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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-10-25, Page 7ELOPERS FOUND IN SOUTU OP FRANCE. 'Russian Lieutenant Who Stole His General's Wife is Willing to Die, Boy Saved from Being Crushed to Death on the Tracks Near Utica Parch, Oct.. 21. ---Discovered in a villa int the south of France, the World-fent- 4nu3 elopers, Gabriel Essipoff and the strife of General Outclrakoff, the distin- guished Russian soldier, standing side by side, told of their affection for eaeh other and declared that love alone led thein to flee from ,St. Petersburg. The dashing lieutenant declared that he was ready to die for the wife of hie superior officer. Rem'inaed of the wrathful trod wrong- ed husband who chased him front St. Petersburg to New York and across the ocean again. to Paris, the lieute'uant said: • "If I die it will be with 1t smoking revolver in my hand, Why elonld 1 die? 1 only loved too well. That is all." Nearly five monthe ago, while the gen- - eras wars in attendance on the Czar at Peterhof, word rime to him that his :handsome young wife had eloped with his subordinate. Obtaining leave of absence, the general pursued hie re. cream wife. On leaving the Itussiain capital, he said: "I will kill hint. For then there will bei ilo more danger for my wife. She shall eonto back to St. Petersburg with amt. But he must clie." Ire traced tine fleeing cottple to (.ctloa4 and found the hotel at which they stopped. Ile Waii told that they ]tad left bet three hour* before. Then he went to New York, Where he mussed them again and at onto returned to 'Europe. Saved Boy''s Life. Utica, Oct. 22.--E:tgineer Prime and Fireman Baker, aboard a Ncw York Centt"al locomotive hauling eastbound pa.srtengor train 65, saved a three-year- old boy from death to -day. Train. 50 was travelling at a smart clip two miles west of Ronne when Engineer Prime and 'tire fireman saw the boy walking on Otho westbound freight track while a. freight train bore down upon him et ltigl► speed. The boy saw the eastbound paesengem train on traok 2. Then he looked around and .Sate the freight train bearing down upon Hint. Ile stood confused, bewilder- ed, aria hie little body seemed incapable of action. Prime put on brakes ands Baker jump- ed deem the gangway steps. 'Piton be leaped the freight tracks, seized the boy and clambered back on the smoking ear, of his train, with tate freight tonin close on his heels, Another second and the boy would have been ground, to pieced. The boy was carried to Rome and re- stored to his parents. SNOW STORMS IN THREE STATES. Heavy Snow in Colorado, Minnesota and Kansas and Trains Delayed. • Colorado Springs, Col., Oct. 22. `The severe storm that has been in progress for the past 48 hours broke to -day. Heavy snow is reported in the mount- ains, and trains are somewhat delayed. The temperature here this morning was 15 above zero. Duluth, Minn.Oct. 22.-A blanket of heavy snow six inches or more fell last night in northeastern Minnesota, cover- ing the Vermillion and Mesaba ranges tied extending as far west as Fostoon. Ellis, Kan., Oct. 22. -Colorado's snow storm is passing east and prevailed to- day in western Kansas. Passengers reaching here this morning on belated eastbound trains report a heavy snow storm in progress between Ellis and Den- ver, with from 4 inches to 1 foot of snow on the ground. JAPS MAD AT UNCLE SAM. JAPAN STIRRED TO HER DEPTHS , BY INSULTS IN UNITED STATES. Exclusion of Japanese Children •From California Schools May Provoke Seri- ' ous Retaliation. Tokio, Oct. 21. -All the newspapers have devoted leading editorial articles to the subject of anti-Japanese senti- ment in the United States. The ex- citement, which has been growing for the last three days, centres upon the oexlusion of Japanese children from the Public Schools of California, John D. Rockefeller's utterances on Japan's commercial treachery, and Congress- man Khan's bellicose threats coupled with the declaration that Japan is un- prepared for a fight, It would be hard to overestimate the gravity of the situation. During his 19 years' residence in this country your correspondent has never seen the Ja- panese press so agitated against the .Americans. At a dinner last night, at- tended by 150 prominent bankers and business men at the Imperial Hotel, deep feeling was expressed that the United States should regard with in- difference acts that are tantamount to a declaration of a racial tear. Little was said regarding the American pro- test against Janan's programme in 'dlanchuri, the killing of Japanese sealers, the murder of the Japanese bank president in San Francisco, the attacks by John D. Rockefeller on Ja- pan's commercial treachery, the Ha- waiian' exclusion policy, the public in- sults of Prof. Ornori, arid Congressman Kahn's war threats, all of which inci- dents have occurred within three months, but the exclusion of Japanese children from the Public Schools of California cuts this child -loving nation to the quick. There is evidence that the Govern- . inent regards the situation as. extreme- ly serious. It has taken measures to eaten the press and to discourage mass meetings that have been called to adopt retaliatory measures. What the Japanese have construed as wholesale exclusion of Japanese children from San Francisco schools is the recent agitation begun in that city for the more complete segregation of Japanese and Chinese in separate schools. This agitation was started by an organization calling itself the Ja- panese and Lorean Exclusion League, which draws its members largely from the labor unions. and which advocates 'besides separate schools for Orientals. the placing of Japanese laborers under the Oban of the existing Chinese Exeln- sion Act. - d. •. ASPHYXIATED IN HOTEL, Oil Spring Man Found Dead in Bed at Sarnia. Sarnia, Oet. 21. --Alexander Me adyn, of 011 Springs, aged 48 years, was found dead this morning in lois room at the hotel Northern here its a re- sult of asphyxiation, He arrived in Sarnia on Friday evening, registered and, after, being assigned to his room, was not seen again. In the morning on Saturday the chambermaid spoke to the proprietor, Joseph Peterson, asking why the room was not open. but Mr. Patterson supposed he hard feeling tired. tater he asked the por- ter if Mr, McFadyn was around, and was told he had gone out. Nothing more was thought of hon until this morning, when a smell of gas Ives noticed and the door was broken in. Deceased was found in bed and the gas jet was turned on. It is suppose,' that in turning cif the eleetrie light on the combination fixture he had tie - Mentally touched the tap of the gas. which worked very lightly. Coroner Logic was called, but deemed an in. quest 'unnecessary. Decease' was a prominent resident of Cil Springs Vil- lage and was foreman for J. Ii. Fair- banks. IIe leaves a widow, three sons, and two daughters PREFERRED SUICIDE. RUSSIAN FEMALE TERRORIST ENDS LIFE IN LONDON. Ordered to Kill a Governor -Two Com- panions Obeyed Orders and Made Futile Attempt -Ono Was Shot. -London, Oct, 21. -The body of a wom- an who had committed suicide was found in Kensington Gardens on Sept. 23. It was evidently that of a for- eigner, but all efforts at identification, carried on for weeks, failed. Now a AuSsian revolutionary in- forms the police that the dead woman was Olga Ann Stet.epatzeky. I[e says Ratan she was twice expelled from school at Riga for making revolutionary epeecics. One of her exploits was to se- cure the esoape of seven revolutionaries from a Libau prison, afterward visiting the prison and di,3tnibuting revolution- ary literature among the guards. She was arrested, feigned lunacy, and finally escaped, after Axing received a wound in the leg. She became the most active member of the central Terrorist Committee in London. The committee ordered her to join two others and as- sassinate Governor Sollugub, of Rip. The attempt was made on Sept. 22, when a bomb was throw at him as he was walking on the street. He was not hurt, One of the agents of the committee was arrested and was shot within 24 hours. The committee learned that Olga did not accompany the assassins. She changed her abode, but when site re- ceived the money for the expedition from the committee she did• not use it. 'She remained in London and eventually committed suicide. ♦e0 LUCKY SLAVEY. AFTER YEARS OF HARDSHIP FOR- TUNE CAME HER WAY. And She is Now Enjoying a Fortune Left to Her by an Aunt -This is a Real Cinderella Story. • Vancouver, B. (l., Oct. 22. -The fol- lowing extraordinary story of an heir• ess held as a slavey in New Zealand, lost track of for years, and finally rescued by her uncle, who brought her to .t•lu Pacific coast, conies from San Francisco. An uufortanato orphan in a foreign lane since seven years old, reads the report, enslaved for almost a decade' by an ageu couple in i-,ew Zealand, who worked hci at menial service and refused ner a de- cent education, lost track of for years by her American relatives, little Miss 1• fold Gilbert, whose summers inutile,' no more than seventeen, is now in San 1'taneisco on her way to Portland, Oregon, to come into a turtune of $100, 000. Accompanied by her uncle, Mr. J. 11. Davidson, a business man of Portland, she arrived on the steamer Nonan froth Auckiand, N. Z. Two months ago she was a drudge in poverty-stricken home; today life seems a fai"y :Imam to her by reason of the sudden change for the better. The finding of the gir' Eu New Zealand is a story of remark- able features. Iter father, Dolan (liber+., WWI a 'daring young sea captain, who imemdiately after his marriage in Ore gon went to Australia, and then to Nen Zealand. ']'here Violet was born, Most of her mother's relatives hate lou;: Incl 1:: 01 egcnl, and .tn aunt resides in Woodland, Cal. After his wife's deatk Gilbert seldom communicated with his relatives in Am- elioa, When Violet was seven he died, leaving her penniless. Nobody in New .. I . • Zealaucl knew Imre 'ter American rola• - tivee lived, so the girl fell into the hands of an nged couple who treated her as a slavey, Less than two yea►•s ago Mrs. Pavite•tn, of Portland, learned that her brother-in-law Gilbert, had died in New Zealand, and she at .once took steps _ � �_._«....<... . NEWS IN BRIEF to find if he left any !tunny. After a good deal of correspondence she located the girl. Meanwhile anoth- er aunt lead died and left a Large sum of money to the girl. Mr. and 11ft,a. Da- vidson thereupon determined to bring their orphaned niece from New Zealand to the United States. The girl who was thus suddenly taken front n home of poverty to become the °Wirer of riches was brought over on the Pacific mail steamer Sonoma, She made Litany friends among the passengers, and everybody rejoiced in her good for- tune. TWO MANGLED BY EXPLOSION. DYNAMITE CAUSES A TRAGEDY NEAR BELLEVILLE. Went Off Prematurely -Both Men Hurled a Considerable Distance, and Bodies Were Terribly Mutilated. Belleville, Ont., Oct. 21. -Between the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock yesterlay afternoon William Bowler and George Rion, two employees of the Belleville Portland Cement Works, met instan- taneous and terrible death. The two men were engaged in tamping .a hole filled with dynamite, preparatory to blasting rock for the manufacture of cement, when an explosion of great violence occurred, caused, it is supposed, by one of the men shifting a percussion cap. Bowler was thrown some 60 feet. He was terribly mutilated and not a ves- tige of clothing remained on the body. Both feet and hands were blown off and rooks Were embedded in the body. Rion Was thrown some 80 feet in an opposite direction, the body landing in a tree, and finally falling to the ground. Ile was decapitated and parts of the body were picked up at some distance from where the explosion occurred. 'tion was a widower, 32 years of age, his wife haying died only three weeks ago. Two 'little girls are thus or- phaned. Bowler was 19 years _of age, son of Mr. Geo. Bowler, who resides near the works. Dr. Youmans, the coroner, visited the scene, but, after hearing the facts, did not think an in- quest was necessary. ♦.o FIRE LAYS OFF 1,200 MEN. Bank Head of Reserve Mine in Nova Scotia Was Destroyed. • Halifax, N. S., Oct. 21. -The bank head and machine shop of the Reserve mind of the Doininion Coal Company was destroyed by fire this morning. The conflagration originated in a pile of Black coal and shale, immediately beneath the bank head. Glace Bay department was summoned, and a special train brought up the men with their fire engine. 'Vhen the bank ;ave way the haulage ' ropes broke and a blaring coal car ran down the main store with a possibility of setting the mine 'on fire, but, fortunately, ran off the track. During the progress of the fire four small boys were driving a company team, when the horses ran away and one of the boys was killed. The pro- perty loss to the coal company, about ;'5,000 to $6,000, is the lightest loss, as it will take several weeks to get up even at temporary bank head to handle the run of mine coal, and in the meantime 1,200 employees will be idle. CAUSE OF THE BIG BLAZE Is Being Investigated by the Exhibition Officials. Toronto. Oct. 22. -That lllnusday nig'ot's big blaze at the Exhibition ground* wits the work of an incendiary still continues to be the theory held in certain gto.u•tcrs, en:d the officials con- ecrnecL are still engai id in probing into the mystery. Col. Na.11es, district freight agent of the G. T. IL, tells of having seen tines suspicious looking individuals loitering itt the vicinity at the time of the fire. A full investigation is to take place, and tie aeon as the matter is in proper shape it is likely that an inquest will be opened. "Now you i'en what happen for fly- ing a foreign flag over the Exhibition. A Just Renard." This .was the text of a postcard' re- ceived Saturday morning by Manager Orr, and Which may or may not prove to have some bearing on the incendiarism theory. ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE. And Little Girl Should Be Content to Play a Part There Only. Niagara Falls, Ont., Oct. 21.-- Poor little misguided Aurora Aubrey. Attracted by the glare of the Loot- ldgbts, she followed Harry Lindlee's company of players from her home in North Bay to this town. When she set out on her runaway journey she was in boy's clothing, but when she arrived here she was her own pretty 17 -year-old self. Her acquaintances with the dra- matic company, however, showed their good sense by informing Chief of Po- lice Mains of her arrival and lie noti- fied her father, and then had her ta- ken care of until his arrival last night, She goes home, sadder, perhaps, and wiser, certainly. • BITTEN BY DOG OYSTER. Local Naturalists Say That ICind of a Bivalve is Ferocious. 13oyertown, Pa., Oct. 2I. Danger has been discovered in oysters. John Prints', a prominent citizen ----he runs a saloon, and a saloonkeeper is nothing if not prominent in Pennsylvania --selected a Targe adult oyster that seemed parti- cularly robust. When lie tried to open the shell the oyster bit bins on the thumb. A drug- gist had to dress the wound. Local naturalists say it was a speci- men of the canis bdvalvus, or dog oy- air:', a species notorious for ferocity. The barking of a school of dog oysters mast be awful when heard by belated mariners, especially yatel:snten. WHOLE FAM!LY MURDERED. Intoticated Punier Kills Wife, Three Children and The Himself, Cage, Okla., Oet. 20.---0. 11, iicyworth, a farmer, to -lay shot and killed hie wife, two datnghtei t aged 22 and Irl. and n ANADIAN. Snow fell all day yesterday at Fort William, Collier Bros'. evaporator at Repartee waa destroyed by fire, Joseph Swell, lately from Manchester, Eng•, was found drowned in three inches of water at Nelson, B. C. The discovery of gold in the vicinity of Larder Lake, about fifty miles north of Cobalt, has led to a rush to the dis- trict. A search party yesterday dicovered the body of Mulvey, who had been work- ing on the G. T. 1'. near Fort William, and had been missing about a week. Hon.. P. G. Ryan, Commissioner of Pula lie Works for the Province from 1883 to 1892, died at Frederickton, N. B., last night, after a long illness. He was in his 69th year. At Toronto thirty-five thousand dol- lars' damage was done by a fire at the plant of the Constructing and Paving Company, Limited, and $7,000 damage by a fire in the William Davies Company's packing house. Early yesterday morning, Bruce Me- Kinon, of Port Burwell, who diad been employed by the Manley Company as scewman on the dredge St. Lawrence,. fell off the seen' and was drowned before help arrived. Chief Justice Sifton bad before him at Regina on Saturday George Robinson, charged with forging several checks last month. He pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to four years in the penitentiary at Edmonton. Hon. 1', G. Ryan, of Fredericton, N.13., former friend and lieutenant of Hon. Timothy Anglin, and one time Minister of Public Works it; the New Brunswick Government when Mr. ]flair was Pre- mier, died yesterday, aged 69. Benjamin Goodson, of Wheatly, while driving his brother to Windsor, was thrown from his buggy and sustained injuries which resulted in death in a few hours. The horse took fright at an au- tomobile. The brother escaped injury. Mr. Fred. Surbury, carpenter, of St. Thomas, was shingling the roof of a new house when the scaffold broke and he fell a distance of 20 feet to the ground and seriously injured his head. His left leg and right arm were badly injured. Ile was removed to the hospital. George Smith, a skilled workman at the American Locomotive Works Mout- real, met death on Saturday morning. Ifo had just killed a deer in Lac Maca- za, about 10 miles from Labelle, when he fell dead, shot through the heart by an accidental discharge of Itis rifle. Dir. Arthur Shearing, living near \Val- lacetown, was partaking of his supper on Saturday evening with Itis infant son on his knee when !to fell to the floor, dying instantly. Heart trouble is sup- posed to be the cause of death. ilia wife lies critically ill with typhoid fever. A severe epidemic of typhoid fever bas broken out among horses along the whole course of the Wascana Creek, be- tween Regina and Urban, Sask., a dis- tance 'of twenty utiles. Twenty-three sick horses are in a single veterinary stable here. \Vora has reached Brockville of the do- struction by fire in the Village of Moun- tain, of its chief industry, the. Lorne 1 other 141111. The stables and tn connection with the plant were also en- tirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $10,000 without a cent of insurance. A few rods from her (tome near Carth- age, Ont., was found the body of Mrs. Peek, aged 03, with an ugly cut in her throat. Nearby was a large butcher knife, which explained the cause of her death. • Sho was just recovering from the effects of a stroke of paralysis and her mind was unsettled. The most important commercial trans- action that has been put through in Smith's Falls in a long time was the pur• chase during the last few days of the Rideau Malleable and Foundry Co., by the Smith's Falls' Malleable Castings Co., of which W. H. Frost is the head. The two concerns will be amalgamated. A double drowning fatality occurred yesterday afternoon, when Willie, aged 11, and Harry, aged 6, sons of William Wright, of Point St. Charles, Que., were drowned in the canal basin. The boys were playing on the logs in the basin when Harry, the younger, fell into the water, and Willie, in an endeavor to Savo him, was carried over. Three brothers, sons of Freeman Young, of Dover, N. S., were drowned last week on their way in a sailboat from Ingramport to Dover, with a load of firewood. They were expected home on Tuesday evening, but never arrived. Driftwood and oars have been. washed ashore at Seabright, and it is supposed that these came from their boat. BRITISH AND FOREIQN. Large quantities of British ore are be- ing shipped to America. Four hundred lives were lost as a re- sult of the southern hurricane. All the cable cars in Chicago were re- placed by trolleys yesterday. l deputation of farmers from Ilet•ts and Essex has left for Canada for the purpose of surveying the land and as- certaining at first ]land the conditions for emigration. - The rope of a cage which was descend- ing in the East Simmer gold mine at lo- hannesbarg on Saturday, snapped and the cage fell a thousand feet. Twenty thra e.'Chinese laborers were dashed to pieces. A Paris newspaper says it learns on good authority that the directors of the Bank of France have intimated to the Governor of the Bank of England their willingness to hold at the immediate dis- posal of the latter from six to eight million pounds sterling in gold. o.+ FIFE AN ECCENTRIC HERMIT. Husband of Princess Louise Becomes e Strange Old Man. London, Oct. 21. -The "eccentricities" of the Duke of Fife are growing to such proportions as to cause a good deal of alarm. For some years past lie has had the title of "the Hermit of Mar Lodge," but lately he has remained more closely 'confined to his Scottish seclusion than ever, 11i•a wife, the princess royal, daugh- ter of King Edward, seems to view his Iternlitrtge somewhat more severely titan ever before. The duke has long been deeply attached to Brighton, Where be has usually haat several very ttb'i t10 friends: batt even Brighton as lost its elutrm for him now. .1•il tonna :.far Lodge, his highland nae, aum many humble abodes, to hick the duke loves to pay visits 1t It son, aged L'', anti then turned the weapon - Ile t himself,inflictinga mortal a twound. . h a� Ile had• been drinkng. w 1 atone, and by some sort of tacit un- derstanding these little sojourus and the swore': of presents the duke Is in the habit of giving to the children in the small houses where he is looked upon as a true Lord Bountiful --• never get into the society columns of the British newspapers. There are persistent whispers along Dceside that the duke's eccentricities re deepening into quaint mental Aber- rations of a somewhat serious ebarac- ter, MONTREAL MAN FELL TO DEATH. VESTIBULE DOOR OF CAR WAS LOCKED, Caught Rail of Rear Car 4$ Train Left Alexandria, but Assistance Came Too Late -Could Not IIold On, Montreal, Oct. aI.--Iromere Taylor, a well-known business ratan of Montreal, :net death in a peculiar manner on Saturday morning. Mr. Taylor had been to Ottawa on a business trip, and left the capital .by the noon train. At Alexandria the train stopped for a short, while, and Dir. Taylor stepped off -for a few minutes to enter the lunch -room and obtained sotne refresh- ment. 1•Ie 'evidently stayed a little longer than he purposed, for upon leaving tiro refreslt►nont room lie saw the train had already started. He ran for it, and barely managed to catch the rail and jump on the steps of the halt ear, which happened to be a, parlor ear. The vestibule door was, however, closed in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of opening it from the out- side. Meantime the train -had gotten under headway, anti Alexandria had been left in the distance. Apparently nobody on board the train saw Mr, 'Taylor catch the rear steps, or, if they did, they thought he had entered the cat 'safely. When the train had been out of Alex- andria about five miles, bowevere, some- one had occasion to go to the back of the parlor car, and saw the man hang- ing desperately to the bar. This gen- tleman made frantic efforts to open the trap door, but was unsuccessful, ate cit once called the porters, and the door was opened. When the door &wung back Mr. Taylor was seen to be dizzily swinging with the 'notion of the car. and just at the moment when the por- ter put out his hand to catch stun the swaying figure fell. The train was go- ing at full speed, and when Mr. lhy- lor was found life was extinct, his skull having been. fractured. 1tfr. Tay- lor was prominent in business and ath- letic circles. THEY ARE DANGEROUS. The Cables Across Niagara an Obstruction. • Niagara Falls, Oct. 22. -The already complex question of power development and transmission on the Niagara frontier will probably be brought before the In- ternational Deep \Vaterwars Commission in an entirely new way very soon. The Canadian Niagara Power Company has built a transmission line from the Palls to Fort Erie and across the Niagara River to Buffalo by means of cables sus- pended from immense steel towers greet- ed on each side of the river. Marino men have always objected to cables suspended across tate river, fled now application is being made to the United States Government for the re- moval of those put up by the power company. It is claimed they are a hind- rance to navigation, because of the care required in running vessels under then. One accident bas occurred already. The Schooner Ed. Williams, passing up in tow of the steamer Stafford, had her topmast torn away and dropped on her decks through striking the cables. "DEATH TO THE ARCHBISHOP." Serious Riots in the City of Valencia, Spain. Madrid, Oct. 22. -The dogged opposi- tion of the bishops to the royal decree, permitting Catholics to contract civil marriages, is arousing the wrath of the country. There were serious riots in the city of Valencia yesterday in conse- quence of a statement by the Archbishop of Valencia that couples who had been united by civil marriage only were living in a state of concubinage, There was a great demonstration against the prelate, who was fiercely denounced. Amid eries of "Death to the Arch- bishop!" the mob moved toward the archbishop's palace, but troops pre- vented their from reaching it. The archbishop has been summoned to Madrid in order to allay the ex- citement. o', TAKEN FROM JAIL AND HANGED. Negro Fourd Dangling From a Telegraph Pole in Heart of City. Mobile, Ala, Oct. 21. -Robert Clark. alias Dan Dove, a negro, whose home was in Ransas City, Mo., was taken from the Lucedale, Miss., jail, 41 miles from Mobile, at an early hour to -day by several towns, and hanged to a tele- graph pole in the heart of the city. The dead body of the negro was dis- covered at daylight by deputy sheriffs, who missed the prisoner at their jail when they went to feed him. �.e .7,INOCIiED OFF A SCOW. Old Kingston Man Drowned Flight Too Dark for Rescue. Kingston. Ont., Oct. 21. -•-John Nobes, all old carpenter, was knocked off a scow and lost his life last night while en route from here to the Thousand Island Park with lumber to build a cottage. Tho rudder broke and in veering the boom struck the old man and knocked him overboard. Isis com- panions were unable to locate ]Rim in the dark and squally night. His body was washed ashore et Wolfe Island and found this morning. ♦.r APPEAL FOR A MURDERER. Hungarians Will Ask for Clemency for 'indent Magyar. Winnipeg, Oct. 21: Itungrians of Winnipeg will appeal to the department of justice at Ottawa to extend elemeney to Vineleur Makyar, who is under sera teem to be hanged at Regina on Nov. 29 for murder, and in whose ease the full court at Regina, on Friday last refused to grant a new trial. Magyar was convicted of shooting Tames Campbell. a farmer' of Fro- bisher, f.tr whom lie was working, :Intl with whom he had a 'dispute over wages. Death of Mr. It R. tnksater. St. Catharines, 'Oct. 21.•--:1fr, Herbert 11, Inksater, aged :35 years, of the firm of Tnkmator pros., dry goods merchants, tiled last night, after a *bort illness. Ile leaves a wife and one child. 1,500 LIVES LOST IN 016 STORM. The Hurricane Struck Many Vessels Maul, ,Oct. 22. -The death list as a result of Thursday's hurricane ex- ceeds 1,500. Millions of dollars worth of property Was destroyed. Every Ziarn- let along tate coast and on the higher quays that escaped some of the fury of the storm Itas been turned into a piece of refuge. At eaeh of these plaees are dolens of injured, while each incoming steamer brings the bodies of the bead. Work of the 1lurricane. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 22. -:Gift first news of a terrible hurricane that visited the towns of I.ivatan, Talo, 'Mille., Colorado and El Provence, Honduras, on Oct. 12, was brought hero last night by the Nor- wegian fruit steamer Ilarold, Many Toavna and Drove on the Shore. A number of vessels were wreeked, several destropsd and buildings in each of the towns mentioned badly damaged. The lass to the owners of the fruit plan- tations will, it is stated, resell alntoa,t a million dollars. The British schooner Southern Queen was thrown on the beaeb at Ruatan and went to pieces in less than an hour, and the Harold suf- fered somewhat, and will have to be docked. A tidal waye accompanied the hurricane and swept everything before it. Captain IU'endrweksen reports that when he left the beaches were strewn with vessels of all kinds, including three large sailing vessels. No lives were re- ported lost. BABY KILLING CARRIED ON FOR HIRE. Discovery of Three Victims in a Month Causes U. S. Coroner to Make Startling Charges. Philadelphia, Oct.. 22. --The existence of a baby killing syndicate was revealed by Coroner Jermon, when he took up the case of a four months' ohl child in the was found with its head crushed in the Delaware river near Shackaniazon street wharf on Thursday. This body is the third within a month which has been discovered within the limits of Philadel- phia with the skull beaten in. Immediately the coroner requested the services of the detective department and the full force at Liberty was put to work on the cases. Coroner Jermon said: "There is evidently a contbin;e at work whose purpose it is to destroy babies, Tltis is the third vase within the month that has come to my notice and, there have been others before. I am going after this baby killing syn• dieatc, which bas evidently a baby farm, and the .gallows are in store for its principals." The coroner's announcement was drawn out by the finding of a jury that the batty found Thursday had been murdered. Death was. due to the skull being crushed in. Coroner's Physician Bolin testified that the baby had been born alive and that it was probably four months old when it had its life crushed out. Considerable mystery attaches to the ease, but the efforts of the police 'rave resulted in Iocating the boy who discovered the body of the dead baby. .`SOLDIER" THIEF. FRESH PROOFS OF GERMAN SWINDLER'S ADROITNESS. Fooled a Railway Porter -Burgomaster Who Resigned in Consequence of Ridicule Begged to Remain in Office. Berlin, Oct. 21. -Fresh proofs have come to light of the amazing powers of bluff of the pseudo army captain wito recently held up and robbed the Mayor and municipal authorities or Koeponick. A porter at the railroad station at Rixdoif told the police yesterday that the "captain" appeared at the station late last Tuesday afternoon when no- body was about. IIe said he wanted. to make a little pleasure trip to Ber- lin, but, as it was impossible for one of his rank to do so in uniform, he asked permission to use the waiting - room to change the uniform for civilian clothes, which he carried in a band- box, The porter allowed him to do so. When he was leaving, the "captain" patted the porter on the shoulder and said, with evident good humor: " 1 promise to be of use to you in your after -career," at the same time giving him three marks. All supposed clues to the robber have up to the preseut proved misleading. and' the "captain" 's still at large. Meetings were held yesterday at hes peniek at which resolutions were edema ed expressing sympathy with the Burgomaster, who has resigned, call- ing for his reinstatement and protest- ing against the sneering leaflets and carda in the comic papers of Berlin,, which have been poking all kinds of furl at the Burgomaster and the town offi- cials for the way in which they allowed themselves to be held up. The washer- women of Koepenick held a special meet- ing for the same purpose. They do a great deal of washing for Berlin and are afraid that the ridicule of their town will injure their trade. FRANCE AND CANADA. HON. MR. DANDURAND SPEAKS OF HIS EUROPEAN TRIP. Montreal, Que., Oct. 22. -(Special.) - Hon. 11. Dandurand, Speaker of the'Can- aclian Senate, after spending some months in England, France and Italy, brings home interesting facts of the greater interest France is taking in Can- ada. Referring to Itis interview with M. b\tllieres, the President of the France. Republic, rte quoted the President a,i saying that he could never give too much time to the Canadians, and expressed the hope of ,seeing the commercial rela- tions between Canada and France great- ly extemle t in the near ,future. Hon. Mr. Dandnrand found that in all parts of France people were anxious to ob- tain more information regarding Canada with a view to tanning to settle in this country. Mr. Dandurand spoke with en- thusiasm of the cordial reception given the Canadian rept esen•tatives by the offi- cial,* of the British Government during the inter-P8rliament:try congress, am,l i.nid that they had been twice accorded private audiences with the King. ONTARIO BANK. BANK OF MONTREAL WILL PAY ALL DEPOSITORS. Montreal, Qu'., Oet. 22.--•-(Special.)-- -\tr. II. V. 'Meredith, Assistant (General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, made the iinpoita:rt announcement to -day that any or all tleptaitors in the Bank of On- tario will be i•Ytid in full by the Bank of Montreal. The ]atter assume* all Habil- Rice as far as dcpositofa are concerned. 'Tltciv� ha.a b •on a great deal of ulteasi• gess exhibited among Iced depositors as well as at other mints, and this an - HURT 'x in• 1 It c t t to ural to alt ttervotis• ite48. HURT IN BARGAIN RUSH. Wonted and Children Trampled Upon in Scramble in Louisville Store. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 22.-- -Twelve per- sons were injttred in a panic ata bargain sale in a store here yesterday. The most seriously lnu•t aro. Mrs. George Williams. Lillian Williams, the twelve -year-old daughter; Miss Ray lirnehear and Mrs. Lena Forman, Fully two thousand parsons were in the store, attreeted by a cut rate sale of chinaware. During the rush for the bargain counters in the rear of the establishment, some one cried out, "There's a five -dollar bill on the floor." Several persons bent over to pick up the bill and in the wild scramble that ensued women and children were thrown from their feet and trod upon or crushed against the counters. A cry of "Thief!" by same woman whose pocketbook had been snatched increased the excitement. SAW CORPSES IN SUBMARINE. Two Bodies in Hatchway Prevent In- gress of Divers. Bizeri, Tunis, Oct. 2L The divers _i, which working on the French submarine boat u i L trh'• ,lt went down off this port Oct. 10, with 14 men and two officers on board, to -day succeeded in digging a tunnel under her stern, through which a hawser was passed. A heavy chain has been placed in • position under her bows and preparations for lifting her are now complete. All efforts to remove the bodies from the Lutin have proved vain. Through the window of the hatch divers have perceived two corpses. The position of these bodies is such as to make im- possible ingress to the submarine. The bodies canot be identified. MAYOR SHARPE SIGNS Agreement Employing Cecil B. ,Smith as Power Expert. Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 21. -At a stormy special meeting of the city council on Saturday afternoon, Mayor Sharpe fin- ally consented to sign the agreement with Cecil B. Smith, the Ontario power expert, while the power committee agreed to immediately appoint a board of three consulting engineers with Mr. Smith. The power committee and members of the city council will to -morrow visit Point du Bois, the site of the munici- pal waterpower and will look over the field, so as to be prepared to go ahead with the development, which, according to °Mr. Smith's estimate, will involve an expenditure of $3,500,000. .SLEEPS IN PORCH, But Young Multi -Millionaire Fails to Lure Back Health, and May Die. Boston, Oct. 22. -Stanley McCormick, the young Chicago multi -millionaire, is seriously i11 at his home in Brookline from nervous prostration, and his condi- tion is so grave that his relatives are greatly alarmed. Yesterday a cores of specialists were in attendance on the young man the greater part of the day. About a year ago McCormick leas i a house on one of the highest sites . n Brookline in order to get complete re.,:. At that time he was ill, and by `.4e rd- vice of his physician he slept oil alae front porch of the second floor. Mr. McCormick was married to Miss Dexter, a daughter of a former Chicago man, Wirt Dexter. EX -SENATOR GOES TO JAIL. J. R. Burton, of Kansas, Will Give Him- self Up To -day. Abilene, leas., Oct. 21.- Joseph Ralph Burton, formerly United States sena- tor from Kansas, whose sentence to serve six months in the county jail at frontoin, Mo., was recently upheld by the United States supreme court, left his home to -day for St. Louis, where on Monday morning he will surrender to the district court, prepared to go to jail. He was aceompamed by Mrs, Burton, and their adopted daughter, who will live in Ironton during Mr. Burton's in- carceration. TO LOAN PERSIA da,000,000. England and Russia Enter Into Signifi- cant joint Agreement. London, Oct. 21. -•--Tire British and Russian Governments have agreed to make a joint loan to Persia of $2,000,000 to cnsl,'.• the Persian Government to meet to me c,f its most pressing needs. '1'lte tr-tnsatetion is regarded as very significant of the improvement in the rehttioos between Russia and Great Bri- tain an•1 ns inlietitive of a probable friendly arrangement in the future by which oath country will undertake not to interfere with the other's elaimet4 spltele of interest' in Persia. /Amman Medallion. Medallion. Toronto, Oet. 22.• --'Tho annual convoca- tion service of 'Trinity University, held yesterday morning in the handsome cha- pel in the 'university building. was of more than usual. interest. In addition to the serviee and nn impressive sermon by Rev. I)r, Frank Dnlloulin, of St, Peter's C'burela, (-iticago, the talented sou of the "Bishop of Ningare. n lien:leatnt. breeze medallion of the late -lrehibaki tamp. man, Itt. A., a distinguished graduate of the em, was unveiled.