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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-02-12, Page 2GRAFT IN NE YORK. Fraudulent Tickets Used in Street Cleaning Department. Princeton University Graduate Un- earthed the Scheme. City Would Have Stood to Lose $50, 000 in Snow Removal. New York. Feb. -S:- As the result of an • inve.;tigetiun inaugorsfed by Wil- liam Ti. .Edtearcle, the Princeton Uni- versity graduate whu was recently appointed street cleaning commis- sioner of New York city, eight em- ployees of that department and the foreman of a private contractor were arraigned in court early to -day on charges of grand larceny by the use of fraudulent tickets. These tickets were issued to drivers of snow wago and attested to the removal of wagon load of snow frons the street AU the men arrested were held jail for a further hearing to -day. is estimated that the frauds won'. have cost the city $50,000 if the stre cleaning commissioner had not d tested them, but as none of the sno removal bills resulting from the la storm had been paid, it ' • believe the city has ,suffered no loss in 111'I instance at ]east. Among the nine leen under arree are David Jacobs, a foreman in th employe of Daly h, M1 Mean, snow re rnoval eontractore, and Jas. Cleary a foreman o the street cleaning de partment. Frederick A. Hoag, cleput street cleaning commissioner for th borough of Bronx. and Wei. F Charles Worth, a foreman of the de partmenf, were suspender) by Com missioner Edwards and subeoenaec to appear before the Greed Jury to day. All present enetrects for snow re moval have been abrogated. Commisioner Edwards said that :ti- ter the discovery of the frauds he sent an agent to Jacobs, the con- tractor's foreman, and purchasod $700 worth of tickets at PO per cont. of their -value when redeemed by the city. He said Jlicobs offered $10.000 worth of tickets at the same }-.Trice. Jacobs, when arrested• implicated the others and surrendered a cheque for 4371/0 drawn to his order by deputy Hoag. Hoag said he had been spec- ulating in legitimate snow tickets, taking 10 per cent. from the dr•iverI by redeeming their tickets more promptly than the eit.y. allegation that slte had been seen on the stair kissing Lord Northland by haying that she was hot a household lila id. She adniitted that she had perhaps been indisoreet and OD- but she averred that there had been absolutely no .improper relations between herself and ;Lord Northland. Mrs, Stirling said, among other things, that at the time of her wed - cling Mr. Stirling gave her $20,000, but at the end of 1907 her husband was in finaneini difficulties and she headed tern.tern.the elitire amount back. She now hcul nothing. This case throughout has been not- able, even among divorce cases, for its extreme outspokenness,. but the women. in the audience sat through it. in shite of the fset''that • Scottish lawyers work for much smaller re- muneration than their English col- leagues, the i tirling eases are cost- ing upwards of $2,000 a tiny in law- yers' fees alone. e.» SAVED THE CZAR. Was Government Spy . While Pass- ing as a Socialist Terrorist. nfl The Daum Interpolated About Aief s in and Lopuktn. It `l St. 1'etorsburg, Feb. S. -..}While the dis et closures made up to this time regardingt. ;A w the so-called provocative agenzef, st who was known as the head of the'fight- li Eng Russian Socialists, 'while fir c�lmalty,malty,he was a Government spy, ands' now • e e } SCARED HORSE te Fanner Sues Motor Owner For Heavy Damages For Wife's Death. Toronto despatch —An action in th Jury Assires of particular interest t farmers opened yesterday before Mr Justice Latchford, It is a scut fo $10,000 damages brought by Mr. W G. Shannon, a farmer of Cieorgina township, against Mr. A. 0. Hogg, a Lindsay grain merchant. arising ou of the death cf Mrs. Shannon, whu was killed while hlle d"iri ng a bas gy h 17dora on September le, 1907• The evidence showed that the horse had become frightened at the np- 1.s in 1' ' 1 td1 n Kaye been c' i u e i 'n s the fi matter of hie activity in organizing as- sasinations, to -day the other side of the. shield is being disclosed and it is shown that bio chief value to the govexnnrent was in pieventiag the carrying out of plots against the Emperor and Prem- ier Stolypie. In this lie was so successful that the CZAR CF• RUSSIA. e 1 Terrorists were unable to organize even 0 1 a satisfactory surveillance of the Em-•� w poor. f'uur so -c abed Plot: never got be- • ' yond this Rage. ✓ The local tines to-dnv it filled with , details of the interpellations in the t ' Douma ycsterdar in the case of both Azef and •Lepukin, former director of t police in the department- of the &finis- . try of' the Interior, who is charged with 1 high treason in connection with the Azef rerelatic.Ils, n'id is now a prisoner in St. I'otcrsbreg, • The Iloia, in an inspired article., de. - CALIF RNIA THE JA Wants, Pacific Coast to be a White Man's Country. The Outcry in *the East Against the State is a Sordid One. Do Not Want .caps to Own Property in California. San-. Francisco, Feb. S.—With two nations stirred to a fever pitch over the anti-Japanese measures of two States, the people of California are beginning to wake up and risk what it is all about. The outburst of the State Legislature MIS unexpected, but it has not caused a great deal of c.ouintent in this State, 'and with the -exception of the Asiatic Exclusion League, no one is engaging in the fight. But these facts are not gen- erally accepted as an indication that the people of the State are not genuinely intereeted in the Oriental race problem. The interest of the a.gr•iculturists is in- dicated by the bill to pri,hibit the own- ership of property, which was intro- duced by A. M. Drew, of Fresno, the centre of one of the largest orchard and vineyard districts of the State. The outer bills were introduced by Grove L. Johnson,. who hails • from the Sacramento t valley, where the Japanese are regarded with considerable hostility by people of all classes This feeltne bas poen inten- sified by the acquisition in late years by the Japanese of large tracts of orchard and garden hands. The•:eriticism of the eastern press en the anti-Japanese feeling in this State has aroused a storm of protest from the papers of California. The California papers generally complain that the real attitude of the people of this State is not understood cast. Most of these papers regard the exc•lusian of Orientals as both necessary and inevitable, and they express the fear that action of the State Legislature will retard rather thin advance this solution of the prob- lem. The Stn Francisco Chronicle tri -day complain,., that the 'feeling against Cali- fernla, ie taw east ie eat ]rely based on "two mean n.otives. both sordid: one is to keep .elicl with .Tapan, and thereby promot t"i e. sale of cotton goods and kezoaofe.; :•matter at what cast to the unfortur. I+eople of the Pacific coast. and theet r' is to force on Congress a heavier' opriation for the army and navy; • The .1r's t;; predicts that 11i exclusion of th r hese by dom,eetic law is the .op+T e , .. elution of the problem, and c"" + , ' •;l , ier his desire to keep s'>nraat's cottn-. tle:people of the eoirrttrt ti a - 1t'tcliforuia. In„the iiiearriinte Governor Gillett and Speaker Walter Stanton, of the Assem- bly, are siting on the lid which was ex- pected to, be littted. at Sacramento to- day Both .of these officiials ,say there ill be no anti-Japanese pleasures pass- ed, hizt .:the- friends of the bills are equally eertaitl that they will succeed in pakstng them. 1-10,14 puppy preach of Mr. Hogg's auto., a.nrl be fore the machine was stopped the animal upset the buggy. After ,ale upset Mrs, Shannon never recovered cionseloucness, Site was the mother of seven young children, Her niece, Harel Maynard, who who in the buggy at the time. eaid in her evidence that had the auto been stopped the acci- dent would not have happened, Mr. Hogg and a friend, :41r. Welsh, of Sunderland. who was with hint at the time, in their evidence admitted that they only slackened speed when lifts yards riff the buggy, but said that the accident was caused by the ocuptints of the buggy 'lulling the horse's head around. The animal was a quiet one and used to motor ears. - elat•ee that l.upltkin sh cold be tried in open court, 'flee govcrument has no de- sire to hide the facts, it says, and will welcoine a full invest igation, being de- termined t , prove to the world that an ex -official who hal betrayed secrets of Mate to t enemies+ of the country cannot escape lltmishment. SHE DENIES ALL. Sensational Scottish Divorce Case Starts on Third Week, Edinburgh, Feb. 8.—The Stirling di- vorce case to -day entered upon the third week of its hearing, with Mrs. Stirling still in the witness box, and nn several occasions she broke down as she unfolded the story of her mar- ried life, At one stage of to -clay's proceedings, the objectionable attitude n,: Douglas Stirling, her husband's brother, so ir- ritated her that she burst out into a heated denunciation. and at the eng- gestion of 'the presiding judge Doug- las Stirling left the room. She flatly denied that she had prom- ised tci give a confession to an at- torney for Mr. Stirling, who talked with her afictr' her return from Ainer- iea in August of last year. "There was nothing to confess," she declared, "and the word confes- sion woe never used." She characterized teeny of the as- . ertions of her husband 'r 1livters cis 'nillnincus lies, tan i she replie 1 to the RUSSIAN SH . Will Try to Convert Sixty Congrega- tions in Canada. St. Petersburg Fele R. --The head- quarters of Arehimanerit•e Michael, who has been appointed bishops of the Old Believers in Canada is to 'be in Win- nipeg. This appointment is due to the desire of the Orthodox Church to Con- vert sixty Russian congregations in Can- ada that have left nrtbndoxy and are to- day fallowing the Schismatic Bishop Sephrim. NOTED MAN COMING Makes Two Blades of Crass Grow Where None CrEw Before. ('lh(Wen+15, Wyo., Fell. S.--Socl'etary John T. Burns, of the Trans -Missouri dry fartning cmigrc-.s, has been noti lied by cable that Sir William.Mao- Donald. of Pretoria, one of the most noted agrestics in the world, has left London to• attend the m eting •of the emigres.; 111 Cheyenne -on Feb. 113 as a represetltnt.ire of the Transvaal, 1'or•many years ,Sir \Villiam llns'stud-- ied the problems of arid land farm- ing with a view to 1m:clueing in the Transvaal not nnty n lead food sup- pply but enough ecoid for export to teteand. He will •nodre s the de - n grecs on dry hireling in eolith Africa. Makes T'ip'From Toronto to Form- er``Owner in Woodstock. o Iz. IN'oodstock, ' Despatch — Some three weeks ago a year-old fax terrier, which first saw the light of day in Wood- stock city and had passed the joyous days of puppyhood under the owner- ship of Mr, Jno, Flynn, was taken to live in Toronto, 'The dog was given affectionate care and everything possible to render his _life happy was done, but apparently the larger city did not appeal to his interest, and he yearned ''^ acmes of former days. Sunday surprised o mor 'Mx. that the) dog han d come back to the old homestead. Just how the dog had navigated the many miles intervening between To- ronto and Woodstock is a mystery, but illustrates a peculiar form of annual. sagacity. The little fellow heel patiently work- ed his way westward under the'fm- ptulse of }iomeeickness until his King journey ivas completed. His rather emaciated condition Would, sugggest that he had not given very ranch attention to his "physical requirements an route. FORESTRY Will be the Topic Discussed at This Convention. The Canadian Forestry Association will meet, this year, in 'Toronto ou Thursday and Friday, February llth and 12tH, The meetings will be held in the Convocation Hall of 'the University of Toronto. The railways have, as In former years, granted a single -fate rate for the meeting. The -association decided to hold the meeting in Toronto on the invitation of the Board of Trade of that city. This fact of itself is iliteresting as tending to show that forestry has,..now 'come to be. recognized as ri business matter. The preservation and perptuatiort of Can- a.da's forests --tile ideal aimed at by the Association... -is indeed' jut] ed b the e'perienee of other eountres, the best business policy Canada cite pursue. The chief work of the ('anadian For - try .9seoeint]on has been to bring sed keep before the Canadian /inhale the donr of such a policy, to advocate the exploration of wild lands, w.th a vitw o.f• httr'ing the land unsuitable for agri- culture set aside Its permanent forted; land, and generally to disseminate knowledge on forestry topics. For the better carrying out of this last object the .Association maintaru,s the Canadian Forestry Journal, tt rungmine which all its members receive. The Association itas been in existeece for but nine years, having been founded In February. 1900, by Mr. E. Stewart, then $np,rint,endeet of Forestry for the Dominion. From the first it has been successful in attracting to its member.' ship many prominent lumbet'nmen, as well ati officials connected with the tim- ber administration of the Dominion and the several al provinces, well-known scien- tists and educators and others interest- ed in one or other of the litany aspects of forestry. The membership is now nearly 1,700, the past year haying seen an increase of nearly five hundred. The president of the aasoeiation for 1008.09 is Mr. W. B. Sacwball, of Chet - ham, N. B., prominent in the lumbering industry of that morins',. The secre- tary is Mr. A. H. 1), Ross, of the Faculty of Forestry, leniversify of Toronto, who will gladly furnish further information regarding the Avsoeiation and its meet - inns. FRANCE HITS U. S. Increase of Twenty Per Cent. in. Maximum Tariff. Paris, Z e b, — eIAnciicanC,ambei of Commerce in Paris is deeply concern- ed by the report of the Parliamentary committee which was appointed to pre- pare a plan for the revision of duties, as it is founcl that the new schedules proposed will be a great blow to Ameri- can exports to France. Under these schedules the maximum tariffs on Amer- ican products imported into France have been increased on an average of 20 per to cent., whereas the minimum rates un- der which the products of European h countries are imported are increased only 5 per cent. S] The report partieula:Iv affects Amer- t lean agricultural machinery, on which the maximum rate ]las been increased 15 per cent. As the United States sup- plies 00,000 of the 80,000 agricultural machines purchased by France every year, the burden of increase ort Ameri- can exporters will be heavy. Other maximum increases affect grain, wood, metals, cloth, furniture and musical in- struments. WERE' HAPPY A� .1 ' J e ALL Little Children Pay in Chamber of Death. Little Boy and Girl Not Interrupted: in 'Their Funs After Shooting His Wife Frederick , Voight Takes Own Life. New fork, Feb. 8.-.-ilaviug played all day about the dead bodies of their father and mother, Ferdinand Voight, three and a half years old, and his sis- ter, Freda, two, were surprised last night, when a policeman forced open the door to their home, in a tenelneat at leo. 300,e, Jefferson street, Williams- burg. Fredcriek Voight, thirty-five years old, a cic:ilet in wood, bad shot and kill- ed his wife, Freda, shirty -two years ofd, and then had killed himself with a bul- let fired into the brain, l'olicemau Asher discovered the dead bodies and the chil- dren exhausted atter their long play spell. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the shooting and although it is believed to have occurred at half - past seve,t o'clock yesterday morning, the discovery was not made until eight last night. Mrs. . 1S. I3 t Bertha .iletmevc • , who occupies an apartment on the +first floor of the builcung and across the hall frons the 1'oight apartment, beard the \ oights quarrelling at breakfast time. Her hus- band had just left for work. Frequent quarrels, she said, lead occurred between oight and his wife, and they were so vioterrt that she feared to go near their rooms. It was Voight's custom to leave hid home every morning at six o'clock to go a stable where he kept horses used in is business. After feeding them he re - to rned to his hone for his breakfast. lortly after he reached his home yes- erday Mrs. Detineyer heard screaming n the apartment. Site heard no shots, nit after half an hour everything was till. At various times throughout the ay, she told the police, she heard the hiidren shouting in their play and run- ing from one room to another. 'When her husband returned at night ho told him of the quarrel she had eard, and remarked that she had not eon any of the Voight family during ho day. Detmeyer became alarmed and tried o get into the rooms occupied by the oights. Tke dotitre were locked. ;,t Dn the street near the house he found, Po-, omen A.eiliex and the doors wore forced.. Within a fes incites oe'il , kitehea able Ashe hound the body + of Mr oight, with. a bullet wound in ler le3h mple. Voight was lying at 'the other nd of the room, a revolver clutched in s right hand. Dr. Fulda, who was call - from the German Hospital, said both ad been dead at least seven hours. When the police broke in the door oth children ran into a front room and d. Footprints on the floor showed that e children, had gone several times to e body of their mother. Mrs. Detmey- told the police that she heard one of e ehildren call to her mother to get axed. shortly after the quarrelling had No one in the neighborhood could tell e police anything regarding Voight his wile. They had lived in the house o weeks. On a postal card addressed Mrs. Voight the police found the ad - rens "No. 230 Suydam street," there was found the family had occupied partments for several months until last gust. They were forced to leave be - use tenants in the house complained the noise of their frequent quarrels. The children were given into the care the Society for the Prevention of ulty of Children. B RSD IN FISSURE. Calabrian Village Carried 250 Feet Underground. Rome, Feb. S. ---•Prince Sealea, wholtas just returned from Calabria, brings re- ports of some telluric phenomena which seem almost incredible. One of the vil- lages, be. says, was carried 250 feet un- derground by the opening of the earth and the subsequent landslide. Reports are coming in telling of ter- rible suffering in the mountain villages of Calabria, which have been inadequate- ly reached by the relief committees, and a small special relief party will be sent to those regions at once for the purpose of alleviating the distress as far as passible. Messina, Feb. 2 -- For the first time within 24 hours, sinee the day the earthquake overwhelmed the city, no shocks have been noticeable. •at,a TOOK LAUDANUM. Tragic Death of Arthur P. Ratz, of Ehnira, Ont. Toronto Despatch — Arthur p. Rats, bookkeeper for the Morang Education- al Company, was found in a dying condition yesterday in his room at 83 Howland avenue. The young Man was hurried to St, Michael's Hospit- al, but was dead when he got there. Drs. E. L. King and Killoran, who were called to the house, are of the opinion that death was due to laud- anum poisoning, and the friends of the young man think he took the poison by mistake. Deceased, who was twenty•two years old, was the only son of Mr. Daniel Ratz, of Elmira. Be was for five years with the Morang Educational Company. WIFE SEEKS ARREST. Young London Woman's Way of Escaping From Her Husband. London, Ont., despatch: 'qrs. Minnie Lancaster, aged twenty-three years, wife of Charles Lancaster, Ridout street, went to a police officer on Dundas street last night and begged to be ar- rested in order to get away from her husband. When the officer hesitated she threatened to break one of the large plateglasswindows windows nearby. At the Po- lice Court she told a talo of ill -usage and misery. The young wife, who has two little children. appeared glad to be remanded to jail for a week rather than return to her wretched ltntne, s d e n s ]t e t t it V to e hi ed b hi th th er all up ce th or tw to d it a A.0 ca of of Cr LOST IN A BLIZZARD, James Semple, of Fredericion, Drown- ed in Lake Spednik. St. John, N. B. Despatch—A. reporh which reached the city late to-nlghtt told of the undoubted drowning of Jas. Semple, of Fredericton in Spednik Lake, near Vancebor.:o, on the Maine border, He had started with a four -horse team to drive from Steen Brothers' lumber camp to Vaneeboro for supplies and was overtaken by Saturday night's blizzard. When there was no word of him ye,e- terday searching parties were organiz- ed, and on going a few miles up the lake they found the sled and one of the horses wandering about. They saw tracks indicating efforts to find a way to safety through the wild storm, Places were found where one er other of the horses had gone through th,e ice and where Semple had managed to get it out again, and, to -day, one of the horses was found drowned, and soon at. terwards, the two others were also found, both ,drowned. i raa A DOUBLE CAPITAL. Separate Administrative and Legis- lative Centres for South Africa. Cape Town, Feb. 8.—After prolonged debates, verging on the point of rupture, it is understood that the convention on federation has decided on Pretoria to be the administrative and Cape Town the. legislative centre. Neither plane is spelt, Tally designated tli•e'rapit'nl. This is itOt likely to 'be reeeived cordially in ,the CAN. The eanvcntinn is preetkeally fitt- iehed.