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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-09-25, Page 7LERND 11 KENT TAKEN TO all Formally Charged With the Murder of Ethel Dingle. KENT'S LAWYER GOT TRUNK Secured it by a Ruse From Boarding - House Keeper In Iluffalo—Voron (Ares Out Jactars Statement Or Bellboy Tells New Facts—Letters Fauna In the Room. Rochester, Sept. 19.—Leland Dorr Kent has been formally placed under arrest. Ho is charged with the mur- der of Ethel Blanche Dingle at the Whiteomb House last Sunday. There is a secOnd charge of aiding and counselling suicide. This second charge is manslaughter in the first degree. Tho arrest was made at the Homoeopathic Hospital immediately after the second session. of the in - [quest was ended. Dr. Collins, who boa attended Kent since, the tragedy, notified the chief of police that Kent was sufficiently recovered to be dis- charged from the hospital, The de- tectives then took the prisoner to a police station, whore ho was placed in a cell. The statioti was full aud tho prisoners noisy. Kent asked to be tramsforred to jail. The police cap- tain made out a commitment and Kent was taken to tho county jail. Kent had nothing to say. He walked with his head lowered and appeared 'very much downcast. haant's LawYer Oct Girl's Trunk. It came out at the coroner's in quest that George Raines, attorne for Leland D. Kent, had got posse Nam of Miss Dingle's trunk on will° was represented to be an order froi Coroner Kleindienst, of this it The fact was developed during th examination of Mrs. Hutohinsm who keeps tho boarding -loose at N 435 Niagara street, Buffalo, a which Kent and MINS Dingle, ha lived for a fortnight uneor the nam of Crosby. After the tragedy Ken told his attorney details of his las days in Buffalo, and H. W. Rippey clerk to the lawyer, and Dr. Edwar P. 'VIBourne, Kent's chum, went t Mrs. Hutchinson's house and got th trunk. • The district attorney and the cor oiler were astonished and angers when they learned that the womaa had given up the trunk. The corone denied that he had given Such an or der and examination developed Oa the purported order was probably a subpoena to the inquest bearing th coroner's name. H. W. Rippey, clerk to Mr. Rainee admitted that he had no authority from the coroner to get the trunk An angry scene followed, the (Us triuct attorney accusing Mr. Rosine of getting the trunk by false pre- tense. • Coroner Taomag A. Kilhip, of Roca - ester, put in Kent's statement, made after the discovery of the tragedy It was the same as already published and accused Miss Dingle of trying to kill Man and killing herself. Bellboy'e Testimony. George Mienk, a bellboy at the Whitcomb House, who showed Kent and Miss Dingle to their room, gave some new and important testimony. "It was 3.45 o'clock," he said, "on Sunday morning when I took them up to their rooms I,made a mistake and took them to the fifth floor instead of the third. They walked book down sthe stairs, laughing and talking. The girl seemed all right going up, but became dizzy coming down, and I helped her. She stumbled two or three times. 'The boy needs a little money,' she said to Kent, and he gave no a quarter.I asked if they wanted ice water, and I took some to their room. At that time she was talking loudly, ; ,, I. , "Half an hour later I answered a call and Kent ordered stationery. I heard her talking, Out I don't know what she said. Then there came a third call and d was sent for a teas- poon by Kent. She was talkingthen, too. She was talking when I went back and reported that I could not get the spoon. She Said: "You can, take it without.' I asked him if should bring him one in the morning when the dining -roma opened. He replied: 'No, I shan't need it then." The bellboy said it was between 5,30 and 0 o'clock when he wentatol the room for the last time. He did not see MISS Dingle at any of the calls. Kent told him he wanted to take something for a cold when ask- ing for the teaspoon. The inquest was adjourned to meet Monday morning. Mrs. Lorenzo Van Allen, sister of Ethel Dingle, was not present at the hearing, and it is un- derstood that it has been found im- mersible to serve a subpoena on her. About Dr. Grant, • Among the letters put in was one signed by tho girl, In her full name, reading as follows': • • Rochester, ala Y., Sept. 14, 1002. Dify Darang Sisters and Brothers— Don't blame Dr. Kot. I want to die. ( I have suffered all tho agonies of hell within tho last month. Doc- tor Grant has been the * * * t hope, he will lead a better life. I bye another, though all I want him to do is lead a batter, more noble life. I am about to die, and God forgive mo. I love and, am willing to enter eternity with the one I adores.I bye one who has been 'true and never acted as one weruld ox- pestof a sporting man. I ask all to forgive me and forget. I love Leo Kent, and I know he respects me at least. I care not to lare, foe my e,ondition ia such that must give Up. With all my love and rospeet, remember me as ETHEL BLANCHE' DINGLE. Harry, say -nothing and forgive. An my trunks and all that I own Is Eva's, and I hope that she will forgive me and Lee, as lie in 411 in all to moo E. B. D. P Good -bo, darlings. I Want you all to forgive Inc. I love and to death all. But Leo Dorr Kent love, and, Harry, say nothing, an It has all happened through 'sure love. Your sister, loth& Grant is the cause of all post- mortem discoveries. To Dr, Itendell. The following note Wan also put In Reediester, N. V., Sept,t, 14, 1001 Dr. liandall,—You are the prinels pal Cause of my death, I love my profession and time bag told me my family are crated, nate arreessaasee no more to say. I love Dr. Kent, and Grant has milled me. Good Bye for the -- I tun, ever years most faithfully, E. B. Dingle. Rochester,. al, Y. Dr. Randall, I forgive you for causing this awful death by your tongue. L. D. K. MANGLED BY A THRESHER Searboro Mau Yell Into the Cylinder a Poet, Amputated. Toronto, Sept. 22.—George Bull, of Searboro' Township, met with a painful accident on Saturday morn- ing, which rendered it necessary that Ills right foot should be ams putoted. Ile was engaged in thresh- ing on the farm of Mr. Ames Wil- son, While crossing front one mow to another be fell and was caught in the revolving cylinder of the thresher. Tile machine was imme- diately stopped, but not in time to prevent it from causing terrible laceration to Mr. Bull's foot. A dootor was summoned, who attend- ed to the injuries. TORONTO MiSHIMIGGEO Struck Two Terrific Blows by Two Highwaymen, CRIES OF MURDER DREW HELP. Toronto, Sept. 22.—joan T. Flan- agan, of 374 Manning avenue, is at Grace Hospital in a critical conal - tion as tho result of his experience with highway robbers who sandbag- ged him and left him lying in a help - lees state at the corner of Wellesley street and Laurier avenue, ahortia after midnight on Saturday. Flan- agan's assailants have not been Identified. Detective Forrest is work- ing on the case. nonagon Is 40 years of age, and is a cigarreaker, employed by the Havana Cigar Company, of 5 Jor- dan street. On Saturday night, ac- cording to his own story, he was under the influence of liquor, and did not care to go home because he had not been in such a condition for about a year. He was at the home of a fellow:workman, Thos. Lindsay, of 100 Oak street, for some time. At 12.30 o'clock people living in the vicinity of Wellesley street and Laurier avenue were startled by re- peated cries of "Murder." James Gairdner, of the Mail and Empire composing room, was the first per- son to go to the injured man's as- sistance, and was followed by Chas. Hood. They saw that Flanagan had been brutally assaulted and sent for a policeman. He had received an ugly blow on the top of tile bead, causing a cut two and a half inches in length, such, as the doctors say, could only have been caused by a blow with a sandbag or some simi- lar weapon. There was also a wound which had swollen to the size of a, hon's egg on the right side of his forehead. The robbern took Flanagatas a- ltered: gold watch and chain, but his money, something over five dollars, was not touched. It is thought pro- bablo that the assailants, when Flan - again shouted "murder," were in too great haste to make good their es- cape to go through the pockets of their 'victim. Highwaymen in the Comity. HigliwaYmen have also been at their nefariona work in the county. A man smile gave a name which after- wards tufted out to be fictitious re- ported to High alonatable Rams- den, that last Wednesday night, while driving in a buggy, accom- panied by a young woman, they were accosted by three men, one of waom held the horse while the other two .tripped the rings from the girl's fingers and took what small amount of money the man had. This happehod on Woodbine avenue, near the (Newmarket track. The county police have not succeeded in captur- ing these robbers. FOUND UNAOINN ISLAND. Remarkable Achievements of Arctic Explorer. NO LAND TO NORTH AND WEST.. London, Sept. 22.—The Times pub- lishes the personal narrative of Capt. Sverdrup, the Arctic explor- er, describing his four years' ex- plorations on the steamer From. He details the course taken by the vessel from Cape Sabine. and the experiences and achievements of the various sledge expeditions from the Frain. The Times editorially holds that Capt. Sverdrup has rescued HO much from the unknown and made so many solid additions to science that his achievements on his last expedition, taken in conjunction with the all-important part lie played in Nansen's venture, surely entitle him to the highest recogna tient the geographical worl,d can bestow in -dealing with his work in the region of the coast of Elies- merela,nd, which is broken into a Complexity of fjords, reaches, and mountainous elevations4 A. great island was discovered north Of the Parry Islands, ex- tending to about SO degrees north, but no other land otos seen either to the north or west of this, noth- ing but unbrokell seas of ice. The writhe holds that as Lieut. Peary did not meet with land in his last attempt to reach the Pole, It is possible that Capt. Sverdrup discovered the last outlying land between the American Continent eand the Poled JOY TOO MUCH FOR HIM. Melbourne, Sept. 21..—Mme. Melba, tho.epsratic star, line arrived here. Her lather, who had not seen her in slatomn yenrs, came from Albury to eve:lemur) her. Tim excitement of the meeting caused a blood vessel in his brain to buret, and he is in a, serious condition. Mina Melba has corm- queetly postpones:1 her first concert. Tho aeries of toncerts. to have been given by her Wata to have been the most brilliant ever given in the south- ern hemisphere. he Government lots placed tits railways at her aisposal, raid tho allerornore of time different colonies offered to act as her hosts during bier visit., • • ; • OHNE ii1101 HIS DAUGHTER King of the Belgians Refused to Speak to Her mrne4,•••••••••ral KING MAY MARRY 'AGAIN. Sind of Belgium's Queen Affects Cimancewaller Majesty lina Not Been Suelerlog Store Than Usual defers the :Sudden Seizure theme—A Seel End. Brussels, 044, 21.—The death of Queen Marto Heurietto of the Bel- gians has evoked expressions of pro- found pity for the royal patient, Who died unattended by a single member of her 'family, She struggted heroi- cally to the end to conceal her real condition, and this accounts for the conflicting reports as to the state of her health. The body of the Q,ueon has not been embalmed. The King will accompany the body frOm Spa to Brussels' on Monday. It will bet deposited in the fanniy vault at Laken. An official funeral service will be held on Thee - day. The body of the Q,ueen lies in bed dressed in white silk, with a Brussels Mao cap and a crucilix on her breast. Her Mao is very much emaciated. Her daughter, tho Princess Clementine, is constantly by the side of the Queetes body. The Qusen died with a portrait of her son iv hot' side. The portrait had always been M her possession tine the death of her son, tho Duke of Brabant, la 1869. Tito Queen's death may alter the dynastic comations. Should King Leo- pold remarry and a male heir be born, it would lessen the chances of sue - omelet"' by Count Albert of Flanders, who is the heir presumptive, because Ms father has determined not to reign if he should survive his bros. ther, King Leopold. A Complete Surprise. Paris, Sept. al.—The Matin says the death of Queen Marie Henri- ette, of the Belgians, was a com- plete surprise to her entourage. In the afternoon she played several,. games of draughts with her cham- berlain. At 5.8.0 o'clock In the af- ternoon the doctor in attendance aotioed that she did not look so well, but no serious symptom was noticed. At 7.80 o'clock the Queen asked the sister of mercy who was in attendance to help her to rise. The Queen had hardly reached an upright position :when she fell back in her chair and expired imme- diately. Silide Daughter Leave. Spa, Brussels, Sept. 21.—A des- patch to the Patriot° from Spa, says that when King Leopold ars rit•ed there he refused to speak to the Princess Stephanie, Countess of Lonyay, and compelled her to leave the royal palace. Tao Princess con- sequently left Spa suddenly, She rode to the station in a hired car- riage, and amid demonstrations of sympathy from the people she took train for Brussels. Princess Stephanie is the second .daughter df the late Queen Marie Henrietta and King Leopold. She married the only son of the Em- peror of Austria in 1881, and was left a smadone its 1889. Sao was mar- ried the second time in law to Elemer, Count of Lonyay. This mar- riage was against the wishes of King Leopold, who refused to per- mit it to be legalized, LETTERS ON TROLLEY, British Authoriiies Preparing to Test Contrivance. London, • Sept. 21.—The mere sug- gestion that London may have an electric postal system is startling when one thinks of the sleepy indif- ference with which the General Post Office usually regards any suggest - ea improvement. Yet, it is now as- serted, that, if Signor Ta,eggi, tile Italian inventor of a scheme for send- ing letters by electricity -driven box- es on overhead wires, can satisfy the British postal authorities that hi a plan is feasible and possesses half the advantages he claims for it, we may soon sec some interesting changes. Signor Taeggi says his aluminum letter boxes, besides being propelled at the rate of two hundred and fifty miles an hour, will collect letters automatically. The invention is to be thoroughly tested between Rome and Naples by the Italian Government, while the British authorities have in- vited specifications for considera- tion. According to Signor Ta,eggi's ex- planation his boxes will run on four overhead wires, the motor wheels running on tho top ones and the box rollers oh the two lower ones. The. post boxeu, the contents of which are colleted automatically, are in the shape of poles, and are themselves marvels, When a letter is posted, the stamp is automati- cally defaced with tho imprint of tlie name of the town, the number of the ,collecting pole, and tho mouth, day, hour and minute of posting. The poet box takes its contents to the top of the pole and drops tho letter in- to a collecting box, which, automa- tically stopped, returns to its place at the bottom of the pole, and, While doing so, releases the wheels of the Collection box, which pursues its journey to the next pole or post box. , . NARROW ESCAPE OF BORDEN. Runaway flushes Into Rig in Which He Wile Seated, Calgary, N. W. T.. Sept. al.—While R, L. Borden and his party were re- turning yetterday from, the Indian reservation to Calgary, the rig in which Bar. Borden woe seated had mescal over a rough and sloping piece of ground, and, as the one cOlitain- tog arra Borden and others was passing over the spot, tho driver of tho rig was thrown front his place and the heelless at once bolted with the rig and its elk helpless Occtip- ants. The runaway team ran astride the rig containing Mr. Borden Ond other ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. Borden was by the pole of the put - Suing rig, thrown in such a man- ner that his left knee was caught between the Wheel and the brake of hia rig, and a furious/ horse was Ml bat pinning hini beneath its feet. The runaway. Was Mopped. $500100 FOR ONE KINDNESS. Delaware man "Falt Sole Mir of Miser Ho (Mee liefrlended. Wilmington, Deis Sept. 22.—john Yandegrirt, of tide oily, huts returned from Atlanta, Ga., with a draft for $1,000 and a ,guarantect that ho will receive about $500,000 left to Min by jointliteCiary, a retired miner, Who. died in Atlanta recently, • The legacy ie for kindness rendered by Varidegrift to Mallory when the latter Was talon ill, twenty-two years ago, on a river steamer be- tween St. George's and PitiladelpIda, Yandegrift did not know the name of the etranger, but the latter as- certained the name the man who had aided him, and remembered it. A: little mono than a, month ago Mies Clary died in Atlanta, and loft a will with Holloman Barlow, o law - yea or that city, bequeathing his en- tire estate to Vanaegrift The lot - ter aeceived a letter from Barlow, asking him if ho were the man men- tioned in the will and could prove his claim. Vandogrift went to Atlanta and gave tho necessary Proof, , AIRSHIP TRIP 111111110111 HITCH. An Aeronaut Sails Over St. Paul's Cathedral. WENT THIRTY-NINE MILES ,.••••• Navigated Well Against the Wind— Vessel Dinars in Construction Prom That of Santos-Diemont— Momentous Escape or Aeronauts lu Sweden. London, Sept. 1,9.— Tile veteran aeronaut, Spencer, made an ascent from the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, to -day, man. airship of his own con- struction, and nailed over St. Paul's Cathedral. Tile airship, which behaved excel- lently, proceeded in a southerly dir- ection, and when near Ealing its °odium was altered to northeast. The airship sailed well against the wind. Spencer landed at Eastcote, near Harrow, at six o'clock. The trip of 30 miles was made without a hitch. The airship has a blunt tall and nose, differing In that respect from the designs of aantos-Dunront's bal- loons. The general lines are those of a, bottle -nosed whale. The bag is 75 feet long, and contains p0,000 cubic feet of gas. The frame is of bam- boo. Unlike SantossIsumont's ma- chine. Spencer's airship is propell- ed In front. The designer claims that this will render the airship more manageable, as the steersman can See the whole mechanism. A simple pressure of a button sets the airship going, and stops it. It is worked by a petroleum motor of 80 horse -power, placed at a, safe dis- tance from the gas valve. The speed in moderato weather is 15 knots per hour. it weighs only about 600 pounds, and carries only one person at a time. The ear is practically only a frame with a flooring of roped bamboo. There are special features and devices to prevent pitching and dipping, and a "blower" by which gas can be pumped out at a great rate and air pumped in. In ease a hasty closeout Is desired and should the fabric not be ripped, the gas escape bag forms itself into a par- achute. Spencer has been experimenting recently with him vessel at the Cry- stal Palace. Finding the condi- tions suitable, he suddenly decided to start on his dangerous voyage late this afternoon, and the usual crowd of palace spectators gave him a hearty send-off. The airship at 011C0 rose to a height of about 800 feet. After travelling for about a mile with perceptibly no devia- tion, in his course, Spencer made various detours, and seemed able to stear his ship as easily as a torpedo-boat. Near Clapham Com Mon lie came fairly close to the ground for the purpose of manoeu- vring. The appearance of the air craft created intenser astonishment among the thousands of persons on the streets over which time aero- naut passed. Marveiteus Eseapes of Aeronauts. Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 19.— Capt. Eric Unge, of the engineer corps, and Itagnar Wilkander, a civil engineer, had a narrow escape from being killed by the fall of a balloon which ascended to -day in the presence of King Oscar, in an attempt to beat the long-distance record. A fine northerly wind was blotving when the balloon started, and withill five minutes it had travelled four miles and reached a height of two tulles. Then It sud- denly exploded. The car dropped at a terrific rate in view of thou- sands of horrified spectators. But when nearing the ground tho rem- nants of the balloon opened out, acted as a parachute, and to the surprise of everyone the aeronauts landed safely. The explosion of the balloon was caueed by a too quick asseension. Capt. tinge, July 27th, travelled even 5,40 miles In a balloon hi 141,4 hours, descending near Novgorod, Rogge,. The balloon which collapsed had 1,500 Cubic metres capacity, and was filled With common gas. Capt. tinge intended 'to. makes an at- tempt to cross the Baltic to Ger- many and the south of torope. Boers May be Led. Antwerp, Sept. 20.-10 an address General Deseret saki the Beer,/ Would Sniffer themselves to be led, but that they could hot be driven like a herd of cattle. If anyone tolea to drive them leo Muth, tho General said, there might • be a catastrophe in South Africa. Bullet in Ills bead. Thorold, t)nt., Sept. 21.—The body of Wni. Daviage, of the Thoeold Pulp Company, Was found by mem- bers of his family' dead on the floor of his room, With a bullet wound in his right temple, about 10.30 this morning. Mr. Daseidge came hero from Niagara Falls, N. Y., rabbet two years ago. He Was about 40 years Of age, Red leaves a Wideara . pay MILLIONAIRE iThe !Reptile Caught Varryleig Away LIU LI SAVED FROM ALLIGATOR I co,prifiEs AN Egsy DK, Jr.., Sept, 20.—.While St amber of paurrongere were Walt - 4i. Windt , KILLED IN FIRE PANIC. M • - 0 ing for the morning train at Pablo ..---- Beaoli to -day they heard the wall or ii, Wald. A short distance away they Saw a Ng alligator dragging A child away* having secured Mild of its dress in Its mouth. The, and was Shrieking. The crowd rustled to the rescue and the alligator redoubled WI efforts to got to the bayou near- by. A lag dog belonging to the child came running along and dashed at time alligator's head. Tile alligator whacked fits tail around with great force, dashed time dog against Its mouth, whieh it opened with a gulp, taking le the dog and swallowing him with ease. The alligator dropped hold of the obild's dress in the struggle. The crowd at once tailed the alitgator. It was fifteen feet tong. It is thought to have been made fierce by hunger, as it is seldom th•at they will attack human Mange, and orrs peelally so near a habitation. The child was uninjured. Bunco Men Swindle Him Out of $5,000. SAME OLD CARD GAME. Weeit to the Bank and Drew the Money to Sit in the Liame—boot to the Value of $50,000 Prom tlideese Temples ill U,S. 011icor's 'Trunk, Lowell, Mase., Smt. 20,—Mi tiioimitlro Andrew C. Wheelock lost $5,000 at a game of cards with two bunco men yes.torday. About 11 o'clock yester- day morning, as ho was leavtug his residence in Nesmith street, he was accosted by a young man, who in - (reduced himself as Harry Pollard, son of A. G. Pollard, a mvolisknown bank man in tido city. Tho bunco steerer ciowely resembled letr. Pollard in appear -ante, and Mr. Wheeloak was deceived easily, akli invitation to the house of a friefid for the purpose of inspecting some histories of Middlesex county was given and accepted. Mr. Wheelock proved an easy Mark. After an in- troduction to a second man, who had a room hi a High street house, the watial game of cards was begun, with the confidence men as the players. One loot heavily, which led Mr. Wheelock to look upon him as "easy money." Then came the invitation to Mr. Wheelock to play, and he jumped at it. But ho had no money, and the bunco etecrers refused to recognize his cheque, so, at their suggestion, he wont to the Union Bank and drew $5,000. Returning In a shoat time, he entered the game and soon found lila roll missing. There is no trace of the confidence men, • Mr. Wheelock is 84 years old, and until recently had the reputation of being one of the shrewdest business men in this- city. His marriage sev- eral years ago with a woman only 85 years old excited considerable talk. Chinese Temple boot. New York, Sept. 20.—One of the biggest collections of loot that have come from the temples of China is credited to a'. E. Wellman, a United States marine, now a prisoner at tho Marine Barracks, at the Navy Yard. Weil:man is also charged with steal- ing a quantity of 'time officers' Jew- elry treasured highly for its aesocia,- tarns. He was caught with the pajamas and in his trunk were found the gems, it is alleged. Probing deeper, the searchers al- most gasped. They discovered cost- ly curios of gold and sliver and por- celain, jewels and rare brie -a -brae, it is charged, worth, they say, $50,- 000. The greater part or the trunk's contents, it wits asserted, was ob- tained in Pekin. Walkman pleaded innocence, but was held for court martial, SOUTH FAICAN TROUBLE. Grievances of Loyalists and Dutch in Cape Colony. LORD MILNER IS OVERWORKED, London, Sept. 2L—Discontent is the characteristic feature of the situa- tion in South Africa. The loyalists and the Dutch in Cape Colony are alike dissatisfied and bent upon em- phasizing their grievances. The re- patriation of burghers In the two Boer colonies is hampered by lack of money: and is encompassed with dif- ficulties, and there are Complaints from every quarter of delay, con- fusion and lack of organization. Johannesburg, with a mining po- i/Illation whose patience has been exhausted in waiting for the revi- val of prosperity, is also seething with discontent and protesting against Lord Miler's methods of ad- ministration. Even Natal is rest- less and impatient, and not reassured by rewards for loyalty in the form of two provinces snatched from the Boers and opening Zululand north- ward to Deiagoa Bay. Lord Milner is overworked, and apparently unable to control time expenditures of the repatriation committees, and the mass of detail Is too complex to be directed by a single mind. The restoration of the fighting bargliers and prisoner's to their /arms and homes will require a large loan in addition to tho free grant of £3,000,000, to which the Imperial government was commit- ted by the terms of peace, and there will be a, feeling among the Johan- nesburg refugees that the Dutch receive full assistance and that the ley:Wets are neglected and unre- warded. All this discontent may leave the two races less jealous and resentful, and more disposed to co-operate with each other In obtaining self-govern- ment and representative institutions nt tho earliest possible date. Thin is, however, a frankly optimistic view. M. Chamberlain is less exposed to criticism than Lord Milner during this transition period. 11.3 has chosen dee ilberately to remain ihi the back- ground and to refrain froth interter- encein the atrito of factions and feeds of races,. He represents the Crown, and has no entangling alliances With groups of leaders of particle, /Its authority os arbiter in all contra verses is strengthened by this atti- tude of reserve and conciliation. ••••••,••••• What it Will (lost Colonies. LOtolon, Sept. lat.—The Daily almouneers that the. Government has decided that the Transvaal And the Orango River Colony shall pay Z100,- 000,000 towards tho cost of tho South African war, lard the cost of administration. An account has been °petted at the Treasury, amid the col- onies have been debited to that nmesint heroin. A loOn will be raised, probably in the sum of £50,000,000. Taxation Of the mining industry, roneessiona for the sale of tarmalite, etc., Will contributo materially to tam meet Of the £100,000,000. IMPOSTOR PIGOTT HIDINC. Mob Furious at His Declara- tion He is Christ ANXIOUS TO TEAR HIM TO PIECES London, Sept. 21.—The public ex- citement in London over the fanatic Pigott, who styles hitt:welt the Mes- siah, furnishes a curioua study in sociology. The mere mention of his name Is sufficient for the assemblage of many thousands, all anxious to do bodily harm to the impostor. It is a strange commentary on the sup- posed pidegmatleising of tile metrop- olis that it is necessary to assemble seiveral hundred pollee -men for his protection whenever it is known that this pastor of a small pariah is going from his house to the church to con- duct a service. The offender has clone nothing except to announce the other day to members of his little sett 'that he was the reincarnated Christ. He made no fuss about it, He did not manliest the least desire for temporal power or even recognition outside his own email circle of fol- lowers. But his declaration got in- to the papers, and forthwith the passion seized many thousands of Londoners to tear him to pieces. The other night a coachman stopped in front of the North London station and remarked jokingly to a bystand- er that he was waiting for Pigott. The rumor spread like magic, and within a few minutes the crowd grew to a mob of mans* thousands!. TalhIcei police reaeserve twolso wexeer oh ecfaelri eed tohuety, succeeded in controlling the mob. The cry was constantly raised "Here ho coulee," "Down with the impos- tor; lea's get at him." Meanwhile the putative Messiah will remain in retirement for the present. He lives almost in luxury with his wife, who bias considerable money. Their relations, it Is ex- plained, like 'those of all others of the sect who do not believe in ordinary marriage, are purely platonic. BRITISH COLUMBIA LIFE. A Little incident as Described in a /meal Journal. The Sandein, B. C., Paystreak man, having gat iout of jail, thus des- cribes a serious assault in thot town: "Walter and Robert Hoag are in the Stepan no more. They have left for other parts, address unknown. Last Thursday Robert left the city for the Rambler mine, on the same train with Albert Pet- erson, a peaceful Swede. At McGui- gan Robert and the Swede got into an altercation, in watch the Swede got the best of it. Resorting to di- plomacy, Robert induced the Swede to pall it a draw, and proceeded to the mine, accompanied by a bottle of firewater. On the trail hostili- ties broke out afresh, and Robert struck the Swede with' the bottle and fled dawn the hill. Mr. Peter- sen proceeded to the half -way holuse 'with a sore head and stopped to irrigate. While engaged in this delightful pastime Robert passed the house and arrived at the mine where he engaged the services of Walter Hoag and Jim Platt to help aim knock the Swede's head off. The triple alliance met the Scandi- navian about a quarter of a mile from the half -way house, and pull- ing him off the horse, pounded him until he was aoft. Theo they kindly put Diin on his horse and headed him dohoo to tho hotel, where he arrived in a badly dilapidated coa- elitism Foreman Zwicky fired Hoag brothers and they came to town. Here again they resorted to strat- egy by swearing out a warrant against Mr. Peterson for attempt ta hold them up, But in the Cool shades of the evening they vanish- ed doiwtnthe trail, and the law has no cognizance of their where- abouts. Mr. Peterson is an honest man and peaceful. Hoag brothers have established no claim to hon- esty, and their greatest delight is to lick somebody. Considered in a national sense, Canada is winner by their migration. But Mr. Peter- son got a lard deal." CAPTURED HIS 24TH BEAR. -- Proton Township's Mighty Hunter Reports More Successes. Dundalk, Ont., Sept. 10. — After (motile/mg his 23rd bear three weeks ago, Mr. Chas. McConnell reset his trap In the same locality in PrOton township and was lucky enough to get another good lazed bruin yester- day, which makes No. 24. A coupte of dozen spectators? Went out to see tho bear in the trap and to find out just how Mr. McConnell handles them so successfully. There is no little danger in releasing a bear froxii a trap and removing it to its new home, sax or seven miles dis- tant, but Mr. McConnell has never received a, scratch during his long experience as a. bear trapper. The boar Weigas two hundred aini fifty pounds. A peouliar thing about it, the right bind leg which was caught in the trap was minite the foot. Mr. McConnell thinks this in the same bear Wilda carried away a trap set by hiLln ton years ago, which trap Was afterwards found du the lied of a, creek in time edge of Mei- anethon township with the bones of a, bear's foot In it. The two bears are POW chained to posts within twelve feet of each other in Mr. McConnell's lawn and are getting ev- ery attention. Band Drowned, Hat Portage, Sept. 21.--Areale Me- n, Steamboat hand, shipped from a boat into tho water ara was &Owned befeire help Could be eeeirred, , Awful Disaster in a Birming ham Church, 111.!••••••••••••••.1. AUDIENCE PANIC-STRICKEN 111,1••••••••••••••• III it Rush for the Doors 05 Were Killed and Maley Adaltienal Injured—A Fight and Then Cry of Fire. Rirnaingliain, Ala., Sept, 22,—In an awful crush of humanity, caused by a stampede la the. Shiloh Colored Baptist Church, at the corner of Avenue G and 180 street, to -night, 05 persona were killed and ninny more than that number Seriously in- inrei Tile disaster occurred at 9 o'clock, just as Evangelist Booker, known as "Time Washington," had concluded his aileiress to the national convention of Colored Baptists, and for three hours the scenes arotnel tho church were indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every Oirectiou, and the ambuienco service of the city was utterly unable, to care for them. Dozens of dead bodies were arranged in rows on the ground outside the douse of worship awaiting removal to tho various undertaking eetablisio menta, while more than a score were laid out on the bon:shoe inside, Saito!' Cnuren Le the largest house ci worship for negross iii Birmingliam, arid there were at least 2,000 persons In tho edifice when the stampede be- gan, The antrum° to the church was dterally packed, and the negroes were trampled to death lu their struggle to escape. ,Booker T. Waeldngton had just con- cluded his address when Judge Billou, a negro lawyer from Baltimore, en- gaged in a dispute with the choir leader concerning an unoccupied seat. It is said a blow was struck; some- one in the choir cried, "They're aghting." Mistaking the Nvord 'digit a leg' for "hro" tho congregation rose en masse and started for the door. One of the ministers quickly mounted Cho rostrum and admonished the pee - pie to keep quiet. He repeated the word "quiet" peveral times, and 'optioned to his hearers to be seated. The excited cougregation mistook tile eirwoforart,:utet for a, second alarm of fire, and renewed their frantic Men and women struggled over both and fought their way Mt:stile Those wet' fell were train - pled upon like cattle. • ; Tho ministers used thtir. utmost en- deavor to stop the stampede, but no power on earth could stay the strug- gling, fighting mass. Tete screams of the women and children added to the horror of the scene. Through mere fright many pertrons fainted, and as they fell to the floor were °rustled to death, „ Veritable Death Trap. Tim floor of the church is about 15 feet from the ground and long steps lead to the sidewalk from the lobby alert • outside the main auditor- ium. Brick walla extend on each side of these steps for fii2Z or seven feet and this proved a veritable death trap. Negroes who reached the top of tho steles were thrown forward, others tell upon them and In a mo- ment human being's were piled upon coma other to a height of 10 feet, Where they struggled wildly to ex- tricate themselves. . This wall blocked the entrance, arid the weight of 1,500 persons in the body of the church was pushing against it. More than 20 persons lying on the steps underneath the heap, of bodies died from suffocation. Two white men oho were in the rear of tho church whea the stampede be- gan escaped, and, realizing the seri- (veneers of the situation, rushed to a corner nearby and turned in a fire alarm. Time fire department an- swered quickly, and the arrival of tho wagons served to scatter the crowd which had gathered about the church. A squad of police hastened to the church and with the firemen filially; succeeded in releasing time nes groas that were crashed together in the entrance. Cleared In an Hour. Tile dead bodies were quIckly moved, and the crowd outside, find- ing an outlet, poured out. Scores of them lost th,ethr footing in their haste, and rolled down the long steps to the pavement, suffer- ing broken limbs and internal in- juries. In one hour the church had been practically cleared. Time sight whteli greeted those who had come to als1 the injured WAS sickening. Dawn the alleles and along the outside of the pews, dead bodies of men and women were strewn, and the maimed and crippled uttered heart-rending cries. Time work of removing tho bodies wan begun at once. The wails of the relatives of the dead, who had waited on the outaide, could be heard for Wart All Meows On Hand. Shiloh Church, in which the con- vention was held, is located just, on the edge Of the South Hi•ghlande, the faellionable residence section of this Olty, and all the physictstns ilvs ling in that part of the town went to the aid of tho Minted. As many of the suffering negrooa as could be moved by the ambulances were taken to hospetaist, and the others were laid out On the ground, and there the physicians attended them. At least 15 Of those brought out in- jured died before they could be re- moved from the ground. Witneased the Tragedy. During the stampede, Booker Wash- ington amid several prominent ne- groes were on the stage, and were forced to Witness the frightful ca- tastrophic. Nine of thee° in the choir or in the pulpit were injured. For a few minutes they attempted to restore Order, but seeing that their efforts were futile, waited until tho struggling crowd had ads yawed far enough for them to lack up the dead bodies. true/ in itilgiatkil. Landon, Sean oss—The increasing tole of liquid fuel is absorbing the attention of the Britifili railroads and of the- British Admiralty. TWO of time former etre now increasing their equipment of oil tired locomo- tives, while the Admiralty is carry- ing on extensive experithenta with liquid fuel tit Xetrhatia. The results are genet/My understood to be very satisfactory, though the details are jealously guarded by the Government OtpOrte, t, t'ill HERE AND THERE Titusville, Pa., Mai lead a $65,000 flre, Doneticiall showers are reporter/. in South Atistrallas The Citimallaat dentists Want a Da. !nation Council. Deetruotive forest fires/ are rag - Mg near Victoria, B. 0, Detroit wants the Essex Fusiliers for Roosevelt's visit there. 111. Paul Dereelole, an exile from Frame, luta been ordered from Spain. King Leopold says it is impoesiblo to say whether he will vpilt Amerioa or not, Colorado twat fires are unchecked. Oregon eines have raised $6,000 for self ororat Dawson meat men are organizing a combine to control the stook in the Klondike. At Souris exu, other points $3 per day LS freely offered for harvesters and 'Meagher's. Refined graders of sugar numbers 8, 9 and 20 naive) been advanced 5 points . at NOW isocrie. The centenary of time birth or Louie rCeseSuth is being celebrated through- out Hungary. Dia,dniates sawmill at Carling wits totally destroyed by fire. Lose about $12,000. Colorado roreet fires continue. Along tho Wyoming line much dap*. age has been done. Mr. A. j. More, mathematical ma's - ter at the Goderich Collegiate Insti- tute, died suddenly. The British Admiralty has ordered nine, additional torpedo boat destroy- ers from private, firma About 200 students are writing on the supplementary examinations at the Toronto University. Mao office of the New York State Rank at Syracuse has been olosea by the Chief Bank Examiner. Old Halton Boys of Toronto will bold their second annual excursion to Ge,orgotown on Oct. 7. Provincial bye -elections will take place in Heeria.ngcva Stanstead and L'Isiet. Quebec, on Oct. 3. One of the largest dealers in Mark Lane states that half tho English wheat crop has boon spoiled. M. Pellotau, speaking at Bizerta, Tunis, advocated fortifying that place; also Corsica and Toulon. The Dominion Line will next sea- son operate a 'weekly service between Liverpool, Quebec and Montreal. Tete foundation his being laid at Lethbridge for a beet sugar refinery which will cost half a million dollars. An order has been placed in Eng- land for 104 coachoe, SS engines and 250 st-eel coal trucks for Central South Africa. The Bowma,nville piano workers who have, beemout on ‚strike will go back on Monclat , a settlement having been reached, • A Chicago broker slipped at the top\O of a grain elevator chute and hung twenty minutes by, his futuds before being rescuea. It is thought that the tug, Kuper, sunk off Staten island, was blown up by a mine placed in the 'bay dun-. ing the war with Spain. Dr. Morehouse, of London, Ont., was elected President of tile Cana - Man Medical Association, watch meets next year at London. The Preebytery of Toronto refuses to consent -to the translation, of Rey. D. C. Hossack, of Doer Park Presby- terian Church, to Franklin, Pa. • A mass meeting will be held Oct. 9, at the Auditorium, Chicago,to raise money for another effort to secure the liberty of Mrs. Florence May - brick. • ; , The Pall Mali Gazette sounds a note of warning relative to what it terms tile "senseless prejudice" against and "persecution" of mo- torists. After a strike of nine months the workers In the Providence woollen mills have mostly all gone back to work, A few of the two -loom men are still out. A email gasoline tug, a number Of gill nets' and a quantity of fish were captured off Long Point by the cruiser Petrel for fishing in Cannelton waters. tA the next meeting or Ottawa City Council a, motion will be made to in- crease the salary of the Mayor of Ottawa, to $2,500 a year, ciammeno- ing oil the first of January. lk ' Tire Parliament of New South Wales ham voted $1,000,000 a year for five years, to be expended in the cora servation of water and the irriga- tion of tho country districts. The Government cold curing rooms for cheese at Woodstock, Brockville, Cowanswillo and St. Hyacinthe will be closed at the end of the present month and reopened next summer. The schooner Southern Cross, be- longing to the London Missionary Se- emly, was wrecked, September 1st, on, tile French Island of Tahiti, near the harbor of Papete. No lives were lost. 1 ; Mr. W. N. Hutt, B. S. A., of tho Ontario Department of Agriculture, has just received notice of his ap- pOhrtment as professor of horticul- ture In the Utah State Agricultural College, The territory to be given to Cana- dian veterans has been located by the Department of Crown Lands. Ten townships have been surveyed, and they are in the vicinity of New Loa heard in the Temiska,ming district. Themes McNulty, a. Glenwood Springs, Col., rancher, is dead, from a bullet Wound hi the head, inflicted by one Of hls two gems, Themes and William, aged 12 and 9 years respect- ively. The boys and the mother have been placed under arrest. BEEF TRUST IN CANADA. Buying Up All Peeking Houses In Prince Edward aloud. Charlottetown, P. B. I., Sept. 19. o -A. prominent Prime &heard Island man who arrived in the oily yester- day informed your correepondent that the parties proposing to establish cold .atorago Plante, etc., on the island were acting foo no less a con- cern time the gigantic packing and beef trust, orgautzed in the United States, last week. Messrs. Swift and Armour, of Chi- cago, through their agents, are now negotiating for the Nachos° of every avalloblo meat and packing con- earti on the (eland of any size, said will likely control the meat and pro - (Moo buelness, not only of the island, but of all Canada, as well as the United States-. He went on to say that time fear of Catioda had long ben the only obstacle in the Way or the formation Of the big Ameri- can trust, and that that fear had been of late lessened materially for the reason that the promoters' of the treat Iran obtained a foothold in Can- ada. ,