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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-07-01, Page 7CABLES AT FIVE. CENTS A WORD. Coal Before 04e Canadian PPM DelOgatelL 'Marconi's Promise of 15,000 Words Daily b7 August. Pacific Cable Board Has Promised to Reduce the Rate. 1*.• London, Juno 28.— Ile bipedal kr084 Conterouco mot to -day to cons eider the report of the committee an %Mo retes, Hon, IL le W. Lawson preeidiugs The chairman submitted L1 e tioramittee's recommendations, evitith, urged the •Govermneuts of the 'Empire to inereese the nieens re- *, dim toe coot of Imperial electrie communications, and asked Premier Asquith to receive a deputation, also em- phasizing_ the aeceseity of linking up the (afferent 'parts of the Empire with wireless services. One positive result, said Mr, Law - ;seri had been reachea, Mr. Baxenclale, liehalf of the Pacific Cable Board, had stated that the board would un- conditionally reduce tlaeir rates on proS8 messages by lialf, The Now Zealand Government would do the eamo regarding terminal charges, and it is believed the A.ustralian Govern- ment will do the same. Mr. Lawsou add - cd that it is the general opinion noth- ing would meet the necessities of the case except a general reduction in press rates. Mr- P. I. Ross, of Ottawa, reintro- duced his resolution favoring State - awned electric connection between Can- ada and Great Britairs, remarking that in view of wireless telegraphy, he would be making a great mistake if he used the words State-owned "cable." (Hear, hear.) Mr. Marconi had informed the com- mittee thab morning that in August next he would be able to give a service sips_ el 15,000 words daily at half cable trates. (Hear, hear.) it was State- owned communication, however, which would ensure a reduction in rates. The rates were kept high by combines. Mr. Marconi thought it would be injudicious for Governments to enter into a scheme of State-ownecj cables without first investigating the merits of wireless communication. The cost of equipping two stations for coma imumeating over the distance already tested, of 2,000 miles would be £100,- 000. Tae speed of transmission at pre - tent was twenty-five words a minute, By duplexing he hoped to make it fifty. (Applause.) If the service in- creased his company would be pre- pared to reduce the cost of press mes- sages to two pence a word. (Ap- plause.) Mr. J. A. Macdonald, of Toronto, re- marked that he had no fear of social- ism and no sensitiveness for the com- panies either here or in Canada. The paper in Canada paid for all they got and sometimes for things they didn't get. (Laughter.) He was prepare a- to vote for the resolution, knowing that the system of Marco'ni would be prob- ably in the fullest working order long before the Governments did anything. It certainly would be longer than Aug- ust before they got an the work. (Laughter.) BRITISH IMMIGRANTS WANTED Sir Hugh Graham moved a resole - tion concerning emigration. He said there was not a question of greater im- nortance than the maintenance of Bri- tish sentiment in Canada' which was the keystone of the Imperialarch. The ma- jority of the population in Canada was now overwhelmingly British. The FrenchsCanadians were contentedly Bri- tish, but foreign emigration was seri- ously threatening that majority. Can- ada wanted good people from all lands, but the Dominion wanted more from Britain. Ile announced that a serious effort woulcj be made in Canada to commemorate the conference by organ- izing an association of leading journal- ists and public-spirited citizens to astrengthen and 'stimulate existing or- iItanizations in order that desirable .emi- grants may receive the utmost encour- agement. Be 'moved a resolution to the effect that the press should co-operate in the 'wise direction of emigration. (Hear, hear.) The Chairman and Me. Macdonald, of Toronto, gave the proposition the heartiest sympathy. Mr. Nicholls, of Winnipeg, declared that the foreign immigrants in western Canada as citi- zens were absolutely all right. (Hear hear.) The resolution carried unani- mously, • • AN HONEST NEGRO • Caused Burglar to be Caught With the Goods on Him, London, Ont., despatch: A daring bur - hi glary was prevented last night by the -elk honesty of a negro named Sharp, from Woodstock. John Weaver, a well-known crook, bad planned to rob Rod's whole- sale store, and paid Sharp to stand in halt lied kick the dm- if he saw a po- liceman eoming. nharp walked. 'up and told a police officer, and was told to earry out the affair as planned with 'Weaver. A seecial detective Iaid foe Weaver, and caught him canting from the building loadetawith valueble goods. He fought desperately, but was over. powered, arta in the Police Court this morning pleaded guilty aud was emend- ed for senteece. Sharp lied only come from eVoodstoek to speed the day when he was. approached by Weaver. CZTA-Iii 1.eiromoommode Will Pay His Resptcts to Gustave at Stockholm. St. Petersburg, June 28.-- Emperor Nieholas left Ruesian waters on the Inn perial yacht Standart to -day for Stock. bolm oft the first of the' three foreign visite he will pay this eummer. The tripe* Sweden M a return of the visit of Ring Gustave to St, Petersburg at the time a the marriage of Prince -Wile helm of Sweden, No high polities will be discussed at eittekhoim, atid the fact filet Emperor Nienolas is going almost direelly front Sweden to Poltava, to be leesprement at the detikation of a monumerat to the Rose -Swedish deed who fell in the battle of Poltava two hundred years ago, is taken am an eviderice thee e.he atieient Ruimo.Swedisli enmities heee been completely blotted out, LIKE AlIDUL, British Labor Objects to Czar's Visit to King. Loudon, June 28. --The members of the Labor party in the House of Om - mons have issued a menifesto proteating against the approaching visit of the czar to Xing Edward, They say anion.g other Wogs: "We believe the visit as offensiveto at great majority of the peo- ple of this country. We bane no desire to interfere with the internal govern- ment of a foreign State, but when that Government is nutintnined by 0, systent of mittder or defends itself by putting to death or sending lute voile its best and most virile citizens_ ern ellen it suppresses the least whispt, „e erty by hangmen, epies and black- guards of every kine, it is an insult to our national good fame am) our self -res - led that our Sovereign should, receive n our amine the head of such a State, espeeially when his personal approval of criminal agents hese been placed beyond questien." The inanifeeto aisevows the least enmity to the people of Russia, who are no more represented by the Czar than vietims can bo represented by their oppressors, and refers to the re- ception of the members of the pounis who ere now iu Eugland as proof of the wish to live in friendship with the Russian nation. It deolares that the Russian Administration has become blacker and bloodier in the last two or three years, and eiting figeres of int- prisonments and executions, exelnirns: "Did Abdul Hamid over do worse?" 4- • TO QUIT CRETE, Powers to Withdraw International Troops From Island. Whether War or Peace Kin Geot ge Will be in Trouble. 11.1•••••••••• Paris, June 28.—According to the Temps, the four protecting powers of Crete, ,France, Great Britain, Russia and Italy, nave reached complete accord with regard to the future or this islaud. They have decided to withdraw the international troops from Crete on July 27. At the same time they urge the Cretens, Turkey and Greece to remain calm. A proclamation to this effect will be issued- to the -Cretans, while Turkey and Greece will be advised through the regular diplomatic ehaiinels. - New York, June 25.—A cable des- patch to the Herald from Athens says: The Minister of Foreign Affairs denies categorically the report from a Turkish source that the Hellenic Government is giving financial assistance to the Cretans to enable them to purchase arms and ammunition. According to exact in- forthatioa these purchases are made by the provisory Government of Crete with the aid of Greek patriots mainly living abroad. In spite of reiterated repre- sentations by the Ottoman Government it is certain at present that the evacua- tion of the island by the international troops takes place on July 27, the eon- -tingents of the four powers leaving Crete simultaneously. Contrary to malevolent suppositions that the security of the Mussuhean population in Crete will be threatened after the international troops leave the island, the Cretan provisory Government will guarantee the lives of Turks in Crete. Their sad danger lies in the' appearance of a Turkish fket in the harbors of the island, for this would be considered a challenge by the Cretans. Ring Cleorge knows that if he refuses; to accept the annexation of Crete there will be a popular rising in Greece which Will drive him and hie family from the 'kingdom. It was solely in conse- quence of an alternative of the same kind that he.gave a reluctant consent to the former war with Turkey about Crete, which resulted so disastrously to Greece. If, on the other hand, he does yield to the imperative demands of his people, and approves of the annexa- tion of Crete to his kingdom, then the WarwithTurkey will ensue, of the issue of which there can be not the smallest vestige of a doubt in the mind of any- body save of the Greeks themselves; and when", as is inevitable, they are de- feated, they will, as on the previous occasion, saddle all the blame On King George and On his sons, tne Crown Prince, Prince George, Prince Nicholas and Prince Andrew, for the national' disaster, and will decline any longer to submit to his rule. POLICE METHODS. Chief Justice Howell Takes Lenient View. Winnipeg, June 28.—A highly impor- tant decision was given by Chief Justine Howell in the Assize Court, when he ad- mitted as evidence the confession secur- ed from a prisoner by a decoy in the cells at the police statioh, and by the application of third degree methods, His Lordship took strong grounds 'upon this matter, defying the opinions of several of his colleagues here, who have per- sistently refused to recognize ench meth- ods as justifiable in dealing with crime teals, He gave it as his opinion thet the polio roust be assisted in their work by the Courts, and must get evidence from dangerous and alert criminals a.s best they can, if the public is to sleep eafoly at nights. Afterwards the negro prisoner, who was on trite far shooting and wounding, a tompahion in a card game, was convicted and sentenced to two and a half years in 'penitentiery. • AN UNWEL00Me, GIFT. Pope Didn't Went Moto* Car P'oeted On Him. Chicago, June 28.--A special cable to the Daily News from Rome, Italy, says: The Pope was greatly annoyed by the gift.of eft automobile forced upon hint by a wealthy American for use in the Vatican gardens. The Pontiff repeated- ly refused the offer of the machine, as. wring the would -bo giver that he much preferma walking to riding. When the automobile was first offered, a year ego, the Pope, after politely declining it, sug- gested that another gift wculd be more acceptable. The Americana seemed per- suaded to tiecept -this decision, but he seeretie heal a special ear built and sent it her with orders for its iterate. diate delivery to the Pope. The Veltman thus wee forced to accept the ear, which is now stored in ri, entitle, ane is not likely ever to be used by the Pole,. The giver's mune Is withheld, as it is stuiptetee that the -*bled of the gift i$ fitetely pereoliel advertietnient, IF ONLY HE'S A CHINESE. That is Getting to be the Universa Police Test For Arrest. fhree Hnoffending Celestials At Wrongfully Nabbed. Police Now Believe Leung Did Not • Premulitate the Murder. I; New York, June 28.—Leung deter of Elsie eigeli was arrestea lflD Duly three places to -day, The police of Reeltester arrested him tomiglit, a few hours after he nen been .4a:re8ted in Philadelphia, leather in the day he had been erreeted on Ieeng Island, It was alsoreporeed that he had sell-. ed es a member (if the (mew of the steamer Arizona% bound from Norfolk to San :trent:nee, btu: it wee proved by tbe ship' clearance ppm that the left lierfolk with the crew originally slap- ped in New Yorke in the ineantiance the police know no more about whore Leung may be than they aid on the day the girl's body was found, The police notion that the murder Was premeditated, that the jealous Leung had hi trap set as early as two weeks before his yotag Bible teecher stepped into it, was spoiled today. The person aim spoiled it was °hung ale, satellite of Leung, aow sweating in the lipase of deteatien and being sweated by the po- lice as of eon as his eandition will stand, Chung now swears that the conversetiou between Elsie and Leung just be- fore the girl was killed, ovetheard by him es ne listened in his room on the other side of the flimsy door, made him. sure that Leung had no thought of mur- der until that moment, The police are not repeating mean of this alleeed con- versation, bait they believe °Aug, so meta so 'that ui inquirer at neadquar. tars is told; "Tins murder was not premeditated. We are sure of that now. Al that's been said about the jealousy of Leung zed his tenger because of Elsie Sigel's peeving fondness for the Port Arthur restaurant maa, ChinGain, is true, but ne bad not phoyned the murder and proltebly had suothina, of the sort in his mind until eireuntstanees that arose in Omr, ROAD DISAPPEARS, Great Stretches of It Have Already Caved In- Ilailfax, N. S., June 28,—. Great atretchee or reed aro disappearing from the highway, six miles from the Town of Antigouish, and tho people are greatly warmed: The first cave- in occurred two weeks ago, when a section fifty feet long by twenty wide, dieeppeared, carryinga telephone polo, now far out of sight. No soon - or had thie opaline been filled with brick end tepee than another save - in took place, when a strip of the road 100 feet long disappeared. Tim hole made on this °omen was forty feet deep and thirty feet wide. The cavity is now filled with water, and is a small lake, The road com- missioner wont to the scene from Halifax, and While ho was investigat- ing another portion of the road, fif- teen feet long by ten in width, dis- APPeared, and next day still another, 200 feet from the first cave-in, sank from view. The Intereolenial Railway track is also effected, the. rails having settled over a foot in two places. The road commissioner 'says subterranean wa- ters are dissolving the plaster far be- neath the road, and that the district will eventually Weenie a largo lake. It has been decided to build 2,200 feet of new highway to tho rear of what the people consider a death-trap, and which is very dangerous. $100 A DAY. ALIMONY GRANTED MRS. HOW- ARD GOULD BY COURT. g A Separtion Allowance—Justice Dowl- ing Decided That Plaintiff Had Disapproved Charges of Intoxica- tion—Husband Guilty of Dam's tion. New oYrk, June 28,--Afeer a trial wnich lasted warty three weeks, Kath- erine .01einmens Gould. obtained a 1eg,a1 separation from her husband, Howard Could, third son of the late Jay Gould, by a dmision of juetice Dowling in the Supreme Court to -day. With the excep- tion of alimony her victory was com- plete, but in this pheee of the nee the court deeided that $30,000 a year was suffieent, though in her suit Mrs. Gould Miss Elsie Sigel, Drawn From a Description of the Murdered Girl Farn- ished-by Mrs. Florence Todd, the Now York Chinese Mission Worker. the course of that meeting of Leung and Elsie in Leung's room on j tete Oth, made the death of Elsie the Chinese's only escape front a situation he had created." This addition to the narrative of Chung is his third coefession. ate has not said a word so Inc that implicates him in the actual strangling of the girl and the pollee are still inclined to be- lieve bleat he was not hnplicated. Chu, Gain, Lettag's rival, applied to the distriet abtorney'S •offiee this morn- ing far permiesion to low town, but although he has offerecl to inereate his bail ..froin the present $1,000 to $5,000, request was refused, His lawyer is confident that he een in no Ivey be ine plicated ancl the polLice said unofficially to -night that they had •no further desire to hold 'him and did not care whether the dietriet attorney's office released him or uot. 'OVERRUN BY RATS. Canadian Woman Complai3s of 111 - treatment in Buffalo Almshouse. Buffalo, June 28.—Under a two - column head to -night the Buffalo News says in part: "Refused admission to various hospitals 'amuse she is a non- resident told had not sufficient funds to pay for her nmintenance, Mrs, Marion Potter, an educated and cultured young Canadian woman suffering with rhea - nudism, found herself compelled reontly to be talthe to the hospital at the trie county almshouse her, where she was accorded disgraceftti treatment, accoed- ing to her story:" She said among other things that the institution- is overrun with rats Etna vermin. The Buf- falo News did not give the name of Mrs. Pottes home town in Canada. AIRSHIPS AT PETAWAWA, Militia Department Encouraging the Experiments, Ottawa, June 28. --The centre of interest at Potawavea military camp will shortly be the first Canadian ex- periments in aviation with a view to establishing a navy of the air. Two nowaerodromes built at taddeck, N. S., on the lines of Dr. Grahem 13ell's famous "Silver Dart" and "June" by youeg Canadian engineers, Messrs. Balctwiii and McCurdy, will be in- stalled at the camp to -morrow and under the direction -Of Mr, Baldiein 'several flights will be attempted. The htilitia Depertinent and the 'Govern- ment are showing a practical inter- est in the Work of the Caitadian inflaters and inventors, by ateranging for the tenting ealletitttents 'With the alr shipe at Petawas,wai, asked for 8250,000. She has been re- ceiving $25,000 a year from Mr. Gould. It was in the vindication of cheeps of intoxication and her alleged relations with Dustin Farnum, the actor, that Mrs. Gould scored most strongly, for not- withstanding the long array of witnesses for Mr, Gould, who gave such testimony as to make Mrs. Gould appear at times as defendant rather than plaintiff, the court. held that the alleged "intoxica- tion" may have been due to excithment, As to Dustin Femme it was held that the &escalation with him came after Mr. and Mrs. Gould separated, and that the, husband apparently made no objection. Upon request of Mr. Gould's calumet for stay of judgment, Justice Dowling grant- ed a stay of thirty days. In giving jungment, Juseke Dowling said he had found greet, difficulty in fix- ing the amount of alimony. The court colOIMake no provision.' by way of sub- stitution for the luxuries which the plaintiff enjoyed senile living with the defendant. It weld nob provisle her with a, yacht, or provide her with means for keeping a yacht. Bat the court could, and should. insure the plaintiff agairtat suffering, front any reasonable eked, when she had so Jar as the evidence dis- closed, been without fault, and the de- fendant had himself been guilty of de- sertion. For to apply to the plaintiff a east of this kind, no more relief than simply provision for keeping life and soul together would be obviously unfair and would be putting a premium upon desertion of wives by their husbands, and would be makiug it melee for them to reduce their -expenses by simply 'caw- ing their wives and paying no more than was required for the actual necessi- ties of life. • Ile had coached:ea to award the plain- tiff a mute which in his opinion, would eatable her to live in comfort and ease, ana with dignity befitting her station as the wife of the dekmkult. Ite had fix- ed that at the sum of $3,000 a month, $30,000 a year, Which is about $100 a day. • ARE DISSATISFIED. Two Members of British Govern- ment Resign Because of Budget. Loncion, :Tune 28.- The resignations of two members of the Government revere announced toetight. Ostensibly they were handed in on aceount of ill -health, nut it is believed they were due partly to lite dieapproval of Mr. Lloyd -Georges budget. Lord Isitxmatirice, as Chancellor of the Melly of Telecaster, is succeeded by efr. Tierbert 1,11114 Samtve, Venter- eeereiary for Home Affairs, whe thus is, promote,' to cabinet lank. 'I he they resignation is that of Mr. Th nuts II. Buchanan, Parliamentary Secretary to the India Office, THOSE WITH FEEBLE MINDS. What is Being Done by Some European Countries. Canada Lags in an Inlportant Social Work, Playgrounds For Children.—White Slave Traffic. 'reroute despatch: Canada must be up and doing in regard to the problem et the eare of the feeble minda It was. a British delegate, Mrs. Eawin Gray, of York, who urged Catmallans to learn by the mietekes of the older countries. It, Was an acknowledged, world expert that pointed out thee; the ratio Of feeble- minded to the population was the same the world over, and who at the same time contended. that Canada could be made the sanest country in the world. It was the seine BAUM]delegate, let it be pointed out, who congratulated Can- ada upon tae 'talky of its G.overiunent to exclude all but the best immigrants. At the same time it remaiuen for two Ontario delegates to admit that the problem had already matched terrible poportions, and a third, from Qtlebee, to support their opinions with a similar stetement as to her own Province. "I will snow you in fifty minutes fifty fee- bleouinded children," said Dr. Helen Macalurehy. "There are in the Province of Ontario 700 feeble-mini:led women and children, and it is a conservative esti- mate that 100 sada unfortunates are born every year," was the remark of Mrs. Evans of Hamilton, while Miss Derrick, of iteantreal, said that in Que- bec 150 feeble-minded women had -been reported, without taking into consider- ation the Liench-Canadian population at THE OLD WORLD'S WORK, The discussion arose in commotion with the • joint amain of the sections of Education, Philanthropy and Social ancient:hell Reform, and followed papers Arming something of the work which is being, done in the old world, afri the firstr'place Miss Van Ewijek told how in little Holland municipal and national sehools for the • feeble-minaed had been established, and where it is hoped that in the next few months a law will be passed compelling the attendance of all such children at the achools provided for them. Epileptics are not admitted to the schools, however, neither are those whose condition is such that they cannot be mid to be merely reeponsie ble. Partieular attention is given to singing and kindergarteeework, and eath child is seat Mime in the care of a guide, paid by the mueicipelity. "There are three feehleeninded num to every tem girls in the world," said Miss Dimity in reply to Mrs. Edwin Gray, who urged that more attention should be paid to the male sex, but Dr. Helen Maelefurehy contended that the children should have the first claim, be- came then they would begin at the root of the matter, for it was hard to realize Low quiekly those same children came to maturity. REVIVED OLD CRAFTS. The morning seseion or the at section dealt with the interesting subject of handicrafts end home industries in dif- fevent countries. Lady Aberdeen was able from her great, knowledge of the movement to revive the old Irish lace trade to give a moot interesting account from the distressful isle. Lady Aberdeen founded the Irish Industries Associa- tion, and ehe told how efforts were be- ing made to protect the hand -worker in linen from fraudulent misrepresentation by the producer of the machine -made article, who traded on the reputation of the hand -made goods. Through the stimulus given by the association, the forming of depots for the disposal of the goods in Dublin, London and Paris, the Irish handierafts had bean saved, and with their survival had come a revival of the study of the old folk -songs, ac- companied by the preservation of the characteristic musk and legends, and in a sense the preservation to the people of the pleasures of imagination. .THE TRAFFIC; IN WOMEN. At the private session of the Inter- national Women's Congress last 'right, following the plank evening meeting, a report prepared by Lady Bunting, of London, dealing with the progress of the movement for the suppression of the traffic in women in all countries, was read. The resolution urges all the National Councils of Women to study the repres- sive measures now in force in their re- spective countries, and to work for such a.dditional measures as wilt bring about the entire suppression of the traftic. CHILDREN SADLY NEGLECTED. A scathing arraiguannet of the me- thods of dealing with the problems of child life in large cities, with same special teethes% on leen conditions, WaS given at the joint session of the education, aidlanthrope and soeial reform sectione of the National Commit of Women yesterday morning, by Miss Sadie American, of New York. In this connection Miss American a/e- nact' the serried rows of houses in the haw seetioas of Toronto without Any provision for play room betweeit them. Character was built in. leisure even more than in work and there Minutd be open spaces within oath of every child which he would feel was his own. They should also lie within it quarter of a, 111115 of the homes of the ehildreu. There should be sympathy between the authorities aml the children. for, when a small boy felt that the polieenutu was hie enteral enemy the first principles of citizenship were being undermined. When the pollens:1u arrested a 81111111 ban for throwing n ball he Was doing something that neither of thein under- stood. The erux of the whole situation was the provision of adequate and pro- perly supervised phiegrounds, Mr, Ca A. II. Brown, president of the losat Playgrounds Associatiote said that Toronto stow lead wen supervised pleegroends, end hoped that next year IL would have 57, it the lioard of Eda- cation had passed a resolution throwing open all sehooi grounds to the cbildren at an times. TIRED OF SEPARATVON. Kingston Wernah Mkt Permissioh to 'Welt Hat Husband. laingeton deepateh: Col. Hunter, J. P., recently issued an order of separation 'between a termer and hie wife, making the husband and sort pay $3 per week tor the women's support. The intsband watt -ordered, on pain of emelt, to keep away from the wonuens prentieee. The funny part of the affair is that the wife puller. day called on Col. Hunter and aelceti miseion to visit her lemboud, ere grant. ed it, end beileves the /operation will soon he a thing of the paste CORPORATION TAX' President Taft'; Scheme Laid Before Senate. • Weshington, Juno 28. — President nuteleheraided eorporation tax plan was presented to the United etetes Senate to -day by Mr, Aldrich, !ellaairman of the Pitianioe (.30nurtitteo, Mid was ortlerea printed sot a eerie inittee amendment to the tariff bill, As drafted by Attorneydeenerel 'Wicker- sham and Senator Root the measure Is believed to he amendment -proof, and an effort will be 'made to put it through Congress uneltenged, Briefly stated, the plan\amposee 18 tax of two per sena upon the net earninga of every corporation, joint stock eompany or asses/lotion, organ- 's -ea for profit, ami having a capital atock. represented. V shame, and every insurance company organized Wider the lams of the United States or of any State, territory, or district, or organized limier the laws of any forelgn coantry, and, engaged hi business with- in the 'United States. Every latitude is given to voneerns eubject to the tax for the exemption of expensee, cost of maintenences, deprecia- tion of property, debts and tbe interest thereon, other forms of taxation and all expendituree usually taken from net earnings and accounts. Every corpora- tion is also given an exemption of $5,000 of earnings before the tax shall apply. " WAGES OF SIN. Whiskey Trader Drowned and His Money Went WithHitu. A Port Arthur despatch: Death by drowning overtook Mat. _Neilson, it whiskey trader, who has been open, ating in the N. T. camps near Sia perior junction. He had been ass°. dated in the illicit trade with a for- mer railroar named J, Spence. It :was Spence who purchased the Uglier with which thew started business. He secured a rlve-gallon keg, and two cases of whiskey at Xenon, and brought them all the way to Superior Junction by canoe, surmounting great difficulties in doing so. At the Junction Neilson joined him, and they opened up a blIndpig on the outekirts of the town. Business was brisk indeed, for a time, and they read- ily disposed of helf af theie supply, be- fore a Dominion constable interrupted their' operations by a visit; to the dis- trict. They hoard of his coining, and de- cided to leave for a new field. The re- mainder of the whiskey was placed in the canoe, and they started down the river, but shortly afterwards the mime capsized, and Neilson went down to eke no more in 135 feet of water. Spence saved himself by clinging to the canoe, but afterwards he was arrest- ed by the constable on the °barge of illicit trading in liquor, and brought in here. All the proceeds of their business had gone down with Neilson, who was the treasurer of the ,partnership, but when Spence was arraigned before Coni- missioner Quibel he was fined 8100, with the option of six months in jail. He paid the fine. 4-4 • NEEDS OVERHAULING Montreal Fire Brigade Is In Pretty Bad Shape. Montreal, June 28.—Al1 this morn- ing's seseion el the Royal Commis- sion, Desire Champagne, a fireman, gave evidence which added to the previous)), given testimony of the pre- valence ot graft, the aliegateon that drink and women have pleyed a part in what has come to be colloquially known as the ."payess-yoneenter" fire brigade. The saltness was questioned by Mr. Perron with the purpose of Allowing that there had in the past be.cn a reek of proper discipline among certain members Of the brigade, and Champagne said he knew It to be the facb that many of the men who had been promoted through influence more than by their own merit, were allowed to drink and do almost as they pleased without correction, When Captain Dool- an had. been wetter women and drink were introduced into the station and dis- order reigned. Direct evidence was also given by Fireman A. Albert that when lie came from St. Mei and entered the brigade Lan years ago he paid $175 or $200 to Joseph Godboub for his position, but he was not informed whom the money was for, bIunday, the alleged position broker be the fire depaitment, had another quarter of an hour in the witness box today, and alio more he pleaded poor memory when asked to whom he paid the money he admits having; 'mowed, for positions. At the form- er session of elm commission Munday said lie had paid the money to ex -Aid. Marsolais, now dead. Tbis morning Mun- day persisted that Marsolais was the only name he could remember, "But living Aldeemen?" Mr. Perron qued. "I do not remember," the witness re- plied. "I cannot say." The Dominion Coal (3onmealy, it Ives further shown, borrowed 500 feet of bose from the departmeet under ex -Chief Benoit, and returned it in a damaged emiditiote It was not paid for. The taptain of the station supplyieg the 11080 tratilien to having received a pre- :vien:of ten 'dollars abedhe time.tIt came in a eenied letter; lie knew not - e MILLIONAIRE DROWNED. Lost His Lift in Whiz Lake, Michigan. Deteolt despatch: A special front Mus- kegon, Mieh. to -night says: Alex. Deem - berg, IL millionaire Of Chicago, was drowned in White Lake, near here, flat; afternoon, under cireumstanees which for the Vomit, etre shrouded jii mys- tery. A tompaition, who wee in the boat with Bromberg, charm the unforttutatte men missed tut oatstroke, and losing itis balance, fell overboard. It is knOWni, however, tiete Bromberg was a good swItintier„and the pollee soul) the idol of eat accident explaietal in this way.The heat WAS less than fifty yatds froth shore When. Bromberg went overboard, alieeppeering in twenty feet of water. The body bee not yet been found, el - though a flotilla of Inemehee is &rigging for it. Bromberg was fifty years Of age, and (Avner of the Chicago I/tights Iliteelndi Chit) grotnals. Ile watt a Mil. Bellaire many Week over. WAS CRAZED._ Man Strikes His Brother in Abdo. men With Knife. Young Farmer Is ia Jail, Charged With Murder, inolaroaielideldtlore,stomataelrt; Cwrauzietcol, bay yilarilltialt- Neuter living in the Town of Pharsaila, fourteen miles north of this village, teethed his brother, Walter White, mess the abdomen with a large jack- knife about 10 o'clock last night, in - Meting a woulul that proved fatal early to -day. George White had been cultivating potatoes yesterday and indulged freely in hard cider. In the evening there was a family gathering at his homes to celes brate Mr. White's birthday, and more hart enter was pertalten of. The guests included Walter, a younger brother of George. During the evening George White quarreled with his mother and struck her, Walter interferrea and after quiet was reetered, lay down On a couch. George was sitting in the door, whit - thug a stick, when he suddenly wheelea around and struck his brother in the abdemen with the knife, After comrait- ting the crime lie disappeared, but walked into the house of a neighbor to,. day and was arrested. Ile is in jail, charged with murder. TALE OF,A PEARL. It 'Reads Like a Chapter From Arabian Nights. New York, Juno 28.—A tale of a pearl said to be worth $140,000 and weighing nearly 'thirteen grains varied the drab monotony, of the west side police court for Magistrate Corrigan yesterday. The magistrate rubbed bis .eyes and won- dered whether he was an Oriental cadi hearing', the disposition of Sinbad the Sailor, Then he rubbed them again and scrutinized the visitor from whoselips the wonder tale came as freely as ever such a oneflowed from the pen of a Wilkie Collins or a Robert Louie Steven - eon. The petitioner said he was Captain 8. It, White. Centuries ago an an- cestor of the Maintrajah had presented Lo his favorite monastery two large oval pearls of sky bite color. In 1879 a priest ran away with a 11•11eC, and they rook the pearls with them. Later the prieat and his wife were found killed. in 1880 the pearls were next heard Of as being in the possession of the Due d'Aumale, in France. He gave them to his friend, Colonel Du Verney. Misfortunes followed the possessors of the pearls. De Verney and his wife both died, and the gems were sold at auction and reset by Parisian jew- elers for the King of Belgium. The gannet captain next told how Xing Leopold presented the reads to Clarice • De Merode, a French dancer, and famous in her day. Mlle, de Mo- ro& sent one of the pearls back to the Maharajah, and the other she gave to a French officer, He fell in a duel. His vanquisher took the pearl and _again it disappeared from view until coming into the hands of a wealthy American it was pawned by him when stocks broke badly in Iran •street for a paltry $1,000. ,Now here's the sequel. • Captain White, as the agent of the Maharajah, asked and obtained from the magistmth a summoes for the appear- ance of Morris A. Forgotson, a dealer in pawn tickets in upper Broadway, who, he said, had purchased the ticket for the pledged pearl for $150. The latter, it is said, has resold -the ticket to a stranger. 'Mysterious Hindus are in town trailing Forgotson and the clues tp the pearl, and meanwhie Forgotson is busy telling folk that he is entirely ignorant of the present whereabouts of the Maharajah's .treasure. e • • MAN DROWNED. Bathing at Strathroy Goes Down in Sight of Mates. Strathroy despatch: John Kerr, a G. T. E. section hand, about twenty-seven years of age, was drowned here to -day. Kerr, with another employee named Richardson, had just finished lunch and went near the railway bridge VeheTe they weth working. The two had not been in the water long when Richardson thought something was wrong, and wav- ed to the rest of the gang on the bridge. In the meantime Kerr bad gone down. An elarm was at once given, and in a short time a great crowd had gathered end several volunteered to dive for the body. • Fully an hour elapsed before the body was recovered. se. APPROACHING EDMONSTON. G. T. Pacifie Tracks Will be Laid Into City by July 7th. Winnipeg, June 28. ---Word Was re - eta ved there to -day frotn the end fo the steel on the G. T. P. that the track will be laid inth Edmonton by Jule 7th, Gang. ere now 48 mites rrom that city, but the strength will be doubted and they wihtnow be able to lay helm four to six miles per day. liallAsting gangS are well up with the work, and the en- tire line will be ready for traffie when the crop begine to move. The lino will be 794 miles between this city and Ed- :b'lliitiseohtv Ed- mouton, pe onthelixicet •Goveremecut es,- dinette' farms in the cannery tributary to the G. T. P., one in northern Saskatehewan, and the other in Alberta. They now have an offieial out there impeding, the lands available. CONVICTION SUSTAINED. Miss Glynn, Money Lender's Agent, to Be Sentenced. Winnipeg, June 28.—The Court of Appeal to -day sustained the convit. tion registered Against Mary Glyee, -agent for Tolman, a Usurer of New York, fot intritetions of the MOney lenders' act, and site will now go back to the Court of Ring's Bench for sentenes. She is liable to at year tvisen, or to a fine of it thoueane dollars. The evidence Allowed that her figurine hail alivraneel mousy to ealatiell people, charging intereet rang - big from e'00 to dog per cent. The tame ould net recognize her plea that she was not responsible, being only agent here, and net itharlog ift the Drente, PTIS FE DAY. Seventysfiftit Anniversary of die Sid* Celebrated, Great Parade in Honor of Event at Montreal, Montreel (Weirton,: Over 250,000 people svituessea the St, Jean Baptitite puede to -day. The day is a holiday among- the French-Canadians and over half of the population, lined the streets or took pert in the parade, Unusual interest was attached to the celehratioa owing to it boa% tLte. aiese entylifth anniversary of the founding of tee society. To -day's celebration was a striking manifestatioe of the patrtotis mend religioas devotiou of Vrenolt-Vanadians to their patron saint. More than twenty musicale corps, about one hundred historical and allegorical cars — some of them/ for instance, that representing the death of Wolfe and Montealin, that of the heroic defence of Fort Chem- bly by Miss De Vereheres and that fg the siege of Quebec, restily magnificent. There were 20,000. men and boys iu the procession, including some of the highest dignitaries of the politieal and municipal world, constituting the mest remarkable parade ever held by the Freuch-Caradiaus in this city. All through the route of the pro- cession the decorations were pretty and tasteful, and. at times splendid. Many triumphal arches of meple leeves andhavergreens decoratea with patriotie inscriptions, quoted from the best poems of French-Canadian authors, sCremazie, Freehette arid Chap- man,were erected. on the line. Streamers bearing the official inscription of the society, 'Notre Religion, Notre Lange° et Nos Droits," were everyivbere die - played. A notable feature wes the great number of priests who took part • in the procession, Every society was ac- companied by its chaplain, and repre- sentatives of every religious order in Montreal were walking, in the ranks, Sir Lomer Gamin, Prime Minister of Quebec, was among the officials of St. Jean Baptiste Society, and walked with them from Place Viger to La- fontaine Park. Hon. Mr. Landry, Minister of Agrietulture, New Bruns- wick; Mayor Payette, and many mem- bers of the City Council took part _in the parade. The sermon of to -day was delivered be Rev. Abbe Elie Auclair, of the Arch- bishop's Palace, one of the most elo- quent of the younger clergy of Mgrit- real, It was a strong appeal to his hearers to be true to the traditionsof the past as the best wan to be true to the motto of St. Jean Baptiste Associa- tion: "To make people better," . WHAT LA PRESSE THLNICEL In an editorial to -night on the St. Jean Baptiste celebration, La Preese has the following significant sentence: "It is our joy to belong to two supreme entities, that of the Church, which is the Kingdom of ideas, and that of Great Britain, which is the kin.gdom of good sense and. of liberty," es- • GAMBLERS' TRUST • Said to be All -Powerful at Mt. Clemens, Mich. Detroit, June 28.—Mount Clemens) the famous 'Beth City," patronized by rich and sioor alike on account of the won- derful curative properties of its mineral waters, has fallen into disrepute because of the open manneihin which gambling game of all kinds and conditions are perinitted to be run. A committee composed of a number of prominent business men of the town and who are designated the "Reform Caimnittee," has been organized to "clam up," and an agitation is already under stay among the Citizens generally to put a stop to the operations of the "gam- blers' trust," which has roams in practi- cally every hotel in the place. Big ga.nies have been running night and day, and one case has already been reported to the committee where a wealthy visibor dropped $8,000 in one night's play. Stories of men losing from $500 to $1.000 are not uncommon, and the fact that no arrests are ever made, despite the frequent complaints of the victiins, leads the committee to' be- lieve that the polite are in league with the gamblers. PROMOTER'S ARREST Accused of Obtaining Money by False Pretences in Canada. New York, June 28.—Willistin 8. Mitchell, who says he is a prolnoter, was arrested to -day „near his home, 373 West Ninety-seventh street, by United States Marshall Pinkley wed a private detective, at the request of the British Government, on a charge of obtaining money under *also pre- tences. Mitchell's alleged offence is said to have taken place in Canada, and he will be extradited as soon as the necessary papers arrive. Provincial Detective Joseph E. Rogers, elf Ontario,who made the complaint upon which Mitchell was arrested, alleges that in janaary, 1907, Mitchell, with Alexander C. Ross, a former member of the Cana- dian Parliament rind others said to be imminent in Canadian politics, formed a, syeditate to obtain an op- tion on 18 mine known as the "Sin- clair Claim 3 434" at Coleman, in the Nipissing district. Mitchell is alleged to have report- ed to Ross and the other niernbets of the syndicate that he had secured an option the mine Item Wolfeestati ThoMas, a director of the 13ank of Quebec, for $130,000, to be paid in in- stallments and that in part payment the owner' had agreed to accept 830,- 000 in fully paid up stock of the OM - pony that was to be incorporated to 'work the lniting property. Believing these repreeentations to be time, so inspeotot Bogota say's in his affidavit, floss 0/1 September 19, 1007, patid Mit- ellen $5,000, but it Was subsequently discovered that Mitchell had obtain- ed had obtained tho option for $85,000 instead of $130,000. Besides Mr, ROSS the other members of the mining company are said to luau& Colonel Sit Atostus Fitz- george, a cousin of Ring Edward W. 0. Straiten,. of Montreal, and Senator Willient Mrtehell, an melts of the prisoner. The plumber doesn't build sir eastlee, Ire is tetisflea to put the water pipes In them.