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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-05-02, Page 7. Construction Co. of Toronto, for: their ivmetr Tho Ilio. ofIsT oro t'a. have ads eir I $2,000,000 FROM. PASSENGER TRAIN . vertiatel for tenders: for their Mont. The Canada Forge Co,have 'est started their g J • new works. The Plymouth Cordage Cu. l ( t ' ��y, cR fat ilavp lit rt m 111 f ( ll i ( •PLAY./� T ry t�lt� t•alaa„p of .t I few months to ate a mploying about ' 400 hands. llf lluttt d,, tions ivanufac- nrcrs of dredged and contractors' plants,. have just moved into their large new works. The Ontario Iron & Steel Co's, irmnense plant is nearly completed and will employ about 500 hltnds, The Rob- ertson Machinery Co. will erect w large plant. Two Men Killed and a Hundred Passengers Providentially Escape Disaster, Boys Start Fight at Entertainment, and Fathers Join in With Fatal Result. ;Pittsburg, Pa., April 20. -Two train- men wore killed and 100 passengers bad a thrilling escape from death in a wreck on the Wabash Railroad to -day when the engine and one passenger conch of westbound train No. 27 left the tracks half a mile west of the Bridgeville sta- tion near here and plunged into Char- ier's Creek, 40 feet below. Scores of peo- ple were saved by a circumstance which is now regarded as providential. The dead -Marion Boyd engineman, Book Station. Frank Mclsae,cs, fireman, Bar- berton, Ohio. , The train was made up of four pas- senger coaches, It was crossing a trestle over Charitier's Creek when, without any warning, the engine suddenly leaped from the rails and shot into the stream nedernewtl'l, eats 'ytiite }flue I1'iree leoack with it. The fore part of the engine sank several feet into the mud of the creek bed, The coach was smashed to splinters by its impact witlh the locomotive. By what railroad men regard as little more than mere chance, there were no passen- gers in the front coach. The coupling be- tween it and the second coach was wrenched in two when it was torn from the trestle by the engine, None of those .. in the three rear coadhes knew of the accident or realized how close they had come to death until several minutes af- terward, when the ears, deprived of mo- tive power, slackened speed and came to a stop. A new schedule went. into effect on the road to -clay, and to this fact many owe their lives. By the new schedule train No. 27 left this eity 45 minutes earlier than formerly and over 50 per- sons missed the train for this reason. Because the passengers were fewer than ordinary all 'were placed in the three rear coaches, leaving the front coach unoccupied. Boyd and Melsaaes were crushed to death. A short time after the wreck their mangled bodies were found under the debris in the shallow water. A wrecking crew was despatched from Rook Station, and after a delay of several hours the track was repaired, and with another engine attached to the three coaches which escaped the wreck the passengers were taken to their destinations, Tim cause of the accident is thus far a mystery and the railroad officials) will make no statement until en investigation has been made, Murder Ends School Festival. New Orleans, La., April 29. -As the result of a public school celelu•ation at Vick Avoyelle parish, two prominent farmers of that neighborhood are dead, I two more mortally wounded and two ethers seriously wounded. The trouble resulted from a fight be- tween two boys at the celebration, W. II. Sayes stopped the fight and lectured the boys for the disturbance. One of them, 'a son of Truman Clarke, told his father that Sayes had slapped him. Clarke knocked the peacemaker down, and his brother-in-law, S. T. Shannon, joined in the fight 'and stabbed the fall- en man several times. Sayes managed in spite of loss of blood to get to his feet and fired his pistol four times. Each bullet brought down a man, one killed Henry Clarke, a brother of his assailant, another C. D. Chevalier, a looker on while the the remaining two mortally wounded Truman Clarke and Young McCann. Having exhausted his shots, Sayes then beat Shannon dan- gerously with the butt of leis pistol. Killed With Ink Eraser. New York, April 20. -Edward Belcher, a clerk of No. 456 Humboldt street, Williamsbur••g, was held without bail by Magistrate O'Reilly in the Manhat- tan avenue police court to -day on a charge of homicide. He was accused of having caused the death of Charles Murphy by stabbing him over the heart, with an ink eraser. . The police say that Murphy and Belcher played cards on Saturday night in the home of Charles Weisbrod of No. 327 Devoe street. The three drank a good deal and when they stopped their card playing just before midnight Belcher and Murphy picked up ink era- sers and began to skylark in fencing fashion. Just as Belcher dodged 'a jab Murphy had made at his chest, Belcher rushed at Murphy with the ink eraser he had and drove it into his left side. Murphy fell fatally wounded, dying a few minutes later. BATHING SUITS NOT LONG ENOUGH SAY ROCKAWAY BEACH RESIDENTS. A. Police Advise Arrest of Some of the Women - No Judge Themselves. 10( New York, April 20. -Many of the staid and sober residents of Rock- away Beach, which is a part of Greater New York, have been scandalized every year for the past decade by the bath- ing suits worn by many of the women visitors. As the bathing season is soon coming on and as the residents could find no way to establish a standard for bathing suits, the Taxpayers' Associa- tion resolved to ask the police to del as censors in the matter. A committee of the association waited on Police Cotu- missioner-O'Keefe and put the proposi- tion to him. The spokesmen grew eloquent in de- scribing the bathing suits worn by some of the women and declared that many of the costumes Were a disgrace- to the beach, adding that the morals of the resort were in danger and that the po- lice ought to Lake drastic action. Many of the women, it was declared by the indignant taxpayers, put on bathing suits with no intention of going into the water. Instead they spent their time parading the business streets of Rock- away and were usually to be seen in the ice cream saloons. The result of this was that many rubber -necks who were otherwise undesirable were drawn to the beach. Commissioner O'Keefe was puzzled by the request. lie told the taxpayers that he could not act as censor himself as he was no authority on the proper length or cut of bathing suits. More- over he did not think that the ordinary patrolman was a good judge in such cases. He advised the association to cause the arrest of some women whose costumes were especially noticeable and have a test case made. SAW RAIL BREAK. HOW PETER M'EACHREN SAVED THE MARITIME EXPRESS. ,Mail Train That Passed Over the Road a Short Time Previously Broke a Rail Near Rogersville, N. B. -The Mari- time Express Flagged Just in Time. Moncton, N. B., April 29, -If Peter McEachren had not been standing close by and noticed the breaking of a rail near Rogersville by the main train in its passage north this morning the pro- babilities are that the Maritime ex- press would have been ditched. As it was,. the express was flagged a, short dis- tance beyond the broken rail, and the train crew regard the escape from de- railment as an exceptionally fortunate one. McEachren is employed as inspector of sleepers and the roadbed in the vicin- ity of Rogersville He was on duty this morning when the mail train approached, and as the last car rushed past hint he heard the snapping of the rail, and or inspection found that the train had broken the rail into pieces, turning one long section upside down and throwing it to one side, leaving a most dangerous opening. The mail train and eastbound Mari- time express crossed a short distance north, and immediately McEachren set out to warn the approaching express. os • Machinists' Disputes. Ottawa, April 28. --Che Department of Labor has been notified by the Grand Trunk Railway Company. that Mr, Wal- lace Nesbitt, KC'., of Toronto, fins been selected as the company's representative An the Board of Investigation which will inquire into matters in dispute between the Cf. T. R. machinists and the company. 1'he men selected their representative, Ir. Champion, several clays ago, and both have been formally appointed to the board by lion. Mr, Lemieux, 4'. $10,000 AOR HUSBAND. T'oronte, April c3.-.-(Docla1.)serho Bin. slouch court is hearing an apt;pal to -day of the Weensh Itattway from a judgment ler '$10,000 given by air. Justice megalion at the trial nt St. Themes in favor of err:. Mct4ay, widow of J'eirn etekay, a. c.eats engineer 'who wee killed near St. Thomas cohll*len of C. P. Il. and Wabash train. • MAY DEPORT A NURSE. Grand Rapids Labor Unions Seek to Retaliate. Grand Rapids, Mich., April 29.- Be- cause the labor unions hold her coming is in violation of the contract labor laws, Miss Margaret Murray, recently brought here from Toronto to run the city's contagious disease hospital, may be deported. It is possible that the cook and a ball boy of the institution, who were brought over on her recom- mendation, will meet with a similar fate. it may be that Miss Murray might escape on the ground that she is a "pro- fessional person," but there aro union Oren who hold that she is no more prac- tising a profession than were the Pere Marquette trainmen who were deported front St. Thomas some time ago, and they will do everything in their: power to have Miss Murray removed. The case has attracted keen interest, and the outcome will be eagerly watched. 44• TEACHERS NIAY STRII{E. They Demand an Increase in Salary From Board. Chatham, April 28. -The teachers of the Chatham Collegiate Institute have issued an ultimatum, setting forth why they should be granted an increase in salary, according to a fixed scale. As only two months of the current school year remain, they do not insist on an increase this year, but they make it very plainly understood in their tete matunt that next year must see a sal- ary increase. What they will do if the demand is not complied with is uncer- tain ---a strike may result. The teaclu- ers' demand is as follows: Principal, *IMO; 100; s mei:ilists or heads of depart- ments,$1,400; assistant specialists, �•• WELLAND'S INDUSTRIES. Surprising Progress Made by the Town in Last Two Months. Welland, April 28, Welland is low- ing one of the greatest booms of any place in Canada. On aceouumt of secur- ing electric power fur $13 per how - power, and in some cases less, also on acenmrt of splendid shipping facilities, cheap land, ete. The electric railway from St. Catharines: to Welland will be. complete(l in about two months. The Supreme Heating 'Co. are erecting a. plate to employ 400 men. They will bemtumu faeturing in August. The IIil. ting•aC Newer (o Y, dropfergings. have let the contract to the Provincial A LIFE SENTENCE. PEOPLE. OF ONTARIO SHOULD COME TO MRS. PERKINS' RELIEF. Toronto Mail and Empire; -As Mrs. Perkins was proved not guilty of the kill - the of her husband elle dict not suffer capital punishment or the entire loss of her liberty. But because she was accus' ed, she had to undergo several months' imprisonment, and to bear defence tests amounting to three or four thousand dollars. For her this heavy fine is a life penalty. She. will be working with her needle all her days to make up the money thus sunk in a fight for her life against the "theory" of a detective, and against the ,pitiless officer's and resources of the Crown. Robbed of a husband who cherished and supported her, deprived of his small estate„ which she had done her part to gather and conserve, she is loft to make hex own way in the world after an ordeal that, if it does not shorten her years, has left upon her name a stigma that no innocence can wipe out So she limps out of the iron clutch of the law, crushed and all but broken. What quarrel have the people of Ontario with this woman? What terrible thing has she done that she should thus suf- fer? The prejudice that existe against her in her own home was plainly shown at the trial, more plainly per- haps than any other single fact. Is that a reason why her life should be put in peril, and a staggering fine be placed upon Bier shoulders? If there was a mystery in Henry Perkins' death, it may never be solved. If he was murdered, his murderer may never be known. Only one person has been proved guiltless of his death, and that person is his wife. Nothing that can be done now that will fully atone for the tragic blunder of her trial, but it should be in the power of the people of Ontario to lift from her life the weight of a blighting debt. So much reparation is due to her, and not less should be made without delay. Nor is it a day too soon to give trial judges the power to order the expenses of de- fence in criminal trials to be borne by the prosecution, as in civil cases. Should such a reform spring from the trial of Mrs. Perkins, the case would have at least one associated incident upon which the mind of a just man could dwell without alarm, and with- out disgust. •.• DOCTORS' FEES, WHAT THE MEDICAL WITNESSES IN PERKINS CASE WILL GET,' A Cayuga despatch: Yesterday Mrs. Perkins, who was acquitted on Tuesday night of the charge of murder, was en- gaged in household duties at her bro- ther's home iu the, and letter in the day was seen working at the churn. It is said that the trial will cost the Province and county $3,000, exclusive of Mr. Arnoldi's fees as Crown presecutor. Each of the jury receives $31; the 1.4 special constables run from $22 to $•>S. The 52 Crown witnesses receive pay- ments front as low as $5 up to the $231.33 for Dr. A. Jukes Johnson. The other medical experts will lie paid as follows: i)r. Arreil, Cayuga, $50; 1)r. Kerr, Dunnville, $151.50; Dr. Batter, llautilton, $152.50; J)r. Edgar, Hamil- ton, $32.50; Dr. Ellis, Toronto, $37.50; Dr. Snyder, Cayuga, $28; Dr. Bruce Smith, Toronto, $163.10; being a total foe the Crown medical experts of $896.45. The cost to Mrs. Perkins is perhaps as heavy, $3,000 being the figure said to have been received by Mr. E. F. B. Johnston to conduct the defence upon. �4$ 000000 ►+•O Lost in Cloudburst Oklohama City, Okla., April 29. -A cloudburst over Capitol Hill, a suburb of this city, just south of the Canadian River, flooded that • place. Seven persons are missing, and believed to be drowned. Many persons encamped on the low lands near the river were caught unawares, and had but little time to make their escape. The river is bank full, and it will be some time before it can be determined whether any lives were really lost. There was another heavy rain- fall to -day, which caused the river to rise higher, endangering pro- perty in the lowlands. STILL iN MINE.. RESCUERS HARD AT WORK TO GET OUT IMPRISONED MEN. Johnstown, Pa., April 20. -Time seven men who were imprisoned by a rush of water in mine No. 38, of the Beerwind, White Coal Co., at Foustwell, Friday, are still entombed, although scores of rescuers have been wanting night and day in an effort to mime The water out and effect their freedom. The work of pumping ;proceeds slowly and unless the rescuers van effect an entrance it will not be known whether the men are dead or alive. The mine mouth is beaeiged constantly by the relatives •of entombed miners. LOVER SCRAPE. ROCR1FOLER. Gives Ten City Blocks to Chicago University, Chicago, April 29. -John I). Rockefel- ler, it wits announced last night, had presented to the University of Chicago a tract of lana comprising about ten city blocks, valued at $2,000,000. The tract extende frotti Cottage Grove avenue to Madison avenue. This enabici the tuni- versity to curry out the building plan of the late President W. lt. harper. The total of Mr. ltockefelh'r's gifts since the founding of the institution now amounts to $21,4Iti,000, New York, April 27. ----According to the World, Jobe D. Rockefeller has begun to dispose of all his real estate holdings. A friend of his told a reporter la.;t night that :1Ir. Rockefeller always had an aversion to owning land, and par- ticularly to the cares which its propri- etorship entailed. It appears, according to the paper's la - ferment, that 'Mr. Rockefeller has de- Bided to divest himself of the title of all real estate in favor of his son. IIe, it is understood, has come to real- ize that rue has only a few more years to live, and in his son he wishes to con- tinue his policies. A despatch from Cleveland last night said that Mr. Rockefeller had deeded all the property he owns in that city and in Cuyahoga county to John D. Rockefeller, ju000. n., and in addition a Chicago despatch announced a gift to the University of Chicago of a tract of land worth $2,000,- •6O '-4-+-o-a+•0-. o-.-a+-•-I-$ I S 4+�- -0.0.4.4+ Burned to Death York, Pa., April z8.- Assisting her mother in heaping rubbish upon a high bon fire built in the back yard, ten -year-old Edith Goon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Gohn, of Airville, this coun- ty, was horribly burned on Satur- day night, and death relieved her sufferings early yesterday morn- ing. The child's clothing caught fire and in her terror she ran wildly about the yard, outstripping her mother, who reached her side too late. o -.-5-r•.-.4 • s s. e e SUED SWAIN. NO WEDDING BELLS FOR HER, BUT $3oo VERDICT INSTEAD. Malahide Township Girl Gets After Man Who Failed to• Keep His Promise to Wed Her -His Christmas Gift. St. Thomas, April 28. An interest- ing breach of promise case was tried be- fore Mr, Justice Anglin at the Spring Assizes yesterday. Miss Ida Bearss, daughter of a well-to-do farmer, of the Township of Malahide, sued Fred Trim, only son of a wealthy farmer of the same township, for $5,000 damages. The plaintiff is a bright, pretty girl of 21 years, and made a good witness. She swore that she had been keeping company with defendant since 1902, and in July, 1900, while out driving, defen- dant told her to prepare and that they would be married in time to go to the Toronto Exhibition. She did so, but he did not carry out his promise, and on Sept. 7 cher father went to defendant's home and told the young man that his daughter wanted to tee him. He went over, and in presence' of her father and mother stated he would marry tier about Nov. 1, and not later than the 15th. This he failed to do. When the plaintiff's father was cross-examined by defendant's coun- sel ho told how lie walked down from the corner of the church on Christ- mas Eve to the front row, where de- fendant was sitting with young peo- ple, and served the writ to defendant, with the words, "Here is a Christmas gift for you." The defendant, Fred Trim. testified that he was 21 years of age. He swore positively he Never asked plaintiff to marry him, or had such conversation with tier while driving, and also claim- ed when he went to see her in Septem- ber he said. in presence of her parents that if his father and mother left the farm -he would need a woman. but af- terwards acknowledged he, the defend- ant, intended marrying plaintiff. The defendant did not make a very good impression, and the judge insinu- 'ated in his address to the jury that the young girl was better off without de- fendant than to marry him. The jury brought in a verdict of $300 for plain- tiff, after an adjournment of ten min- utes. AWAY MAN'S DAUGHTER, BUT INTENTIONS GOOD. Toronto des patch: se til Wilson, of Delhi,(it. claims.To a young man named. Ross Howard, took away his• daughter against his will and kept here in Ilow- ard's home at Rogersville over night against the will of Joseph Wilson. On this charge young Howard, was given thirty days in jail at Simeoe, This morn- ing an application wag granted by Mr, Justice Wetzel at Osgooelc hall for a habeas corpus to have the lover pretlnc- cd hi roust next # week, The statement x t is made that Howard had no evil in- tentions whatever. PIER COI LASPED. PLUNGED INTO RIVER AT BALTI- MORE INNER HARBOR. Three Dead Bodies Taken From the Wreckage -Five„ More Believed to be Beneath the Ruins -Immense Wave Caused by Fall. Baltimore, April 20. -With aroar that terrified thousands and a rush that drove a wave six feet high to distant parts of the inner harbor of Baltimore, nearly half of a new pier under con- struction at Locust Point to -day broke away from the shore end and plunged into the water. Three dead bodies have been taken from the wreckage, five men are miss- ing, and their bodies are almost cca'taia- ly beneath the ruins, alta eighteen men are suffering from injuries more or less acl'iotts. . The new pier was a. two-storey struc- ture, 030 feet long, about 500 feet of which was on laud. The water end was built upon piles, upon which a thick bed of concrete was laid, and above this rose the superstrnetlu'e of steel. The water section of the pier was apprauehing com- pletion,. and was under roof. This sec- tion ryas separated from the land gnat •by a heavy fire wall of masonry. '!'his morning craeklinga were hearth to sof were called lace and the workmen p safety. Just us many of them were struggling through the doors in the fire wall, this collapsed, and with 430 feet of the water end of the pier, plunged into the harbor, carrying a number of men with it. The immense wave that followed the plunge of the new pier into the water lifted the North German Lloyd steamer Cassel high into the air, dashed her against her pier, crushed hes in badly, tore lies front her moorings and east her adrift. The immigrants. were for a short time - in a, etate bordering on panic, and two of them jumped overboard, but were res- cued. ,000 ST. PETERSBURG BAKERS OUT ON STRIKE TOLSTOI TURNS. mired, of Being Fed, Lodged and Clothed by Their THE MAN OF PEACE NOW PREACHES REVOLUTION. Ifo Has Been Convinced That the Ani- mal -like Fight in Russia Cannot End Till the Government Yields and Ceases Its Policy of Repres>iion- Urges Opposition to Czar's Ministers and Soldiers. Berlin, April 20. -Count Tolstoi's revolutionary pamphlet, which was pro- hibited in, Russia, is to be brought out here in a fortnight. It is entitled, "The Way to Social Liberty," Although it embraces a dual appeal to both the itus- sian (iovernmeut anti the people, its chief alum is to arouse the latter to the be- lief that the only cure is in a success- ful revolution. Tolstoi practically re- pudiates his former principle of passive resistance and boldly declares for a war against the present Government to the death, each individual being inspired by what God has at all times demanded for the existence of human beings. Tolstoi relates a conversation with two workmen who had much to do with his change of view, In part ho says: "They made it clear to me that only through stopping every measure of force on the part of time Government - not only the executions, but the arrests and banishments --could this fearful, animal -like fight of a people be stopped. "I am now strongly convinced that the best the Government can do is to give in to the revolutionists, but at the sante time such a proposition on my part may be considered an expression of my insanity, and I am also reminded of persons near me -revolutionists, con- servatives, peasants -unhappy revolu- tionists manufacturing bombs, unhap- py, misguided people ordered before field courts-martial, and then shot -I am re- minded of them. They all put the same question, "What shall we do?" "And I now reply, 'You shall not do what the Czar's ministers and soldiers, or even the Chairmen of the Revolu- tionary Committees compelled you to do. You shall do what appeals to you as men, following the power sent into the world, tt'ltich gave you a definite and clear divine law known as conscience. Finally, do only that which at all times God has demanded, so that the absurd and destructive fog now existing will disappear." •.• A horrible Catch 1 Chicago, April 29.-A despatch from Elgin, Ill., says: While fish- ing in Fox River yesterday Ste- phen Boras hooked a bundle of clothes, which he pulled ashore and found to contain the bodies of three infants, twin boys and a girl. Coroner Norton is of the opinion that the bodies may have been hurled from a passing train. The clothing found on them was of fine quality, but had no marks. GRAFT IN LONDON. TEN MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AP- PEAR BEFORE CRIMINAL COURT. London, April 20. -The first trial here in a long time of municipal officials for receiving 'bribes began to -day, when six members of the Westham (an eastern .suburb of London) Board of Guardians and four wink house and infirmary offi- cials appeared in the dock of the Crimin- al Court, charged with accepting money for awarding conta•acts for coal and oth- er supplies and more appointing minor officials. The suns involved: are com- paratively small. It is charged, for in- stance, 'that a doctor paid $500 for a hospital appointment. i.• SWALLOWED CARBOLIC ACID. John Schadrick, a Toronto Shoemaker, Attempted to End His Life. Toronto, April 20. -Having swallowed the contents of a small bottle of carbo- lic acid in au attempt to end his life, John Schadriek, a shoemaker, 22 years old, who lives at 39 Mutual street, was found lying on the sidewalk about 1.10 yesterday morning at the corner of Bet- tie and Queen streets by two young men, who were passing. Plainclothes officers McKinney and Montgomery carried him to St. Michael's Hospitl's Hospital, from which place after the use of the stom- ach pump he was removed to the cells. ♦.♦ CHATHAM GIRL'S SAD END. Accidentally Shot by Deputy Sheriff in Goldfields, Nevada. Chatham, (int., April 28. -Word has been received in this city that Miss Carrie Burton, of Anderson, Ind., a former well known Chatltamite, was killed through the accidental discharge of a pistol in Goldfields, Nevada. Miss Burton was 21 years of age, and a stenographer. She was talking to Fred Gleason, a deputy sheriff, when his revolver fell, and went off, the bullet striking hr in the head, killing her instantly. GOING TO WINNIPEG. Boston, April 20. -Rev. Avery A. Shaw, of the First Baptist church, of Brookline, lees resigned hie charge here t o accept a call Mere to the First Dap• ti,t Church of Winnipeg, Can. Rev. Mr. Shaw will take up his new duties next month. Employers -Want Money Allowance. King Victor Emmanuel Opens a Beautiful Edifice Containing Valuable Art Objects. S$: -Petersburg, April 29. -Despite the secession of the syndicate of bakers wltieil granted the demands of the men, the Master Bakers' Association is at- tempting to continue the lockout, $ix thousand journeymen, about two-thirds of the trade, weep refused to accept work under the old conditions, are idle to -day. Nevertheless, the inhabitants are only slightly irconvenieneeid, (Bread its al- most everywhere obtainable, The syndi- cate bakers, who control 22 bakeries and a. chain of stores throughout the city, are working full time, but many of the smaller bakeries, especially those owned by foreigners, are being operated by the proprietors with reduced force. To meet the demand for ;the ;various pa-ssfal breads without which no devout Russian can pass holy Week, the master bakers participating in the lockout are mixing dough and selling to their customers to take home, The striking journeymen, who in Rus- sia are fed, lodged and clothed by their employers in patriarchal but highly un- sanitary style, sleeping in the oven rooms, with few facilities for cleanli- ness, demand, 'besides higher wages, shorter hours and an amelioration in their conditions of life, including separate lodgings, money allowance for food, washing conveniences, etc. The journey- men bakers of Moscow recently won`ih strike on similar grounds, one of their demands bang one bath monthly at the employers' expense. Perugia Exposition.. Perugia, Italy, April 29. ---King Victor Emmanuel to -day inaugurated in the Municipal Palace here a largo and beau- tiful edifice built in 1271, a most com- plete exposition of ancient Umbrian art, arranged chronologically and con prising a thousand pictures and thou- sands of other objects, including sculp- ture, miniatures, jewelry, arms, porce- leines and poetry. One of the meet in- teresting exhibits woe the Pontifical robes which belonged to Dope Benedict XI, (1303 LV.), which were found bur- ied with him in the histonie Church of San Domeacio here. Appeal for National Peace. Prague, Bohemia, April 20. Emperor -Francis Joseph left Prague for Vienna to -day, after a fortnight's stay,. His Majesty signalized, his departure by ad- dressing a rescript to the Governor of the Province, earnestly appealing for conciliation (between the Czech and Ger- man nationalities. He pointed out that a start had been made in this direction by the introduction of 'universal suf- frage, and concluded: "I would con- sider it the greatest happiness if I, who have sharer all the sorrows and strug- gles, should now also be able to share the joys of national peace." ROOSEVELT'S LABOR RECORD. Central Federated Union Discusses Moyer - Haywood Matter. BRYCE TO SPEAK. W'aahington April 20. ---Mr. Bryee, the British Sian smiler, will deliver an ad- dress at the ,Tsntestown Exposition on May 13th, in commemoration of the first permanent settlement of English - speakieg people on the Amerieut contin- cut at Jamestown. •ate --- FOUND BOMBS. Odessa, April 28. -Sixteen bombs were discovered yesterday an a, villa which Governor Knulbars had renter for a summer residence. Owing to theincrea increase in postal rates oothat Collier's Weekly will publish a Canadian edition. New York, April 20. -The Central Federated Union to -day, instead of unan- imously condemning President Roosevelt for his action in the Troyer -Haywood matter, stood about evenly divided on the question which has stirred labor unions all over the country. Mr. Rouse - welts' record as to labor from the time he was a New York Assemblyman until he became President, was brought into the light, and the delegates found it satisfactory. The discussion, which lasted for more than three hours, was the most bitter one ever held in the university settle- ment building, where the meeting was held. The upshot was that the meeting, representing more than 100,000 workers in Manhattan, ordered that the commit- tee of three appointed at last Sunday's meeting do what it was instructed to do -that is, go to Washington and have a talk on the situation with President Roosevelt. APRIL'S POOR RECORD. CROPS IN NIAGARA HAVE MADE LITTLE PROGRESS. Hundreds of Acres of Wheat Will Have to be Plowed Up -Tomato Growers Report That the Crop Will be Short -Scarcity of Pasture Due to Dry Weather. A Thorold despatch: The month of April has proved disastrous to the hopes of growers in the Niagara peninsula. Though the fruit trees have not suf- fered to any great extent through the cold weather the past few weeks, aside from the backward growth, everything else practically shows the effects. "Hundreds of acres of wheat will have to be plowed up mound here," said a prominent grower to -day. "The wheat to -day does not look as well as it did a month ago, due to the blades freezing during the cold, frosty nights we have had. in April. The wheat, and everything else, in fact, is suffering through lack of rain. The country is very dry." Tomato growers around here report that this year's crop will be short ow- ing to so many of the young 'slants be- ing killed in the hotbeds. The practice of tomato growers is to start the plants in manure hotbeds, relying on the warm sun in April to nurture them. There has been so little warm, sunshiny weather in April of -this year that the little plants have died in thousand's in the hotbeds. Consequently, it being too late now to plant new seeds, there will be a decided shortage when the plants are set out about the middle of next month. Farmers are sadly handicapped tln'ougit scarcity of pasture, due to the dry weather. There is scarcely any grass for the cattle, and butter prices are phenominally high for this time of the year. Lawns which are usually a bright green by now are still yellow and dried-up looking. TO BE FORTIFIED. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FORTIFY MEXICAN PORT. San Antonio, Texas, 2pril 29.-A spe- cial from Ceatzacoalco, Mexico, says: Official announcement has been received that the American Government has de- termined. to fortify this port and Salina Cruz, the two terminals of the Teituate- pee National Railway. For this pur- pose General Manuel Memclregon has al- ready left Mexico City. With him are high officers of the military engineer- ing forces. Be will draw up plans and specifications and the actual work of fortifying the port will begin at no dis- tant day. THE CHAIN TRUST TO BUILD A BIG PLANT AT WAL- IIERVILLE, ONT. New 'kork, April 20. -Another Ameri- can eorporttion is about to enter the Canadian manufacturing fields no as to escape the I)onlision. tariff, the Standard Chain Co., known as the "Chain Trust," having 'eleeidrl to build an extensive plant at \Vtmlkerville, Out. The i'tand(ud Chain Co., of (•amula, Limited, will epee the new works, which • re to be constructed at a cost of $200,- 000. . ear ITIMBER LANDS. North an s, Mass., April 2;1.-Ex- tettaive timber lands, which have been hitherto tm e mhed,are 'being developed ped this year in Souther* Vermont, BUSH TRAGEDY. MAN SHOOTS A GIRL AND THEN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. She Was Only Fifteen, and the Young Fellow Killed Her While He Was Intoxicated, Because He Was Jeal- ous -No Inquest Held. Parry Sound despatch: Word has just been received here of a terrible murder and suicide in the vicinity of Ara - stein, a little village in the northern part of the district of Parry Sound. In a farm house near Arnstein lived an old couple named Supelsea, a 15 -year-old daughter of the husband and a son of the woman by a former marriage named Frank Varasko. It appears that Varasko had been paying or trying to pay his respects to the girl and was jealous of her speaking to or being seen with any of the other young men of the neighborhood. Var- asko and a number of other young men of the place had been drinking rather heavily for some time. The tragedy occurred at about 5 o'clock Monday evening. The girl, Benny Supelsea, was employed in a sugar bush -boiling sap, when it is believed Varasko shot her, and then, going some distance into the woods, shut himself, both be- ing killed. After the finding of the body of the girl search was made for Varasko by Mr. C. K. Arthurs, J. P., and Anton Wagner, and his body was found a short distance away in tate woods. As the facts seem- ed so plain there was no inquest. The old couple, the father of the girl and mother of the young man, were both confined to their beds by illness at the time of the tragedy. The parties are all Germans and members of considerable settlements in that vicinity. ♦=e* CANADA WANTS A PORT. Asks for Entrance by Sea to Yukon Territory. - London, April 23. -Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey is taking advantage of the presence of the colonial Premiers in Lon- don to obtain the first-hand views of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Robert Bond on the question pending between the United States and Canada and Newfoundland, re- spectively. The Foreign Secretary has already had one conference with Sir Robert. The Canadian negotiations are giving the Foreign Secretary even more trouble than those in which Newfoundland is interested, but every effort will -be put forth to bring about an agreement. Sir Wilfrid expressed to the Assooltlted Press his satisfaction with the hands hi which the negotiations wore left, and spoke hopefully of the outcome, but from other sources it was learned that there was wide differences of views between the United States Secretary of State hoot and the Can- adians. In almost every ease the Canadians demand some national compensation in re- turn for what they are asked to concede. As au example, to give up pelagic sealing they not only ask the United States to buy out the sealers, but also want a further concession from the United States which night take the form of a port in Alaska to give traders an entrance Into the Canadian Yukon district 'without passing through Amertean territory. .. • EMPRESS OF IRELAND WON. C, P. R. Boat Beat the Campania in Mace Across the Atlantic. Liverpool. April 20. -Passengers who tailed from Halifax last Saturday by the Empress of Ireland arrived here at 1 a. In. to -clay. Those by the Campania arrived nine hours later, although the Cantp:utiat sailed from New York eight hours earlier than the 0. P. E. steamer front Halifax. The Empress of Ireland's time for the voyage was six days ens hour and twenty minutes, against the C'ampania's six days and nineteen hours. - -c++- Mu. ,T. G. lllttehinson, secretary of the Toronto Plate ate x 'ssTm- ImportingCo., died at 279 Sherhourne street, Toronto.