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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-02-01, Page 7,100••••owv#116.tot BONAR LAW AND THE ABOUT BOOKS. • HO E RULE QUESTIONac YsesEildhwIrdceCnescoirishCirpi.ti. c •••••• London, Jan. 29.—Lady Edward Cecil Winston Churchill Tells Londonderry or i5 writing o book #011 the ceneorehip clues. tiou. She eays it is only a ehort time His at Treatment. since the education committee of the London Cowley Colwell decided no longer Ulster Tories Drilling and Arming to Fight Against Horne Rule. London, dam 29.—Bonar Law, by his opening soeeell of the winter campaign, has Inspired the Unionist party to a high degree. Correepondingly a feeling, of despondency pervades the Irish Nae tionalists, who fear that the prospects of eeeing home rule aecomplished in the early future which seemed so •bright a few months ago, are gradually slipping away before their eyes. The truth, is, the Goverinnent's home rule boom has fallen entirely flat, and while the Tories are daily holding, enor- moue demonstrations throughout Eng. land. the Liberals are meddlers no at tempt to counteract the Tory propti ganda. These in the inner couneas of the Nu tionalist party understand that John Redmond, Joseph Devlin and John Dil- lon have been made sufficiently ae- quainted with the general nature of the Government's rule bill and that it i$ only a mild' measure, entirely unlike the comprehenuive bill granting full Bela. government in local affairs, which the Nationalists have been led to expect, Great significance is attached to the complete silence of Meesrs. Redmond, Devlin and Dillon during the present month, Their followers think they should be addreseing meetings almost daily and replying to the 'Dory attacks. ‘"ri‘ None of the three has spoken for months. Redmond had a slight accident and a prolonged convaleacence. Devlin seized the excuse of a throat attack to visit the Riviera, while Dillon main- tains abeolute silence and broke an en- gagement last week to speak at Donegal. These indications of the leaders' dis- satisfaction with the Liberal Cabinet's plans have. caused great trepidation among the rank tend file of the Nation- alist wire pullers, evho are furious at Winston Churchill for pursuing his de- . termination to address a meeting in Bel - feet. They argue that the 21101/f) is a groat tactical mistake, and has given a maguifieent advertisement to the -Ulster Orangemen's opposition to home rule, which otherwise could not be obtained. i Throughout England there is a signifi- cant lack of enthusiasm on the Irish , question. Those Cabinet Minieters who ' have recently spoken in public have de- , voted all their time to an endeavor to popularize the insurance bill, while their refereneee to home rule have been per- funetory. • Winston Churchill inaugurated in Oc- tober a propagandist body, called the Home Rule asouncil. to organize _meet- ings throughout Anglancl, but there is no demand from the local Liberal organize- • , bons for speakers. The politicians who are closely in touch with the Irish ques- tion fear that the new home rule bill will be so light that it will be repudiated by the Dublin convention held after its introduction, in the same way as was Birrell's Irish council's bill. Mr. Asquith, the Foreign Secretary. and Earl Grey have paver sympathized with home rule on Parnell's lines, and bitterly resent the present pee'tion, in which the Govern- ment is entirely dependent on Irish votes. A MENTAL DISRASE. London, Jan. 21:I.—Earl Dunraven has contributed an interesting interview in regard to . the present great agitation in the Irish Province of Ulster, in which he diagnoses the agitation as a mental disease from which Ulster has been suffering for generations. The earl says that the people of Uls- ter have for a long time been accustom- ed to complete ancendancy and have co. me to consider themselves as super- ior to the majority of Irishmen intel- lectually, socially and in every other re- spect. They regard themselves as be - 'finning to it nobler species of creation and anat they are really dreading is being put upon a level with other Irish - mere There is no reason to euppose, says Earl DunraYen, that the Catholic Ma- jority in lremze will persecute the Protestant minority should Home Rule be introduced. Intolerance has been el - Ways shown by the other side. WILL RESPECT PROTESTANTS' RIGHTS. London, &an. 29.—The correspondence between, Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, and Lord Londonderty regarding the home rule meeting, which is to be held in Belfast on February. 8, has not yet ended, Mr, Churchill sending a eecond letter to Um local arrangements for the Belfast meeting, and reminds him that home rule meetings had been held in Ulster Hall recently. "1 hOd no other idea," says Mr. Churchill in hie latest letter, than to discuss matters which are serioue to me and which vve freely recognize are serious to you. The rightful interests of the Protesta,nt,s of Ireland must be the deep Omens of every British Govern- ment They will be respected by, all who faithfully strive to reconcile Ireland to the British Empire, and end the hatred which disturb the foundations of the state. "Your letter force e ine to refer to a personal matter. Thur lordship makes the claim to which I bow, to remind me of the memory of 'Lord Randolph evil as well as good days. The Unionist Cetairchill. You were hie friend through enarty, who within a few months of the very speech which is now on their tits, pursued him with harsh ingratitude, have no such right." It was On the platform of Meter Hall thet Lord Churchill, the faeher of Wire eton Churchill, denouneed Mr. Glad - stone's home rule billand et the same time declared, "Ulster will fight, ahd Meter will be right."1 It is to the mention of thie by Lord Londonderry that Mr. Churehill'a letter refers. THE STORM CENTRE. Loudon, Jan. 29,-- Ulster is now the political storm centre of the rnited Kingdom. Home rule has been diens- ed in England and Seotland by Nation. fillets and Unieniste, but no greet en. thueieem hies .been aroused either for or against. In Ireland, onteide ofUlster, the people are tinily eouvirteed they are to have home rule. Ulettnites, however, aro up to their eyee in fight. Leven' big dernonstretiont have been - hold in various parts of Ulster to pro- test against any change in the form of government of the country. One of the demonstrationin Belfast was of the industrial workers, another in Omagh was largely made up of farmers, small holders and farm laborers, who showed just as strong opposition to Immo rule as did their city. brothers. In the lat- ter place the thsterites pledged them- selves to foim a provisional Govern- ment if the bill is passed. • Every voter in Ulster, however, is not a Unionist. There is, in fact, a fairly large sprinkling of Natientilists. In many cases, the Tinionist members were only returned in the last elections by narrow majorities, the Marquis of Ham- ilton, for instance, winning by only 100 votes in Londonderry, One division of Belfast itself is represented by Jos, Dev- lin, one of the Nationalist leaders. Into this district the battleground of home rule for the present at least, the Government and Nationalists are to car- ry their banners. Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is to be the spokesman of the Govern- rnent for home rule, and he is to be accompanied by John' Redmond, the Irish Nationalist leader, and other Irish politicians. The date selected foe the meeting is February 8, and Unionists and Nationalists of Belfast predict a lively night, no matter where the meet- ing is , held. Elaborate police precau- tions will be taken for the protection of Mr. Churchill. Should he be joined by Mr. Redmond in the drive from the residence of Lord Pirrie, where he is to be a guest, to the place of meeting, with Mr. Redniond'e usual escort of Nation- alists, there is almost certain to be riot- ing. , Unionists are organizing a counter demonstration, but the first lord of the admiralty, in advocating a policy which his father with equal vehemence de- ndunced, will bo the centre of attrac- tion. It will be an interesting moment in the life of Mr. Churchill. MR. LAW TO ANSWER. Andrew Boner Law, the Unionist leader, will go to Belfast on Easter Tuesday, .April 9, to reply .to Churchill, and there will be another demonstration, so that Belfast has a lively time ahead. The announced determination to fight, rather than accept home rule, is taking the form of organization in Uuater. One reads, in the Unionist papers, of the appointment of drill masters to instruct the members of the 6,300 Orange lodges in the use of amine, and William Moore, M.P., has taken the lead in offering the use of land for drilling purposes and announcing that, as a justice of the peace, he would give trustworthy per- sons the necessary permission to drill. Under the bill of rights, he declares, Protestants could not be prevented from carrying arms, and drilling could be car- ried on under licenses irom two jus- tices. The Irish Unioaists have taken the old city hall, Belfast, for their head- quarters, and they say this will be the home of the provisional government, should home rule become an accomplish- ed fact. The next "Unionist denionstra- tion will be held in Belfast on February 1. It is being organized by the Presby- terians of Ireland, and it promises to be even more largely attended than its predecessors. Invitationa have been au- cepted by leading Presbyterians from all pans of the country for a conven- on that date, and her the fornaal proe test against the bill will be made. Meet- ings also will be held in different points in the city at the same time. ULSTER'S 013JECTIONS. The objectione of Ulster have been set forth by the Right Honorable Thomas Sinclair, one of the leading merchants of Belfast, .a former Liberal, who left that party upsn tne introduction of Mr. Glad. stones IliSt .e.J.01110 1tuI Bill in 1886, and has sinee been leader of the anti -home rulers. There are many objections to the measure, he said, but among the chief of them is that it would lessen the status of the citizenship of Ulster men. Under the union they would have the same civic status as a resident of Eng- land, the same control of local affairs, the same representation in Parliament, and enjoy the benefits of its legislation. To deprive them of this would be an un- warrantable degradation of their citizen- ship, especially as their forefathers were sent to Ulster 300 ye.ars ago by the state for the purpose of assisting to hold by their habits of industry, and their loyalty, Ireland for the British nation. There was no doubt too, he added, that civil Strife and disorder would fol. low the establishment of home rule, and would plunge the manufacturers and commerce into serious disaster. The same result would be produeed by the insolvency of a home rule Government, for the resources of Ireland would fall several millions below the stun necessary to run the Government, and it was scarcely conceivable that England would make up the deficiency. Then there was the religious aspect of the ease. Ulster 'Unionists consider any eafeguards against national injUfitic would not be worth the pair they veer written on. Unionist legislation, e Thomas continued, had advanced *0 prosperity of Ireland by leaps A d hounds, as evidenced by the trade lg. ures, which reaehed in exports and im- ports in 1910 the sum of $050,000,090, probably the greatest per head of mita lotion of any country in Europe, Ilome rule would undoubtedly set this prosper- ity back if it did not entirely ruin the Industries which Ireland had to thank for present increasingly happy position. ROYAL BANK ROBBENY, Montreal, .an. 28.—An official des. patch to the Royal Bank received to -clay etatee that the loss through the robbery in Vancouver amounts to $0,252. 'Young Itarrieon, Who put up a fight With the tobbere and VMS hit on the nead, le se- verely hurt. Ile is about 25 years old, ;lid only about *six weeks ago lie arrived front the north of England. The dcepateh e4ls:1 that no trate Of the robbere has heet found, Many a men reeemblas the tiog in the mauler, Itemise he wantq to have a fie - or in the pie eimply to prevent others front eating it, to give ae prizes in our behools some of our groat classics, the lent ineludiug "Dombey and Son." "The Newconaes," "Hypatilia," "Mary Barton" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The reason given was that those books were uesuit- able for the young, 41111 other works were chosen to fill their plaees. These were "What Katie Did," "Little Womeu" and "Tho Rose Colored Bush," and they, no doubt, adequately reereeent the tate of those who chose them. LABOR - LABOR TROUBLE Disturbance at Lawrence, , Mass., Among Strikers. Street Cars Held Up and Passengers Assaulted. Lawrenoo, Masse, Jan, a—Serious rioting oecurred to -day when a crowd of strikers attempted to prevent oper- atives from entering the various mills to resume work. In many eases the etrikers were successful and the mills that opened ware able to operate only on oe greatly reduced ,scale. Several persons were seriously injured during the trouble. The rioters held up, 60M0 twenty or more electric care headed in the di- rection et the mills, and in most of the cases ordered tbe paseengers to leave and then assaulted them in the belief that they were etrike breakers. Bottles and lumps of ice were throwee throuali car windows and for more thee; half an hour Eesex street was the scene of lawless excitement. To quell the disturbance the entire Police ieTee was called out, but the strikers • were in such force that the police were powerless to quell the disoeders. Entranoe to the mill district by the marchers was prevented by the com- pany's militia stationed in streets bordering the mills, Lieut. Henry Howe, of the militia, s-ucceeded in restoring the strikers into a some- what peaceful State of mind vrhen he went to the head of the lino of militia- men and Urged tile strikers to desist in their rioting. 4.4.4 SAVED FAMILY Wife of Former Canadian Did a Good Job. Chicago, Jan. 29.—Presence of mind enabled Mrs. Robert W. Stuart, Ken- wood society woman, and wife of theu wealthy treasurer of a cereal company?: to save the lives of the members of hLr household from a. fire which caused $39, 111, for Friendship. Daily Telegraph on His Great Personality. London, Jan. 29.—An editorial on the Duke of Connaught's vieit to New York in the London Times concludes: "The Duke -is back tit Ottawa, but memories of his brief sojourn beyond the border will live to bear fruit in many minds. It is the feelings of tuaases of people in self-governing nations, like Great Britain and her Dominions and like the United States, determine na- tional relations. Visits such as that which has just come to a happy ciciee tend to make these feelings more friend- ly and more intimate and obliterate of the last traces of prejudices that are old and prevent the growth of others. They make for common good will, and in so doing make for the peace and happi- ness of mankind." Similarly, the Daily Teelegraph says editorially: "The Duke of Connaught has conic, seen and conquered, first, be- cause of his great and dignified per- sonality, which carried with him an in- fluence proportionate to the authority of the royal house of Great Britain; second, because he has been found to be an admirable representative of the feelings of the people who hail their kinsman across the Atlantic sincere de- sire that all members of the Anglo. Saxon brotherhood should work in com- mon for the peace and welfare of the world." I.< ELECTROCUTION OF AL MIER Went to Death Chair Pro- testing His Innocence, Circumstantial Evidence Strong Against Him. • Was An Easy Mark for the Electric Fluid. Ossining, N. Jan. 29.—Albert Wa- ter was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prieon at 5.41 o'clock this morning for the murder of fifteen - year -old Ruth Wheeler nearly two years ago. The girl eame to Wolter' e flat in New York in search of employment, and he killed her after slie had been mis- treated, Wolter left a statement with 'Warden Kennedy denying that he had committed the crane. The execution was without feature, and Wolter was de -merest dead after one contact of 1,900 volts, The state elee- trician said that Wolter showed less re- sistance to the electric current than any murderer put to death by electricity at Sing Sing prison. Although Wolter was convicted on cir- cumstantial evidence, the Court of Ail - peal, reviewing the case, after a series of legal battles, declared he was fairly tried and iustly convicted. Ruth Wheeler met ner death on March 24, 1910, iii. Wolter'e apartments on East 75th street, New York City, where sale had gone to seek employment a% .a stenographer. Her charred body was d covered subeequently. The evidence di- csaed that the girl had come to her d ath by strangulation and burning after' hav- ing been, ravished. The body hft been thrust into a fireplace, where it was partly burned, and consealed til it be- came convenient to remove tit in a bag to the fire escape, from wylich it was thrown to the ground bel, ' v. Wolter admitted that/he wrote the postal card which led e uth Wheeler to visit his apartment, aid iu a book kept by him was found lkr handwriting, an entry of her name ijnd address. A hat ring and a ring wh' qi the girl had worn on the morning f her disappearance were found in t ie fireplace, and in .a house to which Wolter .had moved on the following fay was discovered an umbrella wig& i the girl was known to have had Niri! 1 her when she left home. Wolter c imed he had never seen the Wheeler era and that he was not at home unljil late ih the afternoon on the day the rime was committed. TBE DUKE'S VISIT ondon Times Says It IVIakes 000 loss at their Lome, 4860 Woodiawn avenue, early to -day. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart and Mrs. Alexander Laird of Toronto, a guest, together with the ser- vants, escaped after the flame a had spread over the hole Mrs, Stuart, awakening, l'ound her room filled with smoke. , She ran through the houee aroueingsMrs. Laird, her sister, in an adjoining,' room, and Mr. Stuart, who slept in a room in the back of the house near the'source of the fire. , They barely had time to get to the street before the flames cut off exit by 'a stairway. Valuable paintings, tapestries, art ware and furniture went to ashes in the fire. The house, valued at $76,000, con- tained nearly an equal value in furn- ishings and objects of art. Mr. Stuart, aftem'the flames were ex- tinguished, explored and surveyed the ruins. He saw the charred remnants of a $2,000 carpet and frowned. He looked at what had be a $2,500 music box and scowled. Healooked at a carved ma- hogany billiard' table, found it intact and laughed. 1/ Mary Clehigm a maid, saved valuable trinkets belonging to her mistress, and. lost all that she herself possessed. The Stuatis, their son, Robert, and Mrs. Laird took refuge at the home of James H. Douglas, 4830 Woodlawn ave- nue. Mrs. !Laird and Mrs. Stuart be- came ill as a result of their experience. Insurance of $26,000 covers part of the loss. The Stuart home was erected thirty years ago. It was a handsome three-stbrey brown stone. .1•••••••••••••••• Mr. 8tuart is an Ingersoll boy by birth, and is now Vice -President and Treasurer of the American Cereal Com- pany —"Quaker Oats"— of Chicago, al- so a director in the Canadian Bank of Coramerce and. Canada Life Assurance C His father was John Stuart,. whose or ginal oat meal inill stand. on the liie of te G. T. R., going into Ingersoll. WERE SAVED ••••••••••••• sow Kentucky PartyGot Caught on Ice Floes. Wiekcliffe, Ky., Jan. 29. --The thir- teen or more persons for whose safetly fears were expressed last night, when they were caught in lee that choked the Mississippi River, landed. her early to -day and were returned to Bird's Point, Missouri, The party had recoiled Bird's Point last night by train and engaged a boat- man to ferry theni across the river to the city. They were caught on ice floes and it was feared they had lost their REBELS WON VICTORY. St. Franeiseo, San. 29.—An imperial Fang was. eleeisively defeated l'lllyanag ermy of 10,000 under Gen. Canton republican army under Gen- eral Wong Ching near Kochan yea- terday, aceording to a tablegrant re- eeived here to -day by tho Chinese Free Press. Four huntleeti lianehrs ate repetted to have been killed, Th O imperial army retreated twenty miles to Wong San, Pit, eaye tho de- spatella Wong* army whieh rittinber. 8,000 eaptured the eity of Me Mark, Shanteng province. AT MARLBOROUGH Queen -Mother With Victoria to Reside There. Marlborough House, which has been partially refurnished and generally over. hauled, is now ready for Queen Alexan- dre, and her unmarried daughter, Prin- cess Victoria. Special interest attaches to ono room as now rearranged. It takes the form of an exact replica of King Edward's "business room" at Buck- ingham Palace, where he transacted his affairs of state all the furniture and fittings having been transferred to Marl- borough House at the ,request of the Queen.lefother. In the centre of the room stands the handsome old desk at which the late King sat when interviewing Ministers, while in the left-hand corner is a white marble bust of the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale that invariably accompan. led the Ring wherever he went. The one alteration is that Queen Alexandra has replaced the painting of herself when Fountr that hung over the mantelpieee in Xing Edward's room with the latest pieture of the late Xing. BIO STEAMER LAUNCHED. -Detroit, Alia., Jan. 28.—The steamer William P. Snider, jun., sharing with the Seheeninaker the honor of being the big. gest ship on the Great takes, was enc. eesefully lawnelted yeeterday at the Eeoree yard of the Greet Lakes 001111)ally. She is 617 feet long, and :14 owned by the Shanengo Steamehip Tratume,etnti ni Compmy, of P.tteburg. if.•41.1 FIELD OF ICE. New York. Jan, fieLl of kis that eovered the wan like a tartlet tvae eta !countered off Cape Rave, ]1/407f1de by the steemeltip Rochaithettla wble'e mine ia I to -day from Havre. The liner was eteered fee Neverel hours through the Iteevy lee COLLEGE FIRE Students of Holy Cross Es- cape in Time. Farnham, Que., Jan. 29. ---Fire, which s broke out this morning, destroyed the Holy Cross College on the north bank of the Iranaaeka, River, near here, When the fire Wall diSCOVCred about 0.30 it was beyond control and the firemen could only devote their efforts to pre- venting, it from ETreading, There were about one hundred and tizzy students in the building at the time. They were all got out safely, though a number of them had narrow escapes. The lose estimated at $00,000, and is partly coy/ ered by insurance. The fire burned f9 • hours, and this prevented an inveetio- tion as to its cause, GERMAN s ELECT/DNS How the Parties/Stand in the New Refchstag, // Fight Betwoen Poles and Germailis Reported. ' JO. 20.—The parties in the Reichstag/after a thorough cheeking of the•orig'nal returns, stancl as follows: Cons, rvatives, 71. CerilEriste, 93. PAiles 18. ' /Alsatians, 6. / Guelphs, 6. ' National -Liberals, 47, including two mernbers of the Peasant League and one Independent National -Liberal. Radieals, 42. Socialists, 110. Independent members from Lorraine, 2. Dane, 1. Independent ex -Minister of the In- terior Count Von Pqsadowsky-Wehner, 1. The Radicals claim that two Bavar- ians and one member from Lorraine are pledged to vote with their party. The other member from Lorraine, the Dane, and the Liberal, Count Non Posadow- sky-Wehner, probably will line up with the members of the Right. All the parties except the Socialists will be found behind the new army and navy bills when they are brought' up for discussion. The critical question will be that of the new taxes, but this will undoubtedly be solved even if the Government has to impose the inherit- ance tax, the introduction of which oc- casioned Prince Von Buelow's fall, and this will have to be done against the proposition of the badly -riddled Con- servative ranks. Prince Von Buelow emerges from the elections clothed in the garb of it true prophet. In the result of the poll- ing he sees the felfillment of every prediction he made in his farewell inter- view in July, 1909, when he warned the Conservatives of the coming retribution for their share in his fall, and, like Caesar's ghost to Brutus, of the coming day of Philippi. Their depleted ranks now. number only 71, instead of 105 _members they had in the lag Reich- stag. The red tide of Socialism is also again in full flood, as he foretold, and the Guelph euemiee of Prufssia whom he hunted out of the Reichstag have returned, while the attempts to Germanize the Polish provinces are at a, standstill. The only serious' disorder during the elections is reported from Schwetz, where a fight occurred last night be tween the Poles and the Germans. This resulted. in a general riot, and event- ually the military were called out. Two .students were seriously injured during the fight, and many people were beaten. ANNUAL SCARE. Peaches Said to Have Been Damaged by Frost. Grimsby, ,Tan, 20.—The question is agi- tating the minds of the fruit -growers in this district whether the orchards have been hurt by the severity of the winter. An examination Of specimens in the Fruitland and Winona district discloses a blight on the tiny bud, which experts say IS indicative of damage by frost. It Is not known whether this has extended to the Grimsby orchards. The Niagara escarpment has hitherto been an effec- tive barrier against the hard weather of winter and has protected the peach trees against th0 ravages of the frost king. At Winiona and other places along the line the escarpment recedes further back from the lake than at Grimsby and leaves a greater area of unprotected I land. Old' -timers say this has been the hardest winter that the fruit belt has known in many years, and there is much anxiety to know whether the trees will come though all right. In the face of this there Is a consistent faith in the distriet manifested by real estate transactions. The latest sale re- corded at Grimsby shows a value of $1.- 400 per acre having been secured for peach land. CALGARY'S CHIEF OF POLICE. Toronto, Jan. 29.—Deputy Chief Stark to -day became Chief of Police of Cal- gary. The Council of Calgary is will- ing to give $5,000 a year to a good man, and the Deputy Chief stated this mornieg that if he was made an offer he would seriously consider it, Ile has put in nearly forty years on the Toronto force, and would draw a pension from the fund. of $1,500 a year. weee-e- RAILi OAD COMBINE. NEWS OF THE 411000piiii*Mehrwsks.00111•61r1•1116•86.11•1 , •••• DAY Iktlif • All Plasterersfth Winnipeg Locked Out, • Straqirlid Water Rates Cut / 20 Per Cent. °root° Carpenters Are After Bigger Pay. George Blaaa, iraneouver, us been appOillted commie:stoner the Y. ttkon. The British steamer Bellerophon, from Taeoma, via Loudon, lute gone ugrotuid itt the Mersey. J. 11. Pearce, 'merchant and Pestinas- ter of Norwood, Ont., where he has lived all his married life, celebrated hie golden wedding, Mrs. Lilhian Nixon,, wife of Prof. Ta, E. Horning, of Victoria College, le dead. Iter primary education was received in Brantford. • Leonard Pears, a pioneer brickmaker, formerly of 203 Avenue road, died at his home, 118 Eglington avenue, Toronto, aged 86 years. An overheated sheet metal stove set fire to the cabin of a new Grand Trunk Paeifie engine in the Bethuret street yards, Toronto, causing a damage of $200, The work of checking and tabulating and Toronto police census cards, the eollecting of which was completed on Saturday, will probably take all this week. Death came with startlbig suddeneese to Edward Robinson,. 29 Bertha street, Uncial'. Deceased was a well.known reel. dent, being for many years engaged as a plasterer. Thomas H. Howard, commissioner of the Salvation Army, has arrived from Europe to make a tour of inspection, which will include New York, Chicaga and Toronto. As a reieult of the strike of plasterers in Winnipeg industrial building and their refusal to return to work all the build- ers declared a lockout on all plasterers itt Winnipeg. Tho Alaskan Steaanship Coanpanyas steamer Santa Ana went ashore in Carta Bay, Alaska. Mile steamer struck at high tide. Her passengers were taken off in a launch. Charles Blizard, a London township farmer, while milking his eows was kicked by one of the animals, and is now lying in it precarious condition. Hie recovery is not expected. The agricultural strike which broke out on Jan. 25 in the Evera district, Portugal, and led to violent rioting and conflicts between the strikers and the military, has terminated. A fire broke out in the top storey of the Globe Hotel, Stayner, Ont., anti cora- pktely destroyed the building. 'Mr. Mac - Sherry, the proprietor, was injured in coming down the fire-eseape. The French Ministery of Public Works is endeavoring to have the Government adopt the system of reckoning time on railways by- the use of the hour.; from 1 to 24 instead of 12 noon to 12 mid- night. The Stratford, Ont., Water 00111.111i3- sioner8 have annoumetd a reduction of twenty per cent„ of the metered water ratca, the ehange to date from January 1 of tilt; year, Sydney Jones, 173 River street, and Roy Beck, 39 River etreet, were ar- rested at Toronto on a charge of disor- derly ebonduct, after' they had fallen through it large plate -glass window of the Rogers Fur Company. The danuige was estimated at $150. Terms have been arranged between the London County Council and the Com- monwealth of Australia for the purchase of Alclwich Crescent site for R370,766. The whole site will be taken, and the Vietorian Government building will be incorporated. Dr. Albert Ham, Toronto, received a cable message last evening stating that his son, Rev. Cyril E. Ham, of St. John's, Oxford, had been appointed a minor canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He is an old Uppe-r Canada College student. Alex Taylor, of Port Stnetley, has been apptiinted Superintendent of Government work at Port Stanley by the new Gov- ernment. The former inspectoe, Mr. Smith, was discharged without a,ny reit- son being given other than he was a Lib- Lereg.Aalis.slature, intimated by him in Premier Gouin has opened the Quobee hegotiations with Ottawa Government looking to the acquisition of the terri- tory known as Ungava and its annexe, - tion to the Province of Quebec. Davidson & McRae closeel a deal at Vinnipeg on behalf of the Canadian Northern Lands Development Depart- ment involving a million and a half cash, thie being the price paid by a ,British syndicate for 100,000 acres of land in the Humbeldt district. The joint Executive Committee of the Brotherhood of Amalgamated ammeters 11115 duly notified the Toronto master builders through t,he Builders' Exchange that the carpenters of the city are ox- pooting a very substantial increase in wages for the earning season. One of Canada's oldest .citizens has passed away in the person of John. Mc- Rae, of Grenville, Argenteuil eounty. Ile was born in Invernessshire, Scotlahd, in 1809, and came to Canada while still a youth. Ire had lived on the same homestead 6inee his first arrival in the Dominion. Austen. Chamberlain, speaking at Wor- coster, hi replying to Coloalal Seeretary - Ilareourt, maintained that the Imperial Conferenee delegatee were silent on the tariff reform because they had not de. ired to expose themseivee to a eeeond 'duff, ae they knew the present home it& te Was unsympathetic. New York, ail% 20.—Reports that a readjustment or the Western railroad 1 situation is pending continue to be cir. - culated in Wall street, deepito the deni. els put forth a few days ago. The coin - bite is to be one of the Hill, Gould and Menlo interests against the Harriman .S roads, according to one account to -day, and will mean eontrol of properties from e 10.41.4110* MINE MERGER. Toronto despatch: The Hollinger, filler, Middleton and Dixon mining iroperties in Porcupine, are to be laterg. d, and Hollinger holders svill pertica the Atlantic to the Pacifie. •••••1114•4•4**••,' NEWARK FIRE. Newark, N. J., Jan, 29.—Fire early to - (ley broke out in the big furniture tore of Stuilline b Sons, on Market street, and spread to adjoining property before t it was got under control. 'The loee will reeeh nearby half a tnilliort dollars. Mal. e 1:te ee S0118, whim 10f18 11 estimated at e V1110,000, and the Essex Prose, whose plant I was damaged to the extent of nearly' $130,000, were the ehief euffeeere, pate in the new iesee. Thus are market rumors verified., The direetora of the Hollinger Porcupine gold mime; lest night issued the report of General Man- ager Robbing, nhowintx the emelition of the propertiee. In (1011114 so, they epreng surprise, for, eithourfh mining unmet - ion; osa e been, greatly impeded during Met of elle yeer in reviete the report bows the value of the aetually develop. end approximated -ote in the Hone. ger to be $10,0,000, and the eetiniated let plait .contained in that orr to be $7,550,000, HE BAULKED Doomed Him to Die Upon the Cross. *ITO?. moo. Warsaw, Jan. 29.—A despatch from Lodz, Russian Poland, says a nutn named .Kowalski, who had posed tti3 "the Saviour," had it narrow eecape from crucifixion at the hands of it number of fanatical women at that pluee, The women, web are Mora- vians, recently formed a new sect and selected Kowalski as thew Saviour. They worshipped him as the Supreme Being, and finally urged him, to allow himself to be crucified in order to prove the truth of their belief by his resurrection, 1Cowalski balked when it came to the crucifixion part of the programme, but the women seized him and were about to carry out their plans, when the police appeared and caved the man from death on the cross. . 111).01.0.0.• ••• • ••••••••• KANSAS GIRLS .•••••••••••••••• Bid the Men Do Their Woo- ing at Home. Resents Swedish Women's Appeal for Husbands. ••••••••••••.•••••••• Peabody, Kan., Jan. 20..—Why should Kansas men go away from home for wives? And especially why should they seek helpmeetii from it foreign -land? That'a what Peabody girls want te know. They object to the inference that they wouldn't be the best wives. Ths leap year prerogetive given them • a chance to reeister thelr objection in a rreTai&I and Iadynice manner, • Iteeently n. lessee. paper printed a re, quest for husbande from it club of young women in Stoekitolen, awedeu. The single men of the 'United States were asked to edneider the qualifications of the northland -girls. Inichelare in this vicinity were dispos- ed to follow up -the invitation. Tide caus- ed the maidens of Peabody to print the following in tbe paper: "As a matter of state pride, we urge that Kansas men look to the girls et home for wives, instead of seeking wo- men in a foreign country, about the dis- position, elm -eater, and temperament of whom they Intin no knowledge. Then twelve of the girls signed this de- fense: The undentig-ned desire to exercise their leap year privilege by protesting against the men of this country making srea efforts tensest wives from Sweden. We desire to state that right here in Peabody there are young ladies who in personal appearance, education, culture, reti nem en t, and in hue i n e!it3, cooking, and houeeketping ability are the peers 'of any women in the world. The bachelors are not sending tieltets to Stockholm any MOTEL YlitM FOR snmr.in BLESSED:a ES& Milwaukee.,-Wis., Jan. 20.—One more ;veer of rsingle bleswiness will be the effect of the- action taken to -day by 160 mernbere of the Bachelor circle of the Deittscher Cleb. Leap year proposals will be frozen with it etare. Arm in arm the brave 160 wifl c-nkle-avor to assist each other In' the defense against femininity during the 36e days of the elongated year. I = WANT ROOSEVELT Six Republican Governors Favor His Candidature. New York, Jen, 29. --Six• Republican Governors are enrolled in a aelf-ap- pointed committee to advoeate the nom- ination of, Col. Roosevelt for the Presi- dency, according to Goveruor Wafter R. Stubbs, of Kansas, who is now in .Neve York. The committee includes, be- sides Governor Stubbs, Governors Base, of New Hampshire; Aldrich, of Nebras- ka; Hadley, of Missouri; Glasscock, of West Virginia, and Osborn'of Michi- gan, all rated as leaders of tbe progres- sive wing of the Republican party in respective States. According to Governor. Stubbs, the six governors are in constant communi- cation by letters and telegrame. "Particularly in the south," he said, "Roosevelt sentiment is strong. A largc number of the southern leaders, who have in the past dominated the actions of delegates chosen from their respec- tive states, are strongly in favor of the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio also show a strong Roosevelt sentiment. "Col. Roosevelt do ee not want the nomination. He has everything to lose and nothing to gain by acceptingit. However, I feel that eonditions will im- pose the nomination upon him." TALK BY WIRELESS Canada to Greet Spain Over Marconi System. Ottawa, Jan. 29.—To-morrow tho Mar- coni wtreiess communication between Canada and Spain will be inaugurated by the sending of the following meesages between, the. Marconi towers. Glace Bey, C. B., and Aranjuez in Seam eastward: "Ottawa,. 26 Jan., 1912, to Canelejae, Madrid, Premier, Spain, via Marconi towers, Glee° Bay, 0. B. "I am glad to. have the privilege of extending to the Spanish Government and People tbe lieeztieet congaatala. tious and good wishes of my Govern- ment, andof the .peoplee of this Do - 131111i011, on the oeeasion of the opening of your firet long-distance wirelese tele- graph station.—Bordoe, Premier of Canada. , "Ottawa, 20 Jan., 1012, to Talveton, Madrid, Stinister of Agrieulture, Trade and Commerce, via Marconi towers. Cdaee Day, C. "The euccessful completion of redlo. telegraph e oinuiittiiki tion between Spo in ,Intl tide Dominion marke another atop I gratification to he able to extelet to yen aeeomplielintent, and it. :1 12 me met! the beet wiebes of tiel"1131"41t by forwent in the development of eoientifie wane of one of the 'bat meeeagee traits. mittea to Aranjuer Nbtreotil etatien,- e Hazen, MInisfer of Naval Sere -lee," hdeeenteee:1741 F7+*4t4t;r-T—'hating llivrn to Will nes wittld tt Vire t owl. Re ran I Wa t Whit ma u. NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTY GENERAL. NOUS; James :McGrath, it Sheffial vanstalAe4 has received the Jing' e polio modai for bravery in arresting two desperate burglars. The death raTe in the 77 great towns of England and Wales last week aver- aged 16.8. In Sheffield it Was 14, Grims- by and Derby 13. and Nottingham 16, The Sheffield tramway receipts for Christmas week are instructive and in- dicative of the state of trade in the city. For the week ending 31st Deember the taking totalled £7,499 14e, as compared with £7,214 4s for the eor.' responding week last year. • Dr. Scurfield's summary of the Shef- field health statistics for 1911 shows that the birth rate has declined still fur- ther, while the death rate, owing ao the epidemic of measles and the prevalenee olafstgutxee mhnl.er:ydentriais•.rhoe, is higher than the Leeds tram drivers and conductors "unvieenbeb ealdigfee!‘bidden to weir their trade At Hull, Robert Booth,69, a retired horse slaughterer, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a hu- mane cattle killer. James Macaulay, 69, Juiner, 2 Prim- rose Hill. Rotherham'has died from the effects, it is m11)1)0+90(1, of an accident he had at Rotherham Main Colliery in July, 1906, wheu he wrenched his side in handling it largo stone.. Mr. Richard Blake, of 36 Sett Gate, Cheeterfield, painter and.decorator, who died on 8th August last, aged 75 years, left estate valued at £1,608 10s 5d gross, with not personalty of £2,215 108. On Monday the Clown Co-operative Sooloty entertained to tea at the Co- operative Hall about 200 old people, principally State pensioners and outdoor papuers in the parishes of Creswell, Bel- bro and Clown. Mr. Edward Mason, 72, a prominent Liberal and Wesleyan, of Hayfield, died suddenly, being seized with it fit of apo- plexy. Shortly before his seizure he had told a relative that he was going to the. Mr. William Partington, an old and respected resident of Jump, died sud- denly at his residenee in Church street on Monday morning. He was commenc- ing his breakfast after having been out for a few moments, when he fell back in his chair and expired. The five little victims of the Picture Hal trlagedy at Chesterfield were buried. on Monday amidst impreseive seen. Robert Brown, an inmate of New Mille Workhouse, failed to return after a Christmas , tea party, and after long seareh his body was found on the Mid- land Railway between Strince and New Mine. Colonel Sir L. Rolleston lute been elected chairman of the Notts Quarter Seeisions, in place of Sir G. E. Paget retired. The Duke and Duehess of Portland entertained over 200 ehildrgn living on the Welbeck estate to tea, entertain- ment and Chrietrae.s tee distribution. A verdict of "eeseidental death" was returned at an inquest at Mansfield on Alfred Geoffrey Cope, aged 27, who fell from a ladder on to some railings. Elizabeth Bird, of Florene.e street, FIszel Grove, Hucknall, was found by her husband in an unconscious sondition with the dead bodenof their baby on ' by het side. • As a wedding was hoing eoleannized at Grantham parish church the elergyman observed that the bridesmaids were not wearing any headdress, and the servise had to be delayed until some suitable eovering was procured. Art armless wonder has been admit- ted to the Nottingham Respite/ for an operation in Mary Sullivan, aged eight, whose parents live at Derby. Born with- out arms and with most things ordin- ary folk do with their hands. She can brush her hair, wash her face and em- brace her dolls. •••••,••••••—• LAW AND POLICE. Fred. Collins, an engineer, of Sheffield, was committed to the assizes on it change of bigamy. At Liverpool, jellies Delaney, a chauf- feur, was sent to jail for a month for being drunk in (therm) of a taxicab, and his license was suspended for twelve months. James Kelly, 26, a laborer sentenced at Durham Quarter Sessions to imprison- ment for nine months for ehopbroakiag, shouted, "Good luek to Ireland and Home Rule"ae he left the dock. During the hearing of a ease of drunk- ennose itt Blandford. police court, e po- lice officer said that the itemised had put hie arms round the neck of a horse in the street and kissed the animal. Robert Dixon, laborer, was committed for trial at Gateehead on a charge of stabbing John Wardlow, bar manager, who put him out of a public house oa Christmas eve when he MS drunk. The Home Secretary has replied to the Pontadawe petitioners to the effect that he has considered the sentences for rioting at leareni Colliery, and cannot advise it remission of the . sentence* which the eighteen men axe now under going, Nellie Ingham and Prod Bentley, who were arrested at Rotterham station were remanded at Harrowgate, chargeci with stealing £100 worth of jewelry from a house where the female prisoner was employed as a domestic servant. William Tagg, of Lea road, Dronfield, was committed for trial on Tuesday for firing a gun in his house. From the evidence it appeared the prisoner firod the gun with the intention of "frighten- ing his wife," with whom he her quer- rolled. As the result of creating it scene both inside and outside the Rev. F. B. Meyer's ehapel at Regent's Park, ex-Lieutenaat Sutor was at Marlebone Police Court given the option of being bound over or going to jail for six weeks. He eltoee the later, and declared that Mr. Merl' WAS propagating false ideas. At the Second Sheffield Police Court, "love" letter was read that 4 sailor had addressed to his wife's hon e, He disguised his hand writing, and the let. ter, which was -signed, "Yours tevingly, Alice" expressed it determination to make the stator love "her." The Ballot. declared that he had written the letter to eee if his wife, had "a bit of jealousy in her." Prinirosee ale ill 1)14)0111 at Chitties, hamptun, Devou. Belfast eitatonis reeeipte for ii.1 1 marl, it 1Ve01'41 tor the eity, the total being X.,3,t147,tieel 8.3 2d. It MIA 9 t ed. at a Kinesten tjuett that it p tl 1 pelt °AL death Vcas due to Mal. eope, brought on by et ti- ea ling. lri the otrden of the Aughton Inge- iou hesnilal, near Gi ttibcii k. tarna tion Ann oura 'gots ale to 110 seu ht fell biome. A illeeltpool ttamvvey entploeee oamed Aleeender Menai, ham died from injutlei *lista:mot ihroltelt falling into a ear re. railing pit four fuel. deep. • 1