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The Wingham Advance, 1905-06-22, Page 7•Ittlar••••••17.•••• NENTIATIONS FOR AN.• Iand emitted strange Sounds, which Nuts ed a pante among the other animals mu snakes and brought the- captain an mew to the scene to ascertain th eauee of the excitement. d. i BABES IN 1111000 rcirre:t.W. ore 044 etwarrant 10r Meal JlS awato womgN i Odd Itiehard •Jarvis made the ari•est. I Ilefore Magietrete Ilormey yesterday, ARMISTICE mANclluRi a big fork. Tho struggliug snake Iva doivn the head of the reptile with Antonia Willett, a atelier, IN plums secOred and dragged intek to its irm cage, 'Then it was found that th porcupine was missing. Captain James Japan's Financial Agent Going Home to Confer Sad meal of the relesing member of the realizing that, the python had outdo About Issuing New Loans, the reptile's cage, expecting to find the sticker family threw a flashlight into reptile dead, but to hie astonishment z Shocking Tragedy in Plym ton, Nova Scotia, OVER NM • he sem Sharp pricks protruding Stem. all Money Will be Required Whether the War Comes The python lived and a representative sides of the python. to an End or Goes on. of the Lewis and Clark Exponition, hear- ing of the unusual incident, purchased the living porcupine eater, and. yester- day it was seat on the long jouurney to Portland, Oro., where it Will he placed Britain Making Strong Cruisers Sinking Protests Against Russian British Vessels. Tokio, june 18. -Advices front the front show that uutil last Sunday the 'Japanese lines to the extreme west luta been practically statiouary for three months about twenty miles north of Wieling, where tho pursuit of the Rus- sians halted. During this interval the belligerents were thirty miles opera Only skirmishes ocurred until last Sunday, when the Japanese outdo a rush, advancing twenty miles. To -day Meld Marshal Oyama, announces that a second rush was• made Friday, the Japanese occupying a ten mile line. The 'whole. force followed the railway in its general direction between the Choyang range on the east and • the swamps of the Herm River on the west. The four inain roads passim, through this territory runs parallel will -*the railway. Along these roads the japaneso columns, three on each road, advanced- Thursday night, The hard.' est fighting was on the extreme left, where •Gen. Miatchenko, with 5,000 cavalry' and twenty guns, Was finally routed,. the Russians retreating great confusion. The Japanese casualties along the entire front, which was sixty • miles wide, were thirty killed, includ- ing a number of officers and 185 wound- ed. The Russians burned the villages and incinerated their dead, conse- quently computation of their losses is difficult. They wero probably heavy, Eighty dead Russians were found on the field in front of the central' column of the Japanese left wing. The Ja- panese now hold the Kuyutsu-Stunien• citing lino, ten miles from the Russian advanced fortifications before Feoghua. The Official Story. Tokio, June 18,-Manehurian armies reportt • ."fn the Weiyualpaomen district, at • ta-ae,p1., June 10, three hundred of the efenty's cavalry advanced against Kuyashu, but were repulsed. tho Shamo-tue district our ad. wowed, -force, after driving out the, enemy stationed at Sumion-Cheng, otei capied that village. "hi the Tasiamotun district our de- tachment, after dislodging the enemy's cavalry at Soucha tau, eight miles west of Sumien-Cheng, occupied that vil- lage. "In the Kangpiu district at 1 a.m., June 10, our centro column, after rout- ing the enemy's cavalry outposts at Tionchiawopeng, sixteen miles north- east of Kangping, and continuing a vigorous pursuit, attacked the enemy's position at the southern end of Liao- Yangwopeng, told the eastward, be- tween 4 and 8.40 o'clock, and at 9 o'clock we completely occupied Liao- Yangwopeng. "Our right colunui, after driving the enemy's cavalry. before it, occupied Yangwopeng. This column shelled the enemy's northward, in in- jury. The enemy was finally thrown into great confusion. "The leftcolumn • poured a fierce fire upon ,a thousand of the enemy's cav- .1ry. retreating to the northward of o-Yangwopeng, and inflicted heavy image. "According to the prisoners, 5,000 cav- alry' reireatin gt the northward of Lietta-Gen. Mistehenko's army, °cell - pied LiaceIttugwolieng. The mitt force retreated northward, and parts of it to the notth-ottstward sand north.west- ward. There are evidences that the enemy was panic stricken, and utterly confused. Abandoned •provisions and clothing indicate the great difficulty the enemy had in carrying off supplies. In retreating the enemy fired a 'house SOILL11 of Liao.Yangwopeeg, and it is presumed that be intended to inciner- ate his dead. "Our easnalties were SO killed and 185 wouuded. The number of the en- emy's casualties is -not certain, His dead" left in front of the centre col- umn numbered 80. 56,000 SICK AT HARBIN'. Death Rate Now Averages One Hundred Yingkow, Juno 18. -Cholera and dysentery are stilt raging at Harbin. ne death rate is ono hundred. a day. TAere are now 50,000 sick and wound- ed soldiers at Harbin. Eighteen ism Wien hospitals have been erected out- tho city. The Russian officers and men are earnestly awaiting the conclusion of peace. They have no idea of fighting any more. The Sixth Fortress. Artillery Ima arrived at Viadi- vostoek from Cronstadt. The men are employed in constructing new works end strengthening existing positions. Engineer reinforcements have it140 been received. The force in Saghalien has been reinforced by artillery, some of which is stationed at Korsakoff. MONEY NEEDED. - Japan 11Tay Issue NOV Loans in Any • Event. New York Jame Takahasi, financial agent of Japan who looked.' after the flotation here of his country's war loans, has received despatches from the Imperial Minister of riluvace sunt- • Ing him to Tokio at one. He will leav New York June 24, and sail for home on July -Met Mr. Takahashi will appear before the Imperial 'Cabinet im- mediately on his return to Tokio and confer with the offiters upon the ad- visability of making further iarge loin% in foreign =vitas, in Oat that peace then seems assured. If these plans arc carried out it wilt be with the object of making ready for business conditions which will follow the eessation hostilo Hies. In expressing Ids -confidence that an early and satisfactory peeve will be arranged, Mt Taltahaeld ema: "Japan will need a considerable -amount of mon,ey after the svar to give impetus' to her itultiatries. While businesa ato, pan et present is in no way injitred, yet if the money •nalvarteed by the Jere none people in the first war loan of S250,000,000 is returned to. Them on the termination of the war it will give ententions new Iife' to Japanese in- -ifiletries. All department's of businoss will be vastly benefited by tido largo amount of money being put back into comma' •cial 'channels. "While mond speak with authority at this time I believe it is the desire of the government to float a new loan in case of the termination of the sear to take up the domestic loan before the commencement of hostilities. In. the event of It continuance of hostilities, a new loan to carry on the war doubt:lase wilt be made within three months. About $140,000,000 oil the foreign loan remains an deposit divided between the Banke of America and England." FAVOR WAR Rather Than Agree to Humilitating Terms. From Japan. St. Petersburg, June 10, 2.05 p.m. - The note of the Foreign Office announc- ing thut the negotiations for the meet- ing of the Russian and Japasese 'pleni- potentiaries were proceeding rapidly was printed without comment in the murrain g papers. The press of all Elues of °pluton is .discussing Japan s probable terms nod declares with practical unanimity for a continuation of the war rather than the acceptanee of humiliating conditions. in this the newspapers aro upheld by public opinion, .:which is veering around to the support of the war polka, if Ja- pan's terms prove too hard. Only tbe Nasha Zeisn advises Russia that sho need not balk at the payment of an iudem- nity, the cession of the Islands of Skaha. lien, the renunciation of her right to keep warships in the far eastern wa- ters of the surrender of Vladivostock, but the paper holds that Russia meat retain Northern Manchuria and the Vla- divostok railroad. The 13ourse Gazette draws a gloomy picture of Russia's re- lations with France, Great Britain, Ger- many and Austria, the Novoe Vrelnya and the reactionary Sviet sound hostile notes against the United States. Tho Novoe Vretnyit reiterates tbat 11.11SSitt'S elder enemies m the far east are not the Japauese but the British and Americans, en account of their commercial rivalry, while the Sviet objects to Washington as the place of timeline. for the plenipo- tentiaries, declaring that the atmosphere there is unfriendly, and asserting that Russia's repreaentatives will be subjected to prejudicial influences in the "capital of japan's ally." All tire papers comment on the Mire - Inca of Granj Duke Alexis from the of - flee of Mali admiral, and a general feel- ing of relief is numiNsted nt, the fact that the naval. regime is ended. G. T. R. PLANS. Twirlers for Construction to be Invited Soon. Ottawa, June 19. -Mr. Morse, Gen- eral Manager of the Grand 'Prune 'Pa- cific, was in town this evening. He stated that as soon as specifications kr the Lake Superior branch are pries -Ott the company will ask leading Can 1 Han contractors to tender fpr the cons'Irac- tion of line, Approximately it will be two hundred miles in length to the point of junction with the main line from Winnipeg eastward. It is not improbable that construction will be begun in about a month's time. The company have all the land they require for terminal facil- ities at Fort William on Mission Island, amounting to about 1,000 acres. The company,. of course, purchase the land from the Government, and, while Mr. Morse did not mention what it would cost, the price is said to be about $400,- 000. Asked as to elevator facilities, Ala Morse replied guardedly that the Grand Trunk Pacific would have as large • a plant as anybody else. In regard to a possible fleet of grain vessels Mr. Morse's statement conveyed the idea that the company has not yett decided upon any plans. To -day Hon. W. S. Fielding signed the mortgage deed, exe- cuted in connection with the Govern - recut guarantee of the three per cent. bonds , issued on account of the prairie section of the line. These bonds when floated recently, brought OM The mort- gage deed will be held by the Royal Trust Company as trustees. : SEVEN MEN DROWN•ED. A Canoe Party Wrecked on the Stikine Vancouver, June 10. -Seven white vietims have just been 'sacrificed to the turbulent 'waters of the Stikine River. Details of the most fatal -canoe acci- dent in the history of northern British Columbia, are reported in a special from Hazleton. The drowned are all min- ing men. Their names are as follows: 0. R. Reynard, miner, Lorne Creek; Charles Stewart, miner, Lorne Creek; John 1'. Felts, mining ermincer, Ksa; Mills, Johnston and Fred. Slight,. miners, of Bellingham, Wash., and J. Ward, cook for the party, also from Bellingintm. The miners started up tho Skeena River from the coast, intending to make Lorne Creek. On Sunday night the telegraph operator at Recite Canyon, thirty miles below Lorne Creek, pidted up their wreekod canoe. Search parties have made a thorough search of the river and trial and report that no trace of the inen can be found. All hope of their being_aliv_e SNAKE ATE A PORCUPINE, Pythert On Steamship Made Away With Prickly Porky, New York atom 1-0.--A twenty-eight foot pythou with it porcupine inside of him is one of the jungle 'curios that ar- rived hero on the steamship Polyearp from Brazil. The Polyearp was 11. veritable, ark. Among the varied eallection of bettats and reptiles were the python and por- cupine. The day 'before the steamer rettelted XeSV York the snake wiggled through the bars of its cage end -sought company with the porenpino, which was a passenger in the same hatehway. Big snakes, are fed twit% -each week, and it had been three days since the- gituit python had devoured 'a morsel of food. The snake was hringry aud gob. bled up poor "porky" n single gulp. The little -animal made an execlient Jonah. and went time at diet; as an, eel. But pretty soon the snake was 'atifferiog the most exerndating paina - r PIRATES R4ZE A VILLAGE. Story That zse Natives of Sibetian Coast Were Killed, San Eranciseo, Cal., June 18.-Dotails of a terrible massucre by pirates 01 150 natives on the Siberian coast have been received in a letter from Petropavlovsk, on the coast of Kanichetka. Aloaoghttaenoff hos written to his brother here that eoveral months age the natives la a small settlement down the coast obseeved a schooner yacht drop an- chor in the barrier, and its coming was hailed with erica of rejoicing. From the vessel came several small boats. The natives could see the crew piling What they thought were supplies into the smaller cyan. Than the men pulled for the shore. During that and the next day there was heard. the firing of arms, and later smoke and fire were observed. This led to an investigation, and a horrible tale of pillage and massacre was brought to light. About the streets of the settlement were strewn bodies of 150 of the inhabitants, shot and cut to pieces by the pirates, who, under the pretense of friendship, had gained a land- ing ou the coast. Every hut had been. ransacked, and anything of marketable value bad been taken. Who the mauraders were those who manosaml to make their escape could not say, beyoud giving the htformation that some Japanese were in the party. 'When Morogravleneff sent his letter the peo- ple of Petrovpaylosk feared an attack on that town. : • PLAYED WITH POWDER. One Boy Killed, Three Others Injured at Halifax. Halifax, June 19. -Playing with guu- powder this evening, Andrew, Gordon Mitchell, twelve -year-old son of Mr, Wm. S. Mitchell, of the Royal Bank of Canada, was killed by the explosion. Ernest Twinipg, aged fourteen years', son of Col, J. Tremolo° Twining, svas terri- bly lacerated, and Eric and Gerald, aged sixteen and fourteen years, sons of M. C. Grant, were painfully but not seri- °wily nijured. They had secured ct can of powder and placing it in a cavity in the bank on- the shore of the North- west Arm, applied a snatch. A terrific explosion hurled them all some distance. Young Mitchel received. the full force of the explosion. His face ..and body were terribly lacerated and burned. Ile died three hours later, having inhaled the flame, which enveloped the boys when the explosion occurred. Young Twilling was also terribly burned, and a portion of his chin •was blown off. Ile was removed to the hospital, and his life is in danger.. The other two boys are painfully in- jured. The explosion was SO terrific that rock and earth were hurled all around the boys. Their agonizing cries brought aid quickly, and a corps of doctors were soon on the scene. THE FORGOTTEN DEAD. Forty-eight Skeletons From Indian Battle Field. Winnipeg, Jame 19. -While John Fah lis, a farmer living close to the United States bouudary, tee miles south of Crystal City, AVItS digging a Cellar yes- terday he happened upon a gruesome find. The spade of one of his .1vorkmen unearthed a hurean skull. At first it was thought to bo from the lonely grave of an Indian, but other skulls were met, and by evening. 48 had been taken from tho ground. Only two complete skate - tons were diseovered. • Considerably excited by his mysterious discovery, Air,' Fallis loaded the relies into a .wagon and took them to Crys- tal City, where they elicited much curi- osity. Doctors pronounced the bones to be those of white inen, in a good state of preservation. • " The consensus of opinion is that the spot had been the scene of some battle with the Indians, anti that the victims of the conflict were thrown into a com- mon pit in the haate of flight. , TWO SHOT BY SAME BULLET. Shooting Accident Near Toronto That Might Have Ended Fatally, Toronto, June 19. -What might have been a fatal shooting hccident occurred last night near East Toronto, when Wit- liant Kinchin and William Carruthere were both injured by t110 SRMO The two were out shooting ground hogs, one having a 41 ealibre revolver and the other having a 22 -calibre rifle. Kin. 011111 NIMS standing close to Caruthers, when the latter, who was carelessly holding his revolver let it be discharged, the bullet going through the flesh of his thigh and passing through the bone of the right log of Kinchin, below the knee, coming out at the sole of his foot. Both men were disabled and fell to the ground, being unable to move from the spot. They lay there' a considerable spaec of time till it neighbor who was drivin,g it milk wagon along the road close by tho spot, espied them in that eonditien, and after placing them in his wagon, moved them to the office of a physi- cian ani their wounds were dressed. Tho condition of Kinehin was so ag- onizing, mid the wound so serious that to save his foot Ito seas removed to the Emergeticy Hospital. DOUBLE DROWNING. G. L. Kilgour Loses His Life Attempting to SaVe Friend. Vienvouver, ;rune 10...---Tn an attempt to save Arthur Fulk from drownieg, L. G. l'ailgour lost Ills life. The double fatality occurred up the t•Optarnisit River, where the E. K. Wood Tormber Company, of Bellingham. are logging, Vulk was the tteventecloyeor•old son of the foreman, 'Owen •of Burlington, Wash. Mt slimed off boom of logs into the river, and his friend. Kilgottr jumped in after Itim, Both young men got 11111101' the 1,00111 unit were drowned brfore sumer could readt them. The water was telly ten feet deep tont mit very outl their was little diffimilly itt reena ming the remains of the two young men. charged with the °Mow, tor which the Limy, Alary Jane pleaded guilty AL1111 1 af5lieti for leniency tot this was iter first MORDEllEill ,oxtreme penalty is 14 years peniten- offence. Asked why she ato the money, sho J eidied: !Ilecause was mad at nu I-; 1 io offewl to make restitution for p. the .destroyed money and pay all costs. 1 After listening to a Severe lecture on. the eerionsuess of eating another per. 5031'S money aud 'loving given a solemn promise never to be guilty of suell an of- fenee agoin, she left the courfarooni dwith 11 broad mile ilumillatiog her blinde features. Two Young Children Nun Bound and Gagged, ....o•.•••r.•n•r The Mother Suspected the Terrible Deed. Halifax, June 18.-P1,ympton, a pretty little village on St, Mary's Bay, Digby county, is in a state of groat mite- nieut over the discovery of a shocking crime. Tito story la brief is that two little girls, aged Idi . years and eighteen r months respectively,. were bound and gagged and taken to the mode- over a mile distant from any house an4 there leat to perish, The youngest one• was discovered at 3 o"clocio yesterday after. noon, alive, and rvill rceoyer. Theother was found rit 5 o'clotat dead, the body showing marked signs of decomposition. Hope Young, a woman who lived with Kingialey Melanson artd is the mother of the two 't7itildren referred to, is sea- peeted of the crime. She is 28 years old, and adios to be the widow of Fred. Young, of Boaton, who,. she says, was.it lawyer. Ile died over a year ago. ller Story is as follows: On Fria day' atternoon about 5 o'eloek Hope Young, after doing a bard day's work, hurried to dames Boudreau's house, a nearby neighbor, to exchange eggs for amp. Sho held the key of tho house in her hand and appeared tturt•led, ant was more or less exettad. Wheii s•I•cal by Mrs. Bondrettat to retnein awhile Site replied that she had it:Cabot:O. riot dren playing near the woodpile in tha back yard. After being absent from the house about fifteen minutes, she returned and immediately- informed Airs. Ambr.oac, Comeau, who lives directly. appeeite, that the obildren were nussieg, that someone had broken in her house during her whom° and taken a ten dollar bill and it 25.centpiece also a revolver which she was in the Juibit of carrying while walking the 'lonely roads, and 'had scat- tered the things all around the house. She thought they bad entered. the bock window, as it was tutfastened. When a neighbor arrived the house was found to be m a greact confusion, but it seems al- most impossible that sue& a, thing could occur in fifteen minutes in a quiet little village like Plympton, where no 'tramps or suspicions characters latd been seen for over a week. Searching patties were at once organ- ized and continued to 'search the woods night and day. Al 3 .o'clock on Satur- day afternoon., while in the woods a mile back of the house, the searchers - heard the cries of a baby, and Fred. O'Neill found the MtLlo eighteen -months - old. Elmo, lying on her stomach with her hands and feet eecurely bound, her hood tied for a gag in her Mouth ond her head a network of strings, .hair ribbons, etc. The littlechild svaa brought to the house and nutter medical treatment appears al present to -be us well as over. The search was contle- ued, and at 4 o'clodo yesterday af- ternoon the body of May, the six-year. old girl, was found .over a mile and 0 half front the house. Iler hood WS pulled entirely over Site. lam The mouth was gagged and hound with bur- dock leaves and strings carefully arraug- ed. A. place betiveen the cradle 'of bilk bad been arranged for the reception a the body, and it had been laid fan downwards and covered with brush. AI - though the hands aud feet were not tied, the brush had evidently not boon disturbed, which led to suspicion that the child was dead, or noarly dead, when placed there. It appeared to be the .opinion of those who viewed the body that the chilct had been dead much longer than twenty-four hours. No marks of violence. were found on the body. The child was comfortably clressed..with clean clothes. A. coronces ingu.est tette held this afternoon. The most important evidence given was 'that tbe tracks of a man and wow - in were found near where the children Were found. . Both Mclanson and Mrs. Yourig aro kept under pollee surveil- lance. The inquest will be finished to- ni.orrow. STEAMER SUNK. Collision of Steel Freighters Off Presque Isle Light. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.„ June 18. - During a thick fog which has prevailed on the Upper Lakes far a -week, the steel freight steamers Etruria and Amasa Stone collided to-doy, ten miles off Presque Me Light, ill Lake Huron. The Etruria was damaged so that she sank within a few minutes, the crew narrowly escaping with their lives. The Iqruria, was struck on the sterboard side; abreast of No. 0 hetet'. Many of the crew were asleep in their berths, but were awakened by the crash, and aeached the deck in time to escape, The Anutsa Stone was bound down from Duluth to Lake Erie with it .cargo of iron ore and the, Etruria was taking a cargo of soft coal front Toledo to Lake Superior. The sunk steamer was valued at $240,000: CHEWED TDB MONEY. -- Manvers Maiden Made Wads of $s Bank Bills. Dowmanville, Jone 10.-A peculiar 13.11i0 of revenge was ventilated before Pollee Magistrate 1V, AL Horsey yesterday, when ALtry Jane Scotter, of the •Lownship uJ Manvers, near Ballyduff, wits dowsed with eating money, or destroying it, by ehewing it like gum. Site was employed by Stinson Robinson, a, wealthy bachelor, residing on lot 11, con. 8, of Clark town- ship, near the village of Kendal, as house- keeper and farm servant. She and her employer had a quarrel mid sheawas or - ed to leave. Before doiug so, however, die Went to the bureau drawer where the money is kept and took $50 in $3 bills. Twenty- five. dollars were dewed to wads, en- • tirely destroying the money, not it tige remaining for identification, The other 4;113 was bidden -ander a rail fetwo, as elle turned eick tit her stomadi mid eouli not eomplete mastieating the ditty bank notes. liolettstot di000eored the Same evening that 050 of the $105 in the• drawer Was missing and etnne to town a ; DODY MOD IN WWI?. Diaappearance ef T. D. Plamendon, of Sent, Explained, Montreal, June 111. -The finding oe the body of .f, D. i?Ittinondon, official -report. er at Sorel, in the fit, Lawrence River this morning has, to it certain extent at least, cleared up what for months was a• profound mystery,. Shortly after Ike Federal •election of November • 3 last Plamondon left Ma home at Sorel for Ottawa, carrying in a bag with hint all the documents and papers .cort. ueeted with the election la Richelieu, which he was about to deposit with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery: His failure' to appear there eauaeri anx- iety, omit a much .was iustituted, A week later the bag with the election papers iu it was found in a back yard on Amherst etreet, but there WaS 310 trace of Plamoodon. In one of the pock. et s of the coat oii the body recovered to- doy was found it letter from Notary Lafriore, of Sorel, addressed to Manion - don. • ORPHANS FOR ONTARIO. . - The Children Are to be Selected With Care, An order in Council .bas been passed authorizing the Smyly Orphan Homes of Dublin, Ireland, to bring a number of selected chilaren out annually for act - Cement in Ontario. A fine residential .property at Hespel- er has .been purchased 11S the Ontario distributing centre, and Mr. and Mrs. George Tebbs will take up their resi- dence there and maintain supervision idler the ebildren are placed out. .A small party of. boys will be 'brought out this fall, but chiefly to help in pre. paring the receiving home for the chits Oen who will come out in the spring. The application was approved and re- commended by Mr. J. J. Kelso, Super- intendent of the Neglected Children De- partment. • wrom VISIT QUEBEC. • Admiral Prince Louis of Battenburg Coming. Quebec June 19.-1.dmiral His eSrene Highness Prince Louis Frederick Batten - berg, with the first squadron of the channel fleet cruisers, will cross the At- lantic during the course of next 'month on n cruise -to Now York, Ilatifitx awl Quebec:, arriving in the latter port dur- ing August. This -exelnaive piece of news was received In Quebec on Thursday from England, and haa been communicated to lits Excellency Earl Grey. Prince Louis Frederick of Battenberg will fly his flag from the cruiser Drake, and will •lio comp•anied by five other erttiaors of the stone ealibrel tonnage and speed. • . MASSACRES BY 'KURDS. Fivo Thousand Mounted Bandits Cross Persian Frontier. Frankfort, Juno 10. -The Tiflis corre- spondent ot the Zeitung -says that five theitaand mounted Km.ds have crossed the Persian frontless raiding and burning alt the Armenian villages en route. They besieged 220 Ruasian troops al; Kharlou- Oar, -where there was fieree fighting for two days. The Russians were finally compelled to retreat ,owing to lack of ammunition: Their fate IS unknown. The Kards have been reinforced by large bands of Tartaa.s. All are well armed and disciplined. They are marthing alt Stories of terrible massacres are arriving. DROWNING ACCIDENTS, Deaths Reported From Kingston, Bramp- ton, Ottawa and Carleton Place. Kingston, .lune 1S. -James MeCor- . miek, of Portsmouth, a mason's helper, tees drowned in Cataraqui Bay oa S'at- ttrday afternoon while fishing with a companion. The boat upset, and Me - Cormick was unable to swim and went down. Ife was aged. 32 years and lived with his mother at Portsmouth. The body was•recovered on Sunday morning: Brampton. June 18. -On Saturday af- ternoon four boys were plitying on a raft at the edge of Snell's Lake, mons them the two sons of Mr. Walter WS kinson, of Snelgrove. The raft began to drift out into deep water, when Earl, a lad of eight years, becoming frightened, jumped off. Ills elder brother Bind° heroic efforts to save the little fellow by jumping after him, but failed. The body was nob reeovered till an hour laltr by his father. Efforts to resusellete him, although eontinued for an honr, were futile. Two From Ottawa. Ottawa, June 18.--Ex-Altason• Samuel Bingham' was -drowned in the Gatineau River, one mile eolith of Lakefield yes. terday afternoon. The body hes not yet been found. While no one witnessed the fatality, there is no doubt Mr. Bing- ham met his death in the saver. Bingham was been driving along the road some distance front where his horse and buggy were taken from the river. The horse was drowned. Mr, Binghom's hat • 11,11.3 founa on the shore, Parties who were searching for the body telegraphed to the city hist night for grappling irons. Mr. Biteabout was one of the moat -enter. prising Mayors Ottawa ever had. E. Tams, fruit dealer, Dalhousie street, was drowned at the Chaudiere this afternoon. O. Diana°, 'Canoe Victim. Carleton 3.1nee, hue 18.---janies Cody Plaandic, moulder, aged 21, S011 of Wm. C. Blanche, late •of "Seekonk, X. 11., was drowned here at 5 o'clock this afternoon by the upsettieg of a canoe in \Odd' he and natter young 1111111, Hervey AlcOludelsa had just stated up the Mississippi River for an hour's out- ing. A TAX QUESTION, Sandwich, Ont., June 10. -The •Couety Commit ha a decided to fake no 'actin at iwesent on the proposition of J. A. Iluchauttn to give it grant 'of $500 to its. sit, any township to eompell tho Commie Land Company to pay thNes Ott its luitg mai land reserves. The .company sold forms In tio nil aistrict but Teserved the minerale .tind ilOW the rentals from the , wells iso to the. 'company and Mn. Iirt- ehanan wishes the company to pay taxes1 011 this income. •••11,,Orn,r5.1, Doctors Testify on Death o Mrs, Adam Lloyd, ..e.,••••en Grin Gansu* 11.0red, ittatit bolni taken . for the city of Winnipeg show 4ultica- tioes of a population of 100,000, f Professor X, M. ItIerstead, Ph, D., las Iaecepted tlue appointment to .tlis chair of systematio theology anti apolegetice in . AfeMaster University, Strafrtioarld's 3nitors:ti ji')4ompuelar atile;estiwZtel, 'Citizens, celebrated their golden weddingT1iurndity by a family reunion. At the annual convention of,the Wow- en'sInternational 11131011 Label League held in Chicago, Mrs. Darwin, of Toronto, 1V45 °looted Secend. Vice -President, Charges Aro ulnae that the (duteeso Team -owners' Association paid 1180,000 in bribes to labor leaders le prevent strikea • Jacob Knittel, proprietor of the Car. byte Hotel at Quayle, Man,, was found dead beside his bed. Ile appareotly died • from an Apoplectic fit. • Preeident isoubet luta appointed Gabriel Faure to be Director of the French Na- tional •Conservatory of Music, emceed- iug Theodore Dubois, who has retired. There is an epidemic of measles at Kingaton, and the hospital accommoda- tion at the Royal Military College had to be enlarged to aeeommodate all the patients. . Two large livery barns ,owned at Bins - earth, Afan,, by J. S, 'Murray awl John - non were burned to the ground yestor- doy. All tbe horse were saved, but all the other contents were destroyed. The cause of the fire is unknown, The testa will reach about $8,000. • After . a conference with the fepresen- tatives of the telegraphers, General Man- ager Hays statethe Grand Trunk did not emitter itself bound by the arbitra. tors' finding, as it hail not consented to the arbitration. Gifts recently made to Princeton Uni- versity include 3,330 acres of land almost contiguous to the university property, more than doubling its present holdings, an annual income of $100,000, and a re- citation hall to cost about $300,000. John Muldoon, a Nationalist and a lawyer, ef Dublin, was elect& without opposition to represent the north divi- sion of Donegal County in the House of Commons, in place of William O'Do. 'way, who died, May 18. Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild (bro- ther of the Austrian branch of the firm) who died on June 13, left the Eton of $4,000,000 to be distributed for various charitable purposes. The annual report of the President of the University of Toronto shows a deficit of $30,907.64 as 'between the revenues :laid expenditures of the faculties of arts, medicine and aplied science and engin- eering, TI3e Provincial Government has ap- pointed 1'. W. Ellis, Toronto, and Lieute OW. Clarke Raymond, Welland, to the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Com- mission, to succeed. A. W. Campbell, De- puty Commissioner of Public Works, and ' James Banipfieda Niagara Falls, who have resigned. SLID DOWN EMBANKMENT. • - Accident to a Train Taking Visitors to Niagara Carnp. Woman linconsciCus When Clothing Was ignited, Wound on Bead Was a SeN ins One. Out., June 1.5. --Adan Lloyd, of ilungerfoad township, tut old num, nearly 73 yeers of age, nnd who is under aigeot n thoserious cliargo of ceusing his Wife'S death, yesterday had 4 •prellininary trial before Police Mag. istrate Jfliut, of this city. The interest itt the proceedings is keen, judging froni the lumber who sought to gain admission to the hearing, which took place in the city hall. Lloyd, vim has been in jail for over two weeks, looks remarkably well, ani aeele confident of being, acquitted of the cborge pre:fele:est against hint. Two witnesees were examined in the fniTaltnitrittneMs sr s,. ainiidtt b ley' al 6S WelSitguinInleltr and eross-examined atconsiderable length. She testified that she was it neighbor and hea known the Lloydsforywdearisd. Sometimes they livd eapart, buto not know the reason. She remem- bered the day Mrs. Lloyd met her death, as site atiav her soon aftee death. Lloyd was eating his breakfast. The body of Mrs. Lloyd was Vies, on the bed, cuvered with a buffalo robe. She also saw the victim's. ,"drese and under. skirt burning outside the door. Lloyd told them that while out at the barn he smelled boring clothes, and, .goieg back• to the house saw his wife on fire, and he put out the fire. The central part .of..the body, was Intrued, the arms from near the elbews up, but her hands did not bear the mark of fire. Under cross-examination dm said she hadno against -Lloyd or his wife, and never heard themquarrel, al- though she had been told they did. 811e had heard Mrs. Lloyd say she wished she was dead', but never- hearci her threaten to take her own life. She could not say that •she saw anything which would. Muse her to tamped fotti play. Miss 4.311110 Kincaid testified that she lived near to the Lloyds, and remem- berecl the day Mrs. Lloyd was reported to have been burned to death. She was at the house soon after and detected a peculiar odor of someLlting burning. Shecorroboraten the previous witness as to what Lloyd had said. as to finding his wife dead. The rocking chair she was in was about ten or fifteen feet frotu the stove. In cross-examination the witness said she had kuown the Lloyds seventeen years, and die had never heard them quarrel, but was told they disagreed as to sonic property. Doctor's Testimony. Dr. Yeomans, coroner, mat gave evidence. Ho sew the bodyand also the wound on the back of the head. Lloy(1 told witness how he had founi his wife when he came from the barn, ehe was dead and sitting in a chair with the hands upon the lap, The hands were not burned, and the face but slightly. The face tlid not -show any signs of agony. From whtt.t, the witness had been able to learn he felt convinced that the bUrIlillg WftS after the woinan was unconseious. From the phyaicians who had :conducted' the post-mortem he learned. that Um wound watt sufficient to causes Aeon. ecionsness. In his opinion the burning was after death, as there was no Signs of blisters, which .would have been pro- turuncea had the burning taken piece during life. Dr. W. 1V. Boyce, of (bit city, one of the physicians who made •the post- mortem, testified that the wounds on the back of the head was sufficient to cause temporary unconeciotamess. Li his opinion they wero sustained before death. Hair was Imbedded in the ovound 031 the back of the head. In his opinion the woman was alive while the limiting sons' going on, at least a portion of the time, but the absence of burns on -the hands and the posi- tion they weie said to be in would leat him to give tho opinion that she 117115 1111COlisciollS .1\11011 i:110 1311111111g WaS taking place. In cross-examination, nothing particu- larly new was elicited. Thomas, Smith, brother-in-law of the necused, testified- that his sister was all right mentally. Lloyd told witness that be was at .the barn -when the de- ceased met her death. Lloyd. also said that there was 11 mystery about her death, and he did not think it would ever be found out. Ile also told witness that the place was his, now the wife wns deed. Tn. cross-examination, Smith said he had never heard of Lloyd and his wife quarreling.. but she did go away some- times. He had not seen his sister for over tv year previous to her death. Ile mild not, remember all Lloyd told him This was all the evidence submitted, iltia the examination was adjourned for • t a week. • HER BRAINS DASHED OTIT. Woman Murdered in the Outskirts of Montreal. Montreal, June 18.-A horrible murder was committed in the northeastern out- skirts of the city late last night. Mary intim", an eccentric woman of 44 years, 4. Who lived alone in a .shack on Esplan. ado avenue, was the vielini, Ana this morning her dead body was found i'. a neighbor lyiug perfectly nude on the Alewalk with her brains dashed ottb antl knife wounds in her hive. John Reid, who lives across the street, says 8, he beard two men porleybig, with the •!,- woman last night, apparently .over the location of .some money, met after a time he heard screams and 0 heavy Gout but did not investigate until this mornineo when the body was fomel. • The police have wrested a disorderly 'char. aeter, mul he is held 011 suspicion on a ( .charge ot' drnakenness• ....-sosso a • TOE DYNAMITE 'BOAT. Detroit, MIA, Juno 19. -The steamer 1 Oorothy, with '000 tons of dynamite, for 1 Ttoughton, Micliignn, arrived here yese torday afterimon, MO -continued her ono.- • Imo itt deslight this morning. The Dati- 1 11V is theobont that had so muelt beli- ttle in Maims. her propeller repliteed at r 'Kingston, permission to doek her lining I been refused beet:wee of the nature of 1 the orgo. Niagara -on -the -Lake Ont., June 18. -Two hundred people, mostly women and children, who were coming from Niagara Falls and Queenstown to visit the military vamp, had a narrow es- • cape from death this morning, when an engine and nine passenger coaches jumped the track. The crowd on the Michigan Central trait was so great that two engines were used to pull the passenger coaches and one bag- gage car. When -passing Larkin's Sid- ing, about six miles from here, the rails spread. The first engine passed the spread in safety, but the second engine jumped the tracks carrying the coaehes with it. For two hundred yards the cars bumped along the ties. Three of them. were thrown from the tracks sani slid down the embank- ment. Luckily- they dia not roll over. When the ears left the rails most of the passengers were thrown from their seats and all received nasty jars. The most serious accident was to a womau who lives at- Niagara Fells, who had one of her ribs broken. Many of the passengers were cut, but none seriously. As a result of the accident many of the passengers walked into town but tho railway company procured, a steamer, and the rest came down by boat. The line was not cleared to -day, and the soldiers, who had arranged to go to Niagara Falls by rail, were dis- appointed. NOT IN CANADA. - BELIEVED THAT MIDDLE'TON IS IN WASHINGTON, New York, June 19. -Contrary to the generttl belief, Willoughby Middleton, the missing president of the New York Realty • Corporation, is not in Canada. It is almost certain he is in Washing- ton, and that some of his business as- sociates are -in communication with hlin. It was known that he was in Newark at the Contiuental Hotel, on Monday, and Tuesday. June 5 and 0, and that he there met several persons. It is also known that he held is conference in Jer- sey City on Tuesdity night and then took ft Pennsylvania train for 1Vashing- tom C. It Williams, seeretary of the real- ty corporation, yesterday stored the furniture and closed the offices of the corporation at X. 81 East 125th street. 14 was found that doeuments were eon. Unitedly disappearing; hence the entire contents of the office were stored. The urnitaire is attached for unpaid. miler - 08, (111. Monday, po.sibly, D. A. alpellissy villapply to the courts for tut order nablieg him to get inbo! the box of he corporatiou, in the Knickerbocker _ale Deposit Company. It is now known hat 'Middleton, salt° disappearea ou June , bad access to ids box on June 2. AHEAD OP TIME. Xew York, dame 10.-Tlte Tweldietit 'entury Limited train ou the Nov York 'entral Railroad arived in this city from 'Meow} at 0.27 to -day, three mina -that head of time. It left 'Chicago nt 2.30 am, teen(vel time) yesterday, and made lm tam in 17 hours; 57 minutes. This Wf1S he Twentieth Ventory's first eaaterly rip as ao,18 hour train. BOY DROWNED. Atndwielh Ont., Juno. 10. -john Ox- vortli, II yeas of .nge, only son of a aborer, \MS &MIMl in the ola mud war hero on ;Saturday night while batti- ng. The family formerly lived in Cetriber.