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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-03-18, Page 8tIIAS A NAVA, ENArEMENT? Looking for Chaim! Vessel's .0 the Pacific. Scan ;s 0 -vuan C witiles Afraid of , Russian g scession. r EIt. Petera''hur,g Cable. — The +trams -Siberian Railroad has ice weed a notice to the public that 'Owing to the war between Russia •aind Japan, that part of the road between Irkutsk in Siberia, and Dalny and Port Arthur in Man- churia, has been closed to all but miJiitary ,trains.. Nurses for Japan. Seattle,Wrx,, Cable say's — Forty, American nurses, in charge of Dr. finita, Newcomb McGee, P.resixient of the epanish-Am-erican Nurses' Asso- ciation, ,sailed from here yesterday for Japtan., They expect to be am - signed to one of the divisions of the Jiagranese army. Looking roe Warships. New York Report .ys-4 cable to tee Sun from Perlin mays; The Na- tional Zeitung prints a SL Peters- eurg despatch, which says it is be- lieved that the Vhxdivostoek squad- ron; blas gone to search the Pacific for the three Chilean- warships Japan is eeported to have bought. "Naval officers at St. Petersburg are confident of the capture of these ships. The foreign naval at- taches tliink, howevver, that if the Vladivos•tock squadron ventures too ear from the coast it will be over- lwF.e1imsed by the Japanese, • TOKIO BenelEVYd1S That the Japanese •Fleet Has Had an Engagement With the Russians. Tolkio,Cable sags. It le believed etre that thi:u'ei luta at,ready. been a uec..- ive naval f'n'gree'eiu<;nl, in the viciui.y ,of V1adivoetoek, ane tidings ox' is 'are anxiou.iy awaited. 'lilt: Japanese •11eet, it es eltire 1 f e not go eo Vlzt.di- 'vostocic for the purpose of bow - 'herding the town, be.t to locate and attasek the armored end:sere Oreme- bex, Re:;sia, Itmrik and the cruiser !Booatyr,. the Itu,s:Ian fleet station- ed there. It Ls understood here that when the Jnpane se sleet arrived there on Sun.J:xy last, it found the Russian e;?uaidr' n absent. If this is true it gave tile Japtinee•.e squadron advantage's ei the way of avoiding tihra lnt.hore batteries, at the same time pattin;, it in a 1.osition to pie - vault the Rnnhtips re-entering the barber—It is doubted that the Tal ansae witlnirew their entire equadxou unless the location of the c:n•em,y lead been di:Revered, as it meant eurren•.li r:ng the advantage of being In a l.o:ition between the enemy and the tnumy's babe. There is a foroag possib li.y that the Jai: cnio n foun.I tea ltnssian ships in the vicinity of 1-oeti,t lMy and gave them battle there. The names and numb:To of sdv ps in the Japanese squadron have been kept secret, bat it was probably suf- ficiently strong to separate into two divitio:t•:, the on,e to guard ,'4ladivto tock and the o.linr to crul 'e in suaroli of the Rursi,an ships. It mid 'that the newly parchas::d crul:,ers l`;i shin and leakage are tak- ing part in the 1'eeant movement off Vlril;l1vositpnk. The navy uepartmtnt expects to re- ceive despatches ,tomorrow from Genes en, where it was planned that ,the fleet should call after the op- eration involving an attack upon the ltorssLan squadron had been conclud- ed, The Japanese are quite confident ,Sr, the ability of their .squadron to signally defeat the Russian shipe, and :laughingly say that the big Rus - elan cruisers, which stand unusual- ly high out of the water, make ex- cellent .targets. • Woundea Russians Received. ' Nagaekii Cable sa'eie--Thee Norweg- ian steamer Hermes; has been releas- od by the Sasebo naval court and ordered to proceed to this port to ;await order.; regarding Lbe disposal of her coal cargo. 1 - The hospital steamer Easel Meru ;has arrived here, bringing twenty- two wounded Russe l:it sailors belong- ing to the gunboat leorietz, which was destroyed by the Japanese fleet at Clhemulpo. They wilt be removed 'for the .time being to Matsuyama ihospLtat on the inland sea. The Retvizan Itepaiee•d. Port liertlstie Cal:eel—; iie hole in • the hull of the Russian battleship :Re.tvizeo, which was made during the 'flret attack by the Japanese, has 'been repaired and the battleship has 'been refloated. She is now anchored in the inner roadstead alongeide the Cesarevitch. The other necessary re - pains. to the ship will be completed shortly. Fears .Russia. New 'York Report—A. cable to the ;World from Copenhagen saps that throughout the ,-cand.inat-ian coun- tries and more particularly) in Den- nerk and Sweden tihe war hoe arous- ed grci.'se fears for the future statue of the peoples of Northern Europe. '.A•s long as Russia was fully) occupied le forging her way; toward the Peei- fic• the t:candinavians felt ahoy' may ederigie-the bear's too peening atlen- titnIr Brit now they? feel it is hot too men' to erect, if Japan be vic- torious, if Russia be foiled in her attempt to reach The Pacific, she may turn to the Atlantic and seek to annex a part at dealt of the Swedish and Norwegian seaboard. ;Another lrossibilit;lS confronte the ecandinaviane. Should not the war; bo confined to the present combat~- ii.nts, should it extend to Europe the neutrality; cat Northern countries might be endangered. A strong pub- lic opinion le growing in Norwayi, irleveden and Denmark that they ehocid combine to guarantee their neutrality and preserve their indi- eide'al integrity; under any circum- stances. i 1 Ice cn Lake Baikal. • Paris Cable—The St. Petersburg etorresponilent of the Figaro sayer that as doubts existed as to wvh,at thickness of ice was required to bear trains safely over Lake Baikal, offi- cial experiments were made Which proved that 13 inches of ice would bear a heavy: train. The ice in (Lake Baikal is often four feet thick.' The 'railroad around th'e shores of the lake, to bring together the two ends of the trans -Siberian line, will not be finished before the autumn. , Westinghouse Men Contribute, Bt. Petersburg Cable seryls — The employees of the Russian Westing- house Company have donated one per cent. of their wages for war purposes, amounting to $300 month- ly. ,The company has given $5,000, and will duplicate the monthly of- ferin,g,s of fits employees. Religious .cervices were held in. the factory for the isuccess of the Russian arms, after which Director Smith address- ee the employees, warning them not to believe the reports of American hostility ,to Russia. • n icholae. to Alexiefr. "St. Petersburg, Cable, Feb., 7.904— Following ,is the text of the Em- peror'.s telegram to Viceroy Alex- ieef; Mobilization is proclaimed in 'the Siberian provinces. You are empow- ered to act as commander-in-chief: I. am with you heart and soul, and with out brave fellows. May trod blase our operations. (Signed) Nich- olas." • r Siezed Telegraph Station. Booed, Cable sa'S1s— iiparty of nine Russians seixocl .the Lorean telegraph ,station at Yung -Von to -day. it is reported that a fight hes occur- xed between Coreans and Russians on the Corean side of the Tumen sliver. • A STRANGE CASE. Gland Treatment for a Sufferer From Ce iten ism. Casaba, Ndli., lstareb 7:4.— At the ago of eighteen years Florence Div- elbiss, daughter of :Kr. and! Mrs. S. FI. i)ivelbses, of .South, Omaha, was thirty -ono inches tall. To -day, at the age of nineteen, she is forty- one inches tall, having grown ten inches during the last year. These aro the remarkable facts concern- ing a remarkable young woman toe child) of this city. Florence is a victim of what is called eeitention. From the tiine :she was three years olcl until a 8 car ago she diff not grow, physically or mentally.; She could neither walk, talk, nor do anything oilier than a baby of three years could do. Through t•hir, period of fifteen years the parents and members of 'the family fondled the little one with a tenderness even more ar- dent than they would an ordinary child,: t But a year ago a remarkable change came. Medical aid had been given in many directions, and fin- ally .a, gland .treatment ivw given a test—a treatment of food from animals, designed to promote growth of the body. Almost im- mediately improvement wa,s no- ticedaud the results have been mar- vellous, Within the year she grew ten inches in beigiht. Her spine, which wee curved, became hotter, and a distended stomach began to recede. iter clothes are now, too small. Her appetite is ravenous. She tusks considerably, and understands almost everything. When a• .reporter called at the Div etb-iss home F loron•oe was Sit- ting on the floor near her mother deeply engrossed with her dolls and ether toys. She seemed obliv- sous to the stories her mother re- called or the nineteen years she had cared for "tlie baby'." Ocoee sweetly Florence would frown when something particularly per-, ,conal was • said of her. Again,. she s would smile and mumble her ap- proval of her mother's comments. "You ran hardly imagine," said Mrs. Divclbiss, "how It seems to parents to go a score of years along with tIse same baby, the same size and the same development, while others in. the family; grow clip and get married. It ,seems strange, itoo, when we recall children born Ma same year as was of their now ILDING O THE nnarried wptYi: children of their aw>y as large as Florence. Yetthat has occurred:, But you could hardly ala at its for loving herr more than Ga nat}hTa,l child. We know that itNICE is merely her affliction. And now ® o it •seems so strange to see her growvi- fng like other children did, as it 'was to see her remain a baby !Odle Other babies grew u'p. There is little doubt now; that her baby- hood has passed. We cal almost see her grow Before she began to take the treatment ,she ate hardly any. - thing. Now she eats heartily all the time. Her body is changing into better, shape, and every fee.. 'Lure is showing the effect of growth and development." Mr. and Mrs. Diveltries have a young married daughter and a son, both of :whom, aro of normal devel- opment. • FOR PURE FAIL. Frush Crusade Started by U.S. Postmaster General. Neiw York, March 1.1—The Postm!as- ter-General has started a crusade against a class of immoral and ob- scene publications and has also de- clared warfare against dealers in quack and objectionable medicines that ere exploited in some nowspa,p- ers and magazines through the bed- ium of indeeend advertisements,writ- e,s a (Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. General Payne hopes to purify these publications by bar- ring them from the malls. A New York weekly and one pub- llsbed In Boston, have, within the past ccraple of weeks, fallen victims of• the present crusade. The New York publication is given to exploit- ing actresses. Every edition is filled with more or less startling photo- graphs of alleged footlight favorites pictured and costumed in poses sel- dom attempted on the stage- The law officers or the department had their attention called to this publication abou* a month ago. Copies were se- cured ror two successive weeks and an examination of them cont Diesel the authorities that it carne within the meaning of the obscenity act and that its tendency was to corrupt :the good inorais of the pu'bile. Conso+luent- ly, an order was sent to Postmaster Van Cott; directing him to' refuse 'the next issue for ;sibling. The publish- ers sent 87,000 copies to the New York post office to be forwarded to subscribers in 'various parts of the country and the entire lot was bar- red. The interstate law prohibiting, the sending of obscene lisl:erature by means of an express company kept t]xe whole batch of 37.000 copies in the state of New. York. The post of- fice officials say the publishers got off easy, for, if the authorities had waited to examine tixe issue in ques- tion, they sxiy they would have di- rected irected the criminal prosecution of the editor, instead of merely rejecting the weekly. Tixe Pesten publication that has fallen under the ban of the postal authorities hoe for a long time print - c eens'tion.xi plctu;e., and adve.ti e- meuts. Tho reading matter of a cer- tain issue was held to be indecent en- ough to make the editor liable to criminal proceedings and the depart- ment et justice has been calledlon to bring suit against him. The eru.s<acle against the patent ' medicine aclvef•tisements is being conducted in a different manner. The axithorities are fighting the pro- moters of these mixtures rather than the newspapers that publish their advertisements. Later on the warfare will be extended to include the publications that continue to ex- , Plait the objectionably -worded ad- s vertisements. It is believed that as Noun as the offending papers un- derstand that the government is I trying to break up' tIh.e operations of a gang of frauds and quacks that are forced on the public through vulgar pictures and misleading statements, they will refuse to handle this class of advertising mat- ter. The present plan of the officiate is ;to have the companies that sell fake medicinal cures 'barred from the mails as frauds. Samples of titer compounds offered by the firms doing the most objectionable kind of advertising are now being chem- ically' examined. 11 it is found that tite mixtures are siiurious, and that they cannot accomplish what 15 claimed for them, fraud orders are issued against the promoters. Should the medicines contain some merit {the firms are hauled up on account { of Ile objectionable nature of their advertisements. Thus the pestoffice officials are getting rid of many of the concerns on the ground tlnrt their goods are fraud- ulent or their advertisements ob- hcene, The I,ro•secntions recommender) by Postmaster General Payne are un- der ,section 8,89:3 of the revised ,statutes, known generally are the obscene literature act. Tor many years this has been treated as a dead letter. Jt lets been only since the reorganization of the Post Office Department, growing out of the graft revelations, that this crusade was undertaken. It was started by ;some of the new blood that Was brought into the depart- ment at that time. It is found, however, that the present law is not broad enough to permit of all the :::leaning up which the autliorl- ties desire.. It is difficult to se- cure conviction for publishing and miens, °bee --one literature, It is a c imperatively easy, matter, 'how- ever, to debar each stuff from the &ells, bet in order to efteetively suppress an indeoent publication it 19 necessary to issue an order against each succeeding edition, ; Sir Charles Rivers Wilson's Address. He Was at First Over San- guine of the Scheme. Five Million Dollars to be at Once Deposited. London, iEng., Cable earls— n..t a crowded meeting of the Gra.nd Trunk Railway Company to -day, with from five hundred to six hundred share- holders present, the President, after dealing with the half year's, accounts, turned to the "Proposed Grand Trunk Pacific undertaking." He said; ",We ea used a bill to be introduced into the Canadian Parliament for secur- ing a. cha,rter of incorpoartion of an independent company to ,build aline of railway from it point of junction an the Grand Trunk lino, passing through the most fertile districts of the North-west, and terminating at a. port on the Pacific coast, under the natural impression that a scheme of this nature would commend it - mit to the approval and obtain the support and encouragement of the Government and Canadian Parlia- ment. "I ventured to ,suggest to the share- holders when T audressed them in April of last year ;Cleat such a scheme might be carried throagb without engaging in any way the credit of the ehareholdors of the G. T. Ca. Such tw•ab my conviction, found- ed epee reasonable data, and in view of my precedents bearing upon our ease, 1 think it right et once to sap that,when T xaxade the sugges- tion, I was perhaps over sari:;eine, because for the reasons which I ..hall state to you in the course 01 my remarks, it has been found impos- sible to tarry the measure thiough the Canadian Parliament wit:lout imposing some obligations on the G. T. Co. "Our original idea was to build from a point on our railway to the Pacific coast. Our intention was that the point of junction should be at or in the ,neighborhood of North Bay. It was made, however, by the Gov- ernment a condition of the grant of the charter of the G. T. P. Co. that the luxe should be extended =et - ward from North 'ay toi uuebec, and to tthe city of Moncton, in New Brunswick, the point of junction with the Letereoloniai Railway, whhich communicates to St. John, N.B., azxd Halifax, Na, As a result of nego- tiations with the Government a bill was introduced by the Government for ensuring construction of the con- templated line from New Brunswick to the Pacific. In the joint agreement between the Government and the Grand Trunk Railway Company, an agreement ander which this line would be constructed and worked was embodied in• the 'Governments bill, and it is thei first of, the two agree- ments which is submitted for tlxe ap- proval to -day. The Government bill and the bill of incoorporati'om of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co., both re- ceived the Royal assent on the 24th October, 19o3, the act and the agreement were discussed by Pariia- nnent during the whale of an un- uaually prolonged session. They met iw,ith, strong opposition by usual op- ponents od the Government, supple- mented by hostile Interests -of compet- titors, who imagined that they saw in thin 'contract with the Grand Trunk Pacific Company a measure Which would be detrimental to their Cowin projects. I think It only due ito Sir Wilfrid Laurier to ex- prees,'my admiration of his pa- triotee and .statesmanlike conduct of tilt great measure through Perlia- ' went Treating the queetien as one I of national importance it might not ' have been unreasonably expeet- ed tat the question might have been lifted out Of the 88phere of party politics, but this was not tlxe case, and it was only after encoun- tering the utmost difficulties,and ex- ercising'the greatest forbearance, patience and ability, that he was able eventually to carry .the mea- sure. His leading objects were to secure ,an additional means of en- abling the growing population of the northwest to bring the products of the western prairies to the east- ern seaboard.) Rei pointed out the advantages of the contemnplated line which would not only open up fresh districts of ' fertility in the west, but would af- ford further facilities for eventu- ally giving an outlet for those pro- duct,s to counties beyond the Pacific, viz., Australia, China and 'Japan, the route in question Ting indeed the shortest route between the manu- facturing centres of Canada and China and Japan. While then his objeets (were of this largo and es- sentially national character the Grand Trunk Company satw In tlx fulfilment of each an undertaking the greatest advantages to be ob- tained for their own enterprise. The result, therefore,was a combination of these two interests, under which the construction of the proposed road would be carried through by a partnership between the Govern - Silent and the Grand 'Trunk Pa - *404 oleic Company, ,supportecl as 1t would; be, by the influen•eo and connectl.'ous of the Grand Trunk Company. We are bound to acknowledge the fairness with which we were met be Stir Wilfrid Laurier and hie colleagues in their endeavor to meet the views of the board so Tar as they could da so comfortably with their own views:, and having regard bo the the great pressure brought to bear upon them by the Oppoeition. In the meantime a great • and unfavor- a,bio change bad occurred in the financial position of the markets of the world, and the directors, in the interests of the shareholders came to the conclusion that certain modi- fications in the agreement were im- perative in order to safeguard the credit of the company. The chief modification was that relating to the conditions wixieb were imposed - on. the Grand :L•rank Pacific Com- pany for making the deposit, to which I will refer more in detail later on. Negotiations were accordingly re- sumed, and the result is embodied ire the second or supplemental agree- ment wlticix is now in your lian•ds.. and which, read together with the first agreement, we now sreentit for approval. Should it receive that approval it wdll be brought before the Parliament of Canada, which has been specially summoned to meet on the 10th Mlatrch, the day after to- morrow, for eorxsidex'a,tion, and I trope confirmation." .After aescribing the course of the new Iine and the terms on welch it would be built, the President contin- ued.: •'I nave alluded to the obligee tion imposed oa the Grand Truett PacWic Railway Company of nxakeng a deposit as evidence of its bona fids. 'J xie deposit, which was to be made within thirty days of the 'Kiss- ing of tine Government Act, was to consist of $3,000,000 in cash or Gov- ernment securities. I am bound to record my opinion theft this was an extremely onerous and unreasonable demand, and I may, in paesing, con- trast it with• tile similar obligation cn• tee Canadian Pacific at the Incep- tion of their undertaking, which was confined to $1.,000,0JU in mein or ap- proved securities. without havna. behind it the support of a, powercul oorporat:on like that of the company now promoting the Grand Trunk Pa- o tic Company. This obligation was, however, reluctantly accepted in the early stages of the negotiations. It must have been obvious that the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Cont- pany, wixice had not even been or- ganized, was not in a position within the limited period exacted to make the deposit, and when the Grand Tirunk Company was approached for aid In thxe dlrectien, it was unable to act without Drat obtaining the sa.netion of its shareholders, for weigh a certain time was required In order to show. no lack of faith ,on the part of the promoters, and 10 order to satisfy the conditions of the contract, an interim and conditional deposit was made by 'the Grand Thunk Company of £1,000,OJ0 four per cent. guaranteed stock, subject to sttbsequent approval of the share- holders and cont,rmatiou by Parlia- ment. The approval, however, of thiol a,l'rangement by the xihareholders of the Grand Trunk Company will not be required, and the conditional de - poet already made will be cancelled. In: substitution thereof it is now pro- vided by the supplemental agreement that the deposit shall be made is cash or' approved securities, and the Grand Trunk Company will, subject. to ,your approval, make thencecsery arrangeme..t4 for complying wiele tate requirements of the agreement. Tete deposit will be released as soon as rolling stock for the equipment of tits road nos been provided." Following me L'`io.F,ident's speech a pxotracte'd dli c•assion enst 'd, ilio scheme being veli:, mently oppose:l by zepresenta'tives of lltr. Allen, wile re ese..hly retired from the Board owing to this belief that the new line woxilo jeopardize the welfare of the Grano Trunk Company. Many speakers also urged that they had inenff:,cient time for cons sit oration. Eventually, after an explanateet frnm the Second 'Tice-Presilent ane Go sepal Manager Hays and his warm endorsement of the project, the agreement was adopted' and tee meeting terminated, /Laving 'lasted ' • tpvoo hours and a half. , CHURCH ;OF ENGLAND'S RENTS For 1003 They Wer- e $7,300,000— Contributions Over $40,000,000. London, Marsh' 14.—The Church of England's rent roll for 1903 amount- ed to £1,517,000. The voluntary can- tribnto e for the same year amount- ed to £8107,835, of which; £2,222,127 was) for general rurposes and £5,835,- 708 for ptroc ea.l purposes. Tee unlet Items of expenditure were : £500,000 for home missions, £670,000 for for- o oign missions, 000,000 for philan- thropic work, £800,000 for parochial clergy, and £1,783,401 for elementary education. Tele sum does not 'Include anything in the nature of Government aid, but ,simply voluntary offerings to the Ch neehl, • 1. MONUMENT TO PROF. BELL. Proposal to Honor Inventer- of Tele- phone in Brantford. Brantford, On't., De` Intel.—In hits inaugural address at the Beard of Trade to -night, 'Mfr. Wel?. Cocksh n tt proposed that a' fund be started for the purpose of erecting a, suitable monument in this city to Prof. Alex- ander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Prof. Bell completed WO invention in this city. The proposal was favorably com- mented on by many members; and it le likely that the scheme will be taken up. 1