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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-11-24, Page 7SIOESSEL CAN HOLD OUT UNTIL SQUADRON ARRIVES At Port Arthur Next March if He Gets Plenty of Munitions and Stores. The Agreement in Connection With the. Anglo, Russian Convention Practically Settled. Russian Reservists Desert Rather Than Fight and Others Refuse to Go to the Front. London, Nev. 21,—The goat battle which Paris reported waS to occur on tire Sim River at the end of last week did Bet eventuate, There bas been consir- erable skirmishing and artillery exchang- es, and,. ;recording to some reports, 11. Japanese Yeconnaisance of • Putiloff or lame Tree Hill for the purpose of reveia• ing the lins.sian strength them This is said to lieve resulted in slier? fightiog. All the moat trustworthy news shows thast the situation is uncbanged, although the movements which are taking place may. possibly be interpreted as alio ine ginunig of important operations,. • • TOKIO EXPECTS BATTLE. Russian Points Intended to Draw Attack, Jap Tokio, 'Nov. 2M—Increesing activity along the She River seems to indicate the imminence of another great battle. The Russian feints, evidently intended to draw a Japanese attack, are uniform- ly repulsed. . Army headquarters yesterday receiv- ed the following report from Field Marshal (Vanua dated Nov.: la: dawn to -day a detachment of the enemy made an attack near Ilsinglungtun. They were repulsed by us. "Since this morning the enemy in the vicinity of Shakbe Wiled° have indir- ectly bombarded our positions with mor- tars and field pieces.' They have effeet- ed ma damage, ' . • • "A body of the enemy's infantry were discovered at Hsiarnye, and Ifsiaoytintsu. We shelled them, and they fled in eon - fusion to. a neighboriag "The enemy have burned Huanglaeli- etzu and villages to the southeaet on the right bank of the River Hun." a. JAS, TWICE REPULSED. • Believed' That TheirLos Was Several • a Endiation Tillages lifencbutia, Ndiv. Hundred. • 20.—On the night of Noy. 17 four -.com- panies of unmounted volunteers store seut into the Japanese positions. They reached Cbanlinza, where they were mot with heavy rifle fire, and were forced to retire. At 3 o'clock in the morning the Rustic:its' clisitoVered drilmuraof Jae - armee creeping down a hill. • They at- tacked it grove forming part of the Rus- sian ad.vanee position on the.right flank. The Japanese advanced without firiug, and rushed the .grove with hurrahs, but in the .fiseeioathe Are from Om Russian trenthes theyturhed and fled.' After some time the Japanese repeated the At- tach, but again were replsed, After the second attack, the Japanese, breaking into small groups, retired, followed by a well -aimed fire, which continued piail dawn. Near the trenches eighty Japan- ese. cotpaes were -kends- and further 'al- oug •tatiate valley. ere Japanese bodies` tvidich it was'impossible to gather In view of the Japanese fire. Isom Sop- anese were made prisoners, and thirty rifles and a quantity of ammunition abandoned on the field were 'taken by the Russianse ' - '• On the morning of Nov. 18 the Russian betteries bombarded eh:Lanza; where Japanese 'entrenehments" were observed, and an artillety ditgagament took plate with the Japanese batteries. The Rea- sian losses were four killea and two wounded, and, judging from bodies seta; and articles thrown away by them, it •&is supposed the' total loss to the Japans se Was several hundred.' SEAMEN DE...pia BALTIC PLEET. Wild Orgies of Officers Reported Frona Caheat• Lonodon, Nov. 2L—The Repress prints a despatch from its correspondent at Canca, Crete, saying there were horrible scenes there dining - the -stay of Rear - Admiral Voelkersam's division of the Baltic fleet. Many .f the Officals and mon were tontinuously intoxicated. They roamed the streets, insultittg.: and as - seeking the inhabitants. "According to the correspondent, they murdered at least five persons in drunken brawls. About forty seamen deserted their ships. They openly declare tht they lave no confidence in their officers. Most of the vessels comprising the squadron are of an obsolete type,,,Souta of the work- men who Were semploye.d on board of them at Canee, alio they are in bad condition. - i • There -is no confirmatiori of this story 'front any Other source. jAPS RENEW ASSAULT. Oen. Stoessel praises the work of the ambulance and hospital emps, men- tions a numtrer of officers for aistin- gaished bravery, aria concludes; "The Japauese losses were ,enormous. I estimate them at 10,000." japs Use Old Device's. Clrefoo, Nov. 20.—The local Bo$Biaa consul has received from Port Arthur 'a letter describing the use Ina the jure erica° of a peculiar missile, which leeks like a long sausage. The Japan- ese throw it into the trenches, and it bursts, giving off an odor so foul that if it is not throsvu out of the trenches immediately the .oldies faint. The gas is oot fatal in its effect. aassaa, TYPHOID IN THE PORTRESS, Deaths Reported to Average. Ten' a Day, 7 Tokio, Nov. • 20.—A report reeelved front office.' quarters states that in consequence of the blowing up of the Suegshushan fort at Port Arthur last Wednesdty, thd Japanese occupation of the outer embankment became corn- Pif,olnezett,.:0.13' on n Is.'Ireideoaiyv.criNoretfricniiiiti; ettaht:inein.e1. ported blowlug up of the Urlungshan Dysentery and typhoid fever have ap- peared, in the •fortress. It is said that the 'deaths from these diseases average teu daily. It is also stated that there is dissatisfection among Gen. Stoessel's sitbordinates. NEXT ATTACK 011 Port Arthur Will Be a Tremendous Affaira—Nogi RecMving More Men. eine°, Nov. 21, 3 pan.—A Japanese official,' among the latest arrivals from Dalny, states positively that the general attack upon Port Arthur has not been resumed. R,umors to that effect in Dolly have arisen because fresh troops, in - eluding the seventh division, recently landed, are being sent to the front. It •is believed-- that the explosion that took place 011 Nov. 10 occurred in some counter tunneling work. The second explosion, which was beard on Nov. 19, was much heavier, and it is tattorted, upon the best authority, was due to the blowing up of a Russian magazine. • It is expected that the next attack upon Port Arthur will be a tremendous affair. More reinforcements are coming to the 'support • of Gen.• Nogi than these despatched to Field Marshal Oyama. The Japanese are now constructing coast defence forts at Pigeon Bay, which is aceeptea as an indication that they expect to be defending Port Arthur them- selves some dav. • wHA'r THE JAPS DID. Staid' to Have /dined and Occimied a Counterscarp on Rihlung Mountain. Tokio, Nov. 2L—Reliable S011reas re- port that the Japanese mined and occu- pie(1 it counterscarp on Rildiem Moun- tain. A despatch from Tokio early to -day announced that the Japanese, after suc- cessful mining, had occupied it counter - scarp on Sungshit Mountain on Friday, ruv. 18. Rihlung, or Erlilung, Moon - min is caet of Sengshu Mountain. The latter is due north of Port Arthur. Rill - lung Mountain forms .part.of the north- eastern fortifications. • GERMAN STEAMER Captured by Japanese Gunboat While • Tiyingi to Run Blockade. Tokio, Nov. 21.—The navy depart- ment reports the capture of the German Ammer Batelan tvhile attempting to run Port Arthur blockade. The de- parttheot says that at 3 a. in. Nov. 19, a Japanese squadron cruising off Yentao (near Wien 13tty) sighted vessel steaming for Port Arthur. The gun- boat.Tatsuto. pursued. and overtook the steamer at five in the morning. On board the vessel was found a great quantity of winter clothing, blankets, medicine and corned. meats. Her captain said he was bound for New Chwang. The route and cargo of 'the Betel:In were considered to be suspicious and she was taken poe- seesion of and brought to Sasebo. A DENIAL. A High Chilean Government Official De- clares No Vessels Were Sold, New York, Nov. 21.—A Valparaiso, Chile, despatch to the Herald. dated Nov. TwoPorta at Port Arthur Said to Have , 20, says "lo. discussing the published Been Blowsy Up. . despatch front London rolative to the • ' alleged sale of ChiIlan warshito Rm. ment official said to -day : tine news is •alittird. It is unworthy of the slightest .attention. Chile it It small power, con- aidering her strength, .but in respect foe internntional law she (mimics the same as, if 110t a higher level, than some of the greatest world powers. 'It 15 'quite its absurd to believe that Chile ttouln sell battleships to a bellig- erent prnver as to suppose that the tot- ited aitatee would sell some of her ships to Moeda or Japan Because Chile is placca on the Month American contin- ent is no reason to imply that elle is a savage and uncivilized country, just as on the other listed there would he no rena son to immune that ehe was a eivilised ementry heeau,-40 she happened to be lo- catea Ilerope. 'gap:mese diplomatS4 in Europe 'show amazing, ignorance of certain conditions timy ought to know ebout in 'certain Letin-Atherlean nationalities," Shanghitt, NOV. 20.—The Iiipaneze re- slit through Columbia, 'Is highGovern- istutea their furious attack, on Port Ar- thur on ThursdaY: '. It is rtperted• that they occupied underground chambers in important positions 1.1 is uriofficially reported that as a tesult of sappieg operations about Port Atlitsr the japenese blew up the Ex- iting:Alan end thetielinshan forts on Thursday, sToF,ssttiA- suc'dggszs. Reports the Repulse of the laps With greet Slaughter. St, Petersburg, Nov. 20,—Gen. Roes- sel, in tt deal:Bad. to the Emperor, dated Nov, 2, sayer, "I am happy to report to your 'Majes- ty that all the assaults from Oct. 25 to Nov, 2 were repulsed by our heroic troops. "The inost desperate assault °warred iOn Oet. 30, but, thanks to the bayonets of the reserves and the bravery of the volunteer sharpshooters, the. enemy was bwieepulsed at all points. The Japanese —Aid not return to the attack the fia1110 lay,.And left a great number of dead tminterred open the field. - "On Ott. 31 the enemy twice assault- ed, but eftch flare was repulsed at the point a the bayonet and by band gen- tram, Several of our officere and men were wounded, "The epirit of the troops Is eXcellent. It is' diffictilt to establish any distine- ti,on ae regards bravety. All are lierime, bendetrdluent of the fortress con- mingled their outgo mat In (101r0, 0,01 • Iowa Without intermission." lating of Vapor laden with earth SHELLS, THENBAYONETS. Tertifit Nettle Of Japanese Attacle on Ridges. A London cable: Tbe Daily Tele graph's earreopontleet with the japatete ormy before Port Arthur, describing the attack of the Japanese on the east- ern fortified ridges Oemt. 30, says: "The terrific and eontinuous bombarel- ment, night and day, from (ht. 27 to Oet. 30, culminated in wornlerful prac- tice, quite beyond eritillsro. With :appal - lino rapidity countless bunting ;Melte Commander at Port Artful; Roper .1111...m1wwik ted Wounded and in Hospital. • and gleaming, 'with ileshet of fire, the climax being rowelled at 1 o'clock with a tremendous lire of sbrapnel amoss the broken breastworks of the fortresses. Seddenly every ,gun ceased fire, and the Jalionese inftentay rushed out from their parallels ere the bills had ceased reverberating with the thunder of the caneoneale, from seven separate quar- ters, 0,gainst the Itililung, Keekwan, and Panlung fortified ridges Tho at- tack. was simultaneously developed, Wathout a single premontbary feint fully 4,000 ezoops dashed out peR-mell, with fixed barionete, evaving standards end rending the the eir with shouts of nctitaizei l" The correspondent details liow the various Japanese attacks wets checked by the big moats and the terrible Rus- sian fire tvbieli rapidly depleted their ranks, notwithstanding it clever cover- ing fire of Jopauese artillery, and says: "It was most remarkable, even in- credible, but fully substantiating sur- mises of theie ebility to withstand the fire ,of the heaviest Japanese ordnance, how the Russians despite the heavy bombardment, replied from their fort- ress guns, although 1,800 500 -pound Monts Jaul been fired that day, not counting thousands of emeller projec- tiles. It is estimated that the day's botnbattiment coot the Japanese $20,000, representing nearly 20 per cent. of the toted cost since the opening days of the siege in August. "Before half an hour ima elapsed, and after losing Mat mon, the jape -nese abandoned the _attack lagainst the south Iteelewan fort. By 4 o'clock the •Tapanese fire had dhuinished in in- tensity, and the assaults ceased ehortly before sunset, when fire bloke ottt in the new /t0Wil of Port Art hur, and at tight - fall the Japanese opened shrapnel fire on the eastern ridge to cover tut: re- tirement of their isolated assaulters, whose situation was critical between the cast and the south Keekwan forts. The total Japanese easataties exceed 2,090. ".Although the assaults failed in the captawe of the main objective, they ab- solastelv unnousked the eastern Russian positions and their strength.. The cams. ailties are relatively small, for, although seVeri regiments weno engaged, not half the troops issued from the parallels, awing to the abbacies being so skilfully manipukuted, nad finally ceasing with- out supports being utilized. For strength, the Russilen position was ma asaultable, and it would have been ueless to endanger double the force and incur double the casualty list in the same assault. After dusk the Russiaos ' sortied and recovered the ground lost between the east and the south Keekwitn forts. They recovered the P fort ist 10 o'cloe.k in the evening. Gen. Ichinoye gallant- ly restormed the hill, and, despite 250 casuaities, expelled the Russians by sheer dash and courage. Indeed, his personality won the hill for the japen- ese. "After having captured the tape*. lore (covered galleries of the East Keels - wan Fort) the Japanese engaged in a bloody fight in the underground sages, slowly winning the vitals of idie fort Melt by inch, despite the bombs and mountain guns of the Russians de- fending tho casemate& On Nov. 0 the central and front sections of the capon- iers were gained. The work, however, is progressing slowly, owing to the na- ture of the ground." No Attack Yet. Mukden, Nov. 21.—The anticipated general attack by the Jo.panese has not developed yet. The uncertainty of the present situation gives rise to conflict- ing rumors and epeculation regarding future operatiops. Some expect the Jap- anese to attempt a wide flanking.move- ment on Tie Pass and others claim the armies will practically winter in their present positions. The nights aro grow- ing colder and feel is scarcer. • • • "SHUCKS, CHILE, YOB' GO 'WAY." Tried tp Drive Old Negro Mammy Away From Stillman Wedding. New York, Nov. 2a.—W1iile the last preparations were going on in the red - donee of Thomas E. Stillman, the mil- lionaire lawyer, of East Seventy-eighth street, for the wedding of his daughter, Miss Mary E. Stillman, to ltdsvard S. Harkness, it rickety old farm wagon, ea- eupied by it white beired negro mammy, and a wee pickaninny, drawn by a horse whose bones almost broke through its mud colored hide, chattered from Fifth avenue into Seventy-eighth street and halted before the Stillman doorway. Down the stoop and across the side walk an awning luta been erected. Un- derneath a width of soft carpet had been laid. Around, the entrance uniformed policemen and detectives stem" as a guard against curious loiterers. As the strange vehicle drew up be- side the curb the old uegro woman roee to her feet, handea the reins to the lit- tle boy itt her strife aind began to m00% out tbe wrinkles in the gorgeous yelvet gown elle wore. Ali elm patted her finery two policemen darted forward. The first to reireli her said : "Move oti." Then lie inoved forentra toward the horse its if tie would lead it away. 'Ito' les' let dat hawse 'lone, mister," retorted mammy. Befere the copper had time th think the old negress had mettle a kap to the cropet, and grabbed hie you can't stop au here, nty," h said. "Can't stop hyah 2 Wile can't ?" she snorted. "Shucks, chile, you go 'way fullitiiiYLILb" "But"—began the officer. "Now, now," droned the old woman, "doan you reckon I knows what I wants Heli 1" "Tommy," she said to the small boy in the wagon "you take good keer o' dat wagire 1111 grannie come back.' Without more ado, still shooing off the policemen, she marched op the car- peted step e and opened the front door. A liveried servant got in the way here, but his objectious were no more suc- cessful than them of the policemen, "Dean you tisk I knows what I wants?" she repeated. "Pse gwine to see my honey Missy before she gets mar- ried, Pse." The first liveried servant called an- other. The negress shooed both of thein away. About that time Mr. Stillman, hearing the commotion, hurried to the door. "Why, it's Aunt Celia,' he said. "Sure Its, honey,' erred the old wo- man. "I'se des came to de weddins an' dere's a lettle present out der in der wagon fer Missey." The policemen, detectives, butlers and footman retired, defeated, as the lawyer ordered the door opened to the guest— "Celia Johnson, dat's mill name," as she described herself—who was the family servant of the Stillmans for thirty' years ontil the bride's father bought her a farm over jersey way. The present in the wagon was it huge pumpkin. • e a STEAMER OCEAN BURNED. Was:Undergoing Some Repairs. at Port Dalhousie. St. Catharines, Ont., Nov. 22.— With the crew standing idly by, enforced wit- nesses -to the spectacle, the steaaner Ocean .was burned practically to the water's edge' on Muir's ary-dock at Port Dalhousie this afternoon, and only f or the arrival of a fire engine and a hand- ful of men from the 81 Catharines fire department the interior of the hull of the steamer would have been ever more greatly damaged, and the destruction more complete. As it now is, the boat is in ashes from stein to stern down to the gunwale, while down in the fore- castle the damage extends even fur- ther below. The propeller went on the dry-dock o» Tueeday to undergo repairs prior to laying up for the season: Some old planks were being replaced with new ones to -day when the fire broke out about 2 o'clock. The Ocean was insured. There was no cargo aboard. The loss may be estimated. at $25,000. The Ocean was a passenger steamer, 150 feet in length and 24 feet beam. Slie was built in 1872 at Port Dalhousie, a few htindrgd Yards from where she was burned. Of late years she has been owned by the Wentworth Navigation Company, of Toronto. She had been re- newed several times, and hail been en- tirely rebuilt during the past nine years that Capt. Trosvell had sailed her. • WHOLE CREW MISSING. Loss Of the Lumber Barkentine Make- vreli in the Pacific. • vieterla, B. C., Nov. 22.—When the steamer Queen City returned from the west coast points last evening she brought news of the fitst wreck...which has occurred on the coast of this island since the winter storms set in. The vessel lost is the San Francisco harken - tine Makawell, Copt Neilson ,which leaded himber at Tacoma last month and sailed for Mazatlan on October 31, The crew of tho QUeen City learned of quantities of lumber having recently washed ashore, especially at lIesquoit, also ot the stern of a vessel having drifted fri from sea on MO a the islands, which bore evidnece of having lately bore destruction. The Queen City's mail furthermore con- tained a private nieseage frets Clayoquot, which reports that Masao, it Clayoquot In- dian, in searching for wreckage of the island ranch near Lennard Island, came across a lifebuoy marked "Makavell, 11. 13, & Co., San Francisco." The message further States that it is presumed that the buoy belonged to a iumbernaden vessel, as great quanta tios of lumber are strewn along die beach. Reference to shipping papers shwa the barkentine to Wens to Hind, ltolph 8c CO., of San Francisco. As for Capt. Neilson, and his crew, which Would be Composed of not less than a dOzell men, they toilld hardly es- cape aliVe. I SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM PREStDENT ROOSEVELT ON RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA, Detroit, Mieb., Nov. 21.—A Washing- ton special says, President Roosevelt on Saturday gave Eugene N. Foss, of Mass- achusettes, to understand that lie would send a spial Bleating° 1.0 anigresa the latter part of December, touching upon Canadian, reciprocity rola tariff revision. How far he would go in urging that such netion be taken, Mr. llossevelt (151 not specially state, but Mr. Foss gatb- ered front The conversation that the President's intention wan by Ilia 11103. sage, to convert the tatiff "stemlpat- ters" and pave the way for an extra 'seseion of the fifty-fourth tongreee.. Mr. FOSS is the foremost Stepubliean eadvocate in the Bay State of tariff re- vision ancl reciprocity with Canada. 0%14 Four men reachea Newfoundland from Nor- way in a lifeboat. A Port Arthur a:Mara wife fousla with her husband in Male attire. Mr. David Wintermtue, of bfalablde, fell into5 well end broke his neck. Two men wore killed and nine injured in s. r011ision on the Pere Marquette. Dr. William Osier was elected to a stlid- entship at Christ Chtirch, Oxford. T110 Cater% Apicilltural Department 1S. sued 4 crop report dated Novoieber 1. Three persons aro dead ana olio Is dying In New York :OM Inhaling illuminating gas. Further returns from Maekenzie, N. W. T., increase HP. Molt' etoaierity to over 1,100. Anglo-portuguece treaty of arbitration was wand at 'Windsor castle yesterday afternoeu. Mrs. Forsyth Grant was elected President of tile Women's ilisterical Society at Tor, onto. Meriors, liariussworth, of London, HAG., have invested $100,000 in Nowfouudlatal pulp lands. It is stated thrt President Roosevelt will not discuss tariff reform in his annual Inect- rage. Nino Mary meLeen was :het through the ankle at autumn by a small bey recuseeme buuui11u o TWO. Tile National Pounders' Association declar- ed that the lron moulders were controlled Mr radicals. Premier Tisza was pelted with enowhalls by a crowd of Oppopente at Budapest. Mr. R. S. Lake, Conservative, luta been de- clared °looted for Qu'Appelle, N. W. T. Edward Mahood, of Reaboro', foil off his father's house nea fractured his skull. Be wilt probably die. There was an angry discussion in the French. Chamber of Deputies over the coa- duct of magistrates. An interesting mortgage burning ceremony took place at the First Unitarian Church, Toronto, on Sunday. Thomas Heaslop, suspected of having rob- bed the post office at Minto, Man., was taken into custody at Winnipeg. Mr. John 3:tartrate, President of the Bert- ram Engine Works, is ill at his residence. His condition Is causing great anxiety. Schuyler Baird, of Louisville, KY., trans- fer man, is under arrest, clained with taking 320,000 worth of jewelry from the truak of Dr. Samuel H. Holley, ot Lexington, EY. A. poor Galician, working in a aaddle fae- tory at Winnipeg, dropped $90 in bank bills into a straw cutter and cut the bilis to piecee. Mr. C., M. Hays says there is no founds, - Non whatever for the rumor that the G. T. P. had absorbed or Intends to absorb the Can- adian Northern road. Mr, J. H, Rodd has been appointed County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace for the Courty of Essex,. the position vacated by Mr. A. IL Clarice ,who was elected member of Parliament at the recent elections. An agreement has been made for the con- solidation of the elevated railroads in Chi- cago upon a merger, providing that the terms of the unification ma he settled upon. By the explosion of a bomb in the Rue Fernando, Barcelona, Spain, six people were injured, one of them fatally. The commission investigating the Grand Trunk telegraphers' gr1.3vances refused to widen the scope of the inquiry. The Molsons 'Bank has purchased the Cud- dy Falls banking business at A.mherstburg, and will carry on a branch there. At the Horticulturalists' convention In To- ronto a resolution was pasaed calling for amendments to the Agricultural and Arts Act, George Braund was fatally Injured at Mel Clary's foundry in London. An emery wheel burst and fractured his skull, The pay -wagon of Forepaugh & Sells Bros'. circus was robbed of $20,000 at Tarboro'. It 0. Severe' arrests have been made, but no trace of the money has yet been found. A boy named Body, found tied on the rail- waynear Harriston, claims that his father brought him from New York and bound him on the rails, with the object of murdering him. But the story is believed to be a fake. The Minister of Marine has ordered the hiring of a tug in Port Arthur, and another In Fort William, for the purpose of keeping the harbors open, and facilitating the ship- ment of grain to the seaboard. Clement I. Clark is dead and three others are seriously injured as a result of a fire which has destroyed the tar plant of the Denver Gas & Electric Company. The prop- erty loss is estimated at 82.5,000. The British steamship Sieillan Prince, bola Marseilles, Napies and Palermo for New York, with 612 persons aboard, went ashore off Long Island. The steamer lies in an easy P°ahitrire. Tschool boys—Edward Cary, 12 years of aige; George Etyles, 15year of age, and Albert Hawkes, 15 years of age—were drew!): ed at Lynn, Mass. They were skating on tilldinich0, ugS. Thompson, former Governor cif South Carolina and former Assistant Secre- tary of the 'United States Treasury, died in Nevr York, He was born in Charleston, 3, 0.„ in 1830. The coal steamer Philip Mitch, light, on its way from Fairport to Sandusky, Ohio, was burned to the water's edge about eight miles east of Marblehead. The crew of 17 mTenheIrVee r he assavbeeden 110 rainfall of consequence In ICentucky for more than two months, and the entire State is suffering. Wheat sowed weeks ago is lying in the dust ungerminated, and fall pastures long ago shrivelled into c r Si sapt uwr daasyt ss. nominations for the Legislature were Liberals—Peel, John Small; Glengarry, John A. McMillan; North 'York, W. 0. Wid- ditield. Conservatives—West Kent, James Clancy; West victoria, samum Pox; Peel, Samuel Charters; North Dem, Dr. Reaume. Xing Charles and Queen Amelie and many other royal and distinguished personages were the guests of King Edwand and Queen Alexandra at Windsor Saturday night, where a performance of "Monsieur Beauditire," by Lewis Waller and his company, was given Intrheec o renab atlerlioeie o cChtaimeabis,er. Irespeolan5, In for- eign countries, have been urging Pope Pius X, to publish a statement on the subject of the 'non-expedit, "the document issued by Popo Pius IX., forbidding Catholics to vote at Italian elections after the fall of the tem- poral power of the Pontiff, * .• ANCASTER FARMER WINS HIS CASE FROM THE T., H. & B. RAILWAY. Ottawa, Nov. 21.—(Special.)-- The Board of Railway Commissioners has given its dectsion in tbe application of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Rail. way Co. for permission to 2111 111 a trestle bridge crossing on the farm of William Anderson, in. Ancaster township, Went- worth county, and to expropriate certain lands in connection therewith. The rail- way compauy wanted to close up an un- der passageway, which Anderson bad for all time. from the company for fanu purposes. The compaey was going to give him a crossing on the level for it. but he had this right in hie original agreement, as well as the under cross- ing. The engineer • of the commission visited the spot tool reportea agains1. the application. As the grade crossing was not satisittetory, the raihvay company can fili in the trestle, but the unclaimed crossing for the farmer must be retain- ed, and the emnpany will have to pay $75 costs to lam for his costs in the preeent applieation. GOT TWO MEN. Allegel Assailants of Colborne Woman Arrested. Colborne, Ont., Nov. 20.—On Satur- day, Nov. 12, Mrs. Wilkinson, Nolte of the manager of the eleetrie light plant. 1V115 tlaSAUllell. 111 her +1101110 by two me known men. Police Chief Boyd, of Port Hope, was vaned in, and healing that it man nausea Arthur Morrison, en- gaged. at Yeomen's livery stable, had vitited the ratitlence, lie took hint and a companion named Colline to -the Wilkimon Teti -deism Mra. Wilkinson identified. Conine as one of her ants. 0h She also s,save the Chief A ellff but. ton wilie11 one of the men had lost, awl later the 'thief aiscovered it rarretpona- ing button In the shirt Morrison had worn 011 the llight in queatiom WaS arreArsl, Ala 'pleaclea oot guilty. Morrison disappeared, Ind two arreeteil her Ilia morning. 'He .eonie444 the crime, and was talon to Colaourg jail, T 0 R OTITROE EC APRE OTPRL AE filiEDILYLIED Street Car Ran Into a Freight Train at Rail- way Crossing. Thirteen Persons Injured Including an Infant ,That May Die of Its Injuries. Motorman tLost Control and the Scotch Dogs" Failed to Stop it, Toronto,- Nov. 18,--41tree persons—a tstreet, and !tad seemed tr fair headway sarvxllyrucestr,ohitspawarsitri,nggvosinlgAirfreotlia. ;nen awl woman—dead, an infant prob. ably fatally injured, amid thirteen or bagizohreelnnuleii!ileielvtalliecidoutitisiett fourteen people more or less seriously pasaea his store, which. Is ielY hurt. Thie Is the result of an eceideitt feet west of the spot where the 8001011 which took place at the Grand Trunk Mock is. Railway creeeing, Queen street east, shortly before 1 o'clock last night. In some manner, not yet clearly explained, oartebiootaorld. cbartistuvitthhroaulittohuttutowthenotlyvelobpaler just as the lest G. sit It, freight for Montreal was nearing- the croseing, and libout tite eentre and moray tore it Wait smashed to peeps by the heavy east statlea the reetermules vestibule, Into shteds• Aloug the Qireen street part of the Tea 01(108 Of Ole ear awl the front wheels and, water wero dragged, until the engine was :stamped, about 175 to 200 yards from the opot where the collision took place. The crew of the train promptly joined in the work of ream°. The rear wheels, motor and parts of the flooring easel off side of the cat were throsvu. on the south end of itardantailita*Weel board which had been on the meter ear announcing the Fruit, Flotver 45114 Honey Show awed thrown straight aeros,s the railway tracks to the eastern side, The length between where •the accident Imp- pened and where tlie engine was stopped was stresvn. with fragments of Me smashed ear. Tore Car to Shreds, Over the block the ear embed. on to tbe gates, whicli were split bate tuatels- .wo.od, and. then came the awful disas- ter. The coweetclier of the tiontreal :freight -train etruck the street car eogine, with the remit stated. The Dead. Mahaffy, :Minnie, wife of James .A, Mahaffy, 25 Wardell street, fractured base of skull. Stephens, Russell T., 12814 Morse street, aged 20 years, single, fractnred base of skull. McKay, William J.,05 Sackvilie street, married, aged. 29, fractured base of skull . , . Mrs: Malieffy died at twenty minutes past 9 o'clock. Her husband, Mr. James A. Mahaffy, who was at the hospital when she died, was so grief stricken that he could not talk of the occurrence. Mr. Itlabaffy was not with Mrs. Misheffy at the time of the accident. Ile is in the eMplOy of a downtown departmental store. ; Russell T. Stephens died at 8.45. De lived with his sisters at the address given elsewhere, 128% Morse street, aud was in the employ of the Bell Tlepbone Company. Russell was it member of company, Royal Grenadiers, and was returning home from the sham fight. William 3, McKay was the conductor of the motor car, and came to Tortnto from Uxbridge. He leaves a widow bet no children; His wife is in very poor health and was unable to go to the Los - where McKay, for whose Vas Yre.ry no hope was entertained. from She' first, died at about 8 o'clock. He :lad uot been long in the company's employ. A telegram was sent to his mother, who is at present at Stouffyille. The Injured. '4. .A.1 the General Hospital: Robertson, Andrew, aged one sew and throe months, son of air. .Antlraw • Brake Would Not Work. Willis Armstrong- the motorman, is reported to have said that when he sew the gate lcswered he endeayored to but could. not stop the ear. Be tried to turn off the power and pat on -the brake, bat neither lever would. work, and the car mashed through the gate and was struek 'by the team befcire lie had time to think of ianything. else, The ear was swung oround with. its head north, but it Jaid struck the side of the engine with sufficient force to break the coupling and damage the front platform It was, • however, in a condition to be run into the Don 'barns. It was impoasible to examine satisfad- torily the mechanism of the Scotah dog, or block, to see if it toes working right, because the force with which the cax struck it had knocked it flat and broke the sprint,. Ile Street Raahva,y repair ertson 24 Mercer street, left leg cut off gang Jour consiaerable difficulty in re- abootAhe knee; probably fatal. ' mooing the "dog" before traffic could. be Johnston, Thomas, single, 64 Robin- retuned. hips and face, and mats on face end son street,'bad. bruises about the head, aands. George J. Rundle, gatekeeper for the Armstrong, Willis 115 S'ackville G. T. R., had been In the company's em - street, tormerly of CAeden, Ont„ motor- ploy for some time, and is it careful, man, bruised, left leg, hip and back. steady man. He had the signal for tho Sheffer, Wilfrid, 01.3 King street hest, approach from the Don of the fast sprained right knee, fractured rib, scalp freight for Montreal, and promptly put wound. abrasions on face. the gates down. One street car had Moss, Emily, 24 Kew Beacb, single, juat passed a minute or two before the bruises about chest, cuts on forehead, gates went down. In about it couple Campbell, Bella, 5 Wilcox street„ sin- of minutes after it ear came from he gle, abrasions on ilose, forehead, lacer- also approaching at a fair speed. Ile ations on the back of head, bruised saw the street oar rash on, smaell chest. theoug•k the gates, and then tho die - McDonald, Agnes, 25 Wardell street, aster, sprained ankle. Attheir homes: Robertson, Andrew, 24 Mercer etreets Superintendent George C. Jones, of severe cuts and bruises on face„ had the Grand Trunk Railway, arrived at and body. the wreck as the wounded were being Robertson, Mrs,. wife of Andrew P. b- remitted. He made a personal investiga- ertson, severe bruises on body, two tion, and two hours later the fol - gashes on temple and head. lowing official statement was issued: Crombie, W. T., 9 Leuty o.venae, se- ("At 0.25 p.m. train No, 90, trighte 803, vere wounds on head and face, nod Engineer J. Johnston, Conduetor 11. bruised on various parts of "body. aldorton, struck a Toronto Street Rail - Crombie, Mrs., wife of W. T. Cro-alee, way car at the Queen street crossing, severe cuts on head and face, and also completely demolishing the ear and bruises on various parts of the body. damaging the pilot and headlight of Nugent, W. E., Queen street east, cots the engine. All of the passengers abHouotsktilnies,ITeahdo.iims, oe 60 Carlinstreet, blocked. Part of the street car end were injured, and both main lines cut about the head and face. one truck were pushed three hundred T alks With the Injured. feet east af the crossing. The tracks In bed was Thomas Johnston, it mach- were cleared by the Toronto derrick at 8 Mist, who yesterday had been just four .40 p.m. The street car Was com- weeks in Toronto, bavino come from For- ing from the west and ran throueli .- farshire, Scotland. "I landed in this city west crossing gates. From infor the aboot 8 o'clock at night. just four weeks 1 motion obtainable the motorman lost control of his car, which ran over the also," he said, "and at 8 o'clock to -night Scotch Mocks and was derailed before E came to my senses here, having been it ran on the Queen street erossing. unconscious since the mash. I was on As near as can be learned there were the south side of the ear, and did not see the traht approaching. In fact, 1 twenty people in the car." knew nothing of what bad occurred uutil The investigation by the railway they told me of it here.' Johnston came comp:lay will not take place for sev- to Canada on the same boat with Mr. g crab days, and 11 is not probable that and Mrs. Robertson and Miss Bella lany employee itriv be found guilty of Campbell, all of whom were i»jured, negligence in connection with the se - They were together by prearrangemnt cident. Engineer Johnston is consid- having planned to spend the evening at ered to liave handled his engine splen - the home of another Scotch friend. in (Italy in bringing the heavy freight the eaatern part of the city. train to a standstill within a short The hospital authorities declined to distance. Both engineer and conductor allow Willis Armstrong, the motorman, are Toronto men. R. S. Norton, the to be interviewed, saying that bis con- Iv conscitit .etor, lives at 218 Adelaide street dition would not permit of it. l Story Of the Disaster. Mayor Urquhart, as soon as he heard of the accident, hurried to the scene, and was met there by City Engineer Rust and County Crown Attorney Drayton. From the scene of tbe collision his wor- ship went to the hospital to make- in - glary regarding the injured. The Mayor snia he could not make any stetemeut about the accident last night. Coronet Cotton had arranged, he said, for an int quest, and he had asked the Crown At- torney to oee that the most thorough end searebing investwirration was made, Smasbed Through Gates. A Searching Investigation. It is easy enough telling how the ac- cident happened. The difficulty is to explain why it should have liapeened at all. Tim 'reroute llailway officials re- fuse absolutely to give any explanation of the causes leading rip to the disaster, although ready snough to give such in- formation as they possess about the kill- ed and injured. The Grand Trunk main line to Montreal crosses Queen street east, running in a north-easter- ly direction. lime is it watchman on duty at the crossing night and. day. In additton to the gates, there is an auto- 1 NEW IRISH CIIISTS. matie flange on the street ear tracks, known as a "Scoteh block," or "Scotch dog," plecea about fifteen or twenty feet twat of the gates. This "dog' auto- matiealiy rises to it height of four or five belies as the gittes go -down, so that the "dog' sbotild effectively stop it ear going slowly. . About 0.30 Met night the Montreal fast freigbt arniti drew past the old Don station, nua at'almost.0.34 it was with- in a hundred yards of tbe street rail- way creasing, wide' is inenedietely Beath of Queen street east railway 015t1011. T130 gates were dowu ami the slog or Mock op. At the time llientiOned, ear 642 with a trailer opproaclid 'at a rapia rete. The motor tar was in eliarge of Motorman Willie Annetrong, who Ma been with Um Toronto Railway Co, only it Atria time, and Cooauctor W. ;ft Mei Kay, who liztd been in the aerviee elmt eleven mouthe. The trailer was in the /Marge of Coluluetor C. E. tossing. Ova ing to the feet that it Waft .fl, (IMO were few igisseugere in the Iwo oars, in fort none in the trailer. The meimity et the paesents,ers were return- ing from the 511:1111 fight. and it few were going to see friends in the eastern end of the city..T s e touv et on In the 80-ca1le4 Dillon and Sexton Threaten to town yohn Reartorld. Landoll. Nov. 22.—"the Irish National- ist, party is on the verge of a aerione 211111.within its own. renke. Unless some onticable Arrangement can gutekly be arrived. at Messrs. Dillon eta Sextam, with their personal following, tall ses ceile front the leadership of John Red- mond, In tails eve•nt, Mr. Redmond will have the aggreseive support of Wm. O'Brien, over whom n dispute has arisen. In recent speeelmo lit Irehtud Mr. nett - mewl is held to have ope.nly sided with Mr. O'Brien rogording the differenetie of opinion tsideli lutve long existed be- tween Mr. O'Brien aria 15aDilloh-Sesa ton -Devitt faction. ntotent innate' oriels is the rei milt of the gradually increasing diffi- may over ithe aetioo instigatea by lir. ° Trion nM tarried: ont by Mr, mend in 'their femora ;kohl putchase 'conference witli the Isiah 1511(1531(12,ttenty b101druM, torttlerlY United tatet iturvegor, of Partunid, Oregon-, hes been found guilty of forgery on twerity.ene counts by a jury in the United- State:: District Codes.. Tho oar had boon stopped at Lewis sand tame esats now molt,