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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-04-22, Page 7THE MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS. 0.011, AWN. Thousand Dead at Adana. -Tarsus Destroyed. Southern Asia Minor Being Steeped in Blood. Young Turk's Are Massing Troops Before the Cspital, London, April 18.- One deepateh,says that Seven battalione have already left Saloaica, accompanied. by a contingent of ;Jewish volunteers mid a tow Bulger - lane, but they are without artilleeyeand any eoneentration of troops on a. big scale an Constantinople would take two or three weeks at least, even if it were uuopposed. it also remaine to be Been whether the Committee of llelon and Progrees retains effeetive. control of the Naloniee. Aartenome army our. The best opinion in Europe is that any military attempt by the Commit- tee of 'Onion and .Progress to reassert its supremacy is likely to prove inef- fectual. ln Vienna a different view is taken, but, on the whole, the Alcmene reports have *hewn tendeney to exag- grrate the gravity of the Turkish situtt- th,e, Private despatehes from Salonien. assert that the Young Turks. are working with feverielt energy to avert what they believe will be the Sultan's ext move toward regaining his auto- emey. They per:4st in declaring that the Sultan NMI almost wholly respond.- bla for Tueeday'e mutiny and they (giddy fl ttheir determinatien to de- poee him at :my cost. OFFICERS .111URDERED. Perlin, April 17a -A. epecial des - paten to The Frankfurter Zeitung from Conetantinople says that eixteea officers of war academies have been assassinated and that Izzet Fund Pasha also has been assassinated at the p.alace. A despateh to The Lokal Anzeiger says that two hundred of- fice-1%9"ot the War Academy have beeli murdered, and all of tbe officers of the Allard cavalry. A THOUSAND KILLED. Beirut, Syria, April 18.-A terrible up- rising has oecurred in .Adaem. Street fighting bas been going on for three days, and at least 1,000 persons hove been killed. The city bas been practi- cally destro, ed by fire, American mis- sionaries named Rogers and Mauer, Hie latter from Hadjin, are dead. All the other Americans are safe. The British ViceeConsul, MajOT Dieuglity-Wylie, among - the wouucled. He was shot through the arm. At Tarsus there was less loss of life. The Armenian quarter was destroyed. Four thousand re-fugees are housed in the American mission. 'The need of relleT is great, for shortly the fugitives will be on the verge of idarvation. Conditions in the vilayet of Alexandretta are most serious. Reports have also come in of a'ff outlive* at Enema on the Euphrates, in the .11°A:beast. • ,MOSLEMS SWEEPING DOWN. Constantinople, Aeitil 18. - Throe French seeeebips. are hurrying to the ulna, tybere the situation is desper. ate. :Foreigners and many Christ- ians have taken refuge - in the .Con• eulates. The local trope and the Ocvernor are doing their best to pro- tect the town, but there is grefte fear that it cannot hold out much longer Against the • invaeioa of the Moslems, evlio are- sweeping down in largo num- bers. Britieh warehip iS proceeding to Alexandretta, whielt is threatened by. the Moslems, ekveral Armenian farms in that neighborhood have been • degtroyed. Alarm is felt at Kluteput because of serious depeedalions by the Kurds in the eurrounding villages, although the town itself hee not been the sortie of any particular diecirdere. The -Committee of Cition and Peegreee expects to have:between 15,euo and '20,- 4)00 men within striking distanee of the opital in a day or two. If they C1100:30 Ir. (0 insist on an answer from the Porte titers the Sultan and his new Govern- ment can hardly refuse them. -The Sell:mica, branch of the Commit- tee of Union and Progress bee addreseed strong&• -worded. telegram to the Sub tan, prevalently imputina to His Malestp a, violation of his eatli uphold the venstitnt.ion, Mamy battalione of the garrieon et flouetaminople, is slated, are showing repentanee their veeent aide. They now deela re that they were misled into believing (het the Sheri laws and the eenetitution were in deo. ger. NA VAL CONIMANDER LYNCHED. Details have been learned of the lynching of the eommander of the battleship Assar-i-Tewfik, whose name was Ali Kabuli, not Aril Bey, as pre- viously reported. On Wedneeday night the commander assemblea the reeruitse before the guns end explainedhow they ehould be fired. He then trained the aeons on the Yildiz Kiosk and the ma eeintie and iiistrueted the recruits that tney innet fire at hie order or they would. be annihilated. It would be, how- gver, addrcl, while the crew NV:U.1 asleep. :110 quartermaster overheard -the eons-spat:ion and informed the dew, They thereapon seiZed the eommeed- er, calling him a traitor, The follow- ing day they took him to the War M- ike. He attempted to camp, but Was secured and beaten, JP) wae then teken to- the Palace Wleara, it ie stated, the abibetn ordere'd him to the guarahouee for Wel. It wee while proceeding thither that he was lynehed and horribly late& '1r TARSUS NEARLY 33LOTTED OUT. • Parie, April 18.--Deepatehee from Constantinople state that the eituation te. Adana hea become very much wokee; that a number of cities lieve been burned, and that 'ravens hae been alinoet blotted mit. The des- patehee Nether state that a French (aetory has been sacked, and that the peasante are -coining down from the 10011tlifthIS end Magsilefing the Amen- s, tans. Several hunched Armenians and Moslems hese- been killed in Adana, and the Armenian (meter of Hut town hate leen destroyed by Galilee, Two- Willett warebipe Wye arrivea et Ilesika Rey, near the Dardanellee. A Eyeful' truism' bas been ordered to Alexandretta, A lluseian equadron ie alibiing in the Bleak Sea, ten miles off the lioepliterne, Awaiting instrue. flows froilOthe Miseitin Embaesy, A British warehip is on its way to Her. eina. • CRY FOR IMP, lioeton, April 10., -A brief cable de.. snatch. ln effedi -0, ery for help trent the! veene of the massaere in Adana, Asia, Minor whet' D. Rogers and Mr, Maurer Perished has been reeelv- ed. by the Ameriean Board of Com- miseioners for Foreign Missions here, The message, tragic! in its briefness, is as follows "Help. Adana, (Signed.) Chambers." This Win?, from Bev. Wm. Mothers, the resident missionary of the board in Adana. • Convinced that the_ help requested musl he Prompt, Seeretary Barton notified the.afficials of the 'State Be- biearent in Washington of the 0.1). lt is thought that upwards of 15. missionaries connected with the Am- erican board gathered in, Adana last week for the tumid conferenee of the Central Turkish mission. The identity of the particular (tele - gates is not known to the American board in this city,. but among the en- tire number of missionaries in Central Turkey of whom some ere likely to be in Adana are the following: Miss Kate Ainslee, of Ohio; Miss Alice Brewer, of Washington; Miss Isabella M. Blake, of Vervont; MisS lalen hf, Blakely., of Wineheden, Mass: Dr. Thomas 1). Christie. of rfartford, Conn,; Wm. N. Chambers, ot Canada, and his wife; Cornelia P. Chambers, of Philadelphia; F. 10, Goodsell and, his wife; }adults Good- sell, of San Francisco, Dia Lucius 0. Leee, of -Owaso, Mich. Frederick W. McCallum and Mrs. 'McCallum, of Toronto, .Canada; Mrs.. Margaret 11. Trowbridge, of Brooklyn, and Miss Clara L, Peck, of Chicago. ADVANCING ON CONSTANTINOPLE Constantinople, April 19. - The troops, loyal to the young Turks, con- tinued their advance on Constantin- ople last night and it is believed here that they would soon occupy Maltri- keny, a town ten miles from the cap- ital. !No advance guards Faced° the mairt body of the soldiers. Ono is compesed of 300 men, half of whom are efficers, while the other .numbers 1,000' men. These two colamns are expected. to occupy Persia and Galata, the foreign and officials quarters of Constantinople as soon as possible in order to protect foreigners in. the event of rioting% Many of the troops in Constantin- ople favor the Young Turks and re- sistanco is hardly expected. PREPARING FOR ATTACK. Paris, April io.-A special aespaten received here from Constantinople says it is rumored there that Bodied Effendi, brother of the Sultan and heir apparent to the throne, has left to join the Young Turks, and that the Sultan has caused heavy artillery to be placed in the battery on the .heights dominating the ,Skamboul quarter of the city. SULTAN MAY ABDICATE. Vienna, April 19. -The Nous Ta-g- blatt'e Monastir correspondent says it is rtported that the Sultan is negotiat- ing with the committee of union and progress with rtftard to his abdication. He says the report is without confirma- tion, but that the general belief is should the committee triomph it would show less clemency toward the Sultan than before. Telegraphing from Saloniki, the cor- respondent of the Nous Frei Press says that Turkish warships at Smyrna have promised to support the Young Turks. He adds that the army corps .at .Adrian- ople is ready to "march on Constantino- ple and that 22,000 troops already have passed through Tohatalje. PRIESTS WHIPPED. 'Vienna, April 19.-A despatch receiv- ed from Constantinople says that the priests sent out. to parley with the Young Turks at Tihatelaja, were whip- ped and driven away. The leaders of the Yon& Terles' forces 'have lemma Were that ''the lives and property of all foreigners and Chris- •tians in Constantinople be tideefately protected. MURDER OF MISSIONARIES. Constantinople, April 19.-Thc Ameri- can vice-consul Meraina reports that the disordevs in; Adana are quieting down. The two American missioultries, D. af. Rogers and. Air. Maurer, Nvere killed on Thursday afternoon while at- tempting to extinguish a fire in the house of an aged Turkish woman. They were shot dead. The miesions in Adana Red Tarsusur are now receiving adequate protection. Mersina is anxiously awaiting eelief. The killed in Adana axe estimated at mere than 1,000, bat no particulars of the masasere yet aro available. Disturbences have occurred else at Marash, a city of about 5(000 petiole in the villeyet of Aleph°, end abeut 80 miles eorth of Alexandrette. re- ported that • 20 people Imo or - wounded. there. The enthorities at Marash behitved well and the disorders soon were. put down, WANTS PEACE. 'Berlin, April 10. -The Constantinople correspondent of the Morgen Post says in a despatch that he has been informed from an excellent source in the Yikliz Ktosk that the Sultan has sent • lais chamberlain, Rifiutt Pasha, and hie sec- retary to the ()rand Vizier with orders that the Government make peitee with the Young Turks on any terms in order 10 prevent general bloodshed. . 4' • *Melte, April 10. --The battleships riziwiftsure end Triumph have !from here, presumably to Turkish elealare. FULL OF YEARS. ••••••.../••••.••• •Death of Old Residents of 4YIerrit- ton ; net Thorold. r4. St. Catharines, Ont„ April 19. -Two old and highly esteemed residents of this district paesed away suddenly yesterday in the paeans of Owen Mullarkey, of ikfereitton, and Richard Comerford, of Moroi& Mr. Mullarkey had resided in Merriam for sixty yeaes and until a few years ago when he retired front ace live lite Ite had been engaged in rail- way construction work, For a number of ,,vears he vas in the service of tlie Great Westero Railway, Mr. Comer. ford is a native of Thorold anti for thivs ty yeare has condueted an undertaking busineee thew. • • HIGHER CRITICS. Hon. S, II. Blake Issues Another Pamphlet. He Refuses. to Ohre Up, the Bible For a Fake °net -Toronto, April a pamphlet is. sued on Saturday lion. al, IL Illitke takes another fling 5' 00 higher critics, Title hada; atteek is dated Easter Sun. dna', The -title is 'The Knife of the Higher Critic; the Judgment of the Lord; the linrial of an Ass? Ilaving stated how largely the Bible figured in the recent missionary meet- ings here, Mr. Blake says, in part; This is the Holy Bible, the Werd of Cod, the direct revelation from heaven, the book whielt has become a part of our being; and which alone has given the soubsatisfying message, the blessed word, .of eternal life, the redemption that le in Jesus Christ. This is the book whieh has been our comfort- in sorrow and our help in time of need. This is the "everlasting gospel" which is to be preached "unto them 0:4 dwell on the earlb, and to every nation and. kindred and -tongue, and people." Can we give this up? Cam. we allow le to be impaired? Dare wo abandon Dare we be false to our God and Ills Word and leave our ehildren end our children's eltildren in darkness, letting go the book which,for night two thous- and years Lae been the light to the cen- turies and a Imp to the path of the people who sat in- derkness? , They take away from us the Bread ot Life aud do not even give us a stone an its stead, But they offer us a fake Bible coraposed of the veporings of the ration- alists of Germany, France, Great Britain and North .Aineriea, dressed up accord- ing to the so-called. Common 8011110 or him who happens to be for the- One its editor; a gold brick, where. the alchemy of the eritie hits turned the fine geld of the Word into drose; it kaleidoscope of the seientifidnew-light type, warranted, if scientifically handled, to give a nine days' wonder. • • . HELD BAZAAR. Suffragette Ladies Working to Raise Sinews of War, • London, April 18. -It is ungallantly _suggested that there are signs that vol- untary contributions to the woman !suf- frage cattee are beginning to fail when it becomes necessary to hold the "green, white and gold bazaar," which opened on Thursdaw at Caxton Hell, and the prorits Which aro to go toward the feminine suffrage propaganda. Nevertheless the bazitaar presents a delightful spectacle, and the name be- stowed on it truthfully indicates the predominant color -scheme.. The women in charge of it are all gowned mid their heads attired as if this were the fif- teenth instead of the twentieth century. They say, in explanation, that the fif- teenth century was the golden age -fore the gentle sex, and that women in Eng- land then enjoyed a far more dignified end more powerful position than now. 'Ellen Terry opened. the bazaar in the costume of it fifteenth centatry lady of high rank,•whose sweepine robe of pale green Was enriched with favish gold em- broidery, all veiled by a long. ctoek of dull golden hue, and a towering head- dress shaped like a pair of horns and covered with a flowing white veil adorn-, ed. with bannerette, beeline the name of a female "martyr" to tee suf- frage cause, and, a design of the grim Holloway stronghold in. which they have been immured, SAWYER-MASSEY CASE. ' Toronto, April 10. --The Division Cana this morning dismissed with (mete the appeal of William and. Ian° • Hodgson. of Port Perry front Mr. ans. Hee Riddell's judgment holding them liable to the SawyerMeseey, Company, of Harniiton, for $1,182.64 es graffito. tors of the debt of Frank Lawton for a thresher. - • • PECIPE. (Ottawa journel,) A Won.= in the States who has spent fifty blissful years of married life gave out the ;lead eonnubial felicity on her jnbilee a few days ago. Tt eensieis of just 11»eo little worde, "Obey, your hilslianol." Oh, girls, how •Implel THREE DROWNED. MR. AND MRS. S. ROBBINS AND J. M. TAYLOR, GANANOQUE. Accident Occurred About Three Miles from Clayton, N.Y.-Boat Sunk Before Help Could Reach Them - Two Bodies Recovered. Gananoque4 April 18. -Another river tragedy occurred near here on Sat- orday afternoon by which mourning is brought to three homes. Early in the afternoon Mr. S. Robbins and wife end Mr. jolty" M. Taylor left here in 'a light skiff for Clayton, N. Y. That Was the lest seen of them alive. Mrs. Robbins had nn aunt Di in Clayish', whom Lim intended to visit, and the young men; after leaving her at her aunt's house, intended return- ing to Gananoque at once, But in- stead, about the time they should have returned, a telephone menage was received front the chief of polka at Clayton that a skiff, supposed to be from Gananoque, had been unset about two miles out, near the head of Grindstone Island, and the occupants drowned, A description of the boat, on the oars of which were the ini- tials G. R., at once indicated that it belonged to the party above mention- ed. If there had been any doubt it was removed this morning, when several parties were organized to visit the point where the accident occurred and grapple for the bodies, About 9.30 a. in. the body of Mrs. Rebbins was recovered, and a. few minutes Tater that of m. Taylor. Notwithstanding the fact that offorts were eontinued throttghout the day unfit dark, the body of Mr. Robbins could not be lo - meted, TIM cause of the aceident will probably never be known, as no one saw it. The boat was a small one, being only fifteen feet long and of narrow- beam, rind it is enpposed that when the occupants attempted to change seats ehe capsized. Both TAyler and .Robbine were young men of good habits and well thought of here. The latter was 23 yenrs of age and Tnylor 19. Robbins' wife, to whom he was married last November, 'Was formerly a, Miss New- bury and was only seventeen yeats old. When Mr. W. D, Robinson, who is working at the Ammer home of Mr. Morgan, of New York City, was inter. viewed, he enid Chet he noticed MO Skiff passing ("earthling three per- sons, tWO bailing and one rowing, but they /lid not appear to be in trouble. Abed a mite from this point the ae- cident (warred, -When Mr. Isr. P.elow, 'who is working on. Club Wand, n, short distance from the seene of the aceident, WAS inter - vie wed, he said thrit he heard SOMA one ealling for help, and he hurried to the seene in a skiff. ITo saw two persons bolding to the bottom of ilte skiff When Ile platted, but when 110 looked egairt there wns only nno te.- maining, When he was a Invil feet from Elio eleiff Mr. Taylor released luild of the 4.mat and slink, never corning to the surfaee agein. Mr. Pelow droped an anchor, marking the spot end then summoned aid. BODY FOUND IN THE, DOCK. North 8)*(1 A,Pril 15. .4 drowning accident ooeurred here last night, when John McPherson, a real - dent of Mace Bay, lost his life. Mc- Pherson, who formerly lived at Leitche'is Creek, was hero on a visit. He spent part of the day on board the schooner Maggie Aovith Captain Dicks, who is a relatives. He left the vessel at 6 o'clock to go to "his hotel, His body was found in the dock early this morning close to the vessel. it is supposed he fell into the dock while attempting to get on board again during the night. NAVAL CONFERENCE Mr. Asquith Thinks One Should he Held. •••••T,......,•••••• Loudon, April 18,-- Speaking at Glee- gow on the queetion of the navy, Mr. Aequith expreesed genertius apprecia- tion of the fine epirit shown by the col- oniee, Speaking for himself, he deekred Gull, if possible, it would be eminently desirable to bring together in consulta- tion the great eolonies and the mother country, so that all might "act in gen. eral concert, in the spirit whieh they have so finely exhibited, And with a common object, wo ought to have in view, to ascertain our respective shares in Ude great and independent work of the naval defence of the em- pire." (Cheers.) The following sentence from the speech is significant; "I am not speak- ing without Weighinse my words when 1 say we may be on. ''the eve of new de. velopments and forms in naval construc- tion. whielt may vitally affect, many of the governing couditions of naval strat- egy, WATERWAYS TREATY Government Will Probably Accept It as Amended. Mtn& April 18.- Although,. the Cabinet has eot yet fully considered the queetion of Canada's acquieseenee irt the international, waterways treaty as. final- ly passed in amended form by the United States Senate, it is probable that no further modification ef the treaty will be asked, and a eecommendation will be sent to the Imperial Ooveenment au- thorizing the final approval of the treaty. As a result of Hon. A. 13, Aylesworth's conference with the American author- itks at Washington two weeks ago any uncertaieties as to the exact meaning and. effect of the rider attached to the treaty by the United States Senate rele- tive to the division of water on the St. Mary's River have been cleared uta and the treaty in its firesent form is thought to be as fair and equitable to both coun- tries as can be hoped for. E. & S. Bankrupt Brokers' Creditors Are to Meet Next Thursday. New York, April 10. -Continued inves- tigation shows that the assets of Ennis & Stoppaol are slightly better. 1.1 thought that -they may even reach the noininal figure of $400,000 set forth in the petition. la bankruptey. .Among nth- er assets it is fond that Ennis has ft house at Menton:Me ,T,, some race horses and some automobiles. Receiver Russell made the announce- mene yesterday that every creditor's della 'will remade statu cons and that no one's rights will be prejudiced by sit - Ling. beck and. waiting. Mr. Russell has received Bo many letters on this sublact from creditors that it has been a physi- cal impossibility for him to answer thrT111.10. creditors' meeting next Thursday will he held in the offices of Suffern & Son, of 105 Broadway. It, was originally planned to hold the meeting at Ennis & Steppaniss, but so many creditors want in that it was soon found tliose quarters were goieg to be far too Small. The commission' appointed by Gov. Hughes to investigate Well street will take op the Ennis & Siempani Mere. It is unlikely, however, -that any inde- pendent investigation Will be made, as the cominieeion hes already arinouneed its intention of putting its report; into final shape without calling any more wi blesses. +4 a GANDER ATTACK. Little Girl's Neck Broken at Mun. roe, Mich. 'Windsor, April M. -Hearing his beby girl scream out in the yard while he was rating supper, Winkelinan, .of hfonroe, Mich,, rushed out and found the child lying motionless on the ground, with it large gander standing nearby, In- vestigation showed that the ehild's neck was broken, and it is believed the gander had beaten the little one with its wings so severely fts to cause the injury. e • • • VESSEL FOR U. S. Amsterdam, April 10, --The. ship Halve Mitan, which the Netherlands will pre- sent to the United States on the occa- sion of the Itudson-Eulton celebretion, was launched Saturday. Slid will be eempleted. and eent to New York in the early part of jute,. • ShOt Wife and Geneva, N. Y„ .April 17.-Riceo Man- dazzi shot and killed his wife and her sieter, Mtg. Sarbfina Defelica, at 8 o'clock to -night, and fired which had not yet proved fatal, through the head of the latter's linsband, Ile aleo Abet and slightly wounded it Man and women whoni lie paesed in leaving the premiere. Jealnusy is said to have been his motiee, Ire lure. eseaped, Suicide at Fort William. Fort William, April Shoe, a limber jack, committed suicide On Saturday evening by shoothig himeelf in the head with liravy Colt revolver in a storeroom of the Ogden Hotel. He was about twenty years of age end is well. knOW11 around Kellen. No motive. neeigned for the net, ae be had Money in, the bank. The Milted Stalei annuelly produees more .eorn Oafs all other temetriee the world PiO11111110 -2,97210000 Ola al 0,888,0001100 • Tim ineinbers of the Ontario Agri- cultural and Experimental Union are pleased to state that for 1009 they are prepare(' to distribute het° every township of Ontario material; of high quality for experiments with fodder crops, roots, grams, grasses, clovers and fertilizers, as follows; No. Exneriments. Plots. 1 -Three varieties or oats .. 2a -Three varieties of six -rowed 2b -Two varieties. of two -rowed barley .. 3 3 -Two varieties of 'lidless bur - 4 -Two varieties, of spring wheat 2 5 -Two varieties of buckwheat. 2 6 -Two varieties of field peas.. 2 7 -Vintner and spelt .., 2 8 ---3T4oanverisreietbieensnosi .s.o.y,,,seja, or 9 -Three varieties of husldng corn ... ..... 3 10 -Three varieties of numgels ., 3 11 -Twn varieties of sugar beets for feeding purposes .... 2 12 -Three varieties ot Swedish turnips ... ... 3 13 -Two varieties of fall turnips. 2 14 -Two varieties of carrots ,. 2 15 -Three varieties of fodder or silage corn .... 3 10 -Three varieties of millet 3 17 -Two varieties of 'aroeghtim 2 18 -Grass peas and two varieties of vetches 3 19 -Rape, kale and field cabbage. 3 20 -Three varietiee of clover 3 21 ea -Testing two varieties of alfalfa cerne) , 2 22 -Four varietiee of graeses 4 23 -Three varleties of .fielcl beans 3 24 s -Three varieties of sweet corn 3 20 -Fertilizers with Swedich tur- 27 -Sowing mongols on tho level, and in drills ... . . 2 28a-tria'stvooesvarietias of early pot - 9 28b -Two varieties of medium rip - •21 .Vd. 4.. 044 ening potatoes .. . . 2 28c -Two varieties of late polatoes 29 -Three grain imixtures far grain production . 3 - Tie ea mixturee of grasses and clover, for hay ... 3 Each plot is to be 2 rods long by 1 rod wide, except No. 28, which.is to be one rod square. Any person in Ontario may choose any ONE of the experiments for 1909 and apply for the same. The material will be eurnished in the order in which the applications are received while the sopply lasts. It Might be well for each applicant to make a second clioice, for fear the. first could not be granted. All material will be furnished entirely free of charge to eaah applicant, and the produce will, of course, rbacothe the property of the person who conduets the experiment, 0. A. ZA.VITZ, Director. Ontario grioultural College, - • CANNED MEAT SEIZED Over 25,000 Tins Destroyed at Montreal. Montreal, ApriFl."8-..--Over 25,000 tins of meat were seized. and destroyed here by Dr. Lesperanee, food inspector. This consignment ef canned meat originated in Chieago, and Witfl stew to Toronto, end from there shipped, to Halifax. .11i Hali- fax the contents' were openea .and the buyer refused to accept the goods. They were then shipped to this city. In Montreal they were sold at a big reduction-infitet, less than half of the original wholesale figure. Happily the inepeetor got on the track of the goods so quickly that only three cases lied been sold to retailers, and these three mem were traced and seized before any sales heel been made. In. all 107 eases were seized, eontaining 2,105 dozen tins. The names of the dealers are kept Rene for the present.. • 1. WOMAN'S SUIcIDE. Mrs. Edler, of Pilkington, Wanders Away From Her Home. Elope, April IS, Duriug a temporary fit of insanity Mrs, George Beller, of the township of Pilkington, near Bethel, wandered from her home on Satturday last. A futile search for her was made until toalav. when It was found she lutd been drewnea in a creek which runs through the Edler farm. The body was discovered by a neighbor, Mr. Moses Auger. There is every reason to believe it was- a time of suicide. She leaves a husband and family of five, the youngest being alma ten years of age. - LORD KITCHENER TO VISIT CANADA AND EXAMINE DEFENCE FORCES. He Goes to Japan First -General Sir O'Moore Oreagh, Who Succeeds 'Kitchener in India, Has a Bril- liant Reputation. London; April 18. -Lord Kitchener will hand over MS command in India to (Ion, Sir O'Mooro Cretigh early in August arid at once Tiroeeed to japan. He proposes to make a long stay in that country and will closely examine the military system. and. army organ- ization in time of peace. From japart he proposes to go to China, and he will traverse ntany of tho battlefields in Manehuria, with the advantage of going over much of the ground *with officers who took part in the Russo-japitnese War and who have been placed at his. disposal by the Mikado and the Japanese Gov- ernment. is exported that before he con - eludes his visit to Manelturia, Lord Kitchener will be commissioned by the War Offiee to returo home by way of Australia and Canute. in or- der to examine the local defence forces and to report to the authorities what steps should be taken to improve their organization and administration and how best their training may be co-ordinated. Should these suggested arrangements hold good Lord Eiteheit- et ie not expected' in this eountry imill toward the end of next year. RITOITENEIt'S SUCCESSOR. Gen, Sir COMoore Creagli, who is eneeeed Oen. Riteltener ef Khartoum emninander-ireehief io India, le not cif the Kitehener biehool or of any- .body'a sehool. It would ho difficult to find a Aim with leSS bias for or against the partienlar notions of ollY ef his predeceseors or one who has lees identified himself with NS or that polley in the eonduet of affstre in India. What he has. manifested has been a capability for fine perfamancee as a leader, e,specially in tig,ht places. He earned his brilliant reputation in one Afghan. campaign tater another, and incidentally gained his V. O. His aPs pointment i, a reversal of policy so far as the age consideration is eon- .eerned, for he is nine yeare older than Lord :Kitchener Was When he went to India In 1902, but Lord Mor- ley urged strongly the claim Of hie friend and colleagne, holding that it was desirable that the new command - or -in -chief should be a :man of open mind and age a secondary considera- tion. •••••••• INSANE PROFESSOR. Nearly Killed Doctor in Matteawan Asy:um. Mattettiven, N. Y., April 51-2. -Dr. Rob. ert Lamb, snperinlendent of the _Mat - Lerman Hospital for ttie Criminal in- sane, and who was ono of the prineipal medical witneseee ia some of the Thaw trial proceedings, had a narrow escape from death to -day at the Mods of John 'footman, a professor of liteguages, who was sent to tiro InStitutiost three years ago after having killed a man during a saloon brawl. Toptman. whose mental condition had been considered good for a year or more, and who had been in. stalled eS a "trusty," suddenly struck Dr. Lamb over the bead with. a steel shovel. three feet long, cutting his head and rendering unconseioue. Luekily the blow was a glancing one, and the injury inflieted is not scrieue in char - eater, 'footman, after he htul struck the doctor down, drew a butiorthook, which he had sharpened to a needle's edge, from his pocket, and plunged it into the le.ft, side of his neck. This crude weapon he then drew across his throat clear to the Adam's apple, inflicting a frightful gash. He then tried to Wel: the weapon into iris heart, bot,failed became! of the thieknese of his clothing, although lie Out his body severely. Dr. Litml) lay unconseious in the machiniets' room, where the murderous assault occurred, for nearly ten minutes. Hie wound was dressed, and to -night he was about the hospital as usual. Toptma.n is 55 years old. • * A FAKE STORY. Report That Kaiser Swallowed a Fishbone. Vienna, April 19.-A private despatch front Corfu received here to -day said that Emperor William was seriously ill as a result of swallowing' a fish bone. The local newspapers issue extra edi- tions, and the rumor caused great un- easiness. The pollee at once started an investi- gation of the source of the report, wbieh quickly was discovered to be quite without fennel:Won, and nothing more than a bourse rumor. 4 a POET MISSING. Suffering From Cancer and Finan- • cial Troubles. London, April 19. -There is no trace of John Davidson, the poet, who has been missing from his home at Pensance since 'March 2a, and family,have now given up ell hope of seeing him alive. A search of the poet's papers has re- vealed doemnent, which he wrote: "The time has -come to make an end." After reference to financial difficulties and ilabeitith he concludes: "1 cannot put up with cancer," 4 • MAN DROWNED Electric Launch Overturnel in Cuyahoga River. Cleveland, Ohio, April 10.- One Man drowned and three' persons had marrow cecapes from death when an electric launch in which the four people were rid- ing overturned in tho Cuyahoga River here yesterday. The reediest were ef- fected by river men. Milton Teesdale had take 1 the payty, one of NVIIOITI WOO his daughter for a pleasure trip. He steered the lilunah too near the freight. er the Northern Light, and the waves which swept out from the path of the large boat streck the Ninch, overturn- ing it ' -• • • DEAD ON FREIGHT CAR. Man, Probably from Montreal, Killed on New York Central. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 18.- The dead body of a mitn was taken from the top of a freight train -on tho New York Central Railroad at this city early this morning, and from papers found on the man's clothing he is believed to have been a brother of 'Harris Aber, of Montreal. It is thought lie was stealing nevide itad Artick bridge eouth of the city. Coroner Andrewe took charge of the body. BUYS BALLOON. St. Petersburg, April 18. -The Mug. sian War Office has ordered a dirigible balloon of the Republique type from Paris. The east of the balloon will he $00,000. 4 • ALFONSO'S SALARY. Madrid, April 10.-A compilation of the umeeye /mid to the members of the roeal family of 'Spain shows that King, Allem() veteivre it salary of SL211,058. MINISTER DEAD, Tonaon, April 19.-1110 Rev. James Benison Riga', the welbknown Wesley - art Methodist minieter, dead. FOUR KILLED. Grand Rapid% Mich., April 10.--Vour men were reported killed in a wreele the Grand Trunk near Berlin, this morning, 141r...1'. V. Kenney, of Belleville, a grad- tiate of the University of Tomtit), lias heen awarded a Rebel:milli) in Coluinbra liniverelly. 44e0.4.•44-44-. +4 •4$4 -0+.14* -4 Writs Issued Four Suits Arising Out o Grimsby Accident Grimsby, A.pril 19, -An echo of the recent crossing fatality here emnes in writs issued by Laneaa. ' ter & Campbell, St. Catharinee, against the Grand Tritnk Railway for damages of f10,000 for the death of William. Arthur Wilson and felisse, Catherine Wagon, against the 11, T. 11., claiming $5,- 000 damagee for the death of Mrs. Ida Alma Wilson; Emma Jane 'Nelson vs. 0, 'I'. 11., elaiming $3,- 000 damages for the death of Gor- don Stanley Nelson; Susannah . Tee.ter ve. G. T. 11., fur $13,000 for the death of Jennie Gertrude Teeter, The writs are Netted on the ground that the deaths of all five were. eatteed by negligence of itnlieoptelerafttelindganit:ilotgr titilrieoltrigistegiamit81.e. by. The eitees will in all proletbil- ity come before the High Court in the autumn. •+4-4-4,•-4-4.4+4.44#4-4•10.4 +4+40 ++. RACE FOR LIFE. Mr. Fitzhugh, of G. T. R., Hasten- ing to His Son's Bedside. s London, Oat., Apia 19. -Third Vice - President Fitzhugh, of the Grand Trunk, is making a wild ride across country from Montreal to St. Louis with two epecialists in order to reach tho bed- side of his son, who is critically ill with an affection of the throat. The. train, consisting of the private car Canada and baggage coach, and the party eluding Mr. Fitzhugh, Dr. Mitchinson, Montreal, and Dr, Drake, London, broke all records between London and Wind- sor yesterday, going 110 miles in two hours and two minutes. Engine 417, Engineer Templeton anti Fireman Sault in charge. At Detroit the party were hurried across the river on tho ferry, and were met by a special engineeand dashed off to St. Louis. MARRIED HIS NIECE. Action to Annul Marriage Adjourn- ed at Stratford. Orangeville Despatch -An action to annul the marriage of an uncle to his niece occupied the attention of Mr. Justice Clute in the Dufferin Spring Assizes. The plaintiff, Margaret Burton, a rather good-looking young woman, was married ta the defendant, Samuel Roberte, on Nov. 17 last. Thedefendant ie a full brother of the plaintiff's mother. Thomas Burton, a paternal uncle of the plaintiff, was the first wit- ness, and swore to the relationship of the parties. The defendant was born in Minto township, and knew the pla.leiff since her birth. She was his sister's child, he said. lie did not know it was against the lasv to marry his niece. He had little education, and had only got ns far as the second book. He blamed the issuer of the marriage license for not explain- ing to lihn the nature of the affidavits he made to procure the license. The de- fend:ink gave his evidence fairly intelli- gently7 and epparently did not recognize his position. - His lordefrip intimated be would not accept any consent as to the facts and stated that the court was reluctant to interfere in well crises. Further hearing of the ens° will be had befere Justice elute at. the aaeizea itt Stratford on d'une l5. • - • SALOON MURDER. GEORGE B. MtKINNON KILLED AT ST. CLAIR, MICH. Shot Down by Capt. Ralph Pringle, a Well -Known Lake Captain -Pringle Accused McKinnon of Flirting With His Wife. Port Huron, .April 18.-Ceorge Birell MeKinnon, aged thirty-one years, of Mooretowu, Ont., was shot by Cap- tain Ralph Pringle, of St, Clair. in the latter town shortly after midnight this moaning. McKinnon died ibis afternoon at 4 o'clock, after rem:della; iu an un- conscious condition almost until the last. Aocording to eye -witnesses, Captain Pringle entered the saloon known as the "Hole in the Wall," and, seeing Mc- Kinnon for the first time in three years, declared that the town. Was not big enough for both of them. The two men entered a side mom, and an instant later three shots were fired and MeKin. non fell to the floor unconecious. Cap- tain Pringle told the officers when brought to the jail here that McKinnon had flirted with his Wife three years ago, and that he bad vowed to get even. Neither of th.e men were intoxicated at the time. Captilin Pringle is a well- known lake captain. This year he expected to sail the steamer William A. Young. McKinnon had sailed for two years as a first mate, Last semen he was on the stei mer Rose - Mount, of Montreal, and this year he had agreed to sell on the Ammer Adriatic. Before breathing his last at the hos- pital McKinnon said that Pringle had no reason for shooting him. Ho woeld have said more, but he Was tho weak. He died before he contd. be revived. Pringle is ft son of Captaili J. C. whom ere sailore, The. Pringle family if well known. Mr. MeKienon Was a son Priegle, ittid. is one of for boys, all of of Dr. W. McKinnon, of Courtwright. Ran Into Heed of Cows. Kingsto, April 18. ---The fast express on Friday ran into a herd of NM be. Wieling to John A. Seal, at the bridge eroesing the thinitnoque River, about milee west of the Th011541.1141 Island ;function. Ten of the eninials were kill- ed and One Was knoeked into the river. 11 is said the fence had been blown down And 1_,.7,.+.1..4,11i) tattle got upon.the traele, LYNCHED THREE. Port Werth, Tex.,. April 19. -Three white Snell ate tepOrted lynched to -day at Ada, Oklehoma. One of the number wits jim 11 Miller, of Fort Worth, * prominent steels man and known its "Bad Man." The mob is repotted to bete Moira the ME HOG QUESTION. Mr, Seeley Puts in a Good Word, For the nova. Something About the Pork Vusiness Worth Knowing, In the e011rS0 of a lengthy address in the 1101190 of COMMOAS during the dis- cussion the other day on the hog tariff, Mr. W. O. Seeley, M. P. for Wentavortil, said; It may be said, 11 will Probably be said to -night, that the Canadian s farmers and produeere of beige cannot tarnish, enough for the home require- ments and the export trade, but as against that during the years 100.1 and 190,1, when we were exporting pork pro- ducts to lite extent of $ 12,000,000 to $15,000,000 annually to Great Britain, we were imparting only about -$500,000 • worth 'of hog produets. Since -Hint thee our impends have increased from hail a - million dollars, until in the last fiscal year ending Maras 31, 1908, wo imported two million eight hundred and 80100 Odd thousand, almost three million .dollars' worth of bog produets, 'and yet the trade and comnierce returns. show that our exp,orts had cleansed from nearly $15,000,000 down to almost $10,000,000. The cuetoms returns show that the ime ports are constantly inereasinte and that for the six months from june.to Decem- ber of litse year we imported one million. seven hundred and _seventy thousand odd dollars' worth; if the sante rate of - increase,continues to the end of the year we will have imported this year about $3,500,000 worth. I estimete. that to supply the Canadian marlot with the quantity of pork products of the various &aliases \Odell we now import, the pro - duet, of about ono million more hogs. would be required. NVO bad one mil- lion more hogs supplied in Canada even at an, increased cost it would not in- crease the price to the consumer a par- '.ro illustrate, three months ago - the price of pork in Canada was five cents on foot. To -day it is eight cents on•foot, but I venture to say that the price hae not increased a particle in any retail store, in fact I see by the price in the windows that it has rather decrees - ed. If one million more hogs were slaughtered in Canada the.y would pro- vide for the higher class outs that aro imported the present time and in ad- dition would provide a very large quan- tity. of the cheaper cuts, not suitable for curing and exporting, which. would re- quire to be sold at home. It may, however, be said and ar- gued that the United States price and the Canadian tariff as between Canada and the United States would .have no bearing upon the price of the hogs, or of the pork, because, as we expftrt con- siderably more than we import, our ex- port price, or the Liverpool, or British price generally would rule. But the same price reports that I referred. to a moment; ago will go to show that white the price to the wholesaler in Canada is two cents higher than it is to the Unit- ed States wholesaler, the price in Liver- pool is from two to three cents less. The conditions are to -day that if pork i3 packed in this vicinity, if the freight is paid from here to Montreal or Quebec, if the ocean freight is paid and it is put on the market at Liverpool, I can go to Liverpool, buy that same pork at the market price there, pay the freight back to Ottawa, open a store next door to tbat of the packer and if the present prices ere maintained can undersell that store and make a good business profit ont of the transaction. That condition of things should not exist and if it continues to exist it is pity that the %farmer, the actual producer, should not get his fair share of that difference. Our western friends will feel that an Mere:vie in the tariff might seriously interfere with them and affect the cost of their supplies. To my mind do not think it would. Our western friends are to -day producing quite large quantities of pork, and I think it will only be a short time before they will be producing all they require in the west. In faet, think they arc doing so to -day, and that they wilt have pork to export before very long. Another reason why.I think we are able to produce more than we. require and have a considerable amount for export is this: laming the years 1904 a,nd, 1903 and for some time previously we were -struggling in the British mar- ket to make a reputation, and, by that- . reputation, get a more profitable price. The Danish pork in the British market is regarded as the best pork and it com- mands a higher price. It brings about form cents mere than United SlateR pork, and :Ertel' pork .rangce about the 5111110. Previmis to 1897 our Canadian pork had improved in quality and in taste to the extent that we were getting -about three cents more than the Unitei States product would bring. Since that time large quantities of United States pork have been imported into' Canada, and as far as it can be traced consider- able qauntities of it passed on through mild were exported ia the hope and with the actual result at times of realizing the better price that Canadian pork de- mands of three cents per pound, They pay two cents duty on corning into Can- ada, pay the freight over, realize three cents and make an extra profit of one eent. That has continued for some time. The Amerlean corn -fed pork of an ire- ferior quality has been going to the British market to such an extent that it has dulled the taste of the Britishers for the Canadian pork, so much so that we find to -day that Canadian. pork has backed down to.about the level of 'Unit- ed States pork, and in some caeca tem By the introduction of American pork here we have lost the splendid reputa- tion we had builb up and enjoyed for a number of years, and think our west- ern friends eould afford to j?in in this movement to protect the enviable repu- tation which they enjoy at the, present time. They aro producing the Nitaat large quantities of wheat -fed pork. That wheat -fed pork makes the sweetest hams and bacon, being equal to the pea -fed product with whieh we built tip nth a reputetion, end perhaps surpitesing it to some extent. Unless. thet reputation that they are building up in tbe west le safeguarded -they will perhape ntee.t the same fate that we have met here in On- trtrioi GOES TO TRIAL. Loudon, Ont., April 10.-Josepli Ward was this mornhig -committed for num- slaughter on ti. charge of killing Aletaia. der Warwick oit April 3rd, in the Ma! kin Ward will appear for trial before .Juilge. Mitelleth •the ales - shine. Mil hae not yet been tirratigeit OVATION 'TO. JOSEPH' Vienna, April 10. -Pully 7,000 persons erowded the grounds of the Imperial palate at Sehoenbrinin yesterday to pay linmege to Emperor Franris Joseph for saregnarding Litt VapirOs petco,