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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-09-28, Page 7RD Tit SHOT THAT MI ER HUSBAND 4110111/1111. ' expenee. A Government reeeript has raising their salaries and at their own Dr.. n rin been publielied permitting them to • nu I I wear a brilliant uniform, the coat of DEF inhpric , which is a bright blue with crimson I L m, ! collaan r d cuffs embroidered with geld. I n utwula The coat and waistcoat have gold • Inittone ornamented with the crown Iand the initials. of the Grand Duke, The Suspected .Slayer of August Pleiffer trottsers are white, with a gold 'stripe .11.M.41 :Estranged, From fills Wife He Asked Her to Listen lenburg richoolmaster will wear a cod:— , down the side. On Ids head the Meek- the Accused. ed hat in the colors of th o Clrand at a Speaking Tube, Then Shot Himself. I Dllelli: from which a gold tassel will .Newspaper Accounts of Death of with a gold hilt. If the professor is of Girl and a Soldier found, depend, The finishiug touch is a rapier Little Girl Clubbed Into Insensibility in Her Own of yg epau e 8, noble birth or extraction he may add a Horne M Nev, York. by a " Black Hand." One drawback to this boon in the Also " Holmes "ad " Raffles " eyee of some of the Mklenburg tea ecch- I es is the fact that ehe uniform will Literature. cost a year'e income, or even more, for Pictures Were Turned to the Wall and Money "1"Y of them are not earning more New York, Sept, 25.—01oating, over Demanded and Also Property Stolen, Now York, Sept. 23.---eAssenting ee- . "Well tvlitte is it you want to say?" soiED BuRamts than $100 a year, fl luctantly to listen to one hist word "I donnt 't wato say anything.," was from her husband from whom she was the reply, "only listen closely." drowned -estralYgedo Mrs. Henry Koch, prete,ed pistol. lottershowed that Kochhad voice wits in the report of the 1115 WHILETHEYSIL her car to the 8 iienking, tube 'ceding planned41W his suicide. • PT from the ventibule of fl11 apartment The Black Hand. house in East New York to her apart- Given No Onoortunity to Use Their • New York, Sept. 25.—Irene Grossman, es- -a suent yesterday. A moment later she a girl 10 years old) was found -clubbed Revolvers. hallway of her bad aprimk back with „ciy of fear, up into insensibility in the the tube there eame the muffled report home in Went 142nd street, this morn- eif a revolver. Ten minutes later Ix% i:tf3.0 ite refit, Jias aulmipation of Chloroform Included in the Robbers' srnan ence, which were intend - man had called his wife to the speak- al to force, by "black hand" methods, big tube to hear him shoot himself. payments of money for immunit from attack. Beginning Friday ni Koch was a well to do tail • li • initton pronouneed Koh dead. The es • os y (arms into the g a negro 01; ng 111 visited nightly, appearing only to Miss wmettesberg. He and bis wife had sep- Grossman and eseaping .n frighten.nted some time ago, the husband re- et' bY her screams. Bespite the look - tabling the old home, which was presid- out set for him by the family he eue- ceeded to -day in reaching Miss Gross- ed over by their 1 0-3•ear-old daughter, man before she had a chance to give a 'Mamie, and the wife takieg, up her re- warning. The girl's brother told the ;shine° in East New York with three police that his sister had started for an younger children. The wife told the po. early morning walk when she was at - Bee that it was impossible for her to tacked. He heard her scream and ran 3ive happily with her husband. In a into the hallway, where he found her Retter found after his death, Koch deunconecious, but saw nothing of the elared the woman had forsaken him. man. Koch not only besought- Mende to After the clubbing the police found two bring about a reconciliation but called pictures in the Grossman home with to plead with Ids wife to return to demanding, money written on the backs. himself frequently in East, New York their faces turned to the wall and notes him. Of late elle refusecl to admit him. On the Welt of a, photograph of Mrs. Ile appeared at the house early yester- Grossman was written: day and after ringing the bell was ac- "We expect $90 from you, B.F.-C." costed through the speaking tube. Ile On the back of one of her daughter's asked. his wife to receive him, which pictures was written in the same hand: elm refused to do. lie pleaded with re • "We expect $200 from you. B. P.C." to come down to the door, which was likewise refused, Then Koch begged, lier In the two previous visits to i,110 house the burglars had stolen several valuable to listen it little longer. "Listen, won't pictures end more than $400 worth of you?" he pleaded. "1 promise you 1 silverware 1 II never ask you to listen again to Miss Grossman's injuries are not be- rme." lieved to be dangerous. ROBBER BA1[D BY A WOMAN. Broke Into a Brampton the Wrist but A Brampton despatch: Shortly after midnight last night Mrs. Jas. Ward, who lives alone with her two young sons, lras awakened by a man who immedi- ately seized. her wrist, telling her to keep still, ond then demanded a large sum of money which he said lie knew she had checked out of the bank the day CUBA RESTLESS. Campaign Believed -Inevitable by the 41k-- Army and Navy. 1Srew York, Sept. 24.—The Tribune publishes the following from Washing- ton: Nothing official eanne from Cuba to -day, but nevertheless ouurrences such as those at Cienfuegos this week ,rvhen the American arins over the Con- sulate were for the second time deified and a prominent -Cuban was killed in a political affray, awaken anxiety in army and navy Circles. Officers of both ser- vices are taking account of their readi- ness for active service and feel that they are getting nearer to a campaign, which many of them believe is inevit- able before a great while. These officers look upon the present national campaign as likely to give rise to provocation which the United States cannot avoid meeting in the only manner possible to avert a State -of anarchy and to prevent the annihilation of all the prosperity which this country has cre- ated. One of the highest ranking and best posted officers of the army, who served tin the island at the time of the Allred - occupation, said to -day: .-"Cuba, may be able to take care of herself for it few years, but the United States will surely have to take hold in the long ran. We all knew that when we evacuated °alio and everything that has occurred since has merely strength- ened the conviction. • Whether the repub. lie there will last another year or two ,or fall in the present -election, the first onducted without the supervision of American troops, will make little differ- ence. Inquirice made at the State Depart- ment to -day by several more or less in- terested persons regarding the author- ity of the United States to intervene in Cuban affaire, land troops - or take other Measures to suppress tiots and restore order in the event of further political disturbances, were replied to with an emphatic declaration of the plenary -powers -of this country. Atten- tion was called to repeated efforts of the Cuban Government to (cape the Crisi- ecially of article III, which itsserts Ons of the Platt amendment, and that "the Government of Cuba consents that the President of the United States niay exercise the right to inter - Vend 1 or the protection of life, proper- ty and individeal liberty." Arms for Cuban Liberals, New 'York, Sept. was learned yesterday from it trustworthy souree that several Shipments. of ammunition Imre been made from this oity within the last few weeks to members of the Liberal party in Cuba. These supplies were purchased front it firm which fur- bished melt of the war material to the Cuban theta at the time of the last rebellion and Wilr4 shipped elandestinely its merehattdise to escape the attention 01 Constil-General Zftyas in this city. 1711.St Work on Grand Trunk Padific. Portage la Prairie, ;Sept. N.— AVork It -the Grand Trunk ravine is progress- ing rapidly and itlretuly tell miles of grade is complete/I iv'L of hoe. Sire- eentract of 117 miles will be finish- ed, it is expected, by November I. House, Seized Her by Got No Money. before. Mrs. Ward pluckily rCineted but finaily told the man where to find the money. The midnight visitor locked her in her room and went after the money. Mrs. Ward then raised her window and screatned, but when the neighbors ap- peared the burglar had disappeared, but without the money, this not being in the place indicated. Mrs. Ward says she can identify the miscreant, CENSURES KiNG. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REGRETS HE DID NOT LISTEN TO MAJORITY. Budapest, Sept. 25.—The Executive Comtnittee of the coalition parties sum- moned to discuss the situation arising front the ultimatum presented to the Ifttegarian leaders by the King -Emper- or has passed what amounts to a se- vere vote of censure on His Majesty and his advisers. The committee in the reso- lution expresses the deepest regret that the King -Emperor did not listen to the statesmen summoned by him to Vienna who represent the majority in the Hun- garian Parliament and constitute there- fore the leaders of the nation in its public affairs. The eimmittee further indignantly ceesured those who advised Hie Majesty to. take such a course and approves the action of the coalition leaders in de- clining to nee°othrte with Count Gout- ouchinksi andin declining the memor- andum presented. by the Ring -Emperor as a violation of the constitution and unsuitable for the settlement Of the pre- sent constitutional conflict. GAYNOR AND GREENE. Th e Writ of Habeas Corpus Quashed by Judge Ouimet. Montreal, Sept. 24.—John F. Gaynor and Benjamin D. Greene, famous fugi- tives from Georgia, will likely be obliged to return to that State and stand trial on a charge of having embezzled about two million dollars of Government money. At least, that was the decision announced yesterday by Justice Onimet, before whom argument was made on a habeas corpus petition presented on be- half of the prisoners. The prisoners throughout their fight against extradi- tion have been defended by two of the ablest lawyers in the Province, Messrs. T. C. •Casgrain C., of Montreal, and Mr. Alex. Tasehereau, X. C., of Quebec. Whether these gentlemen have arrived. at the end of their resources remains to be seen. At any rate, it seems that there Is plenty of money for them to take any course they might suggest. The legal battle has cost more then a million dollars and lute been in progress in Canada more than three years. ....- UNIFORMS, BUT NO MORE PAY. (11 th German Teachers Get Curious Answer di to Complaint of Poverty. Berlin, Sept. 24,--Sotue time ago a number of German minor poets, indig- nant nt the miserably inadequate eash rewar(1 of their flowers of speech. formed themselves into aunion to maintain a minimum rate,- m lee in . - fixed themselves. The. German school- 1(1s masters have now made a complaint, 111 particularly the Mecklenburg teachers, 'ot who, although they enjoy the title of wi professor and are now employes of the tit Goverment, Ar4 the WONt paid. Tiede - emetics in the rathethind. Their pover- ty is such that nearly 70 per cent. of them ere obliged to 'eke ,out a livelihood by taking other offices, such ns eexton, th organist, euetioneer, Me. wi The Minister of Edueittion of Meek- , lenburg Itits given ear to their con- ee. plaint, iiiit with true ineight info en num natuve lets- solaced thein without eel Outfit. Shadowed Girl Whose face ;lad Been Seen in Photograph, Toronto, Sept. 25,—With reports of stolen jewelry, including the Itytie rob- bery, for this month creeping up in the neighborhood of $10,000, and a big in- crease in the number of highway crimes, the arrest early yesterday morning of Fred, Wilson, or Watson, and Thomas Morse at their boarding house on Wilton avenue, is regarded by the police as most important. Each man had it loaded revolver under his pillow, and in the same room were found masks, slouch hats, cartridges, a chisel, brace and bit, a dark lantern and two candles, The men had with them in the room two Topa() girls, who had been living at the address it week or ten days. One of the girls was allowed to go home with lier father, and the other is de - tamed rn the custody of the police matron until some inquiries are made about her friends on Van liarne street. 'The arrest of the two men was made quietly, and before the people in the house were up, Detectives Forrest and Mackie, who have been watching the movements of the men for some days, knew that they usually retired very late and would probably be in bed quite early in the morning. The detectives were admitted to the house by the occupant, who directed them to the room occupied by Wilson and Morse. They used a duplicate key, and without further ceremony placed the haudeuffs on the sleeping ien. Both awoke to find themselves chained to detectives, overpowered, and disarmed. Morse was tben in bed and Wilson on a mattress on tbe floor. Wilson and Morse before leaving for the police station were given time to dress, and presented a gentlemanly ap- pearance on the street. They wore short light overcoats and new clothes. A search of the room revealed the revolvers under the pillows, and the masks, tools, candles and dark lantern, • which, the police say, all go to make up burglars. outfits. Another impoetant find was a small bottle of ether about three parts full, which was yesterday analyzed by a local. chemist. The stuff was bundled up and, with the prisoners, was taken to the mlice station. Morse is not known to the Toronto police, and they will attempt to findeout omething about him. Ho claims to be moray years old. The other, who gives lie name of Fred Wilson, hits beenre- cenized as a man wanted at Port Huron 11 der the name of Watson for robbing Ile home of the commissioner of police The circumstances attending the arrest f Wilson here are interesting„ and no Pete credit is due Detective Forrest. 'mese was in Sarnia ttbout two months go after it prisoner, and while there was sked to see some men under. arrest at ort Huron charged with burglary. Re ould nob recognize either of them, but ot all the information possible about a hird man named Watson, who was be - eyed to have come on to Toronto, 'here he has or had relatives in the uburbs or who have gone, to Rochester, • Y. A photograph of a woman wbo as supposed to have gone with Wale on was handed to Forrest, who returned o Toronto, About ten days ago Detee- ve Forrest say a woman on George sect resembling the one whose photO- -aph had been given him in Port uron. He closely shadowed her, be- am° convinced that she was the we- an mid thus obtained the clue to the ace Where Watson was found. The• liners waited for an opportune time make the arrest, which came yester- y morning. The occupant of the house was only st beginning to suspect that .some- ing was wrong when the detectives in- rviewed him. He hnd told the men to ave, and they promised to go on TUC:3. y, when they expected to depart for ttsburg, mid take the girls with them. CAYLEY HALF -BURNED. 1 131 a a t, 11 11 ti gi st IT 111 PI of to da ju th te 10 de Pi the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and nettles, until overwhelmed by the fictioit of crime, Joseph Girard, might by the police of the entire country as the poesible slayer of Augueta Pfeiffer, is believed to have killed and plundered la emulation of the villains of romance. At least three such crimes are now laid at the door of the fugitive front West Utast:or village, and it is considered alto- gether likely that more may be brought to him. The hunt is narrowing down to a small section of West Mester county, south and -east of Peekskill, and armee men eearched the undevbrush anti gloomy ravines all last night. A famished luau, resembling the fugi- tive, is known to be hiding in the eatne somewhere on the top of Spitzberg moun- tain. To -day hundreds of men will join the hunters, who will be direceed by the detectives of the Bronx bureau and the police of Peekskill. Through some inexplicable circum. stance the detectives Who searched the room -occupied by Girard in the Klein house omitted to search the pockets of an old overcoat left behind by the run- away, and gave no heed to a large collec- tion of the stories of Doyle and flor nung. Tales of Two Murders, Detective Sergeant Price, who is 111 charge of the Bronx bureau, caused new search to be made yesterday, and in the pockets of the overcoat found clip- pings from newspapers referring to two crimes. -One was th-e murder of James 3. Hammitt, a soldier, and the other de- tailed the slaying -of Elizabeth Davis, whose body was Lound' in the Wallkill River last March. The clippinabdescribed the fate of th girl was illustrated. It occurred to Prie that the scraps of paper might bee some relation to the suspected man' .movements, and inquiry established sug gestive circumstances which led the po lice to believe that Girard slew the gh found in the Wallkill andthe young sol diet of Fort Schuyler. In order that th singular circumstance may be understood it rs necessary to review the alines which preceded the murder of Miss Pfeif fell'''. 3. Denny, captain of a • tugboat, found the body ol. it soldier floating in West Chester creek, 500 feet nortli of the Unionport bridge, July 28 of last year. The body was identified as that of James T. Hammett, a private of the Eighteenth Company of the Eightieth Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Schuy- ler. The soldier had been slain by a bayonet thrust fourteen inches deep. There was a bruise on the left hip and two ribs were fractured. ' Hammett, who was the son of a weal- thy planter of "Nashville Tenn., Ind re- turned from. a short furlough: He had considerable money, and on his way back to the fort stopped in it road house kept by William Kriunstick, in West Chester. He was accompanied by Richard M. Spencer, a corporal of his battery. Two civilians and a woman, Emma Chase, were there, and all drank. The identity of the men has never been discovered. It is known, however, that Girard fre- geuntly visited the place, and it is known that lie was in the vicinity on the night preceding the finding of the body. The murdered soldier had been robbed and his cap was subsequently .found in front of the stable where Girard was then working. In spite of the utmost ex- ertions of the police, the nmrderer was never apprehended. At one time as many as eight witnesses were confined in the House of Detention. When aeked why he did not come in lie baid he had not been invitel. rinally be added that 48 MM., Aft131011 111104 119t known him he wrestled no met clee To Mra, Mahon ho explained that he had been tramping as far as Alhaiy, where he hall been arrested and imprIbened toi a month for vagrancy. Girard mysteriously Jett the West Chester house two (1ays before the Davis murder was discovered, arid returnee a wek later, dirty and dishevelled. 1Vhou asked where he had been he desired to be let alone, It is now recalled by Mrs. Mahon tha at least six times, Girard bed unaccount nbly abseixte1lhimself from a week to two months during the last three years that upon his return angrily resented inquiries as to his movements. Once he said a, woman should never get Itim into her power, and that be "vould not blab," At another time whea Harned grew facetious over Girard's anxiety as to whether any one had asked for him during the absence f 1 • e sco.- cry of the body of Bennett, he muttered that "dead men tell no ales," Harried thought best to change the subject, RDIJI[DJIIS WIFE AND COMMITHD: SUICIDE A Geneva, Obio,Man Escapes from a Cleveland In- t sane Asylum and Commits the Double Deed. ' Two White Men Quarrel Over a Negro Woman at Oyster Bay and Murder Results, Reference to M., de Witte in a Chicago Synagogue Raises a Riot Which Police Quell. Revelled in Crime. Under Girard's pillow was found the latest Sherlock Holmes story of Sir Conan Doyle, and upon the bureau in his mem, neatly folded, were the extra series of Holmes and Raffle stories. Ile had marked particularly curdling pas. sages and heavily underscored the pic- ture of one of Doyle's murderers, Sherlock Holmes and Raffles were the only subjects which could draw Girard out of his taciturnity. He wenld talk for houre of the exploits of his heroes, and when the newspapers would comment upon crimes he would point out how 'felines would work out the case. It seemed to have convinced himself that the great crindual investigator of fiction was a real creature, The Herald yesterday told the story of the discovery of a suspect in the wild country south of Peekskill. Yesterday' Detectives Sawing and Farrell, of the Bronx bureau, and the entire Peekskill police force searched along the river front, from a point two miles south of Jeekskill to that place. The suspect had applied for work 011 Wednesday at A. F. Buchanan & Son's oilcloth factory, at Centreville, it mile south of Peekskill, and again called there on Thursday morning. Ire 117118 seen by A. Reynolds, who lives in Montrose, who fed him, and during Thursday was seen skulking in a forty acre lot on the King's Ferry road. The country is overgown with th!oket and is marshy in spots. It is an ideal spot wherein to hide. A ravine rims e under the railroad tracks well up on the side of Spitzberg Mountain, south and east of Peekskill, where are several 3 deep natural caves known only to hunt- . ers. It is believed the man may be hid- - ing in one of these. Search the Caves. • e i Last night the police were still search - ng the locality, and a score or more of aidents in the section, armed with all orts .01 weapons, were searching hide- endently. In some manner the rumor as got abroad that it reward of $1,500 as been offered for the capture of the unuelerer, and the constables from most of the towns in Westchester are now on the ground hunting, in the hope of earn- ing the reward. • Late last night it report from Mount - Vernon indicated that the fugitive may have made his way toward that place. Capt. Burfeind was notified that a man closely resembling the published portrait of Girard had been seen in the woods west of the town. He sent detectives to search the barns and boat houses there and in New Rochelle. s e UNDIGNIFIED AND UNJUST. Benchers Against Retired Judges Re- suming Law Practice. ' P li Very Little Insurance on the Pro- perty. • Calgary, Sept. 23.—On Tuesday after- noon the town of Cayley, a small place i the Calgary and MacLeod branch of e 0, P. 11,, was visited by it most sastrous fire. Henry's general :store was burned, together with half the buildings of the town. 'rho fire started _ in the store, and, nided by it strong wind which was blowing at the time, quiekly spread t adjoining strnetures. There is no fire protection, and tte 11 result a good portion -of the town is a.slies. It is enderstond Mr. Henry's s is partly eoverea by insurance, but ere is very little insuranee an the her buildings. The telegraph office ts Jointed in the burned gore. and de- iled particulars itre unavailable. British Tokio, Murder of a Girl. Floating in the ice in the Wallkill river late in March last, was found the body of a young W0/110.11, Which was fin- ally identified as that of Elizabeth Da. vis, a niece of oJseph Davis, a New 'Srork policeman, The young 11,0111110 had been struck down and her tkull crushed. There were other wounds upon the body, tige gestine that the mureerer lind slain her in annleamicidal frenzy. She had been treated pi-ecisely as was Miss Pfeiffer, and was identified by means of one of her shoes. At first it was supposed that the victim was Mrs. 1Villiarn Eade; and she was so identified by her bus - Tile atrocity of the murder and the mystery surounding it attracted wide at- tention, ,ana the police of the entire country sought to unravel the came But Lite assassin was never discovered, and no one WAS seriously suspected. Finally the crime Willi forgotten. It was reviv- ed yesterdny through the clipping treas. ured by Girard.. Through inquiry of Airs. Mahon, with whom Girard boarded for three years, and of Harnett, Ids friend and fellow - boarder, it was learned that, following the discovery of the Hammett and Davis murders, Girard had acted in a guilty_ manner. At the time of the Hammett murder lie wns working in a stable near the hotel where Hammett spent his lesst night on earth. Detective Piie is rtothority for the assertion that Girard and Emmett were acquainted and were 80C11 together on the day previous to the latter's death. Hrs. Mahon recalls that Girara obtain - ea a newspaper on the morning, fellow -- Mg .the discovery of the body. Ito was standing on the porch when be (Tema I the nmvspaper mid saw the etartlieg headlines. Hastily folding the paper, the man raninside the house, and within n few minutes disappeared. For two I *no Toronto, Sept. 25.—The Bencliers of the Law Society of tipper Canada, at a largely -attended meeting held. at Osgoode Hal, adopted the report of the Discipline Committee, dated June 10, 1003, and cir- culatedamong the Benthere, which was in part as follows: "A barrister, upon his -elevation to the Bench, is withdrawn from the arena or practice, and all that is incident to the position of counsel and the profes- sion. The public look upon the office with esteem, and regard its occupants with feelings' of respect, and nothing should be permitted whereby a retired Judge could have the opportunity to be engaged in professional business, the mere fact tending to lower the dignity of the high office formerly held, and so react upon the Bench at the time exist- ing—the resumption of practice has. a tendency to impair and lower that dig- nity, which should be upheld, as well off as on the Bench. "Again, it appears to the committee that it rethsd judge resuming practice is an net of injustie to the members of the profession—especially is it so in the case of Judges of the Comity Court, where it may readily be supposed that the prestige, experience, influence, ansa sook1 position the Judge has acquired in his county will have weight with the public to his own advantage, and to the corresponding disadvantage of other and younger members of the profes- sion. "The committee is prepared to advise that the retired JUdge by the accept - tome of office as Judge lost the office of attorney and solicitor, and, therefore, cannel; return to practice as such. "The committee reeommend that the Attorney -General of Ontario do intro- duce legislation to repeal every statut- ory duty assumed. to be assigned to a retired Judge." DEATH OF W. G. HANNAH. — Toronto Barrister Succumbs After it Brief Illness. Toronto, Sept. 23.—Wi1littin G. Han- nah, the Toronto barrister, died yester- day morning at his residence, 104 Park 'ortd. Though suffering front licerettron- ble for some time, Mr. Hannah had been confined to hie bed only it week. Ile eaves a 'Widow, II daughter, and two sons, George Hannah, of the Crown kink, and Beverley Hannah, at school. 1eceased had been a member of Holy V .` i't,• (lioteli f • ltiaity ycars, biit jate- 31' joined the St. Paul's (Anglican) con- gregation, Ife 11'88 this eldest soil ofellie tete Charles Cote Hannah, of 'York County, 11(1 had lived in Toronto la for the st 011.3'years. He coniment•ed practice.* at 1 be bar in pnrimership with Thanes fenry Thee, and enntinued in practice Intl' a short time before his death. Ile narried Gertrude, the second daughter of he late rAgar Ilarker, of Dunnville. 0 Minneapolis Times 8ttspenda, i Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 24.— The t timmapolis I'imes, in ite issue Of to - ay, animmeed its suepeneimi of pub- 4,; icatin o. The announmnt, ceesaes; in : iwt: "Sieteen years of earnI est effort t O put the riper 011 a. paying ba -tie hae 1 wove(' the futility of slid' an Under- 1 irking." a nths nothing was heard from him. Girard is a Tromp, 111' (lily 41, tramp (vane to Lae back 1 e of the lumen where Girard bad riled and askisd for Airs. Malone lle ited to know where Girttrd was, be . anti when asked who he himself a 150(1150(1why he made inquiries, f 1115 explained that ho was Guava's t they. Ile wanted to know if 1115- had teem nutldug impales about duriug his eliteuee and whether -t one lied spoken ill of him or accused t of any. trim Becoming alarmed he believing ssaw a dose resemble aee rem the 1017(11) 111111 the missinn• tar - gat .t1)511:1 14.„11 ‘ sIlis(1 wa trot bro 1114111111;1; utlld tondo, llondy.Sept. 25. ---The Daily ard legraph's , eoteespondent says 1111(1 at the British Far Eastern tquallron II assemble in, Tajo Pay ratty in Tie- 1111 8's1', n 11 ('1 the ratifieation of the Ras. Atte, Japanese peace treaty, and the Jay- • 1 1 esc fleet will also assemble at the 17000 lic place, long Geneva, Ohio, Sept. 23.--W1lliam W, Harvey, 23 years old, living at Harper's Field, shot and killed iiie wife yesterday and then killed himself. Harvey had been confined in an insane asylunt in Cleveland, but escaped a few days ago and came home. He was to have been • - returned to the asylum. to -day. -Shot in tt Quarrel. New York, Sept. 25. --In it quarrel be- tween two white men over the affectious of a negro woman, a murder W48 com- mitted last night in Oyster Bay. The victim was John Murray, a laborer. He was shot by an Italian, who escaped, with the authorities in pursuit. The murder occurred in stn alley, just off one of the principal streets of the town. Trouble in a Synagogue, Chicago, Sept, 23.—T1ie police were called to quell a. riot last night in the Russian Synagogue, Clinton and Judd streets, where Adolph Kraus was ad- dressing a Jewish meeting. Several per- sons received slight, wounds and ten men mid women were arrested. Mr. Kraus wee giving an accouut of hie interview with Mr. Witte, the Rus- sian envoy at Portsmouth, at which he asked justice for the Jews throuteei Mr, Witte' s good offices, "We may trust the word of 31r. Witte that he will -do all in Itis power to ameliorate the eufferiege of the -Jews," Mr. Kraus Ives saying, when suddenly a member of a Jewish Society sprang to his feet, "Do you trust a Russian politician?" he shouted. Before aft. Kraus 'had time to answer there was a shout from several hundred men and women in the .audience; "Down with Witte!" "Down with tyranny:" came the shouts. While the excitement was at its height the doors of the synagogue -were locked and some -one telephoned for the police. In a few minutes several petrol wagons filled with officers were on hand. The leaders were arrested and the meeting was dispersed. MINES BOOMING IN VLADIVOSTOCK. Nearly a Hundred Protests Against Peace Terms --Want Cabinet to Resign. Vladivordock, Sept. 25.—The old time business activity of this city is rapid- ly reviving since the proclamation of peace. The inhabitants who left here during the troublous times, are return- ing, commercial and industrial life is re- suming and foreign steamers and sailing vessels with freight are already arriv- ing. Forty-five foreign steamers are ex- pected from Hong Kong and Shanghai shortly. The municipal authorities have received inquiriesm frothh•ty American ntincerning the acquirement of business quarters at Vladivoetock. The Japanese firms are also coming in and are preparing to lease ground on which NEWS /IN BRIEF 11 to erect buildings. Russians also are organizing companies to dbal In far .estetern products. Protesting Against Treaty. Tokio, Sept. 24.-5 pan. --The Duper - or is giving personal attention to the memorials presented to the throne against the terms of peace arranged with.Russia. These memorials now num- ber nearly it hundred. The agitators who are trying to interview privy council- lors advotate the refusal to ratify the treaty of peace and the public is al- most unanimous in demanding the re- signation of the Cabinet. Even the mod- erates do not conceal their grief at the,. - result of the negotiations. SLEEPING WHALE WAS HIT, Was Right in the Path of the Steamer S New York, St.Andrew.ept.24.—The lookou t aboard the Phoenix Line freighter St. Andrew, in yesterday from Antwerp, _ noilced dead aimed. on Wednesday morn - big, nine' the ship was about ninety miles east of Sable Islaed, a giant whale *- of the razor back species. The look - n out did not think it worth while to call the attention of the -officer on the bridge to the whale, supposing that it had sense enourth to get out of the way. of a heavily Jaden steamship. But it did not budge, and the lookout began making urgent signals to the bridge, in- t (edentates- shouting to the whale. - The offieer on the bridge also saw the whale and decided that it was asleep. lie set the ship's whistle tooting, but the whale did not move. It was not used to sea alarm docks Mal by steam. • But it woke ll'itll 11 start, when the stem he of tSt. Andrew hit it near its tail, and. waving bloody flukes in the air, it vimished under the era, leaving it red wake. 3t appeared egain apparently only elightly damaged, and took it long look at the freighter, perhaps with a view of recognizing her rext time. It probably will not be caught asleep again in the Several eoal ears on the Pere Mai quette Railway were wrecked at Londo through rails spreading. • The Russian battleship Itetvizan which was sunk at Port Arthur, was re floated by Japanese engineers yesterday The barns of R. Russell, one-half mile west of Ethedden, were burned. with large amount of crops and other pro petty. Fifteen thollSand Persian workmen :have been expelled from the oil region at Baku, and a similar number are to Mien them soon. An expedition into lare desert of Sa- hara, beaded by Baron -de Forest, is said to have the support ut the British Gov- ernment The Toronto Board of Education has refused to erect a high school cast of the Don. The Provincial Exhibition at Halifax has dosed, after a continuous run of bad weather. 1 Nine new churches are in course of erection in Winnipeg this year, and seven are being enlarged. Hon. Nelson Monteith said in an in- terview that the Government farm at Dryden would probably be Bold. It is estimated that 6,000,000 persons have visited Coney Island during the present season. The Santa Fe elevator in Chicago, eon - tabling 845,000 barrels of grain, was de- stroyed by lire on Sunday. Two Belleville sports shot a, big tim- ber wolf at West Macoon Lake. A dredge of the Lake Erie Dredging Company foundered in a gale off Dun- kirk. The London Times .says that trade conditions generally continue most sat- isfactory. In rt. roand-up of several gambling 'houses at Montreal, (13 arrests were made by the police. The McCall' Street Methodist Church, Toronto, Was coeseerated with quaint ceremoniee as a Jewish synagogae. Co-operation between the University of Chicago and a number of railroad of- ficials has resulted in the establishment of it. four year course in railway edam - S. 'Minister Leishmann is malting the result of Consul -General Diekenson's inquiry into the naturalizatiou of Ver. tanian and Afarian before inking furth- er steps. The. American steamer Berme:met, Capt, endis, last repotted to hew, sailed from San Francisco for Nikolaivsk, has beeti seized by the Japanese north of the island of Seklutlin. A large increese in the nnmber ef Russian troops/ in Vinland ie expected shortly. About 4,300, it is eivel, will be sout to Delsingfors, e00 to Vitera 81111 100 to Vnee. The troops will be guar - tenni in private houses. Commanding officers of the Catholie iluiights nf Ameriea ansi of the Knights of SI. iTohn took the first step at Chi - ago yesterday toward amelgainating -all Catholic military Were in the (sundry miler the general name of reatholie and - el -7 Federation of America. Physidans, sargeons and battetiolo- ista from all parts ef the rnittel States Ind from Caned& and Mexico have pomp . Boetot1 to attend the thirty-third an - mai inc,,ting of the American Public • Ivalth Assoeiation, which •oneued to -day, nil will continue until rritlay night. , Mrs. Mallon hurried into the house beamight llarnell to go 'out to lam, 11, ing the young man shti believed tile d tramp was Girard'a very self (lis-. 1 ed. aimed. tblis frirmeareed, immediately t, ettixed Girard in the tramp, who • 1 lied aml renewed his questions. t steamship lane. TONS OF DYNAMITE, Vessel Obstructing SIM Canal Will Be Blown Up. Port Said, Sept. 21.—Seventy tons of dynamite will be exploded in the Suez . Canal next Thursday. It lies among the other cargo ill the hold of the British steamer Chatham, which was compul- sorily slink on Sept. 0, owing to the ungnenchable fire aboard it, which threatened to reach the dynamite. Traffic past the hulk has been dan- gerous, and only the most experienced pilots are trusted to take vessels by it. The removal of the obstruction prey- ing otherwise impracticable and the risk of an accidental explosion increas- ing, the mat commission has decided to blow up the meek. The effect of the explosion on the sides and bed of the canal cannot be foreseen, and it is expected great dam- age will be (lone. BROCKVILLE WOMAN MISSING-, Mrs, Stephens, Over Eighty Years Old, Has Disappeated. Ilroekville, Sept. 23. --Mrs, Cornelius Stephens, 0171117 eight:lr years of age, left her residence on Saturday last .atid has not bees heard of siece. She was a widow, her husband, who died recentlte having been it pensioner of the British .Army. She appeared greatly troubled its to what was to become of her if the, pen- sion were cut off. Relatives say that she was peculiar-, mid there wits no dan- ger of her being in want, She had rat- tiVe8 Rhin in Toronto.. iler daughter, Mrs. Russell, vannot Nutt for her dieappearance, as she left home after telling a friend that she wig; gobig to reside with Mrs. Dyer on Water street, but ishe has not been there. The police fad 110W inVefitiglItillt.r. PaSs1 at Singapere. Londom Sept. 114. —The Sunday Oh- erver 11.,y4 that the British Govern - molt has deeided to establish a naval Jesse at Singepme as part, of a last new ;whew of Imperial &fetter. whieh in- elndes the emnpulsory purchase of tly:,e Tanjonpawir ducks. SPINAL MENINGITIS. Ottawa, Sept. 23. ---Cerebro spiral men- ingitis has again broken 001 10 , 1 orbalton and lfuntley mid lam also appeared at South Mardi and Ninth March, Carleton Comity, where it did not beforo