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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-05, Page 7MINERS ENTOMBED AN zI SUFFOCATED. Thirty of Them Believed 1 } to be Dead. 1 i Rush of Black Damp in , Pennsylvania Mine0 iirtien anCilren rod hdCry With Horror, Payette City-, rua vete 2.-1ietteeen 25 and 813, lunettes, possibly more, are ento*ed. in the Naomi mine a the Uneted Coal Co., located three miles tst of title city, and there IS prom. tically no hope that an,' 01 them ale alive. Their imprizonment is due te an explosion oe black damp about 8 o'clock lent night, soon after the nigh d force went to work. It is said a miner entered an old working with a latnp and caused the explosion. Had the disaster occur- red on any other night except Sun- day, the number of victims would have been. twice as large, The mine employs from 275 to 300 regularly, abut one fourth of theni going to work at night, but on Sunday nights only half the night force goes to enorke The mine is of the shaft tedete and the concrete aides of the entry were broke down so as to com- pletely close the passage back a con- siderable distance. About 100 feet from the entrance is located the first air shaft, and from this deadly gas is pouring in great volume. The gas found in mines in this territory is so poisonous that no human be - lag can live in it for more than a few minutes and. for this reason it is not believed a single one of the en tombed mon is still alive. One man,- an unidentified foreigner er, managed to climb to the top of the fir ee Mr shaft but dropped dead there. 1de, sign of life has come front the nthers. 7,ust after the night force entered the shaft there was a flash which lighted up the mine and all around it There was a roar as tons of coal and -slate crashed down, into the en tries crowded with workmen. Then utter darkness followed, the exploit. ion putting out of business completely the lighting and air facilities of the mine. The mine immediately filled with gases and several not hurt by the explosion perished while run- ning to get in the fresh air. The %hock of the explosion shook buildings in Fayette City and could be heard for miles. In the homes of miners the ex- plosion felt like a death signal and pmptled every miner's cottage in the sae.* vieenity. The occupants of these— 'men, women and children—gathered around the mine this morning. The women and children cry continually and stare with terror at the seem- ingly fruitless work of rescue. The Naomi mine is one of the oldest operated by the United Coal Company, which has its principal offices in Pitts- burg. It was one of the biggest mines of the soft coal region, and gave work to from 200 to 300 men all the year round. The property loss will be enormous, as the mine was equipped at a cost of thou- sands of dollars with up-tool:1th appur- tenances. The explosion completely wrecked the air system, and that atone means that nothing can live long in the miae. Thousands are flocking to the mine mouth, where every means known to raine operation is being exerted to reach the men. Aid has been secured from Monongahela City and other nearby towns. While some hold torches others are pegging away with pick and shovel to reach their fellow workers. What seems an almost insurmountable mountain of debris is between the struggling work- men and the imprisoned alCa. Some res- cuers are trying to tunnel this, while strenuous efforts to reach the imprison- ed men by other meams are being made. Superintendent J. D. O'Neill, of the 'Naomi mime. said to -day: "The men are workiug heroically to save their comrades. Mine Iaspector M. Loutitt was on the ground inunediately after the explosion, and organiend a re- lief corps. He soon brought order out of chaos and divided his men into crews, which were ordered towork one or two hours each. In this way we will be able to make the best progress possible un. der the circumstanees, keep the work up, and save the resources of the res. cuers." Mine superintendents of all the mines along the Monongahela River volunteer- ed their help in the work of reecue. Their efforts, however, were impeded by the throng of relatives and friends of the entombed men, who ran up to the very pit mouth and cried out in agony fee their loved ones. Special cats with many physicians and undertakers are present to -day, but so far there has been no work for either. Another Mine Disaster, Drytown, Cal., Dee. 2.—With :mike still pouring from the shaft of the Fre. mint mine, hope for the eleven miners who were entombed on Saturday was virtually abandoned last night. Four.Americans are among the vietime, the remainder of whoin are Italians and A.ustriens. IS • ar A. SERIOUS CHARGE. Russian Caretaker of a Toronto Syna- gogue Under Arrest. Toronto, Dee, 2.----Uneyn. Kowaraki, Ituesian, aged 30, caretaker of the Me. Caul Street Synagogue, was arrested at an early hour on Sunday morning on a eerieus charge. About an hour after the arrest was made Laura Breslin, aged 12, a daughter of Solomon Breslin, 18 Alice street, gave birth to a child. The girl% parents were unaware of her von - (Mier, until Saturday night. when they questioned her. Dr. J. M. Johnston, of Elm street, was called in. and acting ime. a certificate obtained front hitit they visited Magistrate Kingsfordet resi- denee and swore out a warrant for Howarski's arrest. The warrant was handed th Conetablee Ironsicle and Me- Cotnell, who found Kowareki at 45 Wit - limn street, and took tem into eustody. He was locked up at Agnes street sta.- tint, bail being refused. Kowarski hite a wife and cicitct, vhorn he brought out from Iluseitt about six menthe ago. Whet he tsante. tit Toronto, About a year NM, he liVed with the 13res- lin family on Airee street until he made IOnE'rhough to bring his wife and her ehild to Canada. Solomon Breslin is W of the Vice.Presidents of the Mc- Caul Street Synagogue, and it watt through him that Kowarski got the pin eitioe of casetaker. mr•Trr. ALL IS QUIET REPORTS QF RECENT DISTURB- ANCES IN PORTUGAL UNTRUE. Probably Circulated by Unemieb of Pre- mier Franco, Whet Sought to Dis- credit the Country's Financial Cone dition— No Trace of Popular Excitement. Lisbon, Dee. 1. ---tee baseless elute- aetee of Um alarmist rumors ,represent- ing that Portugal was on the eve of nivel war and revolution has been fully established by the independent investo getion of a staff correspondent of the Associated Press. There never seems to have been the elightest excuse for the stories circulat- ed from the frontier that the King was a, prisoner in the castle that the Crown Prince had been banialted and that the navy had mutinied. A strong 'suspicion exists that ouch Toports were part of a campaign of Pre- mier Francos enemies, instituted in order to create distrust abroadin the country's financial position, and thus discredit and. bring about the downfall of the Premier at home. Nothing could bo more peaceful than the appearance of the country. Not the remotest evidence of popular exeiter sitore belt. lie was eaught SCIali! ment or agitation ie observable. In way and whirled around the ehaftima Lisbon business moves on iu the tra- and then fell to the eget-Dan below. A ditional dreamy Portuguese fashion. The compound fracture of his left lee, and King drives and. walks daily unattend- I ankle crushed; a dislocated shoulder and d. d. 1 t • It c •ed I i box t injuries to his back were found, but it the opera. Franco, "the dictator," also 1 ts thotteht that he has suitained inter. goes abroad unmolested. • - • aal injuries also white) leave his eaee critical. llo is a married man with two children, and was one of the ;nest stall- ed employees in the plant. At the ahallow Lake plant the victim. was Joseph Anderson, assistant burner. This morning he dame to work et S.:r311 o'clock and the rotary kiln having been stopped for a short time the conveyer belt of the coal feed had been thrown off. Without waiting to remot Li his heavy coat lie went up to put on the belt. In an instant he was caught in the belt and Was whirled around, tits head struck some braces and his lees the coal hoppee, The machinery was stopped and An- derson removed, but his injuries were such that he succumbed a half hour later. He was twenty-eight years of age, and leaves a widow and teat children. He was formerly a resident of Cargill. rre,419. end to the eaeloyment of *Olen be- hind theesult far more disastrous than any Trobta flan° bar nught ham an ininiettiato iniseldefs morning from the predent ".1 hare lived in this WOrld half a LUCK 61101.11($ system, .!entury," he ndded,'"and I have not been 4* a tot:WWII*, ttiid eeitaiitly had my full share of experience of the- condi- tions of employtneut iu licensed premises at one time of my lifeaal tun not, would have you understand, alluding to my recent years. Speaking of these (smiler days, 1 May say there were few queer holes or dark eerners in London that 1 did not explore. "Indeed, 1 may go so far as to say that in the settreh for truth ente I hope it was ---and of legitimate knowledge, 1 Wah brought to a knowledge et :midi - tions witieb pelmets. are leaden even from those whom I have the honor to address. 1 do not wish to exaggerate anythire but I d think - • r 47 desiraine places which Are lerenteel, atel that there nee emiditions in certain 1 platens which ere morally, Op:ie.:4 and eeononiically bad." The Times says that the retormere have not provided other employment Inc the huntlred tliouetuid Itionent now be- hind bars. It asks; '.Aro they to coin pete for pieces in the tea :themefile tearoom gal is exposed to more tempta- tion of a eertant kind than the bar- maid:" AROUND SHAFT. TWO ACCIDENTS OF SIMILAR CHAR- ACTER AT OWEN SOUND. Joseph .Anderson Killed at Shallow Lake Cement Works, and Joseph C. Cor- nett Seriously Injured at Imperial Works. Owen Sound, Dec. 1.-1 eoincidenee in accidents at the Owen tSound Cement Works, at Shallow Lake, aed at the lzuperial Cement Works, within twen t hours, is recorded here to -day. Last night at the Imperial Cement Works Joseph C. Cornett, one of the barnere, was working near the shaft operateit by THE AGREEMENTS. IMPORTING JAPANESE LABOR POR TRW C. P. R. Nippon Company Had Agreed to Bring in From Five Hundred to Two Thou- sand Men for Railway—Mr. King's Work Nearly Ended. Vancouver, Dee. 1. — Commissiouer Mackenzie King stated at a meeting of the Asiatic Immigration Commission yesterday that in his opinion his mission had been fulfilled. The agreements between the Canadian Nippon Co, aud the Wellington Coal Co. and. the Q. P. R. showed the immigration company had agreed to procure 300 Japanese for FIRED BUILDINGS. the colliery company and from 500 to Incendiary Who Wanted to Go to Jail 4,000 for tbe C. P. R. Negotiations ii' 1 the colliery company fell through. Under Arrest at Port Hope. 1V• •W. Boultbee, Seeretary-Treasurer Port Hope, Ont., Dec. 1. —Thomas of the Canadian Nippon Co., said •Japan- Kow, a French-Canadian, 39 years of 'ese Consul' Morikawa was unconnectedage, who says - that his home is at 505 with the company in any way, shape or Notre Daine Street, Montreal, is now form. in the cells here charged with incendiar- The Commissioner put in it table showing that 2,007 Japanese presented themselves at Vancouver for clearance to the States during the year, and 1,892 Japanese presented themselvesat Vic- toria,, while 280 were held for deporta- tion and 3,619 admitted. At the close the Cimmissioner said he desired to make it few independent in- quiries before submitting his report. He referred to the problems confronting other nations through circumstances not unlike those experienced. here. The pro- ceedings were adjourned sine die. • 0 N. Y. SKYSCRAPERS. •••••••••••••••,.. Can Build Up Into Cloudland if Desired. It* 1.11•1, New York, Dec. 2.—No limitation is to be placed on the height of New York's tall buildings of the future. Instead of . being held to certain legal restrictions, the builder hereafter may build a sky- . i scraper with as many storeys as he , ebooees, providing his structure is of such form as to guarantee it reasonable ; amount of light and ventilation to his . neighbors on all sides. This is the effect of an amendment to 1 the New York building code, which will I be ratified by the code revision com- mittee at a meeting to -day and the en- ; tiro report of the committee probably 1 will be adopted by the board. of Wer- tmen within the coming week. Several months ago, when tho revision ! conuniesion first took up the question of j restricting the altitude of sky -scrapers 1 there seemed to be a preponderance of i argument in favor of limiting all future i structures to about twenty storeys, and 1 the problem provoked a great deal of 1 comment both here and. abroad, ; -------•-•*----... SHE IS SAFE BRITISH 13ARMAID WON'T BE LEW& LATED OUT. • Home Secretary Gladstone Says Any Drastic Promisions to Abolish Bar- maids Would Have Results More Disastrous Than Those Following Their Employment. London, Nov. 30,—The British bartneid is safe. At least she will not be legis- ated out of existence by the present Liberal Government. The report was eireulated that Home Secretary Wed - atone was contemplating the inelualon of it clause in Me fortheoming bill relating to the reform of the Runge law, that should declare the employment of girls and women in bars illegal. A deputation accordingly waited up• on the Home Seeretary for the purpose of showing him that emit legislation would inflict great harm upon 5 lavge and generally deserving clam of women, and that barmaids, on the whole, were better paid and better looked after then eomen of any other trade followed by lenglishwomen, lir. Gladstone, in reply, s tia the Gov- ernment re:dived that any drastic pro - :jejune to cheek, .aiminieb, er put an ism. About five o'clock this morning a large frame barn belonging to John Harcourt, at Port Bryan, about three mike west of Port Hope, was set on fire and destroyed with its entire. cone tents. Immediatedly afterward e a straw stack some distance away, belonging to William Brown, was set on fire and burned. ; Sehulthorpe and Dickinson, the two farmers who bad been attracted to the first fire, noticed, tracks leading from the barn. They followed them foosteps to Westyville, where they !through the fresh snow to the straw- ; deck, and front there to the school- house. Thence they followed the Saw Kow ahead of them. He offered no resistance and was brought to Port Hope. Kow says that he was on his way to Kingston from Toronto, and that he deliberately set fire to the barn and strawstack for the purpose of be- ing sent to jail. Ho says that be also tried to set fire to the schoolhouse, but did not succeed in doing so. IP • . INFANT FOUND DEAD. Desperate Plight of a Young Mother in Manitoba. Winnipeg, Dee. 1.—A young woman who came to Maidstone recently and endeavored to earn a livelihood by .dress- making was confined in her rooms with- out the knowledge of any one about twi weeks. ago, and the dead body of tho infant has been found in her trunk aceident by a. woman who was doing hie washing. Death was due either to asphyxiation or neglect. The young wo- man is being detained by the police, pending further investigation. TROUBLE WITH HIS .WIFE. 1 Toronto Shoemaker Attempts to Cut I His Throat. London, Dee. 2.--A ahoentaker ummed ' Frederick Hing, aged 40, made a deeper - etc attempt to conunit suicide at his boarding house, on Pall Mall street. It ; is said Hing had trouble with his wife, !and when be came here front Toronto I elle remained behind. Hing reteivea it iletter that disturbed him. Jumping up from the supper table, he seized a eery - Ong knife and attempted to cut his throat. Only the strenuous efforts of the proprietor of the house prevented Mpg from carrying - out his intention. He hoe gone baek to Toronto. see • ARCHBISHOP ON LORD'S DAY. Mo. Bruchesi Issues Episcopal Letter., -- Parks Tolerated. \lontrea1, Dar. 1. TI t'f" of tht Lord's Day was the subject of an . ere:mopei letter addressed to the faith. by Arelmishop Bruchesi, and read to - clay at high mass in all the Roman (lath- olie churches nntl ehapela in the diocese of Montreal. All manual labor in an - 1•11,(11 113 weakening and destroying the trot idea of Sunday that. 'el:, Archbishop's ruling of two years ni4.) is firmly adhered to, and Moving inetures are forbidden on ;Sundays. Parks .mein:rimed by speehtl charter end fee - 1 tintillied by seekerafter distraction and I relaxation are tolerated as well as email entrance fee, but the Internet -root - le must be looked after. Karlsruhe, Dec. ee.--The &tali sentence passee upon Keel Rau for the murder of his mot:her-in-law, lerau Molitor, has been eoMmuted to life imprisonment. Tale of Peonage and Persecution Told by Russian JOWL ••••••••••••••••• Were Unmercifully Beaten by Sail- ors on Board ShiPt osorremorr••••• And Beaten by Negroes in a Color- ado Clearing, New York, Dee, 2.—The World this moriiina says: A build of poor Russian Jews, fleeing from the American south- west, readied this city yesterday with it harrowing talc of peonage and perse- tution on account of their faith. Sev- eral of the men, including MON° Opotow- ; ' sky, have found refuge at the Hebrew she14ering arms in East Broadway. Their stories are likely to be brought by pro- minhat men of their race to the atten- tliogIiotonf. the State Department at Wash- ilAccording to Opotowsky, who talked through an interpreter, he and many fel- low workmen of Moscow were attracted by all advertieement iu a newspaper of- fering $17 to $20 it week wages in agree- able employment near Galveston, Texes. Seventy-five of the men paid 785 rubles each for the passage to the United States. They sailed from Bremen on against sViet of the steamship Chemnitz, Nine days out, Opotowsky says, the bread, herring and potatoes, and there was 5 general frame, in which the sail- ors beat the Russians unmercifully. At Galeestoh, aftee being at sea twen- ty-five days, the party was met by it labor agent. They then travelled two days with the agent, until they arrived at Pueblo, Colo.,and were made the next day to walk nine miles out to a gleaning. They were handed over to negroes; who gave them saws attd ()tier- ed them to get to work at once sawing limbs from the trees. Many of the im- migrants demurred, saying that was not the kind of work they bad Item engaged for. Tben the negroes took switches and thrashed them as if they were slaves. Opotowsky yesterday showed a core on his head, where Ile said the skin had been cut when he was flogged. The immigrants were left to sleep in the fields, and all they could get to eat was pork and beans, with leavened bread, which their religion forbid them to par- take of. They had to eat the food pro- vided or else. starve: After four days of this sort of exist- ence, Opotowsky says, most of his com- panions fled in various directions, in small bands, without having received, a penny in wages. He and at least sixteen of his countrymen °seeped and reached Lincoln, 'Neb., whence a charitable Jew sent them to Omaha, and there it man named %letzten, of the Hebrew charity organization, provided them with tickets for Chicago. From there they came to New York, homesick and disconsolate. SALTED A MINE. • PITTSBURG'S SOCIETY BROKER AN EX -CONVICT. It is Reported That He Was Married in South Africa to Daughter of Lady Suffield, Who Had Quarrelbd With Her Parents, Pittsburg, Pa., Dee. g.— Reginald Spaulding, or Oscar F. Spate, or George Frederick Spate, the man who propos- ed. to introduce Pittsburg rich people at the court of St. James, is still in jail. There were developments to- day, which caused the police to hold him. leittsburgers who wined and dined Spaulding a few days ago will be horri- fied when they learn that he was at one time a convict in South Africa. But they can take some consolation out of another report, that he is really the SOD, in-law of Lady Suffield, the woman whom he asserted would bring about the introductions, A communication reached the Pitts- burg police to -day from a source which they will not divulge to the effect that Spaulding under the name of George lerederick Spate in 1902 teas married to Muriel, daughter of Lord and Lady Suf- field, who left her home in London be- cause of it difference with her par- ents, and went to South Africa during the Boer war as a Red Cross nurse, in eensequence her parents disowned her, and her mune was removed from the re- eords of the British nobility. Spate is alleged to have then inter- ested his wife in a diamond mine, which ee had "salted," and finally sold the mine to her and some others for a large sum. The mine was located at eneuw- bergen. Before the discovery was made that the mine was "salted" Spate is al- leged to have taken his wife i»to the interior of Africa, where he deemed her in the land of the Zulu chief, Mosilikapze, If the report of Spaulding's marriage is true, his wife would be a sister of lion. Charles Harbord, who was A. 1), C. to the Marquis of Lorne in Canada, and of Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, who Was extra lady-in-waiting to the Princess of dales during her tour of the colonies.' FIERY RUSSIANS. ORATOR CALLS COIJAT MARTIAL REG/ME "STOLYPIN NECKTIE:, The Premier Keen for a Duel—Utterer of Remark Was Roughly Handled— Trouble Was Averted by an Apology. St. Petersburg, Deo. 1. --"The Stoly- pitt an expression used by Fedor Roditcheff, the orator of the Constitutional Democrats in the Don - me, yesterday afternoon, to designate the summary regime of drunnhead court-martials instituted by Premier Moine; in August, 1900, and de- faced out of existence by the second Donnie, last April, is the phrase on all lips' in the capital to -day. The phrase has already beconie historie and has completely blotted out the effect of the Ministerial declaration in subsequent debates; end destroyed the complaemicy of the Conservatives, restoring tbe tense utinosphere of the earlier Demuth M. lioditcheff, during the course of it ringing epeeelt, in which he was constantly interrupted by applause or jOellts was Culogizung the hundreds of • I victims of drum -heed eolirteuartlal, 1 and when be referred to the officials of the Goverment as hangmen, a hundred. reatetioniats, led by Vladi- mir Purishkoviteh, . Al.onarchist, and two priests, yelling like Indians, stormed the tribune. President Kho- myakoff, after ringing his boll vainly for artier, abandoned the eller and declared. the sitting closed. The Con. stitutional Democrats alleged to tbe rescue of M. Roditebeff, who was being roughly handled. They formed a pita - NM around him, and bore him, still shouting defiance, to one corner of the hall. The tumult continuecl for fully half an hour, until the party leaders succeeded In withdrawing their followers to the committee rooms for consulta,- tionhp r. on Stolypin, who, in company with his colleagues, Was sitting next to the Speaker's tribune, the phrase eStelypin necktie" fell as 11. theeder. bolt, recalling the most painful inci- dent in his career as Premier. He turned deathly white; elenebed the desk and stared motionless for several min- uttles at the unpreeedeuted storm let loose by the Reactionaries surging past hien. Finally be left the chamber with- out uttering it word. To tho Ministers with him in the pavilion, Mr, Stolypin Announced firm- ly his decision to challenge M. Rodit- eheff to it duel, and asked M. Chteheg. lovitoff, the Minister of Justice, and Prince Vassiliekoff to aet as his sec- onds, All efforts to dissuade the Premier from this course were fruit- less. The seeonds named, however, employing the utmost tact in order to forestall such an event which would have eltaken the entire Government, approachee M. Roditcheff and. in deli- cate terms enquired what his inten- tions were towards the Primo Minis. ter. The tumult caused by 111. Rodit. elteff's speech continued for half an hour, during which the Speaker was severely handled and finally carried away boldly by his supporters to a cor- ner of the hall. The party leaders 'then entered into it long conversation, and it was made plain to the Constitutional Democrat? that, M. Roditeheff had meant no per. soul attack on the Premier, but had been earriee away by impetuosity. M. Roditeheff thereupon went to the pavilion and begged M. Stolypin's for. giveness. After an hour's intermis- sion, during which the passions of the membees subsided, the session reopened. if. Khomayoleoff, the president, sternle lectured the Rightist members, and then proposed to suspend ef, Roditcheff fol fifteen sittings. The latter arose and declared that lie had no intention of offending any one. He would let his words, however, ap- pear in the records, as spoken because he believed that they eorreeponded to the reality. The suspension Wag voted by 09 majority by the Oetobrists and the members of the Right. 'rhe Consti- tutional Democrats, led by M. Milukoff joined in the subsequent ovation to tes- tify to the Dounia's high regard for Pre- mier Stolypin. • BRYAN THE MAN Will Likely he the Democratic Can- didate For Presidency. New York, Dee. 2.—Out of 76 Demo- cratic Senators and representatives poll- ed in Washington by the New York World, forty-four declare unequivocally that the recent statement of Wm. J. Bryan, that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presiden- cy, elminates all other candidates. Prae. tically all of them believe that he should run on a conservative platform, although there is a wide difference in opinion as to what that platform should be. Of those who do not consider that Bryan is the only man, -only one, Senator Rams- dell, of Louisiana, is definite in naming a candidate. He comes out flat-footed for Governor 3ohnson, of Minnesota. • • • LAVERGNE ARRAIGNED. Alleged Bigamist Appears in Ottawa Court—Former Livery Employee. Ottawa, Dec. 1.—J. F. Lavergne, the alleged bigamist and thief, appeared in the Pollee Court yesterday to ans- wer for his reported misdeeds. He was brought here by the chief of police, who went up to the Canadian "Soo" on Thursday. To the charge that he had on August 14, contracted a marriage with Miss Margaret Foran, of this city, being at the time a mar- rieu man, he made no answer. An adjournment until Thursday next was granted. Lavergne, who came to Ottawa some time before the elethblition this year, was recognized as a formed livery stable employe of the late Patrick Buckley, whose estab- lishment was located at the corner of .elbert and Metcalfe streets. ••• COLORED PEOPLE. Several London Hotels Refused to Enter- tain Them. London, Nov, 30.—It was stated to- day that a large number of colored members of the Cole and Johnson Om, which is playing the Grand to -night, :ound it impossible to secure hotel ea- eoennodation in London, and were etimpelled to billet themselves in the houses of colored fag/lilies all over the eity. There are 50 or more in the com- pany. Two or three hotels agreed to se - cot the troupers as guests, but the ether hostelries were "filled up" when the tolored people hove in sight. ‘Z -DAMAGES DEMANDED. Victims of Collapse of London Building Suing W. J. Reid, London, Ont., Dee. 1.—John Loney, who was employed as shipping clerk in the Reid Crystal Hall at the time of the collapse and was injured in the disaster, has issued it writ against W. J. Reid for injuriea sustained. He eustained a fractured skull and dis- located arm, and has been confined to his house fee the past four months. No sum is stated in the writ, tho amount of which will be left to tho jury to decide. ; . • tt4P SUICIDE CAUSED StaCiDE, Brooklyn Man's Despondency Aggravated by Maxwell't Death. New York, Dee. 1.—Despondent over the feet that he haut faded to withdraw 111 time it considerable stun be is said to have lut don deposit in the suspendod Borough Bank of Brooklyn, Ge e Fruitnutn. aged 32, it diamond poli a, committed snicide last might by hang- ing himself with a piece of clothes line at his home in Brooklyn. Vie menet -lespondeney apparently eutered the Ag- ergvated stnge on les learning of the eilicitle of President Maxwell of the sus- pended institution, INSANE PATIENT HURLS HIMSELF UNDER STREET CAR, Breaks Away Firma His Guard and is Mangled by Trolley at Columbus. ColtunGus, Dec. 2.—Jerking his arm 1 ium, 'Madman seemed to be intereele8 from tee grasp of an Attendant, Albert, ieLnutlirnel!erieTtdedi'l'il:latflitir,usait:Ittebre°tahn471 Wiedeman, a patient at the Parkview his ellen imaginary troubite to read the Sanitarium, committed suleide by throw evening yews, ing himself under it passing High strot When he was taken out by nn at - ear. He was terribly injured and died tendant, James Anderson/ there wee at L25 in the afternoon. no thought of welt it thing as an at. tempt et suicide, lie was taken to I: Wiedeman bad been an inmate of barber shop on High otreet, near Ruse the State Hospital for the Insane at sell, for a shave, and after this was f Athens, but was taken to his luinati at ished he and theattendant started to eturn to ehe sanitarium the attenclant. Lynchburg, Highland County, for a few ii'diding him by tho arm'. Just before days by his relatives, then brought to meeting the street car Wiedeman smi- ths Columbus Sanitarium for treat. denly twisted hie arm free, ran to the went. lie arrived about three weeks street and threW himself in front of the dux. The diotormatt Was unable to stop ego. He was afflicted with inelan. the ear until Wiedemtni hall been drag - cholla, but had shown no suicidal ged some distatme. tendencies, nor was there any men- He was taken to the Protestant Hos- tion of such tendencies' in the history pital, where it was found be had sue- d the case as received at the &Want- tained horrible injuries, BROWN AT FAULT. RAILWAYS' TOLL OF LIFE. His Lawyer Blames Hien and Says She Was Insane. 3 FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY PER - ..r..•••..=0./•••• SONS KILLED LAST YEAR. Washington, Dec. 2.—The trial of Mrs. Report of the Railway Commissioners--,- Senator Brown, of Utah, was resumeAnnie B. Bradley for the murder of ex- Businese of the Board Largely In- d creased— Enormous Number of promptly at 10 o'clock this morning, Attorney Hoot er, for the defendant, be- Freight and Passenger Schedules. ginning his argument to the jury. At- torney Hoover argued that it was Brown, Ottawa despatch: The second report who iinportuned for the illegal relation between Brown and Mrs. Bradley; that of the Board of Railway Commissioners, her story of the tragedy was corroborat- presented to the House this afternoon ed by the evidence and that there was . uy Hon. Geo. P. Graham. In respect to emple evidence that she was insane at train accidents the report shows 469 perscns killed and 003 injured. Of the killed 42 were passengers, 212 employees and 200 other persons. Passengers hi jured numbered 210, and employees in hired the time of the shooting. Attorney Hoov- er finished his arguments at II. o'clock, and ;fudge Powers, lending counsel for the defence, immediately began his re- marks, The court at 12.35 o'clock took A teats for half an hour. Judge Powers ltd fin. numbered 317. In detailing the character ef the accidents the report ;shed his closing argueneet for the de. 8 , ,\ 95 killed and 32 injured by tres- fence. District Attorney Baker Will 1pas:::;11:ing on the track, 44 killed and 109tezeg, 40 killed and 29 injured while eroue for the prosecution lifter recess, 4 • O. injered by head-on collisions 2 Wilful and 16 injured by rear -end collisions, 41 killed( and 22 injured at level crossings, — 15 killed and 102 injured by derailments. Fifty-one bodies were found on the track Murdered His Wife and Then Sent or bridges, 12 were killed and 15 injured . while attempting to get on trains in a Bullet Into His Brain. while switching. . mction, 29 were killed and 30 injured -- ENDED IT ALL. Of tlie killed 100 were on the Grand New York, Dec. 2.—Five years of un- Trunk Railway, including 11 passengers, happy married life 'for Peter Vogel and 213 were on the C. P. R., of whom 24 were passengers, 3e were on the C. N. his wife came to tut end some time duo R., of whom there was on passenger, 29 ing last night, when Vogel shot his wife woe.) on the Michigan Central, only one and then sent a bullet into his own beittg a passenger. On the 0. T. 11, 99 head, causing probably instantdeath, moue rtgers were injured; 70 were injured col the C. P. 11,, and 11 on the C. Neel"' The bodies were found to -day, when the Of employees 07 were lolled on the G. police forced the doors of thew house T. R. and 107 oo the C. P. R. • in Putnam avenue, Brooklyn. Frequent A compaintite etatement of the killed quarrels over money are believed to heve culminated in the tragedy. and injured for two years shows 400 ---0-.4.-- killed during the year ending March 31, . 1917, as compared with 381 for the pre ENTOMBAD IN A MINE. ' ceding year, and 603 injured, as com- paredwith 20. There. was a decrease Over Fifty Miners Imprisoned at of 34 in the number of paseengers killed Fayette City, Pa. dining 1907 as Compared with 1900, and Monongahela, Pa:, Dec. le-Bee:we:in an increase of 107 in the number of pas - fifty and sixty miners are sutombed in sengers injured. che Naomi mine of the United Coal CO, weTrilltealttootgaeltillieUrM2110913' eofapcapslleesathieoansrdmt:Odke hought many it Fayettet City as the result of an ex- up teh00,59b5cafrodliosduroifngtesthtiemoyneytt.r, aTult eirne. ?lesion of black damp to uight. It is crease of 1,49, or over 100 per cent., as cock and coal which fell duriug the con - are dead behind to asTI:ti, compared with the preceding twelve eussion and blocked the iedranee. mouths. The nu.mber of filings made explosion was caused, it is said, when was 26,933, all Increase of 0,280, and t miner with an open lamp entere I one the number of orders issued 1,741, tin if the old workings . Medieel aid lets increase of 1,127. The aggregate of been sent from Monongahela and sur- rounding towns. Details are weer° freight and passenger schedules received w is no lege than 57,517. The total ex - owing to defective telephone service. penditure In connection with the corn- N,lessengers have been &tilt out from here. KNOCKED OFF so YEARS. Montana Judge- Reduces Sentence on a Murderer. Helena, Mont., Dee, 1.—Judge Ole - Tents, in District Court yesterday, sentenced George Melville to the poni- 'entiary for 20 years for killing Win• dela Guthrie at a mining camp near eere last July. The jury had brought in a 'verdict of second-degree mur- ler and fixed the penalty at 50 years, hut Judge Clement said. he regarded this as excessive and therfore re- duced it 30 years. • • • FELL OVER BANISTER. Little Daughter of Dr. Bowie Will Prob- ably Die. Brockville, Dec. L—Phyllis, the little :laughter of Dr. R. A. Bowie, lies in a 'tremulous condition at ber father's home is e result of falling from a bannister tt the third flight to the floor below, it lietance of 25 feat. Her skull was frac- tured in two places, and she has been necuseious since noon yesterday, when the accident occurred. The chances of envery are slight, • • o WoOden Leg Horribly 1VIangled. gavannah, Dee. 1.—Joe flridiron' a hackman, was jolted off his seatto- night by a street ear and fell under the trucks. Citizens who rushed to the rescue saw that one leg WaS underneath the wheels, Volunteers came forward to raise the ear and rescue Gridiron as ten - icily as possible. Ile was picked up and inrried to a nearby drug store. There in examination was maths, resulting in the discovery that it was his wooden leg which the ear lied crushed. The com- limo is going to fit him out with an- other, Passersby Quenched Plainee. Pori Hope, Dee. 1.L -A lamp exploded in Mrs. Graham's house in EnglisIttown belie last night, Mrs. Graham was tway from home at the time, and Bev - ,1.11 smell ehildren were asleep up• rortunately the blaze from the la np, which was on a table down stairs, W58 noticed by passersby and. was ex- tinguished before muelt damage had be tn. done. One of Two Brothers Maple Creek, Mesk., Dec. ilayton brothers were on their way home, north of the town with a toed of mai when the team started to run away owing to it broken line. Both men were thrown off, and the hind wbeele passed over Jetties Ilayettm, kill- .ing him. lie had taken it homestead laet fall, and had been 14181 Ana int returned. Ite was horn in Ontario, and he has two brothers regiding herd musical for the year was $58,604. The decision of the board in regard to telephone and express rates is promised at an early date. • BOTH FEET FROZEN. Young Orphan Boy in Bad Condition at Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Deo Leveillee, an mean boy fifteen years of age, was brrught to Water Street Hospital on Friday evening from Lake St, Mary, Celia, with both hands and both feet ; frozen. The little fellow, who was liv.- Ijoadattithaten uncle, was, it is alleged, Iturned out of his uncle's house, and as itc had nowhere to go lie wandered into the bush, where he spent a night and 1 part of a day. When found by some neighbors the lad had his two feat frozen as well as his two hands. Sheriff Wright, will investigate. BRANT.FORD'S POWER. Application of the Grand Valley Radial Changes the Situation. DrantfOrd, Dec. 1.—The power situation here hail assumed it no* aspect as R realm 1 tho application of the Grand Valley Rad- ial Conaway to the commission for betweetr 2,000 and 3,000 horse -power. The city's 001 - tract was to be for 2,000. Two prepositions iv° under consWeration. The first Is that the city should assume the responsibility for the contract, but that the amount taken hy to dispose of HS supply. The other Is that othhteirce:.1,.mpany be deducted, thus eliminatin the g e possibility of the city net being able the place of Drantford, thus treeing tne city ei•••• 4 • l• WILL ATTACK CONVICTION. Claim Indictment Bad in London Elul tion Case. Toronto, Deo. 2.—A motion to quash the conviction of O'Gorman, Iteld, Wiley a nd Mulloy by Judge Winchester, last week, ia to be made In the !Ugh Court at an early date. Tee defeece chum that the indictolont was bad as several crimes were charge° without any indication of venue, arid severe) crimes Were included In ono count. Other technical objections linit bo raised, CZAR AND DOUMA, St. Petersburg, Dee, 1—Emperor Niel'» oIas received and perused a copy of the address of the Donnia in reply to the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament with coldneRs. On the margin of the doeunient he wrote the fol- lowing note: "I am ready to believe the expreseed sentiments. I await .productive work," *0* II, S. NaVal Message Intercepted. I Victoria, IL C., Dee. L --While ex- ! eltanging with the Vaneonver office re- rently the local station of the Dominion ! Wireless ystems received it ineesage i pent by the ITnited StAttet naval yard at Mare !stand, Cal,, to one of the Am - 1 edam warships off the oast. CZAR REMAINS AN AUTOCRAT. Donna Dismayed by Declaration From the Government. Orarirrrenrrr..• lit. Petersburg, Dee» declara- tion of the Government read by Premier Stolypin, before the Douma to -day was received with dismay by the Octobrists ana the Constitutional Democrats, and with, open exultatiou by the utembeee of the Right. party. The keynote of the address was reit- eration of the idea of the autoeratie power of the Emperor as the sole guar. ante,: of security and welfare in an ern of (Reorder. The announcement was med.: also that the Dottma is expected to lake its cue from the administration bit tho matter of legislation, and. the Pre- mier outlined what the future legislation wne expected to be. He excoriated the Radical parties as fosterers of crime and sedition, and he said their expo -see, no 'longer be tolerated in Russia. This statement is taken to show that the ad- ministration books with disfavor upon any alliance between the Octobristie and the Constitutional Democrats. Til(1 Premier was constantly interrupt- ed by applause from members of the Right party, but at the conclusion of the adetrees there was seercely it handclap from the Oetobrist ranks. Premier Stolypin began by seeing that the pernicious agitation originated by the Radials had to -day degenerated in- to open brigandage. Criminals, he said, he I come to the foreground in a, move- ment by which the industries of the country were being ruined and the younger generation demoralized. Any weakness in handling this situation would be it crime, and the Government in the future as well as in the past would continue to crush disorders with an iron home and insiat upon loyal ser - vie from all State officials. The Premier attacked university au- tonomy and said that nothing would be permitted to stop the Government from taking an active course in introducing order and discipline bit the schools. The Government was convinced of the neces- sity of the speediest possible abandon- ment, of martial law and it return to normal conditions, but had decided to strengthen judicial procedure and hasten its operations. Once order had been re,stored in the country. the Government would be able to devote all its attention to the inter- nal developntent of the empire, and the settlement of the agrarian problem. The Premier then outlined other ad- ministratien projects, including the re- form of thee Zemstovs, the extension of the Zemstov ystem to Poland and other borderlands, reform of the courts, legis- lation favorable to the orthodox church and the clergy and. measures for the de- velopment of the army and navy to a degrec commensurate with Russia's post' tion among the nations of the world. Money would be needed for these pro- jec n, and this the Doom was expected. to vote. The ratification of the hudget of 1008 would be its first task: The deovernment on its side would do every- 'rating to assist the work of the Duras and the eouneil of the empire. In conclusion, Premier Stolypin said; The Emperor often has shown in the foe: of extraordinary difficulties how highly he prized the basic principles of the new reghne of representative gov- erimsent within the limits, established by himself. Nevertheless, the historic au- toeratic power and the unhampered will of -the monarch shine out as the dearest postession of the Russian royal family. Solely by .this power and 'this will, which were created to -defend existing institutions, can Russia be saved in an era of danger and demoralization ane brought to tele path of o cal truth " ROBBED HIS UNCLE. BOY'S RUSE TO GET POSSESSION OF SECURITIES. Disguised a Friend to Look Like the Uncle, Made Him Pretend to be Dying, and Had Old Man's Notary Draw Up Power of Attorney. Paris, Dee. 2. Marcel Lamellae:, aged seventeen, has been sentenced at - Nancy to eighteen months' hard labor, and a fellow -student, Emile Vincent, to three years' penal servitude, for de- frauding Laurent's uncle, who had prom- ised to keep a sharp eye on his wayward nephew. Marcel, after a few weeks at his uncle's house, discovered that the latter had £800 worth of stock at it certain bank. Knowhig thae every lateen:ten the uncle went to a cafe',Theetied Youths bought a white beard and wig, and Vin- cent succeeded in making himself up to look like M. Laurent. Then Marcel went to the unele'e notary and said: "My uncle is very ill and requires your presence this afternoon." The notary arrived. The door was opened to him by Marcee'who conduct- ed him to the supposed sick man's bed- room. The windows were closed and the curtains drawn, darkness being re - !hived only by a night light. In the bed lay Vincent, who in it feeble voice, brokeit with terrible fits of coughing, explained that he wished the notary to prepare a power of attorney to enable the nephew to draw the 1:800 worth of ;securities from the bank. The notary, who, in evidence to -day, seine was completely deceived and feared that his client might expire at any ntoment, drew up the document. The nepbew ob. Mined the securities, and deeided to go Lo Paris to negotiate them, when the notery accidentally exposed the plot by meeting one of et. Laurent's friends, and asking him if he were still alive. The youths were arrested at the sta- tion. MONACO PALACE SCORCHED. Pamous Old Pile Overlooking Meditet- tatean Greatly bamaged, Monte Carlo, Dee, 2. ----The, residence of the Prince of Monaco, the famous old Grimaldi Palaeo, whielt is beautifully sit - netted Opou a romantic hilltop overlook- ing the Stediterranean, was greatly dant- :lard by fire to -day. The Monaeo fire brigade was insufficient to fight the flamee, and the Monte Carlo and 'engine brigades were summoned. Together they quenched the Omuta after five hours' hard work. Paris, Dee. 2. -The nirship Righted ono- Ireland yesterday, Lit Nark. practically given up us lost. An inquiry %to its meat* has begun. Nkr one was carried off by La Dario,