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NIAGARA RivER rti,8li
„titt:,. ,,ild ,,„ tu the lesel of the Vella
before it could lit any wey interfere
-,( CH KED Pin . ins.. i,,,,, Tn.,onta been in dan-
with their production of power, end that
e ger ef hitting it supply ot eleetrieity
front !he Eleetrieal lievelopment Com
Ontario Power Plant EntMr
irely Out PI" eit'L uff'
. e.yotes added that tlio Eleetrieal
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of Business.
Great Damage Dont to the Gorge
Railway Track au 4 Poles.
Electrical Development Compony
Goes to Its Rival's Ai
Niagara Vallia. April IL- Extending
from the foot of the Valle dowa to
Niagara -on -the -Lake an expanse of lee
over twelve ruilea long Ilea stationary
la the Niagara River., This vast field is
broken only at the Whirlpool Rapids.
'rhe water in the river is Nom thirty-
five to forty feet above the ordinary
level, and from Queenston to Lake Oa-
taiio the glftciat formatted is still rising.
From the bend in the river at Foster's
Flats almost to Lewiston, a distance 01
six. miles,the traeks of the Gorge Rail-
road are buried under twenty to thirty
feet of ice, and all the poles and equip-
ment are broken down. The lower rapid,
whieh ordinarily rivals in terbulence the
waters of the Whirlpool Rapid, is to -day
a turgid stream, winding its way slowly
through vast eavittens'ef iee. The condi-
tion -of affairs has no precedent, Since
Friday every industrial plant that de-
pends on electricity for motive power
has been cloaca down, and the whole
city is in darkness, Early on Saturday
morning the water at the .foot of the
Falls rose forty feet above the normal
level, flooding the power house of the
()Atari° Power Company and the hy-
draulic plea below the bank. Conditions
became so bad at the Ontario Power
house that all the machinery was stop -
sed. The water and leo broke throngh
the windows and doors, which are. built
thirty-five feet above the normal level,
and flooded the power house to a
depth of nearly twenty feet. Ice is piled
."( fifty feet high in front of the power
house.
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
The famine. statement given by the
Ontario Powerr'Company corers the sit-
uation so far as they are concerned; the
other power companies tiro still work-
ing:
"The unprecedented accumulation of
ice below the Falls, extending for nearly
nine miles to Lewiston, caused. the water
to rise about forty feet above normal.
The maximum record? of high water in
the past is about twenty-eight feet above
normal. The power house is designed
with its windows about seven feeb above
the highest known height of water. Last
night, however, the water exceeded this
previous reeord by about twelve feet, and
the water and iee poured through the
windows and south door of the power
house at once, causing a stoppage of the
machinery. •
"Temporary connection is being made,
through the courtesy of the Electrical
Development Company, with their works,
and the steam reserve plants at Roches-
ter, Syrtteuse, West Seneca and else-
where are being used to supply a por-
tion of the load in the State Of Nev
York.
"The intention is to supply the public
Berviee corporation*, first, such as rail-
roads and lighting companies, and after-
wards the manufacturers and private
taws, No permanent damage is done
to the power house or its macbinery. As
soon as the water has been pumped out
of the power house it will only be heees-
wiry to dry and clean .the machinery
before resuming hill operations. The
money loses is extremely smell, but the
inconven:ence .to the customers is, of
eourse, serious. A 'recurrence of the
Accident is impossible, as the windows
twill he built up solid to a height of any
possible rise of water in the future."
itIAID OF THE MIST.
- Diving the rise of the water the Maid
of the Mist was tipped off its berth and
the landing washed away. It is dated
that considerable damage has been done
to the alintments of tha upper steel arch
bridge, but the officiate of the Interna-
tional railway say they are intact.
Conditions are far Worse lower down
the river. The Gorge Railway for eix
.ruiles is burled in lee, and in places is
mid to be broken away. The damage to
thist road will amount to $200,000, it is
thought, for though the extent cannot
at present for,
it is not con-
ceivable that the roadbed can have
wttbstood the battering of gigantic ice
Coes it has been subjected to. For a
itength M five miles a new road mey have
to be built
A HOTEL TflItF,ATENED.
The boiler 'louse and lower structures
of the Cornell House at Lewiston have
'been carried awassts, and the Cornell
House itself is threatened; Already the
is about the supports of the build-
ing and a slight rise svill bring it top-
pling into the water. A large peach
orchard between Qtteenston and the lake
has been submerged and torn away, and
at Niagara -on -the -Lake the dock and
pomp house at the M. 0. It. station
were shifted. The bathing bouses at
the Queen's Royal and all the small
piers have been swept away, and sum -
'fuer houses on the shore have been
erumple& up by the devastating ice grip.
Tito residents along the lower river are
watching it with an anxious eye. There
are expensive shipping facilities and
costly docks which may be swept away
in
it minute. .
NATURR, NOT DYNAMITE.
,Experts looked over the situation yes-
kereley, with it view to employing dyna-
Mite to break the ice up. The party in-
todrd nmnber of engineers from the
power eorepanie% le was ileeidee that
xiymtmite would have. little effect, and
pat nature must; be allowed to take its
course. The sun readiest the gorge only
for a few hones in the day, and ha % but
llttIe ktfoet on the ice that ordinarily
Aceumulatea there. V the lee does not
break away in a day or two a desperate
effort will be made to break it up with
a powerful explosive. And it is not the
voiee of the pessimist that says condi-
tions may yet be worse. About the
Valle, extending nearly to 13tifittio, the
river is packed -with enillions of 'tone of
See. If the ice jam does not break away
at tha mouth of the river before this
Mass comes rushing over the Palle the
iee will pile up higher and higher; it
fauna find an outlet under the present
jam. Only it Annan in the wind. and
'Warmer weather will ward off the dan-
gers whieh threaten valuable property
Along both banks of the .Niagara
giver.
TORONTO'S POWRII SAM.
'Arr. Mary Symes„ of the Electrieal
Pevelopniont, Company,. eteted to -night
that the plant was in no danger froM
the risingwater in Niagara River, and
thi
at any nterrnption of transinissieu ar
power
to Toronto by their line coat not
&elm under any ieiremustailetS, Mr.
!Ls
.1)evelopment Company was supplying
the Ontario, Power Company with 25,000
horse power electrie energy and that his
etnnpany Was the only one able to do
this in the present emergency, It Would
eontinue this until the Ontario Power
Company could supply power.
About 1 wen ty thousand people eame
to the Valls to -day to look at the un-
usual conditions prevailing in the Niag-
ara. River. The international Railway
ran it fifteen -minute service to Lewiston.
hundreds of people walked on the leo
formation in theriver at Lewiston, and
many crossed over 'from shore to shore.
The blur, flowing stream, of summer
is a white, still streant of winter. Ail
the way front the Whirlpool to Lake
Ontarioa glistening mass of snow and
ice crowds either shore, It is• it wonder
fill color Wallies as it bursts upon the
view from Queenston Heights, a mightY
water artery suddenly turned to a. seem -
big white death, its frozen contents,
ensiled and high -piled In paroxysms of
forced movement. Bits of 'white snow
lie upon the bordering trees, catching
the eye with their purity, and then the
brown earth, the blue woods and the
distnnt lake line, many -shaded as Lite
sky itself,
ON THE LOWER RIVER.
A sight; of the lower river in its grip
of frost is a sight indeed, Niagara is
it capricious waterway,ever surprising
the oldest inhabitant with its vagaries,
but on this 1909 Easter nature is ex-
hibiting a new and terrible illustration
of ner power. A great ice bridge
stretches from the feet of the falls to
the lower suspension bridge with only
a bit of open water hero arid there re-
vealing the under rush of the impetuous
stream. In front of the American fall
the giaantie mounds of frost overlook
it tong and narrow placed pool; the vent
of the tunnel muter the upper bridge
forces a way throughthe iee, but every-
where else the great 'hummocks are piled
high, showing the agony of arrested
motion la their contorted masses and
serrated ridges.
The lower fapidg have also succeeded
in maintaining an open path, the mad-
dened waters bejng turned into a soupy
thickness by the crumbling of iee floes,
but at the Whirlpool the ice has won
over the waters, .and with its winning
has entered upon its drstruetive work.
Scarce a manonado structure is to
be seen Mons" the banks of the lower
river. For two •miles the Gorge Rail-
way ie buried niftily feet deep. Item a
trolley pole is staggering in an angle of
helplessness. there its top protrures
above the mountain of hummoeks as if
a walking cane had been placed therein,
but for the most of the way poles and
wires are buried ns diltbply as the road-
bed.
ON FOOT ACROSS THE NIAGARA.
In the narrowest river space be-
tween Niagara Olen and the Devil's
Bridge, where in summer the water
is heaped. high in mid -stream, there
is to -day it high-backed spine of ice,
and men may Cross with comparative
safety, until the mass, regulated by
some unseen law of force, resumes its
journey, and when that happens it
were well Mat man leave no Lure to
solve her own difficulty. •
Poor old Queenstown is dockless and
Mindless, with many feet of water
and ice on her timbers, Lewiston
has been similarly treated, even to
the overturning of boathouses and
shore structures of every kind. And
this is the tale"that will probably be
told all along .the stream to the lake
itself when this winter invasion sludl
have passed.
When will it pass? 11 woul(1 seem
as if nature herself would have a
Titanic task before her, for no hanwo 1
maculation can estimate the countlesi
billion tons of ice squeezed in the
ten miles of canyon. Mighty will b'e
the movement required to disintegrate
the solid mass,ebut in the meantime
Niagara is ice -gripped 'as rarely, if
ever, before.
TORONTO ALL REMIT,
Toronto, April 12. -There seemed
:sra ve grounds in Toron to on So 1111 des-.
morning for real, that the Eleetrical
eclopment Company's plant above tho
Falls might share the fate of the
Ontario Power Company. Mr. J. J.
Wright, meneger of the Toronto Elec-
tric Light Company, evidently thought
so, and ordered that the obi deem
power plant 'of the -company should be
revived and kept in readiness in case
he Niagara dynamos should fall them.
Hokever, Mr. W. 13. Boyd, chiRf engin-
eer of the Etectiical Development Com-
pany, went to the Valle end reported
that uniese an abnormal iee jam took
tibiae above the Falls their plant was
tate." lle thought it would take two
weeks tatty the jam breaks and the
water goes down for the Ontario Power
Company to get into shape.
J. 'Homing, manager of the
Toronto lta i 1 way Company and th.s
glectuical Development Company,
Said that the station and nmeldnery
11 the Development Company Were
tale because of their position above the
Moet of their machines were
too high for the water to reach them.
Mr. A. F. Lobb, solicitor for the
.itydro-Electrie Power- Commtssian,
said that this event would have no
af feet on the Beek power by-law
scheme, lite occurrence was un-
avoldehle, mid the best ,reply to
critics Wit5 that for three and it half
years the Ontario Power Company
Iittil been handling forty thousand
horsepower a day anti that they had
never had a chtlin laia againet them
for lack of power.
WRECK ON ERIE
No Trace Yet ef the Ten Missing
Men.
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Detroit, April II. --Only additional
bits of wreckage Witielt wasbed
ashore to -day bear mate .evidencenf
the fete which befell the maven mem-
bers of the erew and .the three pase-
engersof the fishing tug Centel! A,
Floss, which foundered in last I-Wed-
nesdeay'e storm, So far the waters of
Lake Erie two reined to give up
any of the bodiee of the men, who
now are belieVed to have perished.
Only small parts of the ..tug have been
Nulled upon the Welt by the era.
The shore mat of here Was patrolled
for nearly one hundred miles 10 --day,
but the seareh wins unavailing. The
wivee and ehildren of the missing, men
ire frantic with grief. -Most of tham
have given up all hope.
Mariners say it, may be several days
before Lite bodiee of the men are
washed ashore. Sono bAleve the men
were carried down with the haat
('aught, to that .tio'ir bodiee may
never he teeovercit The. exact sei.m.
of the .digniter may never be Unowil.'
CUT OUT THE
-GAY TIME.
"The Night Life" of Madrid Now a
Thing of- the Past.
Mosic Halls, Clfes, Etc. Closed at
Midnight.
The All Night Revelry Suppressed
by Alfonso.
3fadrid, April 12. ---The old "night
life" of Spain, the 111.11Sie and dancing
that has been welt an attraetive fea-
ture to foreign :tourists to Madrid anti
southern ebb.); of Seville, Cadiz and
Bareelona, is it thing of the past. A
few years ago the tiovernmea decided
that night bohemianiem was demoralise-
ing the youth of the country, and King
Alfonso issued a ro'Yal decree closing
music halls, cafes and other places of
amusement at 12.30 a. in.
Formerly these places never closed
their doors. Is.tigite serenetung pavties
of cloaked and. turbaned students, who
marched through tee streets like tron-
batters, 'strumming their guitars and
singing love songs at their sweethearts'
windows until daylight, also Were Pro-
hibited after midnight. The orders
erditsed much hostility, but were strict-
ly enforced, with the result that muclt
of the old-time gaiety which the Span -
ants loved disappettred. 'The Spanish
music halls became as lifeless as after-
noon tea parties. Itut even this cluing°
has not satisfied tho King, and the Gov-
ernment and a new royal decree designed
to raise the tone of the music halts has
been issued. The women of tho stage
are prohibited- hereafter from entering
that part of the building intended for
the imbue, or from addressing. or other-
wise coming in contact with the audi-
Mee. They are not allowed to lodge in
the same or 'adjoining buildings, and
private rooms are forbidden. The fines
for infractions are heavy, and three of-
fences forfeit the proprietor's license.
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MORRISE HELD.
Charged With Murdering His
Brother and Firing Shack.
Milestone, Sask., April 11. --The in-
quest following the death of Charles
Mortise, whose charred remains were
found itt the ruins of his ehack on
a homestead south of here last Tues-
day morning, indicate that be was
foully murdered, audathe crime is likely
to be laid at the door of his brother,
Ernest. The fire did not quite. obliterate
all traces of the murder, as the .skull
of the deed man told a tale, IV had'
been crushed by a blow.
Ernest Morrisenves it most unsatisfac-
tory witnesss at the inquest,. his evi-
dence revealing peculiar financial trans --
actions with los dead brother. He ttd-
Mated having sol4 a team of horses
belonging to Charles, and having re-
tained the proceeds. The dead man had
depended upon being able to secure
money, by mortgaging .these horses to
obtain seed grain for bit claim. 11 is
'lammecl by the police that this may
have led to it quarrel in the lonely
shark on Monday night, as Ernest had
his tronk packed preparatory to leaving
for Lite south m it somewhat hasty
eurener when detained by the police.
: 'The post-mortem revealed the feet
that the men had boon deed before he
fire tonehed his body. Ernest has been
pineed under arrest, charged with !our -
der rind arson.
STRUCK ON HEAD.
--
Montreal Jury Exones.tes Teacher
From Death Which Followed.
Montreal, April 11. --The coroner
held an inquest on Saturday afternoon
on the remains of a led named Gabriel
Picotte, 8 years•ohl, son of Dr. Picotte,
whose death, it was claimed, resulted
from a blow given by the brother at
one dr the Marist Brothers, schools, in
this city. It was shown tint the boy
had been struek eve: the head with
it wooden pointer and that he was af-
terwards attacked by, tuberculosis, from
whieh be reeently died. The jury exon-
ernted the teacher, but recommended
net teachers should not use such forms
of relnishment.
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G. T. REPORT.
Net Profits of /960,427 For the
Half Year.
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London, April 11. -The Grand Trunk
half -yearly report shows gross receipts
of 43,382,841 rtgainst 43,703,240 last
year; working expenses, 42,422,413
against 42,710,034 last year; net profits,
4900,427 against 41,04312; while fur-
ther net revenue and credits bring the
total to 41,004,312.- The total available
for dividends is 4443,078. A half -yearly
dividend is recommended on the 4 per
cent. guaranteed stock, 5 per cent. for the
full year on the first preference and 2%
per cent. on the second preferente stock.
Twelve thousand two hundred and
twenty-six pounds sterling was carried
forward. The Amount ite debit in the
engine, and expense mama
was 4644,119.
SOO WATER POWER.
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Result of Mr. Aylesworth's Visit to
Washington.
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Ottawa, April 11.---Ifon. A. IL Ayles-
worth has returned to Ottawa, after it
brief visit in Washington, where be
W0111 to diseuss the rider placed upon
the wirterweye treaty by the rutted
Statee Senate. The rider is rather in -
dandle, but appears to exempt the
Culled States front the provimione of
the original treaty for an equal vestals. -
lion upon Canada and the United
States; in reepeet to th.1 diverting of
water nt - the Soo 'for power purptaiee.
it was td obtaimt an offieial interpreta-
tion r.f Ole eider that Mr. Ayieeworth
went in Wasbingion. While there be
had isoufetaneea with the Seeretary for
War, Ittr. Diekenson, and. with the late
Seeretary of State. Setiater Mut Root.
14 is learned that Mr. Ayiesworth Wei
10 that to protset
aesioation ttud to toutrol all the polypr
devtqoptneut at the Soo the Vulted
States proposes te acquire the alriolute
alio 10 all the property along the
rapids en 1.1:, Anuelean side, nnit far
11114 ,tputpose a hill was out through
VoligrP44 411 the last i ittauthorizing
Ow Government to acquire this pro-
perty by expropriation, and
dollars was voted to be expended; for
this purpose,. The administration .of
he proposes to acquW the proraly at
mite.
-With the jurisdietion over the Soo
power taken from the State of Michigan
III plated la the hands of the United
Slates Government the eituatbm as re.
gards the Soo is nuteh simplified. A
statement will be Jttitl before*the Gov-
ernment here by Mr. AyleSworth, and
Cenada will then decide whether or not
it will give approval to the treaty with
the Soo rider, .
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"PLL FIX HIM."
Joseph Ward Charged With Mur-
dering Alex. Warwick.
The Fatal Pusb That Resulted in
Death,
London, Ont., April 12. --Joseph .Wara
was given Imis preliminary hearing this
morning before Magistrate Love ou 0.
charge of murdering Alexander War-
wick, in the allorkin House, on Satur-
day. A.pril afit, and the case was ad-
journed for it -week. The evidence
Wni to the effect that Ward was notice-
ably drunk and Warwick sober. War-
wiek suet Ward. at the hotel door and
asked him if he wanted to fight. Ward
said, "Yes, fight you," anti tripped
him. This angered. "Warwick, and when
Ward went into the hotel be followed
him, saying, fix him." Ile stood in
1110 doorw" "sailing to the basement,
and when Ward pushed him he foil
down. , The evidence .showed that other
persone have fallen down the stairway
at different (Wee end have been Nur-
SELLING TO INDIANS.
CORNWALL HOTELKEEPER PAYS
TWO FINES OF $100 AND $50.
Other Charge Against Him Dropped
When He Threatens to prosecute
Informers for Buying Liquor for
the Redmen. •
Cornwall, April 11.- J. A. Robert-
son and C. A. Ramsay, two officials of
the Indian Department at Ottawa, have
been in Cornwall for the past couple of
weeks, collecting evidence against the
keepers of local hotels, and the result of
the visit has been that one hotelman was
charged with selling liquor to Indians.
The case came before Police Magistrate.
Danis on Saturday when the proprietor
of the hotel in question was arraigned
on several separate charges..
Two wore disposed of, in one of which
the hotelman was fined $100, and the
other $50, with costs in each case. Other
charges wore laid at the hotelman's
door for violation of the Indian act, but
it was shown in the evidence that the
officials had themselves violated the not
by treating Indians. •••
Mr. Gogo, the lawyer for the defence,
threatened to enter. an action against
them, but it compromise was 'cached be-
tween the parties, whereby the defence
agreed to defer proceediugs ifithe pro-
secution would drop the remaining
charges.
Iltis seemed to satisfy the officials,
and the case came to it, rather abrupt
ending.
FARMS FOR, SPINSTERS.
Too Few Men to Go Round in Mas-
sachusetts.
Boston, Mass., April 12.-Srnalt subur-
ban farms will be supplied by the State
to 100,000 spinsters in. Massachusetts if
the plans of three score business and
professional women of Boston are carried
out, Because of tlte scareity of men in
the State it is recognized that something
must be done to aid this army of women,
and an organization has been formed for
theiiUrpose of wining State aid iu sea
curing small tracts of land near large
cities where Women can engaged in pro-
fitable agricultural 'enterprises.
The Women's Massachusetts Home-
stead Association plans to encourage the
many thousands of women of all ages
who are forced to struggle to gain a
livelihood to raise flowers, herbs, plants,
mushvoome, strawberries, vegetables,
squabs, chickens, bees and pigs.
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NIMBLE -FINGERED TYPISTS,
Toronto Girl Wins Prize in Contest at
Providence.
•
Providence, R. T, April 12.- A
typewriting contest, announced to be
for the world's championship, ended
to -night the twelfth annual conven-
tion of the Eastern Commercial Teach-
ers' Association. The championship was
retained by Miss Bose L. Fritz, of New
York, whose average was 86 2040 words
it minute, L. H. Cumbes, of New York,
finished second with /7 5-12.
In the school championship type-
writing contest, the winner was Miss
Maude Linker, Springfield, Mass., Avith
an average of 54.3. Miss Corinne Bour-
don, of Toronto, Ont., was second with
64.2.
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CONSTRUCTION CAMPS.
Alleged That Conditions Are Worse
Than Slavery.
Winnipeg, April 11-A. charge of malt -
slaughter is likely to be prefAred
gatnst*the foreman of the Northern
Construction Company's eamp mttIttish-
e.bowie, as he is alleged to hey° caused
the death of a man named George Say-
-elle by ordering him to leave the camp
Avhile sick arid destitute. Information has
beeti laid by two former .employees of
the crimp, named G. McNab and G.
Neith, who have engaged A. B. coto
es solicitor. Mr. Cole says the condition
of n.ffairs in many of the cusps, as re-
vealed by the Stories of the men, hidi.
cotes something worse than slavery.
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To Elect Two Prelates.
Winnipeg, Man., Apra 11.-A meeting
of the House of Bishops of the Provieee
of Itupert's Land, Outwit of EIngland,
will bo held at 10 o'clock ott Wednea-
day morning. Tile object of the meet-
ing is to elect A• bieltop for the Diocese
of Moosonee in place of Bishop Holmes,
who recently resigned, and also it bishop
for the Dioceso of Athabasca,
The Italian Government eonmlission
to report on the question of female suf.
info imn derided to postpone granting
the right to vote in eIeetions of Cham-
ber of Commerce in written engaged in
trade,
FOR WARSHIPS
AND AIRSHIPS.
Great Britain Still Agitated by
Question of Defence.
•••wi.1.01
Beresford Has Refused Nineteen
Invitations to Parliament.
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Suggestion That London Build a
Derigible Balloon,
London, April 1i. -(Globe) -Easter
has brought it hill in the storm that has
beaten around the bead of the British
Government -over its alleged incapanility
to salegvard Britain's supremacy at sea,
and the attacked and the attackers alike
are reeking holiday as If there had. never
been a ripple on the surface of their
complaeeney, The naval agitators, how
ever, mean to return to the charge af-
ter the recess with redoubled vigor, and
the Imperial Maritime Leap() Is pee.
paring to make- a, enmpaiga throughout
the country Web, in On words of the
chattier just, issued, will "induce the
nation to fling out the Coverninent
whielt betrayed. it, for so only can Brit-
alti bo sliveel-lal
Tho ls. affect to regard these
threats with serenity, for they consider
that the naval agitation lost its most
dangerous aspect When it was pressed
into service by the Unionist party, Tide
in a great measure is a correct diagno-
sis of the political situation, more es-
pecially as it is becoming universally
understood that Mr. Asquite, the Pre-
mier, and his colleagues will take no
ebances of being left behind in the race
for navel supremeey and will lay down
within the year the four extra Dread-
noughts which were in the "conditional"
ships. of 131.r. MeKenna's programme.
TIFIRESFORD HIDING 111S HAND,
Some of the extmnists in the naval
agitation, however, have gone so far as
to damage the cause they have at heart.
For instanee, Carlyon Bellairs, M. P.,
supported by a number of other politi-
cians, called upon the Premier to insti-
tute an inquiry into "the (scope and ef-
fect of the changes introduced into the
navy during the last forty years." This
is a direct challenge to the system in-
augurated by Sir John Fisher.
For once the imperialist Daily Mail
is found in agreement with the Liberal
Westminster Gazette, which says: "So
tong as this agitation is confined te
politicians and conducted on political
grounds tt will do no harm to the navy,
but the moment, it is eularged to in-
clude the. Admiralty and administrators
ittvi11 at once threaten mischief to the
eiscipline and efficiency of the ser-
vide.,,Lrd Charles Beresford, who • holds
more trump cards in this navalspolitical
game than any other man in England,
meanwhile refuses to disclose his hand.
He has received no less than nineteen
invitations to stand for Parliament, but
has (issued it statement saying that he is,
accepting none at present.
THE AIRSHIP SCARE.
The patriotic ferment has been taken
advantage of by those who hold that
Britain does not tato her proper place
in the contest for the supremacy of the
air. The reply given by Mr. Haldane,
the Secretary of State for War, in the
Commons last week to the question re-
specting the progress made by .the War
Office in the matter of airship building
and experiments was not considered sat-
isfactory. It developed during the dh-
-nate that the Frenek Ocivernment pro-
posed to have five stations for dirigible
balloonsand that in Germany six mili-
tary balloons had been built and•niere
were reported building. Then the fset
that the Zeppelin airship on its last
round of voyages was in exclusive charge
of military officers, who conducted it
through the manoeuvres with remark-
able precision, showed that in Germany
at least there is a serious intention of
employing the balloon in military oper-
ations in any future war, -and the fur-
ther fact that secrecy was enjoined by
the military authorities regarding the
details of the experimeotal voyages add -
.l significance.
MEN 01? "HISIIIY" NERVES.
This Was enough to start an Aerial
scare in England among those whose
nerves are , 'jumpy," to tise the `word
employed by David Lloyd-Geoege to L.
3. Masse, when Ufa Chancellor of the
Exchequer returned the cheque for 4200
which the editor of the,National Beview
had sent as it contribution toward build-
ing Dread notigh ts.
Ai onee it meeting WaS held .at the
Atension House under the auspieee of
the Aerial League of the British Em-
pire, which is deseribed as "a non-politi-
cal organixation to secure and maintain
for the empire the same supremacy in
the air as it now enjoys ori the sea."
Some speakers at the meeting recogniz-
ed that England had a lot of ground to
make up before she contdlay any claim
.to supremacy, in the air„ but the Lord
'Mayor contriboted a note of optimism
by remarking that some of the greatest
movements ever 'seen had had their en -
gin in the city of London.
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AN AIRSHIP.
One and the only suggestion at all
rraetieal made at the Mestsion House
meeting was that the ‘ekty of London
should subscribe funds for the construe -
tion of a dirigible balloou and present
it when eompleted to the nation. This
idea is to be developed by the Aerial
League of the British Empire into a
national subscription. The officials of
the league profess their ability to raise
420,000 or 430,000 with which to Wild.
the airship.
Lord Northcliffe offers a prize of
000 for the first aeroplane flight of one
mile
it machine entirely of British in-
vention and construction.
FIGHT WITH MANIAC
London SuffraEettes Preparing For
Encounter With Police.
New Vawk, April 12..-- A thrilling
struggle to save a mad woman from
suicide took plat to -night on a ledge
of n fifth -storey window of the hos-
pital for women nt Engitteentli street
and Seemul avenue, The woman, Mrs.
Nora Illekey, twenty-eight years of age,
WITS finally saved from jumping to the
street through the pluek of a doctor
and it nurse, and with the help of the
fire deportment.
Mrs, llieltey, who bed been a patient,
for several weeks, becanut suddenly in-
sane to -night, and, itt the temporary eh-
fqq100 of the 71111140, thrust ber feet
through the heavy plate glass tvirulow
panes in hor ward. Through the jogged
hole tints made the woman imbed her
betty, tutting herself frightfully, mid
ertipt to the till, fltity feet above the
sidewalk. She was about to jump
when Hr. Cranston Conklin and
Neree McDonald, who itad come
running with the crash of glass,
naught her by the, arms. The woman
struggled, sereamed and bit, but they
pluekily held on. Other doetors nod
nurses mine to their aid And 511Peti
Were twisted abeitt the struggling,
screaming 'woman, who was now dangl-
ing in the air.
The doetors and nurses, five In num-
ber, could do nothing but hold the wo-
Man and someone in the erowd of thou -
sande who had gathered In the street
below realized this, for an alarm was
limed la and tlto fire apparatus mute
clattering to the scene. Ladders were
run up and the mad Welleali. Wits ear.
tied to safety by sturdy firemen.
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ADVICE TO GIRLS.
•••••••.•••••••• •
Diet and Blouses Share Attention
With Dreadnouxhts.
London, April 11. -Notwithstanding
the exacting labor necessitated by the
new territorial army Scheme, and the
efforts to satisfy the demands caused
by the production of "An English -
mints Home," the War Office has
found lime to investigate the question
of proper diet for its girl "typists."
The War. Office claims that the sick
leave taken by girls eompareS unfavor-
ably with that taken by men. It de-
clares there ean be no levelling up of
the sexes ar regards remuneratioa until
the girls have teamed to consider their
health.
At the same time the War Office
has sent a circular to all its girl em-
ployees warning them against excessive
tea drinkina, especially between meals
and with th°eir lunch. It enjoins them
to wear warm clothing, and points out
that ebort sleeves and transparent late
fronts are dangerous traps without rule -
finale safeguard.
111 regard in food, it reenrnmends
itotittopa, eereitla 'frail% and vegetables
in preference to meats, as these will
make the girls better able -to resist
colds, influenza and headaches.
LEARNING JIU-JITSU.
Struggle to Keep Woman From
Committing Suicide.
London, April 1L -The latest move
of the militant suffragists' is to learn
the arts of jiu-jitsu, with the object of
resisting the police. Twenty-five of
them are studying under an instruct-
ress., who maintainthat some of her
pupils have already punished rude men.
Lady Constance Lytton, who has the
proud distinction of being the first wo-
man to shed her blood in the mine of
wen= ,suffrage, gave it curious exposi-
tion it Ow days ago of the reasons for
the faith that is in her. When she
first saw suffragette processions in the
streets she had been interested by hear-
ing onlookers shouting to the marching
women, "Go home to your washing."
She had always been food of washing.
Even when it child she had found some-
thing fascinating in makipg dirty things
clean and crumpled things smooth and
nice -looking. But she felt that there
were people whose lives were continual-
ly at that process, and she said to her.
self, "Well, that giver; me a lead. I am
going to belong to' that movement if
only because of my sympathy for wash-
ing end the washer."
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CREPE ON ALL DOORS
A Ghastly Joke Perpetrated in
Grand Rapids
^
Detroit, April 11,-A repulsive form
of practical jolciug caused several
women to ,faint and others experienced
a. shock that they will not soon get
over, at Grand Rapids last night. The
"joker" pinned a bunch of black crepe
of the regulatien style used by under-
takers to almost every doorpost in two
Weeks. In one instance an aged lady,
who was passing the home of her
daughter, saw the crepe and fainted on
the sidewalk, euttleg her head in the
fall. Another man with it weak heart
saw the crepe pinned to the door of his
brother's house and. was overcome. He
had to be taken to a hospital. The
police were notified, and observed a
man trying to pin the sombre design to
another house and gave chase. The
Man, made his escape.
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NO WOMAN MAY ENTER, •
Washington Law Bars Them From
Places Where Liquor is Sold.
Spokane, IVaela, April 12.- After
June 1 no woman can legally enter
any saloon in this State. The new
criminal code makes 11 a misdemeanor
for the owneror employee if "any
drinking saloon or music hall where in-
toxicating liquorsare sold" to "know-
ingly permit to miter such saloon or sell
or give any intoxicating liquors to any
female person." The same rule applies
to any common drunkard or any person
in an intoxicated condition, or any felon,
TRADE WITH WEST INDIES.
Conference Will be Held in London
Regarding Relations With Canada.
Montreal, April 11. - Mr. F. W.
Thompson, of the Ogilvie Flour Mills
Company, who returued to -day from
the Bahamas, annottuces that the Gov-
ernor, Sir Valliant Grey 'Wilson, stated
that a conference of West Indian offi-
cials will be held ie Loudon in June,
when a committee will be formed to
study the question of better trade re -
Idioms between the British 'West Indies
and Canada. It is expected that a dole-
gation front the islands will visit Ottawa
during the summer to interview the Can-
adian Government on the subject. The
Montreal Board or Trade will urge the
establishment of a steamship service be-
tween the St. Laweenee anti Nassau.
4
New Steamers.
Montreal, April 11. ---The neW, stouter
built for the Western
Navigation Company, Limited, of Fort
Williem, Ont., has been chartered,
through T. 11. McCarthy, of this city, to
load in April a cargo of pig iron rii
Mithilesbro-on-the-Tees, England, for
For( Willient and Montreal. Tide steamer
14 of full venal dimeneions, and is in-
tended for trade on the upper lakes.
Mr. MeCarthy luts also ehartered it new
steamer, now building at Sunderland,
England, for the Mathews Steamship
Coiripeny, Limited. tit' Toronto, to loed n.
full cargo of pig iron at MithIlesibro-on-
Tees, England, for Fort William in July
next, 'Ibis steamer is Alse of full canal
111MM/sten% Awl 15 intentlea for the trade
lietWeen itnni real and the upper Wes.
NURSO MISTAKE
Pert>
Led to Death of Patient in St.
Louis Hospital.
Former Toronto Girl Gave Poison
Instead of Medicine,
St. Louis, Aftt, April .6,4 -Miss Jean-
nette Ifarkuess, formerly of Toronto, a
nurse in the City Hospital, to -day fleet,
dentally killed Benjemin Iliaters, a pa-
tient. Miss Harkness gave Waters it
large dose of formaldehyde instead of a
sOlution of salts. Ile died an hour and
a half later. From the ;moment she
covered her, mistake and called. Super-
aciid Iilesroasasilisytants
Miss 1Jaukuess riedltle)
slphysmviani
ititnine etieVnafteentlieeir ils. edll:ea‘.vd1"?srltie
Waters was biought to the haipital
on Jen, 1.7, suffering from a rare, skia
disease, whieh attused himto be eavered
with scales like those of it fish. lie itlso
suffered from a spinal complaint. 11
was Miss Harkness' duty to ntbninister
medicine to a nturiber of patients at 5
as in. She went to a medicine eebinet
to get it salt solution for Waters. The
medicine was in it large brown bottle.
Another bottle standing beside it con-
tained formaldehyde_ poeition itt
these bottles had been aceidentally
imi-
Lereharmgt'11 by another nurse without
1131is4rskuesIsfatrolsoniecssI'vita. tkitschsevletdhgoe.MLat
ugut
the medicine bottle. ln the darkness
of the early morning she could not see
the label. Site poured a quantity bite
it glass and gave it to \Vetere, Ile
swallowed it and in it moment writhed
in pain, "It's burning me apt" lie
cried. Miss Harkness scrutinized the
bottle and saw the label. "I've given
you poison!" she -cried. "Stmeriutentiont
Kirchner says he placed more confident:0
Ot Mies Harkness than in any other
aitirse in the hospital. She entered the
institution four years Ago, letving come
trent Toronto with three other girls
who wished to be nurse At N.10 ellowed
exceptional skill and completed her
three yea rA' training entir50 with much
s,rctitirago.ilstalle beeinno a graduate a
)e
HOLLAND HOLIDAY.
...••••••1./Ol
An Heir to the Throne Expected
This Week.
The Hague, April 11, -The birth of
an heir to the throne of Holland is
confidently expected this webk, and if
all goes well the outburst of popular
enthusiasm will be such as has seldom
been witnesset among the placid Dutch.
There has been no royal birth in Vie
Netherlands since that of Queen Withal-
rainit herself, twenty-seven years ago.
The constant fear of the Duteh has been
that the House of Orange would die out
with a childless sovereign, and that
Flolland would pass under the rule of
it German prince, and would thereby pos-
sibly become a German vassal state. This
partly accounts for the extraordinavy
eagerness with which the event is await-
ed in every town and village of the Neth.
erlands. Demonstrations on it gigantic
scale Imo been nrranged, and Feces -
:lions, concerts and fetes will be held the
country over.
ACCUSED OF THEFT.
A G. T. P. Sub -Contractor is Ar-
rested in Montreal.
Montreal, April 11.- Omer John
Dubois, who is wanted on a charge of
the theft of $10,000 from farmers and
laborers along the rout of the Grand
Trunk I?acific in New Brunswick, and
for whom the police have been looking
for since last December, was arrested by
Iwo detectives. from Chief Carpenter's
staff atid lodged in jail here on Satur-
day. Later on Ile was brought up to po-
lice headquarters at the City Hall and
identified. Ile admitted his identity, but
stoutly denied that he was guilty of any
misappropriation of funds.
Dubois was a sub -contractor on the
Grand Trunk Pacific. Last December
he left Fredericton owing, it is al-
leged, local merchants and 'storekeepers
and farmers along the construction line
about 510,000 in all. The specific charge.
under which he is now held here is that
of forging the name of the firm of Mc-
Coy and Wilford to it cheque of $806.
Major Massey, the manager of the Bank
of Montreal, at Fredericton, through
whose hands tke cheque passed, sent
McCoy here immediately to see if he
eould identify Dubois, whom he had em-
ployed previously. .
Dubois is a Belgian, who came to Can-
ada' some time last summer. The Bank
of Montreal, McCoy and Wilford, and
the differentamerchauts in New Bruns-
wick intend to talce actions against
HEAD CUT OFF.
American's Headless Body Fonnd
en French Railroad.
St, Raphael, France, April 12.-A mid-
dle-aged, well dressed American, Emil
Amy by name, was killed on the rail-
road tracks here yesterday afternoon.
Die headless body was found near the
station, but it has not been definitely es-
tablished whether the men was a001 -
dentally killed or committed suicide.
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JOAN OF ARO STATUE gtmoveo.
••••*••••=.•
Precautions After Violent Demonstra-
tAn by Paris Students.
Paris, April en order
issued by Minister of Public Instruction
Donmergue, the equestrian statue of
jean of Are by Pant Intboie, that NIS
stood in the Louvre for fifteen years,
was removed seeretly and le now install-
ed in the Pantheon. Signifietince at.
bodies to *this net on neeount of the
tweet violent, demonstrations of Roy -
Mist etudents at the Sorbonne against
Prof. Thitlamas, the author of it book
alleging that the history of Joan of Are
is largely mythical.
BIG FUNIRAL
Ottawa, April 1!L -More than 2,11A0
persons Attended the funeral here of
Brakeman Henry T. Afulligan, killed
in shunting Accident on tho t. I'.
R. at Kemywille Ionetion lost Pride:v.
Mulligan, was very popular. The B.
of It. 'P.' A.O.U.W. end. Prentice boys
attendedin it body.
lbutlop & Company's hardware store,
Fenton & Smith's storehouse, and it
temple of regiilenee5 n t Pembroke were
burned. The ltobitailie vinegar work
et Iltiehee were also destroyed,
1118I MINUTE IN
,111:.:011elilone, an Italian laborer, touelpd
ings for March amounted to $513,000.
in signs of unrekU.
the Torooto retail field.
gill Mullahs. -of Somaliland are sl ow -
The I'rench Government has decided
The Intereolonial freight traffic earn-
unitrilok Apt r Joitillt;etrros 1;:eealuddedstratoli ai:(11e.
to7rehxepeplaCplipisrtiatizorolCnaestli:aionnt
pBotzrd
anned for work in the eitiee and New
Ontario,
Aalfreeittitug1laelsocre nwttreitazeilsItloju
tetinTtiontreenra
tn
on .
young woman.
The Attorney -General's department 14
Inve%tigatting a eupposed Black 11,and
sinarage tit Aurern.
A convention. of ''Cliristians gathered
unto the riatne of the Lard Jesus Christ"
18 in progress in Toronto.
The ceremony of blessing the oils and
the ehrism in St. 3liellad's Cathedral,
Toronto, was largely attended.
The Swise. Government has presented
tlieintehout:gr
onverment of the Unittd States
fitl.eltellgornolinieteonlbl'eAall•Pdin.oef ecbo4nntlr:lis..Sleeided
ants to the four hospitale
,ititntisletroi bie.tclosti.Of,00r00xtfni o xi hce 01$11e50ge, 0011 theyia
lng
stilitno(tild be made without conditions.
Toronto Presbyterians have already
a
Through the cleverness of it eleauffeur
at Toronto, four mon charged with
stealing an automobile werearrested in
thIe3rNe'enhtk3ie.
lefouse, Beentford, where Nell.
Gwynn lived aaid (Merles IL rode up the
h (Mid on horeeback, is to make r000ni
for modern villas.
The Argeu tine overnmen b will
shortly place orders with a foreign ship-
building firm for two Dreadnoughts and
Live torpedo-boat destroyers.
. It is announced that the Northern
Pacific Railway wit enter Winnipeg
over the Great Northern linee, under it
partnership arrangement. .
The Supreme Court Martial Ili St.
Petersburg has rejected. the appeal of
seven peasants of Irbit, svito were sen-
tenced to death for attacking the police,
Members of the Young Turk party
have proposed the erection of a grille in
the Torkish House of Parliament, in or-
der that Turkish women may listen to
the debates.
Of the 2,507 horses bought for the
British army last year, 702 were pur-
chased in Great Britain, 1.,003 in Ire-
land, 58 in the colonies, 71 in Egypt and
1 1 ill North China.
A special commission, composed of the
Board of Public Works, has gone to
Messina to investigate and submit a
plan for clearing the ruins and burying
the dead still remaining in them.
Coast erosion has caused the difap-
peartmee of the seaward half of Espin-
ha in Portugal, and the inhabitants are.
asicing the Government to take prompt
measures to save the remainder of the
town.tE
an Allan Hitchcock, Secretary of
the Interior under Presidents McKinley
and Boosevelt, died at Washington,
aged 74. Hehadbeenseriously ill for
several days, and his death was not un-
ex.:nn
Peeteeci;
1pty balloon crane down *near
Conti, Italy, and grave apprehension is
felt for the three aeronauts who sailed
away in the airship from Paris. They
are Captain Mayer, Lieut. Gardiot, and
it 1:1\cringillet'tditevins:d11,. it is said, may pity it
visit to Naples soon, and meet Ring
Vietor Emmanuel there. Tho date of the
visit has not been fixed yet. Should tho
British monarch visit Naples, he may
go also to Messina.
Brakeman Charles 3. Reade was sen-
tenced to three months in jail at Co-
bourg for criminal carelesenese in con-
neetion with the Sandbank wreck, and
Steegion Foreloan :Ralston was acquit -
The law library of tho Essex County
Bar Association at Windsor was on Fri-
daytl
ispossessed of its quarters for non-
payment of rent, and the valuable law
books and reports were carted away to
a storage warehouse.
Alfons Ahrens, a Hamburg shipowner,
has been arrested on it charge of having
incited sailors to Mel: vessels on the
high seas with it view of realizing the
insurance money. Three ships are said
to have Ivey sunk in this way.
an elephant in the winter
quarters of the Yankee Robinson circus,
at Des Moines, ran amuck last night,
and, seizing his keeper, Charles Bellow,
hurled hint high into the :lir and. then
trampled hint to death.
A chair used by the Earl of Richmond
on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth
Field has been bequeathed to Athev
stone, Warwickshire, and will be placed
in the parish church, where Irony VII.
took the saerament before he defeated
Bithard ITT.
Mr. E. Strachan Co; the Toronto
stock broker, is confined to his home
at 8 Wellesley street sufferins,0 from it
stroke of paralysis. 'Mr, Conearlyon
Friday morning had a slight hernorrl.age
of the brain, and this was followed by
partial paralysis.
Albert Baker, the Englishman now
tinder arrest at Toronto on it charge of
attempted murder, will probably escape
a more serious charge. Bertha Aug -
stifle, the young Avornari whona he at-
tacked with a hatchet in her room
Thursday night, is expected to mover
from the terrible irtiliries she received.
The body of Helena Modjeska, the
actress, who died at Bay City, near Los
Angeles, has been brought to that city,
itecompanied by her husband, Count Bo-
zenta, tuttl-lier son, Ralph Modjeska.
will be &tem in a antult there, where
it.. will remain until it is taken to its
final resting place in Cracow. Poland.
A speciai last night from Pitt-in-llay,
11hio, sera With the waeltitig esthete tn.
day of the cabin at th tug George Floss
it is practically _eertain Chat the boat
wont down in 1,Vednesday's gale, witn
tire loss of it .erew of seven men Anti
three passengers,
Isaac Fraser, forty-four years old, Of
'New York city, aPtillinart ear porter,
nag- found lying dead in his ear at the
Union Station, Toronto„ on Prida.y. Ap-
parently be had ;assisted his 'passengers
to alight and had then ..gone back 11114
the sleeper, where he eellepsed front
heart disease,
ITOIV TITIlNATSER WAR SILENCED.
(Ihroniele.)
NoW that the fieriwarriors ntTorento
have been heard from, .Clertnatty will
please effttee itself es nuieldy as Degiale.
What Awe has Raiser Wilhelm rigning
t Mond Donitort's 1'ivwfittlist01