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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-11-08, Page 6kb BY SAVAGES° FOUR THOUSAND SPANIARDS KEPT IN SLAVERY BY TAGALOS. Forced to Work in Fields by Whips— Man Who Escaped From Imprison- extent on Island Stirs Up All Madrid. eladrid,Nov. 4—A thrilling story,. re- lated by a Spaniard witu reeently en. rived from 3iandila, is attracting tt good deal of attention in the Madrid papers, This man, who ;gives his name as Mui- . genre, declares ne was on board the lenanish cruiuer lteina Marie 0eroxtxxi when she was wreeked. lie say's teat when the warship foundered said her crew of 1627 men were thrown into tue water, though More than 341U were drowned, utany were saved, The survivors, he declares, were rap- i tured by '1'aseakis and taken to the le - land of San ,Juan Del _Monte, in the Bul- t wean Province. According to riulguera'5 story there are more thaw four thousand • Spanish prisoners in that island. '.they are rorced, he says, by the natives to drag their piuughe and are whipped and treated like beasts of burden and toe only reward they get is seauty ratioxis • of green corn. butguera has related his story to a eorrespundeut of 1:1 Pueblo, and he says s that in June last nicety Spanish pre• goners tried to escape by swimming. Practicatiy all were drowned, he sane, i but he suceeedind in landing ext the op- posite bank and was subsequently able to reach Slanile. Then he went to the American authorities, who provided hini with passage ou board the eteamer. Bal- j tim ore, bound for Cadiz. Ile rearmed that ! port in neptember. but was only able November mber t n Mae h,' has received nciur- to proceed to his native town a lew i hn a tereeen a nee , not because it days einem wi,ere he had long been giv- j is en essery. len -. ity lananse he was en up for dead. I determined 4 il, rather than eat the Cue of benguerai companions has also regular ori on 1:r,•. Perry declares be just reauhed nits home a.t Valent•ia. where will never tele., a lite of food 40 -long as he found that net only had he been he is in IT;tnn,•nt.n':t lenient!. and I)rs. presumed to be dead, bat his wife had North Tovinene cud McDonald, his married again. Thio .tory of four thou- p1:;l . icinn:.. 1.eiies e sand epaniards being still alive and in Perksee the iui.st notable feature of the bands of the 'regales has caused a thte ee-r. which has nothing even an - great iensatiun and is niade the pub- prnaehine a l•areilel in the prison re- ject of comments by the prcee of Madrid. Cortes of the `'tate, is that Perry now weighs more than he ever did and is in GRAND TRUNK'S APPEAL, perfect- 1ILty-ical t onditiun. �_. Perryn behavior since his incarcera- Rate Before the Supreme tion in Danueruora- -in fact, ever since Court. Ottawa, Nov. 4---- Tn the supreme Court to -day argument was heard on the appeal of the Grand Trunk Rail- way v. Robertson from an order of the Railway Commissioners, limited to the question whether or not the portion of the Act, 16 Vic., ch. 37, which provides that the fare of a third-class pass=enger on the Grand Trunk Railway shall not exceed one penny currency per mile, and that at least one train with third-class carriages shall run every day over, the Tine, is in force. The-n:ppellants claimed it was repealed by Dominton robbing were exceptionally ionally daring, he Act 46 Vic.., ch. 24, sec.. 12, allow- lowering himself by a rope from the ear roof of express trains, kicking in win- dows and holding up the train crews: Ile was sentenced, in 1302, to forty- five years. ITe is yearning for his free- dom. onct.Falling that, they would stand where they trete. Several messages weer tea:hanged with Ottawa, end.a fin- t �_ i>at;r of Labor Auland announced that another board could be estabJiehed pro- viding the leen returned to work and application were made in due ferr)x. 'L'his reply, with other telegrams„ was read at a jcciitl: meeting of two lodges tris afternoon, :tat. after short clieeue siou by unanimous rote the men decided to return to work at once. RESCUES GI 111 nee rc•eeived from. Acting Dcput Min - ROBBER PERRY. HOW THIS CONVICT SEEKS HIS LIBERTY FROM PENITENTIARY. Blinds Himself, Eats No Food, Wears No Clothes—The Great Train Robber a Remarkable Prisoner. New York, Nuv. 4---Itlfforts which are being nettle by a few of his steadfast friends to hags the senteuee of Oliver nudes ferry eouunuted intoe revealed the fret that for four yearn the Haring criminal who in 18')2 .startled the entire eutu try - with the boldness of his ex - ',bete lute not eaten a particle of food or wine . stit h of outer clothing. -They hat I:,. 1 lu4eet th•-• fact that Perry is rege .i.,t .t, tilt+ munt remarkable. pa- tit it ,1' onfilwd in the State hospital fee (11' crime/el 11 -ane. (e ct :eery was t -n the verge of starve., tion. lea l:,• :ib>oi:t,eiy refused. to take a Ike or ,Irate anything, and the physi- chi eanseied they he would die rather thee y iel.1. Cot! lain 1 hreeeit a tube. Since Two -Cent his arrest folltwiug hie sensational train rothirt• hits been as remarkable as his criminal exploit:• were daring. He has defied the authorities: he has dared. there to kill him; he has regarded his lite as a mere plaything. As he explain- ed, seated an the bed in his room, with a white bandage over his blinded eyes, he bar. never had any hope of being free, and it has been a matter of complete in- difference to him whatever became of hien. -Perry blinded himself while in prison. He drugged himself with opium acid used a-sneiadle and steel du t' to, blind himself. Ha regrets' it now. Tils methods of train ing a variation of tolls. The board's order was that the appellant com- pany should comply with the provis- ions of 16 Vic.,. ch. 37, above men- tioned. holding that the amending Acta did not apply to the Grand Trunk Railway. Mr. Wallace Nes- bitt,HER K.0 , appeared for the appel- Tants, and Mr. J. W. ("orgy, K.C., for Deserted Wife Goes to Port Dalhousie the respondent. Their argument took . up the whole of the day until the . After Mr.' Win. J. Hennessy. close of the ern— . To -morrow morn- , St. C'athariuee. 1)espatcli---5ome few ing Mr. Bail' I .C., of the Ontario weeks ago a stranger hauled \William J. Attorney -Ge tl := Department, will ; Hennessy went to work at the Maple be heard r,: ,oho f of the Province, ILeaf rubber factory. He had exactly the in support • t' the decision of the Rail- ! eame name and answered the description way Boar th :t a two -cent fare must : of a man wanted in Chicago for deaert- be given for third-class passage. j ing his wife. and someone sent word to iD" — the woman that her husband was in the GIRL BITTEN BY DOG. village. The woman lost no time in com- --- -- • hag to Port Dalhousie, where she man - Terrier Becomes Suddenly , aged to have ITer, wssy brought before Angered. ' her. She found, howeverthat, although he answered the description very well, he was not her William, and left the village for Toronto. air. Hennessy took the af- fair as a joke and was not annoyed. Pet Bull St, C'atharines,Nov. 4 ---The five-year- old daughter of Mrs. George Sager, of Toronto, hwo is Here visiting her sister, Mrs. James Merriman, is suffering from the bite of a dog, and the result of the child's injuries is not yet known. The little girl was playing with a bull terrier, when the brute became angered at something and sprang at her, fastening his teeth in her upper lip and tearing it from beneath the nostrils to the end. A doctor cauter- ized the wound, and in sewing it up had to put in nine stitches, The child's face will be disfigured for life in any case. dey CHEAP MEAT AT OMAHA. Price Reduced Ten Per Cent, by Packing Houses. Omaha e,b., Nov. 4' --Omaha pack- ing houses to -day reduced the prices of all kinds of meat II/ per sent., and ex- pect a. still further reduction. - Edward A. Cudahy, of the Cudahy Packing Company, expressed the belief that the prices of all commodities would be materially reduced, and that the pre- sent financial flurry would result in a general reduction of values. 4 m SPRINGIHILL STRTICE OVER. The Men Are Ready to Return to Work Today. Halifax, Nov. 4 The strike, at Springhill is really over at last. J.'rents which have followed each other in startling rapidity, and which have brought about the above happy eulmin ation, cluster around the visit of 1i. J. Logan, M. P., and Deputy Commissioner of Mines Donkin to Springhill on Satur- day. The whole situation was thorough- ly &seaweed. 'The men expressed their attitude by saying that if a new beard could be eecured to investigate the dif- ferences between themselves and the company they would return to work at WANT A REST DAY. U. S. Actors Ask That Theatres be Closed on Sunday. Albany, Nov. 4 —Representatives of the State Federation of Labor, the Theatrical Carpenters' Union and the Actors' Church Alliance this afternoon asked Governor Hughes to direct Mayor McClellan and Mr. Bingham, of New York city, to enforce the law against theatrical performances in that city on Sunday, especially the so-called "sacred concerts," which, they assert, were not bone fide sacred concerts, but merely theatrical performances thinly cloaked or not at all. Governor Hughes told them they must file definite charges in writing before he could give them atten- tion. They left with the intention of 1 i doing ao.! 4e.) 44.1. BETTER PAY ON THE WELLAND. Bridge and Lock Tenders Happy Over News From Ottawa. St, Catharines, Despatch—Workmen on the Welland Canal have been granted an increase in wages which amounts in most eases to, $5 per month. For years the lock and bridge • tenders have been receiving $45 a month. Beginning with October 1, they are to receive $50, and where the same crew has to awing lock and bridge thewage is increased $7. Boss carpenters' wages have been in, erased from $2.50 to $2.75 and $3 per day, and ordinary carpenters will, in future, get $2.50 daily, instead of $2.25. No increase has been granted to any of the canal staff, and no provision for additional pay of laborers line been made, Man have been expecting a raise for some time, and Ilon. George Gra- ham Is already a popular Minister with leek tenders in Lincoln and Welland counties. -- Lo LAID SAVES MISS . CRAZED BY TY- PHOID INTO ATTEMPTING SUICIDE. Water Only Six beet Deep—Many Cheer Young Man, Who Holds Injured Victim Until Help Arrives. Riehniond, Nov. 4 - Reba Haley, fifteen years of age, of No. --13 Decatur street, menehester, jumped from a bridge lute the James River this after- noon in an attempt to commit suicide. She was rescued by Carl Blackwell, nine- teen years` old, who dived 'forty feet from the bridge and held • her above the water until assistance could reach him. Benjamin F, V arniei•, a teamster, an eye- witness tei the affair, jumped into a bet. oat anCouple. ;d arrived - just in time to save The girl, was crossing the bridge with her seven-year-old sister when she sud- denly to sed. and without warning jumped into 'tlie water. Blackwell fol- lowed her a moment later, being at- tracted be- the cries of the sister, 0. E. Haley, the girl's father, said to -night that the girl had reeently recovered from a. severe attack of typhoid fever. It is believed tlie'ravagt:s of the disease had xuibalaxieed: her mind. Blackwell's seucational dive was wit- nessed by -perhaps twenty-five persons who cheered wildly when he came to the surface- of the water with his unconsci- ous burden, in Itis arnis. The bridge is without a railing on its lower side and has been the scene of many crimes and and suicides of a sensational character. The water into which the girl jumped was about six feet deep. Both her lege were broken below the knees in the jump. She remained unconscious for nearly an hour after reaehiug home, but her` phxsieiau said to -night that she would perhaps recover. MOTHERS CRUET T KEPT TIER DAUGHTER IN CELLAR 1 FOR: THREE YEARS. Only Brought the Child Up at Intervals • to Beat Her --Fed the Little Girl on Mouldy Crusts and Left Her Among the Rats, New York, Nov. 4 -- A story of shock- ing cruelty on the part of a mother was told in the Flushing Police Court yesterday by the woman's husband, Pet- er Mohr, a well. -to-do contractor, who came to America from Switzerland three years ago. •From the day of the birth of her second daughter -Martha the wo- man eoneeived an unreasoning apathy towards 'he-f..xld. he neglected the in- fant at first, and then declaring she could not. tolerate even the sight of it gave it ,into the keeping of another wo- man. The foster -mother, however, died and the child was sent home. Soon af- ter the whole family emigrated to Am- erica. this, was three years ago. From the moment of - their arrival the aversit,n to her second daugh- ter took violent form. She locked the child in the musty basement of the hpuse as soon as the third baby came. Where was no window to let in light. The air was foul. Rets ran about in hordes and the horror of them would have driv- en any ordinary* air] insane with fright. Yet. though Mohr says he protested, the unnatural mother forced her little daughter to Iive in the cellar by day and by night until her clothes became rags, and she did not even moan for food or water. A mongrel clog sneaked into the cellar one day and since then has borne her company. That was the only solace the imprisoned girl had, Once in a while Mrs. Mohr would drag the little girl to the kitchen to beat her. But. when this was - through she would be thrust baek to the dungeon. The child's screams attracted the at- tention of neighbors the other day, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruel- ty to Children brought the ease to court. aon DANGER IN MOTHBALLS. Naphthalene Bind Condemned by French Physicians. Paris, Nov. 4 —• Nepthalene moth balls, so commonly used by good house- wives to preserve clothing from moths and other insects, were the subject of an attack this week at the French Academy of Medicine, when two emin- ent physicians stated that the substance was not only useless as a. preservative, but highly prejudicial to health. Moth balls, they declared, give off oxide of carbon and poison the. blood corpuscles. They sited several cases of asphyxia caused by napthalene fumes. The poison is all the more dangerous as its effects are insidious and not eas- ily perceived until, too late. CANADIAN PACIFIC. Gross Earning Increased, But Net Profits Declined. Montreal , Nov. 4—Although the gross earnings of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway for the month of Sep- tember showing a gain of well over a quarter of a million dollars as com- pared with the earnings for the same month last year, the net profits show- ed a decline of nearly $250,000. As oompared with September of last, the operating expenses showed an in. crease of well over half a million, or almost double the increase in gross meninges -With the result that the profits as indicated in the Monthly approximate figures showed a very, appreciable decrease. While the fig- ures for September• were much, more marked than in any other month this year, they have borne out the experi- ence of the C.P.R. since the com- mencement of the present fiscal year, of growing earnings but an increase of operating expenses, which has more than covered the improvement in gross business. The gross earnings of the C.P.R. for September amounted to $6,423,452 as compared with $6,152,67 during the same month last year, making an in- crease of $270,685, As a result of the disproportion be- tween the growth of expenses, and earnings, the net profits of the past September only amounted to $2,151,- 353, as oompared with $2,437,931 dur- ing the same month last year, or a loss this year of $286,578. a . 'ATED WHISKEY. A CAMERA FIEND WAS UNDOING OF THAMESVILLE CITIZENS. Leaking Whiskey Salvaged From a C. P. R. Car—Photographs Were Taken of Men Who Were Drinking Around It. Chatham, Nov. 4 Eighteen informations Move been issued in con- nection with the recent railway wreck at Thamesville. A short time ago, a freight ear which eoutained a quantity of whiskey was smashed. The liquor leaked from the ear and it was prompt- ly caught in cans by some of the peo- ple of Thamesville, which is a local op- tion town. A young man with a cam- era took pictures of several of the men as they were getting the whiskey and drinking it. He was selling these pictures and doing a roaring bdsiness when the people whose faces appeared in the pho- tograph served him with a notice that they would prosecute hint if he did not s At this point the C:;., P. R. detec- tives were put on the wee and after tn an investigation, they fond the pho- tographer and got the names of tlxe men who had stolen the whiskey, d the informations were issued an Same of the men who have been served with notice to appear in court are among the most prominent resid- ents of the town. ITALY AND GERMANY. Canadian Government Will Try to Make Trade Treaties. Ottawa, Nov. 4 --- It is the intention of the Government to follow up the Franco -Canadian treaty of this summer by endeavoring to effect next year simi- lar reciprocal pre_: rential trade tariffs with Italy and Germany. An effort would have been made this year, while Messrs. Fielding and Brodeur were in Europe, to negotiate a treaty with Italy, but -lack of time and the ne- cessity of their return to Canada on ac count of the approaching session pre- vented any attempt at effecting an- other new trade treaty this year. *. p FELL FORTY FEET. Detroit River Tunnel Employee Escapes Serious Inaury. Windsor, Despatch --James Grass, em- ployed in the construction of the Michi- gna Central tunnel, fell from a high derrick to the ground this afternoon. He was pieked up unconscious and was thought to be dead. Ile was hurried to the sanitarium, where an examina- tion disclosed the fact that no bones were broken, and if no internal inuries are sustained he will be on duty again in a short time. His escape from death was miraculous, as he struck the hard ground after falling forty feet. • 4 , e PAY WHAT YOU LIKE. London Iiotelkeeper Wile Fix No Prices. London, Nov. 4 -- According to a publication devoted to the interests of hotelkeepers a novel scheme is to be tried by a boniface who, to quote his advertisements, possesses "a house of the first order—modern comforts, cen- tral heating, exquisite French cooking, superb view." The proprietor will fix no prices either for the rooms or meals, and visitors only have to call at the office before their departure and pay "according to their judgment, conscience and sense of equity." The new scheme will have a one year's trial. VANCOUVER RIOT CASES. Three Men Sent to Jail Out of Twenty- two Arrested. Vancouver, Nov. 4 -- Three only of the twenty-five men in the first instance arrested on the charge of rioting on September. 7th in the Chinese and Japa- nese quarters have been sent to ail. Of the twenty-two fifteen were sent for trial to the Assizes, but in six cases the Grand Jury returned no bill; two were found not guilty; the petit ury discharged in throe cases, and one was postponed till next Assizes. The last man -convicted was dealt with this morn. lag and sentenced to one month. 4sO STEALING COBALT ORE. Large Silver Slabs Pound in a Polander's Bed. Cobalt, Nov. 4 -- A considerable amount of ore -stealing has been suspect- ed for some time past, particularly at Nipissing mine, The offenders are called "high evaders," This morning Chief Caldbick searched the bunks) of some men, and one G:erojfsky, a , tole, was found . with enlarge silver slab in lfis, bunk. He teas. arrested, and the ease" will probably coxixe up to -morrow. ROADHOUSE'S CASE. CHIEF JUSTICE MEREDITH REFERS TO LABOR UNION. - Gives Judgment in Case Arising Out of the Miners' Strike at Cobalt—In- flammable Language of Organizer Roadhouse. Toronto, Despatch—Chief justice Mere- dith yesterday afternoon, after hearing argument in the suit of the Buffalo Mines, Limited, of Cobalt, r n t:;t the Cobalt Miners' Union, gave j •nt ex- tending until the trial of the action the interim injunction issued by Chief Jus- tice Falconbridge on August 16th, where- in Robert Roadhouse, with six others of 'the union, were restrained from interfer- ing with the working of the Buffalo mines. Justice Meredith, however, modi- fied the injunction so as' to allow the striking :inners to "a c.vise" the men im- ported in their plat es as to the condi- tions o2 work and to use influence in diet- - suading them from working in the boy- cotted mines, provided the influence did not assume the nature of an intimida- tion. The motion to commit Roadhouse and the other officers against whom the Injunction was directed was set over un- til tic trial of the whole action, on con- dition that a certain "seab list" be re- moved from public notice, and on the un- derstanding that Roadhouse is now out of the country. During the course of his argument in the morning Mr. Watson, for the Buffalo Mines, Limited. read from stenographic notes taken by Mr. J. D. O'Brian, and presented on affidavit, a speecb made by Iloadhnuse on the evening after the in-. junction was served. In this Roadhouse ealled the Judges in Canada "stool pigeons" in the pay of the capitalists, and characterized legal halls as «capital- ists' courts." "Would you carry a ease to the Su- preme Court? What is the Supreme Court? It is a capitalist court, and the very Judge before whom you appeal no doubt has a thousand shares of Nipissing in his vest pocket," was one remark made by Roadhouse. Mr. Watson took as the basis of his argument in endeavoring to secure com- mitment for contempt of the court's or- der e judgment of Lord. Linden in which it was stated: "Black lists are real in- struments of coercion, and to call men out to join in a strike is but another form of the greatest coercion." Mr. Wat- son alleged that the use of the word "scab" was an intimidation. Mr. E. E. A. DuVernet, for the de- fence, rising to reply, informed the court that the public speeches had been dis- continued, the "scab" list had been re- moved, Roadhouse had left the country, and the "pickets" _ were, no longer there. Mr. DuVernet-I think, my Lord, you will find that not one single illegal act has been committed. "It - was not because of any unwilling Hess." commented his Lordship. "In that regard; with three thousand. men on strike, 1 think Wo should be thankful." "No, no, Mr. DuVernet. We need not be thankful for such as Mr. Road- house." oad- house. " Mr. DuVernet then referred to the re- port of the Roadhouse speech. "He ad- mits, my Lord, that he is used to using extravagant language. This was all ex-• aggerated." Chief Justice—Yes, but it would serve to inflame the minds of men in regard to whom he assumed the position of leader One of the worst offences," he continued, "that could be committed against the commonwealth is to tell men wrongly that they cannot get justice in the courts of the land." The court held that a "scab list" or "black list"' was a form of intimidation, . and as such was unlawful. "i do not wish to decide upon this mo- tion in a way to encourage such men in their unlawful acts, but since these acts have been discontinued I am not sup- posed to make martyrs of the men. Be- sides, nothing would tend to do more harm than to make such men appear as. martyrs." CANNIBALS IN UNGAVA. Anglican Missionary Tells of Horrors in • the North. St. John's, Nfld., Nov. 4 -- Canni- balism has been resorted to by the natives in Ungava, according to Rev. Mr. Stewart, an Anglican missionary to the Ungava Bay Eskimos. He says that owing to the severe cold and un- usual scarcity of game, many natives in the remote regions have perished . from starvation, and the survivors have been forced to cannibalism in order to sustain life. Recently the crew of a Newfound- land vessel, which was in Ungava Bay, discovered thirty skeletons ly- ing unburied on the beaches. It its supposed that these were the remains of some of the victims of the famine. w.s MISSING GOLD FOUND, Brought Down by a Miner; A. J. Kelley, in Mistake. Vancouver, Nov. 4 --- The Canadian t Detective Bureau, this city, has found 350 ounces of pure gold, part of $40,-' 00 worth that disappeared from the re- gistered mail sack, July 20, while in transit' from Fairbanks to Dawson. It' was traced from Dawson by the bureau. A. J. Kelly, miner, who arrived from the north, brought ltd own as aceoxn- itdodation for •e. friend, who had unwill- ingly become the possessor of it. Ac- cording to instructions Kelly was to have taken it to. Seattle, but when. a.,. 1oea1 detective explained the position he, • promptly handed it over to the autiorl. ties. .r.