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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1903-11-06, Page 6f, [RIEB TU KILL PHINGE GALITZ1N. Stabbed Three Times by Three Victims. The Three Assassins Were Shot Down, Search for Sagouni's Mur- derers Unsuccessful. Tiflis, Russian Transcaucasia, Nov. 2. --Prince Galitzin, Governor-Uen- eral of the Caucasus, had a narrow escape from assassination yesterday on the outskirts of the town. Three natives stabbed the Governor-Uenerai three times. Tuley fled, but were Sub- sequently shot down by Cossacks. Prince Galitzin was driving with hie wife when the would-be assassins rusheu upon the carriage, daggers in brand. Two seized the Governor-Uen- e,ral and attempted to drag him from the vehicle, while the Third man in- flicted two ugly wounde on the prince's bead and a third cut on the hand. A Cossack, who was in attendance upon ids Excellency, threw Himself upon tee assailants. 'While a hand - to -Land fight was in progress, the carriage was driven off at a gallop. Ultimately tee assailants were fol- lowed by a mounted guard of Cos- sacks, who had hurried to the scene. The Cossacks chased the fugitives through the brush, firing constantly with tneir rifles. They killed one man instantly. The other two were shot down 4•tid died soon afterward. After .Lis injuries had been dressed, Prince Galitzin attended a reception given by the citizens of Tillie, The at- tack las produced great indignat.on, the Govereor-Cieneral having become popular on account of Lis interest in the welfare of tate iuliabitan L. Ow- ing to the excitement, performances at the tneatres were suspended. The thickness of the cap worn by the prince saved his life. Despatcher from Transcaucasia within the past month s11ow consid- erable unrest at Tiflis, owing to the transfer of the armenian Church property to the ltusnia.n Government, under the decree of June 25th. Dis- turbances bare been reported at various points„ in which quite a number of lives were lost, and the Armenian Cheroh authorities are said to Have threatened to teannfer the headquarters of the Armenian Catholic Caurch to another country. Prince Galttzxn, wlio was sent to his present post a year ago last April, was charged with having re- commended the transfer of the church property; and several times his life has been threatened. London, Nov. 3.2. --The search of No Trace of Sagotuii's Assassin. the police for the murderer of ,?ag- atel eagouni, President of the Arm- enian Revolutionary: Society, in Lon- don, who was shot and killed by,' an unknown assassin in the suburb of; Nunhead late lionday, evening, has been futile, up to noon to -day. Sev- eral foreign revolutionary clubs were raided during the early,! hours of the morning ; but with no result. The inquest opened this morning, and an important point developed was that the murderer shot with His left hand. The nevelser was an ordinary five chamber weapon, and not a ten shot one as reported. Count Latnsdorft ht Paris. Paris, Nov. 3. --Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Foreign Minister, ar- rived here to -day. M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Af- fairs, was at the railroad station to extend a personal greeting to Lire Russian Minister. The official character of the visit was shown by the presence at the station of M. Moliard, Chief of the Protocol. Prince Ouroussof, the Russian Am- bassador ; Prince Orloff and other members of the Rusblan Embassy, were also present. Count Lamsdorff was escorted to the (iontinental Ho- tel. and during the day many rails of courtesy were exchanged, the im- portant conferences. between M. Dei- casse and Count Lamsdorff being de- ferred until later. The programme of the visit has been changed, so as to include a grand dinner at the Eiys•ee Palace to -morrow night in honor of Count Lamsdorff. PRETENDED SIIE HAD A SON. polish Countess on Trial on a Grave Charge. ;Berlin, Nov. 2. _- The trial of Countess Isabella Wesierska Meal- ecki belongini.s to a rich' and aris- tocratic Polish family, on a charge of .pretending .to lu.tve borne a boy six years ago, and presenting lam as the heir to an estate at Wro- biewo, Province of Posen, consist- ing of 10,000 acres, and having a yearly rental roll of $15;000, be- gan here yesterday morning. Count Ii`wile '-i appears at the trial charged with being• an aeces- sory to the crime. The 'Countess was arrested Jan. 2221x1 of the pre- sent year, and the Count was tak- en into custody Aug. 5tli. One mid- wile and 'two warren servants were also placed in tble box as aceeesor- ':i1h?e irnorning 'train from Posen br'ough't about 250 witnesses, met- er Polish' peasant folk. Countess Iwileeki is defended by seven leading Polish! lawyers. Great interest is xutuefested in the case here, as the itemised Countess and Count are well known in the higii- est aristocratic circles of Berate 1iu. She was born in March, 1846, mar- ried the Count in 156.1, and bore him three children„ the last in 1879. Then, the Count • and Count- oss claim, the latter gave birth to the son who is the cause of the present proceedings. This son is said to have been born Jan. '27, 1897. The prosecution claim's that the child is the son of a peasant girl of Perone,. in Aus- trian Silesia, who is present -as a witness and as a claimant for the child. The session of the court yester- day was occupied with' taking the testimony of the Countess, who is of aristocratic appearance. She stood erect, holding a lorgnette in her right hand and gesticulating excitedly with her left hand while answering ;questions put to '1a:rr by the presiding judge. The Countess pleaded "not guilty;' and sweep- ingly denied all eompliently in any criminal act. But the Countess, in her answers to the judge, was frequently unable to •give satisfactory , explanation of many suspicious circumstances, and some damaging facts were brought out, including that when the Countess came to Berlin sbe said she did so because she could get better medical attention thlere, but she did not call in a, physician. The Countess, it was n.iso shown by the testimony, intended going abroad, and only desisted from so doing upon representations 'being made to her that the .collateral heirs of the estate would suspect hier. Another point brought out was that the Countess refused to see the family physician when he came from Posen to Berlin in order to attend 'her. THREE KILLED IN A BATTLE. Doukhobor.' Great Loss Ver: gin is Away. Whtnipegi, Man., Nov. 2. — Word was receiveu neve to -day of a riot in •the Doukhobor colony to the north of Swan Lake, in which three pert,ons were killed and another so severely injured he is not expected to live through the night. Peter Veregin, the anti -Christ of these people, went on a visit to the lorkton colony on Friday. Be- fore he went lie called his followers before him, and, while they lay prostrate before him, he told them to • follolty: out his doctrine during his absence,' and to pay no heed to any so-called missionaries who might visit them. Far aL day all went well, until a Methodist minister named Perkins arrived at the settlement and tried to preach to them. The community divided itself, and one faction of the women stripped themselves of clothing, as they have done on sev- eral previous occasions, and start- ed to look for Peter Veregin, their leader and self-styled Christ. The oxen interfered, and a pitch- ed baltie ensued, in which the con- testants used lIie first tools which came to their hands. Wasy1 Itiyryk was almost cut to pieces with a reaping hook. Selellites skull was split with] an axe, a hay fork was run through the body of Jean Was- keskie, and Andrew, Bay was so se- verely injured about the head and body that he was mot expected tel live. Several of the English-speaking people who saw the affray tele- graphed for the Northwest Mount - e:1 Police, and a number of trent have set out for the scene. After the battle had raged for over an hour, Peter Veregin re- turned suddenly, and the contt'St- ants stopped the battle and laid down 'heir arms and fell prostraite before him. Tie asked an explana- tion and ordered the wounded car- ed for. They numbered some dozens. A settler who'' watched the fight from afar says that 'he feels sure that there were 300' men in the affray. , While TO KILL, BOYCOTTING, Alabama's Far -Reaching Law on the Subject. Alabama is legislating against thle boycott and all interference with the right of the individual. B6' 'the new statute it is declared unlawful not only for. two' or more persons to conspire together for the purpose of preventing; any person or persons, firm or corpor- ation, from carrying on any law- ful business, or for the purpose of interfering with, tile same, but also for any person or persons to go near or loiter" aberut the pre- mises of any person, firer or cor- poration engaged in a lawful business for the purpose of influ- encing or Inducing others not to trade 'with, buy from, sell to or have business dealings with such persons, firm or corporation ; or to picket this works or place of business of small other person, firm or eorporatio t for the purpose of interfering with: or injuring any lawful •business. It is made unlaw- ful to print or circulate any not- ice of boycott, boycott cards, stickers, "dodgers," or "unfair lists," publishring or declaring that a .boycott or ban exists, or has ex- isted, or is contemplated, against any Berson, firm or corporation doing a lawful business. Finally, it is declared unlawful to use force, threats or other means of intimi- dation to prevent any person from engaging In an lawful oc- cupation at any puce lie o'r she sees fit. These prohibitions nee to bo enforced by fines ranging froin $50 to $1300 or by silty days' lin- priso'nment at hard labor. I ''' 3 IN BRIE° aa�� London-Th.e death is announced of Albert Dresden Van Dam, the jour- nalilt and author, He was born in 1881t1.3.8 . Petersburg—A despatch from Port Arthur says Viceroy Alexieff bur; gone to Talienwan, to inspect the Ilussia.n naval forces in the l'acIfie. Bilboa, Spain. --The striking miners des-troyed with dynamite during the night a railroad roundhouse and the electric light and telephone plants. Derlin-.Emperor William has de - (tided to erect a bronze monument to the late Herr Krupp, the gun maker, l)efor•e the Imperial Yacht Club at Iiie.l. ; Canajohiarie, N. Y.—Valentine Kir- by, aged 59 ;years, a prominent architect • and builder, dropped dead to -day in tiro Canujoharie COLO e- t pry. Delete—The T'oteign Office denies that there is (Lily truth i., the report abut. Larou '0,1 5Ler•nborg, the Ger- man Ambassador at 'Washington, will not return to his post. Constantinople. --The Council of liinistors 1i.La tal,p:an•ted a commission to. consider the Austro -Russian de- mands and to ascertain the attitude of the other powers on the subject. Bela Past—Hui:gory—Adolph Fri_d- mane, an American, has teen ar- rested here at the instance of Unit- ed States authorities .en the• charge of fraucluleet bankruptcy In New York. London—'h-e Copenhagen corre- spondent of the Daily Mail says in a despatch that the Russian cruiser Dimitri Donski, laden with troops and guns, passed Copenhagen to -day, booed Tor the far east. London—After many mouths of negotiations there has been formed a combine of the anthracite coal mine owners of South Wales. The combine is capable of an output of a million tone of coal a year. . Brest, France.—Tho crew of thirty- one men of the french barque Sa- voiril, who were thought to have been Wel, have been saved. Tlie captain's wife and the four other women who were on board the vessel were drowned. Pittsburg—In an explosion in tiie Greentree 'tunnel of the Wabash railroad at a late hour last night, William See was killed, Harry Gor- don was fatally hurt, and Harry Payne was badly hart, but will re- cover. (Constantinople.—It is said ;that a Cabinet council has decided to reject the proposed :ippointment of assess- ors and other measures of control set forth .in the Austro -Russian plan for the betterment of conditions in Macedonia. New York—A cable to the Sun from Paris !says: A despatch from Constantinople to the Figaro says the Sultan is seriously i11. It Is reported that he had a fainting fit recently and that his oondition 10 very disquieting. London—In a despatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, the correspondent of the Times says an order has been issued for the complete demob'lizat o:i of the Bulgarian reserves, all of wlioin will return to their hones to -morrow, This apparently marks the end of the war scare for this year. Chicago.—Through the failure of a gripman to drop the lever while pass- ing_ a cable. vault, - a North Clark street grip ear and trailer crashed together last •night, practically tea eseoping the Latter. Six persons were injured seriously, of whom one will die, while a score of passengers were cut and bruised by the accident. /%IANV HOMELESS. Big Fire in New York Drove People luto the Street. New York, Nov. 2.—hundreds are homeless; io-diiy, one of the firemen f� ''sol, t'a'd a scare' or more are suffering from injuries as 'thle re- sult of a fire that wiped out a. large section of Icing's Bridge last night, Twenty buildings, including stores and dwellings, which sheltered about 'thirty families, were totally destroyed, and 150 men, women nail clad, were turn- ed homeless out into the cold morn- ing air. Jahn J. iSulli.van, 86 years of age, a fireman of Engine Coftn- pany No. 62, WAS relieved at 6 o'clock this morning, after fight- ing the flames all night, He was in an exhausted condition, and while waiting for a car tot goy Nome, he died This damage will probably, exceed $150,000. '11he eanse is unknown, but it is thought that Roman can- dle 'oxalis, shot off while a political parade was passing last night, testy 'have set fire to' some hay stored near. tine building. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Seventeenth Bulletin of the Census Contains Valuable lufermation. Ottawa report : The seventeenth bulletin of the census of 1901, giv- ing the statisticsof agriculture in Ontario, hag just been issued, It gives the total area of land in the Province as 141,125,880 acres, o$ Which 10,:;66,2131 acres were under crop in the census year, 4,823.079 acres in forest and 8,259,322 acres in swamp or waste land. Coin - pared with the (senses of 1801, there Is an apparent decrease of 1,153,803 sores in the area under field crops; there is a decrease of 23,769 acres Of orci'hrd, an ircrea.se of 30,988 acres in small fruits, and of 48.4 acres in vineyards'. 'Ibe table of agricultural values, taken for the first time in 1901, for farms and lots of under five 'acres, slows the value of laud and build segs $717,962,' eS implements ,and macbiiier,y, si52,697;7, ; live stook, $$131,827,761. The value of the crops and animal product for the census year was 8196 952,362. This is equivalent to $1 0..0.19 for tits average farm, which is nearly 21 per cent. of the investment. The most notable incr ease in crops itt in tobacco, the yield of which was 8,r0 2,739 Pounds in 1901, as com- pared with' 314086 in 1891. The number of horses decreased from 771,835 to 721,138; milck cows in- creased from 876,117 to 1,065,708; other .patilo increased from 1,061,- 2106 to 1,422,043; sheep from 1.- 023,719 to 1,016,456; swine from; 1,121,890 to 3,"6 i,69ti. Tito produc- tion of eggs, enumerated for the first tune in 19001., was 49,779.8'15 dozens, valued at $5,7:.6,221. ''Tie value of dairy products in 1901 was $31,776,31:0. In this is included the nt`llc and cream sold to cheese, but- ter and condensed mak factories, amounting to 815,070,922. There were in operation In the Province during the census year 1,- 836 factories, of which 172 mads cheese and butter, 1,061 made cheese only, and 1021 made butter only. The cheese er'oriuet was 181,967,612 rounds, worth' $13,•110981; the but- ter product, 7,559,542 pounds,worth &1,527,935, a total value of $14,- 708,922. In 3.891 there were 803 cheese and 1.5 butter factories in Ontario, the -total value of the pro- duct being $7 563,1.:8. The increase in th'e value of factory dairy pro- ducts was therefore nearly double. The average rent of farms Is given as $1.64 per acre, and the wages for farm labor $5.15, including board. The value of hired labor in 3901. was $12,152,915. CABLE COMPANY LOSES. Australian Commonwealth Vetoes lex-Premier Barton's Plan. Ottawa, Nov. 2.—Th'e Government has received word from Australia that the Commonwealth Senate has turned down the arrangement made by former Premier Minister Barton with the Eastern Extension Cable Company, which gave unfair advant- age to that concern in competition with the State-owned all -British Pacific cable. Against this agree- ment the Canadian Government pro- tested both to the Imperial and Aus- tralian authorities, but Sir Edmond Barton contended that the arrange- ment extended over the entire Coms monwealth for the limited period of ten years, the advantages which the Eastern Extension Company pos- sessed in New South Wales in per- petuity, and that the extinction of, this perpetual franchise was a dis- tinct gain for the Pacific cable pro- ject. . Tliis excuse was, however, regard.; ed by Canada, as a partner in the Pacific cable, to be a mere pretense for giving the Eastern Extension Co. greater powers of competition. The same view happily,, was taken in the Commonwealth Senate where Sen- ator Stainforth. Smith moved an am- endment to the effect that the ar- rangement he not ratified until the partners in the Pacific cable enter- prise had been heard on the eubjeet. This amendment, it•appears, was car- ried by 20 to 16, thus knocking the unfair arrangement out for the pre- sent at least. . , BIGGER ENGINES, AND WAGES Locomotives Figure in Request 10 be Made to Canadian Pacific. Montreal, Nov. t?.—FroSn what Mr. A. Itcainedy, chairman of the com- mittee representing the engineers em- pl,o3•ed by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, states it woukl seem that the big engines lately introduced by the company will figure in a request that id being made for an increase of wages. It -is claimed that the engines do twice a.s much work as the smaller ones, and require twice as much attention. M'r. IKennedy says that increases in wages have been asked, but no schedule for a general increase has been demand- ed. Where cost of living is ex- pensive, a larger wage is desired, ad the percentage of Increase de- manded accordingly. There will be a meeting of 'the committee and Mie. D. McNicoli, general manager of the company, on November 2. WINNIPEG STRIKE ENDED. Contractors Agree to Give 1U en Straight Wage per flour. Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 2. —• W. L Mackenzie King, Deputy Minister of Labor, to -day handed out a state- ment for publication to the effect that the carpenters' strike, involv- ing nearly 1,500 men, and over a hun- dred contractors, is practically set- tled. IIb concedes that the men's demands for a straight 85, -cent per (pour, instead of a siding scale of from 15' cents to 32 cents an hour, is just, and says that the large maj- ority of the ibuildere have now, con- sented to the men's terns. There are only three or 'four ficins who refuse to agree, and consequently only two or three dozen men are idle, atmost the normal number of men generally out of work at this time. The property -owners of Windsor have carried the by -latus to raise $56',000 for granolithic walks and $15,000 to remodel !the Central School building and caonvert it into a city ho,11. On the passenger That of the Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse, watieh sailed yesterday from New. York, was the name of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Ian Tl'n.mil- ton, of the 13mitish army, Who had 'been in the United States and Can- ada ,for several Weeks. SCHAB ND PIEH1 '', Ufl6RN Charged With Receiving Bonds and Stock Without Giving Any Equivalent Whatever. Glass Workers' Union Resolve to Amalgamate. New York, Nov. 2.—This American says to -day : J. Pierpont Morgan, Charles M. Schwab, Cal. 3. J. Mc- Cook and others were arraigned severely by Receiver Smith, jun., le thle report of the U. S. Shipbuild- ing Company affairs, which was completed last night for filing with United States Circuit Judge Kirk- patrick, in Trenton. Receiver Smith, states that Chas. M. Schwab, J. Pierpont Morgan, Iierbert. Satterlee, Morgan's son-in- 1aw and several vendors or con- trolling officers of constituent companies received bonds and stock for which their equivalent was never paid thle U. S. Shipbuilding Company. His report charges that Schlwab and Morgan alone a received $i0,000,000 preferred and common stock, for which they rendered ab- solutely no equivalent. He strong- ly recommends that all suclil hold- ings be assessed at a fair estimate value. He also characterizes as re- sponsible, the Morgan -Schwab - Harris -Gates & Co. agreement, of which $L0,000,000 elf Morgan and Schevab preferred and common shipbuilding stock was to be mar- keted in outside securities. Ugly terms, such as "fraudulent" and "reprehensible" abound in the vol- uminous report, which is remark- able also for its drastic handling of various questionable phases of United States Shipbuilding promo- tion, and particularly the sale, or loan of the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany by Chas. a 11. Schwab.. Receiver Smith goes so far as to intimate strongly that Chas. M. Schwab was acting simply as ad agent for the Morgan billion dollar steel trust when he paid 1$7,20&,000 for the Bethlehem plant. FavoreAmalgamation. Anderson, 1121x1., Nov. 2.—President John J. Phillips, jun., of the Win- do'ty Glass Workers' Association of Aineri,oa, 'h:as announced that the referendum vote recently taken on the. question of the ramalgamatio'n Of hie organiz'atioln with that of the old local assembly, Not. '3.00, of which Simon Burns is president, had been counted, and was overwhelm- ingly in favor of the amalgamation. This ends the fight, which blas rent the glass workers' union for sev- eral years. TiNREE MEN KILLED. Dashed to Death on the Rocks' at the Falls. Nibiara Falls, Ont., Nov 2.-= fatal accident occurred at Dawson & Riley's wheel pit at the Canadian Niagara Power Co's. works this morning, in which throe men lost their lives, while two others were badly injured. A portion of the day shift men were beinig lowered in the bucket used for that purpose, the men being Geo. Hiller, employed as pumpman, who resided with his widowed mother in this town, and five Hungarian laborers, whose names are unknown. When the bucket, hav- ing reached about half the depth of the pit, or about fifty feet from the bottom, was stopped to allow ono of the men to get off, some one in the bucket prematurely gave the signal to lower, when the side of the bucket got caught on the cross bridge and dumped Hiller and four of the Hungarians out. The men fell to the solid rook below, some fifty feet.' Two of the Hungarians were killed instantly,. while Hiller had Both arms and both legs broken and 'W(.1.8 internally injured, and died in the ambulance on the way to the Emergency Hospital. The other two Hungarians are still alive, but ono is so badly injured that it Is doubtful If he will recover. The fourth Hun- garian escaped with a broken leg and a few bruises . LOST AT SEA. Steerage Passenger Disap- peared From the Noordland. Philadelphia, Nov. 2.—Tate steam- er Noordland from Liverpool, reports mysterious tragedy, at sea. Thomas Hall, of Manchester, a steerage passenger, and his brother- in-law, Frank Allison, frequently} played cardia with other passengers and were generally successful. This caused them to be disliked, and the officers watched them, In the belief that they 'were professional card eharps. There was a quarrel during a game on Friday evening, and Hall' was driven on deck, while Allison took refuge in his bunk. When the angry crowd reached the deck Hall Ness missile; One of the deck Bands maid b'e heard a epiasb in the water,, Hall has not been seen since, , ,.,i.