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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-05-17, Page 6IRISH CN 'IL BE. DISCUS U . • Objections to the Bill—Present Rule a Failure-- Redrnofld. Wants Horne Rule. London, May 13. --Compared with prev- paves th•e way for home rule. If the bill ions home rule billy tete measure of to- ; •paysery and the new council is a success, P then I dare say it might pave the way. day confers% little oelegov:ernment won 1 If, on the other hand., it is a failure, it TREASURE -SEEKERS FOILED. Disastxouo,End of a, Cruise for Pirates' �- Hoard. New % Orleans, May ,13. ---The Anslem, which arrived last eight, brought the crew of",' the steamed Attiquin, a private -nessel belonging to Earl Ttitrvyill4arn. The Attiquin is a large vessel built osi •the. style of an surd- Mary eraser. She cleared from Bristol, England, ;stopped. at Tarnpa, I41a., and Troland, merely giving to the Council ; might present oou�rdens ble o�bstae es, Mize, T1ritish IIorndiirsua, winch port control of eight departments now more I but surely that 1'nioni is will not refuse pee deft for a voyage around Cape aged. by Government lx.nk1 . Thi, Court- Ireland an opportunity for training tier•' horn, her <lestantit]oit being Cocos Is- `peo'ple to acquire :any tight they ought I land, : off the t� eat . coast ,of .Central : Neaten t the measure Atnerimee where it wage the intention of the Pmol;• her owner,. , to seareh for treesuiaes on .Corns Island, which was a piral seal retreat of old, beim' said to contain a largo mount• -af buried trea- sure. `. The vessel was beached' and. wrecked off Northern Two Keys. off the const of 1 11'ondera.s, and is a complete loss. The It is natural and quite to be expected Scotch affairs, while she House of Com- 'termer and erOW esea.pcd narrowly. s - � F.•arI and Cottntes:s I+itzwalliam went t cil is partly elective, partly appointed by to passe. s, . f h t •e proves itkte Crown, and while the Lord-Licuben• f successful, one of the difficulties in the Ireland ' power to eolaify I way of ]tome rule will have been Te- , of five important departenents, incluel- t ing the constabulary. The control of this ; Mr. Balfour, the Opposition leader .l th i t the t characterized the bill •as grossly unfair,a still able to interfere iu English arra ant of is given y } control ' moved" Gama ---n h has always 'n a orf t flesh of the Irish people. ; as the Irish members of Parliament were that 0 that this halfway measure is wholly ; loons would be uralrle to say a word rn „ , ,..,„.,.t sur by pleasing to no political party. The Union- the analogous • business about to be eta regard it as a stop toward home t transferred to the new council. The rule. They object to giving to Ire- measure would mot legitimately relieve land the management of many depart- the aspire -lines of the Irish, and would meats of local affairs while the Irish , only cause confusion in the administra members of the House of Commons re- l tem suit c>ivtaii real grievances on Scot- taiu the right to legislate in similar af- t land'andEngland. He declared that fairs for England and Oeotland. They ' there was no object which was desired criticize also the plan of Government by i in connection with the government of a Council through eight oonn':nitter* as i Ireland wb4ch would be furthered by complicated and cumbersome. The Rad -I the extraordinary proposals of the Irish seals are disappointed that the measure ' Secretary. More preposterous sugges- falls so far short of actual home , tions regarding local government had rule, and the Irish members are even 1 never been made. They would. •cause col - more disappointed with it. The Irish lisions with the authorities, and inevita- leaders, however, are maintaining a dip- 1 'bly involve a breakdown of the whole lomratic attitude until they have time to 1 selene. The proposals would satisfy sturdy the provisions of the bill and I neither the i:nyglish nor the Scotch, and learn the sentiment •of the people. still less the Irish. A Nationalist -convention will be held,Redmond on the Final. in Dublin soon to decide upon the policy of the Irish party. The Laborites will .john Red -mond, the Irish leader, said support the measure been se they are that until be and his colleagues had all home rulers.time to consider every feature of the To prevent the first reading of tbe I bill and elicit Irish public opinion in bill being deferred until to -morrow, and l regard to it, no one could expect him while Walter Huine Long was still I to give either a deliberate or a final srpeaking. Mr. Birrell moved the closure. judgment. :dr. Gladstone proposed to Then amid a great uproar and protests solve the problem by the full and frank and shouts of,"gag" the closure was car- concession of self-government and an- ried by 417 votes to 121 and the bill tonemy to the Irish people, but what passed its first readin_ by 416 to 121. the present Government offered was. not The House then adjourned. home rule nor a substitute for it. The After the bill had been presented and Irish still dewandea home rule, and explained by Mr. Birrell it was criticise rested their claim on their historic night ed and ridiculed by A. 3. Balfour on and the admitted failure of a century behalf of the Opposition. John E. Red- of Britis t oevernment of Ireland. mond then delivered a brilliaut speech, noteworthy for its dignified and force- ful exposition of Ireland's claims for complete home rule. A Brilliant Audience. The audience was worthy the histor- ieal and Parliamentary occasion. The • entire :Ministry occupied seate on the front bendhes. Mr. Balfour 'lounged in his characteristic, languid attitude cp posite, with George Wyndham, the fem.- or Chief Secretary for Ireland, beside The floor of the House was packed. and the galleries held a notable assemblage, including a number of Peers, snare of the visiting colonial Premiers, notably Alfred Deakin, Premier of Australia, and eev- ,or al Bishops. Members of the • Irish. clergy were conspicuous in the galler- ies. Mr. Birrell rose to an oratorioal height when he described the present system of ' given to the Lord-Lusntenant appeare Irish administration. He called Dublin to go far beyond the ordinary veto Castle a failure, saying.: "There it stands, limits. If that was- so the provision did remote, without e friend., and melon- away with the gennine character of the choly, while the • .:-rent of Irish life power given to the Council. Apart sweeps past. _nvernor had entered," from that, he thought the control was be continued. c r':oomy portals of ; genuine and complete. Dublin Castle :t a sinking of the After expressing doubt regarding the - heart ala.,.: - sent to abandoning - workability of some of the minor fea- ho s„ tures .of the hill. Mr. Redmond took up t Parnell hots.: ld that one way to mon- what be termed the most serious of all ern the island •nae to send e. man there torts, the financial features. IIe said to held the balance of s'.l parties and he was strongly of the opinion that the mdmiriet'r the c nuntry in a spirit of fund of pi 210.000 was most inadequate. eournge end in'cpendenee, hut the Gov- The whole amount would be mortgaged err_m nt lord nra such man in its eye. "I at once, leaving walling for the develop- wvreubl either write the biography of a rent of Ireland. Therefore, it would be deceased esatr.erat." Mr. Birrell Snit], "than live under his rule. Such men do not make gene ]ns' ray ." With all its shortcomings, comings, an elective body would be edncatienal, and teach the Irish penple self-respect. ACTRESS TABES IftR g �N Uft. Was With Faversham Co. in "The Squaw Man". Divorce Leads- to Tragic End of Mss Nelson. New York, May 13. --Mrs. Wallace Widdecoanbe, wltctse stage ,name was Muriel Nelson, committed suicide in her apartments at the hotel Benning- ton, 142 East 72nd street, yesterday, elttooting herself hi the head. "Miss Nel- eon" had .appeared in fairly important roles in both this country and England, one of her last engagements having been with the Witham Favere,llam Coin}tarry in the "Squaw Man," but she was known better in New York as a com- poser than an actress. She wrote sev- eral marches, which found popular favor, among other the Moorish Parade and Target Practice. Mrs. Widdecombe had been living apart from her husband. who is also on the stage. She had two or three of her women friends in her apartments on Monday night, and they did not leave until about 1 o'clock next morn- ing. One of the hotel maids discovered the body at about noon lying on the parlor floor, fully dreseed. A revolver was near by. On the parlor table were three notes pinmced together. The first, marked (immediate) merely contained the re- quest that notice of her death should be sent to 14ailaee Widdecombe, skier husband, at the Hotel Longacre; to Dr. Douglas Bissel, of West Slst street, her physician. The second note read: "To my ft/ends—God bless you dearly and keep you always" The last note was to her husband. Here it is: "Dead Wally, Since this divorce trouble 1 have not felt right— bea.<laehes and soinestimee+ the heart. Have decided to rest. Bury ane near this dear old city. Publish the man- usn ipts of my music that a••emain and put out the Yong of " The Little Chrys- anthemum" on the piano, It would do -well for vaudeville. Weyvburn might do it. Eve,-v4hing to 8dlse. There's LABOR RIOTS. STRIKERS AND STRIKE-BREAKERS FIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO. More Than a Score of Persons Seriously Hurt, Some of Them Fatally—Eight Persons Shot--Strike-Breakers As- sailed. San Francisco, Cal., May 13.— The strike of the 1,700 nlotmunen and con- ductors of the United R•allevege de- veloped this afteavvoon into a riot, in which more than a score of pennons were seriously hurt, some of them fes- tally. Strike-breakers in the uniform of ear inspectors, strikei(s and their sym- pathizers fought on Turk street for more than an hour. els boric niters, Mr. Redmondthought�� was round dead rn her rw..y ,jewelry at Tiffany's in storage. Goa they were juotified in regarding the 'three gas jets baring been turned on bless you. scheme es consistent with the matnten- and the window closed tightly. Lying "(Signed) Muriel" since of their aspirations. and proceed- beside her was a letter add'esseet to •; P. 5.—Be sure and send my original ed to apply certain tests to the scheme her mother,and written in blood. It `man' pt of "Trysting Time" to regarding giving general and effective C Eight men were shot, among them 'a policeman aucl Detective Bell. Several of them wig, io. The hooting was done by :strike-breakers from c :tr windows in res- ponse to showers of :<aving stones and • bricks hurled by the mob, which chased; the cars thro�u.gh block after 'block, pick- ing up their wouncdsd as they ran. Finally a. •dozen or• more of the guards were arrested by reserves from the central police station, and a union crowd boarded the reata-most car and aborted it back to the barns. Arriving there the eta•ikcrs charged and revolver fire was opened from the barns. In this encounter several more men were shot. A mon-union man threw a switch �at Turk and Fillmore streets, and tbe derailed oar shot into the nide- walk maiming two mien. In the statnpedie that followed scores of wonnen and chlI- dren were trampled upon. o.e control to Irish public opinion over the matters which ,the bill dealt with. He Wel he did not lie the enalieated element. Mr. Redmond agreed with Mr. Balfour that it was not democratic, but if he was told that the Govern- ment's object was to give a large repro- • senctation to the minority, who were`pus- picious regarding the action of the ma- jority, then he would be perfectly wdilline to accept this undemocratic principle. He believed that the minor- ity's fears were honest, but groundless, There were no limitations to which the would not go to meet these fears. Con- tinuing, Mr. Redmond Braid the power read as follows: "My Dearest blether; Do not grieve,, for 1 cannot stied it any longer. You been been-rettiebenaother, trust in God and pray for your daughter. I am so; sorry I must do this and no one knows what I have suffered, mother dear, and. paps, do not worry. I trust we will. meet in a better world where there' will be no sorrow. Love to you and my friends who have been so good to me." The letter was unsigned and toward the end the writing was only faintly discernable. To Remain at Westminster. Nobody, ;said, Mr. Birrell, believed that • tele present ,system of the administration of Ireland was sound in principle or eco - awnless). It had been switched off from, the great current of the national life of the peopid. Under the proposed new scheme the Irish rnem'bers of Parliament would continue to sit at Westminster in '.1tri<iimnniehed numbers, but he hoped 99ttereaftcr to find a more profitable clan- ," net for their inquisitiveness in managing ; hood affairs at home. Mr. Birrell went on to explain that, !tate council being elected by a local Gov- t ernm.ent Board franolise, peers and wo- 1 men could vote. The constituencies, NOT ON KISSSING BENT. roughly, would be the same as those of this present Parnseer entary areas. He did But London's Lord Mayor Succumbs to t not think 107 members were too sunny � Carnival Girls' Attractions, BROUGHT �! O BOOK. •.Boozy" -The divorce suit in which Mrs. Widde- •..1o.referred to was one b b ether mast her hu•sbsind about ere months ago. Her couneel was E. H. P. Squires, of White Plains. He said that the suit was 'tried kart Satu:daay in the Su- preme Court el Winchester County. No co-respondent was named in the action, although a specific charge was made against the husband. He did not deiced •tlrtl action, and:, scleomdbeg to Lawyer Squires; an interlocutory decree would undotrhtexidy have been handed down this week. Although "Mies Nelson" brought the suit, it Ioolce as if she really dill not want the decree. She returned to the hotel in tears after the trial of the ac- tion on Saturday and on the some day the hotel maid noticed a revolver in the room for the fleet time. Miss Nel- son told the maid that ehe was going to use the revolver in a play. Dr. Bissell said that be had been treating Miss Nelson for three or four years for a nervous affliction. She was very bad, sometimes, he said, and had hallucinations. 1'fiss Nelson nes about 30 years old. She took the part of Mrs. Hobart Ohi- chester Jones, .an American lady, in the original "Squaw Maar." Consdni•.fy. tier- hiesband planed the role of the Rev. 13elachteter Chiswick. .Sloe also acted with her husband: in "A Message from Mars." when Charles Ike -trey, the English actor, tanned. the country in teas play. Miss Nelson at one,tinve was understudy for Margaret Ming - ton in "Henries in She had he lash year or wned her time altngbe so tc', eompoasing. Before elm crone to heti country Miss Nelson was 1avorably ,received in England first in Henry Arthur Jones' a "The Liars," end then in "The play, von Orphans," and in "Bootle's Baby." Her anidei, "Tweet Practice," was played in the "Squaw Man." Others of her wori<s were `Soft Salle the Dusk,,' a serenade; 'The Wizard," a march. Miss Nelson, before she went on the stage in England, attracted some notice as a violinist. She was an Eng- lish girl. Her husband called at the Hotel Bea• ning�ton late in the afternoon and took shaa•g,e of the body. :EIe refused to say anything for publication. REMARKABLE TRIAL OFUSURERS IN PROGRESS AT MUNICH. Princes, Counts. and Barons Milked for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars by the Swindlers—German Officers Squeezed. Berlin. May 13.—A remarkable trial, which is likely to occupy some weeks, opened at Munich to -day. The defend- ants are charged with squeezing offi- sche 5ib'.e he nieces-senileolidepartment weal: the new eers of a cavalry regiment by means scineme. The }-olive department was the of usury, with forgery tine other only one. in which a real saving could 5, andy `• frauds. The preliminary investiga- h effected, and that tine withheld from tions revealed that in certain military tlt•eru• circles ,in South Germany. a Life of de- that,Ineidlthong lir. Redmondewedthe -•question bauchery was led. 'lite defendants rm altlt le opposite viewed the qucszt4o . seem to have lot many officers in their from a pole elthto that of Mr. power enc( sucked. thein ,dry. Balfour, he felt the force of :Some of p ernon the victims were Prince Henry the lett en's arctnrtetrt:• In eonchtsson of Henan, Count Pocei, and Batons Von Mr. Redmond said that if the measure Thtuigen, Von 1.angpueltof and Van showed itself workable, even with mod Horn. The usurers minced Baron Von erste success, his party would gladly I kungen of $150,000, Baron Von Lang accept it uehof of $100 000 and the others of Mr. Birrell spoke for nearly an bout , , , and three•querter . Among his inter- urge sums. Artillery Lieut. Boeeke, af- teres Vee hearers were Alfred I>c akin , the being victimized to the extent of Finder- $1135,000 and ruined, quit the service and Australian Prime :Minister: Sir Fa' ick Borden, Canadian Minister of Militia started to recoup himself by joining the swindlers. and Defence ,and .a large body of elergy, He is now one of the accused. He ran headed by the Bishop of Sligo. a disorderly house in Mantthehn, and seems to have gone far to regain the money. he last. Seven; ]hundred and fifty witnesses have been nintmoned. JAPANESE 1 REATWES. MONROE DOCTRINE FOR ASIA— JAPAN AND THE STATES. Paris, May 13.—M. Aurin, the Japan- ese Minister here, in an interview to- day, is quoted as making the important statement that the series of treaties be- tween Great Britain, France, Russia and Japan, guaranteeing the territorial status quo in the far East, implied an engagement to prevent other countries from acquiring territory there. Minister l urino denied that the Franco-Je.panese entente was in any way aimed at the United States, adding: Japan, in spite of the San Francisco inci- dent, has always been most syanpathetio to the United .States, because she was the first to treat Japanese people on a, footing of equality. If Japan. could ob- tain advantr ps front an uaderstandbee with the Umfsd States it is entirely pro- bable that the Government at Tokio would net hesitate to negotiate with Washingts . Continuing, M. ICurino said that aa Germany had no possession- in the far East, Kiao Chou being simply leased Chinese ground, a treaty with her sim- ilar to the one between Japan and France, would be useless. 4 ss GOT FIDDLER, LOST HOUSE. Father of Hungarian Countess Pro -Nuptial Gift. Vienna, May 15.—Th house which Countess Vilma Festetios settle& tarpon her gypsy husband, Rudolf Nyari, af- ter she eloped with him, is no longer his. The house was given to the Coun- tess in anticipation of her tnarriage to (Count Spreti, to whom she was en_ gaged at the time she met the (1,v,psiy musician, but now, on the ground that her marriage to the musician make�a her unworthy of belonging to the l+es- teties family, her father, Count Peal l+esstetics, hes revoked the gift. This is in aaeordance with the Hun- g;arian law. The Countess is therefore }aenniless. It is stated that she is seri-- iusly ill. It is also stated that Nyari has been promised `an eugegcan til Mrd New York at a salary of $50 a night. TEN FARMEILS SUED. of the Standard Bank Against Ekfrid Township Man. AGlencoe despatch: In a case before Judge Elliott at Glencoe to -day ten farmers of the township of Ekfrid. were. sued by the Standard Bank of Canada; Durham branch. The bank holds notes made by these fanners for the amount. of $20 each in favor of the Fanners' Manufacturing & Supply Company of Durham. The defendants claim that the notes had been obtained by frau& and that no value had been received for them. In one of the cases the claire. were non -suited, in the others judgment was reserved. PRINCE RUPERT ALL RIGHT. Mt. Nicholl, of Vancouver, Sees No De- er ease e-crease of Activity. Montreal, May 13.—Mr. Georsre A. Mo - Nicholl, purchasingwent for the Grand. Trunk Pacific at "vancouver, B. C., le hero for a few days on business. lie stated that so far as he could see from Vancouver there was no truth in the re- ports that there had been a praeti,;al cessation of work at Prince Rupert on account of the disptttecl claire of t'jue Indians to en increased price for the land required far terminals tend tote*. sites. Preparations for the esta.iiieis,- - went of a. terminal city and the building; of the meet. line are going os as repldl�P as • possible, 'I.rlo discharge the important ditties assign- ed to them. Tlue council would be elected for three years, and authorized to estah- l;ish as many com,nic .cions as it pleased., f Ibut it must establish finance, nubile 1 R,rorl s, education and loom' government committees, the chairmen of which would , be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant. It was proposed. to establish a new Educe- , tion duce-.tion Department for primary and sec- ondary education, to he placed under the control of the council. Religious Equality. London, May 13.—The Lord Mayor, who, when he entered office, scathing- ly criticized the frivolity of his pre deeessor in bestowing kisses broadcast sten on an official visit to France, t.. has succumbed to the atttractions of the girls and women of Cornwall, of which county he is a native. Taking in the annual festival of Ms native town of Kelston, he is making a sort of .triumphal tour of the country. It was not his nature to be on kiss - Under the bill any English subject ; Ing bent, buty would be able to hold the office of Lord i woman, among the admiring crowd re- Lientearant without preference for any 1 quested a kiss, and the: Lord Mayor religious belief. A clause was also in- `thought just one would not derogate his g tde<t providing that DO preference ;dignity, especially as the recipient was Whatever shall be shown to any reel- aged, but it was the first step on the gieue denomination in appointnnents, and a downward patlt; and he is now being that any resulting from such preference 1 swept along • ont a torrent of 1 leie , Small be invalid, , given and received, by females of allIn conclusion14Ir. Bi�rrel Enid: `The ego until all the womankind rn the the first da an old ,• . 1 1.... r 11.. n . a -tiL . 1,41.1.111,111:11 .0101.4 - A.t. • ... ,, j;.....a NO CHANGE IN STRIKE. Carpenters Still Out and Many Are. Leaving Town. St, Catharines despatch: The strike of city carpenters remains unchanged, de- epite a lengthy conference between em- ployers nand the men, held to -day. The sesaiscon lasted several honors and the question et issue was earnestly argued from 'both standpoints. It is understood that several propositions' looking to a cOtnpreriise were made, but none proved' satisfactory. • To -nimbi; Organizer Tweed, of Toronto, is conferring with, the earpsnters as to the antler to be taken in a'eferenee to a future 'ct upaigu. The strike is causing delay in local buildings operations and many of sthoanien Oro leaving the eity to accept poeiti - in other plaeee. Several lwhere 40 co rC hou r ris beim paid,nale P111111 BREACH OF PROMISE, Revokes Action Montreal Young Woman Gets Hor Money Back With Light Damages. Montreal, May 13.—Mr. Justice Cur- ren to -day hard a suit for breach of promise which offered some unusueal fee, tures. Miss Alezina, alias Amanda., Jas- min. dressmaker, sued. Mr. 3. P. Duiroeher, a young business mon, for $1,09f) on the ground that after obtaining from her $600 on notes end giving her in return a policy in the french-Can:adlau A,ittaazas' ,Society, he scubli d,nncd lien sand refnssed to carry out the arrangements for their marriage, and: for lossi of time caused because She gave up her ordinary work a e'hert time after ththiir emgagdunent, be - wise Durochem did not want people to say he bad married e, working girt The plaintiff was given $155 damages soul the amount of the lean,