HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-10-09, Page 2SHAD DEFEATED.
Will Now Try Pacific and Consti-
tutional Means.
Troops Refuse to Fight—Nation-
alists Are Stubborn.
Berlin, Oet. 6.—A special despatch
from Teheran to the Tokaa A.nzieger
ways that the Imperial troops have suf-
fered defeat :at Tabriz and as a oonee-
quenoe,, and on the advice of the mem-
heel of his Cabinet, the Shalt has de-
creed that Parliament be opened on Oct.
30. This is am earlier date than has been
atntielpeted, but the Shale hopes by this
means to secure tranquility.
Considerable nervousness exists in
court circle and the troops stationed
around the palace refuse to obey the
order to march on Tabriz. The Minister
of War has leen vainly endeavoring to
raise the money to pay the soldiers,
but the population of Teheran show ut-
ter indifference.
Tabriz, Oct. 5.—The forces of the
Sban sent to subdue Tabriz have not suc-
ceeded in their object and the city con-
tluwes to defy the ruler. The National-
ists refuse to day down their arms until
they receive a, guarantee from all the
foreign representatives at Teheran that
Parliament will be re -opened on the
European basis of representation.
LESLIE CASE.
The Grand .Ivry Report That They
Find No Bill.
A Toronto despatch: A sensation was
sprung in the Sessions yesterday after-
noon when the Grand Jury came in to
report that in the case of John Knox
Iseslie, charged with the theft of $18,-
846.53 from the Exhibition Board of the
city of Toronto, they found no bill.
This will put a stop to any further
prosecution of the late treasurer of the
Toronto Exhibition, though, of course,
it will not affeet the investigation which
is to be conducted by Judge Winchester
into the affairs of the exhibition at the
request of the City C.ounoil, As Mr.
Leslie was not in custody at the time
of the report of the Grand Jury, it was
not necessary to formally arraign and
release him, and the returning of no
bill cancels the bail bond. The effect of
the Grand Jury's findings is that no fur-
ther notice of any kind will be taken of
the case, which has now fallen to the
ground. Mr. Hartley Dewart, 15, C., Mr.
Leslie's counsel, was in court at the
time, conducting the defence in another
case, but he made no, comment on the
Grand Jury's finding:
Considerable speculation took place in
court among parties Who have followed
the case through the Police Court pro-
ceedings as to whether Mrs. Leslie might
now act on Colonel Denison's suggestion
and sue the city for a return of the
$25,000 she paid the Exhibition Board,
en the ground that she received no legal
consideration for her money. ,
EPORT DENIED.
President Says C.P.R. Is Not Nego-
tiating For Chia;;, Great Western.
Montreal, C. L. 5.— Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy, who returned from his
trip to IvLinn:..tlro.is to -day, in reply to
e. question ,as to whether there was any
•truth in the report tba.t the C. P. R.
was negotiating for the Chicago Great
Western Railway, said: "If the C. P.
R. were negotiating for the Chicago
Great Western —which it is not ---I
should not have gone to Minneapolis
to carry on these negotiations, but to
London, England, where the line is
owned.
"As a matter of faet, the C. P. R. has
not purchased the Chicago Great West-
ern, nor has it entered into any nego-
tiations . to that enol, My business in
Minneapolis had nothing at all to do
with it. You can =Ice that denial as
emphatic as You like."
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WHITE PLAGUE.
Dr. Koch at the International Con-
gress on Tuberculosis.
Washington, Oct. 5.—Each of the.
sever► sections of the international Con-
gress on Tuberculosis at their sessions
in the National Museum this morning,
contributed much to knowledge, through
the dismission by renowned scientists
of measures that promise success to the
wcrld movement against the ravages
of tuberculosis. More than a hundred
speakers were on the programmes of the
several sections.
Great interest centred around the
'work of sections Nos. 1 and 7, in which
Dr. Robert Koch, the German scientist,
and the discoverer of tubercle bacilli, ac-
tirely participated. His address on the
relations of human and bovine tubereui-
asis was perhaps the most notable of
the day.
At to -day's session formal announee-
meat was made of the inoculation of a
number of children, tubercular patients
and all charity patients at the Chil-
dren's Hospital here with bacilli of tu-
berculoei=., lhninen and bovine, and with
a culture of Loch's tuberculin, designed
to prove the sccuraey of the dlegncai:ie
methods advanr.r4 by i)r, D. Laszlos.
$etre, of Budapest, Hungary, and the
diagnosis theories of Dr. Clemens Von
Pirquet, of Vienna. Dr, Von. Pirquet
made demonstrations at the Ohiidren's
Hospital to -day for the benefit of the.
delegates, It was stated at the hospital
that the children had responded to the
demonstration, the reaction resulting in
expressions of gratification over the
showing made,
STEAM YACHT SUNK.
Collided In Fog Near •Dover—Pas-
sengers Narrowly Escaped.
Dover, Oct, 5.—The tourist steam
yacht Argonaut, which left London yes-
terday bound for Lisbon, carrying 250
persons, ineluding passengers and crew,
went down between Dover and Dun-
geness this morning, after having been
in collision with the steamier Kingswell
in a fog. All on board the Argonaut
took to the boats and reached shore in
sofety,
The Argonaut sank so quickly that
those on board barely had time to save
themselves. Fortunately the sea was
en:doth and the transfer of the passen-
gers and crew to the small boats was
made speedily. There was no panic.
The people on board the Argonaut lost
everything they possessed.
Por an hour • the Argonaut's bouts
groped about in the fog for the steam-
er Kingswell, which they finally reach-
ed and' bodtrded. Finding that venal in
a sinking condition, the passengers
again took to the boats and were ulti-
mately picked up by the steamer South-
wood, which brought them in here.
TENDERS OPENED.
Hon. Pair. Beck Says They Are
Within the Estimate.
A T ronto despatch: The tenders for
apparatus for interswitehing and trans-
forming the electric current to be
brought from Niagara Falls were open-
ed by the members of the Hydro -Elec-
tric Power Commission at their meeting
yesterday, and it was stated that the
cost of this portion of the equipment of
the Government transmission system
would be considerably below the esti-
mate of $1,107,000, made by the com-
mission's engineers. The contracts to
be awarded arc for the equipment of the
12 transformer stations and the step-up
station at Niagara Falls. The tenders
were referred to Chief Enginer Soth-
man, of the commission, and Mr. P. H.
Ross, of Montreal, the consulting en-
gineer of the commission, for classifica-
tion, and it is expected that the result
will be known in a few days. At the
meeting were: Bon. Adam Beck, Mr. W.-
K. McNaught and the engineer.
"We feel justified in saying that they
are lower than the estimate," remarked
112r. Beck, speaking of the tenders.
ACCOUNTS SQUARED
The Dominion Closes Transaction
With the Province.
Toronto, Oct. 5.— The Provincial
Treasury has received from the De-
partment of Finance at Ottawa two
cheques, one for $172,654 and the
other for $57,295. This marks the
clearing up of a long standing ac-
count between the Province and the
Dominion. Since Confederation the
Dominion had held in trust for the
Province three funds aggregating $I,-
900,000, they being the Upper Can-
ada
anada grammar school fund, the Upper
Canada land improvement fund anti
Upper Canada building fund. Against
these funds there were accounts owing
by the Province of $1,737,000. The
cheques represent the difference be.
tween the two and close the whole
transaction.
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SISTERS BURNED.
Their Charred Bodies Found In
Ruins of House.
Rockland, Me,, Oct. 5.— Mrs. Geo.
Cook and Miss Kate Floyd, of Natick,
Miss,, were burned to death in the for-
mer's hone in Martinsville, St. George,
early to -day. The women were sisters,
Mrs. Cook's home, a storey and a hell
house, was a short distance from the
village, in a meagerly settled localitq.
The fact that lives had been lost was not
known until the women's bodies were
found in the ruins. The origin of the
fire is not known.
SHOT WHILE HUNTING.
Stanley Turner Accidentally lfilled Near
Woodstock, N. B.
A Woodstock, N. I1, despatch: A fatal
elhooung ,St'CIllent. occurred at South
New Bridge yesterday afternoon. Stan-
ley Turner, aged seventeen years, sen
of John Turnor, of Campbell settlement,
'York County, and Darold i1cCnrthy
went hunting,
Young Met,'arthy went up a tree to
pick guru, and left Turner stnndin; be-
low. The gun wad resting on a log, and
in some manner slipped off, causing the
discharge of the weapon. • The change
entered Turner's stomach and came out
at his shoulder, His .father was sum-
nroned, and after telling how the mei-
.dont happno.d the injured lad died,.
WHITE SLAVERY.
Prohibition Candidate Blames It On
the Liquor Traffic.
Beresford, S. D., Oct. 6.—Eugene W.
Chafin, prohibition candidate for the
presjdeney, in a speech last night, east
the blame for the "white slave traffic"
in 'Washington, D, C., New York, Chi-
cago and other large cities on the poli-
tical parties not opposed to the sale of
liquor. Among other, things Mr. Chafin
said:
"The individual or the political party
that stands for the liquor traffic not
only stands for the sale of Iiquor, but for
the gambling den and the so-called `white
slave 'trace,' Official figures prove that
this means that 17Q girls are sold every
twenty-four hours into slavery in the
'United States,a condition that, could
not lest even an hour if it were not for
the liquor system.
"This so-called `white slave trade' is
one of the disgraces of our civilization.
Yet it is tolerated in New York, Chicago,
Washington, D, C., and indeed in nearly
every large ciy in our land—yes, and in
the big majority of the small ones.
"The prohibition party is the only one
in America that has a plank in its plat-
form against this fearful evil.
"I have spoken about the graft and
licentiousness of Washington, but 1 want
to say that this unspeakable traffic in
girls will be driven from the capital city
of our nation if the prohibition party
suceeeds'at the corning election."
OVERCOME BY GAS.
Mimicle, a Finlande-, Killed In
Nipissing Mine.
Cobalt despatch: A fatal gas accident
ocenrred in the Nipissing mine last
night. A Finlander named Mimicle was
immediately overcome and was dead
when,found by two eompanions a few
minutes after going in. Mireicle's two
partners, Otto Rams. and August Gari,
are resting nicely at the Red Cross Hos-
pital with good hopes of recovery, al-
though Gari'e skull is badly injured.
Gas was reported in the west drift at
the Kendall shaft, and Mimicle went in
to blow out the gas with compressed
air in the usual way, but was overcome
and had started down the ladder when
one of tip feet slipped, causing him to
lose his balance and when found he was
suepexrdei; with his head down, so that
death, must have resulted very quickly.
0,000 DEATHS
• !7,holera In China and 500
lis From Bubonic •PIague.
•
Pekin, Oct. 6.—There have been 500
deaths from the bubonic plague at Tong
,She, 60 miles northeast of Alen Thin,
since the outbreak of the epidemic. No
alarm is felt, however, and it is not be-
lieved that the disease will spread. The
cholera in Yang -`lie Valley is abating,
but the toll of deaths this season has
been heavy. In Hankow 30,000 natives
and a score of foreigners have died of
the malady.
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POLICE RAID.
MANY ARRESTS IN ALLEGED GAM-
BLING DENS.
A Surprise Descent in Which Detec-
tives and Police Recruits Cleverly
Combined—Bail Granted the Pris-
oners.
A Toronto despatch: As a result of a
carefully organized plan which has
been prepared daring the past three
'heels, the Toronto police were able to
make successful raids on ten different
alleged gambling dens in the city yes-
terday,. The raids had, let first, been
timed to -occur in the afternoon, but as
many of the regular habitues were ex-
pected to go to .Flamilton races then it
ssas decided to make a general raid at
as near 11,45 as possible, in each of
the ten places raided arrests were made
and betting coupons, lists and books
were seized, All of tate city detective
force and an added force of 33 plain
clothes recruits were engaged in the
raids. Anhung those arrested were two
women,
The raid wets planned owing to a num-
ber of complaints which had rateched
the Chief Constable clueing the poet few
weeks. ,Staff Inspector Stephen ahnd De-
tective inspector Duncan were taken in-
to the chief's oonfidenee and orders
wjere issued' to Inspector Duncan to ob-
tain evidence against all the suspected
betting houses from outside sources. A:s
a result of this order betting coupons
and reverts of the operators are now
is the possession of the police. In
each ease the raid was under the direc-
tion of a city detective
Fourteen ,prisoners at No, 7 station
showed part of the morning's work.
They were' William Murphy and John
'Tare, alleged keepers of a gaining
house, at 99 Victoria street, with
Dcugald Cladway, 160 Jarvis street,.a.s
alleged' fr'eilnenter; Thomas Hickey, eh
(T keeper, at 10 Yonge street Arcade,
with Bernard . Shea, 234 Queen street
meet, alleged frcqueeter; George Mc -
Sweeny, alleged keeper of 39 Colborne
street, . house, address 38 Kensington
avenue:, with Joseph Glass, 58% King
street OA alleged frequenter; Isabella
Wertliing'toit, alleged keeper of a place
at 28 Yonge street Aw'cede, and W. A.
Worthington and James Gilenour alleged
frequenters; John Allison,, alleeg�ed
keeper 12 Queen, street east, and Allan
Pardee, 4. Irwin avenue, alleged fre-
quenter; Russel B.Lea;clt, alleged. keep-
er, teen 15, Janes building, and John
Dashweiul, alleged frequenter:
Five arrests were mode by the men
from No, 3 police station. Detective
Moffat arrested two of them as fol-
lows: Michael Horan, 656 Queen street
west, cigar• rnere3ha:at, charged with
keeping a gaining house, a•nd Joseph
Waggoner, 130 Gore Vale avenue,
laborer, dharged with being a fre-
quenter. Detective Tipton arrested the
following trio: Henry Strong, 603 King
street west, boiler -matter, charged with
keeping a gaming house; Philip Phillips,
131 Peter street, barber, and E. Kidd,
603 Queen street west, pbotogeapher,
both charged with being frequenters.
Four arrests were made from No. 6
Police Station, namely: Mrs. Sarah
Michael, 1028 Queen street west, chant-
ed
harbed with being the keeper of a gaming
house. Her husband, Alexander Mich
aei, her son, William J. Michael, and
Rcbert Kirkwood, a horse trainer, with-
out a permanent address, were all
charged with being frequenters.
At No. 4 Police Station. Walter IL
Dixon, said to be the keeper of a gamb-
ling house at 304 King street east, to-
gether with alleged frequenters, Louis
Yeffee, 271 King street east; Albert
Betyley, 304 King street net. and Deo
Layden, 143 Sherbourne street, were
arrested.
Especial interest attaches to the ar-
rest of Walter 11. Dixon at 304 King
street east, as I Exon had only arrived
beak at his premises for a few minutes
when arrested, having been liberated in
the Police Court on $1.000 bail on a
charge of theft brought against hien
by one of the frequenters of his place
named Bert MMGlnnis. McGinnis in the
evidence he gave in the Pollee Court
said that $275 of the $675 stolen from
him was for bets on four horses. Dixon
was committed for trial on the theft
charge.
Bail was accepted and all the pris-
oeers, with the exception of John Dash-
wood, procured the neeessery bond,
two sureties of $500 each for those ar-
rested as keepers and two sureties of
$200 each for the others,
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$1,000,000 A AY.
The Enol -mous Loss From Forest
Fires In the United States.
Washington, Oct. 5.—An aggregate
loss of $1,000,000 a day during the
months when forest fires have been pre-
vailing in, various parts of the United
States is estimated by W. J, Magee, the
erosion expert of the Department of Ag-
riculture, The Forestry Bureau in a
statement to -day says that probably in
every instance the devastating forest
fires might have been prevented if the
various States had provided an adequate
number of men to patrol the woods and
arrest the fires in their incipiency, and
if lumbermen and other users of the
forests had been careful in the disposal
of brush after logging so as to prevent
the spread of fires.
SENTENCED TO HANG
Vito Micolli Found Guilty of Mur-
der at Montreal.
Montreal despatch: Vito Micolli was
found guilty of murder this afternoon
in the Court of King's Bench, and was
sentenced to be hanged by Judge Tren-
holme on November 27. The accused
pleaded self-defenee in his own behalf.
He admitted he had stabbed Antonio
Dilucca on February 21 last. He swore
the latter had challenged him to fight
out some disagreement, and that when
his antagonist attempted to draw a re-
volver, after they had grappled, he
stabbed him.
The story did' not carry conviction to
the minds of the jury, and they brought
in their verdict within an ih:,ur. The
condemned man showed much emotion,
but did not break down. Mieolli and
"Crooked Neck" Smith, who was found
guilty last week, are both sentenced to
die on the same day,
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FEARS YELLOW PERIL,
New Zealand Regards Japan as Her
Enemy.
New York; Sept. 5.—The Herald to-
day publishes a photogravure showing
a. couple of the banners displayed in
Queen street, Auckland, N. Z., on the
occasion of the recent visit of the Unit-
ed States fleet. The wording on the
banners leaves no doubt that the people
of New Zealand look on the yellow peril
as a very real one,
One of the banners shows a pair of.
clasped hands, and about the hands the
legend: r -
"Welcome white hands across the sea.
America our ally; Japan our enemy.
Remember the Maine,
Japan must follow Spain,"
The other banner showed the picture
of a monkey, plainly labelI„d "Japan."
Over it was the line "The monkey
grins and shows his teeth," and be-
low:
"Call again, white man.
By -and -bye he's going to bite;
By -and -bye we'll have to fight.
We're far from home and all alone;
He's the dog and we're the bone.
Call again, white mash."
Son
Blabbs—At any rate, success doesn't
tarn his head. Slobbs—No, he has a
stiff neck,
PENNY POSTAGE.
Two -Cent Rate Between Britain and
the States
Goes Into Effect To-day—Expect
Rush of business.
Washington, Cot. 5,—Plat two -cent
postage rates go into effect between the
United States and Great Britain at mid -
eight. 13eginning with this. morning the
postage rate applicable to letters mailed
in the United States addressed for de-
livery at any place in the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland is two
cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce.
Letters unpaid or short paid will be des-
patched to destination, but double the
deficit postage, calculated at the two -
cent rate, will be collected on delivery to
the addressee. This notable reduction in
the post ,ge rates is effected under a
recent eh ,ivention be tween the two Gov-
ernments and promulgated in an order
of the Postmaster -General some time
ago;
Will Do Big Business.
London, Oct. 5.—The Postoffice De-
partment is prepared to handle a largely
increased mail from the United States,
resulting from the introduction.of penny
postage. It is expected that this week
xnails will be particularly large, as many
correspondents have been withholding
unimportant matter pending the intro-
duction of cheaper post rates. After that
the officials expect the permanent in-
crease to be gradual.
The Philatelic Society has issued com-
memorative envelopes as souvenirs of the
occasion. The decorations on the en-
velopes include the arms of the two coun-
tries, with the dates of important postal
reforms.
KEEP AWAY.
Australian Government Warming
People From Going to U. S.
Vienna, Oct. 5.—The Austrian Gov-
ernment is issuing repeated warnings
against the emigration of its subjects to
America, and particularly to Pennsyl-
vania. It points out that reports re-
ceived from the Austro-Hungarian Am-
bassador at Washington, Baron BlrengeI-
muller, describe conditions in that state
as still bad, and says that further dis-
missals of laborers may be expected.
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE
Toronto Workmen Fell Twenty Feet
gaud Escaped Serious Hurt.
Toronto despatch: Four men who.
were working upon a, new house on.
Woodbine avenue, in the township, had
a narrow escape from death yesterday
morning by the breaking of a. scaffold on
whish they were standing. The men are
W. HewsonFrank Hewson and Harry
Woodbine of avenue; and Wm..
Wibby, of Degrassi street.
They were laying brick twenty feet
from the ground when a heavy stone sill
that was being Iifted into position fell.
The stone broke the planks of the scaf-
fold, and men, mortar and bricks drop-
ped to the ground. Carter was picked
up unconscious, but afterward revived.
All of the four, although severely
bruised and cut, consider themselves,
lluucky to bane escaped as lightly as they
d.
VALUE OF r"'"`FERENCE,
'lie* 1
Lord Milner Has ae ..,rricle in Nineteenth
Century.
London, Oct. 5.—Lord Milner, writ-
ing in The Nineteenth Century, on the
value of the Canadian preference, saya
that when British goods are competing
with foreign goods in any part of
tl
e empire on more or less equal terms,
even a moderate preference to bratisin
goods will turn the scale in their favor.
Where they are competing at a slight
bat decided disadvantage the, preference
can neutralize that disadvantage.
Where the disadvantage is very great
owing to distan,..' or other natural
causes, or to the l reponderating char-
acter "or even set...ed habits and eus-
totna of the im.por, ing community, no,
preference that I a .:Iles expect od de-
sire to see unposed can wholly counter -
ant or workmireett s, but it can and
does exercise so great an influence on
the course of trade t:tat it is well worth
making some effort, even some sacrifice,,
in order to maintain and extend it."
He thinks the time will conte when
all fair-minded free importers may re-
sonably be asked to admit this. Some
of them,. including the present Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, have admitted it.
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DEATH IN THE CLOTHING.
Sir Roper Lethbri.dgc '.Chinks Article Di&
Not Attack British Woollens.
London, Oct. 3. --Sir Roper Leth-
bridge attacks the Chroniele for declar-
ing that the pamphlet headed "Death in
Clothing" was an attack on British
woollens. Ile says it refers to the quali-
ty of the goods that would be dumped
on the Canadian market from the dis-
ease-infeeted slums of Warsaw and Kon-
igsberg, which aro often horribly ver-
minous as well as infected,