HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-11-04, Page 7HE ESC APES
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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.
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During the past 30 years we have published thousands
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in all that time have we published a testimonial without
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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.
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ITEMS OF NEWS
FRON FAR AND NEAR
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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.
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"Yon•were embarrassed when you pro
posed to ine, George. were yen noir
"Yes, I owed five thoustind."--Nitutiat
Oily Journal.
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SCUM PROCESS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,