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The Wingham Advance, 1909-01-21, Page 7DEATH ON THE RML Fifty Persons Killed in Collision in Colorado. Denver 8c Rio Grande Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight 011 a Blind Siding at Datsero Station. Glenwood Springs, Cok, Jan. Rushing along through inky darkness Lt a speed of 30 miles au hour, the Den- ver & Rie Grande passeeger train Q. 5, westbound, eraehed into an east- bound freight trial at Dotsero, a blind siding east of here, at 10.30 o'clock last eight, wrecking both trains and causing a loss of life numbered at 50. As mane' were injured, the exact number is not known. I3ecause of the entire absence of com- munication between Dotscro and the outside world at night, but meagre de- tails of the disaster have been received here. Two relief trains uith it large corps of physicians aud nurses pressed into service was sent from Glenwood. Springs to the scene of the wreck. Throughout the night brief eports in- dicated that the wreck was most com- plete as far as the forward cars of the passenger•train and the engines of both the freight, \villa was a doubleheader, and the passenger beau were concerned, The three monster mountain locomo- tives ivere standing on end, a mass of twisted and broken iron, while the smok- er ana chair ear of the passenger train were either complete wrecks or badly smashed. The chair car, in which inost of th killed were riding, was cut in twain, and the tourist ear was telescop- ed. The latter was lying overturnea alongside the track, while the chair car Jay across the right of way. The Pula 4.01 mans remained On the track and were undamaged. All inside them were un- hurt. The occupants of the Pullmans per- formed valiant service in mine for the dead and injured, and workeethrough- out the night at this task. Just who is responsible for the acce dent is not known' at this time, for every member of the three engine crews is injured, sonic of them badly, and have not been interrogated. It was known, however, that the freight was in the act of taking the sid- ing on orders to allow the passenger train to pees, but had only placed half its train upon the side track when the passenger train came tearing along and plunged into it, As far as ca.!' be learned, there was no noticeable effort ou the part of the passenger's engine crew to check the onward rush of the train, they appar- ently having no suspicion that the whole length of the freight train had not pass- ed into the siding. The list of injured members of the train crew, nearly all of whom were badly hurt. as given out by train of inelude lengineer Jeffreys, Gus. Ol- sen and Sig. (inert, Conductors McCurdy and Cope. The three firemen are said to be among the most seriously hurt, but their names are not known. here. No official list of the dead and injured is at hand. HOW IT HAPPENED. The passenger train was flying down the grade making for a iding five miles west of Dotsero where it expected to meet the freight, and the freight was also trying to make the siding. The result was a head-on collision in which the engines were smashed, the baggage car of the passenger train left stand- ing on end, one of the day coaches teles- coped by the chair car immediately be- hind it, and fifty people in the day coach and chair car mangled almost be- yond recognition. It was from the chair car that the dead were taken, and twenty bodies have been recovered thus far. The dead: Gus Olsen, engineer of the passenger train, Salida. Forty-nine pas- sengers, names unknown. Known injured: Sig Olsen, engineer on freight train, badly injured, may die. J. T. jeffrey, engineer on freight engine, badly injured, may die. Thirty passengers, names unknown. All the sleeping cars remained on tbe track and none of the passengers in tbem were injured. REVOLT IN PORTUGAL Downiall of the Monarchy Said to be Imm;nent. New York, Jan. 18.-4 cable des- patch to The American from London sari Deseatches from Lisbon, via Barajoz, state that great apprehendon exists in Lisbon awing to the belief that the Republicans are about to attempt a coup de main. Lisbon is filled with troops, and it member of arrests have ben made. Although several newspapers con- tain warning of the existence of it Republican plot, to details are given. (The Settee reports ,a couterenee be- tween the military and civil authorities, ae a. result of whichdetachmentof troops and police occupy all the Repub. bran quarters in the city. Novalades states that tho troops in the barracks are heavily reinforced, and constantly under arms, end that the warships are ready to lend bluejackets in the (Irina; of an uprising. The Cabinet Council, hastily summon- ed last tight, has issued assurances that the minorities are able to maintain or- der, but terrorist inscriptions and pro- clamations, posted hi the streets this morning, dedare that the Republicans will be avenged and that the downfall of the monarchy is imminent. • * STEAMSHIP DEAL Detroit and Clevelattd Co, Buys Detroit & Buffalo. Detroit, itfleb, 3an, 17. ---An import- ant -announcement was made hero te. eight, and one fraught with particular interest to the large veesel intermits of the great lakes, AIttait has practieally been vompleted for t purebese of the Detroit .t-lt Buffa- lo Steamship Convexly by its Ally, the Detroit & Cleveland Yrtvigation Com- pany, and the mount involved tent ex - teed in,606.e00. The lhdroie -& Cleveland Navigation Compeny will pay for the property 01 the opposition lino the sum of $900,000 cesh, aud in addition will amen() Ginty of the Detroit & Buffalo, which amouuts to about *Z00,000 inOre. 'lite capital stock of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation CoMpany will be increased to $4,000,000. Stockholders of the Detroit & Buffalo Company will, la nddition, receive it 25 per cent. stook dividend covering their holdings, Philip, 11. McMillan, president of the Detroit Cleveland ,Navigealon Company, will rentain rise heed, of. the neW company, and George AL"Hendrie'now president of the Detroit & BuffaloSteaniship Com- pany, will become eliairmau a the con- solidated Boatel of Directors. 4I Or WELL -CLAD FAMILY. Maine Man Had Thirty Tweed Suits in Two Years. New York, Jan, 18. -In overruling a protest flee by lele E, Murray against the action ef the collector of customs At Bangor, Maine, exacting duty on fear - teen pieces of cloth brought from Cana- da, the Board of United States General Appraisers decided to -day that the lib- eral eonstruction of the personal effects provision of the Dingley tariff cannot be carried to the point of abuse of the exeeptionel provisions of the law. The case before the board showed that Mr. Murray makes periodical business trips to Canada. For several years it has been his practice to purchase cloth in the piece while an the Dominion. Later the material or some of it is Made up into clothes for himself and sons. The collector declined to admit the cloth free as the property of an American citi- zen returning from a foreign. country. Murray then took an appeal to the Board of Appraisers asking a reversal of the collector's action. It was brought out, however, at the trial of the case that in 1007 when re- turning from a similar trip to Canada he brought in sixteen pieces of tweed goods. At that time the board acted favorably on the protest, In the latest ease, however, General Appraiser Hay holds that to sustain the claim would be a violation of the spirit of the kW, TO BE REVIVED Daylight Bill Will be Reintroduced in British House. • London, Jan. 18, -Mr. Robert Pearce, M. P., will introduce another daylight saving bill during the next session of Parliament. If the bill is unsuccessful in the Commons it will be introdueed in the House er Lords. The bill will be arafted on the lines of the recommendation, of the Select Committee, and will propose an altera- tion of an hour on a Sunday in April and September, instead of an alteration of twenty minutes on four Sundays in tech month, as was originally suggested by Mr. Willett, the originator of.the echeme. Mr. Churchill has promised to meet Mr. Willett early this month to discuss the matter. Mr. Willett wants Mr. Churchill to support a bill which will provide for an alteration of only twenty minutes in the first year. FAST AS TRAIN. British Destroyer Made ON, er 38 Knots an Hour. London, Jan. 18. -The torpedo-boat destroyed Tether, using liquid fuel and steaming under war conditions, exceeded to -day 3a knots an hour, thus beating her °Meted trial record. The trial record was made on Dee. 6 over the official. course of the .Admiralty between South- ampton and Melilla Sands; when the Tartar made between 35 and 30 knots an hour. Previous to this trial the Tartar, in preparation, made almost 30 knots- an hour,' beating at that time. all records for skips of her type. The Tartar is a sister ship to the Mohawk and has been in service since April, 1907. Both ships use liquid fuel are 270 feet 'long and have engines of 14,500 horse -power. • TOWN WORKERS. Daily Graphic Prints Curious Re- ports Regarding Canada. London, Jan. 18. -Mr. W. it. Trot- ter bag complained to the Daily Graphic regarding its tenements ((a21 Graphic regarding its statement that there was plenty of room for town workers in Canada. The Graphic thereupon interviewed. Lord. Strath - cone, who said: "We have never en- couraged artisans to go to Canada." An official of a leading transportation company was also interviewed, who de- clared that there was no justification for the practiee of searing skilled or un - killed labor away from the Dominion. The British mechanics and engineers were the best in the world. " We fail to see," he said, "why Canada should lose the skilled labor offered by the eountry with the most skilled labor." NEVER USED PHONE Busy English Judge Doesn't Think - He Will Ever Need to. London, Jan. 17. -London experienced various emotions when it lettreed yes- terday that so presumably a busy man as the Judge of the Southwark County Court luta never used the telephone. The individual thus distingaished, judge Willis, confessed that he had on several occasione seen the instrument ii public places, but bad never spoken or listened -had never felt an inner meet- gestion tluet he do so -and expected that he would never meet an emergency that would suggest it, NO RACE SUICIDE HERE. Oudot': of -Spain's Bet With the Prin- erns of Wales. London, Ian. 17. ---The London social letter of the Liverpool Post, withal ie written by it well-known llitbmait, seyel 4The Xing on 'Sunday night de - elated that the Queen of Spain had Inetle a bet with the Prineeee of Wake, the steke being a .fati, that she Wye Queen) would have it larger 'family then ilia Princeree, 'who now hie six children. The XimI haq 8 riiit,li higher approval of tailor iLfltiIi. n thn aeme r- ently the iciajoilty .of hie subjeete have," MASS AT REGGIO, Children Buried Alive While Mother Lay Dead, Mr. 1.11..10..• Thirteen.Year.014 Boy Rescued HIS . Sisters,. Reggio, thin, 17e --For the first time elemthe earthquake, nuiss wile said in Reggio to -day under conditions that ao, called the early days et the aura. Processions passed through the streets ringing bells and calliag Gm people to the service, which was held in an erange and lemon grove near shore. The altar,. set up under the picturesque 'end pas- toral surroundlege, Was formed by a table covered with a white cloth, be- hind which was hung it eheap chromo print of the Christ. The candles, a ern- cifix,•end the sacred VOWS were pro- tected from the what by a cloth screen, Women and 'children kuelt befere the improvised Altar, while the menstood with uncovered heads behind -them. On the outskirts of the crowd were.several shepherds iu the midst of -their flocks, standing erect: in their charaeteristic dress, with hands crossed over the top of their erooks, upon which they rested their 'Caine. The whole scene might have been taken from one of the early biblical pidures of a primitive religions service. The crowd followed the ceremony with great devotion. DUG FOR mg LIGHT. Buried in the Ruins, Boy Followed a Ray of Daylight, Messina, Jam 17a -The two Minisalle girls and their thirteen -year-old bro- ther who were rescued from the ruins of their home after bdng entombed for eighteen days, are now in ,the hospital, aboard the SaVOia. The father is a pia -nom -akar, living at 507 East Six- teenth street,. New York. They say they were sleeping with their mother in a room on the seeend floor when every-, thing went down. It was pitch dark, and, they add: "We cried and tried to ranee motherbut could not, Frau- casco (the brother) found matches, and by their light we found we were in a big cavity. Mother was crushed on the bed, dead." Describing how the time passed, one of the girls said: "We spent most of the time crying and sleeping alongsido. of mother's body. Some tones we fret frightened, and teen we struck materies to look at each other. We had a large vessel of water, and we caught in it pail a lot of olive; oil whieh was dripping from above us.- We also found some figs and onions on a shelf." The sister, telling of the escape, said that Francesco was always trying to scoop a. way towards a place where he saw a tiny chink of light. When he got a certain distance, he called to his sis- ters to follow, but they were too. weak. Then he disappeared. The girls add: "We kept calling lano b -t 11.2 did not answ,er. We grew sadder and sadder until We heard the sound of axes and, spades. We know that Francesco bur- rowed his way out and called for help. We had no idea how log we had been buried until the doctor told us. Then we were amazed," Praneefico iS in a nmeh more exhaust- ed Condition than his sisters, but all are making good progress towards recovery. MOTOR BOATS May Have to Carry Life Preservers For Safety. Washington, Jan. 18. -The Senate Committee on Commerce has reported favorably the bill introduced by Sen- ator Frye, of Maine, requiring all motor vessels to carry ate preservers. Viola- tions of this aet will be punished by a fine of ten dollars for eacli life preserver "lacking or improperly stowed." If the bill becomes a law, it will take effect June 1, and apply to. foreign vessels on Deo. 31st of this year. Secretary Strauss d the Department of Commerce and labor, in.a letter giv- ing the approval of the department to the bill, points out that the navigation of such vessels is attended with a spec- ial element of risk on account of the dangerous fluids used in their peopel- sion. The member of sinall vessels now in use which are propelled by naptha, gasoline and other dangerous fluids, and electricity, is growing rapidly, the eel - lectors of customs estimating the num- ber in the United States to be about 40,000. FROM THE DEAD. W. T. STEAD IN COMMUNICATION WITH HIS SON. English Editor Tells That He Has Re- ceived Many Meseages From the Spirit World -Spirits Anxious to Establish Communication With Mortals. New York, Jan. 17.-A cable despetch to the Sun froui London says: "New and woederful ktters are reaching Inc ad. nest daily from my. boy 'Willie, who died .t year ago," said Witham T. Stead, 'the veteran editor, tb-day. Mr. Stead seem- ed in perfect health,. talked rationally end looked happy. • "I have no tune now," he continued, "to tell you evinything, as I will leave London for the .seashore in half an zloty, but in the near firture \via !low you some of WiLla'e letters, they were written by my own passive ewe hand, which movte abeoattely automatically. I exercise no will power in the matter either 'co hold the pen or to move it. "Willie's letters ars ,simply side/l- in& Tney are exactly- like hint and folt of hie characteristic epirit, Ilti talks with me ae great length and 'cells me everything _ he sue, how lte teele -and what his hopes are respotie ing myself end other membere of the family. Ite says that the spirit world is quite es anitiotte to establish cone niumeation with Ude world AS Wo ttre with it.. "For many years I have known that, spirit tommuideatione were a 'milky, 1 declared my falth to tide effect at it Hine when I knew that the assertion would 'Otte ina in all my worldly re - ham. My declaration of faith did injure meit tended to discredit me itt business and placed me Under SUS- pition among malty of my friends whom / valued most highly. The lose to me was great, but It was quite in- significant when compared with my• ineveressible gain. 1 weld riot give inc of the ',Orme wiitten toe by my lepatted bey for many thnes • the worth of all we sectificed. eTredaya, ,geureel itpenance reaped, 1no %Ott contutunieatione will be put to Omar, just as ignoratiee alwaye is. Disbelief is a chatiteterietle of the bit' oven mind and yields (rely to demon:, etrittion; but the time is not far diz, taut when te will yield respeetieg Ude matter as it lias yielded respecting so many others. In my .opinion not Only experts but ordinary melt will be able to communicate with dare who have gone before. It is all A question of faith and of knowing how. "The niethoil -whereby ordinney people may coMinueleate with their relatives and frientle whom they lg. notantly suppose to be dead I eltell shortly attentpt to make plain. "Undoubtedly the greatest develop- ment lying before the present century will be the bridging of the gulf be. tween this werld of chauge and the future. world of changeless Immortal- ity," STANDARD OIL SUIT ••••••••••••,. Has Already Cost Nearly Ton Million Dollars. Now York, Jan, 18. -The Govern- ment's suit for diseolution of the Stan- dard Oil Company- practically closed te- cililly. ay. There are still two or three wit - flosses to be heard in rebuttal, but these will he extunined in Chicago next Tues. The ease will undoubtedly go down in • legal history as the greatest civil action ever brought in this country. The record already eoznprises tw8nty-two printed volumes and represents a cost to the litgants of nearly $10,000,000, Argtorients of both sides Will be made next _April before the full bench of the United States Circlet Court sitting in St, Louis, and sthe case is to be taken to the Supreme Court of the United 'State, no matter what the decision of the Circuit Court is. Shim the suit began in 1000 about lee witnesses have been called by the Government and 140 by the &tepee. 'The record of the testinaony proper totals up 4,500,000 words. The exhibits, consisting of 73,500 groups of wore% and figures, adds another 10,000,000 words, The printing offiee lir Washington 1ms been kept busy day and night for month3 completing the record, The maps show- ing the company's pipe lines and oil fields are printed in four colors, a pro- ceedure never hitherto undertaken iu legal record -making. 4 • ft THOROGOOD GUILTY •••••••••M•••,... Toronto Man Sentenced Fir Bigamy at Owen Sound. Owen Sound, Jan. 1e. --Walter There - good, twenty-five years of ago, belong- ing to Toronto, appeared le the Police Court hero this morning and pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy.. 'Thoro- good left his wife and child in Toronto, and mune here in the spring. On Nov. 10th he married a Sydenham girl, named Mary Jane Flavalle. s His first wife's maiden name was Mary Grace Conway, and she informed the Toronto police that she had received no support from her husband. A warrant was issued for Inc arrest on this clam, and the inquir- ies which followed leclb to the discovery that the man had gone through the nia.r- riage ceremony with *Miss Flavalle. Thorogood fled to Toronto, and was ar- rested while coining home from church with his first wife. Mr. A. G. MacKay. who acted on behalf of the accused, said that the first wife took the Monne upon herself for her separation from her hus- band, and apparently the latter had labored under the impression that, as he never intended to go back to his wife, he had a right to marry again. There were mitigating circumstances -in the case, which he did not care to go into fully in court. Thorogood was also charged with per- jury, he having sworn when taking out the marriage license that he was it bach- elor. Magastrate. Creaser imposed a sen- tence of two years, less one day, in the Central Prison for bigamy, and one year for perjury, the eentences to run eons ' currently. Thorogood did not seein to have any comprehension of the seriousness of his crime, for he kept on smiling and laugh- ing all the time he was in court, as if the whole affair was u very good joke. ONTARIO ARTISTS Form Company to Deal in .Pictures and Material. A half dozen areists have formed a company to deal in pictures, frames and -supplies. The concere, which is called "Canadian Art, Limited," . is capitalizea at $25,000. lts incorporators are Charles Mactionafd Manly,. Gustav Hahn, F. M. Bell -Smith, P. U. Nig- den, of Toronto; F. S. Challener, Cones- toga Waterloo. county, and P. S. Haines, Meadowvale, and J. R. F. Row, manager, Toronto. ••• TO MAKE GEOGRAPHY. Ontario Cabinet Has to Determioe County Lecatien of Tavistock. Toronto, dan. 18. -The Provincial -Government; will be called upon this week to make geography so far Ile the recent incorporated village of Tavistock is concerned, The territory of the vil- lage lies partly in the county of Oxford and partly iu the -county of Perth; in fact, the street is now the dividing line. Under its incorporation it is editled, throe& its newly elected Reeve, to representation in the County Council But which? The problem has been veferia'd to the Government to adjudieate. Sir jellies Whitney states it hal not yet beeu dealt with. It; ie a unique iamb - lent, and it will be interesting to learn what basis the Cabinet will adopt to reaeh it decisioe, Meantime Tavistock bee not know itt which Nutley emend' it will be rep- resented this we.ek. 40 - Shipyard At Montreal. Montreal, ;Tan. 17. ---Montreal and To- ronto eapitrilists are reported to be be- hind the scheme to build a large ship - pled and .dryclock on the elver front in the east end of this city. The Toronto prothoters were in Montreal on -Satur- day, looking OM the ground. and Are paid to have born favorably impressed with the project. 'rind hi a Museum. Para:, 'Ian, 17. ---The emettor of the Museum at Versailles it week ago re- moved from the Iyete a dirt-Inertisted portrait of it woman, which had bung neglected for many years. eThe painter and the subje'et wero alike nuknown. When cleaned it 'wag found to be a per - trait by Nattier of Marie Leozineka, the *wife of Louis XV, FRANK LAW FOUND GUILTY., venotoT REACHED AFTER EIGHT MINUTES' pELIEIERATION. Hints at Some Powerful Reason for Crown's Attitude - The Case comes Before the Court of Appeal To.day. Toronto, Jan, 17, -Prank Law is gull- ty. The jury which tried hint in the sessions on Saturday afternoon eame to that coneltudon after only eight tuba utes' deliberatioti, and in returaing their verdict did not attaeli the recom- mendation to merey welch many people expected. The verdict- die not 'elate' move" the prisouer, bue it caused his wife, who throughout the trial has been it faithful and pathetic figure, to cry out and reel from ehe court room, oillY to return a moment later waen she had conquerea her emotions to resume her Oleo by, his side. Thie is the latest development in the prosecution of the raining firn of Law & Company on a charge a conspiracy to defraud the public, arising out of the flotation of the Highland Uary and oth- er mines. The action was commenced under clauses of the companies net in the Police Court a .year ago. Mr. Low's partner and principal, Wm. Lockhard Russell, has thus far menaged to evade the arm of justice of the Provincial At- torney -General's Depertinen1, Laws cash bail of *10,000 was not renewed, and he was taken into cus- tody. The object of this procedure was to enable the appeal which was en- tered to come before the Court of Ap. peal on Monday. The ground of appeal to be argued on is as to whether the erown can order and sustain the prose- cution of Alr. Law after an officer from the Attorney -General's Department had promised him immunity as the price of giving evidence against his partner, Asked after the trial if lie bed any- thing to say to the public, Arr. Law re- plied: "No, only this: that I think 1 have been treated in a dirty fashion. I tun oenvided, while Russell is allowed Lo go free. Ho was the moving spirit in the work, and I did his bidding. Yet his brother and his lawyer sit in this court And see Me convicted, and never as mime as offer me their band and say they feel sorry. I suppose I can bear the penalty, and they want nothing to do with Ins now. That's what hurts Inc.,, COUNSEL ATTACKS THE CROWN. Mr. Law's counsel, Mr, 0. T. Black- stock, K. C., made a very impassioned address on his behalf, but it was mainly confined to argument that the Crown had neted in bad faith towards Mr. Law, which lie asked the jury to rectify. After reading the stenographic report in which Inspector Rogers, of the Attorney -Gen- eral's Detective Department, promised Mr. Law inununity if am would testify, Mr. Blackstock said: "I have never heard of such a preceeding such as we have here under the circumstances. This statement shows that the statement of Law is borne out. I one° more ask whether it Is possible with such an en- gagement as that for the Crown to proeeed ;with their case. It fills Inc with amazement!' Mr. Blackstock argued that Lay was a .simple, innocent ma.n oceupyieg it clerk's pesition under Wm. Lockhard Rumen, who, be said, was the master mind. of the affair, and who had got the bulk of the profits. In closing his address he again reverted to his original plea, saying: "The Crown want- ed Tsew's aid and they lured bim into giving evidence. I don't know what's behind this, and you don't, but the Crown's refusal to stand by iamb; under- takings fills me with' the suspicion that there is some powerful reason for their actiota" Mr. II. L. Drayton, X. C., in present- ing the Crown's ease, replied to Mr. Bled:stock's argument that Mr. Law was ignorant of the real facts of many of the properties he advertised in glow- ing terms by saying that though he might have been ignorant of the first, he could not havebeen.so of the later flotations, while Judge Winchester show- ed by many letters he quoted in his summing un that Mr. Law was More than It simple clerk. "I am quite ready Lo believe that Russell was the master mind in the matter, and I hope that he may some day be placed on trial, but when Law writes; 'I have seen the pro- clamation.' It is a dandy. I expect to make a killing to -morrow and will stay with the game while there is anything doing,' was he an innocent dupe or an interested partner?" asked the Judge. "When he advertised, `The firm of Law & Company was established in. 1800 and has a record of seventeen years of un- failing business integrity,' was that ac- curate, remembering that for fourteen years of that tine Ito was a barber in tIontreala" Of Mr. , Blackstoek's accueations against the Crown his Honor said the question was not before either himself or the jury. Upon that point the Attor- ney -General had ruled and it was not proper for counsel to persist in bringing it before the jury. He asked them to put that consideration out of their minds, .•. SAVED BY MIRACLE. Proclaiming Wonderful Rescue of Little Eoy at Reggio. Reggio, Jan. eniraett- lous rescue has •takett place, resulting in the recevrry of a five-year-old boy after having teen Into -reit since. Reggio was overthrown. The ereefit .of thia rcezeue is to stimulate the efaerte of re- lief perties in their -search for others who net still be living. The boy g4 tlia son of tt porter, who made his emu escape,. but believed his hey must be dead. After seeing the ruin.; of bis house, he did not even search for the bey, but it woman, passing tho wreeked house a feu, 1.08 after the earthquake thought she hoard a weak cry. It Poen 'mad, however, and the woman with her sister went to Naples. Returning to this Oleo, arid leering •of wouderftit- tempee, elie drew the :attn. tion of CoIonel Corapi'evho was in eharge of relief perty, to the porter's houte, which was little more than it heap of storiee and dust, '17he soldiers examined the wiaekage and ettlied out it number of aintra. After a breethless euspoose, it. faint vomit' was hotel, .uninietalcably human, This WAS enemah. The soldiers, ettiteked the debris with it fleece energy, Alla within a ,few boom it mall opening Was made, through whieli a fireman 'entered, monmut lic rettirried and passrd through the openingit little bog, 'Who woe not only eon:statute, hut Showed few signs of privation. lii Nvaa won to hospital, Where Ito hits become the :pet of all, and a Mlle hero, the women der Waring that he wee saved by a miracle, as the child perelete lu saying that throughout he wan fed by hie Mether with bmd and oranges. The mother, however, Was killed- on the do,y of the earthquake. The whole neighborhood is already proclaiming( that Um is the first authentie miracle, and their strong belief is exciting the sol - tilers to e011tilitle tile search. , +.11.seeeet•-•-•-esese-e-•••-•.-e-•-e-a-e-e-• 4 -4 -e -e• Fibt.WithSailors. Villefranche, Jan. 1.8,-T1ree Amtiricau sailors from the battle, ships at preseut in Villefranclie Trarboe had ati encounter this morning with n gAng of local ref-, flans. A. party of three comrades came to their rescue before any. body eves seriously hurt, and by the time the police arrived four out of the five assailants were pri- soner e in the hands of the blue- jackets. The fifth escaped. VIENNA'S EPIDEMIC, Children Under Five Years of Age the Principal Victims. Vienna., Jan. 17,--A malignant epl- demie of spinal paralysis, which affects children, and is called poliomyetis, has broken out here. The children attacked are mostly under five years of ago. They are suddenly seized with a high fever and delirterie The following day they are unable to move their Mends a-nd feet. Massage and treatments of elec- tricity sometimes bring relief in a week, but often the limbs remain paralyzed and the muscles atrophy and the chit- dren are doomed to. be cripples for life. There are eases in. which the muscles of the lips and the tongue become par- alyzed aiul death ensues. The bacillus of the disease has not yet been diecov- eyed, Millionaire Killed Salt Lake City, Jan, G. Wood, of Salt Lake, millionaire mine owner and perhapsthe larg- est sheep owner in the west, was instantly killed by a Union Paci- fico engine in the Oregon short lino railroad yards at 9.15 o'clock last evening. His body was discov- ered twenty minutes later laying between the rails near a car. TREASURE ISLAND. ROMANTIC TALE OF SEARCH FOR GOLD IN SOLOMON GROUP. "Blood Brother" to Chief a Fakir anci Organizer of Brokers' Expedition Committed Suicide. Victoria, ea et, Jan. 17.-A hountrak etory of a vain search for a treasure is - eine, in the Solomon group by an expe- Ult1011 from byaney on tue schooner Wheatsheaf, was brought by the steam- er Aorange just arrived. .A story like a eomance by Stevenson, with ite main ammeter a white anal], who had become oloOd brother to an islander and king af tons of hidden gold, all lost when S.Calell was made twenty years after, and of dissension and suicide among the ...rettsure bunters. The 'Wheatshcaf, which had returned co Sydney; was dispatehed by a syndi- rJate formed there on an agreement tvbereby Ma Mason, the organizer, agreed t� have the captain, who twenty years beforo. had aided it chief of Mal- aito to poWer and by editing their arms and intermingiint,er blood, had be- eome• the chief's blood brother; direct the expedition to a large amount, of gold discovered by natives, and "in his capacity- as sovereign's blood brother se- cure sole right of trading throughout the country." "After cruising from place to. plaee in the Solomons conferencs being held with many Of the native reliefs, the captain finally said his blood bro- ther had been blown up by dynamite in his absence; miter deposing the captain and leaving him among tho natives. Ma- son, the organizer; studded on the way back to Sydney." FIRE IN SCHOOL Another Montreal Fire Trap Burn- - ed This Morning. -Montreal, Que., 34.111, 18.---.110Yal Arthur Sehool, the foundation stone of which was laid many years ago by the Duke of Connaught, Was partially destroyedby fire early this morning. The structure, three-storey brie: buil ding, which con- tained Oil Friday last a trifle over five hundred scholars, 11as of late years been looked upon as a fire trap, and those in the tieighborhood who are accustomed to sending their childeen to it are only too glad- that the structure is finally dispeeed of Without loss of life. The buildieg is only gated, however'and can be rebuilt inside the old elle& Over- heating of the fnreace is to blame for the fire, and just a week ago to -day there was an ineipient blaze from thy Mate NIUS.C. T110 bading is owned by the Proteetent School Board. HEBREWS MEET. Convention lo Discuss Sectarian Teaching in Schools. Philattelpbia, Jan. 18, ---The executive eonunittees .and boards of directors of various bodies affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations met here to -day, preliminary to the openieg togeorrow of the twenty-first biennial eouncil of the union. The general: topic to be clisz,ussel by the enunell in its three days' convention will be "Israel's Work is Americe," • Mellitele will be diseuesed for the pre- venting. -of sttetavien teeding in public eehoole Ana for preventing the 'enact- ment of laws &trim:Petra to th.of441wha observe the erventh day of the week vie the Sebbatle reervien Cabinet int' the tided time Joe tendered its resignation, which Xing - Peter is tonsiderieg, :BRITAIN'S 'DREADNOUGHTS Only' One Old Vessel on the .Nore Division, A New Ship, Lord Nelson, Placed in Commission. First French Battleship a Dread, nought Type Launched. 11,••••••••,, Loudon, Jan. 18 -Just as Great Britaiu was the first to have a Dread- nought, so she is before all other ma tln itt havieg a.fleet of these, the most modern of fighting ehies. With the commiesioniug of the new battleship, Lord Nelson, and her aseignment to the Nom division of the Home Fleet, the first lino of defence against a possible at- tack from across the North Sea, that fleet, in the words of a British A,clintral, became "a combination of strength and homegeneity unequalled, shipfor ship, in the world's fleets. A year ago the Nore divisioa, which is ander the command of Vice -Admiral Sir FrAneis Bridgeman, consisted of the Dreadnought, which had hardly com- pleted her trials; tho Bulwark, Londou, iViagnificent, Majestic and Victorious. During the year the new battleship Ag- amemnon and the armored cruisers In- domitable and Inflexible, which are to all intents and purposes battleships, re- placed older vessels, and last week the 'Lord Nelson relieved the Magnificent, leaving the Victorious the only represen- tative of the pre -Dreadnought era in Ad- miral Bridgeman's conunand. Before midsummer it is anticipated the fleee will be further strengthened by the Dreadnought battleships Tem- eraire, Bellerophon and Superb. British shipbuilders are elated over the prospect of obtainieg contracts for Argentine ravel craft, bids for which have been invited. The shipbuilding industry is at such a low ebb on account of depression in the mercantile marine that most of the yards are running part time and many men are without work. Argentina proposes to build two battleships which aro to be somewhat stronger „than those now being built for Brazil. They are to be of 20,- 000 tons and will carry a dozen twelve -inch guns. The Argentine Gov- ernmont has also asked tenders for sev- eral torpedo-boat destroyers. The •Republie of Argentine is re- ported to have 'made a proposal to Brazil that each Government take one of the two ships the Brazilian Gov- ernment is now building hero and cancel the . order for a third battle- ship, thus equalizing the naval pre- parations of the two countries. Brazil declined toaccept the proposal. FRANCE'S PIRST DREA,DNOUGHT. New York, Jan. 17.--A cable des- patch to the Sim from Paria,says: Tho Voltaire, France's first Dread- nought, was launched at Toulon to- day. She is the Ent launched tf six similar ships the building of which was begue early in 1907. She will bavo turbine ezerines and carry four guns of 305 millimetres, twelve cf 240, sixteen of 75 and eight; of 47 millimetre's. The cost will be $10,- 800,000. The Voltaire's armor is not as thiek as the Dreadnought's. The five other battleships now in course of construc- tion will be named respectively the Diderot, Coudorcet, Vergniaud, Mira. boat .and Denton. se • • CREW PERISHED. Newfoundland Schaoner Wrecked Off Long Island. New York, Jan. 17. --In a biting, hiving snowseerm off the. aeong Island More the schooner Swallow, of St. John's, Nfld., and her crew were lost to -day, according to evidence furnished by it turbulent sea which has strewn the beach east of Fire Island for several ,niles with bite of wreekage from the thip itself and from her cargo On some .if this flotsam appears theamme, "Swal- low, St. John's. _Nfld.," and this told the benehmen who found the wreckage what vessel it was that heti .pounded herself to pieces in it few short hours in the howling gale. Of the crew, probab'y five or six, judging from the schoon- er's size, there was no trace. Itirt the wild rage of the sea, the thick, driving snow with ite attending bitter cold, left no doubt in the minds of the beachnien as to the crew's fate . No human power could have aided them. It is supposed the Swallow, presum- ably a fishing boat, was bound from Newfoundland to New York with it cargo of frszen herring, and that slit carried a deckload of lumber to help make the trip pay. Caught in the storm, the crew probably lost their her/ ings, and Berndt on one of the mine, sandbars a mile or so off shore, near the Blue Point station, There the wind and heavy seas pounded the .vessel to pieces in a short time and, the men aboard .erere speedily lost in the sea. RUSSIAN TRUSTS. • Government to be Asked to Grant Power to Legalize Them. Tendon, ,Tan, 17.-A despatch front St. Petersburg to the Observer says a peti- tion to the Council of *Ministers is being extensively signed by Moscow capital- ists and manufacturers in favor of legal - !zing industrial combinations for the maintenance of prices. The petition urges that the present law is an old- fashioned survival, and ie harmful to the present developntents of Russian in- dustry. The iinmediate object of the Aloseow capitalists is to obtain freedom of nation to fight United States trusts for eoetrol of RUSSlieS far eastern meg- kets. Ceder the protective tariff which is to be reimposed hi the far ,eastern Pro- Villeefi important artielee 1ib rtgrlettl- hind machinery will still be admitted free of duty. ROIBER ESCAPES. *sr, Jam 18. --Win. Hiram atone, 30 years old, who WaS serving a lit -year selli We for highway robbery, emoted from Sing fling to -day. Morso itt tiVe feet seven aml it half Whoa tag mat a viola: ICS pounds. Ire Iota been hi twieon eight yenre, COLLEGE ON mkt ..‘16bi7o, Ala.. Jan. l8. -Tito femme Spriughill College, the largest .Tesuit institution iit the settili, is on fire. The flows Are rapidly gaining headWay. AFTER 18 DOS. TWO GIRLS A1.7..:BOTHER RES QUEP. AT .MVSSINX Vivid Description of the Earthquake O' ° ff NearienW ul 3°1 tyie eCh:W ers . n4V0: aa ts h R° e°. Vevri c7r dVri e ic tiros. in Pitieble Condition, Rome, Jan, I8.-Twe gide and their brother Were reeeued to -day froun it pile of ruins neat the Mira trf the Apos- tles. Illessina, where they innt been on' tombed for eighteen dare Their WWI - (ion is pitiable. Some soldiers war the place heard faint cries' from bette.ath the debris,end they at once began to .elt" eevate. Their work wee extremely clier Ileelt, but they persisted-, and were finally rewarded by teener the tkree stiTilltyliv°heare named Afinissale. They OW fialitete'rlui:tihnerAinVaeseiciallh%rninultJusu a ilwthei; were •within reach of it supply of onions, oil, wine and water sufficient to kee.p them alive. The girls are eget} 17 ansl 10. years, and the boy 14. A little sister, as well as the naotears- was killed. The survivors were with thm ein part of a small room, which astonishingly es-copea pulverizations Their own ef forts ltel to their eeseuee The boy, Preateeco, was partioulaelY. active. They excavated the ruiAS with. their lintels until they were near eaough the surface to make tlieir erioe -hazed, Their rescue has given impetus to searchea elsewhere. THE END OF ALL THINGS. Perhaps the Most graphic picture of the great Italian earthquake* as it affected those who survived, is giVOM in. yesterday's New York Herald, 'The narrator is one Degira, aat offieer of the Italian constabulary, who happened to be out in the country near Scylla \ellen the shock came, Here is his steey as told on hie arrival in New York: ' Just before daybreak there was a sudden rush of the air all about, and hideoll9, shrieking, crashing, roaring neises were heard at a distance, Down tbs inountitieskle came huge boulders and quantities oe earth sliding and roll- ing. From the town below arose the distant, din of roeks and • buildings fall- ing. Long after the earth had ceased Itis motion this continued, aud the see and the heavens gave forth the strangest noises, while in the west and s'outh there wena great bursts of light. 'Phe peasaet accompanying Degira eves screaming in terror and holding an to Itis donkey, 1Vhieli WS_ trying to. run away, Now came a great roar from all along the shore, es if the sea were trying to engulf the land, but geadtmlly alt gxew quiet. After some little time tliey pro- ceeded, picking their way over the now dangerous trail, atul as soon as it Was light enough to see they beheld 15 the things near them the enormous damage which had been done by the shock. Soon they met a man and two ohildreil rename'-, .erying anit d 'mering,along the road. The man called out that the end of the world had ceme; that the devil bail got his brother tend his brother's wife, and he was fleeing to a chapel in the mountains, Still pressing .on t oward the town, they met more fugitives, nearly of of them drenched, and some bobbling abont or being half carried. All warned Degira not to go on to the town, but Ite con- . Owed until by the light of day he saw Out there was no town to whioh.to go. The curved point with the projeeting rockon which it lad stood was shak tercel absolutely, and above the SRA pm - traded bits of rock that were all that. was left above the sea of the city, wlck'Ji11. the earthqu:lst:had shaken -dawn into EXPRESS RATES. Mr. E. D. Smith Complains of Unfair Treatment. Toronto despatch: The peculiar effect of competition and growth of traffic on express rates was illustrated before tle Dominion Railway Board by Mr. D. D. Smith, ex -M. P., a fruit grower of Winona, who said that he paid 1/1 ex- press charges during the year from $00, 000 to $40,000. Ite instanced the trefic with. the Maritime Province, where a carload rate of 87 1-2a, per 100 pouads was formerly given. When the Dwain. ion Express Company entered the ter- ritory the rate was increased to 41.25, although the business. had increased fourfold. Similarly a carload rate for distribution in Manitoba was given at $2 per 100 pounds when the shipments - were sent around by Smith's Falls. Ror an improved car, an extra charge of 15 cents was made, but when the irtdt was routed via North Bay, the rates were increased to $2.25 to main line' points aud $2.40 t� branch lines. Wean the route was again changed to the - Sudbury line, no reduction was made. Mr. Smith also coniplaieed of .the form of contract used by the express compan- ies, in which they refused to be .helrl responsible for toes on goods -caused by tbe detention of trains. The trade at Sherweocl, Quebec, had been entirely lost on this account. He had always fOnait the Dorninioe Exprest Company ready to pay claims where it was not voted. ed by the contract, but could not say the same for the.Canedian Express Com- panylie thought that the shipper, at least, should not be asked to pay the charges on these delayed shipmente. 11 regard to the quality of fruit baskets, Mr. Smith thought they -wereno waste last year than usual, but he had treVer found them *very good. UNWRITTEN LAW High Above the Written Law, Says Thornton Hains, New York, Jan. 113.-Thorton ins Heinsacquitted yesterday of eorn- plicity in the enuraer of William B. An- nie, Will &Trend to -day in refit at a local hotel with his father and mother, Gen, and Mrs. Peter C. Mina, As short story writing is hie profeeeion, Hants says he will get to work immediately. lie is quoted as follows: "Do you know what stands out foremost in 'my mina front the backgroOnd of the trial? This, Met the jury, by acquitting me of eriminel responsibility for the death of Annis, Inc *tied the "unwritten lee high above the writtert law of the Kate of New York. 1 purpose to devote Muelt of my time hi the immediate future to Writing* a relies of artieles embodying t 1.41 t ibnught. 1 int end elm to wri te a novel letting for its thenie the miwi it - n law."