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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-01-04, Page 9IAGRATION ARA FALLS, N. Y. Porter Hotel and. the Guests Had to ''rin, Their Clothing Behind, Barr ;hickey and Cartridges ;Exploded Add- ing to?hhe Danger of Fire and the Scare. Niagara Falls, N. Y., despatch; Fire started this :Horning in the basement of the old Porter Hotel; now a part of the Imperial Hotel, at Falls and Second streets, in the portion occupied by Faxon, Williams & Faxon, grocers, The occupants of the Porter Hotel were startled by a. terrific explosion down stairs, and almost immediately the flames began to shoot up through the building. Fortunately the force of the explosion was sufficient to arouse all the occupants, who were -able to make their escape, but nearly all lost their clothing and personal effects. The fire spread quickly through the Porter Hotel, and to the store of J. & G. M. Rae, sporting goods, next door. Both Faxon, Williams & Faxon and the Rae stores aro complete losses, about $25,000 each. The Imperial Hotel Caught fire from the Porter Hotel. Tho Temperanee House annex, just back of the Imperial, on Sec- ond street, caught fire, and the top storey was completely gutted and the THE TRAGEDY AT MOSCOW. The Terrible Struggle Between the Troops and Revolutionists. Women and Children Massacred in Bombarded Building. The Troops Tired Out—The Chief of Police Shot. London, Jan. 1.—There are many re- ports that the rebels in Moscow are weakening, some going so far as to say that they are crushed. These mostly come from St. Petersburg. it is impos- .siblo to verify them. They can only be quoted from their respective sources. A St. Petersburg despatch has reached Berlin saying that Wednesday night passed quietly in Moscow, and :that on .--',Thursday the fighting seemed to be all Aver, order having been restored. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphing yesterday, said that the revolutionists in the Pry essnya area in Moscow had despatch. ed messengers to the Mayor, requesting hint to parley for terms on their behalf with the Gover•nor.-General. The .,Slay or assented.. The Pryessnya reveal - tionists are ready to surrender their arms and aihmuuition provided they are guaranteed ininnuiity from punishment. more battalions of troops arrived by :train at Moscow yesterday. Among them were detachments of the Guards from St. Petersburg, _ inelnding the fam- ous Semeonovsky Regiment, with macla- ino guns and 250,000 rounds .of ammuni- tion, They were attacked the moment they left the train. The revolutionists long the railway and•in the Sadovaia, ,Arbat, and Tverskaia quarters are stilt +fighting, thoulgh tluj,yy are npparontty losing heart. The bombardment of these areas continues. `h.mps and daf- fices are beginning to open in other ynatr- ters. A. few factories are resmtung work. Rebels Well Fortified. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph records reports that the insurgents are losing, bite he ,clearly doubts them. He says: "Doubtless numerous arrests and :deaths have decimated their numbers, Xtt, nevertheless, the insurrection is ,continuing unabated. Between Alos- .esow and Perovo everything is its the bands of the revolutionists, who run their own trains, hive their own en- gine -drivers and entire personnel. The revolutionists' line is remarkably 'uveal fortified. lied flags are flying all over it. The Imperial troops, we are told are faithful. Their attitude under trying conditions certainly demonstrate they ;truth of the statement, but, thee, y .are still too few, and cannot tonghists �itla cetatncl. the tactics of the with- out repose. Many cu of ] them, exhausted or enervated by lont, , constant danger, hard work and enfeebling pre. rations, are becoming physically unfit to take en active part nn further skir- mishes, and are either physically un- strung or wholly demented, and their _services cannot be demanded. The correspondent adds that revolu- optimism was originally based .beta y arm Gartangible grounds. Entire plans have Ibsen carefully elaborated,not eto only the two capitals, but for other Savagery on Both Sides. Many acts of annbru brutt ality in committed bytroops,ual savhein- eurgents displayed eq vole blocks of four -storeyed buildings have been bombarded: by artillery and destroyed to their verrviit foundations. The *nen, women and children tbe crumbling buildings were massacred indiscriminately. Frightful scenes oinre witnessed inside the blazing I:ye•witnesses of the fighting during first day of the rising declare rots equaled, those of Mukden. Scores of houses, including some public buil: arigs, have been wrecked,. The damage ;to property amounts to several millions ,of pounds. The business losses and the e lase to the Government defy compo tion, eines many goods in the stations scud dozens of trams have been burned be or looted, hunger ib i radar nip NO of O by the tatob. The1 g in the outskirts of the city and mets of flops • . un m eendiarisrn are becoming more rTh heeadq uenuartors of the revolution.',C n leaders is constantly being ehang- ledd in order to prevent them from be - ng captured. The lap of the rebels li, to the n aiw pr. ti y 1 was to seize Io • nt eio vrc y termini, especially that of the St, Petersburg lime, and preventthe sa- h e :rival of Ercall troops.babl f it would now .eroded Moscow probably • ave been entirely in the :rands of the second floor badly damages, The roof of the Presbyterian Church on First street also caught fire, but the building was saved. Explosions of barrels of whiskey in Faxon, 1Villiams & Faxon's. cellar dur- ing the progress of the tiro scattered their contents °in every direction , and added to the fierceness of the blaze, and the constant explosion of cartridges and other ammunition in the Rao store added another element of danger, When the fire appeared to be beyond control an appeal for aid was sent to Buffalo, but before the engines arrived the local firemen :end the fire well in hand. Buffalo sent fire engines and fire. men. The total loss is estimated at $140,000. The Imperial hotel building was dam- aged to the extent of $15,000, and its contents valued at $20,009, aro a total loss. Other losses are: Temperance House, .10,000; Buffalo, Niagara Falls Arctic Light Power Company, $5,000; Presby- terian Church and Lucas Lively, $2.000 each; Lehigh Valley Ticket Office, $1,- 000; adjoining stores damaged by smoke and water about $35,000. with a campaign against St. Peters- burg. According, to the Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent the work- men of Moscow have taken little part in the rebellion. Difficulties Only Beginning. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail says that competent observers hold that even now the dif- ficulties of the Russian Government are oily beginning. If temporary or- der is restored in Moscow, trouble would break out in Kieff, the Cau- casus, Poland, Siberia and the Baltic provinces. No fewer than 3,000 per- sons havo been killed and wounded in recent conflicts with the troops in Rostoff, Yaroslav, Nijni Novgorod, Kieff, and other centres, showing the widespread nature of• the movement, The agrarian movement, which Is swelling in volume and growing in ferocity, now embraces the finest ag- ricultural provinces, Scores of the greatest estates have been burned, looted or expropriated by the peasants. The Goveniment has neither money nor troops with which • to assist the unfortunate landowners. Except for Riga. Libau and Mitau all the Baltic provinces still defiantly maintain their republic. St. Petersburg along is quiet, though many fear it is the 1011 before the storm. CHIEF OF POLICE SHOT. Revolutionaries Invaded Homes—Many Arrests in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Jan. 1. -- Revolu- tionaries at Moscow to -day forced an entrance into the private residence of time chief of the secret police, told hien to bid farewell to his family, and then shot him. St. Petersburg remains entirely quiet. ,., number of news -sellers were arrested on the Nevski Prospect to- day for crying false news and were summarily imprisoned for three months under a new ordinance. A largo force of Cossacks and infantry occupied the workmen's quarters across the Neva. Troops surounded each block of tene- ments and gendarmes entered the houses and ransacked eevry room. They found hundreds of revolvers and - a few rifles. Ono house lead a new ,machine gun and plenty of ammunition for it. The workmen aro discouraged by the continuous arrests of their leaders, over a thousand of whom are now in the jails of St. Petersburg. The ,workmen are eager to fight, but very few of therm are armed. Meanwhile the Emperor continues to show all possible attentions to the army. Ile has arranged that ono regi- ment shall be received weekly at Tsarskoe-Selo, from the forces now stationed near the capital. The pro- gramme is to give the amen a hearty dinner, the officers' lunch in the palace with the Emperor. He converses with each one, and then spends some time in the men's dining hall. To -day's news from Russian Poland indicates that the general strike is extending. Wholesale arrests have been made in the cities. At Sosnovico; near the Emperor's hunting lodge, an attempt lues been made to blow up the barracks with dynamite. The Novoe Vrenmya reports that a meeting of railroad men at Rostoff-en- Don was bombarded by artillery and that 800 of those present were killed or wounded. From many places come reports that the enraged people ere threatening the strikers and revolutionists with ven- geaneo and nmsseeres on a large scale aro feared. i arevointiotliste, and it previsional Gov. „gement would have been organized ---4 - - FOR THE BALTIC. FRENCH GUNBOAT LEAVES ON A "CONFIDENTIAL -MISSION." The Cassini Hurriedly Prepared for Her Trip--Wi11 Stay at Copenhagen and Await Eventualities in Russia — Cruiser Adniital Aube Will Follow. Paris, den. 1.—The orders to a por- tion of the Freneh northern squadron to make hasty preparations to depart for the North Sea and Copeirliagen, the ttl- titnate destination of the warships not being disclosed, were undoubtedly issued ns a precautionary move so as to have French ships available for service in Rus- sian waters In ease of emergency. The greatest activity prevails on board the gunboat Cassini at ftrest, which has been ordered to sail for the Baltic tomor- row. The Christmas leaves of all the French officers and mon were hurried- ly cancelled and a large extra force of workmen was engaged to complete her equipment, provisioning and coaling. This will be completed to -morrow, when it is expected the guuhc:at will sail. her first stop will be at Copenhagen, where further orders are expected to reach her. - The armored eruiser Admiral Aube, also of Brest, is being similarly preps. cel and will either aeoompsuy or follow the Cassini. The report is in circulation in naval rir'eles at Brest, that the Cassini, will teary In an official mail service between hips and Dantzig. however, it is gen. era;ly accepted that the :Hain purpose is. to ',have a warship in readiness should a eriris arise requiring the protection or repatriation of French citizens, .Vhe Foreign Office says the Cassini - and .Admiral Aube will stay at O,pen- lragen and await eventualities, in Russia, the same as the two German ships now at Memel and the British ship at Kiel. If it becomes necessary the two French 'ships will embark the French residents at Baltic seaports. Brest, France, Dee. 'P"..—The gunboat Cassini sailel at' 4 o'clock this aftese noon "our a confidential mission." ret WRECK OF THE LASS OF MELEORT. British Barque and Crew of Twenty- five Lost On:the West toast of Vancouver Island. The Captain's Wife May be Among the Lost. Victorin; B. C., despatch: The treach- erous currents of the west coast of Van- couver Islam: and the storms svliich have swept the coast the past week are responsible for another tragedy, the British barque Lass of Melford being lost off Barkley Sound on Tuesday, with all hands, probably 24 men, The story obtained this evening, is of a maaime tragedy as grim and Harrowing as bas ever taken place ou the spot mentioned, which has long been known as the grave- yard of the Pacific. The Lass of Mel - fort was bound to Port Townsend, and is one of the .fleet of five carrying to this coast. The first indication of trouble was in the grey of a winter morning on Tuesday last, when nue Siwashes Beard above the booming of the storm what sounded like the reports of guns. They rushed from their cabins, but the storm of sleet and squall of wind prevented them seeing or Bearing the •good ship, whose empty rocket -ease subsequently. carne ashore, and wuich at that very =anent was pounding her steel frame to pieces on a jagged reef not fifty yards away. This was at time entrance of the narrow but deep bay, into satcb the sea rushed with fury, and into. which later flotsam from the wreck and the bodies of the dead floated. Early in the forenoon the Siwashes lo- cated the wreck off Amphitrite Point, and then in the bay began to accumu- late the silent evidences of the wreck, figurehead, spars, boats, anti a plmoeo- grapl of fifteen Hien and their captain, etnd a leaf from the logbook, containing the name of John Houston, first mate of the vesesl. Later in the day carne two bodies. One of the bodies recovered is five feet six inches in height. It is that of a fair man, the moustache and hair being a light, sandy color. On, time right arae is the stars and stripes, tat- tooed in time flesh. The circle on the flag bears the date 1878. The other body is five feet ten inehes high, and is that of a Heavily built man about thirty years of age. He has dark hair and has an anchor and Union Jack on the right arum: 1Vltee the first body was found the blood was still dowing from a . ant on the head, showing that time man bad only died a. short time before. The 'wreck itself seems to have oc- curred off this bay about fifty yards distant. Such a sea wail running at the time that it vas impossible for a man to i•eaeli shore alive. Among the articles found which anay be useful for identification purposes was a handkerchief and collar with the name A. S. Laurie, and a handkerchief and socks with the name \Vermeil. The two bodies were buried: yesterday in the local graveyard overlooking the sea in which the brave fellows had met death, and in the absence of a clergyman the simple folk of the vil- lage, whose example was followed by the superstitious Indians, fell on, their knees and prayed for the souls of the departed. It is J.iarely possible the captain's wife perished with the lest, as a woman's bey hat, trimmed with black, and a red cord, were among the articles which drifted ashore.. The body of a young lad was also seen in the surf, but the people were unable to recover it, Lloyd's steamer Salvor and possibly the whal- ing steamer Orion are now on their way to the scene. FOR A "MOBOOT," THE VERY LATEST THING FOR AN- NIHILATING TIME AND SPACE. Boots With Little Motor Cars Fastened to Them Enable the Wearer to Tra- vel at Over Thirty Miles an Hour, Leaden, Jan. 1.—The Paris corres- pondent of the Express says: Super. stitious people thought they saw a satanic visitation when a gigantic figure 0 ." 71111PrirruluPPITIIPTIlmrr7, X10,000 IN PRIZES TO READERS OF THE -A3VSV0T' FIRST PRIZE 9 aaa�a da„M 'ia+ aw+. CA..OR SECOND PRiZE THIRD PRIZE 00 1,5 Simply as an Advertisement for the HARMSWORTH SELF -EDUCATOR FULL PARTICULARS IN Now on Sale - - Price 15 cts. ME AUDITORS' POOR AUDIT. Passed York Loan Accounts With Little Examination. Mr. Cross Expects to Make an Inter- im Report Shortly. Mr. R. Il. Sanderson Gives Instances • of Suspected Graft. 'A. Toronto despatch: It seemed as though at last some evidonee of bad faith had been discovered in the York Loan special exatmination on oath yes- terday, when Mr. R. Ii. Sanderson came before the commissioner and revealed his suspicions that President Joseph Phillips shared unaccounted profits with George Meyers, of the printing business, Mr. Clarke, who ran the teaming de- partment, and Mr. G. R. Burt, of the piano company. Explanations were forth- coming from those concerned, and the sensation died out. The York Loan of- ficials stated that since Mr. Sanderson's son had lost. his employment with the company last August Mr. Sanderson had been dissatisfied. For twelve years pre- viously he had seen no wrong. The evi- dence in the morning indicated a want of alertness on the part of auditors of the company. The auditing of the York County Loan Co. accounts had been almost less than formal. Mr. W. H. Cross, the comnii^sioner, in adjourning the examination sine die, Hoped to have the statements to be prepared for him as soon as possible, as it would be only fair to the Attorney -General to make a short interim report summing up the proceedings. He thanked the liquidat- ors for the assistance they had render- ed, and expressed himself as much pleas- ed with thio practical evidence given by the ofifeers of the company, and which left nothing to he desired. During the afternoon- lion. Colin II. Campbell, Attorney -General of Mani- toba, dropped tin, with Mr. W. II', White, but did not remain long. The sltareltolders are again requested to send in their books to tine liquidators, and warned not to pay anything to people trying to collect money. Mr. Joseph Philips, who has frequent- ly attributed the difficulties of the com- pany to the intervention of the Govern- ment in stopping the issue of terminat- ing shares, suggests a curious origin for the action taken. Mr. Joseph Downey, M. P. P., Guelph, who introdud.ed the bill in 1003, before that once called at the York County Co's, office with two shareholders' books, held by members of his family, and asked for the amount paid in. The official to whom he ap- plied referred him to the certificate, pointing, out that the shares were not due. He did not know Mr. Downey, who insisted. The official was of equal mettle, and the interview became heated. Mr. Dov" aey, departing, stated that be would be heard from later. Mr. Phillips appears to think he has received the message. Mr. Thomas 0. Hand, auditor of the York Loan, was next sworn. IIe had had a. salary of $1.50, increased to $250 a year. He had examined mast of the accounts. in seven -league boots • dashed down the j " oWlten you found this transfer of half Avenue des Champ Elysees at about a million of lands to the Realty Conn - twenty -five miles an hour, shot like a Lea9 ,whit did you do?" asked lir. Mas - whirl across the Place de PEtoele 'I understood there was a aced:' and disappear with a 'whizz and a "yon eretostocht Wisat did you do?" whirl into the Bois de Boulogne..., b' persisted, the result was It was,however, onlyM. Constantine Ali' Masten pd > that you did not really cheek off all the taking a little gari}tle exercise in the You were told. d. n. Gleed was motor booths which he has invented, and a for which he believes there is a great given and mortgage returned, but you not see tlient?" future. "No," These new departure in footwear arid I "So that when you certified that you locomotion look very like little motor- examined the mortgages and other sc- cars fitted to Wellington boots; Each eurities of the connpauy and found them is driven by a Ile horse power motor, in goer: order, so far as this mortgage and the speed can be accelerated from of 010,000 was concerned, you were six up to thirty-six miles an hour, 'stating what was not correct?" each foot, aro eight They are fifteen inches long and broad Mr, Band replied that he understood in proportion. The wheels, of w}iieh the mortgage had been registered. He there aro four gni had not time to make a complete audit Welles in diameter, and are fitted withof the whole business, he said:. Ito solid tires. a had not discovered the extra liability Aeeumutators aro carried in a belt : of a quarter of a million or so. i Mn. G. A. harper, the other auditor connected by find aloes with the motors. of the company, was swore. Ile eandidly The boots .voigh about sixteen pounds .,admitted that for three years he :tad each, but eight docs not matter, ae .done little or nothing in the audit, and the foot are never lifted, The boots :tad arranged with Mn hand to do his coat about M 0. • work, Ile had not really worked on 1 asked M. Constantine to -day whit the books for the statement of 1902, would Happen if ono boot began to tra- 1803 Or 1(104. IIe had understood Mte vet at Six and the other at thirty-six hand to be an expert accountant. iIo Mika an hour. lint he would not say. Iuinnself was not. he has travelled several hundred Mr. Vavitsor Robin had not met with miles to them, and expects to t'ntoboot" any improprieties in his experieuee with to St,' Petersburg when the orator -car the company since its incorporation. he abet is ever, was examined as Secretary -Treasurer on 0 $I,000 gemon 'NEAR QIP'MUM G. H. MURRAY, Janes Building Yonge and King Sts., Toronto Enclosed And for which send. 0 the first... .., . . numbers of the Harmsworth Self -Educator at 35c each, post free to -- NAME............. . ADDRESS . . 0.It,I?. (Write plainly-) t�„ t SEND THIS COUPON AT ONCk. ,p,aw°a t�laai. .lml: 11111 the general expense account, along with 1 Miss Hall, the bookkeeper. In aaix `years vALuA $180,500 were distributed among build- ing, real estate, general improvement and other accounts. All the general run- ning expenses except salaries were in- cluded. Vouchers were produced for specimen days by Miss Hall. Mr. Phillips was asked 'what his earn- ings and property were. "I had only my salary," he stated. "It is easily seen I have not much money. I have sold my house, and I have nothing else. My family don't hold anything or own anything for me in any way. I'm afraid if my debts were paid 1 wouldn't have very much." In the Toronto Life Insurance Com- pany the same directors were elected for the sake of economy. They were voted $312.50 each. to pay for the 25 shames necessary to qualify them as di- rectors. The money was paid into the treasury, and they became liable for the balance of $2,187.50 each. This amount was voted Phillips as a salary, so that he now holds 25 paid-up shares. He got no cash. Wondered How Phillips Got It,,, - George Calvert, acountant to Life Company, and George Meyers s examined and then Mr. R. H. San son was sworn. He had always eonsi ed the Piano Company was a York Loan undertaking. He understood it belonged 1 to Phillips, and wondered how he got it. The York Loan ran the business in John street, supplied all the money and took stock. every three months. He was given to understand by Mr. Robin the com- pany never got anything. Burt sold pianos to Phillips. Meyers had told him be gave all the profits of the printing business to Phillips. IIe asked Meyers , was he not afraid of getting into trouble for such a conspiracy. Meyers had re- plied. that his lawyer said -he was all right. In the teaming business Clarke got $3,000 from the York Loan, His own equipment was worth about $1,000. He understood. Phillips got a third, and Clarke a third, None of the directors would second him when he moved for more information on the Southern Light and Power Company, and Phillips asked hint to resign. Miss Hall told him Phil- lips had forbidden information to bo given him. He was very much against the Power Company. Barrett, a Promoter, Talked. Mr. Phillips explained that the super- vision of the piano company was due to their determination to see that the money lent was all invested in the busi- ness. Prices were fixed on the pianos to keep a check on Burt's outlay. Burt got all the shares and the business was his. PhiIlips clever bought any Liszt pianos. Sanderson knew all about the power company, for Barrett was a pro - meter, and could: not keep from talking about it. All the clerks knew.' Mr. 0. R. Burt utterly repudiated Ma Sanderson's view of the piano com- pany. Ho had figured prices on the basis of $L000 a year, as he had been making them. It was pure wind the story that fifteen pianos had been moved into the :tonnes of employees last week. Mr. Burt referring to the Vancouver despatch regarding pianos sold there, said that his pianos had nothing to do with the York Loan Company, though some of the agents worked for him. I AM THE PEOPLE. "To Me Alone Belongs the Right to Decide on War," Says the Kaiser. Paris, Jan. 1.—'Tie Temps says that time following words were actually used by time Kaiser at a private meeting re- cently: "It is wrong to say there ex- ists around me a war party. This party does not exist. Even if it did exist, it would have no importance, as to me along belongs the right to Arrive a.t n decision on such a point. I don't want war, because I consider that war would be contrary to 'my duty to God and my people. I liege been irritated by the grating proeeedings on the part of Del- casse, but I render whole 'homage to the tact and firmness of Reinder. I shall do nothing to create difficulties I have given Tattonhaeh most concilia- tory instruetioius," CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO. Parliamentary Candidates Will Be Heckled on the Subject. London, Jan. 1.—Parliamentary can- didates are to be freckled on the 'ques- tion of embargo on Canadian cattle. This was deeidled at a meeting of the Canadian Cattle Assoelat.ion at Dundee. In order to get a1repeal of the ob- noxitts law, they are determined to take the question into polities, and a eonnnittee has been appointed' to raise funds for the movement, One speaker said that seven millions had been lost by reason of the embattle. The asteeiatiott will jein the Free Market Cattle Association of Gnat Britain to get concentrated action. The question is a very live one in Scotland rind is debated in the press tamest every day. LL J[W[I!Y STOftN IN NEW YORK. Jewelry More of Schwartz Bros. Robbed for the Seventh Tirne in Three Years. Robbers Cut Through a Steel Gate, a Heavy Wire Screen and Smashed Thick Glass Plate. New York, Jan. 1.—For the second time within three months, and seventh time in three years time jewellery store of Schwartz Bros,, at 1308 Broadway, in the heamt of the 'Tenderloin district, seas robbed. early to -day and about $4,000 w Ili of diamonds, rings and watches *glen. 'The loss Dim the seven iii:.• eeegeng to a member of the inn aggregates $20,000. The robbery was most daring, as,'Iyhis part of the city is the busiest and +be most brilliantly lighted throughout the entire night. - Working during the height of a terrific rainstorm, when most of the pedestrians had sought shel- ter, time burglars gained an .entrance to the store by cutting through a steel fold - WORLD'S NEWS CANADIAN Toronto's assessment shows an in- crease of $20,000,000 for the year. Cayuga will be tl:o nine of the Nia- gara Navigation Company's steamer now building. While returning to business from lunch. Arthur Stretton dropped dead. on Keele street, Toronto Junction, Furs to the value of about $1,500 were stolen from time premises of Lugsdin & Lugsdin, 400 Yonge street, Toronto. Ontario produced in 1904 minerals valued at $11,57.2,047, according to the report of the Ontario Bureau of Mines. Madame Alphonse Deseve committed suicide at Montreal by swallowing Paris green. Premier Whitney states that the bye - election in Kingston will be overeby the end of January. An unknown man whose initials are evidently "G. I3.," was found drowned in the Erie Canal. C. P. R. negotiations with the Quebec Boards of Trade for the purchase of land have been declared off. An order has been granted for the winding -up of the Toornto Cream and Butter Company, Limited. One hundred arcltological specimens from the Imperial Museum at Tokio aro on their way to the Provincial Museum. Mrs, Catherine Barrs was taken sud- denly ill on Cameron place, 'Toronto, and expired shortly efterw'ards at her hone. Levine, Turkey, an Inainn girl, has been arrested, charged with stealing a horse and rig taken from Brantford mar- ket last week. Fred. Howes, an Englishman, was found in an unoccupied huiktuing at Brantford with his legs and feet frozen. Amputation may be necessary. A sow buried in a straw-stnek on Wel- lington Lan„dons farm, near Lansdowne, canto out after six weeks, and, receiving a little care, is none the worse. I Rev. Dr. James Henderson, Associate ' Secretary of the Methodist nasions, has aecepted a call to Dominion Church, Ot- tawa. John hill has been arrested for ehoot- ing Alexander Green, who is isa the Brantford Hospital. Both are Indians. Hill says he meant to kill Omen, but the latter also meaint to kill frim. The Earl of Rosslyn arrived from the Northwest at Ottawa ye::terlay. The Earl lees limn studying the eonditidm4 throughout titan west, and will report or Isis return to England 'Three ttornen, wives of respectable farmers, living in Brent eounty. are un- der arrest, e1uuiu' ed with shoplifting, at Brantford, during the Christmas rush.. 'They were eautht almost in the act bl' Chief Sleuniu. The steamer Xeepawet; of the Moat - teal and Lake Supetaor Line, Captain Pattenande, made a unique record by ing gate that barred the approach to time front door end then cut through a Heavy wire screen that protected the plate glass in the roof, They then smashed the half inch thick glass to reach their plunder. Ti'e burglars must have worked rapidly, for in cutting the wires of time screen over the window, they set off a burglar alarm, yet they escaped with their booty, before the po- lice arrived'. A patrolman saw two men and a woman at the door of the store, but thought they were seeking shelter from the rain. Later, when his sus- picions were aroused, he returned in time to see one of the burglars calmly walk- ing down a side street. He had distil). peared when the evidences of burglary were discovered. It was all over before the agent of the burglar alarm reached the scene. reaching Toronto on CImristuras Day, the latest date at which any vessel has ever come into Toronto harbor. A Niagara Falls despatch says Peter B. Secorl, a widely -known contractor and builder, died very suddenly at his home on the American side. He was taken ill while on the bridge, crossing the river. Mr. Seeord was a native of Nia- gara Township, and bas relatives all aver the Niagara peninsula. He leaves a wilow and family. It is likely that the Ontario Govern- ment's grant to the Salvation Army on account of the colonization and immi- gration work of that organization will be substatially increased next year over the $4,000 given for 1005. The Army's plans for next year's work include the bringing to Canada of 10,000 selected immigrants in the spring, of whom per - leaps one-half will be located in Ontario. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mount Peno, on Princess Royal Island, has collapsed awing to an earthquake disturbance. Chinese officials at Shanghai have is- sued warrants for the arrest of the pro- moters of the recent riot. Lulu and Margaret Minst, of Albany, N. Y., sisters, aged 25 and 20, respective- ly, broke through the ice while skatitag on the Erie Canal at Watervliet, yester- day afterino•on. Phineas La Hue, a contractor and builder of house's Point, yesterday was killed by a passenger train en the Dela- ware railroad while driving across the ,track at a grade crossing. Captain Orman Johnson, who had sailed lake and river craft for nnearl.y forty years, was killed at Ogdensburg, N. Y. The Merchants' Trust, American Sav- ings and Merchants' Savings Banks, of Memphis, Tenn., have closed their doors owing to overloans on discounts. The ,"nited States supplied more than one half of the petroleum produced in the world in 1004. It is probable that steps will soon bo taken by the American Department of State to secure a revision and remodelling of the existing extradition treaties with Franc and Germany. Eleven men are in the hospital suffer- ing from injuries received in ahead-on collision to -day on the Highland divis. ion of the New 3'ork,New Haven & hart - ford railroad, between a work ear and a through freight. Louis Dalrymple, an artist whose car- icature of politicians and cartoons on political situations have appeared in well known newspapers and periodicals died suddenly last night of acute paresis, in the Long Island Hone, in. Amityville, where he was taken a month ago. A Washington despatch says•: It is reported here that Judge W. J. t"aliroun'b report will show that Venesuela had strong grounds for her action against tine asphalt trust beeause of the lat- ter's so-called: failure to live up to its eontracts and the alleged participation in the Matos revolution. Andrew G. t)anuery, a Nrew York lire - ker. who was foun,i with one Band chat off, New unconscious on Main street, New 1'd.oehclle, Y. Y.. dared without hate iuug recovered He Aens:'» Sufficiently to tell how he was injured. Iii. skull tee fractured. He was lying near the street gar tracks. Alba