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If son, Kingston, gave the address • of
• welcome and President Frizzell respond-
ed
+ + The address of the evening was given
i by :11Ii5. Mary F. Dryner, international
. i field worker, Peoria, Ill., on the sub-
ject, "Tire Child We Teach.",
Following Mrs. 13ryiuer came Rev. A.
F. Sehaufflen, D. 1.)., Secretary 'of the
international lesson 'committee, New
York.
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A Revolver Found Ten Feet From
the Body.
indications That it is Not a Case of
Suicide.
Chicago depatch: W. S. Steward, aged
30 years,, of 26 1t-ilcoeks -stret,. Toronto,
was found dead in a bathroom on the
'fourtli floor of the Saratoga. hotel
;shortly after midnight this (Wednesday)
morning, Ile was shot through the
brain•,
The police are facing baffling eircum-
stances in the ease, 'There are no pow-
der burns in the face of the dead reran
and the revolver with which be was
killed wan found ten feet from the body.
.A. roan and woman whom he knew in
Toronto first discovered the body. There
are blood stains on the woman's waist.
but she claims she received these when
she tumbled over the prostrate man.
There are other indications that it is
not a case of suicide.
Steward came to the city in company
with lir. and Mrs. D. O. Cloud, of
Rochester, N. Y., where Mr. Cloud is
conneete•d with the associated Press.
They met, Steward in Buffalo, and hove
been sightseeing here several days.
Tb -night they had been drinking wine
freely in the suite of apartments. Cloud
says Steward was. best man at the
Cloud wedding ten years ago. His wife
waseducated in a convent at Toronto.
Toronto, Oct. 24.—Steward is a son
of Mrs. Lucy Steward. widow of W. R.
Steward, who conducted a drug store
for many years at the corner of CoI-
lege street and Snadina avenue.
ROOSEVELT'S CABINET®
SEVERAL CHANGES IN ITS • PER-
SONNEL AT END OF YEAR.
Secretary Shaw and Attorney -General
Moody to Retire—Promotion of All
Other Ministers—Straus and Meyer
Will Be Added.
Washington, Oct. 29,—The following
statement regarding prospective changes
in President Roosevelt's Cabinet was
.made public •at the White House to-
night: On the retirement of Secretary
Shaw and Attorney -General Moody from
the Cabinet the following changes will
be made:
Secreta
ry of the Treasury,
Hon., Geo. B. Cortelyou; Postmaster -
General, Hon. G. Von L. Meyer; At-
torney -General, Hon. • J. Bonapart;
•Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Victor H.
Metcalf; Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, Hon. Oscar S. Straus.
It is expected that Attorney -Genera
:Moody will retire on the 1st of Janu
,ary and that Secretary Shaw will fol
!low him on the 4th of March. On th
first of the year, therefore, Mr. Bon
parte, who now is Secretary of the Navy
will succeed Mr. Moody as Attorney
General and in turn he will be succeed
ed by Mr. Metcalf, the Secretary o
Commerce and T :,or. the latter's place
;being filled lir Mr. Straus. Mr. Cortel
.
!you, now Po, taster -General, will take
jSecretary d',�ttv'e place on the 4th of
!March, at r'-ieh time Mr. Meyer is to
become Po.:; ••tarter -General. The fact
that Mr. was to have a place in
the Cabinet Meyer`has been known for some
• time, but the name of Mr. Straus has
been mentioned only incidentally, if at
all, in connection with the President's
advisers.
Mr. Straus is the first citizen of the
Hebrew faith to be made n. member of
the President's Cabinet. He was born
Dec. 3rd. 1850. and is well known as a
merchant, diplomat and author. He re-
presented the United States as Minister
to Turkey on two different occasions and
is a member of the permanent Court of
Arbitration at The Hague.
GEORGIAN BAY CANAL,
R SERVE FLEET.
is
BRITAIN NOT TO REDUCE NAVY'S
REAL STRENGTH.
Will Form a Neve Squadron for Work
in Home Waters—Changes Simply
Mean a Redistribution -of Naval
Force.
London, Oct. 29:- -With the view ap
parently of meeting recent press attacks
on the "Starving of the navy," the
Ad-
miralty has issued a circular to the navy
which indicates, though not very
t•
ex-
plicitly, the .intention of dietri�buting the
naval slrcngth anew. The circular an-
nounees that a distinct fleet will be con-
stituted from the reserve ships, to be
called the 'dime fleet," under the su-
preme command of a flag officer with the
status of Comenancter-iu-('h•ie�f end head-
quarters at Sheerness This fleet will
en every respect be organized 'with the
view of enhancing its value as a fight-
ing force.. It will make frequent cruises
and battle manoeuvres will be held.
'Continuing, the circular declares that
the Admiralty will from time to time
decide the strength of the micleus crews
on a sliding scale so that the vessels
first required in war will have the
largest complements The distribution
of ships between the •Channel. Mediter-
ranean, Athtnrtic and reserve fleets will
be altered to permit of the organization
of the home fleet.
The circular also makes the following
important annoaneement: "No ship;
will be paid off, no men will be sent to
barraeke or instructional schools, and
no alteration• will be made in the pro-
portion of officers and men serving
afloat."
MIDSHIPMAN QUITS.
Jap Requested to Resign by Embassy at
Washington.
Annapolis, Oct. 29.—At the request
of the Japanese Embassy at Washing-
ton, Midshipman Asahi Kitigaki, of
the third class at the Naval Academy,
has submitted his resignation, which
will be accepted, it is understood. Pend-
ing the department's action on his case,
however, he has been granted an extend-
ed leave of absence. Kitigaki is a son
of Baron Kitigaki, of the Imperial Privy
Council, He entered the American Na-
val Academy in September, 1904, No
reason is assigned here for his resigna-
tion.
There is no doubt that Asahi 1�ita-
gaki resigned because of the feeling
in Japan against the United States.
p The only reason of his application for
his discharge was that it was the or-
- ders of his Government, received through
e the Japanese official sources. Kitagatti
Bona has just returned from an extended leave
spent in Japan, and the fact that he re-
- turned to complete his course is taken '
- as indicating that the reasons for his
f resignation are of recent origin.
Details Soon to be Laid Before British
Government.
London, Oct. 20.—At a meeting of the
1 new Dominion syndicate J. A. Mal-
; corm, manager, explained the details of
the Georgian I3ay canal scheme, giving
a glowing prognostication of its value
for farmers and merchants, R. W
;Perks, M. P„ said that one of the ef-
fects of building the great waterway
would be to place Montreal in a posi-
tion of commercial pre-eminence on the
',coast of America. He trusted to be
able shortly to present to the Govern-
, anent detailed plans which would se-
, cure ibs approval. Government co-op-
, eration would tend to give an early
start to the enterprise,
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Workers Deplore Banishment of Bible
From the Class Room.
Kingston, Ont., despatch: The 41st an-
nual provincial convention of the On-
! tario Sunday School Association opened
91t Sydenham Street Methodist Church
j this afternoon, with a good attendance.
ii The President, Rev. William Frizzell,
' Ph.D., of Toronto, presided.
The Sunday school teachers' vision
• beceived a shirring treatment from.
Rev. W. C. Merritt, of Tacoma,'Wash.,
the international field worker.
Mr. Merritt deplored the eustom of
banishing the Bible' from the Sabbath
school, and substituting a lesson leaf-
let.
At the evening session T. P. Ifarri-
A PREDICTION FULFILLED.
Two London Ladies, Though Far Apart,
Die on Same Day.
Detroit, Oet. 29.—Mrs. Jeannette Falk -
nee, of London, Ont., is dead at the
hone of one of her sons at Fairview, a
suburb of Detroit. Mrs. Falkner, who
was seventy years of age, had lived the
greater part of her life in London.
Next door to her lived Mrs. Kinsella,
sixty-nine years of age. The woven had
been close friends for many years, and
each had said she wouicl not survive the 1
death of the other. Upon one of Mrs. i
Falkner's sons telephoning to relatives
in London of the death of his mother,
he was told that Mrs. Kinsella had died
very suddenly only six hours before.
The funerals of the two will be held
in London on the same day, and they
will be buried on adjoining lots in the
same cemetery.
TIES HORSE TO POLE.
Unsuspecting Farmer Receives Shock
Which May Cause Lockjaw,
Brockville despatch; On a rainy night
an unsuspecting former from an adjoin-
ing township named Prue drove into
Brockville and tied his horse to an elect n
trio light pole. Ile happened to touch
a spike driven into the pole six feet
from the ground, making fast the wire
lowering and raising the are lights.
The next thing Prue knew he was
being attended by friends, having been
picked up in an unconscious condition,
with one hand most severely burned and
one foot blistered, showing that the
voltage passed through him.
He now wants $2,000 damages from
the town light department. Prue is
still under the care of a doctor, and lock-
jaw
is feared. _
GENERAL HULLER R TIRES TIO 1
ARI,
London, Oct. 39.--_Tlie retirement of Sir Redvers Henry Buller, who conduct-
ed the operations- for the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer war, and the
promotion of Lieut, -General Sir Win. G. Nicholson, who was chief British mili-
tary attache with the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese war, to the
rank of general, were gazetted. to -night, to take effect immediately.
BREACH OF PROMISE,
PRETTY GALT WIDOW AWARDED
$r,2oo DAMAGES.
Mrs. Jennie McArthur Tells How a Tor-
onto Insurance i
Won Her and
Marry Here -11 p
Toronto report: Ieaterday afternoon
the jury of the Corfu of Civil Assizes
heard the details of the rather prosaic
courting by an insurance agent of a lady
whom. he met in a laundry..
Mrs..Jennie McArthur claimed dam-
ages for breach of promise against
Mr. W. J. Patterson, of the Union
rent Wooed and
en Refused to
I!'e Children.
Life Insurance Company, of Toronto
She stated that she was a widow an
the mother of five children when sh
made the acquaintance of Mr. Pa
terson un •Galt. This oecured in Sep -
temper, 1903, in a Iaundry where she
was employed, and which Mr. Pat-
terson visited on business. He met
her on the street shortly afterwards
and asked her her name and address
and wished to call upon her, but she
gave him no encouragement at the
time. He was however, verp persis-
tent and later she gave her consent.
The acquaintance ripened into an in-
tiriiacy, which about the new year in
1904 led to a proposal of marriage.
She did not capitulate till March, 1904,
when a betrothal took place on the
understanding that marriage re ould
follow at the earliest possible moment
after• Jan. °the 1900.
The reason for the delay was that
Patterson claimed an earlier date would
involve him in the loss of a son by a
first marriage and a fortune of between
$5,000 and $6,000. First why such a cal-
amity was possible, Mrs. M•eArthur was
unable to explain. She ha.d trusted her
lover implicitly a•nd asked no reasons.
In May, 1005, Patterson removed
from Galt to Toronto and his affec-
tions seemed to wane. When the date
fixed on for the marriage arrived he
refused. to carry ant the - contract,
though pressed personally and by
letter.
Mrs. McArthur claimed to have been
always ready to marry Patterson,
though on cross-examination she adv
nitted a letter to another lady in
December, 1903, stating that if the
latter knew Pattensou' as well et she
did she .would not allow him to visit
her house. This, site claimed, was
written under great provocation,
Mr. Louis Heyd. X. {C., who appear-
ed for the plaintiff, represented to
the jury the dangers that innocent
women throughout the province ran.
at the hands of unscrupulous men from
Toronto.
After retiring for about fifteen min-
des
in
rtes the jury returned a verdict in
favor of plaintiff with darii.sges at
$1,200.
s:rr .
eight of the thirty-two others drowned,
and believes that all of them went down
when the barge foundered. Rus'scli was
adrift in a stormy sea for nearly two
days and one night clinging to bits of
the barge which he gathered together to
form into a make -shift for n raft.
MASTERS OF TOWN.
MOROCCAN TRIBESMEN STILL HOLD
POSSESSION OF ARZILA.
Brigands Looting Jewish Shops—Offi-
cials Afraid Forcible Interference
May Tempt a Massacre.
London, Oct. 29.—The Times' eorre-
el spondent at Tangier cables as follows:
e The shops and stores of the Jewish
Pat population ,of Arzila are being looted
by the tribesmen, who remain abso-
lute masters of the town. The eon -
solar agents have written their Lega-
tions here imploring assistance. The
entire population are prisoners, the
only persons who have succeeded in
escaping are troops and Government of-
ficials, and no doubt they were only al-
lowed to depart because it suited the
mountaineers' purpose to get rid of
them. Moorish officials here are at a
loss to know what to do, knowing that
an attempted rescue by force may bring
about a massacre.
Riasuli has not replied to the Tangier
officials' invitation to restore order, and
seems much amused at the situation,
which must remind him of the beginning
of hie own career. The crisis may take
a snore tragic turn •at any boor or be
prolonged indefinitely.
MURDERER CONFESSED.
Chicago Man Killed Actress for Her
Diamonds,
Chicago, Ill,, Oct. 29.•—Edtvard W.
Nichols, a theatrical man, who was
taken into custody by the police during
their investigation into the death of
Mrs. Margaret, Leslie, the actress, who
was found dead in her room at the
.Palace Hotel, to -day confessed to the
murder of Mrs. Leslie and to the steal-
ing of diamonds valued at $1,500 from
her. -
AT SEA ON A RAFT,
Sole Survivor of Crew of Thirty-three
New York, Oct, •20. 'i'he solitary
survivor of thirty-three men who,:went
adrift on the barge, or houseboat,
Hally, from lower Mateeonnbi ICey, an
the coast of Florida, during the terrific
gale of Set. 18, was brought into this
port to -day by the eteauner 1I1 PASO. He
is john Russell, ofSal"n7,Taylor, eou;nty,
Florida, and he declared tliat" 'he '.saw
DETROIT DIVORCE MILL.
Ten Decrees Granted --Three Were to
Canadian Women.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 29.—Of ten di -
vireo eases heard yesterday by Judge
Rohners, three decrees were given to
Canadian women, who have lived here
little more than the statutory two
years.
A divorce was refuses] a woman,
who was married at Lambeth, Ont., and
• lived in Ingersoll, because she had ac-
eepted $700 from' her husband, and.
signed an agreemnet not to bother him
further.
Henry Rockett secured a divorce be-
cause his wife refuses to leave her
Canadian home to live with him. They
formerly lived in Manitoba,
• -•
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
It is Not a Success on the Italian
Railways.
London, Oct. 29.—The Times' corre-
spondent at Rorie cables as follows:
Government ownership of railways in
Italy continues a menace to the lives
and limbs of those compelled to travel
in that country. Another serious acci-
dent took place yesterday, a passenger
t train running into a goods train near
Turin. Sixteen passengers were hurt.
The engine driver, the station agent and
the switchman are in hiding. It would
seem that the discipline of railway ser-
vants leaves something to be desired,
and this, no doubt, is a factor in the
general disorganization of which com-
plaint is made in alp parts of the eoun-
try. donkeys die of fatigue.
HORSE INDUSTRY
OF ONTARIO.
INVESTIGATION BY THF. ONTARIO
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
At the last session of the Legislature
the Minister of Agriculture secured an
appropriation for the purpose of making
an investigation into the condition of
the horse industry in the Province of
Ontario, This Work is now being un-
dertaken bj the Department of Agricul-
ture of Ontario, and will be commenced
early in October. 'The object of this -in-
vestigation is to obtain information to
be used in deciding as to the best policy
to adopt to encourage more extensive
breeding of a better class of horses.
Following sue the principal points
which will be considered in the course of
the investigation:
1. The number, type, quality and breed-
ing of stallions and brood mares in the
Province,
2. What conditions have affected. or
are affecting the quality and number of
stallions and brood mares in the various
sections of the Province, and if the effect
is for good whether or not the some con-
ditions could be applied in other sections,
and if the eoulitions have not a good
effect what could be done to improve
them.
3. What class of horses can most pro-
fitably be raised in different sections of
the Province under the natural condi-
tions found in those sections.
4. The system of owning horses by a
syndicate and any other plan at present
adopted in Ontario other than private •
ons-nership,
5, The views of horsemen generally as
to the advisability of a stallion inspec-
tion act.
G. Suggestions from those interested
in the horse business as to what eon
be done to improve conditions of the
horse business generally,
In order to procure this information
the Province will be divided into eight
districts. Two competent and expert
horsemen have been selected and allotted
to eaeh district. From five to six weeks
will be spent in each district by the com-
mittee appointed for that district. The
districts will be composed of a number
of counties grouped together, the num-
ber making up each district being de-
cided by the length of time required to
go through a county. Each county will
require from four to nine days. The
information regarding stallions will be
as detailed as possibic, each stallion in
the Province being inspected. The in-
formation regarding mares cannot be got
so accurately. but a. great deal of infor-
mation can be procured from the stal-
lion owners in each district as to the
number. type and quality of the brood
mares, the committee having an oppor-
tunity
ppor
tunity of confirming this by noting the
appearance of the mares seen while
travelling through the district. Regard-
ing the other matters of a more general
nature, inforniatio>, will be procured by
close observation and by conversation
with those met by the committee who
may have any knowledge of the local
conditions.
In addition to the work as above out-
lined, it is being arranged to have one
public meeting in each county at some
point centrally located, and where a
special interest is taken in the horse in-
dustry. The object of the meeting le
to give any person who so desires an
opportunity of expressing his views to
the committee. 'J`he meeting in each
county will be held immediately after
the committee has completed the waik
in that county, •
In each Farmers' Institute district the
secretary has been asked to assist in the.
work of procuring the names and ad-
dresses of the stallion owners and laying
out the most convenient route for the
committee to follow while in his district,
He has also been asked to accompany
the committee, and to arrange *for the
public meeting in the county. In eases
where the secretary was unable to do
the work, the president of the Farmers'
Institute has been asked to make the
necessary arrangements. The dates and
points at which the public meetings wil]-
be held have been ';elected, Arrange-
ments have also been completed for the
dates allowed for each institute division,
and the points at which committees will.
transfer from one institute district to
the one following.
The work should hare the sympathy
end co-operation of all owners of stal-
lions and of all who are interested in the
horse industry. It is hoped that the.
eonunittees will be given every facility
for procuring. the information required,
and that every person interested will
take advantage of the opporttntity being
given to express his views as to how the
horse industry' of this Province can best
be improved,
4•b
TO PARIS ON DONKEYS.
Spaniards Are Making Novel Pretest'
Against Excessive Speed.
Bordeaux, Oct. 29.—Two well-known
residents of Madrid, Senors CruselleB
and Bueno, have arrived here from
that city on their way to Paris. They
aro making the trip on donkeys as a
protest against the excessive speeding
of automobiles, and they have named,
their asses after prominent automo-
bile manufacturers. They carry ban-
ners with the inscription, Donkeys are
better than automobiles."
They have already narrowly escaped
'being run down by autonnobiiists, who
were apparently incensed by the banners.
They hope to reach Paris on.Nev. 20 un-
less they are run over by speeders or the: