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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-02-15, Page 7..w 44 D A hF "r and ornaments were fonndt dicier -that 1 �^� is, the negroi(t race, who rhosomot were akin to A TI IR AT N ® the Kaffir%, Frederick Mous, the ex• ploror, agreed that the district had never been occupied by a civilized race, lied described the primitive methods of dealing with gold•bearing ()hertz wltieh he believed had been carried on until the Zulu invasion, 1)r. McIver stated that he had dis- covered two pieces of flowered blue and white Nankin china, which were cer- tainly not earlier than the sixteenth century, Several members dissented from the lecturer's views, •\r OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Demonstration in London To -day ,Was of a Political Character and Fell Flat. Whaler Drifted on the Atlantic for a Month With Crew Down With Smallpox. London, Feb, 12. -There was another march of the "unemployed" in the streets of London this afternoon, with the ob- ject of impressing the new Governrnent and legislators, but the demonstration fell flat. The procession was hardly half the length of the previous demonstra- tions, and the attitude of the public to- wards the subscription collectors allowed that interest in the "Poverty parades" has been decidedly waning since they took on a distinctly political character. The men marched along the Victoria em- bankment to Hyde Park, where they lis- tened to speeches delivered by Labor party members of Parliament and adopt- ed the usual resolutions demanding that the Government come to their aid. FLOATING HOSPITAL. Whaler Crew Down With Smallpox While It Drifted on the Atlantic. New York, Feb. 12. -One month on the Atlantic Ocean with the entire ship converted into a smallpox hospital and a quarter of the crew ill with this , CIIOQUETT OUT, HE WILL BE NEITHER MAYOR NOR EDITOR, disease, was the experience of the what- •Sir Wilfrid Laurier Suggests That He ing brig, Sullivan, of Now London, C,oun. Retire From the Mayoralty Contest, Tho story of the smallpox outbreak on J. Haggerty, wife of the captain of the and the Senator Throws. Up the Gen• the whaler was told to -day by Mrs. AI, txol of Le Soleil Also. Sullivan, who arrived here from Rio de Queebe, Feb. 11, -Senator P. A. Janeiro, on the steanier Italian Prince. , Choquette, who sought to be elected The whaling vessel put into Rio do - Mayor of Quebec, suddenly retired from Janeiro, after two of its crew had died the municipal campaign just on the eve of smallpox and with several others ill of nomination on Saturday, Ilis retire - with the disease, and 27 remaining mem- mcnt came as a public surprise, inas- bers of the crew frantic to get ashore off touch as the campaign waged during the the vessel, which they declared had been past several menthe was an extremely cursed,aggressive +one. Le Soleil, the French The cruise began, Mrs, Haggerty said, 1 organ controlled by Senator Choquette, last October, from the Island of Fayal, . dall3:strntionsought o ofdiscredit Honwith N. Pae rent, in the Azoies. After the brig had been adeuniwho resigned some time ago. Parent's out some time a seller fell ill of small- pox, and the disease spread until nine policy was defended by a French news - sailors .were ill. Days followed when, ow- 'paper recently published under the dime- ing to the fear which spread among the tion -of Mr. L. A. Taechereau, K. C., M. members of the crow the brig drifted P. P., who entered the aldermanie lists along almost like a deserted ship. in opposition to Senator Choquette's With Mrs. Haggerty on board the yes- candidacy. The eamaaign became so gg y acrimonious that it was dividing the eel, were her two children. After land- 'Liberals of Quebec into twohostileat Rio de Janeiro, she remained Liberals and finally the Liberal leaders there until the disease had been stamped camps it high time to interfere, Hon.out on the Sullivan. Chas. Fitzpatrick came from Ottawa on 'Friday last to look over the situation and the following' day Senator Cho- quette retired from the contest. The first news of the Seti ator's retire- ment was !posted on Le Soleil bulletin and later in the afternoon the reason was made apparent in Le Soleil, elven 1 the Senator explained that he retired from the contest et the special request of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who intimated his desire in the following telegraphic communication: WEALTHY HAMILTON! W MAN ARRESTED AT PASADENA. John Wilson and His Wife Do Not Live a Very Happy Life. Pasadena, Feb. 11.-Notwitltstandiag that he is in the Happy position where he is able (olive without labor on nn assured and sufficient income, John Wil- son, a wealthy resident of South Hud- son avenue, passed the night in the city jail. Dressed in a long frock coat of expensive material, and of noticeably su- perior workmanship, he looked out of place in a bare jail cell, where he sat on a bard bench all night. Wilson was arrested on complaint of his wife, who told the police that he had beaten her. This morning Wilson was taken be. fore Justice Congdon to answer to a charge sof assault, but he was able -to give so good an account of himself that he enlisted the sympathy of the justice, who interested himself in the ease to the extent of intervening with the wife on her husband's behalf and attempting to adjust their difficulties. '1Vilson told the justice that he has been married to Mrs. Wilson for a num- ber of years. Both carne from Ilttmil- ton, Ont., where Wilson's father is the local Rockefeller and a pillar of soci- ety. Tho wife, according to the husband's statement, bas an equal mixture of In- dian, French and Canadian blood. in her veins, and she has inherited the In. ,than vindictiveness, the french jealousy, OPPOSED TO COA9.. STRIKE A Strike Never on by Soft Coal Miners. President Dolan Argues Against the Proposed Strike. Says President Mitchell is Merely Putting Up a. Bluff. Pittsburg,Pa., Feb. 11. -President Patrick Dolan, of the local district Unit- ed Mine Workers of America, whose rtsignation was demandea last week at the convention of delegates from the lo- cal union in the district, because he ,,ot- std with the operators at Indianapolis to maintain the present wage scale, to - eight issued a statement in which, after • repeating the reasons ho already ling given nor his action, he said. "1 was alone in my vote, but I was not alone in my opinion. At the con- vention of the American Federation of Labor in Pittsburg in November I eon - :suited President Mlitchell and W. Ti. Ryan, and they both told the they would bo satisfied with a renewal of the pre- sent agreement, but that eve ought to clemancl an advance its a matter of pol- icy. "Later I consulted President Haskins of the Ohio Miners; he told me the same ,thing, After Haskins had been defeat- ed for re-election and was relieved of and tire Canadian temper. Their mar• lied life seems to have been a series of disagreements. She is wealthy in icer own right and she accused her husban+l of having plotted to kill her in order to secure her money. He declares the statement to bo preposterous, as he has Sweeter Choquette responded as Id - marc money than ho needs. . lows: Ise told the justice this morning that i Prime Minister, Ottawa, -At your re - frequently he has sought occupation for - quest, and, as you +say, in the interest his leisure time, but each time he finds - ori the panty, Praire from the municipal Ottawa, Feb. 9, 1900. Hon. P. A. Choquette, Quebee,-I have refused up to the present to intervene n; the municipal contest in Quebec, but in view of the complicated conditions of the situation I think that in the general interest of the party yon withdraw your candidature. (Signed) Wilfrid Leerier. employment she makes a scene. Oiwe slto attacked him in Itis office with an umbrella, presumably on account of a stenographer, he said. "Most of my married life hes been taken up with leaving her and bemire ing reconciled again," Wilson 1olcl the justice. "1 have made seven trips across the continent to get away from her, but she always has sent for me to come back. She can't live with me and she can't live without ine. I don't i.no;v what to do." Last night be came home and found her in a temper, be says. When it came time to retire he found that she had taken the clothes from the bed and told hint he could sleep on the bare mattress, and he protested, rather hotly, he admits. According to her story he struck her and sprained her thumb, .1le declares that she struck hire and sprain- ed her thumb. At last accounts Justice Congdon was talking to MIr. and Mfrs. Wilson in his private office and attempting to effect another reconciliation. tion spent over $500,000, our inion was wiped off the face of the earth; in the West Virginia district we were defeat- ed; in the Cabin Creek district in West Virginia, where the organization spent $300,000, we lost; in tie Meyersdrale re- gion we spent $400,000, and were de- feated. "At the present time we have a strike of 8,000 miners in Alabama, which has been on for nineteen months. They aro striking against a 10 per cent. re- duction. Under the resolution intro- duced by W. D. Ryan, of Illinois, which says all districts must get 121e,per cent. advance, over the present scale, the Alabama operators will have to with- draw their demand for a 10 per cent. re- duction and give the 123e per cent. ad• vanee or a total difference of 22h per cent. before any other district in the country can settle, Ilow is this to be brought about ? "The Pittsburg district has been cri- ticized because it has not more than 28,000 members, President Mitchell is as much at fault as any living mann; he refuses to help us. He enmte into the non-union Irwin district at the very height of his popularity ani. widely atd- vertised two meetings, At one he lied fifteen then and at the ether we ad- journed because there was not anybody there. When Mitchell ean't get a meet- ing, what can it fellow like hie do ? "I have been in the trades union move- ment for thirty-five years is Scotland and America. I have sat at the feet of the greatest labor leaders the world has ever known, including the great Al- exander McDonald. From boyhood 1 learned that it is a leader's duty to tell his people, not whtat they would like to - hear, but what they should know. They must be told when they aro in tee wrong, as well as applauded when they aro in the right. This is my platform and I ate willing to rise and fall with it before the miners and the public of this country." ell responsibility he advocated a de- mand. of 10 per cent. increase in wages lin his annual address, but the conven- tion of Ohio miners refused to endorse #itis position, Is this fact not signific- ant "Let us be honest about these things. Our wages have been increased more than 100 per cent. and our hours of tit- her have been decreased from 10 to ri hours since 1897. Is it right littler this Ryan resolution to jeopardize all these things? And let rite tell your, the min- ers of this country have never won a permanent soft coal strike under the di• rcetion of President Mitchell. Mere Henna. settled the first anthracite strike for us, and President Roosevelt settled .the second. "Nobody has settled our big soft coal eerikes, .. because the have lost them. President Mitchell's first big .soft mal strike was in the southwest. It hailed 113 months and ended in utter failure. hundreds of good amen were victimized. • The second big soft coal strike wars in Maryland, where our people of the en- tire .state were utterly defeated. ilia either disaetrotts soft eoal strike WAS art Kentucky, where our people were beaten, Colorado, where the organize• DISPELS ROMANCE. ZIMBABWE RUINS ARE NOT OF AN- CIENT CIVILIZATION, They Were Made Famous by Rider Hag- gard, Who Laid the Scene of Story There --Not Xing Solomon's Mines What Dr. Mclvor Says. London, Feb, 11.• --Tie glamor of mythical romance which has so long surrounded the famous ruins of Zim- babwe, Rhodesia, was dhpellee Friday night in a lecture by Dr. Mclvor, be- fore the research department of the Royal Geographical Society. It has al- ways been supposed that the :mins dated back to one of the earliest eivil- iZatiots, and were probably of Semitic Origin. Rider Itaggards romance, King Solomon's Mines," spread their fame far and wide. Ur. Melvot', who was commissioned by the British Assoeiation• to examine the rutins, now report that there is nn ground for the belief that they are of nnr•greet antiquity. Leeavatiots have. proved that the ruing belonged to one 1 rind only fit av1;ch mediaeval and 1 est, inedictAml buildings were con- • strtteted by a people whose implements contest. 1 also desire to return to your the control and •direction of Lc Soleil, (Signed) R A. Choquette. The withdrawal of Senator Choquette from the campaign has left it devoid of interest. ARRIVALS AT HALIFAX ELEVEN OCEAN LINERS IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Quite a Few Passengers Landed for Western Canada-Ulunda's Helms- man Washed Away -Cattle Washed Off Another Steamer. Halifax, Feb. 11. -Eleven ocean liners came into Halifax between Saturday af- ternoon and Sunday evening, and cus- toms, immigration and railway officials had a busy time handling their passen- gers and freight. Five of the steamers clocked at the International terminal whtarve?, Last Wednesday a child named Mang - field in the steerage of the I'retorian, died from convulsions, and was buried at sea. ,a The Furness Liner Illumine from Liv- erpool, encountered very severe weath- er. During the gale Charles Myers, helmsman, was washed overboard and lost. In mid -ocean the 'Mende passed a number of cattle, which hacl been swept from the deck of some cattle steamer. NIAGARA PAIRS. Date for Fall Shaws Fixed by the Managers. St. Catharines, Feb. 12. -At the an- nual meeting of the fair managers of the Niagara district, the following offi- cers were elected: President, Charles Bufton, Virgil; Vice -President, W. Hons- berger, Jordan; Secretary -Treasurer, Al- bert Pay, St. Catharines. The dates for the circuit of fairs for 1900 was adopted as follows: Niagara Township, Sept. 25- 20; Stamford '.Township, Sept. 27-28; Thorold Township, Oct. 1-2; South Grims- by Township, Oct. 2-3; Welland County, Oct. 2-3; IIu nberstone Township, Oct. 2.3; Clinton Township, Oet. 4-5; Bertie Township, Oct. 4-5; Wainfleet Township, Oct. 5.0; Lincoln County and Grantham Township, Oct. 8-0; Pelham Townehip, Oat. 10-11; Monek County, Oct. 12-13; Caistor Township, Oet, 10-17, SLEPT UNDER ORCHID QUILT. +•.,-w ri.,- r,.4.n..xrTn•,.n-.+•II.n.+wR16RReNw*w -.. ..-...... .. his term expired,and as he wee seffering from tuberculosis the pollee gave hitt transportation to Medicine Hat, where . tiny' thought be might enter the bos- MASSACRE pital. The authorities, however, reeve , ed hint admission on account of the me titre of his disease. A similar recepti•m was accorded to him at Calgary. Then. friendless, despairing, treated as a leper, and an outcast, and hardly able to crawl, , he dragged himself back to Maple Creek, with his tale of woe. Shelter and food were given him, and, stretched. out on a camp bed, lie breathed his last, Ferris has no relatives or fiien,1a that the po. lice can discover. aIN CRASULS INTO Mother Boxer Uprising Said to be Brewing m China. Foreigners Warned to flee for Safety From the Country. it Will be the Greatest Massacre of Modern Times. London, Feb. IL -Private information from diplomatic sources nt Pekin indi- cates that the gravest view is taken 01 the situation in China, The present agitation is deduce to be a formidable Boxer rising under another name and of far more serious DID HE WIil, HIS FATHER? TROUBLE AFTER A CAROUSAL ASV' DANCE NEAR AYLMER. Woman Jumped From a Second -Storey Window for Help-- Her Husband Found Dead -Son Admits Striking proportions than the one of five years Him. Aylmer, Feb, 11:-1iilliam Pollock, a farmer, who resided three miles from Straffordville, ttvehe miles from Ayl- mer, is dead at his home, and Coroner ago, GREAT MASSACRE IMPENDING. Chinaman Advises All. Europeans to Sinclair, of this place, through the urg. p • ing of neighbors, today visited the PoeEscape From Country, lock home and decided to hold an in. Cincinnati, Feb. 11. -Won; Fong, quest A ce,owhichw at 12 o'clock. was held at the Pol- former secretary of the Six Companies lock house on `hursday night, was in San Francisco, who is visiting inby this city, to -day said that he thou,hmarked y the t 1nedoniinan a of the liquid over time solid refreshments, and it is said, terminated in a carousal. When Mr. and Mrs. Pollock and the son, William, jun., were left in the #rause after the guests were gone, Mrs. Pol- lock suddenly jumped from a second, storey window and ran to the neigh - crying to thein to come to her home, where a fight was in progress. When they arrived the found the elder Pollock dead, with marks of vio- lence upon hint.. Itis son was still in the house, but coed not explain his father's death. at Ile t is sale1 bare ond- mitted to the coroner striking him, but his story was an incoherent one. lie will be called as chief witness at the inquest. the Boxer trouble is about to eulmin- to in the greatest massacre of mod- ern times. IIe issued the following warning to several American friends to -night, telegraphing it to Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco: "Tire blow is about to fall. Cable warnings to friends to leave China at once. Tell them to seek protection of Germany temporarily, and to get out of the country before Feb. 24.' Fong is visiting Ah Loo Wai, the wealthiest of the local Chinese colony, and after the messages. were e sen • ex- plained t plained their purport as follows: "I received word this morning that the order had been sent out to the subordinate circles of the Chinese Re- form Association to throw off all the foreign elements in our country, start- , ing Feb. 25. The Body Discovered Near Wellandport "The association is ostensibly marl- Identified. otio. Welland, Ont., Feb. 11, -The body of VICEROY BLAMED.the woman found dead by the roadside INMATE OF iEFUGE. near the Village of Wellandport on Ruler of Canton is Determined to Create Sunday, Jan. 14th, was exhumed yester- day and identified by Keeper Kott- Friction. meter, of the Welland industrial Home, Iiotig Kong, Feb, 11.-A despatch as that of a Mrs. McFarlane, a former from Canton states that the anti -for- inmate of that institution. Mrs. Mc- eign feeling there is considered to be i Farlanc, whose mind was slightly de - clue to the passive attitude of the ranged, made her escape from the Viceroy in connection with the repre- home at early dawn some few days sentations made by the Consular body regarding the recent attacks on mis- sions. It is stated that the Viceroy is determined to create friction with the United States. A leaflet has been widely circulated in the city of Canton, urging. the peo- ple to co-operate with a view to the ex- pulsion of the Viceroy. 1=Y USED HIS PISTOL. DISCARDED LOVER OPENS FIRE THROUGH A WINDOW. Aims at Woman, Shoots Child Through Body -- Woman's Father Also a Victim of Tragedy in New Brunswick Village -Assassin Under Arrest. St. John, N. B., Feb. 1L -Tito little coast Village of Letang, Charlotte County, has a sensation. Agnos holland, that place was married a few years ago to one Gardiner, with whom she went to Lubec, Me., where a child was born. Later she left him, and became intimate with one Mason, who claims that site agreed to get a divorce from Gardiner and marry him. Meanwhile the woman returned to Letang, and re- sided with her father. A man named Cook had become attached to her, and efason was informed that site and Cook were married, without the formality of a divorce. Un learning this, Mason set out for Letang. Arriving late last night, be sought admission to Holland's house. Cook was there with tate woman and her child. 'Mason was not admitted, whereupon he opened fire through the window with his revolver. At the first shot; which cut throught the woman's hair, Cook escaped from the house and disappeared in the darkness. A second shot struck the child, passing through its body. The elder Ifolland then appeared outside and 'Mason, supposing lie was Cook, fired twice on him, one shot striking him in the head. Mason then departed, and young Holland got a horse and rode to St. George, whence a constable came this morning and arrested Mason, who is now in jail at Se George. Holland will recover, but the condition of the child is serious. QUAINT TAX REVIVED. Counts and Barons Must Pay King Costs of Steed and Armored Knight. And Yet She Wantea to Manage Her Lotdoe, Feb. 1L -A curious old cus- Money Affairs. tom has been revived by the death of Paris, Feb. 11.-A bed quilt cowered the King of Demnark. A mediaeval Pa + id which were renewed three law demands that every feudal count with of ch s, ami baron in the kingdom, on the times a day, was mentioned -by counsel death of the sovereigty ,ball provide as aninstance of the 'extravagance of as a tribute to the new king a good the Marquise de le ltocheeeentenillcs' steed and a man in steel armor. In do - who applied to ono of the Paris courts fault he mast pay the equivalent in yesterday for permission to manage her gold money atoffairs tthout the snliervisiot of The Datnish Government has already a trustee. remindedthe counts and barons that A former trustee, now superseded, was the tax is duo, and they are seriously c alleged to have not only allowed the discussing the question as to how lacly to spand about twice her annual hatch a mediaeval warrior in full i (£1 100) but to have lent ter ' t ,Arany are inclined to think thee the income , , armor should be appraised at to -day. 4,000 out of bus own pocket. Judg• meat was postponed. " Government's estimate of from $350 to MUST WALK IN POUGHKEEPSIE. $450 is too high, Destructive Fire in Plant of Electric FERRIS' SAD STORY. Railway Co. The Treatment of This Sick Man a Dis- Pot hkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 1L -The etc- grace to Humanity. tire , yant and equipment of the I ough- pi + �.�er Valls )lee- Ottawa, Feb. 12. ---Official reports of keegis�e Croy and �t a uy s the Mounted Police contain no seeder rile Railroad Company were destroyed by fire this morning, and to -day l'ough• ease than that of a man named Perriee keepsie is without any surface railway whose death in the guardroom of the accommodation, 29 of the 23 electric Mounted Police nt Maple Creek is jure cars of the company having been burne.al. reported. Ferris was it harvester, who The lot's is •estinuttea at $150,000, on went up to the Northwest, ate after• which there is en insurance of About wards hired out to a farmer. ITe caught $80,000, t cold, which he was unable to shake off and finally bceamc to ill to work, The man tramped through the country do Death of Mrs. McMillan, . ing odd Jobe, sleeping itt all sorts of Winnipeg, Feb. II, --Mrs, Eleanor ie- places and getting worse all the time. Millen, mother of Lieut. -Comfier Siv Finahly he mem tient down with bard labor. Daniel McMullan, of Manitaba, died hero ne a vagrant. IIe wee kept in the to -night, aged 83, The late Mrs. McMtil- guard -room at M a ile ('reek. But the n humanely refrained from equipol- au formerly resided in t''�nihtrncvood and helico y , ,, e•t n west reside about twenty ears 1m hint to work, and allowed hunt to s yy g age, wander around In the sunshine, At last previous to the finding of her body. During the five years which she had been an inmate of the home Mrs, Mc- Farlane had run away on several oc- casions, but had returned in a few days. -= TEN DROWNED. CREW OF THE TRAWLER VERONICA LOST AT SEA. London, Feb. 12. -The steam trawler Veronica, belonging to Stavinger, Nor- way, has been lost off Lossiemouth, El- ginshire, Scotland, with a crew of ten. She was disabled and in tow of the steam trawler Zodiac when the rope broke. The crew of the Veronica launched a boat, but when within eighteen feet of the Zodiac a heavy sea capsized it, and they were all drowned. The Veronica went down soon afterwords. a- da ---- TIDE ICE SANK. THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE GOT A FRIGHT AND SOME HURT. Chicago, Feb. 12. -At the close of a skating tournament on the Humboldt Park lagoon yesterday the lee skive, gave way beneath 3,000 people, causing e panic in which many were injured. Tee ice sank slowly until covered by two feet of water, and the crowd reached the bank in safety. In the panic many women and girls were trampled en. ABRUZZI PLANS POLAR DASH. May Use Airship in Attempt to Beat His Present Record. Ronne, Feb. 11. -The Duke .of Abruzzi, whose record of 80 degrees 33 minutes, made in 1900, stands unequaled in North Polar exploration, intends tc make another attempt to reach. the pole. It• is reported that he is inclined to make use of an airship in his final clash northward. Preparattotis for the expedition will be begun after the Duke's return from Africa. He is planning to stake nn ascent of Mount Iluventzari, in Uganda, next June. A DRUNKEN SPREE. Kingston Carter Found With Wound in His Head. Kingston, Feb, 11. --John Tierney, car- ter, aged about 70 years, was found de:ul in his ]tome on Begot street at 5 o elope this morning. iIis son made the di-•e•iv- cry. There was a wound on his trench which had bled profusely. ])r, Killion, coroner, has decided to ]told an inqueet to determine whether Tierney received the blow causing his death, or if he fell, while drunk, and struck his heed on a table or the floor, Beside him of 0 couch lay bis wife. She was sleeping -off the effects of liquor. • Negro Lynched. Gadsden, Ala., Feb. 11. -Munk Rid- ardson, a negro, charged with the etc. snit and murder of Airs. Sarah Smith here on July 15th last, was forcibly talc. en from the jail here early to -day and hanged to at. bridge. Four masked men went to the jail, overpowered the sher- iff end jailer and seemed the prisoner. Four negroes were charged with the crime, two of whom have been legally executed. The third was recently sen- teuced to death, but last week got life imprisonment lltehnresot had not boon indicted. :.t,_ • Mother I~villed by'Engine. Poughikeepsie, N. Y., Feb. II -Henri- etta Atkins, wife of Abram Atkins, was hnstently killed on the New York t'entral Railroad this afternoon. MIrs. 'tions and her sou, Abram, aged 11 years, hes just returned from a drive and wore ei ossin,' the track to go to their Nemo. The mother wag deaf and did not not - lee the npproacle of the troth. The lit. tie boy tried to pull Itis mother back out of berms way, but was unsuceess- fttl, CIIICA6O STREET CAR. Car Was Crowded and Three Persons Were Milled and Twelve Injured in the Collision Chicago, Feb. 12.-A theatre train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, running nt tiie rate of twenty milts an hour, tresis- j ed into a crowded street ear in South Chicago last night, instantly killing two preens and injuring twelve. The killed and injured were all occupants of the street car. The engine and first car of the passenger train left the rails and. were overturned, The dead are: Mrs. Wm. Bacon, of South (hiengo, Minnie Warsuel, et years old, Chicago, and hiss Sadie Lucey. The passenger train was a local, Ienv- I ing Chicago at 11.34 p. m. for Ent Chi- 1 sago, Ind. It was well filled with 1•as- sengers who were thrown into at, panic by the collision. The street ear was ]curled into the air, overturned; and ground to pieces. by the locomotive. The crash came almost without warning and but few occupants of the street ear had an opportunity to leap from the ear be- fore it was struck. The passengers of the railroad train harried to the •assistance of those im- prisoned in the uebris and began the work of rescue. Calls for assistance were sent to the nearest police station and physicians were summoned to aid the injured. The engineer of the passenger trek and the erew of the street car were placed under arrest. HANGED FOR A DOUBLE MURDER. Doomed Women Screamed While the Italian Was Being Executed. Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 12. -Jerry Rossa, an Italian, who was convicted of murder in Bergen county, was hanged stere at 10.35 o'clock Saturday morning,. llossa's last words were: "I ant be- ing murdered. I am a good boy. God knows I did nothing wrong: Antoinette Tolle and Anna Valentina, f the two +wo.irien sentenced to death, in the saute chamber where Rossa did to- 1 dray, were in such a highly hysterical state during the night and just prior to time execution that opiates had to be administered to their. Their screams just before the fatal hour were heart- rending, and could be plainly 'beard by the crowd outside the jail. Reese, who is a Sicilian, was charged with the murder of Denetta Gallant and Demetrio D'-4frino, Italians, who were found dead et Lodi two years ago, Ros- sa,( with a number of other Sicilians, were boarders at the boarding house kept by Michael Colltti. A dispute arose among a number of boarders ear- ly in the evening of Feb. 28, 1904, and late that night the two men were fotnul unconscious on a nearby road, both hav- ing been shot. MAN WORRIED OVER RELIGION. Lockport, Feb, 11. -William Kline, 45 years old, committed suicide at the hone of his mother, No. 129 South Ni- agara street, on Saturday night by tak- ing carbolic acid. Kline had been deep- ly moved by the religious revivals that are being held in this city at the pres- ent time, and very frequently of late he had remarked that he did not think he had lived as close to God as he ought to. It is thought that this weighed on Itis mind. WOMAN SHOOTS AN ADMIRAL. He Was Shot in the Breast, Shoulder and Legs. The Murderess Was Shot and Killed by an Orderly. She Was an Emissary of a Group of Terrorists. St. Petersburg, Feb. 12, -The Admi- ralty has received a report from the surgeon in charge of Vice -Admiral Chou- knin, who was shot by a woman in his office at Sebastopol yesterday, to the effect that his wounds are not dangerous. Rear -Admiral Grigorovitch has assumed command of the Black Sea fleet, in suc- cession to Chouknin. The attending surgeons think that Chouknin will recover. The most severe wound is in his breast, from which the bullet has not been extracted. The other wounds are in the right shoulder and both legs. The woman, who was shot and killed by an orderly, who rushed to the admiral's assitance, is believed to have been an emissary of the St. Petersburg group of terrorists, like tite murderess of On Saturday night he bade his mother an affectionate good -night, and went upstairs to bed. This morning he eve# not appear at the usual time, and the aged woman, anxious about his ab- sence, went to his room and found him dead in bed. Beside hint was an empty two -ounce bottle, labeled carbolic acid. He had been dead for some hours. Mr. Kline was a retired painter and paperhanger, and had accumulated a competence, owning sic modern houses on Oliver and Spalding streets, and con- siderable personality. Several thousand dollars in bills were found in his room, which he had drawn from the bank on Saturday. COMMITTED SUICIDE. Chairman of Several South African Com- panies Shot Himself Dead. London, Feb. 11. -An inquest held yesterday to determine the cause of the death of Ernest Schwarbaeher, chair- man of several important South Afri- can companies, who was found shot last Tuesday in his home here, result- ed in a verdict of suicide during tem- porary insanity. The evidence adduced showed that he bad been depressed for some months, owing to losses due to the slump in Kaffir shares. He had a unique col- lection of pictures and other works of art, and the possibility ,of having to sacrifice them preyed upon his mind. Mr. Schwarbacher on the day ho was found dead consulted with his so- licitors with reference to the payment of many thousands of pounds to stock brokers. #lis death was a contributory cause to the further depression of Kaf- firs on the Stook Exchange during the week. ABSINTHE KILLS THOUSANDS. French Trades Unions Petition for Law Prohibiting Its Sale. Paris, Feb. 11. -The trades unions of France, especially of Paris, aided by the leading members of the Left De- puties, are getting up a national peti- tion for the prohibition of the manufac- ture and sale of absinthe. The peti- tioe will be signed by a large number of prominent members of the Academy of 'Medicine. The petitioners point out that ab- sinthe kills tens of thousands of people annually. More of it is consumed in France than in the rest of the world Lieut. -Gen. Sakharoff, the former War put together, and it is causing epilepsy, Minister, who was snot and killed on •tuberculosis, madness and crime. Dec. 5 at Saratoff, and the assassin of Gen. Shuvaloff, prefect of police of Mos- cow, who was shot and killed at Moscow on July 11 last. She has not been identified, but it is known that site arrived at Sebastopol on Feb, 7, and registered at a hotel under the name of Krupnitskay. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the woman appeared at the official residence of Admiral Chouknin, and sent in a card, saying she was a daughter of a rear -admiral, who was an old acquaintance of Chouknin at St. Petersburg, and requested an inter. view. Upon entering the admiral's office she drew a rapid-fire pistol and. fired four shots at Cltouknin with deliberate aim, each bullet reaching the mark. She then turned to flee, but was killed by the orderly, Chouknin exhibited remark- able nerve and continued to issue orders even while being earned to bed and ex- amined by the surgeons. Later he re- ceived personally friends who cane to sympathize with him. To Cancel Crown Bank Bills, Toronto, Feb. 12: Itather than ran the risk of loss on the way bads to To- ronto the offieials of the Crown 13ank of Canada have instructed Detective Black by cable; to have the bills stolen by Edwin St. George Banwell stanvpe l with tee word "cancelled." The die eials of the Tiank of Nova Scotia at Kingston, Jatnnhea, Will do the stamp• ing, after which the notes will be brought on to 'Toronto for use et the trial of the defaulting tellsr. Woman Falls Sixty Feet. i'thaca, N. Y., Feb. 11. -Mrs. M. 0. Huite. aged 57 years, a widow, form- erly of Cirroville, Ohio, who has been in Ithaca for the past few years, while leer son was a student et Cor- nell, fell to her death front a fourth - storey window of the Ithaca hotel here today, SIe became ill during the night, and -while leaning front a window to get fresh air, the fainted and fell CO feet, striking head first en an iron grating. -- BELLEVILLE'S GAS. Twenty Thousand Feet of It Escaping Every Day. Belleville, Feb. 11.-Benjantin Simpson, a young man who was working in a trench where a search has been going an for some time for the leak in the gas main, was overcome by escaping gas to•day, and only discovered just in time to save his Life. He recovered when given proper restoratives. Things are in a very serious state in regard to the gas leakage, as eat- ployees of the gas works say there is enough gas escaping every day to blow no any block in the city if it should happen to concentrate at one point. The amount of gas eseaping is said to be 20,000 feet per day. sci OLD AGE PENSIONS. London, Feb. 11.---Th+e Labor party in the Houwe' of Commons have already begun to make amanita on the Uov. ernmeet. On the 15th inst. the Prince Minister, who will lie accompanied by the Ohaneellor of the Exchequer, will receive a deputation of trade union leaders and secretaries' to consider the subject of old -age pensions, Ihie deputation will urge the necessi- ty of establishing a national system of old -age remises, which shall be uni- versal in its applieation to all citizens, men 'rind women, ne attaining the cage of (19 years, the pension to he at the rate of et 1tust :en pee.weel., amt the entire co,t, of such wheel,. to be cote tribute(' by intone of imperial taxation. A Scotch Colony, London Feb. 11.• ---Tho Canadian As. soeiated Tress understand:, that Gen. Booth, wliett he addre sues the (`oton- i:tl lu"s,titute on the 2dth, twill an- nounce that rt well-known ;�eotek- Canndian has placed it large suns of • money in 'control of the Salvation S Army, and that the Salvation bray will have full charge of emigrating a tieateit •colony.