAN IN IT. Italian Murdered in. Montreal -Man Arrested on Suspicion; Montreal, Jan. 22. -John °lender., an thirty-five years of age, who re- sided at 231 St. Martin street, was shot through the head in a gateway in Vitre street, riear St. Dominique, on Saturday evening. lle died In'a few mioutes. The shooting is supposed to have been done by a fellow -countryman who was seen to empty the cartridge shell from bie revolver after °hinder fell, place the weapon in his pocket and wail: from the yard. An ambulance from the General Hos.pitl was summoned, but when it arriv- ed the physiemn who accompained it said that life was extinct and the body was taken to the morgue. Words over a woman led to the quer - rel that ended. with the killing of Wan- der. From what could be learned from the police the woroan's name is White. Detective Cowan arrested an Italian, a man named Frank Dorolo, twenty-four years of age, early yesterday. morning. While there ie so far nothing to connect him with the crime, he look!) like the num that left tbe gate after the shoot,- i»g, and it is thought he Ithows some- thing about it. -4 • * CENSURED POLICE People Justified 'in Resisting Police Who Exceed Their Duties, Berlin, AIL 23. -At the secoa trial to -day of the men accused of taking part in the strike riots in the Moabit quarto., the presiding judge took occasion to sty that citizens were justified in resisting pollee officers who exceeded their author- ity. During the dieordera a squad of mounted pollee rode down ond ruthlessly sabred a peaty of unoffending newspaper remesentatives. Referring to the ease of an innocent pedestrian whom the police had killed, the court declared that any one who shot down a mounted policeman was within his rights and eould not. be punished. The judge who presided at the first trial Alec ensured the officers of the law, and ihe proeeentor af tbe present proceedings admitted that the guardians of the pea50 bad committed eveesQ.es in suppressing the riots. GARMENT WORKERS. .....1••••••••••-•irs Fight Over Presidency and Pennsyl- vania Delegation at Convention. Columbus. Ohio, Jan. 23. -The United Mine Workers of Amerhat are eclialuled tesda. 10 enatinue the fight over the propoeitain to peat the delegates front d'oariet No. 2, na Penneyisenia. Fliettls of President Leivie eally to: day elaini that be Km been to -eleeted by en tit m -and vett s. Many 11120 61;111111g t be oketion Of 4411 White. or °eke- • terfea, 1 Imo 1.11 Preeitleut. result rif the ele etion will h mat nonneen either tbie fu "111(5,11 tn. metro:v. MURDERED IN CRAZY MAN WINNIPEG TRAIN With. Loaded .Revolver Scared. Bank 'If Wand Clerks, Unknown Man Found Straneed in His I3erth by Conductor, Was Travelling on Ticket Belonging to Missing Cannington Man. May be a Double Murder -Police Searching for a Small, Dark Man, Thief ltiver Palls, Minns Jan. 22e Soon after the northbound Winnipeg Soo line flyer left. Erskine the conduetor found a man dying in one of the coachee. Doctors were called at Thief River Falls, who pronounced the man dead ae a re- sult of strangulation, although no marks of 1-io1enee were visible on the body, quantity of whiskey and several empty flasks found snow that he used .eonsiderable quantity of whiskey on the trip. The man was travelling on 0, ticket made in favor of L. R. Loss es, Canniugton, Ont, Relatives oere communicated with, and in the meantime the local lodge of Oddiellows took charge of the body, the dead, man having been a member of that organiza- tion. Upon the arrival of Glen Lowes, of 'Morris, Sask., brother of L. E. Lowes, ho declared the body not, that of Ids brother,• ond wholly unknown to him. The case is complicated, as Lowes left Chicago more than a week ago, homeward bound to Regina. A largo sum of money and other papers, • in addition to the tickets which were •identifien ae belongieg to Lowes and found on the body, and the further feet that young UMW cannot be found, leads his brother to believe -that he was made away with, and bie tickets and money taken from him. A further examination of the body diseloped that the deceased as wearing clothes made in Utica, N. Y., and. cards were found indicating his name as Theo- dore Hempstead, of- Utica, N. Y. His laundry was also marked "T. H." The facts have been placed in the hands of the police, and detectives put on the case. L. R. Lowes, the missing man, left Cannington, Ont., some weeks ago for Chicago to transact important business, but was to have returned three weeks ago, according to letters • which his relatives received from him. After the receipt of the last letter, datedChicago, and MI Black - steno Hotel Stationery, nothing has been heaul from him. One theory of the police is that the murdered man, after becoming implicated in the dis- appemence of Lowes, decided to make use of the transportation and get out of the country. The body of the apparent- ly strengled man was found in a lower berth, number thirteen, and members of the train crew state that a small dark man, who boarded the train at Minnea- polis, and apparently was much interest- ed in the doings of the supPosed "Lowe," was not on the train when 'the body was found. Where he got off is not known, mid the authorities are running down this clue, *hid may lead to devel- opments of a startling nature. SHORT OF WATER ••••••••••••••••••••••• Fear That Ottawa May Go Dry Owing to the Frost. • Ottawa River Low and Several Big Industries Handicapped. Ottawa, Ont., jail. 23. -The eapital is toalay facing ti very serious situation in regard to its water and hydraulic power supply, owing to the exceptional- ly low water in the Ottawa River, Several Anduatries at the Chamber° are either tied up altogether or running un- der difficulties and many men are out 'of work as a result. Diffic.ulty is also being experienced in maintaining water pressure at the civic pump house, and the situation might be aerione in ease of a big fire. The trouble is that the flow of water in the aqueduct is so ecant that were the pumps 2tept working at the regular rate the intakes would be pumped dry. City Engineer Ker says that for the present nothing can be done. The rea- son for the low water is said to be that owing to extremely cold weather set- ting hi so long 'before deep snow fell the streams which feed the Ottawa River are practically frozen e.olid, not having had the protection of the wow blanket, Therefore, the volume of %rater is not coming down. It is feared that this con- dition may become aggravated during the winter and become serious. CHECKED PANIC. Mary O'Corinor's Veil Caught Fire in Toronto Catholic Church, Toronto, Jan. 23.-A panic was just averted in St. Anthopy's Roman Cath- olic Church yesterday forenoon when Mary O'Comior's veil caught fire as she was passing the .eandle stand, and had not Rev. Father McGrand assured the emmeregation that there was no danger a serious stampede would have resulted. When the congregation started to run the priest rose to the occasion and stop- ped a panic. FORMER WSLEY SHOT, Montreal, Jan. 23.-4V4n. Maatin ilied here yesterday aged W. He was wellknown ns revolver shot and a former Risley team member. He came here fourteen years ago from Thr011 ft). WIRELESS FOR LAKES. Toronto, Jan. 23.--Illanagers of the big navigation ennipanies 'canted in Toroth) Inc seriously considering that advisabil- ity of equipping their boats with wive - less telegraph outfits, Tide 15 ItOW re - (mired by the United Staita Govern- ment on meets plying on the upper Inkee where *thy ere regieteved nt an Amerietin port, ,•••••••••••••.•••• • London, Jau. 23.-A, welbarmed moo, supposed to be ineone, created a scene in the Bank of England to -day and, gave the clerical force a serious. fight before he was overpowered. The bank detec- tion bad their attention directed to a wellelressed individual, who Was aettiltr suspiciottely, as he mingled with the crowd in the vicintty of the paying tel. - window. Noticing the officers ap- • proaching him, the man attempted to es- • cape, and when lie was eeized made a desperate fight. When be was overcoMe finally a fully loadetl sixechamber revol- ver was taken from a pocket in his clothing. Later he was said to hove been identified as a dangerons lunatic. THE TORONTO FIRE •••••••,4,,,Ing•••••• Particulars of the Fatal Tragedy at Indian Road on Saturday. How the Alarm Was Given -Percy Brooks Arrives Home. Toronto, Jou. 22. -The bodies of Mrs, Percy Brooks, Masters Perey, George and Woodie Brooks, and Violet Dredey, the maid, who lost their Jives in the burning of the home of Mr, Percy Brooks, 435 Indian road, early on Sat- urday morning, lie at the undertaking establishment .of F. W. Matthews & Company, Spadina Avenue, where they were removed from the Morgue after an inquest bad been opened by Coroner 11. 11. Orr on -Saturday afternoon and adjourned till next Friday night. Mrs, Brooks was the first to awake. She rushed into the room whore Maggie McCalden, the nurse, was sleeping, told her to break the win- dow and jump out, and then rushed away again, eoying that she was going for the children. Maggie IvIcCalden de- clares that she broke her window, which was wrenched from its fastenings by her weight. Miss Mccalden, who was in her night dress and bare feet, ran across the snow to the house of 117. Paul von Szeliski, which is on the opposite corner of Indian Road and Radford street, and hammered Ion the door. A light was burning in the hall, as the maid was out at a party and had not yea return- ed. Mrs. Szeliski heard the knocking first, ran down and admitted the girl, who was beside herself with terror and could only gasp inarticulately. "Why, your head is burned," exclaim- ed Mrs. Szeliski. "Yes," said the girl; "my hair was on fire and I put up my hands to put it out." Mr. Szeliski came down at that mo- ment, heard the words, and at the same time saw the flames through the open door, He then called the fire department on the telephone, and went across to the burning house with his daughter. Mr. Paul Hahn, Mr. Emmanuel Hahn and Mr. Hugh Johnston, other neighbors, were quickly on the scene. They at- tempted to aid those in the house by breaking in both front and rear doors and raising a ladder to the upper win- dows, but the flames prevented aoy. entrance. The firemen arrived later, but they were equally unsuccessful ow- ing to the hot blast that forced them away from the broken windows and turned to the task of putting out the fire, which took nearly an hour to ac- complish. Lieut. Hamilton then entered the house on a tour of investigation, and the five bodies were 'found in vari- ous parts of the house. Mrs. Brooks and the youngest child, Woodie, wire lying near the window in. a nuriei7 bedroom on the attic floor! the maid, Violet Duddy, was in bed in a room adjoining, and is thought, never to have wakened; Percy, the eldest boy, was in the bath- room on the •secotal floor; and the see- •ond boy, George, Was lying just inside the front door, sothat he either fell with the .stairs, or was overcome when on the very point if escaping. Although the interior and floors of the house are almost totally destroy- ed the. walls have remained prac- tically intact, so that the actual dam- age will probably not be over $6,000, fully covered, it is understood, by in- surance. Probably 50,000 curious persons visited the spot in the course of Satur- day and Sunday. The fire was started from a gas jet left burning in the hall. The increase of pressure during the tight enlarge the flame, which set fire to the woodwork. _THREE MINERS ••••••••11.1.M. Out of Every 13000 Die in Accidents Report Says. Washington, Jan, 23. -The Bureau of Labor of the Departmeut of Commerce and Labor has just published in its bul- letin No, 90 a study of "fatal accidents in coal mining" by Frederik L. Hoff- man. The study is limited to fatal acti dents, and for the most part to the de cattle ending with 1000. The number of fatal atecidents in the coal mines of North Anierica during the twenty-year period ending with 1008 was 20,203 and the rate pet 1.000 em- ploy(?es in the industry wes 3,11. In the east central section, which conmrises 'Western Iteritueky, Illinois and Indiana, the fatality rate for the twenty years ending with 1908was only 2.25 per 1,000 employees, while hi the western seetion (Colorado, New Mexico and Utah) it was 6,4 per 1,000, and in the Pacifie toast section (Washington and British ('olumbia) 7 per 1,000. It would Appear that the variation in the fatality rateis due to different mining mettle& mid to difference in the coal sellAillilingle mine disaster may cause the loss of many lives, and therefore attritet national attention, yet the loss of life by Ruch discistere frmn 1800. to 1010 in the aggregate repreesiited only 12.8. per rent. of the total loss of life. The average age at death of men kni- years. ed. by eot_mine.4,440..... .aecitlents...during 190$1 was 31.8 Miss Auguste Itclasto, seeond dangle ter of David Belaseo, was married last night to William Elliott, an English tie - tor, The eeremony was performed at the hetet Marie Antoinette, New York, Where the Delatie0 flintily rondo% BRITISH MARINES ON ACTIVE SERVICE .1,911,,,,••••••• Twenty Chinese Killed at Hankow in Fight With Authorities. British and German Forces Restored Order Among the Natives. British and American Bluejackets Land at Ceiba, Honduras, Ilankow, China, .Jan. 23. -The Ameri- can Considdleneral toolay communieated with his Government, asking that a guna boat he sent to this port to protect eriean interests in the event of a vontin- nation of the rioting that began yes- terday. The disorders began following the cir- culation of a report that the British ten lice had killed a coolie. The man had been picked upe by Lite officers sylien he wee near death, During the rioting eon- eiderable flowage was done and British and German marines were landed frotn gunboats in the harbor to defend the foreign commuoity. Fighting between tbe Chinese and the authorities, supported by the marines, resulted in the deathprobably of twen- ty Chinese and the injury of several for- eigners. Te -day the foreign concessions were protected by Chinese troops. The riot- ers, having peen checked in their law- leemees, have instituted a boycott against all foreigners. Business in the eity has been suspended'. • MORE MARINES LANDED. New York, Jan. 23. ---The Herald' cor- respondent at Ceiba. Honduras, in a despafch printed to -day, says that toren. ty British seamen and thirty American bluejackets WM` landed on Saturday night, and are engaged in Minding bar* caeles for the protection of noncont- batants in the event of an attack on the town by the Bonilla revolutionaries. A certain section of the city was set apart more than a week ago as a nen- tial zone in the event of a battle. This afternoth) the siteat:oa quieten down, under the influence of the pre- sence of 2,000 Chinese troops, which had been brought into the city to protect fereigners, and British and German sail- ors, with local volunteers, who remained under arms prepared to resist any move- ment by the rioters. All of the foreign representatives have asked their governments for protection. SQUAWKER STICKS Buffalo Little Girl °Wes to Death With Toy in Throat. Physician Extracts the Article From Throat ef Child After Death. Buffalo, Jan. 23. - With a "squawker" tightly wedged in her throat, Agnes Bielinski, 8 yeara old, who lived with heir parents at No. 568 Seneca street, choked to death in the arms of Joseph Naab, an engineer el No. 65 Howard street, yesterday afternoon, along the New York Cen- ral tracku in Seneca street. Medical Examiner Denser svas called and is- ued a certificate of death by accident. The body was turned • over,..to the amity. The little girl, according to the wit - eases, was playing near the railway awls with her ten -year-old sister, eronica, and her six-year-old brother, loseph, yesterday afternoon. s hildren were playing With a squawker" which ennsista of, a small alloon with a woden stem attached y which the toy may be blown up. gnes, her brether and sinter say, abheel the -toy from their hands and tarted to run with sit in a playful anner. Her brother and sister start - d in pursuit down the traoke, and er.e within arm's reach of the lititile irl when she turned her head and w them gaining on her. She laced the balloon in her mouth and topped running. She had swallowed it and began ough. She made several attempts to peak but the ball000 become wedged n her throat and 11120 was unable to 11 for help. Her brother and sister an to the New Work Central tum- ble,whidh was a short distance way, and told Engineer Neale that heir sister was eloking to death. aab rushed to the little. girl's aide nd picked herup inhis arms in me to see her dose her eyes and ie. joeeph, the girl's brother, ran the office of Dr. L. F. Anderson t No. 576 Swan street. and told hini f the mishap, Dr. Anderson rush - d to the scene and extracted the y, but the little girl was dead. The toy can be purchased for a ent at most of the eonfectionery totes about the city and is often iven away as a prize with a, centiti orth of candy. After the balloon is lown *up and the stem removed from ie mouth the air escapes by way of ie stein and ' makes A squawking oise from which the toy derives He ame. 40* . GOT NEW JOB. Ottawn, Jan. 23.--S, P. Grant, assist,. rit Kingte printer and controller or tationery for the Ontario Government, as been secured for the Federal (Inv. rnment serviee by Hon. Charles Mut- ly to take charge of all eontracts'for rinting, lithographing, engraving, map airing and similar work which the tinting bureau has to have done onb de, He will filen orgonize and aired • he purchasing department of the prig - ug bureau. DUKE MAY NOT COME. London Jan. 22. -The Daily Ex - prose says unless Earl Grey can be induced to extend his occupancy of the Governorship of Canada the Duke of Connaught will have to abandon sueceeeion to the post. The King's long ab,senee in India, will neeessitate eomething like temporary Regency, and the Dulte of Connaught is the only person fully qualified to fill the position. The Express further says their Majeeties may extend tho tour to Australin, South Africa and Can- ada. _J THE NORTH POLE. Naval Committee Report That Peary's Instruments Were Out of Order. megn.M.M.0.• 'Washington, Jan. 22. -That Capt.Rob- ert E. Peary came within 1,0 miles of the North Poke --near exiough to eatith- Holt his (dein) of having been at the exact epot-is the decision Of the Howie committee which has been eonsideri»g the bill to .retire Capt. Peary with the rank of Rear -Admiral. The baste of the committeesfinding Is the chart prepared by the 'United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and based On Pear.e's observations. This Chart shows that Beary went to the left nearipg the Pole, due to an error in his inetrumenia. Later be crossed to - mull the Pole, his nearest point being 1.0 miles. Representative Gates, cf Pennsylvania, presented the majority report of the eommittee recommending that Peary be retired with .the rank of Reareednural, 41* NOT ARMING Reporter in Ulster Gan Find No Evi- dence of War Preparations. No Organized Movement for Drilling or Disciplining Bodies of Men. •••••••••••••••••••••• London, Jan. 22. -In view of the pub- lication of a number of rumors concern- ing the threat of armed resistance to any possible seheme of home rule, a :me' cial correspondent of the London Daily Mail was recently despatched to Ulster for the purpose of learning the actual facts. • He has just returned after hay- rinegpoPirt,ole raeftehreonrocaugtho isen-lheicsIttigiavatis1°11eeept. Ilis ly published, follows: "There is no preparation in progress at present anywhere in Clete'for arm- ed resistance to home rule. Reports that large sinus of money had been sub- scribed and large quantities of arms pur. chased with 0. view to concerten military measures are merely reports, "Na aenis are being Imported either openly or surreptitiously beyond the nornfal deniands of the trade. None of the railWaY companies trading with the north,or/reland has records of the car- rying of rifles and ammlinition. Ship- ping ,companies report the same, and nothing has come from abroad of that nature so -fir as the customs officers are aware. /II gunsmiths' shops, not only sporting guns but Military rifles are ou sale, but no marked increase in the trade -is observable. On the eontrary, it is soneewhet depresied. "Outside of Belfast, in all the more important towns of .Ulster, there is no evidence forthcoming that arms have ac- tually been obtained, or even arrange- ments made for then purchase. Mein- bersof certain societies did state to me that preparations were complete for ac- tive resistance, but were not ready with any -proof that they had taken extraor- ordinary measures. '41elis Gibson, the secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Belfast, states openly thatt his society is taking precast- tiOns, but declines to give details. The police are. without knowledge of any mi. usualsiinportation of rifles or revolvers, although an official statement was ask- ede for by the Government authorities at Dublin Castle, and minute inquiries have•been made. "The fact is patent to anyone who makes investigations in either the Pro- testant or Roman:Catholic quarters of Belfast or Londonderry that there are apgiletnitnyctrfofiolpesa.rms, although not of the type which might be of much value "The number of workmen and others in possession of revolvers in towns and villages is very large. Many people in Ulster carry revolvers who in England would not dream of owning one. The responsible leaders and those connected with Unionist organizations deprecate the suggestion that, at this stage, Ul- ster is busy arming for defence. Reli- ance is placed by the leaders rather up- osinsttaco. hneresuIts of passive than active re - "No one blinks the fact there will probably be rioting in Belfast andelse 'where. The followers, of the two extreme lie:laical religious parties meet -daily in the workshops, factories and shipbuild- ing yards. A trifle will start an out- break which may have serious results. There aro no schemes devised for tum- bl(1 these idiomatic outbreaks into organ- ized movements by drilled, dieciplined and well -armed mem". ••• TO ROB BANK. Attempt to Get Ahead of the Molsons ,. by Three Montrealers. Montreal, Jan. 22.-A carefully laid scheme between three young men be - hinging to well-known Montreal familiee to rob the :1.1olsons Bank was frustrated recently by the vigilance of the bank of- ficials, with the result that one of the young men, named Belisle, is now in cus- tody and has confessed, while one of the others has skipped, and the detectives are hunting for the third. According to the confession of Belisle, the three put Opit plan by which one of them ..“:At.d. an account with the St. Henri branch of the Molsons Bank. The plait W8 s for hinr to do 'enough businem to gain the eonfidenee of the bank officials, then get cheques, certified - and raise them,. with ` the .eseistanee of the two confederates, and they boped to seenre eight Of , nine hundred dolletre in this waylint while the boys were willing enough they were not sufficiently ever, And their first effort to exeente .theit plan wila detected. The riffoir .lottl caused a goad deal of talk, as the young men are said to be welt known, of good family, iota employ. NI in good positions, but every effort le being made ta keep it secret until the two eon Were tes have been eausseit. KILLED BY SNOW PLOW, Point Aux Trembles, t1e., ja.n. 22. -Three workmen who were walking along the traek westward to Montreal from Charlemagne were truck by it 0.N.11,,, &mow plow. joseph 'MAW), e8 years of age, was kieted instantly, Ernest Ileaueliamp, 17 years of age, bad his left leg fratifirred, and Was bull/ braised, Edward rAorlet had his left leo, and right, nem broken, and su"cred internal hajwies which may pr we fatal. 'Varner ;Mayor Nfiehael P. nwYer died it his home At Medford, Mass., to -day, following a paralytie shoe!: with wh..eli be was stricken yesterday, CORPSES KED HIGH IN STREETS .11.6.0•11(1../...••• Manchuria's Plague Spot to be Ise- lated by Authorities. ,VP.T.P.L.1004 Over One Thousand Deaths in Fidzi. .adian in One Week. ..T..1••••••••,. Experts to Go to the Affected Dis• tricts to Investigate. Harbin, Manchuria, San, 23.-Fud- ziadian, it suburb of Harbin, and the particular plague spot of Manchuria, is to be isolated as the first eystem- atic step toward exterminating the plague that bas grown more threat. ening every day. Thle was decided upon at a con- ference participated in by the Taotai, the head of the local Chime° Gov- ernment, and English and Chinese physicians. The movement is due to pressure brought by the Russian Government, which realizes the ser- iousness of the situation. A Russian physician who has just completed an inspeetion of Fud- ziathan discovered three :plague sourcee in the neighborhod of which 7,000 persona reside. Corpses are piled high in the Streets and in the yards adjoining the homes. Last Aisles thooe, _were 1,100 death in Fod- ziadian. • ". The pneumonic type', of the plague predominates. WANT EXPERTS. Peking, San. 23. -The government is sending a note to the Chinese min- isters abroad instructing them to In- vite the governments to which they are accredited to send experts to the affected districts to study the pneu- monic plague and meane for its ex- termination. The government of - Mere to bear the expenses of the cru- sade. MENACED BY PLAGUE. St, Petereburg,2 Jan. 23. -Dr. Zabe- lotny, who has Just returned from a tour of inspection in the fax east, states that Blagovieshtchensk, the capital of Amur province in Asiatic Russia, Tohita, capital of Transa- balkia, Siberia, Irkutsk, capital of the government of Irkutsk and the Maritime Provinces are menaced by the plague. The doctor says that European Russia is in. no immediate danger. DR. PATTERSON May Accept Call to Dr. McCaughan's Ourch in Belfast. Toronto, Jan. 23. -Canada, is likely to lose Rev. Dr. Patterson agaln. It is only about nine months ago that he sev- ered his connection with Bethamy Pres- byterian Church, Philadelphia, to be- come identified with the Presbyterian Church in Canada as travelling evangel- ist. , it is understood, On the best au- thority, that he hal been approached with it view to accepting a call to the church in Belfast, Treland, formerly oe- cupied by Rev. Dr. McVaughan, who with his wife met such a tragic death in a hotel fire recently, and he is likely to avert. Dr. Patterson first became famous in Cook's Church, Toronto, Where he caused fin.ore by his vigorous opposition to the Jesuits' Estates BM. He built up Cook's Church from a struggling con- gregation to t -he largest Presbyterian Church in Canada. When he resigned it was to go to Philadelphia to take charge of the biggest Presbyterian Church in the United States, in which John 1Vana- maker was a prominent worker, When Moody, the famous evangelist, died, it was generally thought. thatPatterson would take up his work, but apparently his health will not permit the continued strain of evangelistic svork. THEY JUMPED. Boarding -House at St. David's Burned --.Inmates Escaped. Niagara, Falls, Jan. 22. -Several peo- ple narrowly escaped being. burned to death in a disastrous fire at St. Da- vid's, near here, at midnight. The oc- cupants of William Wylie's boarding- house, which was formerly the St. Da- vid's Hotel, Were awakened by the smell of smoke. The alarm Quickly spread, and the eleepers juniped from their beds, escaping in their night attire. Sev- eral leaped from the witiclows. No one was seriously injured., but there were a umber of narrow escapes. As the vil- lage has no waterworks system, a bucket brigade was orgatized, Mid assistance was summoned from here. The retie firemen took a steamer to the scene of the conflagration, but the old hotel building and the adjoining bare were totally destroyed. When the oceupatits of the house awoke the barn Wtla al- ready in flames. Four barges and a cow were burned to death. Other live Mock was rescued. Cense of fire un- known. •* GLACIER -ICE. New York, ;tan. 23.-A special to the Times from 'thaws N. Y., says: Tbe Geologieal departnient at Cornell Uni- versity has received a eonsignment of several hundred pounds of ice from the Illeeilewat Glacier, in, the Canadian Bel- kirs. Prof. Ralph Tarr 1188 been mak- ing it study of Glaciers for years and the ice is to be men by Prof. Tarr and his assistantIn determining the nature and flow of glacial ice. 1 CANADA OVERLOOKED. London, Jan. 22, --hr. Gibson ilowbs points out that, the new rule of the declaration at London, if visaed, allowing the destruotion of Captured /migrate tarrying taippoeed oontraband, would emote to every vessel &Mined not rinleAly to Uritain but luso to Canada an 1 other col. The Lottden natty Mail *Aye the everseas dominions appear to have been overlooked ilmighout in the 4004144Jan, AT CORONATION. Mrs. Pankhurst Bays Women May Make Themselves Disagreeabl,. Paris, Jan. 23. -Mrs. Panklturst, teed- er of the Maglish suffragettes, who has come to Paris to rest, was induced to Speak in favor of the Wend woman's rights movement at a meeting to -night in the Latin. Quarter. At title meeting 11fre, Pankburst uttered a somewhat ono Inoue throat efilative to the coronation feetivities in London next June. If Parliament, she said, did not come to thue in reference to the women's euf- frage bill early in the session, and, re- fused once more te take final adieu On the issue, the suffragettes, although lov- ing peace, would be reluctantly compell- ed. to make themselves particularly dis. agreeable at the moment when the whole British nation ought normally. to be dee voting itself to •patriotic rejolcings. In Paris Mrs. Penkhurst has been ig- nored by nearly all the English residents of standing, but rather warmly taken up by certain American women, notably Mrs, Frank IL Mason, wife of the Am- erlcan Consul -General, SOCIETY NEWS London Times Gets Wrathy Over an American Woman Reporter. Her Letter to an English Butler Made Subject of the Text. London, Jan. 22. -The Times of Sat- urday published a remarkable expose of the manner in which some American atesisepapers get society gossip and "newil."-4-4the Times unfortunately does not give tlianstfonder's full name or ad- dress. 11. 13 einitent..to describe her as Harriet Blank. seeAse-slit wrote a letter to a butler who advertiliWoeor a situation wherein she said: "I shall be pleased to hear from you if you have half an hour to spare once or twice a week and would care to turn it into cash by writing me a long, gos- sipy letter about well knowo people in English society who stay in houses where you are,employed. I pay liberally and settle each month. , I write for some American patters which insist on having current gossip, amusing stories, etc., about well known people over here and I buy large quantities of such letters regularly. "If you think you -would care to dou- ble or treble your salary in this way write rue a good specimen letter. I will then write you more fully as to terms. To give you an idea .of what I buy I may say that just now anything about .' Here follow the names of a dozen persons well known on both sides of the Atlantic. It may readily be imagined that noth- ing could so stir the British ire to its • depths as such an attempt as this to violate privacy. The Times heads a, scorching leader on the letter, "A New Pest of Society," and says: "The letter is a complete revelation s of a system the existence of which has often been suspected, but never so fully exposed. It will shock and disgust every decent person, and especially thoae of the same sex with the debased jour- nalist who wrote the letter. We sup- press her surname and address, not wish- ing to give her and her system an adver- tisement or to direct venal possessors of the news she asks for to a market for :their worthlese wares. The letter suggests the source of many of those stupid, tasty ar exaggerated stories of English society wilich fill the lower sort of American newspapers, * * To this point has come in the hands of the worst kind of society reporting. * * * The story and the letter throw a lurid light upon the tastes, ideals and stand- ards of life which flourish in a modern democracy and which we regret to say are fostered by a democratic press. • "The heirs of all the ages are thus taught every morning to interest them- selves in tittle-tattle about a world with which they Wing nothing in common and to cultivate a: enobbishness of which Thackeray never: dreamed. What a chalice for a newsand fiercer Thackeray to make the Andeti;.of this tainted stuff thoroughly Itlibiltiend; for they know now, if theYedid, sint, before, that it is tainted. Itis *night with the price of corruption. It' is 'gotby means deliber- ately designed to violate the most ele- mentary of modal rights, the right to preserve one's privacy. Money is lavish- ed to break down the confidence be- tween masters and servants and to change the constant service of the an - world into a habit of hypocrisy which sells secrets behion one's back. "This is an odious state of things in- deed, and surely something could bo done to stop it if the respectable Ameri- can newspapers would take the matter up and expose at once the demoralizimg adult of the news purveyed and the detestable methods of the purveyors." SLOCUM DISASTER Captain of the Vessel May be Par- oled Out of Jail. His Wife Has Worked Many Years For His Release. New York, Jan. 23.-AceOrdiag to the World to -day, Capt. Wm. 11. VatiSchaick, master of the excursion stecuner General Sioeinn, on which over it thousand lives were lost4on June IS, 1901, by fire, is to le: paroled 60011. The Preeident of the Parole Board in Washingtrin has proms hied to recommend to the Aftorney-tlen. eral that Van Schalek be released. Ile has served more than a third of the ten - years' sentence at Sing Sing for miscon- duet and negligenee as. master of the sio. coin. iThe mrole if granted 'will have been due largely to the efforts of Capt. Van Selmick's 'wife. She, its Grace Mary Sprott, was Superintendent of Nursee at Lebanon Hospital, this city, to which Capt. Van &MIA afel others wounded were taken at the time of the disaster. Capt. Van ;Schalek had pointed her for tf4o01011ritaefltier3'leiaer,ad ssvasttnrre:11t:1,1811);71121: ihi 14.1) WAS out. en $10,000 bail .peniling WO. After his eonvietion she worked for his release in eonjunetion with the Masters, Mates .and Pilo& Association, which pre. pared 8 petition Of 230,000 names aakini for .the pardon of Van &Wilk.