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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-07-27, Page 2DA. Y APPRECI- rATION, ch Explains How His. Various State and Per - ons, Cannot Come to the n, for the Present, . at Least. July 23.—Lord Grey received the following despatch from. Lord n, dated Downing street, July 7: "My Lord,—As requested in your Lordship's despatch of May 25th, I have submitted to His Majesty the joint ad- dress to the King from the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, express- ing their loyalty and devotion to His Ma- jesty and praying that His Majesty and Her Majesty the Queen. will be graeioesly ppleased' to visit the Dominion. His Majesty has been pleased to receive the address very graciously. I need scarce- ly -remind your Lordship of two circum- stances which must not be overlooked in the consideration of these proposals. In the first place, the current business of the empire, which is continuous and in- cessant, imposes a heavy tax on the time and strength of its Sovereign,and it is well known that the absence of His Ma- jesty from the country for any length of time is difficult, if not impossible, except under very definite limitations and re- strictions, even when considerations of health and the need for comparative rest render it expedient. In the second place, it must be remembered that there are practically no limits within the habitable globe to the ;distances which must be travelled to reach all parts of the British Empire, and that it would be difficult for the King to visit one im- portant part of his dominions and de- cline o visit asother. It was, no doubt, these two facts which influenced her late Majesty Queen Victoria, with wise foresight, to determine that her eldest son should in his youth visit the vari- ous colonies and possessions of the em- pire of which he was one day to become the ruler, and accordingly His Majesty while Prince of Wales paid the visit to Canada to which reference is made in this address. Fallowing the same counsels, the present Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal family haver been untiring in visiting even the. most distant parts of the empire and have aAvays been received as represen- tatives of His Majesty with the utmost tenderness and loyalty. I am •command- ed by His Majesty to make mention of these considerations because he would lash his loyal subjects in Canada, and especially the Senate and House of Com mors, to understand that he is deeply touched and gratified by the terms of 'their 'addresses and by the desire ex- pressed that - with. Her Majesty, the Queen he.should again visit the Domin- iion. His Majesty retains a vivid re- collection, even after the lapse of many years, of his former visit, of the beau- ties and interest of the country, and of 'the enthusiasm and loyalty which every - were greeted him. He is well aware that it would be difficult to recognize the features of Canada he then learned to know in the great Dominion, whose rapid growth in all that contributes to the development and prosperity of a na- tion has been so astonishing, and no great triumph could be offered to the head of any empire than to be himself the witness of a. progress so remarkable. In spite, howeeer, of the many and strong inducements which prompt him to gratify the loyal wishes of his Canadian subjects, I am to say that the Xing feels unable at present to entertain the ides. of a journey to Canada. Whe- ter the difficulties suggested in an early portion of this despatch, and others which I need not particularize, could be overcome, it is premature to discuss now. But His Majesty desires that your Lord- ship should make it known to all that he is prevented by the necessities of his position and .not by any lack of oppre- eiation of the loyalty and devotion of the people of Canada to his throne and person. I have, etc. (Signed) Elgin." into the, wall, and when picked up aPRAYED RAIN. . few seconds later by Chief Gonest was nneonseious. The Chief brought him too and' removed him to the fail. Parisien explained to the. police -that 1 GOOD he was insured in. St. Joseph's So- ciety for $1,000, but that he did not want his "widow" to get any of it, hence his idea that the body 'would not be found. It is a rule in the so- ciety that to prove death the remains must' be produced as evidence of ac- tual decease. DEADLOOK IN COUNCIL STRATFORD BOARD OF WORKS ON STRIKE. GO Ald. Gordon Makes Some References to a Crooked Transaction and the Board Refuse to Attend Council Meetings Till He Apologizes. A Stratford despatch: Stratford. City Council stands adjourned till July 19 as the result of Ald. Gordon refusing to apologize to the Board of Works for accusing them of putting through. ''crooked transactions." At the last Council meeting the Board left the hall in. a body, leaving no quorum: 'llhe causes leading to the trouble were that the board advertised for tenders for a supply of castings and reoeived two tenders, one for $2.95 per hundred and the other for three cents a pound. The latter was eaoepetd, but the board con- tend there were certain conditions which made the latter tender more ac- oeptable. When the Council suet last night Mr. Gordon was asked by •Chairman 11lallion, of the board, to apologize, but this: ear'. Gordon declined to do, making, how- even, ow-even, a statement to the effect that his remark expressed his opinion regarding the transaction. Members of the board refuse to feet unless Mr. Gordon apologizes, and in the meantime important business ed the city is held RESCUER DROWNED. Boys' Brigade Officer Sank With a Boy He Tried to Save. Chautauqua, N. Y., July 23. --Frederick Wlrysall, fourteens years old, and Edward McGerew, twenty-rtwo years old, private and commissary sergeant respectively of Company H, 8th. Regiment, Boys' Bri- gade, of Pittsburg, Pa., were cbrowned it Chautauqua Lake at Maple Springs this afternoon, General asaeembly for swimming had been sounded; and the bays dashed into the water. McGrew was an expert swimmer, but Whysail eeonld, not, swim a stroke. Wdiysii.11 got beyond his depth. Responding to his cries dor help, Mc- Grew swam out and grasped; the dad, ?who, becoming panic-stricken, locked his aeries wound his would -he rumor, and hot i sank. up. OFFICES OF STE. ANNE OF VARENNES. Pare rishioners Bold a Procession Carrying Her Image, and Copious Showers Reward Their Faith. ..Montreal, July 23. -According to the abiding faith of French-Canadians ' who live in rural parishes of the Province of Quebec the virtues of Ste. Anne as a giver of gothings has once more been strikingly ionstrated. News of this last evidence of her beneficence comes from V'arennes, where yesterday a reli- gious procession was organized in the hope of inducing rain to fall after a drouth lasting five weeks. In the. church of this parish theer is a picture of Ste. Anne that is popularly suppose topossess miraculous powers. This i seas taken from, the walls yeste end men, women and chile.rea marc pier it throughout the parish, chant .tpraying for rain. To ' eye:ung clouds began to ob- scure kse and io the great gratifi- catio e whole community, there was nshdng shower. To e tl' eireumstance all the more cons=in it le recorded that in the neighbo !p parish of Boucherville, where no procession was held, rain failed to ap- pear. NEW BRITISH PORTFOLIO. Minister for Wales Has Been Created— Balfour Scores Proposal. London, July 23.—The Government London, July 23.—The Government sprang a surprise on the House of Commons to -day by proposing, -with- out giving warning, the creation of a Minister for Wales. In the course of the debate . on the Education Bill, Mr. Lloyd -George, president of the Board of Trade, announced that the Govern- ment accepted the principle of an Op- persitionramendment aims' toe give Parliament more control"df- the pro- posed Welsh Education Council, pro- vided a Minister and a separate de- partment be established. Ex: Prince Minister Balfour angrily denounced the casual way the an- nouncement of a great constitutional change was launched in the House, He declared that such an announce- ment had never been heard in .the whole history of Parliament, adding:— "The way this thing has been thrown 'at our heads without notice and without excuse is a deliberate in- sult to. the House, such an insult as nobody in my recollection has ever dared offer before." A long wrangle followed, which end- ed in the adoption of the Government's proposal by a vote of 279 to 50. LANCASTER BANK ROBBERY. Police Say Dead. Burglar Was Pete Weir, of Oshawa. Toronto, July 23.—After two years the man killed by a bank clerk at Lancaster while burglars were engaged in a ,mid- night amid on .the vault has been identi- fied, the police sty, as' "Pete" Weir, for- merly of a small hamlet near Oshawa. His pals, after the shooting, dragged the body to the railway station and, remov- ing every trade of identification, made their esoape and uveae never recaptured, Some of the gang co -witted here of 'the Toronto Canpet works ssafeeblowing wene engaged in the robbery with the man shot. FixNTED TO BAULK "WIDOW.w Ottbra" Laborer Attempted to Jump Into the River. Ottawa, July 23.—Godfrey Parisien, to laborer in Booth's mill, last night attempted to leap from the suspension bridge near Bridge street. fomestie trouble is said to be the cause of his action. Parisien was seized by a com- panion, blfere& Mantilla, handed arcus to the pollee .and lodged in the cells. 3'r.. Recorder Goj+eitte remanded him Until the 25th inst. After being in the police statiolt for five minutes last hieht lie deliberately jumped headfirst HEIR TO SPANISH THRONE. FIVE MEN DROWNED. THEIR ROWBOAT DASHED AGAINST A ROCK. WANTED Disappointed Inventor Has to be Knocked Senseless With an Oar to .be Saved. New York, July 23: Despondent over the fact that he had worked four years on an invention onl yto find that another mean had patented the same thing, John Klobink, a mechanical engineer, of No. 445 East 110th street, attempted to eon - mit suicide by jumping into the Harlem River from the Willis avenue bridge yes- terday afternoon. He fought off his res- cuers for ten minutes, but was finally taken to the Lincoln Hospital. For four years Klobink has been work- ing on a new style draw bridge. He per- fected his invention acme time ago only to learn yesterday that it had been pat- ented. before. He was walking with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mark Klubink, of No. 470 East 110th street, on the Wills ave- nue bridge, when he said he cared to live no longer. Springing to the railway he fought off the woman who attempted to prevent the act, and plunged into the river. Hugh E. Sheridan and .Joseph Alidena set out in a boat to save the man. Diving into the water, Klobink attempted to elude them. A man inanother boat finally leaned over and stunned him with an oar, afted he had attempted to upset the boat. He was then carried ashore and taken to the hos- pital. TO DROWN.I SHOULD RATES DE RAISED? Two Men Attempt to Cross the Spina machee River in a Rowboat—Swift Current Whirls Their Light Craft to Destruction. A 'Vancouver despatch: A terrible drowning accident occurred on S'piil- limachee Raver, forty miles from Golden, Iast ;right, when five men out of a boat load of tee, were drowned. The Rooky Mountain stream is very 'high at this time of the year, but the men, who were all working in a lumber camp, were se- eure in their opinion that they could safely navigate it in order to get hack eo their camp far supper. They might have tried a better crossing higher up. Their confidence resulted in the death of five. The mountain stream was flowing swiftly, and. when in. the middle the ooinbined atrength of the rowers proved inadequate see prevent the boat ebeing da&hed, agile t a big rock. The craft was completely wrecked. Five of the men, being strong swimmers, managed to ew'isn ashore, but the outer five.were drgwned. The names were: James Tomlinson, foreman of the C. E. Lumber .Gonirpany; E. Sanstrom, A. Kinmore, Stephen Norris, and another logger sup- posed: to be a foreigner. *1e TRAY OF DIAMONDS. It Was Stolen From Jewelry Store in Utica. Utica, 'N. Y., July 23.—The young men were ibis afternoon examining jew- elry in •leineberg's store in Genesee street. Soon they 'teem joined by a third anan. and, after discussing pur- chases for some time, they left the store. Later it was discovered that a tray of diamond rings in, the case be- fore which they stood was anessing. There were twenty-four rings in the easo, some of them carrying two -karat diamonds. The total value of the dia- monds is placed a.t $2,500. Two men were arrested there to.nighb in cionneetion :with the robbery. 'Meg gave their name as James Raymond and Albert Young. Stock Expected to Visit Queen; Victoria. London, July 23:—The Madrid corre- spondent of the Telegraph claimes, on the authority of a high personage, that Queen Victoria is enciente. King Al- fonso is ,highly delighted. The news is not yet known in Spain, where ib . will cause general rejoicing. King Alfonso and Princess Eno, of Battonberg, now Queen Victoria, were married in May. . .4.d POLAR EXPEDITION, Wellman's Outfit Has Reached Dane's Island, Spitzbergen. Digermulen, Lofoden Islands, Norway, July 23.—Tho steamer Frifhjof, having on board. the Wellman Chicago Record - Herald Arctic expedition, reached Dane's 'Island, Spitzheigen, .July 0, and found the shore of Virgo Bay already dotted with structures, ineluding machine shops ready for work and the material in readiness to begin the construction of the giant 'balloon -house. All the twenty-four members of the expedition are well. Mr. Wellman hopes to establish, wireless communication with 1 animerfest before the end of July. CIRCUS STRUCK� BY BISTORM. AUDIENCE IN PANIC AT PAWNEE BILL'S WILD WEST. Four Hundred. Horses Stampeded and Broke Away—Pawnee Bill Hurt While. Preventing Injury to Others. New York, July 23.—Three Thousand persons who attended Pawnee Bile's Wild West Show in Bayonne, N. J., to -day, were thrown into a ,panic when the tents were strut& by a severe wind and rain storm. The main tent sagged, and Pawnee Bill was injured in trying to save others from ,being hurt. The horse tent was blown down and 40 horses stampeded. Although ,the main tent did not col- lapse, it gave way in two places, and at one end it sagged and chopped so low as to knoek several women off their seats. Merry women. fainted, and if It thad not been for the prompt action of Major Lillie (Pawnee Bill) and tlee at- tendants and police there might have been a serious disaster. Major Lillie and one wvoman were the only persons injured. One, of the sup- porting poles in the main tent fell' for- ward, and as it did so Major Lillie made an effort to keep it from striking anyone. The heavy pole struck the Major on the right shoulder, .dislocating it, and also grazed the head of Mrs. John T. Lambert, of Bayonne, Mrs. Lambert sustained a. scalp wound, but it is not of a serious character. A great many of the horses were caught under the heavy folds of cla- vas, but they kicked their 'way to lmee- dreetom,ionsan.d (ran into the street in, all di- Pensons living in the vicinity were treated to an exhibition of lassoing by cowboys attached to bhe shone, as they rode through the streets in pursuit et the runaways'. After much skillful work by the cowboys., all of tae horses were finally rounded up and taken back to the show grounds', where . they wean picketed for the night. The storm, which wrrecleed, the tents, struck New York and vicinity art 2.30 p. m, It was so dark that even the tall est skyscrapers had to turn on the electric lights. For a short time the rain fell in torrents. . Several flagpoles were struck by lightning. A HARD DEATH. EXAMPLE TO EGYPTIANS. Authors of Outrage on British Soldier to be Tried. Alexandria, July 23. --It has been officeialiy 'decided that the authors of the recent outrage against a British soldier 'shall be tried July 2S, as the victim will then be snrefieiently re- covered to give evidence. The appli- cation of article 277 of the motive Penal Code will be demanded, specify- ing imprisonment at hard labor for life. o• m SMALLPDX EPIDEMIC. Esterhazy, Saslc,, Appears to Have Neg- lected Proper Regulations, 'Winnipeg, July 23.—Fifteen cases of smallpox have developed at Esterhazy, Sask., and the seriousness of the out- break is believed to be largely due to lax enforcement of quarantine by the officials. Six of the•patients are mem- bers of the hotelkeeper's family. There is some talk of quarantining the en- tire village. RUSSIA'S CROPS. St. Petersburg, July 23. The Govern- ment crop reports shows a continued de- terioration in the V,olga provinces and that the partial or total failure of the crops has extended in the Tamboff, Sara- toff, Penta and beihni Novogrod dis- tricts, dna in some of the districts of the Don where the rains carie too late to save the crops. An abundant ;yield, however, is assured in the west and the southwestern provinces, although con- siderable isolated daniage has been done by hailsternis, RESERVE OF C. M. B. A, NOT UP TO ACTUARY'S FIGURES. To Meet a Deficiency Tea, Thousand Dol- lars Were Borrowed From Fund—An: Investigation of the Affairs of the. Catholic Mutual Benefit.;,,aociety bee the Insurance Commission. A Toronto despatch: Some interesting matters were brought out regarding the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of Canada, whose headquarters are ill King Ston, at yesterday's session of the Com- mission: The witnesses were: Mr. Michael F. Hackett, Grand President of the society, and Mr. John J. Behan, Sec- retary. Hon..k'. lt. Latchford, K. C., solicitor for the society, was present. It was shown that the reserve fund at present was $208,000, and the tonal amount on hand was about $200,000. This money was on deposit in five bank*, at 3 per cent. The society had not yet seen what was regarded as a good, 4aie investment that would be preferable to the batiks. The society had had a re- port from Mr. A. Landis, a Kentucky actuary, to the effect that an organiza- tion which had about $20,000,000 insur- ance, as the C. M. B. A. had, should have an actual reserve of $0,217,24S. This was at the end of 1903, when the C. M. B. A. insurance reserve was $118,000. The commission, having finished with the C. M. B. A.. adjourned, to meet in Winnipeg next Tuesday morning, when the Great West Life Insurance Com- pany's affairs will be discussed. The Woodmen of the World, London, were not ready to be investigated this week. The Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa- tion of Canada was originally a part of the order in the United States, but in 1802 it was incorporated as a Canadian institution. Mr. Michael F. Hackett, Grand Preident and head of the society, said the idea of separating from the Am- erican body was that any Canadian w1.o had honestly paid his money into tee order would not have to go out of the Dominion to get his benefits. Besides the insurance branch, the order had a sick benefit fund and an associate meiu- bershp for fraternal privileges. The as- sociation had both Ontario and Domin- ion incorporation. The reserve fund to date totalled. $208,000, which sum was deposited in five banks. The benefici- ary was the chief fund. The assessments were limited to 24 a year, but, instead of making 20 assessments, as the soci- ety had formerly done, twelve monthly assessments were levied, in such way as to bring the same amount of money. There had never been any objection to the Canadian society's increasing the rates charged to members.. In the Am- erican order there had been trouble, but the oredr had been upheld in this. Mr. Hackett thought the society had a per- fect right to assess the members up to. the 24th assessment. The assessments were graded in groups of ages, and since incorporation had averaged eighteen yearly assessments. A Young Man Buried Under Tons of Coal. Buffalo despatch: John Harno was suf- focated under several tons of coal at the Lackawanna Steel Plant yesterday. Bar- na was a laborer and lived in West Sene- ca. He was 29 years old. At 4 oclock yesterday morning the hopper which con- veys coal from the coal pocket to the ovens became clogged and Harno and an- other man, with life lies attached to their belts and carryingpieks, were lowered to loosen the coal. In some manner Harno's line became unfastened from his belt and when the coal loosened there was no pos- sible chance for escape. The other man was saved. It was some time before the body was recovered. "YELLOW DOG" FUNDS. Richard McCurdy Called Upon to Account for Two Millions. New York, July 22.• --Richard A. Mc- Curdy, former Presic emt of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., :vas served to -clay, through lids counsel, Delancey Ndeoil, with rparpers in a shit tivliic:h calls on 'him to account for about $2,000,000 of the policyholders' money dielbtresed: thnowgh "yellow dog" funds during his reesiene. This is the second suit brought by the company individually against .its former President, andthe fifth against him, his son Robert, and his son-in-law, Lewis A, Thelaarud. In announcing the new suit, the Pea- body administration ;said: "The com- plaint was . today served in the second. action brought against Mr, McCurdy under the advice of Mr. Joseph Choate." Mr. W. N. Tilley, counsel for the Do- minion in the investigation, intimated that the rates should be increased, or matters with regard to the old mem- bers rearranged, in order to make the society perfectly solvent. He expresed: surprise that no agitation had been start- ed in the society to this end, but Mr- Hackett said the majority of members• were decidedly opposed to doing such things. He thought it right that mem- bers coming in now should pay extra to clear the liability of the older mem- bers. "If the rates are not right now they- should heyshould be made right," said Mr. Til- ley. Ti- le Mr. Hackett would not admit that the, rates were not right. He agreed that it might be a good thing for the Gov- ernment to fix a minimum rate to be- • charged on insurance. The President,. who confessed himself not a young mem- ber, said the new members, if charged higher rates, should be in a separate, class from the old members. He assent- ed to the proposition that a fund for old members should be created. Mr. John J. Behan, Secretary of the• society, whose salary of $2,000 a year was paid out of the overdrawn general fund, agreed with Mr.' Tilley that the time had come when the ynciety most seriously consider the question of the' reserve fund. Be thought the rates had been ample in the past, and the pre - scut position of the society safe, but a readjustment of the rates was neces- sary. Instead of assessing in groups o£" ages the assessments should be fuzed from year to year. Mr. Beban regarded Actuary Landiee' estimated reserve as very excessive 054 not applicable to a fraternal society like• the C. M. B. A. 'the society's mem- hership was 19,750 in 1945, Last year $5,332 was spent in getting new busi- ness. SLASHED ARM WIT'ti eeiAZOR. Thomas Rooney, Despo Ended His' Life, A 'Pronto despatch: b3f work, hie, wife in Grace Ho;+pibel', eneu'teree.;out oe his apartments at 108 liThim street, Thomas Rooney, a laborer, ended his. exietenoe yes,.ter da afternoon bysever- ing an, artery in his arm, airs. Nellie Game, the 'oeeupant of the place, return. ed home about 0 o'elocic and found 11.60 - They dead in lois bed. Ile load slashed. his aria with a razor which 10.y hos]& him. Rooney until two weeks ago Was, in the employ of a ooiitractor named Legtoty. After bit discharge by hiss em- ployer the had some words ;retie nee were, who was about to be removed to the hospital, Deceased was .02 years o'4.. Coroner 'Greig decided that an inquest was unnecessary.