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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-04-09, Page 7CAMPBELLBANNERMAN RESIGNS. Herbert t As4tdtk to. Succeed Him -Britain Without Premier or Cabinet. London, April 0. -Great Britain to. Canlpheli•Ilannermau Ives cliweit by night is la a peculiar position, helogtli� &moue vote of the party to Ise ‘vitl'°°1t dtb" rromier " '..‘11°18137' The Still inrcire troublous times were ifl long-exPected resignation el IfettrY store for the Liberals. at the begianieg CampbellsBnu aerman, the Prime' allele- of the Boer war, which made the bit- ter, wee offieielly antreunced to -night. A•ccerding to the Court Circular he re- eigned on the urgent recommendation of 11tedical aavieers, and it$ the con - harness between the Imperialtstie and Radical groups more acute than ever. A lees resolute man would have thrown up the teak M despair, but Sir Henry stuck to his"poet, over ;watching for an twee- atitution of the country provides 1101.81011 to lead,st temporarily milted party antornatio successor, it meting, with the Iva annisat Btlaiveargaeoiviniitk ineente. d but ho wver Tang to choose a new heed ot Um GeV. host his head eider the gAttest provoea. ernmant, and la accordance with -custom tion„ and in the face of the Whig criti- cism of Mr, Joseph Cheauberlaen, he maintained. kia self-resteaint. Cipbell-Banuerman: boom° Prime Minister in December, 1905. Office geve "C. -B." additional strength and firmness, and the way in. whieli lie controlled and swayed his huge majority. impressed all Paeliamentarlarts, so that there was no longer any tendency to naderrate ability. He quickly establishet himself in the affections, of the riew House of Commons, and. the expression of his inere wish counted for much. end precedent the whole Cebtnet re• Ogee. with the Premier, uo step to ap- point a 'Ministry can be taken until Henry IL Asquith, the Chance:11er a the Exchequer, who has bou sionmonea to Biarritz for the purpose, has Seen the Xing. The position of the country is quite upprecedented, there, being no previous example of a, change occurring in the Prennershir while the Sovereign ivas abroad, On this aceount there is. some doubts as to the course of premiere to be followed, Sir Henry's Condition Unehanged, Sir Henry's condition remains un- thangea, according to the physician's bulletin posted to -day. Yesterday -it was stated that there was seine hope of the aged statesman's ultimate recovery thougk it was admitted. that convalesc- ence, even under the most favorable circumstances, will necessarily be slow. The King, in telegraphing his acceptance of the Premier's resignation, 'conveyed an expression of his regret and esteem, with best wishes for Sir Henry's recovery. Chancellor Asquith, who has been act- ing Ptemier for some time past, will leave for Biarritz probably to -morrow morning. At a Cabinet meeting this morning, specially he submitted the Premier's resignation, and the settle - (ion was fully dismissed. Although so long tietieipated, the actual onnouncement of the Premier's resignation had not been looked for for some dare yetand. comes somewhat an a surprise to the country, Sir Henry's condition had shown some improvement recently, and his resignetion Wes not due to any sudden impairment of his physical condition. On the contrary, among his friends his resignation. is regarded rather as a good sign and the doctors are more'hopeful of his recovery now that he is relieved from the anx- ieties of office. The House Will Adjourn. Monday, April 0, had been fixed for Mr. Asquith to move in the House of Commons the -second reading of the licensing bill, the measure that is re- garded as the most dangerous of all the Government bills to the Ministry's ten- ure of office. Under the changed condi- tions this debate probably will be postponed until after Easter, and an adjournment of Parliament moved to ,enable the Chancellor to proceed to Biarritz to kiss hands on his appoint- ment as Premier and 'submit his pro- posals for the reconstruction of the Cabinet. It may be inferred, that no More con- tentious business .will come before the 'House of Conunons until the new Min- isters are appointed. Speculation as to Cabinet Changes. Speculation in this matter is most active in all political centres to -night. It is regarded now as praatically cer- tain that David Lloyd -George' Presi- dent of the Board Of Trade, willsucceed *r. .111r. Asquith as. Chancellor, and that Sir Edward Grey wili retain his portfolio as Foreign Secretary, but nothing can be predicted with certainty. Among the interesting preaietions is that Winston Spencer Churchill, Under Secretary for the Colouies, will take the place of the Earl of Eight as Colonial Secretary, and Lord. Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Adinh•alty, will withdraw, iii order to accept some ether office. Mr. Asquith to -night reeolutely de- clined to be drawn iato any statement of the situation. The Passine of the Leader. The resignation of Sir Henry Camp- bell -Bannerman, the firet Liberal Prime Minister of England eince Lord Rose- bery gave up office in 1895, has its dra- matic phase, for as he passes from the stage the mixed forces which he held to- gether as a patty- seem daily to be ex- periencing more and more difficulty in continuing the compromise which united. them two years ago. , The Campbell - Bannerman Goveenment, it has been stated, combined too many factions and to many fads. All the elements of op- position to Conservatism and of discon- tent united to make (+amnion cause against the old Government, and when joined together in an administration, a working team a Home Rulers, Labor- ites, Socialists, Liberals, Imperialists and Liti Little Englanders was found nigh in - possible. But it speaks much for 'Camp. bell-Bannermat's leadership that this disintegration of his party went on so Too Xinde/ieerted. Sir Henry made no pretensions to ore - tory, and be was not a ready debater, but when he had time for preparation ee could make an excellent speech, hap- pily phrased and with damming, though nearly always goodelitunored, hits at Ids adversaries. He commanded the affec- tion of the Labor party, if not its adher- ence, If his followers inaae any com- plaint it was that he was too kind-heart- ed, and inclined to take a rather senti- mental view of aoelal. problems. Unlike many stetemen of lue years,. he was ready to welcome youthfal talent,. and the younger members of the admitustra- tioa fouud in him support and. encour- ageinent. He toot: a fatherly pride in hie proteges. He •listoned to Winston Churchill beamingly, and when the Un- der Secretary took his seat after a speech reworded him by a paternal pat on the back. If historiaas do not call Sir Henry Campbell-Bannernme one of the great Prime Ministers, they must describe him as a wise and witty man, particularly human, of keen common sense, and great political sagacity, -which at times rose to the plane of high statesmanship.. BRITISH CABINET. Discussing Changes Necessitated by Prernier's Resignation. London, April 0. -An informal confer - me of Ministers under the presidency of Herbert H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was held prior to the com- mencement of to -day's sitting of Parlia- ment. David Lloyd -George, President of the Board of Trade, is still a favorite for the chancellorship, although Mr. Hal- dane, who shares the liberal imperialist tendenciea of Mr. Asquith, is understood" to be a candidate for the same portfolio. acre is nothing known definitely, how- ever, about the various assignments, as Asquith will retain the chancellorship until tlie budget has been introduced after the Easter recess; Shoidd Mr. Bit- rell, the Chief Secretary for Island, be slated for a change of office, it is an pen secret that John Burns,,nOw Presi- dent of the Local Government Board, will replace Mr. Birrell as head of the Irish office. It seems likely that Lewis Harcourt will be included hi the new Cabinet, and. the name of Winston Churchill also fig- , ures in most, of the new Cabinet lists. rhe elevation of Churchill would involve an election from the Manchester Constit- uency, with considerable possibility of defeat, which would necessitate finding a Radical compliant enough to give up a safe seat to which Churchill could be • elected. It is undisnuted that the ex -Premier's tact and popularity were the moral bead holding together the influential but somewhat discordant elements which have been impower up to this time. COAL TROUBLE. Convention Called for This 'After. noon to Consider Matter. Iudianapolis, Ind., April 0. -Coal oper- ators and representatives of the United States Mine Workers of .America in the central competitive field, consisting of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. and Illinois, will meet here this after- noon, to consider a proposition made by the miners' organization, through Presi- dent Lewis, to issue a call for a joint wage convention to rehabitete the inter- state agreement and if necessary to fix much more slosvly befth ore e attack of a date for the resunIption of bituminous heart trouble which overcame him last i mines, pending the settlement of a 'wage fall in Bristol, where lie had gone to f seen,. make a political speech, and removed 1• • * ' him from the possibility of active lead- ership. BREAK WITH LABOR UNIONS. -. Father of the House of Commons. C. P. R. Have Made Announcement That Sir Henry was not only the leader of , Causes Excitement. the House of Commons, bue also ite . . father, for he represented. Stirling with inn Pacific Railway has deckled to Winnipeg, Man. April 5. -The Caned - out interruption ever since he entered 1 a mem- , the House in 1868 at the age of thirty- i break with unions width have two. ! bership in the metal trades employed. in He had it varied eiGovern- eperience n: the Canadian Pacific Railway shops, The ! merit, holding the positions of finaheial company. has abrogated the agreemeat entered into last September giving a secretarysto the War Office twice, sore., 1 1 moiethes notice to. the unions from ties tary to the Admiralty, twice Secretary 1 great lakes to the Pacific coast, While of State for War, and for a brief time, ! the company asserts no teduetion in in 1884-5,Chief Secretary for Ireland. At ; ways nor increase in hours w'all follow, that trying period the Irish membere ; the unions have called a meeting front were devoting all their efforts to mak- 1 , all over the system Ana will appeal to ing that office almost untenable, but ! , the board of conciliation of the labor Campbell-13ennerman met all their at !depa.riatteuts at 'Ottawa to negotiate. taeks with unfailing good humor and ! Thousands of menare affected. ready wit, He came more promineetly before the publie eye when he. took office as Seem- t • TIME BY WIRELESS. taiy for War hi aladstone't last Gov. , eminent. Ilie great administrative feta i Proposal to Seed It to All Shirai was to persuade the Puke of Cembridge 1 at Sea, • mal --11(-°"n" Paris, Apra 6. -If the' proposal pre - to resign the position of co a 1 ehief of the army. The Duke was ex- . sented to the French Aeademy of Sol- tremely reluctant tn retire, but Int yield- ence this week by Bougnet de La Grye ed to the War Miaiater's tattfttil pres- be ndopted, the Eiffel Towed will piny sure and resigned. Four hours after suell a important role in the world'e the formalities had been eompleted and 'shipping that wreelte through miseelcu. the necessary doeunients signed the Lib- Wien of longtitucle will hereafter be rendered impossible. The venerable savent proposes to equip the tower so that it can send the exact time Recotding to the mei+ evil Government was defeated on the eordite vote and. resigned. The Duke then wiehed to retraet his decision, but it was too late. Itlfertglan waves completely Around the world. By a prearranged signal either noon or midnight weuld be in- dloated and shipa would time bo able to regulate their own chronometers aud loam their exeet lonstitudo with less denger of maklug mistakes. The proposal hes already been ac- cepted in prineiple, and experiments will first be undertaken with the enn- cameo of Froneb, ships in both the .44tiantie and the Mediterranean. It is purposed to seed the hour of mideight according to Paris time, this beteg pre, ferable to noon, owing to the absence of loeal disturbance% ae Leader of the Opposithiti. diet) of either Paris ;or Greenwich to A long perioa nf depreQsion for the eeuv fillip in the world e.mippsd with Liberals followed, and when sir Willtam \Valdes.; telegraphy. Vernon Harcourt resigned tbe leaderahip Ibe saythat a wireleas plant of sa- nt the party in February, 1800, Sir Hen- fitiatit force can be established to send ANNA GOULD. Public Appearance With Prince Helie Regarded as Mutiny, New York, April 6. --The Sluettuttipg love affairs of Mine, Anna Gould and Prince Ilene de Sagan, whose court- ship of the divorced wife of his mein, count Boni de Castellano, has hung in the balance ever since Mme, Gottla's brother Edwin joined the other members of the Gould family in opposing the marriege, took it tura decisively in favor of the prince to -day, when Mme, Gould consented to their public appearance together for the first time since their arrival in New York. After receiving a call from Edwin, and listening to his pleas that she give over the prince, Mule. Gould left her apartments at the Hotel St. Regis at half -past two in the afternoon, Room - panted by Mr, and Mrs, Tyler Morse and Isidore Morse, and proceeded, to the' Hotel Plaza, where she had. luncheon with the prince. When she' returned to the St. Regis, an hour and a half later, it eves in the compeny of her suitor. The pair remained alone together for several hours, This meeting, occurring only a scant half hour after a long ses- sion with Edwin, was evidently pre- arranged, and is regarded as a direct slap ttt. her favorite brother's opposition to Ilelie's suit as well as that offered by the family in general. • • 4. LISBON RIOT. Streets Ran Red With Blood -Shot Down by Troops. Lisbon, April 0. -The city is in state of intense excitement over the riots of last night, resulting from the indignant protest of the Republican element that it would be defrauded at the polls'. Cav- alry and infantry were called•from their barracks and charged the multitude. As the troops advanced they were met by showersd of stones. The soldiers charge repeatedly, finally opening fire on the mob. Intense disorder ensued. One ob- server says the streets were 'Remaly red with blood. No official statement of the ninnber of killed and wounded has yet been issued, and pending authority from Government sources, no unofficial or press statement is pernatted to be telegraphed. Yollosving the bloody street affray, three newspapers, the organs of the Francoists, the Regenerators and the Na- tionalist,were mobbed. The crowd fin- ally fled in terror to their homes, the cavalry pursuing the groups through the streets and dispersing( them as they sotight to.re-forin at the street corner. OUT OF WORK. 200,000 Philadelphia Unemployed Asked For Help. Philadelphia, April 6. -The City Coen- eil will be asked this week to appropri- ate not less than $50,0,00 to relieve the distress among the •. - unemployed and their familiee. according to --action, taken -yesterday at a meethig of the unemploy- ed. •• A. committee was appointed to ge before:the CoanciPs finance comMittee and. impress that body with the fact that more than 200,000 persons are out of work. Mayor Reyburn has issued, a call for a meeting of the citizens' permanent re- lief committee to -morrow to consider re- lieving the -distress. • MAY BE TROUBLE Over Assault by laps in U. S. Con- sulate at Mukden. Mukderi, April. 0. -Four japanese eu- tered the United States Consulate to- day and brutally attacked the native staff in revengefor a private spite. Con- sul -General Straight made a requisition on the Chineae police and the Japanese were anested and taken to the Japan- ese Consulate. No apology ims yet been offered and it is probable that the mat- ter Will he made a subject of diplomatic motion. BURIED IN RUINS. Eight Taken Out Dead and 20 Hurt --Twelve Missing. London, April G, -Two old tenement houses in Castle street, Oxford) collapsed early this nforning as the result, it is supposed, o a pee exploeion. It is be- lieved that forty people, mostlyGermae waiters, are buried in the debris. At 6 o'cloeit four bodies and 20 injure& per- sons had been removed from the ruins. Up to noon eight bake had bon taken front the Castle streat tenement.% and it was believed, that several others are still buried in-2alte debris. Twenty persons have been taken out alive and strangely none is serionsly injured. The accident width was at first thought to be due to an explosion of gas, now turns out to have been caused through the foundations of the structures being wee- Is.ened by the exeavations for a new Wilding adjoining, MONElt -FOR THE SAMEYS, The PUMA Atconitts Conitnittee May Investigate, Toronto, April 0, -Liberal inembera in the Palle Amounts Committee of the Legislature may devote eome attention this week to Government payntente to Wi Geniey, IT. Gainey and Joseph Gemey. These payments were nearly all made In connection With eolonitrition roads, and eniount to aeveral thousand dollars. Oa rriday a return was placed int the table .explaining these payments. NEWSIEW STRIKE CAUSES TROUBLE, LIVELY SGENES ON TORONTO'S STREETS SATURDAY MORT, Street Oar Was. Attacked, gala Copies .of Sunday World Scattered Along Pavement -*Cause of the Trouble Was Recision to Advance Price - .0f Paper to the NeWebOY0- "We're all out an strike, We'ee all out on kitrike We won't sell the laanday World; We're all (Mt On strike."' Toronto, April 0. ---This refrain,: sung lustily by tango sores of "newsies," as they marched through, the streets in tlye downtown portion of the eitee told. many ,e,itatizacr4la iitt;41:::ghtth.ey weald be unable to purchese thole tenuel Sunday paper on The strike of newsboys declared on ifriday as a protest against the ad - tauten% of the wholesale price of The Sunday World,which meant a cutting (Iowa of the boy' profits, assumed emnewhat serioue proportions when that paper WaS put on the street, and. when toeee and threats were used to restrict the sale of the peblieittion. `Thirteen arrests were made, The de- cisive action taken by- the newsboys of the city had more or lees effect on the circulation of the pepers Witilut the downtown streets, particularly near King and Yonism etreats, close to the office of publication, were the stornt centre, there were some serious clash- es in the outskirts RI the city, at branch offices and on the routes between the boys and men in charge of convey- ances. There was spine stone -throwing' at. Yonge and Ring streets,. where coeple of full-grown Irma were stationed. with a bundle Of papers, and were prepared to sell; bei»g aecorded special police protection, . There would have been serious damage to property had not Chief Constable Grassett and Deputy, Chief Stark beenprepared for the emergency, and. hads Plenty of men .on hand to acep the crowd moving. :A lad who carried a sign was stopped by the police just before 8 o'clock, and this action precipitated, a small riot. Then the automobiles and express wag- ons which were to eonvey the papers to news dealers put in an appearance, and the police took stePs to keep the -crowd moving. One or two refused to go, and it shower of stones was the signal for a` rush by the offices. Policeman Yonug, who was in plain clothes, was struck ou the head with it stone, and at once some tbree' garotte; Were made. For roughly mann eitizens who bought copies of The Sunday World others were taken into custody and emit over to the Court street station, One man hail his hat smashed and hie clothes torn. by the crowd .of neweboys and sympathizerswho followed the. prison- ers to the police station and made a demonstration in front of the building on Court etreet. With it wild yell thirtyor forty newsboys of all ages and Sizes charged the rear platform of a Queen street car et the corner of Queen and McCain streets shortly after 9 o'clock, and after a right royal scuffle with the bewildered ear comb:apt., succeeded in dragging off a big bundle of pepers, • At the corner of Queen and. Bathurst streets it delivery wagon with -Sunday Worlds wee overturned and the papers scattered. to the four winds. Some stores were .even entered and the .papers taken away. What the outcome of the teoulde be the boys cannot say, het an effort will be made to get them together and discuss- the matter in it mass meeting, as was done game years ago, when eerioue trouble was threatened: JAPS DESERTED. THIRTY-TWO ESCAPED FROM BAR- RACKS eAT TOKIO. Returned _Next Day During Shower of Rain and Sleet -Brutality in the Army -Youth Flogged to Death With Wire Rope. , Tokio, April 5.-A somewhat remark- able ineidenb, probably eueprecedented in' this country, occurred reeently when thirty-two soldiers belonging to the First infantry regiment of the first Tokio division deserted in it body. At 9.30 at night the men in company for- mation left the barracks by the rear gate. The sentry .mado he thought that prevent them, because he thought that tiheesy were goipg out for night =nom - v . In due course the regimental authori- ties instituted a, search for the missing men, but without effect. At 6 o'clock the following evening the men returned to quarters during a heavy downpour of ram and "sleet. Soon after leaving ,the barraeks the deserters sent it letter to Major Fulseda requesting an. interview, which" was accorded. The Major very gently„reprimanded them for their mis- conduct .and led them back to their bar - reeks. There the deserters were plated under arrest and an inquiry instituted, .1t is understood the men were dissat- isfied with' their treatment at the heeds of a lieutenant, Inokuma, who' had late- ly been subjecting theni to an imustial- ly severe courae of physical training on the ground that they were the poorest men in the regiment. Ninnerous instanc- es, of brutality in the army lave been re-. cOrded dining the; list six months. One of the worst cases Was at Yokos- uka, where it young private was sus- pended from the ;oiling, ,a towel staffed down his throat to stifle his odes aed it tenable flogging administered with wire rope. The matt died from his injur- ies; The petty officers were onteneed to a few years' imprisonment, • • 4 • 40, • SIX MONTHS AND LASHES. One of the Sentences Imposed at the Toronto Sessions. street restaurant, was sent to the Cen- tral for eighteen mouths. An old man of infirm mind, Thomas Hanley by mine, who was said to have destroyed tonne property, was aentenced to, six omnths, Gilbert Nelson, a moliorman, who was convicted of crintinal negligence moulting in the death of a hack driver maned John. Goodall, was allowed to go on sus. vended. senteuce. Rupert Baseman, who notate() per- jury in giving evidence in support of an action for damages he brought against the Toronto Street Hallway, was given three menthe in jail. 4e. - TOOK OUT HEART. Stitched Up the Wound 13etwecu Heart Beats. Young Athltto Stalked la a Quarrel tlije Street. New -York, April 0,-The...World to- day says: With a knife wound in his heart that was every minute bringlag hint nearer death, Robert Inglis, a young athlete of Yonkers, was taken to Si. doeeph's Hospital in that city, and with- in fifteen unnutee was on the operating table wile& the surgeons opened his breas't, lifted 0111-• the beart, put three stitches in it, and replaced the °igen. A few hours later thepatient was able to tails, and the physicians said that his recovery was possibleealthough bits con- dition was still considered extremely critical with the chanos against him. • Inglis received his wound following a wordy altercetIon with three strangers on the street, The hospital happened to be nearby and the injured man was flurried, to it. The stitches hed to be made when the -heart was distended or between beats, as, hod they been taken when the organ wag contracted, they wbuld have been torn away when the heart swelled again with blood, Removal., of a portion of two ribs' on the left sole was.iiecessary before the heart could be taken out. The stitches were made with catgut. Inglis, when 'be recoveted consciousness, iden- tified Powel Forninsky, whom the police had arrested, as the man who had as- saulted him, • Toronto, April 0.-A large amber of eonvieted prisoners appeared before Judge Winchester in the Sessions on, Settirdagto be seatenced. Upon Minya Eatwarksii the ItueMan Jew who was found guilty of assault on a thirteen - year -old girl, his Honor imposed seta tome of nin months in the Central and twenty lashes, ten to he given two weeks after his admittance and the remainder four months later. &mutt Nitikle, an Austrian Jew, WAS seta to the Cen- tral for twelve months for endeavor- ing to obtain motley under false pre. tomes, Emittio Carinone, it young Italian, was senteneed to eighteen months' imprison - merit for having wounded his parents with a knife. J. Fleming, the young Rnglishtnan who shot at his sweetheart in a Xing BUFFALO MAN SHOT. Fires Revolver at Friend's Head in Restaurant, Buffalo, April 0, -Harry Tisdale, of No. 70 East Eagle street, walked into a restaurant at Broadway and Ellicott streets yesterday afternoon and with- oitt. speaking a word shot Richard Mac - Rooney, 43 years old, of No. 94 Broad- way, in the head. Tisdale was placed. un- der arrest by Patrolman Jacob. Traxes, of the Pearlstreet station, Maeltooney was taken to the Emergency liospital„ where the wound, which was. not serious, was dressed. LOST lig' .140Mt. Thorola Young Man Arrested Charged With Arson. St. .Catharines, Ont., April .0.-1'ire completely destroyed the home of 1st= WilIz(Chappell street, Thorold, on Sun- day morning about 1 -o'clock. The fire was believed to be of incendiary' origin, and Chief of Pollee Shea itt once set to work to find the guilty party. In the afternoon he took into custody Alex. Wills, a son of the man who owned the *property, and he is now awaiting his trial on 0.chargeof arson: TOOK POISON. Sad End of a Woollen Worker at the Village of Blair. Guelph, Out, April 0.. -By taking a dose of strycheine on Saturday night, Charles Hubner ended hie life at Blair. Hitbner was it woollen worker, and had been aegotiating with others for a mill therm Time negotiation fell through, and it i$ thought this preyed epon him and resulted in his rash act. Ills wife lives in this city. There are two sons and ene daughter. • • B. C. WATER RIGHTS. Case of Great Impoitance to Proviteial Industries. • • Vancouver, April 5. -The great legal battle over the rights of the Domin- ion v. the Province to eontrol the ,strehms •within the Dominion railway beat in British Columbia is now pro- ereseing. The Province granted a weter right of 25,000 miners' Indies to the Burrard Power Company, which proposes to build a dam on the lower Lillooet Lake, The fisheries officials - gave evidence on Saturday that the clam proposed would seriously injute tbu li'raser fisheries, preventing the salmon, from reaching this spawning grounds. justice 'Martin said on Saturday, 00.00 riot only affected 0. P. R. lands adlaeent, but also 3,500,000 acres Of -Dominion Lands hi Petite River district, the two great indostries of the Province, lumbering and fishing. T to hearing prOMiSes to be protrasete.d. BOTIND FOR DEVIVS ISLAND, KU McManus is Badly Wanted by 'French Government, Moetreal, April 0.-K1d McManus wanted in France to answer to a eharge of having been implicated in the rob- bing of $12,000 in cash and cheques froni a vomit in the office of the American Express Company, in Paris in 1001, will have to fight against extradition. Thi wes decided Saturday. It will probably mean a Ufa sentence on Devil's Wand. Both his accomplices iut the express robbery were sent there, though one of them, Eddie Guerin, an eseaped, Three Cars Left Track. St. !Catharines, April rye -Traffic on the west bound treek of the Grand Trunk Railway was bloated for it couple hours this afternoon by a slight runtish - up. About, half .inist two o'clock two ,engineet altaehed to tome empty coal ma whizzed peat the local etation. Half- way between here and Jordan three ears left the track and piled up. Word was Rent to Niagara Valls and the anSiliary WaS qtlield„y ori the wile and replaced the 'WS Ori the railS, NO One WaSt hint; ARREST OF POLICE. Four Philadelphians Charged With Thefts on Their Beats, Man Confesses That -They HkI the Stuff in His Place. Philadelphia, April 0.4 -The sensation caused hero by the arresi of four police- men,. Charged with being in a conspir- acy to rob properties on the beats which they patrolled was followed last night by the surrender to the city offleiels of William A, Frost, who Is said to be one of the prineipale in the eouspiracy. Frost ie a plumber who litis a, place of busi- ness, in the wholesale distriet whore the accused policemen were on duty ab night, In his confession Prost says that the policemen and Harry Rothenberger, through wliose arrest the couspiracy was discovered, usea his plRee as a rendez- vous, It was there that the stolen goods were taken and divide& Such aft the pelieemen did not want or could not use was left in Ins hands to be disposed of. Frost admits that lie actively assisted in some of the robberies, according to the officials, who say that the goods re- covered from the homes of the accused, together with articles whiclu they have traced, are valued at upwards of $15,000. Ikekenbill and Sithe' ns two of the po• !icemen, are said to. have confessed. The others refuse to make any state - merit, Nothiug seems to have been too largo or too small for the policemen to carry away. Ainoug the articles recov- ered and now at police headquarters are rolls of carpet, enattings, gas stoves, netts of cloth, tinware, hardware, ice cream freezers, a collection of Panama hats, laces, gloves, fancy groceries and even patent medicines. It is said. other arrests will follow. Another Outrade New York, April 6, -:Efforts to destroy the pier and equipment used by the MeClintic-Pdarshall Construction Company in con- structing a new pier for the White Star line at West ieth street were made last night. Two bombs were expleded with little effect, although the force of tht, explosion aroused thousands from sleep, and drew a large crowd to the place. The bombs were placed at the west side of the pier, A hoisting boiler was exploded, and a big locomotive crane, which was in use, on a temporary track on the pier, was demolished. There was no one near the place when the explosion occurred, and no one was injured. A fire proof- ing tug was alongside the pier, and several men were on board, but the tug was not damaged. WANTON MURDER. Young Girl Shot by Man Who Then Suicided. • Pittsburg, April (le -Stoned L. Gard- ner, it prominent resident, Church ave- nue, McKee's Rock, asuburb of this city, shot and killed Dorothy 13ra,dley, 10 years old, and then flied a bullet through his bead to -day, probably ,fat - Ally Deering himself. Gardner, who is 50 years old, was for several years borough engineer, and with the change of administration he lost las position last month, He is said to have been brooding since that time. Dorothy Bradley resided next door. 'The police are investigating. CENTRE OF THE EMPIRE Will Move, to Canada,' Says Belford J. ' Mackinder. London, April 5. -Halford John Mac - kinder, the well knoten geographer, pre- dicted the doom of Britain as the centre of the British Empire in a lecture deliv- ered before the Royal Geographical Seca ety this week, He considers that a great world, move- ment is 110W taking place which is likely to take from the United Kingdom .the predominant importance it now enjoys. En another generation, according to President Maskincler, the economic cen- tre of the British Empire will be found in Canada. Should Canada still remain a part of the empire, the position of the British Islas will continue to be of importance, but it will be of importance chiefly on its position as a defence of Canada against the great continental powers. With the gradual increese of Canada's resources, England would have some of the characteristics of ut flying base in naval strategy. • • - MISS ROOSEVELT, ENGINEER, President's Daughter Holds Throttle at ,to Miles an Hour. Atlanta, Ga., April 5. -Miss Ethel. Roosevelt, daughter of the President, held the throttle of the Atlanta and Wesb Point limited., when it steamed into the terminal etatioli tit noon to - nay, She had ben its engine driver all the way from Newman, thirty- six nines down the road, at the tette of 60 miles an hour. Mrs. Hoosevelt awl four of her c1uildren-1410cl, Kers mit, Quentin and Archie -Miss Hagar awl Miss Landon were be a private ear on the traim returning from it visit to New Orions. A NUMBER OF TREATIES. Settlement of Diffieulties Between Canada and IT„ S. Washington, April 6. --What k re- garded as satishietory pregress is being made hi the negotiations between unitod States Secretary of 'State Rod and Ambassador Bryce in embracing in treaties the levels of Settlement of the VariOttS questions Whiell 114143 existed. for SOMe time between tbe 'United States and 'Canada. in this way there ie reason to believe that several web treMie tfll he W31,411111 ted to the 1 eerie te for Re approval at 11n. preqmil session ef Cougreas. The one quention which Beeln8 in be fatiodng the greatest diffionIty is the regulation of Niagara River. Yellowing the thalamus of Canada, Ambassador Bryce is holding out for eommismion 011this question, the decisioti of wide!: shell he .eonelueive and not subleet to review of auy fort after it has Wan pro- mulgated. Seeretary Root, however, is prevented by the emistitution from ae- cepting this proposition, ' ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Asleep 61 Days Los Angeles, Cal., April 6. -*-1403, 1 Beulah. Hawkins has completed the 6xst day ef a sleep that has pus, ;led and baffled the many physi., clans who have investigated her case. She shows no sign of awak- ing, and but little hope for her recovery is entertained, A, gradual loss of weight which first followed her removal to the hospital has been regained except for three peunds. It is generally believed that Mrs. Hawkins is at times conscious of what is going on about her, and that frequent fluttering of her eyelids indicate a desire to shake off the trance which has been medically described as cataleptic insanity. MRS. HUNTER. DEAD. Mother of the Well Known Metho- dist Evangelist. --- St. Thomas, April 6. -Mrs. Nancy Hunter, mother of Rev. J. E. Hunter, the evangelist, passed away on Sate urclay night, after it lingering illness. She was born in Ireland. 78 years ago and came to, Canada when three • years old. She is survived by two sons aud, three daughters, Rev. 3, E. Hunter, Tor-nto; Edward Alberta, Mrs, Han- cock, Woodstock; Mrs. Spencer and another daughter in Montana,. • • • WANTS RAILWAY. Guelph Mayor Favors Hamilton & Guelph Road. Guelph, April an interview this morning Mayor Newstead strongly fev- ered the C. P. R. Connection with the Hamilton & Guelph Junction Railway, or e radial conneetion, such as has been proposed. "Gefelpa cannot expand as a hermit city," he said. "We cannot live within ourselves and support. Either scheme ehould have the support of the eb tizens. • • * A PRINCESS AT SCHOOL. Nary of Wales to be Cured- of Shyness. New York, April 5. -The Herald has received the following cable despateh from Lendon: Princess Mary of Watles, like her two brothers, is to be sent to school instead. of being educated private- ly. This great departure from tradition in the case of the ladies of the metal family is due to the desire of the Prin- cess of Wales that her family should be free from the painful shyness that makes the lives of some other members of the royal family something of a torture. , The Princess holds that this excessive self-consciousness is due to the private education of the royal children; and that it can only be avoided by bringing the royal children into free contact with their contemporaries. The Ring and Queen fully approve of this departure, as they are quite conscious of the harm that has been done to some members of their own family by unnecessary seclu- sion and exclusiveness. SHOT DOWN LISBON RIOTERS. Disorder Broke Out in Different Pads of City. Lisbon, April 5. -The elections here to -day, which were conducted peaceably with the exception of minor disorders in smile of the disaffected districts,were followed to -night by serious rioting, which was ouly put down by most vig- orous action, on the part of the police and the troop. The rioting broke out in different parts of the city, as though by a pre concerted plan. Troops which had been • patrolling, and others that had been held in reserve, were immediately ordered in- to action, and they repeatedly charged the mobs, that in places filled the streets, but without effect. The rioters used clubs, stones and whatever other weapons were at hand, end finally the troops -were obligee to fire upon them, killing and weunding, a number. a••••••••••rr JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES. How Editors, of Native Papers in Mo- rocco Address One Another. ' London, April 6. -They have native papers even in Morocco and the rival Sultans have their press organs. A Fez ,journal that in supporting Mutat Hand has been having a wordy war- fare with it Tangier contemporary, whieli champions Adbul Atiz. A copy of the' Fez paper, just received, thus adaiesses its colleague of Tangier : - "What thou wryest, 0 little dog of dogs, is aksolattely false. See rather, 0 hoar of boars, what is said in the English ;t3apers, Thou sa,yest, 0 ass of tisses, •etc. • --ease•-- DIED A MILLI01fAIRE. Prince Edward County By Who Became St. Louis IVIerthant. St. Louis, April 5. -The death took plate to -day of Millionaire Byron Nu- gent, who was born at Marysberg, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Ito was edneated at the Friends' Seminary, Pic - ton, Ont., and at 'Victoria College, Co- botrg. Re began his dry goods eareer at, St. Thomas, Ont., +coming bete many years ago. 4, 4 Travelled in Male Attire. Reading, Pa., April S. -Jennie Van Vliek, of Kingston, Y., and Edward Major were arrestea by the police here to -day, the woman disguised in male at- tire. Major is wanted by the authori- ties of Saugertis, N. Y.. on the eharge of horse Stealing. Not until the pair fell into the hands of the pollee WAS the wo- mat's sex revealed. She wild she hut ton traveling bit aisgelee for several weeks, stolen elle and her eompamen foetid this a more eenvenient and dime- er manner to traYeL TRIP Win DOGS. From Nome to New York in los Than Two and, a Half Years, New York, April 0.--T1e Herat ewer Wimut se;veu Alasken dogs, drawing An Alaskan sledge on wheels, trotted iota ttity Hall :Park late yesterday after- noon, their driver, Bit A, Smith, tont- pleted probably the longest dog sledge trip on record, and won a wager, sant to be for $19,000, of nearly three yore' standing. Smith was Governmeut mail driver in 'Alaska. When he stepped in to visit Mayor McClellan yesterday, No had completed, he .Ymid„ a trip entirely by feria from Nome, finiebing it in a InOlith, leas than two years And it half. Smith's regulerity in making his mail trips through the wilds and enews of Alaska, with doge as a •mative power, reeulted finally ia a wager lyeing• mule that he could make it try with liJaOat- fit to New York from NORe in two Anil one•balf years. 601.1131, has won by one day short of a month. lie received from the Mayor au autograph letter certifying to his ar- rival New York. WIRELESS AND LIGHT A PROBLEM WHICH MARCONI HAS 'YET TO sorivg. Tranemission Across Atlantic Hindered When Part of the Space Traversed by Waves is in Darkness and Other Part Light. London, April 6, -In 4 lecture deliver- ed recently at the Royal Institution Mr. Marconi detailed Om causes of the dif- ficulties and delays in connection with the establishment of an manterrupted wireless telegraphy service across the , Atlantic. One remarkably interesting fact Mr. Marconi recorded, "There exist," he remarked. "certain. periods, fortunetely of short duration, Whentransmission across the Atlantic is somewhat and. at times ineffective, unless an amount of energy greeter than that used at normal times is employed. These periods occur in tlm morning and eveping, when, owing to the differences in longtitude, day light or darkness ex- tends only part of the way across the Atlanbie. "Sometimes the receiving signals are weals anct cease altogether. It would. appear to nie as if illuminated spew possessed for electrio waves a different refractive index as compared with dark space, and that these waves 'May, in passing from one medium to another, be refracted mid reflected. In the same manner, perhaps, an isolated storm area in the path of the aerial signals may bring about a consider- able weakening. Curiously enough, tee have noticed that if stormy weather pr•evails right across the Atlantic no perceptible interference with our sig- nals is noticeable. MAY MEAN WAR. Germany's Heavy Loans For Naval Purposes. London, April 6, -The news given out yesterday of the neer German and Prus- sian loans, amounting to $162,500,000, came as a surprise to London, and has resulted in much discussion and even in the expression of some distrust of the financial position of Germany. That loans amounting to $250,000,000 already have been footed necessary this year and that these loans are keeping pace with the greatly increased naval expenditures of Germany, interests Brit- ish financiers and the British public keenly, and some people are of the opin- ion that this financial acticity shows a tendency ultimately towards war. This, however, is ridiculed in other quarters. A MOTOR -CAR BURGLAR. Arrest of a Clever and Daring Thief at Marseilles. Paris, April 6.- The Marseilles police have arrested a man named Maurice Roussel, who is known fat glad wide in France as "the motor car burglar." Roussel, who was leaving Marseilles foe Buenos Ayres, is only thirty -WO years old, but hali during the last two years conunitted at least aeventy and.probably many more daring bur- glaries. lie had a magnificent 80-norsepower rnotor car, and his favorite victims were solicitors, country bankers and other people likely to have consider- able sums of money in their offices. Ho called in his motor car on these gentlemen in the day time on some small matter in which he pretended to reed their help, topic notes of the disposition of their °Hien, and in. the Coulee of the night removed what valuables he could find, and disap- peared. The police have known of 114s ex. isLenee 131 a long time. On fl.e night of February 20 he committed seven successful burglaries in and neat Chateau Thierry, getting away with ma: £3,000, and two days later he gat £600 out of one ofifee and robbed five others of lesser amount. DIAMOND -MAKER'S SECRET. Landoll 13aiik. Ordered to Surrender 00 Formula. London, April 6. -The Magistrate of. the Bow Street Police Court to -day is- sued an order to Um bank iit this city which holds the envelope alleged to eontain Rory Lealoyne's formula, for the mannfaeture of diamonds to sur- render this &pertinent to the French authorities demanding it. Le Moyne is under .orrest in Paris charged with ob- taining money under false pretences front Sir Julius Charles Wernher, of the De Bore Minitig Co, 'Ilia original &mend for the envelope in question wits made on alarelt •23, 81115,?. Willa time the Bow Street Magistrate has eonsulted. with the Home -Office,and as a reault iastied the order toalaste Couneel for the bank brusquely de,elined to obey the older. The Magistrate ad- mitted that he had not the pewee to 1 • emipei olai_lienc_4440,e, but lailtn,nated that 1 the matter would be taken before a • higher authority. - Vancouver,. April fi.-On Saturday night V.. Dyson Currier, a guest at the Badminton Hotel, was examining a Volt automatic revolver and lie& duntatv :shot himself,. being 'wounded put fully but not dangerously. The :tullet .passed through the side ;of the toreili, emerging neat the right .ear. Ceoriee came froin ()thieve Mid had beet. in Vancouver two years.