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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-11-04, Page 7HE ESC APES THE GALLOWS. At - James Robinson Gets Sentence of Tweaty-Eight Years For Crime; Committed Against His Own Daughters. " Mrs. Robinson Testifies—What the Judge Said. eittilletry despatch! The jury,in the Illobieueon me, after being ottt two hours, returned a verdict a not guilty in ithe nturder charge. Three of • the jurymen were in favor of a verdict of guilty, but finally came over and con- e-x.0W to a wallet of not guilty, Mr, Judie° Magee, in addreesing the jury, explained their duty under the evidence and the law. That the child was born and alive was sworn to by three wit- nesees. lire. Robinson's evidoice went to show that the ehila was done , to death. Her evidence wets tea of an ne. teemplice, and should be weighed carefule ly, as the experience of the low is that corroboration is -needful to the evidence of an accomplice. There was no evi- dence, except from inference, against Robinson, except that of his wife. In re- viewing Rev. Peter Matheson's evidence amine Magee characterized the conduct tet that gentleman in this ease as ad - 'mixable, a man who had done his Whole duty as antinister of the gospel and as a citizen, The jury retired at 3 o'clock, While the jury was deliberating in the murder ease the defence ebanged the pleadiug in the other Outages to eatilty of rape against elagtee• and in- vest agaiust Ellen and Jessie Robinson, the Crown ennsenting not to press the other eluti•gre. This was done to facili- tate the court proem:dines. Crown Pros - teeter Creswieke anoveil •for sentence, unit J Mtge elagee proceeded at one() to itronounce it, saying, impressively; "You -ited appear before me confessing guilt Of the most borrible crimes conceivable in a Cbrietian country, and have shown a nature entirely devoid of any sense of morality, right or care of your offspring and the decency of Christian society, so nuteh so that it 14 difficult for me to eay- anything to you. In addition to tltese charges there hangs oyer you the charge of murder, dependent upon the decision of the jury, and that yod should admit the .crimes of rape and incest against your own daughters, ander four- teen years of age, is something I hope will /lover again be paralleled in Can- ada." del,sige Megeo then -sentenced Robinson to twenty-eight years iu the Kingston Peuitentiary on the three charges, divid- ed as follows: Fourteen years for incest against Ellen, fourteen years for incest against Jessie to begin at the conclusion of. the first sentence, and twenty-eight ydars for the ra•pe of Maggie,to run 'concurrently with the other sentences. As Robinson is a inan of fifty, the sen- tence virtually amounts to life, impris- onment. Robinson listened to the heavy -sen- tence with bowed Jihad, •and sank back to his seat, evidently dazed at the close, burying his face in his. hands. . The ease opened this morning before ,Tustiee Magee with a decision from the bench that the evidence of Annie Rob- inson, wife of the prisoner, was admis- sible, but as the authorities were con- ferring on the point a reserved case WAS granted. The defence counsel entered a further 0*a:ion that Mrs. Robinson was under sentence of death, and to all ietenes and purposes legally dead, so that her evidence should not be used. The objection was over-ruledhibut a ee- V&VCa case was granted. Mra. Robinson was.placed in the wit- ness box and hi a low voice, punctuated with sobs, gave her evidence. The pris- oner sat in the dock with bowed head, never raising his eyes' to the level of his wife's face. she told of the birth of Jessieet baby on March 17, 1908. Ellen was confined the following week. "Jimmy" (meaning her hustand) "was in the room when Ellen's baby was born. I was weak and nearly fainted, but Jim- "*"-• my held me up." At this point Mrs. Robinson broke down and sobbed uncontrollably, some time elapsing before she was able to continue. "Mrs. Robinson, beim.; questioned by Prosecutor Creeswiek, told. again the story of placing Ellen's baby between the mattresses alive and removing the dead body later. Mrs. Robinson here again broke down and seemed about to go lebeehysteries, but the kindly manner of Prosecetor Cresswiek in his examination avertea a scene, and her evidence continued. She took the little body from between the mattresses, washed and dressed it, and placed it in a box, which her hus- band buried in the Mid, He also bailed the other babies, Mrs. Robinson was still in the box when the court rqse for tumid E. A. Wright was recalled at the in- stance of the defence, and an effort was made to discredit John Robinson's evi- • &nee by reference to -Mrs. Itobinson's statement made to Wright when the crimes were discovered. Justice Magee would not allow this evidence unless Mrs, Robinson's statenfent was given to the jury. Attorney Miaow& declined to pat the statement in as evidence. The prosecution dosed with.Mrs. Rob- inson's evidence, and no witnesses were called for the aefence, counsel addressing jury at once. • Mr. lefeleessock criticised very severe- ly the attitude of the newspapers, which had tried and eonvictea Robinson al- ready, with A view Of exciting, the sym- pathy of the public in favor of tetra. Robinson, to assist the effort brimmed° .„‹ for her pardon. Justice Madre temonstrated with the Attorney or defence at this stage" and the newspapers were 11110Wed tg rest in peace. Mr. MeICessoek ehttrged that the evidence submitted by the Crown was not material to the charge, but was intended to inflame the mitids of the jury whist the prisoner, who he admit- ted was it moral &generate. Prosecuting Attot•ney. Crelswiels ad- dressed the jury, reviewing the evieleuee, and kitting that if Robinson, knew his wife intended tohill the baby and did mot try to prevea the creme lie should be brought in guilty of murder. GOOD TIMES. Wataington, Nov. I. -Prosperity, aceording toit stateMent issued to -day by tbe ettiteau ot Statiatien it the 'UMW States Impatient of Commerce and tabor. During September the business of the mantle? end the move - went ot railway freight Nos reached proem. Bone which excelled- those of the name mouth ht •zt veer. In fact the Bulletin declares, aline Mc number of idle ears at the mid ot last intstob bad not altogether disappeared, there were indications that a car shortage would Weide develeati. "ek e • "Do you know of -any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com. pound ?" • If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in this country where women cannot be found who have been restored to • health by this famous old remedy, made exclusivelyfrom a simple formula of roots and herbs. During the past 30 years we have published thousands of letters from these grateful women who have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never in all that time have we published a testimonial without the writer's special permission. Never have we knowingly published a testimonial that was not truthful and. genuine. Here is'one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts that this is a true and honest statement of a woman's experi- ence with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound write and ask her. Canifton, Ont.—"I had been a great sufferer for five years. One doctor told me it was ulcers of the uterus, and another told me it was a fibroid tumor. No one knows what I suffered. I would always be worse at certain periods, and never was reg- ular, and the bearing -down pains were terrible, I was very ill in bed and the doctor told. me I would have to have, an opera- tion, and that I might die during the operation. 1 wrote to my sister about it and. she advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable' Compound. Through personal experience I have found it the best medicine in the world for female troubles, for it has cured me, and I did not have to have the operation after all. The Compound also helped me while passing through Change of Life. ' —Mrs. Letitia Blair, Canifton, Ontario. Any woman who is sick and suffping is foolish surely not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should it n'ot do her as much good as it did Mrs. Blair. N. Y. ELECTIONS Three Mayoralty Candidates Claim Victory. Not Muck Interest in the Fight in Massachusetts. New York, Nov. 1.7 -New York's mayoralty campaign this year -will be carried right up. to election eve and to -night speeches in various parts or the city will be made by Otto T. Bon- nard, a Republican nominee for mayor, and Judge Gaynor, Who heads the Deniocrat ticket. Wm. R., Hearst, the leader of the Civic Alliance, closed his campaign last night in a great meeting at Madison Square Garden. This is distribution day at Tammany. Hall. The leaders of the Tammany districts gathered at noon at Tam- many Hall and reeeisseci their final in- structions from leader Murphy. The leaders were given lands for election- eering purposes and all Were told to use every effort to bring out the full Democrat vote, ' Leaders of the party Paid to -day that judge Gaynor would. be elected without any doubt. Herbert Parsons, who has had charge of the Republican campaign, assorted that Bonnard would be elect- ed by about '70,000 votes over Gaynor and by 120,000 over Hearst. He pre- dicted an overwhelniing plurality for the rest of the Republican -fusion ticket. The Hottrat forces declare that the Gamer campaign has eompletely eollapstureand that Mr. Hearst wilt bo elected by it tremendous vote. Weather predictions for to -morrow indicate rain. IN MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, Nov. 1.—While the Repub- licans were confident of the re -eke - tion of Governor Draper and the rot 414. of the party ticket to -day they admit- ted that the general apathy was the greatest foe against which they had to contend. The interest in the pro -election fig- ures is on how much the total Re- pnbItcan vote of 228,000 last year will show a falling •off and whether the Democratic vote of 168,000 last year will be increased. That it will show an increase was • generally admitted to -day by dose political observers, who point out that a majority of the 23,000 vote who were in the Indepen- dence League last, year would natur- ally go into the Democrat column. C. P. R. STEAMERS. Marconigrans a Feature of the "Empress" Daily News. woimwwwwworomiwwwwwwi ITEMS OF NEWS FRON FAR AND NEAR - rIVMSYNAOWNWMWAPMPAYI Russia is deportim Came from Si - Sixteen of MontreA smaller .schools met &Tiered nuhealtity. Gnu. Booth, of the Salvation Army, is writing Itis autobiography. Ontdrio •opticiaus will ask the Lille - !attire for it proteetive measure. Over fifteen thousand immigrants ar- rived In t'anada, during September. Nine persons lost•their lives 111 41, fire lit bustuess block a Ht. Johnsleu•g, Vt. The Department of Justice has re- ceived 120,000 petitions forreprieve. for Mrs. AUllie Robinson, He ocean liners laden with wines and brat:dies reached New York on Saturday aftetnoon and Sunday. Winnipeg &legatee to the Climber of Commerce Congress at Sednee, Atistra- lie, declare It was a faree."-- pehert, R. Harris died of injuries re- eeived in the explosion ae the Parkeadt Dye Werke plant, Toronto. Cadet Eugene A, Byrue, of Buffalo, re- ceived injuries from. widelt he died dur- ing a football game at West Point. • Three prisoners sentenced in the To -r onte 8essions for offences against wo- men will each receive thirty lashes. Preparatory to its abandomnent as it (Mach, the niter of St. Margaret's An- glican Church, Toronto, was stripped. A collet:tied , of fifty-eight thousand dollar3 on Sunday cleared the Broad - wily elethodist Church, Winnipeg, of debt. • Mrs, Mabel Turner, Walter Blythe, and William Raids, wore totem from, To- ronto to Kingston penitentiary on Sat- urday. Stanley eleGervey, a seven-year-old Strabroy boy, became entangled in a rope aud fell into n, barrel. lie west et t•at tattled, The lereneh Premier warned the people Franee that the enemies of•the lie are striving to undermine the tuition- al- public &emote. !dies Islay Mason, it patient in Uto Vitoria Hospital at. London, Ont., stab- bed herself in the neck with a knife. Iler coalition is critical: Of $20,000 required for alterations in Trinity Methodist Church, Toronto, $16,- 000 a as subscribed orpromised, and the rest will soon be raided, The Supreme Court of the empire has ruled that cremation is illegal' ni Aus- tria. The decision holds that it is oppos- ed to the Christian idea of burial. The British Anti-Soeialist 'Union has already received 50,000 shillings in res- ponse to its call for a million shillings italisrat. octr,nin workingmen to combat Soo - The C. 1', R has discontinued its special train from East Toronto to -Mimic° that was- run for the conveni- ence of employees. Thecompany wants them to move to Belleville. Moving pictures of the smallest mi- cro-organisms discernible threugh the most perfect of magnifying instrum- ents have been nuule by Sean Comanden, a young French scientist. At Fort William the pollee now have ten prisoners iu the tells In coneeetion with the murder an the coal docks last week, all being held either as suspects or as material witnesses. - Mr. S. II. Reward, tie Montreal, Vice - Consul for the Netherlands, has receiv- ed front glieen Wilhelmina of Holland the order of Knighthood known as the order of Orn•ege Nassau. The "Empress" Daily News is print- ed and published at sea. on board the C. P. R. Atlantic liner, making a very at- tractive feature of the voyages. Siece wireless came into use "Maconigrams," wafted on the wind from shore while the vesselare oil the deep, make in- teresting Leading for the readers of the littlo uewspaper, -when out of sight of land. The copy of the News of Septem- ber 1511is at hand, containing (ratite a number of these wireless,- sea direct to the Empress of Britain, from Clifden, Ireland. Among them may be mentioned "weather foreast," "Egyptian Con- gress," "attempted assassination of the Servian Minister," "King Edward's Holiday," "North Pole Controversy," "The Budget," "The stock market," etc. This enterprise ot tate part of the company is in keeping with all the oth- erprovisions foe the comfort, safety and enjoyment of the passengers. • "Yon•were embarrassed when you pro posed to ine, George. were yen noir "Yes, I owed five thoustind."--Nitutiat Oily Journal. vrAtTuatt, tr, SCUM PROCESS litIttnto NDSOR TABLE SALT TRADE MARK Most people already use—and always will use—Windsor Salt. They kiaow—from years of experience—that Windsor Salt won't get damp or lumpy. There is never even a suspicion of grittiness about it. Its cleat' taste— its crystal parity and recognized economy make Windsor Salt the pante favorite in e.t et y home where it is used. Don't pay fancy prices for any imported salt, When Windsor Salt cats so little, and is so high in quality. 2 go neer them. it was neeeseary to :shoot it, t,(re 11ditnill(Ird,teltedog before the buillea could Oa Saturday John McCall while drier— lug a e0al eart at Itineton, let hi:i- llus. fall while Ito lit Itis pipe. The horse started and McCall, stooping to pick up the feins, .fell off the eart end the wheel passed aver his body, kilang The French Cabinet has authorized M. Malawi& Minister of Publie Works, Poets and Telegraphs, to work out the project for a maritime yokel service be •tweep. Wane°. and Canada. as Provided tf(livraiiy.nthe VI:mica-Canadian conedereial Weed Alexandra has returned to Lon. don considerably improved in health. She brought Queen Maud and. Prince of visited several theatres before leaving 07,11.01;trilft;tav. e ICu,ne otlfeNinay as guests. Last week the two queens and Princess Yietoria for. it quiet stay at Sandringham. In Montreal the Royal Victoria Hospitel Mrs. T. R. Carnovosky, of Kingston, gave a quart of her lisfoenb,lood to her sister, Mrs. Eli William of in the hope of prolonging her life after an operation. She came through the operation, hut cliecl of report from the Department, the past twelve months the total num- ber of Chinese entering Canada, sub- jeet to the poll tax of $600, was 467. This is only About half the number who entered during the preceding twelve e Trade and Commom shows that durieg e men were killed in the Caitl- coal mine, two miles front Johnstottn,• Pa. on Sunday night, as the result of wliat is .supposed to have been it dynamite explosionAlt the dead art foreigners. Three men escaped with their lives by a, perilous climb on life - ladders. ' While patrolling his. beat on Jarvis street,. Toronto, shortly before mid- night on Sunday, P. C. McKee found the body of a young man crduehed iii the shadow of the drive -way bead& the St. Lawrence Market, In the dead, man's hand was e 'revolver, and the constable upon investigation found a bullet wound in the inan's forehead. Mated new northern town ie to come ipto being on the National Traneeontin- tidal Railway at the Frederick House River. The new town will be situated eight mileswest of Cochrane, the junc- tion of the T, & N. 0. Railway and the National Transcontinental Railway, and will probably be named. after the river whidt flows through its centre. Two hundred members of ehe Campers family held it reunion in New York on Saturday night, to do honor to Solomon Gompers, head of the family ie America, and father of Samuel (tempers, the labor leader. The elder Compers ts matey SO t•cars of age. Twelve great-gramblaugh- ters of Solomon Gompers, dressed in red, white and blue, were present. Checked in his fall through tee air front a scaffolding off which it fellow. werker had just pitched to death on the stone abutmeht of the Williamsburg bridge, New York, 150 feet below, demos Donahue, it painter, on Saturday, in the sight of thousands hung suspended from a grappling hook at the end of a long rope which had caught in his clothing as be fa. Bob Cook, the notorious Orangeville desperadothrice a jail -breaker, the last thno at Boise City, Idaho, where he also freed a number of 'prisoners, and who has successfully resisted arrest at the Imo& of the Orangeville police ot sev- eral occasions, was last night engaged in another fight 'With the authorities, and as a result Constable James Ral- bert is seriously wounded. Cook, as usual, made his e-seape. • f Flying over the Brooklands motors traek on Saturday, Louis Paulltam, the French aviator, broke. the English re- cord for altitude, reaching the height of '720 feet. He used a, biplane. Peemier Mora to -day telegraphed the Barcelona authorities here to suspend the execution of all court-martial sen- teneees until the eases could be exam- ined by the Spanish GOvernment. A British company is being formed to organize an aeroplane service across the English Channel between Calais and Do. ver. There will be accommodation on each aeroplane for lour passengers. On Sunday night a Galieian farmer CAMP 111t0 fli111111 with the report that a• woman and two ebildren had been killed in it fight at it farinhoutte ttbout six milt's north of the town this afternoon. Five hours before they ecceived by wire news of the death of their son, Geoege Kepler, sen., of Third and Mount Vernon streets, Candela N. J., awl his wife said that each had dreamed that Ito was killed, Mr. Bernard Wilsou, the G. T. lt. conductor who .was seriously injured on Saturday, aka at tho Lindsay Ross Memorial Hospital several hours later. He never rallied from the shock of am- putation of the leg and arm. During a Hallowe'en entertainment at Loretto Academy, a Catholics boarding school for girls at Kansas City, last night, Miss Virginia Owen and Miss Mamie Tiernan, student asters, were so severely burned that they died. The death of Stephen M. Bentley, a resident of Truro, resulted on Sunday morning from a gunshot wound acciden- tally sustained late yesterday afternoon while hunting in the woods 10 the rear of his dwelling. The Cunard Line Steamer Lueania, which has been in the transattentie ser - nee` for eaventeen years, sidled on hr lest voyage from, Liverpool, on Satur- day. leer port was Swansea, where she will be broken up. At Campden, N. Se by means of it magnet Attached to a eity eleetric light wire carrying 20,000 volts of electricity, a sliver of steel was extracted from the forehead of Richard Stopheus, loner - maker, in the Cooper Itospitalo Mrs., Louis Barton° witded into the St, Lawrence River near Ogsdeiburg, N. T., and &owned herself in four feet of ware, The Woman had been des. pendent since her husband was sent to prison a year age for attacking a pm Cumulative end convinciug evidence hag been forthcoming the past week of tee modern English origin of the now Venous "Vied" bast purchese.d by Dr. Bode kr $40,000 for the National Muse- um nt lrrlin, nud which was copied front a picture . The British Poet -office report 'hews that the picture peeteard craze is tepid- ly declining. Fewer telegram; ere astit owing to the increased use of the Inc. phone. Over $3,000,000 •wea found ie letters that were not &livered because they were wrongly addressed. ,Aearew Itobsi end Michael Gaeta. both 18 years tin were bed:wily killed by whet she'd,: by it letekawattin pate tanager train in ilinghampton, N. Y., on Sunday. Their dog stood guard over the two bodies and would not let, any ont t PRINCE ITO'S- BODY. $4 000 000 A DAY James' A. Patten, King of Wheat Pit, Cleans oa Rise in Cotton, Said That Mr, Fatten's Winnings For Year Total $14009,000. Chicago, Nov. 1.—Aecoeelingto ed. tulesion made by C. R. Bartlett,. bis Pother, denies A. Patten, became $4,- 000,000 Molter through the wild deo ite American and Emma cotton markets Friday. Ile is long several buneredethou- sand bales, much of which he aceumulat- ed when cotten was selling around nine cents it pound. An advance eo 14 0-8 onto at the openiog, when shorts at- tempted to cover, gave him an average profit of four cents a pound. He sold to the shots on. Friday's 1•Ise aud, aceord- ing to Mr. Bartlett, made nearly $4,- 9.00,009 on the day's trading. Every change of a point in the tnar- ket meant $10,000 to the millionaire grain, trader, who won alma $5,000,t 000 in wheat on the board of tea& last May. An advance of a paiut on 100 bales of cotton is equel to $6. inc last spring cotton has adVancecl about 500 points, anil as a restilt Patten's Chicago followers have made nlillions, ite they c1"1 lest spring in wheat. La Salle street brokers who helm kept in touch with Pattell's &ills say his win- uings for 1909 are no less tlian $1,00Q,- 000. Patten was a helm7 operitter In the Septemher wheat option, and admitted Met he was a heavy winner there, al- though the figures did met trun as high as in the Ifey break, It was estimated, however, that he made at least $2,000,- 000 in this option and unleaded the heavy line Ite.had carried over from the May deal, • • MINCE ITO. '.1.'eldo, Nov. L ----The warship Twat°, with thd body of Prince Ito on board, arrived tie Yokosuka shortly before 10 oestoelt .this morning. Among the offit dais who met the warship were Count Inouye, who was Prince Ito's closest friend; Martens Katsura, the Premier; Vice -Admiral Baron Minoru Saito and Baron Simpci Goto, Minister of Com- munications, M'CLARY CO. Welfare Department Organized For Benefit of Employees. London, Nov., 1.—The beeefit society of the MeClary Manufacturing Company has added a welfare department, and commencing Monday A trained nurse, it graduate of Vietotia Hospital, will commence her duties in the now posi- tion. MTS. Itcytiolds ,has, been employed, and it will be her duty to visit the em- ployees of the plant as well as members of employees' families who are immpa- canted canoe through fitness or acci- &et. Tho benefit society has beeu in ex- istenee for over 27 years, and every em- ployee is a member. Every person shares in the benefit when ill and a doctor is supplied. The welfare department will Took efter the sanitary arrangements in the feetory, and Will pay special attention to the heat, light, at 41 ventilation. Sep - ante dining -rooms •i% 11 be maintained for •men and girls and 1 terature and games will be supplied.. GEDDARDT IN DELLEViLLE. Beileviiip, Ont., Nov. 1.- People in this eity whit have seen the published pletitre of Vreilet lek Gi 1)11111.dt, 1 it" Islip, L. L, wide murderer And bigamist, claim that he is the man who, in it Unit - ea States eity, metaled Mies Poet, of Ibis t-ity, mid apeerted her, tt tter getting ber mono; The pi it wet,. here en tf. t ..y Witi !, it'd, The bamboo tree blossoms first whon 1( 18 00 years old. ROWDY BOYS. • Women Roughly, Bandied by Tor- onto University Students. Clothe; Torn and Painted—Hal- lowe'en Hilarity. Toronto, .Nov. 1. --The ammoj deuce given by the -Mama of the University of Toronto on Hallowe'en night in the dalvereity gymnasium was the occeeiten for student outrage which Kande by it- self in the history of Academic 'misde- al% am 1iitIioro undergraduates of tle; institution have reepceted the name, place allit rights of the 'women an:Ocala in attendance.. On Saturday night, how - aver, this barrier wits torn away, and for. tee Brit time in the experiehes of the University women :Ancients were mo. lested on their way home from the donee, their clothes were Awn or daubed with paint, and our, m•ore nervous than her companions, was frightened into it faint Ou Hallowe'en night two Tenter- sity fume:tom were in progrese in differ. emit buildings at the same time, Ikeda() ehe Attimitode dance given by lady graduates to their friends, the annual ee-union of the medical faculty was held in Convocation Hall. When the dance was over a chorus of yellegreeted those who chugged from the main en- tranee of the gymnaeium. The merry- makers who tookeatriages tit their homes were »ot all subjected to ph -pleat affront. The north entrance to the grunds was, however, blocked,and cab- bies were halted wite the edifying my of "Now, little boy, turn right-as:quid and de as you are tett& and you won't get bouchece Meanwhile the ladies in the carriages were forced to bear volleys of that latest vulgar phrase, "0 you kid." Escorts to whom discretion was not better pert of valor were, subjected to further indignities, carriages were 111.1d Jp. told ouc conveyatnee was taken away "rom the thorouttedere entirely and Re aecia pante • °Wel liiuIed. Ou those -who .tisayed to walk home did the hoodlum eem•ea take eepecial revenge. Every •nenwive hunted down. to lee peinteel, dud if he resisted to be furt•her maitre:It. ee. Ladies were brought into these melees with the deplorable vesulte before mentioned. HAD TO SHOOT. Excuse of Constable For Firing at an Indian. Tilit FARM Estimates .of the world's probable whoa crop have been published during the past month by two Englith trade papersand by the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture. Estimates at this time of the year, though- they can only ap- proximate actual facts, serve as a good indication of the results looked for by well- i la formed European official and. co:Innen:lid observers. As compared with last year, these estimates allow it gain of troin 185 to VO million builds in the cue of. Wheat. For corn, an ire erease of 205 million busliels„ end for barley it gala of 004 million bushels are indicated, Do not make the food too sloppy for young pigs. Keep plelity of charcoal in the pen. Put a packet of Epson), salts in the food. ocasionally, Castrate pigs at three weeks, not later. 'Observe regu- larity in feeding, and let them out for it run oecasionally. As the young Pliti conic in do not allow lltem to lose their baby fat, but keep them in good con- dition right from the time they are weaned. Whether it le profitable to plow in fall or not depends on the SOil and climate, It the soli is of a firni texture fall planting will do it good. where the winter le severe enough to keep the ground frozen until spring. 11 separ- ates the soil and makes it friable. But where the soil Is of it tough clay tee - turn mid the winters are mild, not freez- ing, the- ground solid for a foot or 'more in depth., the plowed ground will freez and thaw and rutt together again and. be as firm in the spring as though not plowed. 11 any good comes from such fall plowing it must be weed destruc- tion, The oystershell scale has appeared to it greater extent this season than usual on lilac bushes and maple trees, al- though not as prevalent on fruit trees as in some years. Seine branches of it Norway maple tree were recently sent to Stet() Zoologist Surface, at Earle - burg. *Met were badly infested. Brantford, Oet. 3L ---While arresting throe young Indians,•wito were disorderly at the pagan .coutteit house late on :Sat- urday night, near Olisweken, Dominion Constable David Gaietv shot and in- jured Curtis Martin, an Indian, who, it iS claimed, attacked hen with it fence rail, endeavoring to prevent: the arrest of his friends. Carlow had been called by Chief General to put a stop to the disturbance. The constable was arrested here to- day after he had delivered his prisoners at the local jail. He said he first shot into the ground, and when Martin ap- •pronebed eloser shot at his legs. One bullet; took effect in the right ankle and the other in the right knee. He related the story of the shooting to the local authorities. • Garlow is It man of powerful physique; arid bta atrest is on the ground that the shooting was unitecessary, Brantford, Ontr, Nov. 1.—Constable Garlow, charged at Police Court here ',his morning, with shooting with iutent to injure Curtis Meath, pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial: Bail was fixed at $200. Garlow sadhe had to shoot at Martin or be struck by it club- with which Martin attacked him. The eonstable will be tried by a jurys Sant Tiirkey, one of the drunken In- dians arrested by Gahm, at the fest vities, was fined $20, and H. jamicson, $10 and tests. Turkey refused to tell where he got the liquor. Two othets were remanded. It is said bad blood ex- ists between Garlow and the Marthi 4 • ' FIRE AT WINNIPEG, FIRE HORROR, Mother and Two Little Ones Mum. ed In Death, Father ad One Child Escapes -7 - Former is Crazed. Uxbridge, Oct; 30.—One of the sail. dest eatastrephee that ever occurred in this town happened last eight. The Hound of the fire bell brought people from their beds, and firemen hurriedly donned their clothIng and drew the pon- derous whecie in the eireetion of a glare the eastetn sky. The house of Archie McLaughlin, a beokkeper at the general store of Alexander a, manteu, and the popular secretary of the baseball club, was ou fire, McLaughlin himself hue- -vied through the crowd which quickly gathered, wheeling hie eldest Child, a girl of six. Wben asked about his wile and the other children, a boy of four and it baby a year old, be seemed dazed and' could give no coherent reply. The firemen were wprking on the bending trying to subjugate the flame before they were made aware that it mother and her sweet baby boys were penned inside. Heroically thenthe fire- men fought, but the building, of frame, and sawdust lime, was denim with smoke, and they were beaten back at every turn in their efforts to rescue the wife and. the little epee, When the firemeo finaely woo able to get inaide the building the mother was found on the bea as 11 18 sleep, with her hands folded across her breast, The little ones, so the reseuere say, Were be- neath the bed, having apparently fallen between it and the wall. • Neighbors say that if they had known persons were still in the house when the alarm was first sounded they might have rescued the entire family. McLaughlin went home about 10.30 lest night, and stye Ilia wife retired shortly afterwards, while he nursed the little girl in the kitchen. He has 110 idea how the fire started. This morn- ing he is grief-stricken and asks con- stantly for the little girl he saved, who is being taken care of by kind neigh- - bore. An inquest will be held to -day. TEN YEARS LATE: Dominion Department of Agriculture, granoh of the Dairy and Cold Storage Cimmissioner. 7111e ON:per101ee of Dee member of it ecu' testing association is worth recording, as S1101V111.0 the necessity Of ,testime as well as weighing milk, His ereacipal income is from selling cream, so tent his aston- ishment may be guessed Ifwee he finilt this year that the milk from a twelve - ,year -old cow, that he raised on hie farm and fondly imagined one of his beet cows, lies mew tested more than 2.9 per cent. of fat. The discovery comes .411:1C - what late to a man- who has been her - boring a cow that for a productive perte led of ten long years has been masquer- Arline as an entmal producing fairly rid! mile. Tim eow never gives this informa- tion toneerning herself voluntarily; it has to be sought for and ascertained by definite and regular !tempting. All real improvement of dairy herds mcludes sys- tematic weighing mid samplie.g of the inlik fi•oin each eow in the herd. All: bite herd tests, simply average results, that it man likes to have ma& will never detect thepoerest cow or give due credit to the beet cow. There mat be teeting of individual samples. C. F. AV. Five Storey Building Burned -- Woodstock Co. Loses. Winnipeg, Mai., Oct. 31. --On Satur- day the five -storey brick and "stone building of C. IL Newton caught fire, the three tipper storeye beipg gated, awl the goodie on the lower Beers ruined by \voter. A etoek of sample oils on the fourth floor exploded, blowing out the windows and driving the flames into (way comer. The firemen were greatly hampered by myriads of wires, most of thent high voltage feeders of the death) railway. Assailer drawlinek W114 thh 11111111)01' Of 410111'4 itt OP bigh pressure system. whirl' 'blocked the nozzles. Among the losets was James Steweet ltanufaeturing Co., of Woodistock, Ont., stoves, loss, 00,0001 imamate, $7,000. COW TESTING ASSOCIA.TIONS, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Brandi of the Dairy end cola Storage Commissioner. • Some of the September reveille receiv- ed from members of cow testing associa- tions, show further remarkable varia- tions in different sections of Ontario a»d Quebec. It isthe exception in the Ontario aseocie time , to find less On 600 lbs. milk or 20 lbs, butter fat as an average yield for the thirty days. in Quebec associations the average yields are almott all lower, though one. or two are well up, even te 700 lbs, milk and 26 lbs. fat. Ono aso,seitction in Que- bec has it total production from 23 esiws of 17,800 les. milk and 773 lbs. fat, while in another Quebec atmciation just it little less then Olt is the total pro - dation of 60 (tows; the 60 rows average less than 300 lbs. milk. Twenty-three cows in oar case. sixty in the other, which kind of c,/w wo•tild one rather keep? What glowing pomibilities are indicated here: Most likely the eixty cows could be made to give better yiekle if fea better. The selection of the beet individuals, its revealed by the record, and their mating with good belle of de- cided dairy deseeet, Would give ettnedn rosulle, better cews in every way, with- out suelt glaring differences ae at this ease, where the yield of I we fairly ,,,Iorn1 cows is mere than the tetel yield otifive poor ontd. • C. F. W. -..+.•-- WASN'T GORGEOUS. Mexican Editor on Meeting With 0 Diaz—Taft's Dress Slovenly. FIGHT HOOKWORM. John D.' Rockefeller Donates a Million Dollars For That Purlieu% Mexico City, Nov. 1,—The editor of El leaskabal of Guadalajara, one of the leading provineint newspapers of Mexico, attended the Diaz-Teft meeting at El Paso and published ait article which is causing much comment in official circles of this country. He says; "Remembering the excursion of the white squadron through all the seas, an excursion that cost millions of dollars and was solely an extravagance of ostentation be accmaint the world of the wealth of the Yankee, I had hoped that the executive, Taft, would bring to the frontier a regiment of soldiers; splent &By dressed, it good battery of artillery and it resplendent staff; but, no, senor, there WAS ledeed it sad contrast. "While. our President Went adorned in his grand uniform of a general, enede in Parts at it cost of 25,000 fritnes, Presi- dent Taft wore a suit that die not seem to be his own, dueto ite looseness. itis cellar was wilted by perspiration, and there wits not the slightest impreesion of elegance. He was ill it mach (it might have been one of public hire), while our President rode in a, splendid landau, and the soldiers, the ltexieatts, were in 'gala dem with well polished shoes stud well leveled clothes, "Those vof our neighbors were in leg- gings, yellow shots, khaki elothee. ane what is the worst of all, in undershirts. "How :than thin American negligee be interpretee? Wee it to mole evieca the freedont of the Yankee? Was it to contrast the simplieity of the opulent with the Billowier of the poor? Or might it not have been to signify the little hit- t/Maitre that they conceded to the acre - teeny?" ynot- 1 have mule a initiated miles with this joke to sell it to you. Thlitor— We san't way it, young man. Your loke Is to *tar tetelied.—St, Louis Star, New York, Nov. 1,—A gift of $1,000,000 by John D. Rockefeller to fight the hook -worm disease) was an- nounced at the offices of the Standard Oil Company here late to -day. At dozen well-known educators and scientists, selected in large part from institutions of learning in the south, where the parasite is prevalent, were called in con- ference with Mr. Rockefeller's represen- tatives last Tuesday, and as a result of the discussion of the situation the Rockefeller commission for the eradica- tion of the hook -worm disease was organized. The hook -worm, which, it is believed was imported from Africa with the negroes, lives on the human intestinal tract and feeds upon blood which it draws from the muctios lining of the tract. The parasite often so lowers the vitality of those who are affected as to retard their physical and mental de- velopment, render them more susceptible to other diseases, makes labor less effi- cient, and in the section where the malady is most prevalent greatly in- creases the death rate from coneurap- tion, pneumonia, typhoid fever and =ladle. It has been shown that the lowered vitality of multitudes long at- tributed to malaria and climate and seriously affecting economic develop- ment is, in fact, largely due in some districts to this parasite. Some two millions of the people of the United States are infected. with the parasite, and these are by no Mans confined to any one class. The ton of suffering and death is taken from the intelligent 'well -to -da as well as front the less fortunate. e WHAT THE HOOKWORM IS. The book -worm is a tiny parasitic worm, half an 'inch long and no thicker than a small hairpin, which makes its way into the human body and attaehes itself to the wall of the small intestine, biting with its small jaws and sucking the blood of the victim. The hook- worms do not multiply in the human body. Every one that is found there has made its way separately into the body from outside, but the entire soil of the South is polluted with them. and they onay be swallowed with drinking water, or vegetables, but usually enter the body through the skin, The hook- worm is not found in the North, be- cause it cannot endure cold. It was originally brought to America, by negro slaves from Africa and wherever the negro goes he scateers the parasite. To its operations is due the unfortunate condition of many of the whites of the Southern States, They are .half-siek, unable to do much work, and seemingly without ambition. • • - • THE QUALITY OF MERCY Is Not Prom;nt Amo ng Mrs. M- no_ ler's Virtues. Winuipe,g, .NOV. 1.—A most pabbetie case came for heath% in the Police Court to-daas when a man named Adler was charged with vagrancy and desertion by hie wife. He had suddenly left her three years ego, but returned a few days ago to die, as he is in the last stages of consumption. His wife at onto causea it warratt to be issued for hint and he was arrested, but wheu takee into the dock he was so weak that he had to be ecerricd, and his head fell over on his breast, The Magistrate at once ordered him to be removed to the home of friends in a eab, and. dismissed the charge, CFRAN E IS ALARIVIED Excess of Deaths Over hirths For • fear Was 28,205. Peri*, :sew. stattistiot Inc the first sixmeths of the present year show nn exeess of deaths over birthe in France or 28,205. In 1008 the excese of deaths was 10,508, and this growing discrepaney has raised Again a try Of alarm for the future of the *emit race, whielt is the only people of Europe ex. perieneing depopulate% Dr, Jacques Botillon, the etatistiden, proposes it, 'heavy increase Of taeation Upoe families in which, there are two children or less. The copper prothiCers of the Dallied States ate planning an atnalgatuatiort similar to that existing in the steel trade,