HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-08-29, Page 7CONDUCTOR MURDERED IN
ROCHESTER BOARDING HOUSE.
se,
N. Y. C. Employee Dies From Injuries Received
in a Fight ---Looking for Landlady,
Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 20.- Frederick
Kistemnaker, a freight COUIllietOr on
the New York Central, amending b.) the
police, was fatally wounded in bis board-
ing Louse at 12 John sheet, early thil
iltOrOiag. nr. Bildt wan summoned to
the joint street liouse shortly after 4
o'cloak by Airs. Osborne, proprietor of
the hoarding house, and Reuel Jeisten.
maker lying on. the floor la a pool or
blood with two bullet wounds in his
head. He refusedsto make v. stetement.
He was taken to a hospital, where ho
died half an hour later without making
a statement. The police are looking for
Mrs. Osborne, who has been missing sinee
-0 o'doek. They want her story. Her
daughter, 11 years old, said her mother
had gone out to Manitou W notify Ki.
tegausker's Ihkughttl. of his death.
the boarding house le occupied by
. is. Nellie Osborne, ber daughter and
her daughter-ineaw, Mrs. elay Frawley.
Kistemeaker ocenpied a room on the up-
per floor. The child told the puttee that
she heerd Kistenmaker come iu at four
o'elock this morning, 4Lnd bei' mother go
downstairs. Mrs. Frawley sap she found
Kistemnaker in a pool of blood. in e
frout room downstairs). She said Airs.
Oehorne had told her there had been a
terrible fight.
Joseph Shaughneesey, a bridge worker,
and his wife moved into the boarding
house yesterday. Shaughnessey, it is
said, was not home last night. Airs.
Shaughnessey slept in the front room
downstairs. The police found a pool of
blood in the room and what they believe
is a bullet hole in the door.
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KIDNAPPED BOY RETURNS HOME.
Shock
of His Loss Killed
Given Up For
Chicago, Aug. 25. --Captive of a roving
band of gypsies for four years, Walter
• Culper, the ten -year-old Charlie Ross of
South Chicago, escaped the kidnappers
at Roby Ind., and found his own people
to -day. He walked in befoee his grand-
mother, Mrs. Beteher, 10,445 Ewing ave.
nue.
"Hello, Grandma. Don't you know me?
I'm little Walter," he said
The good woman was beside herself
with astonishment. When she recover.
ed she admitted that she did not rece
ognize In the ragged, barefooted lad tie?
pretty, well-di-me:1 little Wow of six
who had been stolen from home and given
up lorever.
The boy. escaped from the g,ypsies two
Dead.
His Father—Was
Chicago. There he prosecuted a lonely
search until he found his grandparent.
The mother of the boy is on her way
/rein her present home at South Bend
to South Chicago to fold her child in her
anus a„eain.
Prank Outlier, the father, died during
the absence of the boy, the loss of
whom is said to have had nitwit to do
with his death Mrs. Culper married
again and is now Mrs. J. IL Cullen.
The boy idle a remarkable story of
his wanderings; and hardships during
captivity. Ile said that he lied roamed
all over the eountry with the gypsy
band. Ins eaptors worked him hard anl
beat him when he proved. too frail for
the task wheel he was set to do.
Authorities at Roby were notified of
the boy's return, and search for the
gypsies diselosed the fact that they had
fled as soon as the absence of their cap -
days ego. He managed to reach South tive was discovered.
111.1.1.1.MMON•01,
AN UNUSUAL CASE.
ITALIAN JUDGE ACCUSED OF
ACCEPTING BRIBES.
he President Astounded—Minister of
Justice Has Announced His Intention
of Purging Bench of Graft.
Rome, Aug. U.—An extraordinary
scene occurred in the Law Courts at
Modena yesterday. Signor Giacomo
Ferri, the prominent lawyer and par-
liamentary deputy, stood up and refits -
ed • to argue the case before the tiouri,
on the ground that one of the assist-
ing judges was habitually guilty.- of
bribery and corrupt practice, whieb,
Signor Ferri added, would be found
specified in formal denunciation, which
he had handed to the Kings' procurator.
The President was dumbfounded, and
at length ordered the next civil case
to be proceeded with; but all the other
lawyers in :merle one after another,
announced their adhesion to Signor Fer-
ri and declined to detour; busbies,: be-
fore the accused Judge Vigil:weld till
the charges had been i Pea tiga ted.
Hence the session had to be ndjoerned
sine die.
Apropos of this incident, it may be
mentioned the t Signor Orlando, Ali [l-
ister of Justice, on Meg recently ap-
pointed to that Cabinet poet, iestied a
general circular manifesting his inten-
tion of purging the Italian benclt of
incompetent or unworthy administra-
tors. The Government then began a
1 series of prosecutions against various
members of .the judicial bencle who
were charged with corrupt practiees in
Genoa, Catanzaro and other places. The
deem of the judges in the aforemen-
tioned Calabrian city was condemned
to a year's suspension from office. This
step on the part of the Centre] Gov-
ernment seems to have instilled come
'Age into the ranks Of the lawyers, who
are co-operating in the arduous task
of judicial reform.
M. C. R. IS HELD
RESPONSIBLE.
THE FINDING OF THE JURY IN THE
ESSEX DISASTER.
The Railway Company Has Already Paid
Damages Amounting to Twenty
ThousandDollars—Evidence of Rail-
waymen and Others Heard—Dyna-
, mite in Court.
A Windsor despatch: After being out
for nearly three hours the Coroner's jury
at the Essex explesion inquest to -night
brought in a verdict holdiug the Michi-
gan Central Railway Company respons-
ible for the accident.
More than a dozen witnesses testi-
fied, and all were put through a strict
cross examination by Crown Attorney.).
IL Rood. During the afternoon a box.
of dynamites peeked similarly to thaw
whieh caused the explosion, was brought
into the municipal building, where the
learing took pinee. Frederick Julia», an
expert from the Pluto Powder Com-
Pauy's plant at Illack Rock, opened the
ease and took out one of the big dyne -
Mite eartridges for the jury to examine,
but nobody -could be got to even look at
it, and most of the.epectatore fled from
the room until this part of the evidence
was concluded and the dynamite resta-
ed to its ease and removed from the
building. The most important informa-
tion elicited from Julian was that state-
ment that the Pennsylvania Railway
.Company, over whose lines Most of the
Pluto Company's prodint was shipped.
had a paid inspector in its employ, whose
-duty it was to earefully examine all dy-
namite and nitro-glyeertne benne it wee
placed, in the tease
Aseistant einperintendent Adams of
the Michigan Central testified that in his
opinion the exploAve had been earelessl:t
kit he ()id not think there had
been any negligence on the peat of the
railway employees. Air. Rodd failed t
get the witness to admit that the dyna-
mite bad been placed in a "way ear"
after it had been transhipped at St.
Thomas.
Conductor Thonute Barry, who was in
charge of the train at the time of the
explosion, told in detail how he and
Agent A.. E. Stimers had gone to make
an extuninaeion of the tette anti the ex-
plosion came a,s he stood in front of the
station building. He had no reeolleetion
of anything after the first great -crash,
exeept "that the earth seemed to rise
up all around him," When he regained
eonsciouseese, some hours label., he was
in the hospital.
The movement of the car containing
the dynamite was traced. from the
point of shipment to Essex by railway
employees subpoenaed for the purpose,
and it was shown that the stuff had been
permitted to remain in the railway yards
at Essex for many hours, waiting the
arrival of Conductor Barry and his crew
over the. "plug line" from Amherstburg.
It was during this time that the hot
weather brought about the "leaky" con-
dition of the dynamite, whieh reeulted
in the terrible affair. The inquest wne
opened at 2 p, m„ and it was after 6
before all the witn.eeies had been heard.
The jury were out a little more than
ems heltr.
riage. persietentlwithout of- youNG
went Itegen three weeks y% -liter the mar -
feet, it was found itecessary to increase • - D
the dose. Result: SIX days away front
home on the last trip, beghluhrr Thus -
day, and hubbythrilling to pollee,
his appeals were prayerful, as his wife
• Wealthy and Beautiful Convent
the vewspepere an the Lord. Most of
had left word that Cod had taken ht
away and God would have to bring he
back.- The wife and her emnpanlou r
turned early yesterday morning, Sim
RUT IN JAIL.
e- Graduate Charged With Theft.
then the husband lute been buoy alio':
oeizing to his wife and the minister fe
his violent temper.
When asked if Cod had directed he
back Mrs. Moffett said:. "Partially —
God and Mr. Wheaon." The direction wa
reeeivea, site said, after the evenbig pap
ers bad eubliseed the fact of their dis
am/eat-me. Sbe mid that site had lef
home because of lier husbaild's tempe
and gave out a written otatement tell
ing just how violent it was. She hope
it wouldn't be henceforth, but if it We
elm would stay away longer than eve
next time. She deedetl an elopement --
that's what it is paptearly miderstom
to be—but refused to tell wbere she bat
been, saying tbat site might have to re
turn to her refuge.
The minister assumed a euirtyrlike
smile when informed that hie youue Me;
mess partner had accused him of causing
all the trouble.
"I will eee," lie remarked sweetly, and
opened the door leading into the next
room, Charley cleared his throat several
times when quizzed and finally excused
himself by Needing great excitement.
Later he issued a signed statement tak-
ing all of the blame.
Much mollified the Rev. Air, Whedon
allowed Charleyto remain in the room
and condtdhis conversation with such
adroitness that the yeung husband
squirmed several times and undoubtedly
would have renewed his profuse apolo-
gies had not the plalonie friend magnan-
imoesly dismissed the ,subject with a
wave of the hand. Ile, the Rev. Mr. Whe-
don, told of his early life as a Methdist
Episcopal minister in south Florida, and
said that heart trouble had forced him
to retire from the strenuosity of camp
meetings and revivals. He then took up
mission work and became acquainted
with Mass. Moffett, then Miss Anna Rot-
ten of 300 Palmetto street, Ridgewood.
While concluding Lighthouse mission
services he also came to know Moffett
and subsequently took him into his box
manufacturing business.
In accounting for 'his separatiou from
his wife and two children the Rev. Mr.
Wheiton said that -they prefer to live in
Elizabeth, N.1, and that he has to live
in. Brooklyn because of business and re-
ligious interests. Therefore be is emu -
pelted to. satisfy him.self with frequent
visits to his family. He said that Ids wifo
was too sensible to let a little thing like
a platonic elopement interfere with their
mutual regard.
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✓ said to. Have LOSE $757000 on Open
✓ Board of Trade.
• Chieago, Aug. 20, --Miss jtose Haines,
- a beautiful eonvent graduate who car-
ried the honors of her elass, a promi-
noel (dwelt worker of Itycle Park and
d tht daughter of one of the wealthiest
s men in Bridgeport, Conn., is it pritiOrler
to -day in a Hyde Park pollee station
1! cell, aeelISPit Of theft.
1 WOrd of the young wornan'e arrest
causesj it sensation in fashionable homes
in Hyde Park. Despite two charges of
larceny made against Miss Haines other
families whom the police say lost
•
' through visits made by the young woman
to their home, refused to add to her
humiliation by making additional accu-
sations.
The principal charge against Miss
Haines is that she stole two large dia.
monds valued at $500.
The police declare they have found two
pawnshops in ,,the loop district where
Miss Haines has pawned e1,200 worth of
diamondjewelry.
She was arrested as she entered the
open Board of Trade, where the police
believe she was about to speculate.
One of the most astonishing charges
noide by the police is that Miss Haines
is a gambler, and that she lost a for -
tuns of $75,0010 on the open Board of
Trade. '
Several years ago Miss Haines left
her home in Bridgeport, Conn., after the
death of her father. At that time she
fell heir to a fortune of $75,000. Her
early life was passed in the eq,st and at
a convent where she completed her edu-
cation and carried off the honors.
MARTON TRAGEDY,
Mrs, Thomas Will Never Be Brought
Trial for the Late Shooting.
o A Wiarton, Ont., despatch: The gen-
eral opinion among the citizens of
Wiarton with regard to Mrs. Themes,
who is in jnil at Walkerton, on the
-charge of shooting Philip Gilbert in the
raid on her tent, is that the woman \sell
never be brought to trial.
The inciaent in the history of the
town is closed, in the opinion of the
citizens, and they. are ready to forget is
as geiekly as poesible.
The funeral of the victim, Philip
Gilbert, took place yesterday after-
noon from the undertaking rooms of
S. W. Cross to the Bayview Cemetery.
Rev. Mr. Campbell, pastor of the Augli-
can Church, conducted the services. The
pall -bearers were: James Stevens, Jas.
Hutt, E. Kyte, Steven Flaherty, N.
Shackleton and Charles Shrunons. Two
rigs followed the hearse to the grave.
Deceased had no relatives in thie coun-
try. It is &lid that he had a wife and
a family in England, and that two sons,
now grown up, live there.
The. Thomas comes from God -elide
A daughter of the late James Keag,
she married Benj. Thomas. Two sons
were born, and twenty years ago hus-
band and wife separated, Thomas go-
ing to P.ritish Colembia. He is stin
there, it is aid. Mrs. Thomas from
Goderieh went to London. She left
London at the autboritiee' request.
it is said, and lived in Owen Sound for
four or 'five years. Then site came to
Weirton.
ITALIANS ARRESTED
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CONSPIRACY CHARGE AGAINST
GIANNETTPS ASSOCIATES.
Mystery St ill Veils Gianetti's Affairs—
Two Diamond Rings and $e,000
Cheque Bequeathed to Vetronile, and
Man's Grip Cannot Be Pound.
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Toronto despatch: As an outcome of 0
s ti ert 1 s • t el f a.a
that the powers in the meanwhile study in
the question.
In order to reach a unanimous un- u RIOT STARTED OYER
-140,-,0
deistanding about the .Court of
Justiee, it is suggested that all roan -
tries. appoint A Judge eeels, who shall
meet at The I/ague, thus appointing a
special tribunal according to article six
of the propositton, which would really
heeonte itigh Court of Justive.
The redratting of the American. pro-
position regarding the collection of con-
tructual debts, according to the observe,
tions made (luring the nelmte, has prae-
tically been nuislied. The only im-
portant alteration of the original text
Is the suppression of the words "im-
plying the use of naval stud military
forces," where it says "it is agreed there
shall be no recourse to coercive meas.,
ures, implying the use of naval or
military forces, for the collection of
said contraetual debts."
The special commiseion which has been.
examining the proposition to establish a
Supreme Internationat Prize Court to-
day approved the project drafted by
the United States, Great Britain, Ger-
many and France by 10 to 2 votes.
LOOK FOR BEST.
BRITISH CONSUMERS DEMANDING
HIGH-CLASS PRODUCTS.
A. Great Increase in Trade—Lord Strath-
cona, in Report, Draws Attention to
Prosperity of United Kingdom.
Ottawa, Aug, 20.—lin his annual
report to the Trade and Commerce De-
partment, received to -day front Loudon,
Lord 8tretheonae 011 ifigh Commissioner,
says: -The prosperity of the United
Kingdom is snown by the trade returns
to be inereasiag month by month, As a
result, the great consumers of Canadian
products, the working class, have en-
joyed a full measure of employment,
and at present there is no indication
of any change in their conditions.
It may be stated, in conclusion, how-
ever, that the working classes in Eng-
land are becoming more and more
fastidious in regard to food products,
and that the authorities are imposing
greater peee
mittens to insure admission
of only high-class products in first-elase
re
condition. It therefobehooves those
countries, like Canada, seeking the
great British market, to adopt the un
most eare and circumspection in regard
to the :petite, of the products intended
for the Brinell Wes."
He points out that while in 1886 the
o a n»porte into Great Britein front
anada totalled only $4,050,340, last year
wy reached the remarkable figure of
12,305,04:3. The British imports of
anadian cheese amounted to $5,634,288,
against $1,382,000 in 1886, while bacon
les to Great Britain have increased
out $127,315 in 1886, to $3,135,301 in
06
;nee u s es- el ay a ternoon of
to parties interested in the affairs of the sha,
? Banco •Giannetti in the office of Detec-
tive Duncan, Gave of the participants—
Domenico Vitronile, E. E. Martinelli and
D Foeti—were placed under arrest on
the charge of conspiracy. The specific
charge is that they did conspire by de-
ceit and fraudulent means to defraud
one Ge»nora, Oarrasi of a sum. of $2,300.
HIP verdiet ngainot OK' raillVay Porn -
pally caused no surprise, particularly in
view of the fact that claims agents of
the Aliebigan Central have been on the
ground ever since the explosion, quietly
making wbat ardingements for settle-
ment were possible with those whose
property was deseroyed or damaged.
Claims amounting to over $20,000 have
already been settlecl in this way, and
12 11 expected that practically a full set-
tlement will be reached without reenunse
to the murk,
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MOFFETT IS
VERY MEEK NOW.
WIFE SAYS SHE'LL RUN AWAY
AGAIN IF HE ISN'T GOOD,
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Rev. Mr. Whedon, Who Went Away With
Her and Stayed Six Days, Won't Tell
Where They Were—Their Plan to
Cure Mr. Moffett's Violent Temper.
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New York, Aug. eke—Charles W. Mof-
fett, of 545 Bergen street, Brooklyn,
seems to have learned his leseon since
Itis pretty seventeen -year -Dia wife, Anna,
gave him a full dose of the "absent
treatment," as prescribed by her platonic
friend a»d. :spiritual adviser, the Rev, As-
bury S. Whedon. She returned as she
had gone, with the platonic friend, and
both smiled when they were asked where
they had been. In tt, general kind of way
the minister aunounced that he and Mrs.
Moffett had not been out of the city;
that they had not been together and that
they wsnild go again if Air. Moffett wae-
n't the best boy ever.
Mr, „Moffett fervently &dared that
lie would Ise and Wanted to pray, brit the
mieister sent bint into mealier roam,
whence came his ti uilt:wee! eommenter
ies upon the conversation until the Rev.
Mr. Whedon closed the :loon A fter that
the Bev. Mr. 'Mediu' told a story oi
having married Anna to Charley in the
Bethel Gospel Lighthouse at Myrtle ave-
nue and Hart street. Ile had known
Charley and had been in bueineso with
hhti for several years before the nuptials.
As superiutendent of the mission he was
also well known to semen atit the 31111-
tual friendship inspired the newly wed-
ded eoeple 10 invite their fatherly ad
viser and friend to share their home.
WWI :Tremble to the Rev, Air.
Whedon, who loves young people and
hoe 1110115 of ids own about holm, life.
lie Ineent to apply these theories soon af-
ter tres woild iitg, thiels ocetared June
inth last, Their 'fulfilment was to mse
&we a lionise of "perfect wave." In ordm
to out; rley's tem pee, the Vey., My.
Whedon went on various tmr rides and
AcursionA with tho bride, thereby op. im
plyinc the "absent treatment." thie. treat- in
FOUR MEN ENTOMBED,
They Were Caught in Cave-in in Penn-
sylvania Mine,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 26.—Four of
the miners who were yesterday caught
in a cave-in in No. 14 tunnel of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, near here,
are still entombed, and it is believed
they are dead. The voice of James Boyle,
one of the entombed men, was heard at
2 o'clock this morning, but since then
silence has reigned in the vicinity of the
caveen,• Boyle's companions are Peter
lelynn. John Koening and. Joseph Knell-
ing,
The eave-in was caused by a heavy fail
of rock. Six men were entombed, but
two of them crawlect from under some
of the debris after -several hours' effort.
Of these AliehaelNaghtsen wasbadly in-
jured, but the other Mita escaped un-
hurt. Rescuing parties working in shifts
labored all night to free the /nen still
in the mine.
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WILL END IN FAILURE.
Famous Explorer's Prediction Regarding
Wellman Trip,
Christiania, Aug. 26.—Captain Amund-
sen, the famous 'Norwegian traveller, in-
terviewed by the Vertices Gang, expresses
himself very despondently as regards the
sticeess of Walter Wellman's approaching
Hight by balloon to the North Pole.
He says Mr. Wellman has only ono
eliance in a hundred of getting nem.
the pole, and this consiets in the nossi-
bility of the balloon being caught in
a storm tied yarded there.
ehould Air. Wellman &weed in
seined:et or Siberia, Captain A mu/Risen
enys he will perhaps return alive, but
never if lie rowdies the pole. as his pro-
visions nee ...m_totally4„..4.*intsdegtut...te.
sAxtp By um DOG,
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Whining of Animal Draws Attention to
Peril of Its Owner.
Aug. affeetion of a
dog saved its master's life at Kidysart
on Thersday eight. 'elle owner of 1101
dog, John Cleary, who is employed by
the agent of the Lower Shannon leteam-
ship Company, wag mooring Ids boat af-
ter conveying, two passengers from a
steamer in the river, when he f(111 into
Imp water,
Ile was unable tO 501111, hat he gosp-
el luta clung to the mooring calito of
the boat No one witneeeed the neeitlent,
Intl Cleary's eties for help svere unheard,
'mtthe wldning end strait/es believior
if hie dog on shore attlacted the at-
tention of the p3ssengets be liaa lee&
el, and 0111. of them, Joseph Vrawley,
mediately swam ont and siteeeeJed
restating Cleary.
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The detective department do not at-
tempt to conceal the fact, that there are
many mysterious elements in the affairs
of the bank, many of which they are un-
able as yet to understand. Nothing is
known in Toronto of the condition of af-
fairs at the New York end of the bank,
and very little even of the Fort William
breech. Yetronne's brother, who toted
as manager at Fort William, failed to
keep his promise to report at the detec-
tive office in Toronto yesterday, and un-
til his arrival the police have no means
oe knowing, so they say, how the fin-
ances of the Fort William branch stand.
When Giannetti left New York for
Toronto it was with the expressed pur-
pose of meeting the liabilities of the
Tema° branch, and he brought with
him a blank signed cheque on a New
York bank. The police say they do not
know whether there is any money or
not of tliannetti's in this bank, how-
ever. Another mystery in connection
with the ease is as to the whereabouts
of the two valuable diamond rings, and
the grip whielt Geumetti's friends say
accompanied him On the journey here
from New York, and also the cheque
for $2,000, which tho dead man indicat-
ed in his letter to the Chief of Police
was for bis friend Vetronile. Apparent-
ly Giannetti was in possession of the
rings and cheque shortly before his
death, for he made epedal reference to
them in his letter.
WHERE IS MOSELEY?
Serious Charges Against Montreal
Leather Dealer.
Montreal, Aug. 26,—Detectives are
looking for E. 'Frank Moseley, who was
manager of the now &feint Moseley
Aloe & Leather Company. If he is
found serious charges will be made
against hint in emmection with dealiegs
with prominent firms during the past
few years, who are now Aloseleye; cred-
itors to the ammint of about $200,000.
Meseley's record &wing the past ten
yeers has been stormy. He has failed
enore than once; detectives before now
have been called upon to disentangle his
operations; and upon one .oceasion he
settled a charge by giving a note for
the ieilue of a carload of 'tithes sent
to him by mistake front the Grand
Trunk Railway. There is at preseut ti
judgment in the Superior Court against
him for the amount of the note,
The particular case for which he is
at present stented is in connection with
obtaining advances on warehouse te-
celpts for goods which did not belong
to him. Mr. -Paul Gftlibert, leather
manufacturer, was the victim in this
iestane,e to the extent of $24,000. The
principal creditors are in; follows:
Roesback & itrothere„ $14,500; James
Robinson, $33,000; Paul thtlibert, $21,-
000; Molsons Bank, $5,000; Eat tern
Townships Bank, -$20,000,
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ARBITRATION COURT.
Three Great Nations Agree on Text of
PropoSitiOn.
'rhe Hague, Aug. 20.—Oreat Britain,
Clermany and the United States have
agreed upon the text 02 11 proposition for
the establishment of aPermanent Court
of Arbitratime told the question will
eome up for discussion on Aug. 28. It
vonsists of 20 parts, The first artivle
records the desire of the signatory pow-
ers to orgaaize into an international
court of justiee, easily aeeessible and free
of charge, with Judges representing the
various seetenie el laws of the world and
loanable of ;Deering 11 4ont itt 80 11011 of ar-
bitration by jurisprielenee.
President Nelidoff has formally inter-
VieWcti Preeitlente of the P01111111t-
tPe4 011 aaVisability of poetpotting
he dieeussion of tlw proposed permanmit
'mut of Arbitration until tlw meeting
of the next tanNrenee, recommending
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COLORED MASONS,
Grand Lodge Meeting at Chatham— To
Meet in Hamilton,
Chatham despatch: The Colored Grand
Lodge of Ontario coneluded, this morn-
ing with the election of officers. The
meeting has been a great eueeese. Ihnnie
ton was chosen as next year's meeting
plaee. Dietriet deputies appointed were:
Eastern, etephen Freeman, Toronto;
middle, Henry Weaver, Chatham; west-
ern, 0. W. Smith, Windsor, Grand of-
ficers elected for Blue Lodge: —Gruel
Master, J. C. Riehards, Chatham; D.
G, AL, F. Brown, Windsor; S. G. We
Wm, Blockson, Windsor; J. G. W..
Mathew Finch, Windsor; Treasurer, G.
W. Smith, Windsor; Secretary, D. Rog -
est Davis, jun., Amherstburg; Chaplain,
Rev. J. C. Wilmore, Chatham; Lectur-
er, J. P. Scott, Chatham; S. D., John
Struthers, New Canaan; J. D., W, H.
Jackson, Toronto; Marshal, Isaiah Mc-
Kinney, Antherstburg; S. S., W. G.
Gaines, Toronto; J. S., Albert Afulder
Harrow; St. Bearer, O. '1V. Terrell
Chatham; Pmesuivant, C. 'M. Cooper,
Chatham; Organist, Nelson White, Chat-
ham; Librarian and C. C, on le C., G.
13, Steward, Windeer. The following of-
fiters were elected for the Grand Com-
mandery, K. 'P. ef Ontario: ---Josiah
eott, Grand C.; Wm, H. Blockson, D.
W. 0.; 0. AI. Cooper, General Secre-
tary; George W. Smith, 0. Oen.; Rev.
J. C. Wilmore, Prelate; John Montgom-
ery, S. Warden; W. F. Brown, J. War-
den; Henry Weaver, Treasurer; James
C. Richards, Rec.; David Lee, St. Bear-
er; Wm, H. Jackson, S. Bearer; D. R.
Davis, jun., Warder.
WHY DID HE DO IT?
Leaves Wife on Track in Front of
Approaching Train.
-Il,tItaca, Aug.w
g. 2:IsEdard Hildebrandt
wive hre haled befollecorder Sweetland to-
day for being the most absent minded
1.m
in Ithaca. Hildebrandt was carry -
big his wife down the Lehigh track neat -
Poi 1 street in a comatose condition a
few 111i1)ute:4 before the train from An
1/11111 NMI due. He suddenly let her drop
and wandered up the track and forgot'
all about her. .Amos Linderman, the
ivoinates cotedn, discovered her in tin
niek of time, and removed her from tin
Hildebrant explabied that his
wife's spectaeles had dropped off end in
had retraced his steps to find them. Lee
denten charged that Hildebrant, elm
has not lived with his wife for kevoral
weeks, had taken that means of trying
to get rid of her. Ilildebrent was ais
charged.
DAMAGES FOR MOTOR MURDER.
Curious judgment Given by Tribunel it
a Swisa Canton,
Geneva, Aug. 20. -The tribunal of
Ilondry, a, little town on Lake Neuchatel.
gave a curious judgment yesterday. A
young maO ttci med le:elver:tin, while driv-
ing a motur ear, tteeklentally ran over a
man, killing him on the Root,
The trilmnal vonsidered the ease a
motor murder, and ordered Souverain
to pay $170 to the victines brother and
e3,000 to the victines fianeee as indem-
nity,
seeseele-
GREAT FIRE IN CINCINNATI.
---
Damage Done Estirnated at One Million
Dollars,
Cincinnati, O., Aug.t? 6. --Fire weskit
started at 0 o'clock last night at Brom'
way and Hunt street entailed a loss
estimated at tow million dollars. The
fire, it is said, stetted in the tagle
white lead phiet, soul Rimini to the
adjoining buildings. ‘..At 10.30 tiw fol-
lowing bull:Hogs had been destroyed:
Kreger, groeory oompany, ware-
house; "Monism; & Sn011gril '04. planing
Aetim Smelting Company; IX 'I',
Williama Valve CoMpany; Roberts Lunt -
her Company; Kreltbiel Printing Com.
pany, and Ilurdiek Wagon 'Company,
SECOND DISH OF ICE CREAM.
Over 150 Persons Injured in a Free Fight at the
Blow -Out of a New York Club.
New York, Aug. 20,----',110 annual blow-
out of the Jefferson Tammany Club, Bor-
ough President Louis J. Ruffen% Bronx
organization, at College Point yesterday,
einkd in a riot in witielt abottt 150 peo-
ple were injured, seven of them so bad-
ly that they required the Attention of
an ambulanee surgeon. Incidentally, Jos-
eph Witzel's dining pavilion at Point
View Grove was wrecked. Before the row
wee over all the reserve policemen with-
in ten miles of the wove on the Long
Island aide had been summoned.
Frank Jordan, a young driver, who
IMO at 041 Walton avenue, The Bronx,
and brother of Tim Jordan, the Brooklyn
National League first baseman, started
the trouble by &weeding a seemul de&
of ice cream. There were about 2,000
meu
in the pavilion at the timli
e. Outside eie
4,000 more, most of them gathered about
the free beer which had been on tap ever
since the Haffenites arrived. The men in
the dining menj had been kept waiting
from 1 until 4 o'doels before they got
anything to rat and they were irritable.
While waiting they had done their best
to keep the beer hem getting stale.
Witzel, the proprietor of the pavilion,
was trying to break up a ragtime tattoo
that the diners were playing on the
plates with their knives and forks when
Jordan got the notion that he wanted
ft second helping of ice cream. The wait-
er refused to eerve it and then them
were loud words between him and Jor-
dan.
Witzel Itunied around to the pair and
told Jordan to sit down and keep quiet
and maybe he would get another dish '
lenee
iseficecLe4ea7 after everybody else had
Witzel then turned. away and Jordan,
picking up a pitcher of ice ;water, burl-
ed it at him. The pitcher bit Witzel 011
the back of the head and broke, The pro-
prietor, who is 64 years old, sank to
the floor bleeding and in an instant the
the dining room was in an uproar. Sev-
eral waiters lifted the wounded man and
fought their way with him out of a •
side door and into the dubhoose, about
fifteen yards from the dining pavilion.
Afeanwhile Witzeles ,son Emil had grap-
/led with Jordan and aided by a dozen
waiters, he rushed him through the rear
door into the kitchen. Jordan lit in a
big beide kettle full of boiled potatoes.
Some of the waiters barricaded the kit- ,
ehen door on the inside, while others eon- ,
netted to hand Jordan a little more pun- e
ishment. In n11 there were fifty wait- s
de in the dieing room sthen the storm
broke and most of them managed to e
get to the kitchen in the filet rush.
The glob from the dining room with
one rush not only forcee the door but
earried the entire partition with it. Then
A free-for-all fight ensued. Plates and
Pitchers,- Pups and saucers. knives and
forks, everything that tho erazy mob
could lay -.their hands on was hurled in
the direction of the waiters. Big bowls
of soup were turned unehle down over
the heads of the fighters, mashed pota-
toes were plastered over almost every-
body anti everything.
1 The pavilion is enclosed on all sides,
and there wee no way of gettigg out
after the fight started, because the police
dielted in and locked the doors. They
diti titis to ptevent the crowd outside
from rushing in and adding to the riot.
The proprietor had only nine of these
special offieers to handle the erowd of
0,000.
Patrolman Butler rang in a riot eall to
the College Point sub -station. Within
five minutes after the call had been
turned in more than 100 policemen were
on their way to the grove.
They roma a mob about the pavilion
throwing stories and, beer glasses
There was not a single window
pane left in the building. Inside the war
was stIli going on. Shouts and curses
and occasionally a slish of potatoes or
something else in the way of eatables •
went flying.
The police bad to ftglit. their way into
the pavilion with their clubs. The fuel's
ade was turned on them and they were
smeared, All the riotere who were on
their feet were driven out and then the
pollee undertook to dig the others out of
the wreck. Some of them were buried
under a mass of food and broken furui-
ture, • e' sive
Jordan WA found near the kettle of
potatoee with his right ear torn off and
With other euts on his head. He had
been badly burned about the hands and
body by the hot water in the kettle. The
son of the proprietor was found under
two (emirs with his nose broken and his
face cut, lett breathing defiance. Patrol-
man Rimini Butler luul an artery in his
right bend eut by a flying piece of giass
and was elm cut about the face.
One of the met seriously injured was
Frederick Brandt, of 547 East 183rd
street. He has a ent abont six inches
lotu,s in his haek just under his right
slioulder. The doctors said that the cut
ooked es if it had been nutcle with a
inife. He was also eut on the face and
egs. Brandt told the pollee that he is
a baseball player.
The poliee estimated that fully 150
lemons bed nusteined injuries of one sort
r another in the riot. Most of the men
eenied to be esti:lined of themselvee
fter it was over, met weren't anxious to
dvertiee the- fact that they had been
minded.
ii1E—L-AMBETH TRAMP TRAVELERS.
CONFERENCE stolen Rides Traffic Cosb Railroads
$25,000,000 Yearly.
Will Meet in London in the Month
of July Next Year.
Official Programme Has Been Issued
by Archbishop of 'Canterbury.
New York, Aug. 26.—The next Lam-
beth conference, the great decennial
meeting of all the bishops of the Angli-
can communion throughout the world,
including the Protestant Episcopal
Church in this country, will meet in Lon-
don in July, 1008. This conference was
instituted by Archbishop Longley in 1807
and consequently it has met only three
times since, 1878, 1888 and 1807. The
last meeting Was put forward One year
in order to coincide with the diamond
jubilee of the late Queen Victoria, The
meeting in 1008 will revert to the regu-
lar order.
ahe offieial programme has just been
announced by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury in a letter addressed to the 310 or
more bishops woh are entitled to attend
the conference.
According to this letter, which is print-
ed in the current issue of the Church-
man, the conference will assemble for
deliberation on Monday, July 0, 1008,
and sit during that week. On Saturday,
Jule 11, the meeting will adjourn for a
forniglo, when the various conference
connnittees will meet and prepare their
reports. The conference will rettssemble
on Mondey, July 27, and will end its ses-
sion on Wednesday, August 521t.
FOUGHT IN MID-AIR.
NEW JERSEY BLASTER'S BATTLE
WITH POISONOUS REPTILE, 1
Attacked by Huge Pilot Snake as lie
Swung Over Chasm on Rope Ladder
—Had to Fight With One Hand and
Cling to Rope With Other.
New York, Aug. 20.—A despatch to
the Herald trete Trenton, N. J., says:
Half a dozen laborers and fifty or more
convictsat the stone Thirties of the
Mercer county workhouse farnt to -day
helplessly watched John Hutchinson,
blaster, as he fought for half an hour in
mid-air with a big mountain pilot snake,
poieonous species, whit& had crawled
down a rope ladder to attack him es he
was swinging half -way to the bottom
of a chrism one hundred and fifty feet in
depth, pveparing to plaee a dynamite
blast.
None was able to render aid, :Ina 1)
Hutehinson was obliged to fight alone
until he beat off the reptile with au b
iron drill in his one hand, while he dung )
to a rope with the other. He dared 11
not drop the dynamite lest he eause an ti
explosion Oa would have blown bun
to pieces, end he Was obliged to lieup
tight bold on the rope or fall to the bot -
tont of the pit He slipped the dyna-
mite into his pocket, and as the snake
dropped within his reaelt he struck it
with. a small drill. The swinging of
the rope -spoiled his aim and be nesetel.
Ile etruek again and again, the snake's
peogres 4 was impeded, and finally it un-
eoiled from the rope and dropped to the
pit beiow.
Initehinson signalled for help end wes
limn to the top in en lmost exhaust-
ed tondition. As he stepped back two
other pilot smakee streets at hint, hut
Itis heavy bootsbloeked their fangs.
They were quiehly
Pittsburg, Aug. 20.—The Pennsylvania.
Railroad to -day from its Pittsburg office
sent out an official commutheation call-
ing on justices of the peace and all effi-
cers to assist in putting down the tramp
evil by punishing those -caught stealing
rides on trains. Some startling figures
are shown, among them that vagrancy
is dieting the railroads of the country
tint less than $25,000,000 yearly.
The recent accident at Ridgeway, Pa.,
where five trainmen were frightfelly
mangled by a tramp burglar, who de-
. fended himself with a bottle of nitro-
glycerine, has set the Pennsylvania Rail-
road hard at work on tramp extermina-
tion, and the appeal of to -day asks the
magistrates to give all tramps the laws
/imit It is asserted by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company that the mit-
re:1de of the United States have killed
23,064 and injured 25,230 trespassers in
five years:
• THE DOG REMEMBERED.
Watched the Man Who Kicked Him and
Bit Quick.
Toronto despatch: Magistrate Kings.
font gave W, 100 Duchess street,
yeeterday afternoon, the option of either
having his dog destroyed or paying a
fine of $110 and costs. Mr. Miller was
eharged with being the owner of a dan-
gerous canine, who attempted to bite
off a piece of the lee of Jerry Ryan, 117
Heelless street. Trio complainant de-
scribed the greetings he had been in the
habit of receiving from the dog when-
ever he passed the 'senile? home. He ob-
jected to the barking% and was on the
elert to eats& Fide with his boot. The
Met time but one that the dog came af-
ter him he was suceessful in landing his
foot in the Aiog's anatomy, and the dog
retired, howling.
When next paesing the house, there
were no barks forthcoming, and he was
confident Gest the lesson had proved sal
utary. It was only for one short min -
The next, be felt himself seized by
ties leg frcnn behind, and, turning mind,
11‘ found Fide hanging on like grim
death. Ilus happened five days ago, and
lie has not been nble to follow his usual
occupation since, having had to undergo
eurgical treatment.
8'
SAILOR sErn DAUGHTER,
He Has Not Seen Her for Twenty-five
Years.
Toronto, Aug. 26. ----After twenty-five
years of eailor life, wandering all over
the world, and ttow settled in Seattle,
1\eis1i., 'Walter Budiette is seeking the
whereabouts of his favorite deughter,
liarlotte. The slaughter is supposed to
e living near Toronto.
A quarter of a eentury ago, lw states,
is wife died, and the eliileren were
ladel in, foster homes while he reseuned
15 occupatioe roc a, :miler. He wrote to
us foster parents for a while. but with-
out results. A few weeks ago he learned
that his daughter Was near this city. In
:h:
letter the opinion it; expressed that
she is married to a .farmer named Pot-
oWere ego, eontinued the ettilortnen,
the daughter, than tt little girl, was tak-
en by it Miss liye to a ehildren's 110111(1
Meal` Nlagara. Afterwards she lived with
a Mrs. Lindsay, of Durham, Ont. The
address is 2,333 First avenue,
Seattle, WaRbington, while a brother.
IN2N:st,AltrT.181u.r4Nlett)!.tioty(uilita..tielattninbil4folituniit.
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