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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-05-18, Page 2scr imd ocool. 11N111PliaNa.TIONAete lealteSON NO. IX MAN 2Salfe. '1be Cruclaxione-John le: 1740. Oortuneitary.-I. The journey to Cal - Vary (v. 17). 17. Bearing Ills cross -M1 the preparations beetle.. been made, the ead proceeeion 8tarto4.-- In advance wee a solther earryiug t board on which was evrItten the nature of the crime. Then mile faux so1dier:4, under a centurion with the hammet. and nails, gam -ding Jesus, 'who bore, as always in such caties, the cross on eehich He was to suffer. Then came two robbers,each bearing hie cross and guardea by four soldiers. A4 they went forth into the streets they were followed by a great multitude -- malty with eager curioeity, priests exults Ing over their enemies, Jeeus' mother, watt other women, weeping. -Lange. 011 the way to the place of crucifixion it ie evident that Jesns became exhausted, because of what lle had undergone d.ur- Ina, the aight, and sank under the weight of His cross, which Ile was carrying. The soldiers then compelled a man. from Al- rica, Simon ot Cyrene, who was coming into. the city, to assiet Jesus. Went forth -Ile now goes "even unto death" (Phil. ii. 8). A skull -ea bold, round, skull -Ilk.° hillock, probably the ordinary spot for executione.-Grove. Golgotha -Golgotha is the Ifebrew word and Calvary the Latin word for the st.me meaning. It was without the gate (Heb. alit. 12). Christ died as a sin -offering, and sin -of- ferings were burnt "without, the camp." IL The crucifixion (v. la). 18. They crucified Him -It was nine o'clock in the morning, the hour ot the usual morning sacrifice of which Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the great Antitype. Jesus was rrobably nailed to the cross before it vas raised. "The cross was not so lofty and large vs in most mediaeval pictures. 'The fete or the sufferer were only a foot I --ye the grotin.;-1.1 (et of -mate weight, as showing that Jeeas suffered in the midst of His persecutors, and not looking down from above their heads." - Schaff. It was at this time that they offered Christ "wine mingled with myrrh" with a view to producing stupe- faction. Ile tasted it but refused to drink, as it would obscure the clearness of His faculties (Matt. xxviia 34). Two other with Him -The two thieves chei- fied with Him may hare belonged to the band with Barrabas. They evidently knew something about. Clarist. One neooked, the other prayed. III. The title of the cross (vs. 19-22). 19. Pilote wrote a title -"It was the common custom to affix a label to the cross giving a statement of the crime for which the person suffered.' In Dile case Pilate himself attended to the title. King of the Jews -Although written by a wicked Roman ruler, probably as an expression of contempt for the Jews if not for Jesus, yet it told the exact truth -Jesus was -the King of Kings." 20. Written in Hebrew -For the Jews. Greek -For the foreigners and visitors. Latin -For the Romans. "Power, cul- ture and piety in their noblest forms pay homage at the feet of Jesus." 21. Then said -The chief priests felt that they and their nation were being insulted. by the Roman governor. But that he said -But Jesus never said this in the sense in which they here accuse him (see chap. xviii. 33-37). "They thought this would shift the guilt, making it appear that Jesus was crucified for usurping a title to which he legally had no claim." - Ryle, 22. What I have written -"I will not alter what I have written." The kto- man laws forbade the sentence to be al- tered when once pronounced. W. Christ's garments divided (vs. 23, 24). 23. The soldiers -They were Romans, four in number. They probably knew nothing about Jesus and were acting; merely as executioners. Took His gar- ments-Tbe clothes of executed crim- inals were the perequisites of the soldiers on duty. -Cam. Bib . His garments con- sisted of His tunic, outer robe, head- dress, girdle, sandals, coat -The tunic or undergarment. It reached from the neck to the feet, witout seam-Josephus tells us that the tunic of•the high priest was seamless, while in other cases this garment was usually made of two pieces connected at the shoulder by clasps. - Hurlbut. 24. Rend -Which would, of course, ruin the garment. Cast lots -"Gambling was a favorite pastime of Roman sot diers." The scripture -the scripture re- ferred to is Psalm xxii. 18. This is one of the seven Messianic Psalms. Fulfilled What the soldiers did was of their own free will, but in doing what they did they unconsciously fulfilled the Sone. tures. "God does not control free but he uses it."-Peloubet. During the forenoon, from nine o'clock till noon, the crowd which gathered and the rulers derided Him, the soldiers mocked him, and one of the robbers cru- cified with Him railed on Him. But toward noon, while the crowd was mock- ing, the other robber asked for and re- ceived pardon, and tNaS premised an im. metilate eatrapce into Paradise. There were seven sayinge of Christ spoken from the cross. Ilis first saying was a prayer for His enemies (Luke xxiii. 31). His second saying was spoken to the dy- big malefactor at Ilis side (Luke xxiii. 43). V. Jesus provides for His mother (vs, 25-27). 25. His mother -it is generally sup posed that she was a widow at this time. She was there watching her Son and suf. tering with Him. Mother's sister, ete.- It is uncertain whether there are three or .four women referred to here. 11 this clause is in apposition to "Mary the wife 'of Celopluts," there are only three, it not, there are four; and the Greek, like the English, leaves us in doubt. 11 four women are intended then "His mother' sister" must refer to Salome, the wife ol Zebedee ami mother of John ,the author of this gospel. This would niake John s first cousin of Jesus. Wife of Cleophas also Alphaeus (Matt. x. 3); not the same as the "Cleopas" of Luke xxiv. 18. Ills Mary was the mother of dames the Iess and Josee (Mark xv. 40). Mary Magdalene -A woman of letagdalas She was the first. to see Jesus after His res- urrection. 26. Saw Ills mother -He saw and re- cognized His mother and arranged for her future. Disciple....He Ioved-This was John, the author of this Gospel. Woman -This was a customary form of net:tress, and wets not epoken with any lack of love. Thy son-Aceept from iiim elle, care and ptoteetion that a renther assishi rrioet from a son. 27. Illy Mother Their eympathy in their common loss is to be their bond of love for out another. ---Whedon. Title wee Christ's third sayine from the erose. His own benne-Mane stippose that John had a home in Je1t. ealeM, but this is uncertain. Tradition says that John tared for her twelve years, and that be refused to leave aerie ealem While the mother of Jesus lived. This may or may not be, true. VL The closing seam (Vs. 2840)- gg. After this -From the sisth hour (noonl there was darkenss over all the land mi. til the ninth hour (three o'clock). To ward tho dose of the darkness Jesus ut• tered Itis fourth saying from the crass: "My Gettony God, why bast 'Thou for. &Ikea Ma(MOM. vii. 40). All things , UNDRE ....accomplittlied-Ite hail the full coas eerousnees that His work, was completed, that the propltetie words were fulfilled, , and that tie had now only to surrender ills spirit to God the Vather..---Ituribut. ifulfilled-"Voentect thie clause, not with 'I thirst,' but with the first part of the TORNiftwa verse." -All that the Seripturee had told had. haa been accomplished. I thirst --'Hie fifth utterance from the cross, An- other evidence of Ills humanity. Vinegar -our wine, which we 04 Ma was tile common tirinle of the Rona Town of Snyder Swept an soldiers. Hyssoe-The sponge was ketened on a hyseop. stalk. a0. Received the vmegar---Tbe first drink of vinegar and. gall Jesus refusea, Int this; ununxed with any drug, was accepted. It is finished -The sixth say- ing from the cross. This is one word in the Greek aud has been referred to as. the greatest single word ever uttered. The work which Christ had come to do was now complete.. immediately after- ward came the seventh and last utter- ance, "Father, into Thy hands 1 commena my spirit!" Gave up the ghost -"He dis- missed His spirit." Ile gave up His own 1. The sufferings of the cross. 1. Un- told sufferings. "Ana ILO beariug Ixis cross went forth" (v. 17). "The cross on one's shoulders was a sign of shame. It declared that the cross -bearer was a criminal, rejected by the world." The cross was a heavy burden. Laid on the wary, bruised, bleeding body of Jesus, it caused excruciating suffering. No wonder He fainted bearing Ilis cross" (v. 17), and another was compelled to ...terry it. But what Jesus suffered from man was mottling to what Ik endured. for man, The curse was more than the cross. 2. Unmitigated sutferings. 13e1 - fore nailing Christ- to the eross the "sol- diers gavelem to drink wine mingled with myrrh," a powerful narcotic, pre- pared by the women of Jerusalem to as- suage the sufferings of criminals by pro- ducing stupefaction and insensibility, But Jesus "received it not" Mark xv. 23), though He 'tasted it" in recognition of tbe kindness intended. (Matt. xvii. 34). F" didrot seek to drowu His sorrow, He thank to 'he eregs the cup of suffering the sinner mei n 7..111)1^1' t sures- fags, "They crucified Him." (v. 18), Tin, divine Son, who came from God, the spotless Lamb who did no sin, the sacri- firing prophet. who quietly, compassion- ately, constantly went about doing good, they crucified Him. He bad eat preached for money; He. had not taken their gold for healing their sick; He had not made Himself rich at their expense. When He needed a penny for an illustration He had to borrow it (Matt. xxii. 19). The birds and the foxes had homes, but not He (Matt. viii. 20). They crucified Him, 'the just." JUSTICE MISCARRIED. NAN'S TRIAL WAS BY NEWSPAPER, NOT BY JURY. New York, May 12. -Nan Patterson, at one time a Floradora girl, was re- leased from the Tombs prison, after almost a year within its walls, before determination of the charge that she had murdered Caesar Young, a race track bookseller. She will leave for Washing- ton this afternoon. Her release was made at the instance of District Attor- ney Jerome, who saki he did not believe another trial would result other than a disagreement, At the same time he de- clared that there has been a serious mis- carriage of justice. He said many of the newspapers had labored to create sympathy for the girl, and that this case had "caused one more step in this cotm- try towards trial by newspaper rather than trial by jury." He approved of all his assistant, Mr. Rand, had done or said, in conducting the case, and added: "The people for whom I care approve our action. From the sane part of the com- munity we have received nothing but fairness. I have information that admits of no doubt that there was unanimity in the jury room on three points,: First, Morgan Smith bought the pistol; secona, It Patterson took the pistol in the cab with her; third, Caesar Young did not tulan appealed to the ticket seller, who , LLED BY iViarket Reports 1140 was not satisfied, Ana finally et the course of their dispute called the • . . 4. corroborated his statement. Still the of- I IN OKLAHOMA The Week, British Cattle Neekets. L ndoniiCatt are quoted. by Terrific Tornado and 9.4° per i'''; 11.6-4) 133i 1 e I! 13o °per • re rige Mon etfait9 r t: 1 lper b. Partly D Between I hree and Fou estroyed. Toronto Farmers' Market, Grain reccipte toalay were a little freer, Wheat is easier, with sales of 300 r Hundred Persons Lost !bushes of 'white at, $1,02, and 100 bushel Their Lives in the Disaster. Relief TfdinS Sent to the Scene From Neighboring) Towns. Further Particulars, A Guthrie' 0. T., report: 0Wki has been receivedfrom the Frisco etation agent at Mountain Park, Kiowit County, a neighboring town of Snyder, to the ef- fect that the town is only partially de- stroyed, but that tbe list of dead will total something between three and four hundred. This agent made a personal visit to Snyder, Where he observed the (Wails of the calamity. Relief trains sent out from Hobart have not as yet reached or returned. The intention is to send out another train from that place. Chickasha has so far no intelligence of the relief trains sent from that town. Rumors to the efs feet that other towns in southwestern Oklahoma Welt destroyed are declared by the telephone exchanges to be incor- rect. Snyder is a town of about 2,000 in- habitants, in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, in the Elmo and Comanche Indian coun- try, opened to White settlement in 1901. e town was laid ont largely by the St. le sae nee Son Francisco Railway, at the junction of two of its lines, and the company °recited important buildings there. Snyder is the division point for the Quanta' division of the road. The town was named for Bryan Snyder, pas- senger traffic. manager of the system. From 200 to 300 Killed. A St. Louis report: At the general of- fice of the Frisco Railroad here a brief report from the division superintendent at Sapulpa, I. T., received at 9 o'clock, stated that it was estimated that from 200 to 300 persons had lost their lives in the tornado at Snyder, Oklahoma. De- tails are yet lacking. It is believed that a large number of the injured eval die. In it number of cases entire families were killed and in almost every family in town some mem- ber was injured. Every house in the town except six are said to have been either badly wreck- ed or demolished, many of them being blown entirely away. The havoc wrought is most complete. The business portion is reported entirely destroyed. The Mayors of Guthrie, Oklahama City and some other towns have issued calls foe mass meetings to aid the in- jured, and early in the day special trains bearing physicians, nurses and clothing were started for Snyder. At least one other town in Oklahoma, Quintan, a email place in Woodward County, was struck by the tornado, and BA, BA -A -A IS MEAL CALL. Foolish Society Women Bring Up Lambs With Nursing Bottles. Winsted, Come, May 15. -Baby lambs to the number of a score are being brought up on nursing bottles by so• ciety women. The lambs seem to iike it. Every druggist in town bas a patent Iamb food for baby lambs, and mai each bottle goes a. guarantee that Vie commit suicide. I ask that the prisoner, lamb will thrive better on it than upon be discharged on her own recognizance.; the original mother's milk. The fa era - .As Miss Patterson left the criminal mothers of the lambs are yo lag we - court room she was met at the three-- men and they are taking greets in - hold by her father, who threw his armsterest in their charges. around her, and. exclaimed, "Thank cod,: B -a -a, b -a -a -a -a -a is the meal nail my daughter!" • and is sufficient to cause the wildest Morgan Smith and his wife, Mrs, Jana excitement in tbe homes in whieh the Smith, Nan Patterson's sister, were dis- lambs are temporarily boarding. charged from custody by Judge Foster Everybody has forsworn eating lamb in the court of eeneral sessions to -day. chops or spring lamb, for fear that :7 • they may consume their neighbor's rot. BEST HENS FOR FARMERS. • The Iambs were made motherless, an - til their adoption, by dogs raiding a Poultry Manager Gilbert Names the, flock of sheen owned. by - B. 13. Moore Breeds of Most Service. and killing about thirty animals. Out of the thirty klled, tweny ewe lambs Ottawa, May 15.-1Ir, A. 0, Gilbert,. were left destitute of supplies. poultry manager at the Experimental ) e Farm, concluded his evidence. before the, SNAKES OUT FOR ROBERT, Agriculture Committee this morning.. He recommended the following as the I Wound Themselves Lovingly Around a best general-purpose varietiee of chick - Telephone Lineman's Beets. ens for the farmers: Any variety of 'Ware, May 15. -Robert Rennison, am - Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte or Orping- ployed by the local telephone exchange, ton brads. He strongly advised the had an experience with snakes while farmers to get into closer teach with I dealers who wanted strictly new -laid working on the suburban telephone lino eggs ,and said tbat the consumption of ' in Enfield and Belchertown that gave him somethino of a scare. The warm sun had brought them out in full force. His first experience was in Enfield, where he got into a nest of the striped adders, and before be could make a dignified retreat several had wound themselves h about his boots and spurs had kindintedwas several minutes before he driven them away. Ile killed several more in the Enfield town limits, and hoped when he reached the Belehertown line, where they had re - the best eggs in Canada was fast over- taking the production, and the second- grade eggs go to the English market. A motion was passed, asking the Gov- ernment to establish experimental sta- tions for geese, turkeys and ducks, Mr. Clements informed the committee that it man in Chatham had beat send- ing eggs to Montreal all winter, and received forty and. forty-five cents st dozen for them. Mr. Gilbert said this was what he had been laughed at for years for having advocated. s VLADIVOSTOCK FLEET. Believed to be Piloting a Way for Rojest- vensky's Ships, A St. Petersburg cable: The admiral- ty declines to divulge any informatiou which it has about the sbips of the Vied- ivoetock division which are reported to be off the coast of Japan, but the im- pression prevails in naval circles that acting under the instructions of Vice- :W.11m1 nojestvensky they have passed through Teugarn Straits, into the Pai- ne on it reconnaissance to ascertain if the passage is free of mines and feasible for Rojestvensky's equadron, and also to threaten Japanese commerce. All the Russian naval division now in the far east are aeting under Rojestvenskyls orders. M. Vronski, the military expert of the NOY00 Vretriya, explains that the failure of Field Marshal ()yam to undertake an advance as well as the fail- ure of the Japanese to send an expedi- tion to tlx island of Sakbalien are. due, to the appearance of Itojestvensky's squadron In Cluneee waters. 'In his lianas now is the destiny of the far east," tlx paper says, "May God grant him success." The Slovo reproaches the imperial guard for not going to the front, saying: "tts place is on the battlefield. In all _ Itit4s1a's wars the guard has won glory. • ft is composed of the pleked men of the empire and should show the world What &IOU can do." Mrs, 0, W. (lux and her two sons were , Rumors that other towns were des- I bayed are not credited. The first news of the storm was re- ceived, about midnight. The first relief train, sent from Hobart, 32 miles north of Snyder, reached the stricken town just before daylight. Every one onboard began et once the work of relief, On me I ory hand they found the wreckage and . streets almost obliterated by pike of I demolished houses. In all directions ova dence of the terrible havoc of the storm I was apparent, The dead and dying lay about the streets, in yards and nuxed up with the wreckage, while those who est•aped ran hither and thither in ex- cited attempts to bring order out of the tet.rible chaos, and to render what mea- gre aid they might. The storm was not confined to Snyder. On the way to that town dead and in- juresl were pased in plain sight of the relief trains, but these were passed by in the efforts of the helpers to reach Sny- der, where there was greater need of their services. Theafirst man to reach Snyder and refettrn to a telegraph point was the station agent at Mountain Pak, a neighboring town. He walked into Snyder, reaching there at daylight, and, after taking a hasty view of the situa- tion and without gathering any exact detalls of the storm's effects, returned to Mountain Park. This man reported the town partialy destroyed and asserted that the listof dead would reach some- where between 300 and 400. The injured, he said, were to be seen everywhere, and their number undoubtedly will reach into the hundreds. Willie the Vernet -to seems to have been widespread, rumors that other towns in southwestern Oklahoma hacl been destroyed were declared by tele- phone exchanges to be incorrect, bee much damage to property and loss to life had. occurred in the outlying districts. The same tornado sleet& Quinlan, in Woodward county, on the Santa Ye Rail- way, destroying several halms'and at that, point three persons, Mrs. 0. W. Cox, and her two sons, are kuown lo have been killed. The tornado struck Snyder front the southwest, travelling north un- til within about 100 yards from the traeks of the Oklahoma City and West- ern Railway. 'There ittook a northeast. erly course through the business portion of the town. North of the track not a building was left standing. Coming as it did while most of the inhabitants of Snyder were asleep, but few had any warning of their danger. eently voted no license, the pests would disappear, but instead they were larger and more numerous. Mr. Rennison says he was obliged to carry a club and his pickets. full of stones all the time, and he killed several species of the snakes during the day, st'ixije mau y escaped. 1 _ - • INCUBATOR BABIES. Two Wealthy Toronto Families Hit on Scheme of Adopting Them. Stil Louis, Mo., May 15. -Attorney Dono- van, who during the Fair, had charge of the incubator exhibit, to -day said that a deed and all the necessary papers of adoption had been applied for by two wealthy families of Toronto, Canada, for a boy and girl Icept alive and developed by the -infant incubator. This was one of the most popular features of the exposition. Mr. Donovan says that he pledged himself to the utmost secrecy as to the identity of the personst by whom these children will be cared for, but admitted that they were very wealthy, and that both fam- ilies had been life-long friends. Neither having any bodily heirs to leave their property to, and not wanting their money to be scattered, they agreed upon this plan, depending, of course, to a certain ex- tent, upon their ability to bring about it union with those young folk when they have have reach -ed their majority. The laws of Missouri in relation to adop- tion are the same as in real estate or any commercial deal. The main requisite is that those who aro taking a child must have a reputable name, with sufficient means to educate and maintain the charge upon a re- spectable plan. The cause for Mr. Donovan's secrecy is for the sake of those adopting the children, as the circumstances attending upon their adoption might, If published, work greatly to their embarrassment and humiliation when the youngsters are grown. A deed 'of transfer Makes it impossible for their par- ents 10 resume charge of the children. Wigg -You cola tell ,how poor a man is from the way he dresses. Wagg -No; nor how rich he is from the way his wife dresses. ME GLORY WHALEN MURDER. Suspicions That a Man in the Penitentiary May have Done the Deed, ' Preston, May 16. -Facts have come to light Neal' .regard to the history of W. Brislin, now serving five years in Kings- ton Penitentiary, which may result in the capture of the murderer of Glory Whalen. For two weeks County Constable L'Evan,of this town, has been in- vestigating the career of Brislin, who a short time ago was sent down for attempting to shoot, Miss Gertie Jones at her homeitt Preston. It was the story of the injured girl's father, Mr. J. M. Jones, that first started the inquiry into Brisliii's move- ments at the time of the Glory Whalen murder. His story is that on the even- ing prior to the attaek upon bis daugh- ter Brislin tola liim that he bad known Glory Whalen very well, and that he was hi Collingwood id the time of the murder. Ift reply to which, Mr. Jones had remarked that the murderer did well to eseane. filte was no slouell," said Brislin. At another time Brislin had told the :tones family at thtt supper table that there would be great doings itt Me teWn soinefirrie Soon, owl that be had done the thing once and could do it again. and Mrs. Jones could not under- stand what he meant, and for the dine the matter was dropped. On the same evening that he at- tacked Miss Jones he made precisely the same remark. When this story eame to the tars of Coestabies L'Evan he ernmediately set to work, and in a short time discovered it is mid, that offences of the sort seem- ed to be it mania with Brislin. Constable Talevan when seen this even- ing, said that Detective Greer will be notified immediately. Ife had written the pollee department at Collingwood, but beta reeeived no reedy. Ire under- stood, however, that the police were working on the ease there at present, Ile was not sit present in it position to neve further information, nor as yet lutd he notified the Attorney -General's de* pertinent, He Would give no opinion as to the Value of the elute on winch the pollee rat working. He Ma say that it NMI known that 13rislin bitcl left Collingwood shortly afs fer the murder, but where he went no one knew, of red at $1. Oats unchanged, 100 bush- els selling at 40e per bushel. Dairy produce in fair supply, with prices of butter easier; prints selling at 20 to 23e per lb, retest. Eggs, 10 to 17e per dozen. Way in fair supply, with prices steady; 25 loads sold at $10 to $11 a ton for tim- othy, and at $8 to $9 for mixed. Straw firmer, two loads selling et $10 to $11 it ton. Dressed hogs are unchanged, with sales at $9 to $9.60, the latter for a few choice lightweights. Wheat, white, bush. ... ..$ 102 Do., red, bush. . 100 Do, spring, bush. .. 0 95 Do., goose, bush. 0 77 Oats, leush. • • • • • e. 0 46 Rye, bush. • • • • • • • • • • • 0 65 Buckwheat, bush. ... 0 60 Barley, bush, 0 49 Peas, bush. ••• 404. ••• 0 70 llay, timothy ,ton......1000 Do., mixed, ton , e 8 00 Straw, per ton ... ... 10 00 Dressed hogs ... . 9 00 Apples, bbl. • • • • • • • • • 1 00 Eggs, doz. • .. . • • . • . •• • 0 16 Butter, dairy ... ...... 0 20 Do., creamery........022 Chickens, fall, per lb. e 0 13 Turkeys, per lb. .,. 0 18 Potatoes, per bag ... 0 65 Cabbage, per dozen ... 0 50 Celery, per dozen ... 0 30 Onions, per bag .. 2 00 Beef, bindquarters......900 Do., forequarters ... 6 00 Do., ohoice, carcase . 830 Do, medium, carcase .. 725 Mutton, per cwt. ... . 8 50 Veal, per cwt. ... 8 00 Lamb, spring, per cwt. .. 13 50 $ 000 000 0 90 000 000 068 000 000 000 11 00 900 000 950 275 017 023 025 014 020 075 075 040 006 1050 750 900 7 75 10 00 850 15 00 Toronto Live Stock. Receipts of live stock at the any market were six car loads, composed of 26 cattle and 500 hogs. Prices for hogs and, cattle were reported unchanged. The total receipts for the week at the city market, as reported by the railways, were 206 cars, 2711 cattle, 4168 hogs, 466 sheep and Iambs, and 750 calves. Leading Wheat Markets. May. Jab,, Sept. New York .. 0943i 000 083 St Louis .. 0 04% 0 97% 0 77% Detroit 1 00 0 861/2 0 82% Duluth .. 0 001/2 0 8014, Minneapolis 1 05% 0 98% 0 80% Toledo .. 0 981h 0 851/2 0 sra Bradstreet's on Trade. Montreal trade reports to Bradstreet's say: The quieter tone reported last week as existing in trade generally here still continues to be felt in nearly all lines. The arrival of the first ocean vessels and the consequent opening of naviga- tion has helped this improvement. There is still a fair movement of seasonable goods and trade generally has a fairly healthy tone, and the volume of goods moving by water and rail is fah.ly heavy. Complaints are being heard in the mat- ter of remittances and the number of renewals being asked for is increasing. Values of commodities generally arc steady to firm. Toronto advices to Bradstreet's say: Wholesale trade here generally bas a eeasonably quiet tone. Stocks of sum- mer goods are not moving any too well. Retailers, both of the city and country, have placed fairly generous orders with the wholesalers, but there is no sign of alarm on this account. There is it fair business doing in groceries, and the hard- ware trade is exceedingly busy. Prices in these lines have generally a firm tone. The batkward spring has given it quieter tone to the demand for dry goods. Col- lections from all parts of the province are coming in fairly well, but from the ,Northwest they are still slow. I At Quebec: There is a fair volume of business being done in the several lines, especially hardware. Local industries appear to be well employed, and condi- tions, generally, are reported satisfac- tory. Collections show improvement, and the outlook is favorable. Reports from Winnipeg sny: There is a. fairly good wholesale trade moving for the time of the year, although the coun- try merchants are well supplied with spring and. summer goods. There is per- haps a feeling that dealers have rather overstocked in soine lines. Heavy goods are doming in well, following tbe open- ing of navigation. The farmers are fin- ishing seeding operations, after which itrhaeree.should be a better tone to country a Victoria and Vancouver reports say: Warmer weather has given a more active air to general business conaitions here. Collections are fair and improving. Hamilton trade reports to Bradstreet's say The general condition of trade herd continuo satisfactory, There is a quiet tone to the volume of wholesale trade, but apart from that there is no decrease in general trade activity. The industries aro busily engaged, and while retail trade in the country is it little slow, there is a fair volume of business moving in the city. Collections are fair. Reeorts from London say: The vohune of wholesale and retail business moving here has fallen off during the past week or so. The cool weather has affected the demand for summer goods. An improve- ment may be expected with the finish of the seeding season. In the meantime re- ceipts of all kinds of conntry produce here are light and collections are in some cases a little slow. Values aro steady thfOt.rtansiva advices to Bradstreet's say what little change has token place in business conditions during the past week has been rather toward lessening activ- ity in the movement of wholesale and retail stocks. In the case ef the former At is mostly by reason of large stocks of goods which most of the retailers are carrying. I : TROUBLE AT THE BRIDGE. How Canadian Travellers Are Treated by United 8tatea Officials. St, Catharine, May 13. -Reports of the meannese of United States offieials come from Niagara Falls almost daily; A. lady from Stratford, with two smell children, on her way to join her husbited at Newport News, -Virginia, was held up at the Bridge by the United States tee - toms °Mattis for the $2 tax per head which the United States Government chart,m people entering tho land of the free. Not having more than enough money to make the journey, the lady wits forced to return to this side and ,wait 24 hours until her husband eould teIe,graph the required amount. A young Engliehrean got even with it United States offieial at the, triage tee cently. He told the immigration official wlxo stopped lum that he bad been it re- sulent of Canada for 22 years and luta erossea the In'idge frequently. The offi- dal did not believe him, end the young other it bar. The young man aeted with prompts mess, and before the Yankee agent real - 17(4 what had bappened to him he had been knocked, down twice by the outrag- _- ed, young Britisher, who the)1 put back Relatives of Miss Lowry Give to Canada to avoid arrest. A LUNATIC'S KEEP. Evidence. RUH C.HE. $ wimm••••••I•MII CHIEF JUSTICE MEREDITH ON THE Dr, Guest Explains the Result QUESTION. Toronto, alay 15. -Annie Bernard is a lunatic' in the Hamilton Asylum. Her properey and raining interests amount to $7,000, and eouni time ago the Local Mas- ter ordered that $2.75 be paid out of the estate each week for her maintenance, While considering tile motion Ole morn- ing that the Master's report be confirm- ed, Chief Justice Meredith aid: "Is this not poor business? She is a pauper pati- ent practically on that weekly allow- ance, •If she is worth ,$7,000 she should be better provided for.' He also object- eul to allowing the costs of the inspector out of the estate. This was business for which the Province was responsible . "There is eci other fund out of which the money can be paid," remarked the inspector. "The Province has a large fund," re- plied tbe Judge, "The Mat of inspection should not come out of a lunatic's es- tate. In future it will•have to he looked sfitealeseseareiaessteMeaaateltraatefeelie NEWS IN BRIEF C&Weirglaarft.41044%.24$'44•40,14, The Carnegie Foundation was incor- porated at Albany. Two Cornell students, Geo. M. Seymour of New York City, and Charles L. leper- . Emerson D. Bennett, a well-known writer it.ei.and compoecr, is dead at the MasonH Masonic Home, in Philadelphia, aged 83 y e Joseph Lewis, 104 years of age, is 1(.17 et his hm oe in New York. He serv- ed with two sons throughout the Civil War. Lewis was the father of 27 child - There is nothing new retreating the G. T. R. machinists' strike atStratford, re- pairs to shops are not yet completed and no date has been set for the re -opening of the shop. Rev. Dr. 0. W. Millard, of Poughkeep- sie, until recently presiding elder of the New York Conference of the Methodist 'episcopal Church, is dead at the Metho- dist Hospital in Brooklyn. The confession of John Jackson, nt Vancouver, of baying murdered it wo- man in London, Eng., is not believed in that city. It is thouglit to be a de- vice to got a free passage home. The industrial exhibition association of Toronto, have completed arrange- ments with f. E. Suckling, of New York, to conduct the tour in Canada of the lemons band of the Irish Guards. Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassa- dor to the United States, has been trans- ferred to Madriu. De will be succeeded at Washington by )Jaron Rosen, until re- cently Russian Minister at Tokio. President Zimmerman, Vice -President and General Manager Harding, and other officials of the Pere Marquette Railway, have been in Sarnia, to see what changes will be necessary to assist the town to secure the big. steel plant. In view of the removal of Mr. G. A. lenowIton, for the past two years su- perintendent of the 0. T. P. at North Bay to Port Arthur, the leading citizens of tho town tendered. Mr. Knowlton a magnificent'banquet last evening. Jacob Gold and Robert Cohen were to- day found guilty of conspiracy to de- fraud the wholesale house of Herman Wolf at Co., Montreal, The evidence showed that during the past two years the accuse(l had succeeded in swindling the firm out of about $20,000 by making false returns. Nexe week the (band Trunk pay car will arrive in Port Huron. Usually about $60,000 is left but this time the amount will be lees by fully $20,000 as it re- ssiwps nitee the lay off at the locomotive It is learned that outside of existing arrangements with the Pere Marquette the Canadian Pacific has made no deal with the Pere Marquette and consequent- ly the story that the C. P. It. will cross. the boundaries and operate in Michigan territory is erroneous. George Mackey, of Watertown, N. Y., for seven 'gears president of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Papermakers, announced to -day that he bad tendered his resignation as president, submitting the same with his report to the annual convention now in session at Holyoke, Mass. TO INCREASE STIPENDS. The Synod of Montreal and Ottawa • Agree. ( Vankleek Hill; May 15. -At the close • of an hour spent in devotional exercises the Synod of Montreal and Ottawa, be- gan the business of the second day with the subject of stipend augmentation. Dr. Dillock, the Convener of the Synod's • Committer, charged with attention to this branch of the Presbyterian Church work, gave a resume of the work done since the close of the last Synod. Dr. Lyle, of Hamilton, the Convenor of the General Assembly's Committee aildressed the Synod from the Assembl; view point, and gave encouraging rea- sons for an increase of at least fifty dol, hirs per year to each participant in the argumentation fund. Dr. Ramsay, of Ottawa, followe,l with a proposal from • a special Synodical Committee for a door-to-door canvass in the interests of ; this scheme. Discussion followed, which • took up mare than one sederunt. The ! Synod, in disposing of the matter, agreed to a special effort to increase the mini - n111111 stipend by thirteethree per cent. of what has been hitherto provided, ••••-•••• SAYS IIE 15 A 1VIIIRDEREIL John Jackson Surreriders at ValleOUVOT-- Itilled a Woman in London. Vaneonver, IL P., May man giving the name of John Jaekson walk- ed into the city police station early 1 this morning and asked to be placed under arrest. lle mid he had commit- ted it murder itt London, England. When 1 given it piece of paper he wrote oist it 1, stetement to the effect that on the I night of December 2011, 1003, ho lied 1 nrurderea u Polish Jewess named Dora in Whitfield street, off 'Tottenham Court, road, Tie said he hail only been it month out from England, but could bear the se. met no longer. The num was evident. ly under the influence of opium and the pollee inc itt prernt uneertftlit that ids confession is genuine. Ateantirne he is being held. Ire saya he was it solicitor's clerk ha London. of the Post-mortem, 'Conflicting Stories Told by Mrs. Covell, A Rodney report: The adjourned pre- liminary investigation into the charges against Alex. Willis and Mrs, Benjamin Covell of murdering Eliza Lowry was opened in McCollum Hall at 10 4.111, The first witness was Dr. Guest, St, Thomas, evil°, with Dr. Patterson, of Rodney, made a post-mortem examination of the remains of deceased. They found bruise's on the face, on the forehead and chine and the point of the nose, which was' pressed to the right. After removing the top of the head they found the mit- er covering healthy, and removing this found an effusion of blood at the base and left lobe 01 1110 brain. They found.' a'le an external injury to the left temporal region. The skull was not fractured. There was also evidence of the .deceaes ed having been injured about the body, which could not have been naturally pro- duced. Had the cherry stick found -been used. it would have produced similar in- juries, The poker found in Eliza Yowry's room could have produced the injuries found. lie found evidence of attempt to wantonly assault the deceased. Al- ter recehing the wounds the deceased , would. have lived about four hours. James Lowry. of Rodney, brother of - the murdered woman, said. that she was et his home nine days before the mur- der, He was at the Covell house the morniug after the murder and spoke to Mrs. Covell, who was seated on a chair. He could not repeat what she said more than that a party came to the door about 12 o'clock and that she and wit- ' ness' sister looked out of the window and saw a man. The man broke the door in and. said lie wanted money more than that. tithe said she gave t man the pocketbooks. lie related the story as told by Mrs. Covell to numer- ous parties. She told witness bile !ma a good view of the man's face, that she believed sbe had seen him before, and that she could recognize him if she saw him again. John Lowry, fernier, of Rodney, it nephew of the deceased, said. she lived with him and paid nothing for hOr board. Ills aunt had been at the Covvil's house off and on for four or live weeks before the 11illYtkr. Witness saki that he SW the mark of the ball of it foot at the cherry tree from white' the limb lied been taken. A pair of rubbers found by Detective Rogers in Willis' Jenne were produced and witness said that he did not think the rubbers produeed would make the foot mark that he had 8001Inilliaill Cole, farmer, near the Covell house, testified to seeing the prisoner Wilis, passing his house about 7 o'clock on the morning of the murder. ile wore a yellowish coat and witness iden- tified the coat found by De Waive Rogers at the Willis house as the coat Willis wore that morning. 13ella .Tane Cole, the eleven -year-old Minted daughter of the former witnesea corroborated the evidence as to seeinga Will pass her father's home that inorning. .A. J. Leiber'undertaker, Rodney, conducted the funeral of Eliza Lowry. He saw Wills that Wednesday and. he had an injury on his face and head, and he told witness it was caused by the barn door. Willis also said he was going home on Tuesday eight about the fame of the murder and thought he heard a noise. Mrs. Covell told wit - nes that the injury to her halal wits caused by a man biting her thumb,while to others she said it was caused by it ilisinmi.fe and by being hit with a stick. She told him that she luta seen the man quite plainly and could identify WILLIS SENT FOR TRIAL. Mrs. Benjamin Covell Discharged by Magietrate. Rodney, 'May 19 "-Alexander Willis, farmer, Aldborough. was this afternoon committed ,for trial by County Police -.Magistrate Hunt, on the charge of hay - mg on the night of Tuesday, April 18, Idaegnee eo fo Aldrr RIO derill i e murdered 'Miss Eliza Lowry at the rasa aymin Covell in the vils At this morning's session the first witness called was Dr. S. M. Dorland, coroner of Rodney, who conducted the inquest. He identified the de.positions taken, which after a long argument were admitted by the magistrate as evidence, Andrew Wiley, William. Kettlewell and Archibald Ganes, of Aldborough, farmers, who were with Gullies on the night of the marder and who' were expected to give Importent evidence as to stete- inents made by Willis to them, gave ens importnnt evidence. The testimony, itt effect, was that they really heard to aritilaytteiiiiiitel;about tsttatlteheeasbyefillis, not know Wilfred Harvey, D. S., was passing the Covell house at 11.30 the night of the murder and saw a man coming out of the Covell gate. The num was drunk and told hint to hold ap and asked him where, he was going. The man waie an overcoat and. was of the height Rea build and looked like Willis, and had a tenor voice like that of the prim - :rem eatigea This concluded the evidence taken in the morning, and at the afternoon ses- sion Dr. Itervey was cross-examined, The magistrate asked for evidence as to the f Mrs. Covell before the murder and Br, Meino]) was called, but could give no information, This was the ease for the Crown, and no dame' was Ilut r County ('x Attorney :111*- CciC-44r427'inuTIO (r4elysiiieelavoe.d fttl:e rlett"risd.ell<ele.svelJI: 0.an10100 , sot! (lair Leith, of Dutton, fer Vi11is, ail- tellieesitstest.1, tlx court on behalf of their corinnitrthi4snlitistilUaatici itludn suenlinttnrega- lug the *woman. 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