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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-07-12, Page 7CALIFORNIA .BANDIT .1N pfrictRY HANDS. Lined Up Up Five Stages and Robbed All the Passengers. a Terror -Stricken Forty-flve, Hands Above Heads, Fresno, CR1., July 9. despatch to the Republican front llerenda announces that the highwayman who held up five stage coaches near Awahnee, Saturday night has been ceptured. The name of the bandit or partieulars of the capture tould not be ascertained. The arrest was made at Wawonas The first tediun. tie information was received here last night when J. F. Tibbett, of Riverside, who with his wife and Miss .A.my Backer, came out of the valley. The robbery occurred six ndles from the stoppiag place it Ohawahnee, on the other side, At that places the road winds around the side of a. hill and comes to a sudden point, At thIs point the robber stopped out and ordered W. A. Palmer, the driver of the first stage to stop. The latter quickly complied. The highwayman wore a black mask and had sacks tied about his feet to prevent the leaving of any tell -tele tracks as a clue for a pursuing posse. Ile held in his right band a rifle, and -when he ordered the passengers to alight all quickly got out of the stage and ined up On the road with their bands shove their heads, H. W. Elliott, from lormitos, was ordered to take the era tress box from the stage. While be was \veiling for the other stage to come up . the robber shot the lock off the Wella Fargo box and rifled its contents. The bandit stopped the other stages in the 8111110 way, lining the passe.ngers up and keeping them covered with his gun. 1Vhen all the passengers, 45 in number, \\etre lined up, the bandit, with 6. show of gaiety, selected ft young and pretty girl as his first assistant and told her elm was appointed colleetor. She hesitate ed a moment then went about the work. The girl did not come up to the robber's requirements andhe told ber that she Was a poor highwayman, ordering her to get into line and appointing a man to take her place requiring him to search the passengers. An English woman and her daughter were in the party and when the robber approached her she dropped in the road in a dead faint. He only laughed as he smelled her. RED FLAGS IN ST. PETERSBURG. Revolutionary Crowds Fly at First Blank Volley Fired Over Them. St. Petersburg, July 9.-3)olitical de- monstrations during which the crowds carried red flags and sang revolutionary songs occurred in many places in St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon and night, necessitating the interference of the police and military patrols. Street cars were held up and their occupants were compelled to uncover and salute the red flags. The most serious affair happened near the Moscow railroad ela- tion, where an officer, later identified as Lieut. Tom, made a revolutionary speech to a crowd of 2,000 people. A detachment of police attempted to dis- perse the assemblage, but the people armed themselves with stones dug up from the streets and beat off the police and squadron of Cossacks. Eventually the Cossacks were reinforced and fired a blank volley in the air, whereupon the rioters fled to neighboring mute. Only a few persons were slightly injured. Lt. Tom was arersted and taken to the fort- ress. The guards on the mail weenne ere now armed. with rifles, owing to the in• creasing number of attackmade upon these vehicles. Six more newspapers of this city have been count.; meet. Landlords from the pi ovinces where agrarian disorders are me:tiering ere flocking into Moscaw and S. Petersburg appealing for troops to protect their property, without which they declare it is impossible for them to live on their estates'. Some of the papers regard General GRAPPLES QUESTION. EXPROPRIATION GE LAND FOR RUS- SIA'S PEASANT MILLIONS. Poor Men Were Incensed Because Rich Men Had Sent Telegram to Lower House Protesting Against Proposed Distribution of Land -your Killed, Several Wounded. St. Petersburg, July 8. -The first paragraph of the proposed agrarian law, viz., the augmentation of the lands of the peasants by the expropriation of all State and Crown domains and church and monastery lands, has been accepted by the tomtits:don of the lower House with practical unanimity The commis- sioners have now locked horns over the mode of expropriation and. the method of disposal of private estates, and the end is not yet in sight. The determination to expropriate church lands, which in distinction to the great estates owned by the monasteries He scattered like the lands of common schools in America in small tracts throughout the country, and support the local eleegy, will cause complications. Such action would deprive the parish priests a the principal part of their scanty emoluments, and necessitate an equivalent from some other source. • Rich Peasants Fight Poor. There has been a fatal encounter at Krasnopolsk, in the Province of Podo- lia, between rich peasants and poor peas- ants. The poor men were incensed be- cause the rich men had sent it telegram to the lower House protesting against the proposed distribution of lands. In the fighting one of the wealthy peasants killed four and seriously wounded sev- eral of •the poorer men. Bill Went on Rocks. The bill of the lower Ifoutte of, Parlia- ment for the abolition of the death pen- alty went on the rocks to -day between the caucus, the Centrists and the Colw- ell of. the. Empire, it majorityof which i was Opposed to its acceptance n its pre- sent form. The substitution of a measure abrogating the provision of the code whereby civilians come under the juris- diction el the military courts in "a state of exceptiotud inseeerity," a minor form of martial law, which is the chronic status of nine -tenths of Russia, will sol - Wily the Parliamentary opposition to the Ministry. The demand for the, reteetion of the Leath penalty came with the greatest. insistenee from the Teprosentathros of the border districts, where the death penalty is more in use -Poland, the Battle Provincee and the Caucasus, who feel themselves in the grip of the revo- lutionists arid terrorists without the summary pro es of inertial law. This rejection of the find: fruits of the legislation of the laver Muse rivived the old demand for theabolition of the Council of the Empire as a wall between the Emperor and the people. Mertes in MS COIL Dr. Niehoiaieffsky, WhO Was eleetrel a, member of the lower 'Muse from ltram- noyaraek, Siberia, .openly flaunts the re- volutionary colors. To-dity he said that just before his departing he presided at Trepoff's pronouncement in favor of it ministry composed of constitutional De- mocrats as a sbam deatlebed repentance designed to give the Emperor and. court a breathing spell, while others consider to be it confirmation of the report that Trepoff had fallen from favor and is • trimming hitt sails to the prevailing breeezs. The Holy Synod has issued strict in- structions forbidding the printing estab- lishments of Monasteries from publishing political tracts or in any way taking sides in the present struggle. Won't Execute Mutineers • Tiflis, Caucasia, July 9. -The military tribunal realizing the tremendous fer- mentation in the garrison here, has let . off with light punishments the twenty- seven mutineers wbo had been sentenc- ' ed to be shot because they refused. to fire on the populace during the disturb- ances of last March ,sentencing thirteen of them to imprisonment for from six weeks to it year and. acquitting the re- mainder, Czar and Czarina Go Out. Oraniebaum, Russia, July 9. -Emperor Nicholas and the Empress on board the Imperial yacht Polar Star, made a short visit here yesterday inspecting the mar- ine of hospital barracks, It was tee first time their Majesties had been out- side the grounds of the palace at Peter- hof since they went to St. Petersburg to open parliament on May 10. • Oramen- „endun is a seaside resort opposite Crens- tadt, on the Guly of Finland, 19 miles west of St. Petersburg. it revolutionary meeting at Krasnoyar- ask. Cavalry sent to disperse the meet- ing joined the revolbtionists in parading through the town behind the reg flag in- place of the national colors. Curious Telegrams. Mr, Mouromtseff, President of the lower House, received to -day it couple of telegraphic oddities. One is a &s- patial from the conservative peasantry in the Province of Yeroslev, asking him to use his influence to have the Em- peror declare a. military directorship, and the other is from a group of Mus- covites, complaining that the number of words of foreign origin used in the de- bates in the lower House render them un- intelligible to the common people. ••••••••...111.1.411. PUBLIC OPINION MOVES THE CZAR TO SPEAK OF JEWISH MASSACRES. $t. Petersburg, ,Tuly 0. -Interior Min- ister Stoylpin has sent:the representa- tives of foreign countries, the Govern- ment's 'official report of the Bialystok rioting, for transmission to their re- spective Governments. While this un- precedented action .011 ate part of the Ruseitin Government does not involve a recognition of the right of foreign come trice to snake representations regarding the internal affairs of the empire, it is a distinct recognition of the power of public opinion abroad and indicatesthe solicitude of foreign Governments to know tbe Russian Ade of the ease. The report is practically identical with that submitted by -11. tkoylpin to Parlia- ment. ; KILL THEM ALL • Terrible Threat of Armed Man in Rail- way Coach. Charlotte, N. C., July 8. -While on a train between Wilmington and Stedman, returning from an excursion early to- day, it man named Ellison, front Autrey. ville, N. C„ rase in a crowded coach, ands showing himself heavily armed, immune - (el his intention -of killing everybody in the ear. A passenger named Bledsoe, a citizen of 8tedman, fired at Ellison, striking him in the forvhvad and killing bhu inetantly . A loaded revolver was fomul itt mai of Ellison's hand; and be. ismer his lege was a jog of wireSses. Bledsoe surrendered himself to the it 11, thorities. DIED IN DRAWING ROOM, Wife of Chicago Physician Expires Sud* denly at Owen Sound, Owen Sound, Ont., july H. -While it. ting in the drawing -room this atm.'. noon at the residenee of her brodur. in-law, Mr. E. Lemon. :qrs. Dyelm, wife of George H. Dyche, of Chicago, died vevy suddenly. Mrs. 1)yelte came over to Owen Sound about t ell dap ago, following an attack ef pleurisy, and had apparently reeovered almost en. tirely from the results of the attaek. Deveoe,1 woe a daughter ef the late John McDougall, the lamer of tbe fated Asia, who hist his life when the ves- sel foundered some years ago. RUN DOWN ar STREET CAR, 0.1.191.1.• Conductor O'Leary ICilled at Ottawa Yeeterday 31-nning, • wawa, July 8.-eCorne1itte O'Leary, ti5, married, one of the oldest conductors , on, the O. P. R., was killed this axiom- ing on Somerset street by it street car bound for Britannia, O'Leary Wits On hie way to mails at St, Mary's Church, Fourth avenue, and was walking Olt it path near the tracks, when the, ear ap- proached. The conductor soundeti ins gong, but was horrified to see .O'Leary • step on the traek right in front of the ear* O'LearY was knocked down and reeeiv- ed it fracture at the base of the skull - and internal injuries, which resulted in hie death in the bovital two hours leer. Deceased was highly respected, and bad 1,, 3,oeteirIVit the railroad employ for forty WAS IT MURDER? NURSE'S FUNERAL DELAYED TILL INVESTIGATION IS MADE, Now York, July 9.-IIelen Donau, the Young woman who was found dead from gas asphyxiation last Friday, in her room at the Physical and Surgical Institute, where she was employed as it nurse, may have boon the victim of it murder, in the opinion of Coroner Acritelli, who is investigating the case. Tho coroner to -day directed the Pollee to held up tho funeral luau some additional light is thrown on the woman's death. The authorities investigated the case la.st ,Saturday and gave out that tho nurse had conunitted suicide, but the coroner has re- icoeuivledDialya.ter information Indicating iambic The dead woman had relatves itt OaklanI, Me.. Worcester, Mass., and Philadelphia, LW - cording to papers found in her room. 4 NEW BRITISH GUN, • Details Reported to be in the Hands of a Foreign Power, Paris, July 8,. -The London correspond- ent of the Petit Parisiee stats that con- siderable nervousness prevails at the British Admiralty owing to the highest importance have occurred during the Last few months. there are, says the correspondent, several foreign vies in London at the present moment. A document has dis- appeared relating to a new quick -firing gun of high power from which great results are expected, although the final experiments have not yet been made with it. According to the Petit Parisien cor- respondent, t he Admiralty now knows that all the details of this gun ,as Well as other important documents, aro in the hands of a foreign power. WINNIPEG SUNDAY CARS. The First Service Largely Patronized • Yesterday. Winnipeg, July 8. -The Sunday car service was inaugurated to -day, and the patronage was remarkable. Owing to the intense heat, the thermometer regis- tering between 90 and 95 for several hours, the citizens sought the parks and suburbs for a breathing spell, and it is believed. that the number of passengers carried will equal that of Dominion Day, when the fares paid nuMbered a hun- dred thousand. The threatened trouble between the company and the employees did not arise. The men want an eight and a half hour day on Sundays, with time and a half pay for all time over nine hours. DETECTIVE FINED. STRUCK A MAN FOR PHOTOGRAPH- ING PRESIDENT. Oyster Bay, L. I., July 9.-J. B. Steen, jun., chief of President Roosevelt's sec- ret service corps, pleaded guilty and was fined $10 today on a charge of assault in the third begree preferred by Clar- ence Legend:re, a New York photograph- er. Sloan NM the lite. The trouble oc- curred at the time of the President's r- avel in Oyster Bay a week ago. After the phot,vgragther had taken a picture of the Pre.ident, he alleged that Sloan bit him. THE WAITER'S NAPKIN. German Surgeon's Crusade Against the Piece of -Linen. Brlin, July 8. -Professor Kron has started in st leading medical publica- tion it crusade against the waiter's napkin, which he says is "a deplor- ably unhygienic piece of linen which should be abolished in all civilized 8 countries." He notices bow waters carry their napkin , now in their t trousers' pocket, and sometimes under their arms. They use it to wipe table tops, glasses, knives and forks, perspir. ation from their brows and. beer froth from their lips. TUE CAPTURE Of BRITAIN Laws Learned from British Naval Manoeuvres, Weak Spot of the Country in the De. fence. Bombastic Message Might Hove Caused Panic. Loudon, July 9. -Although the um- pires' report on the result of the recent British naval manoeuvres is not yet published, k i8 possible to form it fair- ly accurate estimate of the leesons to be learned from the mimic warfare. The merchantmen of •the red fleet, protecting the coasa of Britain against the blues, arranged in groups, were de- spatched at stated intervals from Gib- raltar, Falmouth and other Red ports, and instructed to travel along well-de- fined routes, which routes converged in the neighborhood of Cape Finisterre, Although no actual convoy was at- tempted, the lines of traffic were pa- trolled by Red scouts, communication being maintained by means of wirele.es telegraphy. On the traffic thus protect- ed Admiral May's Blue fleet swept down from his ports as soon as war was declared. Ity his plan of action the midship section of the area of operations was completely covered. INNIOL from Alderney, MIS of the Blue ports: "Vs'om theW connuander-in-ef of the Dine Fleet to his Majesty the Xing, the orS of seaport 'towns and the Clommand- ers-in-eldef at home porta of the camels': The Blue Fleet is now in command of the English Channel and demande indem- nity. If any attempt Is made to destroy any of the Blue l'ieet by torpedo from destroyer, torpedo boat or eubmarine, or by mines, while the Bine Fleet IS ut the channel or on the coast, I shall des- troy untlefend4d ports on the Eng- lish coast and in this ease I hold you responsible if there is eily loss of life. As a .pledge on my part shall be off :me of the undefended ports with four of the Blue battleships this after- noon and: unless I Bee a flag of truce flying in a conspicueus place as a pledge on your part that you accept my conditions shall bombard the town and hold you respon.sible. Amount of indemnity to be settled later." Effect of Bombastic Challenge. This piece of premeditated bombast, which eadeniral Mity must have written with Ills tongue in his cheek, waa itc• eepted as an actual representation of fact by the larger proportion of Bri- tish newspapers, and more than one leading journal produced an impres- sive, weighty article setting forth the peril to which the country was liable if this or that panacea was not ap- plied. Who shall say that the authors of the scheme of manoeuvres had not accurately gauged the nieans and . method needed to create a national panic, and that Admiral May% action, Prim Munster the Admiralty, the May - ridiculous as some may think it, con- taius a lesson of moment for those whit will rightly read it. True to his word, the Admiral ap- peared with his four Blue ships off Brighton, later off Scarboro, delighting Arranged in Three Lines. the holiday makers at those seaside I He arranged his forces in threatering places with a. spectacle a the e lines w the first consisting of his armored cruisers, under the command of Prince Louis of Battenberg, in the Drake. The vessels spread out with thirty miles' interval from the Portuguese coast westward. At some distance behind this line was the seconds uad f cruisers, under Admiral Gamble, spre out in a similar manner, while held these again the Admiral himself, wi his battleship squadron similarly d posed, completed the widely spread n through the mesbes of which little cou escape. 'Tbere can be no doubt that such operation was calculated entirely to d locate the streams of traffic which affected.Whether such an operati would be risked in real warfare is a other question. As it is, in spite the fact that the Blue raiders do n appear to have been seriously inte rupted in their operations for two, day and bearing in mind that destructi and not capture was their object, appears from the figures which ha come to hand that they did not su eeed in molesting more than one -ten of the whole value of the trade whi it was the object of the Red fleet to pr tect. q i•o n o ad nd th is. et, = Id an • is - it on 11- 01 ot 5, an on it ve tit eh 0- The Pursuers Pursued. After the second day the role of the Blues assumed an entirely 'different complexion. No longer chasing, they were themselves the quarry. The au- dacious raid of the Blue was no soontr reported by wireless to the bases of the Red fleets than from Gibraltar in the south and Falmouth in the north avengers sallied forth to turn the tables on the foe. Lord Charles Beres- ford, with the Mediterranean fled, tra- veled up the coast of Spain, maVing wide sweep with his vessels in battle squadrons, preceded by ea swarm of scouts. In the same way Admiral Wil- son despatched squadron after squad - don of creisere down the route, follow- ing them himself with his battle fleet. The question has been asked why he did not retain a portion of his battle- ships in the channel id order to head off any attempt which might be made by it small force of the enemy to get around the flank and play havoc in his rear. Judging by what afterwards happened there would appear to be some ground for such a question, but, with a fuller knowledge of the facts, it will be realized that his action was quite justified. In the first place it is by no means clear that the Cules of t game permitted molestation of con inerce in the channel. In the nex there was behind the Red admiral strong force of destroyers and su marines, holding the Straits of Dover. war. But in the description of his brilliant exploit correspondents of newspapers who accompanied him have omitted, as a rule, to point out that the bombardment of defenceless cities implies an expenditure of ammunition which it would be difficult to re lace titat e gauntlet of a torpedo fiotilia off Dover was to be run, and that in any ease, a halt of two or three hours' duration would have brought Admiral Wilson's battleships on bis heels. No doubt it was playing the game, but a very long way off the real thing. Enough bas been said to indicate the significance of the manoeuvres and to prove that from them there aro many valuable lessons to be drawn. _ REFUSAL TO STRIKE. RESULTS IN SHOOTING AND A MUR DER TRIAL ,Anderson, Ind., July 8. -There was a sensational scene in the trial of Dennis Meanny, a non-union man charged with murder, in the circuit court here yes- terday. Meanny was employed in a glass factory at Elwood, and his fellow workmen went on ,a, strike when tbe proprietor announced that be would run satnrilocrn shop. Meanny refused to One night a party of union glass - workers %Mit from Alexandria, to El- wood and tried to prevail upon the men working in an open shop plant to walk out. An argument followed wih Mean- ny, who was 'attacked by twenty or more of the union men. Ho drew a re- volver and shot one of hi assailants dead. He as indicted for murder. 'The first trial ended in a disagreement and Lite second is now beingheld. Albert Davis, a union glassworker, after testifying. against Meanny at the first trial, confessed yesterday that 25 union men had agreed to attack Meaany and drive him from Elwood. Ducks:tate the dead man, another and he himself, lie said, were selected to lead the at- tack. When asked why he lied testified es he did in the first trial, Davis said that he and the other witnesses had /seen in- structed by Tom Conboy, the bead of the Glassworkers' union, as to -what they should say on the stand, and in testi f y- ing as he did, he was carrying out 1.is instructions. He reiterated that the he mob's object was to kill Mearmy cr 1. drive him away from Elwood. t, The testimony created a big sensed( n e and Aleanny's lawyers aro confident that b. their client will be acquithd. -- - "BACK TO THE LAND." Red Ships at Work. But, above all, the fact that Admiral May had put to sea, converting his battleships for the nonce into coin. inerce destroyers, indieated the mecca- ity for an -immediate attack upon him ath an overwhelming force. It was Ito essence of good strategy that be hould be smashed without delay or driven back into a defended port. It was not long before the Red pro- tectors got to work in earnest and we need not deseribe here the various actions which took place between widely scattered sections and groups of the opposed•fleets. Blue raiders were pieked up here, there and everywItere, and despatched into Red ports. The prin- cipal cruiser squadron, under Prince Louis of Battenberg, was cornered off the coast of Portugal, where, after a well contested beetle, lasting several hours. the Drake, flying his flag, succumbed to around him three other battleships. When the movements of the various sgadrons itt this battle off Cape St. Vin- cent .eome to be collated it is more than probable that they will be found to contain teetical lessons of greet vaitte. Appraised by wireless of the plight cf Itis forces, Admiral May gathered mond him three other battleships. and with these four vessels, the. it.we t in the navy, he started northward ftv the final run, determined at least to eke one more splash before he Ives timately bottled up in port. t was tide last dying -effott flint the retie; lieve of the forees of "tetspreteedIe' itched its climax. 'The Blue admiral it s attempt at the destruction of tom erre, had sacrifiere the greater pert ef s battleships and wady all hie ernis.. Ft, but lie still hail with lain a lento- nenue squedron of four, the King &l- ard VIT., the Hindustan, the Dominion, id the Commonwealth. ITe might have d a firth, the New Zealand, but she • td broken down on the evenam of the y that the turn was wade to tho rth. Long Stern Chase.' It must not be /supposed that .this eminent of Admiral May's was un - toted by the Red scouts. On the ntrary, for a whole day Admirfa Dean and his battleships were an ase, and were prevented from briug- ; the enemy to action only by, want speed, It was not until tri(ehtfall on iursday, June 20, thist the Blue ad- ral was able to shake off the put - NO BAIL NOW FOR MOTORMEN WHO KILL NEW YORK CHILDREN Now York, July 9. -In view of the large number of persons who have been run over and killed by street cars recently, Coroner liarburger to -day notified the Now York City Railway Co. that hereafter no bail win be accepted tor motormen who figure in such accidents. Ho said that in future the motorman will be committed to the Tombs prison without bail, to await the coroner.: inquest. UNLUCKY HOLIDAYS. Houghton, Mich., July O. -The death of seven-year-old Josephine Kratz at Ne- gaunee marks the fourth link in it ahem of most remarkable fatalities in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Matz. A child died. inst Thanksgivnig Day of ,th typhoid lever. A second died last Oltrist • ,Ln mas of the same disease, Etna the third succumbed last New Year's Day. The Fl fourth child died from liceidental Mans 1" on july 4, thus marking off caelli of the ;1? principal holidays of the year with aitt tombstone in the Kratz family plot. SAW Tilt HOUSE BURN. at Montreal, July 9.-(8pecia1.)-A pe- ha camineident occurred at Loitgueutl; a small town across the river from Mont. ds teal, on Saturday evening. Eire broke out in a house, one of the chief land- . marks of the village: which was ti yards beyond t1t limas!. The fire - Vat'. throel ont,•but, finding the blaze de out,ide of their official district, refused so to help in extingniehing it. Villagers w fought the flames unaided. LOAA will be a over $1,1100. of McDONALD sENTTOWN .mi it, and even then he was still (le- mpanied 'by Admiral Wilson's Red - them reporting his every move - nit. On Friday morning at bl eelock o following message was wired Toronto. July 9.-(S1erlat-lohn MeDonald. SU a Hamilton man, whose Wife and daughter ee reside there, was rtiVen three months by man- en Wrote Kingsford this meriting for atealltig it bicycle. It was found out that he had ere* III( dimca ly ved time in the United States. tll Manchester's Unemployed Start a Little Revolution. London, July 8.-A dozen of Mulches. ter's unemployed, under the leadership of Jack Williams, one of Lady 'Warwick's favorite Socialist `comrades,' started a little revolution on their own account, inspired thereto, perhaps, by the exam- ple of the Russian agrarian revolution- ists. The dauntless dezeu, armed with im- plements of busbandry and carrying cooking utensils and a tent, took pos- session of a piece of land on the out- skirts of the city reported to belong to Trinity Church at Huhlme. The patch was marked out with chalk -line like a tennis court, for cultivation, Sun- day was spent under the gaze of thous- ands of spectators, who were inform- ed that this was only the beginning of it ,general unovement of "back to de land." • "BESSES" LONG TOUR. England's famous Band to Start on Trip Round the World. ...N.ew York, ,Tuly 9. --When the "Beeses of the Barn" Band sail for this country late this month it will be one of the longeet tour ever undertaken by ales. musical organization. Since a year ago in June last the band has been traveling. continually through Great Britain, Ger- many, Fratee and other countries. Immediately upon arrival in New York they will open in Asbury Perk, Satur- day, August 4, and tour this country and Canada for months and then for New Zealand, where they are to fill a four mouths' engagenient at the Inter- C'olonial Exposition; then go to Austra- lia, South Africa, returning to London January, 1908. • - CASTRO RULES AGAIN. New York, July 9.-A cable Message to a local newspaper from Caracas, Ven ezuela, says: Vice President Gomez yes terday transferred to President Castro the presidential office, which the latter teniprorarily resigned in April last There is general contentmeet among the people Internal stability is thus con firmed. • - Death of Rev Pother Syntonet Quebec, ;Tidy S. ----Rev. Father Symonet, E. T.. Superior of the mission of Pointe Bleu, Lake St. John. died this morning at the Preebytery of St. Sart- your, Quebec. Ire was 70 years old. FOOL JOKE CRAZED WIFE AND SHE CUT HER THROAT. Shock of Story That Her Husband Was Dead Led to the Tragedy. . New 'York, Jul 9. ---When told as a joke that her 'husband, with whom she is very much in Jove, was dead, Mrs. Irene Duff, a young wife living in West 37t1i. greet, .atteMpted. to cut her throat with a earviug knife last night, and may lose her mind. Mr. and Mrs. Duff came here some years ago front Nova Scotia. They ap- peared greatly attaelied.to each other, as:dm:4 so that It created comment among their .friends and neighbore. Mrs. Duff was at leer home last night talking in and told her that her hueband was with friends, when one of them came Mrs. Duff fainted. Site revived, and became hysterical. She refused to- be- lieve the matter was it joke, and thought ' she was beingdeceived. She event to the kitchen, pieked up a varying knife and slaelted her throat. Iter friends caught her, and while they were trying to quiet her Mr. Duff 111. turned. He was hardly inside the room when his wife again became hysterical. Ifer condition was SO serious that he or- dered it cab and took her to Bellevue Hospital. Mrs. Duff Waft still hysterical after her arrival at the hospital, and force had to be used. to restrain her while her wound was being dressed, Or. Hawks said that while the wound in her throat was not gerbil% lie believed it would 410 best for her to remain until she fully recovered, lie said the shock to her nervous' system was so great that it might impair her mental condition, un. less she received the most careful treat- ment. PARDONED MURDERER A PUZZLE; REfUSES TO GO ON BOARD VESSEL Again Behind Prison Bars, Ship Surgeon Declar- ing Him Insane. Providence, R. I., July 9. -Although he has been pardoned by Governor Ut- ter, officially discharged froni the State Prison and started on his way to Italy. Pedro Jaswell, a convicted murderer, is once more behind the prison bars here to -day, and the State prison authorities are in a quandary as to the final dis- position of the man. When Jaswell was released last Saturday, it was intended that he would be sent to Italy on board the steamer Romanic, but upon his ar- rival in Boston the pardoned prisoner, refused to board her. When he was car- ried bodily to the dock of the steamer by the prison guards, assisted by sever- al policemen, fifteen minutes before sail - MI MINUTE TICKS 11 Portland, Ore. -S, A. D. Puter was ifound guilty yesterday of conspiracy to 'defraud the Government of its public 'ands and was sentenced by Judge Wol- verton to two years in the Multnomah 1 county jail and to pay a fine of $7,500. London. -A deputation is proceeding Ito America to obtain objects of historical interest for the International Exhibition to be held in Dublin in 1907. New York. -Nothing has been learned to -day of the New York bound steamer which was reported on fire near Plum Island in Long Island Sound last night. The Plum Island report said that the fire apparently was under control, and that the steamer was proceeding to her destination. NOW York. -Alfred Deeosta, a fireman of the Panama line steamer Colon, from Colon, which arrived here to -day, was found to be ill, and was sent by Lite health officer of the port of Swineburg Island for treatment and observation. The Colon was held. ' Seattle, Wash., -W. C. Meade Gerry, the lawyer who was shot by Chester Thompson, the university student, here. Saturday night, is very low and his death is expected at any time. Young Thompson is a nephew of Maurice Thompson, the author. Boston -John Schidlofski, a Lithuan- ian of Brockton, was electrocuted at the State prison, at Charlestown, early for the murder of his wife, Marciana, at Bel- mont, on July 12, 1905. Saginaw, Mich. -John F. Cosendai, the head of the Casendai works, in which the gasolene explosion nceurred Friday died to -day making the sixth fatality due to the explosion. Buffalo -U. S. Secretary of War Taft will meet the Power Companies at Nia- gara on 12th inst., to confer re taking Niagara water. Wellsville, Ohio, July 9.-A cloudburst in the country just back of this city last night sent a torrent of water down Trott -ens Run that caused heavy loss of country and city property. Over 200 homes and busine-ss houses were flooded. JUMPED OVERBOARD. JAMES MORTON DROWNED IN LAKE WINNIPEG. Delirious From Typhoid When He Ended His Life-Jolut Hart, Bookkeeper at Black Harbor, Drowned While Bath- ing. West Selkirk, Man, July 8. -Details of two drownings. ,whieh ()centred on Lake Winnipeg during the past few lays, were learned here today. The first victim was jemee 'Morton, au em- ployce in ramp, who, while being :tonveyed here for medical treatment for typhoid. while delirious jumped overboard off the NVolverine, and was ttrowned neer hill Harbor. The other fetality occurred at Black Harbor, the Meg John Hart, bookkeeper for the 'Northern Fish Com- pany, who perished while bathing. Both bodies were recovered. DDPRW,S WOE. What the Iiisurance Revelations Have Done. New York. July -Midden in among the hills of Westchester County, not far final triareliff manor, in a plea - emit eountry home dedieated to rest- l fulness and calm, Chauncey M. De- ! pew lies strieken, the canker of grief , eating out hie mind, his heart broken, sunning t ht he feebleld omail him - I his nerves utterly shattered. self lazily on the broad verandah of this house of the lotus eaters, few ing time, the ship's surgeon interfered an declared thee the man could not Sail be- cause be was insane. The prisoner and his guarda were put ashor5. They return- ed to Providence and Jewell was locked in the prison from which he had been released. Warden Wilcox sae% Ilie) is without authority to hold the man, but be does not know what to do with him, Governor Utter having pardoned hint with the understanding that he would be sent to Italy and plaeed in a hospi- tal for the crimi inal nsane. Jaswell was sentenced to life imprison- ment on May 7, 1901, for the murder of George Collins, at Rumford. Jaswell does not desire to return to his native land, but wishes to settle in New York State, would recognize the imposing figure whose eloquent counsel, both in con- vention hall and committee room, more than once made and -unmade legislators and politicians and gave shape and direction to platforms and national politics. The embodiment of all that was jovial and kindly and good-hurnosad, the man whose life seemed to be so well attained to all that was pleasant and wholesome in the everyday roue tine of existence, has entered the dis- mal road of doubt, dejection and de. spair. PROBABLY MURDER. UNIVERSITY STUDENT SHOOTS DOWN LAWYER AT SEATTLE. Infatuated With Miss Charlotte Whit- tlesey, a Niece of Victim -Uncle Was Requested to Keep Young Man Out of House. Seattle, Wash., July 8.-C. Meade Em- ory, a lawyer, was shot and probably fatally wounded. at his home last night by Chester Thompson, a student at the University of Washington, and son of Wm, II. Thompson, formerly an attor- ney for the Great Northern Aailroect. Thompson, it is said, was infatuated with Miss Charlotte Whittlesey, a mcce of Emory, and Miss ‘Vhittlesey, it is al- leged, bad requested her uncle to pre- vent Thompson from entering the house. When Emory attempted to carry out his niece's alleged wishes Thompson shot him. After the shooting Thompson -bar- ricaded himself in a room in the Emory house occupied by the wounded man's two small children and refused to sur- render until his father arrived. SWALLOWED POISON, WOMAN'S SUICIDE IN MOUNT ROYAL CEMETERY. When Help Approached Her After She Swallowed the Poison the Woman Ran Away -Claimed Her Husband Was Cruel and Unfaithful. Montreal, July 8. ---Mrs. Theophde Jailefer, 754 Mount Royal avenue'end- ed her life yesterday by swallowing enough Paris green to kill half a dozen persons. Grave -diggers in the Mount Royal Cemetery saw her go to a baud of water in the cemetery grounds, mix semething in a cup, and then nastily drink it, Immediately she began to writhe in agony ,and when t he grave- diggers hurried towards her she rill into the wood, crying out that she wish- ed to die. The men overtook her, and soon she was in the General Hospital, where she died. Her reason for ending her life, was that she claimed that her husband had been cruel and unfaithful. DANGERS OF FAST RUNS. Question Brought 1.17p in British House - Awaiting Enquiry. London, July 9. -In the House of Consmons last evening Mr. Lloyd - Menge. President of the Board of Trade, replied to a question asked. by Mr. O. .7. Wardle, editor of the itail- uti,y inevieW, as to the steps the Gov* ernmeni proposee to take to prevent the ell :beer.; of .express trains being fined for failing to run on schedule time, The enugiry was prompted by the disater at Siliebury. Mr. tineel-George said that lie could not slate what measures the Board of Trade would take, pending the imp* into the wreeking of the train at Sal- isburee Ite added that the London and Southwestern Railway Company stated that ensineere who did not keep up to their seliethile time were eometimes te- ttt-ot.t'il te other trains, ethielt sometimes inVtdVM tt rednetion ittpay. but Snell (Wes were rare and only affected invent. pkent men. Engineere who ran faster than 'their scheilnle were similarte pun- ished. 00 aceount of the action taken by Mr. John Brown. the Toronto Street Ihtilway Company has discontinued its Sunday melee in Toronto Junetion, The June statement of the Bride's Nara II Trails shows int -reeve of Vle 076,500 in imports and 4r2,3,201I,000 ha ex. ports.