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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1911-12-14, Page 7.064 II ..104, • 14453"111111" .1.4,•••••••• SEVEN DEAD MINERS SITTING IN A TRAIN oin*Arre Among Them Father and Son Sat Side by Side in Car, Brieeville, Team, Dee. 11.-Seveu dead men diecovered early today it. till; upright i1 a train of mine eat% in a, co se entry, two miles from the mouth of Cross Mountain Mine, bringe the het of known deaa from the explosion of Saturnay rimming up to 10. Eight of the bodies are etill in the mine, the other eight having been, bought ferth itnd etlertifie4 by relatives. The seven men were on their way to work ire the motor drivel are when the ',data blast overcame them. Among them were father ond son, eating side by side. The rescue work was continued all night long by two. (Tows .of twelve men each 1010. 'worked in two hour ebefts. The great an was rigged up At the entrance and eorceel much of the offer damp out of the Main entry so that the Workers evere .able to proceect more swiftly and with better results. Beene Parties today renewed their b.aeking ana digging ,in an attempt to force the big cross mountain mine here to give up its dead. Having forced their lt way three mita into the mounteten and brattleed Jul:we t,t the mina erotee en- triee, ruembere of the reseue crew ex- peet to etumble on to corpse -strewn ehanthers at any ltour now. That there are one hundred or more dead men 're- maining in the Mine there is no doubt. Alt holie of rooting any of the &ores who went to them toll on Saturday morning to be einbrated by death bas been abandoned'. Weeping .wives, Inade widows by Sot- unlayn catastrophe in the Knoxville Iron Cowpony'smine, eame te the eitaft entrance in seines this morning prepar- ed to meet their dead. In a warehouse. but short step from the mine en- tronce ore great. numbers of coffine waiting* .kr their occupants. Corpses in plenty for tbese coffine will be found in the mine early this forenoon, it is be - Revel, Possibly the majority of vic• thus will be founa to -day. Ches. Kesterson, whose body was amortg the first discovered, was found at the telephone back in the mine, .by the roaming erew, Evidently Kesterson bad been trying to telephone news of the blot to the office of the mineswhen he was Article . by falling debris, Ifis Alma was badly mashed and hie body was cut. IT, PEACEUnlal"ommrn MANY DEAD But IlleY Were Gold Fish, Canaries, Mice, Etc, Premier Borden and Mr. Carnegie Speak There. Carnegie Makes Generous Offer to Canada.. mi.,1••••,••••••• •New Yorlc, Dec. 10. -Hon. Robert L. Device, Premier of CAnada, And Ma, Andrew Carnegie, were tee guests at it dinner at the Hotel Astor last night, given by the .Exoutive Committee ot the National Committee for the celebration er'kof the 10011 anniversary. of peace among Englislospeakina people. Mr. Job E, Beiges presided. Toe comeration ISpian ted to take place in 1911-15. etr. tear- aeme ie Cliatemaa or the National Com - mate. Mr. Carnegie was in his mune genial humor. .Speaking of Canada, Mr. Carnegie sale that • the greatest tribute that. could be paid to ex -Premier Idattrier was the tact that he, a Frenchman,. had beeo able to govern the $cotchn "The Frenchman that can do that," Ie said, "needs Ito .other diploma, But now that Conadee has, a Seotch Premier, I look for a great advance in that tountry. You la Canada and we in America have grown eloser to each other year by ye-ar, and tent ebotild be.. the way witli tee whole alneaish-speeking race. 1 never did anything for the "Itepablie that 1 did not also do. for. Canada, both in the way of libraries and hero funds. I never found a man in Canada -who was in favor of annexation to the eVnitetlState% but 1,neeer tound it man either %leo, ebjeeted to 'Canada tomexing • - the United States. "When we were in trouble Canada ent us 40,000 men. If Canada, is ever in trouble we will send you 400,0li0.a* Here Mr. Catnegie grasped Premier Boedenn hand, and, holding it in his, nodded his bead in emphasis of what he. bad said. Ile added: `Telegraph me when you want them. You know my ,addrea." He closed by expresslog it hope that the day would come "wben the `Whole world would be a brotherhood of man. 'a Mr. Borden talked ofchill service re- form in Cariada, "The example of the American civil .service ystem,' he staid, "has been of great help to Us. We Tntend to work from that plan in establishing our own civil service ystem. Canada and the United States have many proetems - in eommon which must be worked out volt by its own people. But 1 know that as long as the world goes around Canada and her big neighbor will main- . tain the most friendly feelings for eaeh other." Osear S. StrItus wag the only speak- er who referred to the defeat of the reciprocity agreement by the people -„ _of Canada, which was the mans of .4?putting Premier Borden in office.. afr. Straus said the at. that the treaty did not go . through wouid Make no difference in the mutual feeling of good -will between the two countries. He added that the laws which wete bringing capital and la- bor together in Canada should be adopt. ed by the United, States, as they were fair all the way through. Ile praised the quality of Canadiate immigration to the 'United States, and said that so long as Ile bit& a. word to say about our immi- gration laws- the doors Would be kept wide open to let in the good people who eame from the Dominion. jobn A. Stewart, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the celebration, *eke on the plats of the coming ob- servance. Ite salt the 0Ornmittee pro- posed to leave behind it as a memorial of the one htiudrea yam of peaee building n thie city dedicated to public meet and It was alo proposed to ereet free memorial bridge over the Niagara River. Before atteeding the dinner bet night Mr. Borden in the .afternoot motored down to Oyster Bay as the guest of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for ittneheori. The Premien And the ex -President had n, two.hour chatalt was their first meeting, and both ex - premed coneiderable eatiefAction at have ing met the other, and tlealtope of meet Ing soon Aloha Mr. 330r3ell Ihning his etity alto met htr. Henry We Taft, it brother of the Preeklent, with whom he lied A pleasant interview. Mr. And Mile Denten left thie evening for Ottawa., DOUBLE SUICIDE. iTamian, c-lerwiltuy, rife. Il.A tm !Viol was causal at the steek exchange bre tooloty, when a evidew netted Roll aitel her 4iAtighteT committed. snielde in the oalley. It 1, saiA that they had Mei tee Whole *.f their fritione In 4p0MI. t1011. New York, Dee. 11.-A. series a au- topsiee is being beta to-cley to solve the mystery surrounding 73e dead bodiee- discovered yesterday ,in Brooklyn. The police attribute the tragedy to coal gas. ea's. Sarah Tepee, who keeps a store on De Kalb avenue, is convinced that wholesale murder was done. When Mrs. Tape left her store on Saturday night there were on theehelves and counters 000 gold fish, 80 canaries, 20 parrots and 50 white mice; when she returned yeeterda,y to girt them their dinner all were dead except fifteen fish. An agent of the S. P. C. A.; who thought that poison had been used, took asvaa a pan*, a canary and a owease for auto:Isles. KNOCKED DOWN Longshoremen at Kingston Strike for More Pay. Kingston, Dee. 10.---lhere was quite a lively time on Saturday on the steamer Port Colborne, which has been unload- ing nails, wire and cement at Swift's wharf. Forty longshoremen struck or higher wages, in view of the difficult work of unloading cement. They were receiving thirty cents an boor, and de - mended forty cents. The Port Colborne is the steamer which stove it hole in her -bottom by striking in Lachine Lake last week, while en route west. It was necessary for her to unload here in or- der to enter Kingston dry dock for re- pairs. One of the strikers grew demon- strative and abused one Of the vessel's officers to such an extent that the lat- ter knocked hien down. The captain com- municated with the underwriters and re- ceived elicit to pay the men ihirty-five cents an hour, which sum was adopted and the men returned to work, _* FOUND GUILTY Leader of "Holy Ghost and Us" Society. Portland, Me., Dee, 10, -The Rev. Prank W. Sanford, the 'Holy Ghost and Us Society" leader, was found guilty by a hay in the United States Districe Court today en causing the death of six of his followers, who succumbed to Scurvy and starvation on the recent seventeen months' cruise of the schooner Coronet. Judge Clarence Hale Appointed Dee. 18 as the day for sentence. The jury deliberated but forty minutes. 'ho -night Sandford was admited to bail lil the sum of $10,000 for his appearance on the day appointed or sentence. The penalty for etch of the six counts is it fine not exceeding $10,000 or impris- enMent not exeeeding ten years or loth, WAS ON DisLey TEAM. Toronto, Dec. Ile -Death came very - suddenly yesterday to Mr. Samuel Fred - crick Walker, of 583 Sherborne street, who has bon anneeted kr many years with the law firm of Kingston, Symons & Kingston. Mr, Walker was at work up to Friday night, apparently as well as ever, Ire war* taken 111 on Saur. day everting with heart trouble and died yesterday. In his younger doe Mr. Walker was a, famous rifle *shot, and was a member of the Canadiao team commanded by Colonel 3, AL Gibson, how Lieutenant. Governor of Ontario, when they won the Kolithore Cup at Insley, in England, Ile himself also won the Greed Aggregate prize on that occasion. As a member of the Queen's DWri Rifles eae served through the IstorthWeet Rebellion in 1886, The deteaSed Was uneutrried aria Was in las 04th-yeitt. CHINESE RAID, Tema°, Dee. 11. --In the most 'ogee ious raid' ever .onducted et a crowded thooughfare in Toronto the *00110 on Saturday night arrested twenty Chin. ese and laoke up it lottery Whieh they eonsider one of the biggest nget-rich. quirk" minutia yet operated in Termite. It k saId the profits of the ebanker' ranged front $2,000 to sit52000 weekly, trid that thirty Mittens wete engaged in distributing tiekete anlOng the Chincee Iauharymen. POPULATION OF mooteJAw. Meese Jew, Sask. Dee„ 10.- The sworn statement, fellowing the fleet eheeking of the eerie tennis, taken Noverebor 14. given Moire Jaw's popalation 20,004. It Is gated that the Department of Agri- eulture will be petlt1ond to Amity* the Alter. as anew fignnott. e On Christmas Morning as on any other winter day, you can make your home more comfortable and cheery by using a Perfection Smoke. less Heater, ER -Wren° Its gedtrinraiiiiiris quicicly,at your service, ready for use in any emergency. 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The break- ing of it glass retort forming part of the apparatus in which Koelker was condueting experiments with cyan- ide of potaesitten and ferrocyanide salts released the gee whiali caused hisdeath. Koelker. wneee home was at 503 West 178th &tenet and who leaves a wido* ,and a tattier and, mother, was' not conneeted with the hospital, but was doing independent research work in the laboratory in pursuance of studies which he had recently follow- ed at Jo_4n Ilopkins. had bean in. New YOrk Some time, working off and on in the Lyle laboratory. The young ehenaiet was alone when the accident happened. Roaenburg, the assistant, went out for his lima at ten minutes past 12 o'clock; and was away from the laborratory until ten mioutes of 1. When he returned he found lia the door to the ex- periment zoom Was locked. The door yielded, and as soon n -c; -opened the peaek kernel odor of the poisonous tie was detected. The men fell back, knowing that so dangerous is the hydroonanie gas that little more than enough to resider the odor apperent M enough to kill, Dr. Sloane eeolunteered to go in alone and bring out the body. Ex- amination of the apparatus showed that the breaking ,of the glees eetort had been the muse of the accident. In this Koelker had dropped sul- phuric acid in on, the heated cyanide of petassatun. The retort had evident- ly given way under heating. Death by hydrocyonic acid in laboratory experiments is. not uneommon, es• HUNDRED MEN ADRIFT. leoat, Ruseia, Dee. 11. - Over 100 fishermen are adrift on an ice floe on Lake Peipus, erom which the winter fish supply for St. Petersburg is drawn. As all the lake steamers have bo Jaid up for the winter, some time will elapse before reselling parties can be organized and sent out to search for the missing parties, whose position is consequently extremely perilous. CELEBRATED CASE Dr. and Mrs. Magee May Make It Up Again. Toronto. despatch -Dr, Magee, of Corn wall, with his wife and child, the fight for whose possession resulted in the tragic encounter which lost one life and sent an uncle to the .penitentiary, left Osgoode Halltogetherthis afternoon. This followed a, swat hearing of sev. eral hours before justice Middleton to- day in which each side presented its claims. The verdict it sealed one, but it is understood the motion of Dr. Magee. for possession -of the child was enlarged, for six months, with the hiss. that nu amicable Arrangement may be made in the meantime between husband and wife. One of the counsel, while refusing to discuss the details of the settlement, in (emoted that such an agreement had been arrived at. It will be remembered that Da Magee sought to get posse ' n of Lie child without the 'formality of legol proceed. ings, and that his friend, Shaw was on tbat oc,easion shot by isfeRae, now under- going a life sentence for the crime, A BIG SHIP Thousand Foot Liner to be Built for German Firm. • London, Dee, 11 -Another 1,000 foot liner is projected, and this timeby Ger- many. It is stated by the Standard that the Hauthurg-American Line has placed an order with Harland & Wolff for it new steamship which will eclipse in size and magnificence the White Star giants, Titanic and Olympic. , The new vessel will be an eleven -stored - floating palace, built to carry five thou. sand passengers and will have engines of 80,000 horse -power -that is exactly twice as powerful as those of the new White Star Liners. • CONDUCTOR CUT IN TWO. St. Thomas, Onteelespatolt-While tak ing out his -train from the yards here this morning, William Housel ,freight conductor on the Michigan Central Rail way, slipped and fell under a movieg train on an adjoining track. He was ent in two And died instantly. Deceased had only two fingers on one hand, and the morning was foggy, 'which may account for hie' slipping. lee was a married man with it family. Even the eithuibra realizes that beauty is enly %kin -deep. Stttndar d Sets .fl Matchless Christmas Gift The 1LLETTE • SAFETY RAZOR No Stropping I No Honing! For the man who shaves, you couldn't select a more accept- able gift than this world- famous razor. Progressive men everywhere are using it. The "No Honing -No Strop. ping" feature makes a hit with every shaving MAIL Pew can strop a razor right. The Gillette doesn't $500 need it. The Gillette Is Aso. lutely safe. You can shave as fast as you like. Your shave is perfect -clean, quick, safe and economical. 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'Eliot, of Harvard, watt operated upon for appendicitis at Kandy, Ceylon. The rfanburg-American Line steamer President Grant, bound for New York, grounded off Blenkenese, on the Elbe, The store of Samuel J., Charlton'At tieia:ceen.field, Out., was burglarized. The safe was badly wrecked and over sew • vetuviun is again in eruption and is sending op large quentities of mud. The villages of Resina and Torre del Greeo are menaced. Frank O'Keane, formerly of Montreal and Ottawa was 'found dead of heart failure on th steps of his lodging how° at Winnipeg. The Madrid Impareial says that there is a revolt in Madeira, and that the Portuguese Government has sent it bat- tleship to the island. While on his way to it dentie• t's, Ceoil Dudley, it 19-year-oid Grand Trunk clerk at Ottawa, took ill on the street and died later at the hospital. Thos. Chat of Halifax, died suddenly at it boarding house on Dundee street, London. Coroner McLaren found that death was due to heart failetre. S. F. Armsteitel, for seyeral years principal of Grier street school, Belle- ville, and who went to Vancouver five yneas. reago, died there after a brief ill- esThe Nobel Peace Prize this year has been divided between T. IL 0, Meer, Minieter of State of the Netherlands, aud Dr. Friend, editor of the Vienna, Friendswarte. Thos. Grenning, aged 50 years, alio was found dead in a chair in the office of the Richmond. Hotel, London, bad relatives in Toronto, who have taken charge of the remains. Elijrth Titus, of Centreville, was sen- tenced to six months in the Central Prison by Magistrate Paterson for the theft of a pair of shoes from jobn Downing, of Beachville. Mrs, Bridget Donnelly, 90 years of age, who. lived alone 111 S, cottage on Dufferin Heights, at the head of Da- ferin etreet, Toronto, was assaulted by two men; whose object was robbery. Thomas Cole, a former well known hotel -man of St. Thomas, having been proprietor of the Albany Hotel, clied suddenly at Springfield, Mo., where he had been residing for the past few Yeara Aheavy sea did great damage in %BSC Terre, Guadeloupe, harbor. Four lighten loaded with sixty tons of cargo from the steamer Cacique from France, consistiog of merchandise, were sent to the hottone . While the Bereseglieri were excavatIng yesterday in an entrenchment at Ain- zara, Tripoli, which was recently cap- tured from the Turks, they discovered a Roman Mosaie pavebent in the finest state of preservation. Mose § Gallant, 28 years old, a sailor on the Minto, was drowned off Cape Tormentine, P.E.I. He was throwing out it lead to take the depth elf water, when he lost his balance and fell over the railing of the ship. French dressmakers assert that they lost $4,000,000 this year. It is said that 20,000 girls are out of employment be - cense of the wearing of hobble skirts and kimonon blouses, which require half the usual amount of material. At a catieue at St. Etienne, M. Tontine, the Park prefect of police, was badly beaten for the nomination of senator. Mr. Morel, a deputy aria it straight par- ty roam Was placed in nomination, re- ceiving 02 vacs to Lepine's 1. A recent Government survey has established the fact that the two Hum- ber Hotels are situated partly on the publio highway. The G. le 11. Hotel is directly in the line of the new subsvay and it will be moved back at once. A broken axle on it locomotive tender wits the cause of the derailment of the engine, baggage ear, smoking ear and front trucks of the first ?unit= on 'No. 1 Wabash express as the train was pull- ing out of Simeoe, hies one was injured. Edward Hubbard, Arebibald Green and Vincent Asseltine, the former of whom was it trusted employee of the - St. Charles Carriage Cempany. Belle- ville, for thirty-four years, were coin. milted for trial, charged with stealing rubber tiring from their. einployers. With aixteehcindred feet of hose leid, the firemen bf Longue Point sta. Von, Montreal, were unable to get it drop' of water to fight - it blaze that broke out in the sash and door faetory , of Landreville& Huard, Dairesne Park, and the building and -contents were totally deetroyed. John Pnrdom, contractor, of London, hes sold to Sir George t.Gibbon; Sev- enteen feet of land on. Dundee street, on the scene of the eftent fire, between Talbot and Richmond streete, for the Aunt of $17,000, One thoosaml dollars per foot is the bigliest price ever paid in that eity for land alone, THE KING'S DURBAlt New York, Dee, It. -.A table from Delhi today says: All ie in readincoe for the greet lentbrir taremony to.mOrroW antl leen la is like it tisane from Arabian. Melte. The etreets Are goregonsly elecoretal and the populatioo has non swollen front 200,000 to neerly half a million. /Intel keeper's are reaping it great limo Yeet, niece at the ieading heatelries verage $100 a day, although apeclal rates of RIO a clay ere mode ter vlsitars who temain for three week& The tit- ortionitto prices have kept *wan thou - genes who ,had intended witnessing in. morrow's etreMony, - if FALLEN WOMEN :Dr. Shearer Says Ruthen. tans Swear in Canadian. Toronto, Dee. 11. -"You will never get rid of the white slave truffle until you stamp out the dooble code of 'morale - treat a man as you wouli treat a wo. said Rev, Dr, J. G. abearer, of Cooke's Church, test nightsin 'the eouree of an address on -The Lights and elm- dows of City Ida" "Do you allow," he asked', '"that sixty thousand girls and young stemma sink into .the miderworld every year in, the United Stotee, that Canada is providipg more nem her share of tbeuil" As it commentary upou soeial gouda thane in Termite, Dr. Shearer mentioned that since the Presbyterian Board of Seeial Reform canted work In Felanary, It boil ministered to between 150 and 200 fallen women, About 'fifty were still under their care, and a number had been restored to self-support And to their parents. o Dr. Shearer criticised the general ate Music of .Canadians towards immigrants. He WOO not afraid,, he said, of Canada beorniug "foreignized," but rather of the kreignere becoming Canadtanized. It was, he WAS aeltemed to say it, mostly the lowest alnico01 Canadiene who were doing the Canadianizing, and not the churches and the better clasees of pee*. . "Why is it aeRutherrian never swears exeept in Canadian?" be • asked. "It is because be acquires hie habits from. the clue of men he .meets when he gets here. The immigrants are learning more evil from us then they Are teach - Mg us," As one remedy for the problem :of the homeless, Dr. Shearer considerea that it ought to be possible for the men and women, of the -churches to provide, or see provided, sufficient safe and -economical boarding houses for the thousands of young Men awl women working in the city who bad no homes of their own here. JEALOUS ITALIAN Kills Couple While Discuss. ing Honeymoon Trip.. Bradford, Pa., Dec. 11.-4Vhi1e distuss- inn arra,ngemente for their honeymoon trip to follow the wedding scheahled for next week, Miss Grace Calle and her intended husbaud, Anthony Itealtnen, were snot and instantly killed at tae woman's home here soon after last mid- night. The police and a posse are search- ing for Rossana Annisetti, a wealthy fruit dealer, who, it is alleged, was in. sanely jealous of the girl. Edith Work- man, of Tuna, Pa., a servant in the Ca- ble household, was entertaining Glen Rogers in the kitehen when they hare the ehots and attempted to stop the jeitomhtithelintagiblains 4.aseas, be through the room. Ho fired at thm eand euceeeded in LILLIAN GRAHAM •••••••••••••Nowne.... Prepared To -day to Face Crown- Examination. New York, Dec. 1L -Lillian Graham, wao, with her chorus girl companion, Ethel Conrad, was again on trial to- day in the Supreme Court for shooting at W. B. D. Stokes, the millionaire horseman'in the legs lost June, and pas prepared to face the fire of the proee- mitten's eras examination. The Graham and Conrad girls came Into court together and sat with their counsel before the court opened. The glrls are absolutely onfident of their acquittal, Ethel Conrad will probably be called to give her testimony after the Graham girl has left the stand. The condition a Millionaire Stokes, who has been oriously ill lie a reettet of compilations following an attack of nate indigestion, was slightly improv- ed title morning, KILLED TWO ••••••••••••••111.111.1. Bomb Explosion in Leige Moving, Picture Show. *A••••• Liege, Belgium, Dec. 11. -The bomb explosion whieh oecurred during a eine; nuttograph enitibition her last night hes resulted in the death of two pereons, wbile 03 others are suffering front seri- oils injuries. Bight of the victims luti legs amputated. The theatre was crowded with work- men at the time of the explosion, and a terrible panic ensued. The bomb whielt Was awned with dynamite, was loaded with itoils, it is believed that it was thrown by it madtuan and not by a re- vengeful discharged employee, as was at first supposed. POISONED BY CAS. Toronto, Dee. lle-Severeerearend Aunie Pyne, the adopted daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Land, her neaten 111A, who lived with her son at 20 Leot- ard aventie, wail the victim of as poi- soning on Saturday evening, Mr. lied Mrs. Leady, their on and his wife, left, the child in bed on Saturates, evening while they called en some Meek en Ityereon avenue. Ilefote leaving, ha. ever, tbeyodisconnected the tubing lead. ing from a gas jet to a cook range. en making the diseonneetion, it towers that one section of o tentage, en ettatelo ment on the jet lined to divert tea gee, had been left open. Vhen the fame/ returned they found the house fake %salt gas end the girl dee.as,a in bed, muaaea IN MONTREAL Montreal, 1/e. 10. -Following itrel in in the house of Fraticiseo Medurias 82 Paget street, today,. Antonio Datolo, it youpg Italian, 25 years of age, drew a knife and stabbed Pietro Collin°, an old .countryntan, to the heott, killiug him instantly. Datolo leaped through a window and fled, but was met by two conotithles, who noted his bloodetaitted appeetvance, and arrested hin on sue - paean, Ile will be arraigned for Molder to -morrow, milking the third case in less than three weeks. HOUSE, TOTAL WRECK. Brantford, Ont., Dee, new two. storey house being pat up ie a total wreek here on Saturday as it reqult of il e0iistute .dUring the night. Contractor James Wright heti Iten mita for the whielt hod peeled the inspeetion of the City Building irtepeetor. The eollatke was du to froat in the foundatien. The eontractot refunded the elequi to the owner, Anti will veinal the liontete SA it NOM Of 4114400.. The entire hone Nivea in nne mass into the RACE SUICIDE 1 SAVED BY HOB umoutte iTorontgoa:teSsamillchit. ANO Father Vaughan Preaches on Society Sins. Jesuit Prelate on Menaces to the Empire, Family in Decay To -day Means Nation in Decay. Toronto, Dec. pungent, incisive lauguage, riveted holue by his pietur- ague gesture, Bev. Father Vaughan sernione on the "Sins of Society," to a Preached one of his typically audacious crowded congregation at Our Lady of etuniliar leeeoa of tae oe Lometes ('11111111 leat night. With the liis Biblicel Weis, he arraigned society for otthieiwatroaluvidraagmeoace oi tee gambling la- cial suicide. Tbe attracteve peeeontaity or the English divine strew en immenee congregation that took up not only all the stendleg Isixteu of Lim auditorium, but ilowea out tato the ves- try, and was representative of all creeds a,nd sections of the comniartito. 'The Feather did not weepy the pulpit, but stood on the platform of the altar steps jo Simple black, flowing rotes, Pei -have one of the greatest den- gers among- men and women to -day was the gambling instinct, he said, "Let it be clear that epeeulative trades of all kinds are forms of gambling, to be lodged by the wane rules as indulgence in bridge or rouge -et -noir. The gambling element in the trade grows more prominent aa the fluctuations in the values be- come more Ink', and eo in this wiey luirse. racing, cord playing and pitch and -tom hove it worse amme before the public than deelipgs in cotton futures, though the whole thing is a proress of gambling. "in spite of what onto Protestante aseert, 1 cannot deny the gambling in' stinet may be indulged under the same conditions as govern eirailer etinete. For instance, my Proteetant friend may have ti taste for the opera or the ammo, for collecting cage iv. Inge or curios, and we will suppose that his circumstances justify hut spending it fixel sum a. year 031 grati- fying hi e tastes; another has a fancy for betting ore the racecourse or in the card -rout, and who it the nean fielding the briefto convict him of An tor doink, so? 2i1ynon-Cat:101W friends," said° the preacher, "may telt me that playing for money is eeseto Caller wrong. If so, all men engaged in speolation on the Stole Exchange are .wrong. To nuke it clearer stile let me take the case of some 11021' Catholic householder Who pays a few Mailings for fire insurance and heir - perm the very next day to receive hundreds of pounds from the un- fortunate company. If playing tor money is wrong, the man W110 haelts his house to burn is wrong in taking the money. 1 should like the oarne andather\g}an. itdrdarnesslof that man," said t "Another pest that it beginning 10 lift, its head and do bad work, even in Ontario, is race suicide. It is a ques- tion of phenomenal importance, not only to the moraliet, but . even to the sanitarian. It is an outrage upon the taws of uature, and her laws may not be outraged with leapiniity. Over, eating; over -drinking, immoral living, lea.ve to pay their toll in the disease, wreckage and sbortening of life, and let me add elutt the young man. or the wife Nyhe adopts measures which re - spit in the prevention of the normal functions or the processes of repro- duction, are in no settee exempt from the .law 1 have cited. But let tie for . a moment consider the immoral cense- trances of this blight upon our Em- pire. If racial ouleide ontinuee to in- erease in that part of the map colored rah as it has been increasing during the last quarter of it century, the day is within memorable distance when our birth rate will fall below our death roll. I da not say that the only motive why men tkltd women indulge in it is that they may have more lei- sure and more money for self-indul- gence, but without the faintest breath, - tion, I proclaim that the small family is the result of inordinate craving for material pleasure. To put it in one word, man and wife toss defiance at God and condemn His law, because they mean to have a 'god time,' Hence, married couples limit the num- ber of chilaren in their nursery much as they reetilate the number of ser - vitas in their household, aecerding to whim, wealth or health. Let us not for- get that the family in, dotty to -day means a nation in decay to-neorrowe' leather Vaughan oncluded by exhorting his hearers to be loyal to God, loyal to country, and trn:te:themselves. oa KILLED FIREMAN A Freight and Passenger Trains Collide. New Yolk, Dee. 11. -:-An extra freight train on the lime York Central and a passenger train known as the Powling express were ilt collision this morning in the New Toile Central yards ot North White Plains, The freight loomotive and several freight ears left the track and rolled on their sides, killing the firemau on the freight told serionsly ine jariog Engineer Careon. None of the passenger ears left the track, hut ten of the passengers in the smoker, which was side-swiped by the freight locomotive, were bruised nod eut by flying glese. The aceident wits title to the fog. .0* 4, • REPUBLIC OR MONARCHY? Shanghai at, Dec. U. -General enienelfeng, the revolutionary commencier, hos tele. aranhod from Wu Chang to the repos. sentstive8 of the imperialist oarty, that the Rombliettne have decided to eelect Herlow as the mace Tor the ineeting ea the moue+ onforence, The lenneriat Government 1)1`41fQ$ISa coo- Menet* that it 11r:sited monarchy ttp,t be neeeptable to tnt revoletioniqtg. MAJORITY FOR OHU/1011 UNION. \Valetta Dee. 10. ---At the emerging sot,- tbo Presbyterial* courth here. the Pastor. Rev, W. 74. Lte. anaounced the result of the bellet taken en the etttostans Of Vlore* union melons, by tho conareiration. A total Of 140 roAm. biers vettet of whit% lti were in raver, rim only rtrteen rotainet. Rev. 'Mr. Lee ecotone -en the eixtieth year or Me paver - e14 ftl WAterloo, and elate:Ile iservicee were beet. Grand Raosow, pee. 10.-13y torompur throwing off hit tattered cOat and Jump- ing into the canal, Thomas Roche, who rays his bome Is in 'roronto, oat., and freLkly Admite that Ile is a remnant var. lety of "boho" saved the life or Andrew Brener, a Civil War veteran here, this artenwore Roche bare the ergo for bet u and raw two policemen and 41. score of citizens valrly trelnar to reaett the drovonno man with olanire and Milder*. Without it moment's her/notion Iloclie Pushed his wax through the Crowd. 441144 emeping down the *tot embankmeot, socn brought Brenner so shore. REGISTRAR DEAD John Anderson, Leading Arthur Kau, Passes Away. 1.•••••,••••••••••••10 Reid Position in North Wellington' for 40 Years. Arthur, Do. John Anderson, Registrar of Deeds for Wellingtoa North for the pita forty years, died at 1114 home here thlie morniug, after an illness of several weeks. RIB funeral, wirieli will be condueted by the afasonie Order, will take place on Tuesday afteraoon to the local cemetery. Ife is survived by Mrs. Anderson, who is it daughter of the late John Bull Bagwell, of Hamilton, and three daugh- ters, Mrs, (Dr.) 13. R. Breitenbecker, of Lennox, Mich., Miss Florence and Atte* Ethel at home. The deceased was born in, Toronto in 1838. 'When it boy his parents moven to Streetsville. There he entered the !percentile business. Header Mewed to Orangeville, where be was for mauy years a member of the Town 114ditiOn to holdiag mann other important offices. When in 1871 the couoty of Wellingtoa was tit/idea for registration purposes, he was ap- pointed registrar for Wellington North. This position he has since filed, and has proved a meet valuable official. Mr. Anderson was one of the best platform men in Western Ontario, and his ability as te public speaker was early reels -rais- ed, and his serviees in this connection were in great demand. Ile was In the early days of this section of the Pro- vinee a prominent adahate of the To- ronto, Grey & Bruce Rallwan, and &east- edcounintiesealXiPriegel,b°DutIlli9ittriinP,Iselmr'seyi,nWthele- lington and Bruce, He WAS vei in- fluential In the establislunent of the high sehool in Arthur, and was on it* trustee board until 'January of this year, being for ten years ite He was deeply Interested in educatioual matters generally, and was a prominent member of the trustee department of the educational association of Ontario for over eighteen years. In 1892 he was the president of that aseociatiou. Per- sonally, the late registrar was a .most agreeable gentleman, of generous heart, and his demise has occasioned profound regret throughout the riding of Wel- lington North, which he served faithful- ly and welnfor over forty year3. WAS COLORED GIRL But Passed in Society for a White Girl. MotherandDaughterFound • Together Suffocated. Philadelphia, Dee. 11. -The police ore to -day investigating the myeterious •ieektiteattatikeditheinnareeineencelown es Mary le. Hermon, 17 years of age, evho • was found in the bedroom of her apart- ment supposedly deaa from 5414 xie asphy- ation. Near her on the floor was' the unconscious form of the girl's negro maid, who le about 40. The strange feature of the cane ea that while the younger woinatt evageup- posed to be waits, and the maid a noels rate, the former really had negro blood and was the daughter of the wolnan who lived with her as her servant. Aecording to the police the women maintained this relation beeause of the ambition et the mother to contract an advantageous marriage for het off- spring, They say the dead girl was the daugliter of au edueated Englielo man who was at one tinie a member of the choir of it leading church in Bal- timore, and that the girl was; edacated in a high class seminary ht that eity, where she passed as u, white girl. The dead girl, who was a good tiusto cien and ottnative, WAS employed AO II /armlet in it moving picture plat*, but lost ber position Saturday. PERRY AGROUND Milwaukee, Wis., Dee. Pere Marquette ear ferry No. tO, which went on tha rocks eatly Sunday morning DOT gorth Paint, several nines from Mwitu- kee during a dense fog, 18Atilt aground. Renewed effete.% will be made awing the day to release her. Offitials of the Pere "Slerquette line say the ferry Is not tlanger, STRUCK BY BURGLAR. eCleveland, Ohio, Dee, skull fractured by a blow Item ainarekjaelc, administered by a burglar whal om se surprised in the act of rifling A tritult in her home, Miss *Mary Coyle, 21 years old, lies at the Troia of death hell to- day. After striking her, the burglar threw her down a, stairway. Ile then It.roraando:oottr.the taints, jumped over her body and made his eac.arke through the A TRUST CO. :Mama Dec. :t1.--hee eorne days past negotiatione Lave been under way with eastern eapitalists in relation to the establiehment of it branch of the Dominjoe Truitt Co.. Limitel., it Mont - And the monagnas director, Mr, W. R. Arnold, before leaving the eity for Vancouver annanneed that Sating& mente had been eoniellitot for cousaler- Able expansion of the tompartyrs °pent. tions. Time he Mont?. and Mute follows are hopeirss spersithrifts---with their time.