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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-04-04, Page 7THAiW A GOOD WITNESS ' found in the Darner Hotel. He Wea - ; arraigned before Pollee lifegistrate Houston at G o'clock and pleaded glailty. 1 li,no fm eewas remanded until Friday for tsen- ile is intelligent looking and we 11- 6 B • hidressed, ml all present eyinpathized with ! m for his unaccounteble lapse. When apprehended lie had on his person $350, or $10 less, than the amennt received . Defence Will Rest Case Believing That the Board Will Declare film Sane. Jerome Believes it Will be Several Days Before Commission Can Report. Dr. Leopold Putzel. Peter Butler Olney. TWO MEMBERS OF THE THAW LUNACY COMMISSION. New York, April 1, ---An important development in the court proceedings against Harry K. The wie the tomonnee- ment to -day by counsel for tint prisoner that the Thaw side rests, so far as .fur- ther testimony by their side is concerned, before the lunacy commission. The de. fence believes that this will help to bring this particular hearing to a close by Tuesday night, so that the trial, delayed for more than a week by the movement to determine Thaw's sanity at the pres- ent time, can be immediately resumed. The defence assumes, of course, that the commission will find. that Thaw is now sane. In fact, they are extremely confident of an outcome, basing their opinion on the splendid showing Thaw is said to have made when questioned by the eone missioners. District Attorney Jerome flees not share the opinion of the defettee that the commission will eonelitde its heariiig on Tuesday. [Te said the defence Wa8 os - smiting too mueli, and, expressed the be- lief that several days would elapse le,. fore the eorrunission report ed. .;\ Ir. .1 roma believes that the commission will hear his alienists, and he hopes, besides, that the testimony (.4 Dr. Allan Nletstne A, Hamilton will be admitted. There is no doubt that (1 u' Interim will be prolonged if the Slate's elioniAs are allowed to testify as fully as Mr. Jerome wishes them to do, but the deleuee's lawyers believe that they will only In, permitted to tell what they think of Thaw's present emelition, and faets of the distant past on which most of their conclusions are based will be eliminated. Daniel O'Reilly, who since the eine- mission was appointed has tal«,n an ac- tive part in. the defence with Clifford Hartridge, made Um anti ouneemmi t the t Thaw will stand on les testimony before the commission, and that 000044,1 will call no witnesses. He said: "The defence from the bank. ,TWO MEN LOST. NEWS IN BRIEF hae notified the powers invited to Ru attend the eonferenee of this action. Thomas Hanle, a young white inan, , formerly a Baptist prealeher, wait hang- ' iu the jail yard at Gaffney, 8. O., yes- FOR THE tIAGtit CONFERENCE terday for the murder of Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an aged white woman, last No- sessemenoreemesmisemmigil vember, Befere the black eap was adjust- ed Harris preached hie own funeral tier - mon. He killed Astrs. Morgan by cutting CANADIAN, her throat, after which he tools $800 from • clothei3. Belleville earpentere are amide% an 111. A silk manufacturing induetry is to he MAY NOT RECOVER. erease in wagon. TUG RUN DOWN BY FERRY BOAT ) (14011144 1 11 TorDniu• IN NORTH RIVER. Altu oh( age pension bill lete been intro- CONDITION OF HON. J. (hived m the Nova, Hartle. Legislature. JOHN VERY CRITICAL. „ ,Alre, AL N. Bird, of New York, is under New York, Apra 1, -.Two melt ate be. arrest in, Toronto on a charge of vag- lieved to have lost their lives in a col- lision in the North Myer early to -day, when the tug John D. Dailey W04 run down and sung by the ferryboat Mus - conetcongsof the Delaware, Lackawanna & ‘Vestern Railroad Co. Four members of the tug's erew were saved after jump- ing -overboard, but they euffered severe- ly from exposure, and were taken to 1 1Plit'VM! 110S1tital. no 10011 unaccounted for fire John sitaimpity, first offieer, and a deekhaud named MeDevitt. Captain. Wm, Healey and First Engineer John Cronin are also missing, but it is thought that they were not on. board the tug boat at the time of - the accident. The ferry boat euffered little damage. The tug boat attempted to cross the course of the ferry boat just as the latter approttehed its slip on the New York side of the river in a thick snow storm. will offer no more witnesses. We will not eall any alieniets, although we know that Mr. Jerome has the promise of the emninission to hear whet his experts have to say on the writing of Thaw on evidence: nilduced at the trial and on the observation.; they have made during the trial. Mr. O'Reilly expressed the opinion that Dr. Hamilton would not be allowed to testify, and he added that he hoped that the whole matter would. be ended on Tuesday night. "I do not see why it should mit be," he concluded. There will be a brief session of Justice Fitsgerald's epurt to -day, but the jury will again be dismissed, probably until Wednesday, to await the report of the lunacy commission, Thaw Wao1 under direct examinatiftn by the eommissioners for more than three hours on Saturday, and then for 45 minutes lie was under cross-examination IJV Dietrict At torney ;termite. The com- mission refused to allow Mr. Jerome to go into the prisoner's pest life. Thaw's direct and. cross-examinations were 110111 behind elosed doors, .and the eommission took extraordinary preean- floes to It Ivo the 1041 ring kept seeret. 1 t was Alai elk however, that Thaw eom- ported himself moet meditably and, an- swered Mr. 0r01110'A Sharp poinleit ulaNlial1A with calmness and delilwrn- hm, His attorneys expreesed themselves 11 entirely satisfied with the final stages of their elient's examination. Mr..Terome's ern s- een minatio II, they deel a red, did no sheke Thaw in the least. During the session the emmnission exemined four prison guarda, one of heel Thaw's personal wardew in GIs voila Toone and a. visiting physician to the 'Pond All declared that 'Maw hag net ed rot ionolly ever einee his int.:ills-To- t ion. Excused Until Thursday. New York. April I,- The jury in the Thaw trial to -day was ('X011 0(i until Thursday. •sok1•14••••••••.+•••••••••M ALLEGED MURDERER CUTS HIS THROAT C. P. R. Conductor Had Him Arrested -Tried to Suicide With a Jack -Knife. Newport, V., April I. -Dwight Niles, it of Newport, for whom the authorities had been searching since Saturday night, when he is alleged to have shot and killed his wife, waif arrested at Rich - ford to -day and placed in the local lock- up. Shortly afterward he eut his throat with a jack knife, but it is believed that the wound will not prove serious. Ar- rangements were neele to have hitit brought here en the noon traill, and 11 Was expeeted that lie would be given a hearing here this afternoon. Niles, 'who is said to have shot his wife at her father's home after she re- fused to return to live with him follow- ing a separations, disappeared after the sltooting. JTe headed for the Canadian line, an11 yesterday boarded a freight train on the Canadian Pati [10 Railroad bound for Montreal. The conductor had hen rd of the murder, and tweeting sus- picions, when the train reached Richford MANN' the authorities. Niles made no reeistanee when nrrested. ALLEGED TO BE INSANE. I A TERCENTENARY. Toronto, April I. -Captain J. M. Cody, I an ex -war correspondent and historian, who came to Toronto from Detroit, wits placed in No. 3 Police Station. early yes- terday morning as being insane. Ile had been arrested at the Western Hospital. The man, who appeared in eburt here be - fere, but who was given into the care of a relative, Mr. J. P. Sewell, of 65 Clara avenue, Toronto Junction, last, Thule, - day, wandered from that place on 1ie- -4y. Cody came to Toronto1- aeon. 1 a week ago and registered at the Queen's Hotel. Sillortly afterwards he addressed tele- grams to President Theodore Roosevelt and another prominent United. States statesman, which indieated him to be in- sane and. to be laboring under the hal- lucination that Ile was a delegate to an imagined peace conference. Oorrespon- &nee and papers found with him showed the man to have a mania on the subject of social, political and. international pro- blems, in the latter of which W01.4 01111 rumors a war figured largely. Cray was a war correspondent iu the late Philippine war, and afterwards wrote °Ahistory of that event. Ito is not eon- sidertscl. dangerously insane tied Ida con- dttet is alWaye inoffensive. Ito takes his arrest as a joke. 4.4* Swettenham's Successor. tendon, "Alarelt 30. -King Edward lins upprovect the appointment of Ssciney Olivier to be Govereor of ,Ta 01111)41, itt SUM' ell Sir Alexander Swot toillant. who recently resigned the calve, giving as the reason Ins aimed years. End Came Suddenly. London, Ont., ltfarelt 31.- Sergi. Major llohert Adams, of the London pollee levee, died ett, hie lutine last night from heart failure. Ile was on duly all Vil• tiny night •and in es:vented health. lie WaS 01 years of age and luta been on the foree situ* 1S7i1. • fi WANT SIR WILFRID TO SPEAK AT CHAMPLAIN EVENT. VACCINATION PARTIES. - Ilow Some French Fashionables Set an Example. Paris, April 1.- Paris confronts smallpox, that iusidious foe, in the same gay, daring: spirit, that she has repulsed so many el her enemies. It is Inc from true that smallpox is epidemic here, hut there are many cases. No law vompels vaeeination, and very few Freneli, comparatively, bavo been inoeulated against the, disease.. Mothers devoted to their children, who are so few and precious. deelare that their babies' betties shall not be "marred," "disfiburetl.' Cmintese Bardazon asked her female friends to is tem party yesterday. The invitetiOnS react: "Miesie, singing, vaccination." The music and the songs were very pleasing. There appeared -a young doe' tor, who, it may be noted, is handsome, He made a few polite remarks, telliug how smallpox mars beouty, can • eon - vert the whole lovable face into a eous- visage. Countess Bardazon first bared her arm, and the doctor remarked after- ward: 'Anatomically, it was a very fine one." He vaccinated her and every one of her guests. And every one of them says she will giver a vaccination tea party. A Sad Tragedy, Dover, N. J., April I. -Matilda Britting, 28 years old, wife of Otto T3ritting, of Millbrook, near here, yesterday afternoon drowned her- self and Iter nine -months -old son George and three-year-old step- daughter Grace in Shongum Lake, two miles from home. The three bodies were discovered at 'day- break to -day in shallow water about twenty feet from shore. The mother was in a stooping posture with the boy clasped in her arms, while the girl was beneath her. The garments of both children were fastened to their mother's with safety pins. 4-4-atesee-e-serseeees-•-•-e-e-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-o-* DIES BECAUSE FRIEND DIED. Suicide Left Word, "Bury Me Beside 'Chick' Stahl." Fort Wayne. Ind., March 31. --David I'. Murphy, an engineer 011 the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, committed suicide- yesiterday illy' swallowing car- lseilbelieved the suicide of Chick Stahl, the Bosten American baseball Player, who was an intimate friend of Murphy, had somee effect in. giving suicidaimpulse to Murphy's mind. Murphy left a note saying: 'Bury me beside Chick." CONVICT'S WIFE SHOTS JUDGE. Cheque Book and Pocket Book Turn Bullet Aside. Ripe, Wis.. March 31. --Mrs. W. H. °echos following the eonvietion of her hushand fur 'erectly of old iron, last eliciting snot Justice of the Peace L. E. Nithlin, in the court room, but the bullet- was defitsded by a cheque book autl a pocket book, saving his life. She fired fonr other shots, three go. iii" wide of the mark, and one striking Charles Nashuba over the heart. Ile may die. Mrs. Ogden was_ arrested. Ottawa, April Is -Two Commissioners • FLEW SIXTY YARDS. ed Sir Wilfrid Laurier, asking his spa- Sucessful Experiments Conducted With --- from the United States to-dtty interview - pathetic assistance in the celebration pori.; mtrre7e3hi._A-e,roolpelaitier.itthi of the of the tercentenary of the discovery by Champlain of the Lake bearing his name. The U. S. vonsul, Hon, J. G. Foster, in- terviewed the representatives, Hon, H. W. Bailey, of Newbury, Vermont, and L. M. Hays, of Burlington. They want the Premier to be n. speaker at OAS (went, and 10 eteoperate hi the rrangem en N. FOILED THE WATCHERS. ------ -- Revolutionist, Single Hande, Kills Two Policemen Lying in Wait. Moscow, March 31.---1he police on Saturday dieeovered and m4111.11(4 a revolutiohloy meeting plaee. They sta- tioned au tonlefiwade, and to -day a stir dent who hail not been warned that the plats, had been disetiveret1 a1)pro4te1its1 the maritime. Polieemen Andreff and el on (kelt ari 11 leaped frt on t lie ambush toward the studeut, killed both of them with his revolver and eseapeil 110 Wo1111(1011. - 10, playing 111'01111a it hole itt the river at FORGED CHECK ON BANK. leaminietiernia three eliildren belongieg to Mr. Elliott, storekeeper, fell into the ivy water, Wine, aged seven years. 3. Eery Wiers, of Charing Cross, ArrestedIltis &sweet's see „iis,r tWO 01111(11101 at Chatham. I being 1'e9eue4I with diffieulty. Chatham, Marelt 31. -Yesterday elf- I trnoon Jamee Simon, "Manager of the 1 Sunday Mail at Kingston. local breech of the Canadian Bank tif ' Ningston, March 31. - Postmaster Onnineree, informed the ,jediee depart- Stewart received- antliority last night to lent that J. Parry \Vlore of Charing open the lobby of lite postoffiee to box Cross. had during the early afternomi loaders on Sundays, itini toslay, for the ferged a elteque Inc $375. first time, 1 11 ie privilege mits iteeortled Wiers„ 11111.) 144 :33 2,0;114 a -age and leivestonises. The lobby -was spot from ciaid to be its live in Situelay eeltool 11101 p. in.. a nil many seemed einirell viril4 ,. of bie native ball, W0,1 ma Toronto, April ,T, W. St, John, Duties collectee at Toronto during past 11100 111011ths showed au increase of was operated tipon one week ago yester- the filwaker of the Legislative ,Assembly, who 650,040.0i. Do lit Grange aeroplane were conducted yesterday before tt. number of well- known aeronauts, They were most sue- «,ssful. the maehine flying Inc a distatwe of sixty yatds. M. Santos-lhunont, who was present, heertily eongratulated his rivals on their stloec,i,I. 4 .1 Piano Fen on Strathroy Drayman. Strathroy, Ont., March, 30.--Berbert copper. drayman, of this town, met with a very serious end peinful accident early this morning. Cooper was 'unloading a piano in front. of E. J. Wright's 11111510 ort., when 11 slipped. of f the Melt, fall- ing on his ankh.. di,doeating it badly. The. herge bone eves rowed elem. through the skin and the small bone fraetured. Ile will be laid up Inc some time. - 4 Three Children in River, Fort, William, Marelt 31. -- While Wider in the Rideau, River resit ,11011 1141%. flooding seva eral villges ;seer Ot- James Graham fell into a vat of Veil- ing water at Lindsay cuel was terribly sealded. IL is reported that the Grand Trunk will put on a new train between Chicago and Montreal about May 1. day at the General Hospital for ante appendicitis, is critieally ill and his re• covery is regarded as doubtful. Ile bad been making an excellent recovery until o'eloek yesterday morning, when he was seized with heart failure, d110 JO 110111 Whieh he 11.05 110011 FAlf- filing, and at one time it was thought Professor B. E. Barrow was appointed professor of the Department of Forestry in the University of Toronto. Eire mused considerable damage in premises oceupied by several firifte on Wellington street east, Toronto., Premier Whitney said he knew noth- ing of nus proposal for an fiterease in the eateries of Cabinet Ministers, Mr. Peter Ryan Wa4 knoeked down by a car on Yonge street, Toronto, on Thursday. 1 Us inj Lilies were not serious. The C. 1'. R. steamer Loire Manitoba. arrived at St. John from Liverpool, four days overdue, having lost two men over- board on the passage. .Tudge McHugh has been promoted to he senior judge of msex comity, and Mr. N. P. Clement, K. C., of Berlin, succeeds hina ns junior Judge. The overdue debts of the late Ontario Bank nre plaeed at $1,771,759. There are still $198,011 of Ontario Bank notes in circulation. Word has ben received of the death at Ridgetown of James Rushton, ex -Grand Treasurer el the Ancient Order of Unit- ed Workmen. A deputation representing the Advi- sory Council of the Ontario Medical As- sociation asked the Government to create O Department of Public Health. A search is being made for the secur- ities formerly held by the Ontario Bank, which, it, is said, were removeti from a eafety deposit vault after the failure, Two sectioes of a freight train col- lided at Merritton yesterday and several ears were wrecked. A large quantity of provisions, including eggs and butter, was scattered over thetrack. Alt'. Charles Clark, of the Comber Her- ald, states that he will run as an inde- pendent caudidtite against Dr. Anderson. the party nominee in South Essex for the Legislature. judge Fraleck, Beilevilie, ltas quash- ed ten of.:the eleven convictions against the Corby Distillery Company falDr don of the alien labor net, but upholds the eleventh convietion. John Wilson, it prominentfarmer of Belle Plaine, malinger of the Western Elevator at :Masque, near Moose Jaw, was iustantly killed. this morning while starting a gasoline engine. Tho congregation of the First Baptist, Church'nn Wiipeg, has extended a cell to Rev. A, A. Shaw, Brookline, Mass., to succeed Rev. john McNeil, now of Tor- onto. Geeeral Manager ;tames, ef the C. N. 1.1„ who has been in Chicago attending the eonferenee of railway men, thinks a strike will le, .tivoided, Mr. James. de- nies the report that he will resign his, po- sition with the Cautulian Northern. All the employees at the Belleville gas plant handed in their resignations to the City Council on Thursday evening. They have been compelled to take the action owing to some disagreement be- eween them and Mr. Thos. Gardner, who two clays ago assumed managenwnt of the gas department.. Unless unfore'seen developments arise within the next few days ealculated to prolong the session of Parliament, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Frederiek Borden, and probably Hon. Mr. Brodeur, will leave Ottawa on Thursday next, sailing from St. John the following day on the steamship Empress of Britain for London. The Baptist Foreign Mission Board de- cided yesterday afternoon to request its missionaries in :India to make a care - fel estimate of the actual numbn of missionaries required to evangelize their 'maim) of the mission field, with ft view to the future poliey of the board, 10;0 14 ansious to send out the full vonsple- meet of men and WOM011 required cwt.- ing the next few years. THE HON. j, W. ST. JOHN, that he would not live through the day, At night he ralliecl somewhat, but no hope was held out. Drs. Bruce, W. Caren and J., Caven were in attendance. Last night a statement front the hos- pital was to tee effect that 3Ir. St. Johu's condition had been low all day, He had rallied somewhat, but at a late hour the outlook Wile very unfav- orable. Toronto, April L -Tho condition of the Hon. J. W. St. John, Speaker of the Legislature, this morning is unchanged, so the general hospital reports. 4-0.4-4-4-++.44-4-4-4--4-4-4-4-1.-4--4--4-4 4-4-4-4 -4- In Front of Mirror. Pittsburg, Pa., April I. -George B. Boswell, 52 years of age, a re- tired business man, art connoisseur and millionaire, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head in the toilet room at the East Liberty station of the Penn- sylvania Railroad last evening. Yesterday he purchased a revolver. A short time later Boswell walked into the station and, going to the toilet room, he walked over to the mirror above the washstand and stood looking at his reflection for a moment. Suddenly he pushed back his hat and drawing his re- volver fired a bullet into his right temple. 4-4 +4.44-4-0 -4-4-4 4- 4- 0-4.4-4-4-4.4-4-4-4-04-4- 60,00-6 VOLTS. ESSEX ALARMED ABOUT UNPRO- TECTED WIRES. Essex, OM., April L-lt is alleged that it si the intention of the Windsor, Essex & Lake Shore Railway to carry six. thou- sand volts on its trolley wire through the main street of this town, and to carry a fifteen thousand volt. feed wire unprotected through the corporation, 'the town will ask tit Government to send an iuspector here to report before the work is :snowed in go on. BRITISH AND FOREIGN It is announced Gen. Keroki will re- present the japaneee army at the James- town celebration. Rayner, the murderer of Win. White- ley in London, has been granted. a re- prieve by the Crown. The sealing eteamer etreeniand, after a, long battle with storm and ice, foun- dered in the northern ice fields. Captain Charles W. Stone, formerly a resident of Windsor, told for many years etiptain of em, of the Greed Trunk ear ferries between Winfkor and Detroit, is dead in Detroit, in his 73rd year. Several Indian regimeets will this year be .celebrating their jubilee. It was in 1857, on the outbreak of the Sepoy Mu- tiny that the Paujaub showed its full measure of loyalty. There Was ft bomb explosion in the Peva quarter of Constantinople yester- day. Beyond the fact that two men were killed and four wounded no details have yet been learned. An unknown wonutu jumped to death over the brink of the American falls et Proepect Park lete yesterday-. Several people witnessed the traged,y. The woman was about farty Tearik of age ana waa &('41ed in black. London Vanity Fair states that rather diequieting 1701)01(4eome from 'Madrid as to the 'health of King Alfonso. It is Raid there that he has been eofferiarts from 0 recurrence of the lung trouble ed several mulles ago, when it was rumor- ed that ho was it lietim of ftdheren1o44. Four boes were run down and instant- ly killed by tt light engine. on, the Penu- sylvanitt P. 1.1. traeks at Indian Churelt road, near Buffalo, last night. The dead arm Anthony Phillips, nineteen years of age; Frederick Phillips, sixteen yeast% brother of. Anthony; Otto Mole, tie - Yin yeate; Hugh Heavy, fotirteen evars. Great Britain has. made a 'forma awl of fieial requeet upon Russia, to include in the programme of the next Hague Conferenee the queetion ed the limitation of the expenditnre ne armaments, owl through her Ambassadors and Ministers A ROYAL PILGRIMAGE. King and Queen of Spain Visit the Virgin's Seven Shrines. - London, Morel' 31, --The Times' cor- reapondent sends the following. front Madrid: The Ring and Queen seem to 1011,0 elven nmeh pleasure to the people of Mirdrid by visiting together without state the seven popular Shrines of the Virgin Mary. The custom has been fol- lowed by all the Queens of Spain for cen- turies on tit etw of their accouchement. • • • +4-4,44-4-44-4-4-4-4-•-•-•+-4-414-•-0-•44-1-* Six Men Killed. Fort Worth, Tex., April r. -Six men are reported to have been killed in a collision. between two freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad at Betides switch, six miles south of here, to -day. Thirty freight cars were burned. Aid has been sent from this city. 4-•-•-•-.4-44.4-444-4- Great Britain Anxious to Have the Question of Disarmament Discussed by the Powers, Berlin, April 1. ---The Ruseian Govern-, a armaments will find a, place in the ment hats euhmitted to the principal 1 powers confidentially a revised pro- ' ''''" pl'ortuntite to .Dreat Britairfe inesets Lsertious made in London that Ger gnome of the subjects to be discussed many will withdraw from the conference. at the approitehing Peace eanferenee At rather than have the question of the The nape, limitation of armaments discussed axe unfounde. The United States, it is 'The correspondence ia this connection . understoodd. will reserve its decision re - between the Russian Foreign Office and garding participation of the discussion of the Foreign Offieee of the powere con- , the arntaments question, the general Gimes, the objeet being to reach 011 eiew at Waeltington being, it is assert - agreement in advance of communieating ed here, that as the United litatea ie out- ninIntireingl(jtavserinticititelflto4;undateel a poeition to urge the continental powers 1 141(30 the European system it Is not in a prize plan for the limitation of arnsti,t,-.., Nf..liirift..tilleoti11(10' arrest their land armaments ;melte aid seems unwilling' to do subject of naval armaments Nevertheless it 14 VottKitlerril most prob. atiq.nhorit les at Washington appear to able that' it discussion of the limitation be bens/insect to cease their development, VONA'S WARNING TO ZION GM Cliivago,•April 1.-- Wilbur Mena 'Vol - Iva issued au ultimatum in Zion yester• day. Videee the people subinit to lihn on May 1 he will take radio' aetion him- eelf, he said. Voliva denaturett every one who lute opposed him. He took as the occasion for Ids ultimatum the anniversary of his ejection of John Alex, Dowie from the church, having expelled the late leader one year ago yesterday. "I say to you, officers and people, that one month more 1 will give you," be said. ''On May 1, if you do not make a. radical move 1 shall make One and put a stop to this eriticism of me," lie then melted, Ins own deeds, claiming he made Zion what it is. Re ORO said he would make the community the wonder of the age, and set it strongly on its feet finan- cially . Of the 1,500 people present, 1,200 Said they would follow him. He launched into a, denunciation of those who weuld not submit. lie said that while lie would, consider the adviee of his counsel, he would do as he saw fit, and continue tho one man rules COBALT NOTES. }The development wort: on the Ltittle Nlp- issing and the Princess has iiroved very encouraging, There is considerable talk at Cobalt about the discovery ot two new veins on the Sli- ver 131ra pronertY. At the Rochester Cooalt the new plant Is installed and the steam drill at vas. At the Silver Queen everything is in good shape. Superintendent Bryce has 40 men steadily at work in three shifts. (At the Cleveland -Cobalt everything 18 ready for the Mstallation, of the plant, and when this is done they will .probably have the best plant in the camp. 'rho big, new plant at the Watts is mow In operation, and four drills are being steadily worked both day and arightIn a short time ten. drills be In. operation. At the MacKlnley-Darragh steady and conscientlous development work has teen done all vtinter by Superintendent MacDon- ald, and, while the shipments. from this mine since Christmas have not been numer- ous, they have sent some very rich ore. At the Cobalt Silver Mountain Mining Co., Stmt, John A.. Macdonald (formerly et the tfretheway) reports that their shaft Is now down a depth of over ten feet, and their four foot vein has widened to five feet, and PellOWS ,geod ealcite, micookite and art abund- ance of bloom, NO MORE NEWS. (.011,tfuntinopk, April Le -The report that a severe earth:inake ftee0Mp4tided ivy los4 of life, has oceurred at Bitlis appears to lit, confirmed, but the number avalits i unktitmn. Beyeliti a brief Ineeseste lime the missionaries at Billie ri.pialing that 1 ht. badly dam - :teed. that they are itoinelteet and that the ir people :tie eneemptel ia the enew. whielt itt plaree 115 fmt.t deep. 1:0 11(11.'S of 1 lip 01!.:1-te1 it.aolto Phillips at the Penitentiary. Ripest on, Mated' 30.--Josepit Phillips, ex-Preeitlent of the York Loan & Say - inset towhee., melt ed here this afteroon, Ile wee Itemleuffeel to Another prisoner, Nattlialliel Hillman, sentenced to two yezIrS. :for the ft. Phillips appeared to be in the health and epirits when lie alighted front the train, and talked and lokeel with Itis fellew-prieoner and the eleteetives. On the journey down lte was just as joeial. The Cochrane is one of the highly thought of erOperties in this Vert of the camp. 0 consists of the east 20 acres of the south ball of the northeast quarter at lot 1 in the thirdconcession of Coleman, lying di- rectly south of the Temiskaming mine and east of tbe Gnns 20 acres. Chief of Pollee George •Caldbeek, P. E. Calverley anti "another" ore 0111011g 1110 men who expect to figure very shortly its owners of gold Mines in Northern New On- tario. They received word yesterday tbat a very valuable discovery had been mode 011 ono of their properties down near Tighe Syndicate holdings at Larder Lake. The discovery consists of several large quariz veins carrying free gold. It is believed tbe .big Timmons merger, affecting a number of properties, will be consummated in a few days. °facials of some of the companies were in Toronto on Saturday, but they refusetl to make anv comment oa the situation. .Supposlug the negotiations are brought to a successful conclusion, it means that all the properties effected will be mined in Just the saule systematic manner as the La Rose. The new plant of the Keewatin Cobalt Silver Mining Company thas arrived at the mine. Officials or the company say it will be in operation this month, OPPOSE STRIKE. RAILROADS SAY MEN FAVOR AC- CEPTING WAGE OFFER. --------- threago, EL, April 1. --The railroads am:omits, a eerret eatiVits jlt,t colnplettd It luting their employees, showing a strong sentiment against mines a big strike and in favor of accepting the wage offer of tilt . roads. The announcentent Was Made to the Federal Commissionere, who are attempting to bring, about a. settle - mein. of the dispute. It may have an important bearing on the peace negotia- tions. Yellowing this 111011e of the rail- road:I. a report wa4 spreadthat the lead- ers ofthe unions were preparing to make severalcone4ee.soions. FORGOTTEN IN PANIC. Operator of Moving Picture Machine Burned to Death at Lockport. Lockport. April 1. ---Albert Phillips, 21 years of ago. operator of a moving eteture nmelline in the Amnia Theatre, was burned tn death to -night. Phillips wee in the 1.0e of the in:whine when it In the panic. which speetators Phillips was forgot tea. llis body, burned to a erisp, was tented inside the box when the fire wee put ottt. No one in the crowd was injured. SHOT AND KILLED WHILE RUNNING TO THE RESCUE OF A GIRL. drink, They had a misuntlersta,nding in the solon, and When: they reached the street Farley says Dawkinge seized him anel took a roll of bills amounting to $12 front his pocket, threatening to elub him if be made an outcry. Darkins was arraigned. and held, in $2,000 bail for examination Monday. He was also suspended front the force pend- ing the hearing. • DIVINITY DOCTORS. FOUR PROMINENT PRESBYTERIANS TO BE HONORED BY KNOX. Senate of the University Approves of Degrees to Revs. R. E. Welsh, J G. Shearer, J. H. Ratcliffe and Hugh Mackay, Toronto, April 1.--Forn Doctors of Divinity vill be created by Knox Got - lege next Thursday evening in connec- tion with the closing exercises of the present session. The gentlemen selected for this honor by the. Senate of the col- lege, are, Rev. It. E. Welsh, M. A., of To- ronto, General Secretary of the Canadian St. Joseph, Mo., April' 1.- Charles L. 14taitb-ey 11 eommereial traveller,. utak killed here last night by Wesley Chris. toplier. Clo•booplier is alleged to have assaulted a. young woman in an alley. When Staitley heard the girl seream he ran tO her reeene aud 11711,4 shot Itt tho heart. Christeether wag arreMied. POLICEMAN ARRESTBD. Charged With Highway Robery in New York. Nev Yorl.. April Patrolman teleage Dawkins, of the Brooklyn police feree, Was arreetcd. to -day on a charge tI huldiug itt John Earley, it stereo- typer, end tatting bine of $12. :Ae- einelhor to Palley, he irivited Dawkine, eslioni he 'met in the street, to take a REV. J. G. SHEARER. Bible Society, who is nominated for the chair of apologetics in the Presbyterian College, Montreal, who will be presented for laureation by His Honor the Lieut. - Governor of Ontario; Rev. J. G. Shear- er, 13, A. of Toronto. Secretary of the Lord's Day Allianee of Canada, and for- merly pastor of Erskine Church, Hamil- ton, who will be presented: by Mr. John A. Paterson, M. A., is,. C.; Rev. J. li. Ratcliffe, B. A., minister of First Pres- by t erian (11111011, St. Catharines who Will be presenteby Rev. Dr. Fletcher, of Hamilton, and Rev. 'Hugh Maelisty, 13, A., missionary to tile Indians, Round Lake, Sask. - • -* BODY FOUND ON THE ICE. Disappearnce of John Lewis Kelly at Orillia Explained. ()riffle, despeteht John LESWIA Kelly, aged 21 years, became mentally de- ranged laet December and escaped from his home one night about the middle of that month. Search wars instituted without avail, but yesterday his body was brought here from Lake St, john, eight miles distance. where it Was found on the lee by two Indians. Deceased's Watch and money Were found on him, and it is assumed that he wandered away until he perished with the eold. Ilis parents moved here from Canning - ton a few inonthe ago, ROCKEFELLER GIFTS MADE. Five Colleges and Colored Schools Get Share of $32,000,000. New York, April 1. -The first dis- tribution by the fleneral. Falticarron BOard since it received joint Roeke- feller's most recent eontribution (it $32,0utko0o was made 01 11. meeting, of the lloord tosloy, when eonditional gifts of :1,43115,000 wero made to five edneational institutions 114 foiloWS: Y0 10 $300,000; Princeton retiversity, $.200,000; llowdoitt College, Itrunswiek, Mee $50;000; Colorado Col- lege, Colorado Springe, $50,000; Mill. saps College, .Ittektion, Miss,, Se5,00e, and $4,2,r,no to entered sehoole, the anieS of whit+ Were we - ON MOUNT OLIVES. Jerusalem, "..‘tarelt I. -The foundation stone of the new German hospital on the mount of Olives was laid yesterday in the presenee of the (Inventor of Jerusa- ilem, the other local 011101019 awl many speetatore to the aecompautent of cheevs for Emperor William and for the Sultan of Than, who gave the land and au- thorized the coustntetion of the hoe/that,