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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-09-23, Page 7ESKIMOS WHO • •natural annoyanee impeeehmeut MC -restraint, but cen hardly repress, a ut 'Ji a veracity, without proofs, Ile re- SUppoRT pEARy Arti.thea:=4 rress. to nutke "Commander Peary has as .yet given - to the world 110, profits of his own ease. My claim has been fully recognized by WA Who Accompanied Cook *.Soy Deruperk and the Xing of Sweden; the He Did Net Reach the Pole .Proident of the 'Meted Statea of Amer- ica has wire(' me his .eonfidence; my cleira has been, accepted by the inter- s Bluffing ad 'national bureau for polar reeeerch at Cook Says Peary i Brussels; most of the geological so - Demands Proof. (idles of Europe lueve sent rrie con- . gratuletions, which means faith and acceptance for the present, and almost IWO of Former Expedltions Found every explorer of note has come for- iu Abundance. ward with warm and friendly approval. "A specific record of my journey 'accessible to all, and every one who roads can decide for hhnself. When Peary publishes a similar report, then our eases are parallel. Why should Peary be allowed to make himself a self-appointed (Banter of my affairs? In justice to himself, in justice to the world and to guard the honorof national, prestige, he should be cone pelted to prove his own .case; he should publish at once a preliminary narrative, to be ,compared with mine, and let fair- minded people ponder over the matter while the final records by which our case may eventually be proved are being prepared. "I know Peary, the explorer. As such he is 0, hero hi Arctic annals era deserves the credit of a long and hard record. To Peary the explorer I am still willing to tip my hat, but Peary's unfouuded accusations have disclosed another side to his character which will never be forgotten. "When Peary wired that he had nailed the Stars and Stripes to the pole I immediately sent congratulations. I then believed, as I do now, that his work over a new route far east of my line of travel was a new conquest of great importance. and, of course, that his position at the pole would supple- ment my work with valuable data. "There is room enough and honer enough for two American flags at the pole," Sydney, Sept. 19. Commander Peary's main evidence to support hie charge that Dr. Cook never reached the North Pole will be the testimony of two Eskimos who accompanied Cook on his expedition. Etukishook and Ahwelch admitted to him, so ete. Peary says that Cook never went out of sight of Cape Columbia, and that they were never farther than two "sleeps" from land. For the past week Peary nas absolutely declined to discuss details of his charge that Dr. Cook had "gold -bricked" the pub- lic, and this reticence is believed to be in response to a message from the Peary Arctic Club, telling him not to say anything until he got back to civilization and fully understood how the controversy is looked upon, To neither the Associated Press nor the correspondents of Canadian and American papers who reached him at Battle Harbor has Commarxder Peary discussed Dr. Cook's claim. He nets contented himself with merely re- peating that he is the discoverer of the Pole. But with the Newfoundland newspaperman. P. McGrath, who reached him on Friday, September 10th, at Battle Harbor; both Com- mander Peary and Capt. Bartlett dis- cussed the Cook controversy freely, and Commander Peary stated that he had personally interviewed the Eski- mos who accompanied Cook, and that after first asserting that Cook's story was correct, they finally broke down N'111(„ and admitted the Brooklyn physician had never been out of sight of land. "They marched `two sleepsfrom Cape Columbia northward and never lost sight of it," Commander Peary is emoted as saying to Mr. McGrath. Mr. McGrath, in his despatch to The St. John's Chronicle, says :-"With re- spect to the Cook controversy, Peary and Bartlett say that Cook, on his arrival at Etah, informed Harry Whit- ney, the musk-ox hunter, who win- tered there, and Boatswain Murphy, who was in charge of Peary's depot of supplies at the same place, that he had reached the Pole on April 21st of the previous year with his two Eskimos, Etukishook and Ahwelch. After Cook left Etah to continue around Melville Bay to Upernavik, the Danish settlement in ,southern Greenland, there Eskimos remained in Etah, and when Peary came south and cross-examined them, the natives, who had previously confirmed Cook's story, broke down and admitted that they had only gone two "sleeps" from land and that they had never 111,' been out of sight of Cape Columbia. They drew a sort of plan on paper as an illustration for Peary of how they had travelled, and this seems to Peary to completely dispose of Cook's assertion that he and.his party reached the Pole. .ast Commander Peary has left Battle Harbor, and there is a possi- bility that he may be in Sydney by to -morrow afternoon or evening. The Roosevelt sailed from Battle Harbor at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. Mrs. Peary received a message by wireless from Battle Harbor late last night, the text of which was: 'When you receive this I will be on hey way to meet you. "(Signed; Bert." It was at first thought that this would bring the Roosevelt into Sydney some time on Tuesday afternoon, but there is a very strong northerly wind, blowing to -day, and by clapping some canvas on the Roosevelt she will be able to get here sooner than that. The party of correspondents who went up to Battle.Harbor on the Gov- ernment steamer Tyrian arrived back here at $ o'clock this morning after a unique experience. They were compelled to sleep in all sorts of places, as there was absolutely no ac- commodation for the number who went on board, and the man who was able to secure a shelf in the steward's pantry or a section of the cabin table considered himself extremely fortun- ate. All suffered very much from ,sea ziekness, and when the Tyrian ran into a heavy cross sea coming around Cape North early this morning the few who had not succumbed already quickly did so. HEARD COOK'S STORY Member of Roosevelt's Crew Knew of Discovery. Battle Harbor, Labrador, by wireless telegraph, via Cape Ray, Nfld., Sept. 19. -0m3 of .the men of the steamer Roose- velt knew lone ago that Dr. Frederick A. Cook had claimed to have reached the pole. He is William Pritchard, cabin boy on the Roosevelt. who re- mained at Annatock with Boatswain Murphy to guard the stores. Pritcharcl had not spoken to any one on board of Dr. Cook's achievement, but 'wheonfronted yesterday, just prior to the sailing of the Roosevelt from Battle Harbor, with a wireless message from mid -ocean that Dr. Cook said Pritchred knew the whole story of his dash for the pole, the youth admitted that he had. lenened from Dr. Cook the details of the final march, and that Dr. Cook had explained to him the route followed. Whether Boatswain Murphy also was informed of Dr. Cook's success, Pritch- ard did net know, but unquestionably Harry 'Whitney, who was at the store- house when Dr. Cook returned from his dash with the two Esuimaux, is con- versant with • all the facts. Whitney did not disclose this interesting piece of news to Commander Peary, and Pritchard kept it from Peary during the entire voyage of the Roosevelt to Battle Harbor. Pritchard said that he was at the house at Annatoek with Whitney and Cook, while Murphy was at Beta. He heard Dr. Cook describe to the New Haven sportsman how he went to the pole and remained there April 21 and April 22, or it might have been April 22 and p. Dr. Cook used a map to illnstrate the route followed. Asked why he had not repeated this on board the Roosevelt, Pritchard said that Dr. Cook had told him to say nothing about his having been at the pole until the Roosevelt reached civili- zation. PEARY'S LEVEE. The correspondents were taken ashore at Battle Harbor in a surf boat, and Commander Peary faced a battery of cameras. Then he appoint- ed a time for meeting the correspon- dents. and at 10 o'clock he held his first levee in the loft of a, fish house. The first questions .hurled at him were About Dr. Cook, and these he em- phatically refused to answer. Then he correspondents went over- the Roosevelt, inspeeted the wireaess sta- tion and endeavored to get something from the crew about Dr. Cook's "claims, but none of the members of the party would talk. At 4 o'clock Commander Peary held another levee, at which he answered a number of questions regarding his trip and ex- periences in quest of the Pole. Then M 5 o'clock the Tyrian Was boarded Again and early on Friday morning he gelled for North Sydney. COOK SAYS IT IS BLUFF. Demands That Peary Produce Proof of Hio Oa board the Osear II., of Nantucket, $.30 p, M., ..ept. 10 (by wireless tele- graph to the Associated Press). -"My desire to get on Americasoil inereeses with every mile laid behind by the Neat 11. Phe vessel is doing her hest record, although 'delayed oeettsioeally, making 400 111110 in the last 24 hours, "Commander Peary's unfortunate as- eilsolione have disclosed another side ef /is character. The speeifie reeords of my journey arb accessible to everyone Who reads, and all can decide for them- selves whenePeary publishes it shriller report." This inessege was eigned by Dr. Cook. tiaceording to the captain's observations itt midday, the Osear TI, will arrive at Vainly Hook about noon On Monday, and eit quarantine between 2 mod 2 &chi& Syibsy, N. Re Seel:, ii0,-Thp. tug Meg. protoeure lie believeadeqtate to drat , Pr. Cook appears to exerelee great las IL Th•Ornine Whielt left Bettie thrlier with inly VielatiOna by the intione. COOK HELD BACK, FOR BIG- POW -WOW. HERE'S THE SEXTANT GUIDE TO NORTH POLE, This is the sextant we are hearing so much about. Peary and Cook both used it to tell them when they got to the North Pole, The sextant is e simple little instrument, looking a great deal like e pair of carpenter's calipers with the poiuts joined. It is small enough. to be held in the hand easily, and has been used for nearly 200 years by sailors to tell what part of the world they were in. Before it was invented in 1730 ships were guided only by the stars. It is called a sextant beceuse the scale which shows the user where he is, is a soak of 60 degree, one-sieth of ft circle. Midway on the frame on one side is a telescope, and opposite, on, the other leg of the frame. as a glass, transparent in the upper half and sil- vered in the lower heel. Both the telescope (T in the figure) and the glass (H in the, figure) are firmly at- tached to the frame. At the top of the frame is a mirror (0 in the figure), New York, Sept, 20. --The first of the two claimants of premier North Pole honors will be at the gateway of his home port this evening. The Scandinavian -American steamer Oscar II. with Dr. Frederick A. Cook aboard is now approaching New York at half speed and the friends of the Brooklyn explorer are putting the finishing touches to the arrangements for the big demonstration with which they intend to show their faith in his as- sertion that he was the first man at the "top of the earth." There was a flurry among the mem- bers of the Arctic Olub and Biishwick Club, of *Brooklyn, this morning when word came that the Oscar -II. was. only 65 miles east of Fire Island. This position Would have enabled her to teach her dock here without difficulty late this afternoon.. Although the re- ception committee has received as- aurance last night that the steamer would be delayed so as not to inter- fere -with their plans, telephones and wireless apparatts Were at once put in operation to make•certain that there might be no change in the original ar- rangements. The local: officers of the Scaridin- avian army line tallied the °Gestalt of the Oscar II. that he should not attempt to Aoele to -day and he replied by wireless that he weul4 atelier off Sandy Hook and spend the night there, starting up the harbOr at day- light. Neatly 2,000 tickets have been sold for the steamer Grand Republic, on which the eommittee from the Arctic Club will go down the bay to-morrotv. Slightly 10 advance of the ;steamer will go is tug bearing Mrs. Ciak and hu eiildren aed. the 'explorer's tw•o brothels, with two or three members of the committee. The plan is to take Dr, Cook from the linet aboard this tug thus enabling him ti speed the first 'few minute; following his errival et quarantine with his family. Than the tug wilt go elongside the Greed Republic and the explorer wilt be taken on board for the lase stage of MI No /Miele events have been plannea for the interval betWeen the filet weleome and the dinner to wear et the Wald ire Astoria on Thursday night. Mrs. Cook lied her eleldree hitve taken rooms fie that hotel, so the explorer ean be in close tench with thiege who are tandeee to see him regarding the seientifki Awl Wetness features of big trip north. OM - eke arrengenienta for De. Cook's hernia writing have not yet _gime liestand thie benquet. RECEPTION TO PEA111•*. which is movable by Mealle of an arm (R -M in the figure), to which it is fastened. 0 is called the index glass and the erm R -M revolves around it. At M is a shifting scale for making fractional measurements. The observer takee the instrument in hie hand aud Juilds the telescope horizontally. Looking through the tel- escope, he may see the horizon through the transparent surface of the horizon glass H. Then, if wishing to bring the sun into line, he manipulates the mirror 0 as a child handles it bit of looking glass for the purpose of catching the sun's glare and throwing it into the eyes of a companion. He turns the arm 11-M until the . mirror 0 catches its reflection and throws it beek to the silvered surface of the glass H. When the sun is thus made to coincide with the horizon, one section of the graduated aro over which the arm R -M has passed indicates the measure of the angle in degrees, which is exactly determine by the movable fractional scale or vernier, an Saturday morning, in coin/ivory with th,e Peary steamer Roosevelt, arrived here et daylight tads morning, and re- ported the ,Roosevelt travelling eolith un- der steam and sail at it speed approxi- mately ten knots an hour. She should be off Sydney at 5 or 6 o'clock this even- ing. In anticipagon of Comumnder Peary's return, town buildings and Mr - bar shipping .are gay with flags, and the people are on the tip -toe of expectancy. GRIPPED BY THE ICF. Evidences of Former Expeditions to the North. Battle HarbOr, via steamer Syrian. Sydney, N.S., Sept. 19. -Stories of arc- tic tragedies held in the grip of the ice in some cases for more than a quarter of a century were revealed by the expedition from which Com- mander Robert E. Peary is now re- turning. Side trips ey Prof. Donald B. Mc- Millan and George Borup from the Roosevelt during the winter she lay at Cape Sheridan, while Commander. Peary was seeking the top of the world, brought to light interesting evidences of former expeditions to the north. Prof. McMillan said to -day: "We crossed Robeson Channel on April 23, and next clay we reached Hand Bay, near Cape Washington, in lat- itude 83.30. We found the hut oc- cupied by Commander Peary during Lae expedition of 1900, when he was driven out of his course by drifting ice and nearly starved before the ar- rival of his relief ship. Scattered about the hut were the bones of his last dogs, which he had been forced to kill and eat to save .himself from death. His footprints in the ground were easily distinguishable in many places. Farther on, at Cape Neumay- er, in latitude 83.40, we discovered more evidences of his later trip in. 1906. His tent, though in rags, was still standing. Remains of the expedition under Groely, during his ill-fated at- tempt to find the Pole in 1881 to 1884, were discovered by the scientists at Fort Conger on Lady Franklin Bay, in latitude 81.44. Canned vegetables, including potatoes, hominy and rhub- arb, some pemmican, and tea and coffee were discovered in great quan- tities. Among relics found at Fort Conger were many documents relating to the ex- pedition, including reports in the hand- writing of Greely, which had been left behincl on the arrival of the rescuing party. One of the finds was a text book and another was a temperance hymn book. During the expeditions about Cape Sheridan they came upon the winter camp of the British party which went in search of the Pole in 1876 .under Sir George Xeres .of the British navy, TAFT TALKS. President Spoke on Interstate Com- merce at Des Moines. CROP REPORTS. THE BEAN CROP. Beans aro a geed price at present in Ontario. They are likely to remain high of activity in railroad, mining and land operations continue (luring the winter as indications now would signify. The largest part of our beans are grown in Kent County. The crop this year promises to be as good as the average. POTATO CROP. The potato crop has a checkered his- tory ..is year. Ontario suffered from a wet spring and dry summer. Added to this, bugs were Most persevering. Consequently, the potato yield of On- tario is likely to be much below the average. Nt, But Ontario does not supply her own tables, having to iinport quantities from the States and from New Bruns- wick. While the crop in the Maritime Provinces is reported fair, the crop on the whole through the United States is much below the average. Late pota- toes are, io many cases, a total fail- ure. Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 20.-Preside0t Telt spent it little more than four hours in Des IVIoines to -day and during that time breakfasted with V. S. Senator Cummins, one of the "insurgent," leaders in Congress, reviewed an imposing par- ade of nearly 5,000 federal troops, en- gaged in it military tournament here, and made an opeu air address to an im- mense crowd gathered from alt the sur- rounding country, in which he discussed in detail the changes he will recommend to Congress in the interstate eonunerce aud anti trust leers. The President announced that he would urge the establishment of an in- terstate coreme'ree court of five mem- bers, to consider (lemmas from rates fix- ed by the interstate commerce eommis- 810101e. will also reeommend legislation to prevent one inter -state railroad cent- pany from ownieg etock in a coma:deg line, and eompelling roads thus miming tock to dispose of their holdings within it given time. The President also dis- approved of the proposal to exempt labor lotions and funk& orgenieations from the operation of the anti-trust law. Specifirally te exeopt those organize - tions, he declared, would be vicious legislator), but he pointed it way in which they toted be volleyed of soms of the einem restrictions placed upon them, but at the afini0 time be held Mortal& to injunetione, whieh form of THE APPLE CROP. It begins to look now as if the mar- ket for really choice apples will be good. The damage in many orchards in the Iroquois Valley, that is the district between Toronto and Belleville, caused by the aphis in sucking the juice of the eatly-formed apple, and thus causing them to dwarf and deform, will serious- ly interfere with &sent samples. Apple picking sir the earlier sorts has com- menced, and this week big gangs have gone into the Georgian Bay section. Prices by buyers are ranging from $1..up. R. Puckeriu of Ontario county, who has a very choice small orchard, has sold his for $1.56 per barrel. Fred Gibson, of the same county, reports a sale of apples at $1.00 per barrel for firsts and seconds, the buyers to take all. He has also a better figure for No. ones, if prices warrant. FOREIGN CROP OUTLOOK. . ROPED W1TU HER. Pittsburg Youth Stole Girl Front Toronto Convent. Pitteburg, Pa., Sept. 19. -One of the niest ecnsational marriages in years was brought to light here to -day, when the family of Feed Mugele, one of the whiskey kings of Pittsburg, anuounted tee successful elopement of thee :,Nitigele, jun., aged 17, with, Wes Stella bet, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., eke aged 17. The olopmnent 13 ndiniiited by the family to haveteem plaea from it ern - vent at Toronto wet re the young girl licireSs was et seltoel, Young ?Sta- ple Is the seri of Protestant parents, while his intended wife was a Rented Catholic, and it was neeessary to get 0. special dispepeation for the marriage., but this the youthful lover, himself a student at the Bellefonte, Pa., Acailemy, got around in some way, end. list Wee- nesdey morning the- couple were quietly married by Rev, Father J. J. Rosa, of the Sacred Huart Church at Niagara Valls. The ceremony was pesfortavd in the study of the pastor. The very young couple then went to Buffalo, where they sent it me4sag,te to the bridegroom's father at ,P.ttsburg asking forgiveness. Mr.. Muple sent n message telling the young couple In would spank them both. \Viten the fe- Liter yeaellea Buffalo, however, he pat. maned the punielunent, bringiug them both to Pittesburg, where they are now. Mrs. Talbot, mother of the bride, who lives a 933 Niagare avenue, Niagara Falls, N, Y., has deelinee, to date, to reply to tearful messages asking fer- giveness from her daughter, Miss Talbot, the Wide, is said to be in line to inherit about a • million dollars. alio is the daughter of it farmer famous Bu f fate phyeician, who died twelve years since. Fred Mugge, the whiskey king, who is worth $1,000,000 himself, declares to -night that his son must go to work to -morrow morning to support his wife. • cs. DILLON GUILTY. SENTENCED TO BE HANGED NOV- EMBER NINETEENTH. Trial of the Man Who Shot Constable Shea at Montreal a Year Ago Last April -Question of Sanity Raised by His Counsel. Foreign crop conditions, as published in Rroomhall's Liverpool Corn Trade News: United Kiegdom-The recent hot wea- ther has caused much damp to wheat as regards quality. The weather is now improving. France -Reports regarding the yield of wheat aro becoming more unfavor- able. It is claimed that the present crop will yield so little that it will be insufficient even for home requirements. Germany -The wdather has slightly improved. A private report estimates the wheat crop at 135,200000 bushels ana rye 387.200,000 bushels'oats 028,- 000,000 bushels. Last year the crop of wheat was officially placed at 140,000, - One bushels, rye 376,000,000 bushels, oats 635,000,000 bushels. The movement of new wheat is slowly increasing. Hungary -Plowing for the new crop is in active progress, and it is expected that there will be an increase in the acreage. The corn crop is officially pia°, ed at 152,000,000 bushels. Last year the CrOp NVOS officially given at 138,000,000 bushels. Roumania -General rain is needed. Harvesthig indications for both wheet and corn continue disappointing. Russia. -Our own agents report as fol- lows: In the southeast and southwest the wheat and barley mpg are in good condition, with large yields and free movement, with the quality good. In the centre and east the outlook is good. The outlook for oats is ,generally very fa- voiable, and for eorn, bad, as a result of drought. Brooinhall says that the reeent offi- cite report, as given out, is not generally believed here. Italy, Spain, North America -The out- look is praetieally unchanged from last week, when conditions were generally fat °table. , India, Australia-Repoeta regarding the growing crops continue good. Denniark-The harvesting of the crops is vetv late. ,e`" Ali Africa -The official estimate efing the corn surples Ms been re - diked to 2,400,000 beeltela. On Sept. ard the surplus was given at 7,000,000 bush - FELL FROM BRIDGE. Montreal, Sept. 19. -John Dillon, alias Jas. Smith, who shot and killed Constable Silea on April 6, 1908, was found guilty of murder in the court of Ring's Bench on Saturday. He was sentenced. by Judge Cross to be hanged on Nov. 19. All Friday afternoon Mr. A, Pepin - eau Mathieu, counsel for the defence; addressed the jury, and before a crowded court room on Saturday con- tinued his address, appealing to the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty on the ground that Dillon did not known what he was doing when Coe - stable George Shea was shot dead and know what he was doing when Cou- stable Foucault wounded in the Mance street affair. Mr. Justice Cross summed up the evidence carefully, stating there was no serious conflict between the evidence of the medical experts. To his mind there was only one question for the jury, namely: "Did John Dillon, alias James Smith, book agent, know that he was doing wrong'?" He said all his actions, despite the medical evidence of the experts, would indicate that he was rational. After the accused had had a dispute with his landlady, he sent for his lawyer, and after the fight he wrote a note which in his lordahip's opinion would indicate that the accused knew what he was doing. Crown Prosecutor Hibbarct addressed the jury briefly. "Dillon," he declared, "was it man who carried firearms as other men carried matches. He deliber- ately aimed his gun at the detectives and constables. He was alone in the house, instruments of death were all about him. Ho had no hesitation in saying that Dillon killed the unfortun- ate Constable Shea, and that he knew the nature and the quality of his act." The crime for which Dillon was con- victed was committed on April 6, 1908. when Constable George Shea was shot and killed at 34 Mance etreet. Dillon who had always been eccentric, was ordered by his landlady, Mrs. James Pritchard, to leave the home before 0 o'clock that evening, or take it smaller room. Dillon refused to do either, and when the constables, armed with a war- rant, arrived at the house to place him under arrest it battle, lasting five hours, was fought, which startled tbs entire population of the eity. Mr. Papineau Mathieu, counsel for Dillon, seen after the trial, said that as, the jury had made a recommenda- tion to mercy in bringing in their ver- dict, they had given the right to the Minister of Justice for a commutation of sentence. The application would be made immediately, and Mr. Mathieu felt that it would probably be granted.. AGAINST MISSIONARIES. George N. Ward, of Tilitenburg, Killed at 'Detroit. Detroit, Sept. 10. -While at work /glinting the iron girders 00 13alle Isle Bridge yesterday afternoon, George 'ST. Weill, aged 27. of Tillsonburgy lest his balance and fell te the roadway, 20. feet below, fracturing his skull, Ito wea taken to St. Mary'a. Hospital, wbeie he died Ole morniug withent regaining in- selousilesa, The rimer mares parsas errived bete, to -night from Tillsonburg and took eliarge of tha 'may. Weed was Unmarried, Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, Sept. 20. -After' several postponements the trial of the two Aineriean missionaries, Rest. Wm. Morrison and Rev. Wm. H. Shep- pard, on charges of libel, began,. here to- day. The suit was brought by one of the concession companies which has a mon- opoly of the rubber gatherifig in the Kaisiri region. It claims $20,000 Shun - ages from each of tlk men for "calum- moils denunciations." The circumstances are sit& that tbe • stet is considered practically as brought by the Belgian Government against the missionaries, Messrs, Morrison and Sheppard ar- rived at Leopoldville on Aug. 5 witb witnesses who will testify in their be- half. TO BELLEVILLE. Mr, Robb Saysthe Men Will Go .Where Assne4, Belleville, Sept. 20e -W. D, Robb, Sup- erintendent of Locomotive- Power on the Grand Trunk, gave out a few additianal facts concerning the exodus of Grand Trunk employees from "ahrek and their certainty of sooner or later com- ing to dila city. Mr. Robb was very one -Maio in reiterating his statement that it was owing solely to the- exacting couditions inipoeml on the G. T, lt, by the Property Commission of To - route that the company wits forced to make the change The Yerk en - Owl's and erewa are now assigned to Belleville. There ere, roughly speaking. about 80 men belouging to the motive power braneh elle 73 nem to the trans- portation branch, The rule of the G. T. 11. has Always been that where the men of the train crews are assigned, there they will We e their homes, but the com- pany is not upreasonable, and only ex- ,peets the- men to move when liouees auc available, "But," said Mr, Robb, em - York MOO and their families will eome to Belleville to live is an assured im feriett,,i,cally, "that wiener or later thes .ee BISHOP DEAD IN JAPAN. Tokio, Sept. 20.-Ilishop Seth Ward., of the Methodist Episcopal Church 3outh, died this Afternoon. The bishop arrived in Kobe last month on his lege- kr tour of inspeetion of the Methodist missions of Japan arid 110 was teken 111 shoitly after his arrival. Last week he was rrportea as gradually sinking end the fatal termination of his illness wits not expected. STEAMER SUNK. Lackawanna in Collision With Two Vessels. Port Huron, Miele, Sept. 20.- The steamer Lackawanna, of Buffalo, seek in twenty-four feet of water in the St. Clair River, near the Canadian side, on Saturday, after a collision with .the barge Chieftain, of Bay, City, and the bergHall, of Port Huron, TM Lackawanna was coming down through the upper rapids at the head of the river, when her steering gear gave way. She sheered against the Hall, which was tied to a dock, glanced out into the steam, and struck the bow of the Chieftain, which was upbound, in tow of the steamer Shenandoah. The collision with the Hall did little injury, but the Chieftain sustained considera- ble damage, and the Lackawanna had a big hole torn in her starboard bow when she struck the Chieftain. No one was injured in the collisions. Bishop \Vitra, whose 1101110. Waa in Ifouston, Texas, tailea from Seal 9ren- (4850 late in July to make his tonal inspectimt work of his clitireltes' for- eign missionery work. He was 121poor 'health, and his friends attempted to (HS- sitade him from inithieg the trip. The Itishoti was 51 years old. The Lord MOP Mall the ruler of the world and wonittit the eider of 111411, Neer York Prima DIED TOGETHER. Tragic End to Sunday Sail of Two Brothers. Toronto, Sept. 20. -Locked, it is supposed, in each other's arms, two brothers were drag- ged down to death by the weeds of the lagoon at Centre Island yesterday afternOon. The tragedy occurred about two o'clock, and the victims were Joseph Gilding, one of the oity Werner. who is attached to Portland Street Fire Hall. and his younger brother, Charles Gilding. The death, of the former was due to an effort to save tVe latter from death. The two brothers, with a party of mends. Including three men and two ladies, set out shortly after dinner to enjoy what might Perhaps be the last fine day for sailing of the present summer. W. C. Spofford, of 130 Howland avenue, was at the helm and the elder brother was looking after the sails. They reached Centre Island and sailed up the lagoon. For some reason not disclosed the youger Gilding stood up in the boat, and just as be did so a sudden gust of wind swung the boom around and knocked him overboard. He attempted to swim and his brother called isvf era s a coulddreach the guoatt.to Phreinisumthablky"tivie legs. for he made a sign as though in trouble and Joseph Gilding at once jumped overboard to resuce him. The bodies were dragged for until dark- ness fell, but without result. ROUND PARIS. French Engineer Will Operate a Flying Omnibus. Paris, Sept. 19. -The application which has been gravely made to the municipal council by Francis Laur, a mining en- gineer, and tormerly'a deputy, for it con- cession to operate flying omnibuses, for both persons and luggage, around the city of Paris, following the line of for- tifications, shows the advance of the air- ship in France. He states the cost per passenger and per kilo will be much less than surface or underground transit, and greater speed will be possible. The proposition of Laur has not yet awakened the ridkele which might have been expected at the present stage of the development of aviation. The jour- nal which first .published the statement takes it in absolute setiousness. The French are optimists for the future of human flight. Indeed, it appears they know no ultima thule. IN CHIMNEY. Burglar Rescued by Firemen in New York House, .P,V,03.1.0"1.11 New York, Sept. e0. --One of it trio al burglars eho aroile.d the liatieteld (1 Capt. Kehler, Superintendent of the Staten Island mei Pertit Amboy ferry, et Rielinioni territee eleriners' !Luber, Staten Island, esterdey, !event. 30 tightly wedged in a chimney tie oagli which lie sought to gain an entrauce thei. Menne and. policemen were 8111111110110t1 bo rescue blue Aft:r the two other men had fled under fire apt. Joliler Ileare muffled noiee in the eliinniey saying "Get ore out of here." When the pollee arrived they draggea the mare half dead with the tright and suffoeetien, down into the room. He hed descended three storeys inekle the flue, Despitehis pei edicament and his deelaratiou that the other two men forced him into tha chimney, lie Wai 1011 all1 elierge of burglary, He said he weal ,in iron worker, 18 years old. BACKED INTO BAY. Kingston, Sept. 20. -Mrs. Tresk, her 17 -year-old daughter, and young ba'oy had a narrow eseape from drowning on Saturday afternoon. They were turning around on the wharf at Wolfe Island when their horse backed over the dock into the water. All three were thrown into the water. Oliver Hawkins jumped in and rescued tho child, whii ch s about a year old. Men put out in a rowboat and rescued the women, who were nearly finished, and had to be worked over for almost two hours before they regained conseionsnees, In the rig wore 100 pounds of flour, 100 pounds of sugar, a 25 milk cheque, besides it large quaritity of other gro- ceries, and all were lost. The horse was drowned. ' A DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP. Pittsburg, Sept, 20. -Walking boldly into the store of J. C. Smith here while the proprktor was counting the day's reteipts yesterday, a masked Man cover- ed Smith and four employees with a re- avolver and dentended the money, He se- cured $100 and, thretttening to shoot any one who sounded the alarm, escaped. Smith notified the authorities, and after ati eeeitiag 'chase, in whieli about 200 poem.% ninny of thein armed, took part, the robber tees captured. *I....6.66o .6044, $250,000 FIRE. Destruction of Much Lumber in Midland Yard. • Midland, Ont„ Sept. 19. -On of the most destructive fires that has vis- ited Midland for many years took place to -day, when the entire stock of lumber, about 15,000,000 feet, together with slabs, edgings, lath, ete„ in Chew 13rothers' mill yard, went up in smoke, leaving the yards an ash heap. About nine o'clock this morning the fire was discovered in a lumber pile on the east side of the yard, a few feet from the esplanade on the water front. Through heroic efforts the mill .was, saved, although it was on fire it number of times. The stables of the firm were consumed, and the office had a very close call. The firemen worked for seven hours, until they were almost exhausted. The total loss is roughly estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. The lumber, which. oovered 15 acres, was owned by a number of firms, and was partially covered by insurance. *. JUMPED OVERBOARD Another Gasoline Launch Burned Near Brockville. FRENCH. BATTLESHIPS ARRIVE. New Yerk, Sept. 20. --Three battle - Maps emaposing the squadron which will represent Frame in the Iludson-Felton naval -ceremonies, talented. off Seedy Hook laat eight, rana twoof thein Mete tip the littrbor enely to -day. 'They WM thtl Justiee, Liberta Mut Verne, afilt,01* skim mulct command of Admiral Le. parte Loplettle, Brockville, Sept. 19, -Another motor- boat fatality was onlyavoided here to- day by the occupants jumping into the St. Lawrence, The Stroller, it twenty - utile -an -hour craft, was returning from a trip up the river, when the carburet- ter suddenly backed fire, and the boat was ablaze in an instant. The occupants were the• owner and. his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wright, and, they immedi- ately took to the water, swimming to Mile Island, opposite the town park. The burning boat drifted into Malloch's Bay, where the hull was scuttled, but she is a bad looking wreck. The accident happened about two hun- dred yards east of where a similar mis- hap occurred two months agp, when seven occupants of it boat owned by 0. W. McLean, including the seyen-year-old son of the late Senator Fulford, were compelled to swim • for their lives. PREFERENCE. Australians Discussed Imperial and Political, Aspects. London, Sept. 19.-Aeeording to a Sydney despatch to the Chronicle, the delegates to the Congreeos of the Cham- bers of Commerce are almost aghast at the hospitality seowered on them in Australia. Respecting preference the despatch says: "The majority of Sydney. dailies adopt a high tone and argue the question in an imperial spirit, not merely from the point of view of local interest. They point out that the Cana- dian delegates adopted a purely com- mercial basis, while the Australians, who did not initiate the debate, adopted an imperial basis and discussed the British and political aspects of the question." The despatch adds that the unanimous verdict of the congress Ms done nore than anything since Federa- tion to promote mutual understanding. *• - JOHNSON HAS EVEN CHANCE. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 20. -While Gov. Solinson is somewhat batter ,a - cording to Dr. W. II. Mayo, the doctors still consider the governor's condition g Dr. Chas. F. MeNovin issued a bullet - tin at 8.30 it. rn. to -day saying the gov- ernor had just about an even chance. Mrs. Johnson is almost on the eve of a nervous breakdown and her conditiap is causing her friends worry. 0 * KILLED WHILE HUNTING. riumwowimievammoto ~wolf FROITNEMESAII(.WANNDEWNSE'AR fitlIWAYMIVOMWAWMPAWAWMINNOIO The new Masonic hall et Eglinton VMS dedicated on Friday. William Sutherland was found dead near Woodstock, having cut his throat with a razor. The ten -year-old son et Xr. Barker, a farmer near Kenora, was killed through being kieked on the bead by it horse, Apeotder magazine at High, in twain western Morocco, exploded. Two bun- dred natives were killed, and as many injured. Mr, G. C. Cossar is trying to interest otlniefPur la onvi.ncial Government in it plan to bring Scoteh youtha te Ontario to work It is rumorea. that in ease the King of Greece abdicates, his son, Prince George, and not the Crown Fringe, will be raisetl to the throne. Stanley Roy Jeffrey, aged fifteen months, son of Mr. F. Jeffrey, ef 966 Alexander avenue, Winnipeg, was drown- ed in a tub of water. T. C. Gregory, of London, a civil and. mining engineer. concerned in the build- ing of the Great Western Railway, winch is now merged with the Grand Trunk, is dead. Three houses were destroyed at Riace, Calabria, by a bomb explosion. Twelve persons were killed, including an entire family by the name of Pucci. Many others were injured. An order in council has been passed cancelling the reservation of land grant- ed. to the Peace River Colonization 8a Land Development Company in 1900 in the Peace River district. Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, formerly of To- ronto University, has been appointed head of the Mexican National Universi- ty, with practical supervision of the na- tional system of education. It is reported that proposals have been discussed with a view to the mar- riage of Princess Victoria Louise, the tKariosneer:s daughter, with Archduke Chas. Francis Joseph II., heir to the Austrian h T. S. T."Smellie, M. P. P. for Fort William, and Mr. George Pattinson, M. P. P. for Waterloo, have been appointed to representathe Province of Ontario at the international tax congress which opens at Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday. Bishop, a young Ottawa letter carrier, sentenced to the Kingston Penitentiary for three years for tampering with the mails, was released on Friday, after serving six months, having been pardon- ed. The young man's mother met him as he came forth to liberty. A delegation of prominent Liberals and Conservatives, twelve in ell, was to wait upon Premier Murray, of Nova. Scotia, to -day to discuss the present strike situation, and. see if steps cannot be taken to end the state of affairs now existing in the collieries of the Dominion Coal Company. Utica, N Y., Sept. 20. -Jesse Moir, of Chase's Lake, was killed on Friday last while deet hunting, and it was sup- posed that he was shot accidentally by his own rifle while crawling under a fallen tree. Ib has now been discovered that his wounds were from somewhere else, for the shot which killed him was a buckshot, which struck iihn hi the back. His own gun had not been dis- charged, It is not knowil who killed him. b 1 Or COBALT FIND. Cobalt, Sept. 20. -There has been an- other big find in a new quarter that wiaene the area and import•anee of Co - bait as it silver produeing entre, It is on the property known as Red Jacket, at the 101st mile post of the Temiskaan- ing & Northern Ontario Railway, and ex. ectly two miles south of Cobalt station, tt is the point farthest smith on the hie neetilete line of railway, where big silver mines have been found, ,PROBABLY CARDINAL. Rome, Sept. 20. -It is stated that Monsignor Falconi, the Apostolie dole - gate at Washingtoe, will very probably be made 11 cardinal at the January eon- sistory end that he will be sueceeded by Monsignor Aver, the apostolic *dele- gate to Cube. Sad end to Hertoymeen. Chiettgo, Sept, 19. -The two weeks' honeymoon of two aged inmatee of the German Baptist old People's Home, of tide eity, ended tragically yesterday, when Stahel INtenael, 78 years old, Welll f*PhY.V.IittOd, probably liceidentally, by illirminating gas. By his aide Was his wife, Mariana Menzel, 85 years old, mt. .eonstions, and it is expected lt will die. • INDIANS DROWNED. Lightkeeper Reports Seeing a Boit Capsized. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 20.-F. East- man, lighthouse -keeper at Race Rocks, who ftrrived here this morning, re- ports seeing a Columbia River boat capsize and from eight to ten fa - diens, including women and children, drowned yesterday morning during it qrong southwest squall. A liesquoit Indian, WM arrived at the local agency. this morning, reported that he was. alone in a Columbia River boat which capsized yesterday near Race Rocks. He believes the lightkeeper was confused by seeing bags ef ballast which be had on the windward side of the boat, but the lightheeper is in- sistent that he saw the party drown, and says that his wife and assistant also witneoesea the disaster, His report of the location of the disaster is differ- ent from that of the Indian, and the time is placed by him as 11 a. m., while the Indian states that he capsized alter 12 o'clock. PURE CHICAGO. Liverpool Minister Says Windy City Has Been Slandered. Chicago, Sept. ,go. -Chicago is a mucu maligned city auording to Rev. John Thomas, B. A., of LiverpOol, Eng., who came to Chi- cago a week ago full of misgivings because he had been reading the writings of W. T. Stead and bad come to the conclusion that Chicago was a hell on earth, to use a com- mon expression. Other foreign writers and lecturers bad helped along the delusion. After a week's search for surface indica- tions of the existence of wholesale vice among the people of Chicago, be says that he is compelled to confess that be found none. He says that from his investigations he be- lieves that Mr. Stead was greatly mistaken and that conditions aro not as bad in Chi- cago as they are bad in the larger cities Of Great Britain. 4 TOWNSHIP LIABLE. 0....••••• Must Pay Half the Cost of Sied Lint Fenccs. Q Ottawa despatch: The result of one of the most unique and inteteeting civil eases ever heard. in the Bryson Superior Court was a decieion given by Juage Champagne, holding th•a township of Clarendon liable for one-half the cost of erecting and maintaining side -line fences. The ease will be taken by the township to the Court of Appeals in Montreal, but the judgment is most important, as the ease was it test one, and the township is, according to it, in debt to it largo num- ber -of its residents. It takes in also all tbe townships in lentiac county. DRINKING MORE TEA, English Working Classes Using It in. stead of Solid Food. New York, Sept, 10.---A cable despatch to the Sun front London sitygi British customs receipts from tea for the last financial year show au fitments° of $1,. 190,000 ns cotnpeeed with the preeeding year. Aceording to the ennead report the amount retained for home consunip- tion was 11,500,000 pounds greater than in the previous year. This is duo to the fad that in it time of industrial do- prossion, like the present, the English working classes often make tea take the place of solid food. , 47ttlnOR Thornton Iirownridge, farmer, of Helixes Comity, lias given notice of an application for divorce from 1118 wife, who is now it dressmaker in Toronto,