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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-01-01, Page 6STRIKER9 AR ACAINST D -g 0, Police Forced to Protect Funeral Parties. 'Act as Pall -Bearers With Batons 'in Hand. Rich and Poor Alike are Affected by the Strike. ii 'Chicago report ; 'Union labor provoked rioting in churcbies yester- day in the presence of people mourn - .ng for dead relatives. The strike of livery drivers has produced acon- edition in Chicago more outrageous • tha,n any caused by tli,e acts o1 vio- !lance that heretofore have been ;been • caused by the methods of un- ldnism. Its pickets invaded church - leis, ignored the ordinary respect paid .to mourners, and forced insults upon ,hundreds of people by making it im- ipossi:bl,e to•secure funeral vehicles. Police protection :WAS demanded for many funerals, and in one ease an actual riot took place. Livery eta- . bio owners and undertakers say that ;they can secure ail the men they :need to fill the places Of the strikers, ibut dare not send out their vehicles ifor fear of violence and riot. De - 'sides the interference with funerals ;the strike has tied up all private am- Rbulancees and doctors' vehicles, and igreat suffering has already resulted. The funeral of Mrs. Lewke was held .at her home, 096 North Oakley ave- enue. The policemen marched on 'either side of the wagon as it Left ithe house, while hundreds of pickets 'and strike sympathizers followed on either 'side of the procession. Early in the day strike sympathiz- `ens gathered about the house. When !,the police arrived they had to drive lithe crowd away. Strike sympathizers attempted to `assault Undertaker Anton Linhart at Pile fettered of Mrs. James Vleck, said itio have been murdered by her hus- band. A squad of police charged and clubbed the crowd. • The undertaker who• drove the !'wagon was selected as the object of the mob's wrath. Howls and jeers ;greeted hint. Fearing Tor his life land the safety of the body in his ;charge, be sent for police aid. Lieut,. i P.tacek responded with a squad of police; and the crowd was dispersed after clubs were used Ireely. Police- tmen, with clubs in hand, acted as iaali-ibeaners. Rich and poor alike where affected iby the strike. lifianey could not hire 1,1eublie carriages or hearses. The re- mains of Judges Jonas Hutchinson, and Frederick R. Otis, both promin- ent for years in Chicago affairs, i.vsre taken to• their last resting • planes in embalming wagons. Rela- tive's and friends were saved the ne- cessity of following the vehicle to tho graveyard onthe bars by using private vehicles. DIES iN POVERTY. Daniel Milton Wanted to Lead Chris- tian Israelites London, Dec. 28. Daniel Milton, once a New England shipwriglit,,who claimed a divine commission, as the spiritual adviser of the sect of Canadian Israel- :tes founded by Joanna Southeott, died on Thursday in the village of Wren- thorpe, near Wakefield, at the age of 82. Milton, after being made a judge by the Christian Israelites of New York, announced Himself as the long expected '"Shiloh" (a word used by Jacob on his ` deathbed and interpreted variously as "the Messiah," or the City of Shiloh, or at Rest -Webster). Ile arrived pen- niless in 1860 at the door of Israel's Temple, otherwise Melbourne House, ,.Wreuthorpe. He informed Ifr. Wroe, ,the head of the Christian Israelite Church, that he had conte to assume his inheritance. He was foiled, and return- ed to America. Wroe died in 1863 and Milton again attempted to establish his Claim, but failed alter long litigation. Neverthe- ' less, he lived in the village, confident to his dying day that he would event wally occupy Melbourne House. The gates to the grounds were always kept locked, otherwise Milton would have often gone inside. Ile was frequently seen to carry a step -ladder from the cottage to the walls of the mansion in order to gaze on his Mecca. Few persons have ever made greater sacrifices for belief. He exchanged a wife and family and a comfortable home in America to live in solitude • and 'semi -destitution in a two -room eottage which was strangete stocked and furnished. Over the mantelpiece in large type was this inscription: "Jeans and Joanua, icy two witnesses -Shiloh," Milton declared that he never would ale, brit a neighbor who had not seen the "judge" for a couple of days peered through a creviceof the paper -covered window on '4V'eduesday and saw him lying semi-conscious at the bottom of ' the stairs with a wound in his head, from which he died the next day. ,ieanna Southeott was born in Devon - 'shires England, in 1750, and while a ser - vent at er-vent:at Exeter in 1700 joined theMeth- °nit Church. Two years later she are nounced herself as a prophetess, giving out a series of alleged revelations in rose and doggerel verse, One, called "Prophecies Announcing the Birth of the Prince of Peace,' ' was issued in' 1814. She secured thousands of follow- ers, to whom she sold sealed packets, warranted to secure the salvation of the purchasers. At last she announced that she would give birth to "Shiloh" or the "Prince of Peace," on Oct. 10, 1814. On that day she went into 4 trance, and two months later she died, A post-mortem examination showed that death was due to dropsy. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. A Mysterious Illuminant Baffled an Electrical Expert. London, pec. 28. -Discoveries are now'icoming thick' and fast.. One which unfortunately hlas escaped is puz- zling a well-known electrical inves- tigator. , He was experimenting a few weeks ago with a large vacuum tube, containing, as hie supposes}, vapor mercury, such as is used in an electric: glove light., He connected the battery and obtained a brilli- ant white light. He disconnected thie battery, and; to bis astonishment the tube continued, to shine as bright as ever.. The wonderful light continued for ten days, thie experimenter all the time trying to solve 'thla mystery,' Then the whole connection was ac- cidentally broken, and all attempts thus far to reproduce it have failed. The scientific world seems almost dumbfounded at Prof. William. Pam - say's discovery thiat the elements are, alter all, transmutable. It is felt that what has •been regarded as one of the foundations of science has leen destroyed„ Prof. Oliver Lodge now; launches the following stupendous theory : "There are those who have surmis- ed that matter.is, after all, only the weapon and vehicle of mind. The Way it interprets itself to our con- sciousness through the sense of the organs gives no clue to its nature. A. motion and alteration of the con- figuration of the molecules of our brain are believed to accompany every act of thought. It will be, at any rate, a suggestive analogy if a. material process of an essentially similar sort is found to' be occur- ring throughout what we know as the inorganic world -the world of dead matter -and we should begih to ask, Does all this motion cor- respondto some universal thought or amental activity likewise 1" FIRST JURY OF WOMEN. They Decided a Case in the Chicago Juvenile Court. Chicago, Dee. 28. -+For the first time in the history 01 the United States, so far as local records show. a jury composed of six women sat on a case before Judge Honore in the ju- venile Court to -day. The jury passed on a petition to have Mary McGann, eight years old, declared a delinquent and placed in an institu•.ion. The mo- ther of the girl declared that her child had been with her all her life, and would die if taken away from her. The jury sympathized with the mother, and declared a verdict that mother and daughter should be sent to an institntuon. The verdict 'vas concurred in by a jury of six men in order to make the verdieet legal. NO CHRISTMAS PARTIES. Saxon u Government Takes Extreme Measures Against Strikers. Berlin, Dec. 28. -The Saxon Gov- ernment has forbidden the holding of seven great C'h'ristmas parties at Crimmitsclilau by the strikers be- longing to the textile trades, on ground that they would be sediti- ous gatherings tending to disturb the public peace. A feeling of intense bitterness is the result. These par- ties ;were to he paid for out of th:e strike funds, so that no striker should be without a Christmas cele- bration, The National Society of Textile :Workers, has arranged to give a present to every, child.. The streets of Crimmitscheau aro nowi patrolled by gendarmes, whose or- ders are not to permit more thian two men 'to ibe together in the streets, so rthiat if two persons walking one way meet two others and stop to talk the assemblage is disperseecl., Nearly the whole !body of strikers, between seven and eight thousand, marched over the frontier into the territory of Altenburg, a, fewi days ago, to hold meetings out of the reach of 'the Saxon Government and discuss the situation. They are de- termined to persist in the strike, Which has lasted eighteen Weeks. TRIED TO KILL MAX NORDAU. Mass Who Fired Shot Said He Bad Been Chosen by Lot, Paris, Dec. 28. - About midnight last night a nusera:bly clad/uteri fired two shots at Max Nordau, !Vice -Pre- sident of the Congress of ;Zionists, at a Zionist ball at the Salle char- ms. One of the shots grazed Nor - clay, while the second wounded a guest named Assowedski. The man why fired tiro shot was im- modlately arrested. He said'lhe £owns a Russian, that Ills dame was Chain Snlik Louban, that he was i28years old, a revolnt•ionist, and had been chosen by lot to shoot Nordau. Louban is one of the {.:ionists who insisted upas the acquisition of',Pal- oc,tine. He and his co-conspirators' at Berne were antogonistic to (the plan advocated by M. ,Nordau and others tie establish the new Von of Africa. M. Nordau wa,s standing at •a win- dow in the bail -room talking to a friend, When he was shot,and owes his life to a man cvho, noticing Lou- lsaln pcinet the revolver, pre'eentedtlim from . taking accnrate aim. • KILLED LION WITH KNIFE. Transvaal Rat,ger Shows a Wonderful, Coolness. London, Deo, 28.-1 graphic story Of a lion which was killed with a sheath -knife by one of the ,rangers of the Transvaal Government game reserves is told by, Major .f. Steins sou 13ami1ton, of the 6th Inniskilling L'ragoons, and warden Of the Gov- ernfl est game enclosures. It is, as the Major says,' a " unique case of coolness, grit, and presence of mind." The' ranger, wihose name is Wel- :Alter was returning from a patrol to the Olui;'liant liver, an hour of ter sunset, when he saw a lion crouching, close to hiom• He turned lids horsesharply, which caused the bon to mise leis spring, bat the horse was 'clawed," and its rider was unheated. Simultaneously, Air. Wolliuter saw another lion coming at him from the opposite direction. 'The horse rushed off, with the first lion in pur- suit.' and the second lion, consider- ing thec seas an easier prey, picked hurl u1 and gripping him.lby the right Shoulder, 'preceded to trot off down Path, `Making a loud, growling, purring noise, just like a cat Joos when she walks off with a mouse." Ir. terrible hail, Mr. Wol'huter was dragged for nearly 300 yards, wleen' lie thought of his Oleath-knife. It Weis a matter of difficulty to reach behind bias with leis left hand, but 4114 gripped the knife, and when the lion storped at a tree with! some ov.eriran.ging roots, he stabbed him tzvicr in the right side with his left hand ,near where the judged the heart to be. lyse afterwards found that the first stab touched the bottom of the lion's heart, and the second one slit it for south distance. The lion immediately dropped him, and Mr. Wolliuter struck again in the throat, with all This force. The blow cut through a large vein or atery, as the blood poured over the man. The lion at that jnml:ed back and stood two or tb 'ee yards off, facing him and growling. • The man scrambled to his feet, and, in his own words, "having read of the influence the human voice is said to have, I shou•icel all the most op- pf'oprious epithets I could at think of him" After a few moments the lion''turn- ed and went slowly away, still growling. Soon the growls turned to moans, and then ceased, and Mr. Wolhuter felt sure the brute was dead. . Thee''story is borne out by gr. A. E. Pease, the acting re'aident magis- trate, who certifies that the .acci- dent did occur, and that Wolhuter is still in Balberton Civic Hospital recovering from his injuries. • EXPERIMENT IN HANGING, Inventive Boy's Last Sensation Did Not Turn Out Just Right. London, Dec. .2g. -It is not. an un - 'common • 'tilting, perhaps, for lads of inquisititve 'bent to try all sorts of queer experiments in order to find out results for themselves, but few go to the extent' of hanging them- selves, as a young student ea Laty- mer School did the other day. The sad part was that the experiment was too complete a success, for the lad was found dead in a bathroom by his fathers ' Durineg his (4e years of life Sydney Cumuhing earned there reputation of venturing into thie most risky ex- periments. Bright and cheerful and a very apt pupil at school he was unable to content himself with the explanation of phenomena found in text and other books. On ono occa- sion, be jumpedl fromi a, high tree, us- ing an old umbrella as a parachute. At anotheer time he nearly blew him- self to pieces with' gunpowder while investigating then force of explosives. The other evening he decided he would attempt to realize the .sen- sation of hanging, cutting himself down before hie became unconscious, lie event into a bathroom of his fath- er's house and locked the, door. Af- ter a time its father became anxi- ' ores and 'burst open the door, to find the body of his son suspended by a piece of cord; from a nail at thee top of the door., The knife with which he intended to cut 'himself down was found open in his pocketa TOOK AWAY CHARTER. Unlawful Business tinder a New Naive. 'Toronto, Dec. 28. -Two building as- rooiations which were recently con- demned by the courts as -doing an unlawful business have been dis- covered by Mr. J. Howard Hunter, registrar of loans companies, as en- deavoring to amalgamate and carry on business under the name of a company which had a piovineial charter, but which was being wound up by the b'lnareholders. Mr. Hunter has taken the necessary legal steps to prevent this being done. He has. leaned a, circular stat- ing the following Rioter Mr. W. J. Holden, President of the Dominion Co•Oprati've Herne Build- ing Association was on Sept. 14th last tried before Po:iee e M: gistrnte Denison, convicted and fined, under the loan companies act, for carry- ing, on an unlawful baseness. On Oct. 9th last W.'3'. Doran, President of the Sterling Home Buyers' Union, was convicted and fined under the same act. This business, however, which was declared unlawful, is now being transacted under the name of the People's Loan & Deposit Co., Doran deseribing himself as President and Holden as 'Vice -President. In a cir- calar issued on November 28 over their joint naines they announce that a consolidation of tate Dominion Cc- operatii a Home Bnilcling Associa- tion and the Sterling Home Buy- ers' Unlon with the People's Loan & Deposit CompaaiY, has been effect- ed, and -directing remittances due to the two former companies to be made to the People's Loam & De- posit Company.,7.3 Adelaide street east. The latter company, however, in reality, does not exist, • although Its character• is still in existence. At a meeting of the directors held in April last, it was agreed to wind up the company and the assets were disposed of at a rate that realized 401-4 cents on the dollar to the shareholders. The charter of the company would have expired on June 2.0rth last, but as the winding up proceedings were not completed a temporary renewal of registry was made on Nov. 21st last. Owing, however, to the action 'of the two officials of the Dominion Co-opera- tive and the Sterling Home EBuy- ere, Mr. J. Howard Hunter has can- celled the registry of the People's Loan & .Deposit Company, so that no further business can be done un- der its charter. , FELL FROM A TRAIN. A. Railway Postal Clerk's Piliniul Experience. Halifax, Dec. 28. -Hurled from a swiftly moving express train,sustain- ing injuries that may prove fatal, crawling nearly a Mile over the icy sleepers, until his strength gave out and Inc could go no farther, was the experience which on Saturday night befell J. W. H. Cameron, railway pos- tal clerk, who. but for Scotch pluck and endurance displayed, would pro- bably have perished from cold and loss of blood by the roadside. As it is, tfr. Cameron is lying at the Vic- toria General Hospital, suffering from a fracture of the right leg, a severely wounded scalp, frozen and lacerated hands and knees, and bruis- ed and generally shaken up body. Mr. Cameron was passing from one car to another on the Dominion Atlantic Railway, when the train lurched and he was pitched off.. ,He was not missed until the train reached Halifax, after running 25 miles..A. search party was sent back, expecting to find his dead body. In- stead, they found 'Mr. Cameron in w house nearly a mile from the scene of the accident, whither be crawled on hands and knees on the frozen snow, stoically bearing pain and cold. He was two hours in reaching the nearest house in the darknes. ifr. Cameron is 63 years old. He has been 80 years in the service, and is well known as the piper of the North British Society, Halifax. GORED TO DEATH BY A BULL. !Warm Laborer Meets a Terrible Fate Near Brockville. Brockville ' report ; Abraham Charlton, a \farm.la,borer of Gieenbuell, employeed by, C. J. Gilroy and Son, wars Bared to death byi a bull last night. No one witnessed wbat took place, the first intimation that Mr. Gilroy had of. the accident coming from the young son of Mr. Charl•tona T1'.e lad want to the stable, and, see- ing a man streetchied lei front of thel door, ran batck to tell Mr. Gilroye tI'.atl a tramp was lying in the barn, and Mr. Gilroy went to investigate. To lie astonishment he found that it wars the boiy's father, dead. Re was feeding thee etock for the night. and it le supposed one of the hills broke loose, and In attempting to place it im the stall again, he was attacked. The body was terribly mutilated. Charlton leaves a widow and small family!. ' ' 1 HIS BROTHER WENT AWAY. This Caused Leonard Spread to End Bis Life. Toronto, Dec. 28. -Thee dead body of Leonard Spread, a farm hand, em- eloyed by Alex. Stirling, of the Ken- nedy road, near Ellesmere, York County, was found yesterday Morn- ing in a vacant building on the fame. S• .real blew his head off some time during the night previous, and to make death certain, had also swal- lowed a quantity of Paris green just before shooting himself. Spread came to Canada as a Bar- nardo boy about six years ago, and worked near Bownsanville until the past summer, when he and his brother got employment with Stirl- ing. The brother -Deft about a fort- night ago for New Ontario, and it is supposed t'haat Leonard became de- egonedent after the separation. ROBBERY FROM VATICAN. Pour Copper Kettles Taken When Police there Changed. Mcrae, Dec. 28. -Another theft has been discovered at the Vatican, th's time of little value in itself, bat indi- cating tl.e audacity of the perpe- trators. sal o may be only feeli..g their ground since the change of the head of the Vatican pox ce. In the annex of the Vatican, where poor pilgrims uaed to be lodged, four enormous copper: kettles, used for cooking purposes, have disappeared from the kitchen, and it is the sub- ject of much speculation how such heavy and cumbors.:me articles could have been exported from the ponii- fiolal palace. An investigation has been set on foot. In the meantime ;the frequent thefts in the Roman churches are: the • order of the day. In one week three churches we.; e robbed, and much valuable booty eoIlected. • .From St. Andrea Delle Fratte, the oratory of the Blnsseci Sacrament, near St. John's Lateran, a beautiful gold crown, studded with ,preelous stones. was taken from the statue of the Virgin, this being the second tine 'within n, few 'years. It had only' recently • ben donated by tIio canons of St. John at the Lat- eran. , MPH OUT WH _E FAMILY. Dreadful Deed Done by a Cleveland Machinist. Murdered His Wife and Three Little Children, Lay Down Beside His Dead Wife and Shot Himself. Cleveland, 0„ Dec. 28.--lEloscoe NP, Derby, a machinist, about 45 years old, exterminated his family early, to -day by ,shooting his wife, his three children and then himself. The crime is believed toe have been due. to despondency over the impovere i islhed condition of the family purse and the near approach of Christmas, e The wife, Della, was killed first, , while sleeping at her 'husband's side' in bed. Twp of the children, Har-' old, aged 8, and Alice, aged 7, were killed are they ran through the house in the darkness of early morning, endeavoring to escape their merciless] , parent. The third child, Thomas, aged 5, was shot in his bed, after his ekler brother and sister had been killed. Derby ha.d been dawn -town as late as 11 o'cloek last night,. ostensibly shopping, but in all probability securing ammunition for his revolver. When he got home his wife and he talked with a neighbor, who had bean calling over the ap- preaching festival. Shortly after, his arrival at home the neighbor left and the Derby family went to bed. Tho kitchen furniture had been thrown about in the struggle with; the children. From the ,location of the bullets in his head, the boy evi- dently was caught by his father and held while the weapon was placed against the little !elidwl's head and the bullets sent into his brain.] There was also evidence of a strug- gle on Alice's part. Thomas had re-' mained in bed, probably asleep, and case received bullets in the head, dy- ing instantly. After the extraor- dinary crimes had been committed, the perpetrator of them went into th.e bedroom, where his wife had heel! killed, and lying dotw!n at her side, fired a bullet into his own brain with fatal results. A number of; poolroom race checks were found about the house, showing that Derby had been trying his luck at betting. The first kno'wiedge of the crime was communicated in a letterwvrit- ten by Derby yesterday to a friend, to the effect that when it was re- ceived the Derby family, would be dead. NEW AND SAFE EXPLOSIVE. Big Claims Made for Novel Smokeless Powder. ,London, Dec. 28. -Col. W. Hope an- nounces that after nine and a half years' continuous work, in which he. has calculated and recorded over ten thousand experiments, lie has pro-. duced an absolutely safe and stable smokeless powder, which he calls veloxite. He says that it contains 73 per cent. more powder as a pro- pelling agent, weight for weight. than the Government's present pow- der, yet it contains no nitro -com- pound, nor sulphur, no phosphors, no chlorate, in fact no dangerous in- gredients. s. The flashing point of black powder is at 640 degrees Fahrenheit, that of cordite and all nitro powders in only from 860 to 370 degrees, 'while that of veloxite is about 12,000 de-, grees. He announces that veloxite stands the hammering of a sledge hammer on an anvil. '1`1io ingredients are .stable, and therefore the powder, is stable. The setting up of chem- ical action is impossible in any. length of time, and in any variations] of climatic conditions. 'Veloxite can be made in the morn- ing and fired in the afternoon, not requiring', as other .powders do, seve eral weeks to manufacture. It can bo made Cheaply, its ingredients can be purchased in unlimited quantities, by the ton, and it is available for small arms as well as artillery. A RETROGRADE STEP. Criticising the Appointment of a Canadian Onicer. London, Dec. 28. -The Saturday $te» view regards as retrograde anal .steps giving fhb command of thq Canadian militia to a colonial; of- ficer, Imperial offieer,e Who have filled the position, the paper sa'yls, have (found the post well-nigh unten- able through the obstruction of the, colonials. With a Canadian office n in icommand, influ.enoed by local pawl - euro and devoid of any military training, marttens Will go from bad to worse, which, in view oef the vast-.• ly important work the Canadian forces may have to do, re much to bo regreette. ri he Army'dand Nagy, Gazettes its an article, on the command of the „Chearsanasedlant;aan ,mexailitiana, epele . raytlshat tLatirnIg'vOabtnIeli: fax be tried by the home anithorities •just DOW with every Prospect oft stee,effpc