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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-01-23, Page 7SCUEEERS EXECUTED, Commandant Kritzinger May Share the Same Fate, YEOMAN STRIPPED NAKEU, Small Batches of Boers Captured- 13asutos Impressed -Good of the " Blockhouses -Eight Nurses Going --Pathetic Story of Mother and Daughter -Natal Alonaced,. Ladybrand, Orange Sliver Colony, „Ian. 19. -Six Yeomen belonging to Major Heath's Co imaud, were cap- tured Friday. They were stripped by the Boers and sent back to canis naked. Naturally every preoautitn ie taken to prevent these f small cap- tures, but the mountainous, rooky nature of the country provides innu. movable hiding places for the Boers, which makes it exceedingly difficult to• guard against them. Frequently the British flank guards pass out of sight of the main column, dies. peering among. the Stills, whereupon • the Boers come cut of their hiding places, surround and capture them, the column at the time not being aware that the captures have been made. Than Boers, whoa know overt path, then proceed to outer hiding places and repeat the operation. Ten British soldiers came into eamp the other day witleout• a shred' o, clothing, the Boers having relieve(' them of it, together` with their horses, rifles anti ammunition. Small batches o1 prisoners are ar- riving here dotter from the column• operating nearby. IIaj,>r Heath cap Lured eix Boers norm of K.urrons- burg, where heavy firiag suns heart yesterday. Natives report that ex -President Steyn was at 14ioagansdam Tburs- ciay. -...- Boers Try to fact South. La•dybrtnaed, Orange River .Colony, Jan. 19. -Small ) oat,is of Boers have made many attempts lately to break through the lines Of posts and get into the southeastern district. On Thursday three separate attempts of this kind were repulsed. Col. Baffina column, which 1.s operating near F1eksburg, captured four Boers on Thursday. Col. Belisle has driven Com- mandant, Marai's forces towart, Doornberg. Col. Doran's column attacked Wes - eel's commando, twenty-four miles from Richmond, Cape Colony, Friday night One Boer was killed and six others werecaptured- Three natives and a ,umber of horses were also taken Tine Baautos continue to bo greatly impressed with, the resolution of the British Government in couduotjng, flee war. It is difficult to satiety thea- demands for labor trona the Johannesburg and Kimberley mines from here, owing to the large number of Basu.tos being al- ready employed as drivers and leaders with tbe British fighting columns. It was found necessary during the clearing operation.e In the northeast of the Orange River Colony to burn all the native huts and grain, and to com- mandeer their cattle, the leaders; of the British columns giving receipts and ,sending the natives into. the refu- gee damps. Since the lite of block- houees has been maintained front �Bloomfontela to the Bastuland bor- er, large quantities of grain have been goingthrough. Wheat and meal - les are here est great .quantities awaiting rail transport. The crops) now- beteg reaped are the best, on rec .rd. There is, roughly speaking, £2,000,000 worth, of wheat now in this Country, all available for the Government \Veil Seed Elgttt Nurses. Ottawa, Jan. 1.9. -As foreshadowed the other day Authority has been given by the War Office to increase the number of Careedian nurses who. are to be sent to South Africa, so that instead of only five, eight will leave by the Allan Liner Corinthian from Halifax on Monday, January 27th, The additional ones selected are Miss Pope, of Ottawa; Miss Chal- mers, of Adolphnstown, Ont.; and ,Miss Margaret Smith, of Ottawa. Resigned Commissions. Ottawa, Jath. y.9. -Information from private sources conveys the intelli- gence that two Canadian officers, Capt. Lawless;'of Ottawa, and Capt. Critchley, of MacLeod, have resigned their commissions in the S. A. C. Their reasons for this action are not known. • A Mother's Sacrifice. Now York, Jan. 19.-A special de- spateh from London to the, herald says: It waled bo diffioult to Invent a more pathetic war incident than one which oceuered in the experience of a certain officer attached to Lord bthnon's staff, and recounted by im in a private Tetter. He was dotaailed to search a lonely farm lionise, •but evidently the ap- proach of the British soldiers had be- come known, for the honor was empty, except for a widow weeping over her dead child. Needless .to - say the, noneeenry search was condueterl with as little inconvenience as passible to the poor woman, who was tho object of much sympathy, tut, fair from bring oemforteci by the kindness with w]>Mch she was treated, her grief becente uneon- trollable, IG wee then dfsoovered, upon the woman being atiestioned, (hitt site was the victim of the Boer libels which have been so freely Cir- culated abnut llritielt soldiers, tot -on learning off the proximity of the liate_t English {lie mother lead killed her little girl to prevent her suffering the brutalities which she had been told were meted Mit to young girls by llrltielt soldiers. „ Therefore her treillage may be imag- ed when t'n she disenvereaf that th" rible sacrifice had been made It out neees slay. Charges Ae,ailaat ttrfizfnger. New York, Thn. ih.-.A (tatl>n Tewn despatch to the ,Sun reports that thn Doer to nniati•lnet, isrltzing,'r, Who teals eapt'n•;•cl et Hanover 1loatd, fate" I oleny, about a month lige, le eltargecd tivait four tnurderaa, 19 atat,ii- tion to train-wreeklnl,r anal cruelty i Colony.gazelle It hi asserted by some that he tai zanily , a Cape • pn zebvi, and 11teretore a 13rittsh subject, and as welt deserves the fate Of Conemandatit I.otter, ilitetit':e Ceps: rebel who was , hon last alit Q U On Clnt•liztneas Eve the Poria Rappel Printed a despatoIL Prem Durban, Natal, stating, that Gen. Louis Botha, the Boer corergareletaineahlet, wail holding five British officers, and. bad at lf Kxitei ger Was d sentence, tcheiter o ldeatlt they would be shot. Natal Again Menaced. London, Jan, 19. --;The Boors are 130W oQneentCating once more on the Natal ereatier. Gen. I3othtt, with 1 about . 1,500 men, is in the ex- trema eouth of the Vryhcid district, With half Ms burghers at Inlilazatye and the other half at Babanango. Tile enemy leave one ponieponq and two field guns with, them. Theyare reported' to have made enquiries ae to the garrisons at Iiolpuiaker and ].'omoroy, two( eanall places to the east of I.adysenttli, T,tiis, however, would rather indicate that the Boers IftendCd to give thew palate a wide. berth. S^urrenderect Boers state that great number cl Ilotha's men are composed Of Natal rebels, who will not ]tear of the surrender of their Transvaal brethren, although the latter caro anxious to yield, Fifty o(f tiro Transvaal men attempted to oome in the other day, T>t>t only ten escaped the vigilalice of the Natal Boers. ' Conaiacund:tlit Sehoopers Executed. Graaf Roinet, Gape Colony, eau. 19.-Commaticlant SSchoepere, the well-khown Boer commandant, who was captured last October While wounded, and who, al ler trial by court-martial, Was sent euced to death, was ,executed Yt.Jerday, _ At lits trial Stcheepere admitted killing a native spy, but denied six other murders with which lie was charged, He had had strict orders from DelVet . to punish all 10414 subjects in the. Colony' Who had aid- ed tate British troops against the Boers,_ and to destroy+ Goverumeat buildings, and therefore he had. burned down Government o,fflces and destroyed, railways.lie denied that he had expocied his prlsoriare to fire front their own comrades, He admitted itliat on twd> opeasions he had flogged natives for report- ing the presence of Boers on farms, but it was At the request of the farmers themselves that he had in- flicted this punislnneut.DeWet'e orders lead' been to treat 'such in- formants soverely. Oii one occasion prisoner said he only flolgged al native scoist, Whet if he had acted up to I?ewet's orders he would'eave shot Rini. --- Contradiction of Canards; London, Jan. 19. -The South Afri can situation liar been cleared by the ,meeting of •Parliament and the pub; ,tcatiou of ait important aeries of blue books. The despatches of Lord IUiteh-, ener and Lord Milner reveal eubstan- tiai progress in the working of rail- ways, the reopening of mines, the contraction of the field of hostile op- erations, and tiro pacification of the country. There are also otlielal dent- , ale of the Boer eliarges of barbarism and inhumanity by British soldiers, if the oontzaeliction of anything. so Iuczedible be needed, and detailed in- formation respecting the concentra- tion camps and treatment of Boer 'Women and children. The o-:reulative effect of this nfass of autfe entle in- telliegnce is that a great anti-British agitation on the Continent can have no rales d'etre when these store- houses of official information are opefedi , , The only fact whicl, teles aga1ne';. the, ni{tnagementof the.concentra- ti8n camps is the high mortality, but the explanation of the inedinax; au- thorltiee Is that In: the circumstane,es it 'could not be anything else, and that everything has been done to minimize suffering, and promote teen health and- comfort' -of the homeless ferulliee. The la ;f,t despatches' from Loral (Kitchener indicate 'i, • steady progress in clearing the couLlry end a remarkable increane in the mobility of the Britleli `columns, and create a. strung impression that the fighting le .nearly* over, No llopo of independence". Durban, Jae. 19. -On several oc- esi.stoes the bellet has been held that at a meeting of the, Boers in the field 110 discuss the question of surrender, Delarey from. the W estera Trans- vaal ; Botha Lions the Eastern Transvaal, red. ex -President Steyn from the porta of the Orange. Riv- er Colony, aft appeared and collect- ed men for tire purpose of the dis- cussion,. That the meeting .had no result is said to have been due to the fact that there is absolutely no cohesion among the Boers in the field. Although Mr. Kruger In Europe tnay tentatively talk of terms, the Boers now In tea field will not aoeept any- thing short off complete and absolute independenee. This they no longer expect, but, many prisoners state that they are only eontinuing the struggle, to quote the words of one prominent among theft, "In order to make the Toes of independenee as ex- penslvo as possible to thio British." Anxlou„ for war t0 Cease. Halifax, N. $.,, J4 . 19.E -Dr. 11 H. Muir, of Truro, who we -it from hero to tiro West Indies as ship's officer with drafts of Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery, is back. He, spent one day on Darrell's Island,Bermuda, wllere nearly 8,000 Boer prisoners of war aro in custody. Dr. Muir says the sanitary arrangements in tate Boer enclosure are very good. The prisoners mostly live in tents. Those who do not, are in small hats erected by themselves, Their rations are to good deal better thai;n those given to the soldiers before the Boers' ar- rival. Nearly every Boer fetBeriuuda, the doctor says, is anxious for the war to cense, and they aro ready to say so. Nearly all of them aro adult men, and the few boye who aro prisoners are big enough to have helped in the supplying of ammt:teflon to active fighters. Boer Iit r tits ). t y ( Ot « New Orleans, Jan. 18. -.-Captain L. Do Villiers, recently from South, Af- rica, wishes to corroet the assertion made in lite name that no Hien willing to fight for the Boers could the land- ed in South, Africa. Tito assertion was made by Captain I)o Villiers that a body of men could not be landed to- gether, owing to aDritlslt martial law regulations 'but inert a»:rioue to fights for the cause have found and nrn finding their way there every day, as the statistics of Lord leitelr- mug show tbat he ieati captured, killed and Wounded 83,000 Moors, while the total population le only 110,000. Weisiinlrn end frlsicnlntt. London, titin. 18. -Sir Watkin Wynn halving been approached by the War Mese has volunteered to retied n Welsh regiment of Yeoinatery ler aa'rviee tit the frtknt. I%oerutts will be drawn from aril /mete of Weles, Sir; Prisoners. Kritzinger Ovate one of \Voiki•n has already ranged at eetteplete :lie most eueeessfui Boor leaders ill Yeomanry bettallen, bet this will bo the first purely Welsh Yeomanry re. (;intent to go to the trent Altlrouglt recruiting for the new "Irish Morse," only commenced on New Year's clay, over :3Qo apWilca• tions have been made for service in the uew regiment, many coming from men who have already takes Vert hi the campaign. The reeianont, as 0009 as tee numbers rer oh tete full nom• p1ement, will proceed to tbe Cur - MO for a course of training in rid. Ing and musketry. 8RITAINS CAST�R 111 THE RING. Rumored Strong Stand 'on Sugar Bounty Question. FEAR MILL 'CATASTROPHE, Walls Collapsed and Many Found Death, in the Ruins -Ten Bodies Recovered- No Truth in Story of Uprising of Natives at Nasirabad. Br, issels, Jan. 20.-Tbe interna- tIonal sugar conference re -assem- bled to -day. Tlie, correspondent oe the Asso- ciated Press has good authority for saying the Br1iish_,dolegatos defin- itely announced Great BritaIn's in, tention to, Impose . a countervailing 'duty on sugar, unless the bounties are withdrawn.. The oonference adjourned until Wednesday, in order to allow the delegates time to communicate with their respective governments on this and on other new develop- in•ents, which occurred during the recess, ta'iax Mill Catastrophe. Belfast, Jan. 20.-A wall of the Smithfield flax mills collapsed this morning, burying the operatives, who included maty women. As this despatch is sent, ten bodies have been extricated from the ruins. Story of Rising Denied. .London, Jan. 20. -The officials of the India Office here declare there is no truth in the report front Odes- sa that a native uprising has oc- curred at Nasiriabad,in the Ajmere diotrict of India, and that the Brit- ish troops there have been defeat- ed in!three engagements. .61iGGE[1, BBA{hED, Brutal Murder of a Rochester Jeweller. FOLIC ARE WITHOUT A CLUE, Rochester, Jan. 20,-The,murder of Beard E. Brown, one of the old- est and best-known iewefi(3rs 01 the city, was revealed a few minutes be- foira 9 o'clock yesterday evening. Brown was found in a chair in front of the tall safe en This store, his skull crushed in and his body otherwise mutilated. Ile had been bound and gagged and liths . murderers had es- naped. To -night the whole police force has been turned loose upon the ease, but they are without the slight- est clue. John Maquet, a night watchman, discovered the crime, Raquet has several banks and other big estab- lishments one his list that he visits at regular intervals during th:e night. It was his first call to -night at Mr. Brown's store. The place was rather dusk when leo opered the door, but a. gleam from the open stove door dhoweti him a portion of the interior. Eie walked over to close the stove door and collided with a chair that was In his way. Then he struck a light. Without waiting to take a sec - and look he pulled the burglar alarm and ran to the streot. The entire headquarters force of pcslicemeu came tumbling over them- aelves down Lxcluenge street to the Four Corners. What they saw wits .aged Mr. Brown sitting in front of the tall office safe, his gray balr and long whiskers matted with blood and the top of his head' literally crushed Ln. Ho 'would heave fallen to the floor had not the showcase been close that he fell over against it. Tho old man was gagged firmly, a hand- kerchief was tied closely about his neck, his arms were fastened behind and his feet were tied together. Tho blood had spattered all over the store furniture. There was no sign of a bludgeon or hammer, but the priloe proles t'o be able to say that a htammer had been used. One of the things first discovered was that not much of the many thousands within reach had been sto- len. The only articles of value miss- ing was a $250 diamond pin and his keys. They itad removed the stone from the setting and the setting along remained, flung to the floor. The showcases had not been disturbed, Not an article had been moved froth the spot where it had been methodic- ally placed day after day by the old jeweler. The police at once started upon the theory that the murderers had gagged and bound Brown and piu.e0d him in front of the safe to force him to open it for tleetn. He had eVident- ty refused to do this. They then probably tried toz'turo to induce him to confess the combination, and, fail- ing, they killed him to avoid fuiture detection. Within fifteen minutes after the finding of the body State street was densely packed with people as far as alto Four Corriere. The people on their way from oharch stopped to hear the awfni news. Several women fainted. Mr. Brewn, who was 70 years old, lead been probably the best known of any of the local jewelers for almost halt a eeni;ury, and was rich. Ills body was removed to the publie morgue n the took ook C1 tar o g of his store. The Montreal Diocesan Theological College has reoclved a gift of iJ 40,000 Froin Miss Eliza t)unean, The leaders of the brigands Who have ltelcl Mise letone and Mine. Tsilka prisoners for ` twenty Weeks lutve finally aeeepteil in writing the renditions for the release ot their tsptives that were proscribed by the agents who have been negotiating for the we'Lllocl's tr'eedom, IRS! P111111 Pll3LY! Sister -in -Law Brought Whis- key hinkey to His. House, HE LODGED iN CHICKEN CUOf, nukc.01 AbrILzzl'e Piens, A,bruz hate definitely abandoned the project of furthering �peter L ed -Clone for the present He /sae just boon premerted to, the rank of Major of Mariam. and at the request OI the Icing of Italy he will spend two. years In a voyyage aronlndthe world on beard an etalien warship. The Duke will be in American waters in tile summer Of 1903. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Jan, 21..- 44499A 64.. i UUU [[[���JJJ ToTgis Family ties between Mr, fend Mrs, Mount William 1L Pugsley, of faeuth Fulton, avenue, East Mount 'Vernon, are 6 amewhat broken. Aaaarding to airs.. PI -Melee her husband le at present; COMPLETE living in the chicken coop, wbilo sire and her sister reign in the house. This state of affairs has existed for some time, but it did not come to light until to -day, when Pugsley had his sister in -taw, afra, Allis Brawls, arraigned before Judge Bonnett in the Court of Special Sessions, charged with disorderly conduct and trespass- ing. During the trial Pugsley inter rupted the ,proceedings by jumping to 'Ms feet, and taking several yards of sash rope from his pocket he asked the Judge to_hang libn. joiiir 111101h11 PtflLTIO N. Some Interesting Facts From the Annual Report, • )INCREASE IN NUMBERS NOTED, The annual report Of the Depart- Meot of Indian Affairs for the year ending June 130e11 last was distribu- ted to -day. Mr. J i,mes A. Smart, the Deputy Minister 01 the DePartleent, says that the work performed and tee results obtained show tbat the intleans througiiout Canada continue "1 would rather' die now than to think of intoxicating liquors being drunk in my house 1" be exclaimed, while the court officers tried to quiet him. The t Iff ro e trouble In his family commenc- ed last Thanksgiving Day, when Mrs. Allis Brown, Mrs. Pugsley's sis- ter, Dame to live with them. Pugsley says he cane home and found an empty whiskey flask on the table, and, as he is a temperance advocate, the thought of intoxicating liquors being drunk In Ms house was more ,than he could stand. A. heated argu- ment followed, during which Mrs. Pugsley took her sister's part. net night Pugsley wont to sleep 10 the chicken coop, and since then he etas made it his home, leaving his House to his wife and her siOters He cooked his own meals and made Iris bed ; in fact, he lived like a hermit in tate dingy ten by six box. On Monday Mrs. Brown went to the Waken coop, where her brother- in-law avas living, and started to give orders. Pugsley ordered her off the premises; but she refused to go. Then lie hastened down to court and had a summons issued for Mrs. Brown's appearance to -day, The Judge suspended sentence on Airs. Brown, after warning'ltor to keep away from theoe'ugsley home. Parliamentary Representation Will. be Affected, HOUSE OF 210 MEMBERS. Ontario Will Lose ii, New lrunswic'k 1, Nova Scotia 2, and Prince wardltd- Island 1 -The Yukon to Have a Representative. Ottawa, Tan. 15. -(Special) - The Census Department gave out to -day the official figures of the census of 1901 for the whole Dominion. The total population is 5,369,666. The population of the provinces is as fol- lows '1891. 1901. P. E. I. ...... 109.07a 103,259 Nova Scotia 450,396 459,574 N. Brunswick 821,'268 831,120 Quebec ,.. '. 1,`488,535 1,648,898 O2,144, 321 2,18:,942 Manitoba...152,506 254,94e Bs. Columia ,...,. 98,173 • 177,97:3 1'l. W. T. • • 158,941 Yukon unorganized. , 27,167 Territories .....• 82,168 25,546 Total 4,833,239 5,369,666 The milt of representation is there- fore 25,867. It is found by dividing. 05, the number* of representatives in Quebec, into the • population of that province; THE LATE HON:- R. R. DORELL. THEE MEJII i3 CHIMES Farmer Murders Suitor for Daughter's Hand. FARM HAND KILLS EMPLOYER, Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 20. -Mies So- phie Zantiny was; shot on the street Last nighitAlexander Moore, her lover. The 'seriousness of the wounds are not yet known, ane shot strik- lag the girl is the chin, the second entering leer back and breaking a rib. Moore lett tb,o girl where She tell, went to his ]tome on, Annandale street, took poison, and died Watkin an Dour. The couplo had been en- gaged to bb married, but the girl recently broke the engagement. Van Wert, Ohio, Jain. e0. -John Gate- wood was shot and instantly killed early yesterday uiorni.ng by Jahn Bauman, a fanner, who lives near this place. Garwood, who has been paying attentions to Baumau's 16 - year -old daughter, called at Bau- man'- house before daylight nxid demanded admittance. Bauman re- fused to admit his visitor, and, af- ter demanding that he Ieave the premises, opened the door, having in his hand, a shot gun. Seeing Garwood draw a revolver, he fired,, the charge striking Garwood in the left breast and eausiug instant lleatlu, Bau- mann gave himself up' to the authort- ties. Woroeeter, afass., Jan'. 20. --Samson Seaverns, 83 years old, living between Rutland and Princeton, was mur- dered ati his lions hast night by Lem Hapgood, • Who had been employed by ltdm on' the farm. Inpgood tat- taeeked Seaverns iii bed With an axe and Shot hinr with a rovolVor, and later confessed lids crime to a daugh- ter of thin, murdered matt in the Moine. The murderer made his es•' nape, coming int the direction of Wor- eoste>r. ( a , A CHICAGO LOCKAOUT. Movement Against Unionism It et by the Iloyeott, Chicago, Jan, 20. -rive hundred cus- tom clothing workers, the majority of them women, have been locked out, and it Is said the member will be Largely increased in the near future, as the, result et an organized move- ment to stamp out unionism. among the garment workers in Chicago. The Chitega Federation of Labor has tauten up the fight nt the cloth- ing workers, and yesterday declared A boycott ngalnt into concerns re- } isponstble for the lockout. ¶Um. representation by population will therefore stand as follows: British Ciolumaia Ai... 7s. North n est 6 10 Ontario 86 Quebec 65 New Brunswick „ 13 Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island 184 Yukoiz 1 TetaI 210 Theta shows will gain 1 afahitoba a, Yukon. The losses are 6 members in On- tario, 1 in New Brunswick, 2 ,in Nova Scotia, and 1 in Prince Ed. ward .Island. The'. -representation in the ptesent Parliament is 213, in other words, while 7 will be tidied niter the redistribution, 10 will has o to be deducted, making a dif- ference of 3 less than at present, that British Columbia. member, Northwest 2, while 1. goes to the THE 6BANO TflOV'N. Will Doubie-Track From Chi- cago to Montreal, MAMMOTH FREIGHT ENGINES, Chicago, Jan. 21. -Tho manage - Mont of the Grata Trunk bas decided to. have a double track all the way from Chicago to Montreal. A largo portion of the system is now dou- ble -tracked, and the work will be prosecuted with, vigor in filling up the gaps, the largest of which are on the Grand Trunk Western. Of the 835 miles b .tween Chicago and Port Huron, 10,A aro double -tracked, and work is being prosecuted on 78 nines between Durand and Battle Creek. The double track now in operation on the evesterzt end con-. sists of wt) Miles between Chicago and Sedley, Ind., end 81 miles between Port Huron and Durand. Thirty miles is being constructed .between Still- well and Grangers, Intl., throngh South Bend. In the prosecution of the work between' Durand and Battle Creek twelve l nevstnel grid E n tobo eenstrteted. The greater portion of the Grand Trunk proprr from Pert 'Huron to Montreal b* already doubIn-trackecd. The officials 'nave also decided to add Materially to equipment, and eight new mammoth feright engines have been • received ase a starter. T. W. Quayle ]las been appointed any editor of the Ottawa Citizen. Mr. Quayle has been in Ottawa for some years, and is a native of tveet- ern Ontario, to be .law wilding and ccutenceu and to be more eell-supporting as gtheycaged Itetarin aegrase iniouitunul'emTabersraadonCi, 'Thosene en - elle Litems metuods as their white bretb- reai with very pleasing results. Tlie main features of the policy followed by the Department are the fixity of their abodeh, the careful safeguard• 10 the alienation sols savle�hof etheir Jant responsibility to theicreme theal and- re t eetmoat of special Iegislation for thole proteotiou against their own weakness or aggression ore the part of the stronger race with a view to le m eventually enigor',bltiesiiznsp,i grant- ing of all necessary educational fa. etilties and limiting such material aaslstaance as may be offered to the needy to what may tend to make them self supporting. The report says tbat there hens been no more potent factor to the elevation of the Indians than the religious in- struetfon afforded them by the mis-. sionatries of the various churches' who have been and sttil are devot- ediy working to inculcate tbe prin- ulple of Christianity among these people and who more largely co•op- ext» tie in the work of their secultur education. The Indians aro showing Increased providence of habits and greater self-reliance. The vital statistics sallow that there were last year 2,233 births dad 2,557 death's. As compared, with this. there bas been an increase dur- ing the year udder review of 146 la the number of births, and a de- crease 'of le1.7 len the number .01 deaths. A gratifying feature of this increase le that it has not been confined to any particular province, throeighout the Dominion. The follow- ing table gives the Indian popula- tion by provinces: 19 Ontario.................. 20,70.3 020 783 . 1901. Quebec ... - .., ,.. Nova Scotia 12,78$ 12 020 New 65 Brunswick... x639 1,655 P. E. I.... ... 308, 315 British Columbia ...... 24,528 24,576 Manitoba ,,. 6,759, 6„810 N. W. T. ... . ... 17,7X4, 17,927 Outside treaty limits 14,5;6 14,5613 Totals` ............... 99,010 99,527 This shows that !compared with the preceding year there has been ani aggregate increase of 5117 in the Indian population. The capital of the Indian 'truest fund has now increased to $8,941,893. ERNES IN COUPON, British Steamer Adana Has a Strange Experience. EVIDENCES OF A WRECK, New York, Jan. 20, -The British steamer Adana arrived to -day from China, Japan and other places in the far East. Captain Smith says that from the Azores to this port he had tempestuous weather and relates an occurrence which he says was phe- nomenal. It was a collision between two Iturrieanes. His vessel had been ex- periencing heavy gales for 24 hours preceding this occurrence. At 11.45 a.m., on the 17th instant, the wind was blowing with hurricane force from the south and a terrific black storm from the north was seen to approach rapidly, when at 11.55, it fell dead calm and the barometer was 29. At noon precisely tate two winds met about a quarter of a mile from tite vessel. Tho impact of the winds could be seen to churn the sea into foam and it became rough and confused, rising to a height of 50 feet above the sea level, pre- senting a most dangerous appear- ance. The vessel soon got into the broken water, which came tumbling aboard in every direction, but with - out doing much damage. The spring of the steering gear was broken and a stern post- was smashed, the sea flooded the steward's pantry and destroyed the stores. After the con- fusion, the gale from the north proved to be the strongest, and the wind, within a few minutes was blowing with harrieane force from that dire cation, and by two o'clock in the afternoon the sea was running moun- tains high. In the midst of the storm a large sailing ship was seen, Captain Smith tried to signal her hitt the flags did not s' ,nd the force of the wind. After the storm calm came for a short time, On the following day the steamer passed about50 round logs, apparently a vessel's( deck load. NFANT MORTALITY 1N RUSSIA ti Some Districts Reaelfes Figure of 50 Per Cent. St. Petersburg, nut. Cie -The mod'. cal reports presented to the local authorities by the deetors of the Zeinstvos reveal an alarining state of things with regard to the infant mortality. It appears that in many of the llovet -lin cants the proportion of the children who die during the first ye;u' is as high as 40 and even 50 per cent. In isolated cases it is even higher. The reports ascribe this terrible mortality ntainly to the ignorance of the peasants and to the fact that the mothers have fregn•ent- ly to neglect their Children In order to work in the ficlds. In support of title view it may be pointed out that the death rate is considerably higher in enutmer than in winter to spite f C o the Severity' critof . the climate. timate. Another Canso n.ppcars to be the growing practice of employing wet n ryes, with the result that tete nnxseta own children have to be fed by artificial means. In this con- imation it is pointed out that the rate of infant mortality is,nuolt loge or Among the Mohammed:tit popula- tion, wllere law obliges every another to nurse iter own children, In ono of the tioverntnenta, for example, thti rate of Intent neortality among the efolianateedana Is only 140.4 stir 1,000, bait lLntontt the ChrIst1en,t 842,j, For Itliut'e D1's.Yroysrs. .. 0la4sg0W, Jan. 18.. -The British Clove ernment line invited eel tlit a de r8 Lin the Clyde for the eosretrnotlon 01 ten torpieleeboat :destroyers, larger and stranger, but slower titan thea° lime 4 toforo built. 'Tee idea, of tine Golfs erement is that the reduction of more thatwenty-five seeto te'.leiartel knots”( 4 by elvbe e for power, Metre re1Iabllty and greater fetal raAm. PRISUNER.S QUIT PEN ITENTIARYI Eleven , Desperadoes Tunnel a Way to liberty, THEIR • DARING SCHEME. Orawlo4 Rorty Peat 'Through Air Chamber After Leaving Their Tunnel, Sawed Out a Grating anal Walked Away. Tacoma, Wn., Jan. 20. --Eleven of the most desperate prisoners in the United States penitentiary oil Atc- Nell1's Ieland, made their escape be- tween 1. and 2o'uloek Sunday after - t night were still at liberty. to a hour was tate most daring -and hurcessful jail breaking ever attempted in this State, and the character of the men implicated makes it doubtful whether they will be re -taken without loss of life The men at large are; W. D. der, Idaho, robber; James Campbell, Nome, pickpocket;; Thomas Morton, Nome, burglary; Frank Ainsworth, Nome, larceny ; Mike Williams, Spo- kane, coma terfeiter; Harry Davis, Nome ; Prank Moran, true name Ed Oneii, Spokane, couulterfeiter; James Moriarty, Spokane, counterfeiter ;, J. P. Stewart, •Idaho, counterfeiter ; Bruce Kenwright, Nome, manslattgh- ter ; James Carroll, Alaska, wutrder. all of cell No. 10, occupied�by Conviche brick ts Snyder and Davis, reveals the method of escape. The wall was about a foot do thick- nese and the floor of the cell is of equal thickness, covered with cot- crete -A tonnes was dug at the junc- tion the the slop- ing floor, conection with the air chamber about two feet below and two feet out- wardly from the corridor wall of the cell. Through this air cham- ber the ' prisoners crawled about forty feet to where it opened into: the boder room, the opening beteg covered by an Iron grating, This obstacle was overcome ley the use of saws, and the prisoners had then °ally to walk, .out of the back door, 0'1 the boiler room, across the ,yard and scale the board fence. A. fowl yards from the prison grounds the dease growth of timber afforded them temporarily, a safe retreat. The e or the lati ude allowed themners, tookvdur nantag the dinner hour to-coneunt:mate their pia �en's. Theoe two hosweere on the n tine wall overlooking the corridor, were eating ':dinner In the dining - room. A dinner gang was at work', putting the tables In order and the other convicts had the privilege o4 the corridor's. One by one the men slip- ped into cell Na 10 and crawled through- the hole unnoticed. When, Ole guards came out. and lined the prisoners up far dinner, eleven were relating. Warden Palmer at once seht a squad of guards in pursuit, and made a. tour of the island. Velth two launches, three rowboats and thirty. men guarding the shore line, "it is believed by the officers that if the mien were still on the island at 9 o'clock last night, their escape will be blocked. SHOT SIR NIIIISELF The Young Woman is Dead,. Man Lives AND MAY YET BE LYNCHED; IIlllsboro, I11., Jan. 20. -About 9 o'clock last night a horse without 0,, driver stopped at Candling livery staele in the village of Coffeen, eight melee southeast of this city, and in the buggy whirl: he was drawing was the deof Gertrude ad reclining thmof Fred Brockman, T voulet bot who a isn unconscious. ad of the girl, two slight wounds in Broek- man's head and an empty revolver in his hand told the story of a tra- ' gedy _which has stirred the people of Coffeen as few events in the history of the village have done. Brockman. was restored to consciousness and admitted that he hatd killed the girl. A note was found written by Brockman stating his intention to kill h n:thol , end that the girt desired him to kill her first. It was addressed to "Kind andte geed "Fredrother and G r l and esr Ini Brockman stated he was in debt. The last litre of the letter contained a request from Gertie to be buried be- side' Fred. Today Brockman waived a prelim- inary examination and was placed in jail hero to await action of the April grand jury. tie expressed a wish that he had sac0eede'I in killing himself, and evoke highly of the girl, but of- fered no explanation or statement as tin the datum of the shooting. Mies Clifford was 20 years ell and hiighly respected. Brockman Is 8160 h Out 20 years old and of good fain- tly, though he has been drinking re - i en tly. There was much talk of citing among the Coffeen people, but no outbreak le probable. KILLS OANO'S IVC 5 I.,EAfaHR. letatnkfort, Ind., Tan. 1.8. -Clean Pruitt gang, died early this tnoen- s Morn. ing fromtheeffects 01 adied aerly tltirevolver eliot fired by William Pitteer, a. vouag farmer, an hour before. Last night the Meng invaded the home of Wllflani Pittser, Where a, danee Was tie progress. They broke down tate doers, smashed the furniture and hie allied the censers. l'ittser remon- strated and the gang attacked Hint bat he finally shot Clem Pruitt. Pitt- veer, who Is seriously hurt, is here in jail ander the ears ot rx 1>itysteitl,n. Polito Sympathy hs o'vervvltellhitij ly It lits Cavor.