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The Herald, 1906-08-31, Page 6O' MR. SNIDER GOT CAUGHT 'tZCQND TORONTO VICTIM OF N. Y. ' LOVE SYNDICATE, Canadian Gives "Lone Widow" Engage- ment Ring, But After That She Was. "Out"—Trouble With Nova Scotia ' Brothers, New York, Aug. 27.—Revelations re- garding the 'winsome "widows" at No, 323 West 82nd street. made yesterday to Assistant District Attorney Car- mody, indicated that the fair Mrs. Ver- rault and her companion, Mrs. Izella Brown, had euchred New York mer- chants out of goods aggregating $ 000 in value. was disnlistael in special sessions. On Sept, 19th Joseph A. Mason was arrested on complaint, of Miss ,Lillian B* .Brown, charged with creating a. disturbance and refusing tti leave the .house when asked to do so. He was fined $5. Fol- lowing that; bitter taste of their sister's hospitality, the two brothers,; lgft. for home. m�e THE DOCTORS NEWS IN BRIEF CANADIAN Frank Brown, a painter, died while sit - OPENING OF THE CONVENTION IN•, ting in a chair at a Toronto hotel - TORONTO YESTERDAY. President Reeve's Address—Believes What. People Eat Too Much -something .About Infants' Food.. • Toronto despatch: 'rhe inauguralceremony The Canadian Government's icebreak- er, Lady Grey, was launched on Tues- day at Barrow -in -.Furness. The Ontario Government's August re- port shows' good crops of fall wheat, oats; iballey and peas. The Observatory •officials predict a 100,. of the 74th annual meeting of the British • break in the :warm weather, ,a aoo1 r medical Association yesterday in the' new wave• Having alreedy struck northern On - Convocation Hail of the. University of `To- tario, ained ionto was a brilliant function. The inattg- pay- ural address of the new ,president was 'a nder scholarly review of the progress of medeine good and surgery for the past decade, of the ad- lvere the usly fix The goods, it is said, wore obta the instalment plan, a small ment being made on delivery u contract that the, balance be made M monthly instalments. These never paid, it is charged, and yet scheme was engineorer so ingeeio that the losers never were able to upon the guilty persons. The meshes of the federal government tightened even more closely about Mrs. Bina F. Verrault, alias "Mrs. Helen •Hamilton," yesterday, when another alleged victim of her matrimonial schemes was discovered. He was S. S. Snider, a prominent official of the Northwesetrn Life Insurance Company. Snider, until July 1 last, occupied an apartment at No. 417 Manhattan ave- nue. On July 1, it is said, he was asked by the owners to leave. His present whereabouts is unknown. Attracted by Her Advertisement. Snider is a. Canadian, and carne to New York about two years ago from Toronto, Ont. He, too, was attracted by the "lonesome widow" personal that :Airs. Verrault had published, and he -readily made her acquaintance. He !knew the woman as "Mrs. 1llontgom- iery," under which name she first mas- 'queraded to Count Zalinoff. • Mr. Snider became immensely fascin- nted. He called daily at the 73rd street house, where the "widow" livecl in luxury. Letters of an endearing na- ture, it is said, paseed between them. There were trips to the roof gardens f!and the restaurants. At all times, "Mrs. Montgomery" was dressed• in the finest of clothes; at all times her se- 1]eetions were in perfect taste; there was nothing loud- nothing vulgar. Ap- parently, she was all that she repre- sented herself to be—a wealthy widow, 'tanxious for a husband's love and pro- tection. Mr. Snider proposed marriage. With a sigh, "Mrs. Montgomery" accepted lbis heart and hand. No man was hap - t pier than the Canadian, when, on the next day, he gave his affianced bride a 'sparkling diamond engagement ring, a trinket valued at $200. But almost immediately afterwards, "Mrs. Montgomery" changed liar hab- its. She was never in when he called; she never answered his letters. At last these were returned unopened. Reports Her to Police. :And then, in his awakened anger, Snider reported the affair to police. headquarters. Detectives of the West 88th street station were assigned on the ease, but in the interim the 73rd street house had been vacated. Boards barred its windows; cobwebs stretched across 'its threshhold. Nor could any clue be obtained regarding its former occupant. Snider had seen nothing of Mrs, Brown. The scheme by which, it is said, mer - cheers were euchred out of their just dues was remarkable in its daring. Ar- ticles of every description, furniture, •a-ngs, silverware. linen, books, were ordered on the instalment plan. Ac- cording to the federal authorities, these goods, when delivered to 114 West 73rd street„ would not be unpack- ed, but a day later would be shipped to a storage house. There they would .lie Ieft for a few days, when, it is said, they would be brought back to the arouse, unpacked, re -crated and shipped to Boston or Chicago. Bill collectors, according to the charges, would be told thea "Mrs. Brown had just gone ,out." A searching investigation of police court records revealed an incident that occurred last fall in Mrs. Verrault's "House of Mystery," and which almost resulted in the entire "love syndicate" beim exposed at that time, Rebelled Against Relatives, • It was in September that Mrs. Brown, & native of Nova Scotia, received an unexpected call from two of her bro- thers—Samuel W. Mason and Joseph `&. Mason. Tlry tut curious figures in their rough clothing, for the two are ;fishermen, typical arawlers of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In •the ostentatiously ;furnished drawing -room of their sis- ;ter's house they were out of place; !their clumsy boots slid frightfully on ;the polished floor; their horny hands ,held clumsily the dainty afternoon tea- cups; their speech was rough and ready, and their grammar faulty. Their presence was unwelcome to both Mrs. Verreult and Miss Lillian B. !Brown. Neither bird the fact of her re- ieeatment, and, finally bringing Mrs. a3rown to their point of view, all openly ;rebelled. The visitors were asked toi aeave the house. They at first refused :to do so, and Robert Emmett Keene, !general handy man around the house, at - :tempted to throw them out. But in the encounter he fared badly. On Sept. 18th last the police records ld'how that Samuel W. Mason was ar- :rested on complaint of Keene, charged ;with assault, When arraigried before Ataigistrate Moss, in the west side court, am was held in $500 bail, but the case vances made in the past, and the belies of still further advance entertained" for the future.• Although the formal opening did not take place until the afternoon, the various sec- tions assembled in large numbers in the morning. and many valuable papers were read upon subjects of interest to the mem- bers, During the course of the inaugural address of Dr. Reeves, President, he said: The work of the past decade had given the profession some new ideas in regard to the mechanical and chemical processes of di- gestion. A notable work was that by Chit- tenden, of Yale, on "Physiological Economy in Nutrition." Too much food not only meant loss of vitality in the disposal of it, but a positive risk from the resulting poisonings. Chittenden showed that one-half or one-third of the nitrogeneous foods ordinarily taken would suffice, and this economy was there- fore not only real, but wise and •provident. It was safe to say, too, that with less pro- teid food. less uric acid .would be formed. And while rheumatism was due to the agency of a special microbe,- the congenial soil for its operation might be greatly reduced. There should be some boon for the legion of rheu- matic subjects, for while not so deadly as the white plague, rheumatism caused more pain and misery than tuberculosis. The right .food for infants was of more moment than that for adults, and the young were mora and to err in ignorance and to be sinned against. Nature's laws were the only safe guide to good living, and much of the money spent for patent food was misspent; 35 per cent. of all deaths were under five years of age. and a large 'proportion of infants who died gild be saved if properly fed. Proper food and hygiene were the ,hope of future generations, and there was a great field for missionary work .by the profession. There were many infants' foods, and not a few of these good ones, but there were some which were not; some so-called meat extract had little nutritive value, and need of care was shown by the warning of Sir Thomas Bar. low, 'given in 18e4, that "condensed milk or even sterilized milk is not on efficient sub- stitute for tire -natural food E=s" -the infant, and thauser iAndtile aninials haveabeisn founbe d to by rapid- ly die when fed on a mixture of all the sup- posed constituents of milk. There is an "unknown quality" even hero. -- * cr BRIGANDAGE RIFF IN SYRIA. EUROPEANS MOVING INTO SMYRNA TO ESCAPE BRIGANDS. Washington, Aug. 27.—Brigandage is so common near Smyrna, Syria, that Americans have appealed repeatedly to the American Consulate here for pro- tection against brigands in the licorice root fields and tobacco plantations ad- joining the city, and the foreign popula- tion is proving into the city from the suburbs, because of the fear that the bri- gandage, which has been visited only upon the Ottoman subjects eo far, will be extended to the foreign population. The unsatisfactory conditions in.Smyr. na are detailed in a d.espateii to the State Department from Ernest A. Mag- nifico, American Vice -Consul to that city. Outlawry is said to exist in Aidiit. Villayet, one of the suburbs of Smyrna, to a greater .extent than in twenty years. 'Within a few months practically all the wealthy Ottomans have moved out of the suburbs, and the British Con- sul has .posted a notice that British sub- jects who go into the interior do so at' their peril. NO PLACE FOR THEM, Party of Chinese Refused Entry Into Newfoundland. Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 27.—Mr. W. G. Parmelee, Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce, has. returned from it visit to the :Maritime Provinces and New- foundland. The general prosperity is be- ing shared in by the ancent colony, and Mr. Parmelee found among the people of ,St. John's a growing confidence in the future of the country. The greatest drawbaok in Newfoundland at present is scarcity of labor. The party of 13 Clr.innanen refused passage to New• fouudiand on the steamer Blues are Still in detention at North. Sydney. They are in bond. Quite recently, probably in view of this threatened invasion of Chinese labor, the Newfoundland Governments imposed, without warning, a tax of $300 on every Chinaman entering the colony. Thus, when the party arrived; at North l ydney, the terininus of the Intereolo- nial, they were confronted by the new regulation, The C. P. It. will either forward the Chinamen to their destination and .part' the poll tax, or return them to China. 'ft will Bost them $300 each to 'remain in Cahada. Possibly they may be sent is the West Indies. Government officials say it is impos- sible to meet the demands of Ontario farmers for :help, as most of the immi- grants are now going west. Mr• Horaoe Waters, .private secretary to Second Vice -President Waite, of the C. P- R-, was " kiIled in the. train col- lision near W1i nipeg Beach A bold but unsuccessful attempt at diamond, stealing was made at the jewelry store of E. S, Cole, at 48 Erie avenue, Niagara Fa11sy yesterday. Charles Drulard, the 21 -year-old son of Thomas W. Millard, meat dealer, Wind- sor, shot and killed himself at his Home. His family claim that the shot was an accident,` Work will start immediately on a large additionto the Waterous engine works, 13rantford. The addition will be to the main shop and will have a floor- ing of 4,000 square feet. Charles F. Hewitson, aged 42, son of the late Colonel Hewitson, commander of the 71st Regiment, walked off the Star line wharf, Fredericton, N. B., in the dark last night and was drowned. �'4ilIiam SStewart, a young Scotchman, who was justeonvaleseing from a severe illness, was drowned while crossing the bay at Kenora yesterday in a rowboat, with a companion named Fere son. Edmond La Rochelle, aged 28 years, who left St. Michel, twenty miles east of Quebec, with this young wife and two children, on board the steam r Cham- pion, was drowned yesterday morning. Cecil, the thirts'en-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Miles,' Carrick, Camlaehie, Ont., died last night as the result of poisoning from having eaten toadstoils in mistake for anusthrooms, and two other members of the familyare still is a serious con- dition. Leckie Tremblay, an 8 -year-old boy, while cutting grass on a lawn at his home, 15 Buller avenue, Toronto, lost two fingers, Iie.hadstopp-ed the machine and was fixing tap knives when a little brother move, the anaehine. Ile• was taken• to the aideecese I1:asiitnl. - •Frederiek Campbell, an. employee, at the National Table Factory, Owen Sound, attempted to cgnienit suicide yes- terday by slashing his throat with a razor. He now lies in the General and Marine I•Iospital in a serious condition, the windpipe having been partly severed•. The London .& Western. Company, li- quidators of the Birkbeck Loan Oom- panv, have entered an action against Messrs. W. II. Workman, Andrew Du- rand and: T. H. Luscambe, directors of the Birkbeck Loan, to recover ,$16,000, al- leged to have been illegally paid to shareholders of the company. Chairman Thomas Savage has resigned a,s member of the Stratford larater Oom- :mission, as the result of remarks alleged to have been made in 'Council by Aid. Gordonat a recent meeting, at which the latter is said to have reflected upon the. actions of the commission. This is the second resignation since the Board of Commissioners was elected. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mayor Ekers, of Montreal, who is studying municipal •administration abroad, will be accorded an official re- ception in Paris, The Illinois Demoerati c State Convene tion has refused the demand of William J. Bryan .for the resignation of Roger Sullivan from the 'National Committee. Dr. Edgar W. and Mrs. Robertson, of Toronto, are passengers• on trite Pacific mail steamer Manchuria„ which is ashore off Rabbit 'Island, on. the north shore of Oahu A despeteh from The Hague says her physicians have advised Queen Wilhel- mina to spend the winter in the south, in the Riviera or. in the neighborhood of Naples. • The C, P. R. Company has made an arrangement with the Imperial Govern- ment 'for a 'fast mail' ser -vice .between Liverpool, China and Japan. Special trains will be put on to carry the snails across the continent, .A violent storm . yesterday caused thick clouds of ashes. froni Montt Vesu- vius to fall over Naples, causing great alarm. Prof. Matteucci, however, sent a telegram from the observatory of Ve- suvius, informing the' authorities here that the latter was perfeetly calm. In the speech from: the throne at the opening of Parliament to -day the Geyer - nor of New Zealand, Baron Plunkett, said that the promotion of trade 'with the United States and Canada would be one of the subjects considered; during the sessiori. The bodies- of a fashionably dressed girl and a young snap in students' realms have been diseo.vered in the park at Peterhof, St, Petersburg. From documents found ori their .persons it ap- pears that they were terrorists, who had undertauen. th•o task of snruzdering Gens Trepoff and other eourtiere, How and why the young people were murdered is a anystery, WHY WHITNEY FAVORS ARMY. in Good Influences and Its Immigration Scheme. London; Aug. 27.—Iron. J. P. Whit- ney. Premier of Ontario, speaking et Bath, gave two reasons why he sup- ported the Salvation .Army, both in his individual and representative position. First, he believed in the good influ- ences of the Army; second,because in its emigration work, instead of dump- ing them down in docks the Army saw them straight into situations. The Arany had a smaller percentage of fail- ures than any other organization en- gaged in the work. This being the truth, it was right the truth should be told. Mr. Whitney referred to the import- ance of the work as it affected Canada, which he described as the great auxil- iary nation of the British Empire. Dr. Pyne accompanied Premier Whit- ney on his visit to Crew and Bath. Believes '5 THE FRUIT ACT. A WARNING IS SENT OUT TO APPLE PACKERS. Important Changes in the .Act Intro- duced Last Session—The Definition of Grades—Amendments to Act Were Recommended by Fruit Grow- ers. Ottawa, Aug. 27.—The correspond- ence of the fruit division shows that the recent amendments to the fruit marks act are being misunderstood by apple packers.: One of the important changes introduced by the amendments of last session is the rendering of the word "fancy" or one of the numerals No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 obligatory in marking grades. X's have been com- monly used by the Ontario shippers, three X's being the highest grade, two X's the second grade and one X the third grade. The Dominion Conference of Fruit Growers at the meeting last Mareh•, in order to secure uniformity throughout the Dominion, recommended the change which was introdiueed by the Minister of Agriculture. Another important feature is the definition of grades. Formerly only one grade, No. 1, was defined. There was, therefore, no imilormity about any of the other grades, and many complaints were received from foreign countries as the result of this anomaly. The new amendment defines tares grades. The first is a "fancy" grade containing only perfect apples. The No. 1 •grade, in which, there is an allowance of ten per cent. for defective specimens, calls for a package containing apples 'every one of which is a well-known •specimen of the variety named on the package, sound, of not less than medium size, of normal shape, and of good color for 'the variety. This is a higher stan- dard than was required in the old No. 1 - grade, and many packers will, no doubt, continue to pack upon the standard of the old grade, and render themselves li- able to a prosecution. The misconeeption is with reference to the ten per cent. allowance. This is Intended simply to cover inadvertencies in rapid work, but many packers have taken it for granted that this ten per eent. may be fruit of any sort so long 'ts it has grown upon an apple tree. Even a casual reading of the new amendments should shoe that such is not the case, that even the ten per cent. of defective fruit must be apples of high grade with reference to sound- ness, size, color and shape. The definition of a No. 2 apple is not so stringent. There is a twenty per cent, allowance for inadvertencies an rapid work. All apples in a No. 2 package must be not less than nearly mediuni size. It is expected that the eighty per cent, will contain some de- fective apples, but these defects must be of such a character as not to cause "ma- terial waste." Therefore, apples that are wormy or seriously scaibby will not pass as No. 2. Inunature apples will also be barred out and must not be marked higher than No. 3. The No. 3 grade is not defined, but the grade mark is provided to enable shippers to send forward. any market- able apples that cannot qualify for the better -grades. Dealers are warned: by the frtnit di- vision that in making contracts to sup- ply apples they should not oversell No. 1 apples. There will probably be four barrels of No. 2 apples for every barrel of No, 1 packed in the average orchard this year. a.s THE MANCHURIA. TINABLE TO RELIEVE TILE VESSEL— LANDING THE PAS.LNGERS, Honolulu, Aug. 27.—Last night the Manchuria was pounding heavily, despite all efforts to assist her. The Pacific Mail Company, through its attorney, has announced that it will as- suage, all responsibility for the landing of the through passengers, at this point. The company is now making every effort to get the baggage ashore, and will allow each passenger while stranded here an expense rate of $3.50 a day and. will ar- range for them the earliest transporta- tion to the Orient. A11 bookings on the Corea, leaving San Francisco on Sept. 4, have been ordered stopped, to provide room for the .passen- gees of the Manchuria, now in this city. The forecasts regarding the floating of the Manchuria are gloomier, and her officers have peeked exp their belongings. The sea is running high at the scene of the wreck. ear..............sawannomearorwmanglost •1044.11161.161.1041 FATAL FIGHT IN BUFFALO. SICILIANS CLASH AND MANY ARE SLASHED AND C'J1`, Two Men Killed—Man on Ms lin Attack Was Directed is Dead, ani a Peace- maker Met the Usual rate. Buffalo, Aug. 27.—Two brotsers match- ed three brothers in a stiletto fight at Ohio and Mississippi streets last night. Of the three brothers one inet death on the spot and the other two were badly slashed, Their opponents came out alive, but one of then- may die. Ae usual, a peacemaker intervened and was :ripped open by a slashing cue. All were Sicilians and worked at the New York Central freight -house in Ohio street. Tike trouble had its origin at. Vincent Garaci had -words with the freight -house during the afternoon. Era which led to blows, and Sar - dins is said to have proved himself the better man, although he paid for his victory with a couple of blows from an, ironGaracibar•, , alleged to have been used by Neither man was lacking in blood re- lations to take up the feud, and while Frank Garaci is said to have started home after work last night to get a re- volver with which to avenge himself on Sardine, his two brothers, Dominic Gar- net and Bernard' Garaci, are alleged to have laid in wait at the old C. & B. reight-house in Mississippi street, for the three Sardine brothers to come along. Frank Casper and Anthony Sardine with some other Italians came along Ohio street with their dinner pails ho•rtly after 8 o'olock. When they got o Mississippi street the Garaeis stepped ut and the fight began. It was a con - using affray, and no two eye -witnesses ell the same story. Anthony Schultz, bill clerk in the office of the C. Sc B. ne, saw the melee from a window. It eemed to him that about fifteen men ere mixed, up in the fight, battering ight and left with dinner pails. The rst display he saw of a knife was in he hands of Dominic Garaci, and he was s lightning in its use. Slender of build, Dominic seemed in• id out everywhere, stabbing and slash - g with his weapon. Other clerks and ock-Iaborers ran into the street, and ere were calls for the poitce. Schultz ye that the Italians made little or no tery, but kept digging in. It looked him at the start as if the Garaci bro- ers had been put on the defensive by e onslaught of the other men with din- er pails. The call for the police brought police - en 1Slanley, Keefe, and Cole of the crew the police -patrol boat, who were at e dock in Mainstreet a block away, the sight of the uniforms the Rai- ns broke and fled, leaving the body Frank'Sardina on the field. He had been cut in five places and his domen was laid open.,etomrnic Gar - fled in Ohio street toward Main eet, a stiletto in bis hand. He was rsued by a number of dockmmi with nes and by the police. Before reach - Main street he collapsed near a tele- phpole. He had three stab wotrdds, e of which in the abdomen may ceasedeath. The scene of the fight was like that a battlefield. Weeping over the body their dead brother were the two Sar - as, blood .streaming from wounds each. Dominic Garaci was dying and brother Bernard wounded in a doz- plaees. Raphael Balistre, of No. 20 be street, who had tried to part the batants, was horribly cut. His• hing was slashed into shreds and • ing wounds showed in his chest and s. In the excitement he was rush - to the police station in the first wa- load, but collapsed ori the station r. Be was then rushed to the Em- ency Hospital, where he died some rs later. 11 the other wounded were sent (li- ly to the hospital. Anthony Sar- • who had,a cut on the nose, anda e wound in the back and appeared' be the least seriously hurt, was mat from the hospital to notice head - tors to make a statement. After it taken he grew faint and had to ben sent to the hospital. re men eo'ild not he distincmishecl by e at the hospital last night, but it - paid that while all were seriously there wasbut one of them who ap- ed to be in dancer of riving.` The o say that it is Dominic Gerard, e condition is so 'serious and that rec0gers thee- have enough evidence aro with merrier. ne the man gave the death blows to Frank Sar - f s t 0 f t 1. 1i e r fr t a ar in d th sa ou to th th n m of t11 At ia of ab aci str pu sto ing gra on his of of din of his en Ste 0001 clot arm •ed gon floo erg hou :met dins knif to broi guar was agni al nam was cut. T,ea r polic whets if he to eh who dina., SULTAN'S HEIR, ABDUL HAMID SAID TO BE AWARE' OF APPROACHING END. Reform Party Afraid That the Heir Pre-• sumptive, Who is Liberal in His. Views, May Be Ousted for That' ifeason, and Another Chosen. Paris, Aug. 27.--A communication eman- ating form the Reform party at Constanti- nople will appear here to -morrow, aserttne that the health of the Sultan of Turkey is, gradually failing and that a fatal result shortly may be expected. It is added that Abdul Hamid is fully aware of his oonditigri, and desires to secure a successor who will follow out his policy, He' is said to oonsider the heir presumptive, his brother, Mohammed itechard, to be too. lit+Prn[, which view 14 supported by his Ma.. aeety's entourage. The communication also says the ciitstm will proclaim bis seventh son, Mohammed Eurbam-Eddine, who wads, born in 1885, to be his auocessor,