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The Wingham Advance, 1912-01-04, Page 7NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIE Old Lady 'Killed by Falling Through, Trap Door, SUES CROKER Stratton's Trainer Wants Damages for Losing Wife. New York, Joe lee Riehard Crokor, former leader of Tammany Hall, and his sons, Richard Cooker, jun., and ROW- ard Coker, were trade joint defendants e la a, action litgun to -day by jehn Chair Given to Galt's Re J, 13reou to recover $100,000, Breen WaS tng Mayor. maid to Miss Ethel j. Coker, deugh- , ter of the former Tamuntuy leader, on , Pere Marquette Brakeman Assaulted and Robbed. TIO NOall ESSOX recount leaves Hem Dr. Reaurne with a majority of 51. Ten cases of rabies have been report- ed iu Toronto within e few raonths. Torouto'e city seal, was attached to the deed conveying the waterfront to the Herber Board. Ex-Cientroller Foster says there was tots of deadwood at the Toronto city hall to make a big bonfire, It is reported thet the Canadian Northern Railway will epead twenty-five toillion. dollars on its Montreal termiu- aba Three now cases or smarhox were re- ported ft', the Quebec Provincial health officials. They are loceted in Begot, Nieolet and Champlain.' Galt Town Counoil introduced an in at their final meeting of the year when, by resolution, the chair of office was preeented to the retiring may- or, T. E. itleLellen. Rev. Dr. F. C. 9tepheneon, secretary of the Forward Movement of the Meth- odist Church, received a post card from Canton, China, stating only that all was quiet there. Joseph Diamond, charged at Belleville with receiving rubber tiring knowing it to have been 'stolen, was convicted in the polio° court and given suspended seretence, he paying all costs. J. Scott Clark, professor in the De- partment of English language at North- western University, Evanston, Ill., died at the Evanston hospital, where he was opereted on for appendicitis. At St, James' Church, Kingston, Florence Emily,. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Frei:tars Partridge, was united in marriage to William Sidney Corner, Toronto, by Rev. T. W. Savary. Citizenship papers were granted at Detroit to Miss Mabel Griffith, former-' ly of Essex, Ontario, who is now a law student in that city and who expects to be admittedto the Michigan Bar next June. The death has occurred at Kingston, Ont., of Rev. William Steacey, aged 50 years. lie vras a oative of Kingston ead was engaged in several charges in the Congregational, Methodist and Presby- terian Churches. *While feeling her way across the „kitchen floor Mrs. Matilda Guichon, Windsole Ont., woman'aged eighty-two yells, fell through a trap door to the celle,r and. sustained injuries' that caus- ed her death almost immediately. Withunusually low temperatures in all parte of the Northwest and Canada, the coldest weather of the season WaS yecorded at Minneapolis when the ther- mometer reached nine below zero. A temperature of twenty below ia pre - Struck ou the head with a eoupling pin secured from a nearby ear, Wm. IS•rown, a Pere Marquette brekernan, was found in a eemhoonseious condition in the railway yards at Chatham. His roll of hills containing about $1.00 whei mies- inge Many °hams for damages have al- ready been made to the Toronto Rail- way Company by thoee who were injur- ed, in the - accident. James H. Forrest, eaftinls agent for the eeilway company, anted that so fur nee of the claims had been settled. John Lennox, who de.sorted his wife and four children in Scotland and came to Canada with a young woman whom he married under the pretence that he twata single man, was eentenoed at To- ronto to fifteen months in the Central Prison by Magistrate Doaison. The adjourned vestry mooting of the , Ortirch oftilt. James the Apostle, Mont- e r.eril, to choose a successor to the late Tector, Camon Ellgood, Rev. A. P. Shot - ford received a substantial majority of the votes of the congregation. Canon Sheeve, of Sherbrooke, was named as the alternative. The Italian etesoner Carl arrived at Barry, Wales'with the crew of the Brit- ieh schooner Clara, which foundered off Chigres, off Portugal. The sehooner, whieh was on a voyage from Gibraltar for Eta.rbor Grace, Newfoundland, was owned by 3. McRae, of St. Jolut's. She registered 100 tons. aet s a 1 April 28, 1910, and allegee that hie wife'e STRANGE SUICIDE Shot Himself in Woodstock Methodist Sunday School. affectiene were alienated by Croker and hie two sone. Breen declares that he and his wife lived peaeeably, happily and hartuouiouely together, until the de. fendants influeueed and ieduced his wife to leave Min. Breen was a teacher of horsernanehip when he and Miss Croker were married by a Juetice of the Penne at Hoboken, N. J. It was aaid at that time that the family of the bride were much displetreed at the marriage. Breen has eince his marriage been horse treiner for James R. Stratton, of Petertiore, Ont. HOW IT HAPPENED 01.00.1•10.1.11.6 Investigation Into' Toronto Street Car Accident. Have to Run at Rate of Fif- teen Miles an Hour. Toronto despatch: The investiga Of the overturning of a King street at the St. Lawrence street switch, killing of two passengers, and. .the wounding wounding of a number of others, was begun before Coroner Dr. George Gra- ham at the morgue yesterday afternoon. It took the form of an inquest iuto the death of -AILM.,Jessie Deacon, tire wife of Capt. Alfred z)eacon, R.N., and six of the two score WitneaSea WhO have been subpoenaed were examined iu the crowded court room. Several. of those who testified swore that the car In charge of Motorman William tiloore ran at a high rate of speed past the stopping place in front of the Klieg street barns, struck the oven switch at St. Lawrence street, and was over- turned. Alexander McDonald, who is the superintendent of all the cars rtuo ning out. of tho King streeta sheds, said that all the motormen were instruetel that the white post in front of the barns and weet of the new Don bridge was "poeitive stop," that oars were stopped at iatersections, and that switches were to be approached with caution at a low rafe of speed. He said. that the order to stop in front of the barna was not included in the printed regulations, but that the rules for mo- tormen dealt specially with etOps at in- tersections and withthe priming of switches. The white post in front of the barns was regarded as an intersec- tion, and motormen were instructed verbally when in training, always to stop there. County Crown Attorney Richard Greer pointed out that in or- der to make the run of from three and a quarter to three and a half miles between the Scantier°. Beach "Y" and the King street barns in the specified 18 minutes, and to stop at the 22 in- dicated eteps, a motorman would have to drive his ear at an average rate of fifteen and a half miles an hour. T. C. Robinette, K.C., who appeared. for Mo- torman Moore, asked whether or not the ear had beeu diecovered to have been reversed, but the witness was un- able to answer. The inquest was ad- journed until Friday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. Mr. Emmerson Coateworth appeared for Capt. Alfred Deacon, and Mr. D. L. Mc- Carthy for the Toronto Railway Com- pany. hireodstocle Ont., despatch: Soseph itog- ters, a middle-aged man. who lived on the Beachvine Road, committed suleide in a tragic and sensational manner. Some time during the day he gaihed an ea - trance to the sehooleroom of the pundits Street Methodist Sunday School. Making his waY to the platform, he drew from bia pocket a 32-ca1ibre revolver and shot himself through the head, When a'Man entered the Sueday sehool roten late this afternoon t� put down a carpet Rogers* body was fOund lyirtg on the pietforni, with the revolver beside Rogers Vag a Married Matt but for some tiine had not been living with his wife. It is eald thet for setne time past he loid been Worrying, GOT A LEMON -.1'. 4. COMING FASHIONS Exposition at Chicago to . Give Hints on Styles, IL S. Lemon Growers and Foreign Campetitors„ Washington, dare The lemon growers of this county to-dey won big1141 vietory over foreign eomptegore and the tranecontinental reilroea when the Interstate Commerce Conernieelon ret affitmed its proving order, whieh had been etopped by the new rommeret eonrt, mittelegi the; freigh it Wee On lemons from Celiforein to ell other pointe in the United Statee frorn MI per 100 pettnde Tht &thin priVen triglar fhOMS the rale of $1.10 unreatonable eon najeat, irreetteatiee of the question of ceempeti- time, tad orders the eerders tO teeke .effeettee the lower tette on Feb. 15. SOMETHING ABOUT A BUFFER STATE LAWYERS FAVOR ,PACCING HOUSES That3 Itl11=1Taa.nts 011ORCE COURT National Packing Company Under Consideration. Fowler'sCanadianCompany Was in It. Chicago, Jan. 1.—Milady's next gown svill be simple of attainment, *and it will accord with the household curtailment duo to the high cost of living, it was Bald to -day at the exposition of coming fashions on display here by drygoode trade papers. The bathroom, which supplied her bathrobe (otherwlee known as blanket cloth coat) now will furnish her dress. And the material in it will be Turhish towels Two or three towels, with or without the red stripes and tasseled border, a8 sults the wearers' individuality., a little dab of Irish lace, an opening hero and there for an arm to dome through and tho gown Is complete. A sinkple silk underskirt, toned to show off the tokel fringe left at the bottom of the skirt and costing slightly in excess of the overdress, completes the costume. 11.+40'S `•-••••••-•••• NEW STAMPS. King George fasue Will be Ready by First of Year. Kenwood Company Made Enormous Profits. Chime*0 Jan. 1. --Objections by coun- sel for the defence to evidence which the Government seeks to introduce re- garding the operations of the Kenwood Company and the Aotria Trading Com- pany 'hilted the packers' trial to -day aid aused Judge Carpenter to excuse the jury pending, the hearing of legal rmunents. The Government contends that the Kenwood Company, which was organ- ized by the packers in 1900, and con- tinued in business until 1900, was Ono of the alleged pools used to market the packere' by-products, It Is alleged that the Kenwood Company dealt in oleo and the Aetna Trading Company in the same period dealt in casings. Tho Government expecte to show that the Kenwood Company profits were 000,000 in one year, despite the fact It was only incorporated with a tock of $14,800. The profits of Trading Company also are have been proportionately he counsel for the Govern - Previous to the argument Albert IL Veeder gave the details of the organi- zation of the National Packing Com- pany, which was formed March 18, 1003, and. which the Government oontende was the instrument used by the indict- ed packers to fix the price of meat. The witness said that this eorpora- tion, which was capitalized at $15,000.- 000, was formed by the merging of thirteen companies and their subsidiar- ies, and that the properties were paid for in stock of the National Packing Company. .A. Het of the companies and the price paid by them -by the Notional Peeking Company was given as follows: Stock Yards Warehouse Corapany, $530,000; Anglo-American Provision & Refrigera- tor Car Company, $300,000; KanSaS City Refrigerator Oar Company, $130,000; Fowler's Canadian. Company, Limited, $70,000; Friedman Mfg. Company, $110,- 000; G. H. Hammond & Company, $3,- 600,000; St. Louite Dressed Beef Com- pany, $2,100,600; Hammond Packing Company, $1,000,000; °mall Packing Company, $2,200,000; Hutchineon Peek- ing Company, $100 'die; Anglo-American Prevision Company, $2,000,000; Fowler Packing Company, $000,000; United ,Dressed. Bee; Company, $1,000,000. Veeder said these aerepanies were all purchased by Aihnour, Swift 11,11-1 Mor- ris before Michael Cudahy was taken into the combination. Re said all the men who sold their plants agreed not to engage in the packing business for fifteen years. I CITY BEAUTIFUL Toronto's Improvement and Development Plans. Toronto despatch: The magnitude importance of the task before the citi- zens of Toronto in preparing for the improvement and development of the city on a scale corrunensmate with its growing importance is set out in ela- borate detail in a comprehensive report passed by the Clvie Improvement Com - Ottawa, Ont.. Jan 1.—Canadians will be able to purchase tong ateorge stamps on the firet of the year. The Postoffice Department has them ready and is dis- tributing them to poet:meters through- out the eountry, so they will be avail- able at the beginning of the year every- where in Canada. The stamp is of ex- eellent desige. It is almost identieal in oilier and general plan, with the King ltdward stamp, which it replaces. The change of portrait is practically the only differenee. The picture Of Xing George shows him in admiral% uniform. The portrait is an exeellent oue, and has been epproved by the Xing himself, who is one of the leading stamp eolleetort and experts of the world. S4 • RUSSIA EXCLUDES SALS. ePteraburg, Jan. 1,----1he Couneil nf Ministers lute decided not to allow the &Ovation Atnty toearry on it8 werk in Itueeht. Tien Telt), China) Jan. L --It is Resort- ed by members Of the SURS of the Amben for governor) of Mongolia that Rues/an complieity at Clrga, capital of Mongolia, h: responeible for the virtual domination of ltlaatchuria by the Japaneee. The charge is made lu the same quarters that the Rueelan military comml at -Urge hat been pursuing tie° tame policy in Mongolia as was formerly carried out In. Afghanistan with the purpose of mak- ing Mongolia a biller state and prevent- ing the Japanese from expanding beyond Mukdert in Manchuria. Lieut. -Gen. Hervatit, eat:inland of the Russian troops at Harbin, has re- peatetly denied that Russia has ulterior fame in Mongolia, but a,dmite that Rus- sia needs a buffer state in that region in the sante way as Afghanistan serves as a buffer state oe, the northwestern front er of India, mittee nesteruay afternoon and ordered. sent on to the City Council for its con- eideration. The report comprises a ser- ial of suggestions and recommendations eubmitted by the sub -committees on Plans, Legislation and Finance, and. endorsed by the general committee. The proposals for civic development , aro submitted by the Plans Cbmmit- tee which offers eome 38 suggestions for improvements of varioue natures, Including a civic centre, diagonal streets, parkways, viaducts and street extension said widenings, covering al- most every requirement that may be found advisable for many years to, posted to protect it. come. Coupled with this are the rec- - onamendatiOna from the Finance and Legislation Committees, offering sug- gestions as to the means through vshieh the proposals might be carried to a successful conclusion. , The Plans Committee's report, how- ever, is put forward only as a tenta- tive eolution of the city's transporta- tion problem in regard to streets. The eommittee not having had the rcieans to deal with the eity's requirements the wholesale price of shoes, which will In the way of parks, playgrounds and be inaugurated in March by the Brock - open :spates, bee adopted the pla.n put ton shoe me.nufcaturers, will be put Inte forward by the Clyde Guildthree years effect at the same time by the Lynn as - ago. The report states that few cities sedation and by most of the New 'Eng - in America, approaching Toronto in land manufacturers. The matter will be size and importanee have not proper- taken up before the conference of the ed compreheneive plane for their im- Notional Association in New York. Lyen provement, and the committee hopes rankers add' that their advance in price will probably be from five to seven per that it will inspire the citizens to de- cettt. Retailers will add enough to retail eidea and immediate notion, 'Prices to protect thereselves, *4-4 tletteral W.W. 130004 commander thief of the Selvation Army, welt to> St„ Peteretturg In 1900 to eve:diets with the Onverreneet for perinAttort to eetab- Mt ti bratoh of the Salvation Army le leueeia. nft Wag etroniely opposed by take Irely Syrod. • HIT BY CLUB 1 Murderous Attack on Mat- tawa's Chief of Police. • North My despatch: Chief of Police Robert 11.1*Elroy, of Mattawa., was mur- derously assaulted by a prisoner named Monette. aflas Gagne. Page and )4ee1air, whom he had arrested on a charge of forgery, and obtaining money under false pretences. Monett° came up behind the Chief at the lock-up and etruck him on the head with a club, knocking him un- conscious. Town Clerk John McMeekin heard the noise. rushed in and was alse attacked by the prisoner, who then made his escape to the woods surrounding the town. A posse was organized on Mon- ett° was recaptured. He was committed for trial, and brought before Judge Win, at North Bay, pleading guilty to forgery. He was remanded for sentence, pending the outcome of Chief McElroy's injuries, which are serious and may possibly re- sult fatally. Monette, under the name of Page, passed a cheque supposed to be togned by J. Lumsden, luznberman, for $70, In paYment for a $10 suit of clothes, receiving $60 change in cash. At another etore, under the name of Leole.ir, he Passed a similar cheque for 44) in -pay- ment for small purchases and was given change. SCOUTS' FLAG Sir Baden.Powell to Bring St. Catharines Troop One. .006.110••..w.“ Mr. Arnold!. Condemns Sup. reme Court Reform. W. C. Mikel, of Belleville, the New Presidents Crown Attorneys' and P).1.- vate Practice by Them. Toronto despatch: W. C. Mickel, LO.,. of Belleville, one of the most distin- guished of the younger barristere in Ontario, was yesterday elected to be president of the Ontario Bey .Aiseircia- tion at the conclueion of its annual meeting in Osgoodo Hall, , A reconunendatien from the Law Reform Committee that a Divorce Court be eetablialied hi Ontario, was carried after a prolonged and ex- luiustive discussion of the the ques- tion from both sides. The report sug- gested, that divorces be granted by such a court on grounds of adultery, conviction for murder: hope, or unna- tural offence, or whore One Spline thial ed other.lnadean attempt upon. the life of The principal reason brought for- ward iu support of the recommenda- tion was that the. cost was at present too high, where witnesses bad to be / brought from some distance to. Ot- tawa to give evidence before tho Sen- ate or the Conunons, and on acceunt of the $200 foo. The system made it easier for a rich man to get a divorce than a p0Or one. Moreover, It was held that the Senate did not metier - stand the rules of evidence, and was unduly influenced by external forces. Col. Ponton went so far as to say that the members of the Senate were not above relating the delie.ious and. +tale- cioue bits of evidence to their friends, and thereby lipreading broadeast facts disgraceful to many people. Mr. N. F. Davidson urged, in oppo- sition to the resolution, that there was no popular del:Mt/ad for the change, and that, until inunorality because of the present syetem 'was shown, no clamp should be matte. Others held that there were grave dangers In the way if divorce were made too easy. In the closing minutes of the ses- sion Prank Arnold', K. C., introduced a motion that the Lieutenant-Gever- nor-in-CounciI be memorialized to re- consider and repeal the Act passed by the Legislature of Ontario reforming the Supreme Court of Judicature of Ontario, on the giennuts that the changes proposed would mean a hope - lees piling up of undisposed -of cases at the rate of about 100 per year, that there would not be enough judges to do the eircuit work, and that two classes of judges would be created, and the trial judges would lose the exper- ience gained at present by eitting in Divisional Court. The changes propoeed Ottawa, Jan. I.—General Sir Baden- Powell, the distinguished British soldier and organizer of the Boy Scout move- ment all over the world, is going to the United States for an official visit, and he will bring with him the British flag presented by King George to the St. Catharines tr000 of Ontario for having the :nest scouts who have oualified in the twentv-four :Efferent examina- tions which enables them to be King's Scouts. The Dominion secretary of the Boy &outs will leave for New York about the middle of January to receive the flag from General Sir Baden-Powell, and he will bring it to Ottawa for the. Do- minion Council to make the presentation to the St. Catharines troop. The first Winnipeg troop was one man ahort of getting the flag, they having five King's Scouts. Sir Baden Powell will be unable to visit Canada on the occasion, but may do so next October. TABRIZ CAPTURED Russians Bombard City and Then Take Possession. St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.—A special telegramreoeived from Tabriz this morn- ing says that after a bombardment of the official quarter of that city, lasting two days the Fifth regiment of the rifle brigade effected their entrance into the town. Tranquility has been practically entirely restored among the population. After the flight of the deputy goy - nor -general to the British consulate on lite. 26, all the property of the Govern- ment was placed under seal, and a de- tachment of the rifle brigsde has been DEAR SHOES The Wholesale Price to be Raised in Massachusetts. Lynn, Mass.. Jan. 1.—The increase in G. T. P. STANDARD Travellers Pay theRailway Many Compliments. An influential member of the Federal GOVerninent, WhO hoe been travelling over the Grand Trunk Pagific Railway lit the west, writes as follows: "I remit say' that 1 found the trip very interestiag. The country is eertainly tratch more pietureeque than 'key other route acroes the prairies, and I have found the travelling comfortable and the Service exeellent." A hitter received by the Grand Trunk l'aelf;e ltailatty from it prominent hail- alete man residing in Seattle, eoneerning 4 trip lie made free': Winnipeg to Ed - mouton, co:Attlee the following abetteet: "Goieg out to Itelmoriton I went through yonr train eeverel times, and 1 weet to eempliment yon on year oluip- ment and toilette*. I tot:vibe it so ter the beet eituadian treneeenfinentat ettryiee heve ever metre and I have travelled ever all the Anterieen traneeontinental rail - NA art." MILD AT MONTREAL reagens for retaining the jury totem lastesel of for etatlieltiug it, as Wag. intg- geeted by the circular. One of the most interesting featurei of the day' e business was the paper road by V. W. Wegenetet, of the Qatetttliatt MatfaeltUrere' Aefieviatien, I etSarding a tl'hteln of emopeneation for injured workmen. The present eyetent of Habil- Ity on the part ef individeal employers, eaid, was luadequete hL elenoet every particular. Tile best systems were State armlike or collective liability on the part of groups of employer, either gee - graphically or industrially arranged. The State system was the beat of all, he thonght, rzsenuai regairements of any eys- tent should be the prevention of acci- dents, the making it possible for a work- man to get compensation independent of his ability to prove negligence on the part of his employer, and, payment of the part of hie employer, and payment of the money in weekly or monthly in- etalmente inetead of in a lump. In conclusiou, Wegenast declared that there was no QUM() for forther ex- perimentation, as almost every system conceivable had bean tried somewhere, and it would be a calamity if Ontario adopted one whieli had proved a failure, e POOR ARTIST Pitiful Romance in Life of Portrait Painter. Cinioinnati, Jan. 1.-eLouis MMus, who half a century ago attained 80mQ fame as a portrait painter, died here Wit night, supremely happY in the belief that for nine years he had been aesistant superintendent of a charitable institution for old men. Although his living had been, paid for by friends of earlier days. Milius had riever known it, and his, itket words were of rejoicing that he had nev- er beeome an object of charity. Militie came here in the fifties, and his crayone were accepted as the needed m- tioduction into a email circle of artists. His wife and two children, whom lie fient for were lost at sea, and ill health and grief robbed his band of his skill. In 1002 he was 60 years oleand homeloiss, He refused admiesion to the institution. urged on him by friends, storming at their offers of charity. A few days later Milius was told he had been made assistant superintendent of the home. He was introduced as such te the inmates. Minus was said to have, a stater, an opera singer in Munich-. t v. NO FIGHT LIKELY Between SteelCompanyand Dominion Steel. General Manager Hobson I I Quite Satisfied, Montreal, Jan. 1, — In financial eh cies in Montreal it is expected that the decision of the Steel Company of Canada to manufacture rode will lean to a war between that company and the Domire ion Steel Corporation. When the Steel Company of Canada was formed in 1910 it was understood that a conference of some character took place between officials of that come pony and officials of the Dominion Steel, the result of whkh was Said to be a truce. it may be remembered that the Montreal Rolling 'MO+, %Ode)) was tak- en into the arnelgamatiou, bed meet- oesiy neon one ot the larizest CUStUalQr8 of Dominion Steel, and it would only be expected that future requireinente would ooly be expected that future re- quiremente would be supplied from the Hamilton plant of the Steel Company of Canada. Recently it was announeed that Dominion Steel waa about to enter iuto the production of certain. finiehed, products which the Steel Compaay of Canade wee manufaeturlag. Now it woulki appear that the latter is to erect a rod mill at Hemilton, where will be produced the rods which it had previ- ously eurchaeed from the Dominion Steel. TORONTO SUICIDE! Lawyer's Clerk Took Drink of Carbolic Acid. Toronto despatch': Abou t7 o'clock last evening Frederiele Brooks -Hill, a law clerk in the employ of Louis M. Singer, barrister in the Confederation Life Building, was found dead at his home, 45 Cecil street. The discoeery was mode by Sydney Cheshire, a roomer in the house, who, at the request of his em- ployer, Mr. Singer, went to see what was wrong with. Brooks -Hill. He was lying on the bed partially undressed. and had apparently been dead for a number of hours. Beside him on a table was a bottle which had contained carbolic acid; and ,wei mean two, appellate courts ee flee glees in which some of the poison re - judges each sitting constantly, and mained. There was no letter of explana- leave only four pr six judges to do the (eon left by the suicide, and his em- cireuit work. The fact that moot of the members" of the association had left the hall at this hour led the chairman . to mug- geat that Mr. A.rnoldi go 'before the Executive with his cline, and the as- sociation accordingly gave that body power to consider the matter and to act. The suggeetion by the Law Reform Committee that kissing of the Bible In sweening witnesses be abolished etas referred back to the committee along with the recommendation for the abolition of dower. It was de- cided, however, to ask for the ap- pointment of a commission to revise the rules of procedure and tbe tariff as now fixed. ' Numerous suggestions in regardto abuses in connection with the system of permitting a crown attorney to centinue in private practice were made, but the final disposition of this difficulty was embodied in a resolu- tion that in eitiee of over 50,000 peo- ple crown n.terneys be not per - permitted to have private practice, and that they be paid by ealary instead of fees. Objections to the present sys- tem were that a. crown attorney Wa6 biased when he had to prosecute one of his own clients, and that he was also possessed of an unfair advan- tage over other lawyers in private practice by eeason of his close con- nection with the eounty judge. Numerous recommendations were made by the same committee with the object of making special conditione for the so-called respectable man accused of crime. That he should not be con- fined with drunks and diseased persons, that he should be able to get bail hit- elediately, that he eheuld not have boon photographed before convieticin, that he should not be arrested Without a war- rant from the Crown Attorney, that lie should not be searched or have his personal effects taken away from him, were POMO of the clauses. Ono member failed to see the distinction between e. respectable and a disrespectable crim- inal, and thotight all offenders should be treated alike. Ono or tett of the suggestions applying to all persona ar- rested were adopted, and the others were either struck out right away or tient to the executive committee with power to act. It was pointed out that particular caste in Toronto, and did not Montreal despatch: Notwithstanding apply to the provinee at large. the cold. snap now gripping this die- Among the other clauses of the re- trict the weather hae created a record Port adopted were those proposiag that for mildness this winter. To -day the St. witnesses and jurors should be paid Lawrenee le still open and the "oldest higher fees, and that police magistrate inhabitant" lois been deing sOlno tall and County Court judges sho.uld be th4nking to nee if he can remember an tnembers of the Boards of Poliec Com- oeeasion when a aimiler condition of raieeionere. The liet of officers elected WAS as affairs existed before. He has failed. follows: TTnI. President, la J B. CANADIAN CALLED. Johnston, K.C.; President, W. C. Mikel, X,C.; Vice -Presidents, M. II, Ludwig, X. plover. his intimate friends nor any of the roomers in the house can offer any reason for deceased's rash act. The last seen of him was at noon on Wednesday, when he left Mr. Singer's office to go out for lunch. He did not return in the afternoon, but his employ- er made no enquiries, thinking that he might have been ill. When he did not show up yesterday, Mr. Singer went to his home, and it was then that the dis- covery was made. Deceased was 35 years of age, and married and had one child, but Mrs, Brooks -Hill and the+ child were in Mont- real spending the Chriatmas holidaye with relatives. Deceened had spent Chrietmas day with some friends in the city, and, according to them, he was In the beet of spirits. C,oroner Dr. Lynd is investigating the case, but it apparently is one of suicide. The label on the bottle which contained the odd had been removed. Providence, U. I., Jan. 1.—The Elnit (-1„.",P.M. riel"'e" W. 3' McWhimte37' Baptist Church of thie city hail called itet:%; Recording Secretary, Geo. C. to its pastorate Rev. J. B. Viehert, Campbell; Correepondhig Secretary, R. of Fort Wayne, Ind., to eueeeed Rev. J, MaeLelennan; Treasurer, A. itieLette Elijah A. Hanley, new preeident of the Macdonell, K.C.; Ifietovian, Celt W. N. Franklin Collette. Ile graduated from Ponton; Councillors, A. S. Clarke, 1C.C., Woodetoek, Out, Baptist College and 1'. 11 lIedeins, K.C.. S. lt. Inutier, Ithe.: hitiMaciter thrivereity„ Toronto, Charlee Elliott, J. It, Farewell, K.C., A. 1111.1.0......... Lemieux, Walter ltills It W IItireourt, DIED Of INJURIES. • KO., Frank Denton, Tette.. Jae. Bait, X. C., C. A. Mows, and C. V. Ritelde. North Ilay, Out., deep3,teh: Itobert The treaearern: report eltoweel a bal- Stamina, of North Dar, while workitnt :Ince of nt.99. That officer remarked that In a, hush near Sehreiber, Neat eruehed i at lest year' m banquet the members had by a falling tree VIterday. lib Wftg run up a hill of $284 extrae, for 'which carried bv hie romper:1011e sever:II miles I the iteeotietion had to pay. to O. P. It treeks, where a freight train 'Mr. Auguste temietor dieeppointed wee (legged and the injpred Man piaterl i the toloeietion when he announeed that in the eaboese. fatartiend died on the there had beer: a eletieel error in the treire printing of his tnpie, and he dieeneeed CANCER CURE *mown...mg. Discovery by Mine. Curie Leads to Another. Pari, Jan. 29,—Treatment of (lancer by a combination of selenium and cos- ine, whieh in the last two or three months, has been investigated by Prof. Wassermann, a well known chemist, is being much aliscussed by the authori- ties of the Pasteur Institute. Prof. Waseermann reported that he had made cures in cases with mice. Re sought remedies in combinations of metals. One of these which, hitherto has proved most efficicacious is solenium. The treatment of mice consists of the injecting of the preparation eight er ten times. After three or four juice - dons the tumor liquifies and disappear -a. Some relapses have occurred in the cases treated in the last several months. Great importance ie attached to the disecrvery. Selenium is one of the new rfte,tiu nunotels, discovered by Veen. Ottrie.. FOUND SHOT The Mysterious Shooting o Roanoke. VEt, Woman. 104-e ANOTHER YARN King's NarrowEscapeFrom Wounded Tiger. New York, Jan. 1.—A despatch from 33ombe.y, 'printed Lore this afternoon, says: A sensational report that King George had a narrow eseape from death While tiger hunting in itepal was circulated bere to -da. The story was told by a native, who had accompanied the Royal expedition • as a game -beater. Although every precaution possible had been -taken to protect the life of his Majesty, an enormous tiger, streak- ed with blood from several wounds,. and frantic with pain and rage, leaped. upon the elephent from whooe back King George did his shooting, before it WAS filially put to death. Two of the best shots in India were stationed on elennarv,a on eaeh side of the King Each had fired upon the tiger when it was driven from cover by the heeds of game -beaters, but their first bullets missed a vital spot. Ring George fired first, that honor being ac- corded all guests' of the Maharajah. He missed, and after the beast had been wounded in half a dozen places it made the leap that ended on the elephant just back of the Royal howdah. Tho King's nerve remained unshaken, and the tiger, fell to the ground with two well -directed bullets through its head ,fired by the marksnien on either Side of his Majesty. Roanoke, Va., aJu. 1---WIdespread in. tercet was atoueed to -day over thetetinel- ing of a coroner's jury that Ilre. Wiley Jon ee on Tueeday morning "carat) to her death by a 38 -calibre pistol ball in un- known hande." The women hall bran found hi the yard of her home at 13aasett near here, with a bullet wound in the back of her head and Powder etaiaeen her bonnet. A. 38.eelibre revolver, with one amber empty, Was found in the hoese, and the coveter drew alleged con- tradietory stetentente from the italbAala and hie 15 -year old son es to the wleeret aboute of the weitpou feta. STEAMER. ON FIRE. Halifax, N. F., deepeteh: Fire on the etenmer nentouth, on her way from Bt. John to Digby, eatteed mach exeitement anion' Vat pestengere. The defective eleetele wiring tot fire Th' the woodwotk in the lediee' seloon. The boitt was lab otieg in a heevy tea nt tin'.. gwaiwOmn YORK LOAN 102,000 Cheques Sent Out -- 16,000 Sent Back. It °may be that New 'York will boon see its last fire home, het at preseut they are far frota cheap. hence eeet un an average $225 each, and once the peso- perty of the city they waete ante time going to eehool before they are of nee. There are a number of trainingetablea where green animals are taught their dutiee. The most important of thew it ea St. Edward% pine, BretdelYrn fttehttl the little Plaza at the northwest eorear of Fort Greene Park. There It a Ow of three substantial buildings, two of them eoestituting the training quarters and hospital, while the third is a four - storey etrueture devoted to the repair shops of tho Brooklyn department, It is in the training stables that raw horses, direct? from the eountey, are re- ceived and converted iuto first-claea fire horses, The etreets bounding the block oti whielt the 'haildiuge stand conatitute lite,training track,..oed every day teams ot green animals race around the bloek, ee11111 and down, dragging a heavy department "tender," To the trainers, who go about their work ha a businesslike way, it is merely a daily routine, but to the onlookeve it le replete with excitement, for the raw horses, even though hampered with the weight of the big tender, which he about 2,500 'pounds, frequently run away, dash- ing madly around corners and haperiliug the lives of the driver and those WOW* panying him. Thie work is under the supervision of Lieut. Isaac Ludgate, for many years a valiant fire fighter. .An expert driver and two or three aesiatantis participate in the training work. The health of the animals is in the care of in.kVilliain F. Doyle, a civilian employee of the department. "There are seveareeteste engine cow- iianiee in tlits immense district," said Lieut. Ludgate, "and we must supply the horses for all, beeldet taking care of the sick and crippled aniraale. "The green horse's training Is strenu- ous from the start. We give him little chance to run away. You may see our system at work if you will come with Acting on the lieutenant's orders, the stablemen brought out a team for train- ing. Trembling in every musele, Nun pricked up and nostrils dilated, they danced nervously on the stable floor 94 they stood waiting for the driver to signal for the start. Out into 3t. Ed- ward's plaee they were first caret:13V driven up and down the asphalt pave- ment. It was a remarkably traetebte team and readily settled down into a steady pace, giving evidence of greet. nese only by the quivering of limbs and dilating'. of nottrits. Then watt a 16sr? -Cluoki Cluck!" 1 ram the driver they were headed north and soon disappeared around the Myrtle avenue corner. "The first thing is to test idet hones' wind," said the Chief. "We will step to the corner of Willoughby street and you can sea them coning up hill." A few moments later the team rounded into Willoughby street on a dead run. "Are they running away t'' the lieu tenant was asked. "No. They are not likely to try to run away corning up that hill, for they have all they can do to haul that tender up hill, on a run. But it is the best el teste to determine a horse's wind." Just then Driver Callehan reined up the pant- ing team to a comglete stop. The homes were all of attreinble with the eXeite- !tient of the run, but had lost much of their apparent fear and lack of self- control, "Splendid wind," remarked Dr. Doyle. "They seem far above the average." "They'll fill the bill after a few mare trials," replied the driver in &large. "How long does it take to get a horse fully fitted for departmental work "was asked of Leiut, Ludgate. "Well," he replied, "horses are itke men. Their muselee are aoft and ylairl- Ing, and they must be hardened by exer- elee. These animals come ia from the eountry fields unshod except as to their hind feet, and we do not shoe them until they are tried and accepted. It takes us about a week, as a rule, to ascertain whether a horse will fill the bill or not, and somethnes it fakes two or three weeks to get therm in pes.feet condition for service. Some of the beat horses We try out are unsuited for en - glue work because they are not of tie correct iniild. 'They may do,' however, for tender work. Engine horses muas have lithe bodies and be strong and sturdy of limbthough not big. ne thighs must be einewy turd powerful, for it is a heavy task for three good horses to drag an engine that weighs something like six thousand pounds for a mile and a. half, the average of the runs to fires, on a dead gallop. - "People are generally of the opinion that the great growth of automobile usage has created a, depreciation of priees for horses," remarked Dr. Doyle, 'but such is not the ease. Horses that are suitable for service in the fire de, imminent are dearer then they were a few years ago. The greatest cark taken in their selection, and the entire country is scoured for meth animate. Our horses come from no particular see - tion, but are obtained from the eitet, west, north and the south. Many of our best menials come from Iowa, Wis000- sin, Ohio and lientuelcy—few further south than that. But the reepirameate of tile department are stio strict that it le only the pick of the entire eetuWy that in weetable."—New Yost .ffua. t)f the 102,000 cheque8 sentout on December' 1, 10,0e; have been sent hack by the postoftee, for the addressee Wore not eorreet. Between the period ot the last payakent and the pretent that num. hex of people hare moved. A part of the 10,000 have come up to Met Her- riligton'e office at 20 King east, tatva given their new addresses, and have re- ecive.d their chequee which are marked payable at, the Ba: of Commerce, but which can also be cashed at :lay eault in Canada. Nealy 9,000 people in all have visited Mr. lierriegion this month. rany of the 102,000 cheques went to foreign countries, to Prance for exam. pie, and Germany, Sweden, -Japan, end China, in addition to Groat Britain and the 'United States. "A great many of those in European countries," said Mr. Herrington, are old Winnipeg eustemt ere who have gone back to their original home." A total of 10,000 people have, never sent their pass books, whieli are aecept- ed aa the proof of claim. They have not reeeived either the fit -or seeend payment. The money, how- ever, will be held for them for some time yet*. On the first payment (deo, $30,000 was left unclaimed. CARS KILLED 120. Toronto, Jan. 1.—Deaths from trolley accidents, 1896 to plied by the police: Year. resulting 1910, stip. No. of Deaths. 5 4 4 0 4 a 8 12 20 14 6 1806.6• .................- 1897 •••••••• ••••• ••••• 1898... WO. •••• n• 000000 1811D .. 1/16 1000••••• 44604.41 0•00*•••••••• 19014 1. "4661104 *64,6n. 600066 10024160001. 4141 WY* AAA •Oloor 1903. 44.1 041.446•• **** ** mg••• 1904:6 •• n• mn•• •• 4404 at 11)05.... I * 44*. •••••• 0,11•• 1906•••• 6••• 6•44 1907.06 ** 4 ***** a •••• *** • * • 10080••• .n4 •0•• II • .141..4 •0004 1.009.0..• 1910.46 6•6 ***** ••4 ***** •••• 17 12 12 teeete 129 IMMIGRANTS FOR VICTORIA. Melboorne, Auetralia. /an. 1.—Peo- ple tontempletiate emigAting from Can - oda und the United States to the Bd. tielt Auetauliar: colony of Vittoria, are to be !sot:gilt out and interviewed by Conunieitioner Cattenaeh, a member of wwww•mino. _ Colds Lurk in Hot Rooms Coble and peewee:tie:lurk in hot, poorly ventilated places. And title time of year folks are prone to erowd into euth places. If you have any regard for yonr own health yeat should avoid tuoh pneumonia, holes ha yen WOUtd it pest house. Supeteheated waiting room, poorly veatilated streetoars and railroad coo -h- es are tectific sourees of cold and pnee- PaOnia. Batter feel' the nip of frost ore a well -ventilated pietform than to be- COIrie tile prey of infeetion. Don't lee efreld of taking odd 11$ long an you atr Warnily elothed and can get froth air the Victoria State Rivera told nate: to breeitte, or remember that treat!. SuPPIY C0111111143i00, ii0 31111 lottse Loy air 18 fuel end that you are lees foe San Francisco on 3�.n. 150, and to hetorne insetted when you ire will ixty visits to X)env.!n..n.titl Chletego ing freeh eir fuel with every ltreath and pee...Ably aloe to Winnipeg. I than when you are bteathing the the - THREAD MILL CLOSED. Idere, AO to epeele, cf tir that has Wee burnea over end over agaio. 410.. • •-•14,* PAW ttlekOt n. ;Ian, 10 -.The 3. & yoar bov joelt take en intereat Coates thread mill doled to.dey until in Vet beret" "Mos beginning to," neXt Thurtday. No recent for the that. Mr. Cerntoesel. "Ile's been showin' down wee given by thn oftieitlit The me whote Mid 10tVA 150ftle tnifltt .(1141003/ OW. lit 2,000.Prom,40"41 rolA ti." (MeV it woeld t3 Lave been rantung el a riveeleyeneseee one the 'tot% fqz?," ttt tL:r. eitule for two mtintlm.