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The Wingham Advance, 1905-11-09, Page 7CZAR GRANTS FINNS' DEMANDS. tn—^1 4942/1"t /h. Jr_ w erect:ea in tWo. Timee peop were De' 0 NEw °Fit( ' t I to I . ; Arthur 'Cooley, Imre/Aryl ten rile% in , • , , . ' ea after by the stewards, .and when they ' 1 1.baa already taken action to stop thia !THE BAvARIAN2s .1i.gracettil proceeding. IReleased Prisoners. • St, Petersburg, Nev. 0. --Many toteelo - Mg seems were witnesaed yesterday when the politleal prisoners were re- leased under the, amnesty decree.. um y ouri( icinse Nee 011 to o R OR, 0 I' 11 I 1 1:1 1 1 k tl fOST BACKBROKEN, their fears and induced OM to return rut CONGO..yealli Kingsto'n Penitential - Joel° Carr, maingaughtere wen year*, " y Kingston renitentiery. Jelin Guthrie erlentual assault; fl Ey. t INC , John Downs, criminel :mama; six ere of the ship, who were cool stud Kingston Penitentiary. collected, after gime Moments calmed LO their staterooms to dress whien ,Inapreagp•-•••••,k. ter some time they did. .A11 he of - months in the Ceittaill Prison, I At the Sclatisselbura fortress 1)e Marco% lonelier; tearY.0 Czar Abolishes Dictatorship and Cou.. ti el Most Costly Disaster in History of 10 most dungerous politica prisoners sleep was lost to them until they reach- The Commission Reports After five ease granted. tanebee on Saturday afternoon and vokes Diet, are kept in solitary confinement, a great the St, Lawrence. eoncourse gathered looking for loved • ;meg who vanished years ago and witose whereabouts. were Immo, lia only The Casualties at Odessa Number four were released. Disappointea women Tide Left the Steamer Perched on a loralenko and a comrade who saki they Rock. waitieg for sons, husbanas or brothers Nearly Six Thousand, broke down and wept. A man named Disorders Reported from Many Other Parts of Russia, Loudon, Nov, 6. --The Odessa, care- spondent or the Standard, under date of Nov. 5, 5 p. 8endi further sense - Cone' acceunts a tile riots there, Ile says: "There have been more leorrify- ing, massacres and fiendislt cruelties, but the •dastriet where these took place are now cordoned by troops, Probalgy the ' total '<ellen will number 3,500 and the wounded 12,000. In tele suburbs of Mot- dovanka alone a thousand vietime re- mained in the streets from midnighb until noon, when the authoritita hasten- ed t•o collect and bury the boalee th great pits in order to eonceal their erumbera. Two private '<lector:1 attended more than 300 enildren of both seas, who nad been borribly gashed about the Need and ehoulders with sabres. "Heaping nieult -upon injury, the teen Governor to -day, when tile butchery had ended, asked the householders to sub - &alba $100,000 to pay the pollee Wrens - ed wages." U. S. Consul Confirms Story. . St. Petersburg, Nov. 5. --Thomas E. Heenan, the American Consul at Odessa, las sent a telegram 'to the Em- bassy. saying that since Tuesday the, bloody attacks upon the Jews con- tinued, and that he estimates Lite oune ber killed in the thousands. Artillery, he was, has. been employee to .eupprese t -he voting, and that the Jews have fired from winciews upon the troops in the streets. Fortunately, he adds, thus far American interests are unaffected, Freedom of Finland. IMI were placed in comfortable hotels, where Mouths' Inquiry, they will remain for .0104 days and then be given passage on the company's tur- bine steamer Virginian, to sail next Ft (lay evening. Probably ft Total Wreck, The Bavarian is said to be a total had. spent over 20 years in prison, came evreck, anti experienced mariners of this out with long white beards. They knew When Water Receded the Strain Be. city soy she .can aver be gotten off the came. Too Great for Vessel. Itt that, The 0,000 tons of cargo is being . a .g . (Sallee, Nov. 5. —Tile Allan Line Bible by a largo feral a 'workmen sent Royal Mitil rammer liavarlito Neva down to the •wreele from Quebec, and a owing to the lateness of the sea.son it is ashore on piday night last during snowstorm that rrevaRea ut wyo Root., fscan,i.ieultaitialia.stmei1)0, illetttebiantpteoem bbee Invoasdseibiteo, rocks except in pieces, and small piecee practically nothing about wlint had. eni- citron tiering their long imprisomnent. Sasoneff, the murderer of interior Min- ister Von Plelive; :Peter Karpovicn, the Of AnniateP of Public blame - tion Bogollepoffi Geralinni, the chief of the Anarchist conspiracy, and other ter- rorists, were not released. A large body of prisoners released from other prisons later visited various meetings and relat- ed their experiences. St. i'setersburg, Nov. 5.—The .inanifes- to of Emperor Nicholas granting the de - manila of the Finns has been signed and despabched to Helsingfore. 'It e0111'01C0A the Diet for Dec. 2 , aboliehee the dic- tatorship, reseinde Governor-General 3.3obrikoff's illegal eentetments, annuls Ow manifesto of Feb. 15, 1800, which pro- vided for common legislation in the em- pire, and all laws since enacted. It an- nounces that the :extraordinary Diet now convoked is for the revision of the Diet's electoral basis. Tho uka,se not miler places the Diet ia the control of the budget, but gives it sweepingpower to elaborate a new spa tem Of representation based on 'universal suffrage, and for a report to the Admin. istration which will make ib reaponsible ;before the Diet. The ukase provides for theformulation of laws giving praetiettl autonomy. The Emperor has acceptal the resignation of the entire Senate, and has virtnally promieed to remove Prince Rain Obolensky, Governor-General of Finland. The manifesto abrogating the illegal ordinances promulgated by Governor- General Bobrikoff in pursuance of lde policy for the Ruseification or Finland, and including the military law of 1001, is expeoted to relieve the situation in Finland, as they have been the prin- eipal causes- of discontent among the Charged With Bayonets, Tomsk, Russia, Nov. 0,—The troops toa day were forced to charge with bayonets against a mob winchwas pillaginrJew- 'sit nooses, A number were killed and many were wounded. The city is• half sacked. Sociallets Now Quiet. Helsingfers, Finland, Nov. 6, ---The Im- perial manifesto, meeting most, of the demands of the Finnish, arrived here late last night,. The Constitutionalists are satisfied and the Socialists, who threatened to make a demonstration, have thus far been quiet. Talked With Witte. St. Petersburg, Nov. O.—Prince Lvoff explained to tr10 Aesociated Press to- day that the deputation of the Moscow Constitutionalist -Democratic group, of which he is a member, which called on Count Witte yesterday, demanding the convocation of a constituent convention, believed that such a course was the only solution of the present situation. He added: • "Count Witte asked for our support and told. 'UR that our views more nearly corresponded with his than any other group. But .the support of no party can now stem tbe tide or affect the final development of the great national drama.. A constituent assembly elected by universal direct suffrage must formu- late guarantees for the liberties prom- ised in the manifeeto. It is better for the Government to realize this immed- iately than to travel the painful path over wbich the people will drag it. Count Witte told. us that universal suffrage was also bis final aim, but be disagreed with the methods we pro- posed, end seal that amidst tho present axcitement which daily was leading to bloody collision between the • different classes of the population, he did not consider it possible for the Government to take the responsibility of establishing universal suffrage. That step anust be taken by the national assembly itself."' DISEASE IS BENEVOLENT, The Opinion. Expressed by Sir Frederick Treves. New York, Nov. 5.—The kien has the following from Edinburgh: Sir Fred- erick neves, in an address before. the Philosophieal Society on the subjevt of disease, promelgated what appears to be a startling paradox, that disease, in - steed of beiug, as is generally supposed, inalignnnt, is really benevolee 1. Peo- ple lurve eonsidered every symptom of disease noxious, and that it ought to be stamped. out with relentless determin- :Wen, but, according to Sir Frederick the motive of disease is benevolent nud protective. 11' it were not for disease, be suid, the human race would soon be extieet. The leethrer took examples suah as n wound nett the supervening in flamma - Urea, which is a process .of cure to be im it a ed, rather than hindered, Peri- tonitis, he said, Was an operating eura geou'e beet: friend: wit-hout 11 every ex - met& of appendieitis would be fatal. The peemnonia of :tcough and a cold were In' the main mani 2i,tatioiis of a cure, Without them e eoranion cold :nigh t become in Iril. The ea in rrb n nd persistent sneezing were practical 'biletelitt 11'0111 tile nasal passage, and the cough of remov- ing the biteterla from the windpipe. Again, the whole of the manifestations of tuberculosis were expressions of em. flagging efforts on the part of the body to oppose the progress of invading bacteria. A The Massacres Continue. _ea Fatal eaeountars between the soldiers , tha populace and anti-Jewish ex. .cesses are reported from many plaers 111 the -provinces. • Yesterday anil to- day at Kremehug twenty persons were killed. and eighty injured. At latilitie a military train was in eollieion end nine soldiers were killed. After the eollision the revolutionari VS Op011ed rifle fine on, the train and the troops replied in kind. 'There weee several killed or injured on both sides. At Berdicheff several persons were killed. or injured. At. alinele sernme rioting -arose through the troops pre- venting a meeting 'of citizens. The troops fired, volleys, into. the crowde, and there was intermittent firing for a long time. A hundred were killed and 600 wounded.' Indescribable horrers are being witnessed every day. 'The massacre and .pillege of Jews continues at Kishineff. . With the resumption of telegraphie communication -ivith the army fl3v5 of the serious state .of affairs at Irkutsk and other stations in Trattsbaikal is has arrived here. On receiving the first information of the disorders in lilts - Ala a mob TOSry itt biattak, tOOk NS - session of the town, and grazed the way. Other towns followed snit, aud ;General Lineviteh, without waiting for orders item St. Peter -burg, sent ti0,006 ;troops. to Irkutsk to pot down the ris- ing,, and restored order there and at other stations. The Odessa Hotter. Odessa, Nov. 5.—The caeualties in Sat- urday'a disturbancee exceed 140, end those of the preceding three days, width IsaVP been verified, number nearly 5,000. The plundering continued enrly this morning in the outlying districts, but the towri throughout the day eves rela- tively ealm, though the population is kill anxious. Tlatest accounte of the he &vitiate - tion itt. tihe Jewish quarter oda ;horror to the eituation. Besides numerotte all -the bakeries, :chops, and nearly 600 homcshave been destroyed. The Jewe killed in every cifertinstance were treat - en with revolting barbarity. It is alleged that the police and sea diere everywhere marehed at the Ilead ealaa of mobs, exciting them to acietroy the jewa by trying "The Jews have killed our Emperor," aud singlet- expressions. 'While the mole; were. engaged in the slaughter the soldiers. "metedthemselves pillaging the eaeh i1jewels, leaving tho househol(1 geode to the mate, Tbe owners of many helves got rid of the banditeiby the payment of ft 1111150111 td the police. British Subiette Stiffered. kl opposite the Grosse isle quarantiae eta- until next season, tion, forty miles east of Quebde, and now The wreck of the Bavarian is keenly lies a totel wreck on the rocks, with bee felt by her owners, the Altana, of Mont- back,py as it, is s - broken, The disaster ie one of the the. second ch miter they have suffered to their fleet moat inexcusable and most costly ever this year in the St. Lawrence—the most costly in connection with nistory Victorian disaster west of Quebec in of the navigation of the St. Lawrence. September last, and now their third last The Bavarian arrived from Montreal 'vessel' the Bavarian, winch is a goat loss aud heavy blow to the line. This is with 250 passengers and. a general cargo I the fifth serious disaster to shipping in of 0,000 tons of freight on Friday after- the St. Lawrence this summer and at shed intervals—tbe wouncling of the noon last, and at 7 o'clock the same Leyland Line steamer Virginian and the eveaug moved down the river flout Que- Allan turbine steamer Vinctorian on the bec en route to Liverpool. According to same day, a serious collision between the reports the big ocean passenger ship Hamburg -American Packet Line steam - went down the St. Lawrenee at the rate er Euphemia and the Norwegian ; team - of four miles per hour, feeling :her way 1 er Tordenskjohl two weeks ago wese of eantiously, as the night was dark and the weather theca:ening. The next thinelama of the vessel was when the Quebec, aria now the Bavarian. Pilotage System to Blame. The latest misbap is the worst awest- news reached Quebec the following morn,- or of them all, and an example of the ing that the ship was ashore at Wye continual careless navigation of the $t. Rock. It was may after the passengers Lauwrence under the present alitege on board the ship were brought, back to system, the calls for prompt ilovern- Quebe,c Saturday evening on board the ment interference. The Quebec Cor - wrecking steamer Lord Stratbcona, that poration of Pilots is a dose corporation .the real feats of the extremely smious and a regular family compact. Only iiiishap could be learned. pilots' sons, nephews and cousins are ad - 11; appears front the various state- mated as apprentices. All these come inents given by the passengers, especi- from the parishes, and, strange to say, ally several who remainde up all night not only are outsiders debarred from the that, the Bavarian proceeded down the profession, ba not one English-speaking river at a slow rate of speed., and all apprentice has been admitted for many went well until 8 o'clock, when a snow- years past. The steamship eompenies storm came up that enveloped the ship are, however, as much to blame er the and made the passage difficult. Notwith- existing state of affairs as the pilots, standing the obscuriay, ,the vessel kept especially the regular lines who piek cut on and crept down . the river, until 10 and pay their own pilots such men only Wye Itock, which lies a quarter of a work for the company pilots, are engaged o'clock, when suddenly the ship ran on by. The result is tbnt the pilots in con - mile out into a mile -wide channel near neetion with these lines are without the the Ste Thomas shore, and close by independenceto act upon their own judg- where the Leyland Line steamer Vie- ,ginien went ashore in the earlier part of ment, and dare not disobey their =piny- ers when urged. to undue speed. the summer. BLAMES BOYCOTT. e. The Light Wits Gut. The only excuse given. for the mishap is that the night was dark, a snowstorm prevailed and the light on the Wye Rock A ROAD THAT WILL RUN ITS EN - buoy was out. As soon as the captain and pilot realized that tbey were ashore TIRE LENGTH NORTH AND SOUTH. they Ex - that the ship was On the rocks on the Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 7.—The Ex - made an investigation and found 'inside of the south side of the black pess says: Alaska will have a railway buoy. It was high water when the acci- it's entire length from north to south dent happened, and the head of the ship and giving communication with the out - was in shallow water, her midships over side world if plans which are being for - the rocks and, her stern free afloat in deep' water. The captain, pilot and offi- mutated in this city are carried out. feis of the big liner held a consultation, : Harry White, former Mayor of Seattle, when it was decided that owing to the - la at the head of the enterprise, which intense darkness that prevailed they inelades an application to Congeoles dine would make no effort to back the ship ing the (mining session for a • Govern - off under full steam until daylight. In merit subsidy. The idea, as °alined is the meantime they took soundings with for the Government to .guaranto bonds the lead and discovered that the vessel's of the proposed eompany, the promoters head was lying in two fathoms of water„ using, the credit, thus obtained to raise while on her starboard sido the depth the funds for building the line. Wafi twenty and on her port side thirty it is said that Senator Wm: W. Piles, feet. of Washington, will father the scheme Fergot the Tidal Fall. in Congress. If successful the enterprise will in - It appears that: the ship's officers and aolve an expenditure 0 Mout $40,000,-. pilot did not. take into considern O atio- K The road will be nee' rev f ive thou - then when the tide turned and low water sand miles in leatl, ' n .. 1 was reacbea• the water would have IO- 1 es : e. ceded thirteen feet, and that this would• make their position all the more clanger - ALASKA RAILWAY. Labor is a Necessary Tax It Declares. Detention. of Women as liostages .is Criticized. London, Nov, 5.—The commission eliargea by the ttoverement of the Con- go Free State to make an enquiry in the territory of the state sent in a report cm Oct, pa, The commission spent five months- in the lower ana upper Congo, and received the depositions of several hundred witnesses, including magis- trates, commercial agents, missionaries, and natives. All the hearings were pub- lic. The report on the whole expreeses the satisfaction of the commissioners, who declare that they were astonished at the meats achievea by the state in 25 years, A garter of a century ago the. territories were plunged in barbari- ty, and were inane decimated \Ingle Asab traders filled the slave markets. Now security reigns, the slave trade has disappeared, and caunibalisen is con- cealed. Towns have been:founded, and railways penetrate the very heart o:f the equatorial forest. Steamers ply on the Congo, and postal and telegraph services are working. The administra- tion occupies and administers efefetive- ly the affairs of the vast territory, and comes into contact with the natives nearly everywhere. The administration of justice is popular with the natives, The missionaries have effected a con- siderable advance in civilization along the Nile. The report declares that a tax in the form of labor is 'the only tax at pres- et possible, and it is indispensable, but the commission demands that the statutory limit of forty hours' work per month should. not be exceeded. In regard to various taxes, such as those on earth, nuts, manioc, bread, dried fish and game, there are no criti- cisms, but the report demands tbe sup- pression of timber cutting for the pur- pose of fuel for steamers wbereever pos- sible and. the replacing of it by a labor tax. The report points out that carry- ing is a tax which weighs most heavily on the natives -on account of the enor- mous quantity of loads, the sparsity of population ana the scarcity of Provi- sions along the route where railways bave not yet been built. The report suggests the else of waterways and the building of roads for automobiles, even if the carrying of the loads is made more costly. In regard -to the rubber tax the re- port says that in itself it is nob onerous, but the distance that a picker has to go renders it heavy. It suggests that the tax should be made collective, so that the times of payment should. be at longer intervals. The report criticizes compulsory labor, not as against guilt,y natives, but as it is exercised. against the whole community according to na- tive principles. It condemns the detention of women as hostages and the institution of na- tive. foremen osed by the tradina com- panies, evhose abuses of authotit; have provoked sanguinary conflict. It de - mends that a law be enacted which will clearly define the authorities who are eompetent to order warlike op- erations, pointing out that commer- cial agents have sent military expedi- tions to villages in spite of prohibition by the administratien. In regard to mutilation. the commis- sion declares that the whites have -never mutilated living natives. They have mutilated corpses' when found, (ming the ancient custom of taking the foot and lin,nd of it corpse as. inn- gible proof of death. Throughout the report exonerates the administration of matters that have been chiefly eharged against but there are suggestions here and there of the mitigation of various me- thods which tend to show the exist- ence at any rate of it considerable amount of abuse. FOR THE MURDER OF U. S. MIS- SIONARIES IN CHINA. Hong Kong, Nov. 7. ---As a result of the. remit maesecre of Amerlean 'nen sionayies at, Lieuchow Imperial ediet has been. issued directing the Viceroy of Canton to furnish efficient protection to the missions, to punish all the guilty persons and to promise the fullest re- dress, and warning alba tbat he will be held responsible for father outragee KILLED CHILDREN ous. They could not plead: ignorance of ' thie knowledge,' for besides the pilot:is experience they lutd a chart on beara to AWFUL DEED OF A STEPMOTHER guide them. Nevertheless they decided AT MINNEAPOLIS. to wait until daylight before making any effort to save the vessel. The passengers Mioneapolie, Nov. 7.—sairs, Jas. Boon in the meantime retired to their state- nen, step -mother to the four children of rooms to rest, with the exception of a I Jos. Beeeemaa to -day shot and. killed kw who stayed up, and will never forget their experience. 6'he tide turned to ebb, three of the ehildren, fatally wounding and as time passed. the water commenced the fourth and is herself dying of a to recede. It was 4 o'clock on Saturaay elf -inflicted wound. The dead are: morning when the ship's officers were Lizzie, agea 15. awakened to the fact that their position Alice, aged S. wits growing worse, was in fact clesp :11; Arthur, aged 11. Thomas, nged 13, is expected to (lie of at. The water had got so low that his wounds. midships of the Bavarian were settling Appearances indicated that the boys in the rucks, while the atern, which mated in deep water , was (vetting lower had struggled desperately to avoid the fate of their sisters. by degrees, and straining the vessel to 5 _—e. !. -3 - marked degree. THE UNITED STATES Tried to Back Off. — At 4 oailoek it decision was arrived at Have Lost a Gold Field by a Two -Mile to make an effort to back the vessel off. Margin. The engines Were pllt at. full steam, and _ sel made to slaver from stem to Vancouver, B. C., Nov. 7.—ausb within the vett el under the strain. It was while Canada's border is the newly discovered tine effort was being made that the strike which hae been made a the head of Portland Canal, and which is ship's . beak broke. Her midships. were said to make of the districe another resting on the rock and suddenly 5 Mud Windy Arm. Two miles enom and it report Was heard, end her stern WitS nrotild have been on the United States seen to lover. At the same time the side of th.e Alaska, boundary. Mr, dock plates cracked and the sides of the George White Eraser, head of the boon - vessel Whoa out. The stokers at the dary survey party, has just arrived from fires heard the crash, and beeomiug the north itfter running the line throogh friettened, rushed from their poste. They the camp ancl as a l'egult, a lumber of tend for the protection of the missions. • returned to their souses when they heard Aimerican miners wbo thought the rich The American. Consul at Canton, Jul- that water was flooding the engine room, ius S, Lay, in an interview declares that wont back like true Britishers and drew .11V-tels tri,e :ecoolt. Uncle Strata. side will bey. their fires, lest the incoming water eenee, rd a a Briteah Columbia the dieeemieation of inflammatory should reach the boilers and cause them cott literature is indirectly responsible to explode. i . e for the ontsearre, and he has warned the WOMAN CAUSED MASSACRE. isolated stations of Two Nang of t -heir Brave Engineers, • danger, in view of the fact Oa the auto . In the meantime an exciting scene Seized Chinese Idols and Would. Not American feeling is growieg stronger, was being enacted in the engine room. and advising the departure of the nos- Wait the vessel's back broke bolts in Restate TIMM. ell:entries for their head stations. 111w machinery flew from their positions • London, Nov. 7.---.A. despatch to the The anti-American newspapers are he- , ana fell like grape shot in all corners of Daily Express from Hong Kong says that ing distributed gratis, being taken 111 ut fortunately withoot in- the Liencbow inesseere \Vila dne to the i the emu, 1)01 junks. to Canton. The boyeatere were ;airing the engineers and their assist. miliappy nation of Alva amehle, Ivies oi the first to receive the names of the atnts on 'duty. The machinery at the the refusal of some a the membere of I IlliaSionatio massaered.!same time was twisted and. turned into native proeession to desise from W01 Four Chineec gunboats and three bun. !all shape, some into a shapeless wreck. slapping the idols they carried seized the dred mut twenty soldiere are proceeding iThe engineer with providential presence MON anti titelilled to restore them to ItChin Yuen, eighty Milt"; s011ti01 of nand at once realized the greet .datt. their owners. Thereupon the infuriates o l Memnon', Nov. 0. 4g01', and, notwithstanding that the water processionists surrotioded aria destroyed ............--aa-a-------- . Ai eas rushing 111, stuck to his post, and the mission and aseaultea the inmates. CANNOT LIVE LONG. 1 swtriecn..o,,, iii. - opening the safety valves They then murdered there and threw the ste= blew off ttt a terrible' Th their bodies into the river. The mil) did . . . .. . .. i • ta IT had only time to reach the net interfere with six Wench priests who . MISSING READ FOUND. -- Reporters Recover Remains .14 Clerne Girl. Boston, Nov. tie—The bead, of Suz- anne Geary, the chorus girl who died from the efeects of a criminal operae tion, and whose body Wai dismembered and thrown into the bettor,' was recovered about 6 o'clock to -night it few yards front the South loerry slip at East Boeton, about where Crawford and Howard, in their confessions, said they lira (hopped Lead was in an exeellent etate of preservation and the features were perfectly recog- nizable. The head was found by some news- paper reporters after the pollee boat had quit worle for the day. The re. porters were operating it drag front the stern of a power dory, when some- thing was caught. Hauling the drag to the surface, they found it emall, brown (either satchel hooked in taw iron prongs. The bag was the Geary and m it was bee own bead, wrapped in a pieee of a blaek skirt, and sm. rounded by a piece of oilcloth of the same pattern as that in the suit ease wbich containee the torso and limbs. Queen of Portugal Hurt. Lisbon, Nov. 5. --While the Queen of Portugal Was riding near Cascaes to- day her horse reared and threw her. Her Majesty's knee WitS injured, but it ie believed not seriously. A STRANGE END. Montreal Man Found Lying Dying' on Pavement. Montreal, Nov. 5.—Charles Alexander, one of the oldest and best-known citi- zens of Montreal, about midniglit last night was found in a dying condi- tion in front of his bouse, on McKay street. and passed away shortly after- wards. It is supposed that Mr. Alexan- der, when about retiring to bed, found the room overheated, or was taken sud- denly and, jumping to the -window, fell out into the stret. Mr. Alexander, who was in his ninetieth year, was apparently in his usual vigorous health yesterday, and attended to business as usual. Mr. Alexander was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1816, came to Canada in 1840, and since then had resided almost *continuously in Montreal, where he con- ducted an extensive confectionery busi- ness. He was for many years in the City Council, and An 1874 was elected to represent Montreal Centre in the Quebec Legislature, but was defeated the ensu- ing general election. wss as a phil- anthropist that Mr. Alexander was best known. Throughout his long residence in Montreal be displayed the warmest interest in local charitable and philan- thropical circles, and was one of the leaders in all movements of this kind originating among the Protestants, of Afontreal. He is survived by two sons,- in Mont- real, and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Warren, of Chicago, and Mrs. Robert Darling, of Toronto._ A SHOTGUN QUARANTINE. JOSIE CARR'S SENTENCE. Seven Years, But Commended to Parole Officer's Care. Toronto, Oct. 6. --Presenting an ap- pearance that she felt her position more, probably, than ever before, little Josh: Carr stood up in the dock in the Criminal Assize Court to receive sentence on Saturday. "What have you to say?" asked the clerk. "I plead guilty to killing the baby," she said. "I put the baby under the culvert because my brother said be woad tell my father'and was afraid of getting ct licking. When I went back it was deed. I am sorry for what I have done." Mr, T. C. Robinette, K.C., made a strong plea for leniency. Before pronouncing sentence Mr. Jus- tice MacMalion said: "I beam given the case a great deal of consideration, ana discussed it with Mr. J. J. Kelso alai the parole officer before .comiug to it eonclusion, I have no doubt that it was a desire to steal that led to the theft of the vantage with the child, which fact undoubtedly influeocea the Grana Jury to return a true bill for manelaughter. It • is quite imparent, however, that the girl has been for years under what has been anything but up- lifting conditions,. raid it is now the deity of the court to place the .chila in en Institution where she will be giveo en opportunity to regitin her proper po- sition in the community. The choice of whore slue is to go atel what surveil- lance the may be kept under is a mut- ter of deep moment, altd after serious Now York, Nov. 0.--A special cablpRssiptaar HARpme, deck when the engine room \YRS flooded. resided iit the neighborhood. neighborhood., front St. Petersburg to the OE CHICAGO, • „ with water, but all 0'01001011 WAS lia,p- e LIVING ON LIQUID 1000D. pity averted and the escape front this PROPHESIES A MASSACRE, Times says that the recent outrages a 'ridditiona disaster Wel to be miraculotts. Toinsk and Tever mid espeeially those Name York, Nov. &quack to •••••••••••44 meantime the passengers who blr. Steaa's Gloomy View of the Situa- the 'I. 11111)0' Op that President William iTn the ni; Odessa, are to te investigated. At Odessa British subjects have suf. iferttd I 11110t1 losses There can be no longer the elightest oloubt that the main •source of the diva - ger to Ere and property lies not only irt the revolutionittiee, but in the mobs instigated by the pollee mid. motion - 41.408, TIM pollee at 1greieole ate openly argenizing attake egainet, the tibereas end the Metropolitien nee (+Merril that the lianiliee be read in tile plittreltes With the. AA objeet. The nay Proeitrator of the IToly alytnel, the Liberal Prince Obolensley, were Asleep in their staterooms 'were tion iti Ramie. • t4 1101V IN) ,., I1)011, assist:ea general 'eeeretary-treasurer a Dr, Raper "leach the (leek. With rill possible haste. veitt. ;(lionte by the ifowogee moi,;,0,,,54 A V Milli be in lier intereet, she slioula m o,f them, ratiging from 14) to 15 yeere a ee, , .e, ee td flee wort erreetea ima taten before the Invlaten aan :11 sereer •617 tiatilWaY Tele. fee& and to leseeu tlie pane of -the can- ;end thither throughout the Alegi itwaken- r. Strad. %vim arrived to-arie 1 om .. (,. lent begged bits pliyeiciaris to no 1111 hi ;Melt atal wanton. ruhed out of their If Innate. T lied a. touversation tale paroled I hat's no (lathe 'he 'will tteke peliee inagietrale. They eonfessed and graphers, whielt is made up of (", li, U, veer de eleloininel region is kept munbed. big the passengers and telling their; to .eiefeeees was emu:enema ilq„(set.ect in mi. their pott..or to relieve nig pain. AO 141114' !roams. in there night robes terrotastriek- 1fternoon with Mr, Stead, who mit' the the earliest oppottunIty to see that AO 1t.1100. :Were alIONV011 to go 1111 S11:11.101111(4 sert-. employees, Wai evested in !goatee' today on it eharge .of having Meilen Throue.eb all bie eufferleige ea may wee enabled to give liis attention ;el ana map fin' the !leek be" the quieka gravity of the Saltation in itossia. email la reitioved far from eatelitiotis here to . $14,000athe property of the oraer. Ife te- te imaeleeeni loisineee- airfare .of tbe tina 1 est way With all Pessible speed. Sane Of not be over•eetimated. tie -thought Itue- whore slit Might regain the tone of mina Tattle. ( by n de- signed in Fenteniter, mid it ie cliargea ,teeltr,—.01.1....ea...at wa:p. Ne.14.......eiteit emaity, Wane mteally Parenting his the paeaengera had diffiatatao iti -mat, alit Witg oll the eve of ft theist gigentie whielt T teuppoer elle Ilea when it much etructive tiro on fa:galley night. Only Hint be negleetea Ana veftteea to liana will. Preeident Itai.per ie fitiliug, and it iog from their rO0ifia beeanse of no re. rienemere. Ire believed that refotme luta entailer enild than now." ' for the essietanee of tugs aria n. bueleet over the Imola; rata vecorde belonging tie ie feared that lig .e,vo. livr only it few fusel of tile doors tO open. l'i'lley hal tome too late. ma he took it Meet fo'itioliwearrisoners were ilieposed of ins Inigitao most of the town Would have 1110 milepo fla ;tannery, 100a, Ito hail jammed or Weaged when the Veeeel gloomy view .of the situation. leeen detroyea. been salve -tea ever einte be resigned. Weeke longer. Expenses $2000,000, One half of Which the City Will Pay. .r.0,11•••••••," Rental of the Election Booths Will Amount to Over $90,000. Advertising $2000.000 and the Bal- . Jots Will .Cost S5P1,00k New York, Nov. 7. --The election in New York city this fall Will cost at least $2,000,000, of which the. city will pay $1,000,000 in its. lagitinlate net - reuses, There are now MO election •districts in the city of New York, Since the: last election tney liav.e been increase(' from 1,050 to that number, The aver - :age rent paid for polling booth an tlee four day of reenstratani and the nay of eleetioa is alma $17.60. That would make a eost tor the rental' ot eleetion booths of $92.000, In each elec- tion booth there tire four inspectors. They receive *7,50 for each of tile four (lays of registration, 12 for their works On election ilay, making their compensation $42, in all. The total amount paid for inspectore of elee- [ion will be a327,204, In ealeliteen to the inspectors of elec- tion there sere also in each polling place two lialot clerks at an each, nod two poll clerks at $12 elicit, They serve (may on the day of election. The. com- pensation ef the ballot clerks will ag- gregate $31,108, awi. that og the poll clerks a40,7,32. The Board of Elections. estimates that the cost of newspaper .aavertising in connection with the coming election. will approximate $200,000. In addition to the newspaper advertising the board Inis to have a good .dee1 of. other print- ing done, such, for instance, as printed instructions and placards. The prinitina of the ballots alone will cost $50,000. Tammany, of course, has more money to spend than any other ogan- ization, and is spending it freely, Lea& ors in Tammany who were questioned as to the amount that Tammany would put out to elect Mayor McClel- land and the other candidates on the city, county and borough tickets said that it would not fall Short of $500,000. Smallpox in North Peterborough and Hastings. Peterbore' despatch: The smallpox situa- tion in the northern parts of Poterboro' and Hastings county has become serlotts. Dr. It. W. Bell, Provincial Health Inspec- tor, was in the city this morning, returning from a visit to these districts. He reports that there are about thirty cases of small- pox in Pandas and Faraday townships. Through the carelessness of the employees of a cheese factory in Chandos, a large number of boxes of chee.se have been made under conditions permitting infection. These will be destroyed. The disease has also been spread througlt the medium of the schools, tor it case has occurred in every family with children attending two schools in the district. The Whole district has been placed under ryuarantine. IniX this quarantine has iu many eases been disre- warded, and quarantine officials, armed in some cases with guns, have been placed upon all the leading highways, in a deter- mined effort to confine the olitbreak to the already affected area. About three years ago smallpox occurred in the adjacent townships, and vaccination was generally performed. in Faraday and Chandos, for some reason, this was neglected, hence the severity of the outbreak, for or the twenty- eight cases noted by Dr. Bell, only one vac- cinnted house has been mildly attacked. It is expected that the measures taken will confine the disense to the present distriet. - TOOK CASE FROM JURY. Not Sufficient Evidence to Alex. Wills. St. Thomas report: The Rodney mur- der trial came to it sudden conclusion this morning. The crown closed its case with the evidence of the eleven - year -old Bessie Cole, who, like her fah; er, saw Willis passing their place about 7 o'clock the morning of the murder. C. St. Clair Leitch, for the prisoner, aegued that there was 110 evidence con- necting Willis' with the crime, and his Lordship, Judge Anglin, agreeing, he ordered. the jury to return a verdict of not guilby. Willis Will then discharged. The prosectime attorney, Mr. Lynch - Staunton, urgeethat the evidence ad- duced. warranted the case going to the jury, but his Lordship thought otherwise. In his mind there was nothing to connect the prisoner with the crime and he took the responsibil- ity' upon himself of directing the jay to find the prisoner not guilty. In dis- mission- the prisoner his Lordship ad- monished him that, this should be a lesson to him not to loiter about hotels and to cease his drinking habits. Willis has been stripped of practi- cally all lie possessed in anducting iittt defence. Accompanied by his wife and family he returned to the farm in AM - borough, Which is now no longer his. Convict CHOKED WHILE ASLEEP. A. Nugent's Strange Death in it Res- taurant. Toronto, Nov. O.—Alfred F. Nugent, an Ligon for the Florentian Art Company, 57 King street west, and formerly in the employ of the Eureka .Art Company, of Windsor, did suddenly in James Mc- Auliffe's restaurant at 107 York street, on Saturday evening. Nugent wits hay. ing his supper with a friend when he fell macro?, Twice lie was moused and in a short time lie was discovered a dy- ing condition, a piece of meat having lodgea in his wind pipe. He was dead. m hen the ambulance arrived. The hotly was taleen to the morgue. Cola oeer J. II. alcCoutell investigated. ana ("oddest flint nothing -would be (pine(' hy holding an inquest. Deeeased was 52 ;veats tef age. consideration think that 11 wow," be in her interest to send her where Mr. Archibald, a man of large experienee end a, trusted officer, has the power, ono nuty say, in a great measure of seeing that prisonere are paroled. When elle realms the age of twenty-one year un- der the .eentenee propose imposing she will be abeolutely liberntea from the penitentiary, Ana if iter mutat is such that the parole of fieer Waal it STOLE FOWLS FOR EXPENSES, 7 A • DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL. Two Men Dead at Winnipeg, and One Dying. Winnipeg, Nov. 6e—As a result of drinking -what was supposedly wood al - (alto], Chita nines and Peter Hill are dead and a man named Lafranee is dans gerously On Sunday afternoon Innes and (tour half-breeds, Peter Hill, lafrance, Joe enpas-thc-iliVer and Pete MeCombie, pro- cured from a Main street drug store three large bottles labelled "Whiskey." "Brandy," and "Alcohol and Spruce." These drinks they mixed with small quantities of water. . None -of the five appeare to have been intoxicated Sunda.y afternoon, but .ort Monday morning lnnee and Hill went home from their work ill, and they both died last .evening from the effects of al- cohol poisoniog. tofrance is in a critical eonaition, ana hie recovery is doubtful. The other two (1 -id nob indulge to any extent, and so eseaped the poison. Innes comes frone Sarto Springs and 11111 and Lafran.ee from Montreal How St. Cetharines Boys Maintained a Juvenile Club, St. Catharines, Ont„ Nov. ti. ----For • some time beck parties ill tile east end of the city have been missing largo number of chieleene, which myeteriottsly di.sappeared. The matter Wag put itt the hanas of the police, who discoverea that a number of boys, sons of respeet- able parents, hat' famed elub end built a small sbed in the yara of one of the members, where they congre- gated. It was founa that the boys haa been eystematioally stealing thickens, thessiog mid selling them to the differ - ea stoles; for money to 'defray the cot- s of the (gob. Sow half it dozen GUILTY OF MURDER. Slayer of Hob= Convicted at the Assizes. Toronto report: "Guilty of murder" was the verdict returned by a jury. against Charles De Marco, Italian, who was tried. before Justice McMahon, in the Criminal Assizes yesterday on the •charge of stabbing to death joint J. Hoban, in fi.ont of Minima's hotea at Edward (311*1 Chestnut streets, on September 4: The jury was out for four hours. After they had been out about two hours they IP - 111011011 ana asked whether they hael the power to vender a, verdict of umn - slaughter. His Lordship informea them that they laid. It afterwards develop- ed that one juryman stood solia for two hours for a verdict of manslaughter, but be finally agreed wilit the other eleven, P. D. HAMEL ARRESTED. Charged With Itobbirig Railway Tele. graphers, 7,qontreal, 6.—Philippe 3). Hamel, of Dine lloenets, who was until lately Iviolently awakened and thrown into Tondo% Nov, 0. ---The correspondent of 11. Harper, of the Intivereity of Chicago,. inflame but lignid '.rho ship's stewards ran lather Teo Times at cepeneagen al..", eta we