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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1907-10-24, Page 2THE HORROR AT FONTANET. Shocks Felt at Terre Haute, Brazil anti Elsewhere. 'Torre Haute, Ind.. despatch: Between a sixty and eighty persons were killed, more than 600 Injured and the entire " Town of Fontanet. twelve mike from this city, destroyed by the explosion of the Dupont 'Powder hills to -day. Hundreds were maimed, teeny of them women and children and a num- ber will die. Aid to the stricken people is beingrushed by apeoial trains from surrounding cities and Governor Haply hem ordered supplies. Owing to the inadequse of arrangements for car - k' for the in11treel at Fontanet they are being taken to hospitals in,otiter cities, while fifty plkysidane are•on the scene giving temporary relief to the sutler Fontenot is a mining town of 1,500 people, and the Dupont Mille;. cam - prised of seven buildings, were bituat• ed near the edge of the town. "Phone seven structures were blown to atms, and it is believed that of the 75 kr, 80 employees none escaped death or injury, Some of the victims' bodies were burned in the wreckage, which caught fire immediately after the first explo- sion. There were four eeparntc explosions, the first at 9.16 a. m., two more soon afterward and the fourth at 1045, The first explosion was in the glaz- ing mill. The other mills nearby were blown up next. The magazine, in which it is estimated many thousanda of kegs of powder were stored, was the laet to go. As soon as the first explosion oc- curred the wreckage caught tire and the flames communicated to a train on a side track near by. At 10.45 the heat of the fire canned the maga- ' Eine to explode, This building was in a hollow, some distance away. Nearly 1,000 people were left prac- tically homeless. One farmhouse, three- quarters of a mile away was blown to pieces. None of the residente were killed in their homes. When the first explosion came the people rushed from their hones towards the mills, apparently believing the danger to be over. Among the num- ber were many women and children. re- latives of the mill employees, and they were near the works when the seated explosion came. Dozens of then were hurled to the ground by the force of the /wooed explosion and piled in a strug- gling mass. Some were terribly bruis- ed by being hurled against trees, fences and houses and against each other, and hardly one in the crowd that started to the scene escaped injury. It is impossible to get an accurate list of the dead, but the total be - Hayed to be between 70 and 80 per- eone. As many more aro fatally injured. Two Hien died on the relief train as it was coming to this city and many of the injured are known.to be fatally hurt. Many bodies were cremated in the fire that followed. Superintendent Movaban, who was sitting in his office at the time, was instantly killed. His home, containing his wife and 'two sisters, was blown to stone. Following the fourth explosion those who were not inured aet about the res- cuing of: the injured at the milia, but only a small number were found. Some bodies were burned beyond recognition, while other bodies were terribly mangled. The rescuers 'worked faithfully des- pite the excessive heat from the burning buildings, which might have caused en. other explosion at any moment, Near the powder mills was a small Immo school building, with 53 pupils in attendance. The explosion threw tate four wane outward, allowing the roof to settle with a crash upon the teachers and children. Every child wee injured, but none seriously, One of the children, whose name is Eng. fish, has not been found, and it is barely possible that his body may be in the wreck. Mies Bishops, the teacher, wee caught in the wreck, and suffered a fracture of the skull, which will probably result fatally. The new Christian Church 1s a complete wreck, not a timber stand- ing. The four -room echool building at Fontenot, taught by Prof, Schaupaugh, was also wrecked, and the teacher and 200 pupils more or less injured. The two -room echool building at Coal Bluffs, two miles distant, was also wrecked, and ninety school children were injured, as woe the teacher. The M. E. Church building at Fontenot was wreck- ed, as was the large new frame block recently constructed by William John. eon, but Will unoccupied. Every business house in the place was shaken to pieces, as was the now Big Four Railway station, and the large storehouse of the Terre Haute Brewing Company, Tho chief damage was caused by the explosion of the storehouse, with 40,000 cases of powder. The shock was felt very distinctly in this city, where many houses were rocked on their foun- dations, Windows were broken out of a new schoolhouse here, and ponies started in all the school buildings in the city. Surrounding the town are a number of coal mune, and men were working these when the explosions occurred, Some of the mines were not affected, but in others the partition walls wee blown down, and it is feared that many lives have been lost by the caving in of the rooms is which the miners were working. Persons who had visited Fontanet to- day say the scene was terrible. The schools had just been called to order. The scene that followed baffled deacrip- tion. The children fought with cite an- other to escape from the falling walla. It is reported that at least forty of the ohildrea were injured. The first view of the former site of the mills wan a sickening one, While men knew that another explosion might occur at any moment, they ventured into the wrecked buildings to rescue their comrades, The screams of the injured attracted large crowds to the scene of the exple- sion and interfered with the rescue work, Flames soon attacked the buildings and drove the rescuers away, and the work- men were obliged to 'stand by and see their fellow -workmen burn slowly to death. At Rosedale, Coal Bluffs and Burnett, small towns within it few miles of Fon- tanet, several houses were wrecked, chimneys knocked down and window lights broken. At Greencastle, Bloomington and other points the shock was so plain that peo- ple left their homes for safety, thinking it was en earthquake. No cavae of the explosion is known. The millmen where the first explosion occurred were either killed or badly in- jured, Governor Hanley 'went to Fontanet this afternoon, accompanied by mem- Imre of the Indiana National Guard. One hundred tents and an equal num- ber of cots for the injured were ship - this afternoon. The Terre haute L`ompany of the Indiana National Guard waa ordered by the Governor to go to Fontanet, and; take charge, so es to provide relief to the sufferers and prevent looting of homes. Twenty bodies are in the morgues. Many more have not been recovered. Two box cars loaded with coffins have been sent to Fontanet, THREE HATS IN ONE. WONDERFUL CREATION OF NEW YORK MILLINER. Madame Simply Sheds the Topp Layer of Her Headgear and a Secdad Dainty Hat is the Result—Remove This and There is a Third. Now York, Oct. 21,—It has seemed to the ordinary Loan who hes viewed the weird and wonderful millinery, concoc- tions adorning the heads of his women - kind that one such pieoe of headgear Is quite enough for one woman to wear—at least at one time. But he has much to learn. There is more, much more, to the winter's fashion decree than Ire over dreamed of. A new Etat has made its appearance, beside which the "mushroom" of the summer REFUSED TO PUBLISH ORDER. NEWFOUNDLAND PREMIER DEFIED IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES, It Was Finally Promulgated—Blue Book Issued Containing Year's Correspond- ence on Newfoundland Fisheries Dis- pute. I. ndon, Oct. 21.—A Blue Book Inas been issued giving the correspond- ence in the Newfoundland fieher- ice dispute front October 13th, 1900, to September 28th of this year. In his drspatehee,' Sir William MacGregor, Governor of the Colony, stated that his Ministers regretted that their pro- posals for a compromise had not been accepted, and that while they could not consent to override the constitu- tion of the colony or to suspend its laws, they were anxious to aid the Imperial Government, , and would grant the fishermen of the treaty coast the right to sell to Americans provided that the question of the right of the Americans to fish 00 any part of the coast between Cape Ray and the Quiron Islands were referred to The Hague Tribunal. To this Lord Elgin assented, pro- vided that the ntodue vivendi were ac- cepted, and stated that no arrangement would be agreed to by the United States unless the right to employ colonial fish- ermen were allowed. Finally an order of Council was passed barring the penalization of Am• eriean fishermen who should ship colon• tale, and the colonial Government was ordered to publish the order before the arrival of the Americas fleet, unless the Government had by that time accepted the modus vivendi. On September 22nd the Government reported that Premier Bond had refused to publish the order, and Lord Elgin in reply ordered its immediate pro- mulgation, adding Hutt the colonial Government would not be supported in any attempt to serviceof proems of American vessels, Finally, on Septem- ber the 24th, the order was published in the Royal Gazette. months and the much-discussed "honey - "moon" hat, that so resembled the head gear worn by a Chinese coolie, pales in- to iasignifianco, The new hat -or, perhaps it should be plural -is called the "three In one," It fa the invention of Madame Kennedy of West Thirty-ninth street, and bids fair to rival any bit of millinery that has made its appearance on New York atreete in a long time. The "three in one" is really three sep- arate hats, so worn that when all three are on the head at the same time the ed - feet of only one hat is given. With the removal of tee top layer of hat, an- other, entirely different in style, mater- ials and colors, is revealed, which, in its turn, can he removed from either of its predecessors and meant for wear on dif- ferent occasions front either of the others. So it happens, when madame goes out in the early morning wearing a dark velvet hat with staid plumes and what theme to be choux of ribbon and a few flowers for a bandeau trimming, shamed not return hone to change to a dainty lingerie affair for the reception later in, the day. The top layer can be sent hone by messenger. Then, still later, if business or other matters keeps milady downtown she has only to unpin her lingerie hat, lift off the second layer and she is ready for any evening affair, r` Madame Kennedy's hate were made originally for Miss Helen Time, who will use them in a little French song in a Broadway show. Since her invention has proven euch it success, however, Madame Kennedy believes that the style will be- come if not permanent, at least a decid- ed fad. ANGLICAN MISSIONS. Church Has Nearly aoo,000 Members in its Fourteen Dioceses, Toronto, Oct. 2L—According to etatis- ties prepared by Hon, S. II. Blake, K. C., for the meeting of the Executive Board of the Missionary' Society of the Church of England in Canada, the number of members of the church in its 14 mission- ary dioceses is, white 175,404, Indians 21,125, Eskomes 700, Chinese 41 and Japanese 10, or in all 197,340. IL is Mr. Blake's opinion that the whole question as between the white and foreign population should he reconsid- ered. The church is responsible for 3,000 Eskimos, and Mr. Blake thinks that two men should be sent to live among them, at a coat of $5,500. • • POISONED HIS FOOD. Cowardly Attempt to Kill Norman Walker, a Rancher. North Battleford, Oct. 21.—Norman Walker, n homesteader living near Rad- dieon, is the victim of some desperate enemy, who seeks his life by poisoning. Two atteempts have already been made by secreting strychnine in hie food dur- ing his absence from his shack, the poi- son: being placed in the tea kettle, in condensed milk, and also in his potatoes, prepared to warm up. All were unsuc- cessful, as Walker noticed the peculiar flavor in melt ease. However, enough poison was taken into his system to cause his temporary collapse. PLAYED CARDS, PETERBORO CITIZENS OF PROMIN- ENCE ARRESTED. Caught in Midst of Merry Game of Poker, and Police Court Proceedings Follow -Proprietor Fined $too, gone down deep enough in my in- vestigation I now believe that this Wilk sort of a clever, udvertieing that proems attractive and fascinating, the same as a filthy divorce suit jams the courtroom. I didn't see any women leer, couldn't walk straight or Fes straight, but I'll bet many of them to -day are suffering from bad head- aches and throubled consciences. 'But, indeed of finding twenty- seven women drinking in the Pon- neian room as before, I found nearer 370, and instead of 8 per cent. of them drinking there were nearer 98 or 99 per cent. In the College Inn there were from 80 to 86 per cent, drinking. ' I saw some `In the Pompeyint room old then who ought to have 'been home in bed with a hot brick at their feet- to keep up a circulation trying to satisfy their jaded palates with a fresh sensation. And I saw some old, old gide with powder, jewelry, and finery trying to conceal the rav- ages of time, 'but they mode a ghastly failure. 'There were men with fat, droop- ing eyelids over bloodshot eyes, and there were stubby women with their fat fingers filled with rings. Then there were clerks receiving about $15 a week with everything on belonging to summer except straw hats, and girls with cheap shirtwaists and faded brown skirts who thought they were in the swim. They were becoming drunk, rough, and rowdy. "They call it the Pompeian room, but I cannot understand it. It is all out of accord, but looks pretty to those who pees away their time there, "The College Inn is nothing but a cellar. Yon go into the hold down marble stairs. If you want to attract tho attention of a woman close by you rap your beer mug down on the table. Women light cigars for the men, and if a man wants to swear he just goes ahead. "It was the strangest preparation I ever made for a sermon. When I jumped into the bath this morning I was reeking with the odor of to- bacco.' . ., I dropped into the Congress far a little while, but that place won't ruin anyone. No ksensible girl or woman would go there. "Women acquire drink habit quick- er than men. A man goes out nights and in the morning he goes back to work. The woman is still feeling bad and merely turns in bed, presses the button,' and has the maid bring her more. But omnipotent public opin- ion has been aroused, and the day will soon pass when the first thing the beautiful debutante learns is to drink whisky and gin. If they are putting booze in candy, cut out the gum drops, sister." Peterboro despatch: Seven prominent citizens, among whom were two doctors and an insurance agent, pleaded guilty to frequenting a common gaining house in the early morning of Monday, Oct, 7. This house, it is said, wait the National Hotel. To -day Police Magistrate Dum- bls handed down hie decisioa in the pros secution of J. Regan, manager of the hotel, holding that no such house ham been kept. It was shown at the trial of the man- ager for keeping, and of the proprietor, James A. Lawson, for selling liquor during prohibited hours, that the seven men had assembled in a room of the hotel about midnight on Sunday, Oct. 0. They had engaged in a game of poker and had further, for their refresh- ment, 14 bottles of beer. Suddenly the License Inepecta, ea- oompanied by two policemen, entered, They found the seven players about the table, upon which were the cards, chips and $113 in cash, also the 14 bot- tles. The property was confiscated and the players arrested. 'The latter were bailed out to appear Monday morning, when, at a epecial session of, the Polies Court, they pleaded guilty to "frequent- ing," to avoid publicity. Each paid a fine of $80 and the money taken in the raid was returned. The prosecution of the proprietor and manager followed. Janes Haversin, K, C,, of Toronto, defended both eases. He argued that as there had been but one sitting it could not be eaid that the place was "kept," and it was further shown that no rake-off was taken.' '." The proprietor was fined $100 for selling during prohibited hours. FOOLISH WOMEN MINISTER TELLS OF VISiT TO POMPEIAN ROOM. Says Crowd Was Tawdry—Details of Midnight Visit to Cafes Recount- ed by Pastor in Sermon. Chicago, Ont. '21.—The Rev, Fred- erick E. Hopkins, paste: of the Pil- grim Congregational Church, in dos- ing his series of sermons on "booze,' as he prefers to name intoxicants, admitted that his Saturday midnight crusade convinced hint that condi- tions were not so bed as had been represented to him. When planning my trip to the Pompeian room of the Auditorium Annex and the College Inn I figured upon seeing more hilarity and vul- garity than really was there," the preacher said. "I had expected to the women lying around under the tables in a limp end helpless con inion; expected thorn to throw thea" slippers Kress the room, and expect- ed the orgies to go on until- sheer exhaustion brought the horror to an end. I had been told that I had not SHOT -A. -SUSPECT. A SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY AT WIN- NIPEG YESTERDAY, Oscar Gana, Suspected of Stealing Furs, Refuses to Halt at Officer's Order, and is Killed by Detective Smith. Winnipeg, Oct. 21.--A sensational shooting affray occurred on Francis street this morning, when Detective Smith shot and killed a nam named Os - ear Gans, whom he was pursuing in an effort to effect his arrest. Gane was be- lieved to be a professional thiel whom the police have been watching for env eral days. This morning while he was endeavoring to dispose of some fure at a tailor shop Detective Smith arrived, and Gans at once took flight. The detective gave chase, calling upon him to stop, but the latter continued running, even after the detective had fired several shots. Finally he dived in- to an alley, and as he disappeared into a yard Smith ehot him through the bead, killing flim almost instantly. Smith was later placed under arrest. The ocurrence'created a great sensation here, CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT. DOMINANT NOTE AT CHICAGO PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON. Cy, Warman, the Magazine Writer, Guest of Honor—H, R. Charlton, of Grand Trunk, Presented With Jeweled Pin. Chicago report; This was a distinct- ly Ginsdian day at the Chicago l'ress Club. Two hundred members entertain- ed Cy. Warman at luncheon, and at the sane tine presented Mr. If, R. Charlton, of the Grand Trunk Railway system, with n beautiful jewel -studded pin and a paid membership to the club. Presi- dent John Flynn presided, with, Forest Criasy, of the Saturday Evening Post, as toastmaster. The dominant note in all the speeches was Canada and the new development, with which Mr. War- man has been identified. All the speakers were agreed that Mr, Warmans work in the magazines and newspapers had been a considerable factor in the intro- duetion of the twentieth century (lana - da to the reading public of the United States. At the guest table besides Mr. Flynn, Mr, Crissy, the guest of honor, and Mr. Charlton, were Mr. S. E. Kiser (the poet), Herbert Vanderhoof, Judge. John G. Bradwell and Charles Eugend Banks. BY POLAR BEAR TRAIN, Capt. Amundsen Will Travel to the North in State, New York, Oct, 21t ---Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, who ar• rived to -day on the Oscar IL, said he will snake an attempt to reach the north pole in 1910. Ile announced that he is having four big polar bears trained to haul sleds by an expert in IIamburg and intends to use deem in the far north. He also said that he and his friends are going to petition President Roosevelt and the United States Government to allow the vessel' Gjao, in which he nave, gated the northwest passage in 14104, to be the first to pass through the Panama Canal n arta completion. Th pPn p e G ao formerlytwas a;iwhaling vessel, 794 tone, and is now undergoing repairs in the Mare Weed mat ,-yard at San Fran- cisco, It''swe dn'ling the northwest pas- sage trip that Captain Amundsen discov- ered the north magnetic pole, •> A QUEER PARTNERSIIIP; Walter Northrope, .Toronto, *Charged With Forgery ,1\ .: St. Catharines, Ont. Oct ;2,-r.VPp.lter Northropc, Toronto, is in the Toronto jail on a charge of forgery. Ten days ago he registered at the Village Inn, Grime - by . ns W. J. h McKey, Orangeville, and when leaving gave Proprietor Kennedy a cheque on the Beek of Ham- ilton, Orangeville, for $40, signing Mr. McKay's name, for claims that he and Mr, McKay; who is the County Crown Attorney ofDttfferin County, are partners In a patent apple peeler, and he was detecting infringements of a pat- ent, signing Mr. McKey's name, because the guilty ones would recognize his sig- nature. Reeve Mitchell and William Allan, J, P„ remanded the prisoner till Thursday. ♦ • DARK DEEDS. EEEWATIN INDIANS STRANGLE AND BURN SICK FRIENDS. Dreadful Story Told by Police Commis- sioner Perry—Indians Did Not Pre- tend That the Victims Were Pos- sessed of Evil Spirits—They Were Just 01d and Useless, LONDON'S BISHOP. Fully 2,000 Persous Hear Him Talk From Wall Street Soap -box. New York, Oct, 21. --The Right Rev. Arthur Foley Wilmington -ingrain, Lord Bishop, of London, spoke to a itige assemblage of Wall street mot front the steps of the old Custom house at toot to -day, Fully 2,000 persona were present, in. eluding financiers, brokers from the Stock Exchange, bank clerks, lawyers s attd 'longshoremen. When the Biehop arrived there was si loud cheer from the assembled mul- titude, women shook their handker- chiefs, and the Bishop, who was in " great good humor, was helped -to the top of a soap box, which answered as a pulpit. He was greeted by the Rev, William Wilkinson, who is 'known as the Wall Street evangelist. Before the Bishop commenced his address Mr. Wilkinson ]landed him a large morocco -bound prayer book of the Church of England, in commenter - aeon of the Bishop's 'coming to speak to Wall Street men. The Biabop do the course of Isis talk suddenly flaked: "What would Christ do in Wall Street? What are your mete doing, Maker? What are your merchants and financiers doing in the cause of religion? What are you doing in your homes to further the cense of Jesus? I ask these questions of yoit becauee,,feel that I app talking to a body of en and women of intelligence whose, aim it is to do the service of the Matter," , Winnipeg, Oct. 21.—The arrival of Commissioner,A. Bowen Perry, R. N. W. 31, P.; and his party in Winnipeg last night from Norway House disploeed a terrible story of wholesale strangling and burning in the region of Keewatin district, juat above the northeast corner of the Province of Manitoba. The Commissioner held his court in the Council chamber of the H. B. Company's fort at Norway House on Monday, Oct. 7. Two Pesequan chiefs - of the Sucker band of Saltreaux Indians were to have been -tried, but (lief Jack strangled and cleverly throttled himself todeatha few Jaye before the arrival of the Commissioner at Norway Home, His brother, Joseph Fiddler, waa tried,`, and participation in several devilish' murders was proved against him, par, titularly that of his kinswoman, Mrs, Thomas Fiddler, and a than named Menewaecunr, whotit he helped to strangle twenty days after he strangled the little squaw, Two brothers named Eyelids and Angus Rae gave most sensational evi- dence, and specifically deecrlbed five strangulations and turnings in which they had participated. The bodies in two instances were quietly buried by these Rasa, but in the other three they were thrown on a huge fire. In one ht - stance the strangulation was not com- plete, and waa not intended to be, for the victim waa bound with leather thengs and placed on a platform over the fire, and iris bonds burst with the heat, and the poor fellow, all in Plaines, ran howling through the woods. He was despatched with shotguns by his friends, Joseph Fiddler was sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 7 next, and the police will again snake a long trip to Sandy Lake and fetch back the Rae and Meekie families, implicated in these tragedies. Angus Rae has been detained at the fort, and will likely be arraigned as soonas the police return faun their 800 -mile walk with the other prisoners and wit- nesses. Eyelids will be sent back to the far north with this, detachment to tell the news of what is to happen to stran- glers. Four of the principal culprits bone been accounted for—namely, Chief Jack, strangled by Itis own land; Joseph Peso- quau, sentenced to death; David Meekis, strangled and burned by his brothers, and the Raes, and Angus Rae, the mur- derer of Menewuscutn, now at Norway House, charged with murder also The superstition that the victims were possessed of evil spirits was not played up very strongly by the Indians givhtg evidence, Their principal object in committing these crimes, it appears, was to get rid of sick and useless friends. and it is thought that the executioners were paid for the job by the interested parties, such, for instance, as the squaw of 1lenewascuut. The practice of this method of thuggery is apparently con- fined to the Crane and Sucker bands, re- sidua at Little Trout, Sandy and Red Deer Lakes in the district at Keewatin. The execution of the eentence on Joseph Pesequaa will take place at the Mount- ed Police barraeks on the Norway House Island of the Nelson River" The in- quest on the body of the suicide chief was held by Commissioner Perry and a verdict was returned accordingly on Oct. 8. LOST THE JOB, Old Lady (in tears, to doctor)—WI —will you poison my dear lit]—little Fido? He's in such—such agony! Doctor (politely)—With pleasure, madam. Old Lady (indignantly) — With RI TYou do unfeeling instal heta you BLAMED DOCTOR. HEAD OF THE PAN PHYSIOC INSTI- TUTE IS CENSURED. Inquest Into Death of Infant of Marion C. Gregg—.Dr Woodhouse Admitted That He Had Never Attended A Medical College. Toronto despatelt: "The infant child, Greigg, came to its death at theT'orou- to General llospitalon September 28th by peematu e teeth caused by the unskill- ful treatment of the mother. Marion C. Greeg,, by T. Mortimer Woodhouse:' Thio is the verdict which a. (:orgtter'e jury, under Coroner J,' Milteeeeeeteahe' rendered in a ease which is of unlisted - interest to the medical profession. The mother of the child had been under- going an electrical treatment; at the Pan Physioc Ltstitute, 109 College street, owned by Dr. T. 111. Woodhettse, an electro•therapeutiat. The child was born unexpectedly of Septeniber 23rd, shortly after treatment in. Dr. Wood house's office, and died five days later in the General Hospital In her evidence the mother sworn that she was unaware of her real condi- tion, and was being treated for general debility by Dr. Woodhouse, The doctor was examined at very great length by County Crown At- torney Drayton about his methods of business and treatments of diseases. Coroner Cotton was apparently dis- satisfied at the answers to his ques- tions and commenced to examine the witness as to his knowledge of dis- eases. "Say you don't know right out. Don't hedge. Just admit you don't know what you are talking of,',' he admonish- ed the witness once. Dr. Woodhouse admitted that lie didn't know what the specified disease was, al- though he had a moment before said lie would treat it with a high frequency current and the Schaefer system, "Then I say you are a fraud," re. sumed the Coroner, . "You would charge fifty cents or it dollar a time for treatments that you know can do no good, That ie just what is the matter with you in this case, You treated this woman for something, you knew not what, with the result that she had a premature birth, and the child died. That child's death ie on your head, sir." Woodhouse was kept on the stand for two and a half hours and admitted that he had never attended a medical col- lege, but after a six weeks' course of instruction under Dr, Gedner in Buf- falo came to Toronto in 1903 and opened an office, styling himself "Professor Woodhouse," Ile stated also that cer- tain forms of electricity would be dan- gerous to a female patient under cer- tain conditions, as galvanic currents were destructive of tissue, In the Schaefer treatment a current of 21 volts of gal- vanic electricity was used, which Dr. A. Jukes Johnson, who wee a witness, said was a dangerous shock for the patient to have received. TAFT AT MANILLA. Tells Filipinas They Are Not Fit for Self Government. _Manila, Oct. 21, Secretary Taft for- mally opened the Philippine Assembly, in the National Theatre, at 11.15 this morning, in the presence of a large crowd of people. In his opening address Mr. Taft reiterated his former state- ments regarding the Philippine Islands, declaring that his views announced two years ago regarding the independence of the Philippine people were unchanged, He did not believe that they would be fitted to govern tltemseli`es for at, least a generation, lint he added that the mat- ter atter was entirely in the heeds cif Con- gress. The Secretary denied emphatic- n11y tltet the united States hind any iti- tentiot of disposing of the islands, said he had nbsohtte confidence in the. File pines, denied that he WAS disappointed at their ability to legislate conservative- ly, and assorted itis belief tint they felt their responsibility and acknowledged the necessity of supporting the United States Government.