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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1903-12-18, Page 2;FIREBUCS IN KING Tft'ISLIlP. In Extraordinary Series of Farm Conflagrations. Hall Crowded With Farmers From All Parts. n interesting Chapter in Country Life. if (eL'idniberg Deslpatclir-lieigb Of ter - 'Per in the township of King was the subject of judicial investigation 'to -day. James Bell, a prosperous 'rammer, owning the east half of lot 23 of the 10th, concession, has had four fires, and his son, owning an adjoining property, had one, all within six or seven months. He him - ,self has lived recently in the town- eship of Tecumseh, in Simcoe county, and rented the King property; but iso mucin afraid have his family become that even last night he felt obliged to leave the preliminary investigation in order to stand guard over his remain- ing properties. The fires were ; , Li April—Trifling fire in weodethed. July 10—James .Self's house. Oct. 9—James Bell's twto barns and contents. Nov. 18—James Bell's smokehouse. :, Nov.22—Jonn Bell's barp., , , An Investigation Started. 1)TIa series of Tires seemed so ex- ;traurdinary that Deteetive Joseph Rogers, of the Attorney -General's De- partment, who, under an act to se- cure expeditious and inexpensive in- orestigetien into such casts, has a cor- onesr authori.y, looked h.to the mat - iter ana came to the conclusion that !there was ground for at least an In - !quest, and accordingly called it to- day. Mr. Al. FI. Dew•art, K. 0, County {Crown Attorney, represented the i Crown. Tae inquest was held in the ;ball -room of St. George's Hotel, and 'the interest was so intense that the (hall Was packed all clay by farmers lemur all parts of the county. , It appealed from tbe evidence that i!ames Belt inherited the King prop- erty from Ms father, who had seeded :there in 187; that he had afterwards ;acquired a farm in Tecumseh, six miles away, and lead rented the ',homestead to several in succession, (including Thomas Godson, who had left in March, 1'303. Godson had an ;,arrangement by which be paid a por- tIon of tare rental in work, but finally 'disagreed on the terms, and moved ;to tbe adjoining farm. , Dispute With Godson. Godson claimed that Bell owed )flim $32.02. He entered suit, and the .case was set for trial in Aurora on July 18th, which svgs turee days af- iter the destruction of the house. !Godson offered to settle for $10,and "afterwards for $ 3, but Bell would not ;pay. When the case was called God.. !son would not go into the witness box, and the suit was dismissed. Bail ,safe he had $1,200 insurance on the :house, which did not cover hall lits :toes: that he had $S00 insurance on !the barns, but nothing on the con- tents; that the loss on the smoke- ellenIse urea small. His two properties `!a King and Tecumseh were mort- ,gagel for $4,500. At the time of the !first fire this hal been reduced to 1$3,400. Ile applied tete insurance Ito the reduction on the mortgages, ;which a etr'ought down, to $2,100• Af- 'ter th'e fire in the barns he again applied the insurance to reducing the :mortgages, which now stand at $1,-• ,.500. The fire in the house took place •between 4 and 5 ,p. m., and he bail 'not been there after 10•.45 a. m. :The fire in the barns occurred while )hie was returning from; Schomberg Fair. ' "I can give no reason for the •fire in any one instance," sail Mr. Bell. • James Bell claimed to have lost $2,700 over and above hie insar- arrce, and John Bell about $2,000. Threatening Language lised. George Brown, who occupied the ' east part of the house, said he was ;esmile away at the time of the Mire and b'ad lost $700., Several witnesses testified that ./Thos. Godson had used threatening :language about Bell. Thomas taod- i eou h'ims'elf denied that he had any !feeling, against Dell, but asserted !thh feeling was the other way. Ile said 'th'at he thought he had been ' "'rogued" out of money due him, Band admitted whenever he thought Alf it hie felt "sore." He elahued itth!at he was on the verandas of his own (house smoking his pipe when bre first saw the fire of July 10, butt admitted that he did not go to !help in putting it out, because lie Ale:aught he might be blamed. He )admitted that as late as October 'bile still felt "sore" about 13e11. He eald he was not surprised at the Sire, and even expected it, because ieeell wets so careless with lits ,lupe about the buildings., "I never fired =either building if I die 'this minute," exclaimed Godson lass he thumped the table, "Norman Reynar testified that you told hfiin' on Oct., 33, a,t a social (thee, you had not done with Bell, And Would get even with! him, yet.' I "That is a lie! I was not at any 'eocial this, fall. I •see nowt that a flet of ,lies are told about this `ailing." ' Gticleon' Was so affected by the '*bat Of the room' and tbe severity; oe the examination that lie was hlelped to a glass of wetter and obliged to lie do.vn for a whlile.; Joseph' Godson, ran of the pre-, ceding witnese, created a scene by :his evasive anewers. He finally ad- mitted that life father was sore at Bell for trying to "rogue" liiml out of wages, but claimed to know nothing more about the case;) t NO DANGER OF CANCER. Mailgnant Efi'ects From liaisex's Pre seat• illness Not Possible. IBer11.0, Dee. ,14—.T1.be Fra,n'1kfoet Ga- zette says it learns that the pos- sibility of any malignant develope meat from Emperor William's pre- sent illness is now out of the ques- tion. The Kaiser will open the Prussian Diet in .person in January. It is believed that this statement is made on the authority, of Prof. Mor- itz Schmidt, of Frankfort, who eer- forined the operation on the Emper- or's teepe . :Emperor William, who now takes daily walks outdoors at Potsdam, has ordered the Imperial yacht Hohen- zollern to be placed in readiness for a. cruise in the Mediterranean, but nondate has been set for her depar- ture. • It is understood that His Majesty will embark on the yacht at some Italian port le his physicians ap- prove of each' a trip after watching the effect of the southern climate upon lent. It is stated that the Em- peror will make his appearance at hunting parties at Goehrde on Deo, 17thl and 18th, although it is not supposed that be will participate in the shooting. , IRELAND OUT FOR (HOME RULE Nationalists Resolve to Push Demand for Autc nomy. Dublin, Dee. 14.—Information from centres of Irish nationalism through- out tate country shows that popular opinion is united and aggressive in support of the idea that the party must be sent to Westminster in Feb- ruary, prepared to push the demands for a laborers' bill, a university bill and above all a Home Rule bill. It is not expected that the whole pro- gramme can be real:zed at once, but people and politicians alike are anx- ious that the national movement suf- fer no baelosnt. ; r, , English crit:ce have been assuming that Irelaticl's reoccupations with re- gard to the Land Bill would prevent the effective pursuit of other projects. Tae leaders of the party admit no such proposition. They declare that apathy on the part of the nation con- cerning those things which Irishmen esteem vital would alienate the sym- pathy of the Celtic race wherever represented. Willie the country pro- poses to persevere in getting the best terms possible from the land- lords, -at the same trine it will organ- ize and agitate foe a full measure of •nationhl justice. . • . • L ! , A NEW FINANCIAL DILL. Measure Identical With Aldrich Bill iu United States Senate !Washhnglon, Doe. ;I4.—United States Senator Nelson to -day introduced a bill almost identical with the Al- drich Financial Lill, introduced in the Congress, in so far as it provides for the increasing of eiroulat,ng notes of lvational Banking Associa- tions. It provides that the Treasurer of the United States may receive as deposits, m addition to the United States bonds required to be deposited under existing laws, bonds or inter- est-bearing obligations of any State, county or city, or railroad company, under the same conditions enacted in the Aldrich Bill. Provision' is made that the Banking Associations shall be entitled to receive circulating notes in amounts equal to the par value of such bonds or interest bearing obligations provided that the total amount of circulating notes is- sued WW1 not exceed at any time the amount of capital. stock actually paid In. DOVER A PORT OF CALL. hamburg-!` enerican Diners Will Call at the British Port. London, Dec. ;14.—A vete-tract mak- ing final th'e adoption of Dover as a port of call for this Hamburg - American Line . steamers was segu- ed to -day, and will become opera- tive in July, 190'•i. The arrange- ments resulted Swan an interview/ between the Dover Harbor Board and Emperor }William and a series of conferences between the board and Herr 'Bailin, .director of the steamship company. The extension of the harbor and the making of railway connections, which have been in progress for some time, will now be carried forward more enerlgetloaliy, • WOULD NOT EAT, Rich Man Crazes! by Starvation at Derby, Conn. Derby;, Cane., Dec. 14—Possessed of $5O,00u In cash, Eugene Crofutt, 02 years cid, a Huntington recluse, is dead from starvation. He had been fading for several years from not eating aureole it food, and a month ago, after a fainting fit, his condi- tion became serious. The town scleet- •men tried to provide for him and send nim to a hospital, but he refused all aid. Ills brother entreated hien to take food and medicine, but his efforts were unavailing, and the old man wasted away.' Itis dying plea was 1 that it would be a waste of money, and that he could. not afford it. Of late Crofutt had thought his house haunted, and on one, occasion • lie climbed to a tree lop and remain- ed there all night, because he feared to enter the dilapidated building. Z NE '}y S .IV BRithr Berlin.—Adolf VonHausemann, bead of the Diseonto Gezellschaft, is dead. -- Boston, lfass.--Tse six storey brick chair factory of John A, Dun, 197 Portland street, was burned to -day. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Windsor -John H. Browning, Wadi- ington, D. C., has been swain in at U. S. Consul Morris' office, as immi- grant inspector for the ports of Windsor and Detroit, 1 1 , Dierlin —The University extenelon movement has taken strong bold of University of Heidelberg, henceforth prolfeessors will be allowed to hold lectures accessible to any adult per- a airlaaven, Vt —Ira R. Alien, Chair- man of the atepublican State Com- •mission,an'd a prominent business man died to ;to -day, aged 44 years. He had beenill less than a week with pneumonia. --- New York—Henry Farley, walking delegate or the Painters' Union, who committed perjury An connection with the trial of Samuel J'. Parks, plead- ed guilty 'to -day in the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, and was sentenced to not less than one year, not more than two years in the State prison. (Lonidon.—The Moscow correspon- dent of the Times says; "The Gov- ernment is hurriedly preparing 'to meet the contingency of a general Arabian revolution. The Caucasus troops have been drafted and extra- ordinary ,precaution taken to safe- guard the main railway line. Berlin.—Ti.o breign Office has not been informed of the details of Rus- sia -Japanese negotiations, but it re- gards the basis of understanding, as cabled to the Associated Press from Si. Peterburg yesterday, as being within the Ip'nobabilities, and the of- ficials bore remain firmly convinced that a settlement will be reached: Astoria, Ore. The Italian Ship', Cavour, lumber laden for the west coast, dragged her anchors and we'gt ashore on Republic Spit, not far from the Point Adam's rife -sav- ing station. Mlle seas are breaking over her and there is Little hope of her being saveii. The Point Adams life saving crewi took off the master ,o'1 the ship and sixteen men. YELLOW „NEWSPAPERS. Are Responsible for the Spread of Crime in Chicago. Chicago, Dec, 14—"Socialism, which is but one step from Anarolry, 1s rampant 'In every section of Ch'i- ca,go, and it breeds unrest, disorder and contempt for the law. The city is under a reign of terrorism, and crime." Former Governor John M. Ham- ilton made this statement yester- day in the parlors of the Hamilton Club, where 100 lawyers and busi- ness men were assembled in memor- ial session for James A. Fuilen- wider, attorney and clubman, who was killed' by highwaymen., "I believe tate real cause of ail the trouble is corrupt, venal, yel- low journalism," continued Mr. Hamilton. "By this I mean those newspapers which issue extra edi- tions hours before the time they are supposed to be published. They have flaming headlines, magnifying crime and attempting to make sen- sations out of everything that oc- curs. The tendency is to excite the public mind and present thieves, h'ighw,aymen and bandits as Heroes, and many boys and weak-minded men are influenced to , disrespect law and frown upon decency. "These are the real causes for the carnival of crime which is hov- erin•g over our city to -day. I do not refer to the new,spapers, and we bltve them in Chicago, which. are content with publishing truthful news and working for the moral and physical improvement of the city and its people." , -THOUGHT OUGHT RECORDER," Rev. Mr. Frost Hears From the Patent Office. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 14.— Al- though aedinner to Andrew Carnegie bo New York was disturbed, and a rnontlee incarceration 113 an insane tsy.um ,ol:owe'l, the Rev. W. A. Craw- ford (''rout, svb'o tried to interest kir. Carnegie in his "Thought Recorder," le now en roesession of papers from the patent office recording his schen'.. It was in Apeil, 1001, that Mr. Frost went to the dinner given to Mr. 'Carnegie in New York by the Sccieity of .American. Authors. He had been working on an appliance for a tycuwriLer which emp:oyel the feet and lege to move the space, cap- ital and 1180re shift keys. A friend hard told him that Mr. Car- negie would back the scheme. He took hili friend's advice to seek him and raised a disturbance. His eject - tion from the banquet room followed. He went to his rowel in the Waldorf- Astoria. Tie was stiffer n,g from asthma. For relied he had been inhaling ether. The attaches of the Hotel smelt the odor and believing that he was ate tem'I•ting •atecide they to* the eth- er from him. For a Month lIr. Frost was kept hi' • • sail a'tyhinj in Baltimore All the ,time lib was working on hie patent. Now with' its completion: be says the with Its completion he says that typewriters' epeed may be increased - 40 tier cent. The arrangement is ap- plicable to 'the multiple telegraph and all machines where a key, board is used. At the time of his incarceration Mr, Frost was the rector of thio Memorial Church of tbe Holy ;Comfort in Bea'; timore. -He went to that city from 'Toronto. , WILL IMPORT MILCI GOATS. 17. S. Government to Experiment With Animals From Abroad. (Waeshij gtois, Dee. ,14.—The 'Depart-, went of Agriculture has decided to send a representative abroad to all they countries of Europe and the east to make a s,p•ceial Study of goats, and buy specimens of the best breed 'of ini.ch. and shearing 'animals. The goats thus secured will be kept at Government expense, and will be shown at the St. Louis Exposition. There are no distinctively milch goats in this country, while in all the southern countries of Europe they are a common source of mine supply, the usual custonv being for the goat herder to drive his animals to the houses of his customers, where the milk is drawn and furnished warm and fresh!. There has of late years been a de - Mend for goats' milk for children and Lovelies, and it is believed that the lntroluction of ranch goats would prove a profitable investment. The usual price of the milk, when it can be hia.d at all is 20 cents a pint, and the daily yield of an average mech goat is from two to three quarts. HELEN FELLER Smelled a Train Nobody Could Hear or See, New i3runiswink, Dec. 14.—During a visit tlia,t Miss Helen .Beller, the blind dea,t mute, made recently to the Me- tuchen home of Mr. Henry M. Alden, the editor of Harper's Magaz:ne, she astonished her friend, Miss Annie Al- den, by suddenly rising from her seat on the porch and saying in the pecu- liar tones which site has learned to produce ; '•T,sere goes a railroad train." Now, the home or the Aldens is at least three-quarters' of a. mile from the Metuchen station of the Pennsyl- vania 1t t.Iroad, and not one of the little party who had been asked to meet Miss Keller had heard the train, shied. really had passed, nor could it possibly be seen. So Miss Alden asked with wonderment ; "Why, Helen, Bowe could you tell ? You can't see it ; you can't Bear it. How do you know ?' As soon as the words had been read by Miss Keller, with her thumb on. Miss Alden's throat for the stroke of the glottis and her first and seemed fingers tracing the lip articulation, slie replied ; "Why, don't you know, I smell the smoke. When the children who had been invited especially to meet her were introduced, Mies A1:'e:i'a guest pas: ed her lianas over their faces. She sa'd to one, "I believe you look like my lit- tle sister." Then she showed them her watch, made with hands which register the time on the outer surface in such a manfingers.ner that they may be read by the , , PRIEST RESCUES PRIEST And Risks Life in Church to Save Sacred Vessels. Kingston, N. Y., Deo. '14—Fighting with ilames and emoke which were rapidly destroying the altar and threatening the eacred veFsels which he endeavored 'to save, in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at Rosen - dale, N. Y., the (Rev. Father Leonard nearly Inst his life this morning. He was dragged from his perilous posi- tion by one of his assistants, the Rev. leather Cummings, who also saved the sacred vessels and the oonsecrated host, a,t the risk of his own life. When the alarm was first sounded Father Leonard rushed Into the church, going directly to the altar, where the fire raged moat fiercely. He refaced to heed the warnings of 'his danger, and Father Cummings, appearing on the scene, threw aside lis cassock, and, rushing into the burning church, dragged Father Leonard out just ars he was over- come by smoke and heat. Returning to the altar, Father Cummings quickly gathered the sac- red vessels and bore them out, fall- ing exhausted on the threshold of the vestry. ' St. Peter's was the hosidsomest Catholic Church in Ulster county, and was valued at $30,000. GOT IT IN THE NECK. Insane Man Stabs Priest in Church. Des Moines, Iowa, Dee. 14.—While pro- nouncing the benediction at the close of evening service, Father Roach, pastor of St. Martin's Church, Cascade, Iowa, was stabbed in the neck by Chas. Moneageant an insane man. Father Roach, t hough seriously injured, wilt re- cover. Moneageant is under arrest, and proves to have been a former inmate of the State Hospital for Insane. The crazed man rushed down the aisle of the church toward the priest, who supposed it was an urgent call that caused the interruption. He inclined his head, that his ear might catch what he expected the man to say. As he did so IVtoneageant plunged a dirk into the curate's neck. FflACES IT BACK OF MAD__"ULLA[J' Gan Oppose 38,000 Men to British Advance. But the Mullah is Deficient in. Artillery Forward Movement of the.. British Columns, 'Upper Sheikh, Dec. 14—During the poet tee days there has been a gena eral movement of troop's to the front. Tete first, or Gen. Manning's. brigade. which comprises the 1st, tact; and 3rd King's African Rifles, with their mountain battery and a de- tuch'nient of Somali mounted infantry,, have been concentrating ,at Boiiotle, where they have now been joined by, ; same of Lieut: Co1. Kenna's mounted] troops. The Second brigade, commanded bye Gen. Faeken, and composed of the 52n•d Sild.', the 27th Punjabis, a de-, tathment of the lst Hants Regiment,: and a email moveable infantry. 'eol- wain of Punjabis and pioneers, ander Lieut. -Colonel Wallace, have moved • forward to the advanced base at Kirrlt, the centre of a group of wells • on the lines of communication, about i hlalf way, between Buraro and Bo, little. The arrival of the last cletachniant of mounted troops at Bohotie may, be said to compete the strategic des-, gositon of the force. The Commissariat Department have had coi,siderable difficulties to con- tend with. In the first 'place, with the solitary exception of fresh mut ton, every commodity required for consumetion of the army, ba had to be imported from over sea., the s In the. next pace ever ounce has had to be conveyed by caravan over: seine 200 odd pines of country, this actual features of which have ne ceesitated tee employment of five dif-• ferent forms of transport, requiring_, where working at full pressure, somoe 9,: 03 camels, 2,000 mules,. and over 1.000 ponies.% O1 all the tribes and sub -tribes at present In the Mullah's army the, o e that may be said to be the most ; closely attached to his person—the backbone or this following—is the Ali Ghhari, a sub -tribe of the Dolbahan- tas, into which he married some: years ago, and whose territory on 1 the western side of the Nogal Val-, ley has always been his favorite cen-i tro and headquarters. Including the Ali Gheri, which'1 alone number 6.000 spears, the Dol -1 bahantas are believed to furnish some 21,000 fighting men, or over.) halt his whole army; the Mijjertain,, a comparatively small contingent of j 8,500; the Marehan, already refer -1 red to, about 7,000, in addition to. the other smaller tribes, the es -4 timate suggests a grand total of 88,000, with approximately 10 0001 ponies and 2,000 rifles, including the. 160 and 280 rifles token at Erigo., an•d Gum•burru, of which 340 were Ifartini-Metford and 50 Lee -Metes ford magazine rifles. • Of heavy ordnance ho is not be- lieved to have more than two piecese both of an obsolete and antielue pate' tern, of which one was recently sent to him from I3rosaeo, while the other% ho Sound at Galkayu when he cap -j tured that place from Yusuf Ali, the:.( Sultan of Obbia, shortly after the battle of Erigo. In addition to these he has the three Maxims captured at ;Erigo and Gurnburru, but of which he has so ram not been known to make any,! use, either an account of the penalty., of ammunition, or because he has no one wi.th him evlia understands the mechanism. His chief adviser' and trusted 11e$d tenant is understood to be Haji Suda,. e, Somali of the Tolijaala tribe, at,{ one time an interpreter on board a British mann-of-war, who svbs"quent-• ly accompanied in some similar ca -j pacity, the Jubaland expedition, In which he acquired a serviceable knowledge of British methods and of the modus operandi and the routine of a British column, SIAKESPERIAN RELICS. A Unique Collection Brings Good Prices at Auction in Lon Ion, • Landon, Deo. 14.— ',A small, bre unique collection or Selakespeareare relics wlas sold at Sotheby's to -day:,• A silver seal -topped spoon of thler period of James I., with a full- length figure of Shakespeare en -1 graved on the back, with the date of his death, 1616, beneath, fetched £75. A casket made of thte wood of a mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare, and fitted as an ink- stand, (brought £120. A picture de- scribed as "An unknown portrait of Sth0kespear," which was pronounc- ed to be a picture of the poet tak- en on his deathbed, sold for £18;14. Though this eves evidently the work of an amateur, authorities say that' in looking at It "we are gazing at the features of the immortal bard as he must have appeared when he was approaching death." Among other articles sold was a fourth copy of an issue tinknceve in this country, though there are two Cop.. les in America,. It tetched £215, i i • IArcb!bishop' Gravel, of Nicolet, lig reported 'to be tieing.. , u