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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-11-25, Page 7sr. vereeesesteeeereerese TWENTY MEN SAVED ALM. Rescued From Cherry Mine After Szven Oey.; Below. Fr:est Tells the Story of How the Men Were Forra3, Pati.ictic Letter Written by One of the Entombed Men, Utterly, 1.1., Nov. 2 1. -Frem deepss ii(epair to the h y Leda of liope, then to tee di eilis of despair again. The whole seale ef eat atm.( was ruit over yeeterday and to -day hen by the tit elese .n have lea! working fee w.els t ?sone t ,)S., whom last fire t110 St. Paul: mine, awl by the %valthig, weeping women above. Foray battles haa. been Inouelit 11 om the pit mouth yretel day, and mest of teem identified, tha report ehot through th.. prostrate community: sTaey've feund them alive; they've found them Twenty men we had built it birriel between thentaelves and tho noxious gases created by tha fire ha I „eye found by the reesuers in an a :no it ex- haueted cond,tion, IL took six. hears, to get them to the .surface, and tho repeat spiead around that 150 more men were alive in a farther reasth 1 the mine, qua off from fi-sh air by a wall of black damp. At midnight the fire below broke out afresh, aud the rescue workere Weis foreed to leave their work and fight the flames. The fire was smothered to -day to such an extent that explor- ers were abre to tvork. in the mine, •bat blade damp in one of the galleries defied the men, as did cave -los and other debrie. 11 was not even diseovered whether there are none mon all% e iu the mine galleiles although the exalorers, uree ed. by t'lle extreme. nolition in which the twenty men saved yesterday were foetid, week with almost eaperhumw strength and rapidity. The finding of ty-seven bodies and their removal were the only vieible results of to- day's endeavors. To -night the records showed that of the 310 men left in the mine last Satarday night, 108 are still missing, while 02 Wales have been found and. twenty men rescued alive. it MIS dstiared to -day that the, it .4. .sertion made Y eiterday that 150 live men had been discovered was not wed founded. Each hour that paeses is looked on as making the ehance of escape pitiably less. A graphic description of the discov- ery of the 111011, frelll the viewpoint of the rescuers, was told by Father James P. Ileany, of. St. Mary'e Church, Tien- __ e PRESIDENT EARL1NG, Of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Joan, which owns the ill-fated reline at Cherry, Ill. Photograph taken at scone of disaster. dott, 111. Father Heany was down in 4„, the mine with the rescue party. fie 4,aid: "Just about 2 o'clock, as we slacked up at a Pe of debris 300 feet into the gallery, David Powell suddenly seid: 'Liston, boys! A faint .pounding was beard.' Powell cried out: "I balieve somebody is alive in there."e Other men eaid: "No, imposeible; nobody could live down here seven days." "Again came the muffled poundine sound, Grabbing hold of the picke eared axes .our inen then began to tear down the pile of earth and toek. It tech Lie several' 'Manatee to make headevy. "11 was a weird scene. The lighia our torches on our caps bobbing up anti down lilted the place with moving eletd- ows. " 'Now, let's listen again,' said Powell. Much. to our glee, the poundieg simile came louder. A few more (lige and a little blaek hole appeared. "Two or three of us climbed over the dirt and paled, 'Are any of you alive in there, boys?' "An answer came baeks "Our men pulled at the dirt again, and g' a large gap appeared, "'We'll save you in a minute, bop,' we yelled. "In faint, heavy voices the men (edict] back: 'Yes, we are alive, and you. bet we're hungry.' "1 trawled as near tho hole ae could. "'God bless you, men, We Will get you out in minute and givo yOu 41 the lunch you can eat.' "I midi not sec anything, .for the - men were total dal knees, sa climbed back, and prayed Gott to make the number to be rescued as largo as possible. "By this thee the hole was 'Wide open, and a dozen pair of glistening (lee appeared, "One of the Melt illSide Called out, 'Most of us are all sight, but there's one poor fellow— Frnerke, a French- man—who is almost gone; and I'm Afraid he'll soon be dead if he doesn't get fresh air.' "Soon, With a, Aunt, we jumped in and met them, throwing our time around their necks. Their joy was in- expressible. They laughed and cried aloud. "We wanted to (may the men to the 3toisting shafts but they insisted they could walk, 'They Were imaetieally blinded by the torchlight, so we threw blankets over their heeds and started to eseorb them, "My first concern was to. got After the pea' rrenehmae. I found 11; him otatetretehed on his back, breath- ing ble last, Holding toreh over Ids fame, ettiel: 'Do you give your mil to Godf' "Ite Strialteted: "T adminietered the last merriment, awl in a minute he wail dealt "At the hhaft iiecurr nee of the greeted rietii of heruinen T know of. WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF ILLINOIS MINE DISASTER. .,.......................o....ara.......mw.A —J: li ; SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT CHERRY, ILL., SHOWING WIVES AND CHILDREN OF ENTOMBED MINERS STANDING OUT- SIDE THE SHAFT HOUSE. Walter Waite, ono of the rescued, heariug that there were otlwrs alive in another part of the mine, threw off the blanket from his head and shout- ed: "I am. not going out until I get them.' "We remonstrated, sayiag it would mean his death, and we actually had to use force to get him' into the cage." It was discovered that the men, af- ter eating up all the food in their-din- uer pails, had suhsisted mostly on bark torn .off pine posts used to support the mine walls. William ,Cleland, one of the survivors, after drinking a bowl of soup, appeared none the worse for his experi- ence. "We made the most of our situa- tion " he said. "How the time went we a. .4 know. We must have been unconscious part of the time. "I remember, soon after we were shut in, drinking great quantities of the seepage from the gutter. After that some of pulled off the bark and chewed it.. "We did not realize how serious was aur position. After the seepage had run dry sve began pounding the wall to cause more to drop down. Soon aftee we heard 'voices and the digging on the ether side. Most of us thought we had been in the mine only about 24 hours." Cleland's wife and baby, brought to him- at the car, evere greeted with a grin expressive of gratitude. He was calm, and his first request was to a fireman for a cigarette. Pigati, while being tevived, brought out a letter he had written On piece of brown paper on the fourth day of his imprisonment, when he thought there was no hope of es- cape. The letter addressed to his wife, in Italian, reads: • "This is the mirth day that we have been down here. That's wkat I think, but our watches stopped. I am writing ie the dark, because we have been eatiere the wax from our safety lamps. also have eaten a plug of tobacco, some bark, and some of ms shoe. "I could only chew it. I am not afraid to die. Oh, holy Virgin, have mercy on me. You know what my property is. We worked for it to- gether, and it is all yours. You have been a good wife. May the holy Virgin guard you. It has been very quiet down here. Good-bye until heaven shall bring us together.:' • Cherry, Ill., Nov. exploring parties in the St. Paul mine to -day found indications which lead them to be- lieve that many living men are still in the east workings. The' searchers at 3 a. art were able, to pass far into the gal- leries, and their hope syringe from the fact that where they expected to find a large number of dead none were seen. Nearly two hundred are still unite. counted for, If men still live imprieoned in the depths of the mine, they are probably too weak to aid in. their own escape. It was nine days ago that the fire occur- red, and for that time any possible sur- vivors have been without food and with t cry little. if any, water. GIVES IN. BUDGET WAR. -- Political Situation in United King- dom Holds Attention, • Unusual Speeches Expected From Rosebery and Halsbury. — London, Nov. 22.—The 'United King- dom is more absorbed in. politics now than for many years and the coming week will see the .culmination of the fierce warfare which lists been carried on over the budget. The House of Lords is expected to vfite on Lord Lansdowne's resolution, calling for the rejection of the budget on Thursday. Before then most of the big guns in the upper house will speak on the question. Lord Rosebery's effort for the Conservatives and that of the Earl of Halsbury fser the Liberals are await- : ed with the most interest. I Probahly the larges.t number of i lerds will 1.) auustered for the vote ' eince the rejection Of home rule. 1 About 450, Many of II410111 practically Iare strangers to Parliament, are likely to be assembled. ananiot more than one quarter of these will support the budget. Most of the politicians pre- dict that when the question goes be- fore the people at the general elec- tions in January, it will be impos- eible to wipe out the groat Liberel majority and that tiee LPseral govern- ment will be returned, but with com- paratively small majority, The bet- ting at Lloyd's is 3 to 1 ;n favor of the Liberals. The uncertainty of thc) country s financial policy is paeelyzing die stock exchange and the possibil;ts that the government -will have W raise a large loan to meet current ex- p.( Lees makes the. money .narket tee uneee sin for °e'er:sive pc:vete enter- prises. Harvester Co, Willing Kansas Should Run Its Business. Topeka.- Kans., Nov. 22, --.The teruational Harvester Co. is willing to allow the State of Kansas to ,,..late its business. In its brief in the Ouster suit filed with the Supreme Court yesterday the company said that the recommendation of the Attorney General for a qualified Ouster is sate iefactory to the company. The quali- fied ouster would preleibit the eom- patty frcm making exclusive contracts and prohibit agents from selling other makes of machinee. The company, however, objects to paying the sixty thotteand dollars charter fee asked by the Attorney General. FEVERISH MARKET. New York, Nov. 22.—NVitil Street •-• The dieturbanee in speculative sentiment dae to the decieion against the- Standard Gil Compeny in the government's Pam caneed feverbh and iriegular moseanant prauee on the etoek market iponitig. s'isetrone eupporting ineaseires initneed pod oetrano5 in A row !Ando, !Mt the theiority of ietnee were lower under free o teringe. "We ftre the midet ef the greatest shake-up in tlin history of the- United Statee' •eustoms tleprittment." says Wit- liam Loeb, hate tedleel or 4)f the port of "s1-ew Yolk. "Vole uniployeect lieve been 4e -eta -evil filen Ow 'New 'rink offiee elle- inele thane( than dining the entire history of the eetvice." ,r9 GRAIN PETITIONS. U. S. Shipping Ring to Control Freight to Australia. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. ‘22.---Tespeeting re- turns thow the grain movement from the west has been far ahead of last year. Trade runt Connuetee reports inspection of 51,246,350 lutehels at Winnipeg to Nev. 7, and of this 40,510;350 was wheat. To the same date lake ports shipments amounted to 20,S06,089. This is about ten million bushels ahead of last year. Canada's eoanmercial agent at Mel- bourne, D. H. Ross, reports to the De. partmentof Trade Slid Commerce that on the first of janortey next heavy freights between Canada, the United States and Australia, pass under the control of the American shipping ring. and that mer- chants are 0 good de7.1 I exercised over the proepects of inereaeed freight rites and consequent interference With buei- ;less. They are hoping for a subsidized Australian -Canadian line to provide regu- feting competition. It will be remem- bered thee a delegation of bneinese recently asked the establishment of a service between M011treal, St. John nud Australian ports. The matter is 1511(101. eonsidera tion. ASTOR'S YACHT. Unconfirmed Report That It Is at San Juan, Porto Rico. Key West, Ma., 'Nov. 22e—The San down, Porto Rico, wireless station .of the Governnient continued communica- tion with the naval wireless station here up to a bite hour this morning, but 110 eonfirmation of the presence of the steam yacht Nourmaltal, with the New millioneire and a party of friends on board, whielt has been missing for some &ye, was boa from San Juan, The operators at the San Juan station con - 'vetoed some time with Key West, and, reported nothing en' the Nourmahal's eival there. The naval wireless men here declare that if the Nourmalial had been at San Juan. the wireless men there stamId have spoken of it. • YOUNG THIEF. Tolonto, Nov. P2.—Alfred Bemiett, fifeceu-year-old boy pleaded guilty thia morning in the police court to .about fifteen tharasee of theft , mostly the peilio ef dentiste, patient 3 of the lat.- ter being hi,. matal vietime. Ife wee sent back to the Vietoria Industrial School. ADDRESSES IN 'TORONTO. Mrs. Pankhurst Tells Her Story to Three Large Audiences, She Says the Cause Continues Advance. . to Why the Militants Pursue Present Campaign. Toronto, Nov, 2a.--"levery one of t•huse -women has in her heart the fixed determination that if .the sacrifice of her life is demanded she is quite willing to Mahe it. We know that this laet. wee - peat we have used, the hunger strike, le a terrible thing for us, but it. is equally. teriible for the Government. If one of theee women slipa throoglt their gingen', and. goes oat into the great beyond, the slow -going Wit's!), voter will Wake np and make it very uncomfortable for tlie Government,' rids was m1)11110111 made ley Airs. Emmeline Panklturst, leader isa the Britisa militant euffragettes, one,: of her addreeses on baturday 011 the latest phase of the figee tor the outran- ebibement of women in the eld, land. A intellectual-lookiug woman, of spienaid voice, and posseseing re- markable power as a speaker she made her audiences understand' how far her followers were prepared to go in the belief that by refusing to take food when imprisoned, they were as- siettng to make their cause a political iseue.. Mrs. Paul:1=st defended, the tactics of the militant suffragettes' on the ground that coustitutional meths ode had either failed or been denied them. Mre, Pankhurst'ai two audiences WOO Widely diSSilllitar 'ill character. At noon she addressed the members of the Canadian Club, while in. tlui howling Alaresey Hall was erowded hy audi- clue practically of wornee. A BUSINESS MOVEAIENT. Speaking the Casmdian Club hmencon, at which the ehair was oc- cupied by Air. George H. 1). Lee, ,President, . she expressed herself as being gratified for an op- portunity to addrees .11 gathering 9f bueinese men, whom. she hoped to con- vinee that woman had gained some ad -- ventage by coming down from the pedes- tal She had formerly occupied. The suf- fragette movement, she' claimed, svas es- sentially a, ubsineas mai, and one which lind. been carefully thought out.- The experience of years had taught them that while men woe willing to come on to this platform and express their sym- pathy with women, they were not wino). to espouse the cause so far as to male it an issue in practical poli- ties. First of till, she desired to dis- abuse the minds of the idea gained through the press that the movement consisted of 0 lot of irresponsible, hysterical women going about le au irreeponeible way, making seenee. wee the way of the press only to re- poit what they eousidered the public wanted, and what would make good copy . At the last, general election, when t he Liberal party WM) going into power after rtoubt twenty years of wandering in the wilderuess, they had gone to that party and told them why :they wanted the franchise. Some be- cause they were- wage-earners, others because. they were professional. women, some as women in the home, ale taxpay- ers, and as persons who, being called upon to obey the law, should have some hand in making the law. As a matter bf fact. a majDlity of the members of the House of Commons were already converted. On several occasions during the last thirty years women's suffrage bills had passed the second reading, but after the last general election they had found themselves no- nearer ttehieving their desire then when they started out. They found that at no stage in the world's history had persons outside the constitution won constiutidnal by constitutional means, Befae the passing of the great reform acts men had not hesitated to take methods of a more or less violent character, -and, therefore, they had decided to adopt men's methods. First. they had to break down 'deo. press boycott, and, secondly, th.4, had to get the ear of the politicians. Pre- vious to the present campaign the dis- cussion of women's suffrage hail been regarded as ,a eight off for the House of Commons. Members sympathized and made humoroos speeches, but such a thine as inciading the question in their election programmes never entered their heads. The suffragettes had succeeded —they would agree with her if they knew anything about old country poli- tics—by their militant methods, Ill a little over three years in forcing this question to the forefront of practical politics. They had broken dowe the press boycott, and its misrepresentations now only gave rise to feelings of holt- nation. The politicianae„especially those ill the Cabinet, did not laugh any more, and in the House of Commons the ques- tion was discussed very seriottsly in- deed. No longer was it a questime to be discussed with cheap sneers and smoke - room jokes. They had tonvineed the man outside that the case for political liberty for women was precisely the same as that for men, and that women were lumen 'beinge theniselveS. Women, being women, and, therefore, unlike man, needed the vote, because the woman's man's duties and man's were different. from the man's point of view. They hoped it always would be, because wo- mite's dutiese and. 'man's weer different. Polities were not what they used to be. No longer did polities mean just geieg out to fight to protect their own nation; but politAes had come right down into the homes of the people, and contented. the birth tuid traimng of little children. Their daughters now had to fight their way in the world as well as their Babas and why should they handienp the weak—at least men gold they wore the weaker—in the battle of life? 'Would hot men feel happier if they knew that those for whom they perham inta not been able to make provasion would have •an equal elneuee with men should they be railed epon to act •the part of Itread-winners? 11: (1,314 to get that equality for half the •eonnatunity that militant methods ' had been adopted, arid not because women like doing siteh *hap. It mem saki that they made themselves ridiculous. That they -did not mind, but they knew that men •did. They had torn away the veil .from the great prophets of the Cabinet, end made the Prime Minister meek out by a now oltitanee with a Itorae- over his head beeauee ha woe 41 1'1461. 1 they entld laugh iholneo!'tts to victory why ;timid they kill people as 'men bad done? Already by their. methode they had git tho iinverinneaW into such le tight corner that she b.lioe- ed the Government Would take the easi- est way out of the diffieulty awl give them tlie vote, The fight was terrible leeause the laughter there wile tragedy. 1Va- men's lives had been hanging in, the hal- twee for the lost six months, but if any of them. Blipped into the greet beyond th,e slow -going Britiela voter would wake up and make things very nueetntortable fur the Government. The Government were realiellig that they (viola not out the movement, and It would be again proved that a few determined people with a righteous cense 1111191 suceeed, TUE MASSEY HALL. MEETING. "IL eeems like onti of the great audiences we am in the Itebit of ad- dressiug at benne," said Mrs, Pankhuret in opening her addrese at Maseey on, Saturday night, Practically every seat 111 filo auditorium wee oeeupted, and as already. Meted, the vast majority of. the gathering was composed of ladies. The chair 'was occupied by Meyer mad at Intervals the band of the Grenadiers gave seleetions. LN TUE PRINCESS TIII•1ATRE. Laet night Mrs. Paulshuret spoke at the Priacessi Theatre at the ease of A.r. J. AI. Willsineon's service. So great w is the desire to hear her that the (Lox had to closed, hang before her address commenced.. Mrs. Pankburst deserib I ki now of' the terrible social conditions existing in Great Britain. and declared that if Nre• men had the inn -while they would' bring to bear a great power_ tor the uplifting of society. , LABOR MEN. Close of the Big Convention in Toronto. Election of Officers—What the Convention Cost. Toronto, Nov. 22. ----With the clasp- ing of toil -hardened halide and the frchn time huntired throats of 'Auld Lang F.i:3 no," the 29th strolutal convention r4 ilie American Federa- tion of Labor canto to a close on Sat- urday after000n, • Front the temper of the meeting it was quite evident that the entire Exe- cutive would be re-elected as an. evi- dence of the convention's appreeia- tion of their leadere'• actions. In no case was a second candidate offered, so that Rh: the ensuing year, as for last, the ofifcers, in additions to Presi- dent Gompers, are:—ist Vice -Presi- dent, James Duncan; 2nd Vice -Presi- dent, • John Mitchell; 3rd Vice -Presi- dent, james O'Connell; 4th Vice - President, 13. A. Hayes; 5th Vice - President, Wm. D. Huber; 6th Vice - President, Joseph F. Valentine; 7th Vice -President, John R. Alpine; 8th Vice -President, Henry 13. Perham; 'Treasurer, John 13. Lennon, and Sec- retary, Frank Morrison. This makes the 28th year of office for President Gompers, twenty -years for Treasurer Lennon, and fourteen years for Sec- retary Morrison, All of the officers were called on' for speeches, and all complied. John Mitchell again de- fended his action in defying the in- junction, and declared a man was a patriot, not a criminal, who stood for the defence of the people's rights against authorities. Balloting took place for the honor of being fraterial delegates to the British and Canadian Trades Con- gresses., As a result Congressman W. B. Wilson, of the Mine Workers' Un- ion, and Capt. Thos. V. O'Connor, of the Longehoremen's Union, will go to Britain, and j. X, Manning, President of the Laundry Workers' Union, will represent the Federation at the Cana- dian Congress. Three cities fought for the honor of being the scene of the next con- ventnon. On a ballot, St. Louis easily carried the honor away from Roches- ter and Atlanta. Even from a financial standpoint the convention is a pretty big thing. Secretary Morrison estimated the salaries and expenses of the three hundred delegates at $60,000 for the two weeks. In addition. there are the salaries of the permanent officers, and large printing bills for each day's proceedings. The city paid the rent of Massey Hall for the two weeks, and provided the desks and enter- taitements, hitt the incidental ex- penses to the convention must have run up into a considerable amoUnt. One Of the last acts of the conven- tion was to place on record that it had learnect during the convention to honor Canada as a land of real liberty. Toronto, Ont.) N-Ov.T.2.—With the close of the convention of the American Feder- ation of Labor eonditions in Toronto ellotbnodiiti‘ovno,rld have assunted their normal President Gompers and the other members of the Executive Council loft for New York yeeterday, only Secretary Morrison and his staff remaining to clear things up. Mr, Morrison will join the other officers in New York to -mor - ow, EMU an important (inference will be held with Judge Parker, the attor»ey for the American Federation of Labor in the fight against the injunction pro. eeedings taken by the Buck Stove Com. peaty, of St, Louis, Ill. It wilt be decided at this conference what action should be taken to obtain the right to appeal to the Supreme Coeut of the United Sta::ee against the judgment of the Court of Appeals. 4.. STANDARD OIL. New York Nov. 22.—Conferenees of officials and leading counsel of the Staudard Oil Company were held here to -day to outline the company's tuition following the adverse,. decision hi the Government's seit rendered Saturday, Thirty days are allowed before the de- me of the eourt takes effect, and with- in that time the form of the appeal which the corporation has announced that it will take to the United. States Supreme Court will have to be. perfected, The voluminous opinion and decree of the 'United States Circuit Court are eret to be digeeted by the attorneys for the eorporation. [QQ0cNews in Brief :00Qopc0000ppocco 00.0.0.6. T. (3.s N. O. Ititilavey earnings continue to she* stibstentiel inereasee; Mr. John MaeViear, e well-known rail- way contractor, of Totoato, ie. (Wad. ske"Wh.y Calladtl?" eampaign has beervinaugarated tlie United. States, Peter Kroeyer, Denmark's. forentost and only world-renowned 'reinter, died yesterday, • The Ontario 'Government has deeide:1 ;stolooaxgp31:101apsriiiitiate. the log eaual at. Leto) The csorner-staleti of the new Dale Pres. byterian Church 1.5113 by the Lieu- tenant-Cluvernor on Saturday. :IL C. ..faeLeinittn, de fa i ng agen u f the ..elx.celsior Life at lialifax, bee Mem in ought beek flout Dover, N. H., to staiLl trift.t)1-11-. Saturday afternooa Win. AL Keno, of Aliteltell, a Normal student of Strat- ford, died hi the plunge bath et the Y. M. V. A. there, Herbert Read, manager of the quarries Stonehaven, N, B., left Moutreal sNizoleVe(rber 3, and has not been heard of. Toronto is asked to assist in prevent- ing au elleged threatened increase in the priee of cement following the recent merger. Murray Green, switch foremen of the 0, N, R., fell in. front of a freight train -and was killed in the yards at Winni- peg yesterday. It is estimated that the earning power of the propoeed copper merger will he between $20,000,400 and $30,- 000,000 limitedly. - Lord Charles Berestord has isseed manifesto at Portsmouth setting forth what he believes to be the defects ia tbe Britaeh navy. The steamer India. owned by the Cal- vin Co„ Lintit.ed, of Kingston, arrived at Port Colborne on Saturday Great anxiety had been felt for her eafety. Air. James E. Defabaugh, of Chicago, editor mid proprietor of the American Lumberman, and a man well known to) 1 Canadians prominent in the industry, is dead. .• At,Swan River, Mau., Ernest Riehards, ettemptine to light a fire with gasp. line, instead° Or coal oil, was terribly burned, and his houee 11118 nearly de- stroyed. A. REUTER DEAD. London. Nov. 22.—Baton George de Reuter, younger isen of tlie late Baronde Reuter, who .fotteded Ileuter's Telegram Comparre, awl a 'brother of the present Baron Ste Bette% iminaging direetee or Reuter's, died to -day, ADMIRAL'S DOWL• • L(1)1(1011, Nos, 2Z—Admiral Sir ES - ward II, Seymour to -day preiented the flegehip Inflexible with a silver beset for it; wertironin to eommettiotate the ttleship's mission in' tatrying the ad- miral's flog to the Hudson -Fulton .tele- bration at New York. • Miss Ellen Murphy, an timed spin- ster, living at 48 Duchess e!treet, •To- routo, WSS 10(1111.1 deed in bed on death heying been due to sytacisiii:tgaftit.e.ixioltittso Ashtou, of Strethcona's Horse, Royal Canudians who' joines1 the old garrison force at NS"'innipeg twentY- four years ago and has been ever since in service, has retired. The seismograph of Mr. Milne, sit nide -Hill House, Newport, lsle of Wight, on Sunday reeorded a severe earthquake apparently in the neighbor- hood of the Caspian See. A ease of hydrophobia is reported on the :farm of Norman Brock, Main road, Adelaide towieship, in which one cow hnd to be killed, while several others my be infected with the disease. Alfred Hastings, an Englishman about 35 years of age, who was employed as porter at the Loney House, Port Stan- ley, was found dead on Saturday on the gravel road near the verandah of the Franklyn House. With gas escaping from the loosened tube' of -a stove in their room, Faunie Freilich, aged 16 years, and his sister Katie, 12 years old, were feund dead by their 'mother in bed at Philadelphia boJthiLosPTItItYyx1oittrt, eadg.ed 5 0, a well-known re. sident of Tecumseh street, London, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. The family were waiting dinner for Mr. Tay- lor, when a neighbor informed them that he was lying dead in the barn. Henry Parliament, now awaiting trial for- an attempt on his own life,, toalay lies .at the point of death in the Whitby jpahiylsliteeisapnsit.al, and the &wee baffles the The famous Hope diamond -did not go down in the wrbek of the Seine at Singa. nom It has been located at Paris in the posseesion of a jeweler named Rose - flan, of 9 Rue Chaueltat. It wee announced at the Ottawa Sal- vation Army headquarters to -day that Gen. Booth had definitely decided to visit Canada during the letter part of February and early in March. T. 'P. O'Connor said to -day that be hed been able to send to Mr. Redmond $20,000., melt 'towards the Nationalist cause, and that between $20,000 and $30,000 had been. pkdged beside. The meeting of the Galt Board of Health diseloacs the fact that the town is in excellent eanitary condition, with only a few eases of contagious diseases existing.' The' population is 9,453. The Chinese Naval Commiseion, head- ed by. Prince Tsaiehtin, brother of the Regent, has arrived in Eugland te study the. question of naval construction, with a view of modernizing the navy of China, The C. W. Lindsay Company, Limited, jetteuld. Orme & Sons, two of the largest piano filen( in Montreal, have merged !aeration, to be known as Lindsay, Lim. their business bite a million -dollar tor - John Rourke, an 'employee of the northern customs concentrators, while workless undet a freight ear at Cobeit yesterday afteruoma, had both legs bad- ly crushed by the unexpected shunting of an engine on the What will probably be the highest fence in Cenada is in course of erection hi Ottawa between a four -storey apart- ment house, built by Dr. Kennedy on El- gin. Street, and the residence of Dr, Eddie, It will be 40 feet high. Guelph has made a sale of debentures at an muisually high rate to the Ontario &entities Compfuly. The rate MIS SileVe 100, being a lump sum of 351,074 for $50,- 000 debenteres for the inst.:Wet:inn of the 1 ec trio dietri Int pla n 1. Conettelo, dosvager Duchees of Alen- ellester, died on Friday at London of heart failure., following nn attaek of neuritis, The Dueltess heel been ill some time front neuritis, but recently eomplieations developed, and she Will 1.418)111(1,14A''Villiam Van Horne, speaking Winuipeg, mid he had come in over Me (low double traek from the heed of the lakes, ,and expected to live to 'come west when there will be four beetles- required. insteed of two, to handle the truffle of the road. Twelety-three months in the Central Prison at Toronto wes the sentence pass- eit Sandwiela on Kraft, .20, yeare old, the 'wan -re following movie- • tin the eharge of lototing three pit - Hee °Rime at the Whitlow statien on M'll;Ct.5750111Ageties arriving at Panama from Nicaragua vomit that more than a thousand persons have been imprisoned in the ponittetiary at the e9apital, Alt- er becamie they evere ,outiptieted-e of die - loyalty or bed- refused 'to centribute ta the war tit*, The friend's of Wm. linele, a Brant- ford coperation offieial, are beeeming 4innued".over his mysterious elleappear- ;taco ou Monday last. A glove belouging to Haele- wee round in the river, and be may be drowned. He Was sixty years old anti of geed habits, The by-law to grant a bonus of twenty thousand ,delliare to the St, Mary'e Western Railway wee voted on by the township, of Illanehard on Priday, and carried by a majority of four, A similar by-law was carried last Mity, hut upon :protest for irregulerity WWI qoaelled, Prance, like England. mkt Gernittlib is having her budget crisis. More than $40,000,000 additional taseetion is ear - lied be the pending budget, the new tuxes beiug principally levied: oo auto- mobiles, toleteco, Wines and inIteritoneee. In the heet mentioned Me there is ell increase of $10,000,09: over lest year. Churged with sectoring hy Wane of worthlese cheque, Nielteles Seluoth was erreeted in Toronto on Saturday night, Seleasth, It is alleged, gave a worthless cheque drawn 911 the Dotnieion $91111 tO Mediand Bros., wholesale gni- 4001:1.8., Maeintyre, who lived alone on the farm of Joha Bray, North 'Yar- mouth, six miles from Thomae was to death in a fire whteli 'rehuced his house to ashes. Whoa neighbers dis- covered the fire it was too late to save McIntyre.. The Royalists et France have issued a nuthifesto announcing their intention eo unite with the Catholics at the coming general election in opposition ta those candidates who were - not in sympathy with the Church's attitude regarding the Public Schools. • A young woodecutter trent Etchemln, Leyte Einar Veilleux, Que., awned only a fortnight ago, was .aceidentally by a paesenger train on the Litereolonial 41110taid. Stlti 4e, ef r llinsn:yer711o,stiell‘glin°11)tl,fifelattneY 'de ySriblit,Ileolire Over fifty woMen were candidates for election to municipal councils at the. recent eleetions 'Ilritnin, and of these only five were suCcessful, One of these five was Mrs. Salter,. wife of Dr, Salter the defeated Socialist can- didate at 'Bermondsey. , The annual examination list of the medieel students in the PaTis hospitals is headed. for the firat thue an record, by a woman, 4.11116. lioninte. ger male vompetitors &greeted the result with cries or "Oonspu.ez le jury," the disturbence lasting for a quarter Of an hour. By the collapse of,, a 'scaffolding at the elant of the Postem Cereal Company at Petroit on Saturday, Edward Festler and Patrick Meehan, two workmen, were thrOWIl tcl the ground, a distance et 25 feet, and seriously injured. Both are at the Hotel Dien, aud will recover. Jefferson Davie, an unmarried loan of Belleville, was charged svith abductin„o girl under fourteen. He took the child and kept her in his room away from her mother for two days. Megistrate Lesson found the charge of abduetion proven awl sentenced Davis to two and a half years in the penitentiary, A freeco representing the Madonna and uhild, flanked by eabits has. been discovered in the Church of Se. Bartholo- mew, on an iehind in the Tiber, near Rouse, dating from the bee:holing csf the ilith century. It is admirably preserved. It is being. carefully uncovered from the, superimposed whitewash. • Two,grips left overnight at the First National Bank, Detroit, and supposed to' contain $17,000 for the ele AL F. Auto- moilbe Company's payroll were to -day found to contain only paviog brieks.• A warrant was issued for the arrest of Chauncey Hammond, former paymaster forlhe firm, who is missing. joseith H. King, known familiarly as "Shad King Joe,' is dead. at his home at Newcastle, Ont. He was 77 yeaes Death WaS due to paralyeis. King hand- led, during his, half century of business, millions of fish, which were shipped to all parts of the United States and Can- ticle. William Watson, the 'poet, 'will sail from England for America •on theLusi- tattle on November 27th. Re is going he sass, to face the storm which, he 'has learned, has been raised against him ai a result of the publication if his poem, "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." By the finding of a jury under Cor- oner Brien, the W., F. & S. Railway is relieved of responsibility for the death of Mrs. Charles- Bartosh, whose life. was -crushed ant beneath the wheels of the suburban ear Republic near Esegx Ont., on Monday night while attempting to cross the track.ahead of the car. George Burns, section foreman on the M. C. R. for 22 years at Montrose has leen held for trial on $3,000 hail, charg- ed with carrying on the payroll the names of men W110 did not work for the company. Burns received the money. excuse is that he had an expense account with the company, and took this way to collect it. . Aftee he had shot mid fatally wound- ed City Marshal Walter Nichols, and VMS in turn shot by Nichol's, Jantief Estes, a negro., was hanged by a mob at Delhi, La., on Saturday night, Nich- ols was attempting to arrest the negro vonasainlynienhorac.harge when shot. Estes Was practically in a dying condition when he DesPatches to Madrid front Toneriffe Say that all the villages in the vicinity of the volceoo whlek appeared ct. few days ego io Las Flores Alountaine have ben evacuated. The eruption, however, low greatly diminielted, and the danger Is 11.015 considered less, in spite of the °peeing of new .craters- which are throw- ing out flame aad cinders. Every fresh election in Germany em- phasizes the wide diseoliteet with the Governmeet. the numicipal elections at Elberfield, Elbling mid Barmen Sat- urday the Soeial Democrats swept the field, In the first named place four So- cial Democrats were elected, This is the first, tinte such en event has occurred in Elberfield, The Soekti Democrats wog despite the united efforts of all the other padies against them. The new Ronnie- Catholic 'Church of the &wed, ITeart, Teterboro, Was blereeed and dedieated on StMday with imposing .eceleslastitet ceremonial, The eere•nony bleising tlie Churth without .end WaS performed by the Right Rev. Bishop O'Connor, mesited by Atost Rev. Melo bishop Mayan, Veto Arehtleacon Casey end the resident elergy. Pontifical high mos wes sung by Most Ilese ArelibiAmp Gauthier, of Xingston• The SerIll WAS preached by Arelibiehop 'eletvan, • 4. .71IST A 111.383. (Loudon Answers.) "Will you take something te. (heeler "With pleasure." The photogreph was taken, end 1.11.e tater paid: "13nt what fil»ut th,14; invitation?" "013. eir, Olt ie jeet a vele two et, mine to gise a natural and intereetet ex- preesion to the fitee." HAMILTON SUFFRAGETTE. row Mary Keegan Talks in New York F,quare. ...•.••••••4 Boasts of Being A Typical English Suffragette, ••••••• . New Yet*, Nov. 22.—The Times to- day says: While the wintry blasts were at their keenest yeeterclay afternoon., 0Mttoiss, AlwharoybKaesegoarnv,eda nt g ine fl of rwi tag; Jan with Mrs, Pankluerst, otood in a sheltered corner of Madison. Square and telked suffragiom to a crowd of men eeffieiently intereated in the cause to bravo the cold, - Mist; Keegan told the ineta that she was a real English suffragette, snore or less a typical one that oho had bee0 prison and that sle did net think any one need be afraid of the suffragette species. Speaking of the present govern- ment in ,England, she said, "The Liber- als aro the most unliberal on the face of the globe. They are getting them- selves very much disliked. ?hey will not remain long in power, and the Conser- vative government will ha've learned something from the previous adminis- tration. "There is not a worse suffragette in England than I," she said, in telling of the English suffragettes. -"Do you know how we came to be can- ed suffragettes? The name Was given us by an English paper as a term of de - Delon, but now it is a name to be proud of and we don't like to be called suf- fragiets. Ind you know what they say is the difference between the suffrag- ist and the suffragette? The suffragxst wants the franchise and tho suffragette is going to get it. "We are only taking a chapter out of the Men's book in what we are doing England, If we had taken the whole book blood would have- been tiled. The governmnet is responsible for. everything that happens. They would not let us do anything and they send us to prison." 1 9 99 SUCCESSFUL ELECTROCUTION Theodore Rizzo Put to Death in Auburn Chair, He Went Quietly to His Doom and Made No Trouble. Auburn, N, Y., Nov. 22.—Theodore Rizzo, who. brutally murdered Theresa Procopio, seven years, and Freddie lotto sine, two and a half years, in a lonely culvert in the city of Utica, on Sunday night, Sept. 12th, was put to death in the eleetne chair in Auburn Prison at 0.15 this morning. The execution woo the thirty.sixth one tty take place in Auburn Prison, and (5118 pronounced br the prison officials as successful. Three shocks were necessary to kill, one of two seconds more thau a full minute and the others of wise than a minute each. The second one was or three seconds' duration and the third one lasted but ten seconds. The electrocution was without an un- toward feature. Rizzo walked calmly into the death chamber, his demeanor about the same as during the trial. He was closely guarded by prison guar& and was acompaaded by Rev. John Rob- otti and Rev. Thomas P. Carroll, Catho- lic priests of the city. Some apprehension was felt that Iti%- 50 might make a scene, but subsequent events proved these fears groundless. Holding the crucifix closely in his hands Rizzo walked to the chair and sat down. While the electrodes were being adjusted and the straps made fast about his body and arms, he looked about the room in a curious manner, There was no sign of fear evidenced and he appeared to be searching for some one whom he might recognize. The first contact was ltdministered at 6.07.20, and was at 1860 volts, seven and one-half and eight amperes. This was held for half a minitte, during which time it was reduced to 200 volts, then it was increased until the full voltage wile, on, when the switch was turned oft at The seeond contact was given at 6.00.30. aud lasted three seconds, while e h E4110SuciPst!tt on at 6.10.50, and Examinations were then made by the physieians and at 6.15 the official pro- nouncement of his death wile made. 4 "4, THE NORTH SEA. British Admiralty's Plan to Shut It In. Tho LOndoli Daily Chronicle of November 8th Di1131141k44 tho follcrwing from "Lloyd% News":—A UM strategic base of the first importance Is to bo created by •tfoo Ailmlr. alts at Soapa Plow, in the Orkney Islande, for the use of the home fleet. Selma Plow is a basin lying Drivels:sang between the islands of Hoy, Warts, South 1201311.161the.7. P0131.0ila. ap..4 Hurray. It is a magnificent harbor, fifteen miles long ,mul eight miles broad. and from it extends sn opening, known as scope Bay, two and a attar -ter Mile.s long and a mile and a half broad at the entrance, A strong base here win effectually prevent a beadle fleet getting into the Atlantic by the Seettish pastime. With the bout° fleet spending Most of its tints at Settee floW, the North Sea will be effectively bottled. Tbe advantages ot Great Britain 05 being able to ()ozonic a pees/lbw oonfliet to the North Sea aro: first, Vre can bring Into Ro- tten the Mtge uUtither of batttethlos not *du- ally of .the firet class which we possess, and Which WOuld be uedlesa for long-distance steaming or fighting; secood, it would be int. , °senile for the enemy to etteelc ciur trade: thirdly, the war would probably over after ono or two pitched battles, instead of draadog itself Out to the groat detriment of trade, exttenso, and lose of lIfe, HARD LUCK. Must Serve Thirty Days for Giving Liquor to Indian W0111411. Bennett, 03eaoateh).--bi the pollee tourt Weley. Mrs, Kate McCarthy vas fined $80 and eetth et 30 dare irt jail for supplying Honor te /Milan Wonittn. The defendant hes several smell ohildren. and Is in woes hestith. The Mattlettrato regretted that hit Odd not titio the hilsband, se he bolloVed lie 'WM LO bionic the woniou wee tiertied trots the court. tinie being refused the pairatitith Alio Was treVer iri court ',Wore. tlie veinal: WM% liberated after telling Whore elle sectired 1110 limier. She boarded with the Nit Canby's. A rinttleet Of McCarthy 10 his eller/en td ter,* Itie Wife% Sentence Wee tensed,