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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-03-15, Page 7HOC 1,2 ONE 0 1. St THU 110 LIVES. Awful Exployion of Gas in a Colliery Near Calais, France, on SaturdaY. Men Were Suffocated or Burned and Fire Pre- vented Rescue of the Victims. Five Hundred Men Belonging to One Village Per— ish—Help for the Helpless. Paris, March 11.—An exploeion of flee damp occurred in a colliery at Cour- reires, near Calais yesterday. Eighteen hundred men were at work in the mine at the time and of these 1,200 have al- most instantly perished by fire or asphyx- iation. Shortly before two o'clock Sat- urday morning there was a terrible ex- plosion in pits 2, 3 and 5. It was so vio- lent that the cages in the shafts were blown out, wrecking the structures et the mouths of the pits. At the same mo- ment an explosion occurred in Shaft 8. The man in charge of the windlass at Shaft 4, 1,500 yards away, was blown by the rush of gas against a stairway and killed instantly. Simultaneously at Shaft 2, a mile away from Shaft 3, the roof was blown fifty feet into the air. This may give some idea of the awful suddenness and magnitude of the dis- aster. Exactly how the explosion was caused is not yet known, but it is known that the outbreak of fire in ono pit was ob- served Thursday. This is a common oc- currence, and the usual precautions were taken to isolate it. It is thought, pos- sible, however, that owing to insuffi- cient isolation, or through a fall in the strata, a pocket of gas may have come tint° contact with the fire, resulting In a terrific explosion, the ignition of the suspended coal dust, the collapse here and there of the walls ancl sides of the galleries, thus spreading the scope of the explosion and filially the transform- ation of the mine into a vast reser- voir of smoke and asphyxiating gases. Another theory preferred by it Govern- ment engineer is that the fire was not :responsible. He says that the coal at the Courrieres mine is very soft, fri- able and gaseous, As a rule the accumu- lations of gas are rendered harmless by' continuous ventilation, but there is al - way the possibility of an explosion in a pocket of gas through a spark from a piek-axe, a half closed lamp, or a miner lighting a cigarette in defiance of the regulations. It is even said that the min- ers are accustomed to work in these pits ewith open lamps. The details of the disaster itself follow the lines of all colliery explosions, only it was on a larger scale. Chief Engineer Leon, who headed the first rescue party in Shaft 11, which was the least dam- aged, says it was not until five o'clock in the afternoon that it was possible to get down as far as the first gallery. The sight was awful. There was a con - dosed. mass of beams, rubbish, corpses, dead horses and cinders. The rescuers heard feeble groans and dashed at the obstruction with axes. They released twelve men who were at the last gasp. They were than obliged to return to the surface. Another gang of rescuers soon descended and returned with twelve corpses. All the dead were completely carbonized. One was headless, while an arm was torn off another. There may The Rothschild Party of Three Hundred have been others still alive quite neer the shaft, but the rescuers could not reach on Board Bound for Ontario—Nearly them, as the air was so bad. No one . Alt the Rest Will Settle in the Bo - could venture more than a few yards , minion—Mostly English Immigrants. from the shaft. however, I succeeded in reaching the cage and came up in it." At 8 o'clook at night the Minister of Commerce, the Minister of Public Works and Col. Kerandran, representing Presi- dent Fallierea, were at Shaft 3, An en- gineer was let down, but he found it inn possible to breathe when a little more than halfway down. He reported that not a sound eould be heard from below. Between midnight and this afternoon only two men were brought up alive, and, by the strange irony of fate, ex- actly the same number of Tescuers lost their lives in the same pit, victims of the poisonous -gaoes. The distress in the district must, ot ne- cessity, be lamentable unless it is speed- ily relieved. In some villages not a sin- gle man is left. Salem -nines alone lost 500 men. President Fallieres• was the first to send a subscription of 5,000 tranee to aid the sufferem The Minister of the Interior h -a placed 10,000 frames at the disposal of the looal authorities for pressing necessities. The municipal au- thorities -of Lens will to -morrow vote a grant. M. Basi, deputy for Pas de Calais, and the Mayor of Lens. have ask - ad the May -ors in the anining districts to summon. their Mtmicipal Councils for the same objeot. M. Basly at an early date will aek the Chamber_ of Deputies to pass a grant of 500,000 trance. The loss to the mining company, which is legally obliged to pay pensions of three- quarters, per cent. of their husbands' wages to the widows of victims, is esti- mated at upwards of 0,000,000 francs. The Kings of Italy and Portugal and the President of Switzerland have tele- graphed condolences to President Fal - Mines Are Extensive. The coal fields of Pas do Calais, in the centre of which is Courriers, extend over an area of 190 square miles.. The annual output is 5,000,000- tone, about one-sixth of the .eritire prodact of the ommtry. The only other mine district of equal importance is the Nord, coal field, on the borders of Belgium. France is the fifth coal country in the world, producing about one-tenth the quantity mined in the United States, tir a little over 30,000,000 tons. Courrierres iteelf is nothing but it min- ing vilage, whose only claim to fame is that its church contains the enagnificent tomb ;of the De Montmorency fa.mity. This department of France, from its for- bidding aspect, may be compared with the Black 'Country in the north of Eng- land. Little co -al comes front any part of France south of the Loire. Bethune, the nearest town from which assistance lias been sent to the stricken village of Courrieres, has a pop- ulation of 18,000. It is at the juncture of the Lowe and I3aeee Canals, which position gives it standing as a commer- cial and manufacturing centre. - ARRIVALS AT ST. JOHN. LAKE ERIE BROUGHT A THOUSAND PASSENGERS. Heartrending Scenes at Mouths of Pits. Words cannot describe the scenes at the mouths of the pits, where men, WO- . .men and children are standing day and might, too stunnecl by the horror of the (catastrophe to give expression to their 'feelings. Now and then a woman faints :and is carried away, but for the most !part there is a weird calm. The company officials fear that this apparent quiet- ude is the prelude to a violent outburst directed against the mine owners. The signs of restlessness have become so pro- nounced that the prefect summoned rein- forcements of troops and gendarmes. For a time hope had been held out to the people that tappings on pipes by the im- prisoned men had been heard, but grad- ually this hope vanished and the people demanded admission to see the bodies, and even threatened to break through the cordon of troops, who had the great- est difficulty in keeping the crowds hone the kit. One man named Sylvestre seseeesl.ed in entering the mine, but he never rei:enned. It is believed he grop- ed about ingido until he was overcome by the gases and perished. It is report- ed that it rescue party, numbering 40, base been cut off by tho caving in of one 'of the galleries. One of the men resmeed, and who is !still suffering from the terrible effects of his experience, said: "I was working with a gang when the 'explosion occurred. Tho foreman im- mediately shouted for us to follow him, and dashing into a recess in the gallery, we were followed by it blast of poison. ons gases, which rushed by, however, without affecting us. We remained there for eight hours, when, feeling that suf. focation was gradually coming upon us, We attempted to escape. We crawled in .!4ingle file toward the shaft, but several of the men dropped dead on the way, in- cluding My son, and the foreman, I ear. ried my nephew on my back, for 40 minutes and filleCeCri in saving him, It took us four hours to reach the shaft. For the time being the mine building has beet transformed into a mortuary chamber, and all about in it lie the ear. .bonized and almost un-reeognizable hod- ' ties of miners, whielt were taken there as brought -up from the mines. is Horrible; All of Them Are Nadi" Several minors have come up from pit No. 11, whit% is connected with pit No. 2. They effected their escape by means a a ladder, And as they came from the Mouth of the pit they appeared to be bordering an madness. ,All of them were more or less injured. When asked about their comrades, one of them said: "It is horrible. An of them are dead. A young miner who esenped from pit No, 4, Where about 500 men remain, seid 1'1 WM working about 50 feet front the Stith. Whiny I felt a puff of hot gag, and started toward the shaft. 1 Witi2 half - suffocated, and was unable to mimeo iutther became of the fumes. Finally, St. John, N. 31., March 11.—The C. P. R. Liner Lake Erie, Capt. Carey, ar- rived in port from Liverpool yesterday morning with 1,031 passengers, 300 of whom formed the seeond Rothschild party. They aro divided as follows: 29 first, 75 second, and 927 steerage. The large number of immigrants, with the exception of it few Norwegians, Germans and Seandanavians, are English. About eighteen were taken to quarantine, be- cause of measles. Of the total number 54 are for the United States, while the rest are for this side of the line. The entire Rothschild party of 300 souls are for Ontario, and J. Cadieux, the colonization agent for that Pro- vince, was on hand to meet them, and they went out on the second immigrant special -last night from Sand Point. Out of the large number but seven were held by the Canadian officials, while the United States officials held none. The first train of eight colonist cars left at 5,30 p. ni. ,the second of seven cars at 8.30, and the balance of about six cars at it late hour. KILLING NO MURDER. BUT IT MUST BE DONE DECENTLY AND IN ORDER, . physical pain must characterize the runiNERs GET Craw, on the road. He aid: "Wallace, remainder of the patient's life, it shall are you always to be single 1" McCraw s be their duty to apprise thenearest of requnded, "les"; and the witness then kihi or guartlian. said: "Are .you never going to get mar - if the latter ao'rees to their proposal i 1 NO 1NCRFASE. prilieddr "II:eoliat111.184aINI•ee .61:11Oillicitliestelriz4ies'l.m1;:t: the proposed ltiw requires the three physicians and the Coroner to admin. before I get married." ister an anaesthetic until death ensues, ‘ 1. 1 ' r act to the Secretary of the State Boaril then to make a, verified report of their Operators Also Refuse the Eight KILLS SISTER. i of Health, The bill provides a, heavy Hour Day fine for any .physiehni who shirks his duty under tine law, and also prescribes, the usual dhould pthey abuse itenalty for first degrimilaree emir- And Will Not Agree to Recognize LETS INTO GIRL'S er s. Spro. cedure is prescribed for killing idiots, the. Union. infants and insane, save that the next of kin, instead of the patient himself, must take the initiative, OMAN F UND DEAD; WASSi[ MURDERED? Ruth Rogers, of New York, Meets With JEALOUS WIFE FIRES FIVE I3UL.) Mrs. • In Fact Mine Owners Refuse All.the IREi AND TROUBLED. Miners' Demands, New York, N. Y., March 11. --The pro. MOVAL OF CATTLE EMBARGO. of America for a readjnatment of wa,,ea I Atlanta,. G,7., Mar& 12.—Mrs. Willie DISASTER WOULD FOLLOW RE- positions of the United Mine Wetkers i . - IV, Standefea ;of 203 West Alexander street, early t and conditions in the anthracite ;oat 'his morning wont to the by a Few Corporations at the Sea the committee representing the anthill: hoinie of her sister, Mrs. D, P. Dunham, of 201 South Boulevard, and after an Agitation, Irishmen Say, is Kept Alive fields, as a whole, have been denied by stngument with Miss °impel Whisenant, Ports—Would be Unable to Pay Off cite operatore. As it counter proposi- a Their Land Purchases, thin the operators suggest that the ler unmarried sister, shot Miss Whise- London, March 11.—The Royal Dublin 1 awards made by the anthracite tool nallt 81x thne14' kiljling her alnmfb in- etaret, tly. Society presented it memorial to Lord strike commission on the principles -upon the shooting is the outcome of a. let' Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant, requesting which they were established by the come ter which Edward Marion Standifer, the him to use is influence with the Gov- mission, and the methods established for I aliment to prevent a removal of the h cattle embargo. The memorial sets carrying .out their findings and awards., husband of the woman, is alleged. to forth that since the act came into force shall be continued for it further term oil have written to Miss Whisenant, Me !later. Going to the home of Mrs. :Our. dairying had increasee, while beef, mut- three years from the Bret day of April, tram about 7.45 o'elack, Mrs. Standifer ton and pea: were cheaper than in many 1900. The present agreement termin- demanded that Mies Whisenant go to years before. Breeding of pedigreed Lacs March 31st, of this year. m , lice home with her and apologize to bee. stock increased because of freedom fro Announcement of the anthracite opere —. — . disease. It was deelnred that 90 per • ,, . e mess Won at first refusal to do so, cent. of the landowners were interested attire decislon and their count r nrono- " but afterward said she would go as soon in store stock. It was alleged that the ; sition was made to -night in a long, for- - as she 'could get dressed, demand for removal comes from a corn- I mal statement which was given out for 0 • - You will go now," Carts. Standifer said paratively small number of stockowners.1 publication. This statement, which in- to Miss Whisenan. The agitation was kept alive by cor- l eludes the correspondence on the out). She drew.a pistol and shot her -once. porations in the seaport towns. The re- i •The second bullet crashed through a, mir- jeets at issue between President John moval would mean a profit to few and • ror before which Miss Whisenant was h Mitcell, of the lJnited Mine W•orkers, ' enormous loss to many. Several branches combing, her hair. The young woman of the United Irish League are also acting for the miners and George F. jumped into the bed and covered herself. taking action, affirming that farmers . Baer, President ;of the Philadelphia tnd. Going to the bed Mrs. Standifer pulled woulhl be unable to pay their install- 1 Rea -ding Coal and. Iron. Co., for the opera- : the covering off her sister, grasped tier ments under tho land purchase act in the tors, discusses tho miners' proposition . by the arm, and fired four shots into her " left breast in rapid suceession. Miss event of the removal. in detail. 4 ; •:, - Whisseant died in it few minutes. . In every instance tho contention is • Atter the shooting Ms. Standifer went MURDERAT WINNIPEG. made by the operators, either that con- to her own home, but she afterward sur - <tithing in the coal fields do not war - rendered to the police. The murdered girl was engaged to be rant the changes proposed by the i DRUNKEN QUARREL FOLLOWED BY 'oninere, or that the questions at issue , married next Wednesday to J. Edward A STABBING. I already have been passed upon by the . Sitton, a prominent young main of Sen- . eca, S. 0. strike commission, _ Bdward Marion Standifer, the hus- The demand of the miners that the ' , . band, was alsp placed under anrest. A Galician Murdered and a Fellow- - operators enter into an agreement with Mrs. Standefer declares she toeitg the countryman Named Huyk Arrested : the union is declined on the ground that : life of her younger sister because she anthracite operators stand unalterably - had eome between herself and her Mas- on the Charge—All the Party Taken for tho open shop, and again decline to band. After taking her vengeance, Mrs. Into Custody. make an agreement with the United. Standifer, without manifesting the Mine Workers of America, an organize- ';: Winnipeg, March 11.— A Galician tion controlled by a rival industry. slightest sign of nervousness, boarded . re ear and went to the office of her bus - named Thomas Korehzynski was mur- , No Reduction in Hours. ' band:, and said: "I have killed Chapel." dered in a row in a tenement house in the Of the demand tor an eight-hour day, ' Mrs. Startdifer said: "I have pleaded foreign quarter last night. Another : the statement says the operators know '; with both my husband and my sister -to Galician named Fred Huyk has been of no change in conditions that can be cease their %Mid relations to one an - used. to sustain the renewed. demand other, but without result. arrested charged . with the crime. About : for a reduction of hours. It declares, : "Time and again 1 warned them that 1 25 foreigners in the house had been ' that the expectation -of the strike cum- , could not, for my baby's sake, if for no drinking and celebrating before the al- - miseion that the reiluction from ten to other reason, permit a scandal, and they tereation, whie.h terminated in a fight be- - litho hours should not result in any de- ; adways promised that they would change tween Korehzynski and. Huyk. They crease in the output of the mines, has . their conduct, but these promises were went outside to settle the difference and : not been realized, and adds: "We inight : made only to be broken. Huyk stabbed deceased four times, in- . justly say that with the experience 01 - "Thie morning I went to any 'sister's Hiding wounds which caused death "I the past three years, ;the ten -hone day : home and begged her to let my husband should. be restoredbut we are willing to . alone. She .only .gave me a cynical smile. shortly afterwards. The police have arrested all the parties • abide by the decision of the commission. r Then I put the pistol to her left breast implicated. Huyk has a bad record,, The proposition that it uniform scale ot and fired several times. I ami not sorry." having served, eighteen years in, prison : wages be established in the anthracite Standifer admits he loveti his young in Austria for killing it police officer. HO: fields is met by the operators with the, ' sister -hi -law, and that she loved him, but has it wife, and family in his native repIY that this would. be impracticable : says there was nothing improper in their • country. His victim was a young man, : by reason of the varying capacities of Lite i relations. It has dbeeg Stand. ut hi a nirliehaaldneteetnita - workmen and the vareente conditions ex- . Me and the 27 years of age. "She Had Come Between Me and MY Husband; When I Begged Her to Leave Him, She Gave Me a Cynical Smile," Says Murderess—Victim Was Engaged. . isting in -the rektion and a the collieries." carriage until 2 o'clock this morning. ' "We cannot increase wages without - The parties involved are prominent, TO SIMPLIFY SPELLING.; advancing the price of co -al, and we nre Standifees parents live in Alabama, - not willing to ;advance the prite of coal," where his uncle is a United. States Mar - is the reply to the demand for a, genera/. shad. PROMINENT MEN OF AFFAIRS : increase in wages. The request that UNITE TO THIS END. • the operators shall collect from each employee certain stated. sums for the . _ • : support of the Mine Workers' Union is Andred Carnegie Has Undertaken to Foot ' denied on the ground that "as a mat- ter of policy we would not make such the Bill—Hope That English May an agreement as you require, and as a. Become the World Language of the matter of law, we are not permitted to make it." No Change in Arbitration. The operators decline to agree to any change in the Board of Comilla - tion as established by the anthracite Coal Strike Commission, taking the ground that the system proposed by the miners would simply involve the creation of a series of minor boards, whose decisions might be conflicting,, and. from which appeals woma have to be taken to an arbitrator, thereby creating more delays than now exist. The complaint of the miners that the Board of Conciliation does not act promptly the operators declare to Le not warranted, by the facts. Tho demand for a new sliding wage scale is denied on the ground. time, the sliding scale fixed. the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission covers practi- cally all the propositions in the proposed Inew scale. Li conclusion the statment says: - "It has been our hope, and, we That Total Total Reached in Voluntary CM- ed, the public expeetation as well, that the effect of the exhaustive investiga- tion and findings of the distinguished citizens who constituted. the Anthracite Strike Commission would be to establisl it jast and permanent adjustment of the relations between the operators and their employe& We therefore regret your suggestions that an entirely ne.w and un tried arrangement should be made which is only to last for one year. "It is not to the interest of em - ployers or employes, nor of the public, to have the mining business, as well as the general business and eomfort of the people seriously disturbed by these year- ly contentions. "Neither can stand these progres- sive and enormous increases in the east of the production of anthracite coal, fol- lowed necessarilyby corresponding, in - creases in its price. "It is peculiarly fortibutte, therefore, that existing conditions have all been the result of orbitration both by third per - Future. New York, March 1L—Announcement was made to -day that an. organization, including prominent men of affairs RS well as leading men of letters, has been formed. to urge the simplification of Eng- lish spelling. This new body is called ithe Simplification Spelling Board. It will appeal to all who for educational or prac- tical reas-ons wish to make English spell- ing easier to acquire. Mr. Andrew Car- negie has generously undertaken to bear the expense of the organization. Mr. Carnegie has long been convinced that English might be made the world language of the future, and .thus one of the influences leading to universal peace, and. he belim'es that the chief obstacle to its speedy adoption is to be found. in its contradictory and difficult spell- 1)1. Amazing Measure Introduced Into the Iowa Legislature at the Instance of Dr. R. K. Gregory, Who Gives Start- ling Reagens for It. DesMoines, Iowa, 'March 11.—A re- markable bill to legalize the killing of incurable persons suffering great pain and. the hideously deformed and 'hope- lessly idiotic, was introduced into the Iowa Legislature yesterday at the in- stance of Dr. It. K. Gregory, a mem. ber. In explanation of the bill later Dr, Gregory said: "I would simply make lawful that which is already prac- tised by the great physicians and sur surgeons in the land. At the risk of beiug convicted of murder, they often take human life eimply bemuse they know it is a mercy to the patient and his relatives. Every large hospital is the scene of such murders inmost daily. It is a pity that the pmetice is not more extensive. My bill eontaine every reason- able safegrinrd. Aceording to Pr. Gregory's bill, any pereon over ten years of age, if of sound mindonnst take the initiative in requesting that hie life be taken by artificial means, '1.'110 physician to WhOtti he expreettee sueh desire shall then summon two other reputable phymoane and the County Coroner. The four shall hold a consultation to determine . if it is poseible to save the patient's life, bow long life may be prolonged and to what •extent his sufferins may 1,e alleviatell. If they agree that death is inevitable and that great mental and - C—HURCH'S $4o,000t000. tributions During nos. London, March M.—Statistics just issued of the voluntary offerings of the Church of England for the year endied with Baster, W. ar0 considlerable ifilkerMt ta view of the sermon of the Araluloacen, of London on the poverty a the Anglican clergy and the ne- ceesity of the re -endowment .ef the Church of England. The total amount of these voluntary of- ferings exceeded 48,000,000. .01 this amount 42,290,247 'was eollected for genoral purposes. The larget items under this head ware 4772 -00D ter foreign and 4604,000 tor home mis- sions, 4104,000 tor philanthropic work anti 4230,000 for educational work and charitable assistance to the clergy and widows and orphans. Of Ms total amount ZD,200,000 will go for parochial purrecoes, such no 4713,000 tor Is- sistant clergy, 4341,000 rot* the ntrtintentaneo of elementary schools, 4100,000 to sehool buildings, 41.87,0u0 for Sunday ,Schools, 41,- r 724,721 for church building% 4038,668 for the sells, so that neitheparty can say' Hutt r- stippont of tho poor, and 41,412,300 for thit has not lean due consideration. Thereo can be no doubt that the good of all eon. maintenance at church services. eerned will be served best by adhering !.t- NEW t to the results thus reached." e13ARRACES 'r ALT G. —-:-. ; ,_-- ................ MURDER BEFORE MARRIAGE. — Salvation Army Opens Building Amid Great Enthusiasm. Remark of McCraw, Which May Help to Gait, Ont., letterch tiessrite new Salvation Army' barracks, hunt at it eoet (pi Mont T ...... $3,000, wore emenally apPntod belt nARbt, tt hree Rivere, Que., Mareh 10.—"Selat- Le er ie. weighing heavy on nier. it lienviseinve brick building, centrally lo - y shoulds cated, and With tine &floors' quarters. Col. beiftlit,,,,i2 W011't la0 long before I get him ldier 11111174'v" "11411'1 This is the statement alleged to Ilan anskill and 13rie the Peremong, with Mayor Thompson in the been made by MeCraw in the evitienee chair end several clergymen" aldermen and ether citizens taking part. Tho citadel waa of Camille Lafontaine, f.-laturdity in the Grande Anse murder case evidenee, vaned!. eubihttion meetings, 'V" eentinueel court, correborating an are- which created a decided sensation in the orowded end the atmelet enthueiasm dewing the day. The citizens or tout mai- mente of other witneeees in the Pante, it did the stale- ec.ribea 21,000 to the building fund. direction. Int Poliesernati4..:17a. reg FO Lafontaine said he was an old friend of McCraw (ilia Selater"e and bait tits - Rome, ;Mara 11. --The Tribune, pub. euesed the family trouble e of the lislies it special despatch front Tangier selaters with, both, anl be said tt, was announeing that Mule. Du Gast, it wells in elle''t It eonverea.tion that MeCraw Hang Him. known 11(11(11 sportswoman nod Antonio- litttl made these Runstor t nett a. bilist, lins been eaptured in the district jimmy Mamie° gmus Very similar (promise ease, the jury assessed the The United States is not ineetim with of Ceuta by a band under the nototiotis evidence. 110 stated that two rats damages at 51,000. IlacKity, E. C., and the same commercial 5314 ('0 in New. brigand., El, Valiente. beforo the tragedy ho bita met M.!. Iloyd, K. C., Were the counsel. foundiand as in the Dominion of Cam WRECK AT BLOOMDALE, Two Were Killed and Fifteen Injured in B. & 0. Smash. Toledo, 0., March 11.—Two killed and fifteen injured, one of whom will die, is the list of fatalities in a wreck of two freight trains and a fast passenger train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to -day about two miles from Blooindale. Two engines were completely wrecked and the mail and express ears, two bag- gage ears, two passenger coaches and four freight cars were completely de- molished and later burned up. The dead: John Hootman, Chicago Junction, fire- man of passenger train; W. Hoy, Wheeling, W. Va., postal clerk. Fatally injured: Benjamin C. Snook, Chicago juhetion, mail clerk, head cut, scalded and internally injured. A FREEZE OUT. Dead Alienist en Bed of Ice Dreaded Being Buried Alive. Philadelphia, March 11.—On it bed of cracked ice on Norristown Hospital for the Insane lies the body of Dr. David Dorrington Richardson, the alienist, who for twelve years prior to his death last Tuesday night had been the head of that great institution. Within an hour of the time Dr. Richardson breathed his last the ice was packed in a long box and the body stretched upon it, to remain a fall week, until next Wed- nesday morning. He was afraid of being buried alive, and left directions as above. PRENTICE BOYS. BIG The Mysterious Death. Man Who Found Her Body Locked Up on Suspicion by the Police. Story Told by the Man Contradicted bY the Hos- 131; 4 al Authorities. New York, Muck 12.—Mrs. Bah Rog- ers, about whose personality much mys- tery exists, was found dead in her flat in. West 84th street yesterday, with a bullet in her brain, and it revolver ;with ono ehamber empty lying beside her. John S. Williams, a demonstrator in an automobile agency, evho found her body, was locked up in the West 68t1i street police station, and held as a evitnese. Yesterday morning Williania, hatless shoeless, rushed up to Policeman Feeley and informed him that it woman lay dead in the flat where he lived. Fee. ley went with Williams, and found Mrs. Rogers' body in the private hallway of the Mx -roam flat. Williams was taken to the police station ;protesting. He said that he had boarded with Mrs. Rogers for several months, and. that the 'worn- MI'S husband was W. George Kirby, who lay ill from an operation for appendi- citis in the Presbyterian Hospital. Ho declared that tbe ;woman must thave shot herself, 'but denied bearing the sound af the shot In explanation for the mo- tive for the woman's suieide, Williams said that she hail visited her husband in the hospital DTI Saturday and had a quarrel with him. This was denied by the physicians and noises at the hos- pital. Mrs. Rogers was small, dark, and very pretty. She was vivacious., 25 years old, .and n musieian, Her 5 -year-old 'daughter lives with a Mrs. Fraser at Mount: Ver- non. W. George Kirby is corresponding clerk in the Hanover National Bank. John S. Williarne is the son of Joseph. M, Williams, it lee:;yer, n't9 has a inVIC in Glen Ridge The young man is a college graduate, and an Athlete. He is it member of the Orange Atidetie League. He rented the flat in which the tsagedly occurred, and his naan,e alone is. npou the letter box and door. Ooroner Shandy would not express an opinion as to wive; ther it was a case of murder or suicide. Ile could not say whether there were powder marks upon her forehead nT not, Probably Committed Suicide. New York, Manch 12.—The police in- vestigation into the mysterious death yesteaelay of Mrs. Ruth Rogers, a ham. seine woman, 25 years old,resulted to- day in the finding that she probably committed. suicide. The young woman was found dead in a West 84tth street flat with it bullet wound in the head.. John S.. Williaans, who was occupying a room in her fla.t at the time, and win, found. the body, was held as a WitneSS. He said he ,clid not see the shooting. A friend of the dead Wolin= told the police that Mrs. Rogers killed herself because of it quarrel with a man with whom she was in love. HINDERS FOR GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC. Twelve Handed in for Construction of a Portion of the Road. Ottawa, March 12,—(Special).— The time for receiving tenders for the con- struction of 245 miles of the Transcon- tinental Railway eastward from Win- nipeg, 150 miles westward from Quebec and it steel viaduct, 3,000 feet long at Cape Rouge valley, was up at 12 o'clock to -day. There were twelve tenders in all received. They are as follows: The Pa- cific Construction Company; M. J. O'- Brien and J. P. Mullarky; Hogan and Macdonald; McArthur Construction Company, Ltd., of Canada; M. 1'. Davis and 3. T. Davis; Connolly Wilson and Jardine; Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Conmany; J. D. McArthur; Dominion Bridge Company; Locomotive Machine Company, of Montreal; Phoenix Bridge Company, of Pittsburg; Canadian TFi 141ik S. MAWR Mkr1:70" • mills NEWS CANADIAN, The East Toronto & Danforth Electric Railway is applying for a charter. Mr. John McFee's residence at Belle- ville was burned. Loss, 810,000. Toronto's assessment this year is ex- pected to be increased. by 510,000,000. Fire in C. IT. Reid's storehouse itt North Augusta, caused it loss of 515,00. The malt house of the Canada Malt- ing Company at Winnipeg, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Hugh Sullivan, proprietor of the e°.driovretsirninllgo u.tel, Toronto, died on Sat- urday Arnold Dunn, a Mount Forest farm- er, was run over by it Grand Trunk train and may die. The Grand Trunk Railway announees an issue of one million sterling 4 per cent. guaranteed stock. Charles Thompson, of Ningn, Man., was frozen to death about two miles -out. He had lost his way on the prairie. Midland Council decided to submit the oacnuny. aileption by-law to the people next J The date of the Winnipeg Industrial Fair has been fixed for July 23 to 28, inclusive. Police Magistrate 117111. Newcombe, one of the pioneers of Fort William, Ont., died suddenly. The wife of W. II. Rowley, of Ottawa, president of the E. B. Eddy Co., is dead after a brief illness. The Dominion Fire Thsurance Company wants to change its head office from Vancouver to Toronto. At DEMONSTRATION TO BE HELDthe Owen Sound Assizes, Mr. tattle - : low, the Portland Cement Company's IN KINGSTON. chemist, was given it vereliet. for $300 Kingston, Ont.. March 10.—(SpeCial.)— against The Durham Chronicle for libel. The Kingston Prentice Boys are making Captain Charles E. Kimesinitl, son of arrangements for a. lgie demonstration the late Judgo Kinn•smin, and a nephew here next 12th of August. Lodges from of Nicol Kingemill,bK. C., Toronto, has all over Eastern Ontario will be invited been appointed. to the eommand of his to participate. majesty's battleship Dominion. Dr. Dell Irving, who has been here for At a regular meeting tof the elt. Law - the past week with his son, Cadet 3301 rove Athletic Club, it was elecided te Irving, who was seriously ill of aliening- change the name of the organization to itis, will return to Vancouver, 11. C., to. the National A. C. The Nationals prom - morrow, Mrs. Bell Irving will remain isc to have a strong tenni in. the Oily here for a couple of weeks longer. Baseball League this season. --.4-4------ ' judgment has been given in the Nova LYNCH AGAIN PRESIDENT, preliminary objeetion to the election pr. Scotia. Supreme Court sustaining the international Typographical Union NOM- *tlitalc°11Totaigstaldh,16':Itl. rfciotilli'llieqieura,uldi'l,d1isr--. Miens Closed. missing the petitiou. fir., Indianapolis, Ind., March I0.—Prost. -, . NN n dJnlrVPsi. We iptriock of dteks enJamesM.,Att, near St. John. N. It, yesterday, Jarvis dent joint W. ITayes and Seeretney- Harrington, a lad. 14 years old, was ter. Treasurer .T. W. Bramwood 'of the In- lribly shot in the arm and side. He will ternational Typographiettl Union have „ practically been re•eleeted, as the nomin- 4'10* ' atione have been finished, and there will Atall has been issued for a. joint be no opposition to them on the -ticket meeting in Knox Clutch, Winnipeg, next which will be voted en throughout the Thursday of elergymen and leoding lay. country the third Wednesday in May. men of the. Methodist, Presbyterian and cla.....-...,-41.44,.....m.....ok Congregational Churches to .discuss the .Got $1,000. question of .eherelt union. 'Owen Sound, March 11. ---Mr. austiee Present prospects :Me that, there will be 100.000,000 bushels of grain er one knglin fitished the week's Assizes yeti - Imam' cargos in store at the head of the eerday morning. Seemed ttiees were lakes at the opening .of navigation, and eettled and five fought to a finish. In "I * e W*11 lel b a breech of more if the opening is late. Bridge Company, Walkerville. The last four companies are no doubt tendering for the bridges, that only eight tenders are for the railway sections. It is like- ly that about four tenders in all are for both sections east and west. The Grand Trunk Pacific has it tender in for both sections and the McArthur Construction Company and one or two of the other companies are supposed also to ha.ve ten- dered for all the work. Chairman Parks says that he expects to be able to an- nounce the successful tenders in about a week. No time will be lost in getting the tenders figured out. Canada's agent at Bristol wrote to the Department of Trade and Commerce, say- ing that until Canadian cheese is dated, showing the month in which it is made, it will not hall as good a place in the British market as it otherwise would. ada, reports U. S. Consul Cornelius of St. John's. The British Columbia Government may fall. One rumor -says it may be summar- ily dismissed. The minority report of the Kaien Island investigation committee reveals a grave scandal in British Colum- bia provincial administration. In the Osman plaster quarries at Hillsboro, N. B., yesterday, Richard Mil- ton was crushed to death by a cave-in in the tunnel in which he worked. A large quantity of plaster, which fell, buried him several feet deep. Sergeant Nash, of the Windsor police froce, and Detective Tarsney, of the Pere Marquette Railway, have seized over a ton of brass wire and journals at Wal- kerville, stolen from railways, the jour- nals still bearing the Grand Trunk stamp. A company calling itself the Erie, Lon- don & Tillsonburg Railway Company will apply for it charter authorizing the con- struction of a railway from Port Burwell to London, through the town of Aylmer, and from a point between Port Burwell and Aylmer into Tillsonburg. The Grand Valley Railway Company will ask Parliament to extend the time for completing their work, and to au- thorize them to build from Brantford to Woodstock. They also wish to be al- lowed to lease the Brantford Street Railway, and the Woodstock,. Thames Valley & Ingersoll Electric Railway lines, and to be allowed to purchase and trans- mit electric power. BlaTISI1 AND POREIGN. The formal annooncement of the en- gagement of Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Robt. Shaw, of Virginia, will be made in the London papers to -day. Charles Green, on trial for murder at Trenton, in spite of the protests of his counsel, jmnped up in court and said, "You see before you a fool." The court believed him, and he was released. The London Gazette announces thet the King has sanctioned the appoint- ment of Lord Linlithgow as a Knight of Justine in the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and as Sub -Prior. The Poet to -day says: President Roosevelt has decided to appoint William II. Taft of Ohio, now Secretary of War, to the next vacancy in tlie United States Supreme Court. The bnrk Adam W. Spies, Capt. Hines, hoot Buenos Ayres, with a cargo of bone, went ashore near the Long Beach, L. I., life saving station last night. The crew is still aboard the vessel. Eugene iliehter, Radial leader in the Mob:stage sines its faun:intim, Big - mark's ell opponent and a long time eat - tor of the Preisinnige Zentung, died at 4 o'clock this morning. Harry Orchard, who confessed to par- tieipating in a series of terrible crimes in Idaho, is probably a native of Can - At -Springfield, Mom, Yggert, one Of the anninmoth Eggert twins, of *Newark, N. a., died yestgreleg of diph- theria. She was only four years old, but weighed 108 pounds. Bogen Richter, Radicel ,eader in the German Reielietag since its immlation. Bismarck's old opponent, anti it iOng•tintl, eilitOr of 'the Freisinnige Zeitung, died o'clock yesterday morning. Arnold -Forster naiing that the has sent to Canada, 1110 men, and ItOw• are doing Well. She is asking tor as. • sistance to seed fourteen more lneft te Ontario, where work hae been offieed wag's of t,4Z and -$:150 per day.