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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-05-30, Page 7T R[BUWUON IPS CHINA; IfflOAI.S MURRRED. Wong Kong in Ubino District of Chinchu Prefect- ure Scene of Trouble. Stvatow, Province of 1%tvantun,;, China, 11lay 27.-A rebellion has broken out at Wougkong, hi the lCping dtsti'iet of the Chineltn prefeeturv. All the civil and military officials at Wongkoug have been assasinated and their yamens burned, The local revolutionists, who were joined by natives of the neighboring pro- vinces, concentrated their attack ars the 4, officials without being molested by the populace. The military commander here has =s- tored the station guards and started d'or the scene of the outbreak. Steps aro being taken by the local po- lice to prevent exeessee herr. The Chinese bankers have organized a ;steam launch patrol of the coast to pre- vent piratical attacks on the part of the marauders from the seaward, C'hinehu or 'Tsinettehou ii ma maritime dlstriet of China, comprising parts of the Provinces of liwanpttu,g and l+okin on the southeast coast, It is inhabited by a hardy and industrious people, who tar- nished the majority of the men who form the crews of the Cilium imperial end commercial navies. Swato iv, from which the news of the rebellion conies, is situated in about the centre of the Ohinelnt district, and is a treaty port of China about five miles from the open sea and e2,25 miles from Canton. Troops for the Scene. Canton, May 27, -.Admiral Li, with the Tiwautaih and Meofoo, on board of which are detaelmeuts of troops, is "pro - /moiling to the scene of the rising in the t'ping district. ATTEMPT' ' TO WRECK =ERIE TRAIN. Heavy Rail Placed Across the wrack -Engineer Saw i1', But the Pilot Smashed. Buffalo, May 27, -An attempt was »made to wreck the Erie passenger train No. 6 Saturday night at a point a mile lad a half east of Alden. This is the "Ririe's fast night train from Buffalo to New York, and on Saturday night had a full load of passengers. The spot chosen for the work was just cast of what is known as Sullivan's crossing. Th tracks are laid on a deep hill over a long ra- vine, and at a point in the middle of the curve, a heavy 40 -foot rail was placed across the eastbound track and bol- stered up by huge stones . Several farm- houses are visible from the spot. The train was composed of Tullman sleeping cars and heavy day coaches, and could not have been going more than 25 or 30 miles an hour, when the headlight showed theraillying directly across the track . Engineer Wolfe shut off steam and applied,the emergency brake. An in- stant later the locomotive struck the rail. One rock being smaller than the one on the opposite side, the loose rail was shoved over it and thrown into the ditch. The engine pilot was smashed to splinters, The train crew got ottt and carefully examined the ground. It was raining, and footprints were discernible all around the spot. A messenger was Imme- diately started back to Alden and a tele- phone message was sent to Buffalo giv- ing particulars of the attempt to ditch the train. The train then continued on its way. No effort is spared by the Erie offi- cials to apprehend the wrecker. TILTON DYING, LAST FIGURE OF BEECHER SCAN- DAL PASSING AWAY. Theodore Tilton, After Years of Brood- ing, Raving in Delirium Over His Life's Tragedy, Dying in a Paris Flat. New York, May 27. -Theodore Tilton, last surviving principal of the world- famous Tilton -Beecher scandal, of 30 years ago, is dying in a dingy flat in Paris. Three days t.gooho was stricken with double pneumonia; now he raves in delirium, muttering abort the trouble that overcast his life. Ever since the clay in 1874 when a jury failed to find Henry Ward Beecher guilty of alienating the affections of Tilton's beautiful wife, the husband has been living solitarily abroad. Mrs. Til- ton died ten years ago at the home of her widowed daughter, Mrs. Venom who still conducts a music store in the Til- ton home, at No. 1,403 Pacific street, Brooklyn. Her husband, who had disowned his wife when she confessed her relations with Beecher, did not even attend the funeral. Beecher died at about the same time. Tilton, who was in Paris, went to live with the spinster daughter of his friend, Dr. Fuller, on the Avenue Kleber, where ho has brooded in soli- tude over the great tragedy ever since. Mrs. Pelton yesterday received from Paris a cablegram sent by Dr. Pellereau, who is attending Tilton. It told that the aged man must expire within a few hours, and begged Mrs. Pelton to have Lawyer West, of Fifty -Seventh street, Manhattan, send at once all the money left in Tilton's name. Unless friends of the former editor of 'the Independent raise funds it is prob- able his body will be buried abroad. Mr. Tilton is 74 years old. FROM FIVE TO GREAT CHURCH. 6o,000 Persons Celebrate Centenary of Primitive Methodism. London, May 20. -More than 60,000 'persons assembled to -day at Mow Cop, a lonely' mountain on the borders of Cheshire and Staffordshire, to celebrate the centenary of primitive Method- ism. No banners, no instrumental music, no uniforms drew the crowds. Plain preaching and: song alone sufficed to :attract the wonderful gathering, which celebrated the invitation of 1807 from a Staffordshire carpenter, Hugh Bourne, to the American preacher, Lorenzo Dow, to hold. a camp meeting at Mow Cop. Five poor men on that day seceded from the Wesleyans. To- day the meeting of the five in the Lit- tle room nearby has grown into a great church. o•� TXLTON DEAD. Last Survivor of Beecher Scandal Passes Away. Paris, May 26. ----Theodore Tilton died in this city at half -past one o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Ile had been uncon- scious for hours before he passed away. Mr. Tilton's last illness was very brief. At no time did he realize the seriousness of his malady. Only on Friday night he asked for Lord Lytton'e "Pausanias," and attempted to read it, but he noon dropped the book and sank into a peaceful sleep, front which practi- cally he never awoke. NO DECREASE IN ACREAGE. Ninety-five Per Cent, of Wheat Planted in the West, ..,,, Winnipeg, Man., May 20.--Finavorable weather is now beaming down on the West, and time wheat has commenced to come through the ground. In some eases it is an itch high. and with the present fine growing weather will make rapid progress. ir: Ninety-five per cent, of the wheat is in, while some farmers have completed all their sowing. There will be no de- crease in the wheat acreage. lion. Dr. Pyne and Hon, Thos. Craw- ford will- represent the Government at the funeral of the late Dr. Lewis, M. L. NOT HARRY THAW. KILLED A PHYSICIAN BECAUSE OF WIFE'S DEATH, Ordered an Inscription on Her Tomb- stone: "Revenge Renews Our Happy Love in Heaven" -Convicted of Mur- der and Will Be Electrocuted. New York, May 2.7. --John Bell was to -night found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be electro- cuted on the first Monday in January next. Bell killed Dr. Chits. Wilmot Townsend, of Staten Island "I ant no Harry K. Thaw, but plain John Bell. 1 have no wealth, but if I bad I could produce witnesses whose testimony would acquit me." With these words the Brooklyn trol- ley ear conductor on thiel for his life closed an impassioned address to the jury. Bell, a young man of mediocre attainments, was happily married a few years ago. A year after the wedding the wife died in childbirth. Dr. Chas. Wilmot Townsend, a prominent physi- cian of Staten Island, attended her, On the humble stone that marked her grave Bell caused to be chiseled, "Revenge re- news our happy home in heaven." IIe was inconsolable, and for months brooded over his affliction. To his friends he expressed the conviction that his wife did not receive proper medical care. On the night of Jan. 20 last Dr. Towsend was shot to death in his bed. He had been awakened by an intruder and ex- claimed: "If you are here to rob, take what you Want, but do not harm my family or me." The supposed burglar replied: "I want none of your things. I want you," and fired 4•o ROYAL GUESTS. AMBASSADOR REID ENTERTAINS THE CONNAUGHTS. London, May 27. -The third of a ser- ies of elaborate entertainments which have narked the London season was given at Dorchester house last night, when Ambassador and Mrs, lleid enter- tained at dinner time Duke and Duchess of Connnaught, accompanied by Prince Arthur and Princess Patricia of Con- naught. Ambassador and Mrs. Reid had a very distinguished company to meet their royal guests. After dinner there was a small dance, and to this there came in ninny other guests, including Princes and Princess, Christian of Denmark and their dough - tar, Princess Victoria. During the evening supper was served at smell tables set out under a large nnirquee, which bad been erected over the terraces. ARE THEY BLOOD STAINS? Police Think They Have Found Damag- ing Evidence Against Becker. New York, May 27. --•Further• doi ntg- ing evidence has been found. againet Henry 1lecker,tlto suspect held for the murder of Amelia Staffeldt at Elmhurst, 1.. I., on Wednesday, according to the police to -duty. Following the dramatic confession of Becker beside the coffin of the girl vie - tint, in which he said that he saw time murder counnitted and declared it to be done by a man in whose company he was but whose immune he did not know, the pollee report that they found in a Chin- ese. laundry at Elmluunt, a shirt which Becker had taken there alter the girl was murdered. The shirt had two large ,+pets on it. which looked as though they were blood- ataius. The t:hirt was obtained by means of ;a laundry ticket that was found in Becker's pocket. The discovery of the earmeett nitb its suspicious spots, is considered c•igiti- (leaut in view of liecker`s statement that he had nothing to do with the mus ler exeept)tmg that he stood by its a trim ness. The police argue that the stains, it they are of blood, could not have been tint nudes$ ottani closer to the vie - tint AD..., iia si fi t torr -of the crime than he admits. ■1V Another link in the chain of incrim- inating evidence is a email hanulkerebif which Becker had in his possession. In tone ial corner the Lais dkeni broil eLed the uu 1 Confesses to Murder of Amelia Steffeldt on Spot i on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Eva Simonson, shortly after the disappear- ance of Becker and his companion, who had cleaned their hands at her pump. There aro several small spots upon the handkerchief, The detectives believe they are bloodstains, They will be analyzed by a chemist. Mrs. Simsonon had identified the hand- kerchief as that of her son's. The police have secured a minute des- cription of Becker's companion and have every confidence that they will have him in custody within twenty-four hours. 4•P HORS WANTED FOR $6,000,000. English Lawyer Has Med in His Quest. Most of the Money Will Go To British Crown. New York, May 27.---4 despatch front Washington says: Arthur Doloy, an Eng- lish nblisp barrister, who recently came to the United States to search for heirs to the famous de Cola estate in England, will soon return to report that his search has been in vain. As a result, the bulk of the 56.000.000 de Celia fortune will prob- ably revert to the British crown. Mr. Delroy's mission to America dis- closed that John Cook, a nephew of Mr, De Celia, died in the Government hos- pital for the insane here in 1000. His only living relative is his sister, Sarah Cook, an inmate of the Norfolk, Va., hospital for the insane, who is unable to enjoy any of the vast wealth in her own life. A sufficient sum will be turned over to the hospital ,authorities for her support. - JohttCook's father came to this coun- try from England many years ago, set- tled in Petersburg, Va,, and rapidly built up a. large jewelry business. Ho sud- denly committed suicide, and his daugh- ter Sarah became insane. John Cook once had charge of the waterworks in Petersburg, but canto to Washington six or seven years 'ago, and soon gave evi- dence of a rapidly weakening mind. He was finally arrested for vagrancy, and sent to the insane asylum, where he died. KILLS HIS MOTHER. BLOWS PARENT'S HEAD OFF WITH A SHOT -GUN. York, Pa., May 27. -Earnest Doll, five years old, shot away part of his mother's head hero yesterday, killing her in- stantly. The child is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Doll, of Airville, this county. The little fellow had often seen the father load the gun, which he kept in the room. Yesterday the mother slipped out into the yard, and while she was absent, the boy got hold of the gun and slipped a shell into it, and waited, at the door, and when his mother ap- peared he said: "Look out, mamma, I'Il shoot you." The word was no sooner spoken than bang went the gun, and the whole load of shot passed`througlt her head. The mother dropped dead at the boy's feet, who hardily realized what he had done. LONGER KING THAN HIS FATHER. Haakon's Reply to Paternal Enquiry as to How He Liked It. Copenhagen, May 26. -King Iiaakon and Queen Mand of Norway passed through this city to -day, en route to Raris. They were received at the rail- way station by King Frederick, King Haakon's father. Onlookers among the courtiers present tell the following funny story of the conversation between the two monarchs: "Now, IIaakon," said. King Frederick, "how do you like being a king?' "I will rather ask you," replied Haak- on. "I've been a king longer than you." King Frederick succeeded to the throne of Denmark upon the death of his father, King Christian, on Jan, 20th, while Ilaakot was elected King of Norway by the Storthing on Nov. 18, 1005. GERMAN MISSION. DESTROYED AT LIEN CHOW -MIS- SIONARIES ESCAPE. Berlin, May 27. -According to des- patches received here front Shanghai and Hong Kong, native rioters have destroy- ed the German mission station at Lien Chow, near Paklmoi. The missionaries es- caped. The German gunboat Iltis, rein- forced by 20 marines front the gunboat Tsiugtau, has left hong Kong for Pak- hoi, an it is expected that a British gun- boat will also be sent to that port. STRANGE STING PLACE. Robin Attempts to Rear Brood Inside Automatic Machine. London, May 2G. -Au automatic ma- chine in the shape of a man stands in the grounds of the Black Rabbit Hotel at Arundel. When the man whose business it is to collect the coins de- posited in the machine, opened it the other day he was greatly astonished to t'hmcl inside a robin, comfortably seated on five eggs, with every expectation of soon becoming a mother. The robin had node her entrances and exits through hole in the back of the mart's head. VESSELS GROUNDED.- 'Harbor Beach, Mich., May '27. ---The. wooden steamer B. F. Mohnen and the barge MeeLnehhtu, bound front Escanaba to Lake Erie, loaded with ore, grounded in a dense fog at Port Austin at 2 a. m. The trews were taken off by the fort _um'ttin life savers. There is a heavy sea running and e Lad northwest wind. • HIGH PRICE rOR MAT. ( imiea„'o, 1i.ty 27. ---float prices in (10. ee eo tmi,y pimp skyward this week. 'Cha packers notified the connmuission firms tli::i. beginning to -deny, they no longer wc•nl,l :amid the loss oil condemned cat- ch,,, and in or,ler to protect themselves laud found it necessary to refuee l.aynent on "cow stuff" unless it had posed the Government inspectors. Where Crime Was Committed,, HENRY The New York, May Amelia Steffeldt, I around in the field spoke to her. But BECKER, murderer. 27. -"Yes, I killed saw her moving and went up and she repulsed me, I • become a madman. I grabbed a big stone and hit her back of the head. It knocked her out, but she recovered. Then I was afraid she would tell on me. I got still more frightened. I took her knife and stabbed her in the neck. Then I ran and ran-" White faced and trembling Henry Becker stood to -day by the spot where the little dandelion picker was slain on the Seitz farm at Elmhurst Wednes- day, and made a complete confession, naming himself as her murderer. Baring his head to the driving rain he stood and bowed and silent for a mo- ment, when he was first brought to the spot by Detective Captain McCafferty and Detectives Galvin, Graham, and Koch. Then he blurted out his whole story. "Oh, mister, have mercy on me," he said to the captain, "I'll tell you how I did it. I was the man -there wasn't any inkother. . Give me a minute till I "I told you before I was working for Dr. Wilson, the dentist, that morning. I got a little drunk, and I couldn't walk very well. I was tired and sleepy, I AMELIA STAFFELDT, The murdered girl. came up here to the edge of this field and laid down to sleep. I woke up when seine whistles blew. "There was a little lady walking around the field, picking flowers. I looked at her for a while and tried to speak to her, but I could not, some- how. Then I looked around. There was nobody near. I got up and went over to her. I said something, but she wouldn't talk to ane. She started to run away. I couldn't help what I did. I was out of my mind,. I picked up a stone and when I grabbed her I hit here, here, and lie illustrated by point- ing to his own head at the base of the skull. "She fell down, but she began to get all right again in 'a few minutes. I thought ehe was going to scream. Then X saw a silver knife she had thrown down. I reached and got it and stuck it into the back of her neck. "I started to run, over the way, in- dicated the course followed by the man farmer Joe Engel described, and I went through that field. After that I don't remember much, only that I washed my hands at a lady's pump and net another man there." Not only did the prisoner confess to the crime, but he was positively iden- tified by Mrs. Emily Simonson when brought face to face with her at last as the man who scrubbed blood from his fingers in the yard. DID E KILL HIM? LAD BEATEN TO DEATH BECAUSE HE HAD LOFTY IDEALS. New York, May 27. -Because his son would not become a coffee roaster, like himself, but insisted upon studying for a higher calling, Antonio Zizza is , charged with having beaten the boy to death to -day while he slept. The mother discovered young Donm- inick's body with the head battered to a pulp. Winvest the police locked up her husband in the Oak street station the woman asked for a knife that she might stab him in his cell and thus avenge her son. The murder was clone at the home of the Zizzas in James street, just before 10 o'clock in the morning. There were nonny quarrels, the mother siding with the son. If ;.:r this site was beaten by her husband. On Saturday Dominich de- scended upon his father in a wrath and warned hint that . he nmst never lay hands upon his mother again. The old man cowered away while the boy went upstairs to his books, and early in the morning fell asleep. He was found with his head crushed in. The father denies committing the murder. Op AND SALMON. RAILWAY ROUTE MAPS FOR AP- PROVAL OF DEPUTY MINISTER. Ottawa, May 27.--(Special)-Canada's trade agent in Manchester, Eng- land, writes the Department advising those in the cheese trade to forward in a more ripe condition than heretofore. The cheese was suffering in rice from greenness. He quotes the opinion of a large importer of salmon that there is no danger of selling Alaska salmon for Canadian, as the latter is much super- ior, and it would be detected. To -morrow the Deputy Minister of Railways will hear the application for approval of route maps of time follow - big: Toronto & Niagara Power Co., Kingston, 'Smith's Falls and Ottawa Railway, Canadian Northern Railway, entrance to Ottawa, Atlantic Quebec & Western Railway, and Canadian North- ern Railway, Smith's Falls to Ottawa. GAS FROM VESUVIUS. KILLED ONE MAN AND OVERPOW- ERED NINE WHO WENT TO HELP. Naples, May 27. --At Bemire Casae, on the southern declivity of Mount Ye- suvius, it fissure suddenly opened yes- terday, from which a flow of poisonous gas escaped' r mrnadr A peasant who imprudently approach- ed ll eel the fissure was killed and nine others who rushed to his rescue and fell as- phyxiated were saved with difficulty. The gas from: time new fissure rises to the height of five or six feet and. ea tbin- eels have been posted jut the vicinity to prevent persons going within the danger zone. a•` A SINGLE TAX VICTORY. No Speculation in band on Kaiser Wil- helm Canal. Berlin, May 26, ---Time advocates of single tax have in 'Germany scored a sunless. 'l'hey recently petitioned the Prtmeiau Diet not to permit land speen- lation on the new Kaiser Wilhelm ('anal, now in course of erection. The Diet ill the cession just closed accepted the bill appropriating $.1,000,000 to pur- chase lim,l, thereby openly declaring that the Slate wished to prevent private baud speculation in connection with public en- terprises. INDIAN RIOTS. I-IINDOOS ARRESTED GOING TO TAKU TO ASK INTERVENTION. Lahore, British India, May 27. -Those who have been attributing the unrest in India to the victory of the Japanese over- the Russians find confirmation in their belief in documents found in the possession of a Hindoo lawyer and a companion arrested here in connection with the recent riot at Rawalpindi. The clocuntente show that the men taken in- to custody were on their way to Tokio to solicit intervention on behalf of a native revolt against British rule, HEAVY SENTLNLES. PRISONERS SENT TO PENITEN- TIARY AND REFORMATORY. Toronto, May 27. -(Special.)- Judge Winchester, presiding in the criminal sca- skns this morning, pronounced the fol- lowing sentences on those found guilty of serious offences: IIerman Benda, in- decent assault, four years in Kingston Penitentiary; George *McGrath, highway robbery, seven years in Kingston; Mich- ael Burns, highway robbery, seven years in Kingston; -Jessie Alexander, perjury, three months in Mercer Reformatory. _o CAVALRY CHARGE STRIKERS. Rand Men Ignored the Order Forbidding Assemblages. Johauuesburg, May 26. -With a view to checking rioting, the police issued a proclamation forbidding more than six persons to assemble within 3-00 yards of any mitre. The strikers, ignoring the or- der, marched on Friday on the Croesus Mine, with the supposed intention of at- tacking the men working there. Time police ordered them to disperse, but they refused to do so. Cavalry then charged them, whereupon- the strikers fled. The garrison at Potchef- stroom has been ordered to hold itself in readiness to reinforce the troops on the Rand. m.• PREMIER'S MOVEMENTS. Sit Wilfrid to Visit Switzerland and Italy. Montreal,May2G.-A special cable to Iet Presse from Paris states that Sir Wilfrid Laurier will set out on or about tine first of June for a trip through Switzerland. On June 8 he goes to Italy in connection with a commercial treaty between that country and Can- ada The Premier's programme for the last two weeks in June has not yet been ar- rainged, Ott July 1, however, the Pre- mier will attend the Dominion Day ban- quet at London. He will be back in Canada, about the first of August. - MACHINISTS RETURN. Employers Grant Increases of Five Per Cent. Guelph, May 26. ---The strike commit- tee of the Local I. M. "U, held a confer- ence with the Grandy Stove Co. yester- day, with the result that the men's de- mand for an inerce:tse of 5 per vent, was coneedett, and they will go back to work on Mouthy, 'I'he (.uelpin Stove ('o. will try the open shop, and are bringing in non-union men for that purpose, while the union men arc determined to fight to the end. BERLIN STRIKES. Berlin, May 27. --Labor troubles are multiplyingin Berlin. The bakers yes- terday decided to declare a general strike May d0. Sonic of the briel:l:ay- eu%a who are still working -on bnildin„a where the lockout does not exist nave decided to strike for an eight-hour day, BEER QM THE LAW, Firm at Windsor ?is;egarde Canadian holidays, Windsor, May 20. -Jesse O'Neill, an employee of alio Iemberthy Injector Company, a Detroit concern with a Canadian branch here, planned to eele- brato Victoria Day. Learning that the plant was not to close on Friday, he went to the office to ask to get away. Ile says lie was told that the factory ob- served United States holidays, not those of Canada, and that if he absented him- self he would be discharged. O'Neill tools the day, and yesterday called upon Dr. Reaume, who is at home bete. The latter told O'Neill to report for work on Monday morning, and promised that if he was not taken back lie (Dr. Reaume) would take the matter up. Dr. Reaume said that there is an alien Jaw in existence, and if the Pemberthy offi- cials are so loyal to the United States that they cannot conform to the customs of Canada they may be given a chance to return to their own country and re- side there. 4.m WILL DROP THE BILL,. Government Realizes That It Cannot Concede More. London, May 27. -lire Nationalist convention at Dublin, having rejected Mr. Bir'rell's Irish Bill, it is understood that the (.overnment will drop it, for this session at least, and will proceed with the other reforms, which its Lib- eral supporters are urging. That the Government cannot grant any wider measure of self-government to Ireland without causing dissension in the Cabi- net is not denied. Mr. Redmond's action in moving the rejection of the measure, although anticipated in some quarters, generally caused surprise, as it is un- derstood that he had agreed, after a conference with his colleagues, to accept what the Government offered as a par- tial concession to the demands of Ire- land. With the majority of his party, including the clergy, opposed to it, how- ever, there was no other course for him to pursue, in the opinion of the politi- ci.tns here. 4-0. CHANCE FOR HOMESTEADERS. 30,000 Acres of Doukhobor Lands to be Thrown Open. Langbatm, Sask., lay 27.- Thirty thousand acres of homesteads (Douk- hobor lands) will be thrown open for homestead entry on June 1, 3, 4 and 5. The land is within one to fifteen miles of Langham, Sask. The lands now available by order-n- C'ouncil in Western Canada, comprising the former Dick reserve, will be opened to homestead entry, commencing on the first day of June, 1007. By the order -in -Council, under which this land is opened, entry will be granted for each quarter section to the first eligible applicant applying there- for at the counter of the land office at Prince Albert. C. P. R. WINS. $zoo,000 Suits for Death in Collision Dismissed. Vancouver, B. C., May 27. -By a judg- ment given in the Admiralty Court at noon to -clay by Mr. Justice Martin, the consolidated civil suits for damages against the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, amounting in all to about $200,000, have been dismissed. The suits arose over the collision be- tween the Princess Victoria, owned by the C P. R., and tate tug Chehalis, of the Union Steamship Company's fleet, which had been chartered by Mr. Robert Bryce and party of fifteen to go up the coast to inspect the oyster beds. The Chehalis was sunk, and nine people were drowned. MISSING HEIR TURNS UP. H-Iis Fortune Has Lain in Court for Twelve Years. St. John, N.B., May 27.-A fortune of twenty thousand dollars, which has lain in Probate Court here for twelve years was claimed to -day by a man who was long since given up for dead. In 1595 Francis G. Jordan died her and left the bulk of his estate to itis son James, with whom be had quarreled. and who had disappeared some time be- fore. Other heirs claimed he was dead and tried to break the will which left the money to the lost boy in trust. But the court set aside a sum for a search which has been carried on for years. Advertisements have been published all over the world with no result until a few days ago, when the missing hell- was eirwas discovered living in poverty in a little town in Maine. His identity is cer- tain and the money will be handed over to him. 4•• LONDON'S WATERED MILK. Same Offenders Repeatedly Fined, But Promptly Resumed Business. London, May 27. -:Che latest contri- bution in the campaign -of physicians and health inspectors against the adul- teration and impurity of London milk comes from Dr. Lenane, health officer at aBtersea, who says that Londoners annually pay $150,000 for water in milk. He adds that, notwithstanding prosecutions, adulteration continues to be a profitable business. The same of- fenders are repeatedly fined. They cheerfully pay and promptly resume their fraudulent business, TEACHERS WILL NOT GO. Steamship Combine Prevents Trip to Britain. Toronto, May 27. -Deputy Minister of Education ("olqubonn has received a let- ter front Alfred Mosley, C. M. G., who conducted time visit of several British teaelers to Canada and the United States last fall, to the effect that the contemplated return viii't from Cana- dian atld American teachers, which was to have taken place this summer, cannot be arranged, owing to a combine which exists among the Atlantic steamship eotnpallles., 4•• Rochester, N.Y., May 27. -Fire which dict at least $100,000 damage broke out iu the top floor of the building occupied by Oaks & Calhoun, at 107 Main street cast, this morning. Every fire con - patty in Rochester was called out to fight the flames, and the exact amount of damage done emunmot yet be estimat- e -h, as the fire is still bursting, although undo control. .Uthonglt the fire was confined to the building occupied by Oaks & Cal- haus and the top floor and attic of the National Clothing Store, several neigh- boring buildings suffered front smoke and water. The Chamber of Commerce Building, saved by the thick fire wall from the smoke and flames, was flood- ed with water, wbieli, coming tlu'englm the basement wall, tilled the engine room and cellar with water to a, depth of four feet. Water and smoke damaged the Cook Opera House. NIXON SWEPT BY A C11'C1.. Two Houses Blown Down sod Store Wrecked. Sick Woman Had Narrow Escape From Death.. Coal Chute Demolished and Farm Buildings Destroyed, Simeoc, t,, 2. -- BuIldin blown u ewnOntrees.May and. fe6nces uprooted, the the tracks of the Wabash blocked by the contents of a huge coal chute and its ruins, is the result of a cyclone -which at 5 o'clock this evening swept the district a few miles west of here, the centre of which is the village of Nixon.. The tornado, which came up sudden- ly from the southnveet, cut a compara- tively narrow swath, but within the borders of that path ruin and devas- tation followed its course, Great damage was done in Nixon, two houses being blown down and a grocery store badly wrecked. In one of the houses destroyed an old lady named Croft had a very narrow escape, She was in bed, ill and alone, when the building crumpled up and col- lapsed like a house of cards. Ill as she was, however, she managed to crawl out of the debris, and beyond a few sev ire bruises and a bad fright, sus- tained no injury. In the other house no one was injured. In Nixon the Wabash has a coal chute, in which, in addition to a largo amount of Coal already unloaded, were five loaded cars. The whole structure collapsed under the terrific stress of the storm, and hundreds of tons of coal, with the beams and timbers of the chute, were piled upon the rails, effec- tually blocking traffic. The man in charge was in the chute it the time, and fell with the ruin, but escaped without injury. The farmers resident in the district "tin all of a well-to-do class, and their farm buildings are of substantial quality. Well and strongly put up as they were, however, they might as well have been of the flimsiest cos- struction for all the resistance they could offer. Roofs were torn off and carried long distances, and in many cases the walls, too, were demolished. Several groves of trees suffered severe- ly, and the fields were swept bare of fences. So far as is reported from, the stricken district there has been no loss of life, but the loss to the farmers will be heavy, and later details are likely to increase the extent of the dis- aster. In Simcoe the storm was very severe, but no great damage was done. - JUMPED OFF BRIDGE. Eccentric Act of Thomas Fichtus, a German, at Montreal. Montreal, ATay 25. -After a 45 -foot jump off the railing of the Notre Dame street bridge into the Place Viger yard of the C. 1'. R., Thomas Fichtus, a Ger- man, is now in Notre Dame Hospital, suffering from a broken thigh and other injuries. At 11.30 yesterday forenoon a milkman driving over the bridge saw the man climb on the railing at the south side of the bridge and jump tem the tracks below. None of time yard em- ployees saw the man -until he was lying injured on the tracks. To those who ran to lift hint up he said: "I think my left leg is broken," but gave no explan- ation of his act. NEGRO'S FIGHT FOR LIFE. Six Lives Lost in a Georgia Lynching. Reidsville, Ga., May 27. -Two negroes were lynched and four other persons are dead and six others injured as the net result of an attempted assault made last night on Mrs. Loma Morrow (white), a widow, about six miles from here, by Flem Padget, a negro. Two of the Padget family are the ones lynched and the death or injury of the others fol- lowed the efforts of a posse to capture Padget. It is reported that the mob is on its way here, and the Sheriff has moved the other prisoners to a place which ho will' not reveal. AWFUL TRAGEDY. MOTHER FOUND MURDERED AND SON LYING DEAD, Woodstoek, May 27. -(Special.) -Mur- dered -Miss Jennie McKee, aged 71 years. Suicided-Son of above, William McKee, aged 47 years. The above consti- tuted a tragedy almost without parallel in Oxford district. It occurred at the little village of Bright, fifteen miles from 'Woodstock, on Saturday afternoon. • • • NEW STEAMER LINE. Liverpool, May 27. -The Hamonrg- Antericann Steamship Company has defin- itely decided to establish a direct scr- vice between Liverpool and New Yc rk. The move of the Hamburg-Amer1s ma line is considered to be an offset to the competition of the White Star Line et Southampton and may have an import- ant bearing on the plans of the C+m,rrd Co. TO BUILD CANAL. Chicago, May 27. ---Engineers working in the interest of New York. Pittsburg, Chicago and Indianapolis capitalists are completing plans for an extended system of canals from Indiana harbor to a point between (harry and Michigan City. The first surveys provide for waterways for- ty tulles don„ to cost $10,000,000. The system is held necessary to the desel- opment of the steel and iron indus- tries. e•• BOY KILLED HIMSELF. Pittsburg, May 27. ---harry D. Sellers, 20 years old, accidentally shot and killed himself at the home of his parents in the east end yesterday, while cleaning a revolver preparatory to shooting a dog. Sellers was a student at Lafayette Col- lege until a few weeks ago, when he re- turned home to enter a railroad offite. 4.1. Convicted of Murder. Vancouver, I3. C,, May 20. Chtmg K».- Venni was found guilty of murder cat Clinton on Saturday for killing a cote- ratnio% in it drunken row. At the first trial the jury disagreed.