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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-10-11, Page 7DOCTOR CIIARG[D WITii MURDER OF WIFE. Traces of Arsenic and Ground Glass Said to Have Been Found in Tier Stomach. Two Trained Nurses Thought She Was Not Get- ting Proper Treatment. When .Arraigned in Court Dr. Brouwer Pleaded Not Guilty. Kants River, N. J,, Oct, 8. -The trial ;of Dr.. Frank Brouwer, charged with the >tuurdor of his wife, was on the court calendar here to -day, Mrs. Brouwer died in September, 1903, after an illness which was diagnosed at first by .ter husband as cholera morbus• Two trained nurses called to attend her declared them- melves dissatisfied with the treatment ad- ministered by Dr. Brouwer and with- drew from the ease. Another nurse avas employed and Dr. IL IL Cato was vatted in consultation. Dr, Cate re. tired from the ease but later signed the death certificate setting forth that Mrs. Brouwer died of Bright's disease. Soon after the funeral rumors began 'to spread that there was something sus- picious about Mrs. Brouw'er's death, Tite fact that tho nurses first employed bed left and Dr. Cate's retirement from the case after he had been called in consult- atiotr was commented on, and it was also said that there had been quarrels be- tween Dr. Brouwer and his wife over the :administration of her parents' estate. tt was also., rumored. that 1v1rs. 13rottwer setaad been jealous of one of the doeLot•'e 'Woman patients and. that this had caus- ed a disagreement between the couple, Frederick E, Ayer, of Long Branch, a brother of the dead woman, heard of these reports anti finally began an in- vestigation, the Metropolitan Life In- surance Co., in which Mrs. Brouwer was insured, for $1,000, in favor of her hues band, refused to pay the policy and also began an inquiry. As a result of these investigations the body was exhumed. on December 10 and an autopsy was per- formed. At this there were present Dr. Henry W. Catch, of the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. IL E. Shaw, of the Lung Branch hospital ,and 1)r. M. For- man, of Freehold. That airs. 13rouwer's death bud not been caused by ..right's disease is said to have been the uncut. mous opinion entertained by the ph ysic- ltla The lI c tttdotrans were remov- ed from the body and sent to 1)r. Gentb, of the' •e , .' ..lett tslty of Pennsylvania, for analysis of the contents, No report wee made until April and the case was not laid before tide grand jury tttttil the fut- lowing month as Distriet Attorney Brown could not obtain all of his wit- nesses until then. It was asserted that (tenth had reported; that he had found traces of atsenae and what was supposed to be ground glass in the stomach, The grand jury found an indictment charg- ing,- 1)r. Brouwer with the murder of Itis wife, and he was arrested by Sheriff Jeffrey and locked up in the county jail at Tome .River: When arraigned before Supreme Court Justice Ilendrickson, he pleaded riot guilty. Early in the investigation Dr. Cate dis- appeared and his whereabouts were not', discovered until Deeember 24, when he was found le l pringfielcl, Mass. His d lis - appearance was not connected with the Brouwer ease by his friends as he had gone off in a mysterious way 'once be- fore. Later he appeared before the grand jury AS a witness in the Brouwer case. `.toms Itiver, N. J., Oct. 8. -The case for the state is being conducted by Pro- secutor Thodoro J. R. Brown, assisted by Frank McDermott, of Newark, and A. F. Johnson, of Red Bank. The prison- er is defended by J. W. Carmichael and Edmund Wilson, of lied Bank, and A. E. Arrowsmith. Each side has more than forty witnesses. A number of citizens who believe Brouwer to he innocent of the crime have contributed $2,500 to aid in leis defence. NO DOUSES OR COPS DESTROYED In Cuba and People Returning to Their Usual Labors -A Cheap Devolution. New York, Oct. 8.-A Havana despatch to the Sun says that observations made in an automobile trip covering a great part of • Havana province, where much fighting was done, convince the corms - '''`c pendent of that newspaper er that the countryside was amazingly little damag- ed by the insurrection. There are no burned houses or stables no ruined• or devastated fields to mark the track of the contending forces. In fact, out- ward appearances show few traces of the deadly combat. Everywhere farmers have returned to their fields. The cor- respondent saw many bullock teams Plowing and laborers s at their accustom- ed e a to -ed tasks. On all sides the people are re- turning to their usual labors. There seems to be no doubt that in this respect it was the cheapest revolution in West Indian history. Hanged Wrong Man Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 8.-A special to the Journal from Little Rock says: Blackburn, the negro taken from the jail by a mob at Argenta, Ark., that night and lynched, is not believed to have been the man wanted. Fully 80o negroes deserted their homes in Argenta and came to Little Rock to spend the night. The leaders stated that they were afraid to remain in Argenta for fear of another outbreak by the whites. 4--+---G-+'4-+-++-0-4-+- - 4-+4 4-0-+44- ,,PROVINCIAL PR 0 NCIAL PREMIERS MEET. HON. MR. GOUIN APPOINTED CHAIR- MAN OF ,CONFERENCE. Ottawa, Oct. 8. -(Special.) -Phe Pro- vincial conference M sitting with closed doors. The meeting is in the Railway Committee room of the Senate. When the Conference asseinblcsd there were present, beside the Provincial Premiers, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Hon, W. S. Fielding, Iion. A. B. Aylesworth and Hon. Ito- flolphe Lemieux. It is understood that Sir Wilfrid asked tate Premiers to confer as to the scope of the aonferetce, and. then retired, along with Itis colleagues, to enable them to do so. Sir Wilfrid and :his Dominion Ministers have a room adjacent to where the conference is sit- ting. - Hon. Mir. Gouin was appointed chairman, on motion of 'Mr. Whitney. It was suggested that tate resolutions adopted at the Quebec conference in 1002 be adopted. The representatives of the new Provinces of ,Saskatchewan and Al- * e-berta did not know how these• moth- ", tions would affect then, and therefore the conference adjourned to permit them to consider this. PASTOR BARS WOMEN'S HATS. California Preacher Demands Bonnets Be Removed in Church. Alameda, Cal,, Oct. 7. -To enable him to look over the heads of the women in the front pews of his church and see the teen in the rear seats, Rev, P. C. Macfarlane has issued a. notice to the women members of his congregation to remove their hats. 'The minister lacked the courage to make this nnnouneoinent orally from church. '.there was some lively gossip among the women over the edict, but most of the members of the congrega- tion have complied with the request. The nen who have been slumbering peace• fitlty and securely en the rear pews, protected enol hitt by the hats of the wouten, will now have to sit up and keep awake. TERRORISTS HANGED. 'Warsaw, 'Oct. lt.---Tltree terrorists were .fanged here to -day, after having been eenteneed to death by a drum head court martial, SOCIETY SADNESS. JOYLESS FACES OF HYDE PARK WEALTHY. Material Means for Enjoyment Cannot Make Immortal the Capacity for En- joyment -Look at Faces Under Pic- ture Hats. New York, Oct. 7.-A cable to The Sun from London says: The great an- nual Church Congress which has just •- workaero ht 1 ur completed its at B w -h ness closed in a note of joy. Tho Bishop of Ely made a striking address on the joy of faith, the Bishop of Burn- ley discoursed on the joy of sacrifice and the Bishop of Durham on the joy of adoration. The Bishop of Durham in his address made a reference to the "smart set," without which apparently no pulpit ad- dress nowadays is complete. The best place in which to see luxurious misery, according to this Bishop, is at Hyde Park corner. • "At the washed out, fag end of the London season take a station at llyde Park corners near enough to the endless string of carriages to get a good look beneath the picture hats," he said. "Out of one hundred count the lacklustre, bothered, bored looks of the wearers. Are all these people doing what they like? Are they, with all the appliances at their command, really tasting and satisfying the pleasures of life? It is strange that their faces should belie thein if they are, for I do not know where in any given fifteen minutes 1 can see so many joyless faces. The material moans of enjoyment cannot make Immortal the capacity for Where hero Solomon and Chester- field heatorfield failed the butterflies of Mayfair are not likely to succeed" 4,* , CANADIAN GIRL'S ROMANCE. To Marry Newport Millionaire, E. H. Bulkley, New York, Oct. 0.---A special to The Tribune from Newport says: Monday has been announced as the date for the wedding of Miss Margaret Stewart, of St. ,7oltn,.N. 13., to I:dward II, Bulkley, of New York, and Newport, a brother of Mrs. Prescott Lawrence, Mrs. I:eginahld W. .lives and Mrs. Roland Redmond, all of whom an; well l:now•tt• among New• Port's summer residents. Miss ;Pewit in a geminate of the New- port Ilospitul SeFool for Tithed Nurses, and she and Mr. Bulkley first ntet last winter, when site, acted as nurse to hint 't1ulien 1'is+aevete illness. Their friendship has extended from that time. Last sum- mer Miss Stewart main served ns Mr. l;nikley's mir=e trough another severe clines%, ii here the wedding ceremony will take, place is not yet known. r4 NEW SUPERINTENDENT. Kingston. (int., Oct. 8.-=--($pecial)- "1' Comm', General Passenger and Weight ►gent of the. Kingston & Pembroke I.ail- wn,•, lms been appointed acting general euperietend:nt of the line, owing to the resinutitinn of 1''. A. Folger, who gee' to another road, Mr. -Conway has been witit the company sleep 1883 and has been r:tilroarno! :ace 1869. ire in a "apable man. lir. Volpe had been with the 1i . & P. P. R. since 1885, r THOMAS POWER O'CONNOR, Irish Leader in the States, Thomas Power O'Connor has served several terms as president of the Irish National League. Ile is a noted Irish statesman, journalist and author, and has sat in Parliament for the Scotland divi- sion of Liverpool since 1885. Mr. O'Cor- nor, who is so familiarly and so affec- tionately known as "Tay Pay," is 53. At 18 he was a B. A., and senior scholar in history and modern languages at Queen's College, Galway. Mr. O'Connor went to London in 1870. IIe was the first editor of the London Star, the London Sun, and the Loudon Weekly Sun. strongly that a man named Minaker, whose body was found in the bay at • Port Arthur, and who was believed by some at the time to have committed suicide, was murdered by a chum for the money he was known to be carrying. NEWS IN BRIEF CANADIAN An unknown man was killed by a Canadian Pacific train near Burketon. A Chinese at London, Ont., was fined ,$20 and costs for kissing a little white girl. A new separate school is to be erected on Hamburg avenue, Toronto, to cost $11,000. Fire almost wiped out Heap's sawmill at Cedar Grove, B. C., causing at loss of $200,000. John Macdonald, mate on the school- er Pilot, was run over by a railway train at Kingston and killed. Jewelry valued at $1,800, the property ofte• Mrs. Dt was stolen from her roam in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto. 'Newfoundland is bitterly dissatisfied with the fisheries modus vivendi be- tween the United States and Great Brit- ain. Le Nationaliste, of Montreal, says that La Presse has come back to the control of its former owner, Ilon. T. Berthiaume, This year 953 Barnardo children have been sent to Canada, and eineo the work began 18,429. Ninety-eight per cont. are doing well. A young farmer at Strassburg, Sa.sk., named Reginald ilorsfall, rendered des- perate by financial worry, shot himself on Saturday. The writ for the North Bruce by-elec- tion was issued on Saturday. 1'olihv' will take place on Oct. 30 and nomina- tions a week earlier. Mr. (Cecil 1'.3. ,Snti.lt Ina resigned the Chairmanshipof the Trtniskatuing Rail- way Commission, but will be retained in an Advisory capacity. Superintendent Weller has announced Diet the Welland Canal would remain epee for navigation all day on Sundays for the 'balance of the season. The Galt female school teachers have again applied formally for an increase of maximum salary front $450 to $600. The board promised serious consideration. Samuel Jackson, a former 'Treasurer of tate 'Toronto Moulders' iiniou, tilos arrested on a charge of- theft alleged to have been committed six years ago. Mr. R, B. Cochrane has announced. hie willingness to accept the pastorate of Knox Church, Woodstock. Mr. 'Cochrane, who is a son of the late Dr. 'Cochrane, of Brantford, is a graduate of Knox College of 1905. A true bill against the 'reroute Street Railway Company, declaring that .parts of the road are in such a condition as to constitute a meninx and clanger to public safety, was brought itt by the Grand Jury on Saturday. Dr, Stewart, one of the best known and distinguished physicians in the Do- minion, died at his residence in Montreal on Saturday night, the inunediate cause of death being an apoplectic stroke which the sustained about nine days ago. Rev. Chas. S. Pedley, B. A., of Ayres- eliffe, Que., has accepted the call ex- tended to him to become pastor of tate Congregational Church, Woodstock. The date upon. which Mr. Pedley will enter upon Itis ditties• has not been definitely decided. Tl:e congregation of Knox (Antra, Ewe bro, Were given a paiuful'surprise yes- terday forenoon, when their minister, Rev. G. C. Patterson, M. A., announced his deeision to place Itis resignation• of the pastorate in the .lands of the Pres- bytery of Paris at an early date. For a third Saturday afternoon in suc- eeseion a church corner -Atone was laid in the rain, when His honor the Lieutenant -Governor performed that ceremony at the new Avenge Road Presbyterian Church, northeast corner of Roxborough avenue, Toronto. Ernest Bailey, principal witness for Site Crown in the murder trial in which MTntrtin Doyle is accused of having killed V. Welter at Snowflake, Matt., nearly a year ago, and which opens on (hit. 30, has mysteriously disappeared, and fears :oams entertained that he, too, has stet with foul play. A moat determined ease of suicide oe- eurred at Kenara on Saturday afth'r- ntoon. A man mauled John Dollard walk- ed into Jackson's the cream parlors on Main street, and deliberately rut hits throat, dying in nalmut fifteen ntillet<'w. The unfortunate felt'nv h.i.l been hint:- ing heavily for some days. It is reported in 'Winnipeg that evi- dence bas been secured which indicates A man named 'Phos. Humphries was fatally injured in a fight ni the Stock Exchange Hotel, Winnipeg, on Saturday night, and died au .four latcr. Two bar- tenders, named Powell and Savage, have been arrested, charged with causing his death. Before be died Il:umphries said Savage had kicked him in the stomach. A gale reaching a maximum of nearly 40 miles an hour, and accompanied by heavy rain, swept over Lake Erie yes- terday. Many vessels weie forced to seek shelter. The storm was general in the Eastern lake regions, and most severe on Lake Erie. GR!'TISH AND FOREIGN. The South Manchurian Railway will be as thoroughly Japanese as it was formerly Russian. Two negroes were lynched at Mobilo, oneinme Ark.,and one in Ala., Argenta, the tate of Michigan. Capt. James Mitchell, of thil schooner Mitt Larson, was throwninto the sea from up aloft and drowned. President Roosevelt will withdraw all coal lands in the United States not al- ready taken up for entry. The ratepayers of Edmonton, Alta„ on Saturday authorized by a large ma- jority the ;by-law to raise $5,000 with which to purchase the Grand Trunk Pa- cific right of way. Amusement has been caused in Lon- don by the statement that many guests to Lord Stratltcon:•ta banquet at Aber- deen took bottles and flasks in which to carry off portions of real turtle soup. The schooner Julia Larson arrived at .Southampton on Saturday afternoon, and reports losing her captain, James Mitchell, of Goderich, overboard, about eight miles off there, during yesterday's gale. Literally cooked alive in a boiler into which steam was tnrned by mistake, at Vincennes, lud., Boilermaker Gustave Is, Friend, 30 years old, lived five hours. He remained conscious, arranged all this worldly affairs, bade iris family good- bye, and then prayed with his pastor till death came. A special from Hancock, Mich., last night says: The protected cruiser De- troit is to i:e brought to the (treat Lakes from the Atlantic Ocean for the tete of the Michigan Naval Brigade. Es- timates • have been called for Ivy the Navy Department for cutting off a see - Lien of the warship a and preparing the vessel for .passage through the IVelland fa nit1, Twrnteefottr• dwellings were destroyed, 27 families practically homeless, and a property damage of about $125,000, only a quarter of which is covered by insur- ance, su nel-tri7es the results of a specta- cular and disastrous conflagration which visited Rensselaer, just across the river from Albany last night, and at one time threatened to wipe out the entire lower end of the city. Ilowmanville, Oct. 7. -In Richard Kat- er:son's undertaking -rooms at Hampton, five miles north of here, lie the remains of a men supposed to be one Ryley, and from information in his pockets to have cone recently from Hamilton. Four cards in his pocket bear the name of W. Hutchinson, 115 MacNab street north, Hamilton. The dead man was welt dress - eel it: a black suit and light hat, weighs about 160 pounds, is five feet seven inches high, and has heavy moustache and whiskers. IIis features are pointed. Ile had some money and a watch. IIe was walking on the track and disregard- ed the engine whistle. Both legs were broken, and the body was otherwise mut- Hated. DEATH OP BE.AIIGRAND, Grtat Trench -Canadian Journalist and Politician. Montreal, Get. 7.••• --Vonore Beaugrand, founder of Lit Petrie, and in his day en(' of the best known French-Canadian journalists amt politiei:uts in the Pro- vince of Quebec, died at his hone in Montreal to -night after a long illness. aged 58 years. He was perhaps roost widely known as a free thinker, having rtmounced the 1lonuul ('tttholie faith, And it is said of hint t1'0 he once declared in distinguished heeling that Papineatt had planted one beacon Britt. (lnibor.l n :second, 1)outre a third, and tient ITonore l:eaugrand would plant it fourth. 1t. is noteworthy, however, that recently he recanted tout aceepted the earrnmenfe of the church from Arch- bisheli llrtteheei. 'Co hint and itis aseoeitttee is dna the rclet•it for the noti-1srmielt monarchial spirit that is to be found all over the Province of Quebec,. Although he bras at one time a soldier in the French I►nperial army, he breaino a fervent champion of the revolution of 1790. One of his most lasting memories. will be Itis ,unswerving fidelity to hie old friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier,, while at times he fought hard against Vonore Mercier, Liberal Premier of Quebec. PRAYED FOR WHITES. SUPPLICATIQNS IN FIFTY NEGRO CIWRCIIES. Desire More Cordial Relations Between White People and Negroes of South- ern States--Biohop Walters' Declara- tion, New York, Oct. 7, -Pursuant to an appeal issued. recently by Bishop Alex- ander Walters of the African Zion Meth- odist Episcopal Church, prayers were of- fered, in practically all of the 50 or more negro Protestant churches of this city to -day for more cordial relations be- tween the white people and the negroes of the southern States. in some in- stances the racial problem oblem for ed the theme of tho pastors' sermons. In his appeal to the negro preachers to make a special prayer in all churches in the coun- try to -day Bishop Walters declared that recent rote riots in the south have given evidence that the white were attempt- ing to "degrade and destroy ten million American citizens." RESCUED AT SEA. TWO ESCAPING PRISONERS NEAR- LY LOST THEIR LIVES. Now York, Oct. 8.-A Boston despatch to the Herald, says that after being tossed about all night on an old frail metallic life raft, by a high and heavy sea, encountering a squall and being rap- idly swept out through the outer harbor by a fast receding tide, Charles Jones, of Scotland, and Herbert Tenson, of Bos- ton City, escaped prisoners from Deer Is- land, were abandoning all hope of ever seeing land again, when thoy were pick- ed up yesterday morning, four miles east of the Graves lightship, by Captain Watson Doliver, of the Pilot boat Louise, who happened to be in the outer harbor on the look out for incoming vessels. That the two escaped prisoners were discovered was purely good fortune as both wero practically exhausted and un- able to do anything to attract the atten- tion of passing craft. ISLANDERS MAD. Strong Hostility in Newfoundland Against Modus Vivendi. St. John's, Nfld., Oct. 7. -It was re- ported to -day that the ministry, fol- lowing the recent example of the Na- tal Cabinet, intend to resign as a pro- test against the temporary arrange ment of Great Britain and the United States, by the provisions of which American herring fishermen secure privi- leges contrary to the laws of Newfound- land. Though the report lacks definite con- firmation, and both the as- semblymen are known to be bitterly discussing the most effective method of expressing the sentiment of hostilityto- wards the agreement. It is declared here that the Imperial Government championed the colony's cause throughout, the correspondence leading up to the modus vivendi, but abandoned its position when it came to giving practical effect to the colony's contentions. ••♦ ONLY GOSSIP. Denial That the King's Niece is Betrothed to Russian Grand Duke. London, Oct. 7. -An emphatie offt- 'bit denial of the report, of the be- trothal of Cirond Duke, Michael, brother of the Emperor of Russia, and Princes;, Patricia, of Connaught, niece of Bing Edward, was issued here to -day. Not Yet. St. Petersburg, Oct. 7.-A formtI eto- nett has been issued there of the report. ed betrothal of the Emperor of Russia, and Princess Patricia of Connaught, a niece of King Edward. An unwitting error was committed by announcing through semi-official news agencies• in Europe what w•as accepted yesterday as a fact in court and diplomatic circle: herr. It now appears the discussion of this alliance, which is boded up with far-reaching political consequences, has nob reached the stage of an actual be- trothal. The intimation that such a marriage was contemplated erroneously •le•eloped in court circles into a prem. tore anumuteeutett of the betrothal as an accomplished feet. •1 • GIRL SLAIN BY FIEND. Eight -Year -Old Child Assaulted and Killed by Negro. Monessen, Pa., Oct. 7. -Anna Kuttpak. 8 years old, was found murdered in a field near here to -day, with her throat eat. From the appearance of the body, the child had been assaulted. She left home early bait evening to bring the cow in, and never returned. .lfter tut all-night search, the body was fttt+ucl in a lonely spot, party covered with ashes. • Upon approaehing the spot, the Wren saw a negro running rapidly thi' 'tgh :t piece of woods nearby. He is being .carded for. WOMEN GOITERS. .Vest Newton, Mass., Oct. 8. -On the links of the Braehurn Country Club to- day the qualifying round of the women's national golf championship was begun by seventy players. The weather was eool and clear and the conditions were favorable to good scoring. 1t 'MIS arranged to send the contest- ants off in pais for nn eighteen hole medal play contest, the lust thirty-two seorrs of the day to qualify for the first toned of match play to -morrow, WAS THOUGHT TO BE 'DEAD. Perth Man Turns Up at Moine After • Many Years' Absence. Kingston, Ont., Oct. 7. -----After twelve years' absences:Robert Ratan has t e - turned to Perth, where his family have lived in the firm belief that he was dead. The A. O. U. W. had long since paid the widow $000 life insure atter. 'Raines left his lona to go on it lecture tour, and 'wrote several letters, the last !being from (lainvttle, .After that me more was heard of hini. IDs hat been in California , NEGRO ASSAULTED GIRL AND IS SIOT BY FATHER Two Other Negroes Lynched for Assaultin0 Women in Same Locality. Mob Storms Jail at bacon. Ga. m an Effort to Lynch a Negro. educah, lily., Oct, 8. ---Ben Jones, a strong guards kept at the prisons, pa• young negro, was shot to death yester- day near Vicksburg, Livingston county, by John Scott, a fanner, of that section. Tones brutally assaulted a young daugh- ter of Scott's, aid was chased down by the father aid killed. Scott is not like- ly to be molested, as the sympathy of the people is with .him. In the past two months two other ne- groes were lynched in Livingston county for assaulting women. It is declared an illicit distillery illicit battller in the locality is the t tt Y Y principal cause of tate crimes. Trouble in Macon, Macon, Ga„ (let. 8. -After a night of terror, a quiet Sunday came to Macon owing to the presence of the State troops, who guarded the jail and pollee station to prevent a recurrence of the attempt to lynch .the negro who last night shot W. G. Solomon and A. G. Adams, two of the most prominent young men in the city. Besides the troll of troops wero scattered about the city to prevent crowds congregat- ing, The riot began at 10 o'clock on Sat- urday night and reached its climax at 2 o'clock yesterday morning when the mob- stormed obstormed the jaal, thinking the negro who shot the young turn was confined there. The mob smashed the jail doors with sledge hammers, no opposition be- ing made. They broke open every cell in their search. for the negro, white men .confined in the jail en .charges s ofmurder werereleased and one negro was shot, but not killed. Not finding the prisoner who did the shooting, the crowd then organized rapidly and started toward the city hall and the police station, As they started up Cotton avenue they were met by the father of young Adams, who pleaded with the teen to disband and give up their mad hunt. Ile asked that the law be allowed to take its course, but the crown refused to listen to him. SHOOTS FATHER AND SAVES FAMILY. Courageous Lad's Whiskey Crazed Parent Was Lighting Fuse to Blow up a Building. Appleton, Wis., Oct. 8. -Crazed by liq- uor and harboring the desire to kill his wife and children, John Roth, a resident of the town of Birnamwood, a short dis- tance north of here, was shot and fatal- ly wounded by his son, Edward, just as the father was in the act of igniting a fuse attached to a powerful charge of dynamite within ten feet of the shack in which his scared family wore huddled. Roth took aboard a cargo of liquor at a saloon, mile from his home and went ]ionto, saying he would kill his wife and family. He turned all of his stock loose, as he said he might need thein later. Then he proceeded to look up his store of dynamite, when his fancily .took al- arm and fled. to a neighbor's home, a mile away. Roth blew up his house and all of his outbuildings, when he discov- ered his family had escaped. Surmising they had gone to the neighbor's, he light- ed a lantern and went in pursuit. As he came to the house he sane thein gathered about a table in half crazed fear, with the men of the neighbor's fam- ily standing at the open doorway. He circled to the rear of the house 'and was just about to light the fuse that would have blown the bowie to atoms when the load of buckshot from the shotgun of his son penetrated his shoul- der and jaw, and he fell. The son knew the cunning of his fath- er and had patrolled the garden plot about the home to protect Ads mother and her other children. Edward Roth, the lad who did the shootig, is eighteen years old, and gave himself up at once. He is being held in custody, but it is very probable he will be released, as all the evidence tends to show the shooting was a heroic action on the part of the Iad to protect his mother. Had Broken Neck New York, Oct. 8. -Lawrence Gildersleeve, a young man of H niwas u t n L. whose neck gr 0 E L, a that. u t broken ifootball o o scrimmage four years ago, has just been made attendance officer of the Hunting- ton g ton high school. He entered upon bis duties last week. Gildersleeve was an athlete before his accident, and is now able to participate in all sports he once took part in. 4.4.444-044.4444.44444-44-444+ 4.44 •,.. MAN FATALLY SHOOTS WIDOW. MAN MARRIED, BUT LOVED WIDOW -DEATH ENDS ALL. Boston, Mass., Oct. 8. -Barry J. alocomh, a floorwalker in a large Tremont street dry goons store, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Deborah hill, a widow forty years of age, at the Castle 'Square IIotel this noon and then Jonttuitted suicide. Sloeomb, who was married. and resided in West Everett, had been infatuated with the widow, who lived in Malden, for sonic time. Yesterday afternoon they registered as than and wife at the hotel. About 1 o'clock this afternoon a chamber- maid heard shots in the rootu occupied by the couple. and found •Mfrs. Bill un- oonseious• with a. bullet wound. in her throat, while kloconib lay dead on the floor with a bullet wound in his head. Mrs. Hill was taken to a hospital, and late this afternoon •:she made a dying declaration to Captain Dugan, of poliee headquarters. She said that Macomb declared to her that if lie could not marry her no one ever would, ,and then shot her. The dead man was about 35 y earl old. TORONTO MILKMEN'S AGREEMENT. Producers' and Retailers' Associations Reach a Settlement. Toronto, Oct. 8.• ---Aft agreement was sculled on Saturday between the Toron- to Retail .fine Dealers' Association and the Toronto Milk Producers' Association. The latter body held a mortieg, passing; a resolution calling upon the members to insist upon the retailers paying $1.30 for an eight •$allun can, Government stamped. the Executives of both assn- 'iations afterwards met, with the re- sult that tate retailers agreed to the tonne proposed. 1'his agreement preen - constitutes Or first of its kind in Toronto. No inetense in the price of milk will result. A strong protest was registered against the unsanitary rendition in whirl some of the (Invites returned the empty Bans and the intervention of the City Medical health Officer ivas asked. CHOKED TO DEATH, Thomas Ifall, a Crimean Veteran, Found Dying at Ilintonburg. Ottawa, Oct. 7. --"Phomas Blit., a (tri. mean veteran anal a British army pen- sioner, was found in a dying condition on the street at ilinfonberg yesterday, and expired shortly afterwards. 'There was the nark t,f a blow on the forehead, and it looked as though he might have been the victim of an assault. ('orouer haptic therefore ordered a post-mortem and ]told an inquest, when it tit-Mope/1 that Hall choked to death. Tne old man, who was 115 yenta of age. bought blood pudding at It butcher's shop en the way home and started to eat. A piece of this stuck itt his throat ttnd he was sitf• foeated, EXTRAVAGANT OW LONDON. PROGRESSIVE PARTY'S INDISCRE- TIONS ARE MANY. 1 Municipal Experiment in Mu Ready for Any xp p Trading -One Borough Will Play Chess, Bagatelle and Other Games - Rate Grows Higher. London, Oct. $,-Notwithstanding' the disrepute into which the so-called 1'ro- gretsive party in London has faileu uu account of the indiscretions and extra- vagances in which its representatives in ..he Borough councils .dove indulged, there is no ground at this moment to ex- pect the partea overthrow in the muni- cipal elections on November I. The pre- sent indications do not justify more than a slight hope that the people wlto want atunteipal reform can be aroused to an active campaign against the Progres- sives. Notwithstanding it is a matter of common knowledge that in every bor- ough where the Progressives are in pow- er the rates are steadily and rapidly in- creasing because of lavish and most wt. reasonable Socialistic expenditures. Enormous sums have been spent in the last few years by the Progressives for li- braries, baths, lousing scheme, parks, music, street improvements, street light- ing, tram lines and other things so that the average rate in London has been in- creased about 50 per cent., sind3e 1890, until it is now seven shillings and rex pence in the pound of rental value. 'Cha Progressive municipal trader has no such word. as economy in his lexicon. He takes up with any and all experiments in muni - Opal trading without the slightest m- imed for the iutettsts of the ratepayer. Thr fact that a proposed undertaking is likely to cost tremendously does not worry lust. Indeed, it is often said that eostliness lentis enchantment to his view. In Battersea Borough a new building was opened on Saturday by the Borough Council fitted up for btlliiards, basal chit chess, draughts, and other gttuue•t, 'L'he cost of the l• illdmg and its maintenance will conte out of the rates. 4.. DIED IN WITNESS BOX. Sudden and Dramatic End of Montreal Official at Auburn. Montreal it .patch: Thomas D'Arey one of the t'tcited States Customs of- firers at Montreal, died under drama- tic cirmeestanees at Auburn, N. 1'„ to- day. 1)'At ey .had arrested some China- men who had left Montreal when they were trying to smuggle themselves areola into the States. They were be- ing Weil at Auburn, and D'Arcy was in the v:i.ness box testifying against them, when he WAS seized with an at- , tack -of mute indigestion and died in few ntititttee. Ile was well known in Customs circle et Niagara Falls. where he fnrmerly acted. a,000 BABIES SUFFOCATED. Yearly Fatalities in England Through Sleeping With Parents. London. Oct. 7. --At an inquest itt the ease of an infant who had heen suf. ftmated in its parents' bed, the coroner said that 1.000 infants were so $uffo- eated ann'taily in l:nglond. There were 600 eases in London alone. Ile minted n;it that in Germany the law made it illegal to have a baby under it seer old in the same bed with its parents. WON'T HAW IT. Montreal, Clue., Oct. 8.•=(5peet8L)vLa Pat - rte. lie. 9:.rt^.':s paper, said on Saturday, Mt'. Tartu [atomised tate immerse of the t)ominion. Cabinet that be fould not accept tho preai- whieh hadthee n offered toiltilmor Cemmtdtetoa