The Wingham Advance, 1907-01-10, Page 7r.PHIADELPIVA BANK
. WRECKED BY A BOMB.
1
Assassin Blown to Pieces and Cashier Killed in a
Leading Institution.
Building 'Was Wrecked and Ten Other Persons
Injured, Two (WM/horn Will Die*
lealudelpitte, sae,. vett et oeseutalee
ems a lotto of 0,00 aud bolus; venasee,
.4 man attuned Robert Steele dropped e
bomb in the Fourth Street aitielona4
e3ank yeetenlay, Isiewing himselt to
pieces,. instantly killing the ettehter,
W. Z. McLear, and injuring ten eel,
eellia. two of whom will tile.
The interior of the bunk was wreck-
ed, many of the books being destiny -
ea, The bank was crowded with cua
turners and the Nude which followeu
the -explosioa spread throughout the
entire buildiug,
The only clue to the identity of the
beta thrower was a buneI 1keye
found in a portion of the clothing, at-
tached to which was a plate inscribed
*tit ateele, .Carner, la."
The Fourth atreet Nationtal Bank is
the largest lammed institutiou in the
*city, and oceapice the greater portiou
tof the first floor of the- 13ullitt Build -
ng on Fourta street, between Chest
-
Met and. Walnut street, in the heart
of the financial district. The explosion
was terrific, and. it caused tremendous
excitement in the crowded building
afud the street.
Called to See President.
111 The explosion occurred a few min-
.
utes before 12 o'clock, at a time when
the bank is usually well filled with per-
sona in a hurry to transact business
before the benk closes. No one saw the
- unknownman enter the bank except
E. F. Shanbacher, the vice-president,
who was passing out of the building
on las way to luncheon. He noteed the
man was poorly dressed, looked like a
Ruasian, and carried a small parcel.
The man walked straight back to the
rear of the bank and asked a clerk to
direct him to the office of the presi-
dent, Richard, W. Rouston. What took
place in his office is bese told by the
president himself:
"I was busy when the man entered
my office and. I asked him to be seated
for a moment. lie was poorly dressed,
had patehes on his shoes and his en-
tire appearance made me a bit curious.
While he was waiting for me to finish
the busness I had in band at the mo -
anent, I happened to notice that he
eooked at me curiously.
Asked for Loan of $seoms.
"I asked him his business, and he
gave his name as G. E. William. and
said he wanted a loan of $5,000. Ife did
not look like a man who could make a
loan of that amount„ and I asked. him
for collateral. Be said something aboet
an insurance policy and that it would
mature in from one to five years.
"I was then convinced the man was
3 a crank, and decide- once, not for a moment thinking, there
decided to dismie him at
e
was any harm in him. I toll him at
once that he would bave to see the
cashier, and directed him out in the
banking elep:artment. At the same mo-
ment . called my colored messenger,
Wm. Crump, to see that the man was
quickly taken out taf the building. As T
turned to continue my week at the
desk there was a terrific explosion Fula
I thought the building was coming
down. The man had not time to reach
the cashier, the explosion came so
soon."
Then the Explosion.
Details as to what actually happen-
ed when the num left the office of
President Rushton differ, as no one
can be found who saw the man drop
the bomb. The door of the office of
Cashier McLear is only a few feet
-from that of President Rushton, and
the man must have dropped the deadly
. missile between the two rooms.
Cashier MeLear was sitting at his
desk at the time and hes body was
badly mangled. The bomb thrower's
body was torn to pieces.
.At the time the explosion occurred
all the vaults were open, 'Woke were
At:piled on desk a and papers of all sorts
of value were lying -on desks prepara-
tory to being put away for the day.
The explosion devastated the interior
of the big banking room. Glass and
wooden partitions were wrecked and
leveled to the ground as thotigh
cyclone had swept Omagh the place.
Desks were ruined and iron bars were
twisted. In fact, there was hardly an
object left intact in the room.
Of all the persons in the room, at
least nine, all of them clerice, were
Intel, two of them probably fatally.
Three of the injured were sent to the
hospital.
Panic Followed Enplosion.
The explosion blew every one in the
banking room to the Meer and for a
moment they were dazed Mealy of
tieem, not knowing wbat klippen-
ed, and fearing:that the intittlinn„
esitich. is an eight -storey structure,
Out* 1ali1agi,14044 F004 fo a4thoir,
eli: ram of ties eseosien Suroassaa
Ite tea:ails on all floorto their feet,
ma a. general mei .weet melte to HP,
elevators and the. stariways. As the
melted people cam out there, was, a
uslt from the street to restate thew;
t was taought had 'been taught itt the
'NPatl'Ilt°11:e'.
Imeantime an alarm of fire
sara been sent itt and firemen were
middy on the around. There being.
no fire in the place, the firemen am:
politemen ordered everybody out, au 1
t strong gulled was taxmen about ti1C
.Y11.1Winu,
AftPre:Mont Ilareatou had 9.00.0V -
Tod himself Ise told wind had bapeentee
Ind a search for the bomb thrower wale
made. elt the moment it was auppoeed
:te bad not been killed, but in taking out
die body 'otf Cashier Mamar and looaneg
:or ether dead, petiole.; of a body wei
•,e
found that plainly inelissated that the
man. had Leen blown to pieces.
Ruoldon's Escape a Miracle.
The -escape of Presatent _tease -ton wets
almost miracutous, for the dinuag,e
greate4t itt 1.ia ati,ee, The Ceiling OVei
sis 'dedk k bespattered with blood, ono
trader a pile at wreckage in one cornet
of the °face, were found tee head aim
atItotti,aers of the ininebtheower, ao woe
,ts his overeoat.
Mr, itueldon does not know how he
&mem:a, hut recollects going up the
elope of Um building to the Dowetown
Oita e dining organization-, where he
was eater found in it dazed coneition.
It probably wi:1 take days before eac
Mink officials axe able to tell how mane
of the valuable doetuneras in the bank'
ettetedy were destroyed, its the 'Whole
lbaeelvas strewn with torn Wes of Pa.
The detective bureau is at work in
an effort to identify the men who woe
the vane Of the tragedy. The ones
tailor, found • that prebaley belonged te
him wee e bunch of 25- key e on awing.
on weach was the • name, "R. Steele,
Gamma Ia." President Rushton de-
evribed him ee a tall, dark man, appar-
ently a. foreigner. The form oe the
bomb is net known, ea neither Me,
It -Macau nor avyone saw
W. Z. McLear, the dead, easaler, was
about 45 years of age,
William Crump, th e mem-name was
tarribly injueed. Both his eyes were
blown out, his estalp torn off, and his
face so maneled that he was unate-
cognesable, lie was taken to the .Penn-
eyevania Hospital. There the physicians
seamed, from hien thaathe stew the anon
nest las arm to throw eomething. Oromp
jumped at him, but he was too Lite.
Steele's Former Record.
Des. Moines, Lt., Jan. 0. --Robert
Steele, the Man who bears a name
identical to that found on the name
plate of the Ithiladelphia bomb throw-
er, left Garner Mx yeurs ego. At that
team he wos smooth shaven, about six
feet tale medium <leek, with brown
eyes, and :weighed about 200 pewees..
Coon his removal to Cleaner ten
pays ago the was engaged in drilling
welts. Later he ostabliehea a ummune
:shop, and, incidentally, so -it patent
medicines., going about over tee couu
try in en open wagon wteh bit weeee.
He was elected to the Town Commit
of Garner in 1888, and on the font:wine
year wits married. Three childrea were
horn.
Steele failed in 1899, and rentove4
with ibis family to Chicago, and_ later
on to eastern eities'auppoately ['ha -
Melville ter Boston. While in Chicago
he was a member of the police force.
RAUH BEATEN.
MOROCCAN 13ANDIT FLEES TO THE
MOUNTAINS.
Sultan's Troops Drive Bandit Chief From
Iris Stronghold at Zinat and Pillage
the Town -Large Amount of Booty
in Abandoned Fort
Tangier, Jan. 0. -hat, Raimuli's
stronghold, was practically destroyed by
fire and fell into the hands of the troops
of the Sultan to -day after a. short and
almost bloodless fight.
Balsa and his 700 followers succeed-
ed in eluding capture and reached the
mountains, eespite the elaborate plans
of War Minister Gabbas to prevent their
escape. •
No firing occurred last night, but this
morning the artillery, under command
of an Algerian native lieutenant, whom
the French authorities permitted to par-
ticipate in the battle on request of War
IDAHO TO TRY LEADERS IN
LABOR UNION TERRORISM
Assassins of Governor Steuneriberg Have Ex-
hausted the Law's Delays.
Boise, Idaho, jun. 7.-W1iat will with-
out doubt be M10 of the most famous
murder trials in the history of this coun-
try is expected to begin in this State
some time this mouth. It is, of 'course,
the trial of Charles If. Moyer and Wil-
liam IfityWood, respectively president
and iseeretary of tbe Western Federation
of Miners; George Pettibone, formerly
an officer of the federation, and Harry
Orchard, upon the eltarge of =rafting
ex -Gov. Steunenberge of Idaho, on Dec-
ember 30, Baia
EI-Goies Steunenberg, its the world will
.not soon forgat, was blown to death by
a bomb at Ins own door and Almost in
•itthe presence of his wife and children in
the little town of Cardwell.
But ',milady /shocking as was the
crime itself, the ttiel will owe a great
i
part of its mportanco to the effort that
him been made by the labor organize -
Hone of the tountry to make it Appear
that the attempt to find oat whether
the accused men really committed the
murder le nothing more or less than an
assuult amen organized labor.
Great slave has been laid upolt tae
feet that 11 e principal ammeter of the
other three prieoners ii Harry Orchard
and the eharge is made that his confes-
vireo elicit implicates himself as the me-
anarderer, Ana the others as the
engirat es of the crime, was wormed out
ef 1.ini und: r duress by Detective Me.
Pat Ham', .dia more to break up the
netorious Melly Meg -tares then any nth -
or one loan.
While the prosecationa priucipal wit-
ness will be Orebard, bis testhuony will
by ten menus la exelueively relied upon.
It is atalareti that praetkally all the es-
eential fleteile t 1 his cm:feeteon will be
correbtratea by other witheeses and that
ne lead diet he lute given the prosecution
-has failed to produce coeroborative evi-
aceee.
So them four men aro to be tried up!un
manlier tlenaes at tient suffieiently mr-
mansion+ lel end eonviutting to Natter the
Governor of Coloraareto extrealite them
anti an Idaho Greed July to indiet, them,
vomiter, nal making his explanation at
• s .
millister Gribben, 013"44 are *11 g744 tows
ito AVALANCHES Of
The Moorieh gamier* ahowed utter
cepateity in handling their guns, mad the
infantry fired haphazard. Two ehelle ,
ply awl thereupon it body of tint Sul- VESIUVILIS MUD
.
dropped inside the Madness without re-
reeelied the welle AMA desilltory shote
!
tan's troops charged, ehouting, and
Allif...../.
from the surrounding brueh. $wept Away form Buildings an
The pates to the town were found to:
be open, but there were no ocoupants1 Uprooted Trees5
of the place, except fifteen prisoners,'
among whom were four POrtitglieile. A Mnr., - - A ...........
detaellinent of the gun
troops eontinued 1944Moneu
i,by Three Women from
firing in the direction of the niountains,1
. Per.lous Position.
where Raisuli and his followers were ob."
served fleeing. aleanwhile the other ' Naples, Jan. 7.,-Iteeent heavy rain
tlevernment troops pillaged the etrongs have caused enorinous avalanelica of nire
sill:el:1p, .securing cousidarable booty in the si, Haut tree, tee 101) or mrnat vrsu
shape of costly -carpets, arms, cattle and e "
013. Thoy t(I'CIV ill 81e.0 a; thy 33W017
No fatalities in the fighting to -day are along, ane eventually spread out civet
reprted, though a few pereons on both several /square miles. Trews in, their
pa x WCre uprooted, ana farm buildings
sailors had, mitred the 14411tingls fur
11" DYING 6 R fO -
mewed tilos a huge WAYS 194.0k4 over ,
tVSTIflf MAN
the #aldp, knoaking the men right aunt
left. Junes Walker, able eatianin, was
swept the full length of the forest:ode
deek and down the stairway leadiug tu
the main deek. Ile efruck squarely un Wtil() *CAUSED HrR TO SO
the hanoleter rail at the foot of the ,
stairs and ilia Kafue WAS brOken. 1
When the storm WAS -At height a - .Letter of Heartbroken .Kentucky .Giri Leads _
girl was born in the steerage. tree
mother ie Mrs. Jacob Goldstein. Ana One Of ".BillY" Brown's.
after a -collection enuninting to $50 he'll
been taken up among the cabin prus-
sengers the behy was christened Rachel
Etruria Goldstein,
EAST WILL
t: CONQUER WEST.
sites weee wounaed. It is thought
probable that the Raisulites carried off
their dead. Minister • of War Whims, ,Were totally de3traYed:
who bas not left Tangier during the op -1 A number of animate were killed. A
orations, probably will move against the linen was carried for almost a mile on
pretender to the throne,
Millet Wheel -Jim sea of mud, but was reeeued by
mei, a brother of the Sultan,
frele,three courageous wmnen, who made their
whose followers there have been many any over the avalanehe at the riek of
defections recently.
itheir lives, anti succeeded in bringine him
Tbe Spanish officers of the interim- : to safety, A train on the Vesuvia,n°Rail-
Menai police created by the Algerciras road 'wag Welted by the mud at San
go/mention have arrived here and wilt:
CleaPPPet A village that was nearly de -
take up their duties at the end of the :strayed, during,
month. the eruption of last
COILS.
---
BOSS ROLLER IN STEEL PLANT
• THUS WRAPPED BY A RAIL.
Just Like a Snake -Gleaming,. Blazing
Bar of Metal Writhed and Lapped
About the Doomed Man -Burned to
the Bones.
Buffalo despatch: Last night Thomas
Friend lay dying in the Moses Taylor
Hospital, the most horribly burned man
ever received in that institution. The
flesh is burned off his back, exposing his
nine. Flesh is burned off his rib e and
his arms and legs. He cannot live.
Friend was a head roller in
-
ono of the rail mills of Lack-
awanna Steel Compeny. Early yes-
terday morning he was standing at his
place near the rollers as the white-hot
bands of steel, fresh from a pot of mol-
ten metal, were sliding down into the
rolls and being formed into rails, when
one of them jumped from the roller.
Then occurred one of the fearful and
weird phenomena of which there are so
many in the manufacture elf steel. The
whit -hot rail bounded from the roll
with terrific force, straight for Friend.
Before he -could wink an eye the white-
hot band curled like a snake and sbot
around his body with its burning mails,
roasting his flesh. When it had the
man wound in its coils its force was
spent and it formed a redhot cone: en-
casing the man from his feet to his
head.
The intense heat kept rescuers away
and one of. the heavy electric cranes
was run up over the man. A elmin was
dropped down and caught on the rail
and the redhot easement was lifted.
Friend dropped to the floor. His flesh
was roasted so it dropped from the
hones. are was hurried to the Moses
Taylor Hospital, where it was seen he
had no chance to. live.
Last night Friend was half alive and
the surgeons did not think he would Lest
until daylight.
EXPRfSS WRECKED.
TWO MEN KILLED AND SIX INJURED
ON TRANSCONTINENTAL.
Broken Rails Result in the Wreck of
Mail Caa and Five Coaches at
Kaministiquia. .
Winnipeg, Jan. 0. -The Transcoutin-
ental express, which left here on Satur-
day evening for tae oast, was wrecked
this afternoou at 3.30, one-aalf mile
west of Kauninistiquia, a station on the
C. 1?. R. e5 miles west of Fort William.
Iwo men were killed and six injured,
the wreck was due to a broken rail,
which threw the mail ear and five ea the
:matches following off the track. Severe;
of them roiled into the ditch. The din-
ing car ana sleepers kept the rails: •
The killea-IL Smith, caning car wait-
er, Montreal: IL Campbell, dining car
waiter. Montreal.
The injured -Lewis Konar, employee,
Montreal, cut about the head, A.
Ferguson, Winnipeg, mail clerk, head
and shoulders cut. • G. B. Keyes, Owen
Sound. shoulder hurt, W. Blared:rad,
Oroithamptona Eng., left arm and hand
cut. Thompson, Sheffield, Englaud,
head cut. .11. Barber,. London, England,
shoulder and head cut and bruised,
The injured were removed to Fort
William Hospital.
'-ee Fort eVilliam despatch says: Train
No. 2 of the .0, P. R,. was derailed one
miles west of Ktuninistignia, station this'
morning, the wreck being caused by a
broken wheel on one of the express cars.
Reports reemved here state that the
whole train is in the ditch, and may be
ita the river, as the track is very close to
the water there. It is also reported that
-two of the first-class coaches are a to-
tal wreck, and that four persons, are
A wrecking train has gone out with a
dead and. about deity sriously injured.
e1
hospital outfit, but is not yet backaAll
the mailable doctors were taken to the
scene of the disaster, and another train
is leaving to -night with further medical
help from Port Arthur.
KILLED ON PORCH.
Brick Fell From Hotel Ruins at Belle-
ville, on Louis Bolyea.
Belleville, Jan. 0. -Yesterday roon
while Louis Bolyea and George Pony
were standing in the Derail leading to
the ruins of -the lintel Quinte tt, quan-
tity of bricks fell. One struck Dol.
yea on the head, inflicting a terrible
would. He was rendered unconscious,
and taken to the hospital. TM died
last evening as it result of the uur-
ios.
ite WAS A market gardener and
It gooa citizen. Ile was fifty mere 11;
age, and leave's it wife and family. Perm- I
received a bad wouret on the bate: of .
the head, bid Will recover,
ANARCHISTS ARRESTED,
Emelt, Goldman ana Alexander Berlcmati
in Cestotais in New Yorlc.
atm Ye- k, Jan. O.-- Alexander Barks 1
mau, wee was releastea last mounter
Mem the Slate edam 113 Penusylennet
:dna having eervea fourteen years for an
Horty 1'. lerielo followieg the
Itemeelead rieis itt 18112, with, Emilia
txteldnien and: two others, was arrested
to-tiey by eenteal office: deteetivesa who
Itiolse up an alleged Atarchist meeting.
en Out 'East Siam Goldman is .speetfleally
lase, viol:11km of thataseetion of
'le: meal toile waielt inalme iMa, felony
so Mier ine-APliary i Cimlrlol from It pule
la atfostn. Linkman 13 held as an .aes
emetery.
IAprit,
Workmen who have been clearing away
to mins of the church at Han Oniseppe,
where there was greet lose of life last
April, discovered six more bodies.
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TO DEAD HERO[S.
HISTORIC STATUE UNVEILED IN
MEMORIAL PARK, TORONTO.
Monument .Erected by Army and Navy
Veterans to Soldiers Who Fell in
War of issa Completed -Sketch of
Military Burying Grounds.
Toronto, Jan. 7. -The unveiling of the
statute erected by the British Army and
Nevy Veterans in Victoria Memorial
Pttric, Portland street, took place on sat-
urtlay afternoon in the presence of some
seventy of the Veterans and a large con-
course of citizens.
The statue is the work of Mr. W. S.
Alward, ans. represents an ota soldier,
in the uniforni worn in 1812. The fig-
ure, which, is a half-length one, is of
ebout twice life size, and is sculptured
with -strength and pathos. It rests cm
a pedestal eleven feet five inches square,
and about fifteen feet high. The
pedestal was erected five years ago, but
the funds to complete the memorial
were not sufficient to warrant, going
on with the statue till the past year.
The whole monument costs about $4,000,
of whieh only some $200 remains to be
subscribed.
The ceremony was in charge of Major
W. A. Collins, of the Garrison Artil-
lery. Hon. Dr. A. It. Pyne, repre-
senting Premier Whitney, was present
and delivered a short addrese.
The statue marks the spot where nine
coffins were found, on the eite of the
old military burying ground, which was
in use from 1793 till 1802, when it was
closed, and a uew buryieg ground open-
ed where Machinery Hall now is.
Three sides of the pedestal bear the
names of the various regiments to which
the soldiers buried in that graveyard be-
longed. The inscription on the face of
the pedestal reads as follows:
"Dead in tbe battle -dead on the field;
Moro than his life tan a soldier yield?
His blood has burnished. las sabre bright;
To his memory, honor; to him, good-
night."
This monument is to perpetuate the
memory and deeds of the officers, non-
commissioned officers and men who gave
their lives in the defence of Canada in
the war 1812-181re and is erected by the
British Army and Navy Veterans re-
siding in Toronto, aided by- generous
subscriptions from the British Army and
Navy, and. the citizens of Canada.
July ist, 1902.
-Battlefields-
River Canard, Chrysler's Farm, Ft.
George.
Beaver Dams, Detreit, Lundy's Lane,
Black Rock. Fort Niagara, Thames.
Chaadeauguay, Fort Erie, Stoney Creek,
York.
TEN THOUSAND FEET,
The Limit Fixed for the Chicago Drain-
age Canal.
Ottawa,Jan. 0. -The International
Waterways Commiesion have decided to
reeommend that a maximum diversion
of 10,000 cubne feet of water per second
from Lake Michigan be allowed for the
purposes of the: Chicago drainage canal.
The Chicago Drainage Commission ere
now constructing improvement works
which will prevent the citrrent of the
(Menge River from being increased, and
obestion on thin account to diverting
farther supply from the lake is removed.
The counnissionere have also unanimous -
by recommenaed that in any treaty to be
coneluded.between the United States and
Canada, having reference to international
waters, a provision should lae ineerted for
.tbe enjoyment of free navigation of the
upper lake system by the commerce of
either country for all time to come. In
connectioxt with the international water
boundary across Lake Erie the commis-
sioners find the existing charts inaccur-
ate, and reeommend that the boundary
be resurveyed, either by the Waterways
Commission or some other authority to
be appointed espechdly for that purpose,
m_omeseaam-
QUITE A NEW GAME.
It Requires a Gallant Autoist and a
Charming Stranger.
Paris, .Titn. 6.--A new game was sue-
eesefully worked on a provineial. mann-
Maurer here this week. qn his arrival
in Paris he took :in automobile at• the
station and drove to the home of a,
friend. On leaving the house some time
Mier Ito found a pretty woman in the
automobile. She /mid she had -never been
in arm before and begged for a ride, The
manufacturer smiled and consented to
take her along.
On the way she chloroformed and
robbed him. 'then slue hailed the at:lif-
e
A.m., told him to stop the auto, and
stepped out. She ordered the driver to
proeeed to the Pasteur Institute, where
lie dieeovered the manufacturer uncons
seious.
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KILLED DV A 'WAVE.
1Seamari on Etruria Swept Down Idairi
Deck Stairway.
Now York, Jane 0. --One of her crew
' were killed and six others seriously in -
jawed 'when the Cunard liner Etruria
was fighting her way through it seven:
etorm on letithey night. Tim body of the
Mari killed was buried et sea. Itady
loiday night ON the Etruria was tea-
I:muttering heavy head. SCaS MO big
combere were breaking over her deck
e as ng ;if theestarboard anchor Atm and none of it e locality packs. up and
th 1 i
its were take torn loose t It
LEO 'TOLSTOI PROP.
TRIUMPH 01,' 1.HE OR i Mt'
Syluptoras of the -ahange-Reoelaus
Un-
rest and Movemeuir. 4.41 VtrOzci'au
Countriee,
Paris,. Jan.' 0. -Count Leo Toletoi
has written 4 letter to Paul Sebatier
apropos of the latter's reeent book on
tele tatiestablielnuent of the Churelt 1,u
num, in which ehe famous Itueelen att
Mudiieenville, Ky., Jan. 7.---Ereely bo
giving- the 111811 W110 had wronged be
wiehing lam happinese is life, a
r. human nature will have its. way, mad
r, erief and misery will fill my heart.
."BernA, is a deer, sweet, girl, am! she
I' will make you Nippy. She la beater
n. than poor me, but she eatunest possibly
Is lore you Any more tiran I do, sad ske
is not any purer and More *drawee
"' than I was before you SUllicsl any
honor. wontler, Otto, thet you caula
n , contemplate marriage with may
theugh he was ta marry :methyl' mama
Mies 1.111:e alcitonee farewell letter, wide
)4110 wrote jut before tbinking carbol
It unasuel nouns ware end re
mauls elle of the' pathetic letters writte
y i after the tbiegit that have gassed
S by "Billy" Brown, the gid madered b
.0hester Gillette. The following Is tit
letter which Miss Melton wrote juin be
foie ending iter 111 e, 'tumble to faeo the
future:
"Otto, ---Enclosed you wlil flud avickol,
which I owe you for having paid on my
ticket the Smiday fifteens:ea I went to
the Gap, Thank you, sincerely.
"When are you and Bexaa to he
- maialed? aeon? Of course, know
f you are both very, very happy, but
wily God, knowe the. terrible anguish
mad misery I feel, Oio why did- you
not leave me alexia when you went
away f tom me before? Why, in God's
name did yint come back to open afresit
the old, hurt in my aeart?
"Are you going to liVe Norton-
vilte? I want you to be happy; have
Mimes wantea that; but I cannot look
efourivaulaI utaarlpifinee,sosf. bong, nentdoliedssznTisit-
is wrong to take one's own life, but
you do not atop to consider that that
sante life is More than ean. be borne
with misery and sbame. If there is a
heaven to be gained by death, taere
certainly is a heli to be missed. You
say you believe that we are all saved;
then it, seems to me 'that instead of
sliding me to live en here in the un-
happiness that you know tun in, you
would not mind any going away to
more perfect happiness and love, At
best or worst death will at least give
me perfect rest, I do not thiuk that
there is nny happiness in life BOW
for me, and -sometimes wonder way.
What have I ever done that you ehould
have set aboat, in the way you have,
to wreek my life and my happiness.
Get- knows that you bave uever asked
anythine of me that I bare not willing-
ly !ma:lovingly granted you. I am
not sorry of it, either, except that
num predicts the possible reduceion o
all the Christian coantries of the west
;a it abate of vatisulage to the Japauese
and. other Oriental peoples. lie bases
hid prediction upon the ground that it is
oiily in the Orient that religion and
patriotism are synonymoue,
Count 'Tolstoi Basle M part: "Roli-
gion is truth and goodneee, the Church
talsehood and evil. I tell you frankly
eannot agree with those who believe
the (Murcia Is an organization indispens-
able to religion,
"The Church has ever been a cruel and
lying institution whiell seelcing for
temporal eavantages leas perverted and
distorted the true Christian doctrine.
Christianity has ever been simply a, pre-
text for the Church.
"In spite of all the efforts of Churcli
end State to unite the two principtes-
true Christianity (love; humility arta
kinaness), and that of the State (phy-
sical force and violence) -the contradic-
tion has become iff our time so flagrant
that a solution ia bound to C01110.
"Several symptoms prove this: Vint.
the religious movement is not confined
France but exists in all Christien coun-
tries; second, the revolution IA Rustle;
third, the extraordinery military . ot d
industrial progress, which is manifesting,
itself in the Orient, in China and asteei-
ally in Japan. The present religious
movement which. is going on Dot only in
Catholic countries, but in the whole
world, is I believe, nothing but the un-
rest accompanying the exit from the
dilemma."
„ tween us, after you have tol me over
" and over again that you. never meant
- to marry, that you did not think you
eou d possibly ever get ready to marry.
Sometimes I wonder if you ever told
me exactly •what you felt and meant,
at any time, God. knows, Otto, it is a
terrible thing to win a woman's, heart
to (leech% her from first to last. .God
forgive you, an freely as I do, for the
things you have made me suffer. Why
are you comiug over here? What have
you .to say to me now I am going tO
give the school up. but I do not know
just what I shall do yet. If you warm
I shall end the whole businese, but
otherwise have not made up my mind
what I sball do. I do not ask you to
give up your happiness, not for one
minute. You told me I was selfish,. but
am not that seIfieb, Your happinees
means more to me than my own doea;
but God knows a life of misery cermet
be endured such as I will feel when
you ere married. Oh, God, what must
do? I feel almost that I will go mad,
mad, I cannot, cannot bear it: I am
afraid of myself, for I know that I
ought not to be so eowardly as to- want
to die before Clod wants me te. I am
going eto be eelfish enough to ask you
to give me it little time, now that you
have told me. I should like to see
you, but not Berme Don't bring her
when you, come. I can't bear that yet.
And, my darliets, for before God you
aro mine, and it can't be helped now,
my precious love I hope you will be
'happy. But, 'God, my heart! If
you wish to come, I shall be glad to
see you. I want you to forgive Inc for
the times I have given you pain and
unhappiness. You have my forgive -
'1088 for all the pain and sorrow you
have brought into my life. God bless
you and Bernie both, and sometimes
think kindly of poor, last,
1 "Lillie."
A SMART TRICK
[SAVED THE LIVES OF SIX RUSSIAN
TERRORISTS.
Odessa, Jae. 7. --Six terrosieta (have
'tteen saved from the galleys by rceourec-
ful -revolutionists here, who coueeived
the bold plan of atilizing the official
cipher to hoodwink the Goveanor-Gen-
eral. The terrorists had ben , tried ley
eourt martial and senteneed to death
earl were awaiting °emotion when tee
Governor-Gcneeal sae -dyed a. &peer taie-
orant from .St. Petersburg, appateently
bearing the signature of Gen. Paeloff,
Ilia military proeurator, conveying .the
Emperor's order to tom -mute the death
aexitenees to hard. Islam! foe life. The
order was of fichaly put in ;forte, but the
euthorities hum: 1104V ascertained, bhat it
vrilt9 A forgery by revolution:ate, wire ob-
bein.ed accuse to the Governmental me -
rate code and succeesfully utilized it.
accortling to the Russiaa prisonees
eannot be exceutea once their sentences
have .boon efficially commuted.
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. TO RAISE LAKE LEVEL.
Commission Will Consider the Building
of a Great Dam.
Buffalo, Jan. 0. -Having disposed of
the Chicago drainage canal question and
the international boundary line on Lake
Erie; the International Waterways Com-
mission will next take up the 'old ques-
ltaiokne.of damming the lower end of lsahe
Erie so as to raise the level of the
Lake marine interests have been urg-
ing the matter for a long time, and it is
understood that the eommission at its
last session decided to take up the prole
lent next month. While no definite pan
has been submitted to the commisseon
the general scheme in view is to build a
great dam or regulating work at the Pav-
er end of Lake Erie or somewhere in
the Niagara River.
• •
TO REDUCE BRITISH ARMY.
.Battleships in Commission to be Cut
DoW11 From 33 to 26.
London, Jan. 7. ---The Mail atetes, offi-
cially, that there will be a redeetion of
the British navy after the relnuary
manoeuvres. The Channel fleet will be
reauced from seventeen battleeMps to
fourteen, with three small cruisers. `.11.e
Atlantie fleet will be reduced. front eight
'battleships. to six, with three small
cruisers. Tbe Mediterranean fleet will
be reduced from eight battleshies to six,
with four small cruisers.
The first and .secoad mitered miser
squadrons will be reduced feoni 41,*. to
four vessels. Thus the main squadrons
of the British fleet in active temmiseion
will be reduced from thirty-three to
twenty-six battleships, mut from Mete in
armored cruisers tolwelve.
GAME IN WINNIPEG.
4*
Lynx Killed Within the City Limits on
Saturday.
Winnipeg, Jan, 0. -That the severe
whiter is driving wild animals oat of
the woods is proven by the fact that
a lynx wits killed within the city limits
on Saturday, and the same day shortly
'after daylight a coyote ron Across
Main street, in •the centre of the eity,
having vome from the direction of the
abattoirs. Ihis is eousidered some-
what remarkable in view of Winnipsg's
'metropolitan embitions.
1.
HTNDOO IMMIGRANTS.
Caine to Canada Because Their Kiesfolk
Reeeintriended
Loudon, den. 0.---.N. Calcutta resident
reports thut the remain for the Ilindem
immigratima to Canntle, is found itt the
let that me: or two Sikh polieemen in
Vartootiv. r lammed Mir kinefolk of
the advent:Mee of leritielt •Colunfbia. The
Wien peas int noaderfully ereduloes
retsarding the reports of his kinsmen. He
mess futelter queetions. but With a
fztliit 11(11 41 (It" ueme of has deetination
t»
as tie etarts.
JOHN DILLON CAUSES A SCENE
AT NM JAMES BRYCE'S LECTURE.
Said the Ambassador Would Carry Good -Will of
Irishmen to Washington.
Dublin, Jan. 7.- James Bryce, the
newly appointed Ambassador of Great
Britain to the United States, delivered
a lecture here last night under the .a.us-
pices of the National Literary Society.
His subject was the relations of the
Norsemen to Ireland from the eighth to
the twelfth century, and. he gave an
interestieg 1 deem of the laws and liter-
ature of Reload.
Beyee received a vote of thanks
from the society, and in seconding it
John Dillon, M. P., said of Mr. Bryce
that he would carry to his new task the
friendship and good will of Irishmen
and he would see what Irishmen could
do in a free country, living under con-
• talons far different from those of Ire-
land. Continuing, Mr. Dillon expressed.
his belief that Mr. Bryee's experience
of the present system of Irish Govero-
ment would melee Mtn more than ever
aetermined to champion Irish liberty.
At this remark some of the occu-
pants of the platform rose with a show
of indignation and the chairman said: I
must rule this out of order."
Teem then followed a small scene,
many persons in the audience calling
upon Mr. Dillon to "go on," but Mr.
Dillon insisted upon bowing to the rul-
lag of the chairman.
BOMB IN NEW YORK.
THROWN FROM ELEVATED RAIL-
ROAD AT ITALIAN FRUIT STORE. •
Proprietor and a Customer Probably
Fatally Injured -Crowds of Persons
Passing -Many of These Kocked
Down bYEzplosion.
New York, Jen. 7.-A bomb of giant powder
and shot was dropped from the elevated. rail-
road station into a crowd of people at the
corner of Second avenue and Forty-secOnd
street to -night. In the explosion that fol-
lowed three persons were injured seriously
and of these two win probably die.
The ontrage was seemingly direeted against
the proprietor of a fruit store on the corner,
and this man, Salvatore Ciniluea, aged 39
years, was one of the two dangerously in-
jured. The other was Mary Bailey, 40 years
f ago, who was making a purchase at the
stand. ThO fifteen -year-old sou of mamma
was less dangerously injured. The bomb
thrower escaped in the excitement.
The bomb fell on the sidewalk diretcly in
front of the fruit store and almost at the
feet of Ciniluca, his son and Miss Bailey.
Many Persons were passing at the tame and a
dozen of these were thrown to the ground.
TO HELP -RiP-ORTERS.
NEWSPAPER OFFICE WILL BE OPEN-
ED DAILY WITH PRAYER.
Kalamazoo, Mich., San. 7.-j0h31 A.
Ross, a managing editor of the Kalama-
zoo Gazette, yesterday announced that
the news department 'of the Gazette
would be opefted every day in the future
with prayer by himself or ministers of
the city.
The animuncement created considerable
eurprise, as Mr. Ross until recently ex-
pressed but little religions sentiment,
believe that the reporters will be
able to do better work, and that the
object of the newspaper will be more thor-
oughly reached in this way theft hereto-
fore," said Mr. Ross.
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VICTIMS OF WOLVES,
A Roumanian Pack Kill a Prieet and Itis
Servant,
Bucharest, Jan. 0. --With the Appear-
anee of 431101'.' in Roumania, wolves, Oils('
grim ierrore of Malan Europe. claim
their vietims every year. Their first in
the pretent year were a parish priest end
hie men tarreent, who went a few datas
steo tn a sledge from the village et feud-
tati t Movivesti,
tat days the mow bad lein thick sni
tb ;amnia. Olt their return journey
1 bit' tratallore were overtoken by tlie
dusk in it forest neer leuteeti itna a. peek
weatas nit itettel them. The terrified
li rsee uverturned the sleatle ana broke
the iraers, lees ing the men and sledge
behind, and not stopping until they
'AMP
Qaelled the Fest village on the ontekirts
of the forest.
A se.arelaine, party followed the tracks
of the borsts and at last found paw
111411*S in the snow, splashes of blood
and tat•ters of what had once been cloth
Mg, which told with horrible vividness
what had happened.
MATRIM.OWIAL TANGLE
IN WHICH EDGAR LEWIS, OF THIS
CITY, FIGURED.
Niagara Falls, Jan. 7. -Edgar Lewis,
of Hamilton, Ont., is happy again, al,
though his wife has another husband
tionlewhere in tlie 'country. But the Sea-
ona man hes disappeared, antl Mrs.
Lewis has come back to her first hus-
lama and ell is forgotten.
Lewis' wife (*meat) Niagara, Valls a
few weeks ego and marriet1 another
man without the formality of procuring
a divorce. Lewis followed and found
her here, but she refused to return with
him, although he said he was willing to
forgive her ana to provide for her again.
Angered, Lewis went to Police Justice
Banks and asked for a warrant for the
woman on the charge of bigamy.
Judge Banks refused to issue a war-
rant until he luel investigated the mat-
ter. He leaned that Lewis had mar-
ried hie wife at Brantford, Ont., in June,
1005, and that slue deserted him later
and came to this. city with Thomas
James, of Niagara Falls, Ont., to whom
she svas married here by Rev. Dr. D. IL
Mueller, of Buffalo, who was occupying
the pulpit of it. Paul's Methodist Epis-
copal Church in this city.
The woman evidently learned what
was going on, for when a local officer
tried to find her lm discovered that she
had gone back to Cantida.
This week Lewis came to Judge Battles
with las mother-holaw and -asked that
the warrant, be withdrawn, as his wife
had promise(b to live with him ogain.
The eeeond husbaed, he said, had disap-
peared.
LIEUT.-COL. STEWART DEAD.
Distinguished Scottish Canadian and
Soldier Passes Away.
London, Jan. 0.-LieuteColone1 II. K.
Stewart, C. M. G., a Scotch Canadian,
late King's messenger and a well-known
soldier, is dead, Colonel Stewart was an
efficer of the Gordon Highlanders, and
served at Tel el Kebir, aml other bat-
tles in the Soutian and Nile eampatigne,
acting, •for a time as A. D. fe to Sir lted-
vets Buller.
Durieg the South Aitken war, itt
whielt he servea first as eaptain of the
South Afritsta Liglat Horse -anti efter-
wards as commander of the Fourth Di-
vision lettnintea 'Infantry, he woe six
Hama mentioned in despatches.- ite was
fettemax ,',ears if age.
No 'Atte of Edward Dale.
Pitisl,um, 0.-• in spite of a
et.erAi in British Columbia. no clue to
the. wit-leo-II:lute .of V. It Edward Dade,
wealtby palms mail of Keeeport,
Pa., bag been discovered, and bus reit.-
liven InslieVe was murdered.