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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-10-31, Page 7- ALLEGED MURDERER HIS OWN COUNSEL. Accused of Killing Miss Norling and Charles Wilson While in a Frenzy. Fireworks at Political Meeting Injure Five Per. sons at Buffalo. New York, Oct. 28,—lerauk H. Warner formerly a prosperous hat dealer, insist. *a upon acting as his own lawyer when he was put on. Wel in the Court of Gen- ertil Sessions Wiley, charged with two murder% Ceunsel had been assigned by the coed to defend Warner, but the de- fent:tent said he would defend himself. '1 ha ye kot forty or fifty witnesses here, some ot them important business mou in the eity of Now York," he also told the court, ;fledge Foster assured him that his witnesses wotelel be subpoenaed for him, land directed that the ease go to trial. Waratt !began personally to examine the talvealian, but after a time he gave way to tr't I C attorneys who had been designati ad te defend hire: ' Warner is charged with the murder of IE$0) er C. noting, cashier in a haber- dashery store in East Forty -Second '8 tree t He shot the girl down in the- docrway of the store, After killing Miss heeding he escaped after a sensational chase through the crowded street and went down town and killed Charles Wil - lion a Wetness acquaintance. A police- tual who failed to capture Warner dur- ing tlee chase after he shot Miss Norling W es that, was publicly degraded and dis- seised from the Police Department after lie hoe ben tried and found guilty on a charge of eowardice. Fireworks Explode. Buffalo, Oct. 28.—One person was pos- sittly fatally injured and four others re- ceive(' hurts that demanded the atten- ti m of a surgeon as the result of the explosion of fireworks at a political metting held last night at 1338 Broad- way. The piece of fireworks that caused Um accident was a sort of a bomb that W te supposed to explode in midair after it had been set off. Tito bomb exploded on the ground and the fragments of the shell eaettered into the crowd of spec tutors. The injured are: Anthony Schaefer, 20 years old, of 56 Central avenue, right breast lacerated and lung punctured. It critical condi- tion at Emergency Hospital. Egio Giusee, 11 years old, of 89 Per - so a street, right leg lacerated. Taken home. 4,1=4 Clunielewski, 11 years old, of 1275 Broadway, right leg lacerated. Tak- en home. M. S. Hand, Y. M. C. A.' 46 Mohawk street, cut in leg and burned. Taken to Emergency Hospital, linemen woman, sligbily burned. Taken 'home. • The explosion took place just before the .opeuing of the big meeting that was held in Krzywosz's Hall, 1388 Broadway. Al has been customary through the campaign there has been a lot of red fire touched off previous to the opening ed each meeting and a considerable amount of other fireworks were set off at the Broadway gathering. Mr. Hand, who had charge of the dis- play, touched a meth to the bomb that meed the damage, accenting to the stor told to the police by witnesses. He raa 'from the spot and the bomb let go. Instead of going into the air the bomb sh ea into the crowd of three hundred pertains who lined up on the sidewalk to witness the spectacle. Hand did not have time enough to get out of the way before the explosion ocetrred. A stampede followed, and though there were -several policemen' on the scene, it was with difficulty that the erowe was controlled so that the injured coal I be gathered together. WOMAN SHOT. SERIOUS FAMILY QUARREL IN A TORONTO HOUSE. Mrs, Iea Swift Wounded in the Temple and Jacob Cohen's Leg Frac- tured—Their Alleged Assailant, Jacob Soble, is Under Arrest. Toronto despatch: A family quarrel at 42 Phoebe street last night culminated in the shooting of Mrs. Ida Swift and an attack on Jacob Cohen, whose leg was broken. The woman is at her home, the bullet wound not being very serious, and the man is in the Wester!' Hospital. Mrs. Swift's son-in-law, Jacob Soble, 37 years old, a tailor, who fired the shot and used an axe upon Cohen, is under arrest, charged with shooting with intent to kill. Trouble has been brewing since the be- ginning of September, when it developed that Soble when he married Mrs. Swift's daughter, Fanny, was already a mar- ried man, The inset admitted that pos- sibly he was a bigamist, but smoothed matters over somewhat for the time being by giving Mrs, Swift a note for $100, payable one month after date. The note was not met at maturity, and Mrs. Swift ordered the 'man out of the house, but he would not leave. Two weeks ago Mrs. Swift told the police she found Soble in her room, and agdin last Friday she claims she awoke in time to see him searching about for something. ' Running out, she got a match, and, lighting the lamp, found Soble secreted in a, closet. Again Mrs. Swift told him he would have to leave the place. - There were in the kitchen of the house at ' the supper hour last evening a Polish servant, another roomer, Mrs. Swift, and her son-in-law. Mrs, Swift was standing near the sink, when she asked the man when he would be likely to -vacate her house. There was an argil- ment as to who paid the rent, where- upon Soble, it is alleged, pulled a 32 - calibre revolver from his hip pocket gad fired- direct at Mrs. Swift, the bullet taking effect in her right' temple. As she fell over on the table the man dropped the revolver on the floor. A jug was thrown at Soble by a boarder, and Cohen, who had only re- turned from San Francisco, rushed from the dining room to the assistanee of Mrs. Swift. Her son-in-law, however, did not reach for the revolver again, but instead picked up an axe which was in the room, and struck at Cohen, who fell helpleas to the floor. • After he was down be was brutally kicked, and his friends say that it was then his leg was fractured. a. •- . CHILDREN'S MONEY. • * JUVENILE SHAREHOLDERS IN YORK LOAN ENTER CLAIMS. AlMest Nine Thousand Claims in This Class, Amounting to $56,092.66— Question as to the Right to With- drew Stock Being Considered, Torofito, Oct. 28.—Almost nine thou - and children are concerned in the session of the York County Loan & Savings Company procodinge in investigating What share these holders of "juvenile shores" are to have in the assets el the defulict corporation. The question of their claims came np yesterday af- ternoon before Referee Mr. George Kap- Ole, It was presented by Mr. W. IL Hunter. The "juitenile" shareholders ere de. migrated as class nine tlaimants and are sob:divided into three elaissea Vilest, including those who had given thirty days' notice of dernarid of pay. Ment, end whom netiees had expired prior to the winding -up order. Of those; there are 316, and their elaim itinounts to $1,050.19. The isceond elase consists of those who1 WO demanded payment of their Alums, but Whose notiee of such demand hed *Mt expired at the date of the winding. up order. For these it is argued that the shares were withdrawable at any time; that notices of withdrawal were nos necessary, or had been waived, and that the holders of these shares should be counted as creditors to the extent of 95 per cent. of their payments. Of these there are 175, and the claim amounts, less the 5 per cent., to $1,772.29. Seven thousand nine hundred and eiglity-seven children, with claims amounting to $52,661.18, form class three a the juvenile shares. These are share- holders who did not demand payment before the winding -up order. It is asked that these claims be entered on the claim sheets for the full amount paid in, Mr. Hunter, for these claimants, ex. :mined Mr. Stuart Lynn, ex -secretary. treasurer of the company, as to the method of dealing with these cases. The liquidators claimed that the right of withdrawal ceased with the making of the winding -up order and that all of the terminating or withdrawable shares which had not been withdrawn and can- celled prior to that date are entitled to rank upon the ,estate of the company only as shareholders, with no claim to preference or priority. The examination dealt largely with this point. Mr. Lynn said that the usageof the company in dealing with these stockholders were different from those with regular holders, as the "ju- veniles" were permitted to withdraw ac- counts even with less notice than thirty days. The hearing of the class continues on Friday, November lst. ENSIGN A SPY. FRENCH NAVAL OFFICER STOLE OFFICIAL SECRETS. Secret Code System and Complete Plans for Mobilization of French Army Found in His Possession—He Has Confessed. Paris, Oct. 28.—The arrest of Ensign Chas. B. Ullmo, of the French navy, at Toulon yesterday on the charge of being a spy, and who later confessed to having abstracted a secret naval signal book anil the naval cipher code, was followed to -day by the arrest at Vendome of an army reserve officer named Berton, who is charged with negotiating with an agent of a foreign power for the sale of ndlitary secrets. The arrests are creating a great stir, and as Ullmo is a Hebrew the papers term his case a second Dray. fug affair. It appears that Ullmo offered certain documents to the Minister of Marine for $30,000, saying that unless his offer was accepted he would sell them to a for- eign power. Thereupon a dummy cor- respondence was begun, ending in Ult mo's capture.A search of his lodgings revealed that lie not only had the secret code system, but was in possession of complete pleas for the mobilization of the French navy, the location of harbor mines in the event of war, and photo- graphs of the mechanism of France's famous 76 millimetre field gum • • -• • WAS A FRAUD. MAGISTRATE DENISOIV'S OPINION TORONTO SPHITTVALIST CASE. ••••••••••••••••••00 Rea. Clarence Howland and His Vilfe Were Committed for Triala-adrs. Lowe. Was Shown Spirit of lier Mother:in-law. •••••*1 A Toronto despatch"This is a Most ridiculous fraud, and if these seams continue the Chief Inspecter had better lay another ease, and I will send these people down without bait". said Magis- trate Dephon in the Pollee Court ,yester- day, when investigating the (+arra brought against Revs. Clarence and Elizabeth Rewind and Samuel and Mrs. Rynex, who were arrested after a spirit- ual/env seabee held in the home of the Banns at 572 Bathurst street last week. Thi g statement was made as result of Chief Inspector Arehibald b wing drawn the attention of the cow t to tit feet that the prisoners were still conducting seancewhile the ease wit before the court. The Magistrate decided to send the ease to a. higher court. afre. Lown in the witnesa box claim- ed that she had been defrauded. She was shown the spirit of her motherana law, and at first believe(' it was elte, but she was afterwards shown mother spirit, which looked very much the same. $o she cant to the onolusion that the spirits were all the IMMO per. emu It was Waited by the defence that nothing had been promised definite- ly to any one by the Spiritettlists, Mr. Newland had said *lien taking the money that "anything might happen from impersonation to materialization." Mrs. Lowe adtnitted having gone on that night 48 a confederate of the pollee. Mr. Lowe; who Also -Claimed thati lie bad been grossly deceived, offered Mrs. Howland $00 if she would produce his mother's spirit under his own Midi - Mins. Mrs. Howland said ehe could not guarantee to do that Magistrate Denison in committing them for trial said it was clearly e ridiculous fraud, and could only deceive the most ignorant people, on which J. M. Godfrey, acting for them, said they were quite willing to give a eeauce the court room, His Worship did not grant them permission, however. • ••• OVER SIX HUNDRED. TERRIBLE DEVASTATION WROUGHT IN CALABRIA BY EARTHQUAKE. Each Ruined House a Tomb—Inhabitants Who Remained Are Semi-Nude— Troops Working Bravely at Rescue. Rome, Oct. 28.—A correspondent suc- ceeded in reaching Ferranazzo on horse back yesterday. He found the town a mass of ruins, there being scarcely a single house standing. The roads or rather mule tracks, leading to the place have been blotted out by landslides, or carried away by floods. Each ruined house has been con- verted into a tomb, occupied by the dead aud the living. A majority of the survivors have fled, Those remaining are hoping that they will be able to rescue buried relatives. The inhiabitants are seminutle, most of them wearing the night clothes they had on when the earthquake came. They are drenched through and through, hav- ing no shelter from the steadily falling rain. Mute desperation and terror are depicted on their faces, and many of them weep silently. Th latest reports from the affected districts place the number of dead at over 600 and the injured at 1,000. The troops are doing their utmost to dimin- ish the suffering of the people. They work steadily unmindful of fatigue, burying the dead, rescuing the living, distributing food and clothing and pro- viding shelter. The torrential rain which fell during the shocks added to the discomfort of the people, who, after the first quakes, rushed from their 'leases, and even yet refuse to go under cover for fear of other shocks. More would doubtless have been killed had it not been for the fact that the majority of the inhabitants rushed to the open after the first shock and escaped to the hill and plains. The most damage was done in the southern end of the Calabrian peninsula, where lee° villages were almost com- pletely destroyed and many dwellings danatged in others. Rocella, Ionica, Reg- gio, Cesenza, 13riatico, Cittanova, Palmi, Gerace Manna, and other villages are among those damaged by the shock. Among the terrifying scenes during the quakes was the panic of the prisoners in the'jail at Catanzaro. They mutinied at the first shock and screamed and pounded on the doors, and were quieted with great difficulty. Shocks were still continuing last even- ing, and the the earthquake was said al. most to equal the quake of 1905 in ex. tent and devastation. - • • * WAS IT MURDER? Husband Arrested Says Wife Died of Cramps. Ottawa, Oct. 28.—On the strength of a wire from Toronto, Thomas Burns, of Osecode, was arrested on a charge of murder, The stomach of Burns' deceas- ed wife had been sent to Toronto for analysis. The inquest was opened yea- teiday and adjourned. Evidence was given of some rough usage and neigh- bors' suspicions, but little material evi- dence was adduced. Mr. Burns was a British. immigrant, and had not been here long. The husband alleged she died of cramps after he had administered hot whiskey. The husband is of a, taci- tain nature. BUY SAVED THE TRAIN. Bridge Burned Between Madoe and A Belleville despatch: The mail train from Peterooro, due here at 4.30 p. in. to -day, had a narrow escape from de- struction, and no doubt serious loss of life was averted by the presence of mind of a „young son of William Keegan, a farmer, residing midway between the vil- lage of Stirling and Madoe. The bridge over Mosher's Creek caught fire from the sparks of an engine which passed an hour previously. When discovered by the Keegan family. who were the nearest residents, the bridge was almost burned awl the passenger train was nearly due. The whole Keegan family turned out, an.I endeavored to fight tho flames, but their efforts were useless. Young Keegan ran a mile around a dangerous curve, stopping the train 'within a rod of the bridge, which had just fallen. The train was crowded with passengers coming into Belleville for Saturday. TWO SORTS OF CONSUMPTION. 010 One Kind Curable, British Royal Commission Reperte. Landon, Oct. 28.—The second arid in- terim report of the Royal Commission on. Tuberculosis suggests that there are two forms of the disease, one of which is rapidly fatal, and the other tending to undergo spoetaneeus cure, The report contains an account of elaborate inoculatiori experiments ear. red out by Dr. Cobbett on a variety of animals with .hunian tubercle bacilli. The results were remarkable and con- stant. Otte group of bacilli tamed a rapidiy fatal general tuberculosis. The other, when given in far larger doses, had only a slight local effect, teeding to euro itself. The report does not assume that any new discovery has been neriele, but the resulte tabulated suggest that further experimente may establish that there are two types of the disease, the hope. lees and the he/loftily FAILURE IN INDIAN WORK. HON, S. II. BLAKE SPEAKS ON COST: • LY OVER -MANNED STAFFS. Discussion at the General Board of Missions for the Cburch of England in Canada—Report of the Treasurer, Toronto despatch: A. comprehensive re. port upoll the NorthWest Indian work, the outcome of months of investigation with other denominations and, their ne- gotiations with the Government to in- duce them to assume as their own full chatge the work of edueation,leieviug to the churches religious care only, was dis- cussed at seine length yesterday at the ealf-yearly session of the General Board of Missions for the Church of Englawl in Canada, in St, James' Cathedral Parish Hall, melded over by the Archbishop of Toronto. The report stated that the existing system had been a partial ten- ure, and was beconting too onerous tor the churches with their rapidly grow- ing work, while the Indien children ere undoubted. wards of the nation. The boarding and industrial school system was established, but the bedtime, on account of a large number of deaths, have been withholding their children from the sehoole, because of the unsan- itary conditions of the buildings. Tbe Northwest clergymen combatted the reflection upon the school because of outside deaths was greater. The Biehop of Algoma merged that the statistics furnished were widely and inexcusably misleading, but the Hon. S. H. Blake arocIaimed that reflecting judgment would no longer support the present Inefficient supervision and overmanned eostly stuffs. The statement shoeve& that the edu- cated male Indian last year earned in the Northwest $5,000,000 agriculturally. Seventy day schools, with 750 pupils, cost $19,800, all paid by the Federal Government, wile industrial schools, with an attendance of 238, cost $42,422, of which $27,750 was paid by the Govern- ment. Boarding schools, with 264 in at- tendance, cost $45,927, of which the Gov- ernment paid $18,034. The grants to the various dioceses for the ensuing year are a considerable advance upon last year's, and the appor- tionments to raise the $120,000 was referred to a eoramittee consisting of Archbishop Matheson, Bishop Williams and Hon, S. H. Blake for .adjustment. The board resolved that it would not continue aid to industrial and boarding schools for Indians or take up any op- erations of that class released by the Church Missionary Society of England. It would, hoevever, continue the evan- gelistic work among the tribes, but con- sidered 'that education was the duty of the Government, especially as the In- dians are wards of the nation, Other denominations had asked for sufficient funds to sustain the schools, of which they desire to continue control. A paper from Charles Jenkins, urging' a settled policy upon foreign, Indian and white work, was re - erred to a special committee. Fallowing are the grants reconunend- ed: Algoma, $7,000 Athabasca, nil; Caledonia. $2,000: Calgary, $9,000; Co- lumbia, $2,500; Keewatin, $4,500; Koo- tenay, $4,000; Mackenzie River, nil; eiteosonee, $2,500; New Westminster, $2,900; Qu'Appelle, $10,000; Rupert's Land, $10,450; Saskatchewan, $17,500; Yukon, $4,000, The report of the Treasurer, Chancel- lor Worrell, showed contributions to be $1,000 in advance of last year's. A proposal for a Canadian Anglican mis; sem province in China, tame from a mis- sionary, Rev. W. C. White, Longuong, as a reflex of the Centenary Missien- ary Conference, which will be taken up to -day. The Archbishop of Toronto and Hon. S. H. Blake tendered a luncheon to the board yesterday. The sessions will be resumed this morning at 10 o'clock. Those present from the Diocese of Niagara were Bishop DuMoulin, Arch- deacon Clarke, Archdeacon Forneret, J. EL' Ingersoll, .Alfred Powis. RUN OVER BY CAR. Jamestown Boy' Foot Cut off 37 Street Car. Jamestown, Oct. 28.—Harold Geisler, 8 years old, son ef Edward Geisler, of No. 8 Seymour avenue, was run over by by a Lakewood car near the barns of the Jamestown Street Railway Company shortly before noon to -day, his right foot being cut off. It is understood he jump- ed on the steps of the car while it was in motion, and when the motorman saw him he jumped off, falling under the wheels. He was brought to the Sherman House terminus of the Lakewood line, and taken thence in Oscar Stransburg's automobile to the W. C. A. Hospital, where Dr. W. M. Bonus, the street rail- way eompany surgeon, with the assist- ance of Drs. It M. and R. 13. Blanchard, amputated the foot just above the an- kle. He will recover. PATRIOTISM IS IMPERIAL —0_ Norman Chaniberlain Finds No Loyalty to England in the Coloniee. London, Oct. 28.—Norman Cham- berlain, writing in The Morning Post, gives an thecount of the growth or nationalism in the colonies. He save that in the latter the ideal of loyalty to England as such is quite unfamil- iar, its place being taken by an in.' tense loyalty to the Crown and growing patriotism towards the Bri tish Empire. Glancing in his story at the Canadian boundary disputes and the South Pacific troubles, he says it is hardly strange that Canada and Australia have learnt to rely on themselves and to distrust that om- niscience and beneficence of England which is the basis of her views of empire. 0 TAMPURING WITH LOAF. A Vigorous Protea Front a Kingston Minister. Kingston, .0et. 28.—Ins vigorous let- ter to the 'Whig on lowering the weight of bread in Kingston to a pound and a quarter for a small loaf, Rev. Dr. Mackie, of St. Andrew's Church in part says: "Multitudes, increasing ditily, are array. ing themselves against Christ's Church ea the guilty patron of wealth and op- pression, bemuse those people who do not see and do not believe, as well as thobe %vim directly work the ills, are not only her membere, but often her niem- het e of power and promineftee, ostenta- tiously atatteting elutrities or even bulbi. Mg universities, vending well, it may. be, but lby what right, other peopliaa Money, Rotten Vaporer* quailed at the cry of 'no bread,' and an, inhuman an - Met to that cry led to the French too. lution. Has the pot no voice of warn. ing? Is the ability of ravening hunger to be measured by the power of a pam. pered appetite? I say it is an fnignity, flevored. with scorn, to cut slice after sliee off the loaf of bread, and say, as you hold it out to the purchaser, 'who must have bread whether he lias motley or not, 'The same price, please.' Let us have straightforwardness in this matter. Lit the standard weight be sacred, be. yowl the power of aldernien, combine or inaividual to meddle with it: Let the price of bread be reeled only when dire neeessity demands it, and that, I hold, is determined by Provideace alone." MONKEY IN .COURT. ,JOCKO SALADO ARRAIGNED ruu Immo BOY'S LEG. Had No Regard for the Dignity of the Court -a -Beat and Scratched the Policeman Who Arrested Him Before the alagletrate, New York, Oct. 28.—Jocko Salador was arraigned for disorderly conduct be- fore Magistrate Butts in the Bronx Court yesterday, and, despite the charge against him, he had no regard whatever for the dignity of the court. When Po - Hemmen Coulter, of the Tremont avenue station, appeared against him Jocko let out a screech, sprang upon Coulter's shoulder, jammed his helmet down aver his eyes and scratched his face. Other policemen came to the rescue, but Jocko was unafraid, and with a flying leap he landed on the Magistrate's desk, made a profound bow to that official and then went: for the nearest spectator with ap- parently homicidal designs. Jecko had been arrested with Michael Salador at 170th street and Prospect avenue for biting little Jimmie Manua., five years old, on the leg, and he caused much trouble before his eapture was ef- fected. Little Jimmie and his mother appeared against him and Michael in court, but decided not to prosecute, so Magistrate Butts discharged them, with evident relief. "I'll give the limit of the law for con- tempt of court," he remarked, in so db- ing, "to anyone who brings a monkey be. foal me again," for Jocko, be it under- stood, is a monkey, Michael, his mister, being an organ -grinder. TEA CAUSED DEATH. ENGLISH WINDO-VT-CLEANER DRANK BEVERAGE TO EXCESS. Doctor States That, as Tea Contains a Quantity of Tannin, It Should Not Be Taken With Meat. Londoe, Oct: 28. — Exessive tea - drinking was stated at the inquest yea terdny to have led to the death of ley Mayo Allen,- aged sixty-two, a win- dow -cleaner, of Stoke Newington, whe had been a teetotaller for thirty years. On Friday last he ate a good supper of boiled beef, and then had some ten, Early dnext morning he was taken ill and died before a doctor could be pro. Dr. Reginald Brown stated that tee autopsy showed that the heart was weak and flabby, and there was some thicken- ing of the mitral valve. The stomach contained undigested food, and was tended. Death was duo to heart failure, consegent on the distention of the stomach, acting oa a weak heart. Allen was an inveterate tea -drinker, drinking tea at every meal. Tea contained a quantity of tannin, and should not be taken with meat. - A verdict ef death from syncope, weak heart and indigestion from excess of tea -drinking was returhed. 0. • GEORGIAN BAY CANAL. Governnaent to be Asked for a Guarantee of Bonds. Ottawa, Oct. 28.—The Montreal, Ot- tawa & eieorgian Bay Canal Company will apply at the coming session of Par. [lament for legislation extending the time for the commencement and com- pletion of the canal system, which it was authorized some years ago to con - struck between Georgian Bay and Mont. real, It is understood the company is now prepared to go ahead with the scheme if the Government will guaran. tee the bonds in return for Government control of the rates to be charged on the oanal when completed. Mr. II. W. Perks, M. P., of England, who is ens of the principal men behind the company, visited Canada twice this i summer n connection with the scheme, and on his last visit, two months ago, had a long interview With the Premier on the subject. The report of the engin. ewes appointed by the Government over two years ago to make a thorough sur- vey of the proposed waterway, prepare plans, estimates of cost, ete,, is now practically ready for presentation to Parliament. The whole question of the Georgian Bay Canal will probably be one of the most important subjects of this session. F/RST COIN MADE. Trial Run of the Royal Mint Machinery at Ottawa, An Ottawa despatch: The first copper rolled in the new branch of the Royal Mint at Ottawa is now in the posses- sion of Hon. Sydney Fisher, who watched yesterday a trial start of the costly stamping and rolling machin- ery tecently installed. It had been hoped that work on the Mint would have been sufficientlyadvanced to allow of a formal opening on Xovena. ber 9, the King's birthday, but the idea has now been abandoned, and it is likely that it will be close on to the new year before operations can officially be begun. ANNEXES COREAN PRINCE . Ito Takes Plante Ruler to Japan to be Educated. Tokio, Oct. 28.—The object of the recent visit of Prince Yoshiliitod, the Japanese Crown Priace, to Corea is apparently disclosed in 'an aittiounce- molt made that Prince /to the Jap- anese Resident -General at Seoul, will return to Japan shortly on an %venni summons, bringing voith him the Corean Crown Prime for a course of study in Tokio. The.Corean Prince, for whom Yoshi- hito is said to have formed a strong friendship during his visit to Seoul, is described as an unusually bright eleven - year -old boy, but his future is endanger- ed by the ehild marriage customary at the Corean eourt. The visit (if Priam Yoshiliito i$ be- lieved to have removed Cereal sus. pieionn, and will enable Ito to carry out his admit of providing the feture Corea with an intelligent tiller of Japan- ese education. RAN PAST SIGNAL. Three Perms Killed and Twelve Hurt in Railway Collision. London, Oct. 28.—Three persona were killed Mt 4, dozen others were injured this morning in a rear collision at West- hempstead station of the Metropolitan Underground Railroad. The rear train, It appears, ran by signals in a fog and eraohea into a train which was standing at the station. This is the first accident of tho kind since the London linas were electrified, when a system of electric signals were installed, which the com- pany claimed would absolutely preclude the possibility of such tin accident. The Metropolitan haa had a remarkable re. cord of immttnity from fatalities. This is said to be the first accident resulting in the death of a passenger, although 300 billion persons have been carried since the opening of the road. - 14' LAYING OFF MEN. TWO LARGE TORONTO COMPANIES CURTAIL PRODUCTION, Canada Foundry Company Cutting Down Its Staff— Mr, Frederic Nicholls Upon tbe Industrial Situation in This Country To -day. 'oronto, Oet, 28.—The works of the Canadian Shipbuilding Company will practically be closed down as soon as the present contracts are completed, widie the Canada Foundry Company tits be- gun reduction by cutting its force of 85 blacksmiths in two. The latter lie4 made a demandfor a ten per cent. increase in wages. Recently (elate a number of con- tracts have been refused by the Ship- building Company because of the label situation and the stringeguy is the money market. Last winter the Ship- building Company had 1,025 num on its pay roll, while the pay list was over $20,000 fortnightly. However, Mr. A. Angstrom, the manager, stated yester- day that he thought conditions would be greatly improved within a couple of months. Mr. Frederic Nicholls, who is connectedeet. with both companies, was mm prepared to make a ore general state- m"It is clear," he said, "that every conservative manufacturer will prepare for a possible diminution of production. because oven if the demanmd does not slacken a healthy contraction should prove beneficial." In conclusion, Mr, Nicholls pointed out that the present peculiar situation came as no surprise, nad as proof of his statement he produced copies of London papers, wherein in the spring he had stated that the country was suffering from over.prdsperity, because the growth of the country's material pros. palter- had been so rapid and so great that the existing organizations were scarcely able to keep pace with the na- tional progress. THE UNDESIRABLES. KEEP THEM OUT; REDUCE HOTEL LICENSES IN DOMINION. Resolutions Passed at Meeting of Gen- eral Board of Temperance and Moral Reform of the Methodist Church— The Officers Elected. Toronto despatch: The General Boatat of Temperance and Moral Reform of the' Methodist Church in Canada at its an- nual meeting yestterday passed resolu- tions against the bringing in or inferan immigrants, commending the Govern- ment with regard to the enforcement of the liquor laws, favoring the reduetinn of hotel licenses throughout the Donate Mn wherever practicable; recommending the formation of men's brotherhoods in all congregations for the purpateof data Mg with questions of social import, and recommending that sociality be taken up in the Methodist universities. The con- vention disapproved of the action of the Provincial Government with respect to the issuing of a brewers' end warehouse license in the town of Osh- awa in direct defiance of the expression of will of the people without any warn - mg whatever. The Treasurer's report showed the re- ceipts for the, year to have been elh. 893.02. There was a slight deficit, anii a much larger amount will be necessary to ineet the expenditures being under- takee, for the ensuing year. Rev. J. We Cooley, Grimsby, was elect- ed on the Executive and haulm Cone mittees, Rev. T. Albert Moore was placed on several committees. Rev. Jas. Henderson, of Ottawa, was appointed to the vacancy on the General Board by the renioval of Rev. George le Salton to another district. Rea. Dr. Carman, Rev. Dr. Watson, Rev. Dr, Chown, Rev. Wm. Kettlewell, Rev. T. Albert Moore, Rev, W., IL Hineks mid Alexander Mills were appointed a cam- mittee to confer with the Moral Refoim Board of the Presbyterian Church along the lines of moral and •soeittl reform and arrange for a co-operation between the churehes. Rev, Dr. Carman presided. • a. kIlad ALFONSO NOT WELL. Fears That Ile *is Suffering Front Consinaption, Madrid, Oct. 28.—The alarming re- ports circulated earlier in the month re- garding* the health of King .Alfonso ap- pear to be confirmed. It is understood that his majesty who will travel under the strictest incognito as Duke of Toledo during his coming visit to Leaden, will submit to the ex- amination of a specialist in tubereulosis, from which disease his father died. The King's open-air life has thus far kept the hereditary disposition in abeyance, and an operation WU performed on him recently in the hope of elteeking the growing symptoine of consumption. • 4 s GHOST AND LANDLORD. 8uit Against 'Winnipeg Free Press its Supreme Court. An Ottawa despatch: In the 'Supreme Court to -day the appeal ia the ease of the Manitoba Free Press vs. Nagy was heard. In October, 1005, the company published in the Free Press as a news item it report that an unceetipied house on St. John avenue in Winninpeg Wag haunted by it &oat, -which appeared late at night and performed strange antics, which mated timid persons to give the placea wide berth. The respondent is the owner of the building, and brought an action naiad the publishing com- pany for S110,000 damegee for defametton of title. Particulate 44 to special damages were for expenses lemma in guaraing the prolate from the large crowds attract. ed br the item to satisfy their curios- ity by visiting the place at all hours of the night; for loots of rent, depreciation la value, and other incidental' expenses occasioned in consequence of the anusual dieturbaacee time coated in the vicinity of the property. The action was dismissed by Judea Macdonald at the trial, but on appeal his judgmest was reversed and a versliet for $1,000 entered. On the present ap- peal the eonmany contends that the item was not damaging or published mall - °lowly; that no particular premises had been ineicated as hatinted; that the claims for damages were cooked up and absurd, ane that no maliee or special damage lute been provect Judgmeut was reserved. LONDON'S.BISHOP NOME. Busy Telling Frienvdistt.he Delights of Die si London, Oct. 28.—Sinee the arrival of the Celtic from America to -day the Biahop of London has been busy tell ing his friends the delights of his visit and saying good things aboat the people he met in Canada and the United States, The Biahop has even acquired one or two expressive slang phrases. "I really had the time el my life," he said, "and the respeit extended me by the people generally, coupled with their delightful hospital- ity, has made a deep impression on me." The Bishop maintained hie record as a good sportsman on boara ship, entering with great enthusiasm inta all the deck games. His affabil- ity made him a general favorite wite his fellow -passengers. GAS SUPPLY CUT OFF. Chatham Factories Close Down and People Wear Their Overcoats. Chatham despatch: The main which carries the natural gas to Chatham from the Tilbury wells burst at 10 o'clock this morning, and the escaping 'gas latet caught fire. The Volcanic Oil and Gas Company, from whose wells the gas is brought, are experiencing great difficulty in re- pairing the break. As the boilers at the Chatham Steam Heating Coin- pany's plant are heated. with natural gas, the result has been that the stores, offices, factories, city and coun- ty buildings, as well as the schools. have been without heat all day, Traf fiee on the C. W. & L. B. Railway ceased this morning. The boilers at the power house are heated with gas and there was no means of generating steam. Many factories which use gas engines imve had to shut down for the time be- ing. Both local newspapers came out this evening all "hand -set," there being no gas to melt the metal in the typeset- ting machines, and in the stores and of. flees men might be seen working with their overcoats and bats on. 4-o GAS ELUDED DISCOVERY. Balmoral Hotel at Belleville Wrecked by Explosion. Belleville despatch: just at midnight an explosion took place at the Bal- moral Hotel. There had been a smell of gee all da.y. The Gas 'Company em- ployees had searched the premises but could find no leak. Patrons of the house complained of the odor, and the proprietors ealled in experts, who also examined the premises but could not locate the leak. At midnight a terrific explosion tooleeplace, blowing out the plate gIass front and causing eonsider- able damage to the interior furnishings. The hotel was filled with gas, which escaped. No one was injured. The fire brigade responded, but its services were not required. . • 1 THE RED HAT. More Cardinals to be Made at Cos- sistories at Rome. Rome, Oct. 28.—Unless there should be a change in the present pro gramme private and public consis- torts will be held respectively on the nine and twelfth of December. Sev- eral Italian prelates will be given the red hat, but whether any forhigner will be so honored has not been de- cided. No American is named foa the cardinalate. GRAND TRUNK WILL BUILD. Ottawa City Council Accepts Company's Terms for a New Hotel, Ottawa, Oct. 28,—The City Council to -night, by a vote of nineteen to four, granted a fixed asseesment to the new Grand 'freak hotel, to be built at a cost of nearly' two million in Major's Hill Park. Several aldermen who have all along been opposed to the park location withdrew their opposition to -night, in view of the G. T. R's. ultimatum that the park site mut be agreed to or no hotel would be built, Work will be started on both station and hotel to; tuorrow morning, and vigorously pushed to completion. COW AND CALF KILLED. East Zotra Township Farmer 'Collects Heavy Damages Front Railway. Woodstock, Oct. 28.— The C. P. 11. Co. has agreed to pay Herman Bol. Lomb, of East Zona township $1,500 for the loss sustained by the killing of a pure-bred Holstein cows and yearling calf in August. The claim was that owing to a defective gate in the railway fence the cow and calf wandered on the tracks during the night and were killed by a train. The cow was a very valuable animal, and held the world's reeord, thirteen and one-quarter pounds of butter having beer made froin her milk in seven days. 4 MAY BE DOWNED. Young Toronto Cletk Went Out Shooting on the take. Toronto despatch: The worst is feared by friends of John F. Stamper, Mateo years old, of Oak avenue, Balmy Beach, who went mit duck shooting yesterday morning in a eanoe, end dia not return. The youth is an employee of tit Canada Life Assurance Conmeny. Sinee the duel( season rommeneed Stamper hos been in the habit of going out on the lake about 5.30, returning home about 8 (Meek. As 118)101. he Went out yesterday morning, but failed to show up et the expected hour. His friends Were driltiOns (Os to his 10100', and an unseeeeesful search Waa initlinted, ALMOST INSANE. MIND or EMPEROR r CIUNA 1$ FAJ.LING. Alleniste Who Have Examined Hie Diary • Say It Show(' Increasing Nervosa De- bility -11k Condittoa Desoribed, as "Almost Intolerable New York, Olt. 27.—The Herald 48 received the following from its corres- pondent at Tokio:. Foreign medical ex- perts, according to confidential Pekin advices received, here, pronounce the Bin. peror of China on tbe verge of insanity, Unless radical measures are taken there can be, these advices eay, no question of an early and complete collapse, It is stated that during the last twen- ty years ever since he was seventeen years old, the Emperor has kept it diary in his ewn itand. This has recently fallen into the heads of palace officials wIto have submitted it to certain eminent for- eign doctors, and these 'report that its nervousa. TtlhyesiEs epebevirel ap rceoe ne eetta,nqtn1 yo in: tez g scribed as almost eatoterable." Ile suf- fers greatly ,. teem palpitation of the heart and seems convinced that hie end Is near .at band. That this fear is Welt founded is easily read between the lines f tbi goes0tlieneinfedurict4hierteisatitnit°s114edtilictlitognist than - the anticipeted Bret step—insanity.' WHAT IS A DAY'S WORK? Manufacturers Oclaecutse,t,o the Nine -Hour Toronto, Oct. 280 -Representatives of the Manufacturers' Association waited on the Board. of Control yesterday with ref. once to the clause in contracts for cite' work calling for a nine -hour dfty, to which they objected. Mr. A. 11. Williams, of John Inglis Company, said he stood for freedom, and tenders for city work should be free of each hampering Conditions. Ile referred to the maehimate strike, and said with- in a year men would be willing to work eleveu hours a. day for ten hours' pay. ile asked that the objectionable clause be struck out, particularly the discrim- inating portion ot it referring to work done outside J.Main,sidetheof M.Jthe Poison Iron Works, said he had always contended. . that the clause was unfair. The board promised. to consider the (motion, and. asked the manufacturers tierput case in writing. equest had been made when represents,- , iti mThe mune tivesi of the labor unions waited on the boited.t last week. _ Five Ililadred Dollar Poll Tax is StiU \CI allNESE IMMIGRATION. , ' \, Effective. Onttalwao,aetn 27e.a•aar!eonr dinthge first nine motisf sethiy with Sep- tember, 782 Clhenesehavetributeented,byred. CanNvay,oi each, no less than n treasury. They ouver in fairly ed with the pthr eeeeydeianrg ittw 18yperaorbsa, balne d t bh yat tehieg...Tzen d olaai of the Chinese capitation tax will run close to half a million dollars. It is understood that many of them are be- ing brought over by contract, the neces- sary $500 being advanced by several rich Chinese in this country, for whoa& they agree to work. Their ;thrifty habits and industry in this counti7 soon enable them to pay off the indebted- ness. The increased poll tax of $500 has now been enforced for three years. During the first fiscal year it was in force, 1904-. 05, only eight Chinese entered the coun- try. In 1905-06 the number WAS 22. In 1903-04 there was a large influx, in or- der to escape the comingFienrer1702e-ooaf the tax free" $100 to. $500, 'Elia 'a 6 4, nuinber of Chinese immmigrants' was 5,- 243, for 1901-02 It was 3,523, for 1900-01 it was 2,518, for 1899-1900 it was 4,231, and for 1898-99 it was 4,385. The total immigration since 1898 has been 25,441. •-* TUNNEL THR_OUGH MOUNTAIN. Georgian Bay Povier Company Finial% a, Great Work, Eugenia, Falls, Oet, 28.—The Georgian Bay Power Company has completed its tunnel through the mountain here. Work was begun on it in,February of lasteyetie- but the difficulties were such that it is completedhe only now. Ttunnel is 86/ feet long. 9 feet wide and 8 1-2 feet higli and 1,200 feet above the sea levet The big dam has not been begun ygt. When it is completed a 52 -inch pipe will be laid from it, through the tunnel to the power house in the valley below. With the heed that is here obtained over 400 ifleoertseispoewxpere.cted to develop about :1,000 ada, and have c the poll tax of $50 $391,000 to the Donum are still arriving at Van large numbers as comp HANGED IN.,aralE OLD MILL Lost Dabney in Ventute`-and Was ipondent. Wallaceburg despatch: John Thomp- son, of Sombre, committed suicide last night by hanging himself ou the premi- ses of the old grist mill, Sombre, village, in which deceased was a shareholder to the extent of $1,200. His wife missed him, and thought it strange that he had not returned as usual, and instituted a search. The body of deceased was found suspended by a rope at 9.30 o'clock. It cannot be learn. ed how long he was dead. The loss of money invested in the grist mill had a tendency to tura his mind, and in a state of despondency, it is believed, Thompson committed the rash net. 10 $300,000 TROUSSEAU Will Be Purehased for Princess Marie Bonaparte. Paris, Oct. 27.—The trousseau order- ed by Prince Roland Bonaparte for the marriage of his daughter, Princess Marie, with Prince George of Omeese will rival in magnificence these prepared in the Rue de le ?Aix for wealthy Anierl. can brides. The coet of -the trouseeatra will exceed $300,00. The Prineess has always had a strong predilection for the empire style, This will be the predominating note in the trousseau, and fashion leaders of Paris are alrendy predicting that the appear - knee of the rept) bride's new frocks will bring the empire etyle again into imme. Bate fashiou. Mr. Barden Shaken Up. Winuipeg, Oct. 27.—While it tipeelal Wait tetaitnieg from Carman yesterday inotntng, bearing Mr. it. L. 13oraen, Pre- mier Roblin and patty, the engine was derelled, and several of the party wets sliehtly shaken up.