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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-10-14, Page 70 • s• 114*Nrogi WILL FIGHT THE LORDS, 44444.44444 4 flitter Attack on Ther Lordships.by 1-joyd-Geme. One Duke AS EXpellSiare. AS Two, Dread3ouglits. Lords May Forge RcvaIution— Suffragette Attack. New York, Oct, 10.—The Sun hesve- ceived, the following cable deepatelt from Loudon; The past.week has been a week of great political excitemeut, culminat- ing in Prime Minister Asquith's sudden visit to the King end the announcement that the House of Commons would ad- journ for a week. There is no longer any serioueuess in the efforts to keep up the pretense that the visits of Lord. Boehm, the Earl of Cawdor and ,Mr, Asquith to Balmoral were not connected with the .political crisis, The official and reasouable enough explanation of the week's adjournment is that fully a week is required for drafting alterations to the budget, but there is no deubt that these visits to the King and the Week's adjournindnt have one object, namely, that of afford- ing an opportunity to ascertain whether the conetitutional crisis -involved in the rejection of the budget by the House of Lords cannot be everted. It is not suggested that the King is giving the 'weight of Ms personal aid. to either side; the idea is rather that he is acting in home politics as he has so consistently done in international mat- ters in his fa,voritesrole of. peacemaker. UNIONISTS' TRUMP CARD. Mr, Lloyd -George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declares bo -day that the Lords must pass the budget as it stands, but despite assurances such as this from respensible Ministers there is a strong tendency to revert to the first idea that a general -election evill come in Novem- ber, It seems almost impossible that the point of dissolution elm be reached in such a short time, but the Spectator fears it. The Outlook warns the Union- ists against a sudden dissolution. The Saterday Review admits that it appears absurd, but says that if the Govern- ment thinks the psychological moment has come, then dissolution evil' occur in November. Speculation on these points and inter- est in the "constitutional crisis" have put the budget itself, free trade, tariff .yeform, and other planks in both politi- oal platforms into the background. But 'Idnionists evidently intend to play ementployment, which is expected to be greater than ever during the coming tvinter'as their chief card against the budget.. DUKES AND DREADNOUGHTS. Mr. Lloyd -George at Newcastle yester- day afternoon raade a vigorous defence of the budget and, a bitter attack on the House of Lords.- He declared that the bill was now practically in the forni in evhich it was going to beeonee an act of .e)arliament. He said that instead of the measure being an attack on industry and pregfer- ty it wee a, fact that since its introdue- tion in the House of Commons trade and industry had improved. • The only stock, which had gone down since the introduction of bill, said the Chancellor, was that in Dukes, in whteh there had been a great slump: A fully equipped Duke cost as much to keep up aa a couple of Dreadnoughts. So long as Dukes were content to be Pete idols and preserved that kind of atately silence which became their rank Raid intelligence, said the Chancellor, all event Well. When the budget came, how- ever, they stepped down from their eserehes because the measure knocked a little gilt off their stage coaches. . WHOLE BUDGE li OR NONE. What the Lords would do with the t budget, declared the Chancellor, ton corned themselves more than it did the Government. The more irresponsible and featherheaded among them wanted it thrown out. What the others would do depended in the first place on reports from the country. The Chancellor went on dramatically: "What our fathers obtained through centuries of struggle, strife and bloolifileed we will not lightly give up. We are not going to be traitors. (Loud cheers.) The eonetitution.le to be torn to pieces. Let them realize what they are doing. They are forcing a revolu- tion. "The Lords raay declare a revolu- Leo, but it is the people who will di- rect it. (Loud cheers.) Issues vat be raised that they little dream of. • The Chancellor coucluded by declar- ing that the Governinent was going to have all the taxes in the budget or none. 4 ATTACKED BY SUFFRAGETTES. When Mr. Lloyd -George was 'tidying the theatre a crowd of suffragettes made a dash toward his car. Letly- Constance Lytton, who 'wee armed with a. hatchet; 'Um 11. N. Brailsford and Miss Davison were arrested. Earlier in the any four other sympathizers with the suffragettes were sentenced to fourteen days at hard Labor for indulging in a -window-smash- ing campaign at the local Liberal Club this taornmg. THE "WILD PEER'S." • Mr. Wale Stead, in a, despatch to The Americaa on the political sittuf- tion in Britain, says: The diffienity of_ the situation does hot lie with the lead - ors of the Opposition, oda would be res. pontsible to the Ministers in case a gea- otal eketion resulted in a Coriservative victoty. Lord Lausdoevne and Mr. /3a1 - four end those others upon whose should - ere would be laid the task of coils :Ling taxes and meeting Lhe expenditures of the State are keenly alive to the impel - fey, not to gay madness, of rejecting the budget, but uefertuttetely the Ettanse of Lords contains an irresponsible major- ity of Peors -who have toyer attended their Legislative duties at oily ordinary time, but who, tvhett their passion or prejedite is exeited, troop fp in litta- drede to vote dowe Seille Liberal mea- Mi eminent tivie authority is re- ported to have said. last week that 150 M those Wilrl Peen are combined to - Other in a secret league to tejett the budget at tetty cost. They Jamul to 4 S.doo vtudent coetneels or lord lanualowne and tejeet the budget, even if, in mo doing, they wreck the constitution and precipitate a eaVolutionery eottionterit. If this be eo, as the Liberel Peerdo not Atilt - her Mae than dixty, the budget 'grill bs rejetted by Mores than two to one, Milo* Lead IAnsclotelie Can bring Ids 0 MARRIAGE SAID TO BE A SIN Cause of Trouble Between Mrs. Eddy and Mrs. Stetson Practitioners Lose Licenses. MRS. AUGUSTA E. STETSO N, ROUTED BY MRS. EDDY. (Special Despatch to the Times.) lelew York, Oot. ,d1.—Whether it is right or wrong to marry and have children is a question that is ascribed by close observers as one cause of the downfall of Mrs. Augusta, E. Stetson in the councils of the Cheistian &lance Church. • Mrs. Stetson has been deposed by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy as leader of the First Church. of Christ, Sci- entist, in this city. She has taught more Christian. Science pupils than any other member of the faith outside Mrs. Eddy herself. Te Christian Soience board, which withthew Mrs. Stetson's license to tea& or to practice Christian Salome, des clared she was teaching. that the charch here was the only authorized church in New York. At the height of the dispeee between the two women leaders, a third woman, Mr.. Della M. Gilbert, now head of a reformed church, announced that , Mrs. Stetson taught that marriage was a sin. This, according to Mrs. Gilbert, caused her undoing. "She thought it was a sin to marry or to have children," announced Mrs, Gilbert, who has been a conspicuous fig- ure at religious meetings ;at Hotel Plaza. "Many young folks who wanted to be married were forced to hang their heads in shame at the thought. "When some of them have the back- bone to marry she puts the 'thought of sin' upon them." The "thought of sin," diseu;sed by Mrs. Gilbirt, is one of the things un- explained by Mets. Stetson's friends. Whether a woman, by her will power, can make others sinful or good is a pro- blem yet to be worked out, skeptics be- lieve. One of the followers of the woman who roweled for Mrs. Eddy's crown, but fail- ed to grasp it, is John C. Thompson, who recently married a pupil of Mrs. Stetson. "Atm Stetson doesn't frown on babies or matrimony," said he. "When we were married she congratulated us, and I've reason to believe she'll have occasion to congratulate us again before long, "I don't think l'in under any moral stigma. We try to make our lives as spiritual as possible, that's all. "Matter is a negligible quantity. In time we believe it will be possible for celibates to he,ve children, but that time I believe to be very far distant." MORE HEADS LOPPED OFF. Where will the lightning next strike?" is the paramount question to -day- among the nineteen practitioners of the First Church of Christ (Scientist), following an order from the Mother Church in Boston revoking the licenses of seven of the practitioneis. The revocation of the licenses of four- teen a the remaining nineteen practi- tiopers is believed to be imminent to- day, indicating th complete reorganiza- tion of the church, winch is the second largest in the country, and its complete domination by the Boston Church and Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, disloyalty to when.) is alleged to be the inspiration of the "house -Cleaning" now in progress. Arnold Biome, one of the deposed praotitiOuers, sale' to -day that there was little danger of a div) siou of the church. "For my part,,,I will remain faith- ful to the edicts of the mother church, and I think the others will, but I will ndt presume to speakefor them. I don't care to discuss the charges." The Board of Directors of the Boston Church has found the seven deposed practitioners guilty; of "gross ignorance of the teachings of Christian Science," or of "wilfully perverting those teachings:" This means that they have followed too closely in the foot- steps of Mrs, Stetson, who for 16 years _was the first reader in the church. own followers into the Ministerial lobby. e NO CGMPRISE. It is beliesred the King has been led to thin1. that the -only way the wild Peers of the confederacy can be in- duced to let the budget • through is by promising them that, after the budget is passed, Parliament should be speedily dissolved; but there is no disposition on the part of the Ministry to accept this compromise. They say they have many useful bills of a non -contentious char- acter which they ;intend to pass next session and the House of Lords could only compel dissolution by declaring that they would reject every measure sent up from the lower House in order to force an appeal to the country. To this the Ministers reply that while the Lords could safely reject any measure of • a party nature, they dare not for their lives reject 'bills providing remed- ies for unemployment,- for sick -Maur- ante and the like, to which. the Conseil vative party is deeply ommitted. BADLY HURT. Retired Farmer Found Dead—Will be Tried by a Jury. St. Catharines, Ont., Oct. 11. —Miss Sane Allison, a resident of Thorold Township, is lying in a serious condi- tion as the result of an accident eaused by her horse running away a few days ago. She was also injured about the shoulders. Sohn K. Crawford, of Thorold, p. etir- ed farmer, seventy-nine years of age, saes found dead in his bed on Saturday morn- ing. Ho was a native of Stamford Town- ship and for years was a even -Nowt stock raiser. Ile wee uaniarried. Chas. Hoevatd, the Smithville man charged Nith inost, appeared before Yudge Carmakthis Morning. He elected to be tried by`a jury, and was remand- ed to jail. A SUICIDE. • Toroeto, Oct. 11. --After 41 year's de- speriatney, following the death of hie wife, Henry .7. Oren, of 770 King street west, took his own life at 7 o'clock this motnieg, George S. )rpm, a btotber, Who Was sleeping in the next room, heard a shot, and teethed in aria found Henry lying oe the bed with A bullet hole in his left temple, just over the ear, Dradilager wag Remelted, but the man did a tow MinUteft after his earl - vet. Orpen was totnterly serightmaster 1 at the main ptimpingettation of the eity Waterworks, and 56 yore. old. RE-ELECTED HIM. No OpposiP.on to W. D. Mahon of D_etroik. Toronto, Oct. 11.—The delegates to the convention of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Electeic and Street Railway Employees of America, who were in mis- sion for six days, concluded their db - orations on Saturday night at the Leber Temple, whenthe following of floes were elected for two years: President, W. D. Mahon, Detroit; Vice-Preeidents, A, L. Behner (Cleveland), J. J. Thorpe (Pitts- burgh), A. H. Burt (Salt Lake City), 'George Keenan (Rochester), 13. A. Carter (Ohicego), 1', Hanley (Chicago), and T. IL Dunn• (Winnipeg) ; Recording and tier - responding Secretary, R. L. Reeves, Pieta burg; Treasurer, Realm Orr, Detroit; General Executive Bearde-ChalrautS, C. 0. Pratt, Welehrold, Ohio; E. W. Mc:Mor- row, Chicago; Magnus Sinclair, Toronto; Richard Cornelias, San Francisco; W. t3. Fitzgerald, Troy, N. Y.; P. J. Shea, 'Scranton, Pa.; ‘, Fred Fay, Ypsilanti, Mich.; and D. Fitzgerald, New Haven. Delegates to the Amerion Federation of Leber—W. 1). Mahon, Detroit; 13. CUM - Mins New Orleans, and C. 0. Pratt, The next convention will be held in St. Joseph, Missouri, Which beat out Da - trait by a narrosv margin. The Cenunittee on Laws eugg0Sted a slight change in .the arbitration clatter: in the agreements made between the employees and the employees, but the convention thought the existing clause offered the men every erateetion, to no change was made. o Y SACKS OF GOLD MRS. TURNER KILLED BABY. •••••••••llot. The Coroner's Jury Say That child: Was Strangled. Su.picious Noises. 110ard in Mrs. Turner'4. R01/111S1 Tracing -the Rox in Which the Body Was Fou, • . "We find that this female infant tame to her death in the eltie ot To- ronto, in the county of York, be- tween the dates of Saturday, Septem- ber 1.1th, and Thursday, S.p•.ember leth, by strangulation, at the hands of Mrs, Mabel Turner; and that the aforesaid Mrs. Mabel Turner did kill and slay the aforesaid infant Authers. 4 "And the jury weuld further sup. gest that the authorities establish a home where foundling infants may be eared foie" Toronto despatch: After beteg out for fifty minutes the jury iu the Authors murder inquest early this morning brought in the foregoing verdict, Mrs. Turner as not in the court room when the verdict was read. She sat in her usual place during the hearing of evi- dence, but when Dr. Robert Dunlop, with whom she lived under the name of Miller at the Wood street house, stepped into the box to give his evidence, she complained of feeling ill and was allow- ed to leave the room. Later pettnission for her return to the jail was granted. CHIEF CORONER'S SUMMING UP. Chief Coroner Johnson "addreseecl the jury for twenty minutes, bringiog out the important points in the evi- dence given during the four hearings of the inquest. In closing the Chief Coroner referred to the awful trade of child murderer, . "This is a very large*ease," he said, "and we knew that this clilld mur- der is a trade in some countries. I have for years pointed out, not only to the police but to others, that it was a strange thing the nomber of strangled babies found in different 'places and nobody know whore they had come from. Somebody must be doing ,it. We may . have one. There may be others." Tho inquest was conducted by Chief Coroner Johnson, with Assistant Crown. Attorney Monahan and Mr. S. H. Brad- ford, K. C., representing the Crewn. Mrs. Turner's interests were looked af- ter by Mr. W. A. Henderson. SAW MRS. TURNER. WITH A. BOX. The first witness. celled last' night was Mrs. Annie WilMr of 62 Pete street, who was with Mrs. Turner on the boat on the trip across to Lewis- ton on September 16. Mrs. Walker's story completed the chain of evidence tending to show that Mrs. Turner had a box with her on the sboat and still hadeit when she left the New York BCeridg ntrae.ltrain at the Suspension Dr. Robert A. Dunlop told of his acquaintance with the accused. He had never seen the Anthers child un- til after the arrest of Mrs. Turner. Ex- amined by Mr. Monahan, Dr. Dunlop told of gouig home on September 14 and find Mrs. Goldie and the prisoner in an excited state, Mr. Goldie, who was standing at the door, told Min that the WOMOU were frightened about some cats that had been. making a noise, Witness said the prisoner was not overly nerv- ous thee, but complained of havine a headache. Mrs. Turner, witness said, had intended to gee to Niagara Falls Wed- nesday morning, but put in a sleepless night and did not get up in time to mita theboat. Stolen by Men Who Gagged the Express Company's Emphiyees. 41.4,4444444, Seattle, Wash., Oct. 11,' -Binding sod gagging the night chief elerk and hie assistant, and carrying. them to an un- oceupied dart of the buildings, a lone highwayman robbed the office 0E the Great Northern Express Company at the Xing street station early this morie Ing, securing several seeks of gold and silver and a large amount of piper money, the total amount running into the thOURalia. 44a44.4•444.44444444.4.44444 The American mieetinaties in Turkey Intro written to the Ameriem Audi atio- 'dor tt Conetentinople Mating that the propoeed indetunitiee.far the anurdee of inissioneriee in Adana are ineuffieient, and expresaing .the hew that the itnited teMtes will insist upon adqutie puniehment for the pronteters of th nia•Saerea. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. The most sensational evidence of the inquest was given by Mrs. Minnie Goldie, of 39 Wood street, with whom Mrs. Turner was boarding under the name of -Miller at the time of her artest. When called to the witness box Mrs. Goldie became hysterical, and it was some time before she was in a condition to give her evidence. Starting out by re- counting her first meeting with the ac- cused, Mrs.•Goldie told Cif events lead-, ing up to the evening of Tuesday, Sep- tember 14, the datedon which the Anth- ers child is supposed to have been mur- dered. • "I was going to the front door about 7.30 o'clock," said Mrs. Goldie, "and as I passed Mrs. Miller's door I heard a peculiar noise. I put my head in the door and said: 'My, whet a funny noise.'" "Where wat Mrs. Miller then?"' asked Mr, Monahan. "I think she was around the, foot of the bed, I said: "Surely the cats haven't got in here?' I kept putting my head undo the head of the bed and said: 'That noise is here! 'Why, no; it's outside,' Irs, Miller said. She took Me by the arm and said: 'Come on and lot's look for the noise. It must . be outside.' I said: 'No it's here.' I wouldn't go, and when 1 wouldn't she wouldn't go either. "I went back into one end of the room and said, 'The noise isn't piain here or near the window, but When yen get near thedhead of the table it's quite- plain. De fact, it sounds liko baby strangling.' "She got very much excited and started calling 'My baby, my baby.' "Whore -was the other baby thee. Mrs. Miller's baby?" "It was in the carriage." "Wass it asleep -.A Make?" asked Mr. Monahan. "It was asleep, I think." Mrs. Goldie said that she •asked neighbor to tome in. "I asked him to mine and listen to the funny noises," Said Mrs. Goldie. "Then Mrs. Miller tried out, 'Don't conic in; you. aregetting as bad AS myself. Get ine a glass of water.' "She WAS offered a drink?" tontinned Mrs, (Utak'"and she came mashie and drank it. No one went in the room after that except her husband," "How long were you in the room?" Asked Mr. Monaluin, • "About ten minutes." "Did the sounds continue all that time ?" "No, they ceased AS she Closed the door." "You told Mrs. Miller that the noise speeded like A baby strangling?" •"Yee,1 said it tugs or three Mute thought it an awful funny noise. lelte, Miller said, 'It must be io the cellar,' and t aaM, 'No, that's my fruit cellar; nothing eoul,d hare gut. tit there,' 'Thet she maid it Mist beunder-the earpet, and I said, 'No, nothing weld get under the earpet.P' Mrs. °oldie .saiddthe Waa in the room • j710 fed: - MRS. TURNER.. again later, but she noticed 'nothing unusual about 1VIrs. Miller., ••="*.* "Did you have any conversation?" "Well, Dr, Miller came. in and said. 'You were a nice lot to be.seared -like that.''" WHAT WAS TOLD. Mr. Monahan—Did you have any- thing to say to Mrs, Miller about the noises then? "Yes. She told inc someone met have had one of thoee, things that make funny noises that they sell nt the exhibition." - • s • Mrs. Goldie, continuing .said that Mrs. Miller, going to Niagares 'Falls on Sept. 16, said she was going to get some, papers there to be used in a lawsuit ber sister was engaged in. Mrs. Miller, she said, had a box with her when she left the house. Questioned by Mr. Monahan, Mrs. Goldie said that Mrs. Miller went out on that afternoon and, she thought, took her baby in the carriage with her. Witness then told of Mrs. Miller showing her a pair of shoes she had bought. The -box was placed in a clothes °Meet in Mrs. Miller's room'and later, when witness went to took for it, the box was gone. fr. Andrew Goldie told of his wife being frightened by the noises in Mrs. Miller's room. "She called me in come into the room as there was a terrible noise," said Mr. Goldie. "I went ,in and I said, 'Wen, cats make a teeny noise, but that doesn't sound like cats.' • Mrs. Miller suggested that we all go outside to look for the noises, but when my wife would not go Mrs. Miller wouldn't go either. "My, wife wanted to look in the bed, but Mrs. Miller eaid, lodk.' She went and peeped under the bed and lifted up one corner of the cover. That was all the investigation there was...7 went out into the yard and looked around. "That night I went into Mrs, Miller's room, She was lying on the court and breathing heavily. ,She said to me: Irmo- wife has gone me all unnerved.'" "Did you say you 'wont out into -the yard to look for the noises?" said Mr. Bradford. "Did you find anything there?" "No, nothing whatever." While beingcross-examined by Mr. Henderson for the defence abdut Mrs. Miller's baby,•Mr. Goldie said, trThe baby Mrs. Tultier brought was a very pale, puny child, but after a while I notepad that this child grew, and its cheeks got rosy. I never saw a cbild grow like it. f didn't think a child could grow so fast, but I didn't pay any particelar attention: The night Mrs. Turner was arrested I was looking after the baby, and then I noticed that it had short, stubby fingers, The other baby had long, thin fingers. It struck me then that it was a different baby, although couldn't swear to it," • Miss Ada Balmer, o\f 41 Wellesley street, a saleslady hi the shoe depart- ment of the T. Eaton store, /identified the cheek found on the shoe box in which the body was Ponta na being in her handwritine. The • cheek tore the , address of 39 Wood street. The witness was also shown a sales bill made out to Mrs. Miller, and identified it by a num- ber corresponding with that in hor sales - book. 4 MAY BE LOST. Scientific'Exp!oringParty Missing • in Northern Ontario. • le3CM34300300000420430000 HERE AND 'MERE 6................. The Grand Trunk Railroad is add to 'be planning to enter Providence, R. T. Chancellor McKay announces that cer- tain western colleges will affiliate with , McMaster. Quebec merchants have organie;c1 a company to build a graving dock and .eonstruct vessels. • e e C. W. Morse and interests friendly to him have regained control of the Metro- politan Steamship Company. Harry Ritchie, a boy of •sixteen, was accidentally shot nem- Sydney, C. 13., on Sunday. The merchants of Mod:read will tweed the Privy Council to upeet the early closing by-law. • George Bagnall, an old .soldier, fell clownstairs in his lodging house on • Adelaide street, Toronto, and was killed. New York, Oct. 11.—A Madison, Wise despatch to the Tribene says .that Prof. CL X. Leith, of the.department of geolo- gy and mines in the thiiyersity of Wis- tonsin, who is at the head of a party ifivestigatieg rock formations near Hud- son Bay, mid supposed to be working in the interest of the Canadian Goverinuent in a search for ore, is believed to be lost ir. the Canadian wilds. The party, consisting of Professor Leith, Hugh M.. ItOterts, of Seperior, and Frame's S. Adelina of Deerwood, Minn., lefe Medi - eon early in June. 0'. • 0, MR. CARNEGIE'S GIRT, eg* One Hundred Thousand Dollars be MeGill University, Montreal. Montileel, Oct. 10.—It is innuinacal that Mt. Andrew Cetriegie has made a donation of $100,000 to MeGill, ing a patemiee that if ildif10,009 were rale - ed form other sources lie would cap it by giving $100,000. lie .$500,000 came 'from Lord Ste:WM(41a in and now Mr. -Carnegie fulfills Ide promise. ellie whole is part of the $2,006,000 fund for whielt Mtaill has inada an 'appeal, ARE ENGAGED. Bertha Oct. 11. ---The engagement Of Grand Duke*William of Saxe Weimar Eistatteli and Prinoile Carole, daughter Of Pris-a Frederick of Sainehfeiningen, wee suggested, it is now linden -Atom", by thci German Enipetor and Empriese dur- ing the sumenet visit of the Grand Duke et Vilhellneholte. The princes, who is 19 Year& old, is a steond eousirt el the Enipeette, MORSE MUST TO All) SPAIN. GO TO' JAIL. Appeal Against Fifteen ?oars, lm. prisonment Has Settled $5,699,000 Debts Since His Imprisonment': ' Nis Rise From Disaster Furnishes Ex;raordhiliry ,,Story. New York, Oct. 11.—The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals to -day affirmed the de- eision of the llowetd Federal Court een- totting Charles W. Morse to 15 years• ' imprisonment in the 'Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals is final so far as direct Appeal is concerned, but it was said to -lay that -counsel for Morse may apply to ..the Supreme Court of the United States" for a writ of certiorari in order to bring about a rov/ew of the entire proceedings by thnt court. Mr. Morse was convicted Of violating - the Natioind Banking laws in ntisapply- ing the funds of ehe National Bank of North America, of which he was presi- dent at the time of the last financial panic. He was charged with making false entries on the bank's tiooks. He was sen- tenced on Nov, 8, 11/08, after a, long •juty trial. At the office of Mr. Morse's counece to -day it was stated that the case would be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, and tin aplieation for bail would be made. Meantime Mr, Morse Would be sent to the Tombs prison, or might be sent to Atlaota to begin M. eentenee, unless the Circuit Court of Ale pools in New York granted a stay in the execution of his sentence. Mr. Morse appeared at the office of the United States •marshal soon alter the decision was handed down, and sue. rendered himself. He remained in the Marshal's office while hie counsel, Maatin W, Littleton, asked the Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay in the ratedution of Me sentence, pending further pa:ice-al ings. Toronto exhibition directors .deeided to ask that a by-law to raise $320,000 for new buildings be submitted to the voters. Peter Thornton, of Toronto, has given notice of application to Parliament for a divorce from his wife, now living in Cleveland. Snow fell generally on Friday in the Texas Panhandle, the earliest fall in the history of that section. .Four *hes is reported from 32alhart. • tMr. Edward S. Caswell, who had for years beeiWassociated with the Method- ist book room, Toronto, has been ap- plinted assistant librarian. 'The National Grain Dealers cf United States have passed a resolutior favoring the admission, without duty, of Canadian wheat. • Albert Duffy is under arrest at To- ronto, charged with tabrutal eseault On a hetelkeeper who refused to supply ac cused with liquor after hours. Rowland Bell, of 31 Woodward avenue Toropto, has been awarded the Heron Society's medal for rescuing Edward Moriarity from drowning last July. The Dominion Coal Company has won 115 of its eviction cases against striking miners, and judgment bas been given in favor of the men M 35 cases. . Rev. W. G. Wilson, pastor of St. An- drew's Presbyterian Church, Gueiple has been called to Old St. Andrew's Church, Toronto, as assistant to Rev. Dr. Mil- ligan. Win: Randolph Heart has announced that he would accept the nomination for Mayor, as tendered at an independent Mass meeting at Cooper Union on Wede nesday night. Alex. McCallum, C. P. R. bridge painter, on Friday fell from a bridge at Galt and. struck on an island eighty feet below: He is suffering from concussion of the brain. , Matthew Neilson a shoemaker of Man. or,, Sask., who cue his throat and then drank a ado of lenclanum, dia on the way to the hospital at Regina. age w a SOO tehmae. At 'Centreville, N. .13, on Saturday af- ternoon Amos Margison,,70 years old, of Upper Knoxford, wet; found dead in a hayfield. He had been thrown from a load of hay and had his neck broken.• " Shortly after getting up to prepare to go to church yesterday morning, John eleseall, aged 05, of 39 Anderson street, • Toronto, eves stricken with apoplexy and aied an hour and a helf later in St. Miehael's Hospital, The Erie,atonclon & Tillsonburg Rail- way Company hes given notice of appli- cation to Parliament for a bill extending the thno withio whieh it may construct its authorized Hues of railway. The Itiehelleu & Ontario Navigation Company is applyirig to Parliament for , =filaments to ith charter to allow an increase in capital stock, to construct terminals, and to secure the entre' of • other similar ompanics. The etateMent that the letters "E. R." on postao stamps are to be superseded by the letters "D. C.," or Dominion of Canada, is Without any foundation. The • Potoffice Department hits never con. sidered any such proposal. • The body of an unlamented men about 35 years old, wae token from the whirl- pool at Niagara I?alls on Saturday after- • noon. It had been in the water several weeks and was 10 a bad 'date of doom- poeition. On a finger was a ring bearing the initial"P. 3, X." in monogram, nnii the same initial,: were on a locket iota with ti ehitin. The man dna abeut five feet nine inches and weighed 130 pountle. NARROW ESCAPE, clatharines, Oct. IL—Several erne !dopes of the St, Cedliatino Artifieial Worko were overcome by (mop- • ing water gas this morning while on. Raged in making some changes in • the machinery in the gas house, but fortunately they wore discovered in time to save their lives. Ono of them, Sautes rindIfty, bad to be worked over • for a long time, howevsrs- before con- sciousness was restored. A WONDERFUL STORY. New York, Oct. 10.—"It requires more brains to make a second fortune than it does a first," Charles W. Morse was quoted as saying a few months ego, when the doors of the Tombs prison, where lie had been confined for many mouths, swung open under an order from the federal court and he was allow- ed dti take his way once more back to Wall street to tackle the job of getting back the fortune he had los. Over his head the hung then and still hangs the sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment in the federal peniten- tiary in connection with his conviction of misapplying the funds of the Nation- al Bank of North America. Mr. Morse now seems fairly on his way to finan- cial power and affleence, Thie was shown the other day when he was elect- ed president of the lindson Navigation Company, which oonteols the lines- on the Hudson River, end with some of his friends quietly acquired the Metro- politan Steamship Line. The rise of Morse from defeat and disaster to a position of posvser in the market places where be was laid low fur- nishes one of the most extraordinary stories that Wall street has known. How great has been the task confronting the former ice king in building up a soecond fortune may be gathered from the fact that the financial storm which broke over his head in the panic of 1907 strip- ped him of a fortune conservatively es- timated at $22,000,000 and left him with $7,000,000 of debts to fate. Mr. Morse, just 'before the panic, while not a financial potentate of the first magnitude, belonged to a group 01 men whose fortunes and connections entitle them to be called financial petw- era. He controlled with his friends a chain of banks with deposits amounting to $200,000,000 or more; a steamship trust which he had formed some years prior. After the storm.had wiped out Ms fortune and left him with those $7,000,- 000 of debts, the courts came along and said that Mr. Morse most serve fifteen years in prion to wipe out a little debt he owed to the community for doing the things he had done in his bank. When they pnt Morse in a cell after his conviction just a year ago, kis brain began to be busy devising ways of pay- ing his debts and 'getting a second for- tune. He left to his lawyers the job of getting him out, tie plans for recouping his fortune which Mr. Morse conceived while lie looked through the bers of a oell soon began to materialize. ieirst there was incorporated in Maine. Morse's old State, the Morse Security Company, with a capital of $10,000,000. That was Morse's little plan for paying off the ere- ditors of his bank, whose claims amount- ed to $1,300,000. This has praceically been consummated. The next 'thing that Wall street knew, Morse and some of his friends who had remained by him in 04 days of Ms trouble had formed the Assets Reali- zation Company. This Was to pay off other debts Mr. Morsel owed. 'The • com- pany, under Mr. Morse's personal afro - tion since he got out of the Tombs, has taken over a lot of the od Morse se - entities which had been hypotheceted and has issued its own obligations against them. Meanwhile, Mr. Morse has been working on these old siicuti- ties, helped out by a titling market. In fact, Wall street has been kind to lint since he began this rebuilditng dbsoiie that s,orne seautities have more than ol their vwaillue. gttnnouneed may yesterday Ily Mr. Morse that he had paid off about $5,600,000 of Ms $7,000,000 indebtedness. Sultan Will Assist in Pacification of the Riffs. <NI.••••••••••• gevepty Cavalrymen Captured Only . to he Slaughtered Later. Madrid, Oct, 1L --Gen. Marina, the Spanish commander in Morocco, de. chu•es that :military Action will be "eon Untied until the whole 01 11)0 Benibiri after the reinforcements recently dee- IltIvospuinnteadi,ris are occupied. patched haVe reevited MeliVit, a vigorous advence against the Itif flans will be Premier Manta stated to -day. that The conference yeeterdey between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the special • Moorish embassy cleared, the way to a solution of the Riff, question, es the Sultan is disposed to collatorate in the pacification of the Riffs. The newspapers print a despatch front Tangier saying that the strength of the Riffs has been considerably increased by reinforcement, and that they are arranging an attack upon Zebian, which was lately captured by the Spaniards. A holy wile against Spain is being preached eaerywhere 'in Moroceo. Killed in Gold Blood. efoitiswbionug, aOtrliott.lile1r.—aiRtoemutpt aortudeiesa avaster. ish forces to extend their opal -ahem • in the -vicinity of Melillaawbere they are penned in by the Riff tribesmen, • are related in a message received here to -day from Melilla. It is repeated Mat seventy of the Spanish cavalrymen eaptured by the Riffsedurina the engage- ntent were slaughtered in cold blood in the native camps, • In a shallow ravine betaveea two low hills the Spaniards were attack- ed from every side. The ambush had been ca-refully planned, and the Spans ish infentry were practically helpless, The cavalry chargedthe hills on one eide of the position and covered the •retroat of the eaderneralized infantry, whieh fell breck to Mount Gu -ruga with heavy lose. The cavalry charge suc- ceeded in stopping the Riffs long enough to save the infantry, but at the price of heavy lass to the cavalry, Seventy of ,the latter were surrounded and captured among the bells. Ale of the cannons and. supplies of the ex. pedition fell into the battik of the atom's. - • WANT TO' TRADE. 4.44.1.44144 Detroit Wholesalers Anxious to Deal With Canada. 4o* Detroit, Mich., Oet. 0. --Pew questions are lime important to the business in- tereste of Detroit than a settlement on a just and fait basis of the trade tale. Hans between Canada and the United States, This foot has been neeentuated • by the manner in svhieh the reiolutions adopted by the wheleselers' rieseeiatioe • have been received. Universal hitereet has been displayed, anti AS a toult an °veiling dittnee will be given by the wholesalers within a short time, at which able spetticers.'thoronghly eenversant with th d situation, and with the Iteyne tariff bill and its probehle effeete, will disease the question. Among Mara will be gentlemen from .Cantede, who will re- flect the sentiment of the people tte:oss the ltAder. ' • ,444, •4114 4 • EARTHQUAKE DEAD. They Totalled 76,563 in the Italian Cities. Rome, Oct. 10.—The Italian Statisti. cal Berefin recently published an esti- mate eid the mortality in the great Mes- sina earthquake. The total number of persons killed in the three Provinces of Messina in Sicily, and Reggio and Catenzaro in dalabria is put at 70,563. At Messina alone 00,000 persons were killed—almost half of the inhabitants. The number of persons injured is un- known, and very probably will never be ascertained. On an average it can be said that -two persons were injured for every one killed; hence approximately about 150,000 persons were injured. No estimate of the damage to pro. perretd. y h as been made, but it is known that 231 cities, towns and villages suf- feIn connection with the above figures envious *coincidence bias been discov- ered. Dern% the year 1908 the excess of births over deaths throughout Italy amounted to 70,309. and this number almost eotrelponds to that of the earth- quake victims. Thus the population of Italy was not diiuinished, but merely stopped hiareasing for a year on.account of the eettligtiake. Since the earth. quake. 12,000 ,persons have emigrated to America from Meselina and 10,000 from Calabria. HOTEL CASES. Would Not Believe Spotters m Windsor Trials. Wipdsor despatch: Stories told by Ontario Government whiskey spotters and private detectives 'from Detroit were discredited in two liquor prosetions in Windsor and Sandwich police courts to such an extent that charges against the Brighton Beach Hotel, Sandwich, and the Walker House, Windsor, were dismissed. The eases against Shoee Acres and Alex, Tourangeau, Sandwich, were compromised, each of the accused being Heed $50, neither to staled ae conviction. Only one mac remains. Fines amounting to $2.300 have been asseesed against 27 hotel men. Only four of the accused fought their cases to a finish, and three of the four suc- ceeded in upsetting the evidence. The spotters were under, police protection again, but the precaution was not neces- sary, A DETAIL OF POLICE To Protect Mr. Lloyd -George From Suffragettes. Newcastle -on -Tyne, England, Oct. To -night found this eity, where Mr. David Lloyd -George, the Chem:elicit of the Exchequer, will deliver two Ma portant budget speeches tomorrow, in. wad, by the senfragettes. The Chancel- lor was esortea from the etation by a strong force of police. -The suffragettes Attempted this even- ing to hold. a meeting in the 'driil hall, lettestudents and the uoisy element of the city raised such a din that •.the • speakers cold not be heard, and finally broke up the meeting by throwhig fires works on the stage. 'The ettffragettes thee proceeded to the Liberal Club, • through the whidoWs of which they tlitew stones, Four of them wereate rested. MET DEATH 1 While Stopping a Fight Between t Hog itta '41 Dog. Ale., Oct. 11,---Whi1e try. blg to sepatate to, liote Ana it dog Which were fighting on 'Captain Ifauby's farrn, below Demmer, Devitt Brown, member of a prominent Birmingham family, Was ldfled lest night. Ile was ualtne the butt end of his shotgun to separate the mil - beds When the 'weapon taploded, the Whide .charge going through the heart. , - e