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sed taxes, that has aroused the
oppiiv(tion of the richer classes. Of
course;e•,they do net want the heavy
taxation, but they fear still mu& what
is to come if the Budget becomes law.
"Take the question of taxation of
undeveloped land for'example. There
is really -very little land in England
that has not been developed as far as
is possible, You may see a waste lot
near a town, but it' stands waste not
• because the owner will ' not improve
it, but because he cannot. You must
remember that our owns aro not like
yours, they do not develop very fast,
and a piece of property may stand idle
simply because the owner finds it im-
possible to dispose of it at anything
like its value."
' ' e•^) ferring to the proposal to tax the
uu trued increment on land, Dr. Pro-
the.i„ said that the answer to the ob-
y eetion than it was unfair to tax the
unearned increment on land and not
on other investments was that a be..
ginning must be made somewhere.
However, he pointed out that, as a
II/tatter of fact, landlords aro often not
the recipient of these unearned. in-
crements for years.
othe • ' beliefthat the 'Ab-
orts
I'x in s is-
b
era ,will be returned next month with'
a co siderable majority, An attempt to
eurtathe veto power of the House of
Lords 'e regards as inevitable.
A.ftei. ,the conclusion of tho bested-
--• c•al ntee ,ing, Dr. Prothero will give
two or t'Lree lectured at Columbia, the
. suiayeelE; l uTtbMh are not yet fixed.
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'ef'a!gday, 1h, peers Ii
st leave the grana
on aa.at, 8, after whiter they are net al-
' ' ea by the conetitution of (heart Pate
erticipate in- electioneering work
as addressing meeting, is cyan! 1'n
•'between Tuesday and that Cede
„sera are booked for hard work, 35
cut addressing 11'3 public meetings
pantos of the country within that
.• tail. 'This unprecedented flood of
n'dly.eloqueuee dues not seem thus far
to have bad any great effect. Lords
Curzon and Milner • have probably done
their cause good service, but in reviewing
the first of the campaign a Unionist
• . paper •is obliged to confess that "weal
the best cause In the world. the Unionists
) • ere lamentably lacking in men who ap-
peal to 'the imaginaleon,'and more e'pe-
ciaily the sensational interest of the
electorate." it adds that voters require
to be interested as well as instrueted,
and it is afraid that they for the most
part are more deeply impressed by. the
'purple patches" of \Ir. Lloyd -George
and the daring inexactitudes of Mr. W'in-
ston Churchill than in the cultiveited',
thoughtful arguments of Lord Carton
d Welter Long.
This is rand )ubtedly true, and the
nionists are now relying chiefly on that
ysterious factor known as the silent
offer. Certainly the noisy Hues who att-
end their meetings give them little en-
•utu•ugement.
Apart, front the budget awl the
-louse of Lora.. New 'York and E.'",'lin
have, perha,ps, been the iuo.t prominent
features in the political fight during 1h:'
past ten days. One wonders what ked
Of idea tine uneophisticated, untravelled
Brit leiter has of Christmas conditions la
these two great cities. Oue set of ueus-
papers refer pityingly to New York'
bread lines and the enormous cost of
every kind of pr(Sinion there. nen,turning to 13111.111., . hese papers draw it
harrowingng
picture
f German workmen
living, on sctls•, black bread, horse sau-
ctiges and dug.'' flesh, while unentplov:
menu is rife throughout the father!:old.
The other papers declare that :1n erica
celebrattes Christmas joyfully. Prices are
high, but money is abundant. Unem-
ployment le rare, awhile Merlin is d1'sriib-
ed ass a paradise for workmen,
FOOD TAXATION.
Lon<lon, Dee. 17. ---(Globe Lettere-
Mr. Chiozza Money, the well-known
political economist and parliaulentarian,
continues his attacks on the tariff
reform programme. IIe holds that, in-
stead of•:eclnentiat.tills:eimpire tithe tariff
reformers are mere likely to break it
'ante pieces. As most of the daily papers
in London are hi the hands of the pro-
tectionists, and the news channels are
largely controlled by thein, the people
of Canada.eand the. 'United States get a
good deal more than their fair share
of tariff reform doctrine.
In view of this it is perhaps advis-
�tble to state the other side briefly as
!seated by Mr. Money. It is within
e memory of all who take intere:t
n public affairs, that' when !Jr. Chit'.
ain started his fight for what he
tariff reform, six'. years ago, he
'ward es the very centre of his
the arrangement of the seiriff
the colonies should haven sub-
.ential preference over foreigners in the
larkets of the motherland. Atthat
ime the bulk of the Conservative party
vas opposed to the taxation of food-
stuffs, and \fr. Chamberlain. in defer•
nee to the free food dement, took the
onnd that if colonial grain were nd-
I1litttsl duty free incl foreign (grain
taxed there would be no material in-
ereacr,of broil.
n the n•ic•broil.i 1
The (ol t• w, Canada (e
x \
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illy. bay-
ing n
advantage } fureign growers.
iwouldspeedily be ably to occupy the
entire market and ctrpeilite of taxed
trheut wanld not be itetrssitry.
414V 1,114,)11 ga ..,1 S4 V,r['; P,14
incideutal protection nfforde
duties on colonial grain, whit
conies in duty free, should pay a
of one shilling a quarter and foieig
grain should pay two shillings a quarter.
Oue of two things must follow. if,
as the protectionists assert, the "sel-
ler," or "foreigner," pays the duty,
then Canadian growers of wheat will
get three cents less per bushel for
their wheat in Britain than they
would were it untaxed. if the con-
sumer pays the (lute, then the cost
of bread to the British workingman
must be increased, not merely by
the amount, of tate duty levied on
colonial out foreignf grain, hitt by
the corresponding and inevitable in -
Melee in the cost of the grain grown in
!Britain,
This argument applies not merely
to Canadian and .en.ustralian wheat,
but it applies also to our cheese, our
butter, our bacon and ottr apples,
upon all of which it is proposed to
place "nominal" duties, heavier rates be-
ing levied on similar imports from be-
yonit the Emrire's borders.
1. FALSE CRY.
Manchester, Dee. 24.--1 find that in
Lancashire rho feeling is quite general
that the colonies are urging the taxa-
tion of food. The tariff reform cry is
"Stand by the colonies, and hold the
Empire together."
This does not make for the popularity
of our products in the North of England.,
which is utterly opposed to food taxes,
and not disposed to hold the Empire to-
gether in that particular way.
The free traders of 111anellester take
the ground that it is slander to say that
the loyalty
of Canada to the I.mpiir.. cle-
ut upon o n the
taxation ofcolonial
1
1
C lighter food tuff•
aatah 1
iter r t
�, rate than foreign
foods, or on any fiscal conditions what-
ever ,
London, Dec 27. -The Earl of Ports-
mouth, in a letter to Sir Robert Hob-
art, Liberal member for the New For-
est Divisiong regretting his inability to
help him in the coming election, says:
On national, rational, and, to use
the jargon of the day, on democratic
grounds, I cannot support the policy of
pandering to the voices of snobbery and
jobbery by maintaining the House of
Lords as a sort of living corpse; a gild-
ed cage for the peers who would wish to
represent their own interests; a corrupt-
ing bait for the party doles of the
wealthy men with democratic professions
on their lips and aristocratic. aspirations
in their hearts, and a fraud upon a na-
tion which would rely upon a Second
Chamber that was a sham.
The Constitutional issue now raised
must be confronted, and I hope with
courage and clearness of vision. Person-
ally I agree with Sir Edward Grey that
threal reform of the Second Chamber
e should be the abolition of tho heredi-
tary principle and the substitution of
the elective principle. I should prefer
to abolish the House of Lords and create
a Second Chamber in an elected senate.
Liberal politics are at present confined,
coerced, and centred in the defence of
financial proposals, which, being inde-
fensible as good finance, are advocated
upon extraneous and incoherent appeals
to political and 'class prejttdices.
1 tun very sorry that I cannot help
you because I cannot conscientiously re-
commend the Budget. It inflicts injus-
tice, but it does not bring its one step
nearer to better wages or more employ-
ment for our people. On the contrary,
by 'Lite capital withheld and the want of
security engendered, it tends to accen-
tuate the grave social evils that now
exist.
PROGRESSIVES COMBINE.
The following Parliamentary candi-
dates have been adopted:
BirkenheadHenry Vivian (Liberal),
sitting member.
West Carmarthen -Win. James Crem-
lyn, barrister, of Manchester. The sit-
ting member, Mr. J. Lloyd Morgan, K.
C., has been opposed only once in twenty
years.
North Down -Thomas Lorimer Cor-
bett (Unionist), sitting member.
Saffron Waldon-Right Hon. J. A.
Pease (Liberal Whip), sitting member.
Leiecstershire (Melton) -H. D. R.
Walker (Liberal), sailing member.
Kci;;•hley--Sir John Brigg (Liberal),
sitting member, Herbert Horner (Inde-
pendent . Labor party candidate) has
withdrawn, Mr. W. M. Acworth is the
Tariff Reform candidate.
North Wilts -Thomas Calley, C. B.
(Unionist).
Swansea, The Labor Association on
Saturday decided to withdraw the candi-
dature of Ald, David Williams ,and to
invite Mr. Ben Tillet to stand as Labor
candidate.
Northwest Durham -The Liberal As-
sociation on Saturday unanimously in-
vited Mr. Atherley Jones, M. P., to
again contest the seat. The Independent
Labor party arntounec they will not con-
test the seat. Mr. James Leadbetter
Knott, shipowner, is the Unionist Tar-
iff Reform eandidate.
heir Hardie was unanimously eel-
cl on Saturday by Merthyr Tidvil by
t
e local Independent Labor party.
• At a meeting of the Gower, Glatllur-
ganshire, Liberal Association, at Swan-
sea, on ,Saturday, called to consider the
advisability of seleeting a candidate, the
general al feeliug was that three -toner -
ed
ed fight, thou d avui
cl.
cnn-
sequence no candidate was selected.
LAND LAW REFORM.
rmndon„d)ee. 27. --The land Law Re-
form Asst!'ciatiotr is the latest body to
passe
form of a
of money bills - Hou
no power either to reject
enacting that in caro of oth
veto shall not extend beyond
sion. Such proposals coining from a 1
House of Comm(nls, in the election of
which the question of the Ilouse of Lords
was tau 1)1•0111ineilt an issue, could nee, it
is thought, be resisted. The power of
the veto once limited, the Government
intent upon its legislative programme,
would, at least for a time, gladly leave
to the House of Lords itself, the initia-
tive as to schemes of reform.
DR. MACNAMARA.
London, Dec. 27. ---There wee a very
large gtttltering of members at the Na.
tianal Liberal Club on Weduesd:ty, to
take part its an "emergency meeting,'
called "Tc) protest against the mice:1st,-
tutionnl taction of the Ilouse of Leeds ie
rejecting the budget,"
7080 1
1• )ort, the 1708010 -
tion.
)tt
- 1 n m. I'iL supported 1
I t Ise tt 1 a
11
n
' tm that rite
tion, He began by pointing out
issue was not only vital -it was eon-
spieuously clear and momentously great
'Vexation had been placed by our prede-
cessors on a democratic basis, on wheel it
seemed to be firmly established The
memories of the struggles by whieh that
was effected were, as the Lards found
Le (heir surprise, green and sacred, 'flu
Lords had been hustled into activity by
the rccklessnese of the Tariff lief )rnitr.
and their advisers were coming to their
',1 :
iL' 1' ` 1(
tc•scue ` fr,tttt_ efforts obscure t i1
by to 0
issue altogether.
They denied that the Lords had killed
the budget -"all they wanted to do was
to ascertain the gracious pleasure of Lb(
people upon i1." As well might the far-
ner's wife take the opinion of the elite):
.ns tae to which particular kind of saucy
they would like to be served up in!
But the workingmen knew the Weise
of Lords, for the last hundred years,
as the stubborn opponents of impute'
liberties and the stubborn defenders of
unpopular prejudices; and in a struggle
between the Lords and the people in
was backing the people.
Parliament had, during the whole of
his experience, been practically under
single Chamber rule, with Mr. Balfour
is dictator. When the Tories were in•
the House of Commons was the single
Chamber; when the Liberals were in it
was the House of Lords. Mr. Austen
Chamberlain complained that Mr. As-'
gnitlt, in bis speecl• at the Albert Hall,
did not mention the navy. Of course
not! Mr. Asquith knew that all is well
under the \Vttite Ensign, enil that the
British navy stands to -day right up to
the level of its own glorious past.
Toryism, Dr. Macnamara went on, had
taken clown and furbished up that cid
piece of stage property, the Monte Rule
Bogey, and he had noticed that when-
ever that made its appearance Toryism
was at its last kick. The Liberal party
meant to confer upon Ireland self-gov-
ernment so far as its own affairs were
concerned -in the iutere.ts of the Em-
pire iteel 1.'
Mr. Italfour's "(t::,c>rulrtivl'" to the bud.
get eotild hardly be eonsidered-•--"not`ody
outside of a Madhouse knows what it is.
end certainly Mr. Bal.four's wannest ad-
mirers will never charge hint with having
done very much to elucidate the mys-
tery." •
Tariff Reform was all things to all
nee -in the agricultural districts a tax
on corn and a fine time .for the farmer;
in the operative districts a cheap loaf
and a tax on foreign -nude agricultural
implements. In Bermondsey it was tax-
ition for the tanning industry; in North-
unpton. for the ,rakers of boots and
shoes. Its Kent it was a duty on Imps:
in London "all beers at tate old pr•i;;es."
. ft was too Gilbertian--ont of place upon
the boards at 1Weetminster or in 811110us
polities. It was a farrago, a hoteh-potch
of economic absurdities.
"The cause of liberty, the mise of
national prosperity, calls you," Dr, 1late-
nantarat concluded. "For the next six
weeks down go your shoulders to the
wheel; or for the next sixty years down
go your necks to the yoke!"
The resolution was then pet to the
meeting, and was carried with enthus-
iasm.
TARIFF REFORM.
Mr. Sydney -Buxton, speaking at
Wocxlbriclge 011 Monday in support of
the candidature of his son, dealing with
the crists, said the issue was simple.
The. position was anomalous, illogical
and cntild not. remain. No settlement
would be satisfaetory tlwt did not give
the Commons absolute authority over
finaner. and prevent the destruction and
mutilation of Liberal measures.
The question of a single Chamber did
not arise. The question was: Limited. or
unlimited veto? This "revolutionary"
budget 1tate1 bad a singularly slight effect
on disturbing trade and finance. While
it was under discussion trade steadily
improved, and unemployment .declined.
What would throw our trade into chaos
was tariff reform.
WOMAN DOCTOR DEAD.
tRochester,
l
Dee.
27.---1i. Sarah
)L
A. Iu11(t aged 71 years tio seeoi
l
woman totale a medieal degree front
r rail American college, cried at her resit -
deuce hero titin morning,
enitseeis
\ex
(Amite' It
While this
self, there was
outlying 'districts,
were numerous. `every
still snowed in and unhe
morning.
Today the Pennsylvania Railroa( re-
ported the resumption of full service oil
it:i blocked lines, while trains on the New
York Central and New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroads were said by
the officials to be moving with little de•
lay.
CUT OFF FOR HOURS.
Pittsburg,PDec, 20.• -after being with-
out railroad communication with any
point east of Iiarrisburg, Pa., and Cum-
berland, Md., for 14, !tours yesterday,
traffic conditions of this district are
slowly readjusting themselves. From 7
o'clock yesterday forenoon until the ar-
rival at 9.45 o'clock last night of it solid
mail train, not a train reached here
from the •east. Following the mail train
"nml<e-up" trains pulled in here with
passengers who were from nine to fifteen
hours late.
All the trains I(
aehl
nr
here this
m
orn-
tR were these (n.aeuP.rains,
awith
passengers who experienced delay east
of Harrisburg and Cumberland. Trains
on the Pennsylvania Railway going west
are from 30 to 40 minutes late. The lo-
cal division of the Lake Erie is not af-
fected byhe storm.
BOSTON'S IHEAVY LOSS.
Boston, Dec. 27. -Five million dollare
loss is to -day's estimate of the havoc
wrought in and around Boston by the
blizzard whieh yesterday swept Nee
England and drove a record tide over
the coast, No fatalities, however, have
been reported except tate four in Chel-
sea, where a tidal wave, bursting through
the dyke along Island End River, flood-
ed eighty acres of homes and forced 2,-
300 people to flee, scantily clad, into the
raging storm. All over New England
wire service companies are trying to re-
store communication. Thirty-two cities
and towns, last night plunged into tate
darkness owing to the cutting off of elec-
tric light service, hope to have their
lighting fairly restored by the night,
)-
' ilii. • n be ec n, )1(>t -
it 'if y ca
t if doubtful
but
1
ed so early.
The sterni was easily the greatest that
New England hes experienced in many
years. •
It is estimated that the damage in
this immediate section will reach at
'least $500,000.
The wort damage was in Chelsea and
Everett, where, it is believed, it will be
several weeks before the tidegat: of the
Island End River (011 In. repaired soul tht
flooded district reelaitned. e'1'his atone
that the roan homeless people will lose
the larger part of their houeehold !;nods.
Their plight to pitiable. Having escaped
through the snow, many of them 1•(u•e-
footed, they had to stand for hours in
the blizzard waiting for wagons to take
tltenm to shelter. hundreds of the home-
less were then taken care of in relief
stations established in public school's and
churches,
TWELVE MEN LOST.
Boston, Dec. 27. --Masses of wreckage,
apparently from the five -masted schoon'i•
Davis Palmer, of Boston, were found on
the beach at !lull to -day, and it ii be-
lieved the vessel struck on one of the
outer ledges of the harbor during yes-
terduy's storm and went to pieces, with
the loss of all on board, a total of
twelve men.
The Palmer was sighted off Cape Coe
nn Saturday, bound into Massachusetts
Ifay,
GREAT
WAVE
4 SEA, T WAVE
A 7
`f • rs, was knocked
d
ious and shorn of her locks
nknown ratan as she was leav-
home for church to -day, tier
s sawed off close to the scalp
razor,
Llzlin was dragged unconscious*
he hallway of her home and lay
:at condition for an hour before
was fouzlcl. Her condition 'is
te,u,s
'o -day's attaek was the third at-
npt, in two weeks to stead Mrs.
liliil s hair. She was stopped on the
street to the previous occasions by
a man. He offered money on • pre-
vious occasions by a man. He of-
fered money for the hair, and the
,,next time unsuccessfully attempted
to., clip. off the fresses with shears.
Driven on New England Coast by
Gale.
Boston, Dec. 26. -Grim winter
swept into New England to -day on
the wings of a northeast storm with
such terrible energy as to cause great
damage, much ineonvenience, not a•
little suffering, and a few deaths.
The gale drove a tide into Mas-
sachusetts l3ay which nearly equalled
that of the famous storm of 1851.
Coming on a full moon the gale roll-
ed a wave along the coast Which in
some places reached a height of over
fourteen feet above low water mark,
In this city the tide went across At-
lantic avenue on the waterfront, fi.al-
ing hundreds of cellars, and causing
an estimated damage of over $100,-
000, in Everett Cornelius Harkin
and his wife were caught in their
beds and overwhelmed by the
Med,
while101 infant lost it life in Ohel-
s
sea under similar circumstances.
•
'WINTER IN NEW i' li,lC
'�YO
RIC,
New York, Dee. 20. -Now "York and
its environs were practically storm+
SLIIIIMD GIRL.
Man Bursts Into Girl's Rcom Over
Saloon and Uses Razor.
Niagara Falls, Dec. 20. -While Mary
Zobeski was asleep in hor room in an
Eleventh street saloon, a man, said
by the police to be Antonio Guglino,
burst into the room and slas'`ed the
sleeping girl in •the face and breast.
Her screams brought help to the door.
The man jumped through the window.
Mary was taken tothe Memorial
al
ata
Iles .
p
After her wounds were
treated her friends took her to 130r
room. Later, fearing that her condi-
tion had become serious, they drove
her back to the hospital.
The police say that Guglino brutally
assaulted the girl last summer and
served three months in the pen for
the attack. His attentions had been
spurned by the girl.
FLOODS IN SPAIN,
One Village Destroyed and Another
Nearly So.
San Sebastian; Spain, Dec. 27.- De-
tails of the damage caused 1',y the dis-
astrous floods last week are pouring into
this city. Only three houses were left
standing in the village of Santa Cris-
tina, and at Lavicilla a church was the
only building able 'to withstand the
storm. The town of Semorra, with a
population of .1,000, was under water
for five days, during which time all
traffic in the streets was conducted by
boats. The village of Villabeza has been
destroyed, and the crops in the Castile
plateau have been ruined. '
BOY SHOT
Rifle Went off When Father Was
Handing It to flim.
St. Catharines, Ont., Dec. 27.-A dis-
tressing shooting accident occurred at
lock 13, Welland Canal, on Friday after-
noon, 18 the result of which Charles
Laney, aged 10 years, is in the hospital
with a fractured skull. The lad was set-
ting, a trap for muskrats on the ice, In
company with his father. The elder Li-
ney called his son's attention to hand
hint a rifle, when the gun was teccidental-
ly discharged. the bullet striking the lad
abort the left or, and breaking the
skull. Dr. J. Ory, who is attending hint,
says he is ht a serious condition.
OVERCOME BY GAS.
London, Ont., Dee. 27.---H. W. Vin-
cent, wife and family, aro all i11 as
result of being overcome with coal
gas in their home. One girl awaken-
ed very sick and she secured help
for the others, who were overcome.
It is expected all will recover.
r0
PRESIDENT ZELAYA.
Mexico City, Dee. 27. -The Mexican
gunboat, Guerrero, with farmer Presi-
dent Zelaya, of Nicaragua, on board,
arrived off Santa Cruz at 8.30 last
night acoording4to a despatoh to the
Associated Press from that port. The
vessel made no attempt to enter the
harbor, but anchored outside.
JEWELRY THIEF.
Chicago, Dee. 27. -Show windows
of two down town jewelry stores were
robbed of watches and other articles
of eivelry yesterday by a man who
broke the plate glass windows with
a paper covered brick. The victims
and estimated amounts of losses are:
Lewy Bros., $4,000; L. Manasse,
$1,000.
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e i lase
'riteGreek Cx
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en 1 ended ire 11, eoiit ero,uis,*, 1;(e 1(1 ult
iv
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1• ';lti• .;rts
oc( between tl
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() '„ -.mad of i
Prime 'llinist<r, ( , , h
Military League, anti r'-1'r•mti!r'Ile tee
tokis,.
upps in Essen, te,
to be delivered within three
ret.
'llieltael Malone, Michael McGraw tine
Ficd atlaii , minters, .•c,.- lnrtnc(1: e'e
treat on Christmas day near Harrison.', Vallf. .
About twenty passengers were hurt in
Lite wreck of the Toronto -Winnipeg ex-
press near Umpteen, but only four are
at all sei•iotLsly hunt,
9.'he Montreal aldermen censured ley
Judge Cannon will try to have the re-
port it•d ak hGen-
etal iusferroteatd etbcresignitotng.e Attorney- \
,Mrs.'la'rancois lioudriault, a L'reuelt-
Canadian. woman,• riving on Parker street,
in the east end f Montreal, was burned
to death on Satui ay morning,
Squire Nugesec for 20 years magis-
trate of Bohm' ,..-1/4;/„ died at London
aged 08. He wee
mo.c^.hy yours
quar-
termaster of the 26t r ,: $5ou
While driving Lome in a covered wag-
on with Christmas gifts for their nine
children, Wm. Posen and his wife were
killed by a traction.car of Hamilton, O.
Tits news has been made public of the
death in Italy of Augustin Sbarretti, fa-
ttoin t'anoaf dttI.fgr. 5barretti Papalal delegate
to
John Miller, of Chatham, aged 12
years, was accidentally shot and killed
by , a companion named Norton while
hunting rabbits in Harwich on Chrstmus
mornng,
Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm w#t.s sentenced
to serve twenty years in prison for kill-
ing her husband, Frank 'Wilhelm, a
well-to-clo real estate operator, last
February.
Miss Mural flicks, the only woman
midi carrier in South Carolina and one
of the three woman so employed in the
Ur.ited States, was struck by a train and
fatally injured.
On Christmas Day the Vienna express
rain into a freight train near Chotzena
Station. Fifteen persons were killed and
28 seriously injured. Many others were
slightly ' hurt.
More than fifty horses were burned
to death and two firemen were overcome
during a fire in a four -storey stable in
East 98th street, New York. The loss
i.3 about $03,000.
Sir Robert W. Perks leaves England
for Canada •early in.the new year to de-
vote his undivided attention to the Geor-
gian Bay Canal. He estimates the' cost
at twenty or thirty million potties.
In attempting to remove a lid from
the range in the Royal Hotel, Port Hope,
kitchen yesterday morning, Mrs. Geo.
Henderson, the cook, -was probably fatal=
ly burned through her apron igniting.
Judge Winchester, of Toronto, would
like to see a ehaege made in the crim-
1nalcode so thatcounty judgesas
will be
empowered to impose a fine on persons
convicted of shoplifting for the first
bine,
regard 1 1,
knmvnttsent
c*ns.s, tvl
n 1v
a.,4
A hem
(lav mo
way at
the Mit
and t
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dn
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A
Brouse
was wa
along t
Pacific R
freight tray
instantly.
Neil Fletcher;
London, a
of1
t
e s
at his ld home a
son, fell down the c
Southwestern Traction
ing room, Saturday event
ing for a car and fractured
the base. IIe died almost ins
Engineer Gunlity is in jail at Va
ver charged with attempting to our
Raymond Miller in the Manitoba Hotel
early on Saturday morning.. The story
is that Miller, with two other men,
Frank Gates and W. W. Poole, were in
a room in the hotel, when Cullity entered
d
andatta(..1
ed Miller withh akiif
knife.
The total public benefactions in the
.Tinted States during the past twelve
months was $141,250,000, an amount just
$40,000,000 greater than any previous
year. The total beenfactions tri the
United States reported in the public
press the last seventeen years add
to no less than $1,000,150,000.
The Italian Minister of Marine has de-
termined that four Dreadnoughts will be
launched in 1911. He has also decided
to build two others at private dock-
yards, thus rendering it possible to
complete three scout vessels at the same
time in Government yards. The estimat-
ed cost of - theeivessels is $50,000,000.
What is believed to have been an at-
tempt to assassipate E. W. Thielecke,
editor of the Bulletin, of•Cairo, I11., was
made, when a shot was fired through
the window of the Bulletin office. The
bullet barely missed the editor's head.
The Bulletin has been aggressive in
charging "graft" against the city police
department.
Cornelius McMahon is in the hospital
at Kingston with some chances of re-
covery from a fractured skull. He was
in the hotel Frontenac on Christmas
forenoon, when he slipped, and in falling
struck his head.
News was brought by the Empress of
India that a tremendous loss bf•iife was
occasioned off Corea and Japan by
severe gales shortly before the liner
sailed. The loss of life was expected to
exceed 2,000.
Because his wife had expressed a de-
sire to go to her parents' (tome to
spend Christmas, James B. Blakeley, a
New Orleans railroad foreman, slant her
and himself dead at their hoose in Al-
giers on Christmas day.
' A despatch to the blorni, om
Shanghai says that as n-
paigu of the Chinese Utoyernm.en -
trol the Thibetaus the Cduncil has deter-
mined to promote the building of a rail-
way from Changtu to Lhassa,
At Coalgttte, Okla., the refusal of Sam-
uel Woods, a railroad engineer, to sat-
isfy his wife's curiosity as to the con-
tents of a Christmas package he had
brought home caused a family quarrel
ou Friday night and•cost Woods his life.
News reached Huntington, W. Va.,
of the fatal shooting of • Samuel
and Freeland Dinges and Frederick Hen-
sen at a Christmas celebration at the
home of Samuel Dinges at Peck's Mills,
Logan coun.
The Manitotyba Attorney -General's De-
partment gained 'a second victory when
the Provincial Supreme Court rejected
the appeal and affirmed the decision of
Chief Justice Siftou that the Calgary &
Edmonton Railway must pay taxes on
their lands.
Prince Phillip, of Saxe -Coburg, has
had a long interview with Emperor
Francis Joseph regarding the coarse he
should pursue in the matter of the debts
of Itis former wife, Princess Louise of
Belgium, which hi Vienna alone amount -
to $3,000,000.
Frederick Remington, the artist, died
at his reentry !tome, at Ridgefield,
Conn., at 9 o'clock Sunday tnortsieg. lie
had been ill only since Tlrtsreday night,
when he was seized with stains which led
to au operation for appendicitis on 'Fri-
day meriting,
• Judge Richter in the Laporte circuit
court ordered the famous "death farm"
of Mrs. Belle Gumless, at Laporte. Ind,.
sole he orderet that
he a tatrluny
b(
,.
rt t rutila tis t
' led.
Tho
farm s(tt 1
acres.
1atwutnate1 ahr .(a; ttt) 1<'.4it11tleiNltI)tel
tet $3,500.
A peeuliatr 'occident happened on the
The generosity of Mr. Joint Ross Rob-
ertson towards the Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto, seems to know no
limitations. His many contributions to
the funds of this worthy institution were
suppleemnted on Saturday by a Christ-
mas box of a cheque for 'ten thousand
dollars, which was the largest amount
received this year.
Residents of Point St. Charles, Que.,
were shocked on Saturday night to hear
that an old woman named Mrs. Lescelles
had been found cold and stiff in front of
the ]rouse where she roomed at -18 Farm
street. The tiagedy is the result of a
drunken family row, which happened on
Christmas Eve in the house of Timothy
Riordan, where she lived.
Salvage operations on the steamer
Ohio, wrecked on the northern coast of
British Columbia, bring out the heroism
of George Eccles, wireless operator, in
stronger colors than ever. )jiver John-
ston reported to the salvage company
that h1 found the rear door of the mail
room ;)roken open, Lying by the stair-
way was George Eccles with a satchel
and three sacks of re;,istered mail.
Probably Eccles met •death in attempt-
ing to save 'Uncle Sam's registered mail.
bl
All
ctlio td1th
ain
i
t
Flour
dens
t1
an
perk
h .; en
3,000, are well fed and clothed, but th
cannot find means whereby to care fit
their increased burden."
ete•s
TWICE A BIGAMIST.
Now He Will Serve Two Years in
the Penitentiary.
A Woodstock despatch: Geo, . Thorn-
ton, a young man whose home is in In-
gersoll, was charged at the police court
to -day with bigamy. He pleaded guilty
andn
was s reused to two yearsin Bin -
e King
-
'sten Penitentiary.
Thornton was tried on the same
charge here four years ago, but was let
go on the condition that he would look
after his second wife. He went to
Flint, Mich., after deserting two little
ones, and married a third wife,
.. On a warrant sworn out by hia s�
and wife hero he was arrested yes
day. His only plea was that women
had led him astray.
After Zelaya's trenches had been
shelled in the battle of Nicaragua they
were taken by assault. In the trenches
were several women, who preferred risk-
ing <leatlt in the conflict to starvation
in camp. These women were armed
with rifles and fought furiously. One of
them was wounded and later brought
ro ,
to the hospital here. A large p ror-
tion of the prisoners would found• to hke
boys under sixteen years of age. They
accepted defeat though it were very
welcome,
henry Stephens, night watchman, who
resides at Kalamazoo, has gone without
sleep continuously for the past 33 years
on account of e blow on the heard, Ever
since he has been a medical entente. Or-
dinary ents anti braises on the body he
dict not feel in the slightest. A few
clays ago Stephens fell and stuck his
bead on the slippery sidewalk, Imme-
diately his eleepless coir(lition became
reversed, and now, it its almost impossi-
ble for hint to remain awake long enough
to eat his ,weals.
• 4..
RIVER HIGH.
Detroit, Dee. 27, -•-At Algonae, 30 utiles
ribose Detroit, the 5t. Clair River rose
all yesterday and at midnight was two
foot beyond the high water mark. '1'hc
sudden rise is said to be due to the for-
mation of an iee jam in the Detroit M-
eer. The government probably will be
,
the
n 'unless . the it
to blast, gt
a:,kcd
git1(
wait,"
reredos.
root Watson'ss brother am
Wilke he
i s insane. Ile is going to Havana to look
after 1)im.
SAL. GIRLS.
Hundred Dome 1 tics Coming to
Canada in Spring.
Tc'ronto, Dee. 27. -Lt. -Col, Ilowell, who is
in charge of the immigration department of
the Salvation Army, stated to -day that, as
a result of the arrangements made with the
Ontario Government, the Atmy had sent four
facile, ever to England to travel through the
Ornish Isles, interview girl's, and select those
hest fitted for household work in the pro-
vineS. Three or four more ladies will 'leave
In a month or two:
The Army expects to send out 100 do-
mestics early in .,te spring.
Tb*e former grant of $10,000 for the year
h,is been. ropeated by the Government, watch
will include the expense of bringing out farm
hands as well as servant girls.
AFTER THEM.
An Attempt to Poiso3 Lord and
Lady Minto.
Calcutta, Dee, 27. --Trite police are in
vestigating the poisoning of five mem-
bers of Viceroy Minto's staff and nine
servants in the viceroy's house, under
the belief that the poisoning resulted
front a terrorist attempt to kill the vice-
roy.
Officially it is announced that it is a
case of ptomaine poisoning, but this is
to allay public fear.
*1 w . . .
DY DEAD.
TORONTO 1,A
Toronto, Ont., Dee. 27. -Mrs. Hester
McKay, widow of John B. McKay, a
well-known grain merchant, and 70 years
a resident of Toronto, is dead, at the age
of 85 years. _
A youth pained (rattvreatt, a log haul-.
er, was killed at the Ritchie eatepssaire'ttl r""tl4
Mattawa, by a falling tree. Ire had step-
pedfar enough
ped. aside, but did not m �
• 1 r
T
r logs. n
relished between two 1 Tim
wee t usli d 1
enol 1<<
foreman started
out on horeebel• with
the, wounded man, but the victim died
n the way,
1