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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1911-05-04, Page 7THOUSANDS HOMELESS BY BANGOR FIRE $6,000,000 Conflagration In Maine City Third of Place Destroyed. Churches, Hotels, Mills and Other. Public Buildings Burned Down.. • Bangor, Me., May 1.—Ifomeless, un- gry, and exhausted by the long fight aeninet the Thtme.' whkth iad deetreyed prectieally a thirdof the city of Bangor litet night, thoesanes of persons who had apent the uight in the opeu air, pro- tected only by a ineagre pply of Idea - Lets, to -day fecest the emblem of pro- viding themselves with food, ehelter and clothing, while city and state autboritiee begau tee ceneideration of clues for the le building of the city. When dawn brake over the etricken eity to -day, Inuoireils of groups of men, 'women and childreu, most o tnpul stun. ned by the disaster which had befallen the city, could be seen liteldica annual smouldering bonfires or stretched along 04! edge of the smoking rains, endeavor- ing to derive some comfort from the witruith of the firee and to eounteract the effect of the chilly rain that fell throughout the night. Although the rain brought discomfort to the homeless, it was the meanieof bringiug under con- trol the great conflagration which ispvead uneheeked for more than seven taurs last night, ..e.t a time when the battle of the fivenien awl householders against the flames seemed. hopeless, a providential shift of -wind alai a down- pour of rain drove the fire back over the• burned district, ani drowned out the flurries whicii had just started in unborn - tel property. At 8 a,. n to t1 the fire wits vertu.- eUy extingaished, and no further spread of the flames was anticipated, One-third of the city hail been destroy- ed, including some of the finest homes in the residential part of Bangor, all the public buildings with the exceptioit of the City Hall, and the greater pert of the retail business section. Estimates of the probabje loss vary, nod wore for a large part problenietical, although it was generally thought that at least $0,000,000 'meth of property lied been destroyed. The loss of life so far as is known this ...4_ morning was confined to two persons, and only half A dozen injured ones were in the hospital. The rain and cbange of wind having solved the problem 'of controlling, the fire, the atteetion of the authorities was 'directed to -day towards -housing the homelessand feeding the hungry. Every lieuseholder in Bangor whose house es- caped destructionopened his doors to his leo fortunate neighbor last night, but in spite of this thoasands were forced to spend the night in tbe city streets, sur- rounded by the few articles of honsehold -utensils they had been able to save from the flames. Many of these suffered greatly from cold and exposure, as in most cases their oaly protection from the rain was a blanket, rug or coat snatched hurriedly from their burning homers. More serious, however, than the prob- lem of sheltering the homeless, was the matter of feeding them, on account of the destruction of food supplies in the burned section. Trains '-^aght food to the city, bitt it was some little time before the author- ities valid arrange for it distribution. To aid the police in the protection of thialittle heap of furniture and clothing saved from the fire by individual house- holders orte eompaay of militia wai or- al& dared out ler patrol and guard (Int?. The militiamen patrolled the burned dis- trict and effectually prevented all at- tempts at looting the ruins, The fire, width is Fiala to have been an insignificant blaze at -the beginning, started near the corner of Broad and Union streets, in the vicinity of the City Hall, at five o'clock yesterday after, noon. A high wind fanned the blaze in- fo a, fire of terrific proportions, and the Mites began a steady and rapid ad- vance along Broad and Exehange streets in a northerly direction on either side of Kindunkeag stream, a small river which flows into the Penobskot. Most of the- publie buildings and banks were in the path of the fire, and with the exception of the City Hall, which was saved after the hardest kind of a fight, all these structures were destroyed. While the burned arm cannot be den- »Hely estimated on account of the jumps taken by the flemes, roughly, it extends from the ittnetion of 'Itendus- kog stream and the Penosbecot Itiver to Broadway Park, and on the other side is bounded by Maine and Centre streets, one side to arove street, on the -411( epposite side. This area includee about forty city blorks. Neither of the news- papers, the Commercial, the afternoon paper, or the News, the evening paper, were burned out. STORY OF THE Pine. Baegor, Maine, Aprll 80. —Damage already estimated at ten million eo,lars has been &tuned by a fire which broke one in Bacon & Robinson's coal sheds on Broad street shortly after three o'eloole oie Sunday afternoon, At mid- night it Was net undocohtrol and was weeping northward toward Kendust keag, carrying everything before it. Two are known to have been killed at this hour and over twenty have been injured. Xecrythitig north of York •street from Kenditskettg streent to the east side Of Broadway has been burn- ed, neatly all ot the fine resideneeein the most exclusive sectiott of the city, tie Well as the poet-offiee and till Of the leneet effete and businese buildings "ngr. ate in !mina The First Congregational Chere.i on Broader:1y, One of the oleeet 'the elate, 'St. John's Epiecepal, the Central rtengregaifonal, on French street, and the Universalist 'elturehes are gone, to Is the Windsor Hotel and the high night the wind appeared to be turning somewhat to the westward and the fire wee progreeelug up the river in the gen- eral direction of the Maine General Hospital. Company Q. ot the Sceoud Maine In- fantry, whielt Is stationed here, has been called out to preveat looting auti the cadet battalion trona the Univereity of Maine at Orono bas just arrival, under the commend of Lima. Col. Veer. nun, Sixth U. s. Calvary, the jomman. dant. There are several million dollars worth of securities in the safety deposit malts of the entriotui benks which have been burned, and sentriee with loaded rifles are on gnard. Although the city hall has not yet caught, 13 prisoners svho were in the cella at the pollee station have been re- leased by order of Mayor Mullen. REMOVING FURNITURE.. Ali residenees on, the east tilde of Kenudskeag Stream are being emptied of valuebles and furniture and it is now imposeible to hire either teams or automobilee at any price, Fred Schnibner was struck by a fall- ing wall from the Morse, Oliver building at Exchange and State streets, and instantly killed early iu the evening. When the word was given for the firemen to leave the library building on' Honduskeag Bridge all eesponded save John .Wiltsbire, of the hook and ladder company No. 1. A few minutes later, he appeared at a third -storey window. The crowd outside saW him stand there a moment before the flood gave way and he toppled into the, rag- ing furnate beneath. F. S. Mulvaney fell from a roof on Park street and was rushed to the hospital, where it is said he is injured. internally. The Eastern Maine Hospital and the Russell Hospital in Brewer are rapidly being filled by the injured who are be- ing taken there in private automobiles. The Paine Hospital, width contains 30 patients, is in danger and is being, emp- tied. Frank C. Hinkley, a forester, former- ly of New York, was cut off in the belfry of St. John's Episcopal Church, where he was trying to quench a slight blaze. The front of the church caught beneath him and he escaped by cutting fastening bell rope, fasteninone end to a beam, and sliding to trio ground. - THOUSANDS HOMPLESS. Thousands are walking the streets, homeless and destitute. The electric lights are out and tho trolley cars are not running. The telephone system is also out of coramissien. Mayor Mullen has proelannea martial law, and has telegraphed Governor Boise ted, asking for more troops. . More than a square mile wide of the business section of the city has been bcL urneup. The city ball somehow es- caped the flames, although it stood di - redly in the path of the fire. It is be- lieved it will fall a prey to the flames eventually. An unfortunate woman, whose name has not been learned, was passing too c lose to a burning bu,siness block When a tongue of flame reaching out of a wievr do, Ignited her clothing. She screamed an dbegan to run, but be- fore she had. taken ten steps was over. eome, and fallingupon the sidewalk was burned to death in the siglit of hundreds of horror-stricken people. CITY IN PANIC. The entire city is panie-stric,ken. Many tried to carry their household effects out of the fire zone, but it was impos- sible to secure wagons for this purpose. Wheel barrows and baby carriages were pressed Into service, and into these were hastily packed what valuables could be thought of. On every hand people were making their way into the open country for safety, Great pieces of flaming wood were carried. into the air and burl- ed like meteors by the draught caused by the rush of fire, only to fall upon some distant building and set it on fire. The firemen were absolutely help- less before the conflagration, Mayor Mullett, seeing the hopelessness of the situation, ordered the chief ot the department to use eynamite. Men at- enstoneed to using the explosive in lum- bering operations were pressed into service. They placed large quantities- of dynamite in several buildings opposite the post office and blow them into small debris, but the flames were not to be ly-made opentspace the flames seized up- on other prey. BANGOR. Bangor, text to Chicago, is the' chief lumber depot in the United States. The city in on the Penobs' cot Rivee Which tape the forests of Maine, and.brings to the city logs and sawed timber. Beeides the lumbering the :shipping industry, Bagner had furniture fee. thries, notehine shops, extensive boot and shoe factories and foundries. In the eity is the Bangor Theological Sem- inary, it Cotgregational institution. Tire Et:stern Moine Central Hospital and the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital are also loaded there. Bangor has Also ti tine etistoms house ot. granite and ite public library etei. taanea 47,40 volunies. The popaletion is about 22,000. 'The first- permanent settlement ta Bangor was made in 1700, *6. DRINKING CUP MUST GO. Berliii, Ont., April 30.— The Boni of Editention authorized the abolition of the conitilon drinking cup in all of the schools after :May 15, end the wapils will be told to bring their own cups for dtinking purposes. During Aptil there have been larger numbere than usual of mac:0mm die. ease ones here—eleven of ecarlet fey - school buticlIng. The Bangor Public Lib- 1 er ate nine of cliplitheria. Three of the rery, with one of the most valuable col. latter proved fatal. The Boerd 'of leetions of books in New raglan& is totally destroyed. The mammoth lnitt. ber mills of Morse & Co., on Valiey avenue, have juia might end the lingo Pike of lumber along the stream are el. 10 in flames. HELP AllitiVAel. 1/elp has Arrived on a specie! Mane Centre! train from Auguste, Witterville, reevritton, Butkeport and ma Towle Al. though stores of buildinge have been , change. by bowing /*tenement *egos dynernited the firemen are powerlees to I man al !the y,tar, and two field wain cheek the Ramo, A parting sontbeist I sit $10 it month etech, to Workk only wind has bma een blowing Althe 'fire in the mason, fr15 om April to started ene (Indere have hom respola thetober 16. Mitt will intro the (eta Able for the +giant of the firs. At mid. $300 on Ile present outlay. Health has authorized the immediate erection of en isolation hospital and a sinalipex mimeo CUT OFF TEN OFFICIALS. Brantford, Ont., April 60.—Thie eity reorganize ite Ateeeenaent Deptimrnt.There see new tilted of - /totals on the wok all the year around. It is proposed to Mak* a TO PLANT TREES. Province Duys 1,300 Acres of Waste Land., Toronto, May le—The Oetario 0 Ir. ernment has pureitased about thirteeo hundred acres of waste Janda In the gen- erally fertile county ef Norfolk, and 'Professor E, le inavitz itt now engaged In phoning them up in widte, red, tea:itch and jackpine, black levet, and other varietiee of trees euited to the distrtet. Tests are aleo being made with oak, wainut, butternut and cheetut. This le the busy season at theetation when seeding trees are being sent out 'by the tliousands to farmers in different parts of the Province, and when the weak- of setting oitt permanent plantations is nt its height. This work of plantiog le not primar- ily to extend the conuneretal tercets (although some limber and Pulp companies are already doing that), but to (*way the Sells not fit for agrieol. tore and to prevent the blowing of sand from sand lands over edjoining good lauds. SHOT HIMSELF. C. 0. Sadelmeyer, a Saskatchewan Homesteader, Commits Suicide. ea, Swift Current, Sask., April 30.— C. G. Sadelmeyer, a homesteader at Burradon, a tarniing district south-east of hire, shot himself yesterday when placed under arrest by Corporal Stied. don, charged with forgery. He died in- stantly. Sadeimeyer saw the officer sem- Ing, lie took a revolver from the bureaa but his wife took it from him and piec- ed it back, When arrested he asked for time to change his tic:thee, and he and his wife went into the room togeth. ea Ilia wife went out to tell the carper. al that she had a receipt for the mouty In question, As soon as his wife left lam he reached for the gun and shot himself through the breast, HO'never moved al. ter. His wife is prostrated. She is only seveateen and he was twenty-four. rhey kept a restaurant here Use summer and were well known. SUDDEN DEATHS. Aged Hotel Fireman and Orderly at Guelph Hospital Found Dead. Guelph, Ont., April 30,—An old res.) ident f .this city in tho person of Sohn O'Grady was found dead at 5 o'cloolt this morning, la the boiler. room of the., 'Wellington Hotel, where he was employed, as fireman. While he lead a good room in another part of the building, he tereferred to sleep on a couch in the boilereroom. Mr. Crawford Beers, orderly at the General Hospital, waa found dead in bed in his room last night, No in- quest well be iwld no it is quite evi- dent that death was due to natural causes. Mr, Beer& relatives in Mont- real were communicated with and the body expressed to Montreal. The de - Ceased came here on the 1711t of April, from *a Hospital for Incurables, To- ronto. • • ' MET SWIFT DEATtl. Boy Out Driving With Parents Kicked . in Back by Horse. Quebeo, April 30.—A little. boy named Gingras met with a swift dein% while driving with his parents yes- terday. afternoon. Mr. and " Mre. Modena Gingras were out enjoying a drive with their two childrein Tho little ones were sitting with their books to the horses. While on the Little River -road, near the Canadian Northern Railway crossing, the father touched up the horse with the whip, when the animal suddenly kioked, striking the boy in the back and kill- ing him instantly. The boy was only eleven years Of age. e • • LARGE AREAL BURNED. Men Working Hard to Save Buildings a Few Miles From Cobourg. Cobourg, Ont., Anril 30,—Last week fire tette raging in the Haldiinend Plains, some ten or twelve tulles from here. About forty men have been work- ing bard to save fenees and buildinge, which have been in great danger. There has been Little rain for some time and the grass and bush is very dry, One residence was only saved by the own- er, Mr, Robert Baptist, plowing a wide spaee around it, The burned,. area le a considerable one, Dr. Hutchiesoo's house at Grafton, eight miles east of here, was burned. The insurance was $1,200, whielt does not nearly over the loss. CANADA'S APPLES SELL WELL. Ottawa, Ont., April 36.—eA report has juse been reeeived at the Dairy and told Storage Commissioners' office ftoin the eargo inspector employed by the De. pertinent of Agieculture at Glasgow, re- specting the sale of a. retent eousignment of Ontario Northern Spy apples. The applea were tn. Glasgow on the 15th in excellent eondition, and Were seld lit small lots at prices ranging from 401 to 50e per barrel. Isintiliete Spy apiece in levees were reeently stole in Liverpool at 12s per box. OTTAWA IL OF ll OFFICER. Gibieva, May 1.—The Deere of Meath bee declined to make u, seleetion from the net of almost it dozen epplientiona for the poitiori of medial health of- ficer. The choiee is left to the City Coumeil to -night, but the boatel reeott- mends GM the selary be $4,0ea. 'rhe appointee nutet hold an Onterio medieel certifiefite. CONTRACTOR HELD LIABLE, Montree!, April 20.— Mt Atabroiie Letrance, eoetraetor, lias been beld etimina1l7 respotisible Inc the death of Ma& ff. ta. Coulson, who was killtal velum the sutomobile driven by her hasettnel *true* a pile of AU:ma out. Ada the tatritnee license late Thurs. thia NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF Finger Prints a Clue to a Toronto Ci,gar Thief, Snow.fall in Alberta Oussantees Winter Wheat Crop. Thousands of Maltese Want to Emigrate to Caitada. °VASS nod bush fires have done awe. pus damage in Northumberhine county,. Seventeen hundred immigrants sailed from Glasgow.f or Canade, and, 1,000 for New York. 1,Yilliaen rson, aged .SO, of Crooke. ton, whilst workbag oz a seoffold shing- ling it barn, fell, fracturing his alai. A contract hes beeu closed by- ere shippere in which 60 cents It allowed foe freighting ore from Lake §uperior to Lake Erie, A splendid snowfall in Alberta, three or four inelies, guarantees the winter wheat rop, en.1 promises excellent spring grain. Thousands of laborers and tradesmen in the Island of Malta are desirous of emigrating to Canada if they are as. eared employment, The plant of the Model Ineutator Company, 100 River street, Torouto,was destroyed by fire, causing a damage to the extent of $3,000. The steamer Simla, uobound, with a eargo of hard coal, stranded on a mod bottom eheel, off Bound Island, in the upper St. afaeyee River, Thomas Graham, ex.chief of he To. ?onto fire department, died at the resi- dence of his sou, W. T. Graham, 56 Lake- view avenue, in his 80th year. James 'Murray, who fell down au ele- vator shaft last week et the Martio Abaittor, Toronto, died as it result of his injuries at the Englehart Hospita, Judge MacWiat, ef Sarnia, Grand hlaster, laid the corner -stone of the new Masonic Temple at Carleton Plate, Tbe building replaces one destroyed by fire it year ago. The steamer William A. Paine, it 500 - foot freighter, went aground near the entrance to St. Clair flats conal, She released herself and was feint& to 1* undamaged. Rev. W. A. Cameron, of Bloor Street Baptist Church, Toronto, wile is going to .England, lute been invited to preach itt Reaent'e Park Chapei, London, dur- ing August. The Red Star steameship R7roonland, which sailed front Antwerp for New York, struck the breakwater on entering the Dover harbor, and damager her ste-ering gear. The Canadian Clovernmeat has pur- °based a strip of waterfront at Amherst - burg, 160 feet long, and will shortly be- gin the construction of a dock, which Is to he need for Government boats only. Oolin Whitman pleaded guilty in the Toronto police court to IMO oha,r.ges of stealing sums of money which he had collected for the Union Life Insurance Company. He was remanded for sen- tence. A telegram from VicePreeident Wleyte, of the Canadian Pacifie Railway, announees that the company's new steamship Bennington, for the Ar- row Lake service, was successfalty launched at Nelcusp, B.Ce To better the social condition of the young Jewish clement in Toronto, the Jewish Young Men's Christian Associa- tion there has inaugurated a week's "lightning eampaign" to raise $35,000 so that a plub building may be ereoted. Los Angeles reeeives its supply of pure spring water by an aqueduct 250 miles In length, which supplies 258,000,000 gel - Ions per day. The seheme le financed by bonds, which hove been isaued to de- fray the cost, amountiug to $23,000,000. The finger -prints left in the dein on a fanlight by a thief who entered the United Cigar Store Yonge street, To- ronto, and secured $80 in money and severei boxes of cigars, brougbt Itimut the arrest of William Connor, 18 years of age, Penning street. SENATOR ROY To Succeed Late Mr. Fabre as Can. adian High Commissioner. 0,0•Norrimmiore Ottawa, .april 30.—I1on Phillippe Roy, of Valtnonton, who represents Northern Albertn la the Senate, was appointed yesterday Canaclian High Commissioner at Paris, in succession to the Leto Hec- tor Fabre, Senator Roy 'left for Bement ton to -night, and wtl assame his new duties immediately. It is understood thot the vaeancy thus caused in the Sennte will be filled by the appointment of Hon, A. R. Forget, ea -Lieut. -Governor of Saskatehewan. GRAVE CAVED IN. Wiadeor, Ont., April 30.—Theer wsla an embarrassing ineldent, in connection with the funeral of it former Windsor resi- dent at St. John's Cemetery in Sand. evieh yesterday, Iuet as the palebearets with the casket entered the eiturchyard gate the grave which had been prepared for the reception ef the body eased in at both sides almoet to the tole The cortege remained halted at the gate until a new graVe toted he peeper. ed. • *, LICENSE IS- VETOED, Woodstock, Ont., April ao.— eit, let- ter was received. ay Litchi% Inspeeter Save yesterday from Provincial Sec - tater:, Hanna vetheing the litense grantee to the hotel tit the Grand '..inunk railway statin. The tommiseioners granted the lit eense last week, and the teniperance people sent their proteete to the Provin- cial Steretaree. Mr. Hanna states that he eencele the license owing to publie sentiment being against it. NEW 0. P, R, STEAMERS, Montreal, April Thonets anitinglinessy, who arrived honte from Eoglend yetterday, Annoinnee that con- treete few two new fifteen thousami ton 'eteamcre Inc the C./meet/tit PAellie Rail- - way Oriente! 'mute would be given out ehottly. The ships will be larger than. the Atieraie Erni:restos end are to be entopleted in 'eighteen motitits. QUEEN BESS' FaNGIBLoopy TIME One That Might Have Saved Earl's Life to be Sold by Auction. IN CANTON CO London, May 1,—Qtleen Elizabeth's Ting, that weal have aoved the Earl ol rumen from death if it bad beeo delivered sooner to the Queen, will be sold at auetioa at Christie& on May /9. It beam a legend wbleli reads: "Delon ene the part of the Couatese • otnttrtu t retulaing tine pledge of pardon given by Elizabeth to her favorite eesulted in the rearl'e death on Tower Hill and hastened the end Of grief atelelten virgin queen." TOO fatal chalet has been itt pas. session of either the Devereaux or Oarleretahnnete families for three hundred yearn. It has a band of Arabesque foliage in blue beeel, set with sardonyx, the cameo being a preeentment of Queen Elizabeth in profile, GENERAL STRIKE orrar,a1,1yall. Haywood Favors Strike. All Over the States in Support of McNamara. American Federation of Labor to Raise Bi Defence Fund. Chicago, Noy le—Assistant District Attorney W, F. Ford, of Los Angeles, who has been in Chicago and Indian. apolle for ten days, investigating the evidence coilected,by Detective Burne Against the alleged dyuarniters of the Times .building, departed last night for Los Angeles. Mr. Ford said that J. J. McNamara, James B, McNamara and Ortie E. Me - Manisa), who have been arrested in con - neon= with the dynamiting, would be arraigned as :icon as he arrived in Loa, Angeles. et. Louis, May 1.—Aedressing a meet- ing of laboring men in Union beadquar. ters yesterday, William D. Haywood, once tried and aequitted for complicity in the death of former Governor Sterne enburg, of ,Idaho, advocated it general strike throughout the 'United States on the day the McNamara brothers are brought to trial in Los Angeles for al- leged complicitty in the Los Angeles Times explosion. The meeting was under the auspices ' of the Socialist Labor party and there was a large attendance. Haywood ex- pIained that the idea of a dour netration such as he proposed originated with the National Organization of Industrial Workers of the- World, with headquar- ters in Canada, where, he Fetid, the: movement already had gained consider- able headway. Officers of the Socialist -Labor party following the address of the former see - rotary of the Western Federation of Miners, discussed plans for gaining sup- port; for the moventeut and appointed delegates to work to interest labor in the proposed strike. COWERS CONFERS. Indianapolis, May le—Samuel Cony- ers, President of the American Federa- tion of Labor, is here, and immediate- ly went into secret conference with forty labor leaders of National and State or- ganizations. .After the conference Mr. Gompers said that the McNamee, ease wee discussed and that the Few:naive Council of the American Federation of Labor would take charge of a defence fund, which svottld be raiieti by contri- bution from the labor organizations of the country. .A meeting of the Executive Council Is to be called soon by Mr, Gompers, who said the seasion probably would be held in this city, COLD SNAP. Wheat in Brandon District Too For- ward and Damage is Prevented. Brandon, Man., April 30. --The cold snap is repotted here aa having come at it most opportune moment. Vege- tation was far too rapid, and the dilly weether has checked and rush. There is evidence of wonderful growth in the fact that wheat was above ground just one week after it was sown, and everything was rushing along in the same way. It is felt that serious damage wade have resulted had the growth not been checked as it hats been. There was only six and one half - degrees of frost during the time, and no' damage of any kind Taunted. The barometer is still high, the wind le vhlllyweatherieoldand tweoxpoeretetd. h"e days °t e THE CONQUEROR. .rporimmoromirai Great Britain's Twentieth Dreadnought Launched at Glasgow. Im.rrarro London, May L—The Conqueror, Greet Britain% twentieth Dreadbought, Wee Winded on the Clyde today. The vend ie the third "contingent" battle- ship,ordered in December, 1000; when the Admiralty tame to the eortelusien that Germany Was accelerating her pro- gramme for the same type of warship. The Conqueror is a duplicate of the Thtinderer, width was launched on Fele 1. She ban it diepleeement of 22,680 tone, and will be elitipped with thrbines of it total of 27,000 horse -power and it speed of 21 knots an hour. Tie veasel is feel feet in length, and will be armee with ten 11.5-itteh guile end tweuty.four ainelt meta PORT AT HALIFAX. mr.inttoat, ltiay I.—Mr. de A. Chie- holm, Mayor of Halifax, at the head of it delegation com000tol a tomtit members of the city (minuet and Board ef Trade arrived at the Wind - era Met. evening and will proceed fiat meeting to (*)tnton, where they will interview the Covernmeat en the queenen it/ providiug woos terminal faeilinee fer the inereadne. buelneos cif the pert. When it fellerat d d unit an' levet heat hand, herea n leiter theta gut Ma ttannek. .../rritrrrarl* Desperate Armed Revolutioa Against the Manchu Dynasty. Viceroys Family Take Refuge From the Rebels on Gunboat. •rrlia*rr.o. Troops May Also Rehel—Leading Cfficials Assassleated. Hoeg Kong, April 30.---.M1 allvitee reaching lune from Canton indicate it desperate condition of affaire in teat city. There are thirty thouseed fioaliers within Me walls, and thee is great fear that many of thosewould prove dedoyal if it appeared that the rebele were ea= to gaio the upper hand. The rebels are strong in number, and have eartlett on their work of clestriee non with fanatical braVery. Thry tomb an attack tipOit the proviucial nreenal, but were repulsed by the troops under loyal officers. Many of the revolution- istwere killed, aide:: some el them lled to an unocenpied riee store and built it barricade watt Inn:tired.% of bags of riee, fhe troops found greet difficulty In as- saulting the borrizade, owing to bombs which the rebels threw with great accu- racy. Finally the was net on tire, while the troops remained at some dis- tance to pick off those who mighe tent: to escape the flames. Thirty or mere of the rebels were burned to death, while ()there committed suicide With their re- volvere rather than be taken. There has been it gathering at Can- ton lately of those opposed to the Man- chu dynasty. A few days ago several hundred arrived from Hong :Kong. The plot to overturn the Government was betrayed, and the leaders of the move- ment urged the Viceroy's bodyguard to join foreo and kill the Manchus. This the bodyguard, refueed to do, vet': the reeult that when the Attack was made upon the official reeidenee of the Vice- roy a few days ago the revolutionists were routed. Li, the Taotai of Canton, was assassinated by .the rebels during the attack. There are certain bodies of troops which may be depended upon not to abandon the rulers to their fate, and all attempts by the rebels to induce them to join in the movement have proved futile. But the rebels, working together in s well -devised Oen, have inceeeded in <king. inneh damage to ereperty, in addition to leilline soin.; of 'the officiate. The family of th'e Vieerey is now living on a gunboat. Wu Sum, it Chinese who was educated in Japan and wears European clothes, is the leader of the movement. Both he and his confederates came to Oanton from Singapore. 'While the aaithoritiee have not been able to capture these men, a number of saspetts have been arrested and promptly 'decapitated. It es feared, however, that some of three ;vele entirely innocent. The Anterican gunboat Wilminalon Is now at Shamien, the fofeign costst.lo, which is on the point above the city southward of the western suburb, end faring Maw Fort passage. Brigadier-Oeneral Chung was mortally wounded while attempting to suppress the revolt, and died yesterday. Two British torpedo-boat destroyers have beeu sent to Clinton from here. • •41, THE CAMORRISTS. Tho Only Woman Prisoner, Put on the • Witness Stand. Viterbo, Italy, Ilfay L—The trig of the Catnorrists for the murder of Gen- naro Cuoccolo and bis wife was resuno ed to-da,y after an litterruption of it week, due to the illness of a ;uror, Marit Eitendardo, the only woman among the prisoners, and who from it humble origin, is alleged to have won a high place in the Camorra by her beauty and her wits, was called for to-dty. She frankly admitted that her early career was not above reproach and that her home had been the resort of evil pen sons, but denied that she had guilty knowledge of the Cuoccolo murdere. 4.4 WAR IN THE AIR. 0•01.1*•••••.•••• Aerial Torpedo Which Can be Fired Without a Recoil. Berlin, May L—Detsele of the new aerial torpedo, on which the Krupp firm lets taken out American patents, show that the weapon is primarily dietigaeti for carryieg on the long discussed "war in the air,' its principal feature- being the abeence of recoil, whieh has been the chief obstacle to the installation'of regular gune or artillery ou it delicately balaneed aeroplane or balloon. The new weapon, which, like the mar- ine torpedo, is self-propelling, cart be fitea from it dirigible or aeroplane egainet o hostile balloon .without die - turbine tho stability of the newhine. ee• • e—. FOG ON TUE LAKE. Kingston, Ont., May L—Heetvy fog on lake and river, is delaying boats. The steamer Fairmount this morning ancbor- ed off MacDonald Park. It was so thiek that the tug Mattson, which dextral for Mentreal, with barges, is reported agroimil near Oak Point, LOST A LEG. afontreal. May La -tattle a:tear-Me (kJdtitSenwarta, tit Sat:irony afterndon etamptea to run ACIVES Oak avenue, near avenue., when a round-ths.ritottotani car struck her, la:fleeing Itee down, and before the motor man could stop- Os heavy ear aevertd the child's left Juir below the kitre. She fa hardly nttted to live, HOSPITAL PLAN BLOCKED. Windsor, Ont., Apnea en, -The leeal oh:atter of the Ditughtere of the Eitylre team to be beda witli the teoultehth Boatel of Health for thet munielpel body bus nett -refitted point bleek to ea low theinto put itp their tulatrettioele heepitaI within the tree ri Milne, end the obole etheme may fell tiriefigh int Ile. emelt ef the oppreition whieh it is eon/doing. TIN COMMANDMENTS. 1L:$. Episcopal tihurch Oongrees cusses Prayer Book ,Revision. Woibiugton, Atey le-miteviie the Tee Commattementsa :aged Rev. Dr, George A. Douglas:, Canon of the Cath. and of At, John the tlew York, in speaking et the twenty-fifth congress of the Preteitant Episcopal Chetah on "the need for player book revilicat to meet patella:lay eorull. tame." "Let tte have the eoutage," he field, 1"to reetore our prayer book version of ' the Teo Conneancbuents to whet sehoi, ars are pretty generally flatted was the original and &totter form," lie said. that with player book revis- ion in line withthe niovement for Church unity, the Romeo. Cheek and Anglican Clunehes ultimately must be able to come together be publie won ehip. tIn revt‘non," he suggested, "we nmat not snap. the ileke that bind an to tbeee ancient churches." He repelled the preteet. book of tommon prayer as unsuitable for wonting people end sooalled S14 - its," who have .bemi attracted to the C'bristien churehes. Tbe rerfsedprayer hook Amid give ministers the right on occasion .to pray extempore without appenrieg to be either rampant or radi- cal." Rev. Dr, Henry 11. GuMmey, of Traddonffehl, N. 3., opposed revision pending carefill study by au interua- tional - counell eapresenting all the Manche,: of the Anglican Churele Rev. Dr, Percy S. Grant, of New York, urged prompt action in shortening the church service. Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townseee Brady, of Kanene City, Mo., declared that be wouM Oppose any revielion width would take away anything from tne ancient truth or beauty of the prayer book. EDWARD TILDEN And Two Others Arrested for Con: tempt of Illinois Senate. Chicago, May 1. --Judge Pettit en the Superior Court, to -day greened a welt of habeas -corpus for Edward Til- den, George M. Benediot and W. 0. Gumming, and within a half hour after they- had been arrested by E, H. Hatfield, eaststant sergeonnatearens of the Illinois Senate. , Hatfield bore warrants charging contempt of the Illinois Senate for the eefusal of the three to obey sub- poena% calling for their appearance with' the books aud amounts of the Drovere' Deposit National Bank and the Drovers' Tryst and SavingBank relating to the aceounta of Edward Til. den. , Mr. Tilden was mentioned in the tostienony 01 Clasenee Funk, of the Interaational Harvester Co-., as the man to whom he was invited to send it subeetription for the alleged pur- pose of aiding in -the election of U. S. Senator William Lorimer. • STRAINED HEART. Ng)) Altitude Caused Death of Copper King's Daughter. ,New May 1. ---Mrs. Margaret Daly Brown, daughter of Mayotte Daly, and the wife of IL C. Brown, it. beaker. died at her mother's home on Fifth ave nue this morning. Mrs. Brown's death eame-withia a few hours after her er- rivelellere on it special Cat' W11,491 brought bit on a fast run from Montana. Tee- high altitude, it was eitid, hnaos. ed a strain on her heart, and it was deemed 'adviaahle to hrine.; tier haul: to New York at once. Sirs. rown initerit- al several saillion dollars an the de,ath of her father, who was long known as th.e "Copper Xing." • GORED HIM. Wild Elephant Crushes and Kills Is Trainer at DIXOPs Me. Dixon, Aloe May I, — Hundreds of persons yeeterday saw an•iniuriated eke pitaitt hurl Its trainer into the air and den, after crushing him with its weight, repeatedly pierce the body uith its tusks. The tragedy came while demee Hildebrand, the trainer, watt endeavor- ing to put the animal, which belonged to it wild west abow, into a ear. - bread eves adjusting the chains whicb hound the elephant to its mate.. Witt. out warning the elephant became mirag- e:1, and, wrapping Ito trunk around the trainer's body, lifted him high in the air, then (hotbed hint to the ground. it Is believed that he wee killed instantly. THE PLAGUE. Mrillo*.M• 6 Received by Chinese Emperor. Delegates to International Conference Peking, May 1.—T1 delegates to the International Plague Conference held at Molt:len arrived here yesterday and were received in audience by the Iperor to- day, They -will else bit extensavely en- tertained before returning home. The results of the. investigations of those attending the conference in:Beate that the pneurnonie plague tan easily be controlled and resolutions adopted declaring that the eiscontimtance of railway traffic' in the future Mt lieterunt of the eisease were initevisable. LOST DIAMONDS. $101000 Worth Stolen from Jeweller on Train 'Near Oalgarit. feiloary, Alm., May le• •Dianinivis trt tee. value of felfleael were eteeeti on hear), thee0. P. . teem teL,....1 e beet veva t it: Calgary e.•11 tialay :am oh ye ideieltuttn, elf Me. Melt Le tee, N. V., trovellim and tatted that tI.tIiII t'ae !i!4i11, be A5 entree in it ante, teetteeta hiti phial hie ewe: tit amt eitteptel with it ,i1 ;Il iliemende %Wee eye aetee et the eiteve eatae. Se fee veil- eay &feet:tee hate nt.t. .ta.tilt any ar. tvEtt OR. MACOONO ON PEACE PICT eclares Anglo-American Treaty Will Beome a Law, Is People's Matter and 'They Will See It Through, ••••ler,..6,1.4 Dr. Macdonald Dined With Teft, Knox and Senator hot. New York, May L ---A despatch from Witehingtoa gives an interview With De. .1, A, Macdoliald, of Toronto, about the Anglo-American arbitration -proposal& it is the largest and most sigpifigaot thing in interuatienel polities today," he is quoted as relying. "Nothing in titia generetioa has se profoundly etierett al/ that is best in the Englieli epeaking world, It ie like a great chor& time brings the scattered parts of a tholes into harmony. "When Preeident Taft struck it, per. haae somewhat uocertaie as to the response, Sir :Edward Grey made an* wer in a Strain so noble end lofty that not only Britain, but all the Britiele Donxiniono overseas (*.hoed. It round, the world. Tito effect is absolutely lin• ique in history. "Of ourse the prtposal will go through," he remarkett. "Cue would des* pair of civilization if at this day the influences that go to make for isola- tion and distrust could block the pas- sage of such a measure either in the British Parliament or in the American Congress. Once the proposal is made ib must go through. Not to approve it would be to confess to a barbarism waick the people of both nations would repudiate and deny. "The cynics may mock at It and the lief seeking politicians may try to make personal or party capital by op- posing it, but the better part of the people will have none of their subter- fuges or side-stepping, This is pre-em- inently a people's matter." Dr. alitedonald dined with President Taft at the White House Sunday, and there met Mr. Knox, Secretary' of State, and Senator Root. • • FOR LATE KING. Proposal for MillioaDollar Consump- tion Hospital Memorial. Toronto despatch says; At the recent meeting of the trustees of the National Sanitarium Association there were pres- ent: His Honor the Lientenant-Gover. to (in the chair), lion. 3. J. Foy, Hon. B. Lucas and others. • A proposal was laid before the meet- ing for the raising of the Xing Edward Memorial Fund for consumptives. The trustees were unanimous in their belief that not only would be people of the city of Toronto, bat the entire Province and Dominion, consider this to be it most appropriate and practical way of establishing a memorial to the late King. It- was therefore decided that a fond of one million dollars be raised for this purpose, and that Canadians everywhere should be asked to join in commeinown ing in this way the illustrioue name of Xing Edward the Peacemaker. The ftual will he used in making adeteate provielon for every needy eousumptive, either in t'he early ov advaneed stages of the disease'who may seek admission to the hospitel, not only from any part of the Province, but every part of the Dominion. The work of organtzation has beea eoramenced, and it 13 Intended that the eompaign will take place early in tbe fall. • e • WAS NEGLECTED. Montreal Condemned Murderer Curses His Mother for Ms Plight. Montreal, May I. --Refusing to enter into conversation with any of the guards who watch over him day and night, and muttering threats aaginat his own life, Franeisco Creole, sentenced to be hang- ed on May 26 for the murder of Guisap- pi Chini, is putting in a wretched exts. fence at the Montreal jail. Creole., although he smiled when seat- tence was passed, and toldthe court that he would embrace death 'cheerfully, has brokett down completely during the past two weeks. Father Caramello, who visits the con- demned man almest every day, endeav- ored to interest him in the English lan- guage, thinking this would take hiemind off the fate whieh was awaiting hint, but be soon Urea of this and as he rt. fuses to make use of any of the books provided for him the greater part of his time is taken up in pacing his eell. lie is continually neutterieg curses against his mother, whom be holds re- sponsible for his present plight, saying that if she had furnished him with it proper eetwation he would not be Where he is to -day. TWO SHIPS 'LOT. Two Steamers Wrecked OW Cape Vilano, Spain. Londou,1.fay L—The Ltoyda littera et, Corinthian, Spain, today reported that two eteamehipe have been lost oft Cape Vitae°, a promontory at the north. weetern extremity of the Spanish penal. One of them ie the ttalitin tibip V. S. Ciampi, Ithielt wee bound front Pent arth, Wales. for Oenea. with it ergo of aut. The identity of tite other ship al ant known. BOUGHf MAGAZINE. N051,' •• • 1iAillpt01174 :ktagaziae hoe pima:teal by the re auntie): in INIatwitios Voirt. party, one Mr. Bt'AJ Uuumptnn ti1t tVart att rdit4r of the magulue. rinse details of the pureheme wereattantaa leeday, emi it wee !oat teet neerly f42,004.601' nAs paid 'for the plant. ltereptort viilI tontinue its tad atate.