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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-05-14, Page 7TRAGEDIES .AT LAPME, ...."+",•••••• • Trying to Connect Lamphere With One of the Murders, Six Months Old Baby Said to Have Been a Victim, "Laporte lads May IL -Picking up the shred; a the evidence tending to oeolatieVh Ray Lamphere with the deaths ‘of Mrs, Gumless and her three children Una perhaps also of .Andrew llelgeleiti, is the main purpese of the euthorittis here toality. Whethei mearch for more bodies will be prosecuted has net been filially determioed, Sheriff Smutzer indicating yesterday that rintaer excavating may he postpaitte until to -morrow. The sher- iff hati found difficulty hi carrying on thie Work, because of the morbidly mil- ieus persons who have flocked to the place -where the ten corpse,. Were discov- ered htet week. On aaiaity the exec...lett- ing in the barnyard wee hindered ited ., 'Saturday it \VaS halted by the crowds. It is expected, however, that the number of visitors will be lessened to -day, some 15,000 persons having inspected the grounds yesterday. and presumably setts- • ifleat their curiosity, The' grand jury was to have met to, 'day to consider Lamphere's case, but this procedure has been postponed for a week. Experts who were called into the affair by Sheriff Smutzer advised this course, although Prosecuting Attor- ney Smith had announced that he was ready to go into vourt with the evidence at haud. Since then the case has been Strengthened by the discovery .of Lamp - here's trunk, containing several letters, width are said to establish his narticiPa- tion in the murder of Bele:Mein and by the information extracted from a num- ber of persons who were intimate en- ough with the prisoner to learn from him much °morning his relations with 111rs. Gumless. If the sifting and sluicing of the ashes in the cellar of the home results in the discovery of more evidence it is likely that the case will be pushed toward eonclusion rapidly. Prosecutor Smith is allXiOUS to bring Lamphere before a jury during the term of court which opens to -day, and will endeavor to clear the thicket of several minor cases already scheduled. The attitude of the defence has not ye e been indicated. The prisoner has received stringent orders from his attor- neys not to discuss the charges against tum, and the attorneys have not com- mitted themselves to any particular line of action. They have been, free in an- nouncing tImories to account for Lam- phere's actions before and following his arrest, and have also give out alleged evidence which they say establishes the fact that Mrs. Gunness, and not Lam- phere, set fire to the house._ The adult headless corpse found with the blackened bodies of the children was, the assert, that of another victim of the Gumless woman, the theory being that the head was severed by Mrs. Gumless in order that it might be thought that the body was hers. Thus far, however, efforts to substantiate the announce- ments by the defence have failed, several persons having repudiated interviews .itecredited to there by Lamphere's attar- neys, while the facts found by ..the four physicians- who performed post mortem examinations on the corpses do not .bear out the contentions of the defence. It • is ti night, however, Lainphere's attor- neys have concealed carefully the chief point upon which they will rely, en- deavoring meanwhile to swing public opinion in favor. of the prisoner. • Political and business friends of Lam- phere's attorney's have been busy dis- cussing the ease whenever opportunity offered, the argument being mainly that- Mrs..Gunness was to ebrewd a woman to be caught in a fire, and that she tenet have therefore escaped. Rigid Inestigaton. Laporte, Ind., May 11. -Lemuel Dar- row, Mayor of Laporte, after a confer- ence With prominent citizens. last night, declared that the investigation. into the Gumless murder mystery will be pushed with great vigor. , "Up to the present time," said the kayor, "there hes been only a lukewarm inquiry into the amhzing case. "By this time all the lakes in the vicinity Of the thinness tarn' should have been dragged. The pond back of the graveyard has not yet been investigated. it will be. Clear Lake and Fish Trap Lake, both west of the farm, will be • dragged. I suspect that more tragedies will. be discovered." Information obtained to -night seeme to add one more to the list at murders committed by Mrs. Bell thinness. This time the victim is a six -month-old baby. When the Gunivesses eame to Laporte in the summer of 1902, they brought :with them n..n infant, always supposed to have been their ot,:ei. b Novenber of the same year thechilddied. "1 have not the slightest deubt,' said lir. H. H. Martin to -night, "that the woman strangled the child," Dr. Martin told a correspondent that one day in November, 10O2 Mrs, thinness sent for him to come eo see the baby. "I responded," he said, "and found that while there was sonie indication of slight bronchial troubles,there was no symptom of any serious illness. The second day after that 1 was called at 2 o'clock in the forming to go out to the -Oneness place. I drove out there and found the child dead. It had all the symptims of death from oedema of the lungs, and that was the calm that I gave in the death ceitificate. Oedema, of the tangs means thateahe lungs have become filled. with .0,erunt or tome other throat diseharge and that the patient has thus been suite. eated. It is not at all an uncommon cause of death in infants. But in the light of what we -know of Mrs, Gun- ness to -day there is no doubt in my mind that the strangled or suffocated that child," • Dr. Martin is ono of those- who be. Hove that Belle iGunneets is still alive and that the woman's bo -ay found in the ruins of her burned home is that of still ono more victim of her lust for. blood. "Wasn't she running all around town like a wet hen the day before the fire," he demanded, "eomplaining 'of Lam- phere, her ex -paramour, having her wifl made ind saying she feared for her lif" Had Scar on °Kett. Chicago, May 11. ---John Larson, of ▪ Chicago, a nephew of Mts. Gumless, ex- pects to go to Laporte th-day or to- morrow to see if be can establish. beyond .tioulit whether Mrs. Gumless perished tti the flames of Ler home. "Mrs. Gunnees received an injury some 'ears ago," said Mr. Larson last night, "and the *ear yet eamains. It strstehes amiss the theta from left to, eight, in all about eight Wive in length. "When mother and 1 Went to Laporte at the tbmt of tee fire, owing to the confusion we eliel not look for the Fs= on lily aunt's body,. although mother knew it was there,. The sole 1 low positively well es on. the body of Mas, Geniuses,: and if the onein the undertake er's care at Laporte, which is believed to be the body of Mrs. Gunness„ has a scar on the chest, there is no doubt but whet it is her body." ••••••*IPT.4111.,/***.,P,RO FIVE CENTS. Firem- an's Refusal to Pay It Cost a Girl Her Life. 1%Tew York, Mays 11. -Annie Bates, a soma 'girl, 19 years old, was taken out alive from the flat house at Nee_ 214 East Sixteefifth street this more- ing, after a fire ben swept through it -from cellar to roof, She was burned badly about the head and arm and was uncouseloas, Battalion Chief Howe sent Fireman Dugan to call an ambulenee: The fireman wept to a saloon nearby and found the door open, He told the bartender that he wanted to use the telePhone to call an ambulauce for a dying woman. The bartender wanted 5 cents for the cell. Dugan said a rule of the telephone comptuny allowed firemen free use of the 'phone in CRS() of a fire. The bartender could not see it that way and insisted upon getting the money before the telephone Was used. It was more than half an hour be- fore the firemen got back and report- ed thathe bad been assaulted in the saloon after the door had been locked to keep him in. Ile said that the bar- tender had. pitched into • Illm and was helpeo by a dozen men who Were in the place. Then they opened the door and threw him out. An ambulanee .vv•as finally got from the Presbyterian Hospital, When it 'arrived Dr. Upton said the girl was dead. Chief Howe said her life might have been saved if an ambulance had got there sooner. The fire department has made' complaints to the police • de- partment and the matter will be in- vestigated. • ••• ROUTED TROOPS. --- Chinese Rebels Marching to Attack Town. Pekin, May 11. -News was received here to -day' of the progress of the revo- lutionary outbreak in Run Yen Prey - ince. Three thousand rebels in two col- umns -were marching on Meng-Tze, a treaty port at the head of navigation of the Songkoi River. A body of provincial troops met and repulsed one of the col - urns at Han -Hass on the Red River Sat. urday last; the other column which is following the railroad line has not been stepped and is now within thirty miles of Meng Tze, Viceroy Hsi Liang, at the haed of another body of Provincial troops has left 'Vim Nan Yu for And, 40 miles northwest of Mena Tze. • - * THE AMEER EXPLAINS, Has Recalled Subjects Who Crossed Into India. Simla, May 10. -After a long delay the 'Ameer of Afghnaistan has replied to the Indian Govermnent's remonstrance against the invasion of British territory by the Afghans. The Amer explains the difficulties of controlling the frontier tribes, and states that 11e has issued stringentorders recalling those who have crossed the border, and instructed the officials to prevent further incur- . 131°ns. Advices from Peshawur yesterday statedthat, while tee- alohmand tribes- men were' still _giving the British _au- thorities considerable trouble; the most of the Afghans bad withdrawn. Major- General Sir James Willcocks, with two brigades of British and Indian forces, has been ordered tat proceed with puni- dee measures, and will take the field at once against the Mohmands. . • • * A TITLED SOCIALIST. Ex -Mayor of. Cardiff Will Not Preach on Street Corners. . London, May 20. -The British,Social- ist is a, hard taskmaster. A year or so ago when the King visited Cardiff its Lord afeyor was William Creasman, a workingnem and a Socialist. The King eonferred the usual honor of knighthood, aid when his term :of Mayor was over Sir William resumed well: as the labor representative in the Trades Commit and the Operative Masons' Society, the former of 'which. contributes 30 of his munificent salary of 50 shillings a week. 'Apparently determined to get the most i.t can . for the money out of its only titled official, the Trades Council' now holds out its contalbution because Sir William refuses to preach the doctrines of Soeittlism on the street corners and in the parks on Sunday mornings and evenings.; declaring that lie will not de- part from his lifelong custom of attend- ing his own place of worship on that day. Sir William continues to maintain the dignity of knighthood on the masons' pound a week. ."4:. • es - SEEKING FEDERATION. South African Colohies Are Anatolie to Unite. Pretoria, May 10. -At the conference of the South African colonies 'on cus- toms and railways matters, a resolution was passea to the effect that the best interests and permanent prosperity of South Africa could only be secured by an _early union wider the British Crown, to. which Rhodesia should be admitted as soon as desirable. The vesolutien will be submitted to the varioue Legislee tures, and the necessary steps will be taken for the appointinent of delegates to a national SOuth African 'convention after the nexe session of all the Perna,- ments. Vehement opposition to the poliey of unifieatioit was. nmaifested by Natal. • • THE PLAGUE. Willemstad, May 11. -Thos, P. Mof- fatt, IL S. Consul at Le, Guaira, is in that city, without the means of com- municator' because of the plague, and, it is feared, without, the neeessities of • life. There is greet distress among the un- employed, the death Het is growing'and the whole town seems to IP Directed. VIED AT SEA. Cherbourg, May 1 1.-Toseph Lieeht, 0, first clans paseenger on the Meth German 'Lloyd eteamship Luteow, whiet arrived here yesterday, died during the voyage. Tt wfla steted that Mr, Licht was an American journal. let. • 600 IDLE, AT OWEN SOUND, O. P. R. 'FREIGHT BUSINESS, QOM. PLETELY TIED VP, Men Taken From Toronto Desert the Company as Soon as They Get There -Attempt to Unload Steam. el' Dundee Had to be AbandOrlec4 Owen Solna, UV We -There were few devekenneute in the strike elata. tion to -day. It is estimated. that with the three hundred 111011 %Vila are out On strike and the thew hundrea more mee which the Comedian racific (Jo,, brought up to eeplace• the strike el's, there are now abeet sie bundred. menidle, wetly half of whom are in needy aretunetenees and are being fed at the memo of the town. The 3.10 trate fee -Termite yesterday et- ternoon was boarded by over eeventy of the recent arrivals one they in- sisted on being taken thongh to 'Pe - Nato, not one of them haviug the.. price of a ticket. At Chatswo '41. they' declined to 1/10Ve from the setokieg ear, . which is a, combination of the baggage ear, for fear that if they took another car they would be left on the siding. Thej't were an orderly crowd, however, and tloy were taleen through. Last. ,evening tlee Northern Naviga- tion Company% et:owner slermanie was not permitted to take on or leave off freight at .the local belie sluele, but no interference was elude vratli her at her company's warehowee or at the Grand Trunk dock, where the settle is seventeen cents an hoot' and over This morning 'the 0, tx. la liner elanitoba arrived in. was al ow- ed, to land passengers, :Jut no attempt was made either to unload her or the steamsip Atbalrasea, though Sunday Ii as always' been one of the biteieee days in the 0. P. 11, throuen freight sheds. Yesterday afternoon tee comet:el at- temptea to get asettlement lea mak- ing the propositiou to increase the wages of the men to thirteen code an hour, with the two cents bones for it foranight's notice to quit, and foul' teen cents for Sunday and nightL With -the bones; also a flat rate of twenty cents an hour on coal and swain, the Toronto contingeets to be taken back to the city or elsewhere as was desired. The proposition WaS Sabillated. to Mayor Kennedy, a,s an intermediavy„ but after a brief con- sultation with the men the offer- was declined, in favor of the terms 'de- manded by the men, the restoration of last year's Tate and the retain ofathe strikers on the.,pay roll. To strengthen their position the men have made an offer to- the Toronto ,contingent to give them half their, pay until they are able to get but bf town. Owen Sound, May 11. -The strike uf the 0. P. R. handlers assumed serious proportions shortly after seven this morning. The 0. P. R. bad. about 00 special constables sworn in that tiny brought up from Toronto with Pro- vincial Detectiye Regors. The strikers hearing that an attempt was being made to begin work, hurried to the wharfs quite peaceably. Several of - the strikers were deputed topersuade the men whowere going to work to quit and the other strikers were stand% mg itt buifehes on the dock. •. Suddenly the .speoial constables fired upon them. A rush was made for the coal pile and the strikers used the coal so effectively that the constables return- ed inside the boats but not before five of them were seriously injured and one may not recover. . Among the strikers two had narrow escapes from being shot, the bullets going through their clothing, one. was shot in the foot, one in the shoulder and one through the calf of the leg. After the shooting, Mayor Kennedy read the Riot Act and both parties were invited to his office for a dis- cussion. . Mr. McMurchy, solicitor,. and Sup- erintendent Nelson represented the C. P. R., Mayor Kennedy represented the town and a committee of three representedthe strikers.- The meet- ing resulted in a disagreement. .The C. P'. R. suggested that the men go to work and leave the matter to be settled by the Government arbitrator, or ..to ,accept 15 cents day and .46 cents night for the season. The mem however, refused and are holding out for last season's figures, To the credit of the outsiders brought in by the C. P..R. they have stuck to the Owen Sound' contingeot, though tlie major- ity are destitute and are being carad for by the town. .The sympathies ol the citizens were. with the strikers. They hold that it is -preposterious put men to work for 12 cents per' hour, more particularlywhen the C„ P. Re is- eharging as high rates for freight as they did last year. ' RIFLE SHOOTING. • -- Militia Council to Offer. a Prize to Rifle 'Associations. Ottawa, May 1L -With a view to. greater encouragement of rifle sheet- ing among members of Canadian Rifle Associations; the Militia Council will of- fer an individual prize to be knowe as the "Dominion. of Canada Salver" to elle& gazetted and efficient association for competition during the season of 1008. Prize is a nickel silver ornamented salver, bearieg the Canadian coat -of. arms, competitors,nehat be members of the assoeiatiori they represent prior to .Tine 1st and the salver foe each rim - elation will be awarded the competitor who makes the highest aggregate wore for regular seasons shooting at all ranges fix.ed by rules governing compo. CAN'T KEEP OUT OPIUM. „Mita:elle Sacrificing k6o,000 a Year in the Attempt. Melbourne, May 11, -The Australian prohibition of the importation of opium ie it /race. Offiicialdom now frankly admits that it is btuffled bet an ingene ous, unstrupulous and desperate synth - este of European and Chinese smug- glers, who defy every preeaution, (nit- wit every detective, and are now nuk- ing fortunes otit of the 10,000 Chineee end $00 European victims of the Opium habit who live in tho Cam -Ob. The Customs Department officials have, of course, made seizures slime January 1, 1000, when the inmortation of °plain was forMddna 1 they have eeezed thousands of tons, proseented imerly 200 smugglers, and inflieted ponaltiee totalling over 43,000, llut their work, good att it is, hae to cheek the femora-it:am to any ma- terial extent, twel eannot succeed un less every passenger item, 'oversea -for opiumtentee from Atneriee and trope as well ns Irmo China -is per- monally searched before landing, at a cost to the taxpayer whieh no Govern- ment will fitee. The report of Dr. Wollaston, Comp. troller-Genera1 of Customs, to the Federal Minister,. Mr. Champ, shows that Australia, in its zeal for right- eousness, has sacrifieed 400,000 it year reveane and added considerably to the cost of Its Government seniee with Oat banishing opium from its shares, EVEINN,THAW'S Hearing Fot Annulment of Marriage Postponed. New York, May 1L -A, hearing Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's suit for the annul - meet, of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw was scheduled ta begin in this city 'to- day, but was postponed by agreement of- edensel, Daniel counsel for Mr$, Thaw, :requested a postponement ou the ground that Ile had been unable to secure iertain evidence which J,e desired from Pittsburg, A*commissioner to take the testimony was appointed recently by Robert E. Deyo„ the referee appointed to take the evidence in the Thaw ease. Counael for Thaw eonsented to the postponement, but deelefea that he would agree to Ito further • delays. 'The new date of the .openingof the hearing bas not been fixed, • 4r 4-40.44-4-4-444++4-4-4-44-4-444-444-4-4-4 • rive Burned. Montgomery, Ala., May se. - Five children of James Kennedy, a well-known negro of this city, were burned to death last night and two others so badly burned that they are not expected to live. Kennedy's wife alleges that her husband locked the children in the place, and then set it on fire. The man .and woman have been living apart, and the question of the pos- dession of the children was being fought out in the courts. Kennedy escaped. FOUR KELE% ONE INJURED,. Men Meet With Terrible Death by Scalding Steam, Defective Pipe lit Steamer Brock. ville Gave Way, The Vietinis Were In Hold of the Vessel it the ADOLPH CHAVAGEAU, aged 22, single, fireman on steamer Brodkville, Champlain, Que, OCTAVE COTE, aged 23, single, fireman, Champlain, Que, BURN EAU PANTEN, chief engi- neer, aged 35, married, Qbamplain, Que., badly keened and scalded. WILLIAM 0014 IN, Sorel, greaser, aged 25, married, badly scald- ed. • Toronto, May IL -Four men are dead as the result of tho btu:sting of a defeetive pipe in the boiler of the steamer Brockville on Saturday after- noon, while another member of the crew was. seriously scalded, bue recover. l'he two firemen, Adolph Ohavageau and Octave Cote, were kill- ed on the spa, while the chief engi- neer, Burneau ?entail, and oiler, Wil- liam Gouin, died at Grace Hospital it few hems after the accident, Fred Charbonea,u, aged ao, wend engineer, will recover, el On Saturday afternbon ttbout 2.30 o'clock the steamer Brockeille was lying at the foot of Bathurst street. She belongs to the Richelieu ee On, Lexie Navigation Co. and was to have left Toronto for Kingston on May 26, • the 'intention of the company being that she sbould ply between that city ed Prescott. The four dead men, with Oharboneau and 3. Fougere, were in the hold, The boiler and -fittings were. being tested under the direction of the chief engineer, Burnett -a Penton. • A defective six-inch circulation tube gave way under the head of steam and the vapor spread first into the firehole and thence into the fife pit, where the men were at work, in its passage blowing nes the fires. The two fire- men, who were directly in front of theblase fell dead at once. Paean and Goalie were also wrapped in the scalding steam end were so fearfully scalded that ney both succumbed it few hours after their admittance to Grace Hospital, where they were hur- ried in the pelice ambulance. Char- boneau managed to escape into the outer air and apprise the rest of the ordw above of the deadly nature of the explosion, the faint rumbling of which had only been heard on deck, Brought Up the Dead. The men dived for the hold, and in vitt: of the deadly clouds of steam soon had the four men on deck, two dead, and two alive, but frightfully scalded. The bodies of Cote and Chavageau were taken to the morgue, and Penton and Gouin were hurried to Grace Hospital. Here Gouin was Plunged into a boracie acid bath, and Penton AIMS wrapped in picric acid bandages, -but the two men were too seriously injured for any remedy. Fred Charbonea,u was taken to Grace Hos- pital in a cab. He said that Genies Peace and lie were standing in the ,ongine room, when there was an ex- plosion, and they were all enveloped in scald , scalding steam. He continued: '1 had to fight, my way through the en- gine room to the sompanionway, and 1 thought at one time I should nevee make it. Fortunately I did not swal- low as =eh steam as the others." Charboneau's back and limbs are badly scalded, but little hope is entertained of his recovery. The men below • had no warning or what was'coming. W. Buenell, one of the crew on -deck, heard a low rumbling, and almost immediately af- terwards steam began to ooze out of the companionways and , through every crevice, The ship was black with cinders blown by the force of the steam out of the firebox. The steamer Brockville was little dam- aged, a 'hundred dollars incurred in repairs covering the loss in that re- spect. The accident was not a boiler explosion, or the steamer would have been wrecked, but the crumpling of a defective pipe under pressure. Tells a Graphic .StOry. Fred Charbonease second engineer of the Brockville, lies in 'Room 8, ward 13, of Grace Hospital. His back is 0110 burning sere, and hie blackened face is peeling under its mask of glistening oils. "Knew about the accident," said he, "All I know is that there was a wend of a joint blowiug, and the whole ship became one white, scalding mist of 'steam. I was bending down looking at a joint. Poor, Panten, Cote, . Chavagertu aed Gouin were standing in a ring around 1110. I had just 'said to Bourget, the electrician of the boat, 'Get .out o' here; there afe too many of us already; we won't try the dynamo to -day.' He thought I was serious, and lie is alive now. The timed eegineer had gone to get, a spanner. lle was over the smoke box it second before. That spanner saved him. I beard a gentle hissing, as if a joint had blown out. Then the militate be door burst open, and we were all Jost in a great white cloud. I said, 'it's time to get out,' -and moved for the companionway, shutting my mouth and eyes." That saved me, Fong -ere' a fireman, ra'n to the stairs in frontof me and got* off without a tingling of the akin. Hoes a little man, and 1 took all his end my own on•the back. 1 went baek and sat on the deck, but the steant would not let me breathe there, and I got off on to the dock, relooked Up ill a fear minutes and silW it man coaling, walking weak- ly. 1 didn't know him, ate weaned taid spat. Thee I saw it was our . MA% it Was horrible! He was boiled, boiled right through. His eyes looked like it sick fish's; he breethed and -spat steam; was boiled inside, bon Dien; his lungs 'were boitd. Goin cable up next and sat down Mr tliZ* other side o' me. They had never lost eoilseimisnees, and they Were boiled, began to think I NM dead, too, he sat between them tuna waited for the ambulance. L dale% want to eothe np here, for to ece them again Was mote than 1 told& bear, 1 got off easy. 1 ean eettreely believe I'M alive yet titter what 1 saw doivn there Coroner Orr will open the inquest on the four bodies at the morgue this morning. To Report on the Accident. Mr. John Dodds, 'Clovernmont Boiler InVeeter, stated last night that he haa 4-44-4-4-4-4-4-4-44-4-4-4-4-4-44÷44-4-44-44. • 4 • IP - LOOKING FOR WORK. Hundreds of Polanders Arrive In the City of Ottawa. Ottawa, Ont.,April IL -Hundreds of Polanders are arriving in Ottawa look- ing for work. - The immigration depart - i110111 ie full 'of their requests. They do not speak English. Last week 300 were ehipped to Fort' William on railway construction work. Meaner 300 will go 'this week. Some 61 the men have as much as $100. HOUSES FLOODED. Thirty of Them Surrounded by Water at Gatineau Point. Ottawa, May 11.-A great _many houses at Gatineau.Point,..jUSt across the Ottawa end opposite Rockliffe Park, are very badly flooded. Upwards of thirty Of them are cut off from all com- munication extept by boat. The occu- pants are living entirely upstairs and old residents of the Poiet say conditions are worse than at any time since the deluge of 1870. The excessive enoar- falls of the winter ,are the cause, and unless the water goes back Within the next four ifeyee--and this is doubbful- lnttch Is anticipated. CRUSHED IN BOX CAR. Fred. Robinson, a Horse Trainer, Killed at St. Thomas, St. Thomas, )flay 10. -Fred Robinson, horse trainer, wee almost instantly kill- ed in the yards of the, 'Pere Marquette Railway on Saturday afternoon. Robi- son boarded it freight train to steal a ride to Chatham'and crawled into a boxcar loaded with heavy bridge steel'. When- the train wasbeing shunted the steel moved. and Robinson was caught between it and the end of the car, with such 'force as to terribly meal his head :and body. He died in a few minutes. Dr. Guest has decided Mt inquest tut - necessary. Robison was 35 years of age, unmarriefi, a». Englishman and. has no relativee in this country. " 1 • e-----a+4- A MODEL BUDGET SPEECH, Financial News Admires Mr. Field- ing's Financial Statement. London, May 10. -The Financial News exhaustively analyzes Mr. Fielding's budget, speech, saying that the speech is a model of what such addresses should be. It is concise to the point, without a superfluous smiteace, and entirely free froni ambiguous phraseology. The Financial News says Mr. Field- ing's proposed bill amending the batik act is it clear indication of the expansion of the Country's business, with which the `mem' increase of bank capital is parently unable to cope. TOWN ON FIRE. Chatham'May. 11.-A inessage was re- ceived by the fire department in this city at 9 o'clock this morning to the efe feet that the village Of Merlin was in flames and that the fire was beyond con- trol and threatenea to destroy the place. Steps were immediately taken to send them assitsanee, and by 9.25 a fire 0n - gine Mut truck left the city en the Pere Merquette Railway for the scene, of the disaster. TEMPLE OF PEACE. Wasithigton, May 11. -President Roosevelt to -clay laid the corner stone of the tint hiternational temple of petite, friendship and commerce yet to be erect. ed -the tangible evidence of- the desire of the twenty-one Amerieret republics that war slutil be no more in the west- ern world and that material proeperity, promoted by international trade, shall take its plata. a-. et A WALK OUT. Meek% May H. -The atrike vote taken by the North and West side :street car' men resulted in Itpraetield- ly unanimous vote in favor of a walk out. The,matter now goes to a Ing 02 of the union for fur,ther action. The onestion of "closed' or "open" shop is the point around which the entire difficulty rovelves. not been on: board of the .fottatener Brockville thie sem; but would have likely inepeeted the boat this week, Mr. Dodds, who retureedefrom a tour of in- epection et Lake Erie ports on Friday night,. will visit the steamer and make e report of the ;vet -Went to the depart - KEPT PRISONER HILDA WHITE WAS LOOKED IN A ROOM ANO STARVED. She .Madd Her Escape -Father Be - Never( She Was Trying to Poieon Him-Olalms That She Put An - sonic in His Food, Toroato, May 11.-thit en the ton road, in York township, a pitiable state of affairs. lute ibeen 'brought to light by tee arrest of Dade ',Vette the young woman found wautieriug Amu. the northern part of the city male ettire end who 'has aeon sent to jail for -mental examination, it -or elebteal long menthe tide youog W4111'411 was kept aloue in u IiitIe roma of the lea ie which she lived, with ha father, Cour& Waite, it market gardener, beams° het parent labored under the delueion hie daughter was plotting to poieon hint by telminietering arseitie 111 him food, Ab this thee the poor girl had Milady enough food to live en.° Inn days sup would be Compelled to go with 'Lanny anything. 'fitere wus no tad in the room, Inc me fortunate young wonitte bitVing to spend the nights en at 16V article -a et wearingsapparet thrown la by her fa - thee, wlio for the pita year awl it hall spoke bat a fav words. with his daugh- ter, lie 'believing that ;ha giil witsin collusion with uthei- itt tlic neighbor- hood to destroy him, For the past -two winters the youug woman lived in this little room without fire, Her only me4k.no of exit was- through .the window, and, as ,one neighbor described her get- ting in ilea out, ehe was :le lively ite a cricket. That lte is firmly of the belief that /de house and, land -are infested with souse strange moving and talking per- 80115was- made clear whe1 he declar- ed an unknown family by the name of Clark in the neigliborimod were act- ing ill coneert with Mandreadere aad. causing the clock and his dog to, speak to him, Hte had the impreesion the members of the Cleats' family had gain- ed this strange knowledge becanse they were ventriloquists. His daughter, he said, had oftmi told 111111 of hearing these strange :voices too, and he be- lieved the reason for the hovering of the sph-its about his house was be- Causeel his politics. • The Clarks, lie Said,had orders from the Premier of Ontario to destroy him. ' His daughter,, he said, was under the influence of this family, and she Itati -plotted to poison him. 4 • • Double Shooting Chicago, May Martin Schleyer shot and probably fatally wounded his divorced wife, Martha Schleyer, at Kenosha, Wis.,. yes- terday. He then turned the weapon upon Herman Koehler and inflicted niortal wounds. Koehler, who lives at Kenosha, was visiting Mrs. Schleyer at he home. Jeale ousy and drink are declared to be the cause of the shooting. Schleyer fled after se. struggle.. with Koehler. Later he gave him- self up to the police. * I • SHOT ITALIAN And Montreal Police Are Looking For the Shooter. Ottawa, Ont., May 1L -The police are looking for an Italian who on Saturday In &dispute in a house at St. Louis dam shot J. 13. St; Jean. The man, on being taken to the hospital, was found to hive a bullet in his shoulder. It was taken out, and his friends hurried him rimy, but the police have thesinformation, and a charge of attempted murder may ensue 12 1110 Italian is captured. • • SIR CHAS. FITZPATRICK. Joint Representath%o of Canada and Newfoundland, 'Ottawa, May Cluuaes Fitz- patrick, Chief. Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada„ will be the joint re- presentative of Canada and Newfound- land on The nage() tribneal to settle tlie Atlantic fisheries disputes with the United States. Newfoundland has con- curred iti the Dominion Government's proposal that Sir Charles rdpresent both the Island colony and Canada at The 'Hogue, and the British Govern- ment has just sanctioned his appoint ment to the tribunal, The United States member of the tribunal has not yet been announced. Mr. R. N, Venuirig, Assistant Com; thissioner of the 'fisheries, will prob- ably aecompauy Sir Charles to The Hague to assist in the presentation of the Canadian case. RAILROAD RUMOR. Petroit, Mich., May 11. -It, is rumored at. Bay City, on what is considered reli- tble authority, that the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway is negotiating with the Detroit & Mackinaw Railway, from Pay Oily to Cheboygan, for a per. 'ideal lease of the latter road. The 11., S. S. & A. is controlled by the Canadian Pacific, and the latter is be- hind the move. It is almo sitid that the 1)., S, S. & A. is it bidder for the Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Railway. With these two roads connected by short lima with ewe' other, the C. P. R. would have a direct conneetioe between its 13,. 8, S. A. litte and Detroit. • • • . THE AUTO RACE. Tokio,, May 11. --The American tone petitors in the New York to Paris auto- mobile eace errivea here yesterday and left Tokio this morning on their way to Vladivostok, The American eontestents say they are 1,200 Miles in the lead. TRACK GAMBLING 'Washington, May 1 1.-1.1'he Hanes to - Ater accepted the Senate amendments to the bill prohibiting awe track gambling , in the Markt of Columbia, and time fin- ally prteeed it. Ten settlers lost their honees and farm It -endings by prairie fires in Leofeld dis- trict, Sask. PRIVATE MOIR CAPTURED. STAYER Or SERGI`, I$LOYD.- 4RRUST- .E1) QN. VA= NRAR nORA. Wes Te.ken Oft Bis Guad, Bat reught. Been ioItlfand iug fo iZlZtCen Days as ar ...alio Made Complete CRefession. Arthur, May 10. ---After it deseirwl t:e struggle tw ggieei telt InintlIPS IW anil the startled horses at 14le Robb Doe.' farm, four utile; north of Elora, Private Moir, the Mtn, derer of .Sergt. Lloyd, was finally °re1. powered by Chief couatable C. J. Van roll anti Constable Cocerane, of Arthur - Moir was (tarrying it ee calibre re. vetiver, loaded in five chambers,. andel Itis bele,. and what tote the desperate matt made have made ei 11 had not, the offieer$ taken Win olt hie guard is sufficiently indicated by the fight he put up when he was pinioned from behind, constahie Farrell, of Arthur, first got wind of Moir through W. DraPei. the stage driver betweeu Arthur and li'ergus, who had, seen Moir while driv- ing past the Robb farm, nod head that'he carried it loaded revolver with him alwaye . under his belt, David Robb got hold of a rStra41(lerldi paper and was at once etruck with the resemblauce both the cut and the deseription bore to their hired man. beat night Farrell and Cochreee drove out to tee Robb farm in plain clothes, Just as they arrived they saw Devitt Robb and Moir, whom they at once recognized, unhitching it biome. The farmer and hired man went into the stables and the officer$ followed them. Farrell begaa to talk to Robb of las stock and the seasoe, all the tinie edging up to Moir, who seemed quite un.concereed, When Farrell was quite sure he was their man he sprang makpinioned Moles arms to his sides, and in'a second Ooch. rano pitched on to the straggling pair, Moir is far the smaller. Man of the thine, but has the build of it sprinter and the phyeique of the all-round ath- lete lie claims to be, Both Farrell and Coale -me are in the prime of life and heavily built,' but for fully ten minute3 the unequal struggle went cm in the stable, Moir fighting to reach his wea- pon with thevenom of it wildcat, At last lie suddenly collapsed, allowed him self to be handcuffed, and came very quietly to Arthur, where he remained all Saturday and to -day. This afternoon a eews correspond- ent saw him in his cell at Arthur, He was in a penitent mood, freely ad - mitten that he had shot Lloyd, and talked of his wanderings. He is a rather undersized. but stockily built nem of soldierly bearing and gentle- manly aadress. The hair had been cOmbed to fall over the telltale sear on his neck till it was almost unobservable, He wore a light. suit, which he said had beeit given him, but had not got rid of the regimental tan boots. Ile had broken down and cried shortly after his capture, and it .was in this 1110011 that the correspondent found him. "I must have been drunk at the time," he said, "blind drank,;though it's all a lie about my eating cordite.. 1 d4dn't. know Pd. killed Lloyd, holiest, didn't, until I was in Stratford the Monday after, Then I saw my • pie. hire and an. account of the dreadful affair in a Stratford paper. I had been staling at an hotel in the town, but when I aaw that I took to the woods right away and got out of everybody's way Until I met Mr. Robb atElorafair and got hired out by him. carried iny•'-rifll and other - revolver for forty miles, but I dared not go to anywhere- to get food with them and threw them away in a ditch. After I left Stratford I took to the.' woods and walked some distance off the road in the fields for days. I didn't see anyone after me, gut 3 slept • in a barn for one whole day, don't rightly mind where. lilln came on to Elora, got to know'iNei. Robb and I was there for eighteen days. him at the horse show the." The Robbs' farm is about four miles north of Elora and ten miles from Arthur, Mr. Robb -declares that Moir, was very quiet and a good worker, but odd in his ways. They noticed he MIS carrying a revolver and spoke about it and Moir's general make-up to Draper, the stage driver, who pass- ed the news on to Farrell. Farrell will get the $500 reward offered by the Gov- ernment. Detective Niekle arrived here from London to -night and wia take Moir back with him to -morrow. The crime for which Moir is arrest- ed was the murder of Sergt. Lloyd at 'WhIseley Barracks, London, on the evening of April 17, Lloyd went to arreet Moir to take him to the guard- room, when the private raised his lusted rifle and Aloe Lloyd dead. The detectives have been hunting for the murderer for twenty-two days, and he had been seen near Arthur. -Chief Far- rell 'has been making :diligent inquir- ies *about Moir- since April 21, when he heard that the ex -soldier had pass- ed through Goldstone, a small place seven miles from Arthur. - MURDERER MOIR Asks For Protec'ion-Sympathy For Him at Arthur. Arthur, Ont,, May 11. -The London officey and your correspondent arrived here £b -day at noon and interviewed Moir in it little two -room lock up. He was attired in a new $12 tuit, was sleek" ing a good cigar -and talked readily. Ilo asks for police proteetion on hiii arri- val at London to-nighe et 11.30 o'clock. Nettie sympathy here is all with Moir, and the Rev. W. G. Richnedson, St. Ate drew's Presbyterian Church, is getting up a subscription list on his behalf. M, Wilkins, Arthur, and E. Meredith, Lon - dam will defend Moir. Moir States that he cut aeross country from Stratford in- tending to enter the States, but lost his bearings. Stories told io morning mos are eorreet. FOR BATTLEFIELDS. Ottawa, Ont., "May 11. -Ottawa schools end convents heat so far given over $700 towards the Quebec Battlefields Agfie- eitttien movement, and only thirty-nine out of the sixty have yet been heard from. Railway Bridge Damaged by FIre. Winnipeg, May 10. -'1110 Great North- ern Pailway bridge, crossing the 1,11k Iliver it few miles west Of Michel, was fire in the neighborhood Vag resnonsible for the Wage, SHE MURDERED CHILDREN, Human Tigress Narrowly Escaped. Lynching in France. Nancy, Village, May 11.- mon Weber earrowly vamped lynebing hero toelay et the hen& .of an infuriated nuta after it had been learned that elm had, strangled a seveneyear-ole boy to death. Severe months ego the Weber woman was arrested in l'exis, deemed with the murder of ever a ecore of chil- dren, • 1>oetors who examined her expreese4 the teefef that site was a victlea of le- fantleidal mania, but no proof to Be - cure it conviction could be found and -she wise allowed so go, The women. ,errived here Wednesday, and under an atemmed name eeeured lodgings in the home of a workingman. Tele morn- ing 8110 MIS found Asleep, With the dead body or it boy by Iter side, The chile had been strangled, He was covered with Wood, and his tengue had beeu cat out. When the identity of the murderss had been ascertained an burnouse crowd gathered outside the house, sbouting "Let us get et the tigress," andtried to lyneh her. The police arrested the wo- man, but they were forced to fight their way to jail with their prisoner, .MUST PAY $37,500. Jury Finds theLondon Times Libel ed Publisher Murray.. Loudon, May 1 1. -The Times .litte been condemned to pay to. John Mur- ray, the publisher of "Letters of Queen Victoriale the sum of $37,500 for a libel contained in a* fetter sing- ed "Artifee in October , last year, in which the writer deelared that the price at which the book was issued, namely, three guineas, "was simple extortion." The letter said, further, that the publisher had "exploited a hiTshrial etgreat personality, Queen .Vietoria, for einodns.'is the outcome of the ill -feeling between the neblishers and the Times over the latter's hook - selling scheme, called the 'Book Club. , DID NOT HURT THE FRUIT. Storm in Niagara District -Prospects ler Plentiful Crop. A St. Catharines despatch: For 2two hours this afternoon had and rain fell in torrents, and the atmosphere was quite .cold. Beyond flooding all the low places no great, damage was done. Fruit was not injured. The trees are just about to bloom, but until the blossoms and leaves are out little dam- gae can be done them. Growers are still /mite jubilant over the conditions. Early symptoms of a large crop are more than realized- by the enormous number of buds `which are now plain- ly visible in every portion of the dis- trict. Niagara Falls, May 10. -The fruit belt was visited by a severe hail storm on Saturday afternoon, the hail being'of ex- tritoedinary size and two inches deep in some parts. Coining after the severe storm of Friday, some fears -were filt that the fruit prospect's would suffer, but inquiry among several of the prom- inent fruit men of this vicinity brings the-reassurine news that no damage has been done, and that the prospects for fruit this season are unusually good. BLACK PAPER, WHITE INK. Scheme for Saving the Pulp Wood Forests. New York, May 11.-A despatch to The World from Appleton, Wis., says: Wisconsin manufacturers of print paper to -day put forth a proposition which, if adopted, will, it is said, revo- lutionize the print paper industry of the country and the newspaper industry as well. They propose that newspapers in the future be printed in white on black paper instead of in black on white paper, thus bringiug about a saving of millions of dollars 'annually in pulpwood, assisting in the preservation of forests and reducing the price of news paper _to about one-half the pre - aper 03111 be made of old :iee113tIvtisftplelalk'P.piceers, and almost any fibrous stock, while white paper requires spruce and hemlock wood. Wisconsin paper manufacturers will try to interest east- ern manufacturers'and, if posswle, bring about concerted action with the pubilali- 018 of the country. • • DON'T WANT HER HUSBAND, But Mrs., Hunter Does Want Her Child. A Guelph despatch: Claiming that her hushed has her 4 -years -old daughter and that she wants her child back be- cause she cannot live without her end she ean't live with him mein 1. :suet conditions, Mrs. Hunter, lase of Cleve- land, has applied to the Guelph ',elicit for assistance to regain My cli.d, She says she WS married in Cieve- land. to Hunter some years ago, and that he came back to 73:made, stone time ago, going to his home in Erin. He wrote asking her to come over, -which she did, but 1101V claims 'thai. he made misrepresentations and that sha eould Apt live with him and nis All Italian laborer has been • arreei-- ed for threatening to kill bis fel met 'employer, Mr, Wardell, a 111110 kiln foreman, who laid him off work. WALKEIQ1 FOCTND GUILTY. Sensational Criminal Case at Vancouver -Big Bail Taken. Vaneouver, May 11.-Walkem, t well- known young business man, was found guilty by Judge Crane of procuring rin illegal operatioSentence was re- n, served, pending an appeal on the ques- tion whether counselling hi Canada is a crime when the principal offence is committed outside the juristlietion. The accused was freed oil $20,000 hail. Poblie inthrest in the ease is it -dense. The victim is. a daughter of am Eng- lish officer who resided in Portland, Oregom *to CABRERA'S TYRANNY.. The Persecutions, EXecutionS, Etc. Guatemala. 'New York, May 11.-A desniatelt to The iterald from Mexico City says: Persecutions, exteutioni and confisett- tiotis continue in Onateniala, the latest victims of the shooting ,sented being Col. Solorzano, a military officer well. known in Mexico awl attached to the Guatemala Military Academy, 11110 wee arrested itinnedietely„ followieg the re- lent Itterept to assassinate President Cabrera, and. Vicente •Ceteme, it re - lathe of Solorzitno. Ms estates were eonfieceted 11 Cabrern owing to the re- fusal of MeNiee to gent his extradition a year ago.