The Wingham Advance, 1907-06-27, Page 7MYSTERIOUS DROWNING
Of MARY VENNELL
George Evans, Who Was With the Girl When She
Was Drowned, Still Free.
Says He Took Her Out for a Sail to Spite Another
Girl Who Was Not Named.
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MISS MARY VENNELL,
Bridgeton, N. J., despatch: By the dis-
covery to -day on the lake shore at Piney
Point of a part of a garment which was
worn by Mary Vennell on the night she
was drowned, the police believe that
they have stumbled acrossevidence
which will result in a murder indictment.
'As yet no arrest has been made, and
George Evans, who was rowing with the
girl on the night of the tragedy, is not
even under surveillance. When the girl's
body was taken from Sunset Lake_ on
Wednesday morning and examined by
Dr. Irving Charleaworth it was noticed
that her clothing was torn. The piece
of cloth found to -day was positively
identified by Mrs. Eliza Ecret, mother of
the girl, it was also contained to the
garments worn by the girl and matched
it perfectly. Mrs. Eeret was so positive
in her identification that the scrap of
cloth was turned over to the Coroner.
It was picked up at a point about one
hundred and fifty feet from where Mary
Vennell's body was found, Coroner
Hitchner and the police attach great hn-
aortance to the new evidence.
- One of the peculiar features of the
case is that while the Coroner and the
Prosecuting Attorney admit that they
have evidence enough to warrant an ar-
rest they refuse to make one. Both the
girl's mother and her brother Harold
have besought Coroner Iffichner to ar-
rest George Evans, but both have re-
fused to take an,y action toward holding
the young man.
In justification of his attitude the
Coroner said to -day:
"If this drowning had occurred hi New
‘York or some other big city and 1 were
Coroner there I would not hesitate to
place Evans under arrest. But he is so
well known in this town that I see no
eeason for even watching hmimmi. If he
-argot away we could capture him again.
within a week. And if he did flee it
would only place him under more suspi-
cion."
Two witnesses who were standing on
the pavilion near the boat house on the
night of the drowning, and who devlare
they heard screams from the direction
of Piney Point about half past nine
o'clock, have given their names to Cor-
oner Hitchner. They are Edgar W.
Downs, of 52 New street, Bridgeton,
and Miss Mabel Kerr, of Philadelphia.
Both these witnesses will appear at the
inquest on Tuesday,
As George Evans in all his statements
concerning the drowning has insisted
that lie only met Miss Vennell on last
Tuesday night, he was asked to -night
why lie had invited her out rowing on
such shot t acquaintance.
"I took her out to spite the other
girl," he said.
"What other girl?" he was asked.
Evans flushed and then shook his head.
"I don't care to say," he said. This is
the first time that he has mentioned any
other girl.
His father said to -night his son had
taken Miss Venuell .out to spite another
girl.
"lie has a girl in Fairton," he said,
and I shouldn't wonder if they hail a lit-
tle tiff and that he took Mary Vennell
out to make her jealous."
That Mr. Evans belie -e5 laa son is ab-
solutely blameless of any responsibility
for Mary Vennell's death is evinced by
a statement he. hame to -day. Describing
his son's conduct that night, he said:
"lie swain ashore in the darkness and
did not know where he was, but as soon
as he could find his way out Ite ran all
the way home. Ills mother ran about
a half block to Constable Woodruff's
store and his wife telephoned to the
City Hall.
"When George came into the house he
was almost exhausted and fell on the
lounge, but he cried: 'Do, get the girl,
she is drowned! Go, get her! Go quick
and tell somebody she is where the boat
is!I could not learn any more. I got
hint to bed and kept him till Mr. Barton
came after him."
J. Hampton Fithian, Prosecuting At-
torney, has decided to qu'setion Evans
to -morrow morning in the hope of getting
a statement front him that will clear up
the case. To -morrow afternoon the fun-
eral of Mary 'Vennell will be held from
her home, 22 Lemon street.
FOUR BUM
TO DEATH.
IMPRISONED IN HOLD OF FLAME -
SWEPT VESSEL.
St. John, N. B., despatch: The worst
Steamer Crystal Stream Burned at Her
Wharf in the St. John River—Cut
Loose to Save the Dock, She Sets
Fire to New Bridge— Mate Mc-
\ Cleery's Marvellous Escape.
A,
fatality that has ever occurred on the
St. John River took place early this
morning at the West Wharf, Cole's
Queen's county, sixty miles front
this city, when the steamer Crystal
Stream., plying on the route between
St. John and Cole's Island, caught fire
and burned to death four of her crew,
injuring to a greater or lese extent a
half-dozen others:. Besides this, the boat
was totally wrecked, and in drifting
against the new bridge, Wan the mewls
of communicating the fire to that struc-
ture, causing it to be almost totally de-
stroyed.
The Dead.
Willard Logan, of Land's End, Xing's
county, fireman, unmarried.
Allan Logan, brother of Willard, of
Land's End, King's county, married and
leaves children; deck band.
Fred. Smith, of Shannon Settlement.
Queen's county; ocek Mint
Edward Baxter, deck hand, Day's
Landing.
The Injured.
Heebert MeCteery, mate, of Gorham's
*Bluff, King's county; badly burned
-.about body, now in St. john Hospital.
Wentworth Roberts, engineer, of St.
John, burned about, face and hands.
Mrs. Chase, of St. John (North), stew-
ardess, burned and bruised.
n, Purdy lielyea, purser; burned
about face and hands.
The fact of four men being penned up
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between deeks in their bunks asleep
while fire, over which there coula be no
control, raged above them, cutting off
escape, ietrodiwes a horrible phase to
the fatal fire, Despite the heroism- of
other nuenbers of the Frew and shore
people, the able-bodied men were lost in
the flames, the incinerated remains in-
dicather that they died as rats in -a trap.
'rime feel that bales of hay were included
in the steamer's freight inspires the be-
lief that this dangerous commodity
made the accident whet it turned out to
be. The steamer was ready to start
early in the day, and all hands were
asleep soundly when the flames broke
out.
In the Middle of the Night.
The fire started a half hour after
midnight. Mrs. Coleman, the cook, who
slept On the upper deck, was the first
to discover it. Slat arose in her night
clothes and yelled "Mel" At this time
the whole boat was, enveloped in smoke
and flame. She called Mrs. Chase, and
Mrs. Clause started calling "fire" as
well, which woke the other members of
the crew. Captain Mabee, who wits,s
sleeping in the wheelhoirie cabin, heard
the shouting, and, grabbing his clothes,
threw them out on the wharf. Then
he erawled over the side, and helped
Miss Coleman to the wharf. Engineet
Roberts, who was sleeping in a state-
room, also heard the shouting, but con -
Mitered be was dreaming. However, on
jumping to his feet, and throwing open
his stateroom door, the smoke burst in
so thickly that he took a shoe and
trust open a state room window, reach
ing the deck by this avenue of escape.
Then be slipped along the mooring lines
to the wharf, and, securing time small
boat, went astern, where he look Mrs.
(UFO on board, the old lady sliding
down the flag pole. Ian West, it mill
hand, wits there, and assisted Mr. Mi-
nts In saving Mrs. Chase.
The most miraculous escipe of any
was that of 1141thert Merleery. who wets
sleeping below with the thyk hamls,
thought his position as mate entitiod him
to better quarters. Mr, MeCleery, on
hearing the yells of the women, trawl-
ed. thrimgh the dark passeg,0 ut flu. mm.
der deck to a trap door, whielt he
knew existed in the floor of the ladies'
cabin, Forcing this through by super-
-Mutual strength,despite the fact that
it was covered by a heavy eitrpet„ lie
got into the ladies! cabin, already filled
with smoke, and, bursting out it glass
window, reached the outer deck anti
thence to the wharf, where he fell ex-
hausted and bleeding.
By this time, which wits merely a
matter of five minutes after Mrs, Cole -
Mali discovered the fire., the whole
steamer was a mass, of flames, and those
who were- present say that it was abso
lutely impossible to board her, so intense
was the heat and blinding the smoke. in
less than two hours the big boat was
burned to the water's edge.
ORANGE OFFICERS,
CHOSEN IN SESSION AT VANCOU-
VER, B. C.
Will Meet Next in Midland—Resolution
Protesting Against . Increase in Sep-
arate Schools in the New Province.
--
Vancouver, B. C., June 24. ---The elec-
tion of officers of the Grand Orange
Lodge resulted as follows: Grand Alas -
ler, T. S. Sproule, M. Markdale,
Ont., re-elected; Deputy Strand Master,
J• 11, Scott, Walkerton;
(hand Chaplain, Rev. %Vitt.
Walsh,
I re-elected; GranP1()
d HC‘.taallliyl:
William Lee, Toronto; (trend Treas-
urer, W. .1. Parkhill, Midland, re-
eleeted; Grand Lecturer, d. F. Harper,
Hamilton; Grand Director of Cere-
monies, Capt, George MeSpadden, Van-
couver; Deputy Grand Treasurer, 141.
1. liockimi, Torouto; Deputy Grand
Lodge Auditors, J. IL Delemearo, W.
IL litewa•rt; Deputy Grand Lecturers,
A. A. Gray, Ontario West; O. W. San-
di); Ontario East; Joseph McGill,
Manitoba; A. It. Carmichael, Alberta;
William Cox, Quebec; A. Anderson,
British Columbia; Benjamin, Smith,
Saskatchewan; A. S. McKay, Prince
Edward Island; T. H. Humphreys,
Nova Scotia; T. if. Butt, Newfound-
land; IL F. McCloud, New Brunswick.
Midland was selected by the Grand
Lodge as its place of meeting next
year. Calgary, Toronto and Winnipeg
Were voted upon. The delegates call-
ed attentim in it resolution of protest
to the increase of Separate sehoolsiii
Alberta and Saskatchewan. At the
time of the passing of the Autonomy
bill only two Roman Catholic Soper -
ate schools existed, and this mtmber
has now been -swelled to seventeen, ac-
cording to the last issue of the Sas-
katchewan Gazette.
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BLOCKS MOVE AGAINST BOARD.
Discussion of Premier's Resolution Pre-
vented by Lord Cecil.
London, June 2a—Lord Robert Cecil
introduced to -day in the House of Com-
mons las bill dealing with the power
of the House of Lords to alter or _reject
a bill after it has passed the House of
Commons. It received its first reading
amid cheers of the Opposition. The
seeona reading was nominally fixed for
to -morrow.
The Speaker of the House, replying to
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, said re-
loctantly that he was compelled to say
that Lord Robert Cecil's bill would pre-
vent discussion of the Premier's resolu-
tion against the Lords, whereupon the
Premier, after congratulating -Cecil for.
finding an opportunity of showing the
mischief of blocking tactics as permitted
under the present rules, appealed to him
not to proceed further with the bill.
Lord Robert Cecil replied that unless
he had come aSsurance that the Govern-
ment would keep its pledge to introduce
a standing order removing the rule
which empowers a member to give a
blocking notice like his own he must
proceed,
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THREE JUDGES TO DECIDE.
Test Sunday Selling Case Will Be Sent
to Osgbode Hall.
Toronto despatch: That the author-
ities are not altogether satisfied with the
decision giveu by ;fudge Morson in the
Sunday selling case of Mr. I. N. Devins
at Sunnyside was Made clear yesterday
in the afternoon police court, when
Deputy Magistrate Kingsford, ruled that
the case of Harry Weatherall must go
to the Divisional Court for final decision.
His worship will next week enter a
formal conviction, and in the meantime
Mr, If. is Drayton, County Crown At-
torney, and.Mr. B. IL Ardagh, acting
for the defendant, will decide upon a
stated case to be submitted to the
judges et ()spode Hall. The defend-
ant, who is the holder of a restaurant
licaelse at Hanlan's Point, sold popcorn,
peanuts, candies an11 oranges to special
eonstables a week ago last Sunday. Chief
Inspector ,Arehibald is pressing the pro -
en behalf of the crown.
At the suggestion of the chief inspec-
tor, the ease or 'Joseph Kropifka, of Agnes
street, cherged with Sunday sellidg, was
adjourned till called en.
PATRIOTISM IN THE HOME.
---
American Husband amid Canadian Wife
Could Not Agree.
, Detroit, dune 21.-A matter of pat-
riotism to their respective motherlands
stood between William ,T. and Anna
W. Roepke, according to the story told
on the stand in ,Tudge Donovan'is court
to -day. "My wife is ft Canadian and 1
inn an American," said Dm husband.
"She said she didn't like this country.
wouldn't live here, and under no cir-
cumstances would have children on Am-
erican moil. She declared she was too
good a Canadian for that. I replied
that I was too good an American to
have my children born muter the 'Brit-
ish flag. We quarrelled stud on March
I. 1904, she went to Winnipeg, Man..
where I later followed and fumed hen
offered to give her a good home in
his ermntry, but she wouldn't conic, so
I left las- there."
The lineband was given a decree mm
the spot frn. three years' desertion. They
were married in Cleveland in 1902.
HUMAN STATUARY,
TwO Brazilian Doctors Patent New De-
vice for Embalming.
June 2-I.. -The Vrankfarter
/mating. tooting front the Commercm de
Sao Paulo, Brazil, reports that two
.loetnrs of Sao Paulo have applied to
pa tent a disetivery Lii preeerve the body
ifter death, so that it may do ditty
ts It statute by simply placing it on 11
pedestel.
'Ille inveuturs claim Unit their pro-
Staal provides a slither .equal to marble
Iii appearance, and One which 15 even
better in resi-ting fire and atininipherie
influeneva. They add that :awh sta.
lams would be more life -like than the
work of any eculptor.
The patent authorities reeeivea with
the doenment•; It long woollen box, which
,eintained the body of a negro boy pre
airved by the inventors' niethoa and
kept for nearly six years.
CURRENT KILLED
FOUR WORKMEN
Three Others Burt by Contact With
live Wire.
rour Men Pushing a Boiler Struck
Dead.
New York, June K—Four men were
killed and three probably fatally injured
Iby an electric current communicated to
a smokeataek and, boiler of a portable
derrick, from a broken feed wire of the
Richmond Light as Railway Company,
at Marinera' Harbor, Staten Island, ear-
ly last night.
The gilled.
Corey, 11. illiam, Vi years old, of 358
West Forty-eighth street.
Gorey, Vvilliam, jun,. 22, of the sante
address,
Two unidentified
Those uninjured were two Italians amid
all American, unidentified, who were
taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, Maim-
hattau, in an unconscious state.
1Villiam Burke and Patrick Sweeney,
two foremen, were arrested by .Ueteii-
Live Beatty, of inspector Regalia stati,
charged wall criminal negligence ia not
measuring the height of the smokestack
before attompting to move it under the
wiit.°.
It was near the excavation for Proc-
tor & Chumble's big soap factory, close
to Western avenue, that the accident
happened. The place is to be occupied
by the new structure is being filled in,
and to make the foundations secure piles
are being driven. This work is being
done by the Heckling Construction Comae
pony. Last night the company was
moving a large portable derrick into the
plant to be used in the construction, and
with it were moved a boiler and engine.
Lit moving the derrick across the atrect
the men had been delayed several times,
and it was late, before their work was
finished. Ulm feed wire, suspended on
poles, is hie- at that point, and although
it was said the men had been cautioned
to look out for it, in their haste to finish
their work before dark the heavy smoke-
stack was thrust against the Wire with
sufficient force to break it.
When the smokestack came in contact
with the wire four men were pushing
against the boiler and several others
were working with wooden levers, pry-
ing at the wheels and other parts of the
iron work. The foremen were shouting
to the men to hurry, and no one seemed
Lu notice Lit tt the top of the smokestack
would not clear the wire.
Acting un the command of time fore-
men the amen gave one concerted shove
on their hsavy load, and' the next sec.
oud four of those who hail been pressing
their hands against the boiler lay dead
on the ground, blames darted and leap-
ed front every inch of the ironwork, Lied
the atmosphere about the spot was
charged with the current.
So great was the pressure of the
smokestaels against the wire that it
snapped like a piece of twine, and the
two ends fell to the ground, endangering
the lives of a dozen workmen standing
near.. The three men taken to the hos-
pital were caught by the live wires.
For several minutes all the workmen
were terror stricken, and most of them
ran to places of safety. The sight of
four of their companions lying whore
they had been instantly stricken and the
agonized ci.ies of some of the injured
seemed to stim those who behelul the
strange spectaele, and for several min-
utes they were unable to go to the res-
cue of their companions.
BARN RAISING ACCIDENT.
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Two of the Victimsivicas a
Chatham, Ont t
c u men
were severely injured ill a succession of
accidents at a barn -raising yesterday
afternoon, on the farm of Nelson Clark,
111uiehH
Joint ouston wits the first to sus-
tain injury. A beam flew out of place
and struck lam, dislocating his thumb,
and severely bruising his arm. Shortly
afterwards Albert, Fortnum was standing
on the ground, when a plate fell front the
building and trUCk him on the knee. Ile
was severely injured.
A few minutes afterward William
Scott and Samuel Stator were standing
on a plate when the building was
jarred, and the two men were thrown
In the ground, 30 feet below. The plate
fell also, but luckily fell between them.
Scott's condition is very critical, he
received a severe gash in his forehead,
aml was rendered mwouseimis. Suitor
also is in very bad shape. He received
a couple of broken ribs and internal in-
juries.
There is considerable doubt whether
the last two will recover.
B. N. A. ACT SECOND READING.
Churchill and Hamar Greenwood Sup-
port It.
London, June 24. ---The British North
America Act, no amended, passed the
eecond rending to -day,
Winston Churchill and Hamar Green-
wood supported it, pointber out thet
whilst the government cord not inter-
fere between British Columbia and the
Dominion, the way was still open for
tiny province to make better terms if
possible.
The words "final and unalterable"
were milted, beeanse it was impos-
sible to bind the sovereign parliameut.
Mr, Greenwned .indicated with pride
Its a Casindian the dignified and quiet
way the Canadian mime ministers, in-
cluding Mr. "Are -Bride, haul brought the
matter to tin' colonial of five. Mr.
Dreenwood said the bill must pass 1.)
July I. He said the government in-
tended it to pass.
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HOLDS UP TWO COACHES.
A Lone Highwayman Makes Big Haul
From Yosemite TottristS.
Reyntoml, Cola June 2,1.- Two stage
carryieg 16 tourists bound
for the Yosemite Valley, were held up
and the passengere were robbed. of
$300 and nitwit jewelry by a lone high-
wayman Wednesday night about 40
miles from here.
The robber was very cool and busi-
nesslike.
It Wits jlist at twilight that the first
stage was stopped as it turned a cor-
ner of the road.
The enntinand, 'Hands up, there!"
was the firat warning of trouble, and
the driver found himself looking into
the Nimbi ef it shotgun before he had
lime to lay 11;11141:4on the weapons that
rested at his side.
The robber stood on rising ground at
one side of the road. He wore a linen
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duster and a slouch hat. Iiis features "lr.Willy'"" FOUND
were covered with a black mask.
Some of the, women started to •
scream, bet the passengers were told •
HER YOUNG DOMESTIC •SERVANT0
no harm would come to them unless
they refused to obey quickly and si-
lently. The driver was soon stand-
ing, hands in air,. by the roadside., amid .
time passengers jollied up with him.
When the masked man had filled the
pockets of his duster with cola and
jewelry he ordered the passengers back
into time stage one by one.
At the first halting place a posse was.
organized to run down the outlaw.
BOND'S CHOICE.
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WANTS FISHERIES DISPUTE RE-
FERRED TO HAGUE TRIBUNAL.
Result Might be Unfortunate, Says Sir
Edward Grey—If Foreign Fishing
Vessels Act, 1e00, is Not Enforced,
Sir Robert Thinks, There Should be
Arbitration.
London, dune 21. ---Sir Robert Bond,
the Premier of Newfoundland, has
been endeavoring to persuade the Brit-
ish Government to submit the fisheries
question, arising from the treaty of
1818 to turbitration by neutral powers.
ire lint grade the suggestion when
Newfoundland was discussed at the last
session of the Imperial Conference. At
that time he protested strongly against
the modus vivendi.
The British Government refused to
adopt Sir Robert's suggestion, because
it was negotiating with -Um United
States. Sir Robert has since renewed
his proposition, desiring to submit the
matter to The Hague arbitration tri-
bunal. Foreign Secretary Grey is re-
ported to have reminded the Newfound-
land Premier that if the arbitration fail-
ed the question would be left on delicate
ground.
Sir Robert Bond -has finally decided to
leave England on the Virginian to -mor-
row. His solution of the whole ques-
tion has been the enforcement of the
foreign fishing vessels act of 1906, pro-
viding for the penalization of Americans
who induce British subjects to violate
the laws of the colony. Arbitration is
Sir Robert Bond's second- choice.
EX -MAYOR OF MONTREAL
Struck Down by Lehigh Valley Train
Near Buffalo,
A Buffalo, N. Y., despatch: William
Clendenning, former mayor of Mont-
real, was struck and killed by a Le-
high Valley passenger train to -night,
as he was crossing the tracks at De -
pew, tea mace from here.
The. train was -coming towards Buf-
falo. Mr. Clendenning was passieg
along the transit road amid walked on-
to the tracks. The train struck him and
his body was horribly mangled under
the wheels. A doctor was rushed to the
Beene, but Mr. Clendenning was too badly
injured to be within the possibilities of
medical aid. He died shortly afterward.
PRINTING PRESSMEN
REFUSED TO ABIDE BY AGREEMENT
MADE WITH TYPOTHETAE.
New York, June 24.—The international
Association of Printing Pressmen, at its
convention yesterday, virtually repudi-
ated by a vote of 102 to 93, a five years'
agreement with the United Typothetae
ofTl\un.leargiteaa'
enent which had been entered
into January 1 last and signed by ex -
President Higgins and other leading
members of the union affected 19,000
prilssmen in book and job offices
throlighout the United States. The men
wanted the open shop clause stricken
out and nine hours' pay of an eight-
hour day.
PICKPOCKETS GET AWAY.
Mr. Slater Robbed of Seven Hundred
Dollars at London.
A London, Ont., despatch: While re-
turning front Springbank between 8 and
9 last evening, and riding on the rear
platform of a trolley -car, Mr. Abra-
ham Slater of Slater Bros., tailors, felt
a strange hand in his trousers pocket.
The .thief showed fight, and after a
short struggle got away, taking with
him Mr. Slater's pocket book, which
rontaiued $700. Subsequently Mr. Slater
diseovered the men at the G. T. R.
station and gave elmse, the man throw-
ing- away the wallet, in which Mr.
Slater found $100 of the stolen money,
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AUSTRALIA'S WINE CROP.
Vintage of 1907 to be Finest the Country
Ever Had.
Melbourne, June 24.—The 1907 vint-
age must rank as one of the finest
Australia has ever had. -Abundant raine
were the chief cause of this fortunate
result.
In northeast Victoria the phylloxera
is gradually getting a hold and is des-
troying the vines by slow degrees. Time)
arc being reconstructed on resistant
stocks, however, and it is hoped that the
output will in a few years be greater
tlmn ever.
In Smith Australia an excellent erop
iS reported from all the widely sepals
sited distriets. Certain varieties have
faile(i, but others have given a more
than usually almedant :crop, with the
result that the quantity will be about
the same as last year, while time qual-
ity will be infinitely better.
TEAMSTERS' STRIKE SETTLED.
Employees of Montreal Transportation
Company Get Advance.
Montreal, June 24. ---As the result of
a conference Is' 1w eel). tile 1)0111111iOn
TrallspOttali011 Conlpally and the repre-
sentatives of time striking teamsters an
nal item bl set wit cc reildled this
evening, and the men will return to
work in the morning. The coinpany
has granted: the men's demands for
$1.74 a day instead of $1.60, whieh
were being paid., and they will also
receive twenty cents an hour for over-
time.
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WILL COST THEM A DOLLAR.
Catiddiates for Departmental Exams,
May Apply At Last biome.%
Throat°. June was .tumonnued
time MUNI t ion I )epart ment yes to cula y
that students. who at time had momeet
theided to write on departmental ex-
aminations, would be permittemi to make
applieation on the first day of writing,
but the delay will cost them as
The number of junior eandidates ti.is
vtar is slightly greater than in 100i, but
in the senior department there is ft
decrease,
Mrs. Kaufmann of Sioux Falls Convicted of Man-
slanghter —May Get 20 Years.
.1 Flandreau,, S. D... June 21. ----Mrs. Emma
Kaufman)), wife of a prominent citizen
of Sioux Falls, 8, D., was to -night con-
victed of manslaughter la the first de-
gree. She has been on trial for several
days, charged with causing the death,
from brutal treatment, of her maid, Miss
Agnes Palreld.
The minimum: term of imprisonment
fixed by the statutes for the crime is
twenty years' imprisonment in the peal-
tentiary.
The ease was submitted, to a jury at 4
o'clock this afternoon allli the verdict
was not reached until several hours
later.
This is the second trial of Mrs. Kauf-
mann the first having been held in Sioux
Valls. The result was a disagreement of
the jury. A change of venue to Flan -
&eau was then taken.
The Kaufmanns have resided ill Sioux
Fails for about ii quarter of a century,
and are known to practically every man,
woman and child in the city. Mr. Kauf-
mann for years has been prominently
identified with State politics and ioi
generally known throughout South -Da-
kota and adjoining States.
Agnes Palveis, the domestic whom
Mrs. Kaufmann has been convicted of
killiag, was a native of Austria-Hungary
and arrived in South Dakota from the
old country with her parents during the
closing months of 1903. The girl went
to Sioux Falls and entered the employ
of Mrs. Kaufmatm on Feb. 18, only a
few weeks after the funnily arrived in
South Dakota, and only it little over
three months before she died at a Sioux
Falls hospital front numerous wounds,
bruises and cuts.
The girl, NvInle of small stature, was
robust and healthy when she arrived in
Sioux Falls, and weighed 138 pounds,
At the time of her death the girl, ac-
cording to competent authority, did not
weigh more than 11.0 pounds.
After her death in a local hospital on
June 1 her remains. were prepared for
burial and shipped to the parents of the
girl at Parkston. Wounds upon the
head of the dead girl were discovered, by
a young daughter of William Moeller, a
business man of Parkston, who was an
intimnate friend of Miss Poireis, It Was
front Miss Moeller that the first dis-
closures came.
After the burial the girl friend of the
dead girl was so persistent in the claim
that there were wounds on her head
that it was determined to disinter the
remains and make an investigation.
When the body had been lifted from its
place in the grave the other wounds,
gashes and bruises were discovered.
To convinee the authorities of Minim.
halm, County that the girl had been the
victim of foul play the coffin of the dead
girl on the evening of Saturday, June 0,
was for the second time lifted from the
grave to time surface of the ground in
the presence of State's Attorney Quinn,
of Hutchinson County; Mrs. Olney and
Billion, of Sioux Falls; Dr. Quinn, of
Menno, and Mrs. Schofield and Land -
mann, of Parkston, and about a hun-
dred Parluston people. A much larger
number of physicians and others were
present than on the first occasion when
the body was exhumed.
The evidence secured as the result of
the second examination resulted in the
arrest of Mrs. Kaufmann on the charge
of having been responsible for the
wounds, gashes, cuts and bruises which
caused the, death of the girl.
Sine° a few days after the conclusion
of her preliminary hearing on June 20
of last year Mrs. Kaufmann has been at
liberty on bonds of $23,000, she having
been admitted to bail by the State Su-
preme Court,
IN THE THROES
OF A REVOLUTION
FIERCE BARRICADE FIGHTING BE-
TWEEN TROOPS AND PEOPLE,
Popular Hatred of Senator Franco's
Dictatorship Ends in Revolt and
Bloodshed at Lisbon, Portugal.
Paris, June 24. --Despatches received
to -night from Lisbon, undated, via
Madrid, state that popular hatred of
the system of government byadecree in-
stituted by Senator Joao Franco after
the disMissal of Parliament has had an
outcome in barricade fighting between
troops and the people, with much blood-
shed. The Premier made a, journey to
Oporto in the hope -of securing a popu-
lar endorsement of his policy„ but at
every station between Lisbon and Opor-
to crowds hissedand hooted the train as
it passed.
Oporto received the Premier with
crape banners instead of flags, and with
yells and insults inst-e•ad of the hoped
for cheers. When the dictator returned
to Lisbon there occurred a furious riot
outside the railway station. The cavalry
charged the mob, and the infantry fired
into it. Officers' commands drowned Hue
cries of "Death to the dictator!" Revol-
Yers were freely usedby the crowd. A
yottug officer was mortally wounded, A
neighboring square was filled with, killed
and woended laid out in rows.
The principal fighting took place un-
der the windows of the Hotel D'Angle-
terre. Several English visiters witnessed
the struggle, and -said the people
fought for hours with sticks and stones
against the soldiers, who fired volleys.
Women with aprons filled with stones
supplied missiles to the men and urged
them on. Republican leaders harangued •
the people to revolt. Barricades- were
formed and cafes invaded. the mob
breakieg up furniture for their extem-
pore fortifications. The chief Lisbon
cafe was COMpletely destroyed. The mob
fought with great fury, undismayed by
the volleys of the troops.
To -day was a day of mourning for the
(load. All the newspapers appeared with
deep black Winters. and on the business
offices mid private houses flags flew hell'
meet, Whitlows wee:, limped in crepe.
To -night again the troops were firing
on the peeple in the Italie squares.
Most seriona events are expected. The
spirit of revolt is widespread, ana the
censorship strict.
ABSURD REASON.
LACK OF LAW STAMP NO EXCUSE
FOR DELAY.
--
Buckingham Rioters Must Stand Trial—
Magistrate Made Mistake—Had No
Right to Quash Indictment, Says
Court of Appeal.
Montreal, June 24.—In the Court of
Appeals to -day Mr. Justice Treholme
delivered the decision of the court in the
matter of the six Buckingham strikers
who are charged with manslaughter.
.1 lie decision of the vourt is that they
must stan,t their trial on the charge ef
having killed Detective Warner. The
judge was decidedly prononneed in his
decision. The indictment was quashed
by the distriet magistrate at 111111 On
the ground that the regular ten -cent
law stamp wag not affixed.
"It woulml be a wive tbing," said his
Lordship, "If a man accused of tak-
ing the life of ;mother were allowed
to go free bevau•i4 someone forgot to
pat a. tell-ccull Mang) -upon the war-
rant editing for las arrest. There is
no rigid stile far the suffixing, of tho
stamp, and the eourt is of tlw (minium
that there is leally no necessity for such
being a f f is ed."
Mr. Justiee Treholme, in closing his
deeisiim, said: "It 'ma impossible to justis
fy the nether of the tlistriet magistrate
in quashing the indictment, and we
therefore (Breit that the indictment
„
be restored to the vondition it was in I
when the decision of the magistrate ;
Wit -s giVell. The court orders that the
trial proceed in due -course of law, and • t
We bine nothing to say about the I
costs." This means that the :lensed ;
have now no ehance of going before it I
pry, ns- a va,•;•• before the tartlet af Ala
peal Mgt be resented tit the stage sila•re
it was 'halted.
RAILWAYS AND
WSTERN CROPS
Report That They Are Doing The!'
Best to be Ready.
Ottawa, Ont., June 24.—(Special.)—
Frank Dillinger, assistant to the chief
traffic officer of the Railway COMMiri-
sion, has returned from Manitoba and the
Northwest, where he was extunining in-
to the reporting upon the condition of
Railway Companies with a view to their
being able to handle the crop this fall.
Mr. Dillinger is an operating expert. This
report will be ready very -shortly. Along
with Mr. Dillinger was an inspector of
equipment, Mr. des Ogilvie. He went over
the Canadian Northern Railway, and the
assistant inspector is now going over
the Canadian Pacific. With the assist-
auce of these inspectors the Railway
Commission is now devising a system
under which the railway com-
panies will be able to report
permanently on their equipment
front time to time -and in this
way the board will be in a position to
know exactly what the differeat com-
panies can do in handling traffic. Gen-
erally speaking the experts have come
to the conclusion that the railways in
Lime west are doing au that they p. Si -
July can do to increase their *naive
power equipment and rolling stack end
will be in a fairly good position to brims
out the wheat crop this fall. The ex-
perts are not satisfied with the reports
of the companies in this regard, but got
the additional information as to where
the orders had, been placed, and when
delivers- was to be made to the compan-
ies. They are now getting further in-
formation from the Canadian Pacific. Be -
4(1.0F1 the matters mentioned, the Isserd
and its experts are dealing with the
question of reciprocal demurrage and
draft bills of lading. The reconsidera-
tion of the latter has been left over un-
til after August 1st at the request of
the Bankers' Association and other com-
mercial bodies.
4 • It
MRS. PIPON GETS $25,000.
_—
English Railway Also Settles With Mrs.
King for $zo,000.
Toronto, 'Nile 2-1,—The London &
Southwestern Railway of Englanit has
made a settlement with Mrs. C. S. N-
iels of Tema°. through her solicitor,
Eric Armour, of Bristol & ,Armour, giv-
ng damages for the death of
Pipe -mm's husband in the wreck at
Saliebury.
The same railway settled with Mrs.
E. L. King. widow of the late Rev. E.
L. King, who also lost his life in the
same disaster. The amount was $20,-
000.
Mrs. Barwick's suit for £30,000 will
be tried in ,Tuly.
WILL VISIT WASHINGTON.
---
Pmemiers of Canada and Newfoundland
to See Roosevelt.
New York, dune 24. ---The Tribune
states that Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime
Minister of tin Dominion of -Canada, and
the Premier of Newfmnidland are, ae
v -
ording to present. arrangements, to visit
Washingt•on nmnediately after the re-
turn of the President to the national
capita! from his summer holiday. The
objets of their visit is to discuss with
the Preeident, with the Secretary of
State and Ambassador Bryce some
means of effeeting a, compromise satis.
factory to all voncerned of the diffieul-
th,s in connection with the Newfound-
land fisheries problem.
WELLMAN EXPEDITION.
The Explorer Reports That Work is Pro-
gressing Rapidly,
Cam Wellman. Spitsbergen, dune 21.
-
in Tromsoe, Norway, June i',. --After
meeting with some difficulty owing to
-he paek iee, Wolter Wellman. leader
If the NI ellman-Chwago Record•Herahl
‘retie expedition, arrived here June 16.
The members of the party who had been
eft behind in Spitzhergen were founa
he well, •and in spite of the. boisterous
vint em' weather nothing was damaged.
ed.
^tveather during the past week has
wen good, and rapid progress is being
mule with the work of the expedition.
Siberian dogs are being brought here
rem Tromsoe,