HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-03-23, Page 7FIRST ARMY COVERINfi
THE RUSSIAN RETREAT.
Japanese Batteries Keeping Pace With the Russian
Column on the Right.
linevitch Wires That the• Russian Armies Continue
the Work of Concentration.
Kouropatkin Acknowledges His Dismissal and
Linevitch Ws Acceptance of Ws Appointment.
Gunshu Pass (about 105 miles north wand of the first army, under Gen.
of Mukden), Mach /0.-The'first army," Linevitch.
According to the Novoe Vremya, the
doubling a the track of the Trans-Si-
berian Railway 'has ben finally aban.
cloned, because tbe work woulddim.ganize traffic over the line and because
ib would be very difficult owing to the
scarcity of labor.
which has been covering the retreat of
the Russien forces from the south, is.
withdrawing slowly, checkieg emptier-
atively Tight attacks by the Japanese.
The japariese are conducting a flanking
operation on the right, and from the
Russian column Japanese batteries are
visible keeping, pace a short distance
away. -
The Red Cross detachinents at all of
the intermediate stations to Harbin are
working night and day, operating, ban-
daging and fening the wounded.
The Chinese are leaving Gunshu Pass
for Kirin, and the labor question is
therefore growing critical, though Ch1.
nese receive the unprecedentedly high
wages of 40 to 50 cents a day.
On Saturday, while the correspondent
was proceeding almost with the rear-
guard, he stopped et a Chinese village,
where several natives *came to the com-
manding officer and asked for permis-
sion to accompany the column with their
families, saying the women" feared the
Japenese, who treated. them -worse than
did the Chinese bandits. Praetieally the
entire village accepted the officer's per-
inissien to accompany the rear -guard.
Thu Japanesehave ordered"all Chinese
in Mukden having Russian money to ap-
pear at the police station and exchange
paper and silver moiley for Japanese
notes issued specially for Manchuria.
The mistake was made before the de-
struction of several Russian commissa-
riat depots of issuing spirits to private
soldiers to whom officers had given re-
nisition slips.
Kaiyuan Evacuated.
Tokio, March 19. -Headquarters of the
Japanese armies in the field, reporting
under to-da,y's date, says:
"Our detachment, continuing its ad-
vance north, pursued the enemy to Kai -
yuan (some 20 miles north of Tie Pass).
Kaiynan was exicuated by the enemy
on Saturdar after ho had set fire to the
railroad station."
Occupied Fakoman.
St. Petersburg, March 11-Command-
Lineviteb, in a telegram dated
Saturday, says:
"On March 17 Japanese batteries bom-
barded our divisions in the Valleys of
Tavanpu and Yanpu. The enemy an -
peered near Taotitse (on the railroad
about 22-.ini1es north of Tie Pass), and
their ciValry has occupied Fakoman. Our
armies continue their concentration."
A Severe Action.
Yinkow, Manchuria, March 19. --Itis
reported tb
that e Russian rear -guard' is
fighting a heavy dation in the vicinity
o Kaiyuan, about 20 miles north of Tie
Pass. '
AGAIN CONCENTRATING.
Forces Gathering xoo Miles
North of Tieling.
Tokio, March 10.-e-T1ie Japanese are
pursuing the enemy closely. It is im-
probable that another: stand- will be
made before the Russians' reach Chang-
.chun'150 miles front Tieling.
A afespatalt from Kupantse says the
Nitssians are now concentrated at I.Cung-
ichulung, 100 miles north of Tieling. -
The Russian extreme left was de-
deated itt Kingpan on Marelt 11. The
survivors escaped. into the mountains.
'They are now cut off, and it is feared
Chat most •of them•will starve.
It is officially stated that Russian
frisoners say that Gen. Kouropatkin
pereconallY commanded the fighting be-
fore 'Dialing.
The Kokumin announces that the
Emperor ol Core tsiI1 deeaatch Prince
alichaiekak to Tokio to congratulate
the Mikado upon the victory at Muk-
den.
Experts attribute the Russbu defeat
before Mukden to the weakness of the
defences on the Hun River east of
*Madan, wbieli allowed the Japanese
right wing' to break through and join
__the left wing, uthieh was carrying out
a flanking movement, from the west.
The latter marched 30 miles on
!March 13.,10 mites, on Mareli 7, 20 1111l0S.
on March 8, and 15 miles on Diaveli 0,
'reaching the rear of Mukden. Then it
.41etete1nnent was ilespatchea to cut, off
,the retreating Russians and another to
Ascertain the whereabouts of'. Gen.
Kouropatkin. It was found that the
latter had already gone north, where-
upon preparations ,were immediately
made for the advance against Tieling,
which began March 0. Just as the Jap'
anese were starting the Rarmien gen•
oral reserves, numbering 40,000, alio
bad been rotted to the south, deliver-
ed. a desperate flank attack. A severe
bayonet fight followed. .The struggle
was not decided until it detachment of
the Japanese appeared northeast of
Mukden. The Russians - were totally
enveloped, and were subject to sevete
slaughter. A majority of them surren-
dered. 'The Koktuniii states that Gen.
Kouropatkin was ignorant of the feet
that the Japanese left was rapidly
marching north. Consequently lie mass-
ed not only his reserves, Ina Ills cavalry,
lit the Engem district, expeeting that
the Japanese woeld attack from the
en
mountains. G. Kotiropatkin having,
aioaste& that ho oultt sign peace at
Tokio, the Japanese- generals OM ilia-
appoisted at the failure to capture him
and bring him here.
In it report, nutde .publie bet night,
aba-shril Oyhtut stud the ..1Apanese
right twiny, ureter Kuroki, is proceeding
rapidly abeg the Kiriht road above Tie
Pass,
/6 le tuppased that the -object of this
movement, in tonjunetion with it simi-
lar flanking eperation by 40ktee army on
the west, ie to take It position in the
rear tA the latistian tomtit retreating
toward lberlyin Ana to isolate it.
ROPE 'FOR-kOtillOPATEIN.
'-'---'ported to Ittive Been Given •StiliOrdin-
Russian
DROW. NEI.Leeo GUNS.
Russian Panic at Mukden-Wounded in
Pitiable Plight.
London, March 20. -The Tokio cor-
respondent of the Times says it is be-
lieved that the Russians threw more
than four hundred guns into the' river
at Mukden.
The Times' St. Petersburg corre-
spondent says it private telegram from
Harbin states that sixty surgeons and
150 nurses have to attend surgeons
nearly
70,000 sick and wounded there. Two
surgeons have become insane. Tim
correspondent refers definitely to the
mobilization in the military districts of
Mascow, Odessa .and Warsaw, af if the
order therefor had been issued.
A despatch to the Daily Telegraph
from .Antwerp says the .Russian agent
there was recently ordered to cease
buying. He has now been instructed
to purchase $1,250,000 worth of shrap-
nel and twenty,four field batteries.
Tho • • Moscow corespondent of the
Standard says it is announced that •Gen.
Lineovitch will make a stand at Taoli-•
elm°, where the -.railway crosses thb
Sungari River.
The .Tokio correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says the Russians who re-
treated from the Shingking direction
are in a pitiable plight among the 'Minn -
tains. They are without food, and are
killing and eating their horses. They
are completely enveloped' by -the Jap-
anese. Yaiyen and Kirin will somr be
occupied by the Japanese. The Rus-
sians main retreat is directed towards
Harbin. The Japanese do not intend
to allow them to loiter.
HARD PRESSED.
--
Kuroki on the Heels of the Retreating
Russians. •
Gen. Kuroki's Headquarters in the
Field, March 10, by way of Fusa.n.-
Gen. KurokPs army continues to lead
the japanese force which have now
been engaged . for nine days, in a hard
pursuit, and they have covered a die:
tame' of more than 95 mileS, with fre-
quent fighting. The weather in the
mountains is very cold, with frequent
hard storms. The. brigade in advance
occupied Tie Pass Wednesday night,.
after a brief engagement:
The Russian retreat became more diq-
organized daily after the storm. During
the, first day the Russians buried their
dead, but since then have left •the dead
wherever they fell. Tuesday the Rus-
sians made an attempt at resistance in
entrenchments north of the Hun River,
felt abandoned them after they had beai.
shelled for two hours.
Gen. Karoki's army captured the cat-
ers of the alfth Remmett 'of RifIce. The
colors were inscribed as having been pre-
sented. to the 1 -regiment by the Emperor
in 1834. Most of the captured organiza-
tions succeeded in burning their steed-
ards before surrendering. °A few prison-
ers are secured daily.
11. is reported that during Gen. Kom.o-
patkiide resistance at Tower Hill on the
first day's battle he was slightly wound-
ed by fragments of it 11 -inch shell, which
fell near him.
The Chinese officials receive the Jap -
rules./ generals with soldiers and bannese
at most of the large towns entered.
Everything now seems . to be in
favor of the Japanese. They have it mag-
nificent army, in the -highest spirits,
which is rapidly recuperating from the
effects of the recent brtttle,andwhichis•
fully equipped with everything neces-
sary for Manchurian campaigning, in-
cluding great quantities of supplies, ae-
mandated during the winter, together
with several lines of communication amt.
the best season of the year before -them.
. The gain of the strongest natural
position on the entire railway whereon
much money and labor wns expended
in defences' under Gem Kouropatkin's
persenal direction, without it brtttle,
was hardly expected. The greatly elated
ariny shows how thoroughly batten are
the Russians. All indications point to
a contingence of the retreat of the lat-
ter to Harbin. Before leaving the town
the Russians fired railway buildings and
those supplies which they
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CELEBRATE VICTORY.
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GENERAL LINEVITCH,
Placed in Supreme CoMmand of the Russian Forces at the Front,
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vras almost no pain,. and except for a
him again on February 20. Then there
change had taken place. Ire examined . cEDR/c,,s sToRmy TRip
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hard. sear little remained of the deep, - - - -.' - - - .. • . , /
The point chiefly criticized is the fact I ' 4
tagged, indurated ulcer.
.
that, although five doctors pronounced
the ease one of cancer., no mictoseopleal
examination was made, and therefore
the diagnosis is discredited.
DISMISSED IN DIBGRACA,
Russian Officers in charge " of Saluting:
St. Peto-eburg, 18. -The verdict
of the court-martial whith tried the offa
eers and men of the several batteries of
artillery from one of which it shell was
fired during the blessing of the waters of
the Neva ou January 19, seatteriug mis-
siles in the vicinity of the Imperial pavie •
lion, was announced to -day, .Captaan -
Davidoff and sub -Lieut. Kutzefi of the .-
17th Battery, 1st Regiment Horse .A.r-
tillery of the- Guard, were founa guilty -
of negleet of duty and sentenced to be
dismissed from the army and to impriss•-
onment in it fortress, Davidoff to a year-
end
it half rina Kmaeff to a year and:
five mantle. Sub-Lient. Roth, jun., was •
sentenced to imprisonment for it year
and four months, Lieut, Roth, sen., to
detention in -quarters fdr three months,.
aud two gunners to detention with disci-
, plivary battalions for two years. Lieut..:
a.nd (limner Patrikeff were I
• The court found. there was no connec-
tion on the part of any of those on trial
with a plot to assassinate the Emperor.
esty, I assumed command W -day (March ' THE LAW STEPS IN. ,
17) of all our forces, military and. naval, , -
operating against the Japanese." To Punish Holders of Guessing Contests
A. couple of brief messages. from Kou- for Money Value. -
ropatkin, dated March 10, says: "The
rear -guard of our armies was engar,ed New York, March la -District Attor-
March 15 "On a ridge southeast of be
Pass and near the Village of Pelitzuan.•
At night the rear -guard fell back to it
position at the bond of the Liao River,
near the Village of Kamluitza, without
being pressed by the enemy:
"On March 16 our armies continued
their mareh.
"On- March 15 the Town of Fakoman,
25 miles northeast of Mukden, was oc-
cepiea by Chinese bandits." . •
WRECKS AT PORT ARTHUR,
Few of Russian Ships of Value to the
Japanese.
London, March 19. -The correspondent
of the Times at Port Arthur sends it de-
tailed description of the condition. of the
Russian warships sunk in the harbor. He
says that so far as has yet been ascer-
tained all of there saffered enormous in-
jury, both at tile hands of the Japanese
and the Russians themselves, when or-
ders were given to scuttle the vessels..
Li describing the warships as they lie
sunk at all angles in the harbor, the cor-
respondent says:
"They haidly resemble real Ships, so
twisted and burned are the funnels and
superstructures." •
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LAPOINTE ACUITTED.
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End of a Trial for Wife Murder at
Montreal.
Montreal, March 10. -Mrs. Lapointe, a
it dissolute character; who lived on Mary
Anne street, was found dead in her bed-
room last' December with marks of vio-
lence on her body. The' staircase and
walls of the stairway showed blood
marks and it is supposed that the woman
either fell downstairs or was beaten and
thrown down and then carried back
again. Betause her husband. had been
seen quarkelling with her the day before
Lapointe was arrested and charged with
murder. The Crown endeavored to 'rave
that the blood spots on 'the stairway
and the bruises on the body could not
have come there Unless the. woman had
fallen down. The defence was that the
womanlad been subject to epileptic fits,
and that 'she had also been drinking.
heavily. The trial was concluded yester-
day; and the jury, after the Judge had
charged against the prisoner, brought in
a :verdict of not guilty.
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GET SALMON FROM CANADA.
Will Stock the Rivers and Streams of
France.
New York, March 10. -The Tribune
publishes the .following cable from Paris:
Enormous quattitiea of satinet spawn
from Canada and the United States are.
to be imported by- the French Fish Com-
missiotets. Twenty . thousand dollars
has been annually expended in stocking
the French. rivers with the spawn .01 eal-
mon and of trout,obtained Seotiana
and In the United States. The revival
of salmon in France seC1118 110W. an AS-
fitet. .
11 was only last year that the salmon
supply was -so defieient 'that eight mil-
lion pounds of this much sought. for fish
were purchased dn. Great Britam alone at
an average price- of fifty •ceate a .pound;
To -day there -is such it large quantity
of native French• salmon in the Paris
market, that the retail priee for the best
prime. cats is only sixty cents a pound -'-
a price ten per cent. lower than has been
known here for a quarter of it century.
Great excitement las been caused by
the capture this ayeek of a salmon in the
River Yonne, it •tributary of the Seine,
at a point a hundred miles southwest of
Paris, Strange to say, the sabnon must
have found their way from the Atlantic,
up the passing through Paris and
the innumerable locks and barrage of
the river.
Tokio Statesmen and Officers Attended
- • JAMES LAIDLAW DEAD.
Demonstration.
Tokio,' March 10, -Thirty thousand Former Member for South Wellington in
persous went to Hibiya Pass yesterday Legislature Passes Away.
to etteua exercises conmemorating she
Guelph, Ont., March 10. -Mr. James
Japenese victory of Mukden.
Members of the Cabinet, the elder Laidlaw, ex -M. P. P., died this morning.
Deceased represented South Wellington
statesmen, meny officers of tlx arMY
in the Legislature for many years.
rind navy, and members of the Diet
The late James Laidlaw was born in
were present. Mayor Osaki•reaa a con.
Roxburghshire, Sal:land, in 1822, and
gratulatory telegram to be sent to
Field -Marshal Oyanut on behalf of the come to Canada in 1831. filled the
offices of councillor and reeve of Guelph
municipality, the erowd cheering its ap•
Townsbip and was warden of the Comity
proVa In 1875 he was tempo -
',lent -General Terauchi, Minister of of Welnildfou.
Minis- arv manager of the Goamenment Vann
War, mei Atbuiral Yamamoto,
.and School of ,Agricelture. Ile was first
ter of the Navy, spoke on behalf of t
army nit nary reepeetseely, teeneeif.; returned to the Legislative Assembly at
, the general elections in 1810, and was re -
the people For the support they eno.
elected at the following general election.
given the Government during the war.
Sports in the afternoon and a displey
of fireworks at eight conducted. the
celebration,
BANDED OVER COMMAND.
Neatens Paris .inarried people by an
Itouropatkin Bends Brief Message to the
men:hue/it to the marriage clause in the
Czar. , eivit code, proposed by Paul Herein, and
St. Petersburg, March 18.-A telegram a:bided by the -Committee for the Re -
from Gen. Kouropatkin to Emperor Nieh- form of the Code. Formerly married peo-
olae, dated Mirth 17, says: "In accord- pie were held to owe nuiturd fidelity, eum
mice with the orders of your Majesty, tor, luta assistence, but tow compliea.
reeds ed abr.+ Ira I banded over to Gen. Goes are addea to the already difficult
ate Command. „ isneetteli fo-day the conarated Of the legal obligations by the further demand
"St. Poterslatteg, March. 10. --Ib Stat. land and' tam Item operating against
esd, apparently from it trustworthy the japenese."
Warm., that aa,the -result of tele- Get. Linevitch, re telegram to the
Igraplue cenvereation with •th,6 .Cxer, 'Emperor, under the seem date, says:
Gele Xettrepatkin 11as tfikon the com- "in pursuance of the orders of your Maj -
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TO MAKE LOVE COMPULSORY.
Aniendinent is PropoSed to Marriage
Clause in French Code,
Paris March 10.-A new danger
ney Jerome has brought suits aggregat-
ing $287,000 against the American To.
baceo Company, the Continental To-
bacco Company, the " American. Cigar
Company and •the Floridora Tag Com-
pany,. all subsidiary concerns of the
American Tobacco Company, for alleged
violation of the lottery laws of the
State.The
suits grew out of the guessing
contests organized by the concerns.
About a, year ago the companies of-
fered $142,000 to. those who made the
nearest .guesses to the number of cigars
of certain brands which would be taxed
within a stated period of time by the
:Federal Government. Last year they of-
fered $145,000 to those who made the
nearest guesses of the actual •number
of votes cast for the winner of the last
presidential election. •
According to the section of the penal
code under .which the suit is brought,
even though the prizes offered have been
paid, the company must again pay out
the money to New York county should
the district attorney svin thc suits. -
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. • PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER
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M. C. R. Locomotive jumped Snubbing
Block at Niagara Falls.
•Niagara Falls, Ont., March 19. -An
engine and one car, part of a -train of
fifteen CM'S of dressed beef, plunged. into
the Niagara River gbont 7.3.0 o'clock last
night close to the Canadian end of the
International Bridge. The train was on
the Michigan Central tracks and. was•a
Michigan 'Central train. 11- was op-,
preaching the bridge wben the accidetit
happened. There is a down grade just
before the bridge is reached, and directly
in front of the bridge is a switch leading
to the old 13axter elevator. Whether the
switch was Open or not may not be de-
termined until, a later elate, but it
certain the engine took the side track
and sailed down the hill leading to the
elevator.
Engineer Delaney stuck to Ms post
to the last, thinking to cheek the speed
of -his s engine,. but. when lie saw he
could. not he yelled to his fireman to
jump and then jumped. himself. De-
laney is from St. 'Thomas, and is con-
sidered onc of the most competent men
on the Miebigan Central. Cenauctor
Higgens, of Bridgburg, also jumped afid
• .escaped unhurt. -The engine and one ear
jumped the snubbing- block at. the foot.
of the decline and plunged into. the rivet.
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ALSACE IN BUNDESRATH,
Count Von Buelow Says Views of All
States -Must Fest Be Obtained. •
Berlin, March al. -Count von Bbelow,
speaking in the Reichstag yesterday on
it resolution asking the Government to
give Alsace-Lerraine independent repre-
sentation in the Bundesrath, said they
would- have to seek the views of all the
ConfederateitStates. For the Viceroy of
Alsaae-Lorraine to lmae power to appoint
o representative in Gm Bundesrath would
virutally gat Prussia power in the Bun.
desrath not contemplated. by the consti-
tution.• The. desire of Alsace-Lorraine
to have independent representation show-
ed. the strength of the tic •binding the
; province to the empire.
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NIAGARA POWER FOR WEST.
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Development Plans to be Carried Out
Immediately.
Toronto, aMrch 21. ----The Ontario Elec-
trical Development Company, which has
just let contracts for a new half -million
dollar power house at Niagara Falls, has
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PARADISE AND THE FLOOD
Are of Doubtful Accuracy, Says Dr.
Foote, of johns Hopkiss.
• Balthnore, aid,, March 18. -The Bibli-
cal stories of Paradise and. the . toed
were, said to be of doubtful accuracy by
Dr. 1Theodore Clinton Foote, instructor
in Biblical literature at the Johns Hop-
kins University, during it lecture he de -
layered to -day before the Philological
Asoeiation of the university.
Dr. Foote argues that higher criticism
so "called. will ultimately • render faith
more rational and Hem. The bistorical
value of the stories of Paradise andthe
flood, he does not consider very high, al-
though he regards their maral utility as
very considerable and "quite independ-
ent of their historical accuracy."
"In the same way," he continues, "one
does not demand historical accuracy in
the parables. of Jesus.
"The first result of Biblical research,"
he said, "was the discovery that the first
five books ascribed to Moses, are, in
fact, composite in origin, If this be true
it followe that the traditional view of
verbal inspiration for which there has
never been any valid grounds, must give
way to a truer belief."
WILL KEEP ON SHOVELLING.
Promise of a Dying Man leepeated in a
Will Case at Ottawa.
Ottawa, a.farch 21.--e-aI am going into
the next world, and I will be kept busy
shovelling coal for you and McElroy. I
will go there -ahead. of you, and I will
tnitiamleneit hot for the doctor and Mc-
Elroy. • I will shovel in lots of coal for
The above statement. were said in the
dying .houre of the late John Good,
Marlborough township, .shown in a
case before Judge O'Meara :this morn-
ing to establish the will which was
drawn for the deceased by Dr. Shannon -
house and Mr. Wm. McElroy, Richmond,
the day before his death. The first
statement was given,in evidence by Dr.
Shannothause and the second by an-,
other .witness. .•
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VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.
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Throws Out Burning Lava and Red Hot
' Stones. , •
Naples, „March B. -Mount -Vesuvius
is again in eruption, and is throwing out
burning lova, red hot stones •and a high
column of •smoke, while detonations are
heard at long distances. The eruption it
attributed to an earthquake, which was
felt for eighty miles. . .
Many foreigners have been attracted
by the inagnificent spedtacle, but are un-
able to approach the crater, because of
the - immense quantity of incandescent
matter that is being emitted. . •
A Naples despatch to the .New York
Herald- says: Repeated shocks. of earth-
quake were. felt here to -day (Friday),
and at Avellino and Beeavento, sev-
eral plades the inhabitants fell into a
re-
ported.
.bet no serious damage is re-
.
.. WHERE . IS. THE TERMINAL
That G. T. R. Will ,Have Nearer Than
• the St. Lawrence?.
• London, March 21. -Though designed
Or a speed of seventeen and a halt knots
the new Allan liner Victorian attained
nearly twenty knots at -her trials on the
Clyde yesterday. .At the luncheon on
board, Mr, N. Dunlop, chairman of the
Allan company, said. he believed the
Grand Trunk Railway contemplated. hav-
ing a great terminal point nearer the
ocean that the St. Lawrence. Then the
Canadian route would, be the great wat-
erway to the American continent, with
steamers running at imequalled speed
and safety.
The Victorian V.1- for Liverpool on
Thursday- with 1,300 passengers and
melts for the other side.
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decided: on a very extensive scheme of SECRETARY 0.? STATE HAY ILL,
power development • for the villages, -
towns aint cities of Western Ontario, in Seized With Fit of Weakness as He
addition to the power to be deliv'ered in Boarded the Cretic,
1 oronto.
Worst Voyage of Her Career, the Seas Breaking
120 Feet Higher Than Her Brodge.
The Steamer Spartan With Five of the Crew
Wrecked Off Rhode Island.
Ten Fishing Vessels Driven Ashore in a Storm Last
Night at Highland Light.
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New York, March zo.-More than three and a half days bebina her beat
record tithe for the voyage, the big White Star liner Cedric -came into pert
to -4V after the /nest turbulent voyage of her career. Ft0n1 the outset of
the voyage the Cedric encountered heavy weather. The force of the gales
was terrific, and at times assumed hurricane proportions with trementions
seas. On March 12, with the gale blowing out of the nortlivreet, it long,
heavy, rolling sea, which met a southerly swell, caused a frightful coati,
shin of waters.. Theseas broke more than rao feeter higher than the Cedricte
bridge, and were estimated to be sixty feet high frorn the hollow to the
crest.. Her officers say that although the huge ship rolled and pitched
violently, she behaved splendidly.
The days' runs show the character of the weather.. They were: $06,
222, 213, 177, 144, 108, 282, 385, 397, 06 and 245.
Among the passengers on the Cedric was Jabez White, the Britist
ist, and his manager, Charles W. W. Mitchell. White is matched to fight
jimmy Britt at San Francisco. .Another passenger was Luke Crabtree, a
British dog fancier, who is going to Buffalo to judge the bull dogs' &IOW.
Steamer Spartan Ashore. to the lecal haddock fleet, Were driven
Block Island, R. Mareh 20,- The , ashore on the flats in the harbor lint -
steamer Spartan, ashore on the east side i ing last night and early to -day ware
of the Island, was being battered at 8 I being forced. still further up by the gale
a. in. to -day by it severe northeast storm. I blowing from the northeast. A. large
Five of the crew were still on board. The I icablock passing around. the Truro there
steamer's bulkheads had all been smash- yesterday blocked the harbor eatrapee
ed and there seemed little hope of saving when the wind shifted to the eaoterly
lier as the storm seemed to be increa:s- last night and foreed the fishormea on
the flats. As the vessels all rest ot a
soft bottom it is believed they will come
oovffers.vith little damage as the storm is
lug.
Ten Driven Ashore.
Highland Light, Mass., March 20. -Ten
fishing vessels, most of them belonging
A SHOE FACTORY FIRE;
ENOINE BOILER EXPLODED.
Fifty of the Six Hundred Employees Un-
accounted for.
' Brockton, Mass., March 20. -Within an
hour after the six hundred or inore em-
ployees at the R. B. Grover's Shoe Fac-
tory had begun work to-aay a boiler
blew up in the factory engine room,
wrecking a section of the building and
starting a fire which destroyed the ruins
and spread to other buildings near by.
Owing to the nature of the accident. and
the speed with which the flames seized
upon the section which fell after the ex-
plosion and the excitement, any accurate
estimate of the loss of life was impossi-
ble. It was understood that upwards of
two hundred persons were -at work in the
departments near the boiler room and
the first indications were that hardly
one could have escaped. Later, howevere,
it was learned that about fifty were un-
accounted for, and it was believed that
many of this number might be dead or
injured.
-The factory, it large four -storey wood-
en structure, was in ashes within an
hour. •
The flames. extended to several dwell-
ing houses near by ana to the Dahlburg
block, across the street, front the Gro-
ver faetory. These also were consumed
and other property was damaged. At
10.30 o'clock it was believed that the
fire was under control and the financial
loss was estimated at $200,000.
The boiler which exploded was located
on the g.round floor of an L which ex-
tended from the main building. In the
three storeys of the L were 'located
workrooma. persons living near heard
a dull roar and saw a cloud of smoke
rising, and the L of the factory falling
to the gonna.. Almost immediately
flames burst forth from the ruins of the
boiler room and quickly enveloped the
wreckage of the L. Befoia the hundreds
of persons in the main building had left
it the fire jumped from the L and in a
few minutes the entire structure was it
repring furnace. Most of these, however,
in the main past of the plant succeeded
in escaping, although in the terrible pasde
which followed the explosion quite. a
number were injured.
The Grover factory was situated at the
corner of Main and. Calmar streets, la
the Compello district, about a mile soutit
of the city proper. The district is with-
in the city limits of Brockton. A series
of alarms summoned all the fire appara-
tus in the city to the scene and aid was
also sent from near -by places, mostly
shoe manufacturing towns. The &emit
experienced the greatest difficulty ta
battling with the flames as the Grover
factory was of an extremely Mamma.
ble character. The flames extended to
the Dahlburg block, it four -storey woad.
en building on the opposite corner of the
street and. to a number of other wooden
dwellings half it dozen or mere of which
were dest'royed., The Dahlburg block was
also burned. -
Reports received at Brockton hospital
at 9.40 were to the effect: that 11 were
dead and it score or more injured. Tye
of the injured had reached the hospiila
at that hour.
Twenty-five Bodies Found.
Twenty-five bodies up to 11.30 liad
been taken. from the ruins. Many of
them were so terribly .mutilated Qua
burned as to make identification diffi.
cult if not impossible.
Believe Fifty Perished.
•
At noon City Fire Marshal Boyden ie.
sued it etatement saying that reports
made to him tip to that hour indicate:a
that the number of dead might rear& 50.
Lists of the employes in the differeat
departments of the fectory have been
posted at the fire station and calls have
been sent out for every. person who es-
capea to indicate the fact on the list. In
this way it is hoped a fairly accurate es-
timate of the number of dead may be ob-
tained.
Engineer Detained,
Brockton, Mass., March 20. ---Davit
Rockwell, the engineer in charge of tee
boiler which exploded has been detain-
ed by the police pending an Me -catty,
tion of the accident.
SHOT WIFE AND BABY.
MURDERED HIS SON. .
A Shocking Crime Committed at Mont-, Peculiar Accident in Pritchard Household
Near Reaburn, Man.
real by an Insane Father.
Montreal, March 20. -A terrible mine Portage la Prairie, March 10.-A peen.
liar and distressing accident happened
der was committed here on Saturday,
. not far from the village le worried by
near Reaburn. W. O. Pritchard, living
when William Phelan batterea his son's
skull with d long iron poker as the lat. the presence of -ivolves,,and yesterday
ter lay asleep in bed. The son was ser- tfihreed.wsivnidthowa ogfulhiisathortuse. band Ratilioadrougink
enteen yeara old, and bore samet'name
be let the butt end of the gala fall to
• .1 A dd f't of insanity
the floor rather heavily, -whoa it went
Surveyinseparties will start out imnie- New York, March 18 -Secretory of ,
the chime ping through tbe eisil•
diately to lbeate eoutes for power cables, State Hay, as he was boarding the I is supposed to have induced the awftil .
ionfgf, and striking his wife, shattering her
to Brantford, Paris, Guelph, Galt, Pres- steamship Cacti° to sail for Europe to-- deed. There bad been no estrangement,
left wrist and also the baby's lowev
ton, Berlin, Ayr, and all places requiring day, was seized. with a fit of weakness ' as far as is known, between father and
power in those districts, while Stratford, as he stepped upon the gang plank and son, and nothing but the hallucination
litTiblie injured woman was taken to the
roundiug.these reties will all be given the with his daughter, Mrs. aalllef1 W. of a weak mind can ebitedfi.titnlagmiinulesdsiont.hat -
could have aroused the previously de -
eery to amputate her hand tit the wrist.
London and places in the districts - sur- nearly collapeed. As he was going aboard -
hospital here, where it was found meet:.
power from Niagara. • Secretary WAS seen to tarn- pale, stag- voted father to so dr
The mat and boy lived in comfortable
not much the worse for the adventure.
opportunity in the near future 01 using Wrubworth, jun., and Henry Adams, the
'Shot was taken front the baby., who is
. t. , t . at 42 Dorton street, where'
Ire is three years of ege.
'VIOLET LEAVES A CURE. ger, gasp as if for breath, and he would quartos
have fallen hall not his friends support. the father kept it small grocery. The
ed bite. lb wris taken to a pile of boy's aunt lived with them. About four
Cancer Patient in an English Hospital freight, where sat down until attend- months ago the mother diea rather mid -
1 = I
Claims It Was Effective. ants brought him rt wheel chair, on width denly, and that together svith the dig... BEATEN AND ROBBED.
Finlanders Lose AliTheirWinter Earn -
he was token aboard the Cretie. appoiutinent over it failure to transfer .
New York, March 10. -The Sun pub- The Cretie left her dock with the . some property is suppoged -to have de- -
lishes the following crible from London: Secretes.y stet on Weird, mid as she : ranged the old man's mina. Phelan Ilea Inge Near Fort Prances.
Wiliam (11ordon, it physician in it i)evin• passed Sandy Hook the Cretie displayed been in low spirits, but had not been . Winnipeg, March 10. -Three Finland.
Exeter hospital, reports it .supposed pure a signet saying that Seeretary Ttay was drinkine nor hail he shown any dis o- . ere who had just returnea from the ad*.
for cancer to The laineet, and. 11 hal, much better, s
aroused considerable jublie interest. --es - -
The patient was it limn of 53, who had 'TWENTYPOUR KILLED IN MINE,
been tola by five doctors that he had -
cancer of the tongue. lie refused. to ExPlesiOn Shook reaudatiOns of the Yesterday morning instead. of doing $200 in caeb, watchea, tinge end othee
undergo an operation, and continence(' this, the father shed his son's blood, valuables, and left in it badly bruised
Mountains in West Virginia.
on Xovember 10 to treat himself as fel- and now his in jail on the ebarge of eonditioe. The two men who held there
Iowa: ;•.,it, AV Charlestown, W. Va., March 19. --As =hien After he had committea the:deed UP ar•P supposed to have cseaped over
lie poured it pint of boiling water dyer .the result of the explosion in the Ilush• he went and told his sister what he the river to the alinnteota side.
O handful of violet leaves end: left them 'run and Bed Ash mines near Thurniona luta done, and offered no mom. He - - • • •
LO soak for 24 bears, He dividea the last tight twenty-four men are dead then idaced his face in his hands and
sition timer& violenee. It had been int ter lumber vamps were assaulted witk
custom to wake his son early in order cluba by unknown robbers outside Of
to get him to his place of employment Fort Frances last night. They were re-
itt 1 time lievea of all the winter savings, 80M0
Empress 11./fado Amends,
liquid into two equal parts rata drank in the two mines. Ten of these were set with his elbows on his knees, rock- %alio, March 10. -The earriege of the
ono once, and in the next 24 hours killed in the explosion on Saturday, ing, AS if in great agony. MI wa.4. in tiopmA ran over it six-year.ourbey heiro
used the other. -Hot fomentation:1 were Dela the other fourteen were a resent/114 thet position when the sister Conducted yesterday. Her alejesty alighted eta
eontinuously to the outside of party Who entered the mine to -day. the pollee to where he AAt. When arrest- cor.panied the pollee. who earried the
'
thne
e ek on tho left side for two hours These latter were killtd, by it SOCODtt ed pliclan made no statementboy to the nearest atibulatiee, where ebb
of loving one another. Should the each night. hometimes lie used the plosion and the afterdfunp. The first ex- , sit ci firet aid to Gte ' • d
or husband May eall a genderme to the for/mutations on all night. of the mountains, and the flash from the for the opening et nealeatIoe is halal to
Penn Ste. Merle, Ont. -The probable ante litindlzerehief as a, latedege. Later she
sent toys to the bOy's Woe, and °Tared
! amended clause become ft law, the -wife leaN OR Aq poultice and sometimes kept plosion stetted to shrike the foundation.
arrest her Or his mate whose affeetions The aoctor extunined him on January two neighboring drift months lighted up roreenst, but emu -Wens are abet It will be her own physician to,attend him until be
tire not up to the legal standard. 23 and found that an extthordinarY the heavens fOr mites around. lawn the rivet.
AThere ato Welles ot lee
recover:1.