HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1903-06-04, Page 2TOWN DESTROYED
BV GREAT EARTHQUAKE.
Population of Two Thousand
Turks and Armenians Perished
Constnntimude, June —. Adt-ioee
wb`.ch reached here tet -tidy from
fortntle Turkey s)t :w that a terrible
earthquake ot'cii rets on April 29tlt
at Melttrgherd, in the vilayet of Can,
eighty miles southeast of Erzeroum,
on the Euphrates. Tho town was
totally destroyed, with rte entire
population, numbering 2,000 souls,
Including 700 Asmeniena, net well as
the ,troop" forming the garrison of
Melazgherd. Its addition, over 400
houses In neighboring villages col -
fad'
A somewhat severe earth shock
war felt here this morning, but no
derange was done.
London, May :d.—The Foreign Of-
4Iee here to -day received some de -
tulle from the British Colitual at Ere -
route regarding the recent earth-
quake at MelaL Ilevd, according to
which a strong earthquake shock,
lasting 30 seconds, was felt In tete
morning of April 29 tkroughout the
entire district 'between Lake Van
and the'Russian frontier, and so far
west ae Kltarput. The town of Mclee-
gherd, consisting of COO lienar", was
destroyed, and much havoc was
wrought in the surrounding tillages.
Colonel Khnlll Bey, commanding the
garrlson of Melazgherd, with hie
whole family, three other officers and
,Ighty sol dere, perislael In 111e ruins,
Lieut. -Colonel Taytb, whose family
perished, became Insane. The tele-
graph operator who acne the news of
the catastrophe, mild he himself was
badly injured, and that his wife and
slater had been killed. He rescued hie
inetrumeuts from the ruins of the of -
floe with the greatest difficulty,
The Foreign Office has appealed for
ettbscripptions for the relief of the
deetltute 3fohnmtnttdans and Chrls-
tianu of the 1t1 :tegherd district.
Twenty-one Drowned.
Posen, Prussia, June L—The Pos-
etter Tageblatt publishes n report
that a ferry -boat having on board
forty-five eltitdreu capsized ou the
River Warthe, near Wiedero. The
ferryman and twenty of the chlldreu,
the paper says, were drowned.
Lady Henry Quite.
London, Juno 1.—Lady Henry Som-
erset has retired front the presidency
of the National British Women's
Temperance Association en account
of her health.
A cruel Husband.
London, June 1.—Ellte Jeffreys,
the well-knotvn actreee, has been
granted a divorce from lion. 1, G.
Curzon, on the grounds of ernett'
and tuierern hict. Curzon is a sou of
the hate Lord Howe.
SULTAN'S BROTHER DEAD
OF A DOSE OF POISON.
Croatian Members Issue a Mani-
festo in Defence.
Madrid, June 1.— A report from I Cathedral of St. Isaac, wither was
Cauca stye the Sultan of Morocco's I rtatche kamhlet the pooling u( many
brother, Molal Mohammed, is dead. bells and rho ebanting of hymns. At
rho cathedral a great aeeentblage of
He Was poisoned, according to the dtgttiGtrlos, diplomats and repoe-
delspatok, eettttitivo bodies awaited the .rrltal
Croatia's Protest. of the Czar and Czarina.
Vienna, June 1.— The Croatian Attacked by eteikere.
members of the Reicherath and tits New fart, June 1.—About 400 Dal -
members
Oho worn formerly employed
members of the Croatian Diet have on the subway, but aro now out on
published a Joint muntfeeta attrib- ettike, gathered in Hantem to -day
and, made a descent on the sou -union
negro laborers who were at work
on the tunnel at Met street, and
Morrie avenue. The Lantos were
armed tette plc" -s, shovels, clubs and
piece@ of load pipe. The police ad-
vanced on the,Italiane and rained
St. Petersburg, June 1.—The cele- blows tight and left. Tho rioters
brations of the bi-centenary of the made a brief slow of resistance and
founding of St, Petersburg were In- then fled in all directions. A. ma-
augurated auspiciously to -day with jority of, tho gang gathered again,
tlelutas and a proocesion of the image however, mid went north to 171st
of the Saviour, and Peter the Great's street, near Claremont Park, and
beet,"the grandfather of the Russian attacked the men engaged in work
Davy," from Peter's house in the fort- on the concourse. Pollee setttterel
rete of Saints 1'oter and Paul to the the crowd and made several arrests.
uting the popular excitement in Croa-
tia to what they doscribe as the sad
condition of affairs in that province,
the national rights of which they de-
clare have been Violated.
. St. Petersburg ('eiebrates.
fllGfl POSTAI, OFFICIAL
ARRESTED FOR TAKING BRIBE.
Bride of Six Weeks Accused of Poisoning
Her Husband.
Waahtagtolo, D. C., June 1.—A. W.
Ikelion, general superintendent of
the free.eleiivery division of the
Poatoffioo Department, wax arrest-
ed yeeterdny afternoon in the,if-
flee of General Itrietow on the
charge of haring accepted $22,000
le brutes from 'the firth of Groff
Drbs. of this 'city, Inveatore and
manufacturers of a patent fasten-
er used on street letter boxes.
Machell' was taken into custody by
t United States marshal and brought
before a. United States commission-
er, who later released him on $20,-,
000 ball, furnished by a bombing
company.
Diller D. Groff and Samuel A.
Groff, the Met named a member
of the Washington pollee force, who
pompom° the firm of Groff Dros.,
were arreeted to -night and will be
arraigned to -morrow.
Ctvtl sett will to entered by the
government to recover the $22,000,
which, it Is .alleged, Machen re-
oelved its a bribe, and Machen and
the two Groff brothers will be pro-
secuted criminally on the charge of
wnsplraoy.
Alter Mr. Machan Was taken into
eustaly the Postmaster General le -
sued an order removing him from
' office. Iie had been practically un-
der auopeltelon for a fortnight, penci-
1 lag the investigation Into his bu-
man.
I'oetntneter General Payne In an-
nouncing the news of these events,
was perceptibly novel by the enor-
mity of tide culmination of the Ma-
cken part of the scandal. And It
was with an evident appreciation
of the groat eerioisnetee of the whole
affair that ho said;
"I fear the end Is not yet."
Heide charged With murder.
Galilee/1'111e, Ga., June 1.—Wedded
lust six weeks ago, Mrs. Clara Tan-
ner ler under arrest, charged with
killing her husband by poison. Site
gave a dinner party atm Monday.
Soon after tee cream was served all
became violently 111, except Mrs. Tan-
ner, who did not take any of the
cream. The husband soon died and
two of the guests may die.
Five physlcians declared there
were symptoms of stryobnine pol-
aoning When the cream was ex -
ambled It was found to contain
quantities of the poison. Mrs. Tanner
was arrested. It Is said she lived
unhappily with her husband, having
been forced 'to marry him by her
parents She loved another man.
Mee. Tanner 1s nineteen *ears old
and her husband was 60.
THE MONTREAL STRIKE.
Statementby the Street italiwuy
company.
Montreal, June 1,—I, view of the
end of teat strike met eight, Mr. W.
11. Rose, Si cretars-Treeenror of the
Manteca( Street Rahway font patty,
to-dsty Ismael .,um following state-
ment: -No ptutnimeof any nature
whatever has been matte to the Particulars of 1.1 ► 1 vii I
strikers to Induce them to go to
work. The eontpnny will adhere to
thepuhliehel slntetnett Issue) by Death Near Collintwood,
them before the strike rtartod, to
tine effcet that they will help the
mum lhetueelvee to form a mutual
benefit ttessrlation, but will brook
no interference with the manage-
ment of our affairs, and on soon ae
tiro sittmtion has cleared up we In-
tend to consult the beet of our Wren
and formulate such an association.
Although the men havo broken the
agreement entered into last Febru-
ary, tho company will continue to
carey out tholr part of it"
Tho Montreal Light, Heat & Power
Company tetato that a large nein-
ber of the strlktng linemen have re-
turned, seeking emptor went.
Joseph If. Aube, business manager
of the Street Railwaymen's Union,
on a charge of trying to intimidate
meet who desired to work, was or-
dered to -dap to Stay the sesta of the
case and find two suretlee in the
men of $400 to keep the peeee for
twelve months'..
GL�RY HALEN'S
t111 a late hour last night, more
particularly as a' heavy storm oc-
curred during the late afternoon,
and It was supposed that site had
waited nt n friend's house till the
B�,1 rail )roti erased. When it finally lte-
U camp ltd ee ant that lite sena not
comhtg home, hor fauna' and iter
„Meg!, brother Charlie, a lad of 17,
etnrt'rl out to look for her. About
11 o'clock they called at the home
of Rueeoll Kendall, a mile nearer
town, and asked If anything had
been seen of her. Mr. Kendall and
lite mother, however, had not aeon
her (Gott day, though it was her
unntl euelotu to wave them a cheorY
greeting as she prised their house
every morning. Whalen tend hie
sen continual their search ail night,
traversing the two small bushes be-
tween their house and that of the
Kendalls, bit without avail. Jest
before 7 in the morning Mr. Whalen
returned to Rusndl Kendal's and
askel him to assist him In a search
of the bush north of hie farm and
nearer to the town. To tide he as -
welted and joined Mr. Whalen, and
Wm. Crone, manager of the brick-
yard, Who had eppenred on the gene.
The three men started through the
bust about Jri feet npart, Whalen be..
Ing nearest the. railway track, Crone
awl Iieltd:ell furthest fleet the track.
l'omtd the Body.
They had not pellet rated ten yards
Into the underbrush when Kendall
gave a cry which bre .ght Crone to
his wide. He rigid caught sight of lit-
tle Cilory'i body Tying with the head
to the north. Kendall did not ap-
proach the body, but at uuce hurried
to town to Inform the authorities.
On ltie way he mot Juhn Al Marche',
a railway man, and told him of the
Dieting of the lady. M Matnlsy went
at once to the slot, raid with Crone,
went near the body, but neither
towetel It, pending the arrival of
the coroner and the Chief of Police,
No ono eetvo Crone Otte M'Murnhy
approached the body till the arri-
val of the two officers. About 9
o'clock Coroner A. R. Stephen and
Citi,! James/ Wilds trenched the spot,
and examine) the remains and the
surroundiuge. The chill's body was
lying on the back tvtelt tete tread
tunnel. alightly toward the left. It
was hying In an easy and natural
Irosition, an though iittlo Glory had
dropped calmly to sleep. Her clothes
were not disturbed, and her straw
sailor hat tied on with etringe, was
still on her howl. .t white band -
kerchief, not the one belonging to
the little girl, was tied around her
head, crossing her heat strings and
passing obliquely over her eyes, in
much a manner that her right eye
wag hidden.
Death had evidently' been caused
by a huilot wound, as a (tole was
found in the hack of the head, and
the ground beneath was c'cttea with
blood. A couple of feet from the body
hay the goad child's school bag and
umbrella. in the bag wore found her
school books end her lunch, Un-
touehttl, together with her pocket
ltattdkerchlef.
Pursuing his investigation still fur-
ther, the chief examined the ground
between the fatal spot and the rail-
way. Tho ground was still droop from
the heavy rain at the prelvons night
and the early morning, and no foot
motifs were discernible.
IN T NE MEAT TRADE,
New Zealand Government to
EstJblish Enterpri.e,
WILL HA E HOPS IN BRITAIN
London, June 1. -Tho Government
of New Zealand will shortly leitintc
a big meat selling enterprise. Prime
Miuleter Seddon has cabled a re -
spouse to au enquiry from Loudon
that the' Government proposed to
buy moat lit the colony, and ship
it ,direct to the United Kingdom,
where depots will be established in
the big manufacturing centres. The
meat will bo sold at a price that
will simply cover tho coets. It le
further learned that New Zealand
Intends to employ the existing sixty,
er seventy factories, to kill, freeze,
pock and ship the meat at a fixtxt
sum per carcass.
A commissioner will manage the
Government's business in the United
Kingdom, and tupertntettd it staff of
branch managers. The Grist depute
will be established at Glasgow, tllan-
elteter, Liverpool and Cardiff ; all
will be run in the name of the New
Zealand Government.
There will be eleo retail shops, al-
though it is 1nlcttdel wttett the busi-
ness Is firmly established to abandon
dress and 1.1'1160 the retailing to
ordinary l'utelters, the (iovernmo�it
sltuply matutaluh1(4 expirt5 to 0,1r -
see the trade,
The New Zee; lend frozen meat frock
has rapidly advanced lit tic,•et years.
The New Zealand mutton Imported
into Greet It, Hein 1.1 1597 was vale d
nt V.2,077 000, end the beef at 111A,-
000. let 1002 the mutton imports had
risen in vaMos to 13,210,000, and the
beef to 1117,000. Great Britain's
total. Imports of mutton In 11102
nmauntod to nearly 47,000,000 and
iteof nearly 18 0(10,000. Mr. &slden
It'.ea to capture to large propo lion
of tide truck.
DECIDES TITLES FOR FLEETS.
C.1'. R. itas'`ixed Official Dcsigua-
liun W it Sub-Tillex.
Montreal, June 1. Tho offloiale of.
the C. P. Ili nave decided upon the
official deaigitation of its steamship
fleets.
There are five of these In all, fled
the general title will be: "The Can-
adian Pacific Railway Company's
Steamship Lines," with a sub -title to
apply to each service as follows:
Pacific service, Atlantic service,
Briti'sh Columbia coast service, up•
per lake service, British Columbia
lake and river service.
The only new application In re -
evict of these various 'services ie
that which applies to what was for-
merly the C. P. Navigation Com-
pany, and which, having now been
taken over by the C. P. R. company,
will in inter° be known as the Brit-
ish Columbia coast eervlce.
FRANCE KEEPS UP DUTY.
Bill :sing Reduction ReJec6'rd by
Dig Majority.
Pate :utte' 1.—In the Chamber of
Deputies on Tuesday, after a brief
discussion, the bill reducing the duty
on,wheat to five francs was defeated
by a majority of 301 votes
The Minleter of Agriculture, M.
Mougoet, In opposing the menr;ure,
stated that the ,present price of
wheat Wan not excesxive, and that
the farmers were receiving a lower
Prier than was regarded as legiti-
mately profitable. The proposed re-
duction of duty would not produce
the desired end of cheaper bread, as
It would not affect the price of flour.
The remedy, If broad was too dear,
continued the Minleter, was for the
municipalities to exercise their Owe'
to fix an official price of bread.
A great deal of knowledge, which Is
not oapeble of making a man wlse,
has a natural tendency to make him
vain sad arrogant—Addison.
FIE NO MOTIVE FOR CRIME
A Ballet Wound in the fiend - A White
linudkerchlcl' '1'14(1 Retold the.
Mined -No Signs,I'Uuttatge Appar-
ent Nu Itubbrry l'ontwiUed -
('uusc td Tragedy Not Known,
toliingwood despatch — ;t murder
mystery, which at present 11 as let -
explicable as any that ever baffled
the human mind, bus thrown the
town of 1,olliugwood and surrouuti-
1t'gn into tt state of excitement. The
eumu gains its oyslerieus quality
from the apparent absence of any
conceivable motive, and axm 'far no
theory has been formulated which
seems likely to lead to a solution
of the problem presented, whale the
clues in the case are so sligil1 that
cue' the most ,torula detective might
feet dhceuraged by the prospect pre-
vented of unearthing the mystery.
(tl ay Whalen, the 1J -year-old daugh-
ter of 0 respectable farmer, living
two ntlien south of Co,lingwuod, 1011
her home un Weilnc>-fav wonting to
gO to her school In town. The eliort-
est route is by way of tho Grand
Truck (neck, and this she iut'luialie
fobiowed. She die nut return home
Li the evening, and her unxlvus
father and a couple or small youths
Searl'hc.1 the hushes all Melte, and
in the tatty mortilug, ussisasi by a
young farmer waned Kendall, they.
retied her body tylua In tt copse, east
OI the traek, and within u elotites
throw of Kendull's house. Around
her head was bound a white hund-
koreleef, not her own, mud on remov-
ing It a bullet wound Was found to
OW hack of her head.
Some Lttek marks ou the hantiker-
eh:cf may show that the fatal shot
was fired after the banmago was
place 1501.und her head. A club Ivan
found near the body, 'and nodical
examination showed a bruise inflicted
by Noone blunt instrument un top of
the headl. Not another scratch was
found on the brely. There wax no
sign of disorder about the clothing.
tier seined bag lay unopened, mud
her umbrella lay near, mud a small
sou of tuumcy Its the corner of her
huuelkurchief wan ttuDouchef,
Another find made near the place
where the body was discovered woe
a grey woollen cork. apparently home
knitted wbich in in the losseeslon
of the Chief.
Finch are the facts of the ease.
They uf(er abundant foundtiltuu fur
a hoist of ,perubutione, but most of
ties.' must be of negative Order.
Nu Motive Apparent.
The motives in stroll crimes must
be dle:ulascd one after the Other.
Tine obJe t was not rubbery, fur her
small belongings were intact. It
could mut tee revenge or malice, for
a yield of 13 could have flu enemies.
Thu tnelcati ne ars that the little
girl was killed whore her exxiy wns
t¢titO,
Tide raiscs the gttesttuu, ey
what means was oho enticed there e
She (vas a faithful scholar, and elle
eau enough time at her dispoeal to
"cause Ler school at the upioireed
lour. Di the unlikely event of her
desiring toeross the lot to the rood,
a. quarter/ of a mile to the east, which
would have taken Ler greatly out of
herr way, rule evould (not have tray-
,.rsed the bush, but cleared ground a
few yards further sculls. The theo-
ries of darns by a stray hall or by
suicldu aro effectually (deposed of by
the handkerchief uruuud the heuu.
This suggests two queetiohs us to
why tiro heart wee latadaged in tits
mtutnar. Was It to blindfold the eyed
of the child that she might net see
the face of her slayer, or was it to
catch the blood which oozed from a
ghastly hula in the bock of her head?
If the latter, however, how did the
powder mark come upon (t, and why
should the wound be bandaged if the
murder Lad 40111 comtuitted un the
spam and the murderer did not desire
to carry ;11s victhu to a more remote
eliding place. These and a hundred
other qucwtlaits arise in the mind
when considering the details of this
remarkable ease. Perhaps when the
trained lntellocts of deteethvee aro
brought to bear on the cone, these
queries will be satisfactorily an-
swered. but until that Is done the
public onn only wonder blindly, and
with Its wandering mingle a fervent
hope that the perpetrator of to foul
a crime shall bo brought to the pun-
ishment wedelt he so richly deserves.
Drtalls of the Tragedy.
The murdered child was the young-
eet daughter of Henry Whalen, a re-
spected farmer living In Nottawa-
eagtt Township, about two miles
south. of the town. Sho was a fair-
haired, pretty' child, with the hue
of health in her cheeks, and was
In her 14th year. 'Tho family are
members of the Roman Catholic
Church, but as Collingwood has no
Separate School, she attended the
Central Public School, where she
way la the third book form. She
walked to school each day along
the railway track, which offers a
shorter route than the road. Owing
to the distance from, her home, ehe
took her lunch with bar, and It was
because of this that her family was
not alarmed at her don -appearance
Beath caused by Bullet.
An inquest end an autopsy were
at once ordered by Coroner Stephen,
and at 11 o'clock Dr. A. M. Mantel,
assisted by Dr. Commit, began 4
pull-mottcut. Roth the outer cloth-
ing and under garments were (build
to be in perfect eater, and there were
no signs of any attempt to abuse
the child. Tito organs of the body
were In a ifttnithy and well nour-
ished contlitioh. On examining the
bullet w,euud it was found that the
ball had entered behind tete right
ear, trnvereel the brain let a ding-
opal direction, pierce) the skull in
front, and lodged Just under the
skin oter the lett eye. The bullet
Wato extracted, and was found to
be of a 38 -calibre, retaining its
original shape, but roughened on
one side by (passage through the
teres of the head. Directly on top
of tato head ran extravasation of
blood and scum was found under the
edaip, indicating a blow from some
blunt instrument. The Vow had not
been severe enough to injure the
skull, and there Was no external
bruise, a fact probably oxplalaable
by the theory that the blow had
leen delivered on top of the girt'e
flat straw Iwtt. No other mane of
violence were found on the body,
end it Wait Ytpparont that death
was caused by the ballet wound.
Mr. Whalen, Who le a. farmer in
mugcrate circuntetatioee, has, in ,
addition to the murdered child,
three boys, Charley, Jean and'John,
and one girl, Lena, who was older
then Glory. They aro well dream-
ed, and evidently well cared for.
biro. Whalen gave some additional
information us to .the hour When 0
the children had left for their two-
mile walk to school Lena went
about 7.30; Kdna Pentland, a neigb-
bor'i child, about 15 minutes Dater;
Glory nt about 7.50; Lilly Seigel,
nrotlter little girl, ;at about 8.80.
They all went by the track, and
all but Glory had reached Coiling,
weed safely and without seeing
anything of her. Lilly Pentland (net
an strange mon, wino spoke to her.
Little Glory's funeral will take
piece on Saturday morning, when
she will be laid to reed in the Roman
Catholic Cemetery, In sight of the
spot where she net her death.
Mr. Duff, West Sdmooe, asked the
Attorney General in the Ontario
Legieiature yesterday if The had
been informed of the tragedy In Col-
Iingwood, where a little girl had
been cruelly murdered, anti whether
he had taken any eteps to appree
hetet the murderer.
The Attorney General said It had
not )teen brought to hie attention,
but ho would have an officer of the
department investigate the horror.