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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-01-22, Page 2JUMPE FOR MEI r" LIVES. Residence of Railway General Manager Burned Down. His Mother Perished in the Flames and Others Hurt. Wife and Daughter Injured—Cook's Flying Leap. temporary quarters a Oakland and elsewhere. The situation in Italy is in many respects much worse than. that which followed the California earthquake: Messina was the main shipping point for lemons to the U. S. and elsewhere, The U. S. imports 2,000,000 boxes of lemons from Italy annually, while California supplies 1,500,000 boxes so that more theta half of the normal supply has been temporarily out off. It is estimated that 200,000 boxes of lemons were destroyed in the Messina warehouses, but it is not believed fruit plantations outside of Messina hare been damaged greatly. Hundreds of fruit handlers and their employers are dead. Aew Ilaven, Conn., Jan. 18, --In a fire that destroyed the residence of Samuel Higgins, a'eneral mat lager of the New fork; Nev haven & Hartford Railroad, 'here early to -day, his mother, Mrs. klig• gins, lost her life; his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. E. Corbin, was probably fatally .hurt, and his -wife, daughter Isabel, his young son and Mr. Biggins hianself bare- ly escaped death in the flames by jump- ing from a second storey window. It was a result of this jump that Mr -s. Corkin was fatally hurt. Mrs. and Miss lliggini suffered brok- en legs, and Mr. 1 -Liggins was badly bruised. The young sun, Ilaarold, es- caped, without injury. A colored cook jumped from a. Third storey window, landing on the roof of the veranda. As quickly as possible the injured person:; were removed to a near- by residence, and medical aid summoned. The cause of the fire. it is stated, was an overheated furnace. When Mr. nig- hts etas awakened he rushed from hie room to that of his another, and pndeav oi,ter's arras:; both -f eiriu;lt• charred. Dred to rouse her by twurrding on the The house was n di -d& tenement. In the taro=t side lived the fat t,ie of %\ il- Ham linr•rintt. They got ,tat an safety, brat alarriett. who frac bat fele leg, hail nn time to put on his nrtif iiia i limb. stud iu ,•i,ifig dor r:staaire fell and este- BURNE k 'I TO DEATH. Two Little Children Lose Lives at Ottawa. Man Escaped, But door ell Was Buried. Their Leg Ottawa relent: 'Two youtg chis+teen of alr. and Mrs..i. C. Armstrong street, Ottawa, were hurried to death in a fire tvbirb ci<•Ftrosest the bad=e at 3 o'clock this morning. Tlae father was eieeping downstairs v, laett the fire broke out, and rue e',I. upstairs to save his wife. 1Ie. restateiode;l in r'+etting her oat, though bots were badly- burned about the bands and feet. Returning ler the two ehildre'n.:\1tnie. aged ii. seal Eliza- beth, ag't 3. he was, prevented by the flame-,- from ta'a lting the room there the children were slumbering in bed. Later thew- were found. dealt in each door, but owing to her deafness. he thinks she did not hear hint. Mr. Big- gins, groping through the smokes and flashes, rushed to each room arousing all tiro members of the family. lfe had ]Loped that his mother was up. Be triad tamed cane lt!Ittf'Sd'w, FIs tann.lru leg to .get back to her room, but the fire cat wee hrtrne:l, The temperature at the off his way. It was then that the rest titre w," to 1".1""*ern, ""'`,1 111." of the family gathered at n window .and c.raited w't•' fore, =l tau, t,• -a • •w jumped for their lives. When the firemen were able to gat in- to the room on the third floor, occupied by Mrs. Higgins, mother of Mr. Higgins.. there was only a small heap of eletrred bones. The loss is c'timtd at abaut ;+75Se10. Stone's Terra e, on which the resi- dence stood, is very high ground, end owing to poor water pressure the Terrible Disaster in West Virginia— rise from the firemen's hose did not Same of the Men Blown to Pieces rise much above the first storey. The residence of Benj. Campbell, a vice -pros- I —be Hope for Any Below. ideate, -of the New York, New Haven & 1 Hartford Railroad, also took fire, thea da stsjrointment to the flames being extingatiahed with Nome l Bluefield, 7\'. \'a., .leu. 1i • More: offdi difficulty, than a hundred. lives were snuffed out i `tel etr+a ,The Cabinet was day. ,iturtiediately. affair. Two of hlr. C'azttpbcll's sons, it is said, to da a teattF cis, 1 T atilt' aeeeited estate are ill with pneumonia. mines ctlrt Lick branch •nlhcry truss After the injured had been given nted news Etre t n:+= Jpt''t;•ti.ded and the new ice' attention at a neighbor's residence, i situation aceta + 1tes the settlement be - they were removed to a eanitaritue only in t he it nigh_ rubes_ MINE HORROR. OVER A HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN MINE EXPLOSION. SEPIA OT And Will• >tglit to the Death to Retain Bosnia. The New Settlement a Reverse For guspiaa Dipientacy. St 'J etitaburg, Jan. 1.8,—The settle- ment bet *eezustria-llungary acrd Tur- key of Vile Bosnian and Horzeegovinian question s considered here as a reverse for Russian .; diplomacy. • The press is irritated. T e :Foreign Office says that the ae 'd is purely' aprivate one, and cannot', 'regarded as altering the Bos- nia problem; whicb'is a European ques- tion, and ccstn only be arranged through the assent of all the powers. W.M1. FliV'.CIi:'IN SI+RTA. Belgrade, f3nvia, Jan. 1S.—•The 411- nourLeernetnt that the Turkish Govern- ment Baso it celled the Austro-Hungary M1ing and wished to obtain protection for the night, sought admission to the house, but was ordered to leave at once on pain of being shot. As he turned to go he heard groans from the direction of a wagon box, and going to investigate found the unfortunate woman lying there almost frozen to death. He picked her up and managed to reach his own home with her, but she was so terribly frozen that recovery is impos- sible. She has so far refused today a charge against her husband, and as a result he has not yet been arrested, but will be should she die or should he attempt to leave the country. The neighborhood is shocked by the brutal occurrence. i gas rs tiusion in the •sass , ...oilier). •, hare, it. wars in these =ante-r,'icw that fifty workmen were killed in n. sass er ,ei ,,a two weeks ago. t of tate early molting these caste a mighty runtb.ing in the bowels of the earth which reverber- ated along the miles of corridors and gee crowded with those who work there. -above the tons of earth c �pu .d. iween"'Turkey, airl,Austro-Iiungary yeas diserr,aased .leargthily, nearby. In the a C� liECdt!S9 WOES. foist 'she 2V1'iLirstri� for l'i'ar ordered an ad- ditional 1,200 'horses to be bought. The a r newspapers deel'are hotly that Austro- . atr passages - Hungary will bays to exterminate the liervian people.before being permitted File Adoption of United SLatCS Plans and stone that ate between the work- definitely to .pesetas I3osnia. lugs and 11'ee•covered. rnountLin9 IS Resented. giant trees quivered, and front the • mine ntuttth a cloud of *latae, soot Toronto de -;catch: The Ottawa chaptet and du"t :hot forte, fnllosc•d hr drbria of the Ontario Association of eirebiteects is complaining of the custom whereby United States arelait etc are obtaining TONG TRUCE FUNNY SPEECH. Hotel Man Laughs at Taft and Directors Gowns. New York's Waldorf Must be a Busy Plr.ce. heavy tint'JS:•l'b, broken none cat's, an ?ren a ma sive motor u -:'d to haul the Mysterious Warfare Among Chinese heavily laden cats frost the de ih�, on Pacific Coast.Scarcely had the detonation died away wen a during n h I rang of trrrorieed wo- work in Canada. .According to a report submitted at the annual convention of the Ontario Association, which opened yesteed:ty, a custom exists whereby United states arehiteet; obtain 50- cepta.noe of their plain through the medium of a Canadian associate. This is greatly depre<sated by the Ottawa chapter, and no doubt 'the matter will be fully disyassed in the course of tate eonventron. In his Presidential address Mr. H. B. Gordon said in his opinion some general building laws were needed in Ontario for the protection of the public as well as the profession, especially hav- ing regard for the ignoranee of the pub. Mt bodies responsible for the erection of buildings. Bad eonetruetion in re- gard to the erection of a big depart- mental store, he said, offered a field for a horrible horror, while the gen- eral loss front fire was in itself sufficient to eanse bard times, and the importationof foreign architects was an insult to Canadians. Mr. Gordon advocated the passing of laws to regulate the. height of build- ings, and ':uggeet.ed that a feeling of confidence would • be created in the public mind If the calling of expert evidence were vested in the courts. eiteg ITALIAN 8 R 6/ IT. The Market Badly Disorganized by the Earthquake. New York. Jan. 18.• --The thirtieth an- nual dinner of the Hotel Association, of .z,ew fork, at the Waldorf last night was a record break+r for attendance, over ti00 taking part in the banquet. Chairman George C. J3aldt, of the as- saciation, also proprietor of the Wal- dorf, presided. He showed by figures that nearly 19,000 persons, by actual count, entered the Waldorf during •1S hours in one day last April. Simeon Ford, proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel, wttu was tits huanorist of the evening, poked inn at everything, from President-elect ta.ft to 1)irertoire gowns. "The last time 1 mule my appearance ea art orator was about a year ago at men anti t'ltildren, in au:.iety ttttd San Francisco, ,Jan. 18.—Merchants in dread, rushed to 1btr mine mouth. ;inti the Chinese quarter who have Tong af- hu1dored these there to :allow tient to fiilations have their doors open to -day aid in the effort to sate ,ome of their for the first time in several weeks. The loved case. Hitt, Fineman Itotvets, who was near the entrance, wan blown from his feet, hut uutn:aged to crawl nut safely, as aid also Robert :+mith, a two warring orgaauzs•saons, the Sue Don and the Oa ] iek. have signed a truce, which is to hold until February 10, of tuner• twenty days after the Chinese New None of the bodies have been re- Tear. The war has paactiyxed business covered. One reecee part~• carne in and caused considerable -loss to the mer - sight of "ix bodies. bet was forced rhesus.• :They desire to take advantage haek. The fire iia aha• mine and the of tate holiday' a:ativity of trade. deadly gases, to say nothing of the awful The Tongs stipulate that they will force of the explosion,. preclude any not be responsible foe any individual chance of rescuing any of the teen alive, outbreaks by their members, but state Some of the men rant have been that they will not sanction any organ - blown to pieces and others hieiuer•ated. 'zeal warfare. Car. Earns which furnish the tress air for Several Chinese have lost their lives the workings, 55 in 'the farmer explo- during the war., which has raged in MOD, were not disabled, and are forcing every town en the 2aeific• coast where fresh air into the mins. the Tongs involved are represented. The It is supposed there were well over a origirt of the dispute has never been hundred ininers in the :vection of the brought ants mine to affected The debris from mo the o•"` -- !CARR 11.9PE FIEND Hypodermic. Syringe Wounds Found on Suicide's Body. Speaks of Browning's Influence Letter to Wife. Carthage, I11( despatch: The farewell letter written by Rev. J. H. Carmichael to his wife just before he cut his theoset in this city yesterday was made public here to -day. The letter is dated ea•rth • - age, Jan. 9, and is brief. It throws no new light on the mystery surrounding the murder by the minister of Gideon Browning and the later tragic suicide of Carmichael here. After stating that he had tired of be- ing chased and had written all the par- -iiculars of his crime to Sheriff Wagen- sell, Carmichael wrote: 'et shalt stem be in the hands of the State officials or the Judge of All. t wish I had told you or sante other friend of the influence this man was gainiftg over me, but I feared you would only laugh. I alone was the coward; it rob- bed rue of jucg hent. I thought 1 could get away and hide and then be helpful to you when the excitement was offer. Good -by to you and each of the children. Your luring husband., --J. Ii. Catmieh- a:el." On the back of the letter was written: 'This is my stare in the Axtelf pro - petty. I shall never need it. I eueibse herewith the suns of $185. "1 cannot tell why it all came aieout as it did. My money 1 had kept concealed on mr person while. Joe was at home, a banquet in Boston." began Mr. Ford, and 1 happened to have it with me I. at who is very hear and lean. "Mr. Wm. awful night, so I have plenty to use. You Ii. Taft also spoke. \\ a made a fine know 1 did not prepare to leave in swell cross -matched team, Ile weighed con - con iderably- more un the hoof thn.n I, but I made up- in grace what 1 lacked in grease. \a e both got on swimmingly, but I diad'cvercd that when it came to siiimrni*tg iMr. Taft drew more water than I did. owing possibly to the depth of his centreboard. Indeed, when the dinner was over I. was able, owing to my light draught. to sail into any hotel quite easily. while Pill could not get across the bar But T like big Bill. All hotelkeepers like big Bills. I voted for hint and I got my friends to do so, and we elected him." And to the Woman with the Direetolre gown habit, the speaker added: New 'York, .Ian. 1S. --The. importation Of fruits and other products from the earthquake -stricken districts of Italy has beat' badly d organized by the catastrophe, and as a result prices of the products of utily" and Calabria haus jnrnpe.d all the way from' '25 to 3,50 per cent. The situation is ab- normal but rotttrn to anormal basis sof trade is expected within three months, Exporters expect a repeti- tion of the conditions which followed the California earthquake in 10013, when prams jum rl sensationally for the first fr•w days following the rlisy taster, but tattled bac] a.ga,tr after business lrr: t been re-established i:) been of two weeks ago head not TURNEDHER OUT been clearc•1 away, and twenty )nen TURNED ' were engaged in this work. Nineteen contract miners with their crews were t k a new entry and it is feared CHARLES COLES' e "But our wives and daughters. Note how limited their wardrobes are this winter. They :make Salome look un- dreased and Mary Garden look like a union snit. See how they go shivering down the avenue reefed down to bare poles"' . "heretofore;' whet"tIttaalla.roine' found it necessary to flag a train, 'the saved hundreds of lives by waving her red petticoats. This) year travellers by rail will have to perish. But with all we faults, e love them still, and only hope we will have a mild winter, so they" will rot ail freeze to death A a SHOCKING a workin , > that all of these men were lost. CRUELTY TO H I S WIFE. The explosion was in a different part of the mine to that of two weeks ago. Thermometer Forty-two Degrees Be - Since that catastrophe the mine had been inspected by Government officials low Zero, nctd the Woman Had and by the most experienced mind man Only a` Night Dress on—Found in the region, anal all, it is said. express- and Taken Home by Neighbor. ed the opinion that it wa•s safe. FEET FROZEN. AFTER MANY DAYS, Several Thousand Soldiers Helping in Rescues at Messina. Crecaltnan, Sask., Jan. 18: --investi- gation, of the reported murder of a woman near here by the police reveals a harrowing story of a husband's Runaway Quebec Boy Found at brutality, which .may result in send. Detroit in Bad. Shape.ing him to the gallows. The man's name is Charles' Coles, a homesteader, I)t•trnit, filth., dt•.tpatih: Ronteo dote, . fiveUni. mike south, who eam.e from the aged 10 y+ear:, was Penna in a boa cat' andhieSta�nesquarrelled severalntonths hsnalp, and o. sie at Milwaukee Junction yesterday with le both feet frozen, and was brought to the it is alleged he treated her most Central t<tation. Ile told the police he brutally. But .bis brutality reached rasa away from his horse In St. Heart, the Iimit ra.. ":ew night age when ho Que.,f' weeks tam since which time threw her -scut itt tho cold, when the stn arc „r . thermometer registered forty -tyro be - 1 1 1 l a (ling tam, a hurry. "If I" had not been crazed with fear f would have let Browning know of the deed that night before it went so far, but I was in a state of terror." The story of the disappearance &albite money Itas led the officials of this county on a mysterious hunt. A note wasp found its his vest taocket reading: "Please send the money attached to my night dress to my wife, to whom z letter lying here is addressed." CARMICHAEL BLAZED. Adair, Mies-, despatch: Sitting in the same little country church in which Gid- eon Browning was anurdered aweek ago to -night, a. coroner's jury to -day brought in a. formal verdict, finding that the Mur- der was comrnitted by the Rev. Jahn'i1. Carmichael, and that he burned the body he the church stove. T,it}de that was new developed in the testimony of tiao'wit- -noses at tthe inquest, le. _AFTER INSURANCE, SAS DEPUTY'. ' Burlington, IIL, Jan. x... When Us body of John H. Carmichael, of Adige-, Mich., confessed slayer of Gideon Browning, whom he slew and erent tted in Rattle Run Methodist Churah neat Adair, Miele, passed through Burlington to -night on the way to Port Huron, Mich.., from Carthage, Ili., 'where the preacher committed suicide yeetcsday, Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Port Huron, gave it as his opinion that Carmichael was entirely prompted to murderlof Browning by mercenary motives, bud that the purpose in she murder of Browning was to give 'rhe impregelon that he himself was the victim, so that his wife might receive the insurance money. Carmichael then planned, the deputy said, in some way, to get the money from hie wife. Roane, •Tan. l8. -The fact that living persons still are being rescued from the ruins of Messina and Reggio has de- cided the authorities to continue the ex- cavations of the wreckage, and several thousand soldiers are to -day employed in this work who otherwise would be de- tailed to help in the distribution of the necessities of life for the survivors. The escapes after fourteen days of burial seem miraculous. In most cases these now being brought out alive were imprisoned in rooms and cellars not completely de- molished and their situation was such that they could get a hold of some lit- tle nourishment. nay westward, g u+ has r cn • e low zero,g 1 be - The boy 4n;ft'recl metal pain, and wassinal With ,notion to arotoct scarcely able to walk. 4Ie was s.1nt to her trim the storm but a thirt cotton night dress. ing, thinking the ldeen des6e for thorn , A neighbor, Who happened to be Daae- would pass away. ♦es. BUDGET DEFICIT e Gloomy Statement Regarding the Finances of Prussia. Berlin, Jan. 18. --Baron Von Rhein- baben; the Prussian Minister of Finance , in introducing the Prussian budget into the Diet to -day, said that the business situation in Germany had latterly grown worse. Agriculture, on the other hand, hats been doing well, although the early cold in the autumn would prob- ably affect the grain crops adversely. The deficit in the budget this year would he $44,000,000, even after allow- ing for an increase in revenue of $18,- 750,000 through new taxation. The budget shows an increase in expcnd a - Lure over 1008 of $115,750,000. QUITS CIGARETTES, DIES. Detectives who mule careful examina- tion of the body discovered, it is said, on one of the lege, e. number of hypodermic syringe wounds. They latter found the syringe with which they were made. This suggested to some that Carmichael was a victim of drugs. In the dea& roan's pockets was disoov ered the watch of Browning. It was aloe ascertained that the pocket-knife with which Carmichael committed suicide :was the property of Browning. TMs knife was easily identified beeanse it was one of the scenic handfed variety, eontainiug pictures under transparent eellulold sides. A GENERAL STAFF. British War Office Is Likely to Ism Regulutifns. London, Jan. 18.—Sar Frederick Barr , den will sail on Friday for -Canada. 11 is understood that the discussions be tween Sir Frederiek, Gen. Hoed and Met iiaidarse will result almost immediately in written regulations for the eonstfv tution of a general staff of the empire for submission to the* over -set goverse meets. New Year's •Resolutions Proves Fatal to inveterate Smoker. TTnmelton; Ind., despatch; liklavard Lane,twenty years old, died here as the esult of keeping a New Year's resolution in which he gave up the use of eigarettes. He was addicted to exces- sive smoking 'and wits urged to stop them with the 'stew Year., 50. accustomed had .the young roan bocorne to their txse, the denial of them nffeoted itis nervous stystenr seriously. But he determined to do without smok- St, .To eph'; ITon.' for bays. and lin peo- ple will t "'ait'at d !sA TREATY SIGNED. Mr. Gibbons Receives Cwigratala. tious Froin Hon. Mr. Bryce. Txtndon Ont., diespateh: G. C. Gibbon* K. C., Chairman of the Internationxtl Waterways Commission, who has raeeait- ly returned from Washington, sand who has been, for upwarda of a year, engaged in negotiations with The Secretary el. State with regard to a great treaty which not only settles all existing dis' peters but creates a board to deal with such 55 may hereafter arise, hes received a telegram from Mr, Bryce announcing that the treaty has been signed, with hearty congratulations on the result..