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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-04-25, Page 7THE IEFENCI3BEGU IN E K1 S' TRIAL Crown's Evidence All in On Saturday—Review of the Principal :Brought Out by the Prosecution. ly. tell me --why are .you. all wait- ing here'!" "To see the Xing of the ileightne." "Oh, I would not wait to 451!0 him, if . were you," retorted the tall man, : With that the tall man deliberately COMMITS SUICIDE grinning satirieully. "He far from being au interesting sight, aeeure you." thrust his elbow into the citizen's ribs, begged pardon again and slipped into the , hotel. Ott the portico King Leopold halted. • Rwich Philadelphia Merchant Commits Crime and Prefers Death to Exposure, WITH BROK GLASS Points and with mock noliteneee raeeed lue hat • • - and saluted the erenath_ saying: "You Whets wish to-7eee.1. the Xing of the Belghtne. Here he isi" But the crowd,. appreciating the ab- eurd situation, cheered the Xing before it melted away. P THE CONGO'S FUTURE. • Defence Witnesses Say Perkins Complained of Being Poorly—Troubled With R.heurnatism—Old Mr. McDonald Collapses. 44-4.--4-0-•-•-4-+4.-•-•-•-•-••••••+.0-•-4- • •-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-le+++.4-•-•4-1-e++44-0 (33y our own Reporter,) Cayuga, April eo.—The Crown's case in the Perkins murder trial was cloeed on Saturday afternoon, but it is likely that several witnesses may be called in rebuttal. Following is a summary of the case thus far, showing what the Crown seeks to prove by the testimony offered: Henry Perkins, of Canfield, returned home from Welland in an ordinary state of health on Saturday, Dec. 22, to spend Christmas. He intended to return to Welland after the holiday, as shown by the fact that he made an appointment with an acquaintance for the Sunday following. On Sunday he' took a walk to his farm, some distance out. There he took violently ill, and the symptoms of his illness were pronounced by medi- cal men to be similar to those caused by an overdose of strychnine. He was given an emetic, and after vomiting he soon recovered. He was ill again on Monday, and the family doctor was called, and left medicine, part of which was heart tablets, for him. These tablets, the doctor swore, did not contain strychnine. On Christmas morning he was taken violently ill as on Sunday, and died in about an hour in terrible agony. The symptoms were in some re- spects those of strychnine poisoning. The post-mortem examination some days after death revealed the fact that the kidneys were slightly diseased, not sufficient to cause death, and were congested, as if affected by some irritant poison, The heart, kidneys, liver and urine were examined by the Government analyst, and some of the organs were found to contain strychnine. The Government analyst swore there was enough strychnine left in the stomach, not absorbed by the system, under some conditions, to kill an- other man, and in his opinion three-fifths of a grain had been taken into the system. Half a grain is in many cases a fatal dose, While Perkins was at work in Welland and in an apparently fair state of health, 1VIrs. Perkins told friends he was ill; was not likely to live long, and "that Henry woeeld not be with her long." That about Dec. is Mrs. Perkins paid a short visit to Mrs. Carter in Walkerville, and while there asked her about purchasing strychnine to kill rats, and asked her to let her daughter get a doctor's order for strychnine. She was told that it could be purchased in Detroit without such an order. That Mrs. Perkins left Mrs. Carter's house to do some shoPping, and did not return to Mrs. Carter's home again. A pill box was found by Detective Greer in Perkins' house after the inquest, and the Government analyst found traces of strychnine adhering to the bottom, which was rough. That Mrs. Perkins was friendly with Tom McDonald, a near neighbor, and the Crown seeks to show the two were indiscreet. 444++++*•4444.4-0-41-44-0-0-0-0-04-0-0-4-00-6-9-04-4-•4-0-0-4-1 lat.41- 0-644 The above is some of the points of the , evidence that have been brougrt out and which the jury is asked to place on one side of the ecale of justice. Will the defence be able to put in evidence to outgeight them? That is a question Pali witl be ansmetred (Wow many sun e sot. e The line of defence, as intimated Als through the cross-examination of the Crown witnesses, is that Perkins' kid- neys wore diseased and that he tontract- ed a severe colkl in them while walking to hie farm on Sunday, causing an acute condition, such as, would be produced by an overdose of atrychnine. It will also eontend that the tablets which the fam- ily doctor left on the day before the death contained strychnine, as the phy- sician thought they- did when be left them, and, that Perkins swallowed all of them in a sheet epee° of time, aggra- vating the condition, of the diseased kid- neys and .causing death. It is not. thought that the prisoner Will be called upon to testify, as Mr. E. 13. F. John- ston, her senior vounsel, almost; invaria- bly vefrains from putting defendants whom be acts for in criminal eases on the witness stand. Old McDonald Collapses. At the close of the Crown's case on Saturday afternoon several witnesses were called for the delence, and one of them, Tom McDonald's lather created a sensation when he collapsed in the wit- ness stand. He had been speaking for about five minutes when he threw up _nide bands and. fell back. His face became Tele white as, chalk, and restoratives weer applied by a doctor. It was stated that McDonald's heart e.bopped, and he weeld have been dead in a nima° had not a doctor been present. McDonald. recov- ered in a short time and continued his ttestimene,i, He &cated pat Mbes• Johnston, of Andierstburg, was wrong whet). she said. that Tom elept on the couch or in his .-own room the two nights Out Mre, 3.01111StOrt IVAS there. Tont he declared, slept with him in hie room, and. Mrs. McDonald and Mos. Per- kins slept together in Tom's room. Mc- Donald said he was in the hardware business in Canfield, and that his fam- ily and the Perkinees NV.01,0 on terms of closest friendship. In the fall of 1000 Mae. Perkins WAS several times unwell, and Mrs. McDonald ietayed all leigilat with her on two or three occasions. Perkins once toldhint that he TICYCT . had a well day.. There was no change in the actions ef Tom and MTS. Perkuta when Perkins. was, away from what oc- curred when Perkins WAS present, Mrs. Perkins 'danced with several men at the '- Pressed further, Mr. Murphy saul he Peel:the was present. McDonald saw Mr. Greer write his initials in the 'Thaid Mrs. ePekine had spoken t� bite 'lid of the box; he could only identify about whet her wident'e portion might the lid. be, because Henry was in a daneerous business and ehe would hate for Milers to get the property., rheumetism, but his stomach troubled Often Said He Was Poorly. William Haines, Canfield, knew Per- kins very well, living near his house. He had. beard Perkins say he was poorly. 'Witness was at Perkins' house the day before be died and heard him tell his wife she was unneeessaelly excited about his illness and that he had been sick fre- quently without her having a knowledge of it. Merville MacDonald., a. law student in the offiee of johnston & Co., of Toronto, gave evidence. of taking a trunk from Canfield to Toronto, and identified the contents, which. include4 keys, circulars, empty bottles, three pass -books, a writ- ing pad, a "pink -pill" box, an atomizer, medical lozenges and some medical tab- lets. There was a quantity of clothes, also. Prisoner wept while the items were being enumerated and exhibited. The court adjourned. at 4.30 till 1 o'clock on Monday, Judge Mabee and the Toronto lawyers went to their homes for Sunday. Incidents of the Trial. Although there have been murder trials at Cayuga before, the present one is at- tracting more attention than any form- er ono, and the burg has been filled. up sine° before the case went to tbe grand jury. It is expected many hundreds more Will COMB in on Tueedity, with the hope of hearing Mr. Johdr neton's adess to the jury. It will no doubt be a bril- liant ono There is a large corps of newspaper men and artists—and one lonely woman reporter. The fair jour- nalist, who represents the town paper is Miss MacNiven, who is a niece of Mr. Wm. Murray, the Hamilton poet. Mr. Minsey, the G. N. W. agent, hats been congratulated on the excellent ser- vice given the newspaper men. Ho has two fast operators, J. F. MeTaggart, the racing expert and Jimmy Sugdon, formerly of the Hamilton office, on hand to handle the specials, On Friday these sent out over 23,000 words. The town paper, the Advocate. showed enterprise by getting out a daily edition at a loss. From the Saturday. edition the following extracts were taken: "The city reporters. are a, jolly, gen- duce these statements, but Greer said he tlemanly crowd, with Mr. Spurgeon Cow - had not got them. Mr. Johnston then per as the Doan of the Press Gallery. Mr. said he must ask the crown to produce Jeffries, of Toronto, has secured some them. Mr. Arnold' refused to do so. splendid .sketches of persons taking part Mr. Johnston appealed to His Honor, in the trial and also of some of the mid- claimine he was entitled to all the docu- low°. The case is receiving a large am- ments in the case. An English judge ount of attention from the outside world, had recently given that decision, and that "J. A. Murphy is very much rushed ,such statements were goad in evidence. attending to his manifold duties an 1.11ese statements were improperly ob- Crown Attorney, but he fills his diff 1- tained, he stated. Greer had testified cult position well and to the satiefac- that parts of theee statements were eb- tion of la It is greatly owing to his jected to and altered, but be was (118 - obliging and untiring exertions that the ,satisfied to rest his case against them case has had no interruptions and. hes merely on Greet's evidence. proceeded so rapidly.av justice Mabee said he would he to "Two men and a bear passed through rule against Mr. Johnston, who asked town on Saturday. for a reserve case. In the meantime he "The cross-examination of Dr. • John - will endeavor to geb his authority for sten was very interesting. He and the judge. his clever prosecutor had met before, "And you were the first to mention and it was a fair example of "Greek strychnine to this woman?" asked Mr. meets Greek)." "Did Me. Johnston Johnston. make such a etatement?" said the ex - "Yes," replied the witnees, aminer and the reply came, "Which Greer was positive he (Greer) was Mr. Johnston?" "Yee! there are two the one who found the book. Ire put of us," retorted the lawyer, whom it his initial on the lid. of the box when he seems impoeeible to take off his guard. found it, but did. not mark the body of "Don't lose your temper, Dr. John - the box.. ston," wae another remark, which "And there are millione of those boxes . brought forth the reply, "I cannot in existence?" lose what I have not got," and the "Yes." answer flashed back, "Perhaps you "That lid might have been on half a can lose your head." dozen boxes?" "The trial will probably be the long - eyes). est ever held. in the court bouie, High "And although Murphy said when you Constable Farrell states that the long - found it: 'This is the very thing we est former trial wan the Young affair, want!' you didn't produce it at the pre. wbich Meted five days." liminary trial?" "We didn't know what it was." Cayuga, April 22,—(Special)—The jury "Yet you saki it had a special inter- in the. Perkins' murder ease were at yet bemuse you bed got a simikir one vine service twice yesterday, at the Eng- frT.;.Z. Snider?" byterian Church in the .ovening. In the lish Church in the morning and the Pres - afternoon they went for a long drive and Crown Attorney's Evidence, made inspection of the new window glass - Crown Atte-mew Murphy said that Mr. faetory. The court resumed this after - Greer, while searching the Perkins' house, noon promptly at one o'clock. The iirst called his attention to a box (the pill witness was A. K. Goodman, assistant box) and handed it over to him akin counsel in the case. Ile knew Perkins with , other articles taken at the time. and. his wife for limey years. They were The leo: and other exhibits were kept in very attentive ,.o each other. When the the safe at the jail till about ten days house was bought Mrs. Perkins paid $250 ago, when Mr, Murphy took them to To- of the $4ell paid, and said she did not ronto to Mr. Arnoldi's office. He brought want it in he: name. Perkins said he - them back from Toronto and handed. • gave up the farm because lie was not them to Detective Greer, who bad. an , able to do hard work. He had. indiges- examination of the inskle of it made. tion. He said it was a common thing "Ts that the box?" asked Mr. Ar- to use strychnine to clear out a garden noldi. s; of rats, and he had used it for that per - "It looks like it?" pose. "Is it the box," 'asked the prosecuting To Mr. Arnoldi, witness said lie did ettorney not know why he had been called into "How can 1 soy? There' are thous- the ease a few days before the trial. ends of boxes like that," thundered the Mrs. John McDonald, Tom's mother: gn000yde-an,atered Crown Attorney visibly au- was quite cool when she took the stand. She said she slept at Mrs. Perkins' - house in November. Tom came there the night about 10 and stayed. there quite late, putting up a stove: Perkins and his wife were very atten- tive to each other. Perkins very often complained of feeling ill derine the visit of Mrs. Johnston, of Walkterville. She said Mrs. Perkins was there two nights. Tom slept with bis father both nights. Both nights Mrs. precoronation illneSsni et.;,enpeta.ersaii Perkins slept with witness. Mrs. Perk- The King by royal warrent has grant- presinn "States of the empire," or any teanctiesaveashoofiddol7 ins took Mrs. Johnston's baby to Atn- ed them "honotable augmentation' to other suitable designation. of Newark, N. J., that a eoneenntey -- Belgian Xing May Cede Free State te Franco, Paris, April despatch received here .from erussels says the journey of Klee Leopold to Parte has been poet- pont% until Holiday. This trip of the King of the Belgiaus has. aroused mute' comment and speculation in pulitical circles. The explanation. thereof which finite the most credenee but which 13 impossible of confirmat'ion, is that King Leopold. will offer to cede the Congo Intlependeet State to France et his interview with President Fallieres, France /MS enjoyed the right of pre- emption in the Congo since the sign- ing of the teeaty of Berlin, and this treaty gave King Leopold power to ilia - pose of the Congo State during his life- time, It has always been His Majesty's intention to turn over the Congo to Belgium, but, exasperated by the oppo- sition of the present Belgian Parliament to his views Concerning the future gov- ernment of the State, it is said he would prefer to hand it over to France than to abandon his position on this subject. A RAZORLESS SHAVE. Burning Ashes is Nothing to the Latest Discovery, London, April 22. --There is conster- nation among the barbers of England over the invention of a Londoner named Witherington. Ile has made a paste which removes the beard. without the use of a razor in ten minutes). The paste makes the hair so brittle that it can be rubbed off clean with a wet sponge. No "skin trouble" is guar- anteed, and the performance is simply a. part of washing the face upon arising in the morning. The following advantages are claimed for the paste: "No punctilious barber to ask if the razor is sharp enough! No second man waiting to brush your hat and. ask with his manner for a tip! You rub on. the paste, wipe it off with the sponge, and, presto! You go down to coffee and rolls looking like a man fresh from the hands of the best bar- ber in London. The cost is about one cent a shave—and tip yourself." CASH VALUE OF PRAYERS. An Interesting Lawsuit Begun at King- ston, N. Y. New York, April 22.—Believing that prayers, have a cash as well as a epir- itual ealne, Joseph Abrahams has be- gun suit in the c-ity Court of King- eten, N. Y., to have ettch value judicially determined. The Congregation Ahaeath Israbl is defendant. Abraham seeks to recover for one day's continued praying, $10. The pra,yere are offered, he {dams, on the Jewish New Year, in 3004, when he was. employed to say them all day at the Synagogue on 'Union street. The congregation %tellies that it prom- ised to pay $10 to Abrahams, Both sides app.eared by counsel yesterday and agreed to an adjournment until April Greer Cross-examined. The cross-examination of Detective Greer was renewed, eommeneing with questions in regard to Tont 'McDonald and his mother. Ite got etatement from Tom and, later Mr. Murphy's type- writer prepared written statemente along the line of their talk. These wile shown to both persons, who were in the office of the, attorney. Both ninale ob- jections to parts of it, and alterations were made. "Are you mire McDonald Trail the statement before he signed it?" asked Mr. Johnston. "I saw him baking at it; I supposed he 1ead it?" replied the detective. "Did you threaten to look after 'ale. Donald if he did not tell the same story as be told. you and the Crown Attor- ney?" "I never spoke to either of the Meleen- DEFENCE BEGINS. The First Witness Says Perkins Was Troubled With His Stomach. George Benison, of 1,Velland, wits the first -witness for the defence. He said Ito worked for it time with Perkins and Perkins told him he was troubled with his Stomach. This was about Oct. 10. john Goodwin, also of 'Welland, saki ilea Perkins left work on Satertlay be- fore Christmas. Ile did not have any talk with him and he was stopped from sayitig that he was told Perkins was ill Mite be left. Dr. Emmett. of Fonthill, near Welland, teetified that Henry Perkine had doe - fermi with him for SiN: OT seven years. Op to a year and a half ago. treated. Porkies for rheumatism. 17rie swift is the mem of rheumatism and in hie epee - ion a defeetive kidney eauses the tree- . Witness) said Perkins: also Nen- ulained of bia stomas*, bet he thought DOVER BOY SHOT. Francis Barnior Was Drawing a Muzzle Towards Him. A Chatham despatch: An aceident occurred about 8 o'clock last evening when Francis, the fifteen -year-old eon of Charles Bernier, Com 4, Dover, met his death, Ire, with a brother aged 18, went shooting. muskrats along the river. While awaiting the appearanee of rate a dog fight started and •the elder broth- er went to • investigate. He told the younger to bring the gun along, and the boy reached for and caught it by the nzzl While drawing it to himself the wea- pon .explotled, the theme penetrating and lacerating the bowels. Death took place in two hems, in spite of medical attendance. No inquest will be held. c, Gun, DROWNED IN SWIMMING POOL. A Young Columbia Science Student Meets Sudden Death. New York, April 22..—The body of William Smeller, nineteen ewers of age, a student in the School of Applied Sci- ences (if Columbia. University, was recovered to-dity from the swirinning pool in the gyiunnAtun on the univer- Aty groundi after having been in the water since Bride); afternoon, Smeller, with ether members of this claes had. been in swimming and they Mr. Lyttleton's scheme. Be was g Iota left him swimming about in ltu Mr. Deakin aecepted the title "Inver. the pool. It WAS net until the young man's relatives had repoited hie" dis. Confereece," but doubted whether any Prime Minister could undertake the sae appearance that a. search was made in pervision of the secretariat. The Colon- New York, April 22,—Benedict Gimbel,' where it was -alleged Gimbel, who keenly tho wealthy Philadelphia merchant who • felt hie predicament offered Assistant cut his throat and wrist with ,broken glass in. it hotel in Hoboken, soon after lie had been areested on serious eharges in this city, died in St. Mary's hospital, Hoboken, shortly before 3 o'clock this morning. His wife was at his bedside, with his two brothers, who came hero .at once on receiving word of his trou- ble—one front Milwaukee- and the other from Philadelphia. His personal physic- ian, summoned from Philadelphia, was also present. This arrest of Benedict Gimbel, it man of wealth, member of it prominent and , prosperous firm, married, and of hither- to spotless reputation, eaused great ser- I prise on Thursday afternoon. He was 1 taken from a cab in this city, wldie in compaey with Ivor Clark, a, 16 -year-old. 1 boy, by two detectives, who acted. on the complaint of Clark's parents. Gimbel, according to the detectives, resorted to an attempt of bribery and offered the detectives $2,000 if they would release him Tim officers apparently consented, and. demandine cash were driven with Gimbel to his banker's office end given the money. They then informed Gimbel ; that the additional charge of attempted bribery would be placed epithet him and took him to the districtattorney's effice ' District Attorney Xrotel any amount of money if he could be given hie release. Later Gimbel was arraigned in court and raceme]. on bevy bail. Ife started ostensibly for hie home in Philadelphia, but never reaeh.ed there. Instead, he went to. the Palace- Hotel in Hoboken and there, with jagged glass, obtained from a water pitcher which. broke, he cut his throat in many places and. gashed his wrist, He was discovered several hours afterward almost dead from loss of blood. At St. Mary's Hospital, the place to which he was removed on Friday night. it was thought his life might be saved. but on Sunday he began to fail and. last night hope was abandoned. His wife and. two brothers, who have shown eon. fidence and devotion to the busband and brother, went to the bedside late 00 Friday night, and have remained eear hint ever eince, In a statement the family notified the public that Benedict Gimbel had been ill for some weeks as the result of over- work and that this had undoubtedly de- throned. his reason. It will be remembered that the corsets worn by the woman murdered in Barton town -Alp were made by the firm of which Mr. Gimbel was the head. THAW'S PITISBURG HOUSE tiftUNTO. Minister's Wife Said lo Have Hung, Herself in th( Bath Room—Kept Secret. Pittsburg, April 22. ---Lyndhurst, the palatial home of Mrs. William Thaw, to -slay gave up He ghastly eecret. For five yeasts the Thaw millions and. Thaw prestige have kept) from the public news of the suicide of a. Kentucky woman, wife of a Presbyterian minister and a relative of Mrs. William Thaw, who hung herself in the bathroom of the Thaw home. To -day, however, through the admissions of the then coroner of Allegheny County the story became public and Pittsburg is only'. waiting the coming of Monday morn- ing when the books of the county cor- oner's office will be opened in order that details may be supplied, The Thaws, it would now appear, simply waved. their magie wand and not a word of the tragedy was al- lowed to creep out. The coroner was .called and. it regular inquest held, but the matter was not allowed to go any farther, and the social standing of Lyndhurst and of the Thaws was for the time saved. So far was the work of suppressing &Leila of the crime of self-destruction carried that the Rev. W. L. MeEwan, pastor of the Tleird Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, Mrs, Thaw's con- gregation, was pressed into service .and sent with tbe body to the Kentuck) home, where he preaehee the funetral sermon, aid it is said the relatives of the woman are to -day in ignorance oi the fact that the woman took her own life while on a. visit to Mrs. William Thaw in fashionable Lyndhurst. It is not believed by friends, of the notecl pastor that even he knew the womat had killed herself, and the Rev. Mr McEwan when asked 'about the affae by telephone simply moaned. this after- ) noon and hung up his receiver without I reply. It was the Rev. MeEwan who I married Harry Kendall Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. Mrs. William Thaw, mother of Harrs Thaw, has since declined to stay . in Lyndhurst save when she is surround ed by a large patty, as she is some- what superstitious. She has advertise(' Lyndhurst for Gale and has built an other residence liearby. The fact thal she was so anxious to sell the famous .1 here which brought to light the evi Lyndhurst set on foot an investigathr I deuce of the tragedy. It is claimee that Harry Thaw, who is perhaps more superstitious than any other member of the family, hoe always -urged his mother th sell the house. whieh, he ehrims, was Method Mace the suieide and Harry would never sleep there without a light in his room. TO KNIT THE _ • - Quadrennial Meetings. The.cunference then adjourned. to con- l'-sider the draft of the resolution propos- -;i i _ . L . a . seutilibILliviz:,(tInk...Tifio, i.iocisi.airsday. The re - E "That it Will be to the advantage 01 the empire if a conference, to be called Colonial Conference Decides to Es- the impaiai Conference, is held every four years, at which questions of cone tablish Secretariat. . mon interest may be discussed and con- sidered as butween his Majesty's Gov- ernment and. the Governtuents of the self-g,overning . dominions beyond the seas. The Prime Minister of the 'United Kingdom. will be ex -officio President, and the Prime Ministers of the self-govern- ing dominions ex -officio members of the conference. The Secretary of State for the Colonies will be an ex -officio mem- ber of the conference. He will take the chair in the absence of the President, and will arra oge for such Imperial con- ferences after communication with the Prime Ministers of the respective dentin. ions. Such other Ministers as the re- spective Governments may appoint will also be members of the conference, it be- ing understood that, except by special permission cf the conference, each dis- elusion will be conducted by not 1110r0 than two representatives from each Government, and that each will have only one vote. ere . seinenzegrinis ing with hbe. affairs ot taw pospowoly governed eolonlee. Lord Elgin explained that the *rose, "a permanent *material staff,* =woe that in the departinen+tel reorganisation •contemplaUd it wee- intended to en. trunt an officer with responaibility few the work of the oonfereatee during the Intervale between Ite Oittings. Imperial Defence. The resolution passed unanimously, ae Cid also the following one: 4That the colonies be authorized to refer to OOMIllittO0 on Imperial defenee, through the Secretary of State, for advice on any local questions( on whket expert as- oistance is deemed desirable and that !wherever desired it representative col- ..yn7 which may wish for -advice shou1+1 -be summoned. to attend as a =Inbar of the oonnuitten during the discussion of the queetione, raised," The conference meets again on Tues. day. On Saturday Sir Henry Campbell. 13annerman entertained the Premiers at a banquet at 10 Downing stree.t. The The tables were arranged in the shape of an E. representing "Empire." London, April 21. --The Colonial Office las issued a summary of the discue- • sion of the Premiers on the proposals of Australasia and Cape Colony respect- ing the establishment of an Imperial Council or Conference. Premier Deak- in, opening, said it was not intended T to endow the new body„ under whatever title, with any legislative or executive power whatever, or to Alter its imme- diate dependence upon the Governments represented. Whitt wee intended was the continuation of the present confer - nee under improved methods of system- atized procederc, larger information and greater efficiency with increased dignity and preetige. Ile expressed the opinion that a secretariat should. be appointed by the eonference, that 11 should. be at- tached to the Prime Minister's office, and thet business concerning the self-govern- ing colonies should be detached from the Colonial Office and traneferred to the Prime Minister in person. Laurier Demurs. Sir Wilfrid Laurier interposed. that the Canadian Goyernment demurred at the (*enmesh:tn. t"4 t ial Office, be thought, wits the proper department to deal with the self -govern - LIONS FOR LEECHES, ing ef the Crown colonies. He insist. The Xing Specially Honors Two of His ed that the secretariat, ehould be cover- ed by Ministerial responsibility. Physicians. London, April 22.—The King las Omitted A very uncommen honor to Fir Sir 3.oseph Ward urged Dint the stelf- more Governments, which canna con - Frederick Treves and Sir Francis Lek- governing rolomei should be regarded as veniently be Kstponed. until the next bag in recognition of their "great ekill m it diffarent category _from the Crown conference, or involving subjects of a and 'unremitting atbantionil daring his eolomes. Ili' wotild be glad to discard minor character or such it call for de- .inntl e term "coloev' m favor of the ex- tailed consideration, subsidiary confer - States of Empire, Not Colonies. 1 MANY DROWNED. 3ANX WITH FERRY STEAMER IN RIVER NEVA, 'Tessel collided With Ice Floe and V0101•, dered—Snowstorm Prevented Acci- dent From Being Seen From Shone", Many Carried Away in Icy Waters, St. Petersburg—, April 22.—Twenty- Five persons at least are believed to have &en drowned by the foundering of the iver steamer Archaneelek,_ while she '.'as crossine theffrof near the suburb tf Irinowleiti late Saturday night. The .ecident occurred during a snowstorm, ehen the •steamer was two-thirds the. vay across the rover, and was caused by :er striking an. ieefloe, numbers of vhieh still remains: in the river, despite he lateness of the seaeon. Owing to the thickness% of the weather tee accident was not seen from the store, bet the shouts for help of those 11 distress attracted the crews of two .teamers, which hastily went to the cone, only, however, to find that the mbangelv,k had foundered. A number •1 her passengers, mostly ,workingmear, rete rescued, but owing to the swittness -f the current many others were swept nder the ieefloes. There is no means etf establishing de- !ieitely the number of victims. Acicord- 1,,,r to the police of Oklita, submit for thich the steamer was bound, 31 persons Imaits of the humbler class.. •re missing all weigifilinen or small luer- Permanent Secretariat. "That it is desirable to establish a system by which the several Govern- ments repreeented shall be kept in- formed, during the periods between the conferences. in regard to matters which have been "or may be subjects for dis- mosion, by means of a permanent sic- reterial staff, charged under tbe direc- tion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies with the duty of obtaining in- formation for the use of the conference, of attending to its resolutions and of conducting correspondenee on matters relating to its affairs. Subsidiary Conferences. • "That upon matters of importance re- quiring consultation between two or MILLIONS HUNGRY. RUSSIAN FAMINE SUFFERERS RE- QUIRE AID FOR MONTHS. *go Harvest Until Late in July—Hun- dreds of Thousands to Whom This Will Bring No Relief—Babies Dying From Want of Milk—Forced to Eat Black Bread and Cucumbers. London, April 22.—Writing from the lassian famine district, Dr. Kennard, .vho was sent by the Society of Friends .0 investigate conditions among the ,wasantry, draws an appalling picture .1 the suffering. He imys: "This is the worst famine Russia has enown. No less than 20,000,000 people listributed throughout the southeast - !nu provinces cannot live without aid „o see another harvest, and I may say t.hat this figure has been not only alt. ;roved. by the Zemstvo organization, at also by the Government itself. The late of the harvest will vary with the Altitude, aud the famine-steicken region .s spread over such a wide area. (five simes the size of France), that more Ilan ten degrees of latitude are in- . solved. This means that in direct pro- eortion from south to north the hair- iest will be from July 3 to 23. 11 will ..)e seen that funds will be needed to lions, and then the harvest the end of July to feed all twhiejsiebritiinilg- relief, but there are Imlay hundreds )1 thousands to whom the harvest will mot bring relief, for tivay have neither and nor cattle. The few COWS that ire in existence are iu such a pitiful aondition tlwmselves that they are aseless for milking purposes. The re- mit is that babies and young children tre being forced to eat the coarse black bread and the indigestible young cu- sumbers which are luxuries to the adult dussian peasant to -day, but are death to the babies, or at any rate spell dis- ease. These people have sold their all, end in most casts have likewise sold in tdvance all that the harvest might oring them. Meanwhile epidemics of dieeiwe add to the terrible conditions obtaining. The difficulties encountered if relieving these people are made ten times worse now owing to the prac- tically impassable condition of the coun- try reeds. The winter snows are melting and. projecting vast volumes of water in countless cataracts toward mother Volga, and neither man nor beast can hope to do anything in the way of travel." - INFORMANT WAS INSANE. No Real Plot on Foot to Assassinate President Roosevelt. Washington, April 22.— The an- nouncement was made to -hay by secret, serviee officials that no further atten- tion will be paid to the statements .of Ian Bartula, who informed the police uovermuenis benetbui7 at the mother's request. Tom their arsine consisting in addition to Dr. tTanteS011 SAM biS idea WaS thAt And specially chosee for the purpose. » on foot among the mime itt Hazleton, Pa to assaasinate President slept, with his father. their shields of one of the Bone from the the secretaeiet should be a secretariat Sir Wilfrid Laurier suggested tittle the of all the Premiers, includine the Pre- number of Minieters accomponyiug each 1? ' • • "Why didn't 'Mrs. •Tolinston take her royal Arms. Roosevelt. artulae mind is said to co-oniesi- SenV0 of the Premier of Great Britain be unbalanced, baby le»ne herself?" naked prisoner's For tt precedent to tide honor it is mier of the mother le.nd, ,bilt Oat no Premier ehoula be limited. tupotheeary, 'Gideon Deleeuw, to whom ftway from the self-governing 1 tha senior member of the conferenee Mre. ,Tolinston, said the witness:, side field. Laurier. Ho saia he was anxious to kid. Laurier opposed this, favoring a Horrible Story Regataing a loving — "111 in.rmit it," replied Justice :Mabee. wen granted te gold lion paseant on 11 1041 Geeeral Tintha supported Sir Wilfrid should. prmitle. Lord Elgin and Sir Wile A lie invited her, and site wanted some one BACHELORS WILL FIGHT. Lord tlgin, who was gratified at the Picture Fake. she woeld not go back to her num unless . build slowly. member of the British Government as to take the child back. London, April 21- A 11111.11 named *0 es counael, neeessai.y to go back to James Fs. powers should be thereby delegated Mr. Deakin euggested that in the ale "Objeeted to," said the Crown. MOCX TRAGEDY REAL. Imperial tone of the speeches, stated William Zeitz, while impersonating a President, '" ' -:.' - ' sees. . Do Not Propose to be Texed Out of cult for him to Broad lino LEOPOLD'S LATEST. ExiSterice. gree to the establishment of a body that It would be diffi ',Rho is to Preside? . by robbers in A moviug picture represen- shmalman bound to the ra with indepepdent states or anthotit,v. A Mr. Deakin mei Dr. &omen again , • f .1 . . , Delgeunes King Makes INA Of ereech Danville. 111.. Apr- —.--- . • ei I -a. 0 1 • , s g , :.. • urged the piepriety and advantage ef fatten o a train-wree eing scene, was killed by a train near Croydon to-dev. 'w • ll 04 an Inlet- i 1) lee 1 f hrt bind mi lit be &tinter- e • a --- • Crowd in Front of Hotel. *eine the soeretarian under the Bri- peetell move Lae been nettle by too bad), 0114 to the ant onomy of all. The Col- - olt,V 5,1 DtInVi1111 in the fight to prevent 0111111 Offiee would an its best to meet tisli fremier, Lord Elgin replied tht,f,t The trtin ottelit to have stopped, but retie aeril ee..---ITere is iXng too- the. unmarried women from getting the the eleeire fer coutinuity. It would he had consulted Sir Henry Vempbet, .• failed to .do so'owing to an error in the signalling. olds after the preliminary examinateen peers fittest niikingly joke: A crowd lethelor tax ordinanve througli the ... imt be possible to pIace the setretritiat Bannerman, who had said that he did ' Continuing, Mr. Greer said the state- the complaiut was only incidental to the gathered before the Hotel Bristol ti sae n,„enen, nutter the British Premier. - not see his way clear to Recent the sug- Ir. o elunter netition the liaelelore Sir Wilfrid Laurier Added net the gestion. Oemral Botha wished the British. Destroyer Ariel Last. meet by Mrs, McDonald 'WM prepared rheuriettiem. but it might have been King L001101(1 AS he pasaed through end signed about half an hour after sins eaused by indigestion. Long emit:bleed Pale on the way to Britseols. Three win that the Oouneil enact an ordinance eosltien of 0.1 qatithet. body to the con link between ibe conference and the Valetta, Island of Malta, April 21.— mb the statement. Tom Mel)onahl was urie aeid in the blood will eanse urnetnia. lrovilved pet:1ms were massed in Ow lining every unmarried woman who ference now reduced to a seereteriat did. Apents.Genewl drawn closer. Lord IP.1. 'While manoeuvring during tt night at - told to return the following slay trod he but in 'Perkins' ease would not Wee look- Place Vendome when a tall man threat refl.:oils a wife -seeking man $10. They ent, AOOM CIVAT, nor was he satisfied that gm declared tient it Was OSSOntial that tack outside the Grand Harbor Into Was shown the typewritten statement, ed for OtOnmirt. • 'himself tlit0O01 them, roughly elbowing as.o. ask ilea the Commit formulate , It Was praetitable, AS it SOelne(1 to him there should be Ministerial vesponeibil- on Friday the British torpodo.boat , Got it wonlit be an irdepenelent body. .ity for the stvretariat, and Satet be eestroyer Atiel eollided with the beteak- Whieli Mr, Murphy told him to teed ever. , I'll the Crime Proseeutor le said uric. ' end shonhiering them out of hie woe% eons, plan in senieli unmarried women game (shaves ware made hi it and Me- .acia was r. noemon thing. Ire soid he "'Who Pro You shovirg?" Protestf 1 ou will be foseed to meet tho, 1)41(11010n Premiers Heakin and Ward repudiated would endettel•r so to separate the do- water mut sank, one man was droom. DOilitid signed it. had met Perkins in the melee of the angry eitizen, cud give them an opportunitY to press _ the idea of a body independent of the . partMents of the Colonill Office that eel, The Aria'. lice in, deep water and will bIr. ,Iohnston asked witness to pro. past year, and rerkins said he had no "Beg pardon," said the tall man, brief- thee. tells. Governments represented, there WOUla he a dietinet division) deal- ha a total ho,