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The Wingham Advance, 1909-02-11, Page 715 YEARS LONGER LIFE. important Announcement by Dr, Irving Fisher, a Yale. Lover Life Assured ly Adoption of Hygienic Reforms, An Address Which Should Interest Everybody, 1%Tew York, Feb. ii.—Declaring that Ira - /eau life in America could be lengthen - oil by one-third—that i; more than fif• tvea e`ears—by the adoption of hygienic %Worms already known, Dr. Vie br, of Yale University, this afternoon in an athireess before the Assoeiatiou of Life lament° Presidents, urged the ad rlsability of inenrance compaides talee eng an naive part in the crusade against tuberculosis and enter preventable dis- easee, He coetended that nay =my expended in educating the publie Along tho lines :of modem hygiene would be re- turned many tinees over to the policy holders, to say nothing of the enoemous eeonomic gains to the eountry at large. Dr, Fisher, who has been professor of rolitical economy of Yele since 1808, es president a the Committee of (big Hunored on National Health, which, is carrying on an extensive movement throughout the country to improve liv- ing conditions, Ills address was deliver- ed. to practical insurance mem company presidents, medieef directors and patina% ies, while included in the audience were also physicians and others .prominent in the present anti -tuberculosis movement. 'Should life insurance companiet; ser- liously take up the work of lenegthening human life, they would make, I believe, the greatest step forward ever taken in the prolongation of life," said Dr. Fish- er, "The nearest analogy is perhaps to be found in the work of fire insurance etunpantes in reducing the number of fires. But it is, I believe, a general truth that the best eitecess of anyillOAM, merit is fouad only when'in a sense, it reaches the commercial stage—in other -words, when it is made to pay in sonie tangible way. "If we take tide life tables for &cr- one periods for England, Franee, Prus- sia, Demnark, Sweden and Massachu- setts, we find that • HUMAN LIFE DENOTMENED duringthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at the rate a about four years per century.' that during the first three. quarters ofthe nineteenth century it lengthened at the rate .of nine years per century; that at the present it is length- ened in Europe generally at the rate of 17 years per century, and in Prussia (which is pethaps the home of preven- tive medicine) of the rate of 27 years per century. •For this century the rate tan only be judged from the etatisties for Massachusetes, whieh show that life is lengthening by about 11 years per century, or approximately half of the Prussian rate. "A fall of the death rate always ;promptly follows sanitation, Colonel Gorges cut the d-eath rate itt Havanain two, bringing it down to between 20 and 24, The New Yorkedeath rate yeepond• (-Vat once to Colonel Waring's clean streets, and that of Iloeheater to Dr. Goler's milk °mantle. And now it is an- tiouneed that the death rate of New York is 164 the lowest on record—a re- sult, in all human probability—due to the hygienic work of Dr. Darlington, the efficient health officer, Mr. Nathan Straus, the milk reformer, and the pub- lic agitation' for health prosecuted by the New York Time; the Journal and other media, allied with the health work of the Committee of One Hundred. or Na- ttonal Health, the Tuberculosis Associa- tion, and committees of other organize, - Coifs. "These and other facts and the Of detailed figures which they represent shinv conclusively that human life is long or short precisely according to the liygtenie conditions under whieh it is lived; that human life can be prolonged as these hygienic conditions are improv- ed, and that there is still enormous room for improvmnent. "A report which I have recently cam - "Y' piled. for the Conservation Commission, based on data, contributed from a,e- knowledged American authorities, shows that human life in America could, by the adoptioa of hygienic reforms already known and entirely pretetimble, be lengthened by over one4hird—t1iat is, OMR 35 YEARS. Tide calculation has been made very conservatively. The statistics- and es, tiniatee on which it is based have been taken from published sources, as well as voutributed .by Salta two score Ameris caii authorities—medical, actuarial and hygienic. -Tuberculosis is known to be prevent- nbk. In ray table it is entered as 76 per cent preventable; pneumonia as 45 per cent preventable; typhoid 41S 85 per cent.; diphtheria, 70 per cent. These eonservative figures are among the highest allowed. Many diseases, such as cancer, are recorded in the table as zero e'er cent. preventable, although the best expert opinion would allow somed et, degree of preventability, if prevention begins early enough in life. "On the basis of these ratios of pre- ventability, or rather postponability of death, has been contputed the possible exteusion of the average human life by saving lives now lost by preventable dis- eases. This ealeulafiou Is made on the essubiption that those thus saved from death enjoy as their nsW lease of life only the expectation of life now belong- ing to their respettive ages. This as- sumption is very eonservative, for it means that liver; onee saved shall reteive me further benefits from improved tnor- tality, hilt shall die off at the old rates or "Even on these tate premises of partial poetpotlability of aeaths, We find that about two years of the possible length. ening of human life Would be due to the elimination of preventable tuberculosis; .6 of a year to the eliminatiou o rom. table typhoid; .5 to the elimination of preventable diphtheria; .0 to the ation of provettable accidents. It is eie timated that at Meet 8 yee.rs could be added to Immo lifts by eeturing tea- toimbly pure air, water and milk. 'A different method of calculation bring home there figures to life di minima conipaniem By working out the ratios of preventability for en& of the prineipal causes of death, it is to tosistruet an ideal survivorship bale **hi& may then be tempered with te. stirViVership tables. By applying what is actually knoWn in modern by. glom, THE DVAT/I LOSSES at different .suffered among in- frared pet* 'num be recTuted by teai. ly half clueing the filth three deetelem of life; by about oncetiaird during the three deetclee of middle lifo, lettntiett 20 and 00.; and by Omit one-eeventh dui the two decades next later. There see to be no reason why a large part of t enoemoua poseiblo Ming mullet be tualty achieved. The oioth decode pia n negligible. Vole. Even if We canto oureelvee with the thirteeo per co improvithility which applies to t eighth domed° of life amtamine tlt this ratio and no higher applies theoug out life, the improvability of the ilea rate at any age at risk is enormous. "According to the plane width, I have itt iniud, the mow whielt the life in- surauee companies would invest in life- saving would not be in hospitals or San atorias but in the education of the pub. lie, and especially their polioyholdero, in health emitters, and the joining in every legitiniate way to improve the public health offices and services in the mutticiptlities, states anti the Fedeval Gov - eminent. In this latter way the result of the expenditure of money by the in, mance companies would be to induce the Government to spend much larger sums, and the inoney thus hivested in behalf of the policyholders would be multiplied in efficiency several fold. "Just as fire insurance companies eu- (leaver to sedan itt inuflioiPitlities Ade- quate fire protection, so life insurance companies might properly endeavor to scour° adequate municipal health pro- tection and they might likewise bring their influence to bear to secure the pas- sage of model health laws by our states in respect to slaughter houses, pure food and other health reforms. It is agreed by all competent, judges that. there ie new it greit end needless waste of hum- an life, and it is Qbvious that the fin- ancial weight of this waste falls very laagely on the policyholders.'/ Dr. Fisher suggested the Committee of One Hundred on National Health as an agency through which the education for hygienic reforms could be conducted, 4. ggo hie id""‘"j'a3"11 ys wAm RACK. aa• at nt. he th ELECTION IN SIGHT. British Government Said to be Forcing Crisis. ••••••••,....,0 Newcastle -Upon -Tyne, Feb. 8.*---Win- eton Spencer Churchill, Free:dent of the Board of Trade, in it speeoh hero last night, said that a general election "al- ready is on the horizou and will not be improperly retarded." Such a statement by it member of the Government ti1I cause it flatter in political circles. There have been riunors latelyof a considerable dif- ferences of opinion among the mem- bers of tho Cabinet on the navy ques- tiou, an influential section being op- posed to ass great increase in the building programme. It is believed, however, that Par. Churchill in his speech to -night - was not alluding to this dissension, but to the probability of a discussion of a dissolution of Parliament after the next sessiou as an outcome of difficulties in meeting a large deficit in the next budget. -see a WOULDN'T WORK, Many Men Failed to Report When Work Was Offered. - Toronto Despatch 5,000 regis- tretioes have been made at the employ- ment bureau conducted by the Associat- sel (nitrides an behalf of tile city, and ef this number 1,128 were askad to re- port for .„ work. grading in the parks, while only 781 reported. That is, 342 failed to take advantage of the oppor- tunity to work. Of 1,320 for whom enow-shovelling jobs -were provided, 807 reported, and 513 failed to put in an ap- pearance. Of 481 cases inquired into 178 frauds were discovered. These figures have been prepared by Mr. E, P. Trimble, Superintendeut of the bureau, and they form the basis of• the city's movement to have it num- ber men who were sent out to Can - edit by the East London Emigration 8.ociety deported. Toronto has eontri- buted nearly $13,000 this season, to alle- viate the misery caused by the men be- ing out of work. HELD ON BIGAMY CHARGE. Former Seaforth Woman Under Ar- rest in Manitoba, Snowflake, Man., Feb. 8—Mrs. Kenna, who wee married here a short time ago Lo a Mr. Wightman, a respectable widow- er from Huron, Ontawas arrested on a charge of bigamy, as it was charged that she has u husband living, in the person of t. Kenna, who is said to be trite -citing saksman for a Wintipeg house. Mr. Wightman end his bride haul just got settled. in their house. on the Handfeed farm, which they had rented. Mrs. Kenntds maiden name was Baer, and her father is a' resident of Seaforth. e SERIES OF TORNADOES • Killed it Score of People in Southern States. Ky., Feb. 8.— Death for probably a, score of p01 -sons, losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pro- perty and the crippling of many tele- graph wires resulted between noon anti dusk to -day from a series of small toe madness which swept the south central ntatee from the Tennessee line to the Texas Panhandle. Pout persons were killed at Rolling - fork, Miss.; six were killed tit Booth, Miss., and it large amount of property deetroyed. TWO women were killed at Sulphur Springs, Texas, and two others at Stuttgart, Ark. HALF RATES OUT OFF. •••••••••••••• Railways Deeide That Cternemen Musc Pay Full Fare in the Weet. Winnipeg, Fob. 8.—Western railways to -day, announced their definite deter- mination to Abolish the half -fare rates for all clergymen,students and mission - ridge, which privilege has been enjoyed by them since the settlement of the west. The matter has been under seri- ous solvisement for some time, and the companies at first thought of extending the cut vete to inissionariee in the tieW. er seething raid sparsely -settled districts of the country, but later withdrew this Itiso. Several of the churches mode strong representations to the emouanies in the metter without Denman Thompson Ill. New York, Feb. 7..---Niews 'was reeeiv. ea in theatrical diodes in this eity to- day that Denman Thompson, the vetereet aetor of "The Old Ilornesteed," is dan. geronsiy ill of pnertinenia at his home itt Went Sweneey, near &ate, N. If. Thompson is 70 years old, flo criticeI els his eondition that his relatives have been summoned to his bedeide. Albert Itnion, United Mite tVorkere, S ill erlinit Oritstitels to membetehip and MILOS() withdraw !rota the Tractes and Labor Conertres, Shrubb Quit in the Last Mile, Euglishman Lead For 24 Miles, ••••••••••••••• New York, Fob, 0.—In it remarkable Marathon race in the Garden last night, Tom Leughoet, the great Indian run, ner, defeated Alfred Shruble, the fain - oils British runner, after a run of 26 miles 4 laps. For twenty miles Shrubb looked all over a winter, but he had set eueh it fast pace that he could not, stand the long, grueling strain. At one stage of the race Shrubb had it lead of eight tam having takeu the lead at the start and increased it almoet as he pleased. Wheo he had finished 21' milers and eight laps, however, Shrubb suddenly stopped running, mid walk- ed slowly round the trade. As he did so Lougboatf cut down his lead by tam laps before the Briton began to run • TOM LONGBOtel, The invincible Indian qf Car.ada. again. In tho eighth lap of the next mile Shrubb did some more walking, and again repeated the performance in the 23rd mile. Longboat had now reduced his. lead to two laps, amid a wild scene. Ton thousand spectators simply lose their heads, and roared until the sound was deafening. Shrubb revived a bit after that, and ran behind Longboat, but he was soon groggy, and was reeling all over the track like d drunken man. The inoinent Longboat gained the two- remaining laps and forged to the front, Shrubb quit and fon exhausted into the arms of Ins traiuers and others at the trackside. Shrubb gave a wonderful exhibi- ton of running for twenty miles, and proved that ho is the greatest man in the world at that distance. Ile broke all indoor records up to that point, Gee- ering the twenty miles in 2.01.25 4-5. But the pato was a killer, and ho could not stand it. Longboat ran the full distance in 2.53.40 2-5, and received a royal ova- tion when he pulled up. . It was one of the meet exciting races ever item on a cinder path. Shrubb had no ex- cuses to melte. He said he had been beaten faitly.. Longboat's enduranee was too inuch for him. SPIRIT OF MARS HAS TAKEN POSSESSION or , BRITISH PEOPLE, New Melodrama, "The Englishmah's Home," Has Driven the People Mad on Invesimi Question—Six Now Dreedreouhts Asked for. London, Feb. 8.—thigiish theatre -goers aeon in somewhat of a pante over the possibility of invasion by a hostile army, ineidents following the pro- due•tion of the play 'An ingli,h,nan's itome," bent on Reels A possibility, show Lb e state of mind of a seetion of the general, publie, Lon' Essheapperiled through the Daily Mail for 11,00 velem- teere to complete the quota of the Como ty f Lenaen in the territorial army, and an dnonymotts- reader sent him it cheque for 00,000 to assist in the work of recruiting this force., The solemn warnings whielioL6rd Roberts has teen uttering for two years and the fervid speeches whieli %fr. &Maim, the Millie - ter of Woe, has been making all Over the country, hove done their work, and suddenly, under 'the influence of the realietie play, the people have awakened to a realization of what war would mean. Nothing is talked of in the street, the •elub, theehotne, 'except the derma of the Wand. Pifotts whielt eon he de- iseribed only as frenzied are being auttle to reeruit the territorial aemet. • ne Admit:04e le &eking the Govern- . ment for authority to la^ down six Droadnoughto Ole year, Tate is itpanic plogrammo, and taken in connection with the fresh eoncentration of naval strength in the North Sea—most Mop- pertnnely announced on the eve of the King's departure for Berlin—is sufficlent evidence of the hollew mockery of the pretence that Britain and Germany are prepared to abandon their mutual sus- picions. Aniong the declaratious itt gory Stein' e 'Wok on the Kaiser, which is ex- ercising diplomatic circles here, is ono to flee effect that the present home de- fence Helton° Itt Eogland is really the coneequence of a dernaull by lerancte which requires Britain to create it log standing, army before she. will ,allow filo entente to develop into a formal alto anee, Herr Stein proeeedsi "The fen& for augmenting the 13ritieh army would certainly be granted by the British Gov- ernment if the expenditure for the fteet could simultaneously be decreased with- out sacrificing the two -power standard —that is, if Gernmuy would agree to a, mutual limitation of naval armament,. This direet Mot was given at Krousberg in August, 1008, but Kaiser William was not romantic enough to agree to this method of making the world bap - •••••••4, -1-0•—•••,•—••••••, AWAY AHEAD. British Flying Machine Expected to Revolutionize Aeroplant. Londoo, Feb. 7.—Reynoldes News- paper says patents have been secured in all countries for it now British heavier-than-air flying machine which will revolutionize aeroplane construc- tion. This machine is as far in ad- vance of the aeroplane of the Wright Brothers as theirs was of its pre- decessors. The main feature of the new machine is its extraordinary stability. Conditions which woulct lead to disaster in other machines are neutralized by the application of it meehanical contrivance which keeps the keel perfectly level. Recent trials, which were conducted in the most se- cret manner, astonished the experts who witneesed them. BOYCOTTili FAMILY. • FORCED TO LIVE IN STATE OF SIEGE IN tRELAND. Y•••••••••••••• Police Guard the House Night and Day, Protect the Cattle and Escort Owner and Hie Wife When They Go Abrodatt. New Yoida Feb. 0.—A cabledespatch to the Sun from London &Lys: Ian Mal - eclat, a, writer for magazines, Writes to the Times a story of his .experienees in Ireland, where he is now staying, tit the house% of Charles Clarke, at.Iroly Cross, mem Thurles. The Clarkes, with their employees and their depenthentsommber- ing over 100, have been eomplotely boy- cotted. In telling - about the boycott, s'Mr. 'Malcolm Baja of Mr. Clarke: 'Ho never evicted a tenant, and is a permanent resident landlord, paying over i1,000 (83,000) yearly in wages. He sold all his lande to his tenants exeept 1,000 acres of the home farm. This was coveted by the populace, who determined to make his lift miserable tintil they got it. "On arriving I found the front door end win,dowe damaged and smashed. There was no bread in the house and no one in the neighborhood dares to supply any. If it cities not =lye from Dublin the employees purehased the necessaries of life at a shop which has been established to house goods coming by train. "A pollee •banaek, with a sergeant and five men guard, is formed out of a gamekeeper's eottage. There are also it head constable mid five men in the butler's cottage; Seven other pollee - men plaided the laborers and, the cattle. Five policemen live in the house. "MI night long," continues Mr. Mal- colm, "I could ,hear the tramp of the patrol pacing the paths with loaded shot -guns. When Mr. Clarke goes in broad daylight to Thurles •or Cashel named policemen ride in his motor car. A force of from two to three hundred constabulary line tho streets of the town to, euable him to reath the court house in safety. Mrs. Mike, when visiting neighbors after dark, is eseorted by armed police en bicycles. 'Sunday. worship at the Protestant Church at Holy Cross was disturbed by the band of the United Irish League playing outside. When the communion &mks was about to begin it wagonette -drew up to the door with a cargo of ruffians, who began yelling, hooting and beating drums, supposing the Clarkes to be inside. This state of stege these people tied their dependouts live in, week io and week out"a. JACK BINNS Will Get Civic Welcome From His Native City in England. London, Feb. 8,—Jack Binns, the wire- less telegraph operator, who, was on board the steamship Republic at the time of her collision with the Floride, off Nantucket last month, landed in Liverpool to -day from New York. He wIts almost unrceognized, exeopt for the newspaper men. Rhine says lie has been greatly annoy- ed by the rereated offers inede to linn to oppear in musk halls, and that no matter how high the price he will de cline them all. He has been summoned to the London office of the Moroni Co., where the directors will present him with a gold wet& and chain. To.morrow Mims goosl to Pi terborough, hia native eity, where an offieial \Menlo from the mayor and city eouneil Awaits hind "ORGIES OF OBSCENITY." That is Archbiehop Farley's Narne for Whet Goes on hi the Thietre, New Feb, 7.—"The stage le "eorse to -day that it 'was in the days of paganism," mild. Arc/MART Farley in hie sermon in &tint nitride's Cathedral toelay. He Was preaching on the in- fluentof bad example. The arehbishop gold; "Where are we to find any who have lived in Accordance with the preeepts of God? All about us we have the men and women who are setting evil exam- ples. Meil hoary with lige are often found inepiriog with evil the minds of the young. They go to the public places and to the theateee in ehameleesnees nod they bring with them youngsters who mink eseepe corruption. "We see to -day men 4na Men end Old WornPn-who Might to Lnow better, bringing the young to theOrgiet01 ebscenitee" A MADMAN'S AWFUL ACT. Attacks and Molders an Oki Man " and His- Son, Daogerously Wounds a Woman and Man and Attacks Three Others in Dufferin County. Youzig Man Runs Amuck. 'rlIE. SLAIN. Jelin Spauliouse, aged 04. Jamee Spanhouse, his eon, nged 42. DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED,. 2frie, John SpanhOuse, CeOrge Beettenolet. SLIGHTLY WOLINDEI). Wm Stewart, Mrs, GoWart, WI% Irltion, Shelbourne, Ont,Vels. 7,—One of the most terrible tragediee that has ever been recorded in Dufkrin county took place at the little hamlet of Shrigley, itt Melanethon township, early thiss morn- ing, when a young man named' George Ernest Stewart, during a period of insane frenzy, murdered John Span - house, a neighbor, and his son, Jentoa, dangerously wounded Mrs, John Span - house and George tenumont, and in- ured three ther persons whom he chanced to encounter before the fit of insanity hael paseed, To -night., Iniving coufcessed that he conenitted the mur- ders, Stewart lies ill the Shelbourne lock-up awaiting the law's action. Ile eau give no reasons for his terrible deed, but the circuinstrinees attending it are melt as to leave no doubt at all that iSttmegwitie.rt for an hour this marning, was more dangerous than any tiger in the WAS 'QUEER" IN THE WEST. Ile is a powerfolly-built young man, twenty-nine years cif age. Four years ago went west and located, on a reneh. Then .he took typhoid fever, and in addition had the misfortune to lose some money in speculation. The mounted police at Medicine Hat took charge cf him when he began to show that 'ha was not quite "right," aud released him only on the promise that ble friends would bring him home to Ontario, and see that he was looked after. His father is Richard, Stewart, of Maple Valley, Young Stewart sera .last night at the• residence of his brother, William, who lives acrees the way from the Spanhouse homestead, on the fourth concession of Melane- thou. ATTACKED -111S BROTHER, Ho Iota been restlese and has passed two or three sleepless nights and his brether as a consequeuce felt anxious about him. George went to bed, but removed ouly his boas and" socks. Wil- liam slept on n loenged without unih•ess- ing, so that he might watch nis brother._ About 5 o'clock this morning George 'dose and eiept id -the door. His brother followed and tried to prevent him from leaving the house; 'Failing, he followed the now furious maniminto the Ord and attempted to fame him back into the house, but was choked and knocked down, though not danger- ously injured. Leeving his brother in a semi-conscious condition, Stewart took a heavy stake from a woodrock in the yard and set out en his horrible quest, He had pessoseed himeelf also of -a re- volver, and. was still without either cap or boots. THE MURDERS AT SPANHOUSE'S He crossed the road to the Span - house place and knocked at the door, It was opened by Mr. John Spanhouse, who, from the condition of the body when it -was found, came to the door hurriedly without putting on all his clothes. As soon as Stewart entered he fired at Spanhouse. There are several bullets in the old inan's body. Mrs. Spanhouse was awakened by hearing her husband ory out "I am shot," and rush- ed to the front of the house. There she saw the murderer still firing itt her hus- band's body. She sought refuge in her bedroom and'Stewart followed. He shot and also clubbed her with the stake he had in his Wind. She recovered cone sciousnees later, but is not expected to live. At this moment; tho son, James Span - house, appeared. Ile had heard the shots, and, with an old military rifle in his hand, hud without staying to dress, came down the stairs. Stewart, who was waiting, attacked him as he entered the parlor, seized the rifle, and, clubbing it, struck Spanhouse a terrific blow upon the head, crushing in his skull and breaking the rifle stock, The blood -spattered floor and walls when the victims were found bore dreadful wit- uess to the force of the blow. There remained but ono other person in the house besides the murderer, the Spanhottse servant, Miss Grace Chris- tian. Terrified by the sounds from the 'eneounter, She remained quiet until Ste - watt, earring the rifle, and still with- out cap or boots, left the house. Then she crept downstairs, saw that only Mrs, Cpanhouse had if in her, and from the Ostrander farm house near by telephotte ed news of the tragedy to, Shelburee. At her request also the Xamegons, the near- est tieighbors, mat to the aesistanee of Mts. Sptifiliouse, Meaulehile Stewart started fitness the fields to his father's lions°, about three milts off. When mat Maple Valley he kiteeked at the door of a house occupied by William Vititten. tutoring, he attaeked Mr. Wilsoo with the old military rifle he had 'helped hitoselrto after killing. ,Temes Span. house. The stock was partly broketi off, and Stewart earried it by tho bar - tel. Mr. Wilson was oto of the luckiest of the victims, his injuries being pain- ful, but not serious. BEAUMONT'S CONDITION SERIOVS. From tierce Stewart, his thrist for blood apparently unabated, made his way heroes the road to C. S. Pound's, who is absent in •Cobalt. The 'hired men, Goollxo nomproot, olla the heusekeeper, Mrs, (10Wan) were atteeked here, Beau - meet being se badly dubbed that bot slight hopes are entertabied for his re- covery. Mrs, Gowitn'e injuries were less severe, and after *ewart left the bowie she Was able to :telephone to W. Taylor, of Maple Wiley, for aseistanee. Mr. Taylor started to the resell° and met Stewart about half way between the valley awl Mr. Pound`e, He endeftv. ored to placate thb cetteed main wt. however, first threatened to shoot Yin and then snapped the gust at Lino bit it was either not leaded .ur tot in oon- dition, At any rate, ttlekiir foe Mr, Taylor, it missed fire, Btewntt Was thea Allowed to reinnne hie journey ten- moleeted to Ills fatherlo home. Item he 'attempted, uo damage and, went pettoefill. ly to bed, When Constables Thompson end Walloon, from Shelburne, went to ar- rest blue title afternoon he eves sleeping a$ soundly as though at perfect peace witli himself and the world. ATTACKED THE JAILER. In Shelburne jail tionight, hOwaVor, his mania again broke forth, and, el - though heavily manacled, lie attempted to brain bit jeller. Dr. J. A. timitlo, of Shelburne, em- paeelled is Coroner's jury to view the remains at the Spanhoueo borne this af- ternoon. Stewart will be removed to the comity jail at Orangeville on the morning tralu toenorrow, r.chi$ ie the second horror the Shrildey neighborhood has experieuced in slightly over three years, the other one taking place on December 7th, IAN, when, Jaime Cool - ter killed his wife and son mid dauglo ter With an axe and theo shot himself. A daughter of Coulter ie it daughter -in. law of John Spanhouse, one of the men who was murdered toeln,y. —seesee,-- TO COVER ROBBERY. .r...•••••••••• Charge of Ars2n Laid Against James Smith, of Toronto. Toronto, va, 8,e -What was epparents it deliberate attempt too cover up a robbery by setting fire to the building in which it took place was discovered an Saturday hight, when Patrol Sergeant Beatty aud Constable dscaeh, fob towiug upthe smell of emoke, oriole upon a fire SMOuldering in the basement of the White-Alfan factory at 67 Sher - bourne street. The fire had been started in a pile of rubbish, and was slowly eat- ing Its way up the walls when the offi- eere -arrived. . An alarm was thread in and the blaze was extingulehsti before serious damage had been done. The reloarkable feature. of the case le that when the blaze was discovered the man who is alleged to •have started it had been in a cell at Wilton Avenue Police Station for several hours. He gave his name as James Smith, and when arrested had in his possession n. needier of aritelesthat have been identified as the property of the 'White -Allan Com- pany. TORTURE OF CATTLE A Shocking Case Reported Fiera Near Fingal. St, Thomas, Feb. 7.—The Crown auth- rities are investigating it remarkable case of cruelty to cattle belonging to Ira Gilbert, a farmer near Fingal, west of here. During the peat six weeks two of his cattle have died" and others were very sick, and an examination by vet- erinaries revealed the fact that an in- strument had been forced into their mouths and down their throats, pene. trating the gullet, and allowing food and other 'natter to congregate, caus- big a lump in the throat. - Investigation so far has only resulted in the findingof it broken piekhandle - covered with blood, and this may have beeu used to maltreat the beats, al- though the wounds have the appearancea of being made by a sharper instrument, Mr. Gilbert, has suspicions as to the guilty party, but lacks evidence to war - mat presecution. . ROBBED ON CAR, Daring. Montreal Thief Knocked Down by Conductor. . , :Montreal, Feb. 7,—The most daring robbery that has taken place in this city for some time ras perpetrated on it St. Donis street ear shoetlet after midnight on Friday, t hen James Chava- der, St. Hubert stree:,, was 'attacked by Arthur Lajeunesse, a man well.known ot t‘limetcyl,olice, and"relieved of $91 and, his N The robbery took place while the car was going through the subway. Lajeunesse had secured the money and wateh and was making.off when the con- ciliator took a handn the game told floored the robber. He was arraigned in the Police Court on Saturday before Judge Led on it charge of highway rob- bery. He pleaded guilty and trial was fixed for Wednesday. • • TWO KILLED And Sixteen Injured in Railway Wreck Near Memphis. .••••••Z•••••••• Memphis, Tenn., Feb., 6:—Two men were killed and 10 others were injured ia a wreck, on the Illinois Central Itail- road near Coldwater, Miss.,early to -day, when train No; 2, known as the fast north bound, ran into an open switch. One of the injured is not ex- pected to survive the accident. The dead are Martin Stanton' the nreman, of Memphis, and it mailclerk, whose nom° is, not -known. The train, woe badly wrecked. TOY FACTORY Opened by London Labor. Men For Unemployed. Undo, Ont., Feb. 8.—In order to give eniployment to destitute workmen Who have been unable to secure work during the `winter the Trades and Labor Council this morning opened it toy fac- tory. Twenty men tire at work anti the time has been arranged so that no inan will work more than nix Ileum. The toys inatufe.etured will be sold by local mer- elututs. The iestitution will likely be es- tablished perinettently, WAS COURT PREACHER. Berlin, Feb. 8.—Dr. Adolf Stocekert died in this city to -day. Ire Was born le 1833- At one time he was one .of the favoritecourt preacher; but ef re. emit years lie bed been out of favor et court. He recently resigned his seat io the Reichstng. COURT FOR JUVENILES. ottawit, Ont,, 8. --The Children's Aid Society is asking the Government Le not the Juvenile Delinquents Act into foree in Otetiwe, and to have a separate Iamid for children. Tho distovery that a Wit TOrontO Varlet* hik4 emellpox 0'44 exhiteincint, HE STUCK TO MS ENGINE ••••,er onee. —or Crtssed the Bridge in Safety and Saved 100 Lives. The Flood Undermined a Bridge Near 1.06 Angeles. Fur Bridges Downt, and Outhouses and Other 4uildings Cone, Lei Angeles, Feb. 8. ---One hundred lives hung be the balance for the frac- tOon ef a eoeonel last night, while Engi- neer Baldwin, .cf .0, Santa Fe train, heeltated as to Whether lie should folknv his firemards example and jum.p or stick by his engine end pilot it over the fest settling bridge at tevenue 33 and the. Ar- royo Sham The Alwyn wam it rieghte . torrent !writ the heavy' storm and the. water had cut under the .ennere44 ?Mug of the bridge, audit began to sag. Then came the train of five ears, slipping down grade from Pasadena. Several hien- tired persons wore out watching the etreani, and whea they saw the trate coming they attempted to warn it. Engineer Baldwin saw the danger, but a* he was tutabI bit stop the train be- fore it YAW on the .bridge, he opened the throttle- and let the engine go 0,SrOSS• Bad he hit the bridge at high speed, careand paasengees would have gone in- to the roaring .waters, Later the first section of the. inbound Lee Angeles lizu. ited was hailed just north of the damag- ed bridga and the passengers toned them way into the city or electric (etre. The emend seetionavae seat around by way of Itivereide. To -day the Arroyo still relentlessly is grinding its path to the seta tearing away ell obstruetions to ,cs course. Four bridges,numerous fensas, out, houses and buiidinas, a dozen bulkhead:le and heavy mattreases have been taken as toll by the strum teat but a. day or JAM ago. wee it purling brook, BIG TIME Five Thousand Pairs of Shoes and Socks For the Footsore, "Sullivan! Sullivan! A graad old Irish mem; Sullivan! Sullivan 1 A name for the Hall of Fame." . New York, Feb. B.—They're singing that; on the Bowery to-aay, and they mean it. For this is the date of "Big Tim" Sullivan's annual- shoefeste on which occasion he will give away 5,000 pairs of shoes, with the hose to go with them, and th.oreby gladden as many poor chaps who have been hoofing it through the snow and slush with bur-' lap wrappings and paper stuffed shoes. All along- the Bowery the shoeless were gathering to -day for the tiencent on the Metarnore. Club, at 207 Bowery, where "Big Tim' and the Timothy D. Sullivan Association have their being. It isn't likely that 5,000 pairs of shoes will be enough to go around. Usually about 3;000 more pairs are needed. But the belated' shoeless will be comforted by a piece of change or some other re- eognition of the °neaten, for no bare- footed man is allowed.to eseapee when "Big Tim" and his clubmen get to work. *41i-4 MERCIFUL HUSBAND. French Workinan Could 1".lot Bear to Site His Wife Sufter. Paris, Feb. 7,—Alphonse Bandin, a workman living in Puteaux, kat week, shot his wife and pub an end. to her in- tolerable suffering caused by a hopeless discaee. The question has often been raised whether a man has the right to put an end to another's life in it case like thine but few mon nave been brave enough to fry the experiment end wait for justice to decide what should be done with them afterward. rya. ikodensey, dean of the fac- ulty of medicine, says of this ease: "The &tuna is one of passion inspired by pitee which had been aggravated to it point where the dem lost his reason. "One cannot contour° the aet of this man, excited by .love and pity to the highest degree, to the calm, de- liberate eet of the, physician in the same case. The physician can calm the last suffering% of his patient, but he cannot kill the patient. Certainly the husband has killed his wife, but the lawyer who defends him has it good ease: It was an act of passion, and the jorors who are men themselves are like- ly to understand such an act." SAW THE POPE. .4.••••••••••••• 11. S. Sailors Got Medals and Gave Him Three Cheers. Rome, Fe:J. 8.—The Pope gave a pri- vate audienee to -day to font -teen wider officers and it number of sailors from the Vnited Stale.; tupply ehip Celtic. They were preeented to His Holiness by Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the Anierkan College in Rome. The Pope eaid he eves greatly pleased to reoeive the sailors eel to Le able to expres-s his gratitude for all that Minim bits done in aiding Italy after the earthquake dieaster. The Pontiff then gaee to estelt nuto medal. As he left the roont the sellers saluted him with three loud cheere. WHARF BURNED. New Lomlont Conn., Vele. 8,—The Nor- wich line wharf of the New Engletia Transportation Company was destroyed by fire cerly this morning, together with the contentof the freight house and a ear containing 'the baggage of Clare, Turner, the actress. The Weiner Maine, whieh was tied to the wharf, *ought fire, was towed out into the her - her and was saved. dhe loea will be tar r t50,000. " •er Sitting in it eheit in the dining -room of his boardiog house et Mt Borden street, Toronto, Ernest Wood, A young Englishntan, Wan found dead on Smulay anfornitg, appieently from hent tire, FAQT0R10 PQrt OANAPA.. 'Vow Ara Indirect Resmit at Tr441/ With France. Washington, Feb. 7; American tariff esparto do not Yieve with .0mo.. plaeency the probabilit7 that th4 Vomit Doveronteut vritlim the nest year. will put into operation, it revised tariff whieh, it is believed, will have the effect of very seriously inating agaioet inmate lot° France from. the United. Statee. The Froneb. tax ttow oa many articles of Aneri- can, production le prohibitive. A. very pertinent fact to lee -cone sidered he this situation is, the new Fratices-CanaOlan treaty, whieli is iiow betog concluded, Hobe thie treaty Canada is to reoeive all of the enioi- mum rates of the French tariff, Even under present conditions this wili bit sufficient te Masa 1..11AnY skAlelicau manufaetorere to build •facto.iee woes the Canadian li»e, se that their peoduee may be sent to Franco with the benefit of •the low tariff. ii.anOltaeetnent Was made to -.day that the convention of the National Tariff Copuelesioa which will beheld in in. diaziapolis on February 18 to bring About the esteblielunent "of a permane ent bi-partisan tariff commissien, wilt be attended by over 2,000 clelegatee, eluding representatives of oirumfacture ing concerns, many Congressmen atid financial interests, ANTI-JAP ACTS. Chinese Protest Against Favoritism to Japanese, Roosevelt Holds Consultation on 'Frisco Situation. San Francisco, Feb. 8,—With the re- opening oi tho fight over the anti- Japanese bills in the Lower House of the California Legislature to -day it is expected that the stfuggle this week will be even more intense than it was last week when it was terrain- ated by the dramatic appeal of Speak- er Walter Stanton for delay. The latest contribution m the con- troversy which has two nations by the ears is the preparadon by the local Chinese of a statement complain- ing that President Roosevelti is dis- criminating against their countrymen. M favor of the Japanese. The mem- orial drawn by representatives of the Six Companies, which is the Chineee benevolent association of Calijornia, makes a comparison of the govern- mental treatment of the Chineee and Japanese and the claim- its raised that the latter aro clearly favored by the authorities in Washington. Attorney 0. P. Stidger, who drew up the Si) Companies' telegram- to President Roosevelt, says that it contains a strong protest against the President exerting his power to prevent the segration of jap,aneae childreo in. the Public schools, while he makes no complaint againet the corrunon prae- tics of excluding *Chineee from the white se' hoots. Kikuo,Kiyou, the correspondent of the Asani, of Tokio, announces that two parties' of Japanese eoyalty plan- ning to visit the United States, this year will cut California from their itinerate' Included in the parties will be the Prince and Princess Nashi- moto and Prince and Princess Kun- yoshi. The members of bah parties are middle aged and this -will be their first trip away from. Japan. ROOSEVELT.' ACTS. • Washington, Feb. 8. -resident Roosevelt summoned Senator Flint and Rep. Kahn to the White House to -clay and with Secretary of State Bacon and Asst. Sec'y. O'Loughlin, another conference was held • on the Japanese situation in California. An- other statement or radical action is expected to -morrow. - GRAFT IN RUSSIAN ARMY. Invitation to Persons Knowing of Peculations to Give Evidence. St. Petersburg, Feb. 7.—The official Gazette tee -day publishes the unusual invitation to all persons cognizant of peculations and other irregularities on the part of • the naval officials to com- municate with the apeciel oommitteee recently appointed by Adinirel Vovod- sky, the Minister af Moine. This com- mission ie charged with • the task of investigating the revelations in the newspapers ia connection with the trial of Major-General Alexieff, the testimony at which involved the names of high officials and contractors. FOUND bEt2D IN Mr. Walker, of Fort William, Killed by Electric Shock. Fort William, Feb. — A mini named Wulket, 34 years of age, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Cotn- pany, was killed on Saturday after- noon by D, shock from an electrie wire in the Immune of the building. Walk- er.ewas cellarman, and it was not knowa he was -dead until ono of the clerks,"go- ing into the basement for something, found his body lying on the floor. Walk- er was a uative of Bray, Ireland, and had been in the company's employ for about eighteeen months. It 1 • FOUND HUSBAND DEAD. ••••••41.•••••••.Mt Alex. M. Genereaux, of Montreal, fes- phyxiated During Wife'; Absence. Montreal, Feb. 7.—Alexander At. Gettereaux, 42 years of ago, of St, Hubert street, was found dead in bad be, his wife to -day, asphyxiated by gee. Mrs. Genereaux left home last Mooday, and whole she returned on Saturday morning she found her husbruid dead ia bed with the gas jet open. Coroner AfacAfahon decided that death was too eideutal. 4 --- Parry Sound Fire. Parry Sound, Ont., Feb. 7,— The bueinese section of • Parry Setind had a mimes' e:aipe from deetinetion by fire at an taely hour this Morrie* As it Is, two frame bloeke were etsastimed, end, bad it not been that there was lit- tle wind and what there was in the right direction, there would have been a moat disastrous fire. -4 --a— Naerow Escape of Workmen, Ottawa, Feb. 7,—The roof of the Ottawa Supply Company's building . on Sussex street collapsed on Satur- day, several workmen getting out. just in time to save their lives. About 60 feet of the roof went down, badly wrecking the building. Word Imo been received by the St. Jame& Methodist 'Church, Montreal, from Mr. eteidreve Carnegie, that he ilea donated $3,000 towards the renovation of the organ. The only tonditten hp at. Whet bit -the gift ie that thS ralete infolite $2,000.