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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-01-18, Page 700,4,000010.: . I Of THE DAY IN BRIEF Montreal Stage Hand Dies With Broken Back. Toronto's Big Clock Gets a Chill and Stops. Texas Family Feud Causes Another Killing, Hay sold. at Toronto for $25 per ton, the highest price for this crop. Win. Robert Taylor, fornaerly manager of the Hull Eleetrie Co., died at Alymer, Que., aged 40. Ex.Alderman J. H. Mafechan, presi- dent of the Londou Soap Comoany, died at his lime ii London. New lork detectives left Winnipeg for that city with Charles Roes, who was arrested there with $30,000 of stol. en securities. Thos. 13ox, a respected reeident of Wel- land, died rather -unexpectedly, although having been in ill -health for a year. He was 78 years of age. Another industry ie to be located in Niagara Falls through the instrumental- ity of ex -Mayor R. P. Slater, for the manufacture of Indian novelties. At Crediton, Ont„ Jan, 14, the vote on the Hydro -Electric by-law carried by 104 majority. in Centralia the majority wae 46, and in Dashwood 83, United States millere would reduce grain rates from the Canadian North- west to Minneapolis and Duluth. They propose to min our wheat in bond. Geo. McAllister has giver), G. H. Cock- burn, chairman of one of the Y. M. C. A. collection teams at Guelph, a suhschip- fio f $1,000 to be devoted to this work. Mr. R. IL Campbell, principal of West Kett school, Charlottetown, P. E. L, has been appointed chief euperintendent of education for the province, vice Dr. An- derson, who is retiring. Death removed one of Pert Colborne's oldest and most respected citizens in the person of Mrs, Roach, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. White. Deceased was in her 84th year. Jean Seguin, stage hand at the Prin- cess Theatre, Montreal, whose back was broken between the acts of a perform- ance when a heavy sand bag used as a counter -weight fell upon him, died in the hospital. Fire destroyed $8,000 worth of etock of a Monti furnishing store kept by F. & F. Henderson, at Perth, Ont. It. W. -Croskery's boot etore. wile damaged by emoke, as was the Oddiellows' Jall above. Draught whiskey and sealed whiskey at Kingston, Ont., must not be mixed. If a hotelkeeper is fouud doing this there wili be trouble, as the inepector, C. W. Wright, has given all the hotel men instructions. Archibald Ingram Sheridan, son of John Sheridan, 177 George street, To. ronte, died of typhoid fever at the home of his father.in-law, George Dower, 32 Triller avenue. Ile was associated with hie father in the, cattle trade. Fire of unknown origin totally des- troyed the assembling room of the George White. de Sons' plant in East London, and also thousands of feet of dressed lumber used in the manufacture of threshing machines. Loss $17,000. Guelph Trades and Labor Council elect- ed the following officers for the year 1912: PrePident, W. Parker; Vice-Presi. dent, T, H. Ewer; Corresponding Secre- tary, P. Felker; Recording Secretary, F. Kinsey; Financial Secretary, H. Thatcher. At Fort Worth, Tex., J. B. Snead shot and instantly killed A. G. Boyce, sen., father of A. G. Boyce, recently ar- rested in Winnipeg, Man., charged with the abduction of Snead's wife. The shooting °conned in the lobby of a hotel. Frank Swayze, twelve years couductor on the Niagara, St. Catharines & To- ronto Electric Railway, running between Niagara Fa,lle and St. Catharines, has been appointed general manager of the Niagara, Welland & Like Erie Electric Railway. Damage to the extent of betweeu $20,- 000 and $40,000 was done at Montreal by a fire which broke out in a buildieg on McGill College avenue, occupied by Montgomery, Roes & Company. F. C. • Fov, optieiani and the family of George A. Smith. Before judge Deroche at Belleville a recount took place of the ballots casein the recent municipal election for Mayor, when Aid. Vermilyea and ex -Aid. Tho- mas Were the candidates. The former woe .declared elected by 4, and the re count confirmed him in his eeat. A very painful accident befell William Murphy, of 119 Boultbee street, Toronto, in the employ of the Poison iron works. He was making some repairs on the Mice of a boiler at the Star building, King street west. The ecalding water bad beexi run out of the boiler into the fire. hole' ancl Murphy stepped into it with bothfeet. Big Den, in the Teronto City Hall tower, faithfully performed his duties Luring the -coldest dant of last • week, but the strain, evidently wee too eeV- ere, and on Sunday morning he stopped working. The attendants at the City Hall made strenuous efforts to induee him to resume his labor during the clay, -without suceees. 4111..C. KING GEORGE 010...•61041.001.0. Shot 25 Tigers -,-Shot Tiger and Bear, London, jail. i5.-P1iOth.rraphi3 of King George's shooting eeteelielta in NepAl have now Arrived in Eneleol fAy reproduetione appear in thie morning' Daily Mirror, Tile Mirror says that Hie Majesty add 'd Another record to his long Het of ellooting succeeses. Out of a total bag of thirty-nine tigers, twenty-four fell to the King's gun, while the repott also eay s that he brought down A tiger- and bear with the right and left barrels, .10 THE SEINE FALLING. relit, Jan. 15. ---The Seine, whieti late been rising rapidly airice Dee,10, threat- eultot a repetition of the great floods of two yeare no, began VI fall egaiii to. day, and tht hydrodratille authorities eotteider that the alttligter of heitridetiorie ie bror for the pteeetit. ......seeeem....esee , eiee....Yeeeeseee IOW,* FROZEN KNEELING 'REVOLUTIONISTS Body Found of Watflunam of Equitable Building. Cr. New York, Jan. 16. --The body of Wile Ham Campien, the head watchman who lost his life hi the Equitable Life build. ing fire of last Tuesday, wee found OA Sunday frozen in. a kneeling posture be- hind a great Ht e el gate leading to the street from the vaulte of the Mereen. tilt. Trust Co. A heavy steel beam from the roof of the vault pinned down the man's back. Encased in a cast of ice, with the feet firmly frozen in a pedestal of icy debrie, the entire body resembled rouall hewn statue of marble. It was the night's work of fifty men to remove the tone of ice.cemented ruins that hid the gate of the vault from view and the day's work of wreek- ing experts to cut away the bars oftthe gate. While the work was going on two of the men saw, they said, far back in the ruins of the vault, the body of Fran- cis Nader, another miesing watchman, the location of which had. not been deli. oitely known. 11-4 PASADENA HOTEL Destroyed by Fire and the Guests Flee to Street. Boy Killed While Running to Alabama Fire. ta. lamiap••••••••..1 Pasedena, Cale Jan. 15. -Fire of un- known origin early to -day destroyed the Pasadena Huta, a favorite winter home of many wealthy easterners. The loee will reach $25000. At 1 amt. the entire main etructure had been destroyed, and tiler flamee fin- ished their wont on the north wing, newly opened this season. No lives WerU lost. Poetically every room in the hotel was occupied, and when the fire started bellboys and elevatormen, under the di. rection of Manager Wilson, rushed from door to door, aided by the operator of the telephone board, who sat at her post callingroom after room, until every i guest n the hotel was awake. $300,000 BLAZE, Birmingtam, Ala,, Jan, 15.--Fire,whieh raged for several hours Sunday, resalted in an estimated loss of $300,000 to the Cable Piano Company and Southern Bell Telephone buildings, and indirectly was responsible for the death of one man. The fire originatel in the Cable Piano C'ompany'uilding. Geo. Adame, while rushing acrose the street towards the fire, wae struck by an automobile and BOX FACTORY BURNED. York, Pa.„Tan, 15, -The cigar box factory of T. A. Myers & Co. was entire- ly destroyed by fire here this morning, causing a Nee estimated at $85,000. Fire- raen suffered severely from the cold., and were handicapped by frozen water plugs, I HOLD-UP MAN Shot Vancouver Conductor and Robbed Car. Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 14. -Two armed highwaymen held up a street car on Hastings street, in the east end of the city, at 31 o'clock on Saturday night. After securing all the valuables which the passengers had and shooting Conduc- tor William Barker, they escaped in an automobile which they had earlier in the evening stolen from G. .E, Torrey, manager for Henry Birks & Company. This morning the automile was found in perfect condition standing in the rear of the Cambie etreet bridge. It is estimated that the hold-up men got $3,000 in cash and jewelry. Conductor Barker refused to give up his fare -box and the robbers fired titre shots, one striking .him in the back of the head and rendering him un- conscious. He was not eeriouely hurt. Be. tom leaving the bandits took the handle of the controller. so the ear 'could not be moved. It was an hour before word could be gotten to the shops. On Saturda.y night Vasey's grocery store was held up and $00 taken. Two holdetp men were captured last week in the persons of Ralph Munger and J. Af- ford. 4.4-4 SAVED FROM FIRE Toronto Firemen Carry Several Persons to Safety, Totonto, Jan; 1. -Phe persons nar- rowly maned euffocation at the corner of Gerrard street yesterday afternoon, when fire gutted a section of the tene- inept block belonging to Francis 3. Kane, of 27 Galt avenue. Mr. Morrison states that he had been in the cellar sifting ashes and had been upstairs about twenty minutee when his wife called his attention to the smell of smoke. He went down into the store and found the -back eellarway and shelves and rerigerator a moos of Denies. He carried his grandchild to safety and summoned the fire departmeat.Mrs. Morrison and her sister, Mrs, Rae, and Mies Quina were prevent- ed from estaping down the stairs by the rush of flameand emoke. They were carried down ladders by the firemen, Mrs. Rae being almost in a etate of tole dense from ionoke suffocation. Mr, and Mrs. Broderidge, who oetupied the flat over No, 235 were likewise rescued from the rear windows. *444 AIMING AT PEACE. Chifteao, Switzerlatal, Jan, 15,-T1ie ef. forts of the pOWO'S tO bring about peaee between Italy and Tarkey are as. sionieg n rilorfi concrete form, although the basis on which neetotiatione will be poasible between the two eountriet be not yet been actually found, FALL OF LAWYER. St. Cetharinee, Ont., trate 15;e -do -mese A. lteym, one et the beet known and utoet, promineitt lawyere itt the Nitigetra dietriet, was tAkeit ter the heepitel thie morning, eufferiog e. pit,ebablt fatal in. jury through A fall. He in'arbout yeere of age, 006.104,040404004.0010140404Atimalogswomommmwo* ' LORD R9SEBERY MANY DEATHS IN, FOR PARDON MURDERED IN MAliCH ON PEKING TI:cistain,A,siaFrmorienigginy p About t Twelve Thousand Imperial Troops to lYleet Them Amoy Celebrates Procla- mation of New President, Chinese Emperor May Ab - Weal° Any Day Now. London, Jan, 15.-Preparatioes are under way by the revolutiona.rice for the march on Peking, aceording to special despatches from Shanghai and Peking. Twelvo thousand im- perial troops are on the way to Chin Wang Tao and Lanellow to oppose the expected landing ,of revolution- •ariee. DEFEATED REBELS. liankow, jan. 20. -The Imperialis-t on Thunede,y defeated the Shen Si rebel eolumn which is invading Ho Nan. Twenty-five thousand revolu- tionaries are moving from Wu Chang towards Siakoang, the imperial base on the Peltingelfankeny Railway. ALL WELL. London, Jan. 15.-A relief expe- dition which etarted from Tien Tain late in November under the command. of Captain Scwerby, a member of the League of Frontiersmen and consist- ing entirely of Englishmen, hao been reaohed the city of Ho Nan in the province- of Ho Nan and reports that all is well there, according to a des- patch reeeived he,r to -day. A.MOY REJOICES. Amoy, China, Jan. 15. -By speeial proclamation to -clay was celebrated ae a public holiday in honor of the inauguration of Dr. Sum Yat Sen as president of the Chinese Republic. The population is displaying great enthusiasm in favoe of the new form of government. Troops axe being rais- ed and funds collected in order to proeecuto the campaign against the Ma nail ute, EMPEROR TO ABDICATE. Pekin.g, Jan. I4. -The abdication of the Emperor is expected to take place within three dayn, but events may occur to give the Manchus a new lease of life, as they often have in the past when -matters seeined hope - lees. Yuan Shi Kai 'e secretariee make no secret of the preparations, and the Premier this afternoon cen- leered 'or two hewn with Hen Shill Chang and Shill Situ, the Throne.; guardians, res.pecting the ineaottree to be undertaken. It is understood that plans are -be- ing rerran.ged for the departure of the Imperial family to Jethol. ..- SIX WERE KILLED Churchgoers Killed When Fast Train hits Rig. Waits for Freight to Pass; hit by Flyer. Philedalphia, Jan. 15. -Five welnen and one inan, all servants in the homes of the %nattily Biddle and :Massey families, were killed yesterday, when the carriage in which they were riding to church was (struck by a Chicago to New York flyer on the Pennsylvania Bailroad at tne Linden avenue grade crossing at Torresdale, twelve melee from tnis city. The dead: Mary Roddy, 20; Nellie O'Connor, 19; Bridget Malloy, 42; Agnes Garrity, al; Rose Gallagher, 18; Charles bavison, 50. Davison, a coachman for the Biddies, was taking the women to St. Dominick's Church at Hohnesburg to attend early maes. fhey reached the Linden avenue crossing at 7.20 o'clock. Davison waited for a freight train to pass end then started the horses across the 'Wok behind the last car. The next moment the pilot of the locomotive of the onrushing express hit the carriage squarely, tossing It high in the air, and throwing its occupante ahead on tho track. The women landed in a heap, and before the train was brought to a stop all but the last car had passed over their bodies, mangling them horribly. Davison, who was sitting on the front seat, was instantly killed by the impact and hurled to one side of the tracks. The accident caused a acmi-panic among the peesengere on the express. Several women feinted and others went into hysterics, and the eervices of two physicians were required. The engineer and fireman were the first to reach the scene, and, summoning the other members of the crew, they placed them aboard the baggage ca' and took them to Tacony station. The car- riage Wa6 found stuck fast to the cow - atelier of the engine. The horse was unher •-•-41) FISHERMEN LOST Hundred Carried Out toSea on Ice Floe. etetrakhan, Ruesia, Jan. 15. -By the breaking away of en iee floe 109 fisher. men have been drive)) out to sea in tlie neighborhood of the village of Genjue. canto Nothing has been heard of them eince and no trace of them has, ;eon found by the small bat e whieh went out to their reSeue. It is believed lhat they have all been drowned in the ('as. plan SPA. 131INCOED THE PREACHERS. Toronto, Jan, 15. -Staff Iospeetor Kennedy, of the Morality Department, Arrested W. 07, Bell, Aged 20, of 645 liathuret street, on Sattirdity. The charge is obtaining money under false pre. telieen It SOMA that several clergymen have been done out of $4.80. A young man would approach them with a tory theta mieguided friend woe in jail on a trivial chenge and the money WAs wanted to swore his reletiet. 1 eeethe diffieult to get any elothes on the theatrical billboard, London, Jan. 18, --Lord Roaebeent in speeeh at Glasgow University yestere day, warned the nation of the neceesity of batting up the eountryie foreign policy, Waal, be _said, for good or evil, had now embraeed Great Britain in the continental system, and might at any moment bring the country into conflict with armies numbering millions, tWe have entered into liabilities'" said 1 Lord Rosebery, "no less binding becauee not written, which might lead us into one ef the great Armageddons whieh sometimes have ravaged Europe , and which would be greater than any war since the fall of Napoleon," paLrca. ord Rosebery said he did not de- sireition was one of extra dauger, and for which it wa$ impossible to be over -pre - to make the flesh creek, but the po- ' :4 HAD HARD TIME Protection RefusedMission- axles by British Captain. Canadian Missionaries in China Fired Upon. Toronto, Jan. 15. -Twenty-five Cana- . diens connected with the Methodist mie- 1 sion work have just arrived in Shanghai, China, after an exciting jouruey amine China from Cherrtn, in western Szechueu f pi'011/100, and through the heart of the revolutionary activities, aecording to a special cable to The Toronto .Daily Star from Mr. T. E. Plowman, who was one of the party. The deepateh says that the jour- ney was over a distance of 2,500 miles, and the party were fired on repeatedly by the Imperial troops. Passing through 1.1ankow Mr. Plow- man said they witneesed terrible scenes and desolation. The party ded not leave Chentu until ordered by the Brit- ish Consul.Geeeral, Mr. Wilkinson, They had been besieged in Chentu for tour months. Mr. Plen-man eadd in part in bis despatch to tse Star: "It was on December 12 that WO est forth under escort from Chentu. There were one hundred and:fifty of us in all, composed of nearly ninety members of the Cana- dian Meeliod;et seseion, including the nemerous children and their taothers be- sides over forty Japanese, and personeof four other rationalities. The first part of the journey we made overland. Then we reached deeper water and took houee-boats, splitting up into a number of different panics. Two miles above Hokien we reaelted the British gun- boat Widgeon and experienced a great sense of relief. We are safe now, we thought. • To our surprise, the captain refused to afford us any protection. He turned a deaf ear to ovir appeals, and sent us on down the river through a district that for hun- dreds of miles was infeeted with marauders and full of 'perils. Had the gunboat been with us, it is al- together unlikely that we should have been fired upon as we were. Much indignation is felt among our party, and the British officials elsewhere who have been doing their utmost to protect the foreigners, are making a strong protest to Admiral Sir Alfred L. Winsloe, Commander -in -Chief of the British easterrl fleet, and the matter has been brought to the attention of the British Consul. "Our section of the Chentu refuge party was composed of Mr. and Mos. F. L. I", Abrey, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Johns, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Plowman, all of Toronto; Rev. and Mrs. H. D. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Crutcher, Dr. and Mrs. A. J, Barter, Rev. W. Small, Mr, P. M. Bayne, Rev. G. at. Jones, of the General Beard, and Miss MeNaugh- ton, Miss MacPherson, Mies Easterbrook, Miss Shuttleworth and Miss Thornpoon of the Women' Missionary Society. Others preceded or are following ue and will arrive in a few day's, with the exception of Rev. Dr, Killwn, of Toronto, the head of the mission, and Rev. J. L. Stew- art, who are staying over at Chungking, some five hundred miles from Chentu." ioe. 0. GAS EXPLOSION •••••••••••••••..eir Wrecks House and Two Persons Badly Burned. Welland, Jan. 14. -At, 3 o'cloek this morning Oswald Hickey, residing in ward one, fearing that something was wrong with the gas connectione, lit a match, which immediately caused an ex- plosion, blowing him several feet high. Ite fell in the bath tub, and his night clothing, caught fire, also Mrs. Hickey's. Both rushed out, rolling on the snow to extinguish blaze. Mr. Macey was severely burned, but it is expected be eviii recover. The reef' was blown over on the next house, ancl two walls dam- aged, the rest of the house being burn- ed, Lose about $1,200; coveredbyin- surance. i: l----- NOW CONNAUGHT PARK. Ottawa, Jan. 15. -His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught has consented that the new grounds of the Ottawa jockey Club should be called Comaught Park, *The active officers have been elected its follows: President, Hat D. MeGiverin; vice-presidents, Meseta Stew- art, MeClentigheii, .t.T, A. Beleourt and F. W. Carlinge; honorary secretary, C. ek. Irving; honorary treasurer, E. S. Hous- ton, WANTS TO BE A CITY. Toronto, Jau. 15.-Sau1t Ste Marie has given notice that it will apply to the Legislature for ineorporation as a city. It also propoeee to annex the Moffly eriledivision in the Adjoining township of Torentonon GAEKWAR LOSES SONtIN.I.:AW. Bombay, Jan, is reported that in e0118(111011e6 of the eeeent eourt preeetelinge in n divorce ettee in England, which involved the Oftekwar of llitroda, and tint lAtter'e dietourtney to King George during the Durbat, the f Meharejah Scholia, of Genellor, bat ean. eeled h1 engegement to the Geekwarle 1eR0 WEATIlfR P.Detition 11Favo.ri of James . ou11 g as Chman. Six Deaths in Saskatchewan From Cold. Woman, Driven Out by Fire, Frozen to Death. Baby's Hand Frozen in Bed -Man's Feet Frozen. Moose Jaw, &eke Jan. 14. - Word was received in the city yesterday that two persons had periehed, from ex. pesure in the eoutle country, bringing the number up to six. A man named 0, Isbeeter, who lived six miles 6outh of Meyronne, ;which is 107 miles from Moose Jaw, .tyae loet in the storm which raged on that date. He was found about 100 feet from the houee for whieh he was makiug. The circumstances of the other ease is more pathetie, the victim being Mrs. Wilson, who lived with her husband, a homesteader, about 18 miles east of Wood Mountain. It seems that her hueband was absent froin home and that the house took fire. She made her escape, and in an attempt to reach a neighbor's house lost her way, and whole found was frozen to death. WIDOW DIED OF EXPOSURE. Swift Current, Sask., Jan. 14. -The body of Mrs. Gardinea, a widow, living eight milse north of here, was found frozen to death two miles from town to -day, by a farmer who was driving in. She left here Thursday af- ternoon to walk horne before the bliz- bard started. She was 40 years of age and leaves three children, the young - Cat being eight years old. A mon has just arrived, reporting that the body of Thomas Rubinson has been found. Mounted police have gone to investigate, MAN FROZEN TO DEATH. Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 14. -Stephen Pritt was found frozen to death about eight miles west of the •city. He had. been employed as cook at Bowness camp, where the Associated Charities have a number of men at work. He was in the city yesterday afternoon and got $3.25 at the headquarters of the society, saying he was going out to camp again on the four o'clock car. The Associated Charities officials have no information regarding his former home or relanives. PERISHED IN COLD. Niagara, Falls, Ont., Jan. 14.- The body of Thomas O'Neill, who was found frozen to death yesterday after- noon, is being held by Morse and Sons, undertakers, pending word from some relatives he is supposed to have living at Holyoke, Mase. Thompson, who has charge oCforotnthe ease, has concluded that an inquest is unneceesary, as there were no marke on the body, and the evidence ehow- ed conelusively that the man died from expbsure. FEET WERE FROZEN. Haspeler, Ont., Jan. 14. - Lochie McDonald, a. noted local character of the tramp variety, had both his feet badly frozen Friday night in Christian Layman's barn, about two miles south of Hespeler. McDonald had crawled Into a, manger in the barn for the nhiogulist:.. with the above result. Reeve Shaw took the man to Berlin Poor- BAI3ItS HAND FROZEN. Hespeler, Ont., Jan. 14.- Baby Peaks, about one year old, was put to bed as usual, given a bottle with milk, and when found in the morning the milk in the bottle was frozen, also one of the baby's hands, svhich got from under•'.he covering somehow. TO SAVE GIRL. Women's Leg Cut Off and Skin Grafted. Lockport, Jan. 15.-A remarkable operation of akin-gratting has been performed at the Lockport city hde- pital by De, It. O. Baker, teesisted by Dr. R. R. B. Fitzgerald, in an attempt to Gave the life <A little Roe% Smith, the eleven -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith, of No. 3 Dayton street, who was burned at, hor home on Deeember 21. The child, in opening the doer of a heating stove was envelopezb itt flarnee, the clothing was burned from her body and hands, arms, cheeter, neck and back were literally bak(xl. She was given temporary relief by Dr. Willis 'Weaver, who ordered her immediate removal to tale hospital where the physicians have Sine() la. bordered over her. The operation of okin-grafting was resorted to, not only to hasten her recovery, but aleo to prevent if possible, dreaded compli- cations. The ekin for the operation was taken from the right leg of Mrs. Samuel Bowler, fifty years old, who rides on the Old Niagara, road and who was troubled with an old infirni- 11. b. WhiCill Was amputated eumeissfulig by Dn. F. J. and R. O. balker bnat, day. About 125' pieces of okin from this. limb, consisting of tiny stripe from one-quarter to throeequartera of an inch in size, were 'helmeted" upon tho portion of the ehildts body. The little one with:Mood the operation heroiettl- let and unflinchingly, without the 0.id of any aesthetics, or other metheele of lessening pain. While ohe is reported to -clay to be doing teplendidly the re.. snit of grating will not be known for at least a weea. Hopes are, how- ever, entertained that she will reeover. FROZEN -TO DEATH., North Day, Ont., Ian, 15.--elos. Phi. de bedeau, of Salem, 4ittapi., malt (envier for 3fettleide lumber .'amp, on the South sle5re of Lake Niping, woe found froz- en to deatlohaving died from exhaustion and exposure while milking hie flap Lo the camp. P1RISHED IN BLIZZARD. Swift Current, Ont., Jen. 15.-/n an effort to (tarry provisions to her family of ismall children, Mr. Men. Cardincen periehed on the trail nine miles north on Sunday. A Wienerd was blowing, arid it as 35 belt) '077,er0 at the time, She started to Walk home et 4 pen. Hainitten, Ont„ Jan. lb'. --- With- in a day or two a petition Avili be circulated Asking the Minister of des. tie e to grant a pardon to tralUCe Douglas Chilman, Who will be sentenced to -mor- row morning on a charge of receiving money stolen from the Comedian Express Company. The petition ie bang prepay - ed at the present time by friends of the young man, who firmly believe hi his innocence, judging from popular opin- ion, it will be largely signed. After the verdict had been returned by the jury, His Lordship Justice Teet• zel personally congratulated Deputy. Chief Whatley on the clever and cone plete case he had worked up. Tbe dep- uty -chief has been congratulated by a number of those interested in the case, includine. the officials of the Canadian Expreser'Company. • s FRANCE'S CABINET Readiness of Statesmen to Accept Minor Positions. Those Who Compose Poin- I care's New Cabinet. Paris, 'Tam 1.5. -The readiness of 'Rich prominent men as Leon Bourgeois, .Aris- tide Briand, Theophile Deleasee and Alexandre Millerand• to accept minor plaecs in the Cabinet formed by Senator Ra,ymend Poincare, has created a pro- found impression in France, The fact of their acceptance of portfolios is gen- erally regarded as a striking evidence of the solidarity, self-eacrifice and patri- otism of Frenehmon at a time of nation- al need. The full list of the Cabinet of hi. Poineare is as follow: Premier and Minister of Foreign ..f - fairs -Raymond Poincare. Minister of Justice -Aristide 13r1and. Minister of Labor -Leon Bourgeets. Minieter of Wax -Alexandre Miller - and, Minister of Marine-eTheophile Del. casse. Minter of Finance -L. L. Klotz, Mioleter of the Interior -Jules Steeg. Minister of Public Works -jean !au- puiy, Minister of Agriculture -Jules Pune., Minister of Colonies -M. Lebrun. Minister of Public Instructions --M. Gus thau, Minister of Commerce --Fernand David. Under Secretaries: Interior -Paul Moral; Finance-ReAe Besnard.. Porte and Telegraphs -M. Caueeeaux. Axte Leen Berard. The press of all shades of opinion to -day comments on the strength of the new Ministey. Even the monarchist press admits that it is the greete•3t Cab- inet ever formed since the foundation of the third republic. The general feeling prevails that what France needs is a government of stabil- ity and that continuity of policy is rendered difficult by frequent changes in the Ministries and the absenee of cen- tralized reeponsibility. G. T. R. COMPANY Wants to Build. Lines Into Boston and Worcester. Boston, Mass., Jan. 14. -The Grand Trunk Railway ybsterday petitioned. the General Court for authority to con- struct lines into Boston. and Worcester, and to own and operate) steamships with- in the jurisdietion of the eommon- wealth. In a. general way the road desires to come into Boston by two routes, One is from Blackstone, Mass., on the line ot the Southern New England Railway, which the Grand Trunk has secured au. thority to build into Providence from Palmer, where connection is established with the Ceara! Vermont, a Grand Trunk subsidiary. The other route to Boston desired is from Bellows Palle, Vt., on the line of the Central Vermont, across New Hampshire and through Middlesex county in Maeeachusetts. In addition the petition asks for au- thority to construot a line connecting the Southern New England road with Worcester, a branch line beginning at Douglass. No details are given in the statement iseucd last night by a representative of the Grand Trunk as to the towns through which it is proposed to run the new lines, The action is .declared to be taken in response to the unanimous in- vitation - extended to the Grand Trunk last year by the Massachusetts Legis- lature, by the municipal authorities. of Boston, and by a large number of com- mercial bodies and generally by the peo- ple of NCW England. No authority hats been obtained in New Hampshire for the building of the line through that State, and no proceed- ings to that end have been begun as yet, DOWN ON THE HATPIN. Montreal, Jan. 14. -One hundred thou- sand cards bearing the words "Beware hatpins" are being distributed broadcast In Montreal. It is the first step in a movement to abolish the modern fent- inine daggcr On Saturday thoueands of these placards wore pasted upon fence, telegraph poles street ears, and every. where it MS poseible to stick one. it is said that there f a soeiety organized in Montreal who have for their mint the eolition of the modern hatpin. They are said to be all unmarried men, and as suit they are not familiar with the magnitude of the task they have under. token. OLDEST PERSON IN CANADA. lefentreal, jan.14e-The °Meet person In Moetreal. and probably in the Pro. Viflc of Quebee, if not in all Canada, is Mrs. Intrrette, a peneloner of the Hos- piee Atu•lair, who eelelonted her 1050 anniversary on loridAy. She iS quite alert, no she eall go around inotesisted, and even make cane out of the bleat*. tion, While the Itteidity of her mind doer, not seem affected by the years. mn. W. T. R. PRE8TON RETURNS. ottamt, 14,-1tr, %V. T. It, Prot - ton, ex-Trede Commieeloner atAineter. cialliciS 111 Ottawa. t1 ittends to go into THE PEAT Sijoirri HOTEL 1.0)6Y Few %Cal:out Peat Husband of Woman Abduc- ted Kills Abductor's Father Shooting Follows Ilettirn of Wife From Winnipeg. Slayer field by Authorities and Refuses to Talk, Fort Worth, Tex., Jau, 14.--A. 0. Boyee, father of tae uoin who We43 re- eently arrested in Winnipeg, Man., charged with. abdueting Mrs. IL B. Sneed from ip Fort Werth, last oight, was shoe and killed by J. B. eoead irom v. hoepitai 111 font Worth, last night, Wt0.3 tibQt tool killed by IT. B. Snea.d, a banker of Amarillo, Tex., has. band of the woman i ith whom young Boyce is eau to heve run away, Boyce, Who Was 70 yearold, was sitting in the lobby et a local hotel when Snead walked in. According to witnesses, Snead walked up to the elder isniitaanns: inee:als( 'cilie old. man turned and looked. ika.enldaretheu asked him, by- ab`olVtelilt,v1vhat are you going to do Snead muttered something in. reply, and then, drawing hie revolver, fired two shots quickly. Ile hesitated an instant as the older man fell forward, and then fired three shots into Boyee's sidie, Boyce was dying when others in the lobby, which was filled. with people at the time of the tra,gedy, reached hin. &lead immediately left the hotel, but was =rested -a eltort time later, as he was returning to the scene of the shooting. Ile refused to make a state- ment. On his deathbed, Boyce made a etato- ment declaring that lie saw Snea,d once abneforaev'otiodthim. iyiim.nthe lobby of the hotel, d The younger Boyce was arrested sof. eral weeks ago in Winnipeg, Mrs. Snead, who dieappeared from a Fort Worth sanitarium'was with him. and was also detained. Mr. and Mrs. Snead wore reconciled some deys ago and returned to Texas. After the departure of Snead and his wife from Winnipeg, Boyce was released from custody and to -day the local indictment charging the young man with abduction was ordered dienoseed by County Attorney Jaskin, be -cause of ineuffieieney of evidence. Boyce seal is 113 Canada, it Li Sabi, MURDERFX) MAN'S SON TALKS. Winnipeg, Jan. 15.- A. G. Boyce, whose father was murdered in Fort Worth, Saturday, arrived in Winnipeg last night and talked freely of the crime. He said he had been in Regina. "I feel it Is my duty to get back home at once and yet they say I should stay here fora time till the whole thiug blows over, and I don't know but what j that might be the beet thing for me to do. If I had only thought that any- thing like this wits going to happeu would have been Welt home the very first thing, and I would to God now that I had for I would willingly give my own life to bring my father back." Throughout Boyce spoke quite calm- ly, but it was evident that he was under a severe mental train. He said further that when he went out to Regina that he was under the im.preseion that the matter would soon -be hushed up, an.d that he would be able to settle down itt pea,ee to live a decent and quiet life In the Canadian west. He had been in- terested • in farming and stock raising from his earlieet days, and he thought that he could do well out here in, the new countr yand still be in eloee touch with his friends atl...tuemee i LOST HIS .1013 To Recall Italian General for Losing Battle. Rome, Jan, 14. -General Peceori, the commander of the most advanced corps of Ainzara, Tripoli, will shortly be re- called end deprived of hi a command for not [tiding a reconnoitring column which was eurrounded by the Turks at Birto- bras and lost heavily owing to the lack of ammunition. Italy's great difficulty in the NVar Net now is to cut off sailing. vessels which are constantly landing annnuni. Lion, guna and provisions at Znara, about eighty-four miles west of Tripoli, and less than thirty miles from the Tunistan boundary. From Zuara to the Turkish headquarters is less than 120 miles by a good caravan road. Bom- bardment of the place and attempts to land sailors there failed, and it has now leaked out, deepite the censorship, that a serious expedition of iufantry, cavalry and artillery sailed from Naples on De- cember 18, but the bad weather com- pelled the troops to seek shelter in Sic- ily. The expedition started again on De. ember 23, and cruised for five days off the cat, but the weatber again pre, vented the landing of the men, and they were recalled to wait foe some improve- ment in the weather. There will be no advance into the interior until Zuara has been taken. RIFLE SIGHTING WITHOUT RANGE. Edingurgli, Jan. 14.-Volunteer-Sergt. Oininutelsen, the winner of the King's Prize for shooting at Bieley, has. invent- ed a rifie-sightiug device which elimin- ates the necessity of inding the range. Experts are enthuelentic over the in. volition, and military and naval authora ties aro testing it with a view of having it adopted in the antis of the service. It is based on the geometricel theory of angles, but i. very simple in aetion. Ono ratindeen &eye that tests under elcirinile ing condition have shown a percentage of bite of 95 15 eOrtApared With 10 by or - awn ry eighte. CUT BODY IN. TWO. SO. Marin Ont., Jae, 15.- -A ter. ritle death ovettoek Couduetor 111,01113,8 William Bellaneer in the ateel plea yesterday nth terecon. While eroe4ita the traeke of the Algeme Central Railroad Milanger oq,,of,lit his font ih tla before It ee:141 be tele ettel eieht earl peeeed ova hie Ledy, claim it in tem, The train wee Leine heehed, Dellenger len.le from Midligatt•e ni wos unmettied, Alma 10,000,000 tons of petit fuel ere yearly produeed itt Europe, Rosela is the lazgeet producer of pent fuel, her output in 1902 bang 4,000,000 tone, which has lucrease4 200,000 tone 11. year since then. One thousand throe 'hundred plans malting machine peat are now in opera- tion in Russia. The United States, exclusive ef "Mee. ka, is estimoted to have 11,200 %police inile$ of peat bogs, averaging nine feet hi depth, and containing nearly 13,000,000,- 000 tonsof fuel, worth, At $3 a. ton, $39,000,000,000. Canada has 37,000 square mile(23,- 080,000 acres) of known peat Log, but these form probably but a small frac- tion of the total, constituting a poten- tial national asset of enormous value. Some idea of the possibilities may be gained from the eetimate that 28 acme of Peat riiLIC foot deep should yield 50,00o tone; enough to eupply 100 tam- ilies for 25 years, allowing 20 tora net annum to each family, or enottgato urnieli a power ;dealt or 100 b. p., using ileum engines, with fuel for more than 25 years of 300 ten.hour days, allowing 19 lbs. of fuel per h. p. hour developed. The fuel, if used in a suitable gas pro- ducer would Met the same plant about 100 years. Four bogs within a few miles of Ot- tawa, examined by Government experts, are estimated to contain over 25,000,000 tone of fuel. The provinces of Ontario and Quebec send $20,000,000 a year to the United States for coal. In 1909 we imported coal to the amount of nearly 10,000,000 tons, valued at 820,831,859. The devel- opment of some of our extensive peat bogs will help to keep some of this money at home and to furnish additional employment to Canadians in Canada. lit Northern Europe peat is being ane. cesefully converted into fuel and gas and used for generation of electricity at the bog by meane of gas producers and prot dueer.gas (wines, evhieh are displacing the steam -boiler and enteizie in many lines of industry owing to their lower cost of fuel. To re-establish confidenos ha the valve of peat as a domeetie and indttetrial fuel, and to stimulate development of our peat resources, the Government ha.e acquired 300 acres of peat bog at Mfred for the purpose of manufacturing Peat fuel on a eommercial eAle by a method which has prayed suceessful in Europe. The capacity of the plant is 30 tone per day, and during part of the pant summer 1,800 tons of machine peat w.em produced.' Allowing 140 dap for a season% opera. tious the cost ot the fuel on the fie.ld is $1,40 per ton, under conditions exist- ing at the G-overnment plant. By the 1.1$0 of larger Plant andepsing mechanical excavators to replace hand, labor, this cost of production an be greatly re- dueed. Three thousand six hundred pounds of the machine peat is equal in calorific value to a ton of anthracite coal. The Canadiaa Peat Soeiety has beeu formed to disseminate among ite mem- bers and the public reliable information as to the status of the peat industry in Canada and elsewhere, and generafly promote in every possible way the tail. ization of Canadian peat deposits and the development along safe lines of it,. Canadian peat industry. Every power user and every fuel user is directly in- terested in this matter, as well as the owners of peat lands and onerators of machinery or processes for making Feet fuel. 4 VOTES F013WOMEN •••••••••••••••••....•••• Shorc Notes Relating to the Progress Towards It.. Mrs. Winston Churchill, wile of the celebrated author, is one of the moat active workers in the equal suffrage campaign, which is rapidly gaiaing me - mentum in. New Hampshire. Miss virgiuia, Brooks, the.. "erirl per- ferzaez." of West Hammond and an eit ant eufftegist, backed by 500 citizens, will invade the next Cook county, RI., grand jury in an effort to swore egoist- anco to cheek vice in her town. This le the climax of 11, crueade led by If* Brooks during a period a two yearn The Governor of New Hamplehire pre- sided at a great suffragist Jr:eating held in Concord last weee, at which Rev. Anna, Howard Shaw, president of the Nationkl Aesociation, was the prineipal speaker, and many of the moat promin. ent people of the city oecopied eeats on the platform. The Mayor of Indianapolis is vice -preen dent of the Equal Suffrage League of hie sity and a stroug supporter of the eause. rhe Mayor is on reeord as being in favor of naming a woman to act on each of the board of administration And says he would like to appoint a woman to take Me place whenever he leaves the city, Governor Foss, of atassitehusettes, at the fifteenth anniversary celebration a the Old South Chapter of the D. A. It, aeelared that votes for women will not he long in coming, and that to the wo- men of the present day the nation owe* =eh of its purifying inspiration. He added: "The enfranchisement of wotuon is it ot yet acconaplished, but It is comieg; political leadership is not now entabe fished as one of women's tasks, and yet the iniepiration and the kith wbih *m leading this country ahead to -day arise very largely from the women of Amer- ka. It has always been so, and 1 be - hew that it always will be." The Prime Minister of Di:1=AM* in Oetober iotreduced ia the UpperHouse of the Daailefh Parliament a motion for tit amendment to the eenetitettion grant. .ng full saffrage to W0/110/14 on the same terms as for men. The motion SY4S pre. elomely carried in the Howie of Commons OA will have to go through Favored reset - tugs hi the Uppee 11011Se. Iowa. reports the formation (ef s. Men'e Equal Suffrage League, contpieeed of the meet pientineat end infutottiel busilatoes ad profeaaiotud men, athong them ire. end low -Beg minieters. The ttiseouri Stott. Orange, at Its an. anal meeting early lent mouth, dieetteeed the eilbjeet of women miff/age, Anti fey- orably atenelJered a lesolatieri waiting for the ettliniiiition of it ceteetitutioeel imendment provid.ag for level euffrege fer \vowel. 114110 of Michigan Are se hi to let eoutemplating the edootioa efa tessoletiou deelerleig B&t. rte ditto fee the LegOileture tele) will not ohatte !dwelt to work for weenier tar - tinge will be eanetione.1 In tunneled.