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The Blyth Standard, 1903-06-11, Page 2BULGARIANS CRUCIFY A KIDNAPPED GREEK. Tura,. Taking Severe Measures to Suppress Revolutionists. London, June b'.—According to de- spalches published In this morn - lug's Times, a serious situation ex- ists In the vilayet of Adrianople, where the TNrke are carrying out searches for arms and punitive measures among the refugees, Sev- eral fights have occurred between Bulgarian bands and Turks and Bashi-Bazouke, In which many were killed. A Greek satiable, who was kid- napped by a Bulgarian band near Betaking, failed to pay Ids ransom and was promptly crucified. Regulating Jews in Russia. pt.,Peterebnrg, June 8.—The Czar hag approved the deelsion of the committee of ministers, forbidding Jews to acquire real estate, or en- j�pyy the proceeds thereof, except In tdwne within the Jewish pale, un- til the laws concerning the Jews have been revised There are 101 such towns 'where Jews are per- mitted to settle and acquire realty. A Million Starving. Washington, June S.—Sceretnry of State Hay has recelvNI a cable despatch from Consul General Me - Wade, of Canton, whleh says: Gov. Wong telegraphs me that over a million natives In Ewang Si:( are starving, and earnestly appenls for help from American charity. All relief distribution through the hands of American and British lats- slouaries." The Chinese Indemnity. London, June S.—The Times cor- respondent at Pekin cotes a great- er disposition on the part of the foreign minleters to view, with fa- vor Great Britain's proposal that China pay her Iudemnity on a sil- vor basis for nine years and In gold thereafter, leaving the ques- tion open whether ('Irina shall ul- timately pay the difference, He says that even if the United States accepts payment of her indemnity in silver it should be remembered that the 1$5,000,000 t hat the U. S. claim exceeded leer actual tosses and leaves a wide margin in her favor, though not so large as in the case of some (European powers. THREATENED MINERS' STRIKE OVER CONCILIATION BOARD. United Mine Workers Wish to Choose Miners' Representatives on it. • Wilke=',.sere, Fa.. Jure s.—.At the meeting of all their members or seeslo0 yelterafy of the three an- threclto berg is of the United Mine Bassets, It Gane derided to hold a iota cenve88len of miners at Potts- vtlleosi 15th to determine whe- ther or not a general aulpenslon of work shall be declared. The operators' members of the con- ciliation board, Superintendenta Lu- ther, Warriner and Connell, issued a statement of thele reasons for re- fusing to recognize lhetrlct Presi- dents Nichols, 'Dettrey and Fahey. They say the representatives of the Operator'. have been appointed strictly within the tering of said award, and there is no obJectimt on their part to accepting Mesar.. Nich- ole, Dettrey and Fahey as the repre- sentatives of the miners, providing they are elected by a majority of the mineworkers as specified In the award of.th° commleelon. The objec- tion le solely against their appear- ing as the official representatives of the United Mine Workers of Am- erica, appointed by an Executive Committee without authority for such appointment. District President Fahey, Chair- man of the miners' representatives admits that the mineworkers select- ed their members not by calling a stockholders, but by their organize. - Lion, 1110 I IIit of Mine Workers. the Plan et' the Award. The meaner in which the 'miners' representatives should be chosen (vas set fortis as follows: "That if there shall be a divislom of the whole region into three dib trlets hi Niel] of which there aht*,ll exist on organization representing a majority bf the mineworkers of such districts, ono of said board of. conciliation shall be appointed by each of sold organizations." Judge Gray's Views. Philadelphia, June 8.—'Phe Press says today : Judge Gray, of the U. S. Circuit Court, the Chairman of the Anthracite Coai Strike Commission, When naked for hie opinion In tate pending dispute of the miner's and op- erators over the board of concilia- tion, made a statement advising moderation, and the avoidance of dis- putes over mere teehztlenlitlen. In reply to the question aa to his opin- ion regarding the status of things, he old that he Was not fully informed as to the facts of the situation, and could, therefore, Axpress no opinion. He coat only express the lope that the eettlemen1 intruded by the awards would not be thwarted by the meeting of smaller merely tech - eked points, by either miners or op- erators. FELL FROM TRAIN. Shocking Death of an All wood Mao at 'Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MIS., June 8.—The hor- ribly mangled and decapitated body 04 William L. Lengmler (vas fouo,l on the tastck on the way hue of the Canadian Pacific railway yester- day. It Is thought that Lmiginier, who was a brakeman, fell front the top of a car on to the rails. The body will be taken to Attwood, Ont., for burial. Longmier was about 25 years of age and unmarried. THREE WERE DROWNED. Sudden Hid to a Scheel Excarslon by Steamer. HaUolbal, Ides, June. S.—Thrive chil- dren Were drowned here to -day by the o0111'.lon of the steamer Flying Eagle, towing a barge tilled with Sunday school excursionists, against it pier of Iiannibal bridge. The dead ate; Tonny Curtis, aged 13; Laura Coppage, aged 15; Ilhtrry Elcten- berger, aged 17. About 250 chil- dren from the Park Methodist Church Sunday school at Hbnnlbal had boarded the barge, and a num- ber were on the steamer. The ex, cursbon left for Quincy to afford the children a vow of the swollen Mlssisslppl. As the boat swung out pito the river the swift current bore It straight against the stone pier of the fridge with n crash. The steamer did not sink immedi- ately, and terror-stricken children anti accompanying adults ellmbnd up the ISE, ';o the bridge. Before all �p�( root.: safety the barge woe sauteed .al''Lr.rd by the current, and, . Ni051ng b''sr from the pier, ❑oat- en (lOwn et In in. In the sudden er:ea ,g ,,: tie barge three children Were thrown Into the, water and were drowned. Carried by surging waters nt a rnpkl rate, the barge, with its screaming children. float- ed down the river, but a fleet of boats put out, and all left on board Were reamed. NEWS IN BRIEF hilitis Principe 1 I'i1 i'.: rendition ie ea - changed, J.rc. .I. A. R:wkiu avail elected President 0000. kId. Itantedrn has proposed n Plan for -improvements to the 'Aw- oke waterfront. Thirty thousand workmen are on strike at Oporto, Portugal, for short- er hours and Increased pay. A Brlligh commissioner reports that many people in Kwangsi Pro - wince, China, are etarving. Prof. C. F. Mueller, one of the best authorities on Latin in Germany, died at Breslau yesterday. Toronto builders and striking carpenters held a conference, but without reaching a settlement. Fire did $2,500 damage to the pre- mises of Barcltard & Co., box man- ufacturers, Duke street, Toronto. The British Columbia Legislature Ing been prorogued by the Lieut. - Governor. Dissolution will follow. The newspaper Bessarabetz is blamed for inciting to Jewish, mas- sacres. A''henna advocate, named Paul 2lnier, is detained at New York on a cablegram from Austro-Hungary. Leading wheat importers. of Lisbon have formed a trust, whereby all the milling interests In Portugal are amalgamated. The western rivers are falling as rapidly as they rose before the flood. The Missouri ha@ fallen one foot and nine itches 1n 24 hours. 'After wandering all over the globe for seven years, Chas. Stern, wearied and penniless, has returned to New York to face charges of hauls wreck- ing. The steamer Pueblo, Capt. Whit- ney Carr, bound from Kingston, Ont„ of the Toronto ronfer- to Oswego, for coal, ie ashore at Salmon Ielaud In the St. Lawrence River. Paul W'agnitz, Missoula, Mont., county assessor, whose remains were found in the river yesterday, was murdered. ills skull was crushed In. There 1a no clue to the murderer. Garfield Fraser, aged 11 'years, of Campbellford, loot Ids life by falling into a chute at lowld's ele- vator. Rev, Dr. Carman suggested quar- antining tho Legislature during Llle discission of the Gamey men- missiouere report. .The barn of Mr. Abraham Hamil- ton, near Listowel, was burl sl, with five fine horses, a lot of other live stock, fodder and implements, The schooner II. M. Avery trail run down at her dock by the steamer Puritan at 51. Joseph, Mich, While trying to save his wife, Capt, John D. Bean, of the schooner, was crushed to dean(. • , Tho German Emperor and the Czar of 'tavola will visit \'deans, suuultaueously at the twinning of September. Thio tsar will then con- tinuo Itis Journey to Ruins by way of 'Droste. A tract fifteen by twenty miles o the Adirondack forest is on fire, and the fires are spreading. ( steamer with a gang of fire flg9t- ers has been missing on Long Lake for three days. A hurricane las swept over the Philippine Islands, and great dam- age has been clone to shipping. The U. S. transport 8ltamshus Is report- ed to have been wrecked. The importation of pigs' livers from the United Status iuts been practically forbidden by the Ger- main Government. A decree was Is- sued yesterday prohibiting the Im- portatIon of all livers weighing less than four kilos (tee pounds). A [table message was received yes- terday morning from Mr. Justice Armour lin Loudon. He says that 110 is very latch better, and has no Intention of resigning Itis mem- bership in the Joint Tribunal to Delimit tate Alaska Boundary. The lower court of Washington has upheld the will of Abbey R. li. Stew- art, founder of Women's Clubs In the Northwest. Mrs. Stewart, In January, 1902, left an estate of over $100,000 to Mary Lowe Dick- erson, the New York temperance Ixturer and authoress. Three textile mills in the Man- yunk district resumed operations to -day. The strikers In that section oro for the most part unorganized and the threat of the manufactur- ers to keep their mills closed indefi- nitely le said to have caused the striking operatives. to lose heart. The ranks of the strikers in thy Kensington dietrIct are said by the leaders to bo unbroken. The Toronto coal dealers have advanced the credit price of hard coal to $0.75 per ton. The crash quo- tations remain unchanged at $050, This is partly owing to two ap- preclallone'or 10 rents enoh recent- ly made at the (inose, and also to the desire of the coal inen to do a greeter sash business than here- tofore. ,Union carpenters/ are on strike ut both Fort William and Calgary. At Calgary an (mpoyers' assoela- (1011 (Otte formed. 1t decided ucaut- Imously that no lumber should hereafter be supplied to 11111011 catr- penters, that Ito goods should be reortted from union trimesters, and that till unions marpcnters should be discharged by the cout011Itors. Si'. LOUIS WET. The Flood Singe Has Reached That ('lly To -day. St. Loafs, June 8.—The river this morning he at the stage of 33.5 feet, a also of 1:1 feet (luring the past 24 hours. The creat of the flood, which is exiocterl by Sunday, may be ;Sri feet awl may go even higher, as the elvers west are -all pouring In. North and south of St. Louis River is several miles wile. All along the river from It is en- ercutcliitlg on buildings, making nec- essary the moving of household goods aur.l business stocks. G. T. R. APPOINTMENTS. 1(1x. Cornell Goes 10 the Western Division. Montreal, June e.—M;ulctger Mc- Guigan, of the Grand Trunk, an- nouncel to -day Several appoint- ments' on the western division of the system, which have just be- come effective. Mr. X. H. Cornell is appointed master of transporta- tion, western division, vice Mr. A. H. Lander, with office at Durand, Mich. Mr. J. B. Williams, trafn- maeter, 25th district, "C'., 8. &M." takes charge of the 27th, 25th and 29th districts in succession to Mr, X. 11. Cornell, with office at Dur- and, Mich., and Mr. J. W. McCarthy, trahmmaster 25th district, "main Inc,'!vice Mr. J. .R. Williams. Of- fice at Battle Creek, Mich. WASHERWOMEN FORM UNION Fashionable Folk In St. Pall Asked /Lr Increase in Wages. St. Paul, June 8.—T1e washerwo- men have formed a union. Their air demand Is an increase In wages from $1.35 a day to $1.50. The women include those alio are em- ployed throughout the fit. Anthony Hill district. Many of the domestic servants of 3t. Anthony Hill are unionized, and refuse to do wash- ing. 'Hance the washerwomen have It in their power to force the hones - keepers of "Swelldom Town" to either put up the cash or wear soil- ed silk stockings. The washerwomen have served notice that they will hold to the union scale, and that no washing will be done unless the Increase Is paid . l , s THE AMES SUSPENSION. SOMETHING ABOUT THE CRASH. Bear Raid Caught the Firm With Too Much Declining Stock. Toronto tatnret : As a result of ,lie and Dominion Coal and Dominion big brae raid on Canadian securities the well-known Toronto brokerage firm of A. E. Allred & Company were forced to the wall yesterday 111or11- Ing. An official statement is being prepurtxl, and until It is ready any u, timate of the firm's affairs must ueceasarity be a matter of conjee- Lure. The liabilities will run up In the nilllions, but us there are assets Ln the firm of margined stocks which will in all probability bo taken over by strong interests, it Is confidently expected that with patience and careful management the showing will be much better t)utn at first ex- pected. t . A. E. Alves & Co. have for the past six months been fighting a plucky battle against trtmcndous odds. The present condition of affairs Is really the natural sequence of a period of unwarranted speculation. First there was a "bull" movement, which car- ried various Issues to an unduly high let el. This was followed by a period of prolonged liquidation, to which several international securities largely held by Canadians wore singled out for attack by professional cliques In Boston and New York. The general depregeion In American se. c1101(1s favored 'the manipulators, Stem were (loom v utl. 1 mailed ny. the Boston crowd. Untoward clean - stances, such as the fire In No. 1 col- liery of the Dominion Coal ('ompalty, stampeded timid holders In Montr:al and Toronto, who gave a too ready, credence to disquieting rumors sent out by the Boston crowd to serve their own ends. i Twin Clts, which was largely held in Toronto, was regarded as vulner- able by New York operator's, and Sloss -Sheffield was also singled oat because of Its Canadian following. It so happened that the eecuritics thus attacked were largely held by Antes & Co. In the face of the continued degree, slon, the most prolonged In years, Ames & (Jo. tried the Herculean task of carrying these eecurltles. The firm showed great resources, but there did nmarket,Some r to be on tofnttl a the et - forts w'Jdch the firm made to @tem the tide can be gained from the fact that In the past two montlts Ames & Co. reduced their liabilities' by 50 per cent. On the top of all this came the bear raid on C. P. B.. which precipi- tated a sensational break In Twin City and Sloss In New York on Mon- day, the former stock scoring a net decline of 31-1 points, and the latter shrinking 51-2 points, LIFE OF AN ANT QUEEN sir John Lubbock's Great interest in the Study ol'Species. How long may an ant queen live? In their natural habitat some queens doubtless have short lives ; but by reason of the protection afforded them, and the occlusion enforced by the workers, they probably live much longer than other members of the community. Within artificial eur- roundhigs they attain a compara- tively long life. The oldest emmet queen known to science was one pre- served under the oare of Sir John Lubbock, later Lord Avebury. A number of years ago, during a vlslt to this distinguished naturalist at his country scat, High Elms, Kent, the writer for the first time saw this velwrable eovorelgyl, diving in the Ingenious artificial formicary which had been prepared for her. She was then in the prime of life, as it after- ward appeared, being seven years old. in the summer of 1587 Sir Jolie wale again visited, this time at his toren house In London. After greet- ings, he was asked about his royal pet. "1 have sad hews to tell you," he answered. "What ! Is the queen dead?" "She died only yesterday. I have not had the heart to tell the news as yet even to my wife." Having offered my hearty condol- ence. I asked to see the dead queen. Sir John lel the way to the room where his artificial nests were kept. The glass case which contained the special formicary In which tho old ant Jind lived was opened up. Lying In one of the larger open space'. or rooius was the dead queen. She was surrounded by a crowd of workers, who were tenderly licking her, touch- ing her with their antennae, and making outer demonstrntlone as If soliciting her attention, or (leaking to wake her out of sleep. Poor, dumb, loving, faithful creatures! There was no response. Their queen mother lay motionless. beneath their demon- stration'. "They do not appear to have dis- covered that alio is really dead," re- marked Sir John. Afterward he wrote me of another queen which died at the age of fourteen. The ants drag- ged her body about with them when they moved until It fell to pleces.— II. C. McCook. in Harper's Magazine for June. SANG HER DEATH REQUIEM. Dramatic 1'da@steg oT a Ramous Austrian Opera Singer. Vienna, June 8.—Irma Ctalz, an opera singer, who was well known In Austria, died to -day, aged 29 year's. Net• death, which abruptly terminated a promising career, was due to a disease which had already lebmpelled the cancellation or ar- rangements for a long ton: of Emote aril America. Her end was patl:etieauy dramatic. At mid- night Met night she seemed to be aware that death was near, and ea asked that She be removed from 'her bed to an arm -chair, and that she be dressed 111 the costdmc of her favorite character In "La Ta'a- llate." Having said farewell to Iver husband and relatives, the room wtto brilliantly Illuminate(' at her repast, and her brother played Men- dels,:ohn's "Fruhlingsiled" on the piano. The dying woman followed the music with her voice, singing with indescribable pathos until itt the words 'earth to earth" she fell forward upon the floor. Her doctors, stooping to raise her, found her dead, WIDER LIBERTY To be Omitted to the People of Cape Colony Hereafter. C'a'pe Town, June 8.—The Governor, of Cape Colony. Sir Walter hely-Hut- chinson, opened Parliament to -day. In his speech he said he hoped shortly to be able to relax the remaining restrictions on liberty, 111 conse- quence of the success which bad at- tended the policy of peace and recon- ciliation. All the races were settling down to ordinary life. The present 50501011 was called to ratify the eus- tome convention drawn up at Bloem- foutteiu, and to sanction the eon- struct!on of several new railroads. With the continuance of the present buoyancy of the revenue the increaa- 0:1 expenditure would not involve ad- ditional taxation. t , , , , KILLED THE CONDUCTOR. Three Masked Men at Rork at St. Louis. St. Louis, Juno 8.—Three unasked sen boarded a suburban car to -day, robbed J. Dowas, the motorman, and killed the eonduetor, John N. Keith, who w eat to the motorman'. rescue. TI,ore were only a few passengers In the car. Th robbers signalled the ear to stop, and boarded the front plat- form. Keith, in going to the (mist - since of the motorman, was shot (town and killed by the robbers, who then jumped from the car and ea. caped, ONE CANADIAN IN IT. Injured in an Accident That Caused Mar Dealhs. Aawsa.- City, Mb., June 8.—Further detiGis of the wreck on the Manta Fe Ita!ltosel at Stillwell, Kansas, yesterday, show that nine people were killed amt six seriously hurt. Among the dead are \Vat. Newinilier, of Plainfield, N..1.: E, H. Wand, of New Castle, 1'a.; and Carlos 111. Tor- tsale, a J'arto Rican, who was study- ing ht Kansas City and who was on his way to New York. Of the in- jured, Win. Woods came from Mount Forest, Out. Ile is injured internally and to In at serious condition. The dead were taken to undertakers' estehlishmelts here, and the wound- ed to the 'Missouri Pacific HospltaL At the Missomrl Pacific llospltal to- day, it was Bald that all the Injured were doing nicely and the indica- tions were that all would recover. WAS TOO SENSITIVE. Naval Cadet suicides! 11t•causeSeaman, Struck Him. Kiel, June 8.—A seaman of the Ger- man navy, named Andreas rIlesser- ectunklt, was condemned by a naval' court-martial to -day to 18 mootha' lutprtsonment for striking Ensign ° von Abel, during the ulgltt of Mayl L'nd, at Kiel. The case hats been wide- ly commented upon because of vois Altel'a suicide after he found he wail unable to Identify the man who as- saulted ham and personally avenge himself. Greer Forest Fires. Boston, June 5.—Smoke from for- est fires obscured the sun in tile vicinity to -day. For 47 days little ruin has fallen, and during that time the losses from forest tires In New England have aggregated at least $1,000,000. No Truth In the Story. Belgrade, Servia, June 8.—The only foundation for the report that King Alexander's French Cook has com- nilttel suicide at the palace after having been detected In an attempt to poison Queen Drage, is that a scullion employed in the palace com- mitted suicide a week ago on ac- count of a love affair. At Goshen, Indlann, the old order of German Baptists voted not to permit members to have telephones In their houses.